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A25684	Aphorismi Urbigerani, or, Certain rules, clearly demonstrating the three infallible ways of preparing the grand elixir, or circulatum majus of the philosophers discovering the secret of secrets, and detecting the errors of vulgar chymists in their operations : contain'd in one hundred and one aphorisms, to which are added The three ways of preparing the vegetable elixir, or, Circulatum minus / all deduc'd from never-erring experience by Baro Urbigerus ...	Urbigerus, Baro.; Faithorne, William, 1616-1691.	1690 (1690)	Wing A3528; ESTC R35727	20,949	96

which we cordially wish to all those who are sincere well-wishers to the Hermetic Philosophy FINIS Circulatum minus Urbigeranum OR THE PHILOSOPHICAL ELIXIR OF VEGETABLES WITH The Three certain Ways of Preparing it fully and clearly set forth in One and Thirty APHORISMS By Baro Urbigerus A Servant of God in the Kingdom of Nature Experto Crede LONDON Printed for Henry Faithorne at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-year 1690. TO ALL TRUE LOVERS OF THE HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY HAving in our Precedent Aphorisms clearly deliver'd such infallible Rules and Instructions as are necessary for producing our Grand Elixir or Circulatum majus the only real Secret of the true Adepts commanding in all the Kingdoms of Nature which will we question not be no less pleasing to all other lovers of Sciences than to our Disciples and being farther inclin'd fully to inform them how to preserve themselves and others in perfect Health by obviating any Distemper that may otherwise overcome them before they can attain to the Accomplishment of their Desires We have thought it convenient to impart likewise to them our three several ways of making our Vegetable Elixir or Circulatum minus which may be prepar'd and brought to its utmost Perfection in the space of a Philosophical Month by any skilful Artist who shall comprehend and follow our certain Directions laid down in these our subsequent Aphorisms where the whole Work is so evidently demonstrated that none who is ever so little vers'd in Chymistry can be liable to mistake Nor do we any way doubt but all those who shall with a sincere and upright Intention peruse these our plainly-written Aphorisms will find themselves oblig'd to bless Almighty God for his infinite Mercy in having inspir'd us to open their Eyes that they may see what is requisite for their present Health and future Happiness both which we heartily wish to every one who as becomes a true Philosopher unfeignedly loves God and his Neighbor Circulatum minus Urbigeranum OR THE PHILOSOPHICAL ELIXIR OF VEGETABLES WITH The Three certain Ways of Preparing it I. OUR Circulatum minus in only a specificated Elixir belonging to the Vegetable Kingdom by which without any Fire or farther Preparation of the Vegetables we can in a Moment extract their true Essence containing their Virtue Quality and Property which is a great Chymical Curiosity performing Wonders in the Practice of Physick and in demonstrating some Works of Nature II. We call it Circulatum because thô never so often us'd in any Extraction or Chymical Experiment whatever it loses nothing of its Quality or Property which is a Prerogative pertaining to the Universal Elixir call'd also the Circulatum majus because it commands in all the three Kingdoms of Nature whilst this being restrain'd to one only Kingdom is for that reason stil'd Minus III. Out of Dianas undetermin'd Tears when Apollo has appear'd after the Separation of the three Elements Determination Digestion and glorious Resurrection we can without the Addition of any other created thing prepare this our determin'd Elixir Which is the first noblest and secretest way of the Philosophers IV. The Determination of our Dianas Tears consists only in their perfect and indissoluble Union with the fixt Vegetable Earth philosophically prepar'd purify'd and spiritualiz'd for the love of which they are forc'd to leave their first universal undetermin'd Property and be cloath'd with a determin'd particular one which is requir'd to this our Circulatum minus V. Our second way of preparing this our Vegetable Elixir is by a right Manipulation of a Plant of the noblest Degree standing by it self or supported by others after the Preparation of which and its Putrefaction Reduction into an Oil Separation of the three Principles with their Purification Union and Spiritualization the whole is to be turn'd into a spiritual ever-living Fountain renewing every Plant that shall be plung'd in it VI. The third and common way is only a Conjunction of a fixt Vegetable Salt with its own volatil sulphureous Spirit both to be found ready prepar'd by any vulgar Chymist and since in their Preparation the purest Sulphur containing the Soul has suffer'd some Detriment by their not being philosophically manipulated they cannot be inseparably join'd without a sulphureous Medium by which the Soul being strengthned the Body and Spirit are also thrô it made capable of a perfect Union VII The proper Medium requisite for the indissoluble Union of these two Subjects is only a sulphureous and bituminous Matter issuing out of a Plant living or dead which is to be found in several parts of the World and is known to all manner of Men the Copavian we find to be the best and after that the Italian by which after it has been separated from its feculent parts thrô our Universal Menstruum all the Pores and Atoms of the fixt Vegetable Salt which is extremely fortified by it being dilated it is made capable of receiving its own Spirit and uniting it self with it VIII To fortify the Sulphur and open the Pores of the Salt no other Method is to be us'd but to imbibe the same with the bituminous Matter in a moderate digestive Heat as if one would hatch Chickens and as the Salt grows dry the Imbibitions are to be repeated until you find it so fully saturated that it refuses to imbibe any more of the Matter IX In the Course of Imbibitions the whole Mass is at least nine or ten times a day to be stirr'd with a Spatula or some other Instrument of dry Wood by which reiterated Motion the bituminous Matter receives a better ingress into the Body and perfects its Operation the sooner X. Great Care is to be taken that in the performance of the Imbibitions no kind of Soil or Dust fall into your Matter for the prevention of which your Vessel may be kept cover'd with a Paper prickt full of holes or any other suitable Covering and that nothing come near it which has its own internal Sulphur for the Pores of the Salt being very much dilated and open'd it may easily determine it self to any other Subject and so spoil your Undertaking XI If in three or four Weeks time at farthest your fixt Vegetable Salt does not manifest its full Saturation 't will certainly be in vain for you to go any farther with it for you may assure your self that you either err in the Notion of the Salt or of the real sulphureous Medium or in the Management of the Imbibitions XII When your Imbibitions are fully perform'd your Salt will then be in a convenient readiness to receive its own Spirit by which it is made volatil spiritual transparent and wonderfully penetrating entring of a sudden into the Pores and Particles of every Vegetable and separating in a moment their true Essence or Elements XIII Althô the Salt is fully prepar'd for the Reception of its own Spirit yet unless you well observe the right Proportion of them which is that the volatil always predominate over

the fixt you will never be able to making any perfect Union between these two Subjects contrary in Quality thô not in Nature XIV Before you begin your Destillations and Cohobations after the Addition of the Vegetable Spirit to its own Salt a Putrefaction of eight or ten days is to precede during which time the sulphureous Spirit strengthned by the bituminous Matter and finding its Salt fir for Conjunction with it has the power to enter into its Pores to facilitate its Volatilization and Union XV. If after six or seven Destillations and Cohobations of the destill'd upon the Remainder you do not find your Spirit to be extremely sharp and the Remainder in the bottom altogether insipid it will be an evident Sign that you fail in the true knowledge of the Vegetable Spirit which being exceeding volatil has in its Nature power to volatilize its own Body and unite it self inseparably with it finding it capable of its Reception XVI It is to be observ'd that in the Progress of your Destillations the sulphureous Medium do not in the least ascend for as it is a real Medium concurring to unite the Body with the Spirit before the Spiritualization of the Body and without the Concurrence of which no perfect Union of these two Subjects is to be expected so on the contrary in the Progress of the Work its Concurrence would be highly disadvantageous to to them both and totally subvert your Operation XVII The ascending of the sulphureous Medium when the Spirit begins to carry over its own Body to unite it self inseparably with it evidently and certainly signifies that you do not regulate your Fire as you should and that instead of giving a gentle vaporous Heat to facilitate the Union you give a violent one to destroy it XVIII When your Salt is brought to its perfect Spiritualization and real Union with its own volatil Spirit then you will have in your power your Circulatum minus or Vegetable Elixir and Menstruum with which you will be able to perform wonders in the Vegetable Kingdom separating in a moment not only their Principles or Elements but also at one and the same Operation the Pure from the Impure XIX If into this your Vegetable Elixir you put any green Vegetable shred in pieces it will in less than half a quarter of an hour without any external Heat putrify and precipitate it self into the bottom quite dead which is nothing but the cursed Excremental Earth and on the Top will swim a yellow Oil containing the Salt and Sulphur and the Elixir will be of the Color of the Plant comprehending its Vegetable Spirit which if it does not 't is a sign that your Operations have not been Philosophical XX. One only drop of this yellowish Oil given in Distempers according to the Virtue and Quality attributed to the Plant every Morning and Evening in a Glass of Wine or any other convenient Vehicle will infallibly and insensibly cure those Distempers and corroborate the vital Spirits if constantly taken to purify the Blood in sickly and infectious Times XXI If you put Coral into this Menstruum you will see an admirable Experiment for althô its Pores are compacter than in any other Vegetable yet it will on a sudden transmit its internal Spirit into the Menstruum and sending its Soul and Body like a blood-red Oil to the Top will at last fall to the Bottom like a grayish Excrement XXII If Myrrh Aloes and Saffron of each an equal Quantity are put into this Menstruum the truest Elixir Proprietatis as Paracelsus terms it which is a most excellent Cordial and almost of as great Efficacy and Virtue as the Universal Elixir it self in curing all curable Distempers will presently swim on the Top and its Caput Mortuum will separate it self into the Bottom XXIII This Vegetable Menstruum dissolves not only all sorts of Gums or any other kind of Substance in the Vegetable Kingdom but also all sorts of Oils and Balsams coming out of Trees separating their true Essence by which you may perform wonderful things both upon living Bodies and dead ones the last of which it preserves for ever without opening or any farther Preparation of them XXIV Thô this Menstruum is only specificated upon Vegetables it will nevertheless in a moment draw the Tincture out of Metals and Minerals but it will not separate all their Principles not being the appropriated Menstruum for such Operations and thô such Sulphurs are highly balsamic for the Lungs and Spleen yet since our Elixir Proprietatis far exceeds those praeternatural Preparations we only give this as a curious Chymical Experiment XXV Since this Vegetable Menstruum is eternal you must observe that you lose nothing of its Quantity or Quality in separating of it from the Oil and Spirit of the Vegetable which is done by a gentle Destillation in Balneo vaporoso the Vessel being very well luted and dry'd before The Menstruum coming over with the Flegm of the Vegetable from which it is by a Destillation in Balneo to be separated for farther uses leaves the Oil at the Bottom united with its own Spirit which will easily go over in any common Heat not leaving any thing behind it which is a Mark of its Spiritualization Purification and Regeneration that it has receiv'd from the Menstruum XXVI Out of this Oil or Essence of your Vegetable so prepar'd or by any other Philosophical way as we have mention'd in our second Manner of making this our Elixir if you know how to putrify it naturally without any Fire and to separate all our Principles out of it purifying and uniting them inseparably together being all made spiritual and transparent you will then have out of this second Regeneration the greatest Arcanum in the World as upon Vegetables so also upon Minerals and Metals except Gold and Silver XXVII If this regenerated Essence be determin'd with our first Matter it will then be in a Capacity radically to dissolve all sorts of Metals or Minerals and principally Gold which is imperceptibly dissolv'd in it like Ice in common Water and can never be separated common Gold again neither by Destillation nor Digestion out of which after a Philosophical Digestion Separation of the three Principles with their Purification Union Digestion and third Regeneration you may prepare the great Medicin of Medicins of equal Virtue and Quality with the Grand Elixir upon human Bodies and with our Mercury simplex upon Metals or Minerals XXVIII The determinating this regenerated Menstruum with our first Matter is to be perform'd by its Amalgamation with it in which the Vegetable Menstruum drawing out of it all its Qualities and Properties and uniting them with its own is made capable of the same Virtue and Property as our Mercury simplex in dissolving and volatilizing every created thing that shall come near it XXIX Some are of Opinion that both the Elixirs may be produc'd out of several determin'd things as Human Excrements May drew which

above-mention'd Operations and the Separation if our Serpent being amalgamated with any Metal pure or impure cannot suffer the Fusion it will be in vain for you to go any farther with it for you may assure your self that you do not walk in the true Paths of the Hermetic Art XXX Our Philosophical Distillations consist only in the right Separation of our Spiritual and Mercurial Water from all its poisonous oily Substance which is of no use at all in our Art and from the Caput Mortuum which is left behind after the first Distillation XXXI If after the first Distillation an exceedingly corrosive and extremely penetrating red Oil does not aseend which as soon as it begins to appear in the Neck of the Retort the Receiver must be changed it signifies that the Distillation has not been rightly perform'd and by Consequence that the internal Fire of our metalic vaporous Water being burnt up and corroded by its poisonous Vapor and the outward Fire is still mixt with it and with the Caput Mortuum XXXII In case you should commit so great an Error in the performance of this first Distillation althô it will never be in your power to prepare the Mercury Duplex of the Philosophers unless you should begin the whole Work again from the very Beginning yet if you have any farther Skill in our Art you may easily prepare our Mercury simplex with which you will effect great and miraculous things XXXIII This blood red Oil with its only Fumes penetrates every Part and Atom of all Metals and Minerals and principally of Gold out of which Dissolution one may easily extract the right Tincture or Essence with highly rectify'd Spirit of Wine and bring it over the Alembic with it which is indeed a great Medicine for humane Bodies XXXIV A deep blood-red Tincture of excellent Virtue is to be extracted also out of the above-mention'd Caput Mortuum accidentally and unfortunately intermixt with the internal Sulphur of our Mercurial Water and with the red Oil with highly rectify'd Spirit of Wine with which after it has been evaporated to a Powder imbib'd and Philosophically digested you may assure your self of having the Medicine of Medicines next to the great Elixir by which you may imperceptibly and quickly cure all sorts of Distempers to the great Admiration of all Galenists and to the Astonishment of all Vulgar Chymists XXXV The most part of the Philosophers whilst their Intention was to go farther to the noblest Perfection of our Celestial Art either employ'd this red Oil brought to a Potability for internal Medicines or to external Diseases without any farther Preparation of it till they had obtain'd the great Elixir XXXVI If the Caput Mortuum has not the Magnetic Quality in attracting the Spiritus Mundi into it self from the Astrums it is a sign that at the end of the Distillation of the red Oil the outward fire was so violent as quite to burn up the Magnet which is contain'd in the first Feces of our Mercurial Water XXXVII After the first Distillation if the least Part of the Virgin Mercurial Water can by any Art whatsoever be brought to running Mercury or any other kind of a Metalic Substance it is an evident sign that either the Subject or its Preparation and Reduction into Water has not been real natural or Philosophical XXXVIII The above-mention'd Spiritus Mundi althô of no use at all in this our great Work is yet a great Menstruum in extracting of Tinctures out of Metals Minerals Animals and Vegetables and in performing great things in the Art volatilizing all fixt Bodies and principally Gold XXXIX A great many Pretenders to the true Hermetic Knowledg prepare Menstruums to dissolve common Mercury and to turn it into Water several manner of ways and by several additions of Salts Sulphurs Metals and Minerals but since all those Preparations are sophistical any one expert in our Art will be able to reduce it to its running Quality agian XL. The Quality of our Mercurial Water being to volatilize all fixt Bodies and to fix all those that are volatil fixing it self with those that are fixt according to the Proportion of it dissolving its own Body it unites inseparably with it conserving always it s own Qualities and Properties and receives no Augmentation from any other created thing but only from its crude Body XLI Our Mercurial Water has such a sympathy with the Asirums that if it is not kept very close and Hermetically seal'd it will in a very short time like a wing'd Serpent fly away in a wonderful manner to its own Sphere carrying along with it all the Elements and Principles of Metals and not leaving so much as one single drop or the least remainder behind XLII Several Pretenders to the Magical Science prepare Magical Magnets to draw from the Air and as they pretend from the Astrums such Menstruums as they think necessary for the Production of the Great Elixir but their Magnets being compounded of several determinate things althô their Menstruums are great Dissolvents yet we do on assured knowledg affirm that they can never perform any real Experiment in our Art XLIII Some are of Opinion that unless the Operator is Master in the Magical Science and fundamentally understands all its Experiments he will never be able by any other Art whatsoever to bring forth any such things as can produce the Universal Elixir Now althô we do not deny that the Magical Knowledge is requir'd to attain to the highest degree of Perfection in all Sciences yet we are most certain that it is not at all necessary to the Formation of the Grand Elixir upon Animals Metals Precious Stones and Vegetables XLIV Our Virgin Milk or Metallic Water being brought to a perfect Spirituality and excellent Diaphanity is call'd the true Chaos of the Philosophers for out of that alone without any addition of any created or artificially prepar'd thing we are to prepare and separate all the Elements which are requir'd to the Formation of our Philosophical Microcosm XLV To understand aright how out of this our Chaos we are to form our Philosophical Microcosm we must first of necessity rightly comprehend the great Mystery and Proceeding in the Creation of the Macrocosm it being extremely necessary to imitate and use the very same Method in the Creation of our little one that the Creator of all things has us'd in the Formation of the great one XLVI When our Chaos or Celestial Water has purify'd it self from its own gross and palpable Body it is call'd the Heaven of the Philosphers and the palpable Body the Earth which is void empty and dark And if our Divine Spirit which is carry'd upon the Face of the Waters did not bring forth out of the palpable Body that pretious Metalic Seed we should never be able by any Art whatsoever to go on any farther with the perfect Creation of our Microcosm according to our Intent XLVII This Heaven of the Philosophers after it has separated

it self from the Earth containing our Philosophical Seed and the Magnet of our Salt of Nature and from the superfluous Waters is call'd the Mercury simplex of the wise man for whosoever attains it at the same time attains also the Knowledg and Power of retrogradating Metals Minerals c. so as to reduce them to their first Being to perfect imperfect Bodies and to vivifie dead ones conserving always it s own Property and Quality to it self and to produce the Great Elixir according to the usual way of the Philosophers XLVIII After we have separated the Water from the Waters by which I mean the Mercurial Celestial Water from the superfluous Water which is the Flegm by the Blessing of God and the Infusion of our holy Spirit we do not in the least doubt but we shall be able to bring forth out of our Earth such Fruits and Subjects with which we shall certainly perform the whole Creation carrying our Work to the highest Degree of Perfection XLIX Our Mercurial Water being of the same Brightness with the Heavens and our palpable gross Body which did separate it self from our Celestial Water having the same Properties and Quality with the Earth none but Ignorants will deny them to be the right Heaven and true Earth of the Philosophers L. If after the Separation of the Spirit from the superfluous Waters the World in which it is contain'd does not appear mighty clear and full of light and of the same brightness with our Celestial Water it is a sign that the Separation is not fully perform'd the Spirit being still intermixt with the Waters LI. If in the space of nine or ten Weeks or two Philosophical Months at longest our Mercurial Water has not done separating it self from all its own Earth containing the Metallic Seed it is an evident sign that you have either err'd in the working of it or that its Digestion having been too violent has confounded and burnt up the principal Subject of the Creation LII This Philosophic Earth containing our principal Subject after it has been separated from all the Waters is very gently to be dry'd by some external Heat to free it from its extraneous Humidity that it may be in a proper Capacity to receive the Celestial Moisture of our Argentin Water to which it unites its most noble Fruits with which our Philosophical Microcosm is generated nourish'd and saturated LIII If the Earth after it has been reverberated humected with our Celestial Moisture does not presently enrich our Air with the divine expected Fruits you must certainly believe that in the drying of it the external Heat has been so violent as to burn up the internal Heat and Nature of the Earth and consequently spoil your Undertaking as to the performance of the whole Mystery of the Creation according to the noblest richest shortest most natural and secretest ways of the Philosophers LIV. In case the Earth should be totally destroy'd by the violent external Heat althô it is most certain you cannot carry on our noble Creation any farther with it yet if you know how to amalgamate our Mercury simplex with your common Gold which is dissolved vivify'd and renew'd by it you may be sure of effecting the Great Elixir althô neither so quick so natural nor so rich as you might have done without it And this is our third way LV. The Amalgamation of our Mercury simplex with common Gold consists only in the right Proportion and in the indissoluble Union of both which is done without any external Heat in a very short time without which exact Proportion and right Union nothing of any Moment is to be expected from their Marriage LVI Know then that this right Proportion is ten parts of our Mercury simplex to one of your finest common Gold in filings which is dissolved in it like Ice in common Water after an imperceptible manner and as soon as the Dissolution is over the Coagulation and Putrefaction presently follow which effects if you find not 't is a sign that the Mercury exceeds its due Proportion Now when your Gold has been thus well amalgamated united putrify'd and inseparably digested with our Mercury simplex you will then have only our Philosophical Sulphur in which time one might easily have perform'd the whole Work working without common Gold LVII Althô our Mercury simplex is exceedingly spiritual and volatil yet since it is the right Agent digesting the Seed or Essence of all Metals and Minerals it will thô undigested naturally adhere to any of them althô corporeal that shall come near it and will never leave it unless it be forc'd away by the Test thô kept in a great Fusion for many hours LVIII This Mercury simplex which before its retrogradation was of a Feminine Nature and before it left all its own Earth was Hermaphroditic being powerful in both Sexes is now become of a Feminine Quality again and althô it has lost the Masculine visible Fire yet it has conserv'd its own which is invisible to us and with which it performs visible Operations in digesting of imperfect Metals after its Determination with any of them LIX If this our Mercury the Proportion rightly observ'd should be amalgamated with any imperfect Metal being first determin'd with a fixt one it will regenerate and perfect the same not losing the least Particle of its Virtue or Quantity Which Metal after the digestion of a Philosophical Month will as most Philosophers teach be able to resist all manner of Tryals and will be far better than any Natural one LX. The Determination of our Mercury simplex with any of the fixt Bodies is to be done by dissolving a small quantity of Filings of red or white according to the Color and Quality of the Metal that you desire to meliorate and if you do not err in the Separation and Union of the Subjects you may assure your self of obtaining your desire after a Philosophical Digestion LXI To examine aright whether the Mercury simplex is rightly prepar'd or come to its Perfection one only Drop put upon a red-hot Plate of Copper must whiten it through and through and must not part with it althô brought into a great Fusion Which if you find it does not it will be a plain Demonstration that either your Mercury is not well prepared or that it has not yet done separating it self from its own Earth LXII If your Mercury simplex put upon its own dry'd Earth does not presently unite with the Essence of Metals appearing deeper than any Blood and shining brighter than any Fire which is a mark of the Reception of its own internal Fire and that the Eagle has suckt the Blood of our Red-Lion it is an evident sign that you have err'd in the Manipulation of the Earth LXIII This Mercury thus impregnated with its Essence or Sulphur of Metals is call'd the Mercury duplex of the Philosophers which is of a far greater Quality and Virtue than the simplex with whose Imbibitions