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A68054	Nicholas Flammel, his exposition of the hieroglyphicall figures which he caused to bee painted vpon an arch in St. Innocents Church-yard, in Paris. Together with the secret booke of Artephius, and the epistle of Iohn Pontanus: concerning both the theoricke and the practicke of the philosophers stone. Faithfully, and (as the maiesty of the thing requireth) religiously done into English out of the French and Latine copies. By Eirenæus Orandus, qui est, vera veris enodans; Figures hierogliphiques. English	Flamel, Nicolas, d. 1418.; Artephius. Liber secretus artis occultae.; Pontanus, Joannes, d. 1572. Epistola de lapide philosophorum.; Orandus, Eirenaeus.	1624 (1624)	STC 11027; ESTC S102276	53,157	276

of Aristeus Horror holds vs in prison by the space of fourescore dayes in the darknesse of the waters in the extreme heate of the Summer and in the troubles of the Sea All which things ought first to passe before our King can become white comming from death to life to ouercome afterwards all his enemies To make thee vnderstand yet somewhat better this Albification which is harder and more difficult then all the rest for till that time thou mayest erre at euery steppe but afterwards thou canst not except thou break thy vessels I haue also made for thee this Table following CHAP. V. The figure of a man like that of Saint Paul cloathed with a robe white and yellow bordered with gold holding a naked Sword hauing at his feet a man on his knees clad in a robe of orange colour blacke and white holding a roule MArke well this man in the forme of Saint Paul cloathed in a robe entirely of a yellowish white If thou consider him well he turnes his body in such a posture as shewes that he would take the naked Sword either to cut off the head or to doe some other thing to that man which is on his knees at his feete cloathed in a robe of orange colour white and blacke which saith in his roule DELE MALA QVAE FECI that is Blot out all the euill which I haue done as if hee should say TOLLE NIGREDINEM Take away from me my blacknesse A term of Art for Euill signifieth in the Allegory Blacknesse as it is often found in Turba Phylosophorum Seethe it vntill it come to blackenesse which will be thought Euill But wouldest thou know what is meant by this man that taketh the Sword It signifies that thou must cut off the head of the Crow that is to say of the man cloathed in diuers Colours which is on his knees I haue taken this pourtraict and figure out of Hermes Trismegistus in his Booke of the Secret Art where he saith Take away the head of this blacke man cut off the head of the Crow that is to say Whiten our blacke Lambspringk that noble Germane hath also vsed it in the Commentary of his Hieroglyphicks saying In this wood there is a Beast all couered with black if any man cut off his head he will loose his blacknesse and put on a most white colour Will you vnderstand what that is The blacknesse is called the head of the Crow the which being taken away at the instant comes the white colour Then that is to say when the Cloud appeares no more this body is said to bee without an head These are his proper words In the same sence the Sages haue also said in other places Take the Viper which is called De rexa cut off his head c. that is to say Take away from him his blacknesse They haue also vsed this Periphrasis when to signifie the multiplication of the Stone they haue fained a Serpent Hydra whereof if one cur off one head there will spring in the place thereof ten for the stone augments tenfold euery time that they cut off this head of the Crow that they make it blacke and afterwards white that is to say that they dissolue it anew and afterward coagulate it againe Marke how this naked Sword is wreathed about with a blacke girdle and that the ends thereof are not so wreathed at all This naked shining Sword is the stone for the white or the white stone so often by the Phylosophers described vnder this forme To come then to this perfect and sparkling whitenesse thou must vnderstand the wreathings of this blacke girdle and follow that which they teach which is the quantity of the imbitions The two ends which are not wreathed about at all represent the beginning and the ending for the beginning it teacheth that you must imbibe it at the first time gently and scarcely giuing it then a little milke as to a little Child new borne to the intent that Isir as the Authors say be not drowned The like must we doe at the end when wee see that our King is full and will haue no more The middle of these operations is painted by the fiue whole wreathes or rounds of the blacke girdle at what time because our Salamander liues of the fire and in the middest of the fire and ind●ed is a fire and an Argent viue or quicksiluer that runnes in the middest of the fire fearing nothing thou must giue him abundantly in such sort that the Virgins milke compasse all the matter round about I haue made to be painted blacke all these wreaths or rounds of the girdle because these are the imbibitions and by consequent blacknesses for the fire with the moisture as it hath been often said causeth blackenesse And as these fiue whole wreathes or rounds shew that you must doe this fiue times wholly so likewise they let you know that you must doe this in fiue whole moneths a moneth to euery imbibition See here the reason why Haly Abenragel said The Coction or boiling of the things is done in three times fifty dayes It is true that if thou count these little imbibitions at the beginning and at the end there are seuen Whereupon one of the most enuious hath said Our head of the Crow is leprous and therefore he that would clense it hee must make it goe downe seuen times into the Riuer of regeneration of Iordan as the Prophet commanded the leprous Naaman the Syrian Comprehending herein the beginning which is but of a few dayes the middle and the end which is also very short I haue then giuen thee this Table to tell thee that thou must whiten my body which is vpon the World is deceiued This operation is indeed a Labyrinth for here there present themselues a thousand wayes at the same instant besides that thou must goe to the end of it directly contrary to the beginning in coagulating that which before thou dissoluedst and in making earth that which before thou madest water When thou hast made it white then hast thou ouercome the enchanted Bulles that cast fire and smoake out of their nostrils Hercules hath clensed the stable full of ordure of rottennesse and of blackenesse Iason hath powred the decoction or broath vpon the Dragons of Colchos and thou hast in thy power the horne of Amalthaea which although it bee white may fill thee all the rest of thy life with glory honour and riches To haue the which it hath behooued thee to fight valiantly and in manner of an Hercules for this Achelous this moist riuer is indewed with a most mighty force besides that hee often transfigures himselfe from one forme to another Thus hast thou done all because the rest is without difficultie These transfigurations are particularly described in the Booke of the seuen Egyptian seales where it is said as also by all Authors that the Stone before it will wholly forsake his blackenesse and become white in the fashion

this fire be not measured Clibanically saith Calid the Persian sonne of Iasichus If it be kindled with a sword saith Pithagoras If thou fire thy Vessell saith Morien and makest it feele the heate of the fire it will giue thee a box on the eare and burne his flowres before they be risen from the depth of his Marrow making them come out red rather than white and then thy worke is spoiled as also if thou make too little fire for then thou shalt neuer see the end because of the coldnesse of the natures which shall not haue had motion sufficient to digest them together The heate then of thy fire in this vessell shall be as saith Hermes and Rosinus according to the Winter or rather as saith Diomedes according to the heate of a Bird which beginnes to flie so softly from the signe of Aries to that of Cancer for know that the Infant at the beginning is full of cold flegme and of milke and that too vehement heate is an enemy of the cold and moisture of our Embrion and that the two enemies that is to say our two elements of cold and heate will neuer perfectly imbrace one another but by little and little hauing first long dwelt together in the middest of the temperate heate of their bath and being changed by long decoction into Sulphur incombustible Gouern therefore sweetly with equality and proportion thy proud and haughty natures for feare lest if thou fauour one more then another they which naturally are enemies doe grow angry against thee through Ielousy and dry Choller and make thee sigh for it a long time after Besides this thou must entertain them in this temperate heate perpetually that is to say night and day vntill the time that Winter the time of the moisture of the matters be passed because they make their peace and ioyne hands in being heated together whereas should these natures finde themselues but one onely half houre without fire they would become for euer irreconcileable See therefore the reason why it is said in the Book of the seuenty precepts Looke that their heate cōtinue indefatigably without ceasing and that none of their dayes bee forgotten And Rasis the haste saith hee that brings with it too much fire is alwaies followed by the Diuell and Errour When the golden Bird saith Diomedes shall be come iust to Cancer and that from thence it shall runne toward Libra then thou maist augment the fire a little And in like manner when this faire Bird shall fly from Libra towards Capricorne which is the desired Autumne the time of haruest and of the fruits that are now ripe CHAP. III. The two Dragons of colour yellowish blew and black like the field LOoke well vpon these two Dragons for they are the true principles or beginnings of this Phylosophy which the Sages haue not dared to shew to their owne Children Hee which is vndermost without wings hee is the fixed or the male that which is vppermost is the volatile or the female blacke and obscure which goes about to get the domination for many moneths The first is called Sulphur or heat and drinesse and the latter Argent viue or cold and moisture These are the Sunne and Moone of the Mercurial source and sulphurous originall which by continual fire are adorned with royall habiliments that being vnited and afterward changed into a quintessence they may ouercome euery thing Mettallick how solid hard and strong soeuer it bee These are the Serpents and Dragons which the ancient Aegyptians haue painted in a Circle the head biting the tayle to signifie that they proceeded from one and the same thing and that it alone was sufficient and that in the turning and circulation thereof it made it selfe perfect These are the Dragons which the ancient Poets haue fained did without sleeping keepe watch the golden Apples of the Gardens of the Virgins Hesperides These are they vpon whom Iason in his aduenture for the Golden Fleece powred the brothe or liquor prepared by the faire Medea of the discourse of whom the Books of the Phylosophers are so full that there is no Phylosopher that euer was but he hath written of it from the time of the truth-telling Hermes Trismegistus Orpheus Pythagoras Artephius Morienus and the other following euen vnto my selfe These are the two Serpents giuen and sent by Iuno that is the nature Mettallicke the which the strong Hercules that is to say the sage and wise man must strangle in his cradle that is ouercome and kill them to make them putrifie corrupt and ingender at the beginning of his worke These are the two Serpents wrapped and twisted round about the Caduceus or rod of Mercury with the which hee exerciseth his great power and transformeth himselfe as he listeth He saith Haly that shall kill the one shall also kill the other because the one cannot die but with his brother These two then which Auicen calleth the Corassene bitch and the Armenian dogge these two I say being put together in the vessell of the Sepulcher doe bite one another cruelly and by their great poyson and furious rage they neuer leaue one another from the moment that they haue seized on one another if the cold hinder them not till both of them by their slauering venome and mortall hurts be all of a goarebloud ouer all the parts of their bodies and finally killing one another be stewed in their proper venome which after their death changeth them into liuing and permanent water before which time they loose in their corruption and putrifaction their first naturall formes to take afterwards one onely new more noble and better forme These are the two Spermes masculine and saeminine described at the beginning of my Abridgement of Phylosophy which are engendred say Rasis Auicen and Abraham the Iew within the Reynes and entrails and of the operations of the foure Elements These are the radicall moysture of mettalls Sulphur and Argent viue not vulgar and such as are sold by the Merchants and Apothecaries but those which giue vs those two faire deare bodies which wee loue so much These two spermes saith Democritus are not found vpon the earth of the liuing The same saith Auicen but he addeth that they gather them from the dung ordure and rottennesse of the Sunne and Moone O happy are they that know how to gather them for of them they afterwards make a triacle which hath power ouer all griefes maladies sorrowes infirmities and weaknesses and which sighteth puissantly against death lengthening the life according to the permission of God euen to the time determined triumphing ouer the miseries of this world and filling a man with the riches thereof Of these two Dragons or Principles Mettallicke I haue said in my fore-alledged Summarie that the Enemy would by his heate inflame his enemy and that then if they take not heed they should see in the ayre a venomous fume a stinking worse in flame and in poyson than the

of a most shining marble and of a naked flaming sword will put on all the colours that thou canst possibly imagine often will it melt and often coagulate it selfe and amidst these diuers and contrary operations which the vegetable soule which is in it makes it performe at one and the same time it will grow Citrine greene red but not of a true red it will become yellow blew and orange colour vntill that being wholly ouercome by drynesse and heate all these infinite colours will end in this admirable Citrine whitenesse of the colour of Saint Pauls garments which in a short time will become like the colour of the naked sword afterwards by the meanes of a more strong and long decoction it will take in the end a red Citrine colour and afterward the perfect redde of the vermillion where it will repose it selfe for euer I will not forget by the way to aduertise thee that the milke of the Moone is not as the Virgins milke of the Sunne thinke then that the inbibitions of whitenesse require a more white milke than those of a golden rednesse for in this passage I had thought I should haue missed and so I had done indeed had it not beene for Abraham the Iew for this reason I haue made to bee painted for thee the Figure which taketh the naked sword in the colour which is necessary for thee for it is the Figure of that which whiteneth CHAP. VI. Vpon a greene field three resuscitants or which rise againe two men and one woman altogether white Two Angels beneath and ouer the Angels the figure of our Sauiour comming to iudge the world clothed with a robe which is perfectly Citrine white I Haue so made to bee painted for thee a field vert because that in this decoction the confections become greene and keepe this colour longer than any other after the blacke This greenenesse shewes particularly that our Stone hath a vegetable soule and that by the Industrie of Arte it is turned into a true and pure tree to bud abundantly and afterwards to bring foorth infinite little sprigs and branches O happy greene saith the Rosary which doest produce all things without thee nothing can increase vegetate nor multiply The three folke rising againe clothed in sparkling white represent the Body Soule and Spirit of our white Stone The Philosophers doe ordinarily vse these termes of Art to hide the secret from euill men They call the Body that blacke earth obscure and darke which wee make white They call the Soule the other halfe diuided from the Body which by the will of God and power of nature giues to the body by his inbibitions and fermentations a vegetable soule that is to say power and vertue to bud encrease multiply and to become white as a naked shining sword They call the Spirit the tincture drynesse which as a Spirit hath power to pierce all Mettallick things I should be too tedious if I should shew thee how good reason they had to say alwayes and in all places Our Stone hath semblably to a man a Body Soule and Spirit I would onely that thou note well that as a man indued with a Body Soule and Spirit is notwithstanding but one so likewise thou hast now but one onely white confection in the which neuerthelesse there are a Body a Soule and a Spirit which are inseparably vnited I could easily giue very cleare comparisons and expositions of this Body Soule and Spirit but to explicate them I must of necessitie speake things which God reserues to reueale vnto them that feare and loue him and consequently ought not to bee written I haue then made to bee painted heere a Body a Soule and a Spirit all white as if they were rising againe to shew thee that the Sun and Moone and Mercurie are raised againe in this operation that is to say are made Elements of ayre and whitened for wee haue heretofore called the Blacknesse Death and so continuing the Metaphor wee may call Whitenesse Life which commeth not but with and by a Resurrection The Body to shew this more plainely I haue made to be painted lifting vp the stone of his tombe wherein it was inclosed The Soule because it cannot bee put into the earth it comes not out of a tombe but onely I haue made it bee painted amōgst the Tombs seeking its body in forme of a woman hauing her haire discheuelled The Spirit which likewise cannot bee put in a graue I haue made to bee painted in fashion of a man comming out of the earth not from a Tombe They are all white so the blacknesse that is death is vanquished and they being whitened are from henceforward incorruptible Now lift vp thine eyes on high and see our King comming crowned and raised againe which hath ouercome Death the darkenesses and moistures behold him in the forme wherein our Sauiour shall come who shall eternally vnite vnto him all pure and cleane soules and will driue away all impurity and vncleannesse as being vnworthy to bee vnited to his diuine Body So by comparison but first asking leaue of the Catholicke Apostolicke and Romane Church to speake in this manner and praying euery debonaire soule to permit me to vse this similitude see heere our white Elixir which from henceforward will inseparably vnite vnto himselfe euery pure Mettallicke nature changing it into his owne most sine siluery nature reiecting all that is impure strange and Heterogeneall or of another kind Blessed be God which of his goodnesse giues vs grace to bee able to consider this sparckling white more perfect and shining than any compound nature and more noble next after the immortall soule than any substance hauing life or not hauing life for it is a quintessence a most pure siluer that hath passed the Coppell and is seuen times refined saith the royall Prophet Dauid It is not needfull to interprete what the two Angels signifie that play on Instruments ouer the heads of them which are raised againe These are rather diuine spirits singing the meruailes of God in this miraculous operation than Angels that call to iudgement To make an expresse difference betweene these and them I haue giuen the one of them a Lute the other a haultboy but none of them trumpets which yet are wont to be giuen to them that are to call vs to Iudgement The like may be said of the three Angels which are ouer the head of our Sauiour whereof the one crowneth him and the other two assisting say in their Rowles O PATER OMNIPOTENS O IESV BONE that is O Almighty Father O good Iesu in rendring vnto him eternall thanks CHAP. VII Vpon a field violet and blew two Angels of an Orange colour and their Rowles THis violet and blew field sheweth that being to passe from the white Stone to the red thou must inbibe it with a little virgins milke of the Sun and that these colours come out of the Mercuriall moysture which thou hast dried vpon the

by the dew or moisture The Earth therefore buddeth not without watring and moisture It is the water of May-dew that clenseth the Bodies that pierceth them like raine water whiteneth them and maketh one new Body of two Bodies This water of life being rightly ordered with his Body whiteneth it turneth it into his white colour for the water is a white fume and therefore the Body is whitened by it whiten the Body then and burne thy Bookes And between these two that is betweene the Body and the water there is friendship desire and lust as betweene the male and the foemale because of the neerenesse of their like natures for our second liuing water is called Azot washing the Leton that is the Body compounded of the Sunne and Moon by our first water This second water is also called the soule of our dissolued Bodies of which Bodies wee haue already tyed the soules together to the end that they may serue the wise Phylosophers O how perfect and magnificent is this water for without it the worke could neuer bee brought to passe It is also called the vessell of Nature the belly the wombe the receptacle of the tincture the Earth and the Nurse It is the Fountaine in which the King and Queene wash themselues and the Mother which must be put and sealed in the belly of her Infant that is the Sun which proceeded from her and which shee brought forth and therefore they loue one another as a Mother and a Sonne and are easily ioyned together because they came from one the same roote and are of the same substance and nature And because this water is the water of the vegetable life therefore it giueth life and maketh the dead body to vegetate encrease spring forth and to rise from death to life by solution and sublimation and in so doing the Body is turned into a spirit and the spirit into a body and then is made amity peace concord and vnion between the contraries that is betweene the Body and the spirit which reciprocally change their natures which they receiue and communicate to one another by the least parts so that the hot is mixed with the cold the dry with the moist and the hard with the soft and thus is there a mixture made of contrary natures that is of cold with hot and of moist with dry an admirable connexion coniunction of enemies Then our dissolution of bodies which is made in this first water is no other thing then a killing of the moist with the dry because the moist is coagulated with the dry for the moisture is contained terminated and coagulated into a Body or into Earth onely by drinesse Let therefore the hard and dry bodies be put in our first water in a vessell well shut where they may abide vntill they be dissolued and ascend on high and then they may bee called a new Body the white gold of Alchimy the white stone the white Sulphur not burning and the stone of Paradice that is the stone which conuerts imperfect Mettals into fine white siluer Hauing this we haue also the Body Soule and Spirit all together of the which spirit and soule it is said that they cannot be drawn from the perfect Bodies but by the coniunction of our dissoluing water because it is certaine that the thing fixed cannot belifted vp but by the coniunction of the thing volatile The spirit then by the mediation of water and the soule is drawne from the Bodies and the Body is made no Body because at the same instant the spirit with the soule of the Bodies mounteth on high into the vpper part which is the perfection of the stone and is called sublimation This sublimation saith Florentius Catalanus is done by things sharpe spirituall and volatile which are of a sulphurous and viscous nature which dissolue the Bodies and make them to be lifted vp into the Ayre in the spirit And in this sublimation a certaine part and portion of our said first water ascendeth with the Bodies ioyning it selfe to them ascending and subliming into a middle substance which holdeth of the nature of the two that is of the Bodies and of the water and therefore it is called the Corporall spirituall compound Corsufle Cambdr Ethelia Zandarach the good Duenech but properly it is onely called the water permanent because it flyeth not in the fire alwayes adhering to the commixed Bodies that is to the Sunne and Moone and communicating vnto them a liuing tincture incombustible and most firme more noble and precious then the former which these bodies had because from hence-forward this tincture can run as oyle vpon the bodies perforating and piercing with a wonderfull fixion because this Tincture is the spirit and the spirit is the soule and the soule is the body because in this operation the body is made a spirit of a most subtile nature and likewise the spirit is incorporated and is made of the nature of a body with bodies and so our stone contains a body a soule and a spirit O Nature how thou changest the body into a spirit which thou couldst not doe if the spirit were not incorporated with the bodies and the bodies with the spirits made volatile or flying and afterward permanent or abiding Therefore they haue passed into one another and are turned the one into the other by wisdome O wisdome how thou makest Gold to be volatile and fugitiue although by nature it be most fixed It behoueth therefore to dissolue and melt these Bodies by our water and to make them a permanent water a golden water sublimed leauing in the bottom the grosse earthly and superfluous dry And in this sublimation the fire ought to be soft and gentle for if in this sublimation the Bodies bee not purified in a lent or slow fire and the grosser earthly parts note well separated from the vncleannesse of the dead thou shalt be hindred from euer making thy worke perfect for thou needest onely this subtile and light nature of the dissolued Bodies which our water will easily giue thee if thou proceed with a slow fire for it will separate the Heterogeneall or that which is of another kinde from the Homogeneall or that which is all of one kinde Our compound therefore receiueth mundification or clensing by our moist fire that is to say dissoluing and subliming that which is pure and white and casting aside the foeces like a voluntary vomit saith Azinaban For in such a dissolution and naturall sublimation there is made a loosing or an vntying of the Elements a clensing and a separation of the pure from the impure so that the pure and white ascendeth vpward and the impure and earthly fixed remaines in the bottome of the water or the vessell which must be taken a way and remooued because it is of no value taking onely the middle white substance flowing and melting and leauing the foeculent earth which remained below in the bottome which came principally from the

to that wee were in our youth as hee hath likewise done in other places as ouer the doore of the Chappell of Saint Iames in the Bouchery neere to my house although that for this last there is a particular cause as also ouer the doore of Saincte Geneuiefue de's Ardans where thou maist see me I ma●e then to bee painted heere two bodies one of a Male and another of a Female to teach thee that in this second operation thou hast truely but yet not perfectly two natures conioyned and married together the Masculine and the Foeminine or rather the foure Elements and that the foure naturall enemies the hote and cold dry and moist begin to approach amiably one towards another and by meanes of the Mediators and Peace-makers lay downe by little and little the ancient enmity of the old Chaos Thou knowest well enough who these Mediators and Peace-makers are betweene the hote and the cold there is moisture for he is kinsman and allyed to them both to hote by his heate and to cold by his moisture And this is the reason why to begin to make this peace thou hast already in the precedent operation conuerted all the confections into water by dissolution And afterward thou hast made to coagulate the water which is turned into this Earth blacke of the blacke most blacke wholly to accomplish this peace for the Earth which is cold and dry finding himself of kindred and allyance with the dry and moist which are enemies will wholly appease and ac●ord them Doest thou not then consider a most perfect mixture of all the foure Elements hauing first turned them into water and now into Earth I will also teach thee heereafter the other conuersions into ayer when it shall be all white and into fire when it shall bee of a most perfect purple Then thou hast heere two natures marri●d together whereof the one hath conceiued by the other and by this conception it is turned into the body of the Male and the Male into that of the Female that is to say they are made one onely body which is the Androgyne or Hermaphrodite of the Ancients which they haue also called otherwise the head of the Crow or natures conuerted In this fashion I paint them heere because thou hast two natures reconciled which if they be gu●ded and gouerned wisely can forme an Embrion in the wombe of the Vessell and afterwards bring foorth a most puissant King inuincible and incorruptible because it will bee an admirable quintessence Thus thou seest the principall and most necessary reason of this representation The second cause which is also well to bee noted was because I must of necessitie paint two bodies because in this operation it behooueth that thou diuide that which hath beene coagulated to giue afterwards nourishment which is milke of life to the little Infant when it is borne which is endued by the liuing God with a vegetable soule This is a secret most admirable and secret which for want of vnderstanding it hath made fooles of all those that haue sought it without finding it and hath made euery man wise that beholds it with the eyes of his body or of his spirit Thou must then make two parts and portions of this Coagulated body the one of which shall serue for Azoth to wash and clense the other which is called Leton which must be whitened He which is washed is the Serpent Python which hauing taken his being from the corruption of the slime of the Earth gathered together by the waters of the deluge when all the confections were water must be killed and ouercome by the arrowes of the God Apollo by the yellow Sunne that is to say by our fire equall to that of the Sunne He which washeth or rather the washings which must be continued with the other moity these are the teeth of that Serpent which the sage workeman the valiant Theseus wil sow in the same Earth from whence there shall spring vp armed Souldiers which shal in the end discomsit themselues suffering themselues by opposition to resolue into the same nature of the Earth and the workman to beare away his deserued conquests It is of this that the Phylosophers haue written so often and so often repeated it It dissolues it selfe it congeales it selfe it makes it selfe blacke it makes it selfe white it kils it selfe and it quickens it selfe I haue made their field be painted azure and blew to shew that I doe but now beginne to get out from the most blacke blacknesse for the azure and blew is one of the first colours that the darke woman lets vs see that is to say moisture giuing place a little to heate and drinesse The man and woman are almost all orange-coloured to shew that our Bodies or our body which the wise men here call Rebis hath not as yet digestion enough and that the moisture from whence comes the blacke blew and azure is but halfe vanquished by the drinesse For when drinesse beares rule all will be white and when it fighteth with or is equall to the moisture all will be in part according to these present colours The enuious haue also called these confections in this operation Nummus Ethelia Arena Boritis Co●sufle Cambar Albar aeris Duenech Randeric Kukul Thabricis Ebisemech Ixir c. which they haue commanded to make white The woman hath a white circle in forme of a rowle round about her body to shew thee that Rebis will beginne to become white in that very fashion beginning first at the extremities round about this white circle Scala Phylosophorū that is the Booke entituled The Phylosophers Ladder saith thus The signe of the first perfect whitenesse is the manifestation of a certaine little circle of haire that is passing ouer the head which will appeare on the sides of the vessels round about the matter in a kind of a cierine or yellowish colour There is written in their Rowles Homo veniet ad iudicium Dei that is Man shall come to the Iudgement of God Verè saith the woman illa dies terribilis erit that is Truly that will be a terrible day These are not passages of holy Scripture but onely sayings which speake according to the Theological sence of the Iudgement to come I haue put them there to serue my selfe of them towards him that beholds onely the grosse outward and most naturall Artifice taking the interpretation th●reof to concerne onely the Resurrection and also it may serue for them that gathering together the Parables of the Science take to them the eyes of Lynceus to pierce deeper then the visible obiects There is then Man shall come to the iudgement of God Certainly that day shall be terrible That is as if I should haue said It behoues that this come to the colour of perfection to be iudged clensed from all his blacknesse and filth and to be spiritualized and whitened Surely that day will be terrible yet certainly as you shall find in the Allegory