THE TRIUMPHAL CHARIOT OF ANTIMONY, 



BY 



BASILIUS VALENTINUS, 



WITH 



THE COMMENTARY OF 

 THEODORE KERCKRINGIUS, 



A Doctor of Medicine. 



WHEREAS I, Basil Valentine, 

 belong to the religious order 

 of S. Benedict, and such a 

 life requires a higher spirit of holiness 

 than that which satisfies the multitude in 

 this profane age, I consider it my duty 

 to declare at the outset that it is necessary 

 for the disciple of the Spagyric Art to 

 know how he should lay stable founda- 

 tions, so that his structure may not be at 

 the mercy of the winds, or be shaken 

 into ruins by every stormy gust. In 

 dealing thus thoroughly with my subject, 

 I am thinking not only of the present 



