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A43280	One hundred fifty three chymical aphorisms briefly containing whatsoever belongs to the chymical science / done by the labour and study of Eremita Suburbanus, printed in Latin at Amsterdam, Octob. 1687 ; to which are added some other phylosophic canons or rules pertaining to the hermetick science ; made English and published ... by Chr. Packe ...; CLIII aphorismei chemici. English	Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van, 1614-1699.; Packe, Christopher, fl. 1670-1711.; Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644.	1688 (1688)	Wing H1392; ESTC R9172	18,316	72

the other Metals And it is the beginning of the greater Work. 132. Common Mercury being prepared is taken for a metallick Aqua-vitae 133. The passive Mercury and Menstruum ought by no means to lose the External form of Mercury 134. Whosoever useth sublimate or calcined or precipitated Powder instead of running Mercury for the Compleating the Work of Phylosophers erreth and is wholly deceived 135. Whosoever resolveth Mercury into a clear water for the perfecting of the Phylosophick Work erreth grievously 136. To compose or make Mercury of a Limpid water is in the power of none but Nature 137. In the great Physical Work it is necessarily required that the crude Mercury should resolve the Gold into Mercury 138. If the Mercury be reduced into water it dissolveth the Gold into water And in the work of the Stone it is highly necessary that the Gold should be dissolved into Mercury 139. The Sperm and the Menstruum ought to have the same external form 140. It is the Doctrine of Phylosophers that it is necessary for us to irritate or stir up Nature therefore if the Menstruum be dry it will be in vain to hope for a Solution 141. The seed of the Stone ought to be taken in a form like and near to the metals and which cometh very near to metals 142. It is highly necessary to take a seed of the Phylosophick Medicine which resembleth common Mercury 143. It is the secret of all secrets to know the Mercury and matter to be the Menstruum of the Stone and the Mercury of the perfect Bodies to be the form 144. Mercury by it self only affords nothing of moment to generation 145. Mercury is the Element of Earth in which the Grain of Gold ought to be sowed 146. The seed of Gold is not only put into a multiplication of its quantity but also of its vertue 147. A perfect Mercury requireth a female for the work of generation 148. Every Mercury ariseth from and partaketh of two Elements the crude of Water and Earth that which is concocted of Fire and Air. 149. If any man would prepare and exalt Mercury into a Metal let him add a little Ferment to it that it may be exalted to such a metallick degree as he would have it 150. The great Arcanum of the whole Work is the Physical Dissolution into Mercury and reduction into the first matter 151. The Dissolution of Sol ought to be perfected by Nature not by the work of the Hands 152. When Sol is conjoyned or married to its Mercury it will be in the form of Sol but the greater Preparation will be in the Calx 153. It is a Question among the Wise Whether the Mercury of Luna being conjoyned with the Mercury of Sol may be taken instead of the Phylosophick Menstruum 154. The Mercury of Luna is of a masculine nature but two males can no more generate than two females 155. The Elixir consisteth in this that it be elicited and chosen from a most pure Mercury 156. He that desireth to operate let him work in the Solution and Sublimation of the two Luminaries 157. Gold giveth a golden colour Silver a Silver colour but he that knoweth how to tinge Mercury with Sol or Luna hath arrived to a great Arcanum FINIS HEre thou hast friendly Reader those Phylosophick Canons without which whosoever thou art thou wilt hardly attain thy wished End If thou receive these Hermetick Fundamentals with a grateful mind and exercise thy Self in this Theory with a pious Meditation time may hereafter bring forth the Praxis of those Rules not that imperfect or maimed one which I have shewed to some but Intire and Compleat confirmed by many Arguments and solid Reasons In the mean time Farewel POST-SCRIPT TO THE READER WHereas I have Lately published Proposals for the Printing of all the Works of that indefatigable and highly-experienced Chymist Glauber in one entire Folio And whereas there are divers of his Treatises in the German Tongue which never were printed in Latin which I had not by me at the time of publishing the said Proposals and Specimen so that I could not insert their Title Pages in the Specimen as I did of the rest Now having obtained the said German Treatises and procured them to be translated by a fit and able Hand I have thought good having this opportunity to insert them at the end of this little Book First that all the Lovers of Chymistry may know what to expect more than the 44 Treatises whose Titles are in the Specimen and secondly forasmuch as Glauber wrote those last in his later days when he had arrived to a great Experience of Things and was willing to be more Open and Plain than in his former Writings those Last Pieces of his seem to be of another strain and to teach many things very openly which the Adepts have either wholly concealed or at the least have delivered so abstrusely that very few have been able to understand them So that if I mistake not that Theory of the Hermetick Medicine which is contained in the 153 Aphorisms very regularly though concisely may without much difficulty be put into Practice by the assistance of some of the following Treatises That Glauber before his death was Master of some Phylosophick secrets I verily believe by his manner of Writing and himself professeth in one of his last Writings speaking concerning the secret Fire of Artephius That he could now sitting still in his Chamber do more with an Egg-shell than heretofore with all his Furnaces and Glasses But to detain the Reader no longer the Treatises I speak of are entituled as followeth I. The Third Century Containing the Discovery of many Chymical Secrets II. The Fourth Century Shews 1. How to extract Gold out of Granats 2. To make the Mercury of Wine 3. To make the Mercury of Metals What the Anima of the greater and lesser World is That all superfluous Egestions of Nature afford a volatile Salt. To separate Gold from Silver on a Cupel A Tincture out of Metals The Tincture of Gold and Sulphur To make Gold red A Cement to graduate ♀ into ☉ To dulcifie all Corrosives Sal Mirabile or a sweet graduating Spirit useful for the exalting of Metals The Phylosophick Work. Sulphur the father of all Metals The Universal Coagulater is a Sulphur Demagorgon is the Grandfather of all things The Vital Spirit and Radical moisture is the Life and Growth of all men III. The Fifth Century Sheweth the greatest Particular and the cheapest Universal IV. Of Elias the Artist Or who this Elias the Artist is and what he is to reform or amend in the World when he comes viz. The true Spagyrick Medicine of the ancient Aegyptian Phylosophers which hath been lost for a Thousand years and which he will again restore renew the same and gloriously illustrate it with many New Inventions lay aside much smoaky working and shew to the present erring World a nearer and better way by which with more ease