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A28633	Paracelsus his Aurora, & treasure of the philosophers· As also the water-stone of the wise men; describing the matter of, and manner how to attain the universal tincture. Faithfully Englished· And published by J. H. Oxon.; Aurora thesaurusque philosophorum. English.	Paracelsus, 1493-1541.; J. H.; Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624. Correspondence. English. Epistle 23.	1659 (1659)	Wing B3540; ESTC R211463	86,113	244

and now first of all perfect and new regeneration in life eternal shall quicken and rise up to that new and never fading life their soul and spirit being again so united with the body and again reduced into an indissoluble or inseparable eternally abiding copulation or conjunction So that we shall be made by the vertue and efficacy of the Omnipotent heavenly King Christ with whom we shall be by faith really truly and efficaciously coupled above the reason of all men glorified with a pure spiritual and wonderful vertue strength agility and glory and excellency yea shall be made transparent excellent and more then perfectly happy Isaiah 26. The which wonderful unition of the body soul and spirit and likewise its divine glorification and this exaltation of the elect may as 't is in the terrene work be considered of by us in this life but not without amazement and trembling much less be seen without much terrour And therefore for this cause even the very Angels themselves are as 't were ravished into admiration and desire to peep into all these things Where we shall then raign with Christ our eternal Prince of heaven and with all the Angels and ministring Spirits in eternal joy and glorious majesty and bear rule over all things for evermore Gal. 6. And that we may at last conclude even as in the Chymical work Philosophical we added after the beginning a short but yet necessary correcting of or way to amend the neglected or corrupted composition viz. how it may be commodiously holpen in time where we likewise have orderly shewed the whole Process together with the suitable means thereto appertaining even so likewise must be here considered in the Theological work and that very diligently the correction or amending and the restitution of a miserable spiritual sinner as for instance if haply either one or two or the first and second defects do shew themselves in any man that he falls into sin by the permission of God and by the impulsion of the abominable Satan of the wicked world and of his own flesh and should slip either through pride and arrogancy the which are innate in us all and may be compared with the dangerous sublimation or redness which we have termed the first and second defect in the terrene Kingdom Or else should because of his enormious grievous and corporal sins that he hath committed at length despair of the mercy of God or should by reason of the overmuth heat of tribulations rise up against God his Creator and impatiently undergo the Cross which said two defects have a resemblance with the third and fourth errours Then must such a miserable and infected man be like as t is to be done with the terrene composition that you put in and spoiled be again dissolved in the first place that is after the acknowledgement of his excess he is to be again absolved and purified by the solutory or dissolving key of holy solution as oft as he shall need it from his sins and daily defections Then moreover must he be necessarily fed his thirst quenched be refreshed and comforted in the holy Supper of the Lord with the pure and heavenly milk 1 Cor. 3. and with the true sweat of the celestial Lamb 1 Joh. 5. as if 't were with blood and water yea with water and the fountain of life and even as it were with the fat feast of pure wine and marrow Isaiah 25. Apocal. 19. and that publick proffer of the fountain of grace Zach. 13. the which like to the Mercurial water in the Chymical work is to the unworthy and wicked ones the highest poyson until at last as 't is with the terrene body or work he arrives to a final congelation and plenary fixation that is to a perfect and abiding perfection of eternal happiness The which two most wholsom mediums for the curing and healing of a poor miserable sinner viz. The holy absolution and the holy Supper the Faithfull and Omnipotent God hath appointed for the benefit of man and hath delivered and committed them to his most beloved Church to be administred and communicated in a time of necessity For we are there by the now spoken of absolution or as 't is called the office of the keyes a true repentance going afore pronounced free and absolved or else if we remain impenitent and boldly persevere in our sins then are we by the Christian key of cursing and excommunication which doth likewise appertain to that office tyed in our sins and delivered to Satan for the destruction of the flesh that the Spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord 1 Cor. 5. The Epilogue or Conclusion THus hast thou my friend and curteous Reader a brief and simple demonstration and declaration and withall an infallible counterpoise and allegorical comparison of the terrene Chymical and the true Celestial stone Jesus Christ by whom thou maist attain to a certain happiness and perfection not only here in this earthly life but also in the life eternal Now although this comparing might have been more accurately perhaps and more copiously handled in the afore mentioned Theological work yet you are to know that I am no Professor or Teacher of the Scripture or any Aristotelian Thelogist or Divine according as the custome of the World is now a dayes but that I am a citizen and a private person for as for that knowledge vouchsafed me by God I obtained it not by study in any of their famous Academies or Universities but in the Universal School of nature Job 12. and out of the great book of Miracles in which all the God-learned did for many ages past exercise themselves did I likewise learn And therefore I have directed that description of mine not according to the decked and as 't were foot and half or lofty letter and expression but as I said afore according to simplicity and plainness Besides 't is not my office or function to set down here any more plentiful and larger treatise or Commentary about Theological things but that which I have done I did it as much as concerns me for such as have not as yet made such a large progress to them was I willing to prescribe some short delineation whereby they may make an higher search thereinto For it seems to be the duty of every lover of the truth by no means slightly to pass over the wonders of God nor to wrap them up in a perpetual silence but to celebrate amplify and magnify them Moreover I could willingly make a publick confession of my faith viz. what I think or believe of the Articles of the Christian Religion But alas alas the case stands thus at present that many pious Christians Psal. 116. are proclaimed for hereticks by the rash judgments of most slanderous lying back-biters unless they sing their song and are prosecuted with a bitter hatred and are suspected of heresy The which wicked blasphemies of the world and their rash judgments do not in the

for the accomplishment of which the consideration of principles is very necessary as also by what way and medium nature doth at first go from imperfection to the end of perfection For the consideration whereof t is chiefly requisite most certainly to know that all things created by nature do consist of three principles viz. of natural Sulphur Mercury and Salt mixt into one so that in some things they are Volatile in other things fixt As often as a corporal Salt is throughly mixt with a spiritual Mercury and Animated Sulphur into one body then doth nature begin to work in subterranean places which serves for its vessels by a separating fire by which the gross and impure Sulphur is separated from the pure and the Earth from the Salt and the cloudiness from the Mercury those purer parts being reserved the which parts nature doth again decoct together into a pure Geogamick body The which Operation is accounted of by the Magi as a Mixtion and conjunction by the Union of the three viz. body soul and spirit This Union being compleated from thence doth result a pure Mercury the which if it flows through the subterrean passages and Veins thereof and mess with a Caheick Sulphur the Mercury is Coagulated by this Sulphur according to the condition of the Sulphur But notwithstanding t is as yet volatile and scarce decocted into a mettall for the space of an hundred years Thence arose this so much common an opinion that Mercury and Sulphur are the matter of mettals the which is also evident by the Relation of the Miners Yet common Mercury and common Sulphur are not the matter of mettals but the Mercury and Sulphur of the Philosophers are incorporated and innate in perfect mettals and in the forms of them that they never fly from the fire nor are depraved by the force of the corruption of the Elements Verily by the dissolution of that same natural mixtion our Mercury is tamed or subjected as all the Philosophers speak Under or from this form of words comes Mercury to be extracted out of perfect bodies and out of the virtues and puissance of the earthly planets The which Hermes affirms in these words The ☉ and ☽ saith he are the roots of this art The Son of Hamuel saith that the stone of the Philosophers is a Coagulated water viz. in Sol and Lune from whence t is evidently cleer that the matter of the stone is nothing else but ☉ ☽ this is also hereby confirmed in that every like thing generates and brings forth its like And we know that there are no more but two stones white and red there are alfo two matters of the stone Sol and Lune coupled together in a proper Matrimony both natural and artificial And as we see that either man or woman cannot generate without the seed of both in like manner our Man ☉ and his Woman ☽ cannot conceive or frame onght for generation without both their Seeds and Spermes Thence have the Philosophers gathered that a third thing is necessary viz. the Animated seed of both of man and woman without the which they have judged all their whole work to be vain and foolish Now such a Sperm is their Mercury the which by a natural conjunction of both bodies of ☉ and ☽ receives their nature into it self in Union and then at length and not before is the work fitted for congress ingress and Generation by the manly and feminine virtue and power On this account the Philosophers took occasion to say that Mercury is composed of body soul and spirit and that it hath assumed the nature property of all the Elements Therefore from a most powerfull ingenuity and discretion or understanding they have affirmed their stone to be animal the which also they have called their Adam who carryes his inv●sible Eve hidden in his own body from that moment of time wherein they were united by the power of the most high God the framer of all the creatures for which cause it may deservedly be said that the Mercury of the Philosophers is nothing else but their most abstruse compounded Mercury and not that common ☿ Therefore have they discretly told the wise that there is in Mercury whatsoever the wise men seek Almadir the Philosopher saith we do extract our Mercury out of one perfect body and two perfect natural conditions incorporated together the which ☿ indeed doth thrust forth its perfection outwardly whereby t is able to resist the fire and that its intrinsecal imperfection may be defended by the extrinsecal perfections By this place of the most witty Philosopher is the Adamical matter understood the Limbus of the Microcosm the homogeneal Only matter of all the Philosophers whose sayings also which we have afore mentioned are meerly golden and to be had in most high esteem because they contain nothing superfluous or 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 the artificially prepared and true Hermaphrodite Adam and Microcosm That most wise Mercurius the wisest of the Philosophers affirming the same hath called the stone an Orphan Therefore our Mercury is that very same that contains in it self the perfections forces and virtues of the Sun and which runs through the Streets and houses of all the Planets and in its regeneration hath acquired or gotten the virtue of things above and beneath to the marriage also of which things viz. above and below it is compared as is evident from the whiteness and redness wound or heaped up together therein CHAP. XVII Of the Preparation of the matter of the Philosophers stone THis is that which nature doth most chiefly require viz. that its own Philosophick man be brought into a Mercurial substance that it may spring forth into the Philosophick stone Moreover you are to note that those common preparations of Geber Albertus Magnus Th. Aquinas Rupescisca Polidorus and such like are nothing else but some particular Solutions Sublimations and Calcinations not at all pertaining to our Universal work which work doth want only the most secret fire of the Philosophers Therefore the fire and Azoth may suffice thee And whereas the Philosophers do make mention of some preparations as of putrefaction destillation sublimation calcination coagulation dealbation rubification ceration fixation c. you are to understand that in their Universal work Nature it self doth accomplish all the operations in the said matter and not the workman and that only in a Philosophical Vessel and with a such like fire not a common fire The white and the red do proceed out of one root without any medium T is dissolved by it self coupled by it self albifyes and rubifyes is made saffrony and black by it self marries itself and conceives in it self T is therefore to be decocted to be baked to be fused it ascends and descends All which Operations are indeed but one Operation made by the fire alone But yet

notwithstanding is in every thing and in every place to be found but as to its potency t is in this only alone and altogether or wholly perfect Briefly they say that it is such a spiritual substance as is neither celestial nor infernal but an aereal pure and excellent body which is posited as a medium betwixt the highest and lowest t is likewise the most choice and most precious thing under the whole heaven Contrariwise it is esteemed by such as understand not the thing or are new beginners to learn it for a most vile thing and most abject or base as 't were yet notwithstanding though many a wise man seek after it there are but a few that find it it is to be considered of or be beheld afar of and is to be taken near at hand and besides it is to be seen of all yet is known but by a few as is to be seen in this here-following verse viz This precious good is divided into three and yet is but one T is what the world cares not for but disesteems it It hath it in its sight carries it in its hands yet is ignorant thereof for it passeth away with a sudden pace without being known Yet these treasures are the chiefest and he that knows the Art the Expressions and hath the medium will be richer then any other A Philosophical Enigma IN which the first material subject of the Art of the wise men otherwise called the Phenix of the Philosophers being wholly divided is to be triplicitly or threefold wise found The Enigma Philosophical IF I tell thee of the three parts of every thing thou hast no cause to complain for I tell thee the truth Thou needest the three-leaved grass sue to Jehovah by thy prayers Seek for one in three and thou shalt have one out of three T is called by a thousand names t is a body soul and spirit Is beautified with Salt Sulphur and an heavy Mercurie Trust me if thou understandest the three-leaved grass and knowest the Voice and Song then art thou a wise Artist Another Enigma much more plain THere is one thing in this world is everywhere to be found and that as it were accidentally or casually without care of a grayish and greenish colour and of a wonderfull power In this thing is both a white and red colour It flows hither like a swift stream and runs away like a river It wets not and is made of an heavy weight light I could give it a thousand names but thousands know it not T is common to be seen but the Art of it is difficult He that dissolves it by a medium and finisheth it the third time is a wise man and rightly hath this noble subject Another Enigma THE place of the birth of this stone is everywhere its conception is in the deep its birth in the earth it finds life in the heavens it dies in time and then at length obtains everlasting blessedness If therefore any one hath ready at hand this thus-mentioned matter that is so vertuously endowed the which is partly celestial and partly terrestrial and is at the beginning a right confusion or commixtion or a certain mixt essence worthily so called whose colour is not to be named or which hath no proper colour to be named by and doth know it rightly and well the which knowledge hath been accounted at all times by the Philosophers for a principal member of this work then must all such things as are requisite thereunto and which are required in the preparation thereof be with the greatest study and diligence performed But yet notwithstanding afore that the singular manual labour therewithall be undertook t is very necessary that every pious Artist do again recall to his mind with much diligence the doctrine aforesaid and that withall he be faithfully admonished not to infold as 't were himself with that secret work and that unsearchable Spirit that lies hidden thereunder except he shall first have diligently searched it in its profound qualities and proportion and according to the requisite conformity to nature even as some of the Philosophers do admonish us concerning that thing and say See thou hast no commerce with this Spirit except thou first hast an exact knowledge and understanding thereof For God is wonderful in his works and his wisdom is without number and as is aforesaid he will not suffer himself to be mocked Verily here might be some examples produced viz. of many that have too too slightly infolded themselves as t were or intermedled with this Art and having adventured thereon their successes have been very bad insomuch that some have been found dead in the work it self or else most grievously wounded by some other unfortuate mischance for t is not a thing of such a small concernment as many dream and imagine because the Philosophers compare it to boies play and womens work and that they are able to do the same The Philosophers intention was otherwise then so for they meant the following and successive labour of this work which is in it self easie enough and utterly as t were void of any great moment and they accounted it as simple and easie to such only as were ordained by God thereunto and were endowed with the knowledge thereof Beware therefore beware I say and take heed to thy self that thou dost not over-rashly involve thy self in danger but much more rather begin thy purposed work with prayers poured out to God for divine help as we have at the beginning faithfully admonished thee and then shalt thou fear nothing at all nor haply shalt thou be subject to any danger If therefore now thou hast employed thy self with much diligence in thy Oratory and hast the known matter at hand then mayst thou commodiously apply thy self to a studious diligence in thy Laboratory and apply thereto a convenient Manual Labour and so make a beginning First of all therefore it is necessary that above all things you dissolve that so oft spoken of first matter or first Ens which the Philosophers likewise have called the highest good of nature then is it to be purified from aquosity or its waterishness and its terrestreity for it doth at first appear to such as behold it an earthy grave heavy gross pituitous and as it were a kinde of cloudy and aqueous body and its darkish and gross cloudy shadow wherewith it is shadowed must be removed by thee that so by this means its heart and inward soul that lies hidden therein may likewise and next that precedent purifying be by a more ample sublimation divided thereout of and be reduced into a sweet and pleasant Essence But now all this may be done by the great and excellent Catholick or Universal water the which by its most swift and as 't were flying course and passing to and fro doth moisten and make fruitfull the whole circuit of the earth and is indeed done so sweetly fairly clearly brightly and splendidly that the splendor thereof