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A26733	Of natural & supernatural things also of the first tincture, root, and spirit of metals and minerals, how the same are conceived, generated, brought forth, changed, and augmented / [by] Basilius Valentinus ; translated out of high Dutch by Daniel Cable ; whereunto is added Frier Roger Bacon, Of the medicine or tincture of antimony; Mr. John Isaac Holland, his Work of Saturn; and Alex. Van Suchten, Of the secrets of antimony.	Basilius Valentinus.; Cable, Daniel.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.; Hollandus, Johan Isaäc, 15th cent.; Suchten, Alexander von, ca. 1520-ca. 1590.	1671 (1671)	Wing B1020; ESTC R29247	60,576	242

BASILIUS VALENTINUS A BENEDICTINE MONK OF NATURAL SUPERNATURAL THINGS ALSO Of the first Tincture Root and Spirit of METALS and MINERALS how the same are Conceived Generated Brought forth Changed and Augmented Whereunto is added Frier Roger Bacon of the Medicine or Tincture of Antimony Mr. John Isaac Holland his Work of Saturn and ALEX. Van SUCHTEN of the Secrets of Antimony Translated out of High Dutch by DANIEL CABLE LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by Moses Pitt at the White Hart in Little Britain 1671. BASILIUS VALENTINUS A BENEDICTINE MONK OF NATURAL SUPERNATURAL THINGS ALSO Of the first Tincture Root and Spirit of METALS and MINERALS how the same are Conceived Generated Brought forth Changed and Augmented Translated out of High Dutch by DANIEL CABLE Whereunto is added ALEX. Van SUCHTEN OF THE SECRETS of ANTIMONY Translated out of High Dutch by D. C. a Person of great Skill in Chymistry LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Moses Pitt at the White Hart in Little Britain 1670. BASILIUS VALENTINUS OF Natural and Supernatural Things CHAP. I. BEcause I have at this present undertaken to write of the of the first Tincture the Root of Metals and Minerals and to inform you of the Spiritual Essence how the Metals and Minerals are at first spiritually conceived and born corporally it will be necessary first of all to utter and to acquaint you by a speech that all things consist of two parts that is Natural and Supernatural what is visible tangible and hath form or shape that is natural but what is intactible without form and spiritual that is supernatural and must be apprehended and conceived by Faith such is the Creation and especially the Eternity of God without end immensible and incomprehensible for Nature cannot conceive nor apprehend it by its humane reason This is supernatural what Reason cannot apprehend but must be conceived by Faith this is a Divine matter and belongs to Theology which judgeth Souls Moreover there appertains to supernatural things the Angels of the Lord having clarified Bodies doing that by the permission of their Creator which is impossible for any other Creature to do their Works being concealed from the Eyes of the World and so likewise are the Works of the Infernal Spirits and Devils unknown which they do by the permission of the most High God But above all the great Works of God are found and acknowledged to be supernatural not to be scann'd and comprehended by Humane Imaginations such is in especial the great Grace and Mercy of God which he bestows upon Mankind out of his great Love which indeed no man can apprehend or know and other great and wonderful works which he hath manifested divers manner of wayes by Christ our Saviour and Redeemer for the confirmation of his Omnipotence and Glory As when he raised Lazarus from the dead Iairus his Daughter the Ruler of the Synagogue and the Widows Son of Naim He made the Dumb to speak the Deaf to hear and the Blind to see all which are supernatural and Magnalia Dei so also was his Conception Resurrection Descension and Ascension into Heaven too deep and mysterious for Nature all which is only to be obtained by Faith There belongs likewise to supernatural things the taking of Enoch and 〈◊〉 into Heaven the divine rapture of St. Paul in the Spirit into the third Heaven Moreover many supernatural things are done by Imagination Dreams and Visions many wonders are done by the Imagination witness the speckled Sheep by the speckled Rods laid in their watring places God warned the wise men of the East by an especial Dream not to return again to Herod likewise their three Persons their three Gifts Presents or Offerings and the supernatural Star have all their peculiar and mystical meaning Nor was that Dream which hapned to Pilates Wife natural who unjustly adjudged our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to death The Vision of the Angels which appeared to the Shepherds at the Birth of Christ and to the Women at his Sepulchre who sought his Body where they had laid it cannot be accounted Natural There are many other supernatural things done at several times by the Prophets Saints so was the voice of the Ass speaking to Balaam contrary to the common course of Nature as also Joseph's Interpretation of Dreams And so God by his Angels preserves us oftentimes from infinite Evils and delivers us out of manifold Dangers impossible for Nature to do All this many others belong to Theology and to Heaven whereunto the Soul is to have regard Now follows the supernatural things of the visible Works of God as we see them in the Firmament to wit the Planets Stars and Elements which are above our Reason only their Course and Motion is observed by speculation and reckoning which belongs to Astronomy it is a visible but incomprehensible Being performing its operation in a Magnetick way out of which likewise divers admirable things are found and observed which arè altogether supernatural understand it thus that the Heaven operates in the Earth and the Earth affords a correspondence with the Heavenly For the Earth hath also its seven Planets which are operated and bred by the seven Celestial only by a spiritual Impression or Infusion even as the Stars operate all Minerals This is done incomprehensibly and spiritually and therefore it is to be accounted supernatural even as two Lovers their persons are visible but their Love one to the other is invisible Humane Bodies are tangible and natural but Love is invisible spiritual intangible and supernatural comparable to a Magnetick Attraction only for the invisible Love which is attracted unto it spiritually by the Imagination is accomplish'd by the desires and fruition In like manner when the Heaven hath a love to the Earth and the Earth hath a Love Inclination and Affection towards Man as the great World to the lesser for the lesser World is taken out of the greater and when the Earth by the desires of its invisible Imagination doth attract unto it self such a Love of the Heaven there is thereby an Union of the Superiour and Inferiour as Man and Wife are accounted one Body together and after this Union the Earth is impregnated by the Infusion of the Heaven and begins to conceive and bring forth a Birth sutable to the Infusion and this Birth after its Conception is digested by the Elements and brought to a perfect Ripeness and this is reckoned among the supernatural things how the supernatural Effence performs its operation in the natural Among the supernatural things are like wise reckoned all Magical and Cabalistical Matters which depend thereon arising out of the Light of true knowledge not those which proceed from Superstition Conjuration or unlawful Exorcisme such as the Sorcerers use but I mean in this place such a Magick as the Wise men had that came out of the East who by Revelation from God and by true allowable Art judged rightly or such an

and admirable Effects be they called by what name soever I am an Ecclesiastical person obedient to the Ecclesiastical degree related to the Benedictine Order by a Spiritual and Divine Oath by which Order with my internal Prayer I obtain comfort and promises of Gods Word a refreshment to my Soul but in a corporal temptation of my weaknesses and for my Brethren I have not found and used a better corroboration by Gods Blessing than these three Compounds united God give bless and increase this Virtue and Power unto the End of this temporal World which Man must change together with Death O thou golden power of thy Soul O thou golden intellect of thy Spirit O thou golden operation of thy Body God the Creator keep thee and grant unto all earthly Creatures who love and honour him the true understanding of all Gifts that thy Will may be done in Heaven and on Earth This is enough revealed at present concerning the Spirit of Gold until the coming again of Elias Hereunto I add a short Process Take a Spirit of Salt therewith extract the Sulphur of Gold separate the Oil of Salt from it rectifie the Sulphur of Gold with Spirit of Wine that it be pleasant without Corrosive then take the true Oil of Vitriol made of the Vitriol of Verdigreece therein dissolve Mars thereof make a Vitriol again and again dissolve it into an Oil or Spirit which rectifie in like manner as before with Spirit of Wine conjoin them and abstract the Spirit of Wine from it resolve the Matter which remaines dry in Spirit of Mercury according to a just weight circulate and coagulate it when it is fix'd and permanent without Ascention you have then a Medicine to tinge Man and Metals if it be fermented with prepared Gold CHAP. VII Of the Spirit of Silvor THE Tincture and spirit of Silver manifests its Colour of a Watchet or Sky-colour otherwise it is a waterish Spirit cold and moist not so hot in its degree as that which is found in Gold Mars and Venus for Luna is more phlegmatick than fiery though it be brought by the Fire out of its waterish Substance into a coagulation and even as the Metals gain their tinging Spirits and Coagulation in like manner do stones get their fixedness and colour as out of one Influence A fix'd coagulated Mercury is found in the Diamond therefore it is fixeder and harder than the other stones and cannot be so broken so the tincture of Mars or the Sulphur of Iron is found in the Ruby the Sulphur of Venus in the Emerald the Soul of Saturn in the Granate in Tin the tincture which is found in the Topaz and Crystal is appropriated to common Mercury in the Saphir is found the Sulphur and Tincture of Luna but each one according to a peculiar understanding and according to its kind and in Metals according to their form and gender for when the blew Colour is taken and extracted out of the Saphire its Rayment is gone and its other Body is white as a Diamond wanting only the hardness that is in a Diamond even so when Gold hath lost its Soul it yields a fix'd white Gold Body which by searching Students and young Artists is called fix'd Luna Wherefore you must now understand and observe that even as I have declared unto you concerning the Saphire for your apprehension even so on the other side you must learn to what purpose my Speech is intended for your Instruction concerning Metals For this blew Spirit is the Sulphur and the Soul whence the Silver receiveth its Life both in and above the Earth by Art and the white Tincture of the Silver upon white stands in the Magnetick form of an everlasting thing or Creature wherein is likewise found the first Ens of Gold O ye high qualified Orators where is your voice in this case to explain this Mystery And you conceited Naturalists where is your Writings and Advice of Reason And you Physicians Whither is your Opinion flown to fetch somewhat afar off over the Seas for to cure the Dropsie and all Lunary Distempers You will say that this my speech is too dark for you is it so then kindle the terrestrial Light seek and be not ashamed to make acquaintance with Vulcan and let nothing be irksome unto you so will you find by the assistance of the Eternal God that the Spirit of Silver contains in it to cure and expel the Dropsie quite alone as the Spirit of Gold and as that of Mercury can expel the Consumption radically or in the root even so that the Center of those Diseases cannot be found any more But that Luna in the veins of the Earth is not furnished with such a hot substance or quality in its degree but is subjected to a Waterish Nature this fault lies upon that great Light of Heaven which by reason of its Waterish influence hath implanted such qualities in the other Creatures and Planets of the Earth than it hath in Silver And albeit that Silver contains a fix'd Mercury which is generated in it yet it wants a hot fix'd Sulphur truly to dry up and consume its Phlegme whereby it hath not obtained a compact Body unless it be done afterwards by the art of the Little World And seeing that its Body is not compact by reason of the abounding watery substance its Pores therefore are not rightly defended nor closed to undergo the weight and endure a Battel with the Enemies all which Virtues are to be found in Gold if it shall overcome all Enemies and endure all trials without defect All things are difficult in the beginning but wben they are brought to an end they are easie to be understood and apprehended If you do truly observe the Spirit and the Soul of Luna and learn to know it truly you may quickly compass the midst of the Work how it shall afford the end with profit wherefore I will now propose to you an Example and instruct you by a Countrey-Rule that you may apprehend it and consider of it as Childrens Play in a high and weighty Matter that you may search it out with advantage as followeth A common Peasant casts forth or sows his Seed in a Field well dunged and prepared this Seed after putrefaction sprouts forth of the Earth by the operation and furtherance of the Elements and sets before our Eyes the Matter of Flax together with its Seed which it brings with it augmented this Flax is pluck'd up and separated from its Seed but this Flax cannot be used and prepared for any work profitably except it be first putrefied and rotted in water whereby the Body is opened and gains an ingress of its doing good after this putrefaction and opening it is again dried in the Air and Sun and by this coagulation it is again brought into a Formal Being that it may do future service This prepared Flax is afterwards buck'd beaten broken peel'd and last of all dress'd that the pure may be

so hath its Children of the lower Region succeeded it in Kind and Nature hath permitted that Vulcan should conduct them to their like if Saturn be content for the upper light gives occasion thereunto having generated an unfixt Body of Saturn penetrated with open pores that the Air can pass through this Saturnine Body that the Air can keep it aloft but the fire can quickly assault it because the body is not compact by reason of its unfixedness so that it must decay which must be in all points observed by him that will attain to the search of it for there is a great difference between the fix'd and unfix'd bodies and of the causes of their Constancy and Inconstancy And though Saturn hath an especial ponderosity above other Metals yet observe when they are poured forth together after their union in the Flux the other Metals alwaies settle at the bottom even as it likewise comes to pass in the pouring of Antimony through with other Metals whereby it is evident that the other Metals fall through equally and are more compact than Saturn for it must give place and preheminence to the other Metals leaving the victory with them for it must vanish and be quite consumed with the unfixt inconstant Metals in it all the three properties of the three principles are most course and because its Salt is very fluxible above that of other Metals and Planets so is its Body more fluxible inconstant unfixt and volatile than any other Metallick Body As Saturn steps to its regeneration so know that in like manner as common Water is forced by the natural coldness by the change of the Heavens whereby it becomes a coagulated Ice in like manner is it to be made evident that by reason of the great coldness which is found to be in the Salt of SAturn above other Salts Saturn is also coagulated and made corporal Ice dissolves into water by heat so likewise the coagulated Saturn is made fluxable by Fire it hath most of Mercury in it but it is inconstant and volatile it hath least of Sulphur and therefore according to its small quantity its cold body cannot be made warm it hath little Salt but fluxible otherwise Iron would be more fluxible and malleable than Lead if the Salt alone could cause a malleableness and fluxibleness because Iron contains more Salt than any other Metal Seeing then there is a difference to be found in this point you must therefore observe and remember the difference and how to distinguish between Metals All Philosophers have wrote as well as I that the Salt gives the Coagulation and Body to every Metal and it is true but to prove it by an example how and after what manner this Relation is to be understood Plume Allom is esteemed to be only a meer Salt and is approved to be such which in this particular may be compared to Iron that the Salt of the Plume Allom is found to be a thing unfluxible as Iron is On the other side Vitriol likewise is a Salt manifesting it self in a small quantity but fluxible and open therefore its Salt cannot yield such a hard congelation unto its appropriated Metal as the other can although all the Salts of Metals grew out of one certain Root and out of one Seed yet nevertheless you must observe a difference in their three Principles as also you must observe remember that a difference is found in one Herb from the other and likewise how man differs from other Creatures and Animals in Qualities Original and the three Principles for one Herb is indued with more of this another with more of that kind which in like manner is to be understood concerning Man and other Animals The Soul of Lead consists in a sweet quality as also doth the Soul of Tin and sweeter yet that nothing almost may be compared to it being first of all purified to the highest by separation that the pure be well separated from the impure that a perfect accomplishment may succeed in the Operation Otherwise the Spirit of Lead is by nature cold and dry wherefore I advise that it be not much used by Men and Women because it over cools Nature so that the Seed of both cannot perform their Natural Function nor doth it much good to the Spleen and Bladder but in other cases it attracts flegmatick Humours unto it which raise up much Melancholy in Men for Saturn is a Ruler and such a Melancholicus whereby a Man is confirm'd in his Melancholy wherefore its Spirit is used for one Melancholy Spirit attracts another unto it whereby Mans Body is freed and delivered from its infused Melancholy Externally the Soul of Saturn is so healing in all Sores old or new Cuts Thrusts or Accidents by Means or Nature so that no Metal can do the like it is cooling in all hot tumified Members but Noble Venus hath the pre eminence to mundifie and cauterize all putrid Sores and to lay a ground for their Cure which have their access from within for in her essence she is hot to dry up but Saturn on the contrary is found to be cold in his Essence The Celestial Light of the Sun is much hotter than the Light of the Moon for the Moon is much lesser than the Sun and according to its dimension and division it contains an eighth part of the greatness in its Circle if then the Moon in this her Magnitude of the eighth part could excel the Sun as the Sun excels the Moon all Fruits and Productions of the Earth must perish and there would be a perpetual Winter no Summer to be found at any time But the Eternal Creator hath in this case well ordained a certain Order and Law for his Creatures that the Sun should give light by day and the Moon by night and so all Creatures should be served Those Children which are subject to the influence of Saturn are melancholy churlish continually murmuring as old covetous people who do no good to their own Bodies and yet never have enough they put their Bodies to much labour torment themselves with thoughts and whimsies seldom recreate themselves or are merry with other people nor do they greatly regard the natural love of fair Women In brief I tell thee that Saturn is generated of little Sulphur little Salt and much unripe gross Mercury which Mercury is to be esteemed as a Froth that floates upon the Water in comparison of that Mercury which is found in Sol and is much more hot in its degree and therefore the Mercury of Saturn by reason of its great coldness hath not so quick a running Life as that which is made of Gold wherein more heat is to be found whence that running Life hath its original Therefore in the inferiour world we must take notice of little Vulcan in the augmentation and transmutation of Metals as I have described those three Principles of Saturn as concering their descent nature and complection And every one must know