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The Great Art page 88in the other. Their Mercury is called Mercury in its liquid form as well as in its dry form. Forexample, those who read Alphidius imagine, when he calls the Matter of the Work, Red Mine, that itis necessary to seek a red matter for the beginning of the operations; consequently some work oncinnabar, others on minium, or red lead, others on orpiment, (Auripigment), others on iron rust,because they do not know that this red mineral is the perfect Red Stone, and that Alphidius begins hiswork only with this. But in order that those who will read this work and who will wish to operate maynot be deceived, we give many of the names which this Red Stone bears:Acid, Sharpness, Adam, Aduma, Almagra, Altum, Alzernard, Soul, Ram, Gold, Quick-Gold, AlteredGold, Cancer, Cadmic, Camerith, Bile, Chibur, Ashes, Ashes of Tartar, Corsufle, Body, Bodyproperly speaking, Red Body, Right, Déeb, Déhab, Summer, Iron, Form, Form of Man, Brother,Fruit, Cock, Cock’s Comb, Gabricus, Gabrius, Gophrith, Ethiopian Grain, Gum, Red Gum,Hageralzarnad, Man, Fire, Fire of Nature, Infinity, Youth, Hebrit, Stone, Indian Stone, IndrademeStone, Lasule Stone, Red Stone, Golden Litharge, Red Litharge, Light, Morning, Mars, Marteck,Male, Red Magnesia, Metros, Mine, Neusis, Oil of Mars, Incombustible Oil, Red Oil, Olive,Perpetual Olive, Orient, Father, A Part, Starry Stone, Phison, King, Réezon, Residence, Redness,Ruby, Salt, Red Salt, Germ, Sericon, Sun, Sulphur, Red Sulphur, Quick Sulphur, Tamné, Third,Thirteenth, Red Earth, Theriac, Thelima, Thion, Thita, Toarech, Vare, Vein, Blood, Poppy, Red Wine,Wine, Virago, Yolk of Egg, Red Vitriol, Chalcitis, Colchotar, Cochineal, Glass, Zaaph, Zahau, Zit,Zumech, Zumelazuli, etc.But all these names were not given to it for the same reason; the authors, in these differentdenominations, have considered it sometimes in regard to its colour, sometimes in regard to itsqualities. For example, those who have called this Matter: Red Stone, Acid, Adam, Summer,Almagra, Soul, Ram, Gold, Cancer, Camereth, Ashes of Tartar, Corsufle, Déeb, Brother, Fruit, Cock,Youth, Kibrit, Indrademic Stone, Marteck, Male, Father, Sun, Third, Neusis, Olive, Thion, Glass,Zaaph, have named it thus because of its change of constitution. Those who have considered only itscolour, have called it Red Gum, Red Oil, Ruby, Sericon, Red Sulphur, Yolk of Egg, Red Vitriol, etc.“In this operation of Rubification, says Flamel, as long as thou soakest, thou wilt have little black,but much of violet, of blue and of the colour of the peacock’s tail: for our Stone is so triumphant indryness, that as soon as thy mercury touches it, Nature, rejoicing in its nature, is joined to it anddrinks it up eagerly; and thus the blackness which comes from humidity, can show itself only a little,under these violet and blue colours, so long as the dryness governs absolutely . . . But remember tobegin the Rubification by the apposition of Orange-red Mercury; but it is necessary to pour but littleof it in, and only once or twice, according to what thou wilt see: for this operation must be made bydry fire, sublimation and dry calcination. And, in truth, I reveal here a secret which thou wilt findvery rarely written.”In this operation the Fixed Body becomes Volatile, it mounts and descends while circulating in theVase until the Fixed having conquered the Volatile, it precipitates it to the bottom with itself, so as tomake only one body of a nature absolutely fixed. What we have quoted from Flamel must be appliedto the Elixir, of which we will speak hereafter; but the operations of the first Work, or the manner ofmaking Philosophical Sulphur, are thus described by d’Espagnet, (Lumen. 109): “Choose a red,courageous Dragon, which has lost none of its natural strength: then seven or nine bold, virginEagles, whose eyes cannot be dazzled by the rays of the Sun: place them with the Dragon in atransparent prison, well closed, and upon a warm bath, to excite them to combat. They will not delayto grapple one another; the combat will be long and very painful until the forty-fifth or fiftieth day 68 ,68 “The days of the Hermetic Chemists are reckoned differently and are not the same as our common days. Pliny says thattheir year consists only in one month; some say an ordinary month; some others a lunary month; and others still, an EgyptianMonth - Pernety“Philosophers have established time of different duration for the concoction of our Art. Some ones have spoken of a year;others of a month, others of three days, and still others of one day. But in the same manner as we call day, the length of time