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A68054	Nicholas Flammel, his exposition of the hieroglyphicall figures which he caused to bee painted vpon an arch in St. Innocents Church-yard, in Paris. Together with the secret booke of Artephius, and the epistle of Iohn Pontanus: concerning both the theoricke and the practicke of the philosophers stone. Faithfully, and (as the maiesty of the thing requireth) religiously done into English out of the French and Latine copies. By Eirenæus Orandus, qui est, vera veris enodans; Figures hierogliphiques. English	Flamel, Nicolas, d. 1418.; Artephius. Liber secretus artis occultae.; Pontanus, Joannes, d. 1572. Epistola de lapide philosophorum.; Orandus, Eirenaeus.	1624 (1624)	STC 11027; ESTC S102276	53,157	276

into the heart of liuing man I aske it of thee for our Lord Iesus Christ they welbeloued Son his sake who in the vnity of the holy Spirit liueth with thee world without end Amen The Explication of the Hieroglyphicke Figures placed by mee Nicholas Flammel Scriuener in the Church-yard of the Innocents in the fourth Arch entring by the great gate of St. Dennis street and taking the way on the right hand The Introduction ALthough that I Nicholas Flammel NOTARY and abiding in Paris in this yeere one thousand three hundred fourescore and nineteene and dwelling in my house in the street of Notaries neere vnto the Chappell of St. Iames of the Bouchery although I say that I learned but a little Latine because of the small meanes of my Parents which neuerthelesse were by them that enuie me the most accounted honest people yet by the grace of God and the intercession of the blessed Saints in Paradise of both sexes and principally of Saint Iames of Gallicia I haue not wanted the vnderstanding of the Bookes of the Philosophers and in them learned their so hidden secrets And for this cause there shall neuer bee any moment of my life when I remember this high good wherein vpon my knees if the place will giue me leaue or otherwise in my heart with all my affection I shall not render thanks to this most benigne God which neuer suffereth the child of the Iust to beg from doore to doore and deceiueth not them which wholly trust in his blessing Whilest therefore I Nicholas Flammel Notary after the decease of my Parents got my liuing in our Art of Writing by making Inuentories dressing accounts and summing vp the Expences of Tutors and Pupils there fell into my hands for the sum of two Florens a guilded Booke very old and large It was not of Paper nor Parchment as other Bookes bee but was onely made of delicate Rindes as it seemed vnto me of tender yong trees The couer of it was of brasse well bound all engrauen with letters or strange figures and for my part I thinke they might well be Greeke Characters or some such like ancient language Sure I am I could not reade them and I know well they were not notes nor letters of the Latine nor of the Gaule for of them wee vnderstand a little As for that which was within it the leaues of barke or rinde were ingrauen and with admirable diligence written with a point of Iron in faire and neate Latine letters coloured It contained thrice seuen leaues for so were they counted in the top of the leaues and alwayes euery seuenth leafe was without any writing but in stead thereof vpon the first seuenth leafe there was painted a Virgin and Serpents swallowing her vp In the second seuenth a Crosse where a Serpent was crucified and in the last seuenth there were painted Desarts or Wildernesses in the middest whereof ran many faire fountaines from whence there issued out a number of Serpents which ran vp and downe here and there Vpon the first of the leaues was written in great Capitall Letters of gold ABRAHAM THE IEW PRINCE PRIEST LEVITE ASTROLOGER AND PHILOSOPHER TO THE NATION OF THE IEWES BY THE WRATH OF GOD DISPERSED AMONG THE GAVLES SENDETH HEALTH After this it was filled with great execrations and curses with this word MARANATHA which was often repeated there against euery person that should cast his eyes vpon it if hee were not Sacrificer or Scribe Hee that sold mee this Booke knew not what it was worth no more than I when I bought it I beleeue it had beene stolne or taken from the miserable Iewes or found hid in some part of the ancient place of their abode Within the Booke in the second leafe hee comforted his Nation councelling them to flie vices and aboue all Idolatry attending with sweete patience the comming of the Messias which should vanquish all the Kings of the Earth and should raigne with his people in glory eternally Without doubt this had beene some very wise and vnderstanding man In the third leafe and in all the other writings that followed to helpe his Captiue nation to pay their tributes vnto the Romane Emperours and to doe other things which I will not speake of he taught them in common words the transmutation of Mettalls hee painted the Vessels by the sides and hee aduertised them of the colours and of all the rest sauing of the first Agent of the which hee spake not a word but onely as hee said in the fourth and fifth leaues entire hee painted it and figured it with very great cunning and workemanship for although it was well and intelligibly figured and painted yet no man could euer haue beene able to vnderstand it without being well skilled in their Cabala which goeth by tradition and without hauing well studied their bookes The fourth and fifth leafe therefore was without any writing all full of faire figures enlightened or as it were enlightened for the worke was very exquisite First he painted a yong man with wings at his anckles hauing in his hand a Caducaean rodde writhen about with two Serpents wherewith hee strooke vpon a helmet which couered his head he seemed to my small iudgement to be the God Mercury of the Pagans against him there came running and flying with open wings a great old man who vpon his head had an houre-glasse fastened and in his hands a hooke or sithe like Death with the which in terrible and furious manner hee would haue cut off the feet of Mercury On the other side of the fourth leafe hee painted a faire flowre on the top of a very high mountaine which was sore shaken with the North wind it had the foot blew the flowres white and red the leaues shining like fine gold And round about it the Dragons and Griffons of the North made their nests and abode On the fifth leafe there was a faire Rose-tree flowred in the middest of a sweet Garden climbing vp against a hollow Oake at the foot wherof boyled a fountaine of most white water which ranne head-long downe into the depths notwithstanding it first passed among the hands of infinite people which digged in the Earth seeking for it but because they were blinde none of them knew it except here and there one which considered the weight On the last side of the fift leafe there was a King with a great Fauchion who made to be killed in his presenc● by some Souldiers a great multitude of little Infants whose Mothers wept at the feet of the vnpittifull Souldiers the bloud of which Infants was afterwards by other Souldiers gathered vp and put in a great vessell wherein the Sunne and the Moone came to bathe themselues And because that this History did represent the more part of that of the Innocents slaine by Herod and that in this Booke I learned the greatest part of the Art this was one of the causes why I placed in their Churchyard these Hieroglyphick Symbols of

say Blot out the euils that I haue done On the other side on the left hand is Saint Peter with his Key clothed in reddish yellow holding his hand vpon a woman clad in a gown of orange colour which is on her knees representing to the life Perrenelle which holdeth her hands ioyned together hauing a roule where is written CHRISTE PRECOR ESTO PIVS that is Christ I beseech thee be pittifull Behind whom there is an Angell on his knees with a roule that saith SALVE DOMINE ANGELORVM that is All haile thou Lord of Angels There is also another Angel on his knees behind my Image on the same side that S. Paul is on which likewise holdeth a roule saying O REX SEMPITERNE that is O King euerlasting All this is so cleere according to the explication of the Resurrection and future iudgement that it may easi●y be fitted thereto So it seemes this Arch was not painted for any other purpose but to represent this And therefore we neede not stay any longer vpon it considering that the least and most ignorant may well know how to giue it this interpretation Next after the three that are rising againe come two Angels more of an Orange colour vpon a blew field saying in their rowles SVRGITE MORTVI VENITE AD IVDICIVM DOMINI MEI that is Arise you dead come to the Iudgement of my Lord. This also serues to the interpretation of the Resurrection As also the last Figures following which are A man red vermillion vpon a field of Violet colour who holdeth the foot of a winged Lyon painted of red vermillion also opening his throate as it were to denoure the man For one may say that this is the Figure of an vnhappy sinner who sleeping in a Lethargy of his corruption and vices dieth without repentance and confession who without doubt in this terrible Day shall bee deliuered to the Deuill heere painted in forme of a red roaring Lyon which will swallow and deuoure him CHAP. II. The interpretations Philosophicall according to the Maistery of Hermes I Desire with all my heart that he who searcheth the secrets of the Sages hauing in his Spirit passed ouer these Idaea's of the life and resurrection to come should first make his profit of them And in the second place that hee bee more aduised than before that hee sound and search the depth of my Figures colours and rowles principally of my rowles because that in this Art they speake not vulgarly Afterward let him aske of himselfe why the Figure of Saint Paul is on the right hand in the place where the custome is to paint S. Peter And on the other side that of Saint Peter in the place of the figure of Saint Paul Why the Figure of Saint Paul is clothed in colours white and yellow and that of S. Peter in yellow and red Why also the man and the woman which are at the feet of these two Saints praying to God as if it were at the Day of Iudgement are apparrelled in diuers colours and not naked or else nothing but bones like them that are rising againe Why in this Day of Iudgement they haue painted this man and this woman at the feet of the Saints for they ought to haue beene more low on earth and not in heauen Why also the two Angels in Orange colour which say in their rowles SVR GITE MORTVI VENITE AD IVDICIVM DOMINI MEI that is Arise you dead come vnto the Iudgement of my Lord are clad in this colour and out of their place for they ought to bee on high in heauen with the two other which play vpon the Instruments Why they haue a field Violet and blew but principally why their roule which speaks to the dead ends in the open throate of the red and flying Lyon I would then that after these and many other questions which may iustly bee made opening wide the eyes of his spirit he come to conclude that all this not hauing beene done without cause there must bee represented vnder this barke some great secrets which hee ought to pray God to discouer vnto him Hauing then brought his beliefe by degrees to this passe I wish also that he would further beleeue that these figures and explications are not made for them that haue neuer seene the Bookes of the Philosophers and who not knowing the Mettallicke principles cannot bee named Children of this Science for if they thinke to vnderstand perfectly these figures being ignorant of the first Agent they will vndoubtedly deceiue themselues and neuer bee able to know any thing at all Let no man therefore blame me if he doe not easily vnderstand mee for hee will be more blame-worthy than I inasmuch as not being initiated into these sacred and secret interpretations of the first Agent which is the key opening the gates of all Sciences he would notwithstanding comprehend the most subtile conceptions of the enuious Philosophers which are not written but for them who already know these principles which are neuer found in any booke because they leaue them vnto God who reuealeth them to whom he please or else causeth them to bee taught by the liuing voyce of a Maister by Cabalisticall tradition which happeneth very seldome Now then my Sonne let mee so call thee both because I am now come to a great age and also for that it may be thou art otherwise a child of this knowledge God inable thee to learne and after to worke to his glory Hearken vnto mee then attentiuely but passe no further if thou bee ignorant of the foresaid Principles This Vessell of earth in this forme is called by the Philosophers their triple Vessell for within it there is in the middest a Stage or a floore and vpon that a dish or a platter full of lue-warme ashes within the which is set the Philosophicall Egge that is a viall of glasse full of confections of Art as of the scumme of the red Sea and the fat of the Mercuriall winde which thou seest painted in forme of a Penner and Inkehorne Now this Vessell of earth is open aboue to put in the dish and the viall vnder which by the open gate is put in the Philosophicall fire as thou knowest So thou hast three vessels and the threefold vessell The enuious haue called an Athanor a siue dung Balneum Mariae a Furnace a Spaere the greene Lyon a prison a graue a vrinall a phioll and a Bolts-head I my selfe in my Summarie or Abridgement of Philosophy which I composed foure yeeres and two moneths past in the end thereof named it the house and habitation of the Poulet and the ashes of the Platter the chaffe of the Poulet The common name is an Ouen which I should neuer haue found if Abraham the Iew had not painted it together with the fire proportionable wherein consists a great part of the secret For it is as it were the belly or the wombe containing the true naturall heate to animate our yong King If

it is that most gentle heate which proceeding from the temperate vapour of the lampe goeth equally round about the vessell This fire is not violent if it be not too much stirred vp it is digesting a tering it is taken from another Body then the matter it is but one or alone it is moist and innaturall c. The third is the naturall fire of our water which for this cause is also called fire against nature because it is water and yet neuerthelesse it makes a meere spirit of Gold which common fire cannot doe this fire is minerall equall and partakes of Sulphur it breakes congeales dissolues and calcines all this is piercing subtile not burning and it is the Fountaine of liuing water wherein the King and Queen bathe themselues whereof wee haue neede in the whole worke in the beginning middle and ending but the other two abouesaid wee doe not alwayes need but onely sometimes Ioyne therefore in the reading the Bookes of Phylosophers these three sorts of fire and without doubt thou shalt vnderstand all their cauillations concerning their fires As touching the Colours hee that doth not make blacke cannot make white because blacknesse is the beginning of whitenesse and a signe of putrifaction and alteration and that the Body is now pierced and mortified Therefore in the putrifaction in this water there first appeares blackenesse like vnto the broth wherein bloud or some bloudy thing is boyled Secondly the blacke Earth by continuall decoction is whitened because the soule of the two bodies swimmes aloft vpon the water like white creame and in this onely whitenesse all the spirits are so vnited that they can neuer fly from one another And therefore the Leton must be whitened and teare the Bookes least our hearts be broken for this intire whitenesse is the true stone to the white and the body ennobled by the necessity of his end and the tincture of whitenesse of a most exuberant reflexion and shining brightnesse which being mixed with a Body neuer ●●parteth from it Here then note that the spirits are not fixed but in the white colour which by consequent is more noble then the other colours and ought more earnestly to be desired considering it is as it were the complement perfection of the whole worke For our Earth is first putrified in blacknesse then it is clensed in the eleuation or lifting vp afterwards being dryed the blacknesse departeth and then it is whitened and the darke moist dominion of the woman perisheth and then the white fume pierceth into the new Body and the spirits are shut vp or bound together in drinesse and that which is corrupting deformed and blacke with moisture vanisheth and then the new Body riseth againe cleere white and immortall getting the victory oueral his enemies And as heate working vpon that which is moist causeth or engendreth blackenesse which is the first colour so by decoction euer more and more heate working vpon that which is dry begetteth whitenesse which is the second colour and afterward working vpon that which is purely perfectly dry it causeth citrinity and rednesse and so much concerning the Colours We must therefore vnderstand that the thing which hath the head red and white the feete white and afterwards red and yet before that the eyes blacke this onely thing is our maistery dissolue then the Sun and the Moone in our dissoluing water which is familiar friendly and of the next nature vnto them which is likewise to them sweete and pleasant and as it were a wombe a mother an Originall the beginning and the end of life and that is the reason why they are amended in this water because Nature reioyceth in Nature and Nature containes Nature and in true Mariage they are ioyned together and made one nature one new body raised vp and immortall And thus we must ioyne consanguinity with Consanguinity and then these natures will meete and follow one another putrifie themselues engender themselues and make one another reioyce because Nature is gouerned by Nature which is neerest and most friendly to it Our water then saith Danthin is the most pleasant faire and cleere Fountaine prepared onely for the King Queene whom it knoweth very well and they know it for it drawes them to it selfe and they abide therein to wash themselues two or three dayes that is two or three moneths and it maketh them young againe faire And because the Sunne and Moone haue their Originall from this water their Mother therefore it behoueth that they enter againe into their Mothers wombe that they may be borne againe and be made more strong more noble and more valiant And therefore if these doe not die and be not turned into water they remain alone and without fruite but if they die and be resolued in our water they bring fruit an hundreth fold and from that very place where it seemed they had lost what they were from thence shall they appeare that which they were not before Let therefore the spirit of our liuing water be with great wit and subtilty fixed with the Sunne and the Moone because they being turned into the nature of water doe dye seeme like vnto the dead yet afterward being inspired from thence they liue encrease and multiply like all other vegetable things It is enough then to dispose the matter sufficiently from without for from within it selfe doth work sufficiently to its owne perfection For it hath in it selfe a certaine and inhaerent motion according to the true way better then any order that can be imagined by man And therefore doe thou onely prepare and Nature will perfect for if shee bee not hindered by the contrary shee wil not passe her owne certaine motion as well to conceiue as to bring forth Wherefore after the preparation of the matter take heede onely least by too much fire thou make the bath too hot Secondly take heed least the spirit doe exhale because it would hurt him that worketh that is to say it would destroy the worke and cause many infirmities that is much sadnesse and anger From this that hath beene spoken is drawne this Axiome to wit that by the course of nature he doth not know the making of Mettals that knoweth not the destruction of them It behoueth then to ioyne together them that are of kindred for Natures doe finde their like natures and being putrified are mixed together and mortifie themselues It is necessary therefore to know this corruption and generation and how the Natures doe imbrace one another and are pacified in a slow fire how Nature reioyceth in Nature and nature retaines nature and turnes it into a white nature After this if thou wilt make it red thou must boyle this white in a dry continuall fire vntill it bee as red as blood which will bee nothing else but fire and a true tincture And so by a continuall dry fire the whitenesse is changed amended perfected made Citrine and acquireth rednesse a true fixed colour And