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THE

THE THIRD CENTURY OF

GLAUBER ‘S

Wealthy Store—house of Treasures.

Wherein many Profitable Chymical Secrets are discovered.

Faithfully translated out of the High-Dutch of the Authour.

Courteous Reader,

Having some Years since begun to communicate to the World my

manifold profitable Inventions in Centuries, but of late been hindred by

sickness and other impediments from contuning the same; yet now being

sollicited thereto by many Lovers of Art, I could do no less than to

endeavour to give them some satisfaction by the publishing of these; and

withall assuring them, that, in case God be pleased to continue my Life

(notwithstanding that because of great Age and Sickness I am fain to

keep my bed) I intend to compleat the rest of my promised Centuries,

desiring the kind Reader in the mean time to accept of these three, and

to pardon the confused manner of writing them, having for want of

leisure, set them down as I found them in my Notes, being chiefly the

occasional discoveries and inventions during my Chymical Labours.

Neither would I have the Reader offended that in some places I break off

so abruptly, especially where I am speaking of the matter which ADAM

brought with him out of Paradise, for whatever may be wanting in this

fifth Century shall God willing be supplied in the sixth: I also desire

the Reader not to be moved by the Calumnies of any Envious ignorant

Persons, to think that the things here set down (being most of them new

and unheard of inventions) are mere Fables and invented matters, and no

real experimented Truths, but rather remit the verification of them to

time and his own Experience, which will not fail to satisfie him of the

Truth of the Particulars herein contained.

Farewell.

THE THIRD CENTURY.

1. To wash common Tartar Snow white in a few hours time, and reduce

it to a pleasant Salt which dissolves in cold Water, and wherewith of

Sugar, Honey, or any sweet Fruits at all times, yea all hours of the

day, and in all places Liquors may be prepared like to Wine in Taste,

smell, colour, strength and virtue, and of which afterwards good Brandy

and Vinegar may be made with great profit.

2. To purifie common Salt in great quantity, in one days time, so

as to become very white, pure and transparent and of a pleasant Taste,

shooting into cubical Crystals fit for the Tables of great Persons, its

taste being very agreeable, and the meat seasoned with it much more

wholesome than that which is drest with the common Salt.

SEE THE TREATISE OF THE NATURE OF SALTS.

3. A secret to preserve all sorts of Wine, and make them durable,

whether of Grapes, Sugar, Honey, Apples, Pears, Quinces, Figs, Plums,

Cherries, Malt, Wheat, & etc. and is of great use to a House keeper.

4. Any of the forementioned Wines may with ease be turned into very

good Vinegar, not inferiour to that which is made of French or Rhenish

Wine. SEE MY VEGETABLE WORK.

5. To make good SAL ARMONIACK of several contemptible matters which

are trod under foot and cast out on the Dunghill very easily and in

great quantities, so as one Man every day may prepare one hundred pound

weight of it with ten shillings charges.

SEE MY TREATISE OF THE MINERAL SQUILL IN ORDER TO LONG LIFE.

6. A secret water wherewith in an hours time the yellow colour in

Diamonds may be drawn from them, which makes them ten times more worth

than they were before. SEE MY TREATISE OF THE DIVINE CHARACTER.

7. In like manner may the dark red colour of Granates be extracted,

leaving them only so much colour as makes them like Rubies. For Granates

and Rubies resemble each other in their bodies and colour, the only

difference between them being, that the Granates abound with too much

colour, which makes them less valued, when therefore some part of their

colour is extracted from them, they do in virtue, hardness and beauty,

equal Rubies, one Karat of which is more worth than ten pound of

Granates, so as this extraction must be very gainfull to him that is

Master of it. SEE MY THIRD APPENDIX TO THE SEVENTH PART OF MY

PHARMACOPOEA SPAGYRICA.

8. In like mamier also may be extracted the colours of blue

Saphyrs, yellow Jacinths, Topaces, and Purple Amethysts, by which means

they become white as Diamonds, and when brought to the same degree of

hardness are every whit as valuable as they. SEE MY THIRD APPENDIX AS

BEFORE.

9. In a moments time to rob SOL of its colour and make it white as

Silver. SEE MY TREATISE OF THE SEAL OF GOD.

10. To separate from MARS and VENUS when dissolved in Water as well

as from any other Vitriol, by means of an artificial Precipitation,

their hidden spiritual SOL or Tincture, and that in a moment; a thing of

great use in Physick, as well as in the transmutation of Metals. SEE THE

SECOND APPENDIX.

11. To extract SOL out of Sand and Stones with great ease and

little charges, which by precipitation is afterwards separated from the

dissolvent, retaining its former strength, and may be made use of again

for the like extraction. SEE THE PROSPERITY OF GERMANY THE SEVENTH PART,

OR NOVUM LUMEN CHYMICUM.

12. To extract SOL from LUNA with a small quantity of dissolvent,

which, after precipitation of the SOL, remains in its full strength, and

may be used as before to the great gain of the Artist. SEE GLAUBER’S

LABORATORY, AND PROSPERITY OF GERMANY, 7th. PART.

13. In one days time to prepare a particular, whereof one part will

tinge three parts of VENUS into LUNE. N. B. This Tincture is a white

Stone which being placed in a fit Furnace, and a due fire administred,

within few days the whiteness will be changed to a yellow colour, and

that into a fixed red, whereof one part being cast upon four parts of

LUNE in Flux, exalts it so far that in the separation it gives a fourth

part of SOL. Which sudden fixation is performed by the proper Agent of

the matter which is white of it self, and yet affords a red Tincture,

when handled, as is here set down, SEE NY TREATISE OF THE SECRET FIRE OF

ARTEPHIUS.

14. In a short time to prepare a particular Tincture of a red

subject, which exalts Silver to that degree, as to yield much SOL in the

separation. SEE NY EXPLICATION UPON PONTANUS HIS LETTER.

15. A good graduating water which being digested with LUNE, makes

it yield much SOL in separation, SEE THE TREATISE CONCERNING THE MOST

SECRET NATURAL SAL ARMONlACK EVERY WHERE TO BE FOUND.

16. Another graduating water in which Mercury being digested,

becomes coagulated into SOL and LUNA. SEE THE FIERY ALKAHEST.

17. Another fixing water, which being once or twice abstracted from

Mercury makes it lose its property of making SOL, and VENUS white, and

on the contrary gilds LUNA when rubbed upon it. I have as yet carried

this experiment no further, but am of opinion that if Mercury were long

enough digested in the same, it would turn the Mercury into Tincture,

coagulating and fixing each common MERCURY into SOL. SEE HASTECAL.

18. A volatilizing Water which being abstracted from SOL highly

exalts its natural colour, and carries it over the Helm, which done it

is no more common SOL, but may in a short time be fixed into a

transparent red Carbuncle. SEE MY THIRD APPENDIX, & etc. concerning the

Griffins Claws, and Eagles Wings.

19. A water of like nature that volatilizeth all fixt matters,

wherewith in one single Distillation, the Tincture or Soul may be

extracted from MARS, VENUS, and all coloured Stones, and carried over

the Helm; which Tinctures afterwards with one rectification are highly

purified, and have their Medicinal and tinging virtue doubled, which

exalted and multiplied Tinctures, notwithstanding their great volatility

may within twenty four hours time be concentrated, by means of a secret

Magnet, and fixed into a Stone, penetrating all compact Bodies, with

which incredible things may be done in Alchemy and Physick. SEE MY THIRD

APPENDIX, & ETC.

20. To prepare a Salt in an hours time, and without extraordinary

charges, which makes all fixt matters volatile, and is of such virtue

that when a little of it is joined with Spirit of Wine it makes it so

strong and fiery, that it dissolves all Metals, Minerals, Animals and

Vegetables, carrying their Quintessence over the Helm, and is the

effecter of wonders in Physick and Alchemy; so that he who knows how to

prepare and make use of this wonderfttll Salt, needs never want either

bodily health, or a competent supply of maintenance. SEE MY TREATISE OF

ELIAS ARTISTA IN QUARTO.

21. A wonderfull, to all Men known, but withall contemptible

matter; which every where may be had for nothing, which whosoever knows,

together with the use of it, needs never want, because thereby he may

effect whatsoever is necessary for Soul or Body. SEE MY FIRST, SECOND

AND THIRD APPENDIX OF PHARMACOPOEA SPAGYRICA.

22. The manners of preparing a running Mercury out of all Minerals

and Metals, and that in one days time, which joined with SOL becomes

fixed into SOL. SEE MY THIRD APPENDIX.

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