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A44608	Aurifontina chymica, or, A collection of fourteen small treatises concerning the first matter of philosophers for the discovery of their (hitherto so much concealed) mercury which many have studiously endeavoured to hide, but these to make manifest for the benefit of mankind in general.	Houpreght, John Frederick.; Flamel, Nicolas, d. 1418.; Ripley, George, d. 1490?	1680 (1680)	Wing H2941; ESTC R31127	85,086	301

Wine is mixed with a great deal of Water and terrene terrestriety but by means of an artificial distillation the dry Spirit of Wine may be severed from all the phlegmatick humidity and terrene terrestriety in so much that all the Spirit is severed from the Water existent in Wine and the Water from the Earth and then remain the Lees out of which a white Salt is extracted and joyned again with the Spirit and then the Spirit is distilled and cohobated divers times until all the Salt be gone over with it whereby the Spirit is hugely fortified and acuated And in truth this is a notable typical description represented unto us by the Philosophers which in the preparation of the Water of Mercury we ought to imitate for after its dissolution we ought in like manner as hath been taught of the Wine by Sublimation sever the Water or Phlegm from the Spirit and the Spirit from the Earth and to rectifie the Earth and joyn and distill it together with the Spirit untill all together come over the Helm Of which preparation of this Water none of all the Philosophers hath written more clearly nor better than Raymund Lullie viz. in Testamento novissimo as also in the first Testament in libro Mercuriorum libro Q. Essentiae c. where he doth plainly enough declare that after the Putrefaction Separation Distillation of the Philosophical Spirit of Wine the Spiritual Water is to be mixed again and distilled with its own Earth that it come over with it he declareth also how this Philosophical Wine or Menstruum is fortified and acuated with its own Salt And further it is to be noted that this Water Menstruum or Philosophical Spirit of Wine being thus prepared doth dissolve or open its own Body or Mercury vive into the primum Ens or primogenial Water whereby it is multiplied without end by means of Putrefaction and Distillation But what is said of the Extraction of this Water is confirmed by Arnoldus de Villâ novâ saying It is a substance full of Vapours which containeth in it self a fat humidity whereof the Artist severeth the Philosophers humidity such as is fit for the Work and is as clear as the tears of eyes wherein dwelleth the Quintessence in a Metallick Nature very proper for the Metals and therein is the Tincture to bring forth an intire Metal for it containeth the nature both of Argent vive and also of Sulphur Rosarius Philosophorum saith concerning the distillation of this Menstruum or Water that great industry and care must be had and that the Vessels to be used for the cleansing of this Spirit must be of Glass and exactly closed to the end that the Spirit may find no vent nor place to fly through it being very forward to make its way through any hole it findeth And if the red Spirit should be gone the Artist will lose his labour the Philosophers call the red Spirit Bloud and Menstruum therefore be very careful to have good Vessels and to have the joynts well luted that you may get the dry Spirit with its Bloud into the Receiver by it self without evaporation of its Virtue and keep it until thou have occasion to work with it But concerning this distillation the ocular inspection goeth beyond writing and none can be a Master before he have been a Scholar or Apprentice Be provident therefore and discreet in thy Work lay on a Receiver and first distill by a gentle Fire the Element of Water which being over put it aside and lay on another Receiver and close the joynts exactly that the Spirit may not vapour away increase the Fire a little and there will rise in the Helm a dry yellow Spirit Continue the same degree of Fire so long as the Spirit cometh yellow But when the Alembick beginneth to be red then increase the Fire very gently and keep it going on thus until the red Spirit and Bloud be quite come over which in its ascending and going through the Helm will appear in the form of Clouds in the Air And so soon as the red Spirit is distilled over the Helm will be white and then cease quickly and thus you have in the Receiver the two Elements of Air and Fire having extracted the true dry Spirit and severed the pure from the impure Loe now you have the prima materia Metallorum wherein the Bodies are reduced For all the Metals have their rise from Water which is a ●oot of all Metals And therefore they are reduced into Water like as the frozen Ice by heat is reduced into Water because it hath been Water before Do not marvel at it for all things upon Earth have their root and rise from Water O how many there are that work and never think upon the root which is the Key to the whole Work it dissolveth the Bodies readily it is Father and Mother it openeth and shutteth and reduceth Metals into what they have been in the beginning It dissolveth the Bodies and coagulateth it self together with them the Spirit is carried upon the Water that is the Power of the Spirit is seen there operating which is done when the Body is put into the Water Whereupon the Philosopher saith Look upon that despicable thing whereby our Secret is opened For it is a thing which all know well and he that knoweth it not will hardly or never find it the wise man keepeth it and the fool throws it away and the reduction is easie to him that knows it But my Son it is the greatest secret to free this Stone or Mercury vive from its natural bonds wherewith he is tyed by Nature that is to dissolve and reduce it into its primigenial Water for without this be done all will prove but labour lost for else we should not be able to sever and extract the true Spirit or Watry substance which dissolveth the Bodies And this Solution hath been concealed by all the Philosophers who left it unto God Almighty's disposing anathematizing that man that should openly reveal it And therefore they spake very subtilly and concisely concerning the solution of this crude Body to the end that it may remain occult unto the unwise But my Son thou art to take notice that the solution of Mercury vive will hardly be performed without a means but none such are to be used as are Sophistical as many rude unwise and ignorant fools use to do who by strange extravagant ways reduce Mercury into Water supposing that to be the right Water They sublime Mercury with Corrosives with all sorts of Salts and Vitriols from which the sublimed Mercury attracteth the Salty Spirits and then afterwards they dissolve the sublimate into Water in Balneo or in the Cellar or divers other ways Item they reduce it into Water by Salt-Armoniack by Herbs Sope Aquafort by means of strange kinds of Vessels and many the like Sophistical proceedings all which are but

gross fancies foolish and frustraneous labours Some also conceive to sever those things afterwards from the Water of Mercury and that then it shall be the true Water which the Philosophers do desire The reason of their Errors is that they consider not the words of the Philosophers who plainly do say that it ought not to be mixed with any heterogeneous thing in the whole World And Bernhardus saith in his Epistle that so soon as Mercury is dryed up by the Salts Aquafort and other things that thenceforward it is unfit for the Philosophick work for being dryed up by the Salts Allums Aquaforts it is not able to dissolve But my dear Son observe what now I tell thee and what information concerning this point the Philosophers left behind them in their Books viz. that this Water is not to be prepared by any heterogeneous means whatever in the whole World but only by Nature with Nature and out of Nature These words are all plain to the understanding which I will not now openly unfold but reserve the same for a peculiar Treatise however for a Memorandum I will set down these following Rhimes Take fresh pure quick white and clear Tye him hands and heels so near With a most puissant cord and yoke That he may be mortified and choakt Reduce him by his like homogeneous Nature To his first Being or primigeneous feature Within the close Chamber or House of Putrefaction According to Dame Nature's indication Then you will have a living spiritual Fountain Flowing bright and clear from Heaven's Mountain Feeding on its proper flesh and bloud Therewithall increasing to an endless Floud Let him that by Divine assistance obtaineth his blessed Water render thanks unto God ●or he hath the Key in his hands wherewith he may open the fast Locks of all Metallick Chests out of which Gold Silver Gems Honour Power and Health are to be had This blessed Water is by the Philosophers called the Daughter of Pluto having all the Treasures in her Power It is also termed the white pure delicate undefiled Virgin Beja without which no generation nor increase can be effected And therefore the Philosophers espoused this delicious pure Virgin unto Gabricius to the end they may raise up Fruit and when Gabricius lay with her he dyed and Beja out of excessive love swallowed and consumed him as Arisieus in Turbâ Philosophorum speaketh of it And Bernhard in his Practicâ saith the Fountain is as a Mother unto the King for she doth attract him and causeth him to dye but the King by her means riseth again and uniteth himself so firmly unto her that no man can hurt him And therefore the Philosophers say although Gabricius be costlier dearer and more esteemed by the World than Beja yet he alone can bring no Fruit. This Virgin and blessed Water the Philosophers named in their Books with many thousand names they call it Heaven Celestial Water Celestial Rain the dew of Heaven May-dew Water of Paradice parting Water Aqua Regis a corrosive Aquafort sharp Vinegar Brandy Quintessence of Wine growthful green Juice a growing Mercury a viridescent Water and Leo Viridis Quick-Silver Menstruum Bloud Urine Horse-piss Milk and Virgins Milk white Arsnick Silver Lune and juice of Lune a Women Feminine Seed a sulphureous vapouring Water and Smoak a fiery burning Spirit a deadly piercing poyson and Basilisk that killeth all a venomous Worm a venomous Serpent a Dragon a Scorpion devouring his Children a hellish Fire of Horse-dung a sharp Salt and Salt-Armoniack a common Salt sharp Soap Lye a viscous Oyl Estrich's Stomach which doth devour and concoct all an Eagle Vulture Bird of Hermes a Vessel and Seal of Hermes a melting and calcining Furnace and innumerable other names of Beasts Birds Herbs Waters Juices Milk Blouds c. And they writ figuratively in their Books of this Water to be made of such things whereas all the unwise which sought it in such like things have not found the true desired Water Know therefore my dear Son that it is only made of Mercury vive and of no other heterogeneous thing in the World and that the Philosophers therefore gave it so many Names that it might not be known to the unwise And with this Item I will conclude this Treatise whereby thou mayst understand and learn that without this Fire all the labour of the whole World is meerly lost all Chymical processes false lying and useless The great Rosary saith there is no more but one Receipt and with this one Lock all the Philosophers Books both particularly and universally are lock'd up and walled about and fenced as it were with a strong Wall and he that knows not the Key nor hath it in possession is not able to open the Lock nor to obtain Fruit. For this Water is the only Key for to open the Metallick Walls and Gardens And this Water is the strong Aquafort of which Isaacus in his particular Work is to be understood wherewithall he dissolveth and spiritualizeth the Bodies And therefore it is very diligently to be noted that without this Water nothing can be effected in Chemiâ and without it all are but falsities and lyes both in Metals and Minerals as also in Vegetables and Animals Whether they dissolve sublime distill calcine extract mix or compound with any other thing whatsoever whether they dissolve per deliquium in Balneo in Horse-dung in Aquafort and all sorts of strong Liquors which seem to promise some probability and according as the pretended processes of Alchymists do teach or may be invented whether there be made Oyl Water Calx Powder black white yellow and red whether it be burnt melted or done any thing about it which the Alchymists Receipts do teach and vent for true whereby to make Gold and Silver all proveth but false and a cheat in the event For my self with my own hand have experimented all such things to my damage and loss not believing them to be false before I tryed them Therefore be exhorted my Son to shun such Sophisters Cheats and Impostors as much as the grand Impostor the Devil and avoid them as carefully as a terrible burning Fire and Poyson for by such Sophistry and sweetly insinuating false Alchymy a man runs the hazard of Body and Soul Reputation and Wealth yea this Imposture is worse than the Devil himself For though a man should spend a whole Province or Kingdom upon such deceitful processes yet all would be consumed in vain and no firm truth thereby be obtained Wherefore open thy eyes own and acknowledge the only Key and flee from all falsity for it is impossible else to speed or do any good FINIS THE PRIVY SEAL OF SECRETS WHICH Upon pain of Damnation is not unadvisedly to be broken up nor Revealed to any but with great Care and many Cautions THE PRIVY SEAL OF SECRETS TO omit circumstances the first Matter out of which the Philosophers Stone i●