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A68054	Nicholas Flammel, his exposition of the hieroglyphicall figures which he caused to bee painted vpon an arch in St. Innocents Church-yard, in Paris. Together with the secret booke of Artephius, and the epistle of Iohn Pontanus: concerning both the theoricke and the practicke of the philosophers stone. Faithfully, and (as the maiesty of the thing requireth) religiously done into English out of the French and Latine copies. By Eirenæus Orandus, qui est, vera veris enodans; Figures hierogliphiques. English	Flamel, Nicolas, d. 1418.; Artephius. Liber secretus artis occultae.; Pontanus, Joannes, d. 1572. Epistola de lapide philosophorum.; Orandus, Eirenaeus.	1624 (1624)	STC 11027; ESTC S102276	53,157	276

into the heart of liuing man I aske it of thee for our Lord Iesus Christ they welbeloued Son his sake who in the vnity of the holy Spirit liueth with thee world without end Amen The Explication of the Hieroglyphicke Figures placed by mee Nicholas Flammel Scriuener in the Church-yard of the Innocents in the fourth Arch entring by the great gate of St. Dennis street and taking the way on the right hand The Introduction ALthough that I Nicholas Flammel NOTARY and abiding in Paris in this yeere one thousand three hundred fourescore and nineteene and dwelling in my house in the street of Notaries neere vnto the Chappell of St. Iames of the Bouchery although I say that I learned but a little Latine because of the small meanes of my Parents which neuerthelesse were by them that enuie me the most accounted honest people yet by the grace of God and the intercession of the blessed Saints in Paradise of both sexes and principally of Saint Iames of Gallicia I haue not wanted the vnderstanding of the Bookes of the Philosophers and in them learned their so hidden secrets And for this cause there shall neuer bee any moment of my life when I remember this high good wherein vpon my knees if the place will giue me leaue or otherwise in my heart with all my affection I shall not render thanks to this most benigne God which neuer suffereth the child of the Iust to beg from doore to doore and deceiueth not them which wholly trust in his blessing Whilest therefore I Nicholas Flammel Notary after the decease of my Parents got my liuing in our Art of Writing by making Inuentories dressing accounts and summing vp the Expences of Tutors and Pupils there fell into my hands for the sum of two Florens a guilded Booke very old and large It was not of Paper nor Parchment as other Bookes bee but was onely made of delicate Rindes as it seemed vnto me of tender yong trees The couer of it was of brasse well bound all engrauen with letters or strange figures and for my part I thinke they might well be Greeke Characters or some such like ancient language Sure I am I could not reade them and I know well they were not notes nor letters of the Latine nor of the Gaule for of them wee vnderstand a little As for that which was within it the leaues of barke or rinde were ingrauen and with admirable diligence written with a point of Iron in faire and neate Latine letters coloured It contained thrice seuen leaues for so were they counted in the top of the leaues and alwayes euery seuenth leafe was without any writing but in stead thereof vpon the first seuenth leafe there was painted a Virgin and Serpents swallowing her vp In the second seuenth a Crosse where a Serpent was crucified and in the last seuenth there were painted Desarts or Wildernesses in the middest whereof ran many faire fountaines from whence there issued out a number of Serpents which ran vp and downe here and there Vpon the first of the leaues was written in great Capitall Letters of gold ABRAHAM THE IEW PRINCE PRIEST LEVITE ASTROLOGER AND PHILOSOPHER TO THE NATION OF THE IEWES BY THE WRATH OF GOD DISPERSED AMONG THE GAVLES SENDETH HEALTH After this it was filled with great execrations and curses with this word MARANATHA which was often repeated there against euery person that should cast his eyes vpon it if hee were not Sacrificer or Scribe Hee that sold mee this Booke knew not what it was worth no more than I when I bought it I beleeue it had beene stolne or taken from the miserable Iewes or found hid in some part of the ancient place of their abode Within the Booke in the second leafe hee comforted his Nation councelling them to flie vices and aboue all Idolatry attending with sweete patience the comming of the Messias which should vanquish all the Kings of the Earth and should raigne with his people in glory eternally Without doubt this had beene some very wise and vnderstanding man In the third leafe and in all the other writings that followed to helpe his Captiue nation to pay their tributes vnto the Romane Emperours and to doe other things which I will not speake of he taught them in common words the transmutation of Mettalls hee painted the Vessels by the sides and hee aduertised them of the colours and of all the rest sauing of the first Agent of the which hee spake not a word but onely as hee said in the fourth and fifth leaues entire hee painted it and figured it with very great cunning and workemanship for although it was well and intelligibly figured and painted yet no man could euer haue beene able to vnderstand it without being well skilled in their Cabala which goeth by tradition and without hauing well studied their bookes The fourth and fifth leafe therefore was without any writing all full of faire figures enlightened or as it were enlightened for the worke was very exquisite First he painted a yong man with wings at his anckles hauing in his hand a Caducaean rodde writhen about with two Serpents wherewith hee strooke vpon a helmet which couered his head he seemed to my small iudgement to be the God Mercury of the Pagans against him there came running and flying with open wings a great old man who vpon his head had an houre-glasse fastened and in his hands a hooke or sithe like Death with the which in terrible and furious manner hee would haue cut off the feet of Mercury On the other side of the fourth leafe hee painted a faire flowre on the top of a very high mountaine which was sore shaken with the North wind it had the foot blew the flowres white and red the leaues shining like fine gold And round about it the Dragons and Griffons of the North made their nests and abode On the fifth leafe there was a faire Rose-tree flowred in the middest of a sweet Garden climbing vp against a hollow Oake at the foot wherof boyled a fountaine of most white water which ranne head-long downe into the depths notwithstanding it first passed among the hands of infinite people which digged in the Earth seeking for it but because they were blinde none of them knew it except here and there one which considered the weight On the last side of the fift leafe there was a King with a great Fauchion who made to be killed in his presenc● by some Souldiers a great multitude of little Infants whose Mothers wept at the feet of the vnpittifull Souldiers the bloud of which Infants was afterwards by other Souldiers gathered vp and put in a great vessell wherein the Sunne and the Moone came to bathe themselues And because that this History did represent the more part of that of the Innocents slaine by Herod and that in this Booke I learned the greatest part of the Art this was one of the causes why I placed in their Churchyard these Hieroglyphick Symbols of

rich golden Fleece he may thinke with himselfe as I did not to keepe the talent of God digged in the Earth buying Lands and Possessions which are the vanities of this world but rather to worke charitably towards his brethren remembring himselfe that hee learned this secret amongst the bones of the dead in whose number hee shall shortly be found and that after this life hee must render an account before a iust and redoubtable Iudge which will censure euen to an idle and vaine word Let him therefore which hauing well weighed my words and well knowne and vnderstood my figures hath first gotten elsewhere the knowledge of the first beginnings and Agents for certainely in these Figures and Commentaries he shall not finde any step or information thereof perfect to the glory of God the Maistery of Hermes remembring himself of the Church Catholike Apostolike and Romane and of all other Churches Churchyards and Hospitals and aboue all of the Church of the Innocents in this Citie in the Churchyard whereof hee shall haue contemplated these true demonstrations opening bounteously his purse to them that are secretly poore honest people desolate weake women widdowes and forlorne orphanes So be it CHAP. I. Of the Theologicall Interpretations which may be giuen to these Hieroglyphickes according to the sence of mee the Authour I Haue giuen to this Churchyard a Charnell-house which is right ouer against this fourth Arch in the middest of the Churchyard and against one of the Pillers of this Charnell house I haue made bee drawne with a coale and grosely painted a man all blacke which lookes straight vpon these Hieroglyphickes about whom there is written in French Ie voy merueille done moult Ie m'esbahi that is I see a marueile whereat I am much amazed This as also three plates of Iron and Copper gilt on the East West and South of the Arch where these Hieroglyphickes are in the middest of the Church-yard representing the holy Passion and Resurrection of the Sonne of God this ought not to be otherwise interpreted than according to the common Theologicall sence sauing that this black man may as well proclaime it a wonder to see the admirable workes of God in the transmutation of Mettals which is figured in these Hieroglyphicks which he so attentiuely lookes vpon as to see buried so many bodies which shall rise againe out of their Tombes at the feareful day of iudgement On the other part I doe not thinke it needfull to interpret in a Theological sence that vessell of Earth on the right hand of these figures within the which there is a Pen and Inkhorne or rather a vessell of Phylosophy if thou take away the strings and ioyne the Penner to the Inkhorne nor the other two like it which are on the two sides of the figures of Saint Peter and Saint Paul within one of the which there is an N. which signifieth Nicholas and within the other an F. which signifieth Flammell For these vessels signifie nothing else but that in the like of them I haue done the Maistery three times Moreouer he that will also beleeue that I haue put these vessels in forme of Scutchions to represent this Pen and Inkhorne and the capitall letters of my name let him beleeue it if he will because both these interpretations are true Neither must you interpret in a Theological sence that writing which followeth in these termes NICHOLAS FLAMMEL ET PERRENELLE SA FEMME that is Nicholas Flammel and Perrenelle his wife in as much as that signifieth nothing but that I and my wife haue giuen that Arche As to the third fourth and fifth Tables following by the sides whereof is written COMMENT LES INNOCENTS FVRENT OCCIS PAR LE COMMANDEMENT DV ROY HERODES that is How the Innocents were killed by the commandement of King Herod The theologicall sence is well enough vnderstood by the writing we must onely speake of the rest which is aboue The two Dragons vnited together the one within the other of colour blacke and blew in a field sable that is to say blacke whereof the one hath the wings gilded and the other hath none at all are the sinnes which naturally are enterchayned for the one hath his originall and birth from another Of them some may be easily chased away as they come easily for they flie towards vs euery houre and those which haue no wings can neuer be chased away such as is the sinne against the holy Ghost The gold which is in the wings signifieth that the greatest part of sinnes commeth from the vnholy hunger after gold which makes so many people diligently to hearken from whence they may haue it and the colour black and blew sheweth that these are the desires that come out of the darke pits of hell which we ought wholly to flye from These two Dragons may also morally represent vnto vs the Legions of euill spirits which are alwayes about vs and which will accuse vs before the iust Iudge at the feareful day of iudgement which doe aske nor seeke nothing else but to sift vs. The man and the woman which are next them of an orange colour vpon a field azure and blew signifie that men and women ought not to haue their hope in this World for the orange colour intimates despaire or the letting goe of hope as here and the colour azure and blew vpon the which they are painted shewes vs that we must thinke of heauenly things to come and say as the roule of the man doth HOMO VENIET AD IVDICIVM DEI that is Man must come to the iudgement of God or as that of the woman VERE ILLA DIES TERRIBILIS ERIT that is That day will be terrible indeed to the end that keeping our selues from the Dragons which are sinnes God may shew mercy vnto vs. Next after this in a field of Synople that is greene are painted two men and one woman rising againe of the which one comes out of a Sepulchre the other two out of the Earth all three of colour exceeding white and pure lifting their hands towards their eyes their eyes towards Heauen on high Aboue these three bodies there are two Angels sounding musicall Instruments as if they had called these dead to the day of iudgement for ouer these two Angels is the figure of our Lord Iesus Christ holding the world in his hand vpon whose head an Angell setteth a Crowne assisted by two others which say in their roules O pater Omnipotens ô Iesu bone that is O Father Almighty ô good Iesu. On the right side of this Sauiour is painted S t Paul clothed with white yellow with a Sword at whose feete there is a man clothed in a gowne of orange colour in which there appeared pleights or folds of blacke and white which picture resembleth mee to the life and demandeth pardon of his sinnes holding his hands ioined together from betweene which proceed these words written in a roule DELE MALA QVAE FECI that is to

say Blot out the euils that I haue done On the other side on the left hand is Saint Peter with his Key clothed in reddish yellow holding his hand vpon a woman clad in a gown of orange colour which is on her knees representing to the life Perrenelle which holdeth her hands ioyned together hauing a roule where is written CHRISTE PRECOR ESTO PIVS that is Christ I beseech thee be pittifull Behind whom there is an Angell on his knees with a roule that saith SALVE DOMINE ANGELORVM that is All haile thou Lord of Angels There is also another Angel on his knees behind my Image on the same side that S. Paul is on which likewise holdeth a roule saying O REX SEMPITERNE that is O King euerlasting All this is so cleere according to the explication of the Resurrection and future iudgement that it may easi●y be fitted thereto So it seemes this Arch was not painted for any other purpose but to represent this And therefore we neede not stay any longer vpon it considering that the least and most ignorant may well know how to giue it this interpretation Next after the three that are rising againe come two Angels more of an Orange colour vpon a blew field saying in their rowles SVRGITE MORTVI VENITE AD IVDICIVM DOMINI MEI that is Arise you dead come to the Iudgement of my Lord. This also serues to the interpretation of the Resurrection As also the last Figures following which are A man red vermillion vpon a field of Violet colour who holdeth the foot of a winged Lyon painted of red vermillion also opening his throate as it were to denoure the man For one may say that this is the Figure of an vnhappy sinner who sleeping in a Lethargy of his corruption and vices dieth without repentance and confession who without doubt in this terrible Day shall bee deliuered to the Deuill heere painted in forme of a red roaring Lyon which will swallow and deuoure him CHAP. II. The interpretations Philosophicall according to the Maistery of Hermes I Desire with all my heart that he who searcheth the secrets of the Sages hauing in his Spirit passed ouer these Idaea's of the life and resurrection to come should first make his profit of them And in the second place that hee bee more aduised than before that hee sound and search the depth of my Figures colours and rowles principally of my rowles because that in this Art they speake not vulgarly Afterward let him aske of himselfe why the Figure of Saint Paul is on the right hand in the place where the custome is to paint S. Peter And on the other side that of Saint Peter in the place of the figure of Saint Paul Why the Figure of Saint Paul is clothed in colours white and yellow and that of S. Peter in yellow and red Why also the man and the woman which are at the feet of these two Saints praying to God as if it were at the Day of Iudgement are apparrelled in diuers colours and not naked or else nothing but bones like them that are rising againe Why in this Day of Iudgement they haue painted this man and this woman at the feet of the Saints for they ought to haue beene more low on earth and not in heauen Why also the two Angels in Orange colour which say in their rowles SVR GITE MORTVI VENITE AD IVDICIVM DOMINI MEI that is Arise you dead come vnto the Iudgement of my Lord are clad in this colour and out of their place for they ought to bee on high in heauen with the two other which play vpon the Instruments Why they haue a field Violet and blew but principally why their roule which speaks to the dead ends in the open throate of the red and flying Lyon I would then that after these and many other questions which may iustly bee made opening wide the eyes of his spirit he come to conclude that all this not hauing beene done without cause there must bee represented vnder this barke some great secrets which hee ought to pray God to discouer vnto him Hauing then brought his beliefe by degrees to this passe I wish also that he would further beleeue that these figures and explications are not made for them that haue neuer seene the Bookes of the Philosophers and who not knowing the Mettallicke principles cannot bee named Children of this Science for if they thinke to vnderstand perfectly these figures being ignorant of the first Agent they will vndoubtedly deceiue themselues and neuer bee able to know any thing at all Let no man therefore blame me if he doe not easily vnderstand mee for hee will be more blame-worthy than I inasmuch as not being initiated into these sacred and secret interpretations of the first Agent which is the key opening the gates of all Sciences he would notwithstanding comprehend the most subtile conceptions of the enuious Philosophers which are not written but for them who already know these principles which are neuer found in any booke because they leaue them vnto God who reuealeth them to whom he please or else causeth them to bee taught by the liuing voyce of a Maister by Cabalisticall tradition which happeneth very seldome Now then my Sonne let mee so call thee both because I am now come to a great age and also for that it may be thou art otherwise a child of this knowledge God inable thee to learne and after to worke to his glory Hearken vnto mee then attentiuely but passe no further if thou bee ignorant of the foresaid Principles This Vessell of earth in this forme is called by the Philosophers their triple Vessell for within it there is in the middest a Stage or a floore and vpon that a dish or a platter full of lue-warme ashes within the which is set the Philosophicall Egge that is a viall of glasse full of confections of Art as of the scumme of the red Sea and the fat of the Mercuriall winde which thou seest painted in forme of a Penner and Inkehorne Now this Vessell of earth is open aboue to put in the dish and the viall vnder which by the open gate is put in the Philosophicall fire as thou knowest So thou hast three vessels and the threefold vessell The enuious haue called an Athanor a siue dung Balneum Mariae a Furnace a Spaere the greene Lyon a prison a graue a vrinall a phioll and a Bolts-head I my selfe in my Summarie or Abridgement of Philosophy which I composed foure yeeres and two moneths past in the end thereof named it the house and habitation of the Poulet and the ashes of the Platter the chaffe of the Poulet The common name is an Ouen which I should neuer haue found if Abraham the Iew had not painted it together with the fire proportionable wherein consists a great part of the secret For it is as it were the belly or the wombe containing the true naturall heate to animate our yong King If

NICHOLAS FLAMMEL His Exposition of the Hieroglyphicall Figures which he caused to bee painted vpon an Arch in St. Innocents Church-yard in PARIS Together with The secret Booke of ARTEPHIVS And The Epistle of Iohn Pontanus Concerning both the Theoricke and the Practicke of the PHILOSOPHERS STONE Faithfully and as the Maiesty of the thing requireth religiously done into English out of the French and Latine Copies BY EIRENaeVS ORANDVS qui est Vera veris enodans 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Imprinted at London by T. S. for Thomas Walkley and are to bee solde at his Shop at the Eagle and Childe in Britans Bursse 1624. TO THE MOST excellently accomplisht LADY the C. D. of E. MADAME BEcause there are not many worthy such Epithets therfore amongst so few and those so dispersed it is not hard for any man to know you as well by your iust titles as by your Name Pardon my boldnesse who owing my best seruice vnto your vertues though not knowing your person nor knowne unto you vnlesse peraduenture the report of my disasters haue come vnto your ares doe humbly offer vnto you what I am assured when you vnderstand if euer God incline your heart to the search and open your eyes to the sight thereof you wil esteeme as the greatest and most vnualuable secret which amongst all vnder-Moone things was euer imparted and communicated to man Your Piety and Almes deedes proceeding from that boundlesse fountaine of burning Charity which disperseth it selfe in all formes according to the necessities of the poore haue inforced mee to tell the world that for you and such as you are I haue caused these little Bookes to bee published in our vulgar English custome excusing the most of your sexe from the knowledge of the learned Tongues in which Cabinets these secrets are ordinarily locked vp though there want not examples of many women who by the impartiall grace of God haue attained to the thing it selfe But it is not my purpose to flatter any body with the hope of that which I well know how rare and reserued a blessing of the Almighty it is Onely if you will bee but pleased by this occasion to cast your eyes vpon that triumphant Chariot wherein Nature rideth through her Minerall and vnder-earth kingdome you will easily see what difference there is between the plenteous vertues of heauen there thrust and crowded vp together as lines though farre distant in their first setting foorth from the Circumference yet touching one another when they come neere the Center and the loose and weake composition of Vegetables which being of another imposition of Nature are not able either to receiue or to hold such plentie of those heauenly Spirits which are the life of euery Elementary body no where idle and there most abounding where it seemes most to bee hidden For the rest if any of my busie vnletter'd Countreymen who are in great numbers as bold pretenders to this blessed Science as they are blinde practitioners therein shall by the reading of these Treatises bee perswaded as I wish they may to forbeare the losse of their time and the expence of their monyes vntill they be taught by the one of them the true matter to worke on and by the other the true manner of proceeding therewith let them in their hearts blesse God for you to whose noble deserts that chalenge a due acknowledgement from all good men I haue paid this small tribute of my labours For mine owne part the helpe and comfort which I haue so plenteously reaped from these studies in the middest of many pressures which without the extra-ordinary assistance of God had beene insupportable hath already made light and easie in my resolution whatsoeuer I shall either doe or suffer for God or goodmen or the trueth The father of the fatherlesse the Iudge of the widdowes and the hope of the helpe lesse bee to you and yours ALL THINGS So prayeth Your humble seruant Eirenaeus Orandus ET sit splendor Domini Dei nostri super nos opera manuum nostrarum dirige super nos opus manuum nostrarum dirige Psal 90. 19. And let the bright beauty of the Lord our God be vpon vs and guide thou the workes of our hands vpon vs and the work of our hands guide thou it Psal. 90. 19. QVis enim despexit dies paruos laetabuntur videbunt lapidem stanneum in manu Zorobabel Septemisti Oculi sunt Domini qui discurrunt in vniuersam terram Zech. 4. 10. For who hath despised the day of little things for they shall reioyce and shall see the stone of Tinne in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seuen they are the Eyes of the Lord which run too fro through the whole earth Zech. 4. 10. READER 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Haec partim ipse tuo perpendes pectore tecum Partem Diuum aliquis tibi suggeret Part of these things thy mind shal prompt thee to And part some God shall teach thee how to doe Againe Si te fata vocant aliter non viribus vllis Vincere nec duro poteris conuellere ferro If Fates thee call else with no violence Nor hardest Iron canst thou dig them thence Once againe and so farewell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fortuna vices lubrica versat Varias docilis sum●re formas Inopina Dei plurima peragunt Non succedunt quae fore speras Quae fore nemo posse putaret Saepe expediunt numina Qualem Haec sortita est res mihi finem Many shapes of Fate there bee Much done beyond our hope we see What we thinke sure God often stayes And findes for things vndream't of wayes For so did this succeed to mee And so I wish it may to thee Eirenaeus Orandus Place this Arch 〈…〉 NICOLAS FLAMEL ET PERCOMMENT LES INNOCENS FVRENELLE SA FEMME RENT OCCIS PAR LE COMMANDEMENT DV ROY HERODES THE BOOKE of the HIEROGLYPHICALL Figures of Nicholas Flammel ETernally praised be the Lord my God which lifteth the humble from the base dust and maketh the hearts of such as hope in him to reioyce which of his grace openeth to them that beleeue the Springs of his bountie and putteth vnder their feet the worldly Sphaeres or circles of all earthly happinesses In him bee alwayes our trust in his feare our felicitie in his mercy the glory of the reparation of our nature and in our prayers our vnshaken assurance And thou ô God Almighty as thy benignity hath vouchsafed to open vpon earth before me thy vnworthy seruant all the treasures of the riches of the world so may it please thy great Clemencie then when I shall be no more in the number of the liuing to open vnto me the treasures of heauen and to let me behold thy Diuine face the Maiestie whereof is a delight vnspeakeable and the rauishing ioy whereof neuer ascended