Curious Collection on Bismuth

written, and instructed you in the first part on how I worked in the wet way Latin: "via humida" with the materia remota distant matter for the Universal, I will now also report how I proceeded with the materia propinqua proximate matter. Therefore, take Bismuth ore in the name of GOD, as much as you wish; grind it small (it must be very pure from the mine) and bolt or sift it through. From this, you must first separate the four Elementa elements and the three Principia Chymica chemical principles: ⊖ Salt, △ Sulfur, and ☿ Mercury; or purum ab impuro the pure from the impure, and the kernel from the husks; afterwards, put these back together and unite them into one another. Solve & coagula dissolve and coagulate, that is, separa & conjunge separate and join; that is the entire masterpiece. But for this to happen, you must first bring it into a slime or Liquorem viscosum viscous liquid. Now take this finely ground mineral, set it in the open air, yet so that the sun does not shine on it during the day, and the rain cannot reach it. Let it stand thus day and night, so that at night the moon may shine upon it and the air and dew may fall upon it, for four weeks, less or more. Afterwards, put it into a glass flask with a blind helm a distillation head without a delivery tube, and let it digest in a B. M. Balneum Mariae / water bath for 4 weeks or a few more, with constant heat, day and night. Then draw it over through a beaked helm—after you have attached a receiver, well sealed with wet ox bladders—with gentle heat, like the sun's heat in the beginning of spring. Its △ Sulfur and A Air or spirit and soul and its sweat [draw] over and away from it. Then place another glass in front, and give stronger