Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	fire_n	soul_n	4,333	5	5.0921	4	false

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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

saw the light might be the God and Lord of all elementary and created things only God alone should be his Lord. Thus God placed Man in the middle between that which is superiour and that which is inferiour and did inspire into him by the word Ruach Elohim noted in the Hebrew Book through the two nostrils the breath of a twofold life one whereof was the breath of the eternal word of God or of the eternal life the other was the elementary and astral airy breath or spirit and word of time Both these infused powers of life in Man divided themselves so that each formed and possessed its own Center to it self which was the continual will and desire of each of them after its first original or primordial nature Both of them desired its Mother from whence they proceeded and each desired for her self to be nourish'd by her essence So the Will as the Father did generate in the Lifes Center for himself the Appetite or Desire as his Son and Offspring from both which the Will and Desire did proceed the Spirit as the power of living by the attracting and breathing nature from God and the Airy world But the Body of the Element did also produce out of their properties the Center the Will the Desire and Power of attracting out of its Mother the Earth and Water and out of it desired to quench its thirst and suck her Breasts he eat therefore and fill d himself with her containing in himself a tripl triunity in one body of Man and living in this manner that Man might be an Image of God after his likeness But yet the Center of the Body Spirit and Soul were not compelled by any necessity to sill and satiate themselves from the Water Air and Earth but the highest liberty of Will was left unto them after the likeness of the Free-will of God It was free to the good lucid pleasant sweet will which took its beginning from the pleasant meekness to contract it self and diffuse it self in and through all circumferences over which as their Center and Ruler she held her Empire Yea it was lawfull and free to him to divide himself more or less as it pleased him He could also without any thing opposing him by a too ardent strong and vehement motion of his Seed and out-going powers from himself produce in himself another sharp pestilent appetite and malignant desire after a sharp austere and venemous food He could also shut his mouth and appetite by not attracting that aliment which was necessary for him But it would be too long and large here to tell what was the nature and condition of that food and how at that time Adam and Eve by a power and hurtfull pleasure did eat together and dyed that death which in heavenly natures happeneth in a heavenly and spiritual manner It is also not our business here to relate how they fell in their Will and kept as it were imprisoned the Appetite and Power of the good which they receiv'd from the highest good and made it unfruitful and how they closed obdurated the mouth of their soul and choaked the very good exerting it self in them because the lamentable condition of them both O! alas maketh it sufficiently known But not only the Soul in Adam and Eve did undergo the deplored condition of death but seeing all were knit together in one Body the burning fire of the Soul kindled also the Spirit and Body the Spirit and Body did infect the Air Water and Earth and compell'd them to consent and precipitated them into that miserable condition with themselves because the Body and Spirit were the Center and Universal Heart and held the potency of their Imagination in their Mother the Air Water and Earth it was of necessity it should so come to pass Like as in this time when the Heart in the Body is sick the whole Body is sick and suffers pain When self-desires go forth from the Heart according to the word of God all things pertaining to that Man contract thence some impurity Yea sometimes for the Offences of the Heart all the other Members shall be afflicted although they have done nothing but a forced duty and by a necessary obedience After the same manner the Earth ought and yet must bear for Adam's sake the horrour of the curse But let us not expatiate too much in the Field of Theology We must return to Natural Philosophy I have affirmed that Man is the Center and Compendium of all created things to him before the Fall all things in this World were obedient through the force and power of his Imagination which he exercised from the Center into all his Circumferences But as the Devil through the malignant force of his Imagination lost the right and power of the good Imagination in his first Kingdom this our World so Adam who was constituted by God in the place of the lapsed Angel which then assumed a grosser substance through the fall of Lucifer who rendred that place of a grosser substance by the like false and malign Imagination destroyed and lost the first or ancient power of the good and the right of the Divine Nature His imagination in this time and station is odious to nature and abominable neither hath it any ingress so nothing is left remaining to Man but a miserable Body which with its Spirit is heavily or with grief sustained by nature He has but a weak and slender power even to this day given to him through his judgment reason and labour of the body to bring some things in nature from worse into better and from better into worse and by this means to make some particular and gross mutations The Natural man therefore doth draw the Vital Spirit from the Air Water and Earth in a twosold manner from beneath and from above From above by the attraction of the Air or his respiration he enjoyeth the spirit power and breath of the out-flowing and out-going word to wit the gale or out-flowing spirit of the Air and turneth it into his nourishment but from beneath he partakes of the Flesh and Blood of the World The Flesh of the World Animals Vegetables and Minerals afford the Blood the Water affordeth the quintessence and spirit or most subtle breath and highest outgoing power of this Flesh and Blood Man enjoyeth That Spirit with its spiritual Salt doth not only refresh and nourish the Spirits of Men but from it also the Alchahistical dissolving power of the ferment in the Stomach derives its original the other parts of the Body do also take their ferment from thence so the Flesh and Blood of all the Macrocosm receiving a kind dissolution in the Humane Body by separating and preparing do afford and yield his Salt to the preparation of the Flesh and Blood of the Microcosm so that the thirsty and hungry particles of the Microcosm do eagerly desire and imbibe it but the excrementitious outsides do find their egress through the emunctories

a sweet tranquillity and pleasant whispering which will not permit thee any more to precipitate into that acute and sinfull fire from the holy and pleasing light It will forbid and drive thee from pride self-love and desire of Gold and will command thee always to be content in humility After this change thou wilt be plainly another Man and nothing will grieve thee more than the time thou hast spent in ambition covetousness of Gold and voluptuousness Then the wonderfull works of God and the creatures always before thine Eyes will be admired and thou wilt say O Lord I rejoyce in the works of thy hands in thee I very well see Omnipotence and Divine Wisdome neither is there any need to the understanding of these incomprehensible things to desire to know and search out the great mystery of the Philosophers Mind what I now propound to you Which is most difficult to apprehend either this that of the base Metals Lead Tin Copper Iron Argent Vive may be made a Metal more excellent than Gold or this that of one Grass or Herb or Fruit may be made Milk Blood Flesh Bones Hides Skin Hair Bristles Salt Oyl Sour Sweet Resin Dung Wine Sand and Gravel Bladder and Reins with so many Juices and Moistures I say whether this is not a more excellent miracle of Nature that of this Herb and Grass may be made an Animal Seed out of which a Man or other Brute without addition of any other thing at length proceedeth than that of the base Metals Gold is generated That I say much more deserves admiration than this Because the transmutation of the base Metals into better abideth and hath its procession in one and the same scale of Nature in the same Metalline Kingdom But Bread and Grass on which the Animal Creatures feed is by the Salt of Nature transmuted into very many and various sorts of materials in them Here is a great and hidden mystery of Nature which whosoever understandeth does penetrate into the most intimate centre of Nature without impediment and may by the divine assistance have and enjoy it But because the growth of Animals increase of weight and transmutation of Grass and Bread into an Animal is a vulgar rustick Science and perspicuous to all men the more learned mind it not but seek novelties though of less value and unworthy of their consideration If thou canst my Friend make that spirit familiar to thee which by its energy in the Animal Creatures maketh all things that enter into them to live an animal life what and how great an effect dost thou think that spirit will produce if thou joyn it for the Agent to a metalline nature There have been many industrious searchers of Nature who have attempted this but have not found the end they longed for Therefore my Friends first learn those things that are obvious to your eyes before you set your mind to find the causes of things remote immerst in profound darkness and hid in the depth of the earth It is sufficient for you to know God and your selves seek with joy true sincere and holy love It is enough if by this means you have gained for your selves treasures in Heaven which neither moth nor rust can consume and in which there is no fear of thieves Leave off from vain chymical labours and bridle your excessive desire after the Philosophers Stone your labour and cost will daily increase your hopes will decrease of a thousand seekers there will be hardly one Adept Thou Reader whether thou wilt be one of these a possessor of so great a good wilt very much doubt if right reason bear any great sway in thee The most wise and subtle in this way have failed and with all their wisedom have not obtained their end Therefore spend thy time after the eternal blessed life because thou art not certain whether this day thy soul shall not be taken from thee Look whether thou canst give a good account of thy life here Consider whether thy soul has acted well in the house of thy body whether it has not too often provoked it by inordinate motion whether it does not yet burn and is inflamed in the fire void of peace wherein is trembling fear and horror darkness cold and misery stirred up by the fierce inordinate motions of the mind whether the Salt of thy Soul has not lost its savour be not made acid and corrosive by such an impetuous heat what kind of savour will those exhalations and bitter exits of thy heart yield to the blessed and sweet palate of God Almighty will not the Holy God spue such a soul out of his mouth O my Friends you have not one moment of your life secure from death labour ye and find your selves and transmute your own souls which have attracted the hardness coldness and impurity of Lead the austerity bitterness and ardent nature of Copper and inconstancy of Argent Vive and by the Divine Spirit render them peacefull and better Because this Spirit like the Spirit of the Air before your mouth is always hovering before your souls and continually moving it self which with a gentle and pleasant whispering greatly desires to be attracted by your will O Man draw in this Spirit for this will warm thee yea even melt thee by its holy motions and as in an open melting fire will tinge thy soul with love and wisedom to make it perfect and more excellent than any Gold that the corrosive Devil can no more corrode disturb or bring any change into it But if these my friendly exhortations which God forbid find no place in you I will set before you honour that is good a good Name your own Repute and Money for the sake of which in a thing uncertain there is so great waste of treasure such sottish dilapidations If thou desirest to be a Politician wise and prudent thou very well knowest that a little in the purse is better and more certain than that which by a vain and uncertain hope may be expected You have known that those who with great labour seek the Art of making Gold are the common talk of all men and when they have found nothing are mock'd and ridicul'd of every body every one calls them fools and that not without reason because they suffer themselves to be deluded by those who put to sale lying processes and proclaim through the world their Arcana's For by these they give their money for smoke and when they have been sufficiently disquieted and vexed by them and have lost their time and health and the Gold they sought for being ignorant also what Gold is whence it is and what kind of matter at length they come to a too late inglorious yea infamous repentance Therefore I exhort those that would avoid this precipice to remain in the beaten and common road which is plain and leads not astray But I do not dehort those from any further search into the wonders of God who have