The Foundation

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which the philosophers have placed very great secrets. This oil has a great sweetness within it and is good for soothing the pains of wounds.

Therefore, the entire secret of this hidden antimonial art is that we know how to extract the argentum vivum living silver, or mercury, which does not burn, from the body of Magnesia a name for the primary crude material or "mother" of the stone. This is the antimony and mercurial sublimate. That is, one must draw from it a living water that is incombustible. Afterwards, let it become hard with the perfect body of gold, which is dissolved in it into a white and thick substance and nature, as if it were a thick juice, so that everything becomes entirely white.

However, before this, the gold will lose its luster at the beginning of its Putrefaction rotting, or the breakdown of the substance and dissolution in this water. It will become dark and black. Finally, it will rise above the water, and gradually a white color will swim on top of it in a white substance. This is making the red latonem laton white, sublimating it according to the philosophical manner, and bringing it into its first materiam matter. That is, into a white sulphur sulfur that is incombustible and into a fixed argentum vivum mercury. Thus the moisture, which has its certain goal (that is, the gold our body), is converted and brought into a fixed