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A34451	The Philosophical epitaph of W.C. Esquire for a memento mori on his tomb-stone, vvith three hieroglyphical scutcheons and their philosophical motto's and explanation : with the philosophical Mercury, nature of seed and life, and growth of metalls, and a discovery of the immortal liquor alchahest : the salt of tartar volatized and other elixirs with their differences. Also, A brief of the golden calf, the worlds idol : discovering the rarest miracle in nature, ... / by Jo. Fr. Helvetius. And, The golden ass well managed and Midas restor'd to reason, or, A new chymical light : demonstrating to the blind world that good gold may be found as well in cold as hot regions, and be profitably extracted out of sand, stones, gravel and flints &c. .../ written by Jo. Rod. Glauber. With Jehior, aurora sapientiae, or, The day dawning or light of wisdom : containing the three principles or original of all things whereby are discovered the great and many mysteries of God, nature and the elements, hitherto hid, now revealed / all published by W.C. Esquire. : with a catalogue of chymical books.	Cooper, William, fl. 1668-1688.; Helvetius, Johann Friedrich, d. 1709. Vitulus aureus, quem mundus adorat & orat. English.; Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670. Novum lumen chimicum. English.	1673 (1673)	Wing C6062; Wing C6061_PARTIAL; ESTC R6283	114,421	261

18. Colos 2. 8. 2 Tim. 3. 4. 1 Cor. 13. 9. 11. Truly wise men dive into the best gifts and perfection which are of three sorts Charity Prophecy and Examination Love and Charity are the Center and contain the circle of all godly virtues and have Faith and Hope but Prophesying hath all knowledge wisdom and doctrine Lastly examination containeth all understanding judgment and discretion In these three things all is contained that belongeth to wisdom the Center whereof is the word of God This is that which all men ought to study and should communicate to others according as they have received a gift of the Spirit of grace● That God the Author of all good may be glorified and that none do boast of gifts and extol himself above others but rather be humble And then none ought to quench the Spirit neither in himself nor others but rather to stir it up And lastly let no man despise Prophecy that he may not offend God his neighbour nor scandalize himself Love forbeareth all The wisdom of the spirit searcheth all and Examination tryeth all Since we have undertaken through the admonition of the spirit to speak of wisdom as much as our knowledge in part may afford Therefore we intreat the Reader in Love that those whom we displease or who are offended would tolerate us in love As knowing that wisemen also must bear with fools And things spoken of in this book may not presently be rejected but rather be suffered to stand remembring that God also is patient unto Sinners But if any one do think himself wise let him shew the spirit of Judgment and let him discern thus least he judge himself also For we hold that we also have received a gift of the Spirit of grade which we will not suffer to dye but to the praise of the Lord we will put it out to use out of love to the Children of wisdom although not as an instruction but as a good testimony to our selves that we have received a gift of the Spirit not in vain The reason that induced us to the writing of this book is because we hope to be Beneficial to the children of wisdom It may be we have publisht the like twelve years ago the Title of it being Aurora Sapientiae yet since it hath been desired by some again I have not altered the Title hoping that it is not a little mended and corrected I have set it out briefly that it may neither be tedious to the Reader nor chargeable to the Buyer nor yet painful to the Printer Benevolous Reader take all in good part and thus we commend the well wishers to Gods gracious ptotection THE CONTENTS Of the several Chapters of this Book OF the Books of wisdom in which the same may be learned how and in what manner Chap. 1. Of the Principles and Beginnings of all things as also of God himself and of all whatsoever 2 Of the First Principle of all things which is God 3 Of the second Principle which is Nature 4 Of the third General Principle namely the Elements 5 Of the three special Principles Spirit Wind and Water 6 Of the particular Principles Body Soul and Spirit 7 Of the Elements and contrary Elements in the Creation 8 Of the Principle or Original of that evil one and of the Angels 9 Of the difference of the Light and Darkness as also of the Light and Fire 10 Of the Principle of the Fire and its Mystery 11 Out of what wherein and whereby all things good or bad do subsist pass away and yet how they last for ever 12 Of the Creation of the World 13 Of the particular Creation 14 Of the Mystery of the Word 15 Of the Mystery of the Created lower visible things 16 Of the Creation of Man and of his Anatomy 17 Of the Image of God after which man is Created 18 Of the Mystical Image that is of the Mystery of God Chap. 19 Of the Truth and Spirit by which all wisdom is justified 20 Of the Mystery of Time and to understand 〈◊〉 aright 21 The Conclusion 22 AVRORA SAPIENTIAE Morning Light OR Dawning of Wisdom WE take the liberty according to the gift of the Spirit to speak briefly of Wisdom in this little Treatise without any prolixity And because we made mention in the Preface of a three-fold Knowledge as of Men of Angels and of God now we will speak here that Wisdom also is threefold as 1. The Natural of all Created things 2. The Wisdom of Faith unto Salvation And 3. The Secret and Mystical wisdom which gener●lly is unknown and that we call vera Philosophia Theologia and Theosophia Of these three we will speak as briefly as may be possible The Spirit of the Lord be upon both the Writer and the Reader Amen JEHIOR OR THE Morning Light of VVisdom CHAP. I. Of the Books of Wisdom in which the same may be learned How and in what manner THere are chiefly but three Books in which all Wisdom is contained Namely 1. The whole Nature and Creation 〈…〉 great Book of Heaven and 〈…〉 2. The Book of the Holy Writ in the Letter of the Holy word of God 3. Man himself The only Center or Principle of these three is the word of God which is the book out of which these three books have their Original The first book of Nature contains seven other books which are the seven Elements of which in particular here●fter These seven Books have three other books opposite which are the three contrary Elements of which also hereafter The second book the Holy Writ is divided into three other books as into the Law of the Old Into the Gospel of the New and into the Eternal Gospel of the everlasting Testament and Covenant which comprehends the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ The Third book of Man is only one book and is sealed to the blind but opened to the seeing In this book is hidden sealed and also manifest and opened all Wisdom and man is called the Image or Honour of God o● which below and man cannot be called by any other name 1 Cor. 11. 7. Out of the first book we learn Philosophia the natural Wisdom in and about the knowledge of created natural things which are of the Elements and we learn this wisdom out of the three Principles and seven Elements and discern the same from the three contrary Elements else we cannot find the truth of the Natural Wisdom Out of the second book we learn Theologia or Divinity the wisdom unto Salvation and that in the three foresaid books through the seven spirits Isaiah 11. and we di●●●nguish it from all humane glosses and books of Prophane ones For the book expounds it self and needs no humane interpretation but only hath need of Faith which apprehends all things Out of the Third Book which is Gods Image we learn the true knowledge of God as also his being and essence and his whole Mystery in so much as

for the value of the matter but for some particular consequences nay if it were possible said he that fire could be burnt of fire I would rather at this instant cast all this substance into the fiercest flames But after he demanding if I had another private chamber whose prospect was from the publick Street I presently conducted him in to the best furnished room backwards where he entred without wiping his Shooes full of snow and dirt according to the custom in Holland then not doubting but he would bestow part thereof or some great secret treasure on me but in vain for he asked for a little piece of gold and pulling off his Cloak or Pastoral habit opened his Doublet under which he wore five pieces of Gold hanging in green silk Ribons as large as the inward round of a small Pewter Trencher and this Gold so far excelled mine that there was no comparison for flexibility and colour and these Figures with the Inscriptions ingraven were the resemblance of them which he granted me to write out D. 8. Pag. 16 1 Amen Holy holy holy is the Lord our God and all things are full of his hononr Leo. Libra 2 The maruelous wisdome of the wonderfull Iehovah in the vniuersall Booke of nature I am made the 26 th of August 1666 3 ☉ ☿ ☽ The wonderfull God Nature and the spagyricall Art make nothing in vain 4 To the Honour of the Euerlasting Inuisible ●ivne only wise most high Omnipotent God of Gods holy holy holy Gouernor and praiseworthy Preseruer of all 5 Holy art thou O holy spirit Halloluiah ffye vpon the Diuell and neuer speake of God without light Amen I being herewith affected with great admiration desired to know where and how he came by them Who answered An outlandish friend who dwelt some days in my House giving out he was a Lover of this art and came to reveal this art to me taught me various Arts First How out of ordinary Stones and Christalls to make Rubies Chrysolites and Sapphires c. much fairer then the ordinary And how in a quarter of an hour to make Crocus Martis of which one dose would infallibly cure the Pestilential Dissentary or Bloody Flux and how to make a metallick Liquor most certainly to cure all kinds of Dropsies in four days as also a limpid clear water sweeter then hony by which in two hours of it self in hot sand it would extract the Tincture of Granats Corals Glasses and such like more which I Helvetius did not observe My mind being drawn beyond those bounds to understand how such a noble juice might be drawn out of the metals to transmute Metals but the shade in the water deceived the dog of the Morsel of Flesh in his mouth Moreover he told me his said Master caused him to bring a glass full of rain water and fetch some refined Silver laminated in thin plates which therein was dissolved within a quarter of an hour like Ice when heated And presently he drank to me the half and I pledged him the other half which had not so much taste as sweet milk whereby me thought I became very light hearted I thereupon asked if this were a Philosophical drink and wherefore we drank this Potion He replied I ought not to be so curious And after he told me that by the said Masters directions he took a piece of a Leaden Pipe Gutter or Sistern and being melted put a little such sulphurious powder out of his Pocket once again put a little more on the point of a Knife and after a great blast of Bellows in short time poured it on the red stones of the Kitchin Chimney which proved most excellent pure Gold which he said brought him into such a trembling amazement that he could hardly speak But his Master thereupon again incouraged him saying Cut for thy self the sixteenth part of this for a memorial and the rest give away amongst the poor which he did And he distributed so great an Alms as he affirmed if my memory fail not to the Church of Sparrenda But whether he gave it at several times or once or in the Golden Masse or in Silver Coyn I did not ask At last said he going on with the story of his master he taught me throughly this almost Divine Art As soon as this his History was finisht I most humbly beg'd he would shew me the effect of Transmutation to confirm my faith therein but he dismissed me for that time in such a discreet manner that I had a denial But withall promising to come again at three weeks end and shew me some curious Arts in the Fire and the manner of projection provided it were then lawful without prohibition And at the three weeks end he came and invited me abroad for an hour or two and in our walks having discourses of divers of natures secrets in the fire but he was very sparing of the great Elixir gravely asserting that was only to magnifie the most sweet fame and name of the most glorious God and that few men indeavored to sacrifice to him in good works and this he expressed as a Pastor or Minister of a Church but now and then I kept his ears open intreating to shew me the Metallick transmutation desiring also he would think me so worthy to eat and drink and lodge at my house which I did prosecute so eagerly that scarce any Suiter could plead more to obtain his Mistress from his Corrival but he was of so fixt and stedfast a Spirit that all my endeavors were frustrate yet I could not forbear to tell him further I had a fit laboratory and things ready and fit for an experiment and that a promised favour was a kind of debt yea true said he but I promised to teach thee at my return with this proviso if it were not forbidden When I perceived all this in vain I earnestly craved but a most small Crum or Parcel of his pouder or Stone to transmute four Grains of Lead to Gold and at last out of his Philosophical commiseration he gave me a Crum as big as a Rape or Turnip seed saying receive this small Parcel of the greatest Treasure of the World which truly few Kings or Princes have ever known or seen But I said This perhaps will not transmit four Grains of Lead whereupon he bid me deliver it him back which in hopes of a greater Parcel I did but he cutting halfe off with his Nail flung ●t into the fire and gave me the rest wraped neatly up ●n Blew Paper saying It is yet sufficient for thee I answered him indeed with a most dejected Coun●enance Sir what n eans this the other being too ●ittle you give me now less He told me If thou ●anst not mannage this yet for its great proportion ●or so small a quantity of Lead then put into the Cru●ible two Drams or halfe an Ounce or a little more ●f the Lead for there ought no more Lead be put in ●he Crucible

that only by a harmonious Sympathy between it and the vital Spirits Wherefore the Adept do call it the Myster of Nature defence of old Age and against all Sicknesses yea of the very Plague and Pestilence For this being a kind of Salamander communicates its virtue and as a Salamander makes a man live till his last appointed time against all the Fiery Epidemical Darts of the angry Heavens or their Malevolent Influences Physitian Sir I understand by your discourse That this Medicine doth nothing to the correcting of depraved or corrupt humours but only by strengthning the Vital Spirits and our Balsamick Nature but other practical Chymists teach how to seperate he impure from the pure and ripen the unripe o make the bitter become a little sower or Acid and the sower sweet and so to turn sharp into mild mild into sharp sower into sweet and sweet into sower Also I understand you say this universal medicine cannot prolong life beyond its prefixed time but only preserves it from all venome and deadly sickness which agrees with the vulgar belief That the Life depends only upon the will of God But passing by these things my question is still whether a mans former nature may be converted into another new nature So that a slothful man may be changed into a diligent nimble man and a Melancholy man by nature be made a merry man or the like Elias Not at all Sir for no Medicine hath power to transform the nature of man in such a manner no more then wine drunk by divers men changeth the persons nature but only provokes or deduceth what is in man potentially into Act For the universal Medicine works by recreating the vital spirits and so restoreth that health which was suppressed for a time In the same manner the heat of the Sun never transmutes the Hearbs and Flowers but stirs up their potential powers to become active For a man of melancholly temper is again raised up to his natural melancholy disposition and a merry man to become merry And so in all desperate diseases it is a present and most excellent preservative Nay if there could be any prolonging of Life Then Hermes Paracelsus Trevisan and many others having had the said Medicine would never have undergone the Tyranny of death but have prolonged their lives perhaps to this very day It were therefore the part of a mad Lunatick to believe that any Medicine in the world could prolong life longer then God limits Physitian Worthy Sir I agree now cheerfully to all you have said touching the Universal Medicine being no less regular then fundamental Yet till I can prepare the same my self it profits me not Indeed some Illustrious men have written of it so cautiously in dark Aenygma s that very few can understand their progress to the end and if one could purchase all these Authors this short life might be therein consumed and not attain the thing It remains therefore only to pray and labour Ora labora Deus dat omni horae Work and Pray God gives every day Elias Seldom indeed can this Art of Arts be pickt out of Books without demonstration from some true Adeptist But waving this let us come to Transmutation of Metals by the most noble Tincture of which many have written but 't is true few Disciples attain this Arcanum Physitian Your convincing Arguments and my fore going Experiments I believe all you say for Dr. Kuffler with the Tincture of one ounce of gold projected on two ounces of Silver transmuted as is said an ounce and half into the purest gold and a third of the remainder into white gold and the rest was still the purest Silver imaginable And Van Helmonts experiment proves the same But especially Alexander Scotus and Count Russes Experiment well known at Prague and as here you may see the inscriptiors done before the Roman Emperour Caesar Ferdinando the Third Where with one grain of Tincture were transmuted three pound of Mercury into the noblest pure gold Yet I confess I never saw a true Adeptist or projection made and therefore cannot so absolutely conclude these things to be true Elias My Friend The art will remain true whether F. 1. Pag. 34. LIKE AS RARE MEN HAVE THIS ART SOE COMETH IT VERY RARELY TO LIGHT PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR EVER WHO DOETH COMMVNICATE A PART OF HIS INFINITE POWER TO VS HIS MOST ABIECT CREATVRES THE DIVINE METAMORPHOSIS EX HIBITED AT PRAGVE XV IAN A c MDCXLVIII IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS SACRED CAESAREAN M ty FERDINAND THE THIRD The Thickness of that piece of gould ●ount Rusz uppermost Hill master in Steyer ●nd Carinthiae two Prouinces of high Germany ●ath with one only graine of Tincture transmuted ●●ree pounds of Quicksiluer into pure gold fixt ●all assayes proofes out of which was cast ●his piece of Gould F. 2. Pag. 35. 1 Amen Holy holy holy is the Lord our God and all things are full of his hononr Leo. Libra 2 The maruelous wisdome of the wonderfull Iehovah in the vniuersall Booke of nature I am made the 26th of August 1666 3 ☉ ☿ ☽ The wonderfull God Nature and the spagyricall Art make nothing in vain 4 To the Honour of the Euerlasting Inuisible trivne only wise most high Omnipotent God of Gods holy holy holy Gouernor and praiseworthy Preferuer of all 5 Holy art thou O holy spirit Halleluiah ffye vpon the Diuell and neuer speake of God without light Amen you believe or not For Example In the singular exalted sulphurous virtue in the Loadstone by its only touch derives a sympathetick vertue into the sulphurous Iron to become another Magnet or Loadstone by its touch So doth it happen in the Philosophers Stone in the which is all that the wisemen seek Now in regard their writings are so numerous and dark it is to be wished one Laconick short Epitomy were extracted out of all for the said Art to be clearly manifested in a short time with little labour and expence and so a most easie Transite made to the best Authors But look here I will now shew you the true matter of Philosophers to confirm your belief Phisitian Is this glassy yellow Masse it indeed I fear you do but jest or dally with me Elias Yea truly thou hast now in thy hands the most pretious thing in the world the true Philosophers stone none ever more real or can be better neither shall any have another and I my self have wrought it from the very beginning to the very end Then stepping into a more private Room he shewed me these five pieces of pure gold made out of Lead by the Philosophical Tincture which saith he I wear in memory of my Master Now by thy great reading canst thou judge of what matter or substance it is made and composed Physitian Sir I cannot judge but it seems you learnt it not of your self but had a master instructed you to make it Now I beseech you Sir bestow a little crum of the

he that desires to know God must learn to know him in his image and that perfectly which perfect knowledge is this That God is man and that he is true man who is of God and God is in him This is the wisdom that is mystical hitherto and yet is manifest but only to the wise and is called Theosophia because God doth no where so clearly manifest himself as in man who is his image or honour or glory 1 Cor. 11. 7. Therefore man needs not to go far but only into himself to learn the true knowledge of God and to seek after God in himself and himself in God If he do not thus all is vain and no where else any wisdom to be found Acts 17. 27. Luke 17. 21. Seeing the three other books proceed only from the one Book as the world of God therefore all three do testifie unanimously of this book 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 namely each in its letter wisdom and testimony but none so clearly as man doth This is that great whole and perfect Library of wisemen wherewith in justice and equity they may be contented All wisdom and knowledg with their mysteries in these books we may not learn any where else but only through the same Spirit who himself hath penned these books made and testified He therefore who is desirous to study these books must from the bottom of his heart acknowledge and confess his own blindness folly and ignorance and must pray unto the Father of Lights for illumination wisdom and understanding that he would send his holy spirit which may lead us into all truth and take us away from all foolishness and falshood and may bring us to the Light of Gods glory Which may not be done by any other means then through a love to God and to mans own salvation and through a holy life without all Hypocrisie and through the Light that commeth from above and not from beneath from man and his wisdom which all those must learn to deny that desire to learn the wisdom of the holy ones We will speak thus That hitherto all these books were sealed up but are now opened in the end of the World according to the Prophecy 4 Esd 6. 20. Dan 12. 9. Zach. 14. 7. And if wise worldly men are offended at this they betray themselves that the wisdom of the holy one is not in them The books of wisdom testifie unanimously of the word by which all things are created and in which only all wisdom doth rest and which is the beginning of all beginnings in which is all and without which nothing is which is all in all God blessed for ever Amen CHAP. II. Of those principles and beginnings of all things as also of God himself and of all whatsoever it be THe Principle of all Principles and beginning of all beginnings as also of God himself is only the word according to the testimony of the divine truth and word it self John 1. Now the word may not be defined otherwise then that it is a Spirit breath or voice of God yea God himself in such a subsistence essence and being as namely How the image of God doth represent us according to the similitude which is man as that he is a quic●ning spirit a spiritual Adam and heavenly man which is God the Lord glorined and magnified for ever Amen Now we hold altogether that this is the proper definition of God and no other which the holy writ clearly signifieth 1 Cor. 15. 45 47 48. who according to his Image and Similitude hath created a spiritual Adam and Terrestrial man when God said Let us make Adam or Man after our image after our Similitude Gen. 1. 26 27. Now the word being the Beginning of all Beginnings there is contained in the same the Light Life and Love The Light affords the Revelation of God for God is Light and dwelleth in Light and is the Father of Lights Life is the virtue and power of God and a quickning Spirit who hath createth and preserveth all Love is a Testimony of God in which is the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost in one word which is called Jesus Christ the spiritual Adam and heavenly Man Messias who is Essential Alpha and Omega All in All the Beginning and the End the First and the Last Blessed and Praised for ever Amen Rev. 1. 22. Now the word being the true Principle in God himself then consequently all proceedeth from the word out of which do chiefly manifest themselves three general Principles in which Principles with and through which all things are contained and are these namely God Nature Element Now these three general Principles afford also a threefold world namely a divine uncreated from Godflowing world from Eternity then an Angelical world which proceedeth or lighteth forth or shineth forth out of the Light in which God dwelleth and lastly an Elementary world whose Original came out of the water After these three general Principles proceed also three special Principles namely Ghost Wind and Water Now every world hath its proper Ghost Wind and Water in their Kind and Nature All things Created out of the divine world from above are Created out of Water and Spirit from above through the wind and breath of the Omnipotent God for to the Divine world is properly competent the Spirit to the Angelical is properly competent the wind and to the Elementary world is water proper After these special Principles follow lastly particular Principles each of which hath its proper Being out of which in which and from which it consists But these three Principles proceed from the former and are Spirit Soul and Life and Body All bodies are out of the Water All Life and Soul out of the Wind And all Spirit out of the Spirit But concerning the Angels their Body is out of the Wind of the Angelical World their Soul and Life a Fire-flame and their Soul a ●ight of which elsewhere These are our Principles in the Wisdom out of which all things have their Original Whether other Principles may be shewed unto us we do much doubt The Primum mobile first mover of all things is the Word for in it is the Life The Secundum mobile Second mover of all things is the Spirit through which all things are Created The Tertium mobile Third mover is the Wind and these three moving Principles are the Perpetnum mobile everlasting mover of all things by which all things move live and have their Being But these three do rest upon the Water bodily out of which the World is and all things are And in the Air according to the Life wherein all things are And in Heaven from which all things come from above after the Spirit but the Spirit from God from which he cometh and returneth thither John 1. 4. Psal 104. 30. Acts 17. 28. Eccles 12. 7. But all these come together on and in the Earth as in the heart of the world Wisd 1. 7. In these

there is no darkness but yet there is fire This Angelical fire is an Excretion of the light out of which the spirit of the ●ngels is and this fire also in the beginning and before the fall hath been a quiet and unknown fire and very good because it was and is the soul of the Light in the Angels But after the fall it was manifest known and turn'd to a flame and such a one wherein the raging anger of God doth rest in which all Gods Judgments do consist and come out of the same This fire now in the Angels with its rage anger and consuming flame is not evil at all but a just fire of Gods justice to punish the wicked All anger rage and judgment proceed out of the Angelical world as also the Law which was promulgated with fire Exod. 20. Acts 7. 53 38. Gal. 3. 19. Heb. 2. 2. Of the Devils fire was spoken above More things could be said of the fire which for brevity sake we omit CHAP. XII Out of what wherein and wher by all things good and bad do subsist pass away and yet how they last for ever ALthough our knowing and prophesying be but part yet we will not quench the spirit and we are not to despise prophesying And the Reader in the Lord may know that we have our wisdom be it about natural things or spiritual learned out of the Holy Scripture and not out of pro hane writings for the Bible is sufficient to us to all wisdom and we used in 24 years no other book to find out wisdom but the Bible Out of this book the spirit of wisdom through the anointing can teach us all things and needs no other spirit or man to teach us Every thing in a word subsists only by Salt they perish without it and in the same and it lasteth for ever in them both good and bad There is a threefold salt namely a Divine Angelical and Elementary All must be seasoned with salt if it shall last good and salt is the most noble and wholsomest Balm the best preservative and Conservative the highest strengthening The salt of the Divine world is a true light a Spirit and VVater from above whereby we are illuminated breathed on and baptized yea seasoned and salted that the hellish may have no power over us For every one must be seasoned with fire and must be tried with fire who and what doth subsist in it that is blessed else it is nothing at all Mark 9. 49 50. 1 Cor. 13. 14. The salt of the Angelical world is a quick life in its glory concentred of God into the Tree of Life which when it shall be broken at the glorious coming of Jesus Christ then all Created things in Heaven and Earth in this Elementary world he will so gloriously and powerfully season with salt that they shall be freed and redeemed from sin Curse Death Devil Vanity Pain and Misery and that will be a noble food at that great Supper of which as of an Angelical and Coelestial Manna all flesh that is all Created things and whole Creatures shall eat and drink and feed And then also shall be put away the sharp bitter sowre consuming devouring perishing and ●o nothing reducing salt of the contrary Element it shall dye and to its place be separated Of the elementary salt we have spoken already above There is another salt also of the contrary element which is threefold namely in the Earth Sea and Air The salt of the contrary element is a sharp devouring consuming salt and reigneth in all Creatures and is always mixed with the good salt which in the consuming sharp salt is held Captive and can no sooner be set at liberty till that which holds it Captive be drowned and killed by a cold fire which is a water above mentioned This Salt now is predominant chiefly in the Minerals of the Earth in the Mineral Salts as common Salt Vitriol Saltpeter Alume Salmoniak c. and is as it were fixed in this In all Sulphur especially in the common Sulphur the Salt of the contrary Elements is flying But he that can make it fixed with a cold fire hath a more precious thing then Gold is But what is more abused then Saturn Saltpeter and Sulphur They shoot it into the Air being so precious O malice and wickedness of men Is it not so that God hath made choice of things which the world holds to be ignoble foolish and rejected and base Lastly in all Arsenicks is the Salt of the contrary Elements essential and spiritual True it is a right Poison but having an essence why should not some thing be hidden in it It must be carefully and purely killed with a cold fire and be reduced to a new noble birth It is to be observed by the by that every Lee especially that of quicklime is a cold fire and that same in the unmature Metals that have yet their Sulphur Mercury and Arsenick may doubtless be of good use especially in some Iron or Copper Mines in which the Sulphur of Sol the glory of Gold sufficiently appeareth for the flying must through a fixed be made firm and glorious And truly herein is more hid then the world believes Now in the Salt is both life and death And as good things have their Salt so have bad and both are firm the good therefore because the life is in it and the bad also therefore because there is both life and death in it For what death killeth with extream coldness that life reviveth again by fire Therefore the fire is the life in the Devil and his Children and the cold is death But it is such a life which is not of God nor out of the light and love but out of the Devil himself out of darkness and anger which is with unspeakable torment anguish pain misery The Salt in the Sea is a soulish Salt raging and furious of which something may be said because a Mystery is hid in it it shineth also in its fire and is a Sulphurious light so that it may be seen Lastly the Salt in the Air is essential and Arsenical and poisoneth things on Earth man beasts and fruits c. These three sorts of Salt of the contrary element are made known after the fall therefore we must separate Salt from Salt that is good from bad to reject bad and embrace that which is good In the end all bad things fall to the Devils share especially the contrary elements with their Salt which maketh up the fiery pools devouring and gnawning and yet not consuming living for ever yet not alive but dead dyeth for ever and yet never liveth And thus it hath rightly the name of a contrary element CHAP. XIII Of the Creation of the World NOw having known the Principles in their subordinates and the Center concentrated both in and on the Elements as also in the contrary elements thence we may observe how all things are Created by the word and then to know