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A05040	A reuelation of the secret spirit Declaring the most concealed secret of alchymie. Written first in Latine by an vnknowne author, but explained in Italian, by Iohn Baptista Lambye, Venetian. Lately translated into English, by R.N.E. gentleman.; Apocalypsis spiritus secreti. English. 1623	Agnello, Giovan Battista.; Napier, Robert.	1623 (1623)	STC 15184; ESTC S121240	33,169	93

A REVELATION OF THE SECRET SPIRIT Declaring the most concealed secret of ALCHYMIE Written first in Latine by an vnknowne Author but explained in Italian by IOHN BAPTISTA LAMBYE Venetian Lately translated into English by R. N. E. Gentleman Vnto so high a secret who shall approach MERCVRIUS Saturn Iupiter Mars Sol Luna Venus Hee brought water out of the rocke Psal 77. v. 13. And oyle out of the hardest stone Deut. chap. 32. v. 19. LONDON Printed by Iohn Haviland for Henrie Skelton and are to be sold at his shop a little within All-gate 1623. TO THE RIGHT Reuerend Father in God my honourable Lord Iohn Thornburgh Lord Bishop of Worcester health and happinesse THe Fowlers of the Hermeticall Bird Right reuerend Prelate being of so different quality that some liue in extreme pouerty to the very last point of their age others in plenty as I haue obserued these eight yeeres in my trauels through France Italy and Germany maketh me to thinke that the Poets haue described Atalanta for a type of Alchymie She being a maid of most admirable swiftnes in which gift she ouerpassed all mankind did couenant with her suters to runne for life and death vnder condition of marriage that whosoeuer of them were ouerrunne should be put to death but who did ouerrunne her should liue and marry her Many did runne many were ouerrunne many killed Vntill that Hippomanes running with her and almost ouercome threw downe three golden Apples one after another the gifts of Venus Which Atalanta stooping to take vp hindred her course was wonne and obtained in marriage Whereby the dangerous course of Alchymie in many is manifestly seene that who doth not ouercome it perisheth and whosoeuer is to ouercome it must first receiue three golden Apples from Venus The Philosophicall Mythologie thereof none that I haue knowne or heard of can better explaine than your Lordship whose singular learning not in shadow or superficiall but solid and in substance from time to time vnder two glorious Princes Queen Elizabeth and King Iames hath exalted you to higher and higher degrees of Ecclesiasticall dignity and whose courteous generous graue and comely hauiour in speech and actions doth declare your Lordship to beare so noble a mind that it dwelleth rather in an heauenly Palace than an earthly body Your diuine studies requiring healthfull intermission hath admitted no other relaxation of Spirit than the most worthy sight of philosophicall trialls Wherein God hath so blessed your Lordship that albeit you haue largely bestowed charges therein yet without decay of any part of your estate or losse of time or failing in expectation you haue found out most rare secrets as well for profit as for the health of man approued with great admiration of many both the noblest Patients and best Physitians of the Kingdome neither is that all but imitating the bounty of GOD whose glory is most eminent in the communication of goodnesse vnto others your Lordship to benefit the whole world and to saue the painfull searchers of nature from dangerous and chargeable courses hath most learnedly most perfectly and most curiously penned and published your late Treatise LITHOTHEORICOS of nihil aliquid omnia These considerations haue moued me to esteeme none worthier than your Lordship vnto whose honour should be consecrated this Philosophicall Apocalypsis with the exposition thereof much esteemed amongst the learned in Italy but in England regrated to bee heretofore so put in print that it seemed to be a Leopard spotted with diuers colours so that one part thereof was Italian and another Latine Whereby they who vnderstood the one part could not vnderstand the other vnlesse they were skilfull in both the Languages I haue now reduced it all to one language so neere as could bee done word by word without addition or diminishing in any thing that your Lordship may the better iudge thereof Which I doe heartily offer vnto your Lordship as a testimony not onely of that respect which generally all men of learning doe owe vnto your Lordship your house being vnto them for an Apollinian retreat as a liuing Library a flourishing Academy or a religious Abbey but specially for the whole Scottish Nations sake which hath alwaies found your Lordship a constant and effectuall friend a louing Father a royall Maecaenas and a vertuous patterne of all goodnesse In this Dedication may bee found my intention honest the gift small your honour great the euent happy if your Lordship accepting thereof doe according to your accustomed prouidence carefully proceed in the practical search of that Chrystalline central Salt whereof this Treatise wittily handleth which all that know your Lordships most worthy disposition doe earnestly wish vnto your Lordship with all felicity both corporall and spirituall temporall and perpetuall and in that wish I rest Your Lordships most dutifull Seruitour R. N. E. To the discreet and true searchers of the secrets of Nature leading a solitary life Iohn Baptista Lambye Venetian wisheth health HAuing spent many yeeres and inestimable labours about that Science which by all the wisest Philosophers is called diuine and secret according to the experience which I haue had in my selfe I cannot choose but haue compassion of those noble Spirits who are turmoiled in the difficulty thereof and therefore as it hath beene a great comfort vnto me to finde him who in any thing could haue helped my study euen so will I freely so farre as I can helpe others insomuch as by long trauell and experience I could attaine Neuerthelesse without departing any waies from the custome of our wisest Masters who in writing neuer addressed themselues to the vulgar but to the onely children of truth Wherefore hauing in my hands a little Treatise of an vncertaine Author intituled A Reuelation of the secret Spirit short in number of leaues but according to my iudgement in sentences and learning most graue and to my knowledge no more Copies seene in light I thought good to set it forth vnto the benefit of you all who are inamoured of this diuine Science And that it might become so much the more profitable and acceptable I haue purposed yet to adorne the same with a short Exposition and allegation of sentences of the best Philosophers Not perhaps in such manner as you could haue wished or the matter hath required but at least as my weaknesse could and the custome of our Masters doth permit to doe Therefore I pray you accept cheerefully this so much as a courteous minde desirous to helpe and to further could for the present giue praying our Lord God without whose fauour so excellent a science cannot be obtained that he would both giue vnto me the grace to be able to shew some thing profitable and vnto you to vnderstand and to preuaile no otherwise than to the honour and glory of his glorious and blessed name THE REVELAtion of the secret SPIRIT HErmes Plato Aristotle and other Philosophers in former times flourishing the originall Springs of Sciences and the