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A64767
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Lumen de lumine, or, A new magicall light discovered and communicated to the world by Eugenius Philalethes.
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Vaughan, Thomas, 1622-1666.
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1651
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East his Beams and Heat falling on this Hemisphere stir up and fortifie the inward Heat of the Earth Thus we see in winter weather that the outward Heat of the Sun excites the inward naturall Warmth of our Bodies and cheerisheth the Bloud when it is almost cold and frozen Now then the Central heat of the Earth being stâ—rr'd and seconded by the Circumferentiall Heat of the Sun works upon the Mercury and sublimes it in a thin vapour to the Top of it's Cell or Cavern But towards Night when the Sun sets in the West the Heat of the Earth because of the Absence of that great Luminarie grows weak and the Cold prevailes so that the vapours of the Mercury which were formerly sublim'd are now condens'd and distill in Drops to the Bottome of their Cavern But the Night being spent the Sun againe comes about to the East and Sublimes the Moysture as formerly This Sublimation and Condensation continue so long till the Mercury takes up the Subtill Sulphureous parts of the Earth and is incorporated therewith so that this sulphur coagulats the Mercury and sixeth him at last that he will not sublime but lyes still in a ponderous Lump and is concocted to a perfect Metall Take notice then that our Mercury cannot be coagulated without our Sulphur for Draco non moritur sine suo Compare it is water that dissolves and putrifies Earth and Earth that thickens and putrifies Water You must therefore take two principles to produce a Third Agent according to that dark Receit of Hali the Arabian Accipe Canem Masculum Corascenum Catellam Armeniae Conjunge parient tibi Catulum coloris Coeli Take saith he the Coraseeâ— Dog and the Bitch of Armenia put them both together and they will bring thee a skie colour'd Whelp This skie colour'd whelp is that Soveraign admir'd and famous Mercury known by the Name of the Philosophers Mercury Now for my part I advise thee to take two living Mercuries plant them in a purified Mineral Saturn wash them and feed them with water of Salt Vegetable and thou shalt see that speech of the Adeptus verified Pariet Mater Florem germinalem quem ubere suo viscoso nutriet se totam ei in Cibum vertâ—t fovente Patre But the Processe or Receit is no part of my Design wherefore I will return to the first Matter and I say it is no kind of water whatsoever Reader if it be thy Desire to attaine to the Truth rely upon my words for I speak the truth and I am no Deceiver The Mother or first Matter of Metals is a certaine watery Substance neither very water nor very Earth but a Third thing compounded of Both and retaining the Complexion of neither To this agrees the learned Valentine in his appoâ—t and genuine Description of our Sperm Materia Prima saith he est Aquosa Substantia Sicca reperta nulli Materiae comparabilis The first Matter is a waterish Substance found Drie or of such a Complexion that wets not the Hand and nothing like to any other Matter whatsoever Another excellent and well experienc'd Philosopher defines it thus Est Terrena Aqua Aquosa Terra in Terrae ventre Terrae commixta cum Quâ se commiscet Spiritus Caelestis Influxus It is saith he an Earthy water and a watery Earth mingl'd with Earth in the Belly of the Earth and the spirit and Influences of Heaven commix themselves therewith Indeed it cannot bee denied but some Authors have nam'd this Substance by the names of all ordinary waters not to deceive the simple but to hide it from the Ranting ill-disposed Crew On the contrary some have expresly and faithfully Informed us it is no Common water and especially the reverend Turba Ignari saith Agadmon cum audiunt nomen Aquae putant Aquam Nubis esse quod si libros nostros intelligerent scirent esse Aquam permanentem quae absque suo Compari cum quo facta est unum permanens esse non possit The ignorant saith he when they heare us name water think it is water of the Clouds but if they understood our Books they should know it to be a permanent or fix'd water which without its Sulphur to which it hath been united cannot be permanent The noble and knowing Sendivogius tels us the very same Thing Aqua nostra est Aqua Coelestis non madefaciens minus non vulgi sed fere pluvialis Our water is a heavenly water which wets not the hand not that of the common Man but almost or as it were Pluvial We must therefore consider the severall Analogies and similitudes of Things or we shall never be able to understand the Philosophers This Water then wets not the Hand which is notion enough to perswade us it can be no common water It is a Mâ—talline bitter Saltish liquor It hath a true minerall Complexion Habet saith Raymund Lullie speciem solis Lunae in tali Aquâ— nobis apparuit non in Aquá Fontis aut pluviae But in an other place he describes it more fully Est Aqua sicca saith he non aqua Nubis aut phlegmatica sed aqua Cholerica igne Calidior It is a drie water not water of the Clouds or phlegmatic water but a Choleric water more hot than Fire It is moreover Greenish to the sight and the same Lullie tels you so habet colorem lacertae Viridis it looks saith he like a green lizard But the most prevalent Colour in it is a certain inexpressible Azure like the Body of Heaven in a clear Day It â—ooks in Truth like the Belly of a Snake especially neer the Neck where the Scales have a deep Blew Tincture and this is the reason why the Philosophers call'd it their serpent and their Dragon The predominant Element in it is a certaine Fierie subtill Earth and from this prevalent part the Best Philosophers have denominated the whole Compound Paracelsus names it openly but in one place and he cals it Viscum Terrae The Slime or Viscous part of the Earth Raymund Lullie describeth the Crisis or Constitution of it in these words Substantia lapidis nostri est tota pinguis Igne impregnata The Substance of our stone saith he is altogether fat or viscous and impregnated with fire In which respect he cals it elsewhere not water but Earth Capias Terram nostram saith he impregnatam à Sole quia lapis est honoratus repertus in Hospitus desertis est intus inclusum velut magnum Secretum Thesaurus incantatus Take our Earth which is impregnated or with Child by the Sun for it is our precious stone which is found in desolat Houses and there is shut up in it a great secret and a Treasure inchanted And againe in a certaine place he delivers himself thus Prima materiae Fili est Terra subtilis sulphurea haec nobilis Terra dictum est Subjectum Mercuriale My son saith he the
he goes on and tels you where you shall find him He is not far saith he from every one of us for in Him we live and move and have our Being For the better understanding of this place I wish you to read Paracelsus his Philosophia ad Athenienses a glorious Incomparable Discourse but you will shortly find it in English Againe He that enters the Center shall know why all Influx of fire descends against the Nature of fire and comes from Heaven downwards Hee shall know also why the same fire having found a Body ascends againe towards Heaven and gows upwards To conclude I say the grand Supreame Mysterie of Magic is to multiplie the Prester and place him in the moyst serene AEther which God hath purposely created to qualifie the fire For I would have thee know that this spirit may be so chaf'd and that in the most temperat Bodies as to undoe thee upon a suddain This thou mayst guesse thy selfe by the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or thundering Gold as the Chymist cals it Place him then as God hath plac'd the stars in the condens'd AEther of his Chaos for there he will shine not burne he will be vital and Calm not furious and Choleric This secret I confesse transcends the Common processe and I dare tell thee no more of it It must remaine then as a Light in a Dark place but how it may be discovered doe thou Consider The Green salt IT is a Tincture of the Saphiric Mine and to define'it substantially it is the Aire of our little Invisible Fire-world It produceth two noble effects youth and Hope wheresoever it appears it is an infallible sign of life as you see in the spring-time when all things are Green The sight of it is cheerfull and refreshing beyond all imagination It comes out of the Heavenly Earth for the Saphir doth spermatize injects her Tinctures into the AEther where they are carried and manifested to the Eye This Saphir is equall of her self to the whole Compound for she is threefold or hath in her three severall essences I have seen them all not in Ayrie imaginarie suppositions but really with my bodily eyes And here we have Apollodorous his Mathematical Problem resolved namely that Pythagoras should sacrifice a hundred Oxen when hee found out {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} That the Subtendent of a right angl'd Triangle was equivalent to those parts which contain'd it c. The Diapasm or Magicall Perfume IT is compounded of the Saphiric Earth and the AEther If it be brought to its full Exaltation it will shine like the Day-star in her fresh Easterne Glories It hath a fascinating attractive facultie for if you expose it to the open Ayre it will draw to it Birds and Beasts c. The Regeneration Ascent and Glorification I Have now sufficiently and fully discovered the principles of our Chaos In the next place I will shew you how you are to use them You must unite them to a new life and they will be regenerated by Water and the Spirit These two are in all things they are placed there by God himself according to that speech of Trismegistus Vnumquodque habet in seâ—semen suâ— Regenerationis Proceed then patiently but not manually The work is performed by an invisible Artist for there is a secret Incubation of the Spirit of God upon Nature you must only see that the outward Heat failes not but with the subject it self you have no more to doe than the Mother hath with the Child that is in her womb The two former principles performe all the Spirit makes use of the Water to purge and wash his Body and hee will bring it at last to a Celestiall immortall Constitution Doe not you think this Impossible Remember that in the Incarnation of Christ Jesus the Quaternarius or four Elements as men call them were united to their eternall Unitie and Ternarius Three and Foure make Seven This Sâ—ptenarie is the true Sâ—bâ—â—th the Rest of God into which the Creature shall enter This is the best and greatest Manâ—duction that I can give you In a word Salvation it self is nothing else but transmutation Behold saith the Apostle â—â— shew you a MYSTERIE we shall not all die but we shall be all CHANGED in a Moment in the twinckling of an Eye at the sound of the last Trumpt God of his great Mercy prepare us for itâ— That from hard stubborn Flints of this world we may prove â—â—â—soliths and Jaspers in the new eternall foundation That we may ascend from this present distressed Church which is in Captivity with her Children to the free Jerusalem from above which is the Mother of us all The Descent and Metempsychosis THere is in the world a scribling ill-disposed Generation they write only to gaine an Opinion of Knowledge and this by amazing their Readers with whimzies and Fansies of their own These commonly call themselves Chimists and abuse the great Mysterie of Nature with the Name and Non-sense of Lapis Chemicus I find not one of them but hath mistaken this Descent for the Ascent or Fermentation I think it Necessary therefore to informe the Reader there is a two fold Fermentation a spirituall and a Bodily one The spirituall Fermentation is performed by multiplying the Tinctures which is not done with common Gold and Silver for they are not Tinctures but grose compacted Bodies The Gold and Silver of the Philosophers are a soule and spirit they are living Ferments and principles of Bodies but the two common Metals whether you take them in their grose Composition or after a Philosophicall preparation are no way pertinent to our purpose The Bodily Fermentation is that which I properly call the Descent and now we will speak of it When thou hast made the stone or Magicall Medicine it is a liquid fierie spirituall substance shining like the Sun In this Complexion if you would project you could hardly find the just proportion the vertue of the Medicine is so intensive and powerfull The Philosophers therefore took one part of their stone and did cast it upon ten parts of pure molten gold This single small graine did bring all to the gold a bloudie powder and on the contrary the grosse Body of the gold did abate the spirituall strength of the projected graine This Descent or Incorporation some wise Authors have call'd a Bodily Fermentation but the Philosophers did not use common Gold to make their stone as some scriblers have written they us'd it only to qualifie the intensive power of it when it is made that they might the more easily find what Quantitie of base Metall they should project upon By this means they reduc'd their Medicine to a dust and this dust is the Arabian-Elixir This Elixir the Philosophers could carry about them but the Medicine it self not so for it is such a subtill moyst Fire there is nothing but glasse that will hold it Now for their Metempsychosis it