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thereof And a little after in the same place You ought to know concerning the Quintessence that it is a matter little and small lodged and harboured in some Tree Herb Stone or the like the rest is a pure body from which we learn the separation of the Elements Rupescissa concerning the Quintessence in chap. 5. about the end saith The Quintessence which we seek is therefore a thing ingeniated by divine breath which by continual ascensions and descensions is separated from the corruptible body of the four Elements and the reason is because that wich is a second time and often sublimed is more subtile glorified and separated from the corruption of the four Elements then when it ascends only once and so that which is sublimed even to a thousand times and by continual ascension and desoension comes to so great a vertue of glorification that it is a compound almost incorruptible as the Heavens and of the matter of the Heavens and therefore called Quintessence because 't is in respect of the Body as the Heavens are in respect of the whole World almost after the same way by which Art can imitate Nature as by a certain like very near and connatural way CHAP. VI. Of the Philosophical Fire or Dissolving Menstruum or our Liquor Alkahest THe preparation of this Water or most noble Juice which is the Kings true Bath the Philosophers always held occult so that Bernard Count Tresne and Neigen Book 2. said he had made a vow to God to Philosophers and to Equity not plainly to explain himself to any man because it is the most secret Arcanum of the whole Work and is so indeed for if this Liquor were manifested to every man Boys would then deride our Wisdom and Fools would be equal to the Wise and the whole World would rush hither with a blind impulse and run themselves headlong without any regard to Equity or Piety to the bottom of Hell Augurellus calls this Menstruum Mercury in these words Tu quoque nec coeptis Cylleni audacibus unquam Defueris Argentum vulgo quod vivere dicunt Sufficit tantis praestant primordia rebus Nor is Argent vive ever wanting to the bold undertaking of Cylenus it yeelds principles to great things The same doth George Ripley judge in his Preface of the twelve Gates I will teach you truly that these are the Mercuries that are the keys of Knowledge which Raymund calls his Menstrua's without which is nothing done Geber names it otherwise saying by the most high God this is that Water which lighteth Candles gives light to houses and yeelds abundance of Riches Oh the Water of our Sea Oh our Sal Nitre appertaining to the Sea of the World Oh our Vegetable Oh our fixt and volatile Sulphur O the Caput mortuum or faeces of our Sea Tridensine in his secret work of the Philosophers Stone saith The Water which Philosophers used for the complement of the Work they called Lac Virginis Coagulum the Morning-dew the Quintessence Aqua-vitae the Philosophers Daughter c. Paracelsus variously also Azoth Spirit of Wine temper'd and circulated Mercurial-Water Sendivogius Chalibs Rupeseissa Vinegar most nobly distilled Van-Helmont that most profound Philosopher by Fire called it the Liquor Alkahest and thus describ'd it The Liquor Alkahest resolves every visible and tangible body into its first matter preserving the power of the Seed concerning which the Chymists say the Vulgar burn by Fire but we by Water We by the Philosophers leave are those that can at will give names to their products do call it the Mercurial Oyl of Salt putrefied and alembicated for Oyl is exalted to an higher degree of a fiery quality as it is the foundation of the whole metallick solution which is to be well observed without which nothing can be advantagious in the Art and it acts the part of a Woman in our Work and is deservedly called the Wife of Sol and the Matrix and it is the hidden Key to open the close Gates of Metals for it dissolves calcined Metals it calcines and putrefies the volatile and spiritual it tingeth into all colours and is the beginning middle and end of Tinctures and is of one nature with Gold as Arn. de Villa Nova affirms unless that the nature of Gold is compleat digested and fixed but the nature of the Water is incompleat indigested and volatile In a word it is the Philosophers Fire by which the Tree of Hermes is burnt to ashes Concerning this Fire Johannes Pontanus in his Epistle saith The Philosophers Fire is not the Fire of Balneo nor of Dung nor of any thing of that kind which the Philosophers have published in their Writings it is mineral it is equal it is continual it evapourates not unless it be too much incensed it participates of Sulphur it is taken elsewhere than from the matter it divide dissolves calcines and congeals all things and it is a Fire with moderate burning it is a compendium without any great charge because the whole work is perfected therewith Study therefore therein for if I had found this at first I had not erred two hundred times before I attained to practice wherefore men do err have erred and will err because the Philosophers have not constituted a proper Agent in their Books except one namely Artephius But he speaks according to his judgment and unless I had read Artephius and perceived his scope I had never attained to the Complement of the Work c. Do you consult him and ye shall know what our Menstruum is I have said enough CHAP. VII Whether the dissolving Menstruum be corrosive GEBER de Sum. perfect Cap. 52 seems to be of this opinion whilst he saith Every thing that is solved must necessarily have the nature of Salt Alums and the like And Paracelsus in his fourth Book Archidox of the Quintessence a little after the beginning saith thus It is difficult and scarce credible to extract a Quintessence without a Corrosive out of Metals but especially out of Gold which cannot be overcome but by a Corrosive by which the Quincessence and Body are one separated from the other which Corrosive may again be taken from it And Chap. 3. of Long Life Tom. 6. Book 3. he thus speaks Resolve Gold together with all the substance of Gold by a Corrosive c. and that so long till it be made the same with the Corrosive nor be you dismayed because of this way of operation for a Corrosive is commodious for Gold if it be Gold and without a Corrosive it is dead Yet you must know that our Menstruum being poured upon Gold ought not properly be said to be corrosive but rather fiery the strength and vertue of which Arcanum overcomes all Poisons For every Realgar that is Mercury vive and sublimate as also precipitate ought to dye in the Elixirium of Sol and come to a singular and excellent tincture because also violent solution is not made by our Menstruum such

Philosophers Stone Metals to be dissolved ought to be first calcined or purged in Lac virginis and Luna being most fine and subtilly filed must be dissolved in Aqua-fortis and distilled rain-water in which Sal Armoniack or common Salt hath been dissolved then it must be precipitated into a most white Calx and washed in decanted water and the Calx must be edulcorated in other rain-water hot that all the saltness and acrimony may be taken away then must it be dryed and it will be a most pure Calx But Gold must be calcined after this manner Make an Amalgame with Gold which must be first depurated by the Body of the black Eagle that it may be made beautiful and glorious above measure and Mercury very well purged with Salt and Vinegar and strained through Leather put it in purified Aquafortis that all the Mercury may be dissolved decant the Aquafortis from the Calx of Sol wash the Calx as aforesaid in warm water and dry it with a gentle heat that Calx if artificially and lightly reverberated yet so that it flow not will be converted into a most beautiful Crocus Gold that it may be reduced into the first Matter or Mercury of Philosophers is thus otherwise calcined whereof Paracelsus in his 7th Book of Metamorphosis concerning resuscitation declares namely that Metal must be calcined with revivified Mercury by puting Mercury with the Metal into a Sublimatory digesting them together till an Amalgame be made then sublime the Mercury with a moderate Fire and bruise it with the metallick Calx and as before repeat the digestion and sublimation and that so often till the Calx being put to a burning Candle will melt like ice or wax This Metal so prepared put to digestion in Horse-dung or in Bal. Mariae moderately hot digesting it for a month and the Metal will be converted into living Mercury that is into the first matter which is called the Philosophers Mercury and the Mercury of Metals which many have sought but few have found Joachimus Poleman of the Mystery of the Philosophers Sulphur by help of his duplicated and satiated Corrosive divides a Metal into the least Atomes and dilacerates it to be delivered to the fiery Menstruum dissolving it to a tinging Soul It is calcined by us another and better way which Calcination we rather call the first solution and it is done by pouring the Wine of Life to the Calxes of Sol or Luna aforesaid put into a Phial which is our Menstruum of which hereafter in Chap. 6. to the heighth of a fingers breadth and putting to an Head or Alembick they must be digested in Ashes or also in Sand and coagulated being coagulated you must pour on new Menstruum as before and coagulate and that three or four times or till the metallick Calx melt at the fire like Wax or Ice which is sign of sufficient Philosophical calcinations and this is done with the preservation of the Metal in its primitive vertue and this is that which Aristotle saith in the Rosary joyn your Son Gabricius dearer to you then all your Children with his Sister Beja who is a tender sweet and splendid Virgin CHAP. IV. Of the second and true Philosophical Solution of Bodies and their reduction into Mercury HAving performed Calcination or the first Solution whereof we have spoken in the preceding Chapter and which as the anonymous Philosopher in his Golden Treatise of the Philosophers Stone in his Answer hath it ought to be sweet and fully natural that is which should without noise dissolve the Subject with the preservation of its radical moisture then the Bodies so calcined must be put into a Phial hermetically sealed and in a gentle heat of Bal. Mar. or Dew be digested or Putrified the space of a Philosophical Month for a voluntary Solution is better than a violent a temperate than a speedy as the Philosopher hath it And thus is made the second and true Solution of a Metal into viscous water or a certain Oleity with the preservation of the radical moisture in which is the true metallick Sulphur together with the true and most noble Mercury for one of them is always the Magnet and remains solving with the solved and desires to continue inseparably and that because of the similitude of substance Wherefore the Ancients said Nature rejoyceth in Nature Nature overcometh and altereth Nature whereby the essential or formal Solution is distinguished from the corrosive Solution But you must know that from Luna is obtained a liquor or green tincture which is the true Elixir of Luna and the highest Arcanum to comfort the Brain But from Sol by equal putrifaction is produced a Liquor of the highest redness which is the true Elixir of Sol and the quinessence of Metal Whereof saith Geber we make sanguine Gold better than that produced by Nature which Nature no wise makes Concerning this Viscosity Geber further speaks briefly We have most exactly tried all things and that by approved Reasons but we could never find anything permanent in Fire except the viscous Moisture the sole radix of all Metals when as all the other Moistures being not well united in homogeneity do easily flee from Fire and the Elements are easily separated from one another but the viscous Moisture to wit Mercury is never consumed with Fire nor is the Water separated from the Earth but they either remain altogether or go altogether away But will you enquire in what weight the Menstruum is to be espoused to a Metal The Philosophers Rosary saith As in the working of Bread a little Leaven leaveneth and fermenteth a great quantity of Paste so also a modicum of Earth is sufficient for the nutrition of the whole Stone Aristotle nominates the weight saying do thus and coct till the Earth that is the Gold hath exhausted ten parts of the Water The Author of Novum Lumen at the end of his Book breaks forth into these words There ought to be ten parts of Water to one part of Body and by this way we make Mercury without common Mercury by taking ten parts of our Mercurial Water that is the Mercurial Oyl of Salt putrefied and alembicated which is an unctious vapour to one part of the body of Gold and being included in a Vessel by continual coction the Gold is made Mercury that is an unctuous vapour and not common Mercury as some falsly do imagine CHAP. V. What a Quintessence properly is PARACELSVS in his third Book of long Life chap. 2. discourseth thus A Quintessence is nothing else but the goodness of Nature so that all Nature passeth into a spagyrick mixture and temperament in which no corruptible thing and nothing contrary is to be found He also in his fourth Book Archidox of the Quintessence saith A Quintessence is a matter which is corporally extracted out of all Crescitives and out of all things that have life being separated from all impurity and mortality most purely subtiliated and divided from all the Elements