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lute it well and cement it until it becomes red-colored inside and outside. Take this and rub it small, put it into a flask, and pour the prepared aq. regis royal water/nitro-hydrochloric acid onto it, so that it goes well over it, and draw it up and down until the water has gone entirely upon it and remains. Thereafter, rub this antimonium antimony or black eagle very small, put it into a wide flask so that it does not lie thick one upon another, and pour the incombustible oil from the black eagle onto it, so that it goes considerably over it, stirred well together; let it remain, sealed, in warm ashes to work slowly for four days and nights in gentle warmth. Thus, this incombustible oil makes the volatile black eagle fixed and fire-resistant, and this cement is to be used without ceasing.
Take a pale gold, thinly laminated, and make with the fixed cement S.S.S. a technical instruction, likely 'stratum super stratum' in the crucible, cover it, let it cement for fourteen hours; then take it out, and you will find the gold 28 carats high, and the color remains through all tests.
When you have a fixed ☽ Moon/silver, that is, a fine silver from which the heaviness has been taken and has fallen into the weight of gold, and you cement the same silver with the fixed upper cement, it also becomes very high gold, permanent in all tests.
The Almighty GOD be my witness that this art of antimonium is truthful. Therein you have what breaks the heart of mercurius; you need no other coagulation upon mercurius, then do as follows:
Take antimonium and extract the redness according to common custom; take it and rub it small, put it into a strong glass, and pour onto it a strong wine vinegar, which according to alchemical custom has been drawn off per se for the second time; seal the glass well, set it in digestion for 15 days with gentle fire, thereafter take the glass out, and distill the acetum vinegar in the MB balneum mariae/water bath off; dry the redness, rub it again small, put it into the glass again, and pour sal armoniac ammonium chloride water, which has been sublimed per sal commune by common salt, and dissolved in the cold water; seal the glass well, set it again upon the digestion for 30 days, take it out, and set a helmet upon it and distill it; so first a little phlegma watery residue will go over, then drive it, so will go over red drops like blood; that is the right juice; take this juice alone per se into a glass, set it to coagulate in ashes until it becomes powder, and this powder flows like wax.