_Addition._ The _Moors_ call it _Antimony_, others call it _Alabaster_, or _Tarbason_. By the _Arabians_ and _Spaniards_ it is called _Alcohol_. _Avicennae_ c. 7. calls it _Artemed_. _Alexius_ of _Piedmont_, in his seventh Book of Secrets, calls it _Talck_, even as _John Jacob Wecker_ renders it in his Books of Secrets; but _Talck_ is far different from _Antimony_. _Pliny_, Book 33. Chap. 6. of _Antimony_. _Dioscorides_ gives a preparation of _Antimony_, Book 5. Chap. 39. They call it also _Stibi_, _Stimmi_, _&c._ The _Germans_ call it _Spies glass_, or as _George Fabricius_ would rather have it, _Spies glantz_. _Gerlandius_ calls it Black _Alcophil_, _Altofel_, or _Alirnu_, others _Cosmet_, and it is twofold, Masculine and Feminine. It will lead us to the consideration of higher Mysteries, if we behold and discern that Nature wherein Gold is exalted, even as the _Magi_ have found that this Mineral is by God ordained under the Constellation of _Aries_, which is the first Celestial Sign, wherein the Sun takes its Exaltation, though this be not regarded by the Vulgar; yet discreet people will know, and the better observe, that even in this place also the Mysteries and Perpetuity may in part be considered with great benefit, and in part discovered. But some ignorant and indiscreet people think, that when they had _Antimony_, they would deal well enough with it by Calcination, others by Sublimation, and some by Reverberation, thereby to obtain its great Mystery and perfect Medicine. But I tell you, that here in this place it availes not in the least, either Calcination, Sublimation, or Reverberation, whereby afterwards a perfect extraction can or might be done or effected with profit, to transmute the meaner into a better Metallick virtue; for it is impossible for you. Be not deluded; some of the Philosophers which have wrote of such things, as _Geber_, _Albertus Magnus_, _Rasis_, _Rupecissa_, _Aristotle_, and many others: But observe this: Some say, that if _Antimony_ be made to a _Vitrum_ or Glass, the bad volatile Sulphur is gone, and the Oil which may be prepared out of that Glass, will be a very fixt Oil, and will really give an ingress and Medicine of perfection to the imperfect Metals. These words and opinion are good and true, but it will not be nor appear such indeed; for I tell you truly, without concealed speeches, that if you lose any of the aforesaid _Sulphur_ in the Preparation or Burning, for a small fire may easily prejudice it, you then have lost the true penetrating Spirit, which should make the whole Body of _Antimony_ to a perfect red Oyl, which should also ascend over the helm with a delightful sent, and curious Colours; observe likewise, that the whole Body of this Mineral, with all its Members, should be but one Oyl, and ascend over the helm without any loss of weight, excepting the _feces_.