Hadrianic Testament

That which other medicines pharmaca drugs or medicines barely cure over a long time, This strengthens the sick in a few hours.
O great gift of Medicine, to which nothing in the world earns such a trophy of excellent use!
But so that its own leprous scabies skin irritation or impurity does not remain even in unrefined metals, but rather, stripped of every defect of nature, they may be endowed with the highest honor:
one must proceed further, and the operation of our Stone Lapidis the Philosopher's Stone must be multiplied, so that it may acquire new divine enthea inspired or divinely infused powers.
Therefore, insert the completed Stone back into its Mother from whom it was born, namely into that blessed Spring of the mercurial Mercuriali relating to the element mercury womb with doubled salts.
Once inserted under the correct weight of the philosophers philoſophorum the alchemists, let the repeated crystalline door of a new heaven close, to be skillfully sealed with the spagyric ſpagyricò alchemical seal ſigillo hermetic seal.
Thus inserted into the Mother, and thus received in the translucent chamber, let the new baths balnea heated water or sand baths, warmed by new coals, cook it again properly.
Do this until the material, led through every kind of color colorum the sequence of alchemical color changes in order (this you will finish in even one month, which you barely completed in ten before), produces one body again from the two.
The power of this body for purging the impure and for tinting metals shall be more divine the more often it is recooked by the philosopher with fire.
If anyone is allowed to repeat this labor so many times, with God providing the centuries of a long-lived life,

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