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infusion, descending from on high into 

 those things which are below, with the 

 aero-sulphureous property, so acts and 

 works as to engraft on them in a 

 spiritual and invisible manner a certain 

 strength and virtue. This vapour after- 

 wards resolves itself in the earth into a 

 kind of water, and out of this mineral 

 water all metals are generated and per- 

 fected. The mineral vapour becomes 

 this or that metal according as one or 

 the other of the three first principles 

 predominates, i.e., according as they 

 have much or little mercury, sulphur, or 

 salt, or an unequal mixture of their 

 weights. Hence, some metals are fixed, 

 and some are not fixed ; some are per- 

 manent and unchangeable ; some are 

 volatile and variable, as you may see in 

 gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, and lead. 



Besides these metals, other minerals 

 are generated from these three principles ; 

 according to the proportion of the ingre- 

 dients, we have vitriol, antimony, marca- 

 site, electrum, and many other minerals. 



In its very first astrum, or star, and 



