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A75271	Five treatises of the philosophers stone. Two of Alphonso King of Portugall, as it was written with his own hand, and taken out of his closset: translated out of the Portugez into English. One of John Sawtre a Monke, translated into English. Another written by Florianus Raudorff, a German philosopher, and translated out of the same language, into English. Also a treatise of the names of the philosophers stone, by William Gratacolle, translated into English. To which is added the Smaragdine Table. / By the paines and care of H.P.	Afonso V, King of Portugal, 1432-1481.; H. P.	1651 (1651)	Wing A2900; Thomason E654_5; ESTC R205924	41,579	80

incombustible with this oyle wee imbibe our medicine which will bee like soap then wee distill by the Alimbeck and receive the fumes which come over and put it on againe three or foure times if it hath not enough then put more of this Oyle to it being thus imbibed then put fire under that the humors may come away and the medicine be firme and fusible on the body of the glasse Then we take Avis Hermetis which we reserv'd formerly and put it to it by degrees till all be made fix CHAP. 37. Laus Deo ACcording to Avicen it is impossible to convert mettals unlesse they be reduced to their first matter But by Arts help they are converted into other mettall we know that Artists do like Physitians purging first the corrupted matter which is obstructive to mans health then Cordials are ministred which restore health so good Artists must proceed in like manner by converting of mettals first Mercury and Sulphur in metals are purged whereby they strengthen the heavenly elementall parts in them according to their desired preparation of metals then nature worketh further and not Art but instrumentally helpeth and then is seen that she really maketh Sol and Luna For as the heavenly elementall vertues worke in naturall vessels even so do the Artificiall being made uniforme and as nature worketh through the heat of fire and stars the same Art effecteth by fire if temperate and not excessive for the moving vertue in the matter for the heavenly vertue in it mingled at first inclinable to this or that is furthered by Art heavenly vertues are communicative to their subjects as is seen in naturall created things chiefly in things generated by putrefaction where the astrall influences are apparent according to the matters capacity Artists do imitate herein destroying one forme to beget another and his proceedings are best when they are according unto nature as by purging the Sulphur by digesting subliming and purging Mercury vive by an exact mixture with the mettals matter and thus out of their vertues every mettals forme is produced The vertue of the converting Element must be predominant and the parts of it must appeare in the Element converted and being thus mingled with the Elementated thing then that Element will have that matter which made it an Element and hath the vertue of the other vert Element This is that great mystery in this Art Scito quod ejus principium est siout finis FINIS The names of the Philosophers Stone Collected by WILLIAM GRATACOLLE GOld Sol Sun Brasse of Philosophers the body of Magnesia a pure body clean ferment of Elixir Masculine Argent vive fixt Sulphur incombustible Sulphur red fixed the rubine stone kybrik a man greene vitrioll burnt brasse red earth the water that is distilled from these things is named of the Philosophers the taile of the Dragon a pure wind ayre life lightning the house the afternoone light virgins milke sal armoniack sal ni●e● the wind of the belly white fume red water of sulphur tartar saffron water the white compound stinking water the filthinesse of the dead bloud Argent vive a Cucurbite with his Alimbeck the vessell of the Philosophers a high man with a Sallet the belly of a man in the midst but in the end it is called the foot or the feet or on the which feet or earth is calcined rosted congealed distilled or made still and quiet the shaddow of the Sun a dead body a crowne overcomming a cloud the bark of the Sea Magnesia black a Dragon which eateth his tayle the dregs of the belly earth found on the dunghill putrified or in horse dung or in soft fire Sulphur Mercury secondly in number and one in essence name in name a stone body spirit and soule it is called earth fire aire all things because he containes in him foure Elements it is called a man or beast that hath soule life body and spirit and yet some Philosophers do not thinke the matter to have a soule But as it is a stone it is called the water of Sulphur the water of the world the spittle of Lune the shaddow of the Sun a denne Sol Elephas white Jayre eyes of fishes Beyia Sulphur vine sharpe water milke vineger of life tears joyning water Urine the light of lights a marvelous Father Father of Minerals a fruitfull tree a living spirit a fugitive servant certore of the earth venome most strong vineger white gumme everlasting water a woman a feminine a thing of vile price Azot menstruous Brazill in nature Azot water the first matter the beginning of the world and mark this that Argent vive Mercury Azot the full moone Hypostasis white lead or red do all of them signifie but one thing our stone our brasse our water Iron Silver Lime whitenesse Jupiter Vermilion white after divers times and degr●es of operation And note that the Philosophers washing is to bring againe the whole soule into his body wherefore you may not understand thereby the common white washing is convenient to be done with vineger and salt and such like Also note that when blackness doth appeare then it is called dispensation of the man and woman between them and that the body hath gotten a spirit which is the tears of the vertues of the soule upon the body and the body doth revive the action of the soule and spirit and is made an Eagle and the meane of natures And note that white earth white Sulphur white fume Auripigmentum Magnesia and Ethell do signifie all one thing Also the stone is called Chaos a Dragon a Serpent a Toad the green Lion the quintessence our stone Lunare Camelion most vild black blacker than black Virgins milke radicall humidity unctuous moysture liquor seminall Salarmoniack our Sulphur Naptha a soule a Basilisk Adder Secundine Bloud Spearne Metteline haire urine poyson water of wise men minerall water Antimony stinking menstrues Lead of Philosophers Sal Mercury our Gold Lune a bird our ghost dun Salt Alome of Spaine attrament dew of heavenly grace the stinking spirit Borax Mercury corporall wine dry water water metelline an Egge old water perminent Hermes bird the lesse world Campher water of life Auripigment a body cynaper and almost with other infinite names of pleasure The Secret of Secrets and Stone of Philosophers IF thou desirest to bee so lucky as that thou mayest obtaine the blessing of Philosophers as God doth live for ever so let this verity live with thee The Philosophers do very properly say it tarrieth in the shell and containeth in himselfe both white and red the one is called masculine the other feminine Animall Vegetable and Minerall there is no such other thing found in this world that hath both power active and passive in it and also hath within him a substance dead and quick spirit and soule which to the ignorant the Philosophers do call it the most vile thing it holdeth in him the foure Elements contained in his skirts where he is found

and commonly of all men it may be bought for a small price it doth ascend by it selfe he waxeth black he descendeth and waxeth white increaseth and decreaseth by himselfe It is a matter which the earth bringeth forth and descends from heaven waxeth pale and red is born is dead riseth againe and after liveth for ever by many wayes it comes to his end but his proper decoction is upon a fire soft meane strong it is augmented untill they be sure it resteth quietly with red in the fire this is according to the vow of all good Philosophers called the Philosophers Stone read and read againe and every thing more cleare thou shalt never find and if hereby thou understandest not the matter thou shalt never otherwise know it or learne this Art Hermes saith the Dragon is not dead but with his Brother and his sister not by one but by both together note these things three heads and one body one nature and one Minerall and this is sufficient for them which have any aptnesse of understanding in this Science the Dragon is not mortified nor made fixed but with Sol and Luna and by none other as saith Hortulanus by mountaines in bodies in the plaine of Mercury and in these looke for it and this water is created and by concourse of these two is called water permanent of Philosophers Our sublimation is to seeth the bodies with golden water to dissolve to liquefie and to sublime them Our calcination is to putrifie and digest by foure days and to do no other wayes wherefore many be deceived in sublimation Thou mayest know that brasse which is the Philosophers Gold is their Gold and that is true but thou hast searched for greennesse thinking that brasse is a Leprous body which he hath for his greennesse wherefore I say unto thee that all that is perfect in brasse is that greennesse only that is in him because that that greennesse by our mastry is turned shortly into gold and of this thing we have experience and if thou wilt prove it we will give thee a rule Take therefore burnt brasse and perfectly rubified and breake and imboyle him with drinke seaven times as much as he is able to drinke in all the wayes of rubifying and roasting him againe afterward make him to discend and his greene colour will be made red as cleare graynes and thou mayst know that so much redness wil descend with him that it wil tinckt Argent vive in some part with the very colour of gold and all this we approved for it doth worke very great operations yet thou canst not prepare the Stone by any meanes with any drinke greene and moist which is seene to be borne in our Minerals O blessed greatnesse which doth ingender all things whereby thou mayst be informed that no vegetable or fruit in budding will appeare except there be a greene colour wherefore Philosophers call it their bud and likewise they call it the water of purifying or putrifaction and they say the truth heerin for with his water he is purified washed from his blackness and made white and afterwards he is so made red whereby thou mayst learne to know that no true tincture is made but of our brasse seeth him therefore with his soule till the spirit be joyned with his body and be made one and thou shalt have thy desire Wife men have spoken of this in many names but know thou right well that it is but one matter which doth sticke unto Argent vive and to bodies and thou shalt have the true signes yet left thou shouldest be deceived heereby thou mayst know what Argent vive is to stick unto Argent vive doth stick to the bodies which is false for they think that they do understand that Chapter of Gebar of Argent vive wherein he saith when in searching in other things he doth not find by our invention any matter to be more agreeable unto nature then Argent vive of the bodies for this place is to be understood of Argent vive Philosophicall for that Argent vive only sticketh and tarrieth in and with the bodies and the old Philosophers could find no other matter nor can those which be Philosophers now invent any other matter which will abide with the bodies but Argent vive of the Philosophers for common Argent vive doth not stick to the bodies but the bodies do stick to that Argent vive and this is certaine by experience for if the Argent vive common be joyned with any bodies the Argent vive abides in his proper nature or flies away and doth not turne the body into his proper nature and therefore he doth not cleave unto the bodies and for this cause many be deceived in working in common Argent vive for our Stone that is to say Argent vive accidentall which doth advance himselfe far above Gold and doth overcome it and he doth kill and he doth quicken for thou must know that Argent vive father of all marvellous things of this our mastery is congealed and is both spirit and body and this is that Argent vive which Gebar did speake of the consideration of a very matter which doth make perfect is the consideration of a chosen pure substance of Argent vive but chiefly out of whom the substance of Argent vive may be drawne out is to be inquired of and we making answer do say that in them in whom it is out of them it may be drawne therefore Sonne consider well and see from whence that substance is and take that and none other if thou desire to come to knowledge I say unto thee for love of Christ that by no other means we can it finde now the Philosophers never might finde any other matter that would continue in the fire but that only which is unctuous perfect and incombustible and that matter when it is prepared as it ought will turne all bodes Minerall which it toucheth rightly unto most perfect Sol compleat and above all bodies Lune Seeth first with wind and afterwards without winde untill thou hast drawne out of thy subject or matter the venome which is called the soule that is it which thou seekest called the everlasting aqua-vitae for alldiseases the whole mastery is in the vapor Avicen Let the body be put in a fire kindled for forty dayes by elementall heat then in that decoction of forty dayes the body will rejoyce with the soule and the soule will rejoyce with the body and spirit and the spirit will rejoyce with the body and soule and they are made immortall and perpetuall without separation FINIS

continue the drye fire whereupon Rosarius saith with a dry sire and a dry calcination rost the dry untill that it be made like Cynaber Whereto from thenceforth put nothing neither Oyle or vineger or any thing whatsoever it be untill it be rosted to a compliment of Rednes and of a truth the more Redder that the medicine is made the more stronger it is and of more power and that is more rosted will be more Redder and that which is most rosted is most precious therefore with a dry fire burne it without feare untill that it be closed most redly whereupon a Philosopher saith in continuing the Red seeth the white untill that it be cloathed in purple and beauty but some have it continue the Red and the white untill it be cloathed in purple cloathing do not cease although the Red do a little slack to appeare for the fire being augmented as I sayd before after white of the first colours appeareth a mean Red when among these colours shall appeare a yellow but his colour is not continuing for after that it be perfect Red will not much tarry to appeare which appearing be thou certaine that thy worke is perfect for Hermes saith in Turba Philosophorum between white colour and Red there appeareth only but one colour viz. Citrine which is yellow but it varieth more or lesse also Maria saith when thou hast true white thou then afterwards shalt have a false yellow and afterwards a perfect Red And then thou shalt have the glory of the clearenesse of all the World The first manner of Multiplication of our Medicine ELixir is multiplyed by two manner of wayes that is to say by solution of heat and by solution of drying by solution of heat is thus Take the medicine and put it into the vessell of glasse and bury it in our moyst fire seven dayes or more untill that the Medicine be dissolved into water without any troublousnesse appearing in it But the solution of drying is that that shall take the vessell of glasse with the medicine and hang it in a brass pot having a straight mouth in boyling and let the mouth be close that by the vapour of the boyling vapour ascending the medicine may be dissolved And note that the same boyling water must not touch the vessell of glasse with the medicine by the space of three fingers and this solution is made strongly in one day or two or three After that the medicine is made and dissolved take it from the fire to coole to fix to congeale to harden or dry and so let it bee very often dissolved for the oftner it be resolved so much the more perfect it is whereupon Bonellus saith when that our brasse is turned and very oftentimes reitterate it is made better then it was before and such a solution is a subtiliation of the medicine and his vertuous sublimation whereupon the oftner it is sublimate or subtiliated so much oftner it getteth a greater Virtue and a greater tincture and coloureth more abundantly and the more it shall make perfect and convert and turne the more whereupon in the fourth solution it shall get so much virtue and tincture that one part shall be able upon 1000. of Mercury cleansed that it shall convert it into Gold or Silver better then that which is taken out of the Mines of the Earth Whereupon Rasis saith the multiplication of this goodnesse dependeth wholely on the often reitteration of the sublimations and fixation of the perfect medicine for the oftner that the order of this compliment be reitterated so much more doth increase the nourishment thereof and the vertue and strength thereof is augmented for the oftner then was wont that thou shalt sublimate and dissolve the perfect medicine so much the more oftner thou shalt win and gaine at every time to cast one upon 1000. as if at first it fall upon 1000. the second time it will convert 10000. the third time it will be cast upon and convert 100000. and the fourth time upon 1000000. the fift time upon an infinite For Merodus saith know ye for certainty that how much the more and oftner our Stone is dissolved so much the more is the spirit and body conjoyned together and of this for every time the tincture is multiplyed The second way of multiplication is another way the medicine is multiplyed by fermentation for the ferment to white is pure Silver and the firment to red is pure Gold therefore cast one part of the medicine upon ten parts or twenty of the firment and all such shall be medicine and put it upon the fire in a Vessell of Glasse and shut it well so that no ayre may enter nor passe forth and let it be dissolved or sublimated so often as thou wilt and as thou doest the first medicine and one part of the second medicine shall receive as much as one part of the first medicine Whereupon Rasis saith now have we fully made our medicine hot and cold dry and moist equally temperate whereof whatsoever we doe put to it shall be of the same complexion that it is put to therefore conjoyne or marry him that he may bring forth fruit like unto himselfe But yet doe not conjoyne or marry it with any other thing to convert it but with it that it was in the beginning whereupon it is written in Speculum this spirituall earth which is the Elixir must be first in his owne body from whence it was taken at the beginning of his solution that is to marry his earth and it being so rectified and purified by his soule to conjoyne it by conjunction of his body from whence it had its beginning also it is sayd in the Booke called Gemma salutaris the white Worke hath need of a white firmentation whereby when he is white with his white firmentation and when he is made red in his red firment for then that white earth is firment of firment for when it is joyned to Luna all is firment to cast upon Mercury and upon every body being unperfect mettle to make it Luna And with the red thereof must be joyned Sol and that is medicine upon Mercury and Luna to make it Sol Also Rasis saith it behooveth that he be mingled with wite and red quicksilver of his kinde and that it be contained and kept that it fly not away wherefore we bid that quicksilver be mingled with quick-silver untill that one cleare water be made of two quicksilvers and not to make three mixtures untill every one of them be dissolved into water but in their conjunction put a little of the Worke upon much of the body as upon foure and in a certaine time it will be made in the nature of powder which is of red or white colour and this powder is Elixir compleate And truely the Elixir must be of a simple powder also Egidius saith to 25 Stones of solution put solution and to solution desiccation and put all to the fire

and keepe the fume and take heed that nothing flye from it tarry and dwell nigh the Vessell and behold and observe the marvellous working how it shall be removed from colour to colour in lesse then an houre of a day untill that it commeth to the marke or prick or butt of whitenesse or rednesse for it will soone melt in the fire and come all into the Ayre for when the fume doth fill the fire it will enter into the body and the spirit will then be pulled together and the body will then be fixed cleare white or red Then divide the fire suffering it to coole and be cold For and if one of these doe fall upon 1000. or Mercury or any other body it turneth it into the best Gold or Silver according as his firment is prepared wherefore it doth appeare that he who doth not congeale quick-silver that will suffer the fire and joyne it to pure Silver he desireth no right way to the white worke and he who doth not make a red quicksilver that can sustaine all fire and joyn it to meer gold he taketh not the right way to the Red worke for by solution and fermentation the worke or medicine may be multiplyed into an infinite and note that the Elixir giveth a very light fusion or melting even like wax whereupon Rosarius saith our medicine necessarily ought to be of a most subtile substance and pure adherence cleaving to Mercury of his nature and of a most thin and easie liquefaction as water also in the booke which is named Omne datum optimum when the Elixir is well prepared it ought to be melted upon a burning plate or upon a burning cole even as wax melteth for that thou dost in the white doe it in the red for the same is the operation of both as well in the multiplication as in the projection Geber the Philosopher doth beare witnesse in his fift Booke and tenth Chapter that there be three Orders of Medicines of the first Order is that which is cast upon imperfect bodies and doth not take away the corruption but imperfection for it doth give tincture but that tincture doth go away in examination The medicine of the second Order is that which is cast upon imperfect bodies and doth give tincture to them in examination for after the examination the tincture doth remaine but all the corruption of the bodies is not cleare taken away for ever by that medicine In the third Order the medicine is that which is cast upon imperfect bodies and taketh away all their imperfection and corruption and from corrupt Mineralls it bringeth them into incorruptible But the two first of these medicines being left off we will speake something of the projection of this medicine of the third degree The perfect medicine truly is cast 1000. or upon more according as the medicine is prepared or advanced by dissolution sublimation and subtilliation but because so little that is so little is cast upon so little by reason of the littlenes thereof it should not be lift up before his virtue be fulfilled Therefore the Philosophers made their projection diversly wherefore this is the best way Let one part be cast upon a hundred of Mercury and all is medicine and it is called the second medicine and let every one part of this second medicine be cast upon a hundred of Mercury and all is medicine and is called the third medicine and is made 1000. yet againe let every part of this third medicine be cast upon 1000. of mercury and it shall be medicine and all shall be the best Luna or Sol And note that the third and the second may be so much dissolved and subtilliate that it shall receive a greater vertue and that it may be multiplyed in an infinite after receive and make projection first multiply 10. into 10. and it will make 100. and 100. by 10. multiplyed will be 1000. c. But how the projection ought to be made shall be now taught Put the body upon the fire in a Crucible also if it be a spirit tepescat let it do like luke-warme water and cast the Elixir into it as is aforesaid moving it well and very soone when the Elixir is liquefied and hath mingled it selfe with the body or with the spirit remove it from the fire and thou shalt have by the grace of God gold and silver according as the Elixir is prepared In short therefore it appeareth by the premisses that our worke doth consist in the body of Magnesia finished that is of Sulphur the which is called Sulphur of Sulphur and Mercury which is called Mercury of Mercury Therefore as it is aforesayd with one thing that is our Stone with one part that is to say seething and one disposition that is to say first making of it blacke secondly with making of it white thirdly with making of it red and fourthly with making of projection all the whole mastery is finished Of the other part of the false Alchymists and they who doe beleeve them by their distillations sublimations calcinations conjunctions seperations congelations preparations dissolutions manuall contritions and other deceptions saying that it is by a similitude onely called an Egge and teaching another sulphur from ours and another Mercury from ours and that it may be drawne from some other thing or effected by some other then our light fire These be all either deceivers or mightily abused For by what and how many soever names it bee called it is but one and the same thing Also Lucas sayth Doe not thou passe or regard for plurality of compositions in nature which the Philosophers diversly set downe in their Bookes for certainly there is but one thing in all the World wherein the spirit we seeke for is to be found of any profitable and comfortable use with which every body is coloured for in the Philosophers diversity of names and compositions they but cover and hide their Science FINIS A Treatise of Florianus Raudorff of the Stone or Mercury of the Philosophers In the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost A short Declaration of the Great Matter CHAP. 1. KNow yee that our Medicine is made of 3. things viz. of a body soule and spirit There are 2. bodies viz. Luna and Sol Sol is a tincture wherewith imperfect bodies are tinged into Sol and Luna tingeth Luna for Nature produceth or bringeth forth only its like as a man a man a horse begets a horse c. Proved by Examples We told and named it with names namely the bodies that serve to our worke which of some are called Ferment for as a little leaven leaveneth the whole masse so Luna and Sol turne Mercury as their meale into their nature and vertue CHAP. 2. YOU may say if Luna and Sol have a prefixed tincture why doe they not tinge imperfect mettalls Answer A babe though borne a man doth not mans actions it must first bee nourisht and bred to an age so it is with