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A34451	The Philosophical epitaph of W.C. Esquire for a memento mori on his tomb-stone, vvith three hieroglyphical scutcheons and their philosophical motto's and explanation : with the philosophical Mercury, nature of seed and life, and growth of metalls, and a discovery of the immortal liquor alchahest : the salt of tartar volatized and other elixirs with their differences. Also, A brief of the golden calf, the worlds idol : discovering the rarest miracle in nature, ... / by Jo. Fr. Helvetius. And, The golden ass well managed and Midas restor'd to reason, or, A new chymical light : demonstrating to the blind world that good gold may be found as well in cold as hot regions, and be profitably extracted out of sand, stones, gravel and flints &c. .../ written by Jo. Rod. Glauber. With Jehior, aurora sapientiae, or, The day dawning or light of wisdom : containing the three principles or original of all things whereby are discovered the great and many mysteries of God, nature and the elements, hitherto hid, now revealed / all published by W.C. Esquire. : with a catalogue of chymical books.	Cooper, William, fl. 1668-1688.; Helvetius, Johann Friedrich, d. 1709. Vitulus aureus, quem mundus adorat & orat. English.; Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670. Novum lumen chimicum. English.	1673 (1673)	Wing C6062; Wing C6061_PARTIAL; ESTC R6283	114,421	261

other manifest Tokens would perswade us that the time is come or not far off when the true Elias is or will be revealing this and all other Arts and Mysteries more plainly and publickly then before though not perchance in or by any single person but in some publick Administration of Spirit like a second John Baptist in a Fiery Chariot to prepare the way for a higher design by which men may forsake their vain lusts and pleasures to follow this and other laudable Arts. And Exercise more Justice Honesty and Love to their Neighbours hitherto very cool and remiss till they come to be transformed into the perfect Image of Christ in by and with whom he will Reign spiritually or else may find the smart of their vices by their violent Fiery Furies and the Stone out of the Rock or Mountain Dan. 2. 45. cut out without hands to fall upon them in Judgment till they and their Idols Gold and Vanities be turned to dirt or of no esteem and afterwards the truth of Religion in Righteousness to flourish and cover the earth as the waters do the Seas and then God will even delight to dwell in and amongst the Sons and Daughters of men as the Members of his beloved Son Christs body the true Catholick Church and Christs Kingdom Though in some small differing outward forms and that this his Kingdom may come and hasten is the prayer of Your well wishing friend W. C. Or twice five hundred Laurum amice elegis Rus. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY Of Doctor John Frederick Helvetius To the most Excellent and Learned Doctors Dr. Theodosius Retius at Amsterdam Doctor John Casper Fausius at Heidlebergh and Doctor Christianus Mentzelius at Brandenburgh My Honoured Friends and Patrons MOst Noble and Acute Searchers into the Vulcanick Anatomy I would not be wanting to manifest the glory and riches of this ancient Spagyrick Art which I have seen and done by projecting a very little of the Transmuting Powder on a piece of impure Lead which in a moment was thereby changed into the most fixt pure Gold enduring the sharpest examination of fire so that none need doubt but certainly know the first material Mercury of Philosophers is to be found and is as a fountain overflowing with admirable effects Yet it is not in my thoughts to teach any man this Art of which I my self am yet ignorant but only to rehearse the proceedings I have seen For it is only the part of Bruits to spend their life in silence and not to declare that which might propagate the honour of the most Wise Omnipotent God our Creator It being ungrateful for men who ought to participate of the divine nature not to glorifie their maker I shall therefore without flourishing faithfully relate whatever I saw and heard from Elias Artista touching this miracle For truly I was not so intimate that he would teach me to prepare the Vniversal Medicine throughout the Artificial Chymical Physical Method yet he vouchsafed such a rational Foundation in the Method of Physick that I shall never sufficiently extoll his praise Receive therefore this small present which I officiously Dedicate to you for admiration Farewell N. E. E. D. V. Your most humble Servant John Frederick Helvetius CHAP. I. BEfore I describe the Philosophical Pigmy conquering Gyants in this Theatre of Secrets suffer me to transcribe some of Helmonts words out of his Book of The Tree of Life fol. 630. I am constrained saith he to believe there is a Stone to make Gold and Silver though I know many exquisite Chymists have consumed their own and other mens goods in search of this Mystery and to this day alas we see these unwary and simple Laborants cunningly deluded by a Diabolical Crew of Gold and Silver sucking Hyes or Leeches But I know many Stupid men will contradict this truth This man will have it to be a work of the Devils another a hodge-podge another to be the soul of gold so that with one ounce of this Gold may again be tinged only one ounce of Lead and no more but this is repugnant to Kifflers attestation and others as I shall shew you Another perhaps believes it possible but says The Sawce is dearer then the meat Yet I wonder not at all for according to the Proverb Things that we understand not we admire But things that please our fancy we desire Now what will man do in natural things who is fallen from the fountain of light into the bottomless pit of darkness especially in this Philosophick natural Study Nay i● they understand a thing they despise it not knowing that more is to be sought then is possessed Wherefore Seneca said right in his book of Manners Thou art not yet happy if the ruder sort deride thee not But whether men believe deride or contradict there is a certainty of the transmutation of Metals for mine eyes have seen it my hands done it and handled this spark of Gods everlasting wisdom or the true Catholick Saturnine Magnesia of Philosophers a very Fire sufficient to pierce Rocks a treasure equivalent to 20 Tun of Gold What seekest thou more I believed it with the eyes of Thomas in my fingers I have seen I say in nature That most secret supernatural Magical Saturn known to none but a Cabalist Christian And we judge him the happiest of all Physicians to whom this Soveraign Potion of our Medicinal Mercury is known or of the Medicine of the Sun of our Aesculapius against the violence of death for which else grows no better Panacea in all the Gardens But the great God reveals not promiscuously these his Solomonical gifts for it seems to most men a wonder when they see the creature by an Occult implanted magnetical virtue of it's like to be brought into a real activity As for example The ingenerated magnetical potential vertue in Iron from the Loadstone in gold from Mercury in Silver from Copper and so consequently in all the Metals Minerals Stones Hearbs and Plants c. But here I may deservedly ask Which of the wisest Philosophers is so acute to perceive by what means or obumbration the Imagination in any woman with Child doth tinge venomous or monstrous things and dispatcheth its work within a very moment if it be brought to activity by any external object I believe many will say it is a Morto Magical divelish work but such Bablers are afraid of the Resplendency of the Essential Light of Truth wherewith their Owl-like Eyes are lamentably afflicted But as I may 〈…〉 are a cause of this matter though thou or I perhaps cannot comprehend their heavenly Influences neither are the Plants which the earth affords to be slighted herein although I or thou cannot rightly judge from their external Signatures the effects of their ingenerated virtues which they eminently shew according to their degrees of Power in the healing and preserving of mens bodies But are all men defective in their light of understanding because I or thou are wanting in

that only by a harmonious Sympathy between it and the vital Spirits Wherefore the Adept do call it the Myster of Nature defence of old Age and against all Sicknesses yea of the very Plague and Pestilence For this being a kind of Salamander communicates its virtue and as a Salamander makes a man live till his last appointed time against all the Fiery Epidemical Darts of the angry Heavens or their Malevolent Influences Physitian Sir I understand by your discourse That this Medicine doth nothing to the correcting of depraved or corrupt humours but only by strengthning the Vital Spirits and our Balsamick Nature but other practical Chymists teach how to seperate he impure from the pure and ripen the unripe o make the bitter become a little sower or Acid and the sower sweet and so to turn sharp into mild mild into sharp sower into sweet and sweet into sower Also I understand you say this universal medicine cannot prolong life beyond its prefixed time but only preserves it from all venome and deadly sickness which agrees with the vulgar belief That the Life depends only upon the will of God But passing by these things my question is still whether a mans former nature may be converted into another new nature So that a slothful man may be changed into a diligent nimble man and a Melancholy man by nature be made a merry man or the like Elias Not at all Sir for no Medicine hath power to transform the nature of man in such a manner no more then wine drunk by divers men changeth the persons nature but only provokes or deduceth what is in man potentially into Act For the universal Medicine works by recreating the vital spirits and so restoreth that health which was suppressed for a time In the same manner the heat of the Sun never transmutes the Hearbs and Flowers but stirs up their potential powers to become active For a man of melancholly temper is again raised up to his natural melancholy disposition and a merry man to become merry And so in all desperate diseases it is a present and most excellent preservative Nay if there could be any prolonging of Life Then Hermes Paracelsus Trevisan and many others having had the said Medicine would never have undergone the Tyranny of death but have prolonged their lives perhaps to this very day It were therefore the part of a mad Lunatick to believe that any Medicine in the world could prolong life longer then God limits Physitian Worthy Sir I agree now cheerfully to all you have said touching the Universal Medicine being no less regular then fundamental Yet till I can prepare the same my self it profits me not Indeed some Illustrious men have written of it so cautiously in dark Aenygma s that very few can understand their progress to the end and if one could purchase all these Authors this short life might be therein consumed and not attain the thing It remains therefore only to pray and labour Ora labora Deus dat omni horae Work and Pray God gives every day Elias Seldom indeed can this Art of Arts be pickt out of Books without demonstration from some true Adeptist But waving this let us come to Transmutation of Metals by the most noble Tincture of which many have written but 't is true few Disciples attain this Arcanum Physitian Your convincing Arguments and my fore going Experiments I believe all you say for Dr. Kuffler with the Tincture of one ounce of gold projected on two ounces of Silver transmuted as is said an ounce and half into the purest gold and a third of the remainder into white gold and the rest was still the purest Silver imaginable And Van Helmonts experiment proves the same But especially Alexander Scotus and Count Russes Experiment well known at Prague and as here you may see the inscriptiors done before the Roman Emperour Caesar Ferdinando the Third Where with one grain of Tincture were transmuted three pound of Mercury into the noblest pure gold Yet I confess I never saw a true Adeptist or projection made and therefore cannot so absolutely conclude these things to be true Elias My Friend The art will remain true whether F. 1. Pag. 34. LIKE AS RARE MEN HAVE THIS ART SOE COMETH IT VERY RARELY TO LIGHT PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR EVER WHO DOETH COMMVNICATE A PART OF HIS INFINITE POWER TO VS HIS MOST ABIECT CREATVRES THE DIVINE METAMORPHOSIS EX HIBITED AT PRAGVE XV IAN A c MDCXLVIII IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS SACRED CAESAREAN M ty FERDINAND THE THIRD The Thickness of that piece of gould ●ount Rusz uppermost Hill master in Steyer ●nd Carinthiae two Prouinces of high Germany ●ath with one only graine of Tincture transmuted ●●ree pounds of Quicksiluer into pure gold fixt ●all assayes proofes out of which was cast ●his piece of Gould F. 2. Pag. 35. 1 Amen Holy holy holy is the Lord our God and all things are full of his hononr Leo. Libra 2 The maruelous wisdome of the wonderfull Iehovah in the vniuersall Booke of nature I am made the 26th of August 1666 3 ☉ ☿ ☽ The wonderfull God Nature and the spagyricall Art make nothing in vain 4 To the Honour of the Euerlasting Inuisible trivne only wise most high Omnipotent God of Gods holy holy holy Gouernor and praiseworthy Preferuer of all 5 Holy art thou O holy spirit Halleluiah ffye vpon the Diuell and neuer speake of God without light Amen you believe or not For Example In the singular exalted sulphurous virtue in the Loadstone by its only touch derives a sympathetick vertue into the sulphurous Iron to become another Magnet or Loadstone by its touch So doth it happen in the Philosophers Stone in the which is all that the wisemen seek Now in regard their writings are so numerous and dark it is to be wished one Laconick short Epitomy were extracted out of all for the said Art to be clearly manifested in a short time with little labour and expence and so a most easie Transite made to the best Authors But look here I will now shew you the true matter of Philosophers to confirm your belief Phisitian Is this glassy yellow Masse it indeed I fear you do but jest or dally with me Elias Yea truly thou hast now in thy hands the most pretious thing in the world the true Philosophers stone none ever more real or can be better neither shall any have another and I my self have wrought it from the very beginning to the very end Then stepping into a more private Room he shewed me these five pieces of pure gold made out of Lead by the Philosophical Tincture which saith he I wear in memory of my Master Now by thy great reading canst thou judge of what matter or substance it is made and composed Physitian Sir I cannot judge but it seems you learnt it not of your self but had a master instructed you to make it Now I beseech you Sir bestow a little crum of the

and birth begins out in and by his own seed but at first all things were brought forth out of the earth on Grass Trees and Herbs through the Word Spirit and Salt The Salt hath given to the Grass Herbs and Trees their bodies which they all have in them The Spirit hath given them Power and Virtue especially for Physick but the Word giveth the blessing to it The true Physick Virtue and Blessing may be sought and gathered out of the salt of the earth and of every Herb and be made Corporeal and at the time when it doth greeny that the essence may be extracted and reduced to a Spiritual and Coelestial body which cometh forth green and yieldeth power to Physick Christ saith unto his Disciples Mat. 5 13. Ye are the Salt of the Earth The Reason because thereby the whole world was seasoned and made fertile that it did grow up to everlasting life and happiness But now all Salt is become unsavoury the Reason because there is no Spiret nor Word of Life in it Therefore it is cast upon the Dunghill and trampled upon And behold the Lord will Create a new one Amen Halelujah The particular Creati●n hath begun from and on the lower and went upwards As now the earth is adorned with Grass Herbs and Trees So had God on the fourth day adorned the Heaven and Firmament with Lights Sun Moon and Stars which came forth and grew out of fixed flying and flying-fixed Salt of the Heaven and are even as the precious stones of the earth They are fixed in their Heavenly body and at the highest temper but they are flying in their course although some of them do stand still The chief Lights of Heaven are the seven Planets Saturn is the highest and belongeth to the earth and standeth to the earth who knoweth whether he were the highest at the beginning or whether he came to be the highest after the fall and that Mercury was to give place to him Many things are to us hid and much of mystical secrecy is in them For Saturn eateth all and is Death and domineers over all But Mercury maketh alive and growing Of all much were to be said but Sapienti satis Therefore we must take good heed to the contrary elements which over the fall ruled over all But we must be careful and witty to rule over them that death may be drowned and swallowed up in victory On the fifth day God Created out of the Waters all things that live therein and also the Birds out of the flying salt in the water Hence it is that they are so flying and these have their particular consideration by reason of the flying salt and in their Feathers they are Physical in flying Mercurial diseases as in the Falling sickness Madness Giddiness for these diseases have their original from the Spirits through Gods permission and must be cured with a flying Salt which is reduced to the highest degree Be it known also that there is great Virtue in Precious stones as in Pearls Amber Coral namely when they are first baptized with a Coelestial water which be altogether Spirit The Load-stone also hath its mystery And who can tell all We may well say Great are the works of the Lord He that observeth them taketh delight therein and to them they are propounded On the sixth day God Created all the beast of the earth and the Worms and at last man with him he closed up the Creation Among the ●ermius or Beasts the Serpent is the Center in the beginning she did not creep upon her belly and did not feed upon earth but that was laid on her as a Curse from God Whether she had Wings we will not deny There is great subtilty in her and a Mystery hidden therein At the beginning she was not venomous and among all the Beasts she was the next by and about Man as she will also be the next about him in the new world when that enmity is at an end Isa 11. 8. No Creature is so bodily fair and subtil as the Serpent Now because she was at first always about Man therefore the Devil did perswade her to perswade Man that he should break of the Tree of Knowledge and eat of the fruit thereof Because the Serpent is Mercurial and flying and is the Center of all Beasts therefore needs must there be a great mystery in her for Physick if rightly prepared for the Mercurial diseases especially being full of bones Therefore God hath finished the work of Creation on the sixth day with and on men of whose Creation hereafter and on the seventh day the Lord did rest and blessed that same day The six days bear a Curse by Reason of sin but the seventh day that now truly cometh that bringeth blessing and rest Joy Honour and Glory which joyful day of our Redemption we through the spirit of Prophesying do annunciate to all Creatures under Heaven in an everlasting Gospel and a very joyous Message which to annunciate is given to us from the spirit of prophesying CHAP. XV. Of the Mystery of the Word II is known out of the Holy Scriptures that all things are made and Created by the word and that yet all things are made by the word and are preserved through the word But here we will not speak Theologically but only naturally according to the Creation Neither do we speak Theosophically of the depths of God both which we save till another time and place The word of Creation is the general power of God out of which in which and by which all things are subsist and will be This general power of Almighty God every Creature makes use of for its best good But only Man abuseth it as also do the Devils and Spirits by Gods permission Hence it cometh that men must give an account of every idle word because they have abused the breath of the Almighty and use it to sin Oh that I could lay a Lock to my mouth that I might not transgress with my Tongue Because now all Mysteries are hid in the word therefore the same also performs all things in the world Therefore we will say that hence ariseth a three fold Magick through faith that is a power to know something to bring it to an effect First there is a Natural Magick which cometh out of Natural Faith wherein there is such a Magnet or Load stone that it can draw all things to it This faith is gotten in Man either of nature in his Spirit which is the true and right ascendent namely the spirit of man and by no means this or that Astre or Constellation as the ignorant do imagine which is only in signam ascendentis c Or this faith through the art and instruction of the natural Magick is wrought in man so that his spirit receiveth the ascendent and rejoyceth in the same As the ascendents in an may very well be transmuted transplanted and altered by the spirits Of his natural Magick without

of the Sand or Stones then you may draw forth the sand and water with a Scoop or Bowl proper for this use with holes in the bottom and a wooden basket strainer thereupon and so the impregnated water or Menstruum with the Gold may pass through and leave the sand or stones behind in the scoop or bowl with the strainer then pour on more warm water on the said sand to wash out the remaining Gold and Tincture and after all is washt out throw the said sand or stones quite away as useless 3. My third compendium is to pour upon the said clear Menstrum which hath the Gold or Tincture another singular sort of water of small price whereby all the said Gold and Tincture at such a height and quantity in the solvent will be precipitated to the bottom and so the clear solvent being freed from the Tincture must be Canted off to serve again for the like use as preserving still its own strength and virtue without any abatement or diminution whatsoever either by the said water precipitating or by any other ways whatsoever and if any be lost or spilt by the usage it may be easily repaired by getting more of the same without much trouble or charge Now if any should mix any precipitating Lixiviat Liquor or Lees with the said solvent contrary to its Nature and thereby mortifie the solvent by precipitating the Gold which is done in other processes and is used in and by my former experiments and trials in this Books about the white sand and stones c. what dammage and loss would come thereby for every time there is occasion to use it our dissolvent should be destroyed and the extraction thereby become very troublesome and chargeable especially being done in Glass or Earthen Cucurbits or bodies but this way all things cost almost nothing and may be done in greater Vessels and cheaper and the said waters be without loss And this kind of extraction may be compared like the making of Salt-Peter where the workman having extracted the Salt-Peter throws away all the ashes and dirt and puts more matter into the Cupam Tubs or Bowls for ●he like common water to extract more 1. Our fourth Compendium is that precipitated Calx of Gold after the filtration in a bag is taken ●ut dried and by a good cheap and singular good matter flux it is reduced to a body and so ●o part of the said Gold will be lost or diminish●d In these four Compendiums for the extraction of Gold will come profit but not so much other ●ays Now let none marvel why I reveal not here any of ●●ese four Compendiums I have been enough bitten ●y the envy of other men For where they could not ●nderstand my writings by their own dulness though ●ad plainly enough expressed the matter and so could ●ot perform the same they then publickly brought scandal on me and reported that whatever I writ were lyes Nay some others have seen the thing performed and yet afterwards for hatred and envy have slighted it and me But however whilst I live by Gods Grace and Providence I shall be helpful to my neighbour by using my Talent to serve them and like a most bright shining Light will shew the wonderful great mystery of God to the Ignorant and simple people against the will of all the enemies of Truth though they fret and vex never so much at it I have resolved so to do Yea behold though my adversaries should all conspire and wholly devour me alive they should swallow but a mean or lean Morsel of Earth for Glauber should be and remain Glauber still till the consummation of the World or Ages now if these men were of the ancient stamp and frame of faith and virtue they would not detract and scandalize their Innocent neighbour without deserving ill at their hands Let these things be sufficient at this time concerning the extraction of Gold out of Sand Stones and Flints Now further I say although every one should use this Extraction of Gold for their Imployment or Trade yet the one would not be a hindrance to the benefit of the other by reason Stones and Sand are obvious to every body in all Countries as also the Salts that are useful to extract the same are plentiful so that nothing is wanting but a lover of the work to set his hand unto it Paracelsus in his book of vexation of Alchymists saith That more Gold and silver is found upon the Earth then in the Bowels thereof and that often times a Countrey Clown throws a stone at a Cow which is worth more then the price of the Cow and it is most certain true and will remain true for a lye cannot degenerate or exalt it self to a truth but in its time hereafter shall be punisht in eternal darkness with the Devil as the father and original of all liers without doubt Democritus his Laughter and Heraclitus his Weeping came from the contemplation of mortal mans eager pursuit after Gold and Silver through great Anxities Labours and Troubles with loss of health and hazard of Soul and Body sailing many times through the vast Ocean for it and tearing open the earth to rush and sink down therein to fetch out Gold and Silver which is so plentifully and easy to be had upon the superficies of the Earth in every Region and Countrey as that its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 abundance may be had Solomon writ not from the purpose saying that great virtue was in Herbs Woods and Stones For that which is fixt in Stones is Volatil in Herbs As in my little Treatise Printed 1663. demonstrated although the first Ens of Gold whence Gold may be made be in both We read also in Esdras there is much Earth to Vessels or Pots but a little pouder or dust to make Gold And all sorts of Earth are not so rich to gain by Extraction of Gold nor it is to be thought that all Stones and Sand and every one are so rich in Corporal Gold as to yield any profit yet they still contain the first Ens of Gold or yield such a Calx by which or the help thereof good Gold may be made the which Calx or Pouder if we knew how to extract and order we would make greater accompt and esteem it more then of Gold it self Now since such an Aurifying or Goldmaking Pouder is so largely extended and diffused in Stones and Sand c. Yet it is not easy to beat it or force it out with a Hammer but only by a peculiar Art is to be extracted and perfected thereupon the blind multitude of covetus Gold hunters will not believe it no more then Ignorants who knows nothing of the Art and yet this art hath been always esteemed amongst Philosophers as their greatest Secret of Secrets and so hath been preserved amongst them Also where Paracelsus writes of the first Ens or Essence of Gold he tells us it may be drawn forth by sublimation and

let no man be puffed up with Knowledge And for our part we are not extol'd therewith for Satan also doth buffet us with fists and doth upbraid us with our shame Therefore we humble our selves that the Lord may accept of us in mercy Who giveth Grace to the humble and beholdeth low things and him that is of a contrite heart and trembleth at his Word Lastly This is the Conclusion that every one examine himself and that according to the Spirit Truth and Wisdom and no otherwise whether God Christ and the Holy Ghost be in him which every one may know by his thoughts Words and Works in his affection will and pleasure and in his Knowledge and Conscience Every good thing is from God and of God and not of Men. All Sin is from the Devil who seduceth man and leadeth him to perdition and destruction Well be to him who separates bad from good rejects bad things and maketh choice of good and beareth fruit thereby The Lord Zeboah will at last take away the evil Eternally and restore the good again and return bad things to that evil one and recompence it upon his head Amen The Lord our God be gracious unto us and help forward the works of his hands yea the works of his hands he will help forward Amen Praised be the Lord that cometh and blessed be his glorious name All the world be full of his Honour Amen Hallelujah FINIS A Catalogue of Chymical Books which have been written Originally or Translated into English ELias Ashmole Esq his Theatrum Chymicum Britanicum Or a Collection of our Famous English Hermetical and Poetical Philosophers viz. Th. Norton Geo. Ripley Geofr Chaucer Jo. Dastin Pearce the black Monk Rich. Carpenter Abrah Andrews Th. Carn●ck Will. Bloomfield Ed Kelley Jo. d ee Th. Robinson the Magistery of W. B. Jo. Gower Mystery of Alchymists Jo Lydgate Will. Redman with divers Anonymi and certain fragments with Annotations upon the same Lond. 1652. 4. His Fassiculus Chymicus Or Chymical Collections of the ●ngress progress and Egress of the Secret Hermetick Science Collected out of the Choicest most Famous Authors Lond. 1650. 8 o. The way to Bliss Lond. 1658. 4º Don Alexis of Piemont His Collection of Secrets with the manner of making Distillations c. Lond. 1580. 4º Fr. Antonies Apology for his Medicine called Aurum Potabile Lond 1616. 4. Aula Lucis Or The House of Light by S. N. Lond. 1●52 8 Artefius his Key of the greater Wisdom 8. vide Flammell Abr. Andrews his Hunting of the Green Lyon vide Theatrum Chymicum Britanicum Alphonsus King of Portugal his 2 Treatises of the Philosophers Stone vide Treatises Albertus Magnus his secrets of the Virtues of Herbs Stones Beasts c. Lond. 1637 8. Anonymi quidem A Discourse of Magical Gold vide Discourse A True order to Distil Oyls c. aide true and perfect order A Profitable Discourse against bad garbling of Spices vide Profitable Secrets revealed concerning the Philosophers Stone vide Secrets Secrets and Wonders of the world vide Secrets Physical Dictionary vide Physical Hermetick Banquet vide Hermetick Enchiridion Physic● restitutae vide Enchiridion Liber Patris Sapientiae vide Theatrum Brit. Hermes Bird vide Th. Brit. Experience and Philosophy Th. Brit. The Hermets Tale vide Th. Brit. Description of the Stone vide Th. Brit. The standing of the Glass for the time of Putrifaction and Congelation of the Medicine vide Th. Brit. The distillation of all manner of Spices Seeds Roots and Gums vide Distillation The Method of Chymical Philosophy and Physick vide Method Th. Brown's Natures Cabinet Vnlockt Or the Natural causes of Metals Stones Precious Earth Juyces Humours and Spirits the Natures of plants in general the affections parts and kinds in particular c. Lond. 1657 12. Jo. Beguines Tyrocinium Chymicum Or Chymical Essays from the Fountain of Nature and Manual Experience Lond. 1669. 8. Hier. Bruynswayke's Virtuous Book of Distillation of the Waters of all manner of Herbs with the Figures of the Stillatories Translated by Lawr. Andrew Lond. 1527. fol. Geo. Baker's New Jewel of Health Containing the most excellent Secrets of Physick and Philosophy and of all Distillations of VVaters Oyles Balmes Quintescences with the Extraction of Artificial Salts the use and preparation of Antimony and Potable Gold with the Vessels and Furnaces and other Instruments thereunto belonging Being the Second part of the Treasury of Euonymus Lond. 1576. 4. Andr. Bertholdus Of the wonderful Effects Virtues and strange use of the new Terra Sigillata found in Germany Lond. 1587 1589. 8. R. Bostock Esq Of the difference of the ancie●t Physick first taught by Godly Fathers and the latter from Idolaters and Heathens as Galen and such others Lond. 1583. Ed. Boldnest's Aurora Chymica Or a rational way to prepare Animals Vegetables and Minerals for Physical use and preservation of the life of Man 1672. 8. His Medicina Instaurata or the Grounds and Principles of the Art of physick made by Chymical operation and the Insufficiency of the vulgar way of preparing Medicines Lond. 1665. 8. R. Bacon's Art of Chymistry 16. His Mirror of Alchimy 1597. 40. His Admirable force of Nature and Art 4º His Tincture of Antimony vide B. Valentine Fr. Bacon Lord of Verulam his Natural History with Articles of enquiry touching Metals and Minerals c. Lond. 1670 fol Ld. Blaise of Viginere his Discourse of Fire and Salt Lond. 1640. 4. Will. Bloomfield's Blossoms vide Th. Brit. B. G. Penotus à Portu Aquitano his Excellent Works vide Firovant Sam. Boultons Magical but Natural Physick With a Description of the most excellent Cordial of Gold Lond. 1656. 8. Rob. Boyle Esq Sceptical Chymist Lon. 1661. 8. His Essay about the Origine and Virtues of Gems Lond. 1672. 8. His considerations touching the usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy 2 parts Oxford 1664 1671 4. His New Experiments Physico Mechanical touching the spring and weight of the Air and their effects Oxford 1660. 8. ibid. with additions and continuation Oxf. 1662 1669 4. His phisiological Essayes and other Tracts with some Specimens to make Chimical Experiments useful to illustrate the Notions of the Corpuscular Philosophy c. Lond. 1669. 4. His Experiments and Considerations touching Colours begining the Experimental History of Colours Lond. 1670 8. His Origine of Forms and Qualities according to Corpuscular Philosophy Illustrated by Considerations and Experiments written by way of Notes upon an Essay about Nitre Oxon. 1666 1667 8. His Tra●●s of Cosmical qualities Things and suspitions of the temperature of Subterraneal and Submarine Regions and of the bottom of the Sea As also An Introduction to the History of particular qualities Oxf. 1671 8. His Experimental History and Observations of Cold London 1665 8 His Hydrostatical Paradoxes made out by New Experiments Lond. 1666. 8. Dan. Coxe's Discourse of the Interest of the Patient in reference to Physick and Physicians With a detection of the abuses of

the Apothecaries and their unfitness for practice discovered Lond. 1669. 8. Osw Crollius J. Hartmans Basilica Chymica or Royal and Practical Chymistry Or a Discovery of those excellent Medicines Chymical Preparations of our Modern Chymists Lond 1670 fol. His Philosophy Reform'd and Improv'd Discovering the great and deep Mysteries of Nature To which is added the wonderful Mysteries of the Creation by Th. Paracelsus Lond. 1657. 8. Th. Chaloner's Virtue of Nitre and the Effects thereof c. Lond. 1534. 4. Will. Clark's Natural History of Nitre Or a Philosophical Discourse of the Nature Generation place and artificial extraction of Nitre with its Virtues and use Lond. 1670. 8. Will. Clever's Flower of Physick with three Books of Philosophy for the due temperature of mans life Lond. 1540. 4. Nic. Culpeper's Treatise of Aurum Potabile Being a Description of the three-fold world Elementary Caelestial and Intellectual Containing the knowledge necessary to the study of Hermetick Philosophy Lond. 1656. 8. His New Method of Physick Or a short view of Paracelsus and Galen's Practice of the Nature of Physick and Alchimy c. Lond. 1654. 8. Lancel Colson vide Philosophia Maturata Geof Chaucer's Channons ● eomans tale vide Th. Brit. A Chymical Dictionary Lond. 1650 4. vide Sendivogius Th. Charnock's Breviary of Natural Philosophy and Aenigma's vide Th. Brit. Lud. Combachius Sal Lumen Spiritus Mundi Philosophici Being a Treatise of the true Salt and Secret of the Philosophers Lond. 1657. 8. Rich. Carpenter's Works vide Th. Brit. Dr. Croon's Letter concerning the present state of Physick and the Regulation of the Prastice of it in England Lond. 1665. 4. Dud. Dudley s Metallum Martis Lond. 1665. 8. Jo. Dees Testament vide Th. Brit. St. Dunstan of the Philosophers Stone vide Philos Maturata A Description of the Philosophers Stone vide Th. Brit. The Distillation of all manner of Spices Seeds Roots and Gums Lond. 1575. 8 Dictionary vide Physical and Chymical A Discourse of Magical Gold Against bad Garbling of Spices vide Profitable Jo. Dastin's Dream vide Th. Brit. Euonymus His treasure of the Secrets of Nature and apt times to prepare and Distill Medicines as Quintessence Aurum Potabile Aromatick Wines Balms Oyls Perfumes Garnishing Waters c. Lond. 156● 4. His Treasury the Second part vide Baker's Distillations Enchiridion Physica Restitutae Lond. 16. Experience and Philosophy vide Th. Brit. Nicas le Febure His Compleat Body of Chimistry for the knowledge of that Art and its Practice London 1670. 40. His Discourse on Sir Walter Raleighs Great Cordial Lond. 1664. Leon. Firovants Compendium of the Rational Secrets of Physick c. with the hidden Virtues of sundry Vegetables Animals and Minerals whereunto is an nexed Paracelsus his 114 Experiments with certain excellent works of B. G. Penotus à portu Aquitano also Is Holland's Secrets concerning his Vegetal and Animal works with Queritan's Spagyrick Antidotary Lond. 1652. 40. Ed. Fentons Secrets wonders of Nature Lond. 1569. Jo. French's Art of Distillation of the choicest Spagyrical preparations Experiments and Curiosities With the Description of the Furnaces and Vessels used by ancient and modern Chymists and the Anatomy of Gold and Silver with their preparations curiosities and virtues with two Books of Sublimation and Calcination Also The London Distiller exactly shewing the way to draw all sorts of Spirits and Srong-waters together with their Virtues 1651 1667 4. His London Distiller in 8. with a Clavis to un lock the deepest secrets in that mysterious Art Lon. 8. His Yorkshire Spaw Or a Treatise of Four Medicinal Waters viz The Spaw or Vitrioline the Sting or Sulphur the Dropping or putrifying and S. Magnus Wells in York-shire their Cause Virtue and use Lond. 1654 8. Nic. Flammel's Hyerogliphical Figures of the Philosophers Stone with Artefius his Key of the greater Wisdom Lond. 1624. 8. Fragments of the Philosophers vide Th. Brit. Jo. Rod. Glaubers Description of the new Philosophical Furnaces Or the Art of Distilling of the tincture of Gold or the true aurum potabile with the first part of the Mineral work Lond. 1651 4. His Golden Ass well managed and Mydas restored to Reason A new Chymical Light shewing that Gold may be found in cold as well as in hot Regions or be extracted out of Sand Stones Gravel or Flints c. vide Philisophical Epitaph Neh. Grews Anatomy of Vegetables With a General account of Vegetation Lond. 1671. 12. Jo. Goddard's Discourse of the unhappy condition of the practice of Physick in Lond. 166● 4. Jo. Gower of the Philosophers Stone vide Th. Brit Will. Gratarolle of the Philosophers Stone vide Treatises Jam. Hasolle alias Elias Ashmole Jo. Bapt. Van Helmont's Works of Physick Chimistry Lond. 1664. fol. His Ternary Paradoxes of the Magnetical cure of Wounds the Nativity of Tartar in Wine and the Image of God in Man Translated by Dr. Walter Charleton Lond. 1650. 4. Helmont Disguised or the Vulgar Errors of Emperical and unskilful Practisers of Phisick confuted Lond. 1657. 8. His Vindication vide Starkie Isaac Holland's Secrets concerning his Vegetal and Animal work vide Firovant His Work of Saturn vide B. Valentine Jo. Hesther's Secrets vide Quercitan The Hermetical Banquet drest by a Spagyrical Cook for the better preservation of the Microcosme Lond. 1652. 8. Io. Fred. Helvetius his Golden Calf which the world adores and desires Or The incomparable wonder of Nature in transmuting Lead into Gold Done at the Hague Lond. 1670. 8. Ibid. Epitomized vide Philosophical Epitaph The Hermits Tale vide Theat Brit. Jo. Hartman's Royal Chimistry vide Crollius Jo. Heydon's Exhavaranna or English Physicians Tutor in the Astrobolisms of Mettals Rosie crucian Miraculous Saphiric Medicines of the Sun and Moon the Astrolasmes of Saturn Jupiter Mars Venus Mercury c. all Harmoniously united with his Psonthonphanchia c. Lond. 1665 8. Jo. Jones his Discourse of the Natural begining of all growing and living things Lond. 1574. 4. His Bathe of Bathes Ayde the Antiquitie commoditie propertie use and knowledge thereof in Diet and Medicines with the Benefit of the ancient Bathes of Buckston Lond. 1572 4. Jehior the Day dawning or the Morning light of Wisdom containing the three Principles or Originals of all things vide Philosophical Epitaph Edw. Iordans Discourse of Natural Baths and Mineral Waters and Original of Fountains Lond. 1632. 4 o Sir Edward Kelley's Work of the Philosophers Stone vide Th. Brit. Rob. Lovel's Compleat Historie of Animals and Minerals Being the sum of Ancient and Modern Galenical Chymical Authors concerning Beasts Birds Fishes Serpents Insects and Man and of Earths Metals Semi-metals Salts Sulphurs and Stones both Natural and Artificial With their place matter names kinds temperature virtues use choise c. Oxford 1661 His Compleat Herbal or the sum of Galenical and Chymical Authors touching Trees Shrubs Plants Fruits Flowers c. Lond. 1665. 12º Reym Lullys Philosophical and Chymical Experiments with the right and due preparation of both