The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber

by Johann Rudolf Glauber

67. The incombustible Sulphur of metals tingeth the Bodies of men and metals, to the highest pitch of Health, as may be seen in the third Appendix to the seventh part of my Pharmacopœa Spagyrica.

68. Demogorgon with his Russet mantle and green Coat, is the Grandfather of all the Heathen Gods i. e. of all metals.

69. And like as in the Earth he doth generate and bring to perfection all metals, so also out of the same, if the Artist knows how to manage him, he perfects all unripe and imperfect metals, in a short time, with the help of Fire, to that degree that they shall endure the Test as well as Sol or Luna.

70. This wonderfull virtue of fixing all volatile minerals, the Philosophers call their secret Fire or proper Agent, wherewith not onely the imperfect metals, as Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, and Mars, but also volatile Mercury, combustible common Sulphur, Antimony, Orpiment, and Arsenick may be fixed, so as on the Cupel to leave Sol and Lune.

71. And as this Demogorgon, or invisible secret Fire of the wise Men, doth fix the unripe minerals and metals into Lune and Sol; so likewise can it fix the said minerals and metals, and exalt them to an higher degree than that of Sol, even to the plusquam perfection of true Tinctures, whereby all imperfect metals may be changed into Sol.

72. This our Demogorgon hath the virtue even as it comes raw and unprepared out of the Earth to change and meliorate all metals as follows.

73. It makes Saturn as hard and white as Lune, when tinged with it, of which all manner of Vessels and Dishes may be made, it onely wants the sound of Lune and enduring of the Test.

74. If a little of this Tincture be cast upon fluxed Venus it presently becomes white and hard as Steel, continues as fusible as before, and yet is so hard that it cannot be filed, so that several Vessels may be made of it, not subject to bending or breaking.

75. When cast upon melted Jupiter, it makes it hard as Lune, and sounding like it, is of great use to make all sorts of Vessels of.

76. And amongst other things that may be made of it with great profit, this is one, viz. that Looking-Glasses may be made thereof, which being polished continue a long time clear and fair, without being obscured in moist Weather, as other metalline Glasses are, and all this by reason of the extraordinary hardness of the metal. See my Treatise of Looking-glasses.