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A34451 The Philosophical epitaph of W.C. Esquire for a memento mori on his tomb-stone, vvith three hieroglyphical scutcheons and their philosophical motto's and explanation : with the philosophical Mercury, nature of seed and life, and growth of metalls, and a discovery of the immortal liquor alchahest : the salt of tartar volatized and other elixirs with their differences. Also, A brief of the golden calf, the worlds idol : discovering the rarest miracle in nature, ... / by Jo. Fr. Helvetius. And, The golden ass well managed and Midas restor'd to reason, or, A new chymical light : demonstrating to the blind world that good gold may be found as well in cold as hot regions, and be profitably extracted out of sand, stones, gravel and flints &c. .../ written by Jo. Rod. Glauber. With Jehior, aurora sapientiae, or, The day dawning or light of wisdom : containing the three principles or original of all things whereby are discovered the great and many mysteries of God, nature and the elements, hitherto hid, now revealed / all published by W.C. Esquire. : with a catalogue of chymical books. Cooper, William, fl. 1668-1688.; Helvetius, Johann Friedrich, d. 1709. Vitulus aureus, quem mundus adorat & orat. English.; Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670. Novum lumen chimicum. English. 1673 (1673) Wing C6062; Wing C6061_PARTIAL; ESTC R6283 114,421 261

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cannot come to its glory unless it be gone in the Crusible through the consuming fire seven times that afterward it may be Baptized with Water and Spirit to a new birth and become a new Gold and become out of the same Spirit and Water increased into many thousands and as a Heavenly Gold Spirit and Metal whereby other inferiour metals may be turned into the substance of the best Gold So it fareth with man that shall get Wisdom first he must be baptized with Fire then with Water and then with the Spirit and all this is done in the Crusible of the Terrestrial man But all wisdom is sufficient through the Spirit and in Truth through Principia subordinata Concordantia which do concenter afterward in a Harmony The Principia contain the true beginning of every thing from whence it came thither it doth return also and from thence it is preserv'd also The Subordinata contain the Order straitness and perfection of every thing as they do hang one in another stand and subsist one by another even as a Ladder or Stairs there must not be one step amiss or wanting else the subordinata are not true Commonly there are seven subordinata and follow one upon another orderly and things that follow one after another are subordinata and thus it is perfect Lastly this is a Concordance that all things may agree one with another and a Contrariety be no where found seen or heard Even as in sweet Musick all things are Harmonious let the Voices be as many as they will and change one in another going out of one into another and an everlasting Ternarius remaineth therein and so the Principles and Concordance consist in Ternarius and Vnity where one floweth out of another till to the number of seven of the Subordinata which reach after the greater number till to Twelve At last the Harmony concentreth and encloseth all which taketh altogether in One Three and Seven and presents one as the other namely the upper as the lower and the lower as the upper so that none be against the other although they be so far distinct as God and Creature Spirit and Soul Heaven and Earth yet one is in the other the one is known by the other and the one is justified by the other and that in Spirit and Truth Search now and see try and learn hear observe and judge what Wisdom this is and what Truth and Spirit is presented in this Book The fool knoweth nothing of the Wisdom and doth not understand her way Lyers do not understand the Truth nor do they know her Principles and the soulish bruitish and profane know nothing of the Spirit although they hear his wind blow yet they know not from whence it cometh nor whither it goeth Therefore do not look upon men do not inquire after men that is nothing and do not stare upon the image to the intent to adore it as all those do that dwell on Earth Rev. 13. But only inquire after the Spirit and fear him for he will direct all in the Word of Truth and Righteousness Him you are to Honour and against him do not think speak or do that you may not be condemned out of your own mouth Now all Spirit Truth and Wisdom reveal themselve in these three and are thereby known and justified namely in a Divine Light in a Divine Life and in a Divine Love where these three are in on and about man there is really Spirit Truth and Wisdom The Divine Light containeth all wisdom understanding and knowledge The Divine Life containeth all Truth Holiness and Righteousness And the Divine Love containeth the whole Spirit and poureth him out into our hearts and thereby we know that God hath loved us because he hath given us of his Spirit which cryeth in us Abba and giveth Testimony to our Spirit that we are the Children of God He poureth forth our Tears and Prayers before God that we might find grace before the Lord and teacheth us to pray aright before the Lord about things that are above maketh intercession for us with unspeakable sighs Thereby we know in the Spirit and in Truth where the right Wisdom the Divine Truth and the Holy Ghost is for these three Light Life and Love proceed from God and God himself is Light and there is neither Darkness nor Fire in or about him God is Eternal Life there is neither Death nor Perdition out of him in or about him God is Love it self and there is neither VVrath nor Pain Hell nor ●amnation out or of him He that stayeth by in and on these three namely by the Divine Light in a Divine Life and in a Divine Love he stayeth and abideth in God and God in him in the Spirit and Truth according to the wisdom and true knowledge of God and knoweth what is Truth Spirit and Wisdom and tells their true Principles Subordinates and Concordances in a Divine Harmony proved to the Elect Angels and Men in Spirit and in Truth CHAP. XXI Of the Mystery of Time to understand it aright NOthing so secret at night but the day may reveal it when the Light cometh to its Day and the day to its light and the clear Sun doth shine over all that is under Heaven The Night is past and behold the day breaks on with its fair morning light which is a light fire and a fire-light who can now subsist for the Lord cometh yea the Lord cometh coming Amen Halelujah He is like unto the fire of a Founder and like unto the sharp Lee of Sope boylers he will melt prove try c. He will wash purifie and cleanse And who can stand before him Mal 3. This he doth therefore that all filth may be done away before the Sun riseth and may not put the whole Earth and world to banishment or destruction Chap. 4. Now that day being come with its light in this time then the Mystery of the time of the whole world will be revealed But always is included and closed in and with the number of Seven For in the seventh day God finished the Creation and so in Seven always included But the number 7 standeth thus 7 49. 70. The number Seven after our time standeth chiefly upon the Seventh Trumpet in and with it the Mystery of God is finished yea revealed Rev. 10 11 12. Chap. As also with the seventh Vial of Gods wrath But as much as we know in part we are and live betwixt the fifth and sixth Vial. The number 49. sheweth expresly that fair Mystery of the time of the refreshing and restitution of all that is lost Levit. 25. And the number 49 is the end of the little seventh day and a beginning of the great seventh day and Sabbath of God Lastly the number 70 seeth upon the 70 weeks in the Prophet Daniel as also upon the expiration of the 1335 days Chap. 9. 24. 12. 12. When these are about then the transgression will be reconciled every
and some would have it one thing comprising the nature of two as a Hermophradite or Embrio moreover some would have it absolutely two things as Male and Female Fire and Water or Water and Earth Sulphur and Mercury or Heaven and Earth Some likewise would have it consist of three Salt Sulphur and Mercu y ☉ ☽ ☿ Body Soul and Spirit Others would have it the four Elements and say the Conversion of them is the whole work And some again would have it a fifth Essence and Quintessential Spiritual Body and say their Mastery and Mistery consists in these five numbers 1 2 3 4 5. as in my said Epitaph and Circular Scutcheons appear thus comprehended in and by the Chaos and Products The Chaos in th' Excentrick Centre still Hath death's Heads Ternary Crows or owly Bill Whose square Face under Times confused Glass Of Fire and Water six days Angles pass Within the Spiny Bush Expansion till A Sabatean Rest makes all stand still After each Colour fram'd to th' owners praise Then all things multiply to the end of days The two in number are but one in kind And four in Nature three in one do bind And then the Quintessence wheels thrice in'ts Sphear To conquer all the Mortals every where Which Waters thus takes name from Icarus the lofty Eagl●s Son and Dedalus Philosophers true Sulphur and Mercury their u●ctuous Tincture and their water Dry. The Owl appears in darkness Yellowish Red And white are seen upon the Gooses Head The Bird of Paradise and Phoenix fly Which Starry brightness in th' Adeptists Skye Through Milkie Paths up to the Moon and Sun To multiply till the Adept have done Then each that 's worthy come and Feast you here With Apollo Hermes and ●inervah s Chear For here is Nectar and Ambrosia still Vnder these Hyerogliphicks take your fill All which nevertheles I acknowledge is really but one onely thing or Essence in the Root viz. the Philosophers ☿ although out of two or three particulars or more in kind and one operation of several parts as in my said Epitaph and Circular Figures comprised Nay indeed may be but one onely particular thing and one continued simple and single operation when duely prepared and superfluities removed But if one onely thing be taken then it is divided into several parts or if several things be taken they are brought to one and so may it be said of the Operation which all being but one the Philosophers nevertheless are pleased to distinguish it by its several Progressions Colours and Properties intimated by and within the said three figured Circles and their Titles all agreeing with this old Aenygma of Vitriol which being in many of the Metallick kind is and hath but one thing or substance and although but one yet may be opened divided and have several parts and being done be brought to one again in one single and simple operation of Nature Thus V. I. T. R. I. O. L. V. M. Visitabis Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem Veram Medicinam Visit the interiours of Earth Rectifying And you shall find the hid Stone and true Medicine And like it agreeing with this work of Palyugenius which hath two Hunc Juvinem Arcadium Insidum nimiúmque fugacem Prendite immersum stygiis occidite Lymphis Post Hiales Gremio impositum Deus excipiat Quem ●emnia Terra colit sublatumque in Cruce figat Tunc sepelite utero in calido dissolvite putrem Cujus stillantes Artus de corpore nostro Spiritus egrediens penetrabit ordine miro Paulatim extinctum nig●is revocabit ab umbris Aurata indutum Clamyd●n Argentoque nitentem Projicite hunc demum in prunas Renovabiter alter Vt Phoenix quae tangit perfecta relinquit Corpora Naturae leges faedera vincens Mutabit species paupertatemque fugabit Englished thus Take this Arcadian slippery ●ad who 's apt to fly And in the Glittering Stygian Lake drown'd let him dye When Hi●ls juices in his breast God saves him from loss Whom Lemnian Earth doth nourish lift up fix t' a Cross Then in a warm Cave buried dissolve what 's Rotten From whose Synews drops of this our Body 's gotten Spirits will Pi●rce and orderly from shades bring out This Offspring cloth'd with Gold and Silver round about At length project this on live Coals and you 'l soon see Another Phoenix like thereby renew d to be Which with its onely touch perfects all Bodies here Past the strict bond and laws of Natures Sphear And will change the Species to a higher degree Whereby all Grief may cease and Poverty shall flee And yet understand me rightly concerning the said work and matter of Philosophers that Gold for certain is the principle of Gold-making powder be it in what subject or appearance it will even as Fire is the principle of Firing For nothing can give what it hath not In Auro semina sunt Auri. As Augurellus and others testifie In Gold is the seed of Gold And even the same may be said of Lune when 't is a Masculine And their Mercury is the ground of both and contains all three and is the Earth in which it is sown and from whence it takes its original and is of their own Nature But this must be living Gold or Silver and not the common Gold or Silver which are Dead or the common fowl Quick silver And indeed these are more universal cheap common and easie to be had then most men even some Philosophers do think which caused Ingenious and Learned Taulodanus to write against the Subject of that worthy old Philosopher Bracescus though both true Philosophers and their several Subjects true and this made Claveus in his Chrysopeia and Argyropeia to doubt of some of Lullie's Processes For these Principles are to be found in one subject and in divers having a Golden Nature as Dunstan Arnold Guido Ripley Raimund Glauber and others do testi●e and more ways are to the Wood then one For out of every or any particular Metallick or Mineral Species may by due Philosophick preparation be extracted the subject for the Philosophers Stone and every Chymical work called particular may by purification good preparation sutable fixation volatisation and exaltation be made a universal work for Multiplication Nay out of every Element and Principle of and in Nature and almost every abject thing whatsoever may be extracted a Sulphurous Sol Lune or Mercury enlivened for the Philosophers work And St. Devogius affirms that the said first matter of Philosophers is easier to be touched with the hand then discerned or found by subtilty of Wit or Sophistick imaginations and saith he told it the Process literally to some who nevertheless had not confidence therein for the meanness of the same and therefore left it without trial And certainly the Antecedent and Primordial Ens Auri is in every Element and Principle the which are never so simple but out of each the other may
for the value of the matter but for some particular consequences nay if it were possible said he that fire could be burnt of fire I would rather at this instant cast all this substance into the fiercest flames But after he demanding if I had another private chamber whose prospect was from the publick Street I presently conducted him in to the best furnished room backwards where he entred without wiping his Shooes full of snow and dirt according to the custom in Holland then not doubting but he would bestow part thereof or some great secret treasure on me but in vain for he asked for a little piece of gold and pulling off his Cloak or Pastoral habit opened his Doublet under which he wore five pieces of Gold hanging in green silk Ribons as large as the inward round of a small Pewter Trencher and this Gold so far excelled mine that there was no comparison for flexibility and colour and these Figures with the Inscriptions ingraven were the resemblance of them which he granted me to write out D. 8. Pag. 16 1 Amen Holy holy holy is the Lord our God and all things are full of his hononr Leo. Libra 2 The maruelous wisdome of the wonderfull Iehovah in the vniuersall Booke of nature I am made the 26 th of August 1666 3 ☉ ☿ ☽ The wonderfull God Nature and the spagyricall Art make nothing in vain 4 To the Honour of the Euerlasting Inuisible ●ivne only wise most high Omnipotent God of Gods holy holy holy Gouernor and praiseworthy Preseruer of all 5 Holy art thou O holy spirit Halloluiah ffye vpon the Diuell and neuer speake of God without light Amen I being herewith affected with great admiration desired to know where and how he came by them Who answered An outlandish friend who dwelt some days in my House giving out he was a Lover of this art and came to reveal this art to me taught me various Arts First How out of ordinary Stones and Christalls to make Rubies Chrysolites and Sapphires c. much fairer then the ordinary And how in a quarter of an hour to make Crocus Martis of which one dose would infallibly cure the Pestilential Dissentary or Bloody Flux and how to make a metallick Liquor most certainly to cure all kinds of Dropsies in four days as also a limpid clear water sweeter then hony by which in two hours of it self in hot sand it would extract the Tincture of Granats Corals Glasses and such like more which I Helvetius did not observe My mind being drawn beyond those bounds to understand how such a noble juice might be drawn out of the metals to transmute Metals but the shade in the water deceived the dog of the Morsel of Flesh in his mouth Moreover he told me his said Master caused him to bring a glass full of rain water and fetch some refined Silver laminated in thin plates which therein was dissolved within a quarter of an hour like Ice when heated And presently he drank to me the half and I pledged him the other half which had not so much taste as sweet milk whereby me thought I became very light hearted I thereupon asked if this were a Philosophical drink and wherefore we drank this Potion He replied I ought not to be so curious And after he told me that by the said Masters directions he took a piece of a Leaden Pipe Gutter or Sistern and being melted put a little such sulphurious powder out of his Pocket once again put a little more on the point of a Knife and after a great blast of Bellows in short time poured it on the red stones of the Kitchin Chimney which proved most excellent pure Gold which he said brought him into such a trembling amazement that he could hardly speak But his Master thereupon again incouraged him saying Cut for thy self the sixteenth part of this for a memorial and the rest give away amongst the poor which he did And he distributed so great an Alms as he affirmed if my memory fail not to the Church of Sparrenda But whether he gave it at several times or once or in the Golden Masse or in Silver Coyn I did not ask At last said he going on with the story of his master he taught me throughly this almost Divine Art As soon as this his History was finisht I most humbly beg'd he would shew me the effect of Transmutation to confirm my faith therein but he dismissed me for that time in such a discreet manner that I had a denial But withall promising to come again at three weeks end and shew me some curious Arts in the Fire and the manner of projection provided it were then lawful without prohibition And at the three weeks end he came and invited me abroad for an hour or two and in our walks having discourses of divers of natures secrets in the fire but he was very sparing of the great Elixir gravely asserting that was only to magnifie the most sweet fame and name of the most glorious God and that few men indeavored to sacrifice to him in good works and this he expressed as a Pastor or Minister of a Church but now and then I kept his ears open intreating to shew me the Metallick transmutation desiring also he would think me so worthy to eat and drink and lodge at my house which I did prosecute so eagerly that scarce any Suiter could plead more to obtain his Mistress from his Corrival but he was of so fixt and stedfast a Spirit that all my endeavors were frustrate yet I could not forbear to tell him further I had a fit laboratory and things ready and fit for an experiment and that a promised favour was a kind of debt yea true said he but I promised to teach thee at my return with this proviso if it were not forbidden When I perceived all this in vain I earnestly craved but a most small Crum or Parcel of his pouder or Stone to transmute four Grains of Lead to Gold and at last out of his Philosophical commiseration he gave me a Crum as big as a Rape or Turnip seed saying receive this small Parcel of the greatest Treasure of the World which truly few Kings or Princes have ever known or seen But I said This perhaps will not transmit four Grains of Lead whereupon he bid me deliver it him back which in hopes of a greater Parcel I did but he cutting halfe off with his Nail flung ●t into the fire and gave me the rest wraped neatly up ●n Blew Paper saying It is yet sufficient for thee I answered him indeed with a most dejected Coun●enance Sir what n eans this the other being too ●ittle you give me now less He told me If thou ●anst not mannage this yet for its great proportion ●or so small a quantity of Lead then put into the Cru●ible two Drams or halfe an Ounce or a little more ●f the Lead for there ought no more Lead be put in ●he Crucible