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 OF 
 
 ThcTR ANS MUTATION 
 
 M E TA L S- 
 
 Ch a p. I. 
 
 Of the Scale of Tr&hfnuUtion* 
 
 Ranfrnutation is an alteration or 
 changing of the forms of natural 
 ^ things into other forms , as of 
 Metals or Wood^nto Stones or 
 Glafs ^ the changing of Stones 
 into Coles, &c. It hath been 
 found out, That_ Metals that have been fi rfe 
 coyned j gto Money JIlhajrfcheen by Slture 
 
 C mpgecl iun o>r t\\* CiT^AJntib* ftnny fuh- 
 ftance ; and yet have retained the impreffion of 
 tKelmage that hath been ftamped upon then '* 
 and , That the Roots of Oaks , being (mitten 
 with Thunder , or fome other infiueacc of the 
 
 B Stars* 
 
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 Stars, have been turned into true Scones. There 
 do alio arife Springs of Rivers in many places, 
 that,by a certain natural poperty , do transform 
 all things whatfoever are can into them , into 
 hard Stones. Thefe, and fact-like works of Na- 
 ture , wife men have contemplated , and have 
 thereby learned like wile to do the fame things 
 by Art ; by obferving the fame Order which 
 Nature teacheth by her Inilrunaents. This we 
 fee frequently done in many Mountains , That 
 Coles are generated of Stones naturally by a cer- 
 tain jEtnean fire, of which Carpenters havefre- 
 quen: ule. So that this laft kinde of Tranfmuta- 
 tion , is done by Fire in the Earth ; the other 
 before ipokiin of, by Water and Air : Thefe are 
 the Inftrurnents of Nature , and they are for the 
 Matter, the Motion for the Form. Vghat there- 
 fore if a natural Compoiition,may be made Earth 
 by Fire, and that made Water by Air , and this 
 made Fire by Fire ; and that again defcending, 
 may be made Air by Air , and then this be made 
 Water by Water,and adaft-that may be reduced 
 Jttro Eartft by Fire ? what Tranfmutation I pray 
 co thou think will come thereof ? if you were 
 expert, you would know it. The vulgar and ig- 
 norant fee not thefe things ; and that for noo- 
 thcr caufe, but becaufe they do not confider the 
 fecrets of Nature. Whofoever therefore toge- 
 ther with them is ignorant of , or denieth thefe 
 things, which Nature hath let before the Eyes of 
 all, how learned or wife foever he would feedl 
 to be, he is not worthy of the Name of a Philo- 
 fojjhernorPhyfitian. Whence hath Phyfick her 
 firfli fodridacion ? out of the appearance onely, 
 
 or 
 
OfzIMetals* 
 
 or manifeft fuperficies of natural things ? No 
 thing lefs : but out of the moft .occult and hidden 
 iecrets of Nature, compared to the moft manifeft 
 effe&s. Wherefore as Nature herfelf is undi* 
 fcernabie by every fence , no otherwife are all 
 her Operations. Who ever few a Tree to grow,or 
 the Sun or Stars move ? No bod/ : But that 
 the Trees have grown, and the Sun and Stars 
 have been moved by a ipace of time, who know- 
 eth not ? 
 
 Therefore Operations in Phyfick do more 
 chiefly confift in the Underftanding , rather then 
 in the Eyes or the other Sences; although they m 
 their courfes are the Directors unto us , that we 
 may make further progrefs : otherwife between 
 the Philofopher and the Clown there would be 
 no further difference. 
 
 But to return to the purpofe: The Scale or Lad- 
 der of Transmutation , hath feven Steps or prin- 
 cipal Degrees ; which are, Calcination, Sublima- 
 tion, Solution 5 Putrefaction, Diftillation, Co* 
 agulation andTin&ure. 
 
 Under Calcination are contained thefe hi* 
 Members ; Reverberation , Cimenration , and 
 -Incineration : wherewith , in all Operations* 
 all things are turned into Chalk or into Afhes. B 
 
 Therefore in the firft Degree of Tranfmuta* 
 tion,the elementative natural bodies are conf 
 verced into Earth, with a middle Fire, as the In- 
 crement. 
 
 And here firft of all is to be noted thecriffe-; 
 jrence between materia Elements , and inftru* 
 mental, of which: by the way we (hall fpeak* 
 for thefe are external? tot the other are jaternah 
 
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 as when the firft Operation is compleatcd, whe- 
 ther it be by Calcination or Reverberation, Ci- 
 mentation or Incineration. Sublimation fuc- 
 ceedeth out of the order of Preparations ■ which 
 Earth, now being calcined,is converted either in- 
 to Water or into Air , according to the Nature 
 and property of the thing lb to be converted :for 
 if it be of dry things , then chiefly is to be ufed 
 the elevation of the Volatile parts from the fix- 
 ed. Wherefore Sublimation is convenient for 
 things of tfcat Nature. 
 
 But if there ought to be made a reparation of 
 moift things,as of Vegetables or Animals, then it 
 is convenient to ufe Sublimation thereof in the 
 fifth Degree, to wit, Diftillation. 
 
 But becaufe in this place it is chiefly intended 
 to treat of dry things , as Metals and Minerals ; 
 the order congruent to their Natures is like wife 
 to be obierved. 
 
 ' Therefore the Volatile part is to be fublimed, 
 as'in moirt things by Cohobations. that i?,by re- 
 conjoyning of the pans feparated,and by iterating 
 or ieparating them over again, until they become 
 fixed, and remain within with the parts fixed, and 
 afcend no more, but remain confifting in themb- 
 ftance and form of Oyl of or a Stonerfor with So* 
 lution by the Air, they are turned into Oyl ; and 
 with Coagulation by Fire, into a Stone. 
 
 Let Sal tArmonUk^ be an example for every 
 Metal ; for that in Sublimation fucceffively be- 
 comes Stone. 
 
 By this Operation of Sublimations, macy cor- 
 rofives are dulcified , and mollified ; and on the 
 contrary, with the addition of another lubtfance, 
 
 Alfa 
 
of <S\4etals. 5 
 
 Alio many (harp things are fweetned, and many 
 fweet things on the contrary are (harpened: fon- 
 times by themfelves , or with other things pre- 
 pared after this manner. 
 
 Afterwards happens the third Degree, to wir, 
 Solution ; and that is twofold : the one of cold, 
 the other of heat. 
 
 Salts, Corrcfives , and whatfoever things arc 
 calcined, are coagulated by Fire, and then by the 
 coldnefs of the Air , are reiblved into Liquor, 
 Water or Oyl, in a moift place, as a Cellar, or in 
 the Air , being placed upon a Marble-ftone or 
 Glais : But fat and fulphureous things are dif- 
 folved by the heat of the Fire ; and that which 
 the Fire diflblveth by heat , the fame is coagu- 
 lated by the coldnefs of the Air: On the con- 
 trary , that which is diffoived by the coldnefs 
 of the Air, is coagulated by the heat cf the 
 Fire. 
 
 Note here the Reafon wherefore we call the 
 Air cold ; which feems to oppofe and contradict 
 the Opinion of fome Philofophers : for they 
 will have it to be hot andxnoiftrbut they copiidec 
 not whereof the Air confifts : doth it not con- 
 lift of Fire and Water ? for what elfe is the Air, 
 but Water diffoived by Fire ? Wherefore from 
 one part thereof, to wit, the Fire , it borrowed 
 heat and drinefs ; and from the other part , the 
 Water, coldnefs and moifture : for they are the 
 two chief qualities thereof, and the other two 
 arc herMwifters ; for there is nothing hot by 
 Nature,which is nqt alfo neceffary and naturally 
 dry ; neither is there any thing cold,which by the 
 fame jeafon is not mgift. Whatfoever is befides 
 
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 contingent hereunto , is not by Nature y but by 
 accident. 
 
 It is no otherwife amongft the Elements : the 
 Fire and Water have trie chief place, and the 
 £arth borrows her coldnefs from her Compani- 
 on, the Water; and her drinefs from the Fire: 
 for her felf,(he is never hot, moift, nor cold, nor 
 dry • but foveth her two other Princes, as the 
 Wax lubmits to every Seal. 
 
 In like manner we are to judge of the Air 5 
 for lb the Air receiveth heat and drinefs from his 
 Father the Fire , and cold and moitfure from his 
 -Mother the Water ; therefore they are generated 
 ttsfrom their Parents , the Fire and Water ; the 
 Air Mafcnline, or rather a Hertnaphreditey and the 
 Earth a Female. A nd thus far of the natural In- 
 flmments and the Matter. 
 
 The fourth Degree is Putrefaction : This for 
 its excellency might defer ve the firft place , if it 
 Were not repugnant to the true order -' and a fe- 
 cret in this place hidden to many,and manifefted 
 \b few. It ought therefore to remain placed in 
 its due Scri'eifiven as the links in a Chain;wherc- 
 iti , if one be wanting, the Captive detained 
 therewith efcapes and flies*way. 
 
 The property therefore of Putrefaction is,that 
 confnming the old Nature' of things^ itimro- 
 -du'eeth a new Nature ; andfomerimes pfoduceth 
 •Truir of another Generation : for all living things 
 <<Ke with corruption ; and being dead , theypu- 
 Sfefie,and again acquire life by the Trinfrrfatatl- 
 *&of their Generation into them. 
 ^ fj #nci byittonrofive Spkksaredttlctrled f *iffd 
 ^felHficd , *tvd aliColoiitt ire- thcretyWhcd 
 •no: into 
 
of<£\£xtals, . 7 
 
 into others , and thereby the pure is feparatect 
 frornthe unclean. 
 
 Now the Members of PutrefaaipTvare DL e- 
 ftion and Circulation, 
 
 The fifth Decree is Diltillation, which is no- 
 thing eifebut a Separation of the moiM from the 
 dry, and the thin from the thick. 
 
 The Members hereof are Afcenfion, Lotion, 
 Imbibition, Cohobation and Fixation. 
 
 Cohobation, which concludeth all the reft, is 
 an often effufion or pouring of the dialled Li- 
 quor to its fefesy and often diftilling it over. As 
 Vitriol with Cohobatio.ns is fixed by its own 
 proper Water, and then it is called AlUmev Sac* 
 car mum -, which being diffolved into Liquor, and 
 then putrefied by the ipace of a Month, and du 
 ftilled , yields a moR fweet and pleafant Water, 
 after the manner of Sugar : which is a moft ex- 
 cellent Medicinal fecret , far above others, to 
 extinguish the Microcofmical "Fire, which hap- 
 peneth to the Diggers of Metals; which is large- 
 ly fpoken of in the Book De tMorbu Fcjforum 
 Mintralium » 0\ the Difeafes of the Diggers in 
 Myncs. After the fame manner alio may any ci- 
 ther Minerals and Waters, zsSalNitmm^ be 
 fixed by Cohobations. 
 
 The fixth Degree is Coagulation;which alfo i£ 
 twofold ; anfwering contrary to Solution^confift- 
 ing of heat and drinefs,that is, of Air and Fire. • 
 
 Again, Coagulation is twofold, as having WO 
 parts'pf g-qW, and as many of hear. 
 
 Thefirft of cold is made of ccmmqn A&V^k- 
 
 tout-$fcft**i t.hs k&> of the fu;p$s*0* Firma- 
 
 aaentiby djtHfctrcidfc&o&e j wbi<&tf)^aledi 
 
 B 4 all 
 
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 ill Waters into Snow and Ice. 
 
 But the firft Coagulation of heat is made by 
 induftry in Art , obferving the gradations of the 
 Fire, and is fixed ; but the other Degrees of cold 
 in Alchymy are not fixed. 
 
 The later Coagulation of heat is made by an 
 jfctnean Fire and Mineral under the Earth and 
 under the Mountains , and is gradated by a 
 natural Arch of the Earth. Not unlike to this 
 is the Fire, which being gradated by the Art 
 of Alchymy, is excited and brought to Coagula- 
 tion. 
 
 What foe ver is coagulated by this £tnean 
 Fire , remains fixed , as is manifeft by Metals 
 and Minerals ; all which confift from the begin- 
 ning of certain Mufcilaginons matter coagulated 
 by the jfctnean Fire , and the natural Arch and 
 Artifice of the Earth under the Mountains, into 
 Stone?, Metal s, Pearls, Salts, &c. 
 
 The feventh and laft Degree of the Scale or 
 Ladder of Tranfmutation, is TinSure,the moft 
 noble Medicine above all others that are procu- 
 red by the Chymical Art ; whereby all Metallick 
 and humane bodies are dipp'd into a far more 
 noble, bettcr,and excellent fubftance then before 
 they were naturally of, and are thereby reduced 
 to the higheft Degree of foundnefs , colour and 
 perfe&ion , and to a more ftrong and excellent 
 Nature. 
 
 Various are the kindes and fpecies of thefe 
 Tipdujres , in this place leaft of all intended to 
 Retreated of. 
 
 ^ne Metallick bodies ought firft to be removed 
 |>y fire from their CoagulatioD^ind to be liqoe- 
 
 fcd; 
 
of^Metah 
 
 ted ; otherw ife, they will not receive any a&ive 
 rin&ure , unleis they be opened. Alfo all the 
 rinftures of Metals ought to be fixed fubilances, 
 afily fufible , and of an incombuftible Nature; 
 hat being poured upon a fiery Lamen, they may 
 low forthwith like Wax , and fcon penetrate 
 he Metal without i'moke , as Oyl dotrrPaper, or 
 :s Water enters into a Sponge ; fo they dye that 
 nto a white and red colour , remaining in ihe 
 Fire, and enduring every trial. 
 
 Therefore in thefirft Degree of Caldnation,to 
 :ome to thefe Tinitures , the Metals being 
 Drought into Alcol , they acquire an eafie lique- 
 faction , in the iecond Degree , to wir, of So- 
 lution ; and then by Putrefaction and DiftiL 
 lation, their Tinctures may be fixed and made 
 incombuftible, and the colours un variable. 
 
 But to reriore, recover, conferve, or renew the 
 Health of humane bodies,they ought to be drawn 
 from Gold, Pearl, Antimony, Sulphur, Vitriol, 
 or the like. 
 
 Various alio are the Subjects of the Fire ; and 
 thev have feveral and divers Operations in Chy- 
 miftry : as, one Fire made of the flame of Wood, 
 and this they call living Fire , wherewith is cal- 
 cined and reverberated the bodies of all Metals 
 and other things : another is a continual heat of 
 a Candle or Lamp,w herewith they fix Voiatiles : 
 there is another Fire of Coles , wherewith 
 bodies are cemented, coloured, and purged from 
 their Excrements : alfo, Gold and Silver are 
 thereby brought to t higher Degree : Vtnus is 
 refined , and all other Metals are renewed : the 
 
 fiery 
 
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 fiery Lamens of Irons have another Operation; 
 for thereupon is made the trial x>f Tin&ures. A* 
 nother heat is raited by Fire, by the filings of 
 Iron ; another in Afaes ; another in Salt ; ana-! 
 ther in Bdneo Ultari*, , wherewith are mads 
 many Diftillations, Sublimations , and coagula-> 
 tions : There is alio another Operation made by 
 Balneum for#,which fometimes I have clfewhere 
 called, Balneum Va^rofum^ wherewith many So- 
 lutions of corporal things are made : Then the. 
 Venter Equina hach another Operation, in which 
 are made the chief Putrefactions and Digeltions ; 
 alfo, the invihble Fire hath an Operation 
 far beyond all thefe , that is, of the Beams 
 of the Sun ; which plainly appeareth by his 
 Operations, as by a Speculum or Chryftal. And 
 of this the Ancients have not made mention. 
 
 By this I ire, the three Principles of every 
 thing may be feparated upon a Table of Wood, 
 without any fear of flagration or aduftion ; and 
 all Metals liqueked without any vifible Fire , 
 and all combuftiblcs confamed into Coals and 
 Afhes. 
 
 But the Tranfmutation of Metals , to bring 
 the imperfect to perfection, cannot be very well 
 done without the Stone or Tincture, of which 
 we will hereafter treat in their due places : And 
 we will aMb fay fomethingof the Tranfmutation 
 of imperfe^s into imperfe#s,bringing them pnly 
 for the probation of Tranfmutations. But we 
 8nll firft treat of the Fire, whereupoa bangs the 
 hinges of all the Art: and Witch fome procejs of 
 the Stone of Faracclfm 
 
 Chip, 
 
of Metals. ii 
 
 Chap. IT. 
 ■Of tbefimple Chjmical Fire. 
 
 HAving now fufficiently fpoken to the wife 
 and ingenious, of the Art of Tranfmutati- 
 ons by the Scale and Degrees thereof; that the 
 order before fpoken of may be kept , it will be 
 neceffary in the firft initiation,to propofe and lay 
 down the manner of the Inftruments, before 
 the matter it ielf , left that the rude and un- 
 skilful (hould flrft ule the foot in fkad of the 
 hand. 
 
 Let them not therefore approach hither,whofe 
 undertiariding hath no eyes , and whofe hands 
 cannot ierve them; for the feet and theflefhly 
 eye," without a found and uncorrupted under- 
 ftanding,is altogether ignorant. 
 
 The chiefeft Inftrument which ought moft di- 
 ligently to be fought after, is the Fire, which be- 
 ing living of its own proper Nature , is not vivi- 
 fied by any other Fire. 
 
 From hence alfo it comes to pafs , that ic bath 
 power and vertue to vivifie whatfoever elfe lies 
 hidden in other things. 
 
 As the'Sun in the World is created by God,to 
 vivifie , fiir up and quicken the Fire refting in all 
 other things,asof ttie D, £>$,£,!£, and T? : and 
 that he might heat the Spheres of all the other 
 Stars by his Fire ; which otherwifc have no heat 
 ••ofcheirpmj^ beithcr can they give forth any 
 
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iz Of the Tranf mutation 
 
 of themfclves ; for they are dead of themfelves ; 
 but being kindled by the Solar heat , they live,< 
 and give forth their Operations according to 
 their feveral proprieties., 
 
 For the Sun doth not receive the Light, Life,i 
 and Fire which he hath, from any other Star, but. 
 onelyfrom God that created and ruieth him, fo 
 that he alwayes giveth Heat and Life in himielf, 
 illuminating every other natural Light. 
 
 Even fo is the Fire of the Philofophers fecret 
 Furnace to be accounted in the Spagyrick Art, 
 which heateth the Furnace and Sphere of the 
 Veffel, and the Fire of the matter , even as the 
 Sun is feen to operate in the univerfal World, 
 without which nothing can be generated there- 
 in. 
 
 In like manner nothing can be effe&ed or 
 brought to pafs in this Art , without this fimple 
 Fire , it being the chief part and Operation of 
 fche whole Art , comprehending all the other 
 parts thereof in it felf , and is comprehended 
 of nothing ; for it confifteth of it felf, not 
 wanting any of the other : but all other Opera- 
 tions whatfoever, are made ftand in need of this 
 (imple Fire , from which they receive Life, toge- 
 ther with the matter it felf. 
 ^ Paracelsus fpeaking elfe where of the fimpleFire, 
 faith thus : 
 
 This (faith he) is the Opinion of the nufi excellent 
 Philofopheru The Fire and Atsor are Mfcien t ; for 
 the Fire alone iiibej ajosk Work + and tat complete 
 p4rt. 
 
 Some do build their Fire (imply of Coals: 
 
 they 
 
of Metals 
 
 ::hey erre, containing the Veffels therein or 
 thereupon : others in vain attempt it with a 
 (Fire of Horfe-dung , with the Fire of Coals ; 
 they fublime the matter without any medium, 
 and diffoivc it not : others have ftirredupHeat 
 wich Lamps ; averting this to be t he lecret Fire 
 iof the Philosophers , to make their Stone : o- 
 ithers have placed it in Balneo, andfet this in an 
 Emmet *s Neft : fome have placed it in Afties of 
 Juniper ; and others have fought this Fire in 
 Calce viva y in Tartar, Vitriol, Nitre,and the like : 
 others have thought it to be in hot burning Wa- 
 ter, as, 
 
 Thomas Aquino* falfly fpeaks_of t his Fire, fay- 
 ing , That God and his */4ngels cannot want iu 
 What blafphemy is this ? is it not a manifeft lye ? 
 cannot God want or be without the elementary 
 Fire of hot Water, and be without all the 
 other Creatures when he pleafeth ? doth he 
 ftand in need of any of them ? All thofe Heat* 
 that are ftirred up by the means and Fires now 
 fpoken of , are altogether unufeful for this pur- 
 pofe. See alfo that you be not feduced by Arnold 
 de villa nova^ho writes of the Fire of C ojls; for 
 in this thing he deceives you. 
 
 Almadis faith, That the invijible Sun-beams are 
 [ufflcient for our Fire* He produceth another 
 example, That the celeftial Heat by his reflexion 
 and conttrnal motion doth chiefly make the perfection 
 and coagulation of Mercury. And again, he 
 faith , Make a vaporous, continual, digeftingifepa* 
 rating Fire ; but not flying or boy ling up, but al- 
 tering and penetrating. Now I have told -, **d 
 
 that 
 
i^- Of the Tranfmutation 
 
 that truly , the whole way offlirring up the Heat of 
 this Tire: if thou an a true Philofopher , thon well 
 under flandeft : this u jr. 
 
 Salmana^er faith , Our Fire is a corrofive Fire, 
 •which bringeth an tAiry Cloud over cur Veffel 5 in 
 which Cloudy the Beams of this Fire are hid. This 
 due C aloes and humidity ef the £loud being wanting, 
 there is error commttted. 
 
 Again, Almadir faith , Unlefthe Fire heat our 
 Sun by his humour, by the excrement of the moun 
 tainyWtth a temperate Afcenfion^we foallnot be par* 
 takers, neither of the white nor red Stone. 
 
 All thefe things do fufficiently demonstrate 
 unto us t he occult Fire o f the wife men. 
 
 In brief, this is the matter of our Fire, to wit. 
 That it be kindled by the quiet Spiric of a 
 fecfible Fire, which again expelleth the hot 
 Cahos , as from its oppofite , above our Phi- 
 lofophical matter : which Heat waxing above 
 our Veffel, temperately urgethk forwards to 
 *he motion of perfect Generation, conftantly , 
 without intermimon. 
 
 Thus faith Faraeelfmol the fimple Fire of the 
 Philosophers. 
 
 Chap, 
 
of Met ah. i$ 
 
 Chap. III. 
 
 0\ the multiplicity of the Philofopbers 
 FIRE. 
 
 HAving fpoken of the Gmple Fire , we hold 
 it convenient to treat alfo of the multi* 
 plicity of Fire,and that more copious and cleerly 
 then of the other before ; for by this later we 
 may attain to a perfect fight , as through a Cafe- 
 ment. 
 
 Fire therefore is manifold , as well becaufe of 
 the diversity of the Subject in which it floweth, 
 as that afterwards it is excited in divers other 
 Subje&s : it is varied and changed, as the Fire of 
 Afhes, Smd,Bafoei) LimatHres^8cc. have a me- 
 diate Heat flowing from an immediate into the 
 Subjeft-matter of the Inftrument , and from 
 hence into the matter fubjacent to the Art. 
 
 In this manifold Fire , there is a difference of 
 place ; and this is the Reafon , Becaufe in all 
 things , there is nothing in the Nature of things 
 that can be feen in all things , and by all things, 
 like one to another ; although they are both or 
 the fame Species, and their members of the fame 
 individuals : as one Metal produceth Gold from 
 that which generateth Silver ; another Satmn y 
 Venn* , Mars , and every one of them is varied 
 according to the difference of the place from 
 whence they fpring and are created • neither are 
 two men, or two members of one body, nor 
 
 two 
 
\6 Of the Tranfmutation 
 
 wo Leaves of one and the fame Tree found alike 
 to one another ; and (b of other things. The 
 diffimilitude proceedeth not from the firft Fire 
 of C reatures , but from the various Rule of 
 the Elements by the Planets , and not by the 
 Sun. 
 
 For by this difpofition, the heat is changed in 
 the Elements every momenc ; and alfothe form 
 of decompounds from the compounds, and 
 not from the fimples. 
 
 Where there is not fo great a mixture of the 
 Elements , there is generated Sol ; where they 
 are a little more mix'd and impure * Luna; and 
 whtre they are more imperfe& , Venm : and lb 
 of the reft , according to the mutation of the 
 mixtures, the Mine of every Metal is unlike one 
 another : neither do their Spirits agree in all 
 things one with another* for if they were ge- 
 nerated of fimple Fire alone, no multiplicity 
 intervening, there would be no difference of 
 their properties and forms , not only in Metals, 
 but in all other Creatures. 
 
 But why there arc in ufe feven Metals and no 
 more, fix whereof are folid , and the feventh 
 fluxible and thin ; the Reafon is given in Philo- 
 fophy , and cot in Cbymiftry ; which is to be 
 reiervedto its proper place, that we digrefs not 
 from our purpofe. And thus much of the ma- 
 nifold Philofophical Fire, deduced from Phyfical 
 Reafons. 
 
 Chap; 
 
of Metals. 17 
 
 Chap. TV. 
 
 Of the vifible and local Inflruments : and 
 firs?, of the Spagyrick Womb. 
 
 BEfore we come to fpeak of the matter , k 
 is requifite that we proceed in order to de- 
 larewhatlnftruments a&ualand local are ne- 
 eflary to be ufed in this Art : the firft a&ual, is 
 he Fire ; the firft local Inftrument istheFur- 
 lace, which by the Ancients is called by this 
 'hymical Name, Athanor : this referreth to the 
 Afomb in the Spagyrick Generation. 
 
 Hermes Trifmegiftm^ although he was not the 
 nventor of this Art , no lefs then Varacelfm of 
 f agyrick Medicines , yet he dcferveth to be 
 tiled theReftorer thereof. 
 
 He afferteth, That thisSpagyricl^workSwhich « 
 be Htmofi point of the hand of humane Vhilofophj) 
 aketkits exordium and firft beginning from theme" 
 Utative contemplation of the greater world : intl- 
 nating, that the Spagyrick Athanor ought to be 
 >uilc from the imitation of the Foundation of 
 leaven and Earth. 
 
 But for the cxercife of the ingenious,I (hall not 
 hink it amifs a little to examine this comparison, 
 thereby I may happily profit theReaders.There 
 s noPhyfitian will deny, but that the Sun doth 
 ;enerate a Sun like to its felf : but every one will 
 lot confefs , That it hath this Generation in its 
 Centre; and efpecially , theDifciples of thofe 
 
 £ Phi^ 
 
lS of the Tran] mutation 
 
 Philosophers , that can give no other Reafon of 
 che JEtneajj Fires, ^ then what Rufticks and 
 Clowns do, according to the appearance thereof 
 to their carnal eye?. 
 
 This Terrene or earthly Sun is kindled and 
 bred by the Fire of the fuperior ; even fo is 
 kindled the Centre of our matter, from the Cen- 
 tre of our World or Athanor \ which is Fire, 
 bearing a fimiiitude and reiemb lance with the. 
 natural Sun. 
 
 Who feeth not the form and frame of the uni- 
 verfal created World, to bear the Gmilkude 
 and likenefs of • a Furnace. : or, that I may fpeak- 
 more reverently, containing the Matrix of af 
 Womb ; that is- to fay," the Elements wherein' 
 the Seeds of the Sun and Moon, by their various 
 aftral influences are corrupted , conco&ed and 
 dige(ted,for the Generation of arl things? 
 
 But this is plainly manifeR to Children, I need 
 nor fpeak it to Philofophers : wherefore I (hall 
 not need to urge it any further. 
 
 Therefore iye proceed t a fpeak of the manner* 
 of the contagion and buiidinf* ot our A;hm& 
 or Furnace. Fir ft, let a Furnace be built fix i'panS 
 hi^hj round whhin 5 andof the bred th and bignefi 
 of one fpan; let it be fomewhaj larger and bigger 
 towards the bottoms hen at top ; let it be made! 
 fmooth within , that Coals or fuch things as are 
 put in,do nottiick by the way*butmay fall down 
 cloie to the Grate, To this Furnace y on may 
 make one , two or three mouths , as you fhali 
 think fit. To every Furnace let a Copper be 
 fitted , with Water : the ether matter is to be! 
 
 inclofecl 
 
of Metals. 19 
 
 inclofed within : as the Egge is within the 
 Hen ; fo is a Glafs to be in this womb, for the 
 induftry of the Magi-lery. Then when you will 
 work or operate herewith, having all things 
 diligently prepared, break you Coal' about 
 he bignefs of Walnuts , and till up the Turrets 
 to the top,and kindle them at the door beneath ; 
 and let the top be kept frmt , left the Coals 
 being kindled at the top or in the middle , de- 
 ftroy the whole work , and they confume and 
 burn all together. Moderate therefore your 
 Fire with a juft proportion , as Nature teach- 
 tth in all things. The natural heat will excite 
 and ftir up the ferment and the matter lying hid 
 in this Egge. 
 
 Wherefore even as the Sun illuminates the 
 great World, and giveth Light and Life to all the 
 Stars, Elements and Creatures; fo doth this Spa- 
 gyrick Fire illuftrate and vivifie our Inftru- 
 ments,and all the matter of our Furnace, as the 
 feting of a Hen over her Egges , animates the 
 young. 
 
 C H A P. V. 
 
 [Of the fecond Spagyrick Instrument , which is 
 the Matrix or Philosophers Egg?. 
 
 MA ny Philofophers , rafhly prefuming upon 
 their own Judgements, nave mif-under- 
 ftoodthe right and true occult and fecretVef- 
 fcl of the l&ilofophers. And worfe is that 
 
 C 2 which 
 
20 Of the Tranfmutation 
 
 which sAriftotle theChymift ( not the Greek 
 Academian ) faith , That the matter is to be dc- 
 cooled in a treble Veffel. And more amils is that 
 which another faith , That the matter in thefirfi 
 feparation and fir ft degree , ought tt be included in a 
 UMetaliickfejfel ; in the fee end Degree ofitsfi- 
 agulation and "Dealbation of the Earth , a Glaj?- 
 Veffel ; and in the third "Degree , which is Fixa- 
 tion ^ a Veffel of Earth. Neverthelefs , by all 
 thefe they underftand onely one Veffel in 
 all Operations , to the perfection of the red 
 Stone, 
 
 Since therefore our Matter is our Radix and 
 Foundation both of the whue and red, our 
 Veffel neceffarily ought to be made after this 
 manner , that the matter therein may be ruled 
 by the Celeftial bodies : for the Celeftial influ- 
 ences, and the invifible impreflions of the Stars, 
 are chiefly neceffary for this work • otherwifeic R 
 is impoflble to attain to the excellent Oriental, I 
 Perfian,Chaldean, and Egyptian Stone , by any C 
 means ; by which Anaxagoras knew the vermes \ 
 and power of the whole Firmament, & prefaged, 
 That the great Stone fhould defcend from Heaven * f j 
 upon Earth: which alio happened after his death. 
 He did very much make known our Veffel to the 
 Cabalifts, and that according to the true Geo- 
 metrical meafure and proportion ; and how it 
 ought to be built of a certain Quadrature in a j 
 Circle, whereby the Spirits and foul of our mat- 
 . ter being feparated from their body, may be ele- 
 vated in the altitude of their Heaven. 
 
 Fer if the Veffel be more ftraight , large, 
 
 high 
 
of ^Metals. 21 
 
 high or low then its due meafure and propor- 
 tion, and then the ruling and operating Spirits 
 and Soul of the matter do defire ; the heac of 
 our fecrec PhLlofophicai Fire , ( which is moft 
 acute) will too violently excite and provoke the 
 matter to Operation , and fometimes the Veffel 
 will flieinto athoufand pieces, not without dan- 
 ger of the body and life of the Operator. 
 
 On the contrary , if the Veffel be too capa- 
 cious, and more large then for the heac, to ope- 
 rate upon the matter according to its propor- 
 tion, the work will alfo be fruftrate and in 
 vain. 
 
 Therefore our Philofophical Veffel is to be 
 fabricated with greateft induftry and diligence. 
 
 But they onely underftand what the mat- 
 ter of this our Veffel is, who in the fiift 
 Solution of our fixed and perfect matter, have 
 reduce^ and brought the fame into their 
 firft Effence 2 of which we have fpoken c- 
 nough. 
 
 Let the Operator therefore diligently note 
 what he takes, and wkat he refufes, in the Solu- 
 tion of the firlt matter. 
 
 The manner of defcribing this Veffel is dif- 
 ficult ; yet it ought to be of fnch a form as Nature 
 her felf requires , which is to be fought and in- 
 veftigated from one and another. In brief, it 
 muft be fuch , that from the altitude of the 
 Philofophical Heaven, being elevated above the 
 Philofophical Earth,it may operate to bring forth 
 the Pruk of its terrene body. 
 
 It ought to have this form , That when the 
 C 3 ?KJ? 
 
2Z Of the Tranfmutation 
 
 Fire forces one from the other , there may be a 
 reparation and purification of the Elements ; 
 fo that every one may occupy his own place 
 wherein he remaineth, and that the Sun and 
 the other Planets may exercife their Operations 
 about the terrene Element, and that their courfe 
 be not irnpedited in their Circuit, nor ftirred up 
 with too violent a motion. 
 
 According to all tliefe things which have been 
 faid, it ought to have a proportion of roundnefs 
 and altitude. 
 
 >ie which appertain to the firft cleanfing 
 and muncUnWion of Mineral bodies, are mel- 
 ting Veffels, Crucibles 5 lementing Veffels, Cu- 
 curbites , and GUiTes for aAqun Finis ; which 
 arealfo neceffary for the projection m the laft 
 work : but as concerning the Veffel ufefnl for 
 this work, it is neceffary that you have a Glafs 
 rightly and duly proportioned ; for if it be too 
 capacious , or more large then its juft and due 
 proportion , the matter , that is, the humidity, 
 is dilated , (o that nothing can be produced 
 therefrom. And if it be too narrow or little, 
 and comprefling the matter, the growrh thereof 
 will be fufTocated, that it can produce no Fruit. 
 An example thereof, may betaken from h.-nce : 
 If Corn, or any thing elfe, be fown in the fhade, 
 or under the droppings of an Honfe, what Fruit 
 can be expe&ed therefrom > Wherefore our 
 greateft care ought to be in the adopting and fit- 
 ting of the Glafs ; for an error being commit* 
 ted thereby, or therein, is not ea(i]y cor- 
 je&ed and amended ; fo thac by the: impedi- 
 ment 
 
I of Metals. 2; 
 
 ment thereof, the work is not brought to the 
 wifned end. 
 
 Wherefore to two Ounces of the matter, take 
 two Ounces and a half of Glafs,or the Philofo- 
 phicalEgge , that is , aGlafs of that weight ; 
 having regard to the due thicknefs of the Glafs. 
 This being obferved, you fhall avoid error in this 
 thing. 
 
 Chap. VI. 
 
 Of tkSubjeB or PbtLfopbical Matter 
 1 «- general. 
 
 HAving hitherto fufficiently fpoken of the 
 Chymical Initruments, now hearken what 
 Matter you are to chufeto begin this Spagyrick 
 Work : after that the Vegetables are mortified, 
 the concurrences of the two Metals , that is, 
 Salt and Sulphur, they are tranimuted into a Mi- 
 neral Nature ;, fo that from thence at length re- 
 fults a perfect Mineral. 
 
 For in the Mineral Caverns of the Earth 5 fome 
 Vegetables are found, which by a long iuccefiion 
 of time , and a continual heat ; have puc off 
 the vegerable Nature of Sulphur , and put on a 
 Mineral Nature. \ 
 
 And this rnoft efperially happens, where the 
 naoft proper Nutriment of theie kinde; of Vege- 
 table b taken away , that they may be after* 
 wards compelled to receive their Aliment from 
 thcSuiphujandS^ s*i the Earth, fo long, until 
 
 C4 tha^ 
 
z^ Of the Tranjmutatwn 
 
 that which before was Vegetable , become a 
 perfect Mineral. And from this Mineral con* t 
 dition, a certain Metallick perfect Effence doth Y 
 fometimes arile, and that by the progrefs of one 
 Degree unto another. ; J 
 
 But that we may return to fpeak of the Philo- iii 
 fophers Stone, the matter whereof is moft diffi- : U 
 cult to finde out and underftand : 
 
 The manner and moft certain Rule of this 
 Inveftigation,and of all other things whatsoever, 
 is a careful and diligent Examination of the 
 Radix and Sperm thereof, whereby is found out 
 the knowledge of the matter. 
 
 Much availing hereunto,is a due and neceflary 
 confideration of the beginning and original of i 
 Metals , how and after what manner Nature firft 1 1 
 bringeth them from imperfe&ion to the end of 
 perfection. i. 
 
 To which confideration it firft of all conduceth, t 
 the perfeft knowledge of the three firft Princi-. n 
 pies whereof Nature createth all things, that is, ,i 
 Sal> Sulphur, and CMercnry, naturally permixed ! 5 
 into one body, yet fo, that in feme they arc vo- i 
 Utile, and in others fixed. 
 
 For as often as the corporal Sal is permixed i 
 with the fpiritual Mtrcfory, and animate Sulphur^ S 
 then Nature begins to operate in thofe Subter- 
 ranean places,which (he hath in ftead of her Vet- t 
 fels, by the feparating Fire, which feparates the ij \ 
 craft and impure Sulphur from the pure , and/** 
 Xre&atcs the Earth from the Sal, mdihc Nuies 
 from the Mercury ; referving the firft parts,which 
 Nature deco&eth again together into one con- 
 fUnt Geogamical body. Which 
 
of Metals. 25 
 
 Which Operation is had from the greater raix- 
 l ture and conjunStion, by the onion of three, to 
 1 wit, Body, Soul, and Spirit. 
 
 This Union being compleated, from thence 
 refults pure Mercury ; which if it flow through 
 the Subterranean Pores and Veins, and be made 
 obvious to the Sulphur , it is coagulated here- 
 with,according to the condition or the Sulphur. 
 
 Yet neverthelefs, it is ftill Volatile, infomuch 
 that it is fcarce decoded into Metal in twenty 
 ycers afterwards. 
 
 From thence this vulgar Opinion received 
 its original , to wit , that Sulphur and LMer- 
 cury are the Matter of the Metals , as is ma- 
 nifeft by the, Relation of the Diggers of Mi- 
 nerals. 
 
 But neither vulgar (Jttercury , nor common 
 Sulphur , are the Matter of the Metals ; but 
 the Cktercury and Sulphur of the Philofophers 
 are incorporate and innate in perfect Metals, 
 and in the Forms thereof: fo that they never fly 
 from the Fire , nor are depraved by the force of 
 the corruption of the Metals. 
 
 So that by the Diffolution of that natural 
 mixture, our (Jtfercury is tamed and fixed,fay the 
 Spagyrick Philofophers. 
 
 Therefore under this form 6f Words,our Mer- 
 cury out of perfect bodies,and the vertue of the 
 terrene Planets cometh to be extra&ed : which 
 alfo Hermes itterts in thefe words : he &ith,That 
 Sol and Luna are the Roots of this Art. 
 
 The Son of Hannel faith , That the Philofophers 
 
 Stem is * C94£HUtcd water y t9 witjn Sol md L« na ^ 
 
 Trcna 
 
26 Of the Tranfmutation 
 
 From whence it plainly appears , That the 
 Matter of our Stone is only SoUndLuna; which 
 is confirmed by this, That every like naturally 
 brings forth and generates his like. 
 
 And as we know there are two Stones , the 
 white and the red ; fo there are alio two Matters 
 of the Stone, Sol and Luna*, coupled together in 
 their proper Matrimony, either natural or artifi- 
 cial. And as we fee a Man and Woman cannot 
 generate nor produce their like,without the mix- 
 ture of both their Seeds ; fo in like manner, our 
 Male SV,and hi • Female Lxna-> cannot conceive 
 nor bring forth any Generation, without their 
 Seed and Sperm. 
 
 From whence our Philofophers have gathered, 
 That there is a third thing neceffary, to wit, the 
 Animate Seed both of the Male and Female of 
 theChymifts , without which they judged their 
 whole work vain and ridiculous. 
 
 The Sperm hereof, is ^Mercury , which by a 
 natural ConjunSion of both bodies of Sol and 
 Luna, rcceiveth and uniteth their Nature into ' 
 himfelf. 
 
 Then, at length, and not before, is the matter 
 apt for the congretfive Work and Genera- 
 tion , by the Mafculine and Feminine force and 
 vertue. 
 
 This hath moved our Philofophers to fay,That 
 this Mercury is comvofed of Body y S only And Spirit ; 
 and to affttme mto it [elf the nature and propriety of 
 all Elements, 
 
 Wherefore they have afferted their Stone to 
 be an Animal , which alfo they called their 
 
 Mam) 
 
of Metals 27 
 
 tAdam, who bearcch his occult and invifible Eve 
 in his own body 5 from which moment they are 
 united by the power of the Great Maker of all 
 hings. For which caufe ic may worchily be laid,t 
 That the Mercury of the Philosophers is nothing 
 elfe,but an abftrufe compofed LMercury^nd not 
 that vulgar Mercury. Therefore they have wifely 
 faid, That there is in Mercury whxtfoever the wife 
 men do feel^ after. • 
 
 Almadir thePhilofopher faith, We pxirM our 
 Mercury out of one perj \U Body , with two per j e& 
 natural #nd incorporate conditions : This extrirfe- 
 caRy produceth %is perfection, whereb] herefifteth the 
 force of the fire ; ar.d by this his perfection is ex- 
 trinfecally and intrinfecaliy defended fr$m all imfer- 
 fettwns. 
 
 By this place of the acute Philofopher, the 
 • matter of the Stone is underftood to be Adami- 
 cal , the Microcoirnica! Garment , the Homo- 
 geneous and umrfd matter of thePhilofophcrs. 
 
 Thefe Sayings of the Philofcphers , which be- 
 fore we have made mention of, are tneeriy Gol- 
 den, and to be had alwayes in great eiteem , be- 
 caufe they contain in them nothing Superfluous, 
 nothing invalid. 
 
 Briefly therefore : The matter of thePhilofo- 
 phers Stone is nothing elie but a fiery and per- 
 feci Mercury extracted by Nature and Art, that 
 is, artificially prepared ; and is the true Herma- 
 fhrodite-) Adam, zndMtcrocofme* 
 
 This tne wifeft of Philofophers , Mercnrius 
 7*rffmc0W) afferting, c allcth the Stone zxxO r 
 
 °m,J^ T { 
 
 There 
 
i8 Of the Tranf mutation 
 
 Therefore our tMercury is he which contains 
 in himfelf the perfections , power and vertue of 
 Sol; and runneth through the Houfes of all the 
 Planets : and in his Regeneration, acquireth the 
 vertue of the fuperiors and inferiors : and by the 
 Matrimony thereof, heappeareth cloathed in 
 their candor and beauty. 
 
 The Arabians , Greeks, Perfians, and Egyp- 
 tians , h*vekept thefe Myfteries fecretand ab- 
 tfrufe, denoting them by certain occult Cha- 
 racters and Figures. Some have called this, The 
 Secret of the Philofophers : and ^^thagoras , The 
 Philofophers Stsne, 
 
 Whotbever have attained to the knowledge . 
 hereof, have adumbrated and fhadowed the 
 fame , with various enigmatical Figures, and 
 deceitful Similitues and Companions , and 
 feigned Words , that the Matter thereof might 
 remain occult to Pofterity ; fo that little or 
 no Knowledge thereof, might be found 
 out. 
 
 But neverthelefs fome have fufficiently de- 
 tected this matter and the knowledge^ thereof, 
 with its preparation, to the ingenious • but not- 
 withftanding in Parables, and under Enigmatical 
 Words and Figures , that they might expel the 
 unworthy from attaining to fuch a myftcry of Arc 
 and Nature. 
 
 Neverthelefs fome few , and fuch who arc apt 
 to apprehend this Art, have fought out the per* 
 petual Balfome of Nature, and the true Stone, 
 but with exceeding great labour and intricate 
 difficulty ; which everywhere OCCuriCth in the 
 
 invegiy 
 
of<£\detah. 29 
 
 inveftigation hereof. And hence it appears why 
 the flugsifti and flothful mindes never attain to 
 this work. 
 
 Chap. VII. 
 
 Of the F reparation of the Spagyrick Mat- 
 ter in general. 
 
 NAturefirftrequirethof the Artift, that the 
 •Philofophical^^w be* brought into a 
 Mercurial fubftance , and at length to be re- 
 generated into the Oriental Sol, and Lunar j 
 Stone. 
 
 Moreover,its to be noted,That thofe common 
 Preparations of Geber, Albertm Magnus, Thomas 
 Aquinas, Rupecijfa , Polydor , and the like , are 
 nothing elfe but particular Solutions, Sublima- 
 tions , Calcinations, leaftof all pertaining to our 
 univerfal Secret, which wanteth onely the mod 
 fecret Fire of the Philoibphers. The Fire therc- 
 fore and Azor are fufficient for theew 
 
 The Philoiophers make mention ©f other 
 Preparations, as Putrefa$ion, Diftillation, Sub- 
 limation, Ceration, Fixation , &c. which you 
 are to underftand onely to be certain univerfal 
 Operations to compleat Nature in the laid mat- 
 ter ; and not onely a working in the Philofo- 
 pbicai Veflel with the like Fire , and not with 
 common Fire. 
 
 For the. white and the red proceed bothfrom 
 one Radix, without any mean : it is diffcived 
 
 in 
 
^o Of the Transmutation 
 
 in it felf,and copulated by it felf,made white and 
 red,black & yellow by it felf* it defpoufeth it felf, 
 and is conceived in it felf : it is decoded and 
 infunded, afcendcth and defcendeth : all which i 
 Operations are made by the Fire alone. 
 
 Yet ibme Philofophers have diffolved the 
 Body of Sol, by the Prong ; eflence of Win e* and 
 made it Volati le , that it would afcencT by an 
 Alembick; thinking this to be the true Volatile 
 matter of the Philofophers ; whereas it is not ; 
 although it be ajecret not to be deipifed , to 
 reduce a perfeS: Metallick Body into a Volatile 
 and fpiritual fubftance : yet they erre in the re- 
 paration of the Elements ^ for they thought by 
 this way to feparate Goldjnto a fubril ,' fpiritual 
 and elemental venue : and after their feparati- 
 on,by Circulation and Re£tin"cation,again to co- 
 pulate them into one • but in vain. 
 
 For although one Metal may be feparated from 
 another in feme fort ; neverthelef?, every Metal 
 thus feparate*d , maybe feparated again into an- 
 other; which parts afterwards by a Pellicanical , 
 Circulatioivor Pirtillation r can in no wife copu- 
 late into one, but will alwayes remain a certain 
 Volatile Matter, and t/fvram Totabik , as they 
 call it. 
 
 The caufe why thefe can never attain to their 
 intentions, is this, Becaufe by this way, Nature 
 will not be extra&ed nor feparated with hu- 
 mane dif-jun&ions, as by terrene Glaffes and In- 
 ftruments. 
 
 That onely hath known its Operations and 
 the weight of the Element?, whole Separations, 
 
 Refti- 
 
of <£\4etds. 51 
 
 Rectifications , and Copulations, are executed 
 without the Heip of any Operator or Manual 
 Artifice, whilft the matter is contained in the 
 lecret Fire, and in the occult Veffel. 
 
 This is the Opinion of the Phiiofophers,That 
 when they have placed this matter into their fe- 
 cret Fire , it is cherHhed round about with this 
 Philofophical heat, that beginning to tranfite 
 into corruption, it waxeth black. This Opera- 
 tion they call Tutrefattion ; And this Blacknefe, 
 The Head of the frew. 
 
 They Call the afcending and defcending of this 
 1 matter, their DiiUllation , Afcenfion, andDe- 
 fcenfion : they call Exficcation, Coagulation ; 
 and Dcalbation, Calcination. 
 
 Andbecaufe by a continual heat , the matter 
 is made foft and fluid, they make mention of 
 Ceration. But when it ceafeth to afcend 5 and 
 remaineth liquid in the bottom,they call it Fixa- 
 tion. 
 
 After this manner therefore , are the Apella- 
 tions of the Philofophica 1 Operations to beun- 
 derftood,and no otherwife. 
 Thus having declared the Inftruments, Matter, 
 and Ferment , we proceed in order to the 
 Weights ; without observation whereof, ©or 
 Work is in vain. 
 
 Chap, 
 
yt Of the Tranfmutation 
 
 Chap. VilT. 
 
 Of the Proportion cf the Matter. and Form 
 of the Spagyrick Stone. 
 
 T He Formal part of our birth is the Mercury 
 of the Philofbphers, and the Spirit or Tin- 
 dure of Sol; but the living part is another ma- 
 terial. 
 
 Therefore the Compofition of this facred 
 Adamic^ Stone , is made after the tsfdamicJ^ 
 iMercury of the wife men ; with their Female 
 Eve,by the Matrimony and union of the One and 
 the other Mercury on the third parr. 
 
 Therefore the onely matter of the Philofo- 
 pbers, confiileth of fpiriiual, corporal and animal 
 Mercptrj* 
 
 The corporal CMercnry is the fubjeft of Tin- 
 ctures. 
 
 : The fpiritual and animal tJMercwies , exhi- 
 bit the means of conjoyning them • but in 
 their conjunction, a due proportion is to be ob- 
 ferved: 
 
 For if there be taken more of one then of the 
 Other, it will be fuffocated as Seed fown in the 
 Field ; fo that it cannot live lb long until it be 
 united by the Mercury of the Philofophers, and 
 perfected in the Fire: or on the contrary,if it be 
 too littlc,there can be no Solution,nor no Fruit. 
 
 Wherefore, fee that you take as much of 
 the one as of the other , left by your ig- 
 norance 
 
 
of<£\fetals. 55 
 
 norance in the proportion , the work be de- 
 stroyed. 
 
 Let there be taken therefore one part of 
 the Seed to two pares of Earth , or three to 
 four ; and there will be no error , but the 
 work will be brought to itsdefired end in this 
 behalf, fo as the reft be moderated accor- 
 dingly. 
 
 There is a double Reafon why the Weight 
 fliould be obferved ; the one natural , the other 
 artificial. 
 
 The natural followeth the effe& in the Earth 
 by Nature andConcordancy $ of which Arnaldut 
 fpeaks, 
 
 If there (hall be added more or tefl Earth then Ma- 
 ture wtllfuffer , it will faff ocate the Soul , and no 
 fruit tfor fixation is perceived. 
 
 The like is to be judged of the Water : if 
 there be taken too much or little thereof, it 
 rings an inconvenient lofs : for the fuperfluity 
 
 ereof makes the matter too humid ; and the 
 efe&orwant thereof, renders it too dry and 
 too hard. If the VelTel be too little, the Tin- 
 cture is too much prefled ; if too large , a pale 
 body evades: if the Fire be made too vehement, 
 the matter is burnt ; if too remifs , it hath not 
 power of exficcating, folving, and calefying the 
 other Elements. 
 
 In thele confifts the elemental Weight; 
 but the artificial is moft occult : when as 
 the Ponderations are included in the Magick 
 
 IArt. 
 Between the Spirit , Scul and Body ( fay 
 £> th: 
 
^ Of the Tr an] mutation 
 
 the Philofophers ) confifteth the Weight with 
 Sulphur, as it were theRe&or of the work: 
 for the Soul defireth the Sulphur, and neceffa- » 
 rily obferveth it, by Reafon of the Weight. 
 Which underftand after this manner : Our mat- 
 ter is united with red mixed Sulphur , to which 
 is committed the third part of the Regiment * 
 until the la!* Degree , that it maketh on the infi- 
 nice Operation of the Stone : and perfifteth 
 therewith together with his Fire, and confift- 
 eth of an equal Weight with the matter it felf 
 in all things , and by all things, without a- 
 ny variation of any Degree of Tranfmuta- 
 tion. 
 
 I After therefore the matter is prepared and fit- 
 ted, and mixed with its proportionate Weight, it 
 ought to be very well concluded and fealed up 
 in the Philofophers Veffel , and committed to 
 their fecret Fire, in which the Philofophical Sun 
 will fpring up and arife, and illuminate all 
 things which expeft his Light , or hope can de- j 
 fire. 
 
 But becaufe this cannot rightly be under- l 
 Rood without a perfect knowledge in the Metals 
 of perfefl Tin&ures, we proceed now to fpeak 
 of them. 
 
 Chip. 
 
vf Metals. 35 
 
 Chap. IX, 
 
 Of the TihBwet and Spirits of Metals : And 
 firft,of the Ttafture of the Sun. 
 
 T^He Tin&ure of the Sun obtains the fuprcrae and 
 
 principal place : which is derived of tubal, pure* 
 and moft perfed fire. Wherefore this fpirit fltetb 
 not from the fire, but remains therein fixed f triumph- 
 ing and rejoycing : it is not confumed nor burnt 
 thereby, as others ; but rather thereby gains more 
 luftre and fplendor : it is fubje& to no Corruption- 
 ; neither heat , nor cold , nor any other quality, can 
 bring any detriment thereunto : Whereby it ccmes 
 to pafs , that the body which it once putteth on , ic 
 defends and preferves from all accidents , Corrup- 
 tion, and difeafes, that it may alfo endure the fire with 
 him without lefion. 
 
 His body hath not thefe virtues from himfelf, but 
 from his fpirit alone, the efficient caufe thereof. 
 
 It is certaine, that the body of Sol is Mercury \ 
 which can in no wiieindure the fire, but immediate- 
 ly flyes therefrom. 
 
 Since therefore being in gold, Mercury perfifts 
 conttantly in the fire, and flyes not ; there is no 
 doubt but the fixing thereof by the fpirit, will in> 
 preffe the fame virtue in its felfc 
 
 What gift and office therefore hath it in Mercu- 
 ry \ but that when it is freed from its own body, and 
 taken into a humane body , itfbould work aodo- 
 pcrate its effects thereupon ? who vvill deny , but 
 
 D * tHac 
 
7fi Of the Tranfmutation 
 
 that alfo it may preferve and keepeitfafe from all 
 Corruption , difeaies and accidents whatfocver> and 
 preferve the body 1 to a long and found life , as our 
 firft parents of old ? 
 
 The virtues and propertyes of all other Metals are 
 not otherwife to be known , but by certain and true 
 experience, and not by any other reifeaof a Subtile 
 intellect x for this wifdom which is conceived by opi« 
 nion only > is metre fooliibnefs before God and the 
 truth ; wherefore they that hope and believe therein, 
 do erre, and are deceived. 
 
 Thus farrc of the fpirit and Tin&ure of Sol : now 
 let us fee what Tincture the Moon hath. 
 
 The fpirit of Luna lyeth in this white Tin&ureJ 
 as the Red in Sol : And it is alfo borne of a fubtil 
 fpirit ; but not fo perfect as that of Sol. Never the- 
 iefs'in purity and conrrancy it farre excelleth the 
 Tinctures of all the other fubfequent Metals. 
 
 For burnt lead con fumes it felf,and all other Metals 
 with it in the fire, except Sol and Luna • to which it 
 brings no detriment. 
 
 Seeing therefore the fpirit or* the Moon is of power 
 to preferve the body which it once puttcth on, to 
 witi Mercury, from injury of the fire, and all other 
 accidents, and render the fame fixed and conftant ; 
 it is eafily gathered from hence , if it effect this in fo 
 iaftable and volatile a body as Mercury, how much 
 more efficacious and powerful will it operate, being 
 free from its own body, and pic je&ed into a humane 
 body ? will not that be alfo defended from many di- 
 feafes and Corruptions ? certainly whatfoever it 
 operates in Mercury, the fame it will do in a humane 
 body, and preferve the fame to a long and found life, 
 
 expelling 
 
of Metals 37 
 
 expelling alldifeafes which a re comprehended under 
 the power thereof ; according to the degree there- 
 unto prefixed by nature, 
 
 Certainly by how much th: more fublime, fubtile 
 and perfect every Medicine is , by fo much the more 
 perfectly it cureth in its kinde. 
 
 Wherefore ignorant are thofe Phyfitians who 
 found their Art chiefly upon corrupt Medicines, as 
 Vegetables, which are not permanent ; but they go 
 about fixed Cures with uncoaftant means , under- 
 taking that which is impolfible for them to perform. 
 But what (hall I fay more unto thefe ? they hayc 
 never yet learned otherwife in their Academies, 
 
 The Spirit of Venn* is derived of a permtxtion 
 of more crafs elements then the former : wherefore 
 it is inferiour and fubje& unto them 5 but it is more 
 perfect then the other Spirits andTin&ures which fol- 
 low, excelling them in fixation and conftancie , not 
 yeelding to the fire, nor (o fubje& to be corrupted as 
 the others fubfequent : andremaineth more fixed in 
 the fire : which vertue Vcntu hath not in her own bo- 
 dy, but from a Spirit. 
 
 What operation focsrer it hath in its Mercury] 
 the fame it doth alio in humane bodies, according to 
 the degree of nature : for it defendeth wounds and 
 ulcers from accidents, and expelleth fuch difeafes as 
 are under its degree and power , and difperfeth the 
 root thereof. 
 
 If it be 'mixed with any other Metals , it breaketh 
 tneir perfect bodies , that they will not be malleable 
 any more, until they be freed from it. 
 
 The like effect it hath io humane bodies,efpecially 
 
 tf tt be taken for any Difcafe* not deftined unto its 
 
 D 3 degree 
 
38 Of the Tfanfmution* 
 
 degree by nature, it bringech Contractures of the 
 members. 
 
 Wherefore the Phyfitian ought perfeftly to learn 
 the Natures and Tinctures of Metals , how they 1- 
 gree with the Nature of Bodies , before they venture 
 to give them, left they endanger their Patient. 
 
 The tin&ure of Mars , confifts of an aduftible 
 and crafs perrnixion of the Elements, havisg a more 
 bard and lefs tradable fubftance , then the other im- 
 perfects ; hardly fufiblc, but corruptible both with 
 Air and Water, eafily fubjeft to be confumed with 
 ruft : but in hardnefs and drinefs it abounds above all 
 other Metals, as well perfect as imperfect. 
 
 Jt torments the body of man , if applied to any 
 difca(e,other then becometh its Nature • yet it want- 
 eth nor power and vertue granted to it by God and 
 Nacure in its fpecial propriety. 
 
 The Spirit of Jupiter is created of a white pally 
 fubftar.ee of Fire , by nature intractable with the 
 hammer, but not fo much as Mars. 
 
 Bang mixed with others, it difcontinueth and mix- 
 eth wkh them, cfpecially with Ltma » that it will 
 hardly be feparated hertfretnt The like operation 
 ic hath in all other Metals, except in Saturn : if it be 
 taken contrary to its Nature , to operate upon mans 
 body, it affli&s the members with cruel paffions and 
 pains, andgnaweth them with fuch burning , that 
 they cannot exercife their natural faculties : being 
 outwardly applied to Fiftula's, Cancers, Carbuncles, 
 and fuch* like , which exceed not the degree of its 
 Niture it is t he btft remedy expelling every evil. 
 
 The Spirit of Saturn is created of an ebfeurei 
 tenebrofe, and cold perraixture of Elements • where- 
 by it 
 
of *5\fetals. 39 
 
 by it comss to pafs > that it left cndutes the Fire then 
 any other, 
 
 Ic mundifies the bodies of oVand Lm<* , and 
 pnrge:h them irom fuperflukies : it sffr#cth the 
 body taken inwardly, more then Tin or Iroa ; but 
 becaufe icis coagulated with more cold then theo- 
 tber $ it operates not (o fharply : it hath an excellent 
 faculty to heal Fiftula's, Cancers and fuch-like ulcers, 
 and many other infirmities. Bu: having performed 
 its operation unlefs it depart from the body, together 
 with the difeafe , it doth more hurt then good. 
 Wherefore kt the Phyfidan, chat defires to make ufe 
 hereof, firit know with what difeafes it agrees, and 
 how it is naturally ordained for Medicine. 
 
 Laftly, the Spirit of Mercury hath no certain de- 
 terminate form, but is fubje& to all the o:her> as wax 
 to the impremon of a feal • for it receiveth every 
 Spirit whatfocver ueko i: fclf • as when the Spirit of 
 Sol is imprefled into it, it tranfices into Sol* if Lun* t 
 into Luna ; and fo of the reft : he putteth on their 
 nature, and cmbraceth every Metal* 
 
 His body may be compared to the Spirits of other 
 Metals, as the Female to the Male, not by a corporal 
 mixture ; but when a Spirit is educed from its Metal, 
 and after the preparation projected into Mercury , 
 then at length he exhibits his tranfmutation , no c- 
 therwife then a dead female of Metal ; although it 
 be as an untitled Field or Earth , if it be macerated 
 or vivified with the Philofophers Plough , ( which 
 female in this work remains fixed and uncorrupt) it is 
 united to the faid corporal Spirit by the degrees of 
 the fire,iato his nature and fubftance * & this with the 
 dead body of Metal , which with the ctafs Spirit of 
 Mtrchrj cannot be done s D 4 Ancj 
 
4.0 Of the TranJ mutation 
 
 And although the body of 5o/exift of Mercmj 
 or Argent t/;tf<r.and is fixed • nevertnelefs, common 
 Mercury not fixed or mortified , never comcch to 
 its Refurrec^tion. 
 
 For the Remrreftion of Metals is an immortal 
 Regeneration, and the medium whereby the tin&ures 
 are promoted to their generation. 
 
 Wherefore it cannot be united with dead bodies 
 into fixation , but only with extracted Spirits of the 
 corporals before fpoken of, which are fubje& to Me- 
 tals , as the common Mercury is fubje& to all Mc- 
 tallick Spirits. 
 
 For the crafs Spirit of Mercury doth in no wife 
 generate this tincture in fubftauce, no more then % 
 concubine legitimate iflue. 
 
 We are to judge in like manner of the crafs Spirit 
 of Mercury So long until the metallike and corporal 
 Spirit is made by the medium of the natural mat-? 
 ter : without this medium, it is impoflible to attain 
 to any good and perfect work in tbefe kinde of tin* 
 dures : moreover, if the fire be too ftrong, it cannot 
 generate • if too rcmifsi the fame event happens. 
 
 C H A P. X 
 
 'Of the plain Manifeftation of this Art. 
 
 VLTHen thou wilt mike the Heaven or Sphere of 
 Saturn to run with life upon the Eartfc, im- 
 pofe thereupon all the Placers » or which you will j 
 but let there not be too much oihunfk , but add left 
 ^hereof then of the other, 
 
 Pcnafc 
 
of Met ah. 4.1 
 
 Permit them all to run until you fee the Heaven of 
 Saturn quite to vaniflh : by this means, all the Pla- 
 nets will remain of fuch a coufiftency , that their an- 
 cient and corruptible bodies being dead , they have 
 put on a new, perfect and incorruptible body* 
 
 This is the Spiric of Heaven , by which the (aid 
 Planets are again made cerporal, and living as ac 
 firft. 
 
 Take this new body from the Life and from the 
 Earth, and this keep • for this is Sol and Luna. 
 
 "After this manfler thou Haft the whole Arc made 
 manifeft and plain , but if thereby thou doft not know 
 or undctftand the fame, it is well : for fo it ought to 
 remain * not vulgarly and indifferently laid open to 
 all. 
 
 Vini* de TrtnfmutAtione Met riorum* 
 
 Of 
 
4* 
 
 Of the Genealogy and Gene- 
 ration of Minerals. 
 
 Chap. I. 
 
 WHen I had diligently and accurately read 
 the writings of the Ancients concerning 
 the Generation of Minerals . I appre- 
 dendcd, that they underftood not the ultimate matter 
 of them , and by confequence , much lcfs the firft. 
 Truly, if the beginning of any matter tmy rightly be 
 written , certainly the end thereof may yery fitly be 
 declared. I have therefore in the firft place de- 
 creed to propofe unto you tfie ultimate matter of all 
 Minerals s whereby you may eafily underftand the 
 firft, from whence they ail dedu& their original. 
 
 The firft example we (hall bring from Medicine, 
 whereby a diieafe is to be known from the iflue, and 
 not from the beginning ; in which there is no Science 
 introduced by biindenefs,but mult be bliade likewife : 
 but the end is vifible from the ififue, to which it is per- 
 ceived to tend, as to its end propofed to it. 
 
 Furthermore, nothing can be better known, then 
 by a perfect knowledge of the end for which God 
 created it ; other wife , it may come to pals, that the 
 true ufe of the Creatures of (Sod » may be turned 
 
 fcto 
 
Of the (jenedogy, &c. 43 
 
 into abufc , for every thing which God hath created, 
 he would have us enjoy, and poflefs it,, according to 
 the right ufe thereof. 
 
 Therefore learn the laft and firft matter of things 
 from the fire • for this is the key that unlockech the 
 Ark of fecrcts , and maketh every occult thing ma- 
 aifeft. 
 
 For example , If a Metal be diflbl ved in the Fire,* 
 it prefently (hews the firft beginning thereof to be 
 a Mercurial water, and not Su!pher,becaufe the reso- 
 lution thereof flameth not like Rczio, It is demon- 
 fttated not to beSalt.becaufe the firft beginning of its 
 Refolution is not Friation,befidcs Liquation and Fla- 
 gration, as of feme terrene ftonesis ieen to be. 
 
 Neverthelefs , every Metal hath Sulphur and Sal 
 in him, but Mercury hath the chiefeft place therein. 
 
 But it feemed good to God the Creator , to create 
 a watry Element , and from thence to produce every 
 Metal for the ufe of man , that it fhould be the Mo- 
 ther thereof; in which, as in her wombt , the Mine- 
 ral Fire, Sal and Mercury (hould be deco&ed into 
 Metals , Stones and every Mineral fubftance , al- 
 though the birth be not of the fame cxiftencc with the 
 Mother. 
 
 1 So that the water is unlike its Metallkk iffuencither 
 is the Son like the Mother ; even as the Earth is not 
 Wood , nor the Wood Earth , although it fpring 
 and bath its original from the Earth. 
 
 So likewifc are Wood and Iron created by the 
 Water , yet they are not of the fame cxiftencc as 
 Water. 
 
 Earth alfo is made of that which it is not in it fclf* 
 and fo hkewifc is Man. 
 
 So 
 
44 Of the Cfenealogy 
 
 So God is one in every thing , 2nd the firft and 
 laft matter of all things : fogreat an Artifex in every 
 thing , as hath none before him , neither (hall have 
 any after. 
 
 Chap* II. 
 
 Of the firft and laft matter of Minerals. 
 
 THe firft beginning with God , was the laft mat- 
 ter , which he made the firft . as the fruit 
 which ftiould bricg forth other fruit that hath in ic 
 fclf the feed : and this feed is in the firft matter. 
 
 Likewife , in the ultimate matter of Minerals, 
 is made the firft matter 5 that is.it is made into fperm 
 or feed ; which feed is the Element of Water , which 
 is refolved, fo that it is made Water. 
 
 Therefore Nature taketh that which is in water, 
 under her power and fcparation; and whatbeloigs 
 to Metal , foe fegregates into Metal, every one by 
 bimfelf feveraliy, according to his own nature, with 
 their fevcral gentu and fptcies congruent there- 
 unto. 
 
 Therefore where Nature ceafes, there the Art of 
 man begins ? for the ultimate matter of Nature f is 
 the firft nature of man : again, the corruptioa of 
 Nature by Art, is the ultimate matter of man. 
 
 So wonderfully hath God created Water the firft 
 matter of Nature . which, though it be fo tender 
 and feeble a fubftance, yet from thence is created the 
 moft folid and durable fruit , as Metals and Stones, 
 &c. as the mofthardeftand (iurable from the moft 
 
 m 
 
of zfMineralsi 4.$ 
 
 fofc and feeble : and that Fire ftiould be produced 
 from Water , is beyond the reach of humane capa- 
 city ; yet not beyond or above the work of Nature. ' 
 
 Thus having in the firft place handled the Regc- 
 icrat'ion , and Chymical and Natural Operation of 
 Metals, we efteemed itmoft neceflary roaddtbefc 
 few words cf the natural Generation of Miaerak, 
 whereby the Operation thereof may be the eafier 
 known. 
 
 This is the Opinion of all Phiiofophers and Stu- 
 dents in this Art, that he that would be an Artift in 
 this ProMion , ought moft exactly to imitate Na- 
 ture in all her Operations : And whofocver under- 
 Hands not thi?, (hall never attain to the accomplish- 
 ment of his defires in this thing. Therefore let him 
 that fearcheth a thing fo fecret and difficult , be a 
 Scholar not only of Arc, but of Nature j and it (ball 
 be done* 
 
 F J n 1 s. 
 
 Vr'm 
 
4-tf 
 
 
 illlBflili 
 
 Vrim and Tbummim fliewed 
 to be made by Art , and are 
 the fame. with the Univerfal 
 Spirit, corporate and fixed. 
 
 THe Truth feems buried, becaufe it brings 
 forth little Fruit ; but it is great, and 
 prevaileth, to make all things manifeft 
 fofar as is poflible for men ; for in common fenfe 
 and reafon, all agree in myfteries never : (o thac 
 Wt may not fpeak of Science without Know- 
 ledge, which breaks the Gates of Brafs, and cuts 
 •(under the Bars of Iron, before the eyes of Un- 
 demanding , that the treasures of darknefs may 
 be opened , and the bright and fiery Sword dis- 
 covered , which turns every way to keep Tranf- 
 greflbrs out of Paradfo. 
 
 For if we confider wherein the Celeftial and 
 Terreftrial Bodies agree,we (hall finde fomething 
 objective in the inferiour Bodies, whereby they 
 communicate their Celeftial Vertne and Influ- 
 ence ; which prefident Art doth imitate, to pro* 
 duce a glorious fubftance of connexed Forms, 
 and of Cieernefs , Vertue, and Beauty beyond 
 expreflion. 
 
 The 
 
%)rim and Thummim. 4,7 
 
 The Mathematicians fay , The Celeftial Influ- 
 ences do hold and govern every natural Body, 
 and by many unities collet a quantity (unfitting 
 without ftiadow : for the real Venues affe& to 
 be fpecificate ; and as living Fire gives life to o- 
 ther things : which central fubftance of Celeftial 
 Vertues or Form of Metais is the Subject of this 
 fliortDifcourfe. 
 
 That Urim and Thttmmim , which were given 
 in the Mount, cannot be proved that they are the 
 potential from the Creation, may appear ; for 
 they werefubftances*,whofe Name aniEffences 
 did predicate each other , being convertible 
 terms, the Name andEffence one : the words 
 fignifie Light an d Perfection ., Knowledge and 
 Holinefs, alfo Manifeftation and Truth , even as 
 Science and Effence make one Perfection. Jt is 
 likely they were before the Law given ; for the 
 Almighty God commanded Noah to make a 
 cleer Light in the Ark , which fome take for a 
 Window 5 others , for the arching and bowing 
 of the upper Deck , a Cubit : but fith the Text 
 faith, V>aj and night jkall ho more ceafe ; Itfeem?, 
 it did then ceafe : and whether this were one oc 
 snore Windows , is uncertain : but when the 
 Windows of Heaven were opened, and the Air 
 darkned by pouring out Rain, the Sun not giving 
 his Light , but prohibited the generative Spiric 
 of the Creatures in the Ark,what exterior cleer- 
 oefs could be expe Aed ? 
 
 Therefore fome of the Rabbins fay , The He* 
 irew word Zohar, which the Chaldee tranflate 
 Nelier, is not found m the Scripture , tut in this 
 
 flact 
 
) 
 
 4.8 Vrim and Thummini. 
 
 place: To that like the word,it Teemed to be a rare 
 -Light , and that which is generally doubted to 
 be , The Creator commanded 'Hgah to make by 
 Art. Other Hebrew Dodtors fay, It was apreci- 
 ens $tone hanged in the Ark^ which gave Ughsjfi all 
 living Creatures therein. This the great eft Car- 
 buncle could not do, nor any precious Stone that 
 is only natural. 
 
 But the Univerfal Spjrjr^ fi xed in a t ranfparent 
 Body, fhinej; like the Sunjn Glory , and gives 
 {Efficient Light? toUl the Room to read by : 
 therefore it is moft probable, this was the Light 
 that God commanded to make, to give Light 
 to all living Creatures : fork is of perpetual du- 
 rance. 
 
 And whereas Tttbal-Cain is faid to be a perfect 
 Mjfjerofe very A jxificgr Jn Brafs and Iron »whkh 
 fomeTiold 7 doth contain the whole and perfect 
 deco&ionof theMetallickVertue, wherein the 
 Central Vertue is moft abundant, and makes the 
 
 happy more admired, who walk in the 
 E&ek. midft of the Stones of Fire ; For 
 28.1 6. where there are two things of one 
 
 Nature,the chief is robe underftood : 
 Therefore in the mention of Fires , pure Fire is 
 preferred. 
 
 The Scarlet Veil in the Temple feemed ever 
 moving, and (knified pure Fire , generative and 
 fixed in deer Bodies , as Vrim and Thttmmim: 
 Although EfFences are not without great diffi- 
 culty made manifcft in themfelves , yet the cleer 
 Vifion thereof^nakes the poflibility unqueftiona* 
 ble ; as at Elijba 9 * Prayer, his Servant few the 
 
 Chi- 
 
Vrim and Thummim. 4.9 
 
 Chariot , andHorfesof fire, about bis Mafter, 
 which before he fawnoc ; fo are they apparent 
 when iheinvifible is made vifibie, 
 
 Some think, that Urim and Thnm- Exod* 
 mint were not Artificial , becaufe they 5fc8.3o* 
 
 i arc fiid in the Text to be put in the 
 breftplate, but not to be m ? de : but this point 
 mty be cleared by obfercb * the feveral kindes 
 ©f making, as betwixt thofe thing*; made 
 
 • with hands, andthofe things that are or! v made 
 vifible by effect: for where natural and habi.ual 
 Vertue do meet together,the perfection i more 
 abfolute by a kinde of new Generation , as the 
 pure Sulphur of Metal, by an inward power doth 
 purge it felf by ebulition ; not by the firft and 
 remote caufes , but by the fecond and neerer* 
 whereof the Philosophers fay, The fecret of aU 
 fecrets is of fuckaJifpojttion , which cannot be per- 
 fected with handstfor it is a tranfmutation of natural 
 things, from one thing to another* Alio it is faid, 
 The Artifi takes impure Spiri ts, and by Sublimation^ 
 Nature and i/frt , clean feth them into bodiesjtiz^ 
 Sndjixed: fo that the bodilj Nature doth eternally 
 "predominate ; and being more then perfect^ doth give 
 ferfe&ion to other things. 
 
 Now that thefe perfections have their begin- 
 nings from two Lights , both the Text and the 
 antient Philofophers make plain ; but ignorance 
 and the matter of the Elements are the Iron 
 Gates, which muft be cut in pbee s , before the 
 invifible be made vifible. 
 
 For the natural Urim and Thummim, the Phi- 
 E lofo pliers 
 
50 Vrim and Thummim. 
 
 lofophers affirm, what they have feen and done : 
 and that they did nothing fave that they did be- 
 fore, and knew : fo that a perfect knowledge is 
 efpecially requifite to make a perfect Art : there- 
 fore we are to confider the means to attain to 
 this end, 
 
 The Lord gave Be^aliel Wifdom,Un- 
 Exod. demanding and Knowledge : thefe 
 3 x • 3 A* * re tne m eans : for Gold is diffolvcd 
 by Wifdom, ia Contrition , Affation, 
 and Fire. The end is dire&ed to invent work? 
 in Gold, Silver and Br afs ; which is not to be 
 underftood according to the found of wards, 
 but according to the intent of all Diftillation, 
 to extract the inward part , and manifeft the 
 central vertue : for where the perfeSion of the 
 matter is glorious, the perfection of the form is 
 more glorious. 
 
 The Sun and Moon are as the Parents of all 
 inferior bodies and things , which come neereft 
 in vertue and temperature, are more excellent : 
 The Sun's Motion and Vertue doth vivifie all in- 
 ferior bodies ; and thofe things which come 
 neereft in vertue and temperature, are more ex- 
 cellent : the Sun 's Motion and Vertue doth vi- 
 vifie all inferior bodies , and the pure form of 
 the terreftrial Sun is faid to be all Fire ; and 
 therefore doth the celeftial Sun communicate 
 moft vertue : therefore the incorrupted quality 
 of pure Sulphur being digefted in external hear* 
 hath alfo re^al power over all inferior bodies : 
 for the Sun doth infufe his, 1 influence into all 
 things • but efpecialW inco Gold : and thofe 
 
 ttttft- 
 
Vrim and Thummim. 51 
 
 natural bodies do never fhew forth their vir- 
 tues, till they be made fpiritual. 
 
 One of the Rabbins faith , They made in the 
 fecond Temple Urim and Thummim ; to the end, 
 they might make up all the eight Ornaments , 
 although they did not inquire by them, becaufe 
 the Holy Ghoft was not there ; and every Prieft 
 that fpake not by the HolyGhoft>$t on whom the 
 divine Majefty reftexh not , they enquire not by; 
 him: fo it is with Sacramental Bread, which 
 hath »o (igniftcation before Confecration. 
 
 But thefe men had the fpirit of Be^aliel , and 
 made thefe natural, fpiritual Bodie; : which fo- 
 veraign Tin&ure, fome fay, So purifieth^and cauf- 
 eth the radical humour fo to abound , that the Chil- 
 dren in the fourth Cjeneration^Ciits fome fay,/ia 
 the tentfyfhall perceive theeffett effuchperfett health 
 of their Anceflors. 
 
 ! Others fay , That if they have oncefinijbed this 
 
 Arty andjhould live a thoufandyeers , they might 
 
 give what they will* and when they will , without 
 
 [ danger of diminution ; at a man that hath Ftrt 
 
 \ may give to his Neighbour without hurt to him* 
 
 UWarcus Vaffo faid , There was much mor* 
 I myfieries in the Flamines Ceremonies^ then thej 
 6 under flood. Vcftifigntfied pure Earth, and inter- 
 \ nalFire: of which ft is faid , Vefta is Earth and 
 Fire. Earth undergptth the name, and fo doth Fire: 
 \VtHisboth* 
 
 U S Thus 
 
51 Vrim and Thummiml 
 
 "flout is (hewn forth in a worl^done by Fire> 
 The mighty Vdta,*»^ her fare Autre. 
 
 ■ 
 
 Philofophy is nothing but the flndy of Wif- 
 dom considered in a created Nature , as well 
 jubjeft to i'cnfe, is invifible , and confequently 
 material ; andWifdomes central Body is the 
 (hadow of Wifdomes central Effence , and the 
 moral Interpretation can never exclude the 
 real effe&s from ocular demonftrationrbut where 
 Reafon hath experience , Faith hath no merit; 
 and without Faith there is no knowledge of any 
 excellent thing j for the end of Faith is Undcr- 
 ftandiog. 
 
 The Rabbins hold every natural beginning to 
 be either matter t or caufe oftfe matter, *»*• 
 the four Ele ment^ But here beginning s muft 
 be well under/Tood ; for there are beginnings of 
 Prepara tions , and beginnings of Compofa ion* 
 and beginnings of Operatio n : for the Artift 
 was commanded to dTeuie work in Gold \ that 
 i?,f rom the obje& to the poflibility : for if the 
 matter be glorious , the farm murt be more glo- 
 rious: and though the fpiritual Nature be more 
 operative, yet the bodily Nature mutt predomi- 
 nate eternally : fo that to make the corporal ipi- 
 ritual , and thefpiritual corporal , is the whole 
 fcope of the intention 5 yet the fpiritn?l U not 
 firft, but the natural : for corruption muit pat 
 on incorruption, and mortality immortality : 
 for that which is of sreateft durance, andmoft 
 abundant in veuuc^oih moft excel in Glory and 
 
 Beauty, 
 
Vrim and Thummim. 55 
 
 Beauty , and (o fiiteft to make Vrtp* and Tl.nm* 
 mm : for venter and honour arc in hvjSanftuar/. 
 
 B'lt became the greaieft things <*re not done 
 by ftrertgth,or habit of fingering /as alfo bcraufe 
 the intellect doth fo far excel the fente : this is 
 a work of a fecond intention, and the beginning 
 upon the vertue of Elements ; that is a pure, 
 bright and deer Water of Putrefa<SHon : for the 
 peitefHon of eve*/ Art, (properly fo called' re- 
 quires a new birth , as that which is lowed it 
 rot quickned except h die : hue here death is 
 taken for mutation, and not for rotting under 
 the clods. 
 
 Now therefore we muft take the Key of Art, 
 an i confider the fecret of ev cty^th ng is„the 
 Life thereof: Lifejs£Vapo?7 and in Vapor is 
 placed the wondcPot Ait : whatfecver hath 
 heat, agitating and moving in it felf by the inter- 
 nal Tranfmutation, is faid to live : this Life the 
 £ rtLt feek* to dertroy , and retiore an eternal 
 Life, with Glory and- Beauty. T¥\ Vapor is 
 called, Trie vegetable Spirit, becaufe it is of de- 
 gree of heat with tfte hoitett Vegetable; and be- 
 ing decoded till it fhine like bri^hteft Steel, you 
 fliall ice great and marvelous fecrets , not by the 
 reparation of Elements by themfelves , but by 
 predomination ard vi3ory of that pure Fire, 
 which like the Oleftial Si|n enters not material- 
 ly ; but by help of E m -r tal Fire , fends forth 
 his influence and impefltou o* f nn # 
 
 Here we mutt obiere d ffcrence of per- 
 te&ion§.: for although ye have now the Foun- 
 tain of cosopleat white ; yet yoa arc not neec 
 
 E 1 your 
 
$4. c Qrim ahd Thummim. 
 
 your chief delight, which is the Fountain of 
 Life, and Centre of the Heart, the universal Spi- 
 rit,which lives in the radical humidity, and doth 
 naturally viviftcate , and is the mafculine Seed 
 of theCeleftial Sun : here is that Rule made 
 good? Excepty e fow in Go Id J e do nothi ng* There- 
 fore we mult tafe heed wnat we underftand by 
 Gpid, whereof there ar e three tofts , V"lg*ft 
 C&qnka ia. and Divine s which is therefore 16 
 callednbecaufe it is a fpcc'ial Gift of God . The 
 JTheofophifts are periwaded, by exa& diet , and 
 by certain form of prayers at certain times, to 
 obtain the Angel of the Sun to be their Guide 
 and Director. 
 
 The Philofophejs advife to take the like mat- 
 ter above Earth , that Nature hath made Under 
 the Earth : Others, tofearch the moft precious 
 treafure from a vile thin g : all which is elfily a- 
 greed, if rightly underltoorf ; for in the lines 
 following, the fame Author faith , The vile thi n? 
 JL JLon* the Sperm of 'Gold '% cafi in the matrix of 
 Mercury -by a prime corqmttion. Others affirm 
 *sfz>och and Ignis to be fuffident for this high 
 perfe&ion : the which A&och among the Gej> 
 mans is Stiver ; with the Macedonians , Iron ; 
 with the Greeks, Utferettty • with the Hebrew?, 
 Tin i with the Tartars , Brafi ; with the Arabi- 
 ans, Satttrh; and with the Indians,^/*/. All 
 which being; diverfe in Nature , are potential in 
 ©ne competition : and by the duel of Smiths, the 
 Celeftial Gold obuin e^th; vi^ory oyer all^the 
 rejt^ and is made ( tnoii«h 7 iiot r, Witti hands ) a 
 body finning like the Sun tofclory , Which is c*)- 
 
 led, 
 
%)rim and Thurnmim. 55 
 
 led , Ens ornnU frivationis expers , or Thumm'm. 
 This is the Key that made the pure cleer Foun- 
 tain, and of it was made himielf ; the fait Wo- 
 man fo loving the red Man, (he became one with 
 him> and yielded him all glory • who by his Re- 
 gal power, and foveraign Quality, raigneth over 
 the fourfold Nature eternally : but if any (hall 
 underftand either common or Chymical Gold to 
 be the fubftance of this facred body, he is much 
 miftaken^ for a glorious Spirit will net appear, 
 fave in a body of his own kinde. 
 
 Although pure Manchet be made of the fined 
 Meal, yet Wheat is not excluded ; and fo Bread 
 is faid to be of the fecond and neerer caules, ra- 
 ther then the remote : notwithftanding , that 
 which is made by the effe&,in a fucceffive courfe, 
 is as certain as that which is made with 
 hands. 
 
 After we fell from unity, we groan under the 
 burden of divifion,but three makes up the union; 
 firft temporary , and afterwards eternally fixed. 
 He that knoweth a thing fully , muft know what 
 it was, is, and (hall be; fo to know the feveral 
 parts of a fucceffive courfe , is not a fmall thing, 
 neither the honor little in the right ule of the 
 Creature. 
 
 Air turned into Water by his proper mixture, 
 becomes Wood; and the fame Wood , by Wa- 
 ter, is turned into a Stone. 
 
 A Spring in Italy called Clytintts , makes Oxen 
 
 whitethat drink it s And the River in Hmgary y 
 
 turns Iron into Copper. What excellency things 
 
 may attain by habitual vertue , or what power 
 
 -E4 when 
 
$6 Vrim and Tbummim. 
 
 when Nature and Art make one perfection, 
 who is able to exprefs ? 
 
 If ycud -foe by Art to have a thing of admira- 
 ble fweemef- and odor, you will take a fub- 
 tiance of like quality , to exalt into fuch excel- 
 lency : the proper quai'ty of Fire and Air is 
 fwcctnefs; it is but appropriate in Earth and 
 Water 2 what bodies (hall we finde, where 
 thefe are moft abundant , to be wrought upon ? 
 AstheCeleitiai Bodies give no Tincture, yet 
 they are moft abundant in Tincture. Air is caufe 
 of Life • (Jl'terwry is coaled Air JEther eahand 
 truly Hcmogeneal % which doth after a fort con- 
 geal and fix : it is called a crude Gold^nd Gold 
 aflRv^j aq d mature CMer cury. And although 
 the crude Quality be coin, and dry ; & feme hold 
 for the excellency of its temperature,Thai it is all 
 Fire, or like to ir, whereby it is diffolvT A : how- 
 ever,!^ ic at large proved , thofe bodies are moft 
 abundant in pure Fire and Air , whofe proper 
 Quality is fweetnefs. Therefore thofe are the 
 fiueftfubjefts to make the molt precious perfume 
 in the world : and confidering , cleernefs and 
 brightness is the centre of each thing, and 
 thofe bodies have both centre and fuperficies 
 clccr and bright , whenfoever they are purified 
 by Art , and the bodies made fpiritual , and 
 thofe Spirits corporated again , they muft ne- 
 ceffarily be Bodies of greateft or cleereft Light 
 and Perfe&ion : as one compareth a glorified Bo- 
 dy to a cleer Lanthorn with a Taper in it , fay- 
 ing, The more a man excels in venue, the pre Jter 
 er kffer was the Taper. But the work cannot 
 
 be 
 
Vrm and Thummim. 57 
 
 bemanifeft without the deftruction of the ex- 
 terior form , and the reft itut ion of a better; 
 which is the glorious fubftances of Urim and 
 Tbummim^ihkh in their being,and Phyficai ufe, 
 preferves the Temple of Man's Body incorrupti- 
 ble. Some obfervc not jult difference between 
 Liquidation and Solution : but ail Corrolives 
 or violent Operations , Nature hates , becaufe 
 there can be no Generation but of like Natures, 
 ©either can you have the precious Sperms with- 
 out Father and Mothers. And although one 
 Veflel is'lufficient to perfe£t the Infant in the 
 Wombe ♦ "" yet Nature hath provided fcveral 
 brcafts to nourifn it, and different means to ex- 
 alt ic to the flrcngth of a man. How Gold 
 fhould be burnt, which the^F ire cannot con- 
 fume, is quellionabie ; but every exaltation of 
 this foverai°n Spirit , adds a tenfold vertue and 
 power : then take one pare of this Spirit, which. 
 is become asinienfible as dud, and upon molten 
 Gold ic turns all into powder ; which being 
 drunk in White* wire, openeth the Understand- 
 ing, encreafeth Wifdom , and ftrengtheneth the 
 Memory : for here is the Vein of Undemanding, 
 Fountain of Wifdom , and River of Know- 
 ledge. 
 
 The Truth of every thing is faid to be his in- 
 corrupted Nature ; for nothing (hall reft eternal- 
 ly vifible at the laP fire, but that which is of pure 
 vertue and effential purity. Truth and Science 
 is not led by chance or Fortune ; but the Spirit 
 of God guid esjby the Hand of Re ^afo j . And 
 It leems ihcProphetTe^eemof tbefeStepesof 
 
 Fire* 
 
58 Vrim and Hoummim^ 
 
 Fire : fomc meaning the Stone of Darknefs ; 
 and as it were, Fire turned up: Others, theStone 
 of Tin ; andE^£/W, the S tones of Fire at- 
 tained by Wiidom : which he differeth from 
 the natural precious Stones , as pure Fire from 
 common Fire. Therefore let mode^y allow 
 chatpoffible, whereof he underftands not the Iff 
 termination and degrees : neither refute the 
 Waters of Shiloah, becaufe they go flowly ; for 
 they that wade in deep Waters, cannot go 
 fart.- 
 
 T o obtain the Treafures of Natur e t 
 IfMah yo u mult follo w Nature onely , who 
 8,6. gives not the like time to every Gene- 
 ration •, but as the Mare hath ten months, 
 the El ephant three ; or, as i' ome lay, nine yeer? , 
 and fiftv T before conjuncti on : Be patient there- 
 fore in a work of Nature ; for thereunto onely 
 is promiied Vi£tory ; and the chief errors in Art 
 are hafte and dttlnefi. 
 
 The Regeneration of Man , and the Purifica- 
 tion of Metals , have like decrees of Prepara- 
 tion and Operation, to their higheft Perfection. 
 The firii beginnings of Tranfmutation or Natu- 
 ration , is the fmaiieft meafure of pure Sulphur , 
 with both Riches and Honor in the left- Hind, 
 and length in the right. In natural Generations 
 the form prepares the matter, yet there are pre- 
 cedent Preparations. The beginnings of Tranf- 
 mutation mutt be diftinguiftied : fome arc begun 
 of Preparation, and forae are begun of Compo- 
 sition. Beginnings of Preparation , in*hewell 
 of Tears, doth cjqalific tbecoidnefs anddul- 
 
 DCfS 
 
vnm md '1 hummim. 59 
 
 fiefs of the crude difpofition , and tame and fub- 
 due the fearfui quality of fwift flying, and 
 :hangeth the colour of this eternal Liquour, 
 turning the infide outward , and adding heat by 
 the internal Sulphur of the Homogeneal Body, 
 which is by means of changed Water , becaufe 
 Water by Water , canonely beextra&ed ; yec 
 it is excluded in the conclusion: for, though it 
 beaneceffary preparation to the alteration fol- 
 lowing, yet is but the fervile and paflive, which 
 hath the firft operation , being preferved unhurt 
 in weight and purity, 
 
 Beginnings of CcmpqGtion are thofe inward 
 Operations and Changes , that follow after that 
 fcalding deluge, whin by mixing with fixed 
 Sulphur doth diffolve the ftubbomneis of this 
 Urne ; and by help of the external heat , the 
 j internal Sulphur is excited by Operation , and 
 purineth the fublhnce but onely to a pale white* 
 uefs , more hurtful then profitable to the Body 
 of Man : what thefe are, (hall afterwards ap* 
 pear. 
 
 A^ain , .Sulphur muft be diftinguiflied : white 
 Solphur, and living or reviving Sulphur : white 
 Sulphur is of like Operation, and is perfe&ed by 
 retraining, and healeth almoft ail difeaies , and 
 tinman to white ad infinitum. 
 
 By knowledge hereof, even meet natural meo 
 nave befrevfcd the Refurre&ion , become fober, 
 temperate and patient ; not doubting : within 
 the centre of cosrpieatewhite, refts the red Stone 
 of moft delight. 
 
 This hath caufed men juftly to condemn all 
 
 GOfe 
 
60 Vrim and Tftummim* 
 
 Ccmenaaots, Ca inaiions, and Citrinati 
 
 ons ; being cnlightned wich the glorious ob- 
 je& , wnich is as eleer as a Chrilhl Looking- 
 Glafs. 
 
 Reviving Sulphur i< the iecret of fecrets, and 
 the glory of the whole world , and oreiv pro 
 per tofuch whom the Creator hath apted b way 
 of natural difpofition ; for they do not onely 
 mortific , buc purifie a pure body, qui.kning it 
 with the frm • eflenual form ; and arc laid to 
 make a ipirhual Body , because thtre i- no ror« : 
 ruption ro refill the Spirit ; but the bodily Na- 
 ture 5 being wholly fubj"6t, is , with thi Spirit, 
 eternally fixed in a tranfparem Body (hiring as 
 the Sun. Therefore the concluhon mu'ibe un- 
 derstood of the fecond,and not of the firit : for 
 though a man have never fo much wh te sulphur, 
 if he have not of this reviving Sulphur , he is as 
 fa from? he precious Spirit, which hath power o- 
 ver all inferior bodies , as any other : for pnely 
 that which is of the Nature of the Sun, (hall 
 (nine like the Sun in glory. 
 
 A Synod of Philofophers advifeth us, in feed- 
 ing; the creatures of Health and Riches, we (hould 
 (hew affeShons to juftice and Prudence ; like 
 Solomon^ asking Wi'dom , Richer were given to 
 him a«? advantage. Let us icarch therefore ce- 
 leftial V rtue, which is the centre of all things ; 
 lo will \k be eafie to manifeft the foverai^n Spirit 
 of Health and Riches : for the vegetable Sul- 
 phur, is the firft Mover in Nature ; and on-*ly the 
 Me-curial Nature bath power of McUllieaJ Life 
 and Death. 
 
 Crude 
 
r Orim and Thummim. 61 
 
 Crude ^Mercury is originally a vapor frcm 
 c\tcT Water d\ d Mr, of moft ilron<> ccmpofitica 
 cotj*ed_; or Air k ielf, with a. Mt rcur;al Spirit 
 by Nature, fiVins, Etheriai ana H >mo ene \ 
 having the Spirits of heat and cold ; and by 
 exterior and interior hears, doth congeal and 
 fix. 
 
 Alfo GoIdisafixedFir e.or marure tMercury^ 
 tnd may be made more volative then ^Mercury ; 
 but onely by di v ers ^Mercuries made. Of Mgr- 
 €*ry is Nature fet on work, the fixed Body 
 looted, the vegetable Sulphur created , and the 
 univerial Spirit fix:d. For the Authority of the 
 ancient Writers , Divine and Natural Reafons, 
 aflure us, this, and no other is the true ccurfe to 
 manieft thofe Lights, wherein the Creator hath 
 heaped up venue and power. 
 
 But it*s objected , The Philosophers do n»t agree 
 tmongft themfelves. 
 
 jinfw. Inftruments of divers firings make 
 fweet harmony, if they be well tuned : bu *:<eir 
 Readers do rather feek to o^er-ru^ them, 
 then by painful induftry to finde them con- 
 fcnt. 
 
 Objed. Affirm Contraries? 
 4nfy*. The Artift his intention is to agree 
 contraries. 
 
 Objed. They exclude Gold and Mercury froj& 
 xhe creation of the Stone, 
 
 j4nfn>. Becaufe their crude marter is frcm the 
 deftrn&ion of the exrerior foim. 
 
 Objeft, They fay, The venue of Element sj stheir_ 
 materials* 
 
 j4ftw. 
 
6l Vrim and Thummim. 
 
 Anfw. Right in refpeS of their beginnings 
 upon pure bodies. 
 
 Object. * AH their fecrets fprino from one vile 
 thing common to rich and poo r I 
 
 Anfw. Precious things corrupred, are moft 
 vile; and Science is common to rich and 
 poor, and hath much ufe of Calcination or 
 Dui*. 
 
 Object. No Metal is required to the malting of 
 the Stone* 
 
 Anfw. As no part of man to the niaking of 
 man. 
 
 Object. One thing, one G Ufa oneFurn&eufaf- 
 fic/enf. 
 
 Anfw True,when two things of one kinde are 
 apted and conjoyned. 
 
 O b je£h Out of one Root proceeds white and red* 
 
 Anfw. Even as Male and Female from one 
 Womb. 
 
 Object, The Stone U vegetable) animaly arArrn- 
 *eral. 
 
 '■■■ Anfw. Right: joynt and feveral it is faid to be 
 vegetable , becaufe in thematuration it is multi- 
 plied in vertue and quantity : it is faid to be a- 
 nimal, becaufe it encreafeth his own kinde • and 
 it's faid to be Mineral , becaufe his originaiis- 
 from Metal or their Mineral. Here we may re- 
 , member the Biffaop of Otrecht « who loft his life 
 ~for~difcovering his fe aet. Why fhould we pre- 
 "vent the higheft diftfibution, who hath not made 
 knowledge hereditary , but wrapt things in ie- 
 cret,that we might difference things in being, 
 and in being and ufe? Mature is even jealous of 
 
 bee 
 
Vrim and Thummim. 6$ 
 
 her fupremacy, ajnd abhorreth_to fee the fen- 
 fible before the Tnteile&uai Treafures pre- 
 ferred. • 
 
 This Chews the beginning and end of Art, Lux 
 fata eft jttftocHmreftu ammo Utitia: Mark what 
 yefow^for fach is your harvett . Light is fown 
 on pure Earth ; and fome Grain begins to pun 
 forth Ears at three joynts, fome at four; but the 
 Ear never buds until the joynts be grown. And 
 what vertue this knotting or fixing gives , conri- 
 der ; for by meditation you may fee ; by Teeing, 
 you may know ; by knowing , ye delight ; by 
 delighting, ye adhere - by adhering, ye poflefs ; 
 by poffefling, ye enjoy the Truth : that is, the in- 
 I corrupted ufe made vifible. Therefore take heed 
 hew ye value: for, 
 
 'Part of the fe things thy minde may prompt thee to y 
 And fart thy better part may teach thee how to i§* 
 
 The making of Urim and Thttmmim , and the 
 \ perfe&ion of the Elixir is aptly compared to 
 r the fourfold Creation of Mankinde r %4d^m 
 l from Earth, Eve from *Adam, *Abei from both, 
 I and JefusChrifl from a Virgin : j| p man called 
 alivingftoggxproducetb that eternally ftonv and 
 fiery conquering Spirit called the Elixir, from 
 I their proper Earth only, their t/fdam from rheir 
 Eve, from both their Virgo, from her only the 
 I foveraign and univerfal Spirit , whic^ doth vi- 
 vifie and preferve all living Creatures, and 
 raifeth the Artift from the duft to fit among 
 Princes. 
 
 Life 
 
6% Vrim and Tbummim. 
 
 Life without fious yvifdom manifeft in the flefti; 
 a Body without (hadow , is the universal Spirit 
 corporate. Urim and Thnmrn'tm were holy Signs 
 within the breft-plate to enquire of God in the 
 Temple. Natural Urim and Thummim is a 
 vifiblc quality in a eleer Body , which pre- 
 fcrveth the Temple of Man *s Body incorrup- 
 tible. 
 
 Is it not prophetical, that all men (lull wifely 
 confider the works of God,to the end they may 
 know how to value them rightly, and to make 
 juft difference between corporal 
 FfaU ^4. p. and fpiritual things , and corpo- 
 Pfai, 1 11 . 8# rate Spirits ? for although Spirits 
 poffefs no place, yet they fail not 
 to fill every part, by contact of their vertue, and 
 in the ufe alters. both quality and quantity : the 
 perfect and diftin & knowledge whereof , doth 
 neceflartly manifeft the things fought after by 
 ,ihe proper and appropriate qualities ; and from 
 the caufes to the effect , openeth the internal 
 Beauty of a true and natural Effence, as plainly, 
 as by feeing that yc fee ; and alfo fneweth the 
 terminate , privative and perfe& end of every 
 particular a&: which is the richeft of intellectual 
 Treafures, becaufe Science and Effence are one ; 
 and where the feveral works, andTucceKive 
 are apparent, the time need not be limited 
 (like the men of Bethnlia^) for onely at Eltjh* 
 his Prayer , his Servants eyes were bpened to 
 fee invifible things , which all that rife to glory 
 (hall do. 
 
 It was held of old, Nothing defirvts the love of 
 
 an 
 
V rim and Thummim. 61 
 
 0m honefl wan, fave the internal Beauty : Therefore 
 they held Love or naturalAfFe&'on to be the firft 
 cauie^or motiocrlike as the heat and vercue of the 
 Sun, and of the whole Heavens, hath power in 
 ail things created under Heaven , and by their 
 Influence and Rfdiation , all things encreafe, 
 grow , live and are conferved ; and by their re- 
 cefs, they mourn and wither, fall and droop ; yet 
 they do not neccflitate any, all their force being 
 inoft in imperfect things ; for a body of equal 
 temper receives little alteration from the Con- 
 ftellations , becaufe the Earth received vertue 
 before the Heavens were adorned with Sun, 
 Moon and Stars : Therefore that is to be diftin- 
 Iguifhed inReafon : iois diftant in place , and 
 I different things in being, and in being and ufe : 
 [for change of quality brought confufion , and a 
 better change Renovation. 
 
 Hiftorians affirm, The River Nilns vaporeth 
 not, by reafon of the long decoction under the 
 Sun , yet is the Water moft wholeiom and Me- 
 dicinable;and the Neighbor earth begins to en- 
 creafe in weight the feventeenth of June, ( and 
 not before) even then when the River begins to 
 rife: which fympathy of the diftant Water and 
 Earth , by the power of Heaven , is not againft 
 Nature,although beyond ordinary reach. There- 
 fore for a leading caft, let us obierve the concord 
 of Metallical Bodies ; which, like the firft Male 
 and Female , have not feveral beginnings , but 
 are all from a Sulphurous vapor , which, by help 
 of Influence, Inftrumen^Digeftion* and Mafcu- 
 line and Feminine vertue, connexing proper and 
 
 F ap- 
 
66 Vrim and Thummim. 
 
 appropriate qualities, they obtain their per fe&i- 
 on by the power of God t Ordinance : yet as 
 every Earth yields not like Metal, fo every Me- 
 tal yields not like central vertuc : Therefore ac- 
 cording to that creating command , every thing 
 (hould encreafe in its proper letade , (not in di- 
 verfe)and time makes the number infinite. 
 
 The Ancients reading the great Volume of 
 the Book of Nature , finde no abridgement to 
 aiSmilace the Majefty of Nature , fave Man and 
 the Stone ; both which are called,Living Stones : 
 whole original Mortification , Purification, and 
 difficult Exaltation, are of infinite vertue. 
 Then ©bferve alfo a Celellial and Terreftrial 
 Sun , which they parallel with Man , which 
 becaufe they onely are capable of true* temper , 
 which is certainly pofiible, although feldom 
 enjoyed. 
 
 But to gain this precious Treafure of Life and 
 Health , we muft make fufficient provifion, like 
 men that do deal with great perfons ; for Gold 
 is Lord of Stones, and nobleft of Metals ; and 
 by his proper Regiment, doth multiply himfelf 
 infinitely. Therefore Geber in his Book of 2)*- 
 rniddtion^ faith, In Geld, are ten farts heat, ten farts 
 ksmidity^ten farts ficcity : which triple perfeSi- 
 on makes an absolute unity, Body, SouU and Spi- 
 rit , being eternally vivified , becaufe unity is 
 a generical quality of all that is one , and is a» 
 effe&of the Form which doth produce it: for of 
 allkindeof Governments, ten is the moft per- 
 fect : and for the natural fubftance, no compofi- 
 tion is like to Gold ; for it is a moft perfect 
 
 temper 
 
Vrim and Thummim. 6y 
 
 temper, and equal mixion ; ihe miracle of .Na- 
 ture, a Celeftial Scar, a Terreftrial Sun,the Foun- 
 tain of Life, the Centre of the Heart , the fe- 
 crec vcrtueof all Celeftial and Terreftrial Bo- 
 dies , the Mafculine and Univerfal Seed , firft. 
 and moft: powerful of the Sulphurous Nature, 
 the great Secret of the Aimignty Creator. It 
 hath moft Form and Entity; fo moft Vertue and 
 Operation : in it the Elements ate elementized. 
 It is called Sulphur, and Sulphur-Fire : yea, it is 
 faid to be all Fire , or like to that in which it is 
 diffolved. # And as Light is the Centre of Hea- 
 ven , and Soul of the World , fo Brightnefs is 
 the Centre, and Celeftial Vertue , the Form of 
 Gold ; whofe admired mixion, nothing meerly 
 natural can ditfolve , nor any thing artificial, ex- 
 cept it agree with it in matter and form , and 
 do remain with it in the recongealation. This 
 vertual Influence, enters potentially, and dwells 
 in the radical humidity ; and no other thing, 
 whether from Heaven or Earth, doth nourifh the 
 Heart : yet it is not vifible, before vertue be 
 matched ; for there is beft concord , where it is 
 moft abundant : but whither (hall we mount to 
 aa atch this miracle of Nature > 
 i The Hiftorians tell us of an eternal Liquor of 
 I ' notLftrong Coa&ion > rained down fromHea* 
 ign: here is like descent : Ihe is called Hyperion) 
 a orDaughter of the Sun , a Body of like weight 
 ' ind vertue with Gold ; fair,cleer, quick , only 
 / :oa&ed and brought from the Empire of humi- 
 ^^T* to fuitthe perfon , which in her crude 
 ' Mature (hews ftrong Affe&ion, and turns 
 
 F 2 the 
 
 *I 
 
68 Vrim andThummim. 
 
 the nobleft of Metals into her own colour. 
 Therefore the Artift ihidies how to difponfate 
 thefetwo. 
 
 And firft denudateth the Lady of her frofty 
 Garments , that (he may have the firft a&ivity, 
 and liquefie her fettered Lord : then are they 
 both in the power of Art to better* 
 
 It is obje&ed , 7hU Heaven-born Hermo- 
 da&ylus or Hy drome], is of a Nature fo obftinate 
 and incorrett , jbe will b) no means receive thebefl 
 imprejfion. 
 
 Confider, Her names fignifie.mXt matter of 
 contrary quality , therefore may be feparated : 
 and although her original obfeure condition, 
 becaufe it is unknown by the innate affe&ions 
 and fubfiftance ; for it is an Airy Body , or Air 
 itfelf with Mercurial Spirit, fubfifting of inter- 
 nal heat, and external cold. Others fay , It is 
 compofed of the Spirit of the World, corporate 
 in the womb of the Earth , and apt to receive 
 the qualities and properties of all natural 
 thing?, as wax imprefiion ; and being compofed 
 of Spirits , the weight is of greater wonder. 
 Others fay , It is a crude Sperm not furficiently 
 decoded, (yer not to be profaned.) Others call 
 it an immature Gold, which kills it felf, and the 
 Father and the Mother, to bring forth a pure In- 
 faritT'Kyhefthey overcome the Fire : flbe is the f 
 perfe&ion of the Univerfal Medicine : whtt j 
 Conformiry, what Similitude, what Identity 
 (he holds with the Metallical Urne , being the I 
 original matter aed lubftance thereof, and may 
 be coagulated to the equal temper of Gold, is \ 
 
 as I 
 
Vrim md Tbummim. 6p 
 
 as the whitened in Snow. Therefore the An- 
 cients magnifie the moft Bleffed , who created 
 fuch a fubftance , and gave it fuch properties 
 as no other thing in Nature doth poffefs ; 
 yet we fee it is a virions matter , which hath 
 fuperfluoas Humidity , proper and appropriate 
 Qualities , feparable and inieparable Accident?. 
 Therefore the feparable may be removed: to 
 which end, (he is included in a Well of Te^rs, 
 that the Watrinefs may be vapored , or 
 through long DecoSion by Drinefs vanquish- 
 ed. 
 
 Then doth it, as it were, congeal, and 
 fix , and become more apt for durance 
 and extension : for whatfoever is contrary 
 to the natural , doth debilitate ; and like by 
 his like , is nouriflied : but heat is contra- 
 ry to cold, and the natural property of fcalding 
 heat , is to weaken and dry. The fre(h Wa- 
 ter adds power and heat : heat augmented be- 
 comes Fire ; and Time turns Strength to Cor- 
 ruption. 
 
 This glutinous fubftance hath natural heat, 
 from which is the Life and Death of the Ele- 
 ments. 
 
 Therefore as common Fire bringeth all things 
 to his own Nature , fo the external working 
 upon the internal heat , it doth neceflarily ob- 
 tain victory. 
 
 Therefore if you can believe that heat and 
 drinefs (hall overcome cold and moifture, that li- 
 near/ and fucceffive courfe , hidden to all the 
 F 3 world, 
 
jo Vrim and Tbummim. 
 
 World , is open to you. 
 
 Therefore, as Nature delights in Con- 
 cord , fo the Lovers and Searchers into Na- 
 tures Work , mult be of conftant mindes , and 
 Gideon-like refolve to race the Cicy LMeroz, , 
 not refufing to affift the publick good, and 
 then the Marriage: for the Princefs never un- 
 masks her Virgin-Beauty , except to him that 
 hath skill and power to efpenfe her in a bed 
 of Love ^ which none can do , before the de- 
 spoliation of the exterior form : but the Ob- 
 fiacles removed, and Nature fet on work, 
 the exrernai Decree doth neceflitate the ef- 
 fe& : for being now warm , and blyth , and 
 apt for new Generation, and pounded with 
 her Lord , grated to Duft , his unnatural foft- 
 nefs deceives the fenfe , and they paffionately 
 condole each others Exile, and in their im- 
 braces fall in a found , until their dhTolved 
 Bodies fhew corruption ; and the more pure, 
 being corrupted, are more vile. 
 
 The Artift finding them out of their Indi- 
 an Taradife, corre&s their central virtue-, and 
 raifing them from the Earth , leads them the 
 thorny path to threefold happinefs , and by 
 fiery trial, purifieth the Quantity, and changeth 
 the Quality , and fo brings them to pcrfeft rett, 
 whereby they have power over the bodies of 
 Men and Metals , and are crowned in token of 
 their dignity and boundlefs Territories. 
 
 Now 
 
Vrim and Thummim. 71 
 
 Now conGdering the rarity of true Know- 
 ledge, the Honor and Dignity of things de- 
 fired . what Spirit is fo ignoble to thinl; 
 much either. of Coft or Time, when that 
 which is fought is of all Terreftrial Treafure 
 mod excellent ! 
 
 finis. 
 
 F + 
 
 An 
 
7* 
 
 s&afcsfc &&&& &&s^ 
 
 An Appendix of the Vermes 
 and life of an excellent EC* 
 fenti^l Water made and ap- 
 proved by Stephen Trigge^ 
 Student in Phyfick and A- 
 ftrology - and by him gained 
 and experimented at <tAm~ 
 Jierdam^nd alfo in London. 
 
 IN all manner of Fevers , both PelVilential 
 ' v and ethers; Calentures , Apoplexies, and 
 all Epidemical Difeafes , it is a perfe^ and 
 certain Remedy : and in Quartain and Quoti- 
 dian Feavers , where the Difeafe arifeth from 
 Choler. 
 
 It perfe&ly remedies the Bloody Flux, and all 
 other Fluxes , either of the Stomack or Belly, 
 Vomiring, Scowring, and Excoriation of the 
 Bowels : and where the Stomack is fpoiled for 
 want of Appetite , this is a lure Fortification ; 
 for it wonderfully firengthens the Stomack, both 
 the vital and animal Spirit , and mightily fuccors 
 
 the 
 
(tAu ^Appendix. y$ 
 
 the Heart that is oppreffed with heat : And, 
 being taken in Aqua UWeliJfie , it doth fpeedily 
 help the extream beating and panting of the 
 Heart : Convulfion-fits and falling Sicknefs , ic 
 curcth fafely andfpeedi'y, and all manner of 
 heat breaking out in the Face , and any ether 
 [part of the Body; being either caufed by the heat 
 [of the Sun, or by tome noifcmc Food taken into 
 the Body , that doth caufe putrefaction of the 
 BicoJ. 
 
 The way to take it is thi?:in a burning Feaver, 
 take of it in Planten- Water , if there be loof- 
 i nefs in the Belly , and fweeten ic with Syrupe 
 of Clove-Gilly - Flowers : and drink it as your 
 conftant Drink, till the Feaver is abated,and the 
 Appetite recovered. 
 
 In the Calenture, Drink-it in Ba!m-Warer,be- 
 ing made far fharper then white-Wine -Vinegar, 
 and mixed with Syrupe of Cowflip-Flowers : it 
 muft be drunk very often, till the fenfes come, 
 and the Patient remain cured : which will be in 
 few dayes ; for it penetrateth the Blood, makes 
 it thin,quencheth the Feaver, reviveth the Hearr 
 and Brain , and quickneth all the digeftive Fa- 
 culties. 
 
 In the Apoplexy, take it in Betony- Water, and 
 e/^#4 P/i<*,with Syrupe oSStcecha: take the Dofe 
 as » the Calenture ; or ttronger,if the Patient be 
 able to bear it, and it (lull be holpe in forty eight 
 hours, or thereabouts. 
 
 If there be any thing in this World, that will 
 preferve Man , if the Slafs of God's detertnina* 
 
 tionbe not quite run cuuthis will help. 
 
 Though 
 
74 -«» Appendix. 
 
 Though he be lame over all- his Body , his 
 Senfes gone, his Speech 16ft , and to the judo*, 
 merit of many,as dead ryetthis precious Liquor 
 will in a wonderful manner reftore them fpeedilv 
 and lately. J 
 
 In the Scurvy, Canker, Squinancy and Inflam- 
 mation of the Uvula , this doth excel all ordi- 
 nary Medicines : for ir doch after a wonderful 
 manner quench all Inflammations, and temper- 
 eth well the Blood and the Spirit: as, 
 In the Scurvy,if it be all over theBody,and mofr 
 of the Teeth be putrefied, and ready to drop out, 
 and the Gums very much fwelled and annoyed, 
 take a little of this Oyl once,and dip a littleLiac 
 in it upon the end of a Probe, and lightly touch \ 
 the places with it, and rub the Teeth all over ^ 
 once: then drink the decoaion often for eioht or P 
 nine dayes together, being made very (harp in f 
 Egnmony- water: and the Patient (hall be af- I 
 furedly holpe , although he were judoed paft 
 cure. . If 
 
 InConvulfion-fits, put it either in Cowflip- !! ^ 
 flower-water, or black Cherry -water, and mix tf 
 it with Syrupe of red Poppy , and it is a fure 
 help. 
 
 In the Falling-fcknefs , mix it with *A*ha £- 
 pi/epticMfind Syrupe of Pionies, and give it often, 
 and it is a fure help, though the Patient hatfa J 
 had it many yeers. 
 
 In an evil Stomick oppreffed with Heat and 
 Wmde,andlofsof Digeftion, mix it with Con- 
 serve of red Rofes, and a little Mithridate. 
 
 In all loathing of the Stomack, and debility 
 
 and 
 
&An (^Appendix. 75 
 
 id vomiting, give it in Mint-water, with Syrupc 
 
 : Ciove-Gilly-Flowers. 
 
 In all heatings and burnings above Nature, as 
 
 e<5tick Fevers , and the like ; mix it with Barly- 
 
 tter, and Syrupe of Violets. 
 
 In all Lotions for the Mouth or Throat , mix 
 
 with Planten-water and Hony of Rofes. 
 
 In all manner of Purges that arefullbme , and 
 fiFending the Stomack wi*h their noylbmnefs 
 wo or three drops of this Liquor put in , doth 
 iOt onely amend that , but it doih alfo corre& 
 he working ; fothat it fib all not corrode, nor 
 iurt the Stomack nor Bowels by bis working. 
 
 Thefe and many more Venues hath this wor- 
 hy Medicine, in working internal Cures, too 
 nany to relate , unlefs I here meant to write a 
 /olume thereof: But I ftiall here leave the relt 
 :o the Experimenter, and fpeak fomewhatof 
 
 xternal Cures done by it. 
 
 As firft, In all manner of Ulcers, old Sores, 
 Fiftula's , or Gangrenes, Cancers, and Cankersj 
 2^//' me ta#£*rv,Impofthumes , or evil Puftula% 
 proceeding from Morbus Cjallicpu^ great Car- 
 buncles, and any other not here related ; I (hall 
 commend this Soveraign Medicine, but yet very 
 flisrp and biting, though found, pure and perfe&, 
 and doth immediately help its own biting and 
 I gnawing. The order to ufe it, is this : it doth 
 I both cleanfe , incarnate, (iccatrize,confolidate, 
 and foder up the Wound, and drieth it, that there 
 fall np accidents : for it doth marvelloufly defend 
 either from the Humors flowing to the Sore , or 
 from all Inflammations which do often happen, 
 
 if it 
 
1 
 
 it! 
 
 tin 
 
 j 6 An Appendix. 
 
 if it be not this way defended. 
 
 In a great and dangerous Canker in the Mouth,! ' 
 there where they feem rotten , and very much :i 
 eating into great holes , either in the Root of ^ 
 the Tongue, or Roof of the Mouth there where 
 it is. 
 
 Take a little Lint , and dip it in this Liquor, ?' 
 without any addition , and lightly dotheSore , 
 ail over : then let it remain twelve hours ; then % 
 do it again as you did before : the fmart will be { ? 
 tedious for a time, but it will bs over in an hour 
 or lefs. 
 
 With ufing this two or three times , the Mat- * 
 ter or Core , and all the putrefied fubftancc will 
 fall out : then once more touch the place , and 
 there will no more Cankerous nor corrupted 
 Flefh ingender there ; for it will defend ic : 
 then make a Lotion to wafh it with Planten- 
 water, or Hony of Roles, and make it fljarp with 
 this Liquor, and wafh it two or three times a 
 day : then make an Emuliton to drink with E- 
 grimony-water and Syrupe of Violets , and 
 drink it morning and evening ; and in nine dayes 
 the Cure will be perfected : and with this order 
 you may cure all thefe Difeafes and Sores above 
 mentioned. But you muft underftand, That the 
 more dangerous the Sore is,and the fuller of cor- 
 rupted and dead flefh it is , the longer the Cure 
 will be before it be perfe&ed. 
 
 Alio for Ulcers which are great, old and dan- 
 gerous, in the Legs, where the humors are apt to 
 flow, there this Oyl excclleth all other Medi- 
 cine*. 
 
 Take 
 
An Appendix. yj 
 
 Take this Liquor, if it be a Gangrene that 
 atsahands-bredthinaday , this will aflurediy 
 ieai , and feparate the bad flefafrom the good, 
 nd bring quicknefs again in the gangrenated 
 >art 5 and defend the good flefh from being 
 ©uched with this venemous eating Malady. 
 Inhere you finde fuch a defperate cccafion, take 
 he crude Liquor , and moiften it very well with 
 t,& fo let it remain 1 2 hours :then do it again,and 
 iet it reft as before: then do it again ; & at 3 or 4 
 :imes,it will make feparation,& prefervthe good; 
 
 I 8c all that is gangrened will come away together. 
 And you need not ufe any Inftrument to fcale 
 Jthe Bone • for this will do it of ic feif , and yet 
 [not hurt in the leaft : as feme may conceive,that 
 do not know the true Operation thereof. 
 
 But when there is reparation made, then touch 
 the part afflicted once more with this : then 
 make a Lotion to wafliit; with Planten-watet 
 and Honey of Rpfes , being made a little (harp 
 with this Water ; and make a Salve of Candle- 
 greafe dropped in water, and Bees-wax,of equal 
 parts,and fpread it upon a linen-cloth, and apply 
 itasaPlaifter. 
 
 With this thou flhalt perform great Cures, in a 
 fortnights time, which otherwife may not be 
 cured in a quarter of a yeers time. 
 
 Thefe , and many more are the Vertues of 
 ibis excellent Liquor , experienced very well by 
 Mrs. Jordan of Sowewlde in Suffolk^ Daughterto 
 Do&or Barnes of Amfterdam , and by me Stefhon 
 Trigger over a°ainft Baymrds-Q&\e. 
 
 This Medicine is now prepared, and to be had 
 
 at 
 
78 An Appendix. 
 
 at the Houfe cf Mr. Hepburn Minifter,in the Car- 
 penters-yard in Little-Brittain. 
 
 Where arealfo prepared excellent Pumiciis,ta 
 cleanfe and whiten the Teeth,fatten loofe Teeth, 
 and make the Breath fweet. 
 
 Lozinges for all Coughs, Tifltcks , Afthma's, 
 Confumptions,or the like : which are alfo to be 
 had at Mr. Moons fhop at the feven Starsin Pauls 
 Church-yard, with Diet-Drinks , Electuaries, 
 Pills, &c especially , for all Venereal Diftem- 
 pcrs; by 
 
 ^o;a t£ ©5f . 
 
 Th( 
 
 * 
 
19 
 
 The 
 
 SECOND PART 
 
 O-F.The . • -- - 
 
 MUMIAL. TREATISE 
 TE^J°ZELIVS: 
 
 Being a natural Account of 
 
 The TREE of LIFE, 
 
 And of 
 The Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil. 
 
 With, ;; _ "~L 
 
 A Myftical Interpretation of that 
 great Secret,to wit, The Gaba- 
 
 liftical Concordance of the Tree of 
 Life & Death, of Chrift & Adam. 
 
 Tf Having committed to the World fomePre- 
 L cepts and Examples about Mumy fpiritual,! 
 ML hold it no Solxcifm to anne& this Pleafant, 
 though Myftical Treatife , Of the Nature of the 
 Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil : fof 
 they being_pbfcure , this h a Lamp to dilucidate 
 
 them, 
 
80 A natural Account 
 
 them , fcarce credible , Authority to vindicate 
 them, and apparently falfe Teftimony, fufncient 
 toverifieihem. 
 
 Now whatever knowledge we have of this 
 Scieniifical Tree, we decerped it from holy Writ, 
 which faith Cxprefly,GWf. 2 verfg. That the Tree 
 o f life was in the mid ft of the Garden ; and zlfo^the 
 "" Tree of knowledge of good and evil ; and , That 
 thofejh^ jeat oj the jruit thereof] fhallbe at God % 
 infao ^noww<r food and evi l. To which thePer- 
 fon^ot the Matter, (ipeaking to the reft of the 
 Godhead) attefls, faying, LoyAdam u as one ofus^ 
 knowing good and evil. Which Elocution of the 
 tri-nne God, may not bethc^ghfc-ifO"nical , as it 
 might at the firrt^gkflTeHeem to be ; Seeing 
 t hen a double and contrary meaning (h.ould b e 
 Ji^p jiedjnthe wordr« as if God hadJ hy a mental 
 Kefervation^ hinted one thin s ; and by an oral 
 Expreflion, declared another : pronouncing that 
 for verity » which could be taken for no other 
 
 -then fiat talli tylbut let God be true : for though 
 
 orvAdaws part it be Metaphorical,in all other re- 
 fpecTs it is categorical and affirmative : as if God 
 hadfaid, Becaufe Adam? by the enticement of 1 
 the Serpent , hath eaten of the Tree of Know 
 ledge , and thereby acquired the knowledge of 1 
 Good and Evil ; not that that is competiblc 
 oncly to the Deity, but that that is Philofophi- 
 cal and Communicable' ; L oj, he is a* one of ju » 
 that is , he emulates the Qmnifcients Panfophy 
 in his Meafure and Degree. Yea, God the Son 
 elfcwherc ufes the like Elocution , The Qphtrcn 
 •f this world are wifer in their fen erations then the 
 
 1 
 
 N 
 
 \i 
 
 it 
 
 fo 
 
 !.- 
 
 G 
 
of the Tree of Life. 8 1 
 
 di fdren of lip hu And that this Interpretation 
 is true, the following words evince irrefragably ; 
 mdtherefore he thruft him out of Parody left 
 snowing the Nature and Facultie of the o- 
 her Trees , he fhould put forth his hand , and 
 ake alfo of the Tree of Life , and eat, and live 
 ior ever. 
 
 If then the Faculty of the viyifical Tree was 
 jue, and fuch a Tree truely natural exifted , as 
 lad power to confer ettf&fotar , immortality to 
 r$ Takers, (as without doubt it did) the Faculty 
 )f this jfcientifical Tree mutt alfo be true, and 
 io way feigned ; and I need not urge , I think, 
 rhat Adam and Eve would never have believed 
 he Serpent to iheirruine, if the light of their 
 Sature had not alfo difcovered the Fruit of this 
 rree to be fcientifical. It is therefore true and 
 mpraegnable , That this Paradifaical Tree was 
 ndued with this fame Faculty of giving know- 
 edge. So that the Queftion will now be,Whe- 
 Jier this Faculty was infufed into it in theCre- 
 ition, acquired by it after the Creation, or com- 
 nunicated to it by fome other means and way.' 
 \nd to loofe this Gordian knot , Hie labor y hot 
 pus eft. And here alfo the Scripture (though 
 bmewhat obfeurely) points out a mean to re- 
 blve this Quaere : the words are thus , 7 be Ser~ 
 *nt was morcfubtil then any haft of the ftela\ 
 *hieh the Lord <jod had made. Which words 
 ire here inferted for no end, that I can finde, un- 
 efs they portend fomething of moment in this 
 natter. It is further obfervable, That the De- 
 vil came not to Eat in form of an Apple , but of 
 
8 1 A natural Account 
 
 a Serpent, which he knew for fubtilty worthy to ; fc 
 be preferred before allBeafts, which alfo Sve\ n 
 judged to have fpoken naturally. It is moreover 1 
 alio probable , That the Serpent had his Cavern d 
 under or about that Tree ; whereof, God being, g 
 in no wife ignorant , forbade man the ufe o{ its] 
 Fruit. 
 
 Moreover it is confiderable , That in things 
 obfcure and dubious , that Explication mul^b€ 
 admitted, whereto Senfe,Reafon,and Experience j 0! 
 give fuffrage^ if it fpeak not contradiction to the,- 
 Rule of Faith. Who is he then that can con- 
 ceive ? or what Diver into Natures fecrets hath L 
 met with the like Myftery ? that he can by fome ,f| 
 weak refemblance evince the World,how by the 
 eating of a fingle Apple, her children may fuck in 
 more then humane Knowledge. Whereas on t 
 the other fide, I (hould very much derogate „ 
 from mans prsecellency , if I ihould in the leafti [ 
 doubt , that the acutenefs of his Imelleft , {, 
 could not finde out a way how this Faculty \ 
 might be acquired : and lb clofe with our Sen- 
 tence , That this Tree became fcientifical by 
 way of Tranfplantation from the Serpent 5 that 
 is, this Tree and its Fruits had both the fpirktial 
 Effence , and the fpiritual Vermes of the Ser- a 
 pent, communicated to them , and impreffed in 
 them, by vertue of the Serpents cohabitation 
 with them. For in Nature we finde, That many : 
 Bodies do notonely by their qualities , affeft |« ; 
 their adjacents, but alfo infafe their Vertue into j, 
 them, &indue them with the fame Faculty.Thus - ( 
 the Magnet doth not onely attract Iron-Rings,; ^ 
 
 but 
 
of the Tree of Life. 8j 
 
 but communicates its Vertue to them > and 
 makes them Magnetical ; as I can upon Ocular 
 Teftimony aver. And thus Vegetables may 
 tranfume and poffefs the Proprieties and Affecti- 
 ons of Animals, and yet not tranfgrefs the 
 Bounds cf Nature : of which rank, not only this 
 Treadle affords us many Examples ; butSmol^ 
 ltHsj2£&<> (who was our Manudu&or into this Ch 
 pinion ) records fome , and afligns the Rea- 
 ions thereof, in his Manual of admirable 
 biags. 
 
 Of which fame Argument, Theophrafl us alfo 
 treating in his Book of the origine ot Sciences, 
 iffirms , That our hairy and white Serpents in 
 Germany , are indued with fuch admirable^ and 
 $£p <p\!aivaei&i< t fuper naturally excellent venues^ 
 hat they are and will be of Jpecialufefor the attain* 
 ment of Knowledge^ both natural and occult. A nd 
 ie adds further in the fame Book , That the 
 Ampler fort thinkjhemfelves nothing bettered by this 
 bis (ervice : and therefore he judges it not 
 Work worth the while, to caft more Pearls be- 
 bre fuch Swine , being perfwaded he hath fatis^ 
 5ed the wifer fort. 
 
 By what Art then, this incomparable Treafure 
 nay be effoded, the diligent Searcher of Nature 
 hall finde , if he ferioufly perpend the fore- 
 qioted words, and with unprejudiced thoughts, 
 udicioufly confider that noble £ *"f3$ 7»W^pm 
 [ito&Stwxfitm, & for this purpofemoft tmly-ufe- 
 Jul pair of little Books.one treating of Time,the 
 other of the origine of Sciences : neither will he 
 have caafcxo fay,He hath-fpem his Oyl,if he take 
 
 G 2 tkn« 
 
S^- tt>f natural ^Account 
 
 time to confer one of them with the other, and 
 judge, tr%%\>&* mz* *'*& Tnptf&biFHrpkbjFHrplefat- 
 caufe, as in the B&ok of Time, the Mumy of the 
 Microcofm, is diftin£tly handled : the four cor- 
 poral Mamies, being firft treated of ; and after- 
 wards, the one effential and fpirituai of the Mi- 
 crocofme : fo again in the Book of the origine 
 of Sciences, the fpirituai Mumy of the Serpent, 
 how ic may be tranfplanted into certain Fruits, 
 to make them fciehtifical for the good of man , 
 takes up the former Treatife ; and the later 
 is dettined to the corporal Mumies of the Ser- 
 pent. 
 
 And hence any wife man may eafily collet, 
 That the extraction of Mumy fpirituai , is in all 
 the fame , and differs not according to the di* 
 verfity of thofe things whence it is extracted, as 
 Thtophrafitts (hews in his Book of Time ; where 
 treating of the fpirituai Mumy of the Serpent, 
 he gives us an account , how the Ape, by means 
 thereof, enters league and amity with its utter 
 Enemy the Serpent : nay, I dare affirm, That he 
 that hath the perfect knowledge of the Mumy- 
 fpiritaal of the Microcofm, and its Confequents, 
 which Theophrafim handles in his Book of Time , 
 fliall eafily attain the knowledge of all the kindes 
 of terpentine Mumy , but efpecially of that 
 which he accurately delivers in the firft and 
 iecond Chapter of his Book of the origine of 
 Sciences. 
 
 The way then to get this fpirituai Mumy of 
 the Serpent, and according to this former Trea- 
 tife to tranfplant kinwforac Fruits or Grains, 
 
 and 
 
of the Tree of Life. %% 
 
 and with them co confer ic to ibme man, or the 
 like, is, p*wt»Va one and the fame with the fore- 
 mentioned wayes : take then the fperm , that 
 isjthe Eggs of the Serpent, which are to &yf& £ 
 efflMMt, the Elements and Principles both of 
 their corporal and fpiritual Mumy,mix them with 
 fat Earth, and fow ibme Seed,or plant fome Herb 
 fitteft for your purpofe, in that Earth. 
 ' But for greater efficacies fake , in conferring 
 knowledge , tranfplant them into fome Fru-it ap- 
 propriated to the Brain : Plant therefore a Cher- 
 ry-Tree in this Earth j for fo it will magnetically 
 attract the Mumiai Spirit of the Serpent into its 
 Nutriment , whofe Vertue and Quality will ap- 
 pear in the Cherries ; out of which , by Vnlcaifs 
 Hammer, that i?, Fire, you may elicite the Spi- 
 rits,and therewith roborate and acuate th^ Brain, 
 and no Little advance Knowledge. 
 
 This 7V c£iju& 7* opoi vm$vAvt,h<i or feminal 
 part of the Serpent , may, with like fwecefs, be 
 tranfplanted into a Vine', out of whofe Grapes 
 you may afterwards extra& their Spirits ; and 
 after the fame manner , the Theriack, and all its 
 Faculties, may, by way of Tranfplant ation , bfc 
 ioferted into the fame Fruit,which will i>e there* 
 by made Theriacal. 
 
 There is yet another way of tranpltming fefy 
 pentine Mumy into an Herb,thus : 
 
 Take Serpents , and include them in fome 
 Glafe-Veflcl, till they be fuffocated and putrefied 
 inta feme vifcid matter , which ekher tranf- 
 
 Slant into fome Tree , of unite with fome Earth 
 t fQj the weption of Herbs for yoar purpofe* 
 
%6 A natural Account 
 
 You may alfo by like proceffion, extraft Mu- 
 my from Serpents and Snakes, indued not onely 
 with other admirable Vertues, but with that al- 
 fo that is proper to the Univerfal Medicine , 
 which they depofe with their glifcent Skins ; I 
 mean , that incomparable Remedy for the Mor- 
 phea, Leprofie, &c. whofe Cure can fcarce be 
 hoped for from any other Antidote , ( fcarce, I 
 fay, becaufe I verily think, theEflenceof ful- 
 phureous Vitriol , will conduce no little here- 
 unto.) 
 
 Take Serpents then, and detra&ing their 
 Sweat and Collunies from them , cut oft their 
 Heads and Tails, ( which are elfe of much ufe to 
 other effe6ts, as well as the other parts) and caft 
 thole away 4 but put tbeir flefh under the ftock, 
 amongft the Roots of a Juniper-Tree , and oc- 
 clude the hole with a knot of a wild© Plum- 
 Tree : for thus in Winter-time , the Flefh will 
 by the natural heat of the Juniper, which is tem- 
 perate, be redacted to its firft entity ; and in the 
 Spring, the vegetable Spirit of the Juniper, will 
 attrad the Balfam thereof to its Nutriment ; 
 infomuch, that its Fruits or Berries, will be in- 
 dued with moft eximious Faculties , and en- 
 rich their Poffeflor with a moft admirable and 
 excellent remedy againft the Leprofie : for which 
 end, 
 
 Tike the Berries of the aforefaid Juniper, 
 pour warm Water , with a convenient quantity 
 of Leaven upon them: and thus let them mace- 
 rate for eight dayes , till they be reduced into 
 dcc mixed Mafs 2 for which purpofe, agitate 
 
 them 
 
of the Tree of Life* 8 7 
 
 them once or twice a day : then diftil the Mafs 
 through a Vefica ; atfirft with a flower, but gra- 
 dually with a hotter Fire , till all the Spirit be 
 diftilled. And now becaufe this Spirit is mixed 
 with Phlegme , it muft be re&ified in B. <JW m 
 through a Cucurbite , and then again through 3 
 Phiola ; and fo you ftiail have the true Spirit of 
 Juniper. 
 
 Then calcinate the dead Head into Lees , and 
 make Salt thereof by Evaporation ; whereof 
 take one pound , and refolving it in the former 
 Phlegme , mix it with a Efficient quantity of 
 good and well - dried Argil , till you may 
 make it into Paftils ; which take, and diftil in a 
 clofe Furnace , through a well-beaked Retorta 5 
 putting a handful or two of the Berries into the 
 Reptacle. Let your Fire be firft flow , for the 
 Phlegme ; afterwards, hotter ; and at laft, fo hot, 
 that the Retorta may be made red therewith : 
 for fo you may extra& all the Spirits. Make Sale 
 again of the dead Head , which mix with Argil, 
 and the fore-extra &ed Spirit ; and then diftil it 
 again into Spirit:then fo draw this Spirit through 
 a Glafs Retorta in a dry Bath , that the Phlegme 
 may be colle&ed apart; and then the great fecrec 
 J may proceed in Save drops, which you muft (hue 
 up in a Glafs with the Seal of Hermes^ and then 
 infolate and repofe it, 
 
 And thus you have that altogether praife-wor- 
 thy Remedy : for the Berries of Juniper being 
 of thetnfelves fo conduciblctotheCureof the 
 Leprotic , that they will not onely prefenre from 
 it 5 buujfo in its initiation, profligate ic ; they 
 G4 * re 
 
88 A natural Account 
 
 are now by this myftical Art,and the participa- 
 tion of the Terpentine Faculty ,fo much advanced, 
 that they will eafily overcome it in its height and 
 ftrengtb. 
 
 But thus much »f hfaw^nd by the way: now 
 toourpurpofe. 
 
 As therefore the Knowledge of Good and 
 Evil , was, by the mediation of the Mumy-fpi- 
 ritual of the Serpent, tranfplanted into the for- 
 bidden Tree ; fo alfo by the prefidy of fome o- 
 cher fpiritual Mumy , eternal ianity, or immor- 
 tality , was from God granted to the Tree of 
 Life, That he thattafted thereof, fhouldlive 
 for ever : for which we have God's Teltf- 
 mony, Gen. 3. who therefore cafttheProto- 
 plalt out of Taradife, left he fbould fttt forth 
 his hand , And tafte of the 'Tree of Life, and live 
 for ever. 
 
 And now we cannot expe&, iyy&w'**f<hi&ut 9 
 a written Teftimony , to prove that this Tree re- 
 ceived its $wB*v*-n4eiV, its power to give immor- 
 tality, from fome fpiritual Mumy : for k is ob- 
 fervable , that Scripture in things natural gives 
 rather a hint then a defcription : for what com- 
 munity hath ^Athens with Hiernfalern ? yec 
 Philosophers , thofe Merchants in Natures 
 Commonwealth , after much toffvng to and fro, 
 on thefe rugged Seas , arrived at a twofold Port 
 of Verity. 
 
 For, fay they ,this Tree of Life either received this 
 vivifical faculty, *&<&<> immediately from Cjods 
 father \\wA™><&ythe mediation offomething nMttraU 
 And further feeking into Natures Siore-houfe, 
 they conclude with Trifmegittm , Thu 
 
 i 
 
of the Tree of Life. 89 
 
 'that it is Gold bj whofe Vat He Life was implant ed 
 into this Tree ; and this is not w^ d&vaim* im- 
 pojfible: for (ttnlefi the Almighty ordain the con* 
 trary)Goid is of vert He fttjfcient to give immortality 
 to man ; or at leaf: to prohibit infirmity ', till the prB- 
 deftinated term of his Life be come: and the ufe of this 
 Tree for this pftrfofe^ was in no wife prohibited. 
 
 And it is moreover probable,That the firft en- 
 tity or Sperm of Gold, may, as other Mumies,bc 
 tranfplanted into ibme Vegetable and its Fruit ; 
 by whofe Energy, they may attain the vertue and 
 efficacy of the Tree of Life : which confiderati- 
 on is founded in Nature ; for we fee Metals by 
 the mediation of fome Vegetables, fuffer various 
 Tranfmutations, as this ftory may evince. A cer- 
 tain Metal-melter accidentally plucked a flower 
 out of a Field , which , through negle& , he 
 let fall into his Caldron , where it turned ail the 
 melted Brafs into pure Gold without any Drofs • 
 wherewith the Copper-fmith being amazed , he* 
 inveighed grievoufly againft theMelter,as though 
 he had dealt Magically with the Metal. And here, 
 though we cannot difcern how in the common 
 courfe of Nature, Metals (hould be thus changed 
 by the mediation of a Vegetable, yet if 7ii* bwiAs 
 ttYpa&'o. , with the flrength of our Intellects we 
 ferioufly and accurately weigh the way and vertue 
 of Tranfmutation , thefcalesof ignorance will 
 fall from our eyestfbr as Grapes which participate 
 not of any propriety of the Theriack, or of a Vi- 
 per, are by means of Tranfplantation, eximioufly 
 Thenacal; even fo it is in this cafe, 
 Theflower indeed in its own N«ture,was not 
 
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po A natural Account 
 
 of power to work this fubftantial Tranfmutation; tfo 
 but when the fpermatical vercueof the Metal, 
 was tranfplanted into this Flower , and united itfa 
 with the vegetable Nature , (for Minerals and lib 
 Vegetables are not fo different from each other, U 
 but they may conipirc in fome potential relati- : i 
 on, and fymbolicai, though occult, affe3ion)then Ci 
 might the Flower communicate its received ver- fio 
 tue unto,and work a real change in other Metals* n 
 and that not by vertue of the Vegetables Nature ids 
 barely , but of its Metallical Tranfplantation : 
 And by this means, we may not onely tranfplant 
 the Effences of other Metals and Minerals,L#/M, 
 Mars, Jupiter, Venm, Saturn, Sol, into fome Tree, 
 Flower, or Plant • but alio with their Faculties, 
 by the mediation of fuch Vegetables , profligate 
 moft Difeafes incident to man. 
 
 But it doth not a little reflect upon thefe my- 
 fterious Arts and A&s of Prudence, truely Phi- 
 lofophical, that thofe fluggifh Drones, cut out of 
 the dung of this Ag<*, as Bacchus of Joves thigh, 
 who think our Myfteries main vanities, will not 
 be brought to believe, that the Flower otSalen- 
 di»e y that SwaUowwort,zxii Gamandrta, wherein 
 the Sperm of Metals is either naturally or artifi- 
 cially impreffed, participate of any eximious fa- 
 culty, or can profligate any great Difeafe : but let 
 fuch obferve Nature , how ftie is one in divers 
 things,and various in one thing ; how flie is vege* 
 tative inMctals,and metallical in Vegetables and 
 Animals;and fo on the contraryrwhich we having 
 fufticicntly evinced in our Treatife of the Plague, 
 wc fhall not further enlarge upon fcj jc»qnbrinT~ 
 
 chit 
 
of the Tree of Life. 9 1 
 
 :hat we do not now declaim,but Philofophize. 
 
 Let fuch again attend to thole things that cure 
 :he Plague,which is a Mineral direafe ? ari(ing from 
 :hc refolm ion of the Arlbical Yliad : how fhould 
 
 iny Vegetable conduce to the cure of this Dil- 
 safe , feeing the Cure muft be Analogical to the 
 Caufe, unlels fome Magnetical or Mumial Impref- 
 ion, or fome Agronomical Trarfplantation , be 
 aaturally or artificially conferred on them by the 
 mediation of Celeftial Seeds , or by the co-ope- 
 ration of thisMumy fympathetical and truly fpi- 
 ritual? without which influence,thofe things they 
 call Charaaers,were of no efficacy,which yec we 
 fee by Art and InSuence,very efficacious ; nay,he 
 that denies this conjunction, muft needs confefs, 
 that the Queen of the world intercedes,working 
 ftrong imagination and credit, both in the minde 
 of the Giver and the Receiver, that thefe are in- 
 fluenced from above. This kinde of Tranlplan- 
 tation is natural to Cjamandraa , for the cure of 
 the Plague; which is moft eximious therein, efpe- 
 cially in the Climate where it. grows : the like 
 Celeftial Tranfplantation appears alfo in Arfmarr, 
 which doth not onely by a natural attractive fa- 
 culty , but by influence alfo,cure all wounds and 
 ulcers, teeth-aches , and the like affe&ions pro- 
 ceeding from the fubtil fluxions of Salt; of which 
 Herb, Tkeophrtttus hath a whole Book. The fa- 
 native vertue of the Roots of Succory, is,I think, 
 artificial, by fome Mumial fyrapathetical vertue ; 
 a bccanfe, if they be digged up in the houxand day 
 j of ffew* ) when the Sm hin Leo± they will, if ea- 
 ) tcnVcure anfwound tKaPHnfeftcd with no fynv 
 
 ptome. 
 
pi A natural Account 
 
 ptome. The like whereof was of late experienced 
 by the Magnetians f as I was in a Letter informed 
 by a Friend of mine there : thus : A Boy of nine 
 yecrs of age , was to take the Wood of an A(h t 
 and looking towards theEaft,cnt it into fplinters; 
 which done, they ufe it with a form of words to 
 the cure of all joynt-dolors, as P©dagry,Chiragry, 
 Gonagry,Tooth-ach alfo ; and all kind of wounds. 
 They rub the teeth with it, and imbue it only in 
 the blood of the wound, and it cures them all. 
 
 And who doubts of the foveraign vertue of 
 the Sambucus or Elder growing on a Willow, ga 
 the red in Ottober^ a little before new Moon,and 
 cut into nine fplinters,but it will cure the falling 
 ficknefs ? ( Abbas indeed would have the Root 
 thereof evelled on the Forenoon of St. John Bap- 
 tifis day , and ufed for an Amulet ) the reafon 
 whereof, we take to be this: Some Magpy having 
 before denounced the feeds of an Elder- tree, left 
 them mixt with its dung, ( which is of efficacy a- 
 gainft the falling-ficknefs)on a willow,where the 
 Sambucus growing up, becomes, by mediation of 
 the Mumy of the dung,a Remedy for this difeafe. 
 
 And now, that this Spiritual fympathetical Mu- 
 my may be helped by artifice, is plain in Paracel- 
 fuss Zenechdo againtt the Plague ; for though that 
 lame c onfifting chiefly of Arfnic k , htth feme re- 
 femblahce of peftiferous poylbn;yet as the Load- 
 tf one, which hath in it the Spirit of Iron,ftrongly 
 attracts Iron ; fo this t Diaz,cnech J having in it thd 
 
 »■ 
 
 ag ive Spirit ofthe Plague , is by fy^rcouscom- 
 poITtion, andlormationlnto certain-jfigures wil- 
 der the Dragons ht*b ot Sgnfion t ( when cither 
 
of the Tree of Life. 9 j 
 
 the Sun or Moon t poflefs either of thefe Signs) 
 made a moft excellent deletery agaioft thePlague ; 
 as many by experience can demonftrate , who 
 have been cured by its prae(ady,and know its true 
 manner of formation. Thus the Bezor-ftone re- 
 ceived power againft Poyfon from Jupiter at 
 Erft ; but, yet not fo valid, as that it could com- 
 municate that faculty to others, till by the influ- 
 ence of Scorpio , under whofe power it muft be 
 formed into the refemblance of i Scorpions upper 
 parts : it is not able to communicate its faculty 
 to Maftick or Frankincenfe. P&ony t which is alfo 
 called Fhosbea^h very good,but not fo efficacious 
 unlefs it be uled when the Sun is predominant. 
 
 And how famous is that Martial Ring, whicb^ 
 car ried in fome fit place, or rubbed on fome fucri 
 part, will allay & cure the pains of the Teeth and 
 Head, the Cramp,Quartain-ague,falling-ficknefe^ 
 Vertigo,Apoplexy,Plague,& other Difeafes? info- 
 much,that the great capt.of Hetmria commanded 
 the Inventer thereof, (a Brother otS.Augttftines 
 •rder) To fell none to any bnt himfelf for fome jeers. 
 Whereas, if this fame were formed of fome long 
 Horfc-feooe-nail, pulled out of a Hcrfes hoof on 
 purpofe, in the hour Mars reigns , it would be 
 ready to comra& it felf to fit the leaft,and ampli- 
 fie it felf for the great eft finger as you would. 
 
 But the common Theriack alfo, and all things 
 fablunary,are fydereal; yea, it is Solar^nd there- 
 fore efficacious againft Povfons, & all epidemical 
 fluxes : yea, it would be more efficacious, if frost 
 the obfervations of the heavens,tome opportune 
 feafon were chofcn for its compofuion, wherein 
 
 it 
 
H 
 
 A natural Account 
 
 it might receive the fympathjeal faculty of the 
 fuperior Bodies,as PtolomjtfheofhraftHt+AlberttiSs 
 Mar film* Fixintu, Roger ius % Bacho+'thwrnhenferHS) 
 Crollita^ and the reft of thofe dexterous Searchers 
 of Natures fecrets, do all along obferve. 
 
 Though fome are of Opinion, That Medicks 
 fliould not trouble themfelves herein, and there- 
 fore they adore the GoddefiS 'loth^ inftead of theE* 
 HJi an fie Ids getting themfelves in their Fools Para- 
 dife , till fome Patient rouze them out of their 
 fleep : but that we may not feem too tedious,we 
 (hall leave this natural, and afcend to a more my* 
 ftical Tranfplantation , whereby the Almighty 
 tranfplanted the n«uialTree_ofLife,ftanding in 
 the Garden of Paradtfe^ in to theMafsof Adam s 
 andjtft erwards \r\iSL p^fif tne true an d nsyftical 
 Tree 'of Life ; who was fufpended on the very 
 wood of the natural Tree of Life; audio refuf- 
 citates both Adamfind all Mankinde,dead in fin, 
 to newnefs of life. God is indeed wonderful in 
 all his works , as we may learn from the ftate of 
 corruption, and reparation of Adam ^ for-as-4- 
 dam by tranfgreffion , upon the perfwafion and 
 enticement of the Devil and Serpent, attra&ed 
 tohimfelf, death, eternal damnation , and all 
 kindes of torments, by tafting of the forbidden 
 Tree ; fo is he redeemed from death eternal,and 
 received into life eternal , by the Tree of Life, 
 and Life it felf , Chrilt Jefus. 
 
 It is more then probable, That Sibylla prophe- 
 sied of Chrift, when (he faid , That Adam, being 
 now ready to die , de fired earneftlj a Branch of the 
 Bough 'J Life* in Partdife ; and therefore fm one of 
 
of the Tree of Life. 95 
 
 his Som thither to fetch one, that he might efcape this 
 inent death : hit Sen received a Bough from the 
 r ngel ; but in the mean time , Adam had changed 
 f ife -with, death : and therefore hit Son implanted the 
 Bough on his Fathers Sepulchre ; where, getting fap y 
 •t grew into a great Tree , andfo attracted the whole 
 Nature of Adam to its nutr intent. 
 
 Now alfo an ancient Do&cr in theEaftern 
 Country ,and4uBiQiop of the Church,a little after 
 Chrift,amongft many others , dete&ed this ve- 
 nerable myftery alfo: Noah (faith he) was com* 
 manded byCjodjto carry AdatnV tones and theTree on 
 his Sepulchre into his Ar\ , andpreferve the original 
 ff Mankjnde: which Noah did with aU obfervance: 
 and when Noah fent his three Sons forth into three 
 parts of the world,he divided AdamV bones amongfi 
 them ; giving his Legs and Feet to his joungeft Son y 
 his Br eft and Arms to his mtddle Son, and his Head 
 and Skul to his eldefi , as fuch f acred r clicks of the 
 Father of Mankjnde,as de fervid to be kept, t*j«ia>Vtfg. 
 Now his Firfl-born betookhimfelf into the parts neet 
 Tgrulalem, where he buried Adam*/ Skull in a little 
 Mountain, which was therefore called Mount Calva- 
 ry, becaufe Adam '/ falvaria or Skull was there in* 
 terred\ which the Evangel ft therefore calls Golga- 
 tha, or , the place of a Skull,; n the fipgular number. 
 Moreover, he faith, That the Tree of the Tranf* 
 plantion of Adam, was by remarkable and admirable 
 Providence preferved , and made into a Crofifor 
 Chrifts crucifixion , and ereileddireUlj in that place 
 where Adam'j Skull was buried, to that he who 
 perpends the matter well, fhall f nde, that whole 
 tf4m>*s it were, is recoile&ed in and under the 
 
 Crofsj 
 
p6 An Account, &c. 
 
 Crofs; and fo with an admirable tie, conjoyned 
 to the vivifical Nature it felf : which, how plea- 
 fant, efficacious,and full of confolation, let each 
 one confider : for he that deferved death, is pre- 
 fent in and under the Crofs; and he that repaired 
 Life , yea , that is Life it felf, is affixed to the 
 Crofs ; the true Concordance of life and death, 
 of afinlefs Saviour, and hnful man ; whereby Life 
 is united to Death,and Chrifi to Adam,wt with- 
 out the fuperinfufion of Blood , like Celeftial 
 dew, for better and more fecundity ; that fo j^ . m 
 dam and his Pofterity eating of the Fruit of this r > 
 tranfplantedTree, might be really tranfplantedi 
 into thrift , and by a certain celeftial magnetiftn 
 and fympathy, attra&ed to Heaven, tranflated ta 
 Life, and made Heirs of Happinefs. 
 
 Tor which ineffable Grace and Mercy of the Deity, 
 be rendered, to the Tri-nne God, allPraifey Ho- 
 nor and Benedtttiony Amen. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 i 
 
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 The 
 
§§§§ mmmmm mmmmm 
 
 The Preface to the Reader 
 or Worker. 
 
 Gentle Reader, 
 
 LEt not thy heart be turned f rem this excellent 
 Science of t/ilchymy, although it be contemned. 
 nd made of no account among the rich mm of the 
 iorld^ that no man hath ever come to the perfett end 
 vfd knowledge of it , with a number of untrue re- 
 nt Sjto hinder ^m much at in them lieth, this moft ex* 
 illent and godly Science , the which hath beenji- 
 ifted\by many perfons^and by this John Fauvere in 
 faris, the which he left for a teftament to his Sou 9 as 
 r had wrote it with his own hand:but true it isJThat 
 ivers men, for want of the true knowledge of this 
 cieuce, have brought themfehes into great poverty^ 
 tifery and contempt of this world* To the which I 
 nfwer , That there be many things that do let and 
 '■nder men tofinde the end of any Science-pot onely in 
 w % but divers others, as Aftronomy, Vhyficl^ , the 
 | 'ofit of the ufe of the Medicine, with infinite others: 
 tndfirft , this is the chief eft eaufe many men be of fa 
 *v/? undemanding , that they cannot perceive and, 
 nde out the dor kwriting of the Philofophers, which 
 the caufe that many times they mifithe great be 
 tfit) that they madejuft account of\ and moreover, 
 ivers envious perfons have written Books filled with 
 number of lyes and painted gloffesjo draw the mo ft 
 ainfulmen which have labored in this Science, unto 
 ivers errors, to the utter undoing of them , and lofi 
 f their goods ; the which they have done only ofmeer 
 H % malke 
 
maliC-e 5 becaufe they did not under ft and the darl^ 
 Writings of the mcft ancient and learned Fathers ; 
 which is thee an fe that they would never attain Hnto 
 the depth of this mofi learned Science. Al ! o there 
 be many men that will begin things ,without attending 
 the end of any one oj them • and fe have left offcon- 
 fufedly , and fo have not only loft their time, but alfo 
 con fumed all that they had: which tfthey would have 
 itegun one thing, and have ended it , they needed not 
 fo to have done : and then they cry out , and bUme 
 this Science, which is their own fault. Laftly, there 
 fo many men that worJ^daily upon receits that they 
 gather here and thete, without feeing or making that 
 which they do workj* whether it be agreeing with tht 
 Nature of the Science, or from whence the receits do 
 come orfpring,or who have written them ; wherebj 
 they alfo confume their fubftance ; which is their owt. 
 fault, and not the Science. $/4nd alfo, God will noi 
 have the Science wrought by fome men, and yet they 
 willworl^ it .* and thus they lofe their goods. An 
 therefore , gentle Reader , if you w ill keep y our fel^ 
 from damage or loft^ fo reai this Treatife over , no 
 ence but many times ; fo (haft thou fnde the free. 
 Kernel or Marrow of tht Philofophers , and righ 
 Science of Tranfmutation of Metals that be bafe 
 into mofi pure Metals of Gold and Silver. Anc 
 therefore thinks not the reading andftudying of tht 
 Science or Treatife to be tedious unto thee,confiderm 
 the great profit thou (halt reap by it. The Lord grant 
 that thou maiftfinde it , and ufe it to the honour o 
 God, and profit of thrift and his poor afflittec 
 Church, 
 
 Raymond LuIIy 
 
&&& sfesfesfesis &&&& 
 
 The Contents of the firft Part. 
 
 Ghap. i. r T^O prepare the S ah for the red and 
 JL white Elixir. 
 
 G hap. 2 .To make the Elixir to the white work. 
 
 Chap. 3 . Of the Key of Sciences , And Proper- 
 ties of Salt. 
 
 Chap.4. The Compofition of the red Elixir. 
 
 C hap. 5 .The projeftion with the red Elixir. 
 , Chap. 6. The Compofition of the Cement for 
 G*li. 
 
 Ghap.7. To make Silver heavy as Gold. 
 
 Chap. 8, The difference between the Elixir $ 
 and Pbilofopbers Stone. 
 
 C hap .9 . The living and dead S ol and Luna , 
 
 The Contents of the fecond Part. 
 
 Chap. 1 ."pHe Compofition of the Philofophers 
 
 * Stent. 
 Chap. 2 . The Elixir of Life. 
 Chap.3. To fublime Mercury to the red E- 
 
 lixir. 
 Chap.4, To fublime Mercury to the white E- 
 lixir* 
 
 H 3 Chap, 
 
Ghap.5. T'o prepare, the white Stone upon all 
 Bodies. 
 
 Chap. 6. To make the Lutement to all works. 
 
 Chap.7. To twderfi and moral and natural Phi- 
 losophy. 
 
 To draw Spirits out of a ponderous Body or Earth 
 by DijHHation. 
 
 Traft, uk. 
 
 Upon Saturn-, the Tinfture of Gold^ the Quia- 
 teflence and Aurum Potabile , and the 
 matter of the tiniverfd Medicine. 
 
 Phi- 
 
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 Philofophical and Chy mical 
 
 EXPERIME NTS 
 
 OF 
 
 The Famous Philofopher 
 'BJYMV^CD LVLLY. 
 
 Chap. I. 
 
 Teachcth, how to prepare- the Salt for the white 
 and red Elixir. 
 
 TAke > in the Name of God, great Bay- 
 jalt as ic is made out of the Sea; take 
 a good quantity and ftamp very faiall 
 into a ftone-Morter : then take Cucurbites of 
 Glafs, and pour your Salt therein : then take fair 
 W ell-wate r, and let your Salt refolve into cleer 
 water; being all di ffolve d, then diftil it b^ Fil- 
 ter ; that is to fay,~hang a jag Felt or Woolen- 
 cloath, intheCncurbite ; and let the other 
 end hang in another Glafs befide it , fee as ic 
 were under it , that the Water may drop into 
 
 H 4 ih 
 
104. Thilojophical 
 
 it, that the Felt or Cloath will draw out, and 
 that fhall be cleer as silver : and when that all 
 the water is dopped over, look to it if that it 
 be very cleer; if it be not % filter it again in to 
 another Glafs , till it be cleer or Chriftallin e ; 
 and when it is fo, put it into a Glafen Pan, fet it 
 upon a Sand-O ven, and let the Water vapo ur 
 away, till thatlt do come above l ike unto white - 
 Salt : then take ftone-pifs-Pots , or Pots made 
 of Cullen- Earth, Tuch as the drinking Pot s be 
 made of, and put the Water and the Salt that 
 remain?, therein , and fet upon the faid O/en, 
 and lee it vapour away • and while that k 
 doth dry, ftir it with a ftick, till that it be 
 very dry,othervvayes, it will come into a lump or 
 mafs : and this being well dried , beat it in a 
 ttone-Morter very fine , as you did before , and 
 then put it into a melting Cruc e , and let 
 them into a glowing Oven , or Say-Oven, which 
 is an Oven that the Gold-lmiths do enamel the ir 
 Ringsjl n : the Oven being very hot , take the 
 Cruies that be filled with Salt , and fet them 
 into the Oven , and let them ftand until they be 
 glowing hot ; and fee that they be no hotter 
 behinde then before ,• if they be, then turn them 
 round with a pair of Gold-fmiths Tongs : put 
 but one Pot in the Oven at a time , that you 
 may do them the better ; and when that Pot is 
 red glowing hot , take it out, and put in another 
 to be calcined. 
 
 And then, when cold , put it again into your 
 Morter , and break it as fmall as you can , the 
 ihirej time , and then fet k in the Fire of the 
 
 Oven 
 
/experiments. 105 
 
 Oven 10 glow as aforefaid , Two or three 
 times glowing, and breaking of it every time in a 
 ftone-Morter until feven times , and then put in 
 into Well-water to diffolve^ill it be all dhTolved 
 into cleer water. 
 
 Then diftii it by Filter , until it be as cleer as 
 Chriftal ^ then let it again upon your O* 
 ven to dry , and the Water to vapour until 
 that it be Salt , and ftir it with a ftick as before- 
 laid. 
 
 And when that it is dry , fet it to calcine a- 
 gain , as before'aid , in iheSand-Oven; and 
 wffen that all the Pots that have the Salt , be 
 all glowing hot, then take them out, and 
 beat them to Powder, as before ; and again dif- 
 folve into Water. 
 
 Then diftii it again by Filter, as before : this 
 (halt thou do fo many times, to fay, diffolve imo 
 Water, and then diftii by Filter , and then con- 
 geal it into dry Salt, glowing it by Fire : this do 
 without refting u ntil it come to be fau and that it 
 will melt upon a hot glowing Plate of £#»**and 
 if ic will not melt like Wax , you muft dhToive,di- 
 ftil, congeal, until that it will come to that point 
 or perfection : and you muft be careful , left: 
 that it fhould melt in the Calcination ; for then 
 all your labour is loft. Keep this for a grga t 
 jjecret : and fuch a preparation doth appertain 
 to the Salt , that which is the Riches of this 
 world. 
 
 For otherwife thou (halt never come to the 
 perfect end of any Elixir , without fuch Salt 
 prepared , as aforefaid , to fay , to the white 
 
 Elixir, 
 
io6 Thilofophical 
 
 Elixir, nor yet to the red. 
 
 Therefore,my beloved Son,he that doth know 
 the Secrets of this Salt , ( to fay ) his Solution, 
 bis Congealation , Diftillation and Calcinati- 
 on,and can well under(tand,knoweth the whole 
 Secrets of Natural Philofophy , and wife men 
 alfo ; that is to fay , how and in what manner 
 he ought to diffolve, diftil, congeal, and cal- 
 cine. Therefore let not the labour in preparing 
 of this Salt be grievous unto thee ; for without 
 great coft you may learn herein, to diftil by Fil- 
 ter, diffolve, congeal, and calcine ; andtoforjn 
 all the works that be needful unto thee in this 
 Science. 
 
 So that you come to the principal work, you 
 (hall not be to feek or to learn : Therefore 
 bz patient , and leave not off to work, un- 
 til thou halt brought thy Salt to that pafs as I 
 h3ve taught thee before , until it melt upon 
 a hot glowing Plate of Silver, as Wax in the fire : 
 for without this Salt thy labor is in vain • for it 
 is the Key of this Science, 
 
 Chap. 
 
Experiments. 107 
 
 Ch a p. II, 
 
 Teachetb with this prepared Salt to make the 
 Elixir to the white work. 
 
 *J*Ake of Salt-Pete r two parts, and one pare /^^ 
 of Allome , and djlUl thereof a ftrong ^^ 
 Water, 
 
 Then take of your prepared Salt fo much as 
 you will fee to work, and take as much fine Capel 
 Luna as you have of your Salt. 
 
 Beat your Luna into thin Plates, and diffolve (TvU^t. 
 into the tfrongWater a part,in a Glafs by it felf. 
 
 Likewife your Salt you mult diflblve in the 
 faid ftrong Water bTlt felf. 
 
 And when your Lma and Salt is diffolved in 
 both Glafles, put the two cleer Waters together, 
 and note that you put no more Water to the dif- 
 folution of thefe two matters, then will diffoi vc 
 them , and you fhall fee your Luna fall to the £M*jtz 
 bottom of the Glafs, w hite* like Milk : take the ^^^ 
 Glafs properly, and (bake it in your hand , and 
 let it ftand, and you (hall fee your Luna as a 
 greej GL Water, t o l ife ; above the which you (ball 
 ; pour properly off into another Viol of Glafs: 
 \ then pour upon it more ftrong Water , that hath 
 not occupied, and do as aforefaid; putting the 
 I green Water off in the firft green Water, (haking 
 it, as aforefaid. 
 
 This do until all your Luna be diffolved into 
 
 green 
 
io8 Thilofophical 
 
 green Water, that no Feces remains ; otherwife, 
 your work will not b^perfe&ed s and when yon 1 ' 
 have all into cleer Water without Feces, put the 
 fame into a Cucurbite of Glafs with a Helm 
 and a Recipient* and Lute it ftrongly: and when 
 your Lutement is dry, then fee your Cucurbite 
 in Balneo, and make faft to the bottom of your 
 Glafs a round Certel of Lead , like a Fol • and 
 as your Lutement doth dry ,1b increafe your fire a 
 little to diftil of the flame , that there (hall re-: 
 main no more ftrength in it then common wa- 
 ter : and to know this, pat a clout in the mouth 
 of the Alimbeck : and when the clout doth begin 
 to look yellow, pull all the fire out of the Oven ; 
 for then the Spirits of the ftrong Water do be- 
 gin to come. 
 
 Therefore loo\ well to your work, left your 
 fire be too hot , that no Spirits come out of 
 your Water ; otherwife you (hall fail in your 
 work. Then lee your Glafs and 0;en ftand 
 and* cool two hours long : then take off the 
 Helm of your Cucurbite , and have a Cover 
 of Glafs that may pafs juft in the mouth of your 
 Cucurbite , wherein yoyr Medicine is in , faft 
 luted to with Lutement,or with white Wax: then 
 fet it in your Sand -Chen, or warm A(hes , not 
 very hot. 
 
 Then take fair Capel Luna beaten very thin 
 into Plates and cut into faull pieces, and put 
 in a little at a time till it be diffolved ; and when 
 that is diffolved , put in more till it be diffolved 
 alfo. And thus let your Glafs ftand in warm 
 A(hes,and look that no Air go out of your (51*fe 
 nor Cement, ' This 
 
Experiments. iop 
 
 This isourHhing fhall continue until it will 
 dhTolve no more , but lie in the Glafs undif- 
 folved two or three days long : and then is your 
 Medicine nourifhed like a Child in the Mothers 
 Womb. 
 
 Then may you let your Glafs wax cold , and 
 you (hall underftand, without this nourishing 
 the Medicine cannot ingender ; and therefore 
 it is needful that it be nouriftied , that it may gee 
 ftrength of Generation : and when your Glafs 
 is cpld,lute your Glafs well with goodLutcment, 
 that may indure againlt Water , the which I will 
 learn thee in a Chapter apart , and let tbe Lute- 
 ment dry by it feif ; then fet the Glafs in Balne* 
 <JWarid£o putrefiefourty days long to hold it in 
 fuchaheat, as the Sun in Summer: for great 
 fire may deflroy your Medicine. Therefore 
 let your fire be alwayes of one heat : for in 
 that there doth remain a great fecret of the Me- 
 dicine. 
 
 And within the forty dayes your Medicine 
 (hall be diffolved ; and if it be not diffolved in 
 forty dayes , let it (land longer until it be di£ 
 folved : for this is the primeft of all the work : 
 for the diflbjution is done by heat and moiftwre, 
 and congealed by heat and drowtb. 
 
 This Point being obtained, you have the Key 
 of the Chamber , and he is bleffed of God that 
 hath this point. 
 
 For this is a token of goodnefs , for in every 
 Diffblution and Congealation , you do augment 
 your Medicine and Degree : for the firft time it 
 will do projection one ounce upon feven , and 
 
 diffolve 
 
no Thilofophicd 
 
 diffolve and congeal again; one ounce will pro- 
 ject upon fourteen ounces , and the ihird time 
 upon twenty eight ounce?. 
 
 And fo it goeth forth double in projection e- 
 very Diflblution and Congealation. 
 . But you fhall underhand that the Ccngeala- 
 tion thac cometh of warmth, is no perfect Con- 
 gealation j but it ought to congeal in the Glafs 
 or in the Ampule with heat , (to fay) [tending in . ■ ' 
 warmAfhes : and therefore, whenas your Me- K 
 dicine is diffolved in your Glafs , let it cool ; 
 then take it our of your &*/**?, and dry your 
 Glafs. 
 
 And look well to your Lutements that they be 
 clofe, without any clefts to let out the Spirits ;1 
 then fet it in your Sand-Oven in Afhes : then -Z 
 put fire in your Oven , and let your fire be no L 
 greater , then that you may hold your finger in 
 theAfhes : and fo let it (tend twenty four hours 
 tocoftgeal ; if not congealed in that time, you 
 may let it (tend longer ; and when you fee that 
 it is congealed, give God thanks , and rejoyce ; 
 for it is ready to do projection in this manner. 
 Take to prcjeS; on , 
 
 Fair red Copper the beft that you can get, 
 and take from him his rednefs , which ferveih 
 not in the work : the which you (hall do after 
 this manner. 
 
 Beat your Venn into thin Plates , and ait 
 it in fmall pieces,aod anoint them with this pafte 
 or pap. 
 
 Take white Arfnick and grinde it on a Mar- 
 ble-ftone with Oyl of Tartar , that it be thick 
 
 like 
 
«! 
 
 Experiments. In 
 
 ike Pap • and with this matter anoint your 
 Copper) Venus pieces : then take great Bay-fair, 
 nd put iome part or* ic into a melting - Pot 
 >ottom,and lay your (Copper) Venm pieces upon 
 hat : and then Salt upon ihem^nd (Copper^T- 
 ihs pieces upon that, Stratum fvper Stratum , 
 till all your Pot is full : and uppermoft in 
 our Pot , let there be a good quantity of 
 ak : take a tile-ftone , and make a round Cover 
 or the Pot, arid lute it weli too ; and when 
 he Lutement is dry, fet it in an Oven in 
 of Calcination for twenty four hoari 
 
 Then let it cool ; and then break your 
 >ot open, and caft the matterthatisinyouc 
 Pot in warm Water, and ftir them with your 
 tfand , until the pieces be clean , and that 
 he Water comes frefh from them. Then 
 }ry them , and beat them in an Iron Mor- 
 :er , fo fmall as you can. Then put your Ve- 
 tus 9 fo beaten, into a Canvas Bag that is fowed 
 :lofe up, and round like a Ball. Then take 
 Fat Clay that is mixed with hair , and there- 
 withal ftreak over your Bag , thinly , that ic 
 may dry ; and when that ic is dry, flreak 
 it over and over again , as it drieth , until 
 your Clay be as thick as a Pot.* Then, when 
 /our Clay is luted faft about your Canvas, take & 
 fatil wooden Pin , and put through your Lute- 
 ment into the Bag , that the fmall end may re- 
 main within the (Copper )Venut. 
 
 Then put the round Ball of (Copper) Venm 
 into another melting- Pot, the wooden Pin 
 
 down- 
 
HZ Thilofophical 
 
 downwards ; buc you muft remember top 
 among your beaten Venm 9 Sandever^Verne^Salt- 
 peter^ (Ana?) 
 
 Then fee this Pot in a wide Furnace to melr 
 and the Venn* will melt and run out into the 
 Pot, wherein it doth lie : and then the' 
 Venus (hall be fair and white like Lma , and 
 fhall be profitable in this work : the which, 
 without this work of Preparation, would not be 
 as you fhould do your projection. 
 
 Take feven ounces of this prepared Venm % 
 and put it into a melting-Pot , and flow it in 
 the higheft degree of fire that you can, in a wide 
 Furnace : then put to it one ounce of fine 
 Capel Lima ; and when it is melten , as afore- 
 faid , put to it one ounce of your Medicine 
 or Elixir, and nimbly (Ur it with a woodei* 
 ftick ; butletnolroncomeuntoit: and when 
 it is well corporated, then take it out, and 
 caft it into an Ingot ; fo you have the beft 
 Lnna in the World, to abide all Proofs and 
 Examinations • and it is far more fine then 
 that that comes out of the Earth. When you 
 have finifhed this Work , give God thanks, and \& 
 remember the poor. 
 
 I Tuui i* I tcvtL 
 
 Ghii 
 
Experiments. 113 
 
 Chap. III. 
 
 Of the Properties of -the Salt, how it is the 
 
 Key of this Science. 
 
 MY beloved Son , although our Salt be the 
 principal Key of this Science , yet can 
 he not do any good , although he were made 
 melting as Butter, without joyning with his Sol 
 or Luna ; otherwife , there is no Generation : 
 therefore he murt be prepared by himfelf , and 
 then joyn unto him Sol or Luna , before you do 
 any proje6tion upon any imperfeft Metal , to 
 make them perfeA. 
 
 But when you have prepared him by himfelf, 
 and after joyned fine fapelLunA with him, as 
 fore written in the other Chapter • then mud 
 the Body that you will project upon, be made 
 clean as aforefaid , and thgn made living with 
 Luna joyned thereto. 
 
 I For all unperfeft Bodies be called dead, faving 
 Sol and Luna : they be called living, and full 
 made ; and the fame living Body that we caft on 
 him, or proje&ion withal, we call Featen or Fer- 
 ment, and that doth make our iaiperfe& Body 
 perfeft ; and therefore they muft be all three 
 joyned together , or elfe there will be no Tranf- 
 mutation. Thns I do (hut up the Compofition of 
 the white Elixir, and now will begin with the 
 red Elixir, 
 
 I Chap; 
 
:t 
 
 ; 
 
 n^ Tbilofophical 
 
 Chap. IV. 
 
 Teficheib) The Compofitioa of the red 
 Elixir. 
 
 T Ake, in the Name of God , as much of our j 
 prepared Salt as you think good, and diffolve 
 it in this ftrong Water, 
 
 Take two parts of good Vitriol, and one part 
 of fine Saltpeter ; and put fo much Salt int 
 your Water as your Water will diffolve , thai 
 there be no Feces remaining , but that it be dif-i 
 iblved and turned into clear Water : then fine 
 Soly that is paffed feven times through the Ce- 
 ment^ which I will learn thee in the fixth Chap- 
 ter : take one part of the Sol that is fo paffed 
 through the Cement , and two parts of your 
 prepared infuftble Salt ; but let your Salt 6e firft 
 diffolved in the faid Water , as forefaid : then 
 put in your S<?/, the which (hall diffolve well 
 in the faid Water : and when your Sol is dif- 
 folved, then fet ycur Glals upon warm Afhes ; ■ 
 fo (hall it diffolve it the better into eleer Wa- 
 ter. 
 
 Then put of the cleer Water in another 
 Glafs apart , and put other of that firong 
 Water upon your So// This do untill you have 
 put it all over into clear Water in the other Glafs 
 apart ; and that there doth not remain any fub- 
 (iatjce in the bottom undiffolved. 
 
 Then work therewith as you have done in 
 
 the 
 
Experiments. n? 
 
 he white work, and draw thePhlegmate out 
 rvith Balmo in fuch a heat that there go none 
 :>f the Spirits our, or any ftrength or fharpnefs, 
 ind do ic in all manner , as in the white work ; 
 tnd you rnuft nourifh the Medicine in his own 
 natter, that is, with fine So! 9 that you have paf- 
 ed feven times through the Cement , making ic 
 is thin as you can in Plates ; and feed yourMe- 
 Hcine therewith,as much as it will eat ; and then 
 etit on warm Afhes to congeal. 
 
 Then fet it to putrefie fifteen dayfrin Balneo y 
 lot making your fire too great • for in the fifteen 
 layes it ought to be diffolved : then congeal ic 
 >n warm Afhes ; the which will be done in 
 wenty four hours. 
 
 Do in all things as in the white Elixir afore- 
 aid; for his firft Diffolution andCongealation 
 loth fall upon one ounce for twenty eight:and fo 
 or the doubling. 
 
 This Elixir ought not to be projected but upon 
 ine L**<rprepared , as heareafter fhali be learn- 
 ed ; to fay,That he have weight of Sol y and deaf- 
 lefs of found , like Saturn 5 fo that he fhall lack 
 lothing but Colour and Fixation , the which 
 >ur Elixir fliall give him, through the Grace of 
 Bod. 
 
 is ctup; 
 
 
lid Thilofopbical 
 
 Chap. V. 
 
 Teacbetb tbee to do projeftion with the red 
 Elixir. 
 
 MY beloved Son,if thou wilt ttanfmute Lund 
 into Sol, take fine Cape I Luna that is pre- 
 pared, in the Chapter hereafter written, being, 
 made without founding or ringing, and heavy in 
 weight : the which I (hall learn thee. 
 
 Take feven ounces of this Lma y and melt it in 
 a melting pot: and being well melten, put unto 
 hone ounce of fine 5fl/that is pafled feven times 
 through the Cement , as I will learn thee here- 
 after : for there is no Sol in the World finer then; 
 this, to ferve this Science. 
 
 Were it augmented in Colour by our Cement 
 and when it is well melten together with the 
 Luna , for it together with a wooden ftick ; but 
 no Iron, for that will hurt the proje&ion. Theft 
 two being well mingled together,put into it one 
 ounce of your red Elixir well ftirred and mingleci 
 together, as aforefaid, with a wooden ftick : theil 
 take it out , and caft it into an Ingot , and yot 
 (hall finde it to be fine Sol of twenty four Char 
 r a&s , to pafs all proofs , more finer and bette 
 then any that comes from the Mines. Give praii! 
 to God for his wonderful works. 
 
 Chap 
 
hxperimmts. 117 
 
 Chap. VI. 
 
 Doth teach the Compofition of the Cement 
 for the Sol. 
 
 TAke,in the name of God, of the fineft Gold 
 that you can get, one ounce ; and melt with 
 it the reddeft Venus and faireft that you can get, 
 one ounce : and when thefe two be well molten 
 together, cart them into an Ingot . and when it is 
 cold, beat it into thin Plates , no thicker then a 
 Crown, and with a pair of Goldfmiths (beers 
 cue them in pieces of thebignefs of a Royal of 
 Plate, and put them into ftrong red Wine- 
 vinegar, twenty four hours long : then take old 
 'Tiles that have lain a long time in the Sun , and 
 make them into fubtil Powder , and fift them 
 through a hairen fieve : then take common Sale 
 that is once diffolved , diftilled by Filter , and 
 once well-glowed in the fire , and beaten into a 
 Powder , and paffed through a fieve : then take 
 Homane Vitriol , and rubefie it as I (hall (hew 
 thee hereafter : then take good red^wine-vi- 
 negar, diftilled in a ftillatory of Giafs : and in 
 that Vinegar , you (hall dhfolve your Vitriol : 
 then diftil it by Filter, very cleer : then fet it on 
 warm A(he.s to congeal or dry , that the Water 
 may vapor away , and youfhall finde your Vi- 
 triol to reft very fair in the bottom : then take 
 anew earthen Pot or Pan, and put your Vitriol 
 therein, and fee it on a cool 6re , and flir h wtll 
 1 3 with 
 
n8 Tbilofophical 
 
 with a flick , and fo it fhall rubefie, and wax red 
 as blood ; then let it cool, and make it into 
 Powder, and pafs it through a Sieve : and in the 
 lame Water , you (hall take Spanifti Green, or 
 Verdigreece, and diflblve it in diftilled Vinegar : 
 then vapor it , and dry it : then glow it in the 
 fire, doing all things as the Vitriol aforefaid: 
 then take as much Salt Armoniack, and diflblve 
 it in red-wine-vinegar that is not diftilled : theUj 
 take of all thefe fubftances of Powder alike much^ 
 and fprinkle lightly over with the Vinegar , 
 wherein the Salt Armoniack is diffolved ; anctt 
 let there be as much of the Salt Armoniack dif. v 
 folved , as there is of any of the other parts : 
 then take a melting-Pot , and lay in the bot- 'ft 
 torn of your Pot a good Ground of your Ce-^ 
 ment, and cf your SolVenm Plates upon tb/ 
 Cement ; fo that the Plates do not touch one 
 another : then put more of your Cement- pow- 
 der upon it , and fo Stratum fttpef Stratum , till 
 that the Pot be full : let the uppermoft lain be 
 Cemenr. 
 
 Then take a Tile-ftone, and make a Cover juft jdr 
 for the mouth of the Pot, making a little hole in fvl 
 the Cover, or elfe the Salt Armoniack will break ii 
 your Pot, or blew up the Cover : and when you Soi 
 have made this vent-hole , lute it faft together : f\ 
 and when yourLutement is dry, fet it into your 
 winde-Oven, and firfr give itafmali fire two 
 hour3 long , the next two hours more Wronger y 
 and thus Rill augment your fire , till that you fee, 
 the Pot be glowing red; and fo let it ftand in the 
 heat twenty four hours long : then let your O- 
 
 ven 
 
experiments. up 
 
 ven cool ; and cake ic out , and open your Pot, 
 and you (hall finde your Places augmented in 
 [Colour. 
 
 The firft, my Son , if you will make this work 
 in the Reverber Oven , fo make your fire : the 
 firft half hour, fmall fire of coals ; and the other 
 time, of dry wood, that may be without fmoke ; 
 and work in the high Ovens a yard from the 
 ground : and in this manner you muft cement: 
 your Gold feven times, every time new Pots, and 
 pew frefh Powder or Cement, every time melt- 
 ing your Sol with newfma , and beating in 
 Plates as aforelaid ; for in every Cement your 
 ^emu (hall be confumed, and in ihe Sol no more 
 hall remain of the Venn* , but the Tin&ure and 
 Colour ; and your Sol (hall keepalwayes his firft 
 weight, but his colour (hall be fo high, that none 
 (hall judge it to be Sol ; and you (hall under- 
 hand, that if there were fo much Lma> being 
 ade without found, and augmented in weight, 
 eked with the faid Sol , it would feem to be 
 ne Sol. But I counfel thee not to do it ; for in 
 ivers meltings , it will lofe its colo«r,and conu 
 Jvhite as afore , becaufe your fixed Elixir,or me- 
 dium, is not put to ic : therefore I counfel thee 
 not to do ic ; for in the end it will (hame his 
 tf after ; and peradventure bring him in perill of 
 lis life, if he fliould fell it for fine Sol. There- 
 ore look well to thy fclf , and fee that thou ufe 
 lofaMfaood. 
 
 I 4 Chap; 
 
! 
 
 no Fhilojophical 
 
 Chap. VII. 
 
 Teacheth thee to make thy Luna deaf of founds 
 and heavy of weighty as Sol aforefaid. 
 
 JL ATVh*> fa A.) 
 
 MY beloved Son , Take Vimol^and diftil 
 thereof a ftrong Water , and diffolve 
 therein Salt Armoniack , as much as it can dif- 
 folve; then fet it upon warm Aflhes,and put into 
 it as much living Sulphur, as there is Salt Armo- 
 niack ; and then (hake it together with your 
 hands , flopping your Glafs well, that no Spirits 
 go out , and fet it upon Afhes, and lute a Helm 
 upon it with a recipient , and make a proper fire 
 under it, till the Water be diftilled forth of the 
 Glafs : then let it cool , and take away the Wa- 
 ter , and fiop the pipe of the Helm fall, that no 
 vent come forth , and make ftronger fire : then 
 (hall the Sulphur and Salt Armoniack fublime up 
 into the Helm ; keep it well : then take fine Cafe I 
 Lma^ and melt it in a melting-Pot , and caft of 
 that fublime upon your Lma three times, Birring 
 it well together in the Pot with a wooden ftick, 
 but no Iron : and this (hall make your Luna 
 heavy of weight , and deaf of clank , like Sol: 
 andyoufh-Uunderftand, that if you have ten 
 Ounces of Luna , you (hall call: one Ounce of 
 this fame^owder upon it, flirring it as aforefaid ; 
 and if your L/.n,t be black, (as it will be) that 
 is a good token : then caft it out in an Ingot, and 
 quench it in Water; and it (hall corac blue: 
 
 then 
 
Ibcn feeth ic in Goldfmkhs- water ( that is made 
 (trith Tartar and Salt-common ) one hour long, 
 |nd it (hall come whke as at firft : and thus is 
 |our Luna prepared to receive your red Elixir. 
 
 Chap.VIII: 
 
 Ifeacheth thee the difference between the Elixir 
 and the great Stone of the Philofophers. 
 
 \A Y beloved Son , Our Elixir white and red 
 IVJL be called Stones and no Stones ; for in 
 manner to ipeak , there is no Stone fo full made, 
 as is our great Stone of the Philofophers , that 
 is called (Major : for the great Stone is full made, 
 and a perfe£t work ferving to all unperfeft Me- 
 tals : for to tranfmute them into true fine Sol 
 and Luna after the preparation hereof ; for if 
 he be prepared into Lma , (o fhail he ever fet 
 them into Luna : for every one of them doth 
 engender his like : the which great Stone I will 
 learn thee how thou fhalt make it, in his place 
 hereafter, if it pleafe the Almighty God. The 
 great Stone that doth ferve for the red work, or 
 to Sol) is called, Lapis Philofopborum major ; and 
 to the white, it is called Lunary ; but the Elixirs 
 « .be called , Stones and no Stones ^ but we call them, 
 Elixirs de Sale y that is, Elixirs of Salt , becaufe 
 they Jbe compounded of Salt , to fay , of great 
 Bay-Sea-Salt , that is clarified by dhTolving and 
 congealing, as is before learned ; and alfo with 
 ♦another Salt that is called Saltpeter > the which 
 
 doth 
 
U2 Thilojophical 
 
 doth conjoyn himfelf to the Salt that is in th<} 
 depth of the Body of S<?/, when the Tindure i: 
 given hicn by the Cement. And if the peopk 
 in times part, had well underload the meaning 
 of this Salt , they had come to the end of theii 
 work : but for lack of undemanding, they have 
 changed the words of the Phiiofophers , that 
 fay , Our Stone is Stone and no Stone > for they 
 have meant the Elixirs, the which the unlearne d 
 have noc underlfood ; and they have named ic 
 their fait, that is our Salt of Nature that we have 
 ipoken of before : our Salt of Wifdom, that is, 
 when ic is prepared : our Menftruum ; for with 
 the fame our Medicine is nouriftied, as the Child 
 is in the Mothers womoe. They call it alfo , A 
 King, and that noble Salt, and that living Water,! 
 or Oyl of Grace, and the molt precious Water of 
 the moli iecrets , and the molt coming , the 
 which ditfolveth Mercury ; the fame is the Mer- 
 caryo? the Phiiofophers : and he diffolvech all 
 Bodies of Metals , and it is a Medicine, and the 
 fitft beginning of the Stone ; and it is living Wa- 
 ter and living Sulphur; he h the Lord and Matter 
 of all Salts , and without him the other have no 
 full power to make perfect any thing ; he doth 
 bindc andunbinde ; he doth joyn the Man with 
 the Wife ; he doth change one kirrde with ano- 
 ther, and mikes of Bodies, Spirits; and of Spi- 
 rits, Bodies : and this maft all be compounded, 
 andanke pcrfe& the Phiiofophers Gone. 
 
 \ 
 
 
 Char;- 
 
Experiments. iz$ 
 
 Chap. IX. 
 
 Teach eth) That our Sol and Luna is living, 
 and the Sol andLuna of the Mines 
 he dead. 
 
 Y Son,you (lull understand , That our Sol 
 and Luna be living , and thefe that are of 
 he Mines are dead ; and therefore the Sol of 
 he Earth is not fo good as our S<?/that is made 
 >y this Science ; for our So/ hath in him three 
 hings , (to fay) a Soul ', a Body, and a Spirit : 
 vithouc the which three things, there can no 
 Tranfmutation be made , the which one alone 
 annot do ; therefore they mull be all three to- 
 gether^ any good fhould be done. And under- 
 fond , That no man can do any Tranfmutation 
 with the corruption of the perfect Bodies, that 
 is Sol and Luna : for we take the Spirit of the 
 perfeft Bodies , through our Sperm , or our 
 ftrong Water, and this fame Spirits is holden 
 in cur Water, that is,our diflblved Salt, which is 
 our menftruum: for where the Mother hath re- 
 ceived the Seed, that is, the Sperm of the unper- 
 fe& Bodies with her menftruum into her Body ; 
 fo fhali it receive no life before the Soul come 
 into its fo do we as Nature doth ask,we conjoyn 
 this together, till he come to cleer Water with- 
 out Peces, and then we draw out the fimple 
 Phlegmate in Balneo or Afhes • and after, that we 
 put in the S$ul , or neurtth it with Sol or l**** 
 
124 Thilojophteal 
 
 According to the making of your Medicine, thet , 
 be they ready to ingender her like j andther^ 
 we do put them in putrefa&ion the time afore^ 
 written : then is the Spirit and the Soul per- ® 
 fe&ly made , and the copulation is done ; anc ^ 
 then, when that we (hall do proje&ion upon any fC 
 unperfe&Body or Metal fo called , then thi^ 
 Spirit or Medicine doth take to him a Body :^ 
 and then it is called a Spirit, a Soul, and a Body* & 
 which is then living. 
 
 And this Inftru&ion (my beloved Son ) lit 
 give to thee , that thou maift know , that our 
 Sol and Lma is living , and thofe in the Earth or 
 Mines be dead : and alfo, that thou maift know, 
 that our Elixir white or red , are not other then 
 fpiritual,or a Spiritithe which, when it is cz(\ up- 
 on a dead body with the Soul, it is made living. ; 
 that fame then is multiplied and augmented in 
 goodnefs and perfections ; and in him is fulfil- 
 led that through accident , which in the Earth ic 
 did lack ; (to fay) that fcknefs which is got in 
 the earth , is taken away through our Medicine 
 or Elixir red or white : the which we do in this 
 manner; We take, in the Name of God , our 
 Earth or Metal, that is, an unperfeft Body, and 
 melt it with a perfect Body or Corpw y the which 
 is our Leaven, with the which we do prepare 
 our pafte or dough ; and then we caft upon it 
 our Elixir , the which is our Spirit ; thewhich 
 then doth make it perfe& , and a living Body 
 or Metal: but the great Stone of the Philofo- 
 phers , the which I will learn thee hereafter to 
 compound it, and perfectly to make ic; the 
 
 which 
 
Experiments. 125 
 
 ;bich is of fo great ftrength and power, that be 
 e a dead Body or Metal , doth not onely make 
 iving and perfe& , but alfo maketh of the fame 
 vletal Medicine, totranfmute any other onper- 
 e& Metal into a perfect ; and it doth the fame 
 n the twinckling of an eye : fo that he may be 
 railed, and is , The Riches of the whole World, 
 ierewithall do we conclude the firft Part of 
 his Bock, to fay,The Compofition of the Elixirs 
 yhite and red. 
 
 The 
 
n6 
 
 -*■*. 
 
 The true 
 
 COMPOSITION 
 
 OF 
 
 The Great Stone 
 
 OF THE 
 
 PHILOSOPHERS. 
 
 Part II. 
 
 Chap. I. 
 
 MY beloved Son , I here before opened 
 unto thee the Truth , without leaving 
 any thing needful to be known of the 
 Cotnpofnion of the Elixirs, the which is the 
 beginning and entrance into the Great Stone 
 of the Philofophcrs ; and this Stone doth con- 
 vert all Metals unperfeft, into perfeft Metals of 
 Sol % of twenty four Caracks fine ; the Metal be- 
 ing melted that you will transform: andthea 
 
 caft 
 
 al 
 
Experiments. nj 
 
 jftupon him his Leaven, that i? 5 Gold , when 
 lac your Stone is made in the red work , and 
 liat Gold muft be cemented as aforefaid in the 
 Iher Book, and augmented in colour ; that is^ 
 I you will melt a hundred ounces of unperfect 
 letal , then caft upon it Ferment or Leaven, 
 inich is Gold ; liir it well together , and put 
 s> more but one ounce cf Gold to the Mafs of 
 fetal ; and then being well molten , and incor- 
 porated together, caft no more but the quantity 
 j a Peafe or Fitch of the red Stone upon it : fo 
 Hill you fee, that this Stone (hall turn this 
 |afs of Metal , or hundred ounces , into the 
 heft Gold that may be in the World, of twenty 
 hur cara&s fine, and (ball pafs all the proofs that 
 ;en can do upon it, for better then that thac 
 toth come out of the Mines. And you frail 
 pderftand that our Elixirs that we have before 
 r tentioned , are not come to their full perfe&i- 
 n , but it is the beginning of the white and 
 bd Gone of the Philofophers : but if you will 
 'lake it perfect , as hereafter I fhall learn you, 
 ! le white (hall transform all Metals into Silver, 
 [ke as of the red is declared; that is to fay, 
 ■hen you have melten the Metal that you will 
 transform , then you muft caft into it one ounce 
 f fine CfipelLnfta , that you have made deaf of 
 Mind, and heavy of weight , as it is before de- 
 clared in the other Book ; and when you have 
 [fell mingled them together with a ftick,then caft 
 ji to th© greatnefs of a Peafe of your white 
 tone, and you (hail finde it transformed into 
 try fine Lhm* , better then any t hat ccrres out 
 \ of 
 
l8 Tbilofophical 
 
 of the Earth : and if in cafe you did caft onef) 
 ounce of your white Scone or of your red upon 31 
 a hundred ounces of unperfeft Merals ; fo fhalF 
 that be transformed Into the Elixir orMedi-[? 
 cine, wherewith you tmy transform all unper-"j 
 fe& Metals into perfect Luna or Sol, after the" 
 beginning of your work : for your white dotb s 
 engender nothing but Lm<* , and your red no- * 
 thing but Sol, and his proje&ion one upon a '! 
 thoufand : that is to fay, if you will melt a thou- jf 
 fand ounces of unperfe6t Metals, you need pur 
 to it no more then one ounce of this fame laft^ 
 Medicine, and it (hall fet it over into perfe&K 
 LunAQtSoly better then any that comes outolt ;f 
 the Earth, to pafs all proofs and examinations *> 
 that may be done upon it. And herein now fol-i 
 lowing,I will learn thee the compofition of bott w 
 thefe Stones to the red and white : and I will® 
 firft be°in with the red,and then with the white^ 
 which is called Lunaris. 
 
 Chap. II. 
 
 Tin Elixir of li 
 
 THou (halt take (my beloved Son) the red E- 
 lixir here before written , and fet it in pu- 
 trefaction the time of forty dayes ; fo that yom jj 
 fire be alwayes of one heat, and not hotter one! 
 time then another, night and day : and the fa 
 mx&bcdoaciu BslntoAfdrU: this lime being i 
 
 ended,! 
 
Experiments. u<? 
 
 Inded , you (hall findc your Elixir to be dif- 
 blf cd into clcer Water , li that you have kept 
 the fire all the time of one heat : and your Elixir 
 I >eing diffblved into cleer Water, then fhall you 
 - liffolve therein Mercury that is i'ublimed * as I 
 trill learn thee hereafter ; and diflblve therein 
 \ s much of the fnblimed Mercury , as the Elixir 
 Lioth weigh: and fee well hereto, that the Spirits 
 Jy not out as neer as you can : then (hake it ibfe- 
 |y between your hands, without opening the 
 piafs ; and take heed that your Glafs break not 
 through the force of the Spirits; and lute the 
 Mouth of the Glafs fad wich Lutement that is 
 ilrong , that it may endure the warmth of Bal- 
 neum , without opening : the which I will learn 
 iihee hereafter in a Chapter apart ; and when the 
 Mitemcnt is very dry,then fet the Glafs in Balneo y 
 o putrefie the time of forty dayes, as aferefaid, 
 ioldingthe fire of one heat continually the time 
 )f forty dayes and nights as aforefaid. The 
 orty dayes being ended, look if all be diffblved; 
 f it benot,let it ftand longer till it be diffolved; 
 md being all duTolved,let the Balneum cool: and 
 n any cafe, fee you take it not out hot, left your 
 Slafs break : then take it out,and dry your Glafs, 
 tnd fet it upon Afhes to congeal , and make your 
 i&fhes no hotter then you can fuffer your finger 10 
 i:hruft it down to the bottom ; anoMet it fo ftand 
 :hetimeof twelve dayes , without taking any 
 :hing out of it ; but let it remain alwayes in that 
 Glafs wherein it was putrefied : and fee well to 
 it, that the Lutement be not broken in any 
 place • if it be,lutc k well again, that the Spirits 
 
 K % 
 
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 130 Thilofophical 
 
 flie not out : and the twelve hours being ended, 
 it ought to be congealed , if your fire be well 
 governed ; if it be not, let it (iand longer, till it 
 be congealed : and when ic is congealed, then is 
 the Stone fully made,and perfectly ended ,andit 
 is the riches of the whole world. God grant that 
 you may obtain it, and give unto Almighty God 
 a good reckningof the health of thy Soul, &c. 
 
 My Son, thou (halt underftand that Mercury is 
 called a Fountain , and the firft matter of all £ 
 Metals i as in Truth it is, and therefore cannot | |t ; 
 be done any great Tranfmutation, without Mer- 
 cury be joyned therewith : there may be made 
 fmall Augmentations and Tranfmutations,like as 
 we have fpoken before in our Elixir ; but they 
 cannot do any high proje&ion , for they do but 
 one upon feven:but when Mercury is put thereto 9 
 and fo perfe&ly made,it doth projeSion in wfini- 
 tuwy as here before is written : whereby ikdoth 
 appear, that the Mercury is, as aforefaid, the be- 
 ginning & eff-fpring of all Metals. And therefore, 
 my Son,we take the Elixir,and mingle therewith 
 our purified Mercury , and conjoyn thefe toge 
 ther with our purified Salt, which is our Sperm 
 fo be they fo faft bound together , that now, nor 
 never, can they be parted afunder , for they do 
 clafpe and ihclofe together , fo friendly as doth 
 the Body andthe Soul, if fo be ye do it as we 
 have written it. And when thefe three, to fay, 
 Sol) that is', Ferment , with the Salt and the 
 Ublercury , ^e joyned together , then do they 
 make perfeft all things they be caft upon , not ^ 
 onely it doth take away the ficknefcof the Mb- . 
 
 cai 
 
 ic 
 
 
 
 B 
 
 6 
 
 » to 
 
 or 
 
Experiments. i^£ 
 
 tal , and doth heal it ; but it heals all Incon- 
 leniencies of mens Bodies ; as one grain of 
 this Stone, being drunk with Wine, being. 
 made hot , and chen the party to go to a warntV 
 bed , and to fweat. , which (hall be incontinent, 
 like as though he did lie in Water, and in three 
 dayes he (hall be made whole of what ficknefs 
 foever he have. Therefore, he may think hini- 
 felf happy in this world, that hath gotten him 
 :his Treafure, and well can keep it fecret , and 
 afe ic godly to the help of the poor ; for they 
 5e not all Matters, that do advance themfeives in 
 this Science to do many things : fcr many are cal» 
 W, bntfew are chosen. 
 
 There be many that bufie themfeives in this 
 Science , but very few- that do bring it to a right 
 :nd : for it may be that it is not God's will : but 
 :hou , my Son , have thou no donbt, fo long as 
 :hou follower! theie Precepts that I have left 
 :"hee written in this Treatife , and continue thy 
 elf alwayes in labour and exercife , and thon 
 halt foon come to a perfe& end of it, if it pleafc 
 MmightyGod : for I have written thee in this 
 Science , the right Treatife and Truth, as I have 
 wrought it with my own hands , and brought it 
 o a perfect end , as many people do know it in 
 :his City of Paris, although I have alwayes kept 
 t from thee till now : that have I done for cer- 
 ain caufes that I will not open. Therefore 
 :omfort thy felf, and be patient , and think not 
 :hy labour long ; for by diligent labour thou 
 &alt come to the end fooner : with ftudying and 
 fading there can come Bone of the knowledge 
 
 K2 of 
 
iyi Thilofopbical 
 
 of this Science 5 but onely by labour : the ftudy 
 doth give a mm how to work, and how he (hall 
 follow Nature in his working: for the end and 
 profit of this Science , is the handy-work : for a 
 Cobler cannot fet a piece on his fliooe with I 
 reading, but he muft put his hands to it , and - 
 labour to bring it to a pcrfefl end. 
 
 Cm ap, III. 
 
 Teacheth, tofublime Mercury tc the 
 red Elixir. 
 
 MY beloved Son , take one pound of Mcr- r * 
 furj/ , one pond of Roman Vitriol, and : ? 
 break the Vitriol to powder ; and then take one r 
 pound of common Salt that is two times dif«^ : 
 folved and dirtillcd by Filter,and vapoured and - 
 calcined as aforefaid is learned ; and then break , ; 
 them to powder in a ftone-Mortcr : occupy nc i; 
 Iron or Metal in this work ; for if you fhall , ilpl 
 will mar it : and when that your iMercmrjW 
 mingled with the other water , with continua n 
 ftirring, that you fee the Mercury no more , bu' ,l: 
 that he is wholly loft in the other fubftance, the# ( 
 fhall you make moift with red- wine-vinegar, bu'P 
 not too much $ and dry it then by the fire [A 
 or by the San ; then nut the fame in 
 Glafs to fublime, that is well luted beneath, a: 
 fetitonwartnafhes, and fo long let your Gi 
 remain open : and when you fee the mouth 
 your Glafs to look white in the fablimation , © 
 
 tha 
 
Experiments. 133 
 
 :hat yotjr CMercurj begin to flie up, then take a 
 Mncn cloath filled with Gotten- wool, and 
 herewith you (hall flop the hole above,as furely 
 is you can ; but youiGlafs muft be fomewhac 
 high , that the clou: with the Cotten that is in 
 [he mouth of che Glafs do not burn, for then 
 Lyou (hall confume your (topple : and then the 
 [.•31afs is well (topped : fo augment your fire a lit* 
 tie two hours long : and then four hours greater; 
 , md at the laft fo great as your Glafs will 
 joear without melting j and fo hold your fire in 
 khat degree four hours long: then let it cool; 
 kind when your Oven and Glafs is cooled, then 
 \ ;ake it out , and break it open , and you (hall 
 finde your ^Mercury above in the Helm as 
 [white as Snow ; and fome part (hall lie below 
 hpon the Feces, very fair and white: then 
 Lake it up as clean as you can , both that which 
 I is flown up , and that that lies in the bottom on 
 |ihe Feces. 
 
 Now to know whether that you have done 
 right or no , take the iMercftry fo fublimed, 
 ind weigh it, and fee what is diminifliedof the 
 irft weight: for if it be truelydone, it will 
 ^ack but one ounce in the pound weight . if ic 
 l^ant more, it is not well done : for you i have 
 made your fire at the firft too great, or at the laft 
 100 fmall. 
 
 And if at the firft your fire were too ftrong, 
 then is there of your iMercmj flown awaj 
 with die moifturt, fothat the weight comes 
 tort : and if at the later end your fire were too 
 great , is way be that your Glafs is ^ JJcta 
 
134- Thlojefhtcal 
 
 crackt with the force of the fire, and then is youf 
 fublimation loft : and if at the laft your fire 
 were too fmall , then is there of your cfl&r- 
 cttrj on the Feces , and thereby is your weight 
 diminifhed. 
 
 Thus fhall you underftand,that I have found it, 
 that there is but one ounce lacking in a pound 
 weighty being rightly fublimed. 
 
 Then take frefh powder of Vitriol, &c. and 
 mingle your'fnblimated ^Mercury herewith, as 
 you have done before , and fublime it again : 
 and thi? muft you do feven times in all points, as 
 before, or at the firft ; and in every fublimation 
 after the firft, it fhall diminifh one quartet of an 
 ounce, if you have done it right as aforefaid, and 
 no more : and when it 'is iublimed in thi> man- 
 ner as aforefaid , then it is ready to put into j^ 
 the red Elixir, to make the Philofophers (tone 
 therewith. 
 
 Chap. IV. 
 
 Teachetb thee to fublime Mercury to the 
 white Elixir.. 
 
 MY beloved Son, you fhall underftand, that 
 the Sublimation of ^Mercury , ferfring 
 co the white Stone , is done as the other before 
 in the third Chapter : for the red Stone, there t$ 
 too other difference, but that you muft pot in the 
 place of Vitriol, Roch-Allom, Saltpeter, and 
 prepared Salt, as aforefaid and written 5 and do 
 
 in 
 
Experiments. 135 
 
 in all points as in the third Chapter, unto feven 
 times : and then is your Mercury ready and per- 
 fect to put to your Elixir, to make the white 
 .Stone of the Philofophers. 
 
 Chap. V. 
 
 Teach eth thee to prepare tie white Sio-^e 
 upn all bodies'. 
 
 MY beloved Son , you (hall take , in the 
 Name of God , your white Elixir , and 
 fet ic in Balneo to putrefie, the fpace of fourteen 
 dayes and nights • and in that fpace, your Elixir 
 (hall be diffolyed into cleer Water , if that you 
 have governed your fire all the while in like 
 -warmth , or elie it muft ftand longer until it be 
 diffolved without Feces : then put of your fub- 
 limated Mercwy thereto, fo much as your Elixir 
 doth weigh. _^_* «^ 
 
 Then take it , and fhaSe it proper ly Be tw eeh 
 your hands y tKaTy^SrGlafs bfeaks not? by the 
 force of the Spirit 5 and look well to your Glafs 
 before you do (hake it, that it be well luted or 
 flopped, that the Spirits by no means fly out % fat 
 if they do, it wiirmaTyoTiTwork. 
 
 This done, you (ball fet it well luted with the 
 Lutement I have fpoken of in the red Elixir, and 
 fet it to putrefie in Balneo forty days, as you;have 
 done in the third Elixir or Stone , and inttut 
 time>wili be diffoked , if that your fire be all 
 that time well governed ; for it luth much m 
 
 K 4 the 
 
\7fi Thilofopbical 
 
 the government of the fire : and when it is well ihr 
 diffolved, fet it to congeal as you had in the red $ 
 Stone,& it (hall be congealed in twelve days into ft 
 the white Stone of the Philofophers : the which for 
 will tranfmute all imperfe& bodies into perfect p 
 Lwuty to pafs all proofs and examinations, and it P 
 ftiall be better and more finer Luna, then any B 
 that comes out of the Mines, 
 
 Chap. VI. 
 
 Qdcbetb thee to make the Lute ment fetyja^ to 
 theft ivorks. 
 
 NO w to make the Lutement, fo often fpokeh 
 of before , that (hall not untemper in the 
 moifture and warmth of Water, and alibianothcr 
 Lutement that iTiall keep your Glaffes from 
 breaking in the fire ; for it muft hold againft tffe 
 heat of the fire 5 and in thefirft place you ftiall 
 take the white of Eggsf o much as you (hall need, ^ 
 and beaithem till they be all thin as wat er; then 
 let ic through a ipunge with yourhand,till that it 
 be deer as Fountain- water : of this fame take as 
 much as (hall be needful to temper the powders j^ 
 hereafter ; take the Flower crthe Mea l that hang- J 
 ech or fiicketh about the walls of the Mill or fc 
 Backhoufe , commonly called in places beyond h 
 the Seas, Stuff-Meal, eleven ounc es^ Boj-Armo- [\, 
 niack one g »i^rt e r nf fl"qpra;e* S tntm^aMu h 
 an_half quarter of an ounce, white hard Cheefe t \ 
 
 me. parings bcin^ done orr l , one'ounce :"V>feat all 
 ■thefe into powder, and fcarfe them finely 
 
 through 
 
experiments. 137 
 
 Through a Sieve of Hair, & temper them with the 
 i hites of Eggs,and there withal lute your Glaffes 
 vith Linen-clouts clipped in this Luternent , in 
 •brm of a plaifter,& fo bound about the helm and 
 r nouth of your Glaffes,8c let it dry by it (t\f. This 
 luternent doth fcrve to lute the Helms upon the 
 liftil ling-Pots • and alfo to lute the Glaffes that 
 t ou do putrefie in,anddiffolve;& alfo to congeal. 
 And now to the other Luternent fpoken of 
 jefore , that doth ferve to lute your Glaffes, to 
 defend them from great heat of fire , that they 
 hall noc break nor melt • for then were your 
 ?nrork loft : you (hall take to this Luternent pood 
 IfatPo^earth , whereof the Potter doth make 
 his Pots , and mix with it a little Sanguispra- 
 fr# »*S Bol'j4rmowa ckj> as much as the half of the 
 (feafrh ot trie softer doth come unto ; a nd un- 
 t ucked ^ime as much as half the Potters Earth ; 
 p ake all tfaefe into fine powder apart by them- 
 rCelves, an<l then temper them all together with 
 twhite sof Eggs sve ll beaten; 8c the Mood of Qjccn 
 [alike much , ©rlfybu cannot get Ox-blood, you 
 fci lv take Sheeps-blood; then take Linen-clouts, 
 and icrape off the]Lint r till you have as much is 
 h he7W-^| pfli/*gl > doth weigh, and then mingle 
 f them , and temper them all together , and beat 
 rthem with a piece of board, till that it be as fofc 
 h$ fine Pafte or dough • and with this Luternent^ 
 you (hall lute your fublimations under that 
 | part that ftandeth in the fire • and alfo your 
 Glaffes wherein you diftil your ftrong Waters; 
 for it will defend them from melting and break- 
 ing ; and ufe k to all things that you do occupy 
 
 in 
 
i$5 ThiloJopbiCAl 
 
 in great fire : for you cannot have a better ther ? 
 this , to defend youGiaffes again!* the force o\° 
 the fire. Now I have written you enough oM s 
 the Lutements : and in this Chapter I will write av 
 in brief a part of Philofophy zs well moral as off 
 mini. & 
 
 UK 
 
 Chap. VII. P 
 
 hi 
 Teacheth thee under jl and Pbilofophy y as well i % 
 
 moral as natural. en 
 
 \A Y Son , I have given thee to understand it of 
 this Book; and declared all the Philofo* nt 
 phy, as well to the red as to the whiceyfo Fighjdl] 
 and fim-ple as poffibly I may : for if I could hav$ ihi 
 lefc to thee any briefer,I would-not-:- forifahac 1m 
 fhould , thou couldrt never have underftood it 
 and therefore I have thought it good"Rflfhew*i|fc 
 thee in plain Words ancMleafons, tdideCfaHCthc 
 fame, tp make thee perfectly to underhand ten: 
 make this work, that thou flhouldft impute nc% 
 fault to me, if that thou (houldft not come to the 
 right knowledge of this Science ; but the fauli |u 
 fhojjld be in thy felf , and in nb~man elTe : for I 
 have written it in right 'arid plain Words and 
 Reafons : but take heed that thou be not as many 
 men be, that do think themfelves Matters 
 of all Sciences., when that they never faw th« 
 Door wherein the Science was learned : but I 
 would have thee ufe thy felf to reading and ftu- 
 dying of this.Book,tnd print all thefeReafqns in 
 fhy heart , and then thou rmift go co work wWl 
 
 jii 
 
experiments. 139 
 
 • good and glad courage, and God will blefs thy 
 
 I f :oceeding v if thou wilt ferve him and pray to 
 
 I ,im , as it is thy duty to do ; and alfo thou mutt 
 
 I ive a diligent care to keep God 's Command* 
 
 A ients : for as I have often faid , with bodily 
 
 fains taking, and diligent labour, both of thy 
 
 |ody and minde, thou (halt bring this Stone to 
 
 perfect end : for the Philofophers have hidden 
 
 nis Science, and have written it very darkly, and 
 
 ave coloured it over with many parables & dark 
 
 sntences , that it is almoit impoffibleto come 
 
 o the undemanding of them, without great 
 
 nftrucYions of others , Matters of this Science, 
 
 )r die through the great gift of God. Therefore 
 
 have written this Book, that thou maift learn 
 
 :he Words and Reafons that I do leave after 
 
 Tie , to the end , that thou (halt not fall into 
 
 my error , but to come to the right end of this 
 
 Science. 
 
 My Son, thou fhalc underftand, that there be 
 many Books (written by thePhilofophers) re- 
 gaining after their deaths ; of the which they 
 aave wr itten the Truth, but in a very dark fenfe » 
 he re in one word, there in anot her Tthe which 
 have brought divers men unto great errors, 
 thinking they did underhand the meaning very 
 well,when they were furtbeft from it.Therefore, 
 my beloved Son , through the great love I have 
 to .thee, I have thought it good co open this Sci- 
 ence unto thee, that thou mayft take heed of the 
 dark fayings of the Philofophers, & that thou do 
 exercifitttiy felf » this Book : for if thou do-ob- 
 ftty&lfcfepy precepts , yon (hall not come to. 
 
 «ny 
 
u|.o Philojophical 
 
 any error. But I defire thee upon the falvation 
 of thy Soul , that thou do not forget the poor ; 
 and in lay cafe to look well to thy felf, chac 
 thou do not difclofe the fecrets of this Science 
 to any covetous worldly man • for if thou do, 
 it will turn to thy hurt : for I have declared to 
 thee , as I trufl to be faved , upon my Salvation, 
 the thing that my eyes have feen , and my hands 
 have wrought, and my fingers have pulled forth : 
 and I have written this Book with my own L\ 
 hand, and fee to my name , as I did lie on my i c 
 death in the yeer 1431. May 7th. 
 
 fohannes Strangunere. 
 
 To draw the Spirits out of the fonder ov* 
 Body or Earth by Distillation. 
 
 V£ Ake a great many plates of new Lead of the 
 quantity of Groats, as thin as a peny- 
 and hang them on a thred, or fmali Wy re , and 
 fill a Body of Glafs full of tnem , and faftea the 
 Thred above the mouth of the Veffel : fet there- 
 on a Head, and lute it fad and furcly , and nut 
 thereto a Reccptory, and put it in a Furnace with 
 as cafie a heat, that you may alwayes foffcr your 
 hand under the bottom thereof, and water foall 
 diftil every day from it , fair andclecr as Rofc» 
 wacerundat the laft,thc ftidPltws will wax foft, 
 
 as I, 
 
Experiments. 14.1 
 
 they were mire , and fall down to the bot- 
 
 : and then take the Glafs, fet it in Bafae* or 
 
 imoEqHtno) until the mire be dffolved into 
 
 lack Pitch-Liquor : then put it into your Philo- 
 
 jphers Veffel , and mix it , and continue it in 
 
 afiefire, that it may by Circulation become a 
 
 rry earth as black as a Raven, which afterwards 
 
 hall wax as white z$ Snow ; the which is the 
 
 Vhite Elixir; the which you QaalJ take from the 
 
 : eces that lie there-under : for as Pbilofophers 
 
 . ay , Totum quod [tibtile eft afcendit furfur* in vafe 9 
 
 \H9<L ffifftttn nMntt in f undo. 
 
 Then put the white inaFixatory luted up, 
 md continue it with more Fire or heat , till it 
 3e firft gray , and after that citrine as a yellow 
 Flower ; and finally, purple-red , the which is 
 the great Elixir that fixeth all Amalgems into 
 Medicine, which altereth all Bodies bto Sol and 
 Luna* 
 
 In the Name of God 5 Amen. Upon 
 Saturn^ PbHofopberof Holland. 
 
 UNderftand , That out of Lead comes the 
 Scone called Lapis 'Pbilolcphorum : and 
 therefore , when he is throughly made, he doth 
 proje&ion as well in a mans body as without, 
 of all difeafes that come to man , as upon Me- 
 tals ; and in many vegetable Books , is no 
 greater fecrct then this is « for we fade not in 
 * Gold 
 
Dd 
 
 14.Z Thilofophical 
 
 Gold a like perfection as we finde in Lead : for f 
 Lead is in his inner part Sol ; and therefore do f 
 all Philoibphers agree: for he lacketh nothing ] 
 die, but that his fuperfluity be taken away from lf 
 him, and thai isfcisuncleanneis: therefore make fj 
 him clean, and turn his inward part out, and that 
 is his crudenefs • and then is he Sol: for vulgar Sol 
 cannot be fo lightly as Lead; for Lead will quick- 
 ly be diflolved and congealed, and he fuffers his le< 
 Mercury quickly to be drawn from him • & that 
 Mercury which is drawn from him , if it be well 
 clariSed and iublimed , as the ufe is to fublirne : a 
 Mercury;! tell you, That that Mercury is as good m 
 as thzMercury drawn from the Sun in all manner :c 
 of works, and it is better in our work then the ™ 
 Mercury of Sol. Alfo, if you fhould take Mer- 
 cury out of Sol, you (hould be contained to o- 
 pen the body of Sol for the fpace of. one whole 
 yeer , before the faid Mercury of a body could 
 be drawn or come out of Le;d : you may draw 
 out this Mercury in fourteen dayes , and it is ay 
 good as the other : and if you (hould come to 
 make a work of Sol, alwayes yoa mufthetwo 
 yeers about it , to do it well ; but of Lead 
 you may perfect it in thirty or two and thirty 
 weeks at the moft, and then be fully ended : the 
 one is as good as the other, and Lead colts little 
 or nothing, and is a fhorter work , and is lefs la- 
 bor,and of one goodnefs,and is truth *. therefore 
 print this in thy heart, and ferve God. The fame 
 Lead is called of the Philofophers Sol , whereof 
 they had the name until this day, and have kept 
 h fecrec : for if the thing w«reknow&, many 
 
 would 
 
 pi 
 
 :: 
 
Experiments. 14.3 
 
 ould work it , and the thing would be com- 
 iion : for the work is friort, and eafie, and little 
 T value; and therefore was it kept lecret,thac 
 le name might be known, left it might have 
 i)me to the hands of wkked men, and ib much 
 urm might have come thereby, and this holy 
 pence which God hath given to thofe that love 
 tad fervehim, (hould to wicked perfons be a 
 ueans of greater wickednefs. As concerning the 
 lead of So/ and £#/7d,they havefet three GlafTes, 
 Ind all is Lcad,but there is no need to joyne any 
 ) range thing, but that onely which cometh from 
 tin ; neither is there any man fo poor, but that 
 |'c may be able to compafs this work : for you 
 •lake of the Salt of Lead with little labour Lma y 
 :nd with a little longer time Sol 9 and then they 
 hay proceed to make the PhilofophersLead.And 
 jbis is altogether concluded in Lead, as much as 
 [i neceffary for us ; for in him is the perfect Mer- 
 \ury^ and in him are all the colours in the world, 
 eVhich (hall (lie w it felf openly ; for in him is the 
 ijrue blacknefs , whitenefs and rednefs : he is 
 tx>tiderous , and in him is the perfect red and 
 fivhite bodies : look and take example,of all im- 
 perfect things tfce eye of man cannot abide or 
 Bear, how little foever , though fmaller then a 
 bote, yet it will trouble a mans eye terribly : 
 put if you cake Lead clean fcraped , and made 
 I he bignefs of a Bean, and put it in your eye , ic 
 i vill neither pain you,or harm you at all, and that 
 jis,becatifeitsuttcrmoft is not perfect like Sol oz 
 'other pretious Stones, that come out of ?aradife y 
 running in the flream : and in like manner S<?/, 
 I that 
 
i/j.^- Thilojophical 
 
 that io him is , you may well perceive by the fi. 
 militude and many other more, That Lead is out 
 Philofophers Mercury^owz Laton : for out of it is 
 drawn ia (hort time, our Mercury and our Philo* 
 fophers Mercur^thu is,our golden^tfr^nr^with 
 little labor,little cunning,and little charge. And 
 therefore I charge you, and all of you,that know 
 his name , to keep his name fecret : for if men 
 knew it, much milchief and trouble would be 
 done. And therefore you (hall know our Lead 
 by its hidden name, and vou (hall know that the 
 water wherein our Lead (hall be wa(hed vinegar. 
 This is the Philofophers Stone whereof all the 
 Philofophers have written many dark Books, but 
 there are divers and many works in the Mineral 
 Lead* 
 
 An 
 
4 
 
 Experiments. 14.$ 
 
 AnAbftraffc out of 
 
 Dodtor Homodlm M S* 
 
 l De Elixir folk Medicina unwerfali. 
 
 Of the Tincture of Gold> fe- 
 
 parated from its body, and turn- 
 ed to a Celeftial and Spiritual 
 Nature , called a Quinteffencc 
 within the Anrnnt Fotabile. 
 
 Chap. I. 
 
 Of the Matter of the Kniverfd Medicine. 
 
 Since God bath created alt things for mans 
 ufe,and chat in all vegctable,animal and mi- 
 neral creatures, there is fome vertue cc be 
 aelpful to humane difeafes;I thought there might 
 dc fomething among thefe of incorruptible Na- 
 ture, which byic felf might cure all Difeafes, 
 *nd prolong the life of man to a long age, keep- 
 
 L ing 
 
\J±6 Thilofopbical 
 
 log his humours in a mod equal temperament 
 and by confequence , this thing muft be of ic )iii 
 felf moft equally tempered of the four Ele- 
 ments. 
 Now feeking this thing in the Vegetables of A- 
 nimals,I found it not,becauie that in all of them, 
 there is fome one humonr predominant over 
 the reft a&ively or paffively : Therefore I turned 
 to Minerals or Metal ; but I found the Calx and 
 C*lcanth , and other things , being reduced to 
 Aflhes, could not be brought back again to their 
 former bodies : And fo I conclude , There 
 was no perfeft natural compofuion in them. 
 And finding the perfect Metals thus reducible 
 again to their own bodies , I perceived that in 
 them was fome firmer compofuion then in other 
 things : yet are in all alike ; for all the reft 
 of the Metals, except Gold, by a ftrong Combu- 
 ftion , will be converted into drofs and fmoke ; 
 but Gold is no whit the worfe after all Trials : 
 then I concluded, That it was among all the reft 
 incorruptible ; and by confequence, of a moft 
 equal temperament and compofuion of Ele- 
 ments. 
 
 And when I underftood by <Jtf*rfillU joyning 
 with Metals, could generate, I concluded, That 
 In Gold there was a generative and regene- 
 rative venue : but becaufe I found the matter^, 
 of Metals to be very grofs and earthy, and that 
 thereby this vertue was oppreffed and kept , in- 
 fomuch that it could not work , until it was de- id 
 reel from the hands of its bodily Impri- ± 
 r, T judged, That is was needful to open,^, 
 
 mine, 
 
Experiments. 14.7 
 
 :rifie, and diflblvc the body, that the vertue 
 ight a&uate. Whence I concluded at laft thus : 
 hacGold was the remote matter whereof the 
 aiverfal Medicine was to be made up , and 
 lat the Spirit of Gold and Lune , which is alfo 
 died Lune Quinteffence,is the matter whereof 
 is made up* 
 
 Chap, II. 
 
 1 H ovo to make the Mcnftruum^ andhowto 
 circulate it; 
 
 ^Ince I have declared heretofore the matter 
 
 J of the Univerfal Medicine, confequentlyl 
 
 \> ill open the way how to make the vegetable 
 
 MenttrMm, and how to circulate ir, that it 
 
 '.ay be reduced into Quinteffence : by that 
 
 leans of this iMenUrnum, the true preparation 
 
 I made,that is alfo a Phyfical preparation^© wit, 
 
 tabution , Putrefa&ion, Overflowing , Exube- 
 
 ition. Multiplication and Rectification ; and 
 
 ; iat with the Confervative of the former Vege- 
 
 ible, and with the Multiplication of the 
 
 >rce: for this is the CMenHruum or Vegetable 
 
 fater, which %aymm<iM fpeaketh of in this 
 
 odicil. 
 
 Therefore Silver and Gold are diffolved in 
 ■idic'al things of their own kinde, and 10 
 icj compound of the Soul of the Arc : fo* 
 'tis i§ the matter by which all incurable Dif- 
 Iffj Li eafcs 
 
4-8 Tkilofophical 
 
 cases arc cured under the confervation of their 
 own Nature. 
 
 Therefore this is the way to prepare it : 
 
 Gather the Vegetable Lunary of the Philofo- 
 phers , in the time when the height of Goffer 
 doth rule, which is the feventh and the firft day 
 of the Reign of Corrocay, the Minifterial Spirit 
 of the fame heighten the fixth rank,and laft three 
 hours before noon, and as many afternoon: 
 when the day is fair , and the sky is cleer, then 
 take the Lunary it felf, pure and uncorrupted, 
 with its grains, and bray it, and put it in earthen 
 Veffeis which are new and well glafled , and 
 which are moft carefully covered to befetina 
 moft cold place, and there to be left a whole 
 month, or thereabouts. 
 
 After .which time, opening your Vcffels, you 
 fliall finde in the bottom of each of them , the 
 fap of Lunary , which will fend forth a moft 
 fweet favour : take it and put it in another moft 
 clean Veffel from the Feces : and then again 
 yon muft pour it upon its Feces , and fet it a 
 gain , as before , for the fpace of eight dayes 
 in a cold place. After which tiwe , it muft be 
 poured out again into another Veffel : and 
 from thence again it muft be joyned to its 
 Feces : which third time it will be done juft the 
 lame manner as thefecond. And fo you (hall 
 have the fap of Lunary prepared in the befl 
 fafliion. 
 
 But becaufe lunary is not found everywhere! 
 therefore, if when you fliall have ceed of 
 k, and it cannot be found, you (hall take 
 
 the 
 
 it 
 
 i: 
 
experiments. 14.9 
 
 he fapof it, prepared in the common fafhi- 
 >d , and called by B^aymttnd) Black baker, then 
 )lack ; but take of the belt : then pcur it ei- 
 iher way prepared into a Glafs- Cucurbire, 
 Ivbich is a Great, or into a Peliican-VefTcl, 
 [With handles on both fides , which is called 
 (Circulatory , and put the Veflel ; moft care- 
 i ully (hut in a Phyfical Vaporary , and let it 
 inhere be circulated a whole Month : which 
 f:ime paft , take away the blind Head , put on 
 iLembeck, and joyn a Recipient to it; and 
 :he Joynts being well (hut up , diftil in Bal- 
 ne& UWarid , a moli fubtil Spirit from it ; 
 which being firft lifted up on high , is turn- 
 ed into the fimilitude of lweat, which makech 
 110 veins : but when the Phlegm (hall begin to 
 'diftil like rain , take away the Cucurbite with 
 the Recipient, and let it cool. 
 
 This being done, transfufe the Spirit from 
 ;the Recipient into the Cucurbite of Glafs : 
 jLoofe then the firft, and putting on the 
 Limbecks Head , diftil it in Balneo <Jtfari<e , 
 |with a moft eafie fire, till the Spirit be 
 ['gone out, the Phlegm remaining in the Cu- 
 curbite. 
 
 Now when the whole Spirit is purified 
 from the Phlegm, and reSifiecJ,, and di- 
 JftiUcd in a Recipient 3 The Veffel being cool- 
 ed, pour out the Phlegm from the Cucurbite, 
 [ how little loever it be : then pour in again 
 into the lame Cucurbite, the Spirit ; and then 
 di&il again in Baine* with a moft eafie Fire, as 
 
 L 3 <rf 
 
i$o Thilofophical 
 
 of the fame , as is beforefaid , fo ofc till the ^ 
 Spirit be wholly purified from the Phlegm , and :l 
 perfe&ly re&ifted : which Spirit fo prepared, ™ 
 if it be fired, will notieave any work of moitture '} 
 behinde it ; nay, it willbtarn a cloth, being made ' J 
 well, and put into it. a 
 
 And hitherto have I imparted unto thee the K 
 beft manner of drawing out the Spirit from « 
 the Lunary : which Spirit being (hut up moft fj 
 carefully in a Glafs , muft be let in a cold place : P 
 through the Glafs (hue, it will vanifti away : it « 
 is fubtil and heavenly, though the other part 
 of the tJMenftruum or Earth of the fame thing 
 be prepared : which then being copulated with 
 it? own Spirit,maketh the vegetable Menftrmnty 
 which is the Bafis and chief Foundation of Spa- 
 gyrical preparations. 
 
 Therefore the way to prepare the Earth is 
 thus : 
 
 After that the Spirit is drawn out by Diftilla- 
 tion, and feparated from the Lunary, you muft 
 take the Cucurbit e , wherein the fap of the 
 lame thing was beft , and put it into the Bahteo 
 cJWkr/rf , and diftil it with a gentle fire , till all 
 the Phlegm be gone out • which you fliall know 
 by this , that in the degree of heat, there (hill 
 nothing more fall in the Recipient , and the 
 matter in the bottom of the Veffd,fhall be funk 
 $Jown , like Honey, or melted Pitch. 
 
 Then having the Recipient , pour fo much 
 
 m 
 
Experiments. 151 
 
 ,)f the Phlegm of the fame thing upon the >icr- 
 
 ,urial part,that it fwim above at leaft four fingers 
 
 breadth ; and with a wooden ipattle moving 
 
 ,he Phlegm with the thick matter , wherein 
 
 Is the potential Odercury, and alfo the Sulphur 
 
 vegetable of Nature ; mix them, and when the 
 
 t^hlegm (hall have drawn its Tinaure out into 
 
 ts felf, fuffer it to reft a little. Then after- 
 
 vard pour out the colourated Phlegm , but wa- 
 
 ily , left that the Mercurial part be poured out 
 
 With it,which doth not ferve to our ufe, but only 
 
 :o the Tin&ure of the Merenties , as Raymond 
 
 aith in the Book of ^Mercury. 
 
 Here muft be noted, We have called the thick 
 Water in the bottom of theGlafs, like unto 
 molten Pitch, Mercurial; and alfo Sulphurial, 
 ^ecaufe that the Sulphur of Nature is poten- 
 tially hidden in it ; which, when any will draw 
 !>ut of it , it is altogether neceffary , that it, or 
 rather the pureft of it, be feparated from the im- 
 pure, and be brought to the firft Mercury of the 
 Philofophers : and then converted into the Sul- 
 ;phur of Nature, as (hall be confequcntly taught; 
 moreover, in the thick Water in the bottom , 
 pour on again fo much of the Phlegm, that it be 
 .covered the bredth of four ringers ; and, as be- 
 fore , mix them together by Agitation , and 
 then evacute the colourated Phlegm by Inclina- 
 tion. ± 1-11 
 
 And this work muft be fo oft repeated , till 
 
 the Phlegm hath drawn out the whole Tinaure, 
 
 tod the Earth rcmaineth in the bottom of the 
 
 L4 Veffel 
 
152, rmiojopmcai 
 
 Veffel white as Criftal, tranfparent ; which fee \t 
 out to be dried by the fire, or by a heat elemen- 
 tal of fire, not violent. 
 
 Then when it is dried , and made up into a 
 Powder moft fubtil , put it into a Glafs-Veffel, 
 fit and clean : and pour fo much of the Spirit 
 that I have heretofore taught you , and prepare 
 upon it , that it may ftand four fingers breadth 
 above it. 
 
 Then (hut the Veffel with a blinde Head, and 
 fet it mBalneo tobedigefted the ipace of three 
 dayes ; which being done, take away the blinde o 
 Head,and put to the Cucurbite an Aiimbeck,and 
 joyn a Recipient unto it : and having well (hut 
 all the Joynts , put the Veflel into a Furnace? 
 and giving it a gentle fire of the iecond degree, 
 feparate from hence the Spirit it fe If byDiftii- 
 lation ; which inclofed carefully in a Glafs , 
 fhall be kept in a cold place : for it is an ani- 
 mated Spirit. 
 
 Afterwards having encreafed the fire wich a. 
 continual courfe or order till all the Phleg-l 
 marick moifture , how little foever it be in the 
 Earth, be exhaled ; which Phlegm is to be caii 
 away : for it ferveth to no ufe at all, but unto the 
 earth itielf. 
 
 After it be well dried , and again calcined, 
 pour again fo much of the new Spirit, that it 
 ftand three fingers breath : and having glevrcd 
 the blind Head upon it, put it three dayes into 
 the Phyfical Vaporary • which time pa^, takea- 
 way the blind Head, and put on a Limbeck i >md 
 
 from 
 
jpxpertmems. 155 
 
 rom thence diftil an animated Spirit , which 
 
 oyn to the firft,and keep. 
 Then afterwards proceed to diftil, till all the 
 
 ^legtnbegoneoutjandcafr 5 and thofeope- 
 
 ations muft be fo often renewed, till the Earth 
 jcppear white and flowing like Wax upon a 
 flowing Plate of Iron : give no fmoakatall, 
 
 The Earth thus prepared , mult of neceffitybe 
 returned into a Calx , giving not a difTolving 
 ^ut a digefting heat of the fire. When this 
 'Truth is calcined , you Qirfill put it in a fit Veffel 
 '■>f Glafs, which mult be fei. it temperate heat 
 a the fire , the firft degree : and in it unto the 
 iHarth muft be poured one ounce of the animated 
 Spirit : As for example , To one ounce of the 
 .Earth,you mult put one of the Spirit : which ani- 
 ifnated Spirit I taught you heretofore to draw out 
 p the Earth itfeif by Diftillaiion. 
 
 Then /hut the Veffel with a blind Head , and 
 tfurler it to be digefted three dayes , or fo long 
 fitill the Earth hath drawn up his Spirit : then 
 
 (taking away the blind Head ; and putting on 
 a Limbeck , by Diftillation draw out the Phleg- 
 matick and uniavory moifture, how little foever 
 |be in it. 
 
 Then again thefecond time, give to the fame 
 Earth of its own Spirit the feventh part ; and 
 putting the blind Head upon it , fet the Veffel 
 on the firft degree of heat, to be digefted three 
 dtyes fpace .:. then taking a way the blue Head , 
 and putting on the Alijnbeck, diftil all the infi- 
 pidmoiftttre. 
 
 Thirdly, 
 
 
i$^ Thilofophical 
 
 Thirdly , Add to the fame Earth , the fixth 
 pare of its own animated Water ; and putting 
 on the blue Head, let in digeftion for three 
 days : and after that time, removing of the blind 
 Head , and putting on the Alimbeck , diftil the 
 iuperfluous humidities. 
 
 Fourthly, Add again the fifth part of the ani- 
 mated Spirit to his own Earth, digertit, and by 
 Dittillation, evacuate the humidity. 
 
 Fifthly, Render the fourth part of the Soul of 
 
 the Body, and digell it \ and draw out the moi- 
 
 fture , as I have (hewn before : and lb with the 
 
 fourth part of it upon the fame Earth , profecute 
 
 the operation by Unvivirtives, Digeftion, and 
 
 Diftillations, till the Earth have drunk up all his 
 
 animated Spirit, and both be reduced to an 
 
 Homogeneal Body ; then take the Earth which 
 
 is withheld, and white, and put it in a 
 
 Veflel of Glafs, divided into three parts , which 
 
 being lured, and carefully (hut , muft be put in a 
 
 Furnace to the fire of the third degree, the fpace 
 
 of a natural day : and fojthe pure part of it will 
 
 be feparated from the impure, and will be lifted 
 
 up on high, and the impure part of the Body be 
 
 left in the bottom as unprofitable, to be caft a- 
 
 way , and the pure to be gathered : and this is 
 
 called by Ra)mmd and other Philosophers, Mer-. | 
 
 cury fnblimate, vegetable, Sal Armoniack^ , and 
 
 let of Lunary vegetable , wherein are fo many 
 
 and fo great vermes, that the humane tongue of 
 
 man cannot exprefs them. 
 
 Furthermore , All things being fcvcrally pre* 
 
 pared. 
 
Experiments. 155 
 
 pared, to wit , the Spirit and the Earth, it re- 
 mained here to (hew the way to copulate the 
 Spirit of Lunary , with the Earth of the fame 
 prepared, that is,with the Salt or Sulphur of Na- 
 ture vegetable : but out of the con jun&ion of 
 thefe two, one organical Body, to wir, the vege- 
 table menftrmm, may be made up : and the way 
 to make it is this*: 
 
 Take one pound of the Salt or vegetable Sul- 
 phur new prepared, bray it very fmall, and put it 
 inaCucurbite of Glafs, which is tfrong and 
 thick , and flpon it of the forefaid Spirit of Phi- 
 lofophical Lunary : then (hutting the Glafs moft 
 carefully with a blue Head , fo that it hath no 
 Air at ill , put k in the Balneo , and letitpu- 
 rifie for the (pace two dayes : then taking off 
 the blind Head, and putting on a Limbeck, and 
 joyning a great Recipient to it ; After you 
 have flopped well all the Joynts, you (hall diftil 
 it in the A(hes with a gentle heat , and all will 
 go out by the Limbeck. Nevertheless, if any of 
 the Sale (hould remain in the bottom, you 
 ihall again pour of Spirit newly diftilled upon 
 it ; and diftil it again from hence. And this 
 (hall you do fo oft, till the whole] Earth as a 
 cleer Water be brought over the Limbeck ; 
 being done , take yet one pound of Salt , put 
 it into the Cucurbite , and pour upon it the 
 fame Spirit Ia% diftilled : cover the Veffel with 
 a blind Head , and fet it to purifie ; and being 
 purified , till all the Sulphur pafs over the Lim- 
 beck with the Spirit j and chat being diftilled, 
 
 take 
 
ii6 Thilofopbical 
 
 take again, as before, of new Salt vegetable one 
 pound j and adding the lame Spirit , purifie ; 
 and then diftil all. Fourthly , Take likewife 
 frefh Salt one pound , and pour upon it the Spi- 
 rit lately diftilled, till all pafs by the Limbeck, 
 and nothing remain in the Cucurbite ; and fo 
 the vegetable ntenftrnum (hall be made, and per- 
 fectly ended, having power to diffolve both the 
 light?, and all other Metals , with the conferva- 
 tion of the vegetable form : but now it is refting 
 to (hew how the metiftrtium muft be converted 
 unto a celeftial Nature or Quinteffence : and the 
 way is thus : 
 
 Take the fitnple menfirnum y and pour it into 
 a great and ftrong Giafs-Veftel , that the fifth 
 part of ic onely be full,or at the molt rhe fourth, 
 and the reft be void: then (hut the Veflel with 
 a blind Head; (hutting diligently all the Joynts, 
 left the power of the menftruttm vanifti : being 
 (hut , put it in the Phyfical Bath, or in the Horfe- 
 Belly, and let it circulate a whole Month 
 which time expired, put on your menftruum into 
 another clean Veffel : and do this warily , left 
 the fetling in the bottom by the Circulation 
 be poured out together with the menftrHum^ 
 but it muft be left in the Circulation : fo (hall 
 you have the menftm*m purified, circulated, and 
 celeftial , which the Philofophers call , The 
 Heaven , The Crown of Heaven , and , The 
 Qumteffencejjvhofe brightnefs and tranfparencit 
 doth exceed the brightnefs of all Lunary things, 
 and the fweet fmell of it excecdeth all otb« 
 
 fwect 
 
Experiments. ijy 
 
 [Tweet favours prepared by Nature. 
 
 This Quintcflence is the ground-work of 
 lallSpagyrical and Physical Preparation : for by 
 fthe vertue of it, all folid Bodies are cor- 
 rupted from their own Natures, and arc 
 'brought to Liquors, Oy Is, Spirits, Elixirs, Magi- 
 I fteries,Stones and Tin&ures. Whence it cometh, 
 ( That the Spagyrfck can give to the Phifitians the 
 1 beft Medicines. 
 
 
 * 
 
 
 
158 Thilojophical 
 
 
 0( the manner of diifolving 
 Gold, and of feparating the 
 Tincture of it from the Body, 
 or the form from the matter; and 
 alfoof exuberating or multiply- 
 ing the fame. 
 
 THe manner of compofm° t he vegetable 
 being delivered ; and alfo, of making it 
 celeftial : it remaineth that you fhould be 
 (hewed how the matter of the Univerfal Medi- 
 cine, to wit, Gold, fhould be prepared with the 
 heavenly menltrual, that it may exercife its ver- 
 tue upon the Body of Man : the manner to pre- 
 pare it is this : 
 
 Let Gold be cemented with Antimony, that 
 every Heterogeneal thing^ be . ieparated from it : 
 then being well purged, reduce it to very iinall 
 Leaves : then of the foliated or Leaf- Gold 
 take an ounce , and put it into a little Cucur- 
 biteof Glafs , and pour upon it two ounces of 
 the heavenly menftrnum, or of the vegetable 
 Quinteflence. This being done , put the Cu- 
 curbuc clofed HaraicticaUy into a Fire of the 
 
 feft 
 
Experiments. ijp 
 
 rft degree, and then of the fecond • fofliall 
 ie Gold be dnTolved , and the merftruum (hall 
 raw into it felf the Tin&ure of ir,or the colour; 
 id it will become citrine, biighr, refplendent, 
 lining, and moft acceptable to the fight: then by 
 trie and little inclining the Veflel,transfuiethe 
 ex&ruum into another clean Veffel of Glafs : 
 .iz do this warily, left the Earth or Feces of 
 old be not poured out together with the 
 ;*/*/?r#/w»andCucurbite: then to the golden 
 Jiarth , which is fetled , pour again two ounces 
 fit! the menftrmm , and flint the Glafs with Her- 
 oes his Seal , and fet it firft in a fire of the firft 
 egree, and then of a fecond: and when the 
 unftrnum (hall have the colour of Gold,ejacu- 
 ite it into another Vcffel of Glafs ; yet fo, 
 bat the Earth be not mixed with the menflrnum^ 
 
 Iut may remain in the bottom ; and leaving 
 ne Feces of the Gold in theVeflel, poura- 
 ain two ounces of the menfirmtm upon it ; and 
 mtting the Glafs Hermetically , fet it in 
 pe heat of the firft, then of the fecond de- 
 ree. 
 
 Then empty the golden metiflrunm into ano- 
 her Vcflel, taking heed left the Feces go one 
 #ith it together : reiterate thefe operations fo oft 
 s before , till you fee the werfirutm draws no 
 lore of the Tin&ure of Sol, and that the body 
 f it remain in the bottom white, which will be 
 one in feven times , if you do all tiefc things 
 rell. 
 
 Now when all theTinclure of Gold is pre- 
 pared 
 
 
160 Thilofophical 
 
 pared from his Body , it is requifoe that all the 
 diffolutions be joyned together , and be put in 
 afitVtffel: thenpurifie. 
 
 And then laftly , having put on a blind Head i 
 and having (hut carefully all the Joynts, (et 
 it in a Furnace , and give it a heat in the fecond 
 degree, and exuberate from thence the moft pre- 
 cious Liquor of Gold : then you (hall have the 
 Tin&ure of Gold feparated from the Body of 
 it, and made volatile, joyned with the Heaven 
 or vegetable Quinteffence , from which it muft 
 be feparated , by the way which I will (hew you 
 in the following Chapter. 
 
 The 
 
Experiments. 161 
 
 The manner how to feparate 
 the Tin dure of Gold from the 
 Quinteffence vegetable, and the 
 way to circulate the fame, that it 
 may be converted into Quintef- 
 fence, or Celeftial Nature and 
 Spiritual, and almoft Incorrup- 
 tible. 
 
 Hitherto we have Chewed you how to 
 draw the Tin&ure from the Body of the 
 Sun , and how they exuberate it, in a 
 ;cleer and open fpeech. Now we intend to (hew 
 how the fame Tin&ure may be feparated from 
 the menftrHum , which is Celeftial , and by Cir- 
 culation is converted into a Quinteffence moft 
 fragrant, and in ftrength meft eminent , and 
 incorruptible as the Heavens. To do this, pro- 
 ceed thus : 
 
 Take a Stillatory of Glafs , and infufe into it 
 the vegetable kMtnHruum, which is circulated; 
 in which h the Soul of the Gold t then add to 
 it of the Element of Water in the feme thing, 
 to grit, of thelunaryof the Philofophers , io 
 
 M rcweb 
 
\6i Thilofyhicd 
 
 much as is of the ntenftruum ft felf : then put 
 your Veffel in a Ph/fical Furnace ; and putting 
 an eafie fire of the firit degree to it, diftil from £ 
 the vegetable Quinteffence , and the Element 
 of Water acmixed to it : lb the Tin&ure of Gold 
 ihall remain in the bottom like Wax melted, 
 or like the fluid gum ,and in colour moft like unto 
 a Ruby. 
 
 To purifie this Tin&ure from the fuperfluity 
 of the Elements , and to make it to a 
 Quint effence by Circulation , proceed 
 thus: 
 
 Take a fit Vtffel of Glafs , and put in it the 
 Tinclure of the Sun , moft red, exulerated and 
 fcparated from the vegetable Water , and pour 
 upon it a convenient quantity of the vegetable 
 Quinteffence : and having {hut the Glafs Her- 
 metically, put the Veffel in a Phyfical Vaporary, 
 and with a continual heat , as of the Sun, fuffer 
 it to be circulated a Efficient fpace ; which 
 done, you (hall fee in the bottom of theGIafe 
 an Earth like unto Slime , which muft moft be 
 feparated from the Tin&ure , mixed with the 
 vegetable, as a iuperfluous thing ; which is done 
 by the Diftillation of the mcnftrttHm with the 
 Ths&ure in the fire of the fecond degree : which 
 being done , put the Veffel , containing the 
 Quinteffence vegetable , mixed with the Tin- 
 cture in the Phyfical Bath ; aed putting 10 ic 
 the fire of the firft degree by Diftillation , ex- 
 tnSt the vegetable Quinteffence : and fo the 
 
 Tin* 
 
Experiments. \6i 
 
 induce of Gold moft beautiful , being purl- 
 ed from the Dregs of the Elements', and Slime 
 f the Earth, and made fpiritual and volatile, 
 lall be fetled in the bottom of the Circulit, 
 onverted into a Quinteffence , and into a Ce« 
 ;ftial and Incorruptible Nature , to which no 
 'arthly thing may be compared in fmcli or fweet 
 ivour , nor in venue and excellent operations. 
 Leep tte Quinteffence moft carefully, as a moft 
 >recious Treafure^ for it is the true potable and 
 nutable Gold , The true Elixir of the Sun , 
 ^wer, The true Diaphoretical and Univerfai 
 Medicine, The true \MercHty of the Philo- 
 bphers , without which there is no Tranfmuta- 
 ion of Metals. 
 
 The 
 
1 6^ Thilofophical 
 
 The way to reduce the liquid 
 
 and volatile Quinteflence of 
 Gold into a fixed Stone , and 
 tranfparent like to a Rubie,with 
 the multiplication of Celeftial 
 Vertues. 
 
 ALthough I have hitherto delivered the 
 true and perfect way to prepare S<?I y 
 and to convert it into a Quinteflence 5 
 fo that it ferveth for all Medicinal effects univer- 
 fally,and needeth no further preparation : Ne- 
 verthelefs > becaufe the venues of it may be fur- 
 ther augmented, I will now reveal how it may 
 be fixed into a Stone ; which by a manifold 
 Solution , Coagulation by heavenly Influences, 
 doth attain unto the higheft degree, Perfection 
 and efficacy to all effects both within and with- 
 out the body of man. 
 
 The way to make it is thus : 
 Prepare a Fixatory Veffel of equal bignefs 
 with their heads , having heads equally propor- 
 tionable, whofe heads muft be difpofed, that the 
 head of each one may enter into the belly of 
 each other mutually , and that the mouth of the 
 
 one 
 
Experiments* 105 
 
 [|>n« Veffel may enter into its own head ; but 
 hat the mouth of the other may receive within 
 t felf the mouth of its own head : then put in 
 ach Veffel one part of the Quinteffence of 
 Sold; and to each part feverally, pour thirteen 
 )arts of the Quinteffence vegetable • which 
 >eing done , put the heads upon the Cucurbites, 
 nd joyn theVeffels together as they ought to 
 >e ; and Glutting the Joyntsmoft carefully that 
 here an Anchanor; and having given a moft tem- 
 >erate heat of the other orfecond degree, let 
 he Quinteffence be (o long moved, till the ve- 
 getable Water hath laid off the Tin&ure or Co- 
 our of Gold, and (hall have afcended and de- 
 cended no more citrine in colour, but white like 
 1 diftilled Water , which will be done in three 
 Dr four weeks at the mod : which time being 
 paft , and when you have feen the aforefaid fign, 
 hen fuffer the Furnace to wax cool of it felf, 
 then taking the Veffel from the Furnace , open 
 chem , and in the bottom of each Glafs you fhall 
 indeaStone, likeuntoaRubie or Carbuncle, 
 which is the potable Gold,c©ngeal'd through the 
 vegetable vertue ; and thepureliof the vegeta- 
 ble Sulphur working upon the Quinteffence of 
 Gold : from which Stone,by the Inclination of 
 the Veflels , you (hall feparate the vegetable 
 Waters : then take out both the Stones out of 
 both the Veflels without any moifture , and you 
 [hall put it into a fit Vcffei very carefully, that it 
 fuffer no harm by the Air : and when you would 
 have thisStoue to*- become more pregnant and 
 powerful in operation by Ccleftial Vertues, pro- 
 ceed thus : Bray 
 
itftf Thilofophical, &c. 
 
 Bray it in a Marble or Glafs-Morter with t 
 Glafs-Peftel ^ and being brayed , put it into a 
 fmallGlafs-Veffel, fit to that effc& ; and being 
 Hermetically fhut , put it into tbe Phyfical Bath, 
 and leave it there three dayes , in which time it 
 will turn into a Water or Uquor,very red: which 
 Liquor, put into tbe Achanor, and fufferit to 
 be digefted five dayes in a temperate heat : and 
 then again it will be conduced, and become a 
 ftony fub! t ance red,and tranfparenc: from thence 
 takeout again the Stone, and bray it to a pow- 
 der ; and then again, put it into a Phyfical Bath 
 the fpace of one natural day,and then again it will 
 be diffolved into a moft red Liquor ; which again 
 put into the Achanor to be digefted, the fpace of 
 two dayes - which time paft , you (hall finde a- 
 gajn a Ston e moft tranfparent and like to a Ru by, 
 whic h^tnay be meked~upona j:ed hof PIa&eof 
 Ifion^an^ all . Now 
 
 this fame fo^repared^aTiTfoTnatfy Vermes, that 
 no tongue of man is able to exprefs them. 
 
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