1 86 The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. 



illumine my mind by His Holy Spirit 

 that I may perform this task aright, and 

 be able to appear before Him with a 

 clear conscience on the day of judgment, 

 when sentence will be pronounced upon 

 the lives of all men ! 



Above everything you should know 

 that the true tincture of Antimony, 

 which is the Medicine of men and 

 metals, is not prepared from crude, 

 melted Antimony, which is bought in 

 shops, but from the ore of Antimony, as 

 it is dug up from the mine, and is first 

 formed into glass. The great and im-' 

 portant question is : How is this tincture 

 extracted ? Know also that the prepared, 

 fixed, and solid tincture of Antimony, or 

 Fire Stone, as I prefer to name it, is a 

 pure essence of penetrative, spiritual, 

 and igneous quality, and is reduced into 

 a coagulated substance, which, like the 

 salamander, rejoices in the fire as in its 

 own proper element. 



But the Fire Stone is not an 

 universal Tincture, like the Philoso- 

 pher's Stone, which is prepared from the 



