OPUS MAGNUM EX VIRGINEA TERRA.

Take reddish rich Virgin earth in , impregnate it with , serene and dew, till the , expose all

end of May: Then imbibe sprinklingly with dew gathered in May, and dry in night to the

and Air, securing it from Rain. Still when it is dry, imbibe and turn the earth mation. The hot (especially in the Dog-days) will make a

often. Continue this till

pure salt shoot up, which mingle back into the earth, by turning it all over. Then distil by graduated as A. F. forcing all the spirits over at last; you must give fourty hours ,

extreme at last. Put all the liquor and salt that cometh over, to digest and circulate a month in fino, in a great ballon close shut. Then separate the several substances out of this chaos; first, cometh an extream subtil, ardent, AEthereal spirit, then white ones with veins like S. V. then Flegm. Thus far in B. in a cucurbite, then in a retort: Then white fumes, then red ones, and a reddish brown salt remaineth in the bottom, and a Volatile salt will be med about the neck

of the retort, as also to the head and sides of the cucurbite. Then purifie every substance by itself; the fixed salt by solutions in the Flegm, filtrations, and congelations, tifi it be perfect pure, clear, and cast no more feces : The volatile salt by often sublimations : The first spirit by thrice disiffling, and the fixed white and red spirit likewise, both together. Now joyn all the three parts, beginning with the fixed salt, whereof take three parts, and one of the fixed spirit; digest eight days, distil in ashes, and the liquor will come off like Flegm. Imbibe with more fixed spirit, and repeat this till all of it be coagulated with the salt. Then put one part of this to three of the , taking it all, and humect them with the volatile spirit. Digest eight days or m up, and if

longer, then distil in a cucurbite; a stinking flegm will rise, and a pure salt

any spirit distill over, keep it, putting it to the rest of the spirit. Then add more of the fixed salt to it which hath not before, circulate and med, making it one third to the m, and the which humect with spirit as

will be increased. Do thus till all the fixed salt be , till all the spirit be converted m this salt by itself, till it

med. Circulate the remaining volatile spirit with the into

, and nothing but a stinking flegm come away. Then

leave no feces, and be most white, transparent, and pure, which will be in four or five times.

Take seven parts of this

, and one of pure

in leaf, seal it hermetically, and digest in B.

The matter will become a green

, like an emerauld, with an Oriental esclat: (and in a retort

will pass all over, leaving a few grains of brownish-gray stiptick earth, like tobacco-pipe earth) And after a while black like ink, and continue so two and fourty days; when the blackness beginneth to wane, put it in dry in an Athanor. It will pass the colours, and

become a red Elixir, and is now best for health; but it will not have good ingression into metals, till it have been multiplyed four or five times with new , taking every time after the

first, only three to one; and it will be done every time after the first in a shorter space. After every fixation of the multiplication, and the first also, give strong for three days, and a

black earth will separate from the red powder, lying like a cake under it. Before you project upon inferious metals, ferment anew with three parts of hours of extream fusion, and all will be red powder. You may proceed in the same manner for . to one of the Elixir, giving three

Note also, that when the work of make them like

is at the white, it will project upon inferiour metals, to , enduring all the tryals of .

, but in truth white

I.f you digest in B. V. ten parts of Pearl in Powder, with one of the perfect an Oriental Liquor, whereof a few drops is admirable for health.

, it will become

If you take four parts of such and the Cellar.

, and grind it well with pure red Coral in powder one part,

m, putting what riseth upon as much of fresh Coral, repeating this four or five times, will be red like a Ruby, and an admirable medicine. AU the Corals will dissolve in a

If you grind one part of it with ten parts of green Venice Talc, and put distilled dew upon it, six fingers over, and digest in Fino, all the Talc will dissolve, and a splendid Oyl of rare effects swim upon it. (Hartman) Sir Kenelm D. said, that a person of quality beyond the Sea (whom he named) wrought this process, and it happened at that time that his wife was dangerously sick, and like to die; she was given over as a dead woman by the ablest physicians: Upon that he opened the vessel, and gave her one grain of the Elixir; whereupon she recovered, and lived many years after it in perfect health.

This process, and Saunier s work were together in a small bundle of papers tied up together by itself; upon the out-side of it were written the following words, perfumes, curiosities, my great Arcane of this Note.