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A94291	Cheiragogia heliana. A manuduction to the philosopher's magical gold: out of which profound, and subtile discourse; two of the particullar tinctures, that of Saturn and Jupiter conflate; and of Jupiter single, are recommended as short and profitable works, by the restorer of it to the light. To which is added; Antron Mitras; Zoroaster's cave: or, An intellectuall echo, &c. Together with the famous Catholic epistle of John Pontanus upon the minerall fire. / By Geo. Thor. Astromagus.	Thor., George.	1659 (1659)	Wing T1037; Thomason E1911_2; ESTC R209984	43,022	108

us think but of One Thing one Disposition one Way The wisemen know this one thing and that it is one they have often proved Morienus Eremita Hrerosolymitanus In a multiplicity of things our art is not perfected For it is one stone one med'cin in which consists the whole magistery to which we add nothing extraneous nor take away any thing but only in our preparation that that is superfluous Idem Eremita White and Red proceed from The same Root without any other Kind intervenient For it dissolves and conjoyns It selfe makes it selfe Black and Citrine white and red espouses Itselfe conceives brings forth and does all to the perfect end Rhasis Arabs Et Idem Haly. If you Govern Our Brasse Our Venus with Our Water then you shall find all that is said otherwise you doe nothing Turba Philosoph There is noway for the Rectifying of Bodies intirely and compleately without our Tincture which is a Clean Seed and has upon it the blessing of multiplication from Heaven Aurora Our water Gilded with Solar Sulphur is the Secret of the Aegyptians Chaldeans Arabians Persians and Greeks Hallelujah per Anonymum The Number of the Components of the Magical Stone ECHO IV. OF Sol and Luna thou mayst make the perfect med'cin without Separation of the Elements without labour without fear without danger they need a long time but they are safe Isaacus Flander lib. 2. mineral The Ancients labour'd in the Almagamation of Sol Luna which is indeed the most perfect worke and the Care little Idem ibidem Mercury alone perfects the works in it we find all that we need to it we adde nothing extraneous Sol and Luna are not Extraneous to one another because they in the beginning of the work are reduced into their first Nature that is Mercury therefore from It they took their beginning Divus Thom Aquinas cap 3. Wherefore I counsell you my friends that you work not on any thing but Sol and Luna reducing them into their first matter that is Our Sulphur and Argent vive Lullii Codicillus Of Sol vulgar Luna vulgar both Solute there is a preparation of Mercury vulgar Of those Three without any other Species the Physic-Stone is generated and of no other can it be made by the Wit of Nature Incertus Incipiens Desidrrabile The difference betwixt the Solar and the Lunar Tincture is This The Solar contains Solar Sulphur The Lunar Lunar Sulphur Albertus Magnus The Stone is one Yet This one is not one in Number but in kind Scala Philosoph Rebis is the first part of the work Elixir the Second Tincture the Third and Medicin the fourth Therefore it appears That to Azoth Elixir is required because Elixir in this work precedes Azoth For from Elixir Azoth is extracted But Azoth is that which is extracted by our Mercury from the bodyes dissolved and That is counted the Maturer Desiderabile 169. Elixir is no other then the body resolved into Mercurial Water after which resolution Azoth is extracted out of it that is a Spirituous Animated Essence Idem In one Thing for speices and Two Individuals It consists and is perfected first to White then to Red finally by increasing the the fire Petrus Valentiae In the first Regimen set the Crude and pure Elements upon an Easie fire that they may be mingled and joyn'd together govern them so that they may be desiccate or dried and all be black from which blacknesse an Occult Whitnesse is drawn afterwards a Redness by decoction And when it is in the perfect White it is in Dust Impalpable Zininus p. 68. The Generation of Metalls and the Philosophers stone is to conjoyn proper principles videlicet Man with Woman Active with a Pssive Sulphur with Mercury that so Generation may ensue Corruption Argent Vive is the Recipient of the Form and Gold the very Philosophers Stone Saturninus pag 71. The whole work consists in Sol Luna and Mercury Tersim pagin 103. Gold and Silver are Metalls out of which the Golden and Silver Elixirs are made Tauladan Pag. 184. Tinge with Gold and Silver because Gold gives the Golden and Silver the Silver Nature and Colour Richardus Anglicus It is necessary that the Stone before it be made Elixir be extracted from the Nature of Two bodyes Monachus The fire ought to be very soft till the Spirit be separated from the Body ascending into black clouds above the body By a Spirit Crude a spirit Digested is Extracted from the body dissolved Idem pag. 167. Take the Stone Suspended upon the Sea his name is Victor with him slay the living and enliven the slain for in his power are Death and Life Incognitus qui incipit Exemplum Scientiae Our Mercury is drawn from the Calx of Metalls by putrefaction till the Compound put off one nature and put on another And so by such Operations is made the Mercury of the Philosophers Jacobus de Sancto Saturnino The Operations of Art in her Ministery and Attendance to Nature ECHO V. NAture begins all her Actions from Seperation Mortification is the first step to Separation and the only way to that End for as long as Bodies remain in their old Origin Separation without putrefaction or mortification cannot reach them Anonymus Adeptus Amalgama which is the first Work is made with one of Sol and four of Mercury And this beginning of the Work the Philosophers have called by many names Our Venus Our Gold The Earth of Magnesia The whole Compound Jodocus Greverius In the first Decoction when thou art blacking there will rise from the Earth a certain humidity of Argent vive like a Cloud and will stick to the upper part of thy vacant Oval by its sides which thou must let alone untoucht Idem Blacknesse like that of the blackest Coal is the Secret of True Dissolution Raym. Lullius in Claviculâ Turne thy clouds into raine to water thy Earth and make it fruitful This Reduction of clouds into raine is called by some Cauda Draconis The Dragons Taile and others say that new Mercury is to be added Idem Greverius pag. 22. The bodyes are first to be Subtiliated by Dissolution which is the first Degree of the Work And this Dissolution is nothing else but that bodyes be return'd into Mercury and Sulphur from whence they took their Original But no other body can be resolved into Mercury but a Metallic consisting of Mercury and Sulphur The Spirit of Metalls is part of Our Stone and That we must evacuate from the bodys of metalls namely from the two perfect by putrefaction division of Elements and their fixation Raym. Lullius When the matter Ascends by Wind that is by fume the Philosophers call it Sublimation when it is cast into the bottom of the vessel and Converted into Water they call it Solution or Distillation When the Earth is Inspissate they say it is Corruption and when it begins to change from black they call it Ablution Extraction of Water from the Earth and

judgment of the learned For he sayes That the Astrum both of Sol and Mercury and the Mercury and Sulphur of the Philosophers proceed from One root at first indeed a white Spirit and That he plainly calls the Philosophers Mercury for afterwards there follows sayes he a red Spirit that is the Sulphur of the Philosophers and their oyle Incombustible from both the Tinctures of Venus and Mars meeting together in one womb To this purpose in his Chapter of Vitriol see more pag. 132. and how profoundly he playes the Philosopher the Analogically de Spiritu Albo ad Album ad Rubeum de Rubeo Of the white Spirit to the white and to the Red of the Red. It appeares therefore That the red minera of Paracelsus his Cinnabar and the red minera of Basilius his Mercury agree very neer and that the best minera of Gold with both may be understood not only of the common Mines which nature gives us but of others to wit of Antimony the minera of Mars and chiefly of the vitriol of Venus out of Mars But of these as the Greeks speake 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the way to help us to understand Basilius speaking so variously of the Spirit of Mercury which is the manner of those Chymists that have tryed many Things and draw on one shoo upon many For there are Many wayes that aime particularly at One End not only by One but by many and indeed diverse Things Against which Doctrin many have their Opinations Therefore since our Basil reckons up to Us distinctly these Six Explicit Tinctures which we have discours'd so freely afore and yet in the 244 page of his Triumphal Chariot professes also openly That All the Six Stones of metallic Tinctures arise from One Seed and are All by One Initial mother in their first Generation So proseminated and bred that from The same mother the True Universal has its lineal profluence it is cleer as noon-day that besides and above the Solific Essence both of the vulgar and Our Philosophical Gold there is yet Another sort of Gold and That more Secret and hid from which the Universal Most Universal issues forth as the Seaventh and most perfect of All rising from its own proper root that is it s own Earth and Water and in That much exceeds the very Philosophers stone Itselfe because out of It alone both That Stone and the Other particular Tingents are form'd and flow primordially and more then that because from It all the other Things of all the world not onely in the Mineral but also in the Vegetal and Animal Kingdome derive their life hold it still and by the Crearor are so ordain'd to their Increment and multiplication But now what manner of thing this is and in what thing placed although it may in some sort be conjectured by what was said afore The Green Line casting it self every where and encompassing all yet we shall speak more of it below in its place All the question now after we have reckon'd up all the Tinctures with their Multiplicity and diversity in the Minerall Kingdome is to be transferred by us Ad Aurum Philosophorum Nostrum to Our Philosophers Gold What it should be viz. out of which the Tincture of Sol is chiefly to be prepared besides the Universal Most Universal and the other Tinctures named above We say therefore That this Gold of the Philosophers for of the others as of the Universal Most Universal we speak not now is Gold that is produced by the Philosophers out of the Metalls Inferior and of lesser value and not by separation alone but by the benefit of nature working by Art in an Actuall transmutation Therefore it is not vulgar Gold which by nature in her degree is onely simply perfect and therefore now lyes under rather an Expiration or declination of its Seed than that it should be vegetous and fruitfull to a progeneration of other Gold Concerning this thing the most Expecienced Minerallist and Metall-man Andreas Solea published by the famous Montanus is to be heard who in his Book of Minerals Metallic Chap. the 9th Of expiring Metall Septurie the second writes thus When Nature with the body of Metall is come as high as Gold then it descends again or moves down ward for want of Aliment by its hunger Again in the end of the Seventh Chapter Septurie the first Of the Ascent and Descent of Metalls after he has recounted how finely nature ascending Calcines the whole body of Luna which Calx is nothing else but the body of Sol he adds thus As for Descention thou mayst easily perceive and understand it by Ascension For this is the difference that in the Ascent it first acquires Tincture before a body but in the Descent sooner looses that Tincture And therefore Metalls that are Descendent are much more imperfect then those that are Ascendent Thus he Therefore showing where the Seed and Tincture is fruitfull or not fruitfull in the Metalls The Ascension sayes he and Descension of Metalls could not be made but that they all agree in their seed and are of a Consanguinity Item In their Ascent Silver and Gold have the same seed which in the Ascent transmutes Silver to Gold but in the Descent transferrs it into Copper Then concluding he sayes most openly The Seed must passe out of its owne body into another or else it cannot be fruitfull or fertill Thus farre Solea And whosoever will not give Credit to his various experience will believe no body at all The cause therefore appears why Tinctures are not made out of Common Gold unlesse that as Basil sayes be first exalted by the Spirit of Its Subjects For we must look for a more noble and more perfect Gold that is in its Ascent in which the Tingent Green Vegetant spirit and fruitfull Seed is which by Solea's intimation and pointing out is Gold produced from Inferior Metalls Why else sayes Count Trevisan should we take nine Months time to serve our turn to spend it he means upon the Exaltation of Common Gold by the Tincture of Venus as Basil teaches For we might take that body as nature has made it and laid it ready for our use Here you see that Gold simply given us by nature cannot of it self produce Tinctures but another sort of Gold Therefore he adds Our Gold is not the Gold of the Vulgar as all Philosophers say because the common Gold is dead but ours is impregnate with Spirit and is a hueing Gold Hence John Clopinel de Mehun in his answer to the Lamentation of Nature Gold sayes he is known to be the Treasure of all the Mines and yet it has neither matter nor form of so great power as to exceed its owne perfection For it has no greater power then to perfect it self let the Artist strive and do what he can To destroy it and to reduce It would be a foolish work since out of it no more virtue nor power can be had