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Bernard Gilles Penot

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Source: Paracelsus, Centum quindecim curationes experimentaque, ed. Bernard Gilles Penot, Lyon: Jean Lertout, 1582 [BP190]

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Summary: Penot outlines the four types of fires essential in alchemical practice and discusses the nature of mercurial waters in the pursuit of alchemy. In the discourse on mercurial waters, Penot identifies three types of mercurial waters. (generated by ChatGPT)

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[p. 73] Philosophorvm ignes svnt qvatvor.

Primus, Aqua dissoluens & calcinans: & dicitur ignis contra naturam mercurij.

Secundus, Sulphur Album, & Rubeum: & dicitur ignis non naturalis.

Tertius, Ignis Lampadis, & dicitur ignis non naturalis.

Quartus, Ignis Carbonum, & dicitur ignis elementaris.

De aqvis mercvrialibvs tractatvlvs.

Vera aqua mercurialis tribus materiis perficitur.

Primò, mercurius vulgi in aquam reducitur, qua corpora perfecta in mercurium resoluuntur, quæ vegetabiliter reducitur additione lunæ, postea animatur solis dissolutione.

Aquæ mercuriales sunt tres: Scilicet Mineralis, Vegetabilis, & Animalis. Triples est mercurius philosophorum.

Primò, mercurius vulgi qui corpora calcinat.

Secundò, aqua mercurii, resoluens & sublimans eadem corpora.

Tertiò, verus mercurius philosophorum, cui fermentum adiungitur ad lapidis compositionem.

Perscrutare & tace. B. G. L. à Portu.

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The fires of the philosophers are four.

The first is Water that dissolves and calcinates: and it is called the fire contrary to the nature of mercury.

The second, White and Red Sulphur: and it is called the unnatural fire.

The third, the Fire of the Lamp, and it is called the unnatural fire.

The fourth, the Fire of Coals, and it is called the elemental fire.

A small treatise on mercurial waters.

The true mercurial water is perfected by three materials.

First, common mercury is reduced to water, by which perfect bodies are dissolved into mercury, which is vegetatively reduced by the addition of silver, and then animated by the dissolution of the sun.

There are three mercurial waters: Namely, Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal. The mercury of the philosophers is threefold.

First, the common mercury that calcinates bodies.

Second, the water of mercury, dissolving and sublimating the same bodies.

Third, the true mercury of the philosophers, to which ferment is added for the composition of the stone.

Investigate and be silent. B. G. L. from the Port.