The lives of alchemystical philosophers; with a critical catalogue of books in occult chemistry, and a selection of the most celebrated treatises. On the theory and practice of the hermetic art / [Anon].

  • Barrett, Francis.
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1815
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Credit: The lives of alchemystical philosophers; with a critical catalogue of books in occult chemistry, and a selection of the most celebrated treatises. On the theory and practice of the hermetic art / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ ~ Alchemie Spirit of Spice—vol. 3. p..193, Theat. Chem. - First you must knew, that the matter of our stone, or of all - the stones of the philosophers, tocether with precious stones, which are generated or compounded by art, is this metallic soul, aud our dissolvent rectified and acuated, or the lunaria ccelica; which among the philosophers is called vegetable mercury, pro- duced from wine red or white, as'is clearly manifest, being re- vealed to us by God, in our Figura Individuorum, Distinct. 3. Libri. Quint. Essent. &c. : , But first, it is expedient to draw our dissolvent by art from death, that is, the impurities and phlegm of wine, by the office of an alembic, and to acuate it in distillation with pertinent ve- getables; such as are apium sylvestre, squilia, solatrum, carduusy oliandrum, piper nigrum, euphorbium, viticella or flammula, and pyrethrum, an equal quantity of all, and pulverized. . Then the dissolvent must be circulated continually for the space of ten — days in B. M. . WEIENFELD.—The unctuous spirit of philosophical wine attracts none but the unctuous essences of vegetables. Issences being thus extracted, as also all other oily things, crude or expressed, and all distilled of both kingdoms, animal. and vegetable, this spirit of wine doth by simple digestion divide into two distinct parts, two oils or fats, whereof one is the essence of the thing, the other the body.— The essence so made we named the second spirit of wine. Both. essences, this by division, and that by extraction prepared, are by longer digestion made one with the aforesaid spirit of wine. For those things which are of one and the same purity, and of a symbo- lical nature, are easily mixed together, and that inseparably, and so an essence made by an essence, is joined to that essence. And if we protract digestion further, one of the fats, namely, the body less oily, and therefore left hitherto, is at length received also into a symbolical nature, by reason of which mixtion, not only is the. spirit multiplied, but also made fitter for the dissolutions of dry things, because the particles of this body less oily incline to dry- ness; concerning which way we treat in this receipt, in the pre- scription. of which, the oil drawn out of oily vegetables, is by distillation together with the spirit of philosophical wine, circu- lated into a magistery, by which the spirit of wine is multiplied, and made more homogeneous to dry bodies. ‘There is the same dissolvent, but a little otherwise described in his Natural Magic, p- 358, thus ; take nigrum nigrius nigro, and distil ten or eight