transformed and made as God As the Lord spake concerning Moses saying I have made thee the God of Pharoah this is the true Rosie Crucian Philosophy of wonderful works that they understand not the Key thereof is the intellect for by how much higher things we understand with so much the sublimer vertues are we endowed and so much greater things do work and that more easily and efficatiously But our intellect being included in the Corruptible flesh unless it shall exceed the way of the flesh and obtain a proper Nature cannot be united to these vertues for like to like And is in searching into the Rosie Crucian secrets of God and Nature altogether in efficatious for it is no easie thing for us to ascend to the Heavens for how shall he that hath lost himself in Morral Dust and ashes find God How shall he apprehend spiritual things that is swallowed up in flesh and bloud can man see God and live what fruit shall a grain of Corn bear if it be not first dead for we must dye I say dye to the world and to the flesh and all sences and to the whole man Animal who would enter into these closets of secrets Not because the body is seperated from the soul but because the soul leaves the body of which death S. Paul wrot to the Collossians ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ And elsewhere he speaks more clearly of himself I know a Man whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tel God knows caught up unto the third heaven c. I say by this death pretious in the sight of God we must dye which happens to few and not always for very few whom God loves and are vertuous are made so happy And first those that are born not of flesh and blood but of God secondly those that are dignified by the blessed assistance of Angels and Genii the Power of Nature Influence of Planets and the Heavens and vertues of the figures and Ideas at their birth now this I humbly intreat you that you be not mistaken concerning me as if I at any time having received such divine things should boast of them to you or should arrogate any such thing to my self or could hope to have them granted to me Although I have hitherto kept my self unmarryed and free from the company of a woman yet I have been a souldier following the Armies of the King and in other Countries consecrated with mans bloud and exposed to all the blasts of inconstant fortune being crossed in my flesh in the world and worldly afairs and therefore could not obtain the sublime Gifts of the Immortal God But I would be accounted a director who always waiting at the dores shews to others which way they must go And here I present my self your most humble servant and honourer May the 9th 1664 ☽ 5 h â—â— A. M. John Heydon An Apologue for an Epilogue ABout the year 1648 we Studied Astronancy and Geomancy and writ the Harmony of the World in two Books the first Printed for Mr. Brome with the Temple of Wisdome at his house in Ivy-Lane The Holy Guide Elhavareuna being an Introduction to the Rosie Crucian philosophy and diversly Compiled in these Books in short words yet sufficient for those who are wise some of these things are written Methodically some without order pur posely some things are delivered by fragments some things are even hid and left for the search of the wise who more acutely contemplating these things which are written and diligently searching the Harmony of the World the Temple of Wisdome and the Holy Guide may obtain the Compleat rudiments of the Rosie Crucian Philosophy and also infallible experiments and if you desire to study these Books keep silence and Constantly conceal within the secret closet of your Religous breast so holy a determination for as Taphthartharath saith to publish to the knowledge of many an Art wholly filled with so great Majesty of the Deity is a sign of an Irreligious spirit and Divine Plato Commanded that holy and secret misteries should not be made publique to the people Pythagoras and Prophiry consecrated their followers to a religious Silence The Rosie Crucians with a certain terible authority of religion do exact an oath of silence from those they initiate to the Arts of Astromancy Geomancy Telesmaticall Images because by them the dead are raised to life by them they alter change and amend bodies cure the deseased prolong Life preserve Health renew youth in old folke make dwarfs grow great men make fools and Madmen wise and vertuous destroy the power of writchs by these Arts they make men fortunate in play law suits love victory over enimies in Horse Races in Gameing in Merchandize and at sea silencing the violent waves by these Arts they know all things and resolve all manner of questions present or to come as saith Beata YOu that admirers are of vertue stay Consider well what I to you shall say But you that sacred laws contemn prophane Away from hence return no more again But thou O my Eugenius whose mind is high Observe my words read them with thine eye And them within thy sacred breast repone And in thy journy thinke of God alone The Author of all things that cannot die Of whom we uow shall Treat And Engenius The odidactus Proclaims Beata Pulchra comes hence hence all ye prophane Theodidatus cryes from her grove refrain Now in celebrating the holy misteries of Hester Heaton and Beata Pulchra they only were admitted to be initiated Eugenius Theodidactus proclaiming the prophane vulgar to depart of these goddesses you may read at Large in our Temple of Wisdome in Esdras we read this precept concerning the Cabalisticall secret of the Hebrews declared in these verses thou shalt deliver those Books to the wisemen of the people whose hearts thou knowest can comprehend them and keep those secrets in the Temple of Wisdome you see obscure Figures of Astromancy and Geomancy whereunto is added the Alphabet of Angels or writing and Language of Haeven affording compendious words partly by Starrs Characters set in manner of a wheel thick the reading thereby being defended from the Curiosity of the prophane therefore my worthy Schollers in this science be silent and hide those things which are secret in Religion for the promise of silence is due to Religion as Tertullian affirms but they which do otherwise are in great danger Now concerning these secrets my Ingenious disciples I would tell you if it were lawfull to tell you you should know all if it were lawfull to hear it but both eares and tongue would contract the same guilt of rash curiosity the divine Goddess Hester Heaton sings in those verses the power of God The Heavens Ioves Roiall Pallace he 's King Fountain vertue and God of every thing He is omnipotent and in his brest Earth water fire and aire do take their rest Both night and day true
great it may controul More worlds then one And all your wit can rule March 26 die ♄ â— h 40 P. M 1664. Thomas Tilliâ—n a Philosopher by fire to the Duke of Buckingham To his Loving Ingenious friend Mr. John Heydon upon his Harmony of the World Temple of VVisdome and Holy Guide c. Mr Careless Phrase and words that lye Neglected This vertue have that they 'l not be suspected Others may over praise your Book for vve The best things often over-rated see So what I write will aequidistant lye From polisht wit and servile Flattery Bees from a bruised Ox says Maro breed But you draw honey from a * an envious Almanack Makers his deceitful enimy ♂ in ♉ Tatter'd weed Who borrow'd of you Gold yet doth complain Much of poverty whose empty Brain Measures the slow-part Planets by the glass And when th' Nativity's done its poor alas But now theventricles of your pregnant brain Give birth to a brave man issues without pain Seeing your wit 's so pure your phrase so clean Your sence so weighty that each lines a chain Of Gold 'twixt Jupiter Hismael and the Gods Mercury and Mars that are now at odds Your Book like a young true born Eagle may Behold the sun in publick at noon day Colton May 13 8 h. 30. A. M. Die ♀ Frederick Talbot Esq To his honour'd Friend Mr. John Heydon on his most excellent principles of Philosophy in The Harmony of the World The Temple of Wisdom The Holy Guid Hameguleh Hampaaneah Elhavareuna Ocia Imperialia and the Idea of the Lavv all written near 17 years since and by Gods Providence now printed WOuld you those Pillars see those Reliques have Ruins of time and knowledge Seth did save From the impetuous Sea when waves were all And all were waves within these Pages small You 'l find them in their antient Lustre shine Not counterfeit but rich and masculine Or what Fgyptian Sages sometime set In their Papyrus books Rowls vastly great VVhilst Arts and Letters were no common things But Preists and Poets Princes were and Kings E're Learning a Ludibrium became To the audacious Rout oh hapeless shame E're Sacred Page vulgar Thumbs could soil Thence feeding black Seditions lamp with oile Books Monuments of banish'd winds do live And if from pure Minerva's born survive VVhen titles tryumphs Arches Name become Silent i th' ruins of a ruin'd tombe VVhen Scipio's Pompey's Caesar's Lawrels may By long success of wasting years decay Good Books eternal products of the brain Not onely live but may grow fresh again March 26 1664. â— h 30 A. M. W. Smith Master of Arts of Clare Hall in Cambridge A Catalogue of those things contained in these Bookes First Book 1 The white Elixir of Quicksilver 2 The white Ferment 3 The red Elixir of Mercury alone 4 The red Ferment 5 The Accurtation of the red Elixir 6 The Phisicall and Alchimicall Tincture of thered Lion and the glue of the Eagle Second Book 1 The Elixir of Copper 2 Of Augmentation and projection 3 Of the Blessed stone or Elixir of Life and of its vertues and also of Malleable glass Third Book 1 The Elixir of Saturne white and red and also of Jupiter 2 The Abreviation of the work of Saturn 3 The Elixir of Mars 4 A short work of the Phisicall and Alchimicall Tinsture 5 The Magistry of Pearles 6 The Composition of Carbunkles 7 Of Minerall Electrum 8 The Explanation of the Philosophers words when they speak of the tenth number wherein the stone is perfected and also the wonderfull Secrets of the animiall stone with two other of his works The Rosie Crucian CROWN Set with Angels Planets and Mettals c. The First Book CHAP. I. 1 Of the Gold Mercury or Argent vive 2 Purification 3 Sublimation 4 Calcination 5 Exuberation 6 Solution 7 Separation 8 Conjunction 9 Putrefaction into Sulphur 10 Fermentation 11 Multiplication in vertue 12 Multiplication in quantity HE that can make the Stone of Argent vive or ☿ alone is the greatest searcher out of Art and Nature because there is all that in ☿ which wise men do seek for Quick-silver is the mother and sperm of all Metals and their nearest matter and it is not onely a spirit but a body it is also a middle Nature and also a sulphur it is a lingring ☿ it dieth and riseth again and is fixed with its own proper Elements wherefore it is first necessary that it be purged from its impurities The purgation or purification is on this wise grind it upon a Marble with a muller or a wodden Pestill in a wodden Morter with common salt and a little vinegar springled thereupon till the salt be black then wash it well with vineger and dry it easily at the fire or at the Sun then strain it through a double cloath or a new skin of a sheep till it be dry and the vineger clear taken away and be of a white colour and clear Grind it upon a Marble with a little ☿ sublimate and let it mortifie and in corporate with it then grind it with its equall weight of salt-Peter and green Coperas till it be like a paste Then put all into a subliming glass and in Ashes sublime all the ☿ that it be white and clear as snow in the head of the Limbeck sublime it again three times or oftener and iâ— will be pure ☿ and sublimate Put one pound of this ☿ sublimate into two pound of common Aqua fortis by little and little at once as by two at a time till all bâ— dissolved like sugar in wine then shut the glaâ— and set it in Balneo to dissolve the space of 1â— days then distil away the Aqua fortis in a lentheâ— in Balneo and the ☿ will remain in the bottom like butter of a white colour And calcined bâ— corrosive water Put this calcined ☿ into an Earthen bodâ— with a Limbeck and in ashes sublime the whole dissolved substance three times which will then be very white and then it is called Mercury Exuberate VVhen you have three or four pound of this receive the third part and fix it by often sublimation till it remain in a hard mass and ascend no more but remain fixed VVhich is called the Glue of the Eagle or the prepared body permanent and the volatile made fixed which is to be reserved for the earth of the stone Dissolve the other two parts in Balneo or in a cold Cellar or put it in a blader and hang it over suming hot water till it be all come to water Take this water thus made and digest it in a Circulatory well closed the space of nine days then put it in a body with a head and receiver well luted and in ashes or Balneo distill the water of a white coulour or milkie and is called Lac Virginis dissolving all mettalls and so you have seperated the spirit of the stone which is also called the lingring spirit and the white Tincture of
Vera et Viva Effigies JohanÌ„is Heydon Equitis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nat 1629 Die ♃ Sept 10.9 45 PM Gaudet patientia duris Otia Imperialia The Idea of the Law of Policy Government Warr Regio Lucis The Harmony of the World The Temple of Wisdom The Holy Guide Lilly The Wise-Mans Crown OR THE GLORY Of the Rosie-Cross SHEWING The Wonderful Power of Nature with the full discovery of the true Coelum Terrae or first Matter of Metals and their Preparations into incredible Medicines or Elixirs that cure all Diseases in Young or Old With the Regio Lucis and holy Houshold of Rosie Crucian Philosophers Communicated to the World By JOHN HEYDON Gent. A Servant of GOD and Secretary to Nature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. He that looketh upon my Books let him learn to be religious LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be sold by Samuel Speed at the Rainbow in Fleetstreet 1664. THE LIFE OF John Heydon The Son of FRANCIS and MARY HEYDON Now of Sidmouth in Devonshire IOhn Heydon is not basely but Nobly descended The Antiquaries derive them from Julius Heydon the King of Hungary and Westphalia that were descended from that noble family of Caesar Heydon in Rome and since in this Royal Race the line run down to the Honorable Sr. Christopher Heydon of Heydon near Northwich Sr. John Heydon late Lord Lieutenant of the Kings Tower of London and the noble Chandlers in Worcester-shire of the Mothers side which line spread by Marriage into Devonshire among the Collin's Ducks Drues and Bears he had one Sister named Anne Heydon who dyed two years since his Father and Mother being yet living He was born at his Fathers House in Green-Arbour London and Baptized at St. Sepulchres and so was his Sister and both in the fifth and seventh years of the Reign of King Charles the First he was educated in Warwick-shire among his mothers friends and so careful were they to keep him and his sister from danger and to their Books that they had one continually to wait upon them both to the School and at home He was Commended by Mr. John Dennis his Tutor in Tardebick to Mr. George Linacre Priest of Coughton where he learned the Latine and Greek tongues the War at this time began to molest the Universities of this Nation He was then Articled to Mr. Mic. Petley an Atturney of Cliffords Inne with eighty pound that at five years end he should be sworn before Chief Justice Roll now being very young he applyed his minde to Learning and by his happy wit obtained great knowledge in all Arts and Sciences afterwards also he followed the Armies of the King and for his valour Commanded in the Troops when he was by these means famous for Learning and Arms he Travelled into Spain Italy Arabia Aegypt and Persia and gave his minde to writing and Composed about 20 years since The Harmony of the World in two Books The Temple of Wisdome in three Book The Holy Guide in six Books Elhavareuna in one Book Hampaneah Hammeguleh in one Book Ocia Imperialia in one Book The Idea of the Law The Idea of Government The Idea of Tyranny in three parts The Fundamental Elements of Morral Phylosophy Policy Government and War c. These Books were written near 20 years since and preserved by the good hand of God in the Custody of Mr. Thomas Heydon Sr. John Hanmer Sr. Ralph Freman and Sr. Richard Temple during the Tyrants time first one had the Books then another c. And at last at the Command of these Honourable Learned and valiant Knights they were Printed He wrote many excellent things and performed many rare experiments in the Arts of Astromancy and Geomancy c. but especially eighty one the first upon the Kings Death Predicted in Arabia by him to his Friends The second upon the losses of the King at Worcester Predicted at Thauris in Persia the third Predicted the Death of â—liver Cromwell in Lambeth house to many Persons of Honour mentioned in his Books the fourth he wrote of the overthrow of Lambert and of the Duke of Albymarle his bringing again of the King to his happy Countries and gave it to Major Christopher Berkenhead a Goldsmith at the Anchor by Fetter-lane end in Holborn the fifth precaution or Prediction he gave to his Highness the Duke of Buckingham two Moneths before the evil was practised And his Enemy Abraham Goodman lies now in the Tower for attempting the death of that Noble Prince The sixth for Count Gramont when he was banished into England by the King of France and he predicted by the Art of Astromancy and Geomancy the Kings receiving of him again into favor and of his marriage to the Lady Hamelton The seventh for Duke Minulaus a Peer of Germany that the Emperour sent to him when the Turk had an Army against him and of the death of the Pope the rest are in his Books And therefore by these Monuments the name of Heydon for his variety of Learning was famous not onely in England but also in many other Nations into which his Books are Translated And it seems something difficult to determine whether the sophistication of truth or the fucus of errors hath of late years been the more Epidemical cheat in Print it being sufficiently notorious how this generation of Taylors Almanacks the under-wits go a whoring after the Press and what a noysome spawn of Brats are generated of the froth of illegitemate Brains not less numerous then spurious that neither their male content Parents nor Religion Law Reason nor Charity are able to maintain And although Mr. John Heydon's works be of a more generous extraction yet they are very far from Complementing themselves with the least vâ—â—n hopes of exemption from those censures which are common to all men It is worth an Asterisk to observe how infeazable it hath been in all ages for the most innocent to escape this Correction Divine Plato that Prince of Phylosophers is accused for being too confused and immethodical Virgil by some is counted but a shallow and weak witted Poet and by others charged as if he were wholy be holding to Homer for his works and Homer himself is derided by Horace as if he were too drowsie a Poet Demosthenes could not please Marcus Tullius in all things Trogas Pompeius doth accuse Titus Livius his Orations of fictions and falsities Seneca was Nic-named and called Lime without Sand Pliny is compared to a turbulent River that taste of many things but digests few Hermes is called by some the dark King some affirme Zoroaster had no depth of Judgement An Astrologicall Taylor accuses Cornelius Agrippa Kt. John Heydon Appolonius and Tritemius of inventing new and strange principles in Phylosophy D. Brown is reproved for inconstancy and instability of Judgement And Mr. Moor and Eugenius Philalethes for their too much subtilty in some things Mr. Hobs is thought too full of Reason in his Religion and the
me from â—nvie and Malice I presume to call you Governour of my Regio Lucis and him Protector of Elhavareuna or the High Preist of the Rosie Cross and the Harmony of the world the Temple of Wisdome The Holy Guide Contain the power of Natural science and the most absolute Consummation therâ— of and that which is the Active part 〈◊〉 Figures which by the help of the naturâ—â— vertues of Mettalls from a Mutuall aâ—â— opportune application of them brings forâ—â— opperations even to Admiration whiâ—â— sciences the Rosie Crucians taught whâ—â— they came to worship our Saviour Chrâ—â— when he was born The Princes of all placâ—â— did study these sciences as Hiarthas Kiâ—â— of the Caldeans Jespion Prince of tâ—â— Brackmans Phroates The Indian Princeâ— Astaphon Duke of the Gimnsophists Budâ—â— King of Babilon Numa Pompillius Kiâ—â— of the Romans Zamoxides Emperour 〈◊〉 Thrace Abbaris Priest of the Hiperboreâ—â— Jewes Hermes Trismegist a King and Laâ— giver of Egypt Zoroaster the son of â—â—romasus King of Persia All these and maâ—â— more were Lovers of these Rosie Cruciâ—â— Infallible Axiomata and both writers anâ— patrons of this Kind of Learning 〈◊〉 Josephus The Hebrew Hermes Eranthâ—â— King of Arabia c. And Plato relates 〈◊〉 Alcibiades that the sons of the Persian Kingâ— were instructed in these sciences that thâ—â— might Learn to administer and distribuâ—â— their Image to the Common-wealth of tâ—â— world and the Common wealth to it and â—icero saith in his Books of Divination â—â—at there was none amongst the Persians â—id enjoy the Kingdome but he that had â—â—rst Learned Philosophy Rosie Crucians â—ontemplate the powers of Naturall and â—oelestial things and searching curiously â—nto their Simpathy doe produce incredible â—owers in Nature into Publique veiw so â—oupling Inferiour Telesmes Images Gaâ—â—hes and other things as Allurements to â—he Gift of superiour Angels Planets Genii Idea's And figures and other things â—â—at by the Mutuall application of Angels â—lanets and stars to Genji and figures of Geomancy upon Mattalls arise wonderfull Miracles not so much by Art as by â—ature to which Art becomes an Assistant â—hilest it works these things eelctions being â—ade of hours when Angels and Planets â—re strong figures and Characters rightly â—ngraven or cast uppon prepared Spermatick â—ure Mettall clear and fine free from â—ny Mixture and all fitted to the Angel â—lanet signe Idea figure of Geomancy â—nd these must be applyed to the person of â—he Querent or Native signified by the Angel Planet signe Genius Idea and figure who shall then find the Coelestiall and terrestriall powers unite to his desire and performe incredible extraordinary things at certain times Naturally and Rosie Crucianâ— as the most curious searchers of Nature making use of these things that are prepared by Nature only by appling fiery active things to Earthly passive things produce oftentimes effects before the time ordeined by Nature which the envious scriblerâ— think are Miracles and cry them down as Magicall with and in their under opinion termed Diabolicall which ineed are Naturall works the prevention only of the time coming betwixt as if any one should produce Roses in the Month of March and apple trees Blow and bear fruit in December and Ripe cherries Grapes and Beans in January or make parsly grow into perfect plant within few hours and cause greater things then these as Clouds rain Thunders and animalls of divers kinds and raise the Dead And spot Horses black and white like stars or any other colour and very many transmutatious of things these Books and Arts I submit you excelling in Jugment and Candour to your censure that if I have wrote any thing which may end either to the contumely of Nature offending God or injury of Religion you may condemn the errour but the scandall of Malicious persons being dissolved you may defend the tradition of Truth â—nd that you would do so with these Books â—â—d my self that nothing may be Concealed â—hich may be profitable and nothing approved of which cannot but do hurt by which â—â—eans the Harmony of the World The â—emple of Wisdome The Holy Guide â—egio Lucis and Elhavareuna having passed â—ur examination aswell as my other Paâ—â—ons with approbation may at Length be â—â—ought worthy to come forth with good sucâ—â—ss in publique as my other Books and may â—ot be afraid to come under censure of â—â—sterity because I wear the most Noble â—â—tle of â—prill the 5 th at noon 1664. Your most affectionate humble Servant and true honourer JOHN HEYDON The Rosie Crucian CROWN Set with Angels Planets and Mettals â—â— The Second Book CHAP. I. Of the blessed stone of the Philosophers 〈◊〉 the Elixir of life and also the way 〈◊〉 making malleable glasse 1 Elixir of life 2 Gold dissolved 3 Silvâ—â— dissolved 4 Gold melted 5 melted Silver 6 Projection of the red Medicinâ— 7 Projection of the white Medicine HERMES Speaking of fermentation bids us to take the sun and 〈◊〉 shadow by the shadow he meaâ—eth the moon because in respeâ—â— of dignity lustre and power 〈◊〉 is much more weak and inferiour then the 〈◊〉 And the moon followeth the sun as a shadow doth the body and is not illuminated except by the light of the sun we will first speak of the body that is to say of gold and after come to the shadow of which gold it is written in a book of Chimicall Art in this manner The Philosophers stone is made of gold alone and onely by nature and is more sublime then them which the Philosophers affirme cureth all infirmities According to the opinion of this Philosopher I purpose to begin with gold alone and the medicine which is a new and sole nature and antient and sound Quintessence But to the end this gold may be better and more pure it may be purged two manner of wayes that is to say by Antimony and by dissolution in corrosive waters with which copper plates are mixed as Goldsmiths use to do which is called water gold When you have thus prepared your gold project one part of your red medicine or red Elixir upon 100 parts thereof when your medicine is augmented in vertue and all that weight of molten gold will be converted into a red brittle masse which grind upon a marble to an impalpable powder Then dissolve these hundred parts or so much thereof as you please in distilled vineger or in spirit of wine and set it to disgest in Balneo the space of a day or two then distill the spirit of wine from it in Balneo and in the bottome will remain the fixed and pure oyl of the gold which is then the true Aurum potabile and spiritual Elixir of life if you would give to any one of this powder presently before it be converted to oyl warm a little white or Rhenish wine and dissolve in either of them so much of the red powder as will tincture the same into a red colour and the wine so tinctured will be Aurum potabile but it
to say of the powder of the white corporeal Elixir when the glass is melted Thus far Aurora Consurgeus and Clangor Buccinae Now if you desire to make pure and clear malleable glass learn this of me and beware of what glass you make your mettal for you must not take glass of Flints wherewith glass of windows are made but such as your Venice glass is made of and that is to be chosen out of the first mettal of the glass which hath stud molten in the fire in the glass makers furnace the space of a night then it will be without spots and pure therefore take as much of the said glass out of the furnace with your Iron rod as you have a desire to convert and when it is cold weigh it and melt it by it self in a pot and when it is well molten project your white corporeal Elixir upon it and it will be converted into malleable mettal and fit and apt glass for all Gold Smiths operations And thus is glass made malleable and prepared for any use but if this were done with the red Elixir it would be much more during for there is nothing more pretious of which we will not now speak Therefore Son or or Reader whosoever thou art who readest my Books give credit to me and beleive me because all things that you shall find writ here are either the most approved writings and collections of all writers or the Authors own experiments For I have tryed many things and found many things true I beleive no man liveth amongst Mortals that knoweth more ways of prepartions which are concealed by almost all the Philosophers For that which perfecteth the great work that they have all concealed which truely is the errour of all Artists And this is all I would have you to do To calcine dissolve and seperate the Elements after join them together putrifie them or reduce them into sulphur ferment project Augment in vertue and quantity This is onely the work of the Philosophers of which the whole Company of Philosophers have writ in a continuate course The End of the Second Book Hampaaneah Hammegulleh OR The Rosie Crucian CROWN In which is set down the Angels of the Seven Planets and their Occult Power upon the Seven Metals and miraculous Vertues in the Coelum Terrae or first matter of all things Whereunto is added A perfect full DISCOVERY OF THE Pantarva and Elixirs of Metals By EUGENIUS THEODIDAGTUS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Servant of God and Secretary to Nature Vbi est scientia ibi est invidia LONDON â—rinted for the Author and are to be sold at the Rainbow in Fleetstreet 1664. To the Worthy Learned Noble and Valiant Colonel Samuel Sandys late Governor of his Majesties Garrison in the Famous City of Worcester and now one of the Right Honorable Members of Parliament c. YOur late respects to me have commanded my Soul to serve you and knowing you are aswell a Philosopher and Learned as a Souldier that can command Armies of â—orse and Foot into good order for War I therefore humbly present this little Piece of Philosophy to your pleasure As the Book is Art and â—ature united to serve you so the Epistle may â—ake you merry by the great power of Natural â—â—ings for you know they not onely work upon all things that are neer them by their Vertue but â—â—so besides this they infuse into them a like â—ower through which by the same Vertue they â—â—so work upon other things as in the Loadâ—â—one which stone doth not onely draw Iron â—ings but also infuseth a Vertue into the Rings themselves whereby they can do the same Afâ—â—r this manner it is that the common Harlots â—nd Villains grounded daily in boldness and imâ—â—dence in Stage-Plays infect all that are neer them by this property whereby the spectors are made like them therefore they say that if any one shall put on the inward Garments of a Stage-Player or shall have about him that Looking-glass which they daily look into he shall become bold Confident Ignorant Impudent and Wanton so a Cloth that was about a dead Corps makes him that carries it sad and melancholy And if you put a Green Lizard made blind together with Iron or Gold Rings into a Glass Vessel putting under them some earth shutting then the Vessel and when it appears that the Lizard hath received his sight shall put them out of the Glass that those Rings shall help sore eyes the same may be done with Gold Rings and a Weesel whose eyes with any kind of prick are put out it is certain are restored to sight again upon the same account Rings are put for a certain time in the Nest of Sparrows or Swallows which afterwards are used to procure Love and Favor These observations and ten thousand more I made to serve you and they shall testifie you shall know you have power to command Your most affectionate humble servant JOHN HEYDON The third Book Of Saturne or Lead the first Direction CHAP. I. Of the Elixar Putrefaction into Sulphur the Oyl of the Sulphur of the Conjunction of the Salt and Oyl of the Spirit or Salt of Saturne which containeth the Oyl or soul of the Menstruum of white Mercury and red water of Paradice Resolution Solution distillation Hyl Purgation resolution of Sericon of the Gum of Sericon of the solution of the Minium or Adrop of Calcination of Minium into Adrop and red Lead of Calcination of Lead with Aqua Fortis VEry many have writ of Saturne or Lead but none that I know of have writ fully thereof in any particular Treatise therefore I do not here onely set down â—â—at I have gathered from them most briefly and â—â—ely but also those things which I have found 〈◊〉 proved by my own experience which I have â—â—exed to them that the work may be absolute 〈◊〉 compleat Of which as they say Mary the Prophetess and the Sister of Moses in her Books of the work of Saturne is thus said to write Make your water running like the water of the two Zaibeth and fix it upon the heart of Saturne And in another place Marry the Gum with the true Matrimonial Gum and you shall make it like running water Of which process of Mary George Ripley our Country man hath these verses Maria mira sonat Quae nobis talia donat Gummis cum binis Fugitivum fugit inimis Horis in trinis Tria vinclat fortia finis Fila Plutonis Consortia jungit Amoris Or thus Maria mira sonat breviter qui talia donat Gummi cum binis fugitivum fug it in imis Horis in trinis tria vinclat fortia finis Maria lux roris ligam ligat in tribus horis Filia Pluton is consortia jungit Amoris Gaudet inassala sola per tria sociata The heart of Saturne saith Ripley is his whiâ—â— and clear body out of whose doctrine the woâ—â— doth briefly thus proceed that is to say that
afflictions and false accusations I never saw him angry nor did he ever Arrest or imprison any man or woman in all his life yet no clyent of his was ever damnifyed in his suit He was falsly accused but lately of writing a Seditious Book and imprisoned in a Messengers Custody But his Noble friend the Duke of Buckingham finding him innocent and alwaies for the King he was then discharged and indeed this glorious Duke is a very good and just Judge and although some speak slightly of him he studies the way to preserve his King and Countrey in peace plenty and prosperity it is pitty the King hath no more such brave men as he a thousand such wise Dukes as this like Marshal'd Thunder back'd with flames of fire would make all the enemies of the King and Christendome Quake and the Turke flie before such great Generals in all submission we humbly pray for this Great Prince and leave him to his pleasure return to our subject John Heydon is not of that vain and presumptuous Nature as the Taylors that despise all Artists even Agrippa Appolonius More Vaughan and Tritemius And yet they cannot read these and many other Learned Authors they so impudently abuse Rob of their Learning and convert other mens parts to their own profit He lent one Ten pound in Gold he in requital or return speaks ill of him and pretends to know many admirable Rules of Geomancy and impertinently addes them to Nativities and applyes them to all manner of Questions in Astromancy but his Books being written so long since viz. near twenty years by himself their greediness of great maters is discovered and we now know them to be neither Scholers nor Gentlemen these hang up clouts with here are Nativities Calculated Questions resolved and all the parts of Astrology taught by us For three pence four pence six pence or higher if you please thus are young Apprentices old women and wenches abused and that they may be found for money they tell us the 12 Houses of heaven in the sign of a Coat of Arms are to be let when they might indeed set bills upon their brazen foreheads engraven thus Here are Rooms to be let unfurnished but our Author regards not these men all their scandals forgeries villanous devices they contrive against him he slights and scorns hath purposely forsaken Spittle-Fields his lodgings there to live a private Life free from the concourse of multitudes of people that daily followed after him but if any desire to be advised let them by way of letter leave their business at his Book-sellers and they shall have answer Counsel without reward for he is neither envious nor enemie to any man what I write is upon my own knowledge He writes now from Hermeupolis a place I was never at It seems by the word to be the City of Mercury and truly he hath been in many strang places among the Rosie Crucians And at their Castles Holy-houses Temples Sepulchres Sacrifices all the world knows this Gentleman studys honourable honest things and faithfully comunicates them to others yet if any traduce him hereafter they must not expect his Vindication he hath refered his quarel to the God of Nature it is involved in the concernments of his Truths and he is satisfied with the peace of a good conscience he hath been misinterpreted in his writing with studied Calumnies they disparage his person whom they never saw nor perhaps will see he is resolved for the future to suffer for he says God condemns no man for his patience the world indeed may think the truth overthrown because she is attended with his peace for in the Judgement of most men where there is no noise there is no victory this he looks upon as no dissadvantage the estimate of such censures will but lighten the scales and I dare suppose them very weak brains who conceives the truth sinks because it outweighs them as for tempestious out-crys when they want their Motives they discover an irreligious spirit one that hath more of the Hurry-eano then of Christ Jesus God was not in the wind that rent the rocks in peices nor in the Earth-quake and fire at Horeb. He was in Aura tenui in the stil smal voice his enemies are forc'd to praise his vertue and his friends are sorry he hath not 10000 pounds a year he doth not resent the common spleen who writes the truth of God hath the same Patron with the truth it self and when the world shall submit to the general Tribunal he will find his Advocate where they shall find their Judge there is Mutual Testimony between God and his Servants or nature and her Secretary If the Baptist did bear witness of Christ Christ did also as much for the Baptist He was a burning and a shining light when I writ this Gentlemans life God can bear me witness it was unknown to him and for no private ends but I was forc'd to it by a strong Admiration of the Mistery and Majesty of Nature written by this Servant of God and Secretary of Nature I began his Life some years since and do set it down as I do finde it if any man oppose this I shall answer if you are for peace peace be with you if you are for War I have been so too Mr. Heydon doth resolve never to draw Sword again in England except the King command him Now let not him that puts on the Armour boast like him that puts it off Gaudet patientia duris is his Motto and thus I present my self a friend to All Artists and enemy to no man Frederick Talbot Esq March 3 1662 3 To the Most Excellently Accomplished the truly honourable learned wise vertuous c Bevis Lloyd Esq Eternal Health be wished I Would have you know that I love and honor you beyond expression and shall serve you in Art and Nature to my power I have presumed to make you one in the number of my Noble Patrons because I hear the wickedness of some Pulpit Polititians incessantly rageing against my person which they never saw nor perhaps will see these sophistical Sicophants contend against me continually with bitter hatred envy and Malice without any provocation on my part one very proudly with a full mouth and loud voice aspersed me with Atheisme in St. Pauls Church in his morning Sermon the eight of May before the Lord Mayor and others Amonst a promiscuous people Railing against the Rosie Crucians who Art and Nature united Others in Coffee discourse and stinking smoak of Tobacco did fill the ears of the Ignorant with my infamy others in publique and private assemblies I hear do instigate the Dukes Princes and Peers of England c against me But my Religion being published I would have you know my Philosoply is to know God himself the worker of all things io pass into him by a whole Image of likeness as by an Essential Contract and bond whereby we may be
fundamenta This is here Allegorically taken for the last action almost of the work which is called the medicine or stone which medicine is to be projected upon the ferment that is to say upon the oyl of Sol or Luna which are the ferments or foundations of the Art in spiritual augmentation as before was said upon molten gold and silver And that spiritual ferment converted into medicine is to be projected upon molten gold or silver which are corporeal ferments in corporeal Augmentation and the corporeal fundaments of the Art upon quick silver Fundamenta super verbamea This is also spoken allegotically because in the Adage it is said words are wind as if a word were nothing else but the motion of the lips and exhaltation of the lungs which no sooner arise from motion but fly away and are turned to air so likewise Quick silver or Mercury goeth out of the bodies of other mettalls and is so volatile in the fire or hear as words in the air And therefore Mercury is likened to words upon which the fundaments are to be projected Verbes mea vir Mercury super diligam te That is to say upon other mettalls which have most affinity with quick-silver and easie of fasion as Saturn and Jupiter that is to say Lead and Tin which by this concord and love are easily by the penetration and amiableness of the medicine converted into medicine And one part of this medicine converteth other parts of mettalls into gold or silver according to the force and power of the Elixir which other mettalls because they are the substances of the former bodies whereof the medicines were made They are the attendants of those medicines wherefore the Philosopher commandeth that Diligam te be projected upon attendite that the second medicine or this last projected upon mettal especially that whereof the medicine that is to say the stone was made should turn that mettall into gold or silver according to the proverty and quality of the medicine But to put an end to this projection take it according to the opinion of Arnoldus gathered out of the 31 Chapter who willeth to project one part of the Elixir upon 100 of Mercury purged and all will be medicine upon other 100 parts of Mercury purged and all will be medicine afterward project one part of this medicine last congealed upon 100 parts of Mercury washed and all will be gold or silver in all tryalls according as the Elixir is white and red Lastly that I may briefly rehearse the absolute manner of projection First the medicine is to be projected upon gold or silver molten then upon quicksilver purged so long till it turns it into medicine and lastly upon mettals most near that they may be converted into pure gold or silver according to the properties and qualities of the medicine Because we have said something of the propinquity of mettalls that is to say that the Elixir is to be projected upon that imperfect body out of which its Mercury and sulphur was first extracted therefore it will not be unnecessary to set down one example that is to say if the medicine was made of Mercury then it is to be projected upon quick silver for makeing gold or silver because quick silver is a near body to Mercury and so of the rest Yet it is to be noted that all Elixirs may and ought to be projected upon quicksilver because quicksilver is the Mother and sperm of all mettals therefore quick silver made and turned into medicine is to be projected upon a body most near to it Which is Lead or Tinne Upon which the medicine is always to be projected whether white or red for the making and transmuting of mettals but both the quick-silver and lead are first to be purged that they may be purified and deprived of their filth Enough hath been said before of the purgation or putrification of Mercury We will now speak of the putrification of Lead Melt your Lead in a Crucible and when it is melted let it stand in the fire a quarter of an hour and put therein a little salt Armoniack and let it stand a while in the fire and stir it with an Iron spatnla till all the salt Armoniack be gone away in sume then scrape the skin away out of the crusible that is upon the lead then let it stand to cool and it will be much whiter and fairer And thus you must purifie your lead or tinne before projection because no other bodies are so fusible and apt to melt wherefore every Elixir ought to be projected upon quicksilver and upon Lead or Tinne for making or transmuting of mettals But to the end the manner of projection may be yet more plain I will set down two rules which must be carefully observed The first whereof is that the first medicine that is to say the stone be projected upon the ferment always three parts of the medicine upon one of the ferment and one part of this upon 10 or 100 of pure molten gold and one part of this medicine thus made upon 100 parts of an imperfect body that is to say of Mercury for medicine The later is that you must always consider the fortitude and debility of your medicine for it is to be projected so often upon quicksilver as it bringeth it into a brittle medicine and when it faileth then Project one part thereof upon Lead or Tinne for making transmutation according to the order and form of the Elixir These being remembred you may easily conceive the order of Augmentation in vertue and quantity These Chapters being ended the other three which follow are set down in the next book because we have spoken before of potable gold and silver it is therefore necessary after we have made an end of projection to set down another table of the Elixir of life in the next place and after speak of its vertue and power as we find it among all the Antient and modern Philosophers and so make an end of the first Book FINIS Hammeguleh Hampaaneah OR THE Rosie Crucian CROWN SET WITH Seven Angels 7 Planets 7 Genii 12 Signes 12 Idea's 16 Figures and their Occult Powers upon the 7 Mettalls and Miraculous vertues in Medicines with the perfect full discovery of the Pantarva and Elixirs of Mettalls prepared to cure the Diseased Whereunto is Added ELHAVAREVNA Presoria Regio Lucis and Psonthon Books much desired by the learned of the world Now Compleated and Communicated to all manner of Persons By John Heydon Gent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Servant of God and Secretary of Nature London Printed by P. 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would be better and more penetrating if it were tinctured with the foresaid oyl In like manner is the white medicine to be projected after the purification of the silver in a corrosive water as is before declared And so the melted silver will be converted into a brittle powder and white masse which likewise is to be dissolved and turned into oyâ— and thus the white Elixir of life is made anâ— potable silver curing and healing so far as iâ— is able humane diseases for it cannot be supposed that the Elixir of Luna hath so great vertuâ— as the Elixir of Sol hath Whence the Author of the book call'd correctâ—â— falnerum and Richard Anglicus in his correctâ—ry say whereas among the vulgar and Phâ—losophers God hath this report that being in his first disposition that it cureth the Leprâ—sy and many other vertues this is not exceâ—â— by its compleat disgestion because the excellencâ— of the fire acting in it consumeth all evil hâ—mours that are in sick bodies as well in hot 〈◊〉 cold causes But silver can not do this because hath not so much superfluity of fire and is 〈◊〉 so much disgested and decocted with natural maturity yet notwithstanding this it hath a fieriness occultly and vertually in it but not so fully because the fire causeth not such Elemental quallities as in gold And therefore silâ—er being in his first disposition doth not cure â—he Leprosy so potently unless it be first disâ—ested by Art untill it have the cheif degrees of â—old in all maturity Wherefore other sick â—etallick bodies more weakly cure infirmities according as they differ more from them in â—erfection and maturity some differ more some â—â—ss which is by reason of the sulphur infectâ—â— feid and burning of which they were made 〈◊〉 the beginning in their generation and coaguâ—â—tion and therefore they cure not whereas the â—â—e in them is burning and so infected with â—â—e Elementall feces with the mixture of other â—â—ementall quallities Seeing therefore that gold is of such vigor â—â—ongst the vulgar and that being in his first â—â—sposcion what wonder is it if it being brought â—o medicine as is experienced by Art and 〈◊〉 vertue be subtiliated by disgestion of decoctiâ—â— and purgation of the quallities but it may â—â—en cure more nay infinite or all diseases It makes an old man young and revive it â—â—â—serveth health strengtheneth nature and exâ—â—leth all sicknesses of the body it driveth poyâ—â—â— away from the heart it moysteneth the â—â—teries and breifly preserveth the whole â—â—dy sound In the Ludas purorum it is thus written of the use of this medicine the manner of useing it according to all the Philosophers is thus if you will use to eat of this medicine then take the weight of two florence Duccats of our Elixir and one pound of any confection and eat of that confection the quantity of one dram in winter And if you do thus it driveth away all bodily infirmities from what cause soever they proceed whether hot or cold and conserveâ—â— health and youth in a man and maketh aâ— old man young and maketh gray hairs to fall it also presently cureth the Leprosy and dissolveth Flegm mundifieth the bloud it sharpeâ—eth the sight and all the senses after a moâ—â— wonderful manner above all the medicines 〈◊〉 the Philosophers To which purpose we thus find in the Râ—sary of the Philosophers In this that is to 〈◊〉 in the Elixir is compleated the pretious giâ—â— of God which is the Arcanum of all tâ—â— Sciences in the world and the incomperable treasure of treasures for as Plato saith he thâ—â— hath this guift of God hath the dominion 〈◊〉 the world that is to say of the Microcosm 〈◊〉 because he attaineth to the end of Riches 〈◊〉 hath broke the bonds of nature not onely 〈◊〉 that he hath power to convert all imperfâ—â— mettalls into pure gold and silver but rathâ—â— because he can convert and preserve bâ—â— man and every Animall in perfect health To this purpose speaketh Geber Hermes Arnoldus Raymundus Lullius Ripley Penotus Augurellus Aegidius Valescus Roger Bacon Scotus Laurentius Ventura and diverse uncertain Authors Lastly I now come to the generall consent of all the Philosophers and repeat what is found in their writings in the Book de Aurora consurgeat and in Clangor Buccinae It is to be noted that the Antient Philosophers have found 4 principal effects or vertues in the glorious repository of this treasure 1. First it is said to cure mans body of all infirmities 2. Secondly to cure imperfect mettalls 3. Thirdly to transmute base stones into pretious gemmes 4. Fourthly to make Glass malleable Of the first All Philosophers have consented that when the Elixir is perfectly rubified it doth not onely work miracles in solid bodies but also in mans body of which there is no doubt for being taken inwardly it cureth all infirmities it cureth outwardly by unction The Philosophers also say if it be given to any in water or wine first warmed it cureth them of the Phrensy Dropsie and Leprosy and all kind of Fevers are cured by this Tincture and taketh away whatsoever is in a weak stomack it bindeth and consumeth the Flux of peccant humours being taken fasting it driveth away malencholly and sadness of the mind it cureth the infermities of the eyes and dryeth up their moisteness and blearedness it helpeth the purblind red or bloodshot eyes it mollifieth the primy or web the Inflamation of the eyes and all other incident diseases are easily cured by this Philosophical medicine It comforteth the heart and spiritual parts by taking inwardly it mittigateth the pain of the head by anointing the temples therewith maketh the deaf to hear and succoreth all pains of the ears it rectifieth the contracted Nerves by unction it restoreth rotten teeth by washing also all kind of imposthumes are cured with it by oyntments or emplaytors or injecting the dry powder therein It cureth Ulcers wounds Cancers Fistulas noli me tangere and such like diseases and generateth new flesh if it be mixed with corrupt and sower wine it restores it it expelleth poyson being taken inwardly it also killeth wormes if it be given in powder it taketh away wrinkles and spots in the face by anointing therewith and maketh the face seem young it helpeth women in travail being taken inwardly and bringeth out the dead child by emplaister it provketh Vrine and helpeth generation it preventeth drunkenness helpeth the memory and Augmenteth the radical moisture it strengtheneth nature and also Administreth many other good things to mans body 2. Of the second it is written that it transmuteth all imperfect mettals in colour substance lasting weight ductibility melting hardness and softness 3. Of the third that is to say of transmuting base and ignoble stones into pretious gems I will not speak of in this place because I have reserved it for another place that is to say the third Book Of the fourth it is writ that it maketh glasse malleable by mixture that is
water he made out of the body of Saturne likâ— the water Zaibeth and that water fixed upon thâ— heart of Saturne but because the practice 〈◊〉 drawing out this water of Zaibeth doth not appear out of this nor the way of making the heart â—f Saturne therefore the foregoing direction in â—â—e Holy Guide will shew them both Therefore I have joyned two Tables in one â—f which the shorter is the demonstration of the deduction of the body of Saturne into his heart or â—alt the other longer and greater is the extraction of the water Zabieth and the consummation of the work of Saturne Having thus described this work I now come â—o the explanation and say that the Calcination â—f the Body is twofold for the Calcination thereof in the shorter work for extracting the heart of Saturne is done on this wise by Aqua Fortis Take 8 or 10 Ounces of Lead in Filings and dissolve it in Aqua Fortis in double proportion and fortified with Salt Armoniack in an Earthen Vessel with a narrow neck and set in ashes till it be totally dissolved and there will remain a white matter in the bottom like Grains of white Salt which is a figure of perfect solution then pour your matter that is dissolved in the water into a body and set thereon a Limbeck and in Balneo draw away the corrosive water till there remain a dry substance in the bottom and so you have the body converted white by Calcination with corrosive water out of which the heart of Saturne is to be drawn The way to wash away and purge the corrosive water from the body pour warm water upon the substance in a Limbeck and pour it often off till it have no sharpness at all upon the tongue and then your body is prepared for drawing out the Salt When your matter is well dried dissolve it 〈◊〉 it again in distilled Vinegar and distill the Vinegar twice or thrice from it and in the bottom you shall have a lucid clear and white shining Salt which is then called the heart of Saturne Now I come to the practice of the other greater work that the verity of the stone may be found of which many have made mention iâ— their Books as Raymundus who calleth it the Vegetable Mineral and Animal Stone Gebâ—â— saith there groweth a Saturnian Herb on the top of a Hill or Mountain whose blood if it be extracted cureth all infirmities Ripley writ a whole Book called his Practical Compendium of the practice of the Vegetable Stone teaching the manner and form of operation but because he neither set down the solution plainly nor perfectly he hath been the cause of much error and hath not onely deceived me but all those that followed him untill after a long time I found a way to dissolve Saturne so that it could never after by distallation be turned into Lead again which is the chiefest and greatest secret of the Vegetable Stone But let us hear the words of Mary the Prophetess and Ripley taken from her The Radix of our matter is a clear and white body which putrifieth not but congealeth Mercury or Quicksilver with its odor makes its water like the running water of the two Zabieth alis Zubech and fix it upon the fixed heart of Saturne which words do most aptly agree with the properties of Lead for if any one be smit or wounded with a Bullet and the Bullet remain in the body it will never putrifie And also if Quick-silver be hanged in a Pot over the fume of molten Lead so as the fume of the Lead touch the Quick-silver it will congeal it Thus far of the preparation of Lead we now come to its denomination They bid us fix the water Zaibeth upon the fixed body of the heart of Saturne now for the exposition of the body for the name of Saturne Ripley calleth it Adrop of which that is made which the Masters call Sericon the water of Sericon they call their Menstruum the two Zabieths joyned together in one water are the two Mercuries that is to say white and red contained in one Menstruum that is to say of the water and Oyle of the fixed body or heart of Saturne Follow what I have written concerning the imbibition of the earth our operation is no otherwise then in the Practical Compendium of Ripley Isaacus also writ a Treatise of Lead he worketh chiefly according to the doctrine of Mary the Prophetess and laboreth much to fix the earth of Saturne and after to dissolve the body in distilled Vinegar that by the addition of corroding and sharp things his red Oyl may be distilled which he calleth the water of Paradice that he may imbibe his fixed earth therewith which way is much shorter then Ripleys but the rubification and fixation of the earth is long and uncertain wherefore I have both forsaken Isaacus and Ripley in making the earth in stead of which I have given the fixed heart of Saturne as you may read in the Holy Guide But that the body may be prepared according to this Table and after my intention and the desire of Ripley we both will that the Oyl or Water of Paradice be drawn out of the Gum of Sericon whose father is Adrop Sericon is made of Red-lead therefore it is first necessary to shew the way of making Minium of Lead which Thomas Juc an Englishman hath described together with the Composition of the Gum of Sericon which Author I purpose to follow as being the best Take ten or twelve pound of Lead and melt it in a great Iron vessel as Plumbers use to do and when it is molten stir it still with an Iron Spatula till the Lead be turned to powder which powder will be of a green colour when you see it thus take it from the fire and let it cool and grind that powder upon a Marble till it be impalpable moistening the powder with a little common Vinegar till it be like thick honey which put into a broad Earthen Vessel and set it on a Trevet over a lent fire to vapor away the Vinegar and drie the powder and it will be of a yellow colour grind it again and do as before till the powder be so Red as Red-lead which is called Adrop And thus is Saturne calcined into Red-lead or Minium Take a pound of this Read-lead and dissolve it in a Gallon of Vinegar and stir it with a stick three or four times in a day and so let it stand in a cold place the space of three days then take your Earthen Vessel and set it in Balneo twenty four hours then let it cool and filter the liquor three times and when it is clear put it in a body with a Limbeck thereupon and distill the Vinegar so long as it will ascend and in the bottom the Gum of the Sericon will remain like thick honey which set apart and dissolve more new Lead as before for more Gum till you have ten or
except that where before we took the blood of the red Lyon and the Glue of the Eagle when they were both destroyed we now joyn them sound and not hurt together that they living may mortifie and dissolve themselves which I have fitly called Corporeal Matrimony or the Union for in this wedlock they dye together that they may be vivified in the Celestial Matrimony therefore it is not to be wondred if this Table differ from the other for this pertaineth to the handling of spirits the other way teacheth the manner of making the Elixir of bodies therefore we now come to demonstrate the foregoing Table Therefore that I may plainly reveal all things unto you take Antimony well ground half a pound and as much Mercury sublimate likewise ground and grind them both togeth upon a marble till you cannot know them one from another then set them in a cold place that the matter dissolving may drop into a Glass set underneath for when the matters are well mixed together then say that they will both shortly be dissolved when the water is perfectly dissolved it will be of a greenish colour and lothsome smell Put this water with the thick part with it into a Glass and let it stand the space of three days in a fixatory under the fire and in short time you shall see your dissolvedness of a brownish black colour and after that is to say in the foresaid time it will be red something higher then red Lead Dissolve this calcined matter in Raymunds calcinative water and when you have dissolved it all into a red liquor or deep yelow then is your matter brought well into its Chaos Put this liquor into a fit body with an Alimbeck and receiver and by distallation separate the red oyl or the red Mercury from the white body which remaineth in the earth and if any matter ascend into the head of the Alimbeck despise it not but trie if it be fixed and if it be not fixed enough sublime it till it be fixed Whereunto joyn equal weight of its soul for the Celestial Matrimony and always leave out the earth in the bottom if you have any sublimate fixed if not take the white earth remaining in the bottom with which proceed as before is said and joyn the white body with the soul when they are thus joyned or married set them to impregnate and revivifie in Bulneo till it pass through all colours and at last be converted into red which then is the stone The manner of Fermentation Augmentation both in quantity and quality and projection is spoken of before in other works And thus Sons Brethren and Reader I have delivered and opened and also have amended many things all the secrets of the Ancient Philosophers whose writings were rather published to conceal the Art then to make it manifest or teach it although it pleased Hermes Trismegistus the first writer of this Art both to say and protest that he had never revealed taught nor prophesied any thing of this Art to any exept fearing the day of Judgement or the damnation of his Soul for shuning the danger thereof even as he received the gift of Faith from the Author of Faith so he left it to the faithful yet when you read his writings either in his Smaragdine Table or in his Apocalips or his twelve Golden Gates and shall find nothing plain or manifest what will you think of such an Author Believe me all the Ancients have concealed the secret of their preparations in the gross work although they writ most famously of the Philosophical operation therefore I have used my endeavour to trye for out of their writings I found that the Elixir might be made of the Planets or Mettals and also of mean Minerals which came more neer to a metallick nature then reading more I found a certain method amongst them all as it were with one consent or voice on this wise First and principally that bodies should be made incorporeal that is to say discorporated or discompounded which then is called the Hyle or Chaos Secondly That out of this Chaodical substance which is one thing three Elements should be separated and purified Thirdly That the separated and purified elements should be joyned the man and the woman the body and the soul heaven and earth with infinite other names so called that the ignorant might think they were diverse which onely were nothing else but water and Salt or the body and spirit or soul that is to say white Mercury and red which they joyned together that a new and pure body might be created in putrefaction that a Microcosmical infant might be created in imitation of the Creation that is to say Sulphur of Nature Fourthly That it should be fed with Milk that is to say with its own proper Tincture and after nourished by Fermentation that it may grow to its perfect strength Having learned these I begun to practice and in the practice of every body and spirit I found diverse errors but reading more and trying more at last I found the manner and true way of dissolving all bodies separating and conjoyning them finding the composition of their secret of secrets that is to say Lac virginis or Acetum acerrimum and Raymunds calcining water wherewith I dissolved all bodies at pleasure and perfected the gross work wherefore I purposed contrary to the custome of the Philosophers to reveal the whole work lest I being envious should be the Author of error like them therefore I have added their works to my own experiments and inventions which are plainly and truely writ that the Artist need to read no books but mine for herein is almost all things contained which are found plainly writ by the Philosophers and also those things which are found true by my own experience Now you have all things methodically in this Art without error with which by the help of God you may attain to the end Alchymy revealeth and openeth unto us four other secrets The first is the composition of Pearls far greater and fairer then natural ones which cannot be perfectly done without the help of the Elixir The second is the manner of making precious Stones of ignoble ones by the same Art which we taught before in malleable Glass The third is the manner of making artificial Carbunckles in imitation of natural ones which few or none have spoken of The fourth is the manner of making Mineral Amber of which Paracelsus hath onely writ in his book of vexations of Philosophers and in the last Edition of his works in the six of his Archidoxes but because they cannot be made without the help of the Elixirs therefore they deserve a place amongst the Elixirs of the fourth that is to say of the vertue or rather the vice of making Amber I shall handle it coldly I have reserved the explanation of this Aenigma till the last place wherefore it is said that the Elixir is perfected in the Decimal number CHAP. VI.
which he writ the whole practice in his book of the twelve gates but most chiefly in his Medulla where he teacheth its preparation and work more plainly And because I have proved it to be true therefore I tell it more confidently because I desire to write nothing of my own fancy but that which I have first proved Hearken almost the last verses which he writ in his Twelve gates 1. I never saw true work truly but one Of which in this Treatise the truth I have told Study onely therefore how to make our stone For thereby mayst thou win both Silver and Gold Vpon my writing therefore to ground thee be bold So shalt thou loose nought if God be thy guide Trust to my doctrine and thereby abide 2. Remember that man is most noble Creature Of Earthly composition that ever God wrought In whom is the four elements proportioned by nature A natural Mercuriality which costeth right nought Out of his minere by Art it is brought For our metalls be nought else but our mineres two Of Sun and Moon wisely Raymund said so The clearness of the Moon and of the Sun so bright In these two mineres descendeth secretly Howbeit the clearnesse is hid from thy sight By craft thou shalt make it appear openly This hid stone this one thing therefore putrifie Wash him in his own broth till white he become Then ferment him wittily Lo here is all and sum Out of these onely words there are two points observed whereunto the Author steereth The first is that mans blood be put to putrefaction that Sulphur may be made thereof The second is that it be fermented wittily As if he should say the Artist shóuld prepare it that it may be fit for fermentation Thus far of the Theory Now we come to declare the practice out of Ripley's medulla Take Mans blood drawn out of the Veine in March and of a Martial man the Author meaneth as I think of a Cholerick complexion and when the blood is drawn out of the vein let it cool that the Green water may be drawn from it which is saltish for as long as that saltish water remaineth with the blood it will not let it putrifie because the water preserveth the blood from putrifaction while it is in a mans body When it is thus prepared put it in an Eggeglasse well closed and set it in Balneo to putrifie in forty days or lesse it will be black and so go on till it be white When you have your white Sulphur divide it into two parts and keep one for the white stone and rubifie the other for the red work And so you have two mineres of which it is said For our metals be nought else but our mineres two Of Sun and Moon wisely Raymond said so And so to the end of the verses as before Yet here it is to be understood that the Philosophers Sulphur is not mineral or metallick Sulphur from which metalls grow under the Earth but it is a purified Sulphur drawn out of metalls made by Art above the Earth out of which and the Mercury of the body the stone ariseth For believe me I had never writ any thing of this Art except I had seen the Sulphur of the Microcosm and the perfect solution of other bodies and Sulphurs Now have you prepared your Sulphur out of the minere of the Microcosm If you be a Philosopher proceed to the end and conclude your work in the tenth number If not you are not born to our Philosophy therefore give the Sulphur Mercury that the work may be compleat I believe there lieth not any Secret in the Chymicall Art which thou hast not truly declared and playnly taught But to the end that these things which we have spoken may be more surely committed to memory we will repeat the general process of the parts as it is described in the beginning of this third book And because there is not one but diverse handling of the bodies therefore the Table is divided into three parts the middle whereof discribeth the process of imperfect bodies to the stone the other two teach the preparation of perfect metals for fermentation of the stone of imperfect bodies The manner of preparing imperfect bodies CAlcination of the body Solution of the body into Hyle Separation by Distillation Conjunction of the separated Putrefaction of the conjoyned Sulphur by putrefaction to the Stone Fermentation of the Stone to the Elixir Augmentation of the Elixir Projection of the Elixir Some make twelve parts as Ripley and others who call them twelve gates but because three other degrees are contained in these it would be ridiculous to repeat them and because the way of both ferments whether white or red is the same The Table of Fermentation CAlcination Solution Putrefaction Sulphur Solution of the Sulphur Red ferment Aurum Potabile Quintessence Elixir vitae So likewise it is said of Silver when it is prepared White Ferment Argentum Potabile Quintessence White Elixir of Life Now the Radiant Sun of the Philosophers ariseth which will drive away the dark Chimera's and disperse the black clouds Here the Aenigma's are opened thistles and thorns are cut up and burned Now Reader mayest thou safely walke in the Philosophers gardens and gather most wholesome fruit Here grow most fragrant roses both white and red Here grow Vines bearing full grapes of which is made the wholesome Nectar Here are found trees of health and wealth Trees of the Sun and of the Moon Here spring two cool fountaines of Sciences and Knowledge sliding artificially through the garden upon the most pretious gems and Silver and Golden Sands Thou hast one field of Paradice given thee from God that during the Life of his elect they may be kept in health free from all sickness Here the corrupt Nature puts on an incorrupt Nature Here impure things are turned into pure things Here are all diseases lost and health encreaseth Here the perfect unity and harmony of body dwell and here is also all the most excellent treasures Therefore let us always praise God for his gifts let us worship him obey him love him and beseech him to establish his grace upon us and conduct us to eternity through all his ways of goodnesse knowledge and faith to Life eternal Amen FINIS Paracelsus OF The TRANSMUTATION OF METALS CHAP. I. Of the Scale of Transmutation TRansmutation is an alteration or changing of the forms of natural things into other forms as of Metals or Wood into Stones or Glass the changing of Stones into Coles c. It hath been â—â—â—nd out That Metals that have been first â—â—yned into Money have been by Nature â—â—anged under the Ground into a stony subâ—â—â—nce and yet have retained the impression of 〈◊〉 Image that hath been stamped upon them â—â—d That the Roots of Oaks being smitten â—â—h Thunder or some other influence of the