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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94291	Cheiragogia heliana. A manuduction to the philosopher's magical gold: out of which profound, and subtile discourse; two of the particullar tinctures, that of Saturn and Jupiter conflate; and of Jupiter single, are recommended as short and profitable works, by the restorer of it to the light. To which is added; Antron Mitras; Zoroaster's cave: or, An intellectuall echo, &c. Together with the famous Catholic epistle of John Pontanus upon the minerall fire. / By Geo. Thor. Astromagus.	Thor., George.	1659 (1659)	Wing T1037; Thomason E1911_2; ESTC R209984	43,022	108

body For the Anima without its body cannot be held But such an Union must be made by mediation of the Spirit because the Anima cannot have life in the body nor perseverance in it but by the Spirit And such an Union and Conjunction is the end of the Work The Soul must be joyned with the First body whence it was and with no other which if thou dost not thou shalt faile of thy purpose as many Ignorants have done who knew not this Secret Margarita Novella Spirits are fugitive untill such Time as bodyes are joyned with them and help them to fight against the fire and yet those parts agree but little unless with good Operation and Continued labour because the nature of the rwordr Tendent Upwards where the Centre rr the Anima is And who is he of those that have tryed that was able to Conjoyne Two Things that are Diverse whose Centers too are Divers unless after the Conversion shall be transmuted into True Luna less or more according to the Spirituality of the stone And if thou would'st Work with thy Red Stone project it upon Luna Molten and thou shalt finde the purest Sol. Cast thy medicin upon thy Ferment then it is frangible as Glasle Take that frangible masse and cast it upon metals first clear'd and thou shalt have metal of proofe Ripleus Anglus This Secret thou must not be Ignorant of That our Red man and his wife do not Tinge till they are Tinged Evoaldus Would any man by the Physic Stone turn lead into Gold or Silver Then he must first mingle with it the Substance of Lead that both may become one Thing In the same way he must proceed with Tin and Copper Idem pagin 123. The Virtues of the Great Elixir or Astral medicin ECHO XII THIS Chymic-powder whether you call it the Philosophers stone or fulsile Salt Sulphur Elixit or potable Gold has in it a wonderfull power over the Three Divisions of nature the Animal Vegetal and Mineral Kinds Thus first on the Animal Every Animal brute or man it brings to Sanity from every disease within or without All defections from natural Symmetry are reduced by it to Temperament because there is in it a perfect Aequation of Elements separate from their dreggs and all Sulphureous Adustions On the Vegetal It acts wonderfully by Exciting their Genital power in their seasons or out of them to a most florid vegetation In the mineral Every Imperfect metallic body Lead Tin Copper common Argent vive it transformes to Silver or Gold better then the natural in every probat Pretious Stones too the Emerald the Carbuncle the Anthrax or Rubie Chrysoprase Adamant Chrysolite and many others are made by it Rob. Vallensis By long Inquisition Labour and certain Experience we have found one medicin by which that which is hard may be made soft and that which is soft may be made hard that which is fugitive be fixt that which is foul and dark be Illustrated with a wonderfull splendor Geber Arabs Wrincles of the face every litura or spot gray haires it takes away and keeps us in perpetual youth and cheerfulnesse Clangor The Crystallin Lamen cures the most Diseases the Red Elixir all makes a man grow young like the Eagle and has produced the lives of some to above five hundred years Geber Arteph the Jew when he wrote his book affirmes he had lived a thousand and five and twenty years Rogerius Bacho de Artis mirabili potestate By its Ethereal humid oleous fire it gives us youth by its Tincture it transforms the Imperfect to the perfect Mines makes various sorts of pretious stones with the most pretious malleable Glasse Charta Sacer dorum Et Chorus Omnium The way to attain to this Sacred Science ECHO XIII FEar God you that look after this Sacred Skill For that which you seek is not a small Thing but the Treasure of Treasures the Gift of God most Excellent and Admirable Bacaser in Synod Pythag. He that is Idle and Negligent in the Reading of books shall never be prompt in the preparation of Things for one book opens another one speech explicates another and that which in one is Incompleat in another is compleated And how can he that refuses the Theorie apply himselfe to the regular practice Arnaldus in Rosario Follow it with the Instance of labour but first exercise thyself in a diuturnity of Intense Imagination for so thou mayst find the compleat Elixit but without that never at all Idem lib. 2 Rosar Serious Study our Doctors say removes Ignorance and brings the human Intellect up to the knowledge of Every Thing Richardus Anglicus Think not to find out our profound sense by the sound of the letter for he that takes the sound of the words and has not the hidden sense too shall lose his Labour and his Cost Aurora If thou canst Resolve even the least of our Sayings the Greatest cannot be hid from thee Aurora Consurgens prolog All wisdome is from God and was always with him from eternity Whosoever therfore loves wisdome let him seek it and begge it from him for he is the Altitude and profundity of all Science the Treasure of all wisedome because from him in him and by him all things are and without his will nothing can be To whom be glory for evermore Albertus magnus de Alchymia It is impossible that This should beknown unless it be known from God or from a master Rosarium Philosoph pag 230 The Artist must be prudent and of a witt naturally subtile profound and excellent in the Ability to Judge He must be learned likwise that what his wit reaches not to that may be supplied by his learning For whosoever aspires to this Science and is not a philosopher is a fool He must be Industrious Laborious and of a Constant mind not precipitant but very patient For all hastiness saies our Geber is from the Devill He must be at his owne election and free not held by other businesses and cares He must have money enough for his practice and books enough for his study Theobald Hogheland And above all he must be jealous over the Secret and keep it severely to himselfe Idem Hogheland I adjure thee by the living God whosoever thou art that hast this book in thy hands that thou offer it not to any of the Unworthy such as are Fools Tyrants Opressors Covetous Proud persons Adulterers soft Amorato's or such whose belly is their God Place thy hope in the Lord God work in his feare to the good of man expecting the blessing from above Jodoc Grever initio Lib. Thou who hast this book hide it in thy bosome discover it to none offer it not to Impious hands for it fully containes in it the very Secretum Secretorum of the Philosophers Such a pretious Jewel as This is not to be cast before Swine Therefore thou that hast the book lay thy hand upon thy mouth that deservedly thou mayst be said to be

and be of the Number of the Ancient Magi. Arnaldus in Rosario lib 2. cap. 32. FINIS Antri JOHN PONTANUS UPON The mineral Fire and the Great Elixir commonly call'd The Philosophers STONE I John Pontan have travel'd over many Regions That I might learn something that was certain concerning the Philosophers stone and compassing almost the whole World met with none but Impostors false Deceivers and no Philosophers But studying alwayes doubting much and casting every way at length I found the Truth But when I knew the matter I erred two hundred Times before I found the True Matter which the operation and practice upon it First I fell to putrefie the matter nine months together and found nothing I put it in St. Maries Bath for a certain Time and erred in That as before Then for Three months I put it to a fire of Calcination and wrought amisse all manner of Distillations and Sublimations such as the Philosophers as Geber Archelaus and almost all the rest say or seem to say should be used I practised and found nothing still Then again I tryed to perfect the subject of the whole Alchymical Art all the wayes that can be imagined by baths by dungs by Ashes and a multiplicity of other fires which yet are found in the Philosophers books and yet for all that I found no good Wherefore for Three years continued I studied in the Philosophers books but chiefly the books of Hermes alone whose shorter words comprehend the whole Stone although he speaks obscurely of the Superior and Inferior of the Heaven and of the Earth The first Instrument therefore that brings the matter to its Esse in the First Second and Third work is not the Fire of the Bath nor of Dung nor Ashes nor of the other heats which the Philosophers have in their books What therefore is That Fire that perfects the whole worke from the Beginning to the End Certainly the Philosophers have alwais conceal'd it but I being moved with piety and kindnesse to men will declare it to you together with the complement of the whole work It is then the Philosophers Stone but is called by various names and thou shalt find it hard to know For it is Watry Aery Fiery and Earthy Phegmatic Choleric and Melancholic it is Sulphureous and is likewise Argent vive and has many superfluities in it all which by the Living God are turned into a True Essence Our Fire mediating And he that seperates any thing from the Subject thinking that necessary knowes nothing in Philosophy because what ever is superfluous unclean foul or faeculent finally the whole Substance of the Subject is perfected to a Spiritual body fixt by mediation of Our fire And this the Philosophers never revealed and therefore few come at the Art thinking there is Some such superfluous Nature to be removed And now we are to draw out the properties of Our Fire and try whether according to the manner that I have said It be so fitted to our matter that it may be Transmuted by it since That Fire burns not the matter separates nothing from it parts not the pure from the Impure as all philosophers say but turnes the whole subject to purity It does not sublime as Geber make his Sublimations as Arnaldus and other speaking of Subbli-mation and and Distillations Such as are perfected in a short time It is Mineral it is Equal It is Continual it vapours not away unless it be stirr'd up too much it also partakes of Sulphur and is taken from some where else than from the matter it puls down all dissolves and congeales congeales and Calcines the Invention of It is Artifical it is a Compendium without Cost or with very little and That Fire is of a moderate Ignition because with a remiss Fire the whole work is perfected and all the right sublimations made Whosoever should read Geber and all the rest if they should live an hundred thousand yeares would not be able to comprehend it because that Fire is found only by profound Imagination and then it may be comprehended in the books and not before The Error therefore of this Art is not to find the Fire which turnes the whole matter into the true Stone of the Philosophers Take it then for thy study for if I had found this Fire at first I had not erred two hundred Times in my practice upon the matter wherefore I wonder not that so many and great Wits have not come at the work They erre have erred and will erre still because the Philosophers have not set downe the proper Agent one only excepted Artephius by name but he speaks for himselfe and if I had not read Artephius and heard him what he said I had never attain'd the perfect work But this is the practice Take it bruise it and bring it down diligently by Naturall Contrition and put it to the Fire and know the proportion of your Fire namely that it is to be no stronger then only to Excite the matter and in a short time even that Fire without any apposition of hands will certainly compleat the whole work for it will putrefy Corrupt Generate and perfect and make to appear in their times the three Principal Colours Black White and Red. And by mediation of our Fire the Med'cin will be multiplyed if it be joyn'd with Crude matter not only in quantity but also in virtue Therefore with all thy power look after thy Fire and thou mayst prosper in thy Work because it does the whole Worke and is the key of the Philosophers which they never discover'd But thou shalt come to know it by a right profound thinking upon the properties of the Fire set down before and no otherwayes This I writt out of piety and that I may satisfy thee finally The Fire is not Transmuted with the matter because It is not of the Matter as I told you before Thus much I had a mind to say and admonish the prudent that they spend not their money to no purpose but that they should know what they are to look for and so they may attaine to the Truth and no Other way FINIS