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A76069	Basilius Valentinus, monk, of the Order of St. Bennet: his last will and testament Which being alone, he hid under a table of marble, behinde the high-altar of the Cathedral Church, in the Imperial City of Erford: leaving it there to be found by him, whom Gods providence should make worthy of it. Wherein, he sufficiently, declares the wayes he wrought to obtain the philosophers stone: which he taught unto his fellow collegians, so that they all attained the said philosophers stone, whereby not onely the leprous bodies of the impure, and inferior metals are reduced unto the pure and perfect body of gold and silver, but also all manner of diseases whatsoever are cured in the bodies of unhealthfull men, and kept thereby in perfect health unto the prolonging of their lives. A work long expected.	Basilius Valentinus.	1658 (1658)	Wing B1016; ESTC R231639	202,436	343

sword into Vulcans the Jaylors hand to ●●t in execution all that which the Lords had resolved up●● killed Mercurie burnt his bones with fire Vulcan did 〈◊〉 Office very carefully This Executioner having done 〈◊〉 duty there came a white shining woman in a long garb 〈◊〉 a silver piece of several water colours being well viewed ●●hold it was Lune the wife of Sol she fell down upon her ●ce intreated heartily and weeping that her husband Sol ●ight be set at liberty out of prison Mercurie had cast him ●to by force with deceitfulnesse where both he and Mer●●rie upon your honours command were kept imprisoned ●●t Vulcan gave her a flat denial because he was com●anded to do so and went on to do his office in executing ●●e sentence At last the Lady Venus came in a deep red ●obe lined with green of a most beautifull countenance ●leasant speech and amiable gestures bearing fragrant ●owers in her hand which were a most refreshing pleasure 〈◊〉 the eyes to behold by reason of variety of colours she ●ade intercession in the Chaldaean language unto Vulcan ●●tting into his remembrance that redemption must come ●●om a womankinde but his eares were stopp'd These ●wo conferring together Heaven opened it self there came ●●rth a huge beast with many thousands of young ones de●●oyed the Executioner opening his jaws wide devoured ●he Lady Venus which made the intercession crying with a ●●ill voice My descent is of women my seed is scattered ●●r and near by them thereby they replenished the Earth ●heir Soul is kinde to mine therefore my desire is to feed ●●d to drink of their bloud The beast having spoken thus ●●oud it went into a room shut the door behinde all its young ones followed it where more food must be pro●ded for them and they drunk the first incombustible O● that meat and drink they easily digested whereof mo● young ones were bred which was continued long so th● all the World was filled by them All these things thus hapning there was a meeting of ●veral learned men which endeavoured to interpret 〈◊〉 declare what hapned and what had been spoken that th● might the better understand these mysteries none of the● was able to perform that businesse for all of them had ●●veral thoughts concerning these things at last there sto●● up an ancient man as white as snow in his hairs clad 〈◊〉 purple from top to toe on his head he had a Crown in 〈◊〉 midst of it was set a precious Carbuncle he was girt wi●● the girdle of life and went bare-footed spoke with a sp●cial spirit which was hid in him his speech and sayi●● went through his body and life his Soul felt it to the i● most This man stept on high desired the Assembly to 〈◊〉 silent and to give diligent attention unto him because 〈◊〉 was sent from above to declare unto them these writing and to make it known unto them in a Philosophick expre●sion The Assembly being silent he began to speak thus Awaken O man and behold the light that darknesse m● not mislead you the Gods of Fortune and the great God have revealed unto me in a deep sleep How happy is tha● man that knoweth a God in their wondrous works an● happy is he whose eyes are opened to behold the ligh● which formerly was a darknesse unto him The Gods h●●● granted two Stars unto men to lead them unto great wi●dom O man view them exactly follow after their Iustre● because wisdom is found therein The swift Bird of th● South devoureth the heart of the huge beast of the Eas● Make wings also unto the beast of the East as the 〈◊〉 hath of the South let them be equal one to another so this Eastern beast must be bereaved of his Lyon-skin an● his wings must vanish again for both must enter into th● great Salt-Sea and come forth again in beauty sink you● disciples spirits into a deep Fountain which is never with●●t water that they also may be like unto their mother ●hich lieth hid therein and she came from three into the World Hungary hath fi●st begotten me Heaven and S●a●s pre●●ve me Earth giveth suck unto me Though I must die ●nd be buried however the God Vulcan begets me a se●ond time therefore Hungary is my Native Countrey and ●y mother compasse●h the whole earth This being hearkened unto by the Assembly he spake ●●ther thus make that which is highest to be lowest that ●hich is visible to be invisi●le and that which is compre●ensible to be incomprehensible and provide that the 〈◊〉 most become to be the uppermost m●ke the invisible ●●come to be visible make the incomprehensible a pulpa●e thing This is the whole Art and very perfect with●●t any defect but therein dwelleth death and life dying ●●d rising it is a round Globe on which the goddesse For●●e lets her Chariot roll about and bringeth salvation of ●isdom unto men of God its true sense is ALL in ALL ●●t the highest is Judge which judgeth things eternal He that desireth to know what ALL in ALL is let 〈◊〉 make great wings for the earth put her into a great ●●guish let her soar upward make her flye through the ●●e and be exalted to the highest place of the uppermost ●●eaven then burn her wings with a forcible fire that the ●●th may fall into the Red Sea and be drowned therein ●●en command the Sea to stand exiccate the water by ●e and aire reduce it unto earth again then I say you ●●e ALL in ALL if you cannot finde this then feel 〈◊〉 thine own bosom and about thee into all things that 〈◊〉 in the World then you will finde ALL in ALL 〈◊〉 is of an attractive quality of Mineral and Metalline 〈◊〉 desc●●●ing from Sal and Sulphur twice begotten of 〈◊〉 More is not meet for me to speak of ALL in ALL 〈◊〉 ALL comprehended ALL. This speech being made he said further Beloved men I hope you have by hearkning unto my voyce learned wisdom how and in what you are to seek for the great ston● of ancient Philosophers which healeth Leprous imperfec● Metals revealeth unto them a new birth preserveth me●● in health prolongeth their lives and by his heavenly power and operation hath kept me alive so long that I a● weary of life and wish for nothing but death Thanks be to God for his grace and wisdom which h● hath granted so graciously unto me so long a time blesse● be his holy name for ever Amen Thus he vanish'd awa● before their eyes After the finishing hereof every one returned ho●● meditating seriously on these things day and night and every one wrought according to their several gifts they received from Gods bounty and goodnesse c. Hereupon follow the XII Keyes of BACILIUS VALENTINUS Whereby the Doors are opened unto the Ancient stone of Philosophers where is found that everlasting Fountain of health and of wealth The first Key MY friend you must know that impure and defil●● things are not fit

judge of the situation of the ●eart Brain Liver Lungs Reins Bladder of the Entrals ●●d of all the Veins and knoweth in what form and condi●on they are But before he hath made this anatomy all ●ese were hid from him a Myner which seeketh so Oars 〈◊〉 doth not know what riches he may expect from Metals ●●lesse he open the Oar and so fine it what he findeth in 〈◊〉 by fire then he may know really in his calculation what ●●hes he may expect from it So other things must be pro●●ded in which true Naturalists will endeavour to do and not prate of things onely without experimental knowledge disputing of colours with the blinde man learn to know the ground with your own eyes and hands which Nature hideth within her then you may speak wisely of them with good reason and you may build upon an invincible Rock If you do not so then you are but a Phantastick prater whose discourse is grounded on sand without experience and is soon shaken by every winde and ruined in the end The ground of this knowledge must be learned as you heard by anatomizing and separating of things which by distillation is made known where every Element is separated apart there it will be made known what is cold or moist warm or dry There you learn to know the three principles how the spirit is separated from the body and how the Oyl is separated from the water and how the Sale is drawn from the Caput mort of each matter and is reduced again into a spirit and how these three are afterward joyn'd again and by fire are brought into one body Further is here learn'd how each after its separation and afterward in a conjunction may profitably and safely be used for their several uses they are prepared for all which must be done by a medium At the first Creation man is earthy grosse but his Soul Spirit and Body being separated by death putrifieth under ground and when the Highest cometh to judgement he is raised again his Body Soul and spirit cometh together according to Faith and Scripture that body is no more earthy as it was formerly but is found heavenly and clarified glittering as the Stars in the East and like the Sun is seen when all the Clouds are past So it is here when earthinesse is broken divided and separated then the three principles of the dead substance are made apparent the dead one is forsaken the living power comes to her perfection because her obstruction is laid aside that the vertue in the operation may be manifested In this separation and manifestation is then known what these three principles are which are so much discoursed of namely Mercury Sulphur and Salt according to the condition of the subject He that doth not think it to be true let him go to the end of the World where he shall feel all what in his dumb capacity he could not comprehend if any one should intend to teach me any other with a prolixity of words he may fill me with words but he must prove it really also for without that I am not bound to believe his words but desire some sign as Thomas one of the Twelve who look'd for an Ocular demonstration I might have left out Thomas but being there is a clift between a spiritual and worldly unbeliever I gave liberty to my minde to speak it for there is a great difference in heavenly and worldly matters touching faith and things comprehensible and there is that difference found also in fidereal earthly things for fidereal things are comprehended by sharp imagination and Arithmatick rules but to the finding out of earthly things there belongeth speculation and separation with speculation must be joyned an intention and an apprehension is annexed to speculation the former is done spiritually because the spirit of man doth not rest desireth to apprehend more qualities of the spirit in things natural every spirit stil draweth its like the rest is earthy for an earthy body separateth by manuals the earthly body from the spiritual part and so the one may be discerned before and from the other Whereas the soul in both sheweth her self really therefore is she in all really for she tieth the heavenly and earthy together like a bond but when the heavenly is ●●●arated from 〈◊〉 ●●●rthy that the soul also must forsake her body then you 〈◊〉 ●●●arated and received the three each apa●t which a●●●● 〈◊〉 true knowledge and conjunction can afford such a trium●●ing and clarifyed body which is found in a better degree of many thousand times because the grossest is laid aside from the earthy For when heaven and earth come to be refined by the great Creator then the greatest part will be consumed by fire and by that purging it will be exalted to the same degree with the heavenly and set into the same line for each all is created by one each all is ordained by one and though through sin by one man all was corrupted unto death yet all is by one brought to a better State of life and the onely Creator intends to judge all by fire and all must again become one which will be that heavenly essence to which the earthl gave way by means of the fire the eternall glory leaving a room for devil and death from whence they shall look on the elect admiring the great Majesty and glory of God which in a divine essence of three distinct persons is all in all and hath created all Thus the three persons in the deity have held forth in us their invisible essence giving thereby to understand by an insearchable wisdom what their creature order is we men are too weak to come higher God is and will be God and we men must be content with such gifts aff●●ded unto us hereafter shall be accomplished that which is prophesied of by Prophets and Apostles and now are conceived of onely by way of faith therefore we ought now to be contented what by Nature is intimated in a visible way other things incomprehensible unto us matters of faith wil appear better to be understood at the end of the world God grant unto us all a true knowledge of ●●mporal goods and of the eternall At the closing of this I say that this is the whole Art and whole foundation of all the Philosophick speech in which is that sought which many desire taking great pains and making great expences namely to get wisdom and judgement a long life health riches of this world comprehended in few words as for example First you must know that I wi●● shew unto you such an example of th●● 〈◊〉 ●●nals which in the appearance is a mean and poor on● 〈◊〉 ●f a mihgty consequence if rightly considered The 〈◊〉 ●ayeth an egg the same egg is by heat brought to a hard 〈◊〉 or coagulation by a further heat it is brought to a putrefaction where it it corrupted in this putrefaction the egg receiveth

it is collected that there is some distinctnesse betwixt seed and fertility If we will enquire narrowly wha● fertility is the best and surest way is to consider life an● death of creatures how they hold together for death i● barren but a living life is fertil because it stirreth and moveth It is seen by all the works that are undertaken about metals that there is nothing so volatile as metal is and so nothing stirs and moveth more subtilly than it but this stiring and moving I will call here the Ferch of metals by reason of its continual proceeding and uncessant moving and because the same is not visible in metals and doth i● in a twofold way therefore I will let the old word stand and call its stirring a Lubricum and its Ferch a Volatile fo● with the vertue and power of both these it performeth a● that what it needs for the perfection puritie and fixation o● its work Seeing Ferch is a perpetual living and forthgoing thing one might admire and say of what condition is metal the● which we behold with our eyes and feele with our hands which being thus hard and coagulated whether the same b● alive or dead and whether the life or Ferch in meta● may be destroyed which is impossible what is the cond●tion of it or how comes i● so to passe I answer that a metal may be alive when it resteth as well as when it groweth or stirreth and here a distinction must be made again betwixt the death of metals and their rest and quietnesse● For death toucheth only the bodies when they perish b● the life it self or Ferch cannot perish or cease therefore 〈◊〉 a metalline body be extant then is it at hand visibly tw● manner of wayes The one is in liquido and is discerne● in its moving too and fro and if it be forced by a strang● dangerous heat then it turns to a volatility and flyeth away The other way is when it is at hand in coagulat● wherein it resteth so long till it be reduced into its liqu●dum and that is done in a twofold way and lasteth so lon● as the body lasteth but as soone as the body is destroye● or gone and is come or entred into a more either noble● ignoble body men its Ferch or life is gone also therefore if you will reserve and keep a body then take good notice of i●s Ferch or life for if you once stir it and hunt it indiscreetly you do it with the losse o● d●minu●ion of the body wherein it is for that life never goeth away empty but still carrieth along one life or Ferch after the other carrying it away so long that at the last it leaveth none But what the condition is of the moving and quietnesse of that life and how Nature bringeth it to a rest must be exactly considered For an accurate knowledge demonstrateth that there is a diff●rence betwixt the life of the seed and of the body for deale with the seed which way you will you cannot bring it to a volatilitie because it is against its kind and so the body also is of the same condition but the Ferch alone may be brought to it For if you provide food for the Ferch then you strengthen its whole work even as a mother doth her child which she feedeth and cherisheth well and bringeth the same the better to its rest so ●s it also with the Ferch Therefore all such which gaze and view only the seed and body and know not the fundamentals about the Ferch lose the body because they ob●erve not Natures progresse and proceedings putting the ●art before the horse or the formost they put hindmost This rest and sleep of the Ferch serveth for that use because ●t preserveth the body from destruction or co●●umption be●ng once come into its perfection For as long as it awaketh so long it consumeth but when it is at rest then it ●andeth close in a lastingnesse and when it hath nothing ●o feed upon then it corrodeth and seizeth on its own bo●ie consuming it quite at last it stirreth ●nd moveth to a●other place Hence is it that treasures or pag●ment which ●e buryed awaken at last consume their own bodyes re●cing them to dust so that nothing of them remaines but ther a meere stone or flux as in many places is to bee ●n CHAP. II. Of the seed of Metals ALl those Authors which have written about the metaline seed agree in that when they say sulphur is the masculine seed of metals and Mercurie is the foeminine seed which saying must be taken in its genuine sense for common Sulphur and common Mercury are not meant thereby For the visible Mercury of Metals is a body it self out of bodies and so it cannot be a seed and being cold its coldnesse per se cannot be a seed and the Sulphur of metals being a food how can it be a seed Yea a seed consummeth sulphur how can one seed destroy the other if so what body should it produce It is therefore an error if that should be taken in the common sense if the Mercurie of bodies is in a work and hath taken food then all the sex Mercuries protrude one body as the one of the sex is in its predominancy so the body riseth Seeing there are seven of these Mercuries it happeneth that when the seed of Mars and Venus hath the predominancie they produce a masculine body of Sol but if the seed of Saturne and Jupiter doth predominate then is produced a soeminine body which is called Lune Mercury is an assistant on both sides The same happeneth unto other bodies but these are alwayes and in every and each work together for they are indivisible as it is meet also what manner of body could be produced else For Nature hath perfect bodyes though in themselves they must be dissolved again yet are they perfect for in their time For what manner of seed could that be if it should be defective in any of its branches Therefore every body hath its perfect seed hence the trasmutation hath its ground in the ascention and descenti●● of metals which otherwise could not be if they were not homogeneal in their seed For if any man saith that silver is not gold clowns beleeve that also because they have not fundamental knowledge of the seed how it is to go out of one body into the other or else it wants its fertilitie neither can it be naturally without a body wherein it reste●h There belong seven distinct parts to an unformal body of metals to bring it by nourishment into a forme viz. 1. An earth 2. A stone 3. An earthash 4. Earthly streams 5. glasse or subterraneal metal 6. The subterranean tincture 7. The subterranean fuligo or seed fume All these are the materials of the body and as earth is mans matter out of which God made him unto which he must returne again so all other bodyes also at last return to earth that Myner which is judicious

got onely the calxes of ●e bodies exuviums Therefore neither themselves nor ●thers have any cause to marvel if they do no good 〈◊〉 that way CHAP. XLV Of the corroding fire THis fire ought to be set among the coal fires being of a consuming nature and their corrosivenesse 〈◊〉 in the cold fire and it hath the same qualities which ●he burning fire hath it shineth and burneth its burn●g is corroding in that it is better than the other ●ecause it doth not burn it to ashes but brings the bodies to dust or sand which would be toilsome if by filings it should be brought to stars the next neighbour to this fi● is the glowing fire of the which I will give onely 〈◊〉 hint CHAP. XLVI Of Ignis candens or of the glowing fire THis fire is purposely ordered upon metalline bodies 〈◊〉 consumeth them being their matter is naturally inclined thereunto This fire is of great concernment making their bodies very malleable their exuvium's stay on the Float and is the best quality they have that they put off i● that glowing the thing which will be gone and the good thereof remains Things now adayes are slighted the world supposeth to have skill enough it wants no further knowledge Quot capita tot sensus every one thinks his wit best though some have scarce begun to know any of these things which is the reason why men are sti● kept to their rudenesse Men may suppose I mean by this corrosive water an Aquafort it is no such matter how many runs of precious Aquasort is used in vain at Goslar on the Hartz which would serve for better use and the expences laid out for wood might have been saved CHAP. XLVII Of Ignis incubans or of the Lamp-fire THis fire serveth when metals are wrought openly and not luted in then the metal doth not flie away in a dust nor doth its best run away for you heard that a flaming fire is hurtful for to work metals withall Lamp-di●es are commonly of glasse set in an earthen pan filled ●ith ashes or sand kept in a sweating in that sweat many ●ppose the metal receiveth its body or the one changeth ●o the other I leave this transmutation in its worth and ●not approve of it Touching this warmth I cannot ●prove nor find fault with it and all metals indeed should 〈◊〉 dealt withall in this manner These two fires of oars and the Lamp-fire if they were ●de use of in medicinal wayes would do better than the ●cining or flaming fire can do where these are of no use ●d the long fire must orderly be kept in an equal heat if ●y good shall be done Some kept the lamp fire in a Stove-●rnace where all things were spoiled in the working it ●s either too hot or too cold it was of no equall heat ●hich the work in the end did shew because it was not ●ell governed CHAP. XLVIII Of the cold fire THis is a strange fire little can be said of it to those which cannot conceive of it whether it was not ●ken notice of or whether they did despair of it I know ●ot this is it which elsewhere is called coagulating it ●nnot consume the other fire it can melt the work but 〈◊〉 consume it is impossible it works in the air as well as in ●e fire where it sheweth its efficacy and is the sole proof ●f its fusiblenesse metalline mercury is of a cold fusion ●l other fusions are hot if you believe it not feel it ●e fixation of the warm flux is called coagulation there ●e one opposeth the other the one congealeth the o●er keeps in a liquidnesse this difference must be known by those which are imployed about melting of metals an● their fluxes It is of concernment to govern this fire well or ho● stones are to be weighed and things that are excessively cold are a death to a tempered body what animals do li● either in too cold or too hot a fire and to speak precisely of life it is impossible to do that as to speak really o● God therefore gaze not upon definitions what human● reason is able to conceive of Philosophy is strangely conditioned and it appeareth by this fire also a thing which i● very cold may contein a life however When it is in its highest degree of ascension then it come down again it turnes to silver then to copper if the nether hot fire doth it not then surely the cold fire must do it for it dissolveth again into its mercury which is the flux of the cold fire if it layeth hold on it then it must ru● to all bodies in its running it puts off not onely the nethermost but the uppermost body also take this into further consideration CHAP. XLIX Of the warm fire OF this I have spoken already it can be made and governed several wayes coals wood pitch oil and other combustible things are fit for it There I would onely speak of an heat which is good for the flux of metals whereby they are purged as you heard above needlesse to be repeated here Thus much of this first Part where I infirmed about the nether work or fore-work governed and observed by nature whereby she holds forth unto us metals and minerals in their formes He that conceiveth aright of this work ●d considers it worketh with advantage and utility and is great help to proceed successfully in Alchymie which ●itateth and treadeth into her steps I wish hearty suc●sse to all such which bear an affection and love thereun● ●raise Honour and Glory be unto the Supream Master of Mines by whose word and will all things are made ordained and brought to their forms Amen End of the first Part. THE ●ECOND PART Of the Last TESTAMENT OF BASILIUS VALENTINUS Friar of the Order of St. Benedictus Wherein are repeated briefly some principle Heads of the first Part what course Nature observeth under ground and how metals are generated and produced to light as Gold Silver Copper Iron Tin Lead Quicksilver and Minerals 〈◊〉 like manner of precious Stones and of tinctures of Metals how they are discerned and what relation they have to the Holy Scriptures LONDON Printed Anno Domini MDCLVI THE SECOND PART OF BASILIUS VALENTINUS CHAP. I. Of Mines and Clifts and what manner of middle works and second in oars are IN the first place there lieth a necessity upon every Miner to know how to search and dive into metalline passages how they strike along and they must be well acquainted with all their occasions and conditions and if at any place he intends to fall to work 〈◊〉 must know how to use the Magnet of the Compasse ●here East South West and North lieth and learn the ●ayes of this and that oar and where their issue is and 〈◊〉 w●ll informed of the long and short stroaks of metalline ●ss●ges and where they d●aw together to a metalline ●m The forms of metalline oar are several some car● Talk slats an oar which containeth silver and