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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

us think but of One Thing one Disposition one Way The wisemen know this one thing and that it is one they have often proved Morienus Eremita Hrerosolymitanus In a multiplicity of things our art is not perfected For it is one stone one med'cin in which consists the whole magistery to which we add nothing extraneous nor take away any thing but only in our preparation that that is superfluous Idem Eremita White and Red proceed from The same Root without any other Kind intervenient For it dissolves and conjoyns It selfe makes it selfe Black and Citrine white and red espouses Itselfe conceives brings forth and does all to the perfect end Rhasis Arabs Et Idem Haly. If you Govern Our Brasse Our Venus with Our Water then you shall find all that is said otherwise you doe nothing Turba Philosoph There is noway for the Rectifying of Bodies intirely and compleately without our Tincture which is a Clean Seed and has upon it the blessing of multiplication from Heaven Aurora Our water Gilded with Solar Sulphur is the Secret of the Aegyptians Chaldeans Arabians Persians and Greeks Hallelujah per Anonymum The Number of the Components of the Magical Stone ECHO IV. OF Sol and Luna thou mayst make the perfect med'cin without Separation of the Elements without labour without fear without danger they need a long time but they are safe Isaacus Flander lib. 2. mineral The Ancients labour'd in the Almagamation of Sol Luna which is indeed the most perfect worke and the Care little Idem ibidem Mercury alone perfects the works in it we find all that we need to it we adde nothing extraneous Sol and Luna are not Extraneous to one another because they in the beginning of the work are reduced into their first Nature that is Mercury therefore from It they took their beginning Divus Thom Aquinas cap 3. Wherefore I counsell you my friends that you work not on any thing but Sol and Luna reducing them into their first matter that is Our Sulphur and Argent vive Lullii Codicillus Of Sol vulgar Luna vulgar both Solute there is a preparation of Mercury vulgar Of those Three without any other Species the Physic-Stone is generated and of no other can it be made by the Wit of Nature Incertus Incipiens Desidrrabile The difference betwixt the Solar and the Lunar Tincture is This The Solar contains Solar Sulphur The Lunar Lunar Sulphur Albertus Magnus The Stone is one Yet This one is not one in Number but in kind Scala Philosoph Rebis is the first part of the work Elixir the Second Tincture the Third and Medicin the fourth Therefore it appears That to Azoth Elixir is required because Elixir in this work precedes Azoth For from Elixir Azoth is extracted But Azoth is that which is extracted by our Mercury from the bodyes dissolved and That is counted the Maturer Desiderabile 169. Elixir is no other then the body resolved into Mercurial Water after which resolution Azoth is extracted out of it that is a Spirituous Animated Essence Idem In one Thing for speices and Two Individuals It consists and is perfected first to White then to Red finally by increasing the the fire Petrus Valentiae In the first Regimen set the Crude and pure Elements upon an Easie fire that they may be mingled and joyn'd together govern them so that they may be desiccate or dried and all be black from which blacknesse an Occult Whitnesse is drawn afterwards a Redness by decoction And when it is in the perfect White it is in Dust Impalpable Zininus p. 68. The Generation of Metalls and the Philosophers stone is to conjoyn proper principles videlicet Man with Woman Active with a Pssive Sulphur with Mercury that so Generation may ensue Corruption Argent Vive is the Recipient of the Form and Gold the very Philosophers Stone Saturninus pag 71. The whole work consists in Sol Luna and Mercury Tersim pagin 103. Gold and Silver are Metalls out of which the Golden and Silver Elixirs are made Tauladan Pag. 184. Tinge with Gold and Silver because Gold gives the Golden and Silver the Silver Nature and Colour Richardus Anglicus It is necessary that the Stone before it be made Elixir be extracted from the Nature of Two bodyes Monachus The fire ought to be very soft till the Spirit be separated from the Body ascending into black clouds above the body By a Spirit Crude a spirit Digested is Extracted from the body dissolved Idem pag. 167. Take the Stone Suspended upon the Sea his name is Victor with him slay the living and enliven the slain for in his power are Death and Life Incognitus qui incipit Exemplum Scientiae Our Mercury is drawn from the Calx of Metalls by putrefaction till the Compound put off one nature and put on another And so by such Operations is made the Mercury of the Philosophers Jacobus de Sancto Saturnino The Operations of Art in her Ministery and Attendance to Nature ECHO V. NAture begins all her Actions from Seperation Mortification is the first step to Separation and the only way to that End for as long as Bodies remain in their old Origin Separation without putrefaction or mortification cannot reach them Anonymus Adeptus Amalgama which is the first Work is made with one of Sol and four of Mercury And this beginning of the Work the Philosophers have called by many names Our Venus Our Gold The Earth of Magnesia The whole Compound Jodocus Greverius In the first Decoction when thou art blacking there will rise from the Earth a certain humidity of Argent vive like a Cloud and will stick to the upper part of thy vacant Oval by its sides which thou must let alone untoucht Idem Blacknesse like that of the blackest Coal is the Secret of True Dissolution Raym. Lullius in Claviculâ Turne thy clouds into raine to water thy Earth and make it fruitful This Reduction of clouds into raine is called by some Cauda Draconis The Dragons Taile and others say that new Mercury is to be added Idem Greverius pag. 22. The bodyes are first to be Subtiliated by Dissolution which is the first Degree of the Work And this Dissolution is nothing else but that bodyes be return'd into Mercury and Sulphur from whence they took their Original But no other body can be resolved into Mercury but a Metallic consisting of Mercury and Sulphur The Spirit of Metalls is part of Our Stone and That we must evacuate from the bodys of metalls namely from the two perfect by putrefaction division of Elements and their fixation Raym. Lullius When the matter Ascends by Wind that is by fume the Philosophers call it Sublimation when it is cast into the bottom of the vessel and Converted into Water they call it Solution or Distillation When the Earth is Inspissate they say it is Corruption and when it begins to change from black they call it Ablution Extraction of Water from the Earth and

turning it on the Earth again till the Earth putrefie and be cleare again is the Summe of our magistery And when the Philosophers saw their Water diminished and their Earth increased they called it Ceration Then when all became Earth they called their Work Congelation and when White Calcination Monachus ex manuscripto vetustiss Dissolution begets blacknesse Reduction Whitenesse Fixion Citrinity Inceration Rednesse Blacknesse is the Earth Whitenesse the Water Citrinity the Ayre Rednesse the fire Anonymus Solution turnes the Stone into its Materia prima that is into Water Ablution into Ayre Conjunction into fire Fixion into Earth Spiritual and Tingent Scala Philosoph Putrefaction is made by a most Gentle fire hot and moyst and no other so that nothing Ascend Desponsation and Conception is made by a kind putridnesse in the Bottom of the vessell Rosarium pag. 198. Burn with Water wash with Fire Idem ibidem Labour not to make thy Mercury Diaphan that is into a cleare Transparent Water for so it is too highly Inflamed and Irrestrinctible and will never be fixt never congealed Aureola When we Dissolve without any Intervall we Calcine Sublime Seperate Compound and between Solution and Composition of the body and Spirit there intervenes no space of Time Alphid Arabs The Watering of Pegasus at his own Fountain and of his Other food out of the Ayre and Earth ECHO VI. WIth the Water of Paradise bedew the Earth now clarified and that Water will again Ascend to heaven and Descend againe to the Earth to make it fertil and bring forth White Citrine and Flamye Red flowers Isaac Flander Cibation is the Nutrition of our Materia Sicca with milk and meate both moderately given till it be brought to the third order Ripleus Aglus Our Great businesse is to make the Body a spirit and the Spirit a body But it is True That if the Summe of the volatil exceed and Subdue the Summe of the fixt it will finally be turned into a Spiritual body White or Red Rosarius Minor The Earth does not Germinate without frequent Irrigation nor receive Irrigation without Desiccation Therefore at every Turn after desiccation powre Water on it temperatly neither too much nor too litle If too much it will be a Sea of Conturbation If too little all is burnt to a light Cindar Daustricus pag. 25. Our divine Water the Spume of Silver mingled with Magnesia rids away the Darke Umbra of the body Democritus Apud Flamellum The Dragon born in Darknesse is fed with his owne Mercury submerged in it and then a little dealbated by it Keep a soft fire till there be patience betwen Water and Fire and till the Spirit and Body become one Monachus pag. 14. See that thou water it temperatly for if it abound it will be a Sea and if there want a Combustion will be made Desiderabile As in this work in its first Composition nothing that is extraneous to its Nature enters So neither does any thing Multiply it that is not of its first Disposition Trevisanus The Magistery of the Philosophers does not need a Commistion of any extraneous thing but out of the proper seed metallic cast into Philosophicall earth prepared it produces a Stone infinitely multiplicable if it be nourisht with its owne menstrnum or humor Connatural and be excited by the heat of the Philosophers Sun from its Potentia into Act. Theobaldus Hoghelandus Take the quantity know the weight of it and add to it as much of the humidity as it can drink of which humidity we have not the pondus determinate Calrd Aegyptius The Time of every Imbibition to its Exsiccation is Twenty or Thirty Natural dayes Clangor Buccinae IGNIS MAGORVM The Philosophers Fire ECHO VII OUr fire is Mineral Equall Continuall it vapors not unlesse excited too much it partakes of Sulphur it is taken from some other Thing than the Materia it breaks down all before it Dissolves Congeales and Calcines That Fire with a Fire Remisse perfects the whole work and makes all the right Sublimations Pontanus pag. 75. uti et in Epistola The Fire against Nature must torment the bodyes That is the Dragon burning violently like fire of hell Ripleus All along the fire must be gentle till the Water be congealed in Whitenesse A stronger heat given the Mercury flyes the fire by reason of its Frigiditie Therefore keep thy fire soft till thou hast a white Congelation Benedictus By a Temperate fire a little quantity of the Drie Desiccates ethe moyst and this by little and little and not suddainly And by how much the Stone has more of the Ablution so much the more Intense is the whitenesse Scotus de Bufone The fire of the first Degree that is of Solution and Putrefaction ought to be so weak that Nothing Ascend of the Nature to be Sublimed and so a gentle fire gives Mercury Ingresse into the body when with a strong one all is destroyed Saturninus pag. 71. The heat Dealbant must not be too much else all is gone But understand this of the first White after Nutrition Anonym Make thy Contritions with fire not with thy hands Argent vive is fierie and burns the bodyes more then fire whatever Metallic body is joyned to it it slayes it and brings it down to dust Synodus Pythagorica Although we alwayes speak of Slow-fire yet in earnest we think that in the Government of the work by little and little and at Turnes the fire to the End is to be Augmented Bacho Spec. Alchym cap. 4. There are onely Two fires found in the books of the Philosophers The one dry the other moyst The Dry is the Elemental The moyst is Mercury Alanus Niger As oft as occasion shall require heat and cool moysten and desiccate thy Earth and there is no Error So oft as thy vessels are broke thy matter must cool to be reposed in a like vessell and put again to the fire Greverius Sacerdos The Philosophers vessel The Cone or Oval The Colours of the Chao's Transienr and Critical ECHO VIII THE vessel must be Glasse and Round with a long Neck firmly Sealed on the Top and is to be Enclosed with another Vessel that the heat enter not the matter immediately and so the Digestion is in a Triple vessel Liber Trium Verborum pag. 49. Put thy Amalgam carefully into a Glasse-vessel of such a capacity that thy Earth that is sown and harrowed may take up only the Third part of it the other two left vacant Close up the orifice with the wisest Lute Jodoc Grever Set one halfe of the round of the Vessel into Ashes the other beare above that thou mayst look at pleasure upon the work Alanus The vessels are Glasse wide below terminating in an Acute like the figure called a Cone Vogelius Think not That the Philosophers lye when they say The whole Magistery is perfected in one only vessel when thou hearest them say so think presently of the Species of the vessel not