N. B. It happens sometimes, when too great a quantity of ♂ is taken to be graduated to ☉, and the Flame too strong, that the Needles melt into one, especially if they be laid too close together.
N. B. In Case, the Needles should not in the first Fulmination be wholly changed to ☉, the Work may be repeated with fresh fluxing Powder. And if any one desires more Profit from this Operation, let him mix some of the Amalgama of ♃ and ☿ with the Golden Fulmen, and Fulminate with the same Needles, or thin Iron Wier, by which means the ☿ will better diffuse the graduating ☉, or Spirit throughout the ♂, and so more of it becomes changed into ☉.
N. B. He that would draw considerable Profit from this Operation, had best perform it in a close earthen Vessel, with a large Recipient fitted to it, for to catch the ☿, which may be used again, by which means that gain will be more.
N. B. For to make this Work yet more gainful, we may instead of the ☉ mix with the Fulmen of ♃ and ☿, some fine powdred Red, Brown, or black Pebbles, which are found in running Water, and break as smooth as Glass, and contain much Volatile ☉, grinding them well together. This Fulmen when kindled, drives the Volatile ☉ out of the Pebbles, and being received by ♃ and ☿ is fixed by them, by which means much ☉ and ☽ may be had out of ♃, ♀ and ♂. Out of these Pebbles with Aqua Regis much ☉ may be extracted, and tho’ the ☉ in them be Volatile, yet partly by means of the Aqua Regis, and partly by being precipitated with the Mercurial ⛛ out of ♃, and by Reduction it is fixed: Concerning which I have largely treated in the Seventh Part of the Prosperity of Germany.
N. B. To work on these Pebbles with more Profit, we may when reduced to fine Powder, extract them with ⛛ in which common Salt has been dissolved, to which Extraction (which will be of a very high Colour) we must add some of the Resuscitative Salt of the World, every where to be found, and then abstract the Solvent from the Extract, by which means the Resuscitative Salt will make ☉ more Volatile, and separating it from the fixer Part, bring it over the Helm, in form of a yellow Liquor, which when mortified by a Lixivium, and reduced to a dry ☉, if then it be driven through a Retort, you will find a running ☿ Sol in the Recipient, in small quantity indeed, but of great Virtue; which by the Fire of Artephius may easily be fixed into an Universal Tincture for Men and Metals. A Lixivium may afterwards be poured on the remaining Extract, for to mortifie the Corrosive Spirits, and then distilled by Retort, it will yield some more Mercurial ☉. As for the fixt ☉ which was in the Pebbles, the same may be easily reduced, and will be good ☉, tho’ somewhat pale Coloured, the Salt of the World having carried some part of the Colour over with the ☿.
N. B. Our Resuscitative Salt of the World is a very wonderful Salt, for when joyned with the dissolved ☉, it not only brings over a running ☿, but part of the Colour of ☉ with it, wherefore also the said Mercurial ☉ affords a most glorious Medicine, when duely fixed. In the same manner you may get a tinging ☿ from ☽, but much better, and easier from a ☽, which lies Volatile in its own Matrix, and has never touched the Fire.
N. B. But this Mercurial ☽ doth not tinge into ☉, but only into ☽. In the same way a ☿ may be driven from all Metals, and in considerable quantity. The ☿ of ♂ and ♁ are the best; those of ♀, ♃ and ♄ are good also, but not so high colour’d, as that of ♂ which is the best. Now to make ☿ of ♂, we need not dissolve common ♂, and thence with Salt of the World drive a ☿; but it is better to take Iron-stones, which have never touch’d the Fire, and having extracted them, add to them some of the Resuscitative Salt of the World, which then distill’d will yield more ☿ than common ♂. In like manner much more ☿ may be had from ♄, ♃ and ♀ Oar than from the Metals themselves.
I remember, that, in my youthful years, I laboured two years continually with a Person of high quality, to obtain a ☿ of ♄, we tryed all manner of ways but got nothing. Whether it was for want of Experience, or that the Process given us was not true, or because God did not see it fit for us, I know not: But this I know, that we had no knowledge of the universal Resuscitative Salt of the World, making use only of common S. Armon, and its Volatile Spirit.
I have, in the Seventh Part of my Pharmacopœia Spagyrica, taught a way to draw a running ☿ from Metals, but in small quantity, whereas by means of this Salt of the World, much more is obtained. I say therefore, that if from my last published Writings, Men cannot discover the way of making the Mercuries of Metals in good quantity, it will be a sign to me, that God will not permit it, having plainly set down every thing, except the Resuscitative Salt of the World.
And I now say again, that the said Salt is no where to be sold, since enough may be had for nothing. God must reveal it, for Men will hardly do it. It is a mere Gift of God to know this Salt and its Use. Turba saith concerning it: If God had not created this Salt, it were impossible to perfect our Elixir. From whence we may see, it is no Salt prepared by Art, nor made with hands, but created of God of nothing. Consider well what is here said, and you’ll find Wonders. Cosmopolita speaks after this manner of this Salt, viz. Nature affords us a Chalybs, which can from the Rays of the Sun extract that, which many have sought and not found.