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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26665	Centrum naturæ concentratum, or, The salt of nature regenerated for the most part improperly called the philosopher's stone / written in Arabick by Alipili ... ; published in Low Dutch, 1694, and now done into English, 1696, by a lover of the hermetick science.; Centrum naturae concentratum. English	Ali Puli.; Brice, E.	1696 (1696)	Wing A931; ESTC R18664	26,537	97

Air because it may be handled and rests in stillness and yet it is Air Earth and Water together the birth of a triple union of Air Earth and Water The various Creatures arise from heat moving it self in the Animal Vegetable and Mineral Kingdom which thus from unity return again to triplicity and appear under the figure of Air Water and Earth Infinite is this process of Nature there is not a Materia whether Vegetable or Mineral can propagate and multiply its self unless its Seed be first made a viscous Water or is already such all the Animals are progenerated and procreated by such a Water in all vegetable Seeds that viscous whiteness appears before any thing can grow from it The very Minerals and Metals proceed from such a viscous Water and must of necessity return to it Thus without any addition in themselves they ought by the Artist to put on a better nature If any Animal Mineral or Vegetable arrive to a radical solution instantly will apppear either a viscous Water or Earth Therefore the ends of things do excellently agree with their beginnings But now in every viscous Water there lies hid intimately in the Center a hidden Center concentrated which I call by the name of the Salt of Nature This Salt is the Light of the World Every where where it fixes its seat it drives its circumferences to motion it does illuminate strengthen and uphold them in their motions But this very Salt without the Divine Spirit of Nature does adhere and is annexed to the invisible speaking of the Divine word and by this light is nourished and moved This is that Salt which Christ among all created things only caled good And it is that Spirit which ascends up into the Airy Heaven and which again descends which restrains the Winds and holds them in the Fists of its power which gathers together the Waters into their places This Spirit of Salt is the medium of all things by which the highest are knit with the lowest and keep in harmony From both the Natures both superiour and inferiour it hath nutriment in abundance and in like manner doth give and divide its plenty to all things By it and through its virtue Vegetables and Minerals do grow and by it the divine Power doth perform whatsoever he will in the Firmament in the Air the Earth the Sea and all in deeps By this he commands the Clouds to appear from the ends of the Earth This Spirit is the cause and beginning of the Lightning and the Clouds he commands the Winds to come from hidden places This Spirit is the Instrument by which God wills that terrible thundrings be heard from the Clouds For this cause the satness of the Earth is in it and wonderfull plenitude of benediction Without this nothing in nature can subsist It is found every where the poorest as well as the King seeks his nourishment from it and conservation of his vital Spirit O Lord how great and wonderfull and how many are the works of thy hands Thou hast ordained all things wisely The Earth declares thy goodness and fullness who sillest all things Praise ye the Lord. Hallelujah From this Salt if it be regenerated by an Artist a wonderfull and noble thing proceedeth which maketh every corrosive thing sweet every weak and infirm thing sound and strong This thing giveth both Riches and Health and in this life it deserves the name of a most pretious Treasure Neither is there a greater thing amongst visible things which exist in this time than this which sometimes the Lord bestows upon some men for a special cause It is a Type and Image of the Resurrection and Immortality and our Heavenly Father by the operations and existence of this Essence hath in great perspicuity made plain unto us the understanding of the highest Mysteries I have seen by this thing as through a Glass the Image of the Creation and the distribution and ordination of that Mass which they call the Chaos the amicable Seed or Effluvium of the 3 Principles the separation of that Seen into various forms I have also seen by this thing how the Eternal Word was made Flesh I have seen the internal splendour of his glorious light and the veil of the Humane Flesh by which as by a Cloud that glory was cover'd how he walked among the Pharisees doing many Miracles and because his appearance was in so mean a figure they inflicted on him the highest contempts and torments and last of all undergoing death he entred into the Sepulchre and with a glorious and clarified Body ascended up into Heaven and from thence how by his Spirit he freed his Brethren and Sisters from infirmities and how even to this day by the holy Effluvium of his light and tincture he flows into prepared and faithfull Souls and there makes all holy things holier and better and at length perfects them until the day of the universal and last Judgment and the time of the new World Great are the works of God he that sets his mind upon them will find his delight in them He hath left the monument of his wonders with us he who is for ever mercifull and kind Hallelujah But although this Salt as has bin said is every where and in all places according to number weight and measure every where the matter of every thing yet it cannot so easily be sound neither is it out of all things fit to all things He that desires to make Gold he ought to be carefull to go about it by Gold or the nearest matter to Gold say the more wise and it is their opinion that the change of any one thing into a better cannot proceed unless it be in its own species kind and likeness and so they have believed that Animai Vegetable and sharp powers avail nothing to the perfection of Metals but are altogether unprofitable but they affirm that every of the three Kingdoms as they call them is in its own nature separated and divided from the other This is a perverse opinion in him who desires to shew the way in which I will not goe But I say this that all things come grow and proceed from one root but the only diversity of the matter and motion causeth the diversity of the subjects One virtue and power filleth the universal orb of the Earth and Heavens and bringeth it self into forms and figures gross and subtile sweet and sour hard and soft Animal Vegetable and Mineral But I cannot at this time pass over this in silence that that Spirit and Universal Salt of Nature though it be nearest to the breath of the divine speaking and ministers to all things its increated power yet it can produce nothing new but is only made use of by the word of God sustaining and upholding all things for the sustentation conservation and motion of those works which sometime began to have their being by the alone word of God creating them Here those Doctors are to be

of the Head the pores parts and clandestine exits beneath and above Here if thou canst from the inferiour parts of the World draw out the inward Centre or Salt of Nature or from the superior the Heart or Center most of all hidden thou shalt be to me Magnus Apollo But greater yet will I admire thee if thou canst find out the Astral and Central Salt of Nature in abundance and great plenty united in one thing as in Man If thou knowest this I will confess that thou possessest natural wisedom and I promise thee that with this light thou canst unlock the most hidden and recluse mysteries of Nature and make samiliar to thee hidden treasures He that hath the knowledge of the Microcosm cannot long be ignorant of the knowledge of the Macrocosm This is that which the Aegyptian industrious searchers of Nature so often said and loudly proclaimed that every one should know himself This speech their dull Disciples took in a moral sense and out of ignorance assixt it in their Temples But I admonish thee whosoever thou art that desirest to dive into the inmost parts of nature if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee thou wilt never find it without thee If thou knowest not the excellency of thine own house for what doest thou seek and search after the excellency of other things The universal Orb of the Earth contains not so great mysteries and excellencies as a little Man formed by God to his Image And he that desires the primacy amongst the studiers of Nature will no where find a greater and better reserve to obtain his desire than in himself Therefore I will here follow the example of the Aegyptians and from my whole heart and certain true experience proved by me speak to my Neighbour in the Aegyptians words and with a loud voice now proclaim O Man know thy self in thee is hid the treasure of treasures Thine it is by the external breath in the Air to enjoy that breath of the Firmament which the wonderfull Astrum attracting from the supercoelestial Waters hath breathed into the middle region of the Air where it by the motion of the Air suffers it self in the Air to be coagulated and incorporated with the Air. Thou O Man art he who thro' the Air enjoyest the breath and power of the Water and Earth and in thy self enjoyest both the Elements and maked them one and thy self not knowing what a treasure thou hast hidden in thee from the coagulation and consent of these powers producest an essence called by us the expert the great and miraculous mystery of the World that is the true fiery Water Eschva-mayim Hascha-mayim yea it surmounts in its power the Fire Air Earth and Water for it dissolves and radically incrudates the mature constant and very fixt fire abiding mass and matter of Gold and reduceth it into a fat and black Earth like to thick Spittle wherein we find a Water and the true Salt destitute of all ardor vehemency and corrosive nature of the Fire There is nothing in the whole world to be found which can doe this nothing is shut to it and though it is a precious thing more precious than every thing yet the poor as well as the rich has it in the same and equal plenty The Wise men have sought this thing the Wise men have found it Hermes of this thing composed his twenty and eight Books and these Books I have seen with these Eyes and the Wise men of the new World have them and keep them in their own hands without any mixture of falshood And you my Friends seek this in divers things but perhaps none of you have known its secret recesses where it is hid or have found its ways and can tell what shape it shall be of if at any time he chance to see it But it is I tell you the simple and plain truth the Spiritual Water and Watery Spirit the Water of Life which Adam and Eve brought out of Paradice with them for their consolation and which by their Offspring they left to posterity O noble Water lucid and sweet O despised Water obscure and bitter O Water comforting us till death This is that Corner-stone which the wise builders the great Phylosophers and expert Masters of Alchymie and of Israel from unskilfull ignorance neglecting rejected even to this day Sometimes at length open your Eyes O mortal Men with your whole heart love God and your Neighbour pray in Humility and Meekness that the Lord would be gracious to you and turn the darkness of your Mind into Light In these words I have openly shewed the way and to these I will add over and above this further Explication The World in which the matter of the Sophy is nighest and best to be found is Man the highest Artifice is in him his metalline Mine is to be opened the tenth time the Brass which there is dug is the best and worst in Nature the Water most precious and most vile the Water Earth together and always in themselves joyned with another thing the Son Birth and Seed of the most pure Bodies is born in Man for his profit and necessity its name is Tessa If by your industry you have found your matter seperate the pure from the impure without fire or admixtion of any other thing prepare a virgin-Virgin-earth which ought to be without Odour without Tast without Colour seperate from that the Central Salt the Microcosmick Vitriol the Philosophick Venus the Mercury of the Microcosm the Philosophick Luna purifie and produce out of it a Son more noble than his Parents Then thou wilt see the causes and reasons that imprest the Egyptians that they gave the Signature of Luna and Venus to Argent Vive why they put beneath the sign of Copper the character of Luna above The uppermost or Astral Salt is most volatile sweet and shines and glisters like pure Silver and it s nothing else than the Silver of the Sophy and the Mercurial Saline Spirit But the central Salt is a Vitriol of infinite wonderfull and ineffable Virtue which coagulates the Argent Vive and changes it into pure Silver But Venus is inclosed in Saturn's Vestment from which she must be freed that she may appear Naked in her Beauty to the Eyes of the Artist From these two kinds of Salt all the Metals are generated and there is the same reason of the Microcosm as of the Macrocosm So I have shewn you the Metalliue Mine in your own Body and have demonstrated to you how out of it with the addition of no other thing you may prepare Gold Argent Vive Copper Lead c. I shew you the way which I my self have gone for I have seen with a moderate and due fire produced out of this matter the medicine of the 〈◊〉 Minerals and Animals concerning which so many Books have been disperst about Whether the ancient or modern Phylosophers have gone in this way it 's not my business now