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A76069	Basilius Valentinus, monk, of the Order of St. Bennet: his last will and testament Which being alone, he hid under a table of marble, behinde the high-altar of the Cathedral Church, in the Imperial City of Erford: leaving it there to be found by him, whom Gods providence should make worthy of it. Wherein, he sufficiently, declares the wayes he wrought to obtain the philosophers stone: which he taught unto his fellow collegians, so that they all attained the said philosophers stone, whereby not onely the leprous bodies of the impure, and inferior metals are reduced unto the pure and perfect body of gold and silver, but also all manner of diseases whatsoever are cured in the bodies of unhealthfull men, and kept thereby in perfect health unto the prolonging of their lives. A work long expected.	Basilius Valentinus.	1658 (1658)	Wing B1016; ESTC R231639	202,436	343

lead o●ers are very brittle having little of slate and Talk and these are discerned by their firmnesse there are other stones in which appear Copper and the flowers of Zwitter there are others also which have flat floats and slate-stone in which is wrought Copper oar hence it may be gathered that by reason of these several formes are produced several fruits and in Mines toward the South better oars are found then there are some toward the West called after-oars between which there is alwayes ordered or placed a center of perfection CHAP. II. Of general operations of several metals ALmighty God for his eternal honour and glory hath held forth to mankinde innumerable wondrous works which he as the sole Mediator and Creator hath set forth i● natural things the same he hath shewed also in his omnipotency under ground in metals and minerals of them w● may learn as the twelve Sybils prophesied of the bright true and onely Son of Righteousnesse and Truth in whic● do rest after the twelve ports and gates of Heaven and after the twelve moneths moveable and unmoveable visibl● and invisible bodies the seven Arch Angels standing befor● the Throne of God after these the seven Planets Sun Moon Mars Jupiter Venus Mercury Saturn and the re● of the stars and the seven metalline oars in their prope●ties as gold silver copper iron tin lead Mercury the Vitriol Antimony Sulphur Wismuth Kobolt or bras● oar allom salt and other mineral growths That the true center may be comprehended and conce●ved of God hath made the first separation according to h● word The Spirit of the Lord moved upon the water th● whole elemental body of the earth hath been water b● the Spirit of the Lord Zebaoth hath divided it fashion● the earth from the muddinesse of the water and therein all metalline fruits that ever were created and generated under ground all these were first water and may bee reduced againe unto water all other creatures be they animalls vegetables mineralls all these are produced from the first water the several kinds of beasts fishes and sea-monsters after the Lords spirit and after the first eternal breathing Essence which brought forth and shaped things tinged and untinged soft and hard small and great creatures after the twelve stones in the brest-plate of Aaron He created man after his own image the holy Spirit was infused into Adam who had a fulnesse of eternal wisdome and that according to the order of Melchizedeck Almighty God who is the first and last the first principle and end of all things hath set his gifts into times hours dayes years which according to his eternal Decree have their revolutions he hath blest in his most holy means Abraham Isaac Jacob Aaron Melchizedeck and others he hath infinitely blessed according to his good will and pleasure from eternity putteth several periods unto them and in his unsear●hable decree and will he hath laid the foundations also for Minerals and Metals a help for the supporting men in their ●eccessities in this miserable life thus hath he meliorated ●nd exalted the earth in her goodnesse men have reason ●o return hearty thanks unto the Creator for it God in his gracious providence next unto the knowledg ●f himself and of his holy word can bestow no better gift to man than to indue him with the true knowledge of Metals and Minerals Jews thought themselves wise men ●erein but as little some Miners know Minerals and Me●als as little knew the Jews their Messias and Gods word 〈◊〉 its true sence Therefore from that blessed and promised Countrey the knowledge of pretious stones minerals and metals are come to us as by an inheritance as being the ●st and are become the first and they the last but 〈◊〉 the end Heavens gate will be opened unto them again ●ternal and external gifts and means will be bestowed on them and the true use of metals will be none of the meanest Where there are fertile stones be they rocks flints peebles marbles in their central points is found what they are in their operations The several gums and rasoms the one excelling the other in beauty transparency hardnesse or liquidnesse are known and discerned by their fragrancie and tast Miners ought to endeavour incessantly and in simplicity how the neerest way may be chosen to find out the Mineral-passages and veins into which God and nature hath laid direct courses CHAP. III. Of the stones rocks and flints of Gold its operation condition and striking courses GOld is wrought in its proper rocks and marbles and in the purest matrix of the firmest earth of a most perfect salt Sulphur and Mercury purged from all feces and impure spirits with the conjunction of a natural highly clarified Heaven of white yellow and red sulphureous earth after the fiery nature of Sol in a deep fixation insomuch that none of all other metals hath an higher compacter and more ponderous body of a goldish matter in which there is no humidity all the elements are equally in it bound up which in their unity have wrought such a fixed body tinged the same throughout with an everlasting citrin colour with the deepest tie and uniting of its pure earth Sulphur and Mercury and with its Vitriol essence it doth all what the Sun among the Stars doth operate Naturally all is gold what cleaveth thereunto in and at all sides and it is found in the best and closest stones and passages and the power of Sol worketh meerly upon that oar and in its quality is comparable unto Sol. This noble gold stone and oar is sometimes mixed and on its outside ●here sticketh some obscure and dark matter having annexed to it some slats and other spermatick matter which de●racts from the goodnesse of its own nature and though ●he Creator hath indued it with great Vertues yet doth it ●umble it self and suffers it self to be found in despicable Mineral-stones where it loseth much of its tincture as is apparent by the Touch-stone where the mixture of Copper Silver Tin and others is seen all these mixed impurities can be separated from it with artificial Manuals and with little ado it may be brought into a perfect state Gold oars naturally are wrought thus that the gold stands in it close compact firm and good which is found sometimes in the crosse passages It s fixednesse is found in the deepnesse under ground where it hath its greatest power and it is found also sometimes in a speckled jaspis full of eyes and mixed with flints in its passages where many times Vitriol flint is found abundantly which Vitriol is the best among all other sorts of Vitriols The Hungarian Vitriol hath the precedence before all the rest which is sufficiently known in their proves and exemines as may be demonstrated to the eye In its passages are found sometimes fluxes of several colours which are interlined with gold and must be forced with fire To that purpose it is requisite that it be dealt

brown fresh or stale broad or small it will press ●o and mingle it self with it and will not be forced out 〈◊〉 it making it self great little grosse milde fame sub●●e and pliable even as the rest will have it and all this in natural way it loveth to border upon silver and iron-stone that Tin and iron be united in a mighty fix silver and copper oar all which are found at their several marks Tin oar is in this place better and malleable if found afar off from flint-passages and are less mingled with iron mould especially of copper stones which in calcining can hardly be separated proves Lead-work without any fair glasse Some of it is so mild and soft that when they are cleared and calcined still lose something for flints and sulphureous matters which are volatile and cannot indure any great heat co●●ode somewhat of the metalline Tin which appeareth by the white thick fume at the calcining they are calcined thus hard by reason of Bake-iron else they might yield as much again for they lose extreamly in calcining It is strange to some why they shrink together to so small a quantity being they get a greater quantity of lead with good Qwitter at first brought out of the Mine CHAP. IX Of Mercurial oar and its passages MErcurial-oar is wrought in its proper Mine-stones by the quality of its salt earth and its nimble volatile earth in a moist greasie slimy waterish oleity which is mixed with a most subtile red sulphureous digested earth with a most weak slow binding like an unripe pleasing fruit of all particular metals Mercury sheweth its vertue in many things admirably and worketh effectually upon Minerals and Metalline sulphur and upon such which border upon Antimonial stones or oars it loveth to be in such places where the Tin-oars lie higher than silver passages It requireth many iterating effectual operations unto other oars and is multiplied upon other strange stones and is drawn through the juyces of Minerals and metals which are in affinity one to another sever●● produce many strange miscreants this is the reason ●y it is so pleasant unto metals Goldsmiths amalgame and 〈◊〉 with it It is used also for metalline colours and is prepared to ●oil and water for mans health and is sublimed for to cor●le the worst of poisons and is a true Robber taketh a●g what ever costs have been bestowed on him but if 〈◊〉 can be catched in his nature then is he in subjection ●d obedience unto quick and dead He is very effectual in ●edicina especially for outward sores he is naught to ●ught and good to good and is not every bodies friend ●ough he is willing to do what you put him upon His me●line stones are of the same nature with pure white slate ●rth inclined to a water-blew in fresh intermingled ●hite marbles in a glassie grayish and porous Glimmer or ●ar-silver which lie beneath betwixt the slates in a float ●ay which are mingled in their metalline passages with● a fled Ma●casites and with the subtilest small streaked ●hite Talk and are thorough grown with two sorts ●anding and float-striking passages in which is wrought a ●●rious red shining quick-silver oar not unlike unto red ●●ine-sulphur and sometimes floweth purely out of the ●ifts and caves of the passages stands in a sink or puddle ●ogether like water which its natural quick substance suf●ciently evidenceth CHAP. X. Of Wismuth Antimony Sulphur Salt Salpeter and Talk WIsmuth is wrought in its own Mine-stone not quite freed from a protruding silver or Tin stone of an imperfect pure quick-silver with Tin-salt and fluid silver-sulphur of a brittle immiscible earth partly of a crude fluid sulphur partly of a mixed much exiccated s●●phur according as it hath gotten a matrix after it was c●●ceived then it turneth a bastard of a brittle nature ea●● uniteth with Mercury and is wrought naturally in a tw●-fold form the one is fluid and metalline is melted with 〈◊〉 wood being mixed wi●h clay yieldeth much of white A●●nick The other is small streaked or spissie remaineth 〈◊〉 unripe substance yields a fix sulphur instead of Arsenic● both these are silver Wismuth Antimonie comes from perfect Mercurie wrought of ●●tle salt and a waterish fluid sulphur though it shineth bl●●● naturally and its out-side is of an antimonial form yet graduateth and purifieth the noble nature of Gold a● doth much good unto man being artificially prepared 〈◊〉 its several wayes notwithstanding its colour it keep● its high and mighty praise and vertue For meeting with 〈◊〉 Master which can clarifie it and gets its natural Gold c●● of it and extracts a bloud red Oyl from it that serveth against many Chronical diseases it must be reduced to 〈◊〉 transparent glasse this black evaporated unripe metall represents to us Gods Majestick glory who is not a regarde● of persons bestowing upon poor despised men rarities 〈◊〉 vertues and knowledge The red mine sulphur which is found in T●rol T●●●witz and Engadin and groweth in a black blue slat-stone 〈◊〉 hath singulas innumerable good vertues wherein lyeth h●● a mighty purifying quality lyeth on with its colour 〈◊〉 the red goldish silver oar o● Cinober oar and looks almo●● like unto it whose rednesse shineth forth most pleasantly Salt hath its special vertues to penetrate and to preser●● from putrefaction containeth a noble spirit and it we●● very necessary that men would not be so carelesse and neglectfull in their seasoning with salt suffering matters ●●stinck and corrupt considering too slightly and taking 〈◊〉 small notice of the noble gift put into good mineral work 〈◊〉 peter lying on their hoary old vvalls Talk is an ingrown sulphur shineth incombustibly like ●ld and silver closeth and boweth is transparent like ●●sse is called Sulphur Lutum keepeth in the fire incom●●stible like Alumen plumosum lyeth in Rocks and stone-●orks serveth for graduating of metals Every metal ●ineral and salt in particular is good to be used each is ●●stinguished in its particular name even as those that ●ake glasses put their several names upon them and put ●●eir several forms upon them making them into drink●●g glasses flagons bodies bolt heads helmets recei●ers pellicans jar-glasses wine-glasses funnels all ●●ese he frameth after his own fancie either into ●●all great long or round forms even as he plea●eth CHAP. XI A comparison between Gods word and the Mineralls LIke as the heavenly glorious God in a spiritual way in his most dearest Son our Lord JESUS CHRIST at his redeeming of man-kinde for the good of man appeared a Sun of righteousnesse which glory the Prophet Esaias hath prophesied of in the Lords spirit many years ago How two Cherubims and Seraphims having six wings moved and sung before the Lord Holy holy holy is the Lord Zebao●h of whose glory all the world is full which Prophet hath seen the most omnipotent Lord of Lords knowing him a God in a Triple essence and that out of that noble Chaos of Jesus Christ should flow the

Philosophers stone For God the Father is a spirit and yet maketh himself known under the notion of a man as he speaketh Genes 1. Chapter let us make man an image ●ike unto us Item this expression in his word speak of his mouth eyes hands and feet so Philosophers Mercury is held a spiritual body as Philosophers call him God the Father begetteth his onely Son JESUS CHRIST which is God and Man and is without sin neither needed he to die but he laid down his life freely and rose again for his brethren and sist●rs sake that they mi●ht live with him eternally without sin So is Sol or Gold without defect and is fix holds out gloriously all fiery examins but by reason of its imperfect and sick brethren and sisters it dieth and riseth gloriously redeemeth and tingeth them unto eternal life making them p●rfect unto good Gold The third person in the Trinity is God the Holy Ghost a comforter sent by our Lord Christ Jesus unto his believing Christians who strengthneth and comforteth them in Faith unto eternal life even so is the spirit of ma●erial Sol or of the body of Mercury when they come together ●hen is he called the double Mercurie these are two spirits God the Father and God the Holy Ghost but God the Son a glorified Man is even as our glorified and fix'd Sol or Philosphers stone since this La●is is called Trinus namely out of two waters or sp●●i●s of Mineral and of Vegetable and of the Animal of Sulphur of Sol These are the Two and Three and yet but one if you understand it not then you are not like to hit any Thus by way of a similitude I delineated unto thee sufficiently the Universal Pray to God for a blessing for without him you are not like to prosper at all The second TREATISE Of vulgar Sulphur Vitriol and Magnet The first Section Of Sulphurs Chap. I. Of Sulphur of Saturn 1. THere is extracted from calcined Saturn with distill'd Vinegar a Crystalline Salt which is distill'd with spirit of wine unto a red Oyl This Oyl cureth Melancholy fiery Pox old Ulcers and many other infirmities besides 2. This Oyl coagulateth and fixeth Mercury being first precipitated with Oyl of Vitriol for all powders and Medicaments which are to make Sol and Lune must be made fix holding in all fiery tryals 3. Out of this Oyl is made a glorious Tinctur if you take three parts of Mercury of Mars and one part of this red Oyl of Saturn joyning coagulating and fixing them this work may be accomplished in a moneths time or somewhat longer This Tincture may be augmented with Mercury of Mars usque in infinitum projecting one part of it upon three parts of Sol to make thereby an ingresse for the Tincture one part of this Tincture transmuteth thirty parts if so be it be well prepared of Mercurie and of Lune into good Sol. Remember thy Crea or and be mindfull of the poor then the Lord will be mindfu●l of thee also Chap. II. Of Sulphur of Jupiter 1. THere is made of Jupiter a minium the like is made of Saturn from thence is extracted and distill'd a red sweet Oyl this Oyl tingeth Saturn being first calcined with Salmiac into Sol. 2. The Limature of Jupiter being calcined with Calx vive for a day and the Calx being w●sh'd from it then you have a fix'd powder if you can reduce it again into a fluidnesse and drive it wi●h Sa●urn then you may get a reasonable part of good Lune and Sol whereby a needy Laborator may get sufficient livelyhood 3. There is a calcination made of Tin and L●ad with common S●l● but better is it if made with Salt of ●he c●put mort of Vitriol and Peter the Oyl of Vitriol being added unto Calx of Jupiter and Saturn and made one masse of it lu●e it well ●et it stand for eight dayes and nights in warm Sand and then to drive it one Centner of Lead affords in this manner six Mark and a half of fi●e Lune one Ma●k of such Lune yields one Ounce of Sol. This hath been my first piece to make Lune and Sol withall Note these six Mark and a half of Lune afford six Ounces and a half of Sol this Sol and Lune amounts to 208. Gildors or 20. pound and 16. shillings Chap. III. Of Sulphurs of Mars and Venus 1. TAke some pounds of Verdigreece extract its Tincture with distill'd Vinegar let it shoot then you have a glorious Vitriol out of which you may distil per retort a red Oyl This Oyl dissolveth Mars turning into a Vitriol which is reduced in a long time in a great fire unto a red Oyl then you have together Sulphur of Mars and Venus add somewhat of Sulphur of Sol coagulate and fix it then you have a Medicine which meliorateth Men and Metals 2. Lune is graduated with the Oyl and a good part of the Kings Crown is gotten 3. Two equal parts of laminated Sol and Lune melted together putrified in this Oyl for a day and a night turneth them into good Gold In this Oyl you will finde many strange affects and vertues Laus Deo Chap. IV. Of Sulphur of Sol. 1. I have formerly told how Gold is made spiritual unto the purple mantle Now if you are about to make aurum potabile then you may dissolve with the Oyl of Vitriol that spiritual Gold extract and draw it over with spirit of wine this is a Medicine which cureth many difficult diseases and is wonderfull in its efficacie 2. This Solar Sulphur tingeth prepared Calx of Lune into good Gold but you heard in my former expressions that the King hath onely an honourable Garment and must raise his Rents and subsidies from his subjects must be bathed in his buddying bloud and swear must be destroyed and gloriously renew'd then is he able to make his poor brethren and sisters to be Kings also and legitimate the●r bastards Antimony is a bastard of Saturn as much of Mercury and of Regulus it ha●h so much is it turned into Sol its due Dose of Tincture being first added thereunto Wismuth ●●r Marcasite is a bastard of Jupiter is turn'd to Sol also ●y means of a Tincture Oyl of Vitriol is a bastard of Ve●us it hath a Metalline Mercury as much it hath of it so much is it ting'd into Sol. 3. If you add the Solar Sulphur unto Sulphur of Vitriol Venus and Mars and you have fixed artificially then you have a Tincture for Men and Metals expelling all manner of diseases and this fix'd powder tingeth Particulariter Lune into Sol. Laus Deo Chap. V. Of Sulphur of Mercurie MErcury is a Mother of all Metals and is a spiritual body and a fugitive servant when he cometh into ●he fire then he flyeth into his Chaos But he that can ●●tch him he gets then the Sulphur of Mercury or wa●●r of Sulphur or aqua benedicta the Key of the Art which ●peneth

body put away the phlegme but keep care●●lly the spirit of Wine and spirit of Calx and note both ●●ese spirits are hardly separated because they embrace ●osely one another and being distilled they come over ●y●ntly Therefore take these mix'd and united spirits put them ●o a Jar-glasse kindle it the spirit of Wine burneth away 〈◊〉 spirit of Calx stayeth in the glasse keep it carefully ●●is is a great arcanum few of other spirits go beyond its ●●cacy if you know how to make good use of it It s quali●● may hardly be set down in any way of abridgement This spirit dissolveth Oculi Cancrorum the hardest Cry●● these three being driven over together and often iterated in that distilling three drops of that liquor being mi●●ed in warm Wine break and dissolve any Gravel and ●●e in mans body expelling their very roots not put●●g the patients to any pain This spirit of Calx at the beginning looks bluish being ●●tly rectified looks white transparent and cl●●r leaving 〈◊〉 feces behinde This spirit dissolveth the most fixed ●●wels and precious stones On the other side he fixeth all ●●ti●● spirits with his transcendent heat This spirit conquereth all manner of Podagrical Symp●●s be they never so nodose and tar●●rous dissolveth and ●●●els them radically To the omnipotent Trine God Father Son and Holy ●●ost be returned hearty thanks for all his benefits which 〈◊〉 hath bestowed on man and discovered those secrets I ●●ought on in his name To him be eternal praises ●men All that hath breath praise the Lord. Allelujah End of the fifth part BASILIUS VALENTINUS HIS TREATISE CONCERNING MICROCOSME OR The little World which is Mans body What it doth contain and of what it is composed what it doth comprehend and its end and issue A thing most necessarie and meet for the knowledge of such that love and embrace wisdom LONDON Printed Anno Domini MDCLVI BASILIUS VALENTINUS HIS TREATISE CONCERNING MICROCOSME THose that s●ek Art and have a desire to attain to wisdom are to note that the Highest upon my continued prayers hath granted unto me a Clergy-man to make known the many and great mysteries of nature among which mans body is one to be considered how that is govern'd in imitation unto Microcosme For it is ●●et that the lesser should imitate the greater and the smallest and meanest ought to be governed by the greatest and most potent Microcosme or the great World containeth three things as the most principal the rest which come from these are meerly accidentals In the first place is to be considered the matter and form of this World which matter is made form 〈◊〉 out of a non-shape or a nothing and the great Creator presently prescribed an order for this matter what government it should keep as soon as it came to a life or motion This matter and form is water and earth For at the Creation by a separation of the water from the earth there was finished the matter and form as two things belonging one to another from these all Animals and Vegetables have their beginning and other two things as aire and fire which belong one to another have wrought life therein The matter and form is earth the Salt in that earth the body even so is with mans body which is Microcosme The matter was n● perfect without the form these joyning into one by God ordinance the form being become quick came then to perfection the matter and form got life by motion aire w● the first causer of that motion and perfect maturity was ca●sed by a convenient heat moveably inclosed in the ai●e thu● the earth was brought to a fertility by the aire it was opened and became porous by motion for generation Th● earth being impregnated made her seed apparent by he aquosity then aire and heat in the neather and upper Regi●on of the Astrals caused that a Birth was brought forth th● blossoms were produced and the appointed fruit was ripened by concoction of heat Calcidity is a Sulphureous hot spirit w●ich like a Medicament exiccateth the superfluous grosse aquosity phlegmatick matter which in the generation at the beginning abounds too much in the earth before the aire could have a fellow dominion at the joyning with it carrying the same along in the superfluity of her birth The second principal part of Microcosme is inobility for the matter in it self was without life which by hea● was stirr'd up then the vital spirit became to be sensible which is in man a Sulphurous spirit kindling the body by a heat exiccateth the superfluity of the earth by the subtility of its substance and governeth the body in a constant motion For after the heat is gone then coldnesse gets the dominion the spirit of life being gone no sensiblenesse felt in the pulse and arteries and a dead body is found instead of life at the departing of the warm spirit of Sulphur rational men ought to take this mystery into consideration The two first Elements the matter and form being apparent and having gotten a mobility by the two last Elements by light Microcosme was not yet perfect the Creator allotted further an increase to the seed of the earth as well as he did to Vegetables and Animals God allowed unto earth an imagination for all sorts of seeds and to bring them forth after their several kindes Then the earth was impregnated by imagination which God allotted and the ●aith brought these seeds forth in Mans presence and the ●eat digested them to a maturity even till hi herto Matter and form of Microcosme being extant consisting of earth and water then the Creator caused a life into them ●y an inbreathed warm aire heating the cold earthly sub●tance giving a heat u● o life and mo●ion which was the ●oul which is the true Sulphur of Man spiritual in compre●ensible sensibly felt by its own operation All this being ●●nish'd ●●en God allowed an imagination unto good in the ●erfect understanding of Man that by his imagination he ●uld judge of all the beasts and impose on each a proper ●ame and by that imagination he learned to know his ●ife also that she had fl●sh and bones of his body Then ●in appea●ed perfect and that matter was made into a ●hape of a sensible body This form being made alive by ●he Soul had allowed further a sub●ile ●pirit unto imagi ●●ion and knowledge which is an invisible and in●●●pre●ensible form like a work master who frameth 〈◊〉 things ●n the minde which hath its habitation in the upper Re●ion of Microcosme according to his volatility and deser●eth the name of Mercurie of the invisible spirit of mans ●ody Form and matter is earthly the life sticketh in the ●otion and the knowledge of every understanding unto ●ood and bad standeth in the sharp speculation of Micro●●sme the overplus found besides these three nature ca●eth off as a Cadaver and is as a Monster which by the●●●hree is found to be a separation and a Cantit mort