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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![wherein we made the firfl beginning of diftolving, we did nor underftand Raymund Lully in this dillolutive part; but having read him over again returning to our Studies, Pra&ifing, Pray¬ ing, and Fading, a perfeft illumination of Mind came to us: this way therefore will I manifefi: under the Seal of Silence, pag. 231. Vol. 6. Theat. Chym. Parifinus doth by thefe Words make us more ajfured, that the Spi¬ rit of Philofophical Wine hath no power of diftolving any hut Oyly things, becaufe it is Oyl it felf; lut in order to dijfolve dry things alfo, it isnecejfary for it to he acuated, that is,fo tempered, as to he made homogeneous alfo to dry things, andfo dijfolve them, which to le a Work difficult and tedious, his own Experience proveth : out of many acuators therefore of the Adepts, he choofeth Hony before the reft, whofe principal acuating faculty, he calls the great Myftery and Treafure of the Art. For according to Lully, the Spirit of Philo¬ fophical Wine in Honey hath two free Operations, that is, this Vntti- ous Spirit is eafily Vnited to the Vnlluoftty of Honey, and hy the fame means alfo eafily tempered with the aridity of Honey* In a Wordy there are other indeed, yea all the following Menftruums ftronger than this, lut none more eafie to le prepared, and letter for a youngs Beginner. Lully made the fame Menftruum after this manner. 11. The Spirit of Honey of Lully. Cap.19. Lib. Mercur. i . » TAke of Aqua Vitas, and put into this Vegetable Humidity a third part of a Honey-Comb, with all its Subftance, Wax, and Honey together, ferment, or digefl it in a gentle heat for three Hours, and the longer it (lands, the better it is: then let it be Diftilled in Balneo, and repeat the Diftillation and Fer¬ mentation nine times, renewing the Comb every fecond Diftilla- tion. Parifinus it fee ms to me learnt not only the Spirit of Philofophi¬ cal Wine, lut alfo the preparation itfelf of this Menftruum, from his■ Mafter Lully, though the preparation he corrected a little : Parifi¬ nus digefts one Pound of Honey in]pi fated v: it h three or four Pounds of t he ^Spirit of Philofophical Wine, for a Day in Balneo, then Di~ filling](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3032757x_0094.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
