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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92903	A new light of alchymie: taken out of the fountaine of nature, and manuall experience. To which is added a treatise of sulphur: / written by Micheel Sandivogius: i.e. anagram matically, divi Leschi genus amo. Also nine books of the nature of things, written by Paracelsus, viz. Of the generations growthes conservations life: death renewing transmutation separation signatures of naturall things. Also a chymicall dictionary explaining hard places and words met withall in the writings of Paracelsus, and other obscure authors. All which are faithfully translated out of the Latin into the English tongue, by J.F. M.D.; Novum lumen chymicum. English.	Sędziwój, Michał, ca. 1556-ca. 1646.; French, John, 1616-1657.; Paracelsus, 1493-1541. Of the nature of things.; Dorn, Gerhard, 16th cent. Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi.	1650 (1650)	Wing S2506; Thomason E604_3; Thomason E604_4; Thomason E604_5; ESTC R203736	79,289	151

Zineta Arsenica Talka Cachymie Bisemuta Antimonies c. all which carry with them crude Gold and Silver bee so ripened that they may bee equalized to the most rich veins of Gold and Silver only by this Art So also the Elixir and tinctures of metals arc brought to maturity and perfected What the growing of the beard of a dead man signifies Seeing therefore as it hath been said moisture and heat doe ripen all things and make them grow Let none wonder that the beard haire or nailes of a malefactor hanging on a Gibbet or Wheel do for a long time grow neither let it be accounted for a sign of his innocency as the ignorant beleeve for this is naturall and from naturall causes For whilest that any moisture remains in him his beard haire and nailes grow even till the second year or till hee bee wholly putrefied c. Wee must also know that there are many things that grow for ever and are increased in big nesse weight and vertue in the Water and Earth in which they continue good and efficacious as are Metalls Marcasites Cachymie Talka Granuty Antimony Bisemuta The augmentation of ☉ Gemmes Pearles Corals all Stones and Clay So also it may be ordered that Gold may grow and bee increased in weight and body if only it bee buryed in the Earth looking towards the East and bee alwaies soiled with the fresh urine of a man and pigeons dung How Gold may be generated in a glasse It is possible also that Gold through industry and skill of an expert Alchymist may bee so far exalted that it may grow in a glasse like a tree with many wonderfull boughs and leaves which indeed is pleasant to behold and most wonderful How the Philosophicall Tree is made The processe is this Let Gold bee calcined with Aqua Regis till it becomes a kind of chalke which put into a gourd glasse and poure upon it good new Aqua Regis so that it may cover it foure fingers breadth then again draw it off with the third degree of fire untill no more ascend The water that is distilled off poure on againe then distill off againe This doe so long untill thou seest the Gold to rise in the glasse and grow after the manner of a tree having many boughes and leaves and so there is made of Gold a wonderful and pleasant shrub which the Alchymists call their Golden hearb and the Philosophers Tree In like manner you may proceed with Silver and other Metalls yet so that their calcination bee made after another manner by another Aqua fortis which I leave to thine experience If thou art skilled in Alchymie thou shalt not erre in these things To make an artificiall stone of any forme Know also that any flint taken out of River water and put into a gourd glasse having River water poured upon it that the glasse may bee filled which Water is againe to bee distilled off as long as a drop will arise and the Stone dryed and the Glasse againe filled with this Water and againe distilled off and this done so long till the Glasse bee filled with this Stone may in a few dayes by the Art of Alchymie bee made very great which the Archeius of the Waters could scarce doe in many yeers If then thou breake the Glasse thou shalt have a Flint in the forme of the Glasse as if it had been put into the Glasse and although this bee not for profit yet it is a thing that is strange and wonderfull OF THE NATVRE Of Things THE THIRD BOOK Of the preservations of Naturall things THat things may bee preserved and kept from harm it is necessary in the first place to know what is an enemie to them The enemies of things are be knowne that so they may be preserved from that not be hurt or corrupted by it either in substance vertue power or any way whatsoever Much therefore in this case depends upon the knowing of the Enemie of all Naturall things For who can take heed of danger when hee dotn not know what can hurt him Truly no body Wherefore it is necessary to know ones Enemie For there are many sorts of Enemies Wherefore it is as necessary to know evill things as good things for who can know what is good without the knowing of what is evill Truly no body So no man can know what a blessing health is that was never sick Who knows what joy is that was never heavy or sad and who can rightly understand what God is who knew nothing of the Devil Wherefore when God made known to us the Enemie of our Soul viz. the Devill he also signified to us the Enemie of our life Death is the enemie of things viz. Death which is the Enemie of our body of our health and the Enemie of Medicinall and all naturall things also he made known tous how and by which means it may be shunned For as there is no disease against which there is not created and found some remedy which should cure and expell it so also there is alwaies one thing ordained against another There is a Contrariety found in all things one Water against another one Stone against another one Minerall against another one Poison against another one Metall against another and so in many more things all which it is not requisite here to reciter Now how and by what means every thing is to bee preserved and kept from hurt wee must know that many things are to bee preserved in the Earth and especially all rootes doe for a long time remaine in the Earth without losing their vertue or being corrupted in like manner herbs flowers and all fruites continue in the water incorrupted and green there are also many fruits and apples that may be preserved in water from all manner of putrefaction untill new fruit come againe How to preserve flesh and blood So also flesh and blood which indeed are putrefied and grow unsavoury quickly are preserved in cold fountain-water and not only so but by the addition of new and fresh fountaine-water may he turned into a quintessence and bee for ever preserved from putrefaction and an ill savour without any balsome And this doth not only preserve the flesh and blood of dead things but also of the living wherefore Mans body may bee preserved from all manner of putrefaction and divers diseases that proceed from putrefaction better then common Mummie Mow that blood may be preserved of it self from putrefaction and stinking and not as a quintessence so as it may preserve the blood of the living as we now said thou must follow this processe How the Arcanum of mans blood is to be prepared Let the blood bee separated from its flegm which is separated of its selfe and is driven to the upper part This water poure gently out of the vessell and in stead of it put as much of the water of the salt of blood which water

wee teach to make in our Chirurgerie That water doth presently mixe with the blood and preserves it so that it will never bee putrefied or grow unsavory but continue many years as fresh and very red as it was the first day and this indeed is a great wonder But if thou dost not know how to make this water or hast it notin readiness then poure upon it so much of the best and most excellent balsome and this will doe the same Now this blood is the balsome of balsomes and is called the Arcanum of blood and it is so wonderful and of such great vertue that it is incredible to be spoken wherefore thou shalt conceale it as a great secret in Physick How metalls may be preserved What are the enemies of metalls In preserving of Metalls their Enemies are first to bee known that so much the better they may bee preserrved from harme The chiefest Enemies of Metalls are all sharp corroding Waters all Corrosive things all Salts crude Sulphur Antimony and Mercury But that you may know particularly how the shew their enmity it is thus Sharp Waters and such things as are Corrosive and Salts shew their enmity in that they mortifie dissolve calcine corrupt Metalls and reduce them to nothing How the fume of Sulphur doth discolour metallis Crude Sulphur shews its enmity in the fume thereof for by its fume it takes away from Copper its colour and rednesse and makes it white From white Metalls as Silver Tinne Lead and Iron it takes away the whitenesse and makes them red and yellowish From Gold it takes away that faire amiable yellownesse and golden colour and makes it black and so foule that nothing can bee more foule How Antimony spoiles and discolours metalls Antimony shews its enmity in this in that all Metalls with which it is melted or mixed it spoiles carryeth away and preys upon and also not unlike to Sulphur by its fume it takes away from Metalls their true and naturall colour and brings in another Quick-silver distroyes metalls and how Quick-silver doth destroy Metalls upon this accompt in that it enters into Metalls with which it is joined and dissolves them so as that it makes an Amalgama of them Wherefore the fume thereof which wee common Mercury makes all Metalls brittle that they cannot be malleated and calcines them also it makes all red Metalls of a golden colour to bee white but it is the greatest enemie of all to Iron and Steel for if common Mercury doe but touch a barre of Iron or Steel or that be but smeared over with Mercuriall oile that bar will afterward be broken like glasse and be bowed which indeed is a great secret and deserves to be kept exceeding close In like manner must the Loadstone be kept from Mercury for the like enmity it shews to that as to Iron For any Loadstone that Mercury hath but touched How the loadstone may be spoyled or which hath been smeered with Mercuriall oyle or only put into Mercury will never draw Iron more Let no man wonder at this for there is a naturall cause for it and it is this viz. because Mercury extracts the spirit of Iron which was hid in the Loadstone which spirit draws the spirit of Iron to it and this is not only in the Loadstone but in all naturall things else so that alwaies a strange spirit in a body which is not of the same Nature with it selfe drawes to it self a body which is of the same Nature and this wee must know to bee so not only in the Load-stone but also in all other naturall things as Minerals Stones Hearbs Roots Men and Brutes What antipathy there is betwixt metalls themselves That Metalls have an enmity and hate one the other naturally as you see in Lead which is naturally a very great enemy to Gold For it breaks asunder all parts of Gold it makes it foule weak spoiles and destroyes it even to death more then any other Metall Tin also hates and is an enemy to all Metalls for in makes them base immalleable hard unprofitable if it bee mixed with them in the fire or in melting Since therefore you have now heard of the Enemies of Metalls you must next know their preservatives which keep them from all manner of hurt or corruption also strengthen them in their Nature and vertue and exalt their colour Gold is preserved in boyes urine First therefore concerning Gold you must know that it cannot bee preserved better and fairer then in boyes urine in which Salt Armoniack is dissolved or in water alone of Salt Armoniack In them in time the colour is so highly exalted that it can bee exalted no higher How silver is preserved Silver cannot be better preserved then if it be boiled in common Water or Vineger in which Tartar or Salt have been dissolved So any old Silver that is made black and fouled is renewed by being boiled in these waters How Iron and Steel may be served The best preservative for Iron and Steels is the lard of a Barrow-hog not salted which indeed preserves Iron and Steel from rust if once every moneth they be smeered over with it Also if Iron bee melted with fixt Arsenicke it will be so renewed and fixt How Copper is preserved that it will like Silver never contract rust Copper may be preserved if it bee only mixed with sublimed Mercury or bee smeered over with the oyle of Salt and so it will never any more be grown over with verdegrease How Lead is preserved Lead can no wayes bee better preserved then in cold Earth and in a moist place according to the Nature thereof How the Load-stone is preserved The Load-stone is preserved best of all with the filings of Iron and Steel for by this meanes it is never weakened but daily strengthened The preservation of Salts Now concerning the preservation of Salts and all things that are of a saltish Nature and may be comprehended under the name of Salt of which there are more then an hundred sorts you must know that they are to bee preserved in a hot dry place and in woodden vessells not in Glasse Stone or Metalls for in those they are dissolved and become a Water and an Amalgama which cannot be in Wood. Moreover you must know how some kind of Waters and Liquors pressed out of hearbs roots The preservation of liquors with oils and all other fruits and Vegetables which doe easily contract filth and slime as if a skin were spread over them may be preserved These Waters therefore and Liquors must bee put up into glasses that are narrow towards the top and wide below and the glasses be filled to the top then adde a few drops of oyl Olive that all the Water or Liquor may bee covered so the Oyl will swim on the top and preserve the Liquor or Water along time from filth or flime For there is no Water or liquor if

retains no more the stink of Sulphur Then reverberate this Sulphur in a close reverberatory as you doe Antimony then it will first be white then yellow and lastly as red as Cinnabar And when it is so then thou maist rejoice For it is the beginning of thy riches This reverberated Sulphur tingeth Silver most deeply into most excellent Gold and the body of Man into most perfect health This reverberated and fixed Sulphur is of more vertue then it is lawfull to speak The Mortification of Salts The mortification of all Salts and whatsoever is saltish is the taking away and distilling off the aquosity and oylinesse and of the spirit of them For if these be taken away they are afterwards called the dead Earth or Caput Mortuum The Mortification of Gemmes The mortification of Gemmes and Coralls is to calcine sublime and dissolve them into a liquor as Crystall The mortification of Pearls is to calcine them and dissolve them in sharp Vineger into the form of Milke The Mortification of the Load-stone The mortification of the Loadstone is to anoint it with the oyle of Mercury or to put it into Quicksilver for afterward it will not draw Iron at all to it The Mortification of flints and stones The mortification of Flints and Stones is to calcine them The Mortification of Marcasites The mortification of Marcasites Cachyma's Talke Cobaltus Zinri Granuti Zunitter Unismut and of Antimony is their Sublimation i. e. that they bee sublimed with Salt and Vitriall then their life which is a Metallick spirit together with the spirit of Salt ascends And let whatsoever remains in the bottome of the Sublimatory bee washed that the Salt may bee dissolved from it and then thou hast a dead Earth in which there is no vertue The Mortification of Realgar The mortification of Arsenickes Auripigment Operment Realgar c. is that they flow with Salt Nitre and bee turned into an Oyl or Liquor upon a Marble and be fixed The Mortification of excrements The mortification of Excrements is the coagulation of Aire The Mortification of Aromatical things The mortification of Aromaticall things is the taking away of their good smell Of Sweet things The mortification of sweet things is to sublime and distill them with corrosive things Of Resines The mortification of Ambers Resines Turpentine Gumme and such like is to turn them into Oyle and Vernish Of Hearbs and Roots The mortification of Hearbs Roots and such like is to distil off from them their oyle and water and presse out their liquor with a presse and also to make their Alcali Of Wood. The mortification of Wood is to turne it into Coales and Ashes Of Bones The mortification of Bones is their Calcination Of Flesh The mortification of Flesh and Blood is the taking away of the spirit of Salt Of Water The mortification of Water is by Fire for all heat dries up and consumes water Of Fire The mortification of Fire is by Water for all Water quencheth Fire and takes from it its power and force So now you are sufficiently instructed in few words how death lyes hid in all naturall things and how they may be mortified and bee brought into another form and nature and what vertues flow from them Whatsoever should have been said further we put in the following book of the Resurrection of Naturall things OF THE NATVRE Of Things THE SIXTH BOOK Of the Resurrection of Naturall things The raising again of Naturall things THE Resurrection and renewing of Naturall things is not the least but a profound and great secret in the Nature of things and rather Divine and Angelicall then Humane and Naturall I desire to bee here understood with great distinction and no otherwise then my opinion is and Nature doth daily and manifestly shew and experience make good lest I should bee exposed to the lies and slanders of Mountebankes my enemies which doe construe all that I doe in the worst sense as if I would usurp the Divine power and attribute this to Nature which shee was never able to performe Wherefore wee must cautiously consider that there is a twofold Death Death is twofold viz. violent and voluntary The one can raise a thing again the other not Wherefore doe not beleeve those Sophisters that say that a thing that is once dead or mortified can never bee raised again and that make no account of resuscitation and restauration of things which error indeed of theirs is not the least And indeed it is true that whatsoever dyeth or perisheth with a naturall death and what Nature mortifies by reason of her predestination God alone can raise again or must of necessity bee done by his command so whatsoever Nature destroyes Man cannot restore ore again What things may be raised againe But whatsoever Man destroyes hee can restore again and being restored spoil again and Man hath no further power of himselfe and if hee should attempt to doe any thing more hee would arrogate the power of God to himselfe and yet hee would labour in vain and be confounded unlesse God did assist him or hee had so much faith as to remove mountains Even to such a man this is possible and greater things then this Because the Scripture saith and Christ himselfe spake it If thou hast faith as a grain of Mustard-seed and faift unto this Mountaine Goe and bee removed thither and it shall bee removed and all thing bee possible to thee and nothing impossible But to return to our purpose what difference then there is betwixt dying and being mortified and which of these may be raised again so these are to bee understood Whatsoever naturally dies hath its end by predestination and so the will and ordination of God permits What things can not be raised againe Yet it happens that this is also done by divers diseases various casualties and this can never be raised again neither is there any preservative to bee used against predestination and the naturall term of life But that which is mortified may bee both raised again and revived which may bee proved by divers arguments which wee shall set down in the end of this book Wherefore there is a great difference betwixt dying and being mortified It is one thing to Dye and other thing to be Mortified neither must they bee taken for one and the same things under the same name For in the very example they are far different For look upon a man that dies a naturall and predestinated death what further good or profit is there in him Nothing hee is only cast into the earth to worms For hee is a stinking carkasse and due to the earth But the same is not to be understood of a man that is slain with a sword or dies by some such like violent death For his whole body is profitable and good and may bee prepared into a most pretious Mummie For