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and let it boil for twelve hours, always pouring it off gently afterward, so the mercury will become hard; this shall be pressed through a subtle leather, what remains behind, that shall be used, as follows hereafter:
Now take white-burned tartar potassium bitartrate and blue vitriol, ana of each one pound, common salt a quarter, therefrom burn a water through a cucurbit distillation vessel, this water dissolves the ☉ gold.
Take of the above-prepared mercury, and finely filed gold, ana of each six lots, take them both together rubbed as small as possible, put them into a cucurbit, pour the aforementioned water upon it, draw it off gently through the fire, and pour the drawn-off water again onto it, do that until the water remains entirely on the ☉ and mercury, thereafter pour a fresh water upon it, and draw it off down to half the portion, and drive it strongly with the fire, so the ☉ rises across together with the mercury, understand, it must be distilled per latus sideways, so it has all become an oil, and is an oily tincture upon luna silver and of great use, and know that you should work this work according to Cabalistic constellation astrological timing.
Now take this oil, put such into a clean cucurbit, lay therein very thinly beaten silver foil, let it stand therein for sixteen hours, so they will become the best ☉, stable in all tests. And I tell you that this oily tincture is a very fast-penetrating hellish fire, you can use fresh silver foil therein again.
Take two lots of ♃ tin, one lot of ☽ silver, two lots of mercury sublimate; put the ♃ and mercury sublimate into a glass bulb; dissolve the luna in five lots of aq. fort nitric acid and pour upon the other two pieces, draw it up and down twice in ashes, always half; thereafter set it in a balneum water bath so that the water rises over the helmet, take the material that has risen over and pour again over two and a half lots of ♃, draw it up and down again in ashes to the half portion, and pour again thereto for the second time,