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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94291	Cheiragogia heliana. A manuduction to the philosopher's magical gold: out of which profound, and subtile discourse; two of the particullar tinctures, that of Saturn and Jupiter conflate; and of Jupiter single, are recommended as short and profitable works, by the restorer of it to the light. To which is added; Antron Mitras; Zoroaster's cave: or, An intellectuall echo, &c. Together with the famous Catholic epistle of John Pontanus upon the minerall fire. / By Geo. Thor. Astromagus.	Thor., George.	1659 (1659)	Wing T1037; Thomason E1911_2; ESTC R209984	43,022	108

turning it on the Earth again till the Earth putrefie and be cleare again is the Summe of our magistery And when the Philosophers saw their Water diminished and their Earth increased they called it Ceration Then when all became Earth they called their Work Congelation and when White Calcination Monachus ex manuscripto vetustiss Dissolution begets blacknesse Reduction Whitenesse Fixion Citrinity Inceration Rednesse Blacknesse is the Earth Whitenesse the Water Citrinity the Ayre Rednesse the fire Anonymus Solution turnes the Stone into its Materia prima that is into Water Ablution into Ayre Conjunction into fire Fixion into Earth Spiritual and Tingent Scala Philosoph Putrefaction is made by a most Gentle fire hot and moyst and no other so that nothing Ascend Desponsation and Conception is made by a kind putridnesse in the Bottom of the vessell Rosarium pag. 198. Burn with Water wash with Fire Idem ibidem Labour not to make thy Mercury Diaphan that is into a cleare Transparent Water for so it is too highly Inflamed and Irrestrinctible and will never be fixt never congealed Aureola When we Dissolve without any Intervall we Calcine Sublime Seperate Compound and between Solution and Composition of the body and Spirit there intervenes no space of Time Alphid Arabs The Watering of Pegasus at his own Fountain and of his Other food out of the Ayre and Earth ECHO VI. WIth the Water of Paradise bedew the Earth now clarified and that Water will again Ascend to heaven and Descend againe to the Earth to make it fertil and bring forth White Citrine and Flamye Red flowers Isaac Flander Cibation is the Nutrition of our Materia Sicca with milk and meate both moderately given till it be brought to the third order Ripleus Aglus Our Great businesse is to make the Body a spirit and the Spirit a body But it is True That if the Summe of the volatil exceed and Subdue the Summe of the fixt it will finally be turned into a Spiritual body White or Red Rosarius Minor The Earth does not Germinate without frequent Irrigation nor receive Irrigation without Desiccation Therefore at every Turn after desiccation powre Water on it temperatly neither too much nor too litle If too much it will be a Sea of Conturbation If too little all is burnt to a light Cindar Daustricus pag. 25. Our divine Water the Spume of Silver mingled with Magnesia rids away the Darke Umbra of the body Democritus Apud Flamellum The Dragon born in Darknesse is fed with his owne Mercury submerged in it and then a little dealbated by it Keep a soft fire till there be patience betwen Water and Fire and till the Spirit and Body become one Monachus pag. 14. See that thou water it temperatly for if it abound it will be a Sea and if there want a Combustion will be made Desiderabile As in this work in its first Composition nothing that is extraneous to its Nature enters So neither does any thing Multiply it that is not of its first Disposition Trevisanus The Magistery of the Philosophers does not need a Commistion of any extraneous thing but out of the proper seed metallic cast into Philosophicall earth prepared it produces a Stone infinitely multiplicable if it be nourisht with its owne menstrnum or humor Connatural and be excited by the heat of the Philosophers Sun from its Potentia into Act. Theobaldus Hoghelandus Take the quantity know the weight of it and add to it as much of the humidity as it can drink of which humidity we have not the pondus determinate Calrd Aegyptius The Time of every Imbibition to its Exsiccation is Twenty or Thirty Natural dayes Clangor Buccinae IGNIS MAGORVM The Philosophers Fire ECHO VII OUr fire is Mineral Equall Continuall it vapors not unlesse excited too much it partakes of Sulphur it is taken from some other Thing than the Materia it breaks down all before it Dissolves Congeales and Calcines That Fire with a Fire Remisse perfects the whole work and makes all the right Sublimations Pontanus pag. 75. uti et in Epistola The Fire against Nature must torment the bodyes That is the Dragon burning violently like fire of hell Ripleus All along the fire must be gentle till the Water be congealed in Whitenesse A stronger heat given the Mercury flyes the fire by reason of its Frigiditie Therefore keep thy fire soft till thou hast a white Congelation Benedictus By a Temperate fire a little quantity of the Drie Desiccates ethe moyst and this by little and little and not suddainly And by how much the Stone has more of the Ablution so much the more Intense is the whitenesse Scotus de Bufone The fire of the first Degree that is of Solution and Putrefaction ought to be so weak that Nothing Ascend of the Nature to be Sublimed and so a gentle fire gives Mercury Ingresse into the body when with a strong one all is destroyed Saturninus pag. 71. The heat Dealbant must not be too much else all is gone But understand this of the first White after Nutrition Anonym Make thy Contritions with fire not with thy hands Argent vive is fierie and burns the bodyes more then fire whatever Metallic body is joyned to it it slayes it and brings it down to dust Synodus Pythagorica Although we alwayes speak of Slow-fire yet in earnest we think that in the Government of the work by little and little and at Turnes the fire to the End is to be Augmented Bacho Spec. Alchym cap. 4. There are onely Two fires found in the books of the Philosophers The one dry the other moyst The Dry is the Elemental The moyst is Mercury Alanus Niger As oft as occasion shall require heat and cool moysten and desiccate thy Earth and there is no Error So oft as thy vessels are broke thy matter must cool to be reposed in a like vessell and put again to the fire Greverius Sacerdos The Philosophers vessel The Cone or Oval The Colours of the Chao's Transienr and Critical ECHO VIII THE vessel must be Glasse and Round with a long Neck firmly Sealed on the Top and is to be Enclosed with another Vessel that the heat enter not the matter immediately and so the Digestion is in a Triple vessel Liber Trium Verborum pag. 49. Put thy Amalgam carefully into a Glasse-vessel of such a capacity that thy Earth that is sown and harrowed may take up only the Third part of it the other two left vacant Close up the orifice with the wisest Lute Jodoc Grever Set one halfe of the round of the Vessel into Ashes the other beare above that thou mayst look at pleasure upon the work Alanus The vessels are Glasse wide below terminating in an Acute like the figure called a Cone Vogelius Think not That the Philosophers lye when they say The whole Magistery is perfected in one only vessel when thou hearest them say so think presently of the Species of the vessel not

1. Manuser vetustiss Our Stone is the potentiall vapor of Metal and how to get this thou must be very carefull and wary Aegidius de Vadis Our Water is a lustral or expiaring essence and the cause efficient of the clarity of the whole body and med cine Two things it works in the earth It washes it It tinges it As it washes it is Water as it tinges it is Ayre Ludus puerorum The ancients call'd our Argentvive Aqua Sicca Dry water Tauladan It is apparent what that Argent vive is that Geber points at in his Summa to be taken namely the Cleane substance of fixt Mercury shut up in Sol and Luna Idem pag 193. Argent vive in its first root is compounded of white earth subtile and sulphureous strongly mingled with a bright and clear water united with such an union per minima till the moyst be tempered with the drie and the drie with the moyst equally into one Intimate substance that will not rest on a plain Surface nor adhere to the Tangent because of its Siccity which has altered and cohibited the Aqueity in it But it is homogeneous in its nature for it either remains all in the fire and fixt or else all flyes away in fume because it is Incombustible and Aereal And this is a signe of perfection Richardus Anglicus Philosoph Vetustus Mercurius crudus Mercury crude dissolves bodyes and reduces them to their Materia prima but the Mercurius corporum the Mercurie of Bodyes cannot do it Holcot Anglus The Mercury of the Philosophers is compounded of Mercury Crude and the Mercury of Bodyes by an Union Intimate and Inseperable as there is in Simple water mixt with Simple water Libanius Gallus apud Trithemium By a Lucid Key he opened secret places otherwise inaccessible and within was great store of Siver and Gold 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mercurius Antiquoruum apud Homerum The Names of the Materia to the Magical practice Echo II. WHen our materialls are Amalgamated that Amalgam to conceale it from the unworthy is call'd by Philosophers our Venus our Gold The earth of Magnesia the whole Compound Jodocus Greverius pag. 21. I tell thee that our Semen is the true Salamander conceived by fire nursed by fire and perfected by fire Idem pag. 36. The matter which we need to our worke is not the Hyle or the Chaos but the Materia prima propinqua The first matter in a propinquity that is the second which in Animals is Sperm in vegetals Seed in minerals Sulphur and Argent vive Ripleus Anglus Sendivogius Polonus Sulphur perfectly clarified and dealbate Philosophers call Their foliated Earth Vogelius manuscriptus The work yet Crude is call'd our Argent vive water permanent Our Lead Our Saturn the spittle of Luna our Jupiter When better decocted then it is Argent then Magnesia and white Sulphur When it is Red it 's call'd Auripigment Corall Gold Ferment a Stone a Lucid Water of celestiall colour Adeptus Anonymus Desiderabile c. Magnesia is That whole mixture from whence is drawn our humidity call'd Argent vive Ludus puerorum p 136. The Dragon is the Sulphur that is Extracted from the Bodyes by the Magistery Nich Flamellus Annot. in Democritum The liquor of Lunary the vegetable Mercury the quintessence and water Ardent are all one thing With our liquor of Lunary known but to few is our Solution made and our potable Gold but without it not at all Rosarium Philosoph p 173. Trouble not yourselves about the diversity of names and the regiment of the work for if we would make Sol we must take Sol if Luna Luna for our Ferment Dastinus pag 30. Our Black Materia dealbated is called the Terra Foliata Ashes of Ashes ferment of ferment and white Sulphur enduring the fire and yet without Ferment neither Sol nor Luna will come forth but somwhat that 's as good as nothing Lib duorum verborum p. 47. Our Stone in the beginning is called water when the body is dissolved Ayre or Wind when it tends to consolidation then it is named Earth and when it is perfect and fixt it is called Fire Dominus Vobiscum p. 54. Argent Vive is called Wind that is Aereal Argent Vive the strongest vinegar poyson Tingent Virgins Milk Burning fire burning worse than the fire of Hell Incertus Author The Sone is called Adrop that is Saturnus because as Saturn is the chiefest of the Planets So our mercuriall Saturnine Stone is the highest and most pretious of Stones Saturninus Our compound is called by Philosophers White Earth when it is white and Red when it is Red. Scotus de Bufone When our limous earth is whitened we call it yharit that is Silver and when it is made red we call it Temeinchum that is Gold And it is whitenesse that tinges Venus and makes it Yharit and that rednesse that tinges Yharit and makes it Temeinchum that is Gold Calid Egyptius Philosophus nobilis Our matter is call'd the elementall Stone because the four elements are extracted from it The mineral Stone because it is made only of mineralls The vegetable Stone because it is nourisht and augmented which are the properties of the vegetative Soul The Animal Stone because it is refresht with sweet odors and corrupted with stinking Scotus de Bufone Our Stone is called Adrop that is Saturn Speculum Arnaldi Our Stone after its putrefaction is called Magnesia and in the putrefaction it is called Saturnus Idem ibidem All the metalls when they are prepared by Art then they are call'd Sol Luna Mercurius c. For before they were onely Gold Silver and Quicksilver Marcilius Ficinus The Incombustible Grain of metalls is their radicall humidity and is as a certain Seed of Sol and Luna which nature has inserted to them that upon opportunity they may be Excocted to Sol and Luna by Nature in a long by Art in a very short Time Vogelius Azot is a fift Essence a body of itself Subsistent differing from all the Elements and all the Elementals both in Matter and Form Nature and Virtue having nothing of the Corruptible and it is called a fift Essence because it is Extracted from four and has in it no Elemental motion as other Elemental bodyes Tinging and purisying metallic bodyes by its Colour and Keeping from Corruption all other Bodyes that are joyn'd with it Incertus Author Terra Alba White Earth White Sulphur White Fume Auripigment Magnesia and Ethel signifie the same in this Art Tertia Synodus Pythagorica Manuscripta No way but one to the Sulphur of Nature Echo III. NEmo habet in Sulphure nisi Unum Iter. No road but one to find the quick Sulphur David Arabs Thou needest but one thing namely Water and one operation to wit Decoction to White and Red in one vessell understand of one kind Alphid Arabs Although the wise men have varied names and perplext their sayings yet they allwayes would have