Biolychnium or The Lamp

PRÆFATIO.

even of those affected by incurable conditions, but also removes the sickness of imperfect metals. I, indeed, have this conviction: that physician is to be held above Æsculapius Greek god of medicine and Hippocrates Greek physician, not so much the one who, from the Mysterii Lex Law of the Mystery, can purify the three first Catholic [elements] of this matter, and assemble them by due Number, Measure, and Weight, through Spagyric Colors alchemical separations/purifications, by Physical circumaction, rendering it an incombustible Phoenix so that by its virtue Gold can be animated and vegetated in its flux, and the Phoenix itself can in a certain and inseparable way pass into gold, pregnant and germinating new fertile increments from itself, as the one who knows how to properly apply the King of Metals and the Philosophical Sun—that is, the Heart and Virtue of other metals—ritually through that Hyleal material/primal Water of the philosophers, which is multi-named, which naturally dissolves all metals from the impure and foul bond of the Punctum Quaternarium Quaternary Point, and, once dissolved and regenerated, knows how to decently apply it to the Animal Sun and the Heart of the Lesser World original: "Minor Mundus" and its harmonic spirit, by the vehicle of the King and the Sun of Vegetables—that is, by the purified Hermetic Spirit of wine, composed exactly to the number of the Bona Dea Good Goddess; although both are difficult enough, and scarcely granted to one in thousands. Diana Bath.