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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

above to our first Parent the first man Adam and that it was sought for with a singular desire by all the holy Patriarcks For 't is said that Noah the framer of the Ark and Moses that made the Tabernacle and the Golden Vessels therein and likewise Solomon that to the glory of God finisht the Temple and many other curious works and ornaments of all kinds and did many other mighty great acts did from thence obtain their long life and great riches Even in like manner the Philosophers will acknowledge the same that viz. by it they found out the seven Liberal Sciences and Arts and that from thence they had their sustentation or supply furthermore God bestowed this upon them for their benefit and comfort that so they might not through poverty hap to be impeded or hindred in their studies and search after wisdom and also that they might not be necessitated to flatter with the rich and wicked ones of this world for the sake of money and to reveal their secret Arcanaes unto them and so be despised and mocked together with their wisdom because of their beggerliness Moreover they have even yet other great and hidden mysteries of divine wonders and from thence also knew and learned the great riches of that glory or his glory And therein their hearts have been so stirred up and inflamed by God that they have been led and guided on to a further knowledge of him For they sought not by that treasure after great riches and worldly temporal voluptuousness and pride but rather conceived much pleasure and took their delight rejoycing at the miraculous seeing and knowing the creatures the which most excellent workmanship and creatures of the omnipotent God they did verily far otherwise consider of and behold then the more 's the pitty is wont at present to be done by the world at this day who look upon them but little otherwise then as heifers or calves do and do moreover seek after and covet the Learning of this most noble Art for Avarice Luxury Pride and Temporal honour and pleasure and do herein in such intentions and thoughts widely err from the true scope for God doth not communicate such gifts to the wicked ones and to the contemners of his Word but to the godly only such as lead an honest and quiet life in this evil and unclean world and do honestly sustain themselves and reach forth their helping hands to their needy neighbours According to the verses of the Poet viz. God gives the Art to th' honest men alone Which all the worlds Gold cannot procure T is not fit that the vulgar know it for its Wickedness It doth in vain therefore seek for this stone He that in secret possesseth it resides in any place he lists And fears neither mischance nor evil Few are there to be found to whom are given these sacred gifts T is in Gods hands and he bestows it on whom he pleaseth And although there are various writings published by others concerning the operation vertue and utility of this Art viz. how this Stone being prepared and made more then perfect is the highest of all Medicines wherewith not only all diseases as the Gout and Leapry are cured but also being used by such as are decrepid it makes them to become young again and restores unto them their lost strength and former vigour and doth refresh and revive again such as are half dead yet nevertheless I shall omit to speak of that in this place and in this my Treatise because I am no Physitian that so by such an high extolling and commendation thereof I may not seem to prescribe any thing here to their faculty or Profession But whoever by the grace of God hath it and knows how to use it commodiously to him I say who enjoys it I shall remit or send to his home both respect and glory As to the other qualities and profitable Use such as daily experience doth subject to the sight part of which I my self have through the Divine grace been made a partaker of I shall here add a few things First of all As to what belongs to the knowledge of God as also those miracles of nature which have been manifested by the benefit of that Art I cannot sufficiently enough describe or declare it according to its supream dignity For in this a man shall be able most elegantly to see as if 't were painted in a glass the Image of the most holy Trinity in one Divine indissoluble Essence and how it differs and is notwithstanding but one only God and withall in the second person of the Deity as concerning his Assumption of Humane Flesh his Nativity Passion Death and Resurrection Likewise in his exaltation and that eternal happiness merited by his death for us men his Creatures Moreover also may be seen as to the Purification of Original Sin by obtained med●ums without which the Counsels and Actions of all men and all their Works are in vain and nothing worth Briefly all the Articles of the Christian Faith and the whole process that a man must necessarily pass through various streights and tribulations untill he at length doth again arrive or rise up to a new Life is likewise neatly represented hereby concerning which we shall speak more in the Fourth Part. Secondly As to what concerns the Corporal and Natural Utility that ariseth from the having thereof how by its Tincture it changeth all the imperfect Mettals into clear and pure gold I shall here likewise for the satisfaction sake of my promise briefly Demonstrate So thereofore for to bring now the said Stone or Elixir to shew its efficacy and moreover to cause it to serve for the now spoken of use and to tinge t is necessary that it be further Fermented and augmented otherwise there can hardly be obtained any profitable projection with its Tincture by reason of its great subtilty upon the other imperfect Mettals and bodies Therefore in the first place take one part of the so oft spoken of Medicine and to that one Part add three other parts of the same weight of the best and choicest Gold that hath been well purged and putrified by Antimony and then afterwards reduced into as thin Leaves as possibly can be put them together into a melting Pot and place it in the Fire that so the matter may melt and flow well according as the preparation thereof is well known to every Artificer This done the Composition thus put in will be also transmuted into a pure and effectual Tincture insomuch that one part thereof will be capable of transmuting and tinging a thousand parts of the simple Mettals into pure Gold But yet you must here note that by how much neerer the Mettals are to the matter and by how much the purer they are so much the more easie is the admittance and reception and the multiplication will also be the higher and more commodious for whatsoever impurity or improperness is found to be in

body and soul of man is done as is said afore in spiritual dying to sin and not in the corporal dying of the sinful● flesh For even as it is with the solution of the body and soul in the Philosophical● or terrene work where indeed the body and soul are separated as it were the one from the other yet nevertheless have a most streight or close coherency in the glass and abide conjoynedly or together and moreover the soul doth daily refresh the body and preserve it from final destruction and do even to the time appointed by God 2 Cor. 5. remain as yet inseparable Even so also the wither'd and as it were dead body in man 1 Peter 3. is not it this its School of or exercise with the Cross even wholly forsaken by the soul but is daily if the fervency of the tribulation exceeds measure moistened by the Spirit from above with the heavenly dew and divine Nectar is imbibed comforted and preserved thereby th● which is a celestial refreshment and recreation of the deadened terrene body in men For our temporal death which is the wages of our sins Rom. 6. is not a right death but a natural solution of body and soul and is much rather a kind of a gentle sleep yea now 't is truly an indissoluble conjunction understand in the godly of the Spirit of God and of the soul and so remains Besides 't is very fitly compared with that wonderful ascending and descending in the terrene work as to its number which happly is wont to be done seven times for there are to be found six thousand years troubles and tribulations viz. as long as the world shall endure In which such men as are void of all comfort are at all times in their crosses calamities and diversities of troubles plentifully erected comforted and strengthened again by the Spirit of God And this praise and glory be to God for it is even yet daily so done and likewise will be so long done until the great universal Sabbath and day of rest of the seven thousandth year shall take its beginning and there then that spiritual refreshing or cooling shall in that change or time only cease and shall obtain its so long-wished for end and in the room thereof when God shall be all in all 2 Tim. 4. shall that eternally abiding joy and rejoycing be begun But during that digestion and coction of the spiritual dead body in man there will also after such a like manner as is to be seen in the terrene work many divers colours and signs that is miseries and troubles and tribulations of all kinds the chiefest of which is that afore mentioned temptation which is done and caused by the devil the world and our flesh shew and represent themselves all which do notwithstanding betoken a good beginning viz. that such a well vexed or digested man will in the end obtain an happy blessed and wisht-for issue whereof the Scripture likewise is a witness in which in 2 Tim. 3. and Acts 4. 't is written viz. that all those as will live happy in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution and that we must necessarily enter into the Kingdom of heaven through many tribulations and streights To which end also Saint Anstine saies thus Do not wonder my Brother if when thou shalt be made a Christian a thousand troubles do beset thee round on every side for Christ is the head of our faith and we are his members and therefore we must not only follow him but also imitate his life Now the life of Christ was encompassed with all kinds of tribulations and extream want be was derided by the Scribes and Pharisees and was finally delivered up to a most shameful death for us miserable sinners Hence maist thou easily conclude that if God vouchsafe thee such a life and chastise thee with such a like persecution he intends to bring thee into the number of his Elect for we cannot possibly come unto God without those persecutions and tribulations For such as endeavour to enter into Paradise must necessarily walk through the fire and water though it be Peter to whom the keyes of heaven are delivered Or Paul a chosen Vessel and Armour of God Or John to whom all the secrets of God are revealed For all must necessarily confess that by various tribulations we must enter into the Kingdom of God Thus much Saint Austin saith Moreover this likewise is to be well heeded viz. that the Chymical Philosophers have stamped or signed Antimony with this same Character or Mark by or through which ♁ as we have said in the Chymical preparation the following fermentation must be done or pass and that afore it be put to the obtained elixar or chymical King or must undergo the sudatory or stoving bath with the old white or grey-headed Saturn The which may verily be accounted of as a kind of miracle and mysterie and is to be so lookt upon for even that form or figure is to be found also amongst us Christians and is made use of and set down almost in a like concealment or secret hiding for there was a mast or piece of straight wood with a cross piece at the top delivered into the hands of our chiefest Captain and Emperour of the whole Christianity and by it is hinted unto us that he afore he could arrive to a peaceable and quiet Possession must necessarily be well tryed by the Cross miseries and other calamities of this world and be as 't were tossed therewith and be by them exercised and proved the typical prefiguration and signification of which those said Philosophers as lived in those antient times did not perhaps rashly and casually only signifie by such a sign or character and that even in the Chymical work which requires also such a Process All which things may not unfitly be referred to the aforementioned School or Lesson of the Cross and the tribulations and persecutions of Christians viz that they also afore they can enter into that everlasting rejoycing and rest must be constrained to lead and run their race through the burdensom and difficult course of the world or to undergo the School of conflicts or striving and the sweating-Bath with the old inimicitious Saturn that is with the old Adam and Satan Job 26. Now according to those afore mentioned tribulations and calamities there are many and divers signs and miracles and also great changes here and there in the world that are well to be observed and diligently considered of and weighed for there 's mention made of wars and rumours of wars various sects the plague and scarcity of corn all which things are true fore-runners and messengers as it were of our redemption and its being very near at hand Briefly when the universal resurrection of the dead shall be at hand then at first those men that have overcome by the blood of the Lamb for the former new regeneration made in baptism is the beginning only of this second right