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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![( 4? ) rit; this is Aqua Sicca, Aqua Solis, m Exp**5* Tea, Mineral Menftruums alfo the Adepts more than often call by the Name of Aqua Vitae. £0 Albertus in fuo Compofitode Compo- fitis, pag. 939. Volum 4. Theat. Chym. Difti/ls a Mercurial Mineral Water ; of which thus : Behold, this is the Afua Vitae, the Acetum Philofophorum, and Lac Virginis,by which Bodies are re- folved into the firft Matter. . Though therefore it be uncertain to Divine what Spirit of Wine out of Juch a vajl number of Menftruums Trifmofinus intended; yet fhallwenot much err from the Truth, if we take any Menftruum whatfoever, either Simple or Compounded, Vegetable or Mineral, irt- flead of this Spirit; for we may with allpromifcuoufly per fell the fame Philofophical Work, differing only in degrees, as being flronger or weaker, which common Spirit of Wine makes altogether impojftble^ « and fallacious : Tet notwit hflanding Dir eft ions there are, which may in this ambiguity make us more certain*, as, ^ 1. Any ambiguous, or unknown Name of any Menftruum, is eajtiy known by its Synonimds, if there be any in the fame Book, or othet Writings of the fame Adept, as for Example: If in the Defer iption of the Balfamum Samech of Paracelfus, you know not what the Circulatum minus is, the Synonimds (produced, by Paracelfus himfelf. Lib. 10. Arch, in the Defer iption of the Circulatum rna- jus, (where it is called Primum Ens Salis, and Arcanum Salis) de¬ noting moreover the Nature, yea, and preparation of the Menftruum, delivered here perhaps lefs clearly (epaatenus Menftruum]) but elfe- where more plainly under the Title of Eftence or Primum Ens]) do put it out of all doubt, that it is the Arcanum of common Salt. But Ifaid, Synonimds in the Writings of th't fame, not of another Adept, becaufe oftentimes others intended another thing by thefe Namesyed that Name which hath in one Book the fame fignific at ion with the reftf hath commonly in another, though of the fame Author, afignific at ion different from them; and therefore that Synonymum muft, ifpoffible, be had out of the fame Book, which muft then be compared bot h with other Writings of the fame Author, and alfo with the Writings of other Adepts,^ confirm the meamrtdof T the Synonimum, which was doubted of tings of other Adepts, becaufe tht Adepts them ft hues 'have fomtimes H x ~ alfo](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3032757x_0103.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
