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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

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

it is that most gentle heate which proceeding from the temperate vapour of the lampe goeth equally round about the vessell This fire is not violent if it be not too much stirred vp it is digesting a tering it is taken from another Body then the matter it is but one or alone it is moist and innaturall c. The third is the naturall fire of our water which for this cause is also called fire against nature because it is water and yet neuerthelesse it makes a meere spirit of Gold which common fire cannot doe this fire is minerall equall and partakes of Sulphur it breakes congeales dissolues and calcines all this is piercing subtile not burning and it is the Fountaine of liuing water wherein the King and Queen bathe themselues whereof wee haue neede in the whole worke in the beginning middle and ending but the other two abouesaid wee doe not alwayes need but onely sometimes Ioyne therefore in the reading the Bookes of Phylosophers these three sorts of fire and without doubt thou shalt vnderstand all their cauillations concerning their fires As touching the Colours hee that doth not make blacke cannot make white because blacknesse is the beginning of whitenesse and a signe of putrifaction and alteration and that the Body is now pierced and mortified Therefore in the putrifaction in this water there first appeares blackenesse like vnto the broth wherein bloud or some bloudy thing is boyled Secondly the blacke Earth by continuall decoction is whitened because the soule of the two bodies swimmes aloft vpon the water like white creame and in this onely whitenesse all the spirits are so vnited that they can neuer fly from one another And therefore the Leton must be whitened and teare the Bookes least our hearts be broken for this intire whitenesse is the true stone to the white and the body ennobled by the necessity of his end and the tincture of whitenesse of a most exuberant reflexion and shining brightnesse which being mixed with a Body neuer ●●parteth from it Here then note that the spirits are not fixed but in the white colour which by consequent is more noble then the other colours and ought more earnestly to be desired considering it is as it were the complement perfection of the whole worke For our Earth is first putrified in blacknesse then it is clensed in the eleuation or lifting vp afterwards being dryed the blacknesse departeth and then it is whitened and the darke moist dominion of the woman perisheth and then the white fume pierceth into the new Body and the spirits are shut vp or bound together in drinesse and that which is corrupting deformed and blacke with moisture vanisheth and then the new Body riseth againe cleere white and immortall getting the victory oueral his enemies And as heate working vpon that which is moist causeth or engendreth blackenesse which is the first colour so by decoction euer more and more heate working vpon that which is dry begetteth whitenesse which is the second colour and afterward working vpon that which is purely perfectly dry it causeth citrinity and rednesse and so much concerning the Colours We must therefore vnderstand that the thing which hath the head red and white the feete white and afterwards red and yet before that the eyes blacke this onely thing is our maistery dissolue then the Sun and the Moone in our dissoluing water which is familiar friendly and of the next nature vnto them which is likewise to them sweete and pleasant and as it were a wombe a mother an Originall the beginning and the end of life and that is the reason why they are amended in this water because Nature reioyceth in Nature and Nature containes Nature and in true Mariage they are ioyned together and made one nature one new body raised vp and immortall And thus we must ioyne consanguinity with Consanguinity and then these natures will meete and follow one another putrifie themselues engender themselues and make one another reioyce because Nature is gouerned by Nature which is neerest and most friendly to it Our water then saith Danthin is the most pleasant faire and cleere Fountaine prepared onely for the King Queene whom it knoweth very well and they know it for it drawes them to it selfe and they abide therein to wash themselues two or three dayes that is two or three moneths and it maketh them young againe faire And because the Sunne and Moone haue their Originall from this water their Mother therefore it behoueth that they enter againe into their Mothers wombe that they may be borne againe and be made more strong more noble and more valiant And therefore if these doe not die and be not turned into water they remain alone and without fruite but if they die and be resolued in our water they bring fruit an hundreth fold and from that very place where it seemed they had lost what they were from thence shall they appeare that which they were not before Let therefore the spirit of our liuing water be with great wit and subtilty fixed with the Sunne and the Moone because they being turned into the nature of water doe dye seeme like vnto the dead yet afterward being inspired from thence they liue encrease and multiply like all other vegetable things It is enough then to dispose the matter sufficiently from without for from within it selfe doth work sufficiently to its owne perfection For it hath in it selfe a certaine and inhaerent motion according to the true way better then any order that can be imagined by man And therefore doe thou onely prepare and Nature will perfect for if shee bee not hindered by the contrary shee wil not passe her owne certaine motion as well to conceiue as to bring forth Wherefore after the preparation of the matter take heede onely least by too much fire thou make the bath too hot Secondly take heed least the spirit doe exhale because it would hurt him that worketh that is to say it would destroy the worke and cause many infirmities that is much sadnesse and anger From this that hath beene spoken is drawne this Axiome to wit that by the course of nature he doth not know the making of Mettals that knoweth not the destruction of them It behoueth then to ioyne together them that are of kindred for Natures doe finde their like natures and being putrified are mixed together and mortifie themselues It is necessary therefore to know this corruption and generation and how the Natures doe imbrace one another and are pacified in a slow fire how Nature reioyceth in Nature and nature retaines nature and turnes it into a white nature After this if thou wilt make it red thou must boyle this white in a dry continuall fire vntill it bee as red as blood which will bee nothing else but fire and a true tincture And so by a continuall dry fire the whitenesse is changed amended perfected made Citrine and acquireth rednesse a true fixed colour And

consequently by how much more this red is boyled so much the more is it coloured and made a tincture of perfect rednesse Wherefore thou must with a dry fire and a dry calcination without any moysture boyle this compound vntill it bee clothed with a most red colour and then it will be a perfect Elixir If afterwards thou wilt multiply it thou must againe resolue that red in a new dissoluing water and after by decoction whiten and rubifie it by the degrees of fire reiterating the first regiment Dissolue congeale reiterate shutting opening and multiplying in quantitie and qualitie at thine owne pleasure for by a new corruption and generation there is againe brought in a new motion and so we could neuer find an end if we would alwayes worke by reiteration of solution and coagulation by the meanes of our dissoluing water that is to say dissoluing and congealing as is said in the first regiment And so the vertue thereof is increased and multiplied in quantitie and qualitie so that if in the first worke one part of thy Stone will teyne an hundred in the second it will teyne a thousand in the third ten thousand and so by pursuing thy worke thy proiection will come into infinitie teyning truly and perfectly and fixedly euery quantitie how great soeuer it bee and so by a thing of an easie price is added colour and vertue weight Therefore our fire and Azoth are sufficient for thee boyle boyle reiterate dissolue congeale and so continue according to thy will multiplying it as much as thou wilt and vntill thy Medicine bee made fusible as waxe and that it haue the quantitie and vertue which thou desirest Therefore all the accomplishment of the worke or of our second Stone note it well consisteth in this that thou take the perfect Body which thou must put in our water in a house of glasse wel shut and stopped with Cement lest the ayre get in or the moysture inclosed get out and there hold it in the digestion of a gentle heate as if it were of a bathe or the most temperate heate of dung vpon the which with the fire thou shalt continue the perfection of decoction vntill it bee putrified and resolued into blacke and afterwards be lifted vp and sublimed by the water that it may thereby bee cleansed from all blacknesse and darknesse and that it may bee whitened and made subtile vntill it come to the vtmost purity of sublimation and at the last be made volatile and white within and without for the vulture flying in the Ayre without wings cryeth that it might get vpon the Mountaine that is vpon the water vpon the which the white Spirit is carried Then continue a conuenient fire and that Spirit that is the subtile substance of the Body and of Mercury will ascend vpon the water which quintessence is whiter than the snow continue still and in the end strengthen thy fire vntill all which is spirituall mount on high for know well that all that is cleare pure and spirituall ascends on high in the ayre in the forme of a white fume which the Philosophers call the Virgins milke It behooueth therefore that as Sibill said the Sonne of the Virgin bee exalted from the Earth and that the white quintessence after his resurrection bee lifted vp towards the heauens and that the grosse and thicke remaine in the bottome of the vessell and of the water for afterwards when the vessell is colde thou shalt finde in the bottome thereof the foeces blacke burnt and combust separate from the spirit and white quintessence which dregs thou must cast away In these times the Argent viue raineth from our ayre vpon our new earth which is called Argent viue sublimed from the ayre whereof is made a water viscous cleane and white which is the true tincture separated from all blacke foeces and so our brasse or Leton is with our water gouerned purified and adorned with a white colour which white colour is not gotten but by decoction and coagulation of the water Boyle it then continually wash away the blacknesse from the Leton not with thy hand but with the Stone or the fire or our second Mercuriall water which is the true tincture For this separation of the pure from the impure is not done with hands but nature her selfe alone by working it circularly to perfection bringeth it to passe It appeareth then that this composition is not a manuall worke but onely a change of the natures because nature dissolues and conioynes it selfe it sublimes and lifts vp it selfe and hauing separated the foeces it groweth white and in such a sublimation the parts are alwayes ioyned together more subtile more pure and essentiall because that when the fiery nature lifteth vp the subtile parts it lifteth vp alwayes the more pure and by consequent leaueth the grosser in the bottome And therefore it behooueth by an indifferent fire to sublime in a continuall vapour that the Stone may bee inspired in the ayre and liue For the nature of all things takes life of the inspiration of ayre and so also all our Maistery consists in vapour and in the sublimation of water And therefore our brasse or Leton must by degrees of fire bee lifted vp and freely without violence of himselfe ascend on high wherefore vnlesse the Body bee by fire and water dissolued attenuated and subtilized vntill it ascend as a spirit or climbe like Argent viue or as the white soule separated from the Body and carried in the sublimation of the Spirits there is nothing at all done in this Arte But when it ascends on high it is borne in the ayre and changed in the ayre and is made life with life being altogether spirituall and incorruptible And so in such a regiment the Body is made a spirit of a subtile nature and the spirit is incorporated with the Body and is made one with it and in such a sublimation coniunction and eleuation all things are made white And therefore this Phylosophicall and natural sublimation is necessary for that it maketh peace betweene the body and the spirit which is vnpossible otherwise to be done otherwise then by this separation of the parts wherefore it behoueth to sublime them both to the end that in the troubles of this stormy Sea the pure may ascend and the impure and earthly may descend And for this cause it must be boyled continually that it may be brought to a subtile nature and that the body may assume and draw to it selfe the white Mercuriall soule which it naturally retaines and suffereth it not to be separated from it because it is like vnto it in the neerenesse of the first pure and simple nature From hence it appeares that this separation must be made by decoction vntill there remaine no more of the fat of the soule which is not lifted vp and exalted into the vpper part for so they shall be both reduced vnto a simple equality and vnto a simple whitenesse The