Balneum roris after another, in which there are made many Solutions of corporeall things.
Horse-dung after another, in which the chiefest putrefactions, and digestions are made.
The Celestiall fire.
And after another fashion works the invisible Fire, by which wee understand the rayes of the Sun, and that which is manifested by a glasse, or Crystall, and shews its operations and effects, of which Fire the Ancients wrote nothing at all; and by this fire the three Principles of every corporeall thing may bee separated.
This Fire is of such wonderfull force, that by it Metalls may bee melted, and all fat, and fluxible things, may upon the table without any Fire bee together with all combustible things, reduced into coales, and ashes.
Therefore after I have proposed, and opened to you the degrees of the Art of Alchymie, and the degrees of the Alchymists Fire: I will yet further shew, and declare to you in generall, various Transmutations of naturall things: of Metalls first, secondly of Stones, and thirdly of divers things in generall. The transmutation of Metalls therefore is a great secret in Nature, and it can hardly bee done by reason of many impediments, and repugnancies. Yet it is not against Nature, nor Gods ordination, as many falsly affirm.
The Transmutation of Metalls into Silver and Gold.
But that the five lesser, and impurer Metalls, viz. ♀[Venus] ♃[Jupiter] ♄[Saturn] ♂[Mars] and ☿[Mercury] may be transmuted into the greater, purest, and most perfect Metalls, viz. into ☉[Sun] and ☽[Moon], it cannot be done without the Tincture, or Philosophers stone.
Now seeing we have before sufficiently opened the secrets of Tinctures in the seven degrees, and described them there, it is not necessary that wee spend any further labour in this, but rather bee satisfied with those things, which we have wrote in other books concerning the Transmutations of Metalls.
The Transmutation of Iron into Copper.