Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	air_n	spirit_n	water_n	2,891	5	6.4102	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26665	Centrum naturæ concentratum, or, The salt of nature regenerated for the most part improperly called the philosopher's stone / written in Arabick by Alipili ... ; published in Low Dutch, 1694, and now done into English, 1696, by a lover of the hermetick science.; Centrum naturae concentratum. English	Ali Puli.; Brice, E.	1696 (1696)	Wing A931; ESTC R18664	26,537	97

saw the light might be the God and Lord of all elementary and created things only God alone should be his Lord. Thus God placed Man in the middle between that which is superiour and that which is inferiour and did inspire into him by the word Ruach Elohim noted in the Hebrew Book through the two nostrils the breath of a twofold life one whereof was the breath of the eternal word of God or of the eternal life the other was the elementary and astral airy breath or spirit and word of time Both these infused powers of life in Man divided themselves so that each formed and possessed its own Center to it self which was the continual will and desire of each of them after its first original or primordial nature Both of them desired its Mother from whence they proceeded and each desired for her self to be nourish'd by her essence So the Will as the Father did generate in the Lifes Center for himself the Appetite or Desire as his Son and Offspring from both which the Will and Desire did proceed the Spirit as the power of living by the attracting and breathing nature from God and the Airy world But the Body of the Element did also produce out of their properties the Center the Will the Desire and Power of attracting out of its Mother the Earth and Water and out of it desired to quench its thirst and suck her Breasts he eat therefore and fill d himself with her containing in himself a tripl triunity in one body of Man and living in this manner that Man might be an Image of God after his likeness But yet the Center of the Body Spirit and Soul were not compelled by any necessity to sill and satiate themselves from the Water Air and Earth but the highest liberty of Will was left unto them after the likeness of the Free-will of God It was free to the good lucid pleasant sweet will which took its beginning from the pleasant meekness to contract it self and diffuse it self in and through all circumferences over which as their Center and Ruler she held her Empire Yea it was lawfull and free to him to divide himself more or less as it pleased him He could also without any thing opposing him by a too ardent strong and vehement motion of his Seed and out-going powers from himself produce in himself another sharp pestilent appetite and malignant desire after a sharp austere and venemous food He could also shut his mouth and appetite by not attracting that aliment which was necessary for him But it would be too long and large here to tell what was the nature and condition of that food and how at that time Adam and Eve by a power and hurtfull pleasure did eat together and dyed that death which in heavenly natures happeneth in a heavenly and spiritual manner It is also not our business here to relate how they fell in their Will and kept as it were imprisoned the Appetite and Power of the good which they receiv'd from the highest good and made it unfruitful and how they closed obdurated the mouth of their soul and choaked the very good exerting it self in them because the lamentable condition of them both O! alas maketh it sufficiently known But not only the Soul in Adam and Eve did undergo the deplored condition of death but seeing all were knit together in one Body the burning fire of the Soul kindled also the Spirit and Body the Spirit and Body did infect the Air Water and Earth and compell'd them to consent and precipitated them into that miserable condition with themselves because the Body and Spirit were the Center and Universal Heart and held the potency of their Imagination in their Mother the Air Water and Earth it was of necessity it should so come to pass Like as in this time when the Heart in the Body is sick the whole Body is sick and suffers pain When self-desires go forth from the Heart according to the word of God all things pertaining to that Man contract thence some impurity Yea sometimes for the Offences of the Heart all the other Members shall be afflicted although they have done nothing but a forced duty and by a necessary obedience After the same manner the Earth ought and yet must bear for Adam's sake the horrour of the curse But let us not expatiate too much in the Field of Theology We must return to Natural Philosophy I have affirmed that Man is the Center and Compendium of all created things to him before the Fall all things in this World were obedient through the force and power of his Imagination which he exercised from the Center into all his Circumferences But as the Devil through the malignant force of his Imagination lost the right and power of the good Imagination in his first Kingdom this our World so Adam who was constituted by God in the place of the lapsed Angel which then assumed a grosser substance through the fall of Lucifer who rendred that place of a grosser substance by the like false and malign Imagination destroyed and lost the first or ancient power of the good and the right of the Divine Nature His imagination in this time and station is odious to nature and abominable neither hath it any ingress so nothing is left remaining to Man but a miserable Body which with its Spirit is heavily or with grief sustained by nature He has but a weak and slender power even to this day given to him through his judgment reason and labour of the body to bring some things in nature from worse into better and from better into worse and by this means to make some particular and gross mutations The Natural man therefore doth draw the Vital Spirit from the Air Water and Earth in a twosold manner from beneath and from above From above by the attraction of the Air or his respiration he enjoyeth the spirit power and breath of the out-flowing and out-going word to wit the gale or out-flowing spirit of the Air and turneth it into his nourishment but from beneath he partakes of the Flesh and Blood of the World The Flesh of the World Animals Vegetables and Minerals afford the Blood the Water affordeth the quintessence and spirit or most subtle breath and highest outgoing power of this Flesh and Blood Man enjoyeth That Spirit with its spiritual Salt doth not only refresh and nourish the Spirits of Men but from it also the Alchahistical dissolving power of the ferment in the Stomach derives its original the other parts of the Body do also take their ferment from thence so the Flesh and Blood of all the Macrocosm receiving a kind dissolution in the Humane Body by separating and preparing do afford and yield his Salt to the preparation of the Flesh and Blood of the Microcosm so that the thirsty and hungry particles of the Microcosm do eagerly desire and imbibe it but the excrementitious outsides do find their egress through the emunctories

of the Head the pores parts and clandestine exits beneath and above Here if thou canst from the inferiour parts of the World draw out the inward Centre or Salt of Nature or from the superior the Heart or Center most of all hidden thou shalt be to me Magnus Apollo But greater yet will I admire thee if thou canst find out the Astral and Central Salt of Nature in abundance and great plenty united in one thing as in Man If thou knowest this I will confess that thou possessest natural wisedom and I promise thee that with this light thou canst unlock the most hidden and recluse mysteries of Nature and make samiliar to thee hidden treasures He that hath the knowledge of the Microcosm cannot long be ignorant of the knowledge of the Macrocosm This is that which the Aegyptian industrious searchers of Nature so often said and loudly proclaimed that every one should know himself This speech their dull Disciples took in a moral sense and out of ignorance assixt it in their Temples But I admonish thee whosoever thou art that desirest to dive into the inmost parts of nature if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee thou wilt never find it without thee If thou knowest not the excellency of thine own house for what doest thou seek and search after the excellency of other things The universal Orb of the Earth contains not so great mysteries and excellencies as a little Man formed by God to his Image And he that desires the primacy amongst the studiers of Nature will no where find a greater and better reserve to obtain his desire than in himself Therefore I will here follow the example of the Aegyptians and from my whole heart and certain true experience proved by me speak to my Neighbour in the Aegyptians words and with a loud voice now proclaim O Man know thy self in thee is hid the treasure of treasures Thine it is by the external breath in the Air to enjoy that breath of the Firmament which the wonderfull Astrum attracting from the supercoelestial Waters hath breathed into the middle region of the Air where it by the motion of the Air suffers it self in the Air to be coagulated and incorporated with the Air. Thou O Man art he who thro' the Air enjoyest the breath and power of the Water and Earth and in thy self enjoyest both the Elements and maked them one and thy self not knowing what a treasure thou hast hidden in thee from the coagulation and consent of these powers producest an essence called by us the expert the great and miraculous mystery of the World that is the true fiery Water Eschva-mayim Hascha-mayim yea it surmounts in its power the Fire Air Earth and Water for it dissolves and radically incrudates the mature constant and very fixt fire abiding mass and matter of Gold and reduceth it into a fat and black Earth like to thick Spittle wherein we find a Water and the true Salt destitute of all ardor vehemency and corrosive nature of the Fire There is nothing in the whole world to be found which can doe this nothing is shut to it and though it is a precious thing more precious than every thing yet the poor as well as the rich has it in the same and equal plenty The Wise men have sought this thing the Wise men have found it Hermes of this thing composed his twenty and eight Books and these Books I have seen with these Eyes and the Wise men of the new World have them and keep them in their own hands without any mixture of falshood And you my Friends seek this in divers things but perhaps none of you have known its secret recesses where it is hid or have found its ways and can tell what shape it shall be of if at any time he chance to see it But it is I tell you the simple and plain truth the Spiritual Water and Watery Spirit the Water of Life which Adam and Eve brought out of Paradice with them for their consolation and which by their Offspring they left to posterity O noble Water lucid and sweet O despised Water obscure and bitter O Water comforting us till death This is that Corner-stone which the wise builders the great Phylosophers and expert Masters of Alchymie and of Israel from unskilfull ignorance neglecting rejected even to this day Sometimes at length open your Eyes O mortal Men with your whole heart love God and your Neighbour pray in Humility and Meekness that the Lord would be gracious to you and turn the darkness of your Mind into Light In these words I have openly shewed the way and to these I will add over and above this further Explication The World in which the matter of the Sophy is nighest and best to be found is Man the highest Artifice is in him his metalline Mine is to be opened the tenth time the Brass which there is dug is the best and worst in Nature the Water most precious and most vile the Water Earth together and always in themselves joyned with another thing the Son Birth and Seed of the most pure Bodies is born in Man for his profit and necessity its name is Tessa If by your industry you have found your matter seperate the pure from the impure without fire or admixtion of any other thing prepare a Virgin-earth which ought to be without Odour without Tast without Colour seperate from that the Central Salt the Microcosmick Vitriol the Philosophick Venus the Mercury of the Microcosm the Philosophick Luna purifie and produce out of it a Son more noble than his Parents Then thou wilt see the causes and reasons that imprest the Egyptians that they gave the Signature of Luna and Venus to Argent Vive why they put beneath the sign of Copper the character of Luna above The uppermost or Astral Salt is most volatile sweet and shines and glisters like pure Silver and it s nothing else than the Silver of the Sophy and the Mercurial Saline Spirit But the central Salt is a Vitriol of infinite wonderfull and ineffable Virtue which coagulates the Argent Vive and changes it into pure Silver But Venus is inclosed in Saturn's Vestment from which she must be freed that she may appear Naked in her Beauty to the Eyes of the Artist From these two kinds of Salt all the Metals are generated and there is the same reason of the Microcosm as of the Macrocosm So I have shewn you the Metalliue Mine in your own Body and have demonstrated to you how out of it with the addition of no other thing you may prepare Gold Argent Vive Copper Lead c. I shew you the way which I my self have gone for I have seen with a moderate and due fire produced out of this matter the medicine of the 〈◊〉 Minerals and Animals concerning which so many Books have been disperst about Whether the ancient or modern Phylosophers have gone in this way it 's not my business now