Take a Spirit of Salt, therewith extract the Sulphur of Gold, separate the Oil of Salt from it, rectifie the Sulphur of Gold with Spirit of Wine, that it be pleasant without Corrosive; then take the true Oil of _Vitriol_, made of the _Vitriol_ of _Verdigreece_, therein dissolve _Mars_, thereof make a _Vitriol_ again, and again dissolve it into an Oil or Spirit, which rectifie in like manner as before with Spirit of Wine, conjoin them, and abstract the Spirit of Wine from it, resolve the Matter which remaines dry in Spirit of _Mercury_, according to a just weight, circulate and coagulate it when it is fix'd and permanent without Ascention, you have then a Medicine to tinge Man and Metals, if it be fermented with prepared Gold.
[Transcriber's note: Original heading had Gold with a handwritten correction to Silver.]
The Tincture and spirit of Silver manifests its Colour of a Watchet or Sky-colour, otherwise it is a waterish Spirit, cold and moist, not so hot in its degree as that which is found in _Gold_, _Mars_, and _Venus_; for _Luna_ is more phlegmatick than fiery, though it be brought by the Fire out of its waterish Substance into a coagulation; and even as the Metals gain their tinging Spirits and Coagulation, in like manner do stones get their fixedness, and colour, as out of one Influence. A fix'd coagulated _Mercury_ is found in the _Diamond_, therefore it is fixeder and harder than the other stones, and cannot be so broken; so the tincture of _Mars_, or the Sulphur of Iron is found in the _Ruby_, the Sulphur of _Venus_ in the _Emerald_, the Soul of _Saturn_ in the _Granate_; in Tin the tincture which is found in the _Topaz_; and _Crystal_ is appropriated to common _Mercury_; in the _Saphire_ is found the Sulphur and Tincture of _Luna_, but each one according to a peculiar understanding, and according to its kind, and in Metals according to their form and gender; for when the blew Colour is taken and extracted out of the _Saphire_, its Rayment is gone, and its other Body is white as a _Diamond_, wanting only the hardness that is in a _Diamond_; even so when Gold hath lost its Soul, it yields a fix'd white Gold Body, which by searching Students and young Artists is called fix'd _Luna_.