An Hermetic Work.

First then this Dragon double strengh' to Mars , Must be yet pierc't by him being God of Wars . Then both will Perish and become a Star , Where the young King is Born , who is Solar . Then Avash equal Venus in ' s Blood , and let Them joyn , till Vulcan take them in a Net .

Which Mercury gently on his Wings must bear , Till he steals their Wealth , and Sols body tare ; Wherein then Sol Avill freely shed his Seed , And this is all Avhereof we stand iu need . Which ordered ri ght you cannot choose but speed .

If you can prepare your Mercury better , Do ' t freely , and care not for this Letter . For all Sulphurs and Mercuries may serve your turn , If pure and living johi'd t' Earths will not burn .

CHAP . III . Of the Subject ancl Maries of the immortal Liquor Alchahest . HERB Reader make a little pause , and take this short hint for thy true instruction of the Alchahest and Macchabean Fire , burning in Water , and as a Serpent ( or Latex ) lying hid in the Cavernes of the Earthand in other things and laces being

never-, p ; theless but one Anomolous Balsammick Salt , passing through the Avorld , Avhich almost every man knows ancl needs , though he observes not the marks to be that thing . I say , it is the Primum ens Solium , and hath a mark or cross affixt on it from the Almi g hty , Avhich ( as Helmont saith ) the Adept do knoAv , ancl every curious Philosophic searcher , may find to be a sure and certain token of its true Alchahestical Virtue , beyond any Demonstration : And indeed Ave must not seekor think to find "that in a thing Avhich

, God and Nature hath not implanted in it . For nothing can give , what it hath not . But the vertue , operation , ancl power thereof , may be cleared and exalted by art . This mark then I say is not the mark of Cain , or any Bestial curse , but clean contrary , and can preserve life ; so that none can kill it , though they would devour it ; which mark

till you find , you shoot at Rovers ; and though the Ass have such an outAvard mark wi th Ignomy , yet Christ Avas pleased to ride upon it , and to grace the Cross after by his mighty power of sufferings on it , he having a Balsamick constant virtue of Patience therein over it . Some li ght is given of this mark and token upon it , both by Paracelsus the glory of Chymists , and by brave Helmont his great Interpreter , but coucht close up from the Rustick observation inconvenient places ; yet their preparations are plainly

set down to be only simple dissolution and coagulation , with easie heat , till it come to its transmuted form , Avithout any commiscible ferment Heterogeneous to it self ; but this Serpent biting his own Tail , by digestion and Putrefaction becomes Invenomed , and so by solution mortified into the smallest Attorns possibly in nature ; and then is raised , circulated , and revived for eternity to some hi gher Orb or Elixir , and so not possible to mix Avith any elementary impurityor ferment to be transmutedbut

, , seperates and preserves all aud every essential concrete whereto it is joyned from corruption , ancl the causes of death Avithout any diminution of its or their intire created virtue . ( To be Continued . )