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A26735	Basil Valentine his Triumphant chariot of antimony with annotations of Theodore Kirkringius, M.D. : with the true book of the learned Synesius, a Greek abbot, taken out of the Emperour's library, concerning the philosopher's stone.; Triumph-Wagen Antimonii. English	Basilius Valentinus.; Kerckring, Theodor, 1640-1693.	1678 (1678)	Wing B1023; ESTC R14540	139,396	187

than a meer Vapour which is extracted from the Elementary ●arth by the Superior Stars as by a Sydereal Distillation of the Macrocosm which Sydereal hot Infusion with an Airy-Sulphureous Property descending upon inferiors so acts and operates as in those Metals and Minerals is implanted spiritually and invisibly a certain Power and Virtue which Fume afterward resolves it self in the Earth into a certain Water from which Mineral Water all Metals are thenceforth generated and ripened to their Perfection and thence proceeds this or that Metal or Mineral according as one of the three Principles a●quires Dominion and they have much or little of Sulphur and Salt or an unequal Mixture of the weight of them whence some Metals are fixed that is some constant and stable some volatile and easily mutable as is seen in Gold Silver Copper 〈◊〉 Tin and Lead Besides these Metals other Minerals also are generated of the three Principles according to the Communication and Participation of the unequal weight of them as are Vitriol Antimony and many other Marchasites or other Electrums and Minerals which for brevity sake we here omit But Gold in its Astrum and Beginning was imbibed with a much more perfect Sulphur and 〈◊〉 much more perfect Mercury than all other Meta●● and Minerals and therefore its operative Virtue is much more potent and more efficacious than the Astrums of other Metals Yea all Virtues whatsoever are dispersed in other Metals and many more than them are found in the Astrum of Gold only Moreover I say when that one thing is brought to further Maturity by Fire it contains more Perfection than all Metals and Minerals together There is one only Mineral of which I have often made mention already in which is found a Sulphur of Sol equally as strong and powerful yea more potent and more strong than in Gold it self so also there are two kinds of Metals found in which this Predominancy powerfully Triumphs of which at this time I have neither will nor disposition to write but I am willing to keep within the Bounds I have set my self in treating of the Essence of Antimony touching which I purpose now to speak Therefore Antimony is a Mineral made of the Vapour of the Earth changed into Water which Spiritual Syderal Transmutation is the true Astrum of Antimony which Water by the Stars first afterward by the Element of Fire which resides in the Element of Air is extracted from the Elementary Earth and by Coagulation formally changed into a tangible Essence in which tangible Essence viz. whence Antimony is formally made is found very much of Sulphur predominant of Mercury not so much and of Salt the least of all three yet it assumes so much Salt as it thence acquires an hard and immalleable Mass The principal Quality of it is dry and hot or rather burning of Cold and Humidity it hath very little in it as there is in Common Mercury in Corporal Gold also is more Heat than Cold. These may suffice to be spoken of the Matter and three Fundamental Principles of Antimony how by the Archeus in the Element of Earth it is brought to perfection Yet the Lovers of Chymistry should not think this Philosophick Reason by me alleadged of absolute necessity to them nor need they be solicitous to know in what Center the Astrum of Antimony rests or from what Root it slows but should rather desire to learn the Utility and use thereof viz. which way it ought to be prepared and reduced to its State that they may know its Virtue Power and Operation touching which in times past so many Things have been written and to this Day are mentioned and spoken of by all men of all States and Conditions For the Learned as well as the Unlearned hope to have their ardent and insatiable Desire satisfied by This therefore I will not detain the Reader with ambiguous Discourses or tedious Delays but simply teach every Thing which I by great Study and Diligence which I have often imployed about Antimony could find out touching the Essence of Antimony For no man by reason of the shortness of Life can know or search out all its Arcanum's because in Preparation of Antimony one new Wonder follows another perpetually one Degree succeeds a former Degree Colour follows Colour and one Virtue Power or Operation always manifests it self greater than another And to begin here I say Antimony is meer Venom not of the kind of the least Venoms but such as by which you may destroy Men and Beasts so venomous a power is diffused through the whole Substance of this Mineral Hence ariseth the common Exclamation of all men For the People unskilful Doctors and all Those to whom the ground of true Medicine is unknown do with one mouth proclaim it Venom Venom Poyson say they as I my self above confessed lies in Antimony For this Cause let us disswade all men from its use for it endangers the Health and Life Therefore Doctors resident in Princes Courts admonish Monarchs Princes and other Potentates not to use Antimony Other Scholasticks cry out Beware you in no wise admit Antimony into Medicinal Use for it 's meer Poyson these the Inhabitants of Cities and Villages follow And this far spread Clamour so moves the greatest part of Mortals as Antimory in these our Days is very ill spoken of and no man dares put confidence in the Medicine thereof which in it is found so various and unexpressible For truly and holily I affirm as truly as GOD is the Creator of all things visible which are contained in Heaven or Earth which either have come or in time to come shall come unto our knowledge that under Heaven or by the Rays of the Sun with the Guidance of Experience can be found or demonstrated no greater Medicine than is in this Mineral yea there is no Subject in which so fluently and abundantly can be found such most certain Remedies for Health as shall be declared by sure and undeniable Experiments to be in Antimony Son attend to this my Discourse and do thou Reader give heed to my Writings and do you wise men of the World diligently observe my Declaration of Antimony founded on Experience For my Theory ariseth from Nature and my Practice proceeds from certain Experience which shews its manifold Utility and infinite Ways produceth the same not without the incredible Admiration of all men But I assent to you and confess as I have before acknowledged in my Writings that Antimony at first is meer Venom and before Preparation hath nothing in or with it self but Poyson and that I affirm to be true But you whosoever you are insignized or not insignized with the Degree of Doctor Master or Batcheler whether skilful in Art or by some other Priviledge promoted you I say who so inconsiderately and so arrogantly without Truth exclaim and prate against me pause a while and forget not your own Argument hear what I have here to say Antimony is Venom therefore

another Oyl Take Mercury mortified which is sublimed to clearness and Splendor and sold by Apothecaries and Antimony of each equal parts Grind them together and distil them by such a Retort as will retain the Spirits thrice and afterward rectifie this Oyl with Spirit of Wine Then the Operation is absolved and the Oyl becomes red as Blood but at first it is White and like Ice or congealed Butter This Oyl effects wonders in many Affects where Nature gave no hope of Amendment and it always mostly shews its force virtue power and efficacy in the perfect Emendation of Evil into Good By Addition may be prepared another Oyl very profitable in external Wounds Take of Antimony one part Sulphur one part Sal-Armoniack or Salt of Urine purified half a part and Calx-Vive two parts Expel the Oyl strongly whatsoever is sublimed that grind with the Caput-mortuum and thereon again pour the Oyl distilled off and thrice distil it then the Oyl is prepared When old Wounds can in no wise be healed then use this Oyl For it is strong potent and penetrative and lays a good Ground even as Oyl of Vitriol doth for future Sanation An admirable Balsom of divers Ingredients among which is Antimony very useful in old Wounds is thus prepared Take of Sulphur â„¥ iiij set it over a moderate Fire to melt and put into it half a pound of Mercury and stir the Mixture so long together as until both become one Mass This Mass grind to Powder for it is made as Cinnabar is wont to be prepared then grind with it â„¥ iiij of Antimony of red Arsenick â„¥ iiij of Crocus Martis â„¥ ij and of Powder of Tiles â„¥ viij Put all these into a Glass Cucurbit and sublime them as such things are wont to be sublimed and in this Sublimation you will have Rubies in Colour not inferiour to the Oriental but they are not fixed for they are volatile and fly from the Fire Let the Artificer separate these Rubies from the Cinnabar which ascends in the Sublimation grind them to Powder and extract them with strong Vinegar This being done let him abstract the Vinegar leasurely in B. M. and a Powder will remain this Powder grind small as before and having put it into another Glass extract its Tincture with Spirit of Wine and separate the remaining Feces This Extraction with Spirit of Wine digest in B. M. well closed for one Month. Then abstract the Spirit of Wine as you abstracted the Vinegar and put the remaining Powder of Wine into a flat Glass Dish and set that Dish in a Cellar into a Pail full of Water that it may Swim upon the Water as a Boat So doing the Powder which is in the Glass will in a few days resolve it self into a clear and perlucid Liquor This Liquor is salutary in old open Wounds and is a vulnerary Balsom in like Accidents if put into them and they covered round with a common Stiptick Plaister In diuturnal open Wounds it leaves no man destitute of help although such as in the Cure of which all other Remedies have been tried in vain Of open Ulcers which have their Original from within I speak not here for they cannot perfectly be healed without internal Remedies which drye up all Fluxions and radically extirpate the Disease although at this time few are found who bend their thoughts this way or take any Course to touch the Root it self of those Diseases of which I now treat If Men would in their Minds well consider the Calamities of Life into which the Fall of our first Parents precipited us and seriously weigh that Original Sin and the great troop of Evills thence issuing Viz of Sadness Anguish Diseases and Miseries they certainly would spend their time better and imploy more labour to search out the health of their neighbours so strictly commended to them by the Supream Ruler of Heaven and by him commanded as their proper Duty But how many with grief be it spoken shunning labour consume their time unprofitably and do not what was to be done by them but what they formerly have done and still have a lust to do being affrayd to do so much as will soyl their Fingers Ends as if they did envy the Tradesman who perhaps gets a small Gain by selling Soap which they would not willingly buy to wash their delicate hands Are not all we miserable Mortals that live here Strangers in the Earth possessing nothing that we can call ours Are not all Things we here use the Goods of our Lord lent to us whilst we live and no longer Therefore we ought so to behave our Selves in using them that supported with a good Conscience we may be able to stand in that Day in which an Account is to be given for them and be not for our Ingratitude cast into Prison and utter Darkness where shall be weeping and gnashing of Teeth If this were the Meditation and this the Intention of every Man he would be like a Monster if he should think of admitting Sin in himself or of neglecting his Office and all Men would with a certain Emulation strive to pleasure their Neighbours with the Gifts received from GOD. But these things are remote from the thoughts of the World and Wordly Men Money Money is the Scope of all their Intentions this the Potent seek directly or indirectly and for this the Poor are subservient to them that they also may participate of the Mammon of Iniquity Yet take heed I advise you to take heed lest the Bones of that Flesh sticking in your Throat Suffocate you or the Back-bones of Fishes pierce your Heart But what doth Admonition help which the World little esteemes of and derides Hear I pray you an History or learn a Parable When I according to my Vow undertook a Pilgrimage to St. James to visit that holy Place as a Stranger I prayed to GOD and bound myself with a Vow that if the granted me an happy Return to my Monastery I would render him due Prayers He granted my Request and I daily return Thanks to him But I thought many more would have rejoyced with me and have given thanks to the same GOD for the famous Reliques which at that time I brought with me to our Monastery for Consolation of the Poor and many Others that it might procure to it self a Name in this perishing Valley of Tears that could not bee wiped out by any Oblivion Yet hence few were rendred either better or more grateful to GOD for so great a benefit but persevered in Derision and Contempt of that which GOD will vindicate in the last Day But of these enough at this time let us proceed in our Instruction of Antimony whence yet another Medicine may be prepared which I my self have experienced to be very salutary and effectual in every kind of Feavers and in the Pestilence Grind Antimony subtily put it into a Glass Retort and distil it with a strong fire without any Addition 3. or

Leave is to be given to all who treat of Sacred Things Viz. to declare those Things which they are willing to discover not to the unlearned ignorant Deriders but only to Men worthy and to such as sincerely desire and aspire to the knowledge of the same in a certain singular and Parabolical kind of Writing In which our Author is the more to be excused because when he comes to the greatest of Mysteries which he intended to explain in this Book he betakes himself to certain hiding Places of Parables and with the Heaven of Piety which is wont to cover all things yea even the most wicked he so veils his Secrets as None but Pious and sincere Disciples of Art can with the acuteness of their sight penetrate these Clouds do thou therefore Dum sugit ad Salices se cupit ante videri with a certain intellectual Luxury sport with him he will not delude Thee themselves as Icarus and his Father Daedalus in times past did if credit may be given to the Ancient Writings of Poets But when I soared too near the Sun my Feathers with it's vehement heat were consumed and burnt I fell headlong into the depth of the Sea yet to me in this my extream Necessity invoking GOD help was sent from Heaven which freed me from all peril and the present Destruction For an Angel hastned to my assistance who commanded the Waters they should be still and instantly in that deep Abyss appeared a most high Mountain upon which at length I ascended that I might thereon examine whether as Men had affirmed there was any Friendship There hath been no Man who had darted his sight but as it were through a Lattice into the Penetrals of Chymistry who did ever deny this Influence of Superiors upon Inseriors Therefore let Basilius so holily affirming and so often openly declaring it to Men be credited by those who the true Light being not yet risen upon them do by feeling without sight practice Chymistry and Familiarity between Superiors and Inferiors and whether the Superior Stars have acquired power from GOD their Creator to produce any one Thing like themselves in the Earth And having searched into Things I found that whatsoever the Ancient Masters had so many Ages since committed to Writing and delivered to their Disciples who earnestly desired to be the true Imitators of them was as I may say more true than Truth it self Wherefore as is fit I give prayse and thanks to my Lord and Heavenly Father for his incomprehensible Works In very deed that I may expound the matter in few Words I found all Things which are generated in the Bowels of Mountains to be infused from the Superior Stars and take their beginning from them in the form of an aqueous Cloud Fume or Vapour which for a very long time fed and nourished by the Stars is at length educted to a tangible form by the Elements Moreover this Vapor is dryed that the Watriness may lose its Dominion and the Fire next by help of the Air retain the Ruling Power Of Water Fire and of Fire and Air Earth is produced which notwithstanding are found in all things consisting of body before the Separation of them Therefore this viz. Water is the first Matter This is an old Song this is the Sum of Art from this Imitation of Nature is found the lesser Stone of Fire from this it is made Whensoever it is prepared from the Same also the great Philosophick Stone derives its Original This is the Water of Anaxagoras the Fire of Empedocles and Aristotle's first Matter of which all things have been and to this Day are made Which is clearly evident in the Nutrition of Man the Growth of a Tree and in the Generation of Metalls For that which constitutes Flesh Woods and Metalls is not taken from Food Rain or Earth but is infused into them from elswhere That very Thing is the Aliment which nourisheth all things but that it may be so variously specificate it must be separated from that Body in which it dwells and be joyned to another which by the Chymical Art is performed of all things which by the Dryness of Fire and Air is formed into Earth But now since my Intention is to describe the Stone of Fire how it is made of Antimony together with the Process of its Preparation which not only heals Men but Metalls also particularly it will be necessary before all Things to speak somewhat of these following Heads What properly the Stone of Fire is what is its Minera whether a Stone can be made without Matter or no what is the extreme difference of Stones and how many Species of them are found and lastly of their use In this my purpose I pray O Spirit of Heaven illuminate me that I may give a true and syncere Instruction viz. according as is fit for me and the matter it self permits Indeed I have hopes of Eternal Absolution from this my Supream confessor who from Eternity possesseth the Throne of Mercy and will give Testimony of all Things when the Decretory Sentence shall be pronounced upon all Men in the last Judgement without any appeal Therefore first know and consider that the True Tincture of Antimony which is the Medicine of Men and Metalls is not made of crude and melted Antimony as it is sold by Merchants and Apothecaries but extracted from the Minera as it is taken out of the Mountains and before it is formed into Glass But how that Extraction should be made is the principal Work in which the whole Art consists Health and Riches attend him who rightly attains to that But my Reader you must diligently mind this viz. that the Tincture of Antimony prepared fixed and solid or the Stone of Fire as I name it is a certain pure penetrative spiritual and fiery Essence which is reduced into a coagulated Matter like the Salamander which in Fire is not consumed but purified and conserved Yet the Stone of Fire tingeth not universally as the Stone As much as Heaven is elevated above the Earth so much doth the true Stone of Philosophers differ from this Stone of Fire I my self do candidly confess that although I have found this yet I am very far distant from the other And this whatsoever it is I own to be received from the Wisdome of Basilius Do you take ●eed you be not deluded by your own phantasie and that others deceive you not of Philosophers which is made of the Essence of Gold it self To this no such power is given as that it should perform such things but it tingeth particularly viz Silver into Gold Tin also and Lead but Mars and Venus it toucheth not nor do they yield more then from them by Separation may be effected Moreover one part of it can tinge no more then five parts of Metall so as to persist in the Tryal of Saturn and Antimony whereas on the contrary the Great Stone of Philosophers can transmute to infinity Also in