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fro the attaining whereof thou canst not hinder her, if the external heat becontinued as it ought.Yet about this the whole company of Alchymists do mightily busiethemselves, who have nothing more in their hopes then to make out greatElixir; do mainly labour after Congelation, though in their solution, inwhich the Key of our Coagulation resteth, they are as stupid as Blocks.Some dissolve Metals with Corrosives, others Salts, and afterwards filterthem, which they think graduates them, with which trumpery they intendno less a Coagulate, then the true permanent Tincture: but alas they aredeceived, for they work not upon the right Matter.Others although they happen to stumble in part upon the right Matter, yetherein they erre, that they understand our Operations preposterously, andinterpret our meaning contrary to our true intent; for all that they dream of,is such Operations which are to be performed by hand: thus they dissolveand congeal, but stumble in operandi modo.For our Congelation is no such thing as this, but in every point it is contraryas this; for in our Operation Nature only works, who therefore doth bringforth a true, and not a Sophistical Operation.Our Congelation dreadeth not the Fire,For it must ever in it stand unctuous;And it is also a Tincture so bounteous,Which in the Air, &c.Moreover congeal not, &c.But that like Wax it will melt anon withouten blast,For such congealing accordeth not, &c.Which Congelation availeth us not.For as in our Solution we do not make our Gold volatile as to shew, asFools may do, but actually it is made fugitive, so as that by no Art of man itcan ever be fixt again, but only by that Nature which made it volatile; soalso our Fixation doth make our flying Spirits so Fire-abiding, that they byno Art of ma can ever be burnt away, yet it will flow like Wax.Nor is it fixed in manner of flying Spirits in Vegetables, which are fixed byburning into an Alcali, for it will never relent in the Air nor Water, like to acongealed Salt.Nor yet is our Congelation a formal Transmutation of a thing by anotherseminal virtue, for then it would become of a Stony, Flinty, or Adamantinenature; but by its own internal virtue, the Mercury is changed into Sulphur175