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A43503	The wise-mans crown, or, The glory of the rosie-cross shewing the wonderful power of nature, with the full discovery of the true cœlum terræ, or first matter of metals, and their preparations into incredible medicines or elixirs that cure all diseases in young or old : with the regio lucis, and holy houshold of rosie crucian philosophers / communicated to the world by John Heydon, Gent. ...	Heydon, John, b. 1629.; Talbot, Frederick.	1664 (1664)	Wing H1677_bk1; Wing H1667A_bk2; ESTC R4690	63,702	152

to say of the powder of the white corporeal Elixir when the glass is melted Thus far Aurora Consurgeus and Clangor Buccinae Now if you desire to make pure and clear malleable glass learn this of me and beware of what glass you make your mettal for you must not take glass of Flints wherewith glass of windows are made but such as your Venice glass is made of and that is to be chosen out of the first mettal of the glass which hath stud molten in the fire in the glass makers furnace the space of a night then it will be without spots and pure therefore take as much of the said glass out of the furnace with your Iron rod as you have a desire to convert and when it is cold weigh it and melt it by it self in a pot and when it is well molten project your white corporeal Elixir upon it and it will be converted into malleable mettal and fit and apt glass for all Gold Smiths operations And thus is glass made malleable and prepared for any use but if this were done with the red Elixir it would be much more during for there is nothing more pretious of which we will not now speak Therefore Son or or Reader whosoever thou art who readest my Books give credit to me and beleive me because all things that you shall find writ here are either the most approved writings and collections of all writers or the Authors own experiments For I have tryed many things and found many things true I beleive no man liveth amongst Mortals that knoweth more ways of prepartions which are concealed by almost all the Philosophers For that which perfecteth the great work that they have all concealed which truely is the errour of all Artists And this is all I would have you to do To calcine dissolve and seperate the Elements after join them together putrifie them or reduce them into sulphur ferment project Augment in vertue and quantity This is onely the work of the Philosophers of which the whole Company of Philosophers have writ in a continuate course The End of the Second Book Hampaaneah Hammegulleh OR The Rosie Crucian CROWN In which is set down the Angels of the Seven Planets and their Occult Power upon the Seven Metals and miraculous Vertues in the Coelum Terrae or first matter of all things Whereunto is added A perfect full DISCOVERY OF THE Pantarva and Elixirs of Metals By EUGENIUS THEODIDAGTUS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Servant of God and Secretary to Nature Vbi est scientia ibi est invidia LONDON ●rinted for the Author and are to be sold at the Rainbow in Fleetstreet 1664. To the Worthy Learned Noble and Valiant Colonel Samuel Sandys late Governor of his Majesties Garrison in the Famous City of Worcester and now one of the Right Honorable Members of Parliament c. YOur late respects to me have commanded my Soul to serve you and knowing you are aswell a Philosopher and Learned as a Souldier that can command Armies of ●orse and Foot into good order for War I therefore humbly present this little Piece of Philosophy to your pleasure As the Book is Art and ●ature united to serve you so the Epistle may ●ake you merry by the great power of Natural ●●ings for you know they not onely work upon all things that are neer them by their Vertue but ●●so besides this they infuse into them a like ●ower through which by the same Vertue they ●●so work upon other things as in the Load●●one which stone doth not onely draw Iron ●ings but also infuseth a Vertue into the Rings themselves whereby they can do the same Af●●r this manner it is that the common Harlots ●nd Villains grounded daily in boldness and im●●dence in Stage-Plays infect all that are neer them by this property whereby the spectors are made like them therefore they say that if any one shall put on the inward Garments of a Stage-Player or shall have about him that Looking-glass which they daily look into he shall become bold Confident Ignorant Impudent and Wanton so a Cloth that was about a dead Corps makes him that carries it sad and melancholy And if you put a Green Lizard made blind together with Iron or Gold Rings into a Glass Vessel putting under them some earth shutting then the Vessel and when it appears that the Lizard hath received his sight shall put them out of the Glass that those Rings shall help sore eyes the same may be done with Gold Rings and a Weesel whose eyes with any kind of prick are put out it is certain are restored to sight again upon the same account Rings are put for a certain time in the Nest of Sparrows or Swallows which afterwards are used to procure Love and Favor These observations and ten thousand more I made to serve you and they shall testifie you shall know you have power to command Your most affectionate humble servant JOHN HEYDON The third Book Of Saturne or Lead the first Direction CHAP. I. Of the Elixar Putrefaction into Sulphur the Oyl of the Sulphur of the Conjunction of the Salt and Oyl of the Spirit or Salt of Saturne which containeth the Oyl or soul of the Menstruum of white Mercury and red water of Paradice Resolution Solution distillation Hyl Purgation resolution of Sericon of the Gum of Sericon of the solution of the Minium or Adrop of Calcination of Minium into Adrop and red Lead of Calcination of Lead with Aqua Fortis VEry many have writ of Saturne or Lead but none that I know of have writ fully thereof in any particular Treatise therefore I do not here onely set down ●●at I have gathered from them most briefly and ●●ely but also those things which I have found 〈◊〉 proved by my own experience which I have ●●exed to them that the work may be absolute 〈◊〉 compleat Of which as they say Mary the Prophetess and the Sister of Moses in her Books of the work of Saturne is thus said to write Make your water running like the water of the two Zaibeth and fix it upon the heart of Saturne And in another place Marry the Gum with the true Matrimonial Gum and you shall make it like running water Of which process of Mary George Ripley our Country man hath these verses Maria mira sonat Quae nobis talia donat Gummis cum binis Fugitivum fugit inimis Horis in trinis Tria vinclat fortia finis Fila Plutonis Consortia jungit Amoris Or thus Maria mira sonat breviter qui talia donat Gummi cum binis fugitivum fug it in imis Horis in trinis tria vinclat fortia finis Maria lux roris ligam ligat in tribus horis Filia Pluton is consortia jungit Amoris Gaudet inassala sola per tria sociata The heart of Saturne saith Ripley is his whi●● and clear body out of whose doctrine the wo●● doth briefly thus proceed that is to say that

7 or 9 times untill you have a sufficient quantity of this powder that is to say a pound or more And this is the Calcination When you see your ☿ will ascend no more but remain in the bottome of a black colour and that is dead and brought perfectly into calx let it cool and remove your body into sand till it be turned into a red colour And this is the perfect precipitation prose without the help of any corrosive water take a little of this powder upon a hot iron plate if it fume dry it longer if not it is well Take of this red powder as much as you will dissolve and put thereupon at least his double weight of Lac Virginis and set in Balneo till you see your Lac Virginis stained a yellow or red colour then filter it from its feces and keep it by it self in a glass well stopped and dry the matter that remaineth in Ashes and pour thereon new Lac Virginis and do as before till you have drawn out all the tincture And so your ☿ is dissolved Put these solutions into a body luting to a head and in balneo distill away the Lac Virginis and the red oyl precipitate will remain which is fixed and needeth no distillation but is the tinging oyl of red Mercury and the red tincture of the red stone of ☿ and the soul and spirit of the same stone joyned Therefore take part of the white Sulphur reserved in the first Table and rubify it in ashes till it be red then imbile it with equal weight of the oyl of the tincture of this red ☿ and set it to dissolve in Balneo and when you see it is dissolved into a liquid substance take it out Then set it in ashes or under the fire to fix till the matter being dried remain fixed and fusible standing in a mean heat not over hot which try upon a hot Iron plate and if it fume not it is well if it do encrease your fire till it be totally fixed and dry If this matter be imbibed again with its oyl till it drink up as much as it will and again dissolved in Balneo and then dried in Ashes it will shew many colours and lastly appeared And then it is the stone penetrating and fusible apt for forme Join this imbiled matter or stone with the 4th part of the liquor or oyl of the red sulphur of Gold or the red Ferment and dissolve it in Balneo and drie it again and again dissolve it in a glasse hanged in the fume of hot water or Balneum and congeal it again till it stand like honey Then it is the perfect red Elixir of Mercury The Multiplication or Augmentation of the vertue and quantity is shewed in the former Chapter CHAP. IV. 1 Gold Sol. 2 Purged Gold 3 Calcination 4 Solution 5 Putrifaction 6 Filius solis Coelestis 7 Filia Lunae Coelestis THe putrifaction or purgation of gold is done as the Goldsmiths use to do by melting it with Antimony that the gold may remain in the bottome pure and clear from other mettalls which they call Regulus Take 4 or 5 ounces of this refined gold leaf or fileings and dissolve it in Lac Virginis mixed with equal weight of Aqua fortis wherein salt Armoniack sublimed is dissolved and when it is dissolved into a red Liquor or deep yellow then it is well calcined The solution and putrifaction is done as before you did with silver in the preparation of the white Ferment When you have your white sulphur of nature after putrifaction sticking to the sides of the glass let it cool and take out your glass and set it ●n Ashes and encrease your fire but not too much lest your matter vitrifie and let your ashes be no hotter then you can hold your hand therein and so let it stand till the sulphur be of a perfect deep red colour Then have you the red sulphur of the red Luminary If you resolve this red sulphur in spirit of wine or distilled Vinegar into an oyl it is then the Liquor of the red Luminary And Auram potabile curing all infirmities if the spirit of wine or vinegar be destilled from it But for this work it were better to dissolve it in our red Lac Virginis spoken of in the second Chapter of the second Book distill away the Lac from the sulphur in Ashes and the sulphur remaining in an oile is the Ferment of all stones to the red The augmentation of this red Elixir in vertue is with his red Tincture as before in the white Elixir with his white Tincture The augmentation in quantity is by projection upon the body of gold molten And that brittle matter of gold upon ☿ and if it be powdered and resolved with spirit of wine inan oyl as was said before of silver then it is the Quintessence of gold and the great Elixir of life and the spiritual ferment for the transmutation of mettals and for the health of mans body The 5 Chapter sheweth the abbreviation of the Red Elixir CHAP. V. 1 The Liquor of the red sulphur 2 Fermentation ALthough Raymund writing to King Robert was pleased to say That every Accurtation diminisheth the perfection because Medicines which are made by accurtation have less effect of transmutation which I also ascent to with him for a truth if the work be begun from the first fountain yet because this work hath its beginning from those things which before were brought to a perfect degree of perfection therefore in this there is no diminution of the perfection as the same Raymund witnesseth lib. Mecur pag. 103. saying thus Therefore it ought to be declared unto thee that if they be both well prepared and that thou begin with them thou wilt do a wonderful work without any great labour sooner then if thou should begin with one thing alone Therefore my son begin thy work of two things together as 〈◊〉 shewed to thee in the greater stone when we spoke of the twofold custody of the actions which are caused by the bodies and spirits By that which is caused by the bodies and spirits he means nothing else but sulphur willing that we should begin with sulphur to which I do so well agree that I begin this my accurtation with sulphur alone and I add no other body to this Elixir but onely the sulphur of ☿ alone created of his own body and spirit Take therefore 2 ounces of the white sulphur that was described in the first Chapter and set it in ashes to rubifie in 30 days it will be turned into red sulphur Which when you have done dissolve that sulphur in the red Tincture of Mecury when it is dissolved draw away the Tincture in the bottom remaineth the Liquor of the sulphur To which if you add a due proportion of the liquor of the red Luminary it will be perfect Ferment which if you dissolve and congeal as before is shewed it is then Elixir of very great vertue to the

red work and no man can make a shorter abreviation in the world And when the sulphur of any body is prepared it may this way very speedily be converted into Elixir by adding the liquor of the ferment CHAP VI. 1 The Body 2 The Spirit 3 The Lion 4 The Eagle 5 The Phylosophers Lead 6 Antimony 7 Antimony Mercury 8 The Glue of the Eagle 9 Solution of the red Lion into Blood 10 Solution of the Glue of the Eagle 11 Solution of the Blood of the red Lion 12 Conjunction 13 Putrifaction 14 The Stone 15 Fermentation 16 In the Trinity of The Phisical and Alchimical Tincture The Soul 17 Is the Vnity of the Medicine TAke Antimony calcined so much as you please and grind it to a subtile powder then take twice so much Lac Virginis and put your powder of Antimony therein and set it in balneo 7 days then put it into a body and set it in sand or ashes till the Lac be turned red which draw of and pour on more and so let it stand when that is coloured red pour it to the other and thus do till you have drawn out all the tincture set all this water in balneo or lent ashes to distill with a Limbeck and distill it with a lent fire and first of all the Lac will ascend then you shall see a stupendious Miracle because you shall see through the nose of the Alimbeck is it were a thousand veins of the liquor of this blessed minere to descend in red drops just like bloud which when you have got thou hast a thing whereto all the treasure in the world is not equall Now you have the blood of the Lion according to Rupesissa let us here rest a little and speak of the Glew of the Eagle of which Paracelsus thus saith Reduce Mercury so far by sublimation till it be a fixed Christall this is his preparation of Mercury and his way of reducing it into the Glew of the Eagle but above all I require that that way be used which is described by me before in the first Chapter or that hereafter set down after this Then saith the foresaid Author go on to resolution and coagulation and I again will you to observe the same manner of solution shewed in the first Chapter before Now let us come to conjunction after the solution of these two take equal weight of them and put them in a vessel well shut After you have thus joined them together set your glass in your furnace to putrifie and alter the space of certain days Therefore Paracelsus saith then at length and presently after your Lili is made hot in your glass it appeareth in wonderful manners or demonstrations blacker then the Crow after that in process of time whiter then the Swan and then passing by yellow to be more red then bloud This being putrified and turned into red is to be taken for the stone and then it is time it be fermented Of which Fermentation Paracelsus thus speaketh one part thereof is to be projected upon 1000 parts of molton gold and then the medicine is prepared and this is the Fermentation of it But if the half or one part of the liquor of the sulphur of gold before described be added to it then it would be spirituall ferment and would be much more penetrating in fortitude and fusible as Paracelsus doth testifie in his Aurora where he would have us to join the star of the sun or the oyl of sol to this stone And thus the phisical Alchimical tincture is performed in a short time for curing all manner of Infirmities and humane diseases which is also the great Elixir for mettals so courtly concealed by the Antients Which Hermes Trismagistus the Aegyptian Osus the Gretian Haly an Arabian and Albertus Magnus a German with many others have sought and prosecuted every one after their own method and one in one subject another in another so much desired by the Philosophers onely for prolongation of life In this composition Mercury is made a fixed and dissolved body the blood or spirit of the red Lion is the ferment or soul and so of trinity is made unity which is called the Phisical and Alchimicall tincture never before that I knew of collected or writ in one work And I swear I had not done this except that otherwise the composition of this blessed medecine had for ever been forgot A shorter way to make the glue of the Eagle If you desire to make the glue of the Eagle in a breifer way Take part of the red precipitate prose as is taught before in the table of Mercury and dissolve it in distilled vineger and the vineger will be coloured into a yelow or delightfull golden colour and after you have destilled away the vineger there will remain in the bottome a white substance of the Mercury fixed and fair which is to be joyned to the oyle of the Lion And this work is much shorter and less laborious look more hereof in the third Book The Calcination of Antimony into the red Lion Take Antimony well ground so much as you please and melt it in naked fire with salt Armoniack and when it is melted cast it suddainly into a vessel almost full of distilled vineger wherein salt Armoniack hath been dissolved and thus melt it and cast it in three times then pour off the vineger from the Calx of the Antimony and drie it well and grind it small and dissolve it as before is taught and so have you the Red Lion of the Philosophers Lead or Antimony CHAP. VII 1 Elixir 2 Conjunction 3 Seperation 4 the Stone 5 Fermentation 6 The Earth 7 Spirit oyl Blood of the Lambe 8 Distillation 9 Resolution 10 Putrifaction 11 Solution 12 Vitrioll 13 Calcination 14 Copper The first Chapter of the Elixir of Copper MAny have sought out the way of the Mineral stone in vitrioll or green Copperas but they were altogether received which common vitrioll by the Philosophers is called the green Lion of fools But this our noble red Lion taketh its original from the Metallick body of Copper Although I am not ignorant how to draw an oyl out of Romain vitrioll of a more sweet smell and delightfull taste then any balsome if the Tincture be taken out of the calcined vitrioll in spirit of wine yet the Philosophers will is and command that it do consist of a Metallick vertue wherewith the transmutaion of mettalls is to be effected Therefore they say it is to be made of bodies and not of spirits as of vitrioll sulphur as well and the like Whence I find it written in the Philosophers Turba and in the first Exercitation But the Philosophers stone is a metallick matter converting the substances and forms of imperfect mettalls and it is concluded by all the Philosophers that the conversion is not made except by its like therefore it is necesary that the Philosophers stone be made of a metallick matter yet if any be made of