68 The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. 



and whatever you are, follow me and 

 Nature. I will teach you the whole 

 truth without any admixture of false- 

 hood. I will instruct you how to 

 distinguish truth from error, good from 

 evil, the highest from the lowest. For 

 though Antimony be a deadly poison, 

 there can be prepared from it a medicine 

 which radically destroys all diseases, and 

 penetrates and consumes them, by coc- 

 tion, like fire. 



First, Antimony must be prepared 

 so as to become a true Stone, which is 

 its quintessence. And forasmuch as in 

 this operation it is in all things like fire, 

 I call it, after its coagulation, the Fire 

 Stone. When this Fire Stone has been 

 properly prepared, according to the 

 directions given at the end of this 

 treatise, its medicinal virtue is such as to 

 consume all noxious humours, purify the 

 blood to the highest degree, and be in 

 all things equal to the efficacy of potable 

 gold. 



Here I ask you, my inexperienced 

 doctors, not to judge me by the standard 



