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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	affection_n	love_n	love_v	1,708	5	6.4217	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76997	Paracelsvs Of the supreme mysteries of nature. Of [brace] the spirits of the planets. Occult philosophy. The magical, sympathetical, and antipathetical cure of wounds and diseases. The mysteries of the twelve signs of the zodiack. / Englished by R. Turner, philomathēs.	Paracelsus, 1493-1541.; Turner, Robert, fl. 1654-1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing B3544; Thomason E1567_2; ESTC R209187	70,843	175

the Sun and Moon are made and after what manner Sol and the other Planets ought to be made to wit with the Furnace and the Fire CHAP. I. Of the building of the Furnace and of the Fire MErcurius Hermes Trismegistus saith That he which would perfect this Art must as it were build a new World for after the same manner as God created the Heaven and Earth the Furnace with the Fire is to be built and governed That is to say after this manner First Let there be a Furnace built of the height of six spans extended from the top of the fingers to the thumb and in breadth one handful in the inside let it be round and plain lest the Coals cleave unto it from whence let it a little decline to the border thereof and let there be holes left underneath four fingers broad and let every hole of the Furnace be supplied with a Copper Cauldron to contain the Water Afterwards take good and hard Coals which you shall break in Gobbets about the bigness of a Walnut with these fill the long Furnace which then is to be stopped up that they may not burn out And afterwards let some Coals be kindled to the holes below if the Fire be too great lay a stone before it if too little stir the Coals with an Iron-instrument that they may be pierced with the Air and the Heat may be increased This way you may keep your Fire according to the true Exigency of Nature neither too excessive nor too small but most fit and apt for the motion of the Matter this is compared to the Firmament There is also in this place another Firmament to wit the Matter contained in the Glass after which followeth the form of the World Therefore the Furnace is to be placed as the Sun in the great World which giveth Light Life and Heat to the universal Furnace and all Instruments and to all other things whatsoever concluded under it CHAP. II. Of the Conjunction of the Male with the Female HAving now treated of the Furnace and the Fire wherein the Tinctures are to be prepared now we intend largely to write how the Man and Woman do agree and how they are joyned together that is to say after this manner Take the Mercury of the Philosophers prepared and mundified in its highest degree this resolve with his Wife to wit with quick Mercury as the Woman receiveth the Man and as the Man cleaveth to the Woman and even as a Man loveth his Wife and the Woman loveth her Husband so do the Philosophers Mercury and the quick Mercury prosecute the greatest love and are moved by Nature with a great affection towards us So therefore the one and the other Mercuries are conjoyned each to other and one with another even as the Man with the Woman and she with him according to their bodies that there is no difference between them and they are congruent in their strength and proprieties save onely that the Man is firm and fixed but the Woman is volatile in the Fire And for this Cause the Woman is united to the Man so that she receiveth the Man and he fixeth and fastneth her firm and constant in any balance as it followeth They are both to be so close luted and covered that the Woman may not evaporate or breath out otherwise the whole Work will come to nothing CHAP. III. Of the Copulation of the Male and Female WHen you have placed the Man and the Wife in the Matrimonial Bed if you would that he may operate upon her so that she may bring forth it is necessary and must be that the Man have his operation upon the Woman so that the seed of the Woman may be coagulated and joyned together into a Mass by the seed of the Man otherwise it produceth no Fruit. CHAP. IV. Of the Philosophical conjunction of the Man and Woman AFterwards if you perceive the Woman to be of a black colour then certainly be assured that she hath conceived and is made pregnant and when the seed of the Woman embraceth the seed of the Man this is the first Signe and Key of this whole Art therefore be careful continually to preserve the natural Heat and the blackness will appear and be dispersed and consumed away by the natural Heat as one Worm eateth and devoureth another and continueth consuming so long until there be no more blackness left CHAP. V. Of the black Colour THe blackness manifestly appearing then know that the Woman is pregnant but when the Peacocks Tail begins to appear that is when many various colours will appear in the Glass it sheweth the working of the Philosophers Mercury upon the vulgar Mercury and stretcheth out her Wings until she hath overcome it Therefore when the driness operates upon the moisture these Colours do appear CHAP. VI. Of the Buds springing and appearing in the Glass VVHen you perceive these various Colours then be constant in your work continuing the Fire until the Colour of the Peacock's Tail be fully consumed and until the Matter of the Moon appear white and candid as Snow and that the Vessel hath brought it to the very degree of its perfection Then at last break a little piece thereof and put it on a Copper-plate in the Fire if it remain constant and firm and keep its Tincture it is then brought to the most perfect substance of Luna This King hath strength and power not onely to transmute and change all metals but also to cure all diseases and infirmities This King is laudable and adorned with many vertues and with so great power that he can transmute and change Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn and Mercury into the most constant Luna to every touch-stone and also frees and delivers the bodies of men from infinite diseases as from Fevours Feebleness Leprosie the French disease or Morbus Gallicus and from a great many other infirmities and diseases which no Herbs Roots or the like Medicines can possibly Cure or take away Whosoever maketh daily use of this Medicine shall attain to and preserve himself in a sound and perfect long life CHAP. VII Of the red Colour AFter this King is indued with a perfect whiteness the Fire is constantly to be continued until the whiteness begins to take a yellow Colour which Colour follows next after the whiteness for by how much the longer the Heat worketh upon the white and dry Matter the more Yellow and Saffron-like groweth the Colour until it come to perfect redness which by degrees the Fire worketh to the highest degree of the red Colour then is the substance of Gold prepared and there is born an oriental King sitting in his Throne and ruling over all the Princes of the World CHAP. VIII Of the augmentation or multiplication hereof THe multiplication of this Matter is to be after this manner to wit let it be resolved into its moisture and then put the Fire to it to the height as at first and it will work upon its