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A05040	A reuelation of the secret spirit Declaring the most concealed secret of alchymie. Written first in Latine by an vnknowne author, but explained in Italian, by Iohn Baptista Lambye, Venetian. Lately translated into English, by R.N.E. gentleman.; Apocalypsis spiritus secreti. English. 1623	Agnello, Giovan Battista.; Napier, Robert.	1623 (1623)	STC 15184; ESTC S121240	33,169	93

stone containeth sufficeth to fulfill the nourishment of the whole stone Therefore seeke not a strange earth as some doe who take the tartar of wine and say that it is the earth of the stone some the dreggs of wine calcined others the ashes of the vine and these doe erre so the blinde leadeth the blinde and both fall in the pit beleeuing to make the water of life and make the water of death Because the earth must not be strange witnessing the Philosopher Geber saying one stone and one medicine to which no strange thing is added but all superfluities remoued So it is in this water of life No strange thing is added but all superfluous things are remoued Therefore this is the blessed stone rectified Or the foresaid water if it bee thrise sublimed through his dreggs that when a drop thereof is put into a spoone and kindled with a candle it is all burned so that nothing remaine in the spoone and then it is rightly rectified and this may be perceiued in the preperation thereof for this end that it may bee profitable to cure diseases and to conserue the life of man And because the earth is necessary before that the rectified water should be distilled from it then it is necessary that the oile be drawne out and separated from the earth Know that the foresaid earth is all burned and stinketh as burnt things And vnlesse the foresaid earth be washed with the water of the Phlegme so that it lose altogether his stinke the rectified water would retaine something of the stinke which must passe through the earth and be distilled from it And therefore before you make the water of life now rectified passe through the earth first wash the earth well with the water of the Phlegme so that it lose well the stinke of his burning Which done from the said earth that is to say through the said earth make the water of life rectified passe And this you shall doe at least seuen times and then shall you haue the water of life medicinal as I haue abouesaid And note that scarse can you haue a pint of the foresaid water of life well rectified out of thirty pints of wine Let it passe through his earth many times and it will be more effectuall and his vertue will be multiplied and increased because the oftner it is distilled through his earth so much the more effectuall and powerfull shall bee the said water Item Note that in the said water are dissolued the leaues of most thin gold and so of gold is made aqua potabilis and it is wonderfull to conserue the life of man and to take away all diseases And which is more it maketh old men yong againe Therefore regard warily the foresaid water The water of life aboue written is sometime made to bee Elixir or Medicine to congeale Mercury Sometime a part to be medicine for to conserue mans life the vertues which are communicated to euery one we will briefly set downe in this Chapter Know therefore that the water of life which is made to be Elixir to congeale Mercury not only congealeth Mercury but also blancheth Venus and dissolueth Spirits and calcineth bodies c. But where it is made to be medicine for the conseruing the life of man you haue his vertues and praises in other bookes For it breaketh the impostumes and cureth wounds from rottennesse c. The simple water of life is drawne out of wine and is called the soule of wine whose glory inestimable is the Mother and Lady of all simple Medicines and Compound whose effects are wonderfull and especially against all causes and passions of mans body There are many waies to rectifie it but in the aboue written Chapter I haue put the best inuentions When the foresaid water of life is distilled at least foure times there is no meanes to distill it from its earth as I haue set downe in the chapter aboue written But it sufficeth that it be distilled as commonly it vseth to be distilled that the health of mans body may be conserued and lost health restored This water is so strong and of so great vertue and of the greatest naturall heat that by it selfe and without commixion it cannot bee drunken without hurt Item If the eyes be weakned through a web or for want of spirit let there be put in wine the leaues of eye-bright Rue and Veruene of each one handfull of Celandine a little and all being bruised amongst the hands let them be put in wine and stand there ouer night and thereafter the forefaid water of life be distilled Item If the herbe Baulme-mint be put in wine and afterward the water be distilled then one spoonful be taken with a fasting stomacke it maketh a man well remembring things passed and retaining things heard Item If Sage and Mint be put in wine and thereafter the water of life bee distilled the water drunke killeth wonderfully all kind of wormes Item The water of life made with Terpentine careth the quartane Ague if it be taken before the sit and muske water also with it Item Note that whatsoeuer odoriferous Powders or whatsoeuer greene or dry herbes shall be distilled in the foresaid water it shall retaine the smell and shall bee powerfull and smelling according to their qualitie And the vser of such water shall feele the power and vertue of these spices and if guests chance to come wine being mixed with the foresaid water incontinent shall retaine the taste and smel of the Spices and herbs put into it and so it shall appeare to be Cloue wine or Sage wine c. And so euery discreet wise and vnderstanding man may seeke out the vertues of the water And note that al which are written to wit medicines you vnderstand of the water of life which is called the burning water is the greatest subtilty of wine or spirit to the soule And the second water which is extracted or sublimed from wine by the same manner is the Element of aire and burneth not but some call it the water of Phlegme because it is of a cold nature wherefore I will describe some things after this sort If you will make haires yellow make ashes of Iuy wood and make a Lee of the foresaid second water Thereafter often wash thy head with the foresaid Lee and know that in two moneths the effect followeth and it will kill all kind of wormes that is in the haires Item The washing cleanseth the face for if the face be washt therewith the rose gut or sauce Phlegme is taken away And if oile be made of the inward kernels of pine Apples mixed with the foresaid water it shall heale and cure it quickly chiefly if the said oile be applied in hot milke and that this be done with the fat swimming aboue The eight Chapter Where are handled the diuers workers in this Science SEeing that hitherto by the grace of the Lord God an end is put vnto the Exposition of the secret

permanent water is taken out of Light but the light maketh fire and the light shining and transparent becommeth like one straying seeking lodging but when light is conioyned vnto light it reioyceth because it came out of it and is conuerted vnto it c. And Albertus Magnus in the preface of his right path inuocating the Lord God praieth and beseecheth him in this manner Thence in the beginning of my speech I call for his helpe who is the fountaine aad spring of all good that hee through his pitty and bounty would vouchsafe to supply the smalnesse of my Science that by the grace of the Holy Spirit I may make manifest in my doctrine the light which shineth in darknesse And Raymund Lully in the seuenth chapter in the Theoricke of his Testament saith Therefore sonne I say vnto thee Take a Myne of the kinde spoken of in which are the two starred lights which cease not to shine vpon the earth and they are the Sunne and Moone who by their beames darken the fire And in the 20. Chapter We choose therefore two bodies the lights which doe fixe all that is not fixt And in the 48. Chapter Sonne when thou wilt worke and beginne our Mastry beware that thou worke not but vpon natures or matters lightsome and not vpon others whereof the lesser world is created And in the tenth Chapter of the Practise he saith Son it behoueth thee now to dissolue the light of the world or a part of it by the first regiment c. And in many other places hee speaketh which shall be omitted that I bee not too long And George Ripply in the Chapter of the sixt degree of his Gates saith Therefore our stone is that starred Sunne budding like the flowers of the Spring from whom proceedeth by alteration euery colour c. And for shortnesse sake I will put an end to this second Chapter with a conclusion of an vncertaine English Author saying For indeed to speake without fiction there is no other to be sought but a body of the body and a light of the light Which is as much worth as it were to say Separate the shadow from the beame that is from the Sunne his earthlinesse The third Chapter Wherin is proued that of necessity it behoueth to reduce the body to the first matter that it may be disposed for the separation of the Elements HItherto it is seene with the confirmation of all the Philosophers that it is one thing only out of the which is taken the secret Spirit and with the which is made the Philosophers stone and furthermore are shewed many pretty sentences of diuers Authors by the meanes whereof it shal be left to be iudged by the children of the truth what thing can be this sole thing or one thing Now in this Chapter shall be shewed by authority of many authors that it is necessary to dispose this thing or body that it may bee fit for the separation of the Elements which could not be done if first it were not reduced to the first matter for any body standing in his being hard solid and compact is not fit for the separation of the Elements much lesse for the metallicke transmutation Therefore it is need as is aboue said to reduce it to the first matter according to the speech of Aristotle in the fourth of the Meteors who saith Let the Artificers of Alchymy know that the kinds of metals cannot bee transmuted vnlesse they be reduced to the first matter but the reduction to the first matter is easie as Arnoldus de villa noua saith and Iohn of Vien in his mirrour of the Elements and so affirme all the other Philosophers And in the practise of Philosophers it is written In the name of God Amen and with his helpe let vs reduce first the bodies into no bodies vntill the natures be made thin because in the beginning the body is made a thin water that is Mercury c. And in the Rosary of the Sunne it is written Therefore euery body is an Element or composed of Elements but the generation of any compound of the foure Elements consisteth of simples Wherefore necessarily it behoueth that our stone be reduced to the first matter or spring of his sulphure Mercury that it might be diuided in the Elements otherwise it cannot be purified nor conioyned c. And Villa noua so saith For the first worke of the Philosophers is to dissolue the stone into his Mercury that it may bee reduced to his first matter And Raymund Lully in the seuenty fiue Chapter of the Theoricke of his Testament saith But this diuision cannot be made by the change of nature without losse of the property and the losse of the property cannot bee made except that nature which is in an hard masse and dry with all her parts bee turned in the likenesse of that first nature in which the age was first ordered by diuine power like vnto a confused forme in which all middle things were confused without the which nature could not accomplish her actions c. Agreeing with Hermes who saith All things were from one confused clod or masse confused by the meditation of one that is the creation of one omnipotent God and so all things were sprung frō this thing that is al metals are engendred of our stone that is quick-siluer as all things were sprung from this confused masse and purged with one fitting that is only by the command of God and his miracle So our stone is sprung and commeth out of a clayish masse that is Quick-siluer changed containing in it selfe the foure Elements which are Fire Aire Water and Earth that is heat moisture coldnesse and drinesse c. And in the Rosary of the Philosophers The reduction of the bodies to the first matter Quick-siluer is no other than the resolution of the congealed matter by which the locke is opened by the entring of one nature into another Whereupon the Philosophers said that the Sun is no other thing but ripe Quick-siluer And this proposition or sentence of Aristotle of the necessity of the reduction to the first matter being so famous I will not enlarge my selfe otherwise in alledging other Authors but only I will labour in the next Chapter to see if it be possible to know by the meanes of many authorities of diuers Philosophers what thing is this first matter The fourth Chapter Where it shall bee seene if it bee possible to know what thing is this first matter HAuing seene that the reduction to the first matter is necessary that the matter may bee fit for the separation of the Elements now it is to bee seene what thing is this first matter And it is aboue said that all Philosophers agreeing do affirme this sentence vse venerable nature Therefore in confirmation of this passage I will serue my selfe only with some of their sentences which shall seeme vnto me most to the purpose for the declaration of this matter Arnold de

Alchymy is raised a substance like vnto a stone And he calleth it blessed because beyond the foure Elements there resteth a fifth Essence called the Spirit because the Spirit cannot bee seene by vs nor felt without a body assumed in some Element c. This Spirit for the noblenesse of his nature taketh a body in a nobler and superiour Sphere to wit of the Elements namely of the fiery Sphere of the noble fire but yet his spirituall nature remaining therefore neither is it fire nor hath it the nature of fire so much as is of it selfe And againe Because that body of the Spirit is fiery for his subtilty and purity and this cannot be seene by vs therefore with fit instruments by meanes of the workemans industry thickning its subtill substance it is conuerted in the forme of water and floweth Therefore separate the said Spirit and conioyne it with the Elements But the operation in the coniunction is twofold to wit one that the Elixir may be made to congeale Quickesiluer another that the Elixir may bee made for to preserue the life of man and to throw away all superfluity of bad humors and to eschew all corruption of the body Therefore if thou wilt make the Philosophers Stone to congeale Quickesiluer do in this manner Separate first the Spirit and the soonest that thou canst because thou shalt neuer separate him so warily but that hee will retaine some part of the former substance of Phlegme This Spirit once separated is called the burning water whose signe is that if thou dip a linnen cloth in it the cloth will be inflamed and not burne But if you separate oftner it is called the burning water rectified whose Signe is because a cloth dipt is altogether burned So haue you one Element made spirituall with the Spirit of the Quintessence And so the first apparition of that secret Spirit becommeth manifest in forme of water The which is that water whereof the Philosophers say The secret of the Art is to know the celestiall water diuine and glorious c. It followeth And so it behoueth the other three Elements to be made spirituall with the said Spirit retaining the corporall vertue in this manner Separate the whole superfluous Phlegme from the said stone vntill the oyle come to fume out and nothing at all remaine of the Phlegme and it shall be turned like vnto pitch And then mixe the first burning water rectified with this substance made like pitch well stirring till it be incorporated And then againe distill twice or thrice and then it is called mans bloud rectified and of this saith the Philosopher the winde hath carried him in his belly And so haue you two Elements exalted in the vertue of the fifth Essence to wit water and aire And this is the second apparition of that secret Spirit in the forme of aire of which another Philosopher saith This is truly humane bloud the true Celandine in which the secrets of nature are hid c. It followeth Thereafter take the foresaid substance which remaineth like pitch and separate all the superfluous oyle by a glasse Alembicke vntill that no oyle remaine And then it will be a blacke dry substance which powder well and grinde well with humane bloud rectified and let it so stand for the space of three houres Thereafter distill and then it is called the fiery water and doe in the same manner the second time and then it is called the fiery water rectified And so haue you three Elements in the vertue of the Quintessence to wit aire fire and water And so appeareth the third apparition of that secret Spirit in forme of fire But because this Philosopher maketh no mention of the separation of one Element from another and this I thinke is because the separation of the airy Element is not necessary to desire to follow the whole worke But who wil separate it to vse it for the vertue described by the Author of the secret Spirit many Philosophers haue told the manner But if you read the manner of the separation of the foure Elements of Celandine described by many Authors chiefly by Philip Vlstadius in his Heauen of Philosophers there you shall finde the manner of the said separation therefore I will not enlarge my selfe otherwise to write it And more I will say that the Philosopher who hath written the separation of the Elements of Celandine is that same of the secret Spirit who would serue himselfe vnder the name of Celandine that is the gift of the Heauen and that this is true you shall find described the vertues of these Elements word by word as those of the secret Spirit in the fifth apparition outward And the like did another vnder the name of humane bloud And as it is aboue spoken at full it is no matter of the names otherwise because all doe vnderstand one onely thing Now followeth here a most pretty glosse worthy to be noted vpon this passage of 3. houres the which will giue great light to the children of the truth and it saith thus And in that space is melted all the white volatill Salt which is in the blacke earth with the foresaid water and the water becommeth more sharpe and burning which whiles it is distilled it carrieth with it all this Salt volatill and spirituall and flieth out in the stilling The which Salt is called fire and therefore this water is called fiery of the which Salt the names are these the Salt of the yolkes of eggs the Starre Diana the morning Starre the flying Eagle the Secret of Nature and infinite other names Therefore Mercury is sublimed and made Salt and so when you heare in the bookes of Philosophers any thing of these names know that it is no other thing but the honored Salt and in it there are more than fifty names And so oft rectifie vntill that it destroy all things by burning Followeth After take the said blacke substance and calcine it in a furnace of reuerberation vntill it become like lime and with this lime mixe the fiery water rectified and distill it and then it will be a water of life rectified And so haue you the foure Elements rectified and purified with the fifth Essence and with the Spirit of the fifth Essence and this is the water of life which is sought in the worke And here endeth the separation of the foure Elements with the fourth apparition of the secret Spirit in an earthly forme as more cleerely appeareth in this glosse which followeth vpon that place vntill it become like lime which saith And this shall be when all superfluities and foule humidities shall flye out and be separated by the flame of fire and no otherwise and the lime shall not be white but blacke rusty And this is the true earth of the Philosophers which is called the secret of the Stone in this lurketh the hid gold and this hid gold cleansed from his earthlinesse and filth I haue touched with mine owne fingers