1 88 The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. 



Tincture of Vitriol or Venus ; and also 

 the Tincture of Mars. The two latter 

 include the Tincture of the Sun. Then 

 come the Tinctures of Jupiter and 

 Saturn, for the coagulation of Mercury, 

 and, finally, the Tincture of Mercury 

 itself. All these different Tinctures are 

 generated from one_original mother, to 

 which the great Universal Tincture also 

 mito&u^i owes its birth ; but apart from these 

 there are no other tinctures. It is not, 

 however, my business, in this place, to 

 describe these tinctures or stones, be- 

 cause they have no medicinal value. 

 The animal and vegetable Stones, in- 

 deed, have certain curative properties ; 

 but all these are contained and summed 

 up in the great Philosopher's Stone. 



The salts have no power of tinging, 

 but are only keys in the preparation of 

 the tinctures which we have named. * 



* The salts open the chest in which the treasure is pre- 

 served, but are not themselves the treasure. You should, of 

 course, distinguish between those salts which have a dissolv- 

 ing action, and those which coagulate and enter into the 

 composition of the Stone a distinction that is implied in 

 the text. 



