THE TRIUMPHAL CHARIOT OF ANTIMONY.
BY
BASILIUS VALENTINUS.
WITH THE COMMENTARY OF
THEODORE KERCKRINGIUS;
A Doctor of Medicine.
BEING THE LATIN VERSION PUBLISHED AT AMSTERDAM IN THE
YEAR 1685 TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, WITH
A BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE.
JAMES ELLIOTT AND CO.,
Temple Chambers, Falcon Court, Fleet Street, E.C.
1893.
CONTENTS
PAGE.
Biographical Preface … … … ix.
Dedication … … … … … i
Dedicatory Epistle.. … … 3
To the Reader 8
The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony … ll
Appendix … … … … … 181
On the Triumphal Chariot of Antimony, and the Nature of the Fire Stone … 183
BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE.
SHOULD any uninstructed person who might chance upon Basil Valentine's "Triumphal Chariot of Antimony" undertake to read that work, he would probably be mystified by much of its contents, by its references to the Spagyric art, to the grand Magisterium, the true and universal Medicine, the Tinctures which transmute metals, with other unknown quantities and other deep mysteries which make part of the Sacramentum Regis. But if he were asked what he thought of Basil Valentine in his historical and personal character, it is unlikely that he would suppose for a moment the existence of any romantic mystery encompassing the mere life of the man. He would regard him as a pious Benedictine monk, uncommonly well versed for his period in certain departments of experimental and medical…