92 The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. 



We will therefore now speak of its 

 preparations, its magistery, arcanum, and 

 tincture, its elixir, and its special essence, 

 which you will be able to extract when 

 I have told you about the Fire-Stone and 

 its preparation, and many other arcana 

 and secrets, of which the wise men of 

 this world know nothing, and to which 

 too little attention has been paid since 

 the decay of the Egyptians, Arabs, and 

 Chaldeans. These truths are of the 

 greatest importance in the study of the 

 true medicine. 



Take care that the different opera- 

 tions shall follow each other in the exact 

 order in which I declare and describe ; 

 for if the result is to be perfection, every 

 part of the work must be properly 

 attended to. Now, fixed medicines ex- 

 pel and eradicate fixed diseases ; but 

 Antimony, in its crude state, is only a 

 purgative, which does not touch the real 

 root of the disease. 



I will therefore declare the pre- 

 paration of all things which belong to 

 Antimony ; I will deliver up the keys 



