I perceive your Mastership takes
pleasure in passing from the use of
the Medicine, to the infinite Transmutation
of Metals. Although I
could easily believe the possibility
of Art, viz. that a Chymical Experiment
of that kind was in the
Adept, as I have also made mention
above, touching that Experiment
of Dr. Kifflerus who, with
the Tincture of one ounce of Gold
transmuted 1 ounce & half of Silver
into the best Gold, not to mention
the Experiment of Helmont; nor of
Scotus, which he made in the most
famous Cities of Colonia, and Hanovia;
nor much to insist on that
illustrious, and well known Example,
manifested at Prague, before
Cæsar Ferdinando the third, himself;
where with one only grain of
the Tincture, three pounds Mercury
were transmuted into most noble
Gold; insomuch that I am
brought no less into a neccessity, than
into a Will of believing, that the
Art may be true; yet I cannot to
this hour sufficiently receive it
without some doubt, because with