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A94291	Cheiragogia heliana. A manuduction to the philosopher's magical gold: out of which profound, and subtile discourse; two of the particullar tinctures, that of Saturn and Jupiter conflate; and of Jupiter single, are recommended as short and profitable works, by the restorer of it to the light. To which is added; Antron Mitras; Zoroaster's cave: or, An intellectuall echo, &c. Together with the famous Catholic epistle of John Pontanus upon the minerall fire. / By Geo. Thor. Astromagus.	Thor., George.	1659 (1659)	Wing T1037; Thomason E1911_2; ESTC R209984	43,022	108

hand simply given or as they are constituted in their mines or fused above but of those that out of other metals are produced by Art as when Venus is made of Mars which indeed is much better and of greater power as Experience teaches than Common Venus And so likewise the Gold produced out of Luna by the oyle of the Epatica of Sulphur as he taught above is much better then the vulgar because it effects even All things as Paracelsus sayes that are to be Effected and may indeed be so Exalted that it would drive any man to admiration But why does he cal it Mineral and Immature Because it is from the Mineral and That Immature For it is made by minerals as by the Oyle of Sulphur from Luna which is imperfect but yet in a very neer way to be brought up to maturity Therefore before it compleats its terme it is immature having still Extraneous Superfluities wherefore he teaches us to wash and purge the Electrum from all Superfluity the Chymical way by Stybium till it attain the Exquisit Degrees of Gold And what doe you say that Gold Itself although produced from Luna in comparison of the Stone and Solar Tincture is a thing yet Imperfect and so in a manner Immature as Paracelsus himselfe in the same place a little after declares Nature sayes he has left it imperfect in its place because she did not intend to make the Stone but the Matter of It which indeed without preparation is but a dimidiate lame Thing This place is accurately to be perpended that we may understand what he here calls the work of nature respectively as is the natural Transmutation of Our Argent into Gold by the Oyle of the Epatica of Sulphur and what the work of Art videlicet in preparing the Tincture Philosophical because where Nature Ends in making our Gold there Art begins in the preparation of the Tincture of magical Gold although on both hands the Artist comes as minister of Nature bestowing indeed more labour in the work of Art lesse in the work of ready Nature To Theophrastus in astipulation Bartholomeus Korndorferus is succenturiat by whom the Grosse and not yet Clarified Gold is commonly called Corpus and Corpus Iners a Body and an Inert Body And now to produce him here as a fit witnesse in so great a cause in his Tractate of Luna and its Defects not unlike to that of Truh●●ius thus he writes There is a short way by which Silver may be brought to Such a poynt that it may be made the best Gold and best of all to be esteemed because to Our Tinctures no better can be used What more expresse then these words what I pray you more evident and with Theophrastus more consentient But he adds somewhat more by which he wonderfully illustrates Theophrastus about the Solution of the Immature Electrum Whosoever sayes he can maturate Immature Gold so he calls Our Argent and turne It into a right liquor so that it is seperate from its Earth has got the fountain of Sanity Hence he extols that Saying of Paracelsus when in his book of Vexations he affirmes That true Alchymie onely by one Art teaches us to make Silver and Gold of the five Imperfect metals And to use no other Receipts but onely these Tantum de metallis ex metallis per metalla cum metallis fieri perfecta metalla And then explicating that Oracle and showing how it is to be understood Magna Arcana in metallis abscondita c. Many Arcana's are hid sayes he in metals and are to be drawn out by an easier way then any one would beleeve or think to do any good by it I now say nothing he further adds how wonders above wonders are Effected by it if in the Philosophical way they be awakened and raised up into their Primitive mercury not into the Current that which vagrant Impostors talk so loud about serd in Sementem viscidam but into a viscid limous Sement or Seedplot out of which a living Germen Leo Suavissimus the mercury of the Magicians shows it self Hence it appeares what manner of Mercury it is and into what principles the metals are to be resolved unlesse we would have Tinctures to passe into a uselesse dust or powder that has no Ingression into metals fused but swims upon them to no purpose From metals indeed are made Tinctures when out of their Substance primordials are drawn which move themselves on if They be right handled into a viscous Sement But Out of metals when perfect metals are compounded with their primordials in a form or appearance oleaginous materiallys By metals again Tincture are made in the projection of Tinctures upon perfect metals namely that by Them as the meane They may acquire their due Consistence And then lastly with metals fused are perfect metals made namely by Transmutation of Those that are Imperfect to perfect by help of med'cins already perfect In These we see Parace sus hast most Signally and briefly comprehended the Summe of the whole Art See those Things which not only Guido de monte delivers to us concerning this kind of preparation for he is somewhat tedious in his prolix Circulations but also what the most Experienced Isaac Hollandus proposes in a Tractate peculiar de Salibus Oleis metallorum of the Salts and Oils of metals although they require That furnus clausus Reverberii with its little mount within known but to few and used by Paracelsus otherwise they cannot so well be prepared the other Things are of themselves open enough especially if they be joyn'd and compared with what he sayes in his Tractate of the Oyle of Vitriol and in That of Antimony and That of Mercury Yet in this place I cannot forbear but I must add to Those Two Testimonies of Bartholomeus Korndorferus and the most Excellent Paracelsus Another too of that most monstrous Franciscan monk who in the year 1419. writt a book in the German Tongue in Open words to Burgrave Frederic Marquis of Brandeburg but the book for many causes was never brought abroad by the Presse In It many Tinctures of metals gemmes pearles are contain'd with many other choise Arcana's He therefore in that place where he comes to the Tincture of Venus and Sol by the help of which he teaches how to convert Luna into Sol This Sol sayes he in open words does more than another Sol and shows the way that we must proceed Leonhardus Turniserus complains very much that he lost a Compendium of It in the Tower of Kussenberg some years agoe but there is yet extant in Schobinger's Library an older Copy To these there is a neer correspondence of those five particular Tinctures that goe about inscribed in little books of bark rising almost from the same foundation with the former only in them the pure is not Separate from the Impure Terrestrial Sulphur otherwise then with the Monk who shows how to cast away the leprous Earth by which it

such a point of high Temper that all the admirable virtue of it was not to be found by the Wit of man That by which it past through even all metals without diminution of its force and made them perfect and yet to it self was still sufficient to Tinge more and more yet nor That by which it was apparently able to propagate humane bodyes Sound and Strong to the Tenth Generation To Antimony Sulphur is not unlike The mineral for both of Them are to be referr'd to the vitriolates of which Theo hrastus sayes thus That That is not In It we may attain by the help of the Other by It meaning the magnetick Spirit of the World which is the Philosophers True Magnesia And That sayes he will follow the Captain of Art that is Helias the Artist close But after what manner the Stone of Fire out of the Three Intrinsics of Antimony by intervention of Oyle of the vitriol of Mars and Venus ought to be prepared Basilius teaches not only in his Triumphal Chariot here and there but more collectedly and in an open method he seemes to have treated of it in the manuscript of his Manual practice After the Stone of Fire next he mentions the Philosophers Stone and gives it the highest place to wit in respect of the other Tinctures Universal but not of the Universal Most Universal as I shall show and prove anon But he affirms the Stone is made out of the Essence of Gold and Truly indeed but not as we shall heare without the Addition of the Salt of Nature both Simple and Compound whence Alchymia the name of the Art is pointed out Halchymia that is a fusion of Salt by the Ingenious Chrysippus Fannian The third is the Tincture of the Sun or of Gold The most Philosophical and follows immediately The Philosophers Stone This consists of Gold Alone or chiefly and That Philosophical described by me for which Cause it differs from the Stone Itselfe although there are various preparations of it For indeed the Great Stone is made out of the Essence and the very astral Tincture of Gold But this Tincture of the Sun instead of the fusile Salt of Nature is content with his own Salt and comes out of the three principles of Gold Philosophical resolved depurated and conjoyn'd as we shal tell you towards the End The fourth Tincture according to the Sentence of our Basil is the Tincture of Mars and Venus Conflate that is of the white and red Spirit of their vitriol which is the Mercury and Sulphur of both together with their fixt Salt out of which this Tincture is had although without the vulgar Sol wherewith it is to be Incorporated it cannot be perfected because with It it is first to be fixt as Basil witnesses in his book of Naturals and Supernaturals Ch. 2. pag. 28. in these very words Because sayes he he Tincture of the Sun is no where more abundantly found then in Mars and Venus as in male and female Their bodyes are destroyed and their Tingent Spirit is driven forth to Satiate open'd prepared Gold with Its own blood and by its proper meat and drink to make it fugitive and volatil Then anon This volatil Gold thus Satiate with Its own meat and its own drinke resumes its own blood and Dryes it up by Its own Internal Heat by the help of a vaporous fire whence ensues another victory which makes it fully fixt and highly perseverant so that now the Gold is med'cin more then fixt To the same Sense the same Author some pages after adds Although the Mars and Venus of this Art doe not stand in need of any vesture but are able to give it to the other five yet I dare constantly affirme and assert it that without Our Lyon that is without Gold reserate and prepar'd as aforesaid they can do just nothing at all because we doe not see and provide against the peremptory fixity of their Mercury and the malleability of their Salt to have gain from them unlesse the Lyon conquer them again in a great Scuffle and both be brought not onely to perfect Solution but final fixation as he taught afore But here we meet with a Great and notable Objection that bids us stand to answer it For Basil in the twenty ninth page of this Chapter does not only say plainly That the Tincture of Venus and Mars without Gold resolved as was said a little before can doe nothing but he also affirmes of the vulgar Gold whose Tincture is to be joyn'd with the Tincture of Mars and Venus That the Lord of all the planets namely Gold is not able to impart to his Subjects any thing of his own vesture because nature has given to it but only One rich Suit unlesse the Servant first do further enrich his Lord. And a little after he adds The King cannot communicate with his Servants any of his hereditary honour nor give them a lasting Court-gallantry of habit unlesse that first he do receive pensions and Tributes from his Subjects And now since This is so It may be askt and that indeed not without an eminent cause How it should be That the Tincture of Sol according to its Essential Difference can stand off from the Tincture of Venus and Mars or any other of the Tinctures namely if the vulgar Gold be not able to Tinge unlesse Itselfe be first Ting'd by the Spirit of Its Subjects Some to untie this knot have betaken Themselves to the minera of Gold as yet Green as also to the Marcasits and I deny not but They may doe very much because they are not destitute of Spirits And thence as they contend the Tincture of Sol and not from fused Gold is to be prepared and had Others look for the Tincture of Sol not out of Gold simply resolved but such as is first brought into his principles distinct and after certain Depurations made up againe by a handsome natural coalition For the Artists such as they are that do not add to the Mercury of Gold the Sulphur of Sol but Sol it selfe doe not properly belong to us here and therefore without contemning them we answer thus That the Silver and Gold that Nature has put into our hands upon her own Simple provision is not so much required to the Tinging of Sol as is Another more Sublime and much better Our Gold the Philosophers Gold in which there is the Tingent Spirit of which I shall presently discourse when first I have run over all the Tinctures of Basil The fifth Tincture Basil proposes in Jupiter and Saturn and that as extending to the Coagulation onely of Common mercury to Silver namely and to Gold to wit by their red and sweet Oyle by Art prolected from their Centers as he in more then one place intimates to those that can read And to this place also belongs the Doctrine that Paracelsus delivers in his book of Vexations concerning the composition of Saturn Luna and Mercury But here I

judgment of the learned For he sayes That the Astrum both of Sol and Mercury and the Mercury and Sulphur of the Philosophers proceed from One root at first indeed a white Spirit and That he plainly calls the Philosophers Mercury for afterwards there follows sayes he a red Spirit that is the Sulphur of the Philosophers and their oyle Incombustible from both the Tinctures of Venus and Mars meeting together in one womb To this purpose in his Chapter of Vitriol see more pag. 132. and how profoundly he playes the Philosopher the Analogically de Spiritu Albo ad Album ad Rubeum de Rubeo Of the white Spirit to the white and to the Red of the Red. It appeares therefore That the red minera of Paracelsus his Cinnabar and the red minera of Basilius his Mercury agree very neer and that the best minera of Gold with both may be understood not only of the common Mines which nature gives us but of others to wit of Antimony the minera of Mars and chiefly of the vitriol of Venus out of Mars But of these as the Greeks speake 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the way to help us to understand Basilius speaking so variously of the Spirit of Mercury which is the manner of those Chymists that have tryed many Things and draw on one shoo upon many For there are Many wayes that aime particularly at One End not only by One but by many and indeed diverse Things Against which Doctrin many have their Opinations Therefore since our Basil reckons up to Us distinctly these Six Explicit Tinctures which we have discours'd so freely afore and yet in the 244 page of his Triumphal Chariot professes also openly That All the Six Stones of metallic Tinctures arise from One Seed and are All by One Initial mother in their first Generation So proseminated and bred that from The same mother the True Universal has its lineal profluence it is cleer as noon-day that besides and above the Solific Essence both of the vulgar and Our Philosophical Gold there is yet Another sort of Gold and That more Secret and hid from which the Universal Most Universal issues forth as the Seaventh and most perfect of All rising from its own proper root that is it s own Earth and Water and in That much exceeds the very Philosophers stone Itselfe because out of It alone both That Stone and the Other particular Tingents are form'd and flow primordially and more then that because from It all the other Things of all the world not onely in the Mineral but also in the Vegetal and Animal Kingdome derive their life hold it still and by the Crearor are so ordain'd to their Increment and multiplication But now what manner of thing this is and in what thing placed although it may in some sort be conjectured by what was said afore The Green Line casting it self every where and encompassing all yet we shall speak more of it below in its place All the question now after we have reckon'd up all the Tinctures with their Multiplicity and diversity in the Minerall Kingdome is to be transferred by us Ad Aurum Philosophorum Nostrum to Our Philosophers Gold What it should be viz. out of which the Tincture of Sol is chiefly to be prepared besides the Universal Most Universal and the other Tinctures named above We say therefore That this Gold of the Philosophers for of the others as of the Universal Most Universal we speak not now is Gold that is produced by the Philosophers out of the Metalls Inferior and of lesser value and not by separation alone but by the benefit of nature working by Art in an Actuall transmutation Therefore it is not vulgar Gold which by nature in her degree is onely simply perfect and therefore now lyes under rather an Expiration or declination of its Seed than that it should be vegetous and fruitfull to a progeneration of other Gold Concerning this thing the most Expecienced Minerallist and Metall-man Andreas Solea published by the famous Montanus is to be heard who in his Book of Minerals Metallic Chap. the 9th Of expiring Metall Septurie the second writes thus When Nature with the body of Metall is come as high as Gold then it descends again or moves down ward for want of Aliment by its hunger Again in the end of the Seventh Chapter Septurie the first Of the Ascent and Descent of Metalls after he has recounted how finely nature ascending Calcines the whole body of Luna which Calx is nothing else but the body of Sol he adds thus As for Descention thou mayst easily perceive and understand it by Ascension For this is the difference that in the Ascent it first acquires Tincture before a body but in the Descent sooner looses that Tincture And therefore Metalls that are Descendent are much more imperfect then those that are Ascendent Thus he Therefore showing where the Seed and Tincture is fruitfull or not fruitfull in the Metalls The Ascension sayes he and Descension of Metalls could not be made but that they all agree in their seed and are of a Consanguinity Item In their Ascent Silver and Gold have the same seed which in the Ascent transmutes Silver to Gold but in the Descent transferrs it into Copper Then concluding he sayes most openly The Seed must passe out of its owne body into another or else it cannot be fruitfull or fertill Thus farre Solea And whosoever will not give Credit to his various experience will believe no body at all The cause therefore appears why Tinctures are not made out of Common Gold unlesse that as Basil sayes be first exalted by the Spirit of Its Subjects For we must look for a more noble and more perfect Gold that is in its Ascent in which the Tingent Green Vegetant spirit and fruitfull Seed is which by Solea's intimation and pointing out is Gold produced from Inferior Metalls Why else sayes Count Trevisan should we take nine Months time to serve our turn to spend it he means upon the Exaltation of Common Gold by the Tincture of Venus as Basil teaches For we might take that body as nature has made it and laid it ready for our use Here you see that Gold simply given us by nature cannot of it self produce Tinctures but another sort of Gold Therefore he adds Our Gold is not the Gold of the Vulgar as all Philosophers say because the common Gold is dead but ours is impregnate with Spirit and is a hueing Gold Hence John Clopinel de Mehun in his answer to the Lamentation of Nature Gold sayes he is known to be the Treasure of all the Mines and yet it has neither matter nor form of so great power as to exceed its owne perfection For it has no greater power then to perfect it self let the Artist strive and do what he can To destroy it and to reduce It would be a foolish work since out of it no more virtue nor power can be had