7. When we have a mind to separate Sol from Luna by means of Sulphur we need not make use of granulated or filed Saturn for precipitation, but instead thereof we may make use of Antimony, because the granulated or filed Saturn is made hard and influxible by the Sulphur: neither shall we make use of common Venus for precipitation, as Erker teaches, but such a Venus as hath been made friable with Arsenick or Orpiment, by which means we shall get more Sol than without Arsenick, because Arsenick and Orpiment contain much volatile Sol, which in this Operation becomes fixed with the Luna.
To recover the Sol and Luna which is got into the Pores of the Crucible.
8. The Crucible must be beaten into fine Powder, and put into a reverberatory fire, stirring it continually by which means the Antimony and Sulphur vapour away, and the Sol and Luna remains with the Earth, which, with strong Waters may be separated.
Another way to perform the same.
9. Or we may add filings of Saturn to the powder of the Crucibles, and give them a strong heat, by which means the Saturn will take in the Sol and Luna. N. B. But the Separation with strong Waters is the more easie way of the two.
To extract the Colour from Sol.
10. Venus, Jupiter and Regulus Martis melted into a mass with Sol, and Venus, the Jupiter and Regulus Martis afterwards separated from the Sol by Niter, then melt other metals as before with the Sol, and separate them as before with Niter, which must be continued till the Sol have lost his Colour.
11. The dross being afterwards melted in a Crucible, and a small quantity of Coles made of Blood cast upon it, the extracted Tincture of Sol will separate it self from the dross, falling to the bottom like a Regulus. N. B. The metals Venus, Jupiter and the martial Regulus may be separated from the dross onely with common wood Coal.
12. Niter fixed by the Regulus of Antimony, and distill’d with Sal Armoniack, gives an excellent Mercury of metals, which hath a scent like musk.