Briefly, and in a word, those aforesaid Spirits would be fit for the effecting of such wonderfull conclusions, as is no ways fit so much as once to mention, much less to reveal and make known the same. And for this reason I have determined with my self to bury this so great a Secret of Fermentation with me in my Grave, and not to disclose it to any one. In the mean while I will take care to provide a sufficient plenty of the best Medicaments, whereby I may be serviceable unto my Neighbour. And I will omit taking care about other needless affairs, unless it should chance to happen, that that Turkish Tyrant thirsting after nothing but Bloud, should approach too near unto us (which God forbid) against whom my wonderfull and hitherto unknown Artificial Fires, and other new inventions of mine, arising from my unwearied Labours, will be of such resistance, as that I am confident his numerous host will be rid of the care of again returning back. For it is beyond all kind of doubt, that such fiery Globes [or Granadoes] may be made, as for one pound thereof to exceed the violence even of twenty pounds of Gunpowder. And who knows for what cause God hath vouchsafed the revealment of such great Secrets, at this nick of time? Perhaps to shew his Omnipotency, he will effect some singular and admirable work for the freeing of the Christian World by this ultimate and extream defensive way, out of the most present and imminent dangers: And though it (viz. the Christian World) be immerst and even drowned in the Labyrinths of various Errors, and is gone greatly astray from a true Christian-like life, yet notwithstanding it doth yet contain many a pious Soul. Never did God make, or vouchsafe ought without a cause; And therefore it is altogether credible, that these new inventions did not light into the hands of men in vain, the which time will manifest.
The Explication of the two Circular Figures of the Quintessence at the beginning of this Fifth Part of the Pharm. Spagyr.
About the Circle of the first Figure. The Quintessence of the Minerals, is a Universal Medicine.
Without side the Square in the Circle. Separate the pure from the impure.
Within side the same Square. The four Elements.
In the four Angles of the Square. Fire, Air, Water, Earth.
Without side the Triangle. The three Principles.
Within the three Angles. Salt, Sulphur, Mercury. Make the fixt Volatile.
Within the Circle, in the Triangle. Two Contraries.
Within the Central Circle. The first Ens.