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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

brown fresh or stale broad or small it will press ●o and mingle it self with it and will not be forced out 〈◊〉 it making it self great little grosse milde fame sub●●e and pliable even as the rest will have it and all this in natural way it loveth to border upon silver and iron-stone that Tin and iron be united in a mighty fix silver and copper oar all which are found at their several marks Tin oar is in this place better and malleable if found afar off from flint-passages and are less mingled with iron mould especially of copper stones which in calcining can hardly be separated proves Lead-work without any fair glasse Some of it is so mild and soft that when they are cleared and calcined still lose something for flints and sulphureous matters which are volatile and cannot indure any great heat co●●ode somewhat of the metalline Tin which appeareth by the white thick fume at the calcining they are calcined thus hard by reason of Bake-iron else they might yield as much again for they lose extreamly in calcining It is strange to some why they shrink together to so small a quantity being they get a greater quantity of lead with good Qwitter at first brought out of the Mine CHAP. IX Of Mercurial oar and its passages MErcurial-oar is wrought in its proper Mine-stones by the quality of its salt earth and its nimble volatile earth in a moist greasie slimy waterish oleity which is mixed with a most subtile red sulphureous digested earth with a most weak slow binding like an unripe pleasing fruit of all particular metals Mercury sheweth its vertue in many things admirably and worketh effectually upon Minerals and Metalline sulphur and upon such which border upon Antimonial stones or oars it loveth to be in such places where the Tin-oars lie higher than silver passages It requireth many iterating effectual operations unto other oars and is multiplied upon other strange stones and is drawn through the juyces of Minerals and metals which are in affinity one to another sever●● produce many strange miscreants this is the reason ●y it is so pleasant unto metals Goldsmiths amalgame and 〈◊〉 with it It is used also for metalline colours and is prepared to ●oil and water for mans health and is sublimed for to cor●le the worst of poisons and is a true Robber taketh a●g what ever costs have been bestowed on him but if 〈◊〉 can be catched in his nature then is he in subjection ●d obedience unto quick and dead He is very effectual in ●edicina especially for outward sores he is naught to ●ught and good to good and is not every bodies friend ●ough he is willing to do what you put him upon His me●line stones are of the same nature with pure white slate ●rth inclined to a water-blew in fresh intermingled ●hite marbles in a glassie grayish and porous Glimmer or ●ar-silver which lie beneath betwixt the slates in a float ●ay which are mingled in their metalline passages with● a fled Ma●casites and with the subtilest small streaked ●hite Talk and are thorough grown with two sorts ●anding and float-striking passages in which is wrought a ●●rious red shining quick-silver oar not unlike unto red ●●ine-sulphur and sometimes floweth purely out of the ●ifts and caves of the passages stands in a sink or puddle ●ogether like water which its natural quick substance suf●ciently evidenceth CHAP. X. Of Wismuth Antimony Sulphur Salt Salpeter and Talk WIsmuth is wrought in its own Mine-stone not quite freed from a protruding silver or Tin stone of an imperfect pure quick-silver with Tin-salt and fluid silver-sulphur of a brittle immiscible earth partly of a crude fluid sulphur partly of a mixed much exiccated s●●phur according as it hath gotten a matrix after it was c●●ceived then it turneth a bastard of a brittle nature ea●● uniteth with Mercury and is wrought naturally in a tw●-fold form the one is fluid and metalline is melted with 〈◊〉 wood being mixed wi●h clay yieldeth much of white A●●nick The other is small streaked or spissie remaineth 〈◊〉 unripe substance yields a fix sulphur instead of Arsenic● both these are silver Wismuth Antimonie comes from perfect Mercurie wrought of ●●tle salt and a waterish fluid sulphur though it shineth bl●●● naturally and its out-side is of an antimonial form yet graduateth and purifieth the noble nature of Gold a● doth much good unto man being artificially prepared 〈◊〉 its several wayes notwithstanding its colour it keep● its high and mighty praise and vertue For meeting with 〈◊〉 Master which can clarifie it and gets its natural Gold c●● of it and extracts a bloud red Oyl from it that serveth against many Chronical diseases it must be reduced to 〈◊〉 transparent glasse this black evaporated unripe metall represents to us Gods Majestick glory who is not a regarde● of persons bestowing upon poor despised men rarities 〈◊〉 vertues and knowledge The red mine sulphur which is found in T●rol T●●●witz and Engadin and groweth in a black blue slat-stone 〈◊〉 hath singulas innumerable good vertues wherein lyeth h●● a mighty purifying quality lyeth on with its colour 〈◊〉 the red goldish silver oar o● Cinober oar and looks almo●● like unto it whose rednesse shineth forth most pleasantly Salt hath its special vertues to penetrate and to preser●● from putrefaction containeth a noble spirit and it we●● very necessary that men would not be so carelesse and neglectfull in their seasoning with salt suffering matters ●●stinck and corrupt considering too slightly and taking 〈◊〉 small notice of the noble gift put into good mineral work 〈◊〉 peter lying on their hoary old vvalls Talk is an ingrown sulphur shineth incombustibly like ●ld and silver closeth and boweth is transparent like ●●sse is called Sulphur Lutum keepeth in the fire incom●●stible like Alumen plumosum lyeth in Rocks and stone-●orks serveth for graduating of metals Every metal ●ineral and salt in particular is good to be used each is ●●stinguished in its particular name even as those that ●ake glasses put their several names upon them and put ●●eir several forms upon them making them into drink●●g glasses flagons bodies bolt heads helmets recei●ers pellicans jar-glasses wine-glasses funnels all ●●ese he frameth after his own fancie either into ●●all great long or round forms even as he plea●eth CHAP. XI A comparison between Gods word and the Mineralls LIke as the heavenly glorious God in a spiritual way in his most dearest Son our Lord JESUS CHRIST at his redeeming of man-kinde for the good of man appeared a Sun of righteousnesse which glory the Prophet Esaias hath prophesied of in the Lords spirit many years ago How two Cherubims and Seraphims having six wings moved and sung before the Lord Holy holy holy is the Lord Zebao●h of whose glory all the world is full which Prophet hath seen the most omnipotent Lord of Lords knowing him a God in a Triple essence and that out of that noble Chaos of Jesus Christ should flow the fountain of life of mercie and

conscience to deprive their fellow Christians of their monies by cheating all they look for is to be talk'd of and live in reputation they stick full of diabolical pride and vanity up to the ears these in the end in great woe and miserie have their poor Souls drowned most lamentably woe woe to you Children of Sathan Here I intend not to use any prolixity of words nor to bring in any such matters which are heterogeneal to my purpose at the closing of my book I will be more large in my expressions as far as the heavenly Prince shall enable me to do where as for a final Corollarie to all my writings I shall annex things with that proviso and intreaty that all those which intend to be real and conscionable in their Medicaments may aide cure their oppressed fellow Christians and to search and inquire into such things which God for such purposes hath ordained and implanted them into nature This present book of mine deserves to be called A light unto darknesse for other things which in my former writings I have discoursed of by way of parables which stile I made use of the rather because it is proper to Philosophers are declared in this my last information where I deal in plain and clear words describing and naming the matter openly shewing the preparations from the beginning to the middle and end demonstrating and setting before the eyes of men the matter in general and particular confirming and justifying the truth thereof and making a distinction betwixt the ground and no ground in so plain terms that the very Children may understand and feel it with their hands And because this book affordeth another knowledge differing from others of my writing wherein I have not written so obscurely nor made I use of such subtilties as the ancients did who lived before me and ended their dayes happily therefore doth it require another place also to be laid up in and kept secret from the perversenesse of men in the world I do not desire it should be buried with me to be a prey and food for Worms but it shall be left above ground and kept secret from wicked men and my purpose is that it shall be laid into a secret place where none shall come near it but he for whom God hath ordained it other writings of mine shall sooner see the publick light But know thou whoever thou art into whose hand this my last Testament comes which contains the Revelation of heavenly and earthly mysteries it will happen to thee by a divine providence to whose custody at my devotion then perform'd I committed it depositing the same into that secret place together with other things not inforced upon any grounds of necessities or straightnesses to leave it there onely for him whom Gods goodnesse shall appoint to finde it For it is not good for me to let God's Creatures and mysterie which are too abstruse already and stept from the light into darknesse by reason of the malicious perversenesse of the wicked world to die with me as envious men are with to do with gifts they are entrusted withall but even leave a glimpse of truth and of the clear heaven thinking befitting to discharge my conscience in putting forth the talent to usury let the will of the Lord be done in him whom he deemeth to be worthy of it into whose care and diligence I commit it from henceforth and for ever For I a Cloyster-man and an unworthy Servant of the Divine infinite Trinitie confesse and ackowledge that I should never have come so far in my knowledge of these endlesse mysteries in the Analogie of natural things in the melioration changing their qualities for a sure and strong upholding of this profound knowledge of the true Medicine according to this Ordinance whereby I am ready to do good to all and every one which desireth my help herein which as I have done hitherto so my desire is that God would enable me to do the same to the last of my breathing I say I should never have attained unto it if by God special goodnesse grace and mercie several books had not come into my hands written of ancient Masters which departed this life a long time before me causing great joy to me stirring up in me a return of hearty thanks to God who so graciously was pleased in his providence to bestow them on me in the Cloyster before any of my Fellows I do speak it without any vain-glorie I have done so much good thereby to my fellow-Christians as ever was possible for me to do which next to God returned thanks for it even to the end of my dayes Now whereas I can be Steward no longer I have done according as my abilities would give leave let others also be industrious and not defective in their Stewardship I return mine into the faithfull hands of God Almighty and deliver up to his Divine power and glorie instead of the Keyes for the house all the allotted mysteries set down here in my writing leaving them to his disposing to bestow them after my death unto him whom his Divine will shall chuse thereunto to be for the knowledge of his praise-worthy name the good and help of such that stand in want of necessaries and health for the avoiding and shunning of all worldly pompe pride wantonnesse luxurie rashnesse pleasure covetousnesse and spightfulnesse or contempt of others O Lord God Almighty mercifull Gracious Father of thine onely begotten Son Jesus Christ who art onely the Lord of Sabaoth the principle of all things that are made by thy Word and definite end of all Creatures above and below I poor miserable Man and Earth-worm return thanks with my babling tongue from the innermost Center of my heart who hast been pleased to enlighten me with the great light of thy heavenly and earthly wisdom and the greatest mysteries of the created secrecies and treasures of this World together with thy Divine saving word by which I learn to know thine Almighty power and wonders To thee belongs eternal praise honour and glor●e from eternity unto eternity that thou hast bestowed on me health and lively hood strength and ability to be helpfull to my fellow Christians in their necessities and inflicted infirmities with those mystical healing Medicines together with such spiritual comforts to raise the drooping spirits Lord to thee alone belongs power might and glorie to thee is the praise honour and gratefulnesse for all the mercies and graces thou hast bestowed on me and hast preserved me therein till to this my great age and lowest weaknesse O! thou God of all graces and father of all comforts be not angrie with me that I deliver up to thee mine eternal Creator the Keyes of my Stewardship wrapt up in this Pergamene according to the dutie my calling and conscience calls for with these thou suffer'st me to keep house the most of my time till now thou hast called and foreseen me to be thy servant

righteousnesse which the Lord God made apparent on the Tree of the holy Crosse where out of the side of his dearest Son did run bloud and water to which the Lord in the Revelation of St. John addeth fire smoak and fumes this union according to the Divine Word is grown at the beginning in all creatures and what ever God the Holy Trinity hath ever created consisteth in a Trinity even as the Deity is in an eternal Trinity As the Deity is indivisible in the Humanity α ω in the water and blood for an eternal remembrance that is the fi●st and the last letter as in the Heavenly even so in the earthly the perfect Alphabet must not be cut asunder all must stand from the beginning to the end and Christ Jesus purgeth his dear friends still unto eternal life through water and blood saying to their hearts all thy sins are forgiven thee thy faith doth save thee No man is saved unlesse he be fi●st born again that is through water blood which throughly purgeth not only men and the sons of men but also the whole Limbus upon earth for it is not the metalline blood and water neither is it Mercery and Sulphur that doth it neither in the body under ground is any goldish silver wrought to any blood red oar the blood out of Christ side shed for the good of man is that great evidence for thus all Mineral stones that are in the plain element of earth and the spirit of all oars and marbles and stones come from the divine essence as also the heavenly spirits for the throne of God with the heavenly Angels and Sp●rits are furnished for rhe praise of God thus the earth also is created is her stones oars ve●ns passages for the honour of God and the welfare of man which imitateth Gods wisdome filled with infi●ite and uncessant forth-bringing of fruits Whence should be the decay of metals surely even as the eyes of the holy Apostles and Disciples were held that they could not know the Lord in his clarified spiritual body and essence no more can men see these things in metals Why doth Saint John in his Revelation speak of smoak and of fume Surely he did not mean the fire smoak and fume of Bakers ovens or Kitchin-chimneys but there was revealed unto him the heavenly fire the mist vapour and fume which is exhaled from the moisture of earth and ●●ated to the clouds so in the subterranean works the ●●e and spoil or outside of the oar are sublimed and the 〈◊〉 of the frost which rouzeth the effectual powers va●rs and spirits maketh them come to a perfect unity in ●●alline bodies Now if there were not a fire vaporous ●●e in the earth how could they produce their fruits ●ich are the minerals and metals under ground As the fiery element is covered with the airie and the ●ven with clouds and the earth is filled by them and ●ether with the fire was inclosed as one element with 〈◊〉 other two In like manner at the first Creation the ●erranean passages and veins were laden with oars as ●s were with fruit which the Lord God in Paradise 〈◊〉 implanted into them This effectual fire vapour and ●e is likened unto Mercury Sulphur Salt and Sea-wa● wherein earth lieth inclosed and hidden even as the ●eamest throne of God is encompassed by other thrones 〈◊〉 heavenly habitations ●s the four Evangelists are witnesses of the New Testa●●t and Covenant so they are a type and sure testimony ●he four elements that the earth is created after the ho●●eaven thus are we taught in the Lords prayer as it is ●eaven so in the earth in which and beneath and under 〈◊〉 is every where This is in action still King David ●d confesse that he could not hide himself from the 〈◊〉 any where ●eeing the holy and blessed God hath laid the creatures ●●e earth with the four elementall qualities therefore ●ational Miners open their eyes and learn judicially to ●w the passages and clifts of oars metals and minerals 〈◊〉 they will get a lasting name with great praise and will ●ke the noble gold which in a glory and beauty appea●● when it comes from the Quart and can be then redu●● into an oil which preserveth man in a lasting health ●nd any balsom and is become a vegetable which is ●ble It is feaseable that of gold may be prepared a singul●● Medicine for the good of man-kinde because man is cre●ted of God from Limus terrae and the whole earth is 〈◊〉 Limus such another Medicine all the Doctors are not abl● produce which is of a curious sweet fragrancy standi●● distinct in two lights and must needs be in rerum natur● because it was brought on God his Altar for an offering b● mans art prepared and suffer'd it to be extinguished None knoweth what it is neither we literated Docto● know the preparation of it who when their Confectio● Syrups Herbs and Potions will do no good and are in d●spair then they might willingly run to Metals which f●●merly they made conscience to make use of them in the Oyntmenis and Plaisters of this I make mention in a r●verend remembrance for true rational myners Out of go●● and silver are joyned not onely gold and silver monies a● other plates for mans use but they serve for mans use in m●ny other things and after the first metals vertue there co●● others also more and more very effectual even to the l●● of metals Such vertues there are in minerals also as in vitriol a●timony allom salt and the like All these are a nouris●ment unto metals even as Manna was to the Israelites 〈◊〉 the desart As they are easily withdrawn and taken fro● metals so it hapned to them also Heathens and Christia● received that Manna together with Mines and Kingdom● they are set and shot at the heap of rubbish where the● still worship the Calf of this I have spoken more in th●● book where I treated of Fossilia CHAP. XII How precious Stones and Jewels are wrought and how God hath bestowed blessings upon those that work the Mynes ●Ewels are wrought out of the substance of the most perfect transparent and noblest earthlinesse with mixture of the noblest Mercury Sulphur and Salt ●●thout any fume or moist matter are of a dry coagula●●n and commonly are engendred in a round form in ●eir dwellings lodgings stocks and passages fixedly ●und together some are of a transparent lustre o●ers are more dark and they have their several co●●rs Not many oars are found in which these noble genera●●d bodies are brought to any perfectnesse neither are 〈◊〉 it strikings along in a way of passage here and there ●ey have their Centers unto which are joyned tender and ●●aculous accrescencies where they are guttatim lapida●d falling into the hardest purest stones concavities ●●wing in several cuticles as we see the animal stones do ●ow The more precious the Jewels are the fewer there ●e