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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41373	The golden age, or, The reign of Saturn review'd tending to set forth a true and natural way to prepare and fix common mercury into silver and gold : intermix'd with a discourse vindicating and explaining that famous universal medicine of the ancients, vulgarly called the philosophers stone, built upon four natural principles / an essay written by Hortolanus, junr. ; preserved and published by R.G.	Hortolanus, junior.; R. G.	1698 (1698)	Wing G1011; ESTC R30416	83,091	240

the Secre of the Secres Parde Also there was a Disciple of Plato That on a tyme sayd his Master to As his Book Senior wool bere Wytnesse And this was his demaunde in Sothfastnesse Tellme the name of the privy Stone And Plato answered unto him anone Take the Stone that Tytanos Men name Of Titan Magnafia take the cler light The red Gumme that ys so bright c. Theat Chem. Britt pag. 275. Which is that quod he Magnatia is the same Said Plato ye Sir and is it thus This is ignotum per ignotius What is Magnatia good Sir I you pray It is a Water that is made I say Of Elements four quod Plato Tell me the Rock good Sir quod he tho Of that Water if it be your will Nay nay quod Plato certayne that I nyll The Philosophers were y Sworne e●hone That they shulde discover it unto none Ne in no Boke it write in no mane●e For unto Christ it is so lefe and dere That he wol not that it discovered be But where it liketh to his Deite Man to enspyre and eke for to desende Whan that him lyketh to this is his ende Thus you see how the ancient Philophers were Sworn not to discover their Rock of clear Water and that this Work is the highest piece of Philosophy in Nature This Water is made of the four Elements said Plato so is the joyning of the two first Principles said to be the mixing of the four Elements the one being Hot and Dry the other Cold and Moist This Water is also called Aqua Divina Aqua Benedicta Aqua Coelestis c. with many other Names One Author that shall be nameless speaking of the Conjunction of these two Principles saith it is a Magistery and calleth the first the Divine Instrument and the second he calls Mercury and saith that the Addition of the Instrument that is Quintessence goeth through the Mercury and remaineth with it and seeing that Quintessence belongeth to Life it changeth the Mercury so that now Mercury is nothing else but Life also and this Operation is done very quickly without any elemental Working for as every Workman adorneth his Work and giveth it his Mark by the which the Master-piece is known so also God Marketh this his Creation and giveth it the noblest Sign that is in Heaven c. So now you have his Words you may easily find out the Man He also calls this Matter being purged Luna so soon saith he as Mercury perceiveth the power of God Sol it is no longer Mercury but Luna that this Mercury is wholly changed and turn'd about so that was inward is drawn outward but no part separated from another c. But what needeth many Words you have the thing before so sufficiently described that I may say he that cannot thereby easily name it savoureth nothing at all of Ingenuity This Soul saith my Master as it is drawn from the Saturnia sollid and dry is called our Air or rather the Chamelion which is an Airy Body but indeed it hath a hundred other Names This says he is true Sulphur which is imbibed by the Mercuriality of Saturnia and Notes it with the Regal Signet and being united and revived into a Mineral Water by the mediation of Dianas Doves it is the sharp Spirit which in the Water moves the Body to putrefie c Thus is made a Medicine of the first Order by Calcination Next we will proceed to the third Principle of Earth after we have observed a few of the Names of these two Principles First as they are apart and afterwards as they are joyned besides such as you have heard before First of the Air Female or Water of dissolving Mercury Aeyrenaes in his Opus Tripartitum or Vera Confectio Lapidis Philosophici in the Division De principali proprietate Mercurii dissolventis pag. 21. amongst others sets down these Acetum Aqua aqua prima aqua artis aqua simplex balneum Coelum humiditas Ignis humidus ignis contra naturam liquor vegetabilis Crudus Luna Mater Materia Lunaria mercurius crudus mercurius dissolvens Ministerium primum Quinta Essentia Spiritus crudus Spiritus cocti Sepulchurum Sperma Mercurii Stomachus Struthionis vas Philosophorum Visitatio occultorum argentum vivum crudum à minera simpliciter extractum Pag. 48. after some alteration of it Aqua divina aqua mundi aqua venenosa aqua auri aquila Caput Corvi fimus equinus flos aeris fumus igneus humidum igneum igneum venenum ignis innaturalis Leo viridis Lutum Magisterii Magnesia nigra Nigrum nigrius nigro nummus Oleum Saturni Plumbum nigrum pulvis niger putrefactio res vilis Ros coelestis sigillum hermetis Spiritus foetens sputum Lunae terr a nigra Vapor c. In the Book called Palladium Spagyricum are hundreds of Names yet I approve not his Cunning. Secondly As to the Male or Fire Pag. 57. Adam Anima Aries anrum vivum Corpus rubeum ferrum forma frater gumma rubea Ignis Naturae Lapis rubeus Lytargyrium rubeum Lux Mane Mars Magnesia rubea Oleum Martis oleum incombustibile pater pars una Rex Rubedo Sal rubeum Sericon Sol sulphur rubeum sulphur vivum terra rubea vitriolum rubeum De predictorum duorum conjunctione pag. 22. Aqua secunda arcanum argentum Aqua nostra vivum Chaos corpus confusum Cuprum Aes nostrum Aes philosophorum fumus aquosus ignis alienus Lapis mineralis Lapis unus Lapis in Capitulis notus Laton Materia una massa consusa minera nostra Menstruum secundam Ovum philosophorum Radix una Res una res vilis c. Pag. 38. Aes album argentum vivum animatum Arsenicum Aurum aurum album corpus album Eva Fundamentum Artis Gumma alba Hermophroditus Lac virginis Lapis unus Luna plena Magnesia Materia una metallorum Mercurius occidens Plumbum album Radix artis Sal Alchali sapo sapientum soror sperma metallorum stannum sulphur album Terra fructuosa Vitrum Urina puerorum Vultur with many others and which are sometimes indifferently applied to either Of the Addition of the third Principle or Earth You observed before that it is said the former Matter being united and revived Dianas Doves into a Mineral Water by the mediation of Dianas Doves is the sharp Spirit that in the Water moves the Body to putrefie This is the same with what Aeyrenaeus writes in his Introitus Apertus in several parts thereof Pag. 5. Disce igitur c. Learn therefore who are the Companions of Cadmus and what is that Serpent who devoured them what is that hollow Oak to which Cadmus fastned the Serpent Learn what the Doves of Diana Pag. 9. are which overcome the Lion by asswaging him I say the Green Lion which indeed is the Babylonian Dragon killing all things with his Poyson At length learn to know the Caducean Rod of Mercury with which he worketh

and Foundation of this Art Hert. Sir I shall do it readily since you are pleased to require it This Art consists in the Metalline Kingdom only in Metals from Metals and by Metals It is built upon four Metalline Principles or Elements Fire Air Earth and Water That the two first joynd are Radix Artis and the true Key That enough of them hath been said already that we are now seeking out the third Principle of Earth the Doves of Diana which reconciles the two first to the last that therefore they must be of a Metalline Nature and make the second Work which may be called Conjunction Triptative c. Aeyren. Now see if in my Writings I have not sufficiently touched this Principle of Earth or the Doves of Diana Hert. Sir I thank you for your seasonable Advice and with your Favour I will make a further search Let me see Vera confectio Lapidis Philoso p. 133. Nunc ad medicianam secundi ordinis transeamus Medecina secundi ordinis quae habet inspirare tingere et fermentare primam compositionem Unde Calidius Philosophus nemo potest vel postea poterit tingere terram albam foliatam nisi cum Auro Seminate aurum vestrum in terra alba foliata seminate hoc est conjungite vel fermentate aurum id est animam vel virtutem tingentem in terra alba foliata hoc est in terra preparatione debita facta alba et munda in qua non sint sordes nam si it a preparata non sit non sit idonea ut possit suam formam vel animam recipere ut conjunctae fiant immortales c. Pag. 155. Atque finalis scopus istius medicinae secundi Ordinis est Reducere lapidem in terram fixam spiritualem et tingentem Pag. 142. Accipe sulphur album et ipsum fige Luper corpus suum album fixum et mundatum id est supra argentum Et sulphur rubeum supra corpus suum rubeum scil supra aurum c. Pag. 150. Praeterea ad hanc medicinam secundi Ordinis spectat illud Hermetis Scitote inquit rumorum inquisitores et sapientiae filii quod Vultur supra montem existens in Cacumine voce magna clamat inquiens protige me et ego protegam te largire mihi jus meum ut te adjuvem Sol enim meus et radii mei sunt in me Luna vero mihi propria est ac lumen meum omne lumen superat et mea bona omnibus bonis sunt sublimiora Me igitur c. Fons Chemicae Philosophiae pag. 93. Sed ut ad aquam revertamur in qua crede mihi totum secretum consistit quae aqua licet sit una non tamen est simplex sed composita nempe ex Vase et igne Philosophorum Vinculum quibus tertium additur nempe vinculum Quum igitur c. Introit Apert p. 4. Est nempe in aqua nostra requisitus primò ignis secundo liquor Saturniae vegetabilis tertiò Mercurii vinculum c. I am not to learn that sometimes and in some respects the first Principle of Fire is called Vinculum Mercurii because it tends to the fixing of it but the Water is tied to the Fire only by the third Principle Ripley Revived pag. 290. The second manner is called Triptative Which is Conjunction of things Three Of Body Soul and Spirit that they not strive Which Trinity thou must bring to Unity For as the Soul to the Spirit the Bond must be Right so the Body the Soul to him must knit Out of thy Mind let not this Lesson flit Pag. 292. Know that the Soul doth not ascend but it carries with it a fermental Odour of the Body by which it doth so effectually affect the Spirit that it begins to think of taking a new Impression and becomes daily by little and little more and more able to suffer Fire and by consequence draws to the nature of a Body observe this c. Pag. 307. The next is to know our Mercury which is not Common but Artificial drawn from three Heads by the mediation of one thing which makes the two which are dry and sulphureous to unite with one which is moist and mercurial Brevis Manuductio ad Rubin Coelestem pag. 69. Causa secunda finalis haec est ut contrarias qualitates concilia●emus Non autem conciliantur qualitates contrariae nisi per medium Pag. 70. Medium Medium ergo erit utriusque Partïceps utrique accommodatum Vertendo itaque compositum in terram jam concordant in hoc tertio frigus calor ut cohabitare possint c. Postea vero in aquam dissolvendo conciliantur c. Also in Rip Rev you speak to this purpose viz. For certainly the ferment Ferment which cometh between the compound Body and the Water causeth a Death and a Regeneration c. Also in another part of it thus Now in the Composition of these three first our common Mercury and the two Common Mercury Principles of our Compound there interceeds the Ferment c. Out of which though it be a Body proceeds yet a specificated Odour c. Now Sir I thank you for your Encouragement since I have cause to rejoyce Aeyren. How come you to lay any stress upon these Words Hort. Because Sir you have expresly said it more than once or twice and a certain honest Author speaks to this purpose That after the joyning of the two first Principles the Mercury of the second may then be said to be dead and never more to be made living but by Argent vive which cannot be done without mixture but that it will not mingle it self with the common Argent vive because of the Sulphur c. therefore there must be a medium that in Medium the medium must be a Specifick seperative Power to coagulate c. for common Mercury has no Specifick therefore take c. This Sir I think agrees exactly with your own words formerly cited Aeyr It does so Name your Author therefore for certainly he is one of the plainest that ever writ concerning this Principle Hor. He is no plainer Sir in this than in the rest but his Book is of small Account and I must beg your Pardon Sir because in your Preface to Ripley Revived after you have told us what light you received from Bernard Trevisan you say next to him or rather before him in some respects is an Author whom you will not name c. So Sir I follow your Example and I know you can easily perceive the words are not of my own invention Aeyr But how then has this your Earth a relation to the Doves of Diana which are spoke in the Plural Hor. Because of the Quantity Sir which is two to one Aeyren. Have you seen any Receipt for it Hort. Yes Sir one of your own it is as follows Arcanum Arsenici Philosophici 1. Accepi Draconis ignei partem unam