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10 the Tree of Dulcification and the Mineral Arcanum
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1723 pp 392–393Denn Rec. einen höchst-feurigen Spir. vini und höchst-feurigen rectificatum acidum, denn nimm des Spir. vini drey, des acidi ein lb. und Salis Tartari ein und ein halb lb. Gieß den Sp. vini über das Sal Tartari, denn so gieß das acidum drauf, setze ins B. M. oder Aschen, distillire gelinde, so wird das höchst klare ungeschmackte phlegma übergehen, und diese fast in voriger quantität, als der Spir. vini und acidum schwer gewesen, und wiege das phlegma und das residirende Sal Tartari, welches des Sp. vini und acidi Schärffe oder Sal volatile bey sich behalten; so wirst du dir selbst concepte genug machen, daß nur etliche Loth Schärffe oder Sal volatile in so viel lb. Spir. vini und acidi Gewalt gestecket. Entgegen gieß über ein halb lb. Salis Tartari 1. lb. Aquafort vel Spir. Nitri dephlegmati: du wirst das Sal Tartari nach abgezogenem Phlegma um ein halb lb. oder ein Viertel wenigstens vermehret oder zugewachsen finden. Jetzt betrachte den Unterscheid der solventium. Wenn einer affirmiret, er habe ein solvens insipidum, so ists ein Spir. Salis resolutus per proprium vel alienum acidum & volatile mortificatus. Und dieses kommt mir vor, als wenn ich Saltz und Salpeter zusammen giesse und schiessen lasse, und solvire es denn in Thau oder distillirten Regen-Wasser, und filtrirs, so ists eben ein solches menstruum. Er ziehe es nur ab per B. M. oder cineres, er wird ein schön clarificirtes Sal medium oder acidum mortificatum als ein Nitrum finden; und wenn er dieses 100mahl übertreibet und concentrirets nicht in die Enge, daß das acidum dominire, so ist es untüchtig zu solviren die metalla &c. und ziehet von den Sulphuribus so wenig aus, wenn man das menstruum abziehet, daß einen Mühe und Arbeit verdriesset.
The Golden Chain of Homer: 10 the Tree of Dulcification and the Mineral Arcanum
1723 pp 392–393Take a most fiery spirit of wine and a most fiery rectified acid: three pounds of the spirit of wine, one pound of the acid, and one and a half pounds of salt of tartar. Pour the spirit of wine over the salt of tartar, then pour the acid upon it, set it in the water bath or ashes, and distil gently. The clearest, tasteless phlegm will pass over, almost in the former quantity that the spirit of wine and acid weighed. Weigh the phlegm and the remaining salt of tartar, which has retained the sharpness or volatile salt of the spirit of wine and acid. You will form enough conclusions for yourself that the power of so many pounds of spirit of wine and acid lay in only a few loth of sharpness or volatile salt. Conversely, pour one pound of dephlegmated aqua fortis or spirit of nitre over half a pound of salt of tartar. After drawing off the phlegm, you will find the salt of tartar increased or grown by half a pound, or at least a quarter. Now consider the difference between the solvents. If someone affirms that he has a tasteless solvent, it is a spirit of salt dissolved and mortified through its own or another acid and volatile. This seems to me just as if I poured salt and saltpetre together, let them crystallize, then dissolved them in dew or distilled rainwater and filtered them: it is precisely such a menstruum. Let him merely draw it off in the water bath or ashes; he will find a beautifully clarified middle salt or mortified acid, like a nitre. Even if he drives this over a hundred times, unless he concentrates it into a narrow compass so that the acid predominates, it is incapable of dissolving metals and so forth. It extracts so little from the sulphurs when the menstruum is drawn off that the trouble and labour become wearisome.
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The two-book alchemical work of 1723 in German with a new English translation, 399 notes, eight historical diagrams, chapter outlines, keyword essays, a glossary, bibliography, subject index, and 400 discussion questions.
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Anonymous, Aurea Catena Homeri. Frankfurt and Leipzig: Johann Georg Böhme, 1723. Traditionally attributed to Anton Joseph Kirchweger; the attribution remains uncertain. Historical diagrams from the Stiftung der Werke von C. G. Jung copy digitized by e-rara.
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