146 Tke Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. 



has thereby acquired gravity, and sinks 

 to the bottom, while the spirit of wine is 

 limpid, as at first, and floats above the 

 oil. Then separate the oil from the 

 spirit in a separatory vessel.* This oil is 

 of remarkable sweetness, most pleasant 

 to use, and free from all corrosiveness. 



No one can understand or compre- 

 hend the incredible virtue and potency 

 of this Royal Oil. I call it the Balm of 

 Life, because it can help, by the grace of 

 God, those whom all physicians have 

 given up. It renews a man's system 

 just as if he were born again, purifies 

 the blood, and, in conjunction with tinc- 

 ture of corals, casts out leprosy, drives 

 away melancholy and sadness, braces up 



* This is the substance of which all the Sages and 

 Alchemists have written. This is the goal of all Alchemists, 

 the oil of Antimony, which is soon to be converted into the 

 Fire Stone. It is a Proteus which appears to us under 

 different forms, and yet is ever the same. If you put 

 together all the different operations which have been des 

 cribed, and regard them in the light of my commentary, you 

 will have all the parts of the process by which our Stone is 

 evolved ; you will make the volatile fixed, and the fixed 

 volatile, and then you have the great treasure coveted by the 

 multitude. If you do not understand me, three shiploads of 

 hellebore will not cure your folly. 



