Revelation and Declaration of Basilius Valentinus

metals. Pour over this oil three times as much eſprit de VIN spirit of wine, and circulate the whole in a Pelican alchemical vessel until the spirit of wine becomes blood-colored and of great sweetness. Remove this colored eſprit de VIN by inclination, and then pour other eſprit de VIN over this matiere matter, making it circulate as you have already done. Repeat this as many times as your spirit of wine can no longer extract redness or sweetness. Afterward, take all the spirit of wine that is colored like a ruby, pour it over white TARTRE tartar well calcined, and distill the whole over a fairly strong ash fire, and the spirit of wine will remain with the tartar, but the Eſprit de MERCVRE Spirit of Mercury will pass over.

If you mix this Eſprit de MERCVRE with the ſulphureux sulphurous spirit of the SOLEIL Sun/Gold and with its SEL salt, and if you can join them together by suitable distillation so that they never separate one from the other, then you will have a singularly excellent medicine. But if you ferment this medicine with the body of the SOLEIL, according to the required weight, and lead it to perfection by perfect decoction during a certain time, then you will have an OR gold more than perfect, which will be a sovereign medicine as much for diseases as for poverty, and you will have great contentment of body and goods.