32 The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. 



They have an occult, operative life, and 

 manifest themselves by the efficacy of 

 their working ; when separated from 

 bodies by our Art they have a most 

 marvellous sanative virtue. 



In this way the operative spirit and 

 virtue of Antimony bestows its gifts, and 

 imparts them to men, when it has been 

 separated from its body so as to pene- 

 trate other bodies with its sanative 

 virtue. In this process the Artist and 

 Vulcan (fire) must be of one mind. The 

 fire causes the separation, the Artist 

 forms the substance. So the smith uses 

 one fire and one material, viz., iron ; and 

 yet produces out of them a great variety 

 of different instruments, a spit, spurs, an 

 axe, or some other tool. In the same 

 way Antimony can be put to a great 

 many different uses, wherein the smith 

 is the skilled Artist, while the fire is, as 

 it were, the key which opens, and practi- 

 cal experiment results in experience and 

 a useful conclusion. 



Alas, if men only had eyes to see, 

 and ears to hear not merely what I say, 



