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The work is accomplished is to be taken literally.
(]t|NSHINE N'!
with
one thing
on1y, of
Stone of the lli.se, the Nouum Lumen of Sendivogious, Olympus Ternae of Theophrastus, say to forsake Take only our all V animal, and AIi
vegetable
and mineral .
food of tife, V or A
but rarified
in day time;
when coagulated
is worth more than the whole earth". e , wherewith in a ! after we unlock the metthis e p h as , .
tn op.r, A
th e e l i xi r
i s m ade. i,e.
and extracted
lunar of O
is the universal
bodies
ana ) its
is a virgin sun is
on which the sun ne\rer danted father and the moon its mother.*
although
This glorious
matter
may be collected
in valLeysr is called
orl hills,
even iri cavesr or in your own house. It the O which is of nature, fatness
of ea.rth. This is
an astral
in the aig and which is attracted species. But in the air, that for
to all it is
determined,
its -1 -
beIly.
'
The solar
raysr (Y
or heavenly |,
rected
at a proper
effluvia
magnets, yet the success depends on the prace, and wind, During rains during as well as on the magnet.
heavy gaLes of wind and heavy -tr$rhfch the sun has extracted and abundantly earth
Thunder-rreather, southwest
when good.
i.s very
heat gives nothing. clean and free, not rnarshy nor swampy. Vessels through must be elevated the garlery is
useful
seems that
the author
equipment housed in what he car.r-ed a 'gal-rery". type structure) and reeeptacle, to collect
be a shed or lean-to
+ PR()CESS +
collect
g la ss- g lobe, about divid e
, put it
which
into
putrify;
will
take black,
4A days, it into
putrefied
and guite
into
an V it with
of
-x V
into
less,
and 1et i t
dry
When dried, of it
that
niLk
wherthis
and
and in
manner you employ 2/3 parts drying your e After red hot D up. The last seven times I/3 part,
by imbibing imbibe
7 parts;
therewith,
imbibation,
and see if
it. ftowsr
withit is
inbibations
fusion
, and the
added O medicine.
become brittre
Experiment will
manner, that
by too much heat. not sophisticated of a lamp. Dry it The matter philosophers
The matter
must be dried
as using furnaces,
in the heat of a hen upon her eggs. itself to become perfect; the
of their
must be separated
This pure e
must be tight
and strong
the humidity
superfluitiesr
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still '
war d
putrefaction,
place
Our V but it is
is not thick,
nor weII,
nor fountainp
fixt
nay a dry
and- FIne,aFI water, water whieh has its CBacstrom supposes "" (D used as a
which does not wet the hands, and is a dirty origins that it from the saLt and fat is collected of the earth. by sea O
pen deliquiun
magnet) Our matter Theophrastus reduce it matter is that says: V which ftoats above .our heads in the A and .
firmament find
to water,
the true
The Root of the philosophical and it is found \/ ana A and yet and this
is an element of yet is
an element of without
, and is
the S
, because
which
of spiritual
(based on this
at O to be used as a magnet".t .refreshed is by pure heavenly Dew, the- earth mo th e r. (Bacstrom feels this is'another
lsgss_it' t" (D
and, I
reference
V
ceeds
and V
must become f
; this
pro-
Deli;quiuintt
says Bacstrom)
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The apparatus is not described in the texto however, the author globes and phials without any does mention the use of mirrors, elaboration. It is not clear whether this diagram represents an inventiol of Bacstrom or someone else. probably' In the below, the funnel extends through p partition, intended to keep the smoke from the oil lanrp from entering and the purity spoiling It is possible of the lunar humidity, that this p a r ti ti o n i s a w a l l of the "galIer y". globe, resting ft is presumed that the first in sand, is heated by the oil lamp, and the upward convection of lrarm air out through the stopcock, draws in the cool night air through the funnel in a manner similar to an aspirator or perhaps the temperature differential draws in the night air. The stopeock does present a problem as the night air would also flow out therethrough.
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