Treatise and Travels

of the highly famous HERR Salomon Trismosini, together with three powerful tinctures.

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When I was a young man, I came to a miner called Flocker, who was also an alchemical artist, but he kept all his affairs hidden. I could get nothing from him. He had a piece with common ♄ Saturn/lead and a special sulfur or brimstone added to it, and he fixed the ♄ so long until it became fixed and fluid, subsequently like wax. Of this prepared ♄, he took 20 lots half-ounce units and 1 mark a weight unit of approx 8 ounces of fine silver, which held no gold, and let both flow together for half a day. Afterwards, he parted this silver through a casting, which turned into half gold. My heart ached greatly that I could not possess the art, and I thought: I want to ask him about it, but it was denied to me by him.