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A67915	Collectanea chymica a collection of ten several treatises in chymistry, concerning the liquor alkahest, the mercury of philosophers, and other curiosities worthy the perusal / written by Eir. Philaletha, Anonymous, Joh. Bapt. Van-Helmont, Dr. Fr. Antonie ... [et al.].; Collectanea chymica.	Philalethes, Eirenaeus. Secret of the immortal liquor called Alkahest. Latin and English.; Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644. Praecipiolum.; Anthony, Francis, 1550-1623. Aurum-potabile.; Bernard, of Trevisan. De lapide philosophorum. English.; Ripley, George, d. 1490? Bosome-book.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Speculum alchemiae. English.; Starkey, George, 1627-1665. Admirable efficacy and almost incredible virtue of true oyl.; Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1611? Sundry new and artificial remedies against famine.; H. V. D. Tomb of Semiramis hermetically sealed.	1684 (1684)	Wing C5103; ESTC R5297	83,404	240

in Mercury of white matter and of white Substance cometh that Mercury For so he is of a pure subtil Earth Sulphur most clear and most subtil commixed with pure Water and with Commixtion and heat these two Elements digesteth with Temperance of heat and so turneth into Mercury the Sperm of Metals therefore Water and Earth is the first matter of Mercury and Mercury is the first matter of all Mettals and when they be put into that Water they all melt and dissolve in him as the Ice doth in warm Water and why do they so because they were first Water coupled by cold and now here is Aristotles's Principle assoyled And although there were two things first yet nevertheless when they be resolved into clear currant Mercury and no palpable thing of the Body seen nor felt but passeth through the Philter clean as Water then is it but one thing upon the which all Philosophers accord and ground them est una Sola res And here now I have shewed you more plainly then it hath been shewed here before And I say to thee for truth this is the very true Key of this Science for Merlin and many others write here of divers ways as in the verse of Merlin dissipare leviter extracta c. and Albertus in the fifth Book de mineralibus de semine Metallorum where he upon a little Gloss teacheth Solution as there ye may see But of all special Books that ever I could read or see Stella Complexionis is the Father of Truth and Doctrine shewing the clear light and the right way of the Preparation of this precious Treasure and he expoundeth all the Figures of the Philosophers openly where I doubt not but God hath his Soul in everlasting ●iss For by the space of thirty years I ever ●udied and busied my self upon the Mystery ●arables Figures and Sayings of old Phi●oso●hers in the which I was marvellous blinded ●nd overseen and specially by one book which is called the 12 Chapters or 12 Gates ●n Metre in English which was made by a suf●●cient Clerk and well learned but I warn ●very man to beware of him for by him ye ●hall never know the privity but rather he ●eadeth you out of the way for he sayeth it is ●ne Vessel one thing one furnace and no ●ore True it is that it is but one thing as I have before opened and shewed It is one ●orm of a Vessel as Stella Complexionis declareth And I say to you this one thing in the which all ●he Wise Philosophers have grounded themselves on it is after the full putrefying and utter rotting of the Elements then to be separate and every one of them well rectifyed and then reduced again to the Body by Nature in marvellous Sulphur elect And here I Counsel thee to Practise truly and to remember and consider the saying of the great Philosopher Constantius Affricanus in the Book of Elements where he● sheweth that man is made by ingression of contrary things which is to be ●●●derstood of the four Elements and after this Body reverted to him simple then all his humour is turned into Water the Spirit into Air the heat into Fire and the Bones and Flesh into Earth now mayest thou hea● and know by visible Experience and in likewise with our Water one thing by rotting is turned again into his simple Elements and moisture then separate them and the first shall ascend as a Smoak and turn into Air as Water keep that Treasure and then thou shalt distil after that an Air more intentive and thicker and one drop of this will swim and go above Water if thou mix it with Water and in this Air is Fire aud beneath in the bottom of your Cucurbit is your Earth as a dead Body corrupt and infect Note well here be the four Elements reverted into their Simple as before is said by the Authority of Constantius And I assure you that this is as true as ever God made Gold and Silver and all things else and Heaven and Earth and the Sea therefore believe me if thou wilt or chuse thee to thy own folly and leave off true Doctrine of the Philosophers and wander forth in the World as Mist in the Wind and so thou shalt never come to thy purpose but thou must first make the Bodyes water after digest them not burning nor destroying their radical moisture which is the life of Tincture of this precious Treasure and utterly rot them and after divide the Elements and well rectifie thy Earth by due Calcination and with washing of his own Water till it be pure clear bright and white shining and then sublime up all the quintessence again then thou hast the wonderful Earth called Terra foliata Sulphur Elect of the Philosophers more noble more precious then Gold or Silver if ●hou wilt work it up as thou mayest at thy pleasure by continuance of Reiteration and Sublimation then he will become clear as Heaven Christaline shining bright as thou mayest see in the Rosary of the Secrets of all Philosophers in the last work Therefore may you see and understand when your Tincture is perfect which is in the fourth Governance plainly in writing and also mark other Authors of this secret Science for when he is perfect fixt and stable and will not fume then he will run through a Plate of Copper and make it perfect Silver or perfect Gold better then ever was produced out of the Mine by Nature and also the very truth of this Secret is more wo●th and richer then man can devise for of his own sperm or seed he shall evermore encrease and multiply to the Worlds end for as fire elemental burneth all and overcometh all things and nothing can overcome him even so this Magnesia the Child of Fire shall never be blemished nor va●quished by the Fire but ever standing and abiding bright shining clear so that almost man cannot express the brightness which is incredible to any man except to them that have seen it with their Eyes And thou that art a finder of this Book I charge thee as thou wilt answer to God that thou never shew this but to a vertuous and wise discreet and well disposed man which is ever glad to help the Poor and needy People for with this glorious Science ye may procure many glorious Gifts of the blessed Trinity both in Riches and Soul which shall never fail you everlastingly Da gloriam Deo Amen Magnalium Dei FINIS RAECIPIOLVM OR THE Immature-Mineral-Electrum THE FIRST METALL Which is the MINERA OF MERCVRY By Ioh. Bapt. Van-Helmont LONDON Printed for William Cooper at the Pelican in Little Britain 1683. Electum Minerale Immaturum id est Metallus primus est Minera Mercurii TAKE of the best Argentum vivum which you shall Distil from its own Minera that is of the best Hungarian Minera which shall hold abundance of Argentum vivum one pound will hold twelve thirteen or fourteen ounces of

the Philosophers Fire is what the magical Elements the Key or dissolving Menstruum whence it is to be drawn whether sweet or corrosive cold or fiery it hath troubled me often to see such men so concerned and in vain laborious in those things wherein they at length could find nothing but vanity and affliction of mind wherfore commiserating them by the impulse of Charity I do freely impart though many will accuse me as guilty of violated silence the Light mercifully communicated to me that they may use the same as a Key to the Sanctuary of that sacred Knowledg But the curious Industry and indefatigable Curiosity of you being most excellent in the exact Arcana's and Work of Polydaedalus nature having invited all the Learned men of the World by your most sweet incitements to communicate the most secret things enjoyneth and obligeth me to make you the genuine Sons of all sorts of Knowledg Heirs of this which in my judgment is the most exact and curious Work of all Nature But who I am enquire not I am a man that makes it my study to profit others your Friend and an admirer of your Vertues known to many at least by name Farewell therefore ye Students of Nature and High-Priests of Art the lofty Stars of Germany God be with you and with his Power strengthen your Works and Thoughts that they may be highly advantagious to the whole Commonwealth of Learning for the encrease of the Publick-good and the immortal Glory of your own Names From my Study Ian. 1. 1674. THE Tomb of SEMIRAMIS Hermetically Sealed CHAP. I. Of the Physical subject of the Philosophers Stone THE Fear of the Lord is the beginning of our Work and the end Charity and love of our Neighbour Entring therefore with the assistance of our good God upon so divine a Work it must be first enquired what the subject thereof is For as a Plough-man in vain prepares his Ground for Harvest unless he be assured of the Seed so also he prepares the Chymical Ground without ●ny recompence if he knows not what he sows therein and herein at this day many do perplex themselves and are hurried into different opinions But this is not a place to discuss all these things whilst some do seek it in the Animal Kingdom in Blood Sperm Sweat Urine Hair Dung Egs Serpents Toads Spiders c. Others are with great diligence imploy'd in the Vegetable Kingdom especially in Wine for the unprofitable Magistery For though it be manifest to us that the supreme Medicine of our health may be obtained in either Kingdom and indeed in Man especially in his heart as also in Wine for as Gold contains the vertues of all Minerals so do these two comprehend the powers of all Animals and Vegetables as contracted into one yet that the great work of Philosophers could be made from them was never in the thought of any Adept it is therefore requisit to be sought in the Mineral Kingdom But there is also here a great company of Dissenters so that we have need of an Oedipus For some there be that think to extract it out of the middle Minerals as they call them namely Salt Nitre Alom and such other but all in vain because they have in them no Argent vive into which they may be resolved in which error even we in our primitive ignorance were also involved It remains therefore to be supposed that Metals are the Physical subject of our blessed Stone But here also the matter is in suspence because Metals are some perfect and some imperfect But in fine we say that all fused Metals but especially the not fused though imperfect may by the intimate depuration of their original pollution which yet is very difficult and by outward appearance scarce possible be the subject of the Stone whereof saith Flamel some have operated in Iupiter others in Saturn but I saith he have operated and found it out in Sol and in Exercit. ad Turbam it is read That all Metals clean and unclean are internally Sol and Luna and Mercury but there is one true Sol which is drawn from them And the Author of the ●ecret work of the Hermetick Philosophy Can. 16. saith He that seeks the Art of multiplying and perfecting imperfect Metals but by the nature of Metals deviates from the truth for Metals must be expected from Metals as the species of Man from Man of Beast from Beast And Can. 18. He proceeds thus Perfect Bodies are endowed with a more perfect Seed under the hard shell therefore of the perfect Metals lieth the perfect Seed which he that knoweth how to extract by Philosophical Resolution is entred into the Royal Path. So also that Anonymous Philalethes in his Introduction into the King's Sacred Palace Chap. 19. concerning the progress of the Work in the first forty days There is indeed in all even in the common Metals Gold but nearer in Gold and Silver though as the same Adept speaks well there is yet one thing in the Metallick Kingdom of an admirable off-spring in which our Gold is nearer than in common Gold and Silver if you seek it in the hour of its nativity which melts in our Mercury as Ice in warm Water c. But leaving now these more imperfect Metals at present we declare those two great and more perfect Luminaries Sol and Luna to wit Gold and Silver to be the Physical subject of the Stone which way a great part of the Philosophers have followed and came to their desired end Which same thing Augurellus shews 2 Chrysop when he saith Take a Metal pure and purged of all its dross whose Spirit recedes in its secret part and being pressed with a great weight lives privily and desires to be released from bands and to be sent out of prison to Heaven being spread into thin plates The same in Chrys. lib. 1. Seek not the principles of Gold any-where else for in Gold is the seed of Gold though being close shut up it retires further and is to be sought by us with tedious labour And concerning the dignity of both the Luminari●s Lully that Star of Spagyrick Philosophy in his Book P.M. 28. saith Two are more pure than the rest●●amely Gold and Silver without which the Work cannot be begun or finished because in them is the purest substance of Sulphur perfectly purified by the ingenuity of Nature and out of these two bodies prepared with their Sulphur or Arsenick our Medicine may be extracted and cannot be had without them And Cla●gor Buccinae saith You must operate prudently and expresly because neither Sol nor Luna can be without ferment and any other seed or ferment is not proper and useful but Gold to the red and Silver to the white which bodies being first subtiliated under weight must then be sowed that they may putrify and be corrupted where one form being destroyed another more noble is put on and this is done by the means of our Water alone From hence