and some would have it one thing comprising the nature of two as a Hermophradite or Embrio moreover some would have it absolutely two things as Male and Female Fire and Water or Water and Earth Sulphur and Mercury or Heaven and Earth Some likewise would have it consist of three Salt Sulphur and Mercu y ☉ ☽ ☿ Body Soul and Spirit Others would have it the four Elements and say the Conversion of them is the whole work And some again would have it a fifth Essence and Quintessential Spiritual Body and say their Mastery and Mistery consists in these five numbers 1 2 3 4 5. as in my said Epitaph and Circular Scutcheons appear thus comprehended in and by the Chaos and Products The Chaos in th' Excentrick Centre still Hath death's Heads Ternary Crows or owly Bill Whose square Face under Times confused Glass Of Fire and Water six days Angles pass Within the Spiny Bush Expansion till A Sabatean Rest makes all stand still After each Colour fram'd to th' owners praise Then all things multiply to the end of days The two in number are but one in kind And four in Nature three in one do bind And then the Quintessence wheels thrice in'ts Sphear To conquer all the Mortals every where Which Waters thus takes name from Icarus the lofty Eaglâ—s Son and Dedalus Philosophers true Sulphur and Mercury their uâ—ctuous Tincture and their water Dry. The Owl appears in darkness Yellowish Red And white are seen upon the Gooses Head The Bird of Paradise and Phoenix fly Which Starry brightness in th' Adeptists Skye Through Milkie Paths up to the Moon and Sun To multiply till the Adept have done Then each that 's worthy come and Feast you here With Apollo Hermes and â—inervah s Chear For here is Nectar and Ambrosia still Vnder these Hyerogliphicks take your fill All which nevertheles I acknowledge is really but one onely thing or Essence in the Root viz. the Philosophers ☿ although out of two or three particulars or more in kind and one operation of several parts as in my said Epitaph and Circular Figures comprised Nay indeed may be but one onely particular thing and one continued simple and single operation when duely prepared and superfluities removed But if one onely thing be taken then it is divided into several parts or if several things be taken they are brought to one and so may it be said of the Operation which all being but one the Philosophers nevertheless are pleased to distinguish it by its several Progressions Colours and Properties intimated by and within the said three figured Circles and their Titles all agreeing with this old Aenygma of Vitriol which being in many of the Metallick kind is and hath but one thing or substance and although but one yet may be opened divided and have several parts and being done be brought to one again in one single and simple operation of Nature Thus V. I. T. R. I. O. L. V. M. Visitabis Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem Veram Medicinam Visit the interiours of Earth Rectifying And you shall find the hid Stone and true Medicine And like it agreeing with this work of Palyugenius which hath two Hunc Juvinem Arcadium Insidum nimiúmque fugacem Prendite immersum stygiis occidite Lymphis Post Hiales Gremio impositum Deus excipiat Quem â—emnia Terra colit sublatumque in Cruce figat Tunc sepelite utero in calido dissolvite putrem Cujus stillantes Artus de corpore nostro Spiritus egrediens penetrabit ordine miro Paulatim extinctum nigâ—is revocabit ab umbris Aurata indutum Clamydâ—n Argentoque nitentem Projicite hunc demum in prunas Renovabiter alter Vt Phoenix quae tangit perfecta relinquit Corpora Naturae leges faedera vincens Mutabit species paupertatemque fugabit Englished thus Take this Arcadian slippery â—ad who 's apt to fly And in the Glittering Stygian Lake drown'd let him dye When Hiâ—ls juices in his breast God saves him from loss Whom Lemnian Earth doth nourish lift up fix t' a Cross Then in a warm Cave buried dissolve what 's Rotten From whose Synews drops of this our Body 's gotten Spirits will Piâ—rce and orderly from shades bring out This Offspring cloth'd with Gold and Silver round about At length project this on live Coals and you 'l soon see Another Phoenix like thereby renew d to be Which with its onely touch perfects all Bodies here Past the strict bond and laws of Natures Sphear And will change the Species to a higher degree Whereby all Grief may cease and Poverty shall flee And yet understand me rightly concerning the said work and matter of Philosophers that Gold for certain is the principle of Gold-making powder be it in what subject or appearance it will even as Fire is the principle of Firing For nothing can give what it hath not In Auro semina sunt Auri. As Augurellus and others testifie In Gold is the seed of Gold And even the same may be said of Lune when 't is a Masculine And their Mercury is the ground of both and contains all three and is the Earth in which it is sown and from whence it takes its original and is of their own Nature But this must be living Gold or Silver and not the common Gold or Silver which are Dead or the common fowl Quick silver And indeed these are more universal cheap common and easie to be had then most men even some Philosophers do think which caused Ingenious and Learned Taulodanus to write against the Subject of that worthy old Philosopher Bracescus though both true Philosophers and their several Subjects true and this made Claveus in his Chrysopeia and Argyropeia to doubt of some of Lullie's Processes For these Principles are to be found in one subject and in divers having a Golden Nature as Dunstan Arnold Guido Ripley Raimund Glauber and others do testiâ—e and more ways are to the Wood then one For out of every or any particular Metallick or Mineral Species may by due Philosophick preparation be extracted the subject for the Philosophers Stone and every Chymical work called particular may by purification good preparation sutable fixation volatisation and exaltation be made a universal work for Multiplication Nay out of every Element and Principle of and in Nature and almost every abject thing whatsoever may be extracted a Sulphurous Sol Lune or Mercury enlivened for the Philosophers work And St. Devogius affirms that the said first matter of Philosophers is easier to be touched with the hand then discerned or found by subtilty of Wit or Sophistick imaginations and saith he told it the Process literally to some who nevertheless had not confidence therein for the meanness of the same and therefore left it without trial And certainly the Antecedent and Primordial Ens Auri is in every Element and Principle the which are never so simple but out of each the other may
Vegitals with various motions But in Minerals more opprest with matter less apparent and seeming slain by congelation especially taken out of their Mines and Mechanically used and so onely preserves its bodily Being till Revived with new Ferment and Matter whereby the Body is opened again to manifest its living essential Moisture hid in the Centre wherein the seed and spirit of Life is placed as Fire and then revives and restores new operations in the new adjoined nourishment or matter And thus Nature by help of Art may transcend and as it were go beyond its self and so the Seed will still extend its power and Life as long and often as it be thus opened and fitted with new matter and Ferments For Form is Light the Source of central Heat Which cloth'd with Matter doth a Seed beget Wherein Life like Fire seeks it self t' increase And Eâ—ernize if Fuel ne're do cease Helmont in Butler and Sendivogius in his new Light partly testifie the same Now this Seed is no sooner produc'd but it assaies to change the matter and stamps its Character therein and so presently the Matter lives and the matter then Coworks together with the Form to attain that end to which the Seed implanted doth intend For all things live according to their kind Their Life is Light as therein you may find Quantum quidque habet Luminis tantum habet Numinis saith one And thus much for Form and Seed in general Know further now That Metals in the Mineral Kingdom are thus produced Their Sulphur unctuous Coagulates and fixeth a fluent moisture mineral called Mercury the which is a dry humidity that flows yet wets not hands its parts are so Homogeneal that the very Fire its self doth not easily separate them It is of waters Progeny yet far exceeds it in weight and firm composure which properties come not by chance but by Gods Decree Providence and Power from its Specificque Seed and its hidden inward Agent Form and Life from Anima Mundi which the Water before had not neither yet hath it parts dissimular hand or foot head or eye as Animals or otherwise as Vegitables but is all homogeneal and of most firm parts and Root Now Mercury hath most affinity with Gold known by their equal weight purity firm composure and easie mixture next with Silver then Jove Saturn Venus and last and least with Mars which is a Secret to understand and though Mercury may be mixt and made amalgame with all or any yet it will not enter into any in the Root without fit preparation and great Art but drive away one from the other in the Fire which is another secret now the reason is for that it and they are Dead or their Life hid imprisoned and Dormant within their Bodies as is said and the Sulphur fixt and sealed in the perfect Metals and earthly Fowl or Crude in the impersect which Mercury abhors and rejects or cannot Cope with being its self also in Fetters bound to his good behaviour and if you separate the fâ—ces of the latter which are imperfect yet you have but a fluid Mercury from them like the common and a Crude Sulphur too remote to join with Gold for Gold having passed its Enchantments and Câ—udities scorns to be defiled therewith any more wherefore common Crude Sulphur will easier join with other imperfect Mettals then with Gold but pure and fixt Sulphur sooner and better with Gold then with the rest and therefore if you would make use of the Sulphurs or Mercuries of the imperfect Metals or the common They must be each prepared and fitted with a living power and so acuate as to become a fiery quickning Agent before it can reincrudate open and enter the body of Sol whereby it s own Water may appear and its fiery Seed and Spirit of Life issue forth and be made active to work upon and in the said Female living Mercury it being Sols own Essence Flesh and Bone and its proper matter Earth and Matrix as is said wherein Seed will then quickly fructifie and increase for Sol though pure perfect and full of virtue in its self bodily must be Reincrudate Crucified and die to Nature that its Virtue and Tincture lockt up and onely single in its self Bodily might become exalted with its body and spiritually living and fixt together in heavenly mansions and so extend and communicate more largely its powerful Virtues and Tincture to imperfect Bodies and Spirits to redeem them from Thraldom Corruption and Fire by imbracing one grain of his bounteous pure Spirit and so be raised at last to him for Eternity For so Death and Destruction of outward Form will be but as a Back-door to the Soul and Spirits true Birth and its Bodies eternal Life and Union till it come at last to the highest perfection by its fulness of Tincture Thus is the Philosophical Corner-stone made a true Medicine though rejected and scoffed at by many And these are the effects hid from the voluptuous Covetous and Worldly-wise-philosophers and revealed to Solitary meek humble Spirits who forsake outward pomp and vanities to embrace the fruits of Piety and Wisdom Now observe further that every thing that is convertible into Gold hath its Mercury and Sulphur which either is or may be acuate and made fiery and living for a Philosophical preparation of and with Sol and so both the common and Metallick Mercury may be thus fitted and prepared to wed with Sol. All which Mercuries as is said beforehand in themselves are dead for Mercuries preparation is thus viz. By a mineral with sable silver Veins which is the Dragon born in Saturns Den devouring Cadmus with his Earthly Men. First then this Dragon double strengh ' to Mars Must be yet pierc't by him being God of Wars Then both will Perish and become a Star Where the young King is Born who is Solar Then wash equal Venus in 's Blood and let Them joyn till Vulcan take them in a Net Which Mercury gently on his Wings must bear Till he steals their Wealth and Sols body tare Wherein then Sol will freely shed his Seed And this is all whereof we stand in need Which ordered right you cannot choose but speed If you can prepare your Mercury better Do 't freely and care not for this Letter For all Sulphurs and Mercuries may serve your turn If pure and living join'd t' Earths will not burn CHAP. III. Of the Subject and Marks of the immortal Liquor Alchahest HEre Reader make a little pause and take this short hint for thy true instruction of the Alchahest and Macchabean Fire burning in Water and as a Serpent or Latex lying hid in the Cavernes of the Earth and in other things and places being nevertheless but one Anomolous Balsammick Salt passing through the world which almost every man knows and needs though he observes not the marks to be that thing I say it is the Primum ens Salium and hath a mark or cross affixt
of Nature by the Word of God and is bodily a seed of the water and all Elements from whence the water did spring or proceed or flow by the breathing of the Spirit of the Lord for a seed to all the world and abundantly increased by the moving of the Spirit of the Lord so that the whole Earth is formed out of it The fixed Salt is threefold as in the Earth in the Water and in Heaven The flying Salt also as in Rain Water and Dew Air and Wind. The Essential also is threefold as in the light Spirit and upper water The waters supplie three places or degrees for out of them them the world did subsist which is remarkeable always the one is hid in the other The flying Salt is the Key and openeth with it descending in the Spring that every thing raiseth from the dead greeneth and groweth and with its ascending in the Harvest shutteth them again The Elements are threefold namely Spiritual Soulish and Bodily There are three of the Spiritual Elements as bodily the Heaven Soulish the light and Spiritual the Spirit The Soulish are twofold as Wind and Air. The bodily also as Water and Earth Always the one is hid in the other and the one always comprehends the other six in it and always the one of them is bodily manifest visible and knowing or palpable but the other six are hid in it Each Element also in it self is threefold as spiritual soulish and bodily The spiritual earth is and are the Precious stones or Jewels and that is the body of the Spirit The soulish earth is the gold the spiritual water bodily are the Pearls the soulish is the Amber afterwards the Corals bodily In all these dwell many Powers especially if out of water and spirit by means of the Fire they are made new and spiritual All Elements are in the one with all their Powers which is a spiritual Rock out of which the water of Life doth spring to all Creatures and ebbeth and floweth in the whole world and filleth up Elementarily all in all And when in the end of the world this one is taken away from them then all the Elements are consumed in and by the fire CHAP. VI. Of the three special Principles Spirit Wind and Water THe three special Principles as far as they are Principles come according to their Original as the spirit from God the wind from the Nature and the water from the Rocks and Wells of the Element Every body in the Elementary world is out of the water even also Heaven and Earth All living soul and breath is from the wind in all bodies and all spirits are from the spirit The spirit hath by it the light and Heaven the wind the air the water the earth Now as every thing hath its original so it is of the same fed nourished and thither it returneth again Now the water is a gathered concentred and bodily palpable air The air is a soft sensible bodily gathered wind And the wind is a living gathered spirit But the spirit is such an out-spoken word which Createth and maketh some living thing so that it stands there essentially where it was before Psal 104. 29 30. In the beginning of the Creation the spirit moved on the water by which moving is understood the wind by which the spirit hath breathed on the waters and made them fertile for the Creation of the world All things that are move and have a Being have their original from the one infini eternal Father EHEVE JEHOVAH and JESSE which is the essential self-subsisting living word which is and was in the beginning and remaineth everlastingly to which word all other things are just nothing Through it all things are Created are preserved nourished and fed in their spirit and life as through the breath of the Almighty 4 Esd 16. 13. Heb. 1. 3. Mat. 4. 4. Now by the three special Principles as spirit wind and water which are Elements also all Creation is finished not only because they are the means by which the general Principles do work but also because they contain in them the right seed of all things and the same in the only true Element of which we made mention afore For these three bear in their body all Salt and feed fixed and flying and essential as also Heaven and Earth with all that is therein and bring forth into the world each to its proper self-subsisting or substance Now as all is produced out of the special Principles according to the Creation and Nativity But the sin with the curse and corruption hath made all evil so must all that is born anew return to water wind spirit and out of the spirit and spiritual water must by the wind be born anew to the Image of the Coelestials yet so that in their glory they be no other then Angelical and divine and bear the Image of the Coelestials This new birth goeth out of the upper waters and out of a Coelestial earth to speak Elementarily and are nothing else but salt There is another birth also that goeth out of the fire and is done in pain and torment The new birth out of the water and through the water is done in drowning by water to death That out and in the earth is done through death and Corruption The birth out of the fire as a contrary element is done in and through the fire in Hell Every new birth and regeneration is done through the spirit as also every Creation and alteration The new birth out of the water is done when water is to be poured upon that which shall be new born which the bad contrary elementary doth drown kill and reduceth to nothing And on the contrary stirreth up the good draweth it out and maketh it glorious and distinguisheth the good from the bad rejecteth the bad and chooseth the good and keeps it The new birth out of earth is done when a thing is reduced to its proper earth dyeth and putrifieth therein then afterward cometh forth again and riseth out of the earth with a new and spiritual body and parteth with the naughty and corrupted The new birth in the fire is done when all is cast into the fire and that which doth not hold fire is consumed by degrees and only that which is spiritual remaineth and is saved and then afterward the new birth with a spiritual body cometh forth 1 Cor. 3 13 14 15. 1 Pet. 4 6. Although we speak here Physically and Elementarily yet understanding men will judge Theologically and the Wise may search Physically how every thing hath its true Earth Water and Fire and so mark and observe this mystery Now is the Spirit Wind and Water by which all things in the world are effected These the word sendeth forth to all Creations Births and Alterations These are never quiet for they are by and with the Word the Perpetuum Mobile as above was mentioned and co-operate continually into the Light Heaven Air and
Communion of such spirits at all neither should it be because it is the next degree to Witch-craft The Natural Magick can do much of which the wise Men of the East made use profitably who clime to Christ But the Angelical may do more yet and much more the divine But we must strive always after the best and Man hath within him a threefold Magnet or 〈◊〉 whereby he can draw to him all spirits in the world and can do wonders But what saith the Lord to it Mat. 7. 22 Luke 10 20. For by the natural Magick Devils may be cast out and great wonders done by it The Prince of darkness can turn to the shape of of an Angel of light and will have every where his hand in the work Now is a very dangerous time because all spirits are stirring because their end is so nigh that it is hardly believed The Air is fuit of spirits and the he Earth also is full of them and every man hath his proper Angel and his bad Angel also By the good Angels all good things man doth are set down truly and the bad Angels observe all evil that man doth and when once the books are to be opened men will be judged according to their works and words Well be it with him who hath blotted out his black Register with repenting tears The spirit we cannot see unless our eyes be opened Lastly between light and darkness light and fire is such a great difference as between life and death blessedness and perdition yea as between God and the Devil The light is and will be an Eternal dwelling of God But darkness and fire is an everlasting habitation of Devils and the damned CHAP XI Of the Principle of the fire and its Mystery THere is a threefold fire namely the fire of the contrary Element the fire of the Angels and the fire of the Devils The fire of the contrary element is threefold First before the fall a still resting and unmanifested fire without a burning flame Secondly after the fall a kindled manifested burning flaming fire Thirdly a cold waterish fire which doth not burn yet smoketh worketh into the earth upon Minerals and Metals With this cold waterish fire all things are forced and the Metals also for it doth calcinate them and turneth them as it were into ashes destroyeth and openeth them This fire is chiefly threefold as 1. Vegitable which is as it were tempered and is a well rectified Vineger which is extreamly useful Of which not many words Sat sapienti dictum Secondly it is a mineral fire which chiefly is the true spirit of Nitre a spiritual water out of Salt-peter which hath both heat and cold and is Infernal and Coelestial Thirdly Mercurial or Saturnine a strong Salt that hath not its fellow Without this no Metal is engendred nor broken or groweth in which is a great mystery hid more then can be Imagined But the true spirit of Nitre must not be prepared without a cold fire for the raging horrible and furious Hell which is in Saltpeter must in its devouring and consuming fire be over whelmed drowned and devoured and be reduced to a blessed Heaven Now when a Heavenly Water is at hand then a new birth from above out of water and spirit can follow Here lyeth hid a great Medicine in time of the raging Plague Head-aches Leavers Stone Gout and many more diseases to be used And truly the time is come when all things must be made manifest and although we have not yet with our hands prepared it yet the spirit of wisdom can teach us all what is secret and mystical who searcheth into all deepnesses and can shew testifie and make known to us that which no eye hath seen no◠Ear hath heard and which hath never entred into mans heart Thirdly There is also a Metalline cold fire which reduceth all Metals yea Gold it self to nothing only that noble grain in the Gold hidden stayeth and remaineth which cannot be forced and that fire is Lead Saturn which devoureth all Metals and consumeth also it self in the fire at last Even as the common fire doth consume and devour all wood and at last it self is consumed and goeth out But in the Cinders that remain there lyeth the treasure hidden which must be drawn out of it with hot water The Metals have two sorts of waters a Cold and a Hot and both are fire The Cold is Saturn Lead the Hot is Mercury Now as the one is an extream Hellish Cold so is the other extream hot of a Hellish Heat so that by reason of heat it stands in a continual flowing although it feels outwardly Cold. Now in this fire water the Metals especially Gold after their death are born anew namely in the Metalline world and Reign and yet are anew Clarified Christalline Spiritual Heavenly body which is so glorious that it can make inferiour and less precious yet to his nature not unlike Metals to his own substance So much is it worth to know the nature of fire and its mystery without which no good or profitable use of it may be had for our good for all must be killed first in the cold fire even as it were through its Winter according to the proceeding of nature must dye and putrifie if it shall be produced again in a new body Now the fire according to its principle is begotten out of darkness from thence it is produced and returneth into it again But darkness was begotten out of the Nothing and that Nothing stood there in the beginning of the Creation to the Something as a Testimony of that which was Created For all that is made and Created that was before nothing and before it be fashioned then it was not fashioned without a frame and was as it were a dark Ens or Being out of which afterward is born the Light that is a fashionable Being that is out of the invisible a visible thing is made Therefore the darkness and fire in a good sense and before the fall are an excrement of the Light yet are good and useful even as that which a Workmaster heweth or cutteth away from that matter which he intends to make some fashionable thing Even as Chips from wood are of the same substance with that which is framed out of it yet an excrement of it and when these Chips are flung into the fire they return to nothing So the contrary Elements when they are known they are no more good but an opposition adverse and stark nought Further be it known that in the divine world are no contrary Elements nay there can be none in it although their power hath pressed into it yea in the depths of God in which it grew dark when the Lord of glory dyed on the Cross and the fire of the raging wrath of God consumed the same and death and perdition killed him Who can speak it out or who knows what this saying doth mean Also in the Angelical world
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Of the Nature of things 9 Books 1650. 4 o vide Sendivogius Of the Supream Mysteries of Nature of the Spirits of the Planets occult Philosophy the Magical Sympathetical and Antipathetical Cure of Wounds and Diseases the Mysteries of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiack Lond. 1656. 8. Eug. Philalethes Anthroposophia Theomagica Lond. 1650 8. His Magia Adamica Lond. 1650. 8. His Anima magica abscondiâ—a or a Discourse of the universal Spirit of Nature Lond. 1650 8 His Euphrates or Waters of the East or a Discourse of the secret Fountain whose Water flows from the Fire Lond 1671. 8. Eir. Phil. Philalethes alias Geo. Starkies Marrow of Alchimy being an experimental Treatise of the secret and most hidden mystery of the Philosophers Elixir Lond. 1654. 8. Hugh Plats Jewel house of Art and Nature with divers Chymical Conclusions of the Art of Distillation c. Lond. 1594. 4 o. His Subterraneal Treasure Lond 40. Jo. Partridges Treasury of hidden secrets Lond 1591. 8 Nic. Prepositas Practice of approved Medicines precious Waters c. Lond. 1588 4 o. Sim. Partlisius His new Method of Physick or
Souls and Life out of Nature and that from Heaven through the Wind and Air from which all that hath breath doth live und feed as through the forth-going breath of the VVord contained in the second Principle for the word of God feeds every Spirit Life and Body with its breath or blowing upon because Life is in the word which beareth all things by his power even as it hath Created all things Now as all things consist of Body Soul and Spirit so they have three sorts of food to their ilfe substance the bodily food to the body out of the Elements as from that which cometh out of the waters and out of the Earth whence also the body doth come is taken and is made The soulish food to the Soul Life in every thing out of Nature through both the Elements of VVind and Air from whence also the Life and Soul doth bome The Spiritual food to the Spirit and that from God at from whom the Spirit is namely each Spirit according to its measure and to the Spirit in every way this food cometh from Heaven through the Spirit and Light as from the three Spiritual Elements from whence also the Spirit did come Nature doth assemble it self in her Spirits Life and body to the wind Air and water The Angelical world in its body is no earth as the Elementary is but it is the right body of the water out of which it subsisteth and that body is here beneath with us ICE but above it is an Angelical earth like unto a Christal And in a word it is a most noble Salt of Life fertile or constant or firm over all and is the Paradise in it self It is an Angelical Air which doth not fetch breath there as the living Soul for the Life of Nature is Eternal in regard of the end but it liveth and moveth in the Virtue of Gods word Eternally sine respiratione or without breathing Therefore death cannot Reign in the Angelical world over the Nature and over the Tree of Life but is rather overcome by it how much more by God for the Tree of Life stands unmoveable Therefore by the breaking of the fruit of this Tree at the glorious coming of Christ all shall come from death to life and shall be freed and redeemed from death Devil and Curse Lastly in its Spirit also it is of an Angelical Spirit by the power of the word and Testimony of God Thus namely that the Dragon hath no power over it but is conquered by the Spirit of the same is cast out and quite extruded and cast away How much more thâ—n by God Therefore seeing the Nature in her Spirit is the wind of the Almighty and a going forth of the Light in which God dwelleth and cannot come to that evil one or may not fall into an evil neither may it be blasted or poisoned by the breath of the old Serpent The Divine world in its being is compared to the most noble body of the water and earth as it were to a Heavenly body which is and are an Essential Spiritual Salt as the most noble and pure Gems precious stones and glistering Gold In its Life it is the breath of the Almighty a Soul and Life proceeding out of the mouth of God in and to an Eternal Life and in its Spirit the Spirit of the Lord it self who is God praised for ever God is the Spirit the Nature is the Soul or the Life and the Elements are the Body But be it known that each world hath its proper Nature and Element and that the one world is never changed into the other neither can it be altered nor one Principle general into another Now each Principle hath its proper Spirit Life and Body CHAP. V. Of the third general Principle namely of the Element GOd himself is all in all out of him are all things according to the Spirit by him are all things according to the word and to him are all things according to the Providence or Confidence Rom. 11. 36. Wisd 1. 7. Chap. 12. 1. Gen. 1. John 1. Psal 104. 27 28. 136. 25. 145. 15 16. The nature is all but not in all because she is not in God who hath his own Nature and the Elements also are not all but something only which is a Salt This something is from God after the Spirit from Nature after the Life and Soul and from the Spiritual water after the body And again the water out of the Salt each world is and doth flow out of the other The Nature stands to the Angelical world and is a flowing out of the divine world and the Elementary world is an overflowing of the Nature and Angelical world Lastly Man cometh forth out of the three worlds and is the concentred or conjoyned Centrum of all the worlds There are seven Elements or Powers of the world as Spirit Wind Air and Water Light Heaven and Earth and are such by which in and through which this world consists and subsists and without which it cannot subsist These seven Elements are Created out of such a one which in the Elementary world are all in all and are incorruptible namely Salt which is an excretion of Nature Execrementum quasi sobriè sumptum whereby in this world all things bodily subsist and are preserved Now there is a threefold Salt namely a Spiritual soulish and a Bodily and Palpable The Bodily is fixt and permanent both in Water and Fire Whence we know out of what wherein and whereby all things stand firm and constant both in the Water and the Fire that they may not be drowned and wherewith they are closed up The Soulish Salt is flying because life and Soul is in it and the growth of all whereby all things receive both body and life but when it cometh down again and turneth to the fixed Salt again then they receive Life But the Spiritual Salt is a right true essence and in this world the most noble Being of all Being Spiritus universi the Spirits of the Elements and their Light and Heaven in its Essence The Spiritual Salt dwelleth in the Spirit Light and Heaven and giveth to the body of the Resurrection as Spiritual from the Spirit Light and Heaven The Volans or flying Salt dwelleth in the Wind Air Rain and Dew this giveth out of wind and air to the body after death The fixed Corporeal Salt dwelleth in water and earth out of which this our body doth subsist But Salt is the right fixed Salt and the right water of Life which is a dry water and together water and Earth in which the air and wind is secretly hid and also the Heavens Light and Spirit in its depths which are then the seven Powers of the Element and world and all seven may easily undeniably and manifestly to the eye be demonstrated if the same be Anatomized This only Element of all Elements is a Power of all Powers in this World The Salt is an Excrement
Earth which four Elements stand still unmoveable into which the three special Principles do overflow with their body soul and spirit as to the Water Wind and Spirit and work out all and finish the same The water is as it were the Element the Wind is like as Angelical and the Nature and the Spirit is Divine CHAP. VII Of the particular principles Body Soul and Spirit Wâ—th those are the Principles inclosed and consists in a threefold Trinity and always one produceth another and stand always orderly in their subordinates and agree together that they make up a true and whole Harmony and are enclosed at last in the Light Life and Love The body of all them is and consists out of the water also the Earth the Water out of the Wind the Wind out of the Spirit and the Spirit oâ—t of God There is a threefold body namely a sensible or palpable out of Water and Earth a Soulish out of Wind and Air and a spiritual out of Heaven Light and Spirit So is an Elementary hody an Angelical and a Divine very well to be distinguished on man Further the Soul is corporeal out of the Air from whence it is fed also and soulish out of the Wind and Spiritual out of the Light The Spirit is Corporeal out 〈◊〉 from the Heaven Soulish out of the Light and spiritual out of the spirit of the Elements out of the Nature and of God according as the Creature is Out of these three general Principles Man hath also a threefold spirit according to his measure and is the perfectest creature Always one body dwelleth in the other and as soon as one body is dissolved and broken in the same moment another and more noble body is manifest and that in all things If now the body becometh nobler needs must the Spirit be more noble high and glorious But this is the body after which the wise do seek Namely the Salt which containeth all in it self This body they drown in a Water which floweth out of the Centrum of the Vegetables and draw out all vertues which afterward come together in a celestial spiritual body and afford that precious jewel All things that are killd and dye naturally are drownd in a cold Saturnine Water for all natural death is done by coldness but what is kill'd in the Fire without a Saturnine Water is not fit to Nature for a better state Only the Salt we seek in the fire and then through the Water and afterwards cleanse and purifie it with the Baptism of Fire and of Water We should therefore six our thoughts on the water and use the fire very carefully because it is a contrary Element before which nothing can subsist but only the Salt This is the true body of all Elements and of all things in the whole world if that be taken away thâ—â— all perisheth quickly and the Gold it self also in the Fire This is the right Heaven wherein dwell all powers and is in all things in the whole world their Heaven and is compared to the Tree of Life in Paradise Now the soul according to the highest degree is out of the nature According to the second degree from the Light and according to the third degree out of the Wind. These are the Principles of the living soul soul and spirit are distinct as God and Nature Spirit and Wind as Angel and living soul yea as spirit and breath The middle Principle among the three Principles is always instead of the Mother as the Nature Wind and Soul The body is the Child which the spirit â—s a Father begets through the soul Out of the spirit cometh the soul he lets it out as his breath and from both these the body The firm soul and spirit as the true life and spirit which is like unto the Angelical world is always in the right body of all things that is in the Salt when it is opened then they come forth in a great clearness as in an Angelical glory At last the spirit of all things is out of the three general Principles in each according to their portion and measure Now the spirit affords the right inward essence the forma essentialis differentia specifica abstractum essentiae and nothing else From the same the body and soul also receive their essence whereby the one from the other essentially and properly are distinguished as man from beasts a beast foul fish vermin c from others and so one thing from another All Creatures are distinguished chiefly into three as into Animalia all living souls into vegetabilia all that grow and spring out of the earth and into Mineralia things that grow under the earth and are digged out and so in the water also These are distinct as the three Principles and in our wisdom always a fair harmony doth represent it self All living souls consist out of Water and bloud in their seeds through a moist warmth and a warm moistness each in its mother All growing things consist in their seed out of a slimy water through the Salt which is fixed in the root flying in the herb leaf and grass and essential in the flower and all three concentre at last in the seed All Minerals Metals and what belongeth to it grow out of a fat earth which the Salt of the earth doth hatch and do coagulate through a cold fire which is a Saturnine Water that is a fiery water and a waterish fire that doth not burn Even as upon earth all things grow by rain and dew as also in the earth it raineth thaweth and is misty thereby grow the Minerals Metals and the like and all this from the salt fixed flying and essential The flying Salt begets Sulphur the essential begets Mercury Among the Vermin the chiefest is the Viper with her brood and kind and is Mercurial Among the Vegetables is the Vine a channel out of which come three sorts of water and also a noble Mineral and is the Centre of the Vegetables Among the Mineral is the Gold yea the Salt Of all these three the Concentred Center is man above all that is created CHAP. VIII Of the Elements and contrary Elements in the Creation THe seven Elements or Powers of the world do rest only upon one which is a right well of all Elements in our thoughts because it containeth all An Element is such a thing out of which and in which the world and all doth consist without which nothing can subsist Again a contrary Element is such whereby the world and Elements are altered and corrupt and at last must quite perish thereby Now all things are Created out of three Principles Materialiter namely out of the word as out of a spiritual out of nature as a soulish and out of the Elements and contrary Elements as an incorporeal-corporeal and Corporeal-incorporeal that is out of the Elements after something and out of the contrary Elements according to nothing The word is the all the Elements are the
cannot come to its glory unless it be gone in the Crusible through the consuming fire seven times that afterward it may be Baptized with Water and Spirit to a new birth and become a new Gold and become out of the same Spirit and Water increased into many thousands and as a Heavenly Gold Spirit and Metal whereby other inferiour metals may be turned into the substance of the best Gold So it fareth with man that shall get Wisdom first he must be baptized with Fire then with Water and then with the Spirit and all this is done in the Crusible of the Terrestrial man But all wisdom is sufficient through the Spirit and in Truth through Principia subordinata Concordantia which do concenter afterward in a Harmony The Principia contain the true beginning of every thing from whence it came thither it doth return also and from thence it is preserv'd also The Subordinata contain the Order straitness and perfection of every thing as they do hang one in another stand and subsist one by another even as a Ladder or Stairs there must not be one step amiss or wanting else the subordinata are not true Commonly there are seven subordinata and follow one upon another orderly and things that follow one after another are subordinata and thus it is perfect Lastly this is a Concordance that all things may agree one with another and a Contrariety be no where found seen or heard Even as in sweet Musick all things are Harmonious let the Voices be as many as they will and change one in another going out of one into another and an everlasting Ternarius remaineth therein and so the Principles and Concordance consist in Ternarius and Vnity where one floweth out of another till to the number of seven of the Subordinata which reach after the greater number till to Twelve At last the Harmony concentreth and encloseth all which taketh altogether in One Three and Seven and presents one as the other namely the upper as the lower and the lower as the upper so that none be against the other although they be so far distinct as God and Creature Spirit and Soul Heaven and Earth yet one is in the other the one is known by the other and the one is justified by the other and that in Spirit and Truth Search now and see try and learn hear observe and judge what Wisdom this is and what Truth and Spirit is presented in this Book The fool knoweth nothing of the Wisdom and doth not understand her way Lyers do not understand the Truth nor do they know her Principles and the soulish bruitish and profane know nothing of the Spirit although they hear his wind blow yet they know not from whence it cometh nor whither it goeth Therefore do not look upon men do not inquire after men that is nothing and do not stare upon the image to the intent to adore it as all those do that dwell on Earth Rev. 13. But only inquire after the Spirit and fear him for he will direct all in the Word of Truth and Righteousness Him you are to Honour and against him do not think speak or do that you may not be condemned out of your own mouth Now all Spirit Truth and Wisdom reveal themselve in these three and are thereby known and justified namely in a Divine Light in a Divine Life and in a Divine Love where these three are in on and about man there is really Spirit Truth and Wisdom The Divine Light containeth all wisdom understanding and knowledge The Divine Life containeth all Truth Holiness and Righteousness And the Divine Love containeth the whole Spirit and poureth him out into our hearts and thereby we know that God hath loved us because he hath given us of his Spirit which cryeth in us Abba and giveth Testimony to our Spirit that we are the Children of God He poureth forth our Tears and Prayers before God that we might find grace before the Lord and teacheth us to pray aright before the Lord about things that are above maketh intercession for us with unspeakable sighs Thereby we know in the Spirit and in Truth where the right Wisdom the Divine Truth and the Holy Ghost is for these three Light Life and Love proceed from God and God himself is Light and there is neither Darkness nor Fire in or about him God is Eternal Life there is neither Death nor Perdition out of him in or about him God is Love it self and there is neither VVrath nor Pain Hell nor â—amnation out or of him He that stayeth by in and on these three namely by the Divine Light in a Divine Life and in a Divine Love he stayeth and abideth in God and God in him in the Spirit and Truth according to the wisdom and true knowledge of God and knoweth what is Truth Spirit and Wisdom and tells their true Principles Subordinates and Concordances in a Divine Harmony proved to the Elect Angels and Men in Spirit and in Truth CHAP. XXI Of the Mystery of Time to understand it aright NOthing so secret at night but the day may reveal it when the Light cometh to its Day and the day to its light and the clear Sun doth shine over all that is under Heaven The Night is past and behold the day breaks on with its fair morning light which is a light fire and a fire-light who can now subsist for the Lord cometh yea the Lord cometh coming Amen Halelujah He is like unto the fire of a Founder and like unto the sharp Lee of Sope boylers he will melt prove try c. He will wash purifie and cleanse And who can stand before him Mal 3. This he doth therefore that all filth may be done away before the Sun riseth and may not put the whole Earth and world to banishment or destruction Chap. 4. Now that day being come with its light in this time then the Mystery of the time of the whole world will be revealed But always is included and closed in and with the number of Seven For in the seventh day God finished the Creation and so in Seven always included But the number 7 standeth thus 7 49. 70. The number Seven after our time standeth chiefly upon the Seventh Trumpet in and with it the Mystery of God is finished yea revealed Rev. 10 11 12. Chap. As also with the seventh Vial of Gods wrath But as much as we know in part we are and live betwixt the fifth and sixth Vial. The number 49. sheweth expresly that fair Mystery of the time of the refreshing and restitution of all that is lost Levit. 25. And the number 49 is the end of the little seventh day and a beginning of the great seventh day and Sabbath of God Lastly the number 70 seeth upon the 70 weeks in the Prophet Daniel as also upon the expiration of the 1335 days Chap. 9. 24. 12. 12. When these are about then the transgression will be reconciled every
this only holy way of the practice of Piety all Students of difficult arts find what they desire But they must exercise solitary Philosophical and Religious pleadings with Jehovah with a pure mouth and heart For the heavenly wisdom Sophia embraceth our friendship offering us her Rivers of gratious goodness and bounty never to be drawn dry And most happy is he to whom the true kingly way shall be shewed by an Adept Possessor of this great Secret But I foresee this small Preface will not satisfie my Readers alike some perchance taxing me for presuming as it were to teach them an art unknown to my self when this hath been my only purpose to relate a History yet I doubt not but this study of divine wisdom will be sweeter to some then any Nectar or Ambrosia I say no more but conclude with that of Julius Caesar Scaliger That the end of truly wise men is the communicating of wisdom According to that of Gregory Nysseâ— He that is good Communicates willingly his goods to others for the property of good men is to be profitable to others CHAP. II. The Testimony of divers illustrious Authors of this Arcanum FIrst Paracelsus in the Signature of Natural things fol. 358 This is a true sign of the tincture of Philosophers That by its transmuting force all imperfect metals are changed viz. the white into Silver and the red into the best Gold if but the smallest part of it be cast into a Crusible upon melted metal c. Item For the invincible Astrum of metalls conquereth all things and changeth them into a nature like to its self c. And this Gold and Silver is nobler and better then that brought out of the Metallick Mines and out of it may be prepared better Medicinal Arcana's Item Therefore ever Alchymist who hath the Astrum of the Sun can transmute all red Metals into Gold c. Item Cur Tincture of Gold hath Astral Stars within it It is a most fixt substance and immutable in the Multiplication It is a powder having the reddest colour almost like Saffron yet the whole corporeal substance is liquid like Rosin transparent like Christal frangible like glass It is of a Ruby colour and of the greatest weight c. Read more of this in Paracelsus Heaven of Philosophers Item Paracelsus in his seventh book of Transmutation of natural things saith The Transmutation of Metals is a great natural mistery not against natures course nor against Gods order as many falsely judge For the imperfect Metals are transmuted into Gold nor into Silver without the Philosophers Stone Item Paracelsus In his Manual of the Medicinal Stone of Philosophers saith Our Stone is a heavenly Medicine and more then perfect because it cleanseth all filth from the Metals c. Secondly Henry Khunrade in his Amphitheater of the eternal wisdom I have travelled much and visited those esteemed to know somewhat by experience and not in vain c. Amongst whom I call God to witness I got of one the universal Green Lyon and the blood of the Lyon That is Gold not vulgar but of the Philosophers I have seen it touched it tasted it and smelt it O how wonderful is God in his works I say they gave me the prepared Medicine which I most fruicfully used towards my poor neighbour in most desperate cases and they did sincerely reveal to me the true manner of preparing their medicine Item This is the wonderful method which God only hath given me immediately mediately yet subordinately through Nature Fire Art and masters help as well living as silent corporal and spirituaâ— watching and sleeping Item Fol. 202. I write not Fables with thine own hands shalt thou handle and with thine eyes see the Azoth viz. the Universal Mercury of the Philosophers which alone with its internal and external fire is sufficient for thee to get our Stone nevertheless with a sympathetick Harmony being Magick-physically united with the Olympick fire by an inevitable necessity c. Item Thou shalt see the Stone of the Philosophers our King go forth of the bed-chamber of his Glassie Sepulchre in his glorified body like a Lord of Lords from his Throne into this Theater of the world That is to say regenerated and more then perfect a Shining Carbuncle a most temperate splendour whose most subtile and depurated parts are inseperably united into one with a concordial mixture exceedingly equal Transparent like a Chrystal Compact and most ponderous easily fusible in fire like rosin or Wax before the flight of quick silver yet flowing without smoak entring into solid bodies and penetrating them like oyle through Paper dissoluble in every liquor and comiscible with it fryable like glass in a powder like Saffron but in the whole Mass shining red like a Rubie which redness is a sign of a perfect fixation and fixed perfection Permanently colouring or tinging fixt in all temptations and tryals yea in the examination of the burning Sulphur its self and the devouring waters and in the most vehement persecution of the fire always incombustible and permanent as a Salamander c. Item The Philosophers Stone being fermented in its parts in the great world transforms it self into whatsoever it will by the fire hence a Son of art may perceive why the Philosophers have given their Azoth the name of Mercury which adheres to bodies c. And further in the same place it is fermented with Metals viz. The Stone being in its highest whiteness â—s fermented with pure Silver to the white But the Sanguine Stone with pure Gold to the red And this is the work of three days c. Thirdly Helmont in the Book of Eternal Life Fol. 590. I have oft seen the Stone and handled it and have projected the fourth part of one grain wrapped in paper upon eight ounces of quink silver boyling in a crusible and the quicksilver with a small noise presently stood still from its Flux and was congealed like to yellow wax and after a flux by blast we found eight ounces wanting eleven grains of the purest Gold Therefore one grain of this powder would transmute nineteen thousand one hundred and eighty six parts â—f Quicksilver into the best Gold so that this powder is found to be of Similary parts amongst Terrestrials and doth transmute infinite plenty of impure metal into the best Gold uniting with it and so defends it from Canker rust rottenness and death and makes it in a manner immortal against all tortures of fire and art and transfers it to a Virginean purity of Gold requiring only a fervent heat Item In his Tree of Life fol. 630. I am constrained to believe there is a Gold and Silver making Stone or powder for that I have divers times made projection of one grain thereof upon some thousand grains of boyling quicksilver to a tickling admiration of a great multitude And further as before is rehearsed in the first Chapter He also saith He who gave me that powder had so much at least
for the value of the matter but for some particular consequences nay if it were possible said he that fire could be burnt of fire I would rather at this instant cast all this substance into the fiercest flames But after he demanding if I had another private chamber whose prospect was from the publick Street I presently conducted him in to the best furnished room backwards where he entred without wiping his Shooes full of snow and dirt according to the custom in Holland then not doubting but he would bestow part thereof or some great secret treasure on me but in vain for he asked for a little piece of gold and pulling off his Cloak or Pastoral habit opened his Doublet under which he wore five pieces of Gold hanging in green silk Ribons as large as the inward round of a small Pewter Trencher and this Gold so far excelled mine that there was no comparison for flexibility and colour and these Figures with the Inscriptions ingraven were the resemblance of them which he granted me to write out D. 8. Pag. 16 1 Amen Holy holy holy is the Lord our God and all things are full of his hononr Leo. Libra 2 The maruelous wisdome of the wonderfull Iehovah in the vniuersall Booke of nature I am made the 26 th of August 1666 3 ☉ ☿ ☽ The wonderfull God Nature and the spagyricall Art make nothing in vain 4 To the Honour of the Euerlasting Inuisible â—ivne only wise most high Omnipotent God of Gods holy holy holy Gouernor and praiseworthy Preseruer of all 5 Holy art thou O holy spirit Halloluiah ffye vpon the Diuell and neuer speake of God without light Amen I being herewith affected with great admiration desired to know where and how he came by them Who answered An outlandish friend who dwelt some days in my House giving out he was a Lover of this art and came to reveal this art to me taught me various Arts First How out of ordinary Stones and Christalls to make Rubies Chrysolites and Sapphires c. much fairer then the ordinary And how in a quarter of an hour to make Crocus Martis of which one dose would infallibly cure the Pestilential Dissentary or Bloody Flux and how to make a metallick Liquor most certainly to cure all kinds of Dropsies in four days as also a limpid clear water sweeter then hony by which in two hours of it self in hot sand it would extract the Tincture of Granats Corals Glasses and such like more which I Helvetius did not observe My mind being drawn beyond those bounds to understand how such a noble juice might be drawn out of the metals to transmute Metals but the shade in the water deceived the dog of the Morsel of Flesh in his mouth Moreover he told me his said Master caused him to bring a glass full of rain water and fetch some refined Silver laminated in thin plates which therein was dissolved within a quarter of an hour like Ice when heated And presently he drank to me the half and I pledged him the other half which had not so much taste as sweet milk whereby me thought I became very light hearted I thereupon asked if this were a Philosophical drink and wherefore we drank this Potion He replied I ought not to be so curious And after he told me that by the said Masters directions he took a piece of a Leaden Pipe Gutter or Sistern and being melted put a little such sulphurious powder out of his Pocket once again put a little more on the point of a Knife and after a great blast of Bellows in short time poured it on the red stones of the Kitchin Chimney which proved most excellent pure Gold which he said brought him into such a trembling amazement that he could hardly speak But his Master thereupon again incouraged him saying Cut for thy self the sixteenth part of this for a memorial and the rest give away amongst the poor which he did And he distributed so great an Alms as he affirmed if my memory fail not to the Church of Sparrenda But whether he gave it at several times or once or in the Golden Masse or in Silver Coyn I did not ask At last said he going on with the story of his master he taught me throughly this almost Divine Art As soon as this his History was finisht I most humbly beg'd he would shew me the effect of Transmutation to confirm my faith therein but he dismissed me for that time in such a discreet manner that I had a denial But withall promising to come again at three weeks end and shew me some curious Arts in the Fire and the manner of projection provided it were then lawful without prohibition And at the three weeks end he came and invited me abroad for an hour or two and in our walks having discourses of divers of natures secrets in the fire but he was very sparing of the great Elixir gravely asserting that was only to magnifie the most sweet fame and name of the most glorious God and that few men indeavored to sacrifice to him in good works and this he expressed as a Pastor or Minister of a Church but now and then I kept his ears open intreating to shew me the Metallick transmutation desiring also he would think me so worthy to eat and drink and lodge at my house which I did prosecute so eagerly that scarce any Suiter could plead more to obtain his Mistress from his Corrival but he was of so fixt and stedfast a Spirit that all my endeavors were frustrate yet I could not forbear to tell him further I had a fit laboratory and things ready and fit for an experiment and that a promised favour was a kind of debt yea true said he but I promised to teach thee at my return with this proviso if it were not forbidden When I perceived all this in vain I earnestly craved but a most small Crum or Parcel of his pouder or Stone to transmute four Grains of Lead to Gold and at last out of his Philosophical commiseration he gave me a Crum as big as a Rape or Turnip seed saying receive this small Parcel of the greatest Treasure of the World which truly few Kings or Princes have ever known or seen But I said This perhaps will not transmit four Grains of Lead whereupon he bid me deliver it him back which in hopes of a greater Parcel I did but he cutting halfe off with his Nail flung â—t into the fire and gave me the rest wraped neatly up â—n Blew Paper saying It is yet sufficient for thee I answered him indeed with a most dejected Counâ—enance Sir what n eans this the other being too â—ittle you give me now less He told me If thou â—anst not mannage this yet for its great proportion â—or so small a quantity of Lead then put into the Cruâ—ible two Drams or halfe an Ounce or a little more â—f the Lead for there ought no more Lead be put in â—he Crucible
Gold which made us all amazed as Planets struck And indeed had I lived in Ovids Age there could not have been a rarer Metamorphosis then this by the Art of Alkemy Yea could I have enjoyed Argus's Eyes with a hundred more I could not sufficiently gaze upon this so admirable and almost miraculous a work of nature for this melted Lead after projection shewed us on the fire the rarest and most beautiful Colours imaginable yea and the greenest Colour which as soon as I poured forth into â—n Ingot it got the lively fresh Colour of Blood and being Cold shined as the purest and most refined transplendent Gold Truly I and all standing about me were exceedingly startled and did run with this Aurified lead being yet hot unto the Goldsmith who wondred at the fineness and after a short trial of Touch the judged it most excellent Gold in the whole world and offered to give most willingly fifty Florens for every Ounce of it The next day a rumor went about the Hague and spread abroad so that many illustrious Persons and Students gave me their friendly visits for its sake Amongst the rest the general Say-master or Examiner of the Coynes of this Province of Holland Mr. Porelius who with others earnestly beseeched me to pass some part of it through all their Customary trials which I did the rather to gratifie my own Curiosity Thereupon we went to Mr. Brectel a Silver-Smith who first tried it per Quartam viz. he mixt three or four parts of Silver with one part of the said Gold and laminated filed or gramilated it and put a sufficient quantity of Aqua Fort thereto which presently dissolved the Silver and suffered the said Gold to precipitate to the bottom which being decauted off and the Calx or Powder of Gold dulcified with water and then reduced and melted into a body became excellent Gold And whereas we feared loss we found that each Dram of the said first Gold was yet increased and had transmuted a Scruple of the said Silver into Gold by reason of its great and excellent abounding Tincture But now doubting further whether the Silver was sufficiently separated from the said Gold we instantly mingled it with seven parts of Antimony which we melted poured into a Cone blowed off the Regulus on a Test where we missed eight Grains of our Gold but after we blowed away the rest of the Antimony or superfluous Scoria we found nine Grains of Gold more for our eight Grains missing yet this was somewhat pale and Silver-like which easily recovered its full Colour afterwards So that in the best proof of fire we lost nothing at all of this Gold but gained as aforesaid The which proof again I repeated thrice and found it still alike and the said remaining Silver out of the Aqua Fortis was of the very best flexible Silver that could be So that in the total the said Medicine or Elixir had transmuted six Drams and two Scruples of the Lead and Silver into most pure Gold Behold I have now related the full History from the Philosophical Eggs to the Golden Apples as the Proverb goes and though I have the Gold yet where the Philosopher and Elias is I know not but wheresoever he is the Almighty God protector of all Creatures shelter him from all danger under hiswings and bring him to Eternal bliss and happiness in his heavenly Kingdom after the end of his full pilgrimage in this life for the succour and relief of Christendome and the whole world Amen CHAP. IV. I betake me now to the Dialogue between Elias the Artist and the Phisician to express what is past and all other passages Elias GOd save you Helvetius I have heard of your curious search after natural things and read thy Books particularly against Kenelme Digbys Sympathetical Pouder where he glories to to heal all wounds at a distance Truly I delight incredibly in all such things which we see in this Look-glass naturally implanted in the Creatures whether Sympathetick or Antipathetick for the inexhaustible Treasures of the Divine light and Deity abundantly granted us may be perfectly known out of the Creatures under the Sky or in the womb of the Earth or in the Seas brought forth That with all their gifts and powers protentially in them they might be be beneficial to restore health and help to mortal man Physician Sir You are the the welcomest Guest for a philosophical discourse of nature is the only refreshing of my Spirit and Salutiferous nourishment come I pray into this Chamber Elias Sir It seems you have here a whole shop of the fiery Art of Vulcan and perhaps all Spagyrical Medicines most exactly drawn out of the Mineral Kingdom But Sir For what end so many Medicaments when by a most few we may much sooner and safelyer restore the health of man if the distemper be not deadly either out of defect of nature or putrifaction of any noble part or the whole consumption of the radical humidity for in such desperate cases neither Galenical Cures nor Paracelsical Tinctures can be helpful but it is not thus in ordinary diseases where nevertheless often men are constrained before their fatal Term to travail out of this most sweet light amongst the dead for want of speedy and potent remedies Phisician Sir I apprehend by your discourse you are either a Physician or an expert Student in Chymistry Verily I believe there are more excellent Medicaments and an universal Medicine which might prolong life until the determinate end and also cure and heal all distempers in mans body but who can shew the way to such a Fountain whence such a Medicinal Juice may be obtained perhaps none amonst men Elias Truly I am only a Founder of Brass yet almost from my Cradle my Genius prompted me to search Curiosities in the fiery Art and I have diligently searched through the internal nature of Metals and though now I forbear assidual labour and accurate Scrutiny yet such labours and lovers are delightful to me and I believe the most high great and good God will in this our Age afford his Spagyrick Sons the Metallick mysteries gratis yet by praying and labouring to attain them Physician I grant God affords his commendable good things gratis yet he hath seldom given or doth easily sell to his Sons this Medicinal Nectar for nothing For we know certainly that infinite numbers of Chymists have and do still draw water through a Sieve whilst they presume to prepare the universal Stone of Philosophers and out of the Books of triumphing Adeptists none can learn the manner of preparing it or know their first matter And whilst one searcheth on the lowest root and foot of the Mountain he never ascends to the highest top where only he can eat and drink the Ambrosia and Nectar of the Macro-Sophists or Philosophers In the Interim it is the part of a good Physician for want of that universal Elixir to keep a pure and safe Conscience and
apply to diseases such restoring remedies in which he certainly finds the effect and Virtue of Curing them Therefore in all desprate Diseases I use such most simple Medicaments that the Patients either speedily recover or are brought into some way of their former better health For there are various kinds of Salts generated in the Glandules and Lymphatick Vessels after the putrefaction of this or that received nourishment which afterwards flourish out in various humours and cause either internal or external distempers For experience teacheth us that as many constitutions or Complexions so many diversities of Diseases although it be the very same Disease in general As we have experience in them who drink Wine where divers operations presently manifest themselves For Peter having drunk Wine presently begins to be angry and furious on the contrary Paul seems to have a Lamblike timidity but Matthew sings and Luke weeps Item From the contagious Scorbutical poison the Radical Juice of Peter in his Lymphatick Vessels and Kernels is turned into Acidity which abstructs the passages and Organs of all the whole body From whence springs up under the skin discolourd Azure or Skie-colour spots but in the time of the Plague they bud forth in the likeness of Cornes of Pepper But the Juice of the same parts in Paul is changed into an opening bitterness from whence in the skin grow red spots under the Arms and Legs like unto flea-bites but in the plague time Carbuncles But the Juice or humidity of the same parts in Mathew is turned somewhat sweet and easie to be putrified whence bud forth under the skin watry Tumors on his Arms and Legs the like almost you may see in Hydropical Patients but in the pestilence riseth pestilential Tumors But of the same parts in Luke the Juice is changed into a sharpe salty driness whence come forth under the skin of his Arms and Legs precipitations of the ordinary ferment of the flesh and such exsiccations as commonly fall out in the consumtive Atrophia yea most often into the true Atrophia But in the Plague come forth most ardent swellings with distractedness until death Behold my friend No Physician by one universal Medicine can Cure this only Disease of the Scorbutickpestilential or Febrile-poyson but indeed by means of a particular Vegetable or Mineral granted in nature from God we may for I can succour and handle all Scorbutical patients with one Scorbutical Herb as Scurvy-grass or Sorrel or Fumitary or Baccabungia called Brooklime or Red Coleworts yea much less can we succour them with one remedy compounded of all these divers species for as much as there is such an Antipathy between Scurvy-grass and Sorrel as there is between fire and water and the same Antipathy is also observed between the Herb Fumitary and Baccabungy Therefore The Corrector of Peters Scorbutical colouring Salty and sower Poyson is made with the bitter Volatile Salt of the Herb Scurvy-grass The Corrector of Pauls Scorbutick tinging salty and bitter poyson is made with the fixt sowr Salt of the Herb Sorel And the Corrector of Mathew's Scorbutick salty tinging sweet and moistening poyson is made with the help of the fixt bitter and drying Sulphur of the Herb Fumitary But the Corrector of Luke's Scorbutical Tingent Salty sharp and drying poyson is made by the help of the sweet moistening Mercury of the Herb Baccabungy Brooklime or Red Coleworts As out of the External signature of those Herbs is very easie to judge the specifick internal remedy against these divers Scorbutical Diseases Verily my feiend if this be well observed a prudent Physician will doubt of the universal Medicine Elias I shall easily grant all which thou hast Argued yet the fewest of Physicians observe this Method In the interim it is not at all impossible that there is also in the Kingdom of Minerals being the highest an universal Medicine by whose only benifit we may effect and afford all which are recounted by thee of many Remedies out of the lowermost Kingdom of Vegetables But our most great and good God for some weighty Reasons hath not given this kind of magnificent Charismal gift or supereminent Science promiscuously to all Philosophers but hath revealed the same to a few though all the Adeptists agree that this Science is true and that none ought to doubt of the truth thereof in the least Physician Sir besides the mentioned things there are yet other observations strenuously opposing the operation of an universal medicine Partly in respect unto mens age and strength Partly by reason of the Sex and other circumstances whilst there is a plain difference between the tender and strong Either by nature or education and between the male and the female young man and maid and between the beginning middle or end of the disease And it must be known if the disease be inveterate or but lately have invaded the party and lastly if the Ferment in this disease be promoted or in another be precipitated For the Effervency of the Ferment is made in the Stomack or intestines and indeed many contradictions are against the Universal Medicine and few Phisitians have Thomas a Didymus Spectacles at their fingers ends Elias You have argued very Philosophically for so many men so many minds And as sweet Musick pleaseth not every Mydas ears or the same meats and drinks please every Pallate So the judgments of unskilful persons are very different concerning this Universal Medicine both for humane and Metallick Bodies And certainly the operation of this differs much from particular Medicines Some whereof nevertheless are in a manner universal or so esteemed as the Herb Scurvygrass curing all sorts of the Scurvy marked with Azure spots Sorrel every Scurvy with red spots Beccabungia red Coleworts or Brooklime Atrophia or the Consumptive kind and Fumitary Tumors of another kind Especially with such Phisicians to whom the abovesaid observations are in high esteem Besides there is a vast difference between the universal Medicine of true Philosophers which revives all the vital spirits and the particular Medicament of a slight cure where only the venome of humours boyling against nature in this man sowre in another bitter c. and in one Saline in another sharp is corrected and if these corruptions be not presently removed by the usual Emunctories of Mouth Nostrils Stool Urine or Sweat then certainly the Corruption of one begets another disease for every spark of Fire having food and not quencht will arise to the greatest conflagration But if there be a defect in the motions of the Vital Spirits then this is impossible to be effected by particulars wherefore it concerns every conscientious Phisitian to learn how he may promote the motion of the vital spirits to a natural digestible heat which is most securely and best performed by our universal Medicine by which the sick are notably recreated for as soon as this more then perfect Medicine removes the mortifying seeds Nature is restored and so lost health recovered and
same upon me if it be but as much as a Coriander or Hemp Seed only to transmute four grains of Lead into gold Elias I confess an honest good man first shewed me the possibility and then the art and manner to prepare the Medicine but to give thee any of this Medicine is not lawful though I had for it as many Duckets as would fill this room not for my esteem of the matter which is of no price at all but for other private considerations and to make it so appear I would now through all into the fire to be consumed if it were possible for the fire to destroy fire Be not therefore covetous for thou hast seen more then many Kings or Princes that have sought for it But I must now depart and purpose to come again at three weeks end and then if not hindred or forbid I will abundantly satisfie thy curiosity to see transmutation in the Interim I warn you not to tamper with this dangerous art least you lose your fame and substance in the ashes Physitian Sir What shall I do if it be not lawful for you to bestow so small a part of your tincture because of your Philosophical Oath taken at your drinking the dissolved Silver in the rain water Yet know I do eagerly desire to learn this and I believe Adam thrown out of Paradice for eating an Apple would again desire this golden Fruit out of Atlantas Garden though to hazard the destruction you premonish And though I have not yet seen transmutation from you I thank you for your great friendship in forewarning me of the dangers and shewing me what I have seen and till your return I shall delight my self with what is discovered both of your Medicine and Person But I fear Sir if any King Prince or Potentate should know the same which God forbid they would perchance imprison and torture you till you should reveal all the art to them Elias I never shewed the Stone to any in the world but to you except one aged man and henceforth shall not to any but if any King or other which I hope God will not permit should Rack me to pieces or burn me alive I would not reveal it to them neither directly nor indirectly as many circumferanious Physitians Mountebanks Vagabonds and others pretend to do Phisitian Good Sir tell me in the Interim who are the best Authors in regard by experience you are best able to judge Elias Indeed Doctor I have not read many books but amongst those I have read none more curious then Cosmopolite Sendivogius The Dutch Borger Derwerel and Brother Basilins 12 Keys I can lend thee Sendivogius at my return in whose obscure words the Truth lyes hidd even as our Tincture lyes inclosed in the minerals and Metallick bodies Phisitian Sir I give you most hearty thanks for your exceeding kindness and love Believing that marvellous and efficacious Essences and Tinctures lies hid in Metals and Minerals under the external rinds and shells of their bodies though I find few so expert in the Fire to know how to pick out their Kernel Philosophically for as Isaac Holland writes the outward body of every Animal Vegetable and Mineral is like to a Terrestrial Province within which excellent spiritual essences do retire and dwell Wherefore it is needful that the sons of art should know how by some saline fit sutable Ferment pleasant and agreeable to the Metallick Nature to tame and subdue dissolve separate and concentrate not only the Metallick Magnetick virtue wherewith to Tinge but also Philosophically to multiply the same in their golden or silvery Homogenity For we see that the bodies of all creatures are not only easily destroyed but as soon as they cease to live they hurry to their graves in putrefaction viz. to their old Chaos and darkness of Orcus wherein they were before they were brought to light by Creation in this World But alas who or what man can or will shew us this Art in the Metallick Kingdom Elias Sir I confess you judge right of the natural destruction of things and if it be Gods pleasure he can as to me send one sooner then thou hopest to shew thee the manner to destroy Metals and Minerals in a true Philosophical manner and to gather their inward souls In the mean time implore the blessing of this great God who doth all things as he pleaseth To whom I recommend thee whose watchful eyes are always open over all his regenerated Sons in and through Christ Jesus So be sure I am your friend and once more Farewell THus my Friend Elias taking leave left me three weeks and to this very day nevertheless as a Spur he impressed all these things deep in my mind and Paracelsus confirmed them saying That in with of and by metals spiritualized and cleansed are perfect Metals made and also the living gold and Silver of Philosophers as well for humane as metallick bodies Wherefore if this guest my Friend had taught me the manner of preparing this Spiritual and Celestial Salt he spake of by and with which I might as it were within their own matrix gather the spiritual Rays of Sun or moon out of the Corporal Metallick substances Then truly from his own light he had so enlightened me that I should have known how Magnetically by a Sympathetick power in other imperfect corporeal metals their internal souls might be Clarified and Tinged so that their own similary bodies being of like kind might be transmuted into Gold or Silver according to the nature of red Seed into a red body or of the white Seed into a white and pure body For Elias told me that Sendivogius his Calybs was the true Mercurial Metallick humidity by help of which without any Corrosive an Artist might seperate the fixt rayes of the Sun or Moon out from their own bodies in a naked Fire in open Crusible and so make them Volatile and Mercurial fit for a dry Philosophick Tincture as he partly communicated and shewed me before he went to transmute the Metals For all learned Chymists must consent that Pyrotechny is the mother and Nurse of many noble Sciences and Arts and they can easily judge from the Colours of the Chaos of metals in the fire what metallick body is therein And truly every day metals and transparent stones are yet so procreated in the bowels of the Earth from their proper noble vapourons seed with a spiritual Tingent Sulphurous Seed in their divers Salty Matrixes for the common Sulphur or the Sulphur of any pure or impure metal whilst yet conjoyned with its own body being mingled only with Salt-Peter in the burning heat of Fire will be easily changed into the hardest and most fixed Earth And this Earth is afterwards easily changed by the air into most clear water and this water after by a stronger fire according to the nature of either pure or impure metallick Sulphur admixed is turned into Glass coloured with various and very beautiful
art but the manner of extracting it and giving it ingress by Gold On the other side the first Ens of Gold in the Vegitable Animal and Mineral Sulphurs Marcasites and Antimony are had in plenty but are so Volatil that those little stones are to be preferred But now in brief I shall shew that in stones of which hot Countries hath most Gold there is not only fixt Gold but also Volatil whence the true Tincture may be perfected For whoever can make the first Essence of Gold that is in stones Volatil and gather it by distillation doth get a graduating water by which our quick fluid Mercury or Quick-silver may be coagulated to good Gold And whoever can joyn and marry this Volatil first Essence of Gold to Corporal Gold and this with that to be made one and procure Ingression he may hope for far more good and may expect undoubtedly to enjoy the same to a better use and profit For that the first Essence of gold is more useful and needful to prepare the Tinctures then Corporal gold it self as not a few Philosophers have signified by the following words who say Gold and Silver are not made by them unless this first Essence do effect it The first Ens also of Gold which lies hid in all Vegitables and Animals doth Coagulate Mercury even to Yallowness but not constant and fixt but if it be made fixt it also fixeth and Coagulateth with constancy but doth not so before It remains therefore most assured true that where ever Sulphur is found there is also the first Essence of Gold and where the first essence of Gold is there is also the Tincture wherefore being Sulphur is found in every thing of the world to the least Herb Stone and Bone It follows that also out of any little Herb piece of Wood little Stone and Bone c. the true Tincture may be prepared â—ow this our new light doth not profit him that is blind and will presume and resolve to be so still More of this you may find in my third Century and also make first part of my Spagyrick Pharmacopeia How Sand. Flints and the like impregnated Stones may be known whether they contain little or much Gold FLints Sand Stones c. that are White of all sorts contain the least quantity of Gold and yet are never without some Volatil though not to be extracted with profit but most commonly the Yellow and Red have most Gold yet not always to answer the charge in dissolving and extracting Yellow duskish and Black commonly hold much and where through White also Yellow Sand and Stones where Lines are found like Veins through them especially if they shine clear and glister with many little sparks of ☉ close together Likewise that Sand is rich with Gold which appears like Talc wherein are found some stones in which Red or duskish Talc appears even as in all Talc Gold is found but yet in some more some less All Flints and Stones in Brooks called Bartenston which though appearing white externally yet after they are made red hot in the fire and broken in water appear Yellow like Gold are sufficiently rich Green Yellow or Skie coloured Stones translucid like Horn Vulgarly called Horne-stone are also for the most part rich Also all reddish Black and dark dusky Flints have always Gold but for the most part mixt with Iron which therefore frustrate the Vulgar Labourants Menstruum and so makes it useless All Quarze Quarries the coverings of Mines and also Saphir Stones or other in the Earth in Veins like Metals or open to the Air or Water being Coloured hold Gold The Blood-stone and that which is of kin to it Emery Granats and Lapis Lazuli do all hold Gold The Granats hold Corporal Gold and the first Essence of Gold some much and more then others and others but a little But these aforesaid Stones are so hard that strong Waters as Aqua Fort cannot work upon them yet some remedy may be found to extract them In all transparent Amphitams Sapphirs Rubies Amathists and asinths is the first Essence of Gold but hard to be extracted All Fluores Oars and Flowers used in the Mines of ☉ and ☽ to reduce them to a flux whether Violet or Purple coloured Yellow Red or Green are endowed with unripe Volatil Gold which of you heat red hot will vapour a king of Green Yellow or Red fumes and a Snow-white Colour will remain on the stones Now if any can tell how to save those flying fumes he may with it Coagulate Mercury into Gold In like manner by means of Distillation a Green water may be drawn out of all such like stones in the which Mercury will Coagulate it self into Gold This Green water also the ancients have called their Green Lyon which devours the ☉ or Gold and prepares a Tincture for ☽ or ☿ I would say more of this matter but shall refrain for the covetousness and wicked men who seek nothing but the ruine of their neighbour and to live in pomp and pleasures who as unworthy God will have wander in darkness without this Knowledge Wherefore let all that by Gods Grace have any illumination beware the communicate nothing to wicked men though they seem Angels of Light Nusquam tuta fides There is no faith to be found on Earth Soli Deo tu confidas promissis hominum diffidas Deus Sâ—lus fidem servat a Mundo fides exulat which is In God shalt thou put thy trust mans promises distrust as Dust God only keeps his promised plight but from the world all faith takes flight Wherefore I say let all well-minded men beware of Luxurious proud vain and covetous persons for these Vices proceed from the Devil and return again to him and one can hardly find an honest man though sought with Diogenes his Lanthorn amongst many For which cause I shall e're long publish a short Tractate of evil and wicked men viz. How and whereby to know them by their outward signatures and form for virtue and vice And had I known this skill before it had been a great advantage to have made me beware of such dissembling Impostures If any shall hereby reap any benefit let them give God the praise and be mindful of the poor If otherwise let them believe they are yet unworthy to have such things communicated to them for truly I have written here so plainly and truly as no Philosopher ever did before me But now nevertheless I confess I have a more easy way for these things viz. for extracting Gold out of Sand c. and such as never was known before to the World 1. My first Method is with a water of small charge or price which may be had in plenty without Distillation 2. My second is a singular Metal of which Chauldrons may be made in which these Stones and Sand with this small prised water are boiled and yet not corroded or consumed thereby and after the water shall dissolve any Gold out
there is no darkness but yet there is fire This Angelical fire is an Excretion of the light out of which the spirit of the â—ngels is and this fire also in the beginning and before the fall hath been a quiet and unknown fire and very good because it was and is the soul of the Light in the Angels But after the fall it was manifest known and turn'd to a flame and such a one wherein the raging anger of God doth rest in which all Gods Judgments do consist and come out of the same This fire now in the Angels with its rage anger and consuming flame is not evil at all but a just fire of Gods justice to punish the wicked All anger rage and judgment proceed out of the Angelical world as also the Law which was promulgated with fire Exod. 20. Acts 7. 53 38. Gal. 3. 19. Heb. 2. 2. Of the Devils fire was spoken above More things could be said of the fire which for brevity sake we omit CHAP. XII Out of what wherein and wher by all things good and bad do subsist pass away and yet how they last for ever ALthough our knowing and prophesying be but part yet we will not quench the spirit and we are not to despise prophesying And the Reader in the Lord may know that we have our wisdom be it about natural things or spiritual learned out of the Holy Scripture and not out of pro hane writings for the Bible is sufficient to us to all wisdom and we used in 24 years no other book to find out wisdom but the Bible Out of this book the spirit of wisdom through the anointing can teach us all things and needs no other spirit or man to teach us Every thing in a word subsists only by Salt they perish without it and in the same and it lasteth for ever in them both good and bad There is a threefold salt namely a Divine Angelical and Elementary All must be seasoned with salt if it shall last good and salt is the most noble and wholsomest Balm the best preservative and Conservative the highest strengthening The salt of the Divine world is a true light a Spirit and VVater from above whereby we are illuminated breathed on and baptized yea seasoned and salted that the hellish may have no power over us For every one must be seasoned with fire and must be tried with fire who and what doth subsist in it that is blessed else it is nothing at all Mark 9. 49 50. 1 Cor. 13. 14. The salt of the Angelical world is a quick life in its glory concentred of God into the Tree of Life which when it shall be broken at the glorious coming of Jesus Christ then all Created things in Heaven and Earth in this Elementary world he will so gloriously and powerfully season with salt that they shall be freed and redeemed from sin Curse Death Devil Vanity Pain and Misery and that will be a noble food at that great Supper of which as of an Angelical and Coelestial Manna all flesh that is all Created things and whole Creatures shall eat and drink and feed And then also shall be put away the sharp bitter sowre consuming devouring perishing and â—o nothing reducing salt of the contrary Element it shall dye and to its place be separated Of the elementary salt we have spoken already above There is another salt also of the contrary element which is threefold namely in the Earth Sea and Air The salt of the contrary element is a sharp devouring consuming salt and reigneth in all Creatures and is always mixed with the good salt which in the consuming sharp salt is held Captive and can no sooner be set at liberty till that which holds it Captive be drowned and killed by a cold fire which is a water above mentioned This Salt now is predominant chiefly in the Minerals of the Earth in the Mineral Salts as common Salt Vitriol Saltpeter Alume Salmoniak c. and is as it were fixed in this In all Sulphur especially in the common Sulphur the Salt of the contrary Elements is flying But he that can make it fixed with a cold fire hath a more precious thing then Gold is But what is more abused then Saturn Saltpeter and Sulphur They shoot it into the Air being so precious O malice and wickedness of men Is it not so that God hath made choice of things which the world holds to be ignoble foolish and rejected and base Lastly in all Arsenicks is the Salt of the contrary Elements essential and spiritual True it is a right Poison but having an essence why should not some thing be hidden in it It must be carefully and purely killed with a cold fire and be reduced to a new noble birth It is to be observed by the by that every Lee especially that of quicklime is a cold fire and that same in the unmature Metals that have yet their Sulphur Mercury and Arsenick may doubtless be of good use especially in some Iron or Copper Mines in which the Sulphur of Sol the glory of Gold sufficiently appeareth for the flying must through a fixed be made firm and glorious And truly herein is more hid then the world believes Now in the Salt is both life and death And as good things have their Salt so have bad and both are firm the good therefore because the life is in it and the bad also therefore because there is both life and death in it For what death killeth with extream coldness that life reviveth again by fire Therefore the fire is the life in the Devil and his Children and the cold is death But it is such a life which is not of God nor out of the light and love but out of the Devil himself out of darkness and anger which is with unspeakable torment anguish pain misery The Salt in the Sea is a soulish Salt raging and furious of which something may be said because a Mystery is hid in it it shineth also in its fire and is a Sulphurious light so that it may be seen Lastly the Salt in the Air is essential and Arsenical and poisoneth things on Earth man beasts and fruits c. These three sorts of Salt of the contrary element are made known after the fall therefore we must separate Salt from Salt that is good from bad to reject bad and embrace that which is good In the end all bad things fall to the Devils share especially the contrary elements with their Salt which maketh up the fiery pools devouring and gnawning and yet not consuming living for ever yet not alive but dead dyeth for ever and yet never liveth And thus it hath rightly the name of a contrary element CHAP. XIII Of the Creation of the World NOw having known the Principles in their subordinates and the Center concentrated both in and on the Elements as also in the contrary elements thence we may observe how all things are Created by the word and then to know
also what Scha Ma Jm is of which is written in the book of the Creation that God Elohim in the beginning have Created Scha Ma Jm which the Interpreters have rendred Heaven and Earth which runnneth contrary to the Text and against the order of the Creation Who can tell us what Scha Ma Jm properly is True we cannot speak with Tongues for we are more taken up with Prophesying according to the grace bestowed upon us Therefore we will give the interpretation of it to others to let them search to learn what Scha Ma Jm meaneth So much is known that out of Scha Ma Jm all other things are come as also the water out of which Heaven and Earth in the beginning of the Creation were Created for it is not enough that we know how that the world was Created out of the water but we ask also from whence came that water then out of which the world was made For the wise go after wisdom even to her depths and give not over till they find the bottom and all Principles The book of wisdom saith Chap. 11. v. 23. The whole world is before thee God as a moment of the little Tongue in the Weights and Scales and as a drop of the Dew that falleth in the mornings upon the Earth It is manifest that all Water and Dew before it is a bodily Water is first a Vapour But how and out of what and from whence and whereby that Vapour ariseth must be searched into And in our opinion it is nothing else but such a bodily spirit who in himself incloseth all in all and yieldeth and giveth all to all and at last gathereth all to himself Out of which now the world is Created that same is also in all things and without it there is nothing no where and when that is taken away from it again then it can be no more of a being That we may set out the depths of the Creation out of which it was produced these are threefold First the Word of God in which is Light through which all things were made and that which is in all things is instead of the spirit according to the highest degree in the Creation of the world and this is the true spiritual Seed of all things without which nothing is neither can be Afterwards is the Soul of all the world and is distinguished from God as the breath from the spirit and is the breath of the speaking Word of God and instead of the soul is the true life of all things according to the highest degree and is the soulish seed of all things in the world Lastly the salt is the body and bodily seed of all things and of the whole world in which dwelleth and resteth the Word and the Spirit of God These three hatch from themselves a water which is a Scha Ma Jm out of which the whole world hath its original according to the middle degree but the lower degrees are the elements These three give and set down the three general Principles for the Creation as God the Nature and the Elements And again these three the Spirit Wind and Water and at last in these three every Creature and all is inclosed totally in the Light Life and Love The word is God and God is the word the Spirit is the Nature and an out-breathed breath of God and the Nature is the Spirit and Soul of the World The Salt is an element of all elements and the elements in their glory are nothing else but a Salt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Out of these three consists Scha Ma Jm and the whole Creation of the world in each and all their true Principles In all Creations the word is the beginning the spirit the middle and the salt is the end In the beginning of the Creation Scha Ma Jm was unfashioned and unframed there were also darknesses over the face of the depths and there was a Chaos or confused being But the spirit of the Lord moved upon the water thereby it became seedy and the first thing that was Created in it was Light but was comprehended of the darknesses so long till God said Lehior come forth thou light and come before the day and make a day that it may be Light And presently light parte◠from the darkness and is according to its body and being an essential most refined spiritual salt which not otherwise but by the eye may be brought to the sense The darkness containeth in it Fire and the light was parted from darkness and the fire lay secretly hid therein which afterward by reason of sin broke forth to be visible and is called not Or Light but Vr Fire After the the Light was Created the Heaven a Firmament out of the water as Ice and Chrystal In which the flying soulish salt of life became fixed an firm and Heaven it self is such a salt in which dwe◠all the powers of life and of the soul and from thenc◠from above are poured forth into the nether world through the Spirit Wind and Air whose body i◠the water into which the flying salt is carryed After the Heaven was Created the Earth the bodily Centre of the world a gross body which containeth in it self the fixed salt into which earth all the elements do incenter The light is compared to the divine world the Heaven to the English and the earth to the elementary Above the Heaven and the Firmament are the spiritual above the waters into which nature doth pour forth it self which above the upper waters have their world and the true Paradise where there is meer light and no darkness Which world in these last times is made manifest in which the Nuptial of the Lamb and his Bride and the great true Supper will be kept Those that in the first Resurrection and Change at the coming of Jesus Christ have part shall meet the Lord and taken up into the Air to go with him into Paradise and shall thus be with the Lord always The whole Sphere of the world of earth and water are carryed and held up by the air even as a body is kept and held up by the spirit and breath that it may not fall CHAP. XIV Of the particular Creation THe Creation in its order is threefold First General in the Scha Ma Jm which was the first Materia and is yet out of which corporally all things are Created into which all Principles come together and are concentred Afterward Special on and in the Element as Lights Heaven Earth and Water Spirit Wind and Air are contained in Scha Ma Jm. Lastly Particular as in all these things which out on in and by the Elements were Created produced and made The first that was made in the particular Creation were the Vegitables all growing things on earth as Grass Herbs Trees amongst which the Vine Tree is the chiefest Now every thing hath its proper seed in it self Therefore here ceaseth Creation and Conception
let no man be puffed up with Knowledge And for our part we are not extol'd therewith for Satan also doth buffet us with fists and doth upbraid us with our shame Therefore we humble our selves that the Lord may accept of us in mercy Who giveth Grace to the humble and beholdeth low things and him that is of a contrite heart and trembleth at his Word Lastly This is the Conclusion that every one examine himself and that according to the Spirit Truth and Wisdom and no otherwise whether God Christ and the Holy Ghost be in him which every one may know by his thoughts Words and Works in his affection will and pleasure and in his Knowledge and Conscience Every good thing is from God and of God and not of Men. All Sin is from the Devil who seduceth man and leadeth him to perdition and destruction Well be to him who separates bad from good rejects bad things and maketh choice of good and beareth fruit thereby The Lord Zeboah will at last take away the evil Eternally and restore the good again and return bad things to that evil one and recompence it upon his head Amen The Lord our God be gracious unto us and help forward the works of his hands yea the works of his hands he will help forward Amen Praised be the Lord that cometh and blessed be his glorious name All the world be full of his Honour Amen Hallelujah FINIS A Catalogue of Chymical Books which have been written Originally or Translated into English ELias Ashmole Esq his Theatrum Chymicum Britanicum Or a Collection of our Famous English Hermetical and Poetical Philosophers viz. Th. Norton Geo. Ripley Geofr Chaucer Jo. Dastin Pearce the black Monk Rich. Carpenter Abrah Andrews Th. Carnâ—ck Will. Bloomfield Ed Kelley Jo. d ee Th. Robinson the Magistery of W. B. Jo. Gower Mystery of Alchymists Jo Lydgate Will. Redman with divers Anonymi and certain fragments with Annotations upon the same Lond. 1652. 4. His Fassiculus Chymicus Or Chymical Collections of the â—ngress progress and Egress of the Secret Hermetick Science Collected out of the Choicest most Famous Authors Lond. 1650. 8 o. The way to Bliss Lond. 1658. 4º Don Alexis of Piemont His Collection of Secrets with the manner of making Distillations c. Lond. 1580. 4º Fr. Antonies Apology for his Medicine called Aurum Potabile Lond 1616. 4. Aula Lucis Or The House of Light by S. N. Lond. 1â—52 8 Artefius his Key of the greater Wisdom 8. vide Flammell Abr. Andrews his Hunting of the Green Lyon vide Theatrum Chymicum Britanicum Alphonsus King of Portugal his 2 Treatises of the Philosophers Stone vide Treatises Albertus Magnus his secrets of the Virtues of Herbs Stones Beasts c. Lond. 1637 8. Anonymi quidem A Discourse of Magical Gold vide Discourse A True order to Distil Oyls c. aide true and perfect order A Profitable Discourse against bad garbling of Spices vide Profitable Secrets revealed concerning the Philosophers Stone vide Secrets Secrets and Wonders of the world vide Secrets Physical Dictionary vide Physical Hermetick Banquet vide Hermetick Enchiridion Physicâ— restitutae vide Enchiridion Liber Patris Sapientiae vide Theatrum Brit. Hermes Bird vide Th. Brit. Experience and Philosophy Th. Brit. The Hermets Tale vide Th. Brit. Description of the Stone vide Th. Brit. The standing of the Glass for the time of Putrifaction and Congelation of the Medicine vide Th. Brit. The distillation of all manner of Spices Seeds Roots and Gums vide Distillation The Method of Chymical Philosophy and Physick vide Method Th. Brown's Natures Cabinet Vnlockt Or the Natural causes of Metals Stones Precious Earth Juyces Humours and Spirits the Natures of plants in general the affections parts and kinds in particular c. Lond. 1657 12. Jo. Beguines Tyrocinium Chymicum Or Chymical Essays from the Fountain of Nature and Manual Experience Lond. 1669. 8. Hier. Bruynswayke's Virtuous Book of Distillation of the Waters of all manner of Herbs with the Figures of the Stillatories Translated by Lawr. Andrew Lond. 1527. fol. Geo. Baker's New Jewel of Health Containing the most excellent Secrets of Physick and Philosophy and of all Distillations of VVaters Oyles Balmes Quintescences with the Extraction of Artificial Salts the use and preparation of Antimony and Potable Gold with the Vessels and Furnaces and other Instruments thereunto belonging Being the Second part of the Treasury of Euonymus Lond. 1576. 4. Andr. Bertholdus Of the wonderful Effects Virtues and strange use of the new Terra Sigillata found in Germany Lond. 1587 1589. 8. R. Bostock Esq Of the difference of the ancieâ—t Physick first taught by Godly Fathers and the latter from Idolaters and Heathens as Galen and such others Lond. 1583. Ed. Boldnest's Aurora Chymica Or a rational way to prepare Animals Vegetables and Minerals for Physical use and preservation of the life of Man 1672. 8. His Medicina Instaurata or the Grounds and Principles of the Art of physick made by Chymical operation and the Insufficiency of the vulgar way of preparing Medicines Lond. 1665. 8. R. Bacon's Art of Chymistry 16. His Mirror of Alchimy 1597. 40. His Admirable force of Nature and Art 4º His Tincture of Antimony vide B. Valentine Fr. Bacon Lord of Verulam his Natural History with Articles of enquiry touching Metals and Minerals c. Lond. 1670 fol Ld. Blaise of Viginere his Discourse of Fire and Salt Lond. 1640. 4. Will. Bloomfield's Blossoms vide Th. Brit. B. G. Penotus à Portu Aquitano his Excellent Works vide Firovant Sam. Boultons Magical but Natural Physick With a Description of the most excellent Cordial of Gold Lond. 1656. 8. Rob. Boyle Esq Sceptical Chymist Lon. 1661. 8. His Essay about the Origine and Virtues of Gems Lond. 1672. 8. His considerations touching the usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy 2 parts Oxford 1664 1671 4. His New Experiments Physico Mechanical touching the spring and weight of the Air and their effects Oxford 1660. 8. ibid. with additions and continuation Oxf. 1662 1669 4. His phisiological Essayes and other Tracts with some Specimens to make Chimical Experiments useful to illustrate the Notions of the Corpuscular Philosophy c. Lond. 1669. 4. His Experiments and Considerations touching Colours begining the Experimental History of Colours Lond. 1670 8. His Origine of Forms and Qualities according to Corpuscular Philosophy Illustrated by Considerations and Experiments written by way of Notes upon an Essay about Nitre Oxon. 1666 1667 8. His Traâ—â—s of Cosmical qualities Things and suspitions of the temperature of Subterraneal and Submarine Regions and of the bottom of the Sea As also An Introduction to the History of particular qualities Oxf. 1671 8. His Experimental History and Observations of Cold London 1665 8 His Hydrostatical Paradoxes made out by New Experiments Lond. 1666. 8. Dan. Coxe's Discourse of the Interest of the Patient in reference to Physick and Physicians With a detection of the abuses of
a short view of Paracelsus and Galens Practice of the Nature of Physick and Alchemy Lond 8. Hen Power 's Experimental Philosophy or new Microscopical Mercurial Magnetical and Subterraneal Experiments Lond. 1664. 4º Bern. G. Penotus a Portu Aquitano His exâ—ellent Works vide Firovant A Profitable discourse Composed by divers Grocers against the bad Garbelling of Spices used in these days and against the Combination of the Workmen of that Office Lond. 4º A Physical Dictionary or an Interpretation of such crabbed Words and terms of Art as are derived from Greek and Latine used in Physick Anatomy Chyrurgâ—ry and Chymistry 8. Eug. Philalethes Lumen de Luâ—ine Lond. 1651. 8. His Forms and Confessions of the fraternity of the Rosie Cross Lond. 1652. 8. Ioach Poleman Novam Lumen Medicum Lond. 1662. Pearce The black Monck upon the Elixir vide Theat Brit. Geo. Phaedro's Physical Chymical works to cure most difficile Diseases with the secrets of Coelestial Physick Lond. 1654. 8. Io. Quercitan His true and perfect Spagyrick preparation of Minerals Animals and Vegitables with their use whereunto is added divers secrets of Io. Hesther Lond. 1591. 8. His answer to Iacob Aubertus concerning the Original causes of Metals set forth by Aubertus against the Chymists Lond. 1591. 8. His Spagyrick Antidotary vide Firovant His Practice of Chymical and Hermetical Physick for the preservation of health Lond. 1604. 4º Th. Raynoldes Declaration of the Vertues use and excellency of the Oyl Imperial Lond. 1551. 8. Io. Rhenodeus His dispensatory of the natures properties and vertues of Vegitables Minerals and Animals of Galenical and Chymical materials with an absolute Pharmacopâ—ia Lond. fol. Lud. Rowzet Of the Queens Wells or a Tteatise of the Natures and Vertues of Tunbridge-water Lond. 1670. 1671. 8. Th. Robinson Of the Philosophers Stone vide Th. Brit. Will. Redmans Aenigma Philosophicum vide Th. Brit Geo. Ripley's Compound of Alchimy his vision his verses on the Emblematical Scrowl his mystery of the Alchymists Preface to Medulla and his short work vide Th. Brit. Ian. Cunr. Rhumelius His Experiments vide Philos Maturata Florianus Randorff Of the Philosophers Stone vide Treatises Mich. Sendivogius His new light of Alchimy taken out of the Fountain of Nature and manuel Experience together with a Treatise of Sulphur also Paracelsus his nine Books of the Nature of things with a Chymical Dictionary explaining hard words in Paracelsus and others Lond 1650. 4º Alex. van uchtens Secrets of Antimony in 2 Treatises with Basill Valentines Salt of Antimony and its use Lond. 1670. 8. Io Schroders Compleat Chymical dispensatory treating of Metals Precious Stones Minerals Vegitables and Animals and how rightly to know and use them Lond. 1669. fol. His History of Animals and their use Lond. 1669. 8. Tho. Shirleys Philosophical Essay declaring the probable causes whence Stones are produced in the greater world with a search into the Origin of all bodies Lond. 1671. 8 Dan. Sennertus His Institutions wherein are the grounds of Chymistry Lond. fol. 8. Geo Starkies Natures Explication and Helmonts vindication or a full Apology for Chymical Medicaments with a vindication of their Excellencies against the Gallenists Lond. 1658. 8. His Marrow of Chymical Physick or a Treaetise of making Chymical medicines Lond. 1661. 12º Will. Salmons Synopsis Medicinae or a Compendium of Astrological Galenical and Chymical Physick and Philosophy deducted from the Principles of Hermes and Hippocrates Lond. 1671. 8 Will. Sympsons Hydrologia Chymica or the Chymi al Anatomy of the Scarbrough and other Spaws in Yorkshire with some observations upon Dr. Witties Treatise of Scarbroughs Spaw with a Description of the Spaws at Malton and Knarsbrough with the Original of Springs Fountains c. Lond. 1669 8. His Hydrological Essays or a vindication of Hydrologia Chymica being a further discovery of the Scarbrough Spaw and of the right use thereof with an account of the Alom-works at Whitby c. Lond. 1670. 8. Rob. Sharrock Of the propagation and improvement of Vegitables by the concurrance of Art and Nature c. Lond 1671. 8. Simon Sturtevant's Treatise of Metalica Secrets for liquifying and using of Gold and Silver Lo. 8. Secrets revealed or an open entrance to the shut Pallace of the King containing the greatest Treasure in Chymistry never so plainly discovered concerning the Philosophers Stone Lond. 1669. 8. Secrets and wonders of the world Lond. 1587. 4º The Store-house of Physical and Pholosoprical secrets teaching to distil all manner of Oyls from Gums Spices Seeds Roots Herbs Minerals c Lond. 1633. 4º Patr. Scots Tillage of light or a true discovery of the Philosophical Elixir Lond. 1623. 8. Angel Sala's Preparation vide Philosoph Maturata Io. Sawtre Of the Philosophers Stone vide Treatises Geor. Thomsons Galeno Pale or a Chymical trial of the Gallenists Lond. 1665 8. His Gag for Iohnsons animadversions upon Galenopale or a scourge for Galen Lond. 1665. 8. His vindication of my Lord Bacon and an assertion of experimental Philosophy with some observations of true Chymical Science Lond. 671. 8. His Letter to Dr. Stubs wherein the Galenical method of Medicaments are proved ineffectual by experimental demonstrations Lond. 1672 4. His Apology against the Calumnies of the Gallenists vide his Book of the Pest Anatomized Lond. 1666. 8. Dr. Trigs Water with its vertues and use vide Paracelus P. Thybaults Art of Chymistry as it is now practiced Lond. 1668. 8. Geo. Tonstal Of the Scorbroughs Spaw Spagyrically Anatomized 1071. 8. And. Tentzelius His Mumial Treatise vide Paracelsus Will. Turners Treasury of English Baths and of the Baths of other Countries Lond. 1587. 4º The true and perfest order to Distill Oyls out of all manner of Spices Seeds Roots and Gums Lond. 1575. 8. Five Treatises Of the Philosophers Stone two of Alphonsus King of Portugal one of Iohn Sawtre the Monk one of Florianus Randorff a German Philosopher and one by Will. Gratarole by H P. Lond. 1652. 4º Th. Tymmes Philosophical Dialogue wherein Natures secret Closet is opened Lond 1612. 4º Geo. Thor. His Cheiragogia Heliana an easie Introduction to the Philosophers Magical Gold to which is added Zoroasters Cave and Jo. Pontanus's Epistle upon the Mineral Fire Lond. 1659 1667. 8. Basil Valentine His last Will and Testament with two Treatises one of manual operation the other of things natural and supernatural Lond. 1670. 8. His Triumphant Charriot of Antimony Lond. 1656. 8 Of Natural and Supernatural things of the first Tincture Root and Spirit of metals and minerals how the same are conceived generated brought forth changed and augmented with Rog. Bacons Tincture of Antimony and Is Hollands work of Saturn Lond. 1671. 8. His Salt of Antimony and its use vide Suchten Io. Websters Metallographia or History of metals with Signs of Ores and minerals before and after diging the causes and manner of their Generations their kinds sorts and differenc s with a description of new metals and Semi metals and other things pertaining to mineral knowledge also of Vegitability of mystical Chymistry of the Philosophers Gold and Mercury of the Liquor Alkahest Aurum Potabile and such like Lond. 1671 4. Dan. Widdows His Natural Philosophy or Description of the world and several Creatures therein viz. of Angels Mankind Heavens Stars Planets the 4 Elements with their order nature and goverment as also of minerals Metals plants and pretious stones with their Colours Forms and Vertues Lon. 1631 4º Tim. Willis His search of causes of a Theophysical Investigation of the possibility of Transmntatory Alchymy Lond. 1616. 8. Rob. Witties Pyrologia Mimica or an answer to Mr. Sympsons Hydrologia Chymica Lond. 1669. 8 His Scarbroughs Spaw or a Description of the nature and vertnes of the Spaw at Scarbrough in Yorkshire and of the nature and use of Sea Rain Snow Pond lake Spring and River-waters with a discourse concerning Mineral-water Lond. 1660. 8. Will. Williams His occult Physick or three principles in Nature Anatomized by a Philosophical operation from Experience in three Books of Beasts Trees Herbs and their Magical and Physical vertues Lon. 1660. 8. Weckers Secrets Lond. fol. The Yorkshire Spaw vide French Zoroastres Cave vide Thor. THE BOOKSELLER TO THE READER Courteous Reader BE pleased to understand that some small Number of these Books in this Catalogue cannot absolutely be called Chymical but have a very near affinity thereunto the knowledge of natural Philosophy being an Introduction to supernatural things nor do I pretend to publish this as an absolute Collection of English Chymical Authors distrusting I may have forgotten some of common note but rather as an Essay to provoke others better able to perfect it Several of these Books I have drawn out of the Catalogues of And Maunsel William London and the Mercurius Librarius others I have more largely transcribed from the Books themselves with the Date when Printed and in what Volume as near as the shortness of my time would permit having but a few days to Collect it and therefore I crave excuse for my mistakes and leave the perfecting thereof to time and other mens ingenuity who shall please to take the pains to add what shall come within the verge of their Knowledge or be presented to their view Vale.
him see and he that hath Ears let him hear and an understanding Heart hearken unto it But this is the Revelation and appearance of Christ the day of the Revelation of the Son of Man namely that God in Christ and Christ in God a Spiritual Divine Heavenly Adam and man from Eternity is and hath been in a Divine Spiritual Heavenly Essence flesh and bloud and after this his essential Image he hath in the Creation created and framed a Soulish Adam and Terrestrial Man CHAP. XIX Of the Mystical Image that is of the Mystery of God THis is the Mystery of God as was said already which is clear and manifest on the Soulish Adam and Terrestrial Man from beneath that namely above is the true Adam and Man but beneath is only his Image Wonderful is Gods counsel and who hath known the Lords mind who was so pleased that the last should be the first and should receive the Money or Peny and the blessed glory at first Well may these last say This is the day which the Lord hath made let us rejoyce in it it is marvelous in our Eyes â—sal 118 To day is fulfilled the Word which is written The Stone which the builders rejected is become the Corner Stone and it is marvellous in our Eyes for the Spiritual Rock of which all the Fathers have eaten and drunk from the beginning of the world and upon which the Church of God is founded and builded remained unknown till to the seventh Trumpet where the Mystery of God must be manifested and is also made manifest for the Spiritual Adam and Heavenly Man in his Divine Flesh and Bloud through which we are so dearly bought is thrust away from the Holy place and on the contrary another Flesh and Bloud from beneath out of sinners is brought into the Holyest for an abomination of the desolation But now the new Creation is come in which the Word saith and the Lord himself speaketh as he hath promised Isa 52. 6. c. 40. 5. Saying Jehior or let it be light for the day is come which is known to the Lord to them to whom he will reveal his Mystery Zech. 14. Concerning the Mystery of God in the Creation of Man it is thus that God hath Created Man a Man and Woman Gen. 1. 27. And took the Woman out of the Man Chap. 2. 21 22. To shew the great Mystery of Christ and of his Church which is his Wife and spouse out of his flesh and bones Ephes 5. 30 31 32. But the Divine Spiritual and Heavenly Eve is threefold 1. The most holy Godhead it self 2. The Church of Christ 3 The Heavenly Soul in Man This is the body of Christ his Church whose Saviour he was made for which he gave himself The Divine Eve as the most Holy Godhead is the Mother of us all and the right Jerusalem which is from above The Spiritual Eve as the Church of Christ is the Mother the Spouse of the Lamb. The Virgin and Daughter of Jerusalem The Heavenly Soul is the Heavenly Eve a Maid of the Lord a Daughter of Jerusalem who was married to a Terrestrial Man who brought her to great misery and death but the Lord was made a Servant for her and hath made her free again through his death and hath married unto her a new Adam man out of his flesh and bone of which she hath a divine Inheritance Now if we ask after the Mystery of God how that may be made known answer is on man it may be known There is but one man in one Person but in it three witnesses of his substance as Body Soul and Spirit and in seven Powers The Spirit is always in stead of the Father and is the Father himself also and begetteth by the Soul as by the true Mother to himself a body which is the Child and the Son in which dwelleth all fulness So there is but one God in one only Person but in three Witnesses Father Word and Holy Ghost and in seven Spirits or Powers of God God is a Spirit and a Father and begets through the Word and in the same to himself a Body a Child a Son in which he with all his fulness dwelleth bodily in this manner that he that seeth the Father seeth the Son also the word it self the quickening Spirit and the quickening Adam himself Afterward God begets a Son not after the Person or a personal distinction as one Man another Man else there would be two Gods although there is but one only God But after the Testimony for our sakes he begets a Son that we namely by that Witness as of the Father and Son in God might be made Gods Children Heirs and Co heirs out of his Seed flesh and bones for God in and for himself needs neither Father nor Son because there is never no more in him but one in number but even himself is Jesse and all in all neither are there two or three but One only and none else 3 Lastly God begets also a Son and is a father after the Testimony and that to all Creatures and what ever he hath Created namely that all might have a trust and confidence in him as also the young Ravens when they are forsaken by the old ones This Testimony is done by the Spirit which from God is in all things and fills up all Wisd 1. 7. Chap. 12. 1. Who it is that cryeth to God out of the young Ravens Who is a God of the Spirits of all Flesh Num. 16. 22. And remembreth to God that he is a father of all Creatures and cannot neither ought to forsake them Now the Spirit is it that calleth upon God in all Creatures and praiseth and glorifieth him where is is said in the Psalm All that hath breath Praise the Lord Every Spirit Laud and Praise the Lord The Earth the Sea and the Trees in the Forest Praise the Lord. O man there is much in the Spirit the knowledge of him availeth much for if you do not know him you are but a Beast without a Spirit as Ecclesiastes and others more have it CHAP. XX. Of the Truth and Spirit by which all Wisdom is justified WHen we intend to speak of the Wisdom it must be done in the Spirit and Truth Now nothing is Truth but only the Spirit and the same can lead us into all Truth can teach us all and can tell us of things to come for all Spirits are in subjection to him he penetrates through them all even as fire doth to Gold and Silver seven times and the good that remaineth in it it doth not undoe but rather thinks that there is a blessing in it and bloweth into the smoking â—lax a fire of Life Light and Fire and inâ—useth it self into the same that it may be fitted for a new Creation for a multiplication into many thousands But nothing may attain unto Wisdom unless it be first gone to the fire for a Tryal even as the Gold