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A82272	Fasciculus chemicus or Chymical collections. Expressing the ingress, progress, and egress, of the secret hermetick science, out of the choisest and most famous authors. Collected and digested in such an order, that it may prove to the advantage, not onely of beginners, but proficients of this high art, by none hitherto disposed in this method. Whereunto is added, the Arcanum or grand secret of hermetick philosophy. Both made English by James Hasolle, Esquire, qui est Mercuriophilus Anglicus.	Dee, Arthur, 1579-1651.; Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692.	1650 (1650)	Wing D810; Thomason E1325_1; ESTC R209088	90,355	320

poised in an equal ballance Idem pa. 447. Boil him at the warm Sun untill Dastin he hath dried his Water which being exsiccated pound him again with water to his Weight and boil him at the Sun till he be dried into a Stone doe this oftentimes till he hath drunk of his Water ten times his own quantity and become dry hard and red Dastin spec pa. 191. 134. Son it behoveth thee to mingle Lullius the Earths of the foresaid Sulphurs that is of Gold and Silver together and prepare them by giving them the fourth part of their Weight of the said menstrous Matter by digesting and drying as it is done in the Creation of Sulphur untill it hath drunk four parts of the said menstruous Matter and be disposed to Sublimation which thou shalt sublime in Fire of the fourth degree Lull Test p. 24. Take of the sincere Body one Dastin part and of the other Copper three and mingle them together with Vinegar Senior in Turba It is meet the Water exceed the Earth nine times that so in a Decinary number which is a perfect number the whole Work may be consummate But as Diostenes saith if too much of the Water be at once imposed it is not contained in the Earth but if too much be substracted it is not joined to the Earth Whence all the Water is not to be at once imposed on the Earth Therefore divide it into three parts and every of them into another third because so one may better fight against one then against a number of more Mingle the Hot with the Cold the Humid with the Dry and the mixt shall be temperate neither Hot nor Cold nor Moist nor Dry for one tempers another making the mixt adequate Dast spec pa. 177. 134. A man may be easily stifled in Basilius Valentinus great Waters and little Waters are easily exsiccated with the heat of the Sun so that they may be as nothing Therefore that the desired Work might be obtained a certain measure in the commixtion of the Philosophick liquorous Substance must be observed lest the greater overcome and oppresse the lesser Proportion by which Generation might be hindred and lest the lesser in respect of the greater should be too weak to exercise equall Dominion for great showers of rain hurt the Fruit and too much drought produces no true Perfection Therefore if Neptune have fitly prepared his Bath weigh well the permanent Water and consider with diligent care that thou doe not any thing too much or too little to him Basil Valent. pa. 42. Take of the red Water and Arnold White as much of the one as of the other according to weight and put them together in a Cucurbite made of Glasse strong and thick having a Mouth like an Urinall afterward the whole Water will be Citrine even soon enough and so will the true Elixer be perfected in respect of both viz. perfect Impregnation and true Coition Arnold in Comment Hortulani p. 34. Let the Queen born by nine Dastin Virgins decently attend the Bed-chamber of so great a King and so in progresse of time thou shalt determine unity from the denary number Dastini Epist fo 2. In this Magistery the Government Basil Valent. of the Fire ought to be observed lest the humid Liquor be too soon exsiccated and the Wisemens Earth too quickly liquified and dissolved Otherwise of wholsome Fishes thou wilt generate Scorpions in thy Waters Basilius Valentin pa. 10. What ever actions they nominate Rosin understand always that these things are done by the action of the heat of certain Fire which makes not Sublimation because it is so gentle nor ought it naturally to elevate any Smoke Ros p. 287. THE COROLLARY Lest perhaps Ripley and Dastin our Countrimen and most excellent Philosophers should in this Chapter seem to some to differ among themselves since Ripley takes equall parts and joins them in equall Wedlock but Dastin affirms the Water ought nine times to exceed the Earth that so in a Decinary which is a perfect Number the whole Work might be consummate I thought it worth my labour to reconcile this appearing contradiction As therefore he that well distinguishes teaches well so he that knows this distinction of time shall forthwith have the Solution of this doubt For Ripley first speaks of the first Composition in the second or Philosophick Work where the Earth and pure Water prepared exactly before must be equally joined in equall Proportion But Dastin utters that his Opinion of Imbibitions after the perfection of the second Work and so while they are distinguisht they are understood and that easily But what means Ripley in these words viz. That they should lie together six Weeks not rising all the while from the bottome of their Sepulchre this must be enquired and searched into since he affirms it a secret which hath deceived many That Conjunction is done that even as a Chicken is made of an Egge after Putrefaction so after this Conjunction and due Putrefaction we may attain the Complement of the Work Therefore we must know if any thing may be born by Putrefaction it is necessary it happen after this manner The Earth by a certain hidden and included humidity is reduced into a certain corruption or destruction which is the beginning of Putrefaction which ought to be nourisht with such a tempered heat as that nothing exhale from the Compound or be sublimed to the top of the Vessel but that the Masculine and Feminine the Matter and the Form Agent and Patient remain together The Water in the Earth and the Earth unseparated from the Water are contained together as the yolk of an Egge included in the inner thin skin till the time of Putrefaction loose the reins which will not be done sooner then in the space of forty days for as Nature hates sudden mutations or alterations so no Putrefaction is made but in a long time and appointed as Dastin elegantly said viz. The calidity of the Aire subtility of the Matter gentlenesse of the Fire stability of Rest equality of Compounds gravity of Patience and the maturity of Time doe promote and induce Putrefaction and therefore then also the Air is to be tempered the Thick subtilized the Fire restrained Rest preserved Proportion adequated Patience strengthened and the Time expected till Nature proceeding naturally shal compleat her own Work But that I may return to the purpose and adde Corollary to Corollary we must observe that in Preparation three parts of the Spirit are assumed to one part of the imperfect Body and at last about the time of the Birth three parts of imperfect Body are assumed to one of Spirit and this not once but often But in the second Work which of Philosophers is called the first first part is joined with part afterward three parts of Body to one of Spirit and that the oftner for Imbibitions and at length three of Spirit to one part of perfect Body

it fly away into Smoke because that is the approved sought for Good the better Best the white foliated Earth coagulating as the Rennet of a Lamb the Ashes of Ashes the Salt of Nature the begotten Infant the first and nearest Matter of Metals the first Subject in which are its proper Elements to wit of Natur'd Nature the moist and temperate Matter ought to be reduced and fixt till it flow with its Ferment like Wax without Smoke and endure all Fire Therefore labour with it to Silver and thou maist quickly begin the Magistery nor let it wax old without commixtion because thou maist not take it unlesse new made after the Birth with its Blood Lul Codic p. 117. If from Subliming little shall Dastin come forth and clean the Fire will yet be little Therefore let it bee encreast But if much and unclean the Fire is superfluous therefore let it be withdrawn But if much and clean then the proportion is found Dast spec p. 48. The Dust ascending higher from Rosar the Dregs is Ashes Honoured Sublimed Extracted from the Ashes but that which remains below is Ashes of Ashes inferiour vilified condemned Ashes a dreg and like drosse Therefore make a difference between its clear and limpid because when it shall ascend most white as Snow it will be compleat therefore gather it carefully lest it fly away into Smoke because that is the very sought for good the white foliated Earth congealing what is to be congealed Rosarius Arnoldi pa. 427. The Calx or Body must be often Geber imbibed that thence it might be sublimed and more yet purged then before because the Calx doth not at all or very difficultly climb upward assisted by the Spirit Geber lib. summae perfectionis p. 172. O Nature how dost thou burn Artepheus Bodies into Spirit which could not be done if the Spirit were not first incorporated with the Bodies and the Bodies with the Spirit made volatile and afterwards permanent Therefore the compound receives its cleansing by our Fire viz. by dissolving the humid and by subliming what is pure and white the dregs being cast forth as a naturall Vomit For in such a Dissolution and naturall Sublimation there is made a deligation of the Elements a cleansing and separation of the pure from impure so that the pure and white ascends upwards and the impure and earthy remains fixt in the bottome of the Vessel which is to be cast forth and removed because it is of no value by receiving onely a a middle white substance And in this is accomplisht our Philosophicall and Naturall Sublimation not in the Vulgar unfit Mercury which hath no qualities like these with which our Mercury drawn from the red servant is adorned Arteph fo 21. The first part abides not unlesse it be bound to the second in the same hour Idem It is fit that the end be restored upon its beginning and the beginning upon the end Idem When the Artist sees the white Soul risen let him join her immediately to her Body When the clean and candid Water shall be generated it is meet we join the Earth to it in the same Hour And according to Plato the Fierinesse Plato is contraried in the hour of coagulation And according to Dastin by the accesse of Cold the Water may well be turned into dry Earth Idem There is one and the same thing Margarita pretiosa in the Subject having all these properties and operations for while it remains in liquefaction by reason of Subtilty it is called Spirit without which Spirit there can neither be made Generation nor Conjunction of the Soul and Body Whence in the whole Magistery the Spirit actually rules untill the Soul and Body be generated but while it can fly from the Fire it is called a Soul but while it remains in the Fire and can persevere it is called a Body If therefore in the time of Generation the Soul shall stand in the Fire and his strength prevail through the force of the Spirit then she flies from the Fire and draws with her the Body to flight and the Workman remains frustrate of his purpose and expects that which hath been already come and gone and will never come hereafter and it seems wonderfull to him But if the strength of the Body prevail above the strength of the Soul then by equality of Spirit it is turned from Act into Habit then the Body retains the Soul altogether nor ever hath the power to fly from the Fire and the Workman hath his purpose which the Auncients had and then the Spirit remains always with them sometimes in Act and sometimes in Habit. But a quick and double insight is altogether necessary specially both in the end of Decoction and Sublimation that all the superfluities being whitened the Artist may see the wonderfull and terrible Candor and may presently obtain his joyfull and quiet rest after this Consummation of Labour for then by infrigidating the Moon the Sun is hidden in her Bowels and the East is joined to the West Heaven to Earth and Spirituall to Corporall whence is said in Turba Know ye that ye shall not Die the purple Colour but in Cold. And Hermes Whose Nature hath been hot if Cold find him it shal not hurt him And Avicen Know that he which hath evaporated all hath wrought well therefore make it Cold for then is manifest the hidden and the Manifest by infrigidating is hid And this Infrigidation or cooling is done with rest in which there is no operation of the hands since it is the end of operation Margarita pretiosa pa. 204. That Earth so mingled with Lullius Menstruous Matter is called Argent vive Exuberated which gather speedily and while it is new after its Birth put it in Water of Metals in digestion in a tripode of the Athanor Lull Test p. 21. This is our Mercury sublimed Dunst●● and made fixt from the white altered Earth of Bodies arising first wonderfully by the power and help of the Water This is that Mercury in stead of which the Fools and Idiots assume that compounded of common Vitrioll and Sublimated with Salt in which they are grosly deceived Dunstan p. 18. Sublime the Body as much as Clangor Buccinae thou canst and boil it with clean Mercury and when the Body hath drunken some part of the Mercury subtilize it with a Fire quick and stronger as thou art able until it ascend in likenesse of most white Dust adhering to the sides of the Vessell in manner of Snow But the Ashes remaining in the bottome are dregs and the vilified drosse of Bodies and to be cast away in which there is no life because it is most light Dust which with a little blast vanisheth because it is nothing but bad Sulphur excluded by Nature Then the dregs being cast away iterate the Sublimation of the most white Dust by it self without its dregs till it be fixt and till it send out

Water the second is Aire the mean between Water and Oil the third is Oil it self The Water is distilled to the likenesse or sign of perfect whitenesse which is transparent splendour and the shining clearnesse of crystall and he that attains to this Token hath the Philosophers Mercury dissolving all Bodies chiefly of the Sun and Moon because of the vicinity or nearnesse of Nature Lul Codic p. 119. In our whole Magisteriall there Lullius are three principall Spirits necessary which without the consummation of their resolution cannot be manifested and they are otherwise called three Argent vives and for Argent vive understand the Water in which the Tincture is carried Raymund Theor. p. 122. 24. If you will hear me I will truly Ripleus shew what is that Mercury chiefly profitable know therefore that there are three Mercuries which are the Keys of Science whom Raymund cals his Menstrua without which nothing is done rightly but two of those Mercuries are superficiall the third Essentiall of the Sun and Moon perfect Bodies when we first Calcine them naturally but no unclean Body is ingredienced except one which is commonly called of the Philosophers The green Lion which is the mean of joyning Tinctures With the second Mercury which is vegetable Humidity both the Principall Materiall and Formall bodies ought to be resolved otherwise they are of little moment And with the third which is Humidity very permanent and incombustible the unctuous Tree of Hermes is burnt into Ashes Ripley pa. 25. Sons of Wisdome there are Incertus three solutions the first is of a crude Body the second is of a Philosophicall Earth the third we put in Augmentation The Virgin is Mercury because it never propagated a body in the Womb of the Earth and yet it generates the Stone for us by resolving the Heaven that is it opens the Gold and bringeth forth a Soul Incertus de Chemia pa. 6. Metals are reduced to the first Ventura Matter when they are driven back to that first simplicity which their Elements had in their first Composition in which there were Spirits and Vapours by nature perfectible to the form of the Compound Vent pa. 12. By Argent vive is understood Ludus Puerorum the humidity of that unction which is the radicall humidity of our Stone Ludus Puerorum pag. 174. The Preparation of this Spirit is its subtilation which is performed Vogel by many distillations untill it hath gotten crystalline splendour and clearnesse Vogel p. 148. Keep the rectified Water apart Aristotle because that is the Mercury of the Philosophers the water of Life washing the Leton Aristotle pag. 366. The whole labour and tediousnesse Lull compendium is in this viz. the separation of the Elements and Sulphur Air cannot be divided from Metals unlesse by the twentieth twenty second or thirtieth distillation And the Fire may be divided from the Earth at the eleventh distillation and as many distillations as there are so many putrefactions and reiterations of Water and Air together to wit of our Menstruall water and every putrefaction requireth eight days or six continued so that the division of the Elements dures the space of an year but we have compleated it in seven moneths Lull compend pa. 281. The Alchymists have said that the Stone is compounded of two Waters viz. of one which makes the volatile Stone and the other which fixes and hardens it Idem Between every Calcination of Avicenna the Earth pour on water moderately to wit not much nor little because if much there 's made a sea of perturbation if little it will be burnt up into ashes But sweetly not hastily from eight days to eight days by watering decocting and calcining the Earth till it hath imbibed its Water therefore when the Earth shall not be white bray it together with its Water iterate and calcine it because Aroc and Fire doe wash the Earth and take away its obscurity from it for its preparation is always with Water and as the fitnesse of the Water shall be so also shall be the clearnesse of the Earth and by how much the more the Earth shall be white c. Avicenna pag. 420 421. He which knows not to extract Scala more things out of one is ignorant also to compound one thing of more Our separation is a separation of a watry or moist vapour or phlegme in Balneis a levigation of rarity a production of principles Scala p. 134. Imbibe Calx or Body oftentimes Geber that thence it may be sublimed and yet more purified then before because the Calx ascends upwards very difficultly or not at all unlesse holpen by the Spirit Geber lib. summae perfectionis pag. 573. The Vessell being fitly placed in Ventura the Furnace the Fire underneath must be continued then the Vapour of the Matter will ascend upwards into the Alembick most subtilly and the same will be turned into serene bright and cleare Water having the form of a water drop and the Nature of all the species of which it is generated and it descends again by the Crows beak that is the Neck of the vessell of the Alembick and this Water because it is subtile doth enter the Body and extract first the Soule afterwards it dissolves all that is left and turns it into Water Moreover know that all things which are sublimed are sublimed two ways some by themselves and some with others but our Mercury since it is a Spirit is sublimed by it self but our Earth since it is the Calx of the Body is not sublimed unlesse very well incorporated with Mercury Therefore beat or pound them together and imbibe till they become one Body because the Body ascends not unlesse incorporated with Mercury Ventura p. 141. Dissolve the Gold and Silver in Vogel Water of their kinde if thou know it Vogelius p 78. And this is the last Preparation Massa Solis Lunae viz. of Spirits often reiterated by Contrition and Assation with their Body untill thou see these things which thou desirest in it Massa Solis Lunae pag. 240. Sons of Learning know ye that Afflictes the whole Work and the Government thereof is not done but by Water with which mingle ye the body of the Magnesia and put it in its Vessel and close the mouth carefully and boil it with a gentle fire till it be made liquid for by the heat of the Water the whole will easily be made Water Afflictes in Turba p. 32. THE COROLLARY From a certain Minerall Masse coagulated lucid red ponderous being perfect Metall in the nearest power containing in it selfe vive spermatick Sulphur and vive immature Mercury multiplicable in it self with the most gentle fire of a Balneum or Bath is drawn forth a certain insipid phlegmatick Water which if it be again repoured on with its due proportion of Earth and in due season digested and abstracted by dissolving daily by little and little

a Potter or maker of Earthen Images a Carpenter without which neither the Palace can rightly be built nor the King therein preserved from Cold and the Injuries of Winds 15. Many men through Ignorance have destroied their Work when at the first they made Projection of the Medicine upon Imperfect Metals For on whatsoever Body thou first of all Projectest the Medicine that same is converted into a Frangible Masse and shall be an Elixir according to the nature of the Body upon which it is so Projected So as that if the Projection be made upon Jupiter or Venus it shall be a Medicine which not onely converteth other Imperfect Bodies into Jupiter or Venus but also reduceth Perfect Bodies to wit the Sun and Moon into Imperfect Bodies according to the nature of the Body upon which the Medicine shall first be Projected Which caused the most Learned Raimund struck with Admiration to cry out in these words What! is Nature Retrograde 16. He that would understand the sayings of Philosophers must not give credit so much to their Words as to the things they Treat of For the knowledge of Words is not to be taken from the manner of speaking because that the Matter is not subject to the Speech but the Speech to the Matter 17. Note that a short and broad vessell is requisite for distilling a Heavy Body or at least Water with its Saltnesse Because that by how much the Water is more Ponderous then the Body by so much ought the Vessell to be the broader and deeper through which the heat passeth more temperate and profitable to the Work 18. Great care is always to be had lest at any time from the first Conjunction to the Whitenesse the Matter should wax cold or be at any time moved by reason of imminent Danger 19. Let not a greater Quantity of the Matter be put into the Philosophers Egge then may fill two Thirds thereof at the utmost 20. It is to be noted that in Ablution or Calcination of the Earth although the Waters Imbibition or Exsiccation be made in Preparation by the temperate heat of the Bath yet its Sublimation or Rising is perfected by a swift fire of Ashes 21. The Philosophicall Work may be begun with an equall Proportion of Earth prepared and pure Water seven times rectified which are joined and put up in an Ovall Glasse Hermetically Sealed Afterwards let them be placed in the Philosophicall Furnace or Athanore and cherished with a most soft Fire whilst the Earth drinks up her Water and according to Ripley the Streams are dried up Then lastly let the dry Matter be comforted with seven Imbibitions and every Imbibition keep the following Proportion that so the Water may be a just Measure exceed the Earth nine times according to the Doctrine of Philosophers which cannot otherwise be done then by observing these Numbers But this secret was never as yet Revealed by any Body For Example If in the first Conjunction the Earth weigh 480 Grains then let so many be added to it of its Water which together make up 960 Grains and for the time appointed to the first Imbibition 240 Grains of new Water are required 300 to the second 375 to the third 468 to the fourth 585 to the fifth 732 to the sixth 940 to the seventh whereby the Imbibition is perfected and then proceed to Fermentation THE END Nil adeò parvum est tibi quin solatia praestet Saepéque Punctum unum grande Levamen habet ARCANVM OR The grand Secret OF HERMETICK PHILOSOPHY WHEREIN The Secrets of NATURE and ART concerning the Matter and Manner of making the Philosophers Composition are orderly and methodically manifested The Work of a concealed Author Penes nos unda Tagi The third Edition amended and enlarged To the Students in and well affected unto HERMETICK Philosophy health and prosperity AMongst the heights of hidden Philosophy the production of the Hermetick Stone hath of a long time been strongly believed to be the chiefest and nearest a Miracle both for the Labyrinths and multitudes of operations out of which the minde of man unlesse it be illuminated by a beam of Divine light is not able to unwinde her self as also because of its most noble end which promiseth a constant plenty of health and fortunes the two main pillars of an happie life Besides the chief Promoters of this Science have made it most remote from the knowledge of the vulgar sort by their Tropes and dark expressions and have placed it on high as a Tower impregnable for Rocks and Situation whereunto there can be no accesse unlesse God direct the way The study of hiding this Art hath drawn a reproach upon the Art it self and its Professors for when those unfortunate Plunderers of the Golden Fleece by reason of their unskilfulnesse felt themselves beat down from their vain attempt and far unequall unto such eminent persons they in a furious rapture of desperation like mad-men waxed hot against their fame and the renown of the Science utterly denying any thing to be above their cognizance and the spheare of their wit but what was foolish and frothy And because they set upon a businesse of damage to themselves they have not ceased to accuse the chief Masters of hidden Philosophy of falshood Nature of impotency and Art of cheats not for any other reason then that they rashly condemne what they know not nor is this condemnation a sufficient revenge without the addition of madness to snarl and bite the innocent with infamous slaunders I grieve in truth for their hard fortune who whilest they reprove others give occasion of their own conviction although they justly suffer an hellish fury within them They moil and sweat to batter the obscure principles of the most hidden Philosophy with troops of arguments and to pull up the secret foundations thereof with their devised engines which yet are onely manifest to the skilfull and those that are much versed in so sublime Philosophy but hid from strangers Nor doe these quick-sighted Censors observe that whilst they malign anothers credit they willingly betray their own Let them consider with themselves whether they understand those things which they carp at What Author of eminency hath divulged the secret elements of this Science the Labyrinths and windings of operations and lastly the whole proceedings therein What Oedipus hath sincerely and truly explained unto him the figures and intangled dark speeches of Authors With what Oracle what Sibyll have they been led into the Sanctuary of this holy Science In fine how were all things in it made so manifest that no part remains yet unveiled I suppose they will no otherwise answer my question then thus that they have pierced all things by the subtilty of their wits or confesse that they were taught or rather seduced by some wandring Quack or Mountebank who hath crept into a good esteem with them by his feigned countenance of a Philosopher O wickednesse who can silently suffer these Palmer-worms to