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A92903	A new light of alchymie: taken out of the fountaine of nature, and manuall experience. To which is added a treatise of sulphur: / written by Micheel Sandivogius: i.e. anagram matically, divi Leschi genus amo. Also nine books of the nature of things, written by Paracelsus, viz. Of the generations growthes conservations life: death renewing transmutation separation signatures of naturall things. Also a chymicall dictionary explaining hard places and words met withall in the writings of Paracelsus, and other obscure authors. All which are faithfully translated out of the Latin into the English tongue, by J.F. M.D.; Novum lumen chymicum. English.	Sędziwój, Michał, ca. 1556-ca. 1646.; French, John, 1616-1657.; Paracelsus, 1493-1541. Of the nature of things.; Dorn, Gerhard, 16th cent. Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi.	1650 (1650)	Wing S2506; Thomason E604_3; Thomason E604_4; Thomason E604_5; ESTC R203736	79,289	151

goodly pearls in form like the naturall but not in vertue In the like manner are Coralls made with which men endeavour to deceive one the other as with Pearle The processe is this How Counterfeit Coralls may be made Take Cinnabar grinde it on a Marble with the white of an Egge for the space of an houre then dry it as Potters doe their Earth then make it into what forme thou pleafest Afterwards dry them as much as may bee and noint them over with the white of an Egge as thou didst Pearle and dry them by themselves again So thou shalt have Corall like to the naturall in form but not in vertue A Golden or Silver vernish Thou must also know That the white of an Egge may bee of it selfe coagulated into most cleer Vernish in the coagulation of which Silver or Gold may bee strewed There are also many other and various Transmutations of Naturall things Whereof those which I know and have had experience of I will by the way set down and briefly declare to you How wood is made a stone And first of all know That any Wood if it bee put for a certaine time into the water of Salt Gemme is turned with much admiration into a Stone Coales of stones Also Stones in the Aetnean fire are transmuted into Coales which are called stony Coals Glew of skins Also Glew is boiled out of Skinnes Paper of Linnen-cloath Of Linnen cloth is made Paper Silke of Flax. Of Flax boiled in sharp Lie made of the Ashes of Wood is Silke made Feathers may be Spun. Also the feathery parts pulled off from quills and boiled in that Lie may bee spun and weaved like Cotton Any Oyle or Spermatick mucilage may bee coagulated into Vernish Any Liquor into Gumme c. All these are Transmutations of Naturall things of which Science wee have spoken enough and there-wee shall here make an end OF THE NATVRE Of Things THE EIGHTH BOOK Of the Separation of Naturall things The Chaos the Matter of the World IN the Creation of the world the first separation began from the foure Elements seeing the first matter of the world was one Chaos Of this Chaos God made the greater world being divided into four distinct Elements viz. Fire Aire Water and Earth Fire is the hot part Aire the moist Water the cold and Earth the dry part of the greater world What separation shall be here spoken of But that you may in brief understand the reason of our purpose in this 8 th book you must know that we doe not purpose to treat here of the Elements of all Naturall things seeing we have sufficiently discoursed of those Arcana in the Archidoxis of the separation of Naturall things whereby every one of them is apart and distinctly separated and divided materially and substantially viz. seeing that two three or foure or more things are mixed into one body and yet there is seen but one matter Where it often falls out that the corporeall matter of that thing cannot bee known by any or signified by any expresse name until there bee a separation made Then sometimes two three four five or more things come forth out of one matter as is manifest by daily experience in the art of Alchymie What Electrum is As for example you have an Electrum which of it selfe is no Metall but yet it hides all Metalls in one Metall That if it be anatomized by the industry of Alchymie and Teparated all the seven Metalls viz. Gold Silver Copper Tinne Lead Iron and Quicksilver come out of it and that pure and perfect What separation is But that you may understand what Separation is note that it is nothing else then the severing of one thing from another whether of two three four or more things mixed together I say a separation of the three Principles as of Mercury Sulphur and Salt and the extraction of pure out of the impure or the pure excellent spirit and quintessence from a grosse and elementary body and the preparation of two three four or more out of one or the dissolution and setting at liberty things that are bound and compact which are of a contrary nature acting one against the other untill they destroy one the other How many kinds of Separation Now there are many kinds of separation many of which are unknown to us those which wee have experienced out of elementary dissoluble naturall things shall in this place according to their kinds be described The separation of the Microcos me The first separation of which wee speake must begin from man because hee is the Microcosme or little world for whose sake the Microcosme or greater world was made viz. that hee might be the separator of it The body of man after death it twofold Now the separation of the Microcosme begins at his death For in death the two bodies of Man are separated the one from the other viz. his Celestial and Terrestial body i. e. Sacramental and Elementary one of which ascends on high like an Eagle the other falls downward to the earth like lead What the Elementary Body is The Elementary is putrefied consumed and becomes a putrid stinking carkase which being buryed in the earth never comes forth or appeares more What a Sacramentall Body is But the Sacramentall i. e. Syderiall or Celestiall all is never putrefied or buried neither doth it possesse any place This body appears to Men and also after death is seen Hence Ghosts Visions and Supernaturall Apparitions Whence the Cabalisticall art Hence by the ancient Magicians the Cabalisticall Art took it's beginning of which we shall treat more at large in the books of Cabalie After this separation is made then after the death of the Man three substances viz. Body Soule and Spirit are divided the one from the other every one going to its own place viz. it s own fountaine from whence it had its originall viz. the body to the Earth to the first matter of the Elements the soul into the first matter of Sacraments and lastly the spirit into the first matter of the Airy Chaos The separation of the Macrocosme What now hath been spoken of the separation of the Macrocosme the same also may bee understood in the greater world which the great Ocean hath divided into three parts so that the universall world is severed into three parts viz. Europe Asia and Africa which separation is a certain representation of three Principles Three parts of the World which can be separated from any Terrene or Elementary thing These three Principles are Mercury Sulphur and Salt of which three the world was made and composed The separation of Metalls The next thing to bee known is the separation of Metalls from their Mountains i. e. the separation of Metalls and Mineralls By vertue of this separation many things come forth out of one matter as you see out of Mineralls come

Precipitate but bee manifestly sweet then thou hast a precipitate as sweet as sugar And the use of it or honey which in all wounds Ulcers and Venereal Disease is so excellent a secret that no Physitian need desire a better Besides it is a great comfort to despairing Alchymists For it doth augment Gold and hath ingresse into Gold and with it Gold remaines stable and good Although there is much pains and sweat required to this Precipitate yet it wil sufficiently recompense thee for thy pains and costs and wil yeeld thee more gain then can bee got by any Art or Trade whatsoever Thou maist wel therefore rejoice in this and give God and mee thanks for it How Quicksilver may be Coagulated Now that Quicksilver may bee coagulated I said that that must bee done in sharp Aqua fortis which must bee drawn off by Distillation and then the Precipitate is made How Quicksilver may be turned to Cinnabar But that Quicksilver may bee brought into a Cinnabar you must first mortifie and melt it with Salt and yellow Sulphur and bring it into a white powder then put it in a gourd and put upon it Aludel or head and sublime it in the greatest flux you can as the manner is so the Cinnabar will ascend into the Aludel and stick as hard as the stone Haematites There are two kinds of Ceruse The preparation of them The mortification of Lead to bring it to a Ceruse is twofold the one for Medicine the other for Alchymie The preparation of Ceruse for Medicine is this Hang plates of Lead in a glazed pot over strong Wine-vineger the pot being well stopt that the spirits doe not exhale put this pot into warm ashes or in the Winter into a furnace then alwaies after ten or fourteen dayes thou shalt find very good Ceruse sticking to the plates which strike off with the foot of a Hare then put the plates over the Vineger again untill thou hast enough Ceruse Now the other preparation of Ceruse for Alchymie is like the former only that in the Vineger must bee dissolved a good quantity of the best and fairest Salt Armoniack for by this means thou shalt purchase a most faire and beautifull Ceruse for the purging of Tinne and Lead and the whitening of Copper The preparation of Minium out of Lead But if wee would make Minium of Lead we must first calcine it with Salt into Calx and then burn it in a glazed vessel alwaies stirring it with an Iron rod till it be red This is the best and chiefest Minium and it is to be used as wel in Physick as Alchymie but the other which Mercers sell in their shops is nothing worth It is made only of the ashes which remains of the Lead in the melting of it which also Potters use to glaze their vessells and such Minium is used for Painting but not for Physicke or Alchymie The Crocus of Lead Now that Lead may bee brought into yellownesse the preparation of it is not unlike to the preparation of Minium For Lead must here be calcined with Salt and brought to a Calx and afterwards be stirred with an Iron rod in a Broad bason such as tryers of Mineralls use in a gentle Fire of Coales diligently taking heed that there be not too much heat nor a neglect in stirring for else it will flow and become a yellow glasse And so thou hast a fair yellow Crocus of Lead How the Azure Colour is made of silver The mortification of Silver that of it may be made the Azure colour or something like to it is thus Take plates of Silver and mix them with Quicksilver and hang them in a glazed pot over the best Vineger in which Gilt-heads have been first boiled and afterward Salt Armoniack and calcined Tartar have been dissolved in all the rest doe as hath been said of Ceruse then alwaies after fourteen days thou shalt have a most excellent and faire Azure colour sticking to the plates of Silver which must be wiped off with a Hares foot The Mortification of Gold The Mortification of Gold that it may he brought into its Arcana as into a Tincture Quintessence Resine Crocus Vitriall and Sulphur and many other excellent Arcana which preparations indeed are many But because for the most part wee have sufficiently treated of such Arcana in other bookes as the extraction of the Tincture of Gold the Quintessence of Gold the Mercury of Gold the Oile of Gold Potable Gold the Resine of Gold the Crocus of Gold and in the Archidoxis and elsewhere wee conceive it needlesse here to repeat them But what Arcana were there omitted wee shall here set down As the Vitriall of Gold Sulphur of Gold which indeed are not the least and ought very much to cheer up every Physitian But to extract Vitriall out of Gold the processe is this How the sulphur and the Vitriall of Gold are made Take of pure Gold two or three pound which beat into thin plates and hanging them over Boyes urine mixt with the stones of grapes in a large gourd glasse well closed which bury in a hot heap of stones of Grapes as they come from the presse when it hath stood fourteen dayes or three weeks then open it and thou shalt find a most subtil colour which is the Vitriall of Gold sticking to the plates of Gold which take off with the foot of a Hare as thou hast heard concerning other Metalls as of the plates of Iron Crocus Martis of the plates of Copper the Vitriall of Copper and Verdegrease of the plates of Lead Ceruse of the plates of Silver the Azure colour c. comprehended under one processe but not with one manner of preparation When thou hast enough of the Vitriall of Gold boyle it well in Rain-water distilled alwaies stirring it with a spatle then the sulphur of the gold is driven up to the superficies of the water as fat which take off with a spoon Thus also doe with more Vitriall Now after all the Sulphur is taken off evaporate that raine water til it bee all dry and there will remain the Vitriall of Gold in the bottome which thou maist easily dissolve of it selfe upon a marble in a moist place In these two Arcana's viz. the Vitriall of Gold and the Sulphur of Gold lies the Diaphoreticall vertue I shal not here set down their vertues for in the book of Metallick Diseases and also in other bookes wee have set them down at large The mortification of Sulphur that the combustible and stinking fatnesse may bee taken away and it brought into a fixed substance is thus The mortificaon and fixation of Sulphur Take common yellow Sulphur finely powdered and draw from it by distillation Aqua fortis that is very sharp and this doe three times then the Sulphur which is in the bottome of a black colour dulcifie with distilled water until the water come from it sweet and it

in Mineralls and many things are made fixed and become constant so as to abide in the Fire and that in this manner Let that which is sublimed be ground and mixed with its feces and bee againe sublimed as before which must bee done so long till it will no longer sublime but all will remaine together in the bottom and bee fixed So there will bee afterward a stone and oyle when and as oft as thou pleasest viz. if thou puttest it a-into a cold place or in the aire in a Glass The fixation of Mineralls into a stone For there it will presently bee dissolved into an Oyle And if thou puttest is againe into the fire it will againe bee coagulated into a Stone of wonderfull and great vertue Keep this as a great secret and mystery of Nature neither discover it to Sophisters Morevover as in Sublimation many Corrosive things are made sweet in the conjunction of two matters so on the contrary many sweet things are made Corrosive many sweet things are made sowre harsh or bitter and on the contrary many bitter things as sweet as Sugar Rules concerning Salt Armoniack Here also wee must take notice that every Metal which is brought into Sublimation by Salt Armoniack may afterward in the cold or in the aire bee brought into an oyle and againe bee coagulated into a stone in the Fire which indeed is one of the chiefest and greatest transmutations in all naturall things viz. to transmute Metall into a Stone What Solution is and its kinds The third degree is Solution under which are to to bee understood Dissolution and Resolution and this degree doth most commonly follow Sublimation and Distillation viz. that the matter be resolved which remaines in the bottome Now Solution is twofold the one of Cold the other of Heat the one without Fire the other in Fire A cold dissolution dissolves all Salts all Corrosive things all calcined things Whatsoever is of a Salt and Corrosive quality is by it dissolved into Oyle Liquor or Water And this is in a moist cold cellar or else in the Aire on a marble or in a glasse For whatsoever is dissolved in the cold contains an Airy spirit Salt which oftentimes it gets and assumes in Sublimation or Distillation And whatsoever is dissolved in the cold or in the Aire may again by the heat of the Fire bee coagulated into powder or a stone What things hot Solution dissolves But a hot Solution dissolves all fat and sulphureous things And whatsoever the heat of the Fire dissolves the same doth coldnesse congeal into a Masse A double Solution viz. of Heat and Cold. And whatsoever heat coagulates is again dissolved by cold or in the Aire Here also we must know that whatsoever Aire or the Cellar doth resolve is of a very great drynesse and hath a secret corrosive Fire hid in it so whatsoever is dissolved in Fire or in the heat thereof hath a sweetish frigidity put of the Fire Thus and no otherwise is Solution to be understood Putrefaction what it is and its kind Putrefaction is the fourth degree under which is comprehended Digestion and Circulation Now then Putrefaction is one of the principall degrees which indeed might deservedly have been the first of all but that it would be against the true order and mystery which is here hid and known to few For those degrees must as hath been already said so follow one the other as links in a chain or steps in a ladder The aforesaid order of Degrees is to be observed in making tinctures For if one of the linkes should bee taken away the chain is discontinued and broken and the prisoners would bee at liberty and runne away So in a ladder if one step bee taken away in the middle and bee put in the upper or lower part the ladder would be broken and many would fall down headlong by it with the hazard of their bodies and lives So you must understand the matter here that those degrees follow one the other in a just order or else the whole work of our mystery would be mar'd and our labour and pains would bee in vain and fruitlesse The force of putrefaction Now putrefaction is of such efficacy that it abolisheth the old Nature and brings in a new one All living things are killed in it all dead things putrefied in it and all dead things recover life in it Putrefaction takes from all Corrosive spirit the sharpnesse of of the Salt and makes them mild and sweet changeth the colours and separates the pure from the impure it places the pure above and the impure beneath What Distillation is and its kinds are Distillation is the first degree to the Transmutation of all naturall things Under it are understood Ascension Lavation and Fixation By Distillation all Waters Liquors and Oyles are subtilized out of all fat things Oyle is extracted out of all Liquors Water and out of all Flegmaticke things Water and Oyle are separated Cohobation Fixation by Destillation Besides there are many things in Distillation fixed by Cohobation and especially if the things to bee fixed containe in them Water as Vitriall doth which if it bee fixed is called Colcothar Allum if it bee fixed with its proper Water is called the Sugar of Allum which also is resolved into a Liquor which Liquor if it bee putrefied a moneth produceth a Water of the sweetnesse of Sugar which is of great vertue and an excellent secret in Physicke to extinguish any Metalline heate in Man as wee have wrote more at large in our Booke of Metalline Diseases And as you have heard of Vitriall and Allum so also Salt nitre and other Watery Mineralls may bee fixed by Cohobation What Cohobation is Now Cohobation is that the dead head be oftentimes imbibed with its own water and that again bee drawn off by Distillation The force of Distillation in things to be Transmuted Moreover in Distillation many bitter harsh and sharp things become as sweet as Honey Sugar or Manna and on the contrary many sweet things as Sugar Honey or Manna may bee made as harsh as Oyle of Vitriall or Vineger or as bitter as Gall or Gentian as Eager as a Corrosive Many Excrementitious things lose their great stink in Distillation Which indeed goeth forth in the water Many Aromaticall things lose their good savour And as Sublimation alters things in their Quality and Nature so also doth Distillation What Coagulation is and its kinds Coagulation is the fixt degree Now there is a twofold Coagulation the one by Cold the other by Heat i. e. one of the Aire the other of the Fire and each of these again is twofold so that there are foure sorts of Coagulations two of Cold and two of Fire The Coagulations of Fire are fixed the other of Cold are not The one is done only by common Aire without Fire The other by the superiour Firmament of Winter starres

Zineta Arsenica Talka Cachymie Bisemuta Antimonies c. all which carry with them crude Gold and Silver bee so ripened that they may bee equalized to the most rich veins of Gold and Silver only by this Art So also the Elixir and tinctures of metals arc brought to maturity and perfected What the growing of the beard of a dead man signifies Seeing therefore as it hath been said moisture and heat doe ripen all things and make them grow Let none wonder that the beard haire or nailes of a malefactor hanging on a Gibbet or Wheel do for a long time grow neither let it be accounted for a sign of his innocency as the ignorant beleeve for this is naturall and from naturall causes For whilest that any moisture remains in him his beard haire and nailes grow even till the second year or till hee bee wholly putrefied c. Wee must also know that there are many things that grow for ever and are increased in big nesse weight and vertue in the Water and Earth in which they continue good and efficacious as are Metalls Marcasites Cachymie Talka Granuty Antimony Bisemuta The augmentation of ☉ Gemmes Pearles Corals all Stones and Clay So also it may be ordered that Gold may grow and bee increased in weight and body if only it bee buryed in the Earth looking towards the East and bee alwaies soiled with the fresh urine of a man and pigeons dung How Gold may be generated in a glasse It is possible also that Gold through industry and skill of an expert Alchymist may bee so far exalted that it may grow in a glasse like a tree with many wonderfull boughs and leaves which indeed is pleasant to behold and most wonderful How the Philosophicall Tree is made The processe is this Let Gold bee calcined with Aqua Regis till it becomes a kind of chalke which put into a gourd glasse and poure upon it good new Aqua Regis so that it may cover it foure fingers breadth then again draw it off with the third degree of fire untill no more ascend The water that is distilled off poure on againe then distill off againe This doe so long untill thou seest the Gold to rise in the glasse and grow after the manner of a tree having many boughes and leaves and so there is made of Gold a wonderful and pleasant shrub which the Alchymists call their Golden hearb and the Philosophers Tree In like manner you may proceed with Silver and other Metalls yet so that their calcination bee made after another manner by another Aqua fortis which I leave to thine experience If thou art skilled in Alchymie thou shalt not erre in these things To make an artificiall stone of any forme Know also that any flint taken out of River water and put into a gourd glasse having River water poured upon it that the glasse may bee filled which Water is againe to bee distilled off as long as a drop will arise and the Stone dryed and the Glasse againe filled with this Water and againe distilled off and this done so long till the Glasse bee filled with this Stone may in a few dayes by the Art of Alchymie bee made very great which the Archeius of the Waters could scarce doe in many yeers If then thou breake the Glasse thou shalt have a Flint in the forme of the Glasse as if it had been put into the Glasse and although this bee not for profit yet it is a thing that is strange and wonderfull OF THE NATVRE Of Things THE THIRD BOOK Of the preservations of Naturall things THat things may bee preserved and kept from harm it is necessary in the first place to know what is an enemie to them The enemies of things are be knowne that so they may be preserved from that not be hurt or corrupted by it either in substance vertue power or any way whatsoever Much therefore in this case depends upon the knowing of the Enemie of all Naturall things For who can take heed of danger when hee dotn not know what can hurt him Truly no body Wherefore it is necessary to know ones Enemie For there are many sorts of Enemies Wherefore it is as necessary to know evill things as good things for who can know what is good without the knowing of what is evill Truly no body So no man can know what a blessing health is that was never sick Who knows what joy is that was never heavy or sad and who can rightly understand what God is who knew nothing of the Devil Wherefore when God made known to us the Enemie of our Soul viz. the Devill he also signified to us the Enemie of our life Death is the enemie of things viz. Death which is the Enemie of our body of our health and the Enemie of Medicinall and all naturall things also he made known tous how and by which means it may be shunned For as there is no disease against which there is not created and found some remedy which should cure and expell it so also there is alwaies one thing ordained against another There is a Contrariety found in all things one Water against another one Stone against another one Minerall against another one Poison against another one Metall against another and so in many more things all which it is not requisite here to reciter Now how and by what means every thing is to bee preserved and kept from hurt wee must know that many things are to bee preserved in the Earth and especially all rootes doe for a long time remaine in the Earth without losing their vertue or being corrupted in like manner herbs flowers and all fruites continue in the water incorrupted and green there are also many fruits and apples that may be preserved in water from all manner of putrefaction untill new fruit come againe How to preserve flesh and blood So also flesh and blood which indeed are putrefied and grow unsavoury quickly are preserved in cold fountain-water and not only so but by the addition of new and fresh fountain-fountaine-water may he turned into a quintessence and bee for ever preserved from putrefaction and an ill savour without any balsome And this doth not only preserve the flesh and blood of dead things but also of the living wherefore Mans body may bee preserved from all manner of putrefaction and divers diseases that proceed from putrefaction better then common Mummie Mow that blood may be preserved of it self from putrefaction and stinking and not as a quintessence so as it may preserve the blood of the living as we now said thou must follow this processe How the Arcanum of mans blood is to be prepared Let the blood bee separated from its flegm which is separated of its selfe and is driven to the upper part This water poure gently out of the vessell and in stead of it put as much of the water of the salt of blood which water

have found Now after this manner may Quicksilver bee prepared out of all Metall viz. ☿ auri ☽ ♀ ♂ ♃ ♄ The reduction of Sublimate and the highest purging of it Now the raising again or restoring of coagulated Mercury is done by distillation in a retort for Quicksilver alone ascends into cold water the Ashes of ♄ ♀ or Sulphur being left behind Now the raising again or restauration of Mercury sublimed is done in seething hot water but it must first be ground very small so the hot water wil seperates it from it the spirit of Salt and Vitriall which it carries up with it the quicksilver running in the bottome of the water Now if this Quicksilver shall be again sublimed with Salt and Vitriall and revived againe in Hot water and this done seven or eight times it can never bee better purged and renewed And this may bee kept for a great secret in Alchymie and Physick and be much rejoiced in For by this means all the impurity blacknesse and poisonousnesse is taken away The reduction of calcined and Precipitated Mercury Mercury calcined can never bee restored againe without sublimation for unlesse it be sublimed after calcination it will never bee revived wherefore thou shalt first sublime it and then reduce it as other Sublimate The resuscitation of Azure Cinnabar Aurum vitae also of Precipitate that they may bee reduced into Quicksilver is thus Take either of these grind it small upon a marble make it up into a past with the white of an egge and sope then make pills of the bigness of Filbeards which put into a strong earthen gourd upon the month of it put a plate of Iron with many little holes in it and lute it on and distill it per descensum with a strong fire so that it may fall into cold water and thou shalt have the Quicksilver again The renewing of Wood that is burn Now the resuscitation and restoring of Wood is hard and difficult yet possible to Nature but without much skilfulness and industry it can never bee done But to revive it the processe is this Take Wood which must first bee a Coale then Ashes which put into a gourd together with die Resine Liquor and Oyle of that tree of each a like weight mingle them and melt them with a soft heat and there will bee a mucilaginous matter and so thou hast the three Principles of which all things are produced and generated viz. flegm fatnesse and Ashes The flegme of of Wood is its Mercury the fat its sulphur the ashes its salt The Flegm is Mercury the Fat is Sulphur the Ashes is Salt For whatsoever fumes and evaporates in the Fire is Mercury whatsoever flames and is burnt is Sulphur and all Ashes is Salt Now seeing thou hast these three Principles together put them in Horse-dung and putrefie them for a time If afterward that matter bee put in and buried in fat ground thou shalt see it live again and a little tree spring from thence which truly in vertue is farre more excellent then the former This Tree or Wood is and is called Regenerated Wood renewed and restored which from the beginning was Wood but mortified destroyed and brought into coales ashes and almost to nothing and yet out of that nothing is made and renewed This truly in the light of Nature is a great mystery viz. that a thing which had utterly lost its form and was reduced to nothing should recover its form and of nothing bee made something which afterward becomes much more excellent in vertue and efficacy then it was at first Algenerall rule for raising of things againe But to speake generally of the Resurrection and Restauration of Naturall things you must know that the chiefest foundation here is that that bee restored to every thing and made to agree with it which was taken from it in mortification and separated from it which is hard to bee here specifically explained Wherefore wee shall conclude this book and shall speak of these things more at large in the next book Concerning the transmutations of naturall things OF THE NATVRE Of Things THE SEVENTH BOOK Of the Transmutation of Naturall things IF wee write of the Transmutation of all Naturall things it is fit and necessary that in the first place wee shew what Transmutation is Secondly what bee the degrees to it Thirdly by what Medium's and how it is done What Transmutation is Transmutation therefore is when a thing loseth its form and is so altered that it is altogether unlike to its former substance and form but assumes another form another essence another colour another vertue another nature or property as if a Metal I bee made glasse or stone if a stone bee made a coale if wood be made a coal clay be made a stone or a brick a skin bee made glew cloth bee made paper and many such like things All these are Transmutations of Naturall things There are seven principal degrees of transmutation After this it is very necessary also to know the degrees to Transmutation and how many they be And they are no more then seven For although many doe reckon more yet there are no more but seven which are principall and the rest may bee reckoned betwixt the degrees being comprehended under those seven And they are these Calcination Sublimation Solution Putrefaction Distillation Coagulation Tincture If any one will climbe that Ladder he shall come into a most wonderful place that hee shall see and have experience of many secrets in the Transmutation of Naturall things The first degree therefore is Calcination under which also are comprehended Reverberation and Cementation What Calcination is and its kinds are For betwixt these there is but little difference as for matter of Calcination Wherefore it is here the chiefest degree For by Reverberation and Cementation many corporeall things are calcined and brought into Ashes and especially Metalls Now what is calcined is not any further reverberated or cemented By Calcination therefore all Metalls Mineralls Stones Glasse c. and all corporeall things are made a Coal and Ashes and this is done by a naked strong Fire with blowing by which all tenacious soft and fat earth is hardened into a stone Also all stones are brought into a Calx as wee see in a Potters furnace of lime and brickes Sublimation is the second degree and one of the most principall for the Transmutation of many Naturall things What Sublimation is and its kinds under which is contained Exaltation Elevation and Fixation and it is not much unlike Distillation For as in Distillation the water ascends from all flegmatick and watery things and is separated from its body so in Sublimation that which is spirituall is raised from what is corporeall and is subtilized volatile from fixed and that in dry things as are all Mineralls and the pure is separated from the impure Besides Sublimation many good vertues and wonderfull things are found out

forth The drosse of Metalls Glasse Sand Piipitis Marcasite Granatus Cobaltum Talke Cachinna Zinetum Bisemutum Antimony Litharge Sulphur Vitriall Verdegrease Chrysocolla the Azure Stone Auripigmentum Arsenicke Realgar Cinnabar Clay of Iron Spathus Gyphus Ocree and many more like to these as also the Waters Oyles Resines Calxes Mercury Sulphur and Salt c. Of Vegetables Vegetables in their separation yeeld Waters Oyles Iuices Resines Gums Electuaries Powders Ashes Mercury Sulphur and Salt Of Animalls Animalls in their separation yeeld Water Bloud Flesh Fat Bones Skin Body Hairs Mercury Sulphur and Salt What a good separator ought to be Hee therefore that boasts himselfe to separate all naturall things after this manner must of necessity have long experience and perfect knowledge of all naturall things Moreover hee must bee a skilfull and well practised Alchymist that hee may know what is combustible and what not what is fixt and what not what wil flow and what not and what things are more ponderous one then another also he must be experienced in the naturall colour smell acidity harshnesse sowrenesse bitternesse sweetnesse the degree complexion and quality of every thing The degrees of Separation What and how many there be Also hee must know the degrees of Separation as of Distillation Resolution Putrefaction Extraction Calcination Reverberation Sublimation Reduction Coagulation Powdering and Washing What distillation separates By distillation is separated Water Oyle from all corporeall things What resolution By Resolution are separated Metals from Minerals and one Metall from another and Salt from the other Principles and fat and that which is light from that which is heavy By Putrefaction is separated fat from lean Putrefaction pure from impure putrid from not putrid By Extraction is separated pure from impure Extraction and spirit and quintessence from body and thinne from thick By Calcination is separated watery moisture Calcination fat naturall heat odour and whatsoever else is combustible By Reverberation is separated colour Reverberation odour what is combustible all humidity aquosity fat and whatsoever is inconstant or fluxil in any thing c. By Sublimation is separated the fixed from the volatile Sublimation spirituall from the corporeall pure from impure Sulphur from Salt Mercury from Salt c. By Reduction is separated what is fluxil Reduction from what is solid a Metall from its Minerall and one Metall from another a Metall from its drosse fat from what is not fat By Coagulation is separated waterishnes from humidity Coagulation water from Earth By Powdering are separated powder Powdering and sand ashes and Calx Minerall Vegetable and Animall one from the other and all powders which are of an unequall weight are separated and by winnowing as chaffe from corne By washing are separated ashes Washing and sand a Minerall from its Metall that which is heavy from what is light a Vegetable and Animall from what is Minerall Sulphur from Mercury and Salt Salt from Mercury The Preparation of Metall is manifold But passing by the Theorie we will now fall upon the practise and come to particulars You must therefore note that the Separation of Metalls is the first by right and wee shall therefore treat of it after this method and manner Of the Separation of Metalls from their Mines By fluxing powders THe separation of Metalls from their Mines is done divers ways viz. by boiling and melting with fluxing powders such as are sait Alcali Litharge sait fluxile the drosse of Glasse Salt Gemme Salt Petre c. Let them bee put in a Crucible and melted in a furnace so will the Metall or regulus fall to the bottome of the Crucible but the other matter will swim above and become drosse Thou shall boil this Metalline regulus in a reverberating furnace so long till all the Metall become pure and freed from all its drosse by this means the metall is well digested and as I may say refined from all its drosse Many tinges one mine contains more then one Metall as Copper and Silver Copper and Gold Lead and Silver Tinne and Silver you shall know it by this if the Metalline Regulus after Reverberation in a melting pot bee sufficiently after the true manner dissolved For in it are all imperfect Metalls separated as are Iron Copper Tin and Lead and so with a double quantity of Lead to the Regulus being put to it they all goe into a fume and only fine Silver or Gold are left behind in the pot By Aquafortis Also two or three Metalls mixed together may bee separated in Aquafortis and extracted the one from the other If two Metalls or one bee resolved the other will fall to the bottome like sand and be precipitated and be after this manner separated Also Metalls may be separated by flowing after this process Make metals flow and when they are in flux cast into them the best flower of Sulphur as you can get By Sulphur viz. an ounce to every pound of the metall and let it burn and by that means it wil draw up the lightest metall to the top the heavy falling to the bottome Then let them stand together till they be cold And so in one Regulus two metalls are found not as before mutually mixed A wonderful power of Sulphur in separation By Quicksilver but one separated from the other by the Sulphur as by a partition as Oyle divides two Waters that they cannot bee joined together or mixed Sulphur therefore is a singular Arcanum worthy of great commendations Fixt metalls as Gold and Silver because they cannot wel bee extracted with Fire or Aquafortis must bee amalgamated with Quicksilver and so separated and extracted the Quicksilver being afterwards extracted and separated by a certaine degree of Distillation from the Calx of the metals viz. Gold Silver After this manner also may other metalls not only Gold and Silver but Copper Iron Tin Lead c. as also whatsoever are prepared out of them as red Electrum the white Magnesia Aurichalcum calcined Lead Laton Brasse of Cauldrons and whatsoever metalls of this kind are transmuted bee with Quicksilver but first being powdered abstracted and separated from what is heterogeneous For the nature and condition of Quicksilver is this that it wil bee united and amalgamed with metalls but yet with one sooner then with another according as the metall is of greater or lesse affinity to it In this consideration fine Gold is the chiefest then fine Silver then Lead then Tinne then Copper and lastly Iron So amongst transmuted metalls the first is part with part then Ash coloured Lead then Laton then Brasse of Caldrons then red and the newest white Although for the first course Mercury may take no more then one metall with which it is amalgamated yet that Amalgama is to be strained hard through Leather or Cotton cloath For by this means nothing but the Quicksilver will passe through the

all which coagulate Waters into snow and ice But the Coagulation of Fire which alone is here to bee taken notice of is made by an Artificiall and Graduall Fire of the Alchymists and it is fixed and permanent For whatsoever such a Fire doth coagulate the same abides so The other Coagulation is done by the Aetnean and Minerall Fire in in Mountains which indeed the Archeius of the Earth governs and graduates not unlike to the Alchymists and whatsoever is coagulated by such a Fire is also fixed and constant as you see in Mineralls and Metalls which indeed at the beginning are a mucilaginous matter and are coagulated into Metalls Stones Flints Salts and other bodies by the Aetnean fire in Mountaines through the Archeius of Earth and operator of Nature What things cannot be Coagulated Also wee must know that Fire can coagulate no water or moisture but only the Liquors and Juices of all Naturall things Besides also there can no flegm bee coagulated unlesse in the beginning it was a corporeall matter into which by the industry of a skilfull Alchymist it may return So also any mucilaginous matter or spermaticke slimynesse may by the heat of Fire be coagulated into a body and corporeall matter but never bee resolved into water again And as you have heard of Coagulation so also know concerning Solution viz. that no corporeall matter can bee dissolved into Water unlesse at the beginning it was water and so it is in all Mineralls What Tincture is and its kinds Tincture is the seventh and last degree which concludes the whole worke of our mystery for Transmutation making all imperfect things perfect and transmuting them into a most excellent essence and into a most perfect soundnesse and alters them into another colour Tincture therefore is a most excellent matter wherewithall Minerall and Humane bodies are tinged and are changed into a better and more noble essence and into the highest perfection and purity For Tincture colours all things according to its own nature and colour All things that are to be tinged must be fluid Now there are many Tinctures and not only for Metalline but Humane bodies because every thing which penetrates another matter or tingeth it with another colour or essence so that it bee no more like the former may bee called a Tincture Wherefore there are many and various sorts of Tinctures viz. of Metalls Mineralls Mens bodies Waters Liquors Oyls Salts all fat things and indeed of all things which may bee brought to flux out of the Fire or in the Fire For if a Tincture must tinge it is necessary that the body or matter which is to bee tinged bee opened and continue in flux and unless this should bee so the Tincture could not operate But it would bee as if any one should cast saffron or any colour upon coagulated Water or Ice for so it would hot so suddenly tinge the Ice with its colour as if it were cast into other water And although it should tinge yet it would at the same time resolve the Ice into Water Wherefore those Metalls that wee would tinge must first bee melted in the Fire and bee freed from Coagulation And here wee must know that by how much the stronger fire is requisite for their melting so much the sooner the Tincture runs through them as Leaven penetrates and infects the whole masse with sowreness and by how much better the masse is covered and kept warm so much the better is it fermented and makes the better bread for ferment is the Tincture of Dowe and Bread Feces are of a more fixt nature then their Flegme Wee must also note that all feces are of a more fixed substance then the liquor of it is also of a sharper and more penetrating nature as you see in the spirit of Wine which is made of the feces of Wine and of Aqua vitae which is distilled out of the grounds of Beer and burns like spirit of Wine and is inflamed as Sulphur The preparation and Nature of distilled Vineger Also if of the feces of Vineger another Vineger bee distilled as commonly spirit of Wine is distilled there will bee thereby made a Vineger of so fiery and sharp a nature that it consumes all Metalls Stones and other things as Aqua fortis How the Tinctures of Metalls must be made Moreover it is necessary that Tinctures be of a fixt fluxil and incombustible nature so that if a little of a place of any Metall red hot bee cast into them they will presently flow like wax● without any manner of fume at all and they penetrate the Metalls as oyle doth paper or water a sponge and tinge all Metalls into white and red that is into Silver or Gold Now these are the Tinctures of Metalls which it is necessary must bee turned into an Alcool by the first degree of Calcination then by the second degree of Sublimation must get an easy and light flux And lastly by the degree of Putrefaction and Distillation are made a fixt and incombustible Tincture and of an unchangeable colour The Tinctures of Men. Now the Tinctures of Mens bodies are that they bee tinged into the highest perfection of health and all Diseases bee expelled from them that their lost strength and colour bee restored and renewed and they are these viz. Gold Pearles Antimony Sulphur Vitriall and such like whose preparation wee have diverfly taught in other books wherefore it doth not seem to us necessary here to repeat them Of Dying and Painting Wee shall write no more of Tinctures seeing every extracted colour may bee called a Tincture which doth indeed tinge things with a permanent colour which doe not go into the Fire or preserve colours fixed in the Fire All these are in the hand and power of the Dyer and Painter who prepares them according to his pleasure How many degrees of the Alchymists fire there be It is very necessary in this book to know the degrees of Fire which many wayes may bee graduated and intended and every degree hath a peculiar operation and one produceth the same effect as another as every expert Alchymist by the daily experience and exercise of the Art knows For one is as living and flaming Fire which reverberates and Calcines all bodies Another is the Fire of a Candle or Lamp which fixeth all volatile bodies Another is a Fire of coals which cements colours and purgeth Metalls from their dross exalts Gold and Silver to a higher purity whitens Copper and in brief renews all Metalls Another Fire is of an Iron plate made red hot in which the Tinctures of Metalls are proved which also is profitable for other things The Filings of Iron heat after one fashion Sand after another Ashes after another a Balneum Maria after another in which manifold Distillations Sublimations and Coagulations are done Balneumroris after another in which there are made many Solutions of corporeall things Horse-dung after