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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

spiritual and unformal and therefore as a Spirit it can particularly help to make unformal things fiery digest and ripen them and if you are a true Naturalist I recommend this Spirit unto thee it will not fail thee in the least in any necessity of Health or Wealth in case you observe it rightly and execute according to Justice I hope my Call and Request will at last take place and have a hearing with those who regard Nature and have an earnest and longing desire to search out and learn whereby they may whet their Wits open their Eyes and let their Ears hear and learn such a thing out of my Advice which was never taken notice of or learn'd before and is to be found in this Spirit of Copper internal and external He that doth not observe or truly understand my Writings will not fathom many Secrets nor search out to purpose and in truth nor learn to advantage without me therefore no Man can direct me as concerning the Spirit of Copper except he hath beforehand inverted and turned the Copper inside outwards and truly learned all the Mysteries of its internal Virtues as I have done if he can find out any thing better which I know not I earnestly desire him not to conceal any thing so shall his instruction be well rewarded with a thousand-fold advantage and recommend you herewith to the Highest Creator Vain Reason cannot alwayes apprehend Each matter which Venus can bring to an end No man can find it presently in sence Vain Reason banns it far away from thence Such a Spirit only can all things speed So that Mercury be joyn'd with it indeed CHAP. V. Of the Spirit and Tincture of Mars MArs and Venus have a Spirit and Tincture as well as Gold and other Metals be that Spirit which is in each Metal never so mean and little It is undeniable and known to all that many men have many minds though all men originally are of one first Matter born and produced from one Seed yet have they divers different Minds because the Stars have so operated them and not without cause for the influences of the great World operates the next to it in the little World for all Opinions Natures and Thoughts together with the whole complection of Man proceed alone from one Influence of the Stars manifesting themselves according to the Course of the Planets and Stars so that nothing can prevent nor can such Influences hinder it when the Birth hath attained to the end of its perfection As a man is naturally inclined to study one delights in Divinity another in the study of the Laws a third in Physick a fourth will be a Philosopher moreover there are many Wits who are naturally inclined to the Mechanicks as the one is a Painter another a Goldsmith the one a Shoomaker the other a Taylor a Carver and so forth divers and innumerable all this happens by the Stars influence whereby the Imagination is supernaturally founded fortified and whereupon it is resolved to rest as it is found that what a man hath once conceived in his Mind and framed a foundation thereof none can divert him from a constant resolution and relying thereon except Death which at last concludes all So is it to be understood of Alchymists who are set upon the search of Natures Secrets they intend not to cease till they have discover'd Nature absolved it quite and brought all to an end which cannot well be done Even so is it to be understood of Metals according as the Influence and Imagination is from above so is the Form and although the Metals be called Metals in general and are such yet you have understood by the various minds of men which yet proceed from one Matter that there may be manifold and divers Metals one hot and dry another cold and moist a third assuming a mixt Nature and Complection to it self Therefore the Metal of Mars being ordained in its degree by a gross Salt before others in the greatest quantity is found to have the hardest ungentle strongest and grossest Body which Nature appropriated and granted to it it hath the least portion of Mercury but more of Sulphur and most of Salt hence and from such a mixture or composition is its corporal essence descended and born into the world by help of the Elements It s Spirit is like to the other Spirits in operation but if you can know the right and true Spirit of Mars I tell you truly and in true Wisdom that one grain of its Spirit or Quintessence drunk with the Spirit of Wine strengthens the Heart Courage and Senses so that you shall fear no Foes it raises up in him the Courage of a Lion and provokes a desire to hunt and fight at Venus sports When the Conjunction of Mars and Venus are rightly placed in a certain Constellation they bring Fortune and Victory in Love and Affection in Battel and joy remaining in unity though the whole World should be against them But because I am an Ecclesiastick under Church Government and dedicated my Soul to God without provocation of humane desires and lusts of the Flesh for they lead a direct way to Hell without leave but Gods Commands Fear and a rejection of Mans Will which are tollerated by his Commands prepare a way to Heaven if they continue in the true calling upon and in the true and right Faith of the only Throne of Grace Mediator and Patron Jesus Christ our Saviour All Martial Diseases are expell'd cured and healed in an admirable manner by this Spirit such as are the Bloody Flux the Disease or Menstruous Fluxes of Women both white and red and all other Fluxes of the Belly and open Sores in the Legs or any part of the Body together with all those Diseases both internal and external howsoever they are called which bloody Mars hath caused which I omit to nominate particularly being well known unto the discreet Physician what Diseases are subject to the jurisdiction of Mars If the Spirit of Iron be truly known it hath a secret affinity with the Spirit of Venus so that both may be conjoined in one both becoming one only matter of a like operation form substance and being healing and expelling the self-same Diseases as also to bring the particulars of the Metals into a change with profit praise and excess But properly Mars must be observed thus with its virtues that in his Corporal form he only hath an earthly Body which may be used in many things for to stanch Bloud externally in Wounds to graduate Luna internally to stop or bind the Body which yet is not good at all times and may be used both internally externally in mans Body as likewise in Metallick affairs because without the true known means which Nature hath in her secret Closet much profit cannot be gotten per se. One thing more I must at present propose that the Magnet and true Iron perform almost a like benefit in Corporal Distempers having

so hath its Children of the lower Region succeeded it in Kind and Nature hath permitted that Vulcan should conduct them to their like if Saturn be content for the upper light gives occasion thereunto having generated an unfixt Body of Saturn penetrated with open pores that the Air can pass through this Saturnine Body that the Air can keep it aloft but the fire can quickly assault it because the body is not compact by reason of its unfixedness so that it must decay which must be in all points observed by him that will attain to the search of it for there is a great difference between the fix'd and unfix'd bodies and of the causes of their Constancy and Inconstancy And though Saturn hath an especial ponderosity above other Metals yet observe when they are poured forth together after their union in the Flux the other Metals alwaies settle at the bottom even as it likewise comes to pass in the pouring of Antimony through with other Metals whereby it is evident that the other Metals fall through equally and are more compact than Saturn for it must give place and preheminence to the other Metals leaving the victory with them for it must vanish and be quite consumed with the unfixt inconstant Metals in it all the three properties of the three principles are most course and because its Salt is very fluxible above that of other Metals and Planets so is its Body more fluxible inconstant unfixt and volatile than any other Metallick Body As Saturn steps to its regeneration so know that in like manner as common Water is forced by the natural coldness by the change of the Heavens whereby it becomes a coagulated Ice in like manner is it to be made evident that by reason of the great coldness which is found to be in the Salt of SAturn above other Salts Saturn is also coagulated and made corporal Ice dissolves into water by heat so likewise the coagulated Saturn is made fluxable by Fire it hath most of Mercury in it but it is inconstant and volatile it hath least of Sulphur and therefore according to its small quantity its cold body cannot be made warm it hath little Salt but fluxible otherwise Iron would be more fluxible and malleable than Lead if the Salt alone could cause a malleableness and fluxibleness because Iron contains more Salt than any other Metal Seeing then there is a difference to be found in this point you must therefore observe and remember the difference and how to distinguish between Metals All Philosophers have wrote as well as I that the Salt gives the Coagulation and Body to every Metal and it is true but to prove it by an example how and after what manner this Relation is to be understood Plume Allom is esteemed to be only a meer Salt and is approved to be such which in this particular may be compared to Iron that the Salt of the Plume Allom is found to be a thing unfluxible as Iron is On the other side Vitriol likewise is a Salt manifesting it self in a small quantity but fluxible and open therefore its Salt cannot yield such a hard congelation unto its appropriated Metal as the other can although all the Salts of Metals grew out of one certain Root and out of one Seed yet nevertheless you must observe a difference in their three Principles as also you must observe remember that a difference is found in one Herb from the other and likewise how man differs from other Creatures and Animals in Qualities Original and the three Principles for one Herb is indued with more of this another with more of that kind which in like manner is to be understood concerning Man and other Animals The Soul of Lead consists in a sweet quality as also doth the Soul of Tin and sweeter yet that nothing almost may be compared to it being first of all purified to the highest by separation that the pure be well separated from the impure that a perfect accomplishment may succeed in the Operation Otherwise the Spirit of Lead is by nature cold and dry wherefore I advise that it be not much used by Men and Women because it over cools Nature so that the Seed of both cannot perform their Natural Function nor doth it much good to the Spleen and Bladder but in other cases it attracts flegmatick Humours unto it which raise up much Melancholy in Men for Saturn is a Ruler and such a Melancholicus whereby a Man is confirm'd in his Melancholy wherefore its Spirit is used for one Melancholy Spirit attracts another unto it whereby Mans Body is freed and delivered from its infused Melancholy Externally the Soul of Saturn is so healing in all Sores old or new Cuts Thrusts or Accidents by Means or Nature so that no Metal can do the like it is cooling in all hot tumified Members but Noble Venus hath the pre eminence to mundifie and cauterize all putrid Sores and to lay a ground for their Cure which have their access from within for in her essence she is hot to dry up but Saturn on the contrary is found to be cold in his Essence The Celestial Light of the Sun is much hotter than the Light of the Moon for the Moon is much lesser than the Sun and according to its dimension and division it contains an eighth part of the greatness in its Circle if then the Moon in this her Magnitude of the eighth part could excel the Sun as the Sun excels the Moon all Fruits and Productions of the Earth must perish and there would be a perpetual Winter no Summer to be found at any time But the Eternal Creator hath in this case well ordained a certain Order and Law for his Creatures that the Sun should give light by day and the Moon by night and so all Creatures should be served Those Children which are subject to the influence of Saturn are melancholy churlish continually murmuring as old covetous people who do no good to their own Bodies and yet never have enough they put their Bodies to much labour torment themselves with thoughts and whimsies seldom recreate themselves or are merry with other people nor do they greatly regard the natural love of fair Women In brief I tell thee that Saturn is generated of little Sulphur little Salt and much unripe gross Mercury which Mercury is to be esteemed as a Froth that floates upon the Water in comparison of that Mercury which is found in Sol and is much more hot in its degree and therefore the Mercury of Saturn by reason of its great coldness hath not so quick a running Life as that which is made of Gold wherein more heat is to be found whence that running Life hath its original Therefore in the inferiour world we must take notice of little Vulcan in the augmentation and transmutation of Metals as I have described those three Principles of Saturn as concering their descent nature and complection And every one must know