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A44608	Aurifontina chymica, or, A collection of fourteen small treatises concerning the first matter of philosophers for the discovery of their (hitherto so much concealed) mercury which many have studiously endeavoured to hide, but these to make manifest for the benefit of mankind in general.	Houpreght, John Frederick.; Flamel, Nicolas, d. 1418.; Ripley, George, d. 1490?	1680 (1680)	Wing H2941; ESTC R31127	85,086	301

away from him and if he be easie with her in the beginning she will he his Master a good while This is a hard marriage nevertheless one comfort this is after that she hath born a Child and known somewhat of disease she will be the more sober and never leave him after But shortly all our working is no more but take our Stone and make him rotten in Horse-dung and then seeth him in his own Water and afterwards fry him in his own Grease and then roast him till his Grease and his Water be all dried up and then burn him all to Powder and then bake him on an Oven till he will me●●●●● Wax and then thou hast an end And then thank God that this Work is so easie for thy Stone is but one thing and all one V●ssel and all one working from the beginning to the ending but look that thy Fire be easie and soft in the Putrefaction and in the Solution and the Distillation till it be black but then strengthen it alway till in the Desiccation and the Imbibition and in the Sublimation and in the Coagulation and the Congelation and fixing of the Spirits and in the Calcination and in the Incineration but in the Citrination and Rubification and Inceration and Liquefaction is all their strength But if thou understand not this Friend meddle thou not of this Art until thou have gone better to School and hold this in Counsel for my love as I shall trust to you hereafter Farewell A Philosophical Riddle A Strife late rose in Heaven yet undecided And the chief Deities were by pairs divided Saturn and Luna one Opinion held Which Jove and Mercury combin'd refell'd Venus and Mars that still have loved either Gainsaid them all and would assent with neither In this dire brawl 'tween these three pairs begun To Judge and Umpire they all chose the Sun Therefore amidst them all his place is still With power t' advance and grace which part he will By all their joynt assents for as his might Great is so clearest is of all his Light And those with whom he holds must needs as best And worthiest bear the Glory from the rest And since he needs must joyn with one for odds Cannot remain long 'mongst agreeing Gods Shew me some man that can with which of these Three pairs the God consents and best agrees And on the New Lights word I that before Knew nought will rest and ask no Question more THE ANSWER OF Bernardus Trevisanus TO THE EPISTLE OF Thomas of Bononia Physician to K. CHARLES THE 8 th The Answer of Bernardus Trevisanus to the Epistle of Thomas of Bononia Physician to King Charles the Eighth Reverend Doctor and Honoured Sir WIth the tender of all possible Respects and Services be pleased to understand that I have received your very large and copious Letter by Mr. Awdry together with the Stone of your most secret Work which truly is a remarkable argument of your Friendship by which the confidence you put in me appears manifest and very great and with how great and piercing a Wit also you are illustrated Now then I shall very willingly Answer unto your Epistle Some things I shall approve which you have written learnedly and ingeniously other things I shall briefly touch and refute strictly and Philosophically but not arrogantly and throughly discuss them with submission and respect unto your Honour and request For in this sacred and secret Art as in others the truth of the Theory ought to be confirmed by Practical experience Now therefore Reverend Doctor let us visit one another with such Returns and Treatises since we may not be bodily united But it is your wisdom as you very well know to know and inspect thing● by their Causes for Experience is deceitful when not guided by a previous understanding There is necessary to the Students in Philosophy a strong and discreet meditation that the Work they undertake may be conveniently brought on to its utmost perfection For contingent errors happen unto them who will fall to work omitting or neglecting the judgment of a mental practice which the Theory frameth in the mind before the operations proceed to the composure of any Work For Work must attend Nature and not Nature follow Work He then that would effect any thing must prepare his mind with the knowledge of the Natures and eventual Accidents of things and afterwards he may safely put his hands to the Work And indeed I clearly perceive your mind to be highly instructed in these things by your Experiment set down fully in your Epistle For as Water which is cold and moist if it be well mixt with Vegetables assumes another quality and in decoction takes to it and puts on it the quality of the thing wherewith it is throughly mixt so also Quick-silver assumes different natures and qualities in things familiar unto it and throughly mixt with it as if it be joyned to the Sun the qualities of the Sun if to the Moon those of the Moon if to Venus of Venus and so in other kinds of Metals Their kinds therefore ought to be decocters therein and Mercury is their Water in which by a mutual alteration it assumes in a convertible manner their mutations And this Water contracts unto it self from them a Nature in a resemblance to Vegetables decocted in simple Water though these kinds are not altered in their colour outwardly under the form of fluidity in respect of the thickness of the Matter and Earth immersed in and united proportionably to the Water of Mercury but we find it otherwise in other diaphanous humidities For this altered Nature is altered and its colour outwardly is hid under the appearanc● of Mercury and is not manifest to the sight And this you at large discuss and shew how simple River Water is the first Matter and nourishment of Vegetables and consequently of all living and sensitive Creatures therefore if any of them all be decocted in it it assumes and puts on it self the virtue and propriety of their Nature wherefore being in it self cold in the highest degree yet by means of things decocted in it it works in us the effect of a thing hot in the first degree that I may use your words Moreover there is nothing that nourisheth more than the Broth or decoction of good Flesh and if the Water in which Flesh and Herbs are boyled or the things boyled in Water be eaten moist or the simple Water a●ter boyling be taken or drank it hurts not at all yea it will profit and help much although before in its simplicity and nature it would have been hurtful Now this comes to pass because that Water is not such as it was before In lik● manner Quick-silver is the Matter of all Metals and is as it were Water in the Analogy betwixt it and Vegetables or Animals and receives into it the virtue of those things which in decoction adhere to it and are throughly mingled with it which being

reduced into their first Matter which is true viz. that unless you reduce them into Argent vive not Vulgar that is not volatile but fixt for the Vulgar is volatile and full of flegmatick coldness and therefore it needeth to be reduced by Argent vive fixed more hot and dry in qualities contrary to Argent vive Vulgar Therefore I counsel you O my Friends that you do not work but about Sol and Luna reducing them into the first Matter our Sulphur and Argent vive therefore Son you are to use this venerable Matter and I swear unto you and promise that unless you take the Argent vive of these two you go on to the Practick as blind men without eyes and sence therefore Sons I beseech you walk in the light with open eyes and fall not into the ditch of Perdition as blind men CHAP. I. Of the difference between Argent vive Vulgar and Argent vive Natural WE say that Argent vive Vulgar cannot be the Argent vive of the Philosophers whatever Art it be prepared with for the Vulgar cannot be detained in the Fire but by another Argent vive corporeal which is hot and dry and more digested there I say that our Nature is of a more fixt and hotter Nature than the Vulgar and that therefore because our Argent vive corporeal is turned into Argent vive current not teyning the fingers and when it is mixed with the Vulgar they are joyned and embrace one another with the bond of Love so that they never part from one another as Water mixt with Water for THUS is pleaseth Nature But our Argent vive doth enter and mix it self actually with the other Vulgar drying up its flegmatick humidity and taking away the coldness from the Body making it black as a Coal which afterward it turneth into Powder Note therefore that Argent vive cannot shew forth such Operations as our Physical or Natural which in all its qualities hath the heat of Nature and of true temperature and therefore it turneth the Vulgar into its temperate Nature nay it doth moreover somewhat else for after its transmutation it turneth it into pure Metal that is into Sol or Lune according as it is extended or from Sol and Lune as is shewed in the second Chapter or Part of our Practick Besides this it hath somewhat greater for it changeth and converteth Vulgar Mercury into Medicine which Medicine can transmute the imperfect Metals into perfect besides it turneth the Vulgar into true Sol and Lune better than those of the Mine Mark again that one ounce of our Vulgar Natural Mercury can make an hundred Marks and so until infinity with Argent vive so that the Mine shall never fail Besides this I will have you know another thing that Vulgar Mercury is not rightly nor perfectly mixed with the Bodies for the Spirit cannot be mixed with the Bodies perfectly unless they be reduced into the kind of Nature And therefore when thou wilt mingle Lune and Sol in Mercury Vulgar then these Bodies must be reduced into the kind of Nature which is called Argent vive Vulgar through the bond of natural Love and then the Male is joyned with the Female for our Argent vive is hot and dry actually Argent vive Vulgar is cold and moist passively as a Female which is kept in her houses with temperate heat until the Eclipsis and then are made black as Coals which is the Secret of our true Dissolution after they are at last truly knit together one with another so that they never part from one another and they become a most white Powder ●hich are the Males and Females engendred by true bond of Love but the Children will multiply their kinds to infinity for of one ounce of this Powder thou shalt make infinite Sol and reduce to Lune better than any Metal of the Mine CHAP. II. The extraction of Mercury out of the Perfect Body ℞ TAke one ounce of Calx of Luna let it be calcined in that manner as is said in the end of the Work of our Mastery which Calx or Slime must be ground into subtile Powder upon a Porphyr which Powder ye shall imbibe twice thrice or four times in a day with the best Oyl of Tart●r made in that manner as shall be said in the end of our Mastery drying it in the Sun until the said Calx shall drink up of the said Oyl four or five parts more than the Calx it self was grinding it always upon the Porphyrie as is said And in the end let the Calx be dried up well that it may well be reduced into Powder and when it is well pulverized let it be put into a Boults-head with a long neck put of our stinking Menstrual made of two parts of Red Vitriol and one part of Salt-peter and let the said Menstruum first be distilled seven times and let it be well rectified by separating the Earthly Faeces in so much that the said Menstrual be altogether Essential Afterwards let the Boults-head be well luted and put to the Fire of Ashes with a little Fire of Coals until you see the said Matter boyl and be dissolved afterwards distill it upon Ashes until it loseth the Menstruum and the Matter be altogether cold and when it is cold let the Vessel be opened and the Matter which is cold be put into another Vessel that is very clean with its Cap or Head on well luted to a Furnace upon Ashes and when the lute is well dried let the Fire be made by degrees in the beginning until you get all its Waters afterwards augment the Fire until the Matter be dried and the stinking Spirits exalted to the Cap or Head and in the Receiver and when you shall see such a sign let the Vessel be cooled by diminishing the Fire And after the Vessel is cooled let the Matter be taken out and made into subtil Powder upon the Porphyrie so that the Powder may be impalpable which must be set in an Earthen Vessel well luted and well glazed afterward put upon thi● said Powder common Water boyling stirring always the Matter with a clean Stick until the Matter become thick as Mustard and stir the said Saltish Matters with a Stick until you see appear grains of Mercury from the Body and that a great quantity of the said quick Mercury appear according as you have put in of the perfect Body that is of Luna and until you shall have a great quantity pour upon it boyling Water and at length stirring it until all the Matter be resolved into a Matter like unto Argent vive Vulgar let the terrestriety be taken away with cold Water and dried up by a cloth afterwards let it give through a Leather and you shall see wonders CHAP. III. Of the Multiplication of our Argent vive In the Name of God Amen ℞ OF pure Silver three grostes made into thin Pla●● and make Amalgama with four grostes of Argent vive

Mercury which is such as the Planet is with which it is in Conjunction For that Arnoldus though in other Sciences he were a Reverend and Ingenious Doctor yet in this Art he handled Experiments only without the learning of the Causes Now when he saith that in the first Sublimation the crude Spirit is sublimed from the inferiour salt Minerals and that Mercury it self which in its own nature is cold and moist becomes a Powder of an hot and dry nature as he saith this yet conduces nothing to our Work But let it be so that he makes of Mercury such a Powder as he speaks of that is throughly dried and hot by sublimation from Salts yet those Purifications are vain and impertinent to our Work yea as to the perfecting of our Work they are hurtful For though these inferiour Minerals communicate with Metals in their nature yet not in kind and proportion For the superiour and inferiour Minerals in their nativity and subterraneous formation are of one and the same constitution ●niversally and therefore of the same nature but they differ in proportion quality and kind or form Wherefore if Mercury be distilled with those inferiour Minerals and throughly dried then his internal nature is confounded and disproportioned and is hindred and made unprofitable as to the effect of a Feminine Seed and invalid for our Metallick Work For so soon as he is turned into the form of a Powder except from his Body of Sol or Luna so soon he undergoes a through driness unprofitable to the Philosophick Work Yet I deny not but that a drossie and impure Mercury may and ought by a simple Salt be sublimed or purged once or oftner according to a due Philosophick experience to take from it its dro●s and outward Mineral impurity so that notwithstanding the fluidity and radical humidity of Mercury may always remain unaltered For the Mercurial kind and form in such a Work ought to remain uncorrupted as hath been said already Nor ought its outward form to be reduced into a throughly dried Powder because its external form being corrupted shews its internal nature to be confounded unless it be in the way of generation that it be altered as may be manifestly seen in the signs which appear in the Work of the natural way For there are Sublimations of Mercury from its own proper Bodies which are conjoyned and mingled with it by an Amalgamation with it in its most inward parts from which being oftentimes raised and reunited it rejects and loses its superfluities and is not confounded in its nature and afterwards it is very agreeable to the Philosophick Work and powerful to dissolve Metallick species yet it is not greatly altered intrinsically for the Philosophick Work unless it be altered by fixed Bodies dissolved in it But wonderful things may be done in Medicines for Sensitives from this dried Powder whether it be reduced into an Oyl or into Water or it abide in a Powder but it is not at all pertinent to the Philosophick Experiment And therefore it must be universally noted that so soon as Mercury is turned into a Powder of whatever sort contrary to the nature of its Body to be dissolved so soon will it be unprofitable to the Philosophick Work There are certain deceiving Sophisters who by joyning Venus to it or adding other species make a Sophistick Work that is they give unto imperfect Copper a colour but not natural they induce indeed a kind of an apparency but not a true nature that is transmutation like as he that paints a dead Image or composes a Statue of Wood which appears only but is not and as much as a living differs from an Image and Picture so much differs their Work from the Philosophick Hence this mixture perseveres not in the Test of the Fire though it be Mineral because Nature attracts it not from a proportionable digestion nor hath Art vehemently decocted it to an alteration of the mixt natures wherefore that Copper appears to be superficially only and not permanently and intrinsically tinged Wherefore we must not adhere to the Experiments of deceitful Sophisters because the truth of the natural Art confutes this Sophistick Work and shews it to be false And if you will instance farther and say that as the said Armaldus by Sublimation purged away the dross of Mercury and dried it in its nature so also as you say he by reviving it moistned it again and made the Mercury it self hot and moist and in its nature conformable to its Body This hinders not my Reverend Doctor nor refutes the truth of the Philosophick Art yea rather an errour appears in the Natural Art For as is manifest Arnaldus doth teach if you regard the found of his words that Mercury thus throughly dried is revived by hot water into which it is cast and he saith that it is made hot and moist when it was first sublimed hot and dry But what true Philosopher would say that Mercury or any other Metal is changed in nature and internal quality by simple Water however hot or boyling or that it could thence acquire its natural humidity and so be revived Therefore Mercury in this revival acquires nothing because common Water neither decocts nor alters it because it neither hath entrance nor ingress into it and that which neither hath entrance nor ingress alters not because every thing to be altered must first be throughly mingled For indeed such a Water may wipe away from it some superficial dross swimming upon it but cannot infuse into it a new quality For what nature soever Mercury reduced into a Powder and mortified by Sublimations retained such nature altogether it retains revived by Water Now this I would have to be spoken in honour and respect unto the said Arnaldus but I contemplate and defend the truth of Nature and Experience Furthermore honoured Doctor that I may by this my Answer satisfie your Epistle and put an end thereto I humbly entreat you that you would take in good part and favourably bear what I have written not by way of Confutation but Disputation But if I have answered any thing that offends you take it yet in good part and favourably or signifie it to me in writing and I will satisfie you to my power as the most true Doctor our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God blessed for ever and ever shall give and teach me Thanks be to Christ. The Prefatory Epistle of Bernard Earl of Tresne to the noble Doctor and most learned Philosopher Thomas of Bononia My Friend IF I had any thing more noble imagine you with what good will I should dedicate it to thee for having considered the wonderful virtue of this Science in its height which you are not ignorant of therefore was I willing to dedicate this my Labour unto thee intreating thee to accept it with as good a will as I give it unto thee and conclude that whilst I give thee this my Labour that I have given a