go The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. 



cine should be prepared and fixed, and 

 how all that is good in it may be in- 

 creased, and all that is bad diminished 

 and destroyed. 



Here let me advertise the lover of 

 art that the virtue of Antimony is not 

 one among many precious stones, but it 

 combines the virtues of all other precious 

 stones, as is sufficiently evidenced by its 

 colours. Its red represents carbuncle, 

 pyropus, and coral ; its white, diamond 

 and crystal ; its blue, sapphire ; its green, 

 emerald ; its yellow, jacynth ; its black, 

 granite. As to the metals, its black cor- 

 responds to Saturn, its red to iron, its 

 yellow to gold, its green to copper, its 

 blue to silver, its white to mercury, its 

 mixed colours to tin. And not only does 

 Antimony contain the colours, it also 

 contains the virtues and qualities of all 

 other stones and metals, only human life 

 is too short for any one to learn how to 

 educe all the potencies that lie concealed 

 in the heart of Antimony. You may get 

 from it, by distillation, an acid humour, 

 like pure vinegar. By another way, you 



