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A81166	Mr. Culpepper's Treatise of aurum potabile Being a description of the three-fold world, viz. elementary celestial intellectual containing the knowledge necessary to the study of hermetick philosophy. Faithfully written by him in his life-time, and since his death, published by his wife.	Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. Mr Culpepper's Ghost.	1657 (1657)	Wing C7549A; ESTC R231704	57,249	219

causeth strange and true Dreams to those that are asleep and divinations and sudden true apprehensions even to those that are awaked according as it is ordered or disposed either by the Spirit of God or mediation of Angels hence it comes ●o passe that a man passing by the place where a man was murdered or a●● great battle sought or the like he●● presently surprized with fear and h●●ror together with trembling and sh●●king all over his body because the A●●● is full of the dreadfull species of ma●● slaughter and Ideas of blood whi●● being breathed in troubles the intern●● spirit with the like species which c●seth fear and astonishment for 〈◊〉 very sudden impression astonisheth N●ture Thus we have shewed you what 〈◊〉 operations of the Air are now 〈◊〉 we may come a little closer home the point we shall treat of the 〈◊〉 properly as it is and so it is to be co●dered as it is 1. Pure 2. Lesse pure 3. Grosse First as the Air pure or of its purest substance are the vitall spirits of all living creatures made and this is that which causeth them to breath the word Spiritus coming from spiro to breath If the Etymologie of words were rightly considered it would set a period to divers of scores if not hundreds of errors which are as frequent among ●our Divines as Butter-flyes in the Sun they taking them up upon trust without any examination Secondly as it is lesse pure so it is ●n its own proper sphere and this is that we breath in and commonly call Air it was in Paradie pure and is indeed the food of the spirit as meat is of the body But in the habitable world in which we live it is not pure but author sometimes of diseases and sometimes of death Thirdly the Air which is grosse● compassed about with Water as t●● centrall Fire is with Earth because t●● Water and the Air are friendly 〈◊〉 one another It is the Air bei●● mixed with Water in the body of t●● Earth which causeth Earth-quake and being mixed with the water 〈◊〉 the Sea sometimes makes the S●● work extremely when there is no win● or but very little as Sea-men know w● enough Fourthly the Air lives in all thing and placeth a seed in the other E●●ments as Males do in Females it n●●risheth them makes them concei● and preserves the conception bei●● conceived for in this Element is 〈◊〉 seed of all things which by Circu●●tion it distributes into Matrixes 〈◊〉 Wombes by the sperm and menstru●● of the World which we shal speak m●● of in the next Chapter Fifthly in and by this Element not onely Minerals Animals and Vegetables live but also all the other Elements For proof of which consider 1. Water if it be kept from the Air putrefies 2. Fire if it be kept from the Air is extinguished and quickly goes out though it were never so hot before those that are practitioners in the Art of Alchimy know how by adding more or lesse Air to their Fire to make it burn more or lesse fiercely according to the quantity of Air it receives so is the quantity of the heat it gives 3. To wind up all briefly the whole structure and fabrick of the World is preserved and upheld by Air which cleerly appears in that all Animals yea man himself dies if you take A●● from him for as we told you befo●● the spirit was made of pure Ai● so is it preserved by breathing in th● Air. 6. In this Element by virtue of t●● Fire is contained that imagined se●● which constringeth the menstruum 〈◊〉 the World as is cleerly seen in t●● growth of Trees and Hearbs f●● there goeth forth a sperm through t●● pores of the Earth by reason of t●● perpetuall acting of the centrall F●● which the Air by an equall proportio● according as it is decrced by the G●● of Nature and acted and perform●● by Nature constringeth and congeale● by drops so that Trees grow 〈◊〉 degrees day after day drop aft●● drop till at last they come to great 7. We told you before that in th● Element was the seed of all thing we shall now shew you how it make use of this seed and so conclude this Chapter Presently after the Creation there was included in this Element a magnetick virtue by the great Creator of all things which if it had not it could not attract nourishment and if it did not attract nourishment the seed could not increase nor multiply It is conceived by no wise man we are confident but that when God bid all things multiply and increase in the beginning he gave them some naturall meanes whereby they might increase or multiply this we confesse few study after the more is the pity a little knowledge will serve their turn so they can but get money then we conceive he placed this magnetick virtue in the Air that so as the Load-stone draws Iron so the Air draws to it selfe the nourishment of the menstruum of the World viZ. Water for it is the Leader of the Water and the hidden virtue of it is included in all seed tha● so it may attract to it radicall moysture to make it fruitfull Of the Element of WATER CHAP. IV. BEfore we come to the matter it self give us leave to premise a few things which are very necessary to be understood of all that intend this Philosophicall study First that the Seed of a thing is one thing and the Sperm another Secondly that the Earth receives the Sperm of things and the Water receives the Seed in like manner Thirdly that the Air distills into the Water by means of Fire and the Water conveys the very same into the Earth Fourthly that there is alwayes ple●● of Sperm but not alwayes Seed answ●rable This causeth many defects i● the operation of Nature We sha●● lay them down in a generall way a●● leave every Philosopher to apply th●● every one to his own particular oper●tions I. Sometimes the Seed comes in to sparingly or not so plentifully as 〈◊〉 expected and this is caused by wa●● of a sufficient heat to digest it an● this must needs hinder many goo● things which nature would have prod●ced had she had a sufficiency of heat fo● where the Sperm enters without seed 〈◊〉 goes out again as it comes in and bring forth no fruit II. Sometimes the Sperm enters in to the Matrix with a sufficiency of Seed but the Wombe of the World is fou● and not fit for conception as being burdened with grosse foul sulphurous and flegmatick vapors so that 〈◊〉 brings forth either Abortives or Monsters Have a speciall care of this in your operations or else you will never get Aurum Potabile while your eyes are open We come now to a particular disquisition of the Element in hand in which we shall observe the same method we did in the former and shew you 1. What it is 2. What its operations be 1. What it is It is the Menstruum of the

and she can add nothing to the food of life if she could a man might live for ever she onely adds to the increase of the body 9 As mans body lives by food so doth the spirit also and consumes the radicall moysture which is indeed its proper food and when it hath consumed that sometimes it consumes the body also as is evidently seene in Hectique Feavers 10 To make this evident by an example No longer then you add combustible matter to the fire no longer will that burn but goes immediately out so soon as that is consumed even so the fine Aetheriall spirit of man feeds upon that fine fatnesse which is indeed its food and in truth his tye to the body of man which is commonly called radicall moysture and when he hath consumed it away flies he as fast as be came and leaves his old Host at six and seavens 11 Then we intreat you to consider and so we have done that if the vitall spirit be not great a little radicall moysture will serve the turne for its food and out of the slack working of them small store of refuse breath and smoke ariseth to make any great need of fresh and open aire to cleanse ●●d feed them as it appears in Flyes which live all the winter without aire but if the vitall heat be great and lively great store of radicall moysture is required to feed it 12 Thus you have the reason as we conceive why Mars was at the first accounted a malignant because he increaseth the violence of the vitall heat and thereby the sooner consumeth radicall moysture to which he is inimicall and so causeth death But to proceed 8 Mars hath also his faults in all Philosophicall preparations and those not a few we shall give them Phisically as we did the former and leave every man to be his own Interpreter and we shall be pretty large in them because they are more subject to Philosophicall operations or at least Philosophicall operations are more subject to them then to the faults of all the rest of the Planets for by his intemperate heat and torrid drynesse he causeth many vices both to the body and mind of man as also to Hermeticall operation which you may easily perceive by what followes 1 Warres 2 Brawling 3 Contention 4 Violence 5 Enmity 6 Disgrace 7 Banishment 8 Losse of Virginity 9 Adultery 10 Sodomy 11 Incest 12 Abortion 13 Perfidionsnesse 14 Anger 15 Rash actions 16 Breaking of Vessells 17 Over heat 18 Impatience 19 Thest 20 Perjury 21 Wounds 22 Mutilation 23 Slaughter 24 Rapine 25 Barrennesse 26 Torments 27 Feavers 28 Wounds 29 Vlcers 30 Burnings 31 Danger by Fire Iron Pride Prating 32 Sentence of the Judge 33 Precipitations 34 Hurt by foure footed Beasts If you doe but consider That Mars can operate no otherwise in the Microcosm then he doth in the Macrocosm the meaning is easily understood CHAP. VI. OF VENUS THe chief operation of Mars in the Common-wealth of Nature is by his heat to prepare and calcine matter for seed which Venus comes afterwards which by her kind moisture makes fruitfull and this is the Morall of those Poeticall Fables of the adultery of Mars and Venus because they are both so infinite necessary both for the making of seed and Generation of man for as Mars by his exceeding heat and dryness tends but little to Generation but burnes rather than cherisheth calcines rather then quickens so Venus being cold and moist tends not at all to Generation without the help of Mars for all Generation is performed by heat and moisture Let us now see a little Philosophically how we can make Mars and Venus agree in Philosophicall preparations and we will give it you onely by a parallel taken from our own bodies therefore be pleased to consider 1 All the quoile and fighting in a mans body which causeth him sometimes to be merrie sometimes sad sometimes loving sometimes hating somtimes joyous somtimes grievous sometimes angry sometimes pleased sometimes sick and sometimes in health together with all the other changes in a mans life proceeds from the fighting and quarrelling of those foure first knowne enemies within him viz. Heat Coldnesse Drinesse and Moisture and he that knowes how this comes to passe in man who is a perfect and compleat Microcosm may easily know how this comes to passe in the world and what the reason is that men fall out and fight and kill one another whereas nature teacheth men to love preserve one another and he that knowes it in the Microcosm or Macrocosm and knoweth it not in Philosophy is not like to be taught by us 2 These foure first Principles or noted Enemies which you will which can never be reconciled if the strength of one of them be never so little greater then the strength of his fellowes he subdues digesteth and turneth them into his owne Nature he eats them up and is strengthned by them 3 But if his unlikes and contraries be equall in power with him and so prove his matches then neither devoureth each other but both stand amazed and dulled and this is that they call an equall mixture of the foure first Principles and by this equall mixture our life and health is maintained 4 For example Fire which is very hot and something dry withall and water which is very cold and moist withall if both these be in equall power in mans body they dull the violence of one another but neither of both can be lost or destroyed but if this water by heat of the fire it being too strong for it be turned into aire then it is partly like the fire and if it be not friendly to it yet at least-wise it is its weaker foe and so yields to it and strengthens the nature of the fire for all Alchymists know that the more aire you give the fire the more fairer it burns but if this aire gets more watery moisture and coldnesse as is clearly seen in misty and foggy weather it will easily overcome the fire and eat him up and that 's the reason foggy weather makes men cough by breathing in a moist aire 5 Now the harmony of the world consists by a consent or dulling of the foure first famous Enemies even as Musick is a harmony made by consent of concords and discords for when this harmony between the foure first Principles is in the least broken they begin to stir and fight and strive for superiority till at last one conquers the rest this is that which in our bodies we call paine and disease 6 At last when one first Principle gets the Lordship and dominion over all the rest he turns them all into his own nature and then the old consent and knot of life is broken lost and spoyled and still goes downward till man return to the earth from whence he came 7 To give you an example of this in a dead man 1 When the breath is out of the body the naturall fire waxeth

Spirit of God in such a way as we conceive God hath in no wise hid from the Children of men neither is it out of their capacity as the former was therefore we conceive 1 In the beginning the onely great and wise God exalted the Quintessence or purity out of the Chaos and having circled it round made it the outmost bounds of all things This being pure can indure no impurity and therefore keeps all impure things within it selfe and in its proper bounds this is that Aristotle as we suppose and from him our Divines call Calum Empyreum which they say is the seat of the blessed soules if a man were so mad as to believe them It is a strange thing men of that Coat should say Aristotle was a Heathen and yet teach such notions for pure Divinity We shall onely relate one story which one of us heard from a Priests mouth in a Pulpit who taking occasion to speak of the Imperiall Heavens affirmed That they were square and therefore he said a square form was the exactest We wonder how he came by that notion considering a round form is the first in forms Is the Preaching of such notions the way to convert soules Or doth it deserve Tithes think you 2 But to proced After this God lifted up the purest substance of fire for one fire is purer then another as we shall shew by and by above all things and placed it next unto the pure quintessence above described 3 God kindled a fire in the midst of the Chaos in the very Centre of it and this is that we commonly call the Sun which distilled up those most pure waters which were next to the former pure fire described this we conceive to be that which is commonly called the Christalline Heavens for the true meaning of ancient Philosophers being not understood and Aristotle must do somthing to get him a name having all the studies of Philosophers so far as the Conquest of Alexander the Tyrant extended delivered to him and he reading as much in an houre as would cost a wise man two year to understand invented this name of Christalline Heavens which is now quoted as a piece of Divinity 4 The dry Land began now to appear and because there is alwayes an inimicalnesse in contraries each first Principle retired close to it selfe from thence as also from the influence of the Sun were the Centrall fires kindled in the worlds We hope we may use the name worlds in the Plurall number without offence because the Scripture doth it as may appear if you read Heb. 1.2 11.3 5 Because the most pure fire hath obtained the uppermost part in the Firmament the most pure waters are condensed and made thick under it and that they may be strongly setled and fixed there there is a Celestiall fire more corrupt then the former which was Aetheriall exalted which keeps them from falling downe so that they are shut up betwixt two fires and the Heavens 6 The Centrall fire in the worlds never ceaseth working but is still distilling water into aire which because it cannot exceed its bounds is turned agen into water and this is that which causeth rain so that there is a perpetuall circulation in the Elementary world Thus you see 1 The fire preserves the Earth that it be not drowned nor dissolved by continuall flux of water upon it 2 The aire preserves the fire that it be not extinguished 3 The water preserves the Earth that it be not burnt We shall only propound two things more and so conclude this second point of Aetherial Knowledge 1 Give us leave to answer one frollick of Van-Helmont who goes about to prove vacuity in the aire which if there were all the waters upon earth would have been distilled and resolved into aire but the spheare of the aire is full and alwayes filled with the distilling of water by the Centrall fire which when it is over-burdened returns back again upon the earth by raine so that the rest of the waters being kept downe by the aire are rolled about the earth This is a wonderfull mystery we should not leave you ignorant of for 1 The Centrall fire in the Earth is alwayes kept vigorous by a universall motion 2 Being thus kindled alwayes warmes the waters 3 The waters being warmed are resolved into aire 4 The aire compresseth and keepeth downe the residue of the waters and also the Earth so that according to reason it is impossible that the earth as heavy a body as it is should move out of its place And thus is the world maintained in a naturall way by the infinite power and wisedome of an Almighty God 2 The second thing we thought good to give you notice of is this That from the way and manner of the first distribution of the Elements and according to that example all Philosophicall distillations whatsoever have been invented What we have written is that which gave being to their Rules And let this suffice for the second Point 3 The knowledge of that imbred corruption which is in man as also the cause of it ought to be known The first cause of it is manifestly Originall sin whereby the whole bodies of men are depraved but not their soules and spirits as we shall plainly shew in the next Book 'T is not our present task to declare what the first sin of Eve was it was something else far different from eating Apples 't was such a thing as must of necessity according to the Rules of Nature corrupt her her husband and all her posterity 4 The restitution of man and his being united to the God-head by the person of Jesus Christ who took part both of God and man must not be forgotten for thereby is man brought into an Estate far above the Angels God hath made the Angels ministring spirits to the Saints and there is no man will deny but the Master is above the Servant hold fast this as an Article of Faith and this will beget hope yea such a hope as will never make thee ashamed Such a hope as will arme thee with patience in all thy operations according to that Scripture 1 Thess 1.3 And patience of hope in the Lord Jesus Christ And let this suffice for this Chapter CHAP. II. What Points in Divinity must be Practiced by such as intend the attainment of Aurum Potabile 1 THe heart must be unwedded from this present world from the things of the earth whatsoever they be the beauty glory pomp profit pleasure and honour of this world from whatsoever tends not to and ends not in the great first being of all things The Scripture seems to speak so much Ro●t 12.2 Be not conformed to this world bu●●he transformed in the renewing of your ●●●d that you may prove what is that good that acceptable and perfect will of God Were we writing Divinity we could easily given paraphrase upon the Text. This we conceive to be the reason why Philosophers of old shun