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 .( 35 ) flitting three times mixeth them together. The Work he repeats three times, fo as at thefe four times to have joined four Pounds of Honey together with fo many Pounds of Spirit, and Circulates both each time. Lully digefls the Hony-Coml three Hours with three parts of Spirit, and in two D ift illations joyns both together : He re¬ peats the Work four times, fo as in eight D ift illations to have Vnited four parts of Honey with three of Spirit; the Menftruum now join¬ ed together, he Diflills once more, that in nine times or cohob at ions, he makes his Spirit of Honey. Parifinus made choice of three Ingre¬ dients for his Medicine: The moft High Creator created three Mines; among Minerals, one, and that is of Sol and Luna : a- mong Vegetables,the Wine; among Animals,the Bee, pag. zzz. Elucid. Lully of thefe three thus, cap. 46. lib. Mercurior. Amongft all Minerals, Vegetables, and Animals, fixed Gold is chofen tor the making of Medicines; and above all the Virtues among Ve¬ getables and Animals, are the Virtues of the Juice, or Broth of Lunaria, and the Fly of Befena, which makes Honey. Parifinus in his Alphabetum apertoriale hath indeed the fame way of acuating the Spirit 0^ Wine; but he in the fame place fuper- adding the Salt of Honey, extracted out of the Caput mortuum cal¬ cined to the Menftruum, this acuition is referred not to this, but to another Kind. But the Honey feems to have this fpedal Priviledge, as if Men- ftruums of this third Kind, could be made of it alone ; yet you mufl know that all Oyly Salts, Qas are Sugar Criflallized, Manna C rift alii- zed, crude Tartar of common Wine, &c.} do on one fide prove their affinity with Oyly things, but on the other fide with dry, andfo do by that their Oleofity, introduce their own aridity into the Oyly Spirit of Philofophical Wine, but by their aridity temper the Oleofity of that Spirit. Wherefore the fame things are to be under flood of Su¬ gar and Manna, as have been fpoken of Honey; one Example or two we will add of crude Tartar, being dryer then the things afore] aid. G 2 12. The](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3032757x_0095.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
