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A76996	Paracelsvs of the [brace] chymical transmutation, genealogy and generation [brace] of metals & minerals. Also, of the urim and thummim of the Jews. With an appendix, of the vertues and use of an excellent water made by Dr. Trigge. The second part of the mumial treatise. Whereunto is added, philosophical and chymical experiments of that famous philosopher Raymvnd Lvlly; containing, the right and due composition of both elixirs. The admirable and perfect way of making the great stone of the philosophers, as it was truely taught in Paris, and sometimes practised in England, by the said Raymund Lully, in the time of King Edw. 3. / Translated into English by R. Turner philomathēs.	Paracelsus, 1493-1541.; Turner, Robert, fl. 1654-1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing B3543; Thomason E1590_3; ESTC R208833	78,745	173

are fydereal yea it is Solar and therefore efficacious against Poysons all epidemical fluxes yea it would be more efficacious if from the observations of the heavens some opportune season were chosen for its composition wherein it might receive the sympathical faculty of the superior Bodies as Ptolomy Theophrastus Albertus Marsilius Fixinus Rogerius Bacho Thurnhenserus Crollius and the rest of those dexterous Searchers of Natures secrets do all along observe Though some are of Opinion That Medicks should not trouble themselves herein and therefore they adore the Goddess Sloth instead of the Elisian fields resting themselves in their Fools Paradise till some Patient rouze them out of their sleep but that we may not seem too tedious we shall leave this natural and ascend to a more mystical Transplantation whereby the Almighty transplanted the natural Tree of Life standing in the Garden of Paradise into the Mass of Adam and afterwards into Christ the true and mystical Tree of Life who was suspended on the very wood of the natural Tree of Life and so resuscitates both Adam and all Mankinde dead in sin to newness of life God is indeed wonderful in all his works as we may learn from the state of corruption and reparation of Adam for as Adam by transgression upon the perswasion and enticement of the Devil and Serpent attracted to himself death eternal damnation and all kindes of torments by tasting of the forbidden Tree so is he redeemed from death eternal and received into life eternal by the Tree of Life and Life it self Christ Jesus It is more then probable That Sibylla prophesied of Christ when she said That Adam being now ready to die desired earnestly a Branch of the Bough of Life in Paradise and therefore sent one of his Sons thither to fetch one that he might escape this eminent death his Son received a Bough from the Angel but in the mean time Adam had changed life with death and therefore his Son implanted the Bough on his Fathers Sepulchre where getting sap it grew into a great Tree and so attracted the whole Nature of Adam to its nutriment Now also an ancient Doctor in the Eastern Country and a Bishop of the Church a little after Christ amongst many others detected this venerable mystery also Noah saith he was commanded by God to carry Adam 's bones and the Tree on his Sepulchre into his Ark and preserve the original of Mankinde which Noah did with all observance and when Noah sent his three Sons forth into three parts of the world he divided Adam 's bones amongst them giving his Legs and Feet to his youngest Son his Brest and Arms to his middle Son and his Head and Skul to his eldest as such sacred relicks of the Father of Mankinde as deserved to be kept 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now his First-born betook himself into the parts neer Jerusalem where he buried Adam 's Skull in a little Mountain which was therefore called Mount Calvary because Adam 's Calvaria or Skull was there interred which the Evangelist therefore calls Golgatha or the place of a Skull in the singular number Moreover he saith That the Tree of the Transplantion of Adam was by remarkable and admirable Providence preserved and made into a Cross for Christs crucifixion and erected directly in that place where Adam 's Skull was buried So that he who perpends the matter well shall fnde that whole Adam as it were is recollected in and under the Cross and so with an admirable tie conjoyned to the vivifical Nature it self which how pleasant efficacious and full of consolation let each one consider for he that deserved death is present in and under the Cross and he that repaired Life yea that is Life it self is affixed to the Cross the true Concordance of life and death of a sinless Saviour and sinful man whereby Life is united to Death and Christ to Adam not without the superinfusion of Blood like Celestial dew for better and more faecundity that so Adam and his Posterity eating of the Fruit of this transplanted Tree might be really transplanted into Christ and by a certain celestial magnetism and sympathy attracted to Heaven translated to Life and made Heirs of Happiness For which ineffable Grace and Mercy of the Deity be rendered to the Tri-une God all Praise Honor and Benediction Amen FINIS Philosophical and Chymical EXPERIMENTS OF The Famous PHILOSOPHER Raymund Lully Wherein is contained The right and true Composition OF Both Elixirs and Universal Medicine The admirable and perfect way of making the great Stone of the Philosophers as it was truely taught in Paris and sometimes practised in England by Raymund Lully in the time of K. Edward the third Now for the the Benefit of all Lovers of Art and Knowledge carefully translated into English out of High-German and Latine by W. W. Student in the Celestial Sciences and Robert Turner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LONDON Printed by JAMES COTTREL 1657. The Preface to the Reader or Worker Gentle Reader LEt not thy heart be turned from this excellent Science of Alchymy although it be contemned and made of no account among the rich men of the world that no man hath ever come to the perfect end and knowledge of it with a number of untrue reports to hinder as much as in them lieth this most excellent and godly Science the which hath been finished by many persons and by this John Fauvere in Paris the which he left for a testament to his Son as he had wrote it with his own hand but true it is That divers men for want of the true knowledge of this Science have brought themselves into great poverty misery and contempt of this world To the which I answer That there be many things that do let and hinder men to finde the end of any Science not onely in this but divers others as Astronomy Physick the profit of the use of the Medicine with infinite others And first this is the chiefest cause many men be of so gross understanding that they cannot perceive and finde out the dark writing of the Philosophers which is the cause that many times they miss the great benefit that they made just account of and moreover divers envious persons have written Books filled with a number of lyes and painted glosses to draw the most painful men which have labored in this Science unto divers errors to the utter undoing of them and loss of their goods the which they have done only of meer malice because they did not understand the dark Writings of the most ancient and learned Fathers which is the cause that they would never attain unto the depth of this most learned Science Also there be many men that will begin things without attending the end of any one of them and so have left off confusedly and so have not only lost their time but also consumed all that they had which if they would have begun one thing and have ended it they

and use Nature is even jealous of her supremacy and abhorreth to see the sensible before the intellectual Treasures preferred This shews the beginning and end of Art Lux sata est justo cum rectis animo laetitia Mark what ye sow for such is your harvest Light is sown on pure Earth and some Grain begins to put forth Ears at three joynts some at four but the Ear never buds until the joynts be grown And what vertue this knotting or fixing gives consider for by meditation you may see by seeing you may know by knowing ye delight by delighting ye adhere by adhering ye possess by possessing ye enjoy the Truth that is the incorrupted use made visible Therefore take heed how ye value for Part of these things thy minde may prompt thee to And part thy better part may teach thee how to do The making of Urim and Thummim and the perfection of the Elixir is aptly compared to the fourfold Creation of Mankinde Adam from Earth Eve from Adam Abel from both and Jesus Christ from a Virgin so man called a living stone produceth that eternally stony and fiery conquering Spirit called the Elixir from their proper Earth only their Adam from their Eve from both their Virgo from her only the soveraign and universal Spirit which doth vivifie and preserve all living Creatures and raiseth the Artist from the dust to sit among Princes Life without sin is wisdom manifest in the flesh a Body without shadow is the universal Spirit corporate Urim and Thummim were holy Signs within the brest-plate to enquire of God in the Temple Natural Urim and Thummim is a visible quality in a cleer Body which preserveth the Temple of Man's Body incorruptible Is it not prophetical that all men shall wisely consider the works of God to the end they may know how to value them rightly and to make just difference between corporal and spiritual things Psal 64.9 Psal 111.8 and corporate Spirits for although Spirits possess no place yet they fail not to fill every part by contact of their vertue and in the use alters both quality and quantity the perfect and distinct knowledge whereof doth necessarily manifest the things sought after by the proper and appropriate qualities and from th causes to the effect openeth the internal Beauty of a true and natural Essence as plainly as by seeing that ye see and also sheweth the terminate privative and perfect end of every particular act which is the richest of intellectual Treasures because Science and Essence are one and where the several works and successive are apparent the time need not be limited like the men of Bethulia for onely at Elisha his Prayer his Servants eyes were opened to see invisible things which all that rise to glory shall do It was held of old Nothing deserves the love of an honest man save the internal Beauty Therefore they held Love or natural Affection to be the first cause or motion like as the heat and vertue of the Sun and of the whole Heavens hath power in all things created under Heaven and by their Influence and Radiation all things encrease grow live and are conserved and by their recess they mourn and wither fall and droop yet they do not necessitate any all their force being most in imperfect things for a body of equal temper receives little alteration from the Constellations because the Earth received vertue before the Heavens were adorned with Sun Moon and Stars Therefore that is to be distinguished in Reason so is distant in place and different things in being and in being and use for change of quality brought confusion and a better change Renovation Historians affirm The River Nilus vaporeth not by reason of the long decoction under the Sun yet is the Water most wholesom and Medicinable and the Neighbor earth begins to encrease in weight the seventeenth of June and not before even then when the River begins to rise which sympathy of the distant Water and Earth by the power of Heaven is not against Nature although beyond ordinary reach Therefore for a leading cast let us observe the concord of Metallical Bodies which like the first Male and Female have not several beginnings but are all from a Sulphurous vapor which by help of Influence Instrument Digestion and Masculine and Feminine vertue connexing proper and appropriate qualities they obtain their perfection by the power of God 's Ordinance yet as every Earth yields not like Metal so every Metal yields not like central vertue Therefore according to that creating command every thing should encrease in its proper kinde not in diverse and time makes the number infinite The Ancients reading the great Volume of the Book of Nature finde no abridgement to assimilate the Majesty of Nature save Man and the Stone both which are called Living Stones whose original Mortification Purification and difficult Exaltation are of infinite vertue Then observe also a Celestial and Terrestrial Sun which they parallel with Man which because they onely are capable of true temper which is certainly possible although seldom enjoyed But to gain this precious Treasure of Life and Health we must make sufficient provision like men that do deal with great persons for Gold is Lord of Stones and noblest of Metals and by his proper Regiment doth multiply himself infinitely Therefore Geber in his Book of Deundation saith In Gold are ten parts heat ten parts humidity ten parts siccity which triple perfection makes an absolute unity Body Soul and Spirit being eternally vivified because unity is a generical quality of all that is one and is an effect of the Form which doth produce it for of all kinde of Governments ten is the most perfect and for the natural substance no composition is like to Gold for it is a most perfect temper and equal mixion the miracle of Nature a Celestial Star a Terrestrial Sun the Fountain of Life the Centre of the Heart the secret vertue of all Celestial and Terrestrial Bodies the Masculine and Universal Seed first and most powerful of the Sulphurous Nature the great Secret of the Almighty Creator It hath most Form and Entity so most Vertue and Operation in it the Elements are elementized It is called Sulphur and Sulphur-Fire yea it is said to be all Fire or like to that in which it is dissolved And as Light is the Centre of Heaven and Soul of the World so Brightness is the Centre and Celestial Vertue the Form of Gold whose admired mixion nothing meerly natural can dissolve nor any thing artificial except it agree with it in matter and form and do remain with it in the recongealation This vertual Influence enters potentially and dwells in the radical humidity and no other thing whether from Heaven or Earth doth nourish the Heart yet it is not visible before vertue be matched for there is best concord where it is most abundant but whither shall we mount to match this miracle of Nature The Historians

much or if you cannot get Ox-blood you may take Sheeps-blood then take Linen-clouts and scrape off the Lint till you have as much as the Bol-Armoniack doth weigh and then mingle them and temper them all together and beat them with a piece of board till that it be as soft as fine Paste or dough and with this Lutement you shall lute your sublimations under that part that standeth in the fire and also your Glasses wherein you distil your strong Waters for it will defend them from melting and breaking and use it to all things that you do occupy in great fire for you cannot have a better then this to defend you Glasses against the force of the fire Now I have written you enough of the Lutements and in this Chapter I will write in brief a part of Philosophy as well moral as natural CHAP. VII Teacheth thee understand Philosophy as well moral as natural MY Son I have given thee to understand in this Book and declared all the Philosophy as well to the red as to the white so right and simple as possibly I may for if I could have left to thee any briefer I would not for if that I should thou couldst never have understood it and therefore I have thought it good to shew it thee in plain Words and Reasons to declare the same to make thee perfectly to understand to make this work that thou shouldst impute no fault to me if that thou shouldst not come to the right knowledge of this Science but the fault should be in thy self and in no man else for I have written it in right and plain Words and Reasons but take heed that thou be not as many men be that do think themselves Masters of all Sciences when that they never saw the Door wherein the Science was learned but I would have thee use thy self to reading and studying of this Book and print all these Reasons in thy heart and then thou maist go to work with a good and glad courage and God will bless thy proceeding if thou wilt serve him and pray to him as it is thy duty to do and also thou must have a diligent care to keep God's Commandments for as I have often said with bodily pains taking and diligent labour both of thy body and minde thou shalt bring this Stone to a perfect end for the Philosophers have hidden this Science and have written it very darkly and have coloured it over with many parables dark sentences that it is almost impossible to come to the understanding of them without great instructions of others Masters of this Science or else through the great gift of God Therefore I have written this Book that thou maist learn the Words and Reasons that I do leave after me to the end that thou shalt not fall into any error but to come to the right end of this Science My Son thou shalt understand that there be many Books written by the Philosophers remaining after their deaths of the which they have written the Truth but in a very dark sense here in one word there in another the which have brought divers men unto great errors thinking they did understand the meaning very well when they were furthest from it Therefore my beloved Son through the great love I have to thee I have thought it good to open this Science unto thee that thou mayst take heed of the dark sayings of the Philosophers that thou do exercise thy self in this Book for if thou do observe these my precepts you shall not come to any error But I desire thee upon the salvation of thy Soul that thou do not forget the poor and in any case to look well to thy self that thou do not disclose the secrets of this Science to any covetous worldly man for if thou do it will turn to thy hurt for I have declared to thee as I trust to be saved upon my Salvation the thing that my eyes have seen and my hands have wrought and my fingers have pulled forth and I have written this Book with my own hand and set to my name as I did lie on my death in the yeer 1432. May 7th Johannes Strangunere To draw the Spirits out of the ponderous Body or Earth by Distillation MAke a great many plates of new Lead of the quantity of Groats as thin as a peny and hang them on a thred or small Wyre and fill a Body of Glass full of them and fasten the Thred above the mouth of the Vessel set thereon a Head and lute it fast and surely and put thereto a Receptory and put it in a Furnace with as easie a heat that you may alwayes suffer your hand under the bottom thereof and water shall distil every day from it fait and cleer as Rose-water and at the last the said Plates will wax soft as they were mire and fall down to the bottom and then take the Glass set it in Balneo or Fimo Equino until the mire be dissolved into black Pitch Liquor then put it into your Philosophers Vessel and mix it and continue it in easie fire that it may by Circulation become a dry earth as black as a Raven which afterwards shall wax as white as Snow the which is the white Elixir the which you shall take from the Feces that lie there-under for as Philosophers say Totum quod subtile est ascendit sursum in vase quod spissum manet in fundo Then put the white in a Fixatory luted up and continue it with more Fire or heat till it be first gray and after that citrine as a yellow Flower and finally purple-red the which is the great Elixir that fixeth all Amalgems into Medicine which altereth all Bodies into Sol and Luna In the Name of God Amen Upon Saturn Philosopher of Holland UNderstand That out of Lead comes the Stone called Lapis Philosophorum and therefore when he is throughly made he doth projection as well in a mans body as without of all diseases that come to man as upon Metals and in many vegetable Books is no greater secret then this is for we finde not in Gold a like perfection as we finde in Lead for Lead is in his inner part Sol and therefore do all Philosophers agree for he lacketh nothing else but that his superfluity be taken away from him and that is his uncleanness therefore make him clean and turn his inward part out and that is his crudeness and then is he Sol for vulgar Sol cannot be so lightly as Lead for Lead will quickly be dissolved and congealed and he suffers his Mercury quickly to be drawn from him that Mercury which is drawn from him if it be well clarified and sublimed as the use is to sublime Mercury I tell you That that Mercury is as good as the Mercury drawn from the Sun in all manner of works and it is better in our work then the Mercury of Sol. Also if you should take Mercury out of