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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

something and the contrary Elements are the nothing The nothing is become something by the word of God and the something will become nothing again when at last the word is taken away Although the contrary Elements were once nothing yet in the Creation they are a Principle along because they were made which were not afore and are of God counted not evil but good because God did look upon them and hath covered and hid their Principle which was nothing yet concentred and fastened together Corporeal in and on the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil which must have stood there as a witness namely that the world was Created out of nothing yet this should be undiscovered and not ashamed that is it should not be broken namely that the shame of the whole world might not not stand ashamed before the face of all the world and for a confusion be quite dead and perish Now as long as the contrary Elements remained unknown and in their concentrated Center were not broken they are very good But so soon as they are known in their depths they are such a thing as puts the world to a shame and at last altogether doth consume it and reduceth it to nothing These contrary Elements are three Darkness as Corporeal Fire as Soulish and corruption as Spiritual yet Corruption before the fall was no Corruption but only an alteration not unto evil but unto good and a change and exchange of all Created things The Fire before the fall was not consuming but in its knowledge was good and useful In like manner darkness was very good and for a rest and refreshing to all Creatures but now it is an habitation to ill Spirits and as far as darkness in the air reacheth and goeth so far and high also in the air hath Satan his Dominion and Reign Ephes 22. Chap. 6 12. And so are the contrary Elements become hereditary to Satan through sin who is the Prince of darkness and Potentate of the fire and the fire over him and a principle and beginner of perdition Out of darkness Hell is harched which is threefold 1. Corporeal according to its place under the earth in the nethermost places Ephes 4. 9. Luke 16. 28. 1 Pet. 3. 19. 2. Soulish in the Reign of the Devil and Prince of darkness in high places 3 Spiritual in the Devil himself and his Children This Hell will be cast at last into the fiery Lake Out of the fire is produced an unquenchable ever burning Sulphur and such a consuming fiery flame which killeth life and yet always maketh death alive The Hellish fire is three fold in the Hell in the Devil and his Children and in the fiery Pool Out of this alteration or rather perdition is at last Death gotten which in its bodyliness is a cold fire and a fiery coldness According to the Soulishness a gnawing worm that continueth devoureth and never eateth yet always consumeth and still begetteth again According to the Spirit Death is the Devil himself essentially who hath begotten sin and sin hath begotten him the Devil Now darkness was good before the fall for light was hid therein which God commanded to come forth out of the darkness The fire also was good before the fall for life rested therein because no flame was burning in the fire nor was manifest The change and alteration was good also before the fall because love did shew it self therein by the increase of the Creatures Now since Light Life and Love include all therefore they were comprehended also in the contrary Elements but they were separated from the same and thrust out and parted through sin and so that which was very good became exceeding bad and turned good and evil to a contrary and adverse thing After the fall Hell and Death were begotten and the fire was made manifest Visible and Corporeal So that it went up into the height by Reason of sin so that by Gods permission and command it may fall down from Heaven upon the wicked world especially it doth lye in and on the fiery Cherub before the door of Paradise and guardeth the way to the Tree of Life but in the glorious and joyful coming of the great God Jesus Christ this fiery Cherub must be gone and come down and all contrary Elements must reduce to nothing that is they must no more Reign and also the Devil himself must from above be cast down taken Captive and in Prison must be bound a thousand years to the glorious liberty and Redemtion of the Creature from the Vanity Curse and Death where all things as they were Created will be renewed CHAP. IX Of the Principle or Original of that evil one and of the Angels BEfore this Elementary world was Created of God the Angels and the Angelical world and Paradise which were above the upper waters were first and that so certain as the nature was first before the Elements and God before all things Therefore always out of the upper things things beneath were gotten and the upper is always before that which is below even as the Spirit is first before the Soul and Body Now the Angels God hath called through his word out of the same light wherein God dwelleth after their spirit for that end that they should serve him and hath presented them in the fiery flame after the Soul and as a wind after their body Now the Angels being out of the light wherein God dwelleth therefore they can know on in and out of the same what Gods command is and this light is the face of God in Heaven a spiritual food of the Angels which light the Angel of the Children may behold whereas on the contrary the Angels of sinful men may not behold it until the sinner doth true repentance then his Angel may appear again before that light and before the face of the Lord of which there is great joy among the other Angels But as long as the sinner doth not repent so long appeareth the Devil before God and accuseth the sinner day and night before him Now amongst God ' Angels ●ucifer was the chief for he carryed the 〈…〉 clear morning Star which was and is the son of 〈◊〉 but he was not content with that great Honour and Dignity but would fain have been Lord and God himself and no more a servant This coveting was in Lucifer gotten by an ill look and eye toward God inflamed within himself in the same fiery flame out of which the Angels after their Soul are and that so much and heavy that the light did depart in his Spirit from Lucifer and instead thereof an unspeakable great darkness came out of the fire which Lucifer himself had kindled and so instead of Heaven a Hell it self So the fiery flame unknown to Lucifer undiscovered and hid was blown up by himself out of envy and grudgings so that it turned to an essential anger yea to a consuming fire wherein at first did rest the life but was

there is no darkness but yet there is fire This Angelical fire is an Excretion of the light out of which the spirit of the ●ngels is and this fire also in the beginning and before the fall hath been a quiet and unknown fire and very good because it was and is the soul of the Light in the Angels But after the fall it was manifest known and turn'd to a flame and such a one wherein the raging anger of God doth rest in which all Gods Judgments do consist and come out of the same This fire now in the Angels with its rage anger and consuming flame is not evil at all but a just fire of Gods justice to punish the wicked All anger rage and judgment proceed out of the Angelical world as also the Law which was promulgated with fire Exod. 20. Acts 7. 53 38. Gal. 3. 19. Heb. 2. 2. Of the Devils fire was spoken above More things could be said of the fire which for brevity sake we omit CHAP. XII Out of what wherein and wher by all things good and bad do subsist pass away and yet how they last for ever ALthough our knowing and prophesying be but part yet we will not quench the spirit and we are not to despise prophesying And the Reader in the Lord may know that we have our wisdom be it about natural things or spiritual learned out of the Holy Scripture and not out of pro hane writings for the Bible is sufficient to us to all wisdom and we used in 24 years no other book to find out wisdom but the Bible Out of this book the spirit of wisdom through the anointing can teach us all things and needs no other spirit or man to teach us Every thing in a word subsists only by Salt they perish without it and in the same and it lasteth for ever in them both good and bad There is a threefold salt namely a Divine Angelical and Elementary All must be seasoned with salt if it shall last good and salt is the most noble and wholsomest Balm the best preservative and Conservative the highest strengthening The salt of the Divine world is a true light a Spirit and VVater from above whereby we are illuminated breathed on and baptized yea seasoned and salted that the hellish may have no power over us For every one must be seasoned with fire and must be tried with fire who and what doth subsist in it that is blessed else it is nothing at all Mark 9. 49 50. 1 Cor. 13. 14. The salt of the Angelical world is a quick life in its glory concentred of God into the Tree of Life which when it shall be broken at the glorious coming of Jesus Christ then all Created things in Heaven and Earth in this Elementary world he will so gloriously and powerfully season with salt that they shall be freed and redeemed from sin Curse Death Devil Vanity Pain and Misery and that will be a noble food at that great Supper of which as of an Angelical and Coelestial Manna all flesh that is all Created things and whole Creatures shall eat and drink and feed And then also shall be put away the sharp bitter sowre consuming devouring perishing and ●o nothing reducing salt of the contrary Element it shall dye and to its place be separated Of the elementary salt we have spoken already above There is another salt also of the contrary element which is threefold namely in the Earth Sea and Air The salt of the contrary element is a sharp devouring consuming salt and reigneth in all Creatures and is always mixed with the good salt which in the consuming sharp salt is held Captive and can no sooner be set at liberty till that which holds it Captive be drowned and killed by a cold fire which is a water above mentioned This Salt now is predominant chiefly in the Minerals of the Earth in the Mineral Salts as common Salt Vitriol Saltpeter Alume Salmoniak c. and is as it were fixed in this In all Sulphur especially in the common Sulphur the Salt of the contrary Elements is flying But he that can make it fixed with a cold fire hath a more precious thing then Gold is But what is more abused then Saturn Saltpeter and Sulphur They shoot it into the Air being so precious O malice and wickedness of men Is it not so that God hath made choice of things which the world holds to be ignoble foolish and rejected and base Lastly in all Arsenicks is the Salt of the contrary Elements essential and spiritual True it is a right Poison but having an essence why should not some thing be hidden in it It must be carefully and purely killed with a cold fire and be reduced to a new noble birth It is to be observed by the by that every Lee especially that of quicklime is a cold fire and that same in the unmature Metals that have yet their Sulphur Mercury and Arsenick may doubtless be of good use especially in some Iron or Copper Mines in which the Sulphur of Sol the glory of Gold sufficiently appeareth for the flying must through a fixed be made firm and glorious And truly herein is more hid then the world believes Now in the Salt is both life and death And as good things have their Salt so have bad and both are firm the good therefore because the life is in it and the bad also therefore because there is both life and death in it For what death killeth with extream coldness that life reviveth again by fire Therefore the fire is the life in the Devil and his Children and the cold is death But it is such a life which is not of God nor out of the light and love but out of the Devil himself out of darkness and anger which is with unspeakable torment anguish pain misery The Salt in the Sea is a soulish Salt raging and furious of which something may be said because a Mystery is hid in it it shineth also in its fire and is a Sulphurious light so that it may be seen Lastly the Salt in the Air is essential and Arsenical and poisoneth things on Earth man beasts and fruits c. These three sorts of Salt of the contrary element are made known after the fall therefore we must separate Salt from Salt that is good from bad to reject bad and embrace that which is good In the end all bad things fall to the Devils share especially the contrary elements with their Salt which maketh up the fiery pools devouring and gnawning and yet not consuming living for ever yet not alive but dead dyeth for ever and yet never liveth And thus it hath rightly the name of a contrary element CHAP. XIII Of the Creation of the World NOw having known the Principles in their subordinates and the Center concentrated both in and on the Elements as also in the contrary elements thence we may observe how all things are Created by the word and then to know

knowledge how the Powers Created to one and the same end may be brought into activity Thousands of such things might be instanced although thou dost not know the splendor in the Angels the candid brightness in the Heavens the Perspicuity in the air the clear Limpidity in the waters the variety of colours in the Flowers the hardness in Stones and Metals the Proportion in living Creatures the Image of God in regenerated men Faith in true Believers and Reason in the Soul Yet is there in them such a beauty which very few mortals have throughly perceived or plainly known Now why should there not be such an admirable virtue in the true Philosophers Stone which truly I have seen and known to be so Yet hereby I endeavour not to perswade the worthy and unworthy alike to labour in this work I rather dehort busie searchers from this most perillous secret like as from some Holy of Holies Yea let every discreet Student be exceeding cautious in reading and keeping company with Sophisticate false Philosophers Nevertheless to satisfie curious Naturalists I shall communicate faithfully whatsoever was acted between Elias the Artist and Me concerning the nature of the Philosophers Stone It is a thing much brighter then Aurora or a Carbuncle more splendid then the Sun or Gold and more beautiful then the Moon or Silver Insomuch that this most recreating light can never be blotted out of my mind though it should not be believed by Learned Fools or Illiterate Asses bubling nothing but the gloss of haughty proud eloquence For in this exulcerated old malignant Age nothing can be secured from slanderous Carpers But all such Batts and Bratts do err from Truth and in progress of time vanish miserably ensnared in their own errors yet our assertion shall stand till the very end of all generations being built upon the eternal foundation of Triumphant Truth And although this Art be not yet known to all the Adept do assert according to experience That this natural Mistery is only to be found with the great Jehovah Saturninely placed in the Center of the World In the interim we account them happy who by the help of art are careful how they may wash this Philosophical Queen and circulate the Catholick Virgin Earth within a Magick Physicall Christalline Artifice Nay as Khunrade saith they aone shall see the Philosophers King crowned with all the colours of the world and coming forth of his Bedchamber and glassy Sepulchre more then perfect in his external glorified fiery body shining like a bright Carbuncle or a compact and Ponderous transparent Christal These shall see the Salamander casting out waters and washing therewith the Leprouse Metals in the fire as I my self have seen What shall I say These shall see the ●byss of the Spagyrick Art where this kingly art did rest and lye hid so many years in the Mineral Kingdom as in their safest bosom Assuredly the true Sons of this Art shall not only manifest such a river of Numitius in which long since Aeneas being washt and absolved from his mortality by the command of Venus was presently transformed like to an immortàl God but also the whole Lydian River called Pactolus transmuted into gold as soon as Mygdonian Mydas hath washed himself in the some Also in a long Series they shall partly see the Bath of naked Diana and the Fountain of Narcissus yea Scylla walking in the Sea without her clothes by reason of the fervent rayes of the Sun and shall gather the blood of Pyramis and Thysbe by whose help the white Mulberries were tinged into red Partly also the blood of Adonis transformed by the descending Goddess Venus into the Anemone Rose Partly also the blood of Ajax out of which did spring the fairest Flower of Hyacinth or Violet Partly also the blood of the Gyants struck by Jupiters Thunderbolt partly also the tears of Althea shed when she had divested her self of her Golden Robes and laid them down partly also the drops from Medea's decocted water out of which green things did presently sprowt out of the earth Partly also Medeas Potion boyled out of many hearbs gathered three days before the Full Moon for the healing of her good old Father Jason Partly also the Medicine of Aesculapius Partly also the leaves by whose taste Glaucus was transformed into Neptune Partly also the expressed juice of Jason by whose benefit he got the Golden Fleece in the Land of Colchos after he had fought generously in the Field of Mars not without great danger of his Life Partly also the Garden of Hesperides from whose Trees might be gathered Apples of Gold Partly also Hippomines running a Race with Atalanta delaying and conquering her by throwing down three Golden Apples given him by Venus Partly also the Aurora of Cephalus Partly also as it were Romulus transformed by Jupiter into a God Partly also the Soul of Julius Caesar transfigured by Venus into a Comes and placed amongst the Stars partly also Pytho the Serpent of Juno springing up after Deucalions deluge out of the putrified Earth heated by the rayes of the Sun partly also the Fire whereby Medea lighted seven Candles partly also the Moon inflamed by the great burning of Phaeton partly also the dryed shrub or branch of the Olive Tree new greening with berries as a new and tender tree partly also Arcadia wherein Jupiter was used to walk partly also the dwelling place of Pluto at whose entrance the three headed Cerberus did watch partly also that Mountain where Hercules burnt all his Members he had from his Mother upon a Pile of Wood when the Fathers parts did remain fi●t and incombustible in the fire yet was he not one jot impaired in his life but at length was changed into the likeness of a God Further these true children of the Philosophers shall at last enter into the Temple of the transformed rustick house whose roof was built out of fine gold Indeed I cannot do less then once more proclaim aloud with the Adeptists O happy and thrice happy is this Artist who by the most gracious blessing of the most high Jehovah obtains this art to prepare and make this almost divine Salt by whose efficacious operation the metallick body or mineral is broke open destroyed and killed yet its soul is revived to the glorious resurrection of the Philosophick body Most happy therefore is he who obtains this Art of Arts to the glory of God by earnest constant prayers For certainly the knowledge of this Mystery cannot be obtained unless drawn and suckt out of the Fountain of Fountains which is God Therefore every serious Lover of this inestimable art should believe the chief of his business is That with uncessant desires and prayers in a living Faith he implore and adore the most Soveraign grace of Gods Holy Spirit in all his works for it is the solemn custom of God to communicate his gifts candidly and liberally only to candid and liberal men mediately or immediately for by

this only holy way of the practice of Piety all Students of difficult arts find what they desire But they must exercise solitary Philosophical and Religious pleadings with Jehovah with a pure mouth and heart For the heavenly wisdom Sophia embraceth our friendship offering us her Rivers of gratious goodness and bounty never to be drawn dry And most happy is he to whom the true kingly way shall be shewed by an Adept Possessor of this great Secret But I foresee this small Preface will not satisfie my Readers alike some perchance taxing me for presuming as it were to teach them an art unknown to my self when this hath been my only purpose to relate a History yet I doubt not but this study of divine wisdom will be sweeter to some then any Nectar or Ambrosia I say no more but conclude with that of Julius Caesar Scaliger That the end of truly wise men is the communicating of wisdom According to that of Gregory Nysse● He that is good Communicates willingly his goods to others for the property of good men is to be profitable to others CHAP. II. The Testimony of divers illustrious Authors of this Arcanum FIrst Paracelsus in the Signature of Natural things fol. 358 This is a true sign of the tincture of Philosophers That by its transmuting force all imperfect metals are changed viz. the white into Silver and the red into the best Gold if but the smallest part of it be cast into a Crusible upon melted metal c. Item For the invincible Astrum of metalls conquereth all things and changeth them into a nature like to its self c. And this Gold and Silver is nobler and better then that brought out of the Metallick Mines and out of it may be prepared better Medicinal Arcana's Item Therefore ever Alchymist who hath the Astrum of the Sun can transmute all red Metals into Gold c. Item Cur Tincture of Gold hath Astral Stars within it It is a most fixt substance and immutable in the Multiplication It is a powder having the reddest colour almost like Saffron yet the whole corporeal substance is liquid like Rosin transparent like Christal frangible like glass It is of a Ruby colour and of the greatest weight c. Read more of this in Paracelsus Heaven of Philosophers Item Paracelsus in his seventh book of Transmutation of natural things saith The Transmutation of Metals is a great natural mistery not against natures course nor against Gods order as many falsely judge For the imperfect Metals are transmuted into Gold nor into Silver without the Philosophers Stone Item Paracelsus In his Manual of the Medicinal Stone of Philosophers saith Our Stone is a heavenly Medicine and more then perfect because it cleanseth all filth from the Metals c. Secondly Henry Khunrade in his Amphitheater of the eternal wisdom I have travelled much and visited those esteemed to know somewhat by experience and not in vain c. Amongst whom I call God to witness I got of one the universal Green Lyon and the blood of the Lyon That is Gold not vulgar but of the Philosophers I have seen it touched it tasted it and smelt it O how wonderful is God in his works I say they gave me the prepared Medicine which I most fruicfully used towards my poor neighbour in most desperate cases and they did sincerely reveal to me the true manner of preparing their medicine Item This is the wonderful method which God only hath given me immediately mediately yet subordinately through Nature Fire Art and masters help as well living as silent corporal and spiritua● watching and sleeping Item Fol. 202. I write not Fables with thine own hands shalt thou handle and with thine eyes see the Azoth viz. the Universal Mercury of the Philosophers which alone with its internal and external fire is sufficient for thee to get our Stone nevertheless with a sympathetick Harmony being Magick-physically united with the Olympick fire by an inevitable necessity c. Item Thou shalt see the Stone of the Philosophers our King go forth of the bed-chamber of his Glassie Sepulchre in his glorified body like a Lord of Lords from his Throne into this Theater of the world That is to say regenerated and more then perfect a Shining Carbuncle a most temperate splendour whose most subtile and depurated parts are inseperably united into one with a concordial mixture exceedingly equal Transparent like a Chrystal Compact and most ponderous easily fusible in fire like rosin or Wax before the flight of quick silver yet flowing without smoak entring into solid bodies and penetrating them like oyle through Paper dissoluble in every liquor and comiscible with it fryable like glass in a powder like Saffron but in the whole Mass shining red like a Rubie which redness is a sign of a perfect fixation and fixed perfection Permanently colouring or tinging fixt in all temptations and tryals yea in the examination of the burning Sulphur its self and the devouring waters and in the most vehement persecution of the fire always incombustible and permanent as a Salamander c. Item The Philosophers Stone being fermented in its parts in the great world transforms it self into whatsoever it will by the fire hence a Son of art may perceive why the Philosophers have given their Azoth the name of Mercury which adheres to bodies c. And further in the same place it is fermented with Metals viz. The Stone being in its highest whiteness ●s fermented with pure Silver to the white But the Sanguine Stone with pure Gold to the red And this is the work of three days c. Thirdly Helmont in the Book of Eternal Life Fol. 590. I have oft seen the Stone and handled it and have projected the fourth part of one grain wrapped in paper upon eight ounces of quink silver boyling in a crusible and the quicksilver with a small noise presently stood still from its Flux and was congealed like to yellow wax and after a flux by blast we found eight ounces wanting eleven grains of the purest Gold Therefore one grain of this powder would transmute nineteen thousand one hundred and eighty six parts ●f Quicksilver into the best Gold so that this powder is found to be of Similary parts amongst Terrestrials and doth transmute infinite plenty of impure metal into the best Gold uniting with it and so defends it from Canker rust rottenness and death and makes it in a manner immortal against all tortures of fire and art and transfers it to a Virginean purity of Gold requiring only a fervent heat Item In his Tree of Life fol. 630. I am constrained to believe there is a Gold and Silver making Stone or powder for that I have divers times made projection of one grain thereof upon some thousand grains of boyling quicksilver to a tickling admiration of a great multitude And further as before is rehearsed in the first Chapter He also saith He who gave me that powder had so much at least

18. Colos 2. 8. 2 Tim. 3. 4. 1 Cor. 13. 9. 11. Truly wise men dive into the best gifts and perfection which are of three sorts Charity Prophecy and Examination Love and Charity are the Center and contain the circle of all godly virtues and have Faith and Hope but Prophesying hath all knowledge wisdom and doctrine Lastly examination containeth all understanding judgment and discretion In these three things all is contained that belongeth to wisdom the Center whereof is the word of God This is that which all men ought to study and should communicate to others according as they have received a gift of the Spirit of grace● That God the Author of all good may be glorified and that none do boast of gifts and extol himself above others but rather be humble And then none ought to quench the Spirit neither in himself nor others but rather to stir it up And lastly let no man despise Prophecy that he may not offend God his neighbour nor scandalize himself Love forbeareth all The wisdom of the spirit searcheth all and Examination tryeth all Since we have undertaken through the admonition of the spirit to speak of wisdom as much as our knowledge in part may afford Therefore we intreat the Reader in Love that those whom we displease or who are offended would tolerate us in love As knowing that wisemen also must bear with fools And things spoken of in this book may not presently be rejected but rather be suffered to stand remembring that God also is patient unto Sinners But if any one do think himself wise let him shew the spirit of Judgment and let him discern thus least he judge himself also For we hold that we also have received a gift of the Spirit of grade which we will not suffer to dye but to the praise of the Lord we will put it out to use out of love to the Children of wisdom although not as an instruction but as a good testimony to our selves that we have received a gift of the Spirit not in vain The reason that induced us to the writing of this book is because we hope to be Beneficial to the children of wisdom It may be we have publisht the like twelve years ago the Title of it being Aurora Sapientiae yet since it hath been desired by some again I have not altered the Title hoping that it is not a little mended and corrected I have set it out briefly that it may neither be tedious to the Reader nor chargeable to the Buyer nor yet painful to the Printer Benevolous Reader take all in good part and thus we commend the well wishers to Gods gracious ptotection THE CONTENTS Of the several Chapters of this Book OF the Books of wisdom in which the same may be learned how and in what manner Chap. 1. Of the Principles and Beginnings of all things as also of God himself and of all whatsoever 2 Of the First Principle of all things which is God 3 Of the second Principle which is Nature 4 Of the third General Principle namely the Elements 5 Of the three special Principles Spirit Wind and Water 6 Of the particular Principles Body Soul and Spirit 7 Of the Elements and contrary Elements in the Creation 8 Of the Principle or Original of that evil one and of the Angels 9 Of the difference of the Light and Darkness as also of the Light and Fire 10 Of the Principle of the Fire and its Mystery 11 Out of what wherein and whereby all things good or bad do subsist pass away and yet how they last for ever 12 Of the Creation of the World 13 Of the particular Creation 14 Of the Mystery of the Word 15 Of the Mystery of the Created lower visible things 16 Of the Creation of Man and of his Anatomy 17 Of the Image of God after which man is Created 18 Of the Mystical Image that is of the Mystery of God Chap. 19 Of the Truth and Spirit by which all wisdom is justified 20 Of the Mystery of Time and to understand 〈◊〉 aright 21 The Conclusion 22 AVRORA SAPIENTIAE Morning Light OR Dawning of Wisdom WE take the liberty according to the gift of the Spirit to speak briefly of Wisdom in this little Treatise without any prolixity And because we made mention in the Preface of a three-fold Knowledge as of Men of Angels and of God now we will speak here that Wisdom also is threefold as 1. The Natural of all Created things 2. The Wisdom of Faith unto Salvation And 3. The Secret and Mystical wisdom which gener●lly is unknown and that we call vera Philosophia Theologia and Theosophia Of these three we will speak as briefly as may be possible The Spirit of the Lord be upon both the Writer and the Reader Amen JEHIOR OR THE Morning Light of VVisdom CHAP. I. Of the Books of Wisdom in which the same may be learned How and in what manner THere are chiefly but three Books in which all Wisdom is contained Namely 1. The whole Nature and Creation 〈…〉 great Book of Heaven and 〈…〉 2. The Book of the Holy Writ in the Letter of the Holy word of God 3. Man himself The only Center or Principle of these three is the word of God which is the book out of which these three books have their Original The first book of Nature contains seven other books which are the seven Elements of which in particular here●fter These seven Books have three other books opposite which are the three contrary Elements of which also hereafter The second book the Holy Writ is divided into three other books as into the Law of the Old Into the Gospel of the New and into the Eternal Gospel of the everlasting Testament and Covenant which comprehends the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ The Third book of Man is only one book and is sealed to the blind but opened to the seeing In this book is hidden sealed and also manifest and opened all Wisdom and man is called the Image or Honour of God o● which below and man cannot be called by any other name 1 Cor. 11. 7. Out of the first book we learn Philosophia the natural Wisdom in and about the knowledge of created natural things which are of the Elements and we learn this wisdom out of the three Principles and seven Elements and discern the same from the three contrary Elements else we cannot find the truth of the Natural Wisdom Out of the second book we learn Theologia or Divinity the wisdom unto Salvation and that in the three foresaid books through the seven spirits Isaiah 11. and we di●●●nguish it from all humane glosses and books of Prophane ones For the book expounds it self and needs no humane interpretation but only hath need of Faith which apprehends all things Out of the Third Book which is Gods Image we learn the true knowledge of God as also his being and essence and his whole Mystery in so much as

Earth which four Elements stand still unmoveable into which the three special Principles do overflow with their body soul and spirit as to the Water Wind and Spirit and work out all and finish the same The water is as it were the Element the Wind is like as Angelical and the Nature and the Spirit is Divine CHAP. VII Of the particular principles Body Soul and Spirit W●th those are the Principles inclosed and consists in a threefold Trinity and always one produceth another and stand always orderly in their subordinates and agree together that they make up a true and whole Harmony and are enclosed at last in the Light Life and Love The body of all them is and consists out of the water also the Earth the Water out of the Wind the Wind out of the Spirit and the Spirit o●t of God There is a threefold body namely a sensible or palpable out of Water and Earth a Soulish out of Wind and Air and a spiritual out of Heaven Light and Spirit So is an Elementary hody an Angelical and a Divine very well to be distinguished on man Further the Soul is corporeal out of the Air from whence it is fed also and soulish out of the Wind and Spiritual out of the Light The Spirit is Corporeal out 〈◊〉 from the Heaven Soulish out of the Light and spiritual out of the spirit of the Elements out of the Nature and of God according as the Creature is Out of these three general Principles Man hath also a threefold spirit according to his measure and is the perfectest creature Always one body dwelleth in the other and as soon as one body is dissolved and broken in the same moment another and more noble body is manifest and that in all things If now the body becometh nobler needs must the Spirit be more noble high and glorious But this is the body after which the wise do seek Namely the Salt which containeth all in it self This body they drown in a Water which floweth out of the Centrum of the Vegetables and draw out all vertues which afterward come together in a celestial spiritual body and afford that precious jewel All things that are killd and dye naturally are drownd in a cold Saturnine Water for all natural death is done by coldness but what is kill'd in the Fire without a Saturnine Water is not fit to Nature for a better state Only the Salt we seek in the fire and then through the Water and afterwards cleanse and purifie it with the Baptism of Fire and of Water We should therefore six our thoughts on the water and use the fire very carefully because it is a contrary Element before which nothing can subsist but only the Salt This is the true body of all Elements and of all things in the whole world if that be taken away th●● all perisheth quickly and the Gold it self also in the Fire This is the right Heaven wherein dwell all powers and is in all things in the whole world their Heaven and is compared to the Tree of Life in Paradise Now the soul according to the highest degree is out of the nature According to the second degree from the Light and according to the third degree out of the Wind. These are the Principles of the living soul soul and spirit are distinct as God and Nature Spirit and Wind as Angel and living soul yea as spirit and breath The middle Principle among the three Principles is always instead of the Mother as the Nature Wind and Soul The body is the Child which the spirit ●s a Father begets through the soul Out of the spirit cometh the soul he lets it out as his breath and from both these the body The firm soul and spirit as the true life and spirit which is like unto the Angelical world is always in the right body of all things that is in the Salt when it is opened then they come forth in a great clearness as in an Angelical glory At last the spirit of all things is out of the three general Principles in each according to their portion and measure Now the spirit affords the right inward essence the forma essentialis differentia specifica abstractum essentiae and nothing else From the same the body and soul also receive their essence whereby the one from the other essentially and properly are distinguished as man from beasts a beast foul fish vermin c from others and so one thing from another All Creatures are distinguished chiefly into three as into Animalia all living souls into vegetabilia all that grow and spring out of the earth and into Mineralia things that grow under the earth and are digged out and so in the water also These are distinct as the three Principles and in our wisdom always a fair harmony doth represent it self All living souls consist out of Water and bloud in their seeds through a moist warmth and a warm moistness each in its mother All growing things consist in their seed out of a slimy water through the Salt which is fixed in the root flying in the herb leaf and grass and essential in the flower and all three concentre at last in the seed All Minerals Metals and what belongeth to it grow out of a fat earth which the Salt of the earth doth hatch and do coagulate through a cold fire which is a Saturnine Water that is a fiery water and a waterish fire that doth not burn Even as upon earth all things grow by rain and dew as also in the earth it raineth thaweth and is misty thereby grow the Minerals Metals and the like and all this from the salt fixed flying and essential The flying Salt begets Sulphur the essential begets Mercury Among the Vermin the chiefest is the Viper with her brood and kind and is Mercurial Among the Vegetables is the Vine a channel out of which come three sorts of water and also a noble Mineral and is the Centre of the Vegetables Among the Mineral is the Gold yea the Salt Of all these three the Concentred Center is man above all that is created CHAP. VIII Of the Elements and contrary Elements in the Creation THe seven Elements or Powers of the world do rest only upon one which is a right well of all Elements in our thoughts because it containeth all An Element is such a thing out of which and in which the world and all doth consist without which nothing can subsist Again a contrary Element is such whereby the world and Elements are altered and corrupt and at last must quite perish thereby Now all things are Created out of three Principles Materialiter namely out of the word as out of a spiritual out of nature as a soulish and out of the Elements and contrary Elements as an incorporeal-corporeal and Corporeal-incorporeal that is out of the Elements after something and out of the contrary Elements according to nothing The word is the all the Elements are the