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The Great Art page 97force to eat; to unite; to correct; to sift; to tear with tenailles; to divide; to unite the elements; toextract them; to exalt them; to convert them; to change one into the other; to cut with the knife; tostrike with the sword, to ax, the cimeter; to pierce with the lance, the javelin, the arrow; to kill; tocrush; to bind; to unbind; to corrupt; “folier;” 81 to melt; to engender; to conceive; to place in theworld; to exhaust; to moisten; to water; to soak; to impaste; to amalgamate; to bury; “incérer; 82 towash; to wash with fire; to soften; to polish; to file; to beat with the hammer; to mortify; to blacken;to putrefy; to turn on the lathe; to circulate; to rubify; to dissolve; to sublimate; to wash in lye; toinhume; to resuscitate; to reverberate; to grind; to reduce to powder; to grind in the mortar; topulverize on marble; and many other similar expressions; all this means simply to cook by a singleregimen, until the appearance of the dark red colour. Therefore one must be careful not to move theVase, and not to take it from the fire; for if the Matter should cool all would be lost.Of the Virtue of the MedicineIt is according to all the Philosophers, the source of riches and health; since with it one can makegold and silver in abundance, and can not only cure all the diseases which can be cured, but can also,by its moderate use, prevent them. A single grain of this medicine, or red elixir, given to thosesuffering with paralysis, dropsy, gout, leprosy will cure them, provided they take the same quantityfor several days. Epilepsy, colic, colds, inflammation, frenzy and all other internal maladies, areunable to resist this life principle. Some Adepts have said that it gave hearing to the deaf and sight tothe blind; that it is a sure remedy for all kinds of diseases of the eye, all apostema, 83 ulcers, wounds,cancers, fistula, nolimétangère, 84 and all diseases of the skin, a grain being dissolved in a glass ofwine or water, and then applied externally. That it dissolves little by little the stone in the bladder;that it drives away all venom and poison, when taken as above directed.Raymond Lully, (Testam. antiq.) assures us that it is, in general, a sovereign remedy for all the ills,which afflict humanity; that it cures them in one day, if they have lasted a month; in twelve days, if ayear; and in one month, of whatever duration they may be.Arnaud de Villeneuve, (Rosari.), says that it is infinitely superior to all the remedies of Hippocrates,of Galen, of Alexander, of Avicenna, and to all ordinary medicine; that it rejoices the heart, givesvigor and strength, preserves youth, and retards old age. In general, that it cures all diseases.Geber, (Summâ) without enumerating the maladies which this medicine cures, contents himself withsaying that it conquers all those which ordinary Physicians regard as incurable. That it makes youngthe old and keeps them in health, for many years, even beyond the ordinary limit, when they takeonly as much as a mustard seed of it, two or three times a week, before the first meal.Philalethes, (Introit. apert. et enarrat. method.), adds that it cleanses the skin of all blemishes,wrinkles, etc., that it delivers a woman in travail, when held to her nose in the form of powder, and hequotes Hermès as proof. He claims himself to have drawn from the arms of death many abandoned byphysicians. The manner of using it may be found in the works of Raymond Lully and Arnaud deVilleneuve.81 FOLIER. – It is to concoct, to digest the Matter of the Great Work in order to convert it into the leafy earth (matter at theblack colour), in which the seed of gold must be sowed.- Pernety.82 INCERER. – to cause inceration, which see, Notes p. 87.83 Abcesses.84 An herpes of a very malignant character, often affecting the cartilage of the nose and causing sometimes the totaldestruction of this organ.E.B.