except that where before we took the blood of the red Lyon and the Glue of the Eagle when they were both destroyed we now joyn them sound and not hurt together that they living may mortifie and dissolve themselves which I have fitly called Corporeal Matrimony or the Union for in this wedlock they dye together that they may be vivified in the Celestial Matrimony therefore it is not to be wondred if this Table differ from the other for this pertaineth to the handling of spirits the other way teacheth the manner of making the Elixir of bodies therefore we now come to demonstrate the foregoing Table Therefore that I may plainly reveal all things unto you take Antimony well ground half a pound and as much Mercury sublimate likewise ground and grind them both togeth upon a marble till you cannot know them one from another then set them in a cold place that the matter dissolving may drop into a Glass set underneath for when the matters are well mixed together then say that they will both shortly be dissolved when the water is perfectly dissolved it will be of a greenish colour and lothsome smell Put this water with the thick part with it into a Glass and let it stand the space of three days in a fixatory under the fire and in short time you shall see your dissolvedness of a brownish black colour and after that is to say in the foresaid time it will be red something higher then red Lead Dissolve this calcined matter in Raymunds calcinative water and when you have dissolved it all into a red liquor or deep yelow then is your matter brought well into its Chaos Put this liquor into a fit body with an Alimbeck and receiver and by distallation separate the red oyl or the red Mercury from the white body which remaineth in the earth and if any matter ascend into the head of the Alimbeck despise it not but trie if it be fixed and if it be not fixed enough sublime it till it be fixed Whereunto joyn equal weight of its soul for the Celestial Matrimony and always leave out the earth in the bottom if you have any sublimate fixed if not take the white earth remaining in the bottom with which proceed as before is said and joyn the white body with the soul when they are thus joyned or married set them to impregnate and revivifie in Bulneo till it pass through all colours and at last be converted into red which then is the stone The manner of Fermentation Augmentation both in quantity and quality and projection is spoken of before in other works And thus Sons Brethren and Reader I have delivered and opened and also have amended many things all the secrets of the Ancient Philosophers whose writings were rather published to conceal the Art then to make it manifest or teach it although it pleased Hermes Trismegistus the first writer of this Art both to say and protest that he had never revealed taught nor prophesied any thing of this Art to any exept fearing the day of Judgement or the damnation of his Soul for shuning the danger thereof even as he received the gift of Faith from the Author of Faith so he left it to the faithful yet when you read his writings either in his Smaragdine Table or in his Apocalips or his twelve Golden Gates and shall find nothing plain or manifest what will you think of such an Author Believe me all the Ancients have concealed the secret of their preparations in the gross work although they writ most famously of the Philosophical operation therefore I have used my endeavour to trye for out of their writings I found that the Elixir might be made of the Planets or Mettals and also of mean Minerals which came more neer to a metallick nature then reading more I found a certain method amongst them all as it were with one consent or voice on this wise First and principally that bodies should be made incorporeal that is to say discorporated or discompounded which then is called the Hyle or Chaos Secondly That out of this Chaodical substance which is one thing three Elements should be separated and purified Thirdly That the separated and purified elements should be joyned the man and the woman the body and the soul heaven and earth with infinite other names so called that the ignorant might think they were diverse which onely were nothing else but water and Salt or the body and spirit or soul that is to say white Mercury and red which they joyned together that a new and pure body might be created in putrefaction that a Microcosmical infant might be created in imitation of the Creation that is to say Sulphur of Nature Fourthly That it should be fed with Milk that is to say with its own proper Tincture and after nourished by Fermentation that it may grow to its perfect strength Having learned these I begun to practice and in the practice of every body and spirit I found diverse errors but reading more and trying more at last I found the manner and true way of dissolving all bodies separating and conjoyning them finding the composition of their secret of secrets that is to say Lac virginis or Acetum acerrimum and Raymunds calcining water wherewith I dissolved all bodies at pleasure and perfected the gross work wherefore I purposed contrary to the custome of the Philosophers to reveal the whole work lest I being envious should be the Author of error like them therefore I have added their works to my own experiments and inventions which are plainly and truely writ that the Artist need to read no books but mine for herein is almost all things contained which are found plainly writ by the Philosophers and also those things which are found true by my own experience Now you have all things methodically in this Art without error with which by the help of God you may attain to the end Alchymy revealeth and openeth unto us four other secrets The first is the composition of Pearls far greater and fairer then natural ones which cannot be perfectly done without the help of the Elixir The second is the manner of making precious Stones of ignoble ones by the same Art which we taught before in malleable Glass The third is the manner of making artificial Carbunckles in imitation of natural ones which few or none have spoken of The fourth is the manner of making Mineral Amber of which Paracelsus hath onely writ in his book of vexations of Philosophers and in the last Edition of his works in the six of his Archidoxes but because they cannot be made without the help of the Elixirs therefore they deserve a place amongst the Elixirs of the fourth that is to say of the vertue or rather the vice of making Amber I shall handle it coldly I have reserved the explanation of this Aenigma till the last place wherefore it is said that the Elixir is perfected in the Decimal number CHAP. VI.
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M. W. Smith Master of Arts of Clare Hall in Cambridge A Catalogue of those things contained in these Bookes First Book 1 The white Elixir of Quicksilver 2 The white Ferment 3 The red Elixir of Mercury alone 4 The red Ferment 5 The Accurtation of the red Elixir 6 The Phisicall and Alchimicall Tincture of thered Lion and the glue of the Eagle Second Book 1 The Elixir of Copper 2 Of Augmentation and projection 3 Of the Blessed stone or Elixir of Life and of its vertues and also of Malleable glass Third Book 1 The Elixir of Saturne white and red and also of Jupiter 2 The Abreviation of the work of Saturn 3 The Elixir of Mars 4 A short work of the Phisicall and Alchimicall Tinsture 5 The Magistry of Pearles 6 The Composition of Carbunkles 7 Of Minerall Electrum 8 The Explanation of the Philosophers words when they speak of the tenth number wherein the stone is perfected and also the wonderfull Secrets of the animiall stone with two other of his works The Rosie Crucian CROWN Set with Angels Planets and Mettals c. The First Book CHAP. I. 1 Of the Gold Mercury or Argent vive 2 Purification 3 Sublimation 4 Calcination 5 Exuberation 6 Solution 7 Separation 8 Conjunction 9 Putrefaction into Sulphur 10 Fermentation 11 Multiplication in vertue 12 Multiplication in quantity HE that can make the Stone of Argent vive or ☿ alone is the greatest searcher out of Art and Nature because there is all that in ☿ which wise men do seek for Quick-silver is the mother and sperm of all Metals and their nearest matter and it is not onely a spirit but a body it is also a middle Nature and also a sulphur it is a lingring ☿ it dieth and riseth again and is fixed with its own proper Elements wherefore it is first necessary that it be purged from its impurities The purgation or purification is on this wise grind it upon a Marble with a muller or a wodden Pestill in a wodden Morter with common salt and a little vinegar springled thereupon till the salt be black then wash it well with vineger and dry it easily at the fire or at the Sun then strain it through a double cloath or a new skin of a sheep till it be dry and the vineger clear taken away and be of a white colour and clear Grind it upon a Marble with a little ☿ sublimate and let it mortifie and in corporate with it then grind it with its equall weight of salt-Peter and green Coperas till it be like a paste Then put all into a subliming glass and in Ashes sublime all the ☿ that it be white and clear as snow in the head of the Limbeck sublime it again three times or oftener and iâ— will be pure ☿ and sublimate Put one pound of this ☿ sublimate into two pound of common Aqua fortis by little and little at once as by two at a time till all bâ— dissolved like sugar in wine then shut the glaâ— and set it in Balneo to dissolve the space of 1â— days then distil away the Aqua fortis in a lentheâ— in Balneo and the ☿ will remain in the bottom like butter of a white colour And calcined bâ— corrosive water Put this calcined ☿ into an Earthen bodâ— with a Limbeck and in ashes sublime the whole dissolved substance three times which will then be very white and then it is called Mercury Exuberate VVhen you have three or four pound of this receive the third part and fix it by often sublimation till it remain in a hard mass and ascend no more but remain fixed VVhich is called the Glue of the Eagle or the prepared body permanent and the volatile made fixed which is to be reserved for the earth of the stone Dissolve the other two parts in Balneo or in a cold Cellar or put it in a blader and hang it over suming hot water till it be all come to water Take this water thus made and digest it in a Circulatory well closed the space of nine days then put it in a body with a head and receiver well luted and in ashes or Balneo distill the water of a white coulour or milkie and is called Lac Virginis dissolving all mettalls and so you have seperated the spirit of the stone which is also called the lingring spirit and the white Tincture of
water he made out of the body of Saturne likâ— the water Zaibeth and that water fixed upon thâ— heart of Saturne but because the practice 〈◊〉 drawing out this water of Zaibeth doth not appear out of this nor the way of making the heart â—f Saturne therefore the foregoing direction in â—â—e Holy Guide will shew them both Therefore I have joyned two Tables in one â—f which the shorter is the demonstration of the deduction of the body of Saturne into his heart or â—alt the other longer and greater is the extraction of the water Zabieth and the consummation of the work of Saturne Having thus described this work I now come â—o the explanation and say that the Calcination â—f the Body is twofold for the Calcination thereof in the shorter work for extracting the heart of Saturne is done on this wise by Aqua Fortis Take 8 or 10 Ounces of Lead in Filings and dissolve it in Aqua Fortis in double proportion and fortified with Salt Armoniack in an Earthen Vessel with a narrow neck and set in ashes till it be totally dissolved and there will remain a white matter in the bottom like Grains of white Salt which is a figure of perfect solution then pour your matter that is dissolved in the water into a body and set thereon a Limbeck and in Balneo draw away the corrosive water till there remain a dry substance in the bottom and so you have the body converted white by Calcination with corrosive water out of which the heart of Saturne is to be drawn The way to wash away and purge the corrosive water from the body pour warm water upon the substance in a Limbeck and pour it often off till it have no sharpness at all upon the tongue and then your body is prepared for drawing out the Salt When your matter is well dried dissolve it 〈◊〉 it again in distilled Vinegar and distill the Vinegar twice or thrice from it and in the bottom you shall have a lucid clear and white shining Salt which is then called the heart of Saturne Now I come to the practice of the other greater work that the verity of the stone may be found of which many have made mention iâ— their Books as Raymundus who calleth it the Vegetable Mineral and Animal Stone Gebâ—â— saith there groweth a Saturnian Herb on the top of a Hill or Mountain whose blood if it be extracted cureth all infirmities Ripley writ a whole Book called his Practical Compendium of the practice of the Vegetable Stone teaching the manner and form of operation but because he neither set down the solution plainly nor perfectly he hath been the cause of much error and hath not onely deceived me but all those that followed him untill after a long time I found a way to dissolve Saturne so that it could never after by distallation be turned into Lead again which is the chiefest and greatest secret of the Vegetable Stone But let us hear the words of Mary the Prophetess and Ripley taken from her The Radix of our matter is a clear and white body which putrifieth not but congealeth Mercury or Quicksilver with its odor makes its water like the running water of the two Zabieth alis Zubech and fix it upon the fixed heart of Saturne which words do most aptly agree with the properties of Lead for if any one be smit or wounded with a Bullet and the Bullet remain in the body it will never putrifie And also if Quick-silver be hanged in a Pot over the fume of molten Lead so as the fume of the Lead touch the Quick-silver it will congeal it Thus far of the preparation of Lead we now come to its denomination They bid us fix the water Zaibeth upon the fixed body of the heart of Saturne now for the exposition of the body for the name of Saturne Ripley calleth it Adrop of which that is made which the Masters call Sericon the water of Sericon they call their Menstruum the two Zabieths joyned together in one water are the two Mercuries that is to say white and red contained in one Menstruum that is to say of the water and Oyle of the fixed body or heart of Saturne Follow what I have written concerning the imbibition of the earth our operation is no otherwise then in the Practical Compendium of Ripley Isaacus also writ a Treatise of Lead he worketh chiefly according to the doctrine of Mary the Prophetess and laboreth much to fix the earth of Saturne and after to dissolve the body in distilled Vinegar that by the addition of corroding and sharp things his red Oyl may be distilled which he calleth the water of Paradice that he may imbibe his fixed earth therewith which way is much shorter then Ripleys but the rubification and fixation of the earth is long and uncertain wherefore I have both forsaken Isaacus and Ripley in making the earth in stead of which I have given the fixed heart of Saturne as you may read in the Holy Guide But that the body may be prepared according to this Table and after my intention and the desire of Ripley we both will that the Oyl or Water of Paradice be drawn out of the Gum of Sericon whose father is Adrop Sericon is made of Red-lead therefore it is first necessary to shew the way of making Minium of Lead which Thomas Juc an Englishman hath described together with the Composition of the Gum of Sericon which Author I purpose to follow as being the best Take ten or twelve pound of Lead and melt it in a great Iron vessel as Plumbers use to do and when it is molten stir it still with an Iron Spatula till the Lead be turned to powder which powder will be of a green colour when you see it thus take it from the fire and let it cool and grind that powder upon a Marble till it be impalpable moistening the powder with a little common Vinegar till it be like thick honey which put into a broad Earthen Vessel and set it on a Trevet over a lent fire to vapor away the Vinegar and drie the powder and it will be of a yellow colour grind it again and do as before till the powder be so Red as Red-lead which is called Adrop And thus is Saturne calcined into Red-lead or Minium Take a pound of this Read-lead and dissolve it in a Gallon of Vinegar and stir it with a stick three or four times in a day and so let it stand in a cold place the space of three days then take your Earthen Vessel and set it in Balneo twenty four hours then let it cool and filter the liquor three times and when it is clear put it in a body with a Limbeck thereupon and distill the Vinegar so long as it will ascend and in the bottom the Gum of the Sericon will remain like thick honey which set apart and dissolve more new Lead as before for more Gum till you have ten or
twelve pound thereof Now give careful attention for we now come to the point and period of Ripleys error for if you put four pound of this Sericon to distill in a Limbeck and from thence would draw a Menstruum as Ripley teacheth perhaps you would have scarce one ounce of this Oyl and some part of a black earth will remain in the bottom and most part of the Gum melted again into Lead by which you may know that the Sericon is not well dissolved nor as yet sufficiently prepared that a Chaos may be made thereof fit for distillation because it is not yet well dissolved therefore in Isaacus there is found a way of resolving this Gum with distilled Vinegar acuated with calcined Tartar and Salt-armoniack Wherefore saith he if thou be wise resolve thy Gum but I like not this acuation of the Vinegar as I may call it I rather choose to resolve the Sericon in Raymund's calcinative water which is a compounded water of the Vegetable Mercury or fire natural with the fire against nature as Ripley testifieth and it is more verified by Raymund in his Book of Mercuriis where he teacheth how to dissolve bodies with his calcinative water I will reveal unto you this water which is almost unknown Note therefore that the Vegetable Mercury is the spirit of Wine instead of which we may sometimes use distilled Vinegar and that the fire against Nature is a corrosive water made of Vitriol and Salt-Peter Therefore take which you will either spirit of Wine rectified or Aqua Vitae or distilled Vinegar four pound and two pound of corrosive water and mix them together In this watet thus compounded resolve half a pound of Gum of Sericon in a circulatory and set it in Balneo four or five days and the Gum will be totally dissolved into the form of water or Oyl of a duskish red colour Then distill away the water in Balneo and there will remain an Oyl in the bottom which is then the Chaos out of which you may draw a Menstruum containing two elements and this is the true resolution of the Gum of Sericon in this water you may resolve so much Gum as you please by reiteration Take two pound of this Chahodical substance and prepare it for distillation in naked fire or sand and lift up the clear red Oyl wherein both the spirit and soul doth secretly lie hid which Isaacus calleth the water of Paradise which when you have you may rejoyce for you have gone through all the gross work and come to the Philosophical work Therefore now proceed to conjunction and joyn the white heart of Saturne with the red Oyl as it is found in the Rosary Candida succincto jacet uxor nupta marito That is to say the red Mercury to the Salt if you proceed to the red work Therefore take four ounces of the Salt or heart of Saturne and as much of the red Oyl or water of Paradice and seal them up in a Philosophers Egg and so soon as they shall feel the heat of the Balneum the Salt will dissolve and be made all one with the Oyl so as you shall not know which was the Salt which was the Oyl Set your glass in Balneo and there let it stand in an equal degree of fire till all your matter be turned white and stick to the sides of the glass and shine like fishes eyes and then it is white Sulphure of Nature but if you proceed to the red work then divide your white Sulphure into equal parts reserving one part for the white work and go on with the other part and in a new glass well sealed up set it in Ashes till it be turned into a red colour When your Sulphure is thus converted imbibe it again with equal weight of its soul dissolving and congealing till it remain in an Oyl and it will congeal no more but remain fixed and flowing This then is to be fermented with the fourth part of the Oyl of Gold as is often mentioned before We have set down already before of the augmentation in quantity and quality therefore it is not necessary to repeat it here We will now return to the white Sulphure before reserved that we may set down the manner of the white work When you have your red Oyl or Soul if you desire to make the white Elixir set part of the said Oyle in a glass in Balneo to digest then take it out and put it into a body and in a lent fire distill away the spirit or white Mercury which you must try that you may know whether it arise pure without water or not as you do when you try the spirit of Wine for if it burn all up it is well if it do not rectifie it so often till it be without any wateriness at all then have you rectified your spirit wherewith dissolve your white Sulphure till it remain fixed and flowing as you did before in the red work then ferment it and augment it with the fourth part of the Oyl of the white Luminary or Luna as you did the red and it will be the white Elixir converting imperfect bodies into perfect Silver A Corollary Ripley divided the scope of this work into four operations whereof the first is the dissolution of the body the second the extraction of the Menstruum and the separation of the Elements the third is not necessary in our work because we cast away the earth after every distillation instead of which we use our Salt or heart of Saturne the fourth is that there be a conjunction of our Salt as is before described Hereafter followeth the Accurtation of the work of Saturn The way of extracting Quick-silver out of Saturne is found in Isaacus of which I know how to make a special accurtation with his water of Paradice which I gathered partly from the foresaid Author and others Ripley made his accurtation with Quick-silver precipitated with Gold and the imbibition with Corrosive water which I like not because the Elixir so made will be the greatest poison as himself confesseth that it were better for a man to eat the eyes of a Basilisk then taste that Elixir But because I desire to set down this accurtation of Lead alone and his Elements that no strange body may be added to our Elixir and also that it may be made a Medicine for all uses I have found out the way of making alone with the Mercury of Saturne and his own proper Tincture for I make a body of one thing which is a spirit and make that Medicine with its own proper spirit Read all the Philosophers and you shall never find a word of this process nor none of the Ancients will teach thee how to make the Mercury of Saturne which that it may be briefly done this following work will shew at large in our Holy Guide CHAP. II. The Medicine Elixir Fermentation Imbibition Precipitation Quick-Silver Saturne Lead The Toad MY great Grandfather
Ferment even as Sol tingeth and changeth his sulphur into a permanent and piercing Medicine Therefore the Philosopher saith he that knoweth how to tinge sulphur and Mercury with Sol and Luna shall attain to the greatest secret And for this reason it is necessary that Sol and Luna be the Tincture and Ferment thereof You may read in the Holy Guide And so also Arnoldus in his Rosary There is no body more noble or pure then Sol or his shaddow that is to say silver without which no tingeing Mercury is generated He that endeavoureth to give colour without this gold or silver goeth blindly to work like an Asse to a Harp for gold giveth a golden and silver an argentive colour therefore he that knoweth how to tinge ☿ with Sol and Luna cometh or reacheh to the secret which is called white sulphur the best to silver which when it is made red will be red sulphur to gold the best Take pure Luna that is to say silver that is best which is beaten into leaves and bring it into calx with ☿ And it is then called water silver then is the Luna well prepared for Calcination See the Holy Guide When you have your silver thus prepared take 4 or 6 ounces thereof and put it in double proportions of Lac Virginis mixed with equall quantity of corrasive water to dissolve in an egge glasse After it hath dissolved so much as it can in the cold set in Balneo and there let it stand 9 dayes till the whole substance of the silver be dissolved into a green water then let the Balneo cool and take it out and put the dissolution into the body and set thereon a head and distill of the water from the matter remaining which is the oyl of the silver Calcined not into a calx but a Liquor because this Lac Virginis if it be mixed or joined with common Aqua fortis or alone without it as it pleaseth the Operator is so strong that the very Diamond cannot resist it but is dissolved Therefore this water is called the water of Hell and is the onely miracle of miracles of the World because it containeth such a fiery nature in it self and propriety of burning of all bodies into Liquor whereas the Elementall fire prevaileth no further then to reduce mettalls into calx or ashes But to return from whence we digressed I now come to the third operation To the end therefore that this liquor or oyl of silver may be more perfectly dissolved and that all the imperfection of adustion may be taken away which by the Antients is called the corroberating of the lest humidity Put this Oyl or liquor into another egge glasse like the former power thereupon so much spirit of wine above it 4 fingers then close well the glasse and set it in balneo to digest 7 or 10 dayes and you shall find the oyl or liquor turned into a thin or rare water oyl put this water into a still and in balneo draw away the spirit of wine till none of the spirit of wine remain with the silver dissolved And thus have you your silver prepared for putrifaction This Liquor of silver is potable but not the Quintessence put this water into a fit putrifying glasse and seal it up and set it to putrifie in balneo till the time of putrifaction be past which is about 150 days and when you see the first sign of putrifaction which is called the head of the Crow encrease your fire a little till all colours begin to appear and you see it begin to be white When you see it white encrease your fire yet more and it will rise up and stick to the sides of the glasse most transparent like the eyes of fishes which is Sulphur of Nature or salt or the putrified body of the white Luminary viz. Luna which yet is not so hard as a body nor so soft as a spirit but of a mean hardness between a spirit and a body and is called the Phylosophers Mercury and the Kay and mean of joining Tinctures But to come to the liquor of the white Luminary this body being brought into Quintessence is prepared for dissolution like the sulphur of the imperfect body but whereas that is done by the vertue of the white tincture or Lac Virginis I rather do it by vertue of the fire naturall which is the spirit of wine and after the drawing away thereof it remaineth in a Liquor Now this liquor of Luna dissolved is the Quintessence which then is the liquor of the white Luminary and the sole as Exinadius saith quickening the whole stone without which it is dead and will neither give form nor colour Therefore the fourth part of this liquor of the white Luminary is to be joined to three parts of the former liquor of the sulphur of ☿ and after to be kept in a lent fire of Ashes Well closed till it passe through all colours and at last come to its former colour of whiteness and so the stone is fermented and turned into the white Elixir The Residue of the foresaid dissolved sulphur keep diligently and therewith ferment the white sulpher of other imperfect bodies or stones into Elixirs which when they are thrice dissolved and again congealed and remain in a liquid substance then they are called incombustible oyles and Elixirs of the third order And thus the stone is made of ☿ alone A Corrollary HAving spoken of the white stone it now resteth that we speak of the making of the red Elixir vvhereof there is two processes the first whereof is from the Radix i. e. the long way the other an accurtation that is much shorter and more excellent And this way the Elixir may be made in 80 days and excells all other accurtations neither is there found therein any diminution of the vertue but is a plentifull and perfect fulness of power and vertue having all the properties which the Elixir ought to have The process whereof these three following Chapters will plainly shew CHAP. III. 1 Vivum 2 Sublimation 3 Calcination 4 Precipitation 5 Solution 6 Fixed oyl 7 Inceration 8 Desiccation 9 Contrition 10 Fermentation 11 The Red Elixir 12 The third Table IT is not necessary to speak in this place of the urgation of ☿ because we spoke thereof before The sublimation is to be done otherwise then in the former worke for that which is called sublimation here is not done with vitrioll and salt peter but is only the distillation of the ☿ in an earthen body with a limbeck and that by it self without any addilament When the ☿ is once sublimed in ashes wholly into the head of the limbeck having a retainer joined thereto take off the head and with a feather gather the sublimed matter and you shall find your ☿ of a black colour having lost his fairness and like a dust or powder sticking to his body Put it again into the body and sublime it as before and reiterate this work
7 or 9 times untill you have a sufficient quantity of this powder that is to say a pound or more And this is the Calcination When you see your ☿ will ascend no more but remain in the bottome of a black colour and that is dead and brought perfectly into calx let it cool and remove your body into sand till it be turned into a red colour And this is the perfect precipitation prose without the help of any corrosive water take a little of this powder upon a hot iron plate if it fume dry it longer if not it is well Take of this red powder as much as you will dissolve and put thereupon at least his double weight of Lac Virginis and set in Balneo till you see your Lac Virginis stained a yellow or red colour then filter it from its feces and keep it by it self in a glass well stopped and dry the matter that remaineth in Ashes and pour thereon new Lac Virginis and do as before till you have drawn out all the tincture And so your ☿ is dissolved Put these solutions into a body luting to a head and in balneo distill away the Lac Virginis and the red oyl precipitate will remain which is fixed and needeth no distillation but is the tinging oyl of red Mercury and the red tincture of the red stone of ☿ and the soul and spirit of the same stone joyned Therefore take part of the white Sulphur reserved in the first Table and rubify it in ashes till it be red then imbile it with equal weight of the oyl of the tincture of this red ☿ and set it to dissolve in Balneo and when you see it is dissolved into a liquid substance take it out Then set it in ashes or under the fire to fix till the matter being dried remain fixed and fusible standing in a mean heat not over hot which try upon a hot Iron plate and if it fume not it is well if it do encrease your fire till it be totally fixed and dry If this matter be imbibed again with its oyl till it drink up as much as it will and again dissolved in Balneo and then dried in Ashes it will shew many colours and lastly appeared And then it is the stone penetrating and fusible apt for forme Join this imbiled matter or stone with the 4th part of the liquor or oyl of the red sulphur of Gold or the red Ferment and dissolve it in Balneo and drie it again and again dissolve it in a glasse hanged in the fume of hot water or Balneum and congeal it again till it stand like honey Then it is the perfect red Elixir of Mercury The Multiplication or Augmentation of the vertue and quantity is shewed in the former Chapter CHAP. IV. 1 Gold Sol. 2 Purged Gold 3 Calcination 4 Solution 5 Putrifaction 6 Filius solis Coelestis 7 Filia Lunae Coelestis THe putrifaction or purgation of gold is done as the Goldsmiths use to do by melting it with Antimony that the gold may remain in the bottome pure and clear from other mettalls which they call Regulus Take 4 or 5 ounces of this refined gold leaf or fileings and dissolve it in Lac Virginis mixed with equal weight of Aqua fortis wherein salt Armoniack sublimed is dissolved and when it is dissolved into a red Liquor or deep yellow then it is well calcined The solution and putrifaction is done as before you did with silver in the preparation of the white Ferment When you have your white sulphur of nature after putrifaction sticking to the sides of the glass let it cool and take out your glass and set it â—n Ashes and encrease your fire but not too much lest your matter vitrifie and let your ashes be no hotter then you can hold your hand therein and so let it stand till the sulphur be of a perfect deep red colour Then have you the red sulphur of the red Luminary If you resolve this red sulphur in spirit of wine or distilled Vinegar into an oyl it is then the Liquor of the red Luminary And Auram potabile curing all infirmities if the spirit of wine or vinegar be destilled from it But for this work it were better to dissolve it in our red Lac Virginis spoken of in the second Chapter of the second Book distill away the Lac from the sulphur in Ashes and the sulphur remaining in an oile is the Ferment of all stones to the red The augmentation of this red Elixir in vertue is with his red Tincture as before in the white Elixir with his white Tincture The augmentation in quantity is by projection upon the body of gold molten And that brittle matter of gold upon ☿ and if it be powdered and resolved with spirit of wine inan oyl as was said before of silver then it is the Quintessence of gold and the great Elixir of life and the spiritual ferment for the transmutation of mettals and for the health of mans body The 5 Chapter sheweth the abbreviation of the Red Elixir CHAP. V. 1 The Liquor of the red sulphur 2 Fermentation ALthough Raymund writing to King Robert was pleased to say That every Accurtation diminisheth the perfection because Medicines which are made by accurtation have less effect of transmutation which I also ascent to with him for a truth if the work be begun from the first fountain yet because this work hath its beginning from those things which before were brought to a perfect degree of perfection therefore in this there is no diminution of the perfection as the same Raymund witnesseth lib. Mecur pag. 103. saying thus Therefore it ought to be declared unto thee that if they be both well prepared and that thou begin with them thou wilt do a wonderful work without any great labour sooner then if thou should begin with one thing alone Therefore my son begin thy work of two things together as 〈◊〉 shewed to thee in the greater stone when we spoke of the twofold custody of the actions which are caused by the bodies and spirits By that which is caused by the bodies and spirits he means nothing else but sulphur willing that we should begin with sulphur to which I do so well agree that I begin this my accurtation with sulphur alone and I add no other body to this Elixir but onely the sulphur of ☿ alone created of his own body and spirit Take therefore 2 ounces of the white sulphur that was described in the first Chapter and set it in ashes to rubifie in 30 days it will be turned into red sulphur Which when you have done dissolve that sulphur in the red Tincture of Mecury when it is dissolved draw away the Tincture in the bottom remaineth the Liquor of the sulphur To which if you add a due proportion of the liquor of the red Luminary it will be perfect Ferment which if you dissolve and congeal as before is shewed it is then Elixir of very great vertue to the
red work and no man can make a shorter abreviation in the world And when the sulphur of any body is prepared it may this way very speedily be converted into Elixir by adding the liquor of the ferment CHAP VI. 1 The Body 2 The Spirit 3 The Lion 4 The Eagle 5 The Phylosophers Lead 6 Antimony 7 Antimony Mercury 8 The Glue of the Eagle 9 Solution of the red Lion into Blood 10 Solution of the Glue of the Eagle 11 Solution of the Blood of the red Lion 12 Conjunction 13 Putrifaction 14 The Stone 15 Fermentation 16 In the Trinity of The Phisical and Alchimical Tincture The Soul 17 Is the Vnity of the Medicine TAke Antimony calcined so much as you please and grind it to a subtile powder then take twice so much Lac Virginis and put your powder of Antimony therein and set it in balneo 7 days then put it into a body and set it in sand or ashes till the Lac be turned red which draw of and pour on more and so let it stand when that is coloured red pour it to the other and thus do till you have drawn out all the tincture set all this water in balneo or lent ashes to distill with a Limbeck and distill it with a lent fire and first of all the Lac will ascend then you shall see a stupendious Miracle because you shall see through the nose of the Alimbeck is it were a thousand veins of the liquor of this blessed minere to descend in red drops just like bloud which when you have got thou hast a thing whereto all the treasure in the world is not equall Now you have the blood of the Lion according to Rupesissa let us here rest a little and speak of the Glew of the Eagle of which Paracelsus thus saith Reduce Mercury so far by sublimation till it be a fixed Christall this is his preparation of Mercury and his way of reducing it into the Glew of the Eagle but above all I require that that way be used which is described by me before in the first Chapter or that hereafter set down after this Then saith the foresaid Author go on to resolution and coagulation and I again will you to observe the same manner of solution shewed in the first Chapter before Now let us come to conjunction after the solution of these two take equal weight of them and put them in a vessel well shut After you have thus joined them together set your glass in your furnace to putrifie and alter the space of certain days Therefore Paracelsus saith then at length and presently after your Lili is made hot in your glass it appeareth in wonderful manners or demonstrations blacker then the Crow after that in process of time whiter then the Swan and then passing by yellow to be more red then bloud This being putrified and turned into red is to be taken for the stone and then it is time it be fermented Of which Fermentation Paracelsus thus speaketh one part thereof is to be projected upon 1000 parts of molton gold and then the medicine is prepared and this is the Fermentation of it But if the half or one part of the liquor of the sulphur of gold before described be added to it then it would be spirituall ferment and would be much more penetrating in fortitude and fusible as Paracelsus doth testifie in his Aurora where he would have us to join the star of the sun or the oyl of sol to this stone And thus the phisical Alchimical tincture is performed in a short time for curing all manner of Infirmities and humane diseases which is also the great Elixir for mettals so courtly concealed by the Antients Which Hermes Trismagistus the Aegyptian Osus the Gretian Haly an Arabian and Albertus Magnus a German with many others have sought and prosecuted every one after their own method and one in one subject another in another so much desired by the Philosophers onely for prolongation of life In this composition Mercury is made a fixed and dissolved body the blood or spirit of the red Lion is the ferment or soul and so of trinity is made unity which is called the Phisical and Alchimicall tincture never before that I knew of collected or writ in one work And I swear I had not done this except that otherwise the composition of this blessed medecine had for ever been forgot A shorter way to make the glue of the Eagle If you desire to make the glue of the Eagle in a breifer way Take part of the red precipitate prose as is taught before in the table of Mercury and dissolve it in distilled vineger and the vineger will be coloured into a yelow or delightfull golden colour and after you have destilled away the vineger there will remain in the bottome a white substance of the Mercury fixed and fair which is to be joyned to the oyle of the Lion And this work is much shorter and less laborious look more hereof in the third Book The Calcination of Antimony into the red Lion Take Antimony well ground so much as you please and melt it in naked fire with salt Armoniack and when it is melted cast it suddainly into a vessel almost full of distilled vineger wherein salt Armoniack hath been dissolved and thus melt it and cast it in three times then pour off the vineger from the Calx of the Antimony and drie it well and grind it small and dissolve it as before is taught and so have you the Red Lion of the Philosophers Lead or Antimony CHAP. VII 1 Elixir 2 Conjunction 3 Seperation 4 the Stone 5 Fermentation 6 The Earth 7 Spirit oyl Blood of the Lambe 8 Distillation 9 Resolution 10 Putrifaction 11 Solution 12 Vitrioll 13 Calcination 14 Copper The first Chapter of the Elixir of Copper MAny have sought out the way of the Mineral stone in vitrioll or green Copperas but they were altogether received which common vitrioll by the Philosophers is called the green Lion of fools But this our noble red Lion taketh its original from the Metallick body of Copper Although I am not ignorant how to draw an oyl out of Romain vitrioll of a more sweet smell and delightfull taste then any balsome if the Tincture be taken out of the calcined vitrioll in spirit of wine yet the Philosophers will is and command that it do consist of a Metallick vertue wherewith the transmutaion of mettalls is to be effected Therefore they say it is to be made of bodies and not of spirits as of vitrioll sulphur as well and the like Whence I find it written in the Philosophers Turba and in the first Exercitation But the Philosophers stone is a metallick matter converting the substances and forms of imperfect mettalls and it is concluded by all the Philosophers that the conversion is not made except by its like therefore it is necesary that the Philosophers stone be made of a metallick matter yet if any be made of
most fusible as Lead or Tinne which after they are purified are most apt by reason of their easie melting And thus the Inward parts of the Earth are visited and by reflection the hiden stone is found the true Medicine out of the green Lion of the Philosophers and not of fools and out of Corporeal and metallick vitrioll not terrestrial and made of mineral coperas The Second Chapter of Augmentation and projection of the STONE FIRST Let us speak of the Augmentation of the vertue or quality of which Raymund saith The Augmentation in quality and goodness is by solution and coagulation of the Tincture that is to say by imbiling it with our Mercury and drying it But let us hear Arnoldus more attentively take one part of your prepared Tincture and dissolve it in three parts of our Mercury then put it in a glass and seal it up and set it in ashes till it be dry and come to a powder then open the glass and imbile it again and dry it again And the oftener you do the thus so much sha you gain and giveth more tincture And also as it is found in Clangor Buccinae Dissolve it in the water of Mercury of which the Medicine was made till it be clear then congeal it by light decoction and imbile it with its oyl upon the fire till it flow by vertue whereof it will be doubled in tincture with all its perfections as you will see in projection because the weight that was before projected upon a thousand is now to be projected upon ten thousand and there is no great labour in this multiplication Again the medicine is multiplyed two manner of ways By solution of calidity and solution of varity By solution of calidity is that you take the Medicine put in a glass vessel and burie it in our moist fire seven days or more till the medicine be dissolved into water without any turbulency By solution of rarity is that you take your glass vessel with your medicine and hang it in a new brass pot full of water that boileth and close up the mouth of the pot that the medicine may dissolve in the vapour of the boiling water But note that the boiling water must not touch the glass wherein the medicine is but hang above it three fingers and this solution will be above it in 2 or 3 days after your medicine is dissolved take it from the fire to cool fix and congeal and be hard and dry this do often and and how much the more the medicine shall be dissolved it will be so much more perfect and such a solution is the sublimation of the medicine and its virtual sublimation which the oftener it is reiterated so much more abundantly and more parts it tingeth Whence Rasis saith the goodness of this multiplication consisteth in the reiteration sublimation and fixation of the medicine and by how much more this order is repeated it worketh so much more and is augmented for so often as you sublime your medicine and dissolve it you shall gain so much every time in projection one upon a thousand and if the first fall upon a thousand the third upon a hundred thousand the fourth upon a million and so infinitely For Morienus the Philosopher saith Know for certain that the oftener our stone is dissolved and congealed the spirit and soul is joined more to the body and is retained by it and in every time the Tincture is multiplyed Whence we thus read in Scala Philosophorum which also the Philosophers say Dissolve and congeal so without doubt it is understood of the solution of the body and soul with the spirit into water and congealation makes the soul and spirit mix with the body and if with one solution and simple congealation the soul and spirit would be perfectly joined to the body the Philosophers would not say dissolve again and congeal and again dissolve and congeal that the Tincture of the stone may grow if it could be done with one congealation only The Medicine is another way multiplyed by fermentation and the ferment to the white is pure silver and the ferment to the red is pure gold therefore project one part of your medicine upon a of the ferment but I say 3 parts of the medicine upon one of the ferment and all will be Medicine which put in a glass upon the fire and so close it that no air go in nor out and keep it there till it be subtiliated as you did with the first medicine and one part of the second medicine will have as much vertue as one part of the first medicine had but here again Clangor Buccinae hath erred for it should be write thus one part of the second medicine will have as much vertue as ten parts of the first medicine had And thus by solution and fermentation the medicine may be multiplied infinitely We have spoken enough of this multiplication we now come to the other way of augmentation which is called corporeal multiplication and according to Raymund is thus defined Augmentation is the Addition of Quantity whence Anicen writeth It is hard to project upon a million and to preducate it incontinently wherefore I will reveal one great secret unto you one part is to be mixed with a thousand parts of its nearest in kind I call that nearest that is the body of the same mettal whereof the medicine was made or perfected but to return again to Anicen close all this firmly in a fit vessel and set it in a furnace of fusion 3 days till it be wholly joined together Whereof it is more largely and better set down by the said Author and the manner of the work is thus projected one part of the foresaid medicine upon 100 parts of molten gold and it makes it brittle and will all be medicine whereof one part projected a hundred of any melted mettall converteth it into pure gold and if you project it upon silver in like manner it converteth all bodies into silver In Scala Philosophorum all sorts of projection is set thus down in few words You must know that first it is said project that is to say one upon 100 c. yet it is better to project nunc dimittis upon fundamenta and fundamenta upon verba mea and verba mea upon diligans te Domine and diligam te upon attendite This breif Aenigua is thus expounded it is nothing else but the words and opinion of the former Author concealed under the Aenigura Therefore let us repeat the words of this Aenigura or Oraccle Nunc dimittis super fundamenta Fundamenta super verba mea Verba mea super diligam te Diligamte super attendite These are trifles for the hiding and concealing the perfection of the Art if the expert Artist could be diverted with such simple words which though they are hard at first to young Artists yet they are thus explained We therefore begin with the first sentence Nunc dimittis super
would be better and more penetrating if it were tinctured with the foresaid oyl In like manner is the white medicine to be projected after the purification of the silver in a corrosive water as is before declared And so the melted silver will be converted into a brittle powder and white masse which likewise is to be dissolved and turned into oyâ— and thus the white Elixir of life is made anâ— potable silver curing and healing so far as iâ— is able humane diseases for it cannot be supposed that the Elixir of Luna hath so great vertuâ— as the Elixir of Sol hath Whence the Author of the book call'd correctâ—â— falnerum and Richard Anglicus in his correctâ—ry say whereas among the vulgar and Phâ—losophers God hath this report that being in his first disposition that it cureth the Leprâ—sy and many other vertues this is not exceâ—â— by its compleat disgestion because the excellencâ— of the fire acting in it consumeth all evil hâ—mours that are in sick bodies as well in hot 〈◊〉 cold causes But silver can not do this because hath not so much superfluity of fire and is 〈◊〉 so much disgested and decocted with natural maturity yet notwithstanding this it hath a fieriness occultly and vertually in it but not so fully because the fire causeth not such Elemental quallities as in gold And therefore silâ—er being in his first disposition doth not cure â—he Leprosy so potently unless it be first disâ—ested by Art untill it have the cheif degrees of â—old in all maturity Wherefore other sick â—etallick bodies more weakly cure infirmities according as they differ more from them in â—erfection and maturity some differ more some â—â—ss which is by reason of the sulphur infectâ—â— feid and burning of which they were made 〈◊〉 the beginning in their generation and coaguâ—â—tion and therefore they cure not whereas the â—â—e in them is burning and so infected with â—â—e Elementall feces with the mixture of other â—â—ementall quallities Seeing therefore that gold is of such vigor â—â—ongst the vulgar and that being in his first â—â—sposcion what wonder is it if it being brought â—o medicine as is experienced by Art and 〈◊〉 vertue be subtiliated by disgestion of decoctiâ—â— and purgation of the quallities but it may â—â—en cure more nay infinite or all diseases It makes an old man young and revive it â—â—â—serveth health strengtheneth nature and exâ—â—leth all sicknesses of the body it driveth poyâ—â—â— away from the heart it moysteneth the â—â—teries and breifly preserveth the whole â—â—dy sound In the Ludas purorum it is thus written of the use of this medicine the manner of useing it according to all the Philosophers is thus if you will use to eat of this medicine then take the weight of two florence Duccats of our Elixir and one pound of any confection and eat of that confection the quantity of one dram in winter And if you do thus it driveth away all bodily infirmities from what cause soever they proceed whether hot or cold and conserveâ—â— health and youth in a man and maketh aâ— old man young and maketh gray hairs to fall it also presently cureth the Leprosy and dissolveth Flegm mundifieth the bloud it sharpeâ—eth the sight and all the senses after a moâ—â— wonderful manner above all the medicines 〈◊〉 the Philosophers To which purpose we thus find in the Râ—sary of the Philosophers In this that is to 〈◊〉 in the Elixir is compleated the pretious giâ—â— of God which is the Arcanum of all tâ—â— Sciences in the world and the incomperable treasure of treasures for as Plato saith he thâ—â— hath this guift of God hath the dominion 〈◊〉 the world that is to say of the Microcosm 〈◊〉 because he attaineth to the end of Riches 〈◊〉 hath broke the bonds of nature not onely 〈◊〉 that he hath power to convert all imperfâ—â— mettalls into pure gold and silver but rathâ—â— because he can convert and preserve bâ—â— man and every Animall in perfect health To this purpose speaketh Geber Hermes Arnoldus Raymundus Lullius Ripley Penotus Augurellus Aegidius Valescus Roger Bacon Scotus Laurentius Ventura and diverse uncertain Authors Lastly I now come to the generall consent of all the Philosophers and repeat what is found in their writings in the Book de Aurora consurgeat and in Clangor Buccinae It is to be noted that the Antient Philosophers have found 4 principal effects or vertues in the glorious repository of this treasure 1. First it is said to cure mans body of all infirmities 2. Secondly to cure imperfect mettalls 3. Thirdly to transmute base stones into pretious gemmes 4. Fourthly to make Glass malleable Of the first All Philosophers have consented that when the Elixir is perfectly rubified it doth not onely work miracles in solid bodies but also in mans body of which there is no doubt for being taken inwardly it cureth all infirmities it cureth outwardly by unction The Philosophers also say if it be given to any in water or wine first warmed it cureth them of the Phrensy Dropsie and Leprosy and all kind of Fevers are cured by this Tincture and taketh away whatsoever is in a weak stomack it bindeth and consumeth the Flux of peccant humours being taken fasting it driveth away malencholly and sadness of the mind it cureth the infermities of the eyes and dryeth up their moisteness and blearedness it helpeth the purblind red or bloodshot eyes it mollifieth the primy or web the Inflamation of the eyes and all other incident diseases are easily cured by this Philosophical medicine It comforteth the heart and spiritual parts by taking inwardly it mittigateth the pain of the head by anointing the temples therewith maketh the deaf to hear and succoreth all pains of the ears it rectifieth the contracted Nerves by unction it restoreth rotten teeth by washing also all kind of imposthumes are cured with it by oyntments or emplaytors or injecting the dry powder therein It cureth Ulcers wounds Cancers Fistulas noli me tangere and such like diseases and generateth new flesh if it be mixed with corrupt and sower wine it restores it it expelleth poyson being taken inwardly it also killeth wormes if it be given in powder it taketh away wrinkles and spots in the face by anointing therewith and maketh the face seem young it helpeth women in travail being taken inwardly and bringeth out the dead child by emplaister it provketh Vrine and helpeth generation it preventeth drunkenness helpeth the memory and Augmenteth the radical moisture it strengtheneth nature and also Administreth many other good things to mans body 2. Of the second it is written that it transmuteth all imperfect mettals in colour substance lasting weight ductibility melting hardness and softness 3. Of the third that is to say of transmuting base and ignoble stones into pretious gems I will not speak of in this place because I have reserved it for another place that is to say the third Book Of the fourth it is writ that it maketh glasse malleable by mixture that is
Christopher Heydon saith in a certain Manuscript of his Levi enim Arte norunt Alchimistae Mercurium currentem conficere explumbo that is to say the Alchimists knew how by an easie Art to make current Mercury out of Lead but what Art that was neither he nor any of the ancients have shewed unto us Quaerite quaerite saith the first Alchimist so Paracelsus was pleased to say in imitation of him invenietis pulsate operietur vobis that is to say Seek and you shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you which may rather seem to be the words of an envious Master then the precepts of a Teacher But having learned this I learned to seek that is to say to read I read I knocked that is I tried many experiments although they were repugnant to doctrine and Philosophy therefore although I almost despaired of that Art yet because nothing is difficult to the industrious by often knocking at last I found it apart by what means I attained to the Art of such a facility that is to say of making Quick-silver of Lead and when the process is read to the operator it will be rather rejected then believed but to the end this Art may be revealed as a great secret I thought it necessary to speak first of the Instruments necessary in this work before I come to declare the doctrine which are three in number that is to say a Furnace a Crucible and a pair of Tongs as appeareth in the Holy Guide CHAP. III. The Crucible the Furnace the Hole in the Top of the Furnaee the Tongues the Coals LEt the Furnace be D the place filled with Coles E whereunto put fire and when the Coals are well burnt so that they give a clear flame and fire take your Crucible A well anailed that it break not with the suddain heat and put therein three ounces of filed Lead having twelve ounces of Mercury sublimate well ground and Salt Armoniack six ounces mixed together which put upon the filings of Lead into the Crucible A and when the fire is strong and glowing hot â—ake your Tongs C and presently take up your Crucible and put it in B the hole in the top of the Furnace till you hear a great noise and buzâ—ing then so soon as you can least the Quicksilver flie away with the spirits take away the Crucible with the matter therein and set it in an earthen dish filled with ashes to cool and when it is cold strike the lower part of the Crucible so that the matter of the Lead may fall into an earthen dish and you shall find your Lead conâ—erted into Quick-silver This Crucible and Furnace is at large characteâ—ed in the Holy Guide This work is to be reiterated with new spirits â—ill you have a sufficient quantity of Quick-silâ—er with which proceed as followeth to precipitate this Quick-silver that from a spirit it may be converted into a fixed body by fixation Take of this Quick-silver so much as you please and put it to precipitate in a round glass well luted and set it in ashes to the top of the glass yet let us stay here a while that your unstanding may be the more enlightened Therefore understand that the intention of this work is to fix the spirit which may sooner be done with the spirit of a fixed body which before was Homogeneal with the body and which of its own nature desireth to joyn again with its body Therfore nature requireth that she may be helped by Art in this work to which the Artist consenting he adminstreth thereto the pure and desired metal which it delighteth to adhere unto which metal is Gold which is thus prepared thaâ— it be sooner parted by the Quick-silver and sticâ— thereunto Take as much pure Gold as you please and dissolve it in aqua regis mixed with equal part oâ— acetum acerrimum or Lac virginis then set 〈◊〉 to digest the space of a day then put your dissolution into an Alimbeck and set it Balneo tâ— distill away the water as dry as you can and dâ— thus three times and the third time distill it iâ— ashes that the Salt Armoniack may sublime Theâ— put distilled Vinegar upon the matter remaining and after it hath stood three days in Balneo distiâ—â— the Vinegar away in ashes that all the substancâ— of the Salt Armoniack may sublime and do thâ—â— three times always putting in new Vinegar uâ—till the Oyl of the dissolved Gold remain in thâ— bottom then take of your Quick-silver three times so much as your Gold and pour it upon the solution of the Gold that they may mix together and be united then put your quick-silver with the solution in a round Glass stopped onely with a peece of Cotton and with a stick put it down every day as it doth ascend and keep your Glass â—n ashes the space of a moneth till your quick-silver be turned into a red precipitate then again dissolve it in new distilled Vinegar till the whole substance of the quick-silver be dissolved and the Vinegar be coloured in a golden colour then diâ—â—ill away the Vinegar in ashes and again preâ—ipitate the quick-silver which is in the bottom â—f a Gold colour into a red and fixed body and 〈◊〉 have you the Mercury precipitate of Saâ—â—rne It remaineth now that the body be imbibed â—ith its soul that this being from a spirit reduâ—â—d into a body may again imbibe its soul that it â—ay be dissolved therewith therefore put it into 〈◊〉 Glass and add thereto equal proportion of its â—ul or water of Paradice and shut your Glass â—ell the space of five days till the body be disâ—â—ved with the soul Then dry it in ashes till it penetrate and flow â—â—d when it is dried try it upon a hot Iron plate it be fixed and melt if not imbibe it again with â—f the weight of its water and do so till you â—â—ke it fusible and piercing by imbibing and â—â—ying it and when it will melt in the fire and penetrate it is then the stone and fit for fermenâ—ion We have said enough of the manner of fermentation in the second Book and therefore it is not necessary to repeat it here and so after fermentation it will be the Elixir Then it is to be augmented and projected as is before declared and thus the work of Saturne is accurtated of which George Ripley saith Adrop is the father of the stone Sericon his brother Lympha his fister the earth its mother But if you desire to know all the secret of Saturne or Lead I will set you down one process out of Paracelsus when you have well prepared the heart of Saturne saith he take two or three ounces of that heart and grind it small with double weight of Salt-peter and put it in a subliming Glass with a head well luted to sublime encreasing the fire by little and little as long as any thing will ascend or sublime thus far Paracelsus now if you find this
true Ripley will tell you what you shall do with it in these words When by the violence of the fire in the distillation of the Gum of the Sericon a certain white matter shall ascend sticking to the head of the Limbeck like Ice keep this matter which hath the property of Sulphur not burning and is a fit matter for receiving form you shall give it form after this manner by rubifying it in ashes and when it is red Sulphur give it of its soul until it pierce and flow then ferment it Here I have delivered unto you all the ways and manners of Saturne which are found in any of the Philosophers Books to the end therefore that the work may be compleated with a demonstration of this word Plumbum Philosophorum at appears in the Practical Compendium of Ripley we say that the Philosophers Lead is not taken for Antimony but for Adrop being converted into the Gum of Sericon It remaineth now that we in order treat of the third termination of this Book therefore after we have done with Saturne it is necessary to speak of Jupiter viz. Tin but because there are many other ways of handling Saturne besides those we mentioned therefore we refer the Reader thither seeing he followeth his footsteps for he is the off-spring of Saturne and naturally born from him CHAP. IV. The third Table of the Elixir of Iron IT is not necessary to prefix a peculiar Table to this metal alone because it is set down before this book nevertheless I will here reckon up its parts and operations as followeth 1. Calcination 2. Solution 3. Seperation 4. Conjunction 5. Putrefaction 6. Sulphur 7. Fermentation 8. Elixir Exaltation or augmentation and projection is spoken of sufficiently in the former Books Mars being most earthly of all the Planets or bodies it is not to be doubted but that it may easily be reduced into a body with little labor and therefore most easily converted into Salt which is done by Calcination therefore we will first shew his conversion into Salt Understand therefore that hence ariseth a twofold consideration that is to say that it be calcined one way into its body or Salt the other way that the body be prepared for solution by calcination The practice differeth but a little for whether you calcine Iron for its Salt or its Menstruum one onely manner of preparation sufficeth That is to say that you take filings of Iron or Steel as much as you please and mix therewith equal weight of Sulphur in an earthen body with a Limbeck will luted thereto then set it in ashes to sublime till all the Sulphur be sublimed from it then dissolve the filings which remain in the bottom in Aqua Regia and it will be converted into Salt which will be cleansed from the said water if you put thereon distilled Vinegar and distill it away do thus three times with new Vinegar and you shall have a yellowish red Salt in the bottom which then is a body to be joyned to the soul which keep in warm ashes till you use it Now for the practice of Iron for dissolution take filings of Iron or Steel so much as you please and put it in an Iron dish filled with Vinegar and set it in the flaming fire the space 〈◊〉 three hours then take it out and let it cool reiterate this work four or five times the calcine it with Sulphur as you did before When it is thus calcined set it to dissolve in a corrosive water by adding equal weight of our acetum acerrimum and let it stand till it have dissolved so much as it can in the cold then set it in hot ashes and let it stand there the space of four or five days pour off the water and dry which is not dissolved and again calcine it and dissolve it and when it is dissolved so as the water be coloured red pour it out into a body and keep it till you have dissolved as much calcined Iron as you please Then take all your dissolutions and with an Alimbeck distill away the water in Balneo and put distilled Vinegar upon the matter remaining in the bottom and let it stand upon it in Balneo the space of seven days then take out your Glass and filter the dissolution and then again in Balneo distill off the Vinegar and in the bottom will remain a thick Oyl of the Iron or Steel but if it be not dissolved to your mind reiterate your solution in Raymunds calcinative water but it would be better if it were edulcorated with Aqua vitae drawing it away again in Balneo and so you have your Iron dissolved into a liquor Therefore proceed to distillation that there may be a separation and distill it in an earthen Vessel in a strong fire encreasing the fire as much as you can and receive the oyl or soul or red tincture of Mars separated from the remaining feces by the nose of the Limbeck which oyl is the most permanent tincture for colouring Sulphures for the red work or for exaltation of all Elixirs in colour for it makes it tinge and colour higher When you have thus prepared the tincture then proceed to conjunction and work with the Salt before reserved taking three or four ounces of the Salt and equal weight of the soul Then seal it up and set it to putrifie in Balneo and keep it there till it pass through all colours and be white and then it is Sulphur of Nature Then take out your Glass and set it in ashes in a greater degree of heat till it be red then dissolve the red Sulphur with its own soul and again dissolve and fix it dissolving it in Balneo and fixing it under the fire and so it is prepared for fermentation The fermentation is as hath often been spoken of before with the resolved oyl of the Sulphur of Gold in a fourfold proportion to the Medicine that by the addition of the ferment it may be made Elixir transmuting all bodies And note that this Elixir of Iron excelleth all other Elixirs for it rubifieth more and tingeth higher and is better for mans body for it prevaileth against the spleen constringeth the belly and cureth wounds it knitteth broken bones together and stoppeth the superfluous Flux of the Courses CHAP. V. The fourth Table of the Physical and Alchymical Tincture out of the red Lyon and Glue of the Eagle drawn out from the Authors experience IT is chiefly to be remembred how we first taught you to dissolve Antimony with out acetum acerrimum which may be also well done if you dissolve it in our calcinative water and after that Antimony is calcined which we spoke of in the end of the second book it is also to be remembred that in the end of the book I spoke of the Glue of the Eagle in the sixth Table of the first book these being remembred it is to be understood that we attribute no other beginning to this accurtation
to say of the powder of the white corporeal Elixir when the glass is melted Thus far Aurora Consurgeus and Clangor Buccinae Now if you desire to make pure and clear malleable glass learn this of me and beware of what glass you make your mettal for you must not take glass of Flints wherewith glass of windows are made but such as your Venice glass is made of and that is to be chosen out of the first mettal of the glass which hath stud molten in the fire in the glass makers furnace the space of a night then it will be without spots and pure therefore take as much of the said glass out of the furnace with your Iron rod as you have a desire to convert and when it is cold weigh it and melt it by it self in a pot and when it is well molten project your white corporeal Elixir upon it and it will be converted into malleable mettal and fit and apt glass for all Gold Smiths operations And thus is glass made malleable and prepared for any use but if this were done with the red Elixir it would be much more during for there is nothing more pretious of which we will not now speak Therefore Son or or Reader whosoever thou art who readest my Books give credit to me and beleive me because all things that you shall find writ here are either the most approved writings and collections of all writers or the Authors own experiments For I have tryed many things and found many things true I beleive no man liveth amongst Mortals that knoweth more ways of prepartions which are concealed by almost all the Philosophers For that which perfecteth the great work that they have all concealed which truely is the errour of all Artists And this is all I would have you to do To calcine dissolve and seperate the Elements after join them together putrifie them or reduce them into sulphur ferment project Augment in vertue and quantity This is onely the work of the Philosophers of which the whole Company of Philosophers have writ in a continuate course The End of the Second Book Hampaaneah Hammegulleh OR The Rosie Crucian CROWN In which is set down the Angels of the Seven Planets and their Occult Power upon the Seven Metals and miraculous Vertues in the Coelum Terrae or first matter of all things Whereunto is added A perfect full DISCOVERY OF THE Pantarva and Elixirs of Metals By EUGENIUS THEODIDAGTUS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Servant of God and Secretary to Nature Vbi est scientia ibi est invidia LONDON â—rinted for the Author and are to be sold at the Rainbow in Fleetstreet 1664. To the Worthy Learned Noble and Valiant Colonel Samuel Sandys late Governor of his Majesties Garrison in the Famous City of Worcester and now one of the Right Honorable Members of Parliament c. YOur late respects to me have commanded my Soul to serve you and knowing you are aswell a Philosopher and Learned as a Souldier that can command Armies of â—orse and Foot into good order for War I therefore humbly present this little Piece of Philosophy to your pleasure As the Book is Art and â—ature united to serve you so the Epistle may â—ake you merry by the great power of Natural â—â—ings for you know they not onely work upon all things that are neer them by their Vertue but â—â—so besides this they infuse into them a like â—ower through which by the same Vertue they â—â—so work upon other things as in the Loadâ—â—one which stone doth not onely draw Iron â—ings but also infuseth a Vertue into the Rings themselves whereby they can do the same Afâ—â—r this manner it is that the common Harlots â—nd Villains grounded daily in boldness and imâ—â—dence in Stage-Plays infect all that are neer them by this property whereby the spectors are made like them therefore they say that if any one shall put on the inward Garments of a Stage-Player or shall have about him that Looking-glass which they daily look into he shall become bold Confident Ignorant Impudent and Wanton so a Cloth that was about a dead Corps makes him that carries it sad and melancholy And if you put a Green Lizard made blind together with Iron or Gold Rings into a Glass Vessel putting under them some earth shutting then the Vessel and when it appears that the Lizard hath received his sight shall put them out of the Glass that those Rings shall help sore eyes the same may be done with Gold Rings and a Weesel whose eyes with any kind of prick are put out it is certain are restored to sight again upon the same account Rings are put for a certain time in the Nest of Sparrows or Swallows which afterwards are used to procure Love and Favor These observations and ten thousand more I made to serve you and they shall testifie you shall know you have power to command Your most affectionate humble servant JOHN HEYDON The third Book Of Saturne or Lead the first Direction CHAP. I. Of the Elixar Putrefaction into Sulphur the Oyl of the Sulphur of the Conjunction of the Salt and Oyl of the Spirit or Salt of Saturne which containeth the Oyl or soul of the Menstruum of white Mercury and red water of Paradice Resolution Solution distillation Hyl Purgation resolution of Sericon of the Gum of Sericon of the solution of the Minium or Adrop of Calcination of Minium into Adrop and red Lead of Calcination of Lead with Aqua Fortis VEry many have writ of Saturne or Lead but none that I know of have writ fully thereof in any particular Treatise therefore I do not here onely set down â—â—at I have gathered from them most briefly and â—â—ely but also those things which I have found 〈◊〉 proved by my own experience which I have â—â—exed to them that the work may be absolute 〈◊〉 compleat Of which as they say Mary the Prophetess and the Sister of Moses in her Books of the work of Saturne is thus said to write Make your water running like the water of the two Zaibeth and fix it upon the heart of Saturne And in another place Marry the Gum with the true Matrimonial Gum and you shall make it like running water Of which process of Mary George Ripley our Country man hath these verses Maria mira sonat Quae nobis talia donat Gummis cum binis Fugitivum fugit inimis Horis in trinis Tria vinclat fortia finis Fila Plutonis Consortia jungit Amoris Or thus Maria mira sonat breviter qui talia donat Gummi cum binis fugitivum fug it in imis Horis in trinis tria vinclat fortia finis Maria lux roris ligam ligat in tribus horis Filia Pluton is consortia jungit Amoris Gaudet inassala sola per tria sociata The heart of Saturne saith Ripley is his whiâ—â— and clear body out of whose doctrine the woâ—â— doth briefly thus proceed that is to say that