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Of the chymical transmutation, the genealogy and generation of metals & minerals : also, Of the Urim and Thummim of the Jews : with, An appendix of the vertues and use of an excellent water made by Dr. Trigge : The second part of the mumial treatise [of Tentzel] : whereunto is added, Philosophical and and chymical experiments of that famous philosopher Raymund Lully, containing the right and due composition of both elixirs ...
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Of the chymical transmutation, the genealogy and generation of metals & minerals : also, Of the Urim and Thummim of the Jews : with, An appendix of the vertues and use of an excellent water made by Dr. Trigge : The second part of the mumial treatise [of Tentzel] : whereunto is added, Philosophical and and chymical experiments of that famous philosopher Raymund Lully, containing the right and due composition of both elixirs ...
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OF
ThcTR ANS MUTATION
M E TA L S-
Ch a p. I.
Of the Scale of Tr&hfnuUtion*
Ranfrnutation is an alteration or
changing of the forms of natural
^ things into other forms , as of
Metals or Wood^nto Stones or
Glafs ^ the changing of Stones
into Coles, &c. It hath been
found out, That_Metals that have been firfe
coyned jgto MoneyJIlhajrfcheen by Slture
Cmpgecl iuno>r t\\* CiT^AJntib* ftnny fuh-
ftance ; and yet have retained the impreffion of
tKelmage that hath been ftamped upon then '*
and , That the Roots of Oaks , being (mitten
with Thunder , or fome other infiueacc of the
B Stars*
2 Of the Tr an f mutation
Stars, have been turned into true Scones. There
do alio arife Springs of Rivers in many places,
that,by a certain natural poperty , do transform
all things whatfoever are can into them , into
hard Stones. Thefe, and fact-like works of Na-
ture , wife men have contemplated , and have
thereby learned like wile to do the fame things
by Art ; by obferving the fame Order which
Nature teacheth by her Inilrunaents. This we
fee frequently done in many Mountains , That
Coles are generated of Stones naturally by a cer-
tain jEtnean fire, of which Carpenters havefre-
quen: ule. So that this laft kinde of Tranfmuta-
tion , is done by Fire in the Earth ; the other
before ipokiin of, by Water and Air : Thefe are
the Inftrurnents of Nature , and they are for the
Matter, the Motion for the Form. Vghat there-
fore if a natural Compoiition,may be made Earth
by Fire, and that made Water by Air , and this
made Fire by Fire ; and that again defcending,
may be made Air by Air , and then this be made
Water by Water,and adaft-that may be reduced
Jttro Eartft by Fire ? what Tranfmutation I pray
co thou think will come thereof ? if you were
expert, you would know it. The vulgar and ig-
norant fee not thefe things ; and that for noo-
thcr caufe, but becaufe they do not confider the
fecrets of Nature. Whofoever therefore toge-
ther with them is ignorant of , or denieth thefe
things, which Nature hath let before the Eyes of
all, how learned or wife foever he would feedl
to be, he is not worthy of the Name of a Philo-
fojjhernorPhyfitian. Whence hath Phyfick her
firfli fodridacion ? out of the appearance onely,
or
OfzIMetals*
or manifeft fuperficies of natural things ? No
thing lefs : but out of the moft .occult and hidden
iecrets of Nature, compared to the moft manifeft
effe&s. Wherefore as Nature herfelf is undi*
fcernabie by every fence , no otherwife are all
her Operations. Who ever few a Tree to grow,or
the Sun or Stars move ? No bod/ : But that
the Trees have grown, and the Sun and Stars
have been moved by a ipace of time, who know-
eth not ?
Therefore Operations in Phyfick do more
chiefly confift in the Underftanding , rather then
in the Eyes or the other Sences; although they m
their courfes are the Directors unto us , that we
may make further progrefs : otherwife between
the Philofopher and the Clown there would be
no further difference.
But to return to the purpofe: The Scale or Lad-
der of Transmutation , hath feven Steps or prin-
cipal Degrees ; which are, Calcination, Sublima-
tion, Solution 5 Putrefaction, Diftillation, Co*
agulation andTin&ure.
Under Calcination are contained thefe hi*
Members ; Reverberation , Cimenration , and
-Incineration : wherewith , in all Operations*
all things are turned into Chalk or into Afhes. B
Therefore in the firft Degree of Tranfmuta*
tion,the elementative natural bodies are conf
verced into Earth, with a middle Fire, as the In-
crement.
And here firft of all is to be noted thecriffe-;
jrence between materia Elements , and inftru*
mental, of which: by the way we (hall fpeak*
for thefe are external? tot the other are jaternah
4 Of the Tranfmutation
as when the firft Operation is compleatcd, whe-
ther it be by Calcination or Reverberation, Ci-
mentation or Incineration. Sublimation fuc-
ceedeth out of the order of Preparations ■ which
Earth, now being calcined,is converted either in-
to Water or into Air , according to the Nature
and property of the thing lb to be converted :for
if it be of dry things , then chiefly is to be ufed
the elevation of the Volatile parts from the fix-
ed. Wherefore Sublimation is convenient for
things of tfcat Nature.
But if there ought to be made a reparation of
moift things,as of Vegetables or Animals, then it
is convenient to ufe Sublimation thereof in the
fifth Degree, to wit, Diftillation.
But becaufe in this place it is chiefly intended
to treat of dry things , as Metals and Minerals ;
the order congruent to their Natures is like wife
to be obierved.
' Therefore the Volatile part is to be fublimed,
as'in moirt things by Cohobations. that i?,by re-
conjoyning of the pans feparated,and by iterating
or ieparating them over again, until they become
fixed, and remain within with the parts fixed, and
afcend no more, but remain confifting in themb-
ftance and form of Oyl of or a Stonerfor with So*
lution by the Air, they are turned into Oyl ; and
with Coagulation by Fire, into a Stone.
Let Sal tArmonUk^ be an example for every
Metal ; for that in Sublimation fucceffively be-
comes Stone.
By this Operation of Sublimations, macy cor-
rofives are dulcified , and mollified ; and on the
contrary, with the addition of another lubtfance,
Alfa
of <S\4etals. 5
Alio many (harp things are fweetned, and many
fweet things on the contrary are (harpened: fon-
times by themfelves , or with other things pre-
pared after this manner.
Afterwards happens the third Degree, to wir,
Solution ; and that is twofold : the one of cold,
the other of heat.
Salts, Corrcfives , and whatfoever things arc
calcined, are coagulated by Fire, and then by the
coldnefs of the Air , are reiblved into Liquor,
Water or Oyl, in a moift place, as a Cellar, or in
the Air , being placed upon a Marble-ftone or
Glais : But fat and fulphureous things are dif-
folved by the heat of the Fire ; and that which
the Fire diflblveth by heat , the fame is coagu-
lated by the coldnefs of the Air: On the con-
trary , that which is diffoived by the coldnefs
of the Air, is coagulated by the heat cf the
Fire.
Note here the Reafon wherefore we call the
Air cold ; which feems to oppofe and contradict
the Opinion of fome Philofophers : for they
will have it to be hot andxnoiftrbut they copiidec
not whereof the Air confifts : doth it not con-
lift of Fire and Water ? for what elfe is the Air,
but Water diffoived by Fire ? Wherefore from
one part thereof, to wit, the Fire , it borrowed
heat and drinefs ; and from the other part , the
Water, coldnefs and moifture : for they are the
two chief qualities thereof, and the other two
arc herMwifters ; for there is nothing hot by
Nature,which is nqt alfo neceffary and naturally
dry; neither is there any thing cold,which by the
fame jeafon is not mgift. Whatfoever is befides
B 5 eottS
$ Of, the Tranfmutation
contingent hereunto , is not by Nature y but by
accident.
It is no otherwife amongft the Elements : the
Fire and Water have trie chief place, and the
£arth borrows her coldnefs from her Compani-
on, the Water; and her drinefs from the Fire:
for her felf,(he is never hot, moift, nor cold, nor
dry • but foveth her two other Princes, as the
Wax lubmits to every Seal.
In like manner we are to judge of the Air 5
for lb the Air receiveth heat and drinefs from his
Father the Fire , and cold and moitfure from his
-Mother the Water ; therefore they are generated
ttsfrom their Parents , the Fire and Water ; the
Air Mafcnline, or rather a Hertnaphreditey and the
Earth a Female. A nd thus far of the natural In-
flmments and the Matter.
The fourth Degree is Putrefaction : This for
its excellency might defer ve the firft place , if it
Were not repugnant to the true order -' and a fe-
cret in this place hidden to many,and manifefted
\b few. It ought therefore to remain placed in
its due Scri'eifiven as the links in a Chain;wherc-
iti , if one be wanting, the Captive detained
therewith efcapes and flies*way.
The property therefore of Putrefaction is,that
confnming the old Nature' of things^ itimro-
-du'eeth a new Nature ; andfomerimes pfoduceth
•Truir of another Generation : for all living things
<<Ke with corruption ; and being dead , theypu-
Sfefie,and again acquire life by the Trinfrrfatatl-
*&of their Generation into them.
^fj#nci byittonrofive Spkksaredttlctrledf*iffd
^felHficd , *tvd aliColoiitt ire- thcretyWhcd
•no: into
of<£\£xtals, . 7
into others , and thereby the pure is feparatect
frornthe unclean.
Now the Members of PutrefaaipTvare DL e-
ftion and Circulation,
The fifth Decree is Diltillation, which is no-
thing eifebut a Separation of the moiM from the
dry, and the thin from the thick.
The Members hereof are Afcenfion, Lotion,
Imbibition, Cohobation and Fixation.
Cohobation, which concludeth all the reft, is
an often effufion or pouring of the dialled Li-
quor to its fefesy and often diftilling it over. As
Vitriol with Cohobatio.ns is fixed by its own
proper Water, and then it is called AlUmev Sac*
car mum -, which being diffolved into Liquor, and
then putrefied by the ipace of a Month, and du
ftilled , yields a moR fweet and pleafant Water,
after the manner of Sugar : which is a moft ex-
cellent Medicinal fecret , far above others, to
extinguish the Microcofmical "Fire, which hap-
peneth to the Diggers of Metals; which is large-
ly fpoken of in the Book De tMorbu Fcjforum
Mintralium » 0\ the Difeafes of the Diggers in
Myncs. After the fame manner alio may any ci-
ther Minerals and Waters, zsSalNitmm^ be
fixed by Cohobations.
The fixth Degree is Coagulation;which alfo i£
twofold ; anfwering contrary to Solution^confift-
ing of heat and drinefs,that is, of Air and Fire. •
Again, Coagulation is twofold, as having WO
parts'pf g-qW, and as many of hear.
Thefirft of cold is made of ccmmqn A&V^k-
tout-$fcft**i t.hs k&> of the fu;p$s*0* Firma-
aaentiby djtHfctrcidfc&o&e j wbi<&tf)^aledi
B4 all
8 Of the Tranfmutation
ill Waters into Snow and Ice.
But the firft Coagulation of heat is made by
induftry in Art , obferving the gradations of the
Fire, and is fixed ; but the other Degrees of cold
in Alchymy are not fixed.
The later Coagulation of heat is made by an
jfctnean Fire and Mineral under the Earth and
under the Mountains , and is gradated by a
natural Arch of the Earth. Not unlike to this
is the Fire, which being gradated by the Art
of Alchymy, is excited and brought to Coagula-
tion.
What foe ver is coagulated by this £tnean
Fire , remains fixed , as is manifeft by Metals
and Minerals ; all which confift from the begin-
ning of certain Mufcilaginons matter coagulated
by the jfctnean Fire , and the natural Arch and
Artifice of the Earth under the Mountains, into
Stone?, Metal s, Pearls, Salts, &c.
The feventh and laft Degree of the Scale or
Ladder of Tranfmutation, is TinSure,the moft
noble Medicine above all others that are procu-
red by the Chymical Art ; whereby all Metallick
and humane bodies are dipp'd into a far more
noble, bettcr,and excellent fubftance then before
they were naturally of, and are thereby reduced
to the higheft Degree of foundnefs , colour and
perfe&ion , and to a more ftrong and excellent
Nature.
Various are the kindes and fpecies of thefe
Tipdujres , in this place leaft of all intended to
Retreated of.
^ne Metallick bodies ought firft to be removed
|>y fire from their CoagulatioD^ind to be liqoe-
fcd;
of^Metah
ted ; otherw ife, they will not receive any a&ive
rin&ure , unleis they be opened. Alfo all the
rinftures of Metals ought to be fixed fubilances,
afily fufible , and of an incombuftible Nature;
hat being poured upon a fiery Lamen, they may
low forthwith like Wax , and fcon penetrate
he Metal without i'moke , as Oyl dotrrPaper, or
:s Water enters into a Sponge ; fo they dye that
nto a white and red colour , remaining in ihe
Fire, and enduring every trial.
Therefore in thefirft Degree of Caldnation,to
:ome to thefe Tinitures , the Metals being
Drought into Alcol , they acquire an eafie lique-
faction , in the iecond Degree , to wir, of So-
lution ; and then by Putrefaction and DiftiL
lation, their Tinctures may be fixed and made
incombuftible, and the colours un variable.
But to reriore, recover, conferve, or renew the
Health of humane bodies,they ought to be drawn
from Gold, Pearl, Antimony, Sulphur, Vitriol,
or the like.
Various alio are the Subjects of the Fire ; and
thev have feveral and divers Operations in Chy-
miftry : as, one Fire made of the flame of Wood,
and this they call living Fire , wherewith is cal-
cined and reverberated the bodies of all Metals
and other things : another is a continual heat of
a Candle or Lamp,w herewith they fix Voiatiles :
there is another Fire of Coles , wherewith
bodies are cemented, coloured, and purged from
their Excrements : alfo, Gold and Silver are
thereby brought to t higher Degree : Vtnus is
refined , and all other Metals are renewed : the
fiery
io Of the Tranfmutation
fiery Lamens of Irons have another Operation;
for thereupon is made the trial x>f Tin&ures. A*
nother heat is raited by Fire, by the filings of
Iron ; another in Afaes ; another in Salt ; ana-!
ther in Bdneo Ultari*, , wherewith are mads
many Diftillations, Sublimations , and coagula->
tions : There is alio another Operation made by
Balneum for#,which fometimes I have clfewhere
called, Balneum Va^rofum^ wherewith many So-
lutions of corporal things are made : Then the.
Venter Equina hach another Operation, in which
are made the chief Putrefactions and Digeltions ;
alfo, the invihble Fire hath an Operation
far beyond all thefe , that is, of the Beams
of the Sun ; which plainly appeareth by his
Operations, as by a Speculum or Chryftal. And
of this the Ancients have not made mention.
By this I ire, the three Principles of every
thing may be feparated upon a Table of Wood,
without any fear of flagration or aduftion ; and
all Metals liqueked without any vifible Fire ,
and all combuftiblcs confamed into Coals and
Afhes.
But the Tranfmutation of Metals , to bring
the imperfect to perfection, cannot be very well
done without the Stone or Tincture, of which
we will hereafter treat in their due places : And
we will aMb fay fomethingof the Tranfmutation
of imperfe^s into imperfe#s,bringing them pnly
for the probation of Tranfmutations. But we
8nll firft treat of the Fire, whereupoa bangs the
hinges of all the Art: and Witch fome procejs of
the Stone of Faracclfm
Chip,
of Metals. ii
Chap. IT.
■Of tbefimple Chjmical Fire.
HAving now fufficiently fpoken to the wife
and ingenious, of the Art of Tranfmutati-
ons by the Scale and Degrees thereof; that the
order before fpoken of may be kept , it will be
neceffary in the firft initiation,to propofe and lay
down the manner of the Inftruments, before
the matter it ielf , left that the rude and un-
skilful (hould flrft ule the foot in fkad of the
hand.
Let them not therefore approach hither,whofe
undertiariding hath no eyes , and whofe hands
cannot ierve them; for the feet and theflefhly
eye," without a found and uncorrupted under-
ftanding,is altogether ignorant.
The chiefeft Inftrument which ought moft di-
ligently to be fought after, is the Fire, which be-
ing living of its own proper Nature , is not vivi-
fied by any other Fire.
From hence alfo it comes to pafs , that ic bath
power and vertue to vivifie whatfoever elfe lies
hidden in other things.
As the'Sun in the World is created by God,to
vivifie , fiir up and quicken the Fire refting in all
other things,asof ttie D, £>$,£,!£, and T? : and
that he might heat the Spheres of all the other
Stars by his Fire ; which otherwifc have no heat
••ofcheirpmj^ beithcr can they give forth any
of
iz Of the Tranf mutation
of themfclves ; for they are dead of themfelves ;
but being kindled by the Solar heat , they live,<
and give forth their Operations according to
their feveral proprieties.,
For the Sun doth not receive the Light, Life,i
and Fire which he hath, from any other Star, but.
onelyfrom God that created and ruieth him, fo
that he alwayes giveth Heat and Life in himielf,
illuminating every other natural Light.
Even fo is the Fire of the Philofophers fecret
Furnace to be accounted in the Spagyrick Art,
which heateth the Furnace and Sphere of the
Veffel, and the Fire of the matter , even as the
Sun is feen to operate in the univerfal World,
without which nothing can be generated there-
in.
In like manner nothing can be effe&ed or
brought to pafs in this Art , without this fimple
Fire , it being the chief part and Operation of
fche whole Art , comprehending all the other
parts thereof in it felf , and is comprehended
of nothing ; for it confifteth of it felf, not
wanting any of the other : but all other Opera-
tions whatfoever, are made ftand in need of this
(imple Fire , from which they receive Life, toge-
ther with the matter it felf.
^ Paracelsus fpeaking elfe where of the fimpleFire,
faith thus :
This (faith he) is the Opinion of the nufi excellent
PhilofopheruThe Fire and Atsor are Mfcient ; for
the Fire alone iiibejajosk Work + and tat complete
p4rt.
Some do build their Fire (imply of Coals:
they
of Metals
::hey erre, containing the Veffels therein or
thereupon : others in vain attempt it with a
(Fire of Horfe-dung , with the Fire of Coals ;
they fublime the matter without any medium,
and diffoivc it not : others have ftirredupHeat
wich Lamps ; averting this to be the lecret Fire
iof the Philosophers , to make their Stone : o-
ithers have placed it in Balneo, andfet this in an
Emmet *s Neft : fome have placed it in Afties of
Juniper ; and others have fought this Fire in
Calce vivayin Tartar, Vitriol, Nitre,and the like :
others have thought it to be in hot burning Wa-
ter, as,
Thomas Aquino* falfly fpeaks_of this Fire, fay-
ing , That God and his */4ngels cannot want iu
What blafphemy is this ? is it not a manifeft lye ?
cannot God want or be without the elementary
Fire of hot Water, and be without all the
other Creatures when he pleafeth ? doth he
ftand in need of any of them ? All thofe Heat*
that are ftirred up by the means and Fires now
fpoken of , are altogether unufeful for this pur-
pofe. See alfo that you be not feduced by Arnold
de villa nova^ho writes of the Fire of Cojls; for
in this thing he deceives you.
Almadis faith, That the invijible Sun-beams are
[ufflcient for our Fire* He produceth another
example, That the celeftial Heat by his reflexion
and conttrnal motion doth chiefly make the perfection
and coagulation of Mercury. And again, he
faith , Make a vaporous, continual, digeftingifepa*
rating Fire ; but not flying or boy ling up, but al-
tering and penetrating. Now I have told -, **d
that
i^- Of the Tranfmutation
that truly , the whole way offlirring up the Heat of
this Tire: if thou an a true Philofopher , thon well
under flandeft : this u jr.
Salmana^er faith , Our Fire is a corrofive Fire,
•which bringeth an tAiry Cloud over cur Veffel 5 in
which Cloudy the Beams of this Fire are hid. This
due C aloes and humidity ef the £loud being wanting,
there is error commttted.
Again, Almadir faith , Unlefthe Fire heat our
Sun by his humour, by the excrement of the moun
tainyWtth a temperate Afcenfion^we foallnot be par*
takers, neither of the white nor red Stone.
All thefe things do fufficiently demonstrate
unto us the occult Fire of the wife men.
In brief, this is the matter of our Fire, to wit.
That it be kindled by the quiet Spiric of a
fecfible Fire, which again expelleth the hot
Cahos , as from its oppofite , above our Phi-
lofophical matter : which Heat waxing above
our Veffel, temperately urgethk forwards to
*he motion of perfect Generation, conftantly ,
without intermimon.
Thus faith Faraeelfmol the fimple Fire of the
Philosophers.
Chap,
of Met ah. i$
Chap. III.
0\ the multiplicity of the Philofopbers
FIRE.
HAving fpoken of the Gmple Fire , we hold
it convenient to treat alfo of the multi*
plicity of Fire,and that more copious and cleerly
then of the other before ; for by this later we
may attain to a perfect fight , as through a Cafe-
ment.
Fire therefore is manifold , as well becaufe of
the diversity of the Subject in which it floweth,
as that afterwards it is excited in divers other
Subje&s : it is varied and changed, as the Fire of
Afhes, Smd,Bafoei) LimatHres^8cc. have a me-
diate Heat flowing from an immediate into the
Subjeft-matter of the Inftrument , and from
hence into the matter fubjacent to the Art.
In this manifold Fire , there is a difference of
place ; and this is the Reafon , Becaufe in all
things , there is nothing in the Nature of things
that can be feen in all things , and by all things,
like one to another ; although they are both or
the fame Species, and their members of the fame
individuals : as one Metal produceth Gold from
that which generateth Silver ; another Satmny
Venn* , Mars , and every one of them is varied
according to the difference of the place from
whence they fpring and are created • neither are
two men, or two members of one body, nor
two
\6 Of the Tranfmutation
wo Leaves of one and the fame Tree found alike
to one another ; and (b of other things. The
diffimilitude proceedeth not from the firft Fire
of C reatures , but from the various Rule of
the Elements by the Planets , and not by the
Sun.
For by this difpofition, the heat is changed in
the Elements every momenc ; and alfothe form
of decompounds from the compounds, and
not from the fimples.
Where there is not fo great a mixture of the
Elements , there is generated Sol ; where they
are a little more mix'd and impure * Luna; and
whtre they are more imperfe& , Venm : and lb
of the reft , according to the mutation of the
mixtures, the Mine of every Metal is unlike one
another : neither do their Spirits agree in all
things one with another* for if they were ge-
nerated of fimple Fire alone, no multiplicity
intervening, there would be no difference of
their properties and forms , not only in Metals,
but in all other Creatures.
But why there arc in ufe feven Metals and no
more, fix whereof are folid , and the feventh
fluxible and thin ; the Reafon is given in Philo-
fophy , and cot in Cbymiftry ; which is to be
reiervedto its proper place, that we digrefs not
from our purpofe. And thus much of the ma-
nifold Philofophical Fire, deduced from Phyfical
Reafons.
Chap;
of Metals. 17
Chap. TV.
Of the vifible and local Inflruments : and
firs?, of the Spagyrick Womb.
BEfore we come to fpeak of the matter , k
is requifite that we proceed in order to de-
larewhatlnftruments a&ualand local are ne-
eflary to be ufed in this Art : the firft a&ual, is
he Fire ; the firft local Inftrument istheFur-
lace, which by the Ancients is called by this
'hymical Name, Athanor : this referreth to the
Afomb in the Spagyrick Generation.
Hermes Trifmegiftm^ although he was not the
nventor of this Art , no lefs then Varacelfm of
f agyrick Medicines , yet he dcferveth to be
tiled theReftorer thereof.
He afferteth, That thisSpagyricl^workSwhich «
be Htmofi point of the hand of humane Vhilofophj)
aketkits exordium and firft beginning from theme"
Utative contemplation of the greater world : intl-
nating, that the Spagyrick Athanor ought to be
>uilc from the imitation of the Foundation of
leaven and Earth.
But for the cxercife of the ingenious,I (hall not
hink it amifs a little to examine this comparison,
thereby I may happily profit theReaders.There
s noPhyfitian will deny, but that the Sun doth
;enerate a Sun like to its felf : but every one will
lot confefs , That it hath this Generation in its
Centre; and efpecially , theDifciples of thofe
£ Phi^
lS of the Tran] mutation
Philosophers , that can give no other Reafon of
che JEtneajj Fires, ^ then what Rufticks and
Clowns do, according to the appearance thereof
to their carnal eye?.
This Terrene or earthly Sun is kindled and
bred by the Fire of the fuperior ; even fo is
kindled the Centre of our matter, from the Cen-
tre of our World or Athanor \ which is Fire,
bearing a fimiiitude and reiemb lance with the.
natural Sun.
Who feeth not the form and frame of the uni-
verfal created World, to bear the Gmilkude
and likenefs of • a Furnace. : or, that I may fpeak-
more reverently, containing the Matrix of af
Womb ; that is- to fay," the Elements wherein'
the Seeds of the Sun and Moon, by their various
aftral influences are corrupted , conco&ed and
dige(ted,for the Generation of arl things?
But this is plainly manifeR to Children, I need
nor fpeak it to Philofophers : wherefore I (hall
not need to urge it any further.
Therefore iye proceed t a fpeak of the manner*
of the contagion and buiidinf* ot our A;hm&
or Furnace. Fir ft, let a Furnace be built fix i'panS
hi^hj round whhin5andof the bred th and bignefi
of one fpan; let it be fomewhaj larger and bigger
towards the bottoms hen at top ; let it be made!
fmooth within , that Coals or fuch things as are
put in,do nottiick by the way*butmay fall down
cloie to the Grate, To this Furnace y on may
make one , two or three mouths , as you fhali
think fit. To every Furnace let a Copper be
fitted , with Water : the ether matter is to be!
inclofecl
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inclofed within : as the Egge is within the
Hen ; fo is a Glafs to be in this womb, for the
induftry of the Magi-lery. Then when you will
work or operate herewith, having all things
diligently prepared, break you Coal' about
he bignefs of Walnuts , and till up the Turrets
to the top,and kindle them at the door beneath ;
and let the top be kept frmt , left the Coals
being kindled at the top or in the middle , de-
ftroy the whole work , and they confume and
burn all together. Moderate therefore your
Fire with a juft proportion , as Nature teach-
tth in all things. The natural heat will excite
and ftir up the ferment and the matter lying hid
in this Egge.
Wherefore even as the Sun illuminates the
great World, and giveth Light and Life to all the
Stars, Elements and Creatures; fo doth this Spa-
gyrick Fire illuftrate and vivifie our Inftru-
ments,and all the matter of our Furnace, as the
feting of a Hen over her Egges , animates the
young.
C H A P. V.
[Of the fecond Spagyrick Instrument , which is
the Matrix or Philosophers Egg?.
MA ny Philofophers , rafhly prefuming upon
their own Judgements, nave mif-under-
ftoodthe right and true occult and fecretVef-
fcl of the l&ilofophers. And worfe is that
C 2 which
20 Of the Tranfmutation
which sAriftotle theChymift ( not the Greek
Academian ) faith , That the matter is to be dc-
cooled in a treble Veffel. And more amils is that
which another faith , That the matter in thefirfi
feparation and fir ft degree , ought tt be included in a
UMetaliickfejfel ; in the fee end Degree ofitsfi-
agulation and "Dealbation of the Earth , a Glaj?-
Veffel ; and in the third "Degree , which is Fixa-
tion ^ a Veffel of Earth. Neverthelefs , by all
thefe they underftand onely one Veffel in
all Operations , to the perfection of the red
Stone,
Since therefore our Matter is our Radix and
Foundation both of the whue and red, our
Veffel neceffarily ought to be made after this
manner , that the matter therein may be ruled
by the Celeftial bodies : for the Celeftial influ-
ences, and the invifible impreflions of the Stars,
are chiefly neceffary for this work • otherwifeic R
is impoflble to attain to the excellent Oriental, I
Perfian,Chaldean, and Egyptian Stone , by any C
means ; by which Anaxagoras knew the vermes \
and power of the whole Firmament, & prefaged,
That the great Stone fhould defcend from Heaven * fj
upon Earth: which alio happened after his death.
He did very much make known our Veffel to the
Cabalifts, and that according to the true Geo-
metrical meafure and proportion ; and how it
ought to be built of a certain Quadrature in a j
Circle, whereby the Spirits and foul of our mat-
. ter being feparated from their body, may be ele-
vated in the altitude of their Heaven.
Fer if the Veffel be more ftraight , large,
high
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high or low then its due meafure and propor-
tion, and then the ruling and operating Spirits
and Soul of the matter do defire ; the heac of
our fecrec PhLlofophicai Fire , ( which is moft
acute) will too violently excite and provoke the
matter to Operation , and fometimes the Veffel
will flieinto athoufand pieces, not without dan-
ger of the body and life of the Operator.
On the contrary , if the Veffel be too capa-
cious, and more large then for the heac, to ope-
rate upon the matter according to its propor-
tion, the work will alfo be fruftrate and in
vain.
Therefore our Philofophical Veffel is to be
fabricated with greateft induftry and diligence.
But they onely underftand what the mat-
ter of this our Veffel is, who in the fiift
Solution of our fixed and perfect matter, have
reduce^ and brought the fame into their
firft Effence 2 of which we have fpoken c-
nough.
Let the Operator therefore diligently note
what he takes, and wkat he refufes, in the Solu-
tion of the firlt matter.
The manner of defcribing this Veffel is dif-
ficult ; yet it ought to be of fnch a form as Nature
her felf requires , which is to be fought and in-
veftigated from one and another. In brief, it
muft be fuch , that from the altitude of the
Philofophical Heaven, being elevated above the
Philofophical Earth,it may operate to bring forth
the Pruk of its terrene body.
It ought to have this form , That when the
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2Z Of the Tranfmutation
Fire forces one from the other , there may be a
reparation and purification of the Elements ;
fo that every one may occupy his own place
wherein he remaineth, and that the Sun and
the other Planets may exercife their Operations
about the terrene Element, and that their courfe
be not irnpedited in their Circuit, nor ftirred up
with too violent a motion.
According to all tliefe things which have been
faid, it ought to have a proportion of roundnefs
and altitude.
>ie which appertain to the firft cleanfing
and muncUnWion of Mineral bodies, are mel-
ting Veffels, Crucibles 5 lementing Veffels, Cu-
curbites , and GUiTes for aAqun Finis ; which
arealfo neceffary for the projection m the laft
work : but as concerning the Veffel ufefnl for
this work, it is neceffary that you have a Glafs
rightly and duly proportioned ; for if it be too
capacious , or more large then its juft and due
proportion , the matter , that is, the humidity,
is dilated , (o that nothing can be produced
therefrom. And if it be too narrow or little,
and comprefling the matter, the growrh thereof
will be fufTocated, that it can produce no Fruit.
An example thereof, may betaken from h.-nce :
If Corn, or any thing elfe, be fown in the fhade,
or under the droppings of an Honfe, what Fruit
can be expe&ed therefrom > Wherefore our
greateft care ought to be in the adopting and fit-
ting of the Glafs ; for an error being commit*
ted thereby, or therein, is not ea(i]y cor-
je&ed and amended ; fo thac by the: impedi-
ment
I of Metals. 2;
ment thereof, the work is not brought to the
wifned end.
Wherefore to two Ounces of the matter, take
two Ounces and a half of Glafs,or the Philofo-
phicalEgge , that is , aGlafs of that weight ;
having regard to the due thicknefs of the Glafs.
This being obferved, you fhall avoid error in this
thing.
Chap. VI.
Of tkSubjeB or PbtLfopbical Matter
1 «- general.
HAving hitherto fufficiently fpoken of the
Chymical Initruments, now hearken what
Matter you are to chufeto begin this Spagyrick
Work : after that the Vegetables are mortified,
the concurrences of the two Metals , that is,
Salt and Sulphur, they are tranimuted into a Mi-
neral Nature ;, fo that from thence at length re-
fults a perfect Mineral.
For in the Mineral Caverns of the Earth 5fome
Vegetables are found, which by a long iuccefiion
of time , and a continual heat ; have puc off
the vegerable Nature of Sulphur , and put on a
Mineral Nature. \
And this rnoft efperially happens, where the
naoft proper Nutriment of theie kinde; of Vege-
table b taken away , that they may be after*
wards compelled to receive their Aliment from
thcSuiphujandS^ s*i the Earth, fo long, until
C4 tha^
z^ Of the Tranjmutatwn
that which before was Vegetable , become a
perfect Mineral. And from this Mineral con* t
dition, a certain Metallick perfect Effence doth Y
fometimes arile, and that by the progrefs of one
Degree unto another. ; J
But that we may return to fpeak of the Philo- iii
fophers Stone, the matter whereof is moft diffi- :U
cult to finde out and underftand :
The manner and moft certain Rule of this
Inveftigation,and of all other things whatsoever,
is a careful and diligent Examination of the
Radix and Sperm thereof, whereby is found out
the knowledge of the matter.
Much availing hereunto,is a due and neceflary
confideration of the beginning and original of i
Metals , how and after what manner Nature firft 1 1
bringeth them from imperfe&ion to the end of
perfection. i.
To which confideration it firft of all conduceth, t
the perfeft knowledge of the three firft Princi-. n
pies whereof Nature createth all things, that is, ,i
Sal> Sulphur, and CMercnry, naturally permixed ! 5
into one body, yet fo, that in feme they arc vo- i
Utile, and in others fixed.
For as often as the corporal Sal is permixed i
with the fpiritual Mtrcfory, and animate Sulphur^ S
then Nature begins to operate in thofe Subter-
ranean places,which (he hath in ftead of her Vet- t
fels, by the feparating Fire, which feparates the ij \
craft and impure Sulphur from the pure , and/**
Xre&atcs the Earth from the Sal, mdihc Nuies
from the Mercury ; referving the firft parts,which
Nature decoð again together into one con-
fUnt Geogamical body. Which
of Metals. 25
Which Operation is had from the greater raix-
l ture and conjunStion, by the onion of three, to
1 wit, Body, Soul, and Spirit.
This Union being compleated, from thence
refults pure Mercury ; which if it flow through
the Subterranean Pores and Veins, and be made
obvious to the Sulphur , it is coagulated here-
with,according to the condition or the Sulphur.
Yet neverthelefs, it is ftill Volatile, infomuch
that it is fcarce decoded into Metal in twenty
ycers afterwards.
From thence this vulgar Opinion received
its original , to wit , that Sulphur and LMer-
cury are the Matter of the Metals , as is ma-
nifeft by the, Relation of the Diggers of Mi-
nerals.
But neither vulgar (Jttercury , nor common
Sulphur , are the Matter of the Metals ; but
the Cktercury and Sulphur of the Philofophers
are incorporate and innate in perfect Metals,
and in the Forms thereof: fo that they never fly
from the Fire , nor are depraved by the force of
the corruption of the Metals.
So that by the Diffolution of that natural
mixture, our (Jtfercury is tamed and fixed,fay the
Spagyrick Philofophers.
Therefore under this form 6f Words,our Mer-
cury out of perfect bodies,and the vertue of the
terrene Planets cometh to be extra&ed : which
alfo Hermes itterts in thefe words : he &ith,That
Sol and Luna are the Roots of this Art.
The Son of Hannel faith , That the Philofophers
Stem is * C94£HUtcd water yt9 witjn Sol md L«na^
Trcna
26 Of the Tranfmutation
From whence it plainly appears , That the
Matter of our Stone is only SoUndLuna; which
is confirmed by this, That every like naturally
brings forth and generates his like.
And as we know there are two Stones , the
white and the red ; fo there are alio two Matters
of the Stone, Sol and Luna*, coupled together in
their proper Matrimony, either natural or artifi-
cial. And as we fee a Man and Woman cannot
generate nor produce their like,without the mix-
ture of both their Seeds ; fo in like manner, our
Male SV,and hi • Female Lxna-> cannot conceive
nor bring forth any Generation, without their
Seed and Sperm.
From whence our Philofophers have gathered,
That there is a third thing neceffary, to wit, the
Animate Seed both of the Male and Female of
theChymifts , without which they judged their
whole work vain and ridiculous.
The Sperm hereof, is ^Mercury , which by a
natural ConjunSion of both bodies of Sol and
Luna, rcceiveth and uniteth their Nature into '
himfelf.
Then, at length, and not before, is the matter
apt for the congretfive Work and Genera-
tion , by the Mafculine and Feminine force and
vertue.
This hath moved our Philofophers to fay,That
this Mercury is comvofed of Bodyy S only And Spirit ;
and to affttme mto it [elf the nature and propriety of
all Elements,
Wherefore they have afferted their Stone to
be an Animal , which alfo they called their
Mam)
of Metals 27
tAdam, who bearcch his occult and invifible Eve
in his own body 5 from which moment they are
united by the power of the Great Maker of all
hings. For which caufe ic may worchily be laid,t
That the Mercury of the Philosophers is nothing
elfe,but an abftrufe compofed LMercury^nd not
that vulgar Mercury. Therefore they have wifely
faid, That there is in Mercury whxtfoever the wife
men do feel^ after. •
Almadir thePhilofopher faith, We pxirM our
Mercury out of one perj \U Body , with two per j e&
natural #nd incorporate conditions : This extrirfe-
caRy produceth %is perfection, whereb] herefifteth the
force of the fire ; ar.d by this his perfection is ex-
trinfecally and intrinfecaliy defended fr$m all imfer-
fettwns.
By this place of the acute Philofopher, the
• matter of the Stone is underftood to be Adami-
cal , the Microcoirnica! Garment , the Homo-
geneous and umrfd matter of thePhilofophcrs.
Thefe Sayings of the Philofcphers , which be-
fore we have made mention of, are tneeriy Gol-
den, and to be had alwayes in great eiteem , be-
caufe they contain in them nothing Superfluous,
nothing invalid.
Briefly therefore : The matter of thePhilofo-
phers Stone is nothing elie but a fiery and per-
feci Mercury extracted by Nature and Art, that
is, artificially prepared ; and is the true Herma-
fhrodite-) Adam, zndMtcrocofme*
This tne wifeft of Philofophers , Mercnrius
7*rffmc0W) afferting, callcth the Stone zxxOr
°m,J^ T{
There
i8 Of the Tranf mutation
Therefore our tMercury is he which contains
in himfelf the perfections , power and vertue of
Sol; and runneth through the Houfes of all the
Planets : and in his Regeneration, acquireth the
vertue of the fuperiors and inferiors : and by the
Matrimony thereof, heappeareth cloathed in
their candor and beauty.
The Arabians , Greeks, Perfians, and Egyp-
tians , h*vekept thefe Myfteries fecretand ab-
tfrufe, denoting them by certain occult Cha-
racters and Figures. Some have called this, The
Secret of the Philofophers : and ^^thagoras , The
Philofophers Stsne,
Whotbever have attained to the knowledge .
hereof, have adumbrated and fhadowed the
fame , with various enigmatical Figures, and
deceitful Similitues and Companions , and
feigned Words , that the Matter thereof might
remain occult to Pofterity ; fo that little or
no Knowledge thereof, might be found
out.
But neverthelefs fome have fufficiently de-
tected this matter and the knowledge^ thereof,
with its preparation, to the ingenious • but not-
withftanding in Parables, and under Enigmatical
Words and Figures , that they might expel the
unworthy from attaining to fuch a myftcry of Arc
and Nature.
Neverthelefs fome few , and fuch who arc apt
to apprehend this Art, have fought out the per*
petual Balfome of Nature, and the true Stone,
but with exceeding great labour and intricate
difficulty ; which everywhere OCCuriCth in the
invegiy
of<£\detah. 29
inveftigation hereof. And hence it appears why
the flugsifti and flothful mindes never attain to
this work.
Chap. VII.
Of the F reparation of the Spagyrick Mat-
ter in general.
NAturefirftrequirethof the Artift, that the
•Philofophical^^w be* brought into a
Mercurial fubftance , and at length to be re-
generated into the Oriental Sol, and Lunar j
Stone.
Moreover,its to be noted,That thofe common
Preparations of Geber, Albertm Magnus, Thomas
Aquinas, Rupecijfa , Polydor , and the like , are
nothing elfe but particular Solutions, Sublima-
tions , Calcinations, leaftof all pertaining to our
univerfal Secret, which wanteth onely the mod
fecret Fire of the Philoibphers. The Firetherc-
fore and Azor are fufficient for theew
The Philoiophers make mention ©f other
Preparations, as Putrefa$ion, Diftillation, Sub-
limation, Ceration, Fixation , &c. which you
are to underftand onely to be certain univerfal
Operations to compleat Nature in the laid mat-
ter ; and not onely a working in the Philofo-
pbicai Veflel with the like Fire , and not with
common Fire.
For the. white and the red proceed bothfrom
one Radix, without any mean : it is diffcived
in
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in it felf,and copulated by it felf,made white and
red,black & yellow by it felf* it defpoufeth it felf,
and is conceived in it felf : it is decoded and
infunded, afcendcth and defcendeth : all which i
Operations are made by the Fire alone.
Yet ibme Philofophers have diffolved the
Body of Sol, by the Prong; eflence of Wine* and
made it Volatile , that it would afcencT by an
Alembick; thinking this to be the true Volatile
matter of the Philofophers ; whereas it is not ;
although it be ajecret not to be deipifed , to
reduce a perfeS: Metallick Body into a Volatile
and fpiritual fubftance : yet they erre in the re-
paration of the Elements ^ for they thought by
this way to feparate Goldjnto a fubril ,' fpiritual
and elemental venue : and after their feparati-
on,by Circulation and Re£tin"cation,again to co-
pulate them into one • but in vain.
For although one Metal may be feparated from
another in feme fort ; neverthelef?, every Metal
thus feparate*d , maybe feparated again into an-
other; which parts afterwards by a Pellicanical ,
Circulatioivor Pirtillationr can in no wife copu-
late into one, but will alwayes remain a certain
Volatile Matter, and t/fvram Totabik , as they
call it.
The caufe why thefe can never attain to their
intentions, is this, Becaufe by this way, Nature
will not be extra&ed nor feparated with hu-
mane dif-jun&ions, as by terrene Glaffes and In-
ftruments.
That onely hath known its Operations and
the weight of the Element?, whole Separations,
Refti-
of <£\4etds. 51
Rectifications , and Copulations, are executed
without the Heip of any Operator or Manual
Artifice, whilft the matter is contained in the
lecret Fire, and in the occult Veffel.
This is the Opinion of the Phiiofophers,That
when they have placed this matter into their fe-
cret Fire , it is cherHhed round about with this
Philofophical heat, that beginning to tranfite
into corruption, it waxeth black. This Opera-
tion they call Tutrefattion ; And this Blacknefe,
The Head of the frew.
They Call the afcending and defcending of this
1 matter, their DiiUllation , Afcenfion, andDe-
fcenfion : they call Exficcation, Coagulation ;
and Dcalbation, Calcination.
Andbecaufe by a continual heat , the matter
is made foft and fluid, they make mention of
Ceration. But when it ceafeth to afcend 5 and
remaineth liquid in the bottom,they call it Fixa-
tion.
After this manner therefore , are the Apella-
tions of the Philofophica 1 Operations to beun-
derftood,and no otherwife.
Thus having declared the Inftruments, Matter,
and Ferment , we proceed in order to the
Weights ; without observation whereof, ©or
Work is in vain.
Chap,
yt Of the Tranfmutation
Chap. VilT.
Of the Proportion cf the Matter. and Form
of the Spagyrick Stone.
T He Formal part of our birth is the Mercury
of the Philofbphers, and the Spirit or Tin-
dure of Sol; but the living part is another ma-
terial.
Therefore the Compofition of this facred
Adamic^ Stone , is made after the tsfdamicJ^
iMercury of the wife men ; with their Female
Eve,by the Matrimony and union of the One and
the other Mercury on the third parr.
Therefore the onely matter of the Philofo-
pbers, confiileth of fpiriiual, corporal and animal
Mercptrj*
The corporal CMercnry is the fubjeft of Tin-
ctures.
: The fpiritual and animal tJMercwies , exhi-
bit the means of conjoyning them • but in
their conjunction, a due proportion is to be ob-
ferved:
For if there be taken more of one then of the
Other, it will be fuffocated as Seed fown in the
Field ; fo that it cannot live lb long until it be
united by the Mercury of the Philofophers, and
perfected in the Fire: or on the contrary,if it be
too littlc,there can be no Solution,nor no Fruit.
Wherefore, fee that you take as much of
the one as of the other , left by your ig-
norance
of<£\fetals. 55
norance in the proportion , the work be de-
stroyed.
Let there be taken therefore one part of
the Seed to two pares of Earth , or three to
four ; and there will be no error , but the
work will be brought to itsdefired end in this
behalf, fo as the reft be moderated accor-
dingly.
There is a double Reafon why the Weight
fliould be obferved ; the one natural , the other
artificial.
The natural followeth the effe& in the Earth
by Nature andConcordancy $ of which Arnaldut
fpeaks,
If there (hall be added more or tefl Earth then Ma-
ture wtllfuffer , it will faff ocate the Soul , and no
fruit tfor fixation is perceived.
The like is to be judged of the Water : if
there be taken too much or little thereof, it
rings an inconvenient lofs : for the fuperfluity
ereof makes the matter too humid ; and the
efe&orwant thereof, renders it too dry and
too hard. If the VelTel be too little, the Tin-
cture is too much prefled ; if too large , a pale
body evades: if the Fire be made too vehement,
the matter is burnt ; if too remifs , it hath not
power of exficcating, folving, and calefying the
other Elements.
In thele confifts the elemental Weight;
but the artificial is moft occult : when as
the Ponderations are included in the Magick
IArt.
Between the Spirit , Scul and Body ( fay
£> th:
^ Of the Tr an] mutation
the Philofophers ) confifteth the Weight with
Sulphur, as it were theRe&or of the work:
for the Soul defireth the Sulphur, and neceffa- »
rily obferveth it, by Reafon of the Weight.
Which underftand after this manner : Our mat-
ter is united with red mixed Sulphur , to which
is committed the third part of the Regiment *
until the la!* Degree , that it maketh on the infi-
nice Operation of the Stone : and perfifteth
therewith together with his Fire, and confift-
eth of an equal Weight with the matter it felf
in all things , and by all things, without a-
ny variation of any Degree of Tranfmuta-
tion.
I After therefore the matter is prepared and fit-
ted, and mixed with its proportionate Weight, it
ought to be very well concluded and fealed up
in the Philofophers Veffel , and committed to
their fecret Fire, in which the Philofophical Sun
will fpring up and arife, and illuminate all
things which expeft his Light , or hope can de- j
fire.
But becaufe this cannot rightly be under- l
Rood without a perfect knowledge in the Metals
of perfefl Tin&ures, we proceed now to fpeak
of them.
Chip.
vf Metals. 35
Chap. IX,
Of the TihBwet and Spirits of Metals : And
firft,of the Ttafture of the Sun.
T^He Tin&ure of the Sun obtains the fuprcrae and
principal place : which is derived of tubal, pure*
and moft perfed fire. Wherefore this fpirit fltetb
not from the fire, but remains therein fixedftriumph-
ing and rejoycing : it is not confumed nor burnt
thereby, as others ; but rather thereby gains more
luftre and fplendor : it is fubje& to no Corruption-
; neither heat , nor cold , nor any other quality, can
bring any detriment thereunto : Whereby it ccmes
to pafs , that the body which it once putteth on , ic
defends and preferves from all accidents , Corrup-
tion, and difeafes, that it may alfo endure the fire with
him without lefion.
His body hath not thefe virtues from himfelf, but
from his fpirit alone, the efficient caufe thereof.
It is certaine, that the body of Sol is Mercury \
which can in no wiieindure the fire, but immediate-
ly flyes therefrom.
Since therefore being in gold, Mercury perfifts
conttantly in the fire, and flyes not ; there is no
doubt but the fixing thereof by the fpirit, will in>
preffe the fame virtue in its felfc
What gift and office therefore hath it in Mercu-
ry\ but that when it is freed from its own body, and
taken into a humane body , itfbould work aodo-
pcrate its effects thereupon ? who vvill deny , but
D * tHac
7fi Of the Tranfmutation
that alfo it may preferve and keepeitfafe from all
Corruption , difeaies and accidents whatfocver> and
preferve the body1 to a long and found life , as our
firft parents of old ?
The virtues and propertyes of all other Metals are
not otherwife to be known , but by certain and true
experience, and not by any other reifeaof a Subtile
intellect x for this wifdom which is conceived by opi«
nion only > is metre fooliibnefs before God and the
truth ; wherefore they that hope and believe therein,
do erre, and are deceived.
Thus farrc of the fpirit and Tin&ure of Sol : now
let us fee what Tincture the Moon hath.
The fpirit of Luna lyeth in this white Tin&ureJ
as the Red in Sol : And it is alfo borne of a fubtil
fpirit ; but not fo perfect as that of Sol. Never the-
iefs'in purity and conrrancy it farre excelleth the
Tinctures of all the other fubfequent Metals.
For burnt lead con fumes it felf,and all other Metals
with it in the fire, except Sol and Luna • to which it
brings no detriment.
Seeing therefore the fpirit or* the Moon is of power
to preferve the body which it once puttcth on, to
witi Mercury, from injury of the fire, and all other
accidents, and render the fame fixed and conftant ;
it is eafily gathered from hence , if it effect this in fo
iaftable and volatile a body as Mercury, how much
more efficacious and powerful will it operate, being
free from its own body, and pic je&ed into a humane
body ? will not that be alfo defended from many di-
feafes and Corruptions ? certainly whatfoever it
operates in Mercury, the fame it will do in a humane
body, and preferve the fame to a long and found life,
expelling
of Metals 37
expelling alldifeafes which a re comprehended under
the power thereof ; according to the degree there-
unto prefixed by nature,
Certainly by how much th: more fublime, fubtile
and perfect every Medicine is , by fo much the more
perfectly it cureth in its kinde.
Wherefore ignorant are thofe Phyfitians who
found their Art chiefly upon corrupt Medicines, as
Vegetables, which are not permanent ; but they go
about fixed Cures with uncoaftant means , under-
taking that which is impolfible for them to perform.
But what (hall I fay more unto thefe ? they hayc
never yet learned otherwife in their Academies,
The Spirit of Venn* is derived of a permtxtion
of more crafs elements then the former : wherefore
it is inferiour and fubje& unto them 5 but it is more
perfect then the other Spirits andTin&ures which fol-
low, excelling them in fixation and conftancie , not
yeelding to the fire, nor (o fubje& to be corrupted as
the others fubfequent : andremaineth more fixed in
the fire : which vertue Vcntu hath not in her own bo-
dy, but from a Spirit.
What operation focsrer it hath in its Mercury]
the fame it doth alio in humane bodies, according to
the degree of nature : for it defendeth wounds and
ulcers from accidents, and expelleth fuch difeafes as
are under its degree and power , and difperfeth the
root thereof.
If it be 'mixed with any other Metals , it breaketh
tneir perfect bodies , that they will not be malleable
any more, until they be freed from it.
The like effect it hath io humane bodies,efpecially
tf tt be taken for any Difcafe* not deftined unto its
D 3 degree
38 Of the Tfanfmution*
degree by nature, it bringech Contractures of the
members.
Wherefore the Phyfitian ought perfeftly to learn
the Natures and Tinctures of Metals , how they 1-
gree with the Nature of Bodies , before they venture
to give them, left they endanger their Patient.
The tin&ure of Mars , confifts of an aduftible
and crafs perrnixion of the Elements, havisg a more
bard and lefs tradable fubftance , then the other im-
perfects ; hardly fufiblc, but corruptible both with
Air and Water, eafily fubjeft to be confumed with
ruft : but in hardnefs and drinefs it abounds above all
other Metals, as well perfect as imperfect.
Jt torments the body of man , if applied to any
difca(e,other then becometh its Nature • yet it want-
eth nor power and vertue granted to it by God and
Nacure in its fpecial propriety.
The Spirit of Jupiter is created of a white pally
fubftar.ee of Fire , by nature intractable with the
hammer, but not fo much as Mars.
Bang mixed with others, it difcontinueth and mix-
eth wkh them, cfpecially with Ltma » that it will
hardly be feparated hertfretnt The like operation
ic hath in all other Metals, except in Saturn : if it be
taken contrary to its Nature , to operate upon mans
body, it affli&s the members with cruel paffions and
pains, andgnaweth them with fuch burning , that
they cannot exercife their natural faculties : being
outwardly applied to Fiftula's, Cancers, Carbuncles,
and fuch* like , which exceed not the degree of its
Niture it is t he btft remedy expelling every evil.
The Spirit of Saturn is created of an ebfeurei
tenebrofe, and cold perraixture of Elements • where-
by it
of *5\fetals. 39
by it comss to pafs > that it left cndutes the Fire then
any other,
Ic mundifies the bodies of oVand Lm<* , and
pnrge:h them irom fuperflukies : it sffr#cth the
body taken inwardly, more then Tin or Iroa ; but
becaufe icis coagulated with more cold then theo-
tber$ it operates not (o fharply : it hath an excellent
faculty to heal Fiftula's, Cancers and fuch-like ulcers,
and many other infirmities. Bu: having performed
its operation unlefs it depart from the body, together
with the difeafe , it doth more hurt then good.
Wherefore kt the Phyfidan, chat defires to make ufe
hereof, firit know with what difeafes it agrees, and
how it is naturally ordained for Medicine.
Laftly, the Spirit of Mercury hath no certain de-
terminate form, but is fubje& to all the o:her> as wax
to the impremon of a feal • for it receiveth every
Spirit whatfocver ueko i: fclf • as when the Spirit of
Sol is imprefled into it, it tranfices into Sol* if Lun*t
into Luna ; and fo of the reft : he putteth on their
nature, and cmbraceth every Metal*
His body may be compared to the Spirits of other
Metals, as the Female to the Male, not by a corporal
mixture ; but when a Spirit is educed from its Metal,
and after the preparation projected into Mercury ,
then at length he exhibits his tranfmutation , no c-
therwife then a dead female of Metal ; although it
be as an untitled Field or Earth , if it be macerated
or vivified with the Philofophers Plough , ( which
female in this work remains fixed and uncorrupt) it is
united to the faid corporal Spirit by the degrees of
the fire,iato his nature and fubftance * & this with the
dead body of Metal , which with the ctafs Spirit of
Mtrchrj cannot be dones D 4 Ancj
4.0 Of the TranJ mutation
And although the body of 5o/exift of Mercmj
or Argent t/;tf<r.and is fixed • nevertnelefs, common
Mercury not fixed or mortified , never comcch to
its Refurrec^tion.
For the Remrreftion of Metals is an immortal
Regeneration, and the medium whereby the tin&ures
are promoted to their generation.
Wherefore it cannot be united with dead bodies
into fixation , but only with extracted Spirits of the
corporals before fpoken of, which are fubje& to Me-
tals , as the common Mercury is fubje& to all Mc-
tallick Spirits.
For the crafs Spirit of Mercury doth in no wife
generate this tincture in fubftauce, no more then %
concubine legitimate iflue.
We are to judge in like manner of the crafs Spirit
of Mercury So long until the metallike and corporal
Spirit is made by the medium of the natural mat-?
ter : without this medium, it is impoflible to attain
to any good and perfect work in tbefe kinde of tin*
dures : moreover, if the fire be too ftrong, it cannot
generate • if too rcmifsi the fame event happens.
C H A P. X
'Of the plain Manifeftation of this Art.
VLTHen thou wilt mike the Heaven or Sphere of
Saturn to run with life upon the Eartfc, im-
pofe thereupon all the Placers » or which you will j
but let there not be too much oihunfk , but add left
^hereof then of the other,
Pcnafc
of Met ah. 4.1
Permit them all to run until you fee the Heaven of
Saturn quite to vaniflh : by this means, all the Pla-
nets will remain of fuch a coufiftency , that their an-
cient and corruptible bodies being dead , they have
put on a new, perfect and incorruptible body*
This is the Spiric of Heaven , by which the (aid
Planets are again made cerporal, and living as ac
firft.
Take this new body from the Life and from the
Earth, and this keep • for this is Sol and Luna.
"After this manfler thou Haft the whole Arc made
manifeft and plain , but if thereby thou doft not know
or undctftand the fame, it is well : for fo it ought to
remain * not vulgarly and indifferently laid open to
all.
Vini* de TrtnfmutAtione Met riorum*
Of
4*
Of the Genealogy and Gene-
ration of Minerals.
Chap. I.
WHen I had diligently and accurately read
the writings of the Ancients concerning
the Generation of Minerals . I appre-
dendcd, that they underftood not the ultimate matter
of them , and by confequence , much lcfs the firft.
Truly, if the beginning of any matter tmy rightly be
written , certainly the end thereof may yery fitly be
declared. I have therefore in the firft place de-
creed to propofe unto you tfie ultimate matter of all
Minerals s whereby you may eafily underftand the
firft, from whence they ail dedu& their original.
The firft example we (hall bring from Medicine,
whereby a diieafe is to be known from the iflue, and
not from the beginning ; in which there is no Science
introduced by biindenefs,but mult be bliade likewife :
but the end is vifible from the ififue, to which it is per-
ceived to tend, as to its end propofed to it.
Furthermore, nothing can be better known, then
by a perfect knowledge of the end for which God
created it ; other wife , it may come to pals, that the
true ufe of the Creatures of (Sod » may be turned
fcto
Of the (jenedogy, &c. 43
into abufc , for every thing which God hath created,
he would have us enjoy, and poflefs it,, according to
the right ufe thereof.
Therefore learn the laft and firft matter of things
from the fire • for this is the key that unlockech the
Ark of fecrcts , and maketh every occult thing ma-
aifeft.
For example , If a Metal be diflbl ved in the Fire,*
it prefently (hews the firft beginning thereof to be
a Mercurial water, and not Su!pher,becaufe the reso-
lution thereof flameth not like Rczio, It is demon-
fttated not to beSalt.becaufe the firft beginning of its
Refolution is not Friation,befidcs Liquation and Fla-
gration, as of feme terrene ftonesis ieen to be.
Neverthelefs , every Metal hath Sulphur and Sal
in him, but Mercury hath the chiefeft place therein.
But it feemed good to God the Creator , to create
a watry Element , and from thence to produce every
Metal for the ufe of man , that it fhould be the Mo-
ther thereof; in which, as in her wombt , the Mine-
ral Fire, Sal and Mercury (hould be deco&ed into
Metals , Stones and every Mineral fubftance , al-
though the birth be not of the fame cxiftencc with the
Mother.
1 So that the water is unlike its Metallkk iffuencither
is the Son like the Mother ; even as the Earth is not
Wood , nor the Wood Earth , although it fpring
and bath its original from the Earth.
So likewifc are Wood and Iron created by the
Water , yet they are not of the fame cxiftencc as
Water.
Earth alfo is made of that which it is not in it fclf*
and fo hkewifc is Man.
So
44 Of the Cfenealogy
So God is one in every thing , 2nd the firft and
laft matter of all things : fogreat an Artifex in every
thing , as hath none before him , neither (hall have
any after.
Chap* II.
Of the firft and laft matter of Minerals.
THe firft beginning with God , was the laft mat-
ter , which he made the firft . as the fruit
which ftiould bricg forth other fruit that hath in ic
fclf the feed : and this feed is in the firft matter.
Likewife , in the ultimate matter of Minerals,
is made the firft matter 5 that is.it is made into fperm
or feed ; which feed is the Element of Water , which
is refolved, fo that it is made Water.
Therefore Nature taketh that which is in water,
under her power and fcparation; and whatbeloigs
to Metal , foe fegregates into Metal, every one by
bimfelf feveraliy, according to his own nature, with
their fevcral gentu and fptcies congruent there-
unto.
Therefore where Nature ceafes, there the Art of
man begins ? for the ultimate matter of Nature f is
the firft nature of man : again, the corruptioa of
Nature by Art, is the ultimate matter of man.
So wonderfully hath God created Water the firft
matter of Nature . which, though it be fo tender
and feeble a fubftance, yet from thence is created the
moft folid and durable fruit , as Metals and Stones,
&c. as the mofthardeftand (iurable from the moft
m
of zfMineralsi 4.$
fofc and feeble : and that Fire ftiould be produced
from Water , is beyond the reach of humane capa-
city ; yet not beyond or above the work of Nature. '
Thus having in the firft place handled the Regc-
icrat'ion , and Chymical and Natural Operation of
Metals, we efteemed itmoft neceflary roaddtbefc
few words cf the natural Generation of Miaerak,
whereby the Operation thereof may be the eafier
known.
This is the Opinion of all Phiiofophers and Stu-
dents in this Art, that he that would be an Artift in
this ProMion , ought moft exactly to imitate Na-
ture in all her Operations : And whofocver under-
Hands not thi?, (hall never attain to the accomplish-
ment of his defires in this thing. Therefore let him
that fearcheth a thing fo fecret and difficult , be a
Scholar not only of Arc, but of Nature j and it (ball
be done*
F J n 1 s.
Vr'm
4-tf
illlBflili
Vrim and Tbummim fliewed
to be made by Art , and are
the fame. with the Univerfal
Spirit, corporate and fixed.
THe Truth feems buried, becaufe it brings
forth little Fruit ; but it is great, and
prevaileth, to make all things manifeft
fofar as is poflible for men ; for in common fenfe
and reafon, all agree in myfteries never : (o thac
Wt may not fpeak of Science without Know-
ledge, which breaks the Gates of Brafs, and cuts
•(under the Bars of Iron, before the eyes of Un-
demanding , that the treasures of darknefs may
be opened , and the bright and fiery Sword dis-
covered , which turns every way to keep Tranf-
greflbrs out of Paradfo.
For if we confider wherein the Celeftial and
Terreftrial Bodies agree,we (hall finde fomething
objective in the inferiour Bodies, whereby they
communicate their Celeftial Vertne and Influ-
ence ; which prefident Art doth imitate, to pro*
duce a glorious fubftance of connexed Forms,
and of Cieernefs , Vertue, and Beauty beyond
expreflion.
The
%)rim and Thummim. 4,7
The Mathematicians fay , The Celeftial Influ-
ences do hold and govern every natural Body,
and by many unities collet a quantity (unfitting
without ftiadow : for the real Venues affe& to
be fpecificate ; and as living Fire gives life to o-
ther things : which central fubftance of Celeftial
Vertues or Form of Metais is the Subject of this
fliortDifcourfe.
That Urim and Thttmmim , which were given
in the Mount, cannot be proved that they are the
potential from the Creation, may appear ; for
they werefubftances*,whofe Name aniEffences
did predicate each other , being convertible
terms, the Name andEffence one : the words
fignifie Light and Perfection ., Knowledge and
Holinefs, alfo Manifeftation and Truth , even as
Science and Effence make one Perfection. Jt is
likely they were before the Law given ; for the
Almighty God commanded Noah to make a
cleer Light in the Ark , which fome take for a
Window 5 others , for the arching and bowing
of the upper Deck , a Cubit : but fith the Text
faith, V>aj and night jkall ho more ceafe ; Itfeem?,
it did then ceafe : and whether this were one oc
snore Windows , is uncertain : but when the
Windows of Heaven were opened, and the Air
darkned by pouring out Rain, the Sun not giving
his Light , but prohibited the generative Spiric
of the Creatures in the Ark,what exterior cleer-
oefs could be expe Aed ?
Therefore fome of the Rabbins fay , The He*
irew word Zohar, which the Chaldee tranflate
Nelier, is not found m the Scripture , tut in this
flact
)
4.8 Vrim and Thummini.
place: To that like the word,it Teemed to be a rare
-Light , and that which is generally doubted to
be , The Creator commanded 'Hgah to make by
Art. Other Hebrew Dodtors fay, It was apreci-
ens $tone hanged in the Ark^ which gave Ughsjfi all
living Creatures therein. This the great eft Car-
buncle could not do, nor any precious Stone that
is only natural.
But the Univerfal Spjrjr^ fixed in a tranfparent
Body, fhinej; like the Sunjn Glory , and gives
{Efficient Light? toUl the Room to read by :
therefore it is moft probable, this was the Light
that God commanded to make, to give Light
to all living Creatures : fork is of perpetual du-
rance.
And whereas Tttbal-Cain is faid to be a perfect
Mjfjerofevery AjxificgrJn Brafs and Iron»whkh
fomeTiold 7 doth contain the whole and perfect
deco&ionof theMetallickVertue, wherein the
Central Vertue is moft abundant, and makes the
happy more admired, who walk in the
E&ek. midft of the Stones of Fire ; For
28.1 6. where there are two things of one
Nature,the chief is robe underftood :
Therefore in the mention of Fires , pure Fire is
preferred.
The Scarlet Veil in the Temple feemed ever
moving, and (knified pure Fire , generative and
fixed in deer Bodies , as Vrim and Thttmmim:
Although EfFences are not without great diffi-
culty made manifcft in themfelves , yet the cleer
Vifion thereof^nakes the poflibility unqueftiona*
ble ; as at Elijba9* Prayer, his Servant few the
Chi-
Vrim and Thummim. 4.9
Chariot , andHorfesof fire, about bis Mafter,
which before he fawnoc ; fo are they apparent
when iheinvifible is made vifibie,
Some think, that Urim and Thnm- Exod*
mint were not Artificial , becaufe they 5fc8.3o*
i arc fiid in the Text to be put in the
breftplate, but not to be m ? de : but this point
mty be cleared by obfercb * the feveral kindes
©f making, as betwixt thofe thing*; made
• with hands, andthofe things that are or! v made
vifible by effect: for where natural and habi.ual
Vertue do meet together,the perfection i more
abfolute by a kinde of new Generation , as the
pure Sulphur of Metal, by an inward power doth
purge it felf by ebulition ; not by the firft and
remote caufes , but by the fecond and neerer*
whereof the Philosophers fay, The fecret of aU
fecrets is of fuckaJifpojttion , which cannot be per-
fected with handstfor it is a tranfmutation of natural
things, from one thing to another* Alio it is faid,
The Artifi takes impure Spirits, and by Sublimation^
Nature and i/frt , clean feth them into bodiesjtiz^
Sndjixed: fo that the bodilj Nature doth eternally
"predominate ; and being more then perfect^ doth give
ferfe&ion to other things.
Now that thefe perfections have their begin-
nings from two Lights , both the Text and the
antient Philofophers make plain ; but ignorance
and the matter of the Elements are the Iron
Gates, which muft be cut in pbee s , before the
invifible be made vifible.
For the natural Urim and Thummim, the Phi-
E lofo pliers
50 Vrim and Thummim.
lofophers affirm, what they have feen and done :
and that they did nothing fave that they did be-
fore, and knew : fo that a perfect knowledge is
efpecially requifite to make a perfect Art : there-
fore we are to confider the means to attain to
this end,
The Lord gave Be^aliel Wifdom,Un-
Exod. demanding and Knowledge : thefe
3 x • 3 A* *re tne means : for Gold is diffolvcd
by Wifdom, ia Contrition , Affation,
and Fire. The end is dire&ed to invent work?
in Gold, Silver and Br afs ; which is not to be
underftood according to the found of wards,
but according to the intent of all Diftillation,
to extract the inward part , and manifeft the
central vertue : for where the perfeSion of the
matter is glorious, the perfection of the form is
more glorious.
The Sun and Moon are as the Parents of all
inferior bodies and things , which come neereft
in vertue and temperature, are more excellent :
The Sun's Motion and Vertue doth vivifie all in-
ferior bodies ; and thofe things which come
neereft in vertue and temperature, are more ex-
cellent : the Sun 's Motion and Vertue doth vi-
vifie all inferior bodies , and the pure form of
the terreftrial Sun is faid to be all Fire ; and
therefore doth the celeftial Sun communicate
moft vertue : therefore the incorrupted quality
of pure Sulphur being digefted in external hear*
hath alfo re^al power over all inferior bodies :
for the Sun doth infufe his,1 influence into all
things • but efpecialW inco Gold : and thofe
ttttft-
Vrim and Thummim. 51
natural bodies do never fhew forth their vir-
tues, till they be made fpiritual.
One of the Rabbins faith , They made in the
fecond Temple Urim and Thummim ; to the end,
they might make up all the eight Ornaments ,
although they did not inquire by them, becaufe
the Holy Ghoft was not there ; and every Prieft
that fpake not by the HolyGhoft>$t on whom the
divine Majefty reftexh not , they enquire not by;
him: fo it is with Sacramental Bread, which
hath »o (igniftcation before Confecration.
But thefe men had the fpirit of Be^aliel , and
made thefe natural, fpiritual Bodie; : which fo-
veraign Tin&ure, fome fay, So purifieth^and cauf-
eth the radical humour fo to abound , that the Chil-
dren in the fourth Cjeneration^Ciits fome fay,/ia
the tentfyfhall perceive theeffett effuchperfett health
of their Anceflors.
! Others fay , That if they have oncefinijbed this
Arty andjhould live a thoufandyeers , they might
give what they will* and when they will , without
[ danger of diminution ; at a man that hath Ftrt
\ may give to his Neighbour without hurt to him*
UWarcus Vaffo faid , There was much mor*
I myfieries in the Flamines Ceremonies^ then thej
6 under flood. Vcftifigntfied pure Earth, and inter-
\ nalFire: of which ft is faid , Vefta is Earth and
Fire. Earth undergptth the name, and fo doth Fire:
\VtHisboth*
U S Thus
51 Vrim and Thummiml
"flout is (hewn forth in a worl^done by Fire>
The mighty Vdta,*»^ her fare Autre.
■
Philofophy is nothing but the flndy of Wif-
dom considered in a created Nature , as well
jubjeft to i'cnfe, is invifible , and confequently
material ; andWifdomes central Body is the
(hadow of Wifdomes central Effence , and the
moral Interpretation can never exclude the
real effe&s from ocular demonftrationrbut where
Reafon hath experience , Faith hath no merit;
and without Faith there is no knowledge of any
excellent thing j for the end of Faith is Undcr-
ftandiog.
The Rabbins hold every natural beginning to
be either matter t or caufeoftfe matter, *»*•
the four Element^ But here beginnings muft
be well under/Tood ; for there are beginnings of
Preparations , and beginnings of Compofaion*
and beginnings of Operation : for the Artift
was commanded to dTeuie work in Gold \ that
i?,f rom the obje& to the poflibility : for if the
matter be glorious , the farm murt be more glo-
rious: and though the fpiritual Nature be more
operative, yet the bodily Nature mutt predomi-
nate eternally : fo that to make the corporal ipi-
ritual , and thefpiritual corporal , is the whole
fcope of the intention 5 yet the fpiritn?l U not
firft, but the natural : for corruption muit pat
on incorruption, and mortality immortality :
for that which is of sreateft durance, andmoft
abundant in veuuc^oih moft excel in Glory and
Beauty,
Vrim and Thummim. 55
Beauty , and (o fiiteft to make Vrtp* and Tl.nm*
mm : for venter and honour arc in hvjSanftuar/.
B'lt became the greaieft things <*re not done
by ftrertgth,or habit of fingering /as alfo bcraufe
the intellect doth fo far excel the fente : this is
a work of a fecond intention, and the beginning
upon the vertue of Elements ; that is a pure,
bright and deer Water of Putrefa<SHon : for the
peitefHon of eve*/ Art, (properly fo called' re-
quires a new birth , as that which is lowed it
rot quickned except h die : hue here death is
taken for mutation, and not for rotting under
the clods.
Now therefore we muft take the Key of Art,
an i confider the fecret of evcty^th ng is„the
Life thereof: Lifejs£Vapo?7 and in Vapor is
placed the wondcPot Ait : whatfecver hath
heat, agitating and moving in it felf by the inter-
nal Tranfmutation, is faid to live : this Life the
£ rtLt feek* to dertroy , and retiore an eternal
Life, with Glory and- Beauty. T¥\ Vapor is
called, Trie vegetable Spirit, becaufe it is of de-
gree of heat with tfte hoitett Vegetable; and be-
ing decoded till it fhine like bri^hteft Steel, you
fliall ice great and marvelous fecrets , not by the
reparation of Elements by themfelves , but by
predomination ard vi3ory of that pure Fire,
which like the Oleftial Si|n enters not material-
ly ; but by help of E m -r tal Fire , fends forth
his influence and impefltou o* f nn#
Here we mutt obiere d ffcrence of per-
te&ion§.: for although ye have now the Foun-
tain of cosopleat white ; yet yoa arc not neec
E 1 your
$4. cQrim ahd Thummim.
your chief delight, which is the Fountain of
Life, and Centre of the Heart, the universal Spi-
rit,which lives in the radical humidity, and doth
naturally viviftcate , and is the mafculine Seed
of theCeleftial Sun : here is that Rule made
good? Exceptye fow in Go Id J e do nothing* There-
fore we mult tafe heed wnat we underftand by
Gpid, whereof there are three tofts , V"lg*ft
C&qnkaia. and Divine s which is therefore 16
callednbecaufe it is afpcc'ial Gift of God. The
JTheofophifts are periwaded, by exa& diet , and
by certain form of prayers at certain times, to
obtain the Angel of the Sun to be their Guide
and Director.
The Philofophejs advife to take the like mat-
ter above Earth , that Nature hath made Under
the Earth : Others, tofearch the moft precious
treafure from a vile thing : all which is elfily a-
greed, if rightly underltoorf ; for in the lines
following, the fame Author faith , The vile thin?
JLJLon* the Sperm of 'Gold'% cafi in the matrix of
Mercury -by a prime corqmttion. Others affirm
*sfz>och and Ignis to be fuffident for this high
perfe&ion : the which A&och among the Gej>
mans is Stiver ; with the Macedonians , Iron ;
with the Greeks, Utferettty • with the Hebrew?,
Tin i with the Tartars , Brafi ; with the Arabi-
ans, Satttrh; and with the Indians,^/*/. All
which being; diverfe in Nature , are potential in
©ne competition : and by the duel of Smiths, the
Celeftial Gold obuine^th; vi^ory oyer all^the
rejt^ and is made ( tnoii«h7iiot r,Witti hands ) a
body finning like the Sun tofclory , Which is c*)-
led,
%)rim and Thurnmim. 55
led , Ens ornnU frivationis expers , or Thumm'm.
This is the Key that made the pure cleer Foun-
tain, and of it was made himielf ; the fait Wo-
man fo loving the red Man, (he became one with
him> and yielded him all glory • who by his Re-
gal power, and foveraign Quality, raigneth over
the fourfold Nature eternally : but if any (hall
underftand either common or Chymical Gold to
be the fubftance of this facred body, he is much
miftaken^ for a glorious Spirit will net appear,
fave in a body of his own kinde.
Although pure Manchet be made of the fined
Meal, yet Wheat is not excluded ; and fo Bread
is faid to be of the fecond and neerer caules, ra-
ther then the remote : notwithftanding , that
which is made by the effe&,in a fucceffive courfe,
is as certain as that which is made with
hands.
After we fell from unity, we groan under the
burden of divifion,but three makes up the union;
firft temporary , and afterwards eternally fixed.
He that knoweth a thing fully , muft know what
it was, is, and (hall be; fo to know the feveral
parts of a fucceffive courfe , is not a fmall thing,
neither the honor little in the right ule of the
Creature.
Air turned into Water by his proper mixture,
becomes Wood; and the fame Wood , by Wa-
ter, is turned into a Stone.
A Spring in Italy called Clytintts , makes Oxen
whitethat drink it s And the River in Hmgaryy
turns Iron into Copper. What excellency things
may attain by habitual vertue , or what power
-E4 when
$6 Vrim and Tbummim.
when Nature and Art make one perfection,
who is able to exprefs ?
If ycud -foe by Art to have a thing of admira-
ble fweemef- and odor, you will take a fub-
tiance of like quality , to exalt into fuch excel-
lency : the proper quai'ty of Fire and Air is
fwcctnefs; it is but appropriate in Earth and
Water 2 what bodies (hall we finde, where
thefe are moft abundant , to be wrought upon ?
AstheCeleitiai Bodies give no Tincture, yet
they are moft abundant in Tincture. Air is caufe
of Life • (Jl'terwry is coaled AirJEthereahand
truly Hcmogeneal % which doth after a fort con-
geal and fix : it is called a crude Gold^nd Gold
aflRv^j aqd mature CMercury. And although
the crude Quality be coin, and dry ; & feme hold
for the excellency of its temperature,Thai it is all
Fire, or like to ir, whereby it is diffolvT A : how-
ever,!^ ic at large proved , thofe bodies are moft
abundant in pure Fire and Air , whofe proper
Quality is fweetnefs. Therefore thofe are the
fiueftfubjefts to make the molt precious perfume
in the world : and confidering , cleernefs and
brightness is the centre of each thing, and
thofe bodies have both centre and fuperficies
clccr and bright , whenfoever they are purified
by Art , and the bodies made fpiritual , and
thofe Spirits corporated again , they muft ne-
ceffarily be Bodies of greateft or cleereft Light
and Perfe&ion : as one compareth a glorified Bo-
dy to a cleer Lanthorn with a Taper in it , fay-
ing, The more a man excels in venue, the pre Jter
er kffer was the Taper. But the work cannot
be
Vrm and Thummim. 57
bemanifeft without the deftruction of the ex-
terior form , and the reft itut ion of a better;
which is the glorious fubftances of Urim and
Tbummim^ihkh in their being,and Phyficai ufe,
preferves the Temple of Man's Body incorrupti-
ble. Some obfervc not jult difference between
Liquidation and Solution : but ail Corrolives
or violent Operations , Nature hates , becaufe
there can be no Generation but of like Natures,
©either can you have the precious Sperms with-
out Father and Mothers. And although one
Veflel is'lufficient to perfe£t the Infant in the
Wombe ♦ "" yet Nature hath provided fcveral
brcafts to nourifn it, and different means to ex-
alt ic to the flrcngth of a man. How Gold
fhould be burnt, which the^F ire cannot con-
fume, is quellionabie ; but every exaltation of
this foverai°n Spirit , adds a tenfold vertue and
power : then take one pare of this Spirit, which.
is become asinienfible as dud, and upon molten
Gold ic turns all into powder ; which being
drunk in White* wire, openeth the Understand-
ing, encreafeth Wifdom , and ftrengtheneth the
Memory : for here is the Vein of Undemanding,
Fountain of Wifdom , and River of Know-
ledge.
The Truth of every thing is faid to be his in-
corrupted Nature ; for nothing (hall reft eternal-
ly vifible at the laP fire, but that which is of pure
vertue and effential purity. Truth and Science
is not led by chance or Fortune ; but the Spirit
of God guidesjby the Hand of Re^afoj. And
It leems ihcProphetTe^eemof tbefeStepesof
Fire*
58 Vrim and Hoummim^
Fire : fomc meaning the Stone of Darknefs ;
and as it were, Fire turned up: Others, theStone
of Tin ; andE^£/W, the Stones of Fire at-
tained by Wiidom : which he differeth from
the natural precious Stones , as pure Fire from
common Fire. Therefore let mode^y allow
chatpoffible, whereof he underftands not the Iff
termination and degrees : neither refute the
Waters of Shiloah, becaufe they go flowly ; for
they that wade in deep Waters, cannot go
fart.-
To obtain the Treafures of Naturet
IfMah you mult follow Nature onely , who
8,6. gives not the like time to every Gene-
ration •, but as the Mare hath ten months,
the Elephant three ; or, as i'ome lay, nine yeer?,
and fiftvT before conjunction : Be patient there-
fore in a work of Nature ; for thereunto onely
is promiied Vi£tory ; and the chief errors in Art
are hafte and dttlnefi.
The Regeneration of Man , and the Purifica-
tion of Metals , have like decrees of Prepara-
tion and Operation, to their higheft Perfection.
The firii beginnings of Tranfmutation or Natu-
ration , is the fmaiieft meafure of pure Sulphur ,
with both Riches and Honor in the left- Hind,
and length in the right. In natural Generations
the form prepares the matter, yet there are pre-
cedent Preparations. The beginnings of Tranf-
mutation mutt be diftinguiftied : fome arc begun
of Preparation, and forae are begun of Compo-
sition. Beginnings of Preparation , in*hewell
of Tears, doth cjqalific tbecoidnefs anddul-
DCfS
vnm md '1 hummim. 59
fiefs of the crude difpofition , and tame and fub-
due the fearfui quality of fwift flying, and
:hangeth the colour of this eternal Liquour,
turning the infide outward , and adding heat by
the internal Sulphur of the Homogeneal Body,
which is by means of changed Water , becaufe
Water by Water , canonely beextra&ed ; yec
it is excluded in the conclusion: for, though it
beaneceffary preparation to the alteration fol-
lowing, yet is but the fervile and paflive, which
hath the firft operation , being preferved unhurt
in weight and purity,
Beginnings of CcmpqGtion are thofe inward
Operations and Changes , that follow after that
fcalding deluge, whin by mixing with fixed
Sulphur doth diffolve the ftubbomneis of this
Urne ; and by help of the external heat , the
j internal Sulphur is excited by Operation , and
purineth the fublhnce but onely to a pale white*
uefs , more hurtful then profitable to the Body
of Man : what thefe are, (hall afterwards ap*
pear.
A^ain , .Sulphur muft be diftinguiflied : white
Solphur, and living or reviving Sulphur : white
Sulphur is of like Operation, and is perfe&ed by
retraining, and healeth almoft ail difeaies , and
tinman to white ad infinitum.
By knowledge hereof, even meet natural meo
nave befrevfcd the Refurre&ion , become fober,
temperate and patient ; not doubting : within
the centre of cosrpieatewhite, refts the red Stone
of moft delight.
This hath caufed men juftly to condemn all
GOfe
60 Vrim and Tftummim*
Ccmenaaots, Ca inaiions, and Citrinati
ons ; being cnlightned wich the glorious ob-
je& , wnich is as eleer as a Chrilhl Looking-
Glafs.
Reviving Sulphur i< the iecret of fecrets, and
the glory of the whole world , and oreiv pro
per tofuch whom the Creator hath apted b way
of natural difpofition ; for they do not onely
mortific , buc purifie a pure body, qui.kning it
with the frm • eflenual form ; and arc laid to
make a ipirhual Body , because thtre i- no ror« :
ruption ro refill the Spirit ; but the bodily Na-
ture 5 being wholly fubj"6t, is , with thi Spirit,
eternally fixed in a tranfparem Body (hiring as
the Sun. Therefore the concluhon mu'ibe un-
derstood of the fecond,and not of the firit : for
though a man have never fo much wh te sulphur,
if he have not of this reviving Sulphur , he is as
fa from? he precious Spirit, which hath power o-
ver all inferior bodies , as any other : for pnely
that which is of the Nature of the Sun, (hall
(nine like the Sun in glory.
A Synod of Philofophers advifeth us, in feed-
ing; the creatures of Health and Riches, we (hould
(hew affeShons to juftice and Prudence ; like
Solomon^ asking Wi'dom , Richer were given to
him a«? advantage. Let us icarch therefore ce-
leftial V rtue, which is the centre of all things ;
lo will \k be eafie to manifeft the foverai^n Spirit
of Health and Riches : for the vegetable Sul-
phur, is the firft Mover in Nature ; and on-*ly the
Me-curial Nature bath power of McUllieaJ Life
and Death.
Crude
rOrim and Thummim. 61
Crude ^Mercury is originally a vapor frcm
c\tcT Water d\ d Mr, of moft ilron<> ccmpofitica
cotj*ed_; or Air k ielf, with a. Mt rcur;al Spirit
by Nature, fiVins, Etheriai ana H >mo ene \
having the Spirits of heat and cold ; and by
exterior and interior hears, doth congeal and
fix.
Alfo GoIdisafixedFire.or marure tMercury^
tnd may be made more volative then ^Mercury ;
but onely by di v ers ^Mercuries made. Of Mgr-
€*ry is Nature fet on work, the fixed Body
looted, the vegetable Sulphur created , and the
univerial Spirit fix:d. For the Authority of the
ancient Writers , Divine and Natural Reafons,
aflure us, this, and no other is the true ccurfe to
manieft thofe Lights, wherein the Creator hath
heaped up venue and power.
But it*s objected , The Philosophers do n»t agree
tmongft themfelves.
jinfw. Inftruments of divers firings make
fweet harmony, if they be well tuned : bu *:<eir
Readers do rather feek to o^er-ru^ them,
then by painful induftry to finde them con-
fcnt.
Objed. Affirm Contraries?
4nfy*. The Artift his intention is to agree
contraries.
Objed. They exclude Gold and Mercury froj&
xhe creation of the Stone,
j4nfn>. Becaufe their crude marter is frcm the
deftrn&ion of the exrerior foim.
Objeft, They fay, The venue of Element sjstheir_
materials*
j4ftw.
6l Vrim and Thummim.
Anfw. Right in refpeS of their beginnings
upon pure bodies.
Object. *AH their fecrets fprino from one vile
thing common to rich and poor I
Anfw. Precious things corrupred, are moft
vile; and Science is common to rich and
poor, and hath much ufe of Calcination or
Dui*.
Object. No Metal is required to the malting of
the Stone*
Anfw. As no part of man to the niaking of
man.
Object. One thing, one G Ufa oneFurn&eufaf-
fic/enf.
Anfw True,when two things of one kinde are
apted and conjoyned.
O b je£h Out of one Root proceeds white and red*
Anfw. Even as Male and Female from one
Womb.
Object, The Stone U vegetable) animaly arArrn-
*eral.
'■■■ Anfw. Right: joynt and feveral it is faid to be
vegetable , becaufe in thematuration it is multi-
plied in vertue and quantity : it is faid to be a-
nimal, becaufe it encreafeth his own kinde • and
it's faid to be Mineral , becaufe his originaiis-
from Metal or their Mineral. Here we may re-
, member the Biffaop of Otrecht « who loft his life
~for~difcovering his feaet. Why fhould we pre-
"vent the higheft diftfibution, who hath not made
knowledge hereditary , but wrapt things in ie-
cret,that we might difference things in being,
and in being and ufe? Mature is even jealous of
bee
Vrim and Thummim. 6$
her fupremacy, ajnd abhorreth_to fee the fen-
fible before the Tnteile&uai Treafures pre-
ferred. •
This Chews the beginning and end of Art, Lux
fata eft jttftocHmreftu ammo Utitia: Mark what
yefow^for fach is your harvett. Light is fown
on pure Earth ; and fome Grain begins to pun
forth Ears at three joynts, fome at four; but the
Ear never buds until the joynts be grown. And
what vertue this knotting or fixing gives , conri-
der ; for by meditation you may fee ; by Teeing,
you may know ; by knowing , ye delight ; by
delighting, ye adhere - by adhering, ye poflefs ;
by poffefling, ye enjoy the Truth : that is, the in-
I corrupted ufe made vifible. Therefore take heed
hew ye value: for,
'Part of the fe things thy minde may prompt thee toy
And fart thy better part may teach thee how to i§*
The making of Urim and Thttmmim , and the
\ perfe&ion of the Elixir is aptly compared to
r the fourfold Creation of Mankinde r %4d^m
l from Earth, Eve from *Adam, *Abei from both,
I and JefusChrifl from a Virgin : j|p man called
alivingftoggxproducetb that eternally ftonv and
fiery conquering Spirit called the Elixir, from
I their proper Earth only, their t/fdam from rheir
Eve, from both their Virgo, from her only the
I foveraign and univerfal Spirit , whic^ doth vi-
vifie and preferve all living Creatures, and
raifeth the Artift from the duft to fit among
Princes.
Life
6% Vrim and Tbummim.
Life without fious yvifdom manifeft in the flefti;
a Body without (hadow , is the universal Spirit
corporate. Urim and Thnmrn'tm were holy Signs
within the breft-plate to enquire of God in the
Temple. Natural Urim and Thummim is a
vifiblc quality in a eleer Body , which pre-
fcrveth the Temple of Man *s Body incorrup-
tible.
Is it not prophetical, that all men (lull wifely
confider the works of God,to the end they may
know how to value them rightly, and to make
juft difference between corporal
FfaU ^4. p. and fpiritual things , and corpo-
Pfai, 1 11 . 8# rate Spirits ? for although Spirits
poffefs no place, yet they fail not
to fill every part, by contact of their vertue, and
in the ufe alters. both quality and quantity : the
perfect and diftin & knowledge whereof , doth
neceflartly manifeft the things fought after by
,ihe proper and appropriate qualities ; and from
the caufes to the effect , openeth the internal
Beauty of a true and natural Effence, as plainly,
as by feeing that yc fee ; and alfo fneweth the
terminate , privative and perfe& end of every
particular a&: which is the richeft of intellectual
Treafures, becaufe Science and Effence are one ;
and where the feveral works, andTucceKive
are apparent, the time need not be limited
(like the men of Bethnlia^) for onely at Eltjh*
his Prayer , his Servants eyes were bpened to
fee invifible things , which all that rife to glory
(hall do.
It was held of old, Nothing defirvts the love of
an
V rim and Thummim. 61
0m honefl wan, fave the internal Beauty : Therefore
they held Love or naturalAfFe&'on to be the firft
cauie^or motiocrlike as the heat and vercue of the
Sun, and of the whole Heavens, hath power in
ail things created under Heaven , and by their
Influence and Rfdiation , all things encreafe,
grow , live and are conferved ; and by their re-
cefs, they mourn and wither, fall and droop ; yet
they do not neccflitate any, all their force being
inoft in imperfect things ; for a body of equal
temper receives little alteration from the Con-
ftellations , becaufe the Earth received vertue
before the Heavens were adorned with Sun,
Moon and Stars : Therefore that is to be diftin-
Iguifhed inReafon : iois diftant in place , and
I different things in being, and in being and ufe :
[for change of quality brought confufion , and a
better change Renovation.
Hiftorians affirm, The River Nilns vaporeth
not, by reafon of the long decoction under the
Sun , yet is the Water moft wholeiom and Me-
dicinable;and the Neighbor earth begins to en-
creafe in weight the feventeenth of June, ( and
not before) even then when the River begins to
rife: which fympathy of the diftant Water and
Earth , by the power of Heaven , is not againft
Nature,although beyond ordinary reach. There-
fore for a leading caft, let us obierve the concord
of Metallical Bodies ; which, like the firft Male
and Female , have not feveral beginnings , but
are all from a Sulphurous vapor , which, by help
of Influence, Inftrumen^Digeftion* and Mafcu-
line and Feminine vertue, connexing proper and
F ap-
66 Vrim and Thummim.
appropriate qualities, they obtain their per fe&i-
on by the power of God t Ordinance : yet as
every Earth yields not like Metal, fo every Me-
tal yields not like central vertuc : Therefore ac-
cording to that creating command , every thing
(hould encreafe in its proper letade , (not in di-
verfe)and time makes the number infinite.
The Ancients reading the great Volume of
the Book of Nature , finde no abridgement to
aiSmilace the Majefty of Nature , fave Man and
the Stone ; both which are called,Living Stones :
whole original Mortification , Purification, and
difficult Exaltation, are of infinite vertue.
Then ©bferve alfo a Celellial and Terreftrial
Sun , which they parallel with Man , which
becaufe they onely are capable of true* temper ,
which is certainly pofiible, although feldom
enjoyed.
But to gain this precious Treafure of Life and
Health , we muft make fufficient provifion, like
men that do deal with great perfons ; for Gold
is Lord of Stones, and nobleft of Metals ; and
by his proper Regiment, doth multiply himfelf
infinitely. Therefore Geber in his Book of 2)*-
rniddtion^ faith, In Geld, are ten farts heat, ten farts
ksmidity^ten farts ficcity : which triple perfeSi-
on makes an absolute unity, Body, SouU and Spi-
rit , being eternally vivified , becaufe unity is
a generical quality of all that is one , and is a»
effe&of the Form which doth produce it: for of
allkindeof Governments, ten is the moft per-
fect : and for the natural fubftance, no compofi-
tion is like to Gold ; for it is a moft perfect
temper
Vrim and Thummim. 6y
temper, and equal mixion ; ihe miracle of .Na-
ture, a Celeftial Scar, a Terreftrial Sun,the Foun-
tain of Life, the Centre of the Heart , the fe-
crec vcrtueof all Celeftial and Terreftrial Bo-
dies , the Mafculine and Univerfal Seed , firft.
and moft: powerful of the Sulphurous Nature,
the great Secret of the Aimignty Creator. It
hath moft Form and Entity; fo moft Vertue and
Operation : in it the Elements ate elementized.
It is called Sulphur, and Sulphur-Fire : yea, it is
faid to be all Fire , or like to that in which it is
diffolved. #And as Light is the Centre of Hea-
ven , and Soul of the World , fo Brightnefs is
the Centre, and Celeftial Vertue , the Form of
Gold ; whofe admired mixion, nothing meerly
natural can ditfolve , nor any thing artificial, ex-
cept it agree with it in matter and form , and
do remain with it in the recongealation. This
vertual Influence, enters potentially, and dwells
in the radical humidity ; and no other thing,
whether from Heaven or Earth, doth nourifh the
Heart : yet it is not vifible, before vertue be
matched ; for there is beft concord , where it is
moft abundant : but whither (hall we mount to
aa atch this miracle of Nature >
i The Hiftorians tell us of an eternal Liquor of
I ' notLftrong Coa&ion > rained down fromHea*
ign: here is like descent : Ihe is called Hyperion)
a orDaughter of the Sun , a Body of like weight
' ind vertue with Gold ; fair,cleer, quick , only
/ :oa&ed and brought from the Empire of humi-
^^T* to fuitthe perfon , which in her crude
' Mature (hews ftrong Affe&ion, and turns
F 2 the
*I
68 Vrim andThummim.
the nobleft of Metals into her own colour.
Therefore the Artift ihidies how to difponfate
thefetwo.
And firft denudateth the Lady of her frofty
Garments , that (he may have the firft a&ivity,
and liquefie her fettered Lord : then are they
both in the power of Art to better*
It is obje&ed , 7hU Heaven-born Hermo-
da&ylus or Hy drome], is of a Nature fo obftinate
and incorrett , jbe will b) no means receive thebefl
imprejfion.
Confider, Her names fignifie.mXt matter of
contrary quality , therefore may be feparated :
and although her original obfeure condition,
becaufe it is unknown by the innate affe&ions
and fubfiftance ; for it is an Airy Body , or Air
itfelf with Mercurial Spirit, fubfifting of inter-
nal heat, and external cold. Others fay , It is
compofed of the Spirit of the World, corporate
in the womb of the Earth , and apt to receive
the qualities and properties of all natural
thing?, as wax imprefiion ; and being compofed
of Spirits , the weight is of greater wonder.
Others fay , It is a crude Sperm not furficiently
decoded, (yer not to be profaned.) Others call
it an immature Gold, which kills it felf, and the
Father and the Mother, to bring forth a pure In-
faritT'Kyhefthey overcome the Fire : flbe is the f
perfe&ion of the Univerfal Medicine : whtt j
Conformiry, what Similitude, what Identity
(he holds with the Metallical Urne , being the I
original matter aed lubftance thereof, and may
be coagulated to the equal temper of Gold, is \
as I
Vrim md Tbummim. 6p
as the whitened in Snow. Therefore the An-
cients magnifie the moft Bleffed , who created
fuch a fubftance , and gave it fuch properties
as no other thing in Nature doth poffefs ;
yet we fee it is a virions matter , which hath
fuperfluoas Humidity , proper and appropriate
Qualities , feparable and inieparable Accident?.
Therefore the feparable may be removed: to
which end, (he is included in a Well of Te^rs,
that the Watrinefs may be vapored , or
through long DecoSion by Drinefs vanquish-
ed.
Then doth it, as it were, congeal, and
fix , and become more apt for durance
and extension : for whatfoever is contrary
to the natural , doth debilitate ; and like by
his like , is nouriflied : but heat is contra-
ry to cold, and the natural property of fcalding
heat , is to weaken and dry. The fre(h Wa-
ter adds power and heat : heat augmented be-
comes Fire ; and Time turns Strength to Cor-
ruption.
This glutinous fubftance hath natural heat,
from which is the Life and Death of the Ele-
ments.
Therefore as common Fire bringeth all things
to his own Nature , fo the external working
upon the internal heat , it doth neceflarily ob-
tain victory.
Therefore if you can believe that heat and
drinefs (hall overcome cold and moifture, that li-
near/ and fucceffive courfe , hidden to all the
F 3 world,
jo Vrim and Tbummim.
World , is open to you.
Therefore, as Nature delights in Con-
cord , fo the Lovers and Searchers into Na-
tures Work , mult be of conftant mindes , and
Gideon-like refolve to race the Cicy LMeroz, ,
not refufing to affift the publick good, and
then the Marriage: for the Princefs never un-
masks her Virgin-Beauty , except to him that
hath skill and power to efpenfe her in a bed
of Love ^ which none can do , before the de-
spoliation of the exterior form : but the Ob-
fiacles removed, and Nature fet on work,
the exrernai Decree doth neceflitate the ef-
fe& : for being now warm , and blyth , and
apt for new Generation, and pounded with
her Lord , grated to Duft , his unnatural foft-
nefs deceives the fenfe , and they paffionately
condole each others Exile, and in their im-
braces fall in a found , until their dhTolved
Bodies fhew corruption ; and the more pure,
being corrupted, are more vile.
The Artift finding them out of their Indi-
an Taradife, corre&s their central virtue-, and
raifing them from the Earth , leads them the
thorny path to threefold happinefs , and by
fiery trial, purifieth the Quantity, and changeth
the Quality , and fo brings them to pcrfeft rett,
whereby they have power over the bodies of
Men and Metals , and are crowned in token of
their dignity and boundlefs Territories.
Now
Vrim and Thummim. 71
Now conGdering the rarity of true Know-
ledge, the Honor and Dignity of things de-
fired . what Spirit is fo ignoble to thinl;
much either. of Coft or Time, when that
which is fought is of all Terreftrial Treafure
mod excellent !
finis.
F +
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An Appendix of the Vermes
and life of an excellent EC*
fenti^l Water made and ap-
proved by Stephen Trigge^
Student in Phyfick and A-
ftrology - and by him gained
and experimented at <tAm~
Jierdam^nd alfo in London.
IN all manner of Fevers , both PelVilential
' vand ethers; Calentures , Apoplexies, and
all Epidemical Difeafes , it is a perfe^ and
certain Remedy : and in Quartain and Quoti-
dian Feavers , where the Difeafe arifeth from
Choler.
It perfe&ly remedies the Bloody Flux, and all
other Fluxes , either of the Stomack or Belly,
Vomiring, Scowring, and Excoriation of the
Bowels : and where the Stomack is fpoiled for
want of Appetite , this is a lure Fortification ;
for it wonderfully firengthens the Stomack, both
the vital and animal Spirit , and mightily fuccors
the
(tAu ^Appendix. y$
the Heart that is oppreffed with heat : And,
being taken in Aqua UWeliJfie , it doth fpeedily
help the extream beating and panting of the
Heart : Convulfion-fits and falling Sicknefs , ic
curcth fafely andfpeedi'y, and all manner of
heat breaking out in the Face , and any ether
[part of the Body; being either caufed by the heat
[of the Sun, or by tome noifcmc Food taken into
the Body , that doth caufe putrefaction of the
BicoJ.
The way to take it is thi?:in a burning Feaver,
take of it in Planten- Water , if there be loof-
i nefs in the Belly , and fweeten ic with Syrupe
of Clove-Gilly - Flowers : and drink it as your
conftant Drink, till the Feaver is abated,and the
Appetite recovered.
In the Calenture, Drink-it in Ba!m-Warer,be-
ing made far fharper then white-Wine -Vinegar,
and mixed with Syrupe of Cowflip-Flowers : it
muft be drunk very often, till the fenfes come,
and the Patient remain cured : which will be in
few dayes ; for it penetrateth the Blood, makes
it thin,quencheth the Feaver, reviveth the Hearr
and Brain , and quickneth all the digeftive Fa-
culties.
In the Apoplexy, take it in Betony- Water, and
e/^#4 P/i<*,with Syrupe oSStcecha: take the Dofe
as » the Calenture ; or ttronger,if the Patient be
able to bear it, and it (lull be holpe in forty eight
hours, or thereabouts.
If there be any thing in this World, that will
preferve Man , if the Slafs of God's detertnina*
tionbe not quite run cuuthis will help.
Though
74 -«» Appendix.
Though he be lame over all- his Body , his
Senfes gone, his Speech 16ft , and to the judo*,
merit of many,as dead ryetthis precious Liquor
will in a wonderful manner reftore them fpeedilv
and lately. J
In the Scurvy, Canker, Squinancy and Inflam-
mation of the Uvula , this doth excel all ordi-
nary Medicines : for ir doch after a wonderful
manner quench all Inflammations, and temper-
eth well the Blood and the Spirit: as,
In the Scurvy,if it be all over theBody,and mofr
of the Teeth be putrefied, and ready to drop out,
and the Gums very much fwelled and annoyed,
take a little of this Oyl once,and dip a littleLiac
in it upon the end of a Probe, and lightly touch \
the places with it, and rub the Teeth all over ^
once: then drink the decoaion often for eioht or P
nine dayes together, being made very (harp in f
Egnmony- water: and the Patient (hall be af- I
furedly holpe , although he were judoed paft
cure. . If
InConvulfion-fits, put it either in Cowflip- !!^
flower-water, or black Cherry -water, and mix tf
it with Syrupe of red Poppy , and it is a fure
help.
In the Falling-fcknefs , mix it with *A*ha £-
pi/epticMfind Syrupe of Pionies, and give it often,
and it is a fure help, though the Patient hatfa J
had it many yeers.
In an evil Stomick oppreffed with Heat and
Wmde,andlofsof Digeftion, mix it with Con-
serve of red Rofes, and a little Mithridate.
In all loathing of the Stomack, and debility
and
&An (^Appendix. 75
id vomiting, give it in Mint-water, with Syrupc
: Ciove-Gilly-Flowers.
In all heatings and burnings above Nature, as
e<5tick Fevers , and the like ; mix it with Barly-
tter, and Syrupe of Violets.
In all Lotions for the Mouth or Throat , mix
with Planten-water and Hony of Rofes.
In all manner of Purges that arefullbme , and
fiFending the Stomack wi*h their noylbmnefs
wo or three drops of this Liquor put in , doth
iOt onely amend that , but it doih alfo corre&
he working ; fothat it fib all not corrode, nor
iurt the Stomack nor Bowels by bis working.
Thefe and many more Venues hath this wor-
hy Medicine, in working internal Cures, too
nany to relate , unlefs I here meant to write a
/olume thereof: But I ftiall here leave the relt
:o the Experimenter, and fpeak fomewhatof
xternal Cures done by it.
As firft, In all manner of Ulcers, old Sores,
Fiftula's , or Gangrenes, Cancers, and Cankersj
2^//' me ta#£*rv,Impofthumes , or evil Puftula%
proceeding from Morbus Cjallicpu^ great Car-
buncles, and any other not here related ; I (hall
commend this Soveraign Medicine, but yet very
flisrp and biting, though found, pure and perfe&,
and doth immediately help its own biting and
I gnawing. The order to ufe it, is this : it doth
I both cleanfe , incarnate, (iccatrize,confolidate,
and foder up the Wound, and drieth it, that there
fall np accidents : for it doth marvelloufly defend
either from the Humors flowing to the Sore , or
from all Inflammations which do often happen,
if it
1
it!
tin
j 6 An Appendix.
if it be not this way defended.
In a great and dangerous Canker in the Mouth,! '
there where they feem rotten , and very much :i
eating into great holes , either in the Root of ^
the Tongue, or Roof of the Mouth there where
it is.
Take a little Lint , and dip it in this Liquor, ?'
without any addition , and lightly dotheSore ,
ail over : then let it remain twelve hours ; then %
do it again as you did before : the fmart will be {?
tedious for a time, but it will bs over in an hour
or lefs.
With ufing this two or three times , the Mat- *
ter or Core , and all the putrefied fubftancc will
fall out : then once more touch the place , and
there will no more Cankerous nor corrupted
Flefh ingender there ; for it will defend ic :
then make a Lotion to wafh it with Planten-
water, or Hony of Roles, and make it fljarp with
this Liquor, and wafh it two or three times a
day : then make an Emuliton to drink with E-
grimony-water and Syrupe of Violets , and
drink it morning and evening ; and in nine dayes
the Cure will be perfected : and with this order
you may cure all thefe Difeafes and Sores above
mentioned. But you muft underftand, That the
more dangerous the Sore is,and the fuller of cor-
rupted and dead flefh it is , the longer the Cure
will be before it be perfe&ed.
Alio for Ulcers which are great, old and dan-
gerous, in the Legs, where the humors are apt to
flow, there this Oyl excclleth all other Medi-
cine*.
Take
An Appendix. yj
Take this Liquor, if it be a Gangrene that
atsahands-bredthinaday , this will aflurediy
ieai , and feparate the bad flefafrom the good,
nd bring quicknefs again in the gangrenated
>art 5 and defend the good flefh from being
©uched with this venemous eating Malady.
Inhere you finde fuch a defperate cccafion, take
he crude Liquor , and moiften it very well with
t,& fo let it remain 1 2 hours :then do it again,and
iet it reft as before: then do it again ; & at 3 or 4
:imes,it will make feparation,& prefervthe good;
I 8c all that is gangrened will come away together.
And you need not ufe any Inftrument to fcale
Jthe Bone • for this will do it of ic feif , and yet
[not hurt in the leaft : as feme may conceive,that
do not know the true Operation thereof.
But when there is reparation made, then touch
the part afflicted once more with this : then
make a Lotion to wafliit; with Planten-watet
and Honey of Rpfes , being made a little (harp
with this Water ; and make a Salve of Candle-
greafe dropped in water, and Bees-wax,of equal
parts,and fpread it upon a linen-cloth, and apply
itasaPlaifter.
With this thou flhalt perform great Cures, in a
fortnights time, which otherwife may not be
cured in a quarter of a yeers time.
Thefe , and many more are the Vertues of
ibis excellent Liquor , experienced very well by
Mrs. Jordan of Sowewlde in Suffolk^ Daughterto
Do&or Barnes of Amfterdam , and by me Stefhon
Trigger over a°ainft Baymrds-Q&\e.
This Medicine is now prepared, and to be had
at
78 An Appendix.
at the Houfe cf Mr. Hepburn Minifter,in the Car-
penters-yard in Little-Brittain.
Where arealfo prepared excellent Pumiciis,ta
cleanfe and whiten the Teeth,fatten loofe Teeth,
and make the Breath fweet.
Lozinges for all Coughs, Tifltcks , Afthma's,
Confumptions,or the like : which are alfo to be
had at Mr. Moons fhop at the feven Starsin Pauls
Church-yard, with Diet-Drinks , Electuaries,
Pills, &c especially , for all Venereal Diftem-
pcrs; by
^o;a t£ ©5f .
Th(
*
19
The
SECOND PART
O-F.The . • -- -
MUMIAL. TREATISE
TE^J°ZELIVS:
Being a natural Account of
The TREE of LIFE,
And of
The Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil.
With, ;; _ "~L
A Myftical Interpretation of that
great Secret,to wit, The Gaba-
liftical Concordance of the Tree of
Life & Death, of Chrift & Adam.
Tf Having committed to the World fomePre-
L cepts and Examples about Mumy fpiritual,!
ML hold it no Solxcifm to anne& this Pleafant,
though Myftical Treatife , Of the Nature of the
Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil : fof
they being_pbfcure , this h a Lamp to dilucidate
them,
80 A natural Account
them , fcarce credible , Authority to vindicate
them, and apparently falfe Teftimony, fufncient
toverifieihem.
Now whatever knowledge we have of this
Scieniifical Tree, we decerped it from holy Writ,
which faith Cxprefly,GWf. 2 verfg. That the Tree
of life was in the mid ft of the Garden ; and zlfo^the
"" Tree of knowledge of good and evil ; and , That
thofejh^jeat oj the jruit thereof] fhallbe at God%
infao^noww<r food and evil. To which thePer-
fon^ot the Matter, (ipeaking to the reft of the
Godhead) attefls, faying, LoyAdam u as one ofus^
knowing good and evil. Which Elocution of the
tri-nne God, may not bethc^ghfc-ifO"nical , as it
might at the firrt^gkflTeHeem to be ; Seeing
then a double and contrary meaning (h.ould be
Ji^pjiedjnthe wordr« as if God hadJhy a mental
Kefervation^ hinted one thins ; and by an oral
Expreflion, declared another : pronouncing that
for verity » which could be taken for no other
-then fiat tallitylbut let God be true : for though
orvAdaws part it be Metaphorical,in all other re-
fpecTs it is categorical and affirmative : as if God
hadfaid, Becaufe Adam? by the enticement of 1
the Serpent , hath eaten of the Tree of Know
ledge , and thereby acquired the knowledge of 1
Good and Evil ; not that that is competiblc
oncly to the Deity, but that that is Philofophi-
cal and Communicable' ; Loj, he is a* one of ju »
that is , he emulates the Qmnifcients Panfophy
in his Meafure and Degree. Yea, God the Son
elfcwherc ufes the like Elocution , The Qphtrcn
•f this world are wifer in their fenerations then the
1
N
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it
fo
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of the Tree of Life. 8 1
difdren of liphu And that this Interpretation
is true, the following words evince irrefragably ;
mdtherefore he thruft him out of Parody left
snowing the Nature and Facultie of the o-
her Trees , he fhould put forth his hand , and
ake alfo of the Tree of Life , and eat, and live
ior ever.
If then the Faculty of the viyifical Tree was
jue, and fuch a Tree truely natural exifted , as
lad power to confer ettf&fotar , immortality to
r$ Takers, (as without doubt it did) the Faculty
)f this jfcientifical Tree mutt alfo be true, and
io way feigned ; and I need not urge , I think,
rhat Adam and Eve would never have believed
he Serpent to iheirruine, if the light of their
Sature had not alfo difcovered the Fruit of this
rree to be fcientifical. It is therefore true and
mpraegnable , That this Paradifaical Tree was
ndued with this fame Faculty of giving know-
edge. So that the Queftion will now be,Whe-
Jier this Faculty was infufed into it in theCre-
ition, acquired by it after the Creation, or com-
nunicated to it by fome other means and way.'
\nd to loofe this Gordian knot , Hie labory hot
pus eft. And here alfo the Scripture (though
bmewhat obfeurely) points out a mean to re-
blve this Quaere : the words are thus , 7 be Ser~
*nt was morcfubtil then any haft of the ftela\
*hieh the Lord <jod had made. Which words
ire here inferted for no end, that I can finde, un-
efs they portend fomething of moment in this
natter. It is further obfervable, That the De-
vil came not to Eat in form of an Apple , but of
8 1 A natural Account
a Serpent, which he knew for fubtilty worthy to; fc
be preferred before allBeafts, which alfo Sve\ n
judged to have fpoken naturally. It is moreover 1
alio probable , That the Serpent had his Cavern d
under or about that Tree ; whereof, God being, g
in no wife ignorant , forbade man the ufe o{ its]
Fruit.
Moreover it is confiderable , That in things
obfcure and dubious , that Explication mul^b€
admitted, whereto Senfe,Reafon,and Experience j0!
give fuffrage^ if it fpeak not contradiction to the,-
Rule of Faith. Who is he then that can con-
ceive ? or what Diver into Natures fecrets hath L
met with the like Myftery ? that he can by fome ,f|
weak refemblance evince the World,how by the
eating of a fingle Apple, her children may fuck in
more then humane Knowledge. Whereas on t
the other fide, I (hould very much derogate „
from mans prsecellency , if I ihould in the leafti [
doubt , that the acutenefs of his Imelleft , {,
could not finde out a way how this Faculty \
might be acquired : and lb clofe with our Sen-
tence , That this Tree became fcientifical by
way of Tranfplantation from the Serpent 5 that
is, this Tree and its Fruits had both the fpirktial
Effence , and the fpiritual Vermes of the Ser- a
pent, communicated to them , and impreffed in
them, by vertue of the Serpents cohabitation
with them. For in Nature we finde, That many :
Bodies do notonely by their qualities , affeft |«;
their adjacents, but alfo infafe their Vertue into j,
them, &indue them with the fame Faculty.Thus -(
the Magnet doth not onely attract Iron-Rings,; ^
but
of the Tree of Life. 8j
but communicates its Vertue to them > and
makes them Magnetical ; as I can upon Ocular
Teftimony aver. And thus Vegetables may
tranfume and poffefs the Proprieties and Affecti-
ons of Animals, and yet not tranfgrefs the
Bounds cf Nature : of which rank, not only this
Treadle affords us many Examples ; butSmol^
ltHsj2£&<> (who was our Manudu&or into this Ch
pinion ) records fome , and afligns the Rea-
ions thereof, in his Manual of admirable
biags.
Of which fame Argument, Theophraflus alfo
treating in his Book of the origine ot Sciences,
iffirms , That our hairy and white Serpents in
Germany , are indued with fuch admirable^ and
$£p <p\!aivaei&i<t fuper naturally excellent venues^
hat they are and will be of Jpecialufefor the attain*
ment of Knowledge^ both natural and occult. A nd
ie adds further in the fame Book , That the
Ampler fort thinkjhemfelves nothing bettered by this
bis (ervice : and therefore he judges it not
Work worth the while, to caft more Pearls be-
bre fuch Swine , being perfwaded he hath fatis^
5ed the wifer fort.
By what Art then, this incomparable Treafure
nay be effoded, the diligent Searcher of Nature
hall finde , if he ferioufly perpend the fore-
qioted words, and with unprejudiced thoughts,
udicioufly confider that noble £ *"f3$ 7»W^pm
[ito&Stwxfitm, & for this purpofemoft tmly-ufe-
Jul pair of little Books.one treating of Time,the
other of the origine of Sciences : neither will he
have caafcxo fay,He hath-fpem his Oyl,if he take
G 2 tkn«
S^- tt>f natural ^Account
time to confer one of them with the other, and
judge, tr%%\>&* mz* *'*& Tnptf&biFHrpkbjFHrplefat-
caufe, as in the B&ok of Time, the Mumy of the
Microcofm, is diftin£tly handled : the four cor-
poral Mamies, being firft treated of ; and after-
wards, the one effential and fpirituai of the Mi-
crocofme : fo again in the Book of the origine
of Sciences, the fpirituai Mumy of the Serpent,
how ic may be tranfplanted into certain Fruits,
to make them fciehtifical for the good of man ,
takes up the former Treatife ; and the later
is dettined to the corporal Mumies of the Ser-
pent.
And hence any wife man may eafily collet,
That the extraction of Mumy fpirituai , is in all
the fame , and differs not according to the di*
verfity of thofe things whence it is extracted, as
Thtophrafitts (hews in his Book of Time ; where
treating of the fpirituai Mumy of the Serpent,
he gives us an account , how the Ape, by means
thereof, enters league and amity with its utter
Enemy the Serpent : nay, I dare affirm, That he
that hath the perfect knowledge of the Mumy-
fpiritaal of the Microcofm, and its Confequents,
which Theophrafim handles in his Book of Time ,
fliall eafily attain the knowledge of all the kindes
of terpentine Mumy , but efpecially of that
which he accurately delivers in the firft and
iecond Chapter of his Book of the origine of
Sciences.
The way then to get this fpirituai Mumy of
the Serpent, and according to this former Trea-
tife to tranfplant kinwforac Fruits or Grains,
and
of the Tree of Life. %%
and with them co confer ic to ibme man, or the
like, is, p*wt»Va one and the fame with the fore-
mentioned wayes : take then the fperm , that
isjthe Eggs of the Serpent, which are to &yf& £
efflMMt, the Elements and Principles both of
their corporal and fpiritual Mumy,mix them with
fat Earth, and fow ibme Seed,or plant fome Herb
fitteft for your purpofe, in that Earth.
' But for greater efficacies fake , in conferring
knowledge , tranfplant them into fome Fru-it ap-
propriated to the Brain : Plant therefore a Cher-
ry-Tree in this Earth j for fo it will magnetically
attract the Mumiai Spirit of the Serpent into its
Nutriment , whofe Vertue and Quality will ap-
pear in the Cherries ; out of which , by Vnlcaifs
Hammer, that i?, Fire, you may elicite the Spi-
rits,and therewith roborate and acuate th^ Brain,
and no Little advance Knowledge.
This 7V c£iju& 7* opoi vm$vAvt,h<i or feminal
part of the Serpent , may, with like fwecefs, be
tranfplanted into a Vine', out of whofe Grapes
you may afterwards extra& their Spirits ; and
after the fame manner , the Theriack, and all its
Faculties, may, by way of Tranfplant ation , bfc
ioferted into the fame Fruit,which will i>e there*
by made Theriacal.
There is yet another way of tranpltming fefy
pentine Mumy into an Herb,thus :
Take Serpents , and include them in fome
Glafe-Veflcl, till they be fuffocated and putrefied
inta feme vifcid matter , which ekher tranf-
Slant into fome Tree , of unite with fome Earth
t fQj the weption of Herbs for yoar purpofe*
%6 A natural Account
You may alfo by like proceffion, extraft Mu-
my from Serpents and Snakes, indued not onely
with other admirable Vertues, but with that al-
fo that is proper to the Univerfal Medicine ,
which they depofe with their glifcent Skins ; I
mean , that incomparable Remedy for the Mor-
phea, Leprofie, &c. whofe Cure can fcarce be
hoped for from any other Antidote , ( fcarce, I
fay, becaufe I verily think, theEflenceof ful-
phureous Vitriol , will conduce no little here-
unto.)
Take Serpents then, and detra&ing their
Sweat and Collunies from them , cut oft their
Heads and Tails, ( which are elfe of much ufe to
other effe6ts, as well as the other parts) and caft
thole away 4 but put tbeir flefh under the ftock,
amongft the Roots of a Juniper-Tree , and oc-
clude the hole with a knot of a wild© Plum-
Tree : for thus in Winter-time , the Flefh will
by the natural heat of the Juniper, which is tem-
perate, be redacted to its firft entity ; and in the
Spring, the vegetable Spirit of the Juniper, will
attrad the Balfam thereof to its Nutriment ;
infomuch, that its Fruits or Berries, will be in-
dued with moft eximious Faculties , and en-
rich their Poffeflor with a moft admirable and
excellent remedy againft the Leprofie : for which
end,
Tike the Berries of the aforefaid Juniper,
pour warm Water , with a convenient quantity
of Leaven upon them: and thus let them mace-
rate for eight dayes , till they be reduced into
dcc mixed Mafs 2 for which purpofe, agitate
them
of the Tree of Life* 8 7
them once or twice a day : then diftil the Mafs
through a Vefica ; atfirft with a flower, but gra-
dually with a hotter Fire , till all the Spirit be
diftilled. And now becaufe this Spirit is mixed
with Phlegme , it muft be re&ified in B. <JWm
through a Cucurbite , and then again through 3
Phiola ; and fo you ftiail have the true Spirit of
Juniper.
Then calcinate the dead Head into Lees , and
make Salt thereof by Evaporation ; whereof
take one pound , and refolving it in the former
Phlegme , mix it with a Efficient quantity of
good and well - dried Argil , till you may
make it into Paftils ; which take, and diftil in a
clofe Furnace , through a well-beaked Retorta 5
putting a handful or two of the Berries into the
Reptacle. Let your Fire be firft flow , for the
Phlegme ; afterwards, hotter ; and at laft, fo hot,
that the Retorta may be made red therewith :
for fo you may extra& all the Spirits. Make Sale
again of the dead Head , which mix with Argil,
and the fore-extra &ed Spirit ; and then diftil it
again into Spirit:then fo draw this Spirit through
a Glafs Retorta in a dry Bath , that the Phlegme
may be colle&ed apart; and then the great fecrec
J may proceed in Save drops, which you muft (hue
up in a Glafs with the Seal of Hermes^ and then
infolate and repofe it,
And thus you have that altogether praife-wor-
thy Remedy : for the Berries of Juniper being
of thetnfelves fo conduciblctotheCureof the
Leprotic , that they will not onely prefenre from
it5 buujfo in its initiation, profligate ic ; they
G4 *re
88 A natural Account
are now by this myftical Art,and the participa-
tion of the Terpentine Faculty ,fo much advanced,
that they will eafily overcome it in its height and
ftrengtb.
But thus much »f hfaw^nd by the way: now
toourpurpofe.
As therefore the Knowledge of Good and
Evil , was, by the mediation of the Mumy-fpi-
ritual of the Serpent, tranfplanted into the for-
bidden Tree ; fo alfo by the prefidy of fome o-
cher fpiritual Mumy , eternal ianity, or immor-
tality , was from God granted to the Tree of
Life, That he thattafted thereof, fhouldlive
for ever : for which we have God's Teltf-
mony, Gen. 3. who therefore cafttheProto-
plalt out of Taradife, left he fbould fttt forth
his hand , And tafte of the 'Tree of Life, and live
for ever.
And now we cannot expe&, iyy&w'**f<hi&ut9
a written Teftimony , to prove that this Tree re-
ceived its $wB*v*-n4eiV, its power to give immor-
tality, from fome fpiritual Mumy : for k is ob-
fervable , that Scripture in things natural gives
rather a hint then a defcription : for what com-
munity hath ^Athens with Hiernfalern ? yec
Philosophers , thofe Merchants in Natures
Commonwealth , after much toffvng to and fro,
on thefe rugged Seas , arrived at a twofold Port
of Verity.
For, fay they ,this Tree of Life either received this
vivifical faculty, *&<&<> immediately from Cjods
father \\wA™><&ythe mediation offomething nMttraU
And further feeking into Natures Siore-houfe,
they conclude with Trifmegittm , Thu
i
of the Tree of Life. 89
'that it is Gold bj whofe Vat He Life was implant ed
into this Tree ; and this is not w^ d&vaim* im-
pojfible: for (ttnlefi the Almighty ordain the con*
trary)Goid is of vert He fttjfcient to give immortality
to man ; or at leaf: to prohibit infirmity ', till the prB-
deftinated term of his Life be come: and the ufe of this
Tree for this pftrfofe^ was in no wife prohibited.
And it is moreover probable,That the firft en-
tity or Sperm of Gold, may, as other Mumies,bc
tranfplanted into ibme Vegetable and its Fruit ;
by whofe Energy, they may attain the vertue and
efficacy of the Tree of Life : which confiderati-
on is founded in Nature ; for we fee Metals by
the mediation of fome Vegetables, fuffer various
Tranfmutations, as this ftory may evince. A cer-
tain Metal-melter accidentally plucked a flower
out of a Field , which , through negle& , he
let fall into his Caldron , where it turned ail the
melted Brafs into pure Gold without any Drofs •
wherewith the Copper-fmith being amazed , he*
inveighed grievoufly againft theMelter,as though
he had dealt Magically with the Metal. And here,
though we cannot difcern how in the common
courfe of Nature, Metals (hould be thus changed
by the mediation of a Vegetable, yet if 7ii* bwiAs
ttYpa&'o. , with the flrength of our Intellects we
ferioufly and accurately weigh the way and vertue
of Tranfmutation , thefcalesof ignorance will
fall from our eyestfbr as Grapes which participate
not of any propriety of the Theriack, or of a Vi-
per,are by means of Tranfplantation, eximioufly
Thenacal; even fo it is in this cafe,
Theflower indeed in its own N«ture,was not
of
po A natural Account
of power to work this fubftantial Tranfmutation; tfo
but when the fpermatical vercueof the Metal,
was tranfplanted into this Flower , and united itfa
with the vegetable Nature , (for Minerals and lib
Vegetables are not fo different from each other, U
but they may conipirc in fome potential relati- : i
on, and fymbolicai, though occult, affe3ion)then Ci
might the Flower communicate its received ver- fio
tue unto,and work a real change in other Metals* n
and that not by vertue of the Vegetables Nature ids
barely , but of its Metallical Tranfplantation :
And by this means, we may not onely tranfplant
the Effences of other Metals and Minerals,L#/M,
Mars, Jupiter, Venm, Saturn, Sol, into fome Tree,
Flower, or Plant • but alio with their Faculties,
by the mediation of fuch Vegetables , profligate
moft Difeafes incident to man.
But it doth not a little reflect upon thefe my-
fterious Arts and A&s of Prudence, truely Phi-
lofophical, that thofe fluggifh Drones, cut out of
the dung of this Ag<*, as Bacchus of Joves thigh,
who think our Myfteries main vanities, will not
be brought to believe, that the Flower otSalen-
di»ey that SwaUowwort,zxii Gamandrta, wherein
the Sperm of Metals is either naturally or artifi-
cially impreffed, participate of any eximious fa-
culty, or can profligate any great Difeafe : but let
fuch obferve Nature , how ftie is one in divers
things,and various in one thing ; how flie is vege*
tative inMctals,and metallical in Vegetables and
Animals;and fo on the contraryrwhich we having
fufticicntly evinced in our Treatife of the Plague,
wc fhall not further enlarge upon fcj jc»qnbrinT~
chit
of the Tree of Life. 9 1
:hat we do not now declaim,but Philofophize.
Let fuch again attend to thole things that cure
:he Plague,which is a Mineral direafe?ari(ing from
:hc refolm ion of the Arlbical Yliad : how fhould
iny Vegetable conduce to the cure of this Dil-
safe , feeing the Cure muft be Analogical to the
Caufe, unlels fome Magnetical or Mumial Impref-
ion, or fome Agronomical Trarfplantation , be
aaturally or artificially conferred on them by the
mediation of Celeftial Seeds , or by the co-ope-
ration of thisMumy fympathetical and truly fpi-
ritual? without which influence,thofe things they
call Charaaers,were of no efficacy,which yec we
fee by Art and InSuence,very efficacious ; nay,he
that denies this conjunction, muft needs confefs,
that the Queen of the world intercedes,working
ftrong imagination and credit, both in the minde
of the Giver and the Receiver, that thefe are in-
fluenced from above. This kinde of Tranlplan-
tation is natural to Cjamandraa , for the cure of
the Plague; which is moft eximious therein, efpe-
cially in the Climate where it. grows : the like
Celeftial Tranfplantation appears alfo in Arfmarr,
which doth not onely by a natural attractive fa-
culty , but by influence alfo,cure all wounds and
ulcers, teeth-aches , and the like affe&ions pro-
ceeding from the fubtil fluxions of Salt; of which
Herb, Tkeophrtttus hath a whole Book. The fa-
native vertue of the Roots of Succory, is,I think,
artificial, by fome Mumial fyrapathetical vertue ;
a bccanfe, if they be digged up in the houxand day
j of ffew*) when the Smhin Leo± they will, if ea-
) tcnVcure anfwound tKaPHnfeftcd with no fynv
ptome.
pi A natural Account
ptome. The like whereof was of late experienced
by the Magnetiansf as I was in a Letter informed
by a Friend of mine there : thus : A Boy of nine
yecrs of age , was to take the Wood of an A(ht
and looking towards theEaft,cnt it into fplinters;
which done, they ufe it with a form of words to
the cure of all joynt-dolors, as P©dagry,Chiragry,
Gonagry,Tooth-ach alfo;and all kind of wounds.
They rub the teeth with it, and imbue it only in
the blood of the wound, and it cures them all.
And who doubts of the foveraign vertue of
the Sambucus or Elder growing on a Willow, ga
the red in Ottober^ a little before new Moon,and
cut into nine fplinters,but it will cure the falling
ficknefs ? ( Abbas indeed would have the Root
thereof evelled on the Forenoon of St. John Bap-
tifis day , and ufed for an Amulet ) the reafon
whereof, we take to be this: Some Magpy having
before denounced the feeds of an Elder- tree, left
them mixt with its dung, ( which is of efficacy a-
gainft the falling-ficknefs)on a willow,where the
Sambucus growing up, becomes, by mediation of
the Mumy of the dung,a Remedy for this difeafe.
And now, that this Spiritual fympathetical Mu-
my may be helped by artifice, is plain in Paracel-
fuss Zenechdo againtt the Plague ; for though that
lame confifting chiefly of Arfnick , htth feme re-
femblahce of peftiferous poylbn;yet as the Load-
tf one, which hath in it the Spirit of Iron,ftrongly
attracts Iron ; fo this tDiaz,cnechJ having in it thd
»■
agive Spirit ofthe Plague , is by fy^rcouscom-
poITtion, andlormationlnto certain-jfigures wil-
der the Dragons ht*b ot Sgnfion t ( when cither
of the Tree of Life. 9 j
the Sun or Moont poflefs either of thefe Signs)
made a moft excellent deletery agaioft thePlague ;
as many by experience can demonftrate , who
have been cured by its prae(ady,and know its true
manner of formation. Thus the Bezor-ftone re-
ceived power againft Poyfon from Jupiter at
Erft ; but, yet not fo valid, as that it could com-
municate that faculty to others, till by the influ-
ence of Scorpio , under whofe power it muft be
formed into the refemblance of i Scorpions upper
parts : it is not able to communicate its faculty
to Maftick or Frankincenfe. P&onyt which is alfo
called Fhosbea^h very good,but not fo efficacious
unlefs it be uled when the Sun is predominant.
And how famous is that Martial Ring, whicb^
car ried in fome fit place, or rubbed on fome fucri
part, will allay & cure the pains of the Teeth and
Head, the Cramp,Quartain-ague,falling-ficknefe^
Vertigo,Apoplexy,Plague,& other Difeafes? info-
much,that the great capt.of Hetmria commanded
the Inventer thereof, (a Brother otS.Augttftines
•rder) To fell none to any bnt himfelf for fome jeers.
Whereas, if this fame were formed of fome long
Horfc-feooe-nail, pulled out of a Hcrfes hoof on
purpofe, in the hour Mars reigns , it would be
ready to comra& it felf to fit the leaft,and ampli-
fie it felf for the great eft finger as you would.
But the common Theriack alfo, and all things
fablunary,are fydereal; yea, it is Solar^nd there-
fore efficacious againft Povfons, & all epidemical
fluxes : yea, it would be more efficacious, if frost
the obfervations of the heavens,tome opportune
feafon were chofcn for its compofuion, wherein
it
H
A natural Account
it might receive the fympathjeal faculty of the
fuperior Bodies,as PtolomjtfheofhraftHt+AlberttiSs
Mar film* Fixintu, Roger ius% Bacho+'thwrnhenferHS)
Crollita^ and the reft of thofe dexterous Searchers
of Natures fecrets, do all along obferve.
Though fome are of Opinion, That Medicks
fliould not trouble themfelves herein, and there-
fore they adore the GoddefiS 'loth^ inftead of theE*
HJi an fie Ids getting themfelves in their Fools Para-
dife , till fome Patient rouze them out of their
fleep : but that we may not feem too tedious,we
(hall leave this natural, and afcend to a more my*
ftical Tranfplantation , whereby the Almighty
tranfplanted the n«uialTree_ofLife,ftanding in
the Garden of Paradtfe^ into theMafsof Adams
andjtfterwards \r\iSLp^fif tne true and nsyftical
Tree 'of Life ; who was fufpended on the very
wood of the natural Tree of Life; audio refuf-
citates both Adamfind all Mankinde,dead in fin,
to newnefs of life. God is indeed wonderful in
all his works , as we may learn from the ftate of
corruption, and reparation of Adam ^ for-as-4-
dam by tranfgreffion , upon the perfwafion and
enticement of the Devil and Serpent, attra&ed
tohimfelf, death, eternal damnation , and all
kindes of torments, by tafting of the forbidden
Tree ; fo is he redeemed from death eternal,and
received into life eternal , by the Tree of Life,
and Life it felf , Chrilt Jefus.
It is more then probable, That Sibylla prophe-
sied of Chrift, when (he faid , That Adam, being
now ready to die , de fired earneftlj a Branch of the
Bough 'J Life* in Partdife ; and therefore fm one of
of the Tree of Life. 95
his Som thither to fetch one, that he might efcape this
inent death : hit Sen received a Bough from the
rngel ; but in the mean time , Adam had changed
fife -with, death : and therefore hit Son implanted the
Bough on his Fathers Sepulchre ; where, getting fapy
•t grew into a great Tree , andfo attracted the whole
Nature of Adam to its nutr intent.
Now alfo an ancient Do&cr in theEaftern
Country ,and4uBiQiop of the Church,a little after
Chrift,amongft many others , dete&ed this ve-
nerable myftery alfo: Noah (faith he) was com*
manded byCjodjto carry AdatnV tones and theTree on
his Sepulchre into his Ar\ , andpreferve the original
ff Mankjnde: which Noah did with aU obfervance:
and when Noah fent his three Sons forth into three
parts of the world,he divided AdamV bones amongfi
them ; giving his Legs and Feet to his joungeft Sony
his Br eft and Arms to his mtddle Son, and his Head
and Skul to his eldefi , as fuch f acred r clicks of the
Father of Mankjnde,as de fervid to be kept, t*j«ia>Vtfg.
Now his Firfl-born betookhimfelf into the parts neet
Tgrulalem, where he buried Adam*/ Skull in a little
Mountain, which was therefore called Mount Calva-
ry, becaufe Adam '/ falvaria or Skull was there in*
terred\ which the Evangel ft therefore calls Golga-
tha, or , the place of a Skull,; n the fipgular number.
Moreover, he faith, That the Tree of the Tranf*
plantion of Adam, was by remarkable and admirable
Providence preferved , and made into a Crofifor
Chrifts crucifixion , and ereileddireUlj in that place
where Adam'j Skull was buried, to that he who
perpends the matter well, fhall f nde, that whole
tf4m>*s it were, is recoile&ed in and under the
Crofsj
p6 An Account, &c.
Crofs; and fo with an admirable tie, conjoyned
to the vivifical Nature it felf : which, how plea-
fant, efficacious,and full of confolation, let each
one confider : for he that deferved death, is pre-
fent in and under the Crofs; and he that repaired
Life , yea , that is Life it felf, is affixed to the
Crofs ; the true Concordance of life and death,
of afinlefs Saviour, and hnful man ; whereby Life
is united to Death,and Chrifi to Adam,wt with-
out the fuperinfufion of Blood , like Celeftial
dew, for better and more fecundity ; that fo j^ . m
dam and his Pofterity eating of the Fruit of this r>
tranfplantedTree, might be really tranfplantedi
into thrift , and by a certain celeftial magnetiftn
and fympathy, attra&ed to Heaven, tranflated ta
Life, and made Heirs of Happinefs.
Tor which ineffable Grace and Mercy of the Deity,
be rendered, to the Tri-nne God, allPraifey Ho-
nor and Benedtttiony Amen.
FINIS.
i
n
The
§§§§ mmmmm mmmmm
The Preface to the Reader
or Worker.
Gentle Reader,
LEt not thy heart be turned f rem this excellent
Science of t/ilchymy, although it be contemned.
nd made of no account among the rich mm of the
iorld^ that no man hath ever come to the perfett end
vfd knowledge of it , with a number of untrue re-
ntSjto hinder ^m much at in them lieth, this moft ex*
illent and godly Science , the which hath beenji-
ifted\by many perfons^and by this John Fauvere in
faris, the which he left for a teftament to his Sou9 as
r had wrote it with his own hand:but true it isJThat
ivers men, for want of the true knowledge of this
cieuce, have brought themfehes into great poverty^
tifery and contempt of this world* To the which I
nfwer , That there be many things that do let and
'■nder men tofinde the end of any Science-pot onely in
w% but divers others, as Aftronomy, Vhyficl^ , the
| 'ofit of the ufe of the Medicine, with infinite others:
tndfirft , this is the chief eft eaufe many men be of fa
*v/? undemanding , that they cannot perceive and,
nde out the dor kwriting of the Philofophers, which
the caufe that many times they mifithe great be
tfit) that they madejuft account of\ and moreover,
ivers envious perfons have written Books filled with
number of lyes and painted gloffesjo draw the mo ft
ainfulmen which have labored in this Science, unto
ivers errors, to the utter undoing of them , and lofi
f their goods ; the which they have done only ofmeer
H % malke
maliC-e 5 becaufe they did not under ft and the darl^
Writings of the mcft ancient and learned Fathers ;
which is thee an fe that they would never attain Hnto
the depth of this mofi learned Science. Al!o there
be many men that will begin things ,without attending
the end of any one oj them • and fe have left offcon-
fufedly , and fo have not only loft their time, but alfo
con fumed all that they had: which tfthey would have
itegun one thing, and have ended it , they needed not
fo to have done : and then they cry out , and bUme
this Science, which is their own fault. Laftly, there
fo many men that worJ^daily upon receits that they
gather here and thete, without feeing or making that
which they do workj* whether it be agreeing with tht
Nature of the Science, or from whence the receits do
come orfpring,or who have written them ; wherebj
they alfo confume their fubftance ; which is their owt.
fault, and not the Science. $/4nd alfo, God will noi
have the Science wrought by fome men, and yet they
willworl^ it .* and thus they lofe their goods. An
therefore , gentle Reader , if you w ill keep y our fel^
from damage or loft^ fo reai this Treatife over , no
ence but many times ; fo (haft thou fnde the free.
Kernel or Marrow of tht Philofophers , and righ
Science of Tranfmutation of Metals that be bafe
into mofi pure Metals of Gold and Silver. Anc
therefore thinks not the reading andftudying of tht
Science or Treatife to be tedious unto thee,confiderm
the great profit thou (halt reap by it. The Lord grant
that thou maiftfinde it , and ufe it to the honour o
God, and profit of thrift and his poor afflittec
Church,
Raymond LuIIy
&&& sfesfesfesis &&&&
The Contents of the firft Part.
Ghap. i.rT^O prepare the S ah for the red and
JL white Elixir.
G hap. 2 .To make the Elixir to the white work.
Chap. 3 . Of the Key of Sciences , And Proper-
ties of Salt.
Chap.4. The Compofition of the red Elixir.
C hap. 5 .The projeftion with the red Elixir.
, Chap. 6. The Compofition of the Cement for
G*li.
Ghap.7. To make Silver heavy as Gold.
Chap. 8, The difference between the Elixir $
and Pbilofopbers Stone.
C hap .9 . The living and dead S ol and Luna ,
The Contents of the fecond Part.
Chap. 1 ."pHe Compofition of the Philofophers
* Stent.
Chap. 2 . The Elixir of Life.
Chap.3. To fublime Mercury to the red E-
lixir.
Chap.4, To fublime Mercury to the white E-
lixir*
H 3 Chap,
Ghap.5. T'o prepare, the white Stone upon all
Bodies.
Chap. 6. To make the Lutement to all works.
Chap.7. To twderfi and moral and natural Phi-
losophy.
To draw Spirits out of a ponderous Body or Earth
by DijHHation.
Traft, uk.
Upon Saturn-, the Tinfture of Gold^ the Quia-
teflence and Aurum Potabile , and the
matter of the tiniverfd Medicine.
Phi-
E
io;
Philofophical and Chy mical
EXPERIME NTS
OF
The Famous Philofopher
'BJYMV^CD LVLLY.
Chap. I.
Teachcth, how to prepare- the Salt for the white
and red Elixir.
TAke > in the Name of God, great Bay-
jalt as ic is made out of the Sea; take
a good quantity and ftamp very faiall
into a ftone-Morter : then take Cucurbites of
Glafs, and pour your Salt therein : then take fair
Well-water, and let your Salt refolve into cleer
water; being all diffolved, then diftil it b^ Fil-
ter ; that is to fay,~hang a jag Felt or Woolen-
cloath, intheCncurbite ; and let the other
end hang in another Glafs befide it , fee as ic
were under it , that the Water may drop into
H4 ih
104. Thilojophical
it, that the Felt or Cloath will draw out, and
that fhall be cleer as silver : and when that all
the water is dopped over, look to it if that it
be very cleer; if it be not % filter it again into
another Glafs , till it be cleer or Chriftalline ;
and when it is fo, put it into a Glafen Pan, fet it
upon a Sand-Oven, and let the Water vapour
away, till thatlt do come above like unto white-
Salt : then take ftone-pifs-Pots , or Pots made
of Cullen- Earth, Tuch as the drinking Pots be
made of, and put the Water and the Salt that
remain?, therein , and fet upon the faid O/en,
and lee it vapour away • and while that k
doth dry, ftir it with a ftick, till that it be
very dry,othervvayes, it will come into a lump or
mafs : and this being well dried , beat it in a
ttone-Morter very fine , as you did before , and
then put it into a melting Cruce , and let
them into a glowing Oven, or Say-Oven, which
is an Oven that the Gold-lmiths do enamel their
Ringsjln : the Oven being very hot , take the
Cruies that be filled with Salt , and fet them
into the Oven , and let them ftand until they be
glowing hot ; and fee that they be no hotter
behinde then before ,• if they be, then turn them
round with a pair of Gold-fmiths Tongs : put
but one Pot in the Oven at a time , that you
may do them the better ; and when that Pot is
red glowing hot , take it out, and put in another
to be calcined.
And then, when cold , put it again into your
Morter , and break it as fmall as you can , the
ihirej time , and then fet k in the Fire of the
Oven
/experiments. 105
Oven 10 glow as aforefaid , Two or three
times glowing, and breaking of it every time in a
ftone-Morter until feven times , and then put in
into Well-water to diffolve^ill it be all dhTolved
into cleer water.
Then diftii it by Filter , until it be as cleer as
Chriftal ^ then let it again upon your O*
ven to dry , and the Water to vapour until
that it be Salt , and ftir it with a ftick as before-
laid.
And when that it is dry , fet it to calcine a-
gain , as before'aid , in iheSand-Oven; and
wffen that all the Pots that have the Salt , be
all glowing hot, then take them out, and
beat them to Powder, as before ; and again dif-
folve into Water.
Then diftii it again by Filter, as before : this
(halt thou do fo many times, to fay, diffolve imo
Water, and then diftii by Filter , and then con-
geal it into dry Salt, glowing it by Fire : this do
without refting until it come to be fau and that it
will melt upon a hot glowing Plate of £#»**and
if ic will not melt like Wax, you muft dhToive,di-
ftil, congeal, until that it will come to that point
or perfection : and you muft be careful , left:
that it fhould melt in the Calcination ; for then
all your labour is loft. Keep this for a grgat
jjecret : and fuch a preparation doth appertain
to the Salt , that which is the Riches of this
world.
For otherwife thou (halt never come to the
perfect end of any Elixir , without fuch Salt
prepared , as aforefaid , to fay , to the white
Elixir,
io6 Thilofophical
Elixir, nor yet to the red.
Therefore,my beloved Son,he that doth know
the Secrets of this Salt , ( to fay ) his Solution,
bis Congealation , Diftillation and Calcinati-
on,and can well under(tand,knoweth the whole
Secrets of Natural Philofophy , and wife men
alfo ; that is to fay , how and in what manner
he ought to diffolve, diftil, congeal, and cal-
cine. Therefore let not the labour in preparing
of this Salt be grievous unto thee ; for without
great coft you may learn herein, to diftil by Fil-
ter, diffolve, congeal, and calcine ; andtoforjn
all the works that be needful unto thee in this
Science.
So that you come to the principal work, you
(hall not be to feek or to learn : Therefore
bz patient , and leave not off to work, un-
til thou halt brought thy Salt to that pafs as I
h3ve taught thee before , until it melt upon
a hot glowing Plate of Silver, as Wax in the fire :
for without this Salt thy labor is in vain • for it
is the Key of this Science,
Chap.
Experiments. 107
Ch a p. II,
Teachetb with this prepared Salt to make the
Elixir to the white work.
*J*Ake of Salt-Peter two parts, and one pare /^^
of Allome , and djlUl thereof a ftrong ^^
Water,
Then take of your prepared Salt fo much as
you will fee to work, and take as much fine Capel
Luna as you have of your Salt.
Beat your Luna into thin Plates, and diffolve (TvU^t.
into the tfrongWater a part,in a Glafs by it felf.
Likewife your Salt you mult diflblve in the
faid ftrong Water bTlt felf.
And when your Lma and Salt is diffolved in
both Glafles, put the two cleer Waters together,
and note that you put no more Water to the dif-
folution of thefe two matters, then will diffoi vc
them , and you fhall fee your Luna fall to the £M*jtz
bottom of the Glafs, white* like Milk : take the ^^^
Glafs properly, and (bake it in your hand , and
let it ftand, and you (hall fee your Luna as a
greejGL Water, t o life ; above the which you (ball
; pour properly off into another Viol of Glafs:
\ then pour upon it more ftrong Water , that hath
not occupied, and do as aforefaid; putting the
I green Water off in the firft green Water, (haking
it, as aforefaid.
This do until all your Luna be diffolved into
green
io8 Thilofophical
green Water, that no Feces remains ; otherwife,
your work will not b^perfe&ed s and when yon1'
have all into cleer Water without Feces, put the
fame into a Cucurbite of Glafs with a Helm
and a Recipient* and Lute it ftrongly: and when
your Lutement is dry, then fee your Cucurbite
in Balneo, and make faft to the bottom of your
Glafs a round Certel of Lead , like a Fol • and
as your Lutement doth dry ,1b increafe your fire a
little to diftil of the flame , that there (hall re-:
main no more ftrength in it then common wa-
ter : and to know this, pat a clout in the mouth
of the Alimbeck : and when the clout doth begin
to look yellow, pull all the fire out of the Oven ;
for then the Spirits of the ftrong Water do be-
gin to come.
Therefore loo\ well to your work, left your
fire be too hot , that no Spirits come out of
your Water ; otherwife you (hall fail in your
work. Then lee your Glafs and 0;en ftand
and* cool two hours long : then take off the
Helm of your Cucurbite , and have a Cover
of Glafs that may pafs juft in the mouth of your
Cucurbite , wherein yoyr Medicine is in , faft
luted to with Lutement,or with white Wax: then
fet it in your Sand -Chen, or warm A(hes , not
very hot.
Then take fair Capel Luna beaten very thin
into Plates and cut into faull pieces, and put
in a little at a time till it be diffolved ; and when
that is diffolved , put in more till it be diffolved
alfo. And thus let your Glafs ftand in warm
A(hes,and look that no Air go out of your (51*fe
nor Cement, ' This
Experiments. iop
This isourHhing fhall continue until it will
dhTolve no more , but lie in the Glafs undif-
folved two or three days long : and then is your
Medicine nourifhed like a Child in the Mothers
Womb.
Then may you let your Glafs wax cold , and
you (hall underftand, without this nourishing
the Medicine cannot ingender ; and therefore
it is needful that it be nouriftied , that it may gee
ftrength of Generation : and when your Glafs
is cpld,lute your Glafs well with goodLutcment,
that may indure againlt Water , the which I will
learn thee in a Chapter apart , and let tbe Lute-
ment dry by it feif ; then fet the Glafs in Balne*
<JWarid£o putrefiefourty days long to hold it in
fuchaheat, as the Sun in Summer: for great
fire may deflroy your Medicine. Therefore
let your fire be alwayes of one heat : for in
that there doth remain a great fecret of the Me-
dicine.
And within the forty dayes your Medicine
(hall be diffolved ; and if it be not diffolved in
forty dayes , let it (land longer until it be di£
folved : for this is the primeft of all the work :
for the diflbjution is done by heat and moiftwre,
and congealed by heat and drowtb.
This Point being obtained, you have the Key
of the Chamber , and he is bleffed of God that
hath this point.
For this is a token of goodnefs , for in every
Diffblution and Congealation , you do augment
your Medicine and Degree : for the firft time it
will do projection one ounce upon feven , and
diffolve
no Thilofophicd
diffolve and congeal again; one ounce will pro-
ject upon fourteen ounces , and the ihird time
upon twenty eight ounce?.
And fo it goeth forth double in projection e-
very Diflblution and Congealation.
. But you fhall underhand that the Ccngeala-
tion thac cometh of warmth, is no perfect Con-
gealation j but it ought to congeal in the Glafs
or in the Ampule with heat , (to fay) [tending in . ■ '
warmAfhes : and therefore, whenas your Me- K
dicine is diffolved in your Glafs , let it cool ;
then take it our of your &*/**?, and dry your
Glafs.
And look well to your Lutements that they be
clofe, without any clefts to let out the Spirits ;1
then fet it in your Sand-Oven in Afhes : then -Z
put fire in your Oven , and let your fire be no L
greater , then that you may hold your finger in
theAfhes : and fo let it (tend twenty four hours
tocoftgeal ; if not congealed in that time, you
may let it (tend longer ; and when you fee that
it is congealed, give God thanks , and rejoyce ;
for it is ready to do projection in this manner.
Take to prcjeS; on ,
Fair red Copper the beft that you can get,
and take from him his rednefs , which ferveih
not in the work : the which you (hall do after
this manner.
Beat your Venn into thin Plates , and ait
it in fmall pieces,aod anoint them with this pafte
or pap.
Take white Arfnick and grinde it on a Mar-
ble-ftone with Oyl of Tartar , that it be thick
like
«!
Experiments. In
ike Pap • and with this matter anoint your
Copper) Venus pieces : then take great Bay-fair,
nd put iome part or* ic into a melting - Pot
>ottom,and lay your (Copper) Venm pieces upon
hat : and then Salt upon ihem^nd (Copper^T-
ihs pieces upon that, Stratum fvper Stratum ,
till all your Pot is full : and uppermoft in
our Pot , let there be a good quantity of
ak : take a tile-ftone , and make a round Cover
or the Pot, arid lute it weli too ; and when
he Lutement is dry, fet it in an Oven in
of Calcination for twenty four hoari
Then let it cool ; and then break your
>ot open, and caft the matterthatisinyouc
Pot in warm Water, and ftir them with your
tfand , until the pieces be clean , and that
he Water comes frefh from them. Then
}ry them , and beat them in an Iron Mor-
:er , fo fmall as you can. Then put your Ve-
tus9 fo beaten, into a Canvas Bag that is fowed
:lofe up, and round like a Ball. Then take
Fat Clay that is mixed with hair , and there-
withal ftreak over your Bag , thinly , that ic
may dry ; and when that ic is dry, flreak
it over and over again , as it drieth , until
your Clay be as thick as a Pot.* Then, when
/our Clay is luted faft about your Canvas, take &
fatil wooden Pin , and put through your Lute-
ment into the Bag , that the fmall end may re-
main within the (Copper )Venut.
Then put the round Ball of (Copper) Venm
into another melting- Pot, the wooden Pin
down-
HZ Thilofophical
downwards ; buc you muft remember top
among your beaten Venm9 Sandever^Verne^Salt-
peter^ (Ana?)
Then fee this Pot in a wide Furnace to melr
and the Venn* will melt and run out into the
Pot, wherein it doth lie : and then the'
Venus (hall be fair and white like Lma , and
fhall be profitable in this work : the which,
without this work of Preparation, would not be
as you fhould do your projection.
Take feven ounces of this prepared Venm%
and put it into a melting-Pot , and flow it in
the higheft degree of fire that you can, in a wide
Furnace : then put to it one ounce of fine
Capel Lima ; and when it is melten , as afore-
faid , put to it one ounce of your Medicine
or Elixir, and nimbly (Ur it with a woodei*
ftick ; butletnolroncomeuntoit: and when
it is well corporated, then take it out, and
caft it into an Ingot ; fo you have the beft
Lnna in the World, to abide all Proofs and
Examinations • and it is far more fine then
that that comes out of the Earth. When you
have finifhed this Work , give God thanks, and \&
remember the poor.
I Tuui i* I tcvtL
Ghii
Experiments. 113
Chap. III.
Of the Properties of -the Salt, how it is the
Key of this Science.
MY beloved Son , although our Salt be the
principal Key of this Science , yet can
he not do any good , although he were made
melting as Butter, without joyning with his Sol
or Luna ; otherwife , there is no Generation :
therefore he murt be prepared by himfelf , and
then joyn unto him Sol or Luna , before you do
any proje6tion upon any imperfeft Metal , to
make them perfeA.
But when you have prepared him by himfelf,
and after joyned fine fapelLunA with him, as
fore written in the other Chapter • then mud
the Body that you will project upon, be made
clean as aforefaid , and thgn made living with
Luna joyned thereto.
I For all unperfeft Bodies be called dead, faving
Sol and Luna : they be called living, and full
made ; and the fame living Body that we caft on
him, or proje&ion withal, we call Featen or Fer-
ment, and that doth make our iaiperfe& Body
perfeft ; and therefore they muft be all three
joyned together , or elfe there will be no Tranf-
mutation. Thns I do (hut up the Compofition of
the white Elixir, and now will begin with the
red Elixir,
I Chap;
:t
;
n^ Tbilofophical
Chap. IV.
Teficheib) The Compofitioa of the red
Elixir.
T Ake, in the Name of God , as much of our j
prepared Salt as you think good, and diffolve
it in this ftrong Water,
Take two parts of good Vitriol, and one part
of fine Saltpeter ; and put fo much Salt int
your Water as your Water will diffolve , thai
there be no Feces remaining , but that it be dif-i
iblved and turned into clear Water : then fine
Soly that is paffed feven times through the Ce-
ment^ which I will learn thee in the fixth Chap-
ter : take one part of the Sol that is fo paffed
through the Cement , and two parts of your
prepared infuftble Salt ; but let your Salt 6e firft
diffolved in the faid Water , as forefaid : then
put in your S<?/, the which (hall diffolve well
in the faid Water : and when your Sol is dif-
folved, then fet ycur Glals upon warm Afhes ; ■
fo (hall it diffolve it the better into eleer Wa-
ter.
Then put of the cleer Water in another
Glafs apart , and put other of that firong
Water upon your So// This do untill you have
put it all over into clear Water in the other Glafs
apart ; and that there doth not remain any fub-
(iatjce in the bottom undiffolved.
Then work therewith as you have done in
the
Experiments. n?
he white work, and draw thePhlegmate out
rvith Balmo in fuch a heat that there go none
:>f the Spirits our, or any ftrength or fharpnefs,
ind do ic in all manner , as in the white work ;
tnd you rnuft nourifh the Medicine in his own
natter, that is, with fine So!9 that you have paf-
ed feven times through the Cement , making ic
is thin as you can in Plates ; and feed yourMe-
Hcine therewith,as much as it will eat ; and then
etit on warm Afhes to congeal.
Then fet it to putrefie fifteen dayfrin Balneoy
lot making your fire too great • for in the fifteen
layes it ought to be diffolved : then congeal ic
>n warm Afhes ; the which will be done in
wenty four hours.
Do in all things as in the white Elixir afore-
aid; for his firft Diffolution andCongealation
loth fall upon one ounce for twenty eight:and fo
or the doubling.
This Elixir ought not to be projected but upon
ine L**<rprepared , as heareafter fhali be learn-
ed ; to fay,That he have weight of Soly and deaf-
lefs of found , like Saturn 5 fo that he fhall lack
lothing but Colour and Fixation , the which
>ur Elixir fliall give him, through the Grace of
Bod.
is ctup;
lid Thilofopbical
Chap. V.
Teacbetb tbee to do projeftion with the red
Elixir.
MY beloved Son,if thou wilt ttanfmute Lund
into Sol, take fine Cape I Luna that is pre-
pared, in the Chapter hereafter written, being,
made without founding or ringing, and heavy in
weight : the which I (hall learn thee.
Take feven ounces of this Lmay and melt it in
a melting pot: and being well melten, put unto
hone ounce of fine 5fl/that is pafled feven times
through the Cement , as I will learn thee here-
after : for there is no Sol in the World finer then;
this, to ferve this Science.
Were it augmented in Colour by our Cement
and when it is well melten together with the
Luna , for it together with a wooden ftick ; but
no Iron, for that will hurt the proje&ion. Theft
two being well mingled together,put into it one
ounce of your red Elixir well ftirred and mingleci
together, as aforefaid, with a wooden ftick : theil
take it out , and caft it into an Ingot , and yot
(hall finde it to be fine Sol of twenty four Char
r a&s , to pafs all proofs , more finer and bette
then any that comes from the Mines. Give praii!
to God for his wonderful works.
Chap
hxperimmts. 117
Chap. VI.
Doth teach the Compofition of the Cement
for the Sol.
TAke,in the name of God, of the fineft Gold
that you can get, one ounce ; and melt with
it the reddeft Venus and faireft that you can get,
one ounce : and when thefe two be well molten
together, cart them into an Ingot . and when it is
cold, beat it into thin Plates , no thicker then a
Crown, and with a pair of Goldfmiths (beers
cue them in pieces of thebignefs of a Royal of
Plate, and put them into ftrong red Wine-
vinegar, twenty four hours long : then take old
'Tiles that have lain a long time in the Sun , and
make them into fubtil Powder , and fift them
through a hairen fieve : then take common Sale
that is once diffolved , diftilled by Filter , and
once well-glowed in the fire , and beaten into a
Powder , and paffed through a fieve : then take
Homane Vitriol , and rubefie it as I (hall (hew
thee hereafter : then take good red^wine-vi-
negar, diftilled in a ftillatory of Giafs : and in
that Vinegar , you (hall dhfolve your Vitriol :
then diftil it by Filter, very cleer : then fet it on
warm A(he.s to congeal or dry , that the Water
may vapor away , and youfhall finde your Vi-
triol to reft very fair in the bottom : then take
anew earthen Pot or Pan, and put your Vitriol
therein, and fee it on a cool 6re , and flir h wtll
1 3 with
n8 Tbilofophical
with a flick , and fo it fhall rubefie, and wax red
as blood ; then let it cool, and make it into
Powder, and pafs it through a Sieve : and in the
lame Water , you (hall take Spanifti Green, or
Verdigreece, and diflblve it in diftilled Vinegar :
then vapor it , and dry it : then glow it in the
fire, doing all things as the Vitriol aforefaid:
then take as much Salt Armoniack, and diflblve
it in red-wine-vinegar that is not diftilled : theUj
take of all thefe fubftances of Powder alike much^
and fprinkle lightly over with the Vinegar ,
wherein the Salt Armoniack is diffolved ; anctt
let there be as much of the Salt Armoniack dif.v
folved , as there is of any of the other parts :
then take a melting-Pot , and lay in the bot- 'ft
torn of your Pot a good Ground of your Ce-^
ment, and cf your SolVenm Plates upon tb/
Cement ; fo that the Plates do not touch one
another : then put more of your Cement- pow-
der upon it , and fo Stratum fttpef Stratum , till
that the Pot be full : let the uppermoft lain be
Cemenr.
Then take a Tile-ftone, and make a Cover juft jdr
for the mouth of the Pot, making a little hole in fvl
the Cover, or elfe the Salt Armoniack will break ii
your Pot, or blew up the Cover : and when you Soi
have made this vent-hole , lute it faft together : f\
and when yourLutement is dry, fet it into your
winde-Oven, and firfr give itafmali fire two
hour3 long , the next two hours more Wronger y
and thus Rill augment your fire , till that you fee,
the Pot be glowing red; and fo let it ftand in the
heat twenty four hours long : then let your O-
ven
experiments. up
ven cool ; and cake ic out , and open your Pot,
and you (hall finde your Places augmented in
[Colour.
The firft, my Son , if you will make this work
in the Reverber Oven , fo make your fire : the
firft half hour, fmall fire of coals ; and the other
time, of dry wood, that may be without fmoke ;
and work in the high Ovens a yard from the
ground : and in this manner you muft cement:
your Gold feven times, every time new Pots, and
pew frefh Powder or Cement, every time melt-
ing your Sol with newfma , and beating in
Plates as aforelaid ; for in every Cement your
^emu (hall be confumed, and in ihe Sol no more
hall remain of the Venn* , but the Tin&ure and
Colour ; and your Sol (hall keepalwayes his firft
weight, but his colour (hall be fo high, that none
(hall judge it to be Sol ; and you (hall under-
hand, that if there were fo much Lma> being
ade without found, and augmented in weight,
eked with the faid Sol , it would feem to be
ne Sol. But I counfel thee not to do it ; for in
ivers meltings , it will lofe its colo«r,and conu
Jvhite as afore , becaufe your fixed Elixir,or me-
dium, is not put to ic : therefore I counfel thee
not to do ic ; for in the end it will (hame his
tf after ; and peradventure bring him in perill of
lis life, if he fliould fell it for fine Sol. There-
ore look well to thy fclf , and fee that thou ufe
lofaMfaood.
I 4 Chap;
!
no Fhilojophical
Chap. VII.
Teacheth thee to make thy Luna deaf of founds
and heavy of weighty as Sol aforefaid.
JL ATVh*> fa A.)
MY beloved Son , Take Vimol^and diftil
thereof a ftrong Water , and diffolve
therein Salt Armoniack , as much as it can dif-
folve; then fet it upon warm Aflhes,and put into
it as much living Sulphur, as there is Salt Armo-
niack ; and then (hake it together with your
hands , flopping your Glafs well, that no Spirits
go out , and fet it upon Afhes, and lute a Helm
upon it with a recipient , and make a proper fire
under it, till the Water be diftilled forth of the
Glafs : then let it cool , and take away the Wa-
ter , and fiop the pipe of the Helm fall, that no
vent come forth , and make ftronger fire : then
(hall the Sulphur and Salt Armoniack fublime up
into the Helm ; keep it well : then take fine Cafe I
Lma^ and melt it in a melting-Pot , and caft of
that fublime upon your Lma three times, Birring
it well together in the Pot with a wooden ftick,
but no Iron : and this (hall make your Luna
heavy of weight , and deaf of clank , like Sol:
andyoufh-Uunderftand, that if you have ten
Ounces of Luna , you (hall call: one Ounce of
this fame^owder upon it, flirring it as aforefaid ;
and if your L/.n,t be black, (as it will be) that
is a good token : then caft it out in an Ingot, and
quench it in Water; and it (hall corac blue:
then
Ibcn feeth ic in Goldfmkhs- water ( that is made
(trith Tartar and Salt-common ) one hour long,
|nd it (hall come whke as at firft : and thus is
|our Luna prepared to receive your red Elixir.
Chap.VIII:
Ifeacheth thee the difference between the Elixir
and the great Stone of the Philofophers.
\A Y beloved Son , Our Elixir white and red
IVJL be called Stones and no Stones ; for in
manner to ipeak , there is no Stone fo full made,
as is our great Stone of the Philofophers , that
is called (Major : for the great Stone is full made,
and a perfe£t work ferving to all unperfeft Me-
tals : for to tranfmute them into true fine Sol
and Luna after the preparation hereof ; for if
he be prepared into Lma , (o fhail he ever fet
them into Luna : for every one of them doth
engender his like : the which great Stone I will
learn thee how thou fhalt make it, in his place
hereafter, if it pleafe the Almighty God. The
great Stone that doth ferve for the red work, or
to Sol) is called, Lapis Philofopborum major ; and
to the white, it is called Lunary ; but the Elixirs
« .be called , Stones and no Stones ^ but we call them,
Elixirs de Saley that is, Elixirs of Salt , becaufe
they Jbe compounded of Salt , to fay , of great
Bay-Sea-Salt , that is clarified by dhTolving and
congealing, as is before learned ; and alfo with
♦another Salt that is called Saltpeter > the which
doth
U2 Thilojophical
doth conjoyn himfelf to the Salt that is in th<}
depth of the Body of S<?/, when the Tindure i:
given hicn by the Cement. And if the peopk
in times part, had well underload the meaning
of this Salt , they had come to the end of theii
work : but for lack of undemanding, they have
changed the words of the Phiiofophers , that
fay , Our Stone is Stone and no Stone > for they
have meant the Elixirs, the which the unlearne d
have noc underlfood ; and they have named ic
their fait, that is our Salt of Nature that we have
ipoken of before : our Salt of Wifdom, that is,
when ic is prepared : our Menftruum ; for with
the fame our Medicine is nouriftied, as the Child
is in the Mothers womoe. They call it alfo , A
King, and that noble Salt, and that living Water,!
or Oyl of Grace, and the molt precious Water of
the moli iecrets , and the molt coming , the
which ditfolveth Mercury ; the fame is the Mer-
caryo? the Phiiofophers : and he diffolvech all
Bodies of Metals , and it is a Medicine, and the
fitft beginning of the Stone ; and it is living Wa-
ter and living Sulphur; he h the Lord and Matter
of all Salts , and without him the other have no
full power to make perfect any thing ; he doth
bindc andunbinde ; he doth joyn the Man with
the Wife ; he doth change one kirrde with ano-
ther, and mikes of Bodies, Spirits; and of Spi-
rits, Bodies : and this maft all be compounded,
andanke pcrfe& the Phiiofophers Gone.
\
Char;-
Experiments. iz$
Chap. IX.
Teach eth) That our Sol and Luna is living,
and the Sol andLuna of the Mines
he dead.
Y Son,you (lull understand , That our Sol
and Luna be living , and thefe that are of
he Mines are dead ; and therefore the Sol of
he Earth is not fo good as our S<?/that is made
>y this Science ; for our So/ hath in him three
hings , (to fay) a Soul ', a Body, and a Spirit :
vithouc the which three things, there can no
Tranfmutation be made , the which one alone
annot do ; therefore they mull be all three to-
gether^ any good fhould be done. And under-
fond , That no man can do any Tranfmutation
with the corruption of the perfect Bodies, that
is Sol and Luna : for we take the Spirit of the
perfeft Bodies , through our Sperm , or our
ftrong Water, and this fame Spirits is holden
in cur Water, that is,our diflblved Salt, which is
our menftruum: for where the Mother hath re-
ceived the Seed, that is, the Sperm of the unper-
fe& Bodies with her menftruum into her Body ;
fo fhali it receive no life before the Soul come
into its fo do we as Nature doth ask,we conjoyn
this together, till he come to cleer Water with-
out Peces, and then we draw out the fimple
Phlegmate in Balneo or Afhes • and after, that we
put in the S$ul , or neurtth it with Sol or l****
124 Thilojophteal
According to the making of your Medicine, thet ,
be they ready to ingender her like j andther^
we do put them in putrefa&ion the time afore^
written : then is the Spirit and the Soul per- ®
fe&ly made , and the copulation is done ; anc ^
then, when that we (hall do proje&ion upon any fC
unperfe&Body or Metal fo called , then thi^
Spirit or Medicine doth take to him a Body :^
and then it is called a Spirit, a Soul, and a Body* &
which is then living.
And this Inftru&ion (my beloved Son ) lit
give to thee , that thou maift know , that our
Sol and Lma is living , and thofe in the Earth or
Mines be dead : and alfo, that thou maift know,
that our Elixir white or red , are not other then
fpiritual,or a Spiritithe which, when it is cz(\ up-
on a dead body with the Soul, it is made living. ;
that fame then is multiplied and augmented in
goodnefs and perfections ; and in him is fulfil-
led that through accident , which in the Earth ic
did lack ; (to fay) that fcknefs which is got in
the earth , is taken away through our Medicine
or Elixir red or white : the which we do in this
manner; We take, in the Name of God , our
Earth or Metal, that is, an unperfeft Body, and
melt it with a perfect Body or Corpwy the which
is our Leaven, with the which we do prepare
our pafte or dough ; and then we caft upon it
our Elixir , the which is our Spirit ; thewhich
then doth make it perfe& , and a living Body
or Metal: but the great Stone of the Philofo-
phers , the which I will learn thee hereafter to
compound it, and perfectly to make ic; the
which
Experiments. 125
;bich is of fo great ftrength and power, that be
e a dead Body or Metal , doth not onely make
iving and perfe& , but alfo maketh of the fame
vletal Medicine, totranfmute any other onper-
e& Metal into a perfect ; and it doth the fame
n the twinckling of an eye : fo that he may be
railed, and is , The Riches of the whole World,
ierewithall do we conclude the firft Part of
his Bock, to fay,The Compofition of the Elixirs
yhite and red.
The
n6
-*■*.
The true
COMPOSITION
OF
The Great Stone
OF THE
PHILOSOPHERS.
Part II.
Chap. I.
MY beloved Son , I here before opened
unto thee the Truth , without leaving
any thing needful to be known of the
Cotnpofnion of the Elixirs, the which is the
beginning and entrance into the Great Stone
of the Philofophcrs ; and this Stone doth con-
vert all Metals unperfeft, into perfeft Metals of
Sol% of twenty four Caracks fine ; the Metal be-
ing melted that you will transform: andthea
caft
al
Experiments. nj
jftupon him his Leaven, that i?5 Gold , when
lac your Stone is made in the red work , and
liat Gold muft be cemented as aforefaid in the
Iher Book, and augmented in colour ; that is^
I you will melt a hundred ounces of unperfect
letal , then caft upon it Ferment or Leaven,
inich is Gold ; liir it well together , and put
s> more but one ounce cf Gold to the Mafs of
fetal ; and then being well molten , and incor-
porated together, caft no more but the quantity
j a Peafe or Fitch of the red Stone upon it : fo
Hill you fee, that this Stone (hall turn this
|afs of Metal , or hundred ounces , into the
heft Gold that may be in the World, of twenty
hur cara&s fine, and (ball pafs all the proofs that
;en can do upon it, for better then that thac
toth come out of the Mines. And you frail
pderftand that our Elixirs that we have before
r tentioned , are not come to their full perfe&i-
n , but it is the beginning of the white and
bd Gone of the Philofophers : but if you will
'lake it perfect , as hereafter I fhall learn you,
! le white (hall transform all Metals into Silver,
[ke as of the red is declared; that is to fay,
■hen you have melten the Metal that you will
transform , then you muft caft into it one ounce
f fine CfipelLnfta , that you have made deaf of
Mind, and heavy of weight , as it is before de-
clared in the other Book ; and when you have
[fell mingled them together with a ftick,then caft
ji to th© greatnefs of a Peafe of your white
tone, and you (hail finde it transformed into
try fine Lhm* , better then any t hat ccrres out
\ of
l8 Tbilofophical
of the Earth : and if in cafe you did caft onef)
ounce of your white Scone or of your red upon31
a hundred ounces of unperfeft Merals ; fo fhalF
that be transformed Into the Elixir orMedi-[?
cine, wherewith you tmy transform all unper-"j
fe& Metals into perfect Luna or Sol, after the"
beginning of your work : for your white dotb s
engender nothing but Lm<* , and your red no- *
thing but Sol, and his proje&ion one upon a '!
thoufand : that is to fay, if you will melt a thou- jf
fand ounces of unperfe6t Metals, you need pur
to it no more then one ounce of this fame laft^
Medicine, and it (hall fet it over into perfe&K
LunAQtSoly better then any that comes outolt;f
the Earth, to pafs all proofs and examinations *>
that may be done upon it. And herein now fol-i
lowing,I will learn thee the compofition of bott w
thefe Stones to the red and white : and I will®
firft be°in with the red,and then with the white^
which is called Lunaris.
Chap. II.
Tin Elixir of li
THou (halt take (my beloved Son) the red E-
lixir here before written , and fet it in pu-
trefaction the time of forty dayes ; fo that yom jj
fire be alwayes of one heat, and not hotter one!
time then another, night and day : and the fa
mx&bcdoaciu BslntoAfdrU: this lime being i
ended,!
Experiments. u<?
Inded , you (hall findc your Elixir to be dif-
blf cd into clcer Water , li that you have kept
the fire all the time of one heat : and your Elixir
I >eing diffblved into cleer Water, then fhall you
- liffolve therein Mercury that is i'ublimed * as I
trill learn thee hereafter ; and diflblve therein
\ s much of the fnblimed Mercury , as the Elixir
Lioth weigh: and fee well hereto, that the Spirits
Jy not out as neer as you can : then (hake it ibfe-
|y between your hands, without opening the
piafs ; and take heed that your Glafs break not
through the force of the Spirits; and lute the
Mouth of the Glafs fad wich Lutement that is
ilrong , that it may endure the warmth of Bal-
neum , without opening : the which I will learn
iihee hereafter in a Chapter apart ; and when the
Mitemcnt is very dry,then fet the Glafs in Balneoy
o putrefie the time of forty dayes, as aferefaid,
ioldingthe fire of one heat continually the time
)f forty dayes and nights as aforefaid. The
orty dayes being ended, look if all be diffblved;
f it benot,let it ftand longer till it be diffolved;
md being all duTolved,let the Balneum cool: and
n any cafe, fee you take it not out hot, left your
Slafs break : then take it out,and dry your Glafs,
tnd fet it upon Afhes to congeal , and make your
i&fhes no hotter then you can fuffer your finger 10
i:hruft it down to the bottom ; anoMet it fo ftand
:hetimeof twelve dayes , without taking any
:hing out of it ; but let it remain alwayes in that
Glafs wherein it was putrefied : and fee well to
it, that the Lutement be not broken in any
place • if it be,lutc k well again, that the Spirits
K %
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130 Thilofophical
flie not out : and the twelve hours being ended,
it ought to be congealed , if your fire be well
governed ; if it be not, let it (iand longer, till it
be congealed : and when ic is congealed, then is
the Stone fully made,and perfectly ended ,andit
is the riches of the whole world. God grant that
you may obtain it, and give unto Almighty God
a good reckningof the health of thy Soul, &c.
My Son, thou (halt underftand that Mercury is
called a Fountain , and the firft matter of all £
Metals i as in Truth it is, and therefore cannot ||t;
be done any great Tranfmutation, without Mer-
cury be joyned therewith : there may be made
fmall Augmentations and Tranfmutations,like as
we have fpoken before in our Elixir ; but they
cannot do any high proje&ion , for they do but
one upon feven:but when Mercury is put thereto 9
and fo perfe&ly made,it doth projeSion in wfini-
tuwy as here before is written : whereby ikdoth
appear, that the Mercury is, as aforefaid, the be-
ginning & eff-fpring of all Metals. And therefore,
my Son,we take the Elixir,and mingle therewith
our purified Mercury , and conjoyn thefe toge
ther with our purified Salt, which is our Sperm
fo be they fo faft bound together , that now, nor
never, can they be parted afunder , for they do
clafpe and ihclofe together , fo friendly as doth
the Body andthe Soul, if fo be ye do it as we
have written it. And when thefe three, to fay,
Sol) that is', Ferment , with the Salt and the
Ublercury , ^e joyned together , then do they
make perfeft all things they be caft upon , not ^
onely it doth take away the ficknefcof the Mb- .
cai
ic
0
B
6
» to
or
Experiments. i^£
tal , and doth heal it ; but it heals all Incon-
leniencies of mens Bodies ; as one grain of
this Stone, being drunk with Wine, being.
made hot , and chen the party to go to a warntV
bed , and to fweat. , which (hall be incontinent,
like as though he did lie in Water, and in three
dayes he (hall be made whole of what ficknefs
foever he have. Therefore, he may think hini-
felf happy in this world, that hath gotten him
:his Treafure, and well can keep it fecret , and
afe ic godly to the help of the poor ; for they
5e not all Matters, that do advance themfeives in
this Science to do many things : fcr many are cal»
W, bntfew are chosen.
There be many that bufie themfeives in this
Science , but very few- that do bring it to a right
:nd : for it may be that it is not God's will : but
:hou , my Son , have thou no donbt, fo long as
:hou follower! theie Precepts that I have left
:"hee written in this Treatife , and continue thy
elf alwayes in labour and exercife , and thon
halt foon come to a perfe& end of it, if it pleafc
MmightyGod : for I have written thee in this
Science , the right Treatife and Truth, as I have
wrought it with my own hands , and brought it
o a perfect end , as many people do know it in
:his City of Paris, although I have alwayes kept
t from thee till now : that have I done for cer-
ain caufes that I will not open. Therefore
:omfort thy felf, and be patient , and think not
:hy labour long ; for by diligent labour thou
&alt come to the end fooner : with ftudying and
fading there can come Bone of the knowledge
K2 of
iyi Thilofopbical
of this Science 5 but onely by labour : the ftudy
doth give a mm how to work, and how he (hall
follow Nature in his working: for the end and
profit of this Science , is the handy-work : for a
Cobler cannot fet a piece on his fliooe with I
reading, but he muft put his hands to it , and -
labour to bring it to a pcrfefl end.
Cm ap, III.
Teacheth, tofublime Mercury tc the
red Elixir.
MY beloved Son , take one pound of Mcr- r*
furj/ , one pond of Roman Vitriol, and:?
break the Vitriol to powder ; and then take one r
pound of common Salt that is two times dif«^:
folved and dirtillcd by Filter,and vapoured and -
calcined as aforefaid is learned ; and then break , ;
them to powder in a ftone-Mortcr : occupy nci;
Iron or Metal in this work ; for if you fhall , ilpl
will mar it : and when that your iMercmrjW
mingled with the other water , with continua n
ftirring, that you fee the Mercury no more , bu',l:
that he is wholly loft in the other fubftance, the#(
fhall you make moift with red- wine-vinegar, bu'P0
not too much $ and dry it then by the fire [A
or by the San ; then nut the fame in
Glafs to fublime, that is well luted beneath, a:
fetitonwartnafhes, and fo long let your Gi
remain open : and when you fee the mouth
your Glafs to look white in the fablimation , ©
tha
Experiments. 133
:hat yotjr CMercurj begin to flie up, then take a
Mncn cloath filled with Gotten- wool, and
herewith you (hall flop the hole above,as furely
is you can ; but youiGlafs muft be fomewhac
high , that the clou: with the Cotten that is in
[he mouth of che Glafs do not burn, for then
Lyou (hall confume your (topple : and then the
[.•31afs is well (topped : fo augment your fire a lit*
tie two hours long : and then four hours greater;
, md at the laft fo great as your Glafs will
joear without melting j and fo hold your fire in
khat degree four hours long: then let it cool;
kind when your Oven and Glafs is cooled, then
\ ;ake it out , and break it open , and you (hall
finde your ^Mercury above in the Helm as
[white as Snow ; and fome part (hall lie below
hpon the Feces, very fair and white: then
Lake it up as clean as you can , both that which
I is flown up , and that that lies in the bottom on
|ihe Feces.
Now to know whether that you have done
right or no , take the iMercftry fo fublimed,
ind weigh it, and fee what is diminifliedof the
irft weight: for if it be truelydone, it will
^ack but one ounce in the pound weight . if ic
l^ant more, it is not well done : for you i have
made your fire at the firft too great, or at the laft
100 fmall.
And if at the firft your fire were too ftrong,
then is there of your iMercmj flown awaj
with die moifturt, fothat the weight comes
tort : and if at the later end your fire were too
great , is way be that your Glafs is ^ JJcta
134- Thlojefhtcal
crackt with the force of the fire, and then is youf
fublimation loft : and if at the laft your fire
were too fmall , then is there of your cfl&r-
cttrj on the Feces , and thereby is your weight
diminifhed.
Thus fhall you underftand,that I have found it,
that there is but one ounce lacking in a pound
weighty being rightly fublimed.
Then take frefh powder of Vitriol, &c. and
mingle your'fnblimated ^Mercury herewith, as
you have done before , and fublime it again :
and thi? muft you do feven times in all points, as
before, or at the firft ; and in every fublimation
after the firft, it fhall diminifh one quartet of an
ounce, if you have done it right as aforefaid, and
no more : and when it 'is iublimed in thi> man-
ner as aforefaid , then it is ready to put into j^
the red Elixir, to make the Philofophers (tone
therewith.
Chap. IV.
Teachetb thee to fublime Mercury to the
white Elixir..
MY beloved Son, you fhall underftand, that
the Sublimation of ^Mercury , ferfring
co the white Stone , is done as the other before
in the third Chapter : for the red Stone, there t$
too other difference, but that you muft pot in the
place of Vitriol, Roch-Allom, Saltpeter, and
prepared Salt, as aforefaid and written 5 and do
in
Experiments. 135
in all points as in the third Chapter, unto feven
times : and then is your Mercury ready and per-
fect to put to your Elixir, to make the white
.Stone of the Philofophers.
Chap. V.
Teach eth thee to prepare tie white Sio-^e
upn all bodies'.
MY beloved Son , you (hall take , in the
Name of God , your white Elixir , and
fet ic in Balneo to putrefie, the fpace of fourteen
dayes and nights • and in that fpace, your Elixir
(hall be diffolyed into cleer Water , if that you
have governed your fire all the while in like
-warmth , or elie it muft ftand longer until it be
diffolved without Feces : then put of your fub-
limated Mercwy thereto, fo much as your Elixir
doth weigh. _^_* «^
Then take it , and fhaSe it proper ly Be tw eeh
your hands y tKaTy^SrGlafs bfeaks not? by the
force of the Spirit 5 and look well to your Glafs
before you do (hake it, that it be well luted or
flopped, that the Spirits by no means fly out % fat
if they do, it wiirmaTyoTiTwork.
This done, you (ball fet it well luted with the
Lutement I have fpoken of in the red Elixir, and
fet it to putrefie in Balneo forty days, as you;have
done in the third Elixir or Stone , and inttut
time>wili be diffoked , if that your fire be all
that time well governed ; for it luth much m
K 4 the
\7fi Thilofopbical
the government of the fire : and when it is well ihr
diffolved, fet it to congeal as you had in the red $
Stone,& it (hall be congealed in twelve days into ft
the white Stone of the Philofophers : the which for
will tranfmute all imperfe& bodies into perfect p
Lwuty to pafs all proofs and examinations, and it P
ftiall be better and more finer Luna, then any B
that comes out of the Mines,
Chap. VI.
Qdcbetb thee to make the Lutement fetyja^ to
theft ivorks.
NO w to make the Lutement, fo often fpokeh
of before , that (hall not untemper in the
moifture and warmth of Water, and alibianothcr
Lutement that iTiall keep your Glaffes from
breaking in the fire ; for it muft hold againft tffe
heat of the fire 5 and in thefirft place you ftiall
take the white of Eggsfo much as you (hall need, ^
and beaithem till they be all thin as water; then
let ic through a ipunge with yourhand,till that it
be deer as Fountain- water : of this fame take as
much as (hall be needful to temper the powders j^
hereafter;take the Flower crthe Meal that hang- J
ech or fiicketh about the walls of the Mill or fc
Backhoufe , commonly called in places beyond h
the Seas, Stuff-Meal, eleven ounces^ Boj-Armo- [\,
niack one g»i^rter nf fl"qpra;e* Stntm^aMu h
an_half quarter of an ounce, white hardCheefet \
me. parings bcin^ done orrl,one'ounce :"V>feat all
■thefe into powder, and fcarfe them finely
through
experiments. 137
Through a Sieve of Hair, & temper them with the
i hites of Eggs,and there withal lute your Glaffes
vith Linen-clouts clipped in this Luternent , in
•brm of a plaifter,& fo bound about the helm and
rnouth of your Glaffes,8c let it dry by it (t\f. This
luternent doth fcrve to lute the Helms upon the
liftil ling-Pots • and alfo to lute the Glaffes that
t ou do putrefie in,anddiffolve;& alfo to congeal.
And now to the other Luternent fpoken of
jefore , that doth ferve to lute your Glaffes, to
defend them from great heat of fire , that they
hall noc break nor melt • for then were your
?nrork loft : you (hall take to this Luternent pood
IfatPo^earth , whereof the Potter doth make
his Pots , and mix with it a little Sanguispra-
fr#»*S Bol'j4rmowackj> as much as the half of the
(feafrh ot trie softer doth come unto ; and un-
tucked ^ime as much as half the Potters Earth ;
pake all tfaefe into fine powder apart by them-
rCelves, an<l then temper them all together with
twhitesof Eggs svellbeaten; 8c the Mood ofQjccn
[alike much , ©rlfybu cannot get Ox-blood, you
fci lv take Sheeps-blood; then take Linen-clouts,
and icrape off the]Lintr till you have as much is
hhe7W-^|pfli/*gl> doth weigh, and then mingle
f them , and temper them all together , and beat
rthem with a piece of board, till that it be as fofc
h$ fine Pafte or dough • and with this Luternent^
you (hall lute your fublimations under that
| part that ftandeth in the fire • and alfo your
Glaffes wherein you diftil your ftrong Waters;
for it will defend them from melting and break-
ing ; and ufe k to all things that you do occupy
in
i$5 ThiloJopbiCAl
in great fire : for you cannot have a better ther ?
this , to defend youGiaffes again!* the force o\°
the fire. Now I have written you enough oMs
the Lutements : and in this Chapter I will write av
in brief a part of Philofophy zs well moral as off
mini. &
UK
Chap. VII. P
hi
Teacheth thee under jl and Pbilofophyy as well i %
moral as natural. en
\A Y Son , I have given thee to understand it of
this Book; and declared all the Philofo* nt
phy, as well to the red as to the whiceyfo Fighjdl]
and fim-ple as poffibly I may : for if I could hav$ ihi
lefc to thee any briefer,I would-not-:- forifahac 1m
fhould , thou couldrt never have underftood it
and therefore I have thought it good"Rflfhew*i|fc
thee in plain Words ancMleafons, tdideCfaHCthc
fame, tp make thee perfectly to underhand ten:
make this work, that thou flhouldft impute nc%
fault to me, if that thou (houldft not come to the
right knowledge of this Science ; but the fauli |u
fhojjld be in thy felf , and in nb~man elTe : for I
have written it in right 'arid plain Words and
Reafons : but take heed that thou be not as many
men be, that do think themfelves Matters
of all Sciences., when that they never faw th«
Door wherein the Science was learned : but I
would have thee ufe thy felf to reading and ftu-
dying of this.Book,tnd print all thefeReafqns in
fhy heart , and then thou rmift go co work wWl
jii
experiments. 139
• good and glad courage, and God will blefs thy
I f:oceeding v if thou wilt ferve him and pray to
I ,im , as it is thy duty to do ; and alfo thou mutt
I ive a diligent care to keep God 's Command*
A ients : for as I have often faid , with bodily
fains taking, and diligent labour, both of thy
|ody and minde, thou (halt bring this Stone to
perfect end : for the Philofophers have hidden
nis Science, and have written it very darkly, and
ave coloured it over with many parables & dark
sntences , that it is almoit impoffibleto come
o the undemanding of them, without great
nftrucYions of others , Matters of this Science,
)r die through the great gift of God. Therefore
have written this Book, that thou maift learn
:he Words and Reafons that I do leave after
Tie , to the end , that thou (halt not fall into
my error , but to come to the right end of this
Science.
My Son, thou fhalc underftand, that there be
many Books (written by thePhilofophers) re-
gaining after their deaths ; of the which they
aave written the Truth, but in a very dark fenfe »
here in one word, there in another Tthe which
have brought divers men unto great errors,
thinking they did underhand the meaning very
well,when they were furtbeft from it.Therefore,
my beloved Son , through the great love I have
to .thee, I have thought it good co open this Sci-
ence unto thee, that thou mayft take heed of the
dark fayings of the Philofophers, & that thou do
exercifitttiy felf » this Book : for if thou do-ob-
ftty&lfcfepy precepts , yon (hall not come to.
«ny
u|.o Philojophical
any error. But I defire thee upon the falvation
of thy Soul , that thou do not forget the poor ;
and in lay cafe to look well to thy felf, chac
thou do not difclofe the fecrets of this Science
to any covetous worldly man • for if thou do,
it will turn to thy hurt : for I have declared to
thee , as I trufl to be faved , upon my Salvation,
the thing that my eyes have feen , and my hands
have wrought, and my fingers have pulled forth :
and I have written this Book with my own L\
hand, and fee to my name , as I did lie on my ic
death in the yeer 1431. May 7th.
fohannes Strangunere.
To draw the Spirits out of the fonder ov*
Body or Earth by Distillation.
V£ Ake a great many plates of new Lead of the
quantity of Groats, as thin as a peny-
and hang them on a thred, or fmali Wy re , and
fill a Body of Glafs full of tnem , and faftea the
Thred above the mouth of the Veffel : fet there-
on a Head, and lute it fad and furcly , and nut
thereto a Reccptory, and put it in a Furnace with
as cafie a heat, that you may alwayes foffcr your
hand under the bottom thereof, and water foall
diftil every day from it , fair andclecr as Rofc»
wacerundat the laft,thc ftidPltws will wax foft,
as I,
Experiments. 14.1
they were mire , and fall down to the bot-
: and then take the Glafs, fet it in Bafae* or
imoEqHtno) until the mire be dffolved into
lack Pitch-Liquor : then put it into your Philo-
jphers Veffel , and mix it , and continue it in
afiefire, that it may by Circulation become a
rry earth as black as a Raven, which afterwards
hall wax as white z$ Snow ; the which is the
Vhite Elixir; the which you QaalJ take from the
:eces that lie there-under : for as Pbilofophers
. ay , Totum quod [tibtile eft afcendit furfur* in vafe9
\H9<L ffifftttn nMntt in f undo.
Then put the white inaFixatory luted up,
md continue it with more Fire or heat , till it
3e firft gray , and after that citrine as a yellow
Flower ; and finally, purple-red , the which is
the great Elixir that fixeth all Amalgems into
Medicine, which altereth all Bodies bto Sol and
Luna*
In the Name of God5 Amen. Upon
Saturn^ PbHofopberof Holland.
UNderftand , That out of Lead comes the
Scone called Lapis 'Pbilolcphorum : and
therefore , when he is throughly made, he doth
proje&ion as well in a mans body as without,
of all difeafes that come to man , as upon Me-
tals ; and in many vegetable Books , is no
greater fecrct then this is « for we fade not in
* Gold
Dd
14.Z Thilofophical
Gold a like perfection as we finde in Lead : for f
Lead is in his inner part Sol ; and therefore do f
all Philoibphers agree: for he lacketh nothing ]
die, but that his fuperfluity be taken away from lf
him, and thai isfcisuncleanneis: therefore make fj
him clean, and turn his inward part out, and that
is his crudenefs • and then is he Sol: for vulgar Sol
cannot be fo lightly as Lead; for Lead will quick-
ly be diflolved and congealed, and he fuffers his le<
Mercury quickly to be drawn from him • & that
Mercury which is drawn from him , if it be well
clariSed and iublimed , as the ufe is to fublirne :a
Mercury;! tell you, That that Mercury is as good m
as thzMercury drawn from the Sun in all manner :c
of works, and it is better in our work then the ™
Mercury of Sol. Alfo, if you fhould take Mer-
cury out of Sol, you (hould be contained to o-
pen the body of Sol for the fpace of. one whole
yeer , before the faid Mercury of a body could
be drawn or come out of Le;d : you may draw
out this Mercury in fourteen dayes , and it is ay
good as the other : and if you (hould come to
make a work of Sol, alwayes yoa mufthetwo
yeers about it , to do it well ; but of Lead
you may perfect it in thirty or two and thirty
weeks at the moft, and then be fully ended : the
one is as good as the other, and Lead colts little
or nothing, and is a fhorter work , and is lefs la-
bor,and of one goodnefs,and is truth *. therefore
print this in thy heart, and ferve God. The fame
Lead is called of the Philofophers Sol , whereof
they had the name until this day, and have kept
h fecrec : for if the thing w«reknow&, many
would
pi
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Experiments. 14.3
ould work it , and the thing would be com-
iion : for the work is friort, and eafie, and little
T value; and therefore was it kept lecret,thac
le name might be known, left it might have
i)me to the hands of wkked men, and ib much
urm might have come thereby, and this holy
pence which God hath given to thofe that love
tad fervehim, (hould to wicked perfons be a
ueans of greater wickednefs. As concerning the
lead of So/ and £#/7d,they havefet three GlafTes,
Ind all is Lcad,but there is no need to joyne any
) range thing, but that onely which cometh from
tin ; neither is there any man fo poor, but that
|'c may be able to compafs this work : for you
•lake of the Salt of Lead with little labour Lmay
:nd with a little longer time Sol9 and then they
hay proceed to make the PhilofophersLead.And
jbis is altogether concluded in Lead, as much as
[i neceffary for us ; for in him is the perfect Mer-
\ury^ and in him are all the colours in the world,
eVhich (hall (lie w it felf openly ; for in him is the
ijrue blacknefs , whitenefs and rednefs : he is
tx>tiderous , and in him is the perfect red and
fivhite bodies : look and take example,of all im-
perfect things tfce eye of man cannot abide or
Bear, how little foever , though fmaller then a
bote, yet it will trouble a mans eye terribly :
put if you cake Lead clean fcraped , and made
I he bignefs of a Bean, and put it in your eye , ic
i vill neither pain you,or harm you at all, and that
jis,becatifeitsuttcrmoft is not perfect like Sol oz
'other pretious Stones, that come out of ?aradifey
running in the flream : and in like manner S<?/,
I that
i/j.^- Thilojophical
that io him is , you may well perceive by the fi.
militude and many other more, That Lead is out
Philofophers Mercury^owz Laton : for out of it is
drawn ia (hort time, our Mercury and our Philo*
fophers Mercur^thu is,our golden^tfr^nr^with
little labor,little cunning,and little charge. And
therefore I charge you, and all of you,that know
his name , to keep his name fecret : for if men
knew it, much milchief and trouble would be
done. And therefore you (hall know our Lead
by its hidden name, and vou (hall know that the
water wherein our Lead (hall be wa(hed vinegar.
This is the Philofophers Stone whereof all the
Philofophers have written many dark Books, but
there are divers and many works in the Mineral
Lead*
An
4
Experiments. 14.$
AnAbftraffc out of
Dodtor Homodlm M S*
lDe Elixir folk Medicina unwerfali.
Of the Tincture of Gold> fe-
parated from its body, and turn-
ed to a Celeftial and Spiritual
Nature , called a Quinteffencc
within the Anrnnt Fotabile.
Chap. I.
Of the Matter of the Kniverfd Medicine.
Since God bath created alt things for mans
ufe,and chat in all vegctable,animal and mi-
neral creatures, there is fome vertue cc be
aelpful to humane difeafes;I thought there might
dc fomething among thefe of incorruptible Na-
ture, which byic felf might cure all Difeafes,
*nd prolong the life of man to a long age, keep-
L ing
\J±6 Thilofopbical
log his humours in a mod equal temperament
and by confequence , this thing muft be of ic )iii
felf moft equally tempered of the four Ele-
ments.
Now feeking this thing in the Vegetables of A-
nimals,I found it not,becauie that in all of them,
there is fome one humonr predominant over
the reft a&ively or paffively : Therefore I turned
to Minerals or Metal ; but I found the Calx and
C*lcanth , and other things , being reduced to
Aflhes, could not be brought back again to their
former bodies : And fo I conclude , There
was no perfeft natural compofuion in them.
And finding the perfect Metals thus reducible
again to their own bodies , I perceived that in
them was fome firmer compofuion then in other
things : yet are in all alike ; for all the reft
of the Metals, except Gold, by a ftrong Combu-
ftion , will be converted into drofs and fmoke ;
but Gold is no whit the worfe after all Trials :
then I concluded, That it was among all the reft
incorruptible ; and by confequence, of a moft
equal temperament and compofuion of Ele-
ments.
And when I underftood by <Jtf*rfillU joyning
with Metals, could generate, I concluded, That
In Gold there was a generative and regene-
rative venue : but becaufe I found the matter^,
of Metals to be very grofs and earthy, and that
thereby this vertue was oppreffed and kept , in-
fomuch that it could not work , until it was de- id
reel from the hands of its bodily Impri- ±
r, T judged, That is was needful to open,^,
mine,
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:rifie, and diflblvc the body, that the vertue
ight a&uate. Whence I concluded at laft thus :
hacGold was the remote matter whereof the
aiverfal Medicine was to be made up , and
lat the Spirit of Gold and Lune , which is alfo
died Lune Quinteffence,is the matter whereof
is made up*
Chap, II.
1 H ovo to make the Mcnftruum^ andhowto
circulate it;
^Ince I have declared heretofore the matter
J of the Univerfal Medicine, confequentlyl
\> ill open the way how to make the vegetable
MenttrMm, and how to circulate ir, that it
'.ay be reduced into Quinteffence : by that
leans of this iMenUrnum, the true preparation
I made,that is alfo a Phyfical preparation^© wit,
tabution , Putrefa&ion, Overflowing , Exube-
ition. Multiplication and Rectification ; and
; iat with the Confervative of the former Vege-
ible, and with the Multiplication of the
>rce: for this is the CMenHruum or Vegetable
fater, which %aymm<iM fpeaketh of in this
odicil.
Therefore Silver and Gold are diffolved in
■idic'al things of their own kinde, and 10
icj compound of the Soul of the Arc : fo*
'tis i§ the matter by which all incurable Dif-
Iffj Li eafcs
4-8 Tkilofophical
cases arc cured under the confervation of their
own Nature.
Therefore this is the way to prepare it :
Gather the Vegetable Lunary of the Philofo-
phers , in the time when the height of Goffer
doth rule, which is the feventh and the firft day
of the Reign of Corrocay, the Minifterial Spirit
of the fame heighten the fixth rank,and laft three
hours before noon, and as many afternoon:
when the day is fair , and the sky is cleer, then
take the Lunary it felf, pure and uncorrupted,
with its grains, and bray it, and put it in earthen
Veffeis which are new and well glafled , and
which are moft carefully covered to befetina
moft cold place, and there to be left a whole
month, or thereabouts.
After .which time, opening your Vcffels, you
fliall finde in the bottom of each of them , the
fap of Lunary , which will fend forth a moft
fweet favour : take it and put it in another moft
clean Veffel from the Feces : and then again
yon muft pour it upon its Feces , and fet it a
gain , as before , for the fpace of eight dayes
in a cold place. After which tiwe , it muft be
poured out again into another Veffel : and
from thence again it muft be joyned to its
Feces : which third time it will be done juft the
lame manner as thefecond. And fo you (hall
have the fap of Lunary prepared in the befl
fafliion.
But becaufe lunary is not found everywhere!
therefore, if when you fliall have ceed of
k, and it cannot be found, you (hall take
the
it
i:
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he fapof it, prepared in the common fafhi-
>d , and called by B^aymttnd) Black baker, then
)lack ; but take of the belt : then pcur it ei-
iher way prepared into a Glafs- Cucurbire,
Ivbich is a Great, or into a Peliican-VefTcl,
[With handles on both fides , which is called
(Circulatory , and put the Veflel ; moft care-
i ully (hut in a Phyfical Vaporary , and let it
inhere be circulated a whole Month : which
f:ime paft , take away the blind Head , put on
iLembeck, and joyn a Recipient to it; and
:he Joynts being well (hut up , diftil in Bal-
ne& UWarid , a moli fubtil Spirit from it ;
which being firft lifted up on high , is turn-
ed into the fimilitude of lweat, which makech
110 veins : but when the Phlegm (hall begin to
'diftil like rain , take away the Cucurbite with
the Recipient, and let it cool.
This being done, transfufe the Spirit from
;the Recipient into the Cucurbite of Glafs :
jLoofe then the firft, and putting on the
Limbecks Head , diftil it in Balneo <Jtfari<e ,
|with a moft eafie fire, till the Spirit be
['gone out, the Phlegm remaining in the Cu-
curbite.
Now when the whole Spirit is purified
from the Phlegm, and reSifiecJ,, and di-
JftiUcd in a Recipient 3 The Veffel being cool-
ed, pour out the Phlegm from the Cucurbite,
[ how little loever it be : then pour in again
into the lame Cucurbite, the Spirit ; and then
di&il again in Baine* with a moft eafie Fire, as
L 3 <rf
i$o Thilofophical
of the fame , as is beforefaid , fo ofc till the ^
Spirit be wholly purified from the Phlegm , and :l
perfe&ly re&ifted : which Spirit fo prepared, ™
if it be fired, will notieave any work of moitture '}
behinde it ; nay, it willbtarn a cloth, being made 'J
well, and put into it. a
And hitherto have I imparted unto thee the K
beft manner of drawing out the Spirit from «
the Lunary : which Spirit being (hut up moft fj
carefully in a Glafs , muft be let in a cold place : P
through the Glafs (hue, it will vanifti away : it «
is fubtil and heavenly, though the other part
of the tJMenftruum or Earth of the fame thing
be prepared : which then being copulated with
it? own Spirit,maketh the vegetable Menftrmnty
which is the Bafis and chief Foundation of Spa-
gyrical preparations.
Therefore the way to prepare the Earth is
thus :
After that the Spirit is drawn out by Diftilla-
tion, and feparated from the Lunary, you muft
take the Cucurbit e , wherein the fap of the
lame thing was beft , and put it into the Bahteo
cJWkr/rf , and diftil it with a gentle fire , till all
the Phlegm be gone out • which you fliall know
by this , that in the degree of heat, there (hill
nothing more fall in the Recipient , and the
matter in the bottom of the Veffd,fhall be funk
$Jown , like Honey, or melted Pitch.
Then having the Recipient , pour fo much
m
Experiments. 151
,)f the Phlegm of the fame thing upon the >icr-
,urial part,that it fwim above at leaft four fingers
breadth ; and with a wooden ipattle moving
,he Phlegm with the thick matter , wherein
Is the potential Odercury, and alfo the Sulphur
vegetable of Nature ; mix them, and when the
t^hlegm (hall have drawn its Tinaure out into
ts felf, fuffer it to reft a little. Then after-
vard pour out the colourated Phlegm , but wa-
ily , left that the Mercurial part be poured out
With it,which doth not ferve to our ufe, but only
:o the Tin&ure of the Merenties , as Raymond
aith in the Book of ^Mercury.
Here muft be noted, We have called the thick
Water in the bottom of theGlafs, like unto
molten Pitch, Mercurial; and alfo Sulphurial,
^ecaufe that the Sulphur of Nature is poten-
tially hidden in it ; which, when any will draw
!>ut of it , it is altogether neceffary , that it, or
rather the pureft of it, be feparated from the im-
pure, and be brought to the firft Mercury of the
Philofophers : and then converted into the Sul-
;phur of Nature, as (hall be confequcntly taught;
moreover, in the thick Water in the bottom ,
pour on again fo much of the Phlegm, that it be
.covered the bredth of four ringers ; and, as be-
fore , mix them together by Agitation , and
then evacute the colourated Phlegm by Inclina-
tion. ± 1-11
And this work muft be fo oft repeated , till
the Phlegm hath drawn out the whole Tinaure,
tod the Earth rcmaineth in the bottom of the
L4 Veffel
152, rmiojopmcai
Veffel white as Criftal, tranfparent ; which fee \t
out to be dried by the fire, or by a heat elemen-
tal of fire, not violent.
Then when it is dried , and made up into a
Powder moft fubtil , put it into a Glafs-Veffel,
fit and clean : and pour fo much of the Spirit
that I have heretofore taught you , and prepare
upon it , that it may ftand four fingers breadth
above it.
Then (hut the Veffel with a blinde Head, and
fet it mBalneo tobedigefted the ipace of three
dayes ; which being done, take away the blinde o
Head,and put to the Cucurbite an Aiimbeck,and
joyn a Recipient unto it : and having well (hut
all the Joynts , put the Veflel into a Furnace?
and giving it a gentle fire of the iecond degree,
feparate from hence the Spirit it fe If byDiftii-
lation ; which inclofed carefully in a Glafs ,
fhall be kept in a cold place : for it is an ani-
mated Spirit.
Afterwards having encreafed the fire wich a.
continual courfe or order till all the Phleg-l
marick moifture , how little foever it be in the
Earth, be exhaled ; which Phlegm is to be caii
away : for it ferveth to no ufe at all, but unto the
earth itielf.
After it be well dried , and again calcined,
pour again fo much of the new Spirit, that it
ftand three fingers breath : and having glevrcd
the blind Head upon it, put it three dayes into
the Phyfical Vaporary • which time pa^, takea-
way the blind Head, and put on a Limbeck i >md
from
jpxpertmems. 155
rom thence diftil an animated Spirit , which
oyn to the firft,and keep.
Then afterwards proceed to diftil, till all the
^legtnbegoneoutjandcafr 5 and thofeope-
ations muft be fo often renewed, till the Earth
jcppear white and flowing like Wax upon a
flowing Plate of Iron : give no fmoakatall,
The Earth thus prepared , mult of neceffitybe
returned into a Calx , giving not a difTolving
^ut a digefting heat of the fire. When this
'Truth is calcined , you Qirfill put it in a fit Veffel
'■>f Glafs, which mult be fei. it temperate heat
a the fire , the firft degree : and in it unto the
iHarth muft be poured one ounce of the animated
Spirit : As for example , To one ounce of the
.Earth,you mult put one of the Spirit : which ani-
ifnated Spirit I taught you heretofore to draw out
p the Earth itfeif by Diftillaiion.
Then /hut the Veffel with a blind Head , and
tfurler it to be digefted three dayes , or fo long
fitill the Earth hath drawn up his Spirit : then
(taking away the blind Head ; and putting on
a Limbeck , by Diftillation draw out the Phleg-
matick and uniavory moifture, how little foever
|be in it.
Then again thefecond time, give to the fame
Earth of its own Spirit the feventh part ; and
putting the blind Head upon it , fet the Veffel
on the firft degree of heat, to be digefted three
dtyes fpace .:. then taking a way the blue Head ,
and putting on the Alijnbeck, diftil all the infi-
pidmoiftttre.
Thirdly,
i$^ Thilofophical
Thirdly , Add to the fame Earth , the fixth
pare of its own animated Water ; and putting
on the blue Head, let in digeftion for three
days : and after that time, removing of the blind
Head , and putting on the Alimbeck , diftil the
iuperfluous humidities.
Fourthly, Add again the fifth part of the ani-
mated Spirit to his own Earth, digertit, and by
Dittillation, evacuate the humidity.
Fifthly, Render the fourth part of the Soul of
the Body, and digell it \ and draw out the moi-
fture , as I have (hewn before : and lb with the
fourth part of it upon the fame Earth , profecute
the operation by Unvivirtives, Digeftion, and
Diftillations, till the Earth have drunk up all his
animated Spirit, and both be reduced to an
Homogeneal Body ; then take the Earth which
is withheld, and white, and put it in a
Veflel of Glafs, divided into three parts , which
being lured, and carefully (hut , muft be put in a
Furnace to the fire of the third degree, the fpace
of a natural day : and fojthe pure part of it will
be feparated from the impure, and will be lifted
up on high, and the impure part of the Body be
left in the bottom as unprofitable, to be caft a-
way , and the pure to be gathered : and this is
called by Ra)mmd and other Philosophers, Mer-. |
cury fnblimate, vegetable, Sal Armoniack^ , and
let of Lunary vegetable , wherein are fo many
and fo great vermes, that the humane tongue of
man cannot exprefs them.
Furthermore , All things being fcvcrally pre*
pared.
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pared, to wit , the Spirit and the Earth, it re-
mained here to (hew the way to copulate the
Spirit of Lunary , with the Earth of the fame
prepared, that is,with the Salt or Sulphur of Na-
ture vegetable : but out of the con jun&ion of
thefe two, one organical Body, to wir, the vege-
table menftrmm, may be made up : and the way
to make it is this*:
Take one pound of the Salt or vegetable Sul-
phur new prepared, bray it very fmall, and put it
inaCucurbite of Glafs, which is tfrong and
thick , and flpon it of the forefaid Spirit of Phi-
lofophical Lunary : then (hutting the Glafs moft
carefully with a blue Head , fo that it hath no
Air at ill , put k in the Balneo , and letitpu-
rifie for the (pace two dayes : then taking off
the blind Head, and putting on a Limbeck, and
joyning a great Recipient to it ; After you
have flopped well all the Joynts, you (hall diftil
it in the A(hes with a gentle heat , and all will
go out by the Limbeck. Nevertheless, if any of
the Sale (hould remain in the bottom, you
ihall again pour of Spirit newly diftilled upon
it ; and diftil it again from hence. And this
(hall you do fo oft, till the whole] Earth as a
cleer Water be brought over the Limbeck ;
being done , take yet one pound of Salt , put
it into the Cucurbite , and pour upon it the
fame Spirit Ia% diftilled : cover the Veffel with
a blind Head , and fet it to purifie ; and being
purified , till all the Sulphur pafs over the Lim-
beck with the Spirit j and chat being diftilled,
take
ii6 Thilofopbical
take again, as before, of new Salt vegetable one
pound j and adding the lame Spirit , purifie ;
and then diftil all. Fourthly , Take likewife
frefh Salt one pound , and pour upon it the Spi-
rit lately diftilled, till all pafs by the Limbeck,
and nothing remain in the Cucurbite ; and fo
the vegetable ntenftrnum (hall be made, and per-
fectly ended, having power to diffolve both the
light?, and all other Metals , with the conferva-
tion of the vegetable form : but now it is refting
to (hew how the metiftrtium muft be converted
unto a celeftial Nature or Quinteffence : and the
way is thus :
Take the fitnple menfirnum y and pour it into
a great and ftrong Giafs-Veftel , that the fifth
part of ic onely be full,or at the molt rhe fourth,
and the reft be void: then (hut the Veflel with
a blind Head; (hutting diligently all the Joynts,
left the power of the menftruttm vanifti : being
(hut , put it in the Phyfical Bath, or in the Horfe-
Belly, and let it circulate a whole Month
which time expired, put on your menftruum into
another clean Veffel : and do this warily , left
the fetling in the bottom by the Circulation
be poured out together with the menftrHum^
but it muft be left in the Circulation : fo (hall
you have the menftm*m purified, circulated, and
celeftial , which the Philofophers call , The
Heaven , The Crown of Heaven , and , The
Qumteffencejjvhofe brightnefs and tranfparencit
doth exceed the brightnefs of all Lunary things,
and the fweet fmell of it excecdeth all otb«
fwect
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[Tweet favours prepared by Nature.
This Quintcflence is the ground-work of
lallSpagyrical and Physical Preparation : for by
fthe vertue of it, all folid Bodies are cor-
rupted from their own Natures, and arc
'brought to Liquors, Oy Is, Spirits, Elixirs, Magi-
I fteries,Stones and Tin&ures. Whence it cometh,
( That the Spagyrfck can give to the Phifitians the
1 beft Medicines.
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158 Thilojophical
0( the manner of diifolving
Gold, and of feparating the
Tincture of it from the Body,
or the form from the matter; and
alfoof exuberating or multiply-
ing the fame.
THe manner of compofm° the vegetable
being delivered ; and alfo, of making it
celeftial : it remaineth that you fhould be
(hewed how the matter of the Univerfal Medi-
cine, to wit, Gold, fhould be prepared with the
heavenly menltrual, that it may exercife its ver-
tue upon the Body of Man : the manner to pre-
pare it is this :
Let Gold be cemented with Antimony, that
every Heterogeneal thing^ be . ieparated from it :
then being well purged, reduce it to very iinall
Leaves : then of the foliated or Leaf- Gold
take an ounce , and put it into a little Cucur-
biteof Glafs , and pour upon it two ounces of
the heavenly menftrnum, or of the vegetable
Quinteflence. This being done , put the Cu-
curbuc clofed HaraicticaUy into a Fire of the
feft
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rft degree, and then of the fecond • fofliall
ie Gold be dnTolved , and the merftruum (hall
raw into it felf the Tin&ure of ir,or the colour;
id it will become citrine, biighr, refplendent,
lining, and moft acceptable to the fight: then by
trie and little inclining the Veflel,transfuiethe
ex&ruum into another clean Veffel of Glafs :
.iz do this warily, left the Earth or Feces of
old be not poured out together with the
;*/*/?r#/w»andCucurbite: then to the golden
Jiarth , which is fetled , pour again two ounces
fit! the menftrmm , and flint the Glafs with Her-
oes his Seal , and fet it firft in a fire of the firft
egree, and then of a fecond: and when the
unftrnum (hall have the colour of Gold,ejacu-
ite it into another Vcffel of Glafs ; yet fo,
bat the Earth be not mixed with the menflrnum^
Iut may remain in the bottom ; and leaving
ne Feces of the Gold in theVeflel, poura-
ain two ounces of the menfirmtm upon it ; and
mtting the Glafs Hermetically , fet it in
pe heat of the firft, then of the fecond de-
ree.
Then empty the golden metiflrunm into ano-
her Vcflel, taking heed left the Feces go one
#ith it together : reiterate thefe operations fo oft
s before , till you fee the werfirutm draws no
lore of the Tin&ure of Sol, and that the body
f it remain in the bottom white, which will be
one in feven times , if you do all tiefc things
rell.
Now when all theTinclure of Gold is pre-
pared
160 Thilofophical
pared from his Body , it is requifoe that all the
diffolutions be joyned together , and be put in
afitVtffel: thenpurifie.
And then laftly , having put on a blind Head i
and having (hut carefully all the Joynts, (et
it in a Furnace , and give it a heat in the fecond
degree, and exuberate from thence the moft pre-
cious Liquor of Gold : then you (hall have the
Tin&ure of Gold feparated from the Body of
it, and made volatile, joyned with the Heaven
or vegetable Quinteffence , from which it muft
be feparated , by the way which I will (hew you
in the following Chapter.
The
Experiments. 161
The manner how to feparate
the Tin dure of Gold from the
Quinteffence vegetable, and the
way to circulate the fame, that it
may be converted into Quintef-
fence, or Celeftial Nature and
Spiritual, and almoft Incorrup-
tible.
Hitherto we have Chewed you how to
draw the Tin&ure from the Body of the
Sun , and how they exuberate it, in a
;cleer and open fpeech. Now we intend to (hew
how the fame Tin&ure may be feparated from
the menftrHum , which is Celeftial , and by Cir-
culation is converted into a Quinteffence moft
fragrant, and in ftrength meft eminent , and
incorruptible as the Heavens. To do this, pro-
ceed thus :
Take a Stillatory of Glafs , and infufe into it
the vegetable kMtnHruum, which is circulated;
in which h the Soul of the Gold t then add to
it of the Element of Water in the feme thing,
to grit, of thelunaryof the Philofophers , io
M rcweb
\6i Thilofyhicd
much as is of the ntenftruum ft felf : then put
your Veffel in a Ph/fical Furnace ; and putting
an eafie fire of the firit degree to it, diftil from £
the vegetable Quinteffence , and the Element
of Water acmixed to it : lb the Tin&ure of Gold
ihall remain in the bottom like Wax melted,
or like the fluid gum ,and in colour moft like unto
a Ruby.
To purifie this Tin&ure from the fuperfluity
of the Elements , and to make it to a
Quint effence by Circulation , proceed
thus:
Take a fit Vtffel of Glafs , and put in it the
Tinclure of the Sun , moft red, exulerated and
fcparated from the vegetable Water , and pour
upon it a convenient quantity of the vegetable
Quinteffence : and having {hut the Glafs Her-
metically, put the Veffel in a Phyfical Vaporary,
and with a continual heat , as of the Sun, fuffer
it to be circulated a Efficient fpace ; which
done, you (hall fee in the bottom of theGIafe
an Earth like unto Slime , which muft moft be
feparated from the Tin&ure , mixed with the
vegetable, as a iuperfluous thing ; which is done
by the Diftillation of the mcnftrttHm with the
Ths&ure in the fire of the fecond degree : which
being done , put the Veffel , containing the
Quinteffence vegetable , mixed with the Tin-
cture in the Phyfical Bath ; aed putting 10 ic
the fire of the firft degree by Diftillation , ex-
tnSt the vegetable Quinteffence : and fo the
Tin*
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induce of Gold moft beautiful , being purl-
ed from the Dregs of the Elements', and Slime
f the Earth, and made fpiritual and volatile,
lall be fetled in the bottom of the Circulit,
onverted into a Quinteffence , and into a Ce«
;ftial and Incorruptible Nature , to which no
'arthly thing may be compared in fmcli or fweet
ivour , nor in venue and excellent operations.
Leep tte Quinteffence moft carefully, as a moft
>recious Treafure^ for it is the true potable and
nutable Gold , The true Elixir of the Sun ,
^wer, The true Diaphoretical and Univerfai
Medicine, The true \MercHty of the Philo-
bphers , without which there is no Tranfmuta-
ion of Metals.
The
1 6^ Thilofophical
The way to reduce the liquid
and volatile Quinteflence of
Gold into a fixed Stone , and
tranfparent like to a Rubie,with
the multiplication of Celeftial
Vertues.
ALthough I have hitherto delivered the
true and perfect way to prepare S<?Iy
and to convert it into a Quinteflence 5
fo that it ferveth for all Medicinal effects univer-
fally,and needeth no further preparation : Ne-
verthelefs > becaufe the venues of it may be fur-
ther augmented, I will now reveal how it may
be fixed into a Stone ; which by a manifold
Solution , Coagulation by heavenly Influences,
doth attain unto the higheft degree, Perfection
and efficacy to all effects both within and with-
out the body of man.
The way to make it is thus :
Prepare a Fixatory Veffel of equal bignefs
with their heads , having heads equally propor-
tionable, whofe heads muft be difpofed, that the
head of each one may enter into the belly of
each other mutually , and that the mouth of the
one
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[|>n« Veffel may enter into its own head ; but
hat the mouth of the other may receive within
t felf the mouth of its own head : then put in
ach Veffel one part of the Quinteffence of
Sold; and to each part feverally, pour thirteen
)arts of the Quinteffence vegetable • which
>eing done , put the heads upon the Cucurbites,
nd joyn theVeffels together as they ought to
>e ; and Glutting the Joyntsmoft carefully that
here an Anchanor; and having given a moft tem-
>erate heat of the other orfecond degree, let
he Quinteffence be (o long moved, till the ve-
getable Water hath laid off the Tin&ure or Co-
our of Gold, and (hall have afcended and de-
cended no more citrine in colour, but white like
1 diftilled Water , which will be done in three
Dr four weeks at the mod : which time being
paft , and when you have feen the aforefaid fign,
hen fuffer the Furnace to wax cool of it felf,
then taking the Veffel from the Furnace , open
chem , and in the bottom of each Glafs you fhall
indeaStone, likeuntoaRubie or Carbuncle,
which is the potable Gold,c©ngeal'd through the
vegetable vertue ; and thepureliof the vegeta-
ble Sulphur working upon the Quinteffence of
Gold : from which Stone,by the Inclination of
the Veflels , you (hall feparate the vegetable
Waters : then take out both the Stones out of
both the Veflels without any moifture , and you
[hall put it into a fit Vcffei very carefully, that it
fuffer no harm by the Air : and when you would
have thisStoue to*- become more pregnant and
powerful in operation by Ccleftial Vertues, pro-
ceed thus : Bray
itftf Thilofophical, &c.
Bray it in a Marble or Glafs-Morter with t
Glafs-Peftel ^ and being brayed , put it into a
fmallGlafs-Veffel, fit to that effc& ; and being
Hermetically fhut , put it into tbe Phyfical Bath,
and leave it there three dayes , in which time it
will turn into a Water or Uquor,very red: which
Liquor, put into tbe Achanor, and fufferit to
be digefted five dayes in a temperate heat : and
then again it will be conduced, and become a
ftony fub! t ance red,and tranfparenc: from thence
takeout again the Stone, and bray it to a pow-
der ; and then again, put it into a Phyfical Bath
the fpace of one natural day,and then again it will
be diffolved into a moft red Liquor ; which again
put into the Achanor to be digefted, the fpace of
two dayes - which time paft , you (hall finde a-
gajn a Stone moft tranfparent and like to a Ruby,
which^tnay be meked~uponaj:ed hofPIa&eof
Ifion^an^ all . Now
this fame fo^repared^aTiTfoTnatfy Vermes, that
no tongue of man is able to exprefs them.
M^Mitt
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