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A82272	Fasciculus chemicus or Chymical collections. Expressing the ingress, progress, and egress, of the secret hermetick science, out of the choisest and most famous authors. Collected and digested in such an order, that it may prove to the advantage, not onely of beginners, but proficients of this high art, by none hitherto disposed in this method. Whereunto is added, the Arcanum or grand secret of hermetick philosophy. Both made English by James Hasolle, Esquire, qui est Mercuriophilus Anglicus.	Dee, Arthur, 1579-1651.; Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692.	1650 (1650)	Wing D810; Thomason E1325_1; ESTC R209088	90,355	320

take one Ounce of the said Elixir multiplyed in virtue and project it upon an hundred of purifyed Mercury and in a little time Mercury made hot amongst burning Coals will be converted into pure Elixir whereof if thou castest every ounce upon an other hundred of the like Mercury Sol will shine most purely to thine eyes The multiplication of White Elixir may be made the same way Take the virtues of this Medicine to cure all kinds of diseases and to preserve good health as also the use thereof out of the Writings of Arnoldus de villa nova Lullius and of other Philosophers may be fetched 137. The Philosophers Signifer will instruct him that seeketh The Times of the Stone the times of the Stone for the first Work ad Albū must be terminated in the House of Luna the Second in the second House of Mercury The first Work ad Rubeum will end in the Second House of Venus and the last in the other Regall Throne of Jove from whence our most Potent King shall receive a Crowne decked with most Precious Rubies Sic in se sua per vestigia volvitur Annus Thus does the winding of the circling Yeare Trace its owne Foot-steps and the same appeare 138. A three-headed Dragon keeps this Golden Fleece the first head proceedeth from the Waters the second from the Earth the third from the Aire it is necessary that these three heads do end in one most Potent which will devour all the other Dragons then a way is laid open for thee to the golden Fleece Farewell diligent Reader in Reading these things invocate the Spirit of Eternal Light Speak little Meditate much and Judge aright To the Lovers of Hermetick Philosophy I. C. Chymierastes wisheth prosperity SUch is the difference between the Hermeticks living Philosophy and the dead Philosophy of the Ethnicks that the former hath been Divinely inspired into the first Masters of Chymistry the Queen of all Sciences and therefore may challenge the Holy Spirit of Truth for its onely Author who by breathing where he listeth doth infuse the true Light of Nature into their minds by virtue whereof all the darknesse of errours is straight-wayes chased away from thence and utterly expelled but the latter may ascribe its Invention unto Pagans who having left or rather neglected the pure Fountains of Learning have introduced false Principles and causes proceeding from their own brain for true ones to the great dammage of the Reipublique of Learning And indeed what good were they able to do upon whom the Day-Star of Truth the Eternall Wisedome of God the Fountaine of all Knowledge and Understanding Christ Iesus hath never risen We cannot wonder therefore that they have onely proposed old wives Fables and foolish toyes that they have introduced pure dotages and innumerable inventions of lyes whereby they have so bedawbed holy Philosophy that we can find nothing of Native beauty in it But you will object that Hermes himself the Prince of Vitall Philosophy was an Heathen also yea and lived before other Authors many ages by whose decrees Philosophy in every place entertained with greatest applause of almost all men now flourisheth But granting that what followeth This Hermes Trismegistus indeed was borne in an Heathen Country yet by a peculiar priviledge from God he was one who worshipped the true God in his life manners and Religion especially who freely confessed God the Father and that he was the Creator of Man and made no other partaker of Divinity with him He acknowledged the Son of God the Father by whom all things which are existent were made whose name because it was wonderfull and ineffable was unknowne to Men and even to Angels themselves who admire with astonishment his generation What more He was our Hermes who by the singular indulgence and revelation of the most great and gracious God foreknew that the same Son should c●me in the Flesh and that in the last ages to the end he might blesse the Godly for ever He it was who so clearely taught that the mystery of the most Holy Trinity ought to be adored as well in the Plurality of Persons as in the Unity of Divine Essence in three Hypostases as any quick-sighted and intelligent man may gather from that which followes as that it can scarcely be found any where more clearly and plainly for thus he There was an Intelligent Light before the Intelligent Light and there was alwayes a cleare Mind of the Mind and the Truth hereof and the Spirit containing all things was no other thing Besides this God is not nor Angell nor any other Essence for he is Lord of all both Father and God all things are under him and in him I beseech thee O Heaven and the wise worke of the great God I beseech thee thou voice of the Father which he first spake when he formed the whole world I beseech thee by the onely begotten Word and Father containing all things be propitious unto me Now yee sons of Hermes turne over and over againe both night and day the Volumes of Heathen Philosophers and inquire with what diligence you possibly can whether you are able to find such Holy such Godly and Catholick things in them Our Hermes was an Heathen I confesse yet such an Heathen as knew the power and greatnesse of God by other creatures and also by himselfe and glorified God as God I shal not spare to ad that he far excelled in godlinesse most Christians now a dayes in name onely and gave immortall thanks unto him as the Fountaine of all good things with a deep submission of mind for his benefits received Hear I pray yee sonnes of Learning whether God was as much conversant and wrought as equally in the Heathen Nation as amongst his own people when he saith From the rising of the Sun unto the going downe thereof his name is great amongst the Gentiles and in every place a pure oblation is sacrificed and offered unto my name because my name is great amongst the Nations saith the Lord of Hosts by his Prophet Rub up your memory I intreat you and speake plainly were not the Magi Heathens which came from the East by the guidance of a Star that they might worshhip Christ whom neverthelesse the unbeleeving people hanged upon a Tree Lastly consider well I beseech you yee faithfull favourers of true Wisedome onely from what Fountaine other Heathens besides Hermes have taken the Principles of their Learning Weare and better weare out their Volumes with diligence that yee may discerne them to refer their wisdome not unto God but to attribute it as gotten by their owne Industry On the contrary cast your eyes upon the beginning of the admirable Tractate having seven Chapters of your Father Hermes concerning the Secret of the Physical Stone and observe how holily he thinketh of God the bestower of this Secret Science for Hermes saith In so great an Age I have not ceased to try experiments nor have I spared my Soul from labour I had this Art and Science by the Inspiration of the Living God only who hath vouchsafed to open it to me his servant T is true he hath given power of judging to rational creatures but hath not left unto any an occasion of sinning But I unlesse I feared the day of Doom or the souls damnation for the concealing of this Science I would make known nothing of this Science nor prophetize to any But I have been willing to render to the Faithfull their due as the Author of Faith hath been pleased to bestow upon me Thus Hermes then which nothing could have ever bin said more wise or more agreable to Christian Religion And hence it is that so many as are or have been of a more sublime wit and manly judgement have imbraced the Living Holy and Divine Philosophy of Hermes with all their Soul and Strength rejecting that dead prophane and humane Philosophie of the Ethnicks and have commended and illustrated it in divers of their Writings and Watchings Of all which that I may confesse ingenuously seeing that I could never read unto this day any Writer more true neat and clear then the Author of this Tractate Anonymus indeed yet one that truly deserves the name of an Adepted Philosopher I have thought it worth my pains and have deemed hereby to confer not the least favour upon the sons of Hermes if I shall againe publish the hidden Work of Hermetick Philosophy with the Philosophers Signifer according to the intention of this most wise Author Farewell The Signifer of Philosophers with the Houses of the Planets NORTHERNE SIGNES Sumer ☿ ♍ ☼ ♌ ☽ ♋ EASTERNE SIGNES Springe ☿ ♊ ♀ ♉ ♂ ♈ SOUTHERNE SIGNES Winter ♄ ♑ ♄ ♒ ♃ ♓ WESTERNE SIGNES Autumne ♀ ♎ ♂ ♏ ♃ ♐ THE TIMES OF THE STONE The Figure described is the The Interpretation of the Philosophers Scheme Philosophers Signifer To every Planet a double House is assigned by the Ancients Sol and Luna excepted whereof every one borroweth one House onely both of them adjoyning In the said Figure every Planet possesseth its proper Houses Philosophers in handling their Philosophical work begin their yeare in Winter to wit the Sun being in Capricorne which is the former House of Saturne and so come towards the right hand In the Second place the other House of Saturn is found in Aquarius at which time Saturne i. e. the Blacknesse of the Dominary work begins after the 45 or 50. day Sol coming into Pisces the worke is black blacker then black Lullius cap. 49. Merc. and the head of the Crow begins to appear The third month being ended and Sol entring into Aries the sublimation or separation of the Elements begins Those which follow unto Cancer make the Worke White Cancer addeth the greatest whitenesse and splendour and doth perfectly fill up all the dayes of the Stone 〈◊〉 white Sulphur or the Lunar 〈…〉 rke of Sulphur Luna sitting and reigning gloriously in her House In Leo the Regal Mansion of the Sun the Solar work begins which in Libra is terminated into a Rubie-Stone or perfect Sulphur The two Signes Scorpius and Sagitarius which remaine are indebted to the compleating of the Elixir And thus the Philosophers admirable young taketh its beginning in the Reigne of Saturne and its end and perfection in the Dominion of Jupiter FINIS

gnaw upon the fame labour and glory of the wise who can with patience hear blinde men as out of a Tripode judging of the Sun But it is greater glory to contemne the hurtlesse darts of bablers then to repell them Let them onely disdain the treasure of Nature and Art who cannot obtain it Nor is it my purpose to plead the doubtfull cause of an unfortunate Science and being condemned to take it into tuition Our guiltlesse Philosophy is no whit criminous and standing firm by the aid of eminentest Authors and fortified with the manifold experience of divers ages it remains safe enough from the fopperies of pratlers and the snarlings of envy However Charity hath incited me and the multitude of wanderers induced me taking pity on them to present my light that so they may escape the hazard of the night by help whereof they may not onely live out but also procure an enlargement both to their Life and fading Fortunes This small Treatise penn'd for your use ye Students of Hermetick Philosophy I present unto you that it may be dedicated to those for whose sake it was writ If any perhaps shall complain of me and summon me to appear as guilty of breach of silence for divulging secrets in an itching style ye have one guilty of too much respectfulnesse towards you confessing his fault sentence him if you please so that my crime may supply the place of a reward to you The offence will not bee displeasing unto you and the punishment I doubt not pleasant unto mee if I shall finde my self to have erred in this onely whereby you may put an end to erring for the future Hermetick Secrets CANON 1. GODS fear is the entrance Admonition into this Science It s end is good will towards our Neighbour the all-satisfying Crop is the rearing and endowing religious entertainment with certainty that whatsoever the Almighty freely bestoweth on us we may submissively offer again to him As also Countreys grievously oppressed may be relieved prisoners miserably captivated released and souls almost starved comforted 2. The light of this knowledge is the gift of God which by his freenesse he bestoweth upon whom he pleaseth Let none therefore set himself to the study hereof untill having cleared and purified his heart he devote himself wholly unto God and be emptied of all affection unto things impure 3. The Science of producing Natures grand Secret is a perfect knowledge of Nature universally and of Art concerning the Realm of Metals the practise whereof is conversant in finding the principles of Metals by Analysis and after they are made much more perfect to conjoyn them otherwise then before they have been that from thence may result a catholick Medicine most powerfull to perfect imperfect Metals and for restoring sick and decaied Bodies of what sort soever 4. Those that are in publick Honours and Offices or be always busied with private and necessary occupations let them not strive to attain unto the top of this Philosophy for it requireth the whole man and being found possesseth him and being possessed challengeth him from all long and serious imploiments esteeming all other things as strange unto him and of no value 5. Let him that is desirous of this Knowledge clear his minde from all evil motions especially pride which is abomination to Heaven and the gate of Hell let him be frequent in prayers and charitable have little to do with the world abstain from company keeping enjoy constant tranquillity that the Minde may be able to reason more freely in private and be higher lifted up for unlesse it be kindled with a beam of Divine Light it will not be able to penetrate the hidden mysteries of Truth 6. The Alchymists who have given their minds to their welnigh innumerable Sublimations Distillations Solutions Congealations to manifold Extraction of Spirits and Tinctures and other Operations more subtill then profitable and so have distracted them by variety of errors as so many tormentors will never be bent again by their own Genius to the plain way of Nature and light of Truth from whence their industrious subtilty hath declined them and by twinings and turnings as by the Lybian Quick-sands hath drowned their intangled Wits the onely hope of safety for them remaineth in finding out a faithfull Guide and Teacher that may make the clear Sun conspicuous unto them and vindicate their eies from darknesse 7. A studious Tyro of a quick wit constant minde inflamed with the study of Philosophy very skilfull in naturall Philosophy of a pure heart compleat in manners mightily devoted to God though ignorant of practicall Chymistry may with confidence enter into the high-way of Nature peruse the Books of best Philosophers let him seek out an ingenious and sedulous Companion for himself and not despair of obtaining his desire 8. Let a Student of this secret carefully beware of reading or keeping company with false Philosophers for nothing is more dangerous to a learner of any Science then the company of an unskilfull or deceitfull wit by which false principles are stamped for true whereby an honest and too credulous a minde is seasoned with bad Doctrine 9. Let a Lover of truth make use of a few Authors but of best note and experienced truth let him suspect things that are quickly understood especially in mystical Names and secret Operations for truth lies hid in obscurity nor doe Philosophers ever write more deceitfully then when plainly nor ever more truly then when obscurely 10. As for the Authors of chiefest note which have discoursed both acutely and truly of the secrets of Nature and hidden Philosophy Hermes and Morienus Romanus amongst the Ancients in my judgement are of the highest esteem amongst the Modern Count Trevisanus Raimundus Lullius is in greatest reverence with me for what that most acute Doctour hath omitted none almost hath spoken let him therefore peruse him yea let a Student often reade over his former Testament and Codicil and accept them as a Legacy of very great worth To these two Volumes let him adde both his Practicks out of which Works all things desirable may be collected especially the truth of Matter the degrees of Fire and the ordering of the Whole wherein the whole Work is finished and those things which our Ancestors too carefully laboured to keep secret The occult causes of things and the secret motions of nature are demonstrated more clearly and faithfully Concerning the first and mysticall Water of Philosophers he hath set down few things yet very pithy 11. As for that clear Water sought for by many found out by few yet obvious and profitable unto all which is the Base of the Philosophers Work a noble Polonian not more famous for his learning then subtilty of wit not named whose name notwithstanding a double Anagram hath betraied In his Novum lumen Chymicum Parabola and Aenigma as also in his Tract of Sulphur he hath spoken largely and freely enough yea he hath expressed all things