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A26733	Of natural & supernatural things also of the first tincture, root, and spirit of metals and minerals, how the same are conceived, generated, brought forth, changed, and augmented / [by] Basilius Valentinus ; translated out of high Dutch by Daniel Cable ; whereunto is added Frier Roger Bacon, Of the medicine or tincture of antimony; Mr. John Isaac Holland, his Work of Saturn; and Alex. Van Suchten, Of the secrets of antimony.	Basilius Valentinus.; Cable, Daniel.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.; Hollandus, Johan Isaäc, 15th cent.; Suchten, Alexander von, ca. 1520-ca. 1590.	1671 (1671)	Wing B1020; ESTC R29247	60,576	242

and admirable Effects be they called by what name soever I am an Ecclesiastical person obedient to the Ecclesiastical degree related to the Benedictine Order by a Spiritual and Divine Oath by which Order with my internal Prayer I obtain comfort and promises of Gods Word a refreshment to my Soul but in a corporal temptation of my weaknesses and for my Brethren I have not found and used a better corroboration by Gods Blessing than these three Compounds united God give bless and increase this Virtue and Power unto the End of this temporal World which Man must change together with Death O thou golden power of thy Soul O thou golden intellect of thy Spirit O thou golden operation of thy Body God the Creator keep thee and grant unto all earthly Creatures who love and honour him the true understanding of all Gifts that thy Will may be done in Heaven and on Earth This is enough revealed at present concerning the Spirit of Gold until the coming again of Elias Hereunto I add a short Process Take a Spirit of Salt therewith extract the Sulphur of Gold separate the Oil of Salt from it rectifie the Sulphur of Gold with Spirit of Wine that it be pleasant without Corrosive then take the true Oil of Vitriol made of the Vitriol of Verdigreece therein dissolve Mars thereof make a Vitriol again and again dissolve it into an Oil or Spirit which rectifie in like manner as before with Spirit of Wine conjoin them and abstract the Spirit of Wine from it resolve the Matter which remaines dry in Spirit of Mercury according to a just weight circulate and coagulate it when it is fix'd and permanent without Ascention you have then a Medicine to tinge Man and Metals if it be fermented with prepared Gold CHAP. VII Of the Spirit of Silvor THE Tincture and spirit of Silver manifests its Colour of a Watchet or Sky-colour otherwise it is a waterish Spirit cold and moist not so hot in its degree as that which is found in Gold Mars and Venus for Luna is more phlegmatick than fiery though it be brought by the Fire out of its waterish Substance into a coagulation and even as the Metals gain their tinging Spirits and Coagulation in like manner do stones get their fixedness and colour as out of one Influence A fix'd coagulated Mercury is found in the Diamond therefore it is fixeder and harder than the other stones and cannot be so broken so the tincture of Mars or the Sulphur of Iron is found in the Ruby the Sulphur of Venus in the Emerald the Soul of Saturn in the Granate in Tin the tincture which is found in the Topaz and Crystal is appropriated to common Mercury in the Saphir is found the Sulphur and Tincture of Luna but each one according to a peculiar understanding and according to its kind and in Metals according to their form and gender for when the blew Colour is taken and extracted out of the Saphire its Rayment is gone and its other Body is white as a Diamond wanting only the hardness that is in a Diamond even so when Gold hath lost its Soul it yields a fix'd white Gold Body which by searching Students and young Artists is called fix'd Luna Wherefore you must now understand and observe that even as I have declared unto you concerning the Saphire for your apprehension even so on the other side you must learn to what purpose my Speech is intended for your Instruction concerning Metals For this blew Spirit is the Sulphur and the Soul whence the Silver receiveth its Life both in and above the Earth by Art and the white Tincture of the Silver upon white stands in the Magnetick form of an everlasting thing or Creature wherein is likewise found the first Ens of Gold O ye high qualified Orators where is your voice in this case to explain this Mystery And you conceited Naturalists where is your Writings and Advice of Reason And you Physicians Whither is your Opinion flown to fetch somewhat afar off over the Seas for to cure the Dropsie and all Lunary Distempers You will say that this my speech is too dark for you is it so then kindle the terrestrial Light seek and be not ashamed to make acquaintance with Vulcan and let nothing be irksome unto you so will you find by the assistance of the Eternal God that the Spirit of Silver contains in it to cure and expel the Dropsie quite alone as the Spirit of Gold and as that of Mercury can expel the Consumption radically or in the root even so that the Center of those Diseases cannot be found any more But that Luna in the veins of the Earth is not furnished with such a hot substance or quality in its degree but is subjected to a Waterish Nature this fault lies upon that great Light of Heaven which by reason of its Waterish influence hath implanted such qualities in the other Creatures and Planets of the Earth than it hath in Silver And albeit that Silver contains a fix'd Mercury which is generated in it yet it wants a hot fix'd Sulphur truly to dry up and consume its Phlegme whereby it hath not obtained a compact Body unless it be done afterwards by the art of the Little World And seeing that its Body is not compact by reason of the abounding watery substance its Pores therefore are not rightly defended nor closed to undergo the weight and endure a Battel with the Enemies all which Virtues are to be found in Gold if it shall overcome all Enemies and endure all trials without defect All things are difficult in the beginning but wben they are brought to an end they are easie to be understood and apprehended If you do truly observe the Spirit and the Soul of Luna and learn to know it truly you may quickly compass the midst of the Work how it shall afford the end with profit wherefore I will now propose to you an Example and instruct you by a Countrey-Rule that you may apprehend it and consider of it as Childrens Play in a high and weighty Matter that you may search it out with advantage as followeth A common Peasant casts forth or sows his Seed in a Field well dunged and prepared this Seed after putrefaction sprouts forth of the Earth by the operation and furtherance of the Elements and sets before our Eyes the Matter of Flax together with its Seed which it brings with it augmented this Flax is pluck'd up and separated from its Seed but this Flax cannot be used and prepared for any work profitably except it be first putrefied and rotted in water whereby the Body is opened and gains an ingress of its doing good after this putrefaction and opening it is again dried in the Air and Sun and by this coagulation it is again brought into a Formal Being that it may do future service This prepared Flax is afterwards buck'd beaten broken peel'd and last of all dress'd that the pure may be

the Door was lock'd are all Divine and Supernatural Divers Examples more might be recited out of Divine Writ which for Brevities sake I omit Among Supernatural things are accounted all Mineral Signs as the Appearance of Spirits Representations Pigmies appearing diversly and numerously giving notice of good or bad Luck Ruine or Riches so also those Figures Shapes or other works found in the Ores of Metals as of Men Fishes and other Creatures so formed and represented by the imagination of the three first Principles then ripened and fully digested by the Earth and other Elements Hereunto appertain the Monsters of the Earth and such things as are found within the Earth at certain times of a wonderful form and shape but not at all to be found when that time is past yet appear again and are to be found at some other time Hereunto also belong all Visions and Appearances performed by Water Glasses Cristal or other means as also those done by Sigils and Characters which yet are so various some being only Natural yet affording Supernatural appearances or sights but the others which are performed by Conjurations are neither Natural nor Supernatural but Diabolical belonging unto Sorcery and are prohibited all good Christians so likewise all those Means which oppose Holy Writ Gods Word and Commandments are to be rejected and refuted by true Natural Cabalists I say this because a certain distinction and sure order ought to be found of the Natural Supernatural Unnatural things In like manner there appertains unto Supernatural things all the Water-Spirits as the Syrens Succubi other Water-Nymphs with their Relations as likewise the Terrestrial Spirits and those which inhabit the Air who sometimes are heard seen or perceived sometimes foretelling Death or other Disasters sometimes they discover by their Apparition Riches and good Fortune in certain places and the Fiery Spirits appertain here also which appear in a fiery shape or like a burning Light all these are Spirits having untangible Bodies yet are they not such Spirits as the right Hellish Spirits who hunt after mens Souls as an Eternal Jewel even as the Infernal Lucifer the Devil and his Dependents do who were ejected with him but these are such Spirits which are above Nature set before Men for admiration and are only maintained by the Elements whereby they are nourished and fed but when this Earthly world shall cease they also shall decay and vanish with it because they have no Souls to be saved I will say no more hereof at present but refer the opening of such Circumstances more at large to another opportunity where I shall particularly treat of Visions and spiritual Appearances which are esteemed Unnatural by most part of the World yet truly are Natural but they are found to be Supernatural in their Operations and wonderful Qualities That I may further confirm my Assertion I say likewise that there are many things to be found in Physick which yield and manifest their workings supernaturally in a Magnetical way operating only by an attractive spiritual power which is attracted to it by the Air for the Air is the Medium between the Physick and the Hurt or Distemper even as the Magnet ever doth direct and turn it self towards its Pole-star though the star be many thousand Miles distant from it yet the spiritual operation and sympathy between them is so prevalent that it is attracted together at so vast a distance by the Medium or middle Band of the Air but because this attractive power is only known unto people in general or as a thing common it is therefore become customary and is so esteemed there being no notice taken of any further Secret whence this operative Faculty hath its Source or Original In like manner Hurts and Distempers may be healed and cured though the Patient and Physitian be very far distant one from the other not by Charmes Exorcismes or other unlawful prohibited means which are opposite to God and Nature but by such means wherein the attractive Magnetick Virtue lies to accomplish it As when a wounded person goes a Journey leaving the Weapon wherewith he was wounded or else of his Bloud which issued out of the wound with his Physician wherewith he proceeds rightly and by orderly means as is usual in dressing a wound without all doubt he shall be absolutely cured this is no Witchcraft but the cure is performed only by the attractive power of the Medicine which is carried to the Sore by the means of the Air wherewith it is mundified that it may perform the Spiritual Operation Some will think these hard sayings and impossible in Nature and many will say it is contrary to Nature whereby many will be excited to dispute it and raise Arguments one opposite to the other whether it be Natural or no whether it be possible or no or whether it be Sorcery I will thus resolve them that this Cure is natural but as it operates it is supernatural spiritual because it is performed meerly by an attractive incomprehensible means and that this manner of Cure is no Sorcery I affirm it hereby that it is not mixt or accompanied with any Sorcery nor with any other unnatural Means contrary to God the Creator or his holy and saving Word But it is only Natural out of its supernatural invisible incomprehensible spiritual and attractive power which received its Original from the Sydereal and performs its Operation by the Elements Lastly I likewise approve this Cure to be no Sorcery because the Devil rather delights in all Mischief to Mankind than to assist any manner of way for their benefit which yet is impossible for him to do without Gods permission Much more might be written of this Magnetick Form but I chuse rather to be silent referring it till I come to treat of the Natural Miracles of the World The grosser sort of foolish Wits who imagine themselves to be wise Philosophers and all others who are not in their perfect senses know no difference in this case but the wise and truly discreet well know how to distinguish betwixt that which is natural and that which is supernatural For do but observe this comparison to be proved by a gross Example how many Creatures are there which dye absolutely in the water so that no life is left therein but so soon as the pleasant Summer appears the natural heat gives a new life the Body quite restored in the same substance as it was before in its living Motion even as an Herb which dies in the Winter but in the Spring it manifests it self anew The death of these things is to be esteemed natural but the return of a new life in its knowledge is supernatural but because we are accustomed to all these things the least part of us consider what is worthy of further Meditation in this case letting both natural and supernatural go away together Most people overpass that natural custom which yet is supernatural as also monstrous Births and those that

leave dropping if in the spaceof one or two Pater-nosters one drop doth fall then augment the Fire till the pot glow at the bottom for twelve hours and when the Mercury is over then should the Salt Armoniac sublime up into the head and the Tartar remain with the Body of Saturn at the bottom of the Pot which take out put it into a Linnen Bag hang it in a moist Cellar the Tartar will dissolve receive it in a Glass the body of Saturn remains in the Bag take it out and calcine it in a reverberating Furnace three days and nights with a great heat as is taught elsewhere then extract the Salt out as is taught in the Mineral Book You may make projection with the Salt and coagulate your Tartar again it will be as good or better than it was likewise take your Salt Armoniac out of the Head it is good again and if you could have no Salt Armoniac then take three pound of calcined Tartar likewise so clarified that it leave no Faeces behind you then need no Salt Armoniac therewith may you likewise extract the Mercury out of Luna and Jupiter wherewith you may do wonders as is taught in the Miner Book where is spoken of the Quintessence of Metals Now my Child must know that this Mercury or Quintessence of Saturn is as good in all works as the Mercury of Sol they are both alike good and herein all Philosophers agree My Child take this Mercury of Saturn so drawn out of the Receiver put it into a Glass Box. I have now taught you to make two sorts of the Water of Paradise and know my Child that the first way is the best though it be made with some danger longer time and more charge for the Vinegar is all good yet the red Oil is the best its time is alike unto the end and though it be more tedious before you obtain the red Oil yet it fixes it self in a short time if it come to the Matter of fix'd Stone into a simple Essence in greater redness but when the Mercury comes to the fix'd stone it holds on a long time in ascending and descending before it die and when it is quite dead it makes the red fix'd Stone again into a fixt colour so covering the red stone with its coldness that the red stone becomes white again then must you boil it again gently with a small Fire till it begin to be yellow prosecuting the Fire from one degree to another as the Colour is higher and stronger and that so long till it attain to a perfect redness which requires a long time before it be done which is not requisite in the red Oil for the red Oil dies or coagulates forthwith the stone the one fixing it self with the other into a simple Essence in a short time Therefore I tell thee my Child that the time of the Oyl is alike long in the end though it appear to be of a shorter time with the Mercury but it is equally long at the end of the Work therefore I tell you the Art of both Works that you may the better understand the Art to make the Oyl from the innermost Nature of the Stone which is found afterwards The Oyl was unknown to the Ancients for my Grandfather with his Companions found it with great labour and length of time So there are two ways to dissolve the Stone and to poure upon it the clear water of Paradise Our Ancestors called the Oyl their sharp Vinegar therefore my Child keep the Name private and I will teach you first of all how you shall join the Mercury to your Stone which you extracted out of Saturn to dissolve it afterwards I will teach you to bring over the helm that red Oil which you extracted out of your prepared Saturn into a fixt stone to dissolve your stone My Child weight your fixt stone take half as much of your Mercury poure it upon the stone in the Glass cover the Glass again with a polish'd Glass which may just fit it set it in a Cuple with sifted Ashes make a small Fire like the Suns heat at Midsummer and give no more Fire to it until the Water of Paradise or Mercury become all a dead Powder And know my Child that the red or fixt Stone which before was darkned when it hath drunk up the Water of Paradise or Mercury or how you will call it that it be a Powder between black and gray then augment the Fire from one degree to another till the Matter be perfect white and when it is white strengthen the Fire yet more from one degree to another till it be of a dark yellow Colour then make it yet stronger till it be of a perfect red then rejoice for your Stone is perfect and fluxible as Wax Praise God who gives unto us part of his Miracles and do good to the poor you may see it with your fleshly Eyes and use Gods goodness miraculously in this corrupt Life for I tell you in good Charity that if any one principally attain to this Stone that it is given afforded and lent him from God Whosoever hath this Stone may live in a healthful state to the last term of his Life appointed him by God and may have all whatsoever he desires on Earth He shall be loved and esteemed of all people for he can cure them all internally and externally of all Diseases which may befall them but if the Stone doth not so it is false and deserves not the name of the Vegetable Stone or Philosophers Stone Therefore my Child if God give you this Stone look diligently to it that you keep your self from offending God that you make not this Stone on earth to be your Heaven govern and rule your self to Gods glory and to the comfort of poor people that Gods praise may be augmented to the defence of the Christian Religion and to the relief of poor exiled Christians I tell you my Child if you use it otherwise God will leave you here a little while to your own Will but afterwards he will speedily send a punishment either you shall be struck dead or die by a Fall or die some other sudden death and go Body and Soul to Hell and be damned eternally for your Ingratitude to God who so graciously vouchsafed you so precious and great a Gift Therefore my Child look carefully to it so to govern your self to Gods Glory and the Salvation of your Soul that the eternal Curse may not fall upon you and therefore I have left you this Writing as my Testament Enough hath been said to the wife therefore look to your self The Multiplication of the Stone now perfected Now my Child you may take the half of your Powder put it into a Glass and melt it have in readiness a Mould made hollow of Box-wood great or small as you please it must be made smooth and even within with an Instrument anoint it with Oil Olive and when your red