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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76997	Paracelsvs Of the supreme mysteries of nature. Of [brace] the spirits of the planets. Occult philosophy. The magical, sympathetical, and antipathetical cure of wounds and diseases. The mysteries of the twelve signs of the zodiack. / Englished by R. Turner, philomathēs.	Paracelsus, 1493-1541.; Turner, Robert, fl. 1654-1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing B3544; Thomason E1567_2; ESTC R209187	70,843	175

placed in every Creature Wherefore he is able to teach every one certainly and perfectly and from him we may learn absolutely as he hath spoken saying Of me ye shall learn all things for there is nothing found in Heaven nor in Earth so secret whose properties he perceiveth not and most exactly knoweth and seeth who hath created all things We will therefore take him to be our Master Operator and Leader into this most true Art We will therefore imitate him alone and through him learn and attain to the knowledge of that Nature which he himself with his own finger hath engraven and inscribed in the bodies of these Metals Hereby it will come to pass that the most high Lord God shall bless all the Creatures unto us and shall sanctifie all our Wayes so that in this Work we may be able to bring our Beginning to its desired End and the Consequence thereof to produce exceeding great Joy and Love in our Hearts But if any one shall follow his own onely Opinion he will not onely greatly deceive himself but also all others who cleave and adhere thereunto and shall bring them unto loss For mankinde is certainly born in ignorance so that he can neither know nor understand any thing of himself but onely that which he receiveth from God and understandeth from Nature He which learneth nothing from these is like the Heathen Masters and Philosophers who follow the Subtilties and Crafts of their own Inventions and Opinions such as are Aristotle Hippocrates Avicenna Gallen c. who grounded all their ARTS upon their own Opinions onely And if at any time they learned any thing from Nature they destroyed it again with their own Phantasies Dreams or Inventions before they came to the end thereof so that by them and their Followers there is nothing perfect at all to be found This therefore hath moved and induced us hereunto to write a peculiar book of Alchymy founded not upon men but upon Nature it self and upon those Vertues and Powers which GOD with his own Finger hath impressed in Metals Of this impression Mercurius Trismegistus was an Imitator who is not undeservedly called the Father of all Wise-men and of all those that followed this ART with love and with earnest desire and that man demonstrateth and teacheth that God alone is the onely author cause and Original of all creatures in this ART But he doth not attribute the power and virtue of God to the creatures or visible things as the said heathen and such-like did Now seeing all ART ought to be learned from the Trinity that is from God the Father from God the Son of God our Saviour Jesus Christ and from God the holy Ghost three distinct persons but one God We will therefore divide this our Alchymistical worke into three parts or Treatises in the first whereof we will lay down what the ART containeth in it self And what is the propriety and nature of every Metal Secondly by what means a man may worke and bring the like powers and strength of Metals to effect And thirdly what Tinctures are to be produced from the Sun and Moone Paracelsus Of the Secrets of ALCHYMY Discovered in the Nature of the PLANETS CHAP. I. Of simple Fire IN the first place we shall endeavour and undertake to declare what this Art comprehendeth and what is the subject thereof and what are its proprieties The prime and chief subject to this Art belonging is fire which always liveth in one and the same propriety and operation neither can it receive life from any thing else Wherefore it hath a condition and power as all fires that lie hid in secret things have of vivification no otherwise then the Sun is appointed of God which heateth all the things of the world both secret apparent manifest as the Spheres of Mars Saturn Venus Jupiter Mercury and Luna which can give no other light but what they borrow from the Sun for they are dead of themselves Nevertheless when they are kindled as above is spoken they worke and operate according to their properties But the Sun himself receiveth his light from no other but from God himself who ruleth him by himself so that he burneth and shineth in him It is no otherwise in this art The fire in the furnace is compared to the Sun which heateth the furnace and the vessels as the Sun in the great world for even as nothing can be brought forth in the world without the Sun so likewise in this Art nothing can be produced without this Simple fire no operation can be made without it it is the greatest secret of this Art comprehending all things which are comprehended therein neither can it be comprehended in any else for it abideth by it self it lacketh nothing but other things which want that do injoy it and have life from it wherefore we have in the first place undertooke to declare it CHAP. II. Of the multiplicity of fire from which varieties of Metalls do arise WE have first written of simple fire which liveth and subsisteth of it self now we come to speake of a manifold spirit or fire which is the cause of variety and diversity of creatures so that there cannot one be found right like another and the same in every part as it may be seen in Metals of which there is none which hath another like it self the Sun produceth his gold the Moon produceth another Metal far different to wit silver Mars another that is to say Iron Jupiter produceth another kind of Metal to wit Tin Venus another which is Copper and Saturn another kind that is to say Lead so that they are all unlike and several one from another the same appeareth to be as well amongst men as all other creatures the cause whereof is the multiplicity of fire As by some heat is produced a mean generation by the corruption thereof the washing of the Sea another Ashes another Sand another Flame of fire another and another of Coales c. This variety of creatures is not made of the first simple fire but of the regiment of elements which is various not from the Sun but from the course of the seven Planets And this is the reason that the world containeth nothing of similitude in its individuals for as the heat is altered and changed every hour and minute so also all other things are varyed for the transmutation of the fire is made in the elements in which bodies it is imprinted by this fire Where there is no great mixture of the elements the Sun bringeth forth where it is a little more thicke the Moon where more gross Venus and thus according to the diversity of mixtures are produced divers Metals so that no Metal appeareth in the same mine like another It is therefore to be known that this variety of Metals is made of the mixture of the Elements because that their spirits are also found divers and without similitude which if they were brought forth from the