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A61324	Pyrotechny asserted and illustrated to be the surest and safest means for arts triumph over natures infirmities being a full and free discovery of the medicinal mysteries studiously concealed by all artists, and onely discoverable by fire : with an appendix concerning the nature, preparation, and virtue of several specifick medicaments ... / by George Starkey ...	Starkey, George, 1627-1665.	1658 (1658)	Wing S5284; ESTC R511	99,405	200

momordit à veneno revixit mori deinceps nescit Thus vve have discovered unto us this Liquour in its subject matter vvhich is a Latex in its production mediate vvhich is a body of tvvo Natures betvvixt vvhich in the end must be a Symphony so to cause incorruptibility in its final production vvhich is a Subject uncapable of fetment and beyond the possibilitie of transmutation this to be understood vvith due limitation novv let us cousider vvhat is added Sed Labor Sophiae anomalum in Natura secit c. But the labour of Philosophie hath brought forth an anomalous product in nature vvhich took its being vvithout mixture of any ferment Heterogeneous to it self This serpent hit it self revived from that Venome and is from thence forth immortal The Anomalitie of this Generation vvould require a sull Treatise to unfold and lay open in this place I shall therefore discover it but briefly It is Anomalous first in its operations That any Agent in the World should act vvithout repassion though to Heavenly Bodies natural yet vvith Sublunary Creatures it is unusual except Vulcan and this Liquour It is Anomalous in its matter for the tree usually is known by its fruit and the matter by its product but here it is othervvise for this product is immortal most pure and incorruptible though the matter of it be of all in the World most corruptible impure and mutable It is Anomalous in its manner of production for it self becomes ferment to it self so that vvithout addition of ought but vvhat is of it self this so strange an Ens is produced The means of its production is by reiterated solution and an intervening coagulation and thus is the Subject brought to the most subtle Atomes of vvhich in Nature it is Capable This is the Serpents biting of it self being indeed nothing but a Serpent comparatively vvhich beginning at its tail by degrees devours it felf and at last is renevved into a pure essence over vvhich Death hath no povver Of its mortality and immortality hovv both are true concerning it I might largely dispute and enlarge this Discourse upon the Subject into a svvelling Volume but the brevity at first proposed to my self and promised to the Reader calls me off and my intended task minds me vvith vvhat speed I can to pass forvvard to that vvhich is behind CAP. XIV The Conclusion of this Subject with a Peroration unto Sons of Pyrotechny THus have I Courteous Readers vvith much Ingenuitie endeavoured to unmask unto you Nature in her Physical and medicinal secrets shevved you the true vvay and means of proceeding in these disquisitions so as to be fuccessful in them having taught the necessity of Philosophical Keies vvithout vvhich nothing can be done in this Art of vvhich the noblest of all the Liquour Alchahest We vvould not pass over in silence but as becomes a true Interpreter of Nature gave it its due dignity of precedency as being the noblest and most eminent of all Keys more universal in its operation then the ☿ of the Philosophers which is but a particular thing applicable only to its own kind and that in reference to a generative multiplication of Species whereas this Liquour acts universally and without limitation on all the subjects in the vvhole world which it destroies as to their vita ultima and perfectly reduceth to their first matter in whith their eminent virtue is found by which means those noble Medicines may be prepared of which both Helmont and Paracelsus glory nor without cause sithence by them may be cured all the infirmities incident to the Body of man and so the life vindicated from the danger of diseases which by any one of those great Arcana are conquered and cut down as Hay or Grass with a Sith It is a thing very desirable to have those medicines at command and who would not be willing though with great pains and cost to purchase the Horizontal Gold which being taken inwardly with a few doses cureth the most desperate diseases either inward or outward to which mans Nature is subject as the Leprosie Gout Palsey Epilepsie Cancers Fistulaes Wolves Scorbute Kingse vil venereal disease c. and with one dose cures all Fevers and Agues the Hectick only excepted which it cures in a month as also any sort of Consumption and in a word is a perfect remedy for any maladie prevailing over all but death which yet by curing all the miseries of life which reach the health it makes less truculent and dreadful I need not instance in the Glorified Sulphur of Vitriol of Venus otherwise named the Sulphur of the Philosophers nor in the Arcanum Corallinum the glorified Sulphur of the Metallus masculus by Parcelsus called his Vinum Vitae and Membrorum essentia nor in the ☿ of life the Lili of ♁ nor in many others of which the Catalogue would be tedious to give which the studious Reader may find in both Paracelsus and Helmont all which as being so many precious Iewels having this Key he may unlocking Natures Cabinet command at pleasure for it is but to tantalize a Reader to commend to him what he is scarce likely to attain and surely such is this secret which scarce the hundredth thousand Artist may or shall be master of nor any but such only whom the Almighty by a more then ordinary grace shall bring thereto I would heartily wish if it so seemed good to the Almightie that this Secret were more commonly known then it is But I dare not prescribe Rules to the Most High knowing that he only will be the Dispenset of this Talent unto the Worlds end nor shall any attain unto it whom he by a peculiar grace shall not bring unto this knowledge forasmuch as it is not in him that willeth nor in him that runneth but onely in the blessing of the Lord that such secrets are revealed to such as he hath chosen To him only be everlasting praise and dominion and eternal benediction Yet would I advise with Helmont that as many as desire to be masters of the more noble Arcana's in Medicine should with all their might endeavour the attainment of that secret fire so much esteemed for it s almost miraculous virtue and effects of which may be said Vulgus igne cremet nos aquâ and doubtless he that will be industrious and diligent may be pains taking and praier perfect his desires to the glory of God his own comfort and the relief of many thousands Yet would I not advise any young Artist to make this Secret the beginning of his Chemical Studies as many doe of which fault my self was not innocent for this is but a preposterous course of searching into Natures secrets This being indeed as it were the Corollary or Topstone of Medicinal Art not to vie this Secret with the Medicine of the Magi their Aurum potabile attained by means of their Stone now who but a madman being to climb up a Ladder will begin at the uppermost

the true knowledge of this secret its true original and manner of preparation which I shall candidly here lay open so cleerly to a son of Art that he shall not desire a better guide by whose direction and Gods blessing he may by pains and studie attain what I by the same means have attained CAP. X. Of this Liquours virtue and efficacy in general NOW forasmuch as bonum and utile good and profitable are so convertible that a thing cannot truly be denominated the former which is not truly and really the latter I think it not amiss in the next place to give an account of the utility of this liquour which being known a man will be incouraged to attend with pains in the search of the same The Encomium therefore of this so worthie a secret I think fit to begin in the words of noble Helmont In Nature saith he there is but one fire which is our consuming Vulcan which is originally in Nature and therfore producible by Art as to wit when by striking of the flint steel together it is made visible in its sparks which being taken in tinder are by an easie art known to each Kitchinmaid multiplied into a fire as big as the maker of it pleaseth which at first though out a Spark yet being cherished with Fuel proper to it becomes in short space so great a flame as would be able to consume whatever is combustible in the whole World if it were put into it So likewise there is but one Liquour compararable to Fire yet far more powerful and vehement then the common flame For those things which will abide in this Fire being not conquerable by it are by the other fire destroied and altered radically and fundamentally This Fire being distilled from any mettal soft and imperfect doth at first time or second leave them in a fusible substance like waxe of which the Sulphur or tincture is dissolvable in the best Spirit of Wine and from the residue being kept three daies in a vapouring heat ☿ quick and running may be separated The same may be done in harder mettals yea in the perfect mettals in a longer time by oftner reiterated cohobations But if this Fire be once distilled from ☿ vulgar it leaves it coagulated and fixed so that it will endure the test of Saturne It is left spongious like to a Pumice stone but heavie like Turbith minerale brittle and therefore without difficultie pulverisable which then cohobated with Water distilled from whites of Egges it causeth that distilled water to stink but becomes of the colour of the best Coral whence it is denominated Arcanum Corallinum This fire if it be distilled from any Gem or stone subtilly pulverized it turns into a meer Salt of equal weight to the Jem or stone Pearls it resolves into a milk which is their first Ens so also Crabscies as they are vulgarly called being otherwise no eies but stones found in the head of the Crab and all vegetable stones as Peach stones dates stones or the like In a word it doth resolve all Vegetables Animals and Minerals into their first Ens and in such concretes as contain in them Heterogeneities it doth discover and sever that it makes separable the same The advise of this old Philosopher to all who had given up their Names to Art is that they should with all their might endeavour to attain this Fire if their aim were at Noble and more than vulgar Medicines yet concludes it to be so hard and high an attainment that not every searcher but only such as are chosen of God shall be masters of it therefore that the Champions who with Industrie strive for this Masterie be not discouraged with its difficultie which is the greater because of the uncouth obscurity of all who hitherto have handled this Subject being chiefly Paracelsus and his great expositour Van Helmont I shall a little more particularly handle this hidden Mysterie in its effects and properties such to wit vvhich are to its self peculiar and to other dissolving liquours incommunicable by which means the signs and marks by vvhich it may be knovvn vvill be laid open vvhich to a studious Sonne of this Art vvill be an unparaleld guide and directorie and therefore a Work very acceptable CAP. XI Of this Liquours Virtue and Efficacy more particularly ANd in the first place it may not seem from our intended purpose to distinguish between this liquor and other Subjects between which may be thought a great affinity the misapprehending whereof hath caused doth cause and will cause many Errors to such who have devoted themselves to this discoverie who imagining uncertain grounds to work on proceed as ridiculously in prosecution of their end propounded Of these first are those who indistinctly confound this Liquour with the ☿ of the Philosophers of which sort I know many who by no means will be beaten off from this conceit then which there can be none more absurd if weighed in the ballance of right Reason For first these two differ materially and substantially the one being ☿ truly and properly so called the other Salt and is therefore called Sal circulatus major Salium summus faelicissimus Liquor Salis. Secondly they differ formally and essentially The one being not onely mettallick but a mettal to wit Philosophical according to the Philosopher In metallis per metalla proficiuntur metalla and according to the joint consent of all masters in that science who all conclude that all the principles of the Philosophical Elixir are Homogeneal coessential one to other and therefore they do formally remain each with other and are transmuted so each into others natures that agents become passive and patients active in the progress of the great Elixir And therefore the Philososophers water is caled Aqua sicca non madefaciens manus nec quicquam humectans nisi quod conveniat sibi in materiae homogeneitate atque identitate Nor is there any difference allowed betwixt perfect Gold and the ☿ of the Magi save only this that one is ripe perfect the other crude and imperfect And Artephus to put all out of doubt saith it is the ☿ of Saturnine ♁ in which no mettal is dissolved or drowned but Gold and this he affirms to be the only Agent in the world for the Art Also both he and Trevisan to put this matter beyond all controversie conclude and positively determine that for their work there is not any Agent profitable which doth not formally abide with the dissolved bodies so as with them to becom one thing as the moisture of the ground doth with a grain of wheat which is dissolved in it and therfore reject as sophistications all dissolving liquors which are not permanent with the Bodies dissolved and which the bodies resolved cannot recongeal with themselves so that the Philosophical dissolution of the body doth cause at the same time a congelation of the dissolving spirit that so they may be made one together with an