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A76996	Paracelsvs of the [brace] chymical transmutation, genealogy and generation [brace] of metals & minerals. Also, of the urim and thummim of the Jews. With an appendix, of the vertues and use of an excellent water made by Dr. Trigge. The second part of the mumial treatise. Whereunto is added, philosophical and chymical experiments of that famous philosopher Raymvnd Lvlly; containing, the right and due composition of both elixirs. The admirable and perfect way of making the great stone of the philosophers, as it was truely taught in Paris, and sometimes practised in England, by the said Raymund Lully, in the time of King Edw. 3. / Translated into English by R. Turner philomathēs.	Paracelsus, 1493-1541.; Turner, Robert, fl. 1654-1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing B3543; Thomason E1590_3; ESTC R208833	78,745	173

necessary and naturally dry neither is there any thing cold which by the same reason is not moist Whatsoever is besides contingent hereunto is not by Nature but by accident It is no otherwise amongst the Elements the Fire and Water have the chief place and the Earth borrows her coldness from her Companion the Water and her driness from the Fire for her self she is never hot moist nor cold nor dry but serveth her two other Princes as the Wax submits to every Seal In like manner we are to judge of the Air for so the Air receiveth heat and driness from his Father the Fire and cold and moisture from his Mother the Water therefore they are generated as from their Parents the Fire and Water the Air Masculine or rather a Hermaphrodite and the Earth a Female And thus far of the natural Instruments and the Matter The fourth Degree is Putrefaction This for its excellency might deserve the first place if it were not repugnant to the true order and a secret in this place hidden to many and manifested to few It ought therefore to remain placed in its due Series even as the links in a Chain wherein if one be wanting the Captive detained therewith escapes and flies away The property therefore of Putrefaction is that consuming the old Nature of things it introduceth a new Nature and sometimes produceth Fruit of another Generation for all living things die with corruption and being dead they putrefie and again acquire life by the Transmutation of their Generation into them And by it corrosive Spirits are dulcified and mollified and all Colours are thereby turned into others and thereby the pure is separated from the unclean Now the Members of Putrefaction are Digestion and Circulation The fifth Degree is Distillation which is nothing else but a Separation of the moist from the dry and the thin from the thick The Members hereof are Ascension Lotion Imbibition Cohobation and Fixation Cohobation which concludeth all the rest is an often effusion or pouring of the distilled Liquor to its feses and often distilling it over As Vitriol with Cohobations is fixed by its own proper Water and then it is called Allumen Saccarinum which being dissolved into Liquor and then putrefied by the space of a Month and distilled yields a most sweet and pleasant Water after the manner of Sugar which is a most excellent Medicinal secret far above others to extinguish the Microcosmical Fire which happeneth to the Diggers of Metals which is largely spoken of in the Book De Morbis Fossorum Mineralium Of the Diseases of the Diggers in Mynes After the same manner also may any other Minerals and Waters as Sal Nitrum be fixed by Cohobations The sixth Degree is Coagulation which also is twofold answering contrary to Solution consisting of heat and driness that is of Air and Fire Again Coagulation is twofold as having two parts cold and as many of hear The first of cold is made of common Air without Fire and the last of the superior Firmament by the Hy●●al Stone which congealeth all Waters into Snow and Ice But the first Coagulation of heat is made by industry in Art observing the gradations of the Fire and is fixed but the other Degrees of cold in Alchymy are not fixed The later Coagulation of heat is made by an Aetnean Fire and Mineral under the Earth and under the Mountains and is gradated by a natural Arch of the Earth Not unlike to this is the Fire which being gradated by the Art of Alchymy is excited and brought to Coagulation Whatsoever is coagulated by this Aetnean Fire remains fixed as is manifest by Metals and Minerals all which consist from the beginning of certain Muscilaginons matter coagulated by the Aetnean Fire and the natural Arch and Artifice of the Earth under the Mountains into Stones Metals Pearls Salts c. The seventh and last Degree of the Scale or Ladder of Transmutation is Tincture the most noble Medicine above all others that are procured by the Chymical Art whereby all Metallick and humane bodies are dipp'd into a far more noble better and excellent substance then before they were naturally of and are thereby reduced to the highest Degree of soundness colour and perfection and to a more strong and excellent Nature Various are the kindes and species of these Tinctures in this place least of all intended to he treated of The Metallick bodies ought first to be removed by Fire from their Coagulation and to be liquefied otherwise they will not receive any active Tincture unless they be opened Also all the Tinctures of Metals ought to be fixed substances easily fusible and of an incombustible Nature that being poured upon a fiery Lamen they may flow forthwith like Wax and soon penetrate the Metal without smoke as Oyl doth Paper or as Water enters into a Sponge so they dye that into a white and red colour remaining in the Fire and enduring every trial Therefore in the first Degree of Calcination to come to these Tinctures the Metals being brought into Alcol they acquire an easie liquefaction in the second Degree to wit of Solution and then by Putrefaction and Distillation their Tinctures may be fixed and made incombustible and the colours unvariable But to restore recover conserve or renew the Health of humane bodies they ought to be drawn from Gold Pearl Antimony Sulphur Vitriol or the like Various also are the Subjects of the Fire and they have several and divers Operations in Chymistry as one Fire made of the flame of Wood and this they call living Fire wherewith is calcined and reverberated the bodies of all Metals and other things another is a continual heat of a Candle or Lamp wherewith they fix Volatiles there is another Fire of Coles wherewith bodies are cemented coloured and purged from their Excrements also Gold and Silver are thereby brought to a higher Degree Venus is refined and all other Metals are renewed the fiery Lamens of Irons have another Operation for thereupon is made the trial of Tinctures Another heat is raised by Fire by the filings of Iron another in Ashes another in Salt another in Balneo Mariae wherewith are made many Distillations Sublimations and coagulations There is also another Operation made by Balneum Roris which sometimes I have elsewhere called Balneum Vaporosum wherewith many Solutions of corporal things are made Then the Venter Equinus hath another Operation in which are made the chief Putrefactions and Digestions also the invisible Fire hath an Operation far beyond all these that is of the Beams of the Sun which plainly appeareth by his Operations as by a Speculum or Chrystal And of this the Ancients have not made mention By this Fire the three Principles of every thing may be separated upon a Table of Wood without any fear of flagration or adustion and all Metals liquefied without any visible Fire and all combustibles consumed into Coals and Ashes But the Transmutation of Metals to bring

tell us of an eternal Liquor of most strong Coaction rained down from Heaven here is like descent she is called Hyperiwn or Daughter of the Sun a Body of like weight and vertue with Gold fair cleer quick only coacted and brought from the Empire of humidity to suit the person which in her crude Nature shews strong Affection and turns the noblest of Metals into her own colour Therefore the Artist studies how to disponsate these two And first denudateth the Lady of her frosty Garments that she may have the first activity and liquefie her fettered Lord then are they both in the power of Art to better It is objected This Heaven-born Hermodactylus or Hydromel is of a Nature so obstinate and incorrect she will by no means receive the best impression Consider Her names signifie mixt matter of contrary quality therefore may be separated and although her original obscure condition because it is unknown by the innate affections and subsistance for it is an Airy Body or Air it self with Mercurial Spirit subsisting of internal heat and external cold Others say It is composed of the Spirit of the World corporate in the womb of the Earth and apt to receive the qualities and properties of all natural things as wax impression and being composed of Spirits the weight is of greater wonder Others say It is a crude Sperm not sufficiently decocted yet not to be profaned Others call it an immature Gold which kills it self and the Father and the Mother to bring forth a pure Infant by her they overcome the Fire she is the perfection of the Universal Medicine what Conformity what Similitude what Identity she holds with the Metallical Urne being the original matter and substance thereof and may be coagulated to the equal temper of Gold is as the whiteness in Snow Therefore the Ancients magnifie the most Blessed who created such a substance and gave it such properties as no other thing in Nature doth possess yet we see it is a vitious matter which hath superfluous Humidity proper and appropriate Qualities separable and inseparable Accidents Therefore the separable may be removed to which end she is included in a Well of Tears that the VVatriness may be vapored or through long Decoction by Driness vanquished Then doth it as it were congeal and fix and become more apt for durance and extension for whatsoever is contrary to the natural doth debilitate and like by his like is nourished but heat is contrary to cold and the natural property of scalding heat is to weaken and dry The fresh Water adds power and heat heat augmented becomes Fire and Time turns Strength to Corruption This glutinous substance hath natural heat from which is the Life and Death of the Elements Therefore as common Fire bringeth all things to his own Nature so the external working upon the internal heat it doth necessarily obtain victory Therefore if you can believe that heat and driness shall overcome cold and moisture that lineary and successive course hidden to all the World is open to you Therefore as Nature delights in Concord so the Lovers and Searchers into Natures Work must be of constant mindes and Gideon-like resolve to race the City Meroz not refusing to assist the publick good and then the Marriage for the Princess never unmasks her Virgin-Beauty except to him that hath skill and power to espouse her in a bed of Love which none can do before the despoliation of the exterior form but the Obstacles removed and Nature set on work the external Decree doth necessitate the effect for being now warm and blyth and apt for new Generation and pounded with her Lord grated to Dust his unnatural softness deceives the sense and they passionately condole each others Exile and in their imbraces fall in a sound until their dissolved Bodies shew corruption and the more pure being corrupted are more vile The Artist finding them out of their Indian Paradise corrects their central virtue and raising them from the Earth leads them the thorny path to threefold happiness and by fiery trial purifieth the Quantity and changeth the Quality and so brings them to perfect rest whereby they have power over the bodies of Men and Metals and are crowned in token of their dignity and boundless Territories Now considering the rarity of true Knowledge the Honor and Dignity of things desired what Spirit is so ignoble to think much either of Cost or Time when that which is sought is of all Terrestrial Treasure most excellent FINIS An Appendix of the Vertues and Use of an excellent Essential Water made and approved by Stephen Trigge Student in Physick and Astrology and by him gained and experimented at Amsterdam and also in London IN all manner of Fevers both Pestilential and others Calentures Apoplexies and all Epidemical Diseases it is a perfect and certain Remedy and in Quartain and Quotidian Feavers where the Disease ariseth from Choler It perfectly remedies the Bloody Flux and all other Fluxes either of the Stomack or Belly Vomiting Scowring and Excoriation of the Bowels and where the Stomack is spoiled for want of Appetite this is a sure Fortification for it wonderfully strengthens the Stomack both the vital and animal Spirit and mightily succors the Heart that is oppressed with heat And being taken in Aqua Melissae it doth speedily help the extream beating and panting of the Heart Convulsion-fits and falling Sickness it cureth safely and speedily and all manner of heat breaking out in the Face and any other part of the Body being either caused by the heat of the Sun or by some noisome Food taken into the Body that doth cause putrefaction of the Blood The way to take it is this in a burning Feaver take of it in Planten-Water if there be loosness in the Belly and sweeten it with Syrupe of Clove-Gilly-Flowers and drink it as your constant Drink till the Feaver is abated and the Appetite recovered In the Calenture Drink it in Balm-Water being made far sharper then white-Wine-Vinegar and mixed with Syrupe of Cowslip-Flowers it must be drunk very often till the senses come and the Patient remain cured which will be in few dayes for it penetrateth the Blood makes it thin quencheth the Feaver reviveth the Heart and Brain and quickneth all the digestive Faculties In the Apoplexy take it in Betony-Water and Aqua Vitae with Syrupe of Stoechas take the Dose as in the Calenture or stronger if the Patient be able to bear it and it shall be holpe in forty eight hours or thereabouts If there be any thing in this World that will preserve Man if the Glass of God's determination be not quite run out this will help Though he be lame over all his Body his Senses gone his Speech lost and to the judgement of many as dead yet this precious Liquor will in a wonderful manner restore them speedily and safely In the Scurvy Canker Squinancy and Inflammation of the Uvula this doth excel all ordinary Medicines for it doth

will force them stand before 'um And bring them up in Cavea stultorum But princely Nature from his boundless store Provides a Salve for every dang'rous sore And thus hath made our Authors happy Pen The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of good to unlearn'd men Go on good Friend to other things for we By this thy Book are able to foresee Great Paracelsus Learning Hermes Skill Shall English speak by thy ingenious Quill John Gadbury 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Paracelsus Paracelsus OF The TRANSMUTATION OF METALS CHAP. I. Of the Scale of Transmutation TRansmutation is an alteration or changing of the forms of natural things into other forms as of Metals or Wood into Stones or Glass the changing of Stones into Coles c. It hath been found out That Metals that have been first coyned into Money have been by Nature changed under the Ground into a stony substance and yet have retained the impression of the Image that hath been stamped upon them and That the Roots of Oaks being smitten with Thunder or some other influence of the Stars have been turned into true Stones There do also arise Springs of Rivers in many places that by a certain natural poperty do transform all things whatsoever are cast into them into hard Stones These and such-like works of Nature wise men have contemplated and have thereby learned likewise to do the fame things by Art by observing the same Order which Nature teacheth by her Instruments This we see frequently done in many Mountains That Coles are generated of Stones naturally by a certain Aetnean fire of which Carpenters have frequent use So that this last kinde of Transmutation is done by Fire in the Earth the other before spoken of by Water and Air These are the Instruments of Nature and they are for the Matter the Motion for the Form What therefore if a natural Composition may be made Earth by Fire and that made Water by Air and this made Fire by Fire and that again descending may be made Air by Air and then this be made Water by Water and at last that may be reduced into Earth by Fire what Transmutation I pray do thou think will come thereof if you were expert you would know it The vulgar and ignorant see not these things and that for no other cause but because they do not consider the secrets of Nature Whosoever therefore together with them is ignorant of or denieth these things which Nature hath set before the Eyes of all how learned or wise soever he would seem to be he is not worthy of the Name of a Philosopher nor Physitian Whence hath Physick her first Foundation out of the appearance onely or manifest superficies of natural things Nothing less but out of the most occult and hidden secrets of Nature compared to the most manifest effects Wherefore as Nature her self is undiscernable by every sence no otherwise are all her Operations Who ever saw a Tree to grow or the Sun or Stars move No body But that the Trees have grown and the Sun and Stars have been moved by a space of time who knoweth not Therefore Operations in Physick do more chiefly consist in the Understanding rather then in the Eyes or the other Sences although they in their courses are the Directors unto us that we may make further progress otherwise between the Philosopher and the Clown there would be no further difference But to return to the purpose The Scale or Ladder of Transmutation hath seven Steps or principal Degrees which are Cascination Sublimation Solution Putrefaction Distillation Coagulation and Tincture Under Calcination are contained these his Members Reverberation Cimentation and Incineration wherewith in all Operations all things are turned into Chalk or into Ashes Therefore in the first Degree of Transmutation the elementative natural bodies are converted into Earth with a middle Fire as the Instrument And here first of all is to be noted the difference between material Elements and instrumental of which by the way we shall speak for these are external but the other are internal as when the first Operation is compleated whether it be by Calcination or Reverberation Cimentation or Incineration Sublimation succeedeth out of the order of Preparations which Earth now being calcined is converted either into Water or into Air according to the Nature and property of the thing so to be converted for if it be of dry things then chiefly is to be used the elevation of the Volatile parts from the fixed Wherefore Sublimation is convenient for things of that Nature But if there ought to be made a separation of moist things as of Vegetables or Animals then it is convenient to use Sublimation thereof in the fifth Degree to wit Distillation But because in this place it is chiefly intended to treat of dry things as Metals and Minerals the order congruent to their Natures is likewise to be observed Therefore the Volatile part is to be sublimed as in moist things by Cohobations that is by re-conjoyning of the parts separated and by iterating or separating them over again until they become fixed and remain within with the parts fixed and ascend no more but remain consisting in the substance and form of Oyl of or a Stone for with Solution by the Air they are turned into Oyl and with Coagulation by Fire into a Stone Let Sal Armoniak be an example for every Metal for that in Sublimation successively becomes Stone By this Operation of Sublimations many corrosives are dulcified and mollified and on the contrary with the addition of another substance Also many sharp things are sweetned and many sweet things on the contrary are sharpened somtimes by themselves or with other things prepared after this manner Afterwards happens the third Degree to wit Solution and that is twofold the one of cold the other of heat Salts Corrosives and whatsoever things are calcined are coagulated by Fire and then by the coldness of the Air are resolved into Liquor Water or Oyl in a moist place as a Cellar or in the Air being placed upon a Marble-stone or Glass But fat and sulphureous things are dissolved by the heat of the Fire and that which the Fire dissolveth by heat the same is coagulated by the coldness of the Air On the contrary that which is dissolved by the coldness of the Air is coagulated by the heat of the Fire Note here the Reason wherefore we call the Air cold which seems to oppose and contradict the Opinion of some Philosophers for they will have it to be hot and moist but they consider not whereof the Air consists doth it not consist of Fire and Water for what else is the Air but Water dissolved by Fire Wherefore from one part thereof to wit the Fire it borroweth heat and driness and from the other part the Water coldness and moisture for they are the two chief qualities thereof and the other two are her Ministers for there is nothing hot by Nature which is not also

because the intellect doth so far excel the sense this is a work of a second intention and the beginning upon the vertue of Elements that is a pure bright and cleer Water of Putrefaction for the perfection of every Art properly so called requires a new birth as that which is sowed is not quickned except it die but here death is taken for mutation and not for rotting under the clods Now therefore we must take the Key of Art and consider the secret of every thing is the Life thereof Life is a Vapor and in Vapor is placed the wonder of Art whatsoever hath heat agitating and moving in it self by the internal Transmutation is said to live this Life the Artist seeks to destroy and restore an eternal Life with Glory and Beauty This Vapor is called The vegetable Spirit because it is of degree of heat with the hottest Vegetable and being decocted till it shine like brightest Steel you shall see great and marvelous secrets not by the separation of Elements by themselves but by predomination and victory of that pure Fire which like the Celestial Sun enters not materially but by help of Elemental Fire sends forth his influence and impression of form Here we must observe difference of perfections for although ye have now the Fountain of compleat white yet you are not neer your chief delight which is the Fountain of Life and Centre of the Heart the universal Spirit which lives in the radical humidity and doth naturally vivificate and is the masculine Seed of the Celestial Sun here is that Rule made good Except ye sow in Gold ye do nothing Therefore we must take heed what we understand by Gold whereof there are three sorts Vulgar Chymical and Divine which is therefore so called because it is a special Gift of God The Theosophists are perswaded by exact diet and by certain form of prayers at certain times to obtain the Angel of the Sun to be their Guide and Director The Philosophers advise to take the like matter above Earth that Nature hath made under the Earth Others to search the most precious treasure from a vile thing all which is easily agreed if rightly understood for in the lines following the same Author saith The vile thing is from the Sperm of Gold cast in the matrix of Mercury by a prime conjunction Others affirm Azoch and Ignis to be sufficient for this high perfection the which Azoch among the Germans is Silver with the Macedonians Iron with the Greeks Mercury with the Hebrews Tin with the Tartars Brass with the Arabians Saturn and with the Indians Gold All which being diverse in Nature are potential in one composition and by the duel of Spirits the Celestial Gold obtaineth victory over all the rest and is made though not with hands a body shining like the Sun in glory which is called Ens omnis privationis expers or Thummim This is the Key that made the pure cleer Fountain and of it was made himself the fair Woman so loving the red Man she became one with him and yielded him all glory who by his Regal power and soveraign Quality raigneth over the fourfold Nature eternally but if any shall understand either common or Chymical Gold to be the substance of this sacred body he is much mistaken for a glorious Spirit will not appear save in a body of his own kinde Although pure Manchet be made of the finest Meal yet Wheat is not excluded and so Bread is said to be of the second and neerer causes rather then the remote notwithstanding that which is made by the effect in a successive course is as certain as that which is made with hands After we fell from unity we groan under the burden of division but three makes up the union first temporary and afterwards eternally fixed He that knoweth a thing fully must know what it was is and shall be so to know the several parts of a successive course is not a small thing neither the honor little in the right use of the Creature Air turned into Water by his proper mixture becomes Wood and the same Wood by Water is turned into a Stone A Spring in Italy called Clytinus makes Oxen white that drink it And the River in Hungary turns Iron into Copper VVhat excellency things may attain by habitual vertue or what power when Nature and Art make one perfection who is able to express If you desire by Art to have a thing of admirable sweetness and odor you will take a substance of like quality to exalt into such excellency the proper quality of Fire and Air is sweetness it is but appropriate in Earth and Water what bodies shall we finde where these are most abundant to be wrought upon As the Celestial Bodies give no Tincture yet they are most abundant in Tincture Air is cause of Life Mercury is coacted Air Ethereal and truly Homogeneal which doth after a sort congeal and fix it is called a crude Gold and Gold affixed and mature Mercury And although the crude Quality be cold and dry some hold for the excellency of its temperature That it is all Fire or like to it whereby it is dissolved however it is at large proved those bodies are most abundant in pure Fire and Air whose proper Quality is sweetness Therefore those are the fittest subjects to make the most precious perfume in the world and considering cleerness and brightness is the centre of each thing and those bodies have both centre and superficies cleer and bright whensoever they are purified by Art and the bodies made spiritual and those Spirits corporated again they must necessarily be Bodies of greatest or cleerest Light and Perfection as one compareth a glorified Body to a cleer Lanthorn with a Taper in it saying The more a man excels in vertue the greater or lesser was the Taper But the work cannot be manifest without the destruction of the exterior form and the restitution of a better which is the glorious substances of Urim and Thummim which in their being and Physical use preserves the Temple of Man's Body incorruptible Some observe not just difference between Liquification and Solution but all Corrosives or violent Operations Nature hates because there can be no Generation but of like Natures neither can you have the precious Sperms without Father and Mothers And although one Vessel is sufficient to perfect the Infant in the Wombe yet Nature hath provided several breasts to nourish it and different means to exalt it to the strength of a man How Gold should be burnt which the Fire cannot consume is questionable but every exaltation of this soveraign Spirit adds a tenfold vertue and power then take one part of this Spirit which is become as insensible as dust and upon molten Gold it turns all into powder which being drunk in White-wine openeth the Understanding encreaseth Wisdom and strengtheneth the Memory for here is the Vein of Understanding Fountain of Wisdom and River of Knowledge