in the new Moon again Afterwards under the Conjunction of ♄ and the ☽ write the words and signs following If you six this upon the Wall of an House and draw a Circle round about it with Chalk about the compass of a round Table all Flyes that are thereabouts will enter within the Circle and there remain until you take the Steel away and then they will flie away vexing men as at first FINIS An Election of time to be observed in the transmutation of Metals IF at any time you shall desire to transmute and change any Metal into another kinde as Gold into Silver or rather Silver into Gold or any other Metal it is necessary that you learn to elect a fit time for that purpose out of the Table following whereby you shall easily sooner and without danger bring your Work to your desired end A Table shewing the fit time when to transmute Metals To change into ☉ ☽ Begin when the Moon is in the sixth Degree of ♋ Alwayes begin in the hour of that Planet whose Metal you would change ☽  ♉ ♀ ♂ ♈ ♂ ♃ ♓ ♃ ♄ ♒ ♄ ☿ ♠☿ ♄ ☉ Twenty Degrees of ♌  ☉ ☽ ♋  ☽ ♂ ♠ ♂ ♀ ♉  ♀ ♃ ♓  ♃ ☿ ♠ ☿ ☿ ☉ First Degree of ♌  ☉ ☽ ♋  ☽ ♀ ♉  ♀ ♂ ♠ ♂ ♃ ♓  ♃ ♄ ♒  ♄ ☽ ☉ In twelve Degrees of ♌  ☉ ♀ ♎  ♀ ♂ ♠ ♂ ♃ ♠ ♃ ♄ ♒  ♄ ☿ ♊  ☿ ♀ ☉ Ninth Degree of ♌ In the Hour of ☉ ☽ ♋ ☽ ♂ ♈ ♂ ♄ ♓ ♃ ♃ ♒ ♄ ☿ ♊ ☿ ♂ ☉ Eighteenth Degree of ♌ The Hour of ☉ ☽ ♋ ☽ ♀ ♉ ♀ ♃ ♠♃ ♄ ♑ ♄ ☿ ♠☿ ♃ ☉ The third Degree of ♌ Hour of ☉ ☽ ♋ ☽ ♀ ♎ ♀ ♂ ♠♂ ♄ ♒ ♄ ☿ ♠☿ Take this one Example only and so work by the rest as if you would change Luna into Sol begin when the Moon is in six Degrees of Cancer in the Hour of the Moon and so observe of the rest according to this Table for the observation of the time is not to be held of a vain account in the transmutation of Metals for all negotiations and actions in this world are most happily brought to perfection which are begun with due respect to the Course and influences of the Celestial Bodies for our mortal Bodies are ruled according to the operations of the superiour Bodies of the Firmament and they are ordained for that purpose by Almighty God the Creator and do bring unto us both health sickness infirmities and health again and in like manner the times are to be noted and duly observed in Medicinal Operations that their virtues may work the more powerful effects FINIS Reader these Books following are printed by Nath. 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the Sun and Moon are made and after what manner Sol and the other Planets ought to be made to wit with the Furnace and the Fire CHAP. I. Of the building of the Furnace and of the Fire MErcurius Hermes Trismegistus saith That he which would perfect this Art must as it were build a new World for after the same manner as God created the Heaven and Earth the Furnace with the Fire is to be built and governed That is to say after this manner First Let there be a Furnace built of the height of six spans extended from the top of the fingers to the thumb and in breadth one handful in the inside let it be round and plain lest the Coals cleave unto it from whence let it a little decline to the border thereof and let there be holes left underneath four fingers broad and let every hole of the Furnace be supplied with a Copper Cauldron to contain the Water Afterwards take good and hard Coals which you shall break in Gobbets about the bigness of a Walnut with these fill the long Furnace which then is to be stopped up that they may not burn out And afterwards let some Coals be kindled to the holes below if the Fire be too great lay a stone before it if too little stir the Coals with an Iron-instrument that they may be pierced with the Air and the Heat may be increased This way you may keep your Fire according to the true Exigency of Nature neither too excessive nor too small but most fit and apt for the motion of the Matter this is compared to the Firmament There is also in this place another Firmament to wit the Matter contained in the Glass after which followeth the form of the World Therefore the Furnace is to be placed as the Sun in the great World which giveth Light Life and Heat to the universal Furnace and all Instruments and to all other things whatsoever concluded under it CHAP. II. Of the Conjunction of the Male with the Female HAving now treated of the Furnace and the Fire wherein the Tinctures are to be prepared now we intend largely to write how the Man and Woman do agree and how they are joyned together that is to say after this manner Take the Mercury of the Philosophers prepared and mundified in its highest degree this resolve with his Wife to wit with quick Mercury as the Woman receiveth the Man and as the Man cleaveth to the Woman and even as a Man loveth his Wife and the Woman loveth her Husband so do the Philosophers Mercury and the quick Mercury prosecute the greatest love and are moved by Nature with a great affection towards us So therefore the one and the other Mercuries are conjoyned each to other and one with another even as the Man with the Woman and she with him according to their bodies that there is no difference between them and they are congruent in their strength and proprieties save onely that the Man is firm and fixed but the Woman is volatile in the Fire And for this Cause the Woman is united to the Man so that she receiveth the Man and he fixeth and fastneth her firm and constant in any balance as it followeth They are both to be so close luted and covered that the Woman may not evaporate or breath out otherwise the whole Work will come to nothing CHAP. III. Of the Copulation of the Male and Female WHen you have placed the Man and the Wife in the Matrimonial Bed if you would that he may operate upon her so that she may bring forth it is necessary and must be that the Man have his operation upon the Woman so that the seed of the Woman may be coagulated and joyned together into a Mass by the seed of the Man otherwise it produceth no Fruit. CHAP. IV. Of the Philosophical conjunction of the Man and Woman AFterwards if you perceive the Woman to be of a black colour then certainly be assured that she hath conceived and is made pregnant and when the seed of the Woman embraceth the seed of the Man this is the first Signe and Key of this whole Art therefore be careful continually to preserve the natural Heat and the blackness will appear and be dispersed and consumed away by the natural Heat as one Worm eateth and devoureth another and continueth consuming so long until there be no more blackness left CHAP. V. Of the black Colour THe blackness manifestly appearing then know that the Woman is pregnant but when the Peacocks Tail begins to appear that is when many various colours will appear in the Glass it sheweth the working of the Philosophers Mercury upon the vulgar Mercury and stretcheth out her Wings until she hath overcome it Therefore when the driness operates upon the moisture these Colours do appear CHAP. VI. Of the Buds springing and appearing in the Glass VVHen you perceive these various Colours then be constant in your work continuing the Fire until the Colour of the Peacock's Tail be fully consumed and until the Matter of the Moon appear white and candid as Snow and that the Vessel hath brought it to the very degree of its perfection Then at last break a little piece thereof and put it on a Copper-plate in the Fire if it remain constant and firm and keep its Tincture it is then brought to the most perfect substance of Luna This King hath strength and power not onely to transmute and change all metals but also to cure all diseases and infirmities This King is laudable and adorned with many vertues and with so great power that he can transmute and change Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn and Mercury into the most constant Luna to every touch-stone and also frees and delivers the bodies of men from infinite diseases as from Fevours Feebleness Leprosie the French disease or Morbus Gallicus and from a great many other infirmities and diseases which no Herbs Roots or the like Medicines can possibly Cure or take away Whosoever maketh daily use of this Medicine shall attain to and preserve himself in a sound and perfect long life CHAP. VII Of the red Colour AFter this King is indued with a perfect whiteness the Fire is constantly to be continued until the whiteness begins to take a yellow Colour which Colour follows next after the whiteness for by how much the longer the Heat worketh upon the white and dry Matter the more Yellow and Saffron-like groweth the Colour until it come to perfect redness which by degrees the Fire worketh to the highest degree of the red Colour then is the substance of Gold prepared and there is born an oriental King sitting in his Throne and ruling over all the Princes of the World CHAP. VIII Of the augmentation or multiplication hereof THe multiplication of this Matter is to be after this manner to wit let it be resolved into its moisture and then put the Fire to it to the height as at first and it will work upon its
reason of the greatness of their sins for oftentimes they bring to men very many good offices and benefits and do undertake and sustaine many hard labours for them Others believe that they will not be seen by us because that when a man seeth them he cryeth out so that they vanish away and will not appear any more Many that do see or hear these Spirits suppose that they are the Spirits and soules of men that have come to an evil death so that they have either desperately drowned or hanged themselves or killed themselves some other wayes and departing from God their Saviour have given themselves to the devil and for that cause do wander about and are reserved by the devil unto the day of the last Judgement There have been some who have supposed that they are vaine Phantasies and that they have fore-shown and presaged much good fortune to those places wherein they have been seen or heard which many times also hath so happened and come to pass but for the most part faith effecteth it for of their own nature they do not bring any fortune unless God compelleth them or our faith And on the contrary they are not able to cause any misfortune unless it be by the permission of God And many do thinke that they are the Inchantments of the Magicians There are others who having seen and heard them about treasures have judged that they are the Spirits of men who have hid treasures in that place and ought to remain there until the the Last Judgement or untill their custody thereof is found out and this opinion they receive from the words of Christ where he saith Where your treasure is there will your hearts be also But I do not see any reason why they should understand the heart for the Spirit but that there is much difference between them wherefore I say that all the Judgements which are spoken of before are but false opinions when as these are to be understood to be halfe-men that bear rule and wander in the four Elements and in the first and pristine times of nature they have been taken and worshipped in stead of God These are they of whom God Almighty admonisheth us in that Commandment of the first Table saying that we shall not have any other Gods but him neither in the waters where the Nymphs are understood nor under the Earth by which he meaneth Sylphes or Pygmies For the Lord our God is a jealous God and for such an offence punisheth the sins of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth generation The Mountain of Venus in Italy was much possessed with these Spirits for Venus her self was a Nymph and that Mountain was by a comparison as her Kingdome and Paradice But she is dead whereby her Kingdome ceaseth to be but where or in what place is there any mention heard to be made of them as in former time when Danhanserus and many others entred in unto them Neither did they Invent these fables they were of such a nature and condition that they loved all men that loved them and hated them that hated them wherefore they gave Arts and Riches in abundance to them who prescribed and bound themselves to them and they know both our minds and thoughts whereby it comes to pass that they are easily moved by us to come to us I do not say this that I would give this Counsel to any one but that the true ground and foundation thereof might be known and the true difference which is between the devil and these Semi-homines The devil hath not any body unless he take any thing to himself from the four Elements for he hath neither flesh nor blood he remaineth perpetual not subject to any infirmities or a finite death wherefore he dieth nor but the Pygmies do nevertheless they are both subject to a natural and everlasting death and are both deprived of everlasting life wherefore whosoever giveth or subscribeth himself unto them the same event happeneth unto him as to them Let every one therefore have a special care unto himself and consider well what he doth before he subscribeth himself for he suddenly doth that whereby he shall alwayes be compelled to be obedient unto them and to fulfill all their commands And if he shall chance to be disobedient unto them or anger them they very much impaire or totally destroy and take away his life there have been found many examples of this kinde to wit sometimes men have been found dead their neckes turned about or otherwise miserably handled where any such thing hath happened it hath hitherto commonly been said that the Devil hath done this for this cause either that the man hath not kept his promise and compact with him or that the time which he covenanted and subscribed himself unto him for is expired and that now he receiveth his last reward But these opinions do not proceed from the fountaine of truth for the office of the Devil containeth no such thing in his power but rather he suggesteth unto men evil thoughts and Cogitations whereby he draweth them away from obeying the will and commandments of God by which means he maketh them to be the greatest sinners and to forget and deny God their Creator and afterwards draweth them into despaire so that they cannot any more be able to pray unto God wherefore the Elementary Spirits are most like unto the devil and oftentimes they are executioners of the wrath and vengeance of God nevertheless they do oftentimes also admonish and warne us and do watch over us and defend us from many dangers and sometimes do deliver some from prison and afford to men many other helps Wherefore such men as are burdened and overwhelmed with grief and sorrowful Imaginations are not to be left alone but ought to be entertained with various and pleasant discourse which may delight their mindes and expel their sorrow The Devils likewise are in these cases not idle but as busie as those terrene Spirits do easily tempt such kinde of men From hence it comes to pass that some people especially women in child-bed have been so oppressed in the night in their sleepe that they have thought themselves to be as it were strangled neither could they possibly cry out or call any helpe but in the Morning have reported that they were Ridden by a hag And they are still accounted to be witches or Inchanters that do this whereas their bodies cannot possibly enter into the chambers where the doores and Windowes are shut but the Sylphes and Nymphes easily can O thou of little faith as doubtful as Peter who sufferest thy self to be tossed with every winde and art easily drowned thou thy self art the cause hereof by reason of thy little dubious and weake faith also thy evil thoughts do draw thee unto this Thou hast also in thy self a secret Magnes that attracteth every like This is the Celestial Load-stone above all others which attracteth Iron and steel
Sabbath night Also if any lights do appear and seem to fall about those places and there their light is extinguished and goeth out and somtimes there seeme to be great flashes of wind in their house whose the treasure is and where it is hid and there are seene many visions and strange Phantasies and many strange Rumors and noises are there heard Where such things happen they are heard and do shew themselves most commonly about the middle time of the night And the cause of these noises and sights are commonly that there is treasure hid in or about that place neither is there any other reason thereof to be given Nevertheless many who have not understood these things have had many various opinions hereof Some have thought that these Phantasies have been caused by the devil or by some Inchantment or by some in that house who have some worke or famliarity with the Devil or who have given or bound themselves to the devil or have made some promise unto him whereby it comes to pass that that wicked and malignant accuser causeth these things to be seene and heard that they might expect the expiration of their dayes which he doth so much desire should be fulfilled Others do believe that some have been secretly died and buryed there others do thinke that some wicked man hath died in that place whose Spirit hath been forced to wander thereabouts and there have been other various and sundry opinions But all these Judgements are vaine and false except onely those who conclude that the occasion of the noises are that there is treasure hid about that place or that sometimes when the devil hath been driven out of som body that he hath possessed he hath been permitted to stay about that place but where those noises are it is a great Testimony that there is treasure hid there There are two kinds of treasures hid some that may be found and some that cannot be gotten the difference whereof is this such is easie to be found which containeth the Metals of Gold and silver and are such kinde as we make and have onely been used and handled amongst men that kinde of treasure is not easie to be found which is Gold and silver that is made coyned and hid by the Nymphes and Sylphes which kinde of Gold and silver doth somtimes come to be found and used amongst men and is by the Nymphes suddenly again buryed in the earth and afterwards cannot easily be found and gotten again These things are most worthy our knowledge especially the signes before spoken of are most diligently to be noted because there are Magical Rods which are deceitful and are too easily inclinable to bend to any money that is let fall or lost There are other visions also which appeare in looking-glasses Christals and such like things which Nigromancers that dig treasures do use but they are all false and deceitful wherefore there is little credit to be given unto them We come now to speake of the manner of digging for treasure how a time may be taken that we may have a happy progress in the digging which is as followeth First under an influence of the Moone or Saturn and when the Moone transits Taurus Capricorne or Virgo is a good time to begin to seeke or dig after treasure Neither need you use any other Ceremonies nor to draw any Circles or to use any Inchantments whatsoever onely those that dig must be of a cheereful minde free and alienated from any evil thoughts or cogitations and not to be moved nor feare any phantasies visions or Imaginations of the Spirits although they should corporally appeare yet they are onely visions Therefore those that dig ought to discourse sing and be cheereful and not to be affrighted at any thing but to have a good courage And by no meanes soever let them keepe silence as some perfidious Negromancers have taught Now when they come neere to the place where the Treasure is that it is almost detected and do heare many noises and strange visions and horible sights are seene which oftentimes happens to be It sheweth that the Pygmies and Sylphes are there who do envy that men should have those treasures and will not willingly part from them especially if it be their own or such as they brought thither Such treasures are to be left if the keepers thereof consent not And although they may be gotten and taken away as a Robbery from those keepers yet these keepers have an Art whereby they can change these treasures in this way gained into a vile and base matter as into earth clay dung and such-like things as I have seene by examples wherefore when any such transmutations happen we are not therefore to despaire in our mindes although we find nothing like either Gold or silver neither would any one suppose any such thing to be there We ought therefore to fly to the holy Scripture which saith thus God shall judge the world by fire and in the Psalmes thus Gold and silver are tryed in the fire and are found pure and cleane wherefore in any such transmutations the fire ought to be the judge the proceeding in the tryal thereof ought to be after the same manner as the refining and separating of minerals and Metals And by this meanes it will be forced of necessity to return to the same essence which it had before There is another thing remarkeable in these kindes of transmutations for somtimes the diggers are deluded and there are found oftentimes pots of earth full of brass ridiculous things and matter as bones egge-shells pieces of wood and such things which have been buryed there many years before And they that have found the same have supposed it to be the true treasure Gold or Silver and to have been changed by the evil Spirits which is false For treasure found suddenly and unsought for cannot be changed by the Spirits but remaineth in the same substance which it had before Therefore these things are not to be accounted a transmutation but rather a vexation for somtime these vexers of men do bury such things that they which seeke after the treasure might labour in vaine Therefore such things are not to be regarded which are of no worth and may easily be known by the lightness of their weight But if they be of a heavy and ponderous body like to a Mineral or Mineral sand there may an experiment thereof be made by fire That we may omit nothing that may conduce hereunto we will adde also this objection Some may aske How comes it to pass that Treasure is somtime easily found which is not sought after The cause whereof we may suppose to be this Those Spirits which are the keepers of treasures do best know the mindes thoughts and cogitations of men therefore because they know that men have not any thoughts or will to dig or seeke after any treasures in such a place they give no diligence to keepe the same neither do they
by evil Spirits and the great abuse which hitherto hath been committed by many in such kinde of business NOw to come to speake of the driving away of evil Spirits it is to be known that very few since the times of Christ and his Apostles have rightly been driven away For they knew not how to use any other meanes but Ceremonyes and Conjurations wherewith they endeavored to expel the malignant Spirits and the devil whereas this is altogether a false foundation and by no meanes to be followed or imitated Although sometimes some have been delivered by this way and the devil hath been driven from them nevertheless it hath not been done neither can it be done without loss Like as if a Prince would vanquish some Country or City with the Sword this he could not possibly do without some apparent damage and loss to that place A common proverb hereby cometh to minde which saith That he that cannot get good words from good men shall much less wrest them from evil men although they be compelled by force the more evil is to be feared as by examples is too often seen to come to pass Therefore that opinionated power is to be relinquished which is used in Ceremonies and Conjurations But you ought to expell wicked Spirits as Christ and his Apostles did and no other way But if you do otherwise you undertake great Labours against the Devil for certainly the Devil is forced through great difficulty to go out of men and seeketh all iniquities and wicked occasions to stay and retain them in his power But when he seeth that he can no longer stay and remain in the possessed but is forced to go out then he requireth power and licence to enter into some other man or beast or into some other place which if he be permitted there followeth a greater loss thereupon Therefore there is no other place to be permitted or assigned unto him but hell from whence he cometh and which God hath ordained for him and cast him into that it may not happen as we have an example as we faithfully believe when Christ permitted the devil which he cast out of the man to enter into the herd of swine which no sooner had the devil entred into them but they were drowned in the Sea Therefore they are in no wise to be permitted to enter into any other men lest suddenly after they deprive them of their lives as they did these swine Neither are they to be permitted to go into any Rivers lakes or ponds which if it should be done they will drown many men therein and draw them into the deepe under those waters and will deride them as a fool doth his master with his fingers and therewith the devils are more delighted then before neither ought they to have any power given them or to their desires to go into any house or Castle for they will perpetually possess it and will so reigne there that no body will any more be able to dwell or inhabit in that place but they will alway be inhabitable as many both houses and Castles are in many Countries which are left desolate for this very cause many whereof I could name in this place but I pass them by to avoyd prolixity let Satan therefore aske what he will where or to what place he would go nothing else ought to be granted to him then to return into hell which God ordained for him and thrust him into from whence he came into the man and into which he ought to enter when he goeth out of the man c. Also if the devil shall cause the man to speake many vaine trifles we ought not to answer thereunto or to speake much with him But if any one will speake with him let him say I command thee Oh thou unclean Spirit by the word power and virtue whereby thou wert cast out by Christ his Apostles that thou go out of this man c. He is no other way to be conjured neither are these words to be taken for a Conjuration but for an answer by which alone he is not cast out but this is first to be done to wit to watch and pray for Christ saith This kinde is onely to be cast out by fasting and prayer with faith Wherefore it is chiefly necessary to induce and force such as are thus possest to prayer though it be very difficult to be done because the devil so Ruleth their tongues that he suffereth them not to pray Therefore there must be prayers made before them and if they will not pray with and after those that are praying they must be more sharply dealt withall That is to say the possessed must be fast bound both his hands and feete and afterwards let some other man lie across over them and shew himself to be very angry with them and severely compel them to prayer but he ought to pray before them and to exhort them to pray after him the same words By this meanes such people may be induced to pray when they cannot be brought to it by any other meanes which ought to be continued day by day and the devil will go out of them and leave them This shall suffice to have spoken concerning the casting out of uncleane and evil Spirits because I am restrained to use brevity in other places CHAP. X. Of Tempests THat we may now come to speak of the original of Tempests how they may be expelled away Also how and by what meanes any one may preserve himself and his from Thunder lightning and haile We shall declare in the first place that all Tempests do proceed from the four Capital windes viz. the East South West and North Then from the Centre of both that is to say of the Aire and Firmament there are no tempests can arise But from the four Fountaines before spoken of which comes chiefly to be considered Wherefore he that desires to preserve his goods House Lands garden field meadow and such things from all manner of thunder haile and Tempest he ought first to know these things whereby he may also know how to assimilate inferiours to Superiours We will therefore in this place briefly declare the original of all Tempests The original of tempests is certainly nothing else but the appearance of Spirits and lightning or corruscation preceding is the presence of them whereby it may be certainly known whether those tempests will pass away with or without danger and that after this manner is to be understood to wit as a stranger will not enter into any ones house unless first he speake so these Spirits do not appeare unto us without speaking first But their voice is thunder which as we see immediately follows every flash of lightning Also if a stranger should suddenly fly into the house of another where he is not known it seems to signifie no good but evil rather either he himself is prosecuted by others or else brings some damage to them So likewise