The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. 14 T 



ignorant, might, on its perusal, become a 

 perfect adept ; just as it is not well for a 

 country bumpkin to eat the finest baker's 

 bread.* 



If any one should marvel because 

 my book describes some operations which 

 apparently differ from those of other 

 Sages, let him know that the style of 

 the Sages exhibits many important points 

 of difference from that of other writers. 

 You must not, therefore, quarrel with me : 

 for I only adopt the necessary rules laid 

 down by the ancient Masters of our Art. 



The balm of Antimony is prepared, 

 not of crude Antimony, but of the 

 Regulus of Antimony, whence the living 

 Mercury of Antimony is derived, and in 

 the following manner. 



* Yet Valentine has revealed the secrets of this Art more 

 clearly than his successors, who have been busily employed 

 in obscuring his light. Hence they do not praise him in the 

 market place, though they esteem him most highly in the 

 laboratory ; and they do not translate him into other tongues, 

 though he is worthier than any other to speak all the 

 languages of the world. But, of course, Basilius cannot 

 describe the Art so clearly that any one, on taking up the 

 book in an idle moment, may at once become a master of our 

 noble Magistery. 



