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A26733	Of natural & supernatural things also of the first tincture, root, and spirit of metals and minerals, how the same are conceived, generated, brought forth, changed, and augmented / [by] Basilius Valentinus ; translated out of high Dutch by Daniel Cable ; whereunto is added Frier Roger Bacon, Of the medicine or tincture of antimony; Mr. John Isaac Holland, his Work of Saturn; and Alex. Van Suchten, Of the secrets of antimony.	Basilius Valentinus.; Cable, Daniel.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.; Hollandus, Johan Isaäc, 15th cent.; Suchten, Alexander von, ca. 1520-ca. 1590.	1671 (1671)	Wing B1020; ESTC R29247	60,576	242

one as those of old had before us usual among the Egyptians and Arabian before Writing was found they noted observed and reserved by Signs Characters and Hieroglyphicks Such Blessings may be used which Christ the Son of God used as the Scripture saith He took little Children laid his hands upon them and blessed them But whatsoever is contrary to God and his Word ought justly to be rejected and not to be tollerated because they are not Godly but Diabolical But those Supernatural things which oppose not God and his Holy Word belong unto Magick and do the Soul no prejudice As concerning Visions which Holy Men of God have often seen it is reason they should be reckoned among those things which are not Natural for whatsoever man speculates and comprehends by the Mind is Supernatural on the contrary whatsoever he can take see and hold is Natural Let us consider the third part of Natural Supernatural things in Physick the Virtues and Powers of each this Medicine of every thing must first be driven out of a visible tangible natural Body and be brought into a spiritual meliorated supernatural operation that the Spirit which at the first was infused and given to the Body to live might be released that it should operate and penetrate as a Spiritual Essence and Fire having its Vent-holes left that it might burn and have no opposition which might suffocate suppress or hinder the burning Life whereas otherwise if the separation of the Soul and Spirit from the Body should not first be done there could not succeed any operation either effectual profitable or necessary for whatsoever is visible to be felt and inseparably in a Body that is Natural and Corporal but so soon as there is a separation the living departs from the dead gaining its perfect operation and the natural Body being separated the spiritual Essence is free to penetrate becoming a spiritual and supernatural Medicine In brief all things none excepted which we can touch and handle are natural but they must be made supernatural if you would prepare them for Physick for the supernatural only hath a living power in it to operate the natural hath only a dead tangible Form For when Adam was made he was dead having no life of any virtue but so soon as the operative quickning Spirit came to him then he manifested his living virtue and power by supernatural admiration so that in every thing there is the natural and supernatural united in one and bound together in their habitation that every thing might be perfect for all created things in the world are some supernatural only what concerns the Soul and spiritual matters and some are natural and supernatural with what concerns the Elements and Firmament as likewise the Minerals Vegetables and Animals which is known and found when they are separated one from the other that the Soul departs out of the Body and the Spirit forsakes its Soul leaving the Body an empty habitation Moreover you must understand and consider that the great and little World are made and formed of one first Matter by an unsearchable Almighty Essence at that time in the beginning when the Spirit of God moved upon the Water who was from Eternity without beginning The great World as Heaven and Earth was first then was Man the Little World taken out of the greater the Water was separated from the Earth the Water was the Matter whereon the everlasting Spirit of God moved the Little World was formed of the noblest Earth as its Quintessence by the Aquosity which yet was in the Earth and all was only Natural but after the breathing in of the Divine heating Breath immediately the Supernatural was added so then the Natural and Supernatural were knit and united The great World is perishable yet there will be a New Earth or World the Little World is Eternal the Great Created Dissoluble world will again be brought to nothing but the little world will be clarified by the Spirit of God because he possesses it making a Celestial clarified water out of the aforesaid Earthly water then it will follow that the first matter will be turned into the last and the last matter will become the first Now the reason why the great world is perishable is this that the Spirit of God hath not his dwelling or habitation in the great world but in the little world for Man is the Temple of the Holy Ghost if he do not wilfully defile himself adhering to the Hellish Fire which makes a breach and difference For he remaines in the little world which he formed after his own similitude and made him a consecrated Temple otherwise there is every thing in the little world which is to be found in the great as Heaven and Earth with the Elements and what depends thereon or appertains thereunto We find also that in the first Creation which was performed of nothing three things arose to wit a Soulish Spiritual Invisible Essence which represented a Mercurial Water a Sulphurous Vapour and a Terrene Salt these three gave a compleat and perfect a tangible and formal Body to all things wherein especially all the four Elements are contained as I have already mentioned in my Writing where I treat of the Microcosme But that I may yet give a little more information of Natural and Supernatural things as well spiritual as corporal We find that the Canaanitish Woman was cured of her Flux of Blood which held her twelve years only by a bare touch when she touched the Garment of the Son of God her Disease being natural but the Medicine or Cure was Supernatural because by her Faith she gained help from the Lord Christ. Likewise we have an excellent high and supernatural Miracle in the three Children Shadrach Meshach and Abednego who were cast into the fiery Furnace by the Command of King Nebuchadnezzar yet by God wonderfully delivered and not consumed Dan. 3. So also the Confusion of Tongues and Infusion of divers Speeches at the foolish structure of the Tower of Babel which should have reached up to Heaven is esteemed for a Supernatural Miracle And so was that a Supernatural Sign when the Children of Israel did lap water as Dogs do when a small Number at Gods Command fought against the Midianites Judg. 7. 6. So the sending of the Dove by Noah out of the Ark when she brought an Olive Branch in her Bill a Sign of Mercy and a Divine Supernatural Message When the Holy man of God Moses struck the Rock with his Rod that the hard Rock yielded Water is beyond humane Reason so was the turning of the salt water into sweet and drinkable supernatural As also the dry passage of the Children of Israel through the Red Sea and the Budding of Aarons Rod are all supernatural In brief the Resurrection of Christ the Eternal Son of God out of the grave for all the Tomb-stone his appearing to the two men going to Emas his revealing himself to his Disciples when

is wasted and my Bones dried up that some will take my part heartily after I am in the Pit and if God would permit it they would willingly raise me from the dead but that cannot be wherefore I have left them my Writings that their Faith and Hope may have a Seal of Certainty and Truth to testifie of me what my last Will and Testament was which I ordained for the poor and all the Lovers of Mysteries though it did not behove me to have wrote so much yet I could not refrain without prejudice to my Soul but to drive a Light or Flash through a Cloud that the Day might be observed and the dark Night thick and gloomy rainy Weather expelled Now how the Archaeus operates further by the Spirit of Mercury in the Earth or Veins of the Earth take this Advice that after the spiritual Seed is formed by the impression of the Stars from above and fed by the Elements it is a Seed and turns it self into a Mercurial Water as first of all the great World was made of nothing for when the Spirit moved upon the Water the Celestial Heat must needs raise a Life in the cold watrish and earthly Creatures in the great World it was Gods Power and the Operation of the Celestial Lights in the little World it is likewise Gods Power and the Operation to work into the Earth by his Divine and Holy Breath Moreover the Almighty gave and Ordained means to accomplish it that one Creature had obtained power to operate in the other and the one to help and assist the other to perform and fulfil all the Works of the Lord and so an influence was permitted the Earth to bring forth by the Lights of Heaven as also an internal Heat to warm and digest that which was too cold for the Earth by reason of its humidity as unto every Creature a peculiar fashion according to its kind so that a subtile sulphurous Vapour is stired up by the Starry Heaven not the common but another more clarified and pure Vapour distinct from others which unites it self with the Mercurial Substance by whose warm property in process of time the superfluous Moisture is dryed up and then when the soulish property comes to it which gives a preservation to the Body and Balsam operating first into the Earth by a spiritual and sydereal iufluence then are Metals generated of it as it pleaseth the Mixture of the three Principles the Body being formed according as it assumes unto it the greatest part of those three But if the Spirit of Mercury be intended and qualified from above upon Animals it becomes an Animal Substance if it goes upon Vegetables by order it becomes a Vegetable Work but if by reason of its infused nature it fall on Minerals it becomes Minerals and Metals yet each one hath its distinction as they are wrought the Animals for themselves the Vegetables on another manner and form by themselves and so likewise the Minerals each one a several way whereof to write particularly would be too tedious and yield large and various Narrations Many one may here demand and not without cause how such a Spirit of Mercury may be procured how to be made and after what manner it is to be prepared to expel Diseases and change all the kinds of the meaner and baser Metals as if they were born in a little world by transmutation and augmentation of their Seed many expect this with impatience I answer without concealing any thing but will truly discover as much as is permitted me by Gods Command in manner and form following In the Name of the Lord Take a Red Quick-silver Ore which is like unto Sinople or Vermilion and the best Gold Ore you can get grind of each a like quantity both together before they partake of any fire poure an Oyl of Mercury upon it made per se of common purified and sublimed Quicksilver set it a month to digest you have an Extract rather Celestial than Terrestrial distil this Extract gently as in Balneum Mariae the Flegme ascends over the Oyl remaining at bottom being heavy which in a moment receives all Metals into it poure thrice as much Spirit of Wine to it circulate it in a Pellican till it be as red as Bloud and become so sweet that nothing may compare with it decant the Spirit of Wine to a Liquidness poure fresh Spirit of Wine upon it this reiterate so often till the Matter be exceeding sweet and transparent red as a a Ruby then put all together poure that which ascended over upon white calcined Tartar and distil it strongly in Ashes the Spirit of Wine remains behind with the Tartar but the Spirit of Mercury ascends over If this Spirit of Mercury be mixt with the Spirit of Sulphur together with its Salt and so brought over jointly together that they can never be separated you have such a work which if it come over and it get its ferment with Gold by solution according to a just measure and time appointed and be brought to a perfect ripeness unto the Plusquam perfection nothing may compare therewith for prevention of Diseases and poverty and to a rich excessive recreation of the Body and Goods This is the way to obtain the Spirit of Mercury which I have revealed as far as it is permitted me to do by the Supremest Emperour the Manual Operations are found in the Work which I have revealed you must wisely observe that you may not endure a Bath in Hell for me by my true admonition to thee forasmuch as a true opening of the Door which leads to the Royal Palace is performed but with one Key which cures all Diseases be it Dropsie Consumption Gout Stone Falling Sickness Apoplexy Leprosie or howsoever called in general This Medicine likewise cures all kinds of the French Pox and all old Sores of long standing be it Wolf Noli me tangere Letter Ring-worm Cancer Fistula and corroding hollow Sores all which I have declared and concealed nothing Last of all observe that you do not discover too much or no more because all Art hath its Original or Source out of the Spirit of Mercury which is refreshed and raised to Life by the spiritual Sulphur that it becomes Celestial with and by the Salt they are made corporal and formal but the beginning of the Soul of the Spirit and of the Body let it be and remain a Magnet even as it is and can be acknowledged to be nothing else This is the summe in brief that without the Spirit of Mercury which is the only true Key you can never make Corporal Gold potable nor the Philosophers Stone Let it remain by this Conclusion be silent for I my self will at present say no more because Silence is enjoyned thee and me by the orderly Judge recommending the Execution and further Search thereof to another who hath not as yet reduced the Matter into a right Order CHAP. IV. Of the Spirit of Copper THE

the Door was lock'd are all Divine and Supernatural Divers Examples more might be recited out of Divine Writ which for Brevities sake I omit Among Supernatural things are accounted all Mineral Signs as the Appearance of Spirits Representations Pigmies appearing diversly and numerously giving notice of good or bad Luck Ruine or Riches so also those Figures Shapes or other works found in the Ores of Metals as of Men Fishes and other Creatures so formed and represented by the imagination of the three first Principles then ripened and fully digested by the Earth and other Elements Hereunto appertain the Monsters of the Earth and such things as are found within the Earth at certain times of a wonderful form and shape but not at all to be found when that time is past yet appear again and are to be found at some other time Hereunto also belong all Visions and Appearances performed by Water Glasses Cristal or other means as also those done by Sigils and Characters which yet are so various some being only Natural yet affording Supernatural appearances or sights but the others which are performed by Conjurations are neither Natural nor Supernatural but Diabolical belonging unto Sorcery and are prohibited all good Christians so likewise all those Means which oppose Holy Writ Gods Word and Commandments are to be rejected and refuted by true Natural Cabalists I say this because a certain distinction and sure order ought to be found of the Natural Supernatural Unnatural things In like manner there appertains unto Supernatural things all the Water-Spirits as the Syrens Succubi other Water-Nymphs with their Relations as likewise the Terrestrial Spirits and those which inhabit the Air who sometimes are heard seen or perceived sometimes foretelling Death or other Disasters sometimes they discover by their Apparition Riches and good Fortune in certain places and the Fiery Spirits appertain here also which appear in a fiery shape or like a burning Light all these are Spirits having untangible Bodies yet are they not such Spirits as the right Hellish Spirits who hunt after mens Souls as an Eternal Jewel even as the Infernal Lucifer the Devil and his Dependents do who were ejected with him but these are such Spirits which are above Nature set before Men for admiration and are only maintained by the Elements whereby they are nourished and fed but when this Earthly world shall cease they also shall decay and vanish with it because they have no Souls to be saved I will say no more hereof at present but refer the opening of such Circumstances more at large to another opportunity where I shall particularly treat of Visions and spiritual Appearances which are esteemed Unnatural by most part of the World yet truly are Natural but they are found to be Supernatural in their Operations and wonderful Qualities That I may further confirm my Assertion I say likewise that there are many things to be found in Physick which yield and manifest their workings supernaturally in a Magnetical way operating only by an attractive spiritual power which is attracted to it by the Air for the Air is the Medium between the Physick and the Hurt or Distemper even as the Magnet ever doth direct and turn it self towards its Pole-star though the star be many thousand Miles distant from it yet the spiritual operation and sympathy between them is so prevalent that it is attracted together at so vast a distance by the Medium or middle Band of the Air but because this attractive power is only known unto people in general or as a thing common it is therefore become customary and is so esteemed there being no notice taken of any further Secret whence this operative Faculty hath its Source or Original In like manner Hurts and Distempers may be healed and cured though the Patient and Physitian be very far distant one from the other not by Charmes Exorcismes or other unlawful prohibited means which are opposite to God and Nature but by such means wherein the attractive Magnetick Virtue lies to accomplish it As when a wounded person goes a Journey leaving the Weapon wherewith he was wounded or else of his Bloud which issued out of the wound with his Physician wherewith he proceeds rightly and by orderly means as is usual in dressing a wound without all doubt he shall be absolutely cured this is no Witchcraft but the cure is performed only by the attractive power of the Medicine which is carried to the Sore by the means of the Air wherewith it is mundified that it may perform the Spiritual Operation Some will think these hard sayings and impossible in Nature and many will say it is contrary to Nature whereby many will be excited to dispute it and raise Arguments one opposite to the other whether it be Natural or no whether it be possible or no or whether it be Sorcery I will thus resolve them that this Cure is natural but as it operates it is supernatural spiritual because it is performed meerly by an attractive incomprehensible means and that this manner of Cure is no Sorcery I affirm it hereby that it is not mixt or accompanied with any Sorcery nor with any other unnatural Means contrary to God the Creator or his holy and saving Word But it is only Natural out of its supernatural invisible incomprehensible spiritual and attractive power which received its Original from the Sydereal and performs its Operation by the Elements Lastly I likewise approve this Cure to be no Sorcery because the Devil rather delights in all Mischief to Mankind than to assist any manner of way for their benefit which yet is impossible for him to do without Gods permission Much more might be written of this Magnetick Form but I chuse rather to be silent referring it till I come to treat of the Natural Miracles of the World The grosser sort of foolish Wits who imagine themselves to be wise Philosophers and all others who are not in their perfect senses know no difference in this case but the wise and truly discreet well know how to distinguish betwixt that which is natural and that which is supernatural For do but observe this comparison to be proved by a gross Example how many Creatures are there which dye absolutely in the water so that no life is left therein but so soon as the pleasant Summer appears the natural heat gives a new life the Body quite restored in the same substance as it was before in its living Motion even as an Herb which dies in the Winter but in the Spring it manifests it self anew The death of these things is to be esteemed natural but the return of a new life in its knowledge is supernatural but because we are accustomed to all these things the least part of us consider what is worthy of further Meditation in this case letting both natural and supernatural go away together Most people overpass that natural custom which yet is supernatural as also monstrous Births and those that

bring signs and marks with them into the world which may all be natural but manifest themselves supernaturally by the imagination which caused them These supernatural forms and customs the Mother of the Child caused by intervening thoughts which unexpectedly happened to her as it were by accident Even as we often see and find that many Men naturally are born with some gestures which he can never leave though he endevour with all his might to do it The natural gestures of these Men are natural but the conception in the Womb which caused the imagination of these things is supernatural and subject to what the Heaven imprints To conclude I say that none can defend the supernatural not to be true by good grounds and reasons except he have learn'd to know the natural which hath its original and gained its shape from the supernatural after he hath learned this he may evidence it by sure proofs that he will be conquerour over those who will not believe what is supernatural and he will convince the opinions of those who dispute of natural things and yet know not the grounds saving only a bare pretence much talk tedious and unprofitable Debates CHAP. II. Of the first Tincture and Roots of Metals BUt now to come to my intent and by Gods permission to accomplish the same I undertake to certifie of the first Tincture Root and Generation of Metals and Minerals Know that the first Tincture and Root of all Metals is likewise a supernatural flying fiery Spirit which preserves it self in the Air seeking its habitation naturally in the Earth and Water wherein it can rest and operate This Spirit is found in all Metals more abundant in other Metals than in Gold because Gold by reason of its well digested ripened and fixt body is tight close and compact and therefore no more can enter into its body than is just requisite but the other Metals have not such fixt bodies for their pores are open and far extenuated therefore the Tincture Spirit can the more abundantly pass thorough and possess them But because the bodies of the other Metals are inconstant the Tincture cannot remain with those inconstant bodies but must depart And whereas the Tincture of Gold is found in none more plentiful than in Mars and Venus as Man and Wife their bodies therefore are destroyed and the tinging Spirit taken out of them which makes Gold sanguin being first opened and prepared and by their food and drink it becomes volatile wherefore this volatile Gold being satisfied with its food and drink assumes its own bloud to it self dries it up by its own internal heat by the help and assistance of the vaporous fire and there is a Conquest again which is quite fix'd makes the highest Constancy that the Gold becomes an over-fix'd Medicine by reason of abundance of Bloud it yields no Body except another superfluous Body be again put to it wherein the abounding fix'd bloud may disperse it self this additional Metallick Body by reason of the great heat of the fix'd Lions bloud is penetrated as by fire and purged from all impurity and forthwith throughly digested to a perfect ripeness and fixedness That first of all the Servant brings the Master unto Riches because the Master before could not spare any of his Cloaths to give away seeing that Nature had lent and endowed him with one Noble Suit only on the other side the King when he hath received his Aides and Contributions from his Subjects can then distribute possessions and permanent Liveries that the Lord and Servant may remain both together and do not think it strange that the King needs to borrow of his Subjects because their Bodies are unfix'd and inconstant for they receive much and yet can keep but little Credit But if the King can participate thereof he will the better overcome heat and Frost than the Leprous Metals can and henceforth by this Receipt he becomes particularly a Dominator and Conquerour of all other with a great Victory and triumph of Riches and of Health to long Life I hope you have from the beginning sufficiently understood concerning this Natural and Supernatural Advice and the first tinging Root of Metals and Minerals whereon the Corner-stone is placed and where the true Rock is grounded in its kind wherein Nature hath placed and buried her secret deeply concealed Gifts to wit in the fiery tinged Spirits which Colours they gained out of the starry Heaven by the operation of the Elements and they can moreover tinge and fix that which before was not tinged and unfix'd seeing that Luna wants the Robe of the Golden Crown together with the fixedness as likewise Saturn Jupiter and Mercury do and although Mars and Venu's need not this Rayment but can communicate it to the other five yet I say that they can perform nothing to attain any thing with wealth without the Lion because they are not sufficiently accomodated with a fixedness of their Mercury and a gentleness of their Salt except it be that the Lion overcome them that they have triumphed on both parts and gained a remarkable Melioration altogether this Melioration lies concealed in their Signate star or Magnet out of which all Metals have themselves received their Gifts Now I will proceed and particularly step to the Birth and Generation how the Archaeus manifests its power pouring it forth and daily reveales it whereby all Metallick and Mineral Forms are visibly proposed and made formal tangible and corporal by the Mineral intangible flying fiery Spirits Understand therefore further and observe with diligence and care that by forgetfulness you let not that which is weighty pass away nor yet neglect or overlook that which is most profitable and on the contrary observe the bare words at length passing over the Truth for what I write herein is undoubtedly held and esteemed that the highest is undoubtedly by many esteemed for the lowest and the lowest for the highest Mystery and is so to be reputed Now you must first know that all Metals and Minerals of the Earth have one only Matter and Mother whereby in general they all received Conception gaining a compleat and corporal Birth This Matter which comes out of the Center first of all divides it self into three parts to procure one corporal or certain form of each Metal These three parts are only fed in the Earth by the Elements out of their Bodies and nourish'd till they be perfect But the Matter which comes out of the Center is imagined by the Stars operated by the Elements and formed by the Earth It is a Matter to be known and the true Mother of Metals and Minerals It is such a Matter and Mother whereof Man himself is conceived born nourish'd and made corporal It may be compared to the middle World for what is in the great World is in the little World and what is in the little World is also in the greater and what is jointly in the great and little World is

almost one kind of Nature in and with them as it is with it in the Celestial Spiritual and Elementary Intellect between the Body Soul and the Chaos out of which the Soul and Spirit went the Body at last was found out of the Composition How shall we now do the gross dull-witted Lads will not apprehend it the middle sort of Wits will take no notice of what I write and the supernatural wits will descant too much upon it I must find out a remedy and would willingly preserve all these over-wise-people to be my Friends still I will now teach instruct and presently inform you seeing that the Argument it self declares and pronounces its definitive sentence therefore the resolution lies open and can be declared and resolved reserved nor directed to any other sentence of the understanding further than for it self Last of all reserve this hereupon in this Chapter that there can be no House kept to stand in unity between the Married Couple if the one of them turn his Coach and drive to the East and the other towards the West for they are not equal so that they cannot draw the Coach together in an equal weight whereby there arises a great dissention and hinderance in obtaining that which wat intended but if true Married People will carry on their House-keeping with a right subsistance they must be of one spirit mind judgment and virtue to accomplish all whatsoever is in their heart and mind and that the one operate into the other if their Love and Truth shall be permanent for want of one of these things the three principles cannot be truly together for the Mercury is banisht and too little by reascn of the firmness and constancy the Sulphur is too little it cannot warm the Body of Love because it is very much extinct the Salt likewise hath not its right convenient natural kind but is too hard and too much seeing it makes a hard coagulation is sharp and biting because it doth not manifest it self in truth and constancy Even so it goes now in the World which goes astray and is pregnant with such Vices for the constancy is but small the Love little and Truth as little I hope you will take this Philosophical Example in good part because Syrach doth both praise and dispraise the goodness truth and wickedness of a false Woman and both after a different manner and herewith I bid Mars Farewell saying that no man knows how to distinguish the Sentence of one much less of all things but he who hath in this point taken notice of them learned and experimented their Nature and Properties and truly known and discovered them God our Heavenly Father the Everlasting Power proceeding from all beginning separate us so in the Form that the terrestrial corruptible Body may again attain unto contain and receive the Celestial Spiritual and Incorruptible Revelation Amen M aist thou not know me alone indeed A nd procure a pure help for me in need R esolve then and hear what I do speak or say S o shalt thou find what I can do for aye CHAP. VI. Of the Spirit of Gold THE Clearness of Heaven hath now commanded me to govern my Pen to reveal a matter of valour and of permanency for the Sun is a burning and consuming Fire hot and dry wherein is concealed the right and true virtue of all Natural things this virtue of the Sun worketh Understanding Riches and Health My Mind is very much grieved and my Spirit is terrified within it self to discover it publickly which was not publish'd in common before and to make it vocal which was concealed in the deep with great secresie But if I consider in my self and enter into my Conscience I could find no alteration nor catch at any thing to disturb my mind or bring it to another resolution which might cause many Obstructions Yet will I speak with discretion and write understanding that no evil with may follow but rather that I may gain a grateful profit which I have pourtrayed after the manner and occasion as the Philosophers before me have done Mark now give your Mind perfect Thoughts refrain all strange matters which are not serviceable to your speculation of Philosophy but rather cause a ruine of that benefit which you pursued with so much diligence and know if you have a hearty desire and strong affection to gain the Golden Magnet that in the first place your prayer be truly directed to God in true Knowledge Sorrow Repentance and true Humility to know and learn the three distinct Worlds which are subject to Humane Reason as there is the Supercelestial World wherein the right immortal Soul hath its seat and residence together with its first coming and is according to Gods Creation the first moveable Sense or the first moving sensible Soul which hath operated the Natural Life from a Supernatural Essence this Soul and Spirit is at first the Root and Fountain the first Creature which arose to a Life and the first Mover whereof there hath been so much Disputing among the Learned Now take notice of the second Celestial World and observe it diligently for therein the Planets rule and all the Stars of Heaven have their course virtue and power in this Heaven performing that Service therein whereunto they are by God ordained and in this service they operate the Minerals and Metals by their Spirit Go now out of these 2 distinct Worlds into the third wherein is contained and found what the other two have wrought to wit the Super-celestial and the Celestial worlds out of the Super-celestial arises the Fountain of Life and of the Soul out of the other Celestial world the light of the Spirit and out of the third or Elementary world the invincible Celestial Fire which yet may be felt out of which that which is tangible is digested these three Matters and Substances produce and generate the Form of Metals among all which Gold hath the pre-eminence because the Sidereal Elementary Operation hath digested and ripened the Mercury in this Metal the more perfectly to a sufficient ripeness And even as the Male-Seed is injected into the Womb and touches the Menstruum which is its Earth but the Seed which goes out of the Male into the Female is operated in both by the Sydereal and Elementary that they be united and nourished by the Earth unto the Birth Even so understand it likewise that the Soul of Metals which is formed and conceived out of the Chaos by an intangible invisible incomprehensible concealed and supernatural Celestial Composition of Water and Air afterwards it is further concocted by the Celestial Elementary Light and Fire of the Sun whereby the Stars move the Powers when its heat is perceived in the inward parts of the Earth as in the Womb for the Earth is opened by the warm operating property of the upper Stars that their infused Spirit yield a nourishment unto the Earth that it may bring forth somewhat as Metals

separated from the impure the clean from the filth and the fine from the course which otherwise could not b done at all or brought to pass without the preceding preparation this done they spin Yarn of it which they boil in water over the Fire or else with Ashes set in a warm place whereby it is purified afresh whereby the filth and superfluities are fully separated from it and after a due washing the Yarn is dried again delivered to the Workmen and Cloth weaved of it this Cloth is purified or whitened by a frequent casting of water upon it cut in pieces by Taylors and other people so converted to future services in houshold affairs and when this Linnen is quite worn out and torn the old Rags are gathered together and sent to the Paper-Mills whereof they make Paper which is put unto divers uses If you lay Paper upon a Metal or Glass kindle and burn it the vegetable Mercury comes forth and flies away into the Air the Salt remaines in the ashes and the combustible Sulphur which is not so quickly consumed in the burning dissolves to an Oil which is a good Medicine for dim and defective Eyes This Oil hath in it a great fatness which is the Matter of the Paper contained originally in the Seed of the Flax so that the last Matter of the Flax which is Paper must again be dissolved into the first Matter which is the fat Sulphurous Oyliness of the Flax-seed together with the separation of its Mercury and Salt that so the first may be made of the last and the ground-work revealed so the Virtues and Operations known by the first And though this Discourse be gross and not subtil yet you may learn thereby to know what is subtile and secret for that which is subtile must be infused into the ignorant by course Examples that thereby they may be taught to reject the gross and to embrace that which is subtile In like manner understand that the first Matter of Metals must be observed known and found out by the revelation of their last Matter which last Matter as there are the perfect Metals must be separated and divided asunder that it may plainly appear singly before the Eyes of men Out of which separation may be judged and learnt what the first Matter was at the beginning out of which the last was made Accept of this Advice concerning Luna at present I could have said more but I must desist at this time until another opportunity and intreat you heartily admonishing you by your Conscience that you observe all that which I have revealed unto you of all those Letters which are contained in the middle between Alpha Omega that you keep all the Speeches Writings that you may not undergo a denial of pardon for your Sins a continued perpetual Vengeance for Eternity which I at last reveal unto you thus Take the Sky-coloured Sulphur extracted out of Silver rectified with Spirit of Wine dissolve it according to its Quantity in the White Spirit of Vitriol and in the sweet-sented Spirit of Mercury coagulate them together by the fixation of the Fire you have the White Tincture in your Hands with all its Medicines but if you can get all their primum Mobile's it is then needless because you can perfect the Work at once CHAP. VIII Of the Soul or Tincture of Tin GOod Jupiter possesses almost the mean or middle place between Metals it being not too hot nor too cold not too warm nor too moist it hath no excess of Mercury nor of Salt and it hath the least of Sulphur in it it is found to be white in Colour yet one exceeds the other in the three Principles as it is evidently found in its dissection the right and true discovery of Nature It is generated of such a composition and mixture of the three first Principles being operated coagulated into a Metal and brought to the ripeness of perfection Jupiter is a God of Peace a Lord of Goodness a Ruler and Possessor of the middle Region as concerning its State Essence Function Virtue Form and Substance for it holds the mean no special Disease can happen that Jupiter should cause any remarkable damage if its Medicine be used a little at once not too much in quantity it is likewise thought needless where its Medicines are not required that they should be administred in strange cases with a just Call but we should rather abide by those where the Body and its Disease have an equal temper with the superiour Stars and their assistance in vertue power and operation and so accord together in their juncture that there is not found the least contrariety in the Operation nor in the Operative Nature Jupiters Spirit is found not to be wanting in the least in the generation of Metals as likewise no one Spirit of all the Metals can be set backwards because of necessity they accord together from the lowest to the highest degree and must agree together as a Metal is perfect in the great Earth so should the transmutation augmentation succeed in the little world understand it after this manner that all the degrees from the meanest to the highest Metal must be passed through in all perfection even as the Metals must finish their course from Saturn unto Gold as concerning the permanency of Colour and Body not withstanding that Saturn possesses the highest place in the highest Region wherein the stars reign and perform their Course The generation of Tin in and above the Earth is brought to light even as Man is and other Animals which are originally nourished and fed by the Mothers Milk there is no Diet to be found on Earth more fit for the nourishment of all men than Milk for its best part is chiefly an Animal Sulphur which yields the Nourishment Even in like manner Tin is nourished by its Metallick Sulphur which likewise feeds it with the greatest acceptation it assumes in and to it more heat than Saturn therefore is Jupiter more digested broiled whereby its Body likewise is more fixt and permanent in the degree of Salt He causes in his Dominion and Reign that good Rule be obser and Justice done to all men in his Court The Spirit of Tin is a Preserver from all Distempers Accidents whereby the Liver is consumed or put into malady its Spirit is naturally to be compared unto Honey in Taste its Mercury being made volatile gains a venomous quality for it purges violently and penetrates through by force therefore it is not alwayes to be advised that its opened Mercury should be used alone and simply but if a Correction precede there may an excellent benefit succeed being used in those distempers and diseases which are immediately subject to its Influence that is when its venomous volatility is taken away and set in a better and fixeder state which resists the poison The Vulgar Physician cannot understand this Description for this Art and knowledge proceeds not from the

bare Talking but from Experience the common Physician hath the foundation and egress in speaking but our Preparation hath its Rise from speaking and then its foundation first of all out of a certain trial which manifests it by Experience and this is firmed upon hard Rocks by manual Operations but the other stands upon moving Reeds Sand wherefore in reason that which is strong and immoveable made by Natures hand ought to be prefer'd before bare Speeches which proceed only from an inconstant phantastical speculation because the Work alwayes will praise the Master At present I do not indeed speak according to my own Poetical manner nor after such a way as I directed my stile when I treated of the wonderful generation of the seven Planets in my occult Philosophy nor after a Magical or Cabalistical manner and custom much less do I observe the method which teaches and diligently marks the Mystical Secret and Supernatural Arts to wit of Hydromancy AEromancy Geomancy Pyromancy Nigromancy and the like But my present purpose and intent is directed to reveal Natures Secrets that all the Lovers of Art and the Children which seek and desire wisdom may by Gods Grace Blessing and Permission easily understand observe mark and likewise after diligent observation learn retain something that is beneficial this concerns the generation of Metals in two pares in the great and in the little World as likewise what is the true Medicine contained in the inward part of those Metallick and Mineral Forms which must be apprehended and made moveable by their dissection that their first beginning may be made notoriously visible in three distinct things Then is Nature stript and her secret parts discovered by laying off her temporal Cloathing and all the secret Virtues Powers and Operations revealed for Mans Health My Persecutors and indiscreet Physicians will now tell me thou talkest much of Geese and knowest not a Duck who knows whether all what thou writest be true I will stick where I am and remain by what I have tried and bears the sway among all my Associites and Physicians so shall I not be deceived and am assured that I shall not need to take paines to learn any new Matter He that is of such a resolution may remain with the Ducks for he is not worthy of a roasted Goose nor to learn what is concealed in Nature But this in truth I acknowledge and confess it before the Supreme Trinity speaking it to the hazzard of that most Noble Ecclesiastical Jewel that all what I have wrote and yet shall write in this point is all true and shall be found to be no otherwise in truth But that every ignorant or vulgar person which are haters and persecutors of this Mystery do not well fully and clearly understand my Writings at first alas that cannot I help pray unto God for his Grace and ye Persecutors for pardon labour without repining read with understanding then will no Mystery be withheld from you but will be very easie for you to find out I moreover admonish that the finder of this gift of God above all things give thanks unto God day and night without ceasing with all reverence and due obedience from the bottom of his heart because no Creature can yield sufficient praise which may recompense so great a henefit but Diligence is known by a right and true industry according to our capacity I have done my part which I hope to justifie before God and the World for what my Eyes have seen my Hands felt and apprehended by an undeceived Judgment that shall no man take from me in this Life only Death which is the determiner of all things This my Speech hath indeed had no force to poure forth from it what is written by me herein but what I have done is not out of curiosity nor out of a desire of vain and transitory Glory but I have been induced there unto by the Command of Christ the Lord that his Glory and Goodness in eternal and temporal Matters should not be concealed from any man but to the praise honour and glory of his holy everlasting Name that it might be exalted acknowledged and revealed in his Majesty by reason of his Highness and Almightiness through the confirmation of his wonderful Deeds And secondly I have been led thereunto by Love and Charity towards my Neighbour for his good as for my own and to heap burning Coals on my Enemies heads And last of all tha all Opposers may know what erroneous waies others have gone against me and whether I am most of all to be condemned or they adjudged most just in what hath been written most truly of the concealments of Nature likewise that the supremest Mystery may not quite be suffocated in darkness nor be drowned in overflowing waters but be delivered out of the deep and filthy mire of the Ideotish Crew by the right appearance of the true Light and obtain many witnesses by the spreading abroad of a sure true and right Confession who may follow me in the Writings of Truth In my Nativity of the twelve Signes in the Zodiack Sagitary and Pisces were allotted unto me I was born under Pisces for I was in Waterishness before my Life but Sagitary set an Arrow to my Heart whereby I lost my Waterishness and by the heat I became worthy of the dry Earth and although at the first the Earth was turned by the Water into a soft substance yet you must understand that the Water was consumed by the heat of the drying Air so that all the soft Matter of the Earth went away and by this drying up was dignified with a Hardness whereby thou Learner and much Understander should carefully observe and take good notice that Tin is subject to all the four Elements as also to the other principal Planets which Elements received their Center from above and are generated as others To conclude I let you know and give you to understand that if thou extract out ' of Benevolent Jupiter its Salt and Sulphur and lettest Saturn flux well with it Saturn assumes a fixt body unto it purges it self and becomes clear thereby there being a full change and real transmutation of Lead into good Tin which may be found to the height by a durable infallible proof And though you may think this to be false yet you must take notice that seeing the Salt of Jupiter only by its Sulphur is made more corporal yet likewise it hath obtained an efficacy and power to penetrate Saturn the basest and most volatile Metal and bring it to a melioration of its Equals as you will find it in reality CHAP. IX Of the Spirit of Saturn or Tincture of Lead SAturn to generate his Metal Lead is placed in the upper Heaven above all Stars but he possesses the lowest and vilest degree in the under-parts of the Earth even as the supreme Light of Saturn is mounted aloft in the highest supremacy of all the Celestial Planets

of red and blew Colours and small Veins this is the best pound it to fine Powder dissolve it by little and little in Aqua Regis that the Water may conquer it After Solution take it out immediately that the Aqua Regis may do it no prejudice for it will quickly dissolve the Tincture of the Antimony for our Water in its nature is like to the Ostrich which by his heat can digest Iron and consume it to nothing for the Water will consume it and turn it to a Mud that it shall remain only as a yellow Earth and then is it quite spoiled Take an Example hereof from Silver which is dissolved fair pure and fine in these our Waters but if it stand a night therein while the Water is strong and full of Spirits I tell you your good Silver will be corroded to nothing in these our Waters and though you would reduce it into a Massie Body you cannot for it will remain as a pale yellow Earth and sometimes it will run together in the form of Horn or of a white Horse Hoof which you can by no Art reduce into a Body Wherefore you must remember to take the Antimony out presently after the Solution precipitate and adulterate it according to the custom of Alchymists that it may not be corroded with its perfect Oil by the Water and burnt up to nothing The Water wherein we dissolve is thus made R. Vitriol a pound and a half Salt-Armoniac one pound Azinat one pound Salt-nitre a pound and a half Salt-gemme one pound Allom half a pound these are the Ingredients which belong unto the making of the Water for the Solution of Antimony Take and mix them well together at first distil very slowly for the Spirits ascend with greater violence than those of any other common Aqua fortis beware of its Spirits for their Fumes are very subtile and hurtful in their penetration When you have adulterated the Antimony well and purely from the corrosive Water then put it into a clean Vial poure good distilled Vinegar upon it set it forty dayes and nights to putrefie in Horse-dung or in Balneum Mariae it will be bloud-red Take it out and see how much is yet to be dissolved de cant off gently the pure and clear which is red into a Glass-Gourd poure other Vinegar upon the Faeces as before that if any thing should yet remain therein it might be dissolved this must be done four times in fourty days and nights for if any good be in the Faeces it will be dissolved in that time then cast the Dregs away as unprofitable being but Dirt and to be cast to the Dunghill Put all the Solutions in a glass-Gourd into Balneum Mariae distil all the tart Vinegar from it pour it on again or else pour fresh if this be too weak it will quickly dissolve in the Vinegar distil it again from it that the Matter be quite dry then take common distilled water wash all tartness from it with the Vinegar imparted to the Matter then dry the Matter in the Sun which is of a very deep red or else dry it very well at a gentle fire When the Philosophers find our Antimony thus secretly prepared they say then that its external nature and virtue is inverted internally and the internal cast forth externally henceforth becoming an Oil which is concealed in its innermost and profoundest part till it be well prepared and cannot any more be brought into its first Essence untill the last Judgment and it is true for so soon as it feels the force of the fire it flies away in a Vapour with all its parts because it is volatile Some of the common Laborators having thus prepared Antimony they take one part out because of its consumption that they may the better operate it they mix with it one part of Sall Armoniac one part of the Vitrum with others Titrum one part of the Rebooth with others Cadoli wherewith the Bodies are cleansed this mixture they cast upon a pure Luna and if there were eight Ounces of the Luna they found ten Drams of good Gold in the separation and sometimes more and by this work they gained wherewithal to bear their Charges the better to attend upon and attain unto the great Work The ignorant called this an induction into the Silver but that is false for this Gold is not brought into it by the Spirits but every kind of Silver hath one Ounce of Gold more or less in the Mark or 8 Ounces for Gold is so united with the Nature of Silver that it cannot be separated from it either by Aqua fort or common Antimony as the Goldsmiths know But when the aforesaid Composition is cast upon the Luna in the flux then happens such a separation that the Luna doth freely let go the Gold implanted therein into the Aqua fort and is separated from it letting it precipitate and sink to the bottom which otherwise could not be done at all Therefore it is not an induction into the Luna but a bringing out of it But we return again to our proposed Work for we would have only the Oil which was only known to the Wise and not to the Ignorant When you have rubified the Antimony very well according to the former Directions you must have in readiness a Spirit of wine well rectified pour it over the red Powder of Antimony set it four daies and nights in a gentle Balneum Mariae that it may dissolve very well And if then any of it remain undissolved pour fresh Spirit of Wine upon it set it again into the Bath as aforesaid all will be well dissolved and if perhaps any more Faeces remain they will be very few cast them away for they are good for nothing Put the Solution into a glass-Gourd with a Head luted upon it set it into Balneum Mariae with its receiver to take the Spirits distil slowly with a slack heat till all the Spirit of Wine be come over pour it in again upon the dry matter draw it off again as before this pouring in abstracting continue so often till you see the Spirit of Wine ascend over the helm in various colours then is it time that you follow it with a stróng fire then will the Spirit of Wine ascend red into the helm and drop into the Receiver like a bloody Oil and the tender Body ascends like a red Oil dropping into the Receiver truly this is the most secret way of the Wise the so much applauded Oil of Antimony it is a noble well sented virtuous and powerful Oil as you shall hear afterwards But here I will teach and instruct you poor Operators another way because you have not the Means to attend the great work not as the Ancients did with the separation of Gold out of Silver Wherefore take one part of the Oil or half an Ounce of Saturn four Ounces calcined according to Art pour the Oil upon the Calx of