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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26665	Centrum naturæ concentratum, or, The salt of nature regenerated for the most part improperly called the philosopher's stone / written in Arabick by Alipili ... ; published in Low Dutch, 1694, and now done into English, 1696, by a lover of the hermetick science.; Centrum naturae concentratum. English	Ali Puli.; Brice, E.	1696 (1696)	Wing A931; ESTC R18664	26,537	97

to dispute I seek no ones testimony no ones refutation It suffices me as a possessor of the Art to need neither the living nor the dead Experience it self hath made me a Master and hath made a certain thing more certain than was needfull for a Master to have brought to light the truth of Nature Verily I should rejoyce if they had obtain'd their end by another matter for so I should believe the divine grace through my Prayers and Industry of seeking had opened to me a new and heretosore unknown Miracle of Nature For my Salt of Nature by artifice regenerated out of my matter hath perform'd the same things which the Arcanum of the Ancients is believed at any time to have performed Therefore he that will follow me must beware of Costs and great Labour If he find the tenth opening and the matter Nature it self without manual operation will help him and make him possessor of the wonderfull earth only let him follow Nature and consider its operations all things are little easie and of no Cost But how to go forward after the possession of the true Philosophick Mercury in the knowledge of which many are deceived thinking the Mercury of the Philosophers to be the Salt of Nature regenerated is not my work now to write because I write to Philosophers not lovers of Gold Therefore in the first place learn the wisedom of the Soul which if you find all will succeed prosperously and according to your wish and your hope will not be frustrated From her cometh every good thing and infinite riches are in her hand If thou findest the true Centre of Man other things of their own accord will slow in Whosoever thou art take in good part this my admonition and follow my experience unless thou wilt be a fool with the common multitude follow others if thou wilt and read their obscure style and veiled speeches Not one of them all hath used that fidelity towards their Neighbour as I have Never any in such perspicuous words hath made the derfull matter to be drawn out of Man so manifest They may compare their Writings with their Books whoever will may bend their words to his own meaning But yet whosoever will write better and clearer things I will be thankfull to him I have received the truth freely from God In communicating of it I fear not the curses of the Philosophers for I have learned nothing out of their Writings I commit this little Book more clear than the Sun to the Divine most wise Providence For he onely gives wisedom to the wise and understanding to the prudent Things occult and deeply hidden he reveals He searches the profound abyss of darkness by his Spirit in us from which light alone all is derived I give thee thanks O God my Father who hast bestowed on me wisedom and hast revealed that thing to me for which I prayed to thee Illuminate the eyes of all men who love thee with a pure heart that they may glorifie thy Name To the Tri-une God the great mercifull Father the Son and Spirit from whom alone floweth all truth light and wisedom be honour and praise for ever and ever Help O Lord thy Servant by Jesus Christ Amen Let things transitory give place to eternal Here we see in a glass and know through a cloud but then we shall see him as he is O how vain are things which affect the Senses compared with those which make the Soul happy that he may live for ever with his Saviour FINIS Books Printed for J. 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been called by a divine spirit to a divine light who being drawn by true humility search into the wonders of nature and desire to communicate and make them known to their Neighbour who being filled with unfeigned and sincere love in the poverty of their knowledge and that little of the gifts of God granted to them are found faithfull in the least things but rather I exhort them to it and stir them up to go forward servently and in simplicity of heart follow that light which in this darksome way Ikindle in this little Book But they ought throughly to examine themselves without any flattery or self-love whether they are ordained for this Art Whether above all things he love God and his Neighbour as himself and whether he will freely help the poor because a drop of water and one mite seasonably given in ones poverty and from a true love to our Neighbour is as great in the sight of God and will have as great a reward as a large quantity of wine and money given by the rich If their life agrees with this rule they may go on to the full knowledge of nature and obtain their desired end They lose their labour and cost who with great carefulness rise early and sit up late and eat their bread in anxiety For the Lord bestows it on them that love him while they sleep who seek the Kingdom of God and his righteousness that is he who patiently endures divine judgments and in all judgments though he be judged and his soul is grieved and even against nature is forced to endure yet always he acknowledges and understands that God is just good and mercifull and does acquiesce in his justice and desires not to enter into the Kingdom but by the fiery trial purification and obedience to the word his reason being made silent the passions of his mind tamed and subdued by a power supernatural to him all other things shall be added But I shall here speak no more of the holy silence nor use many words of the nature of this Mystery but will set upon the thing it self with the help of God And because I am certain that the wise will observe their duty but the foolish shall get nothing I will begin after the finishing of this Prayer O God our Father thou Lord of every good thing thou who wouldst make all things by thy word who hast formed Man by thy wisedom that he should rule over every Creature which thou hast made give me wisedom which is always round about thy throne neither drive us back from thy face for we are thy Servants and the Sons of thine Handmaid weak and infirm and of few days full of errour and unconstant neither are we fit or able without thy help to render unto thee in this our office that talent which of thy bounty thou hast committed to us with that increase we ought All perfection is from thee and thy wisedom but there is no capacity or worth in us send unto us and enlighten us with thy wisedom which cometh from above send her with a ray from thy holy Heaven from the Throne of thy Glory send her that she may be with and labour with us that we may know thy will grant that she may lead us by her glory that the works of our hands may be accepted with thee for nothing can be accepted by thee that is not wrought by her in us and so it will come to pass that we shall see thy truth in thy creatures to be admired O Lord our Cogitations are full of error and doubts and darkness environs our judgment Send thy holy spirit from on high and enlighten us that we may always go in the right way that we may perform thy will to the honour of thy holy Name and prosit of our Neighbour through Jesus Christ Amen WHen that matter wherein Lucifer held his Reign and Center had with him and his Angels or out-going Powers put on the nature of burning and corroding fire by a too great and inordinate motion whereby he desited to exalt his light and render it equal with the Deity and from the nature of light was turned into obscure darkness There was progenerated from the light in the first place Air then from the Air a Mist and last of all from the Mist a Viscous Water And here doubtless this Water through the bitter vehement and stinging cold the light being taken from it and further and further would have departed had suffer'd the force and power of an horrible Coagulation unless God had a-new sent in a ray of his divine light for a new Center and conveyed it through the whole matter for the Devil shall no more be the Center of this World the agonizing matter perceiving the splendor and sweetness of this light began to awake The bitterness of the corrosive greedy and austere power moving thus strongly decreased and the stupified matter as it were in a fright began to conside in the form of a glutinous Water God would not that the whole Heaven Mansion and Kingdom or Matter wherein Lucifer reigned should be utterly destroyed which before the Fall had its word light and motion from him as from the Center For this Matter was not made such by its own will but by constraint in the ardent imagination of the overruling spirit or intelligence For this spirit did with force exercise his rule and magical power in the Matter From thence the sweetness of the light departing to its original left the corrosive darkness to the burning desire of the spirit and the most kind motion of the heat was changed by the horrible attraction and vehement compaction of the Cold. The serene face of Heaven did put on the sorrowfull countenance of the terrestrial Water and Waterish Earth But God willing to bring the Idea of the world which from eternity he had a knowledge of in his mind into figures began to make something new in which he could set forth the manifestation of himself and have complacency in it Therefore he began a new Creation and by his spirit with his word expanded the Matter and divided it into three which working together in one harmony an effluvium from one to one by one thing should be the beginning of all things yet so that one of those three cannot consist without the other two so there is made out of this one Chaos or viscous Water a fixed fluid and volatile Body Spirit and Soul Earth Water and Air. The fluid spirit is too unconstant the volatil soul too subtile the fixed body too gross to receive that infused power of the light to its motion But when from this threefold union a fourth generation ariseth there is the seed of love and the center of vertues and powers a center that cannot properly be named Water for it is a viscous Earth in which is the Water of Nature and yet it is not Earth because it floweth and maketh moist neither is it