97. The common Fire brings forth its Fruits very slowly, whether they be Stones, Minerals, Animals, or Vegetables.
98. And so do likewise the warm and dry Sun, and moist Earth: but when we assist Nature with Art, then she works much more swiftly, and brings her Fruits to maturity in much shorter time.
99. The Meteors in the Firmament which are made of Fire and Water, especially Thunder and Lightning, produce sometimes Stones, and cast them to the Earth.
100. A common fulminating Powder made of Sulphur, Niter and Tartar gives a stinking offensive smoak, corrupting some things, and meliorating others: whereas a Fulmen prepared of Niter, Jupiter and Mercury, yields a particular tinging mercurial Water. The Fulmen of Venus tinges Mars into Copper, that of Lune graduates Venus into Lune; and the Fulmen of Sol graduates and tinges Mars into Sol.
The universal Fulmen of the great Tincture graduates all Metals into Sol, which God of his mercy grant unto us, Amen.
THE FIFTH CENTURY.
The best particular and cheapest Universal.
1. When with the help of Sendivogius his Chalybs, or Glauber’s Magnet, we have extracted the colour from Sol, and again restored it through Venus and Antimony, we may by oft repeating the said extraction and restoration get great profit, this being one of the best particulars that can be. This multiplication of Sol may very well be compared with the generation of Man, for as a Man in generating, doth with meat and drink restore the loss of his Seed, by which means he continues the said multiplication for a long time, by turning the meat he eats into Prolifick Seed; so likewise the Chymist changeth Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury and Lune into Sol, by feeding the dis-spirited Sol that has lost its colour with them, restoring it to its former strength and vigour.
2. The Sperm of Man is not the Seed of Man, but onely the Shell and receptacle thereof, as may be seen in Old Men, whose Sperm is unfit for generation by reason of the weakness of their vital Spirit.