THE TRIUMPHANT CHARIOT OF ANTIMONY BEING A Conscientious Discovery of the many Reall Transcendent Excellencies included in that Minerall WRITTEN By BASIL VALENTINE A Benedictine MONKE Faithfully Englished and published for the Common Good By I. H. Oxon. Printed for Thomas Bruster and are to be sold at the three Bibles neere the West end of Paules Church-Yard in London 1660. Reader IN this Booke are contained many excellent and precious Antimoniall Medcines both Physicall and Chyrurgicall Some of them even a meane Capacity may attaine unto othersome are more mysterious and therefore t is very probable that the selfe-conceited man who sticks not to vilifie any thing that surmounts his reach will call them Figments hopeing by his malitious subtilty to shun that deserved Reproach which his proud insulting Demeanour exposeth him unto Wee have in these dayes many pretenders to great Mysteries but by their Fruits you may know them were there but any sparke of modesty left in the hearts of such Impudent Ignorant persons they would not thus blemish so noble a Science which forsooth they would be accompted Masters of For if it be an unseemly thing for the authorized Traditionalists to pretend a Mastership in this Faculty which concernes the Life of man and God knowes how much t is hazarded by the Wilfulnesse and Rawnesse of many of them how much more blame-worthy are those Phantasticall hare-brain'd Vpstarts that without either the feare of God or any Respect to the good of their distressed Neighbour Attempt by the subtilest wayes they can Imagine to beguile the Vnwary and to abuse the necessities of their afflicted Patients and yet highly pretend to I know not what sublime Knowledge I am perswaded that such as these have much injured many well disposed tender-Ingenuities and have retarded the Endeavours of such as pitty the deplorable Estate of Mankind This peice therefore may serve to quicken the Slow and to settle the Wavering Mind The Object of it is Antimony T is easie to be had at a mean price the Medcines thence educeable are of great value but yet such of them as are so have a suitable covering the which remove by thy diligence and t will recompence thy paines Labour therefore and humbly implore the Searcher of all hearts to vouchsafe a Blessing upon thy handy worke and whatsoever thou receivest through his mercy be carefull to improve it to his Glory and thy Neighbours Comfort For Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtain mercy Farewell Thy Freind J. 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It first describes p. 158. l. 2. r. thereinto THE Triumphant Chariot of ANTIMONY THE Fiery Stone of Antimony its fixt tincture and most red Oyl shall in this work be briefly but throughly taught after an easy way and Method without any ridles or doubtfull shadowes I therefore Basil Valentine a professed Monk and Brother of the order of St. Benedict will fundamentally propound to the friendly Reader a brief admonition concerning some Praecognita which a Spagirist carefully inquiring into the verity of Art ought to be acquainted with Very profoundly therefore and heartily let these directions be ruminated on by him who hath a desire after a certain enjoyment of this Hermetical Science For if any slightly value these my Proposals doubtless his labor shall be in vain for these things following are very worthy of due consideration Now before I attempt the main work of this little Tract I conceive it requisite to admonish the Spagirist of those things which are worth his knowledge on what Basis he ought to erect his Structure and what Foundation trusting too his Fabrick may resist impetuous storms without declining Therefore as a Monk I hold it fitting and as a thing expedient that when my self and thy self Titius and Sejus Sempronius and Cajus shall be tributaries to death we may leave behinde us in the World an honorable memory to the praise of God that his Divine Majesty may be adored By a due preparation we address our selves unto the Journey My stare and calling forsooth requires a different spirit from the vulgar In this my consideration I have noted five Observations for the diligent searcher 1. An Invocation on the name of God 2. A Contemplation on the Essentiality of things 3. Their true and incorrupt preparation 4. Their use 5. Their benefit or proficuousness All which a true Chymist must remember and without which he cannot be nor be called a true Chymist Briefly therefore and severally these Heads shall be treated of that a particular and the universal entire Work may thereby be brought to light and appear perfect 1. First therefore The Name of God ought to be called on religiously with a pure heart a sound conscience without ambition hypocrisie and other abuses such as are Disdain Pride Arrogance worldly Boasting oppression of our Neighbors and other Tyrannies and Enormities of that kinde all which ought to be totally eradicated out of the heart that when it would prevail at the Throne of Mercy for the health of its Body it may be found a pure and well prepared Temple the Chaff being separated from the uncommix'd and undefiled Corn For verily verily verily God will not be mocked as Sophisters and the Wiselings of this Age imagine nor will he be sued unto as a Creator without a true fear a due obedience and most humble supplication For seeing man hath nothing but what his most bounteous Creator bestows upon him he having given him a Body Life an operating Spirit and a most noble Soul and freely vouchsafed his own holy Word for the support and nourishment of the Soul to eternal Life and having for Bodily necessaries provided him Food and Raiment and such other things as none can possibly want It is just that above all other things his first Father who hath created the Heaven and the Earth things visible and invisible the Firmament the Elements Vegetable things and all Creatures be with most inward humble Prayers sought unto for the obtaining of them Most certaine it is that a wicked man shall never be acquainted with true medicine and much lesse taste the truly immutable and true celestiall bread of Eternity Primarily and cheifly therefore follow this Doctrine placing all thy hope and confidence in God humbly implore his blessing that thy search may begin in the fear of the Lord and so shalt thou obtain desired Wisdom for the fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom Whosoever then hath resolved in himself to seek the top of Terrestrials that is the knowleege of the Good lodging in all Creatures which the most high hath bestowed upon man lying dormant or covered in Stones Herbs Roots Seeds living Creatures Plants Minerals Metals and the like let him cast behinde him all worldly cares and their appurtenances and expect release with
of Wine eveÌ„ to transparency a Dose of which administred in a little Quantity is found to be very profitable To this Oyl may be added some Spirit of Salt and both projected on the Subtil Calx of Gold prepared by its own water extracted by an Alembeck which I have else where taught in my Writings and 't wil extract the Tincture of Gold only without seizing upon its body this Fermentation being made enough paper would not be procured to describe all the misteries which appear therein far beyond the thoughts of man But I advise the Physitian that he listen unto and mark my philosophicall proposals that he labour and bring the preparation unto use so shal he daily obtain honour and be throughly acquâ—inted with more Operations then any Physitian is able to prescribe unto him When thou hast proceeded with Antimony thus far and rightly obtained this processe wherein 't wil be expedient that thou behave thy self very discreetly and learn the things with diligent cogitations and try it by Labour and working thou maist boast of that magistery thus by thee obtained and discerne the vast ignorance wherein most men lye enthralled This Magistry mixt with a solution or Tincture of corals and given in drink with some comforting water operates even to admiration in dysenterian diseases and stops all infirmities proceeding of impure bloud makes glad the heart excites chastity and honesty and in a word makes a man quick and ready in all his undertakings For all which benefits let us ascribe most humble thanks to the creator and conservator of all things who hath bounteously vouchsafed unto us miserable in body and sick in Soul remedies for both diseases supplying us with refreshment and help or succour in all our necessities I wil also in few words deliver an arcanum of Antimony Take Antimony and salt Armoniack subtilly ground or beaten of each equal parts mingle them and distil them by a Retort dulcorate that which comes over with distilled Raine Water heated and put upon it which being abstracted and together with it viz. the Water all the acrimony and tast of the Salt the Glasse of Antimony will remaine in the bottome like white shining small feathers which subtilly dry in a very gentle heat this done put them into a Pelican or circulatory glasse whereto pour the best rectified Spirit of white Vitriol both which let be circulated untill they shall be well united distill them and being distilled poure Spirit of Wine upon them which circulate as before and so will there be a separation and some Feces will stay in the bottome but the Arcanum remaines united to the Spirits of Wine and Vitriol Which Arcanum if it be yet once more rectified one drop thereof drunk with a litle Rose-water operates more potently then a whole kettlefull of their boyled pottage It quickens the Appetite corrects the Stomack drives out Melancholly generates good Moud helps Concoction and is the best Treasure for allaying the Risings of the Matrix and for the Collick that can be Which most Laudable Arcanum cannot be bought for and valued by any silver Having spoken of the Arcanum of Antimony I shall now speak of its Elixir which is thus made Take with the Help of God of Antimony ground or beaten two parts of Salt Armoniack one part sublime them that which it sublimed drive over by a Retort into a Recipient three times every time separating the Faeces then by dulcoration evaporate the Sal Armoniack which matter of Antimony being well shut in a vessell reverberate at a gentle Fire by little and little untill it becomes like to the Minerall of Cinaber then poure upon it distilled Vinegar and extract its rednesse separate the Vinegar and poure upon the powder the Spirit of Wine which extract in B. M. and this Extraction will be most pure some Feces being left in the bottome put now this Spirit of Wine or this Extraction into a bolt head poure thereon a little Quintessence of Rhubarb and Coralls three or foure drops whereof being given to a man do gently provoke to Stoole and purgeth without any Gripings if thou hast rightly prepared it it lightens the Bloud and is a most profitable and pleasant Remedy for those who desire gentle purges But perhaps some Physitian or other will wonder how t is possible that this Medicine can purge so mildly seeing that Antimony is of it selfe most exceedingly penetrative and is here commixt with Rhubarb which of it self is likewise a purgative Medicine But desist from wondring for Antimony is by this meanes destroyed that his poisonous and purging Quality cannot operate upon any thing as long as t is mixt with another simple purging Medicine for this simple hath only a Naturall opening power But prepared Antimony by this meanes fleed from it's Labour of the Expulsion of any thing from the Ventâ—iâ—le can leasurely finde out some other way whereby to operate and performe that Office for which it was appointed Beleeve me for I have no Reason to falsifie or to lye this Elixir thus prepared can in the same manner-purge and penetrate the body as Antimony purgeth Gold and if I were to account and number up all its Virtues I suppose it necessary to entreat at the hands of God a longer life that so I might more plentifully understand and try the wonders of his divine Majesty and having experienced them communicate them to others that they together with me acknowledging and observing those wondrous things may give all prayse and thanks to God their Creatour But that I may goe through with my purposed intention which is so far to describe the virtues of Antimony as I have experimentally Learned I shall be silent as to things hidden from and not composed by me nor would it be handsome for me to judge of other mens actions and things unknown unto my experience but leave them to another judge who hath by his own industry made tryal it being impossible for one man fundamentally to learn all because of the shortnesse of life and the new accidents that daily happen in operations about the said Antimony Moreover be it known to all that Antimony doth not onely purge Gold and separate all extraneous additions therefrom but performs the same operation in the bodyes of men and other living creatures which I shall prove by an homely example If a householder intends to fatten a beast but especially an hog let him give him in his meat three dayes before he shuts him up halfe a dragme of crude Antimony by which means his appetite to his meat will be whetted and stird up within him and heel soone grow fat and if he hath any hurtful quality or disease in his liver or be leaprous he shall be healed This example will seem somewhat grosse to the ears of delicate men but I intended it for illiterate men or country people in whose brains the more subtile Philosophy is a meer stranger that they may discerne that experimentally
to be administred for inward and outward diseases Which to many moles will seem incredible and will be adjudged vanity and folly but yet may be pardonable in them because of their ignorance and want of judgment but verily they are exceedingly to be blamed who not knowing have no desire after knowledge nor any will to learn Antimony hath four qualities it is hot and cold moist and dry and imitates the four seasons of the year it is also fixt and volatile the volatile part is not void of poyson but the fix'd part is altogether free there from Hence comes it to passe that many unskilful men write what they neither know nor understand which may for that reason be adjudged monstrous one of the seven wonders of the world there being none that either hitherto hath bin found or is at present to be found who hath fundamentally learned all its faculties virtues and powerful operations or hath so far tryed its force efficacy that nothing more may be therein seen then he by his own experience knows If any such can be met withall he is well worthy to be drawn in the Triumphant Glorious Chariot of the ancient Emperours when they had gotten some notable victories But in my opinion the chariot Smiths are likely of but light imployment about chariots of this kind many artificers in this age being overwhelmed with their thoughts have sought after Riches only in Antimony and have neglected the benefit that its wont to bring to such as are diseased the which utility ought notwithstanding first of all to be sought after that the wonders of the Lord may be manifested and due thanks given to him It cannot indeed be denyed but that in Antimony Riches may be found although neither thou nor I may beleeve it since both of us are but Scholars and Disciples in its search although haply I have seene more therein and experimented more then either thou or such as thou art that boast exceedingly much and arrogate a large portion of Learning to themselves are able to learn to morrow or next day yet let none greive at his fortune nor despaire for God doth wonderfully distribute his mercifull rewards but yet the World abounds with such as are ungratefull who contemn the blessings of God esteeming Wealth better then true riches and therefore God hath set a Cloud before their eyes that such being blinded may not know those secrets that lie hid under a Metallick Form All people even in these days cry out Riches riches and imitate the saying of the Epicurean If our Bodies would enjoy anything our Souls must willingly search after it frequently repeating the foolish wish of Midas so often spoken of by the Poets Many therefore do here consult with themselves how from Antimony they may obtain their hoped for riches But because in their Commentaries and devices they minde not their Creator nor render a sacrifice of praise and neglect that charity due to their Neighbor they in vain feel in the horses mouth whose age force and strength they remain ignorant of So in the Wedding at Cana of Galilee they indeed tasted and drank of the Wine and knew it to be made of Water but the manner of its Transmutation they were not acquainted with for our Saviour kept that Miracle to himself alone for the confirmation of his Omnipotency I do therefore affirm that the Mysteries of all things and those secrecies that are implanted in the Creatures by the Creator ought to be inquired into and sought after from him Although 't is incredible and unlikely that a man should attain to a perfect knowledge any more then they aforementioned could understand our Saviours Miracles yet 't is not forbidden us to seek because by study and diligence we may come to learn so much as to prevent the causes of complaining of the loss of our health and riches and also may finde cause enough to rejoyce in such things as by search we finde out for which let God who is well worthy be for ever praised Whosoever therefore will be a true Antimonial Anatomist let him first consider the division or opening of its body that after a due manner and in due season and in its own seat he make his attempts without erroneous deviations Secondly Let the Regiment or Governance of the Fire be observed that it be not too great nor too little that it grows not too cold nor too hot for in the fire lies the very Art that its living Spirits may be forced out released and set at liberty to perform their operating virtues Thirdly let the use be observed together with the certain measure and quantity as before in my five necessary Chymical Heads or Observations I have denoted yet I le repeat them parabolically By the Division or Anatomical part the chief thing receives its preparation but in by the fire is it adduced to profit and use Even as a Butcher cuts an Ox which he hath killed into several pieces but yet 't is not fit for use being crude but must be concocted by the fires heat which takes away the rawness of the flesh and prepares it for useful nutriment for if an housholder should eat crude flesh it would be rather a Poyson then Food because the heat of mans stomack is too weak for concocting such a crude gross body Even so also my friend maist thou conclude concerning Antimony which seeing 't is a crude gross Poyson and being Mineral hath a more hard indigestible Body then living Creatures have it cannot be digested in the stomack without a precedent preparation and concoction but death would soon follow so strong a Medicine Above all things as to Antimony let its poison be taken away and let it be so handled and ordered that it may never be reducible into poison any more even to eternity even as Vinegar can never more be reduced into wine out of which it was made by Putrefaction not frō thence viz. Vinegar can a Spirit of Wine be extracted but it is Vinegar and so it will remain But contrarily if by distillation the spirit of Wine be separated from its aquosity and be elevated into its own exaltation t will never be changed into vinegar in a whole age but will alwaies remaine spirit of Wine as Spirit of Vinegar will still continue to be Spirit of Vinegar But the manner of the generation of this Wine-Vinegar is wonderfull for of it is made a thing different from what it was before in its vegetative Essence for in the destillation of Wine the spirit of the Wine comes first the watry part residing in the bottom but in the distillation of Vinegar the spirit riseth last as elsewhere hath been treated of The Spirit of Wine therefore makes things votatile because it selfe is volatile but the fix'd Spirit of Vinegar fixeth them viz. The Minerall and vegetable Medicines that they are enabled to operate upon fix't things and heal fixed diseases which things observe very diligently
otherwaies call it ought to be extracted which was at first infused into that body by the stars and also begotten and concocted by the Elements which spiritual essence ought in like manner palpably and formally to be again changed with a little fire by the regiment and disposing of the Microcosme into a Palpable fixt and constant matter I speak without any imagination into an openfield if I were wise I should not so much as whisper and would refrain my hands from writing Therefore all Tinctures of metals ought so to be prepared that they may singularly love the metals and earnestly and solely desire to be united to them and to perfect them just like two lovers who burning with love cannot rest until they are united and accomplish their desires then at last they rest and are multiplyed by the will of God man lyes subject to many and wonderful deseases which in some doe debilitate and take away the strength of nature Those diseases may be dealt withall by antidotes and that man may be restored to his former health But love it is that overcomes all other diseases for which is no redress or help but by a reciprocal love and because that the desire of both sex is mutual t is onely extinguished by satisfaction of the inflamed and hungry longing many things may be testified of the power of love which doth not onely seize upon the younger sort but the elder also who in their extreame age doe not onely doat but even grow mad by the fury of love There are other diseases which imitate or follow the natural complexions of men and so assualt one more then another But love sets upon all without distinction rich and poor old and young nor fears it any net that may be laid to trap it In other natural diseases the grief possesseth onely some certain members the others being peaceable and quiet But love captivates the whole body all its essence forme and substance not the least part escaping for the heart is so filled with heat that it is dispersed through out all the veins and sinews And as I may so speak love reigning in its power seizeth upon the sense reason and thoughts and withdraws a man from his mind that he forgets omits and dis-estems every thing he contemnes God Gods word promises wrath threats and punishment I speak of inordinate forbidden love nor can any thing recal him from that love he is unmindful of his office of his condition and vocation he tramples upon admonitions despiseth the adhortations of his well wishing neighbour yea he shuts his eyes from most things that he sees not his own destruction stopping his eares to the faithful advise of such as do admonish him It deprives many a one of sleep takes away the appetite to food procures a neglect of labour and arts that so love may be followed and wayted on Many fall into a melancholy sadness because of love especially if things do not presently succeed according to desire and they consume away like a candle yea some loose both life and soul as is apparent by examples But such a one cares not he contemnes the dangers both of soul and body which indeed is a dreadful thing let this suffice for t is unseemely for me who am an Ecclesiastical man to give place to such things in my heart even as be not offended with the word hitherto all my life time I have forborne it and moreover will supplicate my God and Lord that I may conserve my self for my bride the Christian Church to which by a faithful vow I have devoted my self But this I induce for examples sake onely that so I might discover and evidence that al Tinctures ought to have a love to the metals else they cannot enter into true friendship and by a true penetrative love attaine to Melioration or a better condition Let us now come to the preparation of the stone reserving its use to the latter end And since this stone is of a most penetrative and meer fiery property let it be boiled with fire and ripened as other things of the world but yet differently according to the different natures of things even as there are divers fires 1. The first fire is celestial instituted by God whereby charity is kindled and faith towards the most high God most holy Trinity and our most merciful Saviour Jesus Christ which faith will never deceive us nor forsake us in any necessity but will deliver our souls from eternal destruction 2. The second fire is the Sun or Elementary fire produced from the Sun which brings all things in the Macrocosme to maturity 3. The third is corporeal whereby all meats and medicines are boiled and prepared which men cannot want either for health or nourishment We also find in the Holy Scripture that before the last judgment God will consume this visible world with fire but what fire this will be let us refer it to the judgement of the most high There 's also mention made in the word of God of another or an eternal fire which is reserved in hell for the eternal punishment of the damned being infinite and without ceasing God permitting it and not onely for them but for the devils also from which fire I pray the almighty God to preserve us whence I do faithfully admonish all that they pray uncessantly that the call and life of every one may have an harmony betwixt them for thereby shall he conserve himselfe and be delivered by God from that infinite punishment Now let all know that our stone of fire ought to be boiled and maturated with the corporeal fire of the Microcosme even as other meats and medicines are for at the farewel of the operative fire of the Macrocosme doth the fire of the Microcosme begin the production of a new generation and therefore let no man wonder at this coction Wheat grew and ripened by the elementary fire of the Macrocosme and a new coction and maturation is again produced by the corporeal fire of the Microcosme that so man may further use that blessing for his own conservation and that he may enjoy even the utmost and the least thing which by the first and great world was under operation and working on The true Oyle of Antimony out of which the stone of fire is prepared is of a most sweetly pleasant property and is thus purged and separated from its own Earth place a glasse filled therewithal in the Sun and it emits from it selfe sundry and admirable beames like to the reddy Rubine shining with a fiery brightnesse resembling other wonderfull Colours and shapes like to manifold Speculums exposed unto the solar brightnesse But hear me thou studious Lover of art and truth if thou desirest to make a farther progresse in experience Take in the name of the most high the Aes or mineral of Antimony born after the Rising of the Sun one part of the purest and best mundified salt petre as much grind them
and mix them exceedingly well place them in a gentle fire burne or fire them together according to art this is the work and this is the Labour then shalt thou finde a dark dusky coloured matter remaining behind of which make glasse out of which being powdered extract a most red Tincture with a most strong vinegar distilled and made out of its own proper Minerall abstract the vinegar in B. M. and there will remaine a powder which yet again extract with spirit of Wine rectified unto the height and some feces wil remaine and thou shalt have a most red extraction profitable in medicine This is a most pure sulphur of Antimony separated to the utmost which if thou hast two pounds of add foure ounces of the salt of Antimony made as I have afore taught thee thereto mix them and circulate them in a vessel well shut for a month at least so wil the salt be united to the extraction if any feces remain let them be separated then first of all destil off the spirit of Wine in B. M. and that being abstracted augment the fire and there wil come forth the most sweet pellucid red oyle with many miraculous colours rectifie this oyle in B. that a fourth part may remaine and t is good Which being done take of the quick mercury of Antimony already spoken of and pour thereto a red oyle of Vitriol made out of Iron and supreamly rectified distil the phlegme in sand from the mercury and thou shalt have a precipitate a fairer then which cannot be seen nor a more profitable in old wounds and ulcers for it dryes up accidentall humours from whence martial diseases have their Rise where also the united spirit of the oyl assists him Take of this precipitate and of the aforesaid dulcorated oyle of Antimony equal parts mix them put them into a glasse wel shut in a gentle continuall heat the precipitate wil be dissolved in the oyle and be fixt consume all the phlegme in the fire and then shal you have a fix dry red fusible powder emitting no fume My disciple I wil now speake in the manner of the Prophets foretelling things to come When thy studies have guided thee thus far in Philosophy and thou hast perfected the Labour of Antimony which I have prescribed thee thou hast a medicine both for men and metals it is sweet and safe it penetrates it moves not the belly it corrects and expels what is evil If thy progresse hath been right this medicine wil reward thee in thy health and food that nothing in the world shal be wanting unto thee for which thou owest unto God a sacrifice of praise My God! I now speake with a sadned mind being an Ecclesiastical man for I do not know whether I have done right or otherwise whether too much or too litle I leave it to every ones judgment ye that are my disciples make tryal as I have done if you attaine to your end give praise to God and thank me who am your master if ye erre from the way blame your selves for I am not the cause of your errours I have spoken enough I have written enough yea so clearly that none can teach more cleare unlesse a man would purposely run into Hell and there drown himself uttering things prohibited by the Creatour and eating of the tree placed in the middle of Paradise but what I have done shal suffice me until I can more largely judge of what is lawful as to this thing and now I le speak a few words of its use The use consists in the view of the person and observation of his complexion as to humane health see thou givest neither too much nor too little that thou neither burden nature nor deny her what is sufficient Albeit it hurts not although too much be given for it helps lost health and resisteth poisons Yet know that three or four graines at a dose is sufficient for the expulsion of all diseases being given with spirit of wine This stone or Tincture penetrates all the joynts of the body and far transcends other Arcanums it doth most readily take away the Pthisis and all diseases arising from the Lungs the Asthma the Cough Lepry and Lues venerea the Plague Jaundise dropsie and all Feavers it expels any poisonous drink t is profitable for such as are infected by a philtre or love potion it comforts the head the brain and what is of affinity to them the stomack the Liver it heales the diseases of the Reines it purgeth corrupt bloud expels maligne humours lessens the stone of the bladdet and drives it forth heales the windy Dysury c. It brings back the vitall spirits compresseth the suffocatian of the Matrix provokes the Menstrues and allayes their overflowings it begets fruitfulness and sound seed in both sexes Outwardly This stone of fire but yet it must be be also taken into the body and a suitable wound plaister externally applyed heales the Gangrene and all other corroding diseases the scab and infirmities arising from the corruption of the bloud and the Noli me tangere In a word this stone as a particular Tincture is a remedy for almost all the diseases whereto man is subject which experience showes together with the way if only thou beest a true Physitian sent and called by God I will write no more of Antimony I have acted my part let another also act his that the mysteries of God may be layd open before the worlds end to the glory of him and for the health of men I le hold my peace and returne to my monastick order until I shal have made larger progresse in my Philosophy that I may also write those things which I have a long time decreed viz. of Vitriol common sulphur and the Magnet their beginnings and virtues may it please the Prince of Heaven to bestow upon us health of body and eternall welfare of our soules in the unsearchable joyes of his celestial delight Amen I conclude this Tract of Antimony those things which I have written of the red oyle of Antimony made of its purified sulphur and of its spirit which is prepared of its salt observe and therewith compare this last Doctrine of the stone of sire wherein if thou whettest thy wit and mind from this comparing wilt thou finde their conjunction for the Basis and Foundation is one and the same and the Amiry and Freindship is the same by which health is attained unto and the lamenting Stag caught by a pleasant cheerfull hunting The Water Fire Aire Earth yea all things shall be reduced into powder and Ashes whatsoever is borne of them doth also in time perish The mercy of God only endures to all Eternity which alone Man enjoyes for which let us be thankfull FINIS The sorts of Antimony