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In calcinatione materiæ , porositas conservari debet. nam si non esset
porosa 75 lac ejus virgineum nullum in illam haberet ingressum. Conservabitur autem
porositas si physicè aquosam humiditatem & corrumpentem sulphureitatem separes per
calcinationem nostram. Vulgaris calcinatio chymica fit cum magno labore per ignes
magnos seu aquas fortes quæ porositatem destruunt: nostra verò sine magna vi flammæ &
valde facilè cum igne leni qui tam naturalis est ut physicè calcinet materiam nostram &
illam non immutet, nec virtutem seminum generantium evertat sed porositatem conservet.
Si materia nostra in vulgarium chymicorum igne esset, nostri flores qui facillimè mutari
& alterari possunt totaliter vastarentur imò corpus materiæ nostræ Vim ignis illorum non
sustineret sed in brevissimo tempore consumeretur et in natura sua intrinseca adeo
corrumperetur ut post destructionem virginei sui seminis materiæ planè infructuosa
mansura esset.
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Si separatio elementorum non bene succedit, commiscenda sunt omn{ia} 76 et iterum
putrefacienda . Lull. Codicill. p. 127
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Water is y t genus generalissimum, or all-inclusive upon w ch the spirit of God moved in
production of matter for creation of the several species. And if we consider a right of the
operation of nature we shal find fermentation to be the instrument of life evidenced in all
production & more intelligibly demonstrable to us in the circulation of o ur blood by the
fermentation of the acid & the alkali, being the water or humidum radicale w ch when
vivified by its acid or � viz the cœlestial influence is become the humidum or � of nature
as not only the subject matter of all beings but the very nutriment it self ffor all beings are
preserved by that of w ch they were at first made. Now upon farther observation we find
this Alkalie & acid in their operation together to produce a salt as y e third principle, the
domicil of nature & that wherein is included the three principles & the four elements. ffor
in the anatomie of this salt, we find a water, a spirit a 77 tincture & an earth. The water is
the subject upon w ch by the operation of the celestial influence by putrefactive union this
water, this spirit, this influence by putrefactive union makes salt; & this is an every days