An alchemical emblem at the top center. It features a shield containing a circle and a triangle. Inside the triangle are alchemical symbols for Mercury, Antimony, and Saturn. The shield is surrounded by the Latin mottoes "EVERYTHING", "IN THEMSELVES", and "AND FROM THEMSELVES". The shield is crested with a crown, a radiant sun, and crossed mining hammers.

REVELATION

AND DECLARATION OF F.

BASIL VALENTINE,

RELIGIOUS OF THE ORDER

OF SAINT BENEDICT,

Containing the most curious Mysteries of the

essential TINCTURES of the SEVEN

Metals, & the Medicinal Virtues thereof.

Divided into SEVEN Chapters.

From natural and supernatural things?

CHAPTER ONE.

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OF THE SPIRIT OR TINCTURE

of MERCURY.

MANY will perhaps find it strange that I treat & speak of Metals, with a

From "On natural and supernatural things" (1603)