OF THE NATURE OF THINGS, ~ NINEBOOKS: Written by Philipp T beophraflus of Hobenbeim, CALLED. PARACELSUS: baal n- wry, Foe h. The Titles: of the Nine Bookes.. (Generations { Growths Confervations | | Life: | of thes Death 2of Naturall shings, Renewing | \Z ‘ranfimutations _ | Separations |. ut’ | Signatures Jr London, Printed by RichardGotesy for Thomas Willians, at the Bible in Little-Britain, 1 650. fepasenaes abe shadssnen NING BOOKS” Witton: by! Philo, Foenibraptuss L HK ohepbeitins Gilled/PARACELSUS,: To the honeft aad wife ma; Ful Winakgifteiner: of Friburge., ‘his aioe! intimate friend, and dear tee 4 fe tert 7. all health. . abat. I a (1 molt, inti- mate Friend, and dear brother fatisfia LYOUR friendly, and, daily nequeltss, ex prefedin your: “frequent Lgttens,,60) me:and {ecing: than inyourlaft Lst=+ ters: you do earne(y,and acrteoul. ly. invite me toyyou,if it, wese conve faz nientThe Epiftle _ - ‘nent (Leannot differnble wich you) yet by réafon of many hitiderances I cannot:but as for your other requeft, . vizx.that I fhouldgive youfomieclear Inttructions,I cannot deny you,but am conftrained to gratifie youthere- ~ ins know the honefty of your mind, and that you do willingly hear or fee any thing that is new or wonderfull in this are. | know alfo that you have fpent good part of your eftate and life init. Becaufe therefore you have expreffed much good will, and bro- therly fidelity.towards mee, | cannot forget either; but am conftrained to: be thankfull, and, if I never {ee you more; to leave a brotherly legacy to: you,and yours,as‘a remembrance of of mee.For I will not here: only an- fwer,and cleerly infttu@ you concer- | ning thofe points only of which you have asked me; but wil alfo dedicate mi a : . Dedicatory. . : a Book to you, which I will call, Of the Nature of things, and will divide it into nine little books. Jn this book ' 1 will fatisfieall ‘your requefts, and -- further then you demanded : -al- though haply you will much won- der, and perhaps doubt whether all thefe things are true that J {hal write, But doe not fo, yea beleeve them not to be fpeculations,and theories, but pradicall, and proceeding from ex- perience. And although f have not . tryed all of them my felfe, yet I have them from,andhaveapprovedthem _ "by others’, and know them by that kind of experience , as alfo by the light of nature. If in fome places you cannot:underftand mee what I fhalk fay, and in fome proceffes require of mefarther explication; writetomee _ privately,and I'will.declare the mat-. ter more cléerly,and give you fuffici-: oO Aaz entTha Epis ent infteuGion, and ingelligence. AL though I beleeve you cannot well foilunderGand what] thal wrisesfeee. ‘ing [ know. you:asela, well qualified and gifted by God with arts; anda good undarftanding, Moresver,you have knownmy mindandmeaning, and therefore will quickly, and-eafily underfandme, Now hope,andido not donbe:; thatryou wilirefped-this prefent worke,. commended to, you; and cftem. of it according: to: ing worth,and sot apalldivulge i,’ bus keepiit invgueat feceelit for your felfe, andiyouus;. as indeed itis ahidi, and gueattreafure, an.excellent gem, andi preotiousthing, whichisnottobe.caft: to fivineyiieSophitters, atid consem= ness ofa goodmatyrall arts, and fe: csets 5. who, are wvonthy: neithen to: reacahem;muich.lhffatohawe,know, : on utideritandthéem: And&lchougty. _ this . Dedicatory, this book bée very little, confiftitig of few words,yet it is full of many; and great feerets. For I do tiot here write out of {peculation, atid theorie, but . pradtically out of the light of nature; and experience, left I fhould burden you,and make you weary with many" words,&c, herefore moft deare friend, and loving brother , feeihy I have wrote this book cutof eve ta: you alone,and tono body elfe, F-bés feech you that -you will keep it.as'a thing of value, anda great feéret;and not let'it goe. ont of your hands a. longas youtivesandat your deat, bedueathit:in like manner ¢o yout children, & heirs, thacthéy al ma this book fecretly; whichdlie: kee thal articularlydefireoftheny thee. they. wilnot lex it gor out of your fanily at any timio,and bemade pubs lique, :fo 4s to come to thé handgof | "SophieThe Epp: Sophifters, & {coffers, who contemn all things, which arenot agreeable to them,and indeed detra&t from them: Thefe are pleafed onely with what is their own, as indeed all fools are wont to bee,whom their owne tayes onely ‘pleafe, not any thing which is ano- thers , hating all kind of wifdome. Wherefore they account wifdomas folly:bec.nothing doth the any good they know the ule ofnothing As one workman cannot ufe thein{truments of another; fo.afoolecan ufe no wea- ns better then his ownefticke, °or oughes; and there is no found plea- {anter to him:then the ringing: of his: own bell, Wherefore moft dear bro- therbe'you faithfully. .admonifhed,,. as [have entreated'you,andido what: Thaveéenjoined you , which I: hope: . . syouywill,:and you fhall-doe whatis. Tight-and well: . Farewell with. the: protedion of God. Dated at Villacumn in the year, Li3.1 Soboeostessereroesesss: aubeane sete ehancoeeaos FSET SEEE TES EELS ELIE S aererennonanedeeoeenentseeriet OF THE NATVRE -. OF Things. THE FIRST BOOKE. Ofte generations of Natural! things. SBD He generation ofall natural things ‘The genérati2 BEAN is twofold: Naturall, and with > of things. SY and are ripned through heat,and mioifture, : G2SeO which is fufficiently demonftrated by rain, and the heatfof the fun. For noman can deny that rain doth make the Earth fruitful, and it is granted by all, that all fruits are ripened by the fun, Seeing Lis. IR Ofthe Nature of things; ay Seeing therefore this is by divine ordination natu- Sea rally poffible, who can gain-fay, or not beleeve that things, 7 aman isable, through the wife, and skilfult Art of Alchymie, to make that which is barren, fruitfull,and that whichis crude, to ripen,and all things to grow and to beincreafed. For the Scripture faith, that God God hath fubé fubjected all creatures to man, and put them into-bis aa a orn hands as being his own, that hee might ufe them for " his neceffity, and'rule over the fifh of the fea, fowles of the aire, and all things upon the Earth,nothing ex- cepted. Wherefore man imigh well rejoice that God. thould fo endow him with the excellency of Nature, that all the creatures ohGod {hould be forced to obey, and be fubject to him, efpecially the whole Earth,and all things. which are bred,live,and move in, and upon it. Since therefore wee fee with our eyes, andare taught by daily experience , thatby how much the oftner, & more abundantly therain doth moiftenthe earth,and the fun doth again with its heat and warmth dry it,(0 much the fooner doe the fruits of the Earth come forth and are ripened »yeaall fruits doe cleerly row, and increafe,what time of the yeer foever it bes et no man henceforth wonder, that the Alchymift The artificial _ alfobya manifold imbibition, and diftillation fhould sfnertion of not doe the fame. For whatelfeisrainburtheimbibi- — * tion ofthe Earth? and the heat of the Sun , but the: diftillation ofthe un,whichdrawes up thofe humi- ° dities again? Wherefore I fay itis pofible by fucha kind of Arts even in the midle of Winter to bring: forth green Herbs., Flowers, and other fruit,through: Earth,and Water, out of the feed, and root #1f then: this:can-bee done in all Herbs, and flowers , it may alfobee done in many other like things, asin all mie : ; acral46 ‘Ofthe Nature of things, Liu. ik neralls,whofe imperfect metalls by vertueof a mine- rall water may beebrought to maturity through the _ dnduftry,and Arvof a skilfull Alchymitt. ganenee In like manner may all Marcafites, Granati, Zineta, (albwhich carry with them crude’Gold,and Silver, ) béeforipened, thatthey may bee equalized -to the moftrich veins of Gold, and Silver,only by this Art. Soalfo the Elixir,and tin¢tures of metals are brought to maturity, and perfected. What the pe , 5ecing therefore,as it hath been aid, moifture, and ern oft heat doe ripenall things, and make them grow, Let man Ggnifies. none wonder, that the beard, haire, or nailes ofa ma- lefactor hanging on a Gibbet,or Wheel do for a long time grow, neither let it be accounted fora fign of his innocency,as the ignorant beleeve;for this is naturall, arid from natural caufes.. For whileftthatany:moi- fture remains in hit, his beard, hzire,and nailes grow; eventill the fecond ycar,or till hee bee wholly putre- fied, &c. : ‘Wee miuttal(o know, that there.are many things that grow for ever. and are increafed in bigneffe , weight,arid vertue,in the Water,and Earth, in which they continue good, andefficacious, as are Metals, Marcafites, Cachymie, Talka, Granuty, Antimony, ‘The augmens Bifemuta, Gemmes, Pearles, Corals, all Stones,and tain ©- Clay. So.alfo it may be ordered, that Gold may grow, and bee increafedin weight, and body, if ot itbeeburyed inthe Earth looking towards the Eaf, - and-bee alwaies foiled with thefrefh urine ofa man, HowGold andipigeonsdung. may be gente - Je igpoffibleal(o that Gold, through induftry,and: glaffe, skillof anexpert Alchymift may bee fo far aes > : that -Arfenica, TalkayCachymie,Bifensuta, Antimonies Bic,‘ L13,1L Of the Nature of things: that it nay growin glaffe like a tree, with many wonderfull boughs, and leaves,which indeed, is :plea , fant to behold, and moft wonderful. --: 35% . The tproceffe is this, Let Gold bee calcined: Aqua Regis, tillit becomes akind of chalke y which loforbicall put into a gourd glaffe, and poure upon it good new — Aqua Regis, fo that it may cover it foure fingers breadth, then again drawit off, with the third de- ree of fire, untill no more afcend. _ The water that is diftilled off, poure on againe, then diftill ir off a? gaine. This doe fo long untill thou feeft the Gold to rifein the glaffe, and grow after the manner ofa tree, _ having many boughes, and leaves : and: fo there is “made of Golda wonderful,and pleafant fhrub,which the Alchymitts call their Golden hearb, and the Phi- lofiphers Tree.In like manner youmay proceed with Silver,and other Metalls,yet fo that their calcination bee madeafter another manner , by another Aqua (fortis, which leave to thine experience. If thou art skilledin Alchymie , thou fhalt not erre in thefe things. : x. Know alfo that any flint taken out of River watery To make a1i {and put into a gourd glaffe, having River water apnea ftang poured tpon it, that thie glaffe may bee filled 3° "7" which Wateris againe to bee diftilled off as long as a drop will arife, and the Stone dryed, and the Glaffe againe filled with this Water, and a- gainz diftilled off, and this done fo long till the Glaffe bee filled with this Stone ) may in a few dayes by the Art of Alchymie bee made very reat, which the Archeius of the Waters could carce doe in many yeers. ;8 Ofthe Nature of things, Lin If thenthoubreake the Glaffe, thou fhalt have ell in the forme of the-Glaffe, as if it had ut into the Glaffe, and although this bee ere ee yet it isa a isftrange,and won der full L IBIIT. egees gesenseeeteteetsceseete se ‘e Sereeseeeeesesteees Wraith either senna OF THE N ATV. R EB OF Things: “ THE THIRD BOOK. or the prefervations of Namal things. ethings may bee preferved 5 ‘abd ‘ep from harm, it isneceffary in the firft place 'toknow what isanenemic tothem,that fo Ss cheymay be} preferved: fr i that, Se not be tobe knowne. hurt, or corrapte by it either in fubftitice, vertiié, power, or any way. whatfoever. “Much ‘therefore’ in, this cafe depends upon the knowing of the. Eneniie of all Natural chines; Fot who can. take heed’ of danger when hee dot! ‘not know whit cai Rust hie’ c2 7 ‘ruly ‘The enemies of things are"Of the Nature oftbings; = L138, 11M Truly no body; Wherefore iz is neceffary to know ories Enemie, For there are many forts of Enemies. ‘Wherefore it is as neceflary to know evill things,as good things:for who can know what is good, without the knowing of what is evill?Truly no. body.So no- man can know what a bleffing healch is,thatwas.néves fick. Who.knows what joy is, that was never heavy, or fad? And who. can. rightly underftand what God: is, who knew nothing of the Devil? Wherefore when God made-known to: usthe Epemie of our Soul,viz, the Devill,, he'alfo fignified to us the-Enemie of our Deah is che life, viX, Death, which is the Enemie of our body,, enemie of ghings, Thereis:a- Contrariet found in all thingss of our health, and the Enemie of: Medicinall, and all naturall things :. alfO-he made known to-us how, and! by. which means it may be fhunned.. For as. there. is no difeae againft which thereis not created’,. and: found fome. remedy, which fhould cure,and-expell it: fo alfo there: is alwaies one thing ordained againft: another,one,. Water.againftanother,one Stone againft another, one Minerall.againftanother, one Poifonar. gainft another, one Metallagainft another : ahd fo in many more’ things,all which itis not requifité here to: Yecites. ae Now liow, and by what means every thing is. to: bee peeferved, and kept from hurt; wee. mutt know, that many things are, to. bee preferved in. the Earthy d efpecially, allrodtés doe for.a long time temaine fe Earth witout lofing theirvertue,or being cor-: ¢ mannek-herbs, flowers, -arid all fruites: continue.in-thé water incorrupséd , and grcen: there. ‘areal many. fruits ani gues ts may Be preferved® annet of purrefation,, untill new. women mignon! esa see eis 7 ‘So . faction, better then common Mummie. Lili. Of the Nature of things. © Solfo flefli,and blood which indeed are putrefied, and growunfavoury quickly, are preferved ‘in ‘cold new aud freth fountaine-water , may beturned into a quinteffence, and bee forever preferved from pu- trefaGtion, and anill favour, without ‘any balfome. And: this ‘doth noronly preferve the fleth, and blood of dead things, But alfo of the living, wherefore Mans: body may bee preferved frony all''manner of putre- How to prez ferve flefh and’ faction, and divers difeafes that proceed.from putre- Now that’ blood may be preférved of it felf from putréfa@ion, and:ftinking,and not as.aqiiinteffence; & fo as ir may’ preferve thie blood of the living(as we now faid) thou: tuft follow this proceffe. °° aa . 4 ve blood, fountain-water,and not only fo,but by the addition of" * Let theblood bee fepardted from its flegm, which How the Ar? i ed of its. andis driven 1 canum of ma is {eparated of its.felfe,’ arid is driven ‘to the, upper foe a part.’ This watef pouré gently dit of the velelLand prepared, in {toad of it putas tviuch:of the water‘of ‘the’ fale of blood, which water‘weeteach to make in our Chi-- rurgerie | That water doth prefently mixe with: the: blood; and preferves it f0, tharie will ever bee’ pus "8 trefied, or grow unfavory, but contiiiue ‘many ‘years: as freth; and very: red as it was the firftday :-and this: indeed isa great wonder. But if thou deft not know: howto makethis water,or haft it notinreadinefS,then: poure upon it fo much of the beft; and’ moft-excel- Feat balls : blood isthe-balfome: of balfomes, and'is called: the- Arcannm of blood,and it is {6 wonderful, and of firch: - reat Vertue, that it is incredible to be fpoken;where-: ae fhalt. conceale itasa great fecret in. Phy-- CK... & we ad PN . t 7 wee Sd cit cz Tv: fiie,and this.will'dde the famies’ Now'this: ~ °az Of the Nature of things. Lean; How. metalls — In.preferwing of Meralls, their Enemies are firft to spay. be preles~ bee known, that formuch the better they may- bee What aré’ the prefesrved from harme, ‘The ghiefett. Enemies of cnemicsof — Merallg,are all: (harp corroding. Waters, all'Corro- car five things, all Salts, crude Sulphur, Antimony , and Mercury. But that you may know particularly how they -fhew their enmity, it isthus. Sharp Was, ters, and fuchithings, as,are. Corrofive.,. and Salts fhew their enmity, in that they-mortifie, diffolve, cale cine, corrupt Metals and reduce them to no- thing. How the fume Cinde Sulphur fhevs its enmity.in the fume thereof. ofSulpher |, for by. its fume. ittakes away. from Copper its co- alin lgury and; re and.makes.it white. Krom white ~ etalls, as Silver, Tinne, Lead, and‘ Iron it takes away. the. whitencfle, and.makesthemred, and yel- lowifh. . From. Gold it takes away; that faire amie able. yellowneffe, and golden: colour, and makes; “Gn black, andfo, foule., that: nothing .can bee more. foule. neti he aE imoe _ Antiniony- fhews:its enmity in this, in that all Me=. He "heiler aed talls with ich itis, melted, ox mixed, it {poiles,. difcolours me- carryeth away, andprcys upon,and alfo norunhiké to a Sulphur», by:1ts,fume-it-takes away, from, Metalls their que, anall colour’, and brings-in. an- others. : _ wideflver Quick flyer: dath-deftgoy Metalls npen this. 2e- Siroyes me- Compt, in tharig-entersinto, Moralis, with..which it is salls.and bow. joined, ang difflwes:chemn:; fo, as. tharit- makes-an- Amalgamaofithem: Wohereforethe furrie thereof, whichwae- : lour, Liam. Ofthe Nature of things: oF Jour, to bee white: but it is the greateft enemie of all to Iron, andStecl; for if common Mercury doe ‘but’ ouch a barre of Iron, orSteel,or that be but fmeared over with Mercurial oile, that bar will afterward be broken like glaffe, and be bowed; which indeed is a eat fecret, and deferves to be kept exceeding clofe. in like manner muft the Loadftone be kept from Mercury, for the like enmity it thews to that‘as to Iron. For any Loadftone that Mercury hath ‘DUE prow the load touched,or which hath been fmeered with Mercurial one imay oyle, or only put into Mercury ; will never draw {Povlede Tron more. Letno man wonder at this , for there isa natural canfe fori, and it is this, v#%,. becaufe Mercury extracts the {pirit of lron,which was hid in ‘the Loadftone , which fpirit draws the {pirit of Iron toit: and this isnot only inthe Loadftone; bur in - all naturall things‘elfe, fo thar alwaies a frrange fpi- ritin a body which is not ofthe fame Nature with infelfe, drawes to it {elf a body which is ofthe - fame Nature : and this wee mult knowtobee fo, not only in'the Load-ftone, ‘but. alfo in all other - natural things,as Mineralls, Stories, Hearbs, Roots, - Men, and Brutes, : _ That Metalls have anenmity,: and hate one the waar -ancigs- other ‘naturally,as you {ee in'Lead,whichis naturally thy cere ie avery greateneiny to Gold. For it breaks ‘aftnder gaits chem- all parts of Gold, it makes it foule, ‘weak, {pottes, flv. and deltcoyes it evento death, more then any other et ° 2 : Tin alfo hares, and is an enemy to all Meralls -'for itmakes them bafe,immialleable, hard, unprofitable, if'it'bee ‘mixed with them inthe fire,or in‘melting. _ Site therefore you have nowheard of | eeeOfthe Natuveof things, Lu. mm of Metalls, you muft next know their prefervatives, which keep them from all manner of hurt,or corrup- tion, alfo ftrengthen them in their Nature, and cat vertue, and exalt their colour. a fervedin byes Firft therefore concerning Gold, you muft know, urine, “that it cannot bee preferved better, and fairer then in boyes urine,in which Salt Armoniack is diffolved, orin water alone of Salt Armoniack. In them in time the colour.is ‘fo highly ‘exalted that it canbee sow flyer ie Skalted no higher. ee | ne "Silver cannot be better preferved then if it be-boi- Jed in common Water, or Vineger, in which Tartar ‘or Salt have been diffolved, So any old Silver, that . ismade black, and. fouled, is renewed. by. being boi- Howton Jedin thefe, waters : ‘The bett prefervative fordron may be pre-and, Stecl isthe, lard of .a-Barrow-hog. not-falred, feoed, which indeed preferves Ion, and Steel from ruft, "af once every moneth they be fineered over with it. Alfoif Iron bee melted with fixt Arfenicke, it will be How Comer £0 Fenewed and fixe, that it will like Silver nevet-con- - isprefeneh, track ruil; Goppecenay beprelerted if it, bee only mixed with fublimed Mercury, or bee {meered over ‘with the oyle of Salt,and fo it will never any-more be _. Stownoverwithverdegreae. ge ies | a Les is "Lead can no wayes bee better preferved. then in pe". cold Earth, and ina moift place’ according to the How the “Nature thereof. - The Load-ftone is preferved beft Jon here * of all with thefilings-of Iron, and-Steel, ‘for. by this meanes it is never weakened,but daily ftreng- thened... « eles i The preferv-’ Now concerning the prefervation of Salts, and.all - tion ofSshs. shings, that are ofa faltith Nature, and may be com prehended.under thename of Salt (of which there are prenenaed.t Ac Ok ae List Of the Neture of things. more then an hundred:-forts 3: you muft know that they are tobee preferved ina es dry place, and in woodden veflells, not in Glaffe, Stone, or Metals: for in-thofe they are diffolved and becomea Water, and an Amalgama which cannot be in Wood. + :: Moreover you. muft -know: how fome:kind. of ‘Waters, and Liquors prefled our of hearbs,roots,and The preferva? allother fruits, and ‘Vegetables , which doe eafily von et contract filth, and flimeas ifaskin were fpread over them ,may:be preferved, Fhefe. Waters therefore,and Liquors nanftbee putupinta:glaflesthat are tiarrow towards the topy and wide belowy.and:the glaffes ba filled to the top, then adde a few drops of ‘oyl Olive; that all the Water, or Liquor may bee covered. {3 the Oyl; will fim on the top; and preferve'the- Lis vor, or: Water alongitime from filtbor ime. Bot there.is no. Water, orliquoitif-ir-bee. covetedrwith * oy! , ‘that will-bee mufty,or.ofan ill favour. 2°? ~ -By ‘this means alfo may two forts.of Water,’ of Liquors of Wine bee kepz apart in one yeffell ,: that they-miay not bee mixéd: and rior only two forts, biit three; four; five, and-more, if only theoyle’bee ‘pit betwixt: For they are fevered by. the Oyle; as by wall,which wil not fuffer them to be joined together, and united, for oyland water aretwo'contraries, .and neither can be mixed with cheother: Boras heDyple will not fuffer the Wateis tobe united 4 onithiecon- trary,the Water will nor fufferthe Oyls to Be'mixed. . Now-to preferve Cloarhi, and. Garments. from prow clothes moths ,. there: is ho better” way.then with -Ma> are preferved, fick, Gasiphiie Amber -Gryfe ;: and Muske and. Cixets: .whielvlindded. sis: the: bettiof all; which doth not only Prelate chen ftom moths, : butOf the Nature of things; = Libary bit alfo drives away moths,ahd all other vermine, 48. Fleas, Lice, &c.: Howall rs _ Alfoall manner of Woods,as in Houfes,Bridges;. oe “*Y Ships,or wherefoever they be, may bee preferved {0 be preferved, 2 : 2 a . i that they will never bee putrefied, either in waters,or under waters,or out of waterin the earth , under. the earth or above the earth, whetherthey be fetin the rain, or wind, aire,fnow, orice, in winter,or fummer; alfo that they be net worm-eaten,nor that any worms may breed in them whenfoever they bee cut. Now this prefervativeis agreat Arcanum againft all kinds of putrefactions, yea {0 excellent a fecret that none may bee compared toit. And it is nothing elfe but Fised oyle of Oyte of Sulphur,. the eae isthis. Let Sulphur” common yellow Sulphur bee poms » and put into a. Gourd glaffe, upon: whichlet there bepoured - fo-muchof the ftrongelt Agua fortés,that may cover it three fingers breadth: then draw it oft by diftilla- tion,three,or four times; and laft of all, till irbe dry... Let the Sulphur that remaines: in the bottome be- ing ofa black, {ad:red colour,be put upon matble, or in.a glaffe, andi: will cafily bee diffolved into Oyle,, whichis a grearfecret in preferving. of Wood: from: putrefacton, arid wormes. For this Oyle doth fo tinge the wood: that is. nointed. with it, that it can: never bee wathed our of it~ againe. .Many more things may beepreferved with-this Oil of Sulphur;, from: putrefation, as.ropes, cords in fhips,and mafts of fhips, in.carts, fifhing-nets, and’ gins: which ’ Fowlers,and Hunters.ufe,and fuch like, which are of-. tentimes ufed in waters, or raine, . and areotherwife eafily rotted and-broken;{o al(olinnen clothes,. and: many otherfuchlike things. °° = : ‘it : C4 Lill Ofthe Nature of things) ay. Alfo youmuft know how potable things are’to be Which arepo? re ie which wee underftand Wine hoot sable hing Meade, Vineger, and Milke.. Now if we would are preereds preferve thefe from hatm, ‘and in their full Vertue, it: : is very neceffary that you know well what is an E- nemietothem, :and that is menftruous women: fori. 5 if they doe’ handle the forefaid things , or haveswhich Paes any thing to doe about them, orlooke, or breath upon them, they corruptthem: For Wine is thereby changed, and become thick,Beer , and Mead grow fowre, Vineger grows dead, and lofeth its fharpneffe: and -Milke grows fowre,and curded, ~ a This therefore you muft well know’, before you come to preferve-each of thefe in particu- ary Wine is preferved chiefly by Sulphur, and the ine Oyle of Stilphur,by which all Wine i bee prefer- patcly veda long time, fo that itbe neither thick, nor any Sept. other way changed. . Beere is preferved with Oyle of Cloves, if fome Beereisprefees drops thereof bee put into it, to every Gallon two ved with oyle or three drops, or, which is better, with the Oyl of fl" the root of Avens, which doth preferve Beer from fowring. Meade is preferved with Oyl of Sugar, which muft Mead is pres bee, ufed as the Oyle of Cloves abovelhid. ene : ineger is preferved with Oyle of Ginger, which 2°, "4°: muft bet ufed as the Oyle of Cloves above, Boe Vai Milke is preferved with Oyle of Almonds made How Milkeis by expreffion, which muft bee ufed as the Oyle of preferved, Cloves abovefaid. Cheefe is preferved with St. Johns wort from Cheefe is pre= worms, for ifit doth but touch it, no worme will ved with Sez D. d2 breed Johns wort,a8 How Honey is to be prefervede What its chief mnemic is, Ofthe Natureoftbings; = Las, 1) ‘bteed'init: and if there ‘bee ainy:in before; it will kill them, and-anake thei fall out‘of the Cheefe.. SEEEEESLESEESESESS ES 54Eh0bESH SS ~ Honey-hath no peculiar prefervative, onely that it Oe SESE Se See Se So ee Se Se: may bee kept from its Enemie. Now its chiefEne- Liz.qy, fae cS a mie is bread : for if a little bread made of Corne bee eet Sots : but put, or falnit into it, allthe Honey is turned PFSPISEOSAERHEEE ECE EESES ES OF THE NATVRE Of Things. into Emmots, and foiled, THE FOURTH BOOK. Ofthe life of Naturall things, HO mancandeny that Aire gives life to alt Wh ule the things, bodies, and fubftances , that are Ait ¢fo%2e produced , and generated of the Earth, things, Now you muft know what, and what raanner of thingthelife of every thing in: particular is; andicis nothing elfe then a fpirituall effence , a Whae the life thing’ that is invifible, impalpable, a fpirit, and {piri °ftingsis. tuall. Wherefore there is no corporeal thing,which What shings hath not a fpirit lying hid in it, as al( a life,which, as "lif: Dd3 IOf the Nature of things, Li3, Iv; I tid before, is nothing but a fpirituall thing. For not only that hath lite which moves, and ftirres , as Men, Animalls, Vermine of theearth , Birds in the Aire, Fithinthe fea, buralfo all corporeall , and fubftantiall things. For here wee muft know that God in the beginning of the Creation of all things, crea~ tedno body at all without its {pirit,which it fecretly contains in it. . Whsrisths For whatis the body without a {pirit ? Nothing wise the Spirit 2 all. Wherefore the {pirit contains init fecretly the and the Body. vertue,.and power of the thing, and not the body. For in the body there is-death, and the body is ate fuubject of death, neither is any.elfe.to be fought for in the body, but death. TheSpiritne- For that may feverall wayes bee deftroyed , and ver dyes, corrupted, but the fpirit cannot. For the living {pis rit remains for ever, and alfo is the fubje& of lite : atid preferves the body alive, but inthe ruine of the body it is feparated from it , and leaves behind ita dead body,and returnes to its place, from whence it came, viX, into the Chaos,and the Aire of the u per and lower Firmament.. Henceit appears that there are divers fpirits, as wellas: divers bodies, ‘Thedivifonof For there are {pirits Cele ftiall, Infernall, Humane, eee ae Metalline, Mineral, of Salts, of Gemmes, of Mar= variety of bo- Cafites, of Arfenicks, of Potable things, of Rootes, dies, of Juices, of Flefh,of Blood, of Bones, &c, Where- ‘The Spirie is fore alfo know that the {pirit is. moft trily the life, Cele af all and balfome of all Corporeall things: But now wee ding, will proceed to the fpecies, and brity defcribe toyou - inthis place the life of every naturall thing in parti- cular. ; : . : The Eisiv? Ofthe Nature of things; 3 The life therefore of all men is nothing elfe but What the life an: Aftrall balfome, a Balfamick impreffion, and a ° ™* i celeftiall invifible Fire,an included Aire, ‘and'atin- ging fpirit of Salt. FE cannot name it more plainly, although it bee fet out by many names, And feeing wee have declared the beft, and chiefett, ‘wee fhall bee filent in thefe which are: leffe mate- rial. The life of Metalls isa fecret fatneffe, which they wasi te life have received from Sulphur, which is manifett by of Meralls is, their flowing , for every thing that flowes in the fire, fowes by reafon of that fecret fatneffe that is in it unleffe that were init, no Metall could flow, as wee fee in Tron , and Steet, which have lefle Sulphur, and fatneffe then all the other Metalls, wherefore they are of a dryer Nature then all the ref; : Thelife of Mercury is nothing elfe but the inter= ware the life nall-hear, and externall coldneffe, é.e. it makes the of Mercury is, internall part of its body hot, and the outward pesca part cold, and therefore might well‘ bee compar ofskins,. ~~ Fed: to agarment made of skins, which dotheven as Mercury make hor, and cold. For if z man wears fich a garment it makes him warme., and keeps him from the cold but if the fmooth pare of thofe skins bee put upon his naked body, it makes him cold 5. and’ is good againft too. much heat; wherefore it was @ cuftome in-ancient time,, and ftill isin fome places, to weare skins as well in- Summer, as in Winter, as againft cold in the: one, fo-againft heat inthe other: in Summerthey turn the. fmooth fide: inward, and the: hairy fide Outward; and in Winter the hairy fide inwar and . #52 Of the Nature of things. Lra.ry, the firiooth fide. outward: As therefore you have heard of the garment of skins, {0 alfo itmay bee faid of Mercury. The life of Sulphur is a combuttible, ftinking fat- neffe, for whilftit burns, and ftinks, it may be faid to bealivess: 2. : . What the life Now the life of all Salts isnothing elfe but the oFSaks ise Fivie of Aque fortis : for that water being drawne from ‘them,that which remains in. the bottome ," is i called Dead earth. ' What the life "The life of Gemmes, and. Coralls-is only their of Gemmés |, colour,which with{piric of Wine may be taken from What ‘the life of Sulphur is, and Coralls is, GP OMMs\¥al Whar the life” The life of Pearls is nothing elf but their fj lend of Pearlsiss which they Toft incalcination oe Wha she lif Thelife of the Loadftone:is the -fpirit: of: Tron, the oad~ whic may bee extracted, and taken away with {piri : ‘ine, t oe Petar As life of Flintes is a mucilaginous mat- ‘The life of The life of Marcafites, Cachymia “Talcum wie Cobalvum,Zimri,Granata,Wilmat, and of Antimo- ny isatinging Meralline {pirit. « : Tie lite of The lite of Arfenickes, Auripigment, Operment, Arlenicks. Regloar, and fuch likematters,is'a Minerall,andco- agulated.poifone bey ult tet ad Teli of The life of Excrements,/.ei0f mans dung,or beatts * dung;is their ftirking fimgll, for this being loft they redead, : ar : The life of The: life of Aromaticall things, v%, of Muske. age Amber. -Gryle, Civet, aul wiles yeclds:a firong, goad., and {ieee melt, ds--nothing elfe: bur thar gratefull odour:forif they-lofé this they are: dead and of no ufe. The LizIV. Of the Nature of shiagi; = Thelife of fier things, as of Sugar, Honey; Thelife of . Manna, Gaffiajand fach ine isin their tingintgsand tabs Hine , tile f weetnefle, for ifthat fweetneffe bec taken froth them by diftilling,or fubliming they are déad,ungto- fitable, andnothing worth, =, The life of all Rozzens, as Athtier, Turpentine, rhe near Gumme,is the muciligindus iintitig-tachiefle;, which Rozees, * - ives that excellent vernith tothem all : for when they will yeeld no more vernith, and lofe their fhining, they are dead. . ; ‘The life of Hearbs,Roots Apples, and other fuch,The life of - Tike fruit,is nothing elfe but the liquor of the Earth, 7" which they lofe of their own accord, if they do bur want water,and Earth. - The life of Wood is a certaine Rozzen,+ for Thelifeof ; ‘any wood if it want Rozzen can live no Jon Woods fe : - The life of Bones is the liquor of Mummie. eee oe ‘The life of flefh, and blood is nothing elfe but the The i of fet fpirit of Salt, which preferves them from ftinking, and putrefaction, and is of it {elfeas water feparaced Norn he life of El ft Thelife of low concerning the life of Elements, you muft Tuk o know thatthe life of Water is its Tunnog. For (0 Blemencd whenby the coldneffe of the Firmament is.1s con- . gealed into ice, it is dead, and its mifchievouf- neffe is taken from it, that ne body can bee drowned init. : - The life of Fireis Aire,for Aire makes fire burne What, the life with greater vehemency ,. and heate : Alfo there of Fise isy cometh forth from all Firea kind of Aire, which willblow out a candle, anddrives up afeather, as you may dayly fee before your eyes. nae ¢e the34 Ofthe Natureofthings, LB, 1V4 "the flanie of Fire is choaked if it bee fo ftope up, that it can neither receive in Aire,and let out its own Aire. « . | Whatehe life "The Aire lives by,and oft felfe,and gives lifetoall | of Airis, other things. Whatthelife - The earth of it felfeis dead, but the Element of it ofEarhis is aninvifible,and feeret life.. . —— oe NATVRE OF Things, THE FIFTH Book,’ Of the Death, or rnine of all things. He death of all natural! things is nothing What Deaths, elfe but an alteration and. deftruétion of their powers,and vertues, a predominancy of that which is evill, and an overcoming of what is good, an abolifhing of the former nature, and generation ot anew, and another nature. For you muft‘know that there are many things that, whilft they are alive, have in thern feverall vertues, but when ‘they are dead retaine little or nothing of Ee 2 theirono: Antimonys Of the Nature of things, their vertue, but become unfavory, 'and unprofita- ble. Se onthe contrary many things,while& they: live, are bad, but after. they axeldead,snd corcupted, pnts manifold power, and vertue,and ate very: fefull. Wee could bring many examples to con- firme this, but that doth not belong to. dur pur- po. Bur that I may nor fem to write. accor: ding to ming owsi opinion only, byt out of my.¢x- perience, it will bec neceflary ‘that F produce-one example, with which T fhall- filence thofe Sophifters,. who fay, that wee can receive nothing from dead. things, neither muft wefeck , or expect to find any thing in them. The reafon is, becaufé they do efteem: nothing of the preparations of Alchymifts,by which: many fuch like great fecrets are found out. For looke: upon Mercury; crude Sulphur, and crude Antimony, - as they are taken out of their Mines, é.e. whileft they are living, and {ee what little vertuethere is in them,. how flowly they put forththeir vertues, yea they do more hurt, then good, and are rather poifon, thena: Medicine. But if through the induftry of askilfall Alchymift,they. bee corrupted in their firft fubftance,, Tee and wifely. prepared ( 7/2. if Mercury be coagulated, Sulphue and precipitated, fublimed, diffolved,.and turned into an oyle; if Sulphur bee fublimed, calcined, reverbera-. ted, andurned:into an oyle 5 alfo, if Antimony bee. fublimed, calcined; and reyerberated and turned into: “ gyle) you fhall, fee how u(cfull they are, haw.much; firength, and vertne they. have, and how-quickly, they put forth,and thew theie efficacy, which.no man 1s able to feak enpughin the commendation of,or tode(cribe.. For many are tlicit vertues, yea more: shenswall ever bee found.out by any. aad : : t Lin,Ve- | Liny. Of the Nature of things, 37 let every faichfull Alchymift, and Phyfitian fpend their whole lives in fearching intothefe three: For they willabundantly recompenfe him for all. his lar hour, ftudy, and cofts. : 4 But tocome to particulars, and to: write particue Tarly of the death, and ‘deftruction of every naturall thing, and whatthe death of every thing is,and after” what manner every. thing is deftroyed, you muft know thereforein the firlt placc, thatthe death of Wiatthe man is without doubt nothing'elfe, but an end of his j,, ; daily work, the taking away of the Aire,the decaying. of. the Naturall balfome, the extinguifhing of the natural light, and the great_feparation. of the three fubftances, vi, the body, foule, and {pirit , and theirreturn from whence they-catne. For be- auf a-naturall man is.of the earth , the Earth alfo is his Mother, into which hee muft return,and there muft lof his natural earthly: fleth,and fo be regenera- ted at the laftday in a new celeitiall, and purified fieth, as Chrift faid to Nicodemus when hee came to: him by night.. For thus muft thefe words bee under- ftood of regencration. . ‘The death, and deftrudtion. of Metalls is the dig What the de: joining of their bodies, and: fulphureous fatneffe, meallsis, which may beedone feverall ways, as by calcination, reverberation, diffolution, cementation, and fublima- tion, . Butthe calcination of Merallé isnot of one fort: Calcination of for one is made with Salt,another with Sulphur,ano- sigiq) ther with Aqua fortis, and another with com- mon. Sublimate, and. another with Quickfil- — : Wha Caleis ~ Galcination with Saltis-that the. Metall be made nation with a Ecg intoSasis,38 Of the Nature of things, ~~ Lia, into very thin plates,and ftrowed with Salt, and ce- mented. - Calcination —_ Calcination with Sulphur is, that the Metall bee with Sulphtt. made into thin plates,and ftrowed with Sulphur, and reverberated. Calcinaion —Calcinaion with Aqua fortis , is that the Me: a Asus for- call bee made very final, and diffolved in Aqua for- ; té, and precipitated in it. Calcgétion . Calcination with fublimed Mercury is this, that — *. the Metall bee made into thin plates, and that the Mercury bee put into an earthen veflell narrow to- wards the top, and wide at the bottome; and then let it befet into a gentle fire made with coales,which muftbeeblowed a little untill the Mercury beginto fume, and a white cloud goe forth of the mouth of , the veffel, then let the Plate of the Metall bee put into the top of the veffel, and forthe fablimed Mer- cury wil penetrate the Metall, and make it as brittle catcnation. *5 ie of coal. 7 alent alcination with: Quick-filver, is that the Me- with Quiet tall bee made very hha and thin, and be amalgania- ted with Quick. filver, and atterward the Quick-filver bee ftrained through Leather,and the Metall remain inthe Leather like chalke, or fand. . Divers cher, Now befidesthefe mortifications of Metalls, and oes qrone deftructions of their lives, know alfo that there are on yet mores For ruft is the death ofall Iron, and Steel, -and all vicriall,burnt braffe is mortified Copper + all precipitated, fublimated, calcined Cinnabar is mor~ tified Mercury, all Cerufe, and Minium of Lead is’ mortified Lead;all Lazure is mortified Silver: alo al] Gold from which its tin@ture , Quinteffence , Roz- zen, Crocus, Vitriall , or Sulphur is extra@ed, is. dead, Liz,v, Of the Nature of things. 39. dead, becaufe it hath no more the. form of Gold, but is a.white Metalllike fixed Silver. But: let usproceed to thew how Metalls may bee yet further mortified. Firft therefore of Iron,-knowW A two fold that that is mortified,and reduced into Crocus.this preparation of way. Make Steel into very thin plates: Make thefe Crocs Mar, plates red-hot, and quench themin the beft Wine- Vineger, doe this fo oftentil the Vineger hath con= tracted a confiderable redneffe, then diftil of the Vi- neger, til therebee nothing but a dry powder re- maining. This is a moft excellent Crocus Mar- tis. _ There is alfo: another way of making “Crocus Martis, which doth partly exceed the former, and is made with farre lefle cofts , and pains , and it is this. Wee yt Strow upon the plates of Steel , Sulphur, -and Tartar, being bothin alike quantiry.,; then reverbe. rate them ,'and this wil ‘produce a moft excel- lent Crocus; which muft bee taken-off from the plates... - . , _ Alfo you muft know, that every plate of Iron; or Steel, ifit bee melted with Aqua fortis, willalfo make a very fair Crocus; fo al(o it ismade with oyle of Vitriall, {pirit of Salt, Allum water ;. the waset’ of Salt Armoniacke, and 6f Salt. Nitre, as atfo with fublimated Mercury,all which mortifie Tron;. and bring it into a Crocus; but none of thefe latter -wayes. is to bee compared to: the two for mer, for they are only ufed in Alchymie, and not at all in. Phyfickes wherefore in this; ule ~ _ only the two former, andlet alone the reft. The -#0 ‘The mortifica- tion ef Cop- ete a covp itriall ot Opper is -thade te wrayes, Of the Nature of things, Li. vi The mortification of Copper,viZ, that it may be reduced into Virriall, Verdegreafe, may bee dont mahy way¢s,and there are inore proceffes in ir, yet one far better then another, arid one’ more profitable then another. Whirefore it is moft convenient hereto fetdown the beft, and moft profitable, and to bee ~ filent in the-tefti The beft therefore,the mofteafy,and exadtelt way of reducing Copperiinto Vitriallis this. Ler plates of. Copper bee dipt in fpirit of Salt, orSalt-Petre, and let them bee hanged ih the Aire until they begin tobe green;which indeed wil quick: ty be, wath off this greenneffe with cleer fountaine- water, ae with fome cloath,and wet thém - again with the fpirit of Salt, and Salt Nitre, and dd againas before, foylong until: thé warer:bee appas rently green, or. much Vitriall {wim on the top = then poure away the water, or evaporate it,and thou hafta moft .excellent. Vittiall for medicine. In Al: | -chymie there is not 2 fairer, more excellent; and:bet- tet: Vitriall. then what is ‘made by Aqua forte, or A- qua regis, or {pitit of Salt Armoniacke.And the pro- cefleisthis: .- - . oe : « ‘Let plates of Copper be melted with one of the a- Forefald ries foon asthe greene isexcracted; -and the plates dryed,let the greenelsbe taken off with the foot oka’ Hart,or fome orher way. as you pleats as Geriifeistaken off fom the plates of Lead s let shetn bee again wetted as-before; until thé plates bee whelly.confimed, thereby is-madea soft glorious Vitriall ; thot thou: canft not choofe but wonder at if. . 7 ‘How waterof re-water Petrei -Putific, 21 Sat pee aed The water of Salt Petreis made thus.:Putific, and Salt-armoni- is made, deg powder it, afterwards diffolve it of it felfein a blad- * Li V3 Of the Nature of things; ~ bladder, putin boyling water. So thoi thalt have. _ - the water of Salt Petre. oo The water of Salt Armoniacke is made thus:Cal- ‘cine Salt Armoniack, and diffolve it in a Cellar upon a Marble, and this is water of Salt Armoni- ack. . - . : _ But tomake Verdegreafe out of Copper,there ate Verdegreate divers wayes which it is nor needful bse torrecice, may be made Weg fall defcribe anly tywo,but with double pre"? 7" Ree , i aos for Pylicke 5 the other for Alchymie. The proceffe therefore of Verdegreate #9 pew in Phi tis . : a ike. plates of. Copper, which wet over. with, the Howverde“ following matter. ‘Take Honey,-and. Vineger, ofSletin py: -cach-alike quantity, of Salt.as much gs wil ferve.to,fck it be make them up into.a thick paft. Mixethem wellto~P?*"*" gether, then put them into.a reverberatory, or Pot- ters, furnace {0 long. as the Potter isburning his pots, and thou fhalt {ce the ‘matter that ftickes to the plates tobecivery black, bucletnor-that trouble thee. For. it thou fettett tha(e plates in she Aire, ail the black macter-wil in a few.days-become greed. and, ¢! know ghat; Experience jn Atte “cungerh ew, chat any dead. earch, or Gaps the Colours of or pon es.it-comes.ont of the Hire into she "EP" Aire doch quickly gssenachen colony,and leaves its mcalau which eget in whe, fee For'thechanges - ‘ofiz Of the Nature of things, Li3,V, of thofe coloursare various. For as the matter is,(o are thecolours that are made, although for the mdft part they flow from theblackneffe of the dead earth. For you that are. skilful in Alchymie fee that the dead earthof Aquafortis comes black from the Fire, and by how many more ingredients'there bee in it, by fo much the more varioufly doe the colours -. fhew themfelves inthe Aire - fometimes they feem red, as Vitriall makes them - fometimes yellow , white, green, blew : fometimes mixt,as.in the Rain- bow, or Peacocks taile. All thofe’ cololours thew _ themfelves after the death, and’ by the death of . the matter.” For in the. death of ‘all. naturall things here are fen’ other colours, whichiare chan: ged from tlic firft colourinto other colours,evety one according to its nature, and property... > *- ‘The preparaci. - Now we wil peak of that Verdegreafe which is to on of Verde- bee'tifed in Alchymie gece Of that is this, 7 : ao pe Makevery thin plates of Copper, ftrow upon them . Salt, Sulphur, and ‘Fattar ground, and mixéd toge= ther, of each.a- ‘like quantity in-a great calcining-pot. __ Then reverberate thieuy twerity foure: houires: with a ‘ fltong “Fire, birt (o thar the ‘plates of Copper do not melt, then take:chem-out,and break tle pot, and fer . the plates with the'mattee thar fticks to: them into = the Aire fora fewdayes, “and ‘the: matter upon the plates wil bee turned into a faire Vérdegreafe, whicli *“ tn all tharp Corroding waters, swaters of Exaltation, . and in Cemenis,and.in colouring of Gold, dothi tinge How 2s v- Gold,and Silver witha mhoftdeepeolour. « -’ . frum, or Cro-’ = Wow to“turtie GQoppeerinto’ Ais sfisin, which 7 eee Galt ig called: the Gracas’ of Copper y° the proceffe'is ' this’, : Let "Fhe prepatation; arid ptoceffe | L13,V. Ofthe Nature of things; Let Copper be made into thin plates, and be fmee= .° -red over with Salt madeinto apaft with the beft Vi- neger, then letit be putintoa great Crucible, and fet in awind furnace, and be burnt in a ftrong Fire fora quarter of an houre; but fothat the plates mele not : let thefe-plares being red hot bee. quenched in Vineger, in which Salt Armoniack is diffolved , al- waies halfan ounce ina pint of Vinegers let the plates bee made red hor again,and quenched in Vineger as before, alwaies {craping, ot knocking offthe {cales which fticktothe plates. after: quenching ,. into the Vineget. .1Do this fo long, until the plates of Copper bee in good part confumed by this means : then diftil off the Vineger, orlet it vapour away in an open veffel, and bge coagulated into a moft hard ftone. So thou haft the belt Crocus of Copper, the ufe whereof is in/Alchymie Many make Crecus of Copper by ex- tracting of it with the {piri of Wine, or Vineger, as they do Crocis Marts «. But. commend this way far above it. os vad cat ded Now the mortification of Quickfilver that it may The fublimatid bee fublimed, is made with Vitriall , and: Salt, wit Brof Ciel which it is mixed,and then fublimed, fo it becomes as hard as Cry(tall,and.as white as fnow:but to bring © it to a Precipitate,the' proceffeisthis: --:- ) ++. Let it firftbe calcined with the beft.4qua fortis then How te make diftil off the Aqua fortis, and do this about five times rar Disphores until the Precipitate become to bee of a faire red .co- ticall : lour : Dulcifie this precipitate as much as thou ¢anf. Andlaftly potire upon it the"beft yedtified fpirit of Wine youcan get,dittil it off from iteight , or- nine times , or fo. often until it be red hot inthe fireand doe not fly: then thou hafta Diaphoretical precipita. ted Mercury. Ff2 Moreoverae Of the Natuve of things, L1z,V2 How to make - Moreover, you mutt take notice of a great fecret a veer Precie ' alte, ue coloured, it bee dulcified with warer of falt of Tartar, potting it upon it,and diftilling of it off fo often,until the water rifeth 116 more fharp from the Precipitate, but bee mariifeftly fweer s then thou hatt: a. precipi« ‘And the wl of tate as fWeet as fugar, or honey which in all wounds, f Ulcers,and Venereal Difeafe is fo excellent a-fecret , that no Phyfitian riced defire a better. Befidesitis.a greatcomforrta defpairing Alchy- mifts. For it doth angrient Gold , and hak ingrelle into Gold, and with it Gold rematnes ftable, and: good. Although there is.nuch pains,and fweat requi- ted'to this Precipirate, yet it wil fufficiently recom- penfe thee-for thy pains,and cofts; and wil yeeld thee more gain, then Can bee got by. any Art or Trade swhatfoever : Thou maift.wel therefore rejoice inthis). atid give'God and meethanks for it. : How Quick- - Now that Quickfilver may bee coagulated , 1 faid eee that that muft beedone.in tharp Aqua fortis , which: " thuft bee drawn off by Dittillacion,and rhenthe Pre- How Quickél- Cipitaté is. made. But rhat Quickfilver may bee yermiy be. brought into a-Cisinabar,yowmuft firft moreifie,and mabar, nebo ae with Sale, deid yellowsSulphur, and bring ic _ into a’ white powderthempuritin a gourd,and puc upon it Aludeljor head,and fublime it'inthe greateft Atox you can,as.thesmannet is, fo.the Cinnabar will afcend into, the Aludel, and ftickas:hard asthe ftone Hamatitess . 52ebs : Fhereare wo The mortification of Lead to bring itto a Cerufe, kin ef Ce: is twofold, the one for Medicine, the.other for Al- onof them, The prepasat- Siete Theprepatation of Ceyule-for. Medicine is : en concerning precipitared Mercury, wiz, if after it iS- Live Ofthe Nature of things; 43: - Hang plates of Lead in a glazed pot over ftrong Wine vineget, the por being well ftopt that the fpir rits doe not exhale: put this pot into warm afhes, or in the Winter into 4 furnace, then alwaies afterten or fourteen dayes, thou fhale. find very good Cerule fticking to the plates, which ftrike off with the. foot ofa Harezthen put the plates over the Vinegeragain,. untillthou haftenongh Celufe. : Now the other preparation of Cerufe for Alchy: mieis like the former, only that in the Vineger mutt bee diffolved a good quantity of the beft, and faireft Salt Armoniack, for by this means theu thalt pure chafea moftfaire, and beautifull Cerufe, for the pur- ging of Tinne, and Lead,and the whitening of Cop- : : Po if wee would make Minium of Lead, we mutt The prepara» firft calcine it with Salt into Calx,and then burnitin on °° a azelazed voffel, alwaies ftirring it with an Iron rod,till mo it bered. Thisisthe beft,ancjchiefelt Minium,and.it is tobe uted as.wel in Phyfickas Alchymie: but the other which Mercers fell-in their fhops is nothi worth.It is madeonly.ofthe afhes,which remaint. ‘the Lead in the nielting of it,which akfo Poteers: ne t0 glaze their veffells ; - and Sach. Miniumtis ‘sed for Painting, but not-for Phyficke, or Alchys mie. : tee fagek . Now that Lead may bee brought into yellow- ate Crocysof nefie, the preparation ofit is.not unlike to theprepa- Lee" rationof Minium. For Lead muft here be calcined. with Salt, and brought toa Calx, and afterwards be. ftirred with an Iron rod-ina Broad bafon,fuch as try- ers of Mineralls ule, in a gentle Fire of Coales, dili- gently taking heed, thar there be not teo much heat, =] Ef 3 nor46 Of the Natureof things, Lr3. ‘v, nora neglect in ftitring, for elfe it will how ,' and be- come a'yellow glaffe. And fo thou hafta fair, yellow Crocus of:Lead. : How the ‘The mottification of Silver,that of it may be made fee Colour the Azure’ colour, or fomething ike to it, is filvere us? ‘ * ee on | ‘Take plates of Silver,and mix them with Quickfil- ver, and hang them in'a glazed pot over the beft Vi- neger,in which Gilt-heads have been firft boiled,and afterward: Salt Armoniack;and-calcined Tartar have. been diffolved; in all the -reft doe as hath been {aid of Cetufe,then alwaies after fourteen days thou fhalt have amoft excellent, and faire Azure colour ftick- ing tothe plates of Silver, which muft be wiped off with aHates foot. The Moritz . The Mortification of Gold that it may he brought sxrion of Golds into its Arcana, as into a Tinéture , Quinteffence, Refine, Crocus, Vitriall, and Sulphur, and many other excellent. Arcana, which preparations indeed are many. But becaufe for the moft, part wee have fnfficiently treated of fuch Arcanain other bookes, as theextraction of the Tin@ture.of Gold, the Quin- teflence of Gold, the Mercury of Gold, the. Oile of Gold; Porable Gold,the Refine of Gold,the Crocus . of Gold,andinthe Archidoxis, and elfewhere, wee conceive it needleffe here to repeat them. But what Arcana’ were thete omitted, wee fhall-here (et down, As the Vitriallof Gold, Sulphur of Gold,which in-. deed-are nor the léaft, and ought very much to cheer up every Phyfitian. ~ Butto extraG Vitriall out of Gold, the proceffe’ is this, Bon 7 Take LiB.y, Of the Nature of things, 47 Take of pure Gold two, or three ‘pound , which How the fal? beat into thin plates, and hanging them over Boyes Rats ana she Urine,mixt with the ftones of grapes,in a large gourd Gold are made? glafle, well clofed, which bury ina hot heap of ftones of Grapes, as they come from the preffe, when it hath ftood fourteen dayes,or three weeks, then open it, and thou fhalt find ‘a moft fubtil colour, which is the Vitriall of Gold fticking tothe plates of Gold, which take off with the foot ofa Hare, as thou haft heard concerning other Metalls ; as ofthe plates of Tron, Crocus Martis, of the plates of Copper, . the Vitriall of Copper and Verdegreafe, of the plates of Lead, Cerufe, of the plates of Silverthe Azure co+ Jour, &c. comprehended under one proceffe, but not ‘ with one manner of preparation. When thouhaft enough of the Vitriall of Gold; boyle it well in Rain-waterdiftilled, alwaies ftirting it witha fpatle, then'the fulphur of the gold is driven upto the: uper= ficies of the water,as fat which take offwith a fpoont . Thus alfo doe with more’Vitriall. Now after all. the Sulphur is taken off, evaporate that raine water: =...” tilit bee all. dry, -and there will remainthe Vittiall _ of Goldin the bottome y which. chou maift'eafily diffolve oft {elfe upona‘marble in amioiftplace.-In - thefe two Arcana’s, vi, the Vitriallof Gold; and the Sulphur of Gold lies.the Diaphoreticall vertue, Tfhal not here fer down their-vertues; forin the book ‘of Metallick Difeafes,and alfoin: other bookes wee have. fet them downat large. : » ‘The mortification of Sulphursthat the combuttible “and ftinking fatneffe may bee taken away-,.and.it brought into afixed: fobftance, is thu48 Of the Nature of things, Lisive The monic “Fake common yellow Sulphur finely powdered, of Sulphur, 20d draw fromit by dittillation Aqua fortis , that is very fharp, and this doe three times, then the Sul- phur which is in the bottome of a black colour dulci- fie with diftilled water, until the water come from it Sweet, and it xetains ‘no more the tink of Sulphur, ‘Then reverberate this Sulphur in a clofe reverberato- y asyoudoe Antimony, then it will firft be white, then yellow,and laftly as red as Cinnabar. And whea At is fo, thtn chou maift rejoice : For it is the begin: -ning of thy richessT his reverberaced Sulphur tingeth Silver moft deeply into moft excellent Gold,and the body of! eae moft perfed health, This reverbe- sated, and fixed Sulphuris of more vertuethenitis ‘The Mortis ane Ora cation of ‘The mortification ofall Salts, and what(oever is Salts, faltifh, is the taking away; and Geiling off the a aquofiy, and oylineflesand.of the fpirit of them. For af thele beraken away, thoy are afterwards called the ‘The Mortige S628-Farth,or Copue Morrunts, cxionof - Ahe mortification of Gemumes, and Coralls, is Gemmes, £9 .¢alcing, diubliwe, and diffolve them intoa liquor, - eGryhall The oe of Peatls is tocalcine themsand diffolve: them in fhaep Vineger into.the een form.of Milke, a : aToretine — “Lhe maxtification ofthe Loadftone, isto anoint ig Lord-ftone, “Withishe ayleof:Mercnry,.orto. ‘put it into Quick. Elven, far vafherwardiit ‘will sion idtaw ; tOit. Le ie fom, ee Ace ee eee ‘ . aaa - "The: mortification: of Flists, and Stones , is to andftones -C@leingthem. :4i.2 Lo) ren en The Mortifis ne 4 it " fan canes >, TheMostiio . "Fhe morsidleation of MatchGxes 5 Cachyma’s, Seon Talke, Cobaltus,-Zinti, Granuti,Zunitter, Unifinur, and Livy. Ofthe\ Nature of things; @ th: -and of Antimohy? is-theit Sublimation they bee :fublimed: swith Salt,'and Vitriall; choir life whichis Metallick {pirir, together wich: the {pis ait of Saltyafcends, And-let whacfoever ‘remains in the: bottomeof:-the Subliniatory 5: bee wafhedi; than the Salev:may! bee :diffalved,trom it, and-thery thou hafta dead Earth, in which there isno vertues . _- The mortification of Arfenickes, Auripigment; The Moris. Operment, Realgar, &c. is, thatthey fow with Salt cation ot Real; Nitre, and bee turned into an Oyl, or Liquor upona &** Marble, and be fixed. see The mortification of Exciements, is the Coagulati ‘The Mortis. onof Aire. — The mortification of Aromaticall things is the ta- The:Mortif- king away of their good {mell, fan of Atoe "The mortification of fweet things, -is to fublime Ofsweer and diftill chem with corrofive things. \ things, " The mortification of Ambers,Refines, Turpentine, Of Refines, \ Gumme,and.fuch like, is to turn them into Oyle, and Vernifh. The mortification of Hearbs, Roots, and fich like, Of Hearbs and is todiftilofffrom them their oyle, and water , and Reo preffe out their liquor witha pref, ‘and alfo to maké* : their. Alcali. The mortification of Wood, is to turne it into Of Wood: Coales,and Afhes:.° -_ The mortification of Bones, is their Calcination. Cf Bones. - - Themortification of Fleth, and Blood, is the.ta- o¢Flefh. king away of the fpirit of Salt. : -The mortification of Water is by Fire,for all hear Of Waer, dries up,and confumes water. ‘ The mortification of Fire isby Water, forall Wa- Of Fire. ° ter, quenchicth Fireand takes from it its power,and force. ~ . Gg So zyOf thaNatureafthingss Era, > So.now tt are'fufficiently : inftrudted in’ few wos hom de cath lyes hidin all natural: things , and ey may, be mortified, and bee brought into: - bow tbat mand nature,and what vertues fow from - them... What {oever thould have been faid further, we pe inthe Eleming book, ofthe ae of! Nas Libvt, seseeesesses sis a easeseasis. ‘aoe eS oe at : a iz . E Reluredtion, and renewing of Nagi 1. Falling > all things,is riot the ldaftybut profouid, again of and greas'fécret in the. Natirebof chins noe : and rathier Divine; and: : Angelcally Humane yand.-Naturall, we “Tdefiteto bee here underftood with great ifitria Sion, and nigeherwifél then-mm opinion is, * ahd Nature. dorhdailyy and hranife! ‘Shewmyand experis sacesmake good, eft Tfhould bee expofed to the lies, Gg2 and54 Of the Nature of shings, LBV a butic becomes only droffe,-and not a-Merall. For it itis dead., and death is in it, neither hath ic any more balfome of life, but-is quite deftroyed in:it ~~» felfe. 2 m4 pie difference. Now the Calx of. Metals, and their athes ate twos berwint the: things :. And there-is a great difference betwixt thefe tall and theit two,for one may be revived, and brought back again alles, into a Metall, bur the other not + the one is volatile, the other fixed , the one.died,. the other motti+ fied. : ws 3 A. "The Athesis volatile, ‘and cannot be brought biek dculls into’a Metall, only into glaffe, and-drofle but the \. ‘Galx of Metals is fixed; and inay be be brought back ~ ‘into itsown Metalh...: : oo But to underftand the difference y and the caufe, now, that in the Afhes there is leffe farnesie > and mote dryneffe then in the Calx, which indeed makes itfiuxil: bur the: Calx is farcer, and moifter » ther the Athes, and dorh Still retainics tefine,siid fluxible- nef, and efpecially the Salt, which osturally is Auxil, and makes Meralls flow,. and reduceth them. Hence sigwit follows, that the’ Salt mang beeewtra&ed out ofthe A thes of Metals,ehatthey may tot be broug he backirito 4 Metal,then they.ate perfedly Youle aid: is difference, and this ¢laufe is chiefly to bee. taken ' notice of, for machdepends upon it, ~ 7 wie crrousof "For amongft Mountebankes this isno final error,” Se who in ftead of Potable Gold ; the Quinteffence of Gold. Gold, Tintture'of Gold, 8c. have givert to men‘an ' in oui cn esto confiding the difference, and ell hae follows uponiit. : For theré are tio te. miaskable, and neatflary things tobe ‘taken aotice’ of: Dee MRE a oie i Firft, * themfelves:doe. not.) For if they were not. raifed Liz.vi, Ofthe Nature of things: - Firft, chatGold calcined, of ered, ifit be gi- ven to Men, is-gathoréd ee the te mach, or goeth eth again with the dung,and foitis. taken in vain, without doing any good; orthat which. is: reduced by the great inward-heat in mans body, *' it gildsover;‘andmakes hardina cruft,” both che: bowells, and ftomach, by: reafon of: which the con- cottion of the ftomachis| indred, whence many, and: Mera fickneffes follow.,-and atlength death it. As: you have Heard of Gold;’f allo nautt’ i Bee Whea Meal: - underftood of all the other Metals , ‘VAX, that YOU sre co be token take-not any Metallick Arcanum, Or Medicine into inwardly, your body, unleffeie bee firt made volatileyand ithe reduced into no Metall}. . a _ Nherefore the firt dé >. and Beginning to Haw to inaké Prepare Potable Gold‘is his fo may fic a Volatile Metlls Para Pos aerwandedisences in: fpirit of "Wine;thagboth duciblee * " maysafcead togerhir, -bée:made-vol il, infepatables. And: youprepire Gold, {0 ma y: you allo, prepare: potable. a reres Cold To ry cf ial : + Burtoreturntoour fe, let us prove bj ‘CXami* The railing a2 plesy atid fisfficiene'té: eas thc chings mortiéed aie goincof things not dead; and forced toabideindéath, but may. Bee, cue Whelpes theWhelpesof reduced, railed again, and revived; and; this truly by aLyon. tan, and:ac¢oiditig to. the courfe of Nature; Yo fee: Lions: how all of them are brought: forth de; dod fs{t of alfare made alive-by, the horrib pce ing of their Parents,as one’ that is. afléep.is raid: . withanoife, fo-alfoare Lions raifed >, Mot. that they: Hew Lyons arethus’ afleep, (for they which Heep a naturall fleep, meee muft of. neceffity rife. again. which ‘the Kions of" by.56. OF the Nature of things; ‘Lr3,VLY | by. this roaring, they.would remain deadl,-land.Jife would: never B is apparent, by this roaring, they receive, their lifes”. : ' ad Thereviving “So a) 0 you fe in all Animalls which are tot ingenr’ of dead Flics+. dered, but proceed from putrefaction, as Flies,which. if they. bee drowned in water, thar no. life-at all is * perceived in them,and if theywere fo left,they would Continue dead, and never ‘return to life of them-' felves any more. Bucif youcaft falt upon them,and: put them in the warme Sunne.,: or-behind a-warme _ furnace, they will recover their former life; and: this trulyis a raifing of them-up apaine. ;For “if this were not done, they, would continue dead for’ ever.” Wotan é. oA ‘he genera So alfo youfce in a Serpent,if hee'be cut into pie- gnofmary ces, and thefe pieces put into'a gourd. glaffe , and Sstpents fon bee putrefied in Horfe-dung, the whole Serpent will. become living againg in the glaffe, . “inthe. form either of Worms, or fpawn.of Fithes. And if, ‘thofe Wormes bee ina fitting manner: brought out: .of putrefaétion,and nourifhed, many hundred Sere pents will be bred out of one Serpent, whereof every: ¢ will be as big as the firft,. whichis done‘only by: putrefaction. “And as it:is faid ot thie Serpent, ‘fo. D again a. Laity i Hermesand “According to’ this :proccfle. Hermes, andivargit: Virgil cades- Faye atternpted (by the affiftance of Negrnntaacy a themfelves af- renew , and raife'themfelves aftey death, and to_bee st Deths born again as infants, but it fucseeded aonaccording heir purpofé... :.* _ ee perceived in them, Wheeteforeit: - aifo' many other Animals may be railed,and reftored : L13,VI. Ofthe Nature of things: 57 Butto omit examples, and: fall upon the Praxis. of The Reule” Refurreétionjand Reftauration, itis.neceffary , and ‘sists twofold: moft convenient to ‘begin with Metalls, forafimuc as Metalline bodies do-oftentimes refemble Mens bodiese. eel so ee .t. Wal ab . Wee, muft: know ithereferes:that, the’ Refur- The reducing reétion,and Reftauration of Metalls is twofold. The °f Onaketie” one which doth reduce calcined: Metalls into. their ver. a. firft Metallick body, : the other. which, doth;reduce ‘Maeralls ineo-their. firtt matter 5.4.i¢s into Quickfil ver. betas The proceffe of the latter is this: Calcine a: Metall... with comnion Quickfilver , put,this Calx , and. as:- ” much Quickfilverinto a Sublimavory; end detrhiem ftand.(o long till both:.be coagulated into: an: Adnal- gama; then fublime the Mercury from the Calx,then grind icagain with the Metallick Calx,and fublime it "as before,this do fo often, till tlie Merallick Calx flial over a candle melt like wax, or ice, ahd thenit.is well done;Put- this. Metall iri digeftion fora time,and it wil all be turned into Quickfilver,j. e.into its firft-matrer, which Mercuty of Metalls‘isindeed called: the.Mei- cury of: Philpfophets, which many Alchymift have. fought: after 5. but: few» have. found. Now :after this manney,may- Quickfilver bee prepared-out of all Meratecvite ani, D2 AUB, Now the railing again, orreftoting of coagulated The reduation ‘Merenry is dane, by: idiftillation ‘in: a: revore:+for f,Abima» ‘Quickfilver.alone afcénds into cold water, the Athes purdisg Sig of, & 2 or Sulphur being left behind.: ” . .. Now the taifing-again, or reftauration of Mercury fublimed is done in feething hotwater:but it muft firt be ground very fall, fo the hot water wil feperates it Ye Hh fromOf the Natnie of things, Lie.V1. | Heopiit Ye! apinie. of Saltand Vitriall, which itcar- Fis uparidh ihe quickflver timing in theborome ‘of ‘the water, “Now ae fhall be again: fodlimed with Sattyand Vitriall ,and revived -againe in Hot water, and this done feven, or eight titties, ic scale hever Bee ‘beret purged ,-and re- newed. eo a oe 7 . a And this may bee kept fora great fecret in Alchy- amic,and Phyfick; and be- much ‘rejoicdd in, For ‘by thismnouns all-the inipuriry, blackneffe, ahdpoi. fonoufneffe; is taken away. : phe redudion, Mexcury-ealcined can niever bet--reltored apaine of calcined and. without fiblimation; for unldlfeir.be fublimed ‘after: Maton? scaltinaionsewillneverbee.tevived, ‘wherefore: vbou ake tcpick, en ebcoweags it-as-other-Stib- Therelutchaion of Avure\ Cinnabar, Aurnm vite, ‘alfo-of-Precipitato,thartheyanay tye ‘reduced into. ‘Quickfilveris xtus: take vicher of abel, grit ie final pion. a iaaeble; make ivupiintoa pat with the white of ante ‘andl. cards... hi put into. avftrong earthen -gourd., “upon. the : ombutlr of it pura plateot Iron swith thany!lacleholes:, ‘int, and dine .it ‘onjanid Galil Se ee defcenpiom with . a eee pills.of ‘the bigneS. of Hil vt a ftrong fite, fo that it may. fall imo ‘cold wa. , Ter,and thou flvale. have the Quickfilver.again, ‘The renewing: Now-the.re(ulcitation,arid teftoring of Wood ‘is “Rovec! “Fehard 5 and:dlifficale, yet’ posfible. 6 ‘Nattives but. without much skilfulnefs, and: induftry.it- can ne- wer: bee done > Bur.to revive, ic: the. proceffe cis L13,V1. Of the Nature of things, - Bg ., Take: Wood: which mutt fir bee 4 Coale, then Athes, whiel put into agourditogether with the Re- fine, Liquor, and Oyle of that tree, of each a like weight,. mingle them:,..and. melt them with. a foft Keat, and there swill bee: mucilaginous matter,: and forhowhiiftthe three, Principles; of Whicthall things are produced, and.generated, viX, flegm, fatneffe, and Afhes, 7: : The Flegm is Mercury, the Fat is Sulphur, the Theftegme of Afhes is Salt. For whatfoever fumes, and ¢- eel vaporates in the Fire is Mercury : whatfoever farits fulphary flames, and is burnt is Sulphur, and all Afhes is fhe ates ia ale. * Now feeing thou haft thefe three. Principles toge- ther, put them in Horfe-dung, and putrefie them for atime, Ifafterward that matter bee put in, and buri- ed in fat ground,thou fhalt fee it live again,and a little feeIpring from thence, which truly in vertue is farre more excellent then the former. This Tree or Wood. is, and is called Regenerated Wood , renewed, and reftored, which from the beginning was Wood, but mortified,deftroyed, and brought into coales,afhes, andalmoft to nothing, and yet out of that nothing is made, and renewed. Thistruly in the light of Na- ture is a great myftery, viX, that athing, which had utterly loft its form, and was reduced to nothing , fhould: recoverits form, and of nothing bee made fomething, which afterward becomes much more excellent in vertue, and efficacy then ‘it was at firft. - a Butto fpeake generally of the RefurreGion , and Atgenerall rule Reftauration of Naturall things,you muft know,thac for 12 ifing of the chiefeft foundation heres t that bee reftored “8 “63 2 to‘Of the Nature of things, L13,VI. to every thing,and made to agree with it, which was taken fromiit in mortification, and {eparated from it, which is hard to bee here {pecifically explained. “Wherefore wee fhall conclude this book , and fhatl oe of thefe things moreatlarge.in the next book, Concetning the tranfmutations of naturall things.’ LB. VIL. ! NATVRE SS Of Things. a _THE SEVENTH BooK, ( Of the Tranfmutation of Naturall F wee write of the. Tranfmutation of all ‘Natural things, it is fit,and neceflary that in the firft place wee fhew what Tranfmu- © tationis. Secondly, what bee the degrees toit. Thirdly, by what Medium’s, and how itis one... . . P Tfanfinutation therefore is, when a thing lofech Wis Tank its form, and is fo altered, thatit is altogether unlike = “"~ ~"* ° £0 its former fubftance,and form, but affiimes.ano- me Hh 3 thesQBthe Natureofthings: -LuB. Vir. ther form, another effence, another colour, another * -vertuey another narure; or property, as ifa Metalkbee cmade glaffe, or ftone : ifa tone bee madeacoale’s if wood be made a.coal:clay be made'sftone,ora brick: askid bee made glew : cloth bee made papery: and - Mhanyfuch like things, All thefe are Franftsietiti- ons of-Naturall chings. otc d Thereare - , Afiet'vhig itis.very riece Mary alfoto know! Srraprlacipal gréc¥'to THinimutdtion, ad How ntany thepbetsind nanfmurai- they areno morethea feven, For although many on doe reckon more, yet there are no more_but feven, ‘which are priacipall,attd the:reft may bet: feckoned betwixt the degrees, being. comprehended under thofe feven: And they are ele, ; Calcination, Sublimation , Solution, Putrefaction, Diftillariom, Coagntation ; Tinkiure. - Oe ee If any one will climbe that Ladder, he fhall come intoa moft wonderfull place, that hee {halt fee, and havd experience of many fecrets in the Tranfmutation of Naturallthings, The firft degree thefefare.i¢ Calcination , under which alfo are comprehended Reverberation, and What Cals Cerisenvation, . For betwixt thefe there is but little sain is: 24 aiferencé as for matter of Calcitations Wherefore init here the chiefett degree. . For. by Reyerberation, aad Cementation, manly corparcall things are‘calci- fied, and brought into Aifhes, and efpecially Meralls . ._.. Now what is calcined isnotany further reverberated, “., OF cemented... : oof By Caldination théreforeall: Mesalls. .. Minerals, Seotiess. Glue, 8c. arid all -corporeall: things 3 ag Lis V, Of the Netwre of thiggs, Bz madea Coal, and Afhes,and this is done by'a naked trong Fire with blowing , by which all tenacious, foft,.and fat earth is hardened. into a-ftone, Alfo all ftones are brought into a-Calx,as wee {ec in a Potters * furnace of lime, and brickes. - Sublimation is the fecond degree, and. one of the. : molt ptincipall forthe Trarifmutation ofmany Bla, ie Salli surall things - under which is conrained Exaltstion, ics kinds Elevation, and Fixation, and itis not much «unlike Diftillation. For as in Diftillation the water alcends fronvall Aegmatick, aid watery things.,-and is.fepa- rated from its body;:{0-in Sublimation, that which is (pirituall is raifed from: what is corporeall , and is fubtilized, volatile from fixed,and that in dry things, asare all Miricralts afid:thepure is feparared-from:the dmpures 000 a . Befides. Sublimation, inany: good -vertues., and wonderfull things. are: found-out in'Mineralls, and “many‘thingsate made fixed, and'beconie-conftent, fo as-toabkle’in the: Fire; and thar ifithis mariner, . Ler that whichis fiblimed beground and mixed withits.feces , and bee againe. fublimed -as ‘before, . awhich -mult:-bec done {-long, till ic will no'Tonger - Sablime,but all will remaine togetlicr ‘in, thebortom, . andBecfixed, 2 Pe So thicre will bée afterward a ftone, and “oylé-when « and.as oft as: thou pleaiett, vi; if thou-putteltit a- . ‘into a ‘eold ‘plac rin the aire'in a: GlaGs. Wor chee: ic will ‘preferitly. bee “diffblved: into The Staion - an Oyle.. And if thou‘putteft-it againe -into the inco.a ftene,. ; fire,:i¢ will againe ‘bee ‘coagulated :into a Stone’; 7 of swoniterfall;and great-vertue.- Keep this as . acgreat, fecret.». and myftery.of. Nature, ‘neither oo difcover :54 Riles. concer- ning Sale moniack: What Scluion’™ is,and its kinds, ', Of the Nature of things, lt BVI: difcover it to Sophifters; Morevover, as in Subs imation many -Cerrofive things are made.{weer-in. the. conjunction of two matters, 0 on the contrary, many {weet things are made Corrofive many feet things are made fowre, harfh, or bitter; and on the contrary, many bitter things as fiveetas Sugar. Here alfo wee muft take: notice, tha every Metal ” which is brought into Sublimation by Salt Armo- niack, may afterward in the cold, or inthe aire bee Arought.into.an oyle, and againe bee coagulated into, a: ftone in: the Fire, which’ indeed is one: of ithe, chiefeft, and gréareft ‘Tranfinutations in all na. turall things, o%,. to tranfmute Metall into tone. : weet CG ates ‘ The third degree is Solusion, under which areto to bee underftood Diffolution; and Refolution, - and this degree doth imoft’ conitonly’ foll ‘Sublimation, and Diftillation, vi Tae the matter be refolved which remaissin he beat Now Solution is:twofold : the one..of .Cold;, ithe other of Heat; the one without Fire, the other in Fire. A cold diffolution diffolves all. Salts, all Cortofive _things,8all calcined things-Whatfoever is ofa Salt, and Corrofive quality,is by it diffolyedinto Oyle, * Liquor,.or Water. » And this is ina moift, cold.cel- dar, or élfe in the: Aireona-marble, or in-a glaffe. For.wharloever is diffolyed.ig the cold, ‘contain an ° Alty (purit of Salt, which. oftentimes it gets , and umes in Sublimation, or Diftilation. And fo- ever is diffolved in the cold, orin the items acon by the heat of the Fise.sbee coagulated into powder, or aftone.. i eg ne But RO MW Be : cg FTL ‘Lis.vil, Of the Nature of things, - But-ahot Solution diffolves all fat, and fulphu- ioe tbioge® reous things. And whatfoeverthe heat of the: Fire “Gifstves. diffolves, the fame doth coldneffe congeal into a a hUhrl A double Solu: . eu dice oe . : And whatfoever heaticoagulates, is again diffolved 4 4 by: cold;'ér-in the Aires, ‘Hete-alfo we mutt know iavixefteat that ‘whatoever Aire, or the Cellar doth refolve, is of a:very great dryneffe; and hath a fecret cor- rofive. Fire hid in it: . fo -whatfoever is. diffolved in Fire, or in the heat thereof, hath -a fweetify figidity out ofthe-Fire. ‘Thus,and no othérwife is. ° lution tobeunderftood.. -. a Putrefaction_isthefourth degree, under which is Purrelscion comprehended Digeftion, and-Circulation, ° » ° peuini, 4 Now then Putrefaction is one of the principal . degrees, whichindeed might ‘defervedly have been the firft of all, but that it would be againft the crue order, and myftery, which is here hid; and known tofews. For thofe-dégrees mutt, as.hath beenal- — ..- ready {aid,fo follow one tlie orhersas links ina chain, or fteps ina ladder. . _ a ' For if one. of the tinkes.thould bee, taken away, The sferetaid the chainis difcontinued, and broken, and the pric, grees isto te foners would: bee ae and. ranne:away:: So obferved ia in a ladder, if one ftep- bee taken away. in the ace" | middle, and -bee putinthe upper, or lower party. the Jadder Would be. broken, and, many would fall, down-headlong by it-with the hazard of their bos dies, andlives. =: : ° Soyou muftunderftand the marcet heré,that thofe degrees follow.one the other ina juft order, or elfé, the whole work of our myftery would be mar'd, and: “ ourlabour,and pains would bee in vain, and frui- leffe, ‘Ti NowWhat Diftilla- > Diftillacion is: che. fit! tion is,andits kinds age, ‘Cohobation, Fixation by Defillsion Of Of the Notureoftbings, Ise, VIE. ° "Nl putrefadtionis of fach efficacy , that ie a- bolithedh the old Nature; and brings ina new one: ‘All living, things: are killed i init, all: dead things all dead things. recover fe 3 oth al Cortoli ive ‘pitits, ‘thé fharpneffe of of the Salt, and makes them mild,dnd fivect, cbangeth the: ‘colours, ‘and feparates’the pure from ‘thei impure, ieplaces the; Lan ‘above. , and. the itnpuite beneath, . Bree tO: the’ ‘Tronfucatit on of all naturall things, Undee it- are underftood . Afcénfion; Lavation, and Fisation, *. . -~ By Diffiltation'all Waters; Liquors yand : Oples | die fabitilizéd our of alt fat ehings Oyleis ‘extracted, our of all: Liquors, ‘Water, and out of all Fieg- mati¢ke thin s Water : Oyle: are- fe ted. '-Befides : ‘there> are‘ many? ¢! fixed’ by: Cohobation; and eSpici y if the things to bee fixed containe in them: : Water's a6 Vis of it bee fixed wi roper veal: the Susar of Allom; Which alinie. refolved which; Liquor if ig bee “putrofied:.a fuera Water of the iwectnefle “oF 3° whieh is'of: greats vermye and anew eal lent fecret. in Pen to extinguifh® -any Meralline : hea “aS. wite! “have” £13,VIL. Of the Neture of ibingis » Anidas yoirhave heard of Vitriall,and Allutti; fo alo Sale nitre, and other ‘Watery “Miteralls “may bee fixed -by Cohobstion: - Nbw. Cohobationis,that the dead head be Often- what Cohes times imbibed with its own water, and that t agaih bation is, bee drawn off by Diftillation.. : Mofeover, in Diftillation many bien, hai, aiid The force of ‘fharp things become.as Sweet as Honey, Sugar, or eae Manni: and on the consary, many {weet things, TraSfanceds as Siigar, Honey,” dr Mannd, ‘may Bed -miile “as harfh ‘as’ Oyle of “Vittiall, oF Vinegers or'aé bits ter ds Gall, “or. Gi tian, as Eager, “as a Corto: - 7. Many. Excrémtiiitious' things tok their reat ftinkin “Diftillationy. which indeed: -Zoeth tot the’ water. * Many ‘Aromaticall things lofe their goo: fe . vour!,.""; : And as Sublimation aleets things an ‘helt Quality;s and: Nature’, fo alfo doth Diftilla- tion. == ‘Coagelation i is the fixt degree: Nowthere is 4 What sagt twofold "Coagulation, the one by Colds’ the- thes jon ind by ‘Hear, #2. one of the Aite, -the other of the Fire : and each of thefe again is. twofold: {6 that thereare foure forts of Coagulations, rwooftCold, and two of Fire. 2 "Ehe? Coagalations. of Fite are fie the: dther of Coldare ‘not. - : ut “The oheis done only by common Aire, or witht om Fire. The other ee Taperiouir’ Finmatnettt of Winter ftarres, all which coagulate iar Ate fhow, and ice. a a : But&8 Ofthe Nature of chings; Graduall Fire of the Alchymifts, and it is fixed,and permanent. For.whatfoever fuch a Fire doth coa- gulare,, the fame-abides:fo. : : Theother Coagulation is-done bythe mean, -, and Minerall Fireinin Mountains, which indeed the - Arrcheius of the: Barth governs, and-graduates not unlike, to.the. Alchymifts, and whatfoever .is-coa- ‘gulated.-by. facha ‘Fite, isa fixed, and conftant; asyou fee.in Mineralls, and Metals, which: indeed at the beginning.area mucilaginonis matter; and are coagulated into Metalls, Stones, Flints, Salts ,.and ° other bodies., by the'-Asnean fire ‘in Mountaines through rhe Archeius.of -Easth, and operator. of Nature. : oS Allo, wee muft know that Fire can coagulatene ... Water, or moifture, but only the Liquors,and Juices of ajl Natural things. - : .. Bafides.alfq:there can no. flegni bee coagulated; unleffe in the beginning :it was a corporeal matter, into which.by the induftry.of a skilfull Alchymift ic may return, _ : So alfoany mucilaginous, matter, ox fpermaticke flimyneffe may by the heat of Fire be coagalated into grote corporeal: matter bur never-bee refolved 10 water again. ».. And, as:you haveheard'of Coagulation, fo alfa know. concerning Solution, 7%, that no corporeall matesr-can-bee diffolyed into Water , unleffe at the beginning it.was.water : and {o-it is.in all: Mines y a lot eg Li, Vit, «. Bur-the - Coagulation: of Fire, whichaloné is here 40 bee: taken notice of is made byanArificiall,and Tinttaxe: Eas Vin Ofthe Nature of things; 69 ‘TinGture is the fevench; and laft degree 5 whichWhs Tine: concludes the. whole worke. of our myftery for tris; and its Tranfinutation , making all imperfeé things r feet, and aranfiuting them intoa moft excellent effeace.,.and into-a-moft perfee foundnefie ; and alteré them iuto another colour... 0: ° _ Cinkture therefore isa moft excellent matter,where= mithal- Mineral ,.and-Hamane bodies‘are tinge ‘and.are changed: into a-better, and more noble cfs fenge sand -into the. higheft: perfection > aad: pus ritys : ' “For Tindture colours all-things -according -to: its . own nature,.and colours —- 2 iNow there. are many: : Tinétures ; arid not only an chings that - for. Meralline:, but Humane-bodies; becaufe-every are to be tine - eth ig, with another, colotir, oreffence , fo that it ‘bee no more like the former.,':may bee called -a_ Tinéture, - *; oe. -_ Wherefore there are many ,:and various {6tts-of ” ‘Tin@ures,.viX. of Metalls, Mineralls; Méns bodies, . ‘Waters, Liquors, Oyls, Salts, all: fat things's and . indeed of -allthings which may bee broaght-to flux, , out of the Fire,or in the Fire. - For if a Tincture mufttinge, itis neceffary that the - body, or matter: which is-tobee tinged,bee opened, . and continue in flux, and. unlefs this-fhould -bee ‘fo, the Tincture-could not operate. Burit would -bee,as -ifany.one fhouldicaft affron,or any colour upon co- apilaed “Water, .er-Ice - for.fo- it: would not fo fuddenly tinge the Ice with its colour, ‘as.if ic were _caft inco other water.Andalthough it fhould tingé; . yetit wonld.at the fame time-refolve the Kee into - Waters. wi liz . thing, which, penetrates another. matter,.. or tins ged matteOfthe Natureofibixge, Ltd. Vil, Water. Wherefore thofe Metallsthati wed: would sifige, nti firft beeuneleéd in thé Tire, and bee freed _ ‘from. Coagulation. ~- + Aadhete wee mutt ‘know; thar: ‘by howmiuch ihe flonrgetire: isxequitite for their melving,fo muth the fooner the- Tingture tims thtough themyas'Leaven penetrates, and: infetts the. whole maffe.with fowre. hefs, and: by how. much betterthe maffe is covered and kept warm, fo much-the bested isit: fermented? and thakes the betrer bréad : for: ferinene' ‘is the Tink Feces are of actutte of Dowe, and Bread. fave fiseate Wee niuft ali aotey tharall feces ate: ofa ‘tte turerben their fixed {ubftance then the liquor of iris, al(Gofa thar? Flegmes and fore penetratiig nmere sas: youtee Batt Wine whichis: made: OF he fees ‘6 Wines and of Agus vite,: which is.diftilied out of the grounds of Beer, and burns lice piri 4 isinflamed as Suiphur.. : a eee Alfoif of the tecésof Vineger another-Vihkber STaittiled bee diftilled, as commonty fpirit ot Wie is dittilled, Viorger there will bet thereby Madé“a Vinegty 0f: To" fiery, and fharp.a natute,: tha sfianes: all ‘Me. valla 5Seones’;: and ‘other Hinges “as! Agna Pop. és How theTin- Mokcovet, itis soi flary vhat’ Tindtures ore ee fixe, fluxil, and incombuftible navare; “Yo ‘chit iB slitele ofa: Eras of chy: Maral: red: ibe bee caft ‘inital ther, -tHey. vwilbpeetndy ‘ve Fike aie? without ‘any: inaner of firnie tt all, and they pete! sraveché Meralié,:as oyle- doth: ‘paper 5 Or ater as cae andl tinge dll. Mecalls itite: whites’ aided; rite Silverbr Gold. Lt. Vu, Of the Nature of things. ” Now thee 2 are the TiniGufés'of Meralls, which ie is necefgary muft:bee’ turned ito an Alcool, by the fitft degree of Calcinaridn, thenby the ton degre ree of “Sublimation , muft get an ‘ea 7 light flux. And laftly, by! the degree-o bat fadtion 5 “and ‘Difhitation” ave “iade’4, fixes and. incombuftible Tindture, and: of an wbhangeale colour. : oh ae: and eg Pea whit Seton fed ee béoksy wherefore it ‘de hidte co'vepear'then.: “Wee fhalll ite no fio colout, whic 901 colours fixed’ inthe she hand, AY ry in thisboi the dédirces ux, a of Bite, los ye bee prtttiated aud igeaotaes : id suery degree bath a peculiar of seyati- ae € he’ prodt dlc expert. ore ofOf the Nature of things, Lu, VIG of a Candle, or Lamp, which fixeth.all volatile bodies : Another is a Fire of coals, which ‘cements, -colours, and. purgeth.Metalls from their drofg, exalts Gold and Silver toa higher purity, whitens Copper, and in brief renews all Metalls. y Another Fire is ofan Iton plate made red ‘hor, in” «which the-Tinétures oF Metalls are proved, ‘which alfois profitable for other things, _ ... The Filings. of Ion heateafter one fathion, Sand After an her, Allies ter another, a Blnenys Marka other, in which manifold Diftilations,, Sub- ns, and Coagulations aredone, roris. nother, in which there are niademoang Sol teefadtions, and pel nisaremade, he Celefiall ° “And after another fathion works the invifible Fire, me iby, whichavee underftand the xayes of the Sun , and hat which anit by aslo Ciftal, and ypetations and ef oF which Fire the An- thing at all; and by this fire, the three ety corporeal thing, midy bee [par Ffich wonderfull Force, Bae, aud a aes A Ie. without. any,. Fi fed,” and opened a TP alchymie: “and jc Alchmyits “Fire : Livill yee far . declare te yo0u in generall, various § of ixttutall things: of Metalls frit , ee cond Lyr3,Vi. “Of the Nature of things, fecondly of Stones;and thirdly of divers things in ogeherall, ‘The tran{mutation of Metals therefore is ‘a great fecret in Nature, and it ‘can hardly bee done -byteaforrof many impediments, and _repugnancies. ‘Yiet it is not againft Nature,nor- Gods ordination, as ‘many falfly affirm. ° ue be . But that the five leffer,andimpurer Metals, 04%, The Tranfine: 2 ¥ & Sand y may be tranfinuted into the grearer, [07 of Mee pureft,and mioft perfect Metals, v/%, into © and°¢ and Gali, ic carinotbe done without the Tintture, or Philofo. phers ftonc. - i : a Now fecing we have before'fufficiently opened the fecrets Of Tingtures in the feven degres,and defcribed them there, it is notneceffary char wee Spend aity Fit ther labour inthis, but rather bee fatisfied with thofe things; which we have wrote in other bodks*coricer~ ning the Tranfmutationsof Metals. : a owthere are other Tranfinutations ofimperfect, The Tranfame and impure Merals,as the tranfiriutation of # into 9, ine Cont which may bee done divers wayes. : * _ If plates of Iron bee boiled in water of Vittiall, or bee cetnentedwith calcined Vitriall,or being red hot be quenched inoyl of Vitriall. 9 |. Thefethree ways Tron may bé teanfrbuited into vi ry good, and ponderous Copper, which indeed flows a anid ach ‘its weight a& well as any naturall Oppel sa ke a Plates of Iron may bee-as it‘ wete'reduced’, and The Tranfous tranfinuted into Lead, fo tharithedas f0ft 45 ‘natue tation-of ren, all, Lead, but doth not flow {ueafily:andthe proceffe ™° Ma.: "Fake Eilings of , -and foiniuch of the powder of. Borax, mingle them well together, pure thei ti a _ ° Kk crucible 5Ofthe Natureof things, — . Lus,vil crucible, and into a.wind furnace, let there bee made - aftrong Fire, but fotharthe # doe not flow, but flandas it were in 2 Cement for a whole houre, then encréafe the Fire ,, that it may bee:red hor: -and flow : then let the cruciblecool ofit felfe, and thou fhalt find the regulus of Lead in the bottome of the crucible; foft, and malleable,as natural] Lead. can be. ~ The Trane Basto ae c into. the proceffe is this: sation of Cop~. Firft ofall bring Copper with: fublimate Rerinco Lend: fixe Arfenick to bee wie, yea as white Ss € es beat it fall; . Take this,and the powderof, Botax,of eacha like quantity and firft-cemene it, then et it bee melted into a regulus,.and thou haft 2:true: regulus ofLead: wet th een eR ‘The Tranfmu-: Now. on: the contrary , ihe Toanfnw it-is eafy to tranfmute fate Copper. « ead into Copper, neither doth it: Tequire much pains, and it is. donethuss ; Take plates of Lead; ftrow thenrover with caicie ned Vitriall, or Crocus. of Venus. cement them’, and then mele them,and thou thalt fee natural Lead, _ tranfnuted into-good , . ponderous., :and. malleable ‘Opper. ~ ee oe ‘AMeralline. _. Wowif this. Gapper,or anyother Copper be bese ean teninto plates, and fhrowed over with Tia, oe os ri Colisinttt, and be cemented anddaftly mel+: ed, it will bee tranfinuted int ‘rede a sith Aiediraw like, to.Gold, m ° “ cxeclleat rl 6 make thou wile. turne..t into.9r “make: plates- : ee bititin one Rttow them with Salt Armoniack, cman ns of te ov" them,as abovelaid; fo will all the blackneffe.: ‘and? darkneffe bee taken-away from-the Lead; ‘and ie will: be in whitened like f it Englith. Tin... nea Now: Linivil, Of the Nature of things: a. . Now as you have in brief¢’ heard of fome Mus tations of Metalls ,.fo alfo know,” that, there. are Tranfinutations of Gemmes, which indeéd are va- tious,and inno wife like. : : For you fee how great: Tranfmiutations. of Oy! of Sulphur Gemmes there lies in oyle of Sulphur. For any Cry» gnimass* ftall may bee tinged, .and ‘Tranfmuted in it, and in time bee exalted with divers colours, as to bee made like to the Hyacinth, Granat, or Robie. Sa . 7 "Know, alfo that the Loadftone may be, tranfinu- To Tranfimes i _ atenfold greater power, and vertue,and itis ico gree : lone thus.” m : rength, "Take the Loadftone,and heat it very hotin coales, but fo that it beenor fired, which prefently quench:n the Oyle of Crocus Martis, made of the beft Ca- rinthian: Steel, that it may imbibe as much as it cane - [ . Thouthalt by this meanes make the Loadftone fo powerfull , that thou maift' ull out Nailes. out of a wall with it, and doe fuch like wonderfull things with it, thatthe common’ Loaditone. can neverdoe, _ : Sr aa road Moreover; in ‘Tranfmutation -of Getrimes -you muft knowthat the world is placed,in swo degrees of Tin@ture, and, Coagulation. oo For_as-the white of an Egge . may bee tinged To tranfmare ‘with Saffron, and then. bee: coagulated: into -a Hest into Am. faire yellow Amber : with the;fmoke. ofa Pines berotany ” tree” into. blacke Amber < with Verdégreafe in- Colow, to green, like Lapis Armenins: with green juice into Amber, like the Emerald: and with the A- zure ftone, into blew Amber, like a Saphir : : : ‘ Kka ~ withOf the Nusave ofsbings, = Lis,Vik with the: Wood calkd red: Wood, imo’ red, “like 8. Granaty- ot Rubies with a purple: colouty like to: an Arhethyft: .wieh:-Cerufe , like: c6:Alg- blafter. : Bets : So: alk Liquors, efsecially: Metalls; aed’ Mine- ~~ alls, may: bee tinigedc with feb eotonis jand-aP- terwards. bee codguldted , aud’ reanfintuted tied Gemmes. wet Tos Ps How counters. Soal(O.may Pearles be madelike true -Peaites‘int feit Pearls are form fo that for {plendor,and beauty they can hally aie red difterned: frori the teue'> And they axé-ntade thus.: io a LLr—e " Cleanfe the white of Egges through 'é fpunge as purely as ttiay' bed, ther tingle’ with: it-thefai- teft white Talkeot Motherof Peaths; of Matcit coagulated with Tine, arid ‘broaghe intolah? Als cool, thes griade-chem all together on 4 Marble y-£ that they become a thick Amalgama, whieh. moft'bee dryed in the Sutine ,° or behind fur- , hace fo: long, untill ie bee like Chee, ora Liz wer. gots : ©. ‘Then’ of this maffe make.-Peatles: as big’ ag, thou wilt, which hang upon the briftles of:a ‘Hog, and ‘being. this “boated ‘through. dry. them: as Amber,and. thenthou hate finithed diem: 2-0: Ie they are not beautifull ettough,: anoitit then. over with the white of an Egge,and dry them pain, and they will bee moft goodly pearls,in fort like the natural, but hovinvercue.° _ Inthe like manner ate Cordlls made; ‘with whieh meni erideavour to deceive one the other! ab with Pearle, The proceffe is this.: Men Liiva. Of the Natwreofehiiys, 2 57 -"Také Cinnabar; grinde. itvon:a/Marble,, withthe Hew cousren; white of an Egge, for the .dpace'6®7ah thoates ray bemades then dey it, as Pottorsrdoe cheiriBarifl "then = make it’into: what: forme: thou: pleats After- -wards.dry them as-much:as may-bee’; atid! ridint them over with the .iwhite of:.an--Epgei: - ag thou didft Pearle, and dry them by themfelves ain, EEO thou fhalt have Coralllike tothe natural in form,but not in vertue. . . Thou tuft alfo know, That the white. ofA Goldenor an Egge may bec oFit felfe coagulated into-moft Silver vernithd eleer Vernifh, in the coagulation of which Silver, or ‘Gold may bee ftrewed. There. are alfo many other, and various Tranfmutations of Naturall things - Whereof: thofe which I know, and have had experience af, Lwill by the way fet down, and briefly declare to: you, And firft of all: knowi, ‘That: any Wood, if it How wood iz bee put for a certaine time into the water of Salt ™deaftone, Gemme,, is turned with: much. admiration ‘into.a Stone: . Alfo Stonesin the Atnean fire are tranfinuted into Csaies at. Coales, which are called ftony Coals, .......ftones. ~ Alfo: Glew is boiled out of Skinnes.. Glew of skins? of Lage cloth is ae Papers on Paper of Lins: Of Flax boiled in tharp Lie made of the Aflies of Soho", Wood is Silke made.. P Sihe of Fes Alfo the feathery parts pulled off from quills, and Feathersmnty 13: boiled inthat Lie, may bee fpun:,. and weaved like 5? Cotton, f ' Kk 3: 7 Any78 _ Of the Nature of things. Lrs.vit; An Oyle or S) rmatick inucilage ma: ne : gulaced imo.Verntth [ : be Any Liquorinto Gainme, ie. _ Alll the(e are Tranfinutations of Niturall chings, of which Science wee have fpoken enough,and thete- wee fhall here:make an end, =; : Peo bas -otes babies ¢ aes Sune) PL aca Ve Lan ea fT ‘this ie Last.” OF THE ‘ A T Vv R- BE (OF Tig THE EIGHTA BOOK: of the'S eparation’ if ‘Naira things. g fa IN: thie . Creation‘ofthe workdythe iit fepa The Chaosché’ . — beganfrom thefoure Elements, fee<‘Marer of the World) = 3 S the fisftmatrer.of the. world was one 4 C OSs... -OF this Chaos God made the:greater world, being divided into four: diftin®- -Elements, viz, Fire, Aires. ~ ‘ities -Fireisthe hot part, Aire the moift;: Waters,Of the Nature of things: Lae VaIr,: Water the cold, and Earth the d world aa Wharfeparai- Bi ey onl : set , oe fpokers dol ies 5 a Na 8 ». fecing wee fed gf ot Ascana inthe Archidos tions. thigessayhereby a oa te ie Pate ae - ally, and fabftantially, v%, {ecing thar two , three, Se i or more things ate mixed into one ody, and-yet there is. fegn butone matter.- Where it often ee ‘he corporeal! matiet-iof thac thing cannot bee known by any, or fignified by any expreffe name, untill there bee a_{eparation made. Then fomerimes two;three, four, five or more thiggs come forth out ofone matter : as is manifeft by daily experience,.’ in the. Art of Alchy-. . mic. oon ep : What Elec As for xkmples you havean Elecérum,wihich of it s="3 felfeis no Metall, but yet it hides all Metals in one Metall. That if it be anatomized by the induftry of Alclytmic, and fepayated J all che (even Merallgyviz. Gold, Silutr, Copper, Tisne, Lead, Iron,and ‘Qyick- five come out of it, “and.that pure, and pers eat. WrarSepareny - Beit thiryoul undeiftand what Separation is 5 Seite :-tnote, ethan itis nothing elfe thon the! fevering oft one: ‘thing froni another, whether oftwo, three, ‘fout, or: more things mixed together + I fay.a:{epaketiony of: thothteé Principles; :2s:0f.MebcurysSulphur; afi Salt,and the extrattion dfipureidut of theimpurd,iot + the’pure, exceltent fpirit,. and: quitiveffence,, — ao grolig vitions. Linville Ofthe Nature of things, groffe, and elementary body; and the preparation of two, thtee, four, or more out of one : or the diffoluti: . en, and ferting at liberty things that are bound , and compaé, which are of a contrary nature , ading one againft the other, untill they deftroy one the other. . : oo. ‘Now there ate many kinds of feparation, many of How many whiclare unknown to us; thofe, which wee have ex- ind of Sepai perienced out of elementary ,, diffoluble natural “ things, fhall inthis place, according to their kinds, be defcribed. a ; The firft feparation of which wee fpeake, muft be- The parsrion gin from man, ‘becaule heeis the Microcofine, or Sm, =? Fittle world, for whofe fake the Microcofine or grea- ” ter world was made, 7%, that hee might be the fepa- rator ofit. | - ‘Nowthe {eparationofthe Microcofme begins at tthe body of | hisdeath, For in death the two bodits of Man are fe manafter deat parated the one from the other,v/Z;his Celeftialand *"°""* ~ Terreftial body;é. e.Sacramental,and Elementary:one of which afcends on highlikean Eagle;the other falls downward tothe earth like lead. The Elementary is patreficd, confumed , and What che let becomes a putrid ftinking carkafe, which being 7 Body buryed inthe earth, never comes forth, or appeares more. But the Sacramentall,i.¢. Syderiall, or Celefti- Whar a Sacra all,is never putrefied, or buried, neither doth it pof- mentall Body, feffe any place. This body appears to Men,and alfo * after death is feen. Hence Ghofts, Viffons, and Supernaturall Appa- ~ ‘Hence by theancient Magicians, the Cabalifticall es _ Li AngasOf theNutwre of things, Lao, VIUI.. Art took its beginning ,oF which we thal! treat store at large in the books of Cabalic. After this feparation is made, then after the death. of the Man three ‘fubftances,vi%, Body, S on/e,and 5 pi- vit ace divided the one.from the other, every one go- ing to its ownplace, wR its own fountaine, from fice it hadits originall, i. the body to the Earth, to the firtt matter of the Elements : the foul into “the firft matter of Sacraments, .and _ laftly, ‘che fpirit into the firft matter of che -Airy Chaos. - ‘Thefepardtion — What now hathbeen {poken of the {eparation of ofthe Mactor the Macrocolme, the fame alfo may bee underftood, : inthe greater world whichthe great Ocean hathidi- vided dato three parts, ( thar the univerfall world is fevered into three parts,w:% Europe, Afia,and Africa, ‘Thres pane of Which feparationisa certain reprefentation of three Beton’ Principles, which can be feparated from any Tet+ rene, or Elementary thing. Thefe three Principles are Mercury, Sulphur, and Salt , of whichthree the - world was made, and compofed._ eo ‘The feparation The next thing tobee: known is the feparation of ofMeulls” ° Werallstrom their Mountains, i. ¢ethe feparation of : Metals; and Minerals. : By vertue of this feparation tnany things come forth out of one matter, as you fee out of Mineralls ‘come forth, The droffe of Metills, Glaffe, Sani, Piipi- tis, Marcafite, Granutus, Cobaltim, Falke, Cachinniny Linetum, Biftmutin, Antimony, Litharze, Sulphur, Vitriall, Verdegreafe, Chryfocolla, the AXure'Stone, Huripigpitnsins, Arfenicke, Realger, Cinnabar, Clay :. gf Fron, Spathus, Gyphus, Ocree, and many.more me “ike 5 a8 Tif. the: Waters ; bey Ree _ aes ~ . By Diftitlation is feparate Lrs,VIIL. Of the Nature of shings, 83 fines, Calxes, Mercury, Sulphur,-and Salt, 8c, : - Vegetables in their fepavation yeeld, Waters , oyles, Of Vegetables; Inices, Refines, Gums, Eleéiuaries , Powders , Afhés, Mercury, Sulphur, and Salt. . . Animalls in their eparation yeeld , Water, Bloud, Of Animalls, Flefh, Fat; Bones, Skin, Body, Hairs; ‘Mercury, Sul- phur, and Salt. : : ' Hee therefore that boafts himfelfe to bee able-to what a gpod feparace all naturall things afterthis manner, mutt of {eparator ought -neceffity: have long-experience,and-pertedt knowledge ‘°b% _ of all naturall things. oo Ue Morcover, hee muft bee a skilfull and well pra@i- fed. Alchymift, chathee may know what is combufti- ble, and what not; what is fixt, and what rior; wiat -wil low,and what not;and what thingsjare more pon- ~ derous one then another: alfo he mutt be experienced _ inthe naturalt colour, {imell,acidir -neffe,. bitterneffe, {weetneffe,the A and quality of every thing. © : . . Alfo heeimutt know the degrees of Separation, as The degrees of of Diftillation, Retolution, Putrefa@tion, Extraction, ween. -Calcination, Reverberation, Sublimation, Reducti- ‘many there bee on, Coagulation, pawdering, and Wafhing,. = : Water, Oyle from all Whae dititlai ‘corporeal things. . onfeparares, * By Refolution are feparated Metals from Minerals, What refoluis and one Metall from another,and: Salt:from.the other 9 . Principles, and fat, and that which is light,from-tbat whichistheavy, : . - pou ny sharfhneffe, fawre- legree,complexion, ByPutrefadtion is feparated fat from lean,pure from Patseta@ion? impure, putrid from not !putrid: By Extraction is (eparated pure fom impure, and ExtraGion fpirit, and quinteffence from body, andthinnefrom ~ thick. Lia By84 Calcination: Reverbsration, Sublimation, Reduéion, Coagulations - Powdering, Of the Nature of things, = Lib.vut a By Calcination is feparated watery moifture , far, ra hear,odour,and whatfoever elfe is combutti-, es, By Reverberation is. feparated colour,. odour, what is combuftible, all humidity. aquofity , far, and whatfoever is. inconftant , or fluxil, in any thing, &c. By Sublimation is feparated the fixed from the volatile, {piritnall from the corporeall, pure from impure, Sulphur from Salt, Mercury from Salt,&c. By Reduction is feparated what is fluxil,from what. folid, a. Metall from its Minerall, and. one Metall from another, a Metall from its droffe, tat from what isnot fat. : : By Coagulation oo waterifhnes from humi- ity, water from Earth. By Powdering are {eparated powder,and fand,athes, and Calx, Minerall; Vegetable, and Animall one from the other,and all powders, which are ofan une- qualbveight are feparated , and by winnowing-, as from corne. , By. wathing are feparated.affies, and fand, a-Mine- rall from its. Metall, that which is heavy. from what is light, a Vegetable, and Animall from what is-Mi- nerall, Sulphur from Mercury, and Salt, Salt from Mercury.. , ‘he Pepa. “But pafling by.the Theorie, we will nove fall upon on of Metall i, manifold, _ treat oft after this method, and. manner. the pragtife, and come to particulars. ~ You mutt therefore note , that the Separation of Metallsis the firft by right, and wee thall therefore OF Lidia. Ofthe Nature of things; PRERELAEG ES SLEOES SESE Ofthe Separation of Metals 7 from their Mines. ion. of Metalls ftom their Mines-is py quring He fey Tike livers ways, viX. by boiling , and melting powders. with fluxing powders,fuch asare falt Alcali, Lichar- ge, fale fluxile,the droffe of Glaffe, Salt Gemme, Sale. -Petre, &c.; Let them bee put in a Crucible, and nielted in a furnace 5 f0 willthe. Metall ,-or segulus’ ~ fall.to:the: bottome of the Crucible; but the other * matter will fwimabove, and become droffe. Thou: fhallboil this Metalline regulas-in a reverberating ~ farnace fo long, till. allthe Metall become pure., ,anc freed from all its droffes by this’ means the metal. is well digefted, andas. Imay, fayrefined.from.-all its droffe. : i -- -Manytimes onemine contains more thenone Me- ~ tall,as.Copperand Silver, Copper and:Gold,:' Lead ‘and Silver, Tire and Silver; you thall: know it by this, ifthe Metalline Regulusaher Reverberationin a melting pot bee fufficiently.after the. true. manner diffolved. Forinit are all imperfect. Metalls fepara-. ted, as are Iron, Copper; Tin, and Lead , and fo with a double quantity ot Lead to the Regulus. being put toit, they.all poe into a fume, and only fine Silver,or Gold are left behind in the-pot. Alfotwo or three Metallsmixed together may bee By Aquafortig Separated in 2ynafortis,and extracted the one from . (Lg, the86 Ofthe Natareofthings, Eat. VIN, the other. Iftwo Metalls or one bee refolved, the other wilt fall'to the bortome like fand,and be preci pitated : and “be after this manner feparated.” Alfo Metals may be feparated by flowing after . this pro- cefs:Makeinetals fidw;and whén they arein flux,catt By Sulptur.” into them the beft flower.ot Sulphur as you can get, viX, an ounce to every pound of themetall, and let it burn, and by that means it wil draw up the lighteft «> ‘merall to the top, the heavy falling to thé'bottome. » . Theflee them ftand together till heybe- cold. And {6 in-orie Regulus two meralls are found, not'as ‘be: A wonderfull fore mutually mixed y but one (eparated from. the Pena te thes by the Sulphur , as by a partition, as Oyle coneae "divides two Waters; ‘thar ther Cannior bee joined By Quick. “cogecher ot mixed:’ Sulphur therefore is'a fingular ad Arcainm worthy of grear'corimendations. °* -. ‘Fixe metalls,as Gold arid Silver, becanfe they can- siot wel bee extracted with Fire or qua fortis, muft ‘bed atnalgaimited ‘with’ Quicktlvetiand fo feparated and extracted theQuickfilver béing afterwards exera-" cted and feparated by a certaine degree of Diftilla- tion froni the Calx of the merals,vX,Gold,& Silver. 1 After‘this trannity alfo may ‘other metals not only “Gold, ‘and Sifyer hue Copper; Itoh, Tin, Lead 8, asal(o Wwhatfoever are prepared out of them , as red ‘Electrum, the white Magnefia, Aurichalcum, calci- “ned Lead; -Laton, Braffe'of Cauldrons, and whath- ‘ever tnefitils oF this ‘kind aré ‘trantthuted', bee with Quicklilver, bit firtt being powdered, abftracted,and {epatated from whiatis heterogeneous.’ For the na- ture, and condition of Quickfilver is this; that ‘itwil * bee 'tinited , and "atnalgatnéd with metalls, bue'yet -with one fooner then with another, according asthe metall is of greater or leffe affinity to it. in _ rated:from all manner of metals then by Ditti Lis. vil. Of the Natare of things, Inthis-confideration fine Goldis the chiefeft, then fine Silver, then Lead, then Tinne,then Copper,and laftly Iron. So ‘amongft tranfinuted metalls, the firft is part wittuparthen Ah coloured Lead, then. Laton.then’ ~ Brafleof Caldrons ; thenred,. and the tieweft white. Although Yorthe firft courfe: Mercury may take no more then one. metal, with which it is amalgama-- redsyer that Amalgamaiis tobe ftrained-hard through Leather, ot Cottoncloath. For, by-this; neans no-, thing but the Quickfilver will paffe h othe Leather, or Cloath: and that metall which: ic did attract remains inthe leather; or clorhlike. Calx, which afterwards thou maift with falr Alcali,or fore other falt reduce into ametalline body by.melting:: Now by this Art Quickfilveris much fooner pe tion, &c. e a. "By: this .proceffe' with: Mercury: all metals day after calcination,arid porrdcring beby skilfull; arid induftrious Alchymiftextracted, ‘and feparated -one _ from oe : one iy - aticg In thefanit tnannet; and -that-eatily, may. Ti and “LeatPbee feparared from Copp aaa véffels, from Tron; and Sted}overlaid with Tinwith- Oittiany fire, or water; by. the “Amalgama: of Quick filver alone. “00. fee ‘ Allo “Beareh-Gold, or Leake Gold, ‘ar'Silyer;:as alfo:any other:imerall cbdareni). or: ground:,-:being written, oi laid‘over with'a pencill ; or quill upon cloth; parchment,’ paper, ‘leather, wood, ‘ftones, or ant thang elfen ec 'rofolved by:Quickfilver, and fo; thar the Quickfilver may bee atterward separated ‘again from thofe metalls. ~ ~~" Now.88.- By Corrofive waters, . -Ofthe Nature of thiags, Lr3, Vay : Now. the {eparation: of metalls. in qua fortis , Aqua Regis, and like corcofive waters, is after this * manner. ‘Leta metalf that is mixed,and joined with another, be taken, and beaten into thin plates,or brought in- to powder, Purit into a {eparating veffel; and poure onit common que fortis as much as is fufficient, tet them ftand-and bee macerated, until all the metall bee sefolved into aclear water.Ifit be Sitver, and concain - any. Gold.in it,all the Silver wil bee refolved into swater,and the Gold wil :alfo bee calcined, and ferele in the bottome like black fand.. And after this man+ ~ net Gold,and Silver are feparated. If now thou wile Separate ‘the Silver from the Aqua fortis without Diftillation, pers place of Copper into the water, ” and the Silver. willprefently fettte in the bottome of the waterlike fnow,and the Copper. plate will begin to beconfumed by little,and little. : "Thefeperation of Silver, and Copper by common ‘Aqua fer is dosicaffer this manner.Let the Copper whic contains Silver, orthe, Silver which contains Copper be brovghe to thin plates of powder,and put into.a glafs-veflelupon which.pour as much commen Aquafortis as is (officientiand this means the filver will bee calcined,and fertleto the bortome like white chalk:but-the.copper.wil be diffolved,and urned.into _ aclear water. If this water,together with the diffolved copper, hé by a Glalle funriel feparated from the filver calx into another-Glaffes thenthe Copper that is dif- folved in the water, may bee fo precipiated’ with ‘common water , or. rain water, or any other water, shat it wil fertleto the bottom of the Glafs like famd. i oNoyw the Separation of hid Gold,from any metall, ns 4 . is . Lis.vil. Ofthe Nature of things: is by the degree of Extraction in Aqua Regis. For this kind of water will attempt to diffolve no metall, but only pure, fine Gold, &c. The fame Aqua Regis doth feparate alfo fine gold from gilded plate. For if that be wafhed over.with it, the Gold will be feparated from it, &c. : 89 Moreover alfo with cement by thedegree of Re- Bythe degree verberation two Metalls mixed togethermay he {epa- rated the one from the other , but efpecially if they are not in the like degree of Fixation, as Iron and Copper. For that Metall,which is but little fixed,as Tin, and Lead, is all of it confirmed by the degree of Reverberation in cement. For by how much the more a Metall is fixed,(o much the leffe is it confumed by cement. : You muft know therefore that fine Gold is the moft fixt, and perfedt Metall, which can bee deftroy- ed, orconfumed by nocement, Next to thisis fine Silver. If then Gold, and Silver be mixedogether in one body, which is wont to bee called part with part, or if Silver contain Gold, or Gold Silver: I fay thefe being thus mixt if they bee reverberated into ce=- ment, then the Gold remains entire, and not at all in- jared, butthe Silveris confumed by. the cement,and fo is extracted from fine Gold: fo allo is Copper from Silver, and Iron,and Tinne from Copper, and Iron, or Lead ftom Tinne,and {0 forth. o tio Reverbera~ myOf the Natwve oftbings, = Lis VTIK PERG et Oe tte Si hh to Of the Separation of Mineralls - Frer chat wee have explained (as hitherto wee: Mhave done the feparation of Mctalls from theit: Earth, and matter, as alfo-of one Merall from ano- ther, and how itis done having paffed through it wile as. much brevity:as. might be : it willin the next place: bee neceffary tht wee treat alfoof thofe things out: of whicki Metals grow, andare generated, as are the: three Principles. Mercury, Sulphur, and Salt, as alfo: all: Mineralls., in which: the firft: being of Meralls,: dye. the fpirit of Metalls is. found, asis manifeft itt. Mareafires, Granats,. Cachymies, red Talke', the: Avzute-ftone,and the like, if which the firft, being of Goldis found by the degree of Sublimation: Soin white Marcafite,white Talke, Auripigmentum; Arfe-. nick, Licharge,ccythe firlt being of Sitver'is found:Tni Cobaltus,Zinetus, éec.the fifft being of Iron:In Zine-: rus, Vitriall, Verdegrealey Secsthie firft beitig of Gop- - perIn Zinetus, Bifertrutiis, Shc.the fiett being of, Tint: _ In Antimony, Minium,écc: the firft. being of Lead: In, Cinnabar ,, the firft being of Quickfilver is. found.. Concerning this firft: beginning you muftknow, that irisa volatile {pirit,as yet cofifting in volatility, as.an infant liesin the worbe of its Mother , which fometimes: Li3,VIIl. «Of the Nature of things; fometimes is made like to Liquor,fometimes to Al- cool. Whofoever therefore defires to bufie himfelfe about the gerting of the firft being of any fiich ‘body, orto feparate it, muft of neceffity have much ex- perience, and knowledge in the Art of Alchy. mie. For if hee {hall not diligently and skilfully work in Alchymie, hee fhal attempt many things.in vain, and accomplith nothing, - But after whatmanner the firft being is to be {epa- rated out ofany Minerall,is {ufficiently explained in the bookecalled Archidoxis,and need not here tedin outly. bee repeated. ‘ But.as.concerning the feparation of Mineralls, you muftnote, that many ofthem are to bee {eparated by the degree of Sublimation as fixed from thofe which are not fixed , {pirituall and volatile bodies from fixt bodies, and (0 accordingly of all the mem- bers, as is declared concerning Metalls. For of all Mineralls there is one, and the like procefle through all degrees, as the Art of Alchymic teacheth,&c. oxOfthe Natureofthings, «= Li3,vnt. eb ee SS es ae Of the Separation of Vegetables, iow Vegeras “D He feparationof thofe things, which grow out bes are fepas Tes he Earth, and are combuftble, Ss fruits, raced, hearbs, flowers, leaves, graffe, roots, woods, &c. is miade many: wayes. For firftby Diftillation the Flegm is eparated from them, then-the Mercury, then the Oyle,then the Re- fine, then the Sulphur, and laftly the Sale, All thee Separations being made according to the Spagiricall Art many notable, and excellent medi- cines,come from thence, which are to be ufed as well within, as without the body. ~ Butnowfecing idleneffe is fo much in requeft a- mongft Phyfitians, and all labour and ftudy is turned. ‘only to.infolency,truly 1 do not wonder, that all fucli preparations are every where neglected, and coales old at fo low a price, that if Smiths. could be fo eafily without coalesin forging, and working their Metails, as Phyfitians arein preparin their Medicines, cer-- tainly, Colliers would long fince have been brought toextream want.. 1K reprehenfs In the mean time Iwill give to: Spagiricall Phyfiti- cnof Phyisi- ans theit due praifé.. For they, are not given-to idle- ae neffe, and-floth, norgoe ina proud habit,orplufh and: velvet garments, often fiewing thei rings upon their: fingers, orwearing (words with filver hilts by their fides, or fineand ary gloves upon their hands, but di- ligently follow their labours, fweating whole nights,and dayes by their furnacess. _Fhele: Lis. vil. Of the Nature rf things. 93. ‘Thefe doe not {pend their time. abroad for recrea- The commen” tion, but take delight in their laboratory. They wear mifts, and how, ~ Leather garments witha pouch, and Apron where- they differ with they wipe their hands. They purtheir fingers Payeaang. amongft coales, into clay, and dung, not into gold rings. They are footy, and black, like Smithes > or Colliers, and doe not pride themfelves with cleane, and beautifull faces. ‘They are nottalkative when they cometo the fick, neitlier doe they extoll their Medicines : {eeing they well know that the Artificer muft not commend his work, but the work the Artificer, and that the fick cannot be cured with fine words. : Thevefore laying afide all thefe kinds of vanities, How many fe: they delight tobee bufied about the fire, and to learn Siethere be. the degrees of the fcience of Alchymie- Of this order are Diftillation, Refolution,Putrefaction, Extraction, Calcination, Reverberation ,. Sublinsation , Fixa- / tion, Separation , Reduéfion , Coagulation 5. Tin- dture, oe. But how thefe feparations may. bee done by the help of diftint degrees according to the Art of -Alchymie; hath been in generall fpoken. of already. Wherefore it is needleffe here to make repeti- tion. : But to- proceed to particulars, and briefly to ex- plaine the practife, you muft know. that Water, Spirit, Liquor, Oyle, &c.. cannot bee feparated after one and the fame proceffe, out of Flowerss Hearbes, Seeds, Leaves, Roots, Trees, Fruits, Woods, by the degree of Diftillation.. \ _” For Hearbs require one proceffe, Flowers another, Sceds another, Leaves another, Roots another, Trees , Mm 3 another,4 ‘Ofthe Natureofthings, — Lrs. Viti, “another; the Stalkes another, the Eruite another, ‘Woods another. : “Thedegressof And im this degree of Diftillation, there are” fire i 2 lariat vn alfo foure diftinét degrees of Fire to bee confide. feds “The firt degree of Fire in Diftillation is Bal. neom Marie, this Diftillation is made in Wa- ter. i A ‘Another ‘degree of Fire is Diftillation made in ‘The third inSand. |. "The fourth:in a-naked Fire : as alfo Diftillation »may bee made by 4qwa fortis, and other sharp O20 Waters. ge : . uo With what ( Toshe firkt degree of Fire belong, Hearbs, Flowe See reecar t1S, Seeis, and uch like, Ble is to be To-thefecond, Leaves, Fruits,8&c. Didilled, ‘To thethird, Roots, and Boughes of trees, 8éc: To the fourth Wood, and fuch like. Note, that every one of thefemuft bee beaten fmall, and bruifed“before they bee put into the Stl, eos oo Lisdx Of the Natave.of shings; hand, braakers of the peace:thecutting diftwo ofthe fingers:perjured - the'pulling’ oitn of: odyescimning, and fubtile villains :‘the cutting: out-of the-tongae, blafphemers, ftanderets,8c. So.alfo you: may iknow them that deny ithe -Chriftian Religion :bysa -croffe burnt-in che foles,of theinfeet, becauferak they liave denyed,their Redeemer.’ state sian But thatpaflingbythefe we. the mon- ftrous .figns of Malignantsafcesding, you mult know, thar all monftrous fignes do not anifefroman:A foer- dent only,but oftentimes alfo from the ftars of Mens minds, which continually and-everymoment‘afcend, and: defcend with the fancy, eftimation , or imagina. tion, no.gtherwife then in the fiperions firmamens, Hence cithetfrom fear, orterrou “E breedifis " Men, many monfters,orchildren marked with mon- ftrous fignes in the womb, are borne. ‘The primary caufe of thefe.is fear, terrors appbtitt: from :which is raifed the’.imagination..[£a womanqwithchild to imagine, then her:heaven by;iss:motionis:canryed roind,no otherwile then, the fuperiour-ftinament every moment, with Afcendents, ortifings, or Set~ tings. Foraccording 1 the example: bfisthegrititce tthe Be ee pi ¥ . . of the. Imagination : corividpudd rsflionppen. the Womanythanis putkas if any. ond dhnyid imapedlcian fabless or Stamp mongy., Whenoe thal fignes, ssndigenialt whieh are “bujobte hee ae 706 which many Phi crs shave mrote y things, and men. have enseawo ed uch tame afidland tayonall account. ety sie could. ineweh ‘ye, — oo . oO One. toyTheOriginall Of the Nature of things, Lis,X} done: Yer they doe adliere;and are impreffed on the infants, as the ftars of the Mother, whether frequent or violent,doe reft upon the Infants, or the Mothers. ‘longing is not fatisfied : For if the Mother Jong for : ‘this, oF that mear, and cannot have it, the ftarres are fuffocated asits were inthemfelves , and Oe And that longing doth follow the infant all its life, time ; that ican never bee wellfatisfied. The like reafonis shere of other things,of which we fhall not hear Dif. -coureany-further., ore co ee fc fignes .of Phyfiognomy receive their original BE Phyfiognos !* -ftom the {upérior ftats; this art. of Phyfiognomy pic, was greatly elteemed of by-6ur-Anceftorsjand efpeci- ally by Heathens, Tarears, and Furks, &c.and: other people, amongft-whomit was the cuftome to fel: men for flayes, arid ivis.not- yet altogethes laid ‘afide: a- mong ft Chriftians. Yer together with it matty Clept inj: noryer taker tiotice of by any, whileft every blockith ignorant fellow.would‘take-upen-him with- _ Out anysmanner of.judgement-to judge of any one. Whereitis:worchy-of admiration that thofeerours fhould:nbver bee:taken notice of front ee the meni: —) ' : Now ifany one:hall.inthis place-argue againft'ns, faying chaz the fignes of Phy fiégi mipare Fein the fats,and that the tars have tie power t6 compel any ODE, Lyp,1X, ~ __- Of the Nature of things. ... onc or ftir him up;he indeed doth not {pealoamiffe-bue © - ° yet there is fome difference in it which mutt be taken . notice of, becaufe the ftars compell ome, and others they doe not compell.- clade ig : For here we mutt know, whoean ‘rule or -con- ftrainthe ftars, and -who:can begovernéd by thenas Therefore for this you muft note, that a: wifé-man can rule the ftars,and not be fubjeétto them. The ftarsare fubjed toa-wile man, and are forced toobey: him,and not he the ftars. Buc the ftars compel ant ‘Animall man, that whither they lead him hee: mutt - follow, juftas athief doth the gallows, and’a highs way robber the wheel, the fither the fithes,the fowler the -birds,. the. hunter the wild beafts, And. whae here ‘is she ‘caufe of this, .but.that fuch a kind of raani doth neither know himfelf,nor his own ftrength, never cenfiders, or thinks that heis the leffer world, and, that he hath the univerfall: Firmament with the. powers thercof hid in him? Wherefote he is called: _ an Animall, an ignorant man,and aflave toany bale: fervice, and all-earthly matters 5. yet whereas. he received that priviledge from God in Paradife, . that hee-fhould rule, and, reign over all other creatures: of the Univerfe,-and thould not bee.obedient to thera 5 stan isthe therefore God created him laft of all, all the reft be- Lord of all o- ing made before him. This priviledg man afterwards Creatures, loft by his fall : but yetthe wifdome of man was; not made fervile, nor did hee let that liberty. goe out: of hishands. Whence it is requifite-that the ftarres fhould fotlow him,and obey him,and not he the ftars. And although hee indeed be the fon of Saturne,and. Saturn-his Afcendent; yet hee can. remove himfelfe from him, and fo overcome him,that he can, be the. - Oo2 -off-fpring‘Of the Nature oftbings, Ei IX! offt{pring of the Sun, and bring ‘himfelfe‘ under any other planet, and: make him(lte its Son. ° And it is the:fame-cafe:heréas with a-Digger, who for a-time: hath {pent his pains with the- Matter. of the-Mines, andawith thehazard of his lifehath performed his fer: vice:faictifally;avlenpth-reafons;and difcourfethiwithi. himfelfe tinus.: eran cot : What:-will becorhe of theeat-laftsif thou fpendett. all thy: life under theearth,and by rpcaninnall la bouisdoftalfo.bring thy bodyjalid life inte danger ?: I. willget arcleafe from imy Matter, and Twill ferve: another Matter, where my life may be made {weeter;:. where E:may-have plenty ofarieat, and drink, where € may wear beiter clothes; liave little-worke arid much’. wages, where there thall beeno danger of thie mouns: tain hanging over mee,and-ready-totall upon me,&c. . After this manner hee would bee at:liberty., whenas'. otherwife, hee: moft remaine, a. Mereshary:{ervant's._ and flave; pining away with: much labour,’ and -low.; feeding, ce hs ~Now-you {ee how wifeman:commands the ftars > and canremove him(elfeftom any-malignant planet, _ and:bring-himfelfe under anosher beteerhow.hecani, bring himfelfe outof flaveryinto hberty and ean free: bimielfeoucof the prifon-6fanill planet, | * : So.alf6 an Animall man; whois the fon of tht Sun, _ of Jupiter, Penne; and Mercury may remove hin felf- from-abenigne plante, and {ubject hinifelfeo Saturne;: Gr ‘Murs: ucla matt isilikero amati., who runs from. areligious Colledge, and-being irnpatiene of an.cafy- life becomes Souldier;orelfea: man of no: repute. who afterwards (pends alhislifé in forrowy and mi... i . had Such. - brought himfelf to poverty. LtBIX: Of the Nature of thinge, Such an.one alloisa rich man, who being given to’ levity ,(pends,and wafts all hisgoods, in-'Dicing , Feafting,. Whoring, Sc. which hee gives ‘himfelfeto fo longiuntill all bee fpent, then hee comes. to. want; and«heing miférably afflied -with:. infamous - Wait! : becomes defervedly-a laughter and {corn to.all mei: yeaeven tothe very. boyes inthe ftreets, whoin you. may hear faying : . Behold.a beggerly.man: worth, . nothing, who when hee was:.a Mafter: difdained’ his}: . Mafterfitip,and.had rather bea flave,a bepgerja fave: ta {ervants, (ccing he can never:come'to his privileds’. ain... *P and hither doth a Malignant ftar, or -Afcendent’.. drive him. . Unieffe he had been-afoole, and. difho-? neft;-he had not left:fo certaina- Dominion, which hee: hadover the ftars,. buthad ftrove againft it: :- Aiid although of -himfelfe hee knewnothow to icfift the’, fiars;, yet hee mighthavebent his mind tothe. exam= ples of others; thinking thus with himfelfe : See-how-- rich that man was; but foolifhlys and thamefully-hath Alf he lived gallantly; withoutimaich:labour,had fo much’ meat, fach wages,’ . that he could not live better. Now he lives {parisisl yy! andfordidly, and in ftead of Wine hée ‘unftdeinke ; ‘Water, his labours daily increafe, : his. wages .de- . create,” . 7 Naw-how often doth :fuch’a :kind: of Man-talke! after: this .manner.-with himfelfe... What ‘have T° done?» Waither amv. I: running headlong, fo bafely:; fpending my:goods. that-I-got, who swill repaire- my eftate? If ever I fhall receive what hath: been . thus pent, . I will-take afar other courfe of life, ._ and: will by.my harms. learne-to bee wile, and % _ 00 3. will:182 Of the Nature of things. Urs.X1) will make -amends: for my evill. deeds. , No man is But:it is convenient to know , that no man can “pilebyhis own bee wife by his owne harme. For it isa foolith, pamhrs. ” and fenfeleffe thing to bee wife by-ones. owne harme. -Let.him that -will be wife, be‘ wife by another: mans‘example, vnot by his owne. For ‘heethat hath once-{pent his eftate ; would {pend it againe -it hee fhould. have it , and he that once ritheth, -peritheth for ever. “Hee: -which- once hath-caft.a Dice, cafts it again. Hee which once ftole, and efcaped the gallowes , will endeavour to fteal the fecond time alfo. For hee thinkes thus with himéelfe. My ‘efterprizes have fuccee- _ded once.,- and again,» and why not the third, . ot ‘fourth time. If-God-fhould. once reftore what I have loft, hee would reftore it the fecond, and third time,-&c. If hee did riot forfake. mee in my. firft. mifery,, hee will. not in the: fecond,- or third,&c.. : Bt titania All thefe-doth an Animall nian doe, the fer- ‘vant, and. flave of the: ftats,. who .is turned. every where,- and moved: by. the. ftarres , as. a Reed in watery. - 7 : Be oo t “And this is the reafon ‘why his lifeis {pent in mis fery, and he dies in infamy: : ; ; Who ‘therefore will fuftain fych ‘fervitude, and not deliver himfelfe from {uch a nafty prifon ?. For any: one. may by. his: owne wifdome , together: with-the:help of his ftar,deliver, and free himfclfe. from thence, Confiderthe matter thus: oo A Fowler by: his prudence, and help: of. his flar, overcoming another ftarre,. needs not. goe: after birds, for they will -come after him. fly- ing LrB IX, Of the Nature rf things. ing -to,.unufuall..places 5. contrary. to theit nas ture. a So a Fifherman:can-by making -ufe of the wif- dome. which God hath given him make fifhes fwimt to hina of their own-accord, fothathemaytake . - themop: with his‘hands. © eT -A-Hunter:improving :his. wifdome, doth. by-.-his ftar fo-compell the wild-beafts, that hee need not follow them:, but: they: will follow. him without : any. impulfe of nature. So.alfo of the reft of living i creatures.” _ . Now forthe better: underftanding of thefe things, Stars are twel you muft:know, that Stars are twofold,rerreftriall , °°" 7“ celeftiall; ‘thefe. of. wifdome; the: other-of . lly pe eee apy ee . Andas there are two worlds,the greater. and thé Jeffer, : and the: greater governs: the leffer : {0 alfo the. ftarres, of che Microcofine doe. id. come: theiceleftialls: woe bn ; : Neither did God:createthe.plinets;- and: other ‘The end of the : ftars.of the heaven, that-they thould ruleover man, Si. -. but that they. as all. other creatures; (hould: obey, command; - and ferve him. And although the fuperiout: {tars ™" doe jincline-meri, and figne-them'as’ alfo-‘all other: terfeftiall bodies, with natural fignes, according to the manner of their generations yet that isno power, or foveraignty, -but only. predefthated coi mands. se ‘Office;:.. whereby -nothing-“it ; maine hid, or concealed ,- ‘but’ thé inward ne power, may bee brought: forth: by exteriour:. HENES: _ ‘ te : 7 But to return to‘ our purpote of the Phyfidgnomis Signes arose call fignes of Men,you mutt kriow, that eee a fel, _ ‘folneg ——“Ofthe'Natareafebings, "Ls. 1X. ~ fald, idtexteraall thapeindeed alike, but in power,and effet unlike. — : ; ~ Some are from fupernatirall ftars ofthe heaven, the other, from the infcriour-ftarres, 2%. of the ‘Mi- generation, even othe aiidte age; thar iching Higned “38. ptedeftinated ,. :not. wanting -peculiar “powers: “Bor: it doth reftifie:of the :nature, -and-condition - “of Manz Wehatioever theréfore sheninferidus -ftat of | - ‘ - : Gray, eyes area figne of a deceitful, and change- bs Gray: able man. 7s Weak eyes fignifie good judgement , witty, and Weake Byes . profound deliberation. Purblind eyes, and fuch as turne upwatd , and° Purblind, downward, and to both fides , fignifie a falfe man, and crafty, that cannot eafilybe deceived, treache= rous, hating labour, flothfull, getting his living flothfully » by Dice, Ufury, Whoring, Robbe- r Co | 5 * Small and deep eyes doe for the moft part figni: Smll ana fie weak, and feeble eyes, and blindneffe enfuing*“* * "in old age, asdlfo.ftrong men, warlike, bold , :de- ceitfull, nitnble , factious ,. patiently undergoing” their condition, yet the’end of whofe life is for the moft partxragicall,&c. «: Great eyes, acovetous, ravenous many efpecially Great. if theyhangout ofthehead. <= >"> . eat os Eyes that are alwaies winking,declare a weak fights Winking. and aman tobe fearefull, and folicitous. “Pp Rol-