78 The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. 



its first substance, gold has more perfect 

 sulphur, and more perfect mercury than 

 the other metals and minerals. Hence 

 its operative virtue is much stronger and 

 more potent, as it is also more efficacious 

 than the stars of the other metals. The 

 qualities which are found singly in other 

 metals are all united, with many more, in 

 the composition of the solar star, which 

 is gold. 



When the substance of gold is 

 matured and perfected by fire, it em- 

 bodies more perfections than all other 

 metals and minerals together. There is 

 only one metal (which we have already 

 mentioned) wherein the solar sulphur is 

 quite as potent, or even more potent 

 than in gold. Of the two metals in 

 which the substance strongly predomin- 

 ates, we can here say no more. I must 

 remain within the limits which I have 

 set myself, and confine my attention for 

 the present to Antimony. 



Antimony is a mineral made of a 

 terrestrial vapour changed into water, 

 which sidereal change is the true Star of 



