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A82272	Fasciculus chemicus or Chymical collections. Expressing the ingress, progress, and egress, of the secret hermetick science, out of the choisest and most famous authors. Collected and digested in such an order, that it may prove to the advantage, not onely of beginners, but proficients of this high art, by none hitherto disposed in this method. Whereunto is added, the Arcanum or grand secret of hermetick philosophy. Both made English by James Hasolle, Esquire, qui est Mercuriophilus Anglicus.	Dee, Arthur, 1579-1651.; Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692.	1650 (1650)	Wing D810; Thomason E1325_1; ESTC R209088	90,355	320

Magistery is performed Scala pa. 125. We calcine perfect Bodies with Ripleus the first Fire naturally but no unclean Body doth ingredience our work except one which of the Philosophers is called the Green Lion which is the medium of uniting and joining Tinctures Ripl pa. 26. There is a certain Soul existing between Heaven and Earth arising from the Earth as Aire with pure Water the cause of the life of all living things continually running down upon our fourfold Nature producing her with all its power to a better condition which airy Soul is the secret Fire of our Philosophy otherwise called our Oil and mystically our Water Idem pa. eadem Our Mercury is made of perfect Albert. Bodies not imperfect that is with the second Water after the Bodies have been duly Calcined by the first Albert. pa. 19. This Fire is called Humour because Vogel in it as hath been said heat or the fire of Nature is hidden even as the heat of Animals in the Primogenian moisture Water since it is Heterogeneall to its Earth if sensible of the least heat will evaporate it being left and forsaken The Soul is no other then Oil Oil then Water Vogel p. 134. If any know to make choice of Flamelius such Matter as Nature delights and to inclose it rightly prepared in his Vessel and Furnace He and I saith Nature will forthwith doe the Work so he provide the requisite Fire Naturall against Nature not Naturall and without ardour Flamel pa. 123. We therefore call it Innaturall Lullius or not Naturall because it is not naturated of it self nor takes away any thing from naturated Nature nay it rather helps her by the Mediation of a moderate Exercise according to what Nature requires in her Reformations Lullius Codic pa. 24. Our Fire is Minerall is equall is Artepheus continuall it vapours not unlesse it be too much stirred up it participates of Sulphur it is taken elsewhere then of Matter it destroys dissolves congeals and calcines all things and it is Artificiall to finde out a compendium and without cost or at least very little it is also moist vaporous digesting altering penetrating subtill airy not violent not fuming encompassing containing onely one and it is the fountain of Life or which incircles the Water of Life and it contains the King and Queens bathing place in the whole Work that humid Fire shall suffice thee both in the beginning middle and end because in it the whole Art consists and it is a Fire Naturall against Nature and Unnaturall and without Adustion And to conclude it is a Fire hot dry moist cold think on these things and doe rightly without any thing of a strange nature The third is that Naturall Fire of our Water which is also called against Nature because it is Water and neverthelesse of Gold it makes meer Spirit which thing common Fire cannot doe this is Minerall Equall participates of Sulphur it destroys congeals dissolves and calcines all things this is penetrating subtile not burning and it is the fountain of living Water in which the King and Queen wash themselves which we stand in need of in the whole Work in the beginning middle and end but not of the other two except sometimes onely Join therefore in reading the Philosophers Books these three Fires and without doubt thou wilt not be ignorant of their sense and meaning concerning Fires Artephius pa. 31. Weigh the Fire measure the Dastin Air mortifie the Water raise up the heavy Earth Dastin spec pa. 202. By earnest consideration of Lullius things Naturall Innaturall and against Nature it behoveth thee to attain the Materiall and Essentiall knowledge of the temper through all his parts Essentiall and also Accidentall that thou maist know how to behave thy self in our said Magistery having so comprehended the said principles Lull Theor. fo 16. There are four principall Fires to be observed in respect of the Substance and Propriety of the four Elements Idem pa. 174. Although in our Books we have Lullius handled a threefold Fire Naturall Innaturall and against Nature and other different Manners of our Fire neverthelesse we would signifie one Fire from more compound things and it is the greatest secret to come to the knowledge of this Since it is no Humane but Angelick and heavenly gift to reveal Lull Testament pa. 78. Son our Argent vive or part of Lullius it is Water distilled from its Earth and the Earth in like manner is our Argent vive animated and the Soul is Naturall heat which stands bound together in the first Essence of the Elements of Argent vive Idem In the Structure of the Fire Trevisane some differd from others although they all aimed at the same scope namely that it should be made after this manner lest the fugient should first fly away before the Fire could any way bring forth the persequent thing Bernard Comes pa. 40. The Fire which we shew to thee is Scala Water and our Fire is Fire and not Fire Scala pa. 148. Raimond speaking of Fires in his Scala Compendium of the Soul saith It is to be noted that here lie contrary operations because as contranaturall Fire dissolves the Spirit of a fixt Body into the Water of a Cloud and constringeth the Body of a volatile Spirit into congealed Earth So contrariwise the Fire of Nature congeals the dissolved Spirit of a fixt Body into glorious Earth and resolves the Body of a Volatile Spirit fixt by Fire against Nature not into the Water of a Cloud but the Water of the Philosophers Scala pa. 126. The Water of which the Bath Basil Valent. of the Bridegroom ought to be made is of two Champions that is to be understood confected of two contrary Matters wisely and with great care lest that one adversary may vanquish the other Basil Valent. pa. 32. What ever actions they nominate Rosin know that these things are always done by the action of the heat of certain Fire which causes not Sublimation because it is so gentle nor may it elevate any smoke naturally by reason of its debility whence if it be such as may in a manner elevate and not elevate it is good Rosin ad Sarratant pa. 286. THE COROLLARY If any would rightly weigh the ayings of Philosophers in this Chapter the manner of their Equivocations would appear clearer then the Sun for as they have deciphered the second Work somewhere in the name of the first Work so in this Chapter they nominate the second Water the first Water and the third Water the second as it appears in Scala pa. 123. where it is said that the first Water the Sun calcines that the second might the better enter And again the second Water is Fire against Nature And Ripley utters like things also in his Preface But let every Artist know that the first Water is Phlegm only or unnaturall Fire because it

it fly away into Smoke because that is the approved sought for Good the better Best the white foliated Earth coagulating as the Rennet of a Lamb the Ashes of Ashes the Salt of Nature the begotten Infant the first and nearest Matter of Metals the first Subject in which are its proper Elements to wit of Natur'd Nature the moist and temperate Matter ought to be reduced and fixt till it flow with its Ferment like Wax without Smoke and endure all Fire Therefore labour with it to Silver and thou maist quickly begin the Magistery nor let it wax old without commixtion because thou maist not take it unlesse new made after the Birth with its Blood Lul Codic p. 117. If from Subliming little shall Dastin come forth and clean the Fire will yet be little Therefore let it bee encreast But if much and unclean the Fire is superfluous therefore let it be withdrawn But if much and clean then the proportion is found Dast spec p. 48. The Dust ascending higher from Rosar the Dregs is Ashes Honoured Sublimed Extracted from the Ashes but that which remains below is Ashes of Ashes inferiour vilified condemned Ashes a dreg and like drosse Therefore make a difference between its clear and limpid because when it shall ascend most white as Snow it will be compleat therefore gather it carefully lest it fly away into Smoke because that is the very sought for good the white foliated Earth congealing what is to be congealed Rosarius Arnoldi pa. 427. The Calx or Body must be often Geber imbibed that thence it might be sublimed and more yet purged then before because the Calx doth not at all or very difficultly climb upward assisted by the Spirit Geber lib. summae perfectionis p. 172. O Nature how dost thou burn Artepheus Bodies into Spirit which could not be done if the Spirit were not first incorporated with the Bodies and the Bodies with the Spirit made volatile and afterwards permanent Therefore the compound receives its cleansing by our Fire viz. by dissolving the humid and by subliming what is pure and white the dregs being cast forth as a naturall Vomit For in such a Dissolution and naturall Sublimation there is made a deligation of the Elements a cleansing and separation of the pure from impure so that the pure and white ascends upwards and the impure and earthy remains fixt in the bottome of the Vessel which is to be cast forth and removed because it is of no value by receiving onely a a middle white substance And in this is accomplisht our Philosophicall and Naturall Sublimation not in the Vulgar unfit Mercury which hath no qualities like these with which our Mercury drawn from the red servant is adorned Arteph fo 21. The first part abides not unlesse it be bound to the second in the same hour Idem It is fit that the end be restored upon its beginning and the beginning upon the end Idem When the Artist sees the white Soul risen let him join her immediately to her Body When the clean and candid Water shall be generated it is meet we join the Earth to it in the same Hour And according to Plato the Fierinesse Plato is contraried in the hour of coagulation And according to Dastin by the accesse of Cold the Water may well be turned into dry Earth Idem There is one and the same thing Margarita pretiosa in the Subject having all these properties and operations for while it remains in liquefaction by reason of Subtilty it is called Spirit without which Spirit there can neither be made Generation nor Conjunction of the Soul and Body Whence in the whole Magistery the Spirit actually rules untill the Soul and Body be generated but while it can fly from the Fire it is called a Soul but while it remains in the Fire and can persevere it is called a Body If therefore in the time of Generation the Soul shall stand in the Fire and his strength prevail through the force of the Spirit then she flies from the Fire and draws with her the Body to flight and the Workman remains frustrate of his purpose and expects that which hath been already come and gone and will never come hereafter and it seems wonderfull to him But if the strength of the Body prevail above the strength of the Soul then by equality of Spirit it is turned from Act into Habit then the Body retains the Soul altogether nor ever hath the power to fly from the Fire and the Workman hath his purpose which the Auncients had and then the Spirit remains always with them sometimes in Act and sometimes in Habit. But a quick and double insight is altogether necessary specially both in the end of Decoction and Sublimation that all the superfluities being whitened the Artist may see the wonderfull and terrible Candor and may presently obtain his joyfull and quiet rest after this Consummation of Labour for then by infrigidating the Moon the Sun is hidden in her Bowels and the East is joined to the West Heaven to Earth and Spirituall to Corporall whence is said in Turba Know ye that ye shall not Die the purple Colour but in Cold. And Hermes Whose Nature hath been hot if Cold find him it shal not hurt him And Avicen Know that he which hath evaporated all hath wrought well therefore make it Cold for then is manifest the hidden and the Manifest by infrigidating is hid And this Infrigidation or cooling is done with rest in which there is no operation of the hands since it is the end of operation Margarita pretiosa pa. 204. That Earth so mingled with Lullius Menstruous Matter is called Argent vive Exuberated which gather speedily and while it is new after its Birth put it in Water of Metals in digestion in a tripode of the Athanor Lull Test p. 21. This is our Mercury sublimed Dunst●● and made fixt from the white altered Earth of Bodies arising first wonderfully by the power and help of the Water This is that Mercury in stead of which the Fools and Idiots assume that compounded of common Vitrioll and Sublimated with Salt in which they are grosly deceived Dunstan p. 18. Sublime the Body as much as Clangor Buccinae thou canst and boil it with clean Mercury and when the Body hath drunken some part of the Mercury subtilize it with a Fire quick and stronger as thou art able until it ascend in likenesse of most white Dust adhering to the sides of the Vessell in manner of Snow But the Ashes remaining in the bottome are dregs and the vilified drosse of Bodies and to be cast away in which there is no life because it is most light Dust which with a little blast vanisheth because it is nothing but bad Sulphur excluded by Nature Then the dregs being cast away iterate the Sublimation of the most white Dust by it self without its dregs till it be fixt and till it send out

and aspect The like this uncertaine Elixir worketh for that being tyed to no proper quality it imbraceth the quality and disposition of the thing wherewith it is mixed and wonderfully multiplyeth the virtues and qualities hereof 42. In the Philosophicall sublimation The Philosophical sublimation of Mercury or first preparation of Mercury Herculean labour must be undergone by the work-man for Jason had in vaine attempted his expedition to Colchos without Alcides Alter inauratam nota de vertice pellem Principium velut ostendit quod Aug. Cry sop 2. sumere possis Alter onus quantum subeas One from an high a Golden Fleece displayes Which shewes the Entrance another sayes How hard a taske you 'l find For the entrance is warded by horne-pushing beasts which drive away those that approach rashly thereunto to their great hurt onely the ensignes of Diana and the doves of Venus are able to asswage their fiercenesse if the fates favour 43. The naturall quality of Philosophicall Earth and the tillage thereof seems to be touched by the Poet in this Verse Pingue solum primis extemplo à Geo 1. mensibus anni Fortes invertant Tauri Tunc Zephyro putris se gleba resolvit Let sturdy Oxen when the yeare begins Plough up the fertile soyle For Zeph'rus then dissolves the rotten clods 44. He that calleth the Philosophers Luna or their Mercury the common Mercury doth wittingly deceive or is deceived so the writings of * Chap. 4. pari lib. 1 perfecti Magisterii Geber teach us that the Philosophers Mercury is Argent vive yet not of the common sort but extracted out of it by the Philosophers skill 45. That the Philosophers Mercury is not Argent vive in its proper nature nor in its whole substance but the midle and pure substance thereof which thence hath taken its originall and made by it the grand Philosophers opinions being founded in experience 46. The Philosophers Mercury hath divers names sometimes it is call'd Earth sometimes Water in a divers respect because it naturally ariseth from them both The earth is subtle white sulphurous in which the elements are fixed the philosophicall gold is sowne the water is water of life burning permanent most clear call'd the water of gold and silver but this Mercury because it hath in it Sulphur of its own which is multiplyed by art it deserves to be cald the Sulphur of Argent vive Last of all the most precious substance is Venus the ancients Hermaphrodite glorious in each sex 47. This Argent vive is partly naturall partly unnaturall it being intrinsecall and occult hath its root in nature which cannot be drawne forth unlesse it be by some precedent clensing industrious sublimation it being extrinsecall is praeternaturall and accidentall separate therefore the clean from the unclean the substance from the accidents and make that which is hid manifest by the course of nature otherwise make no further progresse for this is the foundation of the whole worke and nature 48. That dry and most precious liquor doth constitute the radicall moisture of metals wherefore of some of the ancients it is called Glasse for glasse is extracted out of the radicall moisture closely lurking in ashes which will not give place unlesse it be to the hottest flame notwithstanding our inmost or centrall Mercury discovers it selfe by the most gentle and kindly though a little more tedious fire of nature 49. Some have sought for the latent Philosophicall earth by Calcination others by sublimation many among the glasing vessels and some few between vitrial and salt even as among their naturall vessels others enjoyne to sublime it out of lime and glasse But we have learned of the Prophet that in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth and the Earth was without form and void and darknesse was upon the face of the Deep and the spirit of God moved upon the Waters and God said Let there be Light and there was Light and God saw the Light that it was good and he divided the light from the darknes c. Josephs blessing spoken of by the same Prophet will be sufficient to a wise man Deut 33. Blessed of the Lord be his Land for the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In re quapiam eximium praestans Sweetness old transla Precious things new tran Apples of Heaven for the dew and for the Deep that lyeth beneath for the Apples of fruit both of sun and moon for the top of the ancient mountains for the Apples of the everlasting hills c. pray the Lord from the ground of thy heart my son that he would bestow upon thee a portion of this blessed land 50. Argent vive is so defiled by originall sin that it floweth with a double infection the first it hath contracted from the polluted Earth which hath mixed it selfe therewith in its generation and by congelation hath cleaved thereunto the second borders upon the dropsie and is the corruption of intercutal Water proceeding from thick and impure water mixed with the clear which nature is not able to squeeze out and separate by constriction and because it is extrinsecall it goes away with a gentle heat The Mercuries leprosie infesting the body is not of its root and substance but accidentall and therfore separable from it the earthy part is wiped off by a moist Bath and the laver of nature the watery part is taken away by a dry bath with the pleasant fire of generation And thus by a threefold washing and clensing the Dragon putting off his old scales ugly skin is renewed 51. The Philosophicall sublimation of Mercury is compleated in two things namely by removing things superfluous from it and by introducing things wanting the superfluities are the externall accidents which in the dark spheare of Saturne doe make cloudy ruddy Jupiter Separate therefore the blewnesse of Saturn coming up untill Iupiters purple star smile upon thee Add hereunto the sulphur of nature whose grain and leaven it hath in it selfe so much as sufficeth it but see that it be sufficient for other things also Multiply therefore that invisible Sulphur of the philosophers until the Virgins milk come forth and so the first gate is opened unto thee 52. The entrance of the Philosophers garden is kept by the Hesperian Dragon which being laid open a fountaine of the clearest water proceeding from a seaven fold spring floweth forth on every side the threshold wherein make the Dragon drink thrice the magicall number of Seven untill being drunk he put off his hideous garment may the divine powers of light-bringing Venus and horned Diana be propitious unto thee 53. Three kinds of most beautifull flowers are to be sought and may be found in the garden of the wise Damask-coloured Violets the milk-white Lilly and the purple and immortall flower of love Amaranthus Not far from that fountaine at the entrance fresh Violets do first salute thee which being