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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26665	Centrum naturæ concentratum, or, The salt of nature regenerated for the most part improperly called the philosopher's stone / written in Arabick by Alipili ... ; published in Low Dutch, 1694, and now done into English, 1696, by a lover of the hermetick science.; Centrum naturae concentratum. English	Ali Puli.; Brice, E.	1696 (1696)	Wing A931; ESTC R18664	26,537	97

Air because it may be handled and rests in stillness and yet it is Air Earth and Water together the birth of a triple union of Air Earth and Water The various Creatures arise from heat moving it self in the Animal Vegetable and Mineral Kingdom which thus from unity return again to triplicity and appear under the figure of Air Water and Earth Infinite is this process of Nature there is not a Materia whether Vegetable or Mineral can propagate and multiply its self unless its Seed be first made a viscous Water or is already such all the Animals are progenerated and procreated by such a Water in all vegetable Seeds that viscous whiteness appears before any thing can grow from it The very Minerals and Metals proceed from such a viscous Water and must of necessity return to it Thus without any addition in themselves they ought by the Artist to put on a better nature If any Animal Mineral or Vegetable arrive to a radical solution instantly will apppear either a viscous Water or Earth Therefore the ends of things do excellently agree with their beginnings But now in every viscous Water there lies hid intimately in the Center a hidden Center concentrated which I call by the name of the Salt of Nature This Salt is the Light of the World Every where where it fixes its seat it drives its circumferences to motion it does illuminate strengthen and uphold them in their motions But this very Salt without the Divine Spirit of Nature does adhere and is annexed to the invisible speaking of the Divine word and by this light is nourished and moved This is that Salt which Christ among all created things only caled good And it is that Spirit which ascends up into the Airy Heaven and which again descends which restrains the Winds and holds them in the Fists of its power which gathers together the Waters into their places This Spirit of Salt is the medium of all things by which the highest are knit with the lowest and keep in harmony From both the Natures both superiour and inferiour it hath nutriment in abundance and in like manner doth give and divide its plenty to all things By it and through its virtue Vegetables and Minerals do grow and by it the divine Power doth perform whatsoever he will in the Firmament in the Air the Earth the Sea and all in deeps By this he commands the Clouds to appear from the ends of the Earth This Spirit is the cause and beginning of the Lightning and the Clouds he commands the Winds to come from hidden places This Spirit is the Instrument by which God wills that terrible thundrings be heard from the Clouds For this cause the satness of the Earth is in it and wonderfull plenitude of benediction Without this nothing in nature can subsist It is found every where the poorest as well as the King seeks his nourishment from it and conservation of his vital Spirit O Lord how great and wonderfull and how many are the works of thy hands Thou hast ordained all things wisely The Earth declares thy goodness and fullness who sillest all things Praise ye the Lord. Hallelujah From this Salt if it be regenerated by an Artist a wonderfull and noble thing proceedeth which maketh every corrosive thing sweet every weak and infirm thing sound and strong This thing giveth both Riches and Health and in this life it deserves the name of a most pretious Treasure Neither is there a greater thing amongst visible things which exist in this time than this which sometimes the Lord bestows upon some men for a special cause It is a Type and Image of the Resurrection and Immortality and our Heavenly Father by the operations and existence of this Essence hath in great perspicuity made plain unto us the understanding of the highest Mysteries I have seen by this thing as through a Glass the Image of the Creation and the distribution and ordination of that Mass which they call the Chaos the amicable Seed or Effluvium of the 3 Principles the separation of that Seen into various forms I have also seen by this thing how the Eternal Word was made Flesh I have seen the internal splendour of his glorious light and the veil of the Humane Flesh by which as by a Cloud that glory was cover'd how he walked among the Pharisees doing many Miracles and because his appearance was in so mean a figure they inflicted on him the highest contempts and torments and last of all undergoing death he entred into the Sepulchre and with a glorious and clarified Body ascended up into Heaven and from thence how by his Spirit he freed his Brethren and Sisters from infirmities and how even to this day by the holy Effluvium of his light and tincture he flows into prepared and faithfull Souls and there makes all holy things holier and better and at length perfects them until the day of the universal and last Judgment and the time of the new World Great are the works of God he that sets his mind upon them will find his delight in them He hath left the monument of his wonders with us he who is for ever mercifull and kind Hallelujah But although this Salt as has bin said is every where and in all places according to number weight and measure every where the matter of every thing yet it cannot so easily be sound neither is it out of all things fit to all things He that desires to make Gold he ought to be carefull to go about it by Gold or the nearest matter to Gold say the more wise and it is their opinion that the change of any one thing into a better cannot proceed unless it be in its own species kind and likeness and so they have believed that Animai Vegetable and sharp powers avail nothing to the perfection of Metals but are altogether unprofitable but they affirm that every of the three Kingdoms as they call them is in its own nature separated and divided from the other This is a perverse opinion in him who desires to shew the way in which I will not goe But I say this that all things come grow and proceed from one root but the only diversity of the matter and motion causeth the diversity of the subjects One virtue and power filleth the universal orb of the Earth and Heavens and bringeth it self into forms and figures gross and subtile sweet and sour hard and soft Animal Vegetable and Mineral But I cannot at this time pass over this in silence that that Spirit and Universal Salt of Nature though it be nearest to the breath of the divine speaking and ministers to all things its increated power yet it can produce nothing new but is only made use of by the word of God sustaining and upholding all things for the sustentation conservation and motion of those works which sometime began to have their being by the alone word of God creating them Here those Doctors are to be

wedding garment Truly none ought to be ignorant of this that myriads of spirits are gone forth to deprive men of that nuptial garment through a too great desire after knowledge and miraculous gifts And these truly are natural spirits but the Devil who envies man that glorious vestment mingles himself with them and by all means studies to deprive man of his rightfull inheritance which he receiveth in the diligent imitation of his Saviour Therefore it behoves the searcher of the Art to be wary and vigilant For there be many who are destitute of true Regeneration yet have great Gifts and acquiesce in them not remembring the deluge will come and try the soundation of their house But when they are tryed it will be sufficiently manifest that they have lived in their own desires error or conceit of themselves and have not yet the patience and continency of the lamb There is no necessity why we should strive so much about the process of the outward stone the inward is far more excellent and more noble Neither do I deny that I have known men unlearned and ignorant of Nature rather Servants to Covetousness than Priests of Nature yet such to know the Art who unless they had been governed yea over-ruled by a higher spirit in their rustick simplicity had fallen into the greatest perils The things I speak are strange yet most true I have known one who had the Art and was a Magus and yet scarce had the reason of a Man who without the spirit leading him in every thing could scarce live a day I speak this therefore that those who promise so many divine mysteries of the Art do not believe it is not in the Art but in a natural ingeny of rightly using the Art which hath need of a divine light and illumination of grace The Art of it self makes no man wise neither that an incurable Disease has been cured by the tincture I know it neither have I been made more wise by it than before and I know that others have not gotten divine Wisdom by it From whence it appears that it is natural therefore if there be any made more wise by it they attribute that rightly to the divine Light enlightning the Mind and causing Tranquility there and all Virtues which every one by this Art cannot get Many without this Art possess more than the very Possessors of it There be many that think the Possessors of the Art to be rich But what does it profit a Man to be rich and not to be able to make use of his Riches but at the Will of another That is good indeed to a Man to have his Will one with the divine Will who hath Tranquility of Mind and is free from all Desire But this is indeed a Tantalizing pain to see beautifull Apples and not dare to taste them and in the midst of Plenty to be poor almost to the lowest I speak not this of those who in the Cross seek for Roses to whom the Cross is a delight who have devoted themselves to the Cross but of those who have gotten the Art before they have been internally renovated which brings with it a desire and longing after the Cross Let every one therefore know that the Possessors of the Art are Magi and have Spirits assisting them whether they possess it in the Love or Anger of God Therefore they deservedly are laugh'd at who think they can deceive them Of this there is no time now to dispute how many ways the Art may be had But this I know all do not possess it in Purity yea there are very few that possess it so that they contract not Loss to their Souls thereby But they who possess it by the Love of God will appear in their time when a better order of things from on high shall be born and now they are prepared for that time But let none seek them for the Art for they know to whom they ought to come and will answer him though he does not ask and their number will be greater when the Adamantine hearts of Men are cloven and made more fit to receive the divine Graft for this cause the rumours of these things will more encrease that Mortals may know upon what a slippery foundation their Riches stand for this Art in its time will be helpfull in the destruction and overthrow of the Anti-christian Kingdom together with other means from God What the Author writeth of the Books laid up among the Sophy of the New World without doubt is true those Writings are reserved for the New World which from that Orb have come to my understanding There have plainly been singular things which the wickedness of the world hinders a freer discourse of them But this thing only I would have none to be ignorant of that whatsoever comes to the hands of any one under this name ought with great diligence and circumspection to be examined One may easily be deceived with writings having Solomon's name in a detestable manner prefixed to them Also to such men whose minds are upon the earth such terrene plutonick spirits in good figures are wont to appear deluding covetous men divers ways and teaching them divers arts under the name of Solomon's wisedom It were good for these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to inhabit only in the earth But alas now above the earth every where they assume bodies to themselves But I will no longer now insist on Alchymy I only say this there is open to the infernal spirit a great ingress in those spirits who are in conjunction with the nature of Man and so being taught to join Agents with Patients they perpetrate all evil by that more powerfull spirit and bring the simple into snares promising many things and in the end perform nothing but destroy Man and lay him naked therefore it is our duty that every one should learn to beware of these whether they be under the forms of Men or forms of Spirits lest he come to a too late and inglorious repentance Farewell Reader and another time expect more of this matter from thine H. C. K. THE PREFACE OF THE Belgick Interpreter Vino vendibili non opus est suspensa haedera THIS Treatise without many Elogies will commend it self The Author as I have been informed both from the relation of those that were familiarly conversant with as also from his own Writings was an Asiatick Mauritanian his name Alipili who having abdicated Mahometism and embraced the Christian Faith set forth divers Treatises of which only this as I am certainly informed is in Europe and is come to my hands As to the honesty of the Man his virtues and liberality to the Poor all say of him that he privately possesses hidden treasures unknown to all men But all that know him account him the true possessor of the Vniversal Tincture I my self am certainly informed by those that have been eye-witnesses that he with a small quantity of his Regenerated Salt hath