The Fire-Stone of Basil, or the Golden Apple

Let this urine be cohobated distilled repeatedly three times over its caput mortuum dead head/residue, so it is ready to sublimate the Mercurius Philosophicus Philosophical Mercury therefrom. Place it into a phiala vial which has a neck about three spans long and is a good thumb's width; supra in orificium phialæ infere spongiam oleo oliv: madefactam, & expressam, impone alembicum cum amplo rostro, & appone recipiens, omnibus benè clausis destilla ex Mariæ Balneo fervente, sive buliente above, into the orifice of the vial, insert a sponge dampened with olive oil and squeezed out; place on an alembic with a wide beak, and attach a receiver, and with everything well sealed, distill from a hot or boiling water bath, and the Mercurius Philosophorum Philosophical Mercury shall be sublimated into the upper part of the vial and the alembic, snow-white like a crystal, and not a single drop of water or phlegmatis urinæ phlegm of urine rises so high. Hic est spiritus de quo loquuntur Philosophi This is the spirit of which the philosophers speak; the spirit rises from the water. Continue the fire until nothing more is sublimated, then store that sublimated mercury in a glass closed excellently with wax, which, because of its subtlety, even vanishes into the air. Having obtained this urine-mercury, the remaining urine, useless for this work, should be removed, and that [mercury] should be dissolved in common distilled spring water, and sublimated from the vial through a sponge as before. Repeat this sublimation four times, always with fresh distilled water, so it is well purified. Place it into a hermetically sealed vial for 12 days for the vaporous fire of the philosophical furnace, over water which does not heat the glass but only dissolves the matter through the vapor, with the gentle warmth of a lamp's light, like sunshine. From this dissolved water, pour half into the aforementioned spirit of wine, et illa duo intra horam unam circiter coagulantur in sal clarissimum, & purissimum, quod pro miraculo haberi potest, de quo loquuntur Philosophi: ex duobus fac unum repente and those two within about one hour coagulate into a most clear and pure salt, which can be held as a miracle, of which the philosophers speak: make one out of two suddenly. Solve it again in water, and in it dissolve our body without corrosives; they also call it sulfur, aqua mercurii mercury water, and our salt, so that by these names they may hide this matter. Throw this salt again into the hermetically sealed vial, and again through that vaporous fire, within 21 days it is dissolved into water, which shall be rectified by distilling three times in the Balneum Mariæ water bath as above; then it is finished. Compare Hartmann in Croll.

Since I have already mentioned a universalis medicina universal medicine quite often, I wish to prove it powerful enough with my Chrysolomela golden honey/golden apple, against which its enemy could not stand.

All philosophers, doctors, and physicians cannot deny, but anyone who has even a little experience in philosophia vera true philosophy must admit, that all diseases originate and come solely and exclusively when the spiritus vitæ spirit of life, or the living spirit of man, is aggravated, damaged, burdened, and hindered, so that it cannot fulfill its function and effect, be it at any place or limb of the body. Since all diseases of the humors have only one single universalis fons universal fountain, and general origin and cause, namely from the lesion and hindrance of the living spirit,