igo The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. 



and what do I say ? I speak as one who 

 has temporarily lost control over his 

 organs of speech. If an atom of judg- 

 ment still remained to me, I should not 

 have opened my mouth so wide, and I 

 should have stayed my hand, even at the 

 last moment* 



All tinctures should be so prepared 

 as to have an irresistible attraction to- 

 wards the metals, and an irresistible 

 inclination to mingle with them, and per- 

 fect them by removing their infirmities. 

 It is the same as with human beings who 

 are inflamed with mutual love, and can- 

 not rest by day or night till they are 

 brought together in loving union, and 

 satisfy their desire ; after that they rest, 

 and multiplication takes place according 

 to the order of Nature. 



Man is subject to many grievous 



* Are you in your right mind, Basilius, so to prostitute 

 the Stone, which has hitherto been so carefully kept a secret 

 by all the Sages ? You have here let out the whole secret, 

 and now we see how the pure and the impure are separated, 

 how the fixed become volatile, and the volatile fixed. Now, 

 you, my reader, attend carefully ! There is here for you a 

 precious pearl ; do not resemble the fowl in the fable. 



