Alchemical Manuscripts 16

Cover......Page 1
Artephius - His Secret Book......Page 7
Chapter III - Of the composition of our antimonial vinegar, or secret water.......Page 10
Chapter IV - Of the operations of our antimonial vinegar or mineral water.......Page 12
Chapter V - Of other operations of our secret mineral water and its tincture.......Page 14
Chapter VI - Of what substance metals are to consist in order to do this work.......Page 17
Chapter VII - Of the wonderfull things done by our water in altering and changing bodies.......Page 19
Chapter VIII - Of the afinity of our water, and other wonderfull things done by it.......Page 21
Chapter IX - ... the separation of the pure, from the...ure, by this water.......Page 25
Chapter X - Of the separation of the pure parts from the impure.......Page 29
Chapter XI - Of the soul which is extracted by our water, and made to ascend.......Page 32
Chapter XII - Of digestion, and how the spirit is made thereby.......Page 35
Chapter XIII - Of the beginning of the work, and a summary of what is to be done.......Page 38
Chapter XIV - Of the easiness and simplicity of this work, and, of our philosophick fire.......Page 41
Chapter XV - Of the three kinds of fires of the philosophers in particular.......Page 43
Chapter XVI - Of the colours of our philosophick tincture, or stone.......Page 45
Chapter XVII - Of the perfect bodies, their putrefaction, corruption, digestion and tincture.......Page 47
Chapter XVIII - Of the multiplication of the philosophick tincture.......Page 51
Chapter XIX - Of sublimation in particular, and separation of the pure from the impure.......Page 54
Chapter XX - Of Digestion, sublimation, and separation of the bodies, for the perfection of the work.......Page 57
Chapter XXI - Of the secret operation of the water and spirit upon the body.......Page 59
Chapter XXII - Of the signs of the end of thework, and the perfection thereof.......Page 61