Trifertes Sagani, or immortal dissolvent. Being a ... discourse of the matter and manner of preparing the Liquor Alkahest of Helmont, the great Hilech of Paracelsus, the Sal Circulatum Minus of Ludovicus de Comit: or our fiery spirit of the four elements. Together with its use in preparing magisteries, arcanas, quintessences and other secret medicines of the adepts ... / By Cleidophorus Mystagogus [i.e W. Y-Worth].

  • Y-Worth, W. (William)
Date:
1705
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Credit: Trifertes Sagani, or immortal dissolvent. Being a ... discourse of the matter and manner of preparing the Liquor Alkahest of Helmont, the great Hilech of Paracelsus, the Sal Circulatum Minus of Ludovicus de Comit: or our fiery spirit of the four elements. Together with its use in preparing magisteries, arcanas, quintessences and other secret medicines of the adepts ... / By Cleidophorus Mystagogus [i.e W. Y-Worth]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C2) even as a Blind Man does at Noon-day 3 for Nature God’s Hand-maid was Greated by him, and #06 fays, that God by his Spirit has garnifh’d the Heavens,his Hand has formed the crooked Serpent 3 and tho there is a Spirit in Man, yet “tis the Infpiration of the Almighty that gives Underftanding, whence we may readily Conceive, that Human Reafon is too fhort to Comprehend the Dignity of any true My- fiery without the Aid of God’s Spirit. This great Defeé is too evidently apparent from cerning the Subje& Matter of this Difcourfe; fee- ing they know not where to ground or fix their In- tenfions in the choice of a proper Subje&, but frames each to himfelf a different Bafis, and fo make an Innumerable Number of Errors concerning the fame : This Immaginary Matter, which Phanfy on- ly has given Birth to, they defend with all theea. gernefs imaginable, concluding it to be the Genu- ine Offspring of Truth; when, alas! ’tis but a Baftard Brat of their own wandring Imaginations and ungrounded Thoughts; as inthe Conclufion proves too Evidert: This is an Abfurdity fo great, fo cotrimon, that amongft the many Pretenders, I have never met with more than three that have efcaped Reft, when Ignorant both of the way and means up for Convincing of the Giddy Headed and Rath Building up of a Son of Art.