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AN hAsit; 
 
 IMTRODUCTION 
 
 TO THE 
 
 Philofophers Magical Gold- 
 
 To which is added, 
 ZORASTERS CAVEs 
 
 As alfo 
 
 John Fontams Epiftle upon 
 the Mineral Fire • 
 
 Otherwife called, 
 
 l^he Philofophers Stme. 
 
 By Geor: thor, Aftromagus. 
 
 LONDON^ 
 ^tinted for Matthew Smelt ^ at the Sign 
 of the Ship io More-fields. i66y. 
 
To the Students in Magic, ' 
 
 for Aftrall Secrets : 
 
 ^^Or to thop Tpho look u^n this Sa*- 
 -^ credScieme^ (fa tie wife De- 
 mocricus calls it ) as on the 
 Poet's ^i(p0^ov.o^/M)yL'Ari^O' 
 phans Cuccovv-Town in cue 
 Clowd ?5 and name it our Sparta*^ / have no^ 
 king to fay hut only this : That they arefuch 
 IS are [but up^ hy a wonderfully ahd ruxef" 
 ary provide/ice of God^ under the vaft^ I ea^ 
 jie cloud of the vulgar^ from which they are 
 '-ever J He to efcape : And to the Gyant of 
 '^onceipt^ him that comes up ioldiy to lay his 
 ands on this Ve^al^ without the Ordinary 
 '^ignificatiohs^comvetent Learning^i^it^ & 
 'banners ^only^two words-- yraref ov cfi'5^(i)7r©-' 
 KovWoAos ; utrurn homo, an Priapus ? 
 ^ndfoyt hid them hoth Farewell. 
 
 A ^ It 
 
To the Students in Magic, k 
 
 It is to you that J fend this Golden mM^^ 
 nualli a pretious difcourfe on the Magic aW^^^ 
 Gold: Aurum enim noftrum vton elt auP^^ 
 rum vulgi ^ and I (hall giveyou an accourm i' 
 of my Election of This out of feme hundredm^^ 
 that I have readd^ajter a fhort Jntroit. . W ' 
 it is not unknown to you^ that there h ml^ 
 certaine Tongue^ that is the Tongue of My iO 
 fieries^' called iy PkiimSy Lingua Magica lixk 
 /ind fomet/mes Lingua Angciorum 5 am b| 
 indeed^ it is Lingua Ipfius Ternarii San^ Iftfi 
 £li ^ for alrnofl all the Hagiografhy is in it \ iIkI 
 alltheCabalifmof the Hehrevps 5 and . '•* i ■' 
 out the ambit of that^ nothing that's ^' n- ik' 
 rdle. This Tongue is not only alfjlutel^ im 
 necejjary^ and ivifely fitted to vail her Stcrets td 
 from the unwortly a/^ prophar^ : lut is /'fo 
 Iravely prcportioud to the Olympu'^ ( 
 Inielli'cluali Imaginations of Man (to f^eak 
 the language while I prarfe it 5 and wit hall 
 interpret the fulllme Demonjirations ) 
 
 16'^ ^w^mc^v Koyccv ^cdyi — That Man 3 
 r^ho is df ended frcm God ; has in lim" 
 feJfe a f^^^fe of Urn ; and turnes his 
 7ni,.d icrra/'ds lim'^ Tn'gld^ l^f^'^ a generous 
 
 SchoUer 
 
/ for Aftral Secrets, 
 
 (i mwJIer he taught tj My flic words," And 
 'diet h ts not every Artijl who has offer da 
 
 i'is Tongue^ that has tie right fejcttj to it ; 
 ly ihdeedy hot zery many out of the whole 
 acra Corona^can ie fhowf7^ who haneof^e- 
 dfo much as a Rcfe to the true Venus of the 
 anguage , the fweet and fecret Cytherea \ 
 :?a0ia<i:v Cytherea \ Their words are often 
 .^jf^ariarous^ their claufs a/^d periods rude and 
 Aarflj^thetr whole compcfure fo carehfje and 
 Hocfei ) that the common JDtghity of a man^ 
 ii'lwho r^imes to read y is utterly forgot and loft 
 '''\ap*"'^^:e dignity of the Argument it felfe, 
 n]7k^:~'kgain , their mofl induflrious Jnvolu- 
 tlkions.'^ their Inverjions of Method*^ their 
 monfiifwns of the norks ^ their ferverfions of 
 mhe ^hfe of ofie place ly mother^ makes allfo 
 \d '"^nd intricatf^that Lycopl.ron'sCaf- 
 'Mav.dv^^wheref}.eleginnSyandhclds on^ kr 
 iiheavie lamlics over Troy 
 : )| •'Ati5 th oL'/jPOiV €ou7rAa.vo^/.f i^d^v \cc|)6)V^ From 
 the topof>4;f, whither tl-c Cow wan- 
 drcd^ to theirs is meere tranfient^^ pervious 
 fieadin^. But this Anonymus^ whifoever he 
 waSyisfo \ar\rcmfuch unsLiifuh^j]ey& need- 
 hfennjie^ that in an endeavour to give us 
 
 men 
 

 (if 
 
 To the Students In Magic, 
 more frequent , a//d iri^hterflriElureS c 
 Lrght^ he has rum^e hmffJje almofi out c 
 Magic Tor*guf.Ai.d is mt that famn^bat y ''^f i L 
 Be des the Difourje^ a Cliarra Lace ^ 
 hufayes /V^Svi ipca cli; igitur horis lub 
 vis Apcrra hcec Traftatioa nobis,dc 
 ro Philofophico, nee dum cognito, 
 Cbymiccrum Stylo^ uc folent) allegti- 
 co, fed piano, ut IntelligaturTind 
 Solis, hacrenus occultata, additis a 
 ^c. And yet ^ you need mt fear hut tha 
 had a /park />/ him of that Cuftodia fho 
 maga which comes from Cod^ and hoh 
 htm'j of which the lear^^d Frier ^achn^ 
 Ubi Deus magnam pofuic vircute i , 
 ibi etiam magnam pofuit Cuftodia i; 
 uiipatetin Viperis^, 8c MagorumLai- 
 de : for he has writt to the onlyjixt law of le 
 Tongue"- Nil aperte, nil operte ; of whh 
 more in his Vrogramma ta the Book,— A d 
 7 his I name the firft^ though not thegrea 
 of many Incitements , that made me cho 'e 
 it for you , and bring it forth out of tt 
 Lethe where it has hyen un-olferved. 
 
 7'hefecond iSy That inanextraordina\ 
 manner^ andtofome peculiarity tooy it tret 
 
 ii 
 
\ for Aftral Secrets. 
 
 i^^sEntc primo Univerfaliffimi Mincra- 
 liii^j ^5 ^f ^^^ Umverfal mofi univerfak 
 f^ itque hsEC eft anceps icntcjitia ! 
 ej 1 ^^^ Tkird-y Tha under theMofl Univer- 
 jj, jLi?, it reprefents and ajjerts to us^feveralt 
 ^tinBureS particular '^ A thing fomepph at 
 
 \^oubtedty an able Philofopher oj my acquain- 
 ^Jtancfyjvho is now at the Greater Pyrotechny^ 
 fjlfondl was defer ous to give him my Author i^ 
 ^[tieS^fromThefe Great Names ^ as well as my 
 dreafonSy from our EleBricaU Compofetions. 
 jj The Fourth 5 That there are in itfo many 
 l^andfuch opeu glances at the Keyes of^rt and 
 u Nature^ as are not to he fpied^ a?idcatchty in 
 
 ' an^ other that I know. 
 
 J The Fifth ^ That two of the particular 
 gl TinSures^ that of Saturne and Jupiter Con- 
 \ifi^^ 5 ^^ o{ Jupiter Single 5 are apparent- 
 j| ly jhort^ and profitable works : And thofe 
 ^ J would recommend to fuch askmw the Ini- 
 J tiall mother to all TinBures^ and are- not yet 
 ij ahleto learethe charge ( though not much ) 
 ^i or wait the time of the great fVork. 
 
 I The Sixt^That it is a little golden Tripos^ 
 j reade to move it felfe^and '^i'ue a'nfwers to 
 u ^^'^^^^^^^ concerning the Mineral & Metal- 
 
To the Students of Magic, 
 UcTmBuresoflfsiSLC Flandcr, BafilVa 
 lentine^ and Tiieophraftus Paracelfus 
 andfo mayptve as a Mef Complex of aUyOr 
 mo(l of their mitral LearMug. 
 
 7 he Seventh 5 That iy Citations 5 ic 
 touches upon certaine Curious Mdnufcnpts^ 
 no where elfe to he feen tn their Sparks^ and 
 fuch Semo/dics to what they are. Cum enim 
 (fa)es htsChartatoThis) pcrlongo Tem- 
 pore tianc Artem fciSaius fucrim, nee, 
 tantum pcrpetuis Cogitation/bus, & 
 Studio Theorctico, mulcorumque Ma- 
 nuicriptorum Inipciiione , quorum 
 mentio pafsim a nobis fie ; led manuali 
 infupcr labore,&experiencia propri^>& 
 atteiuaverim& compererim plurima; i- 
 cebit mihi hujus Rei condicionem, &cc. 
 
 And the fe are theReafohS why youfhould 
 highly Accept of it^ as well as they were to xne 
 to make the Choice, 
 
 The Second 7 raE{ate(colleRed from various 
 reading , and not without fijme experience 
 of my own) is an Echo to this ^ and within it 
 felfe-^ as on the other handy to old Pon tan's 
 Miner all Fire. I call it'^^^^ovMir^ocs, The 
 Cave of Mitr a ^a^/d render if -Z'oroaftcr's 
 
 Cave^ 
 
 I 
 
'^ave J hcattfe in the Solharie horror of s 
 huge Cave^ the ceremonies of Mirra, tlatis^ 
 ^ yf the Sun^ were anciehtl^ ereBedhy that great 
 ' thdldean^ arid the fern douk of Magical In* 
 ^ dilute : fuch ^^ jtere the Sacra Eleufmia^ 
 the Holyes of Ceres Eleulina ; concerning 
 ^' which y Elchy lus was thought to have fpoken 
 ) too muchy and Sophocles M his Scintilla^ 
 ^ tions. 
 
 The Golden Key that locks the 
 
 the Tongues of che Eumolpidae^ 
 
 the Priclis of Ceres, 
 
 ANdnow upon the vievp of this litle^ffrO' 
 magic Trias^^ its in auguration to the 
 fuhlick lights I cannot let itpajje without its 
 own Au c 1 le. That Scutcheon tha it ypeares 
 from Heaven^ that hy its Stature it may not 
 ie taken for a Parvus DaEmon Minorum 
 Gentium.For a Genius of a lower order 3 or 
 of the lefjer Nations^ I fay therefore^ It has 
 in itythe Green Salina 5 The viriditie of Na- 
 i^ure to Mineral Starrs in Our Mercurie^ th$ 
 '*^' fpi^k^^i ^merald^ analogous to the tiniver- 
 
lo cnc ^cuQcnis or iviagiCj occ 
 
 fall Spirit:, ^nd whofoever reads this hook^ I 
 though indeed hut a f mall Ziolum to that Idea 
 that it is read) to make^fhall have no reafon t(^\ 
 lament the i^ uVo/AVMMa'Aiyu7r1^jov- the loffe 
 cf thofe tookeS' The Sacred Comeniaries 
 of tnc Egyptiansjjamedto us hy the Greeks: 
 for hfthis^in afhort timey hemaj not onely 
 become a learned Initia?*t ; l^ut^ iy the favour 
 of heaven upon his praBice^ aperfeB Hiero^ 
 phant to the he^ of Secrets. 
 
 Other curious Pieces I have in my eye^ for 
 t%fe who ate cUridUs , dtid of a variout red" 
 ding 5 thcfe I refulve to draw out as I Jit a 
 my AthanoiT this winter^ and fend them a- 
 broad with the fame fulfcription to yourfer^ 
 vice. 
 
 Ge^.Tmor; A^romagus. ,^^ 
 
 Pro" 
 
?ROGR AMMA AUTHORlS. 
 
 tint qui S£pe JegJm Chymicos Muh^mj^ 
 Ubellos^ (pum: 
 
 Nee denaattwgmt poft quo^ Lufira fco- 
 ntic huc^nunc illuc incertis pajjihus aBi^ 
 ^uof Ldyrinthieis flexihus trepatet. 
 nt dij irruidia taBi^ qui cunBa recodunt 
 Ojfufis Ter^elris^ imped/ura^ horns. 
 Hie ft ut Solifapiaat^ ^oli^ ptentur 
 Ejje Sophi^queis ?al qu^trnfua f^^ohf a placet, 
 quoris banc inter ScyRam^Ma^am^ Cha- 
 
 ryidi/t 
 
 jijchymicamjn medio nojlra Carina natat. 
 olcidos ^uriferam ut fi quando ad littara 
 
 LanaWy 
 Technophilus per meforti referre queaty 
 
 tmiat Spoliis jinagrammate nomints apto^ 
 4i Nicolaus erat dux Niger Hapelius, 
 
n 
 
CHEIRAGOGU HELIANA. 
 
 A MANUDUCTION 
 
 to the Philofophcr*s Magical 
 GOLD, 
 
 ^ASILIUS rALENTIN 
 '^ a Benedidin moiik, and, by his 
 countrvj of the higher -^//af/^ J 
 who, in the memory of our 
 neerer anceliors, ex'ell*d in 
 Magickand Chymiihy^in his TrhmphalCha' 
 r/c'r of Antimony, pig. 242. where he trears 
 of the Srone of Fire made of rhe Mercury 
 of Antimony, wrires directly to this Senfe: 
 B»t the Stone of i ire ( fa yes he) does r.ot Tiytge 
 Uyi:verf\lty^ as the Ph-'ofoohers Sione ikes^ 
 vphich is prepared offt of the E [fence of Gold: No 
 affttrejy. Tor it hoi not alio ted to It fuch An 
 t.ffcacy by Its Virtue : hat It ^m qcs ^Art'cular- 
 ly, to tpity Luna /A^r^ Sol b^f^des Saturn <^/7^ 
 Jupiter, oTnlttlng Mars and Venus, /^f^ cnly^ 
 B that 
 
i A MAJ^MduBiontothe 
 
 ^hatal'ittle Gold. After pYiJicHioyt upon Tlewy 
 
 miy i?iih.id :rom them toe hi wAy of Separation : 
 
 Item; r/;/^ 7.«^;»i^^( fayes he ) ^/ one pan of 
 
 Uy cannot Iranfmm^ ah-Z'e fi 'e^ that reman 
 
 fxt trSy^M^'Vi^Ar.drhony^ <j iarra: Ofj^ a>^dAd^ 
 
 unn^s : when on the oJoerfdey rhe /i: e, ancU 
 
 emyHndGrem St'Heo\th; Philopphsrs^ traif^ 
 
 muies to a kjride of imrn nfity. In likj ma/nsry 
 
 The Stone of Fire m Aucimeyitation of hfelfe^ 
 
 cann ot further he Exalted : But the Gold is pure 
 
 and fxt. So a little after, pa^, 244, The> 
 
 reader ( he addes ) is to be advertised y That 
 
 there are Stones to be found of more than One 
 
 kjf^dy that linge particpi!a-^ly,ForAll the fixt 
 
 powders 'That 7 ingey I call Stories ; bff-t One 
 
 aives Tin^ire rnoie Eff:aciouJly and deeply 
 
 than Another : ai the Fhtlofphers Stone hrfl^ 
 
 Thar has its right cf precedence to AT, Ihls^ 
 
 ThcTlnEture ^/Sol & Luna, to Redi^^dWh'.te^ 
 
 follows m Order : next to ' hat^theTin^ftreof 
 
 the ITtriol <?/" Venus an Mars, both of^vh.ch 
 
 have in their own depths the T':nEh:ire 0/ Sol, '/ 
 
 they he brought to a pSrmanent fxiiy. The E 
 
 lix'ir ^/Jupiter a^^d Saturn, for the Ccagula 
 
 tion of Common Mercury to Gold^ follows That 
 
 Tinllur:^ next, L^^flycomes the Tmclureof Mer 
 
 cy.ry hfelf And This is the Difference (fayes 
 
 be ) and M^Ttiplicitj ofSioaer, and Tin^ures, 
 
 y II thefe TinEla-es^ (he further ?.dds ) proceed 
 
 fn ?» One and 7 he fame Secdyfrcm O^e and The 
 
 fame 
 
Philofophers Magical goU. 3 
 
 fame Imtial woiher i from wheKCcf :hs True ti* 
 nlverfal firings ^ O-.t of the Cowpafs of Theje 
 (he zdd^sfhere ts no other A'fet'^tlc TtnotHre to 
 be found in any Thin 7^ what foe ver name ii*s 
 caird hyJThe other Nobler and I gnobler Stones y 
 I mind not new ; and tvill have nothing to dos 
 with them herey becatife they are of no force but 
 only to Me diem, Tn I kj m.-n-ier of Animal ^ 
 Ve^eialyaT^d M-'^eral Stone ^ 1 h^nke no mention y 
 as cheyfiand and are ordain'* d on y to Aled^cinal 
 Ufe^ and have not the leaft ability to the lea j} 
 Metallic wo)\ ; the power of All whivh^is to be 
 found in an Exceffe ftnd^rOne^omplrxofthe 
 Philofophers Great S:rne, None of tloe Salts 
 have any llno^ent power : 77^.7 a e only keyes to 
 the preparation of Stones ^ otherwfe of i hem^ 
 f elves they can do nothlno^ ; bn: Oi for the Sa. ts 
 of 7ytettals and minerals (^>jow I fay fmethtncr to 
 ' theey if thou an ft perce've a ight what Dije^ 
 renceofmmeral Salts J thtn'i upon^ 7 hry are 
 not to be omAted or rejeciedf-om thy workj a^ 
 to Aftral Tinttftre and thts bcca^fe we cannot 
 want Them in our Compofitio^s, For in Thefe 
 is to be found that excellent Ireifpfr^, whence 
 all fixation with per f^ ver an ce^ t>^kjs ' its orio i- 
 na'^ and has its Tr^-e and Genuine T> ife. ThuS 
 far Hafiiim VAlenti-'i, 
 
 This Sublime and Incomparable Ph'lofo 
 pber befce the Tine of Fa-ac-lfiis, layes 
 here the Foundation of the whole Univerfal 
 B a Moll 
 
4 A MamduBion to the 
 
 Mod Univerfalj and of all the Stones and 
 Tindlures in the mineral Kingdome; out of 
 which, metallic Tinctures ( in other Things, 
 by rhemfelves ) ought not to be fought^ as 
 heattelhin many places. But in This, he 
 moil evidently fhovv'^, befides the Original, 
 Great Univerfal of the Seed and Initial mo- 
 ther, out of which the other Tinctures pro- 
 ceed ( air hough he names Them not expref- 
 ly)i that rher^ are Six diAin<5t dirfe;ing 
 Stones and Tinctures, of which one Tinges 
 ftill more powerfully then Anorh^r cnn. 
 And in cheb^g'nningof hi^Triumphal Ch^- 
 liot of An^mony, he defcribcs fairly to us 
 The Scone of Fire^orTind^ure of Anrimony, 
 whofe Mercury he teaches to preci pirate 
 with Oyle of Vitriol out of Mars^ and in 
 his own proper Sweet, red Oile, that is ex- 
 tr^fted from the Sulphur and Salt of Anti- 
 mony by the mean of the Spirit of Wine, 
 and driv-n by the Retort, to diifolve and af- 
 terwards ^o'fixe it incoaTingent, fliient 
 Stone* This indeed is a particular Tindlure 
 of Antimony, and yet it is certain Parace/fus 
 did fo Exalt it, and by fubtile preparations, 
 then by reverberations, afterwards by Subli- 
 ma«:ions, Dige(Vions, Separations and Diflil- 
 lations; at laft,by various redu6lions and re- 
 folutions, ( as h'imfelfe aflRrms in the fourth 
 of hib Archidoxes) brought it to fuch a point 
 
 of 
 
Thikfophers Magical Gold. 5 
 
 of high Temper, that all the admirable virtue 
 of it was not to be found by the Wit of 
 man ; That by vvhich ir pail through even all 
 metals wirhout airninurion of its force, 
 and mde them pe'-fect, pnd yet to it felf was 
 ftill iufifi:ient to Tinged more and more yet ; 
 no: Thar, by v\hich it was apparently able 
 to propagate humane bodyes Sound and 
 Strong CO the Tenth Generation. 
 
 To iVntlmony, Sulphur is not urlike. The 
 mineral ( for both of Them are to be referred 
 to the vitriolares ) of which, Theohr.ifita 
 fayes thus : Th^ir, That is not In Ir, we may 
 attain by the help of the Other ; byjt, mea- 
 ning the magnetick Spirit of the World , 
 which is the Philofophers True Magnesia. 
 And That (fayes he) will follow the Cap- 
 tain of Art ( that is, Hel'ios the Artid ) clofe. 
 But after what manner the Stone of Fire out 
 of the Three Intr«n(ics of An^iimony, by in- 
 tervention of Oyle of the vitriol of Mars 
 and Venm^ ought to be prepared, Bafdlm tea- 
 ches, not only in hisTriumphal Chariot here 
 and^here, but more colleijiedly, and in an 
 op:n method, he feemes to have rreared of 
 it in the manufcript of his ManHul prac^ 
 tier. 
 
 After the Stone of Fire, next he mentions 
 
 the Philofophers Sron!,and gives it the high- 
 
 ert place, to wit,in refpeflof the other T n- 
 
 B 3 ftures 
 
6 A MdnuduBton to the 
 
 £luresUmvcru7l, buc n.^r ot the Umverfd 
 Sviufi iinivjyjdj as I iliall lliovY and prove a- 
 non. Bur h^ .^ftinns rhe Scone is made out of 
 ihcEjj:,2ccoi(^oldy and Truly indeed ; but 
 rot as we Chall heare, vvichout the Addition 
 ot the Salt of Nature borh Simple and Com- 
 pound "I \yhcns.t ^ichjml^^ the name of the 
 Act 5 is pointed ont ;Ha/ch^mi^^ that is> afu- 
 fion ot Salt, by the Ingenious Chry/tppm 
 
 Fdr'n'.A.'i, 
 
 ' The third is the Tin^lure of the Sunjor of 
 Gold The moll Philofophlcal, and follows 
 immediacv-ly The Philoiophers Stone. This 
 confiiis of Cold Alone or chiefly, and That 
 Philofophi al dcfcribed by me, for which 
 C.iufe it differs from the Stone Icfelfe, al- 
 thout;h there are vn:iou> prep.irationsofit^ 
 For indeed the Great Stone is made out of 
 the Effenc Cj and the very alhal Tin6lure of 
 Gold : But this Tini^ure of th-. Sun, inliead 
 ofthefuriliSaltofNarure, is content wich 
 his own Salt, and comes out of the three 
 pinciples of GoldPhilofophical refolved, 
 depurated, and con joytt'd^as we (hal tell you 
 towards the End. » 
 
 The fourth Tin£hire according to the 
 Sentence of our 5.<?//, is the Tincture of 
 Mars and refms Conflate, that is, of the 
 white^and red Spirit of their vitriol, which is 
 the Mercury and Sulphur of both> together 
 
 with 
 
PhilofopherS Magical Gold. 7 
 
 with their fixe Silt, out of which this Tin- 
 ware is had : although without the vulgar 
 Sol, wherewirh it istobelncorporacedj ic 
 cannot be perfected ; becaufe with It, it is 
 firft to be fixt, as Bafil vvitneiTes, in his book 
 of NaturalS;,and Supernaturals, Ch.2.pag.2 8. 
 in thefe very words ji?^r^^/^(fayes he)'/?^ / />/- 
 ilure of the Sun is m where more ab^mdantly 
 /5»;?^5f^f;« ;■« Mars ^«^ Venus, ^ in male and 
 /"^ji^/c'jTheir bodyes are defiroyed, and their 
 Tingent Spirit is driven forth, to Satiace o- 
 penM p\pT-en Gold with Its own blood, 
 and by its p -oper mear xsd drink to make ic 
 fugitive and vohnU Tlicn ;inoD, This vo- 
 l?ril Gold rhus Satiate w^th Irs own meat 
 and its own drinke, refumes its ^ wn blood, 
 and D-yts ir Uipby Its own Internal He:t, 
 by the help ot a v^p^^rous fire^when e enfues 
 another vidorv, whi h makes ir fully fixe, 
 and highly perfever?nr,ro th:it now the Gold 
 ks med'cin more then f Ar, To the f?me 
 Senfe, the fiime Au'-hor, feme pages after 
 adds; Although the Mars^nd l^enas ( of this 
 Art ) doe no^ ftand in need of any vefture , 
 but are able to glv? it ro the other five; yet I 
 dare conRanrly aflRrme and affert ir, tbat 
 without Our Lyon, ( that is, wirhout Gold 
 referate and prepar d as aforefaid)rhey can do 
 juft noth"^n^at all, becaufe we doe not fee, 
 and provide againU the peremptory fixity of 
 B 4 their 
 
8 A ManucluBion to the 
 
 their Mercury, and rhe malleabiUcy of their 
 Salr jto have gain from them : unlefle iheLy- 
 on conquer iheni again in a great Scuffle^ and 
 both be brought not onely to perfed 
 Solution, but final fixation, as he taught a- 
 fore. 
 
 But here we meet with a Great and notable 
 Obje6lion, that bids us rtand toanfwerit. 
 Vox Baftl^ in the twenty ninth page of this 
 Ch2pter,does not only fay plainly, That the 
 TinAure of ye;7Hs and Mars without Gold 
 refolved ( a> was faid a little before ) can doe 
 nothing ; but he aUo affirmes of the vulgar 
 Gold, whofe Tincture is tobe joyn'd with 
 thQ:l!in'^me.oEA<fars^r\drefJus , That the 
 Loid of all the planets (namely Gold)is not 
 able to impart to his Subje£ls any thing of 
 his own verture : becaufe nature has given to 
 it but only One rich Suit ; unleffe the Ser- 
 vant i\ri\ do further enrich his Lord. And a 
 little after, he adds : The King cannot com- 
 municate with his Servants any ofhis here- 
 ditary honour,n^r give them a lalFingCourt- 
 gallantry of hnbit, unlefle that firl^ he do re- 
 ceive, pcnfion'? and Tributes from his Sub- 
 jects. And now, fince This isfo, It may be 
 askr, and that indeednot without an emi- 
 nent caufe. How it (hould be, That the Tin- 
 cture of So/^ according to its Effential Dif- 
 ference can lunu oirifom theTini^ureof 
 
Phtlojophers AfagtcalCold, $ 
 
 mus and M^^s^ or any other oftheTin- 
 ures ; namely if tbe vulgar Gold be not a- 
 e to Tinge, unkfte Itfelfe be firft TingM 
 ^ the Spiiit of Its Subjects ? Some to untie 
 lis knot have betaken Themfelves to the 
 ineraofGold as yet Green, as alfo to the 
 Larcafits ; and I deny not butThey may doe 
 
 rymuch, becauCe theyarenot deftituteof 
 pi'rits. And thence, as they contend, the 
 inclure of Sd^ and not from fufed Gold, is 
 ) be prepared and had. Others look for the 
 inctureof^^'j not out of Gold limply re- 
 )lved, but fuch as is tirff brought into his 
 rinciples diftin^t, and after certain Depu- 
 itions,made up againe,by a handfome natu- 
 il coalition. For the Artills (fuch as they 
 :e) that do not add to the Mercury of Gold, 
 le Sulphur of Sol^ but Sol it felfe, doe not 
 roperly belong to us here, and therefore 
 rithout contemning them, weanfvYerthus ; 
 hat the Silver and Gold that Nature has 
 ut into our hands upon her own Simple 
 rovifion, is not fo much required to the 
 'inging of 5^/, as is Another more Sublime, 
 nd much better. Our Gold, the Philo- 
 Dphers Gold, in which there is the Tingent 
 pirit ; of which I fhall prefently difcourfe, 
 fhen firlt I have run over all the Tindlures 
 f BaftL 
 
 The fifth Tin<fture BafH propofes in Jupi- 
 ter' 
 
I o A ManuduBion to the 
 
 ter^ndSatUTf}, and that a^ extending to the 
 Coagulation onely of Coin.Tion <ncicu-y to 
 Silver namely,and to Gold, to w^t, by cheic 
 red andfweetOyle by Arc prolcded rom 
 their Centers, as he, in more ch^n on ! pLice' \ 
 intimates to rhofe th.ir cm read. And t^ "hiS' 
 place alfo belongs the DoJlnnerhu ^^.^/-rf- 
 ce'frs delivers in his bo-)k oil^exatni^^ con- 
 cerning the compifitionof ^.t/'^r-v, L^na^ 
 and Alercury. Buc here, I cmnoc hold from 
 telling you plainly, that 5^y/7rpcakes ofrhe 
 vulgar Saturn^ and vulgar jf^p/cer ; borh o£ 
 which, while they (Ull remain in their own 
 minera, are of a higher conlideration, virtue, 
 and force : and to That purpofe, in his Tri- 
 umphal Chariot of Antim ny, where he 
 fpealcs of the fixation of vulgar mercury, hef' 
 has thefe words, p^i^e. 87. Merrury can be 
 brought to no Coagnhtion;, unlefTe there be 
 an addition to it of the other m2t:^llicSpirir^, 
 and that Coagulation is mod eflRcacioufly^ J'' 
 and m^ft powerfully of all effufed. in the 
 mother oiSAmm^ without whi h it cannot 
 be done, unleflethou haftthe PhilofopherJ 
 Stone itfelfe. And fo again of 5^r//r;?,in his 
 book of Natural, and Supernatural Things, 
 cap, g. pa/, 121, Every man is to know > and 
 think upon it. That no Tranfmuration o 
 metal can be had out of S^tur^y becaufe of 
 his moft excelTive Cold, excepr onely thef 
 
 Coagulation 
 
 03S 
 
Fhilcfopkers Magical Gold. 1 1 
 
 Dagulacionofthe common mercury : be- 
 uic: rhe Cold Sulphur of Lead, canl-top 
 d tame the currenr, vagrants hot fpirit of 
 ercui y, and take it avva\ , if the proLefle be 
 ;hrly inllituted. An^o thefc a little after 
 fubjoynes : Wheraore fee thoudonot 
 j'ea Siiuirn^ or look fcornfully upon it to 
 rg it behind thee : for indeed his nature 
 a virtue is yet known but to a few ; audit 
 from this Sattirnx.\Mx. the True and great 
 one takes the Inicinls of itsCelelUaU fla- 
 ant colour ; it is fr.^.m thi? metal, and this 
 Dne;ardbythe Influence of this Planet is 
 /en to I: a key of perfever^nce through 
 Ltrefadion : becAufe of Citrine no redde 
 n be made, unleflcjfrom rheb.ginning. 
 It ofBlack, a Whiteberaifed.TheleThings 
 .Which as they are r fahjgherfenrchand 
 niideration, fo rhey feem ro belong to a 
 creter Saturn^ nam.ely, the Philofophiral, 
 hich does arife out of the putrefaction of 
 /jand the Salt of nature,althoughrcertain 
 cellent Doclor of Law labours to evince 
 his Rnricola^ That in the very minera of 
 ad of a certain lort, whofe flowers arc 
 ^uble,rhere is a very great force : rhe fame 
 Co appeares to beprovedby theTinflure 
 lied the Aromatic of the Philofophers out 
 the mercury of Lead; to fay no more of 
 rcicular Tin<Sures. Hence Pardee I fw^in his 
 
 book 
 
i> 
 
 c 
 
 12 A ManuduElion to the 
 
 book of Vexations, are rather of fixations 
 cannot fufficiencly extol that Interior Spin 
 oiSAturn^ which is able to kill and (lay the o 
 ther Spirits, or mercuries of. the merals 
 as 1 my felf have fon^times feen bars of per 
 fe6t proved Gold ont of the mer,cury o 
 common Lead, as they were fhown to m< 
 five yeares agoe by a very learned , wif 
 man. 
 
 In the fixth and laft place, Bafil make 
 mention oftheTin6l:ure of mercury It fell 
 But That Tindure is prepared either by th 
 mediation of the Calx of Hgge-fhels, as Pa 
 racdfKS has it in the fifth book of Ulcers pa 
 cent; or is elevated by the vitriol of yl/^r 
 and r'<f;?^,refolved,diftilled, and coagulated 
 as you may fee in the fame Author, concern 
 ing the Death and Metamorphofis of Thing 
 and more to That in Rupcclfa, to whom '. 
 reftore that little book of theTini^ure o 
 mercury in the Second part of ur^/Mrc/f/^ 
 or elfe Its Sublimate,by h^lp of rhe malagm 
 o£jt^fiter^ is refolved and diftiU'd, in whicl 
 the mercury is calcin^d^and coagulated witi 
 mdtals, the very way that Bafil himfelf< 
 feems to have taken,in his book of the Two- 
 fold Mercury of 5'<7/, pag. 1 08. in that parto 
 the Repetition of the Great Stone. For,ths 
 way of proceeding with mercury is ve^y va- 
 rious and multiform : and yet it is eafily rc« 
 
 ducec 
 
Thilofcphers Magical GoU^ 13 
 
 • "aced into a liquor by fire with the help of 
 ^' le powder of beaten coale; which liquor af- 
 l^rwards by a certain Arciiice, is able to 
 'I xrra^l the Soul of 5<?/. It is alfo preci- 
 ' itared by it felf^and fixt with the Tin(5^ures 
 ° :rer:f^yMirs^znd Sol : but chiefly it is nou- 
 ,'? (ht with its own milkj to which percftance 
 Sou mayft Interpret that of SyhilUEmme" 
 ,.^ ^^when She fayes : Sitting upon a plain and 
 t elUdii'pofed Seat, thou givelt It of its own 
 , 'or h, that is, milk Tent down from heaven ; 
 ; hich yet a^ain may be applyed to the Unil- 
 ^ :tfal5grearflone5Scc.in xh^'ybtllin fragments 
 pPhi !p deLign4minei\\t Sicilian Knight. Of 
 J his too5 take that fpeech of Qeber the Arab. 
 ' hen he fayesilf of mercury ^ne/mineral 
 ;^ : means,t hough taken from another place) 
 ou canft tell how to mak*^ the Stone, thou 
 ifl lookt for and found a molt excellent na- 
 e, and pretious skill . Hence Bafd^ in his 
 riumphal Chariot, p^^. 88. For mercury 
 fayes he ) is a pure meer fire and no- 
 ing elfe. And thence ir is that It is 
 irnt by no fire, and that no kind of fire 
 n captivate it to its final Dedrud^i- 
 J. It either flyes away fuddainly, refol- 
 ngit felfefpiritually intoan Oylelncom- 
 irtible ;or remains after its fixation fo con- 
 mr, that it is nor poiTible for any man to 
 ke any thing from it : infomuch that what- 
 
 foever 
 
1 4 A ManuduBion to the 
 
 foever can be m:\dc our of Gold, the fanf 
 
 may be made out of It by ?vrt:. For after t 
 
 righc Coagulation of It, it is in all things li. , 
 
 CO Gold : becaufe it comes froTi chefat: 
 
 roor, thefa-ne Stock, and chatianne Uni 
 
 that Gold does. With rhefe agree thofe oth 
 
 pretious Sayings of his that he has fcatcer 
 
 up and down when he fpeaks o\ the Star 
 
 Soly and the ilarre of /^-crcflfry, which Tv^ 
 
 being joyn'd together in their radious pov 
 
 er5opens to us at a certain ti.ne the Clofle 
 
 of the molKecrec Wifdome. See his Tr 
 
 umphal Chariotj p^^. 713 and 7 2. 91, at 
 
 92. I {"hould not need to take much p^iii 
 
 in explaining the words of Bafel^ if Thl 
 
 Tractate which he writ upon the Aftruin 
 
 -^Wand MercuYj^ were not To envioufly fuf 
 
 prefl by fome* Nor are we ignorant thj 
 
 thofe by fomeareapplyedtothe minerac:^ 
 
 Sol-i the proceffe whereof by the wet way an 
 
 the mediation oiN'nre and SaUgemme is it 
 
 liituted fo, that firft Three Principles are ii 
 
 queftred, and then depurated by Spirit c 
 
 Wine : and firR of all afcends theAifrur. 
 
 of Mercury White, his Sulphur and Sal 
 
 remaining downwards, whereof the Salt i 
 
 extradled from the Sulphur by diiViU'd rain 
 
 water, and when it is pu :*ged of all its Ter 
 
 rertrial f^tculence, it congeales into a vitrio 
 
 under a triangular and quadrangular forme 
 
rmojopers MagtcAl uoiet^ 15 
 
 It ot there Three Depurates, is againe ex- 
 isted a new intire minera oiSol^ and the 
 it act for fome Times cohobated by affu- 
 tn of a New Aq'.ut Regis^ untill the mouth 
 the Lyon ( as it is call'd ) be well opend, 
 iL.h in Digeltion i^ circulated; and after- 
 rds, the water being drawn away, afcends 
 \ bright Mercurial Spirit. In This the Vi- 
 ol prepared afore i.^ hrltDitfolved^and Di- 
 ted,rill it depofcs all its feculence. And 
 is oleaginous, clear water, difiolves the 
 Iphur above nmed and in a double pro- 
 rtion of ic. Torhcfo Three parts are added 
 ar of I he Mercurial Aft cum, and fo Dige- 
 dinto a Bilny for forty day^s, till all pafs 
 :o aGreen vifcous Liquor,and afterwards 
 aPhyfic funace be coagulate to a fixt 
 id'cin. Oihers following the dry way 
 )arate a minera from Gold, and this Gold 
 pregnant by its own Spirit they diftill 
 nrly by Retort, and fcj that of a pound they 
 ^e leant a dram of its fweet Spirit. An 
 nee of this for the purpofe prepared^ they 
 uc up in afmall Glaffe, decoding ic care- 
 Jy fix month? by degrees of fire,- till is 
 rn ro a fixe redneffe, which paffes through 
 z Argent vlve mineral coUeded without 
 e, and makes it fit and able to turn the bo-* 
 of Gold into Tindure» Now whether 
 |ie{e5or the other look better for the Aitrum 
 
 of 
 
l6 A MAnudumon to the 
 
 of Bi^fii^s Sd and Mercury y\ leave for othc! Tii- 
 to Judge, becaufe I have not yet feen Th n 
 Traclate of Beifl de Aflro Soils, \i\ 
 
 But that 1 may fpeak yet more cleerly • in 
 that Mercury that is known among the vuiai 
 gar, we murt compare chofe things ih\i7k]i 
 ophraftpi6 gives us about Congcalmg th' 
 Spirit of mercury into a Saphir Scoiilt 
 by the Oyle of Vitriol, in his book of minjli i 
 rals, with Thofe that his Scholar Phdtdro tloi 
 Greatitelates of the Soul of che Hermaphr(!l:[ 
 dite, and thence it will ea'ily app^^ar to thei ir 
 of the Chymical monarchy^ f-om whencr: 
 exifts^and how is^ad. That Sapphiric FlovYi r,? 
 ofthe Hermaphroditejwhichis the admirabjpli 
 myftery of the Greater world; Of whi< jtl 
 ( faies he) even one dram after its p"oie£lid 
 upon three t/ioufand drams of mc:ltedGol 
 and thofe cart upon achoufand of Braff 
 turns all into molt perfe(!^ pure Gold. Thi 
 {ayes Phxdro Rodochx^u : whofe p^ocefl 
 in this Secret is not yec known to all of Us, 
 To Thefe de{ervedly we may add, what t\ 
 moftexparienced man, and the profounde 
 fearcher of Nature, John Ifaac the Flandria 
 ( for from him all others after him, lean 
 as from another Hermes ) has in his Traftat 
 ofthe Oyle of vitriol; And alfo of the OyU 
 cF Mercury, and of Antimony brought t 
 Tindureperfeftlyfixr, Nor canlinvolv 
 
 Thi 
 
Philofophers Magical gold. 1 7 
 
 ^his in filence. That of many mettals and 
 I'.nsrals puc together, the fame Author 
 'eaehes a TinvSturedoes arife ; and fucha 
 'injure as is able tofallupon aThoufand 
 ats of Silver, to tranfmute and Tinge it to 
 jold.And not Inferior to This, is that Mer- 
 u:i<^I and Solar Tincture of the moftlllu- 
 iou-j Duke o^ Bavaria^ Lord George The 
 wich,rowhom, as our Ancellors have lefc 
 "y u^y immenfe riches did accrue from this 
 rt.But be/ide-jThat old faying ; Make mer- 
 uryby mercury, by water mercurial (to 
 'it, our ofGold)prefents to us in Truth 
 ~he fime Things. And does not PAl'mrrenms 
 ■1 his Cap:icorn-book,rhe renth,aUude neer 
 ■y the fame fenfe? when he fayes, * 
 
 Hinc Jnvey.em ArcAdium I'/ifidnm^ ni^ 
 
 Trer.dite^ & \mmerfum (lyriiS occidiie 
 lymph IS : &c. 
 
 This young Arcadian faichleffe, vagrant 
 
 knave 
 Snap up, and drown him in the (iygian 
 
 wave. 
 
 and That that follows. 
 
 But of This enough already. For T do noc 
 
 irtainlyknow, whether thac of the Helve- 
 
 C tian 
 
I S A MdnuduBion to the 
 
 tian Doctor, in his book of the Treafure cA 
 Treafures, wriiing ofminerals^ may be re- 
 ferred hicher5or noc.-Nacure rayeshe)beoeti 
 a mineral in the bowels of the Earrh, o 
 whi.,h there are Two kindsjwhichare founc 
 in many places and Lands of Europe. Bu 
 thebel^jinthe'^gure of the Greater world 
 is in the riiin^ orche Afirum ot rhe Sphea 
 of the Sun. The Othe'-, in a meridiona 
 AdrumjWhich is inirs firil flower, produce^ 
 by the hil^Qoithzf^ifcfmcirr^e, theGiewo 
 the Earth ; and in its nrll Coagulafion i 
 found redd, in whi^: hall the mineral flow 
 ers and colours lye concluded. Which word 
 literally undv^riiood (eem to befpokenc 
 the rri'T^ta of Mercury nnd Gold, bec^ul 
 2heophra[lus ( as alfo his SchoUar Ph£d'- 
 Mag^m; att'ibutes all the Colours of mire 
 rals, in his book of th: Generation and Mt 
 tamorphofis of Things, to A'-genr vive as th 
 ino:her of metals. Alrhough there are fomt 
 that pertinacioufly fit This to the Red 
 Tranflucid minera of Silver, call'd Rotrm 
 di^ertz, by the Germans, Bnt I:,inftead c 
 Gold, fhould think ic rather to agree to A 
 norh.^.: certain mine^a, which is feracious c 
 Hold, ^ndfertil to It, and yet not Gold 1 
 felf. To this is uDt unlike, vi)\:kz Baftl'i 
 h*s books of Supernatural and Narura 
 Thing ', Chaf, 3 , paj. 4 5 . fayes of t[ e Spir 
 
Philofophers Magic alCjolcl, l ^ 
 
 '^ of mercury in theie words : Here th'^ quelti- 
 on mighi: very well be pucro me, H 'W this 
 Spirit of Mercury, is to be goc^ and h.id by 
 1 Us ? Upon This Great quelHon ( h: addes ) 
 /* One might very well with a itrong defire 
 ^5 expevit theAnfvver^which yet 1 will not con* 
 ceal from any one, but h) it open fairhfully, 
 * fo far a? by the wil of Godjit is lawfull to do 
 " itjin manner following : Take ffayes be)In 
 ^^f the name of God, The Redd minera of Mer- 
 cury, tha: looks like Cinnabar (faclirious.) 
 Take, beiides Thsibefl Mine^a of Gold that 
 thou canft get : bruii'e and powder Them 
 both together i^n an Equ.1l Dondus,before 
 Thiv have come at any fire, CT'^— .in the fame 
 place. 
 
 It is very well known, Thar of a certain 
 minera fertil to So/, and the liquor of /^/<?/'- 
 curyy by a monthly Apportion of k, there 
 grew up ro a German Lady, a perpetual har- 
 ve;}, o:- Crop of Gold. The Gold riUng ft'-il 
 in its Colour Green as GralTe: .ifrerwa^ds by 
 lircle and little the Sp'-es paOing into Gold, 
 ready to be reapt by Cizars.Th^re i-^jbehdes, 
 Anotherpirti:^uUr Tinv5lu:e rh^terminares 
 in the Deep-red Crv-'^"--ls of S'^ ; when ic 
 isfublimed, and h^s before ^-own out into 
 fp-ayes, andisalmoll confentaneous coths 
 Other, 
 But we are to take norice,Thac Bafil does 
 C a HOC 
 
2 o A MAnudu^ion to the 
 
 rior rpe.ik of the Spirit of Mercury and SuU 
 phur atrer One vYdy.but diverfly ; ibmetimes 
 of the Scon;:, fooierimes of the Tinitureof 
 FefJiis and /V//? i;lbmerini:s again of the moil 
 Univerial : vvh:nce nor mu.h after, Chsp, 
 4^*1 ofrhe Spi''ic of vitdol out of/^'>«w and 
 -A/^'/:The Genuine and F u- Sulphur, fays 
 he ) is IncoTibuiiiSle. For It is a True and 
 a m.'.er Spi:i[, ou^ of whi,h InjoinbuRible 
 Cy\c !?■ p epnredand had: and It is That very 
 Sulphur, our of which the Sulphur of Gold 
 fro Ti thefame root proceeds and is made.By 
 wiiich wo^ds it is not hard co be conjectu- 
 red, whic he would have us fecretly t;o Un- 
 c^erftandbyhis belt Minera of Gold, as he 
 Speaks of It in other and other places, accor- 
 Hng to the variety of the Subje(!^, of which 
 netreats : Therefore he adds ;For this Sul- 
 r hur is rightly to be called andbaptized,The 
 Sulphur of All the Philofophers (as Paracel- 
 pu points It out too in his book of minerals, 
 Ch:.p. 8th. of vitriol . ^^d Bafil likewife in 
 the Chapter of vitrioljp^/. i:5 3.)becaure in 
 It is all wifdome found even to the Spirit 
 of mercury, which anrecedes it — . But what 
 Th-T Spirit of Mercury i'^j of which he 
 writes there, whether That exprefl in the 
 TinCliirein the Manutcript,to~wit,the white 
 Spiritofthe vitriol of /^<?w;« from Mars-^ or 
 of the Univerfal Mou Univerfal, Heave it 
 
 to 
 
Fhilcfophers Magical Gold. 2 j 
 to the judgment of the Icained.For he fayes. 
 That the Aftrum both o^ SoUnd Merc^ir^^ 
 and the Mercury and Sulphur cfthePhilo- 
 fophers, proceed from One root, at hrfl in- 
 deed a vvhice Spirit, and That he plainly calls 
 the Philofophers Mercu-y : for afterwards 
 there follows ( fayes he) a red Spirit, that is, 
 the Sulphur of th^ Philofophers and their 
 Dyle Incombuttible>from both theTindlures 
 of /^^>rf^and /1/^ 'J meeting roger her in one 
 »vomb. To this pu-pofe in his Chapter of 
 Vitriol fee more pag, 132. and how pro- 
 foundly he phyes the Philofopher there A- 
 lalog'Cilly de Sp'ritu Aibo ad AlburK^ & ad 
 Rabeum de R^.heo—O: the white Spirit to the 
 kVhite, and to the Red of rhe Red- 
 
 It appeare*^ therefore. That the red minera 
 'i^ Par ace 'pa his Cinn^.b.Kjind the red mine- 
 ra of 5^ ''^/v/j his Mercury, ag-ee ve-y neer; 
 md that thebcft oiinera of Gold, with both, 
 n>^y be unde'-ftood not only of the common 
 Vlines whi.h nature gives u>> but of others, 
 o wir of Antimony, the minera of J</^'-/, 
 md chiefly of the vitriol of f^emu out of 
 Mitrs, Buccfthefe, as.the Greeks fpeake, 
 OS tv T^oi^Scc, by the way, to help us to 
 inderftand Bafthiif fpeakirg To viriouClyof 
 :he Spirit of Mercury ; which is the manner 
 )f thofe Chymirts that h?ve tryed many 
 Things, and draw on one ftioo upon many. 
 C 5 For 
 
22 A ManuduBion to tbt 
 
 For there are_Many wayes that nluie particu- 
 larly at One bnd, noc only by One, but by 
 many, and indeed diverfe, Things : Againlt 
 whkli Dextrin many have their Opinati- 
 ons. 
 
 Therefore f^nce our Bafil reckon*? "up to 
 Us diftiniliy thefe Six Explicit Tin^l^ures, 
 which we nave ditcourr'd lb freely afore : 
 and yet in the 244 pnge of his Triumphal 
 Chv. ior, prufcfies alto openly, That All the 
 $ix Stones of metallic Tinctures a rife from 
 One Seed, and are All by One Initial mo- 
 ther in [heir h;ft Generation; So profemina- 
 ted and bred, that from The fame miothec 
 the True Univerfal has its lineal profluence; 
 it is deer as noon-day, that beiide'^ and a- 
 bove the Solihc Eflence both of rhe vulgatj 
 and Our Philolophical Gold, there is yet 
 Another fort of Gold,and That more Secret 
 and hid, from vvhi.h the Univerfal Moft Uni- 
 verfal idue^ forth, as rhe Seaventh and moll 
 perfect of All, riiing from its own propei 
 rootjthat is, its own Earth and Water, and 
 in That much exceeds rhe very Philofopherj 
 ftoneltfelfe; becaufe outof It alone, borl 
 That Stone, and the Other particular Tin- 
 jgenrs, are form'd and flow primordially 
 and more then that, becaufe from It all th^ 
 other Things of all the world, nor onely ir 
 the Mineral, but alio in the VcgetaU and A:- 
 
 nima 
 
PhilofopherS Magic a I Gold, 2 5 
 
 nlmal Kingdome derive their life , hold ic 
 liill 5 and by ih^ Crearorare foorcUin'd ro 
 their Increment and mulriplijation. But 
 now wh.iL manner of thing ■■ his is , and in 
 what thing placed) rhhou^hic mayinfoine 
 forcbe conjectu'edby what was laid afore, 
 (The Green Lire ca irigit felf every where, 
 ^nd encoQipc^-iiing all ) ;yet we il-iall fpeak 
 Biore ot it Delow in its phce. 
 
 All the queicion now , <'>fter we have 
 feckon'd upa'^l the Tin6iures, with fheir 
 Multiplicity and diveriny in the Minerall 
 Kingdome , i^f^obe cran-terred by us, -^^^ 
 Ak/itm P-ijIIafophorfffTi Noirrptm , to Our 
 Philofophars GoIq Wh:t ic fhould be, viz, 
 out of which, the Tinclnre of Sol is '"hivfly 
 fobe prepared , beftdes the Llniverlal Moit 
 Univerfal , and the orher Tindlures n.vn d 
 above-We fay therefore ; Thirthis Gold of 
 the Phil -fophers, (for of the o he:"?; 3 as of 
 the Univerfal Moft UniverfaU we fpeaknoc 
 Dow), is Gold, that is produced by the 
 Philofophe'S one of the Metalls Infe;io-, 
 ^nd of leffer value ; and n-^t by reparation 
 done , bur by ^he benefit of nature wo'-king 
 by Art in an Av!:l:uaU tr-infmu ration. There- 
 
 ^reic is not vulgar Gold , whi- hby na-ure 
 
 in her degree is onely iimply perfecl , and 
 
 therefore now lyes under rather sn Expira- 
 
 . cioD, or declinacion of its Seed j than th?.r it 
 
 C 4 {hould 
 
34 ^ ManuduBion to the 
 
 fhould be viigetou^ And fruirfullcoa proge* 
 ne acion oi ocn^r Gola. Concerning chi; 
 thing I he mo.t Expecienced ivl'rjcrailiit and 
 Merali-m n Arid\:As S^U^^ publislied by chei 
 famous M muriMs , is to be heard , who ii^ 
 his Book of Minerals MetAlU(V Chap, the 
 p^h. Of cxpi ing Me-all , Sept urie the fe- 
 con:i , Wii'e> thus : When Narure with th( 
 bndv of Meiail iscom^ as high as Gold, ther 
 it Geilends ^gain , or moves down ward foi 
 wn. of Ali.Tienc by its hunger Again, ir 
 t^eend ofrhe Sdven!:h Chapter, Sepcurietht 
 fi If, Ofrhe ArcentandDefcencofMeralis 
 afrer he h,is recounted , how finely nature 
 af ending Calcines the wholebody oiLmA^ 
 whii.h Calx is nothing elfeburthe body o: 
 5/, he adds thus: AsforDercencion>tnoi 
 miyff eafily perceive and underlhnd it b^^ 
 Af en^on. For this is the difference , thai 
 in the Afcencitfirlf acquires Tincture, be« 
 fore a body : but In the Defcent , foone: 
 loofes that Tindure. And therefo"e Me- 
 €all«: rhar are Defcendenc are much more 
 imperfeft rhen thofe that are Afcendenr 
 Thu^ he. Therefore fhowing where '•he Seec 
 and Tind^ureis fruitfull or nor fruirfullir 
 theMetalls, The Af^enfion (fayes he)anc 
 Defcen(ion of Metalls , could nor be made 
 but that they A\ agree in '^b^'r feedand ai 
 of a Confanguinicy. U(m ;Iii their Afcer 
 
 SilvC! 
 
Fhilcfophers MagicalGold, 25 
 
 ^52+ilver and Gold have the ftme feed , which 
 t-iiiu the Atcenc tranCmuces Silver to Gold: 
 ^id-ut in the Dclcent, transferrs it into Cop- 
 -•ie>er. Then concluding,he fayes moll openly : 
 ) in f he Seed muttpaffe out of its owne body in- 
 t.toanotherj or elfe it cannot be fiuitfull, or 
 ."i-lertill. Thus far re So!ea, And whofoever 
 :.Tejvill not give Credit to his various experi- 
 iiiitnce,will believe no body at all. Thecaufe 
 toi:berefore appears, why Tincture? are not 
 (iiinade out of Common Gold, unlelTe that (as 
 'kBafil fayes ') be hril exalted by the Spirit of 
 Isjits Subjev9:s, For we mu i look fo^ a more 
 irenoble^andmoreperfedlGold, that is in its 
 ..(j^fcent, in which :he Tingenc, Green, Vege- 
 oikant I'pirit and fruitfull Seed is; whi hby 
 :^dea^s intimation and pointing out, is Gold 
 i)vlprodu:ed from Inferior Meralls. Whyelfe 
 ;4( fayes Connt Trev'fan ) fhould we rake nine 
 ivMonihs time to ferve our turn ( to fpend it, 
 e:|he means, upon the Exaltation of Common 
 .^.iCold by the Tindture of ^ems , as Bafil 
 'ejteaches)?For we might take that body, as na- 
 r^ ture has made it , and laid it ready for our ufe. 
 jiHere yoti fee that Gold (imply given us by 
 i nature, c.innot of it felf produce Tinctures; 
 I but another fort of Gold. Therefore he 
 i^ adds : Our Gold is nor the Gold of the 
 % Vulgar, as all Philofophers fay , becaufe the 
 t common Gold is dead : but aurs is impreg- 
 nate 
 
a A MAnudumon to we 
 
 nate with Splrk and is a hueing Gok t'^ 
 Hence John Ciopnd de Mthun in hn anfwe i^^ 
 to the Lamencarion of Narure ; Gold(ray© a^i 
 he) is known to bethv: Treafure ot all cb ijH 
 Mines : and yet it has neither matter , no ;b 
 form of To g^eat power , a? to exceed it % 
 ovvne pef^^^lion. For it has no greater pow c'k 
 er then to pe^fecil it felf, kt the Artiit Itrivc, n 
 and do what he can. To ddiroy it, and to re- k 
 duce It, would be a toolilli work, fines ouS lol 
 of it no more virtue , no • power can b^ h-idj io 
 th^in what it has from its proper nature tc ili; 
 compkat it felfe. \ 
 
 No Reduction can be made of thofe thing<? 
 that Nrture perfects into a fpecies or Indivi- 
 dual! , unleife firlHhey be corrupted. Anc 
 after Corruption no Generation is m^de like 
 to the fpecies , unleffe perc hnnce there b^ 
 Regreffe to the Genns, Wherefore the D 
 iiru(5tion of Gold makes nothing to the Con- 
 ftru6lion, or making of it, becaufe by its de- 
 ftru6lion nothing can be made. For it be 
 ing once-dead , its Subftancedyes too, and 
 So that out of It no other Argent vive, or 
 Metal, can be had any more, &c. 
 
 That therefore we may expreffely and fo- 
 lidly confirm ouf Sentence and CotjcIu;'^ on 
 concerning the Philofophers Gold fro'^ the 
 lower Metalls , we will give you evident 
 Tellimonies irom many eminent Ph'lofo-* 
 
 phers. 
 
Philofophers Magical Gold. 2 7 
 
 ''i lers. And Rri.\^BaJj/;Hs in his manufcripr, 
 eclaracicnof bh manual practice, wiicing 
 us ofrhe Tincture of 5c?/ : Thou oughteit 
 > know ( fayes he ) that Our Stone is made 
 Its own proper ElTence, and that it tranf- 
 
 :i|utes Other metals into Gold. Which 
 old^he adds)muil again be Deltr^yed, and 
 urn'd into a better Sione. Here very e- 
 denrly ( aslth'nk) he fhows;, That This 
 old is firlt to be made, before it can again 
 ideftroyed5or Tu'-n'd into abet ter Stone : 
 'hence likewife in his German poetrv^ ncer 
 le beginnings he delivers the fame Senfe : 
 
 Sff/, Re^is in hoc qui mM7ere ftingeris 
 
 Orhex 
 Lknifi GetiUiJervat "mHltiplicatqUe tfHHm, 
 
 O Sol,Thou dbeft the Office of a King 
 
 in this World : 
 yirJ^ It is Luna that preferv^^ and 
 
 multiplyes thy Kind. 
 
 In which .-he fliows that Lttfia is retguired 
 to the propagation of S^/, as in the follow^ 
 inglinesjwhen^xpr^fly he add-'; 
 
 SummeyLufJ^yprecor^ ne defer mffs'Vi^lis^ 
 
 OuHm Vemt4 'M Mvio jam fi^, -m UU 
 
a 8 A ManuduBion to the 
 
 Jfiduviasc^ne t^oi ipfa Induat : ut lit "^jj 
 
 Ex ilia compti^ dlvltlifque Simnl 
 DuAti fimui ! qnod Te memlnijfe fai 
 
 hide 
 Add cet. Hoc ttenim hhkc Ttbl llnqm* 
 
 I earneftly pray Thee,Good Luna, fo: ^^ 
 
 fake me f 
 
 not, wh.n Venus now (hnds doubcin 
 
 b<:LVYcen 
 Two-vvaycs ; that She may put upoi 
 
 her (elf 
 Thy Clothes and beautyrand that Botl 
 
 of Us, 
 being fo made Fine, mayalfobemad 
 
 Rich 
 By her 1 This thou {houldeft Thinl 
 
 upon; 
 This I leave to Thee I And farewell. 
 
 :i( 
 
 1 
 
 So in his following Verfes upon r^w^, he 
 witneffes further, faying thus : EjmfihHm 
 ( nempe Amimonrnmy ) &€-", Thar her Son 
 ( to wit, Antimony ) does warme and heat 
 the body of Lr^na, thit fhe may be made 
 pregnant, and leave behind her a progen^e of 
 mighty virtue and vaR Encreafe : meaning 
 our Gold Philofophical. But from BafUiPu 
 
 more 
 
philofophers Magical GoU^ 2^ 
 
 )re below : Now let us come to that moR 
 cellenc Author of Twelve Tractates up- 
 the Stone, whofe Anagram is. Qui Divi 
 fch Gertu //??^(75 that i-j Michael Sendivo* 
 ^',That Polander J whom Ofwald Crollins in 
 
 ^, : preface of his BaftUcay calls Heitocamha^ 
 
 Boreaisy The Northern Beetle, in whofe 
 
 ids he faw with great admiration and a- 
 
 ;^ tzemenr, the wonderful! Virtue and Ope- 
 ion of that Tindlure commonly called the 
 ilofophers Stone. Thus therefore 5V;2^i- 
 8' in the p-oGpm to his Tractate?. Although 
 re are to be found fome Idle fellows 
 lich eirher out of Envy or malice, or fear 
 the detection of their Impoduresa cry it 
 roadj Thar the Soul of Gold may be ex- 
 ited from Gold, and fo reiu-n'd to Ano- 
 :r body with vain and pompous ORen- 
 ion, not without the loife of Time, La- 
 urjandCoft : Let the Sonsof //<?/7Wf/ for 
 rtain know, thdt their Extraction of Souls 
 ; they call it; whethei from Gold or SUver, 
 any vulgar Alchymiltical way, is nothing 
 t ameer perfuaHon : which yet is not be- 
 ived by manyjtill at length by Experience, 
 eonly Sole miftrilTe of Truth, its verified 
 Them ro their Loffe. On che otherdde, 
 e goe^ on)hc rhar in the Philofuphers way 
 n Tinge the leal^ piece of meraUwith gain, 
 without gain, really to ihe Colour of i'c/, 
 
 or 
 
 ' 
 
JO A ManuduBion to the 
 
 or Lmsa^ permanent in all the probates, 
 quifitihe,! dare very vYellaflhrm^hasNatur 
 Doors fet opentohim, tofearchoutfurcl 
 and higher Secrets, and by the bleHing 
 God, to bean Adept us, and attain the 
 Thefe words doe not To rr^uch referre to t 
 artifice of Extracting a Tingent Anima, 
 which a way fhould be hidopen to higl 
 Secrets : as to the very, right Philofophi.- '^^ 
 Gold produced out of the Inferior met at " 
 by the Ufe of which Gold ( as I ili 
 fhow out of the A uthor) a way is made to 
 of higher Things. But what hedifcourt 
 of the Anima of Gold vulgarly Extra6^c J 
 we murt know that Anima cannot trai 
 mute, although It may induce Colour, 
 Paracelfus does witneffe abundantly to 
 in his book of Minerals, Chap, the fevent 
 to thefe words ; This is altogether True, 
 the Sulphur of Gold be projeded up 
 Silver,it colours it indeed, but does not i 
 ir. And Bafil glances at the fame in his Rep , 
 rition of the Great Stone, fag, 113. Rigfi '^ 
 ly therefore Sendivogim in his ninth Tra6^a 
 of the Commixture of Metals. The Chymi 
 (fayes he) know very well how to tranfmu 
 Iron to Copper, or f^enus^ without Sol : B ^ 
 ifthey could tell (he further addes ) how \ 
 adminilkr the Nature of.W to thefe mute 
 tionsj they {hould find the moil pretioi °^ 
 
 Treafu 
 
 III 
 
 ID 
 
 1. 
 
Fhilofophers Ma^-ical GuUl^ 3 j 
 
 eafure ot ail, a Thing more precious then 
 y i>. And what Oihe: Thing I befeech you 
 iliis, thjin, nocrhNi CoiTitnon Gold, but 
 u: Gold 'priloCophical ; of which the Tin- 
 are oi S 5 the iTioap;etious Treafure may 
 :erw3:dsb^ p:'eparedrwhe'ej:ore(i"ayes he) 
 ^a e not tob^ lgn")ranc, what metals arc 
 be pu: togethe. and conjoyn'd^and what 
 if u e correiponds ro what. Then conclu- 
 ng;Th:reis (fa ye > he) One metal ( metal 
 : iaye? ) rhat ha^ the power of Confuming 
 •he:s (viUclKec^by Corroding): And why? 
 o: it is al noit ( faye^ he ) a^ Their water, 
 id .ilmoU Their mother. Only One Thing, 
 idclicec the Radical humidity of ScL\nd 
 ;;«.?, holds out and reliftsjand is meliorated 
 yit. Here he might feem by the letter to 
 Deak altogether of the vulgar .W«r». But 
 /old and Silver are not properly m.ade In- 
 in-icaily better by vulgar 5^^ j//^??;, although 
 tiey be forinfically purged. Therefore thou 
 lutt take it of another vSrf/^r;/, with which 
 'Gold clofe eleven times, it is brought 
 owntoDeath^ and afterwards put into its 
 »wn matrix ( namely Mercury ) it concei'/e^ 
 nd generates the moft excellent fruits. Buc 
 Ince no other S^ttHm but the vulgar,or Th.it 
 vhich is m.ideby Tranfmutation outcfihe 
 legulu^ of Antimony i^er C cementt^m ^^% alio 
 )uc of the vulgar Mercury refolved in an 
 
 Aqua 
 
3 2 A MAnuduBion to the 
 
 Aqua fort, is actually metal ; the words b 
 fore, may nor un uly be referredj to tl 
 Tincture of the Vicriol oiyems^\^d Ma 
 (for this is almoit as rheir water, and almc 
 their mother^by which the Radical moyl.u 
 o^SA is indeed meliorated:) for our refera 
 prepared Gold,is Saturated by Ic^and prom* 
 ted to fixt Tincture, as Bahl hi nfelfe wi 
 neiTesibecaufe Gold cannot Tinge of Itfelf 
 unlcfle Itfelfe be firft Tinged. Therefo 
 SendivoglHS adds: 5'^^ «^ detegam^^^^^xxi th 
 I may difcover it(rays he)It is call'd C kdyh 
 or our Steel; And Truly C;;^/>'^r_,yet not vu 
 gar,but Such as is Tranfmuted inco Venn^^ t 
 which the Nature of^^/Zistobe intimarel 
 mingled, videlicet by the Vitriol of Borl 
 not common Vitriol. And to This fen 
 Thac famous ^^otelefma belongs : ^^ipua; 
 Ifi er.orA lerrA RcViificando I'/iveme Occn 
 tuim LapidsmVeratn .Med'cinam ', By its I nit 
 ah making the word FITR lOLIl .4/ Bu 
 That Sendvogipi6 adds : Si undec'.es con Au 
 ram cum eo^ If Gold clofe eleven times wit 
 It ^ioi it does not come over the helme ur 
 lefle it be often joyn'd with Gold ) Tb 
 Gold emits its Seed and is debilitated almo 
 to death, as we may feein themcinufcrif 
 pra(i]li'-e of Bafl's Tin6lure; it is tobethu 
 taken, thit by putrefaction after the di(Hl 
 lation of Bothjic is at length mortified, tha 
 
 thena 
 
 ii: 
 
Ph/iofoptjfrs Muffcal (jOl<i, 3 5 
 
 ,lj thence ir may ht railed again into a NcW 
 |i Lifc:Then (fayes he) Tho Chalybs con.eiv-j 
 1^ and breeds a Son more noble th.in rhef.ich:r 
 n^^ vulvar Gold),t:hac is'j Ir generates fo: u? 
 |j I So/, or magical Gold^ from whv^nce afcer- 
 .,>vards che Tinilure oiSo^^ from ^o/Philofo- 
 ^, phical exills. Hence he ^ddsipcfie.^. cnm S-^n.^n 
 'lamN^'r. Afterwards when the Seed of cbac 
 ,[j-,vhich is now born ( that js, the Sulphur o£ 
 (•^Gold Philofophicanis put into its own ma- 
 :rix(thatis, it be admixt tohis ownSakand 
 Mercury) it pu ges the matrix, and makes ic 
 1 th-^.uland times fitter to bring forth rhs 
 jmoft excellent fruit, that is, irbings forth 
 For us a Tindure from Gold Philofophical, 
 which after Irs fermentation tinges thou- 
 Tands, as Ba^fil affirms. But Styidivogin: 
 :ells us more, and that we ought incenfely to 
 iiind; There is behdes Another Chalybs, 
 kvhich is like to this , made ready to our 
 ,^aand by Nature, fuchasisableby itsadmi- 
 f[ table virtue, out of the raves oi'Sol 10 Eli- 
 cite that, that fomany men nave fought, and 
 is the Beginning of our Work : underdand- 
 ing nor fo m^uch th^ minera of ^^^^^/,or Cha-- 
 Ijhs native, as a certain kind of mineral Op- 
 ofed to A'U.rs^ of which in his lai^ Tra<flare 
 efayes:Our S.dt is mercury -.and then add? 
 
 pofi 
 hef 
 
 jjOur So! and /^«;?.i( whence this Stone of the 
 Philofcphers exiiis is Obc^.u£led, or covered 
 D over 
 
over with the Sphear oiSAtnrrj : which min- 
 eral indeed receives into Itfelf the beams a 
 Sol ( that is, its quinteflence ), and by a ver j 
 wonderfull power promotes it to a tingeni 
 Stone . Ni bii his mag is OperturHy nihil magi, 
 etiam Apenum : Ji modg haheamns apertos ocu- 
 ios ad i>it€lligendiim radxes miner arum d 
 S^mplices & Compofttas, 
 
 Nothing more hid, nothing moreopei 
 then thefe things 5 If we but have our Eye 
 open to fee and underftand the roots 
 mines both Simple and Compound. To thi 
 fenfe the fame Author , tra£l. the lott 
 Gold(fayes he ) can give its fruit and Seed 
 in which It multiplyes itfelf by the Car 
 and Wit of an Artift, that knows how t< 
 promote Nature. But,both in the prad^ice o 
 the eleventh Tra^lare, and in the Theorie o 
 the third, he ftric^ly caution's that we tab 
 not vulgar Gold by Itfelfefimply tomab 
 thetiniSlureof the Sun : And in hispra^lio 
 thus he does it. But be thou admonifht b; 
 me in this , that thou take not Gold anc 
 Silver vulgar: for thofe are dead. Take our 
 (fayes he ) for thofe are living. Then in hi 
 Theorie : But take along this Caution wit! 
 rhee, that thou feck not that point ofna 
 ture, in vulgar metals, in which It is not 
 lor thofe metals, and efpecially vulgar Gold 
 are Dead- but Ours are Living, and have Spi 
 
 rir 
 
PhilofophersMagicalgold. 3 j 
 
 ricj and they by all means are to be taken. 
 Thus SefidivogiHi : In which ( I confeffe ) hs 
 does not onely difcourfeof thisourPhib- 
 fophical Gold> but alfo of the Great Univer- 
 fal. However it is, he does altogether Ex- 
 clude the vulgar Gold Simple, unlelfe it be 
 firil driven from the minera's,andExaIted by 
 Art. 
 
 But let us confult JheophraJ^fts Parace/^ 
 /i<i,and fee what he fayes, or rather demon- 
 i.ikares in his Praxis, of this our Gold Phi- 
 J lofophical. He teaches in his book of mi- 
 ' nerals,Chapter the feventh,to make the Epa- 
 rica of mineral Sulphur, from whence after- 
 wards the red Oyle is diftilled, where to 
 thefe words. Here we mult obferveffayes he) 
 that any Silver that is put into this Oyle, 
 and there remaines its due time , remained 
 black, and calls its Solar Calx to the bot- 
 toms. But before its due time , ic leaves a 
 J Calx not fixc> but fomewhat Volatil and 
 ; Immature, ( note the word Immature for 
 " that that follows ) but if ic attain its terme 
 ( he adds ) and come to its julf period, then 
 i" It Fffe6ls All Things that are to be done : 
 It is not good to fay more of this thing. 
 '^ Out of this one place alone, it more then e- 
 Tidencly appears, what this Gold fpringing 
 from Silver can doe, of v\hich ( he fayes ) ic 
 ffwould not conduce to fpeak m'src : and yet 
 '' D 2 be 
 
^^ A Manududiion to the 
 
 he confeffes ic does doe all things that arc 
 to be done, videlicet, whatever the Artilt 
 delires, or wants. This is a moR Confpicu- 
 ous place, and by nomeanstobciniirmed, 
 or eluded, that it may not be the palmary of 
 Confirmation to our Sentence, concerning 
 riic living. magical Gold, and fo much(l fay ) 
 the more certain (^ne, by how much Pari* 
 celfus is Greater then All. But this Oyle of 
 Sulphur is nothing clfe, but the (irrr Ens of 
 VicrioU which by Its Acidity is fufficiently 
 argued; as alfo from this, that if you put to 
 This oyle, ot the common Sulphur, and 
 twice as much of fountain-water, and after- 
 wards boyle in itLamels of Steel rill a Third 
 remain,prefently as foon as ir is cold,a mo(t 
 Green Vitriol is generated there. And This 
 a certain late* Wrirer , taking it from a 
 Difquilirion of mine, and milfaking me^in- 
 ferred to his Tyrociny, and bragViJt was the 
 Sal of A^Iays^ Bur let us return to PAracd- 
 Jtis. He writes in his Manual, where he treat*? 
 of the preparation of th: Tincture of 5^/, 
 as nppeire^! by the End of that difconrfe ( for 
 there he fpeaks in pliin Termes of Potable 
 Gold,and the liquor oi Sol ) in rhefe words 
 to our purpofe, Sunte FleHri A^>eralis fm- 
 maturi^ &c. Take of the Minernl EL'ct um 
 I'm^^^tc4re(r\nt is,fuch a'^ is between mature 
 and immature ). And what is this Elcdrum 
 
 I 
 
Philofophers Magical Goli, 37' 
 .' pray you ? Ele6lruni,wich Par/icefptrj is no 
 Dthsr Thing but a meral which is mideby 
 ^rc out of another metal ; So that th; vvhire 
 '^ffMy.s out the Red, is called an Eleclrun by 
 lim, although to Colour only? and not to 
 Fhings, they ftand Dirtant from one Ano - 
 her. Hence in the book of Minerals thus 
 kfining ;Ele6lrum(rayes he)i3 a metal from 
 mother metal(naT.ely by the benefit of Na- 
 uvQiSc help of Arc). Whence alio /in another 
 jlace. The Crama of all the metals joyn*d 
 ogecherin Mercuryjasacertain thing f^:li- 
 :it from Seaven, he calls Ele6^:um. It is 
 herefoi-e confequent that he here, by the 
 lame Eledram,does not fpe ik of vulgar 
 netals b) nature's hand limply given, or as 
 hey arc conltitured in their mines, or fufed 
 bove ;but of thofe that out of other merals 
 ire p-oduced by Art, as when ^'^tyf<fj is made 
 if Mars^ whicn indeed is much better, and 
 >f greater power ( as Experience teaches) 
 han Common ^e»Hs, And fo likevvife, the 
 jold produced out of ^;/;?^by theoyle of 
 he Epacica of Sulphur (as he taught above) 
 s mu'"h better then the vulgar, becaufe it 
 :ffeQ:s even All things (as Par^.celfas fayes ) 
 hit are to be Effected : and may indeed be 
 b Exalted that it would drivs any man to 
 idmiration. But why doeshccalic Mineral, 
 md Immature > Becaufe it is from theMi- 
 D s neral 
 
jS A ManuduUion tothe I 
 
 neraU and That Immature. For it is made Jmlii 
 
 by minerals, as by the Oyk of Sulphur from 
 Luna which is imperfed, but yet in a very 
 neer way to be brought up to maturity* 
 Therefore before it compleats its terme, 
 it is immature,havingftillExtraneous Super- 
 fluities -.wherefore he teaches us to wafh and 
 purge the £le6trum from all Superfluity the, 
 Chymigal way by Stybium, till it attain the 
 Exquifit Degrees of Gold. And what doc 
 you fay^that Gold Itfelf (although produced 
 from Luna) in comparifon of the Stone and 
 SohrTinclure, is a :hing yet Imperfect, and 
 fo in a manner Immature ? as Paracelfns 
 hinifclfe in the fame place a little after de- 
 clares : Nature( fayes he ) has left it imper- 
 fect in its p lace, becaufe fhe did not intend 
 to make the Stone, but the Matter of It, 
 which indeed without preparation is but aL 
 dimidiate,lame Thing. This place is accu- ][ 
 rately to be perpended, that we may under- j,j 
 fland) what heherecalls the work of nature ji; 
 Tefpe£tively(as is the natural Tranfmutation 
 of Our Argent into Gold by the Oyle of 
 the Epatica of Sulphur ^and what the work 
 of Art, videlicet! in preparing the Tincture 
 Philofophical, becaufe where Nature Ends 
 in making our Gold, there Art begins in the 
 preparation of the Tincture of magic alGold: 
 although on both hands the Arti^Komes ast 
 
 minifkr 
 
PhilofopherS Magical Gold, 3 9 
 
 rriiniftcr of Nature, bellowing indeed more 
 labour in the work of Arc, lefle in the work 
 of ready Nature. To Theo^hraflns in alHpu- 
 lacion Barthobmeus Korndor ferns is fuccea- 
 turiat,by whom theGroffe^andnot yet Cla- 
 rified Goldj is commonly called Corpus y and 
 CorpHs Iners^ a Body, and an Inert Body. 
 And now to produce him here as a fit wit- 
 neffe in fo great a caufe, in his Tra6late of 
 Luna and its Defefis, not unlike to that of 
 trtth^mlus^ thus he writes : There is a fliort 
 /vay by which Silver may b^ brought to 
 Su^hapoynt, that it may be made the belt 
 Gold,and beftof all to be efteemed, becaufe 
 :oOurTin(!^urcs no better can be ufed. What 
 nore expreffe then thefe words, what I pray 
 you more evident, and with Theophrafius 
 note confentient ? But headds fomewhat 
 ■nore, by which he wonderfully illuftrates 
 Theophrdfifis about the Solution of the Im- 
 Tiature Ele6lrum.Whofoever ( fayes he) can 
 naturarc Immature Gold ( To he calls Our 
 Argent) and turne It into a right liquor, fo 
 ihat It is feperare from its Earth, has got the 
 ^oun-ain of Sanity. Hence he extols that 
 Saying of Paracelfns when in his book of 
 V"exations he affirmes :That true Alchymie 
 onely by one Art teaches us to make Silver 
 ind Gold of the five Imperfect metals : And 
 :o uCe no other Receipts but onely thefe, 
 D 4 'Tamnm 
 
413 A ManuduBion to the 
 
 '/nntum df meta tlsy sx -^eullls. Per meta'Li^ C^t 
 Citmmc ailis^ji<rti pe f"tt metaLa, And chei 
 explicacing that O^a le, and rhowinghow|<:i 
 it is to be undcrliood: '"fa^yia Arca>ia m me* 
 7a!lif ahfcjn.it'.i^ &c. Mnny Arcana's are hic|ii' 
 (fayes he) in Ti^r-Usjand are to be drawn out i 
 by an eafie'- way rhen any one would beleeve 
 or chink to do any good by ic. I now fay no-fc! 
 ihmg ( he further adds) how wonders abivc k 
 Wonders,are Effected by it5if5in thePhilofo- 
 phical way , they be awakened and raifed \x^ 
 into their Prinnirive mercury, not into the « 
 Current, that whi.h vagrant Impollors tall 
 fo loud about,/^ d in Sementem vifc'd/tm^ bu 
 into a vifcid. limous Sement, or Seedplot 
 out of whl:h a living Germen, Leo Suav'JJl 
 i?jfts the mercury of the Magiciansa fiiows i 
 felf. Hence ic appeares what manner, o 
 Mercury it is, and into what principles th< 
 met:^h aretoberefolved, unleffe we wouh 
 have Tinctures to paffe incoa ufcleHe dull 
 or powder, that has no IngreiTion into me 
 tals fufed, but fwims upon them to no pur 
 pofe. F^om metaU, indee<l are madi Tin- 
 ft'ire^, when out of their SubRancepiimor 
 di'^h are drawn, which move themfelves o! 
 (if They be right handled) into avifc^^^us' Se 
 ment. But Out of metah, when perfe6t me 
 rais are compounded with their primordi 
 sis in a form or appearance oleaginous ma 
 
 teriaily 
 
 ;of 
 
Philofophers MagtcalGold. 4 1 
 
 •'ji Sriallys:By metals agAin Tincltire are made, 
 k iche projciLlion of Tin6luresupor> perfeft 
 fc lecals namely, rhac by Th^maj; the means, 
 « "hey may acquire their due Confiftence. 
 : knd then laftly with metals fufed, are pe:- 
 ^: id: metals made, namely by Tranrmutacion 
 i|f Thofe that are Imperfect to perfed by 
 elp of medVins already perfect. In Thefe we 
 }ifee Par /ice [us hall moU Signally and briefly 
 lOmprehended the Summe of the whole Art. 
 ca lee thofe Things which not only Gffidcd^ 
 ;■! fjome delivers to us concerning this kind of 
 )reparariwn (for heisfomewhat tedious in 
 lis prolix Circulations ) bat alfo what the 
 noil Experienced Ifaac H<7//^»^/Af propofes 
 n a Tractate peculiar ^^5/i/<^«^ & O'eis ms" 
 'alloTHm^ of the Salts and Oils of metals (al- 
 chough they require That fumns claufus Re^ 
 %je<b£rtiy with its little mount VYithin> 
 ilknownbut to few, and ufed h^P^iracelfttf 
 otherwife they cannot fo well be prepared) 
 the other Things are of themfelves opene- 
 noughjcfpecially if they be joyn*d,and com- 
 pared with what he fayes in his Traflate of 
 the Gyle of VirrioUandinThatof Antimo- 
 nyjsnd That of Mercury. 
 • Yet in thi, place I cannot forbear, but I 
 m'lR add to Thofe Two Telli monies of Bdr-^ 
 thohmetts Korr.dorf.ms^ and the mofi: Excel- 
 lent P.r.'Acc!p!s^ Another coo of rhatmofl 
 
 monftrous 
 
4^ A ManuduBion to the 
 
 monftrousFr^c"//r<fi«monk,whoin thcyei 
 1 41 9. write a book in the German Tongu< 
 in Open words, to Bfirgrave Frederic Mar- 
 quis of Brandeburg : but the book for man^ 
 cattfesvvas never b rough t abroad by thsPreflfc 
 In Ic,nianyTin(5turesof mecals,gemmes, gt 
 pearles, are contained ; with many ochei 
 choife Arcana's. He therefore in that place 
 where he comes to the Tincture of Venuj 
 and Soljby the help of which he teaches how 
 to convert Luna into Sol, This Sol (fayes he 
 in open words) does more than anorher Sol: 
 and fliows the way that we muR proceed 
 LeonhardHs Turmferfts complains very mucfc 
 tftat helofl a Compendiumof It in rheTowei 
 of KHjfenher^ fome years agoe : but there is 
 yet extant in Schobing^er'j Library an oldet 
 Copy. To thefe the^e is a neer correfpon- 
 dcnce of thofe five particular Tin^ures 
 that goe about infcribed in little books of 
 bark, ridng almoft from the fame foundation 
 with the former,only in them th^ pure is not 
 Separate from the Impure Terrertrial Sul- 
 phur : otherwife then with the Monk, who 
 fhovvs how to caft away the leprous Earth: 
 by which it comes about that hispmicu- 
 lar Tinaures are fo much the better, 
 and tinge deeper, by how much rhey ex- 
 ceed the other in Subtilty and Penetra- 
 cion. 
 
 But 
 
Thilofophers Magical Cold. 45 
 
 iji But let us now return to Count Bernha d 
 ci^ revifan^ wbo in the lecondpart of his book 
 % rites exprefly in thefe words : Cum dA-^^no 
 jlj. ndem ex^ertns p^nt^qnod in met^lUf, &c. To 
 4 ly loffe, I found at length by Experience; 
 ,j hat it mull needs be hid in metals , &c, 
 l:j. i/here he alleadgcs that faying of Geier-i^^o 
 i:^ lingthat isExtraneousj^nd that is not com- 
 nnj ounded of metals,or born of them,is able to 
 oi^rfed them, or caufe their regeneration, or 
 il-i^'ranfmutacion. But the fame Ber»hAJd 
 )!; jain fayes : Corpora ^erfeEta^^cVtxizdt Bo- 
 e(jyes, which by nature are fimply perfe£l are 
 );tply perfect in their Simple degree, and un- 
 -!fle by Art they can btmzdt{plufquam per- 
 ;^4) more then perfect, they cannot con- 
 (l-ribute to Imperfeil bodyesibut if^layes he) 
 hey be handled by Arcand according to Arc 
 € perfected in the Philofophers manner 
 ;o( mark the words ) then the way lyes open, 
 nd it is eafily deprehended what they are a- 
 )le to effect., For Our Gold is not vulgar 
 Sold^nor our Silver the Silver of the vulgar: 
 )ecaure they, fo long as they remain in 
 heir ownSubItance,are no better then dead; 
 lor have they any Efficient power, as we 
 nay fee in the Codex of trutn, that is, the 
 Furlpa Philofo^horHin, Hence alleadging 
 bat Golden Saying from Gcber the Arab : 
 QH:cur:qy,e 'r^'ocrat: Radices //liner artirn, & 
 
 Simpltces 
 
44 -^ MAnuduSion to the 
 
 Simflices & CofnpofitOiy C^c. Wfiofoevc 
 knows noc the Roots of Mines both Simpl 
 and Compound, he knows not the principle 
 of Nature, and therefore not of Art : and b 
 Confequencc is a Sophilkr, not a Chy mift 
 By Simple roots^underliand ,thofe that an 
 inthe Univerfal moft Univerfal : by com 
 pounded 5 thofe that are made up out o 
 Mercury refolved together with acertais 
 mineral homogeneous Earth, into a Vifcou 
 Liquor;in all which tha germinant and Tin 
 gentforceofthe Univerfal moR Univerfa 
 abides fpiritually, and flowes in the fire like 
 to wax without noife after a due Reclifica 
 tion;by which alfo (namely fu^h coTipouno 
 roots) Gold attenuated mdrr. like butter 
 arid grows into the Philolophers Rone 
 therefore Bemhard having intenfelv feai^ ht 
 into Nature affirms, that he had alwayes be 
 fore him that Saying of old Ofthanes^(yi cpiV/s 
 TM C^uV^ ri^i^cci, 5c C* } KfMttra nn'HYam con- 
 t'met : Natttra natHram fepa'at : nAtv.m ohvi 
 Am natHTA fn£ Utamr^ & in allen^ti tranfmH' 
 /^r/^r»4f«r^/,Nature contains nature^naiure 
 I'eparares nature, nature meeting with its 
 own nature re Joyces in it, and is tranfmu- 
 red into other Natures. Whereof the 
 two firR , teach that the metals as they are 
 in themfeWesare not ro betaken, but that 
 thofe things are to be Extraded from them 
 
 tha 
 
 n 
 
 1! 
 
Philofophers Magical Cold^ 4 5 
 
 yhx arc Contain»d in them ( for he coDfcfTes 
 ic he learnt by his loffe, chat the thing he 
 
 ti ught for rhouid be hid in metals). And the 
 o lat^ (how the friendly Conjunction 
 Gold with the roots of the Mines, and 
 mprf,hend the TinClure confequent from 
 :nce : which things it is fufficient to have 
 inted atjand fhown diftinclly fo far. And 
 ^vv, nnce I have proved as much as can be 
 fired, that ourPhilofophicalGold^pro- 
 ced out of the Inferior metals by Nature 
 Art5does yieldusaTindlureofCold Phi- 
 fophicalDilUncl from the Stone ; I fhail 
 nclude the whole matter out of Bafd, 
 lUhtw therefore in his Occ/z/r Phllofophy 
 wards the End, writes of a Stagge, whofe 
 rnes were of pure Gold, and had got ma. 
 ■ thouiands of anrlets,o: branches budding 
 >m them, which Stagge ran into a Green 
 -■)od,and many hunrfmen to this day range 
 r himjand purfue hi'n.The meaning of this 
 
 J jdleis roT hard to be conjectured from 
 lat is faid aboveibefldes that of P^^/him- 
 feinthe endofhi^j Triwrnphcil Chariot is 
 fuflficTentlydeclared, namely how thi^Sragg 
 much fought for, may b? taken by I'vely 
 d InduMrious hunrine. For he teaches to 
 
 , irfue himby the mulriplyed Stone of Fire, 
 ' which one part fMl^ upon five of Luna, 
 d the other things that follow in the fame 
 
 place. 
 
 :i 
 
46t A ManuduBion to the \ 
 
 place. By which it more then abundant ': 
 
 appears what lore of metal our Philofopi ^ 
 
 cal Gold is, and whence it is produced", °' 
 
 Luna namel y Tinged into SoU whence t j' 
 
 Golden Stagge exilh-.which Gold indeed ( ''" 
 
 Bitfit is wicnefle ) muft again be bruifed, "" 
 
 pen'd,and further rubtiliated,before it pai '^| 
 
 into abetter Stone, that is, theTindlure '": 
 
 che Sun : Paracelfm likewife glancing ^j' 
 
 the Came Thing in his book of mineri "^^ 
 
 writes thus : If the Alchymilh could fi)^^ 
 
 chat Sulphur of Gold, as very well it m '^' 
 
 be found ( faycs he ) In Arbore Auri & Ej\ ?^ 
 
 Radiccy in the Tree of Gold and the Root 'J. 
 
 It, (for this is their great Scruple : ^o» alt ^^ 
 
 mm iiludy not That other Gold) they mig' ^^^ 
 
 indeed rejoyce at it, &c. Thus far then '"? 
 
 our Magical Gold unknown to molt me ^J^ 
 
 and hitherto unobferved, & undiiHnguiQ: J| 
 
 Now towards the end of our Manududic ^' 
 
 for a Clofe and aCrovvn,we (ball,out of B v 
 
 fil^ annex a fhort way of the preparation f 
 
 the Tincture of Sol , and of the chief ftoi '^' 
 
 ofthePhilofophers, when in a few words™ 
 
 have premifed This, That even in comm< "^' 
 
 Salt, and in a certaine Other almoft Cong» *^^^ 
 
 nerous to it, there are very hidden powe f 
 
 and fee ret forces, which are able to doe m "'^' 
 
 ny vypndrous things for us compounds "" 
 
 with Gold , and with the Oiles of VicrL ^^f 
 
 ai 
 
Fhilf^ophers MagtcalCoU^ 47 
 
 ^d Antimonie rightly prepared. Moft fure 
 is, that common Salt gives us an excellcnr 
 ocdbk Gold by the Spirit of wine, if after 
 s due Calcination it be Cryftalliz'd, and 
 (HU'd by it felfe into a fweet Oilc. Which 
 oceflfe, plainly conforme to that oiBafil , 
 c owe to a Noble perfon, and a dear com- 
 mion of mine, who had it from him ; to fay 
 Dthing of other Arcana's out of 5ak, For 
 .deed it is P^racelfus his clrcHiatHm winns^ 
 s leffer Circulat , which he calls by its 
 icuUar right, the Matrix of allMetalls, e- 
 •ecially the Sea-falt,with which the AImjhs 
 ircHlatHmyhis great Circulat fromMercury 
 ablimate agrees : What (liould I fay of the 
 /eet Oyleof Antimony, fo induftrioufly 
 ' .ught by Crollius^ and mift, not fo faithfijlly 
 rLmmunicated to me by the fame freind as 
 • :her things? 
 
 ;.; Now as for the Tinclnreof Sol Philo- 
 ;; phical ; if it be truly prepared , ic 
 ."^' uft be a done by a jull and cue Anatomic 
 ;. -Gold : fo thai firft his pureft Sulphur,and 
 ",A oft highly graduat muft be extradied with- 
 '[l K any Corrofive, and Separate from all its 
 ,,"J ;tremities and dregs.Afterwards,the S;5lt of 
 ; i; ir Philofophicall Gcld,which will appeara 
 ;I bite as milk, muft not only be cxtrad^ed. 
 It muft alfo bee brought toaTranrparent 
 ;l:renity, by which afterwards, it may more 
 
 ' eafily 
 
4.8 A Manuc^utiion. to the ■ 
 
 cafilymelr like butter in rheextrac^l of tl 
 fulphur ot'Gold, and together with it con 
 over the helm. And when thefe two are tht 
 exalted , then fuperfufed to the rehduc < 
 their rnercury , prefently after the Soluiio 
 made, they will precipicate it to the bottoi 
 oftheveffeil. Hen.e all the Three vifcot 
 principle'^ mull be put rifted in the philofc 
 phersglaffe, and going on, fromth^ncel 
 raifed again to a new life by r heir owne pre 
 per body and Salt, till th:y palTeintoaRc 
 generar allral fixt and perfeveranc Eflence ' 
 whichby the Initial Grails of its three prit 
 ciples may be mulriplyed and augmented i 
 thefp.ice of a month, both in its virtue ar 
 quantity. Thus much briefly, of the Tmiluii 
 ofSol. 
 
 But as for the Philofophers Stone, anorhi 
 way is to be taken, for it admirts C^S*^^" 
 the common opinion^df a duplicity of pre 
 preparation, namely, either by Compolltio 
 of its mineral root Simple withGoldRt 
 folved, the way oiB-tfU in his Twelve key 
 orby Conjun6lion of Gold with the Coir 
 p>unded rooces of the mines, from whic 
 line the Stone of fire prepared outoftt 
 Mercury of Antimony, and the vitriol < 
 Venus and Mars by their own Sulphur n 
 cedesllttle, or nothing at all. But of tl 
 nature of this, I have fayd enough befor 
 
 fro 
 
 :e 
 
 «] 
 
 12 
 
 ()[ 
 
::fDm which likcwifc differs noc that parabo- 
 rallDefcripcion de nobili Soils flo,e y noC 
 ng agoe brought out of the Archlvis o£ 
 me eminent Citty ofthe Empire, which 
 livers the whole proccffe very freely, al- 
 ough it dazle the Eyes of many pretending 
 ►philkrs. But out of this compound, vari- 
 IS particular Tinilures may be had, of 
 hicn I forbear to fpeak more now. But fol- 
 wing the mineral root Simple of the Uni- 
 rfall Moil Univerfal , we fay with 
 [fii in the end of his Memorial Table, thac 
 re there is no need^as we taught in the tlnc- 
 re of SoK that Gold fhould be fomuch de- 
 oyed thac it may be Juftified in its Ele- 
 nts,andfo thefirlteflenceof ks root be 
 ighc and brought forth tothe lighc.Not 
 ir a necefllryjthat That in the compounds 
 ould be done : for there are fome who by 
 ElTence Mercuriall, extrad the foul of 
 )ld, the Gold Itfelt remaining almoA in- 
 ejby whi h rhey exalt their work ro fuchan 
 :ellence,thu a knife being perpendicular^ 
 let down into that Tincture of rheirStone^ 
 i taken upfo again, then only wiped with 
 ittle pipy-,and that papyr call: Tipon mol- 
 I Gold although nothing at allfeemed 
 adhere to the knife; yet only by the odor 
 :he Tinfture, they hare converted a 
 E whole 
 
whole ounce of Lead into perfeft Goldi^m 
 
 all probates, as thofc have told me that fai ^,4; 
 
 it done, whofe mindes when as before the ana 
 
 were mi^ch averfe from this ftudy, becaro foin; 
 
 afterwards eager purfuers of the Art.—— ^ 
 
 But ( fayes bah: ]),It is every mans p^^rr thj ,|)»j{ 
 
 adheres to this Science, and will be in lo^jjin 
 
 with To precious a thing, to fearch diligent) \^^ 
 
 after the Golden Magnet, (viz. of thellni y 
 
 verfal moft Univerfal ) to know it veifG^^ 
 
 well,whichhefhallfind in unicare unke^\^^ 
 
 one thing alone and none but that; and \ jf^i 
 
 root in one only matter,(wherewith Subc ; ^ | 
 
 liatedGold by help of a kindly liquor is 1 ^^ 
 
 be refolved and with contmual fire,and in lem 
 
 furnacePhilofophicaljto be excited,cherift? nioi 
 
 fcfo longdeco6led,till itpaffcintoa tranfp,,, 
 
 rent Stone like a Ruby) of which,fays Baf> u 
 
 our potable Gold is made more perfe<9:,th<^uft 
 
 it can of Gold Itfelfe, which ought firtt toi ^j]] 
 
 made Spiritual, before potable Gold canltth; 
 
 prepared our of it, as he has it C/;^/j.the (i; jfji 
 
 of thin^<? Supernatural, & Chaf^xht feven ni^ 
 
 pag 9 3 . For this Carrule, or Azurine Spiri jj 
 
 which isbothintheSaphirandin Luna^jL 
 
 the Sulphur and the foul (fayes he^frofitii 
 
 whence both Gold and Silver enjoy and e; ^i 
 
 cercifeth^irvegerall MizMtnCQ Bafdlns ^^^ 
 
 the Repetition of the Great ttone pag. i : \[. 
 
und fpsriipm fpiritfti So lis pennde appropriari 
 hy aiciHeviro fxminam d^CjfayeSjThe fpiritof 
 una is appropriated to the Tpiric of Sol,as a 
 'Oman to a man, both in the Earth (where 
 letalls are firft generated) and then upon it 
 'here the metalls are made by Art. Then 
 jain, the white Tinclure(rayeshe) is pla- 
 edin the Magnetic Form of that one onely 
 ling, in which likewife is found the firft ens 
 f Gold. And with words to the fame fenfe, 
 ter the redtification of the LunarTindure 
 efcribedi together with the p'-eparation of 
 : , he (huts up that Chapter : But if thou 
 oeft know fayes he) the primnm Mohtlc o£ 
 iemaU(there needs notfomuchof the circu- 
 ttions of compofition*?) q'^andocjHidem opns 
 V mnopc'ficere ^^rri^becaufe thou mayft doe 
 ^y worke by one. But what this one is, we 
 lutt feekein the nature of the Mineral klng- 
 
 ^c ^m.But yetjthat he might not leave it alto- 
 ;ther untou ht upon, and To defert his rea- 
 er in the mid*ft of his courfcjhe everywhere 
 
 '? Primates that it r<? not f^'* from every one of 
 For ro,in hi? bo- k of Naturalls chap, the 
 
 iji|rh,pag^the 56,he complains that the fons 
 
 i; f men doe not obfervc , but rather con- 
 :mne that which God has layd before us in 
 ature,in which there is a g^eit fee ret. To 
 ae fame fentence,in the end of his Memorial 
 
 H E a Table : 
 
52 ^ MAnuamion to we 
 
 Table : The true root (fa yes he) is vile, anc 
 even vihbly expofcd to the eyes of the vul- 
 gar, and yet unknown ; and, if not by ; 
 Tarious proofe premonlhated, it ftill lyejjfx 
 hid to a man in theDark.Forall thcworhiie 
 (as Bernhard likewife bears wirne{re)looHi iii 
 upon ir,rees it, and does not know it. So q v 
 the great myftery of the leffer vvorld,towar<i m 
 the endpag. 5 2o,The Materia prima ^Thz firt ^t 
 matter (fayes he) is manifeft before the eyes md 
 of the whole world, and yet known to vcr wi 
 few, and in all places to be found, to wie M; 
 Mercurius,Sulphur,& Sal , and Mineral wa do 
 ter,or Metallic [[quo:, ta^ijuam-cemrfim a fa 
 .a center, <i Forma fna fiparata ^ feperate ' 
 from its form {the pnma materia or miners !ir 
 water underftand feparated) and made up c bs 
 thefe three Incipients.But chiefly^in theemlij 
 of his lalt chnprer de rebns natHvaiibHs^ 0mm yei 
 {inqult')cjH<£poft- Antimomnm J^itriolnm^ Sm (ti 
 fhur^Mapjetem^prxcipHe dotatafantprjLaliis^ bIi 
 affima lis^ex qnlbiis Auriim et Argentum prlt, Ijk 
 cipiHm^mediHm ^ et fi'/femjut^m fortifiMtar&i\\^ 
 All tfaofethlngsCraycs he) which after Ant 10: 
 mony,Vitriol,Sulphur,and the Magnet, ai Ip 
 in an eminent manner above others endowe iVi 
 with, and nearer a kin to thofe principle [3^ 
 from which Gold and Silver derive the [b; 
 beginning, middle, and end, together wit t[{ 
 
 crv ' 
 
Philofophers Magical gold. j 3 
 
 trtie tranfmutation and alteration particu- 
 arly ; received their virtuc,forcc, and power 
 tx una re^ from one thing, in which all thefc 
 ^^ ire Secretly and Invifibly layd up-till their 
 'Oc Mrth, together with all the metalls:To which 
 ^ le adds: jg^'* mMtr'ta manififla <?/? coram oculjs 
 ^i;§jw»/«w: Which matter is manifcrt before the 
 yes of all men.Bucbecaufe the virtuc,force, 
 ^} md power of It, is buryed Tery deep, and fo 
 unknown to moR, it comes about that this 
 Materia is accounted as norhing, and by Ig- 
 '»< borance thought and reputed uttcily inngni- 
 « ficancandunht,:o th^^purpofeof Art. 
 ■i'^ The name of it (fayes he) is Hermes^ who 
 Ki carries for his enhgne a Serpent volant, and 
 ip las to his wife, her who is c^Wtdyiphrodua, 
 - :harknowes the hearts ofall morrall?! and 
 yet allrhefearebut onething,/^wr^i?^i^'«/r^ 
 Ejfent'tA^On^ fngle onlyThingor E{fence, 
 rrhich (fayes he ) is common in all coarts, 
 icnown in all places,every one takes it in his 
 land, and ufes it to vile things; the vile he 
 accouists pretious, and rcje^ls the prctious. 
 In fum , fayes he» It is nothing elfe buc 
 Water 8: Fire, whence Earrh with the addi- 
 camenr of Ayr is bo:n,and iHll preferved. In 
 thefe he fully fetts before the eyes of all men ^ 
 the matter of rhe Interior Root. 
 Therefore here,as at the Goal of the Uni- 
 E 3 verfal 
 
54 ^ Manudu8ion to tbe 
 
 verfal moll Univerfaljwe too muftftop a 
 make our iknd in chs: mineral kingdom, ai 
 ter the Recount of Univerfals,and almott a 
 particular Tinctures, of which we havehiJ 
 therto had any notice. Only one thing 1 
 thought good to add for their fakes, w 
 think. There it nothing at all true, or profi 
 table , extra Umverfaie UmverfaiiJ/imum 
 without, or befides the Univerfal moll Uni 
 verfal; and therefore deny that particul 
 Tinctures are to be fought and haci, witho 
 the compaffe of That .To Thofe indeed I caiilii t 
 ealily grant, that, thellniverfal matter had,! icfei 
 and rightly known, pojfe ex ea certiffima faA % 
 rarlpartlcu/aria^moi\ certain particulars may inf 
 be made out of it. But it is not thcreforcilde 
 confequentjthat in this and the other boughiatl 
 and branch , growing out of the univerfal or 
 Materia, although m the fpecies differing ii 
 from it, there (houldbc no power of tranfw- ii 
 mutation , which both experience bearsme 
 witneffe to, and the learned acknowledge, asiei 
 Chryftppf4s Fannian in his Metamorphofis ,lt| 
 gt AejinAS himfelf de Corporihus Super ceUftU 
 bus ef Inferhribtts cap, 4 et deinccps. Nor does 
 it follow. Count Trevtfan in all his life 
 found no particular of any moment, there- 
 lore nobody elfcanfindone,or5thatit isfalf- 
 ly affirmed Dy orhers.For to fay nothing how 
 
 Count 
 
Philofophers Magical ColtU 5 5 
 
 *P^i Jount BernhAT d ioxx^i for the Univcrfal 
 ^>; Wi^ich certainly is to be found in no Parti- 
 ^'1 ular extra /t»/':/frp/^) both what not only 
 ^\ U/Z/^j has faid of the Stone of fire, and of 
 ^ lediiUndt Tinctures of metalls, and what 
 ^\ )chcrs, fufficiently refutes him : but alfo 
 'oi \fhit Paracelffu of the Epatica of Sulphur, 
 '* nd Luna converted intoSol by theoile of it : 
 nd That which Komdorfertu relates de 
 ' Apfde Schiftof of the Stone Schifius^ for an 
 bility to the fixing of Luna, although both 
 the vulgar Sulphur, and in Kontdorfcr'j 
 ^chiftus, which is a certain very eaper fharp 
 alt, even Bsfii himlelfeby a miftake denyes 
 ny power of tranfmutation. So on the other 
 ide there are fome, who, having got fomc 
 :ither uniterfal , or particular Tinfture , 
 brthwithinfolentlycry it out, That there 
 s no other Univerfali but that of theirsj^J^o 
 iUriaue nobis Suff'^nifumHS omnes. So apt are 
 vealltohuggecurfelves incur own con- 
 ceits, and ours. But to have pointed at this 
 jythe way,is enoughforus.May the greac 
 ind good God grant by his eternall Spirit, 
 m his only begotten Son, confubftantial to 
 3itn,our E?nanuel,that wefix not our hearts 
 Dn thefe Terreftrial goods the Mammon of 
 this world,negle6ling the celeftiall, but that 
 we may feriouflylook after abetter treafurc 
 £ 4 laid 
 
5 (? A AfanuJuBion c^r . 
 
 laid up in heaven , and, apprehending i 
 by Faith , expeding ir in certain hope, 
 in a courfe of unwearied piety joyn'dwiti 
 love 5 wc may afpire ro it , and attain it 
 through and for Jefus Chriit: who with th< 
 Fat hefjand the Holy Spirit, is the One onlj 
 Jehovah, bl^iTed for ever. To whom be the 
 Prayfc and Glory to all eternity, Amen, 
 
 Ffffis Che^rdgagU HeiianU^ per 
 jidepmm Anonymnm, 
 
 ''Kn^v 
 
0? 
 
 cul 
 
 '■ 57 .i 
 
 ^ANTPON MITPA2. 
 
 20R0ASTERS CAVE. 
 
 OR, 
 
 The Philofophcr^s Intelkauall 
 
 Echo to One another from 
 their CELLS. 
 
 Of Mercuric and Sulphur. 
 
 ECHO Prima. 
 
 Ry water from the Philofophers 
 Clouds '.Look for it,iindbeiure 
 to have it, for it is the key to 
 inaccelTibles.atid thofe locks 
 that other wife would keep 
 thee out. Chorus omnium. 
 
 It is a middle nature between fixt, and 
 not fixt^and partakes of a Sulphur Azurine. 
 IfaacHs F Under ^ & Gymnofo^hiftdt apnd Phi- 
 lofiratum. 
 
 It is a Raw , Cooling, Feminine fircjand 
 cxpe6lsirs Impregnation from a Mafculine, 
 Solar Sulphur. A.riy?c?f. hrtibs^lt is the only 
 complcatAngelltothelnfern, or Bottom 
 
 of 
 
58 Zoroafter'sCave. \ 
 
 of the earth, where all the Treafures are hid. p 
 Mavos IS iiJXnv Ti\iKiffyLtvos^K'iyOsAcS\w;. Apollo 
 Afnd Homer nm *« Hjmno Ad Mercttr'mm. 
 
 All that are converfant in this Art, leam 1'^ 
 from Experience,and all good Authors, Tfcac 
 the true matter and fubjed of this ftonc,ias . 
 Gold and Silver in potentiality, and Argent js^ 
 vhe naturally, or a^^ually: Which Gold and 1 ^ 
 Silver are much better than thofemencom- o[ 
 monly fee and handle, becaufe thefe arc alive C 
 and can increafe; the other dead: And if this ^" 
 could not be cffefted,thematter would never *' 
 be brought to its perfe([^ion, which this arc ac 
 promifes whi. h is indeed fo efficacious as 1 iH 
 to perfed Imp^rfe^l metalls. lut this fame ^ 
 invifible Gold or Silver, which by this Ma- W! 
 giftery is exalted to fo fublime a degree, ^ 
 cannot communicate its perfection toimper- ^4 
 fe<^ metalls, without the help and fcrvicc 1 
 o£ vulgar Gold and Silver. Adiftm An§nj^ \i 
 mus 4p»d CombAchium^ !0 
 
 The Sun and the Moon murt be in Con* te 
 junction that they may abfolve ^tiicSt gene- le; 
 ration. Krnoldtts Villan^vAn in fiorefiarum^ ill 
 No corruption, that is, no mutation or paf- fi 
 fage of one form into another can be made, i 
 without the mediation of Putrefaction , ''i 
 ( which is the fole mean and way to Gene- lit 
 ration) nor any putrefaction be had,without ie 
 fome Mercury, or Argent vive, which is the ixi 
 
 fpecial 
 
Zoroafe/$ Cave. 5f 
 
 ilpecul delator, or condu6lor of thcvcgctanc 
 acuity, called by Philoibphers, The Viridity 
 >f Nature. 
 
 finonymt Adefti'SAl ^ Lumen^et Sfiritus Uni 
 /^ry/.Minerals have their Roots in the Ay re, 
 
 ijfceir Headb & Tops in the earth.OurMercury 
 
 s Aereal ; look for it therefore in the Ayre, 
 
 nd in the Earth. Calid ^gy^tius, It is the 
 
 »otentiall vapor of metal s.^^/^i^/w deVadis. 
 
 Our Stone is the con junction of Poland 
 
 ht;;if<i, till Sol has drawne the fublhnceof 
 ^»«<« to his Nature and colour. LulUi Co- 
 licillus. And this is done by the inward fire, 
 
 ij|)rfulphurofthe itone./^w ihidem. 
 Minerals made of living Mercury, and li- 
 ing Sulphur, are to be chofen :worke with 
 hem fwcetly^not fvviftly with precipitance. 
 
 Thethingthatworksperfe£lionininetalU 
 st^fubftance of Argent vive and Sulphur 
 )roportionally mixt, by long and temperate 
 Decoflion infpirtate and fixt ina Wombe of 
 :lcan earth 5 with confervation of his radi- 
 :ail not corrumpent humidity 5 wrought 
 ip to a (olid fubftance, with due ignition 
 ufible, and under the hammer Extenfible. 
 jeber\ de Jnveftigx cap. 2. Thofe that know 
 he Mercury and Sulphur of the Philofo- 
 jhers: know that they are made of pure Gold 
 md the fineii Lu»a^ and Argent vive, which 
 ire dayly feen, and lookt upon, from which 
 
 our 
 
4 1 ' Zoroafifrs Cdve. 
 
 our Argent vive is tiidtcd.BernardHidcGranW 
 fAg, i^Manufcr, vetuftifs- 
 
 Our Scone is the potentiall vapor of MccilliKi 
 and how to §ec thb, thou muft oe very care w 
 full and wary. 
 
 t/£gidiiis de Vadls 
 Our Water is aluftral^orexpiaringcfsence ol 
 and the caufe efficient of the claricyotthdii 
 whole body, and roeddne. Two rhings ' 
 works in the earth: It waiKes it, It tinges it:Ajl^« 
 kwafhes, it is Water; as it tinges,ic is Ay re is 
 Lndus pfterorftm.Thz ancients call'd our Ar-! ' 
 gcncvivc j4qu4 S'icca^Oty water, ' 
 
 Tanladan, 
 It is apparent, what that Argent vive is 
 that Gi^er points at, in his Sunn:ia tc 
 be taken , nimely , the Cleane fub tance 
 of fixt Mercury, iTiut up in Sol anc 
 Luna. 
 
 Jdfm,pa^yig^. 
 Argent vive in its nrit root is compoun- 
 ded of white earth, fubtile, and fulphureouj 
 ftrongly minded witha bright and clear 
 water, united with fuch an union, per mim^ 
 i»4,till the moyli be tempered with the dric, 
 and the drie with the moyft equally into one 
 Intimtte fubftance, that will not reli on a 
 plain Surface, nor adhere to the Tangent 
 becaufe of its Siccity,which has altered and 
 cohibited the Aqucityin it. But it is homo 
 
 gcneous 
 
(« 
 
 eneous in its nature : for it cither remain? 
 
 Jll in the fire, and fixt ; or elfc, all flyes a- 
 /ay in fume ;becaufe it islncombuliible^ 
 
 fai nd Aereal . And this is a fignc of perfection. 
 RichardhS KnglicHS Phi/ofoph, 
 Vetuftns, 
 MercHnm crudns , Mercury crude, dif- 
 
 enciolves bodyes, and reduces them to their 
 
 v\ Materia prima ; but the Mercnrius corporum 
 the Mercurie of Bodyes cannot do itMolcot 
 dngltu. The Mercury of the Philofophers 
 ts compounded of Mercury Crude and the 
 Mercury of Bodyes , by an Union Intimate 
 and Infeperable^as there is in Simple water 
 mixt with Simple water. Li^/i;//>« CAllwyapud 
 
 iifTrithemtum 
 
 By a Lucid Key he opened fee ret place?, 
 othprwife inacceflfible, and within was great 
 
 2i]|ftore of Siver and Gold. 
 
 Mcrcuritts Antiquorfium 4pu4 Homer tim. 
 
 The 
 
02 
 
 The Names of the Materia tothe Magiu 
 praBice. 
 
 Echo II. 
 
 (I 
 
 WHen our materialls arcAmalgamatec 
 rhac Amalgam, to conceale it fror 
 the unworthy, is call'd by Philofophers o« 
 VcnusjOurGold, The earth of Magnefia 
 the whole Compound .Jod^c us Gr ever it* 
 p^^^.21.1 tell thee that our Semen is the tru 
 Salamander,concciveci by fire,nurfed by fire 
 and perfected by fire. 
 
 Tlic matter which we need to our worke 
 IS not cheHyle,or theChaos,butthe MaterL 
 prima propintjHa, The firft matter in a propin 
 quTty, that is, ths fecond j which in ^^ni 
 malsis Sperra» in vegetals Jeed, in mineral 
 Sulphur, and Argent vive. RipUns hngltis 
 SendivogtHS PoloHHS, 
 
 Sulphur perfe(^iy clarified and dealbatc. 
 Philofophers call Their foliated Earth. Fo^ 
 gellus mafjufcriptffs,ThQYfo:\i yet Crud^: iJ 
 caird our Argent vive,water permanenr,Ou; 
 Lead,OurSacurn,thefpittleofLuna,our Ju- 
 piter. Whenbetterdeco^tedjthenicis Argent; 
 thenMagne(ia,and white Sulphur, When it i: 
 Red, it's caird Auripigment, Corall, Gold 
 
 Ferment, 
 
ermenc, a Stone,a Lucid Wacer of cdeftiall 
 
 ., :o\o\i:»^iAe^MsAHO'iymHSy Defidembile &c^ 
 
 ^ Adaq^neft A is Thzi whole mixture from 
 
 vhenceis drawn our humldirycall'd Argent 
 
 five. Lyd.s ptterorarff.p: 1^6. The Dragon 
 
 .s the Sulphur that is Excraded fro.n the 
 
 :s Bodyes by the Magiftcry , I^fch : FUmtAut 
 
 dnnot.inDemocritHm^ 
 
 i 1 The liquor of Lunary, the vegetable Mer- 
 
 n cury, th^ quinteffence, and water Ardent * 
 
 are all one thing. With our liquor of Lunary, 
 
 known bu: to fcw,isour Solution made,and 
 
 our potable Gold; but wichout it, not at all* 
 
 Trouble not yourfelves about the diverfity 
 m, of names, and the regiment of the work; 
 jiiD for if we would make Sol, we mulkake Sol,. 
 ^ni if LunajLuna for our Ferment, 
 DafliKUs pa 2^: go. 
 Our Black Materia clealbated i^ called 
 theTerra FoliatajAfhes of Aflies,fermcnt of 
 . ferment, and white Sulphur enduring the 
 ^j fire: and yet without Ferment neither Sol 
 norLuna will comeforth-butfomwhat that*$ 
 I as good as nothing. 
 
 Lf6 : dnorttm verhorumi p^ a^. 
 .pt Our Stone in the beginning is called water; 
 ifi I when the body is diffoWed, Ayre, or Wind ; 
 )!(] when it tends to confolidation , then it is 
 ^ I named 
 
64 :^oroajter s ^ave» 
 
 named Earth,and when it is perfeA and fixe > 
 
 it is called Fire. Dominw Voif^fcum, f^ 54, 
 
 Argent Vive is called Wind^thatis , Aereai 
 Argent Vive, the ftrongeft vinegar, poyfon' 
 TingentjVirgins Milk^Burning hre, burning 
 worlethan ths fire of Hell. 
 Incertus Affthor, 
 
 The Soneis called Adrop^that is Sarurnus; j 
 becaufe, as Saturn is thechiefel^of the Pia-'; 
 nets ; Soour mercuriall Saturnine Stone 3 ' 
 is the hi^heft and moft pretious of Stones. 
 SatHrninHi, 
 
 Our coinponnd is called by Philofophers 
 White Earth when it is white ;and Red when 
 it is Red. Scot us de Bf4fo»e: 
 
 When our limous earth is whitened , 
 we call it yharit , that is , Silver; and when 
 it is made red we call it Temeinchum , that 
 is, Gold: And it is whiteneffe that tinges Ve- 
 nus and makes it Yharit, and that rednefTe 
 that tinges Yharit , and makes it Temein- 
 chum, that is. Gold. 
 
 Ca/id EgypiuSy Philofophm no^ilis 
 
 Our matter is caird the elementsll Stone, 
 be caufe the four elements are extradted from 
 it : The mineral Srone, becaufe it is made 
 cnlvof mineralls :The vegetable Stone, be- 
 caufe it is nourifht and augmented, which 
 are t he properri^s of the vegetatWe Soul :The 
 Animal Scone, becaufe it is refrefht with 
 
 fweet 
 
west odors , and corrupted wkh iHnking. 
 
 Oar Scone is called Adrop^thac is, Saruril. 
 Speculnm Arnaldi, 
 
 Our Scone ilfser its putrefa<^ion is called 
 vlagnefia, and in the pucrefa6lion it is called 
 •icurnus,/Jf*» ibidem^ KWxht metallswh^n 
 ney are prepared by Arc, then they are caU'd 
 >ol, Luna, Mercuiius 8cc.For before they 
 fere onely Gold , Silver, and Qui.kfilver. 
 liArcllius Ficlnus, The I ncGmbullibh Gra'n 
 f Lnecalls, is their radicall hui-niduyj and W 
 5 a certain Seed of Sol, and Luna, which 
 
 irureha? infefced to thetn, that upon op- 
 orrunity they m:y be Exceeded to S-^l and 
 .una by Nature in along,by Art in a very 
 iO"r, TiiTle. I'^oo^eiius. 
 
 ^'^z.n is a fife Einnce, a body of itfelf 
 ubfUknr, differing from all the Elements, 
 nd all the ElementaU' both in Matter and 
 orm, Nature aryd Virtue, having nothing 
 f the Corruptible : and it is cal- 
 ^d a fift Eflen:e bccaufe it is Extravfted from 
 :;u-, and has in it no Elemental motion, aj 
 ther Elemental bodyes, Tinging and puri- 
 /ing metnllic bodyes by its Colour, and 
 keeping from Corruption all other Bodyes 
 nat are joyn'd with it. 
 
 IncertHS Anthor, 
 
 Terra ^/^.'^Whire Ea:th,\Vhice Sulphur, 
 1^" ' F Whicvi 
 
66 Zoroap/s CsLve. _ 
 
 "White "Fumc^Auripigment, Magoefia, and 
 Etheljfignifte the fame, in this Kit,TeruA 
 Sjnodiis Pythagorica Manufcripa, 
 
 No wsj but one to the Sulphur of Nature^ 
 Echo IIL 
 
 NEmo haC-et in Su/phfire nlft Unum hcr^ 
 No road but one to find the quick Sul ^ 
 phur. Davsd Arabs, 
 Thou needeft but one thing,namely Water, 
 and one operation, to wit Deco(Sionj to 
 White and Red , in one veffell > under- 
 ftand of one kind. 
 
 A/phid Ardibs, 
 Although the wife men have varied names 
 andperplext their Tayings, yet they allwayes 
 vvouldhave us think but of One Thingjone 
 Difpolition, one Way.The wifemen know 
 this one things and, that it is one, they have 
 often proved, 
 
 Morienus 'Eremit^t H.erofolymita>iHf. 
 In a mulcipliciry of things our art is noi 
 perfe^^ed. For it is one ftone, one med'cin 
 in which confilLs the whole magilkry : tc 
 which we add nothing extraneou?^, nor take 
 away any thing,but onlyjin our preparation 
 that that is fuperfluous 
 
 Idem Eremita, 
 Whice and Red proceed trom" Thefamc 
 
 Root 
 
Zoroaftfr^s Cave. <7 
 
 Root without any other Kind irlterVetlient. 
 Foritdiifolves, and corijoyns Ic fdfe,make5 
 it felfe Black and Citrine, white and red, 
 efpoufes Icfelfei conceives, brings forth, and 
 . docs all to the perfe(5t end^ 
 
 Rhafis Arahs. Et IcUm Hdy, 
 
 If you Govern Our Braffe, Ovtr Venus^ 
 with Our Water.then you {hall find all that 
 is faid iotherwife^you doe nothing, 
 
 Turba Phiiofoph, 
 ^ There is noway for the Re^ifying of Bodies 
 intirely and compleately without our 
 Tinclurej which is a Clean Seed, and has 
 upon it the bleifing of multiplication from 
 Heaven, 
 
 Aurora, 
 
 Our vvater Gilded with Solar Sulphur is 
 the Secret oiiht^y^^gyftians -i Chaldeans^ 
 ArahianS'i Pcyftafis, and Greeks, Hallclnjak 
 per AnonymHm* 
 
 The Number of the Components of \ 
 the Magical Stone. 
 
 ECHO.IV. 
 
 OF Sol and Luna thou nlayfl: rtiake th# 
 perfe6l med\in without Separation of 
 iiheElement^J, wit'iout labour , without 
 I feat without danger ; they need a long 
 F a time. 
 
6^ Zoroafl^r'sCave. 
 
 time , but they are fafe. Ifaacns Vlandcr, 
 lib,2, miner aL 
 
 The Ancients labour*dinthe Almagama- 
 tion of Sol & Luna,which is indeed the moft 
 perfe(5l worke, and the Care little. Idem 
 ibidem. 
 
 Mercury alone perfefts the works , in ic 
 we find all that we need, to it we adde no- 
 thing extraneous. Sol and Luna are not Ex- 
 traneous to one another, becaufe they in the 
 beginning of the work are reduced into their 
 firft Nature^that is5Mercury),therefore from 
 It they took their beginning. 
 
 VivHsThonti Aquinas cap j. 
 
 Wherefore I counfell you my friends, 
 ihat you work not on any thing but Sol and 
 luna, reducing them into t heir ftrtt matter^ 
 rbat is, Our Sulphur and Argent vive. LuIIii 
 ^odtcillus. 
 
 Of Sol vulgar,& Lunavulgar,both Solute 
 there is i preparation of Mercury vulgar. Of 
 thofe Three without any other Species , 
 thePhyfic-Sroneis generated, and of no o- 
 ther can it be made by the Wit of Nature. 
 Jncertus, Inc'fiens, Tys^dcr<*h'le. 
 
 The difference betwixt the Solar and the 
 Lunar Tin<^ure is This:The Solar contains 
 Solar Sulphur; The Lunar > Lunar Sulph- 
 ur, Albertns A'far^nHS, 
 
 The Stone is one: Yet This one) is not 
 one in Number,but in kind. Scdx 
 
IZoroajlers CdVe. 69 
 
 ScalaPhilafoph. 
 Rebisisthefirft pare of the work; Elixit 
 he Second ; Tin^urc the Third; and Medi- 
 cin the fourth.Therefore it appears, That to 
 A.2oth Elixir is required, becaufc Elixir in 
 his work precedes Azoth ; For from Elixir, 
 ^.zoLh is extracted. But Azoth is that which 
 iscxtra(^ed by our Mercury from the bodycs 
 fiffolved ; and That is count ed the Maturer, 
 DefrderabiU* 169, 
 
 Elixir is no other then the body refolved 
 iito Mercurial Water , after which refolu- 
 ion Azoth is extracted out ofic, thatis^ 
 Spirituous Animated Eflence. Idem, 
 In one Thing for fpeice<f,and Two Indivi- 
 luals It confifts and is perfe6^ed, firrt to 
 yVhite,rhen to Rer',- nally by increafing the 
 he fire. Petrnsl/'aUmidt, 
 
 Inrhe fir.'^ RegiTjen,ret the Crude and pure 
 ilement<?upon an Eafiefire, that they may 
 >e mingled and joyn'd togetherjgovernthem 
 b that they may be deftccate, or dried , and 
 11 beblack;from which bhckneffe an Occult 
 'kVhitnede is drawn^Sc afterwards a Rcdnefs 
 y decodiion. And when it is in theperfeft 
 \A^hite, it is in Duft Impalpable. 
 XimnHS, f,68. 
 The Generation of Meralls and the Phl- 
 ofophers ftoneisto conjoyn proper prin- 
 iples ;videlicct , Man with Woman, A(^ive 
 F 3 with 
 
70 j,oro4jfersCave^ 
 
 Wth PalTivc, Sulphar with Mercury, that 
 io Generation may en fue Corrupriofi. Ar- 
 gent Vive is the Recipienr of vh^ Foroij atid 
 ^ Gold the very PhUolophers Srone^ 
 
 ^ : The whole work confilis in Spl> Luna,and' 
 \^Qic\xX^,'i'r.rjim»]^agm; 103. Gold and Sil 
 ;,ver are Met alls, out of which the Goidea 
 arid Silver Elixirs -re made. 
 
 i an lada n Paq, ^2,4^ . 
 : T\^%^ with Gold,and Silve •.•becrufe Gold 
 ^jves the Golden; and Silver, the SiivfiiC Na-j 
 ture and Colour, .• r-^c^ 
 
 It is ncceffary that the Stone before it be 
 ;nade£ilxir^ be exiraded u om the Nature 
 jofTvvo bodyes. /^^>?^rA/z/. The fire oughc 
 ro bv. very fofr j till the Spiric be feparated 
 fro^U-he Body^^afcending into black clouds 
 above the body; ByaSpi.it Crude,a[pirit 
 .DigeltedisExtra^edfio.n the body diifol-^ 
 
 Take the Stone Sufpended upon the Sea, hi? 
 3iameis/'4*c7<?rfwithhim flay the living, and 
 enliven the flaifljior JB hi^ power are Peath^ 
 and Life. ,-:'-) ^\ .• . .-\?^ 
 -Incognitus cfHiincif'ft ^xempl»m Sclemid, 
 Our Mercury is drawn from the Calx «>£ 
 Metallsby putrefaftion^ till the Compound 
 
 puc 
 
Zcyoajlers Cave. 7 1 
 
 putoff one nacurcand put on anotfier. And 
 fobyfuch Operations, ismadetheMcrcury 
 ofcnePhilofophers. 
 
 JacobHs de S^»^o Saturmno. 
 
 The Operations pfJrt in her Mirtijierj 
 andAtten dance to Nature. 
 
 ECHO. V, 
 
 NAtu^e begins all her Actions from 
 Seperacion. Mortification is the firll 
 '* Iftep CO Sepa'-ariottjand the only way to that 
 End : for, as long as Bodies remain . in theic 
 oldOrigin, Separacion without putrefa6lion, 
 or mortification, cannot reach them, 
 ^^ Anonjmm A depths, 
 
 Amalgama,which is the firft Work/ismade 
 with one of Sol, and four of Mercury. And 
 this beginning of the Work the Philofophers 
 have called by many names, Our r>»///. Our 
 Gold, The Earth of Magnefia, The whole 
 Comi^ound, JodocMS Greverifts, 
 
 In the firll Decodion , when thou arc 
 blacking, there will rife from the Earth a 
 certain humidity of Argent vive like a Cloud, 
 and will (Vick to the upper part of thy vacant 
 Oval by its fides, which thou muft let alone 
 untouchz. Idem. 
 
 Blackneffe like that of the blackeft Coal , 
 is the Secret of TrueDiffclution,^4;w. Lai' 
 liHsinCUvlcnl^, E4 Turn 
 
7* ^ortiiip^rsciive. 
 
 Turne thy clouds into raine to water thy 
 Earth, and make ktmkt'ul. This Rcdudion 
 ot'clouds inro raine>is calico by Tome CW^ 
 Dr<tcon!Sy The Dragons T.i'le : and orherst: 
 fay^that new Mercury is to be add^:d. Idim n 
 Gicveriiis, p>^g*^i» 
 
 Thebodyes are firft tobe Subtiliated by 
 DllTolution, which is the firR Degree of rhe 
 Work. And this Diflolurion is noching elfe, 
 but thacbody^s be rerUi'n'd into Mercu-yfc 
 and Sulphur fiom whence rhey took their 
 Original. But no other body can be refolved 
 into Mercury, but a Metallic, confifting of 
 Mercury and Sulphur. 
 
 The Spirit of Metalls is part of Our Stone; 
 and That wc mull evacuate from the bodys 
 of met alls : namely from the two perfe6l by 
 putrefav!^ion:,divirion of Elements,and their 
 
 When the matter Afcendsby Wind, thac 
 13, by fume 5 the Philofophers call it Subii- 
 rnation : when it is cait into the boctoai of 
 rhe vertel , and Converted into Water, they 
 call i: Solution, or Didillation : When the 
 Earth is Infpiffare^theyfayit is Corruptioi>: 
 and when it begins to change from black , 
 they call it Ablution. Extraction of Water 
 from the Earth, and turning it on the Earth 
 sg.iin, till the Earth putrefie, and be ckare 
 again, is the Summe of Qur magiftery. And 
 
 when 
 
ZoroajtersCaz't. 73 
 
 ' enihePhilofophersfaw their Water di- 
 
 niilied , and their Earth increafed, they 
 ailed ic Ceratlon;Then» when all became 
 ' r-h, they called their Work Congelation ; 
 nd when White, Calclnadon. Monacht^ , 
 V manitfcrlpto vetufiifs, DiiTolution begets 
 lakneue, Reduction Whitenefle,Fixion 
 ^icrinity, Inceration Rednefle. BlacknelTe 
 5 rhe Earthj, Whitenefe the Water, Citri- 
 iitythe AyrCjRedneffe the fire, A*Jonymyis. 
 
 Solution rurnes the Stone into its Materia 
 
 )rima, that is, into Water : Ablution inr.3 
 
 o|\yre : Conjuncllon inrofire : Fixion inro 
 
 Earth Splrirual and Tinge nt.^c-^/^ PhUopph. 
 
 PQtrefa(Llion is made by a moT: Gentle 
 ire hot and moyl^jand no other, fo that no- 
 hing Afcend. Defponfition and Concept i- 
 ■its is made by a kind putridneffe in the Bor- 
 :omoftbe veflell. ^^/'^r/f^w;)4^. 198. Burn 
 A^ith Water, wafli with Fire? 
 
 Idem ib'.dem. 
 
 Labour not to make thy Mercury Diaphan 
 :hatis, into a cleare, Tranlpatent Water;- 
 "or foit is toohighly Inflamed , and Irre- 
 "lrin6lible,and will never be fixt,rrever con- 
 cealed, -Aureola, 
 
 WhenweDifToIve,without any Intervall , 
 .veCalcinejSublimejSeperareja^Compound 
 ind between Solution 5 and Compofition 
 
 of 
 
74 ZoYoa^e/s Cave J __ 
 
 of the body and Spirit >therc intervenes noif 
 fpaceofTimc. 
 
 ^ If hid Ambs. 
 
 Th iVauring of fegafusat his mri 
 
 Fountain ; andofhts Other food 
 
 OHt of the Ajte and Earth. 
 
 •ECHO.Vr. 
 
 With the Water of Paradife bedew the ' 
 Earrh now clarified , and that Water 
 will again Afcend to heaven, and Defcend a-| 
 gaine to the Earth co make it fertil,and bring 
 forth WhitejCicrine^and FlamyeRcd flow- 
 ers. J f^acF lander, 
 
 Cibation is the Nutrition of our Materia 
 Sicca with milk and meate^both moderately 
 given, till it be brought to the third order, 
 Kipleus Aglfis, 
 
 Our Great bufinefle is to make the Body a 
 fpirir, and the Spirit a body. But it is True, 
 That if the Summe of the volatil exceed and 
 Subdue the Summe of the fixt, it will final iy 
 be turned into a Spiritual body White or 
 Red, 
 
 Rofiirim Miyior, 
 ■ The Earth does not Germinate without 
 frequent Irrfgation, nor receive Irrigation 
 without Deliccation. Therefore at every 
 
 Turn 
 
3 
 
 Zoroafte/s CaVe^ f^ 
 
 furn^frer deficcation powre Water onic 
 cncipcaclyj neither toomuch, nor too litle. 
 t cOomuch;>ii: will be a Sea of Conrurbation, 
 t too little, all is burnt to a light Cindar. 
 
 Our divine Water, the Spume of^ilvet 
 Dingled with Magnefia, rids away the Darke 
 umbra of the bcdyMcmocntus u^pHdFUme/^ 
 '/^«^.TheD''agonbo-n inDarkneffe, is fed 
 vith his oyvne Mercury^ fubmerged in it^and 
 hehalitdedeaibarcaby it. 
 
 Keep s foft tire, rill there b^ patience be- 
 wen Water and Fire^ and till the Spirit and 
 
 ody become one. 
 
 /Vjonachtis^^ag^ l^. 
 See that thou water it temperatly: forific 
 kbound/u will be a Sea; arid if there wantj^ 
 I Combuluon will be made. 
 
 As in this work in its firft Compofition I 
 nothing that is extraneous to its Nature en- 
 ters : So neither does any thing Multiply it, 
 thatisnotofits firftDifpofition. 
 
 < The Magilkry of the Philofophers docs 
 not need a Commiftion of any extraneous, 
 thing;but out of the proper feed metallic 
 caft into Philofophicall earth prepared, it 
 
 Jlproduces a Stone infinitely multiplicableV^f 
 k be nouriftit with its owne m^nftruum, or 
 
 ^ 1 bumr; 
 
7 6 ZoroafiersCave. 
 
 humor Connatural, and be excited by the 
 hear, of th i Philofophers Sun from its Po^jri 
 ten tia into A6^. 
 
 ihedbd-'d^is Hogheiandus, 
 Take the quantity, know the weight of ir^ 
 tindaddto ir a^ muchof the humidity as it 
 can drink; of which humidity, we have TiQt\\ 
 the pondu? determinate, Calid ^j£gyftiHS 
 TheTinje of every Imbibition no itsExhcca- 1 
 tion is Twenty or Thirty Natural dayes. 
 C lAng or Bncclnd^ 
 
 IGNIS MAGORVK 
 
 1 he Philofophers Fire* 
 
 ECHO VII. 
 
 OUrfi'-e is Mineral, Equal!, Continual!, 
 it vapors nor unleffe excited too much, 
 it partakes of Sulphur, it is taken from fomc 
 other Thing than the Materia, it breaks 
 down all before it, Di{rolves,Congeales,and 
 Calcines : That Fire, with a Fire RemifTe, 
 perfe<fts the whole work, and makes all the 
 right Sublimations. 
 
 Tontantispeig ,j ^, ml et iftEpifioia, 
 The Fire againft Nature muft torment the 
 bodyes. That is the Dragon burning violent- . 
 ly, like fire of hellj^i/^/fz/j. All along, the fire 
 muft be gentle till the Water be congealed 
 in Whiteneffe. Aftronger heat given, the 
 
 Mercury 
 
JZotodpr'i Cave, 77 
 
 ircury flyes the fire by reafon of its Frigi- 
 ie. Therefore keep thy fire foft^till thou 
 (It a white Congelation. Benedi^t^s, 
 
 iBy a Temperate fire a little quantity of 
 :Drie Deficcates ethe inoyft^ and this by 
 tie and little, andnotfuddainly. And by 
 w much the Stone has more of the Ablu* 
 '|)njro much the more Intenfe is the white- 
 '■'' (Te. ScotHs de Btifone^ 
 
 ^5- The fire ofthefirft Degree, that isofSo- 
 :ion, and Putrefaction, ought to be fo 
 ak, that Nothing Afcend of the Nature to 
 Sublimed, and fo a gentle fire gives 
 *rcurylngreffe into the body, when with 
 ;rong one all is deftroyed. 
 
 SatHrttintis faf,^ i , 
 
 "« The heat BealbAnt muft not be too muchi 
 e all is gone. But underftand this of the 
 \ White after Nutrition, Anonym, Make 
 ,r Contritions with fire , not with thy 
 ds. /iraintviveh^tn^^ and burns the 
 dyes more then fire; whatever Metallic 
 dy is joyred to it, it ilayes it and 
 ngs it down to duft. 
 
 Syriod^i Pjthaaorka, 
 Although we alwayes fpeak of Slow- 
 *, yet inearneO we think, that in theGo- 
 •nm?nt ofthewo^k, by lif^le and little, 
 JatTurnes, the fire to the End, is to be 
 
 Aug. 
 
9* Zoroaferj Cave^ 
 
 Augmented. Bacho. Spec^ Alchjm.caf,^^ 
 
 There are onely Two fires found in tt 
 books of the Philofophers j The one dr] 
 the other moyft t The Dry is the Elementa. 
 The moyft is Mercury. AUnm Niger ^ 
 
 As ofc as occaiion iliall require, heat an 
 cool, moyften and deficcate thy Earti 
 and there is no Error. So oft as thy veffe, 
 are broke, thy matter mult cool, cohere 
 pofed in a like veffell, and put again to tt 
 fire, CrevertHS SACcrdo. 
 
 7 he Thilofofhe rs veffel \ The Cone^ ar 
 
 OvaI ; The Colours of the Chao*s | 
 
 Tranfienty aftd Critical, 
 
 ECHO. VIII. 
 
 1'^HE vetfei muftbeGlaflejandltoum] 
 with a long Neck, firmly Sealed on tb 
 Top, and is to be Ericlofed with anoth^J 
 Veflfeljthat the heat enter not the matter itiC 
 mediatelyjand fo the Digeftion is in a Trip! 
 Veffel. Liber Trium P^erOorunty pMjr.^g,] 
 Put thy Amalgam carefully into a GUlTiai 
 veffel of fuch a capacity, that thy Eartit 
 that is fown and harrowed, may take up or 
 ly the Third part of it, the other two le 
 vacant. Clofe up the orifice with the wife 
 Lute* ^odoCi Grever^ 
 
 S( 
 
Zoroaflers C^ve^ 7^ 
 
 Set onehalfe of the round of the VeHel 
 to Alhes, the other beare abovejthat thou 
 layft look at pleafure upon the work. 
 
 The veriels are Glaffe, wide below, termi- 
 lating in an Acute, like the figure called x 
 >one, l^ogtlius. 
 
 Think not That the Philofophers lyc 
 vhen they fay. The whole Magiftery is per- 
 ededjin one only veffel: when thou beared 
 hem fay fo,think prefently of the Species of 
 he veffel, notof the Individual, and thou 
 laft found the Truth, Creverlus. 
 
 We need but oneVeffel,one Furnacc,one 
 ^ifpofition; which is to be underftood, 
 Vfter the preparation of the firft Stone. 
 
 FUmellHs In Dem/jcritum^ 
 
 Our veffel is a Glaffe, firmely (hut, round 
 lelliedsof a neck i\nd and long^ halfc a foot, 
 ;)r thereabout. This veffel is called an Egge, 
 I Sublimatory, a Sphear, a Sepulcher, a 
 "ucurbitjC^^. 
 
 LattrentiHs vtmura ItaluSs 
 i^ , Put thy matter into a Glaffe-veffel Round 
 nd (hong, the Orifice ftrait, and fealed that 
 t cannot expire the leaft fume. 
 
 Scotus ic Enfone, 
 
8o ZotoaflerS Cdnje^ 
 
 The ColoHYS. 
 When the matter has (tood for the fpace 
 of forty day^$ln a moderate hear^ there will 
 begin to appear above, a blacknefle like tc 
 pitch, which is the Ca^ut Corvi of the Phild- 
 fophers ,and the wife men's Mercury- 
 
 Blacknefle once feen, thou mayrt be fure 
 a True Conjunilion of the principles h 
 made. 
 
 Before the clear Splendent colour comes, 
 all the Colours in the world will appear 
 and difappear : then thou fhak fee an admi 
 rable whitenefle, that it will Teem to thee 
 the True whitenefle, and yet it is not fo 
 Before the True whiteneite comes, thou 
 flialt fee all about in the margin of the Glafs 
 as it Were Oriental pearls;, in the matter of 
 the Stone, glittering like the Eyes of fifhe!^, 
 and when thou feelt the Matter white as 
 Snow, and fliinlng like orientall gemrris. 
 The white ftone is then perfei^. Let it cool 
 of I r fel f, Ifji.tCiis ? lander, 
 
 Th^ Colours are only Three, the others 
 that co;ne are called the middle Colour«?, 
 th.it vanilli away : But the Black, V\rhite,and 
 Red, are Eminent and lalVmg Scenes. 
 
 Trithcmlti i 
 
 When in the work blacknefl"*; appears, 
 
 krtov^ 
 
loroafiers Cave. 8 1 
 
 know that thou haft found the right way of 
 working. Then rejoyce, for God has given 
 i:l thee a very Greac and.pretious Gift. 
 
 Fhoenix* fag,ji, 
 Ih hora ConjidttEiUms miral^Uia nw.xiinc. ap- 
 Ijl fArent.Nam cmnei Color es qnot^HOt Excoff.tarl 
 po/fu»tyZ<c» In the hour of Conjunction 
 wonderful! things prefent themfelves appa- 
 rent to us. For all che Colours that cau be 
 Imagined, appear in the work; and the Im- 
 perfedl body is coloured with a firm Colo- 
 ration, by mediation of theFermenr. 
 
 ArfiAld^s in Flore Flornm, 
 
 Ihs ImetoperfeEl the phydcksWOik^ 
 ECHO. IX; 
 
 This work cannot be perfedled in a little 
 fpaceofTime; therefore theArtilt mult be 
 patient. Greverius^ 
 
 The fhorteft Time of the preparation is 
 the Circuit and Revolution oftheGrearer 
 luminary. For the Stone muft be kept in the 
 fire, till ic cannot any more be changed from 
 one nature to another, from one Colour to 
 another, but become like the Rf ddeft: blood 
 running like vyax in the fire, and yet dimini- 
 Ciiingr\oih\r)^^tAULanrefititisI^eKthraj/t4/uSt 
 
 We takeayenrforourFxpe6tation ; for 
 our Calx^ in lefle Time,cannot be made. Ri» 
 fieus. 
 
 G The 
 
8^ Zoro^jl^r's C4t/f . 
 
 The Philofophcrs fee'ing a fortofwhicc- 
 ne{fecome,afcer alongTime, of the Colour 
 of Afhcs, called ic Incinaration, orDealba- 
 cion. 
 
 Idemcnp nt. 
 
 In purification there cannot be a deter- 
 minated Time, but in ninety dayes the Red 
 workis completed. 
 
 Variation of Times happens from the 
 ouancity of the med'cin, and according to 
 the Indurt r y of the Art ift, 
 
 Monach, pdf. 17. 
 
 After the firft fifty dayes, the ^Cap;4t Corvl 
 fliows it fclf ; from thence in an hundred and 
 fifty, the Dove is made; and in another hun- 
 dred and fifty,the Red is wrought. Till you 
 come up to whiteneffe^ufe a Gentle fire. 
 
 When it has flood under an Eclipfe for 
 five months, and the Darknclfe recedes, the 
 light fupervening, Encreafe your fire. 
 Seal a pht/of. Rip I CM etiam. 
 The Time for perfedion of Elixir \^ at leall 
 one year. 
 
 Kofarr'w.p/tg.ijp* 
 Bepa-ient ine\tra£ling thy Tincture ; for 
 halk is the firlt Error of Art,' and burns alU 
 
 In forty dayes and nights, after the True 
 purification of the Stone,rhcvvorktoWhite 
 \s compleac : becaufe in the purification 
 
 there 
 
Zoroaflers Cave. 85 
 
 there cannot be a Set time ; butinnlncry 
 dayes and nights, the Work to the Red is per- 
 fected* 
 
 The firft Deco£liort has na certain time 
 and indeed is fomewhat Tidious : ^ci waicc 
 upon itjand Exped ic with joy. Many hare 
 perifht wich haite and affcfted with T .d'ouf- 
 nes given over all. PhanfxXiBer pretioJtJffimHs^ 
 
 The Fermentation of The Stone ^ 
 ECHO. X. 
 
 FErment is made after the Or/«4, or Birth 
 of the Infant. And Ferment is nothing 
 but meat Difpofed to a Convertibility into 
 the Eflence of the Infant, that all maybe 
 made of one nature. This fermentation Ci- 
 bal, ought to be de faa propria natura of the 
 Infant's own nature^and aflimilated to ir;sire 
 there will be no Incorporation, no conver- 
 fion into Sulphur. 
 
 Lnl'iusin Code l. 
 Ferment muft not be of this or that, but of 
 Sol or Luna.only : For we look for nothing 
 but thai: the 5ione be turned into his like 
 iindfrom them is the whole Temperament : 
 nor is it Ferment before the Bodyes be tur- 
 ned into their firft matter. 
 
 yogel'tus p0ig. 10. 
 In fermentation fee thst the Summe of the 
 G % yohtil 
 
84 Zoroajlers Cavf. 
 
 YoUcil do not exceed ihe Suoime of the fixt: 
 otherwife the Sponfal Ligament of the body 
 would be put to flight. But if a little of the 
 Sulphur be caft upon much of the body, fo 
 that it has the dominion over it, it Toon con- 
 verts it into Durt; the Colour whereof is as 
 the Colour of the body, one ounce of the 
 Duft four of the Body. 
 
 Anonympu Inclpiens Defiderabile^ 
 
 Know that there is no Ferment,but Sol 8c 
 Luna, 
 
 Arnaldusin Tlore F lor urn. 
 
 Fermentation is the Animation of the 
 Scone. CUtiger, pag, ^6, 
 
 Of the namre ofhth^ andthe mntation of their 
 
 fnhflance. 
 
 He that is able toturne theSoul to a Body, 
 
 and the Body to a Soul, and mingle with it 
 
 Subtile Spirits, is able toTinge every Body, 
 
 Calid E^ftim, 
 
 The Mh/tiplicAtio»y and Proletilon of the 
 TinBure, 
 
 ECHO. XL 
 
 IT is impoffible to multiply the central 
 fait without Gola, But the Sons of Arc 
 only know the True feed of Metalls. 
 Novum lumen ChjmiCHm, 
 Multiplication is either Virtual ;Such as is 
 
 ma(je 
 
Lor oAper stave. Sy 
 
 made by Alteration, by Diflblving and Con- 
 gealing ;or Quantitative, by Appofition of 
 new Matter. ' 
 
 Scctus de B>ifoyje, 
 The Quantitative is Nothing elfe but the 
 Augmentation of the Tin£lure from one 
 pondus ad infinitum : So that the Worke is 
 never again tobebegunnejandthis Without 
 the Diminution of its force. IncertHs, 
 Proje'clion upon Afet^lSy 
 
 NoPr.ojc6lion of the Red ftonebut upon 
 Luna, 
 
 Ifaac V lander. 
 
 If thou would'ftmake Piojedion upon 
 Jupiter, melt it in a Crucible, and put to 
 one pound of Jupiter one ounce ot pure 
 Luna, and melt them togerher;then cart on 
 it thy White Tinclure , and the Jupiter ani- 
 macion of the Stone. CUna : 
 
 If Thou put to It but Little of Ferment 
 thou (lialt have but little Tinclure. D'aflinHs 
 
 p4^. 30. 
 
 When the ftoneis liquefied byDeco6lion, 
 it muft then be Coagulated^But this Coagu- 
 lation is made with Ferment ^ or with its 
 ownebody, which is the fame thing . 
 
 When the Anima Candida is perfe;S\ly ri- 
 fcn, theArtift murtjoyn itjthe fame moment, 
 with its body : For the Anima without its 
 body cannot be held. But fuch an Union 
 murtbemadeby mediation of the Spirit: 
 G 3 bjcauCe 
 
becaufc the Anima cannot have life in the 
 body nor perfeveranc^ in it , but by the 
 Spirit: And luch an Union and Con junclion 
 is the end of the Work. The Soul muft be 
 joyned with the Firii body whence it was> 
 and with no other 5 vvhich if thou dolt not , 
 thouiTialcfaile ofthy purpofc, as many Ig- 
 norants have done who knew not this Secrec 
 Afar a ar it a Novella, 
 
 Spirits are fugitive, untill"fuch Tirr.e as 
 bodyes are joynedwirhrhem, and help them 
 tohghc againit the fire : and yet thofe parts 
 agree but littkjunlefs with good Operation, 
 and Conrinued labour : becaufethe nature 
 of the Anima is Tetidenr Upwacds , where 
 the Cent re of the Anima is. And who is he 
 of thofe that have trye^i, chat was abhto 
 ConjoyneTwo Things that are Diverfe, 
 whofe Centers too are Divers ? unlefs after 
 the ConverHon fhall be tranfmuted into 
 T'-ue Luna, kfsor more, according to the 
 Spirituality of the rtone > And if thou w^ul- 
 d'(l Work with thy Red Scone, proje-^"^ it 
 upon Luna Molten, and thou (halt firde the 
 pureft Sol. 
 
 Call thy medicin upon thy Fcrmenr,then 
 ir is frangibk as Glafle. Take that frangible 
 maffe, and <?artitupon metals firfUlear'd, 
 and thou (halt have metal ofproofe. 
 
 R'picfiS Art g' 944^ 
 
 This Secret ihou muft not be Ignorant of. 
 
 That 
 
That ourRcd man>and his wife do not Tinge 
 till they are Tinged. Evoaldf^^ 
 
 Would any maaby thePhyfic Stone turn 
 lead into Gold or Silver ? Then he murt firll 
 mingle with it the Subftanceof Lead, that 
 both may become one Thing 5 In the fame 
 way he muft proceed with Tin, and Copper. 
 
 Idem, faglrj. 123. 
 
 The FiYtnei of the Great Elixir^ or 
 jI/ItaI me die in. 
 ECHO XIL 
 
 THIS ChymiG-povvder , whether you 
 call ic the Philof phers I^one orfuile 
 Salt i SulphurjElixirjO" potable Gold, his in 
 it a wondertuli power over the Three Di- 
 vihons of n.trure, the Amsnal,Ve§eral, and 
 Mineral Kinds.Thus firri on the Animal : E- 
 very Animal ,b:ute,or manac brings to Sani" 
 tyfiom every difcale within, or without. 
 All defe(f^ion5 from narural Symmetry are 
 reduced by it to Temperament, becaufe 
 there is in it a pe^fev^i£quation-^^ements 
 fep.iipre from their dreggs, and all Sulphure- 
 ous Aduftions. On the Vegetal; It a(5ls won- 
 derfully by Exciting their Genital power 
 in their feal on*;, or out of chem,to a moft flo* 
 rid vegetation. In the mineral ;Erery Imper-^ 
 fe£l metallic body>Lead,Tin, Copper, com- 
 mon Argent Yive,it tran^formes to Silver ,or 
 G j^ Gold 
 
«o coroajter s Cave . 
 
 Gold betteir then the natural in every pro; 
 bat. Pretious Stones too.; the Emerald; the 
 Carbuncle, the Anthrax, or Rubie, Ch-vfo 
 
 prafe,Adamant,Chryrolite,and many others"- 
 aremadeby it, ^,^. V^Uer,fis. 
 
 _ By long Inqmfuion, Labour, and certain 
 fcxperience, we have found one medicin; bv 
 Which, that which is hard may be made foft, 
 and that which is fofc maybe m«te hard,that 
 which IS fupiive be fixt, that which is foul 
 and dark, be Illuttrated with a wonderful! 
 
 ^w •'''•. cur GeberAr^h. 
 
 Wrincles of theface,every licura orfpor, 
 
 gray haires, it takes away, and keeps us in 
 
 perpf B^ youth,and cheerfulneffe, CUn^or. 
 The CrYltallin iamen cures the ntoft 
 D.feafes ; theRedEhxirall • makesaman^ 
 grow young like the Fagle.jnd has produced' 
 t-he lives of fome to above fiveiiundred years ■ 
 Geber. ' '. 
 
 »sJ^'% '^^, Jfw when he wrote his book, 
 affJimes he had lived a thoufand and five and 
 twenty years. 
 
 By Its EthereaKhumid,oteous fire,it gives. 
 
 aEr?^f ^fe perfea Mines ; makes vari- 
 uus forts of pret lous ftones, with the moft I 
 pretipusmalleableGIaffe. "^'^ '"= ""^^^ ! 
 Ch»rtaS^ctrdot>tm,Et Omtu Ovjmuru, 
 
Zoroajler's C^v% 8^ 
 
 7 he WAV t9 attain tc this Sacred Science, 
 ECHO. XIII. 
 
 FEar G od^you chaclook afcer this Sacred 
 Skill : Far that which you feek is not a 
 fmall Thing, but the Trealure of Treafures, 
 the Gift ot Godjtnoll Excellent, and Admi^ 
 table. Bacafer in Sj/nod.Pythag^ 
 
 He that is Idle and Negligent in the Rea- 
 ding of books, (hall nevcrt)epromprinthc 
 preparation of Things : for one book opens 
 another, onefpeech explicates another ; and 
 that which in one is Incompleat, in another 
 is compleated. And how can he that refufes 
 the Theorie, apply himfelfe to the regular 
 prav^ice ? Amald-AS in R.^/Jario, ' . 
 
 Follow it with the Infiance of labour^but' 
 firft exercife thyfelf in a diuturnity oflntenfe 
 Imagination:for fo thou mayll find the com- 
 pleat Elixir; but without that, neveracall. 
 /d^mh^.2 Rofar^ . 
 Serious Study(our Doctors fay ) removes 
 Ignorance, ancl brings the human Intelled 
 up to the knowledge of Every Thing. 
 
 Ricbardus Amrlicuf, 
 Think not to find out our profound fenfe 
 by the found of the letter : for he that takes 
 the found of the words, and has not the hid- 
 den fenfe too, fhalllofe his Labour, and his 
 Colh Aurora, 
 
 If thou canft Refolveeven the leaft of our 
 
 Say- 
 i 
 
^o Zeroapers cave. 
 
 Sayings, the Greatell cannon be hid from 
 t h c€, ^ urorA Confmaevs prolog. 
 
 All wifdome is from God^and was always 
 with him from eternity. Wholoever therfore 
 loves vvifdome, let himfcekit, andbeggeit 
 from him: for he is the Altitude and protun- 
 dityofallSciencej the Treafureofall wife- 
 domc'jbccaufe froti him>in him, and by him 
 all things are , and without his vvill nothing 
 can bc:To whom be glory for evermore. 
 
 Aiherms magnus de Alchymi/t. 
 
 It 15 impoffible that This (bould beknown 
 unlefs it be known from God, or from a 
 mailer. Kof^rlum PhiIof<rph:^/igi 2^0 
 
 ThcArtifl muftbe prudent, and of a witt 
 naturally fubtile, & profound, and excellent 
 in the Ability to Judge, He mull be learned 
 rikwife;that what his wit reaches not to>chat 
 ipaybefuppl^edbyhis learning: For whofo-' 
 cvcrafplres to this Science, and is not a phi-: 
 lofopherjis afooL He mull be Indulhiou^, 
 Laborious,aT5dof aConftant mind'.not preci- 
 pitant;bur very patient : For all halHnefs 
 (faics our Ge^eryis from the Devill; He rnufl 
 be at his owne ele£lion,and free; not held by 
 other buiinefses and cares. ?■■' ^ 
 
 He muft have money enough for his prac- 
 tice,and booksenough for his iludyjheoi^^ld 
 
 And above all he mud be jealous over t he 
 Secret, andkeep it feverely to bXtr\iz\i(i J dem 
 HcghclMndj I 
 
I adjure thee by the living God, whofoeTe^ 
 nouarc that halt this book in thy hand<; » 
 Ml thou oifer it not to any of the Un« 
 orthyjfuchasare Fools, Tyrants, Oprcf- 
 -, Coverous,Pfoud perfons , Adulterers, 
 )fc Anorato'sjOr fuch whofe belly is their 
 >od.Pla:c r.h/ hope in the Lord God, work 
 his teare to thi good of {inan,expe(f;iing the 
 iTmg from ihowc,Jodcc : Grever.tnUlo Lih^ 
 fhou who hall this bookjhide it in thy bo- 
 ne, difcover it to none, otferic not to 
 tupious hands:for ic fully concaincs init , 
 h- vcy Secretum Sfcretorum of the Philofa» 
 )hers. Such a prerious Jewel asThi^is not to 
 iecaii beforeSwine-rXhereforethou that ha(i 
 he book, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, thac 
 defervedly rhou mayll be faiarobc, and 
 be,of the Numberof the Ancient Magi, 
 
 PIN IS AmrK 
 
JOHN PONTANUS 
 
 UPON 
 
 The mineral Fire ; and the 
 
 Great Elixir,commonIy call'd 
 
 The Philofophers 
 STONE. 
 
 John PontdH have travd'd ovei 
 many Regions, That I might 
 learn fomerhing chat was cer- 
 tain concerning the Philofo 
 phers ftone; and, compalTing 
 almoll the whole World, met] 
 with none but Impoftors, falfe Deceivers, | 
 and no Philofophers : But ftudying alwayes, 
 doubting much, and cafting every way, at 
 length I found the Truth: But when I knew 
 the matter, I erred two hundred Tim€& be 
 fore I found the True Maiterj which theo- 
 peration^and practice upon it. Firfl, I fell 
 to putrefie the matter nine months toge- 
 ther, and found nothing : I put it in Sr, Ala' 
 ries Bath for a certain Time, and erred in 
 That, as before. Then for Three months I 
 
 put 
 
Zorofifkn*s Cave. y j 
 
 put it to a fire of Calcination, and wrought 
 amilTeiall manner of DilHllations, and Sub- 
 limationSjCuch as th^PhilofopherSjas Gei^gr, 
 ArcheUus^2iX\d almoll all the relt/ay^or feem 
 to fayjfhoiildbe ufed^l pra^lifed; and found 
 nothing ftill. Then again 1 tryed to perfed 
 the fubjed of the vvhole Alchymical Art, 
 all the wayes that can be imagined ;by baths, 
 by dungs, by Afhes, and a multiplicity ofo- 
 therfiresj which yet are found in the Philo- 
 fophers books ; and yet for all that I found 
 no good. Wherefore, for Three years conti- 
 nued, I ftudied in the Philofophers books, 
 but chiefly the books of Hermes alone, 
 [ whofe (hotter words comprehend the whole 
 f Stone ^ although he fpeaks obfcurel y of the 
 ? Superior,and lnferior,o£ the Heaven, and of 
 '^ the Earth. The fir(VInrtrumcnt therefore 
 '^ that brings the matter to its Efle in the 
 '" Firft, Second, and Third work, is not the 
 '^ Fire of the Bath, nor of Dung, nor Afhes, 
 ^ nor of the otEer heats which the Philofo- 
 I' phers have in their books. What there- 
 '^ fore is That Fire that perfe<f^s the j^vhole.. 
 ^» vvorke from the Beginning to t^ End ? 
 ■^ Certainly the Philofophers have j<Ivvaiscon- 
 -' ceal'd ir;butlbeirg moved wirh piety, and 
 p kindnefle to men,win declare it to you,to- 
 gether with the complement o^ rhe whole 
 tvorkjt is then the Philofophers Stonejbuti? 
 called 6y various names, and tnou flialt find 
 PI it 
 
^4 Zoroafflers Caic. 
 
 it hard to knovv:For \z is Watry, Aery, Fiery 
 and Earrhy;Phegmatic Cholcric,and Melan- 
 cholic; it is Sulphureous, and is likewifc Ar- 
 gene vive : and has many fupcrfluicies in irt 
 all which, by the Living God , arc turned 
 - into a True ElTeiice, Our Fire mediating j 
 And he that feperates any thirg from the SuD- 
 jc(^ thinking that necefsary^knowes nothing 
 in Philofophy;becaure what ever is fuperflu- 
 ous, unclean, foul or fxculenr, finally the 
 vvholeSubliance of the Subject 5 is perfected 
 to a Spiritual body fixt, by mediation of 
 Our fire. And this thePhilofophers never re- 
 vealed, and therefore few come at the Art, 
 thinking there is. Some fuch fuperfluous 
 Nature to be removed. And now we are to 
 draw out the properties of Our Fire,and try, 
 ' whether according to themanner that I have 
 faidjit be fo fitted to our matter, that it may 
 be Tranfmuced by it, fincc That Fire burnj 
 notthematterjCeparate*^ nothing fromit5parts 
 ,^ ';nor the pure from the Impure (as allphilo- 
 ■J ^^ fophers fay) but turnes the whole fubjeft to 
 ^ purity : It does h^t fublime as Geiper make 
 his Sublimations & as AmMHs^md other 
 fpeaking of Subbli-mation and and DilHlla- 
 tions , Such as are perfected in a ftiort time. : 
 It is Mineral, it is E^uaI, It is Continual, |c 
 It vapours not away unlefs it hz ftir r'd up 
 too much ; it alfo partakes of Sulphur, and 
 istakcn from fome where elfe than from the 
 naatter; it puis down all, difsolvcs and con- 
 
Zoroajlers Cave. f 5 
 
 ^eales^congeales and Calcines : the Inven- 
 :ionofIt is Artlficahitis a Compendium 
 without CoiVor with very little; and That 
 Fireis of a moderate Igniiion^becaufe with 1 
 rcmifs Fire the whole work h perfected, and 
 all the right fublimations made, Whofoever 
 (houldrcad Gehcry and all the reftj if they 
 (hould live an hundred thoufand yeares ^ 
 would not be able to comprehend ir^becaufc 
 :hat Fire is found only by profound Imagi- 
 nation; and then it may be comprehended in 
 :he books, and not before. The Error there- 
 fore of this Artjis^not to find the Fire,\vhich 
 urnes the whole matter into the true Stone 
 of thePhilofophers. Take it then for thy i\u-. 
 dy;forjf 1 had^undthisFire at firftjlha'd not 
 srredlwoliur^reclT^imes in my practice u p- 
 on the matter: wherefore I wonder rot, 
 :hat fo many,and great Wits, have not come 
 It the work. They erre, have erred, and will 
 irre (iill, becaufc the Philolophers have not 
 et downc the proper Agent ; one only ex- 
 repted, Artefblus byname, but he fpeaks 
 'or himfelfe ; and if I had not read Artcphinr 
 md beard him what he faid, I had never at- 
 rain'd the perfect work. But this is the prac- 
 rice. Take itjbruifeit , and bring it down 
 iiligcntly by Naturall Contrition, and put 
 it to the Fire, and know the proportion of 
 /our Fire, namely that it is to be no ftrongec 
 hen only to Excite the mattcr,and in a fhort 
 
9^ TjOroa^crsCaVe. 
 
 time even thar Fire without any apportion 
 of handsjwill certainly compleac the whole 
 work;for it will putrefy^Corrupt^Generate^ 
 and perfeiljand make to appear in their timeii 
 the three Principal Col ours, Black, White,' 
 and Red. And by mediation of our Fire, the 
 Med'cin will be mukiplyed if it be joyn'd 
 with Crude matter,noc only in quantity, but 
 alfo in virtue. Therefore with all thy power 
 look afrer thy Fire, and thou mayl^ profper 
 in thy Work, becaufe it doe^ the whole 
 Worke,and is the key of the Philofophers 
 which they never difcover'd. But thou ftialc 
 cometoknow it by a right,profound thinking 
 upon the properties of the Fire fet down 
 before, and no otherwayes. This I write 
 out of piety, and that I mayfatisfy thee fi- 
 nally; Tne FireisnocTranfmuted with the 
 matter, becaufe It is not ofthe Matter, as I 
 told you before. Thus much I had a mind to 
 fay, and admonilli the prudenr, that they 
 fpend not their money to no purpofe, but 
 that they fhould knoiv what tney are to look 
 for, and fo they may atcaine to the Truth 
 and no Other way. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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