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Of the Sulfur and ferment of the philosophers.

I have written for thee seeker of that most noble and blessed art of chemistry a small treatise of
the philosophers stone divided into xii. Keys and have expressly nominated the matter of the
philosophers sulfur in the first key and taught you in the second key how you ought to distill our
water of the eagle and cold dragon who had his dwelling a long time a rocky clifts, and crept in
and out in subterranean covcaves and hollow places; pour this spirit upon purged and fined gold,
let it dissolve and putrefy fourteen days in balneo marie distill it and pour the water again on the
gold calx and cohobate this until the gold pass over with the water, set this again to distill
abstract the water gently leave a third part of it in the bottom then let it into a cellar let it
coagulate and crystallize wash these crystals with distilled water amalgam them with mercury
vive, evaporate the mercury gently then you have a subtle powder, put it in a glass lute it
reverberate it for three days and nights do it gently thus is the philosophers sulfur well prepared
for your work and this is the purple mantle or philosophic gold, keep it safely in a glass for your
conjunction.
Of the philosophers Vitriol.
I have told you plainly how philosophers sulfur is made which loco masculine, is to make the
king or man now you must have the female or wise which is the mercury of philosophers, or the
material prima lapidis, which must be made artificially for our azoth is not common vinegar, but
is extracted with the common azoth, and there is a salt made of material prima, or mercury of the
philosophers which is coagulated in the belly of the earth. When this matter is brought to light it
is not dear and is found everywhere, children play with it: it is ponderous and hath a scent of a
dead body for two gilders you may buy this matter for the work: Therefore take this matter distill
calcine, sublime, reduce it to ashes for if an artist want ashes how can he make a salt and he that
hath not a metalline salt, how can he make the philosophers mercury?
Therefore if you have calcined the matter then extract its salt rectify it well let it shoot into the
vitriol which must be sweet without any corrosiveness or sharpness of salt. Thus you get the
philosophers vitriol or philosophic oil, make further of it a mercurial water, thus you have
performed an artificial work: this is called the philosophers azoth which purges laton but is not
yet washed. For azoth washes laton as the ancient philosophers have told two or three thousand
years ago. For the philosophic salt or laton must with its own humidity or its own mercurial
water be purged dissolved, distilled attract its magnet and stay with it. And this is the
philosophers mercury or mercurium duplicatus and are two spirits or a spirit and water of the
salt of metals. Then this water bears the name of succus lunaira, aqua coelestis, acetum
philosopherum, aqua sulfuris, aqua permenens, aqua benedicta. Take eight or ten parts of this
water and one part of your ferment or sulfur of sol set it into the philosophers egg, lute it well put
it in the athanor into that vaporous and yet dry fire, govern it to the appearance of a black, white,
and red color then you get the philosophers stone, and you enjoy this noble dear and blessed
medicine and tincture and you may work miracles with it.
A process upon the philosophic work of vitriol.
Having gotten this process in the foresaid year and afterward as you shall hear with mine own
hands elaborated and wrought the same, no man over-looking me, I was heartily rejoiced, even
as if I had been new born and returned hearty thanks of God: its practice at the first I have not
plainly described because I had erred in the composing of it and was fain to begin the work
anew. I having missed in my work I begun in the year 1605. because the matter of the earth and
the spirit of mercury was not sufficiently purged therefore the earth could not perfectly be united
at the composition with the water, I let that quite alone and began a new process at the end of the
year 1605. in the city of Strasburg, used more diligence and exactness then my work (God be
praised) prospered better for the which I am still thankful to God for it. In the name of the holy
trinity, the 19. of October, annual 1605. I took ten pound of vitriol dissolved it in distilled rain-
water being warmed let it stand for a day and a night at that time many faeces were settled, I
filtered the matter evaporated it gently, I set it on a cool place to crystallize this on shoot vitriol I
exiccated dissolved it again in distilled rain water, let it shoot again, which work I iterated so
long till the vitriol got a celestial green color having no more any faeces about it and lost all its
corrosiveness and was of a very pleasant taste.
This highly putrefied vitriol thus crude and not calcined, I put into a coated retort, distilled it in
open fire, drove it over in twelve hours space by an exact government of fire in a white fume,
when no more of these fumes came and the red corrosive oil began to come, then I let the fire go
out the next morning all being cold, I took off the receiver poured the gift in the receiver into a
body and some of the lute being fallen into, I filtered it and had a fair menstrual water which had
some phlegm because I took that vitriol uncalcined which I abstracted in a balneo not leaving
one drop of water in it.
I found my chaos in the bottom of a dark redness very ponderous which I poured into a viol,
sealed it hermetical set it on a three foot into a wooden globe into a vaporous bath made of water
where I left it so long till all was dissolved after some weeks it separated into two parts into a
bright transparent water and into an earth which settled to the bottom of the glass in form of a
thick black corrosive like pitch. I separated the white spirit from it and the fluid black matter I set
in again to be dissolved the white spirit which was dissolved of it I separated again this work I
reiterated leaving nothing in the bottom save a dry red earth. After that I purged my white spirit
per distillationem very exactly it was as pure as the tear that falls from the eye, the remaining
earth I exiccated under a muffle it was as porous and as dry as dust on this I poured again my
white spirit set it in a digestion this spirit extracted the sulfur or philosophic gold, and was tinged
of a red yellow I canted it off from the matter and in a body I abstracted the spirit from the sulfur
that sulfur stayed behind in form of an oil, very fiery nothing like unto its heat as red as a ruby
this abstracted white spirit I poured on the earth again extracted further in sulfur and put it to the
former. After this that corpus terra looked of a paler color which I calcined for some hours under
a muffle put it into a body on it I poured my white spirit extracted its pure white fixed salt, the
remaining earth was very porous good for nothing which I flung away thus these three principles
were fully and perfectly separated.
After all this I took my astral clarified salt which weighed half an ounce after the weight at
Strasburg, and of the white spirit which weighed four ounces of mercury one ounce and a quarter
of an ounce these I divided into two parts whose quantity was half an ounce and one dram, I put
this salt to one part of the water in a viol and nipped it set it in digestion there I saw perfectly
how the salt dissolved itself again in this spirit therefore I poured to it the other part which was
half an ounce and one dram, no sooner this was put to it then presently the body together with the
spirit turned as black as a coal ascended to the end of the glass and having no room to go any
further it moved to and fro, sometimes it settled to the bottom by and by it rose to the middle
then it rose higher thus it moved from the fourth of july to the seventh of august, namely thirty
four days which wonderful work to beheld with admiration at last those being united and turned
to a black powder staying on the bottom and was dry seeing that it was so I increased my fire in
one degree, took it out of the wet and set it in ashes after ten days the matter one the bottom
began to look somewhat white at which I rejoiced heartily this degree of fire I continued till the
matter above and below became as white as the glittering snow. But it was not yet fix making
trial of it set it in again increased my fire one degree higher, then the matter began to ascend and
descend moved on high stayed in the middle of the glass not touching the bottom of it this lasted
thirty eight days and nights I beheld then as well as formerly at the thirty days a variety of colors
which I am not able to express. At last this powder fell to the bottom became fix made projection
wit hit putting one grain of it to one and a quarter of an ounce of mercury, transmuting the same
into very good lune. Now it was time to restore unto this white tincture her true anima and
imbibe it to bring it from its whiteness unto redness and to its perfect virtue.
Thereupon I took the third principle namely the anima which hitherto I had reserved in quantity
it was one ounce a quarter of an ounce and one dram poured to it my reserved spirit of mercury
whose quantity was one ounce and a quarter of an ounce drew it over several times per
alembicum, so that they in the end united together those I divided into sever equal parts; one part
I poured on my clarified earth or tincture which greedily embraced its anima together with its
spirit and turned to a ruddiness in twelve days and nights but had not tinging quality as yet
saving mercury vive and Saturn it transmuted into lune, which lune at the separating yielded
three grains of gold. I proceeded further with my imhibition and carried all the seven parts of
anima into: at the fourth imhibition one part of my work tinged ten parts of copper into gold at
the fifth imhibition one part tinged an hundred parts at the fixth it tinged a thousand parts at the
seventh it tinged ten thousand parts: thus God be praised my work ended successfully with great
joy of my heart at this time I got of the true medicine four ounces half an ounce and one dram.
The two last in the ponderosity were almost equal unto the first out of this my work I paid for
land and ground to that noble gentleman O.V.D. 4800. Gilders. Actum 1607. These things I set
down for a memorandum that I should not forget any of the manuals and of other things
necessary for the work. God be praised for ever more. Amen.

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