Alchemical Manuscripts 16 16

Secret Book (Liber Secretus), by Artephius Secret Book (Liber Secretus) was written in the Twelfth Century by Artephius, translated into English in 1624 and printed in Amsterdam in 1578. The book provides an explanation of alchemical laboratory processes, including antimony and the process to make a great arcanum. Cover......Page 1 Artephius - His Secret Book......Page 7 Chapter III - Of the composition of our antimonial vinegar, or secret water.......Page 10 Chapter IV - Of the operations of our antimonial vinegar or mineral water.......Page 12 Chapter V - Of other operations of our secret mineral water and its tincture.......Page 14 Chapter VI - Of what substance metals are to consist in order to do this work.......Page 17 Chapter VII - Of the wonderfull things done by our water in altering and changing bodies.......Page 19 Chapter VIII - Of the afinity of our water, and other wonderfull things done by it.......Page 21 Chapter IX - ... the separation of the pure, from the...ure, by this water.......Page 25 Chapter X - Of the separation of the pure parts from the impure.......Page 29 Chapter XI - Of the soul which is extracted by our water, and made to ascend.......Page 32 Chapter XII - Of digestion, and how the spirit is made thereby.......Page 35 Chapter XIII - Of the beginning of the work, and a summary of what is to be done.......Page 38 Chapter XIV - Of the easiness and simplicity of this work, and, of our philosophick fire.......Page 41 Chapter XV - Of the three kinds of fires of the philosophers in particular.......Page 43 Chapter XVI - Of the colours of our philosophick tincture, or stone.......Page 45 Chapter XVII - Of the perfect bodies, their putrefaction, corruption, digestion and tincture.......Page 47 Chapter XVIII - Of the multiplication of the philosophick tincture.......Page 51 Chapter XIX - Of sublimation in particular, and separation of the pure from the impure.......Page 54 Chapter XX - Of Digestion, sublimation, and separation of the bodies, for the perfection of the work.......Page 57 Chapter XXI - Of the secret operation of the water and spirit upon the body.......Page 59 Chapter XXII - Of the signs of the end of thework, and the perfection thereof.......Page 61