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I wonder what is the form of the Fifth Essence?
"Another; Take Gold Calcined into fine Atoms, or Laminated into thin Leaves, one Ounce, of the Liquor Alkahest three Ounces put them into a Retort with a ground stopper, and let them remain in the heat of a gentle Bath a few daies, or until the Gold be dissolved without Sediment, the Liquor then being distilled from it, leaves it in the form of a Salt fusible which Cohobated often with the Liquor, is made Volatile, and comes over in two Liquors, White and Red; the Red is the Hematine Tincture, and the White may be reduced into a White Mercurial Body, after the dissolving Liquor is separated from the same: Thus Gold the King of Metals, of Nature most fixed in Corrosives, Test and Cuppel enduring all kind of Martyrdomes without the least diminution, even the most exquisite Tryal of Vulcan, is by this Liquor or Fire, wholly mastered and Conquered so as to be brought into its Mineral Ens, which is the highest Preparation of Gold, that can be made by means of this Liquor, being its Fifth Essence, and is of Power to cure the most deplorable Diseases, to which the Nature of Man is subject;"
"Another; Take Gold Calcined into fine Atoms, or Laminated into thin Leaves, one Ounce, of the Liquor Alkahest three Ounces put them into a Retort with a ground stopper, and let them remain in the heat of a gentle Bath a few daies, or until the Gold be dissolved without Sediment, the Liquor then being distilled from it, leaves it in the form of a Salt fusible which Cohobated often with the Liquor, is made Volatile, and comes over in two Liquors, White and Red; the Red is the Hematine Tincture, and the White may be reduced into a White Mercurial Body, after the dissolving Liquor is separated from the same: Thus Gold the King of Metals, of Nature most fixed in Corrosives, Test and Cuppel enduring all kind of Martyrdomes without the least diminution, even the most exquisite Tryal of Vulcan, is by this Liquor or Fire, wholly mastered and Conquered so as to be brought into its Mineral Ens, which is the highest Preparation of Gold, that can be made by means of this Liquor, being its Fifth Essence, and is of Power to cure the most deplorable Diseases, to which the Nature of Man is subject;"
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