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

Sol you should be constrained to open the body of Sol for the space of one whole yeer before the said Mercury of a body could be drawn or come out of Le●d you may draw out this Mercury in fourteen dayes and it is as good as the other and if you should come to make a work of Sol alwayes you must be two yeers about it to do it well but of Lead you may perfect it in thirty or two and thirty weeks at the most and then be fully ended the one is as good as the other and Lead costs little or nothing and is a shorter work and is less labor and of one goodness and is truth therefore print this in thy heart and serve God The same Lead is called of the Philosophers Sol whereof they had the name until this day and have kept it secret for if the thing were known many would work it and the thing would be common for the work is short and easie and little of value and therefore was it kept secret that the name might be known lest it might have come to the hands of wicked men and so much harm might have come thereby and this holy Science which God hath given to those that love and serve him should to wicked persons be a means of greater wickedness As concerning the Lead of Sol and Luna they have set three Glasses and all is Lead but there is no need to joyne any strange thing but that onely which cometh from him neither is there any man so poor but that he may be able to compass this work for you make of the Salt of Lead with little labour Luna and with a little longer time Sol and then they may proceed to make the Philosophers Lead And this is altogether concluded in Lead as much as is necessary for us for in him is the perfect Mercury and in him are all the colours in the world which shall shew it self openly for in him is the true blackness whiteness and redness he is ponderous and in him is the perfect red and white bodies look and take example of all imperfect things the eye of man cannot abide or bear how little soever though smaller then a mote yet it will trouble a mans eye terribly but if you take Lead clean scraped and made the bigness of a Bean and put it in your eye it will neither pain you or harm you at all and that is because its uttermost is not perfect like Sol or other pretious Stones that come out of Paradise running in the stream and in like manner Sol that in him is you may well perceive by the similitude and many other more That Lead is our Philosophers Mercury our Laton for out of it is drawn in short time our Mercury and our Philosophers Mercury that is our golden Mercury with little labor little cunning and little charge And therefore I charge you and all of you that know his name to keep his name secret for if men knew it much mischief and trouble would be done And therefore you shall know our Lead by its hidden name and you shall know that the water wherein our Lead shall be washed vinegar This is the Philosophers Stone whereof all the Philosophers have written many dark Books but there are divers and many works in the Mineral Lead An Abstract our of Doctor Homodlus M S. De Elixir solis Medicina universali Of the Tincture of Gold separated from its body and turned to a Celestial and Spiritual Nature called a Quintessence within the Aurum Potabile CHAP. I. Of the Matter of the Universal Medicine SInce God hath created all things for mans use and that in all vegetable animal and mineral creatures there is some vertue to be helpful to humane diseases I thought there might be something among these of incorruptible Nature which by it self might cure all Diseases and prolong the life of man to a long age keeping his humours in a most equal temperament and by consequence this thing must be of it self most equally tempered of the four Elements Now seeking this thing in the Vegetables of Animals I found it not because that in all of them there is some one humour predominant over the rest actively or passively Therefore I turned to Minerals or Metal but I found the Calx and Calcanth and other things being reduced to Ashes could not be brought back again to their former bodies And so I conclude There was no perfect natural composition in them And finding the perfect Metals thus reducible again to their own bodies I perceived that in them was some firmer composition then in other things yet are in all alike for all the rest of the Metals except Gold by a strong Combustion will be converted into dross and smoke but Gold is no whit the worse after all Trials then I concluded That it was among all the rest incorruptible and by consequence of a most equal temperament and composition of Elements And when I understood by Marsillis joyning with Metals could generate I concluded That in Gold there was a generative and regenerative vertue but because I found the matter of Metals to be very gross and earthy and that thereby this vertue was oppressed and kept insomuch that it could not work until it was delivered from the hands of its bodily Imprisonment I judged That is was needful to open rarifie and dissolve the body that the vertue might actuate Whence I concluded at last thus That Gold was the remote matter whereof the universal Medicine was to be made up and that the Spirit of Gold and Lune which is also called Lune Quintessence is the matter whereof it is made up CHAP. II. How to make the Menstruum and how to circulate it SInce I have declared heretofore the matter of the Universal Medicine consequently I will open the way how to make the vegetable Menstruum and how to circulate it that it may be reduced into Quintessence by that means of this Menstruum the true preparation is made that is also a Physical preparation to wit Subution Putrefaction Overflowing Exuberation Multiplication and Rectification and that with the Conservative of the former Vegetable and with the Multiplication of the force for this is the Menstruum or Vegetable Water which Raymundus speaketh of in this Codicil Therefore Silver and Gold are dissolved in radical things of their own kinde and in the compound of the Soul of the Art for this is the matter by which all incurable Diseases are cured under the conservation of their own Nature Therefore this is the way to prepare it Gather the Vegetable Lunary of the Philosophers in the time when the height of Goffer doth rule which is the seventh and the first day of the Reign of Corrocay the Ministerial Spirit of the same height in the sixth rank and last three hours before noon and as many afternoon when the day is fair and the sky is cleer then take the Lunary it self pure and

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