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A76069	Basilius Valentinus, monk, of the Order of St. Bennet: his last will and testament Which being alone, he hid under a table of marble, behinde the high-altar of the Cathedral Church, in the Imperial City of Erford: leaving it there to be found by him, whom Gods providence should make worthy of it. Wherein, he sufficiently, declares the wayes he wrought to obtain the philosophers stone: which he taught unto his fellow collegians, so that they all attained the said philosophers stone, whereby not onely the leprous bodies of the impure, and inferior metals are reduced unto the pure and perfect body of gold and silver, but also all manner of diseases whatsoever are cured in the bodies of unhealthfull men, and kept thereby in perfect health unto the prolonging of their lives. A work long expected.	Basilius Valentinus.	1658 (1658)	Wing B1016; ESTC R231639	202,436	343

of them and the grosser their mixture is the more store ●ere is found of them which is apparent in Garnats who ●th hitherto searched into the quick spirits of such noble ●eatures the Lord hath created for mans benefit Pygmees or Homunculi which in former times lived in ●llow oars of Mynes these could not want skill in ●th wayes having traversed and travelled up and down 〈◊〉 these slippery corners and wayes The places and ●uation of such Jewels lying somewhat nearer unto ●●aven in the Eastern Countreys bordering on Para●ce so there must needs be abounding in Gold and Jewels and such pretious vegetables which our thoughts hard● may reach unto God requireth no more of man whom 〈◊〉 intrusteth with these things but to be faithful and just an● is an argument for us to think that for the same cause pic●● Kings and Princes and the old wise Partiarchs were gift● from above to bear a love to search into Mine-works a●● did it with an uprightnesse and judgement Let hon●● godly Christian Miners chuse the better part and learn 〈◊〉 know the pearl the spirit of the Lord proceeding out 〈◊〉 Gods own mouth and let them consider well their eterna● fixation to return their love again to him that hath love them first bringing all things to their subjection he impa●●eth all unto them abundantly in grace and mercy by th● innocence and merit of his only son bestoweth on the● temporal and eternal blessings and puts more glorious o●naments on them and better than ever gold silver jewe● and pearls were adorned withall CHAP. XIII Of the essence of Gold which is abundantly found not only in the metal but Mineral also whose energ● is shewed most rarely and a short closing of my first and second Part of Minerals and metals 〈◊〉 annexed THis Chapter is a breviary of all mineral colours form● how they after an heavenly operation are daily clad i● the metalline prime matrix and set forth in their sever●● works whereas there shineth forth unto us the eternal lig●● of the lustrous Sun the deity of the day of joyes and 〈◊〉 the eternal most fixed and fairest Sol as also of a most ye●low pure red and fixed citrin colour of heavens etern●● lightning and the most glorious paradise of all the Sta●● a natural created light for all creatures besides the bea●● and Aurora of Mineral Earths and of their subtilest com●t and best binding inclosed speaking to all other white ●inged Metals I Sol of an essential being am Lord of ●rds in power might and perfection I overcome all and ●vercome and bring them into subjection and none of ●m can master me but I do conquer them all they are ●ject to me and to my Bei●g for my Kingdome is esta●hed with infinite and invincible Power and Dignity by 〈◊〉 all metals minerals animals vegetables are strength●ed and rectified for I give to every one that knoweth 〈◊〉 in my green blue and red Nature all what I have 〈◊〉 all what he desireth I cause to drop down after the ●r cardinal streams of Pison Gihon the noblest substance 〈◊〉 Mercury in the form of a most pure transparent crystal●e water and the most noble substance of Sulphur of Hi●el and Phrath the clearest fairest Astral salt from a Vitri● salt which through all Mines flew upward very fruit●ly and penetrates all the mineral stones I alone gradu●e and exalt the silver unto Lune I give light and lustre in 〈◊〉 righteousnesse of my vertue do spe k all Magi Natu●ists and Scribes all the world over from the East to the ●est I am the Lord over the heavenly clarified garments ●d colours I adorn the firmament the weather I cloath ●e Rainbow after Gods will I exalt all jewels all such ●owths and creatures and what I cannot inwardly walk ●rough and reach unto in my course I leave it to be per●cted with my friend and lover the Lune she receiveth the ●●st part of me and of the subtilest an abundance the In●●s Hungarie Carinthia testifieth the same for all what is 〈◊〉 live and is to receive a life rejoyceth in me and next ●od in none else for to him honour and glory belongs ●ely after him I finde no higher Lord and Commander●● for my part I do not rest neither do I desire any rest do ●y office readily into which my Creatour hath placed me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my plyablenesse be found gloriously like a vvax in ●ones which have by reason of hardnesse fire enough if ●ed I am hid from unwise men and am ready to be discern● by men of understanding I am predominant abundant● in a well known Mineral as also in Mars and Venus whic● are of low degrees in them I lye hid also all these have 〈◊〉 double spirit well known unto Lune pleasant to her an● next unto her Hence God suffered Moses to erect a bras● Serpent in the desert after my colour in hearkning un●● the people at the mount Sinai My best and fairest c●lour appeareth in transparent juyces as vitriol which af●●● my condition in due time penetrateth Oars whereby the● grew rich in lust are train'd up in a pleasant form con●ded into a greennesse like sealing wax green like Goo● dung blew like Saphir and so forth sometimes of th● colour of a water flint my red and whi●e colour is the best which are heartily wish'd for I love to be kindled i● vitriol and further is after descension in its green food unto a deep red spirit after whose laxative purging cometh that expected aqua Saturni the true a●ide-Well fro● whence I my self and all other Metals animals and vegetables have my off-spring and life For Metals and Minerals rise onely from thence have their beginning and original from it for it is that quickning water which ordinary Myners do not know of is known onely to Philosophers It worketh Minerals and Metals in several wayes in form of taps which did skept pure white compact found like purified Suggar in a blue slate-work An extraordinary pleasant Mineral for all colours Salt Oars are at a farther distance which by my attractive changing are found in floats blocks and passages which in many places bring the water unto the day-light so that it often is found a pure and dry Salt above ground of glassie light flames o● in a great frost like unto flocks of snow there shooteth a brittle glassie light stone wrought in great pieces in the same order are all other Jewels according to mine inlightned heavenly stone distributed among their operations worths and vertues and clarified in a most fix'd transparency and indewed with an everlasting spirit distinct i● s●●●ral colours as Diamond Smaragds Carbuncles Saphirs ●●ies Chrystals Chalcedonian Jaspis Berill Chrysolith ●●x Carmel Turkois Lazur-stone Margarits Coralls ●ra Lemnia Terpentine-stones and Garnats of deeper 〈◊〉 colours each in its heavenly colours order is transpa●● and naturally is created and preserved in its own of●a Hence it may be argued that all these together with ●●d

pleasant voice of the Queen and embrace her friendly out of a great love and take his fill of her both will vanish and enter into one body They say two men can master a third especially if they have elbow room to vent their malice Hereupon you are to know from a true ground that a double winde must come called Vulturnus then a single winde called Notus these come rushing from the East and South and will keep a stir being robb'd and their blowing or motion allayed and the aire is turn'd into water then you may confide that a spiritual one will become a bodily one and that the number by the four seasons of the year in the fourth heaven will predominate after the seven Planets have finish'd their ruling and will finish its course in the neathermost dwelling of the Palace and will hold in the highest fiery examen then the two which went forth suppressed the third and consumed him Here in our mastery is requisite an exact knowledge for the division and conjunction must be rightly hit if so be you intend to get riches by your Art and the Scales must not be falsified by unequal weights This is the Rock spoken of in this Chapter that you must finish it without any defect by the artificial heaven with air and earth with the true water and sensible fire setting in equal weights whereof I inform you really The seventh Key NAtural calidity preserveth mans life for when natural heat is gone then the life is at an end Natural fire being moderately used is a defence against cold but an immoderate heat is destructive There is no necessity that ●●e Sun should touch the earth corporally with her whole substance it is sufficient that the earth be strengthned by 〈◊〉 rayes which she ejaculateth unto the earth and doth ●hat way her duty for in that way she is of a sufficient ●●cacy to perform her office bringing things unto matu●●● by her digestion for the distance of the aire bringeth 〈◊〉 solar rayes into a temperature so by means of the aire 〈◊〉 fire doth work and the aire worketh by the help of 〈◊〉 Earth produceth nothing without water and water ●●thout earth can rise nothing neither now as these two ●●nnot be one without another in the generating of ●its neither can fire be without aire nor aire without ●e fire is livelesse without aire and without fire the aire ●●nnot shew its due calidity and drynesse The Vine at its last ripening hath need of a greater solar ●●at than it hath at the beginning of the Spring and if ●e Sun hath a good operation in the Harvest then the Vine ●elds a better and stronger sap which it doth not if the ●●ns heat be defective The vulgar counteth all things ●●ad in Winter because frost hath locked up the earth ●●at nothing can spring up but when the Spring-season ap●●oacheth and the Sun in her ascending breaketh the frost 〈◊〉 things turn to life again Trees and Herbs appear in the ●●elinesse and the Animals which hid themselves from ●●e frost creep forth again out of their caves and holes ●egetables afford their new fragrancy their operation is ●pparent in their pleasant blossoms of several colours ●hen the Summer worketh further brings these blossoms 〈◊〉 further ripenesse into fruits upon which ensueth a rich ●●rvest for the which thanks are due to the Creator which ●et these periods unto Nature Thus one year worketh after the other so long till ●he Architect thereof pulls them down and the Inhabitants ●f the earth be exalted by the glory of God then all earth●y Nature will be at an end in her working and in its place ●●ere will be an infinite eternal one When the Sun in Win●●r goeth further off from us she doth not dissolve so well the great snow but approaching nearer to us th n 〈◊〉 aire groweth warmer and the snow is easily melted a● being turn'd to water it is gone for the weake● must g●● way unto the stronger The same order must be observed the government of the fire that the moist liquor m●y 〈◊〉 be exiccated too suddenly and the Philosophick earth 〈◊〉 not to soon mel ed and dissolved else your wholes●m fis●● would turn into Scorpions and if you intend to be a ri●● minister in your office then ●ake first your spiritual wa●● on which the spirit moved at the beginning shut the do● of the strong hold upon him because this heavenly pl●● will be besieged by earthly enemies your heaven must 〈◊〉 guarded with three Bull-warks onely one entrance m●● be strongly guarded with a watch All this being finish'● then kindle the light of wisdom and look for your pen●● you lost let the light be of that bignesse as you see the● is occasion for For you must know tha● creeping b●●● and worms have their dwelling in a cold and moist e●●● their condition and no are leads them thereunto h●mans habitation is upon earth according as his temp●●● and mixed condition ●●quireth but Angelical spirits ●●ving not an earthly but an Angelical body not being i● subjection unto a sinfull flesh as man is are placed into higher station are able to endure both heat and cold in t●● upper and neather Region without any molestation an● when man is clarified then will he be able to do like the●● heavenly spirits God ruleth heaven and earth and worket● all in all If we prove good governours of our Souls then we sha●● be Gods Children and Heirs to accomplish that which i● impossible for us to do now which cannot be done unless● all the water be exsiccated and heaven and earth togethe● with the men be judged by fire The eighth Key NO flesh be it of mans or of beasts can bring any further increase or propagation unlesse it come first into putrefaction So all Vegetables unlesse their seeds be brought into putrefaction cannot be augmented Many beasts and worms are generated by putrefaction this mystery in Nature deserves admiration Nature permitteth this because this living increase is for the most part found in the earth which with other Elements are so raised by spiritual seeds To prove this with examples women in Villages know to give instances in that particular for these cannot hatch any Chickens unlesse they put the Eggs into putrefaction If bread be put into honey then the Ants are bred which is one of Natures mysteries It is seen ordinarily that Maggots do breed in flesh in men and horses and such like Carcases in Apples Pears c. and who is able to relate all the kindes of worms which are generated by putrefaction Some Vegetables also grow in certain places where never such grew formerly nor were they sowed in those places onely by putrefaction they were produced the reason of it is that the earth in such places it inclined thereunto and is impregnated thereby which the syderial qualities have infused and wrought a seed into especially which seeds putrifie in the earth and by the elemental operation

This wonderfull powder in a humide place doth dissolve into a liquor which in Surgery is of great use and efficacie curing symptoms without causing any pains at all unto the parties of which enough at this present At the closing of this note this principally that there are heavenly Creatures begotten whose lives are preserved by Astrals are fed by the four Elements afterward t●ey die and putrifie which being done the Astrals by means of the Elements infuse into these putrified bodies again a life which may turn again to a heavenly one which sets up his habitation in the highest place of the firmament which being done you shall see that the life and body of the earthly is consumed by the heavenly and that earthly body is entred into a heavenly one The ninth Key THe highest Planet of Heaven Saturn by name hath in our Magisterium the least authority and yet is the chiefest Key of the whole Art and is se● on the lowermost step though he swinged himself by a nimble flight to the highest altitude beyond all lights however at the clipping of his feathers he must be brought to the lowest ●●●●re and his corruption must be the way for his meliora●●on black must be turn'd into white and white must be brought into red and must passe and run throu●h all the colours of the other Planets and to attain in the end to the Court colour of the triumphing Ki●g And I say thus much though Satu●n looks of a despicable condition and is in great contempt yet doth he contain all vertues and strength ●f his glorious substance which is of an extraordinary coldnesse be driven into th● running fiery Metalli●● body to b●reave that of its running life and bring it to a plyable body as Satu●n himself is however of a far better fixation which transmutation hath it's original and certain period by Mercurie Sulphur and Salt Some may hold this to be hardly understood and i● is a hard saying seeing the matter is mean men mus● stretch thei● w●s in this point an unequal state must be in the world ther● must be a difference betwixt master and servant and must be distinct in their service Saturn containeth several sorts of colours brought forth by Art as black gray white yellow red and others besides so the Philosophers matter must overcome and passe through many colours before the great stone can be exalted unto it's perfection for as often as there is opened unt● the fire a new gate for entrance so often it affords a new fashion for a Garment as for a booty so that at last the poo● Labourer attaineth unto riches needs no more to go borrowing of his Neighbours for a livelyhood When Lady Venus possesseth her Kingdom and according to custom observed in Royal Courts distributeth the Offices as is fitting then they make appearance in thei● glory Musica beareth a flag of red colour on which is painted Charity beautifull in a green Garb in her Cour●● Saturn is in the place of the Steward when he is in his Office then Astronomy carrieth a black flag before him o● which is painted Fides in a yellow and red Garb. Jupiter with his Scepter is Marshal Rhetorica beareth before him a flag of gray colour on which is painted Spes curiously set out in colours Mars is expert in warlike affairs beareth sway in a fiery thirsti●●ss● Geometry beareth before him a bloudy flag on which is painted Fortitude in a red Garb Mercurie is Chancellour Arithmetica beareth a flag before him of all manner of colours on it is painted Temp●rantia dress't in colours Sol is Vice-Roy of the Kingdom Grammatica beareth a yellow flag before him on it is painted Justitia set out in a Golden piece this Vice-Roy though there is more loyalty shewed unto him in the Kingdom yet Queen Venus in her transcendent illustrious splendour overcome's him Lune hath her lustre also Dialectica beareth before her a Silver coloured white glistering flag on it is painted Prudentia in an Azur-Garb Because Lune's husband died she got the Office by inheritance will not suffer Venus to bear sway any longer called her to an account of her Stewardship into whose aid and assistance comes in the Chancellour and a new government is established and both bear sway above the noble Queen the meaninng is one Planet must dispossesse and displace the other from his glory office place and power that the best at last may rise to the highest power and in their best fix'd colour bestowed on them by their first mother out of an innate constancy love and amity may get the victory Then is the old world past and a new world is come in it's place and one Planet hath consumed the other spiritually onely the strongest hold out by means of the food which others afforded and so two and three are conquered by One. For a final closing you are to understand that you must pull up the heavenly Scales put into the one Aries Taurus Cancer Scorpio and Capricorn into the other you must lay Gemini Sagittary Aquarius Pisces and Virgo then procure that the Gold-rich Leo do leap into the lap of Virgo then the Scale will weigh down the other then let the XII Signs of Heaven with the Septemtriones come into an opposite Aspect then after the appearance of all manner of colours there will happen a conjunction and the greatest will come to the meanest and the meanest unto the greatest If there stood all the worlds nature Meerly in one onely figure And Art could not mend that form Then the worlds wonders were forlorn And natures qualities could not be shewed But it 's otherwise for which God be praised The tenth Key IN our stone which I have made and others also along before me are lockt up Elements all mineral and metalline forms yea all the properties and qualities of the world for in it there must be found the greatest and most forcible heat for by its great internal fire the cold body of Saturn is warm'd and by that kindling and heating is transmuted into the best Gold There must be found in i●● also the greatest coldnesse because it being added to Venus it allayeth the degree of her heat and doth coagulate quick Mercury and in that coagulation also is he transmuted into the best Gold The reason of it is because nature hath infused all these qualities into the matter of our great stone which qualities must be digested and brought unto maturity per gradus ignis and attain unto the highest perfection which comes not to passe unlesse Mount Ae●na in Sicilia be consumed by its fire and no more cold be felt on the supposed high Mountains Hyperboreis which place may be called also Filictus Fruits being pluckt off before they be fully ripe are nought and shrink and are unfit for use if a Potter doth not sufficiently burn his Potters wares what use can these be put unto The same condition is our Elixar in it must have

good of men that he may be p●aised and magnified for such benefits and is to shew himself in his life and conversation godly and honest Secondly a Physician ought to know the diseases and to distinguish the one from the other and what proper remedies he is to use against these diseases for without the knowledge of diseases a Physician is not perfect mans complexion must be discerned the cause of the disease search'd into and the means well considered that no contraries be applied whereby further troubles are caused proper remedies fitting the disease must be applied that restitution be made unto former health Thirdly it is requisite that he read frequently the writings of ancient Philosophers and read them over and over and take notice in what they do concurre and agree and where they aim all at one mark then he that hath understanding will discern the good from the bad Sophistry from truth the ancients knew many good things for mine own part I must confesse that I borrowed the foundation of my knowledge from them which made me to lay it to heart and am thereby moved to leave for others also a corner-stone that truth may further be confirmed and the grounds of it be made easier clearer plainer and more manifest by a further knowledge of my writing Fourthly a Philosopher must learn to Anatomize things in nature to know what they contain within and without to separate the poyson from the Medicinal quality Hereunto belong several Manuals how to dissolve separate exalt and prepare fully Metals Minerals Vegetables and Animals He that ha●h learned all these he may discourse wisely of things confirm their grounds in truth but others which are ash●med to work herein cannot glory in any truth because by the receipts found in other mens writings are these men led and made a trade of other mens wri●ings not endeavouring to learn more in thei● own experience I am not ashamed to learn dayly because nature is ●ound and endlesse cannot be comprehended fully by reason of the shortnesse of mans life and none can say that there is nothing left more for him to learn No such matter Thus you see that Gods blessing must be obtained by fervent and frequent praying unto God the causes of diseases must be known their cure must be ordered according to the direction of Philosophick writings ●djoyning an experimental knowledge thereunto He that doth and knoweth ●hese four things may glory in his wayes confirming things in deeds and not to exercise a trade upon other mens receipts My Medicaments if well prepared and duely used will by Gods help make known that they received their strength from God the marvellous Creator to perform these things which ignorants and men of li tle faith cannot comprehend by dayly experience faith getteth strength that man may praise the highest who hath put such ve●●●●s into natural things for the which mortals are not able to return sufficient thanks As much as lieth in my power I will praise the Lord day and night and is not possible to require him in any other way At the closing observe thus much in School long discourses are made of the three principles of all things of the matter of heaven what it is made of and on what the earth doth rest how the Elements were made and of the beginning of the Firmament and of several opinions they are about the original causes of Metals Minerals Vegetables of their qualities and proper●ies o● the original of man and of other A●imal● s●●●ching in their conceits into their lives vertues c. Bu● my Sonne hearken unto me and take notice of what I say all their pretended sayings are a meer nothing they speak ignorantly without any certainty because they have no experimental knowledge having laid no foundation nor have they learned any true decision in their demonstration● Thoughts pay no Custom or Toll they fly into heaven descend to the neathermost parts of the earth if experience their thought do not concurre then their though●s are found a meer opinion then they must confesse I d●d not think it could be so Mans thoughts are fi●ly compared with a dream because nothing follows upon an imagination Natures secrets must be studied exp●rimentally If Artists or Mechanicks would imagine to work such or such things be it Watches or other curious Metalline works but doth not invent fit instruments whereby to make that work they have in their fancy what can they produce by that imagination An empty opinion and no Art So in the knowledge of Na●ural things their secrets require a● greater exactnesse to be searched i●to which to lazy unexpert men seem strange and impossible I tell you there is required an exact diligence to finde that which lieth ●i●● in them it must be done by separation Nature must be anatom●zed good and bad in it must be discerued what is contained in each in its Center for the general and what cometh from it in particular Therefore Macrocosme and Microcosme yea the things which grow and are found therein are compared to a round Circle in whose middle there is a Center let the Circle be turned which way it will it keepeth round every way and its Center stayeth unremoved A Philosopher also must know rightly the Center of each matter which must stand unremoved in every substance but the substance may be turned any way he pleaseth and make of it several forms according as it received its power from above 〈◊〉 speak now to be taken notice of thus I take in hand any natural thing dissolve or open it by a Key which is the means of the unfolding and search therein by a fire's proof which is the master of all proofes what may be made of it Here I finde as many wonders and qualities which I never ●hought of much lesse had I experience of Of natural things are made Powders Oyls Water Salt volatile spirits and fumes In these preparations are beheld wonders upon wonders witnesse the distillations digestions and putrefactions There are found and seen many spiri●ual and corporeal colours which appear black gray white blew green yellow red Azure colour with a re●●exion of all manner of insprinckled colours which cannot well be described and unexpert men hardly believe it ●rom these preparations are several qualities felt the one 〈◊〉 corrosive and sharp the other is pleasant and milde the ●ne is sowre the other is sweet according as they are pre●ared so they yield good and bad poyson or physick for good thing can be made the worst poyson and the worst ●oyson can be turned into the best Medicine which is not 〈◊〉 great a marvel because all lieth in the preparation of ●●ings though every one cannot conceive of it yet it is so ●nd will be a truth for ever because nature hath manifested ●●r self thus by experience A blinde man cannot tell how the inward parts of mans ●●dy are conditioned but the seeing Physician who ana●●mizeth the body he can