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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

produce their like without the mixture of both their Seeds so in like manner our Male Sol and his Female Luna cannot conceive nor bring forth any Generation without their Seed and Sperm From whence our Philosophers have gathered That there is a third thing necessary to wit the Animate Seed both of the Male and Female of the Chymists without which they judged their whole work vain and ridiculous The Sperm hereof is Mercury which by a natural Conjunction of both bodies of Sol and Luna receiveth and uniteth their Nature into himself Then at length and not before is the matter apt for the congressive Work and Generation by the Masculine and Feminine force and vertue This hath moved our Philosophers to say That this Mercury is composed of Body Soul and Spirit and to assume unto it self the nature and propriety of all Elements Wherefore they have asserted their Stone to be an Animal which also they called their Adam who beareth his occult and invisible Eve in his own body from which moment they are united by the power of the Great Maker of all things For which cause it may worthily be said That the Mercury of the Philosophers is nothing else but an abstruse composed Mercury and not that vulgar Mercury Therefore they have wisely said That there is in Mercury whatsoever the wise men do seek after Almadir the Philosopher saith We extract our Mercury out of one perfect Body with two perfect natural and incorporate conditions This extrinsecally produceth his perfection whereby he resisteth the force of the fire and by this his perfection is extrinsecally and intrinsecally defended from all imperfections By this place of the acute Philosopher the matter of the Stone is understood to be Adamical the Microcosmical Garment the Homogeneous and united matter of the Philosophers These Sayings of the Philosophers which before we have made mention of are meerly Golden and to be had alwayes in great esteem because they contain in them nothing superfluous nothing invalid Briefly therefore The matter of the Philosophers Stone is nothing else but a fiery and perfect Mercury extracted by Nature and Art that is artificially prepared and is the true Hermaphrodite Adam and Microcosme This the wisest of Philosophers Mercurius Trismegistus asserting calleth the Stone an Orphan Therefore our Mercury is he which contains in himself the perfections power and vertue of Sol and runneth through the Houses of all the Planets and in his Regeneration acquireth the vertue of the superiors and inferiors and by the Matrimony thereof he appeareth cloathed in their candor and beauty The Arabians Greeks Persians and Egyptians have kept these Mysteries secret and abstruse denoting them by certain occult Characters and Figures Some have called this The Secret of the Philosophers and Pythagoras The Philosophers Stone Whosoever have attained to the knowledge hereof have adumbrated and shadowed the same with various enigmatical Figures and deceitful Similitues and Comparisons and feigned Words that the Matter thereof might remain occult to Posterity so that little or no Knowledge thereof might be found out But nevertheless some have sufficiently detected this matter and the knowledge thereof with its preparation to the ingenious but notwithstanding in Parables and under Enigmatical Words and Figures that they might expel the unworthy from attaining to such a mystery of Art and Nature Nevertheless some few and such who are apt to apprehend this Art have sought out the perpetual Balsome of Nature and the true Stone but with exceeding great labour and intricate difficulty which every where occurreth in the investigation hereof And hence it appears why the sluggish and slothful mindes never attain to this work CHAP. VII Of the Preparation of the Spagyrick Matter in general NAture first requireth of the Artist that the Philosophical Adam be brought into a Mercurial substance and at length to be regenerated into the Oriental Sol and Lunary Stone Moreover it s to be noted That those common Preparations of Geber Albertus Magnus Thomas Aquinas Rupecissa Polydor and the like are nothing else but particular Solutions Sublimations Calcinations least of all pertaining to our universal Secret which wanteth onely the most secret Fire of the Philosophers The Fire therefore and Azor are sufficient for thee The Philosophers make mention of other Preparations as Putrefaction Distillation Sublimation Ceration Fixation c. which you are to understand onely to be certain universal Operations to compleat Nature in the said matter and not onely a working in the Philosophical Vessel with the like Fire and not with common Fire For the white and the red proceed both from one Radix without any mean it is dissolved in it self and copulated by it self made white and red black yellow by it self it despouseth it self and is conceived in it self it is decocted and infunded ascendeth and descendeth all which Operations are made by the Fire alone Yet some Philosophers have dissolved the Body of Sol by the strong essence of Wine and made it Volatile that it would ascend by an Alembick thinking this to be the true Volatile matter of the Philosophers whereas it is not although it be a secret not to be despised to reduce a perfect Metallick Body into a Volatile and spiritual substance yet they erre in the separation of the Elements for they thought by this way to separate Gold into a subtil spiritual and elemental vertue and after their separation by Circulation and Rectification again to copulate them into one but in vain For although one Metal may be separated from another in some sort nevertheless every Metal thus separated may be separated again into another which parts afterwards by a Pellicanical Circulation or Distillation can in no wise copulate into one but will alwayes remain a certain Volatile Matter and Aurum Potabile as they call it The cause why these can never attain to their intentions is this Because by this way Nature will not be extracted nor separated with humane dis-junctions as by terrene Glasses and Instruments That onely hath known its Operations and the weight of the Elements whose Separations Rectifications and Copulations are executed without the help of any Operator or Manual Artifice whilst the matter is contained in the secret Fire and in the occult Vessel This is the Opinion of the Philosophers That when they have placed this matter into their secret Fire it is cherished round about with this Philosophical hear that beginning to transite into corruption it waxeth black This Operation they call Putrefaction And this Blackness The Head of the Crow They call the ascending and descending of this matter their Distillation Ascension and Descension they call Exsiccation Coagulation and Dealbation Calcination And because by a continual hear the matter is made soft and fluid they make mention of Ceration But when it ceaseth to ascend and remaineth liquid in the bottom they call it Fixation After this manner therefore are the Apellations of the Philosophical Operations to be understood and

no otherwise Thus having declared the Instruments Matter and Ferment we proceed in order to the Weights without observation whereof our Work is in vain CHAP. VIII Of the Proportion of the Matter and Form of the Spagyrick Stone THe Formal part of our birth is the Mercury of the Philosophers and the Spirit or Tincture of Sol but the living part is another material Therefore the Composition of this sacred Adamick Stone is made after the Adamick Mercury of the wise men with their Female Eve by the Matrimony and union of the one and the other Mercury on the third part Therefore the onely matter of the Philosophers consisteth of spiritual corporal and animal Mercury The corporal Mercury is the subject of Tinctures The spiritual and animal Mercuries exhibit the means of conjoyning them but in their conjunction a due proportion is to be observed For if there be taken more of one then of the other it will be suffocated as Seed sown in the Field so that it cannot live so long until it be united by the Mercury of the Philosophers and perfected in the Fire or on the contrary if it be too little there can be no Solution nor no Fruit. Wherefore see that you take as much of the one as of the other lest by your ignorance in the proportion the work be destroyed Let there be taken therefore one part of the Seed to two parts of Earth or three to four and there will be no error but the work will be brought to its desired end in this behalf so as the rest be moderated accordingly There is a double Reason why the Weight should be observed the one natural the other artificial The natural followeth the effect in the Earth by Nature and Concordancy of which Arnaldus speaks If there shall be added more or less Earth then Nature will suffer it will suffocate the Soul and no fruit nor fixation is perceived The like is to be judged of the Water if there be taken too much or little thereof it brings an inconvenient loss for the superfluity thereof makes the matter too humid and the defect or want thereof renders it too dry and too hard If the Vessel be too little the Tincture is too much pressed if too large a pale body evades if the Fire be made too vehement the matter is burnt if too remiss it hath not power of exsiccating solving and calefying the other Elements In these consists the elemental Weight but the artificial is most occult when as the Ponderations are included in the Magick Art Between the Spirit Soul and Body say the Philosophers consisteth the Weight with Sulphur as it were the Rector of the work for the Soul desireth the Sulphur and necessarily observeth it by Reason of the Weight Which understand after this manner Our matter is united with red mixed Sulphur to which is committed the third part of the Regiment until the last Degree that it maketh on the infinite Operation of the Stone and persisteth therewith together with his Fire and consisteth of an equal Weight with the matter it self in all things and by all things without any variation of any Degree of Transmutation After therefore the matter is prepared and fitted and mixed with its proportionate Weight it ought to be very well concluded and sealed up in the Philosophers Vessel and committed to their secret Fire in which the Philosophical Sun will spring up and arise and illuminate all things which expect his Light or hope can desire But because this cannot rightly be understood without a perfect knowledge in the Metals of perfect Tinctures we proceed now to speak of them CHAP. IX Of the Tinctures and Spirits of Metals and first of the Tincture of the Sun THe Tincture of the Sun obtains the supreme and principal place which is derived of subtil pure and most perfect fire Wherefore this spirit flieth not from the fire but remains therein fixed triumphing and rejoycing it is not consumed nor burnt thereby as others but rather thereby gains more lustre and splendor it is subject to no Corruption neither heat nor cold nor any other quality can bring any detriment thereunto Whereby it comes to pass that the body which it once putteth on it defends and preserves from all accidents Corruption and diseases that it may also endure the fire with him without lesion His body hath not these virtues from himself but from his spirit alone the efficient cause thereof It is certaine that the body of Sol is Mercury which can in no wise indure the fire but immediately flyes therefrom Since therefore being in gold Mercury persists constantly in the fire and flyes not there is no doubt but the fixing thereof by the spirit will impresse the same virtue in its self What gift and office therefore hath it in Mercury but that when it is freed from its own body and taken into a humane body it should work and operate its effects thereupon who will deny but that also it may preserve and keepe it safe from all Corruption diseases and accidents whatsoever and preserve the body to a long and sound life as our first parents of old The virtues and propertyes of all other Metals are not otherwise to be known but by certain and true experience and not by any other reason of a Subtile intellect for this wisdom which is conceived by opinion only is meere foolishness before God and the truth wherefore they that hope and believe therein do erre and are deceived Thus farre of the spirit and Tincture of Sol now let us see what Tincture the Moon hath The spirit of Luna lyeth in this white Tincture as the Red in Sol And it is also borne of a subtil spirit but not so perfect as that of Sol. Nevertheless in purity and constancy it farre excelleth the Tinctures of all the other subsequent Metals For burnt lead consumes it self and all other Metals with it in the fire except Sol and Luna to which it brings no detriment Seeing therefore the spirit of the Moon is of power to preserve the body which it once putteth on to wit Mercury from injury of the fire and all other accidents and render the same fixed and constant it is easily gathered from hence if it effect this in so instable and volatile a body as Mercury how much more efficacious and powerful will it operate being free from its own body and projected into a humane body will not that be also defended from many diseases and Corruptions certainly whatsoever it operates in Mercury the same it will do in a humane body and preserve the same to a long and sound life expelling all diseases which are comprehended under the power thereof according to the degree thereunto prefixed by nature Certainly by how much the more sublime subtile and perfect every Medicine is by so much the more perfectly it cureth in its kinde Wherefore ignorant are those Physitians who found their Art chiefly upon corrupt Medicines as Vegetables

because the intellect doth so far excel the sense this is a work of a second intention and the beginning upon the vertue of Elements that is a pure bright and cleer Water of Putrefaction for the perfection of every Art properly so called requires a new birth as that which is sowed is not quickned except it die but here death is taken for mutation and not for rotting under the clods Now therefore we must take the Key of Art and consider the secret of every thing is the Life thereof Life is a Vapor and in Vapor is placed the wonder of Art whatsoever hath heat agitating and moving in it self by the internal Transmutation is said to live this Life the Artist seeks to destroy and restore an eternal Life with Glory and Beauty This Vapor is called The vegetable Spirit because it is of degree of heat with the hottest Vegetable and being decocted till it shine like brightest Steel you shall see great and marvelous secrets not by the separation of Elements by themselves but by predomination and victory of that pure Fire which like the Celestial Sun enters not materially but by help of Elemental Fire sends forth his influence and impression of form Here we must observe difference of perfections for although ye have now the Fountain of compleat white yet you are not neer your chief delight which is the Fountain of Life and Centre of the Heart the universal Spirit which lives in the radical humidity and doth naturally vivificate and is the masculine Seed of the Celestial Sun here is that Rule made good Except ye sow in Gold ye do nothing Therefore we must take heed what we understand by Gold whereof there are three sorts Vulgar Chymical and Divine which is therefore so called because it is a special Gift of God The Theosophists are perswaded by exact diet and by certain form of prayers at certain times to obtain the Angel of the Sun to be their Guide and Director The Philosophers advise to take the like matter above Earth that Nature hath made under the Earth Others to search the most precious treasure from a vile thing all which is easily agreed if rightly understood for in the lines following the same Author saith The vile thing is from the Sperm of Gold cast in the matrix of Mercury by a prime conjunction Others affirm Azoch and Ignis to be sufficient for this high perfection the which Azoch among the Germans is Silver with the Macedonians Iron with the Greeks Mercury with the Hebrews Tin with the Tartars Brass with the Arabians Saturn and with the Indians Gold All which being diverse in Nature are potential in one composition and by the duel of Spirits the Celestial Gold obtaineth victory over all the rest and is made though not with hands a body shining like the Sun in glory which is called Ens omnis privationis expers or Thummim This is the Key that made the pure cleer Fountain and of it was made himself the fair Woman so loving the red Man she became one with him and yielded him all glory who by his Regal power and soveraign Quality raigneth over the fourfold Nature eternally but if any shall understand either common or Chymical Gold to be the substance of this sacred body he is much mistaken for a glorious Spirit will not appear save in a body of his own kinde Although pure Manchet be made of the finest Meal yet Wheat is not excluded and so Bread is said to be of the second and neerer causes rather then the remote notwithstanding that which is made by the effect in a successive course is as certain as that which is made with hands After we fell from unity we groan under the burden of division but three makes up the union first temporary and afterwards eternally fixed He that knoweth a thing fully must know what it was is and shall be so to know the several parts of a successive course is not a small thing neither the honor little in the right use of the Creature Air turned into Water by his proper mixture becomes Wood and the same Wood by Water is turned into a Stone A Spring in Italy called Clytinus makes Oxen white that drink it And the River in Hungary turns Iron into Copper VVhat excellency things may attain by habitual vertue or what power when Nature and Art make one perfection who is able to express If you desire by Art to have a thing of admirable sweetness and odor you will take a substance of like quality to exalt into such excellency the proper quality of Fire and Air is sweetness it is but appropriate in Earth and Water what bodies shall we finde where these are most abundant to be wrought upon As the Celestial Bodies give no Tincture yet they are most abundant in Tincture Air is cause of Life Mercury is coacted Air Ethereal and truly Homogeneal which doth after a sort congeal and fix it is called a crude Gold and Gold affixed and mature Mercury And although the crude Quality be cold and dry some hold for the excellency of its temperature That it is all Fire or like to it whereby it is dissolved however it is at large proved those bodies are most abundant in pure Fire and Air whose proper Quality is sweetness Therefore those are the fittest subjects to make the most precious perfume in the world and considering cleerness and brightness is the centre of each thing and those bodies have both centre and superficies cleer and bright whensoever they are purified by Art and the bodies made spiritual and those Spirits corporated again they must necessarily be Bodies of greatest or cleerest Light and Perfection as one compareth a glorified Body to a cleer Lanthorn with a Taper in it saying The more a man excels in vertue the greater or lesser was the Taper But the work cannot be manifest without the destruction of the exterior form and the restitution of a better which is the glorious substances of Urim and Thummim which in their being and Physical use preserves the Temple of Man's Body incorruptible Some observe not just difference between Liquification and Solution but all Corrosives or violent Operations Nature hates because there can be no Generation but of like Natures neither can you have the precious Sperms without Father and Mothers And although one Vessel is sufficient to perfect the Infant in the Wombe yet Nature hath provided several breasts to nourish it and different means to exalt it to the strength of a man How Gold should be burnt which the Fire cannot consume is questionable but every exaltation of this soveraign Spirit adds a tenfold vertue and power then take one part of this Spirit which is become as insensible as dust and upon molten Gold it turns all into powder which being drunk in White-wine openeth the Understanding encreaseth Wisdom and strengtheneth the Memory for here is the Vein of Understanding Fountain of Wisdom and River of Knowledge

tell us of an eternal Liquor of most strong Coaction rained down from Heaven here is like descent she is called Hyperiwn or Daughter of the Sun a Body of like weight and vertue with Gold fair cleer quick only coacted and brought from the Empire of humidity to suit the person which in her crude Nature shews strong Affection and turns the noblest of Metals into her own colour Therefore the Artist studies how to disponsate these two And first denudateth the Lady of her frosty Garments that she may have the first activity and liquefie her fettered Lord then are they both in the power of Art to better It is objected This Heaven-born Hermodactylus or Hydromel is of a Nature so obstinate and incorrect she will by no means receive the best impression Consider Her names signifie mixt matter of contrary quality therefore may be separated and although her original obscure condition because it is unknown by the innate affections and subsistance for it is an Airy Body or Air it self with Mercurial Spirit subsisting of internal heat and external cold Others say It is composed of the Spirit of the World corporate in the womb of the Earth and apt to receive the qualities and properties of all natural things as wax impression and being composed of Spirits the weight is of greater wonder Others say It is a crude Sperm not sufficiently decocted yet not to be profaned Others call it an immature Gold which kills it self and the Father and the Mother to bring forth a pure Infant by her they overcome the Fire she is the perfection of the Universal Medicine what Conformity what Similitude what Identity she holds with the Metallical Urne being the original matter and substance thereof and may be coagulated to the equal temper of Gold is as the whiteness in Snow Therefore the Ancients magnifie the most Blessed who created such a substance and gave it such properties as no other thing in Nature doth possess yet we see it is a vitious matter which hath superfluous Humidity proper and appropriate Qualities separable and inseparable Accidents Therefore the separable may be removed to which end she is included in a Well of Tears that the VVatriness may be vapored or through long Decoction by Driness vanquished Then doth it as it were congeal and fix and become more apt for durance and extension for whatsoever is contrary to the natural doth debilitate and like by his like is nourished but heat is contrary to cold and the natural property of scalding heat is to weaken and dry The fresh Water adds power and heat heat augmented becomes Fire and Time turns Strength to Corruption This glutinous substance hath natural heat from which is the Life and Death of the Elements Therefore as common Fire bringeth all things to his own Nature so the external working upon the internal heat it doth necessarily obtain victory Therefore if you can believe that heat and driness shall overcome cold and moisture that lineary and successive course hidden to all the World is open to you Therefore as Nature delights in Concord so the Lovers and Searchers into Natures Work must be of constant mindes and Gideon-like resolve to race the City Meroz not refusing to assist the publick good and then the Marriage for the Princess never unmasks her Virgin-Beauty except to him that hath skill and power to espouse her in a bed of Love which none can do before the despoliation of the exterior form but the Obstacles removed and Nature set on work the external Decree doth necessitate the effect for being now warm and blyth and apt for new Generation and pounded with her Lord grated to Dust his unnatural softness deceives the sense and they passionately condole each others Exile and in their imbraces fall in a sound until their dissolved Bodies shew corruption and the more pure being corrupted are more vile The Artist finding them out of their Indian Paradise corrects their central virtue and raising them from the Earth leads them the thorny path to threefold happiness and by fiery trial purifieth the Quantity and changeth the Quality and so brings them to perfect rest whereby they have power over the bodies of Men and Metals and are crowned in token of their dignity and boundless Territories Now considering the rarity of true Knowledge the Honor and Dignity of things desired what Spirit is so ignoble to think much either of Cost or Time when that which is sought is of all Terrestrial Treasure most excellent FINIS An Appendix of the Vertues and Use of an excellent Essential Water made and approved by Stephen Trigge Student in Physick and Astrology and by him gained and experimented at Amsterdam and also in London IN all manner of Fevers both Pestilential and others Calentures Apoplexies and all Epidemical Diseases it is a perfect and certain Remedy and in Quartain and Quotidian Feavers where the Disease ariseth from Choler It perfectly remedies the Bloody Flux and all other Fluxes either of the Stomack or Belly Vomiting Scowring and Excoriation of the Bowels and where the Stomack is spoiled for want of Appetite this is a sure Fortification for it wonderfully strengthens the Stomack both the vital and animal Spirit and mightily succors the Heart that is oppressed with heat And being taken in Aqua Melissae it doth speedily help the extream beating and panting of the Heart Convulsion-fits and falling Sickness it cureth safely and speedily and all manner of heat breaking out in the Face and any other part of the Body being either caused by the heat of the Sun or by some noisome Food taken into the Body that doth cause putrefaction of the Blood The way to take it is this in a burning Feaver take of it in Planten-Water if there be loosness in the Belly and sweeten it with Syrupe of Clove-Gilly-Flowers and drink it as your constant Drink till the Feaver is abated and the Appetite recovered In the Calenture Drink it in Balm-Water being made far sharper then white-Wine-Vinegar and mixed with Syrupe of Cowslip-Flowers it must be drunk very often till the senses come and the Patient remain cured which will be in few dayes for it penetrateth the Blood makes it thin quencheth the Feaver reviveth the Heart and Brain and quickneth all the digestive Faculties In the Apoplexy take it in Betony-Water and Aqua Vitae with Syrupe of Stoechas take the Dose as in the Calenture or stronger if the Patient be able to bear it and it shall be holpe in forty eight hours or thereabouts If there be any thing in this World that will preserve Man if the Glass of God's determination be not quite run out this will help Though he be lame over all his Body his Senses gone his Speech lost and to the judgement of many as dead yet this precious Liquor will in a wonderful manner restore them speedily and safely In the Scurvy Canker Squinancy and Inflammation of the Uvula this doth excel all ordinary Medicines for it doth

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