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A76996	Paracelsvs of the [brace] chymical transmutation, genealogy and generation [brace] of metals & minerals. Also, of the urim and thummim of the Jews. With an appendix, of the vertues and use of an excellent water made by Dr. Trigge. The second part of the mumial treatise. Whereunto is added, philosophical and chymical experiments of that famous philosopher Raymvnd Lvlly; containing, the right and due composition of both elixirs. The admirable and perfect way of making the great stone of the philosophers, as it was truely taught in Paris, and sometimes practised in England, by the said Raymund Lully, in the time of King Edw. 3. / Translated into English by R. Turner philomathēs.	Paracelsus, 1493-1541.; Turner, Robert, fl. 1654-1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing B3543; Thomason E1590_3; ESTC R208833	78,745	173

will force them stand before 'um And bring them up in Cavea stultorum But princely Nature from his boundless store Provides a Salve for every dang'rous sore And thus hath made our Authors happy Pen The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of good to unlearn'd men Go on good Friend to other things for we By this thy Book are able to foresee Great Paracelsus Learning Hermes Skill Shall English speak by thy ingenious Quill John Gadbury 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Paracelsus Paracelsus OF The TRANSMUTATION OF METALS CHAP. I. Of the Scale of Transmutation TRansmutation is an alteration or changing of the forms of natural things into other forms as of Metals or Wood into Stones or Glass the changing of Stones into Coles c. It hath been found out That Metals that have been first coyned into Money have been by Nature changed under the Ground into a stony substance and yet have retained the impression of the Image that hath been stamped upon them and That the Roots of Oaks being smitten with Thunder or some other influence of the Stars have been turned into true Stones There do also arise Springs of Rivers in many places that by a certain natural poperty do transform all things whatsoever are cast into them into hard Stones These and such-like works of Nature wise men have contemplated and have thereby learned likewise to do the fame things by Art by observing the same Order which Nature teacheth by her Instruments This we see frequently done in many Mountains That Coles are generated of Stones naturally by a certain Aetnean fire of which Carpenters have frequent use So that this last kinde of Transmutation is done by Fire in the Earth the other before spoken of by Water and Air These are the Instruments of Nature and they are for the Matter the Motion for the Form What therefore if a natural Composition may be made Earth by Fire and that made Water by Air and this made Fire by Fire and that again descending may be made Air by Air and then this be made Water by Water and at last that may be reduced into Earth by Fire what Transmutation I pray do thou think will come thereof if you were expert you would know it The vulgar and ignorant see not these things and that for no other cause but because they do not consider the secrets of Nature Whosoever therefore together with them is ignorant of or denieth these things which Nature hath set before the Eyes of all how learned or wise soever he would seem to be he is not worthy of the Name of a Philosopher nor Physitian Whence hath Physick her first Foundation out of the appearance onely or manifest superficies of natural things Nothing less but out of the most occult and hidden secrets of Nature compared to the most manifest effects Wherefore as Nature her self is undiscernable by every sence no otherwise are all her Operations Who ever saw a Tree to grow or the Sun or Stars move No body But that the Trees have grown and the Sun and Stars have been moved by a space of time who knoweth not Therefore Operations in Physick do more chiefly consist in the Understanding rather then in the Eyes or the other Sences although they in their courses are the Directors unto us that we may make further progress otherwise between the Philosopher and the Clown there would be no further difference But to return to the purpose The Scale or Ladder of Transmutation hath seven Steps or principal Degrees which are Cascination Sublimation Solution Putrefaction Distillation Coagulation and Tincture Under Calcination are contained these his Members Reverberation Cimentation and Incineration wherewith in all Operations all things are turned into Chalk or into Ashes Therefore in the first Degree of Transmutation the elementative natural bodies are converted into Earth with a middle Fire as the Instrument And here first of all is to be noted the difference between material Elements and instrumental of which by the way we shall speak for these are external but the other are internal as when the first Operation is compleated whether it be by Calcination or Reverberation Cimentation or Incineration Sublimation succeedeth out of the order of Preparations which Earth now being calcined is converted either into Water or into Air according to the Nature and property of the thing so to be converted for if it be of dry things then chiefly is to be used the elevation of the Volatile parts from the fixed Wherefore Sublimation is convenient for things of that Nature But if there ought to be made a separation of moist things as of Vegetables or Animals then it is convenient to use Sublimation thereof in the fifth Degree to wit Distillation But because in this place it is chiefly intended to treat of dry things as Metals and Minerals the order congruent to their Natures is likewise to be observed Therefore the Volatile part is to be sublimed as in moist things by Cohobations that is by re-conjoyning of the parts separated and by iterating or separating them over again until they become fixed and remain within with the parts fixed and ascend no more but remain consisting in the substance and form of Oyl of or a Stone for with Solution by the Air they are turned into Oyl and with Coagulation by Fire into a Stone Let Sal Armoniak be an example for every Metal for that in Sublimation successively becomes Stone By this Operation of Sublimations many corrosives are dulcified and mollified and on the contrary with the addition of another substance Also many sharp things are sweetned and many sweet things on the contrary are sharpened somtimes by themselves or with other things prepared after this manner Afterwards happens the third Degree to wit Solution and that is twofold the one of cold the other of heat Salts Corrosives and whatsoever things are calcined are coagulated by Fire and then by the coldness of the Air are resolved into Liquor Water or Oyl in a moist place as a Cellar or in the Air being placed upon a Marble-stone or Glass But fat and sulphureous things are dissolved by the heat of the Fire and that which the Fire dissolveth by heat the same is coagulated by the coldness of the Air On the contrary that which is dissolved by the coldness of the Air is coagulated by the heat of the Fire Note here the Reason wherefore we call the Air cold which seems to oppose and contradict the Opinion of some Philosophers for they will have it to be hot and moist but they consider not whereof the Air consists doth it not consist of Fire and Water for what else is the Air but Water dissolved by Fire Wherefore from one part thereof to wit the Fire it borroweth heat and driness and from the other part the Water coldness and moisture for they are the two chief qualities thereof and the other two are her Ministers for there is nothing hot by Nature which is not also

necessary and naturally dry neither is there any thing cold which by the same reason is not moist Whatsoever is besides contingent hereunto is not by Nature but by accident It is no otherwise amongst the Elements the Fire and Water have the chief place and the Earth borrows her coldness from her Companion the Water and her driness from the Fire for her self she is never hot moist nor cold nor dry but serveth her two other Princes as the Wax submits to every Seal In like manner we are to judge of the Air for so the Air receiveth heat and driness from his Father the Fire and cold and moisture from his Mother the Water therefore they are generated as from their Parents the Fire and Water the Air Masculine or rather a Hermaphrodite and the Earth a Female And thus far of the natural Instruments and the Matter The fourth Degree is Putrefaction This for its excellency might deserve the first place if it were not repugnant to the true order and a secret in this place hidden to many and manifested to few It ought therefore to remain placed in its due Series even as the links in a Chain wherein if one be wanting the Captive detained therewith escapes and flies away The property therefore of Putrefaction is that consuming the old Nature of things it introduceth a new Nature and sometimes produceth Fruit of another Generation for all living things die with corruption and being dead they putrefie and again acquire life by the Transmutation of their Generation into them And by it corrosive Spirits are dulcified and mollified and all Colours are thereby turned into others and thereby the pure is separated from the unclean Now the Members of Putrefaction are Digestion and Circulation The fifth Degree is Distillation which is nothing else but a Separation of the moist from the dry and the thin from the thick The Members hereof are Ascension Lotion Imbibition Cohobation and Fixation Cohobation which concludeth all the rest is an often effusion or pouring of the distilled Liquor to its feses and often distilling it over As Vitriol with Cohobations is fixed by its own proper Water and then it is called Allumen Saccarinum which being dissolved into Liquor and then putrefied by the space of a Month and distilled yields a most sweet and pleasant Water after the manner of Sugar which is a most excellent Medicinal secret far above others to extinguish the Microcosmical Fire which happeneth to the Diggers of Metals which is largely spoken of in the Book De Morbis Fossorum Mineralium Of the Diseases of the Diggers in Mynes After the same manner also may any other Minerals and Waters as Sal Nitrum be fixed by Cohobations The sixth Degree is Coagulation which also is twofold answering contrary to Solution consisting of heat and driness that is of Air and Fire Again Coagulation is twofold as having two parts cold and as many of hear The first of cold is made of common Air without Fire and the last of the superior Firmament by the Hy●●al Stone which congealeth all Waters into Snow and Ice But the first Coagulation of heat is made by industry in Art observing the gradations of the Fire and is fixed but the other Degrees of cold in Alchymy are not fixed The later Coagulation of heat is made by an Aetnean Fire and Mineral under the Earth and under the Mountains and is gradated by a natural Arch of the Earth Not unlike to this is the Fire which being gradated by the Art of Alchymy is excited and brought to Coagulation Whatsoever is coagulated by this Aetnean Fire remains fixed as is manifest by Metals and Minerals all which consist from the beginning of certain Muscilaginons matter coagulated by the Aetnean Fire and the natural Arch and Artifice of the Earth under the Mountains into Stones Metals Pearls Salts c. The seventh and last Degree of the Scale or Ladder of Transmutation is Tincture the most noble Medicine above all others that are procured by the Chymical Art whereby all Metallick and humane bodies are dipp'd into a far more noble better and excellent substance then before they were naturally of and are thereby reduced to the highest Degree of soundness colour and perfection and to a more strong and excellent Nature Various are the kindes and species of these Tinctures in this place least of all intended to he treated of The Metallick bodies ought first to be removed by Fire from their Coagulation and to be liquefied otherwise they will not receive any active Tincture unless they be opened Also all the Tinctures of Metals ought to be fixed substances easily fusible and of an incombustible Nature that being poured upon a fiery Lamen they may flow forthwith like Wax and soon penetrate the Metal without smoke as Oyl doth Paper or as Water enters into a Sponge so they dye that into a white and red colour remaining in the Fire and enduring every trial Therefore in the first Degree of Calcination to come to these Tinctures the Metals being brought into Alcol they acquire an easie liquefaction in the second Degree to wit of Solution and then by Putrefaction and Distillation their Tinctures may be fixed and made incombustible and the colours unvariable But to restore recover conserve or renew the Health of humane bodies they ought to be drawn from Gold Pearl Antimony Sulphur Vitriol or the like Various also are the Subjects of the Fire and they have several and divers Operations in Chymistry as one Fire made of the flame of Wood and this they call living Fire wherewith is calcined and reverberated the bodies of all Metals and other things another is a continual heat of a Candle or Lamp wherewith they fix Volatiles there is another Fire of Coles wherewith bodies are cemented coloured and purged from their Excrements also Gold and Silver are thereby brought to a higher Degree Venus is refined and all other Metals are renewed the fiery Lamens of Irons have another Operation for thereupon is made the trial of Tinctures Another heat is raised by Fire by the filings of Iron another in Ashes another in Salt another in Balneo Mariae wherewith are made many Distillations Sublimations and coagulations There is also another Operation made by Balneum Roris which sometimes I have elsewhere called Balneum Vaporosum wherewith many Solutions of corporal things are made Then the Venter Equinus hath another Operation in which are made the chief Putrefactions and Digestions also the invisible Fire hath an Operation far beyond all these that is of the Beams of the Sun which plainly appeareth by his Operations as by a Speculum or Chrystal And of this the Ancients have not made mention By this Fire the three Principles of every thing may be separated upon a Table of Wood without any fear of flagration or adustion and all Metals liquefied without any visible Fire and all combustibles consumed into Coals and Ashes But the Transmutation of Metals to bring

because the intellect doth so far excel the sense this is a work of a second intention and the beginning upon the vertue of Elements that is a pure bright and cleer Water of Putrefaction for the perfection of every Art properly so called requires a new birth as that which is sowed is not quickned except it die but here death is taken for mutation and not for rotting under the clods Now therefore we must take the Key of Art and consider the secret of every thing is the Life thereof Life is a Vapor and in Vapor is placed the wonder of Art whatsoever hath heat agitating and moving in it self by the internal Transmutation is said to live this Life the Artist seeks to destroy and restore an eternal Life with Glory and Beauty This Vapor is called The vegetable Spirit because it is of degree of heat with the hottest Vegetable and being decocted till it shine like brightest Steel you shall see great and marvelous secrets not by the separation of Elements by themselves but by predomination and victory of that pure Fire which like the Celestial Sun enters not materially but by help of Elemental Fire sends forth his influence and impression of form Here we must observe difference of perfections for although ye have now the Fountain of compleat white yet you are not neer your chief delight which is the Fountain of Life and Centre of the Heart the universal Spirit which lives in the radical humidity and doth naturally vivificate and is the masculine Seed of the Celestial Sun here is that Rule made good Except ye sow in Gold ye do nothing Therefore we must take heed what we understand by Gold whereof there are three sorts Vulgar Chymical and Divine which is therefore so called because it is a special Gift of God The Theosophists are perswaded by exact diet and by certain form of prayers at certain times to obtain the Angel of the Sun to be their Guide and Director The Philosophers advise to take the like matter above Earth that Nature hath made under the Earth Others to search the most precious treasure from a vile thing all which is easily agreed if rightly understood for in the lines following the same Author saith The vile thing is from the Sperm of Gold cast in the matrix of Mercury by a prime conjunction Others affirm Azoch and Ignis to be sufficient for this high perfection the which Azoch among the Germans is Silver with the Macedonians Iron with the Greeks Mercury with the Hebrews Tin with the Tartars Brass with the Arabians Saturn and with the Indians Gold All which being diverse in Nature are potential in one composition and by the duel of Spirits the Celestial Gold obtaineth victory over all the rest and is made though not with hands a body shining like the Sun in glory which is called Ens omnis privationis expers or Thummim This is the Key that made the pure cleer Fountain and of it was made himself the fair Woman so loving the red Man she became one with him and yielded him all glory who by his Regal power and soveraign Quality raigneth over the fourfold Nature eternally but if any shall understand either common or Chymical Gold to be the substance of this sacred body he is much mistaken for a glorious Spirit will not appear save in a body of his own kinde Although pure Manchet be made of the finest Meal yet Wheat is not excluded and so Bread is said to be of the second and neerer causes rather then the remote notwithstanding that which is made by the effect in a successive course is as certain as that which is made with hands After we fell from unity we groan under the burden of division but three makes up the union first temporary and afterwards eternally fixed He that knoweth a thing fully must know what it was is and shall be so to know the several parts of a successive course is not a small thing neither the honor little in the right use of the Creature Air turned into Water by his proper mixture becomes Wood and the same Wood by Water is turned into a Stone A Spring in Italy called Clytinus makes Oxen white that drink it And the River in Hungary turns Iron into Copper VVhat excellency things may attain by habitual vertue or what power when Nature and Art make one perfection who is able to express If you desire by Art to have a thing of admirable sweetness and odor you will take a substance of like quality to exalt into such excellency the proper quality of Fire and Air is sweetness it is but appropriate in Earth and Water what bodies shall we finde where these are most abundant to be wrought upon As the Celestial Bodies give no Tincture yet they are most abundant in Tincture Air is cause of Life Mercury is coacted Air Ethereal and truly Homogeneal which doth after a sort congeal and fix it is called a crude Gold and Gold affixed and mature Mercury And although the crude Quality be cold and dry some hold for the excellency of its temperature That it is all Fire or like to it whereby it is dissolved however it is at large proved those bodies are most abundant in pure Fire and Air whose proper Quality is sweetness Therefore those are the fittest subjects to make the most precious perfume in the world and considering cleerness and brightness is the centre of each thing and those bodies have both centre and superficies cleer and bright whensoever they are purified by Art and the bodies made spiritual and those Spirits corporated again they must necessarily be Bodies of greatest or cleerest Light and Perfection as one compareth a glorified Body to a cleer Lanthorn with a Taper in it saying The more a man excels in vertue the greater or lesser was the Taper But the work cannot be manifest without the destruction of the exterior form and the restitution of a better which is the glorious substances of Urim and Thummim which in their being and Physical use preserves the Temple of Man's Body incorruptible Some observe not just difference between Liquification and Solution but all Corrosives or violent Operations Nature hates because there can be no Generation but of like Natures neither can you have the precious Sperms without Father and Mothers And although one Vessel is sufficient to perfect the Infant in the Wombe yet Nature hath provided several breasts to nourish it and different means to exalt it to the strength of a man How Gold should be burnt which the Fire cannot consume is questionable but every exaltation of this soveraign Spirit adds a tenfold vertue and power then take one part of this Spirit which is become as insensible as dust and upon molten Gold it turns all into powder which being drunk in White-wine openeth the Understanding encreaseth Wisdom and strengtheneth the Memory for here is the Vein of Understanding Fountain of Wisdom and River of Knowledge

which are not permanent but they go about fixed Cures with unconstant means undertaking that which is impossible for them to perform But what shall I say more unto these they have never yet learned otherwise in their Academies The Spirit of Venus is derived of a permixtion of more crass elements then the former wherefore it is inferiour and subject unto them but it is more perfect then the other Spirits and Tinctures which follow excelling them in fixation and constancie not yeelding to the fire nor so subject to be corrupted as the others subsequent and remaineth more fixed in the fire which vertue Venus hath not in her own body but from a Spirit What operation soever it hath in its Mercury the same it doth also in humane bodies according to the degree of nature for it defendeth wounds and ulcers from accidents and expelleth such diseases as are under its degree and power and disperseth the root thereof If it be mixed with any other Metals it breaketh their perfect bodies that they will not be malleable any more until they be freed from it The like effect it hath in humane bodies especially if it be taken for any Disease not destined unto its degree by nature it bringeth Contractures of the members VVherefore the Physitian ought perfectly to learn the Natures and Tinctures of Metals how they agree with the Nature of Bodies before they venture to give them lest they endanger their Patient The tincture of Mars consists of an adustible and crass permixion of the Elements having a more hard and less tractable substance then the other imperfects hardly fusible but corruptible both with Air and VVater easily subject to be consumed with rust but in hardness and driness it abounds above all other Metals as well perfect as imperfect It torments the body of man if applied to any disease other then becometh its Nature yet it wanteth not power and vertue granted to it by God and Nature in its special propriety The Spirit of Jupiter is created of a white pally substance of Fire by nature intractable with the hammer but not so much as Mars Being mixed with others it discontinueth and mixeth with them especially with Luna that it will hardly be separated herefrom The like operation it hath in all other Metals except in Saturn if it be taken contrary to its Nature to operate upon mans body it afflicts the members with cruel passions and pains and gnaweth them with such burning that they cannot exercise their natural faculties being outwardly applied to Fistula's Cancers Carbuncles and such-like which exceed not the degree of its Nature it is the best remedy expelling every evil The Spirit of Saturn is created of an obscure tenebrose and cold permixture of Elements whereby it comes to pass that it less endures the Fire then any other It mundifies the bodies of Sol and Luna and purgeth them from superfluities it afflicteth the body taken inwardly more then Tin or Iron but because it is coagulated with more cold then the other it operates not so sharply it hath an excellent faculty to heal Fistula's Cancers and such-like ulcers and many other infirmities But having performed its operation unless it depart from the body together with the disease it doth more hurt then good Wherefore let the Physitian that desires to make use hereof first know with what diseases it agrees and how it is naturally ordained for Medicine Lastly the Spirit of Mercury hath no certain determinate form but is subject to all the other as wax to the impression of a seal for it receiveth every Spirit whatsoever unto it self as when the Spirit of Sol is impressed into it it transites into Sol if Luna into Luna and so of the rest he putteth on their nature and embraceth every Metal His body may be compared to the Spirits of other Metals as the Female to the Male not by a corporal mixture but when a Spirit is educed from its Metal and after the preparation projected into Mercury then at length he exhibits his transmutation no otherwise then a dead female of Metal although it be as an untilled Field or Earth if it be macerated or vivified with the Philosophers Plough which female in this work remains fixed and uncorrupt it is united to the said corporal Spirit by the degrees of the fire into his nature and substance this with the dead body of Metal which with the crass Spirit of Mercury cannot be done And although the body of Sol exist of Mercury or Argent vive and is fixed nevertheless common Mercury not fixed or mortified never cometh to its Resurrection For the Resurrection of Metals is an immortal Regeneration and the medium whereby the tinctures are promoted to their generation Wherefore it cannot be united with dead bodies into fixation but only with extracted Spirits of the corporals before spoken of which are subject to Metals as the common Mercury is subject to all Metallick Spirits For the crass Spirit of Mercury doth in no wise generate this tincture in substance no more then a concubine legitimate issue We are to judge in like manner of the crass Spirit of Mercury so long until the metallike and corporal Spirit is made by the medium of the natural matter without this medium it is impossible to attain to any good and perfect work in these kinde of tinctures moreover if the fire be too strong it cannot generate if too remiss the same event happens CHAP. X. Of the plain Manifestation of this Art WHen thou wilt make the Heaven or Sphere of Saturn to run with life upon the Earth impose thereupon all the Planets or which you will but let there not be too much of Luna but add less thereof then of the other Permit them all to run until you see the Heaven of Saturn quite to vanish by this means all the Planets will remain of such a consistency that their ancient and corruptible bodies being dead they have put on a new perfect and incorruptible body This is the Spirit of Heaven by which the said Planets are again made corporal and living as at first Take this new body from the Life and from the Earth and this keep for this is Sol and Luna After this manner thou hast the whole Art made manifest and plain but if thereby thou dost not know or understand the same it is well for so it ought to remain not vulgarly and indifferently laid open to all Finis de Transmutatione Metallorum Of the Genealogy and Generation of Minerals CHAP. I. WHen I had diligently and accurately read the writings of the Ancients concerning the Generation of Minerals I appredended that they understood not the ultimate matter of them and by consequence much less the first Truly if the beginning of any matter may rightly be written certainly the end thereof may very fitly be declared I have therefore in the first place decreed to propose unto you the ultimate matter of all Minerals whereby you may

shall you make moist with red-wine-vinegar but not too much and dry it then by the fire or by the Sun then put the same in a Glass to sublime that is well luted beneath and set it on warm ashes and so long let your Glass remain open and when you see the mouth of your Glass to look white in the sublimation or that your Mercury begin to flie up then take a linen cloath filled with Cotten-wool and therewith you shall stop the hole above as surely as you can but your Glass must be somewhat high that the clout with the Cotten that is in the mouth of the Glass do not burn for then you shall consume your stopple and then the Glass is well stopped so augment your fire a little two hours long and then four hours greater and at the last so great as your Glass will bear without melting and so hold your fire in that degree four hours long then let it cool and when your Oven and Glass is cooled then take it out and break it open and you shall finde your Mercury above in the Helm as white as Snow and some part shall lie below upon the Feces very fair and white then take it up as clean as you can both that which is flown up and that that lies in the bottom on the Feces Now to know whether that you have done right or no take the Mercury so sublimed and weigh it and see what is diminished of the first weight for if it be truely done it will lack but one ounce in the pound weight if it want more it is not well done for you have made your fire at the first too great or at the last too small And if at the first your fire were too strong then is there of your Mercury flown away with the moisture so that the weight comes short and if at the later end your fire were too great it may be that your Glass is molten or crackt with the force of the fire and then is your sublimation lost and if at the last your fire were too small then is there of your Mercury on the Feces and thereby is your weight diminished Thus shall you understand that I have found it that there is but one ounce lacking in a pound weight being rightly sublimed Then take fresh powder of Vitriol c. and mingle your sublimated Mercury herewith as you have done before and sublime it again and this must you do seven times in all points as before or at the first and in every sublimation after the first it shall diminish one quarter of an ounce if you have done it right as aforesaid and no more and when it is sublimed in this manner as aforesaid then it is ready to put into the red Elixir to make the Philosophers stone therewith CHAP. IV. Teacheth thee to sublime Mercury to the white Elixir MY beloved Son you shall understand that the Sublimation of Mercury serving to the white Stone is done as the other before in the third Chapter for the red Stone there is no other difference but that you must put in the place of Vitriol Roch-Allom Saltpeter and prepared Salt as aforesaid and written and do in all points as in the third Chapter unto seven times and then is your Mercury ready and perfect to put to your Elixir to make the white Stone of the Philosophers CHAP. V. Teacheth thee to prepare the white Stone upon all bodies MY beloved Son you shall take in the Name of God your white Elixir and set it in Balneo to putrefie the space of fourteen dayes and nights and in that space your Elixir shall be dissolved into cleer Water if that you have governed your fire all the while in like warmth or else it must stand longer until it be dissolved without Feces then put of your sublimated Mercury thereto so much as your Elixir doth weigh Then take it and shake it properly between your hands that your Glass breaks not by the force of the Spirit and look well to your Glass before you do shake it that it be well luted or stopped that the Spirits by no means fly out for if they do it will mar your work This done you shall set it well luted with the Lutement I have spoken of in the red Elixir and set it to putrefie in Balneo forty days as you have done in the third Elixir or Stone and in that time it will be dissolved if that your fire be all that time well governed for it lieth much in the government of the fire and when it is well dissolved set it to congeal as you had in the red Stone it shall be congealed in twelve days into the white Stone of the Philosophers the which will transmute all imperfect bodies into perfect Luna to pass all proofs and examinations and it shall be better and more finer Luna then any that comes out of the Mines CHAP. VI. Teacheth thee to make the Lutement serving to these works NOw to make the Lutement so often spoken of before that shall not untemper in the moisture and warmth of Water and also another Lutement that shall keep your Glasses from breaking in the fire for it must hold against the heat of the fire and in the first place you shall take the white of Eggs so much as you shall need and beat them till they be all thin as water then let it through a spunge with your hand till that it be cleer as Fountain-water of this same take as much as shall be needful to temper the powders hereafter take the Flower or the Meal that hangeth or sticketh about the walls of the Mill or Backhouse commonly called in places beyond the Seas Stuff-Meal eleven ounces Bol-Armoniack one quarter of an ounce Sanguis Dragonis an half quarter of an ounce white hard Cheese the parings being done off one ounce break all these into powder and searse them finely through a Sieve of Hair temper them with the whites of Eggs and therewithal lute your Glasses with Linen-clouts dipped in this Lutement in form of a plaister so bound about the helm and mouth of your Glasses let it dry by it self This Lutement doth serve to lute the Helms upon the distilling-Pots and also to lute the Glasses that you do putrefie in and dissolve also to congeal And now to the other Lutement spoken of before that doth serve to lute your Glasses to defend them from great heat of fire that they shall not break nor melt for then were your work lost you shall take to this Lutement good fat Pot-earth whereof the Potter doth make his Pots and mix with it a little Sanguis Dragonis Bol-Armoniack as much as the half of the Earth of the Potter doth come unto and unsleked Lime as much as half the Potters Earth make all these into fine powder apart by themselves and then temper them all together with whites of Eggs well beaten the blood of Oxen alike

after the beginning of your work for your white doth engender nothing but Luna andyour red nothing but Sol and his projection one upon a thousand that is to say if you will melt a thousand ounces of unperfect Metals you need put to it no more then one ounce of this same last Medicine and it shall set it over into perfect Luna or Sol better then any that comes out of the Earth to pass all proofs and examinations that may be done upon it And herein now following I will learn thee the composition of both these Stones to the red and white and I will first begin with the red and then with the white which is called Lunaris CHAP. II. The Elixir of life THou shalt take my beloved Son the red Elixir here before written and set it in putrefaction the time of forty dayes so that your fire be alwayes of one heat and not hotter one time then another night and day and the same must be done in Balneo Mariae this time being ended you shall finde your Elixir to be dissolved into cleer Water if that you have kept the fire all the time of one heat and your Elixir being dissolved into cleer Water then shall you dissolve therein Mercury that is sublimed as I will learn thee hereafter and dissolve therein as much of the sublimed Mercury as the Elixir doth weigh and see well hereto that the Spirits fly not out as neer as you can then shake it softly between your hands without opening the Glass and take heed that your Glass break not through the force of the Spirits and lute the mouth of the Glass fast with Lutement that is strong that it may endure the warmth of Balneum without opening the which I will learn thee hereafter in a Chapter a part and when the Lutement is very dry then set the Glass in Balneo to putrefie the time of forty dayes as aforesaid holding the fire of one heat continually the time of forty dayes and nights as aforesaid The forty dayes being ended look if all be dissolved if it be not let it stand longer till it be dissolved and being all dissolved let the Balneum cool and in any case see you take it not out hot lest your Glass break then take it our and dry your Glass and set it upon Ashes to congeal and make your Ashes no hotter then you can suffer your finger to thrust it down to the bottom and let it so stand the time of twelve dayes without taking any thing out of it but let it remain alwayes in that Glass wherein it was putrefied and see well to it that the Lutement be not broken in any place if it be lure it well again that the Spirits flie not out and the twelve hours being ended it ought to be congealed if your fire be well governed if it be not let it stand longer till it be congealed and when it is congealed then is the Stone fully made and perfectly ended and it is the riches of the whole world God grant that you may obtain it and give unto Almighty God a good reckning of the health of thy Soul c. My Son thou shalt understand that Mercury is called a Fountain and the first matter of all Metals as in Truth it is and therefore cannot be done any great Transmutation without Mercury be joyned therewith there may be made small Augmentations and Transmutations like as we have spoken before in our Elixir but they cannot do any high projection for they do but one upon seven but when Mercury is put thereto and so perfectly made it doth projection in infinitum as here before is written whereby it doth appear that the Mercury is as aforesaid the beginning off-spring of all Metals And therefore my Son we take the Elixir and mingle therewith our purified Mercury and conjoyn these together with our purified Salt which is our Sperm so be they so fast bound together that now nor never can they be parted asunder for they do claspe and inclose together so friendly as doth the Body and the Soul if so be ye do it as we have written it And when these three to say Sol that is Ferment with the Salt and the Mercury be joyned together then do they make perfect all things they be cast upon not onely it doth take away the sickness of the Metal and doth heal it but it heals all Inconveniencies of mens Bodies as one grain of this Stone being drunk with Wine being made hot and then the party to go to a warm bed and to sweat which shall be incontinent like as though he did lie in Water and in three dayes he shall be made whole of what sickness soever be have Therefore he may think himself happy in this world that hath gotten him this Treasure and well can keep it secret and use it godly to the help of the poor for they be not all Masters that do advance themselves in this Science to do many things for many are called but few are chosen There be many that busie themselves in this Science but very few that do bring it to a right end for it may be that it is not God's will but thou my Son have thou no doubt so long as thou followest these Precepts that I have left thee written in this Treatise and continue thy self alwayes in labour and exercise and thou shalt soon come to a perfect end of it if it please Almighty God for I have written thee in this Science the right Treatise and Truth as I have wrought it with my own hands and brought it to a perfect end as many people do know it in this City of Paris although I have alwayes kept it from thee till now that have I done for certain causes that I will not open Therefore comfort thy self and be patient and think not thy labour long for by diligent labour thou shalt come to the end sooner with studying and reading there can come none of the knowledge of this Science but onely by labour the study doth give a man how to work and how he shall follow Nature in his working for the end and profit of this Science is the handy-work for a Cobler cannot set a piece on his shooe with reading but he must put his hands to it and labour to bring it to a perfect end CHAP. III. Teacheth to sublime Mercury to the red Elixir MY beloved Son take one pound of Mercury one pond of Roman Vitriol and break the Vitriol to powder and then take one pound of common Salt that is two times dissolved and distilled by Filter and vapoured and calcined as aforesaid is learned and then break them to powder in a stone-Morter occupy no Iron or Metal in this work for if you shall it will mar it and when that your Mercury is mingled with the other water with continual stirring that you see the Mercury no more but that he is wholly lost in the other substance then