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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61329	Secrets reveal'd, or, An open entrance to the shut-palace of the King containing the greatest treasure in chymistry never yet so plainly discovered / composed by a most famous English-man, styling himself anonymus or Eyræneus Philaletha cosmopolita ... ; published for the benefit of all Englishmen by W.C., Esq., a true lover of art and nature.	Philalethes, Eirenaeus.	1669 (1669)	Wing S5288	50,733	164

Chymical Phantasticks dream for although the ☉ joyn with our ☿ yet a year after you shall separate each from the other in its own nature unless you decoct them together in a convenient degree of fire otherwise they will not be altered he who will affirm the contrary is no Philosopher They who wander in Errours Path do dream that it is a matter of very light concernment to dissolve the perfect bodies in our ☿ in so much that according to their imaginations Gold in this will be devoured in the twinkling of an eye not well understanding the place of Bernard Trevisan in his Parable concerning his Golden Book irrecoverably drowned in his Fountain But how hard a Work it is to dissolve Bodies they can witness who have taken pains in this dissolution I my self who have been oft taught this Lesson by ocular testimony can be a witness that it is a most ingenious thing to govern the fire even after the matter is prepared such a fire as may dissolve the Bodies as they ought to be dissolved without burning their tinctures Attend then to my Doctrin Take the Body which I have shewed you and put it into the water of our Sea and decoct it continually with a due heat of fire that both Dews and Clouds may ascend and drops may descend both night and day without intermission and know that in this Circulation the ☿ doth arise in its former nature and leaves the body beneath its former nature so long until after a long time the body begin to retain part of its soul so by degrees both begin to partake each of other but because the whole water doth not ascend by sublimation part of it remains below in the bottom of the vessel therefore is the body boyled in the water that remains beneath and by its means it is sifted and the drops which are continually running down do perforate the masse marvelously and by continual Circulation the water is made more subtle and doth sweetly extract the soul of the Sun so by the mediation of the soul the spirit is reconciled with the body and an union of both is made at the utmost within fifty dayes and this Operation is called the Regimen of ☿ because the ☿ is circulated above and in it the body of the Sun is boyled beneath and the body is in his work passive until the colours shall appear which will be a little about the twentieth day in a good and continual ebullition which colours are afterwards increased multiplyed and varied until all be at last completed in black of the blackest most black which the fiftieth day will give thee If Fates thee call CHAP. 25. Of the second Regimen of the Work which is of Saturn HAving run through the Regimen of ☿ which is to strip the King of his golden Robes to assault the Lion with divers conflicts to weary him and at length to kill him the next Regimen that apears is that of ♄ for it is the will of God that the Work when once it 's begun should be carried on even unto the end and the law of those Operations is that the ending of one is the entrance of another the period of one the beginning of another Nor doth the Regimen of ☿ sooner pass away but his succesor ♄ comes in who is the next higher in succession the Lion dying the Crow is ingendred This Regimen lineal in respect of the colour for there is but one only colour and that is the blackest black but neither fumes nor winds nor any symbole of Life only the Compound will at some seasons appear dry otherwhiles boyling like to melted Pitch O sad sight the Image of eternal Death But withal a most pleasant Messenger to the Artist for the blackness is not ordinary intense so that it shines again for blackness and when thou seest thy Matter swelling beneath like unto a Paste rejoyce for know that within this there is shut a quickening spirit which in its appointed time will restore Life from the Almighty and these Carkases Be thou only careful of the fire which thou must be sure to govern with a sound judgement and I swear unto thee upon the Faith of an honest Man that if thou urge thy Fire so as to make ought to sublime in the dayes of this Regimen thou wilt destroy the Work irrecoverably be content then with good Trevisan to be detained in prison forty dayes and nights and suffer the tender Nature to remain below in the bottom which is the Nest of their Conception knowing for certain then that when the period of time is expired which the Almighty hath appointed the spirit will arise glorious and glorifie its body it will ascend I say and be circulated sweetly and without violence and from the Centre it shall ascend unto the Heavens and again from the Heavens it shall descend to the Centre and it shall receive the vertue of that which is above and that which is beneath CHAP. 26. Of the Regimen of Jupiter AFter black ♄ ♃ succeeds who is of divers colours for after the putrefaction and corruption which is made in the bottom of the vessel through the command of God thou shalt again see change the colours and a circulating sublimation This Regimen is not durable for it continues not more than three weeks space in which time all colours imaginable in the World will be to be seen of which no certain account can possibly be rendred In these dayes the showres shall be multiplyed continually and at the last after all these things most beautiful to behold there shall shew it self a whiteness at the sides of the vessel like unto rays or hairs then rejoyce for now thou art hapily run through the Regimen of ♃ The greatest caution in this Regimen is lest when the Chickens of the Crow have left their Nest they return to it again also lest you draw out the water too immoderately so the earth beneath want it and be left dry and unprofitable in the bottom lastly lest thou waterest thy earth so intemperately as to suffocate it which errour thou shalt help by the good Regimen of external Fire CHAP. 27. Of the Regimen of Luna AFter the finishing of Jupiter's Regimen about the closing of the fourth moneth the sign of the Moon Crescent shall appear unto thee and know that the whole Regimen of ♃ is imployed about the washing of Letton the washing Spirit is very white in its nature but the body which is to be washed is very black in the passage whereof to white all the middle colours shall be seen after which all will become white not in a day but gradually it shall arise from white to the whitest of all and know that in this Operation there shall be a season in which all shall appear like to liquid Argent Vive and this is called The sealing of the Mother in the belly of her own Infant which she brought forth and in this Regimen there shall

through every Age is reducible in our water only and is then living and ours Even as Wheat sown in the ground doth change its name and is called the Husbandman's Seed-corn either for Bread or other uses as well as for Seed even so it is with Gold as long as it is in the form of a Ring a Vessel or Mony 't is the vulgar Gold but as concerning its being cast into our water 't is Philosophical In the former respect it is called Dead because it would remain unchanged even to the Worlds end in the latter respect it is said to be living because it is so potentially which power is capable of being brought into Art in a few daies but then Gold will be no longer Gold but the Chaos of the Sophi therefore well may Philosophers say That their philosophical Gold differeth from the vulgar Gold Which difference consisteth in the Composition For even as that Man is said to be dead which hath already received the sentence of Death so is Gold said to be alive when it is mixed in such a Composition and put upon such a fire in which it will necessarily receive a germinative life in a short time yea 't will demonstrate the actions of a life beginning and that within a few daies Therefore the same Sophi that say their Gold is living do bid thee the Searcher of Art to revive the dead the which if thou knowest to do and to prepare the Agent and rightly to mix the Gold it will soon become living in which vivification thy living Menstruum will dye Therefore the Magi command thee to revive the dead and to kill the living They do at the first entrance call their water living and say that the death of one principle with the death of another hath one and the same period Thence 't is evident That their Gold is to be taken dead and their water living and by compounding these together the seed-Gold will by a short decoction vivifie or quicken and the live ☿ will be killed that is the spirit will be coagulated with the dissolved bodie and both of them putrifie together in the form of dirt or mud until all the members of the Composition are rent or dispersed into Atoms Here therefore is the naturality of our Magistery The Mistery which we so much hide is to prepare the ☿ truly so called the which cannot be found upon the earth ready prepared to our hands and that for singular reasons known to the Adeptists In the ☿ we neatly amalgamate pure Gold purged to the highest degree of purity and filed or beaten and being shut in the glass we daily boyl it the Gold is dissolved by the vertue of our Water and returneth to its nearest matter in which the included life of the Gold becomes free and takes the life of the dissolving ☿ which in respect of the Gold is the same as good earth in respect of the Grain of Wheat In this ☿ therefore the Gold being dissolved doth putrifie and must be necessarily so by the necessity of Nature therefore after the putrefaction of death there riseth the new Body of the same Essence with the former Body and of a more noble substance 〈◊〉 takes on it the degrees of virtuality proportionable to the difference between the four qualities of the Elements This is the reason of our Work this is our whole Philosophy We have said therefore That there is nothing in our Work secret but ☿ only the Magistery of which is rightly to prepare it and extract the hidden ☉ it contains and to Marry it in a just proportion with Gold and to govern it with the fire as the ☿ requireth because Gold doth not of it self fear the fire and as far forth as 't is united with the ☿ so far doth it render it able to abide the fire Therefore this is the Labour and Work to accommodate the regiment of the heat to the capacity of ☿ his abiding it but he that hath not rightly prepared his ☿ and should joyn Gold therewith his Gold is yet the Gold of the Vulgar because 't is joyned with such a foolish Agent in which it remaineth as much unchanged as if it had been kept in the Chest nor will it lay off its own bodily nature by any Regiment of the Fire whatsoever where an Agent is not alive within Our is then a living and quickning soul and therefore our Gold is Spermatical as Wheat sown is Seed-corn when as the same Wheat would in the Barn remain Bread-corn only and dead and though it were buried in a pot under the earth as the West-Indians are wont to hide their Fruit or Corn in pits in the earth fenced against the access of water yet unless it be met withal by the moist vapour of the earth 't is dead and abides without fruit and is plainly remote from Vegetation I know there are many which will carp at this Doctrine and say That he affirms it Gold of the Vulgar and running ☿ is the material Subject of the Stone But we know the contrary Go to therefore ye Philosophers examine your Purses although you know such things have ye the Stone Verily as for my self I do not possess it by theft but by the gift of my God I have it I have made it and daily have it in my power have often form'd it with my own hands and I write the things I know But I write not to you Therefore deal with your Rain-waters May-waters your Salts tattle of your Sperme that it is more potent than the Devil himself slander and revile me Believe ye that this your evil speaking will sadden me I say that Gold only and ☿ are our Materials and I know what I write and the searcher of all hearts knoweth that I write the truth nor is there any cause to accuse me of envy because I write with an unterrified Quill in an unheard-of style to the honour of God to the profitable use of my Neighbours and contempt of the World and its Riches because Helias the Artist is already born and now glorious things are declared of the City of God I dare affirm that I do possess more Riches than the whole known World is worth but cannot make use thereof because of snares of Knaves I disdain I loath and deservedly detest this Idolizing of Gold and Silver by the price whereof the pomp and vanities of the World are celebrated Ah filthy Evil Ah vain Nothingness Believe ye that I conceal these things out of envy No verily for I protest to thee I grieve from the very bottom of my Soul that we are driven as it were like Vagabonds from the Face of the Lord throughout the earth But what need many words That thing that we have seen taught and wrought which we have which we possess and know these do we declare being moved with meer compassion toward the studious and with Indignation of Gold and Silver and of pretious Stones not as