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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

his sicknesse by reason whereof I was much grieued yet as well as I could I caused him to be buried in the Church of the holy Crosse at Orleans where hee yet resteth God haue his soule for hee dyed a good Christian And surely if I be not hindered by death I will giue vnto that Church some reuenew to cause some Masses to bee said for his soule euery day He that would see the manner of my arriuall and the ioy of Perenelle let him looke vpon vs two in this City of Paris vpon the doore of the Chappell of S t Iames of the Bouchery close by the one side of my house where wee are both painted my selfe giuing thankes at the feet of Saint Iames of Gallicia and Perrenelle at the feet of S t Iohn whom shee had so often called vpon So it was that by the grace of God and the intercession of the happy and holy Virgin and the blessed Saints Iames and Iohn I knew all that I desired that is to say The first Principles yet not their first preparation which is a thing most difficult aboue all the things in the world But in the end I had that also after long errours of three yeeres or thereabouts during which time I did nothing but study and labour so as you may see me without this Arch where I haue placed my Processions against the two Pillars of it vnder the feet of St. Iames and St. Iohn praying alwayes to God with my Beades in my hand reading attentiuely within a Booke and poysing the words of the Philosophers and afterwards trying and proouing the diuerse operations which I imagined to my selfe by their onely words Finally I found that which I desired which I also soone knew by the strong sent and odour thereof Hauing this I easily accomplished the Mastery for knowing the preparation of the first Agents and after following my Booke according to the letter I could not haue missed it though I would Then the first time that I made proiection was vpon Mercurie whereof I turned halfe a pound or thereabouts into pure Siluer better than that of the Mine as I my selfe assayed and made others assay many times This was vpon a Munday the 17. of Ianuary about noone in my house Perrenelle onely being present in the yeere of the restoring of mankind 1382. And afterwards following alwayes my Booke from word to word I made proiection of the Red stone vpon the like quantity of Mercurie in the presence likewise of Perrenelle onely in the same house the fiue and twentieth day of Aprill following the same yeere about fiue a clocke in the Euening which I transmuted truely into almost as much pure Gold better assuredly than common Golde more soft and more plyable I may speake it with truth I haue made it three times with the helpe of Perrenelle who vnderstood it as well as I because she helped mee in my operations and without doubt if shee would haue enterprised to haue done it alone shee had attained to the end and perfection thereof I had indeed enough when I had once done it but I found exceeding great pleasure and delight in seeing and contemplating the Admirable workes of Nature within the Vessels To signifie vnto thee then how I haue done it three times thou shalt see in this Arch if thou haue any skil to know them three furnaces like vnto them which serue for our opperations was afraid a long time that Perrenelle could not hide the extreme ioy of her felicitie which I measured by mine owne and lest shee should let fall some word amongst her kindred of the great treasures which wee possessed for extreme ioy takes away the vnderstanding as well as great heauinesse but the goodnesse of the most great God had not onely filled mee with this blessing to giue mee a wife chaste and sage for she was moreouer not onely capeable of reason but also to doe all that was reasonable and more discreet and secret than ordinarily other women are Aboue all shee was exceeding deuout and therefore seeing her selfe without hope of children and now well stricken in yeeres shee began as I did to thinke of God and to giue or selues to the workes of mercy At that time when I wrote this Commentarie in the yeere one thousand foure hundred and thirteene in the end of the yeere after the decease of my faithfull companion which I shall lament all the dayes of my life she and I had already founded and endued with reuenewes 14. Hospitals in this Citie of Paris wee had new built from the ground three Chappels we had inriched with great gifts and good rents seuen Churches with many reparations in their Church-yards besides that which we haue done at Boloigne which is not much lesse than that which wee haue done heere I will not speake of the good which both of vs haue done to particular poore folkes principally to widdowes and poore Orphans whose names if I should tel and how I did it besides that my reward should be giuen mee in this World I should likewise doe displeasure to those good persons whom I pray God blesse which I would not doe for any thing in the World Building therefore these Churches Churchyards and Hospitals in this City I resolued my selfe to cause to be painted in the fourth Arch of the Church-yard of the Innocents as you enter in by the great gate in St. Dennis street and taking the way on the right hand the most true and essentiall markes of the Arte yet vnder vailes and Hieroglyphicall couertures in imitation of those which are in the gilded Booke of Abraham the Iew which may represent two things according to the capacity and vnderstanding of them that behold them First the mysteries of our future and vndoubted Resurrection at the day of Iudgement and comming of good Iesus whom may it please to haue mercy vpon vs a Historie which is well agreeing to a Churchyard And secondly they may signifie to them which are skilled in Naturall Philosophy all the principall and necessary operations of the Maistery These Hieroglyphicke figures shall serue as two wayes to leade vnto the heauenly life the first and most open sence teaching the sacred Mysteries of our saluation as I will shew heereafter the other teaching euery man that hath any small vnderstanding in the Stone the lineary way of the worke which being perfected by any one the change of euill into good takes away from him the roote of all sinne which is couetousnesse making him liberall gentle pious religious and fearing God how euill soeuer hee was before for from thence forward hee is continually rauished with the great grace and mercy which hee hath obtained from God and with the profoundnesse of his Diuine admirable works These are the reasons which haue mooued mee to set these formes in this fashion and in this place which is a Churchyard to the end that if any man obtaine this inestimable good to conquere this

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