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A26733	Of natural & supernatural things also of the first tincture, root, and spirit of metals and minerals, how the same are conceived, generated, brought forth, changed, and augmented / [by] Basilius Valentinus ; translated out of high Dutch by Daniel Cable ; whereunto is added Frier Roger Bacon, Of the medicine or tincture of antimony; Mr. John Isaac Holland, his Work of Saturn; and Alex. Van Suchten, Of the secrets of antimony.	Basilius Valentinus.; Cable, Daniel.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.; Hollandus, Johan Isaäc, 15th cent.; Suchten, Alexander von, ca. 1520-ca. 1590.	1671 (1671)	Wing B1020; ESTC R29247	60,576	242

and of all the three Principles is one only thing and is founded and extracted out of one only thing which can make all Metals into one it is the true Spirit of Mercury and Soul of Sulphur together with the spiritual Salt united together inclosed under one Heaven and dwelling in one Body it is the Dragon and the Eagle the King and the Lion the Spirit and the Body which must tinge the Body of Gold ●o a Medtcine that it may gain power plentifully to tinge his other Companions O thou blessed Medicine given by God thy Creator O thou Celestial Magnet of great attractive Love O thou valid substance of Metals how great is thy power how uninventive is thy virtue how durable is thy constancy happy is that man on Earth who knows thy Light in truth which all the world takes no notice of he shall not see poverty no Disease shall touch him nor no sickness hurt him till the appointed time of death and till the last hour predestinated for him by his Heavenly King It is impossible for all the tongues of Men to utter the Wisdom which is laid in this Treasure of the Fountain all Orators must be silent and ashamed at it yea terrified and not able to speak a word when they shall behold and discern this supernatural Glory and I my self am afraid when I consider that I have discovered too much But I hope to prevail with God by Prayer that he will not charge it on me as a deadly Sin because I began the Work in his Fear obtained it by his Grace and revealed it for his Glory O thou holy everlasting Trinity I praise honour and magnifie thee with Heart and Mouth that thou hast revealed unto me the great wisdom of this earthly World next unto thy Divine Word whereby I have known thy Almighty Power and supernatural Wonders which Man will not discern I heartily beseech thee to give me more understanding and wisdom that I may bestow the use and profit thereof with a continual Sacrifice of Praise before thee unto the Christian-like Love of my Neighbour and to my own welfare both spiritual and corporal in power and virtue that thy Name may be made glorious honoured and praised for all thy Works in Heaven and Earth and that my Enemies may know that thou art the Lord full of eternal Wonders that they may repent and be converted and not be drowned in the falshood of Darkness God the Father Son and Holy Ghost help me and all of us from his heavenly Throne exalted above all Glory Might and Majesty whose Wisdom hath neither beginning nor end and before whom all Celestial Earthly and Hellish Creatures must tremble with fear to him be Glory forever Amen O Seraphin O Cherubin how great are thy Wonders and Actions look graciously upon thy servant and be entreated to be pacified that he hath manifested this The Reader must moreover know concerning the Generation of Copper and observe that it is generated of much Sulphur but its Mercury and Salt are in an equality for there is found to be no more or less of the one than of the other seeing then that the Sulphur in quantity excels the Mercury and the Salt thence arises a great coloured redness which possesses the Metal that the Mercury cannot perform its fixation that a fixt Body should be generated thereof Observe and understand it so of Copper that the form of Venus Body is so stated as that of a Tree which abounds in Rosen as the Larch Tree the Firr the Pine Deal Tree and other forts of Trees more the Rosen of the Tree is its Sulphur which it evacuates at sometimes by reason of its superfluity for it cannot bear it all such a Tree which is tinged with abundance of fatness by the digestion of Nature and the Elements burns quickly and freely and is not ponderous nor so durable as is the Oak or other hard wood which is close and compact whose Pores are not so open as those sorts of light wood and wherein the Sulphur doth not so predominate but the Oak hath therefore the more Mercury and a better Salt than the Pine Firr and Deal trees have and such wood doth not float so well above the water as the Deal being bound closed up compactly so that the Air is easily prevented in bearing it up So is it to be observed of Metals and especially of Gold which by reason of its abundant fixt digested and ripe Mercury hath a very close fast and compact fixt and invincible Body which neither Fire nor Water Air nor any Corruption of the Earth can prejudice that the consuming power of the Elements can do them no harm this fixedness close compacted Conjunction gives evidence of its natural ponderosity which cannot be evidenced in other Metals which is to be observed not only by weighing it in the scales but likewise you will find it thus if you lay but a scruple of pure Gold upon a hundred weight of Quicksilver it immediately sinks to the bottom whereas all other Metals being laid upon Quicksilver in like manner float on the top of it and sink not to the bottom because they are more open that the Air or Wind can penetrate them and bear them up Now what further concerns the Spirit of Venus or Copper in Physick you must last of all take notice and observe that it is throughout in its virtue and power discerned to be very wholsom and beneficial not only that Spirit which lies in the first Ens but also that very Spirit which is found in the last Matter its virtue power and operation is that it is preferred before all other Medicines in the Rising of the Matrix It's like is not yet found particularly against the Falling Sickness This Spirit hath also received an especial gift to dry the Dropsie up it preserves the Bloud from put refaction digests all which is adverse to the Stomach breaks the Stone of what kind soever it be Externally in Wounds this Spirit lays a ground to heal Noli me tangere and all other Sores cannot defend themselves nor their ill Qualities but this Spirit doth assault them and prepares a good ground for their Cure externally it mundifies and searches out that whereby the Medicine may operate fasten and make a beginning of the Cure Internally this Spirit penetrates through through searching out all that is evil in the Body even as doth the noblest Vulnerary potion No Imposthume can withstand this Spirit but is reformed by it I say briefly observe the Spirit of Venus very well it will manifest it self to admiration both internally and externally that many will esteem it to be incredible supernatural Last of all you must understand that this Spirit of Copper is a fiery Spirit penetrating searching and consuming all evil Humours and superfluous Flegme in Man and Metals and may in reason be accounted the Crown of Medicines it is very fiery and sharp incombustible but

so hath its Children of the lower Region succeeded it in Kind and Nature hath permitted that Vulcan should conduct them to their like if Saturn be content for the upper light gives occasion thereunto having generated an unfixt Body of Saturn penetrated with open pores that the Air can pass through this Saturnine Body that the Air can keep it aloft but the fire can quickly assault it because the body is not compact by reason of its unfixedness so that it must decay which must be in all points observed by him that will attain to the search of it for there is a great difference between the fix'd and unfix'd bodies and of the causes of their Constancy and Inconstancy And though Saturn hath an especial ponderosity above other Metals yet observe when they are poured forth together after their union in the Flux the other Metals alwaies settle at the bottom even as it likewise comes to pass in the pouring of Antimony through with other Metals whereby it is evident that the other Metals fall through equally and are more compact than Saturn for it must give place and preheminence to the other Metals leaving the victory with them for it must vanish and be quite consumed with the unfixt inconstant Metals in it all the three properties of the three principles are most course and because its Salt is very fluxible above that of other Metals and Planets so is its Body more fluxible inconstant unfixt and volatile than any other Metallick Body As Saturn steps to its regeneration so know that in like manner as common Water is forced by the natural coldness by the change of the Heavens whereby it becomes a coagulated Ice in like manner is it to be made evident that by reason of the great coldness which is found to be in the Salt of SAturn above other Salts Saturn is also coagulated and made corporal Ice dissolves into water by heat so likewise the coagulated Saturn is made fluxable by Fire it hath most of Mercury in it but it is inconstant and volatile it hath least of Sulphur and therefore according to its small quantity its cold body cannot be made warm it hath little Salt but fluxible otherwise Iron would be more fluxible and malleable than Lead if the Salt alone could cause a malleableness and fluxibleness because Iron contains more Salt than any other Metal Seeing then there is a difference to be found in this point you must therefore observe and remember the difference and how to distinguish between Metals All Philosophers have wrote as well as I that the Salt gives the Coagulation and Body to every Metal and it is true but to prove it by an example how and after what manner this Relation is to be understood Plume Allom is esteemed to be only a meer Salt and is approved to be such which in this particular may be compared to Iron that the Salt of the Plume Allom is found to be a thing unfluxible as Iron is On the other side Vitriol likewise is a Salt manifesting it self in a small quantity but fluxible and open therefore its Salt cannot yield such a hard congelation unto its appropriated Metal as the other can although all the Salts of Metals grew out of one certain Root and out of one Seed yet nevertheless you must observe a difference in their three Principles as also you must observe remember that a difference is found in one Herb from the other and likewise how man differs from other Creatures and Animals in Qualities Original and the three Principles for one Herb is indued with more of this another with more of that kind which in like manner is to be understood concerning Man and other Animals The Soul of Lead consists in a sweet quality as also doth the Soul of Tin and sweeter yet that nothing almost may be compared to it being first of all purified to the highest by separation that the pure be well separated from the impure that a perfect accomplishment may succeed in the Operation Otherwise the Spirit of Lead is by nature cold and dry wherefore I advise that it be not much used by Men and Women because it over cools Nature so that the Seed of both cannot perform their Natural Function nor doth it much good to the Spleen and Bladder but in other cases it attracts flegmatick Humours unto it which raise up much Melancholy in Men for Saturn is a Ruler and such a Melancholicus whereby a Man is confirm'd in his Melancholy wherefore its Spirit is used for one Melancholy Spirit attracts another unto it whereby Mans Body is freed and delivered from its infused Melancholy Externally the Soul of Saturn is so healing in all Sores old or new Cuts Thrusts or Accidents by Means or Nature so that no Metal can do the like it is cooling in all hot tumified Members but Noble Venus hath the pre eminence to mundifie and cauterize all putrid Sores and to lay a ground for their Cure which have their access from within for in her essence she is hot to dry up but Saturn on the contrary is found to be cold in his Essence The Celestial Light of the Sun is much hotter than the Light of the Moon for the Moon is much lesser than the Sun and according to its dimension and division it contains an eighth part of the greatness in its Circle if then the Moon in this her Magnitude of the eighth part could excel the Sun as the Sun excels the Moon all Fruits and Productions of the Earth must perish and there would be a perpetual Winter no Summer to be found at any time But the Eternal Creator hath in this case well ordained a certain Order and Law for his Creatures that the Sun should give light by day and the Moon by night and so all Creatures should be served Those Children which are subject to the influence of Saturn are melancholy churlish continually murmuring as old covetous people who do no good to their own Bodies and yet never have enough they put their Bodies to much labour torment themselves with thoughts and whimsies seldom recreate themselves or are merry with other people nor do they greatly regard the natural love of fair Women In brief I tell thee that Saturn is generated of little Sulphur little Salt and much unripe gross Mercury which Mercury is to be esteemed as a Froth that floates upon the Water in comparison of that Mercury which is found in Sol and is much more hot in its degree and therefore the Mercury of Saturn by reason of its great coldness hath not so quick a running Life as that which is made of Gold wherein more heat is to be found whence that running Life hath its original Therefore in the inferiour world we must take notice of little Vulcan in the augmentation and transmutation of Metals as I have described those three Principles of Saturn as concering their descent nature and complection And every one must know

externally for the Spirit of the Air lies in the inward part of all things for God created nothing in this world but it hath its peculiar Taste or Air the Air and the Taste are one Spirit the Taste goes out of the Air as Smoke from the Fire But how comes it to pass that a thing which hath a sweet Air is bitter in Taste The cause is because the Faeces of that thing are putrid and stinking in the Elements that is the Choler or Heat for whatsoever is unnaturally hot hath a bitter Taste the Air and the Taste are both one Spirit and as the Spirit of the Air presses outwards through hot thing so doth the Air ●race the Taste about and ●ends the subtile Taste that it should not be burnt by the vehement burning Choler as in the Herbal is at large express'd But the cause why Saturn is sweet in Taste is that it is almost pure and clean having scarce any unnatural heat in it which can burn the subtile Tast therefore it hath the Taste externally and the Taste hath the Spirit of the Air lock'd up in it My Child know what I said before that a thing wherein is much burning heat the Air locks up the Taste therein because the Taste shall not be corrupted by the unnatural heat So the Taste includes the Air in it when it issues forth from a thing which is externally cold for the subtil Spirits of the Air or Sent of a thing can endure no Cold as we see daily in Herbs and Flowers that they yield no Sent in the Winter as they do in the Summer but they hide themselves in the Winter and the Spirit hath the Sent inclosed in it and the Spirit of Sent of Air. Behold a man that hath taken Cold immediately he loses his Sent and his Tasting is diminished Even so it is here with Saturn it is quite-cold so that the Taste manifests it self with the Spirit of Sent for the Spirit of the Taste hath the Smell in it Look upon Sugar which is well clarified from its Faeces how sweet it is in Taste yet it yields no Sent yet there is an extraordinary sweetness in Sugar What is the reason of this Sugar is very cold externally therefore is it white as Snow and of a sweet Taste yet Sugar internally is hot and moist of the temper of Gold and of such great virtue that it is called the Philosophers Stone as it is approved and very prevalent to cure all the Distempers of mans Body as appears by its operation The reason why I say this my Child is that you should altogether understand its internal external and the Spirits which are in these things whereof we discourse that thereby you should know Gods wonderful works and what wonders he works in these inferiour things which are all made for our use What hath God in us for whose sake he hath created all these wonders and all these things Wherefore my Child believe in God love him and follow him for he loves you as he makes it appear and manifests himself in all things as well in their Internals as in their Externals O how wonderful is our Lord and God from whom all Wonders proceed Now my child why is Saturn fluxible as Wax By reason of its abounding Sulphur which is therein for I find no fluxibleness or fusibleness in any thing saving in Sulphur Mercury and Arsenick and all these three are in Saturn so that Saturn is quickly fluxible but all these three are cleansed with it from their uncleanness And do you not know that the Philosophers call their Sone Arsenick and a white thing and they say their Sulphur is incombustible they call it likewise a red thing all this is Saturn in it is Arsenick for Luna is principally generated of a white Sulphur as is plainly taught in the Book of Sulphurs and all Arsenick is internally red as Bloud if its inward part be brought outwards as is demonstrated in the Book of Colours c. Saturn stands almost in the degree of fix'd Luna So that in it there is a red Sulphur as you see when its internal is placed outwards it will be red as a Ruby there are no Colours but in the Spirits so that there is in it a red and a yellow Sulphur In it is Mercury as may be seen for Mercury is extracted out of Saturn in a short time and with little labour So that all three are in Saturn but they are not fix'd therein but they are clean pure incombustible fluxible as Wax in it are all things which the Philosophers have mentioned They say our Stone is made of a stinking menstruous thing What think you is not Saturn digg'd out of a stinking Earth for divers are killed with the ill Sents and Vapours where Saturn is digg'd or they live not long who labour in that stinking black Mine whence Saturn is digg'd And the Philosophers say our Stone is of little value being unprepared they say the poor have it as well as the rich and they say true for there are not poorer or more miserable people to be found than those which dig and work Saturn in the Mine and they say it is to be found in all Towns and places wheresoever you come Saturn is there They say it is a black thing What think you is it not black They say it is a dry water if Gold or Luna be to be refined upon the test must it not be done with Saturn must be wash'd and tried with it as a foul garment is made clean with Sope. They say in our Stone are the four Elements and they say true for the four Elements may be separated out of Saturn They say our Stone consists of Soul Spirit and Body and these three become one They say true when it is made fix'd for the white Mercury and Sulphur with its Earth then these three are one Whereby is to be observed that the Philosophers have said true they concealed its Name for the ignorants sake who are not their Children to keep them still in their Ignorance Thus my Child the Ancients took care to conceal the name of the Stone now let us return to our purpose You have now Saturn wash'd and cleansed from all its impurity and made as white as Snow fusible as Wax but it is not fix'd yet we will make it fix the Mercury and Sulphur with its Earth Take a Glass-Vial put half of your purified Saturn into it reserve the other half till you have occasion to use it lay a polish'd Glass upon the mouth of the Glass set it in a Cuple with sifted Ashes upon a Furnace or set it on the Tripos of Secrets or in the Furnace wherein you calcine Spirits give it Fire so hot is the heat of the Sun at Midsummer and no hotter either a very little hotter or a very little cooler as you can best hit it But if you give it a greater heat such as you may keep

one as those of old had before us usual among the Egyptians and Arabian before Writing was found they noted observed and reserved by Signs Characters and Hieroglyphicks Such Blessings may be used which Christ the Son of God used as the Scripture saith He took little Children laid his hands upon them and blessed them But whatsoever is contrary to God and his Word ought justly to be rejected and not to be tollerated because they are not Godly but Diabolical But those Supernatural things which oppose not God and his Holy Word belong unto Magick and do the Soul no prejudice As concerning Visions which Holy Men of God have often seen it is reason they should be reckoned among those things which are not Natural for whatsoever man speculates and comprehends by the Mind is Supernatural on the contrary whatsoever he can take see and hold is Natural Let us consider the third part of Natural Supernatural things in Physick the Virtues and Powers of each this Medicine of every thing must first be driven out of a visible tangible natural Body and be brought into a spiritual meliorated supernatural operation that the Spirit which at the first was infused and given to the Body to live might be released that it should operate and penetrate as a Spiritual Essence and Fire having its Vent-holes left that it might burn and have no opposition which might suffocate suppress or hinder the burning Life whereas otherwise if the separation of the Soul and Spirit from the Body should not first be done there could not succeed any operation either effectual profitable or necessary for whatsoever is visible to be felt and inseparably in a Body that is Natural and Corporal but so soon as there is a separation the living departs from the dead gaining its perfect operation and the natural Body being separated the spiritual Essence is free to penetrate becoming a spiritual and supernatural Medicine In brief all things none excepted which we can touch and handle are natural but they must be made supernatural if you would prepare them for Physick for the supernatural only hath a living power in it to operate the natural hath only a dead tangible Form For when Adam was made he was dead having no life of any virtue but so soon as the operative quickning Spirit came to him then he manifested his living virtue and power by supernatural admiration so that in every thing there is the natural and supernatural united in one and bound together in their habitation that every thing might be perfect for all created things in the world are some supernatural only what concerns the Soul and spiritual matters and some are natural and supernatural with what concerns the Elements and Firmament as likewise the Minerals Vegetables and Animals which is known and found when they are separated one from the other that the Soul departs out of the Body and the Spirit forsakes its Soul leaving the Body an empty habitation Moreover you must understand and consider that the great and little World are made and formed of one first Matter by an unsearchable Almighty Essence at that time in the beginning when the Spirit of God moved upon the Water who was from Eternity without beginning The great World as Heaven and Earth was first then was Man the Little World taken out of the greater the Water was separated from the Earth the Water was the Matter whereon the everlasting Spirit of God moved the Little World was formed of the noblest Earth as its Quintessence by the Aquosity which yet was in the Earth and all was only Natural but after the breathing in of the Divine heating Breath immediately the Supernatural was added so then the Natural and Supernatural were knit and united The great World is perishable yet there will be a New Earth or World the Little World is Eternal the Great Created Dissoluble world will again be brought to nothing but the little world will be clarified by the Spirit of God because he possesses it making a Celestial clarified water out of the aforesaid Earthly water then it will follow that the first matter will be turned into the last and the last matter will become the first Now the reason why the great world is perishable is this that the Spirit of God hath not his dwelling or habitation in the great world but in the little world for Man is the Temple of the Holy Ghost if he do not wilfully defile himself adhering to the Hellish Fire which makes a breach and difference For he remaines in the little world which he formed after his own similitude and made him a consecrated Temple otherwise there is every thing in the little world which is to be found in the great as Heaven and Earth with the Elements and what depends thereon or appertains thereunto We find also that in the first Creation which was performed of nothing three things arose to wit a Soulish Spiritual Invisible Essence which represented a Mercurial Water a Sulphurous Vapour and a Terrene Salt these three gave a compleat and perfect a tangible and formal Body to all things wherein especially all the four Elements are contained as I have already mentioned in my Writing where I treat of the Microcosme But that I may yet give a little more information of Natural and Supernatural things as well spiritual as corporal We find that the Canaanitish Woman was cured of her Flux of Blood which held her twelve years only by a bare touch when she touched the Garment of the Son of God her Disease being natural but the Medicine or Cure was Supernatural because by her Faith she gained help from the Lord Christ. Likewise we have an excellent high and supernatural Miracle in the three Children Shadrach Meshach and Abednego who were cast into the fiery Furnace by the Command of King Nebuchadnezzar yet by God wonderfully delivered and not consumed Dan. 3. So also the Confusion of Tongues and Infusion of divers Speeches at the foolish structure of the Tower of Babel which should have reached up to Heaven is esteemed for a Supernatural Miracle And so was that a Supernatural Sign when the Children of Israel did lap water as Dogs do when a small Number at Gods Command fought against the Midianites Judg. 7. 6. So the sending of the Dove by Noah out of the Ark when she brought an Olive Branch in her Bill a Sign of Mercy and a Divine Supernatural Message When the Holy man of God Moses struck the Rock with his Rod that the hard Rock yielded Water is beyond humane Reason so was the turning of the salt water into sweet and drinkable supernatural As also the dry passage of the Children of Israel through the Red Sea and the Budding of Aarons Rod are all supernatural In brief the Resurrection of Christ the Eternal Son of God out of the grave for all the Tomb-stone his appearing to the two men going to Emas his revealing himself to his Disciples when

almost one kind of Nature in and with them as it is with it in the Celestial Spiritual and Elementary Intellect between the Body Soul and the Chaos out of which the Soul and Spirit went the Body at last was found out of the Composition How shall we now do the gross dull-witted Lads will not apprehend it the middle sort of Wits will take no notice of what I write and the supernatural wits will descant too much upon it I must find out a remedy and would willingly preserve all these over-wise-people to be my Friends still I will now teach instruct and presently inform you seeing that the Argument it self declares and pronounces its definitive sentence therefore the resolution lies open and can be declared and resolved reserved nor directed to any other sentence of the understanding further than for it self Last of all reserve this hereupon in this Chapter that there can be no House kept to stand in unity between the Married Couple if the one of them turn his Coach and drive to the East and the other towards the West for they are not equal so that they cannot draw the Coach together in an equal weight whereby there arises a great dissention and hinderance in obtaining that which wat intended but if true Married People will carry on their House-keeping with a right subsistance they must be of one spirit mind judgment and virtue to accomplish all whatsoever is in their heart and mind and that the one operate into the other if their Love and Truth shall be permanent for want of one of these things the three principles cannot be truly together for the Mercury is banisht and too little by reascn of the firmness and constancy the Sulphur is too little it cannot warm the Body of Love because it is very much extinct the Salt likewise hath not its right convenient natural kind but is too hard and too much seeing it makes a hard coagulation is sharp and biting because it doth not manifest it self in truth and constancy Even so it goes now in the World which goes astray and is pregnant with such Vices for the constancy is but small the Love little and Truth as little I hope you will take this Philosophical Example in good part because Syrach doth both praise and dispraise the goodness truth and wickedness of a false Woman and both after a different manner and herewith I bid Mars Farewell saying that no man knows how to distinguish the Sentence of one much less of all things but he who hath in this point taken notice of them learned and experimented their Nature and Properties and truly known and discovered them God our Heavenly Father the Everlasting Power proceeding from all beginning separate us so in the Form that the terrestrial corruptible Body may again attain unto contain and receive the Celestial Spiritual and Incorruptible Revelation Amen M aist thou not know me alone indeed A nd procure a pure help for me in need R esolve then and hear what I do speak or say S o shalt thou find what I can do for aye CHAP. VI. Of the Spirit of Gold THE Clearness of Heaven hath now commanded me to govern my Pen to reveal a matter of valour and of permanency for the Sun is a burning and consuming Fire hot and dry wherein is concealed the right and true virtue of all Natural things this virtue of the Sun worketh Understanding Riches and Health My Mind is very much grieved and my Spirit is terrified within it self to discover it publickly which was not publish'd in common before and to make it vocal which was concealed in the deep with great secresie But if I consider in my self and enter into my Conscience I could find no alteration nor catch at any thing to disturb my mind or bring it to another resolution which might cause many Obstructions Yet will I speak with discretion and write understanding that no evil with may follow but rather that I may gain a grateful profit which I have pourtrayed after the manner and occasion as the Philosophers before me have done Mark now give your Mind perfect Thoughts refrain all strange matters which are not serviceable to your speculation of Philosophy but rather cause a ruine of that benefit which you pursued with so much diligence and know if you have a hearty desire and strong affection to gain the Golden Magnet that in the first place your prayer be truly directed to God in true Knowledge Sorrow Repentance and true Humility to know and learn the three distinct Worlds which are subject to Humane Reason as there is the Supercelestial World wherein the right immortal Soul hath its seat and residence together with its first coming and is according to Gods Creation the first moveable Sense or the first moving sensible Soul which hath operated the Natural Life from a Supernatural Essence this Soul and Spirit is at first the Root and Fountain the first Creature which arose to a Life and the first Mover whereof there hath been so much Disputing among the Learned Now take notice of the second Celestial World and observe it diligently for therein the Planets rule and all the Stars of Heaven have their course virtue and power in this Heaven performing that Service therein whereunto they are by God ordained and in this service they operate the Minerals and Metals by their Spirit Go now out of these 2 distinct Worlds into the third wherein is contained and found what the other two have wrought to wit the Super-celestial and the Celestial worlds out of the Super-celestial arises the Fountain of Life and of the Soul out of the other Celestial world the light of the Spirit and out of the third or Elementary world the invincible Celestial Fire which yet may be felt out of which that which is tangible is digested these three Matters and Substances produce and generate the Form of Metals among all which Gold hath the pre-eminence because the Sidereal Elementary Operation hath digested and ripened the Mercury in this Metal the more perfectly to a sufficient ripeness And even as the Male-Seed is injected into the Womb and touches the Menstruum which is its Earth but the Seed which goes out of the Male into the Female is operated in both by the Sydereal and Elementary that they be united and nourished by the Earth unto the Birth Even so understand it likewise that the Soul of Metals which is formed and conceived out of the Chaos by an intangible invisible incomprehensible concealed and supernatural Celestial Composition of Water and Air afterwards it is further concocted by the Celestial Elementary Light and Fire of the Sun whereby the Stars move the Powers when its heat is perceived in the inward parts of the Earth as in the Womb for the Earth is opened by the warm operating property of the upper Stars that their infused Spirit yield a nourishment unto the Earth that it may bring forth somewhat as Metals

Herbs Trees and Animals where each one in particular brings its Seed with it for its farther augment ation and encrease And as hath been mentioned even as Man is begotten spiritually and heavenly Soul and Spirit and by the nourishment of the Earth in the Body of the Mother is formally brought up to perfection even so and in like manner is to be observed and understood of the Metals and Minerals in all points But this is the true mystery of Gold which I will make good to you by an Example and Parable to certifie you whereby the possibility of Nature and its Mystery is to be found after this manner It is evident that the Celestial Light of the Sun is of a fiery Quality and Essence given unto it by a Celestial fixt and permanent sulphurous Spirit by the most High God Creator of Heaven and Earth to preserve its substance form and body which creature by its swift motion and course is enflamed and kindled by the Air through that swiftness in a continued manifestation of it this inflammation can never be extinct nor decay in any of its power so long as its Course last or this whole Created visible World shall remain and continue because there is no combustible matter at hand which is given unto it by whose consumption this great Light of Heaven should fall to decay Even so Gold is so digested ripened and made into such a fixt invincible Nature by the Superiours in its Essence that nothing can hurt it in the least because the superiour Stars have past through the inferiour that the inferiour fix'd Stars by the influence and donation of the superiour cannot in the least give place to its like for the inferiour have obtained such a fixedness and permanency from the superiour this you may well retain observe and take notice of as concerning the first Matter of Gold I must yet produce one comparison according to the Philosophical custom of the great Light of Heaven and of that little terrestrial fire here daily kindled and made to burn before our Eyes because that great Light hath a magnetick simulation and an attractive living power with the small fire here on earth but yet it is unformal and incomprehensible only it is found to be spiritual invisible insensible and intangible It is to be observed and remembred as experience manifests and is proved that the great Light of heaven bears an especial sympathy affection and inclination to the little earthly fire by means of the spiritual Air whereby they are both promoted and preserved from Mortality for behold when the Air receives into it a Coruption by too great humidity attracted up by it that Clouds are generated by Mists and farther coagulations which hinder the Sun-beams that they cannot have a reflection nor get a right penetrating power So likewise the small terrestrial fire doth not burn so lively in dusky dark rainy weather nor manifests it self with joy in its operation as it doth when there is a fair pure serene unfalsified heavenly Air the reason is because the sympathy is bound and hindered by the obstruction of those Accidents and the waterish Air so that the attractive power is grieved that it cannot accomplish its compleat Love and Operation as it should for this hinderance brings the aquosity to the contrary Element Now even as the Sun the great Light of Heaven hath a peculiar community and sympathy with the small terrestrial fire to attract unto it after a Magnetical manner So also the Sun and Gold have a peculiar understanding and an attractive power and sympathy together for the Sun hath wrought the Gold by the three Principles which have their Magnets being nearest related to the Sun and hath gained the next degree to it for that the three Principles are found to be most mighty and powerful therein Gold immediately succeeds it in its corporal Form being composed of the three principles and hath its beginning and off-spring from the Celestial and Golden Magnet This is the supremest Wisdom of this world a wisdom above all wisdom yea a wisdom above all Natural Reason and Understanding for by this wisdom is comprehended first of all Gods Creation the heavenly Essence the Firmamentary Workings the spiritual Imagination and the corporal Essence it contains all qualities and properties and all whatsoever sustaines and preserves Mankind In this Golden Magnet sticks and lies buried the resolution and opening of all Metals and Minerals their domination as also the first Matter of their generation their power over health and again the coagulation and fixation of Metals together with the operation of expelling all Diseases Take notice of this Key for it is Celestial Sydereal and Elementary out of which the terrestrial is generated it is both Supernatural and Natural and is generated Celestially of the Spirit of Mercury Spiritually of the Spirit of Sulphur and Corporally of the Spirit of Salt this is all the way the whole Essence the beginning and end for the Spirit and the Body are bound up together in one by the Soul that they can never be separated but produce a very perfect durable Body which nothing can hurt Out of this spiritual Essence and out of this spiritual Matter out of which first of all Gold was made into a Body and became corporal out of it is made a more true and compleat Aurum potabile than out of Gold it self which must first of all be made spiritual before a potable Gold can be prepared out of it This Spirit cures and heales the Leprosie and the French Pox as being an over-fix'd Mercurial Essence dries up and consumes the Dropsie and all running and open Sores which have raged a long season it strengthens the Heart and Brain makes a good Memory generates good Blood brings Lust Delight and Desires in humane incitation unto Natural Affections If the Quintessence of Pearl be mixt with the Tincture of Coral and be administred with an addition of an equal quantity of this Spiritual Essence of Gold the Dose of two grains taken at once in a just observation you may be bold confident of the truth that no disaster of any Natural Distemper can harm you or happen to you to the prejudice of your health because the nature resides only in the Spirit of Gold to alter remove and amend all weaknesses so that the Body shall be adjudged perfect and free from any Disease The Quintessence of Pearl corroborates the Heart and make a perfect Memory of the five senses The Tincture of Coral expels all poison and evil Spirits which fly from the good So can the Soul of Gold in a Water turn the spiritual Essence of the Pearl and the Sulphur of the Coral united in one perform such a thing which otherwise Nature could not be intrusted with but seeing that Experience hath manifested it and confirmed the undeniable Truth therefore this Cordial in this temporal Life is and ought in reason to precede all other Cordials with admiration