Four books ... concerning the secrets of the adepts; or, of the use of Lully's spirit of wine: a practical work ... so aptly digested, that even young practitioners may be able to discern the counterfeit ... preparations ... whether for medicines or metals, from true. Collected out of the ancient as well as modern fathers of adept philosophy ... / [Johann Seger Weidenfeld].
- Weidenfeld, Johann Seger.
- Date:
- 1685
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Four books ... concerning the secrets of the adepts; or, of the use of Lully's spirit of wine: a practical work ... so aptly digested, that even young practitioners may be able to discern the counterfeit ... preparations ... whether for medicines or metals, from true. Collected out of the ancient as well as modern fathers of adept philosophy ... / [Johann Seger Weidenfeld]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![I [ ] away, 1 had gathered a very large Book, of fuch Re- , ceipts, I went prefently with my Mafter to the Place where I was to ftudy Law, began to turn over my Wri¬ tings, 3 whereof fome contained Projections of One up¬ on Ten, others Jipon Twenty, Thirty, a Third, a half part . for the Red of eighteen Carrachs, twenty, dec. into Gold of Crowns, Ducats, and of the highefi co¬ lour that could be 3 One was to endure Melting, ano¬ ther the Touch-ft one, ' another all Tryals : Of the White likewife, one was to be of Ten penny, another of Eleven, another Sterling Silver, coming white out of the Fire, another white from the Touch : In fhort, I thought if I were able to perform the leaft of thof& things greater felicity could not happen to me in this world. Efpecially when I read the Infcriptions of great Perfons before fuch Receipts 3 one of the Qyteen of Navarr, another of the Cardinal of Lorain, Tiir iinc, and infinite others, that by fuch Difguifes and Titles, Credit might be given by unwary men. : Bernhard alfo complains of tiic fame Receipts, pag. 771* ejiifd. Vol. If I had had, laith he, at fir ft, at the Books, which I afterwards procured, doubt lefs I fhould have fooner attained to the Art, but I read no¬ thing but falfe Receipts , and erroneous Books 5 be- ftdes I happened to confer with none but the moft per-, verfe Thieves, wicked Men, and Imp oft or s. The other fort contains Receipts or Adepts’ themfelves, againft whom fome other Adepts have alfo fometimes written: As for example, the fame* Bernhard, Lag. 74^* VoL Theat. C*hvm.. laying > - - • Too](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3032757x_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
