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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

is it which affordeth power and vertue the naked body is abl● to do nothing here if you know to get that then you have the Philosophers Salt and their incombustible Oyl o● which many have written before me great Volumes And if of these Artists were ne're so many Whose aime at me is directed onely Yet few of them in their successe were blest To fathom all vertues that lie in my breast The fifth Key THe life of earth maketh spring up Vegetables and he that saith that the earth is dead tells an untruth for a dead thing cannot impart any livelynesse to another and the increase is at a stay in dead things because the spirit of life is fled The spirit is the life and soul of the earth which dwelleth in her receiveth its efficacy upon earthly things from heavenly Astrals for all Vegetables Metals and Minerals receive their power increase and nourishment from the spirit of the earth For the spirit is the life which is fed by Astrals which further imparts a nourishment unto growing things as the Childe lieth hid in the Mothers Womb and is fed there by the Mother so the earth feedeth Minerals also which lie hid in her belly by a spirit which she receiveth from above the earth doth afford no power per se but the living spirit which dwelleth in her doth it and if she should want her spirit then she were dead and could afford no nourishment because from her Sulphur or fatnesse the spirit is taken away which preserveth living powers and driveth forth Vegetables and other growing things by a nutriment Two contrary spirits may dwell together in one subject but are still at variance as in Gun-powder which being lighted these two spirits fly asunder making a great noise fly in the aire are no more discerned no body can tell whither they are gone or what they had been if it were not known experimentally what manner of spirits they were and in what subject they dwelled From hence you may learn that life is a meer spirit and all these things which the ignorant world counteth to be dead must be brought into an incomprehensible visible spiritual life and must be preserved therein if so be that life shall work with life and the spirits which are fed and nourished by a heavenly dew are born of one elemental heavenly and earthly substance which is called materia informis And as there belongeth unto Iron a Magnet which by reason of its own wonderfull invisible love is of an attractive quality so our Gold hath a Magnet also which Magnet is the prima materia of our great stone If you conceive aright of this expression then you may be blessed with riches in this world One Declaration more I must hold forth unto you in this Chapter Man that looketh into a glasse seeth a reflexion of his image but is not palpable save the glasse the party looked into so from this matter must be expell'd a visible spirit which is incomprehensible the same spirit I say is the root of the life of our body and the Mercury of Philosophers out of which the liquid water in our Art is prepared which in its composition you must make again material and must prepare it by certain means from the lowest to the highest degree into a transcendent Medicine For our beginning is an up-shut comprehensible body its middle is a volatile spirit and in the goldish water there is no corrosivenesse at all whereby our Philosophers prolong'd their lives but the end thereof is a superfix'd Medicine for humane and metalline bodies this knowledge indeed fitteth Angels better than man True men attain unto that knowledge also obtaining the same of God by their earnest prayers who are thankfull unto him for it and beneficial to the needy At the closing I tell thee for a certain truth that one work must beget the other for our matter at the beginning of our work must in the best manner be purified then opened broken and destroyed and reduced to dust and ashes All this being done then make of it a volatile spirit as white as snow and another volatile spirit as red as bloud these two spirits contain a third and yet are but one spirit these are the three spirits which preserve and encrease life joyn these together minister to them their natural necessary meat and drink keep them warm in the bed of wedlock to their perfect birth then you will see and finde what the Creator and Nature hath allowed for you to know And know that I never made so plain a revelation God hath incorporated more operation and wonders into Nature than thousands may give credit thereunto There is a Seal and Lock set before me to say no more that others also may write of marvellous things which naturally are permitted by the Creator which ignorant men count to be supernatural For natural things have their first beginning from supernatural ones yet both together are found to be meerly natural The sixth Key MAn without a woman is but half a body and so the woman without the man is but half a body neither ●or each apart can preduce no fruit but living together in a matrimonial way then is their body perfect and by their seed they may expect an increase If too much seed be cast on a ground that that Acre i● over-burthened no firm fruit can be expected and if there be too little of the seed then is the fruit thin also the weeds grow then abundantly from thence also no great goodnesse can be expected He that will not burthen his conscience with any sins in selling of wares then let him be just in his dealing having just measures and just weights then he avoideth mens curses and gets the prayers of the poor In deep waters men are easily drown'd and shallow waters are soon dried up by the heat of the Sun and are good for nothing For the obtaining of a wish'd aim and scope care must be had that a certain measure or quantity be taken in the conjunction of the Philosophick liquid substance that the greater quantity do not over-lay the lesser part and be suppress't thereby and the increase and growing of it be obstructed Let the lesser be not too weak for the bigger let there be an equal domination Too much rain spoyleth the fruit and too great drought hindreth true maturity Therefore if Neptune hath prepared a perfect water-Bath then take a just quantity of your aqua permanens have a great care you do neither too much nor too little A double fiery man must be fed with a white Swan these must kill each other and both must revive again and the a●●● of the four corners of the World must possesse three parts of the up-shut dwelling of the fiery man that the Swans song may be heard when she harmoniously sings her farewell then the roasted Swan will be a food for the King and the fiery King will be in great love with the

Metals Philosophically The Philosophers Mer●●ry and not the vulgar being reduced unto water dis●lveth the Philosophick Salt together with the purple ●antle by putrefaction and distillation for it is Mercurius ●plicatus Chap. VI. Of Sulphur of Lune 1. THis Lune is made spiritual by means of a water expressed in our second Key and may easily be made into potable silver where by many diseases are cured 2. If you take one part of this spiritual Lune and you feed it with three parts of Virgins Milk and bring it unto fixation then you have an augment of Lune which breedeth monethly young ones these are taken forth and their places are supplied with Mercury vive c. This powder is reduced with Boras then you have an augmentum perpetuum Chap. VII Of Antimonial Vitriol 1. THere is made out of Vitriol of Antimony with distill'd Vinegar a sweet extraction its acetum is separated from it on the remainder is poured spirit of wine must be extracted and the pure from impure separated This sweet extraction is drawn over the spirit of wine by cohobation is often drawn from it and that powder is reduced to a glorious Oyl of Antimony This Oyl cureth all manner of diseases being ministred in a convenient Vehicle This Medicinal Oyl is a great arcanum 2. Further take one part of this Oyl and two parts of the M●rcurial water in which is dissolved a fourth part of Sol purple Mantle then joyn them lute Hermetically coagulate and fix This Tincture tingeth Lune and Mercurie into Sol. This is that pure Sulphur of Antimony the Vitriol of Antimony must be made per se without any addition of Salpeter Salt and Borras Chap. VIII Of Sulphur of Vitriol 1. THere is made of Vi●riol a lixivium with ashes of Beech-wood and a Sulphur is drawn from this Vitriol and is precipitated with Salt of Tartar Further the Oyl of Sulphur is ex●racted with Juniper Oyl t●us you have a red Oyl putrifie the same with spirit of wine abstract the spirit of wine from it This glorious Oyl of Sulphur is good against ma●y diseases it is to be used against Consumption Dropsi● Plague Gravel and Scabbinesse 2. Vitriol is sublimed with Salmi●c also but better is it if done with a lixivium whereby the body of V●t iol is better opened and dissolved This sublimate is dissolved into an Oyl whereby c●ude Mercury can be coagula●ed and fix'd of the which I shall write more anon when I treat of Vitriol Chap. IX Of common Sulphur 1. THere is a Liver made of yellow Sulphur with Linseed Oyl boyled in Lye with Sol 〈◊〉 pu●rified and then distill'd pour this water on Tyle● w●ich newly came out of the Oven imbibe them the●ewith distil it per retortam you have a yellow water of it like an aquafort which tingeth Lune Take one part of i●●s water and one part of Luna● calx let it sta d 〈◊〉 d●y●● and nights in warm Sand the fou●th part of it tu●●e 〈◊〉 unto Gold being reduced separated purged with Saturn and driven 2. Further Sulphur with the anima of Saturn being often driven over and fixed may then safely be used inwardly for a Medicine but projected on Lune in the flux ●t afford good Gold in the Qua●t 3. Of the Gray powder and Calx vive equal parts one pound a fourth part of Salmiac grinded among and driven over per retortam affords a glorious red Oyl which is of 〈◊〉 fixing and graduating quality 4. Lastly I tell you take of this Oyl of Sulphur of Venus and of Mars add thereunto the Oyl of Antimonie's Sulphur binde these together with the Oyl or Mercurial water fix it then you have a Medicine for men and Metals viz. to ringe Mercury and Lune into Sol. The second Section Of Vitriols Chap. I. Of Vitriol of Sol and of Lune IN the first place you must have our water of the cold Earth salt and of the Eagle whereby Gold and Silver is made spiritual let it shoot into Crystals this is that Metalline Vitriol out of which is distilled together with spirit of wine and Oyl of Sulphur to be used after the manner of Metals Chap. II. Of Vitriol of Saturn and of Jupiter CAlcine Saturn or Jup ter ex●ract its anima with distill'd Vi●egar l●t it pu●rifie 14. dayes and nights let ●he Vitriol shoot This must be drive● over with spirit of wine it affords a sweet Oyl and it is the Su●phur of Saturn and Jupiter This Oyl coagulateth Mercury and being first precipitated with Oyl of Vitriol it fixeth him Chap. III. Of Vitriol of Mars TAke the filings of Mars and of Sulphur equal parts calcine them in a Brick-kill to a purple colour pour on it distill'd water or Vinegar it extracteth a green colour abstract the third part of that water let it shoot thus you have an artifiical Vitriol distil from it a red spirit or Oyl Take half an Ounce of it add to it Mercurial water in which is dissolv'd Sol take of this Oyl but a fourth part of an Ounce fix this Tincture then you have an excellent Medicine to project upon Lead Silver and Tin which are transmuted thereby into pure Gold O! thou Christian heart return thanks to the Creator of Minerals Metals and other Creatures Chap. IV. Of Vitriol of Venus I Have told you already of the transparent Vitriol to be extracted out of Venus and to distil of it a red Oyl This Oyl dissolveth Mars turneth him into a Vitriol bei●● once more distill'd per retortam forcibly then you have a● excellent Tinging-oyl called Salt of Mars This is th● Kings excise man which bringeth in his Rents and enricheth the King This Oyl dissolveth the spiritual purple ma●tle and draweth it over the Helmet Now you have se●mented the Celar Sulphur with i●s own Sulphur which Philosophers before me have not done they took onely calcined Sol or S●lar Calx set the same to the duplicated Mercury instead of the fermen● and attai●ed unto the en● they wish'd for as well as I. But according as men do work so is the operation of their Tincture transmuting more or lesse according to the efficacie of the Tincture 2. Out of the Oyl of this Martia● Salt is Mercury of Antimony precipitated is added to the sweet Oyl of Vitriol fix'd this Medicine next unto the Philosophers stone is the best and highest Univ●rsal upon mans body and tingeth Lune Saturn and Jupiter into good Sol holding in the exame● very well 3. There is made also a masse out of Honey Salt and Vinegar and lamins of Venus which are stratified and calcined This calcinate of its own accord turns to a Verdigreece which must be extracted crystallized and distilled to a red Oyl which is used as you heard above Chap. V. Of Vitriol of Mercury VItriol of Mercury is easily made distill'd in aquafort made of Salpeter and Allome being dissolved therein Crystals do shoot which are very like unto a Vitriol these being wash'd with

If glorified Elias were present and the A●●●als could ●peak and silent nature had a tongue to expresse hereof ●hen I needed not to bring in any further evidence to per●wade the incredulous who considered not judiciously this ●y saying for a man possessed with blindnesse cannot passe ●y judgement upon my writings b●● understanding ●udgeth impatience and wisdom separateth herself from fol●● by her own experience This Vital spirit nourisheth feedeth and preserveth h●self by the Ole●●y of mans Sulphur which is predominan● the bloud and with or through it doth work in ●he wh● body that the substance may be perfect This Vital s● is Mercury which is found in man and is preserved by Oleity of its likenesse besides these two Mercury and S●phur there is a third thing in man namely Salt which h● in the fl●sh body and bones The Salt ministreth its noblest spirit for a nourishm● unto the bloud which saltnesse is found therein by taste and disperseth it self ●hroughout the body pre●veth mans body like a Balsam from pu●efaction and is the band and copulation whereby Me●cury or the V● spirit continueth the longer with the Balsam in the fl●● dwelleth together in one For in the Salt there lieth a s●rit which must protect all other Balsams in their worth a dignity The remainder found in the flesh if these th● be taken from it is a dead thing as I told formerly and good for nothing nor can it be used for any thing As this Union Dominion and Government is in Ma● the like are in Metals Minerals and Vegetables wh● make up their perfect body do live keep and are preserv● in the like manner as man is As the one followeth up the other in Man according to order in the like conditi● are other Animals after their ki●de and property As a C● is an Animal her food as grasse is Vegetable this Veg●table by the heat of the Cows body is putrified in that p●trefaction is made a separation which is the Key of all d●solutions and separations separation being made then goe● the subtile spirit the subtile Sulphur and the subtile Salt the Vegetable's substance of the grasse into all Members the whole body of the Cow the spirit ruleth the beast t● Sulphur nourisheth it and the Salt preserveth it This being done then nature distributeth her gifts fu●ther making a new separation as of the superfluou●ness● which the Cow doth not assume by way of assimilation a● must part with it and distributeth the same further and th● 〈◊〉 Milk this Milk is an Anim●l substance transmuted from the Vege●able In this Milk is made another separation by fire which must be kept gently For the subtilest spirit of the Milk together with the Sulphu● sublimeth is taken off and turned to a coagulated far●●sse which is butter The ●est is separated by other means and precipitated and ●●hereby is made another separation this is a second coagu●ation out of which men make their food of the overp●us ●s made another separation by fi●e not so far as the former ●wo at last there rem●ineth an aquosity and is of no grea●●s●fulnesse because the spirit and its nutriment ●s taken ●rom it by the s●veral separations After this nature maketh to a further putrefaction a●other ●nd grosse excretion of a Sulphureous and Salt ●ubstance which generateth afresh a living spirit which is the ●xcre●ent this serveth for the earth to be manured withall ma●ing the earth fertil by its Sulphur and Salt as being of a ●osse and fat substance whereby new fruits are produced ●ere is another nutriture from an Animal into a Vegetable ●his maketh Wheat and other Fruits and Grains to grow ●roducing again a nutriment from the Vegetables unto A●imals Thus one nature doth follow after the other by ●ulgar people not so much comprehended or search'd into ●ot caring to learn natures qualities so much which m●xeth ●ach natural things seem to be incredible To return again to the structure of Man the noblest spiri●●f life hath its dominion and seat for the most part an●t ●ost strongly in the heart of mans body as in the noble ●art and the Sulphur of man ●iveth unto tha● spirit a nu●iment and spiritual accesse for its preservation by the a●re●or if aire be taken away from man then spiri● of li●e is hoak'd up departeth invisibly and death is at h●●d The noble Salt spirit is a conserver of both its nobl●st spi●t penetrateth throughout the grossest matter of 〈◊〉 Sa ● is ●ast into the bladder and that hath a spi●it of a pe●ial ●peration That which goeth from the Salt throu●h● the ●adder is wrought upon by a hear ministreth a n●w ●●cesse or increase so that this increase of Salt in man is i● exhaustible unlesse it die qu●te and the body be burn● to ashes and the remainder be extracted As for an e●ample Take the Salts from Minerals let these grow agai● coagulate and extract the Salt again by water the like seen in nitrous earths also and other common Salts a●● there needs not to quote any further examples The spirit of life hath its processe into other Member from the heart into bones arms and the rest of the bo● that are stirring In diseases and symptomes he is wea● and man by reason of such symptomes cannot perform h● businesse in that full strength as at other times when he in health feedeth and cherisheth his body with Veget●ble spirits which come from feeding on bread mea● and drinking of wines then his body groweth stronge● and his Vital spirit groweth potent by such nutriments i● his superfluity disperseth himself into all Members an● sheweth his operation If the heart groweth faint the● is it a signe that the Vital spirit is not nourished upo● which there ensue speedily deadly diseases because tha● fire is not at liberty and falls into an extinction or choal●ing The fire in the heart and the natural heat is preserve● and supported by the aire of that aire the Lungs stan● most in need of the Liver also must have aire else it ca●not laugh the Spleen must have aire else it will be oppress 't with stitchings and great pains the true seat for th● most part o●●●●aire is necessary for the Lungs if these fa● into any we●k●ess● the cause thereof is because the Sal● doth no● sh●w its true and meet help and must go int● rottennesse casting up bloud and matter then there is a● hand a corruption of the aire from which the Vital spiri● cannot finde any true nourishment but must be starved because the Salt doth not effect its conserving quality th● Sulphur and the increase of the nourishment is obstructed and is not perfect whereby are caused Consumptions witherings of the body consuming of the flesh and exiccation of the bloud and of the marrow The substance of Salt o● the Salt spirit which preserveth the body hath its ●eat for the most part in the bladder where all humidities have their issue the rem●ining grosse Salt is separated and excerned