Fafciculus Chemicus 1493 . q OR —_ Chymical Collections, EXPRESSING he Ingrefs, Pr&grefs , and Egrefs, f of the Secret Hermetick Science, out of the choifeft and moft Famous Aurnors. Collected and digefted in fuch an order, that it may prove to the advantage, not onely of the Beginners, but Proficients of this high Art, by none hither- to difpofed in ‘this Method. Whereunto is added, The Arcanum or Grand Secret of Hermetick Philofophy. Both made Englifh .- By Fames Hafolle, Efquire, Qui oft Mercuriophilus Anglicus, Our Magiftry is begun and perfetted, by onely one Usbing; namely, Mercury, Ventur, p.26- J» anne caennr enna D Enno LE SEN Londow, Printed by ?.Flefier for Richard Myune, atthe fgn of Sr, Pant in Little Britain, 1650, -1 Ss el. Idcaline 8 T:W:M:D : we OL GS CWICOUS & oe Seeontle % Sebe nse Kes, is so Reveal L But hours conceald . i ftts focus. philus thy: 2 bicks vail: the deule Op. ti jeak 2) ue Seu CG J ntee juectee though Hnigma cs fez, hulp: © These Hic hf an wn. ; J he full E. Whe | cnt 5 EN o asoseaeces TO ALL Ingenioufly Elaborate STUDENTS, Inthe moft Divine Myfteries E OF ‘ Hermetick Learning. Mk Here prefent you with 2 : 4 Summary Coletion of the TGP. choilet Flowers, growing Ung youl in the Hermetich Gardess, forted and bound up in one compleat and lovely Pofie. A way whereby Pain- fel Inqnifitors avoid the ufual difcou- ragements.met with in a tedious wander- ing through each long Walk, or wind- ing Maze ; which are the ordinary and guilful:-Circumftances, wherewith eavious Pkilofephers have inlarged:their Labors, ; ae purpofely ¢PROLEGOMENA. . parpofely to puzzle or weary themoft refolved undertakings. °Tis true, the manner of delivery ufed by the Ancients | upon this Subjeé?, is very far removed & from the common path of Difcourfe ; yet Ibeleeve they were conftrained (for # other p g like Pigesaleons Image, [full of exquifite the weight and majefty of the Secret ) to invent thole ai Line of expreffi- ff ons ineZnigmaes, Metaphors, Para & bols,and Figures. Now amongft the Catalogue of da- jf thors that have treated of this facred f Learning, Uhave chiefly obferved four f "forts, [ The firft are fuch whofe wel-minded- nefs and honefty, have caufed them to § lay down the whole Myftery faithfully § and plainly ; giving you a Clew,as.well as fhewing you a Labyrinth; and they Fi onely are to be ftudied. The fecond are thofe whole Afagiffe- rial handling a part or branch thereof, did it rather rodifcover themfelyes AZa- i fiers, then with intent to n/traét others :§ Thefe may be read, but they aretoo fub-f “fime for thofe, who ftand in need of ang Introduttion. f Others there are, who out of Jgno-4 ranceat Miffake, have delivered blindeg a jome of them haye HB foul of Truth; A sloffes 5 that can fow tares,and transform himfelf PROLEGOMEN 4, | and unbottomed Filtions, which haye too much deluded and abufed the credue lous World: fothat of this fort I may fay (not blemifhing the honor » which 1 juftly acquired in other parts of learning,) their Works are proportion, feature, delicacie, and beane ty, but not animated with the life and ] and while 2 man confults with /xch; he fhall. always doubt, whether what he reads be to the matter, ot hot : However the Pudicions f may {mell their levity by the vatekye/s of their sepertinancies. But che laft and wortt fort of all, are thofe, who through Evy have feattered 8. abroad their unfaithful recipies and falfe (taking for prefident the Devil into an Angel of tight ) with intent to choak and obfufcate the more evident light of the plain dealing Philofophers : And to difcern thele LmpofPures, requires a Judgment able to divide a Hair. From this variety of Writers it is; f thatmiany, otherwife ftedy Mindes ‘are toft up and downs as from Racket to Racket ; being forced to change their ** 2 Thoughts;PROLEGOMENA. Thoughes, 2s oft asthey change their Authors, and conceiving they have fete ted rightupon a Point, Gut like ticklith § Weather-cocks,) are neceffitated to fhift } with the next pxff, (although but of an empty windy conceit:) New difcoveries begetting new opinions, which raife more f} untoward and turbulent Dowbrs , then their greateft ftrength of Judgment can conjure down. Thus (snhappy men !) thinking themfelves ready to Anchor, 2 § crofs gut blows them off the fore ; per haps into a rougher fea of Debate and Perplexity then before, and with greater hazard and danger of fplitting. hq I know that the truth of the proper Argent, its Preparation, and the Five, g q Man defpair : For /ively there is a ppirit (the three snoft important fteps to this f bleffed werk) with the whole proce/s, isby fome Philofephers {0 fincerely laid 3 down and unfolded, that toa knowing § Artift it isa caufe of much wonder, why he that reads (though but fmatter- fi ingly acquainted with Narare ) fhould hot meet with cleer fatisfadtion: Buel Fi the ingenious Inquirer to fift into, or here’s thereafon, Afany are called, bus Sew are chofen : Tis a Haves towards : which many skilfil Ps/ors have bene thei | courfe, yet few havereachtit, For asi would afford Eyes that fhould pierce amongtt | PROLEGOMENA, | amongft the people of the Pews,there was but one that might enter into the Holy o Helies, (and that but once a yeer,) g thereis feldom more in a Nation, whom Gedlets into this Sasttum Saniloruns of Philofophy ; yet fomethere are. But though the number of thofe E/eé are not many, and generally the fathom of "| moft mens Fancies, that attempt the fearch of this vaft and fubtil At fiery, too narrow to comprehend it, and their ftrongelt Reafon too weak to pierce the depth it lies obfeured in ; being indeed fo unfearchable and ambiguous, it rather iy exacts the facred and courteous Iusmi~ nation of a Cherub, then the weak affi/t- ance of a Pen to reveal it. Yet let no ] ta man, and the infpiration of the Al- mighty giveth underflanding 3 and though all things before us feem hud-- led up in a deformed Chaos, yet canhe place them in comfinefs and order, For many Philofephers clofely fhuc up, or concealed divers things, which they left finde out ; prefuming to whom God intended the difcovery of the onder, he 3 throughPROLEGOMEN A. through the mift of Words , and give them a ray of light which fhould lead them through this darknefs: To finde } out that Path which no Fowl knoweth, & and which the Vultures eye hath not feen: For, if ferioufly peruled, you fhall finde their Books are much like Drawers, that fead to fomechoife and fecret Box ina Cabinet, [one opening the way to the reft 7] which if heedfully revolved, the @ fatisfaction you mifs of in one Author, will be met with in another, and all per- hips may atlengthdifcover fuch preg- 7 nant and fublime Secrets ; as fhall mant- } feft thee to be one of thole chofen ve(fels, i ordained to be informed of this K new- 5 ledg , which fometimes God hath bid from the wife and pradent, but revealed unto Babes. Whofoever therefore undertakes the? fearch of this abjtrufe and fecret Learn-@ ing, muftknowit requires heedful andy piercing Fudgments, apt and cleer Fan-\| cies, faithful and diftintt Conceptions BF For the Philofophers writings are not} onely interwoven with moft exquifitels cunning and ingenious artifice, bue thes Golden T bred of the Matter is fo warily!) difpofed, covertly concealed , ane PROLEGOMENA. broken off and difperlt; (they being ever fearful to afford toe early light or | fatisfadtion tothe Readers, ) that unles | the Father of Ihaminations prompt, ot lend an Angels hand to guide, thebeft principled Student may be loftin tracing” § itsfeveral ALeanders, and fall thor of finding out its (catered ends. Be wary my then in the application of words (for therein the Jmaginatien is fubject to 4 many mifcarriages, being apt to twift and bow each Sentence to the various frame of its prefent Conceptions, and fy the unwary di/coveries it firft makes :) Efpecially thofe words which appear to lie moft naked ; for wherethe Philofo- phers feem to {peak platnef-, there they have written nothing at all; or cliein H {uch ordinary expreffions, have wrapt up | fomefente, highly my/terzous : Generally fitting their difcourfe with Words, chat M like the Delphian Sword will cut both ways, or reach coalarger extenfion or latitude, then fome Conceptions can ftretch them too ; intending and ayming at things beyond, (and fomecimes below) { what we fuppofe thofe barecxpreffions difcover. In fine, they have fet before us a task, ** 4 forPROLEGOMEN A. for Explanation , other then isufed in our ordinary beaten track of Di/courfe: which he that will well underftand, muft firft be mafter of the /anguage of Naz gure, baving run through the difcourage- borious difficulty of joyning her Letters, Tis true, the dignity of this infallible Atyftery lies open to many hard Ces- fares, and profane Scandals, fo well Known, Ineed not mention them; but that thereby I fhall endeyour to remove, and puree this pure and heroick Science (al- moft generally contemptible) from the drofs, and corruption of an Jmpofture. Commonly we fhall finde them moft traduce it as falfe and deceitful, who (having the repute of Schollers ) pre- tend to have fpent much time and in- | duftry in the fearch thereof ; and becaule ;; itis dreft in fuch yariety of flowrife and figurative Speeches, that their fhallow underftandings cannot eafily pierce into § it; (their wilde unhappy Fancies like fo (3 many Tailers oops ful of various fhreds of Conceits, making up out of fuch (@ changeable colours at beft but a Fools |i Coat :) They profels all che difcoveries tl ‘ thereoj a ke A 4 . PROLEGOMEN A thereof to be meer Chimeraes, and it B {elf a ftudied Fable, But the Egyptians A might as well deny ight in the Land of B Gofben, becaute themfelves lived in dark- A nels, or we, if either of the Luminaries ments of the tedious progrefs, and la~ H the Eclipfe is Univerfal. and fpelling her Syllables. i fuffer defeé? to our view , conclude that If thele (otherwife well accomplitht) Aen, would but confider how many occult, fpecifick, incomprehenfible, and a inexplicable qualities there lies dormant J and obfcured in Nature , of which no abfolute or true account can be ren dered by themielves : [As the concate- ration of Spirits, their working with- out the Body, the Weapon Salve, the Sympathetical Powder, the Vertues of the LoadfPone, the wonderful and neyer to be enough admired Secrets of Magnetick Philefophy, and Natural Magick: Asalfo what Art it felf is able to perform, by the power of Mathematical conclufions,in Geometry, E) Numbers, both myfterious and vulgar, Perfpettive Opticks, ee. What famous ie and accurate Works, induftrious Artifts haye furnifhed thefe latter Ages with, cand by weights, Wheels, Springs or Strings, haye imitated lively Motion, "asPROLEGOMENA. as Regiomantanus his Eagée, and Fly, Drebler’s perpetwal Motion, the Spring in a Watch, and {uch like Se/f- Movers, (Things that feemto carry with them- § felves (like diving Creatures) the princi- ples of their own Afotions, and anallied 3 to any outward Object, except onely to Hl fet them going :) The Arts of Navi- fi gation, Pristing, and making of Gun- § powder (which for the honor ef our } Countryman Roger Bacoz,.¥ the rather i mention, who lived above a hundred yeers before we heard of its original from H the German Monk, and certainly knew ' its whole Compofition ; but that his pious Thoughts (finding it might prove fo {wift and devilifh a deftruction to 4 Men, Cities, Caftles, &c.) would not fuffer him to reveal the way of making § it, though he plainly difcoyered its Na- ff ture, force, and horrible execution s (as A appears in the fie Chapter of his learned Epiftles De Secretis operibus Artis & Nature.) Inaword, what marvellous 4 conclufions, Art (making ule of Nature (8 for an Znftrument) can perform,without f thehelp of fo low and inferior affiftante Fi as Charatters, Charms, or Spells, (and § yet thele haye their feveral powers, if i : judicionfly 4 PROLEGOMENA. judicioufly and warily difpofed and handled ;} infomuch, that no man that underftands the fafe and honeft power of Art and Natare, can juftly afperfe their Legitimate Childrea, as though they were the off-{pring (or indeed had any relation) to Diabolical Arts. From which few particulars, I might infer many other wonders poffible to be wrought , which yet to appearance or probability, are beyond the power of accomplifhment: and where the vari- ous productions of Nature, Art, ot both,haye given the /evity and infidelity of many mens Pudgments , the lie; whofe prejudicate zhoxghts would never beleeve a thing could be done, till they found (beyond evafion or denial) it was donéz] I fay, if fuch men would but ferioufly confider thefe and the like miraculous effects, they might be of force fufficient to perfwade the moft doubtful amongft them , that Art with the help of Nature, may arriye at fuch perfection, to work Wonders, as far teyond thele , as thefe would be beyond their apprehenfions, had they never heard of them before ; nay to beleeye , there 7 nothing incredible , eitherPROLEGOMENA. either in divine or humane things : and yet they never become fo happy Fa- | vorites as to be made privy to the my/te= ries of this Canning Another Error thefe curious Brains § runinto, is, That they look beyond Na- cate Wonders ; whereas they confider not, that Nasure in all her prodwétions, as fale, allthings that appear not fea- rackt upon the Zenter : And this is the Reck, againft which divers fuffer Ssipwrack, apprehending they ought to Ff place the zatersals of this glorious and ff magnificent byilding, in more remote and range things, then really it is. Zize this ferious and divine work, as a filitious thing, and they arefich, whofe cafie confidence (forgetting the cautiona- true they once finde Written: And when after tedious and chargeable Chy- { mical operations , (the expreffions of a the PROLEGOMENA. the Philofophers feeming to look that way ) they finde no reality in the Ex- periments an{werable to their expettati~ “ons ; but all prove as defective in their production, asthe birth of Eritthonins y H) was imperfect ; then in a difcontented ture, and often defpife the Parh for the Fi humor (perhaps having been cheated to Plainnefs thereof, fuppofing it too valgar | to conduétthem to {uch rare and intrie | boot) ruine (with their good opinion of the thing ) all hey have before under- | taken. “But it is no wonder if they be at \ 0 #8, #§ much expence, that make ufe of many works plainly, eajily, and without iz- § forcement. Briefly, {uch oughtto fufpect things: What need is there of fo vaina ufe of many Glaffes, fo much blowing B of the Coals, fuch confumption of Fire. fable, without it excel in fubeilty, orbe ff cats, Sch canfumprion : and other impertinent and expenfive preparations + When the Philofophers a tellus, One Glafs, one Furnace, one Fire, (and that an immaterial one, not to be found in the Furnace of the Chymifts, ) 1 isfufficient to perfett the work ; which f } & whofoever attempts, and cannot firt Some again calumniate and feanda- | fancy the Complement thereof to be gone m through without charge, (at leaft very titel or incenfiderable ) let them leave i off, ariddefift; left th i ry Items of the Philefophers) beleeve all |; off, and efits Te ne conlamepri if the dradging in a falfe Fire hath made 4 their faces pales their wealth leave their hearts as cold, as Others there are that clamor, and cty . eurPROLEGOMENA. out againft this guiltlels Learning,whofe covetous defires have made them rufh upon the practife fo far, that they are § forced to retreat by weeping crofs. It isk the common Fate of the Covetous tof meet with a Cheat, aud the fmooth# ftories of a Quack do oftentimes fet fof delightful and eager edg upon theicfl griping defires, (which doubdels af Knavifh genius may cunningly carry on ) that the confiding Adifer thaillf never diftruft him, till he be fer to rake By among the 4/hes for his wealthy recurn, And as unskilful men cannot ufe tool much warine/s, if they be to deal with a any that pretends to teach the procefs of this Afjftery , fo they cannot take too much good advife to avoid their ilps ons, By way of Castion therefore, be-tg ware of thofe mercenary pretenders.) that (boafling much of their abilities) offer to difcover you any of thofeg Secrets, upon condition you give them Bi fuch or fuch a fum of money ; for by this rinkling fownd you fhall judg chen counterfeit metal. Never was this Holy] Myftery communicated to fo wicked aly man, asever would or durft make fale of it; or indeed do fich men ftand ins PROLEGOME need, They want not Afoney, or are neceffitated to condition fora Trifle, that poffels fo great and unexhauftible a f treafures for length of days is in her right ; hand and in her left hand, riches ond he. wor. Therefore who hath this, hath all : it incircling within it felf, a temporal feli- city, health of body, and all good fortune, Next, truft not thofe that pro/fitute their shel ; thele are the #7a/ps that creep into the Hive of Hermes : {uch Vagrants doubtleGareempty and anfranght, and have more nfe of what they may shrew out of you, then you can make benefit of what may be gained from them. It is a Fewel of that price and eftimation, that they who finde themfelves once bleft with its poffeffion, entertain itas Lor did his Angels ; who would rather deliver up his onely daughters, [his dear and neareft comforts |then expole fuch choife Gueffs into che hands of wicked men s not daring to make the Secret common, HI Icft they become breakers of the Cele- lial Seals ; much moreto betray ic into untrufty hands, for any gain or benefit. Butbefides thefe, the gencrality of the World are nurft up inabelief there #PROLEGOMEN A. no fuch thing : Firft, becaufe they never heard of aay that publikely profeft it, or by vifible operations mani i truth in any age, Secondly, in regard they as feldom found any Man, that (by his Condition ox Converfation ) ma evident fhew to the World, that he was pofleffor of fuch a wealthy Science: Many of the Profeffors commonly living miferably poor, who though they boaft what vaft Trea/ures they can com: mand, yet {carce are feen to havea penny intheir purfe, or a whole Rag to thei of i A need fuch regard the airy and empty backs. Tothe firft, Lan(wer, That there arefl Ho command aa abfolute Content in all divers things which peculiarly grow within the dowels of the Earth, and feemg as buried to us, becaufe they neither bud forth or gcowup; and withal, there be-) mention it; counting nothing more ad- ing /o few Adepted Prieft; inthe World it isno wonder, the Ceremonies of fo dif vinea AZivacle, fhould be both feldomf and privately celebrated. To the fecond, That there %, shark maketh himfelf rich, and hath nothing; and that maketh himfelf poor, having - great viches, For on whomfoever Ged beftow this B/effing, he firft fits them for amote PROLEGOMENA. 2 moft verrwons life, to make them the more capable and worthy of it ; and being fo qualified, they ftraightway lay afide ambitious thonghes, and take upa retiredne/zsthey dwell within their Root, and never care for flonrifbing upon the Stage of the World: The confideration of this. Adagiftery being theirs ; does more fill their A4indes,then all che Trea fares of the Indies, were they entailed upon them, (it beingnot to be valued, becaule itis the /ummity and perfettion ofall Terreftrial Sciences) not indeed glory Of Magnifying-Fame , that can things. Nay, forne lofetheir vain glory fo far,as none thal (carce ever hear them yantageous, then to conceal what they enjoy. For, asitis a Secret, of the high= eft nature and concernment ; fo God will not fuffer it to be revealed to any, butthofe that can tell how to conceal a Secret; and if we rightly weigh this, that the poffeffion of the thing takes — from the poffeflors ; the root of all evil, out of his efpecial grace, is pleafed to BL Coveronfie/s ; | how then can any cor= @ tupt or finifter phonghes row up inher? tPROLEGOMENA. It is alfo worthy confideration, how many eminent dangers, troubles, fears, § and inconveniences, the yery fuipicion of having the Stone, hath intided fome Men to ; and how many feveral ways their Zives have been attempted , by owerful and wicked men ; becaufe they concealed che Ady/ery from them. * Butlecthe reward of shofe who would forcibly ftrip this Secret from ariy breft, § - be Like that of the Sodomites, which & would have Lor deliver them his An- gels, [ Blindne[s in the eyes of their ginder ftanding +, \co wafte out their time in feeking. the Door that lets into this knowledg, but never finde it. moft weighty Ties and ‘-bligations of an Oath; and that by long tryal and ex-" perience of amans fidelity, vertue, ind: ment, difcretion faithfulnefs, fecvefie,ae- fives, inclinations, and converfation 3 to fiftand try whether he be capable and | deferving ; for the neereft Relations (unlefs exactly qualified with merit ) cannorobrain this kyowledg from them Every Childe cannot be an Heir, nor e very bofom Friend an Executor. And PROLEGOMEN A, this Mrigt care is taken; feftthe Learner fhould mifapply his Talent, by ferving the Arbition of evil men’, ox {upporting wicked and wujnft Interefts sto domi- neer with violence ‘and oppreffion, per> haps to the trampling’ under foor the general Peace: For ‘doubtlels a fevert account will beexaéted by God at the Teachers hand,if che Leather fhould mit govern or abute this fo great a Grace. Ti is faid, Wifdom which findes out Knowledg ‘and Gounfel , dwells with Pradence. A Contcientious brett muft Ekeep it roft religioufly inviolable, if B onceobtained: Stabslity and Conftancy Binuft berefolyed on by the undertaker, Furthermore, this Learning isnot re- & vealed by avy Mafter, but under the § ever flying that inconftant humor, which fometimes leads men on, with too greedy an appetite, and a while after withdraws and cools. Such fickle and wavering Difpofitions. fhould leave off betimes, left they, meer with thofe frefh conceipts, tthat (hall winde and turn their Fancics fo miany feveral ways, that acfength ike Penthens- (ifratted with irtefolution) they can ‘fete no wherds and howapt’ plech inconftanr Seekers are for this Work, their impetfee produétions will beax, them witnels, . ‘ Another AaPROLEGOMENA Another necdful Cangion may be given, and that ptoyerbially : Hajte makes wafte. This milchievous Evil is commonly. forwarded by an overecoves tous defire ; andithis is thatgrand enemy to the Work, which often proves the suing of all: He mutt therefore perfo- vere in his undertakings , and patiently contemplate om Watures flow and lei- furely progrefs in the bringing forth of her beft things. Itisnot a Adatcer that f is throughly apprehended at firft, upona flight or fuperticial yiew ! The Philofe- phers chat railed chis Fabrick,y did it by many degrees, and itis by their fFeps | we yauft make out Afcenfion to thofe high wonders. Do not then prefime, 9 (though your underftanding be ableto @ build a Struéture) that itis fongly or § je it readily finde wot the reak Truth, yet exactly compiled; unlels you fin railed from a ground that is fincerely | plain and nateral,managed and {quared by the first Rules of Art, And com @ B And.hicthat once begins. to love Wifdone fidering that your Errors may prove fundamental, (for whofoever ‘mifles his way at the entrance, fhall build upon fo | unfound a Foundation, as allows of no emendations, but a new beginning :) You can never ule too much Caneson in . your PROEEGO MEN A. ur Coatfe, ot beover fedulous inthe guidance of your wnderftanding. It is wifdom co anacomize and diflect every apprehenfion clearly, and examine what the operations of the Afinde have effedt- ety and in what mamer the Senfescon~ vey them unto you: And as you walk. | along. -heedfully to oblerve, whererhe principal Thred is broken off, and. thers fearch about where it islikely ro be niece with again ; for doubdlets the ends there of are poffible to be found out, if heed fully sraced. However, if yet what you apprehend does not fo exaétly hit the marks retum to theftudy of Nature, - there dwell, and fook ronnd to dilcover the belt Way ; cat about againsfor a new Scent, and keave no-path unfearched, not no bath unbeaten ;. for shougt: your peradrencare you my meet with: fuch fatisfalion, as wilh quiee your Reafon, and makeyour take pleatirre in the fearchi for its own fake, fhalk fooner beac» quainced with her, ther he: that courts her for any finifter or by refpect ¢ where- fore inthis fenfe may be taken that of our Saviown, He shar hath much; foall A 3 receivePROLEGOMENA. yeceive more; but be that hath little, foall be taken away, even that which he bath. Elifoa obtained the fight of the Horfes and Chariots of Fire, thatcar- } ried Elias up into Heaven ; bucit was § not till he had defired, that.a double por- tion of his fpirit might reft upon him. & And Eiifba’s fervant faw the Mountains ff full of Horfes and Chariots of Fire; but not till his Mafter had prayed to the Lord to open his eyes: If thy Thoughts & are devout, honeft,and pure, perhaps God Ff may at onetime or other, lay. open to thy Underftanding, fomewhat that will § truly and faithfully lead thee to the & Knowledg of this A¢yflery, ‘Solomons g flochful man that fears the Lyoz in the way, mutt not venture into thefé Streets 3 of Wonders; where ate Remeraes that jf will puzzle or abate the moft forward g and fevere Inquiries , and quench the f thirft and defire of fartheft fearch.In our § progrels,the higher wego,the mote fhall 4 fo remote. Aftrologers well know the secret i Chambers of the'South, and that there ld areg Ba we better our profpecl ; itis not 2 level ora flat, that can afford us the benefit of ff difcovery toa Knowledg, and Learning § PROLEGOMEN A. are Stars that have inflaence under the } depreffion of the Soxth Pole, though not vift:le in our Hemifphere. Asthere~ fore in Fileration, we mult lay the drawing fide of the Filter, as lowor lower , then the fuperficics of Water, from whence it draws, elle it hath not power to bring up any thing ; fo we muft fearch as deep as the ancients Fountain, ere we {hall be ableto draw any water out of their wells ; which if once obtained, the sime for operation is beft known by a fit Z/eétion.wherein the Rules of Aftrology axe to be confulted with; in which Science, the Practifers of this Arr ought to be well read for the feveral ufes, that continually and necelf- farily muft be made thereof. . I profefs, for my felf, itis a fatesfying Contentment, that I can finde fome pto- bable grounds for the poffibility of fuch an Enterprife ; it is nomore inctedible _to me, thar from plain and fimple prin- ciples, it may be exalted to fuchan height, even beyond perfection, then to fee the ftrings of Inftruments, (framed and compoted of fo bale, and neglected things, as the Guts of Cats) fhould be able (through degrees of refining,) to A4 affordPROLEGOMEN ZA, afford fuch fweet, mellow, and admirac ble Afufick.. Nor isica mean degree of | happinets, I conceive my felf feared in, that in fo great adepth of Myftery, T ai inabled to difcoyer fome little Light, though but glimmering and imperfect : If Lenjoy no more but ‘onely to live in the Womb of fuch ‘Kaowledg, ot if § with a dim reflex (from this Rock of Flefo) Lfee nto more then the back parts { of this Divine Science, though the lory hath paffed by tothe Ancients b ore; it will contribute much to the quieting of my foli¢itous, and waking Inqui- ries, . We are not a little beholding tothe | induftry of our Anceffors, for collea- falling from Heaven, as into fo many feveral Veffels ot Cifterns ; referving it for our times and u/é ; which elfe would have foaked away, and ine fenfibly loft it felf in the Earth of Obk- | vion. But as tothe ficeing us fromthe toyl and difcouragement of a tedious and irregular earch, (man Philofophers pointing but'ar one part of the AZyffery, ff inthe whole bundle of their Treatifes’s) a weatecternally obliged tour usher, f a , Or & PROLEGOMEN J: for fo highly beftiending us with thefe learned Coleétions, of the onely fem and pertinene Things, fromthe relt of their Zerge and suneceffary Difcourfes, (and that from their writings who were unqueftionably ble(t with the knowlede, of this Divine ALyftery,) even asa skil- ful Chymift, who by Spagyrical opera- tions, feparates the grofs and earthy frome the more fine and pare , and out of a Bi large AZa/s, extradts onely the Spirit. H And though it isnortobe denied, chat the Philofephers left many Lights be- hinde them , yet is it as crue they left them inclofed in dark Janthorns, andus tofearch them out in corners: But here m out Author hath brought them out of ing into Books chis Elemented Water | Heat A usin 2 branched Candlefticky whereby and there ¢ that obfcurity, and placed them before we may view them af at once, and where like a full Confort of Inffruments each founds his part tomake the har- mony compleat ; ‘fo chat it will evident- ly appear to the Fudicious and Learned, that thefe Cofeétions were nor rafhly, or with flight choice, fnatchrox ftript from the ‘whole bulk of Authors ; but with a wary and heedful Judgment, culled out and felecily chofen ; and what - thePROLEGOMEN A. the Ancients delivered fcattered,and con: § fufed, is by his elaborate pains difpofed § in fo advantageousa AZethod, that we are much the neerer to finde out the right path by the order wherein he hath ranked their /ayings : yet not fo, that the whole Procefs lies juft in that Aethodical f Chain, as seems linked together by each Paragraph ; but that the fame is here and there intermixt, and irregularly pur- fued ; fometimes the beginning being} difpofed in the middle, the middie in the end, Gc. And befides, part of the Ph; Fofophers fentences may (and mutt) as | well be referred to other Chapters, and under other Heads ; and left for the in- ‘ duftrious and painful Contemplator to f fet and joyn together. His Expofitions f inthe Corollaries are very remarkable, rendering him a manof a moft piercing Intellect and fingular Fudgment y and f letting in much light to the dark phrafes of the Philofophers ; fo that indeed they | thew rather the effects of Experience, E then Contemplation. Ina word, The § work, ts like the Sun, which though it § Seems little, yet it is all light. Y For the Author himfelf, I mutt not be filent in what I have learned, though is PROLEGOMEN 4. this #”ark render hira fufficiently famous, elpecially being reported to me, to be a Gentleman, Noble, ingeniouty and den ferving. He was Son tothat excellent Phyfitian, Doétor fohn Dee, (whofe fame furvives by his many learned and precious Works, but chiefly celebrated amongft us, for that his incomparable Mathematical Preface to Euclids Ele» ments) and ehief Phyfitian to the Emperor of Raffia, being made choice of, and recommended by King fames, to the faid Evsperor, upon his requelt, to fend him over one of his Phyfitians, Tn this imployment, he continued four- , teen yeers, being all chat time Munifi- cently entertained, as his merits and abilities welt deferved, Upon his retura into England, he brought moft ample Teftimonies of his own worth, and Emperial Commendations to his late AMajefty ; and fince retired to Norwich, where he now lives, Aud may he ‘yet live the full poffeffor of that honor dye to bis Eminent parts. Touching the Zranflation, I have as faithfully performed it, and given itas plain a Verfion , as the dignity of the SwbjeEE will allow ; the better to fit it fe theirPROLEGOMEN A.. their Underftandings - who havewetted: the affiftance of bei formed of this wonderful Secret. Ne- verthelefs, I chought fit co retainthe Swbtiley of the Adyfery, chough the words {peak Enghj; wheretothecon- Rane Students may but with /abor teach, § and that to whet their apperires , not. that the lazy Valgar fhould pluck with eafe, left they defpife or abufes Itisne defparagement to the Subjeft that it ap- pearsin an Engh/t deft, no morechen it was when hnabited inGreek, Latin, _Arabick, Gc. among the ancient Gre- “cians, Romans, and Arabians, for wo § each of them ic was their walgar ff Tongue: And had notthofe Nations, ff . (ji hee. progrels | through the world } came, taken the § pains of Tranflation, and fo communi- | to whom Learni cated to their own Conntries the benefic of feyeral Faculties ; we had yet lived | in muchignorance of Divinicp, Phile- Ff Sophy, Phyfick, Hiftory, and altother | Arts ; forit wasby thehelpof Tranf- | _ Tation they all role to their feveral heights. 1 prefune to hope you will pardon the want of that E/egancy and § Richnefs, § bred Scholars y , and yet perhaps are defigned tobe in. PROLEGOMEN A. Richnefs, which vill fay bebtinde with Originals, as their proper and peculiac Ornaments and Graces; end accept of that homedy Habit aT ranflacion mut be content to weer For faving the pains whereof to future times, if forme gene- tal Formsand Charatfers were invented (agreeing as neer to the satural quality, and conception of the Thing they arcto Jigaifie, asmight be ;) that (to men of all Languages) fhould wniverfally exe prefs, whatloever we are to defiver b | writing ¢ it would bea welcome benefit to Mankinde , and much fweeten the Curfe of Babels Confufion, fave a great expence of Time taken up in Tranfla- tion, andthe CUnderrakers merit extran ordinary encouragement. Nor will this #aity in Charatter feem impoffible, if we confider there is inall men one firft principle of Reafon, one common interior Intelligence , and that originally there was but one Laz- guage. Nay, it will appear le(s difficult, if we look back upon thofe /feps already Jaid to our hands ; for wemay draw fome helps from the Egyptian Hiero~ , xlyphick, Symbols, Munfical Notes, Stenography, Algebra, os. Belides, wePROLEGOMENA we fee there are cettain Charaézers for the Planets, Signes, Afpetts, Metals, Minerals, Weights, Ge. all which have the power of Letiers, and run cur- rant in the Uaderflanding of .every Eangaage, and continue as Reliques and Remains of the more Sacred and Secret Learning of the A. neients, whole intentions and words, were not expieffed by the Compofition of Syllables or Let- ters; but by Forms; Figures, and Charatters. mS To prefent this invention as more feilable, we may confider that the ufe- ful radical words, if numbred; would not [well beyond our AZemories fathom, fpecially if well ordered and digefted by general Linguift ; and fuch a one that rightly underftands the firlt and crue im- preffions; which Nature hath ftamped upon the rhings they would have figni- fied by the Form, Our mifery now is, we {pend a great part of our beftand § P 5 P eB cealing it to themfelves, and making afe tmnoft precious time in learning one Lane a to underftand a little Adatrér; § (and in how many Tougves is it necefla- ty to be perfec, before a man canbe PROLEGOMENA, yention were buc compleated , -4rts would arrive at a high perfection in a finde fpace, and we might reckon upon more rinse,in the fhort account and mea~ fure of our days, to be imployed ina a (ubftantial frudy of Adatter. Bur I muftretire ; and confefs I have B exticamly tran(greft the limits of a Pre- face ; which (if it bore exact proporti- ‘on to the Adatter enfuing) fhould be more brief and compendious : And yet Lintended to deliver herewith fome fhort account of the firft and true Aateer, with the procels of the whole 7ork; B but I. thall leave youto the Colleétions enfuing, for prefent fatisfaction, and if encouraged by your acceptance of this, the judicious dire@tion of an. able and Le may one day beftow my own Medita- tions upon a particular Difcourle : In B the mean time, J charge all thofe that foall reap any benefit by this Tranflation , ander the jecret and fevere Curfe of A God, That rhey beftow wpon it the Auguft veverence due touch 4 Secret, by con- of it onely to the Glory of our Great E Creator, That bemg the principal aym of this Work, and of all others amped Fames Hafolle. geverally kaowing 2) whercas, it this in ff With the Signature of vention B 1, March, 165%POSTSCRIPT: "A Frer Thad writ this Preface, and committed it to the Prefs, I bappia Ly met with the following Arcanum, and perceiving ir tofuit (0 punttwally with thefe Chymical Collections, for the folie dity, likenefs, and bravery of the Mateer and Form; and to confirm fome of thofe Direttiins , Caktions, and A ons I had laid down in the Prolegomena; and withal, finding it a piece of very Eminent Leaming and Regard, I ad. ventured to tranflate it likewife ; and perfwaded the Printer to joyn them into one Book; which I hope will not diflike the Reader, nér overcharge the Buyer: And though in the Tranflation thereof, T have ufed the fame folemnity and ree} fervation; as inthe former; and fuch at befits fo venerable and tranfcendent 4 Secret: Yer I hope, that thofe who (fa | vored with a propitious Birth) feare into the Sacred Remains of Ancient Leatning, admire the varé and difgaifed effetts of Nature,and through their Piety and Honefty, become worthy of it, may finde Ariadnes thred to condutt them through the delufive windings of this jwtricate Labyrinth. 1. April, 16500." oS James Hafolle. dmoniti-€ Bay Beye ee ree 3 Ae eh (55) Si) vay Co tg GD cesesenes TO THE STUDENTS / IN Chymiftry. 5} Lthough(accord= *| ing to Ariftotle) Mufick be rank- ed in the num- ber of Sciences : yet we read how K. philip taunt- ed his Son Alexander, when he found him Harmonioufly finging, a in +To the Students in Chymifiry. in thefe words ; Alexander, art not thon afbamed to fing fo finely? | By which words he accounts it J difhonorable fora Noble Manto ufe that Art publikely; but rather f when he is at leifure: Privately, § either to tefreth his Spirits, orif § there be any difpute concerning Phyfick, that it fhould be temper~ J ed with all Harmonical fweetnefs, and proportion. In like manner J it is (to our grief be it fpoken) | with the Art of Chymiftry 3 whileft it is fo much defamed, dif § paraged , grace, -of Impoftors, as that whofoever profefies it fhalkftill be ftigmatized with Publike Reproach. ‘Neverthelefs very many, yea, § too many there are tobe found § at this day, (profeffing I know not -what fhadow, of this Divine Art) § -who ingrofs unto themfelves, as it were the whole World; to its § Deftruction, and brought into dif- § by the fraudulent dealings | "Lo the Students in Chymiftry, | Deftruction, [Brafs, Iron, or other Metal, not to convert the fame into Gold, but are found at length to cheat with it for Gold, to the great grief of many : Orphans mourn, by reafon of fuch Knaves, Widows weep, Husbands lament, Wives bewail their mifery. This Man defireth his Lands, that his Houfe , another his Rents taken from him. And amongft thefe al- fo (which is the more to be won- dred at) we have known very many inftruéted inevery Acade- © mical Science; becaufe of whom (being ftruck no lefs with Admi- ration then Fear,) I begun tobe fomething difcouraged, and by the example of their vain Expence, gave over any further fcrutiny in this Golden Science. But the remembrance of my Infancy in this Study, wherein for {even yeers together I had been an eye witnelS of the Truth thereof, a2 I fpentTothe Students in Chymifiry. I {pent many laborious days, and tedious nights, until that accord- ing to the advice of Count Ber- nard, 1 had for fome yeers read, and more accurately perufed the moft fele& and approved Au- thors ; the which (although at: : firft I fuppofed:they had differed amongft themfelves , as if what this fayes, another denyes; what here is raifed, there is ruined, yet) at length I found (by Gods affift- ance,) that they agreed Hermeti- ' cally and Harmonically, in one Way, and one Truth; by which means I difcovered the one fort true Philofophers, the other falfe Chymifts, and at length, called to minde the memorable faying of Dajtia the Phiofopher: That zt fufficeth not to be Learned, unleff a7 the wery thing fromwhence the Qseftioa avifeth, So I found men, (otherwife Learned) unlearned in this Art; amongft which I knew a To the Students in Chymiffry, a Bifhop, (whofe fame in Chymi- itry was celebrated of many , whom I vifited, after Ihad feena p little Chymical Tra@, writ with & - hisown hand: ) And when I took him laboring “in our Common Gold, whence he ftudied to Ex- tract Vitriol, ( which he held his onely Secret) I left him; for that I faw he had neither before him Wi the proper Matter, nor the manner of Working, according to the Doérine of Philofophers 5 and that I knew he had many Coal- rakers, and Brokers of Receipts, as wellin England, as in Germany, and Bohemia : But truly I found not one Man for Thirty ycers to- f gether, that wrought upon the y Proper Matter, and confequently not any who deferved the name Hoof a Philofopher, And for my own part, if more may not be : pranted me, then a far off to be- old the Holy Land, I {hall ad- a 3 mireTa the Studentsin Chymiftry. mire whatfoever the Great and Omnipotent God, is pleafed out of his infinite Mercy, to grant me; yet in the interim, whilft (for delight fake) I was conver- fant (by the favor of Hortulanus ) inthe Philofophical Rofary, I pickt out fome no lefs pleafant then wholfome Flowers, which I have made up into a Fa{cicalws, for the Eafe and Benefit of Young Stu- dents, inthis Art (whilft in read- ing and perufing, they were wont to confime fome yeers, before that they learned rightly how to pound :) The which (if not too boldly) Idedicare to you the Lo- : vers of this Truth; and have ac- counted it worthy of. publike a view. Deign therefore( ye inge- § nious Men,) that this my Fafctca- jut, howfoever collected by my Labor, yet by your Authority | and Favor, to be prefented a more Ulufrious | Tothe Students in Chymiftry.' Tiluftrious Work : whence (by Gods Favor and Permiffion) they E may be able to pick out what is p daily fo much defired, and fought for, by multitudes. What in obfervance, Faith, and fall Duty, and in memory of your R Merits, may in any wife be pet- g formed by me, to your praife and f honor : the fame I moft freely, m% and dutifully promife, and vow iq thall be performed. Farewel moft @ Famous Men, and may ye not dif- 4 dain to cherifh me with your Pa- F tronage, handle, ‘or in handling tocom- § Yours moft devoted ArtTuur DEE. CM. Archiatios Anglus. a4 TOeartata Kenta cakes cee ato veautsarts TO THE Candid Reaver. Ven as Resfon and I p73 WPS Ly called the Hands C LON of Phyfitians; with- Se Health [the Treafure of Life} can be preferved , nor Sickneff (the Herauld of Death) expelled: And that Phyfick it felf remainezh Lame | and Defective: So, in this Philo- | fophical Work,Natuze and Art ought (9 lovingly to embrace each other, as} that Art may not require what Na- ture denies, nor Natare deny what obediently to every Artiff, whileft by their Induflry fhe is helped, vot bie dred. Of whofe Steps, Progref., Motion, and Condition, whofoever® ue Sen z DY, oh Experience, are juft- | out which, neither | To the Reader. js ignorant , let him not prefume to Sistempt this Work, (of it felf Ab- rule, and otherwife wonderfully nadowed over by Philofephers, with Enfinite Clouds :) For nothing An- wers his Expectation, who either nows not, or ftrives to compel Na- ure. For that fhe (as learnedly Raymund) wil wot be exforced, or raitned, But he that covets after Fame, by the Honor of the Art, or to reach the Summity thereof 5 let him firfE obferve , and obfequioufly follow Nature Nataralizing, Propa- cating, Multiplying, and being the Litiftref? and Guide, rout refemble Artin what fhe is able: which al- f though in divers things it be aCor- reilrix, and help of Nature, whilff smay be perfetied by Art. For Na-@ tare afjenting, foe demeans her felf @ A Motion, is holpen by it, yet is it im- h pofsble fhe fhould be imitated in all A things. itcleanfeth her from all Errors and Defilements, and being hindred in For, as in this Divine Work (not uj-To the Reader. nndefervedly fo called, inafmuch as it is affirmed of all Philofophers,thas never any Man of himfelf, without Divine Infpiration, could compre- hend ; or underftand it, though _ otherwife he appeared a moft Learned Philofopber :) So, in all other Com- pound Bodies, in the firft Mixture, or Compofition of Elements (that I may conceal the occult caufe of Mo- tion and Conjunction) the weight and proportion of every Element , are utterly unknown. That Secret of Secrets, beftowed by God upon Na- ture in the Beginning , fhe ftillre- tains in ber own Power, and {hall fo, until the end of the World: Per- haps, left Mortal Men ( if ithad been made known tothem) elated by the infolence and pride of Devils, fhould prefume to Create, which % proper to God oncly, who by the wn~ fpeakable Power of his Word, hash endued Nature ( as his Minifter ) with the Generation, Propagation an To the Reader. ° pnd Multiplication of all things, Fir when he infpired in things reated,the Generation of the World faying, Encreafe and Multiply ;) pre gave alfo a certain Springing or Pudding [ that is, Greennef, or ptrength, ) whereby all things mul- Wiply themfelves (whence fome more profoundly contemplating faid,T hat ind things were green, whereas to Pe green, may be faid to encreafe, and grow up together, ) and that Greennef’ they called Nature, There- fore de is not without canfe, that the gprime Philofophers do fo feck after, and (acrificeto Nature : when with- pout her help, Art (in this knowlede) performs nothing. Nor any wonder Wf the moft Learned Englifh Monk, [Roger Bacon, ] writ of the won- fderful Power of Nature, and the marvellous Secrets in Art. Nor jth Parmenides lef admire the Power of Nature; [ in thefe words, O that Heavenly Nature, over- rulingTo the Reader. Tothe Reader. ruling, and excelling the Natures pe"gent , and reflecting Beams of Truth, and caufing themto pote known,the tnknown Secrets of rejoyce. This is that {pecial and pX4t#7e taking original from the Spiritual Nature, to whom God § gave a Power, above the violence of Fire ; and therefore let us mag. 9”? : nifie it,feeing that nothing is more fF’ #) the Foot-path is manifefted, Pretious !] and chalked out ; whereby Nature Therefore (Friendly Reader) 1 ps at laft brought to more Perfection. recommend tothee, and the Sons of Which Book indeed, alshough per- Art, this Lady of Honor, without gpaps tt may be looked upon, by many; which we attain not, (or perfect any Bs 4 thing of no value, becaufe it thing in) this Art, that [0 it may eonfif's (for the moft part) of the be your work, and chief fludy to ob. Yayngs of Philofophers, digefted tain her Friendhip, (0, as when an | onely in order, (yet is it no eafie bufi- occafion ferves, ye may be found nef’, when as David Lagneus sw2t- Sudges, not Fugglers of Nature and weles of bimfelf, in his Epifile to Art. ; is Harmonious Chymittry wilt For which caufe Ihave writ this Wot 45 Counfellor and Phyfitian to little Traé# ; [ viz. My Fafciculus tHe oft Chriftian King , That he Chemicus 5] wherein I have given pweat with continual Labor, for youthe more abftrnfe Secrets of Na- yovex'y two yeers , until he had ture, chofen, culled, compacted, and \compoied (it may be) fuch another digefed in no ordinary manner, as little Tract.) As touching the Me- being arenowned Speculum, whofe thad of this Work , it contains ten refulgent, i fmallTo the Reader. fusall Chapters, and every Chapte follows she order of the Work whence alfo a Myftery is revealed which for matter of diffembling, afi concealing things, was never befor fet forth in this manner + Other my having ever put the Beginning 4 the End, and the End at the Begi. dng, in fuch fort (as witnefes Dy] nyfius) that it was impoflible (+4 Divine Caunfel fo difpofing it) finde all things orderly writ. Som Chapters alfo are noted, not ont with Titles ({earce hitherto beard off but rare Things, [ even the Secrti@frivolous omitted , by which many of the Art laid open, which (( very many affirm) ought not to! publifhed. But in the end of eve Chapter, I have briefly comprized and expounded the extraited Mar vow thereof. Otherwife (as Senio faith) If I did not expound fom thing out of them, my Bod fhould be the fame, with the Boo} of thofe Wife men,and my words theirs To the Reader. Eneirs, and,asif I had taken their ords,and ufed them for my own, hich were both unworthy, ani difgrace to him that fhould lo fo. . a But the Authors I have pro- duced, whofoever hath read them, will not deny, but that they arethe Choiceft, rhe moft Acute, and Ap- proved ; and that the things felect- ed and culled from their Writings, as nauft necefjarily Mbcknown , That fo Art maybe made known in things requifite, and the have been feduced from the way of Bcruth, whileft onely it behooves the Intelligent Reader, to diftingnifh Truth from Falfbood. For the Truth is not otherwife hid in their Wri- tings,thenWheat amongft the Chaff, the which with Labor and Toil I have found ont, and here prefented, (Vnmasked and Naked) to the Stu- diows Readers for the Publike good , Hoping,To the Reader. Hoping, that this my Labor wil Ap vp We ony Be ufeful to she younger Profici-l ARTHUR DEE ents,but even grateful to the Lear Doctor of ; ed themfelues ; And which I defin mor 1 Phylick; yor mony all of you, fairly, and fred i). Se, accept of. Farewtl. ; Chymicall Collections. From my Study at Mufco, the (Calends of march. 1629. Cuap. L \ Naturall Matter, what itis, and from whence. ‘ Aes, | QFN truth che matteroF pei FS Ep which the Stone is Bow. #4 IH made, is onely onc; me nor can this neigh- g SSS bouring Faculty bee f found in any other thing. And it g isthac whichis mott like to Gold, itis alfo that of which itis begot- Aten; and it is Argent Vive, alone, f pure, without the commixtion of B any other thing, and itis obfcured with infinite names, and the man- i ner of operating is onely one, but ‘| . it‘Amoldis. Chymicall Collections. Chymicall Collections. it is diverfly varied by the Philofo- Jieeft and purifie fuch'aMatter with hers, therefore no wonder if the fhe heat of Fire, that from thence ‘Art be difficult, and the Artifts ire might draw the form of Gold; greatly ere. Nevertheleffe Art Rwith which all imperfect metals begets Medicine from the fame, of Yare turned into Gold, in as much altogether the like principles, as Bas they are ordained by nature to Nature begets metalls, Petras 80 chis end, Petrus Bonas p.105. its, page 120. i We fay that the whole is but The Vive Argent is compoun- Gone thing, which is varied into the ded with Citrine Sulphur, fo that dhumber of three,by its operations, they are changed and become the ‘and in varying by one decoction is fame in one maffe Lucide Red, Jone thing ‘of one fingle power,and weighty , of which two kindes are dhfter this paffing by degrees to in- fafficient for the compofition of formation, by another digeftion it the Elixir. He therefore. that de-fiyill be another thing, which we fires to fearch into the feerets of eal! Argent Vive, Earth, Water; this Art, itis fr he know the firft nd Ferment, Gtithm and our fe- matter of Metalls, left he lofe histcond Salfature, bitter and thatp, labour. Arnoldas 116.de Alchimia, Bwhich by itsCompound virtue and paget. Eptopritty got by the fecond dige ‘Art willing to follow Natuttfiftion, doth loofe the whole body, inquires out. her end, and findesfland after by another digeftion theft principles congealed by Na-Rhath a greater force. And fo thou ture into this middle Nature, and}imaift underftand that in our Ma- not impure ; and endevours todi-foifteriall there aré thrée proper / gel B2 Earths, Lillie.Chymicall Collections. Chymicall Collections. Earths, three Waters, and three B ver, with the propriety of their proper Ferments ; three proper # own nature. Therefore therc is no- Gumms, three Salfatures, three i thing farther requifite, bur that we Argent Vives Congealing, as infi finde what is neareft to it, of its our Praétife is manifeft.Ludii The- down nature. Mercury in all Ele- Orica p.1O9. Irnented fubftances is one and the Such a Matter mutt be chofent fame ; which Mercury is indeed in which is Argent Vive, pure, #naturall heat, which produceth as clean, clear, white,and red,and not well Vegetables as Minerals, al- brought to perfection, but equally fthough diverfly according to the and proportionably mixt by adue#command of Nature. And fo our meane, with fuch a fulphur, and {Mercury never is vifible, but intel- congealed into a folid Maffe, that gligible only, and fo itis manifeft, by our difcretion and prudence,and $that it is in every thing and every our artificial Fire, we may attain place, hence common toall things. its inmoft purity, that after the Lull: Codicillus pag.131. perfection of the work it may bez4 In our Stone,there are the Sun, Flanetivs Thoufand Thoufand times ftron-gand the Moon vive, and they can ger then fimple bodies digefted byfeencrate other Suns and other naturall heat. Taa/adanus pag.3144Moons ; other Gold and Silver, ‘If we had Sulphur and Mercuryifto thefe, are dead. Flamelit Anno- from that matter upon the Harth,iisaiones, pag.138. of whichGold and Silver.aremade§ The Philofophers Stone is found gor prio under the Earth, from them wéfcreated by nature and our Mercu- could eafily make Gold and Silfry, viz. the matter in which the verp B3 Phi- iChymicall Collections, Chymicall Cokectians, Philofophers Mercury is contai-§@ ward Sulphur be divided from the ned,is that whjch nature hatha lit] Argent vive. Fogelins pag.1o5. tlewrought and framedina Me}! = Think with thy felf whereto Baftins tallick form,but yet left imperfed}, thou wouldft labour to bring our 7*" Rof. Philof. pag.231. @ Stone, then fhalt thou know, it riplews. ¥ faw ared Toad drinking thj] flows trom no other thena certain juyce of Grapes even till his Baw{! Metallick Radix from whence al- els were burft. Riplei Sammium, § fo Metalls themfelves ave ordained Vogel. Art following Nature will noi by the Creator. Bafilius Valemti- , ufe Argent vive atone,nor Sulphw4 aus page 15. alone, nor Argent vive and Suly When I {peak of Mercutiall wa- clangoy phur together ; but the fame Mat {ter, doe not underftand Crude Bu. termixt and compounded of th Mercury, but the Philofophers fame Principles, which Natui4Mercury of a Red fubftance,drawn hath prepared for Art, like a cartgfrom Mineralls, having the matter full Mother for herDaughter, An in themfelves, from Sulphur and hath conjoyned them from the by Mercury, and that Argent vive ginning of the generation of Meqand Sulphur are one thing, and tals not otherwife, as in Milk, Bug proceed from one thing, therefore ter, Cheefe,and Whay.But afteg whiten the Leton, viz. Braffe with wards Art feparates and fequeftoff Mercury, becaufe Leton is of the it, and again joyns and digeftsigSun and Moon, a compound Ci- being purified by the addition yttine imperfect body, which when outward heat only : Nature oper#thou haft whitened &c. Clanger ting from within, untill thar oul Buccine pag.503.470. a B4 TheSoe ence poe emer ne oh tee arise wees eee semen re Se $ Dunflan Chymicall Colleétions. Chymicall Collections. The Philofophers Gold and ff tended, although accidentally Silver, are two principall ‘Tin. f three things may be fo called. For Gures, red and white,buried in one f{ the green Lyon, Affa foetida, and & the fame body, which Tin@tures |{ white Fume, are altogether attri- can never naturally come to their |" buted to one and the fame fubject, perfect complement, yet they are j) and are always coucht in one and feparable from accidentall droffe, f the fame fubjeét, untill by Art and earthly lutofity, and after-'? made manifeft. By the green Ly- wards by their proper qualities inj on, all Philofophers whatfoever their pure Earths the tin@tures red | underftood, green Gold, multipli- and white are found commixtable, ': cable, fpermatick, and not yet per- and the moft fit Ferments for|" fected by Nature;having power to them, fo that they may ina man-|! reduce Bodies into their ia mat- ner be faid to want no other thing, :; ter, and to fix volatile and fpiritu- Of this very Body the matter of ,; all things,and therefore not unfitly the Stone, three things are chiefly |} called a Lyon.By Afla foetida, we fpoken, viz. The green Lion, Aff}, underftand a certain unfavory O- fartida,and white Fumes but this is}: dor, exhaled from the unclean bo- inferred by the Philofophers from}: dy in the firft operation, which the Compound, that they might’: may in all things be likened to anfwer the foolifh according to” ftinking Affa foetida. The reafon their own folly, and deceive them|; why itis called white Fume is this: by the divers multiplicity of|! Inthe firft- diftillation, before the names. But doe thou always un-}! Red Tincture afcends, there arifes derftand one thing to be really in- a fmoak truly white, whereby the vie . tended, F te-Clangor Buccine. Rofarius Phitof, Chymicall Colledtions. § Chymicall Collections, uu receiver is darkned or filled with 44 together, becaufe it hath the Rae certain milky thadow, whence if) ture of Sulphur, and Argent vive. receives the name of Virgins milk, Rofar Phil.p.298. Therefore where ever thou findetfi The thing whafe head is Red, pefiia, a fubftance endowed -with theft, feet White, and eyes Black, is the three properties,know that it isthe)) whale Myftery, Daftsn, vifio.p.2. matter of the Philofophers Stone.|i Knowthat our Leton is Red, atoien Dunflan. 4.3. * but not for our ufe, untill it bec Therefore let us take a matter; made White. Marienus 7.38. which will be Gold, and whichby} When thou wouldft haveMine- Lutlines the mediation of our skill is, rall Elements, take not ofthe firft, brought into a true ferment. Clan.|. nor lait, becaufe the firft are too Zor. pag.510. _ much fimple, but the laft, too The matter of Metallsis acer. grofle. When thou art hungry , tain finoaky fubftance, andit is the, take Bread, not Meal, when thou firft matter of Metalls, containing . wouldft make Bread, take Meal, init {elf an unétuous or oyly moi-; not the Ear. Lullins Theari.p.34- fture, from which fubftance the)’ There isa pure Matter, which sxinedes Artift feparates the Philofophi-| isthe Matter of Gold, containing call humidity, which is fit for the 1 init felf, the heat which gives in- work, which will beas clear as a. creafe,and hatha power to increafc water drop, in which is couchtthe|. and multiply in its kinde, as all o- metallick Quinteflence, and thatis|' ther things. Eximedes, p.45. placable Metall,and therefore hath |/ _ In our imperfect Metall, are the Amold. inita meane of Joyning Tin@tures | Sunand Moon, in virtue and neer . toge- pow-Chywsicall Collections, Chymicall Collections, power, becaufe if they were not i thors, recited with their Harmony, inthe Compound,neither the Sun ff both in the Subftance, Form, and nor Moon could thence be made, fi Colour, and in all neceffary Circum- Arnold, Epift.pag.qgu. p lances and Accidents, was difcove- Mercury 1s in all Elemented {} red (by Divine afsiftance) the Sub- Subftances, one and the fame, | jeé# of al wonder (as Cornelius A- which Mercury is indeed the na-|j grippa rightly.cals it) in open and turall heat which produces as well naked words, It is therefore genc- Minerals as Vegetables, although 4 rally agreed, and of all confeffed, diverfly according to the precept ; That there és one vive or volatile of Nature ; and fo our Mercury is || Argent, retaining 4 certain Vegeta- not vifible but intelligible; and it}. bility, while it is yet in motion, not is manifeft, that it is.in every thing |, brought to maturity, or the determl- and place,and common to all.Lul-;: nate term of watarall digeftion in lit Codic. fol.x 34. Repelat.6, the Mines. And the (ame is immatu- | rate Argent vive (not that Mature THE COROLLA RY. |; of the vnlgar) which is next 10 Me- | tall in pofstbility 5 and therefore of Vogelius, Trevefanus, with di- Ss fome is cabled Immature Metall. Ac- vers other Philofophers advi(e, firhy cording to Arnold; Riplie, Dun- Serioufly to confider in what point: ftan,Morien, and Clangor Bucci- Authors moft agree, for in it shey|s ne; it is cloathed with 4 Red co- affirm, the onely and fingle truthis\; lour, offered or brought tons by Na- involucd : To me therefore, medita- ¥ ture, but if it be not by the Artift ting this fromthe moft feleth au . taken from its Radix ina due time, thors, |. viz.taaornee snes ac ene mae st 14 Senior. Chymicall Collettions. Chymicail CollecBions . ry viz. before it cometo fuch maturity, ¥ prepared with this preparation. Se- as tocontain one grain of Malleable Bntor, p. 31. . Metall, it will be unfit for our par. B If the firft work proceed not, Patin pofe. Seek sherefore the Philofphick Bhow is the fecond attained to ¢ Embryoninits due plate, and ma. | Becaufe, if no divifion be made, tureiamatrity, and yon fhatl know f there is no conjunction, Daftine (4s Rofarius faith)oarStone is foand |; Specaian, pag.56. ald created of Nature, which truiy is to'! We muft begin with the fepa- 47d. be underftoed of the matter of the ation of the Elements, from the Stone compounded by Nature, and'| Red earth, as of the pure trom the formed intoa Metallick forns,bat gi- , impure. Arnoldas its Hertélanam, wen to Art imperfed, ie 4 or | pAag.9e it might be brought beyond tht decree of perfetion. ee . how this diffolution may be made, ‘and -certairily know, that it is not _——— | done, but by the water of Mercu- . 3 ty; and know, that every body is Cuar. IL. jdiflved with che thine, wih jon: orthe tr bf{ which it is mixt, and without 7 ook she Wile work qdonbt is made fpirituall. Pandol- § phusin Tarba, pag.16. - Ths isthe Preparation,becaufe|} 5 underftanc there are blinde men, and they |j We in the firft operation of our have erred a long time, while they | Work, doe purge and ptepare mat- were ignorant that this Stone was | ter for the creation ofits Sulphur , pre: | which 3 ‘a i Thou tnuft diligently confider, Pavdel;*- Son of Truth, underftand, thar 24.16 ‘Ainaldus, Chymicall Colledtionss which being prepared, by and by in the fecond preparation, wee compound and create medicine, which how great virtue it hath,§ will be manifeft. Therefore firth thou muft create its Sulphur, be-f caufe without that, thou canft not}; make thecompleat Elixir. And when thou haft created Sulphur, 4 then begin the Philofophick work; but ever confider, that the nature)! and propriety which is in the very| fpirit, may not be combuft init); preparation by the power of thel; fire. Becaufe then the fpirit cannot whiten, nor joyn it felf with th | Earth: Therefore it often happens} that they who think to make wate; of life, make water of death, byl reafon of combuftion. Lullsé Aper, LO7UHM, Pod. : The Veffels fo difpofed, a mot fubtill fmoke will arife in the Ay lembick, and the fame will be tur} ned into a clear water, having thet nature k Chymicall Collections. nature of thefe {pecies, whereof the Stone is generated : which Water defcends by the Nofe of theAlem- bick. -Araeldss in Coutment, Hor- inlani. p.16. 17 The Phlegm wherein our Sul- buthus. phur, which is called Gold. is de- coced, is thatin which Air is in- cluded : for our Phlegm is a mid- dle fubftance; and the firft water of Mercury, wherein the principle of the Stone iss viz. irs diffoluti- on; nordothit enter with it, but as it were wetting the parts. of things, not generating or increa- fing, Lullii Tefham.pag.1. Itis meet thou prepare the Mat rwilins. ter, till itbe fit to receive our Mer- cury; which we call glorious Mer- cury; and the manner is, That 4 thoutake a proportion of the faid Earth, and put upon it the fourth part of the faid imperfectMenftru- um, wherein is fuch aMercury,and fet it ina Balneo for the {pace of fix Cc days,Rofar, Phi- _ dofoph. Chymicall Collections. days, and diftill it, and fo continue untill the Earth be difpofed to imbracea Soul, which will notbe doneat the firft or fecond time; therefore putit again and again in the Balnes for the {pace of fix | days, in a Glaffe very well fealed ; f after that open the veffell, and jj fetting the Alembick on again, } with a moft gentle fire diftill the j humidity; and again pour on more _of its Menftraum, which hath its | {eed in it, and digeft itas aforefaid, |; and fo continue untill the Earth be |) difpofed to entertain its foul. Son, ») it isto be obferved, when it thal) drink up and retain four parts more |) ofits weight, that if thou put alit-[¥ tle upon a heated plate of Gold or Silverit will all fie up into {moke: then is theEarth pregnant and pre-|4 pared, which ought to be fubli-}i med. Lul.Teff. pag.15. ; Firft,all the fuperfluous and cor- rupt humidity in the effence off thofk BA i Chymicall Collections. thofe things, and alfo the fubtill and burning fuperfluiry muft be clevated with a_proportionable Fire,and that by Calcining. Then the totall fubftance remaining cor- rupt in the Calx of thefe Bodies of the burning fuperfluous humidity and blacknefle, is to be corroded with the aforefaid Corrofives, a- cute or acerb, untill rhe Calx bee made white or red. Rofar. Philof, Pag.345+ 19 Ovr Mercury is made of perfect scat bodics, and notimperfea, that is, with the fecond Water, after they have been duly cglcin’d by the firft. Scala, pag.128. It behoveth thee to extract one Artepheats living or vive. incombuftible Wa- ter, and then cdngeal it with. the perfect body of the Sun, which e- ven there is diffolved into sature, anda white congealed fubftance, as if it were Cream, and would come allwhite. Nevertheleffe, firft this C2 Suni : 4 20 Chymicall Colleétions. Sun in his putrefaction and refolu- | tion in this Water in the beginning lofes his light, is obfcured and waxeth black; at length he will e- levate himfelf above the Water, & by little and little, a whire colour will fwim above him, andfo the perfect body of the Sun receives’ |; life, and infucha Water is inlive. ; ned, infpired, increafed and multi- | plied in his {pecie, as other things : | Therefore our Water isa Fountain RTE adsl PT cn aL LORIN) fair, pleafant and clear, prepared [4 4 onely for the King and Queen, |; whom it very well knows,and they 4 it, for itattracts,them,o it felf, and 3 they remain two or three days to |; wath themfelves in that Fountain, viz, fome moneths; and thefe it makes to grow young,and renders them very beautifull. Thefe three things mutually follow, viz. Humidity, Putridity, and Blackneffe ; from whence the § glaffiehoufe may be pofited, and § fubtil- Chymicall Collections. 21 fubtilly fited,untill the moift Mat- ter included, by little and little became putrid and black, for the utrefaction begins together with the folution, but the putrefaction is not yet compleat, untill the whole Matter be diffolved into water. Artephus pag.9. Oneof the contraries exceeding Dalim, deftroies the ret, whence the Earth is made Water, when the watry qualities overcome it, and on the contrary, this Water muft draw forth three things, v2. a Spitit,a Body ,and a Soule, whence this Water is threefold in Na- ture, which hath in it felf Water, 4 Fire, and Earth, We divide the 1 diffolved Stone in the Elements, and wath it particularly, that it it might be more fubtilized, and { the better purified, and that at f pleafure the Complexion might be more firmly compofed, but we diftill it very often, as the-Water C 3 andChymicall Collections. and Air are clean without dregs,. and light without filth, pure with: § out contraries, for then they wath more eafily, touch more plentiful: f ly,and work more nobly. For Art (as Ariftoric faith) in like manner f throws off all {uperfluities from its f we might fweetly draw out theit filth. But we doe it fweetly and with inhumation, left the exceffive |} Fire confume the fought for fab-|! tilties. Whence in every diftillati-|; onobferve this fign, that univer-}} fally there be candour and purity|} init, and wharfoever drops forth} unmixt, put apart, becaufe the|} work is corrupt if thou doe othet- wife. Therefore we fo much diftill it, untillir fend forth no dregges, ~ unlefle Chymicall Collections. unleffe happily white ones,and this we iterate feven times, that in theis fimple purity they might tranfcend the orders of the feven Planets. For it is meet they be moft pure and clean, which by their purity fhould cleanfe and perfect other work. as Nature doth. For Fire (q things. And according to the extras that which exifts in the intcriours of things, and feeds on 4 the falphurity of them, fubtilizing }; and rarifying at pleafure. And | therefore we diftill them, | quantity of diftillation they will be clear, and according to the plu- rality of clearnefs,they will cleanfe and touch other things. Whence it ought to be diftilled feven times; what is more is evil, becaufe as di- minution hinders,fo augmentation corrupts. , In the fourth diftillation fol- lows the Lavement, thatits every Element might be rectified feve- rally, whence we diftill the Water and Aire feven times by them- (elves. But thou fhalt diftill all things with moifture, becaufe dri- nefle corrupts the work with com- buftion: And the Philofophers C4 advifeRafat. Arnold, aaffasois AS an Infant exhaufts all airy f Chymicall Colledtions, advife that every diftillation be ale ways made feven days with inhu- mation, meaning that inhumation be made feven days between every diftillation. Daftini (pec. paz.96. It behoveth thee to exercife the cination, untill there remain not any thing of the Soul in the Body, unleffe what -may not be perceived in the operation, the fign of which will be, when nothing fhall be evaporated from the Body, if a little of it be put upon a heated plate. Rofar, Arnold. pag.423.° @ Lime, Vapours in nine moneths, and the menftruum turned into a milky form: fo in nine moneths the firft work is performed, viz. the fe- cond whiteneffe,becaufe the whole is coagulated: Nevertheleffe the F work ff Chymicall Collections. work is finifhed about fix moneths according to the Experience of the Author, but according to Balgus *in Turban an hundred and ninety days. Maffa Solis cr Lune. pag. B 275+ feparation of the Elements as f muchas thou art able, to wath off |j the Water and Air by diftillations, 4 and to burn up the Earth by Cal- |j Let not the water be fuffered to ftand when it is fit for operation, becaufe it receives its Curd into the bottome, crudled or coagula- \ted by the cold of the Aire, and f congealing drieth , which hapned I to one of my Companions, who { for the {pace of a year found it fo, d but ic was not diftilled. ssajfa So- HH lis Gr Lume. pag.274. 1 No folution ought to be made H without Blood, proper or appro- priate, w/z, the Water of Mercu- ty, whichis called the Water of ) the Dragon,and that Water ought 4 to be made by an Alembick with- Hout the addition of any other fthing., Kofar,Philof.p.223. 25 * Pag.t:9e Rofar. Philofoph. The whole courfe of the work Reyjurdus enduresVoitura. Rofarius Philof. Chymicall Collections. enduges for the {pace of two years whence the Stone is of one year, and the Elixir of another. toevery new Aictift who never made it, but to every good and expert Artif who is fubtile, one year and three moneths are accounted fufficient, Chymicall Collections. ought not to be, untill the Mafcu- Hine and Feminine is perfectly ioyned. Rofar. Philof.pag.261- The encompaffing frigidity of Athe Aire, the binding folidity of H the Earth, the diffolving heat of A the Fire, the impetuofity and reft- For by what it is corrupted, it LikW \effe motion of the Water, and manner it is generated, Lul. The exceeding quantity of Multitude i 7.76. ___ fi doe hinder Putrefaction (as 4rifte- Accommodate well the Fire inf s/e faith.) the furnace, and {ee that the whol{i But the calidity of the Air, the Matter be diffolved into Water, fubtility of Matter, the genrle- then ruleit with agentle Fire, uni neffe of the Fire, the ftability of till che greater part be turned intoff Reft,the equality of Compounds, black duft. Becaufe when out) the gravity of Patience, the matu- Stone is in our veffell, and out} rity of Time, do neceflarily induce Matter feels our Sun, it will prelf and haften Putrefaction ; yet fo, fently be refolved into Water.VeoH that the Airbe tempered, what 1s BATE PTB9. __ fl thick (ubtilized, the Fire modera- Purrefaétion is made with a4 ted, Reft preferved, Proportion moft gentle Fire, fo that nothing adequated, Patience ftrengthened, may aicend, bevaufe if any thing F and the time expected until Nature fhould afcend, there would b¢— proceeding naturally fhall have made a feparation of parts, which F compleated her owne worke, ” ought f Daftis Daflin.Lullins. Chymicall Collections. Chymicall Cuilections. Daftin (pec. pag. 184. ‘he that attains to this Token hath OurWater mutt be divided into {the Philofophers Mercury, diffol- two parts, whereof in one part the ff ving all Bodics, chiefly of the Sun Body is congealed, viz. with (¢ and Moon, becaufe of the vicinity ven Imbibitions and Congelati- or nearneffe of Nature. Lal. Co- ons, but in the other part it putre- B4¢.p.119. fies and melts,that the fiery Water f In our whole Magifteriall there sutins: abovefaid might be caft forth. gare three principall Spirits necef- Seals Philof.pat53. fary, which without the confum.- If the work in its managing be}mation of their refolution cannot deduced to the finall red ftate, by }]be manifefted, and they are other- corruption before the due term of f{ wifecalled three Argent vives,and whiteneffe (which it may not be)fifor Argent vive underftand the thou haft erred; then for a reme-|§ Water in which the Tinéture is dy take away the redneffe with} carried. Raymund. Theor.p.123.24. fieth white Water, by imbibition]} If you will hear me, I will truly and inhumation, Idem. afhew what is that Mercury chiefly There are three Humidities, the f profitable : know therefore that firft is Water, the fecond is Aire, there are three Mercuries which (the mean between Water andOil) fate the Keys of Science whom the third is Oil it {elf. The Water |f Raymund cals his Menftrua, with- is diftilled to the likenefle or fign ff out which nothing is done rightly, of perfect whiteneffé, which 1s [but two of thofe Mercuries are tranfparent fplendour, and the § {uperficiall, the third Effentiall,of fhining clearneffe of cryftall , and } the Sun and Moon, perfect Bodies when Ripleus,Tacertys. Chymicall Collections, Chymicall Collections. 3t when we firft Calcine them natu- fl yen,that is, it opens the Gold,and rally, but no unclean Body is in-fi bringeth forth a Soul. Jacertus de gredienced except one, which is Chemis. pa.6. commonly called of the Philofo-¥ Metals are reduced tothe firft Veiture phers, The green Lion, which is § Matter, when they are drivenback, the mean of joyning Tinctures. Bto that firft fimplicity, which With thefecond Mercury, which their Elements had in their firft is vegetable Humidity, both the Compofition, in which there were Principall, Material, and Formallif Spirits and Vapours. by -nature bodies ought tobe refolved,other-| perfectible to the form of the wife they are of little moment.) Compound. Vent.pa.12. And with'the third, which is‘Hu-f By Argent vive is underftood Ledus Px- midity, very permanent and in-fl the humidity of that unétion 7" combuttible, the unétuous ‘Tret}f which is the radicall humidity of of Hermes is burnt into Afhes. Ri}; our Stone, Ludus Pucrornm pag. pley pa.25. 1174: . Sons of Wifdome, there att | The Preparation of this Spirit, ,,,94 three folutions, the firft is of aff isits fubtilation, which is perfor- ‘ crude Body.the fecond is of a Phi med by many diftillations, unull lofophicall Earch,the third we pul it hath gotten cryftalline fplendour in Augmentation. The Virgin sy and clearnefle. Vogel.p.148.. Mercury, becaufe it never prope Keep the rectified Water apatt, ariffarle. gated a body in the Womb of tt) becaufe that is the Mercury of the Earth, and yet ic generates tht Philofophers, the water of Life Stone for us,by refolving the Her F wathing the Leton. Ariffotle pag. : 366. The32 Lull. com- pendinrir Aviccnnt Chymicall Collections, The whole labour and tediouf- nefle is in this, v/%. the feparation of the Elements and Sulphur. Air cannot be divided from Metals, unleffe by the twentieth, twenty And the Fire may be divided from the Earth at the eleventh diftilla- tion, and as many diftillations as there are, fo many putrefactions|} and reiterations of Water and Ait) rogether,to wit, of our Menftrualp water, and every putrefaction re-Fi quireth eight days, or fix continu: ed, fo that the divifion of the Ele moneths. Lull, compend,pa.281. The Alchymifts have faid that the Stone is compounded of two Waters, viz. of one which makes which fixes and hardens it. Idem.” the Earth, pour on water mode- rately, Chymicall Collections. rately, to wit,not much nor little; becaufe ifmuch,there’s made a fea of perturbation, if little, it will be burnt upinto afhes. But fweeely, not haftily, from eight days to fecond, or thirtieth diftillation,f eight days,by watering decocting, | and calcining the Earth, till it hath 1 imbibed itsWater; therefore when HY the Earth hall not be white, bray | ittogether with its Water, iterate and calcineit, becaufe Aroc and Fire doe wath the Earth, and take away its obfcurity from it, for its preparation is always withWa- ter, and as the fitneffe of the Wa- ments, dures the {pace of an year, j ter fhall be, fo alfo fhall be the but we have compleated it in fevenf} cleamnefle of the Earth, and by : how much the more the Earth % | the volatile Stone, and the other } i fhall be white,&c. Avicenna pag. 420,421. He which knows not to extract more things out of one, is igno- # rant alfo to compound one thing Between every Calcination of f Ofmore. Our feparation isa fepa- | ration of a watry or moift vapour D or 33 Scala,Gelber. Veutura Chymitall Collections, or phlegme in Balneis, a levigation f of rarity, a production of princi. § ples. Seala.p.134. Chymicall Collections. doth enter the Body, and extra@ firft the Soule, afterwards it dif- fF folvesall thavis left, and turns it Imbibe Calx or Body often-. fi times, that thence it may be fub- limed, and yet more purified then before, becaufe the Calx afcends upwards very difficultly or not at all, unleffe holpen by the Spirit. Geber. lib. [umma perfectionis pag. |; 73: The Veffell being fitly placed in Sin ema A SE OR the Furnace, the Fire underneath |) muft be continued, then the Va- }) pour of the Matter will afcend up- |. wards into the Alembick moft |: fubtilly, andthe fame will be tur- |’ ned into ferene bright and cleare | Water,having the form of a water fj drop, and the Nature of all the }) {pecies of which it is generated , |: and it defcends again by the }} Crows beak, thatis, the Neck of F the veffell of the Alembick, and this Water, becaufe it is fubtile, doth f into Water. Moreover know that all things which are fublimed are fublimed two ways, fome by themfelves, and fome with others; butour Mercury fince it is a Spi- rit, is fublimed by it felf, but our Earth, fince it is the Calx of the Body, is not fublimed, unleffe ve- ry well incorporated with Mercu- ry. Therefore beat or pound them together, and imbibe till they be- come one Body, becaufe the Body afcends not unlefle incorporated with Mercury. Ventura p.14t. 35 Diffolve the Gold and Silver in reget, Water of their kinde if thou know it. Vogelinsp:78. Lo And this is the laft Preparation, atafasolis viz, of Spirits often reiterated by & Lue Contrition and Affation with their Body, untill thou fee thefe things which thou defireft in it. Maffa Di Solis36 Affittes. Chymicall Collections. Solis & Lune pag. 240. Sons of Learning, know ye that the whole Work,and the Govern- ment thereof is not done but by Water, with which mingle ye the body of the Magnefia, and put it in its Veflel, and clofe the mouth carefully, and boil it with a gentle fire, till itbe made liquid, for by the heat of the Water, the whole will eafily be made Water. Affli- hes in Turba.p.32. THE COROLLARY. ' From a certain Minerall Maffe, coagulated, lucid, red, ponderous, being perfect Metall, in the neareft power, containing init felfe vive fpermasick Sulphur, and vive im- mature Mercury, multiplicable in it felf, with the moft gentle fire of 4 Balacum, or Bath, is drawn forth a ¥ certain infipid , phlegmatick Wa- ter, which if it be again repoured on Chymicall Collections. Ll* on, with its dye proportion of Earth, andindue {eafou digefted, and ab- | firacted by diffolving daily by little Hand little (bat yet more and wore) | the Body, it diffolves Lkewife the | other Elements, and by including Aire init (elf, carries it up by di- |. tilling through an Alembick, the ! Water and Aire onght again to be fo often poured on, digested and abftra- , Ged till the Body be altogether re- folved by repeated diftillations and [. ishumations, Then after the fourth \ diftilation, the Aire is to be fepara- ted from the Water, and to be recti- | fied by it felffeven times, with which ' afterwards abjtract the Fire from the black,Earth. Laftly,feparate the ) Fire from the Aire, And at length | dmpregnate the dry Earth ( de- _ prived of its humidity by imbibing) . fo often with Aire, untill light arife from darkne(fe, and our Infant appear before our cies, expected by more then many lucubrations, which D3 atChymicall Collections. at length is crowned with a Diadem, King of Kings, whofe rife the Phils- fophers adore, under the -#nigma of the rifing Sun in the enereafing § fing fing this Art. } clearly underftand, from thefe, the manner of Prattife, let him feek t further afsiftance from Raymund Moon, But inthe very point of Co- agulation, which is performed by Infrigidation , all Philofophers with one confent affirm that the work of the Winter, and of bidden | ie it plentifully may be fetched, efpect- the fecond work truly Philofophicall, ally whilft out of their Writings, as in thefe words our Countreyman |} I! and there, they have obfcurely deli- | vered themfelves, the Path it felf Preparation, és fini[ht, then begins Norton the excellent Philofopher hath expreft : Our Philofophicall work (/aith be) takes not its begin- | ning before all be clean within and |: without. And according to Atta- |i The fecond work is not made but froma clean and purifi- ed body. And this Preparation, or |i firft work he calleth a Sordid labour, | and adudges it not worthy a learned \ man , man, therefore not wnfitly faid to be the work of 'Pomen, But he de- ferves not Sweets, that will not taf f Chymicall Collections. taft of Bitters: And they who ei- | ther know not, or negleit this hidden | | laboriows Preparation, will neither attain the benefit, nor defired end of Bat he that doth wot Lullie, Ripley, Rofary, whence in this little Chapter, where, here is evidently cleared, Cuap. IIL The Weight in Preparation. F thou knoweft not the quan- pafin, Tay of the very Weight, thou wilraltogether want the do¢trine of this Science. Forget not there- D4 fore,Chymnicall Collections, - fore, that whatfoever ought to diffolve, ought to exceed in the § quantity the thing to be diffolved, But the firft part of the Water f Water isto bedivided, that with the firft part in forty days, it ought to be diffolved, putrefied, and coagulated,till it be turned in- j to a Stone, therefore it is meet ff that Water fhould exceed the i Ufay that the firft Wateris to be pafia. i divided into thrée thirds, whereof Earth. Daft.fpec.p.208. When thou diffolvett, it fhall be fitthe Spirit exceed the Body, and when thou fixeft, the Body ought to exceed the Spirit; for therefore is the Spirit that it might diffolve the Body, and therefore is the Body that it might fix the Spirit. Therefore thou muft im- pofe three thirds of Moift, and one of Dry; for inthe beginning of thy operation, help the work in Diffo- f Chymicall Collections. — Diffolution, by the Moon, and in Coagulation by the Sun. Idem pag.96,98. the firt is of the firft operation, and that is in the Compofition & of the Air, and it is divers accor- 3 ding to divers men. Now there is another Weight Spiritual, of the fecond work, and that is alfo divers according to divers men. | Mal[a Solts Gr Lane p.177. | the firft is to impregnate, termi- A nate, and whiten the Earth, but , the two other thirds are referved to rubifie the white Earth, tharis to be incerated, and laftly to be whitened: But yet no third (as : Democritus upon the Magnefia ' faith) is ingredienced all at once, F but every of the thirds is divided Finto another third, that fo the Nine There is another Weight fingu- yeaa ser (according to Philofophers)ought ff Jar or plurall, and it is twofold ; & Lae, to diffolve the Earth, and turn it f toits felf. Whence they fay the FChymicall Collections. Chymicall Collections. 34, Nine thirds returning to one Itisfitto attend what belongs iyi, Earth, might compleat a perfed ro Proportion, for in this many Decinary. But the three firt} are the three firft Salfa-§ firft Dealba: j thirds, tures to perform the tion, but the fix other remaining § thirds are fix parts of DivineWa- terto confume the fecond Deal- bation. But none of thofe thirds doth altogether ingredience the whole,and atonce, but every part ofthem one after another is feve- f rally impofed in their own feafon, work and order. Daftin. pec. pa, 177. A {mall Error in the principles doth caufe great Error in things principiated ; therefore that thou maift not erre in the firftand fe cond work, we have taught always to impofe Equals, for {o equality fhall flourith in both, that the Earth might ceafe, as the Wa ter moiftens ; asthe Earth ceafes. idem P.222. It ate deceived, therefore that thou maift not fpoil the work, let thy Bodies be both fubtilly limated with Mercury, and fubtilized with A equall proportion, one of the Sun, another of the Moon, till all thefe : things be reduced into Dutt, then | make thy Mercury, of which join {four parts to the Sun, twoto the Moon, as it is meet, and in this | manner it behoveth thee thou be- ‘ginthy workin the figure of the | Trinity. Three parts of the Body | and as many of the Spirit, and for i theUnity of the Spirit, one part | more of Spirit then of corporeall | Subftance. According to Ray- ! mands Repertory, this is the true E proportion. This very thing my | Doctor fhewed me, but 2. Bachon i took three parts of the Spirit for one of the Body, for which I have watcht many nightsbefore I per- ceivedChymicall Collections. Chymicall Collections. 45 ceived it, bothis the right, takef fan things, otherwife they will which thou wilt. If alfothy Wa-ggencrate Sons unlike themfelves. ter be equall in proportion with srift in Tractatulo pag.362. the Earthand meafured Heat,thereq Obferve the firft preparation, mafasolis will at once come forth a. newdandcogitate this, whichis theex-@*"* Budde both Whiteand Red. zi-gttaction of all Spirits from the pley p4.30. . Body, and the cleanfing of them Minds, Take of the whiteft Gummefinto their Water. Maffa Solis & _one part, and of the Urine of aime pa.240. ; white Calf another part, and part|} Thou muft impofe three thirds Dat. ofa Fifhes Gall, and of the Body ¥ of moifture, and one of dry ; for of Gumme one part, without finthe beginning of thy operation which it cannot be corrected ; and help the workin the Solution by deco& it forty days, afterwards the Moon,and the Congelation by dry it in the warm Sun till it be the Sun. Daftin pec. pa.g8. congealed. Mundus pa.88. avifole. Take thy deareft Son and joyn | THE COROLLARY. him equally to his white Sifter, | drink to them ‘a Love-cup, be-|; Count Bernard Trevifane vow- i} 4 t0 God, that he would never in caufe the confent of goodwill | i joins one thing to another. Pout aaked words, or vulgar fpeech dif- on them fweet Wine, till they be sclofe the Weight, Matter, or Fires, inebriated, and divided into final. 4! onely én true Parables, without left parts. But remember that all tither diminution or fuperfiuity, in clean things agree moft aptly with imitation of the Wife men, as in this clean CChymicall Collections. Chymicall Collections, Chapter. Amongft orbers our Ent reaches, that one Body of the Sun glifh Ripley hath delivered things be joyned with two of the Moon, suf ficiently obfcured , But the young-& in which words are underftood wo ling Artft. ought to ruminate andl parts of Water to oneof Earth, He confider that what ever are nemint.f proceeds alfo farther, and joyns four ted in the compofition of the Weigh,@ parts of Mercury to the Sun, and muft always be underftood of tmk shings only, viz. of Water and Earth, which are fometimes unde Spirit and Body, fometime undo Mercury, the Sua and Moon, fom two to the Moon, whence obferve that four and two make fix parts of Mercury, Water, or Fire,which parts are tobe mixt with one part of the Sun, and another of the Moon,which times under Air and Poifon, nay ayy fince they conflitute two parts of der 28 many infinite other mamiy Earth, there fhall be a like proporti- concealed, as the very fir? Matte But that thofe that feck might be ai rected into the right Path, and Ri pleys cloud difperft with the beam of the Sun, les us attend the propor. his own words, Let the Bodies (/aill he) be corredted or limated with an ceva proportion of Mercury} Whence alfo the Parables of ether whence underftand that the propiy on to the aforefaid fix parts, viz. of Water, a8 one part of Earth to three parts of Water. As appears from his following words: viz. af- | ter this manner begin thy worke ons which he hath difpofed in the{ i in figure of a Trinity: aad with this Key his other-Enigmats of the weight in this chapter are wnleckt. Philofophers are difclofed, while tion of Earth and Water mujt Wh Book opens Book, and the truth is equall, then he proceeds further andl from them [carce difciphered with- teachts, . outChymicall Collections, out aVail. For they always deliver things that be like, and conceal the truth, that they might deferve both to be faid, and be Philofi-| phers. . But fince in Number Weight ,and Meafure, all elementated Bodies of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, ) are naturally united, bound, conca-} tenated and compounded, and by the Harmony of thefe all principiated | Principles attain the perfection or-f dained by God, and compleated by his handmaid Nature: Not snfitif may this Trinity, viz» of Nuwber, ! Weight, and Meafure, be called th Golden chain, by which as in al A- nimals to every Member is granted their (peciall Form, fo by this Chain every Member is joined, united, and performs his office. Likewife alfoin Vegetables (finct § Nature operates after one and th fame manner) we may prefume in every Vegetable, its own proper weigh ‘Chymicall Collections. weight may be particularly obferved, alfothe prefixt number of Flowers, Leaves, and alfoa due meafure of Longitude, Latitude, and Profun: ditude, Even as Minerals and Me- tals are alfo perfected in a fit pro- portion of the Weight of Elements pure or impure, in a due meafure of Time, and certain Numbers : B which bounds rightly difpofed all things flourifh, but being snordinate and confufed, thereis made a Chaos, Imperfection, and a Diffolution of the Compound. For in their Con- catenation and Connexion, is rebuilt an admirable power of Art and Na-. ture, neither can Nature her felf | confi? withous thefe, nor Art per- form any thing, Not envioufly there- fore did the Philofephers wonderful- | ly conceale the Proportion of the Elements, and the mixture of ther in their operation, as if this being known they had unvailed all things.. But as mach as belongs to cur pur- E Pf,Chymicall Colleétions. pofe, viz. the weight of the Philo- fophick Work, thefe things onely are principally obferved, towit, Equals, | two to one, three toone, minetoone, 3 which when and how they are.to be § diftinguifhs, osr Daftin (a famons § Philofopher) hath in thefe words F clearly opened : When thou diffol- ff veft, the Spirit ought to exceed: [ the Body,and when thou doft fix, the Body to exceed the Spirit. Wo bibition, Deficcation, Fermentation, and Inceration, [hall with eafie pains and {mall endevour from the fore- numbred Proportions, make choice of what is convenient for every time or feafon of the Work, And hethat Books. Cuay _ Chywateall Collections. Cuab IV. The Philofophers Fire, what ? The Water Propottionated rullins in quality according to the Body which thou would dif- folve, in fuch a manner, as the unnaturall may not exceed the naturall heat ; for every complexi- / onated thing is deft sherefore knows the due time of Pu- ¥ ree ae Race ech nelle trefaction to folution,thetime of Im- |} the Fire of Natuté govern it: There are three Hurhidities, the firftis Water, the chief of refol- vable things; the fecond is Air, atid it is the mean between Water and Oil ; the third is Oil ir IF, the cérative of all Elements, adhd. but H finall Secret. Lull. prattica fol. hath known the Weight, (as Petrus f nal Secret. all prattica fol Bonus faith) hath kaown the whole | Myftery, and he that is ignorant of } 175. ftirted up, whofe proportion mutt be knowwa, that-it may only ftir up the Marcer, arid in afhort time, E2 that Our Fite is Minerall, and va- Posans. J ; és ignen ; pours not, unleffe ite too much at, let hims leave digging in our §Dardavius. Vogel, Lutktins, Chymicall Collections. that Fire without the Impofition of hands, will compleat the whole work, Ponta. pa.4o. The Fire which we thew thee is Water, and our Fire is Fire, and not Fire. Senior.pag.29. Argent vive isa Fire, burning, mortifying, and breaking Bodies, more then Fire. Dardarius in Tur- ba113. I fay with Ladins that this Wa- ter, or Vive Argent is called Fire of the Philofophers, not becaufe inwardly it is of its own Nature, hotter then Oil,or the forementi- oned radicall moifture;but becanfe in its actions itis more powerfull then Elementary Fire, diffolvin: Gold without -violence, whic Fire cannot doe. Vogel.pa.t45. - Let the Arcift well confider what are the powers of Fire naturall, unnaturall, and againft nature; and what may be the friend, or enemy of cach. Lal, Codic.p. aT t Chymicall Collections. 53 Itis fitthe heat be fo much, as Pestura | that thou maift by fweating fend forth the Water; and Ietit beno . way hardened or congealed ; be- caufe Gumme, contrary to the f Nature of other things, fweats, f and is coagulated with gentle de- | coction. Ventura pa.112, Philofophers have four diffe. ®/0- }; tent Fires, wiz. Naturall, Unna- | turall, againft Nature, and Artifi- H cial, WB j Artifts ought to confider. Ri- plens 74.38. ofe divers operations the The Fires meeting themfelves, 4. devour one another. Rofin. pa.265. The Spirit is a fecond Water of scals. | which all the things forementio- ned are nourifhed, every plant re- frefht and quickned, every light B kindled, and it makes and’ caufes j all Fruit. The firft Water being the Sun is Philofophically calci- ned, that the Body mightbe ope- ned, and made fpongious, that 3 theChymicall Collections. Chymicall Collections, the fecond Water might the bet- = Our Mercury is made of per- albert, ter enter, to operate its work, 9} fect Bodies, not imperfect, that which fecond Water is the fire J is,with the fecond Water, after againft Nature by whofe power — the Bodies have been duly Calci- the complement of this Magifte. | nedby the firft. albert. pasty, ry is performed. Scala pa.125. j This Fire is called Humour, be- rage We calcine perfeet Bodies with # caufeinit, as hath been faid, heat Replens, the firft Fire naturally, but no |; unclean Body doth ingredience |, our work except one,which of the |; Philofophers is called the Green {§ p4.26. There is acertain Soul exifting | between Heaven and Earth,arifing from the Earth, as Aire with pure Water, the caufe of the life of all | living things, continually running down upon our fourfold Nature producing her with all its power toa better condition, which, airy Soul is the fecret Fire of our Pht lofophy, otherwife called our Oil, and myftically our Water. Iden pa, caden. Out or the fire of Nature is hidden, even as the heat of Animals, in the Primogenian moifture. Water fince it is Heterogeneall Lion, which is the medium of uni: |} toits Earth, if fenfible of the leaft ting and joining Tinctures. Ripl. } i heat, will evaporate, it being left and forfaken. The Soul is no other then Oil, | Gilthen Water. Vogel.p.134. If any knowto make choice of Féinins . fach Matter as Nature delights, and to inclofe it rightly prepared in his Veffel and Furnace; He and F I (faith Nature) will forthwithdoe | the Work: fo he provide the re- quifite Fire, Naturall, againft Na- ture, not Naturall, and without ardour. Flamel.pa.123, E4 We56 Lullivs, Avtephenss Chymicall Colleions, We therefore call it Innaturall or not Naturall, becaufe it is not naturated of it felf, nor takes away any thing from naturated Nature, } nay itrather helps her, by the Me- diation of a moderate Exercife, according to what Nature requites in her Reformations. Lullins Co- f dic. pa.24. Our Fire is Minerall, is equall,is continuall, it vapours not unleffe [f it be too much ftirred up, it parti- cipates of Sulphur, itis taken elfe- ff where then of Matter, it de. ff ftroys, diffolves, congeals, and |4 calcines all things , andit is Ar: tificiall to finde out,a compendi- | um, and without coft, or at leaf }I very little; it is alfo moift, vapo- f rous, digefting, altering, penetra- [ ting, fubtill, airy, not violent, not | fuming, encompaffing, containing, |} onely one, and it is the fountain of Life,or which incircles the Wa- ter of Life, and it contains the Lous King Ghymicall Collections, H King and Queens bathing place: in the whole Work that humidFire Shall fuffice thee, both in the be- ginning, middle, and end, becaufe init the whole Art confifts, and it is a Fire Natural, againft Nature, and Unnatural, and without Ad- uftion ; And to conclude, it is a 1 Fire hot, dry, moift, cold ; think | on thefe things and doe rightly, without any thing of a ftrange na- ture. The thirdis that Naturall Fire of our Water, which is alfo called againft Nature, becaufe it is Wa- i ter, and nevertheleffe of Gold it makes meer Spirit, which thing common Fire cannot doe: this is Minerall, Equall,& participates of Sulphur, itdeftroys. congeals, dif H folves, and calcines all things,this is penetrating, fubtile, not burning, and it is the fountain of living Wa- ter, inwhich the King and Queen wath themfelves, which we ftand in.58 Daftin. Larkins. Chymicall Collections. in need of, in the whole Work, in the beginning, middle, and end, but not of the other two, except fometimes onely. Join therefore |} in reading the Philofophers Books 4 thefe three Fires, and without doubt thou wiltnot be ignorant of f their fenfe and meaning concer- f our ! fignifie one Fire, from more com- ning Fires. Artephius pa.3X. Weigh the Fire, meafure the § Air, mortifie the Water, raife up the heavy Earth. Daftin fhec. pa. } r 7 Bin Peep but Angelick and heavenly gift to 202. Accidental, that thou maift know how to behave thy felf in our faid Magiftery , having fo comprehen- oe the faid principles. Lull. Theor. 416. There are four principall Fires to By earneft confideration of | things Naturall, Innaturall, and | againft Nature, it behoveth thee to attain the Materiall and Effentiall knowledge of the temper, through all his parts Effentiall, and aifo | Chymicall Collections. to be abferved, in refpect of the Subftance and Propriety of the four Elements. Idem pa.174. Although in oyr Books we have tutias. handled a threefold Fire, Naturall, Innaturall, and againft Nature, and other different Manners of our Fires nevertheleffe we would pound things, andit is the greatelt fecret to come to. the knowledge of this. Since it is no Humane, seveal. Lull. Tefament pa.78. Son, our Argent vive,or part of Laliss. it, is Water diftilled from its | Earth, and the Earth in like man- ner is our Argent vive, animated, and the Soul is Naturall heat, t which ftands bound together in the firtt Effence of the Elements | of Argent vive. /den. In the Strudture of the Fire ryevifa, fome differd from others, although they all aimed, atthe fame fcope, , name-Chymicall Collections, namely, that it fhould be made af: f ter this manner, left the fugient fhould firft fly away, before the | Chymicall Colleétions, made is of two Champions; that ’ Fire could any way bring forth the |] isto be underftood, confeéted of perfequent thing. Bernard. Comes 4.40, Waters and our Fire, is Fire, and not Fire. Scala. pa.148. Raimond {peaking of Fires in his Compendium of the Soul, faith, It is to be noted that here lie con- trary operations, becaufe-as con- tranaturall Fire diffolves the Spirit of a fixt Body, into the Water of a Cloud,and conftringeth the Bo- dy of a volatile Spirit into con- gcaled Earth: So contrariwife the Fire of Nature, congeals the dif- folved Spirit of a fixt Body into glorious Earth; and refolves the Body of a Volatile Spirit, fixe by Fire againft Nature, not into the Water ofa Cloud, but the Water of the Philofophers, Sca/a.pa.1 26. The Jtwo contrary Matters wifely and yj with great care, left that one ad- TheFire which we thew to thee is verfary may vanquith the other. Bafil. Valent.pa.32. What ever actions they nomi- rofs. nate, know that thefe things are al- ways done by the action of the i heat of certain Fire, which caufes not Sublimation becaufe it is fo gentle, nor may it elevate any | moke naturally, by reafon of its | debility, whence if it be fuch as may in a manner clevate and not clevate, it is g00d. Rofin.ad Sarra- tant.pa.286. THE COROLLARY. If any would rightly weigh the ayings of Philofophers in this Chapter, the manner of their Equi- voca- The Water of which the Bath raf. fof the Bridegroom ought to be Vala.Chymicall Collections. vocations would appear clearer then the Sun, for as va have deciphered the fecond Work fomewhere, in tt ame of the firft Work, fo in the} sane of te Sift Wek, f Birt Work So alfo they will not Chapter they nominate the fecond water che firft Water, and the thitd Water the fecond, as it appears int Scala. pa.123. where this faid tha F the fir(t Watér the Sun caléines,tha | ‘allthe fecond she firft, and thethird the fecond might the better enter: And again, the fecond Water is Fit § i | duce the Ignorant.\ Of the [ame fort againft Naturt, And Ripley w- ters likethings alfo in his Prefact, stall fa vonred promifcuonfly to’ confeund But lesevery Artift know that th} firft water is Phlegm only, or und. | tht name of Natwrall Fire, with the turall Fire, becanfe it is not matured natured Nature, and shas it ts snp to calcine or prepare any perfeil Body, bat this Work belongs to Natu- rall Fire, to wit, that the pepfedt Bo} dy be calcined and prepared in tha fecond Water, or Naturall Fire, shi after it might be diffolved in th third Water or Fire againft Natu 4 Chymicall Collections, i Bur asthey call their fecond Work, the firft, becanfe nothing enters into thas Work, which hath not been pu- nfied, cleanfed, and purged in she here recite the firft Water for their Water, fince it is onely Phlegme,not eotring she Philofophick Work : But the fecond, which induftrioufly they dee that they might decesve and fe- was Artepheus alfo, while he ende- | mame of Five againft Natare, in of is felf, nor sakes any thing from | thefe words, The third ({aith he) is that Naturall Fire of our Water, | Which is alfo called againft Na- tute, becanfe it is Water, never- theleffe of Gold it makes meer Spirit, which common Fire can- not doc. But with thefe Equive- cations whofe is unexpert 15 cafily induced intathe greater Error, But a“ 63Chymicall Collections. asthe whole Theorick of Phyfick is comprehended in the Explanation of three shings, viz. Natural, Now-us- tural, and Comranaturall. So shat whole Hermetick and Divine Work | is performed with Fire, Natural nt Natural, and again?t Narure,which ves arcof the Philofophers, evailed f Fires artof the Philejopiers, an | conceived and drunk of the Wa- shey appear in form of Water, clear, | *t of Mecury as much as fuffices, pure, cryftalline,which tortures, cal- cines, exanimates, aud inavimates } the Phyficall Body ,and at length ren. | ders it more then perfect, which nei- | Subftance, while it afcends after in the name of Fire, although to ws ther by the violence of common Fire, nor virulence of corrofive Waters, nor by she Spirits of any Animall, | Vegetable, or Minerall can perform: § And he that knows not from ow f Molt pure Earth elevated up- onely Subject to draw ont, feparatt, | wards, and asa dead thing even i a d th fF rettife, and compound viele mi | Veffell, then reiterate the fublima- firnms Matters, thefe Fires, sheft Waters, thefe Mercuries, ts ignorant of the Key of the whole Work, Thert- fore in shefe muft be the toil. CHAP Chymicall Collections. - Cuapr. V. The Rife or Birth of the Stone. T! E birth of the Earth is made titin. by the way of invented Sub- limation : ~That the Earth hath you may difcern and know it by its volatility, & privation of feces and dregges from the moft pure the manner of moft pure and moft white duft, or of the leaves of the Moon, or of fplendid Talk. But when thou feeft the Nature of the adhere to the fides of the fubliming tion upon her, without the dregs remaining below,becaufe that part fixe with the dregs adheres, and F thenLullius, Semita * Semites . Chymicall Collettions. then no man, by any meanorindu- j fry, can feparate it from. them. .f Lull.Codic.pa.193- Son, you may know that this § is the generall head to all Subli- - mation of Mercuries. Then take the pregnant Earth, and putitinto § a Sublimatory veffell luted and f well fhut up, place itin Fire of the third degree for the fpace of twen- ty four hours,and fublimethe pure rom the impute, ard fo thal | thou have the Vegetable Mercury, J fublimated, clear, refplendent, in Ff admirable Salt, which we properly } call Vegetable Sulphur; Sal alo: | niack, our Sulphur, the Sulphur f of Nature, and many other names § H the whole confummation of the , we impofe on its Lal. Teyp.4. "Phe Water approaching, that f F Indicating day, fince itis the-very igAtgent vive in the Barth, en- creafeth, “and is augmented: be: § ate as it were things fignified, for caufe the Eaith is whitened, and then it is cilfed impregnation, then the Ferment is coagulated, 172. 18 joined Chymicall Collections. joined with the imperfect Body. Prepare it, as hath been faid, till it become one in colour and afpett, and then it is called the Birth, be- caufe then is born ourStone,which of the Philofophers is called a King. Semita Semita. p.qqz. Son, it is afign when it hath ime retzs. bibed, and retained four parts | moreof its Weight, thar if thou put a little on a heated plate of Gold. or Silver, it will all as ir were fly away into fmoke,which if it doe not fo reiterate it untill fuch aSign appear. Lall.Tefl.pa.16. But to know this day of the Peru. Crifis and the Birch or Rife of 2” the Stone, which is the term of Work; it ismect to foreknow the -fign it felf, and things indicated there is the perfection, or anniht- lation of the Work,becaufe in that... - F 2 veryChymicall Collections. very day,nay hour,the fimple Ele- | Earth and decod it, and as be- ments arife, purified from all filths, | which prefently ftand in need of Compofition, before they fly from the Fire, and are turned into Earth, that is in their fixation, and not fooner nor later. Petrus Bonus thing excelling in its whiteneffe the whiteft fnow, and as it were dead, adhere to the fides of the fubliming veffell, then reiterate its F performed by Sublimation, is al- Sublimation without dregs. Geb. ff together neceffary before the Phy- in lib, Summe perfettionis pa.169s ¥ ficall Work begin. Vogel.pa.228. When this Mercury arifes, the Sun and Moon arifeth togethet with icin its Belly. Vent.pa.170. The Heaven is to be reiterated fo often upon the Earth till the Earth become Heavenly and Spi- Ventura Scala, earthly, and be joined with the Earth, Scala.pa.121. veg. Reftore the vive Argent to the | Earth Chymicall Collections. fore fublime, and that reiterate nine or twelve times, always aug- menting the Fire in the end, untill the Earth with often fublimation | and force of the Calcining Fire become White and more Spiritu- P4127. ‘. — all, part of it being. made more And when thou fhalt fee that | fubtill, begin fomething to afcend || from the bottome of the Veffell, Nand to adhere to its fides, But this purging of the Earth, which is The Argent vive exuberated, clagor. | that is the Body of the Earth, paf- 3“ | fing together with the menftruous f Matter through the Alembick,and y the Sulphur of Nature, is the Spi- | titof Metals, fublimated and tur- rituall, and the Heaven be made £ ned into foliated Earth, which is the firft and neereft matter of Me- tals. Clang, Pucc.p.480. Therefore burn it with dry Fire, viforte. F 3 thatChymicall Collections. Chymicall Collections. that it may bring forth a Son, and J Reatre Infant, the firft and neareft keep him warily left he fly away f° atter of Metals,the firft Subject into fmoke: and this ts that which J which are its proper. Elements,t the Philofopher faith in his Turba, § 0 wit of Natur’d Nature, the Whiten the Earth, and Sublime moift and temperate. Matter ought: it quickly with Firé, untill the f tobe reduced and fixt, till it fow: Spitit which thou fhalt finde init with its Ferment, like Wax with- goe forth’ of it, and it is called p Out Smoke, and endure all Fire. ‘Hermes Bied, for that which a Therefore labour with it to Silver, feends higher is efficacious purity, and thou maift quickly begin the but that which fals to the bot-{| Magiftery,norletit waxold with: . ‘tome, is droffe and corruption OU commixtion, ‘trecanfe thou 70 This therefore is Duft drawn from f maift not take it, untelfe new made ‘Doft, and the begotten of the} after the Birch with its Blood. Lal. Philofophers, the whire foliated | Codic.p.117. ae Earth, in which Gold is to beh If friar: Subliming little fhall -pefhs, fown. Ariff.pa.371- - come forth and clean,the Fire with tulws. Gather carefully what thou fin-f yet be kiaete. Therefore let it bee deft in the middle fublimated, let encteaft. But if much and uncleany jt fy away into Smoke, becaute}! the Fire is. fuperfluous,; therefore that is the approved foughe fof leit be withdrawn. Bue if much Good, the better Beft, the white and clean, then the ‘proportion is foliated Esrth coagulating as the found. Daftfpec.p.g8. Ls Rennet of a Lamb, the Athes of The Daft a{cending higher from Refw. Athes, the Salt of Nature, thebe-f the Dregs, is Afhes, Honoured, : gottely F 4 Sub-Artepleus. Chymicall Collections, Sublimed, Extracted from the A- fhes, but that which remains be-. j low is Athes of Afhes, inferiour, vilified, condemned A thes,a dreg, andlike droffe. Therefore makea difference between its clear and limpid, becaufe when it fhall a- {cend moft whiteas Snow, itwill } be compleat, therefore gather it carefully, left it fly away into Smoke, becaufe that is the very [/ fought for good, the white folia- ted Earth, congealing..what is to be congealed. Rofarius Arnoldi, 4427. 7, The Calx or Body mutt be of- ten imbibed, that thence-it might be fublimed, and more yet purged then before, becaufe the Calx doth not at all, or very difficultly climb upward, aflifted by the Spirit. Ge- ber.lib, famme perfectionts.p.17 2. : O Nature how doft thou burn ' Bodies into Spirit, which could not be done, if the Spirit were not - firlt Chymicall Collections. firftincorporated with the Bodies, and the Bodies with the Spirit - made volatile, and afterwards per- manent. Therefore the compound receives its cleanfing by our Fire : | viz, by diffolving the humid, and by fubliming what is pure and white, the dregs being caft forth, asanaturall Vomit. For in fucha Diffolution and naturall Sublima- tion, there is made a deligation of the Elements, a cleanfing and fe- | paration of the pure from impure, | fothat the pure and white afcends | upwards, and the impure and ear- thy remains fixt in the bottome of | the Velfel, which is to be caft forth and removed (becaufe it is ofno value) by receiving onely a | a middle white fubftance. And in | this is accomplifht our Philofo- | phicall and Naturall Sublimation, not inthe Vulgar unfit Mercury, which hathno qualities like thefe, with which our Mercury drawn from74 Plato, Mogaita pei. in the Subject having all thefe pro- f from the red fervant is adorned. i Chymicall Collections. Arteph forte a The firft part abides not,unleffe it be bound to the fecond in the fame hour. Idem, | Icis fit that theend be reftored F uponiits beginning, and the begin: } ted: but while ic can fly from the ning upon the end. Idem, When the Artitt fees the white Soul rifen, let him join her inme- diately to her Body. When the clean and candid Water fhall be || geneyated, it is meet we join the F Earth to it in the fame Hour. — And according to P/ate,the Fieri- |: neffe is contraried in the hour of | coagulation. ms And according to Daftin, by the acceffe of Cold, the Wate f may well be turned into dry Barth. | Iden, ° nos mo There is one and the famething | perties, and operations ; for while it remains in liquefaction, by rea fon F Chymicall Collections.. fon of Subtilty it is called Spirit, without which Spirit there can neither be made Generation, not Conjunétion of the Soul and Bo- dy. Whence in the whole Magi- ftery, the Spirit actually rules, un- till the Sout and Body be genera- Fire, it is called a Soul, bur while it remains in the Fire, and can per- fevere, it is called a Body, If therefore inthe time of Generati- onthe Soul fball ftand in the Fire, and his ftrength prevail, through the force ofthe Spirit, then the flies from the Fire,and draws with | -her the Body to flight, and the Workman remains fruftrate of his purpole, and expeéts that which ath been already come and gone, and will never come hereafter, and itfeems wonderfull to him: But ifthe ftrength of the Body prevail above the flvength of the Soul, then by equality of Spirit it is tur, neChywicall Collections. ned from Ad into Habit, then the Body retains the Soul altogether, nor ever hath the power to fly from the Fires and the Workman § | well, therefore make it Cold, for hathhis purpofe, which the Aun- cients had, and then the Spirit re- ‘mains always with them, fome- times in Aét, and fometimes in | ‘Habit. Buta quick and double in- F t } 00 operation of the hands, fince it ‘ally both inthe end of Decottion, isthe end of operation. Margarita Hl pretio(a. pa.204. fight is altogether neceffary, fpeci- -and Sublimation, that all the fv- perfluities being whitened, the Ar- -tift may {ee the wonderfull ‘and f ‘terrible Candor, and may prefent. fi 3 | ther {peedily, and while iris new; after this ‘Confummation of Lz. “fter its Birch put ic in Water of bour, for then by infrigidating the f Metals, in digeftion in a tripode | of the Athanor. Lull.Tef.p.21.- ly obtain his joyfulland quiet reft, Moon, the Sun is hidden in her Bowels, and the Eaft is joined to the Weft, Heaven to Earth, § _and. Spirituall to Corporal, whence is faid in T#rba, Knowye that ye fhall not Die the purple Colour,butin Cold. And Hermes, Lo. Whole Chymicall Collections, Whofe Nature hath been hot, if Cold find him, it thal nothurt hims And Avicen,. Know that he which hath evaporated all, hath wrought then is manifeft the hidden,and the Manifeft by infrigidating is hid. - And this Infrigidation or cooling is done with reft, in which there is That Earth fo mingled with rodis. Menftruous Matter, is called Ar- gent vive, Exuberated, which ga- This is our Mercury {ublimed, and made fixt from the white al- tered Earth of Bodies, arifing firtt wonderfully by the power and help of the Water. This is that Mer- cury,in ftead of which the Fools and= clangor Buccina Chymicall Collections. and Idiots affume chat compoun- ded of common Vitrioll, and Sub- limated with Salt, in which they are grofly deceived. Dav, am po18. Sublime the Body as muchas § thou canft, and boil it with clein - Mercury,and when the Body hath drunken fome part of the Mercu- xy, fubtilize ic with a Fire qlck | and ftronger,as thou art able,uniil f it afcend in likeneffe of moft white fj th y itis meet we join the Earth. to it, eveh inthe fame hour, andthofe + Dutt, adhering tothe fides of the Veffell in manner of Snow ; But the Athes remaining in the bot be | will be joined,and then the Work tome are dregs, and the vilified | droffe of Bo away, in which there 1s no life, be- -caufe itis moft light Duft, which F with a little. blaft vanitheth, be § caufe it is nothing but bad Sulphu excluded by Nature. oo Then the dregs being cat away, iteratethe Sublimation of the malt - white Dutt by it felf without 1 dregs, till it be-fixt, and till it fend out ies, and to be caltf s ned, then the Water is refolved Chymicall Collections. out no dregs, but afcend moft purely, like Snow,the whichis our pure Quinteffence ; And then thon fhalt have the Soul Tin@ing,Co- _ . agulating, and Cleanfing,both the : Sulphur, and the not burning. Arf= nicks which the Alchimifts may ufe; that with it they might make Silver. Clangor Ruce.pa.5 19.” _ Whenthe Water thall neceffa- Paras tily be generated clean and white, > being joined in their feafon,all four =‘ is perfect 4 and.if they are not joi- into Smoke, withthe Earth, -and by confequence the other ' Ele- ments by the force and.perfeve- f tance of the Fire, and fo the Work -4$ annihilated. wherefore it. is fit an: Artift know the fimple Ele- ments throughly, before he begi their Compofition, that he may know80 Voge, Bafil. Chymicall Collections. know rightly how to: compound them to the conftitution of ‘the ‘Compound. Pet. Bowus pa.221- | If any of the purer parts remain jn the Earth(which thou maift ob- ferve from a certain whitenefle, promifcuoufly fhining) think not much to mingle it again with the fame Mercury then Deco¢t,and at length, as hath been faid, Sublime § till nothing of the purer effence be left in it. Vogelins p.209. . Tn the laft day, the World thall Valesh be judged by Fire, that what be- fore was by its Mafter made of no- thing, might again by Fire be fe- duced into Athes, from which A- § fhes the Phoenix might at length produce her young ones, for io fuch Afhes lies hid the true and § enuine Tartar, which ought to be diffolved; and after his diffolu- tion, the ftrongeft Lock of the Kings Clofet may be opened. B« fil Valent.pa.2 je wi ¢ Chymitall Collections, 8r We have fhewn thee our Water Luling, after its congelation with its Fer- ment, which is then indeed called our Magnefia, and if thou under- ftand our Waters, thou wilt alfo underftand Argent vive. Lal. 7eft. fo.108. THE COROLLARY. In this Chapter is openly explai- ned the Fable of Phaeton, in Ovids Metamorphofis. As alfo of Deda- lus with his Son Icarus , who when they had made themfelves wings of . Feathers, and had faftaed them with Wax, andwhen with thefe they bad flown shrough the Aire beyond the Labyrinth, ot is reported Icarus fly- ing toohigh, fell into the Sea, in which he was drowned, becaufe the Sun melted the Wax. By his Father B Dedalus is anderftood the Sulphur of Nature fublimated and Philofe- phically coagulated, ByTcarus the G fameChymicall Collections, fame Sulphar fublimated, but with undue governance of the Artift, and. continued violence of the Fire, mel- ted into Water, and buried in the dead Ses. Inthefe alfo is explained she Fable of onr Englifb Roger Ba- con the Monk, of whons it is rela- ted, That he compofed 4 Braxtn Head, whofe cuftedy (after many Incubrations) he commitsed to his fervant, that while he refrefbs his § tired (pirit with fleep, he would care. fully obferve the time, that as foon as ever it (pake, in the very moment & he fhould wake him, but the fervan [ being afleep, the Brazen Head utit- an hoor after, Time is paft, when by their negligence the Work was at. & prived of life and annihilated ; which alfo appears inthe affertion of that excellent Philofopher Pettus Bonus ia thefe words : Ifin the time of Generation the Soul hall ftand in the Fire, ane . ch Renee Chymicall Collections. her -ftrength prevail by the force of Spirit, then the flies away, and draws with her the Body to flight, and the Workman remains fru- {trate of his purpofe , and expects that which hath been already come and gone, and fhall never come again hereafter, becaufe it is | mingled with that condemned | Earth, whence it is impoffible it fhould again be feparated. But 4s the Condemned or rejected Earth is not found out, unleffe the pure be feparated from the impure s ner is that [aid tobe pure, which in fit felf contains feculency, of confe- red thele words, Timeis, and again F > of canfe quence it muft be prepared with the greatest Induftry, nor with leffe vi= gilancy is our Phyficall (ubjeck com- pounded firft by Nature for us, and formed into a Metallick Form,(o thas it may be reduced into the firf? Mat- ter, and by our skill, viz. by the Se- paration, Putrefaction, lmbsbition, Sublimation, Conjunttion of the E- G2 dements84 Chymicall Collections, lements, there might arife at length ancw Form, which isthe Bafis of the Philofophick Work as ts maut- felt in the Chapter. Whence the fay- ing of Artepheusés apparent. viz. “That the firft part remains notex- § cept it be bound to the fecond, e- ven in the fame Hour. Bat that Allegation is done by Coagulation, the Coagulation by Infrigidation ¢- ' wen in that Hour in which the Ay- sift fall fee, and in his Fudgemeas perceive, the whole moft pure fub- france fublimated from its rejected Earth, Which fecvet of fecrets ob- ¥ feared of all Philofophers in ther F fandry A. nigmaes concealed and di. werfly difper|t in their Books,1 have in brief foclearly opened, as of mont the like hitherta. And this is the Preparation in which (as Senior faith) men are blinded fince they know not that the Stone is prepa- red with this Preparation. Cuar. | - Chymicall Collections. Cuap. VIL The Weights of the fecond Work, ftery, we fhall need one onely Veffell, or Furnace, one Difpofi- f tion, whichis meant after the Pre- * i paration of the Stone. Rofar. Phi- d lofoph.pa.2.40. 85 IN the operation of our Magi- Rofa: The fecond Work is to turn Dati», | Water and Fire into Earth, and Aire into one fimple Subftance compounded of Simples. Daftin ppecul.p4.106. H equally, thou wilt perceive no Er- Aror, but if thou adde or diminith, make hafte to corre¢t it: whence if a Deluge proceed it drowns the i Region, but if too much Siccity thould be,it burns up the Roots of Hearbs. Who therefore putrifies the Body in the equall part, till it be exficcated,makes thewhole,one G 3 white If thou impofe the Medicines Dafin.; | il ‘| , Riplews. Ruplens, R Maffa Solis & Lint Chymicall Collections, white Body, for they are at once Infpiffared, Incinerated, and Ex- ficcated ; and this is the Head of the World. Of the Work there fore (as Democritus faith) let part anfwer part cqually, Idem pag, § ? 122. In the beginning take our Stones Sepulchre of another, and join them together in equall Mariage, that they may lie together, then let them cherifh their feed fixek Glance. Idem pa.447. wecks, nourifh their naturall Con-§ ception,and preferve it, not arifing [ all the while from the bottome off their Sepulchre. Which fecret def ceives many. Rip. pa. 440 Alfo thus underftand, chat inf our Conjunction, the Male, ourF Sun, ought to have three parts off his Water, and his Wife nine; which ought to be three to him. Ip-P4.39- We cannot with our own pro- pa Chymicall Collections. per hands work on Mercury, but with ten fpecies, which we call our hands in this Work, that is, nine parts of Water, and the tenth of Earth. Maffa Solis & Luna, pag. 57° But fince there are three parts Ro/a. of his red Water with him, let ic 47d. ‘and bury them every one in the be fublimed.on this manner time i after time, tillicbe fixt downward. Rofar. Arnold. pa.44g. Put clean Bodies in this clean Mercury, poifed in an equal bal- Boil him at the warm Sun, un- till he hath dried his Water,which being exficcated, pound him a- E gain with water to his Weight,and boil him at the Sun, till he be dri- F edinto a Stone; doe this often- j times till he hath drunk of his Water ten times his own quantity, and become dry, hard and red. Daftin (pec.pa.1 910134. Son, it behoveth thee to.mingle rulivs, G4 thepaftin, Chymicall Collections. the Earths of the forefaid Sul- phurs, that is, of Gold, and Silver together, and prepare them by gi- ving them the fourth part of their Weight, of the faid menftrous Matter, by digefting and drying, as it is done in the Creation of Sulphur, untill it hath drunk four parts of the faid menftruous Mat- F ter, and be difpofed to Sublimati- § on; which thou fhalt fublime in Fire of the fourth degree. Lull. Teb.p.24. Take of the fincere Body one part, and of the other Copper three, and mingle them together with Vinegar. Senior in Turba. It. is meet the Water exceed the Earth nine times, that fo in a De- cinary number, which is a perfect number, the whole Work may be confummate. But (as Dioftenes faith) if too much of the Water be at once impofed, it is not con- tained in the Earth; but if too . much Chymicall Collections. much be fubftraéted, it is not joi- ned to the Earth; Whence all the Water is not to be at once impo- fedon the Earth. Therefore’ di- vide it into three parts, and every of them into another third, becaufe fo one may better fight againft one, then againtt a number of more: Mingle the Hot with the Cold, the Humid with the Dry, andthe mixt fhall be temperate, neither Hot nor Cold, nor Moift f nor Dry ; for one tempers anotlter, making the mixt adequate. Daft. } (pec.pa. 177.134. ; . ; A man may be eafily ftifled in Baftins i gteat Waters, and little Waters” are cafily cxficcated with the heat f ofthe Sun, fo that they may be # as nothing. Therefore that the H defired Work might be obtained, E acertain meafure in the commix.- tion of the Philofophick liquorous Subftance muft be obferved, left the greater overcome and opprefc , the‘Arnold, Chymicall Collections. the leffer Proportion, by which Generation might be hindred, and left the leffer, in refpect of the greater, fhould be too weak to ex- ercife equall Dominion , for great fhowers of rain hurt the Fruit, and too much drought products f no true Perfection. Therefore if Neptune have fitly prepared his Bath, weigh well the permanent Water,and confider with diligent care, that thou doe not any thing toodmuch ortoo little to him. Bs F A and diffolved. i . ae tn ed Water and | nd diffolved. Orherwife of whol fil, Valent. pa.q2. White, as much of the one as of the other, accordi curbite, made of Glaffe, ftrong — and thick, havinga Mouth like an ter will be Citrine, even foon ¢- nough, and fo will the true Elixer § be ‘perfected in refpect of both, \viz, perfect Impregnation, and true Chymicall Colleitions. true Coition. Arnold, in Comment, Hortulani p.34. gt Let the Queen born by nine Dafia. Virgins, decently attend the Bed- chamber of fo great a King, and fo in progreffe of time thou thalt determine unity from the denary number. Daffini Epift.fo.2. In this Magiftery, the Govern- ment of the Fire ought to be ob- ferved, left the humid Liquor be too foon exficcated,and the Wife- mens Earth too quickly liquified fome Fifhes, thou wilt generate as 1 Scorpions inthy Waters. Bajiline to weight, fj yalentin.pa.to. and put them together in a Cu Bafil. Valent. ~ What ever actions they nomi- Rof. nate, underftand always, that thefe f things are done by, the action of Urinal, afterward the whole Wa the heat of certain Fire, which makes not Sublimation, beeaufe it is fo gentle, nor ought itnaturally to elevate any Smoke. Rof-p.287. THEChywicall Collections. THE COROLLARY. | Left perhaps Ripley and Dattin | our Countrimen, and moft excelent Philofophers, fhouldin this Chapter feem to fome, to differ among themfelues : fince Ripley takes e- quall parts, and joins them in equall Wedlock ; bet Dattin affirms the Water ought nine times to exceed the Earth, that foin a Decinary, which is a perfect Number, the whole Work might be confummate : Ithonghtit § worth my labour to reconsile this ap-- pearing contradittion, As therefore he that well diftingwifhes, teaches well; fohe that knows this diftindn on of time, fhall forthwith have the | Solution of this doubt. For Ripley firft (peaks of the fir Compofition in the fecond or Philo» fophick Work, where the Earth and pare Water prepared exactly before wuft be equally joined in equal Pro- portion, Chymicall Collections. portion. But Dattin utters that his Opinion of Imbibitions , after the perfection of the fecond Work; and fowhile they are diftinguifht, they are underftood, and that eafily. Bus what meas Ripley in thefe words, viz. That they fhould lie together fix Weeks, not rifing all the while ftom the bottome oftheir Sepul- che ¢ this mut be enquired and fearched into, fince he affirms it a fecret which hath deceived many. That Conjunction is done, that even as a Chicken is made of an Egge af- ter Putrefattion, fo after this Con- janction and due Putrefattion, we may attain the Complement of the | Work, Therefore we wuft know, if any thing may be born by Putrefaction, it ts neceffary it happen after this manner. The Earth by a certain hia- iden and included humidity, is redun ced into 6 certain corruption or de- fraction, which is the teginning @ 33Chymicall Collections. of Putrefaition, which ought to be nourifht with fach a tempered best, as that nothing exhale from the Compound, or be fublimed to th top of the Veffel ; but shat the Ma culine and Feminine, the Matter _ andthe Form, Agent and Patient, remaintogether, The Water in tht Earth, and the Earth wnfeparatd from the Water, are contained togt. ther, as the yolk of an Egee,included inthe inner thin skin, till the timt of Putrefactionloofe the reins which will not be done fooner then in th fpace of forty days ; for as Natant hates [udden mutations or alterati-¥ ons, [ono Putrefactionis made bs in a long time, and appointed, a Dattin elegantly (aid, viz. The lidity of the Aire, fubtility of the Matter, gentleneffe of the Fire, fta- bility of Reft, equality of Com- pounds, gravity of Patience, ani the maturity of Time, doe pro- mote and induce Putrefattion,m there: Chymicall Collections, therefore thenalfo the Air is tobe tempered, the Thick fubtilized,the Fire reftrained, Reft preferved, Proportion adequated, . Patience ftrengthened, and the Time expe- Ged, till Nature proceeding natu- tally thal compleat her ownWork. But that I may return to the pur- — pofe,and adde Corollary te CirelLary we misft abferve that in Preparation, shree parts J, the Spirit are afjumed toone part of the imperfect Body,and at laft about the time of the Birth shree parts of imperfect Body are af- fumed to one of Spirit, and this nat once, but often. But in the fecond Work,which of Philofophers is called she firs firft part és jorned with part, oftermard three parts of Body to one of Spirit and that the oftner for Im- bibitions,and at length three of Spé- vit to one part of perfect Body for in- stration or fermentation by which is ferformed our Myftical, Divine,and more shen perfect Work numbertefly : EXGbE=in Tabam, Chymicall Collettions: exceeding the very degree of Perf. Cuap. VIL. Of Imbibition. + j Aftly, nourifh fuch an anima Efahon Lited ‘ing with its own Mik, that is, with its own Water, from which is concreatedthe Work, ot the thing begun from the begis- ning. Exercit. in Tarbam p.165. Give him the fourth part of new Water, and yet he ought to have many more Imbibitions; give him che fecond , and afterwards the thitd alfo, not forgetting thf faid Proportion: And when thou haft made feven Imbibitions, then thoumuft turn the Wheel about again, and putrefie all that Marte without addition. Ripley p4.51. If chou wouldftVolatife or In- bibe, thy prepared Elixer, ithe & 2 Chymicall Collections, cond, third, or fourth time, this mutt bedone with the fourth pare of the Elixir of Mercury, but doe this oft-times, untill the part of Water perifh, that is,wafte or con- fume, fo that it afcend no further. But yet Icommand ye, pour not onthe Water at once, left the Ixir be drowned, but by little and little, that is, pouritinat feven times, and powder it, and laft of all ex- ficcate. Clangor, Buce.pa.scs. Moiften and beat it together Hemet. many days, and this nine times, which are affigned by the nine Ea- y gles, and in every Diffolution and Coagulation, the effect thereof fhall be augmented. Hermes. de Chemia p4.179. Beat the Earth oftentimes, and by little and little imbibe it from eight days to eight days, Decoct and after moderately Calcine it in Fire, and let it not weary thee to reiterate the Work oftentimes , or98 Chymicall Collections, for the Earth bears not fruit with out often watering, whence if it be dry, itthirftingly drinks up its humidity and wet. Avicen.p.420. If ye.make it without weight, Death will befall ic, therefore put § uponit all the reft of its Humor, temper it neither too much, not too little; becaufe if there be — much, a Sea of perturbation will F be made, but if little, it will be fi burnt to abrand. For the heat of the Fire (as Avicen faith) if it may § not finde Humidity which it dries § up, it burns, but if thou pour in much moifture at once, thou wilt} not deficcate but diffolve. There: B fore the Weight is every way to be confidered, left too much fice ty or fuperfluous Humour. cor rupt, that through thy whole Work thou diffolve fo much by§ Inhumation, as fals fhort by Afla- § tion, and diminith fo much by Af fation,as the Inhumation diffolves An - Chymicall Colleétions. And every diffolution fhall always bemadeby Inhumation, and Con- nexion. ‘The Humour gotten by diffolution , naturall heat onely remaining, fhall always be deficca- ted. Dafie, Epift.fo.5. 7 Ibegan induftrioufly to exhauft ‘evils the Water, yet fo that there might not remain. in it above the teath partin ten. parts. Trevifane p.47. _ It is meet the Water exceed the Dafin. Earth nine times, that fo ina De- cinary., which number is perfeét, - the whole Work may be confun- | mate. Daft. (pec.pa.t 34. It behoveth thee to take one ca:lnon, part of our Copper,and of perma- nent Water, which alfo is called : Copper three parts, then mingle them together with Vineger, and | boil them fo long, untill they be thickned, and there be made one Stone. Cadmon is Turba.pa.37. It is -nourifhed with its own semita Milk, that is,with Sperm,of which H 2 itChymicall Collections. it hath been from the beginning, but Argent vive is inabibed again and again, till.tt can imbibe two parts, or what may fuffice, Semita 100 442. a Lallisss p ¥en, fettle thy Spirit to under- ~ ftand what we fay, doe not drink unleffe thou eat, nor eat unleffe thou drink ; we tell thee this in re- {pect of uniform Imbibition, which ke of moift and EF p4.53. thou mult make of moift'and dry When thy Matter hath concei- E ved, expect the Birth, and when fucceflively: Lull.pract.fo.193. Deli. Tris meet.the King reft in a {weet Bath, till by little and little he hath § drunk the Trinity of his: Nouri- f fher, and let Drink be after Mear, teranother with diferetion; defitt not therefore to moiften, decoé, and deficcate the King, till he hath devoured: his Mothers Milk, the Queen with him being nine times proftrate on the Earth, Daftin. fpec.fo.4. ‘ “ Let Chymicall Collettions. TOL , Let the King after forty days Pythagor. moiftning in all his own humour, be always putrefied in equal heat; F till he put on his Mothers white | Countenance. Pythagoras in Turba i pa.8o. - | _ Three times thalt thou { turn | about thy Wheel, keeping the a- | forefaid Rule of repaft. Ripley Lullins, it hath brought forth, thou mutt | have Patience in Nourifhing the H Boy, till he can indure the Fire, and not Meat after Drink; there- § and then of him thou maift make fore let him cat and drink one af & {te Projection, becaufe the firtt # Digeftion is made. Lull. Theor, s f0.30. At length nourith {uch an ani- Parmenides mated Body with his own Milk, | that is his Water, of which is concreated the Work, orthe thing begun from the beginning, but F concerning the feeding it is H 3 taught,102 Chymicall Collections, Chymicall Collections. taught, that the Proportion be fo Farth are generated: The Earth ordered in it felf, that. there be therefore doth not germinate three parts of Water to one of without the watering and humidi- Lead. Parmenides in Turba. p.165, § YY of May dew, that doth wath, Lilia, With that permanent humidity, fF penetrate, and whiten Bodies, like ~~” which likewife took its originall § "a Water, and of two Bodies from -vive Argent, imbibe our § make anew one. drteph.fe.17. Stone, becaufc by it the parts § Beat the Earth and imbibe it Rofarive thereof are made moft clear, asis f with Water by little and little, ?!/ manifeft, when after its perfet § from eight days to eight days,de- putrefaction, from every corrup- coctit in Dung, becaufe by Inhu- tible thing, and chiefly from the § mation, Aduftion is taken away : two fuperfluous Humours, viz. B diet it not weary thee to reite- the unduous,aduftible, phlegma @ Ce this often, becaufe the Earth tick, and evaporable parts, it 1s re f bears not fruit withont frequent duced into its proper incombufti- F Watering. Rofar. Philofoph.p.355. Ble Subftance of Sulphur, andl As often as ye moiften the A- pats, without that Subftance, it is nevet & thes, deficcate them by turns, but corrected, augmented nor multi ifitbe moiftned beforeit be defic- plied, Lull. Cadic.pa.46. ~ Bcxed and made Duft, it is drowe - artephexs. ~The Water is living which came ned, inebriated, and reduced to to water its Earth, that ie might nothing, for he that makes it with- Germinate and bring forch fruit f Out weight (as Trifmegs/tus faith) in its feafon; for by watering, of kills and ftrangles it, becaufe who bedewing, all things born of the drinks and thirfts not, cherithes in- Earth H 4 - digeftion,104 Afilittes. Nicaves. Dafliz. Chymicall Collections, digeftion, ‘and doth invite and in- duce the Dropfie, Daft. (pec. pa; 209. : Then muft ic be beaten, and with the remaining Water and a half, be feaven times moiftned, with permanent Water confumed, it mutt be putrefied, till the defired thing be obtained. 4fflictes in Tarba, But ye thal! moiften this rednefS feaventimes in the remaining Wa- ter, or till it can drink all its Wa- ter, then boil ir tillit be deficca- ted and turned to dry Earch, then let it be put in a kindled Fire forty days, untill it putrefie, and the Colours thereof appear with the Afhes. ‘Nicaresin 4 arba 103. As the fame thing is both an Embryo, Infant, Boy, and. Man, pafling from an incompleat Ef fence, toa perfect Complement : So alfo our Compound, by in- creafing pafles fromone thing ta ano- Chymicall Colleétions. another better thing, and from in- compleat Effence, with its own Milk is carried forth to his com- plement of the Elixir. And there- fore all its Compound is of the | form ofthe Elements. Wherefore Mortenas faith, the difpofition of that work is like the creation of 2 Man, when as he is nourithed of himfelf by increafing from day to | day, and frommonethto moneth, | tillhe hath attained his Youthfull age, and in a certain time be com- pleated. Daft. fhec.pa.150. The near caufe of this fixation isa very little mixtion of both by their leaft parts,fo that the height | of the Volatile, may not excell the height of the fixt Body, but let the vertue of the fixt Spirit,ex- cell the height of the unfixt, ac- cording to the intent of fixation. Son if thou underftand this, thou maift have the Treafure of Heaven and Earth. It is required when theChymicall Collections. the Body is fonaturally augmen- ted, and:nouri(he. by convenient moifture, that then near the mea- fure, thou imbibe it with the more Water of its nutrition or augmen- tation, according to the Weights revealed by Art, to the conformi- ty of principles, and the quality of the Body given to be augmen- ted, and let it be decodted with a gentle Fire, exficcating the natu- rall heat, and not exceeding untill F it attain its perfect whitenefle. Lal | lit Codi¢.pa.rs 7. And note that after Imbibition they ought to be buried feaven days. Therefore iterate the Work many times, thoughit be tedious, and the Weight in this muft be every way obferved, left the too much ficcity or fuperfluous Hu- mou fpoile it in the operation, as namely decoét fo much by Affati- on, as the Diffolution hath added, and by Imbibition diffolve as much Chymicall Collections. much as hath been wafted by AC fation, wherefore thou fhall fweet- ly and not haftily irrigate the Earth from cight days to cight days. Idem, Ifone Imbibition, one Deco- pafin. dion, one Contrition doth fuffice, they would not {6 much have ite- rated. their fayings, but therefore I they did this, that abwaies they might infift onthe Work, with- out divorce and tedioufneffe. Wherefore alfo they fay, Hope, and fo fhalt thou obtain. But when it is exficcated,then by ano- ther Courfe, Jet it be delivered to infatiable Comeftion, that_being by degrees between every Incera- tion, burnt into Athes, it might ttythe power thereof. Daftin E- Piff feed.‘t08 Chymicall Collections. ‘THE COROLLARY Ariftotle affirms in the fir of bis Phyficks, that the whole w not known without the parts in which. st confifts ; But thewhole as it rt. Sents the nature ‘of all its parts, fo the whole and the perfect are altoge. ther the fame. Whence it follows, that it is not fufficient for a Man to know the Subject of fome Edi- fice, that thence a Houle might be built, unleffe he knew the particu. lar parts,and their Conftruétion and Compofition. So likewife it would Little conduce to the perfection of the Stone, to have known ontly the Sub- ject and its Preparation, unleffe after it bee prepared the Arsift know how to bring it to Maturity, then to nonrifh it, and laftly to feed it, even untill it attain a Degree abaut perfection. Then the parts teftifie of the whole, and the whole of the parts, Chymicall Colleétions, parss,the beginning of the end, and 109 the end of the beginning; for what pity were it an Heire from the Kingly Stock fhould be born ,. and none found that knew how to.nou- rilhit 2 Therefore to nourifh this ow Infant we advife with Phyfici- I ans, that (fince. he is of the.Royall Sock, and the moft pare conftitusi- on)‘ he. wight not. be: delivered: to any frange Nur[e, bus mighs fuck | the: Brefts of his Mother,. who. as fhe bad.before nonrifht him in the Womb with ber own Blood; sfo being nw come to Maturity, he is to be nourifbt , and in a due proportion fed with the exnberated Blood, cir culated. and rectified through the Mamillary veins, And the medici- nall meafare of that Milk, lee it be meekly the fourth part of the weight ofthe Infant , But let him keep this Diet for feaven Weeks, till he be fo Medicinally fed that while in a glaf- [ea Lodge (ordained and firmly ob- feratedChymicall Collections. Serated by Phyficians and Pbilefo- phers) he be placed and repofedin 4 Bath, and being lulled afleep, his Limbs diffolve and melt with {meat, which by the help of Art and Nature, and due governance, frall refume their former fhape, renued, and their fivength fo mulsiplied that now he defires Kingly foodswith which nourifbment in a fhort fpact be will become.a King, ftronge then a King, and {o flout in Bat- sell, shat he alone being x moft pow- erfull Conqueror , will obtain tke Victory againft ten thonfand Em mies. Therefore feck this King, whors who fo hath for bis De- fence, hall command all Sublansy things, alee, Cua Chymicall Collections. Cuap. VIL Of Fermentation. B: the Teftimony of all Philo- Tiwleds- fophers there are three parts of” the Elixir, viz. Soul, Body, and Spirit; The Soul is onely the Fer- ment or Form of the Elixir, the Body is the Pafte or Mattér,which two parts are to be drawn from Metals only;to wit,the Form from the Sun and Moon, the-Matter from Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, and Mars, as alfo Lullivs affirnis, But the third part of the Stone is Spi- tit, which finceit is the Seat and Chariot of the Soul, it doth pour the Soul into the Body, and com- pounds and joins thefe two ex- tremes_ with an indiffoluble bond of agreement, which Media- tor being removed, the Soul can never enter league with the Body. For two extremes agree not well, : norChymicall Collections; nor tarry in one place, unleffe they are reconciled and confederated bythe help of amean. This Spirit it nothing elfethen that liquor at- tenuating the Form and Matter of the Stone, and reducing it to a {pi- rituall Nature, which Spirit is fometimes called of the Philofo phers, Heaven, fometimes folutive Mercury, fometimes mentftruous Matter, fometimes Quinteffence, and infinite other names. Tanladan, 74.338. . a Unto thy Compound adde the fourth part the Ferment, which Ferment is onely of the Sun and Moon. And know that there are J three Ferments, two of Bodies in pure Nature which ought to oe} altered, as we have told thee , the f third moft fecret, which we now meditate, is that firft Earth with its proper green Water; wherefore while the Lion thirfts, make him drink, untill his body be broken. Ripley pa.56. Take Chymicall Collections. Take the fourth part of the Ferment, and let that Ferment be diffolved,and made Earth like an. imperfect Body, and prepared af- ter the fame manner and order; moreover joine and imbibe it with the aforefaid bleffed Water ; for Ferment prepares the imperfect Body, and converts’ it to its own Nature, and itis not Ferment un- ‘ leffe Sun and Moon. Semita Semi-+ 14 p4.444. 113 Semita Semitey Give it fermented Ferment, e- Rachsidis qually elementated with every E-” Jement, which is Gold s give itthe fourth part, but which is firft cal- cined and diffolved into Water. Ferment is twofold, white and red; of which the Ferment of the Sun, isthe Sun, and of the Moon, the Moon. But let thé Ferment be the fourth part of our Copper. Ra- chaidtbas pa.393. Se .. Thou wilt have no perfect Fer- Dantas: ment till it be altered,. with our I . Mer-Lullius. Chymicall Collections, Mercury, from its firft qualities into a new whitenefle, between Putrefaction and Alteration. Daz- fran.pa.7. _ They who knew not Natures indigency, thought this Ferment ought to be prepared with new menftrous Matter, in which is Fire againft Nature, not percei- ving the perdition of the Tempe- rature from which the Body de- - parts, by reafon of the burning Fire, viz. againft Nature. Fer- ment, to wit, a Body, as muc it is underftood for "Ferment s not prepared but with naturall Fire and Water of Mercury, Lal! Codic.pa.211. Take one part of Ferment three of imperfed Body, aif the Ferment in Water of Mercur equall to it, boil it together with a moft gentle Fire, and coagulate that Ferment, that it may be as an pape Body. Rofar. Philofoph, o 7 Chymicall Collections. IIS Take red Earth, and form it mold. into thin Plates, or fhaved Duft, and put itin Water, as hath been taught, and it fhall not be diffol- ved init, but onely calcined into red Duft; which done,remove the Water warily,and put it into ano- ther Veffell, like that in which ic is, fo that the calcined Daft of red Earth.may remain in its Veflell without Water, and in the remo- ved Water put white Earth, and that fhall be diffolved, and fo Wa- ter fhall profit thee, and fhall not be fpoiled. Armold.t Cament.Hor- tolani p4.3 1. Inthe preparation of the Fer- Lallus. ment, before its laft Fermentation we ule vulgar Mercury, not onely folemnly prepared, v2%, into Vir- gins Milk, but as ic exifts in its Nature, by the alone Sublimation tathis, that it might reduce the Body of Ferment tots fimplicity, and it may bethe mean of conjoi- 12 ningChymicall Collections, ning Tinétures. Lull, Codic. pa 215. Deflin, _ Letit be given to an infatiable Devourer, afterwards it muft be nourifht with grofler meat. that compleat Digeftion being “recei- ved, it may paffe from the Mothers into the Fathers Kingdome. Daf, Epift.pa.6. Tatladams As the Ferment of Gold is Gold ; of Silver, is Silver; fo the Ferment of Iron,is Tron, of Cop- per, isCopper, and of Lead. is Lead. Therefore every Agent acts according to its form. To fome, what we have {poken may feem new; as if the Elixir could be made of all ignoble things which fhall turn all other things as well noble as ignoble, either in- to Mars, or Jupiter, or Saturn, or Venus. | Which although it now feem new and incredible to many learned men, and chiefly to Petrus Bowws, a man of fingular learning s yet . Chymicall Colletions, yet there is no neceffary reafon, which ‘forbids it may be done. Nayif it were not done, Alchymy had been loft,and the Art of Chy- miftry might have been worthily called a Figment and a Fable. For Nature hath eftablifhed this Law, viz, That as often as Adtives are tightly joined with Paffives. AGi- on and Paffion doe immediately follow, and the alteration doth always refent and favour of the nature of the Agent. And as often as that which before had the ftrength and qualities of the Pati- ent, be fo difpofed that it can ftourly a&, it is neceffary that the alteration be anfwerable and con- formable to the Nature of the A- gent from which it fuffered. Wherefore if ignoble Metals dif- pofed to fuffer or change by the action of Gold or Silver, rightly difpofed to Action, it is neceffary that noble Metals difpofed to fut- 13 fer