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A26733	Of natural & supernatural things also of the first tincture, root, and spirit of metals and minerals, how the same are conceived, generated, brought forth, changed, and augmented / [by] Basilius Valentinus ; translated out of high Dutch by Daniel Cable ; whereunto is added Frier Roger Bacon, Of the medicine or tincture of antimony; Mr. John Isaac Holland, his Work of Saturn; and Alex. Van Suchten, Of the secrets of antimony.	Basilius Valentinus.; Cable, Daniel.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.; Hollandus, Johan Isaäc, 15th cent.; Suchten, Alexander von, ca. 1520-ca. 1590.	1671 (1671)	Wing B1020; ESTC R29247	60,576	242

separated from the impure the clean from the filth and the fine from the course which otherwise could not b done at all or brought to pass without the preceding preparation this done they spin Yarn of it which they boil in water over the Fire or else with Ashes set in a warm place whereby it is purified afresh whereby the filth and superfluities are fully separated from it and after a due washing the Yarn is dried again delivered to the Workmen and Cloth weaved of it this Cloth is purified or whitened by a frequent casting of water upon it cut in pieces by Taylors and other people so converted to future services in houshold affairs and when this Linnen is quite worn out and torn the old Rags are gathered together and sent to the Paper-Mills whereof they make Paper which is put unto divers uses If you lay Paper upon a Metal or Glass kindle and burn it the vegetable Mercury comes forth and flies away into the Air the Salt remaines in the ashes and the combustible Sulphur which is not so quickly consumed in the burning dissolves to an Oil which is a good Medicine for dim and defective Eyes This Oil hath in it a great fatness which is the Matter of the Paper contained originally in the Seed of the Flax so that the last Matter of the Flax which is Paper must again be dissolved into the first Matter which is the fat Sulphurous Oyliness of the Flax-seed together with the separation of its Mercury and Salt that so the first may be made of the last and the ground-work revealed so the Virtues and Operations known by the first And though this Discourse be gross and not subtil yet you may learn thereby to know what is subtile and secret for that which is subtile must be infused into the ignorant by course Examples that thereby they may be taught to reject the gross and to embrace that which is subtile In like manner understand that the first Matter of Metals must be observed known and found out by the revelation of their last Matter which last Matter as there are the perfect Metals must be separated and divided asunder that it may plainly appear singly before the Eyes of men Out of which separation may be judged and learnt what the first Matter was at the beginning out of which the last was made Accept of this Advice concerning Luna at present I could have said more but I must desist at this time until another opportunity and intreat you heartily admonishing you by your Conscience that you observe all that which I have revealed unto you of all those Letters which are contained in the middle between Alpha Omega that you keep all the Speeches Writings that you may not undergo a denial of pardon for your Sins a continued perpetual Vengeance for Eternity which I at last reveal unto you thus Take the Sky-coloured Sulphur extracted out of Silver rectified with Spirit of Wine dissolve it according to its Quantity in the White Spirit of Vitriol and in the sweet-sented Spirit of Mercury coagulate them together by the fixation of the Fire you have the White Tincture in your Hands with all its Medicines but if you can get all their primum Mobile's it is then needless because you can perfect the Work at once CHAP. VIII Of the Soul or Tincture of Tin GOod Jupiter possesses almost the mean or middle place between Metals it being not too hot nor too cold not too warm nor too moist it hath no excess of Mercury nor of Salt and it hath the least of Sulphur in it it is found to be white in Colour yet one exceeds the other in the three Principles as it is evidently found in its dissection the right and true discovery of Nature It is generated of such a composition and mixture of the three first Principles being operated coagulated into a Metal and brought to the ripeness of perfection Jupiter is a God of Peace a Lord of Goodness a Ruler and Possessor of the middle Region as concerning its State Essence Function Virtue Form and Substance for it holds the mean no special Disease can happen that Jupiter should cause any remarkable damage if its Medicine be used a little at once not too much in quantity it is likewise thought needless where its Medicines are not required that they should be administred in strange cases with a just Call but we should rather abide by those where the Body and its Disease have an equal temper with the superiour Stars and their assistance in vertue power and operation and so accord together in their juncture that there is not found the least contrariety in the Operation nor in the Operative Nature Jupiters Spirit is found not to be wanting in the least in the generation of Metals as likewise no one Spirit of all the Metals can be set backwards because of necessity they accord together from the lowest to the highest degree and must agree together as a Metal is perfect in the great Earth so should the transmutation augmentation succeed in the little world understand it after this manner that all the degrees from the meanest to the highest Metal must be passed through in all perfection even as the Metals must finish their course from Saturn unto Gold as concerning the permanency of Colour and Body not withstanding that Saturn possesses the highest place in the highest Region wherein the stars reign and perform their Course The generation of Tin in and above the Earth is brought to light even as Man is and other Animals which are originally nourished and fed by the Mothers Milk there is no Diet to be found on Earth more fit for the nourishment of all men than Milk for its best part is chiefly an Animal Sulphur which yields the Nourishment Even in like manner Tin is nourished by its Metallick Sulphur which likewise feeds it with the greatest acceptation it assumes in and to it more heat than Saturn therefore is Jupiter more digested broiled whereby its Body likewise is more fixt and permanent in the degree of Salt He causes in his Dominion and Reign that good Rule be obser and Justice done to all men in his Court The Spirit of Tin is a Preserver from all Distempers Accidents whereby the Liver is consumed or put into malady its Spirit is naturally to be compared unto Honey in Taste its Mercury being made volatile gains a venomous quality for it purges violently and penetrates through by force therefore it is not alwayes to be advised that its opened Mercury should be used alone and simply but if a Correction precede there may an excellent benefit succeed being used in those distempers and diseases which are immediately subject to its Influence that is when its venomous volatility is taken away and set in a better and fixeder state which resists the poison The Vulgar Physician cannot understand this Description for this Art and knowledge proceeds not from the

and admirable Effects be they called by what name soever I am an Ecclesiastical person obedient to the Ecclesiastical degree related to the Benedictine Order by a Spiritual and Divine Oath by which Order with my internal Prayer I obtain comfort and promises of Gods Word a refreshment to my Soul but in a corporal temptation of my weaknesses and for my Brethren I have not found and used a better corroboration by Gods Blessing than these three Compounds united God give bless and increase this Virtue and Power unto the End of this temporal World which Man must change together with Death O thou golden power of thy Soul O thou golden intellect of thy Spirit O thou golden operation of thy Body God the Creator keep thee and grant unto all earthly Creatures who love and honour him the true understanding of all Gifts that thy Will may be done in Heaven and on Earth This is enough revealed at present concerning the Spirit of Gold until the coming again of Elias Hereunto I add a short Process Take a Spirit of Salt therewith extract the Sulphur of Gold separate the Oil of Salt from it rectifie the Sulphur of Gold with Spirit of Wine that it be pleasant without Corrosive then take the true Oil of Vitriol made of the Vitriol of Verdigreece therein dissolve Mars thereof make a Vitriol again and again dissolve it into an Oil or Spirit which rectifie in like manner as before with Spirit of Wine conjoin them and abstract the Spirit of Wine from it resolve the Matter which remaines dry in Spirit of Mercury according to a just weight circulate and coagulate it when it is fix'd and permanent without Ascention you have then a Medicine to tinge Man and Metals if it be fermented with prepared Gold CHAP. VII Of the Spirit of Silvor THE Tincture and spirit of Silver manifests its Colour of a Watchet or Sky-colour otherwise it is a waterish Spirit cold and moist not so hot in its degree as that which is found in Gold Mars and Venus for Luna is more phlegmatick than fiery though it be brought by the Fire out of its waterish Substance into a coagulation and even as the Metals gain their tinging Spirits and Coagulation in like manner do stones get their fixedness and colour as out of one Influence A fix'd coagulated Mercury is found in the Diamond therefore it is fixeder and harder than the other stones and cannot be so broken so the tincture of Mars or the Sulphur of Iron is found in the Ruby the Sulphur of Venus in the Emerald the Soul of Saturn in the Granate in Tin the tincture which is found in the Topaz and Crystal is appropriated to common Mercury in the Saphir is found the Sulphur and Tincture of Luna but each one according to a peculiar understanding and according to its kind and in Metals according to their form and gender for when the blew Colour is taken and extracted out of the Saphire its Rayment is gone and its other Body is white as a Diamond wanting only the hardness that is in a Diamond even so when Gold hath lost its Soul it yields a fix'd white Gold Body which by searching Students and young Artists is called fix'd Luna Wherefore you must now understand and observe that even as I have declared unto you concerning the Saphire for your apprehension even so on the other side you must learn to what purpose my Speech is intended for your Instruction concerning Metals For this blew Spirit is the Sulphur and the Soul whence the Silver receiveth its Life both in and above the Earth by Art and the white Tincture of the Silver upon white stands in the Magnetick form of an everlasting thing or Creature wherein is likewise found the first Ens of Gold O ye high qualified Orators where is your voice in this case to explain this Mystery And you conceited Naturalists where is your Writings and Advice of Reason And you Physicians Whither is your Opinion flown to fetch somewhat afar off over the Seas for to cure the Dropsie and all Lunary Distempers You will say that this my speech is too dark for you is it so then kindle the terrestrial Light seek and be not ashamed to make acquaintance with Vulcan and let nothing be irksome unto you so will you find by the assistance of the Eternal God that the Spirit of Silver contains in it to cure and expel the Dropsie quite alone as the Spirit of Gold and as that of Mercury can expel the Consumption radically or in the root even so that the Center of those Diseases cannot be found any more But that Luna in the veins of the Earth is not furnished with such a hot substance or quality in its degree but is subjected to a Waterish Nature this fault lies upon that great Light of Heaven which by reason of its Waterish influence hath implanted such qualities in the other Creatures and Planets of the Earth than it hath in Silver And albeit that Silver contains a fix'd Mercury which is generated in it yet it wants a hot fix'd Sulphur truly to dry up and consume its Phlegme whereby it hath not obtained a compact Body unless it be done afterwards by the art of the Little World And seeing that its Body is not compact by reason of the abounding watery substance its Pores therefore are not rightly defended nor closed to undergo the weight and endure a Battel with the Enemies all which Virtues are to be found in Gold if it shall overcome all Enemies and endure all trials without defect All things are difficult in the beginning but wben they are brought to an end they are easie to be understood and apprehended If you do truly observe the Spirit and the Soul of Luna and learn to know it truly you may quickly compass the midst of the Work how it shall afford the end with profit wherefore I will now propose to you an Example and instruct you by a Countrey-Rule that you may apprehend it and consider of it as Childrens Play in a high and weighty Matter that you may search it out with advantage as followeth A common Peasant casts forth or sows his Seed in a Field well dunged and prepared this Seed after putrefaction sprouts forth of the Earth by the operation and furtherance of the Elements and sets before our Eyes the Matter of Flax together with its Seed which it brings with it augmented this Flax is pluck'd up and separated from its Seed but this Flax cannot be used and prepared for any work profitably except it be first putrefied and rotted in water whereby the Body is opened and gains an ingress of its doing good after this putrefaction and opening it is again dried in the Air and Sun and by this coagulation it is again brought into a Formal Being that it may do future service This prepared Flax is afterwards buck'd beaten broken peel'd and last of all dress'd that the pure may be

BASILIUS VALENTINUS A BENEDICTINE MONK OF NATURAL SUPERNATURAL THINGS ALSO Of the first Tincture Root and Spirit of METALS and MINERALS how the same are Conceived Generated Brought forth Changed and Augmented Whereunto is added Frier Roger Bacon of the Medicine or Tincture of Antimony Mr. John Isaac Holland his Work of Saturn and ALEX. Van SUCHTEN of the Secrets of Antimony Translated out of High Dutch by DANIEL CABLE LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by Moses Pitt at the White Hart in Little Britain 1671. BASILIUS VALENTINUS A BENEDICTINE MONK OF NATURAL SUPERNATURAL THINGS ALSO Of the first Tincture Root and Spirit of METALS and MINERALS how the same are Conceived Generated Brought forth Changed and Augmented Translated out of High Dutch by DANIEL CABLE Whereunto is added ALEX. Van SUCHTEN OF THE SECRETS of ANTIMONY Translated out of High Dutch by D. C. a Person of great Skill in Chymistry LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Moses Pitt at the White Hart in Little Britain 1670. BASILIUS VALENTINUS OF Natural and Supernatural Things CHAP. I. BEcause I have at this present undertaken to write of the of the first Tincture the Root of Metals and Minerals and to inform you of the Spiritual Essence how the Metals and Minerals are at first spiritually conceived and born corporally it will be necessary first of all to utter and to acquaint you by a speech that all things consist of two parts that is Natural and Supernatural what is visible tangible and hath form or shape that is natural but what is intactible without form and spiritual that is supernatural and must be apprehended and conceived by Faith such is the Creation and especially the Eternity of God without end immensible and incomprehensible for Nature cannot conceive nor apprehend it by its humane reason This is supernatural what Reason cannot apprehend but must be conceived by Faith this is a Divine matter and belongs to Theology which judgeth Souls Moreover there appertains to supernatural things the Angels of the Lord having clarified Bodies doing that by the permission of their Creator which is impossible for any other Creature to do their Works being concealed from the Eyes of the World and so likewise are the Works of the Infernal Spirits and Devils unknown which they do by the permission of the most High God But above all the great Works of God are found and acknowledged to be supernatural not to be scann'd and comprehended by Humane Imaginations such is in especial the great Grace and Mercy of God which he bestows upon Mankind out of his great Love which indeed no man can apprehend or know and other great and wonderful works which he hath manifested divers manner of wayes by Christ our Saviour and Redeemer for the confirmation of his Omnipotence and Glory As when he raised Lazarus from the dead Iairus his Daughter the Ruler of the Synagogue and the Widows Son of Naim He made the Dumb to speak the Deaf to hear and the Blind to see all which are supernatural and Magnalia Dei so also was his Conception Resurrection Descension and Ascension into Heaven too deep and mysterious for Nature all which is only to be obtained by Faith There belongs likewise to supernatural things the taking of Enoch and 〈◊〉 into Heaven the divine rapture of St. Paul in the Spirit into the third Heaven Moreover many supernatural things are done by Imagination Dreams and Visions many wonders are done by the Imagination witness the speckled Sheep by the speckled Rods laid in their watring places God warned the wise men of the East by an especial Dream not to return again to Herod likewise their three Persons their three Gifts Presents or Offerings and the supernatural Star have all their peculiar and mystical meaning Nor was that Dream which hapned to Pilates Wife natural who unjustly adjudged our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to death The Vision of the Angels which appeared to the Shepherds at the Birth of Christ and to the Women at his Sepulchre who sought his Body where they had laid it cannot be accounted Natural There are many other supernatural things done at several times by the Prophets Saints so was the voice of the Ass speaking to Balaam contrary to the common course of Nature as also Joseph's Interpretation of Dreams And so God by his Angels preserves us oftentimes from infinite Evils and delivers us out of manifold Dangers impossible for Nature to do All this many others belong to Theology and to Heaven whereunto the Soul is to have regard Now follows the supernatural things of the visible Works of God as we see them in the Firmament to wit the Planets Stars and Elements which are above our Reason only their Course and Motion is observed by speculation and reckoning which belongs to Astronomy it is a visible but incomprehensible Being performing its operation in a Magnetick way out of which likewise divers admirable things are found and observed which arè altogether supernatural understand it thus that the Heaven operates in the Earth and the Earth affords a correspondence with the Heavenly For the Earth hath also its seven Planets which are operated and bred by the seven Celestial only by a spiritual Impression or Infusion even as the Stars operate all Minerals This is done incomprehensibly and spiritually and therefore it is to be accounted supernatural even as two Lovers their persons are visible but their Love one to the other is invisible Humane Bodies are tangible and natural but Love is invisible spiritual intangible and supernatural comparable to a Magnetick Attraction only for the invisible Love which is attracted unto it spiritually by the Imagination is accomplish'd by the desires and fruition In like manner when the Heaven hath a love to the Earth and the Earth hath a Love Inclination and Affection towards Man as the great World to the lesser for the lesser World is taken out of the greater and when the Earth by the desires of its invisible Imagination doth attract unto it self such a Love of the Heaven there is thereby an Union of the Superiour and Inferiour as Man and Wife are accounted one Body together and after this Union the Earth is impregnated by the Infusion of the Heaven and begins to conceive and bring forth a Birth sutable to the Infusion and this Birth after its Conception is digested by the Elements and brought to a perfect Ripeness and this is reckoned among the supernatural things how the supernatural Effence performs its operation in the natural Among the supernatural things are like wise reckoned all Magical and Cabalistical Matters which depend thereon arising out of the Light of true knowledge not those which proceed from Superstition Conjuration or unlawful Exorcisme such as the Sorcerers use but I mean in this place such a Magick as the Wise men had that came out of the East who by Revelation from God and by true allowable Art judged rightly or such an

is wasted and my Bones dried up that some will take my part heartily after I am in the Pit and if God would permit it they would willingly raise me from the dead but that cannot be wherefore I have left them my Writings that their Faith and Hope may have a Seal of Certainty and Truth to testifie of me what my last Will and Testament was which I ordained for the poor and all the Lovers of Mysteries though it did not behove me to have wrote so much yet I could not refrain without prejudice to my Soul but to drive a Light or Flash through a Cloud that the Day might be observed and the dark Night thick and gloomy rainy Weather expelled Now how the Archaeus operates further by the Spirit of Mercury in the Earth or Veins of the Earth take this Advice that after the spiritual Seed is formed by the impression of the Stars from above and fed by the Elements it is a Seed and turns it self into a Mercurial Water as first of all the great World was made of nothing for when the Spirit moved upon the Water the Celestial Heat must needs raise a Life in the cold watrish and earthly Creatures in the great World it was Gods Power and the Operation of the Celestial Lights in the little World it is likewise Gods Power and the Operation to work into the Earth by his Divine and Holy Breath Moreover the Almighty gave and Ordained means to accomplish it that one Creature had obtained power to operate in the other and the one to help and assist the other to perform and fulfil all the Works of the Lord and so an influence was permitted the Earth to bring forth by the Lights of Heaven as also an internal Heat to warm and digest that which was too cold for the Earth by reason of its humidity as unto every Creature a peculiar fashion according to its kind so that a subtile sulphurous Vapour is stired up by the Starry Heaven not the common but another more clarified and pure Vapour distinct from others which unites it self with the Mercurial Substance by whose warm property in process of time the superfluous Moisture is dryed up and then when the soulish property comes to it which gives a preservation to the Body and Balsam operating first into the Earth by a spiritual and sydereal iufluence then are Metals generated of it as it pleaseth the Mixture of the three Principles the Body being formed according as it assumes unto it the greatest part of those three But if the Spirit of Mercury be intended and qualified from above upon Animals it becomes an Animal Substance if it goes upon Vegetables by order it becomes a Vegetable Work but if by reason of its infused nature it fall on Minerals it becomes Minerals and Metals yet each one hath its distinction as they are wrought the Animals for themselves the Vegetables on another manner and form by themselves and so likewise the Minerals each one a several way whereof to write particularly would be too tedious and yield large and various Narrations Many one may here demand and not without cause how such a Spirit of Mercury may be procured how to be made and after what manner it is to be prepared to expel Diseases and change all the kinds of the meaner and baser Metals as if they were born in a little world by transmutation and augmentation of their Seed many expect this with impatience I answer without concealing any thing but will truly discover as much as is permitted me by Gods Command in manner and form following In the Name of the Lord Take a Red Quick-silver Ore which is like unto Sinople or Vermilion and the best Gold Ore you can get grind of each a like quantity both together before they partake of any fire poure an Oyl of Mercury upon it made per se of common purified and sublimed Quicksilver set it a month to digest you have an Extract rather Celestial than Terrestrial distil this Extract gently as in Balneum Mariae the Flegme ascends over the Oyl remaining at bottom being heavy which in a moment receives all Metals into it poure thrice as much Spirit of Wine to it circulate it in a Pellican till it be as red as Bloud and become so sweet that nothing may compare with it decant the Spirit of Wine to a Liquidness poure fresh Spirit of Wine upon it this reiterate so often till the Matter be exceeding sweet and transparent red as a a Ruby then put all together poure that which ascended over upon white calcined Tartar and distil it strongly in Ashes the Spirit of Wine remains behind with the Tartar but the Spirit of Mercury ascends over If this Spirit of Mercury be mixt with the Spirit of Sulphur together with its Salt and so brought over jointly together that they can never be separated you have such a work which if it come over and it get its ferment with Gold by solution according to a just measure and time appointed and be brought to a perfect ripeness unto the Plusquam perfection nothing may compare therewith for prevention of Diseases and poverty and to a rich excessive recreation of the Body and Goods This is the way to obtain the Spirit of Mercury which I have revealed as far as it is permitted me to do by the Supremest Emperour the Manual Operations are found in the Work which I have revealed you must wisely observe that you may not endure a Bath in Hell for me by my true admonition to thee forasmuch as a true opening of the Door which leads to the Royal Palace is performed but with one Key which cures all Diseases be it Dropsie Consumption Gout Stone Falling Sickness Apoplexy Leprosie or howsoever called in general This Medicine likewise cures all kinds of the French Pox and all old Sores of long standing be it Wolf Noli me tangere Letter Ring-worm Cancer Fistula and corroding hollow Sores all which I have declared and concealed nothing Last of all observe that you do not discover too much or no more because all Art hath its Original or Source out of the Spirit of Mercury which is refreshed and raised to Life by the spiritual Sulphur that it becomes Celestial with and by the Salt they are made corporal and formal but the beginning of the Soul of the Spirit and of the Body let it be and remain a Magnet even as it is and can be acknowledged to be nothing else This is the summe in brief that without the Spirit of Mercury which is the only true Key you can never make Corporal Gold potable nor the Philosophers Stone Let it remain by this Conclusion be silent for I my self will at present say no more because Silence is enjoyned thee and me by the orderly Judge recommending the Execution and further Search thereof to another who hath not as yet reduced the Matter into a right Order CHAP. IV. Of the Spirit of Copper THE

Saturn mixing it set it ten daies and nights in the heat into the secret Furnace every two days augment the fire one degree according to the capacity of the Furnace after four days and nights set it into the third degree of Fire therein let it rest three days and nights then open the Door or Vent of the fourth degree which must likewise continue three days and nights afterwards take it out the Saturn will be above black like unto Charcole dust but under this black dust you will find other Colours throughout pure red yellow which flux with Venetian Borax you will find it converted into good Gold by the power of our Oil so have you means again to set forward the great work We return again to our purpose where we left off before You have heard and have been instructed how to abstract the Spirit of Wine with the Oil over the helm into the Receiver and to use it for the work to convert Saturn into Gold But we will now hasten to the other work of the Tincture and give advice concerning it It will therefore be necessary to separate the Spirit of Wine again from the Oil which do as followeth Take the mixture of the Spirit of Wine and of the Oil se● it into Balneum Mariae distil the Spirit of Wine only from the Oil with a very slack heat so that you may be assured that there is no more of the Spirit to be found in this most precious Oil which you may easily 〈◊〉 when you see some of the drop ascend over with the Spirit of Wine it is a sign that the Spirit of Wine is separated from the Oil then remove all the fire from under the Bath how little soever it be that it may cool the sooner Take away the Receiver with the Spirit of Wine stop it very close for it is full of Spirits which it hath retained from the Oil as you will hear afterwards But in Balneum Mariae you will find that blessed Oil of Antimony red as Bloud take it out wash the Lute off by gentle mollification that nothing impure may fall into that curious red Oil when you take the head off reserve it carefully that by no means it may receive prejudice for you have a Celestial Oil which in a dark night shines like a glowing Cole and this is the reason because its internal power and soul is cast forth externally the hidden Soul being now revealed shining through the pure Body as a Candle through a Lanthorn even so at the last day these our invisible internal Souls shall be revealed and seen out of the Body shining as the clear Sun So keep each apart as well the Spirit of wine full of power and wonderful in curing humane Distempers as also the blessed red noble celestial Oil which transmutes all the Diseases of the imperfect Metals into the perfection of Gold and the power of the spiritual Wine extends very far being rightly used I tell you you have obtained a Celestial Medicine to cure all the Diseases and Distempers of Mans Body its use is as followeth In the Gout Give three drops in a Cup of Wine fasting to the Party just at the time when he feels the beginning of his misery anguish and pain to come upon him the second and third use it in like manner it allaies all pain the first day how great foèver it be and prevents Swelling the second day it causes Sweat which is very nasty tough and thick very soure in taste and of an evil sent and most of all in those parts where the Members are united and joined together by the Joints and if you should give none in the third day yet will there be a purgation of the Veins and of the Excrements without any molestation or pain is not this a great power of Nature In the Leprosie At the first time take six drops fasting and cause the impure party to be alone free from sound people in a place far distants and commodious for all his Body will begin to send forth Fumes and Steams like unto a stinking-Fog and Vapours abundantly the next will Scalès and much Uncleanness fall from his Body then let him have three drops of this Medicine and let him take it in on the fourth day afterwards on the eighth or ninth day by the assistance of Gods Grace and Blessing he will be quite clean In the Apoplexie Let one drop fall upon the tongue of the Patient it will attract it forth immediately like unto a Mist or Fume and restore the party again but if he were taken in the Body or in the Members and Limbs then give him three drops at once in good Wine as you have been taught in the Gout In the Dropsie Give one drop in baulm water or Valerian water six days together the seventh day give three drops in good wine and it is sufficient In the Falling Sickness and its kinds as Epilepsie Catalepsie and Analepsie In the beginning of the Fit give the Patient two drops in Sage-water after three hours give him three drops more and it is sufficient But if in case any thing should stir again give him two drops as hath been said In a Hectick Give the party two drops the first day in water of Violets the second day two drops more in good Wine In Agues Give the party three drops in the beginning of the Fit early in a morning in good distilled water of St. John's wort or of Succory and the next day two drops more fasting In the Plague Give the Patient seven drops in good Wine let the infected party be alone and let him sweat well upon it by the Divine Assistance that poison will not prejudice him as to his Life For a prolongation of a healthful Life Take and give two drops at the beginning and entrance of the Spring and in the beginning or entrance of Autumn likewise two drops every one that so takes it is freed and well preserved from unhealthful and infectious Air except the Disease were by Almighty God ordained for the death of the party We will now step further to the Oil and its Power and shew how by it the Diseases of the impure Bodies of the Metals may be cured In the Name of God take very pure fine refined Gold as much as you will or think to be sufficient dissolve it in a rectified Wine as is usual to make Aqua vitae after solution of the Gold set it a Moneth in digestion this distil in a Bath very slow and gently distil the Spirit of Wine divers times from it so long till you see your Gold lie at the bottom like a Juice This is the true way and meaning of some of the Ancients to prepare Gold But I will shew and teach you a way much readier better and more beneficial that in stead of this prepared Gold you take one part of the Mercury of Gold as I have taught the making of it in another place abstract from

externally for the Spirit of the Air lies in the inward part of all things for God created nothing in this world but it hath its peculiar Taste or Air the Air and the Taste are one Spirit the Taste goes out of the Air as Smoke from the Fire But how comes it to pass that a thing which hath a sweet Air is bitter in Taste The cause is because the Faeces of that thing are putrid and stinking in the Elements that is the Choler or Heat for whatsoever is unnaturally hot hath a bitter Taste the Air and the Taste are both one Spirit and as the Spirit of the Air presses outwards through hot thing so doth the Air ●race the Taste about and ●ends the subtile Taste that it should not be burnt by the vehement burning Choler as in the Herbal is at large express'd But the cause why Saturn is sweet in Taste is that it is almost pure and clean having scarce any unnatural heat in it which can burn the subtile Tast therefore it hath the Taste externally and the Taste hath the Spirit of the Air lock'd up in it My Child know what I said before that a thing wherein is much burning heat the Air locks up the Taste therein because the Taste shall not be corrupted by the unnatural heat So the Taste includes the Air in it when it issues forth from a thing which is externally cold for the subtil Spirits of the Air or Sent of a thing can endure no Cold as we see daily in Herbs and Flowers that they yield no Sent in the Winter as they do in the Summer but they hide themselves in the Winter and the Spirit hath the Sent inclosed in it and the Spirit of Sent of Air. Behold a man that hath taken Cold immediately he loses his Sent and his Tasting is diminished Even so it is here with Saturn it is quite-cold so that the Taste manifests it self with the Spirit of Sent for the Spirit of the Taste hath the Smell in it Look upon Sugar which is well clarified from its Faeces how sweet it is in Taste yet it yields no Sent yet there is an extraordinary sweetness in Sugar What is the reason of this Sugar is very cold externally therefore is it white as Snow and of a sweet Taste yet Sugar internally is hot and moist of the temper of Gold and of such great virtue that it is called the Philosophers Stone as it is approved and very prevalent to cure all the Distempers of mans Body as appears by its operation The reason why I say this my Child is that you should altogether understand its internal external and the Spirits which are in these things whereof we discourse that thereby you should know Gods wonderful works and what wonders he works in these inferiour things which are all made for our use What hath God in us for whose sake he hath created all these wonders and all these things Wherefore my Child believe in God love him and follow him for he loves you as he makes it appear and manifests himself in all things as well in their Internals as in their Externals O how wonderful is our Lord and God from whom all Wonders proceed Now my child why is Saturn fluxible as Wax By reason of its abounding Sulphur which is therein for I find no fluxibleness or fusibleness in any thing saving in Sulphur Mercury and Arsenick and all these three are in Saturn so that Saturn is quickly fluxible but all these three are cleansed with it from their uncleanness And do you not know that the Philosophers call their Sone Arsenick and a white thing and they say their Sulphur is incombustible they call it likewise a red thing all this is Saturn in it is Arsenick for Luna is principally generated of a white Sulphur as is plainly taught in the Book of Sulphurs and all Arsenick is internally red as Bloud if its inward part be brought outwards as is demonstrated in the Book of Colours c. Saturn stands almost in the degree of fix'd Luna So that in it there is a red Sulphur as you see when its internal is placed outwards it will be red as a Ruby there are no Colours but in the Spirits so that there is in it a red and a yellow Sulphur In it is Mercury as may be seen for Mercury is extracted out of Saturn in a short time and with little labour So that all three are in Saturn but they are not fix'd therein but they are clean pure incombustible fluxible as Wax in it are all things which the Philosophers have mentioned They say our Stone is made of a stinking menstruous thing What think you is not Saturn digg'd out of a stinking Earth for divers are killed with the ill Sents and Vapours where Saturn is digg'd or they live not long who labour in that stinking black Mine whence Saturn is digg'd And the Philosophers say our Stone is of little value being unprepared they say the poor have it as well as the rich and they say true for there are not poorer or more miserable people to be found than those which dig and work Saturn in the Mine and they say it is to be found in all Towns and places wheresoever you come Saturn is there They say it is a black thing What think you is it not black They say it is a dry water if Gold or Luna be to be refined upon the test must it not be done with Saturn must be wash'd and tried with it as a foul garment is made clean with Sope. They say in our Stone are the four Elements and they say true for the four Elements may be separated out of Saturn They say our Stone consists of Soul Spirit and Body and these three become one They say true when it is made fix'd for the white Mercury and Sulphur with its Earth then these three are one Whereby is to be observed that the Philosophers have said true they concealed its Name for the ignorants sake who are not their Children to keep them still in their Ignorance Thus my Child the Ancients took care to conceal the name of the Stone now let us return to our purpose You have now Saturn wash'd and cleansed from all its impurity and made as white as Snow fusible as Wax but it is not fix'd yet we will make it fix the Mercury and Sulphur with its Earth Take a Glass-Vial put half of your purified Saturn into it reserve the other half till you have occasion to use it lay a polish'd Glass upon the mouth of the Glass set it in a Cuple with sifted Ashes upon a Furnace or set it on the Tripos of Secrets or in the Furnace wherein you calcine Spirits give it Fire so hot is the heat of the Sun at Midsummer and no hotter either a very little hotter or a very little cooler as you can best hit it But if you give it a greater heat such as you may keep