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A79445	Chymical, medicinal, and chyrurgical addresses: made to Samuel Hartlib, Esquire. Viz. 1. Whether the Vrim and Thummim were given in the Mount, or perfected by art. 2. Sir George Ripley's epistle, to King Edward unfolded. 3. Gabriel Plats caveat for alchymists. 4. A conference concerning the phylosophers stone. 5. An invitation to a free and generous communication of secrets and receits in physick. 6 Whether or no, each several disease hath a particular remedy? 7. A new and easie method of chirurgery, for the curing of all fresh wounds or other hurts. 8. A discourse about the essence or existence of metals. 9. The new postilions, pretended prophetical prognostication, of what whall happen to physitians, chyrurgeons, apothecaries, alchymists, and miners.		1655 (1655)	Wing C3779; Thomason E1509_2; ESTC R209495	57,805	193

form be so much the farther remote from our Mercury then common Argent vive is Our Art therefore is to compound two principles one in which the salt and another in which the Mercury of nature doth abound which are not yet perfect nor yet totally imperfect and by consequence may therefore by our Art be exalted with that which is totally perfect cannot be and then by common Mercury to extract not the Pondus but the celestial vertue out of the compound which vertue being fermental begets in the common Mercury an off-spring more noble than it self which is our true Hermaphrodite which will congeal it self and dissolve the bodies observe but a grain of Corn in which scarce a discernable part is sprout and this sprout if it were out of the grain would dye in a moment the whole grain is sowen yet the sprout onely produceth the herb So is it in our body the fermental spirit that is in it is scarce a third part of the whole the rest is of no value yet all is joyned in the composition and the faeculent corporeous part of the body comes away with the dreggs of the Mercury But beyond the example given of a grain it may be observed that the hidden and spiritual vertue of this our body doth purge and purifie its matrix of water in which it is sowen that is it makes it cast forth a great quantity of filthy earth and a great deal of Hydropical saline moisture For instancemake thy washings for a tryall with pure and clean fountain-water weigh first a pint of the same water and take the exact weight of it then wash thy compound eight or ten times save all the faeces weigh thy body and Mercury exactly weigh thy faeces being very dry then distill or sublime all that will sublime a very little quick Mercury will ascend then put the Residue of the faeces in a crucible set them on the coals and all the faeculency of the Mercury will burn like a coal yet without fume when that is all consumed weigh the remaining faeces and thou shalt find them to be two thirds of thy body the others being in the Mercury weigh the Mercury which thou sublimedst and the Mercury prepared by it self and the weight of both will not recompence thy Mercury weight by farre So then boile up thy water to a skin in which thou madest thy Lotions for that is a thick water and in a cool place thou shalt have Christals which is the salt of Mercury Crude and no way fit for Medicines yet it is a content for the Artists to see how the Heterogeneyties of Mercury are discovered which no other Art save the liquor of Alcahest can do and that in a destructive and not a generative way as this is for this operation of ours is made between male and female within their own kind between which there is a ferment which effecteth that which no other thing in the world could do In all truth I tell you that if you should take our imperfect compound body per se and Mercury per se and them alone though you might bring out of the one a most pure Sulphur and out of the other Mercury of Mercnry which is the nut of Mercury yet with these thou couldst effect nothing for fermental virtue is the wonder of the World and it is by it that water becomes Herbs Trees and Plants Fruits Flesh Blood Stones Minerals and every thing look then for it onely and rejoyce in it as in a deservedly invaluable treasure Now know that fermentation work not out of kind neither do salts ferment Mettals Wilt thou know then whence it is that some fixt Alcalyes do extract a Mercury out of Minerals and out of the more imperfect Metals consider then that in all these bodies the Sulphur is not so radically mixt and united as it is in Silver and Gold Now Sulphur is of Kin to divers Alcalyes that are ordinarily dissolved or melted with it and by this means the Mercurial parts are disjoyned and the Argent vive is by fire separated The Mertury thus separated is spoyled of its Sulphur when as indeed there needs onely a depuration of the Sulphur by separating the impure from the pure but these salts having separated the Sulphur do leave the Mercury worse that is more estranged from a Metallick nature than it was before for in its composition that Sulphur of Saturn will not burn but though it be sublimed calcined made sugar or vitrefied yet by fire and fluxes it still returns to the same it was in before but its Sulphur being as is aforesaid separated will take fire if joyned with Salt-peter even as common Sulphur doth So that the Salts act on the Sulphur of which they rob the Mercury they act not for want of ferment which is not to be found but onely among Homogeneall things Therefore the ferment of bread leavens not a stone nor doth the ferment of any animal or vigetable ferment a mettal or mineral So then though out of Gold thou mightest obtaine a Mercury by the help of the Liquor of the first ens of Salt yet that Mercury would never accomplish our work whereason the otherside made out of Gold by our Mercury though there be three parts of our Mercury to one of Gold This Mercury I say will by continual digestion accomplish the whole work marvell not then that our Mercury is more powerfull which is prepared by Mercury for certainly the ferment which commeth between the compound Body and the Water causeth a death and a regeneration it doth that which nothing in the world can do besides it severs from Mercury a terres treity which burns like a Coale and an Hydropical humor melting in common water but the residue is acuated by a Spirit of life which is our true embryonated Sulphur of our water not visible yet working visibly We conclude that all operations for our Mercury but by common Mercury and our body according to our Art are erronious and will never produce our mystery although they be otherwise never so wonderfull For as the Author of the Newlight saith No water in any Island of the Phylosophers was wholesom but that which was drawn out of the reines of the Soll and Luna Wilt thou know what that meanes Mercury in its pondus and incombustibility is Gold fugitive our Body in its purity is called the Phylosophers Lune being farr● more pure than the imperfect mettals and its Sulphur also as pure as the Sulphur of Soll not that it is indeed Luna for it abides not in the fire now in the composition of these three 1 our common Mercury and the two principles of our compound there interceeds the ferment of Luna out of which though it be a Body proceeds yet a specificating odor yea and oft the pondus of it is diminished If the compound be much washt after it is sufficiently clean So then the ferment of Soll and Luna interceeds in our

composition which ferment begets an ofspring more noble than it self a 1000 fold wheas should'st thou work on our compound Body by a violent way of Salts thou should'st have thy Mercury by farre less noble than the Body the Sulphur of the Body being separated and not exalted by such a progress We now come to the third conclusion which is that among all metalline and mineral Sulphur there are onely two that belong to our work which two have their Mercuries essentially united with them This is the truth of our secrets though we to seduce the unwary do seem to aver the contrary for do not think that because we do insinuate two waies therefore we really mean as we say for verily as witnesseth Ripley There is no true principles but one Nor have we but one matter nor but one way of working upon that matter nor but one regimen of heat and one linear way of proceeding These two Sulphurs as they are principles of our work they ought to be homogeneal for it is onely Gold spiritual that we seek first white then red which Gold is no other then that which the vulgar see but they know not the hidden spirit that is in it This principle wants nothing but Composition and this composition must be made with our other crude white Sulphur which is nothing but Mercury vulgar by frequent cohobation of it upon our Hermaphroditical Body so long till it be come a fiery water Know therefore that Mercury hath in its self a Sulphur which being unactive our Art is to multiply in it a living active Sulphur which comes out of the loyns of our Hermaphroditical Body whose father is a metal and his mother a mineral Take then the most beloved daughter of Saturn whose armes are a circle Argent and on it a sable cross on a blackfield which is the signall note of the great World espouse her to the most warlike God who dwels in the house of Aries and thou shalt find the Salt of Nature with this Salt acuate thy water as thou best knowest and thou shalt have the Lunary bath in which the Sun will be amended And in all truth I assure thee that although thou hadst ourbody Mercurialized without the addition of Mercury of any of the metals made per se that is without the addition of Mercury it would not be in the least profitable unto thee for it is our Mercury onely which hath a Celestial form and power which it receives not onely nor so much from the compound body as from the fermental virtue which proceeds from the composition of both the body and the Mercury by which is produced a wonderfull Creature So then let all thy care be to marry Sulphur with Sulphur that is our Mercury which is impraegnated which Sulphur must be espoused with our ☉ then hast thou two Sulplers married and two Mercuries of one off spring whose father is the ☉ and ☽ the mother The fourth Conclusion makes all perfectly plain which hath been said before namely that these two Sulphurs are the one most pure red Sulphur of Gold and the other of most pure clean white Mercury These are our two Sulphurs the one appears a coagulated body and yet carries its Mercury in its belly the other is in all its proportions true Mercury yet very clean and carries its Sulphur within its self though hidden under the form and fluxibilitie of Mercury Sophisters are here in a labyrinth for because they are not acquainted with metalline love they work in things altogether heterogeneal or if they work upon metalline bodies they yet either joyne males with males or else females with females or else they work on each alone or else they take males which are charged with natural inabilities and females whose matrix is vitiated Thus by there own inconsideration they frustrate their own hopes and then cast the blame upon the Art when as indeed it is onely to be imputed to their own folly in not understanding the Phylosophers I know many pittifull Sophisters do dote on many Stones vigitable animal and mineral and some to those add the fiery Angelical Paradaical Stone which they call a Wonder working essence and because the mark they aim at is so great the Waies also by which they would attain their Scope they make also a double one Way they call the Via Humida the other the Via Sicca to use their languages The latter Way is the labirinthian path which is fit onely for the great ones of the earth to tread in the other the dedalean path an easie way of small cost for the poor of the world to enterprize But this I know and can testifie that there is but one Way and but onely one Regimen no more Colours than ours and what we say or write otherwise is but to deceive the unwary for if every thing in the world ought to have its proper causes there cannot be any one end which is produced from two waies of working on distinct principles Therefore we protest and must again admonish the Reader that in our former writings we have concealed much by reason of the two waies we have insinuated which is the play of children and the work of women and that is decoction by the fire and we protest that the lowest degree of this our work is that the matter be stirred up and may hourly circulate without feare of breaking of the vessel which for this reason ought to be very strong but our linear decoction is an internal work which advances every day and hour and is distinct from that of outward heat and therefore is both invisible and insensible In this our work our Diana is our body when it is mixed with the water for then all is called the Moon for Laton is whitened and the Woman beares rule our Diana hath a wood for in the first dayes of the Stone our body after it is whitened grows vegitably In this wood are at the last found two Doves for about the end of three weeks the soul of the Mercury ascends with the soul of the disolved Gold these are in folded in the everlasting armes of Venus for in this season the confection are all tincted with a pure green colour these Doves are circulated seven times for in seven is perfection and then they are left dead for they then rise and move no more our Body is then black like to a Crowes bill for in this operation all is turned to pouder blacker than the blackest Such passages as these we do oftentimes use when we speak of the preparation of our Mercury and this we do to deceive the simple and it is also for no other end that we confound our operations speaking of one when we ought to speak of another for if this Art were but plainly set down our operatiations would be contemptible even to the foolish Therefore believe me in this that because our workes are truly Natural we therefore do take the liberty to confound

the Phylosophers work with that which is purely Natures work that so we might keep the simple in ignorance concerning our true Vinegre which being unknown their labor is wholly lost Let me then for a close say onely thus much Take our Body which is Gold and our Mercury which is seven times acuated by the martiage of it with our Hermaphroditieall Body which is a Chaos and it is the splendor of the soul of the God Mars in the earth and water of Saturn mix these two in such a pondus as nature doth require In this mixture you have our invisible fires for in the water our Mercury is an active Sulphur or mineral fire and in the Gold a dead passive but yet actual Sulphur now when that Sulphur of the Gold is stirred up and quickned there is made between the fire of nature which is as the Gold and the fire against nature which is in the Mercury a fire partly of the one and partly of the other for it partakes of both and by these two fires thus united into one is caused both Corruption which is Hnmiliation and Generation which is Glorification and Perfection Now know that God onely governs this way of the internal fire man being ignorant of the progress thereof onely by his reason beholding its opetations he is able to discern that it is hot that is that it doth perform the action of heat which is decoction In this fire there is no sublimation for sublimation is an exaltation but this fire is such an exaltation as that beyond it is no perfection All our work then is onely to multiply this fire that is to circulate the body so long until the vertue of the Sulphur be augmented Again this fire is an invisible Spirit and therefore not having dimentions is neither above nor below but every where in the Sphere of the activity of our matter in the Vessel So that though the material visible substance do sublime and ascend by the action of the elemental heat yet this spiritual virtue is alway as well in that which remains in the bottom as in that which is in the upper part of the Vessel for it is as the soul in the body of man which is every where at the same time and yet bounded or termined in none This is the ground of one Sophism of ours viz. when we say that in this true Philosophical fire there is no sublimation for the fire is the life and the life is a soul which is not at all subject to the dimensions of Bodies Hence also it is that the opening of the Glass or cooling of the same during the time of working kils the life or fire that is in this secret Sulphur and yet not one grain of the mettal is lost The elemental fire then is that which any child knowes how to kindle and govern but it is the Philosopher onely that is able to discern the true inward fire for it is a wonderful thing which acts in the body yet is no part of the body Therefore the fire is a Celestial virtue it is uniformed that is it is alwaies the same untill the period of its operation is come and then being come to perfection it acts no more for every Agent when the end of its action is come then rests Remember then that when we speak of our fire which sublimes not that thou do not mistake and think that the moisture of the compound which is within the Glass ought not to sublime for that it must do uncesantly but the fire that sublimes not is the metalline love which is above and below and in all places alike Now then for a close to all that hath been said learn and be well advised what matter you take in hand for an evil Crow laies an evil Egg as the proverb hath it let thy seed be pure and thy matrix also pnre then shalt thou see a noble off-spring let the fire without be such as in which our confections may play to fro uncessantly this in a few daies will produce that which thou most longest for the Crows Bill To the Readers WHereas this Book is to be Printed by a well willer to all men that love knowledge more than riches and to be cause red by all men I desire no man to assent unless has reason do move him therefore I am contented that every man upon the reading thereof shall have his free vote if he praise my work that will make me neither fatter nor more proud if de dispraise it that will make me no leaner nor abate the courage of my noble mind for the truth is that my minde is a size too great to value or regard the speeches of the common people more than the chattering of Magpyes or the pratling of Parrots So I take my leave At Westminster this 10. of March 1643. Your loving Friend G. P. A CAVEAT FOR ALCHYMISTS OR A warning to all ingenious Gentlemen whether Laicks or Clericks that study for the finding out of the Philosophers Stone shewing how that they need not to be cheated of their Estates either by the perswasion of others or by their own idle conceits The first Chapter WHereas I am shortly to demonstrate before the High and Honourable Court of Parliament in England that there is such a thing feisible as the Philosophers Stone or to fpeak more properly an Art in the transmutation of Mettals which will cause many a thousand men to undo and begger themselves in the searching for the same I cannot chuse but to publish these advertisements for that is a fundamental point in my Religion to do good to all men as well enemies as friends If I could be satisfied that the publishing thereof would do more good than hurt then the world should have it in plain terms and as plain as an Apothecaries receit But in regard that I have often vowed to God Almighty upon my knees to do the greatest good with it that my understanding could perswade me unto I have craved the advice of the Honourable Parliament for that I have strongly conceived an opinion that by the well contriving of the use of it the worlds ill manners may be changed into better if this can be done then I should break my vow to God if I should not do my best endeavours and therefore I dare not to cheat God Almighty having obtained this blessed science of his free gift and go into a corner and there eat drink and sleep like a swine as many have done before me upon whom this blessed knowledge hath been unworthily bestowed but had rather improve it to his glory if my counsel craved shall so think fit But howsoever my meaning is to do some considerable good with it howsoever that is to make my self a sea-mark to the end that no ingenious Gentleman shall from henceforth be undone by the searching for this noble Art as many have heretofore been Therefore my first Caveat shall be to shew

is of two colours being white and corrupt in the Silver which therefore falleth away but red and pure in the Gold and therefore permanent These diversities of metals being come to passe by accidētal causes is the cause that Art being Natures Ape by imitation hath endeavoured to perform that wherein Nature was hindered whereupon Aristotle saith Facilius est distruere Accidentale quam Essentiale so that the Accidental being destroyed the Essential remains which should be pure But this cannot be done without projection of the Elixar or Quinteffence upon Metals Hence proceedeth the study of all the Philosophers to make their miraculous stone which I confess is very pleasant and full of expectation when a man seeth the true and perfect transmutation of Metals Lead and Iron into Copper the Ore of Lead into Quick-si●ver or Mercury with a small charge to a very great profit as it hath been made for me untill the maker of it died within three months after he had made almost four thousand pound weight as good as any natura Mercury could be and that in six weeks time To return to our Philosophers concerning the essence of metals they have been transcended in the knowledge thereof for they shew the generation of Sulphu● and Mercury in this manner The exhalations of the earth being cold and dry and the vapours of the seas being cold and moist according to their natures ascending and meeting in a due proportion and equality and falling upon some hilly or mountainous countrey where the influence of Sun and Moon have continual operation are the cause of generation or properly from it is Sulphur ingendered penetrating into the earth where there are veines of water and there they congeal into Gold or Silver or into the Ores of Silver Copper and all other metals participating or holding alwayes some little mixture of the best or being in nature better or worse according to the said accidental causes So that they do attribute the generation to the operation of the influences of the Sun and Moon where the Book of God sheweth us the creation of all things in heaven and earth and the furniture thereof The earth being the dry part of the globe of the world did appear and was made the third day containing in it the Ores of all Metals and Minerals whereas the Sun and Moon were created afterward on the fourth day whose operation was incident to the things created but not before In like manner say they are Diamonds Rubies and other pretious stones ingendred according to the purity of the matter and the proportionable participation of every element therein if the exhalations being subtill do superabound and prevail over the vapours then hereof is Sulphur ingendered and if this subtil exhalation be mixed with the moist vapours and wanteth decoction as being in a very cold place it becomes Mercury or Quick-silver which can endure no heat or fire at all The first Metal mentioned in the holy Scripture is Gold which was found in the river Pison running through the Garden of Eden into the Countrey of Havilah where Gold doth grow and this was in the East According to which observation all the veins of Mines run from East towards West with the course of the Sun as shall be more deciared To this argument appertaineth the Philosophical study of Prima Materia to be found out by experience for the great work of La pis Philosophorum by the operation of the Sun in seven yeares The practise whereof was made about forty yeares since by a German Doctor of Physick at Dansick in the East Countries as I have been informed by a friend of mine who was also a Physitian and was done in this manner according to the bigness of the body of the Sun being 166 times bigger than the whole Globe of the earth and water making the circumference of the world Whereupon he took 166 vials or glasses wherein he did put of all the Ores of Metals and Minerals and other things which had any affinity with Minerals and some of them mixed and calcined all of them and closing or nipping up all the glasses by fire he did expose them to the Sun in an eminent place for and during the said time of seven yeares and found thereby as it was reported Prima Materia which was reduced to seven glasses howsoever it was certain that he grew very rich bought above an hundred houses in that City before he died Which was an occasion-that my friend imitating him did likewise place not far from London seven glasses with calcined Metals and Minerals upon a house top against the back of a chimney where the repercussion of the Sun did work upon them which was admirable to behold from six moneth to six moneths not onely by the sublimation of colours very variable and Celestial but also of the rare alteration of the stuffe being sometimes liquid another time dry or part of it moist ascending and descending very strange to behold as my self have seen divers times from year to year Some had been there two three four five and one almost seven yeares the colour whereof had been yellow then white in the superficies then as black as pitch afterwards dark red with stars of gold in the upper part of the glass and at last of the colour of Oranges or Lemons and the substance almost dry Many were the questions between him and me but he was confident that there was the Elixar howbeit very doubtful that he should never enjoy the same and it came so to passe for after a long sickness he died of a burning Ague and a Gentleman gave a sum of mony to his wife for that glasse whereof I have not heard any thing these seven yeares In this glass he would shew me the working of this Quintessence according to the description of Ripley who he was assured had the Lapis and so had Frier Bacon and Norton of Bristol Kelley had by his saying some little part to make projection but it was not of his own making The charge to make it was little or nothing to speak of and might be done in seven moneths if a man did begin it on the right day The twelve operations of Ripley he declared unto me were but six and then it resteth for saith he all Philosophers have darkened the study of this blessed Work which God hath revealed to a few humble and charitable men Calcination Dissolution and Separation are but one and so is Conjuction and Putrifaction likewise Cibation and Fermentation then followeth Congelation and at last Multiplication and Projection which are also but one For mine own part seeing that no man can be perfect in any one Science I hold it not amiss for a man to have knowledge in most or in all things for by this study of Alcumy men may attain to many good Experiments of distillations Chymical Fire-works and other excellent observations in Nature which being far from Merchants profession I hope shall not