which are not permanent but they go about fixed Cures with unconstant means undertaking that which is impossible for them to perform But what shall I say more unto these they have never yet learned otherwise in their Academies The Spirit of Venus is derived of a permixtion of more crass elements then the former wherefore it is inferiour and subject unto them but it is more perfect then the other Spirits and Tinctures which follow excelling them in fixation and constancie not yeelding to the fire nor so subject to be corrupted as the others subsequent and remaineth more fixed in the fire which vertue Venus hath not in her own body but from a Spirit What operation soever it hath in its Mercury the same it doth also in humane bodies according to the degree of nature for it defendeth wounds and ulcers from accidents and expelleth such diseases as are under its degree and power and disperseth the root thereof If it be mixed with any other Metals it breaketh their perfect bodies that they will not be malleable any more until they be freed from it The like effect it hath in humane bodies especially if it be taken for any Disease not destined unto its degree by nature it bringeth Contractures of the members VVherefore the Physitian ought perfectly to learn the Natures and Tinctures of Metals how they agree with the Nature of Bodies before they venture to give them lest they endanger their Patient The tincture of Mars consists of an adustible and crass permixion of the Elements having a more hard and less tractable substance then the other imperfects hardly fusible but corruptible both with Air and VVater easily subject to be consumed with rust but in hardness and driness it abounds above all other Metals as well perfect as imperfect It torments the body of man if applied to any disease other then becometh its Nature yet it wanteth not power and vertue granted to it by God and Nature in its special propriety The Spirit of Jupiter is created of a white pally substance of Fire by nature intractable with the hammer but not so much as Mars Being mixed with others it discontinueth and mixeth with them especially with Luna that it will hardly be separated herefrom The like operation it hath in all other Metals except in Saturn if it be taken contrary to its Nature to operate upon mans body it afflicts the members with cruel passions and pains and gnaweth them with such burning that they cannot exercise their natural faculties being outwardly applied to Fistula's Cancers Carbuncles and such-like which exceed not the degree of its Nature it is the best remedy expelling every evil The Spirit of Saturn is created of an obscure tenebrose and cold permixture of Elements whereby it comes to pass that it less endures the Fire then any other It mundifies the bodies of Sol and Luna and purgeth them from superfluities it afflicteth the body taken inwardly more then Tin or Iron but because it is coagulated with more cold then the other it operates not so sharply it hath an excellent faculty to heal Fistula's Cancers and such-like ulcers and many other infirmities But having performed its operation unless it depart from the body together with the disease it doth more hurt then good Wherefore let the Physitian that desires to make use hereof first know with what diseases it agrees and how it is naturally ordained for Medicine Lastly the Spirit of Mercury hath no certain determinate form but is subject to all the other as wax to the impression of a seal for it receiveth every Spirit whatsoever unto it self as when the Spirit of Sol is impressed into it it transites into Sol if Luna into Luna and so of the rest he putteth on their nature and embraceth every Metal His body may be compared to the Spirits of other Metals as the Female to the Male not by a corporal mixture but when a Spirit is educed from its Metal and after the preparation projected into Mercury then at length he exhibits his transmutation no otherwise then a dead female of Metal although it be as an untilled Field or Earth if it be macerated or vivified with the Philosophers Plough which female in this work remains fixed and uncorrupt it is united to the said corporal Spirit by the degrees of the fire into his nature and substance this with the dead body of Metal which with the crass Spirit of Mercury cannot be done And although the body of Sol exist of Mercury or Argent vive and is fixed nevertheless common Mercury not fixed or mortified never cometh to its Resurrection For the Resurrection of Metals is an immortal Regeneration and the medium whereby the tinctures are promoted to their generation Wherefore it cannot be united with dead bodies into fixation but only with extracted Spirits of the corporals before spoken of which are subject to Metals as the common Mercury is subject to all Metallick Spirits For the crass Spirit of Mercury doth in no wise generate this tincture in substance no more then a concubine legitimate issue We are to judge in like manner of the crass Spirit of Mercury so long until the metallike and corporal Spirit is made by the medium of the natural matter without this medium it is impossible to attain to any good and perfect work in these kinde of tinctures moreover if the fire be too strong it cannot generate if too remiss the same event happens CHAP. X. Of the plain Manifestation of this Art WHen thou wilt make the Heaven or Sphere of Saturn to run with life upon the Earth impose thereupon all the Planets or which you will but let there not be too much of Luna but add less thereof then of the other Permit them all to run until you see the Heaven of Saturn quite to vanish by this means all the Planets will remain of such a consistency that their ancient and corruptible bodies being dead they have put on a new perfect and incorruptible body This is the Spirit of Heaven by which the said Planets are again made corporal and living as at first Take this new body from the Life and from the Earth and this keep for this is Sol and Luna After this manner thou hast the whole Art made manifest and plain but if thereby thou dost not know or understand the same it is well for so it ought to remain not vulgarly and indifferently laid open to all Finis de Transmutatione Metallorum Of the Genealogy and Generation of Minerals CHAP. I. WHen I had diligently and accurately read the writings of the Ancients concerning the Generation of Minerals I appredended that they understood not the ultimate matter of them and by consequence much less the first Truly if the beginning of any matter may rightly be written certainly the end thereof may very fitly be declared I have therefore in the first place decreed to propose unto you the ultimate matter of all Minerals whereby you may
necessary and naturally dry neither is there any thing cold which by the same reason is not moist Whatsoever is besides contingent hereunto is not by Nature but by accident It is no otherwise amongst the Elements the Fire and Water have the chief place and the Earth borrows her coldness from her Companion the Water and her driness from the Fire for her self she is never hot moist nor cold nor dry but serveth her two other Princes as the Wax submits to every Seal In like manner we are to judge of the Air for so the Air receiveth heat and driness from his Father the Fire and cold and moisture from his Mother the Water therefore they are generated as from their Parents the Fire and Water the Air Masculine or rather a Hermaphrodite and the Earth a Female And thus far of the natural Instruments and the Matter The fourth Degree is Putrefaction This for its excellency might deserve the first place if it were not repugnant to the true order and a secret in this place hidden to many and manifested to few It ought therefore to remain placed in its due Series even as the links in a Chain wherein if one be wanting the Captive detained therewith escapes and flies away The property therefore of Putrefaction is that consuming the old Nature of things it introduceth a new Nature and sometimes produceth Fruit of another Generation for all living things die with corruption and being dead they putrefie and again acquire life by the Transmutation of their Generation into them And by it corrosive Spirits are dulcified and mollified and all Colours are thereby turned into others and thereby the pure is separated from the unclean Now the Members of Putrefaction are Digestion and Circulation The fifth Degree is Distillation which is nothing else but a Separation of the moist from the dry and the thin from the thick The Members hereof are Ascension Lotion Imbibition Cohobation and Fixation Cohobation which concludeth all the rest is an often effusion or pouring of the distilled Liquor to its feses and often distilling it over As Vitriol with Cohobations is fixed by its own proper Water and then it is called Allumen Saccarinum which being dissolved into Liquor and then putrefied by the space of a Month and distilled yields a most sweet and pleasant Water after the manner of Sugar which is a most excellent Medicinal secret far above others to extinguish the Microcosmical Fire which happeneth to the Diggers of Metals which is largely spoken of in the Book De Morbis Fossorum Mineralium Of the Diseases of the Diggers in Mynes After the same manner also may any other Minerals and Waters as Sal Nitrum be fixed by Cohobations The sixth Degree is Coagulation which also is twofold answering contrary to Solution consisting of heat and driness that is of Air and Fire Again Coagulation is twofold as having two parts cold and as many of hear The first of cold is made of common Air without Fire and the last of the superior Firmament by the Hyâ—â—al Stone which congealeth all Waters into Snow and Ice But the first Coagulation of heat is made by industry in Art observing the gradations of the Fire and is fixed but the other Degrees of cold in Alchymy are not fixed The later Coagulation of heat is made by an Aetnean Fire and Mineral under the Earth and under the Mountains and is gradated by a natural Arch of the Earth Not unlike to this is the Fire which being gradated by the Art of Alchymy is excited and brought to Coagulation Whatsoever is coagulated by this Aetnean Fire remains fixed as is manifest by Metals and Minerals all which consist from the beginning of certain Muscilaginons matter coagulated by the Aetnean Fire and the natural Arch and Artifice of the Earth under the Mountains into Stones Metals Pearls Salts c. The seventh and last Degree of the Scale or Ladder of Transmutation is Tincture the most noble Medicine above all others that are procured by the Chymical Art whereby all Metallick and humane bodies are dipp'd into a far more noble better and excellent substance then before they were naturally of and are thereby reduced to the highest Degree of soundness colour and perfection and to a more strong and excellent Nature Various are the kindes and species of these Tinctures in this place least of all intended to he treated of The Metallick bodies ought first to be removed by Fire from their Coagulation and to be liquefied otherwise they will not receive any active Tincture unless they be opened Also all the Tinctures of Metals ought to be fixed substances easily fusible and of an incombustible Nature that being poured upon a fiery Lamen they may flow forthwith like Wax and soon penetrate the Metal without smoke as Oyl doth Paper or as Water enters into a Sponge so they dye that into a white and red colour remaining in the Fire and enduring every trial Therefore in the first Degree of Calcination to come to these Tinctures the Metals being brought into Alcol they acquire an easie liquefaction in the second Degree to wit of Solution and then by Putrefaction and Distillation their Tinctures may be fixed and made incombustible and the colours unvariable But to restore recover conserve or renew the Health of humane bodies they ought to be drawn from Gold Pearl Antimony Sulphur Vitriol or the like Various also are the Subjects of the Fire and they have several and divers Operations in Chymistry as one Fire made of the flame of Wood and this they call living Fire wherewith is calcined and reverberated the bodies of all Metals and other things another is a continual heat of a Candle or Lamp wherewith they fix Volatiles there is another Fire of Coles wherewith bodies are cemented coloured and purged from their Excrements also Gold and Silver are thereby brought to a higher Degree Venus is refined and all other Metals are renewed the fiery Lamens of Irons have another Operation for thereupon is made the trial of Tinctures Another heat is raised by Fire by the filings of Iron another in Ashes another in Salt another in Balneo Mariae wherewith are made many Distillations Sublimations and coagulations There is also another Operation made by Balneum Roris which sometimes I have elsewhere called Balneum Vaporosum wherewith many Solutions of corporal things are made Then the Venter Equinus hath another Operation in which are made the chief Putrefactions and Digestions also the invisible Fire hath an Operation far beyond all these that is of the Beams of the Sun which plainly appeareth by his Operations as by a Speculum or Chrystal And of this the Ancients have not made mention By this Fire the three Principles of every thing may be separated upon a Table of Wood without any fear of flagration or adustion and all Metals liquefied without any visible Fire and all combustibles consumed into Coals and Ashes But the Transmutation of Metals to bring
and no Stone for they have meant the Elixirs the which the unlearned have not understood and they have named it their salt that is our Salt of Nature that we have spoken of before our Salt of Wisdom that is when it is prepared our Menstruum for with the same our Medicine is nourished as the Child is in the Mothers wombe They call it also A King and that noble Salt and that living Water or Oyl of Grace and the most precious Water of the most secrets and the most coming the which dissolveth Mercury the same is the Mercury of the Philosophers and he dissolveth all Bodies of Metals and it is a Medicine and the first beginning of the Stone and it is living Water and living Sulphur he is the Lord and Master of all Salts and without him the other have no full power to make perfect any thing he doth binde and unbinde he doth joyn the Man with the Wife he doth change one kinde with another and makes of Bodies Spirits and of Spirits Bodies and this must all be compounded and make perfect the Philosophers stone CHAP. IX Teacheth That our Sol and Luna is living and the Sol and Luna of the Mines be dead MY Son you shall understand That our Sol and Luna be living and these that are of the Mines are dead and therefore the Sol of the Earth is not so good as our Sol that is made by this Science for our Sol hath in him three things to say a Soul a Body and a Spirit without the which three things there can no Transmutation be made the which one alone cannot do therefore they must be all three together if any good should be done And understand That no man can do any Transmutation with the corruption of the perfect Bodies that is Sol and Luna for we take the Spirit of the perfect Bodies through our Sperm or our strong Water and this same Spirits is holden in our Water that is our dissolved Salt which is our menstruum for where the Mother hath received the Seed that is the Sperm of the unperfect Bodies with her menstruum into her Body so shall it receive no life before the Soul come into it so do we as Nature doth ask we conjoyn this together till he come to cleer Water without Feces and then we draw out the simple Phlegmate in Balneo or Ashes and after that we put in the Soul or nourish it with Sol or Luna according to the making of your Medicine then be they ready to ingender her like and then we do put them in putrefaction the time afore-written then is the Spirit and the Soul perfectly made and the copulation is done and then when that we shall do projection upon any unperfect Body or Metal so called then this Spirit or Medicine doth take to him a Body and then it is called a Spirit a Soul and a Body which is then living And this Instruction my beloved Son I give to thee that thou maist know that our Sol and Luna is living and those in the Earth or Mines be dead and also that thou maist know that our Elixir white or red are not other then spiritual or a Spirit the which when it is cast upon a dead body with the Soul it is made living that same then is multiplied and augmented in goodness and perfections and in him is fulfilled that through accident which in the Earth it did lack to say that sickness which is got in the earth is taken away through our Medicine or Elixir red or white the which we do in this manner We take in the Name of God our Earth or Metal that is an unperfect Body and melt it with a perfect Body or Corpus the which is our Leaven with the which we do prepare our paste or dough and then we cast upon it our Elixir the which is our Spirit the which then doth make it perfect and a living Body or Metal but the great Stone of the Philosophers the which I will learn thee hereafter to compound it and perfectly to make it the which is of so great strength and power that be he a dead Body or Metal doth not onely make living and perfect but also maketh of the same Metal Medicine to transmute any other unperfect Metal into a perfect and it doth the same in the twinckling of an eye so that he may be called and is The Riches of the whole World Herewithall do we conclude the first Part of this Book to say The Composition of the Elixirs white and red The true COMPOSITION OF The Great Stone OF THE PHILOSOPHERS PART II. CHAP. I. MY beloved Son I here before opened unto thee the Truth without leaving any thing needful to be known of the Composition of the Elixirs the which is the beginning and entrance into the Great Stone of the Philosophers and this Stone doth convert all Metals unperfect into perfect Metals of Sol of twenty four Caracks fine the Metal being melted that you will transform and then cast upon him his Leaven that is Gold when that your Stone is made in the red work and that Gold must be cemented as aforesaid in the other Book and augmented in colour that is if you will melt a hundred ounces of unperfect Metal then cast upon it Ferment or Leaven which is Gold stir it well together and put no more but one ounce of Gold to the Mass of Metal and then being well molten and incorporated together cast no more but the quantity of a Pease or Fitch of the red Stone upon it so shall you see that this Stone shall turn this Mass of Metal or hundred ounces into the finest Gold that may be in the World of twenty four caracts fine and shall pass all the proofs that men can do upon it for better then that that doth come out of the Mines And you shall understand that our Elixirs that we have before mentioned are not come to their full perfection but it is the beginning of the white and red stone of the Philosophers but if you will make it perfect as hereafter I shall learn you the white shall transform all Metals into Silver like as of the red is declared that is to say when you have melten the Metal that you will transform then you must cast into it one ounce of fine Capel Luna that you have made deaf of sound and heavy of weight as it is before declared in the other Book and when you have well mingled them together with a stick then cast in to the greatness of a Pease of your white Stone and you shall finde it transformed into very fine Luna better then any that comes out of the Earth and if in case you did cast one ounce of your white Stone or of your red upon a hundred ounces of unperfect Metals so shall that be transformed into the Elixir or Medicine wherewith you may tranâ—form all unperfect Metals into perfect Luna or Sol
because the intellect doth so far excel the sense this is a work of a second intention and the beginning upon the vertue of Elements that is a pure bright and cleer Water of Putrefaction for the perfection of every Art properly so called requires a new birth as that which is sowed is not quickned except it die but here death is taken for mutation and not for rotting under the clods Now therefore we must take the Key of Art and consider the secret of every thing is the Life thereof Life is a Vapor and in Vapor is placed the wonder of Art whatsoever hath heat agitating and moving in it self by the internal Transmutation is said to live this Life the Artist seeks to destroy and restore an eternal Life with Glory and Beauty This Vapor is called The vegetable Spirit because it is of degree of heat with the hottest Vegetable and being decocted till it shine like brightest Steel you shall see great and marvelous secrets not by the separation of Elements by themselves but by predomination and victory of that pure Fire which like the Celestial Sun enters not materially but by help of Elemental Fire sends forth his influence and impression of form Here we must observe difference of perfections for although ye have now the Fountain of compleat white yet you are not neer your chief delight which is the Fountain of Life and Centre of the Heart the universal Spirit which lives in the radical humidity and doth naturally vivificate and is the masculine Seed of the Celestial Sun here is that Rule made good Except ye sow in Gold ye do nothing Therefore we must take heed what we understand by Gold whereof there are three sorts Vulgar Chymical and Divine which is therefore so called because it is a special Gift of God The Theosophists are perswaded by exact diet and by certain form of prayers at certain times to obtain the Angel of the Sun to be their Guide and Director The Philosophers advise to take the like matter above Earth that Nature hath made under the Earth Others to search the most precious treasure from a vile thing all which is easily agreed if rightly understood for in the lines following the same Author saith The vile thing is from the Sperm of Gold cast in the matrix of Mercury by a prime conjunction Others affirm Azoch and Ignis to be sufficient for this high perfection the which Azoch among the Germans is Silver with the Macedonians Iron with the Greeks Mercury with the Hebrews Tin with the Tartars Brass with the Arabians Saturn and with the Indians Gold All which being diverse in Nature are potential in one composition and by the duel of Spirits the Celestial Gold obtaineth victory over all the rest and is made though not with hands a body shining like the Sun in glory which is called Ens omnis privationis expers or Thummim This is the Key that made the pure cleer Fountain and of it was made himself the fair Woman so loving the red Man she became one with him and yielded him all glory who by his Regal power and soveraign Quality raigneth over the fourfold Nature eternally but if any shall understand either common or Chymical Gold to be the substance of this sacred body he is much mistaken for a glorious Spirit will not appear save in a body of his own kinde Although pure Manchet be made of the finest Meal yet Wheat is not excluded and so Bread is said to be of the second and neerer causes rather then the remote notwithstanding that which is made by the effect in a successive course is as certain as that which is made with hands After we fell from unity we groan under the burden of division but three makes up the union first temporary and afterwards eternally fixed He that knoweth a thing fully must know what it was is and shall be so to know the several parts of a successive course is not a small thing neither the honor little in the right use of the Creature Air turned into Water by his proper mixture becomes Wood and the same Wood by Water is turned into a Stone A Spring in Italy called Clytinus makes Oxen white that drink it And the River in Hungary turns Iron into Copper VVhat excellency things may attain by habitual vertue or what power when Nature and Art make one perfection who is able to express If you desire by Art to have a thing of admirable sweetness and odor you will take a substance of like quality to exalt into such excellency the proper quality of Fire and Air is sweetness it is but appropriate in Earth and Water what bodies shall we finde where these are most abundant to be wrought upon As the Celestial Bodies give no Tincture yet they are most abundant in Tincture Air is cause of Life Mercury is coacted Air Ethereal and truly Homogeneal which doth after a sort congeal and fix it is called a crude Gold and Gold affixed and mature Mercury And although the crude Quality be cold and dry some hold for the excellency of its temperature That it is all Fire or like to it whereby it is dissolved however it is at large proved those bodies are most abundant in pure Fire and Air whose proper Quality is sweetness Therefore those are the fittest subjects to make the most precious perfume in the world and considering cleerness and brightness is the centre of each thing and those bodies have both centre and superficies cleer and bright whensoever they are purified by Art and the bodies made spiritual and those Spirits corporated again they must necessarily be Bodies of greatest or cleerest Light and Perfection as one compareth a glorified Body to a cleer Lanthorn with a Taper in it saying The more a man excels in vertue the greater or lesser was the Taper But the work cannot be manifest without the destruction of the exterior form and the restitution of a better which is the glorious substances of Urim and Thummim which in their being and Physical use preserves the Temple of Man's Body incorruptible Some observe not just difference between Liquification and Solution but all Corrosives or violent Operations Nature hates because there can be no Generation but of like Natures neither can you have the precious Sperms without Father and Mothers And although one Vessel is sufficient to perfect the Infant in the Wombe yet Nature hath provided several breasts to nourish it and different means to exalt it to the strength of a man How Gold should be burnt which the Fire cannot consume is questionable but every exaltation of this soveraign Spirit adds a tenfold vertue and power then take one part of this Spirit which is become as insensible as dust and upon molten Gold it turns all into powder which being drunk in White-wine openeth the Understanding encreaseth Wisdom and strengtheneth the Memory for here is the Vein of Understanding Fountain of Wisdom and River of Knowledge
kindes of serpentine Mumy but especially of that which he accurately delivers in the first and second Chapter of his Book of the origine of Sciences The way then to get this spiritual Mumy of the Serpent and according to this former Treatise to transplant it into some Fruits or Grains and with them to confer it to some man or the like is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one and the same with the forementioned wayes take then the sperm that is the Eggs of the Serpent which are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Elements and Principles both of their corporal and spiritual Mumy mix them with fat Earth and sow some Seed or plant some Herb fittest for your purpose in that Earth But for greater efficacies sake in conferring knowledge transplant them into some Fruit appropriated to the Brain Plant therefore a Cherry-Tree in this Earth for so it will magnetically attract the Mumial Spirit of the Serpent into its Nutriment whose Vertue and Quality will appear in the Cherries out of which by Vulcan's Hammer that is Fire you may elicite the Spirits and therewith roborate and acuate the Brain and no little advance Knowledge This 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or seminal part of the Serpent may with like success be transplanted into a Vine out of whose Grapes you may afterwards extract their Spirits and after the same manner the Theriack and all its Faculties may by way of Transplantation be inserted into the same Fruit which will be thereby made Theriacal There is yet another way of tranplanting serpentine Mumy into an Herb thus Take Serpents and include them in some Glass-Vessel till they be suffocated and putrefied into some viscid matter which either transplant into some Tree or unite with some Earth fit for the reception of Herbs for your purpose You may also by like procession extract Mumy from Serpents and Snakes indued not onely with other admirable Vertues but with that also that is proper to the Universal Medicine which they depose with their gliscent Skins I mean that incomparable Remedy for the Morphew Leprosie c. whose Cure can scarce be hoped for from any other Antidote scarce I say because I verily think the Essence of sulphureous Vitriol will conduce no little hereunto Take Serpents then and detracting their Sweat and Collunies from them cut off their Heads and Tails which are else of much use to other effects as well as the other parts and cast those away but put their flesh under the stock amongst the Roots of a Juniper-Tree and occlude the hole with a knot of a wilde Plum-Tree for thus in Winter-time the Flesh will by the natural heat of the Juniper which is temperate be redacted to its first entity and in the Spring the vegetable Spirit of the Juniper will attract the Balsam thereof to its Nutriment insomuch that its Fruits or Berries will be indued with most eximious Faculties and enrich their Possessor with a most admirable and excellent remedy against the Leprosie for which end Take the Berries of the aforesaid Juniper pour warm Water with a convenient quantity of Leaven upon them and thus let them macerate for eight dayes till they be reduced into one mixed Mass for which purpose agitate them once or twice a day then distil the Mass through a Vesica at first with a slower but gradually with a hotter Fire till all the Spirit be distilled And now because this Spirit is mixed with Phlegme it must be rectified in B. M. through a Cucurbite and then again through a Phiola and so you shall have the true Spirit of Juniper Then calcinate the dead Head into Lees and make Salt thereof by Evaporation whereof take one pound and resolving it in the former Phlegme mix it with a sufficient quantity of good and well-dried Argil till you may make it into Pastils which take and distil in a close Furnace through a well-beaked Retorta putting a handful or two of the Berries into the Reptacle Let your Fire be first slow for the Phlegme afterwards hotter and at last so hot that the Retorta may be made red therewith for so you may extract all the Spirits Make Salt again of the dead Head which mix with Argil and the fore-extracted Spirit and then distil it again into Spirit then so draw this Spirit through a Glass Retorta in a dry Bath that the Phlegme may be collected apart and then the great secret may proceed in flave drops which you must shut up in a Glass with the Seal of Hermes and then insolate and repose it And thus you have that altogether praise-worthy Remedy for the Berries of Juniper being of themselves so conducible to the Cure of the Leprosie that they will not onely preserve from it but also in its initiation profligate it they are now by this mystical Art and the participation of the serpentine Faculty so much advanced that they will easily overcome it in its height and strength But thus much 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and by the way now to our purpose As therefore the Knowledge of Good and Evil was by the mediation of the Mumy-spiritual of the Serpent transplanted into the forbidden Tree so also by the presidy of some other spiritual Mumy eternal sanity or immortality was from God granted to the Tree of Life That he that tasted thereof should live for ever for which we have God's Testimony Gen. 3. who therefore cast the Protoplast out of Paradise lest he should put forth his hand and taste of the Tree of Life and live for ever And now we cannot expect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a written Testimony to prove that this Tree received its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 its power to give immortality from some spiritual Mumy for it is observable that Scripture in things natural gives rather a hint then a description for what community hath Athens with Hierusalem yet Philosophers those Merchants in Natures Commonwealth after much tossing to and fro on these rugged Seas arrived at a twofold Port of Verity For say they this Tree of Life either received this vivifical faculty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 immediately from Gods fiat or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the mediation of something natural And further seeking into Natures Store-house they conclude with Trismegistus That it is Gold by whose Vertue Life was implanted into this Tree and this is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 impossible for unless the Almighty ordain the contrary Gold is of vertue sufficient to give immortality to man or at least to prohibit infirmity till the predestinated term of his Life be come and the use of this Tree for this purpose was in no wise prohibited And it is moreover probable That the first entity or Sperm of Gold may as other Mumies be transplanted into some Vegetable and its Fruit by whose Energy they may attain the vertue and efficacy of the Tree of Life which consideration is founded in Nature for we see Metals by the mediation of some Vegetables suffer
tell us of an eternal Liquor of most strong Coaction rained down from Heaven here is like descent she is called Hyperiwn or Daughter of the Sun a Body of like weight and vertue with Gold fair cleer quick only coacted and brought from the Empire of humidity to suit the person which in her crude Nature shews strong Affection and turns the noblest of Metals into her own colour Therefore the Artist studies how to disponsate these two And first denudateth the Lady of her frosty Garments that she may have the first activity and liquefie her fettered Lord then are they both in the power of Art to better It is objected This Heaven-born Hermodactylus or Hydromel is of a Nature so obstinate and incorrect she will by no means receive the best impression Consider Her names signifie mixt matter of contrary quality therefore may be separated and although her original obscure condition because it is unknown by the innate affections and subsistance for it is an Airy Body or Air it self with Mercurial Spirit subsisting of internal heat and external cold Others say It is composed of the Spirit of the World corporate in the womb of the Earth and apt to receive the qualities and properties of all natural things as wax impression and being composed of Spirits the weight is of greater wonder Others say It is a crude Sperm not sufficiently decocted yet not to be profaned Others call it an immature Gold which kills it self and the Father and the Mother to bring forth a pure Infant by her they overcome the Fire she is the perfection of the Universal Medicine what Conformity what Similitude what Identity she holds with the Metallical Urne being the original matter and substance thereof and may be coagulated to the equal temper of Gold is as the whiteness in Snow Therefore the Ancients magnifie the most Blessed who created such a substance and gave it such properties as no other thing in Nature doth possess yet we see it is a vitious matter which hath superfluous Humidity proper and appropriate Qualities separable and inseparable Accidents Therefore the separable may be removed to which end she is included in a Well of Tears that the VVatriness may be vapored or through long Decoction by Driness vanquished Then doth it as it were congeal and fix and become more apt for durance and extension for whatsoever is contrary to the natural doth debilitate and like by his like is nourished but heat is contrary to cold and the natural property of scalding heat is to weaken and dry The fresh Water adds power and heat heat augmented becomes Fire and Time turns Strength to Corruption This glutinous substance hath natural heat from which is the Life and Death of the Elements Therefore as common Fire bringeth all things to his own Nature so the external working upon the internal heat it doth necessarily obtain victory Therefore if you can believe that heat and driness shall overcome cold and moisture that lineary and successive course hidden to all the World is open to you Therefore as Nature delights in Concord so the Lovers and Searchers into Natures Work must be of constant mindes and Gideon-like resolve to race the City Meroz not refusing to assist the publick good and then the Marriage for the Princess never unmasks her Virgin-Beauty except to him that hath skill and power to espouse her in a bed of Love which none can do before the despoliation of the exterior form but the Obstacles removed and Nature set on work the external Decree doth necessitate the effect for being now warm and blyth and apt for new Generation and pounded with her Lord grated to Dust his unnatural softness deceives the sense and they passionately condole each others Exile and in their imbraces fall in a sound until their dissolved Bodies shew corruption and the more pure being corrupted are more vile The Artist finding them out of their Indian Paradise corrects their central virtue and raising them from the Earth leads them the thorny path to threefold happiness and by fiery trial purifieth the Quantity and changeth the Quality and so brings them to perfect rest whereby they have power over the bodies of Men and Metals and are crowned in token of their dignity and boundless Territories Now considering the rarity of true Knowledge the Honor and Dignity of things desired what Spirit is so ignoble to think much either of Cost or Time when that which is sought is of all Terrestrial Treasure most excellent FINIS An Appendix of the Vertues and Use of an excellent Essential Water made and approved by Stephen Trigge Student in Physick and Astrology and by him gained and experimented at Amsterdam and also in London IN all manner of Fevers both Pestilential and others Calentures Apoplexies and all Epidemical Diseases it is a perfect and certain Remedy and in Quartain and Quotidian Feavers where the Disease ariseth from Choler It perfectly remedies the Bloody Flux and all other Fluxes either of the Stomack or Belly Vomiting Scowring and Excoriation of the Bowels and where the Stomack is spoiled for want of Appetite this is a sure Fortification for it wonderfully strengthens the Stomack both the vital and animal Spirit and mightily succors the Heart that is oppressed with heat And being taken in Aqua Melissae it doth speedily help the extream beating and panting of the Heart Convulsion-fits and falling Sickness it cureth safely and speedily and all manner of heat breaking out in the Face and any other part of the Body being either caused by the heat of the Sun or by some noisome Food taken into the Body that doth cause putrefaction of the Blood The way to take it is this in a burning Feaver take of it in Planten-Water if there be loosness in the Belly and sweeten it with Syrupe of Clove-Gilly-Flowers and drink it as your constant Drink till the Feaver is abated and the Appetite recovered In the Calenture Drink it in Balm-Water being made far sharper then white-Wine-Vinegar and mixed with Syrupe of Cowslip-Flowers it must be drunk very often till the senses come and the Patient remain cured which will be in few dayes for it penetrateth the Blood makes it thin quencheth the Feaver reviveth the Heart and Brain and quickneth all the digestive Faculties In the Apoplexy take it in Betony-Water and Aqua Vitae with Syrupe of Stoechas take the Dose as in the Calenture or stronger if the Patient be able to bear it and it shall be holpe in forty eight hours or thereabouts If there be any thing in this World that will preserve Man if the Glass of God's determination be not quite run out this will help Though he be lame over all his Body his Senses gone his Speech lost and to the judgement of many as dead yet this precious Liquor will in a wonderful manner restore them speedily and safely In the Scurvy Canker Squinancy and Inflammation of the Uvula this doth excel all ordinary Medicines for it doth
after a wonderful manner quench all Inflammations and tempereth well the Blood and the Spirit as In the Scurvy if it be all over the Body and most of the Teeth be putrefied and ready to drop out and the Gums very much swelled and annoyed take a little of this Oyl once and dip a little Lint in it upon the end of a Probe and lightly touch the places with it and rub the Teeth all over once then drink the decoction often for eight or nine dayes together being made very sharp in Egrimony-water and the Patient shall be assuredly holpe although he were judged past cure In Convulsion-fits put it either in Cowslip-flower-water or black Cherry-water and mix it with Syrupe of red Poppy and it is a sure help In the Falling-sickness mix it with Aqua Epileptica and Syrupe of Pionies and give it often and it is a sure help though the Patient hath had it many yeers In an evil Stomack oppressed with Heat and Winde and loss of Digestion mix it with Conserve of red Roses and a little Mithridate In all loathing of the Stomack and debility and vomiting give it in Mint-water with Syrupe of Clove-Gilly-Flowers In all heatings and burnings above Nature as Hectick Fevers and the like mix it with Barly-water and Syrupe of Violets In all Lotions for the Mouth or Throat mix it with Planten-water and Hony of Roses In all manner of Purges that are fulsome and offending the Stomack with their noysomness two or three drops of this Liquor put in doth not onely amend that but it doth also correct the working so that it shall not corrode nor hurt the Stomack nor Bowels by his working These and many more Vertues hath this worthy Medicine in working internal Cures too many to relate unless I here meant to write a Volume thereof But I shall here leave the rest to the Experimenter and speak somewhat of external Cures done by it As first In all manner of Ulcers old Sores Fistula's or Gangrenes Cancers and Cankers Noli me tangere Imposthumes or evil Pustula's proceeding from Morbus Gallicus great Carbuncles and any other not here related I shall commend this Soveraign Medicine but yet very sharp and biting though sound pure and perfect and doth immediately help its own biting and gnawing The order to use it is this it doth both cleanse incarnate siccatrize consolidate and soder up the Wound and drieth it that there fall no accidents for it doth marvellously defend either from the Humors flowing to the Sore or from all Inflammations which do often happen if it be not this way defended In a great and dangerous Canker in the Mouth there where they seem rotten and very much eating into great holes either in the Root of the Tongue or Roof of the Mouth there where it is Take a little Lint and dip it in this Liquor without any addition and lightly do the Sore all over then let it remain twelve hours then do it again as you did before the smart will be tedious for a time but it will be over in an hour or less With using this two or three times the Matter or Core and all the putrefied substance will fall out then once more touch the place and there will no more Cankerous nor corrupted Flesh ingender there for it will defend it then make a Lotion to wash it with Planten-water or Hony of Roses and make it sharp with this Liquor and wash it two or three times a day then make an Emulsion to drink with Egrimony-water and Syrupe of Violets and drink it morning and evening and in nine dayes the Cure will be perfected and with this order you may cure all these Diseases and Sores above mentioned But you must understand That the more dangerous the Sore is and the fuller of corrupted and dead flesh it is the longer the Cure will be before it be perfected Also for Ulcers which are great old and dangerous in the Legs where the humors are apt to flow there this Oyl excelleth all other Medicines Take this Liquor if it be a Gangrene that eats a hands-bredth in a day this will assuredly heal and separate the bad flesh from the good and bring quickness again in the gangrenated part and defend the good flesh from being touched with this venemous eating Malady Where you finde such a desperate occasion take the crude Liquor and moisten it very well with it so let it remain 12 hours then do it again and let it rest as before then do it again at 3 or 4 times it will make separation preserv the good all that is gangrened will come away together And you need not use any Instrument to scale the Bone for this will do it of it self and yet not hurt in the least as some may conceive that do not know the true Operation thereof But when there is separation made then touch the part afflicted once more with this then make a Lotion to wash it with Planten-water and Honey of Roses being made a little sharp with this Water and make a Salve of Candle-grease dropped in water and Bees-wax of equal parts and spread it upon a linen-cloth and apply it as a Plaister With this thou shalt perform great Cures in a fortnights time which otherwise may not be cured in a quarter of a yeers time These and many more are the Vertues of this excellent Liquor experienced very well by Mrs. Jordan of Sowowlde in Suffolk Daughter to Doctor Barnes of Amsterdam and by me Stephon Trigge over against Baynards-Castle This Medicine is now prepared and to be had at the House of Mr. Hepburne Minister in the Carpenters-yard in Little-Brittain Where are also prepared excellent Pumicils to cleanse and whiten the Teeth fasten loose Teeth and make the Breath sweet Lozinges for all Coughs Tissicks Asthma's Consumptions or the like which are also to be had at Mr. Moons shop at the seven Stars in Pauls Church-yard with Diet-Drinks Electuaries Pills c. especially for all Venereal Distempers by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The SECOND PART OF The MUMIAL TREATISE OF TENTZELIVS Being a natural Account of The TREE of LIFE And of The Tree of Knowledge of Good Evil. With A Mystical Interpretation of that great Secret to wit The Cabalistical Concordance of the Tree of Life Death of Christ Adam I Having committed to the World some Precepts and Examples about Mumy spiritual I hold it no Solaecism to annect this Pleasant though Mystical Treatise Of the Nature of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil for they being obscure this is a Lamp to dilucidate them scarce credible Authority to vindicate them and apparently false Testimony sufficient to verifie them Now whatever knowledge we have of this Scientifical Tree we decerped it from holy Writ which saith expresly Gen. 2 vers 9. That the Tree of life was in the midst of the Garden and also the Tree of knowledge of good and