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

think it convenient to discourse of this no longer By what signes Mines are discovered Now concerning the other signes of the internall earth as also the colours of Mineralls we shall briefly discourse of them thus As oft as Miners fall upon a fat earth which doth signifie a vein of a pure and new metall that is a very good signe assuring that that Metall of which it is a vein is not far off So also if the earth that is digged have no Metall in it but be fat of a white colour or black or like clay or green or blue c. then that also is a good signe of some good Metall that is hid under it Therefore you must continue digging and not give over Miners in the first place have respect to the excellent beautiful and chiefest colours as are green earth or Chrysocoll Verdegrease Azure Cinnabar Sandaracha Auripigmentum Litharge of Gold and Silver c. every one of these almost doe for the most part signifie a peculiar Metall or Minerall So Verdegrease Chrysocolla green earth for most part signifie Copper So Azure or white Arsenick or Litharge of Silver signifie the Metall of Copper So Cinnabar and Sandaracha do sometimes signifie Gold sometimes Silver and sometimes a mixture of both So Anripigmentum red Sulphur and Litharge of Gold for the most part signifie Gold So when Chrysocoll is found mixt with the Azure or the Azure with Chrysocoll and Anripigment for the most part they signifie an excellent and rich Minerall Where stones or earth are found of an Iron colour they doe certainly betoken an Iron Mine You must note that sometimes it comes to passe that the Archeius of the earth doth by some secret passage cast up some Metall from the more inward part of the earth And that is a good signe Miners therefore must not bee discouraged when they see such certaine signes and hope of some excellent Mine lying under And if thin leaves of Metalls like Talke do adhere to rocks or stones that is a most sure sign What Coruscations signifie in Mines Now concerning Coruscations they must bee diligently gently and studiously observed for they are most certain signes of Metalls lying hid under them as also of the same extent and same kind Where yet wee must note that those Metalls are not yet come to perfection but are as yet in their first being And whither soever the Coruscation reacheth so far also reacheth the course of Metalls c. Coruscations are of three colours Moreover you must know that Coruscation is of a threefold colour as White Yellow and Red whereby all Metalls are discovered to us For a white Coruscation signifies white Metalls as Tinne Lead Silver c. a red Coruscation signifies red Metalls as Copper and Iron c. a yellow Coruscation signifies golden Metalls Add moreover that a thin and subtil Coruscation is the best signe For as you see it is in trees that by how much the fewer flowers there are so much the better greater and more savory are the fruit so also small and subtile Coruscations signifie subtile and excellent Metalls as the contrary doe the contrary Moreover you must know that as long as those Coruscations appear whether they be great or small or of this or that colour the Metalls in those Mines have not yet attained to perfection but are yet in their first being as the sperm of a man in the matrix of a woman What Coruscation is But now what Coruscation is wee must consider in this place and we must know that it appears in the Mines by night like a sparkling fire no otherwise then gunpowder that is laid in a long train and being kindled at one end makes a long flashing After the same manner is Coruscation carried along from the East to the West or from the West to the East from the South to the North or contrarily All these Coruscations how ever they appear are a certain signe of Courses of Metalls that by them they may be known and Metalls as certain gifts of God may be brought forth out of the earth For what God created for mans use hee put that nature into it that it should not be hid and although it were hid yet he made peculiar externall signes which conduce to the finding of it out by which the wonderful predestination of it may be known In the same manner if men hide treasures they marke the place with some certain marks and bury them by some bound statue or fountaine or any other thing that when there is occasion they may find and dig them up again How Chaldeans and Grecians hide their treasure The ancient Chaldeans and Grecians if in times of war fearing to be driven away or banished they would hide their treasure would marke the place no otherwise then propose to themselves a certain day hour and minute of the year and did observe in what place the Sun or Moon should cast their shadow and there did bury and hide their treasure What Sciomancy is This Art they call Sciomancy i. e. the Art of Shadowing By these shadowings many Arts have had their ground and many hid things have been revealed and all Spirits and Astrall bodies are known These are Cabalisticall signes that cannot deceive and therefore diligently to bee taken notice of Divining Rods uncertaine You must therefore take heed that you suffer not your selves to be seduced by the divinations of uncertain Arts for they are vain and fruitlesse especially Divining rods which have deceived many Miners For if they shew a thing truly once they faile ten times Also wee must not trust other fraudulent signes of the devill which are made and appeare in the night and at some inconvenient times preternaturally such as are ghosts visions For I would have you know that the devill can shew and cause signes but out of meer fraud and deceit So there is no Church built but the devill hath his Chappell there There is no Chappell built but hee sets up his Altar There is no good seed but hee sows amongst it his tares The same is the nature of Visisions and supernaturall Apparitions in Crystalls Berills Looking-glasses and Waters as they are by Ceremoniall Negromancers contrary to Gods command and the power of the light of Nature basely abused Visions indeed are not absolutely to be rejected for they have their place but then they must bee done after another processe For now wee are not any longer in the first generation but the second Ceremonies therefore and Conjurations are not any longer to be used by us Christians in the regeneration as the Ancients in the old Testament who lived in the first generation used them For those prefigurations were for us who were to live in the New Testament Whatsoever things therefore the Ancients that were under the Old Testament and in the first Generation did doe by Ceremonies Conjurations c. wee Christians of the second Generation and in