T I N C T U R A II.

Now follows a tincture of the Black Eagle of Salomon Trismolini.

This TINCTURA was described by a philosopher named Pitromolon, regarding the Black Eagle: from antimonium antimony. He sought for many years in chymia alchemy and wanted to make the tincture from many things; nothing presented itself. Only in one thing does the subjectum underlying material/subject lie with its colors. Whoever wants to go to work with these things must read all philosophers and examine their described tinctures with diligence. Then it will be found that all philosophers speak only of a single thing or essence. And although one philosopher has a shorter path than the other, they use only a single essence in this art, and without the same, no tincture appears. And everyone should weigh this saying (as follows) well.

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And whoever understands this saying will learn from what the subjectum comes.

Thus writes the philosopher Pitromolon, a monk in Africa, translated from the Latin language. I have seen with astonishment among ignorant artists and laboratory workers in the chemical art that they sought tinctures in common salt, extracted tartar salt, from herbs, from cattle, from human bones, from various earths, and sulphur the alchemical principle of combustibility from tin, lead, copper, and mercurius, and whatever the smoking metals are. There, nothing was found that would have shown a tincture or wanted to tincture silver into gold. black antimony In the Black Eagle, that is antimonium, a black sparkling stone in appearance, white inside, and of a great redness, there is much gold to be found. And whoever can separate it through art from the black antimonium into the eagle, he has his nourishment to sustain himself, and it is called aurum obscurum obscure gold. Therefore