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A34451	The Philosophical epitaph of W.C. Esquire for a memento mori on his tomb-stone, vvith three hieroglyphical scutcheons and their philosophical motto's and explanation : with the philosophical Mercury, nature of seed and life, and growth of metalls, and a discovery of the immortal liquor alchahest : the salt of tartar volatized and other elixirs with their differences. Also, A brief of the golden calf, the worlds idol : discovering the rarest miracle in nature, ... / by Jo. Fr. Helvetius. And, The golden ass well managed and Midas restor'd to reason, or, A new chymical light : demonstrating to the blind world that good gold may be found as well in cold as hot regions, and be profitably extracted out of sand, stones, gravel and flints &c. .../ written by Jo. Rod. Glauber. With Jehior, aurora sapientiae, or, The day dawning or light of wisdom : containing the three principles or original of all things whereby are discovered the great and many mysteries of God, nature and the elements, hitherto hid, now revealed / all published by W.C. Esquire. : with a catalogue of chymical books.	Cooper, William, fl. 1668-1688.; Helvetius, Johann Friedrich, d. 1709. Vitulus aureus, quem mundus adorat & orat. English.; Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670. Novum lumen chimicum. English.	1673 (1673)	Wing C6062; Wing C6061_PARTIAL; ESTC R6283	114,421	261

turn Ixions wheel in the Fire as oft as you please till you find good profit JOHN RODOLPH GLAVBER'S EPISTLE TO THE READER Reader SAtan with his Followers seeks nothing more then the destruction of Mankind and to hinder him from the gifts and favour of God Wherefore I desire thee not to slight or judge of these things rashly which thou knowst not but first prove and try them throughly and although you should fail as it may easily happen to the inexpert yet blame not my writings or good intentions but your own unfit Capacity or inexperience for I write nothing here but what I have often effected and can perform and prove true every hour Consult therefore first with other more experienced searchers whom I may hope have not all erred and lost their labour in so easie a work that even a Boy of ten years old may understand it possible and Fecible Nevertheless believe not that I should set down here the manner of Extracting Gold in Lumps or great quantities for profuse usage but I shall rather take heed and beware of that N. B. Now as I said throughout all parts of the World and in every sort of Sand Pebbles and Stones is held good Gold excepting Lime-Stones which alone seldom or never have any Gold else in all Rocks of Greety Sand Flints of whatever colour also in Gravel Scurfe or Ballast on Mountains Valleys in the Bowels of the Earth the Sea Ponds Pits Rivers and Floods none at all excepted there is Gold to be found but Sand and Stones hold most in hot Countries and although they be white clear and shining without the least colour yet there is some Gold Yea even sometimes in Clay grounds and in Artificial baked Tyles and Bricks The first kind of Proof TAke white Sand or Flints wherein you think there is not the least Gold to which joyn three parts of Minium or any other pouder or Calx of Lead Flux this mixture in a Crusible covered in a wind Furnace or by blast of Bellowes and so let them flow well together for one hour and it will turn to yellow glass then pour it forth least by delay it pierce the Crusible and run among the ashes Powder this glass and mix therewith half its weight of Sal Alcali or Soap or Pot ashes then put this mixture into an Iron Pot or Crusible where you may first put Nails or other Bitts of Iron then Flux this in the Fire and the 〈…〉 Lead will be reduced into a body again by the said Iron pour out this into an ingot or Cone and the Regulus of Lead will sink to the bottom and the Flints or Sand like Scurffe and Dross will swim on the top but the Lead will contract such a black roughness that it will not easily flow For the which take this remedy Place this Regulus in a Wind Furnace and upon one ounce of the melted Regulus cast a Dram or something more of Salt Peter and let them flow together Then the Sal Nitre will draw the black roughness from the Lead into a Scurffe which being poured forth and melted again becomes tractable and white and will easily flow upon a Test but if you have not the skill to effect this work put your black rough Regulus of Lead into such a Crusible or Test as the vulgar call Treibscerbe which is like a large hard Crusible bottom cover it and let it purge it self in the fire for half an hour or at least for a quarter and it will be white and tractable But the washing or cleansing by Salt Peter is far better weigh a peny weight dram or scruple of this and a like quantity of Lead Test them in a hard fixt Cupel apart and this Regulus will hold a grain of Gold and the Common Lead only a grain of Silver The Second kind of Proof TAke one part of white Flints or Sand mix thrice the quantity of Salt of Tartar or any other Alcaly and therewith fill a third part of a Crusible but not more least it run over let it stand half an hour to be glowing red and it will turn to a white Pellucid glass pour it into fair water or rather into a Lee and the Sand or Flints will be dissolved into a thick Oyl or Water ☞ In this water digest for an hour or two half an ounce of filed rasped or rather scraped Lead and the Lead will extract a spiritual Gold from the said Water or Flints and will thereby become yellowish which take forth day and Test on a Copel and you shall find a grain of Gold but out of so much common Lead will be only a grain of Silver which is the proportion to be found in any Lead whence you may certainly conclude that white Flints and Sand contain in them spiritual Gold the which being joyned with Metals become Corporal The third kind or manner of Proof DIssolve ♄ or Lead in Aqua fortis and pour it forth into Salt water and all the Lead will precipitate and fall to the bottome in a white Calx or Powder mix three parts of this Calx with one part of powder of Flints or Sand and add half so much Salt out of Lees or other Alcali mix them and put them into an iron Crusible where old nailes or bits of Iron be put in fill it to the top and cover it close for half an hour to melt and flow till all the sharp corrosive spirits in the Lead be mortified by the Iron and then the Lead will be reduced to a body as before which cast into a Taper pointed Ingot or Cone and the Regulus of Lead will sink to the bottome the which must be washt and cleansed by Salt Peter or in a fixt Copel under a Tyle till it purge out the dross or faeces then Test it and as much of the same Lead severally apart and the one yeilds a grain of Gold and t'other only a grain of Silver as before is sufficiently expressed The true manner of proving all Flints Rocky Stones Pibbles and Sands c. Legitimately and Infallibly whether they contain much Gold or little With a plain Reason for all TAke four ounces of Sand or Flints or other Stones neal them red hot in a Crusible and quench them in cold water and so they become tractable to be beaten or ground to powder Put these four ounces of powder into a Glass Cucurbit or Retort and pour thereon two ounces of Aqua Regis to moisten the said powders very well and thoroughly and let it stand so in warm sand for half an hour and the said Aqua Regis will extract all the Gold out of the Flints or Sand To which pour on two ounces of warm water and stir it very well about then strain or filter it through Cap Paper and the water will pass through the paper with the Tincture and leave the sand alone in the Paper then pour on more warm water into the paper and let it run through the

of the Sand or Stones then you may draw forth the sand and water with a Scoop or Bowl proper for this use with holes in the bottom and a wooden basket strainer thereupon and so the impregnated water or Menstruum with the Gold may pass through and leave the sand or stones behind in the scoop or bowl with the strainer then pour on more warm water on the said sand to wash out the remaining Gold and Tincture and after all is washt out throw the said sand or stones quite away as useless 3. My third compendium is to pour upon the said clear Menstrum which hath the Gold or Tincture another singular sort of water of small price whereby all the said Gold and Tincture at such a height and quantity in the solvent will be precipitated to the bottom and so the clear solvent being freed from the Tincture must be Canted off to serve again for the like use as preserving still its own strength and virtue without any abatement or diminution whatsoever either by the said water precipitating or by any other ways whatsoever and if any be lost or spilt by the usage it may be easily repaired by getting more of the same without much trouble or charge Now if any should mix any precipitating Lixiviat Liquor or Lees with the said solvent contrary to its Nature and thereby mortifie the solvent by precipitating the Gold which is done in other processes and is used in and by my former experiments and trials in this Books about the white sand and stones c. what dammage and loss would come thereby for every time there is occasion to use it our dissolvent should be destroyed and the extraction thereby become very troublesome and chargeable especially being done in Glass or Earthen Cucurbits or bodies but this way all things cost almost nothing and may be done in greater Vessels and cheaper and the said waters be without loss And this kind of extraction may be compared like the making of Salt-Peter where the workman having extracted the Salt-Peter throws away all the ashes and dirt and puts more matter into the Cupam Tubs or Bowls for ●he like common water to extract more 1. Our fourth Compendium is that precipitated Calx of Gold after the filtration in a bag is taken ●ut dried and by a good cheap and singular good matter flux it is reduced to a body and so ●o part of the said Gold will be lost or diminish●d In these four Compendiums for the extraction of Gold will come profit but not so much other ●ays Now let none marvel why I reveal not here any of ●●ese four Compendiums I have been enough bitten ●y the envy of other men For where they could not ●nderstand my writings by their own dulness though ●ad plainly enough expressed the matter and so could ●ot perform the same they then publickly brought scandal on me and reported that whatever I writ were lyes Nay some others have seen the thing performed and yet afterwards for hatred and envy have slighted it and me But however whilst I live by Gods Grace and Providence I shall be helpful to my neighbour by using my Talent to serve them and like a most bright shining Light will shew the wonderful great mystery of God to the Ignorant and simple people against the will of all the enemies of Truth though they fret and vex never so much at it I have resolved so to do Yea behold though my adversaries should all conspire and wholly devour me alive they should swallow but a mean or lean Morsel of Earth for Glauber should be and remain Glauber still till the consummation of the World or Ages now if these men were of the ancient stamp and frame of faith and virtue they would not detract and scandalize their Innocent neighbour without deserving ill at their hands Let these things be sufficient at this time concerning the extraction of Gold out of Sand Stones and Flints Now further I say although every one should use this Extraction of Gold for their Imployment or Trade yet the one would not be a hindrance to the benefit of the other by reason Stones and Sand are obvious to every body in all Countries as also the Salts that are useful to extract the same are plentiful so that nothing is wanting but a lover of the work to set his hand unto it Paracelsus in his book of vexation of Alchymists saith That more Gold and silver is found upon the Earth then in the Bowels thereof and that often times a Countrey Clown throws a stone at a Cow which is worth more then the price of the Cow and it is most certain true and will remain true for a lye cannot degenerate or exalt it self to a truth but in its time hereafter shall be punisht in eternal darkness with the Devil as the father and original of all liers without doubt Democritus his Laughter and Heraclitus his Weeping came from the contemplation of mortal mans eager pursuit after Gold and Silver through great Anxities Labours and Troubles with loss of health and hazard of Soul and Body sailing many times through the vast Ocean for it and tearing open the earth to rush and sink down therein to fetch out Gold and Silver which is so plentifully and easy to be had upon the superficies of the Earth in every Region and Countrey as that its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 abundance may be had Solomon writ not from the purpose saying that great virtue was in Herbs Woods and Stones For that which is fixt in Stones is Volatil in Herbs As in my little Treatise Printed 1663. demonstrated although the first Ens of Gold whence Gold may be made be in both We read also in Esdras there is much Earth to Vessels or Pots but a little pouder or dust to make Gold And all sorts of Earth are not so rich to gain by Extraction of Gold nor it is to be thought that all Stones and Sand and every one are so rich in Corporal Gold as to yield any profit yet they still contain the first Ens of Gold or yield such a Calx by which or the help thereof good Gold may be made the which Calx or Pouder if we knew how to extract and order we would make greater accompt and esteem it more then of Gold it self Now since such an Aurifying or Goldmaking Pouder is so largely extended and diffused in Stones and Sand c. Yet it is not easy to beat it or force it out with a Hammer but only by a peculiar Art is to be extracted and perfected thereupon the blind multitude of covetus Gold hunters will not believe it no more then Ignorants who knows nothing of the Art and yet this art hath been always esteemed amongst Philosophers as their greatest Secret of Secrets and so hath been preserved amongst them Also where Paracelsus writes of the first Ens or Essence of Gold he tells us it may be drawn forth by sublimation and

and some would have it one thing comprising the nature of two as a Hermophradite or Embrio moreover some would have it absolutely two things as Male and Female Fire and Water or Water and Earth Sulphur and Mercury or Heaven and Earth Some likewise would have it consist of three Salt Sulphur and Mercu y ☉ ☽ ☿ Body Soul and Spirit Others would have it the four Elements and say the Conversion of them is the whole work And some again would have it a fifth Essence and Quintessential Spiritual Body and say their Mastery and Mistery consists in these five numbers 1 2 3 4 5. as in my said Epitaph and Circular Scutcheons appear thus comprehended in and by the Chaos and Products The Chaos in th' Excentrick Centre still Hath death's Heads Ternary Crows or owly Bill Whose square Face under Times confused Glass Of Fire and Water six days Angles pass Within the Spiny Bush Expansion till A Sabatean Rest makes all stand still After each Colour fram'd to th' owners praise Then all things multiply to the end of days The two in number are but one in kind And four in Nature three in one do bind And then the Quintessence wheels thrice in'ts Sphear To conquer all the Mortals every where Which Waters thus takes name from Icarus the lofty Eagl●s Son and Dedalus Philosophers true Sulphur and Mercury their u●ctuous Tincture and their water Dry. The Owl appears in darkness Yellowish Red And white are seen upon the Gooses Head The Bird of Paradise and Phoenix fly Which Starry brightness in th' Adeptists Skye Through Milkie Paths up to the Moon and Sun To multiply till the Adept have done Then each that 's worthy come and Feast you here With Apollo Hermes and ●inervah s Chear For here is Nectar and Ambrosia still Vnder these Hyerogliphicks take your fill All which nevertheles I acknowledge is really but one onely thing or Essence in the Root viz. the Philosophers ☿ although out of two or three particulars or more in kind and one operation of several parts as in my said Epitaph and Circular Figures comprised Nay indeed may be but one onely particular thing and one continued simple and single operation when duely prepared and superfluities removed But if one onely thing be taken then it is divided into several parts or if several things be taken they are brought to one and so may it be said of the Operation which all being but one the Philosophers nevertheless are pleased to distinguish it by its several Progressions Colours and Properties intimated by and within the said three figured Circles and their Titles all agreeing with this old Aenygma of Vitriol which being in many of the Metallick kind is and hath but one thing or substance and although but one yet may be opened divided and have several parts and being done be brought to one again in one single and simple operation of Nature Thus V. I. T. R. I. O. L. V. M. Visitabis Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem Veram Medicinam Visit the interiours of Earth Rectifying And you shall find the hid Stone and true Medicine And like it agreeing with this work of Palyugenius which hath two Hunc Juvinem Arcadium Insidum nimiúmque fugacem Prendite immersum stygiis occidite Lymphis Post Hiales Gremio impositum Deus excipiat Quem ●emnia Terra colit sublatumque in Cruce figat Tunc sepelite utero in calido dissolvite putrem Cujus stillantes Artus de corpore nostro Spiritus egrediens penetrabit ordine miro Paulatim extinctum nig●is revocabit ab umbris Aurata indutum Clamyd●n Argentoque nitentem Projicite hunc demum in prunas Renovabiter alter Vt Phoenix quae tangit perfecta relinquit Corpora Naturae leges faedera vincens Mutabit species paupertatemque fugabit Englished thus Take this Arcadian slippery ●ad who 's apt to fly And in the Glittering Stygian Lake drown'd let him dye When Hi●ls juices in his breast God saves him from loss Whom Lemnian Earth doth nourish lift up fix t' a Cross Then in a warm Cave buried dissolve what 's Rotten From whose Synews drops of this our Body 's gotten Spirits will Pi●rce and orderly from shades bring out This Offspring cloth'd with Gold and Silver round about At length project this on live Coals and you 'l soon see Another Phoenix like thereby renew d to be Which with its onely touch perfects all Bodies here Past the strict bond and laws of Natures Sphear And will change the Species to a higher degree Whereby all Grief may cease and Poverty shall flee And yet understand me rightly concerning the said work and matter of Philosophers that Gold for certain is the principle of Gold-making powder be it in what subject or appearance it will even as Fire is the principle of Firing For nothing can give what it hath not In Auro semina sunt Auri. As Augurellus and others testifie In Gold is the seed of Gold And even the same may be said of Lune when 't is a Masculine And their Mercury is the ground of both and contains all three and is the Earth in which it is sown and from whence it takes its original and is of their own Nature But this must be living Gold or Silver and not the common Gold or Silver which are Dead or the common fowl Quick silver And indeed these are more universal cheap common and easie to be had then most men even some Philosophers do think which caused Ingenious and Learned Taulodanus to write against the Subject of that worthy old Philosopher Bracescus though both true Philosophers and their several Subjects true and this made Claveus in his Chrysopeia and Argyropeia to doubt of some of Lullie's Processes For these Principles are to be found in one subject and in divers having a Golden Nature as Dunstan Arnold Guido Ripley Raimund Glauber and others do testi●e and more ways are to the Wood then one For out of every or any particular Metallick or Mineral Species may by due Philosophick preparation be extracted the subject for the Philosophers Stone and every Chymical work called particular may by purification good preparation sutable fixation volatisation and exaltation be made a universal work for Multiplication Nay out of every Element and Principle of and in Nature and almost every abject thing whatsoever may be extracted a Sulphurous Sol Lune or Mercury enlivened for the Philosophers work And St. Devogius affirms that the said first matter of Philosophers is easier to be touched with the hand then discerned or found by subtilty of Wit or Sophistick imaginations and saith he told it the Process literally to some who nevertheless had not confidence therein for the meanness of the same and therefore left it without trial And certainly the Antecedent and Primordial Ens Auri is in every Element and Principle the which are never so simple but out of each the other may

this only holy way of the practice of Piety all Students of difficult arts find what they desire But they must exercise solitary Philosophical and Religious pleadings with Jehovah with a pure mouth and heart For the heavenly wisdom Sophia embraceth our friendship offering us her Rivers of gratious goodness and bounty never to be drawn dry And most happy is he to whom the true kingly way shall be shewed by an Adept Possessor of this great Secret But I foresee this small Preface will not satisfie my Readers alike some perchance taxing me for presuming as it were to teach them an art unknown to my self when this hath been my only purpose to relate a History yet I doubt not but this study of divine wisdom will be sweeter to some then any Nectar or Ambrosia I say no more but conclude with that of Julius Caesar Scaliger That the end of truly wise men is the communicating of wisdom According to that of Gregory Nysse● He that is good Communicates willingly his goods to others for the property of good men is to be profitable to others CHAP. II. The Testimony of divers illustrious Authors of this Arcanum FIrst Paracelsus in the Signature of Natural things fol. 358 This is a true sign of the tincture of Philosophers That by its transmuting force all imperfect metals are changed viz. the white into Silver and the red into the best Gold if but the smallest part of it be cast into a Crusible upon melted metal c. Item For the invincible Astrum of metalls conquereth all things and changeth them into a nature like to its self c. And this Gold and Silver is nobler and better then that brought out of the Metallick Mines and out of it may be prepared better Medicinal Arcana's Item Therefore ever Alchymist who hath the Astrum of the Sun can transmute all red Metals into Gold c. Item Cur Tincture of Gold hath Astral Stars within it It is a most fixt substance and immutable in the Multiplication It is a powder having the reddest colour almost like Saffron yet the whole corporeal substance is liquid like Rosin transparent like Christal frangible like glass It is of a Ruby colour and of the greatest weight c. Read more of this in Paracelsus Heaven of Philosophers Item Paracelsus in his seventh book of Transmutation of natural things saith The Transmutation of Metals is a great natural mistery not against natures course nor against Gods order as many falsely judge For the imperfect Metals are transmuted into Gold nor into Silver without the Philosophers Stone Item Paracelsus In his Manual of the Medicinal Stone of Philosophers saith Our Stone is a heavenly Medicine and more then perfect because it cleanseth all filth from the Metals c. Secondly Henry Khunrade in his Amphitheater of the eternal wisdom I have travelled much and visited those esteemed to know somewhat by experience and not in vain c. Amongst whom I call God to witness I got of one the universal Green Lyon and the blood of the Lyon That is Gold not vulgar but of the Philosophers I have seen it touched it tasted it and smelt it O how wonderful is God in his works I say they gave me the prepared Medicine which I most fruicfully used towards my poor neighbour in most desperate cases and they did sincerely reveal to me the true manner of preparing their medicine Item This is the wonderful method which God only hath given me immediately mediately yet subordinately through Nature Fire Art and masters help as well living as silent corporal and spiritua● watching and sleeping Item Fol. 202. I write not Fables with thine own hands shalt thou handle and with thine eyes see the Azoth viz. the Universal Mercury of the Philosophers which alone with its internal and external fire is sufficient for thee to get our Stone nevertheless with a sympathetick Harmony being Magick-physically united with the Olympick fire by an inevitable necessity c. Item Thou shalt see the Stone of the Philosophers our King go forth of the bed-chamber of his Glassie Sepulchre in his glorified body like a Lord of Lords from his Throne into this Theater of the world That is to say regenerated and more then perfect a Shining Carbuncle a most temperate splendour whose most subtile and depurated parts are inseperably united into one with a concordial mixture exceedingly equal Transparent like a Chrystal Compact and most ponderous easily fusible in fire like rosin or Wax before the flight of quick silver yet flowing without smoak entring into solid bodies and penetrating them like oyle through Paper dissoluble in every liquor and comiscible with it fryable like glass in a powder like Saffron but in the whole Mass shining red like a Rubie which redness is a sign of a perfect fixation and fixed perfection Permanently colouring or tinging fixt in all temptations and tryals yea in the examination of the burning Sulphur its self and the devouring waters and in the most vehement persecution of the fire always incombustible and permanent as a Salamander c. Item The Philosophers Stone being fermented in its parts in the great world transforms it self into whatsoever it will by the fire hence a Son of art may perceive why the Philosophers have given their Azoth the name of Mercury which adheres to bodies c. And further in the same place it is fermented with Metals viz. The Stone being in its highest whiteness ●s fermented with pure Silver to the white But the Sanguine Stone with pure Gold to the red And this is the work of three days c. Thirdly Helmont in the Book of Eternal Life Fol. 590. I have oft seen the Stone and handled it and have projected the fourth part of one grain wrapped in paper upon eight ounces of quink silver boyling in a crusible and the quicksilver with a small noise presently stood still from its Flux and was congealed like to yellow wax and after a flux by blast we found eight ounces wanting eleven grains of the purest Gold Therefore one grain of this powder would transmute nineteen thousand one hundred and eighty six parts ●f Quicksilver into the best Gold so that this powder is found to be of Similary parts amongst Terrestrials and doth transmute infinite plenty of impure metal into the best Gold uniting with it and so defends it from Canker rust rottenness and death and makes it in a manner immortal against all tortures of fire and art and transfers it to a Virginean purity of Gold requiring only a fervent heat Item In his Tree of Life fol. 630. I am constrained to believe there is a Gold and Silver making Stone or powder for that I have divers times made projection of one grain thereof upon some thousand grains of boyling quicksilver to a tickling admiration of a great multitude And further as before is rehearsed in the first Chapter He also saith He who gave me that powder had so much at least

for the value of the matter but for some particular consequences nay if it were possible said he that fire could be burnt of fire I would rather at this instant cast all this substance into the fiercest flames But after he demanding if I had another private chamber whose prospect was from the publick Street I presently conducted him in to the best furnished room backwards where he entred without wiping his Shooes full of snow and dirt according to the custom in Holland then not doubting but he would bestow part thereof or some great secret treasure on me but in vain for he asked for a little piece of gold and pulling off his Cloak or Pastoral habit opened his Doublet under which he wore five pieces of Gold hanging in green silk Ribons as large as the inward round of a small Pewter Trencher and this Gold so far excelled mine that there was no comparison for flexibility and colour and these Figures with the Inscriptions ingraven were the resemblance of them which he granted me to write out D. 8. Pag. 16 1 Amen Holy holy holy is the Lord our God and all things are full of his hononr Leo. Libra 2 The maruelous wisdome of the wonderfull Iehovah in the vniuersall Booke of nature I am made the 26 th of August 1666 3 ☉ ☿ ☽ The wonderfull God Nature and the spagyricall Art make nothing in vain 4 To the Honour of the Euerlasting Inuisible ●ivne only wise most high Omnipotent God of Gods holy holy holy Gouernor and praiseworthy Preseruer of all 5 Holy art thou O holy spirit Halloluiah ffye vpon the Diuell and neuer speake of God without light Amen I being herewith affected with great admiration desired to know where and how he came by them Who answered An outlandish friend who dwelt some days in my House giving out he was a Lover of this art and came to reveal this art to me taught me various Arts First How out of ordinary Stones and Christalls to make Rubies Chrysolites and Sapphires c. much fairer then the ordinary And how in a quarter of an hour to make Crocus Martis of which one dose would infallibly cure the Pestilential Dissentary or Bloody Flux and how to make a metallick Liquor most certainly to cure all kinds of Dropsies in four days as also a limpid clear water sweeter then hony by which in two hours of it self in hot sand it would extract the Tincture of Granats Corals Glasses and such like more which I Helvetius did not observe My mind being drawn beyond those bounds to understand how such a noble juice might be drawn out of the metals to transmute Metals but the shade in the water deceived the dog of the Morsel of Flesh in his mouth Moreover he told me his said Master caused him to bring a glass full of rain water and fetch some refined Silver laminated in thin plates which therein was dissolved within a quarter of an hour like Ice when heated And presently he drank to me the half and I pledged him the other half which had not so much taste as sweet milk whereby me thought I became very light hearted I thereupon asked if this were a Philosophical drink and wherefore we drank this Potion He replied I ought not to be so curious And after he told me that by the said Masters directions he took a piece of a Leaden Pipe Gutter or Sistern and being melted put a little such sulphurious powder out of his Pocket once again put a little more on the point of a Knife and after a great blast of Bellows in short time poured it on the red stones of the Kitchin Chimney which proved most excellent pure Gold which he said brought him into such a trembling amazement that he could hardly speak But his Master thereupon again incouraged him saying Cut for thy self the sixteenth part of this for a memorial and the rest give away amongst the poor which he did And he distributed so great an Alms as he affirmed if my memory fail not to the Church of Sparrenda But whether he gave it at several times or once or in the Golden Masse or in Silver Coyn I did not ask At last said he going on with the story of his master he taught me throughly this almost Divine Art As soon as this his History was finisht I most humbly beg'd he would shew me the effect of Transmutation to confirm my faith therein but he dismissed me for that time in such a discreet manner that I had a denial But withall promising to come again at three weeks end and shew me some curious Arts in the Fire and the manner of projection provided it were then lawful without prohibition And at the three weeks end he came and invited me abroad for an hour or two and in our walks having discourses of divers of natures secrets in the fire but he was very sparing of the great Elixir gravely asserting that was only to magnifie the most sweet fame and name of the most glorious God and that few men indeavored to sacrifice to him in good works and this he expressed as a Pastor or Minister of a Church but now and then I kept his ears open intreating to shew me the Metallick transmutation desiring also he would think me so worthy to eat and drink and lodge at my house which I did prosecute so eagerly that scarce any Suiter could plead more to obtain his Mistress from his Corrival but he was of so fixt and stedfast a Spirit that all my endeavors were frustrate yet I could not forbear to tell him further I had a fit laboratory and things ready and fit for an experiment and that a promised favour was a kind of debt yea true said he but I promised to teach thee at my return with this proviso if it were not forbidden When I perceived all this in vain I earnestly craved but a most small Crum or Parcel of his pouder or Stone to transmute four Grains of Lead to Gold and at last out of his Philosophical commiseration he gave me a Crum as big as a Rape or Turnip seed saying receive this small Parcel of the greatest Treasure of the World which truly few Kings or Princes have ever known or seen But I said This perhaps will not transmit four Grains of Lead whereupon he bid me deliver it him back which in hopes of a greater Parcel I did but he cutting halfe off with his Nail flung ●t into the fire and gave me the rest wraped neatly up ●n Blew Paper saying It is yet sufficient for thee I answered him indeed with a most dejected Coun●enance Sir what n eans this the other being too ●ittle you give me now less He told me If thou ●anst not mannage this yet for its great proportion ●or so small a quantity of Lead then put into the Cru●ible two Drams or halfe an Ounce or a little more ●f the Lead for there ought no more Lead be put in ●he Crucible