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A33604	Philosophia maturata an exact piece of philosophy containing the practick and operative part thereof in gaining the philosophers stone : with the wayes how to make the mineral stone and the calcinations of mettals : whereunto is added a work compiled by St. Dunstan concerning the philosophers stone : and the experiments of Rumelius and preparations of Angelo Sala, all most famous chymists in their time / published by Lancelot Colson.	Coelson, Lancelot, 1627-ca 1687.; Dunstan, Saint, 924-988.	1668 (1668)	Wing C4883; ESTC R29967	27,856	153

Philosophia Maturata AN Exact Piece of Philosophy Containing The Practick and Operative part thereof in gaining the Philosophers Stone With the wayes how to make the Mineral Stone and the Calcination of Mettals Whereunto is added A Work Compiled by St. Dunstan concerning the Philosophers Stone And the experiments of Rumelius and Preparations of Angelo Sala all most famous Chymists in their time Published by Lancelot Colson Dr. in Phys and Chym. London Printed for G. Sawbridge and are to be sold at his house upon Clerken-well-Green 1668. A Preface relating to the life of St. Dunstan the Author HOw reverent an esteem Antiquity hath had of this holy man wil appear in that so many famous Authors have written concerning him to wit the Author of the Brittish Antiquities History of Great Brittain Malmsbury and Mat. Westminster He lived about the year of our Lord 946. having been at first a Monk after that Abbot of Glastonbury then Bishop of Worcester next of London and finally Archbishop of Canterbury As to the Religious part of his life it was so exemplary that after ages even to this time have esteemed it miraculous He flourished in the Reigns of Edred or Eldred Edwin and Edgar three Kings of England In Edwins Reign he was Banished during which time the King by the Rebellion of his Subjects was deprived both of his life and Kingdom whom Edgar succeeding highly favoured and promoted He Crown'd Edw. King at Kingston this Edward was surnamed the Martyr being murthered by the procurement of Queen Elfrida After whose death Etheldred was Crowned King by Dunstan with whom also he was so much in favour that he preferred him before all his Nobles and laid up all his richest royal Housholdstuff Charters and Records with all his Wealth and Treasure in his Monastery so that all things were in his power the King without his advice doing nothing either in the publick affairs of the Kingdom or in his own private negotiations And as he stood thus in his Royal Masters favour with all fidelity to that great esteem he employed his endeavours to enrich religious places either by the Danes wasted or by bimself founded in this manner did our Author by the favour of his Prince attain the highest honors and surely not without great merit his extraordinary acquired parts and learning deserving greater Eulogyes then this narrow scantling of Paper can allow room for At last full of honour and dayes and replete with the grace and affection of his Prince be received his Quietus est from the cares of this world to enjoy the happiness of a better leaving behind him the pattern of his Religion vertue and learning for the world to imitate a tast whereof you have in the ensuing discourses Et sic Vive Vale Lector To the Understanding Reader THou art here presented with an ingenious peice of curious Art which may well be entituled An exact Piece of Philosophy for its subject is of such a nature as none but such as are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lovers of Wisdom are able to comprehend and that hath made some even pretenders to Learning cry out That the Philosophers Stone is indeed an invaluable Gemme but such as deserves only to pass among nominal not real Jewels but it would be a toylsom work and to as little purpose as certare de lana caprina to give an answer to such Anomalus Caprichio's The following tract there is no doubt will yeild great satisfaction to all such as knowingly pursue this kind of Philosophy especially when they shall consider the eminency of its Author for it bears in front the Reverend Character of Learned Dunstan of whom the present world at least those therein that have conversed in this Science cannot but know that he was as exact as diligent and so diligent that none before nor hardly any since did ever arrive herein to equal perfections with him But why should we waste time in making Eulogyes of him of whom not only antiquity but even the wickedness of the present age speak both great and honourable things to give them no greater a Title Let the Work it self advance as no doubt it will its own praise for its Author needed not the stilts of a vain-glorious sustentation Farewell AN Exact Piece of PHYLOSOPHY Touching the Stone of Phylosophers IT is chiefly to be understood That the Ancient Phylosophers did often endeavour to compose in a most short time above the Earth those things which by Nature in many years were perfected under the Earth viz. To make most perfect and most pretious Sol and Lune wherein they imitated the foresteps of Nature choosing to themselves most pure Earths white and Red which they named their Sol and Lune joyning them together as Nature doth without repugnance untill at length they were brought to a fixation and subtilty This thing also is needfull for you to perform if you desire to obtain the desired end in this Science For Sol and Lune is nothing else but Red and White Earth to which Nature hath perfectly joyned Argent vive pure subtile white and Red and so of them hath produced Sol and Lune It is therefore needfull for thee seeking this Science That first thou get these Earths White and Red subtile pure and fixed and in these two Earths to fix two Mercuries white in the white and red in the red without division and by their least parts so as they may endure the greatest examen of the fire and may have such fusion that as we see a great quantity of Water coloured with a little Saffron so they may in the least quantity abundantly tinge every mettall and all metalline spirits whatsoever so as they be of the same Kind and Nature and may altogether and fully bring them to their own quality And moreover that in themselves they may be infinitely multiplied and able to free the body of Man from the worst and most deadly Diseases which Properties truly are not found in common Sol and Lune without great Labour and yet but onely in part because that the Vegetative power the Mother of all increase for the most part is long since extinct in them If thou know how to perform this and to imitate the condition of the inferiour nature in making Mettals thou mayst worthily rejoyce in the name of a Phylosopher as being not meanly expert in natural things It is to be noted That the more Antient Phylosophers used not common Sol and Lune in this Work and therefore they said That their work needed not great Cost and Charges but that it might be as well performed by the Poor as the Rich Which were altogether different from the truth if it could not be performed without Common Sol and Lune For they are very pretious and rare and hardly to be gotten of poor men without great labour Indeed many have brought great quantities of Sol and Lune to nothing by this Art and have unprofitably spent and wasted

their Time and Labour to the destruction both of their Bodies and Souls which is much to be lamented Moreover in these our Times we know no man who doth diligently and truly find out the Philosophers Tinctures but most of them labour absurdly and vainly in vulgar Mercury and in common Sol and Lune therefore few of them obtain this grace Let us take heed for although Sol and Lune may be subtilated and mixed with tinctures and so reduced into lesser tinctures and Elixers with mean profit yet the true way according to the Doctrine of Philosophers is not in them for Sol and Lune are two tinctures Principal red and white buried in one and the same body which by nature were never brought to perfect compliment yet they are separable from their dirty and earthy accidentall dross and afterward according to their proper qualities are made most fit ferments for pure earth white and red so as in no sort they are said to need any other thing For the whole Work is one and the thing it self is one and all the whole is derived from an Image For our Ancestors knew that the parts of this our Stone are celestiall and concrete which were altogether absurd if common Sol and Lune were needfull to the composition thereof For it is said Take a body wherein is Argent vive pure clean unspotted and incompleat of Nature such a body after its compleat and perfect cleansing is much better then the Bodies of Mineral Sol and Lune Of this self-same body which is the matter of the Stone three things are chiefly said namely that it is a green Lyon a stinking Gumme and a white Fume But this is spoken of Phylosophers purposely to deceive Folks and to bring them into doubts by the many and different names But understand thou shalt one thing alwaies is really signified though accidentally and by names it is said to be three for the green Lyon stinking Liquor and white Fume are spoken of one and the same subject wherein they altogether lie hid untill by Art they are made manifest By the green Lion all Philosophers mean green Sol multipliable and spermatick which is as yet incompleat by Nature having power to reduce Bodies to the first matter and to make fixed things spirituall and flying and so it is fitly called a Lion For as every Beast is subject to the Lion so every Metalline body is confirmed and strengthened by the power of this Liony and green Sol namely of our Mercury when it is Philosophically prepared This is bred and born with a certain water which we call Argent vive of the Philosophers and white Mercury Therefore their water White and Red giveth unto us two tinctures white and red proceeding from one body and substance These are alwaies named our Mercuries and after due conjunction decoction and digestion we call our White and Red Stones By the stinking gumme we mean a certain stinking smell proceeding from the unclean Body in the first distillation which is altogether like unto stinking Assafaetida that with a certain sweetness whereof it is said before its preparation its smell is grievous which is most certain but after that in a due manner it shall be prepared and circulated into any quintessence This dignified matter of Philosophers abounds with unspeakable sweetness having power to cure the Leprosie and other grievous Diseases and without this our living Sol it is impossible to make aurum potabile to cure with which of Philosophers is called the Elixer of Life and of Mettals Yet I deny not but that Philosophers may very well and with good success dissolve Mineral Lune and Sol with radical things of their own kind and as yet not perfected by Nature and so may attain to the highest mysterie of this Art But certainly it is not for every mean Wit it is for Princes who do most abound with Sol and Lune but this way is universally open and lawfull unto all men yet chiefly for poor men as being more brief and of lesse Cost It is called a white Fume because that in the first distillation before the red tincture doth ascend there riseth a fume truly white whereby the receiver is clouded with a frequent milkish shadow and moysture for which cause it is called the Virgins Milk Wherefore wheresoever thou shalt find a substance endued with these three qualities know that it is the true matter of the Philosophers Stone There ariseth a Question very difficult which much troubleth fantastick Heads viz. our Stone sheweth it self in a foul shape because it is in every thing and in every place whence many men reading this make choice of several and stinking things which with great labour they distil calcine joyn together But let such hear what the Philosophers say Who so seeks the Philosophers Secrets in Turds loosethhis Labour and in the end finds nothing but deceit Yet there is also another thing which troubleth these mens Brains viz. our Stone is bred between two Mountains it is cast out into the Dunghill and troden under mens feet it is counted a most vile and contemptible thing it is generated between Male and Female and lieth hide in Thee in Me and in such like things And contrarily it is said Our Stone cannot be in things differing from its kind namely from the Nature of Sol and Lune for nothing can give that which it hath not A Nettle cannot produce a Rose nor a Woman a Dog How then shall we resolve so many doubts rising from Contrarieties Truly it is easily done for it is plain That nothing in this World whether it be Animal Vegetable or Mineral can be generated without a natural and a special appetite Therefore according to the Doctrine of Phylosophers which informs us only by obscure Examples We must understand that the Stone may be by Similitude in every thing and in all places chiefly because it is nothing else but a specifical vertue and quality joyned with natural heat whereby every compounded thing is brought to his perfectest determined end Things generally spoken are alwaies generally to be understood for what earthly thing can be in every thing and in all places but only a specifical Appetite and a natural Heat for these are the immediate and near causes without which the Stone cannot be Whosoever therefore desireth to understand the Stone let him not depart from his specifical quality and Original Of a Man cometh a Man of a Rose a Rose so likewise from a matter which is potentially Gold having things necessary and Excrements purged ariseth Sol by an inward Appetite therefore from a Mettal ariseth a multitude of metalline tincture and perfection The Stone is made of a mettal living hot and moist when natural heat is joyned with it whereby it is made apt to generate its like For our Stone is most pure matter viz. the nature of Sol containing in it self a vegetable heat whereby it hath power and vertue alwaies to multiply in