against all torture of Fire, and Art,
and transfers it into the Virgin-purity
of Gold; it requires only
heat.

The same Helmont, Of the Tree
of Life.

I am compelled to believe the
Aurifick, and Argentifick Stone;
because at several distinct: times,
with my own hand, made projection
of one Grane of this Powder,
upon some thousands of Granes of
Argentvive hot in a Crucible; and
in the presence of our principal
friends, the business, with a pleasing
admiration, succeeded well in the Fire:
as our books promise Thee,
&c.


The same.


He, who first gave me the Powder,
had at least, so much thereof,
as would be sufficient for transmuting
two hundred thousand
pound weight of Metal, into