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Opera Saturni Page 14
Which also called is when he hath once bene Dedd:
And is Revived our Marchasite,our Magnete, and our Lead,
Our Sulphure, our Arsenicke, and our true Calcevive:
Our Sonne, our Moone,our Ferment of our Bread:
Our Toade,our Basiliske, our unknowne Body,our Man,Our
Wife.
Our Body thus naturally by crafte when it is renovate
Of the first ordre is Medicine called in our Philosophy,
Which oftentimes must againe be Spiritualizate:
The rounde Whele turning of our foresaid Astronomy:
And so to the Elixir of Spirites must ye come,for why
Till the same of the fixed by the same of the flier be overgone
Elixir of Bodyes named it is only;
And this secrete poynt truly deceaveth many one.
This naturall processe by helpe of craft thus consummate
Dissolveth the Elixir spirituall in our unctuous Humiditie;
Then in Balneo of Mary togeather let them be Circulat,
Like new Hony or Oyle till they perfectly thicked be,
Then will that Medicine heale all manner Infirmitie,
And turne all Mettalls to Sonne&Moone most perfectly:
Thus shall ye have both greate Elixir,and Aurum Potabile,
By the grace and will of God,to whom be lawd eternally.
Incipit Prologus.
Chyld of thys Dyssyplyne incline to me thyne Ere,
And harkyn to my doctryne with all thy dylygence;
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