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‘he Ingrefs., Progrefs , and Egrefs, of the Secret Hermetick Science, out-of the. choifeft and moft Famous Auru Ors.

ilerted ahd digefted in fuch’an tder, thatit may prove to the advantage, not onely of the Beginners, but-Proficients of this high Art, by none hitherto difpofed in this Method.

Vhereunto is ‘added 5» The Arcanum or |, Grand Secret of Hermetick Philofophy.

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By Fames Hajolle, Efquire, Qui oft Mercuriophflus Anglicus,

War Magiftry is begun and perfetted, by onely one thing; namely, Mercury, Ventur, p.26.

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a WES berof Sciences: <I yet we read how K. philip tauntled ed his Son Alexander, when he found him Harmonioutly finging, |

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To the Students.in Chymifiry. in thefe. words, Alexander, art not thos alham@ to fing (0finely ?

By which words he accounts it

difhonorable for aNoble Manto ufe that Art publikely ;but rather when he is at leifure: Privately, either to refrefh his. Spirits, orif there be any. difpute concerning Phyfick, that it fhould. be temper-

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it is (to our grief be it, fpoken) | with the Art of Chymiftry., | whileft it is fo much defamed, difparaged, and. brought into dif- |

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grace, by. the fraudulent dealings |

“of Impoftots,’.as that. whofoever ‘profefles it;fhall full be ftigmatizéd | ro with Publike Reproach.

NeverthelefS, very many ,.yea, | ‘too many thére are tobe found | “at this day, ‘(profefling I know not 9

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“what thadow of this Divine Art) § } who ingrofs ‘unto thémfelvés, as

it were the whole ‘World, tots f

Deftruction, ]

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\Tothe Sthdentsin Chymiftry, Defteuction, [Brafs,Iron, or other Metal.) not to convert the fame

into Gold, but are found at léngth

torcheat with ic for Gold, to the reat grief of ‘many : Orphans mourn, by reafon of fuch’Knaves, Widows weep, Husbands lament, Wives bewail their mifery. * This Mati defireth’ ‘his Lands, that ‘his Hotife’y another his Rents ‘taken from him.’ And among thefe alfo (which is ‘the tiore to be wondfed''at) -we have’ known: very Many ‘inftructed ‘in every Academical Science’; ‘becaufe of whom (being ftrick no 'Iefs* with Admitation then’ Fear) I begun ‘to be

fomething ‘difcouraged | and’ by the exam ple of their vain Expence; Pave over any further {crutiny in this'Golden Science. wee Y But’ the temembrance of my Tafancy'in this Study, wherein for féven yeers' together’ Phad beéen“4h eye witnels of the Truth thereof: % a2 I {pent

- Cothe Students in Chymiftry.

I pent many laborious days, and tedious nights, until chat accord-

ing to the advice of Count Ber-

nard, 1 had for fome yeers read, and more accurately perufed the ] | moft. feleé&t and approved Aus | thors ; the which (although at —

firtt1fuppofed they had differed ] ; amongft themfelves ,.as if what this fayes, another denyes, what here is raifed, there isruined, yet) at length I found (by Gods afliftance,) that they agreed Hermetically and Harmonically, in one Way, and one Truth; by which

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means I difcovered the one fort | true Philofophers, the other falfe |

Chymifts, and at length, called | to minde the memorable faying jj | of Dajfin the Philofopher:, That }} it [ufficeth not to be Learned, unlefs | in the very thing fromwhence the .

Queftion arifeth, So.1 found men, (otherwife. Learned) unlearned.in this Art ;.amongft which I knewa

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To the Students in Chymi(try. a 'Bifbop, (whofe fame in Chymi= © ftry was celebrated of many > whom I vifited, after Ihad feen a little Chymical Tra@, writ with his own hand: ) And whenT took him laboring in our Common Gold, whence he ftudied toExtract Vitriol , ( which he held his

onely Secret)I left him; for that I faw he had neither before him the proper Matter, nor the manner of Working ; according to the Doéirine of Philofophers ; and that I knew he had many Coal-

rakers, and Brokers of Receipts, as wellin England, as in Germany, and Bohemia: But truly I found not one Man for Thirty yeers to-

gether, that wrought upon the

proper Matter, and confequently not any who deferved the name Of a Fhilofopher. And for my Own part, if more may not be granted me, then a far off to be-

hold'the Holy: Land, I hall ad; a 3 mire

Tothe Students in Chymiftry.~

mite whatfoever the Great and» Omnipotent God, is pleafed out of his infinite Mercy, to grant

mes yet in thé interim, whilft (for delight fake) I was converfant (by the favor of Hortulanus) inthe PAilofophical Rofary, I pickt out fome no lefS pleafant then wholfome Flowers , which Ihave

made up into.a Fafciculus,for the Eafe and Benefit of Young Students, inthis Are (whilft in reading and perufing, they were wont to confume fome yeers,» before that they learned rightly howto handle,

or in handling to com

pound :) The which (if not too boldly) I dedicate to you the Lovers of this Truth, and haveaccounted it worthy of publike view. Deign therefore (ye ingenious Men,) that this my Fafercalus, howfotver collected by my Labor, yet by your Authority

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Tothe Students inChymiftry.

- IUluftrious Work : whence (by Gods: Favor and Permiffion) they may be able to pick out what is daily fo much defited, and fought for, by multitudes.

What in obfervance, Faith, and. all Duty, andinmemory of your Merits; may in any wife be performed by me, to your praife and honors: the fame I moft freely, and‘dutifully promife, and vow fhall be performed. Farewel moft Famous Men; and: may ye not difdain: to cherifh me with your Patronage.

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ly called the Hands

Ls) of Phyfitians ;without which , >neither mer ee e of Life \can Treafur ‘Health (the

be preferved 5 nor Sicknefs [the

Herauld of Death | expelled: And that Phyfick it (elf remaineth Lame and Defective : So, in this philofophical Work,Natureand Art ought [0 lovingly toembrace each other; as

thar Art may not require what Na-

ture denies, nor Nature deny what

anay be perfected by Art. For Na-— y

ture affenting, {be demeans her felf obediently to every Artift, whileft by their Indufiry fheis helped, not hinodxed. Of whofe Steps, Progref, Motion, and Condition, whofoever

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‘| gs denorant , let him not pre[ume to attempt this Work, (of it felf Ab| firufe, and otherwife wonderfully | fhadowed-over by Philofophers, with infinite Clouds :) For sothing An| fwers his Expectation , who either

uh | kaows not, or firives to compel Nasure,

For that [he ( 4 learnedly

Raymund) will not be enforced, er

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But hethat covets after

Fame, by the Honor of the Art, or te reach the Summity thereof = let himfirft obferve , and obfequioujly follow Nature Naturalizing, Propagating, Multiplying, and being the

WMiftref-and Guide, ssuft refemble

| Artin what fheis able; which alshoughin divers things it be a Cor-

recirix, and help of Nature, whilft it cleanfeth her from all Errors and Defilements, and being hindred in (Motion; is holpen by it 5 yet is zt imposible [he fhould be zmitated tn all things. 29% >;

For,as inthis Divine Work (uot un

_ ‘Tothe Reader.’ much as: | sndefervedly {0 called, inaf ,that ers itaffirmed of all Philofoph without? | f, fel never any Man of him ld co mpres | | Divine Infpiration, Couit, though | hend, or underftand t Learned: \hi otherwifeheappeared amo(other Com- >| philofepber :) $0, 1” all Mixture,’ |h pound Boaies, in the firftts (thasl. or Compofition of Elemen fe of Mo- ql may conceal the occult cau weight

tion and Conjunction’) the ement, and proportion of every ElSecret of ave utterly unknown. T hat on NaSecrets, beffowed by God upefrill ve= | pi sure in the Beginning , phd hall fo; sains in ber own Power, an s Perantil the end of the World'f ithad | haps, left Mortal Men (i Vi

elated by been made known to them) vils, | the infolence and pride of Deich t Ur fhould prefume to Create, wh #n~ roper to Goa onely ; who by the

hath foeakable Power of his word,ifter) ie endued Nature ( a8 bis Min atitn, 40 with the Generation, Propag AG |

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To the Reader,

and Multiplication, of all things, | For. when he infpired in. things

wt) | Created the Generation of the World

| (faying, Encreafe: and Multiply ;) yh Ae gave alfo a certain Springing or

wh (Budding , [that w, Greennef, or — me \Strength, |whereby all things mul-

\tiply thensfelves (whence fome more wl \profoundly contemplating,{aid,That yo all things were greens whereas to

be green, may be {aid to encreafe, )|4na grow up together,) and that mt tifleceennef they called Nature, ThereNe \fore 2t 4s not without canfe, that the

Ina prime Philofophers do {0 feck after,

(yp and facrifice to Nature : when withpy jout ber help, Art (in this knewledg) Wid performs nothing. Nor any wonder, iy \af the moft Learned Englifh Monk,

gis |[ERoger Bacon,} writ of the won-

pis erful Power of Nature; and the yy |marvellous:Secrets in Art, Nor

push|dath Parmenides :lef admire. the

ords, te) |ower of Nature; [1m thefew°over-

it|© that'Heavenly Nature,

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ruling, and excelling the Natures of Truth, and caufing them'to’ rejoyce. This is that fpecial and Spiritual Nature, to whom ‘God gave a Power, above the violence’ of Fire; and therefore let us mag~ nifie it,feeing that nothing is more Pretious ! J

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Therefore (Friendly: Reader) J |

recommend tothee, andthe Sons of |!

Art, this Lady of Honor, without which we attain not, (or perfect any

thing in) this Art, that (0 it may be your work, and chief (tudy to obtain her Friendfhip, (0, aswhen an occafion ferves, ye maybe found Fudges, not Fugelersof Nature and Vk :

Art.

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For which caufe Ihave writ this | little Trac# ; [ viz. My Fafciculus | Chemicus ;] wherein I have given | youthe more abjtrufe Secrets of Na-

tire, chofen, culled; compacted, ana |

digefted in no ordinary manner, as

being arenowned Speculum, whofe |

vefulgéent,

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To the Reader.

| refuleent , and. reflecting Beams \make known,the unknown Secrets of

| Nature, taking original from the of |Chaos, proceeding to the Separationof Light from Darkne.; and by | |the Degree of Perfection (Art handinc it) the Foot-path is manifefted, and chalked out 5 whereby Nature | ts'at laft brought to more Perfection.

Which Book indeed, although per-

haps tt may be looked upon, by many, as.athing of no.value, becaufe st \confifts ( forthe moft part). ofthe

) |fayings of Philofophers, .digefted

onely in order, (yet is it no cafie bufi-

nes, when as David Lagneus swit-

nelfes.of himfelf, in. his Epiftle.to \|4is Harmonious

Chymiftry whilft

hewas Counfellor and Phyfitian to ahis 226 90/8 Chriftian King 5. That he f{weat. with continual Labor, -for

j| twenty. twoxyeers } until: hé had

compofed (4t:ay be) fuch another little Trac&t,), Astonching the Me-

thod of this Work:; 4t contaizs ten »

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Divine Counfel fo difpofing wt) to

finde all things orderly writ. Some

Chapters alfo are noted, not onelyy with Titles ({carce hitherto heard of)

but rare T hinges, Poeven the: Secrets

of the: Art laidvopen, J which (as _ wery many. affirm.) oaght nor tobe publifbed. But in the endof every)

Chapter, T have briefly comprized, and expounded the extracted Mar.) vow thereof. ‘Otherwife (as Senior} faithy Tf:T did novexpound: fome thing» out’ of them’, my ‘Book fliduld’be the fame, with the Book!

of. chofe Wife men,and my words seas

theirs

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theirs’ and;asif I had taken theit

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:| words, and tifed them forimyown,

) which were both unworthy’) :and

a ‘difgrace to’ him ‘that fhould BOLO. .

But the Authors I have pro-

cd duced,

whofoewer hath read them,

ein.) WILL wot deny; but thar hey ave the

| Chotceftthe'moft Acute, and Ap(ih) proved ; andshat the things felectyt ed and culled from their Writings, Some pare [uch onely, as muff neceffarily antl beknown ; That fo Art maybe made known in things requifite, and the Hi)||frivolous omitted , by which many finehs p(Ashave

been feduced from the way of whileft onely it behooves the entry Intelligent Reader , to diftinguilh

‘tot | Trath,

etd,| Lrath from Falfhood. For the Trath Mi % not otherwife hid in their Wriseni tings thenWheat amoncft the Chaff, font}the which with Labor and Toil I Book ‘have found out, and here prefented,

Bodk (Vamasked and Naked) to theStuors dious Readers forthe Publike good helt} Hoping, |

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Tothe Readet.

Hoping, that this my Labor will not onely be ufeful to the younger Proficé- | ents.but even grateful to the Learned themfelves ; And which I defire gou may all of you, fairly, and freely accept of. Farewel.

Frommy Study at Mufco, the |-

Calends of March. 1629-

ARTHUR DEE | Doctor of pr. Phyfick, ©

Chymicall Gollettions, CHap.

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Natarall Matter, what itis, ana -

from whence.

AHN truth the matter OF persis yw which

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the Stone is Bom.

made, is onely ones

(ae nor can this neigh-

fre ~ bouring Faculty bee |found in any other thing.. And tt is that’ whichis moft like to Gold, |itis alfothat of which tt is begot-

ner of operating is onely one, but B iv

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hers, therefore no wonder if the

Art be difficult, and the Artifts greatly erre. Nevertheleffe Art begets Medicine from the fame, or altogether the like principles, as Nature begets metalls. Petras Bomus, page 120.

Ainolaus.

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The Vive Argent is compounded with Citrine Sulphur, fo that they are changed and become the —

{ame in one mafle Lucide Red, |

weighty , of which two kindes are _ fufficient for the compofition of — the Elixir. He therefore that de-—

fires to fearch into the fecrets of |

this Art, itis fit he know the firft | matter of Metalls, left he lofe his |, labour. Arnoldus lib.de Alchimia,

Petrus Bonis,

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Art willing to follow Nature inquires out her end, and findes | thefe principles congealed by Na-_ ture into this middle Nature, and not impure ; and endevours to di-. geft |

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| geft.and purifie fuch aMatter with the heat of Fire} that from thence

| fhe might draw the form of Gold, | with which all imperfeé metals | areturned into Gold,in asmuch as they are ordained by nature to ‘| this’end, Petrus Bonns p.105.

_ We fay that the whole is but one thing, which ts varied into the

| number of three,by its operations, and in varying by one decoétion is

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after this pafling by degrees to information, élanother digeftion it will be anot er thing, which we call Argent Vive, Earth, Water, and Ferment, Gumm and our fecond Salfature, bitter and fharp, which by itsCompound virtue and propriety got by the fecond digeftion, doth loofe the whole body, and after by another digeftion hatha greater force: And fo thou maift underftand that in our Magifteriall there are three proper B 2

Earths,

Lulisis.

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Earths, thiee Waters, and three

proper Ferments ; three proper Gumms, three -Salfatures, three Argent Vives Congealing, as in our Practife is manifeft. Ludi The0riCA P.109.

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Such a Matter muft be chofen in which is Argent Vive, spurte, clean, clear, white,and red,and not brought to perfection, but equally and. proportionably mixt by adue meane} with fuch a fulphur, and congealed into a folid Maffe, that by our difcretion and prudence,and our artificiall Fire, we may. attain its inmoft purity, that eer the erfection of the work it may bea Thoufand Thoufand times {tronger then fimple bodies digefted by naturall heat. Tasladanus pag.314If we had Sulphur and Mercury from that matter upon the Earth, of whichGold and Silver are made under the Earth, from them we could eafily make Gold and. Silver, |

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ver,.with the propriety of their own nature. Therefore there is nothing farther requifite, but that.we

finde what is neareft- to. it, of its

own nature. Mercury in all Elemented. fubftances 1s,one.and the | fame; which Mercury is indeed.

| naturall heat, which produceth as well Vegetables as Minerals, al-

) though diverfly according to the | command of Nature: And fo our

Mercury never is vifible, but intel-

| ligible only, and fo itis. manifeft, that itis inevery thing and every } place,hence common toall things.

Lull Godicillas pag.131.

In our Stone,there are the Sun, F lamelins. and the Moon vive, and they,can , generate: other. Suns and other Moons + other ‘Gold and Silver,

to thefe, are dead. Flamelit Annotationes,,pag.138-

The Philofophers Stone is found created, by nature and our Mercury, viz. the matter.in which the By ~Phi-

Rof.Philof.

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Philofophers Mercury is contained,is that whjch nature hatha little wrought and framed in a Metallick form, but yet left imperfect. | Rof. Philof. pag.231ripleus.

yogt.

I faw ared Toad drinking the

juyee of Grapes even till his Bowels were burft. Riples Somnium.

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~ Art following Nature will not —

ufe Argent vive alone,nor Sulphur —

alone, nor Argent vive and Sul- \

phur together; but the fame Matter mixt and compounded of the — fame Principles, which Nature — hath prepared for Art, like acare- | full Mother for herDaughter.And ]} hath conjoyned them from the be~ | ginning of the generation of Me- — tals not otherwife, as in Milk,But- | ter, Cheefejand Whay.But after- Ji wards Art feparates and fequefters | it, and again joyns and digefts it, being purified by the addition of. ft only : Nature operaheat d outwar ting from within, untill that out- | ward § | bi

Chymicall Collections. | ward Sulphurbe divided from the + | Argent.vive. Vogelins pag.105.

| . Think with thy felf whereto Baftias , |thou wouldft labour to bring our” | Stone, then fhalt thou know, it

he ||flows ftom no other then a certain . |Metallick Radix ; from whence al-

|fo Metalls themfelves are ordained at |by the Creator. Bafilins Valentiiit Was page 15. | When I fpeak of Mercuriall wa- ¢/ango; | ter, doe not underftand Crude 3.

|Mercury, but the Philofophers re |Mercury of a Red fubftance,drawn . from Mineralls, having the matter Hin themfelves, from: Sulphur and. .}Mercury, and that Argent vive .jand Sulphur are one» thing, and .|proceed from one thing, therefore .}whiten the Leton, viz. Brafle with Mercury; becaufe Leton is of the sit,;oun and Moon, acompound Cif)trine imperfect body, which when

.|thou haft whitened &c. Clanger

| Baccing pag.503.470-

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The Philofophers Gold and. | it

Silver, are ‘two principall °Tin- | cures, red and'white,buried in one |

& the fame body, which "Tinétures 1 can never naturally come’ totheir | perfee complement, yet they ‘are | feparable from ‘accidentall droffe, — and earthly lutofity,’ and after- ' wards by their proper‘qualities in | their pure Earths the tin¢tures red _and white are found commixtable,

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them, fo that they may in'a'man- }« ner, be faid to wantno other'thing.

OF. this very: Body the matter of f the Stone, three things are chiefly fpoken, viz.. The green Lien, Afja | foctida,and white Fume, but thisis | inferred by the Philofophers ftom the Compound, that they might anfwer the foolifh according’ to tlicir own folly, and deceive them. by the. divers ‘multiplicity of names: But doe thou always un-| derftand one thing to be really:in- ' Vi tended,

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) tended, although ' accidentally it |three things may be fo called. For the green Lyon, Affa foetida, and white Fume, are altogether attributed.to.one and the fame fubject, and are always coucht inone and

the fame fubject, untill by Are | made manifeft. By .the green Lyin} ‘on, allsPhilofophers 'whatfoever }. underftood, green Gold, multipli| cable, f{permatick, and not yet per-

‘| fected by Natureshaving power to | reduce Bodies into theirfirft matii} ter, and to fix volatile and fpirituof} all chings,and therefore not unfitly iy) called a Lyon.By Affa foetida, we | underftand:a certain unfavory Osis} dor, exhaled from the unclean bo| dy in the ‘firft operation, which

tt} may in’ all things be likened to

y) ftinking Afffa feetida. The reafon

| why itis called white Fume isthis: i} Inthe firft diftillation, before the ) Red Tincture afcends,. there arifes

‘i-) & fmoak truly white) whereby the pe | | re~

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receiver is darkned or filled with a |

certain milky fhadow, whence it | receives the name of Virgins milk. |

Therefote where ever thou findeft | 7

a fubftance endowed, with thefe three properties, know that it is the matter of the Philofophers Stone.

Dunflan.p4.3. : Clangor Buccineg.

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‘Therefore: let us take a matter §

which will be Gold, and which by the mediation of our skill is broughtinto.a true ferment. ClazZor, pag.510. . The matter of Metallsis acertain fmoaky fubftance, anditis the firft matter of Metalls, containing init felf an un@tuous or oyly moifture, from which fubftance the Artift feparates the Philofophicall humidity, which is fitfor the

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work, which will beas clearas a |

water drop, inwhichiscouchtthe metallick Quinteflence, and thatis placable Metall,and therefore hath inita meane of Joyning Tinctures toge-

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It. .

The thing whofe head is Red, pein, it eet White, and eyes Black, is the the whole Myftery, Daftin, vifto.p.2...

Knowthat our Leton’is Red, movies.

put not for our ufe, untill it. bee made White. Morienus p.38. | When thou wouldft. haveMine- Line. is |rall Elements, take not of the firft, nor laft, becaufe the firft are too much fimple , but the laft, too

-\profie. When thou art hungry, take Bread, not Meal; when thou would{t make Bread, take Meal, i. (notthe Ear. Lallius Theor.p.34. | There is a pure Matter, which gximedes.

nh Jisthe Matter of Gold, containing

in it felf, the heat which gives increafe,and hatha power to increafe and multiply in its kinde, as all ois |ther things. Exsmedes, p.45.

In-our imperfe& Metall, are the armold.

Sunand Moon, in «virtue and neer pow-

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power, becaufe: if they were not fii

in the Compound, neither the Sun) nor Moon could thence.be ‘made. } <a Arneld, Epiff.pag.qgtenrio Lillins 9; Mercuryi is'in’all Elemented) Subftances,» one and the’ fame s jf ‘\ which Mercury is indeed: the ina- joi curall heat:which productsias well ji Minerals as: Vegetables; although Inj ' diverfly according to the precept ry of Nature»)and fo our: Mercury is}iy not vifible but intelligible; and it}

is manifeft; that it is inevery thing} and place,and common to all. LulLit Codic.fol,t34. Repelat.6s

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“THE COROLLARY. | on Vogelius,'Trevefanus; with divers other Philofophers advife, firfl Serioufly toconfider in what point Authors moft-agree, for in it they

affirm, the onely and fingletruth4s§ | sinvoluedsTé me therefore, meditad ty vting this: from the moft. [elect ne tap NM

tors.

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hors; recited with their. Harmony,

voth im the:Subftance, Form, and. '|\Colour, and in all necefary Circuns®

Fances and Accidents; was difcove> |ed (by Divine afsiftance) the Sab| ect of all wonder (as Cornelius A-

‘prippa rightly cals it) in open and waked words. It ts therefore gene=

tally agreed, and of all confe(fed,

hat thereis one viveor volatile

|Argent, retaining 4 certain Vegeta-

\Nalety, while it is yet im motion, not brought to maturity, or the determi

ysate term of natarall digeftion in

the Mines, And the (ame is immaturate Argent vive (not that Mature if the vulgar) which is next to Mejall in pofsibility , and therefore of Home is cabled Immature Metall. AcWording to Arnold, Riplie, Dun| pithtan, Morien, ad Clangor Bucci} } i

tinge, it 2s cloathed with a Red co-

Wour, offered or brought tous by Naimture, but ifit be not by the Artift takenfrom its Radix in a due time, VIZ.

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viz. beforeit cometo {ach maturity; \) as tocontain one grain of Malleable\w.

Metall, it will be unfit for our pur-| |

pofe. Seek therefore the Philofophick ji Embryoninits due place, and ma-\Ki

tureimmaturity, and you fhal know \\0t

(as Rofarius (aith)our Stone is found |W created of Nature, which truly is to} \ be underftood of the matter of thei Stone compounded by Nature, anal |i formed into a Metallick form,but gewen to Art imperfect, that by de-\M: grees it might be brought beyond the) | Jho degree ofperfection.

Cuap.

IL.

The Preparation : or the firft work, Wi or work of the Winter, |i

[iis isthe Preparation,becaufe) § there are blinde men, and they] have erred. a long time, while they n

were ignorant that this Scone was} tt pre-| . |

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TS

prepared with this preparation. Se707, Po 3.

|

If the firft work proceed not, P+.

Whow is the fecond attained to?

‘Becaufe, if no divifion be made, there is no conjunction. Daftiné \Speculum, pag.56.

|

| We muft begin with the fepa- 47. fication of the Elements, from the wi)Red earth, as of the pure from the igh impure. Arnoldus in Hortulanum,

N dt)PAZ.D»

)

Thou muft diligently confider, ?adolp”

show this diffolution may be made,

jand certainly know, thatit is not idone, but by the water of Mercuity; and know, thatevery body is idiffolved with the fpiric, with which it is mixt, and. without idoubt is made fpirituall. Pandolphusin Turba, pag.16.

Son of Truth, underftand, that 2“.

ywe inthe firft operation of our work, doe purgeand prepare matater for the creation of its Sulphur; which

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which béing prepared, by and by |

in the fecond preparation, wee compound and create medicine, }tt which how great virtue it hath, | will be manife(t. Therefore firft |W thou muftcreate its Sulphur, be- | caufe without that, thou canft not | pi make the compleat Elixir, And }{0 when thou haft created Sulphur; } tl then begin the Philofophick work; { but everconfider, that the nature | ti and propriety which is in the very ut

“ fpirit, may not be combuft inits” preparation by the power of the

fire. Becaufe then the fpirit cannot J tt whiten, ‘nor joyn it felf with the}i Earth: Therefore it often happens; } | that they who think to make water }tt

of life; make water of death, by }iw reafon of combuttion. Lulliz Apers }tr

_

andy, '

«b0r18m, ps2.

4

The Veffels fo difpofed, a moft} ix

fubtill fmoke will arifein the Ax }

lembick, and the fame will be tur-§ t ned into'a-clear water, having the} i BW,

nature

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by nature of thele {pecies, whereof the ite) Stone is generated: which Water in) defcends by the Nofe of the Alem-

th) bick. -Arneldus in Comment. Horut], talanz. p.16. .

The Phlegm wherein our Sul- Lo. be-

otf} phur, which is called Gold, is de-

indi) cocted, is thatin which Air is inbuy) Cluded : for our Phlegm is 4 mid-

okt) dle fubftance; and the firft water

tel) Of Mercury, wherein the principle very) OF the Stone is; vz. its diffoluti-

nits!) Ons nordothit enter with it, but

‘thy, aS it were wetting the parts of not) things, not generating or increa-

the fing. Luilit Tefiain.pag.t.

| Itis méet thou dia prepare the Mat : tulind: leat ic be fit to receive our Merwitty ter, till ,by Cury, which we call glorious MerJr, CULY 5 and. the manner is, That —=

|thou take a proportion of the faid not! Barth; and put upon ict the fourth

« AM) part of the faid imperfectMenftru-

tity, Um wherein is fuch a Mercury,and 5 hy fet it ina Balneo for the {pace of fix 0

C

days;

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done at the firft or fecond times therefore putit again and again in - the Balneo for the fpace of fix days, in a Glaffe very wellfealeds after that open the veffell, and fetting the Alembick on again,

|¢

} fir | } iy } i ) »} Wi

with a moft gentle fire diftill the |}1

humidity; and again pour on more _}jig of its Menftraum, which hath its } jy feed in it, and digeft itas aforefaid, || |

‘and fo continue untill the Earth be } \y

difpofed to entertain its foul. Son, 4 jj

it isto be obferved, whenit fhall } ly

drink up and retain four parts more }

ofits weight, that if thou putalit- 7 | tle upona heated plate of Gold or 9 jj Silver,itwill all fie up into fmoke:

}

then is theEarth pregnant and pre- i pared, which ought. to be fublimed. Lul.Tef. pag.15.

B

eafir. BE Firft,all che {uperfluous and cor- i lofoph. =XUpt humidity in the effence of f 4

j

thofe }

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It} thofe things, and alfo the fubtill

0} and burning fuperfluiry mutt be |elevated with a proportionable Fire,and that by Calcining. Then |the totall fubftance remaining corrupt in the Calx of thefe Bodies of the burning fuperfluous. humidity | and blacknefle, is to be corroded with the aforefaid Corrofives, a|Cute or acerb, untill the Calx bee of) made white or red. Rofar. Philof.

IS) pag.345.

id,

Our Mercury is made of perfect scala, bt bodies, and not imperfect, that is, on) with the fecond Water, after they hall} have been duly calcin’d by the orth firkt. Scala, pag.128.

It behoveth thee to extract one Artepheuss alt dot living or vive incombuftible Waokt: | ter, and then congeal it with the pits perfect body of the Sun, which eib | ven there is diffolved into nature, } and a whitecongeéaled fubftance,as con if it were Cream, and would comé com all white: Nevertheleffe, firft this hole pas

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Sun

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Sun in his putrefaction and refolution in this Water in the beginning lofes his light; is obfcured and waxeth black; at length he will elevate himfelf above the Water,& by little and little, a white colour will {wim above him, and fo the perfect body of the Sun receives life, and infucha Water is inlive-

ned, infpired, increafed and multiplied in his {pecie,asother things : Therefore our Water isa Fountain

fair, pleafant and clear, prepared onely for the King and Queen,

whom it very well knows,and they it, for irattraéts them to it elf, and they remain two or three days to wath themfelves in that Fountain,

viz. fome moneths; and thefe it

makes to grow young,and renders them very beautifull.

Thefe three things mutually follow, viz. Humidity, Putnidity, -

and Blackneffe ; from whence the |

glaffie houfe may be pofted, and fubtil-

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i» | fubtilly fited untill the moift Mat-

} ter included, by little and little became putrid and black, for the putrefaction begins together with } the folution, but the putrefaction | is not yet compleat, untill the | whole Matter be diffolved into | water. Artephus pag.g.

_| _ Oneof the contraries exceeding Daftix. .} deftroies the reft, whence the

.} Earth is made Water, when the

| Watry qualities overcome it, and On the contrary, this Water muft | draw forth three things, viz. a | Spirit,a Body,and a Soule, whence

| this Water is threefold in Na-

, | ture, which, hathin it felf Water, )} Fire, and Earth. We divide the

| diffolved Stone in the Elements, | and wafh it particularly, that ic } it might be more fubtilized, and | the better purified, and that at pleafure the Complexion might | be more firmly compofed, but we

, »diftill it very often, as the Water |

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throws off all fuperfluities from its | | work, as Nature doth. For Fire extracts that which exifts in the

interiours of things, and feeds on che fulphuriry of them, fubtilizing and rarifying at pleafure. And | therefore we diftill them, that ])

we might fweetly draw out their filth. But we doe it fweetly and | with inhumation, left the exceflive Fire confume the fought for fab-— tilties. Whence in every diftillati- A by on obferve this fier, that univer- ll

fally there be candour and purity init, and whatfoever drops forth unmixt, put apart, becaufe the work is corrupt if thou doe otherwife. ‘Therefore we fo much diftill

| | || § |

it, untill it {end forth no dregges, | unleffey > | a

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we iterate feven.times, that in their fimple purity they might tranfcend the orders of the {even Planets.

For it is meet they be moft pure ) and clean, which by their purity thould cleanfe and perfec other | things. And according to the quantity of diftillation they. will ) beclear, and according to the plu| tality of clearnefs,they will cleanfe and touch other things. Whence it ought to be diftilled feven times;

hit | what is more is evil, becaufe as di-

} minution hinders,fo augmentation

In the fourth diftillation folif lows the Lavement, thatits every

wet) Element might be rectified feve-

iyp tally, whence we diftill the Water

ptijand Aire feven times by them‘theffelves, But thou shale diftill all {things with moifture, becaufe driitilfnefle corrupts the work with com-

eputtion: And the -Philofophers

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advife

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advife that every diftillation be al-

‘ ee (NOL,

ways made feven days with inhumation, meaning that inhumation be made feven days between every diftillation. Daftin: fpec. paz.96. h thee to exercife the It behovet : feparation of the Elements. as muchas thou att able, to wath off the Water and Air by diftillations, and to burn up the Earth by Calcination, untill there remain not

any, thing of the Soul in the Body, unleffe what may not be perceived in the operation, the fign of which will be; when nothing fhall be evaporated from the Body, if a little ofitbe put upon a heated | plate. Rofar. Arnold, pag.423.

ay

|p: MaffaSolis As an Infant exhaufts allairy the and , moneths é Lime, Vapoursinnine “~~ menftraum turned into ‘a milky | form: fo in nine moneths the firft | work is performed, wiz. the fe- § cond whitenefle,becaufe the whole | iscoagulated: Nevertheleffe the. work§ BS iby }

\ 1]

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: | according to the Experience of the ) Author, but according to Balgus ') | *én Terbainan hundred and ninety

_

| days. Maffa Solis ce Luna, pag. | 275. ek not the water be fuffered to 'f) ftand when it is fit for operation,

* Pag.429:

| becaufe it receives its Curd into } the bottome, crudled or coagula| tedby the cold of the Aire, and

| congealing drieth ;which hapned dj to one of my Companions, who | for the {pace of a year found it fo, |but it was not diftilled. maffa So| lis & Lune. pag.274.

3 | Nofolution ought to be made Refer.

| without Blood, proper or appro- * biltioetp

iyi) priate, w2z. the Water of Mercu-

| ry, whichis called the Water of ) the Dragon,and that Water ought ) to be made by an Alembick with| out the addition of any other | thing. Rofar.Philof.p.223. ! ‘The. whole courfe of the work ie “hes endures

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endures for the {pace of two years, jou

whence the Stone is of one year, Ag

and the Elixir of another. toevery jj new Artift who never made it,but | ] to every. good and expert Artift |

who is fubtile, one year and three moneths are accounted fuflicient, | For by what itis corrupted, in like | manner it is generated, Lul, Theo. p-76Ventura.

Accommodate well the Fire in |

the furnace, and fee thatthe whole | Matter be diflolved into Water, | then rule it with agentle Fire, untill the greater part be turned into | black duft.. Becaufe

when

our |

Stone is in our veffell, and our |i Matter feels our Sun,it will pre- |

Rofarius Philof.

fently be refolved into Water.Veu- | turd P.129Putrefaction is. made with a |

moft gentle Fire, fo that nothing § | may afcend, becaufe if any thing |

fhould afcend; there would be ‘ «made. a feparation of parts, which

ought |

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(a,iline and Feminine are perfectly joyned. Rofar, Philof.paz.261.

The encompaffing frigidity of

tithe Aire, the binding folidity of jthe Earth, the diffolving heat of ithe Fire, the impetuofity and reftlleffe motion of the. Water, and lexceeding quantity of Multitude idoc hinder Putrefaction (as Ariftoinele faith.)

But the calidity of the Air, the fubtility of Matter, the gentle-

.|nefle of the Fire, the ftability of

Reft,the equality of Compounds,

ithe gravity of Patience, the matu-

tity of Time, do neceffatily induce ‘Vand haften Putrefaction; yeti fo,

that the Ait be tempered, wwhat is ithick fubtilized, the Fire modera-

ing

ted, Reft preferved,’ Proportion FAdequated, Patience ftrengthened, ing }2nd the time expected until Nature

sproceeding naturally {hall have jcompleated. her owne >worke.

Dafiin

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Daftin (pec. pag. 184.

OurWater mutt be divided into |,

two parts, whereof in onepart the |,/ Body is congealed, viz. with feven Imbibitions and Congelations, but in the other part it putrefies and melts,that the fieryWater abovefaid might be caft forth.

Scala Philof.pa.t5%.

len |) |j }, },.

7;

If the work in its managing be }..

deduced to the finall red ftate, by ey corruption before the duc term of I. whiteneffe (which it may not be) jy,

thou haft erred; then for a reme- § | dy take away the redneffe with } :

freth white Water, by imbibition and inhumation. Idem.

My | }

Lillins. . There are three Humidities, the |i

firft is Water, the fecond is Aire,

(the mean between Water andOil) Y

the third is Oil-ir felf. The Water J.”

is diftilled to the likenefle or fign| | of perfect whiteneffe, which 1s: i tranfparent fplendour, and the i

fhining clearneffe of cryftall; 4 C

{

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ine that attains to this Token hath the Philofophers Mercury, diffoling all Bodies, chiefly of the Sun ind Moon, becaufe of the vicinity }pr nearneffe of Nature. Lw/. Co-

‘Wic.p.119. | } In our whole Magifteriall there rydins,

ire three principall Spirits necef-

lary, which without the confum-

ination of their refolution cannot pe manifefted, and they are otherwife called three Argent vives,and

; gor Argent vive underftand the

“WNater in which the Tinéture is pattied. Raymund,.Theor.p.122.24. | If you will hear me,I will truly fnew what is that Mercury chiefly brofitable: know therefore that | ‘here are three Mercuries which

Atte the Keys of Science whom Raymund cals his Menftrua, withpat which nothing is done rightly, ‘itiput two of thofe Mercuries are luperficiall, the third Effentiall of ‘he Sun and Moon,perfeé Bodies when

Ripleus.

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Vt, when we firft Calcine them natus) rally, but no unclean Body is in be

gredienced except one, which ig (lm commonly called of the Philofo-} \ phers, The green Lion, which is Mat the mean of joyning Tinéturess}ot With thefecond Mercury, which

is vegetable Humidity, both the|Con Principall, Materiall, and Formallibir bodies ought tobe refolved,other-jprk

wife they are of little momeritalm And withthe third, which is Hu‘ 3 midity, very permanent and in-ftie. combuttible, the unétuous Tret}iil of Hermes is burnt into Afhes. Ré-joir Vy pley pa25ary there | Sons of Wifdome, tatertus three folutions, the firft is of qiis crude Body, the fecond is of a Phi}

lofophicall Earth,the third we puis

in Augmentation. The Virgin ial Mercury, becaufe it never propa} | gated a body in the Womb of thi} by Earth, and yet it generates th} Stone for us,by refolving the Heafia

Venih16

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3L

jbringeth forcha Soul. ncertus de

‘a

iChemia. pa.6. ) Metals ate reduced tothe firft Ventura

@Matter, when they are drivenback, fro that firft fimplicity, \which jtheix Elements had in their firtt Compofition, in which there were jpirits and Vapours by nature jperfectible. to the form of the

74°

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|

} The Preparation of -this Spirit, ool isits fubtilation, which. is perfor-

med by many. diftillations, |untill

‘hath gottencryftalline fplendour

rongand Clearnefle. Vogel.p.148. | Keep the rectified Water apatt, ariftarle.

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peidivm

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The whole labour and tediouf= | 1 =

| feis in this, viz. the feparation }it of the Elements and Sulphur. Ait} cannot be divided from Metals, jim unleffe by the twentieth, twenty ft fecond, or thirtieth diftillation.|cx

And the Fite may be divided fron} ai

the Barth at the eleventh diftilla- jim tion, ‘arid as many diftillations as} th there are, fo many putrefactions }i and reiterations of Water and Air jini together,to wit, of our Menftruall |fir water, and every putrefaction re=) quireth eight days, or fix continu- | ed, fo that the divifion of the Ele-} t

ments, dures the {pace of an year,| tr but we have compleated it in fever} moneths. Lull, compend.pa.28i. | l The Alchymifts have faid that) the Stone is compounded of two} Waters, viz. of one which makes} the volatile Stone, and the other}

hi t | »

which fixes and hardens it. Jdem. | »

Avicenna.

Between every Calciniation of} | the Earth, pour on water mode-J 1 ratelys)

Chymicall Collections. oulyi rately, to wit, not much nor little tin becaufe if much,there’s made a fea Af |of pexturbation, if little, it will be tf] burnt upinto athes. But fweetly, eit not haftily, from eight days to tion] eight days,by watering decoding,

from) and calcining the Earth, till ic hath

illagl imbibed its Water; therefore when

| the Earth fhall not be white, bray

lio it together with its Water,iterate

{Aland calcine it, becaufe Aroc and inal Fire doe wath the Earth, and take

nt away its obfcurity from its for {indgl Its preparation is always withWaFl) ter, and as the fitnefle of the Wayeu ter fhall be, fo alfo thall be the fi clearnefle of the Earth, and by how much the more the Earth Bi fhall be white,é&cc. Avicenna pag.

| | fen] 420,421. to extract s not h know whic He na]. i

| more things out of one, is igno-

# rant alfo to compound one thing y of more. Our feparation isafepa| ration of 2 watry.or moift, vapour Or | D

Scala.

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or phlegme in Balneis,alevigation of rarity, a production of princi« ples. Scala.p.134.

Imbibe Calx or Body often-

|| } fj | })

times, that thence it may be fub- Jj)

limed, and yet more purified then before, becaufe the Calx afcends upwards very difficultly or not at all; unleffe holpen by the Spirit.

| jj |, ]hy |j

Geber. lib. [fumme perfectionis pag. \ Y7FZ2 V eu iti te

vies

The Veflell being fitly placed in

Abo

the Furnace, the Fire underneath |), muft be continued, then the Va- | pour of the Matter will afcend up- § wards into the Alembick

moft }

fubtilly, and the fame will be tur-_ ned into ferene bright and cleare Water,having the form of a water | drop, and the Nature of all the }},

fpecies of which it is generated , and it defcends again by the

Crows beak, thatis, the Neck of | the veffell of the Alembick; and

this Water, becaufe it is fubtile, | ~

doth |

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doth enter the Body, and extract firft the Soule, afcerwards it dif-

| folves all that is lefc, and turns it t | into Water. Moreover know that

‘Jalil things which are fublimed are |fublimed two ways, fome by | themfelves,and fome with others;

{ty} but our Mercury fince it is a Spi| rit, is fublimed by it felf, but our } Earth, fince it is the Calx of the } Body,isnot fublimed, unleffe ve| ry well incorporated with Mercu| ry. Therefore beatorpound them tf together, and imbibe till they be-

‘H come one Body, becaule the Body | afcends not unlefie incorporated | with Mercury. Ventura p.14t.

Diffolve the Gold and Silverin vogel.

W Water of their kinde if thou know | it. Vogelinsp.78.

And this isthe laft Preparation, azafasolis | viz, of Spirits often reiterated by & 4m Contrition and Affation with their

ij Body, untill thou fee thefe things | which thou defireft in it.

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Solis c Lune pag. 240.

:

Affutte. —Sons of Learning, know ye that | the whole Work,and the Govern-

:

will eafily be made Water. Atfli- | dies in Turba.p.22.

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From a certain Minerall Maffe,| coagulated, lucid, red, ponderous, \ i being perfect Metall, in the neareft| power, containing init felfe vivetlin (permatick Sulphur, and vive im-\w mature Mercury, multiplicable in it in felf, withthe moft gentle fire of at Balncum, or Bath, is drawn forth a} i certain infipid, phlegmatick Wa-

ter, whichif it be again repoured

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yjand little (but yet more and more) ithe Body, it diffolves likewife the itother Elements, and by including | Aire init felf, carries it up by di-

wl telling through an Alembick, the

thy Water and Aire ought again to be fo holeoften poured on, digefted and abftra; aed till the Body be altogether reae by repeated diftillations and \inhumations. Then after the fourth |diftillation, the Aireis tobe feparaited from the Water, and to be rectiM} :

|fied by it felf(even times with which lafterwards abjtract the Fire from ithe black Earth, Laftly,feparate the Fire from the Aire. And as length

ail

ingdmpregnate

the dry Earth

(de-

yi prived of its humidity by imbibing) ifo often. with Aire, untill light arife from darkueffe, and our Infant uy appear before our eies, expected by | more then many lucabrations, which |

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at

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the ‘fecond work tr1lly Philofophicall, as in thefe words our Conntreyma 1 Norton the excellent Philojopher

hath expreft : Our Philofophicall work (fart he) takes not its begin ning before all be clean within ‘and seinfioit Ana accordingto Attaman,

The fecond weohlé is not

made but froma clean and purified body. And this Preparation, or § firft work he calleth a Sordia ‘Labour,

and adiudces it not worthy a learned i| man, therefore not unfitly faid tobe the work of Women,

But he de- |

ferves not Sweets, that will not | fa

|

taft j

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Heat of Bitters: And they who e7»- ther know not, or neglett this hidden fy laborious Preparation, will neither

ng|attain the benefit, nor defired end of

uthis Art.

But he that doth wot

Wielearly undcrftand, from thefe, the ify weanner of Practife, . let him feek lel further afSiftance from Raymund

inf Lullie, Ripley, Rofary,, whesce inhdtplentifully may be fetched, e(peci-

ally whilft owt of their Writings, Nin this little-Chapter, where, here and there, they have. objcurely deli-

lvered themfelves, the Path it felf

ing as evidently cleared,

‘ ney

Cuap.

III.

The Weight iw Preparation.

ont

tl ie thou knoweft not the quanyi etity of the very Weight, thou

wiltaltogether want the doctrine of this Science. Forget not there-

cEt

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fore, that whatfoever ought to!}Ji diffolve, ought to exceed in the J quantity the thing to be diffolved. | Ijw. But the firft part of the Water | (according to Philofophers)ought!| |r to diflolve the Farth, and turn it!

toits felf. Whence they fay the Jat Waters to bedivided, that with df the firft part in forty days, it’ }di ought to be diffolved, putrefied, }j and coagulated,till it be turned in- | to a Stone, therefore it is meet }

that Water fhould .exceed the j Mi Farth. Daff./pec.p.208.

When be fitthe and when ought to

thou diffolvett, it thall id Spirit exceed the Body, |

thou fixeft, the Body |

exceed the Spirit; for Hd

therefore is the Spirit that it might |

diffolye the Body, and therefore is the Body that it might fix the

Spirit. Therefore thou mutt im- jf

pofe threethirds of Moift, and one. |

of Dry; for inthe beginning of § }

thy operation, help the work in

in

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AI

p4z.96,98.

There is another Weight fingu- grata sotis ;& Lime. sitilar or plurall, and it is twofold tithe firft is of the firft operation, and that is in the Compofition fof the Air, and it is divers according to divers men. Now there

His another Weight Spiritual, of

i: the fecond work, and that is alfo i divers according to divers men.

Ma(fa Solis cy Lune p.177.

h. I fay that the firft Wateris to be paiz, ill divided into three thirds, whereof

| the firft is to impregnate, termi-

f nate, and whiten the Barth, but

§ the two other thirds are referved

ott) to rubifie the white Earth, thatis rte

to be incerated, and laftly to be whitened: But yet no third (as | Democritus upon the Magnefia faith) is ingredienced all at once,

Nine thirds returning to one} Earth, might compleat a perfect}?

Decinary. But the three firfted thirds, are the three firft Salfa-j tures to perform the firft Dealba= ji

tion, but the fix other remaining fit thirds arefix parts of Divine Waterto confume the fecond Deal-j bation. But none of thofe thirds fthin doth altogether

ingredience the Auk

whole,and at once, but every part —ofthem one after another is feverally impofed in their own feafon, work and order. Daftin. (pec. pa.

| | | |i

E77:

Tn

Afmall Error in the principles doth caufe great Error in things ptincipiated ; therefore that thou maift not erre in the firftand fe-

| {i | |

cond work,we have taught always fiy

to impofe Equals, for {fo equality §

fhall flourith in both, that. the

#

ter moiftens s as tke Barth ceafes.

|

Earth might ceafe, as the Wa-_ Idem p.222.

It

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34 Itis fitto attend what belongs gipiy, lo Proportion, for in this many ire deceived, therefore that thou lefmaift not fpoil the work, let thy Bodies be both fubtilly limated ngvith Mercury, and fubtilized with -

qual proportion, oneof the Sun,

idmother of the Moon, till all thefe things be reduced into Duft, then

Inake thy Mercury, of which join four pasts to the Sun, twoto the

4Moon, as it is meet, and. in this manner it behoveth thee thou. be-

‘pzin thy workin the figure of the (Trinity. Three parts. of the Body and as many of the Spirit, and for theUnity of the Spirit, oné. part

more of Spirit then of corporeal Subftance. .According to RayImunds Repertory, this.is the true

iproportion. This very thing my [Doétor fhewed me, but R. Bachon

‘Jtook three parts of the Spirit for Jjone of the Body, for which I have

watcht many nights before I perceived

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ceived it, bothis the right, take’ | dé B)

which thou wilt. If alfothy Wa- Jott ter be equall in proportion with | ah !

the Earth and meafured Heat,there | 0

will at once come forth a new) {ind

Budde both White arid Red. Ré-)} pley pa.30.

Mimdus,

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i

Take of the whiteft Gumme’ one part, and of the Urine of a7 white Calf another part, and part” ofa Fifhes Gall, and of the Body | of Gumme one part, without |i which it cannot be corrected ; and”

decoé it forty days, afterwards

dry it-in the warm Sun till it be}

congealed. Mundus pa.88.

| Ariftotle.

Take thy deareft Son and joyn’ him equally to his white Sifter, drink to them a Love-cup, becaufe the confent of goodwill

J } | }

joins one thing to another. Pour

on them fweet Wine, till they be 4: incbriated, and divided into {mal- }

left parts. Butremember that all J si clean things agree moft aptly with fim \

clean. j

i

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Vclean things, otherwife they will wPeenerate Sons unlike themfelves.

ith| Ara/E. in Tractatule pag.362.

i) §Obferve the firft preparation, mafasolis nprand cogitate this, whichis the ex- © *”"* ‘traction of all Spirits from the !Body, and the cleanfing of them into their Water. Maffa Solis ¢

WLune ps.240. : vi] Thou muft impofe three thirds Pali, oof moifture, and one of dry ; for ominthe beginning of thy operation iifffhelp the work in the Solution by tithe Moon,and the Congelation by ithe Sun. Dajftix (pec. pa.98.

THE COROLLARY Count Bernard Trevifane vowed to God, that he would never in naked words, or vulgar fheech difclofe the Weight, Matter, or Fires, mg, Out onely in true Parables, without | Cither diminution or fuperfluity, in

th 27et ation of the Wife men, as in this |

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Chapter, Amongft others our En- ie glifh Ripley bath delivered things } fofficiently obfcured , But the young- iis

ling Artift ought to ruminate ana’

coufider that what ever are nomina-|

ted inthe compofition of the Weight mist always be underftood of twa ho shines only, viz. of Water andy Earth, which are fometimes undery

Spirit and Body, fometime winder Mtl

Mercury, the Sua and Muon, [ome

times under Air and Poifom, way un= NN der as many infinite other mazes ki concealed, as the very firff Matters i

But that thofe that feck might be di-|Win

rected into the right Path, and Ri-}

pleys cloud difperft-with the beams),

ofthe Sun, let ws attend the proportiay ons which he hath difpofed in thefey

his own words Let the Bodies (/aith (i he) be correéted or limated with] an equall proportion of Mercury

ae a

whence underftand thas the propor-§ t tion of Earth and Water muft be ¥iu

equal, shen he proceeds further ard \{'n

teaches.)

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Heaches, that one Body of the Sun iggpe joyned with two of the Moon,

nie which words are underftood two mp arts of Watertoone of Earth.

He

inqnroceeds alfo farther, and joyns fout

igparts of Mercury to the Sun. and

wo to the Moon; whexzce obferve

pat four and two make fix-parts of

Mier cury, Water, or Fire,which parts naire to be mixt with one part of the

ingle, and another of the Moon,which ance they conftitute two parts of Earth, shere fhall be a like proportimy t0 the aforefaid fix parts, viz. of yyVater , a5 one part of Earth to

RigOree parts of Water.

As Appears

ng 70% bis following werds : viz, af-

jpet this manner begin thy worke

img figure of a Trinity: and with

Mis Key bis other Enigmas of the WieegAti this chapter are unlockt.

Whence alfo the Parables of other Philofophers are difclofed. while

POOR opens Book, and the truth is

§rom them (carce difciphered with|

ous

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out a Vail. For they always deliver) wi

things that be like, and. concealthe di truth, that

they might defervel lu

both to be (aid; and be .Philofo-

phers.

*

kts fi

But fince in Number, Weight,anal

Meafure, all elementated Bodies.of Animals, Vegetables, and.Minerals,

are naturally united, bound, conca-\i

tenated and compounded, and by the Harmony of .thefe all. principsateaiiiy Principles attain the perfection ori dainea, by God, and compleated..byi his handmaid. Natare:. Not unfitl

may this Trinity, vide:of Nueber |i

Weight, and Meafure, be called thiwi

Golden chain, by. which asin alt.A nimals toevery Member is, granted

their (peciall Form, fo by this Chaii every Member is joined, united, ant

A,

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With weight may be particularly obfer ved,

WW alfothe prefixt number of Flowers, ii Leaves, and alfoa due meafure of ‘| Longitude, Latitude, and Prafun= \\fditude, £ven as Minerals and Meiw tals are alfo perfected in a fit proportion of the Weight of Elements |pureorimpure, in a'due meafure of win Teme, and certain Numbers :: By Wiwhich bounds rightly difpofed all juihebings flourifh, but being inordinate jaud confufed, thereis made a Chaos; Tmperfection, and a Diffolution of

wehbe Compound,

For in their Con-

wiuiycatenation and Connexion, is rebuilt dian admirable power of Art and Na= ii tare, neither can Nature her [elf mlyconfif? withour thefe, nor Art perGuiform any thing, Not enviou/ly there-

j,uinfore did the Philofephers wonder ful-

yj conceale the Proportion of the

5(i \Elements, andthe mixture of them

wf iin thelr operation, “as if this being

wp Wenown they had unvatled all thines. pBut ws much as belongs.te cur pur-

E

ples

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principally obferved, to wit, Equals, two. 10 one, three to one, nine to one;

which when and how. they are to be diftinguifbt, our Daftin (4 famous | Philofopher) hath. in thefe words, clearly opened :: When. thou diflol-.__ vet, the Spirit ought to exceed the Body,and when thou doft fx, the Body to exceed the Spirit. Who. |

therefore knows the due time of Pu-. | trefaction to folution,the trme.of Ims=~ \y

‘bibition,Deficcation, Fermentation, \ \o

and Inceration, fhall with eafie pains. |, and [mall endeuour from the fore- |

numbred Proportions, make choiceof . | what is. convenient for every time.

or [eafonof the Work. And hethat hath known the Weight, (as Petrus

},,.

Bonus {aith) hath known the whole } Myftery, and he thatis ignorantof. \,.

it, Lethim leave digging in our \\, ~Bithse M. : Ay

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oaPhatL, AGST Ve tah

aha FF

TV i, Meo SCighanps

: The Philofophers Fire, what? | "Tate “Watct “Proportionated tuilixs.

‘| # in quality according to. the i) Body which thow 2wouldft difI Holve, in fuch a manner, as the nnaturall may not exceed the ty Inaturall heat ; for every complexi-

li tonated thing is deftroyed, unleffe

Melehé Fire! of Nature. govern ite

im \There ‘até three Humidities; the: mnaritis Water, the chief of refol-'

Witvable things; ‘the féecond is Air,’ it Jand itis the meanbetween Water

i Jand Oil’; the third is Oilit elf, the

im Neerative of all Elements; and our it Winall Secret.

Lall, praética fol:

tis Hy 7 5

Wt) > Our-Fire is Mineral, and va- Pontans: tf |poursinot, unleffe it be too much

w Wtitvechup,; whofe proportion mutt

ibe known, that it may only ftir up

Ay ithe Matter; and in afhore time;

:

} 7 4

i

E 2

that

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that Fire without the Impofition

of hands, will compleat the whole: , jj

1 | work. Ponta. 4.403 is... thee fhew we which The Fire senior.

“Water, and our Fire is Fire;and (| not Fire. Sewior.paz.29. > © Dardarius.

Argent vive.isa Fire, burning, __

mortifying, and bicaking Bodies, , jy more then Fire. Darderiusin Turba 113.

hie

HiscaReal

voge. . fay with Ladiws that this Wa- |

ter,orVive Argent is called Fire. jj

jy

of thePhilofophers, not becaufle*

inwardly it is of its own’ Nature, 4) hotter then Oil,or the forementi- ]

‘oned radicall moifture;but becaufe, | in its actions itis more’ powerfull |

then Elementary’ Fire, diflolving, Gold

ruins

without. violence, which}

| Fire cannot doe. Vogel.pa.14500.

Let the Artift well confiderwhat jj ate the powers of Fire snaturall, unnaturall, and againft. nature 5 | and: what«may be the friend,! or |

enemy ofeach, Lull, Codic.p.37- | It |

}y

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eis.

mn | It is fit the heat bé fo much, .as, Ventura. }-hatthou maift by fweating fend Vorththe Water,'and let it be no jvay hardened or congealed}.bef:anfe Gimme, contrary to. the Nature of other things, {weats, iind'is: coagulated. with gentle deHoction. Venturapa.113.

|

‘Philofopheis have four. diffe- %?/0-

lent Fires, viz. Naturall, Unna-

‘Buralls againft Nature,:-and Artif‘fall; whofe divers operations the wePAreifts ought to.confider.,. Ri-

Wt Dlews p4.38.

0

a

The Fires meeting themfelves, *™ ievour one another. Rofin. pa.265: The Spirit isa fecond Water of scala, which all the things. forementioied are nowrifhed, every plant rerefht arid quickned, every light tindled, and it makes'and caufes

ll Fraits: The -firft. Water being hé Sun is Philofophically calcifed, that the Body mightbe opeiimued, and made. fpongious, that \ ie

Fp

Aocns

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‘¢he fecond Water might ‘the’ bet- | o ter enter; to operate “its! work, |i

which fecond: Water\is -the’ fire jis

againft Nature) by whofe power i

the complementof this Magiftes jt

Riplens.

ry is performed: Scala parzg.°') 1 We calcine perfect Bodies with jiu

the firft. Fire'naturally, bat not unclean Body. doth: ingredience jem

our work except’ one, which ofthe Win

Philofophers' is called the Green: p4.26.

. - There is'a'certain’ Soul exifting}

Water, the caufe of the life: ofvall living things, ‘continually:running

down upon our: fourfold Nature

producing her with all its powet

to a better Condition, which airy Soul is the fecret Fire of our Phy lofophy, otherwife called our Oul;

and myftically our Water. Idea paveadem, ua

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Out Mercury ts thade of per- Albert.

fect Bodies; “not imperfedt, thar figlisy with the fecond’ Water, after °

i" ithe ‘Bodies haye been duly Calciby the firlt. albert. p4.19.° iheained

“(This Fire is called Humour, be- rogee,

mimicaufe itt it, as hath been ° faid,ey heat al

wor the fire of ‘Nature is hidden, aengeven asthe he heatheatofofAnimals, Animals, inthe in th frig?ximogenian moifture. |

#) >>Water fince it is Heterogeneall

foatsEarth ; iffenfible of the leaft

ineat, ‘will evaporate, it being left

md forfaken.

fing) “Phe Soul’ is no other then Oil, ing il chen Water: “Vogel.p.134. © volfany knowto make choice of Flameliss .

Much Matter as Nature delights,

ati ond to inclofe it rightly prepared

ut 'his Veffel and Furnace; He and

sit (faith Narre) will forthwith doe

haghe Work: fo he provide the respipyuifite Fire, Naturall, againft NarOgeure, not Natural!) and’ without wmpxdour. Flamel.pa.123.

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Falling. -» We therefore call it Innaturall |Si of-not Naturall, becaufe.iris not jin

EDIE ERENCE Se, Sp

_ naturated.of it felf, nor takes away |fil any thing from naturated Natures gi nayitrather helps her, by the Mec |i

a

i

|

_

diation of a moderate Exereife, |isz

according to what Nature requires jad in her. Reformations, Ladlins .Co- (iti dic. ps2. mer Fit

Artepheuss ~ Our Fire is Minerall, is equall,is \ai continuall, it-vapours not unlefle i

it be too. much ftirred up, it parti |e eipates of Sulphur, it is taken elfe- |.

where then of Matter 5.ity des jai

ftroys, diflolyes, -congeals,, and |x éalcines all things :,:andit isAr)

tificiall to finde out, a.compendi-| um, and, without-coft, oat: leaft Jim very little; itis alfo moift,, vapo- fh tous, digefting, altering, penctra- || ting, fubtill, airy, not violent, not’

fuming, encompaffing, containing, |by onely one, and it is the fountain.

y

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of Life,or which incircles the Wa-|

_ fer of Life, and it contains the |

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l) King sand Queens: bathing place: lin:the whole Work that humid Fire ithall: fuffice thee, both in the: bejiginning, middle, and end, becaufe ‘lin

it the whole Art’confifts, and it

ilis a Fire Naturall, againft Nature, itsiand Unnaturall, and: without Ad-

Juttion’; And.to conclude, it isa Fire hot, dry, moift, cold s think

gon shefsthings and doe rightly, (without any t ing of a ftrange naWyture.

UG

)- Thethirdis that Naturall Fire of our Water, which is alfo called lagainft Nature, becaufe itis WaIter, and neverthelefle of Gold. it

iif makes meer, Spirit, which. thing

common Fire cannot doe: ‘this is Minerall,Equall;& participates of

} Sulphur, icdeftroys, congeals, dififolves, and. calcines all things,this

ningHs penetrating, fubtile, not burning, tain | and itis the fountain of living WaWa |

in

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in needtof, in thé whole Work, 40) io)

the beginning, ‘middle,and’ end, \Su ‘but‘not of the othe: two, except iu fometimes oncly.’- Joi therefore }

in reading the P hildfophers Books thefe ‘three Fires, and without | Im doubt thow wiltnot be ignorant of ja! their' fenfe and’ meaning: concer# |w

ning Fires: Artephiud'pa.3t. © hon Dafin. “ Weigh the’ Fite; meafure the |poi Air} mortifie theWater, raife up {ter

the heavy Earth. Daftin (pec. pas iit

but Lillive, 2 By: earneft "! confideration of Tit

things Natufall, Inharurall, and againft Nature;i¢ behoverh the eto attain the Marerialland Effentiall knowledgeof the teinper,through all-his parts Effentiall; and alfo Accidental? that thowmaiftknow how'to'behave thy felf in our faid Magiltery , having fo comprehended the {aid principles, Za. Theor. fo.r6.

There are four principal Fi res

to

|i’ |i;

| fy |i

} | yj

] te |t ||4

i |; i

aN

Le

}of this. Since! it is no Idumane, Hbut Angelick and heavenly, gift to ions mM be

N) nex is our:Argent vive, animated,

i and. the ‘Soul is Natural heat,

| which ftands bound together, in

firft’ Effence of the Elements vive. Jdem, Argent Of heeft r| the

| . An the Stru@ure “of the Fire ryevifane.

| fome differd from others;alehough } theyall aimed atthe fame fcope, antl me

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Chymicall Collections. namely, ‘that it fhould be made af? | tet this manner, left the fugient"”} _ fhould firft: ly away,’ before ‘the'™ Fire‘could’any way bring’ forth the} perfequent thing. Bernard. Comes\1 paiqo./) stag es Scala. TheFiréwhich we thew to thee is] Watet; and our Fire; isFire, and?

scala,

not Fire:'Scala, pa.r48. hee. | Réimoad (peaking of Fires in his’) Compéndium of the Soul, |faith, 7) It is'to’benoted that‘here lie con?" traty operations, becaufe as con- 7 Fire diffolves the Spirit] tranaturall'

of a fixt Body, into’ the’ Water of "Fil

a-Cloud;and conftringeth the Bo+? }

dy ‘of'a' volatile Spirit’ into'con!" |

m

gealed: Earth: So‘contrariwife the 7} Fire of “Natute, congeals the dif ©. folved Spirit of a'fixt Body into | olorious Earth ; and: refolves the Body of a Volatile-Spirit, fixt by} . Fire againft Nature, not into: the | Water ofa Cloud; but the Water 9") of the Philofophers. Scala.pa.126. |Ch The |

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| The Water of which the Bath pafl }f. the Bridegroom ought:to be 74

WJaade is of. two.Champions,s; that to be underftood,. confected. of Hwo.contrary..Matters .wifely and

Hyith great care,, left that. one, adwerfary: may, vanquifh the, other.

Wafil.Valent.pa.z2.

© <t.00 0] 4.

What ever.actions they ‘nomi- Ro/. @jate, know that thefe things ate aligvays. done by the action, of the wakeat, of certain. Fire, whichicanfes ~ Hot Sublimation becaufe .it,is,fo ‘wmrentie, nor may it elevate) any

mmoke-natarally, by reafon:of its

HMebility,..whence: if. it be fuch as

sgaay -in,d.manner elevate and not dwuilevate, itis good. Rofin.ad Sarra-

(U4nt.pa.286,

MUL

ELE COROLLARY. | If any would rightly weigh the

alt jigs of Philofophers:

in. this

Chapter, the manner oftheir Equi|

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vocations would appear clearer thew \e the Sun, for as they have deciphered) wil the fecond Work [omewhere; in they K waneof the firft Work, fo iw th ia, Chapter whey nominate the fecona i

water the'firft Waser, and the third |! thei(econd,: ws it appears aimlm™s water Scala. pa.123. where'it is faid thapn™

she fin(t Water thé Sun calcines,¢hapth aMll she fecond: might the verter enter

And keain,the [econd Water is Fives th

againft’ Nature, And’ Ripley sabe ters like things alfo in his Prefac Ae

But levevery Artife know that cheim firft water is Phlegin only, orunnarten tural Fire, becanfetwisnot narirea mM

of it felf; wor takes any thine from den

natured Nature, and that'it is unpfiem)

to calcine or prepare any perfech ih Body, but this Work belongs to Natux ib

val Fire, to wit, that the perfeét Bo-t

dy be calcined aud prepared in thabMit

‘Second Water, or Natarall Fire, that Wi

after it might be difolved in cheyin third Water. or Fire againft Natares ¥% But}

Chymicall, Collections. junetias they call their fecond..Work,

niet, becaule nothing enters into iuiet Work, whichhath not been. puiiufied,cleaned, and. purged inthe wife. Work: So. alfo. they. will: riot

Wire xecéte. the firft Water for their jiiltater, fincett is.onely Phlegme,nos ‘hl pringthe Philofophick.Work >But in the fecond she firft, and the third wie [econd, which induftrionfly they

igunethat they might, decesve. avd feL Kae the Ignorant.\.Of the,fame.fort

‘yas Axtepheus alo while he. endeianared: promifcuoufly to, confound wie mame of Natural Fire, with the

quame.of Fite-againfl. Nature, in.

ymefewards,."Lhe third ({aith be) «is

‘wat, Natusall Fire of our Water,

rf hich is al{o, called againft Na«ites becaufe, it-is Waters never-

tn elefie of: Gold. it, makes. meer:

i@pitit, which. common: Fire can2\

jmptdoe. But with thefe Equivo, ittons whofe ts. umexpert 13) cafily. wit 28004 into the greater Ertor. Bat sf i "ee

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ws the whole Theorick of Phyfick #8)\

comprehended in the Explanation of\\

three things; viz.Naturall, Non-2a>\ 5 - tural, and Contranaturall. So that) whole Hermetick and Divine Work) is performed with Fire, Natural 08 : Natural, and againt Nuture which

Fires are ofthe Philofophers, wailed) in the name ofFire, although to ag) they appear in form of Water, clears pure, cryftalline,which tortures, cable) cines, exanimates,- and inauimates) she Phyficall Body,and at length rena) ders it more then perfect, which neiz\\” ther by the violence ofcommon Fire,\\* nor virulence of corrofive Waters, nor by the Spirits: ofany Animal,

Vegetable, or Mineral can perform 2)!

And he that knows not-from -outy onely Subject to ‘draw: ont, feparate, |" rectifie, and compound shefe: men) firnous Matters, thefe. Fires, theft) Waters, the[e Mercuries, is ignoran)

ofthe Key ofthe whole Work, Theres |

fore in thefe muft be the toil.

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AK

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fetiiee Cupar. V. AL. The Rife or Birth of the Stone.

que birch of the Earth ismade wins.

A» by:the way.of invented Subwmumation : .That. the Earth hath conceived and drunk of the, Water of Mercury asmuch as fuffices, you may. difcern.and:know it by

its volatility, &-priyation of feces and dregges from the moft,.pure PSubftance, while:it a{cends, after thesmanner of moft pure and moft white. duft;.or.of the leaves.of the Moon, or of .{plendid: Talk. But iwhenthou feeftrhe Nature of the

Bmoft pure .Earth; elevated. upMiwatds,and as.a-dead: thing even adhere to the fides of the fubliming WVeffell, then reiterate the fablima- — ition upon her, without the dregs cemaining below,becaufe that part

fixt..with the dregs adheres, and hariol

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F

then

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Lull, |

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Lull.Codic .pa.193-

Son, you may know that. this |

is the generall head to all Subli- | mation of Mercuries.. Then take |

i |

the pregnant Earth, and putitinto jy a Sublimatory veffell lated .and/ well {hut up; place itin Fire of the }, third degree for the fpace of twen- |

ai i ‘

ty four hours,and fublime the pure |pt from the impure,

and. fo fhalt, Io,

thou have the Vegetable Mercury, |,..

fublimated, clear, refplendent,.ini jj. admirable Salt, which we properly |

call Vegetable Sulphur, Sal almo- }

Semita Sciitt.

ay

|

niack, our Sulphur, the Sulphit | of Nature, and many othernames } we impofe onits Lal. Teffsp.4.. My +

The Water-approaching, that iy, ee) oy

obi

;

is Argent vive in the Earth, en= 9), creafeth , ‘and is. augmented be-}),, caufe the Earth is whitened, and | ‘

then it is called impregnation,then J,,

the Ferment is coagulated, wz. |), joined | +”

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TM)Prepare it, as hath been faid, till it fpecome one incolotr and afpect, Mind then it is called the Birth, be=

‘-aufe then is born ourStone,whicl

“Gbf the | Philofophers. is ‘called a

King. Semita Semita. praat.

Son, it is a fign when it hath ime yyy,

pibed, and retained four parts more of its Weight, thar if thou

iiiiout a Jirtle on a heated. plate of Gold or Silver, it will all as it

UY vere fly away into {moke,which if

1) ¢ doe not fo reiterate itintill fuch

x a Sign appear. Lall.Tefh.pa.16s my) But to know this day of the petris vill Crifis, and the Birch or Rife of Bm:

ithe Stone, which is the tet of

4 Mthe- whole confummation of the . tMWork; it is meet to foreknow the

@there is the perfection, or anniliicilflation of the Work;becaufe in that very Fa ue

Chymicall Collections. very day,nay hour,the fimple Ele= Bi tients arife,purified from all filrhs, {fn I

which prefently ftand in need of |ine

before

Compofition,

they fly: jam

from the! Fire; and are turned into ie!

Earth, that isin their fixation, and jax not fooner nor later. Petrus Bonus ite

tal PRT BRE

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Gelber. >»And when thow fhalt: fee that jh: thing excelling “in its “whitenefle for theawhitelt fnow, and as: it-werel|nd

dead, adhere to the fides of thejfig

{ubliming veflell, then reiterate its Hic

Sublimation’ without dregs. Geb. to

in lib. Summa perfectromis pa169. My

vowe > Whenthis Mercury arifes, the} |

© Sun and» Moon: arifethn together fis with ic inits Belly. Yext.parrzo. |Bl

Scala.»

"The Heaven is to be reiterated}

fo:often upon the Earth till thejiy' Barth become Heavenly:and Spi-fiy rituall, and) the Heaven be madeji earthly,cand be joined with thes Earth. Scalaipa.121.

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Bt

yogis’ Reftore the vive Argent to the§ |

Barth}

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JEarth and. decodt. it, ‘and as be-., fore fublime, and that reiterate:

hine or, twelve times, alwaysaug-; {yfmenting the Fire in,the-end, untill, rhe Earth with .often fablimation hnd force of the Calcining Fire

become. White and‘more Spirituall, part of it boing made more jubuill,, begintfowespung.to afcend inafsof the Earth, which. .is betformed by Sublimation, is alpogether neceflary before the Phyhieall Work begin. Vagel.p2.22 1) Ebe Argent vive "exuberated; elangor.

thatis the Body of the:Earth, , pale nee

ling together withthe menftruous Matter ete he Alembick,and . he Sulphur of Nature, is the SpiHit of Metals, fublimated and tuxHied into foliated Barth, whichis the firft and neereft. matter of Metals. Clang.iucc.p.480.

| Therefore burn it with dry Fire, vi(toule.

Ee

that

| Chymicall Collections, that it may bring forth a Son, and keep him warily left he flyaway : this is that -whichpm into fmokeand

the Philofopher faith in his: Tarbag

Whiten the Earth, and Sublime

it quickly with Fire, untill ehefobe Spirit which thou fhalt: finde in ityin: goe forth! of it, and it is calleetir’ Hermes Bird for that which alle

y fcends higher is efficacious puritqt

but that which fals to the botflis

tome, is droffe and corruptionpt This therefore is Duft drawn front

Lullins.

Daft, and the begotten of thipite Philofophers, the white foliated Earth, in which Gold is to bit fown. Arift.pa.371.

Gather carefully what thou fing deft in the middle fublimated, leit

it fly away into Smoke, becauffit!

‘that is the approved fought fof ‘Good, the better Beft, the whitfal foliated Earth coagulating as chit Rennet of a Lamb, the Athes ¢ Athes, the Salt of Nature, the be@it —gotte

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notten Infant, the'firft and neareft

Matterof Metals, the firft Subject

hicha’ whieh'are its proper Elements,

wiio’ wit of Natur’d’ Nature ;- the

litaoift and temperate Matter ought iio be reduced and fixt,: till it flow

niivith'its‘Ferment, like Wax with-

lat Smoke, and’endure’ all Fire. iChérefore labour with it to Silver,

wind thou ‘taift quickly ‘begin the

Wlagiftery; not let it wax old without! Commixtion, becaufe thou jaift not take ir) unlefle new made Fter'the Birth with its Blood. Lul.

jodic.p.t17.

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of If from’ Subliming ‘little fhall omieforth and clean,the Fire will et be little. Therefore let it bee

Hicreaft, But ifmuch and unclean, he’ Fire is‘ fuperfluous, therefore tit be withdrawn. But! if much

wna: clean, then the proportion is

found. Daft./pec.p.48. | TheDutft afcending higher from: Rofw. whe Dregs; is-Afhes,: Hononred, .

F 4 Sub-

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Sublimed, Extracted from the A= | ft

ai

- fhes, but ‘that. which remains be7

Mt | i

lowisAthestof Afhes, inferiour, ||m

il | |

vilified, condemned A thes,a dreg, 4} an andlike droffe. Therefore make a |i

i

Nail

ae

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difference between its clear. and

limpid, becaufe when it fhall a-ty:

{cend molt white.as.. Snow, -it-will |hi

be. compleat,: therefore gather, ite) 3

¥

carefully, left: it fly away into | Di

Smoke, becaufe; tha: is the very jt fought for good, the white folia-#} te ted “Earth, congeéaling what is to |pa be congealed, Rofartus ‘Arnoldi, i | : 4.427. | wp

Gober

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The Calx or: Body mutt be of- |ty

ten imbibed, thar thence it might|th be fablimed, and more yet purged|fr then before, becaufe the Calx doth}rf not at all,.or very difficulcly climb} upward, aflifted by the’Spirits. Ge-| :

ber. lib, [umme perfectionts.P.17 Zag Wh Artejpess, O Nattre how doft thou burn) 7

Bodies into: Spirit, which could

not be done, if the Spirit werenot I, firft |

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Jiand the Bodies with, the Spirit jmade volatile, and afterwards perimanent. Therefore the compound:

ireceives its cleanfing by our Fire :

|viz. by diffolving the humid, and Lad by fubliming. what. 1s- pure,and

vilwhite, the dregs being .caft forth,

rit) as anaturall Vomit. Forn fuch a itd Diffolution -and naturall Sublima-

np tion, there is made a deligation of

jlagl the Elements, a cleanfing and {e; | paration of the pure from impure,

iii fo that ther pureand white.afcends F upwards, andthe impure,and earcol thy remains. fixt in the bottome o

ight the Vellel, which is to, be.caft

ocd forth and removed (becaufe. it 1s

ot, Of no-value) by: receiving: onely a

Jin a middle white fubftance, |And in oh this is accomplifht our Philofo-

ny) phicall and Naturall Sublimation,

bog, not inthe Vulgar unfit ;Mercury,

li Which hath no qualities like thefe,

eat) With which our Mercusy drawn fil:

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from thé :red fervant is adorned. |f Arteph .fo.21.

wit

The firft part abides not,unleffe ttt

) nit

it be bound to the fecond in the {Cot fame hour. Idem, © ay.

.

Itis fit that the end’be reftored |ft

upon its beginning; aiid the'begin- tll ning upontheend. Idem:

ted:

When the Artift feesthe white: | Fite

Soul rifen, let him join ‘her imme- itt diately to her Body. ©‘ When the _|fre clean‘and candid ‘Water ‘fhall be |they generated; it is meet we join the | Earth to it in the fame Hour. j an Plato,

And according toP/ate,the Fierithe neffe is contraried in the hour of |fis

coagulation.

And according to Daftin, by |

the acceffe'of Cold, the Water

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Idem, Spel — Thereisone and thefamething, in the Subject having all thefe pros:

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may well be turned into dry Earth. |

magaita

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‘of

pretiefa.

perties, and operations; for while it remains in liquefaction, by i on

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Non of Subtilty'it is called Spiric, without ‘which: Spirit there, can neither be made'Generation; nor

the| aap eal of the Souband Bo-

idy. Whence in the whole Magi-

| ftery, the Spirit actually rules, unit till: ‘the Souliand: Body begenera}ted: but while it-can fly fromthe tel! Bire, it is called.a Soul, :butwhile })itremains in the Fire, andcan perfevere, it is called a‘Body. If | thereforeinthe time ofiGenerati| on the Soulfhall ftandin:the ‘Fire,

| and his ftrength prevail, through

i the force of the Spirit, then ‘fhe 0) flies from the Firejand draws with

‘|

her the Body’to“flight, ’and *the

WV orkman remains fruftrate of his | gl and. expects ‘that ..which

hathbeen already come and gone, } and will never come hereafter, and ‘9 |4¢feems wonderfull to‘him: But . | ifthe ftreneth of ‘the Body prevail ef) above the ftrength ofthe Soul, then by re

ne

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Body. retains the Soul: altogether, nor. ever :hath the power to fly from the Fire; and the Workman

hathhis:purpofe, which the Auncients had;, and then the Spirit re= | mains always with them, fomeé-

times in Act,

and-fometimes in

Habic; Buta quick atid double infight is altogether néceflary, {pectally both in the end,of Decottion; | and:Sublimation,, that-all the fu- }pui perfluities being whitened, the Ar- | tit. may fee the wonderfull and terriblé Canidor, and may prefently obtain his joyfulland; quiet reft, | after this Confummation of La- | bour, forthen by infrigidating the } Moon, -the Sun, is hidden in, her’ - Bowels; and the Eaft.is joined.to J the Weft,. Heaven..to. Earth, |

and: Spirituall

to..-Gorporall, |

whence isfaid in Taba, Knowye |

thateye fhall. not. Die the purple Colour,butin Cold. And Hermes,

Whole

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VAnd Avicen, Know thatihe which hath evaporated all, hath wrought

un fwell, therefore make it Cold, ‘for | then is manifeft the hidden,and the

‘Manifeft by infrigidating is hid. in)And this Infrigidation or cooling

in fis done with reft, in which there is

no operation of the hands, fince it lis the end:of operation.: Margarita | pretio[a. p4.r04.

That Earth

fo mingled with Latins.

}Menftruous Matter, is called Argent vive, Exuberated, which ga|ther {peedily,: and while.it is new; .) after its Birth put it. in Water of | Metals, ‘in \digeftion: in-a: tripode jof the Athanor. Lull. Tef.p.21. | « This ‘is our Mercury dublimed, Dunllan. and made fixt from the white al. tered Earth of Bodies, arifing firft ¢) wonderfully by the power and help of the Water. This is that Mer| cury,in ftead of which the oper

3),

an

Chymicall Collections. and Idiots affume that Compoutided-of common Vitrioll; and Sub- ? limated. with Salt, in which they | are grofly deceived. Duaftamp.18. clanger Buccine.

Sublime the Body as muchas *. thou canft, and boil it with clean |°

Mercury,and whenthe Body hath drunken fome part of the Mercury, fubtilize it with a Fire quick and ftronger,as thou art able,until | it afcend in likeneffe of moft white ;

Dutt, adhering to.the fides of the)!

Veftell in manner of Snow; But|

the Athes remaining in the bot- he come are dregs, and the vilified |wl droffe of Bodies, and to. be caft!|"? away, itt which there is no life, be- |™ cafe ivismoftlight Daft, which }™ witha little :blaft vanitheth, be- }? ‘caufeit is nothing but bad Sulphur |™

‘excluded:by Nature.

he

‘Thenthedregs being icaft away, |“

iteratethe Sublimation of the moft |* white Duft ‘by it felf without its] ™

dregs, till ix be fixr, and till irfend} out

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i purely, like Snow,the which is our | pure Quinteffence ; And then,thou

ihalt have the Soul Tindting;,CoJagulating, and Cleanfing,both the

Jef 2ULphur, and the not burning Arf-

lwimick, which the Alchimifts may »guie, that with it they might make

siqhoulver. Clangor Bucc.pa.5 19.

Whenthe Water fhall. necefla- Petrus fitily be generated clean and white, °””: it is meet-we. join the Earth to.it, leven inthe fame hour, and thofe being joined in their feafon,all four will be joined,and then the Work lis perfect; and if they are not joined, then the Water is refolved ubinto Smoke, with the Earth, and iby confequence the other Ele|ments bythe force and perfeve}rance of the Fire, and fo the Work His annihilated’; wherefore it is fit

jan Artift. know the fimple Ele{ments throughly, before he begin (their Compofition, that he may |

know

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them to the conftitution-of the) ak

‘Compound. Pet. Bonus pa.2216 | ie If any of the purer parts remain) ot V ogel,

Gn the Earth(which thou maift ob-} ta ferve ‘from a certain’ ‘whitenefle, })un promifcuoufly: fhining) think not} fi

much'to mingle it again’ with the fame Mercury,then Decoét,and-at) 1 length; as hath been faid, Sublime),

till nothing of the purer effence) |

be left init. Vogeliusp.209.°

‘Ta thelatt day: the World hall) Valent. be judged by Fire, that what be= |i

Bafil.

fore was by its Mafter made of no= |

thing, might again by Fire be re=i|%

duced into Afhes, from which A= fhes-the Phoenix might at length fy roduce her young ones, for in| li

}jy fuch'A thes lies hid’ the ‘true ‘and

genuine Tartar, which ought’ to | jh

be diflolved; and atter his diffolu-|

tion, ‘the ftrongeft’Lock of the) Kiflgs’Clofet may beopened. Ba |

fil. Valent.pa.23. SOG

Np

We}

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1

Si

Wehavefhewnthee our Water Lavine

| after its congelation with its Fer.j) ment, which is then indeed called

wn) Our Magnefia, and if thou under4 ftand our Waters, thou wilt alfo

| underftand Argent vive. La&.Teff. | f0.1083

1) THE COROLLARY. In this Chapter ts openly explained the Fable of Phaeton, i» Ovids:

Metamorphofis. As alfo of Deda-

ba lus with his Son Icarus 5 who when fide they bad made themfelves wings of sit) Feathers, and had faftned them with A Was, andwhen with thefe they had ‘oti flown throagh the Aire beyond the i) Labyrinth, itis reported Icarus fly= jing toohigh, fellinto the Sea, in which he was drowned, becaufe the |Sun melted the Wax. By his Father fii) Dedalus és anderftood the Sulphur Me of Nature [ublimated and Philofo-

phically coagulated, By Icarus the

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{ame

Chymicall Collections. fame Sulphur fublimated, but with andue governance of the Artift, and © continued violence ofihe Fire, mel- | ted into Water, and buried in the ) dead Sea. In thefe alfo is explained | the Fable ofour Englifh Roget Ba- | con the Monk, of whom: tt-ts-rela- | ted, That he compofed 4 Braxen” Head, whofe suftedy (after many) Incubrations) he committed to bis fervant, that while be refrefbs his) ‘tired [pirit with fleep, he would carefully obferve the time, that as foon : as ever it [pake, in the very moment he fhould wake him, bat the fervant | being afleep, the Brazen Head utte-

ved the(e words, Time is, and again” an honr after, Time is palt, when” by their negligence the Work was de- |". prived of life and annihilated ;\\ which alfo appears inthe affertion

of that excellent Philofephér Petrus Bonus iv thefe words :

:

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If in the time of Generationthe |

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her ftrength prevail by the force il of Spirit ;then fhe flies away, and Wl draws with her the Body to flight, i" and the Workman remains fruMy) ftrate- of his purpofe ; and expects bi that which hath’ been already

come and gone, and fhall never

“ll) come again hereafter, becaute it is i) mingled with that condemned ™) Earth, whence it is impoffible it i fhould again be feparated.

WN

But as the Condemned or rejected

(Wi) Barth is not found ont, unleffe the

mI) pure be feparated from the impures il) nor is that [aid tobe pure, whichin

WN at felf contains feculency, of confe-

(i) quence it mujt be prepared with the

i greateft Induftry, nor with lefe viz

tN gilancy is our Phyficall fubject com-

US) pounded firft by Nature for us, and =.

iN formed into a Metallick Form,fo that Ci) dt may be reduced sntothe firft Mat| ter, and by our skill, viz. by the Se-

nl) paration; Putrefaction, lebibition,

iM) Sublimation, Conjunction of the Eif {2 a G 2 lements i

\

Hae } HN Fl

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anew Form, which is the. Bafis of

the Philefophick Work as 4s maut-— feft in. the Chapter. Whence the faying ofArtepheus és epparent. viz.

That the firft part remains not except it be bound to the fecond, e- |, ven in the fame Hour. Bat that | Allegation is done by Coagulation, | the Coagulation by Infrigidation e- | ven inthat Hourin which the Ar- \, tift fhall (ce, and in his Fudgement |): erceive, the whole moft. pure fab- | fiance fublimated from its rejected Earth. Which fecret of fecrets ob- | feured of all Philofophers in their | fandryeAnigmaes concealed and di- | , | werfly difperft in. their Books 1have in brief faclearly opened, as of none the like hitherta. And this is the \ Preparation in which (as Senior | faith) men are blinded fince they 1,

-know not that the Stone is prepa- | ed with this Preparation. |

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~CuHar VI 7 | The Weights ofthe fecond Work. :ih the operation of our Magi- Refar.

‘A ftery, we thall need: one onely “WVeffell, or Furnace, one Difpoft¥ tion, which is meant after the Pre\paration of the Stone. Rofar. Phi-

WNfofoph.pa.z.40.

4 | The fecond Work. is to turn Dafis, “} Water and Fire into Earth, and if |Aire into one fimple Subftance “compounded of Simples. Dajtin afl i [pecul.pa.106. | | If thou impofe the Medicines Dafim. bit i jequally, thou wilt perceive no Eri) ror, but if thou adde or diminith,

make hafte to correct it: whence if Hi) a Deluge proceed it drowns the

HM) Region, but if too much Siccity

) fhould.be,it burns up the Roots of uy Hearbs. Who therefore putrifies ")) the Body in the equall part, till ic Wy)

§ be exficcated,makes thewhole,one white G 3 | i

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white Body, for they areat once |p

He

Infpiffated, Incinerated, and Ex- |jwi

ae) |

ficcated ;and this is the Head. of |Iu

@

the World. Of the Work there- jp |

t

fore (as Democritus faith) let part |lat

anfwer part equally. Idem pag. |

| 322.

wade

ti

Riplews. —Inthe beginning take our Stones | and bury them every one in the | Sepulchre of another, and join | them together in equall Mariage, that they may lie together, then | } fet them cherifh their {eed fixe }llt

weeks, nourifh their naturall Cone} lai

ception,and preferve it, not arifing | | all the while from the bottome of their Sepulchre. Which fecret de= ceives many. Rip. pa.44. ripleus, Alfo thus underftand, that in our Conjunction, the Male, our

{I |r qu ul |i

Sun, ought to have three parts of } his Water, and his Wife nines }}\

which ought to be three to him.’ fj

j ° he

Maffa Solis rd te

ofl

i

te

ola

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aa ¥Wecannot with our own pro- | :

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oer hands work on Mercury, but Ex- {with ten {pecies, which we call out loffhands in this Work, that is, nine ctePparts of Water, and the tenth of t)Earth. Maffa Salis G Lune, pag. we25'7* . | But fince there are three parts Ro/w.

Hof his red Water with him, let it 47! theibe fublimed.on this manner time

vinfafter time, tillitbe fixt downward.

we fRofar, Arnold. pa.44g. fal ©Put clean Bodies in this clean

fytjMercury, poifed in an equal bal-

nflance. Idem pa.447. fing ~-Boil him at the warm Sun, un- Dain.

eof ll he hath dried his Water,which

:epbeing exficcated,

pound him a-

igain with water to his Weight,and

ti(}Oil him at the Sun, till he be dii-. wthed into. a Stone; doe this often-

sof) times till he hath drunk of his iaeyp Water ten times his own quantity, tingp 2d: become dry, hard and red. ey,

fl Daftin fpec.pa.191.134Son, itbehoveththee to mingle yitins.

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phurs, that is, of Gold, and Silver

together, and prepare them by gi- © bie them ie Rourthpart of ihe | Weight, of the faid menftrous —

Matter, by digefting and drying, | as it is donein the Creation of —

Sulphur, untill it hath drunk four || arts of the faid menftruous Mat- jm ter, and be difpofed to Sublimati- »

Col

on; which thou fhale fublime in im

Fire of the fourth degree. Lwll,

Te(t.p.24.

Dain.

Take of the fincere Body one part, and of the other Core three, and mingle them toget er with Vinegar. Sestor iw Turba. It is meet the Water exceed:the Barth nine times, that fo ina De-

ineith

inorl

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Iptea

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cinary number, which is a perfect number, the whole Work may be

confimmate. But (as Dioftenes faith) if too much of the Water

be at once impofed, it is not contained in the Earth; ‘but if too

much

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much be fubftracted, it is not joijned to the Earth; Whence all the ‘Water is not to be at once impofed on the Earth. Therefore divide it into three parts, and every )of them into another third, becaufe fo one may better fight againft

Jone, then againft a number of it-Jmore:Mingle the Hot with the i: (Cold, the Humid withthe Dry, ‘injand the mixt fhall be temperate, il, Pneither Hot nor-Cold, nor Moitft aor Dry ; for one tempers another, q

One

imaking the mixt adequate. Daft.

net (Pec.pa. 177.134.

Bafilius ie A man may be eafily ftifled in V alentinus.

tt = Waters, and little Waters are eafily exficcated with the heat

ofthe Sun, fo that they may be Nas nothing. Therefore that the idefired Work might be obtained, la certain meafure in the commixition of the Philofophick liquorous one! ‘Subftance muft be obferved, left 00]thegreater overcome and opprere

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the leffer Proportion, by which ‘ne Generation might be hindred, and.) Hor

left the leffer, in refpec of the |

greater, fhould be too weak to ex- jt ercifeequall Dominion, for great: | fhowers of rain hure the Fruit, 70 and too much drought produces | no true Perfection. Therefore if |

fil. Valent. pa.a2.

Amld,

Take of the red

“Water and >

White, as much of the one as of the other, according to. weight, |

and put them together.in a Cu- | curbite, made of Glafle, {trong and thick, havinga Mouth like an 7} Urinall, afterward the whole Water willbe Citrine, even foon enough, and fo will the true Elixer be perfected in refpect of both, : \viz, perfect Impregnation, and true

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rue Coition, Arnold, in Comment,

Hortulani p.34.

3 | Let the Queen born by nine pafia.

‘Wirgins, decently attend the Bedutithamber of fo great a King, and lo in progreffe. of time thon fhalt sietermine unity from the ‘denary ifnumber. Daftind Epiff.fo.2. | }

InthisMapiftery, the Govern; B4fl.

Iment of the Fire ought to beob- "4 Herved, left the humid Liquor be igsLoo foonexficcated,and the Wife‘Inens Earth too quickly liquified jind diffolved. Otherwife of wholHome Fifhes, thou wilt generate | Scorpions in thy Waters. Bafiliws ValentinpatO,

9°

What ever actions they nomi- fof. omnate, underftand always,that thefe cuchings are done by the aétion of \aithe heat of certain Fire, which :¢imakes not Sublimation, becaufe it scig-S fo gentle, nor ought it naturally stoclevate any Smoke. Rof-p.287.

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“THR COROLLARY. . and Daftin Left perhaps Ripley

our Countrimen, and moft exceBent ©

Philofophers, [hould in this Chapter

feem to -fome, to differ among |. them/elves :. fince Ripley takes c= J. quall parts, and joins them in equall © Wedlock ;, bus Daftin affirms the Water ought nine timestoexceedthe Earth, that foin-a Decinary, which |

is a perfect Number, the whole Work

might be con(ummate > Ithought tt worth my labour toreconsile this ap- | pearing contradiction. As therefore @ he that well diftingnifhes, teaches }

wells fohethas knows this diftinttix @ on of time, [hall forthwith have the |

Solution of this doubt.

For Ripley firfl pesks of the firft @ Compofition in the fecond or Philo- | fophick Work, where the Earth and | pare Water prepared exactly before |

misft be equally joined in equall Pro- | portion. |

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| portion. But Daftin utters that his | Opinion of Imbibitions , after the 1 perfection of the fecond Work; and yh fe whilethey are diflinguifiit, they are underftood, and that eafily. Bus

\whatmeans Ripley in thefe words,

°§ viz. That they fhould lie together ifix Weeks, not rifing all the while

)from the bottome oftheir Sepulichre 2 this muft be enquired and ‘ fearched into, fince he affirms it a “i fecret. which hath deceived many. | Dhat Conjunction is done, that eves |as a Chicken is made of an Egge af\ ter Putrefaction, [o after this Con\junition and due Putrefaction, we | may attain the Complement of the Work. : | Therefore. we mult know, if any | thing may be born by Putrefaction, V) d6-48 mecellary it happen. after this |) manner, The Earth by a.certain hid-

den and included humidity, is redn-

|.ced intoa certain corruption or de-

|) fPruction, which is the begin, |

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of Patrefaction, which ought to be nonrilht with uch a tempered heat; mY as that nothing exhale from the |it

Compound, or be fublimed to the |hg

topofthe Peffel 3 bus that the Ma- | : (culine and Feminine, the Matter | i and the Form, Agent and’ Patient, \"! reméintogether, The Water in the ‘

Earth, and the Earth wnfeparated pil from the Water, are contained toge- i

sher, 25 the yolk of an Egge,inclided a.

in the inner thin skin, till the time him

ofPutrefaction loofeshe reins, which) al will not be done fooner then in the} fpace of forty days for asNature) hates {udden mutations or alterati-)

ons, [ono Putrefattion is made buty in 4 long time, and appointed, a6 hf Dattin elegantly [aid viz. The cae in lidity of the Aire, fubtility of the ft Matter, centleneffe of the Fire, fta-}

bility of Reft, equality of Com-] pounds, gravity of Patience, and

the maturity of Time, ‘doe pro-j / mote and induce ia

ik there-f

Chymicall. Collections, i) therefore then alfo the Air is tobe }) tempered,the Thick fubtilized,the | Fire reftrained, Reft preferved, i) Proportion adequated, Patience | ftrengthened, and the Time expe} cted, till Nature proceeding natu| tally fhal compleat her ownWork.

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fe |

But that I may return to the pur-

jy pofe,and adde Corollary to Corollary, we mut ebferve that in Preparation,

i | three parts of the Spirit are aljumed

| to one part of the imperfect Body,and i at laft about the time of the. Birth 1 three parts of imperfect Body are af|fused to one of Spirit, and this not

once, but often, But in the fecond | Work which of Philofophers is called the firfts firft,part cs jotned with part, | afterward three parts of Body to one Of Spirit and that the oftner for Im| bibitions and at length three of Sps-

| 7it toone part ofperfect Body for in| eration or fermentation ,by which is

! performed our Myflical, Divine,ana

more then perfect Work aumberlefly exec

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ion. eee

Cuap. VII. Of Imbibition.

P armenides an Tuibam,

Aftly, nourifh fuch an animated thing with its own Muk,

that is, with its own Water, from which is concreated the Work, or

the thing begun from the begin-|!

ning. Exerctt.in Turbam p.165. | Ripleye Give him the fourth part of] new Water, and yet he ought to} Wa

have many more Imbibitions; give} gs, him the fecond , and afterwards} (x

the third alfo, not forgetting *the} lul

faid Proportion: And when thou} lim

haft made feven Imbibitions,'then} kk thoumuft turn the Wheel’about} }|

€langor.

Bul6.

again, and putrefte all that Matter: th without addition. Ripley pasre0" 9 a If thou wouldftVolatife orIm-} hi

bibe, thy prepared Elixer, fthe’fe-) mi cond,|

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| muft be done with the fourth part. of the Elixir of Mercury, but doe | this oft-times, untill the part of | Water.perifh, that is,wafte or con-

fume, fo that it afcend no further.

But yet Icommand ye, pour not onthe Water at once, left the Ixir | be drowned, but by little and little, y that is, pouritinat feven times, , of and powder it, and laft of all exiy) ficcate. Clangor. Bucc.pa.505.

Moiften and beat it together Heimes. |roany days, and this nine times, of which are affigned by the nine Eaait|gles, and in every Diffolution and ad Coagulation, the effect. thereof @thall be augmented. Hermes de jit) Chemia p4a.t79.

pa

: Beat the Earth oftentimes, and 44"

i by little and little imbibe it ftom im

g itpt

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} eight days to eight days, Decoct and after moderately Calcine it in i) Fire, and let it not weary thee to

} reiterate the Work oftentimes , | H for

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for the Earth bears not fruit without often watering, whence if it | be dry, itthirftingly drinks up its} humidity and wet. Avicen-p.420. ° 4w

If ye make it without weight, |

Death will befall it, therefore put, | uponit all the reft of its Humor, | temper it neither too much, nor |

too little; becaufe if there be. | much, a Sea of perturbation will 7) be made, but if little, ir will be |

burnt toabrand. For the heat of | the Fire(as Avicen faith) if it may J.

not finde Humidity which it dries. 4," up, it burns, but if thow pour in. | much moifture at once, thou wilt | not deficcate but diffolve. There- 9}:

fore the Weight is ‘every wayto 9!

be confidered, left too much ficci-_ | ty or fuperfluous Humour. cor- 9 supt, that through thy. whole; §)'

Work thou diffolve fo much by_|

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ge ~~

And every diffolution thall always

oe'made by Inhumation, and Conekions ‘Thé Hamiour: gotten by \ diffolution’, naturall heat onely emaining, fhall always be deficca‘ed. Daftin. Epift. fo.§.

began induftrioufly to exhatift Trevifant. he Water yet fothat there might ' 10t remain in it above the teath

epattin ten parts. Trevifane p.At: ‘Tt is meet the Water exceed the | .. Dafa. darth nine times, that {6 ina ‘Des ig

‘inary,which’ number is i perfect, i |he‘whole Work’ may be confumti inate. Daf.pec.pa.134.° ar

r‘Tt’ behoveth' ei

to ‘take ‘one «Cadmon.

bartOfour Copper,ahd'of perma-

ient Wiatet, which alo is called” Copper ‘three parts; then, mingle” heattogether with Vineger, ‘and

| soil‘them fo long, untill theybe. hitknéd,, arid: thete be made One /Stohe. Cadmen 18 Tarba pas379)

} Telis® nourifhed wich” its “own! semita Milk, that iswith et of which° |

it

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it hath been from the beginning, but Argent vive is imbibed again and again, till ic can imbibe two |

~ parts, or what may fuffice. Semita p:442-6 | tallis, Son, fettle thy Spirit to under-

ftand what we fay, doe not drink | unleffe thou eat, nor eat unleffe J thou drink ; we tell thee this in re- |

{pect of uniform Imbibition,which | thou muft make of moift and dry |

fucceffively. Lull.pract.fo.193..

Daftin.

Itis meet the King reft in a {weet jf Bath, tll by little and little he hath J drunk the Trinity of his Nouri- | fher, and let Drink be after Meat, | and not Meat after Drink; there- |

fore let him eat and drink one af- | teranother with difcretion; defift not therefore to moiften, decoct,

and deficcate the King, till he hath |

devoured his Mothers Milk, the | Queen with him being nine, times | proftrate on the Earth. Daftén. | [pec fog. | | | Let |

IOr , wn | Let the King after forty days pyebager "

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mo |moiftning in all his own humour, vita |be always putrefied in equal heat, till he put on his Mothers white

de. |Countenance. Pythagoras in Turba tink |P4-80. | ke, Three times fhalt thou fo turn

nt: about thy Wheel, keeping the a-

hich FOrefaid Rule of repaft. Répley dry |P4+53+ , | When thy Matter hath conceivet Wed, expect the Birth, and when ta it hath brought forth, thou mutt pi (have Patience in Nourifhing the fg, BOY, till he can indure the Fire, (and then ofhim thou maift make if (eree Projection, becaufe the firft it |Digeftion is made. Lull, Theor.

Ripleys

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cod

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att -Atlength nourifh fuch an ani- Pavmendes -te|Mated Body with his own Milk, ‘ngs (tHat is his Water, of which is

i |concreated the Work, ie orthething git | begun from the beginning, but Jet ‘concerning the feeding it. is H 3 taught, 4

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ph?

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three parts of Water to.one G} pi!

Lullius.

Lead. Parmenides in Turba. p.165| ik With that permanent humidity pen which likewife took its original ran from vive Argent, imbibe ov

Stone, becanfe'by it the part

thereof are made, moft clear, as!

manifeft, when after. its perfed putrefaction, from every. corrup tible thing, and chiefly from th two fuperfuous Humours, wa},

the unctuous, aduftible, phlegm: tick, and evaporable parts, it 1s. r¢

duced into its proper incombuft)

Germinate and bring forth frui

in, its‘feafon for by -watering, of bedewing, all things born, of th

fen

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| Earth are generated: ‘The Earth tM therefore doth not germinate | without the watering and humidiIt) ty of May dew, that.doth wath,

Ny} penetrate, and whiten Bodies, like “rain Water, and of two Bodies make ahew one. -4rteph.fe.t7. Ys Beat the Earth and imbibe it Rofavius

‘with Water by little and little, ?”

4 from eight days to eight days,de| coctit in Dung, becaufe by Inhu. iN mation, Aduftion is taken away: W# and let-it not weary thee to reitecgi rate this often, becaufe the Earth

‘eM Dears not fruit without frequent butt!Watering. Rofar.Phzlofoph.p.355. , i As often as ye moiften the A- pafin. fhes, deficcate them by turns, but

if it be moiftned before it be defic-

cated. and made Duft, it is. drowe ical) nd, inebriated, and reduced to

nig} nothing; forhethat makes it withsin Out weight (as Trifmegiftus faith) | kills and ftrangles it, -becaufe who drinks and thirfts not, chérifhes inH 4 — digeftion,

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digeftion, ‘and doth invite and in- |

duce the Dropfie. Daft. jpec. pa.

209.

Afflittes.

Then muft it be beaten, and |

with the remaining Water and a half, be feaven times moiftned, with permanent Water confumed it mutt be putrefied,till the defired

thing be obtained. 4fflictes in | |

Nicares.

Trova,

But ye fhall moiften this rednefS | feaven times in the remaining Wa- |i ter, or till it can drink all its Water, thenboil it tillit be deficca- | ted and turned to dry Earth, then |

Jer it be put in a kindled Fire forty |i; days, untill it putrefie, and the } Colours thereof appear with the | Afhes. Nicaresin Tarba 102.

As the fame thing is bothan |

Embryo, Infant, Boy, and Man, | pafling from an incompleat Ef | fence, toa perfect Complement : So alfo our Compound, by in- |

¢reafing paffes fromone. thing to ano-

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another better thing, and from incompleat Effence, with its own Milk is carried forth to his complement of the Elixir. And therefore all its Compound is of the form of the Elements. Wherefore Mortenus faith, the difpofition of that work is like the creation of a i} Man, whenas he is nourifhed of

|himfelf by increafing from day to ||day, and from moneth to moneth, -| till he hath attained his Youthfull

-| age, and in acertain time be com-| pleated. Daft. (pec.pa.150.

| Thenear caufe of this fixation xulins.

Fis avery little mixtion of bothb

} their leaft parts,fo that the height | of the Volatile, may not excell | the height of the fixt Body, but let the vertue of the fixtSpirit,ex-

} cell the height of the unfixt, ac-| cording to the intent of fixation. it:) Sonif thou underftand this, thou i} maift have the Treafure of Heaven }} and Earth. It is required i -f

the

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the Body ‘is fo'naturally augmen- | ™! ‘ted, and ‘nourifht by corivenient|

‘fnoifture, that then near the mea- | | ‘ure, thou imbibe it with the more |Ea a

f (

Water of its nutrition or augmen- |da

tation, according to the Weights| | revealed by Art, to the conformi- |“i ty of ptinciples, and the quality|th ‘of the Body given to be augmen- | i

ed, and letitbedecodted with a |th

‘pentle Fire, exficcating the natu- |my

tall heat, and not exceeding untill } su it attain its perfec whitenefle. La/- | \\

Lallius.

ay a lit Codic.pa.157.

- And note that after Imbibition |

they ought to be buried feaven } th days. Therefore iterate the Work } 1 many times, thoughit be tedious, | ly and the Weight in this muft be] ti every way obferved, left the too § 9 much ficcity or fuperfluous Hu- § } miour fpoile it inthe operation, as namely decoétfo much by Affati- J On, as the Diffolution hath added, |

anid ‘by Imbibition diffolve as | 2

much —

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ly and not haftily irrigate the Earth from eight days to eight days. Idem.

If one Imbibition, one Deco- p pix,

étion, one Contrition doth fuffice, they would not fo much have iterated their fayings, but therefore they did this, that alwaies they | might infift onthe Work, without divorce and tedioufnefle.

Wherefore alfo they fay, Hope, and fo fhale

thou obtain.

But

when it is exficcated,then by another Courfe, let it be delivered to infatiable Comeftion, that being by degrees between every Inceration, burnt into: Afhes, it might try the power thereof, Dafizn E-

piff.fong.

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‘THR COROLLARY. Ariftotle affirms in the firft. of his Phyficks, that the whole s not |, known without the parts in which | itconfifts ; But thewhole asitre- | fents the nature of all its parts, fo | the whole and the perfect are altogether the {ame. Whence it follows, — that it. is not fufficient for a Man | /

to know the Subject of fome Edi- |

fice, that thence a Houle might.be |

built, unleffe he knew the particn- |

lar parts,and their Conftruction and |

‘Compofition. So likewife it would | ‘little conduceto the perfection ofthe |

Stone, to have known onely the Sub- |

ject and its Preparation, unleffe after | it bee prepared the Artift. know | how to bring it to Maturity, then

to nourifh it, and laftly to feed it,

even untill it attain a Degree above | perfection. Then the parts teftifie of |

the whole, and the whole of the \' parts,

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109 iparts, the beginning of the end, and

the end of the beginning. for what pity were it an Heire from the Ringly Stock fhould be born 5 4nd.

‘none found that knew how to nourifhit ? Therefore. to nourifh this: our Infant we advife with Phyfici_\ans, that (fince hes of the Royall

Stock, and the moft pare confliuts‘\on) he might not be delivered to amy ftrange Nur(e, but mighs fuck '|\the Brefts of his Mather, who as " \fbe bad before nonrifht him in the.

Womb with ber own Blood fobeing. now come to Maturity, be is tobe mouri{bt, and in a due PrOPOT tip

fed with the exuberated Blood, cir= culated and rectified through the

"| Mamillary veins, And the medicinall mea(ure of that Milk, let it be

weekly the fourth part of the weight ofthe Infant, But let him keep this Diet for feaven Weeks, till he be fo Medicinally fed that while in a glaf| [en Lodge (ordained and firmly ob{erat ed

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phersy he be placed and’ repofed in

a Bath, and being lilledafleep, bis

limbs diffolueand melt with {weat, °| which. by: the help of Art and) Nature, anddue governance, fhall refume their former fhape, rented, ("’ and their firength fo multiplied,» that now hedefires Kingly food,with | which nonrifhment in a [hort pace’ ¥ he. will becomé a. King, fironger |

shen a Kine, and [0 flout in Bat-- ¥% sell, shat he alone being a moft pow" erfull: Conqueror; will obtain the Vittory againft ten: thoufand Ene * mies.

Therefore [eck >this: King, ©

his’De> whom who fo hath” for’

fence, hall command-all Sablinary~ l things.

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CHAP.

VOI,

it Of Fermentation, ! r BY the Teftimony of all Philo “Aaiuies fophers there are three:parts of

" he Elixir, VIZ, Soul, Body, and; {. Ppitit5The Soulis Onely-the Fer-|

ip jaent or Form, of ‘the: Elixir, the;

we pody is the Pafte or Mattes which’

# (WO..parts are to be. drawn: from’ ie (Aetals only;to wit;the Form:from:

vihe Sun and Moon, the Matter:

gor. Jupiter, Saturn, Venus; and

‘i Mars, as allo Lullius affirms; Buti

ips third part: of the Stoneiis SpiDi. \t, which fince itds the Sear vant

Hy -hariot ofthe Soul;).it doth pout: “yne Soul into, the Body; andcom

yOunds.-and, joins thefe wo-ex::

emes... with. an-- indifloluble: «ond, of-agreement,; which Mediaen

(Pt, being xemoved;:the. Soul cam

js) /EVEt emterleaguc swith the Bodyy. |}Ob twoiextremes agreésnot wells) noy

Chymicall Collections. nor tarry if one’place, unleffe they |) _are teconciled and confederated by the help of ameani This Spirit | it nothing elfethen that liquor; at- )1 tenuating the Form and:Matter of “the Stone, and reducing it toa fpr } rituall ‘Nature, which: Spirit 1s | fometimes called of the Philofo-| phers, Heaven; fometimes folutive | Mercurygy fometimes *menftruous | Matter, *fometimes Quinteffence,| and infinite other names. Ta#ladan, |

pa.338.

x

Unto thy Compound. adde the} x

fourth’part. the ‘Ferment, ‘whichtl }fw Ferment is onely of the Sun’ and Moon. And know that there are} dn

three Ferments; two'of Bodies: in} iy

pure Nature which ought to befiiy

altered, as we have told thee’, thej i third moft fecret, which we’ now}

meditate; “is that firft Barth with its proper green Waters wherefore} : while the Lion’ 'thirfts; make him drink, untill his body be’broken. | Ripley pa.56.

Take}:

Chymitall Collections: 113 vorTake the fourth partcof the Seat i) Ferment, andlet that Fermentbe °’”"* tit} diffol ved jand:made ‘Barth like an ]imperfect Body; and prepared afHter the’ fame manner and order; i: moreover joine and imbibe it with ithe -aforefaid blefled Water; for

Ferment prepares’ the imperfect it) Body,) and converts it: to its own | Nature, and: irisnot Ferment unileffe Sun and Moon. Semita Semt|

rer

Wy

Give it fermented Ferment, €- Rachaiais

tht) ually elementated with every’E- < ih lement,y which is Gold ; give it the fourth part, but which is/firft cal-

cinedsand: diflolved into Water.

i Ferment is twofold;white and red,

obof which the Ferment of the Sun,

Wiisthe: Sun, and of the Moon, the

Moons But let the Ferment be the

ty fourth:part:of our, Copper. Rafopehaidibas pac3 93.

iff = hou wilt have no perfect Fer- Duntaxs pmentctill it be altered, with our boas I

I

Mer-

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Lulins.

They who knew not Natures | indigency, thought this Ferment |

ought to be prepared with, new |Wip menftrous Matter, in’ which, 1s jh’ Fire againft Nature,, not petcelr |;

ving the perdition of the Tempe- | rature from which the Body: de- |y; parts, by reafon of the burning jj Fire, viz. again{t Nature, Fer-| ment,towit, a, Body, as muchas} itis underftood. for: Ferment,.1s|

not prepared but with. nacurall} j, Fire and Water of Mercury. Lal.}

Codic.pa.211. a Take one part of Ferment, and}, ;

_threeof imperfect Body, diflolve}) the Ferment, in Water of Mercury §\ -equall.to it, boil it together with

a moft gentle Fire, and coagulate th that Ferment, that it maybe as ang 4

imperfect Body, Rofar. Philofoph.|

p-317-

Take

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cof ake red Earth,‘and form it sold.

into’ thin Plates, or fhaved Dutt, {| and put itin Water, as hath been } taught, and ic fhall not be diffolS}vedinit, but onely calcined into Hired Duft; which done,remove the

Wi) Water warily,and put it into anoSither Veffell, like that in whichrtt t}is, fo that the calcined Daft of red }Earth may remain in its’ Veflell i} without Water, and in the removed Water’ put white Earth, and ‘that fhall be diffolved, and fo. Water fhall profit thee, and fhall not be fpoiled. Araeldin Cament. Horal sipland p4.3 1. |

“Inthe preparation of the Fer- Lulins.

of ment, before its laft Fermentation

we ufe vulgar Mercury, not oncly Wfolemnly prepared, 07%. into Vir-

i) gins Milk, but as ic exifts in: its th act, by the alone Sublimation P to'this, that ie might reduce the gt) Body of Ferment toits fimplicity, ij and itmay be the! mean of conjoi|

Ea

ning

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215. rigat| Let it be given to.an infatiable: | Devourer, afterwards it muft be’ |

~nourifht with. grofler-meat, that: |m compleat Digeftion being recei-) | ved,it may pafle from the Mothers’ | into the Fathers Kingdome. Daft: |1j Epift.pa.6. i ‘asladanus .As, the Ferment.of Gold is) | Gold; of Silver, is Silver;.fo the} | Ferment of Iron,is Iron, of Cop-=:| per, is Copper, and of Leadyis;| Lead... Therefore. every Agent: acts according to its form. To!) fome, what we have fpoken’ may; |

feem new; as if the Elixir could) |

be made of all. ignoble. things) Bie which fhall turn all other things*| as well noble as ignoble, eitherin-> |

to Mars, or Jupiter, or Saturn; or’ §\ Venus. -Which althoughit now |

feem new and incredible to many: J learned men, and chiefly to Petrus,

Bonus,a man of fingular learnings

yet |

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| yet. there is no neceflary reafon, ‘||which forbids it may be done. | Nayif it were not done, Alchymy | had been loft,and the Art of Chy‘} miftry might have been worthily ts | called a Figment and a Fable. For ‘Nature hath eftablifhed this Law,

viz. That.as often as Actives are Jrigbtly joined with Paffives; Acti}on and Paffion doe immediately follow, and the alteration doth

sjalways refent and favour of the si] nature of the Agent. And as often jasiothat which: before had the |itreneth and qualities of the Patient} be fo difpofed that it can }ftoutly act, it isineceffary that the yJalteration be anfwerable and con'|formable to the Nature of the Aepgent> from «which it’ -fuffered. | Wherefore if. ignoble Metals. dif|pofed to fuffer or change by the action of Gold or Silver, rightly hi difpofed to Action, it is neceflary ng) |that noble Metals.difpofed to: futro ona 3 fer

Chymicall Colleétions. | fer fhould’ be changed’ by ignoble 4 Metals, skilfully difpofed to Acts yj Tauladanus pa.297.

clangor Bulls

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Let the Ferment be :prepared, fini that the powder may be white and ty, fubtill, if thy intention proceed taipio! white; but if tored, then lew thy tow powder be cf Gold prepared moft fier Citrine;

and there fhall not beiiht

other Ferment : the reafon is, be=ini | caufe thofe two Bodies: are fhi+} ning, in which are tingent fplendid Mat Rates, excelling other Bodies na tim turally in whitenefle and redneffe. Chu And if thou wouldft fermentpfr white Earch, divide that Earth tit into two parts one pare thou fhalt ti) augment to a white Elixir, with its pity

conferved Water, (and foit neveitl tg

ceafes to be of it) and the other] th

part put into its Glafle; that isjiiuh the Furnace of its Digeftion, and ity

increafe the Fire to at, untill by itm the force of the Fire, itbe turned cm

into moft red Duft, even as dry fle;

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combuft

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lomnbuft: Saffron. And if thou Wrouldft: that the moft white Elipit have the Tin@ture of Redneffe, jyansforming ‘and tincting 'Merjury, the Moon and every Body jwyito the moft true Sun; or Solilyycous Body; ’ then ‘ferment ‘its

wtjaree parts with another part and itihalf of moft puresprepared Gold, bead let the powder be moft' fabWile with two parts of Solificous Vater artificially reducing by tabinmomby the leaft parts into one i’ haos even: unto the inmoft part ig the Body, and place it in its’ aijrlaflein his Fire, and decoé it, aliat'the moft true’ bloody: red tone might'fhine forth. Clazg. | |AEC.P.5 29.

*

# oUhere is nocother Ferment: but rik £the Sun or Moon. And itis not (verment untill the {aid Bodies be

parned into their firft Matter, bejvaufeit is expedient, that Ferment je compounded of the Sun, and I4 _ the

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the moft fubtile Eaith. Where- | fore if thou knoweft not how.to | J,

reduce two perfect Bodies into | their firft. Matter, thou-canftthave |i: Maffa Solis e Liste

no Ferment. Lal. Theor.p.g2s. pli

For this is Minerall, that.when |i thou putft Water on. the Earth, |ria the White overcomes: the» Gi- jm trine and Reds and whitens them fini into-whitenefle

of Silver. Then |Ri

the Citrine overcomes the White |im)

and Red, fo that it makes them |imm Citrine, above the Citrinity of} phi

Gold., and: then the Red over- | sh

comes the Citrine and White,and }iid reddens them intoa Tyrianred-}j

neffe,.and. when thou feeft thefe, | fi

rejoice, Maffa Solu G Luna, pae\ sy 212

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if THE COROLLARY. As inthis Chapter is clearly and plainly tanght the excellent manner of Fermentation, (oto the unexpethiréenced Reader, this. contradiction Cf esay:appear, between Raimund and

ich) Ripley:ia thefe words, viz. whilft

hin Raimund affirms. two Ferments with oxely, one. of the Sun, another of the ita) Moon’; bat Ripley addes a third, oll) whichis called theGreen Lion, and

itt) the unclean Body, which is alfocalail) Led Laton, which Laton finceindeed

ily 4s.no other thing then am imperey fett compound: Body. ef Gold. and

ph Sélver according to Morienus 5that

| third of Ripley 2s. clearly demon-

| frratedtobe no other thing thes im-

| mature Gold and Silver, and [othey

) doe not differ bus agree:in matter of

f Ferment; thouzh for immaturities | fakeithe fignified by another name. ) Zothisour Dunktan Archbifhop of | Can-

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Canterbury feems to affent. It is:|

certain the Earth may be the Fer-\G ment of Water, fo it be fixt, and)

the Water the Ferment of the Earth, if coutraviwife. itbe perfect and Ww pure, and this altogerher withoat all iyi

help of Vuigar..Geld and Silver: iBiyi

Which words doe feem. indeed to)

bring. a new controverfie amoncfe lyn) their opinions, while fome affirm six the Elixir cannot be made. without,\y\) Vulgar Gold and Silver.

Again, te

others affirms that Vulgar Gold and Aw Silver is nothing ufefull in: our jy Work : Let therefore Dunftans opé= | py nion intercede. We mutt note 1D Cfaith be) that: ancient, Philofo= Jj)

phers didnot ufe Vulgar Goldand fim Silver inthis Work, and therefore }}y they faid their labour. neededna,| ercat Coft, but:might equallysbe sfi performed: aswell of the Poor.as:§ 4 of the Rich, the Countriman: a) |

Citizens which would altogether differ from truth, if it. might eae

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lite: petformed without Vulgar Gold. and Silver. He thus tanght

wherefore that we phould take heed :

th\\Ror althongh:Gold and Silver may wipe fubtilized and mingled with

bab Tinctures, and be reduced to leffer ef Elixirs s yet theway according to 7 |‘he

Doctrine of the Philofophers, ts

nehnot in thems For their Gold and fra Silwer aretwe chief Tinctures, Red bw twd White buried tn one and the Ain, lame Body, which by Nature never

attained their perfect Complement, bit yerthey are feparable from sheir wia\Barthly Lutofity, and accidental and

Droffe, and thenby their proper qaa-

ede fo commixtible with Earths

\pare Red and White,and are found fo

| firFerments for them, that they may 00:0 way be faid to need any other thing. In which words is defcribed aeorber thing thew Ripleys green | Lion) or their Gold, not Gold, unther|leffe%in pofsibilicy while was yet imma| sare. “Which alwaysiand onely is fet apart

Chywicall Collettions, =| apart and chofemof all Philofophens,\un and thefe that underfiand, for theirpei firft. Matter. Whence it 2s clearlypratt manifeft that neither Vulgar Golapput nor Silver ought to be taken for thenoy firft Matter, but yet it: 1s dowbtfullpoo If, why, and when they are nece(faryhi

tothe Compofition of the EMNt To which I an{wer from theirs authority of the Philofophers; That they are. fo meceffary,. as withouthh them the Elixir cannot be perfected.)

But yet not as they are Vulgar Gold and Silver, but being fo alsered aatui that they, may. be reduced to. theirfiur, firft Matter, and while they are fixtin

by Nature, may be made Volatile bypitiy Art, and then at length while theypwoh

arein [uch a Condition, itfhall be

impofsible for any Artif to reduceth

them again toVulcar Goldand:Silatiny ver,afeer the manner ofGoldfusithssiny

becaufe then according. to the Turban the Body becomes incorporate, as al= Bh

fo Rofarius witnefeth.

FATAUIS tg conti RI NORE Lanes SSE ySR ea SEN RTmyse magn

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| nows foto deftroy Gold, that it eno more Gold; ‘has attained the jreateft fecrets And when itis fo

atepared, then it: fhall be the firft qroper Dith, of which our Infant »wnourifht, and by Philofophers allshave the: name of Ferment: ay 8 #V hich; after the’ Stone be come: i its® perfec Redneffe, and hath { |

meen

nourifhe with the Mothers

i filk, it ought ‘to be joined'with Getsted: Earth for the accomplifh+ Golapent of the Blixir, that it might. th pnder:a more: then ‘perfect ‘Tin-

qoure, and might communicate its _ ixt Nature, ‘tothe prepared ‘Me+ ilebicines: which being fpecificated it might at-length become perfect. diqherefore hence it appears,

That

jhysand when Vulgar Gold and Sil Simen are mot neseffary to the complephypremt of the Work. That therefore I 49. briefly reduce to one Harmony

Vis appearing Controverfie (which (96:Philofophers under{tanding ene Ie Ano-

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anorher mutually, deliver purpofely in intricate terms) inthefe words ef) Guido Montanus, viz, Although] the Philofophers Stone may be;

made even’ to Whiteneffe’ andj\!

Redneffe without Vulgar Gold or Silver, yet the Elixir cannot’ bef made without ‘Vulear Gald om

Silver, altered and prepated as be-fl

fore, But that Imay canclude this

Corollary, always obferve, that afte wom

she Work ofWinter ts perfortsed,amini,\ shou foals [ee the Sun exaltedin Amt| ries, and shat then the PhilofophichtM work be begun, That in that veri houre we ought to prepare Fermentsyit, becaufe they need long Preparatiomp|

and it would be the greateft éncommisti

wenience, that when the King flowliiinic

hunger, food fhould be wanting, aia)

shat there {bould nor be a Diflr ol Dainties prepared. Therefore lelWe ap bx every Artift be provident.

My

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Of Projection.

Dry earthy Body tings not, drtepheus. q+

unlefle it be tinGed, and be-

gaufe it enters not, therefore it al: Therefore it tinéts not sbey

By |

wid Many through ignorance have

vomleftroied.. their Work, when they jamave.made ProjeGion, upon.imjjigpuce, Metall, for, their Tinctures wy xeafon of Corruption doe not ymemain, but: vanifh, becaufe they @emoved not from the Bodies hofe things which after Projecti-

w (@mare brittle, dark, and black: See herefore. thou firft: Project thy (Medicine on Ferment, then that igh erment will be brittle as pin then

Chymicall Collections. then caft that brittle Subftance 2 upon Bodies clean and very pute,| and prefently thou fhalt fee them *}*' curioufly coloured with Tincture) . which will abide all Trials. So! make three, fouror five Projecti

on3,till the TinGture of thy Medi- |} cine begin to decreafe,then is there} anend of making further Projecti-|$"

‘Avicenna

4 on. Ripley pa.62. n}! tio jec Pro of But the manner is, that thou Project one -part of

the forefaid Medicine upon 2 hung}

dred ‘parts of fufed or powred ‘i

‘Gold, and it makes it frangible; and the whole will be a Medicine i of which one part Projected upon}

a hundred of any fufed Metalljil turns it into the beft Gold.

Andj"?

likewife if thou work ‘with the ty Moon; But if the Medicine or EW

lixir {hould not have ingreffe, rake} of the Stone extracted inthe firfly ® operation, and of the forefai¢ j Mercury a like quantity, and bgt S$ (

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rélethem together, and incorpo-

rate them by. grinding upon a |Stone,and then diftilling ina Bath, }ehat they might the better be joire :

ined together,then dry them. 4vi-

af cenna pias. i) Son, compound the Minerals, wd which pertain to the Minerall Magueitery, by multiplying their verItue thus: Take one part of the +. Powder or Duft, viz. an ounce or pound, and Project it. upon ten

Iparts of Amalgama, made of one sarc of the Moon or Sun, and five wok Mercury, and the whole hall ape turned into Powder or Duft according to the condition of Duft'; and) Proje& one of thofe {ten parts, upon other ten of A|malgama or fimple Mercury, fo Iproceed by Computing and. ProHjecting. untill thou fee the Matter vmtuitned neither into Duft nor Meptall, but into a hard frangible | Maffe; and make trial! of ir;vx. |

how

Lulls.

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into Metall ; and. by this manner lor

thou thalt neceffarily findethe end };, of Projection, otherwife thou |)”

fhalt never finde it, unleffe ic be i firft converted into a hard fran- Le

gible Maffe, as we told thee be- a

fore. Lull. Teft.p4.64. ventura . But this is the greateft Secret, |

that the vertue of the Medicine | fhall be alfo. augmented: in the}.

Projection, not onely in extenfive J Quantity, but alfo in the vertue } of Perfection and

Goodnefle ,

wiz. If the Medicine be Projected inadue Proportion upon a Body, } and the wholebe put into Fire,and } augmented by its degrees, and bei:

{ ‘ i i

i 4

oftner diflolved, and oftner coa-|

gulared, till it be more fluxillthen’

Wax. Whereforeif in Projection §

the Medicinebe fo much weakned §*

“ i es

bf

§:

b

i

that it cannot have ingrefle any | longer, ingreife is given to it if part of the firft Medicine be iol

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ined to it, and it be decocted by

\diffolving and coagulating till it flow. But by how much leffe the ivertue of the Medicine is, it is ne‘Iceffarily convenient to adminifter |the Fire from the beginning, and

laccording to the degrees of Time, joy fo muchthe more temperature.

IBut if there fhall nothing remain lof the firft and moft perfect MeHicine which might be added;

which left it happen to him, the ngenious Artift muit chiefly be-

ff i}

ware) thence it will be firtodoe

ce The third manner is |according to Refarivs\that a little

bart of the Medicine, whether white or red, be joined with the ‘}5tone or our Mercury, (which was

neverin the Work) and let it be

undfeat t° digeftionas before, and deMNWcoctéed by Putrefying,Subliming, Mand Fixing, untill the whole be-

come atincrured Oil, then again thou fhalt have the perfect Stone 5 : K2 and

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with leffe coft, labour,and hazard. | if

But always keep fome part for jj

Ferment, as well of the White as | Red; and this wife Confideration | cee

fhall excufe thee of much trouble.

Ventura pa.lgse

Clangor,

ibay

Let one part of Medicine be }9 taken, and ten parts of putrefied| 1 Mercury, fo that Mercury be} made hot even to Fumofity, and}, , then let the Medicine be caft upon’, it, which will prefently flow, even}, penetrating the leaft parts; then} ‘by aconvenient Fire made ftrong, }tC é let the flowing Mercury be gathe-] red together, of which let alittle}, Q

°

| it

pat be taken, and let as much of i.

is vive Mercury be put to the}, Fire, and let the Weight be pro-})" ved; If the added Mercury thall ; notably recede, then it affects the},

Medicine toits fartheft parts. Buell , ifthe Body inthe Body fhall not] , be notably broken, but that thej] : Matter}

\

| Chymicall Collections. |Matter be yet frangible, and too Hfoft or hard, then again take a

Hlittle of this,and as much of crude YMercury, and in all things proceed, as hath been faid, till thou

Yhave thy intent. Clangor. Bucc.pa.

| THE COROLLARY.

As the Provifion of Citizens, tf P jit were not {upplted by Country men, “would fuddenly be wafted, and in Wiplike manner the great Store of the NN Country men themfelves quickly exOl hanfted, ifafter the Work of Winviz.the Preparation ofthe Earth, it iter

Land winnowing of the laid up Corn, it were not again delivered to natu\rating Nature, and again laid up in her lap to putrefie, diffolve and musliply : In like manner alfo, in the | Philofophick Work, whofe included

|Matter is not cafily found out, whofe

|myfticall manner of Preparation 7s pot K 3

|

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(that it might be brought unto 4 \w ‘degree above perfection) though |r

long, difficult, and hazardous, be- \hu

fore that the immenfe and infinite Iw reafure be perfected ; No otherwife jah

that being performed (unleffe we lh

fhortly, and with a little coft and \p)i trouble obtain the manner of multi-\ plying)

would all that be fpeedily\

confumed, which was gotten by long| and unwearied induftry. !

Therefore take this for a Corolla. Vy ry, that fince it i manifeft from \y, what hath been faid, that Medicine) wto be multiplied two ways. Firfl My

in quantity and quality, or elfe im Mwy

quantity onely.. In qnantity and | quality it is done by diffolution and fermentation, in quantity, onely by i Projcttion : Thon muft with all care | and providence take heed, left | thronghignoranse of the right form |

of Projection, that Divine Work, | (when i

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‘N(when it is now brought to its Com"plement, and degree above perfecti0) fheuld be deftroted. Therefore | [be muft know, that upon what feever “iBodythow fhals firft project the MeWidicene, 2¢ will change it into Daft

["en{werable to the nature of the Roity on which thou did Projet it,

wivhich indeed is Myfticall and tobe

‘Ivondered at, If therefore thou dedirest ta bring thy Elixir te the Sun, ingh'et thy firft Proportion be made upon ihe Sun, that in the Sun it may be Wpecificated, And {0 with the Moon

fo the Moon, thon muft thence provintleed as hath been manifested clearly iinough from the authority of moft

mippr ved Philofopbers.

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Cuap. X. Maltiplication,

Semita,

:

W>Very encreafing or growing | itl both Micectabtoade ne 4

nimall,is multiplied in its kinde, as Jit Men, Trees, Grain, and the like, } for of one Seed,a thoufand are ge- 4C

nerated, therefore it is poffible | that things be infinitely encreaft. | Bact

Semita Semita pa.438.

But thou fhalt multiply the $i

Medicine thus; After thou’ haft |

compleated it, take notice:on how many it fals, which being fore{een, again refolve, and congeal it, and in every Refolution the Tin= cture is doubled, that ifbefore its refolution one part fall upon a hundred, afterwards it will fall upon two hundred. Bacon fo.19. i Scale ° Medicine may be multiplied two ways, firft by Diffolution and _ Reiteration of Congelation , anf nae re this

| |

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Chymicall Collecti vs » | chis is its virtuall Multiplication in | Goodneffe or Quality ; the fecond

by Fermentation, and this is its | Multiplication in Quantity. Scala I65.

paiva

The Multiplication of Medicine is performed two ways, one |by the reiterated Diffolution and ‘| Coagulation of the Stone; the bl) fecond: by Projection of the firft Elixir Stone upon. a Body, either White or Red, in fuch a Quantity, that the fame Body* may alfo: be ‘turned into Medicine, and then

there may be put together to diffolve in their Water and menftrous ‘Matter,and fo the firft Elixir is the | Rerment of fuch a Tincture; and

fo doe Women that bake. Rofar. na), Philofophor.pa.347.

Clangor.

.|/

. The Augmentation in Goodnefle and Quality, is to diffolve

| and coagulate the very Tin@ure,

that is,roimbibe and exficcate it in our Mercury. Or thus, take MO ceres one

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one part of the prepared Tincture, | and diffolve it in three parts of |!

our Mercury.,. then. put it’ in af Veffell, and feal the Veffell, and jth cover it with hot Embers, till jit it be ex ficcated and become Dutt, | then open the Veflel, and again }

imbibe ‘and exficcate as before, iN

and how: much the oftner thou

doft this, fo often thalt thou gain fome parts. Or elfe take of the fixt Matter which tin@eth; that is, of the prepared Tincture three parts, and of the Philofophers’ Mercury one part, and putit into a Veflel; and feal the Veflel, and putit among hot Embersas before, and exficcate it, that it may

|

J! ji ]1

| 4!

|

be made Dutt, then open the Vef-' qi:

fel, imbibe, and exficcate it as be-

fore: And the Water that is Ar- |

Hit

gent vive or Mercury, addes no-; §! thing to the Weight, or to the: |

Body, unlefle as much as. remains of the Metallick humidity.

Alfo

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Alfo Multiplication in Quantity is made by mixtion of the Mediicine with vulgar Argent vive ina Crucible, which Argent vive in-

ilideed is turned-into red Duft by jadmixtion of the Stone,and again, inythat, of that Argent vive which fhould be caft upon other Argent vive, 1S again alfo turned. into !Duft, and fo thou fhalt make reite-

Itations of the: Duft.of. Argent

hat} Vive upon other Argent vive, untill the Argent vive cannot be turined into Duft, but remain turned [Cie pa.5 33.

| Ifthou wouldft multiply it,, it avcephens. lis’ fit thoutdiffolve the red again, in a new diflolutive Water, and

fin an iterated decoction to whiten jand redden it by the degrees of ) Fire, by reiterating the firft Regimment or Work. Diffolve, Conjgeale, Reiterate, by Clofing,Ope-

ining, and Multiplying, in Quanti-

Chymicall Collections. ty and Quality, as thou pleafeft.| Becaufe by anew Corruption and} [J Generation, is again introduced a}1 | new Motion, and fo we cannot! obtain anend, if we would always operate by Reiteration, Diffoluti- |’ on and Coagulation, by the me-} diation of our Diffolutive Water, that is, by diffolving and coagula-|

ting through the firft Regiment

or Work, as hath been faid.

fo the vertue of it, is augmented |E and multiplied in quantity, fo that ifthou haft an hundred inthe firft ;

thoufand, and fo by profecuting, | thy Projection will become infi-| i

nite, in truly, perfe@tly, and fixed-' ly tincting or giving Tin&ure to every Quantity, how great foever, | and fo by a thing of no value is § ©

added,Colour, Weight, and Vertuc. Arteph. f0.37.

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THE COROLLARY. I knew (faid Count Bernard of \Zrevifane) a certain man of the _|County of Avchona,who had very jwell. known the Stone, but was

ignorant of the Multiplication,

‘jHe (faith he) did folicitoufly fol-

low me fixteen intire years that he

might learn, but from. me he ne-

iver knewit, for he hath the fame

Books as I. } Bat I cannot think any man (0

idall and flupid, but that he may from the Chapter eafily underftand | the Multiplication of the Stone.

Sach things by how much the oftner they are diffolved, filtrated, and Vcoagulated, become by fo much the more [ubtile, pure, penetrating, and much more tran(parent. It ws like| wife fo with that. Phyficall. Stone,

| which, although it be brought to

\perfection, yes by how much the oft| | ner

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ner it is diffolved and coagulated, byt fo much the more the firength there-|. of is multiplied in Projection, even| untill it attain an infinite number.) i To the practice whereof in thw ourt, laft’ Chapter, it will not be requifite, that 1 adde a further Paraphrafes). fince this our diffolving Philofo-| phick Mercury is to every one clearly)

evident. from what hath been fata) in thefe our Collections. That, thas

is Fire which they call Naturall, by}

whofe help the Solution and Refolu-} tion ofthe Elixir is performed, anay

the Preportion thereof, and manner

operating, they have truly and ele-} gantly explicated in this Chapter without Tropes or Figures: For be= fore thistime, was enough and too much obfcured, and over fhadowed by their parabolicall Mifts, that true|

Path-way by which every lover of

the Art is brought through difficulties, Woods, and Mountains, to that moft famous Tower of Philofo=: phys,

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\hy, confecrateto Art and Nature, |e which the Fire of Nature is im\réfoned and locked up. | The Tri-une God, Father, Word, h@@ Holy Spirit, Incomprehenfible on eeght, Lmspartible Trinity, Tmmx1 |able Elfence,which rules all-things, at not inclu fively beyond all things, jut not exclufively, Ipsmcn{esInctr-

Memm{cript, Ineffable, from his infijite and un {peakable Mercy, vouchlafe to open, detect, and unlock it, Io all that worthily importune and Amplore his Aid, to his eternall

praife and honour, Amen.

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* pegogeeters | Things to be obferved. ay fat

1.

HE Materiall. Part being)\i known, and had, tt ong le) i

not to be kept 10 a Hot, and Moift; |bi

but in a Cold or Dry places nor be | i:

kept long2 but thow beginneft t0.\;)

Work with it whilff it is frefh, ana) but newly Extracted from its Mines

2. Begin not to Work, unleffe) (i

thou haft fo much. of the Proper); Materiall weighed out, as will ferve) ¢

for two years, that in cafe thew) \y

faileft the firft time, thon maife\y “corrett it the (econd. Becaufe showy, casft not examine Truth without}, Eallhood; nor that which is Streight) \

without confideration had ef that} which 1s Crooked. So that 1f thow . fhouldft want Matter to work upon,

thou loaveft the Work «npn i, Ana

|

|

(145) | y | and getteft nothing bat thy Labour | for thy Pains.

| 3. The Elements are to be fepa|rated in afoft Bath,that the Alemy

Mb

Wl) bic be not perceivedto be hot, but iil Gat the vapour (being Elevated Wl and Congealed in the Colder Aire) ri may be turned into Water, baving Hil the form of all the Species’s where~ a of it is Generated,

nhs

4. After the Water [hall be DiMl filled, tet it not fiand lang when it ripe as fit for Operation, Because the

WW Coagulum thereof faileth into the

ti bottome, congealing the Coagulawi ted (Body) by the Coldneffe and Wl Drineffe of the Aire: which ({2ith

tii? Senior) happened to one of my

Wm Affociates, who foundit fo for a

Ai| whole year, but not Diftilled,

7,

wt

5. Itzs noceffary the Artift have

iM 4 great Quantity ofWater, becanfe a

L

that

| i |

|

(146) Af that inthe Beginning, Middle, and | | f End, there will always bea necefsity ||i | Putrefying,Wafb-_ in well as thereof, ing, Calcining, Subliming,

Imbi-

bing, asthat the Elixir may be of- |i)

ten Refolued, Wherefore Avicen |jq in his Epiftle to bis Son, My Sonit |jjy

behoveth thee to have a. great | Quantity ofour Sun and Moon, |

that thou maift extract their Mot- })j,

ftures, fixty Pounds at the leaft.

|

6. Thou maift with one Pound lal weight of Water, refolve the Matter | into Water, even to an Infinite | Quantity, Rut he that defrres to gather this firft Pound let him be) Patient, and proceed foftly and\ fweetly, not haftily : For that Work }

is termed of Phslofophers, An Ex-} traction of his own Sweat.

7. But above all, thou muft be- 9 ware, that at no time thou putteft a) ;

cold Glaffe into the hos Waters\,

iil :

(147)

5I) left it foould be broke, and thon lo»

iy

| |

Hii] Jp eates)

eat

]. Sie } Sima

a {eft thy Labour.

y y

1 hat Te i 1

i

i} Hea

Nay Tall ; } aa

)

8: 1: & tobe noted, When thow

4

.

o takeflup a Velfei, thow fuffere( it to |

i) coole with Water, for the [pace of

Bt

.

nah |

j

Wias

ai i ilHa 1} e

ifthree hours, at the leaft.

Ca

of 9. Take heed in Diftilation,that

WN the Water bubble not at the fame time. } 10. In every Digeftion, the

whl)Glalfe muff be Sealed with the Seal

Wt) of Hermes.

int

iM)

11. To Fix Inceration, a Necef-

oo fity is obferved amongft. Quacks; 7 that 4 Fire be made thereon, where-

Vil b9 the Matter may the better be Fixhed, which notwithftanding is wot [to befleighted,

fi

6-12,

He that underftands what

uf|48 meant by the Philofophers Maa |gnelia, under {tands the Preparation L 2

Pi

and

|

.

(148) and Perfection of she firft Work,

and what is meant by Sal nature, Sal Armoniacus, Mercurius Ex-

uberatus, avd Sulphur nature, which being underfiooa rn Dimidium faéti, qui bene coepit, habet.

13.. Shortly after the fecond

\wh

i

| Mel

|the

|die

Work, or the Philofophick Work ws ir

begun, forget not even at the fame hair houre, to begin the Preparation of },i thy Ferments, becaufe they require along time of Preparation ; Let the

San make his own Ferment: the

Moon hers.

14. To the Building of a Kings :

ificers | Palace, thefe following Art

are nece(farily required, A Majfon, a Simith,a Glafier, a Potter, (or ma- }.

ker of Earthen Images) a Carpenters

seithout which, neither the Palace |

can rightly be built; nor the King :

there-

| therein preferved from Cold, and the Injuries of Winds. |

15. Many men throuch Tgno-

| vance have deftroied their Work,

| when at the firft they made Projecti}6n of the Medicine, upon Imperfett |Metals. For, on whatfoever Body. thou firft of all rrojetteft the Mewi dicine,that fame is converted into 4 Mi |Frangible Majfe, and fhallbe ap Eli-

Mm) xir according to the nature of the f | Body upon which it is fo Proje-

NON Ghed. So, asthat if the Projection 1 be made wpon Jupiter, or Venus, # Ue )fhall be a Medicine, which not onely converteth other Imperfect. Bodies

| into Jupiter, or Venus, but alfo re-

\) duceth perfect Bodies (to wit, the

(0) San and Moon) into Imperfect Bai l)dies; according to the nature of the

™) Body uponwhich the Medicine fhall

MN firft be projected:

which canfed

st she moft Learned Raimund (ftruck

Kf | with Admiration) to cry out in thefe is Cae .

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words, What ! is Nature Retrograde?

16. He that would underfland the fayings: of Philofophers, mut not give credit (a much to their Words, as tothe things they Treat of : For, the knowledge of Words, is not tobe

taken from the manner of (peaking;

becaufe that the Matter % net [uo-

ject tothe Speech, but the Speechto

the Matier.

17. Note, thatafhort aud broad veffell is requifire for diftiling a | Heavy Body, or at leaft Water with | its Sa'ta-Je. Becanfe that by how | much the Water is more Ponderous” then the Body, by {0 much ought

the Velfellto be the broader and decz per, through which the heat paffeth |

gore temperateand profitableto the Work.

18. Great care is always to be

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bad, left at any time from the fi ft | Syegea

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‘a

| Matter fhould wax cold, or be at

| any time moved by realon of dmiminent Danger.

19. Let mot agreater Quantity of the Matter be put into the Philofophers Egge, then may fill two Ms ‘Thirds thereof, at the utmoft. i): Mt) |

20.

Itisto be noted, thatin Ab-

lution, or Calcination of the Earth, 1 ae the Waters Imbibition, or

id Bxficcation, be made in rreparation gill by the temperate heat of the Bath ; iin yet ats Sublimation or Rifing is pernl) fected by a (wifs fire of Alhes. gus %

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21. The Philofophicall Work may § bebegun with an equall Proportion Alte |of Earth prepared, and pure Water

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wards let them be placedin the rhi-

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lofophicall Furnace, or Athanore,|qy and cherifhedwith amaft foft Fire,|wh

whilft the Earth drinks up her Wa-| wl

ter, and (acoording to Ripley) the| Streams are dried up. Then laftly, bet the dry Matter be comforted with Seven Imbibitions, and every Ime|

bibition keep the following Proportion, that fo the Water may by a juft

Meafure exceed the Earth

wine)

times according to the Doctrine of Philofophers ; which cannet other-

wife be done, then by obferving | theje Numbers, But this fecret was | never as yet Revealed by any Body.

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For Example: If in the firft | Conjunction the Earth weigh 480 Grains, then let [amany be added to | at of its Water which together make | 1p 960 Grains, and for the time ape

pointed tothe firft Imbibition 240 Grains of new Water are required, 300 ta the fecond, 375 to the third, | 468 tothe fourth, 585 to the fifth, | 73°)

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Wt} 732 tothe fixth,oao tothe feventh,

in) whereby the Insbibstion is perfected; i and them proceed to Fermentation. tne]

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and Manner

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Philofophers Compofition, are orderly and methodically manifefted.

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irothe Students in, and well affected untoH

sR METICK

Philofophy, health and profperity.

9 Bez Monegft the heights of hidsy den Philofophy, the pro= duction of the Hermetick

<@ Stone hath ofa lone time feed? SOE been ftrongly believed to He the chiefeft, and nearefta Miracle, Poth for the Labyrinths and multitudes f operations, out of which the minde

f man, unleffe it be illuminated bya Beam of Divine light, is not able to unHvinde her felf; as alfo becaufe of its

Hooft noble end which promifeth a con-

tant plenty of health and fortunes, the jwo main pillars of an happie life. Belides, the chief Promoters of this Science

we

have made

it moft remote from. the

icnowledge of the vulgar fort by their WYropes and dark expreffions, and have

Po sae

placed it on high, asa Tower impregnaHole for Rocks and Situation, whereunto

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tet the way. The ftudy of hiding thisyit!

Arthath drawn a reproach upon the Arti it felf and its Drofettors :. for when thofep unfortun te Plunderers of the Goldenpitt Fleece by reafon of ‘their unskilfulnefleys felt themfelves,bcat down from their vainpitt attempt, and far unequall unto fuch emi-pit

nent perfons ; they ina furious raprurep! like mad-men, waxed hoifitt ofdefperation, againft their fame and the renown of theft)’

Science, utterly denying any thing to befit! above their cognizance and the {phearepti of their wit, but what was foolifh andfiai frothy : And becaufe they fet upon ajiit bufineffe of damage to themfelves, they have not ceafed to accufe the chief Ma-pan fters of hidden Philofophy of falfhood fim

Nature of impotency,and Art of cheats gi’ noe for any other reafon, then that thepfit

rafhly condemne what they know not fit nor is this condemnation a fufficient regi

yenge, without the addition of madnefsihiy

to fnarl and bite the innocent with infa-§l

mous flaunders. I grieve (in truth) forge their hard fortune, who whileft they rej}

prove others, give occafion of their own conviction, although they juftly fufter aii

hellifh fury within them. They moil and) {yweat

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tigweat to batter the obfcure principles of :Age moft hidden Philofophy with troops thogif arguments, and to pull up the fecret

dqjoundations thereof with their devifed ndiagines :which yet are onely manifeft

waif the skilfull, and thofe that are much eng erfed in fo fublime Philofophy, but hid onigom ftrangers :Nor doe thefe quickdhe Ighted Cenfors obferye, that whilft

{aey malign anothers credit, they wilpagly betray their own. Let them confihee with themtelyes,whether they under= itand thofe things which they carp at s }VhacA uthor of eminency hath divulged Hae fecret elements: of this Science, the {Mi-abyrinths and windings of operations, hognd Laftly, the whole proceedings therefata? What Oedipus hath fincerely and : iqruly explained unto him the figures and progatangled dark {peeches of Authors? ent i#Vith what Oracle, what Sibyl!l, have fg ey beenled into the Sanctuary of thisif ; -

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how

were

a

4.) @bings in ic made fo manifeft,that no part

yqyemains yet unveiled ? I fuppole they

con iwillno otherwife anfwer my queftion

gugehen thus, thar they haye pierced all oll hings by the fubtilty of their wits 3 Of

fi

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confeffe that they were taught (or rather} he

feduced) by fome wandring Quack or}

Mountebank , -who hath crept into aj

D labour, and glory of the wile? who cag

tie

with patience hear blinde men, as out oll) a Tripode judging ofthe Sun? Buti att

]

is greater glory to contemne the hurt}; ina

- Jefle darts of bablers, then to repell them Let them onely difdain the treafury of Nature and Art, who cannot obtaill

it. Nor is it my purpofe to plead thd doubtfull caufe of an unfortunate Sci

ence, and being condemned, to takei) into tuition: Our guilcleffe Philofophyg

is no.

whit criminous:

and

ftanding

{|

bymthe aid of eminenteft Authors§. fir

and fortified with the manifold experi

ence of divers ages,it remains fafe enougl! from the fopperies of pratlers, and thi {narlines of envy. However Charity hath incited me, and the multitude o wanderers induced me, taking pity o

them, toprefent my light, chat fo they may efcape the hazard of the night : by hel};

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| help whereof they may not onely five out, but alfo procure an enlargement

"

both to their Lite and fading Fortunes,

a This fmall Treatife penn’d for your ic (ye Students of Hermetick Philofophyufe ) bel J preferit unto you, thatit may be dedi-

i

in cated to thofe, for whofe fake it was oa writ. If any perhaps fhall complain of

(me, and fummon me to appear as guilty

huifrof breach of filence for divulging fecreté hil

in an itehing ftyle, ye have one guilty of ui too much refpectfulnefle towards you;

li |confeffing his faule; fentence him if you

bt }pleafe ; fo that my crime may fupply dt the place of a rewardto you: The of-

| | |

Sd fence will not bee difpleafing unto you;

ult and che punifhment (I doubt not) plea(pt faut unto mee, if I fhall finde my farto have erred in this onely; whereby you

nd) may puc an end to erring for the facure;

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SPO DS fearis the en- 445. sy trance into this Sci; nition ence. Its end. is good will towards our Neighbour, the

et |-fatisfying Crop is the rearing id endowing religious entertainent, with certainty;that. whatever the Almighty freely bepweth on us,we may fubmiffiveoffer again to him... As alfo puntreys grievoully oppreffed, ity be relieved ; prifoners mifebly captivated, releafed'; and nls almoft ftarved, comforted.

2. The light of this knowledge the gift of God, which by his reneffe. he beftoweth’

upori

hom ‘he -pleafeth: Let none prefore fer himfelf to the ftudy holt M 2 hereof,

n

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hereof, untill having cleared an},

urified his heart, he devote hir}js

felf wholly unto God, and be em ptied of all affection unto thing), impure.

3. The Science of producing, Natures grand Secret, isa perfe’ knowledge of Nature. univerfal};. and of Art, concerning the Real of Metals, the practife whereof J)

converfant in finding the. pring ples of Metals by Analyfis,and aj, ter they are made much mo perfeét, to conjoya them othe wife then before they have bee that from thence may refult a cf tholick Medicine, moft powé

full to perfect imperfect Metal and for reftoring fick and decaify.

Bodies, of what fort foever..

4. Thofe that are: in publi Honours and Offices, or be ; ways bufied with private and 1

ceflary-occupations, let them ng; firive to attain unto the top oFdy P

1)

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|Philofophy; for it requireth the

whole man, and being found, poffeffeth him, and being poffeffed,

_ichallengeth him from all long and iferious imploiments, efteeming all >

5. Let him that is defirous of this Knowledge, clear his minde

“720m all evil motions, efpecially “{ptide, which is abomination to

uillTeaven,and the gate of Hell: let

nd him be frequent in prayers, and ™haritable ; have little to do with

the world ; abftain from company Meeping ; enjoy conftant tranquil-

ity; that the Minde may beable 70 reafon more freely in private,

fad be higher lifted ‘up; for un-

de tffe it be kindled with a beam of

|ivine Light, it will not be able tity penetrate the hidden myfteries

Hehe Truth.

|

| 6. The Alchymifts, who have fiven their minds to their welM 3

nigh |

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nigh innumerable Sublimations , Diftillations, Solutions, Congealations ; to manifold Extraction!

of Spirits and Tinctures,and other Operations more fubtill then pro- na firable, and fo have diftractec},,, them by variety of errors, as {c},, many tormentors; will never bey bent again by their own Genius tcf, the plain way of Nature and ligh}, of Truth, from whence their in duftrious fubtilry hath declinec them, and by twinings and tur) mings, as by the Lybian Quick}, fands, hath drowned their intan}), gled Wits: the onely hope. oj,

fafety for them remaineth in fin},, ding out a faithfull Guide ang, Teacher, that may make the cleal

Sun confpicuous unto them, ani vindicate their eies from. dark§,, neffe.

ke

7. A ftudious Tyro of } quick wit, conftant minde; infla med with the ftudy. of .Philofo phy

|

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| phy, very skilfullin'naturall Phie: “| lofophy, of a pure heart, com

-:. i pleat in manners, mightily devo ited to God, though ignorant of |practicall Chymiftry,

:

may: with.

Y confidence enter into the ‘high-» way of Nature, perufe the Books

"MOF beft Philofophers; let him ISWfeek out an ingenious and feduIe lous Companion for himfelf, and.

‘not defpair of obtaining, his defires a 8. Let a Studentof this fecret, eye

tt carefully beware of reading or ikeeping company with falfe Phimi ofophers ; for nothing 1s more

' "dangerous to a learner of any Sci-

ni lence, then the company of an unWskilfull or deceitfull wit, by which falfe principles are. ftamped for #true, whereby an honeft and too: Hcredulous

a minde,

is feafoned.

iwith bad Doctrine. of -g. Let a Lover of truth make iitufe of a few Authors, but of beft inote and experienced truth; let bene M 4 him

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§ jy: underftood, efpecially in my- | {tical Namesiand fecret Operati- Hi : onss fortruthlies hid in obfcu- jin he rity ;nor doe Philofophers ever |

write more deceitfully, then when plainly, nor ever more truly then

fi #

when obfcurely. | ac 10. As for the Authors of i chiefeft note, which have difcour-

|hil

{ed both acutely and truly of Ti thefecrets of Nature, and hid- jj den Philofophy , Hermes,

and jin

BMorienus Romanus, among the Hit

Ancients, in my judgementare of §n the higheft efteem: amongft the jh Modern, Count Trevifanus,&¢ Ratmundus Lullins, is in greateft rc- @ verence withme: for what that jj

moft acute Doctour hath omitted, Jy none almoft hath fpoken : let him

therefore perufe him,yea let a Stu--

dent often reade over his former |

Teftament, and Codicil, and acs cept them as a Legacy of very | ;

a

Sea

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‘|great worth, ‘To thefe two Vo-

«/Jumes let him adde both his Pra-|@icks, out of which Works all

| things defirable may be collected, lefpecially the truth of Matter,the \|degrees of Fire, and the ordering

of the Whole, wherein the whole ‘Work is finifhed, and thofe things which our Anceftors too care-

fully laboured to keep fecret.

The occult caufes of things, and the fecret motions of nature, are

demonftrated' more clearly: and \faithfully. Concerning the firft fand myfticall Water of Philofophers he hath fet down few things,

'yet very pithy.

:

11. As for that clear Water it !fought for by many, found out ed, by few, yet obvious and »piofihn ‘table unto all, whichis the Bafe [te

‘| Of the Philofophers® Work, a

ic )

noble Peloniay not more famous

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withftanding a double Anagram|

hath betraied) In his Novus lumen } Chymicum,Parabola and Enigma, as alfo in his Tract of Sulphar, he hath fpoken largely and freely’ enough; yea he hath expreffed all}. things concerning it fo plainly,}”

that nothing can be fatisfactory tof’ him that defireth more.

i

12. Philofophers do ufually ex-| preffe themfelves more pithily in’ types and enigmaticall figures (as by.a mute kind of fpeech) then by’ e, , 5" mpl 's Table Senior woprs:forexa the allegorical Pictures ofRofarius,§ © the Schemes of Abraham Fudaus) in Flamellus : of the later fort,the rate Emblemes of the moft lear-} ned Michael Maiérus, wherein the myfteries of the Ancients are fof"

fully opened, that as new Perfpe-} Gives théy can prefent antiquated truth, and remote from our age jj’ as near unto our cies,and perfectly | | to be feen by us.

13. Who- |

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| 13. Whofoever affirmeth that | the Philofophers grand Secret is above the ftrength of Nature and | Art,he is blinde,becaufe he knows

not the Sunand Moon.

14. As for the Matter of their Ofthearz| hidden Stone, Philofophers have “ of the

| writ diverfly; fo that very many ~”"* | difagreeing in Words, do nevera thelefle very well confent in the

| Thing; nor doth theirdifferent ‘| {peech, argue.the {cience ambi-

| guous or falfe,fince the fame thing

) may be expreffed with many j tongues, divers exprefftons,and a | different character, and, alfo one

‘4. and many things may be fpoken . | after a divers manner... !

15. Let the ftudious Reader |

| have acare of the manifold figni-: fications of words, for by deceitj) full windings, and doubtfull, yea | contrary: fpeeches, (as it fhould

feem) Philofophers: vent their myfteries, with a defire of keepa ing

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ing inand hiding, not of fophi @icating or deftroying the truth:

And though their writings abound }.

with ambiguous and equivocal words; yetabout none doe they

more contend,then in hiding their |

golden branch :

———. Suem tegit omnis

- Luenss

Cy obfcuris claudunt con- | vallibus umbre.

Whichall the Groves with thaddows overcaft,

And gloomy Valleys hide.

Nor yeeldeth it to any Force, but

readily and willingly will follow |

him, who Maternas agnofcit aves | — cy cemine cui forte Columba

Ipfa [ub ora viri clo ventre voantes, Knows Dame Venus Birds ———

—nal Som ,

And him to whom of Doves a liicky paire’

a = e

Sent from above thall hover *bout his Eare.

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16. Whofoever feeketh the Art of perfecting and multiply| ing imperfect Metals, beyond | the nature of Metals,

goes in

errour, for from Metals the Me-

tals is to be derived, evenas from .| Man, Mankinde; and from an Oxe, that {pecies is to be fetcht.

17. Metals (we muft confeffe) | cannot be multiplied by the: in| ftinétand labour of Nature onely ; | yet we may affirm that. the mul| tiplying virtue is hid ‘in their -profundity, and: manifefteth it felf by | thehelp of Art: In this Work, Nature ftandeth in need. of the aid of Art; and both doth. perfect the whole. ee 18. Perfeé Bodies. are endued ‘Tt with a more perfect feed: and therefore under the hard bark ‘ | ofperfect Metals the perfect feed | lies hid, which he that knows.to

| take out by the Philofophers fo: lution, hath entred into the high ee ear way, for

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Semina fant auri, quamvis abe Wy firufarecedant ~ Longius.

In Gold the feeds of Gold dolie,

Though buried in Obfcurity.

19. Moft Philofophers «have || affirmed that their Kingly Work

}

is wholly compofed

jj,

of the Sun

and Moon; others have thought good to adde Mercury to the Sun: fome have chofen Sulphur and Mercury ; others haveattributed no fmall part'in fo great a Work to falt mingled with the other two... The very fame men have profeffed’ that this —clear Stone is made of one thing onely, fometimes of two, otherwhiles of

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three, at other times of four, and

of five; and thus though writing fo varioufly upon the fame fubjet, doe’ neverthelefle. agree’ in fenfeand meaning.

20. Now that (abandoning all

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Cheats)we may deal candidly and

;, (uly, we hold that this -entire ” Work is perfected by two Bodies

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onely,to wit, the Sun and Moon

tightly prepared, for this is meer generation which is by nature; with the help of Art, wherein the copulation of male and female doth intercede, from whence an off{pring far more noble then the Parents,is brought forth.

21. Now thofe Bodies: muft pe taken, which are of an unfpotted and. incorrupt virginity; fuch as have life and {pirits in them: jnot extinct as thofe that are handiled of the vulgar, for who can expect life from dead things’! and thofe are called corrupt which have fuffered copulation; thofe

dead and extin& which (by the

enforcements of the chief Tyrant Of the world) have: poured’ out "Vetheir foul with. their bloud.by

Martyrdome ,. fly a fratricide oa

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23. The Sun is Mafculine, for-j., afmuchas it fendeth forth active), and: inforcing feed, the Moon 19 Feminine, called the matrix anc§ veffelof Nature; becaufe fhe rej}. ceiveth the feed of the male in hei, womb, and foftereth it by heill, monthly provifion yet doth ij}, not altogether want its active vir; tues for, firft of all (being ravithed

with love) fhe climbs up unto thd

male, untill the hath wrefted froxtl, him the urmoft delights of Venmel},. and fruitful feed :-nor doth thi,

defift from her embraces, till thal, being great with childe, the flip gently aways

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Philofophers) underftand not thi,

vulgar Moon, which alfo is maj, pulation aéts the part of a “i

{culine i its operation, and int co} e

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Fet none therefore prefume to tty nt the wicked and unnaturall conk is junction of two -males, neither let him conceive-any hope of if-

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1 [fue from fuch copulation, buthe

hig fhall join Gabertius to Beia, and

}offer the fifter to her own brother Hin “firm Matrimony, that from jthence he may receive Sol’s inoble Son.

:

| 24. They that hold Sulphur land Mercury to be the Matter of ithe Stone, by the name of Sul-

phur, they underftand the Sun "and common Moon; by Mercufitty thé Philofophers Moon: {0 hi without diffimulation) holy LuJ- Cap.62, Priovis jas advifeth his friend, that he at- repam.

Mempt not to work without Merhury and Luna for Silver, and _ {Mercury and Sol for Gold.

i 25. Let none therefore be de-

ceived by adding a third to two :

Wor Love admitteth not a third;

ii#lind wedlock is terminated in the ri N num|

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number of two; love, further ex- fh tended is adultery, not miatri-| mony.

26. Nevertheleffe , Spirituall}j, Jove polluteth not avirgin, Pesa}en might therefore without crime} (before her promife made to Gabritins) have contraGted {pirituall] ; love, to the end that fhe might}, thereby be made more cheerfull,},, more pure, and fitter for the bu-,, finefle of matrimony.

27. Procreation of children ig,

the end of lawfull Wedlock. Novwjj, that the Infant may bee born,

more vigorous and gallant, le},

both the combatants be. clenfed), le cleave unto them; becaufe from

pure feed comes a purifyed. gene! ration, and fothe chaft wedlocl of Sol and. Luna. fhall be finithec

when they fhall enter. into Lowe : cd:

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179 '|bed-chamber , and be conjoyned; | and fhe,fhall receive a foul from heryhusband by imbracing him

‘}irom this copulation a:mof po“tent King {hall arife, whofe father iM will bee Sol, and his. mother

; !{tance of pureft Sulphur; perfeétent

‘ly clarified by theskilLof nature:

iW Let thy Mercury therefore have

ag its tinétare from both of thefe § Lights; forthings muft of necefi) fity receive a tincture before they | Cangive one.

wORE

rg

| 2g.) Perfeét-metals containé in I them-¢wo things, which they are able 20 communicate: to the im-

Boys!

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perfect Tinéture and Fixation;for | thofe , becaufe the are dyed and jt fixed with pure Sulphur, to wit , jp both white andrred , they doe} therefore’ perfectly tinct andsix, if they beditly prepared with their fii proper Sulphur and Arfenick , 0-

therwife ‘they have not ftrengthfit of:multiplying their tinCture.

30. “Mertury is for imperfect ‘metals, fit‘only to receive the tin- [nd ‘Qure of the S4n- and Moon inthe

ith: futfid cient Ufuryo2: 21)

ney nomeysgS

sof f 31. Now the whole “tribe

Philofophers::fweat much-s::and Gy are mightily troubled tovextract iin tinGure out of gold)::for they:ber ge |

leeve |

Hermetick Secrets. iu leeve that tincture can be feparajted'from the Sun,’ and’ being fei parated encreafein virtues but”

[Spes tandem Agricolas vanis eludtt

ape) abefees, 2 FEF e a t)Vaine’ hope, ‘at: laft the’ hunery |. Plough-mancheats yank ‘he tn ftead of

|For iris impoffible thatthe Suns

it)‘inéture'can at all be fevered from this naturall body, fince there can be noelementary ‘body made up py nature more perfect then gold,

4 Hermetick Secrets. . made liquid or diffolved by force. |),

For the tinéture followeth its bo-, |

dy., and is never feparated from }.

it. Thatis the deluding of Art, |

tinknowne to: Artificers them a {elves. be | may 32. Nevertheleffe it

granted, that tinétureis feparable | fram its body, yet.( we muft con=

feffe) it cannot be feparated without the corruption of the tincture: when as Artifts offer. violence

tothe gold, or Aqua fortis rather corroding then diffolving.

The body.therefore fpoiled. of its

cin@ture and golden fleece, muft}) needs grow bafe, and as an. unpro-}/ firable heap turneto the damagel of its Artificer, and the tin@turej’

thus corrupted to have.a, weaker} * : operation.

332, Let themin the next place}

caft their tin¢ture into Mercury,o1 into any other imperfect body,

anid as fttonglyponjoyne hoes‘oft! them

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them as their Art will permit; yet |thal they failof their hopes two

| wayes; Firft,becaufe the tincture } will neither penetrate nor colour } beyond Natures ftrength; and | therefore no gaine will accrue from thence to recompence the Ki) eXpence and countervaile the loffe lof the body fpoiled and of no vaij Lue, fo | Cum laborin damno eftcre{cit mor| talix egeftas. |afWant. is aes mortals wages, when his toyle

f Produces Bae

fe ofpaines and

a abeania Tindure applied to anothet body will ‘not sivea perfect fixation and permaVrency | to endure'a ftrong tryall, bs refit {eatching Saturne.

41 » Let, them therefore that are: “defirous of Chymiftry, and

iF |have hitherto followed ImpoHi)ftors and Mountebanks, found a my -y.

N4

retrait,

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give their minde toa work truly Hit

SNE | RNR NNEC NNRENETTT po,

Philofophicall, left the Phrygans jou be wife too late, and at length | be compelled to cry out with the.

Prophet , Strangers have eaten ap

iy firength,

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35. Inthe Philofophers work fix

more toyle and time then coft is fio

expended; for he that hath con- | venient matter, need be at little |

expence : befides, thofe that hunt |

after great ftore of mony, and iy

place their chief end in wealth, | they truft more to their riches, }a then their ownart.. Let therefore Ix the too. credulous Frefh-man be- | ware of thefe. pilfering pick-pock- | ets, for whilft. they, promife: gol- |

den mountains, they lay in wait for gold;they, demand. bright uth, |

ering Sol, (viz, mony before hand) The Philc.

FA 6.

becaufe they walk in darkneffe. i, 3+ As thofe: that fayle:be+ § |

tween Scilla and Charybdis. ate im Wh ie

;

danger 9;

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|danger on both fides.: unto no

ll) Jefle hazard are they {ubject who

ms) purfuing the prey of the Golden

l}) fleece, are carried between the un-

i}, Certaine. Rocks of the Philofo'phers Salphur and Mercsry, .The | more acute by their conftant rea-

| dingof grave and credible Aui) thors , and by the irradiant Sun | have attained unta the knowledge pot Sa#lphur., but are at aftand-in | the entrance. of the. Philofophers |

|.Mercury: for Writers have twifted ) it withfo.many windings and Me-

anders, involved it with fo. many | equivocallnames, that it may be

4 fooner. met with by the force of “the Seekers intellect, then be 4 foundby reafon or toyle. ... i <.37-That;Philofophers might uh) the deeper-drown their Mercury in wi), darkneffe; they have made it ma-

, | nifold’;:and-placed their Mercury

te Cyetdiverfly) invevery part and ef) forefront:of their cworke , © nor

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knowledge thereof, who fhall be

ignorant of any part of the work.

38, Philofophers have acknow- |

ledgeda threefold mercary efpe-| cially, to wit, after abfolute pre- |; paration of the firft degree , and}; Philofophicall fublimation; for]... then they call it their Merc#ry,and Mercary fublimated, 39. Againe, in the fecond prepa- jj, ration , that whichby.Authors is} ftiled the Firft (becaufe they omit |; the Firft ) Sol. being now.made |; crude again , and refolved into his firft matter is Mercury , properly |”

called of fuch like bodies , or.the

Philofophers Mercury; then the ly matter is called Rebzs, Chaos 5) the whole. world ,. wherein | ate all things neceffary to the’ work, becaufe that_onely: is fuffts \ cient to perfect the Stone... g go. Laftly the Philofophers | \ do fometimes call perfec Elixir | and. colouring medicine, their })

:

|

.

Mere

\.

|.

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“) Mercaty, though improperly ; for ithe name of Mercury doth onely

\properly agree with that which is

"pyolatile ; ‘befides that which is

E {ublimated in every region of the (work, they call Mercury : but E‘lixit becauife it is moft Axed, can-

inot have the fimple name of Mer-

“a cury, and therefote they have ftiled ittheir own Mercury, to diffe-

Me rence it from that volatile. A

My firaight way is onely laid downe

| forthetto find out and difcerne

itll fomany Mercuries of the PhildMiifophers, forthen ec Gantonely, ahaaa

WS Iupiter, aitardes evexit ad athe- emids..

2 Whom juttand mighty Tove ) Advanceth by the ftrength of RP REA

ig J

PAE

7A UiTtUSs.

ye

H) Orfuch whom brave heroick fie,

4) Makes from dul! Earth to Heéav'n i) at. Elixiriscalled the Philo-

ao

ee

Hermetick Secrets. fophers:Mercury for the likeneffe | and great conformity ithath with Heavenly Mercury; for this, be-

ing void of elementaty qualities is”

beleeved moft propente.to receive | influence from them, © and that| changeable, Protedsputs on and. encreafeth the genius and nature

of other Planets, byreafon of oppofition , conjunaion and afpect. |

The like‘ this unceértaine .Elixir | for that being tyed to | worketh,

no proper quality , ic imbraceth

the quality and difpofitionof the thing wherewith it is mixed , and | wonderfully multiplyeth the ,virThe PhilsSopbical fublimation

of Mercury.

tues and qualities hereof.

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42. Inthe Philofophicall fub- |

limation. ot firft preparation of |

Mercury, Herculean labour mutt | be undergone by. the -work-man; 9) for Fafon had in vaine attempted |

his expedition to Col¢hos with;

Out Alder

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a

Alter ipapratam nota de vertice pel- Wi me ee OE Paes

Hermetick Secrets. el) Principium velut. oftendit )’:quod Aug. cry fumere pofsiss | Sapna. | Alter onus quantum [ubeas— | One -from an higha >Golden Fleece difplayes ‘W hich fhewes the Entrance, another fayes . ° How hard ataske you'l find. |For? the: entrance is warded by

| horne-puthing ‘beafts;°°which:

it) drive away*'thofe. thatapproach ~~. *\ )rafhly thereunto to’ their’ great)... | hurts onely the enfignes of Diana |and the doves of Venus are able to 'aflwage their: fierceneffe, .if the t-Pefates favour.

8% 143.0 Thenaturall: quality “of

))-Philofophieall Earth and» the tillage thereof feems to be touched | by the Poet inthis Verfe,

Il) Pingue folum::primis extemplo 4 gy, umenfibasanni oo.

Lhe . Fortes invertant Tanri- Er

—Tanc Zephyro putris fe gleba ieee

eS SIE

Let

Hermetick Secrets. ! . Let fturdy. Oxeh when the yeare |! begins Plough up the fertile foyle——— For Zephrus then diffolves the fi tottenclods...

5 |

44» He that calleth the. Philo- jy

fophers Luna of their Mercury,the

ji

common Mercutysdoth wittingly jh deceive,or is deceived ; fo the wri-|

* chap: 4+: tings of * Geber teach us,that the jp!

parilit-s Philofophers. Mereury.is, Argent ji

Pdagiterii vive, yetnot of the common foft, fit

but extracted out of. it by: the Phi- #i lofophers skill. robuds Saw Md

4s. .That the, Philofophers}

Mercury is not Argent.vive in its i

proper nature, nor-inits wholegn

fubftance, but the midle,and purel.n tt

ana divers refpect, becaufe it natu- | pally:

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| rally arifeth from them both. The

earth is fubtle, white,fulphurous , in which the elements are fixed &

the philofophicall gold is fowne:

the water is water of life, burning, li.) permanent, moft clear, call’d the

ff, water of gold and filver; but this Mercury, becaufe it hath in it Sulphur of itsown, which is multi-

thi)

plyed by art,itdeferves tobe cald

wt) the Sulphur of Argent vive. Lat i) Of all the moft: precious fubftance i 1s Vesus the ancients Hermaphrodite,glorious in each fex.

47. This Argent vive, is partly is) naturall, partly unnaturall , itbe-

ing intrinfecall and occult hath its

LOOtinnature, which cannot be

#) drawne forth unlefleit be by fome

madi Precedent clenfing, & induftrious

oof fublimation, it being extrinfecall

| Is preternaturall and accidental : | feparate therefore the clean from a: the:unclean , the fubftance from

the accidents,and make that which :

1$

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sean Ne sem °at

nature, otherwife make no furthersit

‘progreffe, for this is the foundati-i -on of the whole worke , and na-jj! ture.

.

gl

48. That dry and moft preci-}

ous liquor doth conftitute the ra-J

dicall moifture of metals, where}

fore of fome of the ancients it isi called Glaffé; for glaffe is extract-)

ed out of the radicall sndiftare he

clofely lurking inathes which willlfr not give place, unleffe it be to they hotteft flame; ‘notwith{tanding fe our inmoft or. centrall Mercury

difcoversit felfe by the moft geri-| tle and ‘kindly (though:a little) = more tedious) fire ofnature.

49, Some have fought for the

latent “Philofophicall earth by" Calcination, others by fublimati-f ons manyamong the glafing vef- § fels,and fonie few between vitrial § and faltseven as among their natu- | rall veffels : others enjoyne to fub2

lime We

_ Hermetick Secrets: ‘Of lime it out of lime and glaffe.. But

ther}we have learned of the Prophet, atl that 2a the beginning God created nds the Heaven and the Earth, andthe ‘| Barthwas without form and void ,

|

mas upon the face of Cle land darknefe fd

the Deeps and the [pirit of God mo-

ere. ued upon the Waters, and God t Bf aid, Let there be Light, and there

pas Light ; and te,

God faw the.

Light. that i mas good, and he

will divided the light from the darknes, the} oc. Fofephs blefling fpoken of by

jingshe fame Prophet will be fufficicl ptt

‘nt to a wifeman (Deut 33.) Ble/ed of the Lord.be his Land,. for the

itl Apples

of Heaven.for the dem, and \"> ar the Deep that lyeth bengaths for* 23 the heApples: of fruit both of[un and i, eae noon,forthe top. of the ancient une pis-

mountains forthe Applesof thee-f@ verlafting hills, oc.. pray. the old trans, eel

nat

cid ord from..the ground of thy P:ecious satu

heart (my fon) that he would be- 222? san

(w tow.uponthee in plefled land,"

|

a portion.of this “Q. 50. Ar-

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so. Argent vive is fo defiled by original fin, that it floweth} with adouble infection; the firflj , it hath contracted from the pollu-y, ted Earth, which hath mixed ij

felfe therewith in its generation and by congelation hath cleavect thereunto : the fecond borders up, on the dropfie, and is the corrup} tion of intercutal Water,proceed4 ing from thick and impure water; mixed with the clear, which naj ture is not able to {queeze out anc feparate by conftriction, and be caufe it is extrinfecall,it goes away witha gentle heat. The Mercujl ries leprofie infefting the body, is,

not of its root and fubftance, bug, accidental, and therfore feparabli,

fromit; the earthy part is wipes off by a moift Bath and the lavey fant fire of generation.

And thur

by a threefold wafhing and clenj fing!

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fingthe Dragon putting off his

|old fcales & ugly skin is renewed. §t. The Philofophicall fublimation of Mercury is compleated “lintwo things; namely by remo-

‘0b} ving things fuperfluous from it ; al) and by introducing things want-

Wing : the fuperfluities are the ex-

|ternall accidents , ~which in the dark fpheare of Saturne doe make jcloudy ruddy fupiter. Separate therefore the blewnefle of Saturn coming up, untill Zwpiters purple |Rat {mile upon thee. Add. hereunto }-he fulphur of nature, whofe grain ind, leaven: it hathsin it felfe, fo

Wnuch as fufficeth ivy but fee that

it be fufficient for other things al$0. Multiply therefore that: inviible Sulphurof the:philofophers Wantilthe Virgins milk:come forth:

takeind fo the:firft gateis opened: uns othee.: 0 :

ql

52. The entrance of the Phis

ers garden:oais:kep the i Tofoph PNErS.' ptt- byby He.

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‘Hefperian Dragon , which being *

laid open,a fountaineof the clear jy,

eft water proceeding from a fea ven-fold {pring floweth forth orf

every fide the threfhold , -whereiryl make the Dragon drink thrice th; magicall number of Seven, untill§ being drunkhe put off his hideoug,, arment :may the divine power§ of light-bringing Vewss and horn ed Diana,be propitious unto thee} 53+ Three kinds of moft beautilj,,

full flowers are to be fought , andj, may be found in the garden of thi

wife : Damask coloured Violets the milk-white Lilly, and the purg., ple and immortall flower of loved Amaranthus,

Not far from tha) i

fountaine at the entrance, freflh Violets do firft falute thee , whic; j

being watered by ftreams from thf,

‘greatgolden river,put on the moj delicate colour of the dark Saphit i the Sun.will give thee figns. Tho r

fhall. not fever fuch precious fow hy :

er

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_jers from their root, untill thou makeftthe Stone: for. the freth

‘jOnes. cropt off, have more juyce “land tin@ture; and; then pick them nearefully with a gentle and difuti creet hand, if fates frown not, they twill eafily follow , and one flower it being pluck’t, the other: golden “Mone will not be wanting: let the MLilly and the Amaranthus, fucceed..

‘with greater care and labour.

he

4. Philofophers have their

alt’Sea alfo, wherein {mall fithes , fat Mand fhining with filver {cales, are Ktgenerated; which he that fhall

etcatch in and take out of a {mal and ‘Wine net, fhall be accounted

ff noft expert fither.

a

tlt 55. Lhe Philofophers Stone is. found in the oldeft. mountaines , me nnd. flowes. from... everlafting

mtyrooks., thofemountaines are of.

‘Mfilver, and the brooks of gold:

arom thence gold and filver, and TH il the treafure of Kings are pro-

Placed. |

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§ 56.Who-

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:

ver is minded ta

—§6. Whofoe ne ébtaine the Philofophers Sto

moft precious reft gold. | i ~-§73 Philofophers extract thigh” their Stone out of feven:ftones the two chiefe whereof are of 2

divers nature and efficacy, the on¢ infufeth invifible Sulphur, thi Other fpirituall Mercury ; ‘thai

bringeth heat and drineffe, and

this cold and moifture : thus by

their help, the ftrength of the cle! ments is multiplyed inthe Stone: the former is found in the Eafterni | Hl

coaft, the latter inthe Wefterné

both of them have the power 0]

colouring and multiplying , ancy unleffe the Stone thal take its firfl m tincture ftom them, it will neithes : colour nor multiply. |

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58° ® The winged Virgin ve- Praitice ry well wathed and clenfed , im-

x}

ia) Pregnated by thefpirituall feed of ig) the firft male, and gravidated jg with the permanent. glory of her |) Untoucht virginity, will be difco= | vered by her checks dyed with a =

‘al whitith red colour: joyne her to al the fecond male, without Jealoupjfie of adultery, by whofe corporeay) wil feed the fhall conceive againe, aj and fhall in time bring forth arere verend off-fpring of either fex , i from whence an immortall Race

“| of moft potent Kings fhall glori5aby outly arife.

59. Keep up and couple the Praitic. ont Eagle and Lion well clenfed in oy their tranfparent cloifter , the en-

ys |try door being fhut and watched, fy left their breath go out,or the aire a}, without do privily get in. The

i |Eacle fhall {nap up and devoure my) the Lion in the copulation ; afterwards being affected with a long

a

O4 — fleep,

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fleep, and a dropfie occafioned by Ii a foule ftomack, the fhall be chan- id ged by a wonderfull metamor- § phofis into. a cole-black Crow s | “which fhall “begin to. fly. with]

wings f{tretched out, and by its Mp flight fhall whisk downe wate jh from the clouds , untill being of- Hind ten moiftned, he put off his wings [ihe of his owne accord, and falling sth downe againe it be changed into} amoft white Swan.

Thofe that

are ignorant of. the ‘caufes offi things ,“may wonder. with afto-| nifhment,when they confider thag,

the World is nothing but a conti-|

nuall Metamorphofis, they may # marvel that the feeds of things}

perfectly digefted fhould end in

greateft whitenefle. Let the Phi-§;

lofopher imitate Nature in his|

The mid‘dle and ex--

60. Nature proceedeth. thus §jy}

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|| heration it may bring a thing by divetfe meanes as it were by de-

‘| grees, to the ultimate terme of

erfection : fhe thereforeattaineth Fr end by little and little, not by leaps; confining and including her | work between two extreams,, di-

ftinct and fevered as by {paces.

The practice of Philofophy, which is the Ape of Nature sought not

| todecline from the way and exam-

it) ple of Nature in its working and | direction to finde out ‘its happy ‘| ftone, for whatfoever is without

the bounds of Nature;is either an

t} ervrour or neateft one* °*-

mi

61. The'extreams of the Stone

ings are naturall Argent vive, and petidft| fect Elixir: the middle parts which

Phi} dye between, by helpe whereof histhe work goes on, are of three forts; for they either belong unto } Matter , or operations or demon|trative fignes: the whole work

is perfedted by thefe extreams and /Macans.

62. The i|

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202

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62, Themateriall means of the

meas- — Stone are of divers kinds:for fome are extracted out of others fuccef- §"

fively : The firft are Mercury Phi- | lofophically fublimated, and per- | fect metals, which although. they | be extream in the work. of nature, | yet in the Philofophicall worke they fupply the place of meanes : | of the former.the feconds are pro- 9 duced; namely, the four elements, §*4 which againe are circulated: and | fixed: of the feconds the thirds are | produced. , to wit, either Sulphur | the multiplication whereof doth | terminate the firft worke ; the!

fourth and laft meanes are leaven | or ointments. weighed with the |

mixtion of, the things. aforefaid,|

{ucceffively

produced ‘in

|

worke of the Elixir : By the right | ordering of the things aforefaid, the perfect Elixir is finifhed which | is the laft term of the whole work, | i) wherein the Philofophers Stone |bh re>

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203 refteth asinitscentre , the multiplication ‘whereof is nothing elfe then hort repetition of the premifed operations, = ¢ 63. The operative’ meanes Operative

€which are alfo called the Keys of

the work) are foure: The firft is Solutionor Liquefaction’; the {econd is Ablution; the third, Re duétion; the fourth, Fixation. By Liquefaction bodies’ retiitne into their ancient matter; things’ concocted are made raw “againe ; and

_ the copulation between ‘the male and female is effected |?" ftom whence the Crow’ ispeterared : | Laftly the Stone is‘divided into 4 _ confafed elements, which happenw} eth by the retrogradation of the - Luminari¢s. The Ablitien téach- ...... | eth to make the Crow whitey& to | Create Pupiter of Saturn, whichis

made by the ¢onverfion of the bo-

_ dy into Spirit, The office of Redu-

_ Hionis toréftore the foule'to the | d's eo PORES

204,

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Stone examinated, and to nourifh |vt it withidew and fpirituall Milk,un- bt till it./fhall attaine. unto perfet By

ftrength : Inboththefe latter operations the Dragon rageth againft

himfelfe.,, and by RgHOUTINS his i.‘

tayle, doth wholly exhauft

him--

felfe, and.at length is turned. into

the Stone. -Laftly, the: operation iy of the Fixation fixeth: both Sul-

phurs. upon their fixed body , by § ‘

the. mediation of. the {pirits tincture ;, it decocteth the leavens by J MN degrees, ripeneth things raw, and | ™

fweerneth the bitter; In fine, by 9" penetrating: and tin@uring. the \

flowing. Elixir, generateth, perfe- |M4

The dewmonfirative WUCARES »

eth; and laftly, rifeth up to the |a a height of fublimity..... |ie ndemo 64+ -The Meanes or ftrative figns are Colours, fuccef- 9’

i fively and. orderly, affecting the | deand tions affec its matter.and | ky monftrative “paflions , . whereof the there, are. three, {peciall ones. (as |ah i \

criticall

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_critall)tobe noted , to thefe'fome adde a’ Fourth.

The, -firft is | black, which is called the Crowes-

head, becaufe of \its.extreame blacknefle, whofe crepufculum fheweth the beginning of the fires

‘| aGtion of nature and folution, and

the blackeft: night the perfection ‘of liquefaction, and. confufionof the elements. Then the'graine putrefies & is corrupted, that itmay |be the more apt for generation: “The white colour fucceedeth the

black, wherein is given the perfe| ction of the firft degree, and of

i white Sulphur. This is called the I) bleffed ftone : this Earthis, white the

-and foliated, whererein. Philofo-

| phers doe fow their gold. The

‘third is Orange colour , which is

cel: "produced in. the. paflage of the

'white tothe red, as the mid-

‘i dle and mixt of both,, and. isas | the morning with her {afron-haire aC) a fore-cunner of the.Sun.) The | * fourth { i

i| i

i)

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fourth colour. is ruddy and fan- | euine, which is extracted from the | white fire’. onely : Now becaufe }!!

whiteneffe is eafily altered by any jt other colour,before day it quickly '

faileth of its candor. But the dark|

rednefle of the Sun ’perfecteth| the worke of Sulphur, which is } called the Sperme of the male, the fire “of ‘the Stone, the Kings) Crown, and the fon of Sol, where= in the firft Jabour of the workman| fefteth.

a.

65. Befides thefe decretory jis

fignes which

firmely inhere in jfvts

the matter, ‘and fhew its effenti- jit;

all mutations , ‘almoft infinite co- }tt,i

lours appear, and fhew themfelves’

in vapours, as the Rain-bow if, the clouds, which quickly paffe a-|

way and are expelled by thofe fin that fucceed , more affecting the’ aire then the earth: the operatout muft havea gentle care of them; |

becaufe they are not permanent ;f{ and

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| and proceed not from: the intrinfecal difpofition of the matter, | but from the ‘fire painting and fa| thioning every thing after its plealp fure, or cafually by heatin’{ma}! \F moifture.

:

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| 66. OF the ftrange colours, i fome called out of time , give an

ill omento the work,as the Blackinefle renewed : for the Crowes wtp Young ones having once left their nai eft are never to be fuffered to rejturne. Too hafty Redneffe; for agp this once and in the end onely siegives a certaine hope of the harwimvett ; if before it make the matter pred, it is an argument of the'ereapteft aridity, not without’ great

yqdanger, which can onely be averJited by Heaven alone, forthwith bepftowing a fhower uponit. :

3

@ | 67. The Stone is‘exalted by Foe biMfucceffive digeftions ; as’ by de: ia grees , andat length attainethto iperfeGion. Now foure Digeftions : agreca-

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agtecable.to the foure abovelaid Operations. -or Governments“do™

1M

Firf.

compleat, thé whole worke , the author whereof is the fire, whichy ay ; makes their difference. ~

res commixtion of both feeds; put

fa@ion, the refolution of the eles

ments into homogeneall water J s the eclipfe of the Sun and Mooneut)

l} inthe head of the Dragon ; and pn lep who the ck ‘ba th laftly it bringe

5e6ond-

World into its ancient Chaos,and} lof dark abyffe.. This’ firft digeftion y4 ig made asin the ftomack, of a nteJon Colour and weak, more fit-fo : Net on n generation. 2°! Rit corruptithe 69, Inthe fecond digeftion the Min walketli-uponi™ fpirit of the Lord ght begins tom the waters; the'li ers appear, and a {eparation of wat

the Sun and) {i from the ‘waters 5

Moon ®

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oe

1

2 REN ES aNS

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fi Moon are renewed, the elements yuyare extracted out of the chaos, that fivibeing perfectly mixt in Spiric ;

ich they may conftitute a new world;

anew Heaven and new Earth are

wstiade and laftly,, all bodies are

upipecome fpirituall. The Crowes

ite} yOung ones clanging their fethers iBegin to pafle into Doves, the itBagle and Lion embrace one anoeither with aneternall League. And

ells generation of the Wootld is souMade by the fiery Spirit defcendadjng in the forme of Water; and

fin ; for the wiping away Originall eiit) nulofophers Water is Fire,which sisi} moved by the exciting heat of a qepath. But fee that the feparation «(orl Waters be done in Weight and wMeafure , left thofe things that yiigiemaine under Heaven‘ be drown_f-

woe Under the Earth, or thofe

etjpulngs that are {natched up above

sti@pteaven be too much deftitute of

iv) idity.

Nit Wy -

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210

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Georg. 1 Ate, flerilem exigaus we deferat hn-§, per mor arenam.

Here, left {mall moifture, leave. ay ode scan) barren Soyle.. a0. The third digeftion of they /

ifia}

newly generated Farth. drinkethiy

up the dewy Milk, and all the {pul rituall virtues of the quinteflence™ and fafteneth the quickning 50 1A to the Body by the Spirits medi,

ation. Then the Earth layeth u

a great Treafurein it felfc, and p made, like the corufcant Moon, al

cerwards to ruddy Sun;the formé is called the Earth of the Mooi... the latter the Earth of the Sun;fd both of them is begot of the copim

lation of them both ;. neither @,. them any longer feareth the pail,

of the Fire , becaufe both want a,

fpots ; for they have been oftil

clenfed from fin by fire, and ham fuffered great Martyrdome, unt

all the Elements are turned dows i i wards.

7. Te

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Hermitick Seevets..

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21i°

vt. The Fourth digeftion‘con- Fawth:

wfummateth all ‘the Myfteries of reg ithe’ World , and the”Earth be-

ling turned into moéft excellent

i Heaven,

itleaveneth all imperfect beeaufe it hath before paf.fed ‘into the heavenly nature of

kebodies

Baas

The vertue thereof

maowing’ from’ the Spirit of the

MUniverfe isa prefent Panacea and

‘ainiverfall medicine forall the dif. deates of all creatures,the digeftions

Nokthe firft worke being repeated !

VIM WILL Opett to thee the Philofophers

wmectet Futnace. ‘Be righrin thy Siworks ,that thou mayeit’ finde Go d fovourable , otherwife the “plowing

of the Earth will be in

Nvaine: 6 Nor

Willa feges demum votis ¥ efpondet aare fo’

WAgri¢ole.

:

72. The

Geog, & *

212-

Hermetick Secrets): | 42. The whole Progreffe“of} : the Philofophers work is nothing but Solution and Congelation3§ the Solution of the body andy Congelation of the Spirit; never4y

theleffe, there is but one operatyy on of both : the fixed and volatile are perfectly mixed'and united inf the Spirit, which cannotbedone! unlefle the fixed body ‘be: firl® made foluble and volatile: By em duction is the volatile body’ fixet. into a permanent body;’and-volay tile nature doth at laft changeint(y a fixed one, as the fixed Naturg had before pafled into: volatile® Now fo long asthe Natures wer: confufed in the Spirit, that mixe® Spirit keepsamiddle Nature bem tween Body and:Spirit, Fixed an

Jk >QSmmy: Volatile.

73. The: generation of 'thl

Stoneis made after the: pattern of the Creation of the World

for itisneceffary, that it havea

ay ia

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Hermetick ‘Seerets.

213 -

iif Ghaos'and Firft, matter., wherein

his the:confufed . Elements do fluctu-

by | ony | iate , untill sathey be feparated

ailthe ery Spirit; they being. fepa-

ve yrated, the light Elements.are car-

att tied-upwards, and the:heayie.ones

sthlownvwards :) the Jight) arifing ,

atinHatknefle retraits.: the watersare ndpphered into,.one , and the.dry fdvlandappeares. At. length the two ; yidhateat Luminaries arife, and minefg@all virtues yegetable and animal,

“ayite produced, inthe Philofophers . it 5:74.-God created Adam, of the iehnud: of the Earth, wherein. were’ the Elesyjmoerent the virtues. ofall

igepnents, of the

Earth & Water ef-

nopectally; whichdoe more confti-

jgase:the-fenfible’and corporeal

ieap: Into this Mafle God infpippedsthe breath of Lite, and enlieqqprened sit, with the. Sunne. of the val oly Spirit. He gave Eve for a

Won

Witeto\Adam , and bleffing them.

is gos!)

P 3

he

ee i eye

See

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fie pave ufito'them a Precept any Faculty of multiplying. The G@ eration of the Philofophe}: Stone, is not unlike the Creatich

of Adam, for the Mud was. mag of a terreftriall and pondero®, Body diflolved by Water, whig deferved the excéllent name. | Terva Adamica,wherein all the v)

tues and:qualities ofthe Elemers

are placed. Atlength the heavep., ly Soule ig infufed thereinto

the Spirit of the quinteffe and S} lar influx,and by the Benedictum and Dew of Heaven; the virtue|

multiplying in infinitum by 1 intervening copulation of bd fexes is given it.

a]

45. The chief fecret of ¢)

worke confifteth in the manner

working, which is wholly imple

edabout the Elements : fori matter of the Stone paffeth fra one Nature into another, the Bi ments are fucceffively extract a

Hermsetick Secrets. i} andby turnes obtaine dominion; © 1%,

“ol every thing is agitated by the cir°

fan

:

.

<

2

ieee Of humidum and ficcam , un-

Neti all things be turned downnuOHIn: ywards, and there reft. ‘tad ~ 46. In the work of the Stone det | he other Elements are circulated K ha i in the figure of Water , forthe vj earth is refolved into Water, |

i | wherein are the reft of the Elecaeernents5the Water is Sublimated

i iW,aa Vapour, Vapour retreats into an unwearied PWater, and fo by moved, id $eie untill ne Ncircle, is the Water eipit abide fixed downwards ; now Ai,that being fixed all the Elements |Mvare fixed : Thus into it they are

f M"tefolved, by it they are extracted,

rigyith it they. live and dye : the

"Barth is the Tombe, and laft end

1

ofthem all.

I. 77, The order of Nature requi-

7 reth that every generation begin

: ot from humidum and in hursiduns.

work, Nature‘6 ti Inthe Philofophers “Da ese geen 4|

|

; {

216

| Hermetick Secvets.: igtO bereduced into order, thayfo}i the matter:of the’ Stone which ist rerreftriall, compact and-dry5°iny! the firft: place may’ ‘be’ diflolved}:

and flow into the Elemertrofyim:

Water next unto it, and then 'sa- pont turne willbe generated of Solo"' | 78. The Aire’ fucceeds the}

Water drawne about “by ‘feven iuen

ciréles’ or revolutions ,. “whichP4” is wheel’d about with fo ‘manyppt

circles and reductions , untill it'bepndt fixed’ downwards’,

and ‘Satarne'

being expell’d , Fupster may re-] ceive the Scepter ‘and Government of the Kingdome, by whofe}

cotning the Philofophers’ Infanti

is formed ,nourifhed inthe wotabe, itm andat lenethis bornes refembling Mul

the fplendor ‘of Luna inits beaut file!

tifull ferene countenance, 19014 | 99. The Fire executing the cours it j

fes'of the Nature of the Elements, 9)

extream Fire promoving it of hid- 44

den is made manifeft> the Saffron|

pe

dyets>|

| Hermetick Secrets, fe dyeth the|Lilly:rednefle poffeffeth ly the cheeks of the whitening Child

ithinow;ymade: ftronger: A Crowne ‘i lis prepared for. him, -againft the itime, of his Reigne.. This. is ‘the -eonfummation of the firft work,

i} and\the perfec rotation .of the i) Elements, the figne whereof is, dovhen they, are: all. terminated,in We Siccum, and the body. void..of @ opirit lyeth downe wanting pulfe

jM-and motion :And, thus all-theEmiements do finally. acquiefce,in

WE Derrae.

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TE

misd

fi. 80. Fire placed:.in the, Stone. is weaNatures Prince, Sol’s Son:and

4)Vicar, moving and digefting matie terjand, perfecting all things there-

‘ans ific fhall attain its. liberty.; for

iP it dieth weak under.an hard bark, ® procure therefore its .freedome

# that. it may:fecure .thee. freely; aie but-beware that thou urge itnot ip abovemeafure,for it being impati-

p entofk Tyranny itbecomes afugia

:

|

tive

Hermetick Séerets. tive, no hope ofreturne being left | unto thee; call it back therefore f

by courteous flattery, and keep it] eM : prudently.

Sy, The fich mover of Nature! ‘s External Fire, the Moderator), of Internall Fire, and of the whole

wotk ; Lerthe Philofopher there-}), fore very well underftand the go-§) yernment thereof, and obferve its} degrees and points; .for from|

thence the welfare or ruineof the§

worke dependeth.. Thus Art hel-J peth Nature, and the Philofopher

| is the Minifter of both, 82. By thefe two Inftruments§ |

of Art and Nature, the Stone lifteth it felfe up from Earth to) Heaven with great ingenuity, andj,

flideth from Heaven to Earth, be-|

cause the Earthis its Nurfe, andj}.

- being carried in the wombe of thej wind, itreceiveth the force of the

| Superiours and Inferiours.

83, The Circulation of the E-] ements) :

Hermetick Secrets.

219 | lements ts exercifed with a double Te tws|

Wheel, by the greater or extend- ieee

| ed, andthe leffe or contracted :and thete/s.

The Wheel extended: fixeth all

the Elements of the Earth, and ts circle is not finifhed ‘unleffe the work of Sulphur be perfected.

The revolution of the minor Wheel

|i

terminated by the extraction

“and preparation of every Element; ~

-Nowinthis Wheel there are three 3 civc/es.

| Circles placed which alwayes and

} varioufly move:the Matter, by an ~ Brratick and Intricate Motion, |, and dovoften (feven:timesat leaft)

| drive abour every Element, .in or__ der fucceeding one another , and . fo agreeable , that’ ift::one: thall - bé wanting the labour” of rhe fret is made void. “Phefe are _, Natures Inftraments, wherby the Elements ‘are prepared. Letthe Philofopher therfore confider the _ ptosvefic of Nature in the Phyfica Tra&t more fully; defcribed fot this very end.

84. Eve-

220. ateC Ua TT Se, =

Hermetick Secrets.

t

-84.° Every Gircle hath its proper Motion, for all the motions: Bit id a-) converfant are of the Gircles Budi and, bout the Subject of Aaumidum Siccum , and-are fo concatenated; it that they produce the onely oper: inti ration, and one only concent of; Hii Nature:rwo of them are oppofite;s Bi, both in refpect of the caufes & thes fete

effects ; for one moveth upwards, Bit

drying by heat; another down=! Bis

wards, moiftning by coldsa third? yj,

carrying the form of reft andfleep!, by digefting, inducerh the ceflatic:: _ onof bothin greateftmoderation.) rifkcide ~ 85. Of thethree Gircles,:thes

Bin) Bnoj Bis gd:

Firft is Evacuation, the labourof> By,

which: is:in fubftracting the fuper=! Big) fluous Humidum,, and alfo in fepa+! § it rating the pure, cleane,and fubtile a ye ftom the groffe! and :terreftriall; j mee

dreges. Now the greateft danger: Bij,

is found inthe motion of this Cir~: By, cle, becaufe it hath todoe with; § jy; things: Spirituall, andimakes Nazi §jp ture plentiful. 1:90 7 86. Two:

| Hermetick Servers. |

86." Two things are chiefly: ‘to

| bettaken’ heed of in moving’ this

))| Ciréle; Firft, that it benot nio|| vedtooiintenflys the other, that”

‘| 1t-besnot) moved! longer then is || méét. Motion “accelerated rai.

| feth confufion in the mattery: fo: ts|that the proffe'; impure ‘and ‘indi+: \) gefted part may fly out together:

i] | || tt)

with the pure’and fubtile, and the Body undiffolved mixed:with the Spirit, together withthat whichis diffolved. with this: precipitated

in| motion the Heavenly. and ‘Terre-

i} ftriall) Nature “are: confounded 3

|) andthe Spirit of the Quinteflence rh | corrupted by the admixtion of the || Barely, is’ made dull and:invalid:

{| By°too longamotion the: Earth

ty | 1s°too much evacuated of its Spi: li) rit,8e:is made fo languithing, dry, +} arid-defticute of Spirit;that ir-canii) not eafily be reftored and recalled

/ to.its Temperament.” Either er-

Nv) xour burhieth up the Tin@uresjor | turnsitinto flight. | 87.The

222.

penny Secrets,

Saat ci- -$9. The:Second Circle isRe-' hi ftaurations whofe office is, tore. a

ftore ftrength to the gafping and’)Pr

debilitated body by Potion. The former Circle was the Organ of|ie

: frethment and..Confolation. The? pt! ation of thisis imployedsin the: pal grinding& mollifying the Earthy it (Potter like ythat it may be che fon i

Sweat and labour, bute this of Re“.

better mixed. rar eter 88.’ The motion of this Cir] % clemuft be, lighter then that of| the former ,-efpeciallyin the be? jun sinning ofits Revolutions leftthe} Crow’syoung. ones’ be drowned

in their neftby alarge floud), and the growing world be overflowne it by‘and This iis the: aa

oH

Geometrical Dacboostal| "There

is\ ufually: no’ greater! Secrets tty

found ‘in the whole pradtice! “off th the Worke, then the firme’ and iif

a

onal ats

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Hermeticke Secrets.

| jufly- weighed: Motion of ‘this

223

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i

)| Circle; foririnformeth the Philond) fophers Infant and infpireth Soul

iH

he| andiLife- into him. ts Md if} °-89. The Lawesof this Circles

ht |Motions are, ‘that it run about he| gently 5 and by little’ and little, ie|and {parinely Jet forth it felfe., i) left. that by making hat it fall it), from-its meafure, and the Fire in-

‘| herent ovérwhelmed -with the

fit) Waters,

the Architeé ‘of the

‘| Work grow dull, or alfo’ be’ ex-

i) tinouifhed :that meat and’ drink iii) be adminiftred by tures >to the il €nd theremay be a better Dige: ii) ftion made, and the bef ‘tempera: iit) PCnt Of Humidam: and Sitcam; ia for the indiffoluble colligation of

és,) them both isthe End’ and Scope yy OF the Worke.

‘Furthermore

Kaul) dee, that youaddfo muchbyWatty) tering , as {hall bewantitig in afla:

vq) tion, that Reftauration’ may re-

ig) More fomuch of the loft*ftreneth ee by

:

24

Herimerick Stevers. " corroborating | as °Evachation pil!

Third Civ cle.

hathitaken away by debilitariaeod jou ‘2goy Digeftion: the laft: Circlel be aéteth with filent ‘and’ iafenfible jim motion; and’ therefore: it is faid\pi

by Philofophers, that it 1s made ifm): a fecret furnace; it: decocterh thepn Nutriment received’, and conver: ig tethit into the Homogeneal parts mio

of the body Moreover, itis calepite led Putrefacions becaufe as mieatipion

is ‘corrupted in the Sromack be=ppulin

foreir patfe into Bloud and Sinti- shi lar'parts: fo this‘operation breakefiem eth the Aliment witha concogts ian ing and: Stomack heat , andn’ a hen f

manner makes itto putrefies thas!

it may be the better Fixed; arid Bem changed from’a Mereuriall into albde Sulphurous Nature. “Again; at rs

Gilled Inhumation’, becaule by-ithhy

the Spiric’is inhumated?, and ‘as aly "

dead’ than buried ‘in the>groundamhy, Butbecaule it goes moft flowly pein ittherefore needeth longer a i ee

wt

Js. . Menmetick Secrets.

225 th! phe: two-former Circles. do. Ja-

it} bourefpecially in. diffolving., this

(| i> congealing,, . although all. of

}/ them work both...

5. 3 ..6.

id)| bieg te. Theduawes. of this. Circle i} ate, that it be moved by the Fea-

thi} werith-and..moft gentle heat. of | Dung, left chat the things volatile

i) fly out;.and.the Spirit be troubled Vatthe time. of its ftriteft Conjunii) Bion with the Body., forthen the it) bunfineffeis, perfected in. the greati) efttranquillity.and cafe; therefore a), we-mutt.efpecially.beware left the nit) Earth be moved by. any Winds or Wd) Shewers-: Laftly,.as this. third

dtl)Girele amay, alwayes, fucceed, the

ii) fecond -ftraight-wayes .and in. its Wu Order. \as the fecond the firft :fo i) by interrupted works & by courfe: ti

thofe -three. erratick, Circlesidoe

si€omplear one intire, circulaton,

id which often reiterated , at. length

i) turnes,all things into Barth, and

wfyimaakes peace between cnemies, eect

ae

92.Na-

226 The Five of N ature and Art.

Hermetick Secrets.

92. Nature ufeth Fire, fo alfo Ji,

doth Art after its example ; as. an fi.

Inftrument and Mallet in cutting ff, outits works. In both’ operati- |J)th| ons therefore Fire is Mafter and Perfect.

Wherefore the know- | in

ledge of Fires is moft neceflary for bd 4 Philofopher, without which as], another Ixion (condemn’d to la-§,.., bour in vaineyhe (hall turneabout §, Wheel of Nature to no purpofe.§,.

93. The name Fire is Equivo-§. call amoneft -Philofophers; forl..

fometimes it is ufed Metonymi-§) cally for heat; and fo,,'as' many§. fires as heats:

.In the Generation

ype of Metals and Vegetables; Na- 5a ture acknowledgeth a three-fold

Fire ; to wit, Celeftiall, erreftriall’, and Innate. The Firft flowesh. *

from Solas its: Fountaine, into they”

Bofome of the Earth; it ftirreth mh up Fumes or Mercuriall> and Sal:

phurous vapours, of which Me: tals are'created, and mixeth it ; | felfe

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| felfe amongft them ; it ftirreth up

"|| fire, placed and. fnorting in the

| feedsof.the Vegetables \and ad:

'deth fparkles unto it (as Spurres)

|| for vegetations .The Second lur-

|| kethin.the bowels of the Earth, | by the Impulfe and aétion where-

of the Subterraneous vapours are

driven upwards through Pores | and Pipes , and thruft outwards {| from the-Centre towards. the Su-

| perficies of the Earth, both for | the-compofition of Metals, where the Earth fwelleth up , as alfo for | the production of Vegetables, by | putrefying their feeds, by foftning |) and preparing them>for generati) on. The third of theformer ,viz.

‘}| Solar, is generated of a vappid | fmoak of Metals, and alfo infufed® *° with the monthly provifion grows | together with the humid matter}é& | dS)retained..as in) a’Prifon within

} the ftrength ofit!, or more -truei) ly,.as forme is:conjoyned withthe 2

Mmixt

| Hermetick Secrets, . mixt body : It firmely inhereth iri

the feeds of Vegetables, untill bes | hg folicited by the point of its Pathers rayes it be called out ; then} | Motion intrinfecally moveth. and §

Ri! firft Agent in Nature: but. thei

ty

heat of the Femella an{werethh Terreftriall heat, untill it putrefieds;

the Seed, and prepare it: The Fires, implantedin the.Seed,, Sol's fon, difpofeth the matter,and being di-) fpofed in formeth its. (jac 9 threefold 94. -Philofophers -have-obfer-#; ie

ved a three-fold: Firein the, mat-§

Naturall, againft Nature, The! Naturall they call the Fiery Celeftiall Spirit Innate, kept inthe profundity of matter, and moft® tnély®:

: Hermetick Secrets.

Ni ftrnély bound unto it, which by”

eiithe fluggith-ftrength of metall ° nerowes dull, untill being ftirred ' Qi tip-and freed-by' the Philofophers «

Kt) diferetion’ and external! heat, it Mifhall have obtained a’ faculty of. “)moving its body diffolved , and fo WS Pinformeth its humid matter , by

explication; Penetration, Dilarati-

ion In’ every: itimixtand body“congelation.

Natural Fire is the Natwe! ¢/Principle of Heat and Motion. tianaturall Fire’ they name that vanawall

“which being ‘called and coming

fextrinfecally is introduced into’ Withe matter wonderfull artificially; ‘that it may increafe and multiply ithe ftreneth of naturall heat. The ‘VBire contrary to Nature they call 4samh

‘Ithat!;which putrefies the Compo-" “”"' *

Hfitiim, & corrupteth the temperaiment of Nature ; Ir is imperfect, ‘}becaufe being too weak for geneFation, itis not cartied beyond the m }bourds of corruption? fuch is the.

MPP "QB Fire —

Hermetick Secrets.

Fire or heat. of the menfiruum: f

yet it hath the name improperly of |

Fire againft Nature, becaufe ina)

to Nature, |

manner it is according

for falving the fpecifical form, it fo corrupteth the matter, thatit

difpofethit for generation.

95. Itis more credible never-i

theleffe, that the corrupting Fire,} : called Fire againft Nature , is not in

different from the Innate, but these! firft degree of it, for the order offi

nature requireth, that corruption Now

precede ‘generation : the fire th therefore that is innate agrees ableto the Law of Nature per!!! formeth both, by exciting bortl fucceffivelyin the matter : the firft of corruption more

enth

flirred up by feeble heat, for td mollifie and prepare the body}

the otherofgeneration more for wich cible, moved by a more vehemen(y MMe

heat ,for to animate and fully)

informe the Elementary body dif |

be

ae

polec

Hermoetick Secrets.

:pofed by the former.A donble Mo| tion doth therefore proceed from

a double degree of heat of the |fame fire; neither is itto be ac-

«counted a double Fire. But far ;|better may the Name of Fire con|itrary to Nature be given to vio- . |lent and deftructive Fire, | 96. Unnaturall fire is convert-

hed into Naturall or Innate Fire by Wfucceffive degrees of Digeftion, Vand increafeth and multiplyeth it:

‘f/ Now the whole fecret confifteth ‘in the multiplication of Naturall | Fire, which of it felfe is not able to } Work above its proper ftrength,

nor communicate a perfect Tin‘Gture to imperfect Bodies; forit

iWis fufficient to it felfe; nor hathit

vany further power, but being imultiplyed by) the unnaturall, which moft aboundeth with the fp virtue: of multiplying, doth.act | far more powerfully, and reacheth iPpit-delfe -beyond..the bounds .of Hie

Q4

Na-

Herimesick Secrets: Nattire colouring ftrange and in<| ft

perfedt bodies, Vand? perfecting, jsa) them ; becatife /of'® tesonplen-azoty

tifull Tindture, and ‘the abftrufe! batth

Treafiire of multiplyed: Fire, voc fiecit

thewae

° 97. Philofophers:.-call. sthewgifenor

it :ismoft hor}srom theStone \X/ater: Firey becaufe of ein Neri 15 Fire.

and indued witha Fiery Spirit giv:

apaine, Water is called: Firecby|ima them, becaufe itburneth the borg dies of perfect Metals more: thai) common fire doth; for it perfect-P yy, ly diffolveth them ,whereas they@is refiftour Fire , and will not fufferiie themfelves to be diffolved by stem

|

for this caufe itis alfo called Bur-Bat)

hing Water: Now that Fire Ol fonhe

Tin@tire is hidin the belly of their

Water, and manifefts it felfe-by penis a double effet, viz. of the bodiesiy jy

Fie is

- Solutionand Multiplication. »9° By

98. Nature ufeth a double Fire icihe:

sacl :, the Work of generation, Intrinfe- Ht), and extrine Call,8cextrinfecall :the former bests

fed.

“4ng placed in the feeds & nia tay

Hérwetith Secreiss ti) OFthings sis:-hidin their Centres de

it} gS principle of Motion and Life,,

doth move andquicken the body:

'Butthe latter, Extrinfecall; whe-

slither it be poured down from Hea-

hen or Earth raifeth theformer,'as .

idrowned with fleep, and compels |iit sto: action’; for the vitall {parks ‘gftimplanted, in. the feeds ftand. in bo} need of an externall mover , that

hi) they: may be moved and actuate.

AbeS99.Itis even fo inthe Philofo-

by

iithe internal. ftandeth in. need. of |) the externall ,, which the,Philofo-

i) pher-iadminiftreth according , to nf) the Precepts of:Art and Nature; ii thisscompelleth the former to wp)maove. Thefe Fires are as two

ay

Wheeles

te

Hermetick Secrets.

Wheels: whereof the hidden onelopj being fmitten of the fenfible one Bap itis moved fooner or later: Andinas 9 ffir thus Art helpeth Nature.

100. ‘The Internal Fireis there’

middle between the mover anc ore the tnatter, whence itis, that a jo, it is moved by that, it movethh. . thus: iffo be itfhall be driven inhy.,

tenfly or remifly, it will’ work aff

Ht 4

ter the fame manner in the matte

The Information of the whol]

worke dependeth of the meafurg,.;, a, ee of externall Fire. ror. He thatis ignorant of thi o. degrees and points of external ” Fire, let him not fet upon thi,

Philofophicall Worke;

for Hp

Ii light out of darkg

throug

Elements, whofe extreams are n¢

Foure d=

grees of Fire.

converted but onely iby mied! Uy vad wholetcl x ae Becaufe the worg “1462, gong gainh SON q

Fe !

4

Hermetick Seevets.. ‘confifteth in Separation. and per| fect Preparation of the foure Elements, therefore fo many- degrees lof Fire areneceflary thereunto; for yevery Element is extracted by. the

lidegree of Fire proper to it. || 103. The foure degrees of Fire

spate Called the Fire of the Bath, of

HAthes, of Coales, and of Flame, ‘which is alfo called Optetick : every degree hath its points,two at jleaft, fometimes threes for the

|Fire is to be moved flowly and by | points . whether it be increafed or WY decreafed, that Matter (after Namy |tures example may.-go¢on bydegreesand willingly unto. Informar

i eion and. completion.; for nothing jis fo ftrange to. Nature, as that } which is violent; Let-the Philo-

™ fopher propound. to his confide||kation the gentle accefle & recefle nH} of the Sun, whofe Light ‘& Lamp | indulgeth its heat tothe things of )the world, according tothe He | ee : an

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beftoweth a temperament upon oop

them..

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3 os balla

rhe pointof 104 The firft point of thept Bathofheat is called the heat ‘ofp Fir. 4 Feaver or of Dung; the fecond,p

ofboth fimply. ‘The’ firft point) xtra of the fecon deat is the fimple })*' heat of Afhés, the fecond is ther heat of Sand: Now the points orf?

Fire, of Coales and’ Flame, wane ee

a proper Name, but they are dife Rs!

ionofthey? tinguifhed by the operatinten tiong)

Intelle& , according’ to

ceentidone = Se gud “x05. Three “degrees

uae amit

ontly Om el

Fire are fometimes found amongity””

Philofophers, viz. of the Batho het Afhes and the hot Bath: which#™

comprehendeth the Fire of Coalsi'

and Flame: the Fire,of Dung isp

fometimes diftinguifhed from they” Fire of the Bath, in degree. Thusi

for the moft part Authors doe in-it) volve the ligtit in darkneffe ; by thesi] | i, 7

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j| the various expreffions of the Phi| fofophers Fire; for the knowledge therofis accounted amongft he} their chief {ecrets. |

1190106, In the White Work, be-

j}caufe three Elements onely are

itextracted, three degrees of Fire alit}f0.do furffice;the laft, to wit the WOptetick ,. is referved for the fifourth Element,

Four Elce

ments ofthe Stone.

which finifheth

aithe Red Work. By the firft de-

«ieree the eclipfe of Sol and Lu-

yiymais made, by the fecond the light yWOt Luna begins to be reftored : by

ithe third Zana attaineth ‘unto the ¢ifulneffe of her fplendour: and by © aytne fourth Sol is exalted into the c/higheft apex of his glory : Noiv

wiuin every part. the Fire ts adminiWired acccording to the rules of 4) Geometry, {6 as the Agent may jjanfwer to the difpofition’ of the i) Patient ,and their’ ftrength be e-

ually poifed betwixt themfelves. }< 107. Philofophers have ver Re

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much fet. upon their Fire with 4 nat defire of Secrecy, fo.as they fcarcd ‘d

have been bold to touch it, bull tlm

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its qualities and proprieties, theif") ot

by its name: as that it is airie Fire#*° -yvaporous , humid and dry, cleasg 1%

ftar-like,. becaufe it may eafily by ooh degrees beintended or remitted ap Oth

the Artificer pleafeth. Hee. chapito defireth more of the knowledge cpl

i al

Fire ;may ‘be fatisfied by chy ul Works of Lutlius,who hath operpitt;

Proportion.

ed the Secrets of Practice to carpitt did minds.candidly...« ; mec

108, Of the confli@: of the Bet tor

ele and the Lion they write, dpstu

verfly. ,.,becaufe the Lion is chp: ftrongeft animall -of. all. otherptll and therefore it is neceflary thi to,

more. Eagles concur, (three Pity

leaft,, or elfe more,, éven.to ten) Bal, conquer him :, the fewer-they.apthh the greater the contention, and rime

flower the Victory.s but the ae sy | 6ag)s

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Ea less the thorter:the 'Battaile, eland the: 'direption «of :the Lyon bill more> readily follow.:»:The

fhappyer' number of feven Eagles hamay be taken out of Lallins, or of

‘eeMinie Out.of Senior.

lath 109. ‘The Veffell wherein: Phi- rhe rfels iyjlofophers decoct: theit! worke,: is ungpink

dgtwotold ; the one of Nature. ‘the mother of Ait: the Veflell of Naature which is alfo called:the Vettel

“tot Philofophy, is the Bartlnof thé j>tone; orthe Femella> or: Matzix)

|whereinto the Seed of theMaleis teceived, it‘putrefies,and:is:prepa-

ged forgeneration, the Veflell ‘of

rgNatureis of three forts'é for the ;yecret is decofted:inoa threefold

hapefcllit 1:8 to

fsfts¥ ylono on

) 110, ‘The Firft Veflell'isimade

«qf a tranfparent Stone, or offtony

np Slafle » ‘the forme thereof fome 1 |Philofophers:have hidby'@ certain oiwenigmaticall <defcription's' fome-

qames affirming that itis? com: isl poun-

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pounded of two peeves, to wit, afdfii0 ‘Alembick ,°and a=Bolts-head: fometimes of three yoothertime |p)

of the two former with theadditi bf onof aCoverioiod ei) ai ban sqfound soar. Many shave «feigned: thie: inultiplying of fuchdlike Veflel Brat to be neceffary:to the! Philofophijjig! call Work; calling them by diveriiu:!

names, with'd defire of hiding thijiud fecret by aidiverfity of operations pn. for they called’ it Solutory.of foluppnei tions Putrefactory for putrefactipint; ons° Diftillatory:

for diftillation! int

Sublimatory for fublimation; Calbiti:

cinatory for calcination, 8c, 30:1" fing

t122 But that alldeceit: bein Ror; removed: we may fpeak fincerelys ir

one oncly Veffell of Art fufficet iin,

eoterminate the Worke ofeithelin,

Sulphur}. ° andyanother: for: th, Ii

Work ofthe Elixirs for the diffis verfity.of digeftions requireth nom

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iii)Ped oroopened; before. the Firht 1h

al,| avork be’ ended.

mge2crs3. You hallymake: choife of

itiita: forme» of .the:glafly.. Veffell

«| round in the bottom or cucurbic, iigtor at leaft ovall, the neck an hand, Hbréeadth-long or more, large .eenough, with a ftraight mouth, wginade likea Pitcher or Jugg,considtinued 8 uncutt and thick in every nypart, thar) it may tefift a long , and li fometimes) an acute Fire :. The

disCuicurbit: or Bolts head. is called

oi blind 5 becaufe its eye is blinded

Giwith the Hermetick {eal , left any

yiithing from without, fhould enter

witht; or the:Spirit: fteal ours. deer. Thefecond:Veflelkof Art alitiaybe of \Wood'; of the trunk

iebfarOake; cut into two hollow: iiWHemifphears, «wherein the: Philo-

ddifophers ‘“Egge may be cherifhed

inieattitobe hatcheds of which fee:

ail he Fountaine of Trevifanuss >

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al -ans ecThe third Veffell .Practi-: | > Aye: } RK tioners

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which keeps: the -other Veflels },1,

with the matter and the whole} ;,;

work: this alfo Philofophers have Jy

iecarosmin aPS te ira ac EES

erideavoured to hideamongft their iit. fecrets.

Mn the The Furnace.

-416, The Furnace which is the jy, Keeper of Secrets, is called Atba-}},.4 mor, from. “the immortall Fire, },p,p which it alwayes preferveths for jin although it afford unto the Work t.ty continuall Fire, yet fometimes un-fh.,, equally, which reafon requireth tol, be adminiftred more or lefie,ac-f,i¢’

cording to the quantity of matter, J, 9}, and the capacity of the Furnace.

117. The matter of the Purdy ; naceismade of Brick, or of, fatty td} Barth , or of Potters clay. well i beaten, and prepared with horfe), ; dung, mixed with /haite, that i th may ftick the fafter, and may not % be chincked by long heat ; Jet. the ih walls be thick, of three or foure nt

fingers, tothe end that it may be i,

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they"

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the better ablé to keep in the heat

| and withftand ir. | 118. Let’the form of the Eur“| mace be round, the inward alti| tlide of two feet or thereabouts, i) inthe midft whereof an Iron of | Brazen plate muft be fet, of a

‘| round Figure, about the thickneffe | of a Penknife’s back , 1a manner

| pofleffing the interiour latitude

|} Of the Furnace , but a little nar-

| Fower then it, left it touch the walls, which muft leane upon three it) Or foure props of Iron fixed to the Mi walls, and let it be full of holes, "| that the heat may be the more eaNY fily cartied upwards by them, and a) between the fides of the Furnace atid the Plate. Below the Plate ¢Y Jer there be 2 little door left; and

My"another above in the walls of the iT ’Farnace , that by the lower the tH| Fire may be putin, and by the ) higher the temperament of the

i) heat may be fenfibly perceived i

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at the oppofite part whereof let there be alittle windowof the Fix ure of a Romboides: fortifyed with glaffe, that the light ovete

pun fino: jiu Jp

again{t it may fhew the colours’ to jiofig theeye. Uponthe middle of tthe fhion forefaid plate, let. the Tripode of How fecrets be placed» witha double frley Vettel. Laftly let the Furnacebe ftiek,

very well covered with afhell. orf: covering agreeable unto iti, and Brine

that alwayes the little: dooresiiny; clofely flbnt, left the heat go out. «yy

119. Thusthou haftall chingsiiyy

néceflary to the firft: Work) thegon f end whereof is the generation offing two forts of Sulphur the com-Bye/

pofition and. perfection of both tll fy may be thus finithed.

The praice of Sulphur.

i. TakeaRed)Dragom; cou bt

ragious 5) warlik ¢,» to. whom nopriy, Naturall ftrength is wanting; andiiy,, afterwards feven or nine -noblepin.. ns; |]whofe eyes Willa es .[Virgi Eagl not wax dull by the wo baon:thehl:\. un 3)

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1 |Sun xcaftthe Birds with the Beat, ti) intova’ clear Prifon and. ftrongly | fhut'up, under which eta Bathbe ¢| placed, that they may be incenfed to fight by the warm vapour : ina

it) fhorectime they: will enter into 2

ot) long-and-harfh contention , untill ¢} atlength about the 45 day or 50, it} the-Eagles begin to prey upon and ttpteare>the beaft to pieces; this | dying it willinfe& the whole Pris}fonowith: its. black and. direfull ti)poyfon, whereby the Eagles. befa wounded , they: will alfo: be it} Con {trained to. give up the ghoft.

atl From the putrefaction of the dead | Carcafles a Crow will be generahited) which by little:and little, putwing forth its head , and the Bath ‘}peing fomewhat increafedit will

porthwith ftretch forth its wings iin begin to flys but feeking

Jit-hincks =from. the »Winds :and wl} Dlouds, it will long hover about; fitake heed that it find not any.. At

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fength being made white by a gen: tleand long Raine, and with the

dew of Heaven it will be changed § ‘nto a White Swan 4 but thef?.

new borne Crow is @ fign of thel* departed Dragon. ‘In making the} Crow White extra& the Ele-f ments, and diftifl them accord-} ing to the order prefcribed , untill se they be fixed in their Earth, andy

end in Snow:like , and moft fab-prt |

tile duft, which being finifhed thouP fhalt enjoy thy ‘firft defire ‘to theft White Worke.

120. If thou intendeft to prow

ceed further to the Red, adde thqp Element of Fire, which is wanineng.N

to the White Work? the Veffellpius therefore being fixed, and the Firm ftrengthned by litrle*’and Littler

through its points, force the mary ter untill the occult begin to bi

made manifett ; the figne whereopieu will be the Orange colour arifing#Mk order the Fire of the Fourth de} i

gre)

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v.| Bree by, its, points,.untill by che | helpeof Yulcan purple Rofes be oj) generated of the Lilly , and laftly heithe. Amaranthus dyed with the ip|darkith Redneffe of bloud : but =

i thou.mayelt, not. ceafe to. bring a Out Fire by Fire, untill thou thale

behold. the matter terminated in iil Reddeft, afhes,. and infenfible to. ilthe touch.

This’ Red Stone may.

iteare up thy. minde to grearer aiithings,. by the blefling and affitt}ance. ofthe holy Trinity. | «2x. They that thinke they 1 have brought their, worke to an isnd by perfect Sulphur,not knowring OS Nature; or Art; and to have

pi) folfilled: the Precepts of the fecrets

jarermuch deceived , and will try Ktheir Project in vaine : for the ttle4 | i

wtjbtaxisof the Stone is perfected

\by a double, Worke;, the Firft is, if ia creating the Sulphur, the other

fa in. making the Elixir, | eecce The Philofophers Suli | R 4 phur

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phur is moft fubtile Earth , moft jm! hot and dry , in the belly whereof Jonely the Fire of Nature abundantly} 14 multiplyedis hidden’; Moreover; |tdo!

Fire deferveth the name of* the joi M Stone; for it hath in it felfe the jhbli virtue of opening and penetrating }WWhite the bodies of Metals , and of tur- jinent ning them into’ their own tempe-fofth

rament and producing fomething jWVtie

like it felfe, wherefore it is called} 1): a Father and Mafculine feed.

Hindne

123. That we may leave nothing }kqg} untouched , let the Students: in}re,

ves, j hur,

|mive \

ori

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man {ee in Lullivs,this may fuffice ui} onely to point at it. i | 124, The Elixir is compounded of a threefold’ matter ,namely of Metallick Water or Mercury | fublimated as before ; of Leaven

ig) White or Red, according to the

‘}intention of the Operator, and

} of the Second Sulphur, all in it} Weight. | i} 125. There are Five proper &™p2ti‘| and neceffary qualities in the per- prit

no} fect Elixir, thatit be fufile, perma‘in nent, penetrating, colouring and lat) multiplying ; ic borroweth itstin} Gure and fixation from the Leaa} ven, its penetration from the Sulphur, its fufion from Argent ¢-) vive which is the medium of conit} joyning Tinctures , to wit of the ‘Ferment’ and Sulphur , and its ) multiplicative virtue from the Spi|rit infufed into the Quinteffence. f

126.

Two

perfect Metalls

Jf give a perfect Tincture, becaufe | they

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they are dyed.with the pure.Sul. tracte phur of Nature,, and.therefore.no |Wate

be fought, 3 dye thy, with, Sad | of all. rez Elem ceives their Tincture. and, having Stone received it, doth. communicate, it }nids mid OF to others.

Fexment of Metals may befides thefe two bodies Elixir White and Red and Luna, Mercary, firtt

127. Incompounding the Elixir

take heed you change not. or mixe

any thing with the Ferments., for | either Elixir muft, have its. proper Ferment, and defireth its.proper |Cet Elements; for. it is provided, by i i no

Nature, that the two Luminaries A thetef have their different. Sulphur and |How) diftinét tinGtures,

428. The Second work is.con; | | coéted as, the Fir, in the fame ilterne

or like Veflell., the fame Furnace,

thdC0

and by the, fame degrees of fire, Benda butis perfected in a fhorter time, Buihed Three humours tn the Stone:

129. Thereare three humours |

in the Stone,, which are to be exe |glconIX tracted

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I} tra@ted: fuccefsively 5 namely’,

iN) Watery,’ Airy, and Radicall, and

it) therfore all the labour and care of ) the Workman is employed about 4) the humour , neither is any other

M| Element in the “Worke ‘of the

It) Stone, citculated, befides the ‘hue

{mid one. For it is neceffary in the

|) firftplace, that: the Earth be reMl folved and melted into humour:

it) Now the Radicall ‘humour of all : things, accounted Fire , is moft te‘naciotis’; becaufe it is'tyed tothe -Centreof Nature, from which it is not‘eafily feparated ; extract IS} therefore

thofe

three humours

i} flowly ; fuccefsively, diflolving -and congealing them by their Ir |Wheels; for by the’ multiplyed Ky alterne reiteration’of Solution the Wheel is ex} and congelation

Sf tended, and the whole work’ fiif nifhed.

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indiffoluble Matrirhony of S7ecesmajoii atid Humidam , {o that they may}!

not be ‘feparated , but'the ‘Siccump®' may flow with’ moderate ‘healt

into the Humidum abiding every fing preffure of Fire. ‘The figne OfR% perfection is , ifavery little of seepplann caftin above the Iron or Brazeri pea

Plate being very hot,it flow forth--M™ with without fmoake.

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131. B. Let thtee weights of ik,

Red Earth, or Red Ferment, and#ilttp

a double weight of ‘Water “and ino

Aire, well beaten, be mixt toge pith ther :let an Amalgama be -made'yy im

like Butter, or Metalline Pafte, fot! as the Earth’ being «mollifyed Jt

may be infenfible to the touchs fie Add one weight’ and an halfe‘of tosh Fire : Let thefebe ordered in their’ ioc

Veffell, the Fire ofthe firft-degtee Bein being moft ‘clofely fealed ; aftex- }-13,, wards let the Elements be extta--}ono/

&ed out of their degrées of Firefly in their order, which being turned *hikh) down

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ial)COwnwards witha gentle motion wythey may be fixed in.their Earth, vi)'..asy- nothing: Volatile may be raifed upfrom.thence, the matter Jat length hall. be.terminated in-a if}Rock, Illuminated , Red. and Di-

wlaphanouss |a part whereof take at pleafure , and having caftit into

Crucible. with ..a little. Fire by i drops give it to drink with its Red if) Oyle, and incere it, untill ic be jp quite poured out, and goe away |

ad ithout {moake., Nor mayft thou

i Heareits flight, for. the Earth bepng, mollityed withthe f{weetnefle ‘ pethe Potion wilh ftay it, having

wWeceived. it, .within its bowels:

hen take the Elixir thus perfected “i ntothine owne power., and keep | 1pales In. God rejoycejand wre filentes: 9 o/h os |

«ef 432. The order and method of 4ipeompofing & perfecting the white

Ǥ Clixir is'the fame, fo that thou iP afeft.the white Elements, onely. A | the

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the compofition thereof 3° but the |! body of it broughtito the terme [in of decoction; will end inthe plates}

white ; fplendid , and‘ cryftall>|pit’

like, »which:incerated:' wich» vies plyws

White Oyle wilbobtaine the-help fait of Fafion.

Catt one weightoffii?:

either Elixir -upon ten weights off Argent vive well: wafhed, "and thou wilt admireits effect witha

fonifhiment.

Ona

Mulipi- © 0330 Becanfein the Elixir thept cation of ftrength of Naturall Fire is mony he El". aboundantly multiplyed by thehiiy Spirit: infuled’ into the “Quine 5

teflence ,: and the naughty sacci fil, dents of bodies, which befeetheigell purity and the “true light of Na Boke turewith darknefle, are taken away Wi

by.long and manifold fublimation¢uile and digeftions; thereforeiFiersfad wy Natore freed from its Fetters; ang fortifyed with) the aid of Heaven hon

. dy ftrength, workes moft powerful, fully: being included ‘inv’ this’ re tsRe | |

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it) fife »Elemene:: Leet not theres | fore-be ‘a wonder,

if tix obtaine

it)/ ftrength ‘not onely:to perfed im= b) perfect things, but alfoto multiis} ply its force and power : Now the }) Fountaine of Multiplication is in “| the Prince of the Luminaries,who f| by the infinite multiplication of his , beams, bepetteth all things inthis

hejour Orbe, and multiplyeth things

(generated, by infufing a multiplitei cative. vittue invor the feeds of : things. oe! 0314! The way. of multiplying ithe Elixir is threefold’:

By the

pitt; B: Mingle one weight of

i)Red Elixir, sith nine weights: of

Nihits Red Water, and diffolve itin+

yaqyptO, Water ina folutory Veffell, ai curdle. the matter well diffolved,’ ip and unite by decocting tt witha aupgentle Fire, antill iv be made:

saptrong into'a Rubie or Red: La-

yepmell, which afterwards incere with

pits Red Oyle, after the manner: i pres

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prefcribed untill it flows fo}: fhalt thou have a! medicine‘ten of}!i"th times more powerfull then’ the) pitti firtt. The bufineffe is eafily finifhed in a {hort time. the Pia

tice F

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135. By the Second manner |

' & what Potion thou pleafeftof} thy Elixlr mixed with its Water, | the weights being obferved’s feale

it very wellin the Veffell of Re-| du@tion, diffolve it in a Bath,

inhumation, being diffolved di-}White fillit , Separating’ the Elements Ate proper fires , atid fixing

by their them downwards, as was done ‘it his\

the firft and fecond work, untill it} be a Stone ; laftly, incere it and)

projectit. This is the longer,F°

but yet the richer way, for the vir- [" tueof the Elixir is increafed unto }"! an hundred:fold; for by how much fi!

the more fubtile it ismade by rei~ fi! 1 terated operations , by fo’ much)

more both of fuperiour’ and infe- |N riour ftrength it retaineth, 8 more PM

powerfully operates.

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| rst1$8. Laftly,take’ éne Ounce of the faid Elixir multiplyed in

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virtue 5 and projet it upon’an hundred ‘of purifyed Mercury, and

| in-alictle ‘time Merciry made hot

amongft burning Coals , will be .| Converted into pure Elixir; wherei ‘Ae |of if chou cafteft every ounce upon

i.) another hundred of the like mMer-

fy) ©4775 Sof wall (hine moft purely: to

jithine eyes. The multiplication of | White. Elixir may be made the

ng fame way. Take the virtues of leeMedicine to cure all kinds of |difeafes, and to preferve good an ‘health, as.alfo the uft thereof, out wpObthe Writings of Arnoldus de: OF , wills nova, Lulliusand of other

Philofophers, may be fetched. ch (237- The Philofophers Signifer “inftruct. him : that feeketh 72 79 ele will => ~ Of tie |the times:of + the Stone. for the Atft done ic Wotk.ed 4/b¢muftbe terminated id |inthe Houfe of Luxasthe Second, on inthe fecond Honfeof Mercury; i | | oe, ee (0

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Thefirt Work ad Rubeum , will

‘end in the Second Houfe of Venus,|I0 |

and the laft inthe other Regal} phi

‘Throne of ove, from: whence ‘our moft Potent King fhall.receive

a:Crowne decked with moft Pre- Ne

“¢lous Rubies :

fe

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Sicin fe,[uaper veftigia volvitur 33) Anns, 8 x99 | Hatoth

Thus does the winding of ;the,cir-{Qien cling. Yeare

955 5,

) synch

‘Trace its owne. Foot-ftepsjand theforiss

fameappeate,

....,

ierh

138. A three-headed’, Dragon ugh0 keeps this Golden Fleeces the farfty ™ head proceedeth from the: Wark. ters, thefecond from :the.Earth,}y.),, the third fromthe Aires, it is ne-Prors

ceffary that thefe three heads dol 4 end in one moft Potent, which willfir: in

‘devour all the other Dragons;thenp''s() a way is.Jaid open for thee.to they!

~ golden Fleece. .Farewell diligent Ma

Reader, in Reading thefe things in-},. vocate the Spirit.of Eternal Lights} i

Speak little, Meditate much, TO and Judge aright.

|'To the: Lovers of‘Hermetick Philofophy £. C.* Chymieraftes:» “wifheth profperity.

Uch is the difference between the HerWJmeticks living Philofophy , and ithe

_ | dead’Philofophy of the. Echnicks);

that

“| theformer hath been’ Diyinely infpired ‘} into the firft Mafters of Chyimiftry [the Hf Queén ‘of all Sciences ,] and .therefore Imay challenge the Holy Spiritof Truth i for its onely Author ; whoby breathing

}where he fifteth’, doth infufe the true q }Light of Nature into their minds; ‘by 4) virtue whereof, all the darknefle of er= frours is’ ftraight-wayes chafed away ‘Wfrom thetice and utterly expelled : but ithe latter may-afcribe its Invention “unto ‘| Pagans , who having left, or rather negjilected’ the ‘pure Fountains of Learning;

(have introduced falfe Principles. and I caufes, (proceeding from their own brain) jfor true ones, to’ the great dammage bof the Reipublique of Learning: And il indeed what good were they able to do, upon whom the Day-Star of Truth;: the it @Eternal! Wifedome of God , the Founs "| | ? $2 taine

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taine of all Knowledge and Underftand, |woe ing Chrift Te/us hath never rifen?: We i10 Me cannot wonder therefore, that they have }wioa onely propofed

old wives

Fables, and | ition

foolifh toyes, that they have introduced |

pure dotages,, and innumerable invenntiy jrevelat

ons of lyes, whereby they; have fo. bes |Goi,i , that y -we,can |rinei dawbedholy Philofoph

find nothing of Native beauty 1 ity so figs.t But you will object thae Hermes hime liphr felf the Prince of Vitall Philofophy was fiuir) an Heathen alfo, yea and lived before |i

other Authors many ages, by whofe de

the Ply

crees Philofophy in every place: encertais fivof

ned with greateft applaufe of almoft all) ples men,now flousifheth, But granting, chat; slo what followeth? This Herwses Z rifmtes Which

giftus indeed»was borne in an Heathenfhetq,

Country, yet by a peculiar priviledge: pailp from God he-was-dne, who, worfhipped |tbeen

the true God in hislife, mannersand Ré-|J))}, ligion efpecially ; who freely contefted by), God the Father,,and that she. was. the hg Greator of Man,

and made-no. other hin

partaker of Divinity wich him + Heae=|g,/;

knowledged the Son,of God the Father, Hn by whom all things which are. exiftens | in/c,; were made ; ‘whofe name becaule| it was |p, wonder, |

Hermetick Secrets, ) wonderfull’and ‘ineffable,was unknowne

It], to Men, and even to Angels themfelves,

i) who admire wich aftonifhmenc his gene| tation. What more? He was our Her=

mes who by the fingular indulgence and ih} revelation of the moft etear and gracious

|| God;foreknew that the fame Son fhould at}; come in the Fleth ; and-that in thela@ it | 8ges, to the end he might bleffe the God»

m|) ly forever. Heit was who-fo clearely ) taught, that the myftery of the moft Holy t} Trinity ought to beadored, aswell in

ds the Plurality of Perfons, asin the Uby}nity of Divine Effence, in three Hyal) pottafes, (as any quick-fiehted and ins iy) telligent ‘man ‘may gather from that ‘fwhich followes; )as that it can {carcely

|be found “any where more clearly and if} plainly :‘for thus he > There was an Injrelligent Light before the. Intelligent ) Light’; and there was.alwayes a cleare A) Mind of the Adind : and. the Truth [hereof 5 and the Spirit contaimng all \things,was no other thing: Befides rbis we Godis not, nor Angell, nor any other E ffence;for heis Lord of all,both Father, handG od,all things are under him, and in him. I-befeech thee O Heaven. , and the ;

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Hermetick S ¢crets.

befeech the wife worke of the great God; I h be},): whic thee thou voiceof the Father 5

whole, firft [pake, when he formed the begot= } if y onel the ld: I befeech thee by wor

all}. tén Word, and Father contaimng ae | thing Now yee and over agaitic, ers', VolumesofHeathen Philofoph poflibly fj... u yo nce ige inquire with what dil find fuch},..9 to e abl are can, whether you

ick things| * : Holy, fach Godly and Gathol te N10, * inthem. es | conI Our Hermes was an Heathen, ) lr. the knew as n the Hea

feffe, yet fuchan’

by other}. power and greatneffe of God,‘and glori-| creatures and alfo by himfelfe,

e toad,) fied God,asGod: I fhalnot {par far excelled in oodlinefle moft}

thathe nely 5}, Chriftians now a dayes in rame'o him as} unto. ks and gaye immortall than a} with gs, thin d goo all the Fountaine of

-| deep fubmiffion- of mind for. his benees| fonn yee s pray I r “Hea : , fits received ip, of Learning) whether God was as muchin}, ss lly equa as converfant ; and wrought

his own, the Heathen Nation, asamongft g Obf

the ri people, wher he faith : From OF ‘

| |

Hermetick Secrets; | ofthe Sun unto the going downe thereof | his name is great amongit. the. Gentiles;

“|| and inevery placea pure oblation. isfa~

| crificed and offered unto my name . , be| caule my name.ts Lreat amongftthe Na-

tions, [aith the Lord of Hots by his Pro-

I phet. yoy Wate Rub up your memoty, \Lintreat you, }and {peake plainly.werenotthe Magi Heathens, which came fromthe Eaft by | the cuidanceof'a Star > that.they might

Worlhhip, Chrift | whom‘ sneverthelefe |the unbeleeving péople hangéd: upon ‘a [Tree

. Laftly confider ‘wellE>\ befeech you, yee faithful: fayourers “of true } Wifedome onely ;. from what Fountain e

thother Heathens belides. Hermes have ‘tas ‘ken the Principles: of |theirs Learn ing,

}Weare and better: wearé out! their “VoL

ilumes) with diligence » that'yee may dificerne. them to. refer their: wifdome jot

funto God , butto attribute it, as ‘gott en

py their owne Induftry:: On the contra‘Ly, caft your. eyes upon! the beginnin g of the admirable Tra@ate'having even (Chapters... of your Father. ‘Hermes con-

i} serning the Secret of the Phyfical Stone,

ind obferye how. holily hé thinkerhoof

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Hevmetick Secrets.

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God the beflower of this Secret Science {ni

for Hermes faith: In fo great an Age \leig!

L have not ceafed to try experiments, \laya “por have {pared my Soul from labour =\clabyt Thad this Art and Science by the Infpi-\d|unyn

vation ofthe Living God only, who hath|lecst

vouch{afed to open it to me his (ervant.\phe;l!

g lin Tis true} he hathgiven power ofjudginid

to rational creatures, but hath not Lefeitulea unto anyanoccafion of finning. Burl jw)

unle(fe Ifeared: the day of Doom , or thelWork of fouls. damnation for the concealing of this ?ijl Science; I would make kyown norhing ehh inw this Sciencé\nor prophetize to any, But jj)

have been willing torender to the Faith

fall thew. due, asthe Author of Faith

hath been pleafed to beftow upon mel, » Thus Hermes: then which nothing could). .

have ever bin faid more wile, or more a-}, greable ro Chriftian Religion. And henet it is,that fo many'as are or have been of ¢ mote fublime wit and manly.judgement) hhye imbtaced the Living,Holy, and Di: vine Philofophy: of Hermes , with all their Soil-and Strength (rejecting thal.

dead, prophane, and humane Philofo} phie of the Ethaicks) and have com},

mended: and: ‘illuftrated it in divets Ol).

their Writings and Watchings,

a all), which.

|

Hermeticke Secrets, | which , that I may: canfefle ingenuoully,

feeing ciat Tcould-hever read unto this

| day.any. Writer more true, neat, and » |, clear,..then the Author ‘of this Tradtate,.. | Anonymus indeed, yet onethat truly defervesthe name of an Adepted Philofo-

bpher; 1 have thought.ét worth mypains, w}and haye deemed’ hereby” to confer not |

tthe leaft fayour upon the fons’ of Her=:” wWimes, if Ifhall againe publifh the hidden |.” rit Work of “Hermetick Philofopby , wichy

Hite Rhilofopbers S ignifer, according'6 w'}the intention of this moft wile Author. |°

my Pe, i

Fatewell® tz y

ri

ae

“The Signifer. of"Philofophers with:

“the Houfes ofthePlanets... |

| THE

))| | | |

TIMES..OF THE 267 STON BE. The Figure defcribed is the rhe me:

Philofophers Siguifer., Toevery pretation 2 Planet a. double Houfe is affigned ay | by the Ancients, Sol and Luna ex Scheme. cepted; whereof every one bor-

"| roweth.one Houfe onely, both of

| them adjoyning. In the faid Fijgure every. Planet poffeffeth its )) Proper Honfes.’ Philofophers in (| handling their Philofophical work, | begin. their 'yeare in Winter ,. to nf wit, the Sun, being in, Capricorne,

*} which isthe former Houfe of Sa|turne, and. fo come. towards the right hand... In the. Second place ’ }theother.Houfe of Saturzis found lin: Aquarias, at which time Saturne

'4e.the Blacknefle of the Domina-

Ity:work begins after. the.45;or.50. |day. Sed. coming into. Pa/ces, the

|worke is black, blacker.then black, 5 ,:4¢

fand the head of the Crow begins cap.49. itoappeat.

The third month be- 44

jing ended, andSol entring into 4rites

Hermetick Setrets. ries, the fublimation or feparati- |Aye on of the Elements begins. Thofe |73/

which follow unto Cancer make |”

the Worke White. Cancer addeth |

the greateft whiteneffe'and fplen. |).

dour, atid doth perfectly: fillupall | the dayes. of the-Srone or white |.)

Sulphur, or the Lunar worke of | Sulphur, Lama fitting and reigning’) glorioufly in her Houfe. In Leo py: the Regal Manfion of the Sun,the | Solar work begins, which in Li’ bra is terminated -into’'a Rubie-}), Stone, or perfect Sulphur. The’ two Signes Scorpius and Sagita~ rius whichvtemaine, are indebted’ to the compleating of the Elixir’

And thus the Philofophers admi-' rable young taketh its beginning |: in the Reigne of Saturne, and its | end and perfectionin the Domi- ,,

nion of Fupéter.

FINIS..

:

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Ee

7

fnsania Elaboraie STUDENTS, In the moft

Divine Myfteries “Hermetck Learning. & Here prefent you ein 2 |

Summary ‘Cokettienof the a? choifelt Flowers, growing ai. in the Hermetick, Genta:

| Bred and ‘boutid up in one compleat § land lovely Poffe: A way whereby: Paix fil Inquifirors avoid the ufual difcouiedeemients met with in a tedious wander‘Ping through each: long Walk, or wind= Ine Maze ; which are the ordinary and Peuilful Gircumftances, wherewith envious

| pPuitefophitre’have’oo :

their Babors, purpolely

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purpofely to puzzle or weary the moft refolyed undertakings. ’Tis true, the | manner of delivery ufed by the Ancients upon this Sabjeé, is very far removed from the common path of Difcour{e;|

yet Ibeleeve they were conftrained (for |, the weight and majefty of the Secret) jj, to invent thofe occult kinde of expreffi- }} ons ine#nigmaes, Metaphors, Para-\y | bols,and F igures.

Now amongft the Catalogue of Au- I;

thors that have treated of this /acred

Learning, Ihave chiefly obferved fout | forts, The firft are fuch whofe wel-minded- i. nefs and honefty ; have caufed them to) | lay down the whole Myftery faihfully t

and plainly ; giving you a Clewas well}

as fhewing you a Labyrinth; and they! onely are to be ftudied.

Lae Thefecond are thofe whole ALagifte-} rial handling a part or branch thereof, did it rather to difcover themfelyes AZa-}} fers, then with intent to ix/trué others :) Thefe may be read, but they aretoo fublime-for thofe, who ftandin need of any” Introduttion. | .

Others there are, who.our of Ienoe " % rance ot Adiffake, have delivered blind, ;

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and

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A.

| 3 bottomed Fiétions,. which haye | too much deluded and abufed the credu| lous World:

fothatof this fort I may

fay (not blemifhing thé honor ; which fome of them have juftly acquired in * other parts of learning,) their Works are | |like Pigmaleons Image, [ full of exquifite “proportion; feature; delicacie, and bean-

}zy, but not animated with the /ife and foul of Truth, and whileft a man iconfults with /uch, he hall always doubt, whether what he reads be tothe

matter, ornot : However the Fudicious may {mell their levity by the rankne/s of

t+ |heir tmbpertinancies,

—~

her

i,|. But che latt and worft fort of all, are

uly}

ti |hoa and. obfufc k,ate the more evident

‘}ight of the plain dealing Philofophers :.

‘Jind to difcern thefe Impo/tures, requires |Judgment able to divide a, Hair. | From this variety of riters it iS; jrat many, otherwife {tedy Mindes are pit up and down, as from Racket to

mpacket ;being forced: to change their in).

Set a

Thoughts;

A

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Thoughts , as. oft asthey change their | Aathors, and conceiving they have fet- | bit o led right upon a Point, (juft like ticklifh |Hal Weather-cocks,) aréneceffitated to fhift tel

but of an |bua with the next puff, (althotigh

empty windy conceit :) New difcoveries of Ph begetting new opinions, which raife more

ug

untoward and turbulent Dowbts , then | Mm their greateft ftrength of Judgment can | ot conjure down. Thus (azhappy men !) each thinking themfelves ready to Anchor, a |{0oltt crofs guft blows them off the foere ; per- rong haps into a rougher fea of Debate and depth Perplexity then'before, and-with greater jtnlerd hazard and danger ofefplitting.

~ Texadst

I know that the truth of the proper Js Argent, its Preparation, andthe Fire, jawed (the three moft important’ fteps to this}Mand ble(fed work.) with the whole. proce/s,}imar isby fome Philofophers fo fincerely laid |mony down andunfolded, that to a knowing} tag) Artift it is a caufe of much wonder, why he that reads (though but fmatterinely acquainted with Narre ) fhould|may

hot meet with cleer fatistaction’: But}tonrs! here’s therealon, AZany are called, bus}it ww few are chofen': *Tis a Haven towards} ti:

which many skilful P/o¢s have bent their itt,

courfe, “yet few havereacht it, For asiioui]

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amongtt!

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amongft the people of the fews,there was (|| but one that might enter into the Ho/y o

ih) FZodies, (and that but once a yeer;) fo

f)

thereis feldom more in a Nation, whom

Ged lets into this Saattum Santorum

of Philofophy ; yet {omethereare. But though the number of thofé E/ed- are not many, and generally the fathom of | moft mens. Faacies, that attempt ‘the \) fearch of this vaft and fubtil Azy/Fery, {| too narrow tocomprehend it, and their || ftrongelt Reale too weak to pierce the | depth it lies ob{cured in;being indeed fo ) unfearchable and, ambiguous, it rather } exacts the facred and courteous [lumix | nation of ACherub, then the weak affiff| ance of a Pex to reveal it. Yet let no i) Man defpair : For (urely there is a [pirit | in man, and the infpirationof the Algy mighty giveth underftanding ; and 0} though all things before us: feem hud-

|led up ina deformed Chaos, yet canhe

.f place them in com/ine/s and order. For

many Philofophers clofely fhut up, or ) concealed divers things, which they left |the ingenious Izguirer to fift into, or ifinde out ; prefuming to whom God |B intended the difcovery of the Wonder; he iwould afford Eyes that {hould :pierce

|

eo

throuks

I PROLEGOMEN A. through the milt of Words, and give |broke them aray of light which fhouldlead |eerfe

them through this darknefs: To finde |{ari out that Path which no Fowl knoweth, | thFu and which the Vultures eye hath not feew = \lend

For, if ferioufly peruled, you fhall finde |prin their Books are much like Drawers, that. |jtslee lead to fomechoife and fecret Box ina |fdipo

Cabinet, (one opening the way to the i nt

re(t|which if heedfully revolved , the therein

fatisfaction you mifs of in one Author, |many will be met with in another, and all per= Jind’ haps may atlengthdifcover fuch preg- |fome nant and fublime Secrets ; as fhall mant- |ipiny

feft thee to be one of thofe chofen veffels, |Ehectal ordained to be informed of this Know= jhe 1,

ledg ; which fometimes God hath hid |yj,, from the wife and prudent, but revealed \in

unto Babese Wich of - Whofoever therefore undertakes the |mele

fearch of this abjtrafe and fecret Learn |fu.,

ing, mutt know it requires heedful and \,, th

piercing udgments, apt and cleer Fan- {Ways, 0

cies, faithful and diftintt Conceptions : |p...

For the Philofophers writings ‘are not |p...

onely interwoven with moft exquifite ji. cunning and ingenious artifice, but the}... :

Golden Thred of the Matter is fo warily] tne

dilpofed, ‘covertly concealed, and fo ih; as ack A, broken} ~

| PROLEGOMENA. t) broken off and difperft ;(they being d}} eyer fearful to afford too early light ot fatisfattion to the Readers,) that unlefs 4,\, the Father of Iiwminations prompt, or ‘| Tend an Angels hand to guide, thebeft | principled Student may be loft in tracing iat) its feveral AdLecanders, and fall fhore of 14}) finding out its /cattered ends. Be wary t} then in the application of words (for

Itherein the Zmaginatien is fubje&t to

many mifcarriages, being apt to twit ‘hand bow each Sentence’ to the various ‘iframe of its prefent Conceptions , and ‘the unwary difcoveries it firft makes :) Efpecially thofe words which appear to lie moft zaked ; for where the Phi/ofoiphers feem to {peak plaineff,there they MW have written nothing at all; or eliein

uch ordinary expreffions, have wrapt up fome fenfe, highly my fterious : Generally ‘Wfictine their difcourfe with Words, that Hike the Delphian Sword will cut both ‘fiways, or reach toalarger extenfion or miffaticude , then fome Conceptions can WB ftretch them too ; intending and ayming i jatthings beyond, (and fometimes below)

iP what we fuppofe thofe bare expreffions

In fine, they have fet before us a task, Ri

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for

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for Explanation , other, then isufedtex|that our ordinary beaten\track of Di/courfe

“felt a

which he that will well underftand, muft | mist firtt be mafter of the /anguage of Na-~ | (ils

sure, having run through the difcourage= |tek, ments. of the tedious progrefs, andla= } {ute borious difficulty ofjoyning her Letters, | tel:

and {pelling her Syllables.

| I

Tis true, the dignity of chis infallible | jm.

Myftery lies open to. many hard -Cen- |occult fures, and profane Scandals , fo well | inex

known, Ineed not mention them; but that |sydd

thereby I fhall.endeyour to remoye, and. | ablol

purge this pure.and heroick Science (ale |de moft generally contemptible) from. the |juin,

drofs, and corruption of an Jmpoftures +) on } ~ Commonly we hall finde them moft |te 5 traduce it as falfe and deceitful, who) ¢ (having the repute of Schollers) pres) oye tend to have fpent much time.and ins} oy

~ duftry in the fearch thereof ; and becaufe| jy, “itis dreft in fuch yariety of flouri/b and | yh), figurative. Speeches, that their fhallow | Mai

underftandings cannot eafily pierce into} jy, it; (their wilde unhappy Fancies like fo) Dent many Tatlors foops ful of various foreds) ai.

of Conceits , thaking up out of fuch| have

changeable colours at belt but.a F 08S) ay Coat.:), They profels. all the difcovertes| Shy

eae)

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thereof}

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thereof to be meer Chimeraes, and it felf a ftudied Fable, But the Egyptians

might as well deny /ight in the Land of Gofben, becaufe themfelves lived in dark-

nels, or,we, if either of the Luminaries

fufter defed? to ourview , conclude that the Eclipfe is Univerfal. ew pe If thefe (otherwile well accomplifht)

Men, would but confider how many occult, {pecifick, incomprehenfible, and

i}

inexplicable qualities there lies dormant

| and obfcured in Nature , of which no | abfolute or true account can‘ be renik} dered by themfelyes :[As the concatenation of Spirits, their working without the, Body, the Weapon Salve, | the Sympatherical Powder, the Vertues | of the Lozaftone, the wonderful and | meyer to. be enough admired : Secrets

of Adagnetick Philofophy, and Natural Magick: As alfo what Artit {elf is able to perform,. by thé power of Mathematical conclufions,in Geometry,

|. Numbers, both myfterious.and yulgar,

| ‘Perfpective Opticks, &c. What famous andaccurate Works, induftrious Artifts |

have: furnifhed, thefe fatter Ages with,

and by Weights, Wheels, Springsox

Sh «Strings, haye imitated lively Motion,

as

ree SS te ice SA —

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yjrama = rae pace‘\s: :

RCT POE ESTER TIS Ff

rere sn Spree Si. Te I caer BR nse

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Hy }

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le, and Fly, as Regiomantanus, his Eag , the Spring on ti Mo nal pet per Drebler’s vers; ina Watch, and fuch like 5 elf-Mo themh wit ry (Things that feem to car cifelyes (like diving C reatures) the prin

lied ples of their own 14 otions, and unal

handl

unde |thei

| they

*t to any outward ObjetF, except onelyto | fet them goimg a The Arts of Navi

gation, Printing, and making of Guzh the honor ef our powder. ( whicfor

| we

|many | Wroug

Countryman Roger Bacons I therather

| proba

{uffer him to reveal the way of making

|

mention, who lived above a hundred yeers before weheard of its original from the German Monk, and certainly knew its whole Compofition ; but that his — pious Thoughts (finding it might prove | fo fwift and devilith a deftruction to | Men, Cities, Caftles, @c.) would not

it, though he plainly difcoyered its Na-

sure, force, and horrible execstton 5 (as | mira appearsin the fixe Chapter of his learned 1 force daub Epiftles De Secretis operibus Artis & lous marvel what , word Ina Nature.) conclufions, Art (making ufe of Natsre for an Inffrument) can perform, without thehelp of fo low and inferior affiftants asCharatters, Charms, or Spells, (and

yet thefe have their feveral powers, if judicioufly

PROLEGOMEN4.

,| judicioufly and» warily difpofed and handled ;) infomuch, ‘that no man that underftands the fafe and honeft power of Art and Nature, can juftly afperfe their Legitimate Children, as though they were the off-{pring (or indeed had any relation) to Diabolical Arts. From

which few particulars , I might infer

| many other wonders poffible to ‘be wrought ,which yet to appearance or

probability, arebeyond the power of

accomplifhment: | ous produc |

and where the vari-

tions of Nature’, - Art, ot

both,have given the levity and infidelity of many mens Pudgments , the ‘Lie;

: whofe prejudicate thoughts would never

| beleeve a thing could’ be done, till they | found (beyond evafion or denial) it was | done, ] I fay, if fuch men would but ferioufly confider thefe and the ‘like

| wtraculous effetts, they might be of force fufficient to’ perfwade the’ moft | | doubtful amongft them , that Art with the nae of Nature, may arrive | at fuch perfettion, to work ronders,

| as far beyond thefe , as’ thefe would | be beyond their ‘apprehenfions ; had | they never heard'‘of ‘them before :‘nay

pf to beleeve, there es nothing incredible either

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either in divine er.humane things: and ~ yet they never become. fo, happy Favoritesasto bemade ptivy to the my/tevies of this Canning.

Another Error thefe.curious Brains _

That they look beyond Narun into, is, . defpife the Pazh for the often and pure, Plainnefs thereof {uppoling it toe vulgar to conduétthem to {uch rare and intricate. Wonders ; whereas they. confider not, that Aatwre in all her produétions, works plainly, eafily, and without ##orcement. Briefly, {uch ought to fufpect as falfe, allthings that appear not feafable, without itexcel in /ubeilty, or be

rackt upon the Zenter : And this is |

the Rock, againft which divers fuffer |

fripwrack., apprehending they ought to |

Jace the materials of this clorious and |

magnificent building , in'more remote |;

and /trange things, then really it is.

Some again calumuiate and (canda- | lize this ferious. and divine work, as a

fittitious thing, and they are fuch, whofe. | eafie confidence (forgetting the cautiona-

ry Items of the Philefophers) beleeve all 9

true they. once finde Written : And when after tedious and chargeable Chy> —

ssical-operations , (the expreffions a | elds

the |

PROLEGOMEN4) the Philofophers feeming to look that way ) they’ finde no reality in the Experiments aniwerable to theit expeltations ; but all prove as defective in their production, asthe birth of Erifthonivs

|

was imperfect. chen in a difcontented humor (perhaps having been cheated to boot) rine (with their good opinion of the lage all they have before under-. taken. -But it isno wonder if they be at much expence, that make ufe of many things: What need is there of ' fo vainra ufe of many Glaffes, fo much blowing of the Coals, fuch confumption of Fire; and other ” impertinent and expenfive | preparations ; When the Philofophers | tellus, One Glas, one Furnace, one Fire,

| (and that an immaterial one, hot to be | found'in the Furnace of the Chymifts, } wsfufficient:to- perfect the work ; which

whofoever attempts , and camnot firft fancy the Complement thereef to be gone | through without charge,’ (at leaft very

little or incenfiderable ) let ‘them leave

‘off, and defifts’ left the con/umprion’ of

their wealth leave their hearts as cold, as | the dradging in a falfe Fire hath made | their faces pale.

‘5 PRR acetate: Others there are that clamor, and cry

out

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A

net, out againft chis guiltlefs Learning,whofe wee covetous defires have made them rufh upon the practife fo far, that they are thatp forced to retreat by weeping crofs. It is | are the common Fate of the Covetous to bond, meet with a Cheat, and the fmooth |wr, 1 ftories of a Quack do oftentimes fet fo delightful. and eager edg upon their griping defires,. (which, doubrlefs a Knavifo genius may cunningly carry on ) that the confiding Adifer fhall

uever. diftruft him, tillhebe fet to rake among the -4/res, for his wealthy return,

And as unskilful inen cannot ufe too

much warine/s, if they be to deal with

any that pretends to teach the procefs of

this ALy/Fery ; fo they cannot taketoo inuch good advife co avoid their suf-

ons, By way of Cantion therefore, be* ware of thofe mercenary pretenders, that (boafting much of. their abilities) offer to difcover you, any of thofe. |

Secrets, upon condition you give them fuch or fuch a fum of money; for by

counterfeit metal. Nevet wasthis Holy My ftery communicated, to fo wicked a man, ascver would ordurft make fale of it;. or indeed do fuch men ftand in Si

need;

|fal§

PROLEGOMEN A: need, . They want not. Afoney, or are neceflitated.to condition fora Triffe, that poffefs fo reat and unexhauftible a i) | treafure; for length ofdays 25 in her right. hand,and in her left hand, riches and honor. Therefore who hath this, hath all : ic

incircling within it felf, a2 temporal felicity, health of body, and ak good fortune.

Next, truft not thofe that proffitute | their skill ; thefe are the Wa/ps that creep. the Hive of Hermes.: {uch Vagrants | into doubtlefs areempty and unfraught, and _} have more nfeof what they may skrew out of you, then you can make benefit

| of what may be gained from them... It is.a Zewel of that price and eftimation, | that they.who finde themfelves once bleft . | with itspoffeffion, entertain it as Lor did :} his Axgels; who. would rather deliver. up his one daughters, (his dear and

| neareftcom orts |then expofe fuch choife | Guefts into the hands of wicked men,

1 | not daring to make the Secret common,

|

left they become breakers of the Cele-

| tial Seals ;much more to. betray it into | untrufby ands ; ‘for any gain” or.

| Genefit......:

But befides thefe, the generality of the’ yf World are:nurft up .ina belief, phere ss) 20

PROLEGOMEN 4A.

no {uch thing : Firft, becaufe they never heard of any that publskely profeft it,

or, by vifible operations manifefted its

m0 fore

being

truth inany age. Secondly, in regard afite they,as feldom found any Man, that (by mire his Condition ot Converfation) made evident fhew to the World, that he was

poffeffor of fuch a wealthy Science:

Many of the. Profeffors commonly

living miferably poor, who though they

boaft what vaft Z reafures they cancom-

and 1

iypage

ofthi “mote!

|[ores:

Upon

matid; yet {carce are feen to havea penny beni

rake purfe, ora whole Rag to'their lofall : eed acks. there aré glory( That er, Lantw “To thefir,

divers things which peculiarly’ grow {comm within the bowels of the Earth, ‘and feem

Hing

as buried to us, becaule a) neither bud Hota forth or growup ; and withal, thére be- Itentig

ing fo few Adepted Priefts inthe World; [antag

itisno wonder, the Ceremoniesof fo di- ni. vine a Miracle, fhould be both feldom eftna wilNd and privately celebrated.

To the fecond, That there ss, shat |lttho maketh himfelf rich, and hath nothing ; Beer: and that maketh himfelf poor, ‘having that t great riches, For on whomfoever God fc Out of his efpecial grace, is’ pleafed’ to ||pCove a

beftovy this Bie/fing, he firft fits them for 1D o a moft : an

PROLEGOMEN A. a moft vertnous life, to make them the more capable and worthy of it ; and | béing fo qualified, they ftraightway lay

0) afide ambitious thoughts, and take upa

retirednefssthey diwell within their Roof;

and never care for flourifhing upon thé

Stage of the World: The tonidesatiod ti} of this Magiftery beine theirs, does

N | more fill cher AZindes,then all the Treamh ) Up

i | becaiil®

ic is the /ummity and perfection bof all Zerreftrial Sciences ;) nor indeed need fuch regard the airy and empty

2 glory of Magnifying-Fame , that cari

scommand.

as abfolute Content in al

}vantageous,

thet to chxceal what they

ttt Pehings. Nay, fome lofetheit vain glory Vi fo far,as hone {hall fcarce ever hear them ‘Hmention it; counting nothing more ad enjoy. For, asitis a Secret, of the high‘eft nature and concetnment'; fo God will not fuffer it to be revealedto any,

‘Whitt thofe that can tell how to conceal a

Secrets atid if we rightly weigh this;

i Wthat the poffeffion of the thing takes Hfrotn the poffeffors ;the root of all evils [ Covetoufne/s ; \how then can any cor-

itupt os finifter shomghts grow tp inthem?

A

qt

PROLEGOMEN

A.

]

Tr is alfo worthy. confideration; how |tis many eminent dangers, troubles, fearss trout

and inconveniences,

the very fufpition |jn),

of having the Stoxe, hath intitled fome rite

Men to ; and how many feveral ways} jx, their /ives have been attempted , by hanst

owerful and wicked men ; becaufe pee they concealed the AZyftery from therms |ycin

But let the reward of thofe who would t,.1. forcibly {trip this Secret from any breft, pore be like that of the Sodomires, which) },,

would have Loz deliver them his-An- 7,4,/ sels, [ Blindne[s in. the eyes of thee?\pyy),,

under ftandings, |\to wafte out their time hepit in feeking the Door that lets into thislnt,

knowledg, but never finde it. hut Furthermore, this Learning is not Ef vealed by any Afafter, but under thelr.

moft weighty Ties and Obligations of aty,, x Oath; and that. by: long tryal and exh, a perience of a mans fidelity, vertue, judg-) ” ment, difcretion,faithfulne/s, fecrefie dea|n

fires, inclinations,

|

and converfation shut1

to fiftand try whether he be capab/e and deferving ; for the neereft Relation ‘in (unlefs exa@tly qualified with merst hey‘, cannot obtain this kvow/ed¢g from them 4 ihn Every Childe cannot be an Heir, north 2 eri hi .Ih

very ‘bofom Friend an Executor. Avg, " :

thi!

PROLEGOMEN4, this ftrigt care is taken, leftthe Learnep

fhould mifapply his Talene,byferving the

| Ambition of evil men, or fupporting

| wicked and unjuft Interefts + todomii: jheer with violence and oppreffion, per jhaps to the trampling under foot the general Peace: For doubtlefs a fevere mfaccount will beexacted by God at the

il Teachers hand,ifche Learner fhould mit

igovern or abufe this fo preat a Grace.

| Itis faid, wifdom which findes ont "Knowledge and Counfel , dwells with Wi\Prudence, A Contcientious breft mutt

Mixeep it moft religioufly inviolable, if onceobtained: Stability and Conftancy nuft be refolved on by the undertaker,

ever flying thatinconftant humor, which jometimes leads mcn on, with too greedy iin appetite, and a while after withdraws

ind cools,

Such fickle and wavering

WiiDifpofitions {hould leave off betimes,

if eftthey meet with chofe frefh conceipts, iibhat {hall winde and turn their Fancies uili}o many {everal ways, that at length like mPenthexs (diftra&ed with irtefolution) they can fetle no where; and howapt [ch inconftant Seekers atefot this Work, Bheir imperfect produ@ions

Maem witnels.

Az

will bear

Another

|

F

PROLEGOMENA: Another needful Caution may be given, and that proverbially : Hafte makes wafte. This mifchievous Evil is

yout( guia wilidomt appre the ope

commonly-forwarded by an over-cove= tows defire ; and this is that grand enemy

edall to the Work, which often proves the yey te ruine of all. He muft therefore perfe- along, vere in his undertakings , and patiently princip contemplate on Natures flow and lei-

earch furely progres in the bringing forth of withag her beft things. It isnot a Afatter that ofate is throughly.apprehended at firft, upona

flight or fuperficial yiew :The Philofo-

fillyfi

exactly compiled ; unlefs you finde it

readily

phers that raifed this Fabrick, did it by appre many degrees, and itis by their freps mirk; there we muft make our Afcenfion to thofe high wWonders.. Do not then prefume, thebef (though your underftanding be able to Scent build a Structure) that itis ftrongly or flor no

railed from a ground that is fincerely petadye plain and natural,managed and {quared Jatufa by the ftrict Rules of Art. And con+ andma fidering that your Errors may prove And he fundamental, (for whofoever mifles his fother. way at the entrance, ‘fhall build apon fo) Quainye unfound a Foundation, as allows of no| ftfor emendations, but a new beginning:) Ote in

You can never ule too much Castion in |Our Sq your |

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|

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I) your Courfe, or be over fedzlows in the |guidanceof your waderfianding. It is.

ie wifdom to anatomize and diffe& every | apprehenfion clearly, and examine what y | the operations of the AZinde have effect-! bed; and in what manner the Sex/es con-'

vey them unto you : And as you walk falong, heedfully to obferve, «where the '} principal Thred is broken off, and then

|

thfearch about where it is likely to be met

taf with again ; for doubtlels the exds therelof are poffible to be found out, if heed| fully traced. However, if yet what you

apprehend does not fo exactly hit the

)mark; return to theftudy of Nature, ithere dwell, and look’round to dilcovet ithe beft Way ; caft about again for a new |Scent , and leave no path: unfearched; inor no buth unbeaten ; for though you readily finde not the real Truth, yet }j peradventure you may meet with fuch fatisfattion, as will quiet your Reafon,

tand make you take pleafure in the fearch. |. And hethat once-begins to love i (dons D for her own ‘fake, fhall fooner be ac-

°“f

quainted with. her, then.he that courts )her for any finifter or by re {pet : where-

fore in this:fenfe’ may’be taken that of ” ‘our Saviour, He that hath much, foall wid recesve

ffi

yout [

A 3

PROLEGOMENA. veceive more; but be that hath little,

art Sh

Seall be taken away, even that which he

dene

hath. Elifoa obtained the fight of the

Horfes and Chariots of Fire, that cartied Elias up into Heaven ; but it was not till he had defired, that a double portion of his fpirit might reft upon him.

Atd Elifba’s fervant {aw the Mountains

full of Horfes and Chariots of Fire ; but

not tll his Mafter had prayed to’ the Lord to open his eyes: Jf thy Thoughts

noted

fore’ dani Lower ftom: pone mutt { Fownt

alyMm

ate devout, honeft and pure, perhaps God | once ol may at onetime or other, lay open to bef k

thy Underftanding, fomewhat that will Rakes truly and faithfully lead thee to the withy Knowledg of this Adjfrery. Selomans |thisA flothful man that fears’ the Zyon in the feveral way, mult not yentureinto thefe Srreets

of Wonders’; where are Remeraes that will puzzle or abate the moft forward

and feyere Inquiries , and quench the thirft and defire offarthejt fearch.In our progrels, the higher wego,the more fhall

bly

Ip

Cantey

ble mney

tome,

we better our profped? 5 itisit not a /evel |' biple or a flat, that can afford us the benefit of beth

difcovery toa Knowledg,

fo remote.

and Learning |

)

Teeth

o and co

Aftrologers well know the fecret ios Chambe

rs of the\South, and that there able ( are |

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sl) are’Stars that have influence under the | depreffion of the Sovth Pole, though not yifible in our Heéwsifphere. As there“| fore in Filtration, we muft lay the | drawing fide of the Filter, as low or i} flower , then the /uperficies of Water, |) from whence it draws, elfe it hath not is) power to bring up any thing ; fo we i} muft fearch as deep'as the ancients i| Fountain, exe we fhall’be able to draw

| any water out of their Wells ;which if once obtained, the time for operation is | beft known by a fit E/eétion,wherein the Rulesof Aftrology are to be confulted with ; in which Science, the Practifers of. i this Arz ought to be well read forthe | feveral ufes, that continually and necef~ | farily muft be made thereof.

I profefs, for my elf, itis a farusfying Contentment,

that I can finde fome pro-

W bable grounds for the poffibility of fuch an Enterprife it is nomore incredible to me, that from plain and fimple prin‘ciples, it may be exalted to fuchan

I} height, even beyond perfection, then to Hill fee the Frings of Inftrements, (framed

q and compoted of fo bale, and neglected «mi things, as the Guts of Cats) fhould be

Wail able (through degrees of refining,) to afford.

PROLEGOMENA. afford fuch fweet, mellow, and admira-

ble Afufick, Nor isita méan degree of.

I

fot{0

leate

happinels, I conceive my felf feated in, i) andp that in fogreat a depth: of Myftery, ¥ thet| am inabled to difcover fome little Light, (and though but glimmering and imperfect: ung If enjoy no more but onely toliyein ofthi the Womb of fuch Kuowledg, or if fulCh

with a dim reflex (from this Rock of — tis,|

Flefo) I fee no more then the back parts of this Divine Science, though the glory hath paffed by tothe Axcients before:

it will contribute much to the quieting

of my folicitous, and waking Inqui-

¢1CSe

We are not a little beholding to the

induftry of our Anceffors, for collecting into Books this Elemented water falling from Heaven, ..as into fo many © feveral Veffels or Cifferus; and there yeferving it fot our times and w/e. which

the m lator And the P hinde them toler lt. that

US tf

elfe would have foaked away, and in-

fenfibly loft ic felf in, the Earth of Obli-

vion.. But as. tothe freeing us from the toyl and difcouragement of a tedious

and irregular fearch, (many Philofophers pointing but at one part of the AZy/tery, in the whole bundle of their Treati/es ;) we arcetetnally obliged to our Authors for |—

|

PROLEGOMENA,

-}) for fo highly befriending us with thefe | learned Collections , of the onely few

and pertinent Things, from the reft of

| their large and unneceffary Difcourfes, (and that from their writings who, were

i} unqueftionably bleft, withthe knowledg of this Divine Myftery;) even asa skilit} ful Chymift, who by Spagyrical opera)

| dons, feparates the gro/s.and earthy from

| the more fize and pure, and out of a: | large AdZa/s, extracts onely the Spirit. ‘| And though it’ isnorto be denied, chat | the Philofophers left many, Lights be-} hinde them, yet.is. ic as true they left

| them inclofed in dark Janthorns, andus to fearch them out.in corners :. But, here -§ our: Author hath brought them outiof

that. obfeurity, and placed them before: us ina branched.Candleftick, whereby

we may: view them. a/.at. once, ,..and where like a full Confort of Infiruments

each founds ‘his part to make the bar mony compleat-s- fo that it will evident.

ly appear to the Pudiciouws and Learned,

that thefe Collefions were not rafhly,

or with flight: choice; {narcht or ftript

from the whole bulk of Authors ;

but with a wary and -heedful Judgment, eulled outand felecily:chofen ; ‘and wine the

PROLEGOMENA. che Ancients dclivered {cattered,and con-

fated; is‘ by his elaborate pains difpofed

in fo advantageous a AZerhod, that we aremuch the neerer to finde out the right path by the order wherein he hath ranked their /ayings : yet not fo, that the whole

Procefs lies juft in‘ that Azethodical Chain, as {eems linked together by each Paragraph; bur that the fame is hei~ and thete intermixt, and irregularly purfued s fometimes

ed

the beginning being

difpofed: in the middle, the middle in the end, ee. And befides, part of the Phi-

lofophers fentences may (and muft) as well be referred to other Chapters, and under-other Heads ;‘ and left for the induftrious and painful Contemplator’ to fet and joyn together. His Expofitions in the Corellaries are very remarkable, reridering him a man of a moft piercing Intellett and fingular Fudgment, and } letting in much light to the dark phrafes of the Philofophers ; fo that indeed they thew rather the effetts of Experience, chen Contemplation. In a word, The work i like the Sun, which though it Seems little, yet it 1¢-all light.

For the Author himfelf, I muft not

oe

be filene in what Ihave learned, though — this

PROLEGOME

N 4.

this Work yender him fafficiently famousy

efpecially being reported'to me, to bea

Gentleman, WV oble, ingeniouss and de+

| Serving. He was: Sow to'that ‘excellent’ Phyfiuan, Door Foha Dee, (whole fame furvives by his many learnedand precious Works, but chiefly: celebrated among{t us, for that his incomparable Mathematical Preface to Euclids Ele~ ments) and chief Phyfitian' to the Emperor of Ruffia, being made! choice of, and recommended by: King: Fames,

to the faid:Emperor, upon his requeft, to

fend him over one of his Phyjitians,.

In this imployment,. he continued fourteen yeers, being all that time Munifi= cently entertained,’ as his merits and

abilities well deferved, Upon hisretur

into England, he brought moft ample Teftimonies of his own worth , and Emperial Commendations

to his late:

Majefty ; and fince retired to Norwich, where he now lives, And may he yer live the full paffefforof that honor due rohis Eminent parts.

A

~ Touching the Tranflation, I have as faithfully performed it’, anid given itas plain a Verfion , as: the dignity of the SwbjeE& will allow ; the better to fic it" : their

PROLEGOMENA.

their Underftandings , who have wanted the affiftance of being bred Scholars , and yet perhaps are defigned to be informed of this wonderful Secret. Neverthelefs, I thought fit to retain the Subtilty of the Adyftery, though the words {peak Englifh; whereto the con-

ftant Students may but with labor reach, and that to whet their appetites , not that the lazy Vxlgar fhould pluck with

eafe, left they defpife or abuse. Itisno defparagement to the Sudject that it appears in an Englifh dre/s , no mote then it was when habited inGreek, Latins Arabick, oc. among the ancient Gre-

cians, Romans, Arabians, Gc. for to each of them it was their valgar Tongue: And had not thofe Nations, to Whom Learning ( in her gage through the world ) came, taken the pains of Tranflation, and {o communicated to their own Conntries the benefit of feveral Faculties ;we had yet lived inmuch ignorance of Divinity, PhiloSophy, Phyfick,, Hiftory, and all other Arts ; forit was by the help of Tranf-

lation they all rofe to their feveral heights. I prefume to hope you -will

pardon the want of that E/egaxcy and 3 Richnefs,

PROLEGOMENA. Richnefs, which will ftay behinde with Originals, as their proper and peculiar Ornaments atid Graces ; and accept of that homely Habit a Tranflation roult be cofitent to wear: For faving the pains whereof to: future times, if fome general Forms and Characters were invented |.

(agreeing as neer to the natural quality,

and conception of the Thing they are to fignifie, as might be ;) that (to men of all Languages) fhould umiverfally exprefs, whatfoever we are to deliverb writing’; it would be a welcome benehe to Afankinde , and much {weeten the Curfe of Babels Confufion, fave a great expence of Time taken up in Tranflation, and the Underrakers merit extraordinary encouragement.

Nor will this ##ity in Charatter feem impoffible, if we confider there is in all men one fir/? principle of Reafon, One common interior Intelligence’, and

that originally there was but one Lan guage. Nay, it will appeat le(s difficult, if we look back upon thofe /teps already laid to our hands ; for wemay draw

forme helps from the Egyptian Hiero-

glyphicks ;°Symbols, Adufical Notes, Stenography, Algebra, Ge: Befides ,.

PROLEGO MEN A. we fee ithete are certain Characters for the Planets, Signes, Afpetts, Afetals,

Minerals, Weights, @c. all which vethe power.of Lerters, and run currant in the ‘Underflanding of every Language, and continue as Reliques and Rematus of the more Sacred and Secret Learning of the Ancients,whole

intentionsiand words, were not expiefled by the Compofition of Syllables or Letters; but by Forms, Figures, and Charalters.

To prefene this invention as more

feifable, we may .confider that the ufe-

“| acon

ful radical words, if numbred; would

with but I

nor {well beyond our ALemortes fathom,

enfin

{pecially if well ordered and digefted by the judicious direction of an able and general Linguif? ;and fuch a one that tightly underftands the firt and true im-

preflions; which Nature hath ftain upon therhings they would have fignified by the Form. Our mifery now is, we {pend a great part. of our beftand imoft precious.time in leaning one Lan-

Snags to, underftand a little Matter; (and in how many Tougzes is it neceflaty to be perfed@, before a man can be gentrally knowing 2) whereas, if this ine | vention

encour may 0

Hone \

thethe

fully Hnaey

| OT

reOfte

Ceilin ,

ofik

Chegh

| of thi

With ti

PROLEGOMENA, vention were but compleated , _Arts would arrive at a high perfe&tion in a little fpace, and we might reckon upon more time,in the fhort account and.mea{ure of our days, to be imployed ina

fubftantial ftudy of Matter.

But I muft retire ; and confefs Ihaye extreamly tranfgreft the limits of a Pre-

| face; which (if it bore exa& proporti| On tothe AZatter enfuing) fhould be | more brief and compendious: And yet

| Tintended to deliver herewith fome fhort {| account of the fix and true AZarter, . | with the procefs of the whole work;

| but I fhall leave you to theColedtions | enfuing, for prefent fatisfaction, and if | encouraged by your acceptance of this, | may oneday beftow my own Adedita| tions upon a particular Difcourfe.: In the mean time, J charge all thofe that | foall reap any benefit by this Tranflation,

, |) ander the fecret and fevere Curfe of

| God, That they beftow upon it the Auguft

| reverence due tofuch aSecret, by con| ccaling it to themfelves, and making ufe | of st onely to the Glory, of our Greas . | Creator. That being the principal aym

of this Work, and ofall others ftamped

| with the Signature of Me March,-16%

| ; —Fames Hafele.

POSTSCRIPT. “M

Fter Thad writ this Preface, and

committed it to the Prefs, I happi~ dy met with the following Arcanum, ana

perceiving it tofuse(0punttually with thee Chymical Collections, for the: [oli=

dity, likené/s, ana bravery of the Matter

andForm, and ro confirm fome of thofe Direttions ,Cautions, and Admonitiens I had laid down in the Prolegomenas and withal, finding st a piece of very

Eminent Learniné and Regard, I adventured to tranflate it likewife , an

per[waded the Printer to joyn them into

one Book, which I hope will not diflike vhe Reader, nor overcharge the Buyer:

Anda though in the Tranflation thereof,

Thave ufed rhe fame folemnity and re fervation, as inthe former, and fach a befits fo venerable and tran{cendent 4 Secret: Yet I hope, that thofe who (favored with a propitious Birth) fearch gato the Sacred Remains of Ancient Learning, admire therare and difgnifed

effects of Nature,and though their Piety and Honelty, becomse worthy of it, may finde Ariadnes thred to condutt them through the delufive windings of thi | sntricate Labyrinth. &. April,

3

1650.

James Hafolic. |

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SETS ja.