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A92903	A new light of alchymie: taken out of the fountaine of nature, and manuall experience. To which is added a treatise of sulphur: / written by Micheel Sandivogius: i.e. anagram matically, divi Leschi genus amo. Also nine books of the nature of things, written by Paracelsus, viz. Of the generations growthes conservations life: death renewing transmutation separation signatures of naturall things. Also a chymicall dictionary explaining hard places and words met withall in the writings of Paracelsus, and other obscure authors. All which are faithfully translated out of the Latin into the English tongue, by J.F. M.D.; Novum lumen chymicum. English.	Sędziwój, Michał, ca. 1556-ca. 1646.; French, John, 1616-1657.; Paracelsus, 1493-1541. Of the nature of things.; Dorn, Gerhard, 16th cent. Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi.	1650 (1650)	Wing S2506; Thomason E604_3; Thomason E604_4; Thomason E604_5; ESTC R203736	79,289	151

wee teach to make in our Chirurgerie That water doth presently mixe with the blood and preserves it so that it will never bee putrefied or grow unsavory but continue many years as fresh and very red as it was the first day and this indeed is a great wonder But if thou dost not know how to make this water or hast it notin readiness then poure upon it so much of the best and most excellent balsome and this will doe the same Now this blood is the balsome of balsomes and is called the Arcanum of blood and it is so wonderful and of such great vertue that it is incredible to be spoken wherefore thou shalt conceale it as a great secret in Physick How metalls may be preserved What are the enemies of metalls In preserving of Metalls their Enemies are first to bee known that so much the better they may bee preserrved from harme The chiefest Enemies of Metalls are all sharp corroding Waters all Corrosive things all Salts crude Sulphur Antimony and Mercury But that you may know particularly how the shew their enmity it is thus Sharp Waters and such things as are Corrosive and Salts shew their enmity in that they mortifie dissolve calcine corrupt Metalls and reduce them to nothing How the fume of Sulphur doth discolour metallis Crude Sulphur shews its enmity in the fume thereof for by its fume it takes away from Copper its colour and rednesse and makes it white From white Metalls as Silver Tinne Lead and Iron it takes away the whitenesse and makes them red and yellowish From Gold it takes away that faire amiable yellownesse and golden colour and makes it black and so foule that nothing can bee more foule How Antimony spoiles and discolours metalls Antimony shews its enmity in this in that all Metalls with which it is melted or mixed it spoiles carryeth away and preys upon and also not unlike to Sulphur by its fume it takes away from Metalls their true and naturall colour and brings in another Quick-silver distroyes metalls and how Quick-silver doth destroy Metalls upon this accompt in that it enters into Metalls with which it is joined and dissolves them so as that it makes an Amalgama of them Wherefore the fume thereof which wee common Mercury makes all Metalls brittle that they cannot be malleated and calcines them also it makes all red Metalls of a golden colour to bee white but it is the greatest enemie of all to Iron and Steel for if common Mercury doe but touch a barre of Iron or Steel or that be but smeared over with Mercuriall oile that bar will afterward be broken like glasse and be bowed which indeed is a great secret and deserves to be kept exceeding close In like manner must the Loadstone be kept from Mercury for the like enmity it shews to that as to Iron For any Loadstone that Mercury hath but touched How the loadstone may be spoyled or which hath been smeered with Mercuriall oyle or only put into Mercury will never draw Iron more Let no man wonder at this for there is a naturall cause for it and it is this viz. because Mercury extracts the spirit of Iron which was hid in the Loadstone which spirit draws the spirit of Iron to it and this is not only in the Loadstone but in all naturall things else so that alwaies a strange spirit in a body which is not of the same Nature with it selfe drawes to it self a body which is of the same Nature and this wee must know to bee so not only in the Load-stone but also in all other naturall things as Minerals Stones Hearbs Roots Men and Brutes What antipathy there is betwixt metalls themselves That Metalls have an enmity and hate one the other naturally as you see in Lead which is naturally a very great enemy to Gold For it breaks asunder all parts of Gold it makes it foule weak spoiles and destroyes it even to death more then any other Metall Tin also hates and is an enemy to all Metalls for in makes them base immalleable hard unprofitable if it bee mixed with them in the fire or in melting Since therefore you have now heard of the Enemies of Metalls you must next know their preservatives which keep them from all manner of hurt or corruption also strengthen them in their Nature and vertue and exalt their colour Gold is preserved in boyes urine First therefore concerning Gold you must know that it cannot bee preserved better and fairer then in boyes urine in which Salt Armoniack is dissolved or in water alone of Salt Armoniack In them in time the colour is so highly exalted that it can bee exalted no higher How silver is preserved Silver cannot be better preserved then if it be boiled in common Water or Vineger in which Tartar or Salt have been dissolved So any old Silver that is made black and fouled is renewed by being boiled in these waters How Iron and Steel may be served The best preservative for Iron and Steels is the lard of a Barrow-hog not salted which indeed preserves Iron and Steel from rust if once every moneth they be smeered over with it Also if Iron bee melted with fixt Arsenicke it will be so renewed and fixt How Copper is preserved that it will like Silver never contract rust Copper may be preserved if it bee only mixed with sublimed Mercury or bee smeered over with the oyle of Salt and so it will never any more be grown over with verdegrease How Lead is preserved Lead can no wayes bee better preserved then in cold Earth and in a moist place according to the Nature thereof How the Load-stone is preserved The Load-stone is preserved best of all with the filings of Iron and Steel for by this meanes it is never weakened but daily strengthened The preservation of Salts Now concerning the preservation of Salts and all things that are of a saltish Nature and may be comprehended under the name of Salt of which there are more then an hundred sorts you must know that they are to bee preserved in a hot dry place and in woodden vessells not in Glasse Stone or Metalls for in those they are dissolved and become a Water and an Amalgama which cannot be in Wood. Moreover you must know how some kind of Waters and Liquors pressed out of hearbs roots The preservation of liquors with oils and all other fruits and Vegetables which doe easily contract filth and slime as if a skin were spread over them may be preserved These Waters therefore and Liquors must bee put up into glasses that are narrow towards the top and wide below and the glasses be filled to the top then adde a few drops of oyl Olive that all the Water or Liquor may bee covered so the Oyl will swim on the top and preserve the Liquor or Water along time from filth or flime For there is no Water or liquor if

the New Testament must doe by prayer knocking and seeking and procure by faith In what chiefe points the foundations of Magick and Cabalie consists In these 3 chief points consists all the foundation of the Magicall and Cabalisticall Art by which wee may obtain whatsoeve we desire so that to us Christians nothing is impossible But wee shall desist to treat here of more things concerning these and other monuments of Cabalie spoken of sufficiently in the book of Visions I refer you thither that you may see how wonderfully Christ the Son of God works by his Angells in us Christians and the faithfull and how brotherly he is conversant with us Whence we are the true Angels and members of Christ as hee is our head as hee is in us so we live in him as is taught in the booke of the Lords Supper But to returne to our purpose concerning Minerall signes and especially concerning the. Coruscation of Metalline veins we must know that as Metalls which are yet in their first being send forth their Coruscation i. e. Signes so also the Tincture of Philosophers What is the vertue of the Tincture of Philosophers which changeth all imperfect Motalls into Silver and Gold or White Metalls into Silver and Red into Gold puts forth its proper signs like unto Coruscation if it be Astrally perfected and prepared For as soon as a small quantity of it is cast upon a fluxil metall so that they mixe together in the fire there ariseth a naturall Coruscation and brigthnesse like to that of fine Gold or Silver in a test which then is a signe that that Gold or Silver is freed and purged without all manner of addition of other Metalls How the Tincture of Philosophers is made astrall But how the Tincture of Philosophers is made Astrall you must conceive it after this manner First of all you must know that every Metall as long as it lies hid in its first being hath its certaine peculiar stars So Gold hath the stars of the Sun Silver the stars of the Moon Copper the stars of Venus Iron the stars of Mars Tinne the stars of Jupiter Lead the stars of Saturne Quicksilver the starres of Mercury But as soon as they come to their perfection and are coagulated into a fixt Metalline body their stars fall off from them and leave them as a dead body Hence it follows that all such bodies are afterwards dead and inefficacious and that the unconquered star of Metalls doth overcome them all and converts them into its nature and makes them all Astrall Gold that is made by the Tincture is better then natural For which cause also our Gold and Silver which is tinged and prepared with our tincture is much more excellent and better for the preparation of Medicinall secrets then that which is naturall which Nature generates in the Mines and afterwards is separated from other Metalls So also the Mercury of a body is made Astrally of another body and is much more noble and fixt then common Mercury And so of the other Metalls I say therefore that every Alchymist which hath that star of Gold can turne all Red Metalls into Gold by tinging of them So by the star of Silver all White Metalls are changed into Silver by the star of Copper into Copper by the star of Quicksilver into Mercury of the body and so of the rest But now how all these stars are prepared according to the Spagiricall Art it is not our purpose at this time to declare but the explication of them belongs to our bookes of the Transmutation of Metalls The nature of the red Tincture But as for that which concerns their signes I would have you know that our Red tincture which contains the stars of Gold to bee of a most fixt substance of most quick penetration and of a most intense redness in powder resembling the colour of Saffron but in its whole body the colour of a Rubie I say it is a Tincture as fluxil as Wax as transparent as Crystall as brittle as Glasse and for weight most heavy The nature of the white The white tincture which containes the star of the Moon is after the same manner of a fixt substance of an unchangeable quantity of wonderfull whitenesse as fluid as Resine as transparent as Crystall as brittle as Glasse and for weight like to a Diamond The star of Copper The star of Copper is of a wonderfull citrine colour like to an Emrald as fluxill as Resine much heavier then its Metall The star of white Tin The starre of white Tinne is as fluid as Resine of a darke colour with some mixture of yellow The star of Iron The star Iron is very red as transparent as a Granate as fluxil as Resine as brittle as Glasse of a fixt substance much heavier then its Metall The star of Lead The star of Lead is like Cobaltum black yet transparent as fluxile as Resine as brittle as Glasse equall to Gold for weight heavier then other Lead The star of Quicksilver The star of Quicksilver is of a wonderfull white sparkling colour like to snow in the extreamest cold weather very subtile of a penetrating corrosive acrimony as transparent as Crystall flowing as easily as Resine very cold to the tast but very hot within as if it were fire but of a very volatil substance in the fire By this description the stars of the Metalls are to be known and understood Also you must understand that for the preparation of both tinctures viz. of the Red and White you must not in the beginning take of your work the body of Gold or Silver but the first being of Gold and Silver For it in the beginning there be an errour committed all your pains and labour will be in vain So also you must understand of Metalls that every one of them receives a peculiar signe in the fire by which it is known Of this kind are sparks flames glisterings the colour smell taste of fire c. So the true signe of Gold or Silver in the test is glistering That appearing it is certain that Lead and other Metalls that were mixed are fumed away and that the Gold and Silver is fully purged The signes of Iron being red hot in the furnace are cleer transparent sparks flying upward Those appearing the Iron unlesse it be taken from the fire is burnt like straw c. To know how Metalls have more or less of the three principles After the same manner any earthly body shews its peculiar and distinct signes in the fire whether it have more of Mercury Sulphur or Salt and which of the three principles it hath most of For if it fume before in flame it is a signe that it containes more Mercury then Sulphur But if it presenlly burn with a flame and without any fume it is a signe that it contains much Sulphur and little or no Mercury This you see in at

generated For Mercury is the Spirit Sulphur the Soule and Salt the Body but a Metall is the Soul betwixt the Spirit and the Body as Hermes saith which Soule indeed is Sulphur and unites these two contraries the Body and Spirit and changeth them into one essence c. Now this is not to bee understood so as that of every Mercury Whether metalls can be made artificially by fire every Sulphur or of every Salt the seven Metalls may be generated or the Tincture or Philosophers Stone by the Art of Alchymie or industry with the help of Fire but all the seven Metalls must be generated in the mountains by the Archeius of the Earth For the Alchymist shall sooner transmute Metalls then generate or make them Living ☿ is the mother of metalls Yet neverthelesse living Mercury is the Mother of all the seven Metalls and deservedly it may be called the Mother of the Metalls For it is an open Metall and as it contains all colours which it manifests in the Fire so also occultly it contains all Metalls in it selfe but without Fire it cannot shew them c. But generation and renovation of Metalls is made thus As a man may return into the womb of his Mother i.e. into the Earth out of which hee was first made a man and shall again bee raised at the last day The regeneration of metalls into tinctures so also all Metalls may returne into living ☿ againe and become ☿ and by Fire bee regenerated and purified if for the space of forty weeks they bee kept in a continuall heat as an infant is in his Mothers wombe So that now there are brought forth not common Metalls but Tinging Metalls For if Silver bee regenerated after the manner as wee have spoken it will afterward tinge all other Metalls into Silver so will Gold into Gold and the like is to bee understood of all the other Metalls Now forasmuch as Hemes said that the soule alone is that medium which joines the spirit to the body it was not without cause hee said so The Soul is that medium wherewith the soule is united to the body For seeing Sulphur is that soule and doth like Fire ripen and digest all things it can also bind the soule with the body incorporating and uniting them together so that from thence may bee produced a most excellent body Now the common combustible Sulphur is not to bee taken for the soule of metalls for the soule is another manner of thing then a combustible and corruptible body What the soule of metalls is Wherefore it can bee destroyed by no Fire seeing indeed it is all Fire it selfe and indeed it is nothing else but the quintessence of Sulphur which is extracted out of reverberated Sulphur by the spirit of wine being of a red colour and as transparent as a Rubie and which indeed is a great and excellent Arcanum for the transmuting of white metalls and to coagulate living ☿ into fixt and true Gold Esteeme this as an enriching treasure and thou maist bee well contented with this onely secret in the Transmutation of Metalls Concerning the generation of mineralls and halfe metalls nothing else need bee known then what was at first said concerning metalls Where is the generation of metalls and mineralls viz. that they are in like manner produced of the three Principles viz. Mercury Sulphur and Salt although not as metalls of perfect but of the more imperfect and baser Mercury Sulphur and Salt and yet with their distinct colours Whence the generation of Gemmes The generation of Gemmes is from the subtilty of the Earth of transparent and crystalline Mercury Sulphur and Salt even according to their distinct colours Also of Common Stones But the generation of common Stones is of the subtilty of Water of mucilaginous Mercury Sulphur and Salt For of the mucilaginousnesse of Water are produced all stones as also sand and gravell are thence coagulated into Stones as wee often see For any stone pat in the Water doth suddenly contract mucilaginousnesse to to itself An artificiall generation of Stones Now if that mucilaginous matter bee taken from this Stone and coagulated in a glasse it becomes such a Stone as was in that Water but it would require a long time before it would be coagulated of it selfe OF THE NATVRE Of Things THE SECOND BOOK Of the growth and increase of Naturall things Heat and Moisture the cause of the growth of things IT is sufficiently manifest and knowne to every one that all naturall things grow and are ripned through heat and moisture which is sufficiently demonstrated by rain and the heat of the sun For no man can deny that rain doth make the Earth fruitfully and it is granted by all that all fruits are ripened by the sun An artificiall ripening of things Seeing therefore this is by divine ordination naturally possible who can gain-say or not beleeve that a man is able through the wise and skilfull Art of Alchymie to make that which is barren fruitfull and that which is crude to ripen and all things to grow and to be increased For the Scripture saith God hath subjected all things to man that God subjected all creatures to man and put them into his hands as being his own that hee might use them for his necessity and rule over the fish of the sea fowles of the aire and all things upon the Earth nothing excepted Wherefore man might well rejoice that God should so endow him with the excellency of Nature that all the creatures of God should be forced to obey and be subject to him especially the whole Earth and all things which are bred live and move in and upon it Since therefore wee see with our eyes and are taught by daily experience that by how much the oftner more abundantly therain doth moisten the earth and the sun doth again with its heat and warmth dry it so much the sooner doe the fruits of the Earth come forth and are ripened yea all fruits doe cleerly grow and increase what time of the yeer soever it be Let no man henceforth wonder The artificiall generation of fruit that the Alchymist also by a manifold imbibition and distillation should not doe the same For what else is rain but the imbibition of the Earth and the heat of the Sun but the distillation of the un which drawes up those humidities again Wherefore I say it is possible by such a kind of Art even in the midle of Winter to bring forth green Herbs Flowers and other fruit through Earth and Water out of the seed and root If then this can bee done in all Herbs and flowers it may also bee done in many other like things as in all mineralls whose imperfect metalls by vertue of a minerall water may bee brought to maturity through the industry and Art of a skilfull Alchymist The ripening of mineralls In like manner may all Marcasites Granati

and as their tongue is impure so is their whole body Colours of Clouds The same Signator doth signe clouds with divers colours by which the seasons of the heaven may bee foreknown Colours of the circle of the Moon So also he signs the circle of the moon with distinct colours of which every one is of peculiar interpretation So redness signifies that there wil be wind greennesse and blacknesse raine these two mixed together wind and rain the same in the sea is a signe of great storms and tempests clearnesse and a bright whitenesse is a good sign especially in the ocean For for the most part it signifies a quiet faire season Whatsoever the Moon portends by her signs shall come to passe the next day And so much for Naturall signes Now for Supernaturall signes they are things of a particular science as of Magical Astronomy c. and the like It is therefore necessary that you be skilled in them The kinds of Magicall Astronomie Hence also many other Arts proceed as Geomancy Pyromancy Hydromancy Chaomancy and Necromancy whereof every one hath its peculiar stars which stars doe so signe them after a supernaturall manner And you must know that the starres of Geomancy impresse their signs upon the earthy bodies of the whole Universe and that divers wayes For they change the earth and cause earthquakes and gapings they produce hills and valleys and bring many new Vegetables they produce also Gamaheaus with naked figures and images having wonderfull vertues and powers which indeed they receive from the seven planets as the But or mark receives the arrow from the Archer But how those signs and images of Gamaheaus may be known apart and what they signifie magically there is required a great experience and knowledg of the nature of things which can by no meanes bee here perfectly taught Here you must well note that the stone or every Gamaheaus cannot excell in the prperty and vertue but of one star and so be qualified but by one planet And although there bee two or more planets in earthly bodies as they are joined together in the superiour firmament yet one is repressed by the other For as one house cannot bear two Masters but the one thrusts out the other so also it is here the one rules the other serves Or as one that overcomes him that keeps any house casts him out by force and and sets himself as master of the house disposing of all things according to his pleasure and making the other his servant So also one starre expells another one planet another one Ascendant another one influence another one impression another one Element another For as water quencheth the fire so one planet destroyes the property of another and brings in its owne The same is after the same manner to be understood stood of their signes which are manifold and not only characters as many conceive but all those which are sound in the whole map of the planets i. e. whatsoever are of affinity with or subject to the planets What things are subject to the Sun But that you may the better understand mee by adding an example I would have you know that unto the planet of the Sun are subjected a crowne a scepter a throne and all kingly power majesty and rule and all riches treasures ornaments and furniture of this world What to the Moone Unto the planet of the Moon are subjected all husbandry navigation travelling and travellers and such things as belong to these What to Mars Unto the planet of Mars are subjected all fortifications armour coats for defence Ordnance of War spears and all weapons and whatsoever belongs to war What to Mercury Unto the planet of Mercury are subjected all Artists all Mechanick instruments and whatsoever is required to Arts. What to Impiter Unto the planet of Jupiter are subjected all judgments and rights the whole Leviticall order all Ministers of Churches ornaments of Temples all jewells and such like What to Venus Unto the planet of Venus are subjected whatsoever things belong to Musick as Musicall instruments venereall exercises loves whorings c. What to Saturn Unto Saturne are subjected whosoever work in and beneath the earth as Miners Pioners Bearers of the dead Diggers of Wells as also all instruments serving to either of these c. What be the signes of Pyromancy Pyromancy draws forth its signes by the stars of the fire in common fire by particular sparkes flames or noise c. in the mines by Coruscations in the Firmament by stars comets flashing and lightning and Nostock and the like in Visions by Salamandrine and fiery spirits What the signes of Hydromancy are Hydromancy gives its signes by the stars of the Water by their overflowings their scarcity discolourings commotions new streames the washings away of earthy things in Magick and Necromancy by Nymphs visions and supernaturall Monsters in the waters and sea What are the signes of Chaomancy Chaomancy shews its signes by the stars of the Aire and Wind by the discolouring destroying of all tender and subtill things to which the Wind is an enemie by bearing off the flowers leaves boughes and branches If the stars of Chaomancy are moved spirits fall from the superiour Aire and voices and answers are often heard Also Trees are pulled up by the rootes and Houses are thrown down There are seen Hobgoblins Houshold Gods airy spirits and Woodmen c. also a heavenly dew and manna falls upon Trees and Hearbs The signes of Necromancy Necromancy draws forth its signs by the stars of Death which we call Evestra which are prophetical spirits signing the body of the sick and dying man with red blue and purple spots which are certaine signs of death in the third day of their rising They sign also the hands and singers of men with a clay colour which are certain signs of change either good or bad When therfore the stars of Necromancy are moved then the dead shew some wonderful sign as Bleeding and voices are heard out of the graves tumults tremblings arise in the places where bones are laid and dead men appear in the form and habit of living men and are seen in Visions in Looking-glasses in Berills in Stones and Waters and divers shapes Evestra i.e. spirits give their signs by beating striking knocking falling casting c. where there is a great hurly burly and noise only heard but nothing seen all which are certain signes of death presaging it to him in whose habit they appear or to some in what place they are heard Besides these signatures many more may be reckoned up But seeing they bring with them evill hurtfull and dangerous fancies and imaginations and superstitions which may be an occasion not onely of some misfortune but also death I shall passe them over in silence They are prohibited from being revealed to us seeing they belong to the schoole of secrets and divine power Therefore now I shall put an end to this book FINIS