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A61329	Secrets reveal'd, or, An open entrance to the shut-palace of the King containing the greatest treasure in chymistry never yet so plainly discovered / composed by a most famous English-man, styling himself anonymus or Eyræneus Philaletha cosmopolita ... ; published for the benefit of all Englishmen by W.C., Esq., a true lover of art and nature.	Philalethes, Eirenaeus.	1669 (1669)	Wing S5288	50,733	164

be first infolded in the inviolable arms of Venus Pray the high God to reveal this Mystery to thee which my former Chapters have disclosed to a word and where that Secret is couched there is not a word or stop superstuous or desectuous But farther It also requires an accidental Purgation or Mundification to wash off the external defilements that are cast out of the Centre but this is not so absolutely necessary but yet this Labour hastens the Work and therefore is convenient Take therefore thy ☿ which thou hast prepared by a convenient number of Eagles and sublime it thrice from common Salt and the Scoria of Mars grinding them together with Vinegar and a little Sal Armoniac until the ☿ disappear then dry it and distill it by a glass-Retort by a fire gradually encreased even until the whole ☿ ascend Repeat this three times or oftner afterwards boyl the ☿ in the Spirit of Vinegar an hour long in a Cucurbit or a glass with a broad bottom and a narrow neck sometimes strongly shaking it then decant or pour off the Vinegar and wash off the sowrishness with fountain-Fountain-water poured on again and again then dry up the ☿ and thou wilt wonder at its brightness Thou mayest wash it with Urine or Vinegar and Salt and so spare the sublimation but then distill it at least four times without addition after thou hast perfected all the Eagles or washings washing the Chalybeate or Steel Retort every time with ashes and water then boyl it in distilled Vineagar for half a day stirring it strongly sometimes and pour off the blackish Vineagar and pour on new then wash it with warm water thou mayest free the Spirit of the Vineagar from blackness by redistilling it and 't will be as vertuous as before all this is for the removing the external uncleanness which doth not adhere to the Centre and yet 't is little more obstinate in the superficies than you are aware of which you shall thus perceive Take this ☿ prepared with his Eagles viz. seven or nine and amalgamate it with most purified Gold let the Amalgama be made in a most clear paper and thou shalt see that the Amalgama will defile the paper with a duskish blackness but yet this Faeces or defilement thou mayest prevent by the foresaid distillation boyling and agitation or stirring it which Preparation doth very much promote or hasten the Work CHAP. 16. Of the Amalgamation of the ☿ and Gold and of the due weight of both THese being rightly prepared Take of purged and luminated Gold or Gold subtily filed one part of ☿ two parts put it in an heated Marble Mortar that is to say heated with boyling water out of which being taken it dryes presently and holds the heat a long time grind it with an Ivory Pestle or Glass Stone or Iron but this last is not so good or Box but the Stone or Glass pestle is best I am wont to use a white Coralline pestle grind it I say strongly until it be made impalpable grind it with as much diligence as Painters are wont to grind their Colours then see the consistence or temperature of it if it be plyable like butter then it is not too hot nor yet cold but yet so that the Amalgama being declined or bowed of one side doth not permit the ☿ to run like an hydropical intercutal water the consistence thereof is good but if not add as much of the water as is sufficient to make it of this consistency This is the Rule for Mixture that it be most readily plyable and most soft and yet can be made up like round pellots like as Butter may which though it yields to the easiest touch of the finger yet may be made up into balls by a Washing-woman Observe the alledged Example as being the most exact Example because as Butter though it be turned of one side yet it doth not pour out or let go any thing from it self that is more liquid than the whole Mass is In like manner is our mixture because of the intrinsical nature of ☿ Will this sign be given either in a double or in a treble proportion of the ☿ to the Body or also in the threefold of the Body to to the fourfold of the Spirit or in a double to treble and according to the nature of the ☿ or difference the Amalgama will be softer or harder yet be alwaies mindful that it come together inpellots and those pellots too being laid by do so concreate or hold together that the ☿ doth not appear more lively in the bottom than in the top For Note that if it be permitted to rest quiet the Amalgama hardens of its own accord The consistency thereof is to be judged in the agitation or stirring it and if then it be plyable like Butter and suffereth it self to be made up into balls and these pellots being put in clean paper are of an equal liquidity the proportion is good This being done Take the Spirit of Vinegar and dissolve in it a third part of its own weight of Sal Armoniac and put thereon ☉ and ☿ formerly amalgamated put it in a glass with a long neck and let it boyl for a quarter of an hour with a strong Ebullition then take the mixture out of the glass separate the liquor heat the Mortar and grind it strongly as above and very diligently then wash off all the blackness with warm water put it in again in the former liquor and boyl it again in the same glass then again grind it strongly and wash it Repeat this Labour until thou canst not get off any more colour of blackness from the Amalgama by any Labour then the Amalgama will be white like the purest Silver and most polite garnish'd with a wonderful brightness Observe even yet the teperature of it and beware it be exquisitely right according to the Rules above-given if it be not make it so and proceed as above This is a tedious Labour yet shalt thou see by the signs appearing in the Work thy Labour recompensed then boyl it in a pure water pouring it off and repeating it until all the saltness and Acrimony be vanished then pour out the water and dry the Amalgama which will soon be done But that thou mayest be more secure because too much water will destroy the Work and break the vessel how big soever it be stir it or work it upon a clean paper with the top of a knife from place to place untill it be dryed exceeding well then proceed as I shall teach thee CHAP. 17. Of the Preparation Form Matter and Closing the Vessel THou shalt have an oval or round glass so big as to hold at the most in its sphere or belly an Ounce of distilled water and not less than this if possibly thou canst but get it as near the measure as possibly thou canst let the glass have a neck of the height of one palm or hand-breadth or span let it be

divided into its Elements and afterwards joyned all the mixture by the help of the fire will become our ☉ which then being joyned with that ☿ which we prepared and call our Virgins Milk by reiterate decoction it will give all the signs which the Philosophers have described in such a fire as they have written of in their Books But now if you shall in your Decoction of ☉ vulgar though it be most pure use that same ☿ which is used in our ☉ though both flow from one root in general and apply that Regimen of heat which the Wisemen in their Books have applyed to our Stone thou art without all doubt in an erroneous way and that is the great Labyrinth in which almost all young Practitioners are entangled for there is scarce one Philosopher who in his Writings doth not touch both wayes which is indeed but one way fundamentally only one is more direct to the Mark than the other They then that do write of ☉ vulgar as we sometimes in this Treatise so also Artephius Flammel and Ripley with many others We are not otherwise to be understood but that our Philosophical ☉ is to be made out of ☉ vulgar and our ☿ which then by reiterate Liquefaction will give a 🜍 and Argent Vive fixt and incombustible and whose Tincture will abide all Tryals also in this sense our Stone is in every Metal or Mineral forasmuch as ☉ vulgar may be extracted out of them and out of that ☉ our ☉ may be made as being nearer in it than any Metal So then our Stone is in all Metals but in our ☉ and ☽ nearer than in any other Therefore saith Flammel some wrought it in ♃ some in ♄ but I wrought it in Sol and there I found it Yet there is in the Metallick Kingdom one thing of a miraculous Original in which our Sol is nearer to be sought than in Sol and ☽ vulgar if it be sought in the hour of its Nativity which melts in our ☿ like Ice in warm water and yet it hath a resemblance with Gold This is not to be found in the manifestation of Sol vulgar but by revealing that which is hidden in our ☿ the same thing may be found by Digestion in our ☿ for the space of an hundred and fifty dayes This is our Gold sought the farthest way about which is not yet of so great a vertue as that which Nature hath made and left to our hands yet turning the wheel thrice each comes to one end yet with this difference what thou findest in the one in seven months thou must wait for in the latter the space of a year and a half or it may be two years I am acquainted with both wayes and commend the first to all ingenious men but in my Descriptions I have most touched the hardest way lest I should draw on my head the Anathema of all Philosophers know then that this is the only difficulty in reading the books of those that are most candid that all one as well as the other do vary the Regimen and when they write of one Work they set down the Regimen of another in which snare I was entangled my self at first and it was long before I could get free out of this Net Know then that the Fire in our Work is most agreeable to Nature if thou understand our Work aright but if thou work in Sol vulgar that properly is not our Work and yet it leads directly into our Work in its determined time but in it thou needest a strong and long decoction and a proportionable time then mayest thou go on the second Operation with our most benign Fire with our Tower and Athanor which I chiefly commend If then the Work in Sol vulgar be sure to procure the Marriage of Diana Venus in the beginning of the Espousals of thy ☿ then put them into the Nest and in a due heat of Fire thou shalt see an emblem of the great Work to wit Black White Citrine and Red then reiterate this Work with ☿ which we call our Virgins Milk and set it in a heat of Balneum Roris at the highest let it be a heat of ashes mixed with sand then thou shalt see not only the black but the blackest black and all blackness so also both the white and the red complete and this with a gentle process for in the fire and the wind God was not but in the still Voice he spoke unto Elias Therefore if thou knowest the art of it extract our Sol out of our ☿ then shall thy Secrets spring all out of one Image which trust me is more perfect than any worldly perfection according to the Philosopher If saith he thou know how to make the Work out of ☿ alone thou shalt be Master of a most pretious Work In this Work are no superfluities but the whole by the Living God will be turned into purity because the action is only in one thing But if thou shalt proceed in our Work with Sol vulgar then the action and passion is a twofold substance and only the middle substance of both is taken and the Faeces rejected if you do but meditate well on what I have told in few words you have a key to open all the appearing Contradictions which are amongst the Philosophers therefore Ripley teacheth to turn the wheel round thrice in his Chapter of Calcination to which Relations his threefold Doctrine of Proportions agreeth wherein he is very mystical and those three different proportions agree to three several Works one Work is most secret and purely natural which is with our ☿ and our Sol to which Work belong all the signs described by the Philosophers This Work is done neither by fire nor by hands but only by internal heat and the external is only expelling cold and overcoming its Symptomes The other Work is in Sol vulgar purged with our ☿ this operation is done with a strong fire and in a long time in which both are decocted by the mediation of Venus so long until the pure substance of each be sublimed which is the true juyce of Lunaria this is to be taken and the faeces are to be rejected this is not yet our Stone but our true 🜍 which then is to be decocted again with our ☿ which is its own blood by which decoction it becomes a Stone penetrative and teigning Thirdly and Lastly There is a mixt Work where ☉ vulgar is mixt with our ☿ in a due proportion and a Ferment of our 🜍 is added as much as is sufficient then are fulfilled all the Miracles of the World and the Elixir becomes able to furnish the Possessor both with Riches and Health Seek then our 🜍 with all thy might which believe me thou shalt find in our ☿ If Fates thee call Otherwise chuse Sol vulgar and work on it with a due proportion of heat and out of it in time thou shalt prepare our Sol and Luna but it 's a way