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A26733	Of natural & supernatural things also of the first tincture, root, and spirit of metals and minerals, how the same are conceived, generated, brought forth, changed, and augmented / [by] Basilius Valentinus ; translated out of high Dutch by Daniel Cable ; whereunto is added Frier Roger Bacon, Of the medicine or tincture of antimony; Mr. John Isaac Holland, his Work of Saturn; and Alex. Van Suchten, Of the secrets of antimony.	Basilius Valentinus.; Cable, Daniel.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.; Hollandus, Johan Isaäc, 15th cent.; Suchten, Alexander von, ca. 1520-ca. 1590.	1671 (1671)	Wing B1020; ESTC R29247	60,576	242

Herbs Trees and Animals where each one in particular brings its Seed with it for its farther augment ation and encrease And as hath been mentioned even as Man is begotten spiritually and heavenly Soul and Spirit and by the nourishment of the Earth in the Body of the Mother is formally brought up to perfection even so and in like manner is to be observed and understood of the Metals and Minerals in all points But this is the true mystery of Gold which I will make good to you by an Example and Parable to certifie you whereby the possibility of Nature and its Mystery is to be found after this manner It is evident that the Celestial Light of the Sun is of a fiery Quality and Essence given unto it by a Celestial fixt and permanent sulphurous Spirit by the most High God Creator of Heaven and Earth to preserve its substance form and body which creature by its swift motion and course is enflamed and kindled by the Air through that swiftness in a continued manifestation of it this inflammation can never be extinct nor decay in any of its power so long as its Course last or this whole Created visible World shall remain and continue because there is no combustible matter at hand which is given unto it by whose consumption this great Light of Heaven should fall to decay Even so Gold is so digested ripened and made into such a fixt invincible Nature by the Superiours in its Essence that nothing can hurt it in the least because the superiour Stars have past through the inferiour that the inferiour fix'd Stars by the influence and donation of the superiour cannot in the least give place to its like for the inferiour have obtained such a fixedness and permanency from the superiour this you may well retain observe and take notice of as concerning the first Matter of Gold I must yet produce one comparison according to the Philosophical custom of the great Light of Heaven and of that little terrestrial fire here daily kindled and made to burn before our Eyes because that great Light hath a magnetick simulation and an attractive living power with the small fire here on earth but yet it is unformal and incomprehensible only it is found to be spiritual invisible insensible and intangible It is to be observed and remembred as experience manifests and is proved that the great Light of heaven bears an especial sympathy affection and inclination to the little earthly fire by means of the spiritual Air whereby they are both promoted and preserved from Mortality for behold when the Air receives into it a Coruption by too great humidity attracted up by it that Clouds are generated by Mists and farther coagulations which hinder the Sun-beams that they cannot have a reflection nor get a right penetrating power So likewise the small terrestrial fire doth not burn so lively in dusky dark rainy weather nor manifests it self with joy in its operation as it doth when there is a fair pure serene unfalsified heavenly Air the reason is because the sympathy is bound and hindered by the obstruction of those Accidents and the waterish Air so that the attractive power is grieved that it cannot accomplish its compleat Love and Operation as it should for this hinderance brings the aquosity to the contrary Element Now even as the Sun the great Light of Heaven hath a peculiar community and sympathy with the small terrestrial fire to attract unto it after a Magnetical manner So also the Sun and Gold have a peculiar understanding and an attractive power and sympathy together for the Sun hath wrought the Gold by the three Principles which have their Magnets being nearest related to the Sun and hath gained the next degree to it for that the three Principles are found to be most mighty and powerful therein Gold immediately succeeds it in its corporal Form being composed of the three principles and hath its beginning and off-spring from the Celestial and Golden Magnet This is the supremest Wisdom of this world a wisdom above all wisdom yea a wisdom above all Natural Reason and Understanding for by this wisdom is comprehended first of all Gods Creation the heavenly Essence the Firmamentary Workings the spiritual Imagination and the corporal Essence it contains all qualities and properties and all whatsoever sustaines and preserves Mankind In this Golden Magnet sticks and lies buried the resolution and opening of all Metals and Minerals their domination as also the first Matter of their generation their power over health and again the coagulation and fixation of Metals together with the operation of expelling all Diseases Take notice of this Key for it is Celestial Sydereal and Elementary out of which the terrestrial is generated it is both Supernatural and Natural and is generated Celestially of the Spirit of Mercury Spiritually of the Spirit of Sulphur and Corporally of the Spirit of Salt this is all the way the whole Essence the beginning and end for the Spirit and the Body are bound up together in one by the Soul that they can never be separated but produce a very perfect durable Body which nothing can hurt Out of this spiritual Essence and out of this spiritual Matter out of which first of all Gold was made into a Body and became corporal out of it is made a more true and compleat Aurum potabile than out of Gold it self which must first of all be made spiritual before a potable Gold can be prepared out of it This Spirit cures and heales the Leprosie and the French Pox as being an over-fix'd Mercurial Essence dries up and consumes the Dropsie and all running and open Sores which have raged a long season it strengthens the Heart and Brain makes a good Memory generates good Blood brings Lust Delight and Desires in humane incitation unto Natural Affections If the Quintessence of Pearl be mixt with the Tincture of Coral and be administred with an addition of an equal quantity of this Spiritual Essence of Gold the Dose of two grains taken at once in a just observation you may be bold confident of the truth that no disaster of any Natural Distemper can harm you or happen to you to the prejudice of your health because the nature resides only in the Spirit of Gold to alter remove and amend all weaknesses so that the Body shall be adjudged perfect and free from any Disease The Quintessence of Pearl corroborates the Heart and make a perfect Memory of the five senses The Tincture of Coral expels all poison and evil Spirits which fly from the good So can the Soul of Gold in a Water turn the spiritual Essence of the Pearl and the Sulphur of the Coral united in one perform such a thing which otherwise Nature could not be intrusted with but seeing that Experience hath manifested it and confirmed the undeniable Truth therefore this Cordial in this temporal Life is and ought in reason to precede all other Cordials with admiration

and admirable Effects be they called by what name soever I am an Ecclesiastical person obedient to the Ecclesiastical degree related to the Benedictine Order by a Spiritual and Divine Oath by which Order with my internal Prayer I obtain comfort and promises of Gods Word a refreshment to my Soul but in a corporal temptation of my weaknesses and for my Brethren I have not found and used a better corroboration by Gods Blessing than these three Compounds united God give bless and increase this Virtue and Power unto the End of this temporal World which Man must change together with Death O thou golden power of thy Soul O thou golden intellect of thy Spirit O thou golden operation of thy Body God the Creator keep thee and grant unto all earthly Creatures who love and honour him the true understanding of all Gifts that thy Will may be done in Heaven and on Earth This is enough revealed at present concerning the Spirit of Gold until the coming again of Elias Hereunto I add a short Process Take a Spirit of Salt therewith extract the Sulphur of Gold separate the Oil of Salt from it rectifie the Sulphur of Gold with Spirit of Wine that it be pleasant without Corrosive then take the true Oil of Vitriol made of the Vitriol of Verdigreece therein dissolve Mars thereof make a Vitriol again and again dissolve it into an Oil or Spirit which rectifie in like manner as before with Spirit of Wine conjoin them and abstract the Spirit of Wine from it resolve the Matter which remaines dry in Spirit of Mercury according to a just weight circulate and coagulate it when it is fix'd and permanent without Ascention you have then a Medicine to tinge Man and Metals if it be fermented with prepared Gold CHAP. VII Of the Spirit of Silvor THE Tincture and spirit of Silver manifests its Colour of a Watchet or Sky-colour otherwise it is a waterish Spirit cold and moist not so hot in its degree as that which is found in Gold Mars and Venus for Luna is more phlegmatick than fiery though it be brought by the Fire out of its waterish Substance into a coagulation and even as the Metals gain their tinging Spirits and Coagulation in like manner do stones get their fixedness and colour as out of one Influence A fix'd coagulated Mercury is found in the Diamond therefore it is fixeder and harder than the other stones and cannot be so broken so the tincture of Mars or the Sulphur of Iron is found in the Ruby the Sulphur of Venus in the Emerald the Soul of Saturn in the Granate in Tin the tincture which is found in the Topaz and Crystal is appropriated to common Mercury in the Saphir is found the Sulphur and Tincture of Luna but each one according to a peculiar understanding and according to its kind and in Metals according to their form and gender for when the blew Colour is taken and extracted out of the Saphire its Rayment is gone and its other Body is white as a Diamond wanting only the hardness that is in a Diamond even so when Gold hath lost its Soul it yields a fix'd white Gold Body which by searching Students and young Artists is called fix'd Luna Wherefore you must now understand and observe that even as I have declared unto you concerning the Saphire for your apprehension even so on the other side you must learn to what purpose my Speech is intended for your Instruction concerning Metals For this blew Spirit is the Sulphur and the Soul whence the Silver receiveth its Life both in and above the Earth by Art and the white Tincture of the Silver upon white stands in the Magnetick form of an everlasting thing or Creature wherein is likewise found the first Ens of Gold O ye high qualified Orators where is your voice in this case to explain this Mystery And you conceited Naturalists where is your Writings and Advice of Reason And you Physicians Whither is your Opinion flown to fetch somewhat afar off over the Seas for to cure the Dropsie and all Lunary Distempers You will say that this my speech is too dark for you is it so then kindle the terrestrial Light seek and be not ashamed to make acquaintance with Vulcan and let nothing be irksome unto you so will you find by the assistance of the Eternal God that the Spirit of Silver contains in it to cure and expel the Dropsie quite alone as the Spirit of Gold and as that of Mercury can expel the Consumption radically or in the root even so that the Center of those Diseases cannot be found any more But that Luna in the veins of the Earth is not furnished with such a hot substance or quality in its degree but is subjected to a Waterish Nature this fault lies upon that great Light of Heaven which by reason of its Waterish influence hath implanted such qualities in the other Creatures and Planets of the Earth than it hath in Silver And albeit that Silver contains a fix'd Mercury which is generated in it yet it wants a hot fix'd Sulphur truly to dry up and consume its Phlegme whereby it hath not obtained a compact Body unless it be done afterwards by the art of the Little World And seeing that its Body is not compact by reason of the abounding watery substance its Pores therefore are not rightly defended nor closed to undergo the weight and endure a Battel with the Enemies all which Virtues are to be found in Gold if it shall overcome all Enemies and endure all trials without defect All things are difficult in the beginning but wben they are brought to an end they are easie to be understood and apprehended If you do truly observe the Spirit and the Soul of Luna and learn to know it truly you may quickly compass the midst of the Work how it shall afford the end with profit wherefore I will now propose to you an Example and instruct you by a Countrey-Rule that you may apprehend it and consider of it as Childrens Play in a high and weighty Matter that you may search it out with advantage as followeth A common Peasant casts forth or sows his Seed in a Field well dunged and prepared this Seed after putrefaction sprouts forth of the Earth by the operation and furtherance of the Elements and sets before our Eyes the Matter of Flax together with its Seed which it brings with it augmented this Flax is pluck'd up and separated from its Seed but this Flax cannot be used and prepared for any work profitably except it be first putrefied and rotted in water whereby the Body is opened and gains an ingress of its doing good after this putrefaction and opening it is again dried in the Air and Sun and by this coagulation it is again brought into a Formal Being that it may do future service This prepared Flax is afterwards buck'd beaten broken peel'd and last of all dress'd that the pure may be

BASILIUS VALENTINUS A BENEDICTINE MONK OF NATURAL SUPERNATURAL THINGS ALSO Of the first Tincture Root and Spirit of METALS and MINERALS how the same are Conceived Generated Brought forth Changed and Augmented Whereunto is added Frier Roger Bacon of the Medicine or Tincture of Antimony Mr. John Isaac Holland his Work of Saturn and ALEX. Van SUCHTEN of the Secrets of Antimony Translated out of High Dutch by DANIEL CABLE LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by Moses Pitt at the White Hart in Little Britain 1671. BASILIUS VALENTINUS A BENEDICTINE MONK OF NATURAL SUPERNATURAL THINGS ALSO Of the first Tincture Root and Spirit of METALS and MINERALS how the same are Conceived Generated Brought forth Changed and Augmented Translated out of High Dutch by DANIEL CABLE Whereunto is added ALEX. Van SUCHTEN OF THE SECRETS of ANTIMONY Translated out of High Dutch by D. C. a Person of great Skill in Chymistry LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Moses Pitt at the White Hart in Little Britain 1670. BASILIUS VALENTINUS OF Natural and Supernatural Things CHAP. I. BEcause I have at this present undertaken to write of the of the first Tincture the Root of Metals and Minerals and to inform you of the Spiritual Essence how the Metals and Minerals are at first spiritually conceived and born corporally it will be necessary first of all to utter and to acquaint you by a speech that all things consist of two parts that is Natural and Supernatural what is visible tangible and hath form or shape that is natural but what is intactible without form and spiritual that is supernatural and must be apprehended and conceived by Faith such is the Creation and especially the Eternity of God without end immensible and incomprehensible for Nature cannot conceive nor apprehend it by its humane reason This is supernatural what Reason cannot apprehend but must be conceived by Faith this is a Divine matter and belongs to Theology which judgeth Souls Moreover there appertains to supernatural things the Angels of the Lord having clarified Bodies doing that by the permission of their Creator which is impossible for any other Creature to do their Works being concealed from the Eyes of the World and so likewise are the Works of the Infernal Spirits and Devils unknown which they do by the permission of the most High God But above all the great Works of God are found and acknowledged to be supernatural not to be scann'd and comprehended by Humane Imaginations such is in especial the great Grace and Mercy of God which he bestows upon Mankind out of his great Love which indeed no man can apprehend or know and other great and wonderful works which he hath manifested divers manner of wayes by Christ our Saviour and Redeemer for the confirmation of his Omnipotence and Glory As when he raised Lazarus from the dead Iairus his Daughter the Ruler of the Synagogue and the Widows Son of Naim He made the Dumb to speak the Deaf to hear and the Blind to see all which are supernatural and Magnalia Dei so also was his Conception Resurrection Descension and Ascension into Heaven too deep and mysterious for Nature all which is only to be obtained by Faith There belongs likewise to supernatural things the taking of Enoch and 〈◊〉 into Heaven the divine rapture of St. Paul in the Spirit into the third Heaven Moreover many supernatural things are done by Imagination Dreams and Visions many wonders are done by the Imagination witness the speckled Sheep by the speckled Rods laid in their watring places God warned the wise men of the East by an especial Dream not to return again to Herod likewise their three Persons their three Gifts Presents or Offerings and the supernatural Star have all their peculiar and mystical meaning Nor was that Dream which hapned to Pilates Wife natural who unjustly adjudged our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to death The Vision of the Angels which appeared to the Shepherds at the Birth of Christ and to the Women at his Sepulchre who sought his Body where they had laid it cannot be accounted Natural There are many other supernatural things done at several times by the Prophets Saints so was the voice of the Ass speaking to Balaam contrary to the common course of Nature as also Joseph's Interpretation of Dreams And so God by his Angels preserves us oftentimes from infinite Evils and delivers us out of manifold Dangers impossible for Nature to do All this many others belong to Theology and to Heaven whereunto the Soul is to have regard Now follows the supernatural things of the visible Works of God as we see them in the Firmament to wit the Planets Stars and Elements which are above our Reason only their Course and Motion is observed by speculation and reckoning which belongs to Astronomy it is a visible but incomprehensible Being performing its operation in a Magnetick way out of which likewise divers admirable things are found and observed which arè altogether supernatural understand it thus that the Heaven operates in the Earth and the Earth affords a correspondence with the Heavenly For the Earth hath also its seven Planets which are operated and bred by the seven Celestial only by a spiritual Impression or Infusion even as the Stars operate all Minerals This is done incomprehensibly and spiritually and therefore it is to be accounted supernatural even as two Lovers their persons are visible but their Love one to the other is invisible Humane Bodies are tangible and natural but Love is invisible spiritual intangible and supernatural comparable to a Magnetick Attraction only for the invisible Love which is attracted unto it spiritually by the Imagination is accomplish'd by the desires and fruition In like manner when the Heaven hath a love to the Earth and the Earth hath a Love Inclination and Affection towards Man as the great World to the lesser for the lesser World is taken out of the greater and when the Earth by the desires of its invisible Imagination doth attract unto it self such a Love of the Heaven there is thereby an Union of the Superiour and Inferiour as Man and Wife are accounted one Body together and after this Union the Earth is impregnated by the Infusion of the Heaven and begins to conceive and bring forth a Birth sutable to the Infusion and this Birth after its Conception is digested by the Elements and brought to a perfect Ripeness and this is reckoned among the supernatural things how the supernatural Effence performs its operation in the natural Among the supernatural things are like wise reckoned all Magical and Cabalistical Matters which depend thereon arising out of the Light of true knowledge not those which proceed from Superstition Conjuration or unlawful Exorcisme such as the Sorcerers use but I mean in this place such a Magick as the Wise men had that came out of the East who by Revelation from God and by true allowable Art judged rightly or such an

one as those of old had before us usual among the Egyptians and Arabian before Writing was found they noted observed and reserved by Signs Characters and Hieroglyphicks Such Blessings may be used which Christ the Son of God used as the Scripture saith He took little Children laid his hands upon them and blessed them But whatsoever is contrary to God and his Word ought justly to be rejected and not to be tollerated because they are not Godly but Diabolical But those Supernatural things which oppose not God and his Holy Word belong unto Magick and do the Soul no prejudice As concerning Visions which Holy Men of God have often seen it is reason they should be reckoned among those things which are not Natural for whatsoever man speculates and comprehends by the Mind is Supernatural on the contrary whatsoever he can take see and hold is Natural Let us consider the third part of Natural Supernatural things in Physick the Virtues and Powers of each this Medicine of every thing must first be driven out of a visible tangible natural Body and be brought into a spiritual meliorated supernatural operation that the Spirit which at the first was infused and given to the Body to live might be released that it should operate and penetrate as a Spiritual Essence and Fire having its Vent-holes left that it might burn and have no opposition which might suffocate suppress or hinder the burning Life whereas otherwise if the separation of the Soul and Spirit from the Body should not first be done there could not succeed any operation either effectual profitable or necessary for whatsoever is visible to be felt and inseparably in a Body that is Natural and Corporal but so soon as there is a separation the living departs from the dead gaining its perfect operation and the natural Body being separated the spiritual Essence is free to penetrate becoming a spiritual and supernatural Medicine In brief all things none excepted which we can touch and handle are natural but they must be made supernatural if you would prepare them for Physick for the supernatural only hath a living power in it to operate the natural hath only a dead tangible Form For when Adam was made he was dead having no life of any virtue but so soon as the operative quickning Spirit came to him then he manifested his living virtue and power by supernatural admiration so that in every thing there is the natural and supernatural united in one and bound together in their habitation that every thing might be perfect for all created things in the world are some supernatural only what concerns the Soul and spiritual matters and some are natural and supernatural with what concerns the Elements and Firmament as likewise the Minerals Vegetables and Animals which is known and found when they are separated one from the other that the Soul departs out of the Body and the Spirit forsakes its Soul leaving the Body an empty habitation Moreover you must understand and consider that the great and little World are made and formed of one first Matter by an unsearchable Almighty Essence at that time in the beginning when the Spirit of God moved upon the Water who was from Eternity without beginning The great World as Heaven and Earth was first then was Man the Little World taken out of the greater the Water was separated from the Earth the Water was the Matter whereon the everlasting Spirit of God moved the Little World was formed of the noblest Earth as its Quintessence by the Aquosity which yet was in the Earth and all was only Natural but after the breathing in of the Divine heating Breath immediately the Supernatural was added so then the Natural and Supernatural were knit and united The great World is perishable yet there will be a New Earth or World the Little World is Eternal the Great Created Dissoluble world will again be brought to nothing but the little world will be clarified by the Spirit of God because he possesses it making a Celestial clarified water out of the aforesaid Earthly water then it will follow that the first matter will be turned into the last and the last matter will become the first Now the reason why the great world is perishable is this that the Spirit of God hath not his dwelling or habitation in the great world but in the little world for Man is the Temple of the Holy Ghost if he do not wilfully defile himself adhering to the Hellish Fire which makes a breach and difference For he remaines in the little world which he formed after his own similitude and made him a consecrated Temple otherwise there is every thing in the little world which is to be found in the great as Heaven and Earth with the Elements and what depends thereon or appertains thereunto We find also that in the first Creation which was performed of nothing three things arose to wit a Soulish Spiritual Invisible Essence which represented a Mercurial Water a Sulphurous Vapour and a Terrene Salt these three gave a compleat and perfect a tangible and formal Body to all things wherein especially all the four Elements are contained as I have already mentioned in my Writing where I treat of the Microcosme But that I may yet give a little more information of Natural and Supernatural things as well spiritual as corporal We find that the Canaanitish Woman was cured of her Flux of Blood which held her twelve years only by a bare touch when she touched the Garment of the Son of God her Disease being natural but the Medicine or Cure was Supernatural because by her Faith she gained help from the Lord Christ. Likewise we have an excellent high and supernatural Miracle in the three Children Shadrach Meshach and Abednego who were cast into the fiery Furnace by the Command of King Nebuchadnezzar yet by God wonderfully delivered and not consumed Dan. 3. So also the Confusion of Tongues and Infusion of divers Speeches at the foolish structure of the Tower of Babel which should have reached up to Heaven is esteemed for a Supernatural Miracle And so was that a Supernatural Sign when the Children of Israel did lap water as Dogs do when a small Number at Gods Command fought against the Midianites Judg. 7. 6. So the sending of the Dove by Noah out of the Ark when she brought an Olive Branch in her Bill a Sign of Mercy and a Divine Supernatural Message When the Holy man of God Moses struck the Rock with his Rod that the hard Rock yielded Water is beyond humane Reason so was the turning of the salt water into sweet and drinkable supernatural As also the dry passage of the Children of Israel through the Red Sea and the Budding of Aarons Rod are all supernatural In brief the Resurrection of Christ the Eternal Son of God out of the grave for all the Tomb-stone his appearing to the two men going to Emas his revealing himself to his Disciples when

leave dropping if in the spaceof one or two Pater-nosters one drop doth fall then augment the Fire till the pot glow at the bottom for twelve hours and when the Mercury is over then should the Salt Armoniac sublime up into the head and the Tartar remain with the Body of Saturn at the bottom of the Pot which take out put it into a Linnen Bag hang it in a moist Cellar the Tartar will dissolve receive it in a Glass the body of Saturn remains in the Bag take it out and calcine it in a reverberating Furnace three days and nights with a great heat as is taught elsewhere then extract the Salt out as is taught in the Mineral Book You may make projection with the Salt and coagulate your Tartar again it will be as good or better than it was likewise take your Salt Armoniac out of the Head it is good again and if you could have no Salt Armoniac then take three pound of calcined Tartar likewise so clarified that it leave no Faeces behind you then need no Salt Armoniac therewith may you likewise extract the Mercury out of Luna and Jupiter wherewith you may do wonders as is taught in the Miner Book where is spoken of the Quintessence of Metals Now my Child must know that this Mercury or Quintessence of Saturn is as good in all works as the Mercury of Sol they are both alike good and herein all Philosophers agree My Child take this Mercury of Saturn so drawn out of the Receiver put it into a Glass Box. I have now taught you to make two sorts of the Water of Paradise and know my Child that the first way is the best though it be made with some danger longer time and more charge for the Vinegar is all good yet the red Oil is the best its time is alike unto the end and though it be more tedious before you obtain the red Oil yet it fixes it self in a short time if it come to the Matter of fix'd Stone into a simple Essence in greater redness but when the Mercury comes to the fix'd stone it holds on a long time in ascending and descending before it die and when it is quite dead it makes the red fix'd Stone again into a fixt colour so covering the red stone with its coldness that the red stone becomes white again then must you boil it again gently with a small Fire till it begin to be yellow prosecuting the Fire from one degree to another as the Colour is higher and stronger and that so long till it attain to a perfect redness which requires a long time before it be done which is not requisite in the red Oil for the red Oil dies or coagulates forthwith the stone the one fixing it self with the other into a simple Essence in a short time Therefore I tell thee my Child that the time of the Oyl is alike long in the end though it appear to be of a shorter time with the Mercury but it is equally long at the end of the Work therefore I tell you the Art of both Works that you may the better understand the Art to make the Oyl from the innermost Nature of the Stone which is found afterwards The Oyl was unknown to the Ancients for my Grandfather with his Companions found it with great labour and length of time So there are two ways to dissolve the Stone and to poure upon it the clear water of Paradise Our Ancestors called the Oyl their sharp Vinegar therefore my Child keep the Name private and I will teach you first of all how you shall join the Mercury to your Stone which you extracted out of Saturn to dissolve it afterwards I will teach you to bring over the helm that red Oil which you extracted out of your prepared Saturn into a fixt stone to dissolve your stone My Child weight your fixt stone take half as much of your Mercury poure it upon the stone in the Glass cover the Glass again with a polish'd Glass which may just fit it set it in a Cuple with sifted Ashes make a small Fire like the Suns heat at Midsummer and give no more Fire to it until the Water of Paradise or Mercury become all a dead Powder And know my Child that the red or fixt Stone which before was darkned when it hath drunk up the Water of Paradise or Mercury or how you will call it that it be a Powder between black and gray then augment the Fire from one degree to another till the Matter be perfect white and when it is white strengthen the Fire yet more from one degree to another till it be of a dark yellow Colour then make it yet stronger till it be of a perfect red then rejoice for your Stone is perfect and fluxible as Wax Praise God who gives unto us part of his Miracles and do good to the poor you may see it with your fleshly Eyes and use Gods goodness miraculously in this corrupt Life for I tell you in good Charity that if any one principally attain to this Stone that it is given afforded and lent him from God Whosoever hath this Stone may live in a healthful state to the last term of his Life appointed him by God and may have all whatsoever he desires on Earth He shall be loved and esteemed of all people for he can cure them all internally and externally of all Diseases which may befall them but if the Stone doth not so it is false and deserves not the name of the Vegetable Stone or Philosophers Stone Therefore my Child if God give you this Stone look diligently to it that you keep your self from offending God that you make not this Stone on earth to be your Heaven govern and rule your self to Gods glory and to the comfort of poor people that Gods praise may be augmented to the defence of the Christian Religion and to the relief of poor exiled Christians I tell you my Child if you use it otherwise God will leave you here a little while to your own Will but afterwards he will speedily send a punishment either you shall be struck dead or die by a Fall or die some other sudden death and go Body and Soul to Hell and be damned eternally for your Ingratitude to God who so graciously vouchsafed you so precious and great a Gift Therefore my Child look carefully to it so to govern your self to Gods Glory and the Salvation of your Soul that the eternal Curse may not fall upon you and therefore I have left you this Writing as my Testament Enough hath been said to the wife therefore look to your self The Multiplication of the Stone now perfected Now my Child you may take the half of your Powder put it into a Glass and melt it have in readiness a Mould made hollow of Box-wood great or small as you please it must be made smooth and even within with an Instrument anoint it with Oil Olive and when your red