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 deſcendit, tanquam ſuos nullatenus deſerens, aut a ſe Poſtulantibus deficiens, Qui in ſomniis tantam claritatem mentis noſtræ oculis infulſit, ut Illam intrus & extra, remota onmi figura, gratis revelare dignatus est, inſatiabili bonitate nos reficiendo, demonſtrans ut ad eam naturalem decoctionem ſecretam, quâ penitus ordine retrogrado cum pungenti lancea, tota ejus natura in meram Nigredinem viſibiliter diſſolveretur. Here lyes the knot, and who is he that will untye it? for ſaith the ſame Lully, it was never put to Paper, and he gives this Reaſon for it. ''Quia Solius dei est ea revelare, & homo divinæ Majeſtati ſubtrahere nititur, cum ſoli Deo pertinentia vulgat ſpiritu prolationis humanæ, aut literarum ſerie. Propterea operationem illam habere non poteris, quousque ſpiritualiter prius fueris Divinitatis meritis comprobatus. Quia hoc ſecretum a nemine comprobatus. Quia hoc ſecretum a nemine mortali Revelandum eſt, præterquam ab Almo ſpiritu, qui ubi vult, ſpirat''. It ſeems then the greateſt Difficulty is not in the Coagulation or production of the Philoſophicall Salt, but in the Putrefaction of it, when it