Eagle Sulphur W. C. Regeneration Redemption Glorification No Man's happy before his Death MerCVry's BIrth 's best after 's Death MerCVrI's LIfe VVas pVrg'D by strIfe All 's in Mercury that the wise men seek If thou dissolv'st the Fixt and mak'st it fly And mak'st the flying fixt live safe thereby Dissolve Congeal and Fix which being fixt will fix And so being fusibly Ting'd will Tinge and Mix. If Wind be made of Gold 'T is worth a hundred fold The Wiâ—d blow th where it list th Receiv't they that can Laurum Amice Eligis Rus. Signaculum Mundi Pythagoricum IEHOVA FECIT OMNIA EX NIHILO 〈…〉 SECVLA SECVLORVM AMEN AMEN Bonum Infinitum I MVNDVS ARCHETYPVS DEVS IEHOVA Bonum Finitum II ANGELICVS III ETHEREVS IIII ELEMENTARIS HOMO COELVM 1 Mercurius 4 Stellae 6 Angeli AQVA 2 Sal 5 Metalla 4 Pisces TERRA 3 Sulphur 5 Lapides 6 Bestia AER 6 Meteores 4 Aues 5 Plantae Malum V IGNIS INFERNALIS SATAN Ignis Procellae Inane Tenebrae Abijss CHAOS CHAP. I. A plain and full explanation of the aforesaid Epitaph Scutcheons and Motto's of W. C. As well for the Philosophers Stone as his own Tomb-stone THis Epitaph is literally the work of Philosophers and yet may revive the old useful Adigy and Motto upon this Authors Tomb-stone to remember thy end For as this flourishing signifies this Author W C. being a Mercurialist tired of all worldly Inquinaments So it illustrates all the â—lanets and their Mercury and the universal Spirit and Mercury of the World and the specificks of Nature and no less the true Mercury of Philosophers for this work free from all filthy corruptions well fitted and put naked without Garb or any strange thing into its Glass and private Philosophical Nest or Vessel as into a Grave and Coffin with constant vapourous heat for Putrifaction and its true preparation rectification and perfection orderly through its progression of Colours till it come to the true Sulphur of Philosophers which in the interim makes good that Philosophick saying â—st iter ad Coelum sed me gravis impedit Aer Et me perfudit qui me cito deserit humor Huic mihi sunt Lachrymae sed non est causa doloris c. Englished thus It tends to Heaven but the gross Air hinders And moisture falne quickly turns to Cinders Hence comes these Tears though there 's no cause of grief For they but nourish th' Earth gave them relief And though Worms feed upon my Carkass here My Soul 's in Heaven with my Saviour Dear Thus it may appear double you see or one in two Male and Female Superiour and inferiour Gross and Subtil Coelestial and Terrestrial Sulphur and Mercury Water and Earth Corruptible and Incorruptible or Spiritual And so the parts also are three Body Soul and Spirit Sal Sulphur and Mercury ☉ ☽ ☿ Calx Ferment and Tincture and the very Mercury may be termed threefold preparing prepared and essential and according to Ripley and Raimund calcining reviving and essential So likewise it may be termed four for the Water and Earth which are two visible Elements comprehend Fire and Air which are the four Elements which are turned inside outward whereby they shew their effects and properties Thus Terra Stat. unda Lavat pyr Purgat Spiritus intrat The Earth fastens Moist washeth Fire purgeth and Spirit enters In and for which also there are four Fires used Natural against Nature Innatural and Elemental all which at the last will make a fifth Essence and so by a perfect Ternary Quadrate and Quintessential Process from one two three four and five It returns again into one most perfect spiritual sub â—ance and so is Reunited and raised to a perfect Circular Centre a fixt fusible and incorruptible Medicine to make the true Elixir of Philosophers opening and shutting â—t pleasure giving the â—eys of happiness to all that shall enjoy it to enter to a Kingdom of Health Wealth and Honour and shutting out all ignorant dark Bodies and Spirits Thus then at last this Medicine may obtain the name and number intimated by W. C. which as it is this Authors name who is but one in Person and in Figures twice five hundred so is the Medicine but one in substance and in virtue twice five hundred or a thousand For this cause the Jews thought Christ to be John Baptist risen from the Dead and therefore did such mighty works And this we know saith St. Paul that such as he is such like shall we be at the Resurrection if we have his Spirit and follow him in pious Obedience Patience and Humility So that in this Epitaph as well as by the said Scutcheons and Motto's is plainly set forth the divine and natural Stone of the Wise-men with their Sulphur and Mercury though to be understood with a grâ—in of Salt and likewise the Moral Natural and mortal fate of Man The whole Art therefore of this Philosophy is to begin where Nature ends and to take what you find most ready and perfect in Nature and that which is nearest of kin and intirely separate the Heterogeneal gross parts and congregate the Homogeneal make them Essential and separate the Elements kill the Quick and quicken the Dead and Circulate Fix and Ferment all to the highest degree of Exalâ—ation and Philosophical Sublimation and Perfection As Ripley saith Kill the Quick and to the Dead give Life Make Trinity one without any Strife Thus opening and shutting by Ixions Wheel in heavenly mansion both in a natural and artificial vessel till it come to the greatest perfection and number if not Infinite And now note though most Philosophers in their Writings have concealed their true privy Mercury Fire Vessel Time and Bath Yet here thou maist easily find all the Secret If God have ordained thee to be helpful towards the Redemption of his poor Creatures groaning under their burdens of Oppressions and Mortality Now as this Epitaph doth thus set forth the true Elixir of Philosophers and mans Mortality so likewise these Scutcheons or Hyeroglifical Figures you see do the same in the honourable Pedegree of the Philosophick true Medicine or Golden fleece as well for the Life and Health of mans Body as Metalls both in the Elements and Principles of the said Elixir and in its Coelestial and Terrestrial parts proceeding from their Saline Chaos or first mercurial matter and their glorified Sulphur to their Coelestial Sphears of Multiplication Fermentation and Projection and so they and their Motto's agree sincerely with all the Philosophick sayings and intentions namely thus Some Philosophers would have it one thing and affirm that the Salt of Metals is the Philosophers Stone Others say all 's in Mercury that the Wise-men seek and again others do teach that the whole Art depends in and upon the true preparation of their Sulphur as being the most perfect of the three principles whose Orbs must be thrice turned about as in my three Figures and Coelestial Wheels
Souls and Life out of Nature and that from Heaven through the Wind and Air from which all that hath breath doth live und feed as through the forth-going breath of the VVord contained in the second Principle for the word of God feeds every Spirit Life and Body with its breath or blowing upon because Life is in the word which beareth all things by his power even as it hath Created all things Now as all things consist of Body Soul and Spirit so they have three sorts of food to their ilfe substance the bodily food to the body out of the Elements as from that which cometh out of the waters and out of the Earth whence also the body doth come is taken and is made The soulish food to the Soul Life in every thing out of Nature through both the Elements of VVind and Air from whence also the Life and Soul doth bome The Spiritual food to the Spirit and that from God at from whom the Spirit is namely each Spirit according to its measure and to the Spirit in every way this food cometh from Heaven through the Spirit and Light as from the three Spiritual Elements from whence also the Spirit did come Nature doth assemble it self in her Spirits Life and body to the wind Air and water The Angelical world in its body is no earth as the Elementary is but it is the right body of the water out of which it subsisteth and that body is here beneath with us ICE but above it is an Angelical earth like unto a Christal And in a word it is a most noble Salt of Life fertile or constant or firm over all and is the Paradise in it self It is an Angelical Air which doth not fetch breath there as the living Soul for the Life of Nature is Eternal in regard of the end but it liveth and moveth in the Virtue of Gods word Eternally sine respiratione or without breathing Therefore death cannot Reign in the Angelical world over the Nature and over the Tree of Life but is rather overcome by it how much more by God for the Tree of Life stands unmoveable Therefore by the breaking of the fruit of this Tree at the glorious coming of Christ all shall come from death to life and shall be freed and redeemed from death Devil and Curse Lastly in its Spirit also it is of an Angelical Spirit by the power of the word and Testimony of God Thus namely that the Dragon hath no power over it but is conquered by the Spirit of the same is cast out and quite extruded and cast away How much more thâ—n by God Therefore seeing the Nature in her Spirit is the wind of the Almighty and a going forth of the Light in which God dwelleth and cannot come to that evil one or may not fall into an evil neither may it be blasted or poisoned by the breath of the old Serpent The Divine world in its being is compared to the most noble body of the water and earth as it were to a Heavenly body which is and are an Essential Spiritual Salt as the most noble and pure Gems precious stones and glistering Gold In its Life it is the breath of the Almighty a Soul and Life proceeding out of the mouth of God in and to an Eternal Life and in its Spirit the Spirit of the Lord it self who is God praised for ever God is the Spirit the Nature is the Soul or the Life and the Elements are the Body But be it known that each world hath its proper Nature and Element and that the one world is never changed into the other neither can it be altered nor one Principle general into another Now each Principle hath its proper Spirit Life and Body CHAP. V. Of the third general Principle namely of the Element GOd himself is all in all out of him are all things according to the Spirit by him are all things according to the word and to him are all things according to the Providence or Confidence Rom. 11. 36. Wisd 1. 7. Chap. 12. 1. Gen. 1. John 1. Psal 104. 27 28. 136. 25. 145. 15 16. The nature is all but not in all because she is not in God who hath his own Nature and the Elements also are not all but something only which is a Salt This something is from God after the Spirit from Nature after the Life and Soul and from the Spiritual water after the body And again the water out of the Salt each world is and doth flow out of the other The Nature stands to the Angelical world and is a flowing out of the divine world and the Elementary world is an overflowing of the Nature and Angelical world Lastly Man cometh forth out of the three worlds and is the concentred or conjoyned Centrum of all the worlds There are seven Elements or Powers of the world as Spirit Wind Air and Water Light Heaven and Earth and are such by which in and through which this world consists and subsists and without which it cannot subsist These seven Elements are Created out of such a one which in the Elementary world are all in all and are incorruptible namely Salt which is an excretion of Nature Execrementum quasi sobriè sumptum whereby in this world all things bodily subsist and are preserved Now there is a threefold Salt namely a Spiritual soulish and a Bodily and Palpable The Bodily is fixt and permanent both in Water and Fire Whence we know out of what wherein and whereby all things stand firm and constant both in the Water and the Fire that they may not be drowned and wherewith they are closed up The Soulish Salt is flying because life and Soul is in it and the growth of all whereby all things receive both body and life but when it cometh down again and turneth to the fixed Salt again then they receive Life But the Spiritual Salt is a right true essence and in this world the most noble Being of all Being Spiritus universi the Spirits of the Elements and their Light and Heaven in its Essence The Spiritual Salt dwelleth in the Spirit Light and Heaven and giveth to the body of the Resurrection as Spiritual from the Spirit Light and Heaven The Volans or flying Salt dwelleth in the Wind Air Rain and Dew this giveth out of wind and air to the body after death The fixed Corporeal Salt dwelleth in water and earth out of which this our body doth subsist But Salt is the right fixed Salt and the right water of Life which is a dry water and together water and Earth in which the air and wind is secretly hid and also the Heavens Light and Spirit in its depths which are then the seven Powers of the Element and world and all seven may easily undeniably and manifestly to the eye be demonstrated if the same be Anatomized This only Element of all Elements is a Power of all Powers in this World The Salt is an Excrement
of Nature by the Word of God and is bodily a seed of the water and all Elements from whence the water did spring or proceed or flow by the breathing of the Spirit of the Lord for a seed to all the world and abundantly increased by the moving of the Spirit of the Lord so that the whole Earth is formed out of it The fixed Salt is threefold as in the Earth in the Water and in Heaven The flying Salt also as in Rain Water and Dew Air and Wind. The Essential also is threefold as in the light Spirit and upper water The waters supplie three places or degrees for out of them them the world did subsist which is remarkeable always the one is hid in the other The flying Salt is the Key and openeth with it descending in the Spring that every thing raiseth from the dead greeneth and groweth and with its ascending in the Harvest shutteth them again The Elements are threefold namely Spiritual Soulish and Bodily There are three of the Spiritual Elements as bodily the Heaven Soulish the light and Spiritual the Spirit The Soulish are twofold as Wind and Air. The bodily also as Water and Earth Always the one is hid in the other and the one always comprehends the other six in it and always the one of them is bodily manifest visible and knowing or palpable but the other six are hid in it Each Element also in it self is threefold as spiritual soulish and bodily The spiritual earth is and are the Precious stones or Jewels and that is the body of the Spirit The soulish earth is the gold the spiritual water bodily are the Pearls the soulish is the Amber afterwards the Corals bodily In all these dwell many Powers especially if out of water and spirit by means of the Fire they are made new and spiritual All Elements are in the one with all their Powers which is a spiritual Rock out of which the water of Life doth spring to all Creatures and ebbeth and floweth in the whole world and filleth up Elementarily all in all And when in the end of the world this one is taken away from them then all the Elements are consumed in and by the fire CHAP. VI. Of the three special Principles Spirit Wind and Water THe three special Principles as far as they are Principles come according to their Original as the spirit from God the wind from the Nature and the water from the Rocks and Wells of the Element Every body in the Elementary world is out of the water even also Heaven and Earth All living soul and breath is from the wind in all bodies and all spirits are from the spirit The spirit hath by it the light and Heaven the wind the air the water the earth Now as every thing hath its original so it is of the same fed nourished and thither it returneth again Now the water is a gathered concentred and bodily palpable air The air is a soft sensible bodily gathered wind And the wind is a living gathered spirit But the spirit is such an out-spoken word which Createth and maketh some living thing so that it stands there essentially where it was before Psal 104. 29 30. In the beginning of the Creation the spirit moved on the water by which moving is understood the wind by which the spirit hath breathed on the waters and made them fertile for the Creation of the world All things that are move and have a Being have their original from the one infini eternal Father EHEVE JEHOVAH and JESSE which is the essential self-subsisting living word which is and was in the beginning and remaineth everlastingly to which word all other things are just nothing Through it all things are Created are preserved nourished and fed in their spirit and life as through the breath of the Almighty 4 Esd 16. 13. Heb. 1. 3. Mat. 4. 4. Now by the three special Principles as spirit wind and water which are Elements also all Creation is finished not only because they are the means by which the general Principles do work but also because they contain in them the right seed of all things and the same in the only true Element of which we made mention afore For these three bear in their body all Salt and feed fixed and flying and essential as also Heaven and Earth with all that is therein and bring forth into the world each to its proper self-subsisting or substance Now as all is produced out of the special Principles according to the Creation and Nativity But the sin with the curse and corruption hath made all evil so must all that is born anew return to water wind spirit and out of the spirit and spiritual water must by the wind be born anew to the Image of the Coelestials yet so that in their glory they be no other then Angelical and divine and bear the Image of the Coelestials This new birth goeth out of the upper waters and out of a Coelestial earth to speak Elementarily and are nothing else but salt There is another birth also that goeth out of the fire and is done in pain and torment The new birth out of the water and through the water is done in drowning by water to death That out and in the earth is done through death and Corruption The birth out of the fire as a contrary element is done in and through the fire in Hell Every new birth and regeneration is done through the spirit as also every Creation and alteration The new birth out of the water is done when water is to be poured upon that which shall be new born which the bad contrary elementary doth drown kill and reduceth to nothing And on the contrary stirreth up the good draweth it out and maketh it glorious and distinguisheth the good from the bad rejecteth the bad and chooseth the good and keeps it The new birth out of earth is done when a thing is reduced to its proper earth dyeth and putrifieth therein then afterward cometh forth again and riseth out of the earth with a new and spiritual body and parteth with the naughty and corrupted The new birth in the fire is done when all is cast into the fire and that which doth not hold fire is consumed by degrees and only that which is spiritual remaineth and is saved and then afterward the new birth with a spiritual body cometh forth 1 Cor. 3 13 14 15. 1 Pet. 4 6. Although we speak here Physically and Elementarily yet understanding men will judge Theologically and the Wise may search Physically how every thing hath its true Earth Water and Fire and so mark and observe this mystery Now is the Spirit Wind and Water by which all things in the world are effected These the word sendeth forth to all Creations Births and Alterations These are never quiet for they are by and with the Word the Perpetuum Mobile as above was mentioned and co-operate continually into the Light Heaven Air and
knowledge how the Powers Created to one and the same end may be brought into activity Thousands of such things might be instanced although thou dost not know the splendor in the Angels the candid brightness in the Heavens the Perspicuity in the air the clear Limpidity in the waters the variety of colours in the Flowers the hardness in Stones and Metals the Proportion in living Creatures the Image of God in regenerated men Faith in true Believers and Reason in the Soul Yet is there in them such a beauty which very few mortals have throughly perceived or plainly known Now why should there not be such an admirable virtue in the true Philosophers Stone which truly I have seen and known to be so Yet hereby I endeavour not to perswade the worthy and unworthy alike to labour in this work I rather dehort busie searchers from this most perillous secret like as from some Holy of Holies Yea let every discreet Student be exceeding cautious in reading and keeping company with Sophisticate false Philosophers Nevertheless to satisfie curious Naturalists I shall communicate faithfully whatsoever was acted between Elias the Artist and Me concerning the nature of the Philosophers Stone It is a thing much brighter then Aurora or a Carbuncle more splendid then the Sun or Gold and more beautiful then the Moon or Silver Insomuch that this most recreating light can never be blotted out of my mind though it should not be believed by Learned Fools or Illiterate Asses bubling nothing but the gloss of haughty proud eloquence For in this exulcerated old malignant Age nothing can be secured from slanderous Carpers But all such Batts and Bratts do err from Truth and in progress of time vanish miserably ensnared in their own errors yet our assertion shall stand till the very end of all generations being built upon the eternal foundation of Triumphant Truth And although this Art be not yet known to all the Adept do assert according to experience That this natural Mistery is only to be found with the great Jehovah Saturninely placed in the Center of the World In the interim we account them happy who by the help of art are careful how they may wash this Philosophical Queen and circulate the Catholick Virgin Earth within a Magick Physicall Christalline Artifice Nay as Khunrade saith they aone shall see the Philosophers King crowned with all the colours of the world and coming forth of his Bedchamber and glassy Sepulchre more then perfect in his external glorified fiery body shining like a bright Carbuncle or a compact and Ponderous transparent Christal These shall see the Salamander casting out waters and washing therewith the Leprouse Metals in the fire as I my self have seen What shall I say These shall see the â—byss of the Spagyrick Art where this kingly art did rest and lye hid so many years in the Mineral Kingdom as in their safest bosom Assuredly the true Sons of this Art shall not only manifest such a river of Numitius in which long since Aeneas being washt and absolved from his mortality by the command of Venus was presently transformed like to an immortà l God but also the whole Lydian River called Pactolus transmuted into gold as soon as Mygdonian Mydas hath washed himself in the some Also in a long Series they shall partly see the Bath of naked Diana and the Fountain of Narcissus yea Scylla walking in the Sea without her clothes by reason of the fervent rayes of the Sun and shall gather the blood of Pyramis and Thysbe by whose help the white Mulberries were tinged into red Partly also the blood of Adonis transformed by the descending Goddess Venus into the Anemone Rose Partly also the blood of Ajax out of which did spring the fairest Flower of Hyacinth or Violet Partly also the blood of the Gyants struck by Jupiters Thunderbolt partly also the tears of Althea shed when she had divested her self of her Golden Robes and laid them down partly also the drops from Medea's decocted water out of which green things did presently sprowt out of the earth Partly also Medeas Potion boyled out of many hearbs gathered three days before the Full Moon for the healing of her good old Father Jason Partly also the Medicine of Aesculapius Partly also the leaves by whose taste Glaucus was transformed into Neptune Partly also the expressed juice of Jason by whose benefit he got the Golden Fleece in the Land of Colchos after he had fought generously in the Field of Mars not without great danger of his Life Partly also the Garden of Hesperides from whose Trees might be gathered Apples of Gold Partly also Hippomines running a Race with Atalanta delaying and conquering her by throwing down three Golden Apples given him by Venus Partly also the Aurora of Cephalus Partly also as it were Romulus transformed by Jupiter into a God Partly also the Soul of Julius Caesar transfigured by Venus into a Comes and placed amongst the Stars partly also Pytho the Serpent of Juno springing up after Deucalions deluge out of the putrified Earth heated by the rayes of the Sun partly also the Fire whereby Medea lighted seven Candles partly also the Moon inflamed by the great burning of Phaeton partly also the dryed shrub or branch of the Olive Tree new greening with berries as a new and tender tree partly also Arcadia wherein Jupiter was used to walk partly also the dwelling place of Pluto at whose entrance the three headed Cerberus did watch partly also that Mountain where Hercules burnt all his Members he had from his Mother upon a Pile of Wood when the Fathers parts did remain fiâ—t and incombustible in the fire yet was he not one jot impaired in his life but at length was changed into the likeness of a God Further these true children of the Philosophers shall at last enter into the Temple of the transformed rustick house whose roof was built out of fine gold Indeed I cannot do less then once more proclaim aloud with the Adeptists O happy and thrice happy is this Artist who by the most gracious blessing of the most high Jehovah obtains this art to prepare and make this almost divine Salt by whose efficacious operation the metallick body or mineral is broke open destroyed and killed yet its soul is revived to the glorious resurrection of the Philosophick body Most happy therefore is he who obtains this Art of Arts to the glory of God by earnest constant prayers For certainly the knowledge of this Mystery cannot be obtained unless drawn and suckt out of the Fountain of Fountains which is God Therefore every serious Lover of this inestimable art should believe the chief of his business is That with uncessant desires and prayers in a living Faith he implore and adore the most Soveraign grace of Gods Holy Spirit in all his works for it is the solemn custom of God to communicate his gifts candidly and liberally only to candid and liberal men mediately or immediately for by
same upon me if it be but as much as a Coriander or Hemp Seed only to transmute four grains of Lead into gold Elias I confess an honest good man first shewed me the possibility and then the art and manner to prepare the Medicine but to give thee any of this Medicine is not lawful though I had for it as many Duckets as would fill this room not for my esteem of the matter which is of no price at all but for other private considerations and to make it so appear I would now through all into the fire to be consumed if it were possible for the fire to destroy fire Be not therefore covetous for thou hast seen more then many Kings or Princes that have sought for it But I must now depart and purpose to come again at three weeks end and then if not hindred or forbid I will abundantly satisfie thy curiosity to see transmutation in the Interim I warn you not to tamper with this dangerous art least you lose your fame and substance in the ashes Physitian Sir What shall I do if it be not lawful for you to bestow so small a part of your tincture because of your Philosophical Oath taken at your drinking the dissolved Silver in the rain water Yet know I do eagerly desire to learn this and I believe Adam thrown out of Paradice for eating an Apple would again desire this golden Fruit out of Atlantas Garden though to hazard the destruction you premonish And though I have not yet seen transmutation from you I thank you for your great friendship in forewarning me of the dangers and shewing me what I have seen and till your return I shall delight my self with what is discovered both of your Medicine and Person But I fear Sir if any King Prince or Potentate should know the same which God forbid they would perchance imprison and torture you till you should reveal all the art to them Elias I never shewed the Stone to any in the world but to you except one aged man and henceforth shall not to any but if any King or other which I hope God will not permit should Rack me to pieces or burn me alive I would not reveal it to them neither directly nor indirectly as many circumferanious Physitians Mountebanks Vagabonds and others pretend to do Phisitian Good Sir tell me in the Interim who are the best Authors in regard by experience you are best able to judge Elias Indeed Doctor I have not read many books but amongst those I have read none more curious then Cosmopolite Sendivogius The Dutch Borger Derwerel and Brother Basilins 12 Keys I can lend thee Sendivogius at my return in whose obscure words the Truth lyes hidd even as our Tincture lyes inclosed in the minerals and Metallick bodies Phisitian Sir I give you most hearty thanks for your exceeding kindness and love Believing that marvellous and efficacious Essences and Tinctures lies hid in Metals and Minerals under the external rinds and shells of their bodies though I find few so expert in the Fire to know how to pick out their Kernel Philosophically for as Isaac Holland writes the outward body of every Animal Vegetable and Mineral is like to a Terrestrial Province within which excellent spiritual essences do retire and dwell Wherefore it is needful that the sons of art should know how by some saline fit sutable Ferment pleasant and agreeable to the Metallick Nature to tame and subdue dissolve separate and concentrate not only the Metallick Magnetick virtue wherewith to Tinge but also Philosophically to multiply the same in their golden or silvery Homogenity For we see that the bodies of all creatures are not only easily destroyed but as soon as they cease to live they hurry to their graves in putrefaction viz. to their old Chaos and darkness of Orcus wherein they were before they were brought to light by Creation in this World But alas who or what man can or will shew us this Art in the Metallick Kingdom Elias Sir I confess you judge right of the natural destruction of things and if it be Gods pleasure he can as to me send one sooner then thou hopest to shew thee the manner to destroy Metals and Minerals in a true Philosophical manner and to gather their inward souls In the mean time implore the blessing of this great God who doth all things as he pleaseth To whom I recommend thee whose watchful eyes are always open over all his regenerated Sons in and through Christ Jesus So be sure I am your friend and once more Farewell THus my Friend Elias taking leave left me three weeks and to this very day nevertheless as a Spur he impressed all these things deep in my mind and Paracelsus confirmed them saying That in with of and by metals spiritualized and cleansed are perfect Metals made and also the living gold and Silver of Philosophers as well for humane as metallick bodies Wherefore if this guest my Friend had taught me the manner of preparing this Spiritual and Celestial Salt he spake of by and with which I might as it were within their own matrix gather the spiritual Rays of Sun or moon out of the Corporal Metallick substances Then truly from his own light he had so enlightened me that I should have known how Magnetically by a Sympathetick power in other imperfect corporeal metals their internal souls might be Clarified and Tinged so that their own similary bodies being of like kind might be transmuted into Gold or Silver according to the nature of red Seed into a red body or of the white Seed into a white and pure body For Elias told me that Sendivogius his Calybs was the true Mercurial Metallick humidity by help of which without any Corrosive an Artist might seperate the fixt rayes of the Sun or Moon out from their own bodies in a naked Fire in open Crusible and so make them Volatile and Mercurial fit for a dry Philosophick Tincture as he partly communicated and shewed me before he went to transmute the Metals For all learned Chymists must consent that Pyrotechny is the mother and Nurse of many noble Sciences and Arts and they can easily judge from the Colours of the Chaos of metals in the fire what metallick body is therein And truly every day metals and transparent stones are yet so procreated in the bowels of the Earth from their proper noble vapourons seed with a spiritual Tingent Sulphurous Seed in their divers Salty Matrixes for the common Sulphur or the Sulphur of any pure or impure metal whilst yet conjoyned with its own body being mingled only with Salt-Peter in the burning heat of Fire will be easily changed into the hardest and most fixed Earth And this Earth is afterwards easily changed by the air into most clear water and this water after by a stronger fire according to the nature of either pure or impure metallick Sulphur admixed is turned into Glass coloured with various and very beautiful
18. Colos 2. 8. 2 Tim. 3. 4. 1 Cor. 13. 9. 11. Truly wise men dive into the best gifts and perfection which are of three sorts Charity Prophecy and Examination Love and Charity are the Center and contain the circle of all godly virtues and have Faith and Hope but Prophesying hath all knowledge wisdom and doctrine Lastly examination containeth all understanding judgment and discretion In these three things all is contained that belongeth to wisdom the Center whereof is the word of God This is that which all men ought to study and should communicate to others according as they have received a gift of the Spirit of graceâ— That God the Author of all good may be glorified and that none do boast of gifts and extol himself above others but rather be humble And then none ought to quench the Spirit neither in himself nor others but rather to stir it up And lastly let no man despise Prophecy that he may not offend God his neighbour nor scandalize himself Love forbeareth all The wisdom of the spirit searcheth all and Examination tryeth all Since we have undertaken through the admonition of the spirit to speak of wisdom as much as our knowledge in part may afford Therefore we intreat the Reader in Love that those whom we displease or who are offended would tolerate us in love As knowing that wisemen also must bear with fools And things spoken of in this book may not presently be rejected but rather be suffered to stand remembring that God also is patient unto Sinners But if any one do think himself wise let him shew the spirit of Judgment and let him discern thus least he judge himself also For we hold that we also have received a gift of the Spirit of grade which we will not suffer to dye but to the praise of the Lord we will put it out to use out of love to the Children of wisdom although not as an instruction but as a good testimony to our selves that we have received a gift of the Spirit not in vain The reason that induced us to the writing of this book is because we hope to be Beneficial to the children of wisdom It may be we have publisht the like twelve years ago the Title of it being Aurora Sapientiae yet since it hath been desired by some again I have not altered the Title hoping that it is not a little mended and corrected I have set it out briefly that it may neither be tedious to the Reader nor chargeable to the Buyer nor yet painful to the Printer Benevolous Reader take all in good part and thus we commend the well wishers to Gods gracious ptotection THE CONTENTS Of the several Chapters of this Book OF the Books of wisdom in which the same may be learned how and in what manner Chap. 1. Of the Principles and Beginnings of all things as also of God himself and of all whatsoever 2 Of the First Principle of all things which is God 3 Of the second Principle which is Nature 4 Of the third General Principle namely the Elements 5 Of the three special Principles Spirit Wind and Water 6 Of the particular Principles Body Soul and Spirit 7 Of the Elements and contrary Elements in the Creation 8 Of the Principle or Original of that evil one and of the Angels 9 Of the difference of the Light and Darkness as also of the Light and Fire 10 Of the Principle of the Fire and its Mystery 11 Out of what wherein and whereby all things good or bad do subsist pass away and yet how they last for ever 12 Of the Creation of the World 13 Of the particular Creation 14 Of the Mystery of the Word 15 Of the Mystery of the Created lower visible things 16 Of the Creation of Man and of his Anatomy 17 Of the Image of God after which man is Created 18 Of the Mystical Image that is of the Mystery of God Chap. 19 Of the Truth and Spirit by which all wisdom is justified 20 Of the Mystery of Time and to understand 〈◊〉 aright 21 The Conclusion 22 AVRORA SAPIENTIAE Morning Light OR Dawning of Wisdom WE take the liberty according to the gift of the Spirit to speak briefly of Wisdom in this little Treatise without any prolixity And because we made mention in the Preface of a three-fold Knowledge as of Men of Angels and of God now we will speak here that Wisdom also is threefold as 1. The Natural of all Created things 2. The Wisdom of Faith unto Salvation And 3. The Secret and Mystical wisdom which generâ—lly is unknown and that we call vera Philosophia Theologia and Theosophia Of these three we will speak as briefly as may be possible The Spirit of the Lord be upon both the Writer and the Reader Amen JEHIOR OR THE Morning Light of VVisdom CHAP. I. Of the Books of Wisdom in which the same may be learned How and in what manner THere are chiefly but three Books in which all Wisdom is contained Namely 1. The whole Nature and Creation 〈…〉 great Book of Heaven and 〈…〉 2. The Book of the Holy Writ in the Letter of the Holy word of God 3. Man himself The only Center or Principle of these three is the word of God which is the book out of which these three books have their Original The first book of Nature contains seven other books which are the seven Elements of which in particular hereâ—fter These seven Books have three other books opposite which are the three contrary Elements of which also hereafter The second book the Holy Writ is divided into three other books as into the Law of the Old Into the Gospel of the New and into the Eternal Gospel of the everlasting Testament and Covenant which comprehends the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ The Third book of Man is only one book and is sealed to the blind but opened to the seeing In this book is hidden sealed and also manifest and opened all Wisdom and man is called the Image or Honour of God oâ— which below and man cannot be called by any other name 1 Cor. 11. 7. Out of the first book we learn Philosophia the natural Wisdom in and about the knowledge of created natural things which are of the Elements and we learn this wisdom out of the three Principles and seven Elements and discern the same from the three contrary Elements else we cannot find the truth of the Natural Wisdom Out of the second book we learn Theologia or Divinity the wisdom unto Salvation and that in the three foresaid books through the seven spirits Isaiah 11. and we diâ—â—â—nguish it from all humane glosses and books of Prophane ones For the book expounds it self and needs no humane interpretation but only hath need of Faith which apprehends all things Out of the Third Book which is Gods Image we learn the true knowledge of God as also his being and essence and his whole Mystery in so much as
Earth which four Elements stand still unmoveable into which the three special Principles do overflow with their body soul and spirit as to the Water Wind and Spirit and work out all and finish the same The water is as it were the Element the Wind is like as Angelical and the Nature and the Spirit is Divine CHAP. VII Of the particular principles Body Soul and Spirit Wâ—th those are the Principles inclosed and consists in a threefold Trinity and always one produceth another and stand always orderly in their subordinates and agree together that they make up a true and whole Harmony and are enclosed at last in the Light Life and Love The body of all them is and consists out of the water also the Earth the Water out of the Wind the Wind out of the Spirit and the Spirit oâ—t of God There is a threefold body namely a sensible or palpable out of Water and Earth a Soulish out of Wind and Air and a spiritual out of Heaven Light and Spirit So is an Elementary hody an Angelical and a Divine very well to be distinguished on man Further the Soul is corporeal out of the Air from whence it is fed also and soulish out of the Wind and Spiritual out of the Light The Spirit is Corporeal out 〈◊〉 from the Heaven Soulish out of the Light and spiritual out of the spirit of the Elements out of the Nature and of God according as the Creature is Out of these three general Principles Man hath also a threefold spirit according to his measure and is the perfectest creature Always one body dwelleth in the other and as soon as one body is dissolved and broken in the same moment another and more noble body is manifest and that in all things If now the body becometh nobler needs must the Spirit be more noble high and glorious But this is the body after which the wise do seek Namely the Salt which containeth all in it self This body they drown in a Water which floweth out of the Centrum of the Vegetables and draw out all vertues which afterward come together in a celestial spiritual body and afford that precious jewel All things that are killd and dye naturally are drownd in a cold Saturnine Water for all natural death is done by coldness but what is kill'd in the Fire without a Saturnine Water is not fit to Nature for a better state Only the Salt we seek in the fire and then through the Water and afterwards cleanse and purifie it with the Baptism of Fire and of Water We should therefore six our thoughts on the water and use the fire very carefully because it is a contrary Element before which nothing can subsist but only the Salt This is the true body of all Elements and of all things in the whole world if that be taken away thâ—â— all perisheth quickly and the Gold it self also in the Fire This is the right Heaven wherein dwell all powers and is in all things in the whole world their Heaven and is compared to the Tree of Life in Paradise Now the soul according to the highest degree is out of the nature According to the second degree from the Light and according to the third degree out of the Wind. These are the Principles of the living soul soul and spirit are distinct as God and Nature Spirit and Wind as Angel and living soul yea as spirit and breath The middle Principle among the three Principles is always instead of the Mother as the Nature Wind and Soul The body is the Child which the spirit â—s a Father begets through the soul Out of the spirit cometh the soul he lets it out as his breath and from both these the body The firm soul and spirit as the true life and spirit which is like unto the Angelical world is always in the right body of all things that is in the Salt when it is opened then they come forth in a great clearness as in an Angelical glory At last the spirit of all things is out of the three general Principles in each according to their portion and measure Now the spirit affords the right inward essence the forma essentialis differentia specifica abstractum essentiae and nothing else From the same the body and soul also receive their essence whereby the one from the other essentially and properly are distinguished as man from beasts a beast foul fish vermin c from others and so one thing from another All Creatures are distinguished chiefly into three as into Animalia all living souls into vegetabilia all that grow and spring out of the earth and into Mineralia things that grow under the earth and are digged out and so in the water also These are distinct as the three Principles and in our wisdom always a fair harmony doth represent it self All living souls consist out of Water and bloud in their seeds through a moist warmth and a warm moistness each in its mother All growing things consist in their seed out of a slimy water through the Salt which is fixed in the root flying in the herb leaf and grass and essential in the flower and all three concentre at last in the seed All Minerals Metals and what belongeth to it grow out of a fat earth which the Salt of the earth doth hatch and do coagulate through a cold fire which is a Saturnine Water that is a fiery water and a waterish fire that doth not burn Even as upon earth all things grow by rain and dew as also in the earth it raineth thaweth and is misty thereby grow the Minerals Metals and the like and all this from the salt fixed flying and essential The flying Salt begets Sulphur the essential begets Mercury Among the Vermin the chiefest is the Viper with her brood and kind and is Mercurial Among the Vegetables is the Vine a channel out of which come three sorts of water and also a noble Mineral and is the Centre of the Vegetables Among the Mineral is the Gold yea the Salt Of all these three the Concentred Center is man above all that is created CHAP. VIII Of the Elements and contrary Elements in the Creation THe seven Elements or Powers of the world do rest only upon one which is a right well of all Elements in our thoughts because it containeth all An Element is such a thing out of which and in which the world and all doth consist without which nothing can subsist Again a contrary Element is such whereby the world and Elements are altered and corrupt and at last must quite perish thereby Now all things are Created out of three Principles Materialiter namely out of the word as out of a spiritual out of nature as a soulish and out of the Elements and contrary Elements as an incorporeal-corporeal and Corporeal-incorporeal that is out of the Elements after something and out of the contrary Elements according to nothing The word is the all the Elements are the
this only holy way of the practice of Piety all Students of difficult arts find what they desire But they must exercise solitary Philosophical and Religious pleadings with Jehovah with a pure mouth and heart For the heavenly wisdom Sophia embraceth our friendship offering us her Rivers of gratious goodness and bounty never to be drawn dry And most happy is he to whom the true kingly way shall be shewed by an Adept Possessor of this great Secret But I foresee this small Preface will not satisfie my Readers alike some perchance taxing me for presuming as it were to teach them an art unknown to my self when this hath been my only purpose to relate a History yet I doubt not but this study of divine wisdom will be sweeter to some then any Nectar or Ambrosia I say no more but conclude with that of Julius Caesar Scaliger That the end of truly wise men is the communicating of wisdom According to that of Gregory Nysseâ— He that is good Communicates willingly his goods to others for the property of good men is to be profitable to others CHAP. II. The Testimony of divers illustrious Authors of this Arcanum FIrst Paracelsus in the Signature of Natural things fol. 358 This is a true sign of the tincture of Philosophers That by its transmuting force all imperfect metals are changed viz. the white into Silver and the red into the best Gold if but the smallest part of it be cast into a Crusible upon melted metal c. Item For the invincible Astrum of metalls conquereth all things and changeth them into a nature like to its self c. And this Gold and Silver is nobler and better then that brought out of the Metallick Mines and out of it may be prepared better Medicinal Arcana's Item Therefore ever Alchymist who hath the Astrum of the Sun can transmute all red Metals into Gold c. Item Cur Tincture of Gold hath Astral Stars within it It is a most fixt substance and immutable in the Multiplication It is a powder having the reddest colour almost like Saffron yet the whole corporeal substance is liquid like Rosin transparent like Christal frangible like glass It is of a Ruby colour and of the greatest weight c. Read more of this in Paracelsus Heaven of Philosophers Item Paracelsus in his seventh book of Transmutation of natural things saith The Transmutation of Metals is a great natural mistery not against natures course nor against Gods order as many falsely judge For the imperfect Metals are transmuted into Gold nor into Silver without the Philosophers Stone Item Paracelsus In his Manual of the Medicinal Stone of Philosophers saith Our Stone is a heavenly Medicine and more then perfect because it cleanseth all filth from the Metals c. Secondly Henry Khunrade in his Amphitheater of the eternal wisdom I have travelled much and visited those esteemed to know somewhat by experience and not in vain c. Amongst whom I call God to witness I got of one the universal Green Lyon and the blood of the Lyon That is Gold not vulgar but of the Philosophers I have seen it touched it tasted it and smelt it O how wonderful is God in his works I say they gave me the prepared Medicine which I most fruicfully used towards my poor neighbour in most desperate cases and they did sincerely reveal to me the true manner of preparing their medicine Item This is the wonderful method which God only hath given me immediately mediately yet subordinately through Nature Fire Art and masters help as well living as silent corporal and spirituaâ— watching and sleeping Item Fol. 202. I write not Fables with thine own hands shalt thou handle and with thine eyes see the Azoth viz. the Universal Mercury of the Philosophers which alone with its internal and external fire is sufficient for thee to get our Stone nevertheless with a sympathetick Harmony being Magick-physically united with the Olympick fire by an inevitable necessity c. Item Thou shalt see the Stone of the Philosophers our King go forth of the bed-chamber of his Glassie Sepulchre in his glorified body like a Lord of Lords from his Throne into this Theater of the world That is to say regenerated and more then perfect a Shining Carbuncle a most temperate splendour whose most subtile and depurated parts are inseperably united into one with a concordial mixture exceedingly equal Transparent like a Chrystal Compact and most ponderous easily fusible in fire like rosin or Wax before the flight of quick silver yet flowing without smoak entring into solid bodies and penetrating them like oyle through Paper dissoluble in every liquor and comiscible with it fryable like glass in a powder like Saffron but in the whole Mass shining red like a Rubie which redness is a sign of a perfect fixation and fixed perfection Permanently colouring or tinging fixt in all temptations and tryals yea in the examination of the burning Sulphur its self and the devouring waters and in the most vehement persecution of the fire always incombustible and permanent as a Salamander c. Item The Philosophers Stone being fermented in its parts in the great world transforms it self into whatsoever it will by the fire hence a Son of art may perceive why the Philosophers have given their Azoth the name of Mercury which adheres to bodies c. And further in the same place it is fermented with Metals viz. The Stone being in its highest whiteness â—s fermented with pure Silver to the white But the Sanguine Stone with pure Gold to the red And this is the work of three days c. Thirdly Helmont in the Book of Eternal Life Fol. 590. I have oft seen the Stone and handled it and have projected the fourth part of one grain wrapped in paper upon eight ounces of quink silver boyling in a crusible and the quicksilver with a small noise presently stood still from its Flux and was congealed like to yellow wax and after a flux by blast we found eight ounces wanting eleven grains of the purest Gold Therefore one grain of this powder would transmute nineteen thousand one hundred and eighty six parts â—f Quicksilver into the best Gold so that this powder is found to be of Similary parts amongst Terrestrials and doth transmute infinite plenty of impure metal into the best Gold uniting with it and so defends it from Canker rust rottenness and death and makes it in a manner immortal against all tortures of fire and art and transfers it to a Virginean purity of Gold requiring only a fervent heat Item In his Tree of Life fol. 630. I am constrained to believe there is a Gold and Silver making Stone or powder for that I have divers times made projection of one grain thereof upon some thousand grains of boyling quicksilver to a tickling admiration of a great multitude And further as before is rehearsed in the first Chapter He also saith He who gave me that powder had so much at least
art but the manner of extracting it and giving it ingress by Gold On the other side the first Ens of Gold in the Vegitable Animal and Mineral Sulphurs Marcasites and Antimony are had in plenty but are so Volatil that those little stones are to be preferred But now in brief I shall shew that in stones of which hot Countries hath most Gold there is not only fixt Gold but also Volatil whence the true Tincture may be perfected For whoever can make the first Essence of Gold that is in stones Volatil and gather it by distillation doth get a graduating water by which our quick fluid Mercury or Quick-silver may be coagulated to good Gold And whoever can joyn and marry this Volatil first Essence of Gold to Corporal Gold and this with that to be made one and procure Ingression he may hope for far more good and may expect undoubtedly to enjoy the same to a better use and profit For that the first Essence of gold is more useful and needful to prepare the Tinctures then Corporal gold it self as not a few Philosophers have signified by the following words who say Gold and Silver are not made by them unless this first Essence do effect it The first Ens also of Gold which lies hid in all Vegitables and Animals doth Coagulate Mercury even to Yallowness but not constant and fixt but if it be made fixt it also fixeth and Coagulateth with constancy but doth not so before It remains therefore most assured true that where ever Sulphur is found there is also the first Essence of Gold and where the first essence of Gold is there is also the Tincture wherefore being Sulphur is found in every thing of the world to the least Herb Stone and Bone It follows that also out of any little Herb piece of Wood little Stone and Bone c. the true Tincture may be prepared â—ow this our new light doth not profit him that is blind and will presume and resolve to be so still More of this you may find in my third Century and also make first part of my Spagyrick Pharmacopeia How Sand. Flints and the like impregnated Stones may be known whether they contain little or much Gold FLints Sand Stones c. that are White of all sorts contain the least quantity of Gold and yet are never without some Volatil though not to be extracted with profit but most commonly the Yellow and Red have most Gold yet not always to answer the charge in dissolving and extracting Yellow duskish and Black commonly hold much and where through White also Yellow Sand and Stones where Lines are found like Veins through them especially if they shine clear and glister with many little sparks of ☉ close together Likewise that Sand is rich with Gold which appears like Talc wherein are found some stones in which Red or duskish Talc appears even as in all Talc Gold is found but yet in some more some less All Flints and Stones in Brooks called Bartenston which though appearing white externally yet after they are made red hot in the fire and broken in water appear Yellow like Gold are sufficiently rich Green Yellow or Skie coloured Stones translucid like Horn Vulgarly called Horne-stone are also for the most part rich Also all reddish Black and dark dusky Flints have always Gold but for the most part mixt with Iron which therefore frustrate the Vulgar Labourants Menstruum and so makes it useless All Quarze Quarries the coverings of Mines and also Saphir Stones or other in the Earth in Veins like Metals or open to the Air or Water being Coloured hold Gold The Blood-stone and that which is of kin to it Emery Granats and Lapis Lazuli do all hold Gold The Granats hold Corporal Gold and the first Essence of Gold some much and more then others and others but a little But these aforesaid Stones are so hard that strong Waters as Aqua Fort cannot work upon them yet some remedy may be found to extract them In all transparent Amphitams Sapphirs Rubies Amathists and asinths is the first Essence of Gold but hard to be extracted All Fluores Oars and Flowers used in the Mines of ☉ and ☽ to reduce them to a flux whether Violet or Purple coloured Yellow Red or Green are endowed with unripe Volatil Gold which of you heat red hot will vapour a king of Green Yellow or Red fumes and a Snow-white Colour will remain on the stones Now if any can tell how to save those flying fumes he may with it Coagulate Mercury into Gold In like manner by means of Distillation a Green water may be drawn out of all such like stones in the which Mercury will Coagulate it self into Gold This Green water also the ancients have called their Green Lyon which devours the ☉ or Gold and prepares a Tincture for ☽ or ☿ I would say more of this matter but shall refrain for the covetousness and wicked men who seek nothing but the ruine of their neighbour and to live in pomp and pleasures who as unworthy God will have wander in darkness without this Knowledge Wherefore let all that by Gods Grace have any illumination beware the communicate nothing to wicked men though they seem Angels of Light Nusquam tuta fides There is no faith to be found on Earth Soli Deo tu confidas promissis hominum diffidas Deus Sâ—lus fidem servat a Mundo fides exulat which is In God shalt thou put thy trust mans promises distrust as Dust God only keeps his promised plight but from the world all faith takes flight Wherefore I say let all well-minded men beware of Luxurious proud vain and covetous persons for these Vices proceed from the Devil and return again to him and one can hardly find an honest man though sought with Diogenes his Lanthorn amongst many For which cause I shall e're long publish a short Tractate of evil and wicked men viz. How and whereby to know them by their outward signatures and form for virtue and vice And had I known this skill before it had been a great advantage to have made me beware of such dissembling Impostures If any shall hereby reap any benefit let them give God the praise and be mindful of the poor If otherwise let them believe they are yet unworthy to have such things communicated to them for truly I have written here so plainly and truly as no Philosopher ever did before me But now nevertheless I confess I have a more easy way for these things viz. for extracting Gold out of Sand c. and such as never was known before to the World 1. My first Method is with a water of small charge or price which may be had in plenty without Distillation 2. My second is a singular Metal of which Chauldrons may be made in which these Stones and Sand with this small prised water are boiled and yet not corroded or consumed thereby and after the water shall dissolve any Gold out
Communion of such spirits at all neither should it be because it is the next degree to Witch-craft The Natural Magick can do much of which the wise Men of the East made use profitably who clime to Christ But the Angelical may do more yet and much more the divine But we must strive always after the best and Man hath within him a threefold Magnet or 〈◊〉 whereby he can draw to him all spirits in the world and can do wonders But what saith the Lord to it Mat. 7. 22 Luke 10 20. For by the natural Magick Devils may be cast out and great wonders done by it The Prince of darkness can turn to the shape of of an Angel of light and will have every where his hand in the work Now is a very dangerous time because all spirits are stirring because their end is so nigh that it is hardly believed The Air is fuit of spirits and the he Earth also is full of them and every man hath his proper Angel and his bad Angel also By the good Angels all good things man doth are set down truly and the bad Angels observe all evil that man doth and when once the books are to be opened men will be judged according to their works and words Well be it with him who hath blotted out his black Register with repenting tears The spirit we cannot see unless our eyes be opened Lastly between light and darkness light and fire is such a great difference as between life and death blessedness and perdition yea as between God and the Devil The light is and will be an Eternal dwelling of God But darkness and fire is an everlasting habitation of Devils and the damned CHAP XI Of the Principle of the fire and its Mystery THere is a threefold fire namely the fire of the contrary Element the fire of the Angels and the fire of the Devils The fire of the contrary element is threefold First before the fall a still resting and unmanifested fire without a burning flame Secondly after the fall a kindled manifested burning flaming fire Thirdly a cold waterish fire which doth not burn yet smoketh worketh into the earth upon Minerals and Metals With this cold waterish fire all things are forced and the Metals also for it doth calcinate them and turneth them as it were into ashes destroyeth and openeth them This fire is chiefly threefold as 1. Vegitable which is as it were tempered and is a well rectified Vineger which is extreamly useful Of which not many words Sat sapienti dictum Secondly it is a mineral fire which chiefly is the true spirit of Nitre a spiritual water out of Salt-peter which hath both heat and cold and is Infernal and Coelestial Thirdly Mercurial or Saturnine a strong Salt that hath not its fellow Without this no Metal is engendred nor broken or groweth in which is a great mystery hid more then can be Imagined But the true spirit of Nitre must not be prepared without a cold fire for the raging horrible and furious Hell which is in Saltpeter must in its devouring and consuming fire be over whelmed drowned and devoured and be reduced to a blessed Heaven Now when a Heavenly Water is at hand then a new birth from above out of water and spirit can follow Here lyeth hid a great Medicine in time of the raging Plague Head-aches Leavers Stone Gout and many more diseases to be used And truly the time is come when all things must be made manifest and although we have not yet with our hands prepared it yet the spirit of wisdom can teach us all what is secret and mystical who searcheth into all deepnesses and can shew testifie and make known to us that which no eye hath seen no◠Ear hath heard and which hath never entred into mans heart Thirdly There is also a Metalline cold fire which reduceth all Metals yea Gold it self to nothing only that noble grain in the Gold hidden stayeth and remaineth which cannot be forced and that fire is Lead Saturn which devoureth all Metals and consumeth also it self in the fire at last Even as the common fire doth consume and devour all wood and at last it self is consumed and goeth out But in the Cinders that remain there lyeth the treasure hidden which must be drawn out of it with hot water The Metals have two sorts of waters a Cold and a Hot and both are fire The Cold is Saturn Lead the Hot is Mercury Now as the one is an extream Hellish Cold so is the other extream hot of a Hellish Heat so that by reason of heat it stands in a continual flowing although it feels outwardly Cold. Now in this fire water the Metals especially Gold after their death are born anew namely in the Metalline world and Reign and yet are anew Clarified Christalline Spiritual Heavenly body which is so glorious that it can make inferiour and less precious yet to his nature not unlike Metals to his own substance So much is it worth to know the nature of fire and its mystery without which no good or profitable use of it may be had for our good for all must be killed first in the cold fire even as it were through its Winter according to the proceeding of nature must dye and putrifie if it shall be produced again in a new body Now the fire according to its principle is begotten out of darkness from thence it is produced and returneth into it again But darkness was begotten out of the Nothing and that Nothing stood there in the beginning of the Creation to the Something as a Testimony of that which was Created For all that is made and Created that was before nothing and before it be fashioned then it was not fashioned without a frame and was as it were a dark Ens or Being out of which afterward is born the Light that is a fashionable Being that is out of the invisible a visible thing is made Therefore the darkness and fire in a good sense and before the fall are an excrement of the Light yet are good and useful even as that which a Workmaster heweth or cutteth away from that matter which he intends to make some fashionable thing Even as Chips from wood are of the same substance with that which is framed out of it yet an excrement of it and when these Chips are flung into the fire they return to nothing So the contrary Elements when they are known they are no more good but an opposition adverse and stark nought Further be it known that in the divine world are no contrary Elements nay there can be none in it although their power hath pressed into it yea in the depths of God in which it grew dark when the Lord of glory dyed on the Cross and the fire of the raging wrath of God consumed the same and death and perdition killed him Who can speak it out or who knows what this saying doth mean Also in the Angelical world
there is no darkness but yet there is fire This Angelical fire is an Excretion of the light out of which the spirit of the â—ngels is and this fire also in the beginning and before the fall hath been a quiet and unknown fire and very good because it was and is the soul of the Light in the Angels But after the fall it was manifest known and turn'd to a flame and such a one wherein the raging anger of God doth rest in which all Gods Judgments do consist and come out of the same This fire now in the Angels with its rage anger and consuming flame is not evil at all but a just fire of Gods justice to punish the wicked All anger rage and judgment proceed out of the Angelical world as also the Law which was promulgated with fire Exod. 20. Acts 7. 53 38. Gal. 3. 19. Heb. 2. 2. Of the Devils fire was spoken above More things could be said of the fire which for brevity sake we omit CHAP. XII Out of what wherein and wher by all things good and bad do subsist pass away and yet how they last for ever ALthough our knowing and prophesying be but part yet we will not quench the spirit and we are not to despise prophesying And the Reader in the Lord may know that we have our wisdom be it about natural things or spiritual learned out of the Holy Scripture and not out of pro hane writings for the Bible is sufficient to us to all wisdom and we used in 24 years no other book to find out wisdom but the Bible Out of this book the spirit of wisdom through the anointing can teach us all things and needs no other spirit or man to teach us Every thing in a word subsists only by Salt they perish without it and in the same and it lasteth for ever in them both good and bad There is a threefold salt namely a Divine Angelical and Elementary All must be seasoned with salt if it shall last good and salt is the most noble and wholsomest Balm the best preservative and Conservative the highest strengthening The salt of the Divine world is a true light a Spirit and VVater from above whereby we are illuminated breathed on and baptized yea seasoned and salted that the hellish may have no power over us For every one must be seasoned with fire and must be tried with fire who and what doth subsist in it that is blessed else it is nothing at all Mark 9. 49 50. 1 Cor. 13. 14. The salt of the Angelical world is a quick life in its glory concentred of God into the Tree of Life which when it shall be broken at the glorious coming of Jesus Christ then all Created things in Heaven and Earth in this Elementary world he will so gloriously and powerfully season with salt that they shall be freed and redeemed from sin Curse Death Devil Vanity Pain and Misery and that will be a noble food at that great Supper of which as of an Angelical and Coelestial Manna all flesh that is all Created things and whole Creatures shall eat and drink and feed And then also shall be put away the sharp bitter sowre consuming devouring perishing and â—o nothing reducing salt of the contrary Element it shall dye and to its place be separated Of the elementary salt we have spoken already above There is another salt also of the contrary element which is threefold namely in the Earth Sea and Air The salt of the contrary element is a sharp devouring consuming salt and reigneth in all Creatures and is always mixed with the good salt which in the consuming sharp salt is held Captive and can no sooner be set at liberty till that which holds it Captive be drowned and killed by a cold fire which is a water above mentioned This Salt now is predominant chiefly in the Minerals of the Earth in the Mineral Salts as common Salt Vitriol Saltpeter Alume Salmoniak c. and is as it were fixed in this In all Sulphur especially in the common Sulphur the Salt of the contrary Elements is flying But he that can make it fixed with a cold fire hath a more precious thing then Gold is But what is more abused then Saturn Saltpeter and Sulphur They shoot it into the Air being so precious O malice and wickedness of men Is it not so that God hath made choice of things which the world holds to be ignoble foolish and rejected and base Lastly in all Arsenicks is the Salt of the contrary Elements essential and spiritual True it is a right Poison but having an essence why should not some thing be hidden in it It must be carefully and purely killed with a cold fire and be reduced to a new noble birth It is to be observed by the by that every Lee especially that of quicklime is a cold fire and that same in the unmature Metals that have yet their Sulphur Mercury and Arsenick may doubtless be of good use especially in some Iron or Copper Mines in which the Sulphur of Sol the glory of Gold sufficiently appeareth for the flying must through a fixed be made firm and glorious And truly herein is more hid then the world believes Now in the Salt is both life and death And as good things have their Salt so have bad and both are firm the good therefore because the life is in it and the bad also therefore because there is both life and death in it For what death killeth with extream coldness that life reviveth again by fire Therefore the fire is the life in the Devil and his Children and the cold is death But it is such a life which is not of God nor out of the light and love but out of the Devil himself out of darkness and anger which is with unspeakable torment anguish pain misery The Salt in the Sea is a soulish Salt raging and furious of which something may be said because a Mystery is hid in it it shineth also in its fire and is a Sulphurious light so that it may be seen Lastly the Salt in the Air is essential and Arsenical and poisoneth things on Earth man beasts and fruits c. These three sorts of Salt of the contrary element are made known after the fall therefore we must separate Salt from Salt that is good from bad to reject bad and embrace that which is good In the end all bad things fall to the Devils share especially the contrary elements with their Salt which maketh up the fiery pools devouring and gnawning and yet not consuming living for ever yet not alive but dead dyeth for ever and yet never liveth And thus it hath rightly the name of a contrary element CHAP. XIII Of the Creation of the World NOw having known the Principles in their subordinates and the Center concentrated both in and on the Elements as also in the contrary elements thence we may observe how all things are Created by the word and then to know
also what Scha Ma Jm is of which is written in the book of the Creation that God Elohim in the beginning have Created Scha Ma Jm which the Interpreters have rendred Heaven and Earth which runnneth contrary to the Text and against the order of the Creation Who can tell us what Scha Ma Jm properly is True we cannot speak with Tongues for we are more taken up with Prophesying according to the grace bestowed upon us Therefore we will give the interpretation of it to others to let them search to learn what Scha Ma Jm meaneth So much is known that out of Scha Ma Jm all other things are come as also the water out of which Heaven and Earth in the beginning of the Creation were Created for it is not enough that we know how that the world was Created out of the water but we ask also from whence came that water then out of which the world was made For the wise go after wisdom even to her depths and give not over till they find the bottom and all Principles The book of wisdom saith Chap. 11. v. 23. The whole world is before thee God as a moment of the little Tongue in the Weights and Scales and as a drop of the Dew that falleth in the mornings upon the Earth It is manifest that all Water and Dew before it is a bodily Water is first a Vapour But how and out of what and from whence and whereby that Vapour ariseth must be searched into And in our opinion it is nothing else but such a bodily spirit who in himself incloseth all in all and yieldeth and giveth all to all and at last gathereth all to himself Out of which now the world is Created that same is also in all things and without it there is nothing no where and when that is taken away from it again then it can be no more of a being That we may set out the depths of the Creation out of which it was produced these are threefold First the Word of God in which is Light through which all things were made and that which is in all things is instead of the spirit according to the highest degree in the Creation of the world and this is the true spiritual Seed of all things without which nothing is neither can be Afterwards is the Soul of all the world and is distinguished from God as the breath from the spirit and is the breath of the speaking Word of God and instead of the soul is the true life of all things according to the highest degree and is the soulish seed of all things in the world Lastly the salt is the body and bodily seed of all things and of the whole world in which dwelleth and resteth the Word and the Spirit of God These three hatch from themselves a water which is a Scha Ma Jm out of which the whole world hath its original according to the middle degree but the lower degrees are the elements These three give and set down the three general Principles for the Creation as God the Nature and the Elements And again these three the Spirit Wind and Water and at last in these three every Creature and all is inclosed totally in the Light Life and Love The word is God and God is the word the Spirit is the Nature and an out-breathed breath of God and the Nature is the Spirit and Soul of the World The Salt is an element of all elements and the elements in their glory are nothing else but a Salt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Out of these three consists Scha Ma Jm and the whole Creation of the world in each and all their true Principles In all Creations the word is the beginning the spirit the middle and the salt is the end In the beginning of the Creation Scha Ma Jm was unfashioned and unframed there were also darknesses over the face of the depths and there was a Chaos or confused being But the spirit of the Lord moved upon the water thereby it became seedy and the first thing that was Created in it was Light but was comprehended of the darknesses so long till God said Lehior come forth thou light and come before the day and make a day that it may be Light And presently light parte◠from the darkness and is according to its body and being an essential most refined spiritual salt which not otherwise but by the eye may be brought to the sense The darkness containeth in it Fire and the light was parted from darkness and the fire lay secretly hid therein which afterward by reason of sin broke forth to be visible and is called not Or Light but Vr Fire After the the Light was Created the Heaven a Firmament out of the water as Ice and Chrystal In which the flying soulish salt of life became fixed an firm and Heaven it self is such a salt in which dwe◠all the powers of life and of the soul and from thenc◠from above are poured forth into the nether world through the Spirit Wind and Air whose body i◠the water into which the flying salt is carryed After the Heaven was Created the Earth the bodily Centre of the world a gross body which containeth in it self the fixed salt into which earth all the elements do incenter The light is compared to the divine world the Heaven to the English and the earth to the elementary Above the Heaven and the Firmament are the spiritual above the waters into which nature doth pour forth it self which above the upper waters have their world and the true Paradise where there is meer light and no darkness Which world in these last times is made manifest in which the Nuptial of the Lamb and his Bride and the great true Supper will be kept Those that in the first Resurrection and Change at the coming of Jesus Christ have part shall meet the Lord and taken up into the Air to go with him into Paradise and shall thus be with the Lord always The whole Sphere of the world of earth and water are carryed and held up by the air even as a body is kept and held up by the spirit and breath that it may not fall CHAP. XIV Of the particular Creation THe Creation in its order is threefold First General in the Scha Ma Jm which was the first Materia and is yet out of which corporally all things are Created into which all Principles come together and are concentred Afterward Special on and in the Element as Lights Heaven Earth and Water Spirit Wind and Air are contained in Scha Ma Jm. Lastly Particular as in all these things which out on in and by the Elements were Created produced and made The first that was made in the particular Creation were the Vegitables all growing things on earth as Grass Herbs Trees amongst which the Vine Tree is the chiefest Now every thing hath its proper seed in it self Therefore here ceaseth Creation and Conception
of the changing at the coming of Christ and according to the Jewel of the Heavenly calling all these that are partakers of it receive an An elical body life and spirit therewith they enter into Paradise and the Angelical world and will be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 like to the Angels Mat. 22. 30. Mark 12. 25. Luke 20. 36. Each body of man also the soul and spirit are nourished and preserved from that from which they come and are taken as the Elementary body out of Water and Earth the soul out of Wind and Air and the spirit out of Heaven and go again into the same when they are dissolved According to the Elementariness there is a threefold body in man whilst he liveth out of Water and Earth when he is dead out of wind earth till the Resurrection when he riseth out of Spirit Light and Heaven and know that every Element hath its proper body life and spirit Further Gods Holy ones rest after they depart in the Elementary part in the Earth Grave or where they are deceased So Samuel was heard out of that place of his Grave where he deceased to pronounce a ruine to the rejected King Saul According to the Angelical part they rest in Abrahams bosom which are the Chambers of the Just in the high Heaven But according to the divine part they are in Paradise of all three the Scripture testifieth clearly Lastly Infidels come to Hell and Prison with all except the dead body But those that have sinned against the Holy Ghost and have no pardon for it neither in this nor in the other world are buried in the Death because they have committed a deadly sin All the dead rise incorruptible that is in a Spiritual and Coelestial body But what glory or shame every body shall receive shall be known after the general judgment is past CHAP. XVIII Of the Image of God after which Man is Created THat man is Created after Gods Image is manifest out of Scripture Gen. 1. 26 27. Jam. 3. 9. But only this is the question what this Image is after which Man is Created Every Creature or Beast are made after their own Kind and Image but Man only after Gods Image This Image is Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 essentially bodily the Image of the invisible God Col. 5. 15 For God is a Spirit and and may not be felt nor seen unless it be in his essential substance and substantial essence Even as Man in his true Manhood after which he is distinguished from all other living Souls a Spirit or Spiritual in and on his Spiritual Soul and Mans Spirit cannot be seen felt or known otherwise then in his body in which he dwelleth with all his fulness So the invisible God who is a Spirit cannot be seen or known but in Christ and his substantial body as in which God the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost together with the whole fulness of the Godhead dwelleth bodily John 14 9. 1 John 1. Col. 2. 9. And this is the Spiritual Adam a quickening Spirit the Heavenly Man the Lord out of Heaven 1 Cor. 15. 45 47. The Image of God is threefold Namely 1. the Image of the Essence essentially after man is his own Image in his own proper Essence and Body So Christ also is the essential and bodily Image in God even as Mans body in Man and so is God in Christ as Man is in his body his own essential self-subsisting bodily and personal Image 2. The Image of that form on the outward appearance of that form Face and Members 3. The Image of the living properties Power or what name soever it may be called Here is manifest the Mystery of the Image of God and that God in Christ and Christ in God was much sooner a Man then we for we are in all things fashioned after him and so his counterfeit Christ the Image of God and Man who is out of Gods Image and honour are thus distinguished Namely 1. As the Image and Essence 2. As Essence and Essence 3. As Spiritual Heavenly and Divine and as Soulish Terrestrial and from beneath that is as Adam and Adam Man and Man and as above and beneath The Soulish Adam is not an Image of God after the Essence as Christ Reason because his Essence is Terrestrial and from beneath but in and on that Terrestrial body only that Image in that manner as a counterfeit and that in a Terrestrial soulish Essence from beneath out of the Earth So is the Soulish Adam and Terrestrial Man an Image of the Spiritual Adam and Heavenly man as a stony wooden or Image of Wax of a living mans Image is not in humane Essence on the Flesh and Bloud but in another being Now as Essence and Essence are one distinct from another so is frame and frame 1 The inward form of God is the most holy Godhead which with all fulness dwelleth bodily in Christ Of this form man hath received the Breath of the Almighty in a Heavenly Soul to his inward essential form and true Manhood 2. The bodily visible palpabl and personal form of God essentially in which God personally appeared and personally was made manifest is the flesh of the word the body of Christ After this man hath a body of flesh bloud and bones but not Divine Spiritual and Heavenly but Soulish Terrestrial and from beneath 3. The manifest face 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and looks and presence on the head body and all Members and their Powers and strength After this also is Man framed and thus to be looked on in which consideration many Mysteries may be observed although the spirit of Errour saith as if God had no Head Eyes Ears Face Nose Mouth no Hands nor Feet because he is a Spirit which rather befalls those Spirits of Errour he hath Eyes and seeth not neither acknowledgeth the Image of God in Christ and in Man hath Ears and heareth not and a Heart and understandeth nothing Further Man is made after Gods similitude and is like unto God Namely 1. on the Heavenly Soul Eternal and Immortal and thence he is of God 2. Like in Power that he can do much namely after his part measure and weight 3. Like in Glory as a God over all other Creatures a Lord and Ruler Good Reader here you must know and observe that this great Mystery doth manifest here and Bringeth along the right Jehior let it be light the day of the Revelation of the Son of Man of which Christ saith expresly Luke 17. 22. c. On which the the Son of man is revealed and that this is the Revelation and appearance of Jesus Christ of whom the Holy Apostles have prophesied 1 Pet. 1. 7. 5. 1 Tim. 6. 14. 16. ◠Joh. 2. 28. Tit. 2. 13. 2 Tim 4. 8. 2 Thes 2. 8. Thus The Revelation or appearance of the coming is clearly distinguished Mal. 3. Mat. 24. 30. And chiefly Rev. 12. He that hath Eyes let
cannot come to its glory unless it be gone in the Crusible through the consuming fire seven times that afterward it may be Baptized with Water and Spirit to a new birth and become a new Gold and become out of the same Spirit and Water increased into many thousands and as a Heavenly Gold Spirit and Metal whereby other inferiour metals may be turned into the substance of the best Gold So it fareth with man that shall get Wisdom first he must be baptized with Fire then with Water and then with the Spirit and all this is done in the Crusible of the Terrestrial man But all wisdom is sufficient through the Spirit and in Truth through Principia subordinata Concordantia which do concenter afterward in a Harmony The Principia contain the true beginning of every thing from whence it came thither it doth return also and from thence it is preserv'd also The Subordinata contain the Order straitness and perfection of every thing as they do hang one in another stand and subsist one by another even as a Ladder or Stairs there must not be one step amiss or wanting else the subordinata are not true Commonly there are seven subordinata and follow one upon another orderly and things that follow one after another are subordinata and thus it is perfect Lastly this is a Concordance that all things may agree one with another and a Contrariety be no where found seen or heard Even as in sweet Musick all things are Harmonious let the Voices be as many as they will and change one in another going out of one into another and an everlasting Ternarius remaineth therein and so the Principles and Concordance consist in Ternarius and Vnity where one floweth out of another till to the number of seven of the Subordinata which reach after the greater number till to Twelve At last the Harmony concentreth and encloseth all which taketh altogether in One Three and Seven and presents one as the other namely the upper as the lower and the lower as the upper so that none be against the other although they be so far distinct as God and Creature Spirit and Soul Heaven and Earth yet one is in the other the one is known by the other and the one is justified by the other and that in Spirit and Truth Search now and see try and learn hear observe and judge what Wisdom this is and what Truth and Spirit is presented in this Book The fool knoweth nothing of the Wisdom and doth not understand her way Lyers do not understand the Truth nor do they know her Principles and the soulish bruitish and profane know nothing of the Spirit although they hear his wind blow yet they know not from whence it cometh nor whither it goeth Therefore do not look upon men do not inquire after men that is nothing and do not stare upon the image to the intent to adore it as all those do that dwell on Earth Rev. 13. But only inquire after the Spirit and fear him for he will direct all in the Word of Truth and Righteousness Him you are to Honour and against him do not think speak or do that you may not be condemned out of your own mouth Now all Spirit Truth and Wisdom reveal themselve in these three and are thereby known and justified namely in a Divine Light in a Divine Life and in a Divine Love where these three are in on and about man there is really Spirit Truth and Wisdom The Divine Light containeth all wisdom understanding and knowledge The Divine Life containeth all Truth Holiness and Righteousness And the Divine Love containeth the whole Spirit and poureth him out into our hearts and thereby we know that God hath loved us because he hath given us of his Spirit which cryeth in us Abba and giveth Testimony to our Spirit that we are the Children of God He poureth forth our Tears and Prayers before God that we might find grace before the Lord and teacheth us to pray aright before the Lord about things that are above maketh intercession for us with unspeakable sighs Thereby we know in the Spirit and in Truth where the right Wisdom the Divine Truth and the Holy Ghost is for these three Light Life and Love proceed from God and God himself is Light and there is neither Darkness nor Fire in or about him God is Eternal Life there is neither Death nor Perdition out of him in or about him God is Love it self and there is neither VVrath nor Pain Hell nor â—amnation out or of him He that stayeth by in and on these three namely by the Divine Light in a Divine Life and in a Divine Love he stayeth and abideth in God and God in him in the Spirit and Truth according to the wisdom and true knowledge of God and knoweth what is Truth Spirit and Wisdom and tells their true Principles Subordinates and Concordances in a Divine Harmony proved to the Elect Angels and Men in Spirit and in Truth CHAP. XXI Of the Mystery of Time to understand it aright NOthing so secret at night but the day may reveal it when the Light cometh to its Day and the day to its light and the clear Sun doth shine over all that is under Heaven The Night is past and behold the day breaks on with its fair morning light which is a light fire and a fire-light who can now subsist for the Lord cometh yea the Lord cometh coming Amen Halelujah He is like unto the fire of a Founder and like unto the sharp Lee of Sope boylers he will melt prove try c. He will wash purifie and cleanse And who can stand before him Mal 3. This he doth therefore that all filth may be done away before the Sun riseth and may not put the whole Earth and world to banishment or destruction Chap. 4. Now that day being come with its light in this time then the Mystery of the time of the whole world will be revealed But always is included and closed in and with the number of Seven For in the seventh day God finished the Creation and so in Seven always included But the number 7 standeth thus 7 49. 70. The number Seven after our time standeth chiefly upon the Seventh Trumpet in and with it the Mystery of God is finished yea revealed Rev. 10 11 12. Chap. As also with the seventh Vial of Gods wrath But as much as we know in part we are and live betwixt the fifth and sixth Vial. The number 49. sheweth expresly that fair Mystery of the time of the refreshing and restitution of all that is lost Levit. 25. And the number 49 is the end of the little seventh day and a beginning of the great seventh day and Sabbath of God Lastly the number 70 seeth upon the 70 weeks in the Prophet Daniel as also upon the expiration of the 1335 days Chap. 9. 24. 12. 12. When these are about then the transgression will be reconciled every
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