Another way of Augmenting Sol.
Take the golden Talck, Granates, Smiris, Hematitis, the aureous Scoria’s of Copper, the greenish, reddish, golden Flint, Sand, or Clay; extract their volatile Gold with a strong Aqua Regia; pour into the solution, a solution of Lead made by Aqua Fortis; mix it well; when the matter is settled, separate the Aqua Fortis by inclination; edulcorate the said Calx of ♄ with water, and dry it, and so have we gotten the volatile Gold extracted out of the Aqua Regia by the ♄: This volatile Gold is made fixt on this wise. Take the most subtle Powder of ☉, or its most thin Leaves, add thereto thrice as much of this ☿ of ♄; or four times as much, or six times, according to the quantity of it, by which we formerly got (or fish’d out) the volatile Gold: Set it in such a place where it may have a gentler heat, so as that the ♀ of ♄ may just flow, and not fume; the matter is to be thus kept in this heat for some hours, or rather days, that so the filings of ☉ or its thin Leaves may by little and little attract the volatile Gold out of the ☿ of ♄, and consequently be therewithal augmented.
NB. But seeing it is a most difficult thing to keep such a very temperate heat as that nothing at all of the ☿ shall fly away, and the ☉ shall not melt in the Crucible: It is better to put the ☉ mixt with the ☿ of ♄ in a coated Retort, and set it at a strong Fire for a season for so nothing of the ☿ of ♄ flies away, or penetrates the Crucible. That which ascends up to the Neck of the Retort may be separated, and be kept for common ☿ of ♄, out of which may be prepared a most excellent Medicine.
Another Augmentation of Sol.
Take of red Arsenick, Auripigment, Hungarian Antimony or Cinnabar one part, of ☿ of ♄ three parts, and some thin Plates of Gold; let them stand in a Glass Retort in a pretty hot place, and so the ☉ will attract the volatile Gold out of the added Minerals, and will thereby augment it self. And if so be that there be any thing sublimed up to the neck of the Retort it may be taken thencefrom, and be reduced to a kind of Tincture. And so we may here have a particular augmentation of ☉, and a matter whereout of a Tincture may be prepared.
NB. The vessel that is most fit for the fixation of the Tincture, is such an one as is made of fixt ♄.
NB. The ☿ of ♄ or ☽ may be reduced by a secret fusion (or fusile matter) whereby it presently yields an aureous ☽ or ♄: but especially this ☿ of ☽ or ♄, by the help of which, there hath bin a fixt or volatile Gold extracted out of the earth, stones, sand, and such like Minerals, is to be on this wise reduced, whereby we may receive (and get) as well the volatile Gold as the fixt.
Likewise too, the ☿ of ☽ or ♄ may be artificially distilled, purified, and prepared for a singular Medicament; But yet let no body perswade himself that such a distillation is to be perfected after the common way with retorts or cucurbites, for it is a meerly vain thing to hope for the separation of the pure from the impure that kind of way, for because the fire forceth up the good and bad alike, the which thing is not at all so done by my more secret Philosophical distillation; for by it, the most pure soul only of the Metal is driven up; as for the terrestreity that remains, it is separated of it self by that more impure (thing) to which it is conjoined, and makes a dirtyish slime. The purer part will be found (by the help of the Cementatory Copple) to contain both ☉ and ☽; as well the purer part of that which is prepared by it self of this (bare) ☿ of ☽ and ♄: as that which is prepared of such (a ☿,) as by whose help fixt and volatile Gold hath been educed (or gotten) out of the nitrous Water; which way also is a most compendious one, of reducing the (extracted) volatile and fixt Gold. For when we reduce this ☿ of ☽ or ♄ by the help of fusing things, some part of the ☉ may easily perish and evaporate: But now here, nothing at all perisheth: For that which does not remain (behind) in the said artificial distillation, and so separate it self from impurities, goes out (or passeth over) and yields a most excellent Medicament more excellent than ☉ it self, which you are well to observe.