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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15486	The search of causes Containing a theophysicall inuestigation of the possiblitie of transmutatorie alchemie. By Timothie Willis, apprentise in phisicke.	Willis, Timothy.	1616 (1616)	STC 25754; ESTC S114195	30,421	94

one degree further by that sparke of diuine irradiation by which it is essentially formed with an immortall substance which though diuerslie traducible and passiue by the naturall part of the cōmon Genus in the Organs whereof it worketh yet either in real or contēplatiue sequestration comprehendeth Notions of al diuine and immortall things and so verily findeth it selfe in the rancke of immortall essences and spirituall lifes This thing therefore we speake of being the regeneration of Elements in euery elementarie body and made with rest and peace purchased with the warre of his owne vnmingled vndispersed vndefiled Elements must needs be the meane or center of this sphere the first compound vnder heauen hauing no proper name of his owne to vs knowne yet necessarily appearing in that shape which the elements in their first composition not restrained by the specificating causes aforesaid must needes produce That is Minerale fluidum this is Aqua viscosa Aquae permanens and the Philosophers Mercurie sought of many found of few The passage of all naturall causes of this birth Raymond Lullie well vnderstood in the first Booke of his Testament being of Theorie in the figure proceeding from Elements to Mettals and from Mettals to Elements by eight letters A.B.C.D. E.F.G.H. which we haue therefore here set downe wherein we giue but this one note that it is a matter of deepe vnderstanding how G. and H. be immediate that is Sulphur Aqueum and Metalla for it conteineth a great practicke mystery This heptagonall is in all naturall generations truly circular The scale of degrees and differences in descent and ascent of which we speak here followeth Scala Magica naturalis Deus Potestas Voluntas Spiritus Synthesis Materia 1 1 Animal Analysis Angeli 2   Rationale Coelum diuisor 3 2 Animalia Caelum stellatum 4 3 Plantae Elementa 5 4 Minerae Minerae 6 5 Elementa Plantae 7 6 Coelum stellatum Animalia 8 7 Coelum diuisor Animal 9 8 Angeli Rationale   9 Materia CAP. 14. FOr our better vnderstanding herein let vs consider the Historie of the Creation That there be two waters superior inferior Two earths Eden and therest without and about it Two waterings Cohobation by the miste ascending out of the earth without attraction Another by raine attracted out of the earth and lower globe by heate Two Cultures or Manurings naturall without the help of man and artificiall by the help of Man The waters being spiritualized and hauing receiued motion light and heat were parted into superiour and inferior The inferior as connaturall to the superior and of the same wombe communicate with them though in lesse measure in this rich birthright The inferior waters being coupled in marriage with their naturall and equall Spouse the earth enriched her with fruitfulnesse as a meane by God appointed in the Lawe of Nature by him created and established And of all the earth that Sanctuary of Gods Image and glorie the Garden Eden had the preheminence This chosen earth was made fruitfull by water of miste or vapor ascending out of it selfe and againe descending vpon it This miste the earth did yeeld of her naturall ayre and portion of spirit and heate conceiued in the vniuersall coupling as it were ingendering with the Waters in the first darknes The second watering by raine God caused to beginne after the Starres and Man were created It commeth naturally by attraction of the Sunne and other Starres and the violence of windes from the earth particularized in such sort as of the Starres c. before is saide And because the heate of the sunne is not alwaies alike in any place of the earth no not in the same anniuersary day houre nor season neither the sunne c. alike neere and aspected at all times to the same place neither matter vaporous euer in like quantity quality and readinesse to bee attracted beside the particularities of other Astronomicall and Physicall obseruations therefore the raine is not alwaies in the same measure time and season Hence come vnseasonable times in the foure quarters too hot or too cold too wet or too dry and so in complexion with impurities of the first mixture minerall new diseases and much trouble But where the earth is watered by vapor or miste begotten in darknesse ascending from it selfe and againe descending no such mischances happen But Nature reioycing and well pleased with her selfe earth and water is made fruitfull vnto perfection And then the two Cultures or Manurings are both necessary and cannot faile of a good blessing but from Elements simple become Elements elementate in the first mixture simply quintessentiall impregnate with aethereall nourishing not burning fire whereof resulteth this Catholike vnity generall in application to all things which wee seeke for and so much admire and shall reioyce to haue found These two Cultures are the one naturall by Coh●bation the other artificiall by man attending onely the select earth or Garden to dresse and keepe it not hauing swallowed the fruite of dualitie the apple of euil nor being driuen or selfe-straying out of this Garden into other ground where not such miste or vapor doth arise and which is watered with the raine of the time of generations and corruptions This is that ladder in Nature of Angels ascending and descending betweene heauen and earth This is the hoope of pure gold round endlesse and bottomlesse and inscribed according to the truth and true resemblance Imago spei the naturall wedding ring of these two great parents of naturall things This is the continuall spring-tide of neuer vading greennes in the Emerauld the wealth of Hermes his Smaragdine Table True without leasing most true The strong strength of all naturall strength because it will ouercome euerie subtile and pierce euery solid thing c. Cuius vis est Integra si versa fuerit in terram FINIS

and all sensibles except fishes CAP. 6. IN the beginning the Waters conteined all were conteined of none but teemed in darkenesse The heauens were of olde And the earth that was of the water by the Word of God VVherefore the world that then was perished by water The heauens and earth which now are bee kept in store by the same Word vnto fire The first matter of all things is water and therefore the first cleansing is by and with water The last perfection of all things is spirit and the last cleansing is by fire which is the violence of the spirit consuming all matter imperfectible and leauing in an immortall bodie that which is pure cleane and perfectible In which triumph of the spirit all shall burne sauing the perfect seede of them that scaped in the waters For nothing that is vncleane commeth to the last and second perfection of the fire not hauing beene washed and depured in the first of water But how the earth was of water whether by separation of the lower waters when the drie land appeared or by subsidence of the heauier part of the Chaos in the rarefaction caused by the spirit moouing is a matter of great and necessarie consequence doubtlesse it was by both as wee see in depuring of liquors and Chymicall extractions And so the second world is of the diuiding of fire as in spagiricall mysteries wee may plainelie see This is true in that we seeke after which is more easie to vnderstand if we consider that hea●e the forme or essentially inseparable from the forme of fire was made by the spirits mouing vpon the waters and that the life and fewell of fire is aer The waters as being most spiritual had the first ornament of distinction and forme in all degrees first light which some thinke to comprehend Angels and therefore fire But that thought hath many great aduersaries and may imply matter of strong heresye as though they had beene Coadiutors or agents in the following dayes of creation Therefore they doe best which vnderstand the creation of Angels to be in the sixt day in which man himselfe also was created besides many other sound reasons Then heauen followed the diuider and mediator of the waters aboue frō thē beneath next vegetables c. as before where note that before any sensible creature was created in the water or earth the better part that is the superior waters and the heauen had all their furniture of light with the whole hoast of heauen of innumerable starres and their offices And lastlie Angels a little before man For though it bee not defined when Angels were created yet their residence beeing in heauen and their Indiuidualitie immortall it cannot bee doubted that they were before and neere the perfectest forme of the ruling creature And the light of Angels in origination must differ infinitely from the inaccessible light of God And as they could not suffer by water so they that continued in their originall light shall not perish nor suffer by fire as all other things shall euen the heauens themselues The heauens and earth which are kept by the same word in store and reserued vnto fire c. 2. Pet. 3. Psa 102.25 Thou hast layed the foundations of the earth the heauens are the worke of thine hands they shall perish but thou shalt endure Euen they all shall waxe olde as doth a garment as a vesture shalt thou change them and they shall bee changed 2. Pet. 3.12 Eccl. 17.31 c. The heauens beeing on fire shall bee dissolued and the Elements shall melt with heate c. VVhat is more cleere then the Sunne yet it shall faile Yea the heauens and starres though insensible bee farre more excellent then the sensible creatures of the earth and inferiour waters Not concerning their forme but concerning their composition perfect mixture and pure matter of corporalitie All which cause their permanent indiuidualitie Such is the substance of our question The starres are vncleane in his sight How much more man euen the Sonne of man Iob 15.15 which is but a worme c. The heauens are not cleane in his sight how much more Man For man is of the earth And heauen is the congregation of waters In which they become fixed permanent which cannot bee without the action of their spirit of light and fire For though euerie one haue their part of all foure Yet wee finde the earth and ayre patible and as it were Nurses or rather Seminaries and very wombes of corruption diseases and death From which not speaking of them in their regenerated bodies no sacrament either diuine or naturall is taken And in from and by which all things both macrocosmicall and microcosmicall haue their Morbificall exhalations But the other two water and fire bee the cleansers and naturall renewers of all which as they decay not in themselues so doe they preserue For the fishes were not brought into the Arke but were preserued in their own proper Element And by the way we may obserue one notable doctrine That the more pure cleane and subtile any thing is in the materialitie of his primitiue nature the more irreuocable is the ruine and destruction if it suffer violence aboue or beyond that number waight and measure in which it was created So wee see the fall of Angels eternally iudged and vitrified substance bee irreducible And this in naturall things naturall causes is also true But to proceede after in the creation of sensible creatures the waters were first serued with fish soules which are attributed and appropriated vnto the waters because ayre commeth by rarefaction of waters and is extended vnder the hollow of heauen Lastly was Man being the Epitome and Abridgement of the whole Creation and therfore rightly called Microcosmus a little world for whose vse and seruice all other things were created For the good or bad vse whereof he shall account to his and their Creator God Almighty The order of proceeding heerein we see to be from the most simple and vniuersall to the most compound and speciall or particular So sensibles are more compounded then vegetables Man more then other sensibles minerals lesse then vegetables and all concerning their materiality of the first Chaos partakers of the essentiall corporality which conteined all in darknesse CAP. 7. IN this Chronicle of the creation there is very excellently taught the condition of all Creatures their composition and state of their naturall life There are two corporal or bodied Elements Earth and Water of which all things vnder heauen are materially compounded The spirit of life in euery thing is his naturall heate ioyned therewith by the meanes of the ayre which is here called the rarefied waters first created by the motion of the spirit and made able to multiply it selfe in any fit and prepared subiect This heate is chiefly in the light which was first brought out of the Chaos and dwelleth in the rarefied waters as in their proper