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A60662	Medicina practica, or, Practical physick shewing the method of curing the most usual diseases happening to humane bodies ... : to which is added, the philosophick works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, Geber Arabs, Artesius Longævus, Nicholas Flammel, Roger Bachon and George Ripley : all translated out of the best Latin editions into English ... : together with a singular comment upon the first book of Hermes, the most ancient of philosophers : the whole compleated in three books / by William Salmon ...	Salmon, William, 1644-1713.; Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent.; Jābir ibn Ḥayyān.; Artephius. Liber secretus artis occultae. English.; Flamel, Nicolas, d. 1418. Figures hierogliphiques. English.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Speculum alchemiae. English.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Radix mundi. English.; Ripley, George, d. 1490? Medulla alchimiae. English.	1692 (1692)	Wing S434; ESTC R183203	439,154	1,009

operation viz. after the Conjunction with Sol it is augmented This is then the beginning and the end Salmon Here Hermes eludicates the Philosophick Work by a most familiar Example of the Phases of Luna and so it is the Mineral Process in this Philosophick Work exactly answering to that Parallel in Heaven Some divide the Operation of the Stone into two parts viz. the former and the latter The former Hermes explicates by the notion of Decoction which does diminish the matter dissolves it as it were destroys it but being thus Dissolved and Corrupted it is through Regeneration by the Medium of perfection restored again This done then follows the latter part of the Operation by means of which the Virtue and Power of the Stone is made wonderful brought to its highest perfection and multiplied as it were in infinitum In these few words of Hermes are comprehended the whole Work and in them it is plainly laid open from the beginning to the end In a word it is like the Husbandman Sowing his Seed in the Ground which must first Die be Corrupted and Putrefied before it can be possest of a new Life by which it must arise and yeild its Hundred Fold Increase the first Life the first Birth the first Body must Die and give place to the second CHAP. II. The First Exposition of the Matter I. HERMES Behold I have Exposed to you that which was hidden and the work is both with you and for you that which is within is quickly taken out and is Permanent or fixt and you may have it either in the Earth or in the Sea Salmon This secret Work commends it self to its Children and the series of the Operation demonstrate that the Regenerating Spirit is within the Matter but adhears to it invisibly In Elementary and Gross Bodies it is not manifest except they be reduced into their first Essential Nature or Being for so this Spirit of Regeneration which is the Seed of the Promise the Heaven of the Philosophers out shining the Glory of the Stars is brought forth to View That which is Sown is not quickned except it Die it is Sown in Corruption it Rises in Incorruption it is Sown in Dishonour it is Raised in Glory The Sea is the Aqua Philosophica which entring into and Opening the Terra Philosophica brings forth the Gold bearing Vine of the Philosophers II. Hermes Keep therefore your Argent Vive which is prepared in the innermist Chamber of the Bridegroom in which it is Coagulated for that is the Argent Vive it self which is spoken of the remaining Earth Salmon Argent Vive is indeed the Prima Materia of the Philosophick Work but say the Philosophers beware that you use not the Vulgar Argent Vive or Quick-Silver for if you do you will be deceived Our Silver is not Vulgar for that is Dead and unfit for Our Work you must have that which is Living which is rightly Prepared by Art for the perfection of Nature Our Mercury is Philosophick Fiery Vital Running which may be mixed with all the other Metals and separated again from them It is prepared in the innermost Chamber there it is Coagulated Now where Metals grow there they must be found If you have found this Argent Vive the residence of the Philosophick Earth keep it safely for it is worthy If you have brought your Argent Vive to Ashes or Burnt it by the Power of the Fire you have an incomparable Treasure a thing much more Pretious than Gold This is that which Generarates the Stone and it is Born of it it is the whole Secret which Converts all the other Metalline Bodies into Sol and Luna making Hard Soft and the Soft Hard putting Tincture and Fixity upon them III. Hermes He therefore that now hears my Words let him search into and inquire from them it is not for the justification of the Work of any Evil Doer but to give to every good Man a Reward that I have laid Open or Discovered all things which were bid relating to this Science and Disclosed and made Plain and Open to you the greatest of Secrets even the Intellectual knowledg Salmon The Philosophers ever Discourse in Parables and Figures nor is it fit that all things should be revealed to every Body the matter is to be enquired after and diligently Searcht into without Labour and Pains nothing is to be obtained but Wisdom enters not in to profane Souls nor dwells in a Body subject to sin as the Wise Man affirms And altho' Hermes has spoken in this Book many things concerning this most noble Arcanum and has over-past nothing yet he has not spoken so plainly as that every profane and unworthy Person may understand it but has left the Mystery to be unfolded by the Sons of Wisdom IV. Hermes Know therefore ye Children of Wisdom and ye seekers after the Fame thereof that the Vulture standing upon the Mountain cries out with a great Voice saying I am the White of the Black and the Yellow of the White and the Citrine of the Yellow and behold I speak the very Truth Salmon The Mountain upon which the Vulture stands is a fit Vessel placed in a well Built Fornace encompassed with a Wall of Fire at the foot of which Mountain is a watchful Dragon who is full of Eyes and can see before him and behind him who is Vigilant and Careful in keeping the Entrance or Passage into the Mountain lest the unworthy should Ascend to the height theirof where is hid the Secret Stone of the Philosophers It is unpossible for any to enter here unless the Dragon be laid a Sleep Hoc opus hic Labor est to find out the means how this is to be done how this Beast is to be circumvented that we may obtain this so desirable Treasure is the Work of the Philosopher Three things are commended for this purpose first Crude Argent Vive made into Pills and Gilded with Gold Second a Sulphur of Mars extracted with Sol. Third The water of the Philosophers These things being rightly given will so lay him a Sleep that Night and Day you may continually have Egress and Regress Being once entred and Ascended the Mountain the Vulture or Crow will shew you the way where the Colors appear 1. Black which is the beginning of the Art 2. White which is the middle 3. Red which is the end of the whole Work V. Hermes Now the chief principle of Art is the Crow which in the Blackness of the Night and Clearness of the Day flys without Wings From the bitterness existing in the Throat the Tincture or Tinging matter is taken But the Red goes forth of its Body and a meer Water is taken from its back parts Salmon The Vulture and the Crow are both but one thing but in differing States it is the Vulture while it is Active and devouring and the Crow when it lies in a more passive Nature The Vulture is the Mercury of the Philosophers prepared by

Marrow which is Auripigment Of the same kind also is the Cats or Lyons Claw which is Sirezt The Fat of the White Bodies and the Fat of the two Oriental Argent Vives which Sulphurs are caught hold of and retained by the Bodies Salmon All these are only Various Names by which the Philosophers call the one thing and under which they Cloud it But the most Acute Ripley saith it is Argent Vive but not the Vulgar that without which nothing that exists is able to be If therefore there be nothing under the Sun in which this Argent Vive is not Our Hermes has not done absurdly to call it by these Names tho' possibly there may be some one thing which may contain more of it that which is more pure also generous and more ripe or perfectly digested than all the other things besides Authors say it is chieflly found in the Roots of Metals which Roots are in the Air and the Tops of the Mountains It behoves you therefore to have a perfect and solid knowledge of this Argent Vive before you attempt any thing in this Art And this is to be Communicated only to the Faithful Disciples of this Science Be diligent with your whole mind consider think ruminate volve and revolve meditate and reason with your self concerning it and through the Divine Assistance you will certainly attain to the knowledge there of II. Hermes I say more that this Sulphur does Tinge and Fix and is contained and held by the Conjunctions of the Tinctures Fat 's also Tinge but withal they fly away in the Body which is contained which is a Conjunction of Fugitives only with Sulphurs and Aluminous Bodies which also contain and hold the Fugitive Matter Salmon He distinguisheth here between the true and Philosophick Tincture and the Fictitious or Sophisticate The true is made of a Fixt and Incombustible Sulphur for which Cause also the Bodies are rendred fixt and Incombustible for every Transmutation is made subject to the nature of the thing Transmuting and not of the thing to be Transmuted it is needful therefore that you make choice of the best Sulphur for this Work The Vulgar is Forreign for that it is deficient Blackens and Corrupts having also a double superfluity viz. an Inflamable substance and an Earthly Faeculency Therefore you must find out another which is a simple Fire and Living and is able to Revivifie Dead Bodies to bring them to the highest perfection and to perfect them with the ultimate maturity Such a Sulphur saith Avieenna is not to be found upon Earth except in the Bodies of Sol and Luna In Sol indeeed is the highest of Perfection because it is more digested and decocted when therefore the Tincture is prepared with this Sulphur down below in the Bottom of Obscurity it is carried Gradatim up for the highest Glory with the greatest splendor of spirituality so that any Body whatsoever being melted with the Fire it Tinges and so firmly adheres to it that it cannot for ever be any more separated therefrom But the Sophisticate Tincture which is made from the middle Minerals from burning Sulphur Arsenical Aluminous and such like are not able to defend either Bodies upon which they are projected nor yet their own proper substance from the violence of Fire but together with the Bodies they flie away and by the force of Fire Vanish into Air. III. Hermes The order method managment and dis position of the Matter sought after by the Philosophers is but one in Our Egg. Now this in the Hens Egg is in no wise to be found But lest so much of the Divine Wisdom as is seen in a Hens Egg should be distinguished we make in imitation thereof a Compositum from the four Elements joyntly fitted and compacted together Salmon The Description of the Philosophick Egg is various which the Philosophers divide into four parts according to the number of the four Elements 1. Putamen the Shell which they make the Earth 2. Albumen the White which is Water 3. Pellicula the Skin which is Air. 4. Vitellus the Yolk which is Fire Some make only three parts thereof 1. Vitellus the Sulphur 2. Albumen the Mercury 3. Putamen the Salt Some again will have the Yolk to signifie Mars Sol and Venus and the White Saturn Jupiter Mercury and Luna and the Shell the Firmament and Earth or Combustible Ashes but to speak plainly the Shell represents the Philosophick Glass wherein the Skin the White the Tread and the Yolk answer to the four Elements Fire Air Water and Earth Or rather the Tread Yolk and White to the three pure principles Salt Sulphur and Mercury or Spirit Soul and Body that is Fixity Tincture and Subsistence IV. Hermes Now in a Hens Egg there is the greatest help that may be for herein is a nearness of the Matters in their Natures a spirituality and gathering and joyning together of the Elements and the Earth which is Gold in its Nature Salmon The Ovum Philosophorum or our Mercury has in it self whatever is necessary thereto We call it Our Mercury because it is reduced into one pure Homogene Body where is 1. A Propinquity of Natures as Earth Water Air and Fire or Salt Sulphur and Mercury 2. A Spirituality which is the formative faculty the hidden Work-Master which brings the Stone to perfection 3. A gathering together of the Elements for that the Earth is made Water and Air and Fire by Sublimation and they are made Earth again which Earth is Gold in its inward principle or Nature V. Hermes The Son saith to him the Sulphurs which are convenient or fit for Our Work are they Coelestial or Terrestial Heavenly or Earthly To whom Hermes answers some of them are Heavenly and some are from the Earth Salmon This is a short Dialogue between the Father and the Son Hermes makes answer to his Son concerning the Sulphurs that they are not of one or the same kind but that some are of a Heavenly and some are of an Earthly Nature yet he confesses both to be Sulphurs by the Heavenly is meant the Solar Sulphur and by the Earthly the Sulphur of Luna For Sol is a Body Masculine hot fixt red and incombustible which perfects Luna who is Feminine Cold Volatile White and Combustible exalting her to his own Glory and Splendor VI. Hermes The Son saith Father I think the Heart in the Superiors to prenote Heaven in the Inferiors the Earth To whom Hermes saith It is not so the Masculine truly is the Heaven of the Feminine and the Feminine the Earth of the Masculine Salmon The Heaven is the Masculine of the Earth and Earth is the Feminine of the Heaven Heaven or Sol which is pure fixt and incombustible Sulphur is the generating Seed and Mercury which is the Magical Earth is the Womb or Feminine principle receiving the Seed in which the Seed is keept nourished digested and brought to the Birth or Perfection Even that in which it obtains Spirit

all Bodies would cleave unto me because I should make them Liquid Also I Blot out or Wipe away their Rust and Filthiness and I extract their substance Nothing therefore is better than me and my Brother being Conjoyned Salmon This is spoken Allegorically because Venus as the Morning Star is the Harbinger or Forerunner of the Sun Rising Where is Light there is Life the Light being the Vehicle of the Life There is nothing in Rerum Natura which is not brought forth by the help of this Light viz. by a Natural Generation Metals are thus produced in their Mines But this Light is not found in Metallick Bodies because of their too great dryness and Terrestreity and therefore because of the moistness of Venus they would gladly stick to her This moist Metal Venus which is neither Copper nor Brass is endued with Lucidity and Splendor and with a Fiery Virtue and Power by which it melts Bodies as if it was with a Fire of Coals but it melts or liquifies them not simply but by melting them washes away their Rust and Corruptible matter that is extracts and brings forth to light their Purity and incorruptible substance even their inward and hidden Tincture What is done then Truly if Venus and her Brother copulate together and at length by the Craft of Vulcan are taken and held bound together by some invisible Power or Spirit in Chains she will be impregnated and after a Revolution of ten Months bring forth a Son more Noble and Excellent than the Parents This is the pretious Stone a Pearl of great price the invaluable Treasure which even the Kings and Princes of the Earth and the Great Ones of this World seek after but it is hid from their Eyes being only the proper Inheritance of the abject and humble in Spirit who are the true Sons of Wisdom CHAP. IX The last Act or Conclusion of the Theory of the Philosophick Tincture I. HERMES But the King and Lord or Dominator to the Witnesses his Brethren saith I am Crowned and Adorned with a Royal Diadem I am cloathed with the Royal Garment and I bring joy and gladness of Heart Salmon By the King is meant Gold and by his Brethren the other inferiour Metals which all possess the Kingdom in common the supream power of which resides in Sol alone for that he sustains himself in the fire without hurt even to the longest period of time By the Royal Diadem he means Fixity and by the Royal Garment Tincture even the red Tincture of the Stone which as Ferment or Leven Leavens all the inferior Metals and transmutes them into its own Nature and Property and this by the help of our Mercury II. Hermes And being overcome by Force I made my substance to lay hold of and to rest within the Arms and Brest i.e. the Body or Womb of my Mother and to lay bold and fasten upon her Substance making that which is Visible to be Invisible and the hidden Matter to appear for every thing which the Philosophers have Vailed or Obscured is Generated by Us. Salmon That which is thus overcome by Force is Sol that is it is dissolved and its Body Opened and made to joyn and Unite with Mercury which is the Womb in which the solar Seed is Sown which is the Mother thereof in which Womb being digested and Ripened it lays hold of the substance of Mercury fastens upon it and converts it into its own Nature Thus Sol which before was Visible its substance being attenuated is made invisible and a Spirit and that which was before hidden and invisible is made to appear which is the Internal Soul and Spirit that is Tincture and Fixity which by Virtue of the Ferment is put upon Mercury whereby the Vailed or Obscured Matter is Generated which is the substance of our Stone whereby a Door is Opened into the Chambers of infinite Treasures III. Hermes Understand these words keep them Meditate upon them and enquire after nothing else Man in the beginning is Generated of Nature whose Bowels or inwards are Fleshy and not from any thing else Upon these words Meditate and reject what is superfluous to the Work Salmon With what Vehemency and Earnestness does Hermes here speak as tho' the whole Mystery lay in these words And truly not in Vain does he bid understand them keep them meditate upon them and to enquire after nothing else You cannot gather Grapes of Thorns nor Figs of Thistles As a Man Begets or Generates a Man and a Beast a Beast and as every Hearb and Plant and Tree are produced from their proper Seed so in the Metalline Kingdom Metals are only produced from Metalline Seeds or Roots cast into a proper Womb which is the Philosophick Mercury the Earth whence they draw their Nourishment and by which they Grow Encrease and proceed on to Perfection All other things whatsoever are Vain and Fruitless IV. Hermes From thence saith the Philosopher Botri is made from the Yellow or Citrine which is extracted out of the Red Root and from nothing else which if it shall be Citrine thou hast sought it at the Mouth of Wisdom it was not obtained by thy Care or Industry You need not study to exalt or change it from the Redness See I have not Limited you or Circumscribed you under Darkness I have made almost all things plain to you Salmon By Botri he means the two Stones the White and the Yellow or Red which are extracted out of the White and the Red Roots viz. out of the Sulphur of Nature That which Whitens the same also makes Red and the same that Kills the same also makes Alive Qui mecum moritur mecum oritur But this is true only of the great Work it self and not of any Branch thereof in particular Works and Operations you must have particular Ferments which must be taken from Luna for the White and from Sol for the Red as the Arabian Geber has at large and plainly taught us Nature does only and alone conjoyn and separate and all its Operations are subtil and spiritual but if you will be Wise above Nature you shall certainly Err and suffer an irreparable loss And having once brought it to the fixed Redness there is nothing beyond that in that is the Ultimate perfection where you must take up your rest V. Hermes Burn the Body of Laton or Brass with a very great Fire and it will give you Gratis what you desire it will Stain Dye and Ting as much as you can wish it and that with Glory and Excellency And see that you make that which is Fugitive and Volatile or flying away that it may not fly by the means of that which flies not Salmon By the Body of Laton or Brass and by that which is Fugitive he means the Philosophick and Volatile Mercury which by a Sulphur fixed and incombustible such as is taken from Luna and Sol is to be fixed in the Fire so as it may rest and remain therein

ideo dealbandus est laton rumpendi libri ne corda nostra rumpantur quia haec albedo est lapis perfectus ad album corpus nobile necessitate finis tinctura albedinis exuberantissimae reflexionis fulgidi splendoris quae non recedit à commixto corpore V. Nota ergo hic quod spiritus non figuntur nisi in albo colore qui ideo nobilior est caeteris semper desiderabiliter expetenda cum sit totius operis quodammodo complemen tum VI. Terra enim nostra putrescit in nigrum deinde mundatur in elevatione postea desiccata nigredo recedit tunc dealbatur perit tenebrosum dominium humidum mulieris 〈◊〉 etiam fumus albus penetrat in corpus novum spiritus constringuntur in siccum VII Atque corrumpens deformatum nigrum ex humido evanescit tunc etiam corpus novumresuscitat clarum album ac immortale ac victoriam ab omnibus inimicis reportat VIII Et sicut calor agens in humido generat nigredinem primum colorem sic decoquendo semper calor agens in sicco generat albedinem secundum colorem deinde citrinitatem rubedinem agens in mero sicco satis de coloribus IX Sciendum igitur nobis est quod res quae habet caput rubeum album pedes verò albos postea rubeos occulos antea nigros haec res tantum est magisterium I. NOW as to the Colours that which does not make black cannot make white because blackness is the beginning of whiteness and a sign of Putrefaction and Alteration and that the body is now penetrated and mortified II. From the Putrefaction therefore in this Water there first appears blackness like unto Broth wherein some bloody thing is boyled III. Secondly The black Earth by a continual digestion is whitened because the Soul of the Two Bodies swims above upon the Water like white Cream and in this only whiteness all the Spirits are so united that they can never flie one from another IV. And therefore the latten must be whitened and its leaves unfolded i. e. its body broken or opened lest we labour in vain for this whiteness is the perfect Stone for the white work and a body enobled in order to that end even the Tincture of a most exuberant glory and shining brightness which never departs from the body it is once joined with V. Therefore you must note here that the Spirits are not fixed but in the white Colour which is more noble than the other Colours and is more vehemently to be desired for that it is as it were the Complement or Perfection of the whole work VI. For our Earth putrifies and becomes black then it is putrified in lifting up or Separation afterwards being dried its blackness goes away from it and then it is whitened and the feminine dominion of the darkness and humidity perisheth then also the white Vapor penetrates through the new Body and the Spirits are bound up or fixed in the dryness VII And that which is corrupting deformed and black through the moisture vanishes away so the new body rises again clear pure white and immortal obtaining the Victory over all its Enemies VIII And as heat working upon that which is moist causeth or generates blackness which is the prime or first Colour so always by decoction more and more heat working upon that which is dry begets whiteness which is the second Colour and then working upon that which is purely and perfectly dry it produceth Citrinity and Redness Thus much for Colours IX We must know therefore that the thing which has its Head red and white but its Feet white and afterwards red and its Eyes before hand black that this thing I say is the only matter of our Magistery CHAP. XVII Of the perfect Bodies their Putrefaction Corruption Digestion and Tincture I. DIssolve ergo Solem Lunam in aqua nostra dissolutiva quae illis est familiaris amica de eorum natura proxima illisque est placabilis tanquam matrix mater origo principium finis vitae II. Et ideo emendantur in hac aqua quia natura laetatur natura natura naturam continet vero matrimonio copulantur adinvicem fiunt una natura unum corpus novum resuscitatum immortale III. Sic oportet conjungere consanguineos cum consanguineis tunc istae naturae sibi obviant se prosequuntur adinvicem se putrefaciunt generant gaudere faciunt quia natura per naturam regitur proximam amicam IV. Nostra igitur aqua inquit Danthin est fons pulcher amoenus clarus praeparatus solummodo pro Rege Regina quos ipse optimè cognoscit hi illum V. Nam ipsos ad se attrahit illi ad se lavandum in illo fonte remanent duos aut tres dies id est menses hos juvenescere facit reddit formosos VI. Et quia Sol Luna sunt ab illa aqua matre ideo oportet ut iterum ingrediantur uterum matris ut renascantur denuo fiant robustiores nobiliores fortiores VII Id circo nisi hi mortui conversi fuerint in aquam ipsi soli manebunt sine fructu si autem mortui fuerint resoluti in nostra aqua fructum centesimum dabunt ex illo loco ex quo videbantur perdidisse quod erant ex illo apparebunt quod antea non erant VIII Cum Sole ergo Luna figatur maximo ingenio spiritus aquae nostrae vivae quia hi in naturam aquae conversi moriuntur mortuis similes videntur inde postea inspirati vivunt crescunt multiplicantur sicut res omnes vegetabiles IX Sufficiat ergo tibi materiam sufficienter disponere extrinsecus quoniam ipsa sufficienter intrinsecus operatur ad sui perfectionem X. Habet enim motum sibi inhaerentem secundam veram viam verum ordinem meliorem quam possit ab homine excogitari XI Ideo tantum praepara natura perficiat quia nisi natura fuerit impedita in contrarium non praeteribit motum suum certum tam ad concipiendum quam ad parturiendum XII Cave quocirca tantum post materiae praeparationem ne igne nimio balneum incendatur Secundo ne spiritus exhalet quia laederet laborantem id est operationem destrueret multas infirmitates induceret id est tristitias ac iras XIII Ex jam dictis patet hoc axioma nempe cum ex cursu naturae ignorare necessa riò constructionem metallorum qui ignorat destructionem XIV Oportet ergo conjungere consanguineos quia natu rae reperiunt suas consimiles naturas se putrefaciendo miscentur in simul atque se mortificant XV. Necesse est ideo hanc 〈◊〉 corruptionem generationem quemadmodum sese naturae amplectuntur pacificantur in igne lento quomodo natura laetetur natura natura

said subtil and thin Oyl of Sol and Luna the said substances of other Bodies be made fixed and to flow like Wax VII With which flowing substance you shall not only congeal Argent Vive into perfect Sol and Luna according as you have prepared your Medicine but you shall also with the same fluxible and flowing substance transmute and change all such other imperfect Bodies as they were whose Calces were so sublimed and from whom at their first subliming or lifting up they took their beginning into Sol and Luna aforesaid VIII And this thin and subtil Oyl being put into Kemia its proper Vessel first sealed up to putrifie in the Fire of the first degree being moist it becomes as black as liquid Pitch The fire may then have its Action in the Body to corrupt it the same Body as before so opened IX Therefore it grows first black like melted Pitch because the bear working in this moist Body does first beget a blackness which blackness is the first sign of Corruption and since the Corruption of one thing is the generation of another therefore of the Body corrupted is generated a Body Neutral which is certainly apt declinable and applicable unto every Ferment whatsoever you please to apply it to X. But the Ferment must be altered together with the Alchymick Body and the whole substance of our Stone or Elixir must partake of the Nature of the Quintescence otherwise it will be of no effect XI And between the said sign of blackness and perfect whiteness which will follow the said blackness there will appear a green Color and as many variable Colors afterwards as the mind of Man is able to conceive XII When the present White Color shall begin to appear like the Eyes of Fishes then may you know that Summer is near at hand after which Autumn or Harvest will happily follow with ripe fruit which in the long looked for Red ness This is after the Pale Ashy and Citrine Color XIII First the Sun does perfectly Descend by its due Course from its Meridional height and Glory through its gross and natural solution into an imperfect Pale and Ashy Color shining in the Occidental parts of the West which is somewhat of a yellowish or Brick dust Color from thence it goes to the Septentrional parts of the Earth being of a Variable watrish blackness of a dark cloudy alterable putrefactive watrishness XIV Then it Afcends up to the Oriental parts shining with a more perfect Crystalline Summer-like and Paradisical White Lastly he Ascends his Fiery Chariot directing his Course up again to his Meridional Life Perfection and Glory there to Rule and Shine in fire brightness splendor and the highest perfection even in the highest most pure and Imperial Redness XV. When this aforesaid simple Oyl of the altered Body being in its Vessel duly sealed is by the Fire thus disposed what is there more than one simple thing which nature has made to be generated of Sulphur and Mercury in the Bowels of the Earth XVI Thus it is evident that our Stone is nothing else but Sol and Luna Sulphur and Mercury Male and Female Heat and Cold. And therefore to be more short when all the parts of our Stone are thus gathered together it appears plainly enough what is our Mercury Our Sulphur Our Alehymick Body Our Ferment Our Menstruum Our Green Lyon And what Our White Fume Our two Dragons Our Fires and Our Egg in which is both the Whiteness and the Redness XVII As also what is Man's Blood Our Aquae Vitae Our Burning Water and what are many other things which in this Our Art are Metaphorically or figuratively named to deceive the Foolish and unwary XVIII Also there is a similitude of a Tri-une shining in the Body Soul and Spirit The Body is the substance of the Stone The Soul is the Ferment which cannot be had but from the most perfect Body and the Spirit is that which raiseth up the Natures from Death and Corruption to Life Perfection and Glory XIX In Sulphur there is an Earthiness for the Body In Mercury there is an Aerealness for the Spirit and in them both a Natural Unctuosity for the Soul or Ferment all which are inseparably United in their least parts for ever From this Fermental Body the Stone is formed and without it it cannot be made XX. It is the peculiar property of Sol and Luna the which property appertains to the Stone it self to give the form of Gold and Silver And therefore the Elixir whether it be White or Red may be Infinitely augmented with the Fermental Oyl if you do cast the same upon Mercury it shall transmute it into the Elixir which Elixir must be cast afterwards upon the Imperfect Bodies XXI Moreover the said White Elixir is augmented with Mercurial Water and the Red Elixir with the Mercurial Oyl the which two viz. the Mercurial Water and Mercurial Oyl can only be had of Mercury dissolved of it self XXII See what the Scripture saith He stroke the Stone and Water flowed out and he brought forth Oyl out of the Flinty Rock We may Note the whole composition of the Elixir in these four Verses following XXIII He stretched forth the Heavens as a Curtain The Water stood above the Mountains This is the Water which does cover Our Matter and performs the dissolution thereof causing a cloudy Ascension That does walk upon the Wings of the Wind. This figures forth the sublimation of ourStone XXIV Who makes his Angels Spirits and his Ministers a flame of Fire By this is shadowed forth the rectification separation and disposition of the Elements Who has founded the Earth upon its Basis so fixt that it shall not be moved for ever Under which is described the fixation of the Elements and the perfection of the Philosophick Stone CHAP. LXVI Another way of Elixirating Gold by the Fire against Nature I. ANother way by which the Body of Gold is Elixirated by the power of the Fire against Nature through the help of the Operation of the Fire of Nature which is thus Dissolve the Body of pure Gold in the Fire against Nature the same fire being well rectified Arsenick Mercury sublimate as the manner is from which Gold being so dissolved into a Citrine clear and shining Water without any Heterogenity or Sand remaining let the water be abstracted till the Body does remain in the bottom of the Glass like a fixt Oyl II. Upon this Oyl affuse the said Water or Fire against Nature again and abstract again and this work so often repeat till the water or fire against Nature have no more sharpness upon the Tongue than common Well-Water III. This done draw such another new water or fire against Nature which Affuse upon the former Oyl and abstract in all respects as before is taught then Affuse upon this Oyl the water or fire of Nature well rectified and let it be double in quantity or proportion of the said Oyl of the Body so

frequent Coagulation thereof you will augment it and so you may Multiply it till it increases in your Glass into the form of a Tree and which Hermes calls a Tree most Beautiful in Aspect Of which one Grain may be Multiplied to an hundred if you know how wisely to make your Projection XLVII Our Elixir the more fine and subtle it is made so much the more compleatly it tinges and disperses its Tincture Let your Fire be kept equally close Evening and Morning so much the longer you keep the Fire so much the more profitable it will be and Multiply more and more in your Glass nourishing your Mercury in its enclosure whereby you will have a greater Treasure than you could desire XLVIII 13. De Projectione If your Tincture be true and not Variable you may prove it in a small quantity thereof either in Metal or Mercury It cleaves thereto as Pitch and so Tinges in Projection that it is able to endure the strongest Fire But many through Ignorance destroy their work by making Projection upon an impure Metal XLIX See that you Project your Medicine upon your Ferment so will that Ferment be Brittle as Glass Project that Brittle Medicine upon pure Bodies so have you Silver or Gold enduring the severest Test. L. Give not liberty to the Reins left you sin but Religiously Fear and serve the Lord your God think your self alway before the Tribunal of the most high the great Judge and Rewarder of Mankind who will return to every Man according to his works LI. 14. Recapitulatie Take head diligently to the Latitude of our Stone and begin in the Occident where the Sun sets where the Red Man and White Wife are made one conjoyned and Married by the Spirit of Life that they may live in Love and Quietness LII The Earth and Water are joyned in a fit proportion one part of Earth or Body to three of Spirit which is 4 to 12. and is a good proportion you must take three parts of the Female to one of the Male by how much less there shall be of the Spirit in this Dispensation Conjunction or Marriage by so much the sooner will the Calcination be Absolved LIII The Calcination performed then you must dissolve the Bodies divide and Putrefie them and all the Secrets of our other lower Stars will have a perfect Coherence and understanding with the Poles of our Heaven and will appear with inexplicable Colors of Light and Glory Transcending in Lusture and Beauty all other things in the World and all this before the perfect Whiteness LIV. And after the perfect Whiteness you will have a Yellow the false Citrion Colour afterwards the Blood Red unchangable for ever will be be manifest so have you a Medicine of the third Order in its kind which may continually be Multiplied But this you must not in the least be Ignorant of that the RED MAN does not Tinge nor yet his WHITE WIFE till they themselves are first Tinged with our Tincture or Stone LV. When therefore you prepare your Matter by this our Art hide your Bodies all over an I lay open their Profundiries or In-sides destroy the first quality of all your Materials and the more excellent second qualities which in these you must separate and in one Glass and by one Government and Order convert the four Natures into one LVI The Red Elixir must be divided into two parts before it be Rubified which put into two Glasses and if you would have a double Elixir one of Sol and another of Luna do thus LVII With Mercury multiply presently theMedicine into a great quantity if you have at first only so small a quantity as a Spoonful then may you multiply them together into a White and Red Medicine which by Circulation you must convert into a perfect Oyl according to our directions and this Multiplication from your first small quantity may be continued should you live a thousand Years These Oyls will fix Crude Mercury into perfect Sol and Luna LVIII This pure and fixed Oleaginous substance Raymundus calls his Basillsk whose Explication is so easie to be understood that it needs no more Words LIX For our Metals are nothing else than our two Minerae viz. those of Sol and Luna as Raymundus wisely Notes The Splendor of Luna and the Light of shining Sol. In these two Minerae the Secret dwells tho' the Splendor may for a while be hid from your Eyes which by the help of Art you may easily bring to light LX. This hidden Stone this one thing purifie it wash it in its own Liquor Water or Blood till it grows White then prudently Ferment it so have you the Summ and Perfection of the whole Work FINIS