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A26733	Of natural & supernatural things also of the first tincture, root, and spirit of metals and minerals, how the same are conceived, generated, brought forth, changed, and augmented / [by] Basilius Valentinus ; translated out of high Dutch by Daniel Cable ; whereunto is added Frier Roger Bacon, Of the medicine or tincture of antimony; Mr. John Isaac Holland, his Work of Saturn; and Alex. Van Suchten, Of the secrets of antimony.	Basilius Valentinus.; Cable, Daniel.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.; Hollandus, Johan Isaäc, 15th cent.; Suchten, Alexander von, ca. 1520-ca. 1590.	1671 (1671)	Wing B1020; ESTC R29247	60,576	242

externally for the Spirit of the Air lies in the inward part of all things for God created nothing in this world but it hath its peculiar Taste or Air the Air and the Taste are one Spirit the Taste goes out of the Air as Smoke from the Fire But how comes it to pass that a thing which hath a sweet Air is bitter in Taste The cause is because the Faeces of that thing are putrid and stinking in the Elements that is the Choler or Heat for whatsoever is unnaturally hot hath a bitter Taste the Air and the Taste are both one Spirit and as the Spirit of the Air presses outwards through hot thing so doth the Air ●race the Taste about and ●ends the subtile Taste that it should not be burnt by the vehement burning Choler as in the Herbal is at large express'd But the cause why Saturn is sweet in Taste is that it is almost pure and clean having scarce any unnatural heat in it which can burn the subtile Tast therefore it hath the Taste externally and the Taste hath the Spirit of the Air lock'd up in it My Child know what I said before that a thing wherein is much burning heat the Air locks up the Taste therein because the Taste shall not be corrupted by the unnatural heat So the Taste includes the Air in it when it issues forth from a thing which is externally cold for the subtil Spirits of the Air or Sent of a thing can endure no Cold as we see daily in Herbs and Flowers that they yield no Sent in the Winter as they do in the Summer but they hide themselves in the Winter and the Spirit hath the Sent inclosed in it and the Spirit of Sent of Air. Behold a man that hath taken Cold immediately he loses his Sent and his Tasting is diminished Even so it is here with Saturn it is quite-cold so that the Taste manifests it self with the Spirit of Sent for the Spirit of the Taste hath the Smell in it Look upon Sugar which is well clarified from its Faeces how sweet it is in Taste yet it yields no Sent yet there is an extraordinary sweetness in Sugar What is the reason of this Sugar is very cold externally therefore is it white as Snow and of a sweet Taste yet Sugar internally is hot and moist of the temper of Gold and of such great virtue that it is called the Philosophers Stone as it is approved and very prevalent to cure all the Distempers of mans Body as appears by its operation The reason why I say this my Child is that you should altogether understand its internal external and the Spirits which are in these things whereof we discourse that thereby you should know Gods wonderful works and what wonders he works in these inferiour things which are all made for our use What hath God in us for whose sake he hath created all these wonders and all these things Wherefore my Child believe in God love him and follow him for he loves you as he makes it appear and manifests himself in all things as well in their Internals as in their Externals O how wonderful is our Lord and God from whom all Wonders proceed Now my child why is Saturn fluxible as Wax By reason of its abounding Sulphur which is therein for I find no fluxibleness or fusibleness in any thing saving in Sulphur Mercury and Arsenick and all these three are in Saturn so that Saturn is quickly fluxible but all these three are cleansed with it from their uncleanness And do you not know that the Philosophers call their Sone Arsenick and a white thing and they say their Sulphur is incombustible they call it likewise a red thing all this is Saturn in it is Arsenick for Luna is principally generated of a white Sulphur as is plainly taught in the Book of Sulphurs and all Arsenick is internally red as Bloud if its inward part be brought outwards as is demonstrated in the Book of Colours c. Saturn stands almost in the degree of fix'd Luna So that in it there is a red Sulphur as you see when its internal is placed outwards it will be red as a Ruby there are no Colours but in the Spirits so that there is in it a red and a yellow Sulphur In it is Mercury as may be seen for Mercury is extracted out of Saturn in a short time and with little labour So that all three are in Saturn but they are not fix'd therein but they are clean pure incombustible fluxible as Wax in it are all things which the Philosophers have mentioned They say our Stone is made of a stinking menstruous thing What think you is not Saturn digg'd out of a stinking Earth for divers are killed with the ill Sents and Vapours where Saturn is digg'd or they live not long who labour in that stinking black Mine whence Saturn is digg'd And the Philosophers say our Stone is of little value being unprepared they say the poor have it as well as the rich and they say true for there are not poorer or more miserable people to be found than those which dig and work Saturn in the Mine and they say it is to be found in all Towns and places wheresoever you come Saturn is there They say it is a black thing What think you is it not black They say it is a dry water if Gold or Luna be to be refined upon the test must it not be done with Saturn must be wash'd and tried with it as a foul garment is made clean with Sope. They say in our Stone are the four Elements and they say true for the four Elements may be separated out of Saturn They say our Stone consists of Soul Spirit and Body and these three become one They say true when it is made fix'd for the white Mercury and Sulphur with its Earth then these three are one Whereby is to be observed that the Philosophers have said true they concealed its Name for the ignorants sake who are not their Children to keep them still in their Ignorance Thus my Child the Ancients took care to conceal the name of the Stone now let us return to our purpose You have now Saturn wash'd and cleansed from all its impurity and made as white as Snow fusible as Wax but it is not fix'd yet we will make it fix the Mercury and Sulphur with its Earth Take a Glass-Vial put half of your purified Saturn into it reserve the other half till you have occasion to use it lay a polish'd Glass upon the mouth of the Glass set it in a Cuple with sifted Ashes upon a Furnace or set it on the Tripos of Secrets or in the Furnace wherein you calcine Spirits give it Fire so hot is the heat of the Sun at Midsummer and no hotter either a very little hotter or a very little cooler as you can best hit it But if you give it a greater heat such as you may keep

that no transmutation of any Metal can follow out of Saturn by reason of its great coldness only and except to coagulate common Mercury for the cold Sulphur of Lead can qualifie and take away the hot running Spirit of the Quicksilver if the process be rightly ordered wherefore it is not amiss to observe that Mercury is so detained that the Theory should agree with the Practick and meet together in a certain measure and concordance You must not therefore quite reject Saturn nor in all points scornfully neglect him because its Natures and Virtues are known yet but unto few for the Stone of the wise hath the first beginning of its Celestial high-shining Colour only out of this Metal and from the influence of this Planet the Key of Constancy is delivered unto him by putrefaction because the red cannot be made out of the yellow except before-hand a white be made out of the beginning of the black I could yet treat variously and at large of many wonderful works of Natural and Supernatural things But because other Labours prevent me therein of making a longer Narration I therefore put a Conclusion to this Treatise at present referring the other concerning the concealed Secrets of Minerals until I have a purpose to write further in a particular Treatise of Antimony Vitriol Brimstone Magnet and which in especial are endowed before others and depend upon those out of which Gold and Silver have their beginning middle and end together with the true transmutation particularly which virtues and power they have received out of one thing wherein all these lie to be generated invisibly concealed together with all Metals which matter is publick before the eyes of all men but because the vertues and powers are very deeply buried and unknown to the most part therefore this matter is likewise esteemed as nothing or of no value and unprofitable out of ignorance even as the Disciples of the Lord going to Emaus their eyes were opened at the breaking of Bread that they knew wonder above wonder what the rich Creator hath placed in the vile creature the name is Hermes who carries a flying Serpent in his Shield having a Wife whose Name is Aphrodita who can know the Hearts of all men and yet all is one and one only thing one only Essence which is common in all Places and known every where every one grasps it with his hands and uses it in vile matters and of small value he values the vile at a high rate and that which is high he casts away it is nothing else but Water and Fire out of which the Earth is generated by the help of the Air and is yet preserved Praise be to the most High for his Gifts At present enough is revealed what my intent was to shew in this Treatise and so I depart hence for in separation all is to be found Of the Medicine or Tincture of Antimony as well to preserve Mans Body in Health and to divert all desperate and incurable Diseases as also to cure the Leprosie of Metals to purifie and to transmute them into the best Gold Written by that Noble and Learned Philosopher Roger Bacon STibium or Antimony as the Philosophers say is composed of a Noble Mineral Sulphur which they accounted to be the black secret Lead of the Wise. The Arabians call it Asmat or Azmat the Alchymists retain the Name Antimony Addition The Moors call it Antimony others call it Alabaster or Tarbason By the Arabians and Spaniards it is called Alcohol Avicennae c. 7. calls it Artemed Alexius of Piedmont in his seventh Book of Secrets calls it Talck even as John Jacob Wecker renders it in his Books of Secrets but Talck is far different from Antimony Pliny Book 33. Chap. 6. of Antimony Dioscorides gives a preparation of Antimony Book 5. Chap. 39. They call it also Stibi Stimmi c. The Germans call it Spies glass or as George Fabricius would rather have it Spies glantz Gerlandius calls it Black Alcophil Altofel or Alirnu others Cosmet and it is twofold Masculine and Feminine It will lead us to the considera of higher Mysteries if we behold and discern that Nature wherein Gold is exalted even as the Magi have found that this Mineral is by God ordained under the Constellation of Aries which is the first Celestial Sign wherein the Sun takes its Exaltation though this be not regarded by the Vulgar yet discreet people will know and the better observe that even in this place also the Mysteries and Perpetuity may in part be considered with great benefit and in part discovered But some ignorant and indiscreet people think that when they had Antimony they would deal well enough with it by Calcination others by Sublimation and some by Reverberation thereby to obtain its great Mystery and perfect Medicine But I tell you that here in this place it availes not in the least either Calcination Sublimation or Reverberation whereby afterwards a perfect extraction can or might be done or effected with profit to transmute the meaner into a better Metallick virtue for it is impossible for you Be not deluded some of the Philosophers which have wrote of such things as Geber Albertus Magnus Rasis Rupecissa Aristotle and many others But observe this Some say that if Antimony be made to a Vitrum or Glass the bad volatile Sulphur is gone and the Oil which may be prepared out of that Glass will be a very fixt Oil and will really give an ingress and Medicine of perfection to the imperfect Metals These words and opinion are good and true but it will not be nor appear such indeed for I tell you truly without concealed speeches that if you lose any of the aforesaid Sulphur in the Preparation or Burning for a small fire may easily prejudice it you then have lost the true penetrating Spirit which should make the whole Body of Antimony to a perfect red Oyl which should also ascend over the helm with a delightful sent and curious Colours observe likewise that the whole Body of this Mineral with all its Members should be but one Oyl and ascend over the helm without any loss of weight excepting the feces How should the Body be brought to an Oil or yield its pleasant Oil if it be brought to the last being of its degree for Glass is in all things the utmost and last You shall likewise know that you shall not obtain that perfect noble Oil in the least if it be extracted with corrected Vinegar poured upon the Antimony nor yet by Reverberation and although its various colours may appear yet is it not the right way you may indeed get an Oil but you must know that it hath no part of the Tincture or power of transmutation in it Now we come to the Manual Operation Take in the Name of God and of the Eternal Trinity fine and very pure Mineral Antimony which is fair white massie and inwardly full of yellow Streaks or Veins aud likewise