Curious Collection on Bismuth

sky, when it is beautiful and dry and there is no rainy weather, so that it can attract the Influentias Astrales astral influences. Afterward, take it and put it in a retort; distill it per se by itself using arena sand, and its oleum oil will pass over. In this oleum, now lay pure Solis gold leaves, and set it in mild heat; it dissolves without noise, and the spirit is tinged with a golden color.

Take three parts of the flowers of our matter, reduced to crystalline purity like snow, and one part of the fixed salt or green lion of the same matter. Grind this lion dry and well, and expose it to the air several times for impregnation. Grind both together well and sufficiently in a glass mortar on the mill, then keep it warm over heat or fire, so that it sublimes. Remove this sublimat sublimate and moisten it with Acet. Vin. wine vinegar; it will become mercurius mercury current. NB: Post-trituration, the matter must not be driven too hard with intense heat, but rather fostered and activated with mild and slow heat; then it resolves itself into oleum oil.

This is made when one takes the Solis leaves from gold purified by mercurium mercury, grinds them small into a powder with Sal decrepitatum decrepitated salt, elutes them quite clean with aqua tepida tepid water, and grinds them in a glass mortar in a mill. Afterward, take pure saltpeter and small-ground silicates in equal parts; pour a good spiritus spirit on top, distilled from wine, and digest it. A slimy sedimentum sediment settles (and this is not to be thrown away); pour off the clear liquid by inclination and distill it until it shoots into cry-