The Preface.
Tinctura (ſaith he) quæ a vili Terrâ ſe ſpoliat, & aliâ multum nobili reinduit ſe. But elſewhere preſcribing ſome Caveats for the Rorid Work, he expreſly mentions the firſt and ſecond Sulphurs, commonly called Sulphura de Sulphuribus. Hoc (ſaith he) intelligitur de Terrâ, quæ non eſt ſeparata a Vaſe, de Terra Terræ. This is enough to prove the Affinity of the Pantarva, and the Philoſophers Stone: Let us now return to Jarchas, for he proceeds in his Inſtructions, and Apollonius hears him to no purpoſe. The Pantarva (ſaith he) after night diſcovers a Fire as bright as day, for it is fiery and ſhining: but if you look on it in the day-time, it dazles the eye with certain gleams or Coruſcations. Whence this Light came, and what it was, the Brachman was not ignorant of: τὸ ᾖ ὀν αὺτῆ φᾶς, πνεῦμὰ ≡ς ιν ἀῤῥήτε ιχυθ. That Light (ſaid he) which ſhines in it, is a Spirit of admirable Power; for it attracts to it ſelf all things that are near it. And here he tells Tyaneus, that if precious Stones were caſt into the Sea, or into ſome River, and this too confuſedly, as being far ſcattered and diſperſed one from another; yet this Magi-
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