_By what means this most pure Calx of Gold is to be farther opened,
whereby it may be inverted, made volatile, and rendred like to a
Vegetable._
This tender _Sol_ or _Calx_ may be brought to such a pass, without
any corrosive in 24 hours space, as that it shall not remain a fixed
metalline Body, but become wholly volatile as it was at its beginning.
Now this is effected by the help of the Salt of Nature onely, which
is to be found every where, and may be gotten by the poor as well as
by the rich. Yea so easie as that it is scarce credible, should it be
manifested openly and clearly, and which those Brethren of ignorance
and proud Court-like Flatterers would entertain with scorn and
derision, and accompt the truth it self to be a lie, as hath been oft
times done hitherto. ’Tis better therefore to pass over such things
in silence, than by benefitting others to injure ones self. For such
Arcana’s are to be wrapt up in silence, and not to be cast before such
Hogs. But yet to the Adept shall be revealed such things in the end of
this writing or treatise, as they have been hitherto ignorant of.