3O The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. 



God grant that we may all dwell together 

 in His mansions on high ! 



But to return to the science of Anti- 

 mony. You should know that all things 

 contain operative and vital spirits, which 

 derive their substance and nourishment 

 from their bodies ; nor are the elements 

 themselves without these spirits, whether 

 good or evil. Men and animals have 

 within them an operative and vitalizing 

 spirit, and if it forsakes them, nothing 

 but a dead body is left. Herbs and 

 trees have spirits of health, else no Art 

 could turn them to medicinal uses. In 

 the same way, minerals and metals 

 possess vitalizing spirits, which consti- 

 tute their whole strength and goodness : 

 for what has no spirit has no life, or 

 vitalizing power. Know that in Anti- 

 mony also there is a spirit which is its 

 strength, which also pervades it invisibly, 

 as the magnetic property pervades the 

 magnet. 



Now, there are different kinds of 

 spirits, which are partly visible, and yet 

 cannot be touched as the natural body of 



