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A34451	The Philosophical epitaph of W.C. Esquire for a memento mori on his tomb-stone, vvith three hieroglyphical scutcheons and their philosophical motto's and explanation : with the philosophical Mercury, nature of seed and life, and growth of metalls, and a discovery of the immortal liquor alchahest : the salt of tartar volatized and other elixirs with their differences. Also, A brief of the golden calf, the worlds idol : discovering the rarest miracle in nature, ... / by Jo. Fr. Helvetius. And, The golden ass well managed and Midas restor'd to reason, or, A new chymical light : demonstrating to the blind world that good gold may be found as well in cold as hot regions, and be profitably extracted out of sand, stones, gravel and flints &c. .../ written by Jo. Rod. Glauber. With Jehior, aurora sapientiae, or, The day dawning or light of wisdom : containing the three principles or original of all things whereby are discovered the great and many mysteries of God, nature and the elements, hitherto hid, now revealed / all published by W.C. Esquire. : with a catalogue of chymical books.	Cooper, William, fl. 1668-1688.; Helvetius, Johann Friedrich, d. 1709. Vitulus aureus, quem mundus adorat & orat. English.; Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670. Novum lumen chimicum. English.	1673 (1673)	Wing C6062; Wing C6061_PARTIAL; ESTC R6283	114,421	261

knowledge how the Powers Created to one and the same end may be brought into activity Thousands of such things might be instanced although thou dost not know the splendor in the Angels the candid brightness in the Heavens the Perspicuity in the air the clear Limpidity in the waters the variety of colours in the Flowers the hardness in Stones and Metals the Proportion in living Creatures the Image of God in regenerated men Faith in true Believers and Reason in the Soul Yet is there in them such a beauty which very few mortals have throughly perceived or plainly known Now why should there not be such an admirable virtue in the true Philosophers Stone which truly I have seen and known to be so Yet hereby I endeavour not to perswade the worthy and unworthy alike to labour in this work I rather dehort busie searchers from this most perillous secret like as from some Holy of Holies Yea let every discreet Student be exceeding cautious in reading and keeping company with Sophisticate false Philosophers Nevertheless to satisfie curious Naturalists I shall communicate faithfully whatsoever was acted between Elias the Artist and Me concerning the nature of the Philosophers Stone It is a thing much brighter then Aurora or a Carbuncle more splendid then the Sun or Gold and more beautiful then the Moon or Silver Insomuch that this most recreating light can never be blotted out of my mind though it should not be believed by Learned Fools or Illiterate Asses bubling nothing but the gloss of haughty proud eloquence For in this exulcerated old malignant Age nothing can be secured from slanderous Carpers But all such Batts and Bratts do err from Truth and in progress of time vanish miserably ensnared in their own errors yet our assertion shall stand till the very end of all generations being built upon the eternal foundation of Triumphant Truth And although this Art be not yet known to all the Adept do assert according to experience That this natural Mistery is only to be found with the great Jehovah Saturninely placed in the Center of the World In the interim we account them happy who by the help of art are careful how they may wash this Philosophical Queen and circulate the Catholick Virgin Earth within a Magick Physicall Christalline Artifice Nay as Khunrade saith they aone shall see the Philosophers King crowned with all the colours of the world and coming forth of his Bedchamber and glassy Sepulchre more then perfect in his external glorified fiery body shining like a bright Carbuncle or a compact and Ponderous transparent Christal These shall see the Salamander casting out waters and washing therewith the Leprouse Metals in the fire as I my self have seen What shall I say These shall see the ●byss of the Spagyrick Art where this kingly art did rest and lye hid so many years in the Mineral Kingdom as in their safest bosom Assuredly the true Sons of this Art shall not only manifest such a river of Numitius in which long since Aeneas being washt and absolved from his mortality by the command of Venus was presently transformed like to an immortàl God but also the whole Lydian River called Pactolus transmuted into gold as soon as Mygdonian Mydas hath washed himself in the some Also in a long Series they shall partly see the Bath of naked Diana and the Fountain of Narcissus yea Scylla walking in the Sea without her clothes by reason of the fervent rayes of the Sun and shall gather the blood of Pyramis and Thysbe by whose help the white Mulberries were tinged into red Partly also the blood of Adonis transformed by the descending Goddess Venus into the Anemone Rose Partly also the blood of Ajax out of which did spring the fairest Flower of Hyacinth or Violet Partly also the blood of the Gyants struck by Jupiters Thunderbolt partly also the tears of Althea shed when she had divested her self of her Golden Robes and laid them down partly also the drops from Medea's decocted water out of which green things did presently sprowt out of the earth Partly also Medeas Potion boyled out of many hearbs gathered three days before the Full Moon for the healing of her good old Father Jason Partly also the Medicine of Aesculapius Partly also the leaves by whose taste Glaucus was transformed into Neptune Partly also the expressed juice of Jason by whose benefit he got the Golden Fleece in the Land of Colchos after he had fought generously in the Field of Mars not without great danger of his Life Partly also the Garden of Hesperides from whose Trees might be gathered Apples of Gold Partly also Hippomines running a Race with Atalanta delaying and conquering her by throwing down three Golden Apples given him by Venus Partly also the Aurora of Cephalus Partly also as it were Romulus transformed by Jupiter into a God Partly also the Soul of Julius Caesar transfigured by Venus into a Comes and placed amongst the Stars partly also Pytho the Serpent of Juno springing up after Deucalions deluge out of the putrified Earth heated by the rayes of the Sun partly also the Fire whereby Medea lighted seven Candles partly also the Moon inflamed by the great burning of Phaeton partly also the dryed shrub or branch of the Olive Tree new greening with berries as a new and tender tree partly also Arcadia wherein Jupiter was used to walk partly also the dwelling place of Pluto at whose entrance the three headed Cerberus did watch partly also that Mountain where Hercules burnt all his Members he had from his Mother upon a Pile of Wood when the Fathers parts did remain fi●t and incombustible in the fire yet was he not one jot impaired in his life but at length was changed into the likeness of a God Further these true children of the Philosophers shall at last enter into the Temple of the transformed rustick house whose roof was built out of fine gold Indeed I cannot do less then once more proclaim aloud with the Adeptists O happy and thrice happy is this Artist who by the most gracious blessing of the most high Jehovah obtains this art to prepare and make this almost divine Salt by whose efficacious operation the metallick body or mineral is broke open destroyed and killed yet its soul is revived to the glorious resurrection of the Philosophick body Most happy therefore is he who obtains this Art of Arts to the glory of God by earnest constant prayers For certainly the knowledge of this Mystery cannot be obtained unless drawn and suckt out of the Fountain of Fountains which is God Therefore every serious Lover of this inestimable art should believe the chief of his business is That with uncessant desires and prayers in a living Faith he implore and adore the most Soveraign grace of Gods Holy Spirit in all his works for it is the solemn custom of God to communicate his gifts candidly and liberally only to candid and liberal men mediately or immediately for by

18. Colos 2. 8. 2 Tim. 3. 4. 1 Cor. 13. 9. 11. Truly wise men dive into the best gifts and perfection which are of three sorts Charity Prophecy and Examination Love and Charity are the Center and contain the circle of all godly virtues and have Faith and Hope but Prophesying hath all knowledge wisdom and doctrine Lastly examination containeth all understanding judgment and discretion In these three things all is contained that belongeth to wisdom the Center whereof is the word of God This is that which all men ought to study and should communicate to others according as they have received a gift of the Spirit of grace● That God the Author of all good may be glorified and that none do boast of gifts and extol himself above others but rather be humble And then none ought to quench the Spirit neither in himself nor others but rather to stir it up And lastly let no man despise Prophecy that he may not offend God his neighbour nor scandalize himself Love forbeareth all The wisdom of the spirit searcheth all and Examination tryeth all Since we have undertaken through the admonition of the spirit to speak of wisdom as much as our knowledge in part may afford Therefore we intreat the Reader in Love that those whom we displease or who are offended would tolerate us in love As knowing that wisemen also must bear with fools And things spoken of in this book may not presently be rejected but rather be suffered to stand remembring that God also is patient unto Sinners But if any one do think himself wise let him shew the spirit of Judgment and let him discern thus least he judge himself also For we hold that we also have received a gift of the Spirit of grade which we will not suffer to dye but to the praise of the Lord we will put it out to use out of love to the Children of wisdom although not as an instruction but as a good testimony to our selves that we have received a gift of the Spirit not in vain The reason that induced us to the writing of this book is because we hope to be Beneficial to the children of wisdom It may be we have publisht the like twelve years ago the Title of it being Aurora Sapientiae yet since it hath been desired by some again I have not altered the Title hoping that it is not a little mended and corrected I have set it out briefly that it may neither be tedious to the Reader nor chargeable to the Buyer nor yet painful to the Printer Benevolous Reader take all in good part and thus we commend the well wishers to Gods gracious ptotection THE CONTENTS Of the several Chapters of this Book OF the Books of wisdom in which the same may be learned how and in what manner Chap. 1. Of the Principles and Beginnings of all things as also of God himself and of all whatsoever 2 Of the First Principle of all things which is God 3 Of the second Principle which is Nature 4 Of the third General Principle namely the Elements 5 Of the three special Principles Spirit Wind and Water 6 Of the particular Principles Body Soul and Spirit 7 Of the Elements and contrary Elements in the Creation 8 Of the Principle or Original of that evil one and of the Angels 9 Of the difference of the Light and Darkness as also of the Light and Fire 10 Of the Principle of the Fire and its Mystery 11 Out of what wherein and whereby all things good or bad do subsist pass away and yet how they last for ever 12 Of the Creation of the World 13 Of the particular Creation 14 Of the Mystery of the Word 15 Of the Mystery of the Created lower visible things 16 Of the Creation of Man and of his Anatomy 17 Of the Image of God after which man is Created 18 Of the Mystical Image that is of the Mystery of God Chap. 19 Of the Truth and Spirit by which all wisdom is justified 20 Of the Mystery of Time and to understand 〈◊〉 aright 21 The Conclusion 22 AVRORA SAPIENTIAE Morning Light OR Dawning of Wisdom WE take the liberty according to the gift of the Spirit to speak briefly of Wisdom in this little Treatise without any prolixity And because we made mention in the Preface of a three-fold Knowledge as of Men of Angels and of God now we will speak here that Wisdom also is threefold as 1. The Natural of all Created things 2. The Wisdom of Faith unto Salvation And 3. The Secret and Mystical wisdom which gener●lly is unknown and that we call vera Philosophia Theologia and Theosophia Of these three we will speak as briefly as may be possible The Spirit of the Lord be upon both the Writer and the Reader Amen JEHIOR OR THE Morning Light of VVisdom CHAP. I. Of the Books of Wisdom in which the same may be learned How and in what manner THere are chiefly but three Books in which all Wisdom is contained Namely 1. The whole Nature and Creation 〈…〉 great Book of Heaven and 〈…〉 2. The Book of the Holy Writ in the Letter of the Holy word of God 3. Man himself The only Center or Principle of these three is the word of God which is the book out of which these three books have their Original The first book of Nature contains seven other books which are the seven Elements of which in particular here●fter These seven Books have three other books opposite which are the three contrary Elements of which also hereafter The second book the Holy Writ is divided into three other books as into the Law of the Old Into the Gospel of the New and into the Eternal Gospel of the everlasting Testament and Covenant which comprehends the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ The Third book of Man is only one book and is sealed to the blind but opened to the seeing In this book is hidden sealed and also manifest and opened all Wisdom and man is called the Image or Honour of God o● which below and man cannot be called by any other name 1 Cor. 11. 7. Out of the first book we learn Philosophia the natural Wisdom in and about the knowledge of created natural things which are of the Elements and we learn this wisdom out of the three Principles and seven Elements and discern the same from the three contrary Elements else we cannot find the truth of the Natural Wisdom Out of the second book we learn Theologia or Divinity the wisdom unto Salvation and that in the three foresaid books through the seven spirits Isaiah 11. and we di●●●nguish it from all humane glosses and books of Prophane ones For the book expounds it self and needs no humane interpretation but only hath need of Faith which apprehends all things Out of the Third Book which is Gods Image we learn the true knowledge of God as also his being and essence and his whole Mystery in so much as

afterwards turned into a living death which never dyeth and a deadly eternal life made manifest as a soul to Satan At last through Lucifers pride a strange wind was gotten in Lucifer as a body unto him and Satan hath quite lost the Angelical Principle and self-subsistance and became a strange Bird and a wild Fly Lucifer did try whether he could not be a God or like unto God which yet he was in his portion and measure therefore he is called a Tempter and Satan and he was become such an one namely both a God and a Creator and a Creature of his own and lost all all Gods Testimony wholly as also the Testimony of good Angels He is a Knave or Lyer from the beginning through sin which hath begotten him and he hath begotten sin he is sins father and sin is his mother that hath begotten him and he her through covetousness in the leering eye of self-love and imagination Now as sin is that evil and found out in its Principle by Lucifer so it hath turn'd him into an evil one and one is the Principle of the other and so he can be excused by no means So Lucifer hath murdered himself and hath lost the Angelical Printiple and is and remaineth a forlorn Child and son of Perdition the right Antichrist for ever Thus is sin gotten through coveting and coveting through looking upon and looking upon through imagination and that through self-love and that through an arrogant liberty this through security and that through wantonness where there is no fear for as fear is the beginning of wisdom so is wantonness the beginning of folly and sin He that is fearful will not easily hazard upon sinning Lucifer was Created of God a good Angel and that so that he might easily have been kept from sining So also might Man if he would himself but self-will brought him to that sin yea his own wantonness but now he could not be so perfect Created that he could not fall into sin at all The reason is because his weight measure and number could not endure it because he was not born of God but had his Principles besides God although through God but what is born of God and of his seed that cannot sin because it is born of God to whom it is impossible to commit sin Thus is made clear and manifest the mighty abundant difference in the Creation which was very good at the Renovation which was done in and on the old Creature by means and help of the spirit of God and among the new births from above of God which is it alone to make Children and Heirs of God and Co-heirs of Christ unknown to the world and their wise Children Now the Angels consisting out of Wind Fire and Light and the fall of Lucifer standing before them as a warning therefore they cover their feet and faces before God with fear and trembling and are rather ashamed of themselves that they may find grace before the Lord God Now they are a fiery flame for a protection of the godly and a perdition and death to the wicked God also is a consuming fire in his Angels not on or in himself and will come also with his Angels and his Power and with fiery flames to judgment CUAP X. Of the difference of the light and darkness as also of the light and fire HItherto the light was not reckoned under the Elements by the wise of the world though it be the first of them in the Creation for in all Creatures the Bloud and Eyes are first and not the Heart Now the light is a going forth of Gods glory and it never goeth down or decayeth in its spirit an● is a dwelling of the seven spirits of God as the darkness is an habitation of Evil spirits In the light dwelleth the spirit of the Lord the spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of Counsel and of strength the spirit of Knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. All wisdom understanding and knowledge all judgment and examination and every truth and righteousness cometh from and out of the light and through the same And as the light doth illuminate the whole world and maketh day and is the day it self So it illuminates also every spirit in all living souls and as there is no day without light neither can be so no wisdom nor knowledge nor understanding can be without light But the light in its body in our opinion is a pure essential spiritual Salt from which all Gemms and precious stones get their Colour as also all Flowers and Beauties their fairness All which the spirit of light doth work and adorneth all things with beauties for in the light all Colours are hid and are gotten by the same the soul of the light is nothing else but a joyful Life out of Nature as an Angelical Life and his spirit and eternal love proceeding from the spirit of the Lord. Out of this light God hath made the lights of Heaven which are coagulated living and comprehensible lights and are nothing else in their essence but a spiritual essential and exceeding pure Christalline salt so high tempered as ever any thing may be without any quality or property of heat coldness warmth moistness drought and have their proper motion in and on themselves especially the Sun ●unneth always with the light and day but the Moon with the darkness and night and the other stars in and on their places and order Those lights of Heaven do shew always and every where clearly the power of the Elements and contrary Elements what their operations be through which powers all things in the whole world are finished and wrought upon but through the lights of Heaven no less then a Looking Glass sheweth such and such you see Now the powers of the Elements and contrary Elements change and revolve daily weekly monthly and yearly Now because out of the light cometh knowledge which searcheth out all the depths in every spirit soul and body and presents them in the lights of Heaven prophesie tell and give to understand to the beholders who are the Children of the light The spirit of light searcheth all in all things and sheweth by the lights of Heaven every ascendent or spirit in all things and also in Man namely what spirit soul and body he hath received at his nativity out and according to the Elements and opposite Elements as also what spirits do incentre in him All which if bad or evil Man may decline or resist by the holy and good spirit as a beast can shake off the dust or flyes Now the Lights of Heaven rule the whole world namely acording to their time and shew things present past and future Now because every Element hath its spirits as the Earth the Water and the Air and their eyes are more spiritual then our bodily they can therefore spy something in the lights of Heaven and reveal it to Man But the Children of light do not use the

and birth begins out in and by his own seed but at first all things were brought forth out of the earth on Grass Trees and Herbs through the Word Spirit and Salt The Salt hath given to the Grass Herbs and Trees their bodies which they all have in them The Spirit hath given them Power and Virtue especially for Physick but the Word giveth the blessing to it The true Physick Virtue and Blessing may be sought and gathered out of the salt of the earth and of every Herb and be made Corporeal and at the time when it doth greeny that the essence may be extracted and reduced to a Spiritual and Coelestial body which cometh forth green and yieldeth power to Physick Christ saith unto his Disciples Mat. 5 13. Ye are the Salt of the Earth The Reason because thereby the whole world was seasoned and made fertile that it did grow up to everlasting life and happiness But now all Salt is become unsavoury the Reason because there is no Spiret nor Word of Life in it Therefore it is cast upon the Dunghill and trampled upon And behold the Lord will Create a new one Amen Halelujah The particular Creati●n hath begun from and on the lower and went upwards As now the earth is adorned with Grass Herbs and Trees So had God on the fourth day adorned the Heaven and Firmament with Lights Sun Moon and Stars which came forth and grew out of fixed flying and flying-fixed Salt of the Heaven and are even as the precious stones of the earth They are fixed in their Heavenly body and at the highest temper but they are flying in their course although some of them do stand still The chief Lights of Heaven are the seven Planets Saturn is the highest and belongeth to the earth and standeth to the earth who knoweth whether he were the highest at the beginning or whether he came to be the highest after the fall and that Mercury was to give place to him Many things are to us hid and much of mystical secrecy is in them For Saturn eateth all and is Death and domineers over all But Mercury maketh alive and growing Of all much were to be said but Sapienti satis Therefore we must take good heed to the contrary elements which over the fall ruled over all But we must be careful and witty to rule over them that death may be drowned and swallowed up in victory On the fifth day God Created out of the Waters all things that live therein and also the Birds out of the flying salt in the water Hence it is that they are so flying and these have their particular consideration by reason of the flying salt and in their Feathers they are Physical in flying Mercurial diseases as in the Falling sickness Madness Giddiness for these diseases have their original from the Spirits through Gods permission and must be cured with a flying Salt which is reduced to the highest degree Be it known also that there is great Virtue in Precious stones as in Pearls Amber Coral namely when they are first baptized with a Coelestial water which be altogether Spirit The Load-stone also hath its mystery And who can tell all We may well say Great are the works of the Lord He that observeth them taketh delight therein and to them they are propounded On the sixth day God Created all the beast of the earth and the Worms and at last man with him he closed up the Creation Among the ●ermius or Beasts the Serpent is the Center in the beginning she did not creep upon her belly and did not feed upon earth but that was laid on her as a Curse from God Whether she had Wings we will not deny There is great subtilty in her and a Mystery hidden therein At the beginning she was not venomous and among all the Beasts she was the next by and about Man as she will also be the next about him in the new world when that enmity is at an end Isa 11. 8. No Creature is so bodily fair and subtil as the Serpent Now because she was at first always about Man therefore the Devil did perswade her to perswade Man that he should break of the Tree of Knowledge and eat of the fruit thereof Because the Serpent is Mercurial and flying and is the Center of all Beasts therefore needs must there be a great mystery in her for Physick if rightly prepared for the Mercurial diseases especially being full of bones Therefore God hath finished the work of Creation on the sixth day with and on men of whose Creation hereafter and on the seventh day the Lord did rest and blessed that same day The six days bear a Curse by Reason of sin but the seventh day that now truly cometh that bringeth blessing and rest Joy Honour and Glory which joyful day of our Redemption we through the spirit of Prophesying do annunciate to all Creatures under Heaven in an everlasting Gospel and a very joyous Message which to annunciate is given to us from the spirit of prophesying CHAP. XV. Of the Mystery of the Word II is known out of the Holy Scriptures that all things are made and Created by the word and that yet all things are made by the word and are preserved through the word But here we will not speak Theologically but only naturally according to the Creation Neither do we speak Theosophically of the depths of God both which we save till another time and place The word of Creation is the general power of God out of which in which and by which all things are subsist and will be This general power of Almighty God every Creature makes use of for its best good But only Man abuseth it as also do the Devils and Spirits by Gods permission Hence it cometh that men must give an account of every idle word because they have abused the breath of the Almighty and use it to sin Oh that I could lay a Lock to my mouth that I might not transgress with my Tongue Because now all Mysteries are hid in the word therefore the same also performs all things in the world Therefore we will say that hence ariseth a three fold Magick through faith that is a power to know something to bring it to an effect First there is a Natural Magick which cometh out of Natural Faith wherein there is such a Magnet or Load stone that it can draw all things to it This faith is gotten in Man either of nature in his Spirit which is the true and right ascendent namely the spirit of man and by no means this or that Astre or Constellation as the ignorant do imagine which is only in signam ascendentis c Or this faith through the art and instruction of the natural Magick is wrought in man so that his spirit receiveth the ascendent and rejoyceth in the same As the ascendents in an may very well be transmuted transplanted and altered by the spirits Of his natural Magick without

Witchcraft the wise men of the East made lawful use who knew the Star and proceeded so far therein that they go not only great knowledge but have also done wonders This natural Magick is learned out of the true and perfect degree from the Spirit of God and goeth before and beyond the ascendent because commonly other Spirits do mingle themselves into it This Magick art Daniel and his fellows had studied as also Moses the Prophets and went beyond the wise m●n Magicians of Egypt far with th ir skill From this natural Magick art the false Magicians took theirs and because the true ascendent was not in them namely the Spirit of God but had only their Elementary or their Masters ascendent therefore also Lucifer made shew of an Angel of Light and became ascendent in them and made Sorcerers of them Now as true Magicians know and perform all by the Word of God which speaketh in them operates out of them and by them so the Sorcerers abuse the word in its power and perform wonders thereby till Moses his staff and Serpent devoureth theirs and Daniels wisdom exceleth all the others wisdom Balaam was a right natural Magician but the covetous spirit was ascendent in him that he went to the Sorcerers that is to the spirit of Sorcery and the spirit of Avarice had blinded his eyes that he could not see the Angel that resisted him but the Ass saw him and was shye therefore Balaam must be kill'd by the Sword as others that deserved it Num. c 31. v. 8. Out of this false Magick art come all S rcerers and Witchcrafts with their bewitching spel● tokens words and works and all those that have familiarity with Spirits Let every one take heed of spirits and let them not rejoyce when spirits draw near unto them but rather fly from them and pray to the father of Lights for the Holy Ghost that he may come to them Secondly There is a Prophetical and Apostolical Magical art which cometh out of faith of Gods Spirit in his Children in which the word with glory dwelleth the same speaks to them in them as in the Prophets we read The Lord hath spoken to me namely not always outwardly with a loud voice but rather inwardly Thus old Simeon had an answer from the Lord thus the Lord also spake through the Ephod c. By this Magical art the Prophets and Apostles have done so many Miracles raised the dead and only by the word This Magical art the Devil presumeth to imitate namely that the word should speak out of Chrystals by looking into it out of Rings wherein perhaps dwelleth a spirit and speaketh out of it c. But this is not the word but only a spirit bewitched into it Lastly There is yet a higher Magick of Gods Children which worketh over and beyond nature and that through faith as when Moses divided the waters with his Red and Jos●uah bid the Sun and Moon to stand still and the like which things are beyond the course of nature but all is done by and through faith So also when Elias shut up the Heavens that it should not rain and all these things are performed in out and by the power of the word of God which when it calleth and commandeth then it must stand there The Sorcerers also think to make use of this Magick but theirs is meer Witchcraft by Gods permission and yet things are performed really by them even as the Egyptian Sorcerers brought up Frogs c. but not by the finger of God but by the spirit of the Devil by which shortly the three unclean spirits and Frogs will do wonders to seduce the Kings of the earth as also other false Prophets Rev. 16. 13. Mat. 24. 29. Lastly the word speaketh out in and by all things because it is in all things and that by the signature and mark of every thing in the external viewing and sheweth clearly what is hidden within of power and virtue if only the speech and voice of the word could be heard and understood But in the renewed future world all these things will be clear and manifest to the praise of God CHAP. XVI Of the mystery of the Created lower visible things GOd hath brought forth all Created visible sublunary things out of the invisible that were so at the beginning he made them to something and visible and gave to every of them a Body Soul and Spirit after their kind and in them he hath hid his invisible glory that is the invisible in the visible and the Coelestial in the Terrestrial This is the mystery after which we must diligently seek that is after the hidden wisdom which no eye hath seen nor can see neither ear hath heard nor hath it entred into mans heart All these sublunary Created things visible have a Terrestrial body and is visible But they have also a Coelestial body hid within them inwardly The same is so long invisible till the visible body is dissolved and broke and afterward the invisible body is set forth to appear visibly which is heavenly and Spiritual consisting out of water and spirit and is nothing else but a Christalline yea new born salt of life which cannot be overcome by the contrary Element Further every thing hath a soulish life that is such a one which must fetch breath out of the common air and this is nourished by the same a life which in a moment is and must be mortal so that nothing is lasting of it Now to this soulish life is a quickening Spirit which doth not fetch breath as soulish life but it hath life and is in it self a Spirit of life and not a breath and hath eternal life in him and is nothing else but the Spirit of God and the breath of the Almighty that quickneth all Lastly all things have a spirit that returneth thither from whence it came and doth not stay in the dead because it is not the spirit of the dead but of the living and is the Spirit of God which in and by the old Creation and Creature doth not stay for ever but only in and by the new which is from above Thus nothing is lasting in this world but vanity and corruption but it sheweth to us clearly how that all these Created sublunary visible things are an Image of the things above This mystery God hath discovered to his Children and to the wise that namely this lower Created visible Elementary world is an Image of the upper visible Spiritual Coelestial yea divine world Therefore when the visible Elementary world doth vanish then the spiritual world yet invisible will be made m nifest and visible Therefore there is no Creature which doth not shew the mystery of the superiour spiritual world of which mystery and wonders in the future renewed world in Zion will be preached Now the Apostle siath clearly We do not look upon the visible but upon the invisible 2 Cor. 4. 18. Seek the things that are above and not

Earth which four Elements stand still unmoveable into which the three special Principles do overflow with their body soul and spirit as to the Water Wind and Spirit and work out all and finish the same The water is as it were the Element the Wind is like as Angelical and the Nature and the Spirit is Divine CHAP. VII Of the particular principles Body Soul and Spirit W●th those are the Principles inclosed and consists in a threefold Trinity and always one produceth another and stand always orderly in their subordinates and agree together that they make up a true and whole Harmony and are enclosed at last in the Light Life and Love The body of all them is and consists out of the water also the Earth the Water out of the Wind the Wind out of the Spirit and the Spirit o●t of God There is a threefold body namely a sensible or palpable out of Water and Earth a Soulish out of Wind and Air and a spiritual out of Heaven Light and Spirit So is an Elementary hody an Angelical and a Divine very well to be distinguished on man Further the Soul is corporeal out of the Air from whence it is fed also and soulish out of the Wind and Spiritual out of the Light The Spirit is Corporeal out 〈◊〉 from the Heaven Soulish out of the Light and spiritual out of the spirit of the Elements out of the Nature and of God according as the Creature is Out of these three general Principles Man hath also a threefold spirit according to his measure and is the perfectest creature Always one body dwelleth in the other and as soon as one body is dissolved and broken in the same moment another and more noble body is manifest and that in all things If now the body becometh nobler needs must the Spirit be more noble high and glorious But this is the body after which the wise do seek Namely the Salt which containeth all in it self This body they drown in a Water which floweth out of the Centrum of the Vegetables and draw out all vertues which afterward come together in a celestial spiritual body and afford that precious jewel All things that are killd and dye naturally are drownd in a cold Saturnine Water for all natural death is done by coldness but what is kill'd in the Fire without a Saturnine Water is not fit to Nature for a better state Only the Salt we seek in the fire and then through the Water and afterwards cleanse and purifie it with the Baptism of Fire and of Water We should therefore six our thoughts on the water and use the fire very carefully because it is a contrary Element before which nothing can subsist but only the Salt This is the true body of all Elements and of all things in the whole world if that be taken away th●● all perisheth quickly and the Gold it self also in the Fire This is the right Heaven wherein dwell all powers and is in all things in the whole world their Heaven and is compared to the Tree of Life in Paradise Now the soul according to the highest degree is out of the nature According to the second degree from the Light and according to the third degree out of the Wind. These are the Principles of the living soul soul and spirit are distinct as God and Nature Spirit and Wind as Angel and living soul yea as spirit and breath The middle Principle among the three Principles is always instead of the Mother as the Nature Wind and Soul The body is the Child which the spirit ●s a Father begets through the soul Out of the spirit cometh the soul he lets it out as his breath and from both these the body The firm soul and spirit as the true life and spirit which is like unto the Angelical world is always in the right body of all things that is in the Salt when it is opened then they come forth in a great clearness as in an Angelical glory At last the spirit of all things is out of the three general Principles in each according to their portion and measure Now the spirit affords the right inward essence the forma essentialis differentia specifica abstractum essentiae and nothing else From the same the body and soul also receive their essence whereby the one from the other essentially and properly are distinguished as man from beasts a beast foul fish vermin c from others and so one thing from another All Creatures are distinguished chiefly into three as into Animalia all living souls into vegetabilia all that grow and spring out of the earth and into Mineralia things that grow under the earth and are digged out and so in the water also These are distinct as the three Principles and in our wisdom always a fair harmony doth represent it self All living souls consist out of Water and bloud in their seeds through a moist warmth and a warm moistness each in its mother All growing things consist in their seed out of a slimy water through the Salt which is fixed in the root flying in the herb leaf and grass and essential in the flower and all three concentre at last in the seed All Minerals Metals and what belongeth to it grow out of a fat earth which the Salt of the earth doth hatch and do coagulate through a cold fire which is a Saturnine Water that is a fiery water and a waterish fire that doth not burn Even as upon earth all things grow by rain and dew as also in the earth it raineth thaweth and is misty thereby grow the Minerals Metals and the like and all this from the salt fixed flying and essential The flying Salt begets Sulphur the essential begets Mercury Among the Vermin the chiefest is the Viper with her brood and kind and is Mercurial Among the Vegetables is the Vine a channel out of which come three sorts of water and also a noble Mineral and is the Centre of the Vegetables Among the Mineral is the Gold yea the Salt Of all these three the Concentred Center is man above all that is created CHAP. VIII Of the Elements and contrary Elements in the Creation THe seven Elements or Powers of the world do rest only upon one which is a right well of all Elements in our thoughts because it containeth all An Element is such a thing out of which and in which the world and all doth consist without which nothing can subsist Again a contrary Element is such whereby the world and Elements are altered and corrupt and at last must quite perish thereby Now all things are Created out of three Principles Materialiter namely out of the word as out of a spiritual out of nature as a soulish and out of the Elements and contrary Elements as an incorporeal-corporeal and Corporeal-incorporeal that is out of the Elements after something and out of the contrary Elements according to nothing The word is the all the Elements are the

Prophecy fulfilled and the most Holy Holy with his Saints will take the Kingdom and Jerusalem rebuilded and the Eternal righteousness and all what hath been lost by the fall shall be restored Of this great glory and unspeakable joy the Spirit prophesieth in all Creatures yea in all Lights of Heaven and in all the Elements But where are the Seers where are the Hearers and where are the Observers Further concerning the time of the world it is divided in 1. 3. and 7. The one time generally containeth the whole great day of the World 12 hours Mat. 12. Which shall be 6000. years and so there were 500. years to an hour but the days shall be shortned so that they shall not be full 6000. years and the days or years of that shortning are clear in the Book of Genesis at the first judgment over the world c. The three times of the world now are that they shall be divided namely the 6000. years into three times As the first time from Adam till Noah at the Deluge and containeth 1656. years From the Deluge till to the Messiah born of the Virgin Mary is the second time divided into 12 parts each containeth 214. years or 214. ½ year which added together make 2568. years from the Deluge till to the Messias 4 Esd 14. 11. Now if 1656. are summed up with the other then the Messias is born into the world of the Virgin Mary in the year of the world 4230. The third time of the world is from Christs Nativity till to his glorious coming the Mystery of which year is mystically signified in 4 Esd 7. 28 30 Chap. 9. Calculation Concerning the abovesaid threefold number 7. 49. 70. therein is the Mystery clearly signified without any diminution or addition if only you will open your Eyes Ears and Hearts to see hear and observe clearer it cannot possibly be told these numbers in themselves calculated namely to know certainly how many years every hour of the twelve do contain because the 6000. years are not compleat but those days must be shortned But now as in the former times and judgments over the world always seven days went before the judgment came upon the world So it is now in and with the time of the judgment over this world Gen. 7. 4. Josh 6. Levit. 25. Now when the judgment is proclaimed seven days goeth before the Proclamation Now if you have the Spirit of Daniel then number and reckon how many days are past and how many are behind to the judgment None believeth what alterations there are at hand the whole World lyeth in wickedness and it will perish in it But that we may keep nothing from the Reader and wellwisher to wisdom and that he may fully conceive the time of the end namely in the sure token of it then there are three signs of it the first is that presently after the great horrible bloudy Battel that is at hand he do come whom we expect Mal. 3. 4. and the Gospel of the Kingdom be Preached in the whole world for a Testimony over all Nations that one Shepherd and one Flock may be Mat. 24. 14. Rev. 14. 6. Zeph. 3. 8 9. The second time is when the Ten lost Tribes of Israel are found out again over the Water into the Land and upon the Mount Israel do come from the Orient after the sixth Vial is poured out Rev. 16 12. 4. Esd 13. 4. Isa 11. 11. Chap. 27. 13. Jer. 31. 8. Deut. 30. 4. Mica 4. 6. 7. Rom. 11. 25. Yea whole Israel and whole Juda will come again into their Countrey and will turn to the Lord their God Hos 3 Lastly The last sign of the coming of the Lord is when the Beast and all Kings of the Earth together with Gog and Magog by the seduction of the three unclean Spirits into the Land of Israel and to the Valley of Jehosaphat and upon the Hill of Israel come together to a Battel c. and are destroyed with fire from Heaven Rev. 19 19 20 21. Ezek. 3. 8. Joel 3. Isa 24. 21 22. This is the end then beginneth the Kingdom and Priesthood of Melchisedech Halelujah Come Lord Jesus and deliver us from the Evil One Amen Conclusion COurteous Reader we conclude this our Jehior or Morning Light and salute you in the Lord from the Lord in the Spirit of Grace and Supplication which the Lord will pour out over us all through the Power from above that we might find Grace before him at his coming and may not be put to shame when he judgeth Reader if you are a wellwisher to Wisdom then take of us the Crumbs which we have gathered from the Lords Table and accept of them till Melchisedech cometh and distributeth the Holy Shew-bread and to drink of the New Wine of his distributing at the great Supper of the Nuptials of the Lamb in Paradise the fruits whereof himself will set up You are to give thanks with us to him from whom all good gifts come from above the Father of Lights praying that he would inlighten us all turn us to him and make us happy for ever This is according to the love of God whose dedesire is that all men may be saved and that all may come to the knowledge of the Truth Therefore let us be merciful loving and perfect Even as our Heavenly Father is merciful loving and perfect that it may be known and revealed that we are his Children But Curteous Reader if you affect folly and art a despiser of Wisdom go to and despise but be sure that you do not despise men herein but God himself who hath given us his Spirit and from whom all Wisdom cometh and think that the Spirit of judgment will require an account of you in that day But Reader if you are a Pharisee and Hypocrite and seekest rather Honour from Men then from God We 'll consider then what the Lord saith 1 Sam. 2. 30. He that honoureth me him I will honour also and he that despiseth me shall be despised again And Christ saith Mat. 10. 3● He that confesseth me before men him will I also confess before my Heavenly Father that is in Heaven He that denieth me before men him will I also deny before my Heavenly father But Reader if you are a simple Heart and art not fit for Wisdom then abide on in and by the fear of the Lord in a Godly life which fear is not only the beginning of Wisdom but also the end of Wisdom and it is no help to man though he be able to speak with an Angelical Tongue and had all knowledge and understood all Mysteries and had such a faith whereby he could remove Mountains and withall had not the Love of God which endured everlastingly all will profit you nothing Therefore blessed are the Babes and sucklings which know not these outward things for theirs is the Kingdom of God because the Spirit of God is declared in them Therefore

this only holy way of the practice of Piety all Students of difficult arts find what they desire But they must exercise solitary Philosophical and Religious pleadings with Jehovah with a pure mouth and heart For the heavenly wisdom Sophia embraceth our friendship offering us her Rivers of gratious goodness and bounty never to be drawn dry And most happy is he to whom the true kingly way shall be shewed by an Adept Possessor of this great Secret But I foresee this small Preface will not satisfie my Readers alike some perchance taxing me for presuming as it were to teach them an art unknown to my self when this hath been my only purpose to relate a History yet I doubt not but this study of divine wisdom will be sweeter to some then any Nectar or Ambrosia I say no more but conclude with that of Julius Caesar Scaliger That the end of truly wise men is the communicating of wisdom According to that of Gregory Nysse● He that is good Communicates willingly his goods to others for the property of good men is to be profitable to others CHAP. II. The Testimony of divers illustrious Authors of this Arcanum FIrst Paracelsus in the Signature of Natural things fol. 358 This is a true sign of the tincture of Philosophers That by its transmuting force all imperfect metals are changed viz. the white into Silver and the red into the best Gold if but the smallest part of it be cast into a Crusible upon melted metal c. Item For the invincible Astrum of metalls conquereth all things and changeth them into a nature like to its self c. And this Gold and Silver is nobler and better then that brought out of the Metallick Mines and out of it may be prepared better Medicinal Arcana's Item Therefore ever Alchymist who hath the Astrum of the Sun can transmute all red Metals into Gold c. Item Cur Tincture of Gold hath Astral Stars within it It is a most fixt substance and immutable in the Multiplication It is a powder having the reddest colour almost like Saffron yet the whole corporeal substance is liquid like Rosin transparent like Christal frangible like glass It is of a Ruby colour and of the greatest weight c. Read more of this in Paracelsus Heaven of Philosophers Item Paracelsus in his seventh book of Transmutation of natural things saith The Transmutation of Metals is a great natural mistery not against natures course nor against Gods order as many falsely judge For the imperfect Metals are transmuted into Gold nor into Silver without the Philosophers Stone Item Paracelsus In his Manual of the Medicinal Stone of Philosophers saith Our Stone is a heavenly Medicine and more then perfect because it cleanseth all filth from the Metals c. Secondly Henry Khunrade in his Amphitheater of the eternal wisdom I have travelled much and visited those esteemed to know somewhat by experience and not in vain c. Amongst whom I call God to witness I got of one the universal Green Lyon and the blood of the Lyon That is Gold not vulgar but of the Philosophers I have seen it touched it tasted it and smelt it O how wonderful is God in his works I say they gave me the prepared Medicine which I most fruicfully used towards my poor neighbour in most desperate cases and they did sincerely reveal to me the true manner of preparing their medicine Item This is the wonderful method which God only hath given me immediately mediately yet subordinately through Nature Fire Art and masters help as well living as silent corporal and spiritua● watching and sleeping Item Fol. 202. I write not Fables with thine own hands shalt thou handle and with thine eyes see the Azoth viz. the Universal Mercury of the Philosophers which alone with its internal and external fire is sufficient for thee to get our Stone nevertheless with a sympathetick Harmony being Magick-physically united with the Olympick fire by an inevitable necessity c. Item Thou shalt see the Stone of the Philosophers our King go forth of the bed-chamber of his Glassie Sepulchre in his glorified body like a Lord of Lords from his Throne into this Theater of the world That is to say regenerated and more then perfect a Shining Carbuncle a most temperate splendour whose most subtile and depurated parts are inseperably united into one with a concordial mixture exceedingly equal Transparent like a Chrystal Compact and most ponderous easily fusible in fire like rosin or Wax before the flight of quick silver yet flowing without smoak entring into solid bodies and penetrating them like oyle through Paper dissoluble in every liquor and comiscible with it fryable like glass in a powder like Saffron but in the whole Mass shining red like a Rubie which redness is a sign of a perfect fixation and fixed perfection Permanently colouring or tinging fixt in all temptations and tryals yea in the examination of the burning Sulphur its self and the devouring waters and in the most vehement persecution of the fire always incombustible and permanent as a Salamander c. Item The Philosophers Stone being fermented in its parts in the great world transforms it self into whatsoever it will by the fire hence a Son of art may perceive why the Philosophers have given their Azoth the name of Mercury which adheres to bodies c. And further in the same place it is fermented with Metals viz. The Stone being in its highest whiteness ●s fermented with pure Silver to the white But the Sanguine Stone with pure Gold to the red And this is the work of three days c. Thirdly Helmont in the Book of Eternal Life Fol. 590. I have oft seen the Stone and handled it and have projected the fourth part of one grain wrapped in paper upon eight ounces of quink silver boyling in a crusible and the quicksilver with a small noise presently stood still from its Flux and was congealed like to yellow wax and after a flux by blast we found eight ounces wanting eleven grains of the purest Gold Therefore one grain of this powder would transmute nineteen thousand one hundred and eighty six parts ●f Quicksilver into the best Gold so that this powder is found to be of Similary parts amongst Terrestrials and doth transmute infinite plenty of impure metal into the best Gold uniting with it and so defends it from Canker rust rottenness and death and makes it in a manner immortal against all tortures of fire and art and transfers it to a Virginean purity of Gold requiring only a fervent heat Item In his Tree of Life fol. 630. I am constrained to believe there is a Gold and Silver making Stone or powder for that I have divers times made projection of one grain thereof upon some thousand grains of boyling quicksilver to a tickling admiration of a great multitude And further as before is rehearsed in the first Chapter He also saith He who gave me that powder had so much at least