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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 sottishly speak thereof a meer empty sound but is Spirit and Life and the saving Power of God John 6. to all such as believe therein Concerning which hearing the Kingly Prophet David doth thus speak Psal. 64. I will hear what the Lord will speak in me Out of the which internal and divine hearing the Word of God as out of a certain spring or fountain a true vivifying faith which is efficacious by or through charity Gal. 5. doth take its original for as Paul saith Rom. 10. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God 2 Pet. 2. So therefore now if the Word of God be pure and clear then may the hearing be also pure and clear Luke 21. and so consequently that faith which as 't were flows out of that hearing will be pure and uncorrupted and is effectual by charity and shews it self as towards God in an humble obedience to his holy Precepts and Will and also in praying in praising and in giving of thanks and as towards ones neighbour in a well-minded loving exhibition or doing of divers good Works insomuch that Charity is not the least but as Paul saith the highest vertue of all others So likewise Christ himself in his long fare-well Sermon at his departure Ioh. 13. doth with much dilgence exhort unto that exercise of Charity and left behind at that time this lesson as a fare-well saying This is my Commaudement that ye love one another even as I also loved you for so shall all men know that ye are my Disciples Likewise in 1 Iohn 2. He that saith he knows God and yet doth not keep his Commandements is a lyar and there is no truth in him But he that keepeth his word in him verily the Charity or Love of God is perfect And besides in 1 Iohn 4. God is Charity or Love he that abides therein abides in God and God abides in him Col. 1. By all this 't is evident how that Charity is the true bond of Perfection by which we are incorporated into Christ himself So that he is in us and we in him 2 Iohn 3. he in his Father and his Father in him and this is his will The which Christ himself doth also testifie in that place aforementioned where he saith If any one keepeth my saying he it is that loves me and I will love him and 〈◊〉 will come unto him and make our abode with him Iohn 5. he saith If ye shall keep my Commandements ye abide in my love concerning the which Charity and how it relates to our neighbour 't is elegantly described in 1 Iohn 4. If any one saith Iohn doth say that he loveth God and yet hateth his Brother he is a lyar for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how shall he love God whom he hath not seen And this command have we from him that he who loveth God do love his brother also But as to the property of that Love what it is Saint Paul expresseth it in the following words 1 Cor. 13. Love saith he is long-suffering and kind envieth not vaunteth not it self neither is it puffed up nor is it weary of doing good to its neighbour T is therefore easie to be seen and understood that viz. there can be no true and right Love or Charity which doth not serve its neighbour with good and charitable works Col. 3. and yet indeed there are many of such as call themselves Christians that do rashly boast thereof Moreover t is evident that good works as are pleasing unto God do not precede faith but is as it is with fruits which follow or succeed the stock and tree the which if it be good doth also bring forth good fruits and for this cause works do not make faith but faith makes works good grateful and acceptable Ierem. 5. Upon this account therefore the which is the chiefest thing here we are justified by faith alone and obtain life eternal thereby If therefore now the regenerate man doth so Christianly and piously behave himself after the aforesaid manner in his life and in all his actions then also will he not in the least want his fruits Such a man now is like unto the composition in the terrene work he is placed by God in the fornace of tribulation and is so long pressed with straights of all kinds and with various calamities and troubles until he becomes dead to the old Adam and flesh Eph. 4. and be like a truly new man which according to God is created in a right and true justice and holiness and is again risen up as Saint Paul in Rom. 6. doth testifie where he saith We together with Christ are buried in death by baptism for even as Christ is risen from the dead so let us also walk in newnesse of life If this now be done and that a man doth daily cease to sin that so by this means sin may bear no more rule over him then doth the solution of the adjoyned body of gold as in the terrene work take its original in him and as we have afore said the putrefaction so that he becomes as 't were wholly dissolved ground destroyed and putrified after a spiritual manner the which solution and putrefaction notwithstanding is wont to be sooner done with one then another but however t is fit that it be done even in this temporal life That is such a man is so well digested boiled and mollified in the fire of tribulation 1 Pet. 4. that he even despairs of all his own power and strength and seeks for his comfort in the alone grace and mercy of God 2 Cor. 4. in the which fornace of the Cross and continual fire the man like the terrene body of the gold obtains the right black head of the Crow that is he is made altogether deformed and as to the world Wisdom 5 Iob 30. is only derided and mocked by it and that not only forty daies and nights or years but oftentimes also for his whole life time insomuch that he necessarily undergoes many a time more grief of heart then comfort and gladness and more sadness then joy in this life-time And here then by this his spiritual death his soul is wholly taken out and is as 't were carried up on high that is he is as yet with his body on the earth but with his Spirit and soul which lives no more now to the world but unto God nor takes delight in earthly things but placeth his highest comfort in spiritual things 2 Cor. 4. he tends upwards to an eternal Life and Countrey and doth so institute and order all his actions that they are not earthly but as far forth as may be done in this time or place are heavenly and now he lives no more according to the flesh but after the Spirit not in the unfruitful works of darkness but as in the day-light in the works that abide the tryal all being done in God The which separation of the

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. LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Black Spred Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1659. Reader THese three Pieces of Mysterious Learning need not any Apology nor ought of those flattering titles that many worthless Books are ushered in withal T is sufficient that two of them were written by the experienced Paracelsus and that the other viz. The Water-stone hath the testimony of that inlightned man Jacob Behmen in his 23. Epistle It is in truth a discourse so sober its title so modest and the plain-hartedness of the Author so evident that it will be but lost labour to commend that which is so really excellent And whereas the Genius of many an English-man tends after these noble employments and is destitute of those helps that many Authors extant in the Latine tongue might haply afford them I do therefore intend to publish these ensuing viz. The Rosary of the Philosophers The Mineral work of Isaac Holland Bernard Trevisan of Alchimy The last Testament The Experiments and several other Tracts of Raymund Lully Glaubers second and third part of the Mineral work Paracelsus his Archidoxis and Book of degrees All which except the two last-mentioned and they may shortly be ready are compleatly finished Some haply will be displeased with othersome will deride whatsoever they meet with of this subject such may please themselves and wallow in their frothy fancies but the ingenuous man will consider that to attain to the useful understanding of things of this nature there is required the labour of the body integrity of the mind and a patient perseverance in both these are the usual keyes that give admission to this despised Science Farewell Thy Friend I. H. The most material Errata's are to be corrected as followeth PAge 3. line 9. read with p. 21. l. 16. r. Trutae or Trouts p. 23. l. 18. r. Haematites p. 25. l. 17. r. revification l. 18. r. urine p. 34. l. 23. for their r. the p. 37. l. 26. set a full-point at time p. 42. l. 15. r. mysterie p. 47. l. 26. r. meets ib. r. Cahoick p. 55. l. 27. r. and it p. 57. l. 17. blot out or thus p. 60. l. 9. r. Balny l. 11. r. vive p. 62. l. 3. for below r. all over p. 69. l. 9. r. Cinnabre l. 15. r. cohobation p. 72. l. 17. r. all p. 75. l. 14. r. ounces p. 94. l. 14. r. 47. p. 107. l. 27. r. Aes p. 112. l. 18. r. cover p. 116. l. 24. r. so p. 174. l. 23. r. caring p. 184. l. 25. r. aāa p. 187. l. 9. blot out unto it self p. 195. l. 10. r. ears p. 210. l. 20. blot out be The Aurora of the Philosophers by Paracelsus CHAP. I. Of the Original of the Philosophick Stone ADAM was the first Inventor of Arts because he had the knowledge of all things as well after the fall as before the fall from thence he presaged the worlds destruction by water Hence also it came to pass that his Successors erected two tables of stone in the which they ingraved all Natural Arts and that in Hieroglyphical Characters that so their Successors might also know this presage that it might be heeded and provision or care made in time of danger Afterwards Noah found one of the tables in Armenia under the Mount Araroth when the deluge was over In which Table were described the courses of the superiour Firmament and of the inferiour Globe and also of the Planets then at length this Universal Notion of Knowledge was drawn into several particulars and lessened in its Vigor and Power in so much that by means of that separation One became an Astronomer another a Magus another a Cabalist and a fourth an Alchymist Abraham that most great Astrologer and Arithmetitian conveyed it out of the Countrey of Canaan into Aegypt whereupon the Egyptians arose to so great a head and dignity that the wisdom or science of the same thing was derived from them to other Nations and Countreys And for as much as the Patriarch Jacob painted as t were the sheep with various colours it was done by a part or member of Magick for in the Theology of the Chaldeans Hebrews Persians and Egyptians they proposed these arts as the highest Philosophy to be learned by their chiefest Nobles and Priests So it was in Moses his time wherein both the Priests and even the Physitians were chosen amongst the Magi they indeed viz. the Priests for the Examination or Judging of what related to soundness or health especially in the knowledge of the Leprosie Moses likewise was instructed in the Egyptian Schools at the Costs and Care of Pharaohs daughter so that he excelled in all their Wisdom or Learning So was it which Daniel he in his young dayes suckt in the Learning of the Chaldeans so that he became a Cabalist Witness his Divine foretellings and exponnding of those words Mene Mene Tekel Phares These words are to be understood by the Prophetick and Cabalistick Art The Tradition of this Cabalistical Art was very familiar with Moses and the Prophets and most of all in use The Prophet Elias foretold many things by his Cabalistical Numbers Even so the Antient wise men by this Natural and Mystical Art learned to know God rightly and abode and walked in his Laws and statutes very firmly It likewise is evident in the Book of Samuel that the Berelists did not follow the Devils part but became by Divine permission partakers of Visions and true Apparitions the which we shall treat more largely of in the book of Snpercelestials The gift thereof is granted by the Lord God to the Priests who walk in the divine precepts It was a custom amongst the Persians never to admit any one as King unless a Sophist or Wise man exalted both in reality and name and this is clear by the usual name of their Kings for they were called Sophists Such were those Wise men and Persian Magi that came from the East to seek out Christ Jesus and are called natural Priests Likewise the Egyptians having obtained this Magick and Philosophy from the Chaldeans and Persians would that their Priests should also learn the same wisdom wherein they became so fruitfull and succesfull that all the neighbouring Countreyes admired them This was the cause why Hermes was truly stiled Trismegistus because he was both a King a Priest and a Prophet a Magitian and a Sophist of Natural things such another also was Zoroastes CHAP. II. Wherein is declared that the Grecians drew a good part of this Learning from the Egyptians and how it came from them to us AFter that a Son of Noah possessed the third part of the world after the Flood this Art brake in violently as it were into Chalde and Persia and

XII Of the Arcanum of Vitriol and the Red Tincture to be thence extracted VItriol is a very Noble Mineral amongst the rest was alwayes of very much admiration with the Philosophers because the most high God hath adorned it with wonderfull endowments They have vailed over its Arcanum with aenigmaticall figures as thus viz. Thou shalt vifit the inward parts of the earth and shalt find by rectification the occult stone a true medicine By the earth they understood the Vitriol it self and by the Inward part of the Earth its sweetness and redness because in the occult part of the Vitriol a subtile noble and most fragrant juice and pure oil lyes hid The manner of drawing it forth is not at all to be attempted by Calcination or distillation for it must not at all be deprived of its greeness for assoon as ever t is rob'd thereof the Arcanum of it also is gone and so necessarily it must want its vertues Verily t is to observed here in this place that not only the Minerals but also the Vegetables themselves and such like that outwardly shew a viridity or greeness contain an Oil within them as red as blood the which is their Arcanum Thence t is evident that their ridiculous distillations of the Apothecaries are vain and foolish and of no moment because they do not at all know how to bring forth the bloodlike redness of the Vegetables Nature it self being wise turns the waters of all Vegetables into a Citrine Colour and from thence afterwards into a most red Oil like blood Now the cause of its coming to pass so slowly on is the too much headlongness of the ignorant distilling operators whereby the Viridity is absumed They have not learned to corroborate Nature in its virtues whereby the noble virour or greeness ought to be rectified into a redness per se For example sake White wine digests it self into a Citrine colour and in success of time the Green colour of the Grapes themselves is turnned per se into a red lying hid under the Sky Colour The greeness therefore of the Vegetables and Minerals being lost by the sluggishness of the Operators the essence of them and the spirit of the Oil and most noble balsome of Arcana's is also lost CHAP. XIII Of the Process of Vitriol for or to the red Tincture VItriol contains in it self many dirty and viscous or slimy imperfections therefore its greeness must be often extracted with water and rectified until it hath put off all the Impurities of the earth All which rectifications being finished there must be much care taken that the matter lie not open to the Sun because it will turn the greeness thereof into a paleness and together therewith swallow up the Arcanum Let it be kept covered over in a stove that no defilement come thereto then afterwards let it be digested in a glass shut for the space of some moneths or so long untill there appears various colours and the highest redness But yet you must not think that by that process the redness is sufficiently fixed but must be farther purged from the Interiour accidental defilements of the earth and that on this wise T is to be rectified with Acetum untill the earthly defilment be wholly removed and the feces separated This now is the true and best rectification of its Tincture of which the blessed Oil is to be extracted From it then being diligently shut in a glass and an Alembick speedily set thereon and the joints done with bitumen or luted that the spirits exhale not in the distillation of its Oil the spirit is to be drawn forth with a sweet and gentle fire This Oil is much more delectable and sweet then any dispensatory Aromatical balsome whatsoever and is void of all other acrediny or sharpness Now in the bottom of the Cucurbite there will reside a certain most white earth bright aud shining like Snow the which keep charily from all dust and filth That same earth is wholly separated from its redness From thence now follows the greatest Arcanum viz. a Super-celestial marriage of the soul most highly purified and washed by the blood of the Lamb with its own bright lustrous and purified body This is the true super-celestial matrimony whereby the life is prolonged even to its last appointed time after this manner therefore the soul and spirit of Vitriol which are its blood are coupled with their own purified body that they may be eternally inseparable Take therefore this our foliated earth in a glass phial pour thereto its Oil by little little the body will in a moment receive and embrace its soul for as much as the body is most earnestly affected with the desire after its soul and the soul doth most perfectly delight in the Embracements of the body This conjunction therefore of them being put into a furnace of secrets continue it there for fourty dayes which being over thou shalt have a most absolute oil of a wonderfull perfection wherewith Mercury and all the other imperfect mettals are turned into Gold Now wee 'l speak a word or two of the multiplication thereof viz. Take corporal Mercury the proportion of two parts the which wet over with three parts of the like weight of the said Oil and let them remain together for forty dayes By this proportion of weight and by this order the multiplication may be made to Infinity CHAP. XIV Of the Secrets and Arcana's of Antimony as to the red Tincture for transmutation ANtimony is a true Bathe for Gold But the Philosophers have called it their Examinator and Stilanx or The Poets say that in that bath Vulcan wash't Phoebus and purged him from all filth and imperfection T is born of a most pure and most Noble Mercury aud Sulphur under a Vitrioline stock or kind in a mettalline form and splendour Some of the Philosophers have called it the white lead of the wise men or simply Lead Take therefore Antimony and that the very best as much as thou wilt this ♀ being dissolved into its own Aq. fort let be cast out into Cold water adding a very little Crocus ♂ that it may fall into a sediment at the bottome of the Vessell for otherwise it will not put off its feces Now then after t is thus dissolved it will acquire a most high fairness Put it into a Glass fenced all about with a most compact Lute or into a stone Bocia or bolt-head and let be admixed thereto of calcined Tutia sublimed to the perfect degree of the fire and diligently beware of Liquefaction because it breaks the glasses by the overmuch heat from one pound of this Antimony is a perfect sublimation to be had in the space of two dayes This sublimate being put in a phial that a third part may touch the water and the Vessell Luted that the spirits fly not away let it be hang'd over a Tripode of secrets and let the work be urged at first with a gentle fire like to the