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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

Earth which four Elements stand still unmoveable into which the three special Principles do overflow with their body soul and spirit as to the Water Wind and Spirit and work out all and finish the same The water is as it were the Element the Wind is like as Angelical and the Nature and the Spirit is Divine CHAP. VII Of the particular principles Body Soul and Spirit W●th those are the Principles inclosed and consists in a threefold Trinity and always one produceth another and stand always orderly in their subordinates and agree together that they make up a true and whole Harmony and are enclosed at last in the Light Life and Love The body of all them is and consists out of the water also the Earth the Water out of the Wind the Wind out of the Spirit and the Spirit o●t of God There is a threefold body namely a sensible or palpable out of Water and Earth a Soulish out of Wind and Air and a spiritual out of Heaven Light and Spirit So is an Elementary hody an Angelical and a Divine very well to be distinguished on man Further the Soul is corporeal out of the Air from whence it is fed also and soulish out of the Wind and Spiritual out of the Light The Spirit is Corporeal out 〈◊〉 from the Heaven Soulish out of the Light and spiritual out of the spirit of the Elements out of the Nature and of God according as the Creature is Out of these three general Principles Man hath also a threefold spirit according to his measure and is the perfectest creature Always one body dwelleth in the other and as soon as one body is dissolved and broken in the same moment another and more noble body is manifest and that in all things If now the body becometh nobler needs must the Spirit be more noble high and glorious But this is the body after which the wise do seek Namely the Salt which containeth all in it self This body they drown in a Water which floweth out of the Centrum of the Vegetables and draw out all vertues which afterward come together in a celestial spiritual body and afford that precious jewel All things that are killd and dye naturally are drownd in a cold Saturnine Water for all natural death is done by coldness but what is kill'd in the Fire without a Saturnine Water is not fit to Nature for a better state Only the Salt we seek in the fire and then through the Water and afterwards cleanse and purifie it with the Baptism of Fire and of Water We should therefore six our thoughts on the water and use the fire very carefully because it is a contrary Element before which nothing can subsist but only the Salt This is the true body of all Elements and of all things in the whole world if that be taken away th●● all perisheth quickly and the Gold it self also in the Fire This is the right Heaven wherein dwell all powers and is in all things in the whole world their Heaven and is compared to the Tree of Life in Paradise Now the soul according to the highest degree is out of the nature According to the second degree from the Light and according to the third degree out of the Wind. These are the Principles of the living soul soul and spirit are distinct as God and Nature Spirit and Wind as Angel and living soul yea as spirit and breath The middle Principle among the three Principles is always instead of the Mother as the Nature Wind and Soul The body is the Child which the spirit ●s a Father begets through the soul Out of the spirit cometh the soul he lets it out as his breath and from both these the body The firm soul and spirit as the true life and spirit which is like unto the Angelical world is always in the right body of all things that is in the Salt when it is opened then they come forth in a great clearness as in an Angelical glory At last the spirit of all things is out of the three general Principles in each according to their portion and measure Now the spirit affords the right inward essence the forma essentialis differentia specifica abstractum essentiae and nothing else From the same the body and soul also receive their essence whereby the one from the other essentially and properly are distinguished as man from beasts a beast foul fish vermin c from others and so one thing from another All Creatures are distinguished chiefly into three as into Animalia all living souls into vegetabilia all that grow and spring out of the earth and into Mineralia things that grow under the earth and are digged out and so in the water also These are distinct as the three Principles and in our wisdom always a fair harmony doth represent it self All living souls consist out of Water and bloud in their seeds through a moist warmth and a warm moistness each in its mother All growing things consist in their seed out of a slimy water through the Salt which is fixed in the root flying in the herb leaf and grass and essential in the flower and all three concentre at last in the seed All Minerals Metals and what belongeth to it grow out of a fat earth which the Salt of the earth doth hatch and do coagulate through a cold fire which is a Saturnine Water that is a fiery water and a waterish fire that doth not burn Even as upon earth all things grow by rain and dew as also in the earth it raineth thaweth and is misty thereby grow the Minerals Metals and the like and all this from the salt fixed flying and essential The flying Salt begets Sulphur the essential begets Mercury Among the Vermin the chiefest is the Viper with her brood and kind and is Mercurial Among the Vegetables is the Vine a channel out of which come three sorts of water and also a noble Mineral and is the Centre of the Vegetables Among the Mineral is the Gold yea the Salt Of all these three the Concentred Center is man above all that is created CHAP. VIII Of the Elements and contrary Elements in the Creation THe seven Elements or Powers of the world do rest only upon one which is a right well of all Elements in our thoughts because it containeth all An Element is such a thing out of which and in which the world and all doth consist without which nothing can subsist Again a contrary Element is such whereby the world and Elements are altered and corrupt and at last must quite perish thereby Now all things are Created out of three Principles Materialiter namely out of the word as out of a spiritual out of nature as a soulish and out of the Elements and contrary Elements as an incorporeal-corporeal and Corporeal-incorporeal that is out of the Elements after something and out of the contrary Elements according to nothing The word is the all the Elements are 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

as would transmute two hundred thousand pounds worth of Gold Item He gave me about half a grain and thence were transmuted nine ounces and three quarters of quicksilver into gold and he who gave it me was but of one evenings acquaintance c. Besides The most noble expert man in the art of Fire Doctor Theodor. Retius of Amsterdam gave me John Helvetius a large medal with this inscription Theo-Divine Metamorphosis c. It was of Count Russ his making of Styria and Carynthia in Germany of which one grain transmuted three pound of quicksilver into pure Gold at all assayes Item It is written that sixty years since Alexander Scotus made such a projection at Hanaw in high Germany c. I cannot here pass by Dr. Kufler in an extract of his Epistle First ● found in my Laboratory an Aqua fortis and another in the Laboratory of Charles de Roy I poured that Aqua Fortis upon the Calx of gold prepared after the vulgar manner and after its third Cohobation The Tincture of that gold did rise and sublimed into the neck of the retort which I mixed with two ounces of silver precipitated in a common way and I found that ounce in an ordinary Flux transmuted an ounce and half of the said Silver into the best gold and a third of the remainder into white gold and the rest was the purest silver fixt in all examinations of the Fire but after that time I could never find more of that Aqua-fortis And I Helvetius saw this white gold Item Another rare Experiment done at the Hague There lived at the Hague 1664. a Silver Smith named Grill well exercised in Alkymy but poor according to the custome of Chymists This Grill got some Spirit of Salt not of a vulgar preparation from one Caspar Knotner a Cloth Dyer to use as he said for metals The which afterwards he poured upon one pound of common Lead in an open glass dish or platter usual for confections or conditures and after two weeks there appeared a most curious Star of Silver swimming upon it as if it had been delineated with a Pensel and pair of Compasses by some ingenious Artist Whereupon the said Grill told us with joy he had seen the Signat Star of the Philosophers whereof by chance he had read in Basilius I with many others saw the same to our great admiration The Lead in the interim remaining in the bottom of an ashy colour After seven or nine days in July the Spirit of Salt being exhaled by the heat of the air the Star setled on the Lead or Feces in the bottome and spread it self upon it which many people saw At last the said Grill took a part thereof and out of that pound of Lead he found by computation twelve ounces of cupelled Silver and out of that twelve ounces two ounces of the best Gold and I Helvetius can shew some part of that spongeous Lead with part of ●he Star upon it and also some of the said Silver and Gold Now whilst this envious Silly Grill conceal●ng the use endeavoured to get more of that spirit of Salt from Knotner the said Knotner having forgot what sort it was or else not finding it sudden●y was shortly after drowned and Grill with his family dyed of the Plague so that none could make further benefit or tryal of the said Progress afterwar● Indeed it would move admiration that the Leads i● ward nature should appear in such a noble outwar● form by the simple maturation of the said spir● of Salt neither is it less wonderful that the Phil●sophers Stone should so suddenly transmute all M●tals to Gold or Silver having its vertue potenti●ly implanted within its self and raised into an ●ctive power as is manifest in Iron toucht with th● Load Stone But enough of this CHAP. III. The sooner a thing promised is performed the more grateful Wherefor● I return to my predestinated History THe twenty seventh of December 1666. in th● afternoon came a Stranger to my house at th● Hague in a Plebeick habit honest Gravity an● serious authority of a mean Stature a little lon● face with a few small Pock holes and most blac● Hair not at all curled a Beardless Chin abo● three or four and forty years of age as I guessed and born in North Holland After salutation h● beseeched me with a great reverence to pardon hi● rude accesses being a great lover of the Pyrot●chnyan Art adding he formerly endeavoured t● visit me with a friend of his and told me he had read some of my small Treatises and particularly that against the Sympathetick Powder of Sir Kenelm Digby and observed my doubtfulness of the Philosophical Mystery which caused him to take this opportunity and asked me if I could not believe such a Medicine was in nature which could cure all Diseases unless the principal parts as Lungs Liver c. were perisht or the predestinated time of death were come To which I replyed I never met with an Adept or saw such a Medicine though I read much of it and have wished for it Then I asked if he were a Physitian but he preventing my question said he was a Founder of Brass yet from his youth learnt many rare things in Chymistry of a friend particularly the manner to extract out of Metals many Medicinal Arcana's by force of fire and was still a lover of it After other large discourse of experiments in Metals This Elias asked me if I could know the Philosophers Stone when I see it I answered not at all though I had read much of it in Paracelsus Helmont Basilius and others yet dare I not say I could know the Philosophers Matter In the Interim he took out of his Bosome Pouch or Pocket a neat Ivory Box and out of it took three ponderous pieces or small Lumps of the Stone each about the bigness of a small Wallnut transparent of a paile Brimstone colour whereunto did stick the internal scales of the Crucible wherein it appeared this most noble substance was melted The value of them might be judged worth about Twenty Tuns of Gold which when I had greedily seen and handled almost a quarter of an hour and drawn from the owner many rare secrets of its admirable effects in humane and Metallick bodies and other Magical properties I returned him this Treasure of Treasures truly with a most sorrowful mind after the custom of those who conquer themselves yet as was but just very thankfully and humbly I further desired to know why the colour was yellow and not red ruby colour or purple as Philosophers write he answered that was nothing for the matter was mature and ripe enough Then I humbly requested him to bestow a little piece of the Medicine on me in perpetual memory of him though but the quantity of a Coriander or Hemp Seed He presently answered Oh no no this is not lawful though thou wouldst give me as many Duckets in Gold as would fill this room not

then the Medicine can work upon and ●ransmute So I gave him great thanks for my dimi●ished Treasure concentrated truly in the Superlative ●egree and put the same charily up into my little Box ●ying I meant to try it the next day nor would I ●eveal it to any Not so not so said he for ●e ought to divulge all things to the Children of Art which may tend to the singular honour of God that so they may live in the Theosophical truth and not at all die Sophistically After I made my confession to him that whilst this Masse of his Medicine was in my hands I indeavoured to scrape a little of it away with my Nail and could not forbear but scratcht off nothing or so very little that it was but as an indivisible Atome which being purged from my Nail and wrapt in a Paper I projected on Lead but found no transmutation but almost the whole Masse of Lead flew away and the remainder turned into a meer glassy Earth at which unexpected passage he smiling said thou art more dextrous to commit Theft then to apply thy Medicine for if thou hadst only wraped up thy stollen prey in Yellow Wax to preserve it from the arising fumes of Lead it would have penitrated to the bottom of the Lead and transmuted it to Gold but having cast it into the fumes partly by vi lence of the vaprous fumes and partly by the Sympathetick alliance it carryed thy Medicine quite away For Gold Silver Quick-silver and the like Metals are corrupted and turn brittle like to Glass by the Vapours of Lead Whereupon I brought him my Crusible wherein it was done and instantly b● perceived a most beautiful Saffron like Tincture stic● on the sides and promised to come next morning by nine in the Morning and then would shew me my error and that the said Medicine should transmut● the Lead into Gold Nevertheless I earnestly praye● him in the interim to be pleased to declare only for m● present instruction if the philosophick work co● much or required long time My friend my frien● said he thou art too curious to know all things i● an instant yet will I discover so much that neithe● the great charge or length of time can discourag● any for as for the matter out of which our Magistery is made I would have thee know there is only two Metals and Minerals out of which it is prepared but in regard the Sulphur of Philosophers is much more plentiful and abundant in the Minerals therefore it is made out of the Minerals Then I asked again What was the Menstrum and whether the operation or working were done in Glasses or Crusibles He answered the Menstrum was a Heavenly Salt or of a Heavenly Virtue by whose benefit only the wise men dissolve the Earthly Metallick body and by such a solution is easily and instantly brought forth the most Noble Elixir of Philosophers But in a Crusible is all the operation done and performed from the beginning to the very end in an open fire and all the whole work is no longer from the very first to the last then four days and the whole work no more charge then three Florens and further neither the Mineral out of which nor the Salt by which it was performed was of any great price And when I replyed the Philosophers affirm in their writings that seven or nine Months at the least are required for this work He answered Their writings are only to be understood ●y the true Adeptists wherefore concerning time ●hey would write nothing certain Nay without the ●ommunication of a true Adept Philosopher not one ●tudent can find the way to prepare this great Magi●tery for which cause I warn and charge thee as a ●riend not to fling away thy Money and Goods to ●unt out this Art for thou shalt never find it To which I replied thy Master though unknown snew●d it thee So mayst thou perchance discover some●hing to me that having overcome the Rudiments 〈◊〉 may find the rest with little difficulty according to ●he old saying It is easier to adde to a foundation then begin a new He answered In this Art 't is quite otherwise for unless thou knowest the thing from the head to the heel from the Eggs to the Apples that is from the very beginning to the very end thou knowest nothing and though I have told thee enough yet thou knowest not how the Philosophers do make and break open the Glassy Seal of Hermes in which the Sun sends forth a great splendour with his marvelous coloured Metallick Rayes and in which looking Glass the Eyes of Narcissus behold the transmutable Metals for out of those Rays the true Adept Philosophers gather their fire by whose help the Volatil Metals may be fixed into the most permanent Metals either Gold or Silver But enough at present for 〈◊〉 intend God willing once more to morrow at the ninth hour as I said to meet and discourse further on this Philosophical subject and shall shew you the manner of Projection And having taken his leave he left me sorrowfully expecting him but the next day he came not nor ever since Only he sent an excuse at halfe an hour past nine that morning by reason of his great business and promised to come at three in the afternoon but never came nor have I heard of him since whereupon I began to doubt of the whole matter Nevertheless late that night my Wife who was a most curious Student and enquir●● after the Art whereof that worthy man had discours● came solliciting and vexing me to make experiment of that little spark of his bounty in that Art whereby to be the more assured of the truth saying to me unless this be done I shall have no rest nor sleep all th●● night but I wisht her to have patience till next morning to expect this Elias saying perhaps he will return again to shew us the right manner In the mea● time she being so earnest I commanded a fire to be made thinking alas now is this man though so divine in discourse found guilty of falsehood And Secondly attributing the error of my projecting the grand theft of his powder in the dirt of my Nail to his charge because it transmuted not the Lead that time And lastly because he gave me too small a proportion of his said Medicine as I thought to work upon so great a quantity of Lead as he pretended and appointed for it Saying further to my self I fear I fear indeed this man hath deluded me Nevertheless my wife wrapped the said matter in Wax and I cut halfe an Ounce or six Drams of old Lead and put into a Crusible in the fire which being melted my wife put in the said Medicine made up into a small Pill or Button which presently made such a hissing and bubling in its perfect operation that within a quarter of an hour all the masse of Lead was totally transmuted into the best and finest

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

Souls and Life out of Nature and that from Heaven through the Wind and Air from which all that hath breath doth live und feed as through the forth-going breath of the VVord contained in the second Principle for the word of God feeds every Spirit Life and Body with its breath or blowing upon because Life is in the word which beareth all things by his power even as it hath Created all things Now as all things consist of Body Soul and Spirit so they have three sorts of food to their ilfe substance the bodily food to the body out of the Elements as from that which cometh out of the waters and out of the Earth whence also the body doth come is taken and is made The soulish food to the Soul Life in every thing out of Nature through both the Elements of VVind and Air from whence also the Life and Soul doth bome The Spiritual food to the Spirit and that from God at from whom the Spirit is namely each Spirit according to its measure and to the Spirit in every way this food cometh from Heaven through the Spirit and Light as from the three Spiritual Elements from whence also the Spirit did come Nature doth assemble it self in her Spirits Life and body to the wind Air and water The Angelical world in its body is no earth as the Elementary is but it is the right body of the water out of which it subsisteth and that body is here beneath with us ICE but above it is an Angelical earth like unto a Christal And in a word it is a most noble Salt of Life fertile or constant or firm over all and is the Paradise in it self It is an Angelical Air which doth not fetch breath there as the living Soul for the Life of Nature is Eternal in regard of the end but it liveth and moveth in the Virtue of Gods word Eternally sine respiratione or without breathing Therefore death cannot Reign in the Angelical world over the Nature and over the Tree of Life but is rather overcome by it how much more by God for the Tree of Life stands unmoveable Therefore by the breaking of the fruit of this Tree at the glorious coming of Christ all shall come from death to life and shall be freed and redeemed from death Devil and Curse Lastly in its Spirit also it is of an Angelical Spirit by the power of the word and Testimony of God Thus namely that the Dragon hath no power over it but is conquered by the Spirit of the same is cast out and quite extruded and cast away How much more th●n by God Therefore seeing the Nature in her Spirit is the wind of the Almighty and a going forth of the Light in which God dwelleth and cannot come to that evil one or may not fall into an evil neither may it be blasted or poisoned by the breath of the old Serpent The Divine world in its being is compared to the most noble body of the water and earth as it were to a Heavenly body which is and are an Essential Spiritual Salt as the most noble and pure Gems precious stones and glistering Gold In its Life it is the breath of the Almighty a Soul and Life proceeding out of the mouth of God in and to an Eternal Life and in its Spirit the Spirit of the Lord it self who is God praised for ever God is the Spirit the Nature is the Soul or the Life and the Elements are the Body But be it known that each world hath its proper Nature and Element and that the one world is never changed into the other neither can it be altered nor one Principle general into another Now each Principle hath its proper Spirit Life and Body CHAP. V. Of the third general Principle namely of the Element GOd himself is all in all out of him are all things according to the Spirit by him are all things according to the word and to him are all things according to the Providence or Confidence Rom. 11. 36. Wisd 1. 7. Chap. 12. 1. Gen. 1. John 1. Psal 104. 27 28. 136. 25. 145. 15 16. The nature is all but not in all because she is not in God who hath his own Nature and the Elements also are not all but something only which is a Salt This something is from God after the Spirit from Nature after the Life and Soul and from the Spiritual water after the body And again the water out of the Salt each world is and doth flow out of the other The Nature stands to the Angelical world and is a flowing out of the divine world and the Elementary world is an overflowing of the Nature and Angelical world Lastly Man cometh forth out of the three worlds and is the concentred or conjoyned Centrum of all the worlds There are seven Elements or Powers of the world as Spirit Wind Air and Water Light Heaven and Earth and are such by which in and through which this world consists and subsists and without which it cannot subsist These seven Elements are Created out of such a one which in the Elementary world are all in all and are incorruptible namely Salt which is an excretion of Nature Execrementum quasi sobriè sumptum whereby in this world all things bodily subsist and are preserved Now there is a threefold Salt namely a Spiritual soulish and a Bodily and Palpable The Bodily is fixt and permanent both in Water and Fire Whence we know out of what wherein and whereby all things stand firm and constant both in the Water and the Fire that they may not be drowned and wherewith they are closed up The Soulish Salt is flying because life and Soul is in it and the growth of all whereby all things receive both body and life but when it cometh down again and turneth to the fixed Salt again then they receive Life But the Spiritual Salt is a right true essence and in this world the most noble Being of all Being Spiritus universi the Spirits of the Elements and their Light and Heaven in its Essence The Spiritual Salt dwelleth in the Spirit Light and Heaven and giveth to the body of the Resurrection as Spiritual from the Spirit Light and Heaven The Volans or flying Salt dwelleth in the Wind Air Rain and Dew this giveth out of wind and air to the body after death The fixed Corporeal Salt dwelleth in water and earth out of which this our body doth subsist But Salt is the right fixed Salt and the right water of Life which is a dry water and together water and Earth in which the air and wind is secretly hid and also the Heavens Light and Spirit in its depths which are then the seven Powers of the Element and world and all seven may easily undeniably and manifestly to the eye be demonstrated if the same be Anatomized This only Element of all Elements is a Power of all Powers in this World The Salt is an Excrement

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

Elixers and the perfect way of making the great Stone of Philosophers as it was truly taught in Paris and some time practiced in England by R. Lully in the time of King Edward the Third vide Paracelsus Jo. Levens Path-way to health for Distilling of divers Waters and making of Oyls c. Lond. 1587. 4º 1664. 12. Lathams Spaw in Yorkshire with some remarkable Cases and Cures effected by it Lond. 1672. 8. A further account of Latham's Spaw in Yorkshire as it may conduce to publick advantage Lond. 1672. 8. A Letter sent by a learned Physitian to his friend wherein are detected the manifeld Errors used hitherto of the Apothecaries in preparing their Compositions as Syrups Condites Conserves Pills Potions Electuaries Lozenges c. with a far better manner to preserve and correct the same Lond. 1586. 8. A little Book of Secrets for liquifying and using of Gold and Silver Lond. 8. Jo. Bapt. Lambye His Revelation of the secret Spirit declaring the most concealed secret of Alchimy Lond. 1623. 8 Jo. Lydgate's Secreta Secretorum or Letter of Alexander the great to Aristotle vide Theatrum Brit. Liber Patris Sapientiae vide Th. Brit. The London Distiller vide French Lev. Lemnius His secret miracles of Nature with Philosophical and prudential Rules for the health of Body and mind of man fit for those that search into the hidden secrets of Nature Lond. 1658. fol Magnetical Philosophy 8º Nicol. Monardus Of the vertues of divers Herbs Trees Oyls Plants and Stones with their use in Physick and a discourse of the Bezoar Stone of Iron and the Vertues of Snow Lond. 1577. 4 o. Jo. Maplets Green Forest of Sovereign Vertues in all the whole kind of Stones and Metals Plants Herbs Trees and Shrubs of Beasts Fowls Fishes creeping Worms and Serpents Lond. 1567. 8. Chr. Merret's View of the frauds and abuses committed by Apothecaries in relation to Patients and Physitians Lond. 1069. 4 o. Mich. Majerus His Themis Aurea or Laws of the Rosie Cross Lond. 1656. 12 o His Lusus serius or serious pastime Lond. 1654. 12 o. The Magistery of W. B. vide Th. Brit. The Mystery of Alchimists vide Th. Brit. The Marrow of Chymical Physick or the Practice of making Chymical Medicines shewing the order to draw forth from Vegitables Minerals and Metals their Spirits Oyls Vinegars Salts Extracts or Tinctures Essences and Magisteries Flowers and Salts c. Lond. 1669 12 o. Hen. Nollius His Chymists Key or Doctrine of Corruption and Generation Lond 1657. 8 o. 16 o. His Hermetical Physick or the right way to preserve and restore health Lond. 12 o. Ant. Neri His Art of Glass shewing the ways to make and colour Glass Pastes Enamels Lekes and other Curiosities by fire Lond. 1662. To which is added an account of the Glass-drops made by the Royal Society 1672. 8 o. Th. Nortons Ordinal of Alchimy vide Th. Brit. Hen. Oldenbourg Esq His Collection of the Philosophical Transactions for several years 40. The Method of Chymical Philosophy and Phisick Lond. 1664. 8. Edw. Mainwaring's Compleat Physitian wherein are the Characters of the Chymical Emperick and Chimical Physitian with the Excellency of Chymical preparations Lond. 1668. 8. March Needham His Medela Medicinae or Plea for the free profession and a renovation of the Art of Physick Lond. 1665. 8. Philosophia Maturata or the Practick and operative part of the Philosophers Stone with the way how to make the Mineral Stone and the Calcination of of Metals with the work of St. Dunstan concerning the Philosophers Stone and the Experiments of Rumelius and the preparation of Angel Sala published by Lancelet Colson Lond. 1668. 12º The Philosophical Epitaph of W. C. Esq for a memento mori on the Philosophers Tomb Stone with three Hieroglyphical Scutcheons displaying Minerva's and Hermes Birds and Apollo's Bird of Paradise in Philosophical Mottos and Sentences with their Explication and a discovery of the Liquor Alchahest Of Salt of Tartar volatized and other Elixirs with their differences and proprieties also a Brief of the Golden Calfe discovering the rarest miracle in Nature of a strange transmutation of Lead into Gold made by Dr. Jo. Fred. Helvetius with Figures likewise Jo. Rod. Glauber his Golden Ass well managed and Midas restored to Reason a new Chymical light for comfort of the oppressed demonstrating Gold to be easily extracted in all places out of Sand Stones Gravel or Flints and the true matter of the Philosophers Stone to which is added Jehior the day Dawning or the Morning Light of Wisdom containing the three Principles or Originals of all things whatsoever discovering the great and many Mysteries in God Nature and the Elements all published by W. C. Esq Lond. 1673 8. His Secrets of Alchimy Lond. 8 Aur. Theo. Paracelsus His Treatise of the Cure of French Pox with all other Diseases arising and growing thereof Lond. 1590. 4. His 114. Experiments vide Firovant His Key of Philosophy or The most excellent secrets of Physick and Philosophy with the Order of Distillation of Oyls Gums Spices Seeds Roots and Herbs with their perfect Taste Smell and Virtues and how to Calcine Sublime and dissolve all manner of Minerals and how to draw forth their Oyl and Salts Lond. 1580 1633. 8. His Dispensatory 8. His Archidoxes 8 His Chymical Transmutation Genealogy and Generation of Metals and Minerals with the Vertues and use of Dr. Trigs water with the Mumial Treatise of Tentzelius The Philosophical and Chymical Experiments of Rym Lully with the right and due preparation of both Elixirs and the perfect way of making the great Stone of Philosophers as it was truly taught in Paris and some time practiced in England by R. Rully in the time of King Edward the Third Lond. 1657. 8. Paracelsus His wonderful mysteries of the Creation vide Crollius His Philosophical and Chymical Treatise of Fire and Salt 8. Of the Nature of things 9 Books 1650. 4 o vide Sendivogius Of the Supream Mysteries of Nature of the Spirits of the Planets occult Philosophy the Magical Sympathetical and Antipathetical Cure of Wounds and Diseases the Mysteries of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiack Lond. 1656. 8. Eug. Philalethes Anthroposophia Theomagica Lond. 1650 8. His Magia Adamica Lond. 1650. 8. His Anima magica abscondi●a or a Discourse of the universal Spirit of Nature Lond. 1650 8 His Euphrates or Waters of the East or a Discourse of the secret Fountain whose Water flows from the Fire Lond 1671. 8. Eir. Phil. Philalethes alias Geo. Starkies Marrow of Alchimy being an experimental Treatise of the secret and most hidden mystery of the Philosophers Elixir Lond. 1654. 8. Hugh Plats Jewel house of Art and Nature with divers Chymical Conclusions of the Art of Distillation c. Lond. 1594. 4 o. His Subterraneal Treasure Lond 40. Jo. Partridges Treasury of hidden secrets Lond 1591. 8 Nic. Prepositas Practice of approved Medicines precious Waters c. Lond. 1588 4 o. Sim. Partlisius His new Method of Physick or