The Wise-Mans Crown: OR, THE GLORY Of the Rosie-Cross. SHOWING The Wonderful Power of Nature, with the full discovery of the true Coelum Terrae, or first Matter of Metals, and their Preparations into incredible Medicines or Elixirs that cure all Diseases in Young or Old: With the Regio Lucis, and holy Houshold of Rosie Crucian
Philosophers. Communicated to the World By JOHN HEYDON, Gent. A Servant of GOD, and Secretary to Nature. [Non Latin] (i.e.) He that looketh upon my Books, let him learn to be religious. LONDON: Printed for the Author; and are to be sold by Samuel Speed at the Rainbow in Fleet street. 1664.
THE LIFE OF John Heydon The Son of FRANCIS and MARY HEYDON Now of Sidmouth in Devonshire. John Heydon is not basely but Nobly descended, The Antiquaries derive them from Julius Heydon the King of Hungary and Westphalia, that were descended from that noble family of Caesar
Heydon in Rome, and since in this Royal Race the line run down to the Honourable Senior Christopher Heydon of Heydon near Northwich Senior John Heydon late Lord Lieutenant of the Kings Tower of London, and the noble Chandlers in Worcester-shire of the Mothers side which
Line spread by Marriage into Devonshire, among the Collin’s, Ducks, Drues and Bears, he had one Sister named Anne Heydon, who died two years since, his Father and Mother being yet living: He was born at his Father’s House in Green-Arbour London, and Baptized at St.
Sepulchres and so was his Sister, and both in the fifth and seventh years of the Reign of King Charles the First, he was educated in Warwick-shire among his mother’s friends, and so careful were they to keep him and his sister from danger and to their Books, that
They had one continually to wait upon them, both to the School and at home. He was Commended by Mr. John Dennis his Tutor in Tardebick to Mr. George Linacre Priest of Coughton, where he learned the Latine and Greek tongues, the War at this time began
To molest the Universities of this Nation, He was then Articled to Mr. Mic. Petley an Attorney of Cliffords Inne with eighty pound, that at five years end he should be sworn before Chief Justice Roll, now being very young he applied his mind to Learning, and
By his happy wit obtained great knowledge in all Arts and Sciences, afterwards also he followed the Armies of the King, and for his valour Commanded in the Troops, when he was by these means famous for Learning and Arms, he Travelled into Spain, Italy, Arabia,
Egypt and Persia, and gave his mind to writing, and Composed about 20 years since The Harmony of the World in two Books, The Temple of Wisdom in three Book, The Holy Guide in six Books, Elhavareuna in one Book, Hampaneah Hammeguleh in one Book, Ocia Imperialia in one Book,
The Idea of the Law, The Idea of Government, The Idea of Tyranny in three parts, The Fundamental Elements of Morral Phylosophy, Policy, Government and War, &c. These Books were written near 20 years since, and preserved by the good hand of God in the
Custody of Mr. Thomas Heydon, Senior John Hanmer, Senior Ralph Freman, and Senior Richard Temple during the Tyrants time, first one had the Books, then another, &c. And at last at the Command of these Honourable Learned, and valiant Knights they were Printed.
He wrote many excellent things, and performed many rare experiments in the Arts of Astromancy and Geomancy &c. but especially eighty one, the first upon the Kings Death, Predicted in Arabia by him to his Friends, The second upon the losses of the King at Worcester Predicted
At Thauris in Persia, the third Predicted the Death of Oliver Cromwell in Lambeth house to many Persons of Honour mentioned in his Books, the fourth he wrote of the overthrow of Lambert, and of the Duke of Albymarle his bringing again of the King to his happy Countries,
And gave it to Major Christopher Berkenhead a Goldsmith at the Anchor by Fetter-lane end in Holborn, the fifth precaution or Prediction he gave to his Highness the Duke of Buckingham two Moneths before the evil was practised: And his Enemy Abraham Goodman lies now in
The Tower for attempting the death of that Noble Prince. The sixth for Count Gramont when he was banished into England by the King of France, and he predicted by the Art of Astromancy and Geomancy the Kings receiving of him again into favor and of his marriage
To the Lady Hamelton. The seventh for Duke Minulaus a Peer of Germany that the Emperor sent to him, when the Turk had an Army against him, and of the death of the Pope the rest are in his Books, And therefore by these Monuments the name of Heydon for his variety of Learning
Was famous not only in England, but also in many other Nations into which his Books are Translated. And it seems something difficult to determine, whether the sophistication of truth, or the fucus of errors hath of late years been the more Epidemical cheat in Print,
It being sufficiently notorious how this generation of Taylors Almanacks, the under-wits go a whoring after the Press, and what a noisome spawn of Brats are generated of the froth of illegitimate Brains, not less numerous then spurious, that neither their male content
Parents nor Religion, Law, Reason, nor Charity are able to maintain. And although Mr. John Heydon’s works be of a more generous extraction, yet they are very far from Complementing themselves with the least vain hopes of exemption from those censures which are common to all men,
It is worth an Asterisk to observe how, infeasible it hath been in all ages for the most innocent to escape this Correction, Divine Plato that Prince of Phylosophers is accused for being too confused and immethodical, Virgil by some is counted but a shallow and weak witted Poet,
And by others charged as if he were wholly be holding to Homer for his works, and Homer himself is derided by Horace, as if he were too drowsy a Poet, Demosthenes could not please Marcus Tullius in all things, Trogas Pompeius doth accuse Titus Livius his Orations of fictions
And falsities, Seneca was Nic-named and called Lime without Sand; Pliny is compared to a turbulent River that taste of many things but digests few, Hermes is called by some the dark King, some affirme Zoroaster had no depth of Judgement. An Astrological Taylor accuses Cornelius Agrippa Kt. John Heydon, Appolonius, and Tritemius
Of inventing new and strange principles in Philosophy D. Brown is reproved for inconstancy and instability of Judgement: And Mr. Moor and Eugenius Philalethes for their too much subtilty in some things, Mr. Hobs is thought too full of Reason in his Religion, and the
Lord Verulam is taxed for the length of Learning, Paracelsus is envied for hard words, Sir Kenelm Digby is censured by Tho. Vaughan Dr. Barlovv for his tedious distinctions, Des Cartes for the perplexity of his Method, and in a word these very learned and most excellent Philosophers
Physicians and Divines that by the profoundness of their Judgement and splendor of their Eloquence have so illustrated the three Kingdoms as that they have left the world Just cause of their Admiration, no hopes of Imitations even these have not escaped the like Mis reprehensions
For in the late years, invectives have been written against these men, yet who more learned then Sir Kenelme Digby, more eloquent then Dr Barlow, who more witty then Mr. More and Eugenius Philalethes, who more acute then Mr. Hobs who more free and flued then Lord
Verulam, who more delightful and satisfactory then Gregory and Gafferell, who more profound in Philosophy then Henry Agrippa Knight, who more Candid and ingenious then Roger L’Estrange, who more clear and transparent then Paracelsus, who more distinct then Vincent Wing, and succinct
Then Dr. Wallis yet all these in their respective and incomparable works have met with the said undue reprehensions. If his works therefore shall chance to meet with some waspish humours, let him consider the Climate, Nor is it more then wants a president, or less then needs
A Charitable Construction; which is the worst revenge can possibly be executed by such as chuse rather to suffer then offend Mr. JOHN HEYDON, For the Taylors amongst the Almanack Makers carp at all the rest and envie all, amongst Philosophers, Democretus laugheth
At all things Heraclitus weepeth at all things Pyrhias is ignorant of all things, and Plato knoweth all things, Diogenes contemnes all things, This John Heydon, fears none, contemneth none, is ignorant of none, rejoyceth in none, grieves at none, laughs at none is angry with
None, but being himself a Philosopher he hath taught the way to happiness the way to long life, the way to health, the way to wane young being old, and the way to resolve all manner of Questions, Present and to Come; by the Rules of Astromancy and Geomancy, and how to raise the dead.
He is a man of Middle stature tending to tallness, a handsome streight body an Ovall ruddy face mixed with a clear white, his hair of a dark flaxen brown colour soft and curling in rings gently at the ends of the Locks, his hands & fingers long and slender, his legs and feet
Well proportioned, so that to look upon he is a very complete Gentleman; But he never yet cast affection on a woman, nor do I find him inclined to marry, He is very often in great Ladies chambers, and I believe his modest behaviour there, makes them the more delighted
In his company, The Princes and Peers not only of England, but of Spain, Italy, France and Germany, send daily to him, And upon every occasion he showeth strong parts, and a vigorous brain, his wishes and aims, and what he pointeth at, speak him owner of a noble and generous
Heart, this Gentleman’s Excellent Books are admired by the world of Lettered men, as the prodigy of these later times (indeed his works before mentioned (if I am able to Judge anything) are full of the profoundest learning I ever met withal: And I believe;
Who hath well read and digested them, will persuade himself, there is no truth so abstruse, nor hitherto conceived out of our reach, But man’s wit may raise Engines to scale and conquer, I assure myself he is owner of a solid head, and of a strong generous heart,
And if any should question my Judgement, they may read the Commendations of both the Universities, Oxford and Cambridge, besides the learned Thomas White and Thomas Revell, Esq; both famous in Rome and other parts beyond Sea, that have highly honoured this Gentleman in
Their Books; yet he hath suffered many Misfortunes, his Father was sequestered, Imprisoned, and lost two thousand pounds by Cromwell, this Oliver imprisoned this son also two year & half or thereabout in Lambeth-House: For he and his Fathers Family were always for the King, And endeavoured to the utmost his restoration.
And indeed the Tyrant was cruel to him, but John Thurloe his Secretary was kind to him, and pitied his curious youth, And Joshua Leadbeater the Messenger kept him (At his request and Mr. John Bradley’s) at his own house, And gave him often leave to go abroad, but being
Yet zealous and active for the King, he was again taken and clapt up in Lambeth-House, in these misfortunes it cost him 1000 l. and upwards, after this some envious villains forged Actions of debt against him, and put him in prison, It seems at the beginning of
These misfortunes, a certain Harlot would have him to marry her, but denying her suit or that he ever promised any such thing, and that he never spake to her in his life good or evil, She devised with her confederates abundance of mischief against him: see him
She did in some Gentlemen’s company. Many courted him to Marry but he denied, now there was left (amongst a few old Almanacks, and scraps of other men’s wit) Collected and bequeathed unto the world by Nic. Culpe (as his own admired experience) Alice Culpeper
His widow, she hearing of this Gentleman that he was an Heir, to a great fortune Courts him by letters of Love, to no purpose, the next Saint in order was she that calls herself the German Princess. But he flies high and scorns such fowl, great beasts the first of
These two blessed birds in her life time caused one Heath to Arrest him, & another after him laid Actions against him, that he never knew nor heard of. In this perplexity was he imprisoned two years, for they did desire nothing but to get money,
Or destroy him, for fear if ever he got his liberty he might then punish them, He being of a Noble Nature forgave them all their malice and devices against him, and scorns to revenge himself upon such pitiful things, God indeed hath done him the justice, for this Heath
Consumes to worse then nothing, and indeed if I can Judge or predict anything) his Baudy-houses will be Pawned and he will dye a miserable diseased beggar. His Mistress when he was very young and a Clerke desired him to lye wither, but he like Joseph refusing, she hated
Him all her life, God preserved him from their malice, although one of these 3 lewd women swore this Gentleman practised the Art Magic, she told Oliver Cromwell, she saw familiar Spirits come and go to him in the shape of Conies, and her maid swore she had often seen
Them in his Chamber when he was abroad, and sometimes walking upon the house top in a Moon shine night, and sometimes to vanish away into a wall or Aire, and yet she never saw him in her life, nor could she tell what manner of man he was. But these stories were
Not Credited, and for all these and many more afflictions and false accusations, I never saw him angry, nor did he ever Arrest or imprison any man or woman in all his life yet no client of his was ever damnifyed in his suit.
He was falsely accused but lately of writing a Seditious Book and imprisoned in a Messengers Custody. But his Noble friend the Duke of Buckingham, finding him innocent and always for the King he was then discharged, and indeed this glorious Duke is a very good and just
Judge: and although some speak slightly of him, he studies the way to preserve his King and Country in peace plenty and prosperity, it is pity the King hath no more such brave men as he, a thousand such wise Dukes as this (like Marshal’d Thunder, backed with flames
Of fire) would make all the enemies of the King and Christendom Quake; and the Turke flee before such great Generals, in all submission we humbly pray for this Great Prince, and leave him to his pleasure & return to our subject.
John Heydon is not of that vain and presumptuous Nature as the Taylors that despise all Artists even Agrippa, Appolonius, More, Vaughan and Tritemius. And yet they cannot read these and many other Learned Authors they so impudently abuse, Rob of their Learning, and convert
Other men’s parts to their own profit, He lent one Ten pound in Gold, he in requital or return speaks ill of him, and pretends to know many admirable Rules of Geomancy and impertinently adds them to Nativities, and applies them to all manner of Questions in
Astromancy, but his Books being written so long since, viz. near twenty years by himself, their greediness of great maters is discovered, and we now know them to be neither Scholers nor Gentlemen, these hang up clouts with here are Nativities Calculated, Questions resolved,
And all the parts of Astrology taught by us, For three pence, four pence, six pence, or higher if you please, thus are young Apprentices, old women and wenches abused and that they may be found, for money, they tell us the 12 Houses of heaven in the sign of a Coat
Of Arms are to be let, when they might indeed set bills upon their brazen foreheads, engraven thus, Here are Rooms to be let unfurnished, but our Author regards not these men, all their scandals forgeries & villainous devices they contrive against him, he slights and
Scorns & hath purposely forsaken Spittle-Fields & his lodgings there to live a private Life, free from the concourse of multitudes of people that daily followed after him, but if any desire to be advised let them by way of letter leave their business at his Book-sellers,
And they shall have answer & Counsel without reward, for he is neither envious nor enemy to any man, what I write is upon my own knowledge. He writes now from Hermeupolis a place I was never at, It seems by the word to be the City
Of Mercury, and truly he hath been in many strange places, among the Rosie Crucians And at their Castles, Holy-houses Temples, Sepulchres, Sacrifices, all the world knows this Gentleman studies honourable & honest things, and faithfully communicates them to others, yet if any traduce
Him hereafter they must not expect his Vindication, he hath referred his quarrel to the God of Nature, it is involved in the concernments of his Truths and he is satisfied with the peace of a good conscience, he hath been misinterpreted in his writing with studied Calumnies they
Disparage his person whom they never saw nor perhaps will see, he is resolved for the future to suffer, for he says, God condemns no man, for his patience, the world indeed may think the truth overthrown, because she is attended with his peace for in the Judgement of most
Men, where there is no noise, there is no victory, this he looks upon as no disadvantage the estimate of such censures will but lighten the scales, and I dare suppose them very weak brains, who conceives the truth sinks because it outweighs them, as for tempestuous out-cry’s
When they want their Motives they discover an irreligious spirit, one that hath more of the Hurry-eano then of Christ Jesus God was not in the wind that rent the rocks in pieces, nor in the Earth-quake and fire at Horeb.
He was in Aura tenui, in the stil small voice, his enemies are forced to praise his virtue and his friends are sorry he hath not 10000 pounds a year, he doth not resent the common spleen, who writes the truth of God hath the same Patron with the truth itself, and when
The world shall submit to the general Tribunal, he will find his Advocate where they shall find their Judge, there is Mutual Testimony between God and his Servants, or nature and her Secretary, If the Baptist did bear witness of Christ, Christ did also as much for the
Baptist; He was a burning and a shining light, when I write this Gentleman’s life God can bear me witness it was unknown to him and for no private ends, but I was forced to it by a strong Admiration of the Mystery and Majesty of Nature written by this Servant
Of God and Secretary of Nature, I began his Life some years since, and do set it down as I do find it, if any man oppose this, I shall answer, if you are for peace, peace
Be with you, if you are for War, I have been so too, (Mr. Heydon doth resolve never to draw Sword again in England, except the King command him.) Now let not him that puts on the Armour boast like him that puts it off: Gaudet patientia duris is his Motto, and thus
I present myself a friend to All Artists, and enemy to no man. Frederick Talbot Esq; March 3 1662/3. To the Most Excellently Accomplished the truly honourable learned wise virtuous &c, Bevis Lloyd Esq; Eternal Health be wished. I Would have you know, that I love and honor you beyond expression and shall serve you
In Art and Nature to my power, I have presumed to make you one in the number of my Noble Patrons, because I hear the wickedness of some Pulpit Politicians incessantly raging against my person which they never saw, nor perhaps will see, these sophistical Sycophants
Contend against me continually with bitter hatred, envy and Malice, without any provocation on my part one very proudly with a full mouth and loud voice aspersed me with Atheism in Saint Pauls Church in his morning Sermon the eight of May, before the Lord Mayor and others,
Amongst a promiscuous people, Railing against the Rosie Crucians, who Art and Nature united, Others in Coffee discourse and stinking smoak of Tobacco did fill the ears of the Ignorant with my infamy others in public and private assemblies, I hear do instigate the Dukes
Princes and Peers of England &c against me, But my Religion being published, I would have you know my Philosophy is to know God himself, the worker of all things, & to pass into him by a whole Image of likeness (as by an Essential Contract and bond) whereby we may be transformed
And made as God, As the Lord spake concerning Moses, saying, I have made thee the God of Pharoah, this is the true Rosie Crucian Philosophy of wonderful works, that they understand not, the Key thereof is the intellect: for by how much higher things we understand with so much
The sublimer virtues are we endowed, and so much greater things do work, and that more easily and efficaciously But our intellect being included in the Corruptible flesh, unless it shall exceed the way of the flesh and obtain a proper Nature, cannot be united to these
Virtues (for like to like) And is in searching into the Rosie Crucian secrets of God and Nature altogether in efficacious; for it is no easy thing for us to ascend to the Heavens, for how shall he that hath lost himself in Morral Dust and ashes, find God. How shall
He apprehend spiritual things that is swallowed up in flesh and blood, can man see God and live, what fruit shall a grain of Corn bear if it be not first dead, for we must dye, I say dye to the world, and to the flesh, and all senses and to the whole man Animal,
Who would enter into these closets of secrets, Not because the body is separated from the soul, but because the soul leaves the body, of which death Saint Paul wrote to the Collossians: ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ: And elsewhere he speaks more clearly of himself,
I know a Man, whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell, God knows, caught up unto the third heaven &c. I say by this death pretious in the sight of God we must dye which happens to few: and not always, for very few whom God loves, and are virtuous
Are made so happy. And first those that are born, not of flesh and blood, but of God? secondly those that are dignified by the blessed assistance of Angels and Genii the Power of Nature Influence of Planets, and the Heavens and virtues of the figures and Ideas at their
Birth, now this I humbly intreat you, that you be not mistaken concerning me as if I at any time having received such divine things should boast of them to you, or should arrogate any such thing to myself, or could hope to have them granted to me, Although I have hitherto
Kept my self-unmarried and free from the company of a woman, yet I have been a soldier following the Armies of the King, and in other Countries consecrated with man’s blood, and exposed to all the blasts of inconstant fortune, & being crossed in my flesh in the world and worldly
Affairs and therefore could not obtain the sublime Gifts of the Immortal God. But I would be accounted a director, who always waiting at the doors shows to others which way they must go, And here I present myself your most humble servant and honourer May the 9th 1664 Luna 5 h o A. M.
John Heydon. An Apologue for an Epilogue. About the year 1648 we Studied Astronancy and Geomancy, and writ the Harmony of the World in two Books, the first Printed for Mr. Brome with the Temple of Wisdom at his house in Ivy-Lane, The Holy Guide, Elhavareuna, being an Introduction to the Rosie Crucian
Philosophy, and diversly Compiled in these Books, in short words, yet sufficient for those who are wise; some of these things are written Methodically, some without order purposely some things are delivered by fragments, some things are even hid and left for the search
Of the wise, who more acutely contemplating these things which are written, and diligently searching (the Harmony of the World, the Temple of Wisdom, and the Holy Guide) may obtain the Complete rudiments of the Rosie Crucian Philosophy and also infallible experiments:
And if you desire to study these Books, keep silence and Constantly conceal within the secret closet of your Religious breast, so holy a determination; for (as Taphthartharath saith) to publish to the knowledge of many an Art wholly filled with so great Majesty
Of the Deity, is a sign of an Irreligious spirit; and Divine Plato Commanded that holy and secret mysteries should not be made public to the people, Pythagoras and Prophiry consecrated their followers to a religious Silence, The Rosie Crucians with a certain terrible authority
Of religion, do exact an oath of silence from those they initiate to the Arts of Astromancy Geomancy & Telesmaticall Images, because by them the dead are raised to life, by them they alter change and amend bodies, cure the diseased prolong Life, preserve Health, renew
Youth in old folk, make dwarfs grow great men, make fools and Madmen wise and virtuous, destroy the power of wretches, by these Arts they make men fortunate in play, law suits love, victory over enemies, in Horse Races in Gaming, in Merchandize and at sea, silencing
The violent waves, by these Arts they know all things and resolve all manner of questions present or to come, as saith Beata. You that admirers are of virtue, stay Consider well what I to you shall say, But you, that sacred laws contemn, prophane Away from hence, return no more again,
But thou O my Eugenius whose mind is high Observe my words & read them with thine eye, And them within thy sacred breast repone And in thy journey think of God alone, The Author of all things that cannot die. Of whom we now shall Treat,
And Ingenious The odidactus Proclaims Beata Pulchra comes, hence, hence, all ye prophane Theodidatus cries, & from her grove refrain. Now in celebrating the holy mysteries of Hester Heaton, and Beata Pulchra they only were admitted to be initiated, Eugenius Theodidactus proclaiming the prophane vulgar to depart, of these goddesses
You may read at Large in our Temple of Wisdom; in Esdras we read this precept concerning the Cabalistical secret of the Hebrews declared in these verses, thou shalt deliver those Books to the wisemen of the people, whose hearts thou knowest can comprehend them and
Keep those secrets, in the Temple of Wisdom you see obscure Figures of Astromancy and Geomancy, whereunto is added the Alphabet of Angels or writing and Language of Haeven, affording compendious words partly by Starrs, Characters set in manner of a wheel thick,
The reading thereby being defended from the Curiosity of the prophane, therefore my worthy Scholler’s in this science be silent, and hide those things which are secret in Religion, for the promise of silence is due to Religion as Tertullian affirms but they which do otherwise
Are in great danger, Now concerning these secrets my Ingenious disciples, I would tell you, if it were lawful to tell you, you should know all, if it were lawful to hear it; but both ears and tongue would contract the same guilt of rash curiosity, the divine Goddess
Hester Heaton sings in those verses the power of God The Heavens Joves Royal Palace, he’s King Fountain virtue and God of everything, He is omnipotent, and in his breast Earth, water, fire, and air do take their rest; Both night and day, true wisdom with sweet
Love Are all contained in this vast bulk of Iove His neck and glorious head if you would see Behold the Heavens high, and Majesty The glorious Raies of Stars do represent His golden lock, and’s head adornment. And again she sings elsewhere to her friend Eugenius Theodidactus,
Bright Phebus and the Moon, are the two eyes Of this great Jove by which all things, he spies His head which predicts all, is placed in thy sky From which no Noise can whisper secretly It pierceth all; his body vast extends Both far and wide, and knows no bounds nor
Ends The spatious Air’s his breath, his wings the wind By which he flies far swifter then the mind His belly is our Mother Earth, who swells Into huge Mountains, whom the Ocean fills And Circles, his feet are the rocks and stones Which of this globe are the foundations
This Jove under the Earth conceals all things And from the depth into the light them brings. This goddess commands secrecy, and Theodorus the Tragic Poet, when he would have reforced something of the mysteries of the Jews Scripture to the abhorred actions and deeds of harlots
And villains upon the stage was deprived of sight, and the Journeymen Traitors or Tailors in their nativities, Almanacks, and monthly Predictions verses and observations against their Sacred Majesties King Charles the first and second and the Duke of Buckinham are now
Deprived of truth, and they cannot write or predict anything against this Divine government; but lies & my disciples concurred the displeasure of Beata Pulchra and Hester Heaton, Because they interpreted the phenomena of Nature, from the Harmony of the World, The Temple
Of Wisdom, and the Holy Guide & published them, they dreamed next that the goddesses Hester Heatan and Beata Pulchra stood in (whores habits before the Brothel house and they wrathfully answered their admiration, that they were by them violently drawn from their modesty
& prostituted everywhere to all common, by which they are admonished that the ceremonies of the Gods ought not to be divulged, Pithagoras Socrates Plato Aristoxenus kept the Mysteries of God and nature inviolable, but Plotinus as Porphyry relates, broke the oath which
He made to his Mastera Ammonius, and published his Mysteries, for the punishment of his transgression he was burnt with lightning, and consumed alive to his bones with Lice, our Saviour Christ also himself while he lived on Earth, spoke after that manner and fashion, that
Only the more intimate Apostles should understand the mystery of the word of God, but the other should perceive the Parables only: Commanding moreover that holy things should not be given to dogs, nor pearly cast to swine, I would also warn you Readers of the Harmony of the
World, The Temple of Wisdom and the Holy Guide, that even as the Divine powers detest public things and profane, and love secrecy: So every Rosie Crucian experiment fleeth the public, seeks to be hid, is strengthened by silence but is destroyed by publication, neither doth
Any complete effect follow after all these things suffer loss, when they are powered into prating, and incredulous minds; therefore it behoveth a Philosopher, if he would get fruit from this Art, to be secret, and to manifest to none, neither his work nor place,
Nor time, neither his desire nor will unless either to a Master or partner or Companion, who ought also to be faithful believing silent, and Dignified by nature and education: Seeing that even the prating of a companion, his incredulity and unworthiness hindreth and
Disturbeth the effect of every operation, we have now delivered this Harmony of the world, The Temple of Wisdom and the Holy Guide, in such a manner, that it may not be hid from the prudent and intelligent, and yet may not admit wicked and incredulous men to the Mysteries
Of the Rosie Crucian Philosophy but leave them destitute and astonished, in the shade of ignorance and desperation, you therefore sons of wisdom and Learning search diligently in the Harmony of the world, The Temple of Wisdom and the Holy Guid, gathering together
Our dispersed intentions, which in divers places we have propounded and what is hid in one place, we make manifest in another, that it may appear to you wise men; For, for you only have we written, whose mind is not corrupted but regulated according to the right
Order of living, unmarried, who in Chastity and honesty, and in sound faith fear and reverence of God: whose hands are free from sin and wickedness, whose manners are gentle, sober, and Modest, you only shall find out this knowledge contained in the Harmony of the World, The
Temple of Wisdom and the Holy Guide, which is preserved for you, and the secrets which are hid by many enigmas cannot be perceived but by wise men, which when you shall obtain the whole science of the invincible Rosie Crucian discipline will insinuate itself unto
You and these virtues will appear to you, which the Rosie Crucians, who wrought miracles, obtained, but yee envious Tailors or unworthy Scorpionists, Calumniators, sons of base Ignorance, Journeymen Traitors, foolish writers of Almanacks and other leudness, that deceives them that
Trust him, railing down right and with studied lyes disparages our person, that was so kind to them as to lend them ten pound in Gold and bad lent them 100 l. if we had not found Them of an ungrateful ill Nature, we scorn to speak how much our love was to the sending
And giving great gifts, These in requital Provoke men to anger, and quarrel, and pick words to advantage, and if any man invite them to fight, then beggarly coward like run to Law, and bring false witnesses to justify their deceitful devices, to get money And
So some of these Astrologicals live, at this Leud rate being not worthy of any regard, But saith a poet. Since by thy late lost love. I have found out, Thy friendships famed like the Common rout; Who prise men’s worths at an unconstant rate Just as they see them raised or pressed by fate,
When we look upon his natural parents, Kindred, and relations, and consider his education, we indeed must give him his due title i. e. a man that by his own industry and a little instruction (of an Astrologer and our self) hath obtained knowledge in Astrology and Geomancy
And can make an Almanack &c. but he is so envious scandalous and malicious against others, that it clouds his better parts, The late years of tyranny admitted stocking weavers Shoemakers, Millers Masons, Carpenters, Bricklayers Gunsmiths Porters, Butlers &c. To write and
Teach Astrology and Physic, and what a noisome spawn of brates, (as Mr. Talbot calls them) are generated of the Frothy brains of these illegitimate scribblers, that went a whoring after the press, and railed against Monarchy and all men, & cannot yet love one another,
We forbid these to come nigh our writings for they are your enemies and stand out a precipice, that ye may ere and fall head long into misery; if any therefore through his incredulity or dullness of intellect, doth not obtain his desire let him not impute the
Fault of his Ignorance to us, or say that we have erred, or written falsely and lied, but let him accuse himself, who understandeth not our writings for they are obscure, and covered with divers mysteries, by the which it will easily happen, that many may ere and
Lose their sense, therefore let no man be angry with us, for we are envious against no man, but have folded up the truth of this science with many Enigmas, and dispersed it in divers places, for we have not hidden it from the wise but from the wicked and ungodly
And have delivered it in such words which necessarily blind the foolish, and easily may admit the wise to the understanding of them thus being willing to teach any ingenuous man form our Vergin palace in. Hermeupolis May. 3 1664. JOHN HEYDON.
To the most accomplish Philosopher and learned Secretary of Nature, Mr. John Heydon on his Elhavareuna or Hamaguleh Hampaaneah. The Harmony of the World, The Temple of Wisdom, The Holy Guide, Gcia Imperialia, The Idea of the Law, and his other Admirable works written about 17 years since, that are now Published.
Now the wits do sally, and attempt your guard; O’ how your busie brain doth beat & ward; Rally and reinforce! rout! and relieve; Double reserves, and then an onset give Like marshalled Thunder backed with flames of fire Storms mixt with storms! passion with globes of Ire
Yet so well disciplined that Judgment still Swami’d, and not rashed Commissionated will No, words in you know order, time, and place, The instant of a Charge, or when to face When to pursue advantage and where to halt When to draw of, and where to re-assault
Such sure Commands streams from you that ’tis one with you to vanquish as to look upon So that your ruined Foes groveling confess Your conquests were their fate and happiness Nor was it here your business to war With foreign Artists: But thy Active star Doth course a home bred mist, Astrology
And show its guilts degrees, wherein a lie How Simple men abuse it and Geomancy I challenge all against ‘them can say Sentence expel them, And let your sun An everlasting stage in honor run By that its motion to thee ye of man Wave still in a Complete a Meridian. March 25th 1664.
At 10 ♄ A.M Sir. Kepple Drue Baronet. To the Admirable Philosopher and Lawyer Mr. JOHN HEYDON This is no Wanton Gallant that lies Angling for babies in his Mistress’s eyes, And think there’s no heaven like a bale of dice
Six horses and a Coach with a device A cast of Lacquers, and a Lady-Bird, An Oath in fashion and a gilded sword. That smoak Tobacco with a face in frame And speak perhaps a line of sense to thy same, That sleeps a sabbath over in his bed
And if his Play-books there will stoop to read, Doth kiss its hand, and Congey a-la-mode, And when the nights approaching bolt abroad; Unless his honour’s worships rents not come, So he falls sick, and swears the Carrier home: Else if his rare devotion swell so high To wast an hour-Glass on Divinity,
Tis but to make the Church his Stage, thereby To blaze the Taylor in his Ribaldry Ask but the Parrot when his distress shall fall, Like an Armed man upon him, where are all, Those rose buds of his Youth, those antique toys, Wherein he sported out his pretious days;
What comfort he Collects from Hawk or Hound, Or if amongst his looser hours he found, One of a thousand to redeem that time Perished, and lost for ever in his prime. Or if he dreamed of an eternal bliss, And swears God damn him he near thought of
This, But like the Epicure adored the day That shined rose up to eat and drink and Play; The more sprightly Element of pure fire Above that Gallant doth advance this higher. This Author’s Noble great and wise His Soul aloft doth soar above the skies. To God himself, And what’s to come he knows,
So to prevent impendent dangers shows; Sure Jove descended in a Leaden shower To get his Perseus; hence the fatal power, Of Taylors Almanacks; Planets thus Allied Fear to commit an Art of Parricide. Go on brave Sir, and let the world Confess, You are the greater world, and that the Less. Thomas Revell Esq;
To his most honoured friend Mr. John Heydon upon his most Excellent Philosophy. Here, here is philosophy; here you may read How long the world shall live, and when it shall bleed Oh’ how I am rapt when I contemplate thee
And wind myself above all that I see Pardon great sir for the Astrological Crew, Gain, when made Bankrupt in the scales with you, The spirit of your lines, infuse a fire; Like the worlds soul, which makes me thus aspire, As he who in his Character of light
Stilled Gods shadow, made it fare more bright By an Eclipse so glorious: light is dim And a black nothing when Compared to him, So tis illustrious to be Heydon’s Fool And a Just trophy to be made his spoil He span’s the Heaven and Earth, and things
Above And which is more join Natures with their Jove, He’s proof against thy artillery of verses Whom neither Bilbo, nor invention pierces You’re sure enchanted Sir, your double free From Astrologers and there squibbed Poetry, For a new East beyond the Stars I see.
Where Breaks the day of thy Divinity, He makes me Earth, Now a star and then, A Spirit: Now a star and Earth Again; He Crowns my soul with fire and their doth shine, But like the Rainbow in a cloud of mine,
Who sees this fire without his Mask, his eye Must need be swallowed by the Light and dye; August 4th at sun set 1663. Charles Potter Esq; To the most accomplisht Philosopher and learned Secretary of Nature, Mr. John Heydon on his
Elhavareuna or Hamaguleh Hampaaneah. The Harmony of the World, The Temple of Wisdom, The Holy Guide. The Idea of the Law, Most Learned Sir, it rather were my part, At distance to admire not here insert These rustic lines, which merit cannot raise, What Mortal’s able to set out thy praise?
The Deity’s in explicable, so are you All that you write we must confess is true, Unless we have Chimaera’s in our brain And what we do not know is false maintain, We may deny Rome is, Persia doth stand Say Euphrates no River, Affrica no Land, Though curious you, have from those places come
Whilst we our Ignorance do hug at home The world and all therein you know so well The great Cabals of Heaven and knacks of Hell That we may safely affirm if that you please You can another world make with much ease, All that Dame Nature has, you know and more,
For she to make you rich is now grown poor All that I fear; the fates will call you hence Nature depose, and place you on her bench Your knowledge is so great it may control, More worlds then one, And all your wit can rule.
March 26 die ♄ h O h 40 P. M 1664. Thomas Tillion a Philosopher by fire to the Duke of Buckingham. To his Loving Ingenious friend Mr. John Heydon upon his Harmony of the World, Temple of Wisdom, and Holy Guide &c. Mr Careless Phrase and words that lye Neglected
This virtue have, that they’ll not be suspected Others may over praise your Book (for we The best things often over-rated see) So what I write will equidistant lye, From polished wit, and servile Flattery, Bees from a bruised Ox, says Maro, breed, But you draw honey from a Tattered weed
Note: [An envious Almanack Makers his deceitful enemy [Mars] in [Mercury]. Who borrowed of you Gold, yet doth complain Much of poverty, whose empty Brain, Measures the slow-part Planets by the glass And when thy Nativity’s done its poor alas
But now the ventricles of your pregnant brain Give birth to a brave man issues without pain Seeing your wit’s so pure, your phrase so clean Your sense so weighty that each lines a chain Of Gold ‘twixt Jupiter Hismael and the Gods,
Mercury and Mars that are now at odds Your Book (like a young true born Eagle may Behold the sun in public at noon day. Colton May 13 8 h. 30. A. M. Die ♀ Frederick Talbot Esq; To his honoured Friend Mr. John Heydon on his most excellent principles of Philosophy,
In The Harmony of the World, The Temple of Wisdom, The Holy Guid, Hameguleh Hampaaneah, Elhavareuna, Ocia Imperialia and the Idea of the Lavv; all written near 17 years since, and by Gods Providence now printed. Would you those Pillars see (those Reliques) have
[Ruins of time and knowledge] Seth did save, From the impetuous Sea, when waves were all, And all were waves within these Pages small, You’ll find them in their antient Lustre shine, Not counterfeit, but rich and masculine. Or what Egyptian Sages sometime set,
In their Papyrus books (Rowls vastly great) Whilst Arts and Letters were no common things But Priests and Poets Princes were and Kings, Ere Learning a Ludibrium became To the audacious Rout [oh hopeless shame!] Ere Sacred Page vulgar Thumbs could soil
Thence feeding black Seditions lamp with oil. Books (Monuments of banished winds) do live, And (if from pure Minerva’s born) survive When titles, triumphs, Arches Name, become Silent with ruins of a ruined tomb. When Scipio’s, Pompey’s, Caesar’s Laurels may By long success of wasting years decay,
Good Books (eternal products of the brain Not only live but may grow fresh again March 26 1664. 8 h 30 A. M. W. Smith Master of Arts of Clare Hall in Cambridge A Catalogue of those things contained in these Books First Book. 1 The white Elixir of Quicksilver 2 The white Ferment
3 The red Elixir of Mercury alone 4 The red Ferment 5 The Accurtation of the red Elixir 6 The Physical and Alchemical Tincture of the red Lion and the glue of the Eagle. Second Book. 1 The Elixir of Copper 2 Of Augmentation and projection
3 Of the Blessed stone or Elixir of Life and of its virtues and also of Malleable glass Third Book. 1 The Elixir of Saturn white and red and also of Jupiter 2 The Abbreviation of the work of Saturn 3 The Elixir of Mars 4 A short work of the Physical and Alchemical Tincture
5 The Ministry of Pearls 6 The Composition of Carbuncles 7 Of Mineral Electrum 8 The Explanation of the Philosophers words when they speak of the tenth number wherein the stone is perfected and also the wonderful Secrets of the animal stone with two other of his works.
The Rosie Crucian CROWN Set with Angels, Planets and Metals &c. The First Book. CHAP. 1. 1. Of the Gold Mercury or Argent vive. 2. Purification. 3. Sublimation. 4. Calcination. 5. Exuberation. 6. Solution. 7. Separation. 8. Conjunction. 9. Putrefaction into Sulphur. 10. Fermentation. 11. Multiplication in vertue. 12. Multiplication in quantity.
He that can make the Stone of Argent vive or [Mercury] alone, is the greatest searcher out of Art and Nature: because there is all that in [Mercury] which wise men do seek, for, Quick-silver is the mother and sperm of all Metals and their nearest matter: and
It is not only a spirit but a body, it is also a middle Nature and also a sulphur, it is a lingering [Mercury], it dieth and riseth again and is fixed with its own proper Elements: wherefore it is first necessary that it be purged from its impurities.
The purgation or purification is on this wise; grind it upon a Marble with a muller or a wooden Pestel in a wooden Morter with common salt and a little vinegar springled thereupon till the salt be black, then wash it well with vinegar and dry it easily at the fire,
Or at the Sun, then strain it through a double cloth or a new skin of a sheep till it be dry and the vinegar clear taken away and be of a white colour and clear. Grind it upon a Marble with a little [Mercury] sublimate and let it mortify and in corporate
With it: then grind it with its equal weight of salt-Peter and green Coperas till it be like a paste; Then put all into a subliming glass and in Ashes sublime all the [Mercury] that it be white and clear as snow in the head of the Limbeck sublime it again three
Times or oftener and ii will be pure [Mercury] and sublimate. Put one pound of this [Mercury] sublimate into two pound of common Aqua fortis by little and little at once as by two at a time till all be dissolved like sugar in wine then shut
The glass and set it in Balneo to dissolve the space of 10 days then distil away the Aqua fortis in a lentheat in Balneo and the [Mercury] will remain in the bottom like butter of a white colour. And calcined by corrosive water.
Put this calcined [Mercury] into an Earthen body with a Limbeck and in ashes sublime the whole dissolved substance three times which will then be very white and then it is called Mercury Exuberate. When you have three or four pound of this, receive the third part and fix it by often
Sublimation till it remain in a hard mass and ascend no more but remain fixed. Which is called the Glue of the Eagle or the prepared body permanent and the volatile made fixed which is to be reserved for the earth of the stone.
Dissolve the other two parts in Balneo or in a cold Cellar or put it in a blader and hang it over fuming hot water till it be all come to water. Take this water thus made, and digest it in a Circulatory well closed the space of nine
Days then put it in a body with a head and receiver well luted and in ashes or Balneo distil the water of a white colour or milkie and is called Lac Virginis, dissolving all metals and so you have separated the spirit of the stone which is also called the lingering
Spirit and the white Tincture of the white stone of Mercury. Take the third part which before you reserved and fixed called the glue of the Eagle, as much of it as you please and add thereto equal weight of its spirit or Lac Virginis and close
Up the glass and so you have joined the Man and the woman, [Mercury] with his own Earth; the spirit with the body. See the Holy Guide. Set your Lac Virginis thus joined with his own, Each in Balneo to putrine 150 days and
There let it stand unmoved; after forty days it will be black, and it is then called the head of the Crow: then it will be of a green colour after that the Peacocks tail, and many false colours for between this and white it will appear red but at last you shall see
It white and then encrease your fire and it will stick to the sides of the glass like fishes eyes Then have you each in the nature of Sulphur, Read the Holy Guide. Take of this Sulphur as much as you please and weigh it and add thereto two parts of
The white Tincture or Lac Virginis and set it in Balneo to dissolve the space of six days then distil away the Lac Virginis or Tincture and the Sulphur will remain in the form of Liquor for it is the Liquor of the white sulphur of [Mercury] which is to be
Joined with the Liquor of the sulphur of Luna or silver. The Sulphur of the white Luminary or silver or Luna is made as the other whereof we shall speak more in the next Branch. This Liquor of the sulphur is the soul which is joined
With the spirit and body which quickeneth the whole stone. The other conjunction before was only the union of the spirit and the body: but this is a threefold copulation viz. The uniting of the soul, spirit, and body.
Adde equal weight of these two Liquors of sulphur that is to say the liquor of the sulphur of Mercury and of silver and Luna, and close well the glass and set it in Ashes till it
Be white, for it will be of all couleurs again and at last white; And then is it the perfect stone converting all Metals into silver. This stone or Elixir is thus multiplied in virtue dissolve it in your Lac Virginis and
Distil it away and dry it and dissolve it again &c. And let it be so often dissolved and dryed till it will dry no more but remain in an incombustible oil. And is then Elixir of the third Order.
Take one part of this Elixir and project it upon 100 or 1000 parts of melted silver (according to the goodness and virtue thereof) and it will turn the silver into a brittle Mass or substance, which beat to powder in an Iron or brass Morter or upon a Marble, and project
One part of this powder upon 100 parts of [Mercury] purged made hot, and it will be perfect medicine whereof one part turneth 100 or 1000 parts of other bodies into good silver. And this way is your Medicine multiplied in quantity. A Corollary.
It remaineth now that we speak of the Medicine or the Elixir of Life, which is called potable silver. But although the Liquor of silver may be made potable silver if it be corroborated before by digestion in Balneo 7 days with the spirit of wine and then distil away the
Said spirit of wine that the oil of the silver may remain in the bottom which may easily be given for medicine, Yet the Philosophers would have us do otherwise for they teach us to bring the metals first into their quintessence before they be taken inwardly, and that there
Is no other quintessence’s but those that are of a second nature according to the old saying, Elixir de te est res secunda De quo sunt facta corpora munda. [Elixir about you is the second thing From which the bodies were made clean.]
That is to say the 4 Elements are destroyed and by putrefaction a new body created and made into a stone, which is the quintessence as Ripley would have it; But I do boldly and constantly affirm that there is no true silver or potable silver nor Quintessence unless
It be first Elixir and that is done in a quarter of an hour by projection of the Elixir upon silver or pure gold molten according as the Elixir was red or white. If therefore you desire after the first composition of the Elixir to make the Arcanum of Argentum or
Aurum potabile project the Elixir or Medicine according to his quality or property upon pure silver or gold molten, and then it is made brittle and frangible and grind it to powder and take thereof so much as you please and dissolve it in distilled vinegar (or rather
In spirit of wine) the space of nine days, then distil away the vinegar or spirit of wine, that which remaineth in the bottom is the true Medicine, Quintessence, Elixir of life, Ferment of ferments and incombustible oil converting metals and Mans body into perfect
Health from all diseases of man’s body which proceed from Mercury and Luna. And thus is the true potable silver made curing the Vertigo, Syncope, Epilepsy, Madness, Phrency Leprosy. &c. And this is the right way of making the stone of Mercury alone; but the Elixir cannot
Be made without the Addition of silver to the white, and of gold to the red. CHAP. 2. 1. Luna. 2. pure Silver. 3. Calcination. 4. Solution. 5. Putrefaction. 6. The Sulphur. 7. The Liquor of the Sulphur. 8. White Ferment.
HERMES saith, The Elixir is nothing else but Mercury Sol and Luna, by Mercury nothing is understood but the sulphur of nature which is called the true [Mercury] of the Philosophers, and that sulphur gotten by putrefaction by the conjunction of the spirit and of the body of imperfect bodies or metals.
By Sol is meant gold, by Luna silver, both of them are to be joined to imperfect bodies, that is to say, white sulphurs and red, whence the same Hermes in his treatise of Sol saith there happeneth a conjunction of two bodies and it is necessary in our Mistry; And if
One of these bodies only were not in our stone it would never by any means give any Tincture, Upon which Morienus saith. For the Ferment prepareth the imperfect body and converteth it to its own nature and there is no Ferment but Sol and Luna, that is, gold and silver.
Of which Rosinus Sol and Luna prepared (that is to say their sulphurs) are the ferments of mettles in colour, See the Holy Guide. But this is made more evident by Raymund in his Apertory where he saith there is no ferment
Except Sol and Luna, for the Ferment of the stone to white is silver and to the red gold, as the Philosophers do demonstrate because without ferment there doth proceed neither gold nor silver nor anything else that is of its kind or nature, therefore join the
Ferment with its sulphur that it may beget it’s like, because the Ferment draweth the sulphur to its own colour and nature also, and weight and sound because every like begetteth it’s like. Because the Ferment even as Sol tingeth and changeth his sulphur into a permanent
And piercing Medicine. Therefore the Philosopher saith he that knoweth how to tinge sulphur and Mercury with Sol and Luna, shall attain to the greatest secret. And for this reason it is necessary that Sol and Luna be the Tincture and Ferment thereof. You may read in the Holy Guide.
And so also Arnoldus in his Rosary, There is no body more noble or pure then Sol, or his shadow that is to say silver without which no tingeing Mercury is generated. He that endeavoureth to give colour without this gold or silver goeth blindly to work like an Asse
To a Harp, for gold giveth a golden and silver an argentive colour therefore he that knoweth how to tinge [Mercury] with Sol and Luna cometh or reacheh to the secret which is called white sulphur, the best to silver which when it is made red, will be red sulphur to gold the best.
Take pure Luna, that is to say silver that is best which is beaten into leaves and bring it into calx with [Mercury]. And it is then called water silver then is the Luna well prepared for Calcination. See the Holy Guide.
When you have your silver thus prepared, take 4 or 6 ounces thereof, and put it in double proportions of Lac Virginis mixed with equal quantity of corrosive water to dissolve in an egg glass. After it hath dissolved so much as it can in the cold, set in Balneo and there
Let it stand 9 days till the whole substance of the silver be dissolved into a green water, then let the Balneo cool and take it out, and put the dissolution into the body and set thereon a head and distil of the water from the matter remaining which is the oil
Of the silver Calcined not into a calx but a Liquor, because this Lac Virginis if it be mixed or joined with common Aqua fortis or alone without it (as it pleaseth the Operator) is so strong that the very Diamond cannot resist it but is dissolved: Therefore this
Water is called the water of Hell and is the only miracle of miracles of the World, because it containeth such a fiery nature in itself and propriety of burning of all bodies into Liquor whereas the Elemental fire prevaileth no further then to reduce metals into calx
Or ashes. But to return from whence we digressed I now come to the third operation. To the end therefore that this liquor or oil of silver may be more perfectly dissolved and that all the imperfection of adustion may be taken away, which by the Ancient’s
Is called the corroborating of the lest humidity. Put this Oil or liquor into another egg glass like the former power thereupon so much spirit of wine above it 4 fingers then close well the glass and set it in balneo to digest 7 or 10 days and you shall find the oil or liquor
Turned into a thin or rare water oil: put this water into a still and in balneo draw away the spirit of wine till none of the spirit of wine remain with the silver dissolved. And thus have you your silver prepared for putrefaction.
This Liquor of silver is potable but not the Quintessence put this water into a fit putrefying glass and seal it up and set it to putrefy in balneo till the time of putrefaction be past which is about 150 days, and when you see the first sign of putrefaction which is
Called the head of the Crow encrease your fire a little till all colours begin to appear and you see it begin to be white, When you see it white encrease your fire yet more and it will rise up and stick to the
Sides of the glass most transparent like the eyes of fishes which is Sulphur of Nature or salt, or the putrefied body of the white Luminary, viz. Luna, which yet is not so hard as a body nor so soft as a spirit but of a mean hardness between a spirit, and a body,
And is called the Philosophers Mercury and the Kay and mean of joining Tinctures. But to come to the liquor of the white Luminary, this body being brought into Quintessence is prepared for dissolution like the sulphur of the imperfect body, but whereas that is
Done by the virtue of the white tincture or Lac Virginis I rather do it by virtue of the fire natural which is the spirit of wine and after the drawing away thereof it remaineth in a Liquor.
Now this liquor of Luna dissolved is the Quintessence which then is the liquor of the white Luminary and the sole as Exinadius saith quickening the whole stone without which it is dead and will neither give form nor colour.
Therefore the fourth part of this liquor of the white Luminary is to be joined to three parts of the former liquor of the sulphur of [Mercury], and after to be kept in a lent fire of Ashes Well closed till it passe through all colours and at last come to its former
Colour of whiteness and so the stone is fermented and turned into the white Elixir. The Residue of the foresaid dissolved sulphur keep diligently and therewith ferment the white sulphur of other imperfect bodies or stones into Elixirs, which when they are thrice
Dissolved and again congealed and remain in a liquid substance then they are called incombustible oils and Elixirs of the third order. And thus the stone is made of [Mercury] alone. A Corollary. Having spoken of the white stone it now resteth that we speak of the making of the red Elixir,
Whereof there is two processes the first whereof is from the Radix i.e. the long way: the other an accurtation that is much shorter and more excellent, And this way the Elixir may be made in 80 days and excels all other accurtations neither is there found therein any diminution
Of the virtue but is a plentiful and perfect fulness of power and virtue having all the properties which the Elixir ought to have. The process whereof these three following Chapters will plainly show. CHAP. 3. 1. Vivum. 2. Sublimation. 3. Calcination. 4. Precipitation. 5. Solution. 6. Fixed oil. 7. Inceration. 8. Desiccation.
9. Contrition. 10. Fermentation. 11. The Red Elixir. 12. The third Table It is not necessary to speak in this place of the urgation of [Mercury], because we spoke thereof before. The sublimation is to be done otherwise then in the former work for that which is called
Sublimation here is not done with vitriol and salt peter but is only the distillation of the [Mercury] in an earthen body with a limbeck and that by itself without any addilament. When the [Mercury] is once sublimed in ashes wholly into the head of the limbeck having
A retainer joined thereto take off the head and with a feather gather the sublimed matter and you shall find your [Mercury] of a black colour having lost his fairness and like a dust or powder sticking to his body.
Put it again into the body and sublime it as before and reiterate this work 7 or 9 times until you have a sufficient quantity of this powder that is to say a pound or more. And this is the Calcination.
When you see your [Mercury] will ascend no more but remain in the bottom of a black colour and that is dead and brought perfectly into calx let it cool and remove your body into sand till it be turned into a red colour; And this is the perfect precipitation prose
Without the help of any corrosive water, take a little of this powder upon a hot iron plate if it fume, dry it longer, if not it is well. Take of this red powder as much as you will dissolve and put thereupon at least his double
Weight of Lac Virginis and set in Balneo till you see your Lac Virginis stained a yellow or red colour then filter it from its feces and keep it by itself in a glass well stopped and dry the matter that remaineth in Ashes and pour thereon new Lac Virginis and do as
Before till you have drawn out all the tincture. And so your [Mercury] is dissolved. Put these solutions into a body luting to a head and in balneo distil away the Lac Virginis and the red oil precipitate will remain which is fixed and needeth no distillation but is
The tinging oil of red Mercury and the red tincture of the red stone of [Mercury] and the soul and spirit of the same stone joined, Therefore take part of the white Sulphur reserved in the first Table and rubify it in ashes
Till it be red then imbile it with equal weight of the oil of the tincture of this red [Mercury] and set it to dissolve in Balneo, and when you see it is dissolved into a liquid substance take it out.
Then set it in ashes or under the fire to fix till the matter being dried remain fixed and fusible standing in a mean heat not over hot which try upon a hot Iron plate and if
It fume not it is well, if it do, encrease your fire till it be totally fixed and dry. If this matter be imbibed again with its oil till it drink up as much as it will and again dissolved in Balneo and then dried in Ashes, it will show many colours and lastly appeared.
And then it is the stone penetrating and fusible, apt for form. Join this imbiled matter (or stone) with the 4th part of the liquor or oil of the red sulphur of Gold or the red Ferment, and dissolve it in Balneo, and dry it again, and again dissolve
It in a glass hanged in the fume of hot water or Balneum and congeal it again till it stand like honey; Then it is the perfect red Elixir of Mercury. The Multiplication or Augmentation of the virtue and quantity is showed in the former Chapter. CHAP. 4. 1. Gold Sol. 2. Purged Gold.
3. Calcination. 4. Solution. 5. Putrefaction. 6. Filius, solis Coelestis. 7. Filia Lunae Coelestis. The putrefaction or purgation of gold is done as the Goldsmiths use to do by melting it with Antimony that the gold may remain in the bottom pure and clear from other metals which they call Regulus.
Take 4 or 5 ounces of this refined gold, leaf or filings and dissolve it in Lac Virginis, mixed with equal weight of Aqua fortis wherein salt Armoniack sublimed is dissolved, and when it is dissolved into a red Liquor or deep yellow then it is well calcined.
The solution and putrefaction is done as before you did with silver in the preparation of the white Ferment. When you have your white sulphur of nature (after putrefaction) sticking to the sides of the glass, let it cool, and take out your glass and set it in Ashes, and encrease your
Fire but not too much lest your matter vitrify, and let your ashes be no hotter then you can hold your hand therein, and so let it stand till the sulphur be of a perfect deep red colour, Then have you the red sulphur of the red Luminary.
If you resolve this red sulphur in spirit of wine or distilled Vinegar into an oil it is then the Liquor of the, red Luminary, And Auram potabile curing all infirmities if the spirit of wine or vinegar be distilled from it; But for this work it were better to dissolve
It in our red Lac Uirginis spoken of in the second Chapter of the second Book; distil away the Lac from the sulphur in Ashes, and the sulphur remaining in an oil is the Ferment of all stones to the red. The augmentation of this red Elixir in virtue is with his red
Tincture as before in the white Elixir with his white Tincture. The augmentation in quantity is by projection upon the body of gold molten: And that brittle matter of gold upon [Mercury] and if it be powdered and resolved with spirit of wine in an oil as was said before of silver
Then it is the Quintessence of gold, and the great Elixir of life and the spiritual ferment for the transmutation of metals and for the health of man’s body. The 5 Chapter showeth the abbreviation of the Red Elixir. CHAP. 5. 1. The Liquor of the red sulphur. 2. Fermentation.
Although Raymund writing to King Robert was pleased to say, That every Accurtation diminisheth the perfection: because Medicines which are made by accurtation have less effect of transmutation, which I also ascent to with him for a truth, if the work be begun from the first fountain:
Yet because this work hath its beginning from those things which before were brought to a perfect degree of perfection, therefore in this there is no diminution of the perfection as the same Raymund witnesseth lib. Mecur. pag. 103. saying thus.
Therefore it ought to be declared unto thee, that if they be both well prepared (and that thou begin with them) thou wilt do a wonderful work without any great labour sooner then if thou should begin with one thing alone; Therefore my son begin thy work of two things
Together as I showed to thee in the greater stone, when we spoke of the twofold custody of the actions which are caused by the bodies and spirits. By that which is caused by the bodies and spirits he means nothing else but sulphur,
Willing that we should begin with sulphur, to which I do so well agree that I begin this my accurtation with sulphur alone and I add no other body to this Elixir but only the sulphur of [Mercury] alone created of his own body and spirit.
Take therefore 2 ounces of the white sulphur that was described in the first Chapter and set it in ashes to rubify, in 30 days it will be turned into red sulphur. Which when you have done dissolve that sulphur in the red Tincture of Mercury when it is
Dissolved draw away the Tincture, in the bottom remaineth the Liquor of the sulphur. To which if you add a due proportion of the liquor of the red Luminary it will be perfect Ferment, which if you dissolve and congeal as before is showed, it is then Elixir of
Very great virtue to the red work and no man can make a shorter abbreviation in the world; And when the sulphur of anybody is prepared it may this way very speedily be converted into Elixir by adding the liquor of the ferment. CHAP 6. 1. The Body. 2. The Spirit.
3. The Lion. 4. The Eagle. 5. The Philosophers Lead. 6. Antimony. 7. Antimony Mercury. 8. The Glue of the Eagle. 9. Solution of the red Lion into Blood. 10. Solution of the Glue of the Eagle. 11. Solution of the Blood of the red Lion. 12. Conjunction. 13. Putrefaction. 14. The Stone.
15. Fermentation. 16. In the Trinity of The Physical and Alchemical Tincture The Soul. 17. Is the Unity of the Medicine. Take Antimony calcined so much as you please, and grind it to a subtile powder, then take
Twice so much Lac Virginis and put your powder of Antimony therein and set it in balneo 7 days, then put it into a body, and set it in sand or ashes till the Lac be turned red,
Which draw of and pour on more and so let it stand, when that is coloured red, pour it to the other and thus do till you have drawn out all the tincture set all this water
In balneo or lent ashes to distil with a Limbeck, and distil it with a lent fire and first of all the Lac will ascend, then you shall see a stupendous Miracle because you shall see through the nose of the Alimbeck is it were a thousand veins of the liquor of this blessed
Minere to descend in red drops just like blood, which when you have got thou hast a thing where to all the treasure in the world is not equal; Now you have the blood of the Lion according to Rupesissa, let us here rest a little and speak of the Glew of the Eagle,
Of which Paracelsus thus saith. Reduce Mercury so far by sublimation till it be a fixed Chrystal; this is his preparation of Mercury and his way of reducing it into the Glew of the Eagle, but above all I require
That that way be used which is described by me before in the first Chapter, or that hereafter set down after this. Then saith the foresaid Author, go on to resolution and coagulation, and I again will you to observe the same manner of solution showed in the first Chapter before.
Now let us come to conjunction after the solution of these two, take equal weight of them and put them in a vessel well shut. After you have thus joined them together set your glass in your furnace to putrefy and alter the space of certain days. Therefore Paracelsus saith, then at length and presently
After your Lili is made hot in your glass it appeareth in wonderful manners (or demonstrations) blacker then the Crow: after that in process of time whiter then the Swan and then passing by yellow to be more red then blood.
This being purified and turned into red is to be taken for the stone, and then it is time it be fermented. Of which Fermentation Paracelsus thus speaketh, one part thereof is to be projected upon 1000 parts of molten gold, and then the medicine is prepared and this is the Fermentation of
It. But if the half or one part of the liquor of the sulphur of gold before described be added to it then it would be spiritual ferment, and would be much more penetrating in fortitude and fusible as Paracelsus doth testify in his Aurora where he would have us to join
The star of the sun or the oil of sol to this stone. And thus the physical Alchemical tincture is performed in a short time for curing all manner of Infirmities and humane diseases (which is also the great Elixir for metals) so courtly concealed by the Ancient’s. Which
Hermes Trismagistus the Egyptian, Osus the Gretian, Haly an Arabian, and Albertus Magnus a German, with many others, have sought and prosecuted everyone after their own method, and one in one subject another in another, so much desired by the Philosophers only for prolongation of life.
In this composition Mercury is made a fixed and dissolved body, the blood or spirit of the red Lion is the ferment or soul, and so of trinity is made unity, which is called the Physical and Alchemical tincture, never before that I knew of collected or writ in
One work And I swear: I had not done this except that otherwise the composition of this blessed medicine had for ever been forgot. A shorter way to make the glue of the Eagle. If you desire to make the glue of the Eagle in a breifer way. Take part of the red precipitate
Prose as is taught before in the table of Mercury and dissolve it in distilled vinegar and the vinegar will be coloured into a yellow or delightful golden colour and after you have distilled away the vinegar there will remain in the bottom a white substance of
The Mercury fixed and fair, which is to be joined to the oil of the Lion; And this work is much shorter and less laborious, look more hereof in the third Book. The Calcination of Antimony into the red Lion.
Take Antimony well ground so much as you please and melt it in naked fire with salt Armoniack, and when it is melted cast it suddenly into a vessel almost full of distilled vinegar wherein salt Armoniack hath been dissolved and thus melt it and cast it in three times,
Then pour off the vinegar from the Calx of the Antimony and dry it well and grind it small and dissolve it as before is taught, and so have you the Red Lion of the Philosophers Lead or Antimony. CHAP. 7. 1. Elixir. 2. Conjunction. 3. Separation. 4. the Stone. 5. Fermentation. 6. The Earth.
7. Spirit oil, Blood of the Lambe. 8. Distillation. 9. Resolution. 10. Putrefaction. 11. Solution. 12. Vitriol. 13. Calcination 14. Copper. The first Chapter of the Elixir of Copper. Many have sought out the way of the Mineral stone in vitriol or green Copperas, but they
Were altogether received which common vitriol by the Philosophers is called the green Lion of fools. But this our noble red Lion taketh its original from the Metallic body of Copper. Although I am not ignorant how to draw an oil out of Romain vitriol of a more sweet
Smell and delightful taste then any balsome if the Tincture be taken out of the calcined vitriol in spirit of wine, yet the Philosophers will is, and command that it do consist of a Metallic virtue wherewith the transmutation of metals is to be effected. Therefore they
Say it is to be made of bodies and not of spirits as of vitriol sulphur as well and the like. Whence I find it written in the Philosophers Turba and in the first Exercitation: But the Philosophers stone is a metallic matter converting the substances and forms of imperfect
Metals, and it is concluded by all the Philosophers that the conversion is not made except by its like, therefore it is necessary that the Philosophers stone be made of a metallic matter, yet if any be made of spirits yet it would be better and much more Philosophical and
More near to a metallic nature to be made of bodies then of spirits: but if by Art the body should be turned into a spirit then the same body would be both body and spirit, and
Not to be doubled but the stone might be made of such a body or spirit. but let us return to our purpose; It being granted that this our vitriol is such a body according to which Paracelsus testifyeth in his Aurora Philosophorum under this Aenigura or secret of the Antient Philosophers.
Visicabis Interiora Terrae Reclificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem Veram Medicinam. [You will discover the interior of the Earth by reclining The Hidden Stone of True Medicine.] Out of the first letter of every word of this Aenigura is gathered this word VITRIOLUM by which is meant that thereof the stone or medicine may be made.
Therefore Paracelsus saith, the inward parts of the Earth are to be visited; not only the Earth which is vitriol, but the Inward parts of the Earth, he meaneth the sweetness and redness, because there lieth hid in the inward parts of vitriol a subtill noble and fragrant juice and pure oil.
And this is especially to be noted the production of this Copper into vitriol is not to be done neither by calcination of the fire nor distillation of the matter, lest it be deprived of its greenness which being lost it wants both power and strength.
Paracelsus speaks not one word of the preparation of this vitriol by whose silence many have erred, therefore I determined to leave him here a little and to prosecute and follow the order of the Table wherefore: begin with the calcination of the metall. And note that
This calcination of Copper is made that it may be turned into vitriol and not the calcination of vitriol made of copper. Take therefore as much copper as you please and dissolve, Calcination it in Aqua fortis
To a fair green water, then set it 3 or 4 days to digest till the matter be clear which pour out into a limbeck and in Balneo draw away the corrosive water so that the matter remain dry for then it is calcined.
Then upon every 2 pound of this calcined matter pour a gallon of distilled Vinegar and lute it up in a glass, and set it in balneo almost boiling the space of 7 days, when it is cold
Put into a limbeck to distil away all the vinegar in balneo, and in the bottom of the Alimbeck you shall have your vitriol very well congealed far fairer then Romain vitriol which is corporeal and metallic vitriol. Which Vitriol I do not dissolve in rainwater like the Paracelsians, but rather with Lac
Virginis as before is taught in the former Chapters or in Raymunds Calcination water, and after its dissolution and perfect digestion, that is to say 15 days I put it into a limbeck and balneo draw off the Lac virginis, which being done you shall find an oily water green
And clear upon which pour the spirit of wine and after it hath been digested 7 days and the spirit of wine distilled away in balneo you shall find your green water perfectly rectified made pure subtile and spiritual, and apt for putrefaction, for if it be not
Well dissolved and rarified it will not putrefy. But now that I may join with Paracelsus in the manner of putrefaction I return to him and say with him commanding to digest in a warm heat in a glass well closed the space
Of some months, and so long till diverse colours appear and be at length red which showeth the termination of its putrefaction. But yet in this process this redness is not sufficiently fixed, but is to be more fully purged from its feces in this manner.
Resolve it or rectify it in distilled vinegar, till the vinegar be coloured then filler it from its feces. This is its true Tincture and best resolution and rectification out of which a blessed oil is to be drawn.
This Tincture being thus resolved and rectified, is to be put into a body with a limbeck and in balneo distil the vinegar gently away. Then in sand or ashes lift up the spirit gently and temperately, and when you see a fume ascend
Into the glass and red drops begin to fall out of the nose of the limbeck into the receiver, then the red oil beginneth to distil, continue your distillation till all be come over, when it is done you shall have the oil in the receiver lifted up and separated from its Earth more
Delightful and sweet then any balsom, or Aromatic without any sharpness at all, which oil is called the blood of the Lamb. In the bottom of the body you shall find a white shining Earth like snow, which keep well from dust and so you have the clear Earth separated from its oil.
Take this white Earth and put it in a glass viol, and put thereto equal, weight of the oil or soul and body, will receive it and embrace it in a moment. But that it may be turned into a stone when you have joined these two together, set it
Into our furnace the space of 40 days and you shall have an absolute oil of wonderful perfection wherewith Mercury and other imperfect metals are turned into gold. As Paracelsus was pleased to say. The stone being thus made, I now come to the fermentation without which it is not possible
To give form to it neither will I adhere to the opinion of one man alone contrary to all the Philosophers alone, that is to say, Paracelsus repugnant to the rest of the Philosophers because they all of necessity have decreed to give form to the stone by ferment and union,
That is to say, of an imperfect body, and by how much the ferment is more spiritual the stone will be of so much more penetration and transmutation. These things being promised I do not think it sit that you should proceed to projection
Upon Mercury instead of fermentation as Paracelsus teacheth, or that the stone should be fermented his way with gold either corporeal or spiritual. Which gold will be the foundation of the first projection. but what do the Philosophers command
Us to do? that projection that is to say fermentation, be made of a perfect foundation, and that upon imperfect bodies that medicines may be made which foundation of the stone or Elixir is not except it be only the white or red ferment, in respect of which both gold and
Silver are said to be imperfect bodies, therefore this stone is to be fermented before it be projected upon the corporeal foundation or imperfect, that is to say corporeal gold. Therefore join this oil to the fourth part of the oil of the sulphur of gold, and this
Is the true fermentation or conversion unto the Elixir. Then Augment it in virtue by solution and coagulation, and in quantity by projection first upon the corporeal foundation that is to say gold, then that upon purified Mercury and that medicine upon other bodies which are most sit for projection, that is to say
Most fusible as Lead or Tinne, which after they are purified are most apt by reason of their easy melting. And thus the Inward parts of the Earth are visited and by reflection the hidden stone is found, the true Medicine out of the green Lion of the Philosophers, and not of fools,
And out of Corporeal and metallic vitriol not terrestrial and made of mineral coperas. The Second Chapter of Augmentation and projection of the STONE. FIRST, Let us speak of the Augmentation of the virtue or quality; of which Raymund saith, The Augmentation in quality and goodness is by solution and coagulation of the Tincture,
That is to say, by imbiling it with our Mercury and drying it. But let us hear Arnoldus more attentively, take one part of your prepared Tincture, and dissolve it in three parts of
Our Mercury, then put it in a glass and seal it up and set it in ashes till it be dry and come to a powder, then open the glass and imbile it again, and dry it again And the oftener you do the thus so much sha you gain and giveth more tincture.
And also as it is found in Clangor Buccinae, Dissolve it in the water of Mercury of which the Medicine was made till it be clear then congeal it by light decoction and imbile it with its oil upon the fire till it flow by virtue whereof it will be doubled in tincture,
With all its perfections as you will see in projection because the weight that was before projected upon a thousand, is now to be projected upon ten thousand, and there is no great labour in this multiplication. Again the medicine is multiplied two manner of ways.
By solution of calidity and solution of variety. By solution of calidity, is that you take the Medicine put in a glass vessel and bury it in our moist fire seven days or more, till the medicine be dissolved into water without any turbulency. By solution of rarity, is
That you take your glass vessel with your medicine and hang it in a new brass pot full of water that boileth and close up the mouth of the pot that the medicine may dissolve in the vapour of the boiling water.
But note that the boiling water must not touch the glass wherein the medicine is but hang above it three fingers, and this solution will be above it in 2 or 3 days after your medicine is dissolved, take it from the fire to cool fix and congeal and be hard and dry
This do often and how much the more the medicine shall be dissolved it will be so much more perfect, and such a solution is the sublimation of the medicine and its virtual sublimation, which the oftener it is reiterated so much more abundantly and more parts it tingeth.
Whence Rasis saith the goodness of this multiplication consisteth in the reiteration sublimation and fixation of the medicine and by how much more this order is repeated it worketh so much more and is augmented for so often as you sublime your medicine and dissolve it
You shall gain so much every time in projection one upon a thousand and if the first fall upon a thousand the third upon a hundred thousand the fourth upon a million and so infinitely. For Morienus the Philosopher saith; Know for certain that the oftener our stone is dissolved
And congealed the spirit and soul is joined more to the body and is retained by it and in every time the Tincture is multiplied. Whence we thus read in Scala Philosophorum, which also the Philosophers say. Dissolve and congeal, so without doubt it is understood of the solution of the body and soul with
The spirit into water and congealation makes the soul and spirit mix with the body and if with one solution and simple congelation the soul and spirit would be perfectly joined to the body the Philosophers would not say dissolve again, and congeal, and again dissolve
And congeal that the Tincture of the stone may grow if it could be done with one congelation only. The Medicine is another way multiplied by fermentation and the ferment to the white is pure silver and the ferment to the red is pure gold, therefore project one part of
Your medicine upon a of the ferment (but I say 3 parts of the medicine upon one of the ferment) and all will be Medicine, which put in a glass upon the fire and so close it that
No air go in nor out, and keep it there till it be subtiliated as you did with the first medicine and one part of the second medicine will have as much virtue as one part, of the first medicine had (but here again Clangor Buccinae hath erred for it should be write
Thus) one part of the second medicine will have as much virtue as ten parts of the first medicine had. And thus by solution and fermentation the medicine may be multiplied infinitely. We have spoken enough of this multiplication, we now come to the other way of augmentation
Which is called corporeal multiplication and according to Raymund is thus defined. Augmentation is the Addition of Quantity; whence Anicen writeth, It is hard to project upon a million and to predicate it incontinently wherefore I will reveal one great secret unto
You, one part is to be mixed with a thousand parts of its nearest in kind (I call that nearest that is the body of the same metal whereof the medicine was made or perfected) but to return again to Anicen, close all this firmly in a fit vessel and set it in a furnace
Of fusion 3 days till it be wholly joined together. Whereof it is more largely and better set down by the said Author and the manner of the work is thus projected, one part of the foresaid medicine upon 100 parts of molten gold and it makes it brittle and will all
Be medicine whereof one part projected a hundred of any melted metal converteth it into pure gold and if you project it upon silver in like manner it converteth all bodies into silver. In Scala Philosophorum all sorts of projection is set thus down in few words. You must know
That first it is said project, that is to say one upon 100 &c. yet it is better to project nunc dimittis upon fundamenta and fundamenta upon verba mea and verba mea upon diligans te Domine and diligam te upon attendite.
This brief Aenigua is thus expounded it is nothing else but the words and opinion of the former Author concealed under the Aenigura. Therefore let us repeat the words of this Aenigura or Oracle. Nunc dimittis super fundamenta Fundamenta super verba mea Verba mea super diligam te Diligamte super attendite.
[Now let’s go over the basics Foundations upon my words I love you beyond my words Pay close attention.] These are trifles for the hiding and concealing the perfection of the Art if the expert Artist could be diverted with such simple words which though they are hard at first to young Artists,
Yet they are thus explained. We therefore begin with the first sentence. Nunc dimittis super fundamenta. [Now let’s go over the basics] This is here Allegorically taken for the last action almost of the work which is called the medicine or stone, which medicine is to be projected upon the ferment that is to say
Upon the oil of Sol or Luna, which are the ferments or foundations of the Art in spiritual augmentation (as before was said) upon molten gold and silver. And that spiritual ferment converted into medicine is to be projected upon molten gold or silver which are corporeal
Ferments in corporeal Augmentation and the corporeal fundaments of the Art upon quicksilver. Fundamenta super verbamea. [Foundations upon my words] This is also spoken allegorically because in the Adage it is said words are wind, as if a word were nothing else but the motion of the lips and exaltation of the lungs which
No sooner arise from motion but fly away and are turned to air so likewise Quick silver or Mercury goeth out of the bodies of other metals and is so volatile in the fire or hear as words in the air. And therefore Mercury is likened to words upon which the fundaments
Are to be projected, Verbes mea (vir Mercury) super diligam te. [I love you above my words (Mercury).] That is to say upon other metals which have most affinity with quick-silver, and easy of fashion as Saturn and Jupiter that is to say Lead and Tin, which by this concord and
Love are easily by the penetration and amiableness of the medicine converted into medicine. And one part of this medicine converteth other parts of metals into gold or silver according to the force and power of the Elixir, which other metals because they are the substances
Of the former bodies whereof the medicines were made. They are the attendants of those medicines wherefore the Philosopher commandeth that. Diligam te, [I love you], be projected upon, attendite, [pay attention], that the second medicine or this last projected upon metal especially that whereof the medicine (that
Is to say the stone) was made, should turn that metal into gold or silver according to the poverty and quality of the medicine. But to put an end to this projection, take it according to the opinion of Arnoldus gathered
Out of the 31 Chapter who willeth to project one part of the Elixir upon 100 of Mercury purged and all will be medicine upon other 100 parts of Mercury purged and all will be medicine, afterward project one part of this medicine last congealed upon 100 parts of
Mercury washed and all will be gold or silver, in all trials according as the Elixir is white and red. Lastly that I may briefly rehearse the absolute manner of projection. First the medicine is to be projected upon gold or silver molten, then upon quicksilver purged so long
Till it turns it into medicine and lastly upon metals most near, that they may be converted into pure gold or silver according to the properties and qualities of the medicine. Because we have said something of the propinquity of metals that is to say, that the Elixir
Is to be projected upon that imperfect body out of which its Mercury and sulphur was first extracted, therefore it will not be unnecessary to set down one example that is to say if the medicine was made of Mercury then it is to be projected upon quicksilver for making
Gold or silver because quick silver is a near body to Mercury and so of the rest. Yet it is to be noted, that all Elixirs may and ought to be projected upon quicksilver, because quicksilver is the Mother and sperm of all metals therefore quicksilver made and turned
Into medicine, is to be projected upon a body, most near to it; Which is Lead or Tinne; Upon which the medicine is always to be projected, whether white or red for the making and transmuting of metals, but both the quicksilver and lead are first to be purged that they may be purified
And deprived of their filth. Enough hath been said before of the purgation or purification of Mercury. We will now speak of the purification of Lead. Melt your Lead in a Crucible and when it is melted let it stand in the fire a quarter
Of an hour and put therein a little salt Armoniack and let it stand a while in the fire and stir it with an Iron spatnla till all the salt Armoniack be gone away in sum then scrape
The skin away out of the crucible, that is upon the lead, then let it stand to cool and it will be much whiter and fairer. And thus you must purify your lead or tin, before projection, because no other bodies are so fusible and apt to melt wherefore every Elixir ought to
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The first whereof is that the first medicine that is to say the stone be projected upon the ferment always three parts of the medicine upon one of the ferment and one part of this upon 10 or 100 of pure molten gold, and one part of this medicine thus made upon 100 parts
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The Second Book. CHAP. I. Of the blessed stone of the Philosophers or the Elixir of life, and also the way of making malleable glass. 1. Elixir of life. 2. Gold dissolved. 3. Silver dissolved. 4. Gold melted. 5. melted Silver. 6. Projection of the red Medicine 7. Projection of the white Medicine.
HERMES Speaking of fermentation bids us to take the sun and his shadow by the shadow he meaneth the moon because in respect of dignity lustre and power she is much more weak and inferior then the sun, And the moon followeth the sun as a shadow doth the body and is not illuminated except
By the light of the sun, we will first speak of the body, that is to say of gold, and after come to the shadow of which gold it is written in a book of Chemical Art in this manner.
The Philosophers stone is made of gold alone and only by nature and is more sublime then them, which the Philosophers affirm cureth all infirmities. According to the opinion of this Philosopher I purpose to begin with gold alone and the medicine which is a new and sole nature, and antient and sound Quintessence.
But to the end this gold may be better and more pure, it may be purged two manner of ways that is to say, by Antimony and by dissolution in corrosive waters with which copper plates are mixed as Goldsmiths use to do which is called water gold.
When you have thus prepared your gold project one part of your red medicine (or red Elixir) upon 100 parts thereof when your medicine is augmented in virtue and all that weight of molten gold will be converted into a red brittle mass which grind upon a marble to an impalpable powder.
Then dissolve these hundred parts or so much thereof as you please in distilled vinegar or in spirit of wine, and set it to digest in Balneo the space of a day or two then distil the spirit of wine from it in Balneo, and in the bottom will remain the fixed and pure
Oil of the gold which is then the true Aurum potabile, and spiritual Elixir of life, if you would give to any one of this powder presently before it be converted to oil, warm a little white or Rhenish wine and dissolve in either of them so much of the red powder as will
Tincture the same into a red colour and the wine so tinctured will be Aurum potabile, but it would be better and more penetrating if it were tinctured with the foresaid oil. In like manner is the white medicine to be projected after the purification of the silver
In a corrosive water as is before declared. And so the melted silver will be converted into a brittle powder and white masse which likewise is to be dissolved and turned into oil and thus the white Elixir of life is made
And potable silver curing and healing so far as it is able humane diseases for it cannot be supposed that the Elixir of Luna hath so great virtue as the Elixir of Sol hath. Whence the Author of the book called correctio falnerum and Richard Anglicus in his correctory.
Say whereas among the vulgar and Philosophers; God hath this report that being in his first disposition that it cureth the Leprosy and many other virtues, this is not except by its complete digestion because the excellency of the fire acting in it consumeth all evil
Humours that are in sick bodies as well in hot as cold causes, But silver cannot do this because hath not so much superfluity of fire and is not so much disgested and decocted with natural maturity, yet notwithstanding this it hath a fieriness occultly and virtually in it,
But not so fully because the fire causeth not such Elemental qualities as in gold. And therefore silver being in his first disposition doth not cure the Leprosy so potently unless it be first dissected by Art until it have the chief degrees of gold in all maturity.
Wherefore other sick metallic bodies more weakly cure infirmities according as they differ more from them in perfection and maturity some differ more some less, which is by reason of the sulphur infected said and burning of which they were made at the beginning in their
Generation and coagulation and therefore they cure not whereas the fire in them is burning and so infected with the Elemental feces with the mixture of other Elemental qualities. Seeing therefore that gold is of such vigor amongst the vulgar and that being in his first
Disposcion what wonder is it if it being brought into medicine (as is experienced) by Art and his virtue be subtiliated by digestion of decoction and purgation of the qualities but it may then cure more nay infinite or all diseases.
It makes an old man young and revive, it preserveth health strengtheneth nature and expelleth all sicknesses of the body it driveth poison away from the heart it moysteneth the Arteries and briefly preserveth the whole body sound.
In the Ludas purorum it is thus written of the use of this medicine the manner of using it according to all the Philosophers is thus, if you will use to eat of this medicine then take the weight of two Florence Duccats of our Elixir and one pound of any confection,
And eat of that confection the quantity of one dram in winter. And if you do thus it driveth away all bodily infirmities from what cause soever they proceed whether hot or cold, and conserveth health and youth in a man, and maketh an old man young, and maketh gray
Hairs to fall it also presently cureth the Leprosy, and dissolveth Phlegm mundifieth the blood it sharpeneth the sight and all the senses after a most wonderful manner above all the medicines of the Philosophers. To which purpose we thus find in the Rosary of the Philosophers, In this (that is to say
In the Elixir) is completed the pretious gift of God, which is the Arcanum of all the Sciences in the world, and the incomparable treasure of treasures (for as Plato saith) he that hath this gift of God hath the dominion of the world (that is to say of the Microcosm)
Because he attaineth to the end of Riches hath broke the bonds of nature, not only for that he hath power to convert all imperfect metals into pure gold and silver, but rather because he can convert and preserve both man and every Animal in perfect health.
To this purpose speaketh Geber, Hermes Arnoldus, Raymundus, Lullius, Ripley, Penotus, Augurellus, Aegidius, Valescus, Roger Bacon, Scotus, Laurentius, Ventura; and diverse uncertain Authors. Lastly, I now come to the general consent of all the Philosophers and repeat what is found in their writings in the Book de Aurora consurgeat, and in Clangor Buccinae, It is
To be noted that the Antient Philosophers have found 4 principal effects or virtues in the glorious repository of this treasure. 1. First, it is said to cure man’s body of all infirmities. 2. Secondly, to cure imperfect metals. 3. Thirdly, to transmute base stones into pretious gems. 4. Fourthly, to make Glass malleable.
Of the first. All Philosophers have consented that when the Elixir is perfectly rubified it doth not only work miracles in solid bodies but also in man’s body of which there is no doubt, for being taken inwardly it cureth all infirmities, it cureth outwardly by unction.
The Philosophers also say, if it be given to any in water or wine first warmed it cureth them of the Phrensy, Dropsy, and Leprosy, and all kind of Fevers are cured by this Tincture and taketh away whatsoever is in a weak stomach it bindeth and consumeth the Flux of peccant
Humours being taken fasting it driveth away melancholy and sadness of the mind it cureth the infirmities of the eyes and dryeth up their moisteness and blearedness, it helpeth the purblind, red or bloodshot eyes it mollifieth the primy or web the Inflammation of the eyes
And all other incident diseases are easily cured by this Philosophical medicine. It comforteth the heart and spiritual parts by taking inwardly it mittigateth the pain of the head by anointing the temples therewith maketh the deaf to hear and succoreth all
Pains of the ears it rectifieth the contracted Nerves by unction, it restoreth rotten teeth by washing also all kind of imposthumes are cured with it, by ointments or emplaytors or injecting the dry powder therein. It cureth Ulcers wounds Cancers Fistulas noli me tangere, and such like diseases and generateth
New flesh if it be mixed with corrupt and sower wine it restores it, it expelleth poison being taken inwardly it also killeth worms if it be given in powder it taketh away wrinkles and spots in the face by anointing therewith and maketh the face seem young, it helpeth
Women in travail being taken inwardly and bringeth out the dead child by emplaister, it provketh Urine, and helpeth generation it preventeth drunkenness, helpeth the memory, and Augmenteth the radical moisture it strengtheneth nature and also Administreth many other good things to man’s body.
2. Of the second it is written that it transmuteth all imperfect metals in colour substance lasting weight ductility melting hardness and softness 3. Of the third, that is to say of transmuting base and ignoble stones into pretious gems,
I will not speak of in this place, because I have reserved it for another place, that is to say the third Book. Of the fourth it is writ that it maketh glass malleable by mixture (that is to say of the
Powder of the white corporeal Elixir) when the glass is melted. Thus far Aurora Consurgeus and Clangor Buccinae. Now if you desire to make pure and clear malleable glass learn this of me, and beware of what glass you make your metal for you must not take glass of Flints, wherewith glass of windows
Are made but such as your Venice glass is made of, and that is to be chosen out of the first metal of the glass, which hath stud molten in the fire, in the glass makers furnace
The space of a night & then it will be without spots and pure therefore take as much of the said glass out of the furnace with your Iron rod, as you have a desire to convert, and
When it is cold weigh it, and melt it by itself in a pot, and when it is well molten project your white corporeal Elixir upon it and it will be converted into malleable metal and fit and apt glass for all Gold Smiths operations. And thus is glass made malleable and prepared
For any use but if this were done with the red Elixir it would be much more during, for there is nothing more pretious of which we will not now speak. Therefore Son or Reader whosoever thou art who readest my Books give credit to me and
Believe me, because all things that you shall find writ here are either the most approved writings and collections of all writers or the Authors own experiments. For I have tried many things and found many things true. I believe no man liveth amongst Mortals that
Knoweth more ways of preparations which are concealed by almost all the Philosophers. For that which perfecteth the great work that they have all concealed which truly is the error of all Artists. And this is all I would have you to do. To calcine, dissolve and separate
The Elements after join them together purify them or reduce them into sulphur ferment, project, Augment in virtue and quantity. This is only the work of the Philosophers of which the whole Company of Philosophers have writ in a continuate course.
Hampaaneah Hammegulleh: OR, The Rosie Crucian CROWN: In which is set down the Angels of the Seven Planets, and their Occult Power upon the Seven Metals, and miraculous virtues in the Coelum Terrae, or first matter of all things. Whereunto is added, A perfect full DISCOVERY OF THE Pantarva, and Elixirs of Metals.
By EUGENIUS THEODIDAGTUS. [Non Latin]. A Servant of God, and Secretary to Nature. Ubi est scientia, ibi est invidia. [Where there is knowledge, there is envy.] LONDON: Printed for the Author, and are to be sold at the Rainbow in Fleet street. 1664.
To the Worthy, Learned, Noble, and Valiant Colonel Samuel Sandys, late Governor of his Majesties Garrison in the Famous City of Worcester, and now one of the Right Honourable Members of Parliament, &c. Your late respects to me have commanded my Soul to serve you: and knowing you are Aswell
A Philosopher and Learned, as a Soldier that can command Armies of Horse and Foot into good order for War; I therefore humbly present this little Piece of Philosophy to your pleasure: As the Book is Art and Nature united to serve you, so the Epistle may make you merry, by
The great power of Natural things, for you know they not only work upon all things that are near them by their Vertue, but also besides this, they infuse into them a like Power, through which by the same Vertue they also work upon other things, as in the Loadstone,
Which stone doth not only draw Iron Rings, but also infuseth a Vertue into the Rings themselves, whereby they can do the same: After this manner it is, that the common Harlots and Villains, grounded daily in boldness and impudence in Stage-Plays, infect all that
Are near them by this property; whereby the spectors are made like them, therefore they say that if any one shall put on the inward Garments of a Stage-Player, or shall have about him that Looking-glass which they daily look into, he shall become bold, Confident,
Ignorant, Impudent and Wanton; so a Cloth that was about a dead Corps, makes him that carries it sad and melancholy: And if you put a Green Lizard made blind, together with Iron or Gold Rings into a Glass Vessel, putting under them some earth, shutting then the Vessel;
And when it appears that the Lizard hath received his sight, shall put them out of the Glass, that those Rings shall help sore eyes; the same may be done with Gold Rings: and a Weasel, whose eyes with any kind of prick are put out, it is certain are restored to sight again;
Upon the same account Rings are put for a certain time in the Nest of Sparrows or Swallows which afterwards are used to procure Love and Favor: These observations and ten thousand more I made to serve you, and they shall testify, you shall know you have power to command,
Your most affectionate humble servant JOHN HEYDON. The third Book. Of Saturn or Lead the first Direction. CHAP. 1. Of the Elixir, Putrefaction into Sulphur, the oil of the Sulphur, of the Conjunction of the Salt and oil of the Spirit, or Salt of Saturn, which containeth the oil or soul
Of the Menstruum of white Mercury and red water of Paradice, Resolution, Solution, distillation, Hil, Purgation, resolution of Sericon, of the Gum of Sericon, of the solution of the Minium or Adrop, of Calcination of Minium into Adrop and red Lead, of Calcination of Lead with Aqua Fortis.
Very many have writ of Saturn or Lead, but none that I know of have writ fully thereof in any particular Treatise; therefore I do not here only set down what I have gathered from them most briefly and truly, but also those things which I have found and proved
By my own experience, which I have annexed to them, that the work may be absolute and complete. Of which, as they say, Mary the Prophetess, and the Sister of Moses in her Books of the work of Saturn is thus said to write, Make your water running like the water of the two
Zaibeth and fix it upon the heart of Saturn: And in another place, Marry the Gum with the true Matrimonial Gum, and you shall make it like running water. Of which process of Mary, George Ripley our Country man hath these verses. Maria mira sonat Quae nobis talia donat Gummis cum binis Fugitivum fugit inimis
Horis in trinis Tria vinclat fortia finis Fila Plutonis Consortia jungit Amoris. Mary sounds wonderful Which gives us such things Gummies with two The fugitive fled from the enemy Three hours A strong end binds the three Threads of Pluto Love joins together. Or thus,
Maria mira sonat, breviter qui talia donat Gummi cum binis fugitivum fug it in imis Horis in trinis tria vinclat fortia finis. Maria lux roris ligam ligat in tribus horis Filia Pluton is consortia jungit Amoris Gaudet inassala sola per tria sociata. [Mary sounds wonderful, briefly who gives such things
Gummi and the two fugitives flee to the bottom In three hours the strong end binds the three. Mary’s light binds the dew in three hours The daughter of Pluto joins the company of Love Inassala alone rejoices through three associates.]
The heart of Saturn, saith Ripley, is his white and clear body, out of whose doctrine the work doth briefly thus proceed, that is to say, that water he made out of the body of Saturn, like the water Zaibeth, and that water fixed upon the heart of Saturn, but
Because the practice of drawing out this water of Zaibeth, doth not appear out of this, nor the way of making the heart of Saturn, therefore the foregoing direction in the Holy Guide will show them both. Therefore I have joined two Tables, in one of which the shorter is the demonstration
Of the deduction of the body of Saturn into his heart or Salt, the other longer and greater, is the extraction of the water Zabieth, and the consummation of the work of Saturn. Having thus described this work, I now come to the explanation, and say, that the Calcination
Of the Body is twofold; for the Calcination thereof in the shorter work, for extracting the heart of Saturn, is done on this wise by Aqua Fortis. Take 8 or 10 Ounces of Lead in Filings, and dissolve it in Aqua Fortis in double proportion,
And fortified with Salt Armoniack in an Earthen Vessel with a narrow neck, and set in ashes till it be totally dissolved; and there will remain a white matter in the bottom like Grains of white Salt, which is a figure of perfect solution; then pour your matter that is dissolved
In the water into a body, and set thereon a Limbeck, and in Balneo draw away the corrosive water, till there remain a dry substance in the bottom; and so you have the body converted white by Calcination with corrosive water, out of which the heart of Saturn is to be drawn.
The way to wash away and purge the corrosive water from the body, pour warm water upon the substance in a Limbeck, and pour it often off till it have no sharpness at all upon the tongue, and then your body is prepared for drawing out the Salt.
When your matter is well dried, dissolve it again in distilled Vinegar, and distil the Vinegar twice or thrice from it, and in the bottom you shall have a lucid clear and white shining Salt, which is then called the heart of Saturn.
Now I come to the practice of the other greater work, that the verity of the stone may be found, of which many have made mention in their Books, as Raymundus, who calleth it the Vegetable Mineral, and Animal Stone; Geber saith there groweth a Saturnian Herb on the
Top of a Hill or Mountain, whose blood if it be extracted, cureth all infirmities. Ripley writ a whole Book, called his Practical Compendium, of the practice of the Vegetable Stone, teaching the manner and form of operation; but because he neither set down the solution
Plainly nor perfectly, he hath been the cause of much error, and hath not only deceived me but all those that followed him, until after a long time I found a way to dissolve Saturn, so that it could never after by distillation be turned into Lead again, which is the chiefest
And greatest secret of the Vegetable Stone. But let us hear the words of Mary the Prophetess, and Ripley taken from her: The Radix of our matter is a clear and white body which putrifieth not, but congealeth Mercury or Quicksilver,
With its odour makes its water like the running water of the two Zabieth (alis Zubech) and fix it upon the fixed heart of Saturn: which words do most aptly agree with the properties of Lead; for if anyone be smit or wounded with a Bullet, and the Bullet remain in the
Body, it will never purify. And also if Quick-silver be hanged in a Pot over the fume of molten Lead, so as the fume of the Lead touch the Quick-silver, it will congeal it. Thus far of the preparation of Lead, we now come to its denomination, They bid us fix
The water Zaibeth upon the fixed body of the heart of Saturn; now for the exposition of the body, for the name of Saturn, Ripley calleth it Adrop, of which that is made which the Masters call Sericon; the water of Sericon they call their Menstruum, the two Zabieths
Joined together in one water, are the two Mercuries, that is to say white and red contained in one Menstruum, that is to say of the water and Oile of the fixed body or heart of Saturn: Follow what I have written concerning the imbibition of the earth, our operation is
No otherwise then in the Practical Compendium of Ripley. Isaacus also writ a Treatise of Lead, he worketh chiefly according to the doctrine of Mary the Prophetess, and laboreth much to fix the earth of Saturn, and after to dissolve the
Body in distilled Vinegar; that by the addition of corroding and sharp things, his red oil may be distilled, which he calleth the water of Paradice, that he may imbibe his fixed earth therewith: which way is much shorter then Ripley’s, but the rubification and
Fixation of the earth is long and uncertain; wherefore I have both forsaken Isaacus and Ripley in making the earth, instead of which I have given the fixed heart of Saturn, as you may read in the Holy Guide. But that the body may be prepared according to this Table, and after my intention and
The desire of Ripley, we both will that the oil or Water of Paradice be drawn out of the Gum of Sericon (whose father is Adrop) Sericon is made of Red-lead; therefore it is first necessary to show the way of making Minium of Lead, which Thomas Juc an Englishman hath
Described, together with the Composition of the Gum of Sericon, which Author I purpose to follow, as being the best. Take ten or twelve pound of Lead, and melt it in a great Iron vessel, as Plumbers use
To do, and when it is molten, stir it still with an Iron Spatula till the Lead be turned to powder, which powder will be of a green colour; when you see it thus, take it from the fire and let it cool, and grind that powder upon a Marble till it be impalpable, moistening
The powder with a little common Vinegar, till it be like thick honey, which put into a broad Earthen Vessel, and set it on a Trevet over a lent fire, to vapor away the Vinegar and dry the powder, and it will be of a yellow colour; grind it again and do as before, till
The powder be so Red as Red-lead, which is called Adrop: And thus is Saturn calcined into Red lead or Minium. Take a pound of this Read-lead and dissolve it in a Gallon of Vinegar, and stir it with
A stick three or four times in a day, and so let it stand in a cold place the space of three days: then take your Earthen Vessel and set it in Balneo twenty four hours, then
Let it cool and filter the liquor three times; and when it is clear, put it in a body with a Limbeck thereupon, and distil the Vinegar so long as it will ascend, and in the bottom the Gum of the Sericon will remain like thick honey, which set apart, and dissolve more
New Lead as before for more Gum, till you have ten or twelve pound thereof. Now give careful attention, for we now come to the point and period of Ripley’s error, for if you put four pound of this Sericon to distil in a Limbeck, and from thence would
Draw a Menstruum, as Ripley teacheth, perhaps you would have scarce one ounce of this Oil, and some part of a black earth will remain in the bottom, and most part of the Gum melted again into Lead, by which you may know that the Sericon is not well dissolved, nor as
Yet sufficiently prepared, that a Chaos may be made thereof fit for distillation, because it is not yet well dissolved; therefore in Isaacus there is found a way of resolving this Gum with distilled Vinegar, acuated with calcined Tartar and Salt-armoniack; Wherefore,
Saith he, if thou be wise, resolve thy Gum; but I like not this acuation of the Vinegar, as I may call it, I rather choose to resolve the Sericon in Raymund’s calcinative water, which is a compounded water of the Vegetable Mercury or fire natural, with the fire against
Nature, as Ripley testifieth, and it is more verified by Raymund in his Book of Mercuries, where he teacheth how to dissolve bodies with his calcinative water. I will reveal unto you this water, which is almost unknown: Note therefore, that the Vegetable
Mercury is the spirit of Wine (instead of which we may sometimes use distilled Vinegar) and that the fire against Nature is a corrosive water made of Vitriol and Salt-Peter. Therefore take which you will, either spirit of Wine rectified (or Aqua Vitae) or distilled
Vinegar four pound, and two pound of corrosive water, and mix them together. In this watet thus compounded, resolve half a pound of Gum of Sericon in a circulatory, and set it in Balneo four or five days, and the Gum will be totally dissolved into the
Form of water or oil of a duskish red colour. Then distil away the water in Balneo, and there will remain an oil in the bottom, which is then the Chaos, out of which you may draw a Menstruum containing two elements; and this
Is the true resolution of the Gum of Sericon, in this water you may resolve so much Gum as you please by reiteration. Take two pound of this Chahodical substance, and prepare it for distillation in naked fire
Or sand, and lift up the clear red Oil, wherein both the spirit and soul doth secretly lie hid, which Isaacus calleth the water of Paradise, which when you have you may Rejoyce, for you have gone through all the gross work, and come to the Philosophical work.
Therefore now proceed to conjunction, and join the white heart of Saturn with the red Oil, as it is found in the Rosary. Candida succincto jacet uxor nupta marito, That is to say, the red Mercury to the Salt, if you proceed to the red work.
Therefore take four ounces of the Salt or heart of Saturn, and as much of the red oil or water of Paradice, and seal them up in a Philosophers Egg, and so soon as they shall feel the heat of the Balneum, the Salt will dissolve and be made all one with the Oil,
So as you shall not know which was the Salt, which was the Oil. Set your glass in Balneo, and there let it stand in an equal degree of fire, till all your matter be turned white and stick to the sides of the glass, and shine like fishes
Eyes, and then it is white Sulphur of Nature; but if you proceed to the red work, then divide your white Sulphur into equal parts, reserving one part for the white work, and go on with the other part, and in a new glass well-sealed up, set it in Ashes till it be turned into
A red colour. When your Sulphur is thus converted, imbibe it again with equal weight of its soul, dissolving and congealing till it remain in an Oil, and it will congeal no more, but remain fixed and flowing.
This then is to be fermented with the fourth part of the oil of Gold, as is often mentioned before. We have set down already before of the augmentation in quantity and quality, therefore it is not necessary to repeat it here.
We will now return to the white Sulphur before reserved, that we may set down the manner of the white work. When you have your red oil or Soul, if you desire to make the white Elixir, set part of the said Oile in a glass in Balneo to digest, then take
It out and put it into a body, and in a lent fire distil away the spirit or white Mercury, which you must try, that you may know whether it arise pure without water or not, as you
Do when you try the spirit of Wine, for if it burn all up, it is well; if it do not, rectify it so often, till it be without any wateriness at all; then have you rectified your spirit, wherewith dissolve your white Sulphur, till it remain fixed, and flowing,
As you did before in the red work, then ferment it and augment it with the fourth part of the oil of the white Luminary or Luna, as you did the red, and it will be the white Elixir, converting imperfect bodies into perfect Silver. A Corollary.
Ripley divided the scope of this work into four operations, whereof the first is the dissolution of the body, the second, the extraction of the Menstruum and the separation of the Elements; the third is not necessary in our work, because we cast away the earth after
Every distillation, instead of which we use our Salt or heart of Saturn; the fourth is, that there be a conjunction of our Salt as is before described. Hereafter followeth the Accurtation of the work of Saturn. The way of extracting Quick-silver out of Saturn is found in Isaacus, of which I know
How to make a special accurtation with his water of Paradice, which I gathered partly from the foresaid Author and others; Ripley made his accurtation with Quick-silver precipitated with Gold, and the imbibition with Corrosive water, which I like not, because the Elixir
So made will be the greatest poison, as himself confesseth, that it were better for a man to eat the eyes of a Basilisk, then taste that Elixir. But because I desire to set down this accurtation of Lead alone and his Elements, that no strange
Body may be added to our Elixir, and also that it may be made a Medicine for all uses, I have found out the way of making alone with the Mercury of Saturn and his own proper Tincture;
For I make a body of one thing which is a spirit, and make that Medicine with its own proper spirit. Read all the Philosophers, and you shall never find a word of this process, nor none of the Ancients will teach thee how to make the Mercury of Saturn, which that
It may be briefly done, this following work will show at large in our Holy Guide. CHAP. 2. The Medicine, Elixir, Fermentation, Imbibition Precipitation, Quick-Silver, Saturn, Lead, The Toad. My great Grandfather Christopher Heydon, saith in a certain Manuscript of his, Levi enim
Arte norunt Alchimistae Mercurium currentem conficere explumbo, that is to say, the Alchemists knew how by an easy Art to make current Mercury out of Lead; but what Art that was, neither he nor any of the ancients have showed unto us, Quaerite, quaerite, saith the first Alchemist
(so Paracelsus was pleased to say in imitation of him) & invenietis, pulsate & operietur vobis, that is to say, Seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you; which may rather seem to be the words of an envious Master, then the precepts of a Teacher.
But having learned this, I learned to seek, that is to say to read; I read, I knocked, that is, I tried many experiments, although they were repugnant to doctrine and Philosophy, therefore although I almost despaired of that Art, yet because nothing is difficult to the
Industrious, by often knocking, at last I found it apart, by what means I attained to the Art of such a facility, that is to say, of making Quick-silver of Lead; and when the process is read to the operator, it will be rather rejected then believed: but to the
End this Art may be revealed as a great secret, I thought it necessary to speak first of the Instruments necessary in this work, before I come to declare the doctrine, which are three in number, that is to say, a Furnace, a Crucible and a pair of Tongs, as appeareth in the Holy Guide.
CHAP. 3. The Crucible, the Furnace, the Hole in the Top of the Furnaee, the Tongues, the Coals. Let the Furnace be D, the place filled with Coles E, whereunto put fire and when the Coals are well burnt, so that they give a clear flame and fire, take your Crucible A, well
Anailed that it break not with the sudden heat, and put therein three ounces of filed Lead, having twelve ounces of Mercury sublimate well ground, and Salt Armoniack six ounces mixed together, which put upon the filings of Lead into the Crucible A; and when the
Fire is strong and glowing hot, take your Tongs C, and presently take up your Crucible, and put it in B, the hole in the top of the Furnace till you hear a great noise and buzzing, then so soon as you can (least the Quicksilver fly away with the spirits) take away the Crucible
With the matter therein, and set it in an earthen dish filled with ashes to cool, and when it is cold strike the lower part of the Crucible, so that the matter of the Lead may fall into an earthen dish, and you shall find your Lead converted into Quick-silver.
This Crucible and Furnace is at large charactered in the Holy Guide. This work is to be reiterated with new spirits till you have a sufficient quantity of Quick-silver, with which proceed as followeth to precipitate this Quick-silver, that from a spirit it may be converted into a fixed body by fixation.
Take of this Quick-silver so much as you please, and put it to precipitate in a round glass well luted, and set it in ashes to the top of the glass: yet let us stay here a while, that your unstanding may be the more enlightened.
Therefore understand that the intention of this work is to fix the spirit, which may sooner be done with the spirit of a fixed body, which before was Homogeneal with the body, and which of its own nature desireth to join again with its body.
Therefore nature requireth that she may be helped by Art in this work, to which the Artist consenting, he adminstreth thereto the pure and desired metal, which it delighteth to adhere unto: which metal is Gold, which is thus prepared, that it be sooner parted by the Quick-silver and stick thereunto.
Take as much pure Gold as you please, and dissolve it in aqua regis mixed with equal part of acetum acerrimum, very sharp vinegar], or Lac virginis, [Virgin’s milk], then set it to digest the space of a day, then put your dissolution into an Alimbeck, and set
It Balneo, to distil away the water as dry as you can, and do thus three times, and the third time distil it in ashes, that the Salt Armoniack may sublime. Then put distilled Vinegar upon the matter remaining and after it hath stood three days in Balneo, distil
The Vinegar away in ashes, that all the substance of the Salt Armoniack may sublime: and do thus three times, always putting in new Vinegar, until the oil of the dissolved Gold remain in the bottom; then take of your Quick-silver three times so much as your Gold, and pour
It upon the solution of the Gold, that they may mix together and be united: then put your quick-silver with the solution in a round Glass stopped only with a piece of Cotton, and with a stick put it down every day as it doth ascend, and keep your Glass in ashes
The space of a moneth, till your quick-silver be turned into a red precipitate, then again dissolve it in new distilled Vinegar, till the whole substance of the quick-silver be dissolved, and the Vinegar be coloured in a golden colour, then distil away the Vinegar
In ashes, and again precipitate the quick-silver, which is in the bottom of a Gold colour, into a red and fixed body; and to have you the Mercury precipitate of Saturn. It remaineth now that the body be imbibed with its soul, that this being from a spirit
Reduced into a body, may again imbibe its soul, that it may be dissolved therewith; therefore put it into your Glass, and add thereto equal proportion of its soul or water of Paradice, and shut your Glass well the space of five days, till the body be dissolved with the soul.
Then dry it in ashes till it penetrate and flow; and when it is dried, try it upon a hot Iron plate it be fixed and melt, if not, imbibe it again with half the weight of its water, and do so till you make it fusible and piercing by imbibing and saying it, and
When it will melt in the fire, and penetrate, it is then the stone, and fit for fermention. We have said enough of the manner of fermentation in the second Book, and therefore it is not necessary to repeat it here: and so after fermentation it will be the Elixir.
Then it is to be augmented and projected, as is before declared; and thus the work of Saturn is accurtated, of which George Ripley saith, Adrop is the father of the stone, Sericon his brother, Lympha his fister, the earth its mother.
But if you desire to know all the secret of Saturn or Lead, I will set you down one process out of Paracelsus: when you have well prepared the heart of Saturn, saith he, take two or three ounces of that heart and grind it small with double weight of Salt-peter, and put
It in a subliming Glass, with a head well luted to sublime, increasing the fire by little and little as long as anything will ascend or sublime; thus far Paracelsus: now if you find this true, Ripley will tell you what you shall do with it, in these words.
When by the violence of the fire in the distillation of the Gum of the Sericon, a certain white matter shall ascend sticking to the head of the Limbeck, like Ice, keep this matter which hath the property of Sulphur not burning, and is a fit matter for receiving form, you
Shall give it form after this manner by rubifying it in ashes, and when it is red Sulphur, give it of its soul, until it pierce and flow, then ferment it. Here I have delivered unto you all the ways and manners of Saturn, which are found in
Any of the Philosophers Books: to the end therefore that the work may be completed with a demonstration of this word Plumbum Philosophorum, at appears in the Practical Compendium of Ripley, we say that the Philosophers Lead is not taken for Antimony but for Adrop, being converted into the Gum of Sericon.
It remaineth now that we in order treat of the third termination of this Book: therefore after we have done with Saturn, it is necessary to speak of Jupiter, viz. Tin: but because there are many other ways of handling Saturn besides those we mentioned, therefore we refer
The Reader thither, seeing he followeth his footsteps: for he is the off-spring of Saturn and naturally born from him. CHAP. 4 . The third Table of the Elixir of Iron. IT is not necessary to prefix a peculiar Table to this metal alone, because it is set down
Before this book, nevertheless I will here reckon up its parts and operations as followeth. 1. Calcination. 2. Solution. 3. Separation. 4. Conjunction, 5. Putrefaction. 6. Sulphur. 7. Fermentation. 8. Elixir. Exaltation or augmentation and projection is spoken of sufficiently in the former Books.
Mars being most earthly of all the Planets or bodies, it is not to be doubted but that it may easily be reduced into a body with little labor; and therefore most easily converted into Salt, which is done by Calcination: therefore we will first show his conversion into Salt.
Understand therefore, that hence ariseth a twofold consideration, that is to say, that it be calcined one way into its body or Salt, the other way that the body be prepared for solution by calcination. The practice differeth but a little, for whether you calcine Iron for its Salt or its Menstruum,
One only manner of preparation sufficeth. That is to say, that you take filings of Iron or Steel, as much as you please, and mix therewith equal weight of Sulphur in an earthen body with a Limbeck will luted thereto, then set
It in ashes to sublime till all the Sulphur be sublimed from it, then dissolve the filings which remain in the bottom in Aqua Regia, and it will be converted into Salt, which will be cleansed from the said water, if you put thereon distilled Vinegar and distil it
Away; do thus three times with new Vinegar, and you shall have a yellowish red Salt in the bottom, which then is a body to be joined to the soul, which keep in warm ashes till you use it.
Now for the practice of Iron for dissolution take filings of Iron or Steel, so much as you please, and put it in an Iron dish filled with Vinegar, and set it in the flaming fire the space of three hours, then take it out and let it cool reiterate this work four or
Five times, the calcine it with Sulphur as you did before. When it is thus calcined, set it to dissolve in a corrosive water, by adding equal weight of our acetum acerrimum, and let it stand till it have dissolved so much as it can in
The cold, then set it in hot ashes, and let it stand there the space of four or five days, pour off the water and dry which is not dissolved, and again calcine it and dissolve it, and
When it is dissolved, so as the water be coloured red, pour it out into a body, and keep it till you have dissolved as much calcined Iron as you please. Then take all your dissolutions, and with an Alimbeck distil away the water in Balneo,
And put distilled Vinegar upon the matter remaining in the bottom, and let it stand upon it in Balneo the space of seven days; then take out your Glass and filter the dissolution, and then again in Balneo distil off the Vinegar, and in the bottom will remain a thick oil
Of the Iron or Steel; but if it be not dissolved to your mind, reiterate your solution in Raymunds calcinative water, but it would be better if it were edulcorated with Aqua vitae, drawing it away again in Balneo, and so you have your Iron dissolved into a liquor.
Therefore proceed to distillation, that there may be a separation, and distil it in an earthen Vessel in a strong fire, increasing the fire as much as you can, and receive the oil, or soul, or red tincture of Mars separated from the remaining feces by the nose of the Limbeck,
Which oil is the most permanent tincture for colouring Sulphurs for the red work, or for exaltation of all Elixirs in colour, for it makes it tinge and colour higher. When you have thus prepared the tincture, then proceed to conjunction, and work with
The Salt before reserved, taking three or four ounces of the Salt, and equal weight of the soul. Then seal it up and set it to purify in Balneo, and keep it there till it pass through all colours and be white, and then it is Sulphur of Nature.
Then take out your Glass and set it in ashes in a greater degree of heat till it be red, then dissolve the red Sulphur with its own soul, and again dissolve and fix it; dissolving it in Balneo, and fixing it under the fire, and so it is prepared for fermentation.
The fermentation is, as hath often been spoken of before, with the resolved oil of the Sulphur of Gold in a fourfold proportion to the Medicine, that by the addition of the ferment, it may be made Elixir transmuting all bodies.
And note that this Elixir of Iron excelleth all other Elixirs, for it rubifieth more, and tingeth higher, and is better for man’s body, for it prevaileth against the spleen, constringeth the belly and cureth wounds, it knitteth broken bones together, and stoppeth the superfluous Flux of the Courses. CHAP. 5.
The fourth Table of the Physical and Alchemical Tincture out of the red Lyon and Glue of the Eagle, drawn out from the Authors experience. IT is chiefly to be remembered how we first taught you to dissolve Antimony without acetum
Acerrimum, which may be also well done if you dissolve it in our calcinative water, and after that Antimony is calcined which we spoke of in the end of the second book; it is also to be remembered that in the end of the book I spoke of the Glue of the Eagle
In the sixth Table of the first book; these being remembered, it is to be understood that we attribute no other beginning to this accurtation, except that where before we took the blood of the red Lyon and the Glue of the Eagle when they were both destroyed; we now join
Them sound and not hurt together, that they living may mortify and dissolve themselves, which I have fitly called Corporeal Matrimony, or the Union, for in this wedlock they dye together, that they may be vivified in the Celestial Matrimony; therefore it is not to
Be wondred if this Table differ from the other, for this pertaineth to the handling of spirits, the other way teacheth the manner of making the Elixir of bodies; therefore we now come to demonstrate the foregoing Table. Therefore that I may plainly reveal all things unto you, take Antimony well ground, half
A pound, and as much Mercury sublimate, likewise ground, and grind them both togeth upon a marble, till you cannot know them one from another; then set them in a cold place, that the matter dissolving may drop into a Glass set underneath, for when the matters are well
Mixed together, then say, that they will both shortly be dissolved when the water is perfectly dissolved, it will be of a greenish colour and loathsome smell. Put this water with the thick part with it into a Glass, and let it stand the space of
Three days in a fixatory under the fire, and in short time you shall see your dissolvedness of a brownish black colour, and after, that is to say, in the foresaid time it will be red, something higher then red Lead. Dissolve this calcined matter in Raymunds calcinative water, and when you have dissolved
It all into a red liquor or deep yellow, then is your matter brought well into its Chaos. Put this liquor into a fit body with an Alimbeck and receiver, and by distillation separate the red oil or the red Mercury from the white body which remaineth in the earth; and if
Any matter ascend into the head of the Alimbeck, despise it not, but try if it be fixed; and if it be not fixed enough, sublime it till it be fixed. Whereunto join equal weight of its soul, for the Celestial Matrimony, and always leave
Out the earth in the bottom if you have any sublimate fixed, if not, take the white earth remaining in the bottom, with which proceed as before is said, and join the white body with the soul; when they are thus joined or married, set them to impregnate and revivify
In Bulneo, till it pass through all colours, and at last be converted into red, which then is the stone. The manner of Fermentation, Augmentation, both in quantity and quality, and projection, is spoken of before in other works. And thus Sons, Brethren and Reader, I have delivered and opened (and also have amended
Many things) all the secrets of the Ancient Philosophers, whose writings were rather published to conceal the Art, then to make it manifest or teach it; although it pleased Hermes Trismegistus, the first writer of this Art, both to say and protest that he had never revealed, taught,
Nor prophesied anything of this Art to any, except fearing the day of Judgement or the damnation of his Soul, for shunning the danger thereof, even as he received the gift of Faith from the Author of Faith, so he left it to the faithful; yet when you read his writings,
Either in his Smaragdine Table, or in his Apocalips, or his twelve Golden Gates, and shall find nothing plain or manifest, what will you think of such an Author? Believe me all the Ancients have concealed the secret of their preparations in the gross work, although
They writ most famously of the Philosophical operation; therefore I have used my endeavour to trye, for out of their writings I found that the Elixir might be made of the Planets or Metals, and also of mean Minerals, which came more near to a metallic nature, then
Reading more, I found a certain method amongst them all, as it were with one consent or voice on this wise. First and principally, that bodies should be made incorporeal, that is to say, discorporated, or discompounded, which then is called the Hyle or Chaos.
Secondly, That out of this Chaodical substance, which is one thing, three Elements, should be separated and purified. Thirdly, That the separated and purified elements should be joined, the man and the woman, the body and the soul, heaven and earth, with infinite other names so called, that the ignorant
Might think they were diverse, which only were nothing else but water and Salt, or the body and spirit or soul, that is to say, white Mercury and red, which they joined together that a new and pure body might be created in putrefaction, that a Microcosmical infant
Might be created in imitation of the Creation, that is to say, Sulphur of Nature. Fourthly, That it should be fed with Milk, that is to say, with its own proper Tincture, and after nourished by Fermentation, that it may grow to its perfect strength.
Having learned these, I begun to practice, and in the practice of every body and spirit, I found diverse errors; but reading more and trying more, at last I found the manner and true way of dissolving all bodies, separating and conjoining them; finding the composition
Of their secret of secrets, that is to say, Lac virginis, or Acetum acerrimum, and Raymunds calcining water, wherewith I dissolved all bodies at pleasure, and perfected the gross work; wherefore I purposed, contrary to the custom of the Philosophers, to reveal the
Whole work, lest I being envious, should be the Author of error like them; therefore I have added their works to my own experiments and inventions, which are plainly and truly writ, that the Artist need to read no books but mine, for herein is almost all things
Contained, which are found plainly writ by the Philosophers; and also those things which are found true by my own experience. Now you have all things methodically in this Art without error, with which by the help of God, you may attain to the end. Alchemy revealeth and openeth unto us four other secrets.
The first is, the composition of Pearls, far greater and fairer then natural ones, which cannot be perfectly done without the help of the Elixir. The second is the manner of making precious Stones of ignoble ones, by the same Art which we taught before in malleable Glass.
The third is the manner of making artificial Carbunckles in imitation of natural ones, which few or none have spoken of. The fourth is the manner of making Mineral Amber, of which Paracelsus hath only writ in his book of vexations of Philosophers, and in the last Edition of his works in the
Six of his Archidoxes: but because they cannot be made without the help of the Elixirs, therefore they deserve a place amongst the Elixirs; of the fourth, that is to say, of the virtue or rather the vice of making Amber, I shall handle it coldly: I have reserved the explanation
Of this Aenigma, till the last place, wherefore it is said, that the Elixir is perfected in the Decimal number. CHAP. 6. The fifth Table, of making of Pearls. This Table of making Pearls, consisteth of these parts, that is to say, Lac Virginis. [Virgin’s milk] Dissolved Pearls, Quick-silver, And The White Elixir.
Take Lac Virginis, or Acetum Acerrimum, so much as you think sufficient for dissolving the Pearls, as in double proportion to the Pearls; as if there be three ounces of the Pearls, let there be six ounces of Lac Virginis, wherein dissolve the Pearls, and set the Glass
In Balneo to disgest the space of a day, then pour out the solution, and distil it in Balneo, and in the bottom of the Glass you shall find the thick oil of the Pearls, whereunto add so much of your white corporeal Elixir as sufficieth to make the matter like paste,
And put thereto equal weight of the Pearls of Quick-silver; if the matter be too thin, put more powder of the Elixir, if it be too thick, add more Lac Virginis or Quick-silver, till it be like Liver; grind this mass upon a stone till it be brought to a fit thickness.
Then make it up in what form you please, therefore it is necessary that you have a pair of Brass or Iron Moulds in readiness (but it would be better they were of Silver) of what form you will, and fill them with this matter while it is soft; then pierce them through with
A needle, or such like thing, and put as many of these in a Glass as you will (but first hang them upon a thread) and close well the Glass, and bury it with the Pearls therein two foot under the earth, and let it stand there the space of six months till they be
Congealed with the cold into a shining and clear substance like natural Margarites. These Pearls made and compounded in this manner, are no less then natural ones, but much greater and more excellent by reason of the white Elixir. CHAP. 7 . The sixth Table of the Magistery of Carbunckles.
We now come to speak of Carbunckles, which have their birth or original in the pits, and Golden Mines of the earth, of the spirit of Gold and Mineral Salt indurated and corporeal, being decocted and disgested into the hardness of stone by the Archeus of Nature, as well
By the heat of the Climate, as by the great heat of the Sun; for they arise from the spirit of the Minere of Sol or Gold under the earth, by whose influence they shine, as also from the hard Mineral Salt, by the mixture of which they are hardened into the nature of stone;
Whence the Philosopher intendeth and endeavoureth as near as he can to imitate nature by Art, and to make and compound artificial Carbunckles above the earth, with the same materials which Nature formeth them of under the earth; therefore he useth the same principles, operating with
The spirit and soul of Sol undivided, and the most hard Salt of the earth, whereof Venice Glass is made, which two are the material Organs for Manuals: three things are required, that is to say, a Glass-maker, Furnace, a flaming fire, and a Crucible.
We now come to the materials, which are two, and are to be joined together; the first giveth the form, the other receiveth it: that which giveth the form is the spirit and soul of Sol or Gold joyned together in the red Elixir, and is the agent, as it were the man; that
Which receiveth the form, is the hardest Salt of the earth contained in Glass, and is the patient, as it were the woman; the agent is the power of heaven impregnating the earth, the patient is the power of the earth, retaining the impression of the heaven.
Having thus demonstrated the Theory, we now lay the foundation of the practice, which are two, whereof the first is the preparation on the Elixir, the other of the Glass. Therefore your red corporeal Elixir is to be dissolved with the oil or tincture of Mars of Iron, because it hath the greatest virtue above
All other bodies, by whose Celestial power the Earth, that is to say the glass, is brought to the hardness of stone, and converted into a stone: And so the Elixir is prepared for projection upon glass; but for the preparation of glass there is no more required but that
It be made of the same matter that Venice-glass is made of; the composition of which if you know not, Take as much Venice-glass as you please, and weigh it exactly, upon which project your Elixir: when you have so done, put your glass in the Crucible to melt; and when it
Is well molten, then take your Corporeal red Elixir dissolved as before (or if you will, undissolved) as much as sufficeth to tinge the molten glass, and put it tied up in a paper into the Crucible upon the molten glass, stirring it a little with a rod; and there
Let it stand the space of one hour: then take out the Crucible, and pour the matter into an ingot, and it will be malleable, but as hard as glass, and stonelike to the sight: and you may either cut it like a stone, or work it with a hammer. This Carbunckle-stone
Or metal hath the property of a Carbunckle in shining and glistering above all natural Carbuncles; and if it touch a Toad or Spider, they presently die, because it taketh virtue from the Elixir against all poison: And if the sick carrie this Carbunckle about him,
So that it doth touch the region of his heart, it takes away the Cardiack passions, and diminisheth the strength of the disease. CHAP. 8 . The seventh Table denoting the composition of Mineral Electrum or Amber, as well natural as Artificial; and also speaketh of a Bell made of Amber used by Tritemius.
Having finished these two Secrets, we now come to the Electrum: but whether it is to be reckoned amongst stones, or amongst bodies, it may be doubted, because in the West-Indies it is found writ in the Spanish Decads of the virtue thereof; it is affirmed to be the
Greatest Antidote against all poison, and far more noble then Gold: but if it be a metal, it must necessarily be the chief and supreme of all metals; for other metals have their original from Sulphur and Mercury, but this metal consisteth of seven metals, and is the
Best of all those which grow in the Archaeas of the Earth. For where Gold is taken for the most noble of all metals by reason of its perfect digestion and colour, this hath a greater degree of digestion and colour, having a higher colour, that is to say, clear
Red, approaching nearer to the true colour of the Sun. For as Gold is the Sun of other metals, so this Electrum is to Gold as the Heaven to the Sun, wherein Nature as it were in Heaven hath created certain stars shining with clear beams of a Silverish colour, showing
Plain to the eye that it consisteth of red and white metals mixt in the highest degree of digestion. On the Contrary it may be objected, Ob. 1. That there are only six metallic bodies, amongst which this is found to be none; therefore it is rather a Spirit then a body. Also thus.
Ob. 2. The minere of everybody or metal is converted into metal by fusion, but the minere of Electrum in melting always remaineth; therefore it is no metal. Otherwise thus: Ob. 3. There is nothing generated in the earth but stones, spirits, metals, or mean minerals:
But Electrum is none of these; therefore it seems to be no mineral. 1. To the first objection it is thus answered. We say, that it is not apparent out of the books of any of the antient Philosophers, that they ever dreamed of this natural and
Mineral Electrum. But more to the purpose: those are called Spirits, which fly from the fire; but the Electrum dieth not from the fire: therefore it is no Spirit, is Quicksilver and the rest, and also mean minerals.
2. We now come to the next. We grant what the minere of every metal is converted in that metal by the fire, which consists of Mercury and Sulphur. This Axiom is evident in those metals which are imperfect, and fly from the fire either in their minere or in
Themselves, after they reduced into metal; and also the Gold miner, although before melting it fly from the fire, before the Gold be molten and converted into metal; yet because Gold never flieth after it be molten, but is found fixed in all probation, therefore it is accounted
The worthiest of all metals which consist of Sulphur and Mercury. 3. Now to the third, I say, that I think it rather is of a stony and metallic nature joined together; by which mixture it differs from a stone, and also from metal: but because
It consisteth of Mercury, Earthly Salt and Sulphur mixed, therefore it gets unto it a mixt nature of them; so that it is half stone, half metal. Wherefore it is to be judged that it consisteth of three natures mixed together; that is to
Say mineral, metallic, and stony; and is the best of all those which grow in the Archeas of the Earth for it exceeds mean minerals in fixation and constancy, because they passe away in fume by long melting, and vanish to nothing; or else they melt easily in moisture,
As salts, &c. But this Electrum or Amber remaineth fixed and constant as well in the fire as water. It exceeds metals in digestion, colour and dignity. In digestion, because it is endewed with the sign of greater and more perfect digestion for as Gold is more yellow by reason
Of his greater heat and more perfect digestion; So this Electrum, because it hath a higher colour then Gold hath, therefore it is more digested in colour; for as Gold exceeds other metals in colour, so Electrum exceeds Gold; for Gold is yellow, but Electrum red, which
Is a higher colour then yellow. And as Silver is the Luna of white metals, so Gold is the Sol of red metals: So Electrum is to Gold, as the heaven is to Sol in dignity or value;
For by how much Gold is more noble then Silver, so much this Electrum is more noble then Gold. Lastly, it excels stones in shining, and virtue. In shining, because they shine by reason of their hardness; so this Electrum showeth many sparks, not by reason of its hardness, but
By reason of his completeness. And as the heaven is adorned with Stars, so this Electrum with sparking, because it hath the clearness and brightness of all metals. And as the Heaven containeth all the Stars and Planets, so this Electrum, which is the Heaven of metals, containeth
The Sun and Moon, and the rest of the Planets in itself; Gold and Silver as it were the greater Luminaries, the other bodies or metals as the rest of the Planets, mean minerals as Stars in virtue. For although many stones have singular properties and virtues, so that
Some help the sight, others the Spleen, some the Heart; some stop blood, some hinder abortiveness, some hasten childbirth, some resist poison: yet there is no one found which takes away all infirmities, as Electrum doth, more then all mean minerals, metals or stones, according
To his threefold conjunction, that is to say, Mineral, Metallic, and Lapidifick. Therefore whatsoever others please to think of this Natural Electrum, this seemeth most probable to me, that it is not simply a metal, but of a nature exceeding metal: for whereas
Stones, mean minerals and metals are generated of Salt, Sulphur and Mercury, this Electrum takes his original from Stones, Minerals and Metals: from stones it takes Salt, from Minerals Mercury, from Metals Sulphur. These three being brought into one by the Archeas of natute,
Are its Elements, from a greater virtue and power of nature; which Elements have formed a higher degree of perfection then in any other stone, mineral or metal, as it were by the Commandment of God Nature should ascribe a Crown of virtue and dignity above all minerals.
But however it be, it is taken two manner of ways amongst the later Magicians and Alchemists, that is to say, that which is made naturally, and artificially; naturally is that which groweth in the natural Archeas of the Earth; the Artificial is that which is made by Art
Above the Earth in imitation of Nature. Whence Paracelsus a worthy Master in Magic seeing fully the nature of it, and the utility of Alchemy, commanding to make the Elixir thereof when as its natural body cannot be had, in his book of the Vexations of Philosophers, and the sixth of his Magical Archidoxes, teacheth
To compound an Artificial Electrum, that the Elixir must be made thereof, as appears more at large in the said Books; which I like not at all He teacheth how to make the Elixir out of Electrum; I contrarily, the Electrum out of the Elixir: he would make the Elixir
Of the virtue of the Electrum; and I the Electrum of the virtue of the Elixir. I leave his way to his own followers, but I desire mine not to weary and vex themselves in such a weak, but a more strong principle.
I make two kinds of Electrum one way; the first whereof is Spiritual, the other Corporeal. First of the former: after you have made your red Corporeal Elixir by projection, in the same Crucible melt one ounce of Lead, and likewise
Another of Tin; and when they are hot, take the Crucible from the fire, and pour therein one ounce of Silver melted in another Crucible; and when these three white metals begin to be cold, take two ounces of Mercury well purged, and put those two ounces of Quicksilver upon
The molten metal by drops: then increase the fire gently, that too much of the Mercury do not fume away: then in three other several Crucibles melt Iron, Copper, and Gold, of each one ounce, which you must have in readiness molten. And first, put your molten Gold into
The Crucible, where your four white metals stand molten, and pour it upon them; then your Copper, and last of all your Iron, stirring the whole masse with a stick, that it may mix together; and let it stand in a melting heat the space of an hour: then take all out
That is melted in the Crucible, and consider well the weight of it; and according to the goodness of your Elixir, make projection for medicine. And thus you have created and compounded spiritual Electrum of the weight of seven ounces, consisting of seven metals; which
Metals so converted into medicine, will be the Elixir of Electrum, and an Universal medicine, for you need not after regard upon what body (or metal) you project it. It is also the chiefest medicine for man’s body: for although three or four of all the Diseases of the Microcosm
Were united together, yet they may be cured with this one medicine. If you dissolve part of this in Spirit of wine, and distil away the same spirit in Balneo, and the Oil of the medicine or Elixir remain in the bottom, as is taught in the second book, you shall
Have the chiefest medicine of life, and most Noble Aurum potabile. Note that if your Iron melt not well, then dissolve your Electrum in the Oil or Tincture of Mars, dissolving and congealing until it have imbibed a sufficient quantity.
But if you desire to make corporeal Electrum, when your medicine beginneth to fail to convert metals any more into medicine, then in like manner project your medicine upon your melted metals or bodies, and they will be converted into corporeal Electrum metallic and malleable;
Of the virtue of which as I do endeavour to write nothing; so also of its vice, or rather of the viciousness of those that abuse it, I will touch a little sparingly. Paracelsus writeth, that Virgill Hispanus and Trithemius made a Diabolical Bell of this
Artificial Electrum, upon which when they would invocate Spirits (which they called by a more decent name of Intelligences) they writ the Character of what Spirit they desired; and at the third ring of the bell the Spirits obeyed their desires so long as they desired
To talk with them; and when they would talk no more, they hid the Character, and by the reverse ringing of the bell the Spirits departed. He that will forsake God, and require knowledge, aid and assistance from the Devil, let him share with Arbucell, and with him descend
To the Infernal Lake. But we that are true Magicians, or rather Philosophers, confiding in God the Father, and the holy Trinity, approving of Natural and lawful Magic or true Philosophy, but accounting the supernatural altogether infamous and unlawful. And we require the
Doctrine and Wisdom of divine goodness, and the holy Spirit, to whom be honour and glory for evermore. Amen. CHAP. 9. The eighth Table, which explaineth the meaning of the Philosophers when they speak of the tenth Number wherein the Elixir is finished: And also showeth the wonderful secret of the
Animal stone, out of George Ripley, with two other of his works. We now come to the Last Chapter of this Book, wherein is declared what the Philosophers mean when they bid us finish the work in the tenth number: it is to be understood that
As out of the Hyle or Chaos four are divided; so out of the Hyle or Chaos of metals. Because metals or bodies when they are dissolved into liquor, then they are contained in the first or one number, which is the solution of the body, of which by distillation is made two,
(That is to say, Heaven and Earth, the Menstruum and Salt) that which remaineth in the bottom is the Earth or Salt, that which is distilled over is the Menstruum and Heaven. And so you have One, two. When the Menstruum is separated, it is divided into Three, that is to say, into Water, Air,
And Fire: Yet it is to be noted, that the Air, which is the first part of the water containing an aery disposition, although it be in the form of water, yet it is reputed air, by reason of the consimilitude of the quality; and after its perfect rectification,
It is a tinging Mercury, and the white Spirit of metals. In like manner is to be considered of the Oil, which although it is not in the form of fire, but a liquor; yet by reason of its Ardent heat, it is called fire, and the Soul or red tinging Mercury. And so there
Is One, Two, Three. When there is a Conjunction of these three, that is to say, the air and water with its Salt or Earth, in putrefaction, these three are united into one quintessence, and are made a new body; in which three are united in one Sulphur, which Sulphur is the true
Philosophers Mercury: and in making this white Sulphur, you have once turned the Philosophers wheel. But that the work may be perfected in the tenth Number, if you add the fire which is the fourth Element, to these three concluded in the foresaid unity, and rubified; then
If these four in a new Conjunction be purified in a lent fire of ashes, then it is the stone: for in this work it changeth colours again, and is converted into a red stone: and by
This means you have joined four into one, that is to say, 1. 2. 3. 4. make ten: And so the stone is finished in the tenth number, because you have turned the Philosophers wheel twice, as Ripley witnesseth thus. But yet again two times turn about the wheel.
The stone is to be dissolved again with the fire, or Soul, or Tincture, and dried again until it pierce and flow; then it is to be fermented into Elixir with the Oil of the Luminary; and so you have turned the Philosophers wheel again, which is then called the medicine
Of the third order. Of the solution of this, Ripley hath writ these verses, teaching the resolution of the white and red stone before it be transmuting Elixir, calling them his Bases, saying, Do as I bid thee, then dissolve these foresaid Bases witty, And turn them into perfect Oils with our true water Ardent:
By Circulation that must be done, according to our Intent. These Oils will fix crude Mercury, and convert bodies all Into perfect Sol and Luna when thou shalt make projection: That Olie Substance pure and fixed Raymond Lully did call His Basilisk, of which he never made so plain detection.
By which verses it plainly appeareth, his Bases were only two Sulphurs, or two stones, which in another place he called his Mineres: and these mineres ought to be dissolved by his Ardent water, by circulation of the Oil or soul upon the Sulphur, until it become
A stone: for in this place he takes both the spirit and the soul for the Ardent water, willing that the spirit and soul be administered according to their tinging natures, for the resolution of the proper Basis. And thus have you the words of this Aenigma explained of
The tenth number; which seeing it is the end of the Art, I have reserved it till the end. It now remaineth that we reveal one secret of Ripley, which was never spoken of by any Philosopher; that is to say, the manner of making the Sulphur of Nature out of the Minere
Of the Microcosm, which is man’s blood, of which he writ the whole practice in his book of the twelve gates, but most chiefly in his Medulla, where he teacheth its preparation and work more plainly. And because I have proved it to be true, therefore I tell it
More confidently, because I desire to write nothing of my own fancy, but that which I have first proved. Hearken almost the last verses which he writ in his Twelve gates: 1. I never saw true work truly but one, Of which in this Treatise the truth I have
Told: Study only therefore how to make our stone, For thereby mayst thou win both Silver and Gold. Upon my writing therefore to ground thee be bold. So shalt thou loose nought, if God be thy guide: Trust to my doctrine, and thereby abide.
2. Remember that man is most noble Creature Of Earthly composition that ever God wrought, In whom is the four elements proportioned by nature, A natural Mercuriality which costeth right nought, Out of his minere by Art it is brought: For our metals be nought else but our mineres
Two, Of Sun and Moon, wisely Raymund said so. The clearness of the Moon and of the Sun so bright, In these two mineres descendeth secretly; Howbeit the clearness is hid from thy sight, By craft thou shalt make it appear openly. This hid stone, this one thing therefore putrefy,
Wash him in his own broth till white he become, Then ferment him wittily. Lo here is all and sum. Out of these only words there are two points observed, whereunto the Author steereth: The first is, that man’s blood be put to putrefaction, that Sulphur may be made thereof. The second
Is, that it be fermented wittily; As if he should say, the Artist should prepare it, that it may be fit for fermentation. Thus far of the Theory; Now we come to declare the practice out of Ripley’s medulla.
Take Mans blood drawn out of the Veine in March, and of a Martial man the Author meaneth (as I think) of a Choleric complexion; and when the blood is drawn out of the vein, let it cool, that the Green water may be drawn from it, which is saltish: for as long as
That saltish water remaineth with the blood, it will not let it putrefy, because the water preserveth the blood from putrefaction while it is in a man’s body. When it is thus prepared, put it in an Egg glass well closed, and set it in Balneo to
Purify, in forty days or less it will be black; and so go on till it be white. When you have your white Sulphur, divide it into two parts, and keep one for the white stone, and rubify the other for the red work. And so you have two mineres, of which it is said,
For our metals be nought else but our mineres two Of Sun and Moon, wisely Raymond said so. And so to the end of the verses, as before. Yet here it is to be understood, that the Philosophers Sulphur is not mineral or metallic Sulphur, from which metals grow under the
Earth: but it is a purified Sulphur drawn out of metals made by Art above the Earth: out of which and the Mercury of the body the stone ariseth. For believe me, I had never write anything of this Art, except I had seen the Sulphur of the Microcosm, and the perfect
Solution of other bodies and Sulphurs. Now have you prepared your Sulphur out of the minere of the Microcosm: If you be a Philosopher, proceed to the end, and conclude your work in the tenth number: If not, you are not born
To our Philosophy; therefore give the Sulphur Mercury, that the work may be complete. I believe there lieth not any Secret in the Chemical Art, which thou hast not truly declared and plainly taught. But to the end that these things which we have spoken may be more surely
Committed to memory, we will repeat the general process of the parts as it is described in the beginning of this third book. And because there is not one, but diverse handling of the bodies, therefore the Table is divided into three parts; the middle whereof discribeth
The process of imperfect bodies to the stone; the other two teach the preparation of perfect metals for fermentation of the stone of imperfect bodies. The manner of preparing imperfect bodies. Calcination of the body. Solution of the body into Hyle. Separation by Distillation. Conjunction of the separated. Putrefaction of the conjoined.
Sulphur by putrefaction to the Stone. Fermentation of the Stone to the Elixir. Augmentation of the Elixir. Projection of the Elixir. Some make twelve parts, as Ripley and others, who call them twelve gates: but because three other degrees are contained in these, it would be ridiculous to repeat them: and because
The way of both ferments, whether white or red, is the same. The Table of Fermentation. Calcination. Solution. Putrefaction. Sulphur. Solution of the Sulphur. Red ferment. Aurum Potabile. Quintessence. Elixir vitae. So likewise it is said of Silver when it is prepared. White Ferment. Argentum Potabile. Quintessence. White Elixir of Life.
Now the Radiant Sun of the Philosophers ariseth, which will drive away the dark Chimera’s, and disperse the black clouds. Here the Aenigma’s are opened, thistles and thorns are cut up and burned. Now Reader mayest thou safely walk in the Philosophers gardens, and gather
Most wholesome fruit. Here grow most fragrant roses both white and red. Here grow Vines bearing full grapes, of which is made the wholesome Nectar. Here are found trees of health and wealth, Trees of the Sun and of the Moon. Here spring two cool fountains of
Sciences and Knowledge sliding artificially through the garden upon the most pretious gems, and Silver and Golden Sands. Thou hast one field of Paradice given thee from God, that during the Life of his elect they may be kept in health, free from all sickness.
Here the corrupt Nature puts on an incorrupt Nature. Here impure things are turned into pure things. Here are all diseases lost, and health encreaseth. Here the perfect unity and harmony of body dwell, and here is also all the most excellent treasures. Therefore
Let us always praise God for his gifts: let us worship him, obey him, love him, and beseech him to establish his grace upon us; and conduct us to eternity through all his ways of goodness, knowledge and faith, to Life eternal. Amen. FINIS.
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