_Proceed in your Work thus._
Prepare 3 or 4 Pound of Oil of Sulphur _per_ Campane, which rectifie,
that it may become very fiery: Then provide a large Trough like a Chest
or Box, which you may cover with linnen Cloath so, as through it no
Dust, but the Air onely may penetrate. In this Chest set your rectified
Oil of Sulphur, poured into divers small Pans or Dishes so as they be
not above half full. Leave these there three or four Days, or so long
Day and Night expose them to the Air, as until the Oil of Sulphur hath
drawn to it self so much Water as it self was, and filled the Dishes.
This being done, empty out all the Dishes into one Glass Body, and in
_Balneo_ with gentle heat abstract thence all the humidity. The Oil
remaining in the Bottome again expose to the Air in those Dishes, as
before, so long as until they be filled. That water again abstract
thence, and proceed in extracting so long, as until you have got water
enough. This water passeth through all Tinctures; but I have not as yet
compleated this Work.
_Note_: All the best of that, which this Magnet draws from the Air,
remains with the Magnet it self or Oil of Sulphur, as its true
_Matrix_, in which it is nourished and ripened; as the most Ancient
_Hermes_, or the Father of all Philosophers, in his Smaragdine Table,
hath described in these words. Here the Soul of the World speaks. My
Father is _Sol_; my Mother is _Luna_; the Wind or Air secretly bears
me in its Belly: the Earth conceived and brought me forth, and is my
Nurse, _&c._ The Spirit of the World can bring forth no Fruits, unless
it be first seminated in a fit _Matrix_; because nothing in the World
can be progenited without a Womb. This our Magnet is of all Magnets
most gratefull to the Soul of the World, and a most natural Friend to
the Spirit of the World.
Much might be spoken touching this, but it is not necessary to thrust
pulse ready chewed into a sluggish Crows mouth, let him fly out and
seek for himself. Here, in this Work are verified those sayings of
Philosophers: Nature rejoyceth in Nature, Nature overcomes Nature,
Nature retains Nature. Here it is proper also to observe, what
_Hermes_, at the end of his Table saith; _viz._ My power is not intire,
or perfect, before I am turned into Earth. But how this is to be done,
I leave to the consideration of every Man. For the unworthiness of the
present wicked World forbids me to discourse more amply thereof. To all
men, whom GOD shall favour, these will be clear enough. Yet elsewhere
touching this matter (if GOD will) ere long shall be taught.