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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

almost one kind of Nature in and with them as it is with it in the Celestial Spiritual and Elementary Intellect between the Body Soul and the Chaos out of which the Soul and Spirit went the Body at last was found out of the Composition How shall we now do the gross dull-witted Lads will not apprehend it the middle sort of Wits will take no notice of what I write and the supernatural wits will descant too much upon it I must find out a remedy and would willingly preserve all these over-wise-people to be my Friends still I will now teach instruct and presently inform you seeing that the Argument it self declares and pronounces its definitive sentence therefore the resolution lies open and can be declared and resolved reserved nor directed to any other sentence of the understanding further than for it self Last of all reserve this hereupon in this Chapter that there can be no House kept to stand in unity between the Married Couple if the one of them turn his Coach and drive to the East and the other towards the West for they are not equal so that they cannot draw the Coach together in an equal weight whereby there arises a great dissention and hinderance in obtaining that which wat intended but if true Married People will carry on their House-keeping with a right subsistance they must be of one spirit mind judgment and virtue to accomplish all whatsoever is in their heart and mind and that the one operate into the other if their Love and Truth shall be permanent for want of one of these things the three principles cannot be truly together for the Mercury is banisht and too little by reascn of the firmness and constancy the Sulphur is too little it cannot warm the Body of Love because it is very much extinct the Salt likewise hath not its right convenient natural kind but is too hard and too much seeing it makes a hard coagulation is sharp and biting because it doth not manifest it self in truth and constancy Even so it goes now in the World which goes astray and is pregnant with such Vices for the constancy is but small the Love little and Truth as little I hope you will take this Philosophical Example in good part because Syrach doth both praise and dispraise the goodness truth and wickedness of a false Woman and both after a different manner and herewith I bid Mars Farewell saying that no man knows how to distinguish the Sentence of one much less of all things but he who hath in this point taken notice of them learned and experimented their Nature and Properties and truly known and discovered them God our Heavenly Father the Everlasting Power proceeding from all beginning separate us so in the Form that the terrestrial corruptible Body may again attain unto contain and receive the Celestial Spiritual and Incorruptible Revelation Amen M aist thou not know me alone indeed A nd procure a pure help for me in need R esolve then and hear what I do speak or say S o shalt thou find what I can do for aye CHAP. VI. Of the Spirit of Gold THE Clearness of Heaven hath now commanded me to govern my Pen to reveal a matter of valour and of permanency for the Sun is a burning and consuming Fire hot and dry wherein is concealed the right and true virtue of all Natural things this virtue of the Sun worketh Understanding Riches and Health My Mind is very much grieved and my Spirit is terrified within it self to discover it publickly which was not publish'd in common before and to make it vocal which was concealed in the deep with great secresie But if I consider in my self and enter into my Conscience I could find no alteration nor catch at any thing to disturb my mind or bring it to another resolution which might cause many Obstructions Yet will I speak with discretion and write understanding that no evil with may follow but rather that I may gain a grateful profit which I have pourtrayed after the manner and occasion as the Philosophers before me have done Mark now give your Mind perfect Thoughts refrain all strange matters which are not serviceable to your speculation of Philosophy but rather cause a ruine of that benefit which you pursued with so much diligence and know if you have a hearty desire and strong affection to gain the Golden Magnet that in the first place your prayer be truly directed to God in true Knowledge Sorrow Repentance and true Humility to know and learn the three distinct Worlds which are subject to Humane Reason as there is the Supercelestial World wherein the right immortal Soul hath its seat and residence together with its first coming and is according to Gods Creation the first moveable Sense or the first moving sensible Soul which hath operated the Natural Life from a Supernatural Essence this Soul and Spirit is at first the Root and Fountain the first Creature which arose to a Life and the first Mover whereof there hath been so much Disputing among the Learned Now take notice of the second Celestial World and observe it diligently for therein the Planets rule and all the Stars of Heaven have their course virtue and power in this Heaven performing that Service therein whereunto they are by God ordained and in this service they operate the Minerals and Metals by their Spirit Go now out of these 2 distinct Worlds into the third wherein is contained and found what the other two have wrought to wit the Super-celestial and the Celestial worlds out of the Super-celestial arises the Fountain of Life and of the Soul out of the other Celestial world the light of the Spirit and out of the third or Elementary world the invincible Celestial Fire which yet may be felt out of which that which is tangible is digested these three Matters and Substances produce and generate the Form of Metals among all which Gold hath the pre-eminence because the Sidereal Elementary Operation hath digested and ripened the Mercury in this Metal the more perfectly to a sufficient ripeness And even as the Male-Seed is injected into the Womb and touches the Menstruum which is its Earth but the Seed which goes out of the Male into the Female is operated in both by the Sydereal and Elementary that they be united and nourished by the Earth unto the Birth Even so understand it likewise that the Soul of Metals which is formed and conceived out of the Chaos by an intangible invisible incomprehensible concealed and supernatural Celestial Composition of Water and Air afterwards it is further concocted by the Celestial Elementary Light and Fire of the Sun whereby the Stars move the Powers when its heat is perceived in the inward parts of the Earth as in the Womb for the Earth is opened by the warm operating property of the upper Stars that their infused Spirit yield a nourishment unto the Earth that it may bring forth somewhat as Metals

the Door was lock'd are all Divine and Supernatural Divers Examples more might be recited out of Divine Writ which for Brevities sake I omit Among Supernatural things are accounted all Mineral Signs as the Appearance of Spirits Representations Pigmies appearing diversly and numerously giving notice of good or bad Luck Ruine or Riches so also those Figures Shapes or other works found in the Ores of Metals as of Men Fishes and other Creatures so formed and represented by the imagination of the three first Principles then ripened and fully digested by the Earth and other Elements Hereunto appertain the Monsters of the Earth and such things as are found within the Earth at certain times of a wonderful form and shape but not at all to be found when that time is past yet appear again and are to be found at some other time Hereunto also belong all Visions and Appearances performed by Water Glasses Cristal or other means as also those done by Sigils and Characters which yet are so various some being only Natural yet affording Supernatural appearances or sights but the others which are performed by Conjurations are neither Natural nor Supernatural but Diabolical belonging unto Sorcery and are prohibited all good Christians so likewise all those Means which oppose Holy Writ Gods Word and Commandments are to be rejected and refuted by true Natural Cabalists I say this because a certain distinction and sure order ought to be found of the Natural Supernatural Unnatural things In like manner there appertains unto Supernatural things all the Water-Spirits as the Syrens Succubi other Water-Nymphs with their Relations as likewise the Terrestrial Spirits and those which inhabit the Air who sometimes are heard seen or perceived sometimes foretelling Death or other Disasters sometimes they discover by their Apparition Riches and good Fortune in certain places and the Fiery Spirits appertain here also which appear in a fiery shape or like a burning Light all these are Spirits having untangible Bodies yet are they not such Spirits as the right Hellish Spirits who hunt after mens Souls as an Eternal Jewel even as the Infernal Lucifer the Devil and his Dependents do who were ejected with him but these are such Spirits which are above Nature set before Men for admiration and are only maintained by the Elements whereby they are nourished and fed but when this Earthly world shall cease they also shall decay and vanish with it because they have no Souls to be saved I will say no more hereof at present but refer the opening of such Circumstances more at large to another opportunity where I shall particularly treat of Visions and spiritual Appearances which are esteemed Unnatural by most part of the World yet truly are Natural but they are found to be Supernatural in their Operations and wonderful Qualities That I may further confirm my Assertion I say likewise that there are many things to be found in Physick which yield and manifest their workings supernaturally in a Magnetical way operating only by an attractive spiritual power which is attracted to it by the Air for the Air is the Medium between the Physick and the Hurt or Distemper even as the Magnet ever doth direct and turn it self towards its Pole-star though the star be many thousand Miles distant from it yet the spiritual operation and sympathy between them is so prevalent that it is attracted together at so vast a distance by the Medium or middle Band of the Air but because this attractive power is only known unto people in general or as a thing common it is therefore become customary and is so esteemed there being no notice taken of any further Secret whence this operative Faculty hath its Source or Original In like manner Hurts and Distempers may be healed and cured though the Patient and Physitian be very far distant one from the other not by Charmes Exorcismes or other unlawful prohibited means which are opposite to God and Nature but by such means wherein the attractive Magnetick Virtue lies to accomplish it As when a wounded person goes a Journey leaving the Weapon wherewith he was wounded or else of his Bloud which issued out of the wound with his Physician wherewith he proceeds rightly and by orderly means as is usual in dressing a wound without all doubt he shall be absolutely cured this is no Witchcraft but the cure is performed only by the attractive power of the Medicine which is carried to the Sore by the means of the Air wherewith it is mundified that it may perform the Spiritual Operation Some will think these hard sayings and impossible in Nature and many will say it is contrary to Nature whereby many will be excited to dispute it and raise Arguments one opposite to the other whether it be Natural or no whether it be possible or no or whether it be Sorcery I will thus resolve them that this Cure is natural but as it operates it is supernatural spiritual because it is performed meerly by an attractive incomprehensible means and that this manner of Cure is no Sorcery I affirm it hereby that it is not mixt or accompanied with any Sorcery nor with any other unnatural Means contrary to God the Creator or his holy and saving Word But it is only Natural out of its supernatural invisible incomprehensible spiritual and attractive power which received its Original from the Sydereal and performs its Operation by the Elements Lastly I likewise approve this Cure to be no Sorcery because the Devil rather delights in all Mischief to Mankind than to assist any manner of way for their benefit which yet is impossible for him to do without Gods permission Much more might be written of this Magnetick Form but I chuse rather to be silent referring it till I come to treat of the Natural Miracles of the World The grosser sort of foolish Wits who imagine themselves to be wise Philosophers and all others who are not in their perfect senses know no difference in this case but the wise and truly discreet well know how to distinguish betwixt that which is natural and that which is supernatural For do but observe this comparison to be proved by a gross Example how many Creatures are there which dye absolutely in the water so that no life is left therein but so soon as the pleasant Summer appears the natural heat gives a new life the Body quite restored in the same substance as it was before in its living Motion even as an Herb which dies in the Winter but in the Spring it manifests it self anew The death of these things is to be esteemed natural but the return of a new life in its knowledge is supernatural but because we are accustomed to all these things the least part of us consider what is worthy of further Meditation in this case letting both natural and supernatural go away together Most people overpass that natural custom which yet is supernatural as also monstrous Births and those that