it come to perfection Must not we of necessity conclude therefore that from this little Egg the whole form of the Body is produced in the Womb Explication of the Figures FIGURE I. Represents two humane eggs of a different bigness FIGURE II. Represents an Embryo of three or at the most four days after Conception A Represents to the eye the inward part of the Membranes Chorion and Amnion being imperfectly formed and in which there is as yet no appearance of the Hepar uterinum B Represents an Embryo in which may be seen the distinction of the Head from the Body but no delineation of any other parts FIGURE III. Represents an Embryo of fourteen days A The Hepar uterinum with the Veins and Arteries which are dispersed through the substance of it Fig I Fig II Fig III Fig IV Fig V Fig VI BBBB The Membrane-Chorion dissected CCCC The Membrane-Amnion dissected in like manner D The Navel-string E An Embryo of about fourteen days in which the Face now appears more distinctly and the rest of the Members are somewhat formed and distinguished FIGURE IV. Represents to he eye a gristly Scheleton of an Embryo of three weeks FIGURE V. Represents an Embryo of one month A The whole gristly bulk of the Head shewing the gristly points of both the upper and neather Jaw-bone bb The Clavicula now all bone cc The points of the ossification of the Shoulder-blades dd The white strokes designing the ossification of the Shoulder ee The white strokes shewing the ossification of the Arm-bone FF These white points in all the Ribs except the first and last do denote the ossification already begun in them gg The Thigh-bones representing what is bone in them hh The greater and lesser bone of the Leg both clearly represented and already of a bony substance FIGURE VI. Shews an Embryo of six weeks which differs not from that of two months represented in my Osteogenia but onely in bigness and that the lesser bone as we have before hinted is to be seen here which in the other did not yet appear A Doth exhibite the inferiour Jaw-bone distinguished into six little bones 2 Q. Seeing that we read in Scripture that Eve was made out of a Bone or Rib because the Central Spirits have their residence in the Bones they being the first Product or Out-birth of the said Spirits the Query is Whether it will not follow from hence that the Bones are the first material being which we may call female from which the flesh as from a Spring or Fountain doth continually proceed and to which it must by revolution return again in order to perfection 3 Q. It is further queried what the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tzaelà doth properly signifie of which it is said Gen. 2. that the woman was made seeing that it hath several significations as of a Beam Prop or Support a Rib a Side a Fountain a Building c. And in case any one will needs have it to signifie a Rib here we must ask which Rib it was and of which side Or whether the said Rib were taken from both sides at once because the Ribs are fastened to the sides of the Vertebra of the Back-bone and most of them are likewise joyned together by Cartilages to the Sternum or Breast-bone Or forasmuch as the word also signifies a Beam or any thing that is a Support or Prop whether if we take it in this sence it can signifie any thing else but the whole Back-bone of man which bears up the whole Body in like manner as Beams support a Building Moreover whether for to reconcile all these several meanings together we ought not to enquire where the mid-point and very center of the whole Back-bone and the Ribs which are united to it is Forasmuch as this Center is that out of which Eve was made And is not this well worth our consideration for we may easily know that all the rest of the Bones in man proceed from this center of the Back-bone because it is notorious that an Embryo in the Mothers Womb doth first begin to have Arms and Legs fourteen days after conception Whether I say after a due weighing of all this we may not conclude that Eve was made out of the very Center of the whole Body of Man 4 Q. Forasmuch as with all women according to the ordinary course of Nature every month or four weeks is found a menstruous Bloud which â—easeth after that they are with Child because the Embryo in the Womb hath its nourishment in part from thence so that the humane Body is partly made and consists of the said menstruous Bloud Do not we by this means find the number four in man and the harmony which the Body of man hath with the Moon which performs its course or circuit in four weeks or twenty eight days 5 Q. Seeing that we find as is clear from Anatomy that a Child in the Mothers Womb in the first fourteen days after conception hath neither Arms Legs Hands or Feet but onely a meer trunk of the Body which hath two extreme parts viz. the Head and Belly in the midst of which is the Heart which is the Center from whence all Life comes into the Body of man even as all the Life of this sublunary World proceeds from the Coelestial Sun may not we conclude therefore that the number one is that within which God takes up his dwelling-place And do not these three together the Head the lower Belly and the Heart which rules over the other two give rise or original to the number three 6 Q. Forasmuch as we find that a Child in the Mothers Womb within the time of three weeks hath all his Bones Fingers and Toes compleat which Bones as may probably be conjectured are first formed because to them are first fastened the Muscles Sinews c. and that when this number 3 of the 3 weeks is multiplied by 13 the product is 39 weeks in which time the Child is wholly perfect for the birth may not here therefore be matter for our enquiry whether in this case there be not to be found an agreement between the greater and lesser World because we see that a Child is perfected by thirteen Revolutions even as the Sun in thirteen Moons makes a year so as thirteen Revolutions make up a perfect Childâ— year like as thirteen Moons make a compleat Solar year 7 Q. Seeing that in Arithmetical counting we can go no higher than 10 because then we begin again anew which is also evidenced by the 10 Fingers of Man which are the appointed Instruments for him to work out any thing and that the Child lies ten months in the Mothers Womb until it be born according to the testimony of Scripture Wisd. 7. 2. May we not also from hence in a certain manner find out the foundation of the number Ten in man SECT II. Concerning the Senses of Man 8 Q. FOrasmuch as in the Head are five outward and
birth comes forth viz. another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This new 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 enters with his new point as with the lower 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into the shut-up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies the Mother or Womb in order to multiplication And that is the cause why this syllable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with the Hebrews always signifies the plural number Now Love is nothing else neither can it be represented otherwise than as a Mother with her Child and seeing that a Child before it comes to be so was onely humane Seed and that this Seed of Man the Lesser World proceeds from the Seed of the Greater World which is Wheat as being the chiefest Food of Man and that the Wheat when it turns downwards into a root doth bring forth a Fruit and turns to that we call Earth-nuts and Rachel having for so long a time together before their cohabiting together so heartily loved her Husband Jacob and by him again been spiritually beloved and thereby also was spiritually impregnated by him which multiplied impregnation seeing it was spiritual went up to the head as being the first seat of Love and abode there until the time of their coming together when his Seed being united with hers by reason of a long-continued custom having past so many Revolutions still went upwards till at length these spiritual impregnations were so greatly multiplied as to make her burst out into these words which she spake to Jacob Give me children or else I die From which manifold spiritual impregnation at last Joseph whose name imports multiplicity was born May not this therefore be supposed to have been the reason why seeing that Rachel knew that the impregnation in her which formerly in a wrong order went upwards to bring forth fruit in Idea onely and in the head before that the same could take root beneath must needs first be conveyed from above downwards before ever she could bring forth Children therefore she desired the Dudaim because she knew that they were a Fruit that had also grown in a wrong order yea wholly according to what was said of her impregnation viz. their upper part was turn'd downwards that so by means of this Seed of the Great World in which the blessing of God or generative power did lie might cause in her the Seed of the Little World which went wrongly upwards into her head in Idea's of love to her Husband to descend rightly downwards in order to corporeal birth Now that upon every cohabitation of Man and Wife a spiritual Seed also doth come into the woman and abide there and is not annihilated may not this be evidenced from the example of Thamar who after the death of both her Husbands had their Seed raised and excited in her by her Father-in-law Judah Gen. 38. 32 Q. Forasmuch as we perceive that the whole Mouth of Man above beneath and on both sides as well as the Tongue and Teeth do every one of them continually and without ceasing give forth a distinct circulating moisture so that in the Mouth there is a twofold water one above and the other beneath both which must be united by means of the Tongue in order both to eating and speaking which latter is formed by the Tongue which therefore is as a Spunge moving and turning itself to all parts of the Mouth destinated for the forming of all the living Images and Letters and the sounds of them in the mouth as we may see in the printed Hebrew Letters that they have the same figure and form as they are shaped and formed by the Tongue in the Mouth especially when any one is forced to speak loud to another at a distance as is more largely declared in the said Alphabet of Nature And may not we again in this circulation of waters in the Mouth of Man perceive an evident harmony and agreement between the greater and lesser Worlds in their continual Revolutions 33 Q. Now that the lower waters which come from beneath viz. from the Belly up into the Mouth be of Lunar Nocturnal and Terrestrial property and consequently do incline us to fleep and allay pains may we not perceive this from hence that when the sweat of a mans feet is taken by the mouth and swallowed down it asswageth the pains of the Cholick as hath been experienced by some and as it is commonly known that by applying the soals of a Stocking sore Throats are cured In like manner also that the Spittle of any one taken in the night-time as soon as they awake and applied to the place where a Ring-worm or Tetter is doth take away the same when on the contrary our Spittle by day so applied doth increase the Malady And may not this perhaps be the reason why the lower waters are of such a nature as hath been now said viz. for that our Feet from whence these waters come considered with their ten Toes are as it were the roots wherein as in the roots of a Tree all nourishment must die as descending into the roots if ever they are to arrive at an operative power and to bring forth Fruit through the Arms. Hands and Fingers as through Boughs and Branches An example of which we have in Women with Child who when by reason of a longing they have for any Fruit or from a sudden Fright and Amazement at any thing they lay their hand on any part of their body the Child also which is in their Womb will in the very sâ—me part of its body get an answerable mark or tâ—ken which retains a sympathy with the Fruit longed for or with the thing which was the cause of the Mothers affrightment From whence we may see that the hands are nothing else but the essential Out-workers of the thoughts of the head We might further enquire here seeing Man hath his beginning and life from the Trees by his feeding upon their Fruit whether therefore an arboreal essence be not in the first original and most inward imaging of his outward body And whether this Mystery be not hinted to us in the New Testament in which all Wisdom as in the highest divine Philosophy is contained in the story of the blind man Mark 8. 23 24 c. where it is related how Christ spit in the blind man's eye and laid his hand upon him and asked him whether he saw any thing whereupon he looked up and said I see men walk like trees But that afterwards when Christ a second time had laid his hand upon his eyes he saw all things clearly 34 Q. May not the foresaid continual Circulation and Revolution of waters in the Mouth be supposed to be for the reason as follows Inasmuch as the said waters must give the first serment and must kindle the first life in the Food which we take in whereby our Food comes to be united with us of which also even the Americans themselves do not seem to be ignorant viz. that these waters are a true
viz. if we consider that in all the Sands as was said above created by God there is a little Gold and Silver from whence all other Beings do exist and have their Being as proceeding from their Father the Sun and their Mother the Moon From the Sun as from a living and spiritual Gold which is a meer fire and beyond all throughly refined Gold and consequently is the common and Universal first created Mover even as is the heart of Man from whence all moveable things derive all their distinct and particular motions and also from the Moon as from the Wife of the Sun and the common Mother of all Sublunary things And forasmuch as man is and must be the comprehensive end of all Creatures and the Little World in whom all Seeds exist and are perfected which thenceforth can never be annihilated we shall not find it strange that he is counselled Rev. 3. v. 18. to buy Gold tryed in the fire the Greek words are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gold that is all or throughly fired or all a meer fire that he may become rich and like unto the Sun as on the contrary he becomes poor when he doth abase the Arsenical posion so that his Silver by the fire must be burnt to dross which comes to pass when he will keep and hold the Menstrual Bloud out of which he in part exist for his own propriety in his own thoughts and out workings and doth not daily offer up the same in the fire of the Sun to the end the Woman may be cloathed with the Sun and become a Sun and thereby rule over the Moon that is to say that he may get the Moon under his feet as we may see Rev. 12. v. 1. 17 Q. Forasmuch as we are here treating concerning Gold it will not be inconvenient to query yet further Whether is any thing more to be considered and taken notice of about Gold viz How many sorts of Gold there be And how Gold is properly formed R. There are three sorts of Gold 1. There is a white Gold which hath the weight and all the qualities of Gold except the colour for it is white as Silver and hath either lost its colour or hath not yet attained it 2. The second sort of Gold is of a pale yellow colour 3. The third sort is an high yellow coloured Gold But how little the tincture or colour doth that is in Gold we may perceive from what follows 1. In that the first fort viz. the white Gold in its substance is as ponderous as any other Gold from which hint or instance we may see how little the colour conduceth to the being of Gold seeing it is not at all or very hardly to be perceived in its weight and substance 2. And this also appears yet further from this new instance viz. When we take notice how full and plain a yellow colour a little Saffron tingeth a great quantity of Milk as if it were a white Gold yea into as high a yellow as that of the most yellow Gold and not the least part of the white colour can be perceived to remain in the Milk nor yet is the weight or ponderosity thereof sensibly increased by the Saffron Moreover some Handicrafts men as Guilders and Gold-beaters will be able to give us full information by what means they bring the two first sorts of Gold viz. the white and pale yellow to a high yellow such as the third sort of Gold hath to which end they make use of divers means as indeed it may be performed by several caements yet those that consist of Cuprous and Antimonial materials are found to be the most effectual wherefore their use is to melt their Gold several times with Antimony and as often blow it off again and thus they give their Gold an high yellow colour as was said before Now as to the tinging and colouring of Gold it is very well worth our further taking notice viz. 1. That the tincture of Gold thus coloured by Art is so united with it that with fire alone it can never be separated from the Gold no more than its natural colour can be separated from it 2. That an imperfect Mineral or Metal which hath not yet obtained a perfect body such as Antimony or Copper is should be able to give a perfect tincture to a perfect Body 3. That the Gold takes in no more ticture than it hath need of and belongs to it so that notwithstanding its being never so often melted with Antimony or Copper yet it doth never attain to a higher colour than its pitch is 4. Now seeing that pale Gold as hath been said which either hath lost its colour or not yet attained it and yet is good Gold may receive an higher tincture which hath a sure and firm union with the Gold upon this ground many have endeavoured to separate the colour together with that part of the Gold which is and must necessarily be united to it As to what concerns the forming of Gold the expert refiners of Gold and silver are able to give us some information For we shall find that in Cities of great Trading and Commerce where much wrought Silver is melted down in order to make essays for Coyning or Minting when some of them meet with old Silver Salt-sellers in which Salt hath stood a long while so that they are become black on the inside and deeply coloured with the Salt they are us'd to cut out that part of the Salts and not to melt it with the other Silver for that they have found that a little Gold is contained in it and that the Salt hath united part of the Copper which is mixed with the Silver by a long and natural opperation with the said Silver 18 Q. What may be the cause why Gold and Silver as was said are not by fire upon the test turned to Glass as other Metals are R. For that they have a perfect form which the Lead by his vitrifying property cannot break as he doth in other Metals wherefore it is that Lead is made use of on the Test as the tryer of all Metals 19 Q. How doth it come to pass that Lead in a less fire is turned to Glass and in a stronger is again changed into Lead R. The reason hereof is this When we turn a hundred pound of Lead into Minium or Red-Lead we find that the said hundred pound are augmented ten pound viz. when the Calx of Lead is ground to powder and afterward exposed to a small fire the Lead borrows part of its weight from the fire in which it was calcined and part from the water in which it was ground and each of these two severally and both of them joyntly do help to turn the easie melting Lead to Glass because the fire is naturally and easily reduced to a body in Lead by which means it also turns all other things into Glass But when the Lead is exposed to a greater heat in a