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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44608	Aurifontina chymica, or, A collection of fourteen small treatises concerning the first matter of philosophers for the discovery of their (hitherto so much concealed) mercury which many have studiously endeavoured to hide, but these to make manifest for the benefit of mankind in general.	Houpreght, John Frederick.; Flamel, Nicolas, d. 1418.; Ripley, George, d. 1490?	1680 (1680)	Wing H2941; ESTC R31127	85,086	301

three Elements And these last colours abide hiddenly and intrinsically and appear under the shew of a white Spirit in liquid Mercury until it be recondensed in the Powder which is in the Bodies because the Soul lies hid in the Spirit as in the condensation the Spirit and the Soul lie hid in the Powder or Body For there is a corruption in the things to be altered but no dissipation of parts unless some superfluous parts be to be rejected as unprofitable for generation whereupon the Artificer purifies his Work that digestion may succeed better This is manifest by example in Grain for of two grains of Wheat if the one be cast into good ground there it putrifies dies and loses its external form but nothing thereof is dissipated yea in its time it encreases into a multiplicity of Fruit and there is indeed made a corruption only of the form and not any dissipation of the matter But if the other grain be cast into the Fire then both matter and form are corrupted and the whole is dissipated and that corruption is unprofitable for generation Wherefore Water dissolves not Bodies but those only of its own kind and by which it may be condensed nor can Bodies be at all nourished to generation but by their like which can preserve the species destroyed by that transmuting Body through the artifice of the Work though Vegetables are nourished by things of different kinds yet before they nourish them they are assimilated the dissolution of them being first made according to the proportion of the things which suck and draw them to them It must be noted therefore that the Solution of Metals may be made by different ways one which Fools know as is abovesaid with Foreign things which abide not with the dissolved Metals which is rather to be called a corrosive destruction and defilement of the Compound The second Solution is made by the power and force of Fire which is no true Solution but a melting rather of the colligated Elementary parts for the outward heat of the Fire in dissolving the Compound finds out its intrinsical natural or native Fire within which internal and proportional Fire dwells in the Air therefore it dissolves the Air it self But that dissolved Air resides and dwells in the Water and the Water in the Earth and the Water it self dissolves the Earth so that it melts both the active and passive but this melting is no true Solution yea it is a dissipation because the Elements there being homogeneous to one another and proportionably fixed by digestion are mixt and one of them educed out of the power of another generally And therefore this falls out even in pure Bodies in which the Elemental natures are fixed Wherefore in them the flame of Fire causeth melting and dissolves that whole Body to fluidity and not to a separation because Fire cannot flow unless the Air consubstantial to it flow neither doth the A● flow unless the Water be dissolved nor doth the Water flow unless the Earth flow and contrariwise as the Earth is dissolved by the Water so on the contrary side the Water retaineth the Air and congealeth it and in the same manner ascending upwards the Air retaineth the Fire in Congelation because the more fixt and fixing Elements cause fixation by acting together on one another as Earth and Water and in a contrary manner Fire and Air act together each on other unto Solution But this Solution is called a melting of the Compound and not properly a Solution of it because the parts separable from one another in the generation of the Compound are not dissolved as is done in the third and truly Philosophick Solution when the Compound is dissolved in the manner aforesaid and yet the parts abide unseparated though separable so that the virtue of the most digested Elements may be extracted from things to be dissolved by the dissolver that is Quick-silver and the grosser parts in such a dissolution acquire some latitude of subtilty because the Body is turned into Spirit and contrariwise the Spirit into Body fixed things are turned into volatiles and volatiles to fixed For this Solution is possible and natural that is by Art of Nature subserving thereto and this is sole and necessary Solution in the Work of the Philosophers which can be done by no other thing than Quick-silver only with a prudent proportion so as a good Artificer knowing from within the natures and proportions ought to make the proportion from his first entrance upon the Work For these two Sir are sufficient for this Work and nothing else enters it nor generates and multiplies as we have said Besides you say that Gold as most think is nothing else than Quick-silver coagulated naturally by the force of Sulphur yet so that nothing o● the Sulphur which generated the Gold doth remain in the substance of the Gold as in an humane Embryo when it is conceived in the Womb there remains nothing of the Father's Seed according to Aristotle's opinion but the Seed of the Man doth only coagulate the menstrual blood of the Woman in the same manner you say that after Quick-silver is so coagulated the form of Gold is perfected in it by virtue of the Heavenly Bodies and especially of the Sun But by your good leave and with respect I must tell you we must not think so For being we are Philosophically perswaded that Gold is nothing but Mercury anatized that is equally digested in the bowels of a Mineral Earth and the Philosophers have signified that this very thing is done by the contact of Sulphur coagulating the Mercury and by reason of its operation that is from Mercury being digested and thickned by a proportionate heat Wherefore we must know that Gold is Sulphur and Mercury together that is the coagulant and the coagulated in one and nothing added from without thereto but only a pure digestion or maturation which multiplies qualities and excites one Element from another out of their pure possibility into act no other thing whatsoever being superadded But this digestion or matutarion is produced actively from the superiour Elements that is the Fire and Air which are not actually but potentially in Mercury which yet being excited and assisted by an external heat and by the proper and natural digesting heat the passive Elements in Mercury are by them subtilized being not only potentially existent but actually towards Water it self and the Water is subtilized towards Air and Air follows to Fire and in this proportionable action of Nature and digestion of Mercury the Male and Femal● abide together in closed Natures the Female truly as it were Earth and Water the Male as Air and Fire which Earth and Water the Philosophers do mingle in Gold but called the Air and Fire a Sulphur as it were therein neither is there any other Foreign addition in the bowels of the Earth And therefore in Art above ground neither is there found and Foreign addition to digest or

the Philosophers Water of Life the Bloud of Man his red Flesh his Body and Bones Know therefore that there are many sorts of Milk viz. Virgins Milk Womans Milk and also Mans Milk For when first they are joyned in one and she is big having conceived then the Infant must be nourished with Milk But then you may know that this Milk is not Virgins Milk but rather the man and the womans Milk wherewith it is always to be nourished till it is grow● to that strength that it may be brought up with stronger and fuller food That food which I mean is the leavening of it which gives it form that it may perform Virile work For until the Infant that is this our Stone be formed and leavened with its like the Bloud of the green Dragon and the red Bloud of the red Dragon whether it be the white Stone or the red it will never do a perfect work Know therefore Son that the first Water is that Water Rebar which God made of Nature and it is the cause of Generation as I said before but when after the conjunction which ariseth from the Marriage it begets the Water of Life and the Philosophers Milk with one of which or both you must augment and feed your Stone perpetually Much more could I say to thee Son concerning this first Matter but let this suffice that setting aside impertinencies of words we may now Divine Grace favouring of us proceed to the practice it self of the Philosophick Stone See therefore my Son that thou diligently puttest all these Matters which though they are three things yet are they but one only in a Glass Vessel and lettest them quietly putrefie then put an Alembick upon your Vessel and by distillation draw out all the Water which may be thence distilled Try this first in Maries Bath Then place the Vessel in Ashes and make a gentle Fire for 12 hours then take the Matter out of the Vessel grind it well by it self without the foresaid Water then ●ut it again into the Vessel with Water and stop the Vessel close Put it in the Bath for three days and then distill the Water as before in the Bath and the Matter will be more black than before Do thus three times over and then grind it no more but afterward● as often as you distill it so oft pour Water on the top but between each distillation give it so much Fire for six hours or more till it become indifferent dry then pour Water on the top again and dissolve it again in the Bath under a blind Alembick Also in every distillation separate the Flegm by casting away six or seven drops of Water in the beginning of each distillation And observing this order cause it to drink its proper Water till it hath drank of it seven times its weight which it had at the first But then it will be of a white colour and so much the whiter by how much the more of its own Water it hath drank This is white Elixir Moreover this our Water is called Homogeneal and by many other names Besides know that this Water and Matter generate as well the Red Stone as the White Know also when this first Matter is brought to its compleat whiteness then the end of one is the beginning of the other that is of the Red Stone which is our Red Magnesia and Virgins Brass as we said at first Son see thou well understand these words Our Virgins Brass is our Gold yet I do not say that all Brass is Gold also our Brass is our live Brimstone but all live Brimstone is not our live Brimstone also Quicksilver is Mercury but I do not say that common Quicksilver is our Silver as I said before that Water of Life which is our Seed and first Matter is our Mercury and our Spirit of Life which is extracted out of the blessed Land of Aethiopia which is called Magnesia and by many other names Besides my Son know that there is no perfect generation without corruption for corruption causeth cleanliness and cleanliness corruption Consider therefore Son our dying poison which dyeth and is dyed perpetually and this is our Body our Soul and our Spirit when they are joyned together in one and become one thing which with its parts ariseth also out of one thing besides which there is not any other neither ever shall be Wherefore my Son great folly it is for any one to believe that any other Medicine can be turned into Gold or Silver which Medicine will little profit thee of it self except it be mingled with a Body for then shall it perfect its work according to its form to which it is born For it is never born that it may of it self become a Body Moreover know that there is as much difference between the first Matter which is called the Seed of Metals and the Medicine as is between the Medicine and Gold For the Seed will never be the Medicine without a Body neither will the Medicine ever be a Metal without a Body Much difference also there is between Elixir and the Medicine as between Masculine and Feminine Seed and also an Infant which is generated of those in the Matrice Now you may see that the Seed is one thing and the Infant another though they be one and the same in kind one thing one operation the Vessel finally one though it be called by divers names For of a Man and Woman is an Infant born when as yet the Man is one thing and the Woman another though they be one and the same in kind which you ought to understand in our Stone But what I said before that corruption is the cause of generation and of cleanliness is true For you must know that every thing in its first Master is corrupt and bitter which corruption and bitterness is called dying poison which is the cause of Life in all things as will be sufficiently manifest if you with right reason do weigh the Natures of things Consider well O Son that when Lucifer the Angel of Pride first rebelled against God and prevaricated the Command of the most High be assured that this was made corrupt bitter and harsh to him No less was the fall and prevarication of our first Parents Adam and Eve whom death and condemnation followed made to them corruption and bitterness and likewise to us in whom the same corruption is propagated Many more like examples I could recite if need were But setting aside these to come to what is proper to our discourse consider well that of all precious Fruits which grow out of the Earth their First Matter is bitter and harsh as still retaining some footstep of the former corruption and putrefaction which bitterness by the means of continual action of natural heat is with great virtue turned into sweetness Now therefore Son if thou wi●● be ingenious this little will suffice whereby to find out much more and to perceive my meaning Consider therefore

Vulgar well washed and when the Amalgama is made then let it be put into a little Boults-head with a neck one foot and a half long Afterwards ℞ three groste of our Argent vive formerly extracted and reserved from the Lunary Body and let it be put upon the Amalgama made of the Body and Argen● vive Vulgar let the Vessel be luted very well with the best lute and let it be dried when this is done stirring the Vessel exceeding well that the Amalgama may be well mingled and thus the Argent vive may be well mixed with the Body Afterwards put the Vessel in which the Matter is in a little Furnace to a little Fire of Coals and let its heat not exceed the heat of the Sun when Sol is in the Sign of Leo for another heat exceeding that would destroy the Matter and the one would fly from the other and let such a Fi●● be continued until the Matter become black as Coals and thick as Pultis and let the Fire continue in this degree until the Matter be changed into a gray brown colour and when the gray appeareth increase the Fire in one point or degree and let this second degree continue until the Matter begin to become white to the most purest whiteness afterwards augment the Fire to the third degree continuing it until the Matter become whiter than Snow and be converted into pure Powder whiter than Ashes and then you have Calx vive or the quick Slime of the Philosophers and its Sulphury Mine which the Philosophers have so much hidden CHAP. IV. The Property of the said Calx or Slime THe said Calx converteth Mercury Vulgar into most white Powder infinitely which can be reduced into true Silver with some of the Bodies of Luna CHAP. V. Multiplication of the Calx ℞ THe Vessel with the Matter wherein put two ounces of Argent vive Vulgar well washed and dried afterwards lute the Vessel well and put it where it was before governing and administring to it the Fire of the first second and third degrees as before until the Matter be reduced into a most white Powder and so you may multiply to infinity CHAP. VI. The Reduction of this Calx viva into Luna WHen thou thus hast gotten a great quantity of our Calx viva or of our Mine take a Crucible not covered in which put one ounce of pure Lune and when it i● melted put thereupon four ounces of thy Powder in small Pills let thy Pills be the weight of the fourth part of an ounce let them be put upon the middle Luna by degrees always continuing the Fire strong until all the Pills be projected and melted together with the Lune and in the end make a strong Fire until it be incorporated afterward project it in an Ingot and thou shalt have five ounces of Silver more pure than the Natural and thus thou mayst multiply thy Philosophical Mine as thou pleasest CHAP. VII Of our great Work to the White and to the Red. REduce the Calx viva as is said before of Luna into Argent vive which is our Secret Take therefore four ounces of our Calx and reduce them into Argent vive as thou didst with Luna of which Argent vive thou mayst have at least three ounces put this in a little Boult-head with a long neck as thou didst before afterwards make Amalgama with one ounce of true Sol with three ounces of Argent vive Vulgar and put upon it Argent vive of Lune moving it strongly with thy hands that all may be mingled together afterward put the Vessel well luted as before in the Furnace making the Fire of the first second and third degree in the first degree thy Matter will become black like to a Coal which then is called the Eclipsis of Luna and Sol and there will be a true commixtion whereby is begotten the Sun and Sulphur which is full of temperate bloud after the appearing of his colour continue the Fire of the second degree until the Matter become gray then continue the third degree until the Matter appear most white afterwards augment the Fire to the fourth degree continuing so that the Matter may appear red as Cinnabar and the Ashes become red this Calx you may reduce into the finest Sol as is said before of Lune FINIS SECRETS DISCLOS'D One Friend to another as Bloomfield suppose The Philosophers Stone the Secrets doth disclose I Shall tell it to you openly Our Medicine is a Stone that is no Stone and it is one thing in kind and not divers things of whom all Metals be made and so it is no Salts nor Waters nor Oyl combustible nor mans Hair nor ma●● Bloud nor Iron nor Goats horns nor Herbs nor none such things that discord from Metals as many Fools devise But he is two things for he is Water and Earth not Water of Clouds nor of Corrosives nor Water of Salts but Water of the Sun and the Moon that burns our Earth more than any Fire And it is three things that is Body Spirit and Soul and it is four things Earth and Water and Air and Fire and therefore he is found in every place and in every time And he is also unstable in colour as a shame-fac'd Woman that changeth her colour for dread of her Love that reproveth her of untruth for now she is pale now green now red so our Stone is turned to all colours for he is black and white and pale and blew and green and red of this Matter our Medicine is made that we call Ixir and Elixir that is the Philosophers Stone Take this Stone and put him in a well-closed clear Vessel that thou mayst see his working and when thou hast Water of Air and Air of Fire and Fire of Earth then it is done for the Spirit is departed from the Body and leaveth the Body dead and black But if the Sepulchre be well closed he will come in again to the Body and make him rise again to life and then the Body and the Soul shall ever be together And therefore take a Red man and a White woman and w●● them together and let them go to Chamber both and look that the door and the windows be fast sparr'd for else the Woman will be gone away from her Husband And if she lye with him right warm on Bed then beware that she go no where out for if she do he shall never overtake her if he were as swift as a Faulcon for if she may no where out she will come to him again and lye with him on Bed and then she shall conceive and bear a Son that shall worship all his Kin and then will she never after go away from her Husband For this Man and this Woman getteth our Stone But the Man must be fell and quaint to make her to abide with him with meekness and not with sturdiness for if he be boisterous to her in the beginning she will flee