A rectangular block of repeating floral or scroll-work ornaments sits at the top of the page.

Secret Book.

A large decorative drop-cap "A" begins the text. Antimony original: "Antimonium"; also called "Spießglas" in the German text is a piece of Saturn or lead, and possesses its nature in all respects. This Saturnine antimony corresponds with gold, and within it is the mercury in which no metal perishes except gold. That is, the gold is truly alone sunk and hidden in the antimonial Saturnine mercury. Without such argentum vivum living silver, or mercury, no metal can be made white. For it whitens the latonem laton, an impure metallic base, which is the gold, and brings the perfecte corpus perfect body, referring to gold into its first materiam matter of white color, shining more brightly than a mirror. I say, it dissolves the