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_Apoplexy_, _Leprosie_, or howsoever called in general: This Medicine likewise cures all kinds of the _French Pox_, and all old Sores of long standing, be it _Wolf_, _Noli me tangere_, _Tetter_, _Ring-worm_, _Cancer_, _Fistula_, and corroding hollow Sores; all which I have declared, and concealed nothing. Last of all, observe, that you do not discover too much, or no more, because all Art hath its Original or Source out of the Spirit of _Mercury_, which is refreshed and raised to Life by the spiritual _Sulphur_, that it becomes Celestial, & with and by the Salt they are made corporal and formal; but the beginning of the Soul, of the Spirit, and of the Body, let it be and remain a Magnet, even as it is, and can be acknowledged to be nothing else. This is the summe in brief, that without the Spirit of _Mercury_, which is the only true Key, you can never make Corporal Gold potable, nor the Philosophers Stone. Let it remain by this Conclusion, be silent; for I my self will at present say no more, because Silence is enjoyned thee and me by the orderly Judge, recommending the Execution and further Search thereof to another, who hath not as yet reduced the Matter into a right Order. CHAP. IV. _Of the Spirit of_ Copper. The Star of _Venus_ is very difficult, and not well to be calculated, as all _Mathematicians_ and _Astronomers_ will bear me witness; for its course is found to be otherwise than that of the other six Planets, and therefore its Birth is otherwise; for the Birth of _Venus_ possesses the First Table, after _Mercury_, as for what concerns the Generation of Metals. _Mercury_ makes active, but _Venus_ provokes, giving Lust and Desire, together with the Beauty which gave occasion thereunto; though I am accounted no _Astronomer_, nor do I give my self out for one, who knows to calculate the Course of the Heavens; for I should spend my time in my Cell in Prayer, but that the spare hours after my Devotion is ended, may not be spent in vain, I have ordered and proposed it as my aim and intent to exercise my self, and to spend those hours in the knowledge of Natural things. So likewise it is not well to be reckoned what arises, grows or proceeds from _Venus_ or whence she arose, grew, or proceeded; for she is superfluously cloathed more than she needs, and yet must want that which she needs most of all in her Constancy. But you must be advertised, that _Venus_ is cloathed with a Celestial _sulphur_ which fa
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