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The Art of Alchemy consists in three things, that is, in our Stone.
That is, the free art of the ancients and their successors who are
to discover this free art through Science or Practice; or to
whomever the Holy Ghost gives it, or upon who He confers it through
His illumination; and blessed is he who possesses this free art and
applies it wisely for the honor of God and the pressing need of his
fellow man.The other kind of alchemy is the Elixir which is
prepared, as the ancients taught, according to the hand of the
Philosophers. Those who have this and understand it well may also
be called blessed.The third kind is the Ixir, and it is also an art
of the old and wise masters of the hand, and he who knows how to
prepare it, as the fathers prepared it and have left it to us, will
likewise rule in this world of joys. The Art of Alchemy has still
many more daughters, branches and roots which spring from these
three trees of which I have just spoken, such as: Some labor with
hard work in the Calcination of the bodies, to wash them and make
them pure and clean. Others labor with amalgamationibus: others
with albination, cementation, augmentation and rubifacation. Others
make Salia of the bodies or the metals. Others make Olea and other
works of the bodies in the fire. Others with Aquis fortibus, others
of the bodies in the fire. Others with Aquis fortibus, others with
salia upon the corpora; and so on, in many different ways. And
everything is good if it is done in the right way as the
forefathers have taught; but all this is attained only through
great effort.
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