The Fire-Stone of Basil, or the Golden Apple

flutter, or is already about to smoke, and grip the Digl crucible with the gold firmly with tongs, and poured everything together at once, stirred it well through with a piece of wood, and mixed it, poured it into a bowl of cold water, washed it clean, and removed the water again. Forced the living through the remaining putty or amalgama amalgam through a little linen cloth or new leather tied hard with a string. Weighed the remaining lump, as heavy as common, and added a little dried salt, mixed it together so that one no longer saw the gold, allowed the Mercurium mercury to evaporate entirely in the Digl crucible on a coal fire for an hour, poured out the powder, and dried it. Furthermore, [take] a well-calcined snow-white tartarum tartar, warm it with the calcined gold, [of] equal weight, so that no air can come to it; ground it well together on a clean stone, then in a Digl crucible, on which another lutirt sealed/luted [crucible] was placed, surrounded by a coal fire, moved closer for 4 hours, the longer the more, almost made to melt, yet so that the tartarus did not flow, much less the gold. This materiam material was ground again super lapide in loco calido on a stone in a warm place, per duas horas for two hours, sealed again, and cementieret cemented, thus for the third time; or have taken gold laminated by gold-beaters, as the sword-cutlers use for gilding, or thinly beaten ducats, rubbed with common salt (that has been burnt) and yet not flowed, dissolved, filtered, coagulated, burnt again, dissolved, and coagulated, stratificirt stratified 4 or 5 times, calciniert calcined in a Cement Büchsen cementing box for 12 hours, allowed to cool, in a flask with water, the salt dissolved from it: or Rec. 3 ducats, poured 3 times through antimonium antimony, let the same blow away purely from it, laminate them as thin as paper, amalgamiers amalgamate with Mercurio mercury, burn it off with sulfur 2 or 3 times, rub the Goldkalck gold calx with tartaro, ad albedinem calcinato, super marmore tartar, calcined to whiteness, on marble for an hour, put it together in a cæment Pirlein cementing jar cum operculo with a lid for 3 hours on a good coal fire, take it out again, rub it for an hour, cementiers cement [it], and such 3 times in succession.

To unite the lapidem vegetabilem vegetable stone and animalem animal [stone] into a menstruo solvent: Recip. vinum optimum, distilla inde Spiritum, & per phialam altam rectifica, ut sit absq; omni phlegmate, deinde elige puerum, complexionis sanguineae, 13. annorum, ciba eum per 3. dies solo pane triticeo, & vino, vel etiam carnibus assis: tertio hujus dietae die excipiatur urina in vas vitreum, quod bene claudatur, ne quid exhalet, pone per 40. dies in fimum ad putrefact Take the best wine, distill the spirit from it, and rectify it through a tall phial, so that it is without any phlegm; then choose a boy of sanguine complexion, 13 years old, feed him for 3 days only with wheat bread, and wine, or even roasted meat: on the third day of this diet, let the urine be received into a glass vessel, which should be closed well, so that nothing evaporates; place for 40 days in dung for putrefaction: then there will be seen in it as many and as many kinds of colors as a Pfaw an seiner Brust peacock shines on his breast, deinde destilletur urina per arenam in recipiens amplum, donec, nullus amplius prodeat spiritus, commissurae sint bene clausae then let the urine be distilled through sand into a large receiver, until no more spirit emerges; the joints must be well closed.