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A75271	Five treatises of the philosophers stone. Two of Alphonso King of Portugall, as it was written with his own hand, and taken out of his closset: translated out of the Portugez into English. One of John Sawtre a Monke, translated into English. Another written by Florianus Raudorff, a German philosopher, and translated out of the same language, into English. Also a treatise of the names of the philosophers stone, by William Gratacolle, translated into English. To which is added the Smaragdine Table. / By the paines and care of H.P.	Afonso V, King of Portugal, 1432-1481.; H. P.	1651 (1651)	Wing A2900; Thomason E654_5; ESTC R205924	41,579	80

without any excesse or defect for by nature it hath part of heat and part of coldnesse part of drynesse and part of humidity for it is not corrupted nor corruptible by the Ayre nor by the Water nor by the infection of the Earth or by the force or violence of the Fire yet it moysteneth rectifieth and adorneth it because his complexion is temperate and his nature direct and equall therefore that Stone is best of all stones that is most concoct and nearest or most akin to the fire The second part of our Stone is called Mercury the which is himselfe and of the Philosophers is called a Stone and yet is no Stone Whereupon a certaine wise man whereas he speaketh of it faith this is a Stone and yet no Stone without which nature doth never worke any thing which both doth and drinketh up the worke and of it doth appeare every colour whose name is Mercury or Argent vive Whereupon Rasis saith of it a worke may be created so that the same worke may overcome all Natures it is friendly to all Mettles and the meane to joyne tinctures for in it selfe it receiveth that which is of its nature and doth vomit forth againe that which is strange or enemy to its nature for it is an uniforme substance in all his part Therefore this Stone is named of the Philosophers Minerall vegitable and Animall and also artificiall it is called Minerall because it is ingendred in the Mine and is mother of all Mettles or else it is called minerall because that when there is projection made upon it it is turned into Mettle and it is called vegitable for of the juice of three Hearbs mixed together in equall proportions that they stand in a moist fire forty dayes there will be growne forth thereof a Stone of the same colour and vertue of the minerall for the Hearbs be Mercury Purcelane called Portulaca Marina which yeeldeth Milke and Celendine it is also called animall or vitall because of himselfe without any other thing put into it his Elements being seperate and mixt together in equall weight and then set in a strong glasse with a little hole to take ayre at in the aforesayd fire within three moneths there will engender horrible Wormes whereof every one will slay one another untill that one onely will remaine which if the Master feed wisely it will grow and wax to the bignesse of a Toad whose forme is terrible and this Beast is by himselfe Elixir upon Saturne and Jupiter or it is called animall because it is made of a thing that hath life that is to say man For in old Hedges it is found of the putrifaction of mans dung and ordinately heated with a subtile Vessell of Glasse and therefore the Philosophers sayd our Stone is found in every man and that of the vilest thing and of a most vile price Wherefore Pithagoras saith this Stone is animall because it is apt to bring forth Children also he saith it is cast in Dunghils and therefore it is vile and rejected in the eyes of the ignorant man Also in the Booke which is called Speculum Alchymiae it is sayd this Stone is cast away in the street and is found in dunghills the which containeth in it selfe all the foure Elements and ruleth them and this Stone is artificiall for by mans wit it is knit together for certaine men make Mercury of Lead in this maner they melt Saturne six or seven times and every time they draw it with Sal armoniacke dissolved afterwards they take of that Saturne three pounds and of Vitriol one pound and of Borax halfe a pound and then they do mingle altogether and put it underneath the Philosophers fire by forty naturall dayes and then it is made Mercury and there is no difference betweene it and naturall Mercury but that it doth not goe into our worke as naturall Mercury doth Know thou the clean from the unclean for nothing giveth that which it hath not for the clean is of one essence voyd of alterations the unclean thing is divers and of contrary parts and of a light or easie corruption therefore put in thy worke no strange thing nor let any thing goe into our Stone except such as is sprung from it neyther in part nor yet in the whole for if any strange thing be put into it it will by and by corrupt nor will that be made thereof which is expected Therefore purge the yellow body by the adustion of the fire and then thou shalt finde it purged and after that thou hast it well purged beat it most strongly and utterly and make it into thin plates and after beat them into leaves the thinnest that can bee possible as Gold-beaters doe and then so keep them but the white liquor hath more superfluities which must of necessity be removed for they bee faeculentiae of the Earth which is the impediment of melting and humidity fugitive which is the impediment of fixation The earthinesse feculentine is taken away thus put it into a mortar of marble or wood and adde to it as much common cleane dry salt and a little vineger and stirre them strongly about and rub it very strongly with a pestle of wood wisely that there doe appear nothing of the liquor and that all the salt be all black then wash all the matter with cleane hot water untill the salt bee resolved into water and then powre the same foule water away and then put it to the liquor of salt and vineger as thou didst before and doe this oftentimes untill the liquor bee made as cleane and shining as glasse or of the colour of Heaven And last of all put it into a thicke linnen cloth twice or thrice doubled and then straine it forth twice or thrice into a thicke vessell of glasse untill it bee dry the proportion of the parts is such for there bee twenty foure houres in a naturall day to which adde one and then there be twenty five this is wisedome for Geber saith in his fourth Booke and sixth Chapter Study in thy worke to overcome the quick silver in thy commixtion Also Rasis sayth Bodies be of a great perfection wherefore more quick silver is necessary and he saith that wise men hide nothing but the weight and quantities and this we may know because none doe agree with other in weight Therefore there is a great error for although the medicine be well preparate and well mingled together unlesse that there bee quantities thou hast destroyed all as to the verity and finall complement and that shalt thou see in the triall for when that the body transmuted bee put into cineration there it will be consumed late or soone according as little or much it is changed into equality of the proportions by right according to reason it will never be corrupted therefore no man can passe through it unlesse that hee bee a wise man that doeth all things according to reason and true subtilety and naturall wit

and keepe the fume and take heed that nothing flye from it tarry and dwell nigh the Vessell and behold and observe the marvellous working how it shall be removed from colour to colour in lesse then an houre of a day untill that it commeth to the marke or prick or butt of whitenesse or rednesse for it will soone melt in the fire and come all into the Ayre for when the fume doth fill the fire it will enter into the body and the spirit will then be pulled together and the body will then be fixed cleare white or red Then divide the fire suffering it to coole and be cold For and if one of these doe fall upon 1000. or Mercury or any other body it turneth it into the best Gold or Silver according as his firment is prepared wherefore it doth appeare that he who doth not congeale quick-silver that will suffer the fire and joyne it to pure Silver he desireth no right way to the white worke and he who doth not make a red quicksilver that can sustaine all fire and joyn it to meer gold he taketh not the right way to the Red worke for by solution and fermentation the worke or medicine may be multiplyed into an infinite and note that the Elixir giveth a very light fusion or melting even like wax whereupon Rosarius saith our medicine necessarily ought to be of a most subtile substance and pure adherence cleaving to Mercury of his nature and of a most thin and easie liquefaction as water also in the booke which is named Omne datum optimum when the Elixir is well prepared it ought to be melted upon a burning plate or upon a burning cole even as wax melteth for that thou dost in the white doe it in the red for the same is the operation of both as well in the multiplication as in the projection Geber the Philosopher doth beare witnesse in his fift Booke and tenth Chapter that there be three Orders of Medicines of the first Order is that which is cast upon imperfect bodies and doth not take away the corruption but imperfection for it doth give tincture but that tincture doth go away in examination The medicine of the second Order is that which is cast upon imperfect bodies and doth give tincture to them in examination for after the examination the tincture doth remaine but all the corruption of the bodies is not cleare taken away for ever by that medicine In the third Order the medicine is that which is cast upon imperfect bodies and taketh away all their imperfection and corruption and from corrupt Mineralls it bringeth them into incorruptible But the two first of these medicines being left off we will speake something of the projection of this medicine of the third degree The perfect medicine truly is cast 1000. or upon more according as the medicine is prepared or advanced by dissolution sublimation and subtilliation but because so little that is so little is cast upon so little by reason of the littlenes thereof it should not be lift up before his virtue be fulfilled Therefore the Philosophers made their projection diversly wherefore this is the best way Let one part be cast upon a hundred of Mercury and all is medicine and it is called the second medicine and let every one part of this second medicine be cast upon a hundred of Mercury and all is medicine and is called the third medicine and is made 1000. yet againe let every part of this third medicine be cast upon 1000. of mercury and it shall be medicine and all shall be the best Luna or Sol And note that the third and the second may be so much dissolved and subtilliate that it shall receive a greater vertue and that it may be multiplyed in an infinite after receive and make projection first multiply 10. into 10. and it will make 100. and 100. by 10. multiplyed will be 1000. c. But how the projection ought to be made shall be now taught Put the body upon the fire in a Crucible also if it be a spirit tepescat let it do like luke-warme water and cast the Elixir into it as is aforesaid moving it well and very soone when the Elixir is liquefied and hath mingled it selfe with the body or with the spirit remove it from the fire and thou shalt have by the grace of God gold and silver according as the Elixir is prepared In short therefore it appeareth by the premisses that our worke doth consist in the body of Magnesia finished that is of Sulphur the which is called Sulphur of Sulphur and Mercury which is called Mercury of Mercury Therefore as it is aforesayd with one thing that is our Stone with one part that is to say seething and one disposition that is to say first making of it blacke secondly with making of it white thirdly with making of it red and fourthly with making of projection all the whole mastery is finished Of the other part of the false Alchymists and they who doe beleeve them by their distillations sublimations calcinations conjunctions seperations congelations preparations dissolutions manuall contritions and other deceptions saying that it is by a similitude onely called an Egge and teaching another sulphur from ours and another Mercury from ours and that it may be drawne from some other thing or effected by some other then our light fire These be all either deceivers or mightily abused For by what and how many soever names it bee called it is but one and the same thing Also Lucas sayth Doe not thou passe or regard for plurality of compositions in nature which the Philosophers diversly set downe in their Bookes for certainly there is but one thing in all the World wherein the spirit we seeke for is to be found of any profitable and comfortable use with which every body is coloured for in the Philosophers diversity of names and compositions they but cover and hide their Science FINIS A Treatise of Florianus Raudorff of the Stone or Mercury of the Philosophers In the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost A short Declaration of the Great Matter CHAP. 1. KNow yee that our Medicine is made of 3. things viz. of a body soule and spirit There are 2. bodies viz. Luna and Sol Sol is a tincture wherewith imperfect bodies are tinged into Sol and Luna tingeth Luna for Nature produceth or bringeth forth only its like as a man a man a horse begets a horse c. Proved by Examples We told and named it with names namely the bodies that serve to our worke which of some are called Ferment for as a little leaven leaveneth the whole masse so Luna and Sol turne Mercury as their meale into their nature and vertue CHAP. 2. YOU may say if Luna and Sol have a prefixed tincture why doe they not tinge imperfect mettalls Answer A babe though borne a man doth not mans actions it must first bee nourisht and bred to an age so it is with

incombustible with this oyle wee imbibe our medicine which will bee like soap then wee distill by the Alimbeck and receive the fumes which come over and put it on againe three or foure times if it hath not enough then put more of this Oyle to it being thus imbibed then put fire under that the humors may come away and the medicine be firme and fusible on the body of the glasse Then we take Avis Hermetis which we reserv'd formerly and put it to it by degrees till all be made fix CHAP. 37. Laus Deo ACcording to Avicen it is impossible to convert mettals unlesse they be reduced to their first matter But by Arts help they are converted into other mettall we know that Artists do like Physitians purging first the corrupted matter which is obstructive to mans health then Cordials are ministred which restore health so good Artists must proceed in like manner by converting of mettals first Mercury and Sulphur in metals are purged whereby they strengthen the heavenly elementall parts in them according to their desired preparation of metals then nature worketh further and not Art but instrumentally helpeth and then is seen that she really maketh Sol and Luna For as the heavenly elementall vertues worke in naturall vessels even so do the Artificiall being made uniforme and as nature worketh through the heat of fire and stars the same Art effecteth by fire if temperate and not excessive for the moving vertue in the matter for the heavenly vertue in it mingled at first inclinable to this or that is furthered by Art heavenly vertues are communicative to their subjects as is seen in naturall created things chiefly in things generated by putrefaction where the astrall influences are apparent according to the matters capacity Artists do imitate herein destroying one forme to beget another and his proceedings are best when they are according unto nature as by purging the Sulphur by digesting subliming and purging Mercury vive by an exact mixture with the mettals matter and thus out of their vertues every mettals forme is produced The vertue of the converting Element must be predominant and the parts of it must appeare in the Element converted and being thus mingled with the Elementated thing then that Element will have that matter which made it an Element and hath the vertue of the other vert Element This is that great mystery in this Art Scito quod ejus principium est siout finis FINIS The names of the Philosophers Stone Collected by WILLIAM GRATACOLLE GOld Sol Sun Brasse of Philosophers the body of Magnesia a pure body clean ferment of Elixir Masculine Argent vive fixt Sulphur incombustible Sulphur red fixed the rubine stone kybrik a man greene vitrioll burnt brasse red earth the water that is distilled from these things is named of the Philosophers the taile of the Dragon a pure wind ayre life lightning the house the afternoone light virgins milke sal armoniack sal ni●e● the wind of the belly white fume red water of sulphur tartar saffron water the white compound stinking water the filthinesse of the dead bloud Argent vive a Cucurbite with his Alimbeck the vessell of the Philosophers a high man with a Sallet the belly of a man in the midst but in the end it is called the foot or the feet or on the which feet or earth is calcined rosted congealed distilled or made still and quiet the shaddow of the Sun a dead body a crowne overcomming a cloud the bark of the Sea Magnesia black a Dragon which eateth his tayle the dregs of the belly earth found on the dunghill putrified or in horse dung or in soft fire Sulphur Mercury secondly in number and one in essence name in name a stone body spirit and soule it is called earth fire aire all things because he containes in him foure Elements it is called a man or beast that hath soule life body and spirit and yet some Philosophers do not thinke the matter to have a soule But as it is a stone it is called the water of Sulphur the water of the world the spittle of Lune the shaddow of the Sun a denne Sol Elephas white Jayre eyes of fishes Beyia Sulphur vine sharpe water milke vineger of life tears joyning water Urine the light of lights a marvelous Father Father of Minerals a fruitfull tree a living spirit a fugitive servant certore of the earth venome most strong vineger white gumme everlasting water a woman a feminine a thing of vile price Azot menstruous Brazill in nature Azot water the first matter the beginning of the world and mark this that Argent vive Mercury Azot the full moone Hypostasis white lead or red do all of them signifie but one thing our stone our brasse our water Iron Silver Lime whitenesse Jupiter Vermilion white after divers times and degr●es of operation And note that the Philosophers washing is to bring againe the whole soule into his body wherefore you may not understand thereby the common white washing is convenient to be done with vineger and salt and such like Also note that when blackness doth appeare then it is called dispensation of the man and woman between them and that the body hath gotten a spirit which is the tears of the vertues of the soule upon the body and the body doth revive the action of the soule and spirit and is made an Eagle and the meane of natures And note that white earth white Sulphur white fume Auripigmentum Magnesia and Ethell do signifie all one thing Also the stone is called Chaos a Dragon a Serpent a Toad the green Lion the quintessence our stone Lunare Camelion most vild black blacker than black Virgins milke radicall humidity unctuous moysture liquor seminall Salarmoniack our Sulphur Naptha a soule a Basilisk Adder Secundine Bloud Spearne Metteline haire urine poyson water of wise men minerall water Antimony stinking menstrues Lead of Philosophers Sal Mercury our Gold Lune a bird our ghost dun Salt Alome of Spaine attrament dew of heavenly grace the stinking spirit Borax Mercury corporall wine dry water water metelline an Egge old water perminent Hermes bird the lesse world Campher water of life Auripigment a body cynaper and almost with other infinite names of pleasure The Secret of Secrets and Stone of Philosophers IF thou desirest to bee so lucky as that thou mayest obtaine the blessing of Philosophers as God doth live for ever so let this verity live with thee The Philosophers do very properly say it tarrieth in the shell and containeth in himselfe both white and red the one is called masculine the other feminine Animall Vegetable and Minerall there is no such other thing found in this world that hath both power active and passive in it and also hath within him a substance dead and quick spirit and soule which to the ignorant the Philosophers do call it the most vile thing it holdeth in him the foure Elements contained in his skirts where he is found