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A76996	Paracelsvs of the [brace] chymical transmutation, genealogy and generation [brace] of metals & minerals. Also, of the urim and thummim of the Jews. With an appendix, of the vertues and use of an excellent water made by Dr. Trigge. The second part of the mumial treatise. Whereunto is added, philosophical and chymical experiments of that famous philosopher Raymvnd Lvlly; containing, the right and due composition of both elixirs. The admirable and perfect way of making the great stone of the philosophers, as it was truely taught in Paris, and sometimes practised in England, by the said Raymund Lully, in the time of King Edw. 3. / Translated into English by R. Turner philomathēs.	Paracelsus, 1493-1541.; Turner, Robert, fl. 1654-1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing B3543; Thomason E1590_3; ESTC R208833	78,745	173

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

no otherwise Thus having declared the Instruments Matter and Ferment we proceed in order to the Weights without observation whereof our Work is in vain CHAP. VIII Of the Proportion of the Matter and Form of the Spagyrick Stone THe Formal part of our birth is the Mercury of the Philosophers and the Spirit or Tincture of Sol but the living part is another material Therefore the Composition of this sacred Adamick Stone is made after the Adamick Mercury of the wise men with their Female Eve by the Matrimony and union of the one and the other Mercury on the third part Therefore the onely matter of the Philosophers consisteth of spiritual corporal and animal Mercury The corporal Mercury is the subject of Tinctures The spiritual and animal Mercuries exhibit the means of conjoyning them but in their conjunction a due proportion is to be observed For if there be taken more of one then of the other it will be suffocated as Seed sown in the Field so that it cannot live so long until it be united by the Mercury of the Philosophers and perfected in the Fire or on the contrary if it be too little there can be no Solution nor no Fruit. Wherefore see that you take as much of the one as of the other lest by your ignorance in the proportion the work be destroyed Let there be taken therefore one part of the Seed to two parts of Earth or three to four and there will be no error but the work will be brought to its desired end in this behalf so as the rest be moderated accordingly There is a double Reason why the Weight should be observed the one natural the other artificial The natural followeth the effect in the Earth by Nature and Concordancy of which Arnaldus speaks If there shall be added more or less Earth then Nature will suffer it will suffocate the Soul and no fruit nor fixation is perceived The like is to be judged of the Water if there be taken too much or little thereof it brings an inconvenient loss for the superfluity thereof makes the matter too humid and the defect or want thereof renders it too dry and too hard If the Vessel be too little the Tincture is too much pressed if too large a pale body evades if the Fire be made too vehement the matter is burnt if too remiss it hath not power of exsiccating solving and calefying the other Elements In these consists the elemental Weight but the artificial is most occult when as the Ponderations are included in the Magick Art Between the Spirit Soul and Body say the Philosophers consisteth the Weight with Sulphur as it were the Rector of the work for the Soul desireth the Sulphur and necessarily observeth it by Reason of the Weight Which understand after this manner Our matter is united with red mixed Sulphur to which is committed the third part of the Regiment until the last Degree that it maketh on the infinite Operation of the Stone and persisteth therewith together with his Fire and consisteth of an equal Weight with the matter it self in all things and by all things without any variation of any Degree of Transmutation After therefore the matter is prepared and fitted and mixed with its proportionate Weight it ought to be very well concluded and sealed up in the Philosophers Vessel and committed to their secret Fire in which the Philosophical Sun will spring up and arise and illuminate all things which expect his Light or hope can desire But because this cannot rightly be understood without a perfect knowledge in the Metals of perfect Tinctures we proceed now to speak of them CHAP. IX Of the Tinctures and Spirits of Metals and first of the Tincture of the Sun THe Tincture of the Sun obtains the supreme and principal place which is derived of subtil pure and most perfect fire Wherefore this spirit flieth not from the fire but remains therein fixed triumphing and rejoycing it is not consumed nor burnt thereby as others but rather thereby gains more lustre and splendor it is subject to no Corruption neither heat nor cold nor any other quality can bring any detriment thereunto Whereby it comes to pass that the body which it once putteth on it defends and preserves from all accidents Corruption and diseases that it may also endure the fire with him without lesion His body hath not these virtues from himself but from his spirit alone the efficient cause thereof It is certaine that the body of Sol is Mercury which can in no wise indure the fire but immediately flyes therefrom Since therefore being in gold Mercury persists constantly in the fire and flyes not there is no doubt but the fixing thereof by the spirit will impresse the same virtue in its self What gift and office therefore hath it in Mercury but that when it is freed from its own body and taken into a humane body it should work and operate its effects thereupon who will deny but that also it may preserve and keepe it safe from all Corruption diseases and accidents whatsoever and preserve the body to a long and sound life as our first parents of old The virtues and propertyes of all other Metals are not otherwise to be known but by certain and true experience and not by any other reason of a Subtile intellect for this wisdom which is conceived by opinion only is meere foolishness before God and the truth wherefore they that hope and believe therein do erre and are deceived Thus farre of the spirit and Tincture of Sol now let us see what Tincture the Moon hath The spirit of Luna lyeth in this white Tincture as the Red in Sol And it is also borne of a subtil spirit but not so perfect as that of Sol. Nevertheless in purity and constancy it farre excelleth the Tinctures of all the other subsequent Metals For burnt lead consumes it self and all other Metals with it in the fire except Sol and Luna to which it brings no detriment Seeing therefore the spirit of the Moon is of power to preserve the body which it once putteth on to wit Mercury from injury of the fire and all other accidents and render the same fixed and constant it is easily gathered from hence if it effect this in so instable and volatile a body as Mercury how much more efficacious and powerful will it operate being free from its own body and projected into a humane body will not that be also defended from many diseases and Corruptions certainly whatsoever it operates in Mercury the same it will do in a humane body and preserve the same to a long and sound life expelling all diseases which are comprehended under the power thereof according to the degree thereunto prefixed by nature Certainly by how much the more sublime subtile and perfect every Medicine is by so much the more perfectly it cureth in its kinde Wherefore ignorant are those Physitians who found their Art chiefly upon corrupt Medicines as Vegetables

The Truth of every thing is said to be his incorrupted Nature for nothing shall rest eternally visible at the last fire but that which is of pure vertue and essential purity Truth and Science is not led by chance or Fortune but the Spirit of God guides by the Hand of Reason And it seems the Prophets esteem of these Stones of Fire some meaning the Stone of Darkness and as it were Fire turned up Others the Stone of Tin and Ezekiel the Stones of Fire attained by Wisdom which he differeth from the natural precious Stones as pure Fire from common Fire Therefore let modesty allow that possible whereof he understands not the termination and degrees neither refuse the Waters of Shiloah because they go slowly for they that wade in deep Waters cannot go fast To obtain the Treasures of Nature you must follow Nature onely Isaiah 8.6 who gives not the like time to every Generation but as the Mare hath ten months the Elephant three or as some say nine yeers and fifty before conjunction Be patient therefore in a work of Nature for thereunto onely is promised Victory and the chief errors in Art are haste and dulness The Regeneration of Man and the Purification of Metals have like degrees of Preparation and Operation to their highest Perfection The first beginnings of Transmutation or Naturation is the smallest measure of pure Sulphur with both Riches and Honor in the left-Hand and length in the right In natural Generations the form prepares the matter yet there are precedent Preparations The beginnings of Transmutation must be distinguished some are begun of Preparation and some are begun of Composition Beginnings of Preparation in the well of Tears doth qualifie the coldness and dulness of the crude disposition and tame and subdue the fearful quality of swift flying and changeth the colour of this eternal Liquour turning the inside outward and adding heat by the internal Sulphur of the Homogeneal Body which is by means of changed Water because Water by Water can onely be extracted yet it is excluded in the conclusion for though it be a necessary preparation to the alteration following yet is but the servile and passive which hath the first operation being preserved unhurt in weight and purity Beginnings of Composition are those inward Operations and Changes that follow after that scalding deluge which by mixing with fixed Sulphur doth dissolve the stubbornness of this Urne and by help of the external heat the internal Sulphur is excited by Operation and purifieth the substance but onely to a pale whiteness more hurtful then profitable to the Body of Man what these are shall afterwards appear Again Sulphur must be distinguished white Sulphur and living or reviving Sulphur white Sulphur is of like Operation and is perfected by restraining and healeth almost all diseases and tingeth to white ad infinitum By knowledge hereof even meer natural men have believed the Resurrection become sober temperate and patient not doubting within the centre of compleat white rests the red Stone of most delight This hath caused men justly to condemn all Cementations Calcinations and Citrinations being enlightned with the glorious object which is as cleer as a Christal Looking-Glass Reviving Sulphur is the secret of secrets and the glory of the whole world and onely proper to such whom the Creator hath apted by way of natural disposition for they do not onely mortifie but purifie a pure body quickning it with the same essential form and are said to make a spiritual Body because there is no corruption to resist the Spirit but the bodily Nature being wholly subject is with the Spirit eternally fixed in a transparent Body shining as the Sun Therefore the conclusion must be understood of the second and not of the first for though a man have never so much white Sulphur if he have not of this reviving Sulphur he is as far from the precious Spirit which hath power over all inferior bodies as any other for onely that which is of the Nature of the Sun shall shine like the Sun in glory A Synod of Philosophers adviseth us in seeking the treasures of Health and Riches we should shew affections to Justice and Prudence like Solomon asking Wisdom Riches were given to him as advantage Let us search therefore celestial Vertue which is the centre of all things so will it be easie to manifest the soveraign Spirit of Health and Riches for the vegetable Sulphur is the first Mover in Nature and onely the Mercurial Nature hath power of Metallical Life and Death Crude Mercury is originally a vapor from cleer Water and Air of most strong composition coacted or Air it self with a Mercurial Spirit by Nature flying Etherial and Homogeneal having the Spirits of heat and cold and by exterior and interior heats doth congeal and fix Also Gold is a fixed Fire or mature Mercury and may be made more volative then Mercury but onely by divers Mercuries made Of Mercury is Nature set on work the fixed Body loosed the vegetable Sulphur created and the universal Spirit fixed For the Authority of the ancient Writers Divine and Natural Reasons assure us this and no other is the true course to manifest those Lights wherein the Creator hath heaped up vertue and power But it 's objected The Philosophers do not agree amongst themselves Answ Instruments of divers strings make sweet harmony if they be well tuned but their Readers do rather seek to over-rule them then by painful industry to finde them consent Object Affirm Contraries Answ The Artist his intention is to agree contraries Object They exclude Gold and Mercury from the creation of the Stone Answ Because their crude matter is from the destruction of the exterior form Object They say The vertue of Elements is their materials Answ Right in respect of their beginnings upon pure bodies Object All their secrets spring from one vile thing common to rich and poor Answ Precious things corrupred are most vile and Science is common to rich and poor and hath much use of Calcination or Dust Object No Metal is required to the making of the Stone Answ As no part of man to the making of man Object One thing one Glass one Furnace is sufficient Answ True when two things of one kinde are apted and conjoyned Object Out of one Root proceeds white and red Answ Even as Male and Female from one Womb. Object The Stone is vegetable animal and mineral Answ Right joynt and several it is said to be vegetable because in the maturation it is multiplied in vertue and quantity it is said to be animal because it encreaseth his own kinde and it 's said to be Mineral because his original is from Metal or their Mineral Here we may remember the Bishop of Otrecht who lost his life for discovering his secret Why should we prevent the highest distribution who hath not made knowledge hereditary but wrapt things in secret that we might difference things in being and in being

and use Nature is even jealous of her supremacy and abhorreth to see the sensible before the intellectual Treasures preferred This shews the beginning and end of Art Lux sata est justo cum rectis animo laetitia Mark what ye sow for such is your harvest Light is sown on pure Earth and some Grain begins to put forth Ears at three joynts some at four but the Ear never buds until the joynts be grown And what vertue this knotting or fixing gives consider for by meditation you may see by seeing you may know by knowing ye delight by delighting ye adhere by adhering ye possess by possessing ye enjoy the Truth that is the incorrupted use made visible Therefore take heed how ye value for Part of these things thy minde may prompt thee to And part thy better part may teach thee how to do The making of Urim and Thummim and the perfection of the Elixir is aptly compared to the fourfold Creation of Mankinde Adam from Earth Eve from Adam Abel from both and Jesus Christ from a Virgin so man called a living stone produceth that eternally stony and fiery conquering Spirit called the Elixir from their proper Earth only their Adam from their Eve from both their Virgo from her only the soveraign and universal Spirit which doth vivifie and preserve all living Creatures and raiseth the Artist from the dust to sit among Princes Life without sin is wisdom manifest in the flesh a Body without shadow is the universal Spirit corporate Urim and Thummim were holy Signs within the brest-plate to enquire of God in the Temple Natural Urim and Thummim is a visible quality in a cleer Body which preserveth the Temple of Man's Body incorruptible Is it not prophetical that all men shall wisely consider the works of God to the end they may know how to value them rightly and to make just difference between corporal and spiritual things Psal 64.9 Psal 111.8 and corporate Spirits for although Spirits possess no place yet they fail not to fill every part by contact of their vertue and in the use alters both quality and quantity the perfect and distinct knowledge whereof doth necessarily manifest the things sought after by the proper and appropriate qualities and from th causes to the effect openeth the internal Beauty of a true and natural Essence as plainly as by seeing that ye see and also sheweth the terminate privative and perfect end of every particular act which is the richest of intellectual Treasures because Science and Essence are one and where the several works and successive are apparent the time need not be limited like the men of Bethulia for onely at Elisha his Prayer his Servants eyes were opened to see invisible things which all that rise to glory shall do It was held of old Nothing deserves the love of an honest man save the internal Beauty Therefore they held Love or natural Affection to be the first cause or motion like as the heat and vertue of the Sun and of the whole Heavens hath power in all things created under Heaven and by their Influence and Radiation all things encrease grow live and are conserved and by their recess they mourn and wither fall and droop yet they do not necessitate any all their force being most in imperfect things for a body of equal temper receives little alteration from the Constellations because the Earth received vertue before the Heavens were adorned with Sun Moon and Stars Therefore that is to be distinguished in Reason so is distant in place and different things in being and in being and use for change of quality brought confusion and a better change Renovation Historians affirm The River Nilus vaporeth not by reason of the long decoction under the Sun yet is the Water most wholesom and Medicinable and the Neighbor earth begins to encrease in weight the seventeenth of June and not before even then when the River begins to rise which sympathy of the distant Water and Earth by the power of Heaven is not against Nature although beyond ordinary reach Therefore for a leading cast let us observe the concord of Metallical Bodies which like the first Male and Female have not several beginnings but are all from a Sulphurous vapor which by help of Influence Instrument Digestion and Masculine and Feminine vertue connexing proper and appropriate qualities they obtain their perfection by the power of God 's Ordinance yet as every Earth yields not like Metal so every Metal yields not like central vertue Therefore according to that creating command every thing should encrease in its proper kinde not in diverse and time makes the number infinite The Ancients reading the great Volume of the Book of Nature finde no abridgement to assimilate the Majesty of Nature save Man and the Stone both which are called Living Stones whose original Mortification Purification and difficult Exaltation are of infinite vertue Then observe also a Celestial and Terrestrial Sun which they parallel with Man which because they onely are capable of true temper which is certainly possible although seldom enjoyed But to gain this precious Treasure of Life and Health we must make sufficient provision like men that do deal with great persons for Gold is Lord of Stones and noblest of Metals and by his proper Regiment doth multiply himself infinitely Therefore Geber in his Book of Deundation saith In Gold are ten parts heat ten parts humidity ten parts siccity which triple perfection makes an absolute unity Body Soul and Spirit being eternally vivified because unity is a generical quality of all that is one and is an effect of the Form which doth produce it for of all kinde of Governments ten is the most perfect and for the natural substance no composition is like to Gold for it is a most perfect temper and equal mixion the miracle of Nature a Celestial Star a Terrestrial Sun the Fountain of Life the Centre of the Heart the secret vertue of all Celestial and Terrestrial Bodies the Masculine and Universal Seed first and most powerful of the Sulphurous Nature the great Secret of the Almighty Creator It hath most Form and Entity so most Vertue and Operation in it the Elements are elementized It is called Sulphur and Sulphur-Fire yea it is said to be all Fire or like to that in which it is dissolved And as Light is the Centre of Heaven and Soul of the World so Brightness is the Centre and Celestial Vertue the Form of Gold whose admired mixion nothing meerly natural can dissolve nor any thing artificial except it agree with it in matter and form and do remain with it in the recongealation This vertual Influence enters potentially and dwells in the radical humidity and no other thing whether from Heaven or Earth doth nourish the Heart yet it is not visible before vertue be matched for there is best concord where it is most abundant but whither shall we mount to match this miracle of Nature The Historians

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

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