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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44608	Aurifontina chymica, or, A collection of fourteen small treatises concerning the first matter of philosophers for the discovery of their (hitherto so much concealed) mercury which many have studiously endeavoured to hide, but these to make manifest for the benefit of mankind in general.	Houpreght, John Frederick.; Flamel, Nicolas, d. 1418.; Ripley, George, d. 1490?	1680 (1680)	Wing H2941; ESTC R31127	85,086	301

doth manifest a Conjunction of the Male and Female or rather of the four Elements Orange colour then doth shew that the Body hath not yet had sufficient digestion and that the humidity whereof the colours of Black Blew and Azure do come is but half overcome by the dryness When dryness doth predominate then all will be white Powder It first beginneth to whiten round about the outward sides of the Glass the Ludus Philosophorum doth say that the first sign of perfect whiteness is the appearing of a little hoary circle passing upon the Head shewing it self round about the Matter on the outward sides of the Glass in a kind of Citrine colour THESAVRVS Sive Medicina Aurea A plain and true DESCRIPTION OF THE Treasure of Treasures OR THE Golden Medicine THESAVRVS Sive Medicina Aurea MAny and great are the Secrets of Nature and concerning them and the way to attain them the wise Philosophers have writ much but in a very dark and Aenigmatical stile so that very few are those that attain to any thing of their desires by them but on the contrary after much time labour and cost in vain expended in the search of them are forced to give over at last and surcease their further inquiry and instead of the desired satisfaction conclude from their lost labours that the Books of the Philosophers are only fabulous and writ to deceive the unwary and those that thirst after so great a Treasure But I vow unto thee by Almighty God that what they have wrote is a real Truth though delivered in so dark and dubious a way that few are able to understand and receive benefit from them I do therefore attest the truth of their Medicines as well for the transmutation of the baser and imperfect Metals into Gold and Silver as for the benefit of Humane Bodies and healing all Bodily Diseases till God calls for the Soul and this above all the Medicines of Galen and Hippocrates But because many great lovers of Knowledge and this Science have so often failed of obtaining the end of their desires in these Mysteries of Nature and not only failed as to the Accomplishment of their desires in full but also came short of knowing the principal subject and ground of Philosophical Secrets I have therefore thought fit to help them by this small Script as much as I may and save them the troubles of that search and by telling them in plain terms and words the true Matter enlighten and encourage their dubious minds to the farther search after what they desire for let them assure themselves it is no small advantage to be assured of the true Matter and ground-work or Basis of so great Arcana's and hereon great and innumerable blessings do depend I do therefore most faithfully assure thee that the true Subject of this Art is Quick-silver in a double manner viz. either Quick-silver Natural or Quick-silver of Bodies viz. the Bodies of Sol or Luna reduced to Mercury vive for many and strange things may be performed by either singly of themselves or else conjoyned The conjunction of the Mercury of Gold or Silver with the common Mercury or the Bodies or the Oyl of Gold and Silver dissolved in the Aqua Mercurii doth much hasten the operation of Medicines for Metals But we need not as absolutely necessary any more than the common Mercury or Quick-silver dissolved lightly either for Elixirs or precious Stones only small Natural Stones must be dissolved in the Mercurial Water so shall you have such Stones again as you dissolve and those of what bigness you please far exceeding Natural ones The next great Secret of Philosophers is the preparation of common Quick-silver or Mercury for common Mercury as Nature produceth it is not fit for such operations nor can they any way be performed by it for our Mercury is not the common Mercury or Quick-silver but is made of it by a true Philosophical skill it is not the white Mercury or Quick-silver but its subtle spiritual airie and fiery parts the earthy and watery being prudently separated For the manifestation of our Mercury the true Mercury of Philosophers first prepare the common Mercury by a due Philosophical preparation until thou hast separated and purged him from his two extremes or excrements Earth and Water dissolve it then after its purification into a Milkie Crystalline and Silver Liquor or Water which in three or four months is to be done being once dissolved thou mayst ever after dissolve more and more Mercury in fully fourty days for Mercury once dissolved dissolveth it self ever after infinitely And having dissolved it distill it perfectly until it have no Faeces in the Cornuae after Distillation bring it again to Putrefaction and when it is blackish distill it again so shalt thou have two Oyls a white Silver Oyl and thickish and at last a very red or Bloud-like Oyl which is the Element of Fire The white Oyl serveth for Multiplication or multiplying the white Elixir and for the making of all precious Stones by dissolving of small precious Stones in it for it will presently dissolve them then in a gentle heat of Ashes congeal them again and they far exceed any Natural ones both in lustre and virtue and hardness The red Oyl is for the multiplying the red Elixir even to an infinite height in projection which when it is by often multiplying or multiplication brought to a fixt Oyl then thou mayst do several Magical yet Natural and strange Operations by it To make the Elixirs thou must proceed thus When thou hast dissolved rightly the common Mercury which cannot be done before it be duly prepared for such a Philosophical dissolution when it is dissolved into a Milkie Silver Crystalline Liquor it will in the distillation leave some Faeces in which remains its more fixt part or Salt which thou must warily and wisely after a gentle and Philosophical Calcination extract and purifie to the highest Purification by which means it will be very white and clean then take seven ounces of the white Mercurial Oyl and dissolve in it as much of this Salt as it will dissolve until it will dissolve no more having so done put thy Liquor into a Philosophical Egg sealing it Hermetically and by due degrees of Fire congeal and fix it being fixed it is the white Medicine which fermented with Silver may be cast upon purged Venus which it will transmute into most fine Silver multiply it with the white Oyl c. If thou wouldst have it be a red Elixir put to it some of the red Oyl and by requisite degrees of heat congeal and fix it as before ferment it with Gold multiply it by the red Oyl and the aforesaid white Salt dissolve in it dissolve it congeal and fix it often until it will congeal no more so will it remain an Oyl which in its projection is almost infinite Endeavour not to multiply it any farther for fear thou losest it it is then so