ne IVife^^i^ans Qrown i
OR, THE
GLORY
Of the
Rofie-Crofs
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SHEWING
The Wonderful Power of Nature,
with the full di(covery of the tmtCoelum Terra^ or firil Matter of Metals , and their Preparati- ons into incredible Medicines or Elixirs thac cure all Difeafes in Young or Old: With the Kegio Luck^ and holy Houfhold oiRofie Cruci^ an Philofophers.
Communicated to the World
By John Heydon, Gent,
A Servanc of G o d , and Secretary to Nature.
'Eitf \\j.i nc o[.iuv iw»C>f/ '£$r«» (i. c.) He that looff^sth upen my Bool^s, let him learn to be religious^
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Printed for the Author ; and are to be fold by
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To the Moft Excellently Accom- plished the truly hoaourabls learned wife vertuous C^c,
Be vis Lloyd Efq.
Eternal Health be v/ifhed.
IVohld havtpH know^ thaf t love and honor j oh beyond ex- frejfion^ndjballferve yon in Art and Nature tomyfower^I
haveprefumed to make yon om
7n the number of my Noble Patrons^ hecanfe I hear the vpicl^dnefs offome VulpitVolititi- ans incejfantly ragewg againfi my ferfon which they never farVy nor perhaps mil fte^ thefefophijiical Sicophants contend dgainji me continnally with bitter hatred^ envy and Mificc.withQHt 0^y provocation on my pari
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one ^^ry frmdly tpith a full month and iouci t)Oke dfperfed mc with Atheifme m St.Pau'i Church in bu morning Sermon the eight cj May^ before the Lord Mayor and others^ A- mo^fld fremifcHOHs fecplc^ Railing againji the Rofie Cruchm^who Art and Nature uni tcd.^Others in C&ffee difcotrrfe and jiinkjn^ pHoak^ofTohaccd did fill the ears of the Ig- norant with my infa??iy others in fubliqut and private ajj'emblie^^ I heai' do injligatt the Duks^ Princes and Peers of England d^c ngainjt me^ But tny Religion being fnlliped. I would have yon kftow my Philofofly is it l^now God himfelfthe worker of all things ^^ topaff into him by a whole Image of li^enej (as by an EJfential Contract and bond)wher by jve may be transformed and made as Cod As the Lordfpake concerning MoCgs^ faying i have made thee the God ofpharoah^ this the true Rofie Crucian Philofephy of wonder ful worS{s^ that they understand not^ the Ke thereof is the intellect: for by hew much high tsr things we understand withfo much th fublzmer vertnes arc we endowed^ and J much greater things dowort{^^ and that mot tafily and efrcatioujly But our intelled bein includedin the Corruptible flep^tnlefs itfia ixce^dthe f9ay of thcflejf) and obtain aprt
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per Nature^ cannot he united ta thefe venues- (for like to like) A7id ts in fearching intQ the Rofie Crucian^^ref/ of God andNaturQ altogether in effi cations ^ for it is no eajie thing for us to afcend to the Heavens^for h&vip JImU he that hath loji hi mf elf in Morrd Dujb and ajfjes^find God. HovpJIoall he apprehend fpiritual things that is fwallowed up infiejh and blond^ can n/an feeGod and live^ t^hdl; fruit fijall a grain of Corn bear if it ha notfirji dead^for we mujl dye ^I fay dye to thi^ world^ and to the flep^ and all fences andt^ the whole man Animal^ roho would enter int^ thefe clofets offecrets^ Not hecaufe the bady isfeperatedfrom the foul J)nt bccaufethefonL leaves the body^ of which death S,??.\}\ wrot to the CoUoflians : ye are dead and your life IS bid with Cht iji : And elfewhere hefpeakf more clearly ofhimfelfj ik^ow a Many wke-^ t her in the body or out of the body I cannot td^ God k^ows^ caught up unto the third heaven d^cJfay by this death pactions in the fight ^ God we muft dye which happens to few : and not always^ for very few whom God love s^and^ are vertuous are madefo happy. A&d firif thofe that are horn^ not of fiefi and blmd^ 1 Jht ofG&dlfecondty thofe that are dignified hytbeblefied afiifianctofAngek md ^^^^
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th^ rower of 'Nature Influence ofTlanets^ and the Heavens and vertues of the figures and ideas at their birth^noro this I humbly intreat ^m^ that you he net ntifiak^ concerning me asij I at any time having received fuch di- i)ine things jJjould boajt of them toyon^ er Jheuld arrogate any fuch thing to mjijelf^ or could hope to have them granted to ?ne^ Al- though 1 have hitherto keft ^yfelf unmarry- ed and free from the company of a woman ^ yet I have been a fouldier following the Ar- mies of the King^ and in other Countries con- fecraied with mans kloud^ and expofed to alt the hlajis of jnconfant fortune^^being crof- Jid in my fief) in the world and worldly afairs and therefore coidd not [obtam thefublimc Gifts af the Immortal God. But I would be iiccounted a dirc&or^ who always waiting at the dor es fide ws to others which way they mttfi: go^ And here I prefent my f elf your tnoji hum- hlefervant and honour ef
May the (yth
An Apologue for an Epiiogue
A Bout the year 1648 we Studied Aftronancy and Geomancyj and writ the Harmony of the World in two Books^ the firft Printed for Mr. Brome with the Tern fie oiWifdome at his houfe \t\Ivy-Lane^ The Holj Gnicie^ Elhavarenna ^ being an Introduction to the Rofte Crucian philo- fophy^ and diverdy Compiled in thefc BookS;, in (hort words^ yet fufficient for thofe v/ho are wife^ fome of thefe things are written Methodically, fome without order pur pofely fome things are delivered by fragmentSj fome things are even bid and left for the fearch of the wife^ who more acutely contemplating thefe ihings which are written^ and diligently fearchiqg (the Harmony oi thQlForld^thtTer/ipledi^ Wifdome^ and the Holy Guide) may obtain the Compleat rudiments of the Rofte Crucian Philofophy and alfo infallible experiments: and if you defire to ftudy thele Books, keep filence and Conftantly conceal within the fecret clofet of your Religous breaft; fo holy a determination 5 B for
An Afolognefor an Epilogue.
for ( as Taphthartharath iaith ) to publiili to the knowledge of many an Art wholly fille<i with fo great Majcfty of the Deity, is a fign of an Irreligious fpirit^ and Divine Vlato Commanded that holy and fecret mifteries (hould not be made publique to the people^ rjthagoras -^nd Frophir/ confecrated their followers to a leligious Silence^ The Rojie Crucians with a certain terible ^.uthority of religion. dja= exaft :mi oath ()f filence from thofe they initiate to the Arts of Aftromancy Geomancy ScTelcfmaticall Imagcs^becaufe by them the dead are raifcd to life^ by them they alter change and amend bodies cure the defeafed prolong Life^ preferve Health, renew youth in old folke, make dwarfs grow great men^ make fools and Madmen wife and vertuous^ deftroy the power ofwritchsjby thefe Arts they make men. fortunate in play ^ law fuits love^ vhdioxj over enimies, inHorfe Races in C-ameiagj. in Merchandize vix^d at Tea. fileneing the violent waves^ by thefe Arts they know all things and refolve all mannei ©f queftions prelent or to coma as faith
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An AfologntfoY an Epilogne,
YOh that admirers are ofvertm^Siay Confider well what Itayonfiallfay^ JButjOH^ that f acred laws contemn^ profham Away from hence^ return no m4>re again^ But thoH O my Engemus whofs mind is high Obftrve my words d^read them with thine eye^ And them within thy f acred hreaji repone And in tkyjeurny thinly ofGvd alone^ Jhe Author of all things that cannat die.
of whom we now J/jali Treat ■
And Engenius The odidaftus Proclaims Bcata Pulchra comes^ hence^ hence^ all ye
(^prophane iheodidutus cryes^ ^from her grove refrain*
Now in celebrating the holy mifteries tif Helier Beaton^ and Beata Pulchra they only were admitted to be initiatedjE^/^ew/z/i' Jheodidactus proclaiming the prophane vulgar to departjof thefe goddefles you may read at Large in bur Temple oiWifdome'-) in Efdras we read this precept concerning the Cabalifticall fecret otthe Hebrews declared in thefe verfes, thou (halt deliver thofe Books to the wifemen of the people^ whofe hearts thou knoweft can comprehend them and keep thofe fecrets, in i^tTempU o^lV7f riomr you fee obfcure Figures of Aftromancy
and
Ah Apologue for an Epilogue.
and Geomancy^ whereunto isadded the aI" phabet of Angels or writing and Language of Haevenj affording compendious words partly by Starrs^ Charafters fet in manner of a wheel thick ^ the reading thereby being defended froiB the Curlofity of the prophane ^ therefore my worthy Schollers in this fcience be filent^ and hide thofe things which are fecret in Religion^ for the promife of filence is due to Religion as Tertullian affirms but they which do Othcrwife are in great dangers Now con- cerning thefe ftcrets my Ingenious difftplesj would tell you^if it were lawful! to tell you^ you fliould know all^ if it were lawfuU to hear it ^ but both eares and tongue would contraft the fime guilt of ralli curiofity, the divine Goddefs
( of Cod Hefter Heatcn j7;;^/ m thofe verfesthe power the Heavens loves Roiall Vallace^ he's King Fountain vert H€ and God of every things Be is omnipoteftt^ and in his breji Earths-water ^fire^and aire do take their reji\ Both night and day^true vpifdon/e withfweet
C Love Are all contei?i'd in this vafl hnlkc of love Bis neckband glorious head if yon would fee behold the Heavens high^ and Mi]efty
Jhe
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7he glorious Razes of Stars do reprefent His golden lock^^and's head adornamenU And again (he fings elfe where to her friend EngeniHsTheodidaCius^ Bright Thehus and the Mom^are the two eyes Of this great Jove hy which all things^ he
(ifpies His head which predicts alibis placd itk sk^j From which no Noyfe canwhifper fecretly ttpierceth all'-, hk body vaji extends IBoth far and wide^ and k^ows no bounds
( nor ends ihefpatioHs Airs hk breath Jhis wings the wind By which hefiyesfarfwtfter then the mind His belly is our Mother Earthy whofwells Into huge Mountains^ whom the Ocean fills And Circles^hfsfeet are the rocks andjiones which ofthk globe are the foundations Thisjove under the Earth conceals all things And from the depth into the light them brings.
This goddefs coinniands fecrefie^ an^ iheodorus the Tt\igick Poet 5 when he would have reforccd foinething of the mi- fterks of the Jen;/ Scripture to the abhored .icl:ions and deeds of harlots and villains uppon the ftagc was deprived of fighr^ ard the Joiirnimca Traitors or Tailors in their nativities^ Almanacks^ and monthly C pr-ediftiOD^
An Afologucfor aYiEpiloju^uc,
Pj:€di<!:tions verfcsaod obfervationsagainft their Sacred Ma jeftyes King Charles the firft and fetond and the Duk^oi Buckinham are now deprived of triuh^ and they cannot writcorpredift any thing againltthis Divine government^but lies 8c my difciples concur- red the diipleafure of Beata Vulchra and Heller heatm^lccsLuic they interpreted the fb£mm£na, of Nature. from the Harmony of the Worlds The Temple oiWtfdome^dXiA the Holy Guide Sc pubhfned them^ they dream- ed next thatthc gcddelles Hejier Heatan and ISeata Vulchra (tood inC whores habits betore the Brothell houfe and they wrathfuUy an- fwered their admiration^that they were by them violently drawn from their modefty 8< proftituted every where to all common^ by which they are admonifliedthatthe cerimo- nies of the Gods ought not to be divulged ^ THhagoras Socrates Plato Arifioxenns kept the M fteries of God and nature in violable^ but rlotwHs as Vorfhiry relates, broke the oath whichhe made to his MaiicvixAmmonjus^ and pubhfhed his MKtericsJor the punifh- xnent of his tranfgrcfiion he was burnt with lightnings and confumed alive to his bones with Lice^ our Saviour Chriji alfo him-elfe while he lived on Earthy (poke after thr.t manner and fafhion. that only the more in- timate Apcftks ihould uuderfond the
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mi(iery of the word of God, but the other (houldperceive the Parables onlyiComman- ding moreover that holy things (hould not be given to dogs.nor pearly caft to fwine, I would alfo warn you Readers of the Bar" mony of the World^ The Temple of Wtjomt and the Holy Cnidt^ that even as the Oivine powers deteft publique things and profane, and love fecrecy : So every Rq^iq Cruican experiment fleeth the publique, feeks to be hid^is (lengthened by filence but is deftroy- ed by publication,neither doth any complent effeft follow after all thefe things fufFer lols^^ when they are powredinto prating> andin^ credulous mindes^ therefore itbehpveth a Phylofopher^if he would get fruit from this Art, to be fecret, and to manifeft to none, neither his work nor place, nor time,neither his defire nor will unlefs either to a Mafter or partner or Compaion,who ought alfo to be faithfall beleiving filent,and Digified by nature and education : Seeing that even the prating of a companion, his incredulity and unwoi thinefs hindreth and difturbeth the efFed of every operation , we have now delivered this Harmony of the worlds The Temple of Wifdomc and the Holy Guide^ in fuch a manner^thatit may not be hid from the prudeat and intelligent, and yet may not admit wicked' and incredulous^ men C 2 to
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to the Miller ies of the Rofic Crucian Philofophy but leave them deftitute and aftoniflied, in the (hade of ignornnce and defperatioD^ you therefore fons of wifdomc and Learning fearch diligently in the Harmony of the world^ The ^temfle. of Wjfdome and the Holj Guid ^ gathering together our difpcrfed intentions, which in divers places wc have propounded and what is hid in one place^ we make manifeft in another 3 that it may appear to you wife mcn^ For, for you only have we writtcttj whofe mind is not corrupted but regulated according to the right order of living, unmarryed, who in Chaftity and honeftvjand in found faith fear and reve- rence of God : whofe hands are free from {m and wickednefs, whofe manners are gentle^ fober,and Modeft, you only fhall find out this knowledge conteined in the JJarmoriy of the World^ The Tewple of Wifdoffie and the Holy Gnide^ which is pre- ferved for you, and the fecrets which are hid by. many enigmas cannot be perceived but by wife men, which when you (hall pbtaip the vrhole fcience of the invincible Hefic Cruciin difcipline will infinuate it felf unto you and thefe vertues will ap- pear to j^ou^ which, the KoJJq Crnchns^
who
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who wrought miracIeS;> obtained, but yee envious Tailors or unworthy ScorpionUts^ Cajumniatorsj fns of b.'ft? ignoraace., Journimea Traiturs/oolifc wrirers of x\lp>a- nacks and other lemdnefs, that deceives them that truft him^ railing dowa right and with ftudied lyes difparages our perfon, that was fo kind to » hena a.'i. to lend them ten pound in Gold and had lent them 100 /.if we had nbt found Them of an ungrateful! ill Nature, we fcorn to fpeak how much our love was to the fending and giving great gifts, Thef^ in requitall Provoke men to anger, and qaarrell^ and pick words to advantage, and if any man invite them to fight, then begargly coward- like run to Law, and bring falfe witnefles to juftifie their deceitfall devic.s^ to get money And fo fome of thefe Afirologicals^ live,at this Leud rate being not worthy ot any regard, But faith a poet.
Since by thy late lojl love, I havefimd^ut^ ihyfrindppsfamd like the Common rouV-y Who prife mens y^orths at an 'vncenfiant rate Juji as theyfe them raifed orprefd byfate^
When we look uppon his naturall pa- rents, Kindred, and relations, add cQufider
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his education, we incited muft give him his due title i e. a man that by his own in-, duftry and a little inftradtion ( of an Aftrologer and our felf J hath obtained knowledge in Aftrology and Geomancy and can make an Almanack &c. but he is fo envious fcandalous and malitious againft others , that it clouds his better parts. The late years of tirany admitted flocking wea- vers Shomakes, Millers*Mafons3 Carpenters, Bricklaiers Gunfuiiths Porters, Butlers &c. To write and teach Aftrology and PhiGck, and what a noyfomc fpavvn of brates, ( as Mr. 'ialbot calls them) are generated of the Frothy brains of thefe illegitimate fcriblers, that went a whoring after the prefs, and railed againft Monarthy and all men,&can- not yet love one another, we forbid thefe to come nigh our writings for they are your emmies and ftand out a precipice, that ye may ere and fall head long into mifery; if any therefore through his incredulity or dulntfi of intelleft, doth not obtain his defire let him not impute the fault of his Ignorance to us, or fay that we have erred, orvvritten falfely and:lied,but lethim accufe himfelf, who underftandeth not our wri- tings for they arO obfcure, and covered wjthdivei's mdfteriesj by tli which it will ''• • • cafily
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eafily happerr^ that many may ere and loole their fenle, therefore let no man be angry with usj for we are envious againlV no man^but have folded wp the truth rf this fcience with many Enigmaes^ and difper- fed it in divers places^ for we have not hidden it from the wife bm from thevviek^ ed and undgodly asid have delivered it in fuch words which neceflarily blind tf.e foolifhj and eafily may admit the wife to the underftanding of them thus being wiU^ ingto teach any ingenuous man forai osjx Vergln pallace m
May, 9 1664-
John HETDam.
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To the moft accoplisht philofc- pher and learned Secretary of Nature^ Mr John Hey don on his ElhuvurennA or //4- magHleh Hampaa^eah. The Harmony of the World, Tne Temp/e ofWiJdome, The Holy dridi^ Gcia Jmperulia, The Idea of the Law y and his other Admirable works written about 17 years fincc, that are now PubJiflied.
"jM^Om? the ^its do fully ^ a»d attempt your guard i
O' how Jour hufie brain doth hetiT c^ Vizard ; T^dly and r fit/7 f ore ei rent \ andreUeve^ Double rgferves^ and the^ 4« o>tfet give ( fire
Xjtkf marfhdl*d Ihu.isicr bad^^d^tth fl/ames of Storr/js mixt Wtthfiormes [p^JfioK with globes of Ire Tetfo well dijt:ipLind n-at ludgment ftill SryAid^ and not rafht Gemmifftonated rvill "^o; rvords injvu k^jOrv order ^ ume^ and place ^ The ififiant of a Ch.^rge^ er when to face \Mhen to per [tie aduAntage and whereto halt y^hen to draw of^a^id where to re-afiault Sf^ch fure Commands fireams from yon th^t ^tU ^ne yt^ithyoti to VAjqutp} as to look uppon So that jour rutn*d Foesgroveltng confefs lour coyicjueflswete therrfate and happineft Nor was tt here your bufmeffe to war ,
Withferreign Artiftsx But thy Active fl^r Pothceurfe a h^me bred mifi-^ aAfirology ^fsdfheVP its guilts degress^ therein a lie
Ii»r^ Simple men abafe it and Geomamy I challenge alt agawft ^them can (ay Sentence ex fell tktm^ And letjoftr fun jin everlafting fiage in honor run By that its motion to theeje of wan yNaveftillin ^ ^omfleat a Mirtdio»»
March 2 5 th
at JO Ti A.M
Sir. KcppIeDrue Baronet
and Law-ycr Mr. JohnHevdon-
THiS IS no IVanton Gallant that lief Angling for babies in hisMifiriis eyes^ Andthink^theris no heaven lik^ a bale of Six horfes and a Co/ich with a device (. djrc^^
^caj} of Laconics, M7d a L,dy - Btrdy An Oath infafhion and a gutldedjvjord^ Jhatftnoak^Tobacco with a face wfr^me Jttidfpeak^fierhaps a line offfnce to th^fame^. T'hatjleefs afabbaoth overtn his bed And if his Play-hookj there willfloop toread^ Doth kifs its hand^ and Congey aJa-mode^ A^tdrvhiff the nights approaching bolt abroad^ Unlejs his honour s worships rents not come, Sohefahftck^^ and frvears the farrier home I Slf^ if his rare devotion fwell fo high 7 0 waft an honr-Glafs on Ditintty , Tis but to make the Church his Stage^ thtreby To blaz.i' the Taylor tn his Rthaldry A]kbut the Parrot when his dtftrefs fhall falL Lilian Arm'd man upp^n him, where are ally T^ho^e rofe bads of his Tout h, thofe anti^ne tojesy j^herein htfportedout his previous dayes-^ ffVhai comfort heColleEhsfron^ Hawkjr How^d^ Or tf among ft his l^offfr hours he found ^ ^0 of a thoufand to redeem that tims ^mfh' d^ and loft^or ever ijrhis pnme^
Or if he d;r$Am*d of an eternal blifs^
And f^CArs God damn him he ntre ihiUght of this^
Bat like the Epkure ador*d the day
Jhatfhin^drofe uv to eat anddrtnk and FUy ;
7h^ mortffrightlj Element of pure fire
Above that gallant doth advance tkts higher-
This Author's Noble great and wfe
Bit Soul aloft hoth f oar above the fkies.
To God himjelf^ And rvhats to come he knows j
So to prevent impendent dangers (h ewes ;
Sure J ove defcended in a Leaden fho'^re
To get his Perfeus ; hence the fatal fo^er^
Of Taylors Almanicks; Planets thus AlHU
Fear ta commit an Art of Parricide.
Go on brave Sir^ and let the world (^onfefs^
Toti are the greater worldy and that the Lefs.
Thomas RevellEfq^
To his mod: Honoured friend Mi.JohfiHey- don upon his moft Excellent Philolophy*
Here^ here is philofophj; here you may read Horv long he world (hull Uve^nndw^tnt(kall Oh' horv I Am raft when IcontemfUte thee ( bhe^ And wind my [elf above all that /fee Tardon great: ftrfor the Afirohgicali Crew, GtHn^wheig made Bankrupt in the fc ales withjot^, Thefptrit of your lines ^ i»ff^f^ ^-fi^^; Like the war Ids foul,\\>hich wakes me thmafpire, Ashe who in his Chracter of light StWd Gods fliadow, made it fare more bright Bf an Eclipfefo glorious : Itght is dim And M black nothing ^hen Compared to him^ S§ tis rlluflrious to be Heydons fool Anda Jitfi trophee to be made his fpoile Hefpan's the Heave;a and Earthf axd things above And which ismore jojn l^aturcs with there love^ He' s proof agnirtfir th* art tilory of verfes yS horn neither Btlbo^ ner invention peirces Tof^^r fureinchanted Si ry your double free Trem Aftrologers and th're fqaibbed 'Toetry^ Tor A ne'^Q E^fi beyond, the Stars J fee. ff%re Breakj the day of thy Divinity^ He makes me Earthy Now a liar a^d tbeny A Spirit : Nowafiar and Earth Again -^ He Crowns mjfoHl )^ith fire and their doth (hine^ But like the Rainbow tn a cloud of mine, Vyko fees this fire witlmtt his Afafk, hu eye Mufi: need befwAlhwed by the Light and dye ; Aiigolt 4.th ac lun ^^ i<5^3. Charles Potter Eiq>
To the moft accomplisht Philofo- pher and learned Secretary of Nature, Mr. Jdhn Hey don on his Elhavareuna or Ha^ ntagfileh Hat^pd^fteah. The Harmony of the Florid, The TimpkofFf'ifdomey The Holf Gmde. The Idea of the Law^
\A Oft Learned Sir, h rather were my part, ^^■^At difiafice to adn^ire net here infert 'ihcfe rtiflick^lwes^which merit cannot raife ^ What Mortals able to fet out thy praife ? The Deity's in cxpticable, fo «re you %/€llthatyott write we mnfl confefs is true, Z^nlifs we have C'^^ym^ra^s in our btdn And what ^e do not knew is falfe maintain^ We m^y deny Roidc ^XPerfia doth Ji and Say Huphr&tes no 'i\iV€r^ Affrica no Land^ Though curious you^havc from thofe places cocie \<Smlf\: we our Ignorance do hug at home T'he icorld and all therein y oh know fo well The great Qtbz\h of H^zvc^ and knidks of WA Thativs rnxyfafely affi/mif thaf yoapleafe Yotican another world make with m^ch eafe^ All that Dame Nature has, you kaow ani mot^^ For (he to make you rich is now grown poor All that I fear ; th fates will call y oh hence Nature depofe^ Aud place yon on her bench Your knowledge isfo great it may contrcnl^ Mtr: worlds then one. And allyour wit can rale,
Majcb itf die T: » Tlion;*> Tillirn a Phr^fophcr by
i^ ^.o r* M idJr4. i:recorh- Duk?of Buckinghatn-
To his Loving Ingenious friend Mr. John Beydon upon his Uarmony of the IVorld^ Temple ofVyt^dcme^ and Holj Gv.ide &c.
%^ICareiefs Phrafe attd words tktt Ije l^egleCled
This vert tie httvc^ that thefi not befn/ftUed OittkfTS: nfay over praifeyoar BookJJor we Tfef^^ f/»/;<5/ often over -rated fee) S^ tx^at I write mil ^qttt dtflant Ije^ Frtm folijht "^it^andfervtle Flattery^ l^tStfrom a bruifed O^yjays Maro, breed , "^fti^y^M draw honej from a * TaCtcr'd weed Wteborrow'd of you Goid,/^ doth complain J^^Mf^ of poverty^ ^hofe empty ^rattt^ 'an envloiTs ^St^fti-reithp.o'^-p'i^t Planets by thi gUjs Alman- jifmL when th "Hat ivity'^s done its poor aUs ackMa- £)iO^ mvf theie utricles of your pregnant brain ^f^L.^^ SiVt birth to a brave man iffnes wtthotit pain ^^\ ^^^j- Siftjjef^jottr Pfit'sfo pure^yoHr ; brafefo clean my <i Isttrpncf fo weighty that each lines a chain ^" ^• O/r <^<tld 'trvtxt Jupiter Hifraael and the Gods^ MetOJty and Mars that are now ai odds Toetr BookJJil^e a young true born Eagle may BehUthe ff<H in publtck^at noon daj.
CoSricn May 1 3
^Mc.^.M. FrederickTalhot Eiq,
To his honoured Friend Mr. ^ohn
Hey don on bis moft excellent pnnciples of Pbilofophy, in The Harmony ofthcfVorld^ Th Temple of fVifdorf^^ The Holy Gtiid^ Hamegttlch Hawpa.weah^ Elhavdreunay OctA Imperials and the Idea of the Law \ all wricce.n near 17 years fince, and by Gods Providence now printed.
\^OMyou thofe Pillars /^f (jthd[e %eliques)y'at {%Hins (?/time and knowledge] Scch didfave^ From the impetnotis Sea, when waves T»ere aII^ And all were waves, within thefe Pagesfmall; Yeu'l ^nd ther/i in their atttiem Luftre(him^ Not ccKnterfeit^ hnt rich and m^xfcHline, Or what Egyptian Sages fcmetimefei^ In their ?3ipyYU8 books {Roi^lsvaftly great) TYhtlfi Arts drJ Letters v7ere no common tbing'^ But Preifts and Poets Princes were ^nd Kin^s^ E're Learning^ a Ludibrium became To the atfdaffiouJ Rout []^; hapelefsjhame '! ] ^>f Sacred Pace z/^/g-^^r Thumbs could foil I'Joe-ncefetding ^/<y<r/^Sedicions lamp withoile.
i?)?^^/ (Monuments of banifh^d winds)do Uvei, And {tffrom pftre Miner va*8 borfi) f$trvive When tit/es^trjt{.mphs^ Archs Name^ hcome Silent ith^ rnivs of a rum^d tembe^ ?^^^f« Scipio's, Pompey^s, Cxfar^s Larftehmaj B7 long [uccefs of "^afiing years decay ^ Good Bo&kj (ficrKal produBs 9fthe br/ih Not onelj live but may ^rowfre(h a^-f-t^ March 26 1664 ""W. SmithMaRerof Arts
<^ hio J M^ of CUre Hull in
A Catalogue of thofe things contained in riiefe Bookes
FirftBook. M ihc white Elixir of ^ic^ilmr
2 The white ferment
3 ihe red Elixir of Mercury alone
4 7he red Ferment
5 ihe Jccurtation of the red Elixir
6 ihe fhifcall and Akhimicalltin^ure of thered Lion and the glue of the Eagle.
Second Book. X 7he Elixir of Copper 1 Of Augmentation andprojcBion 3 Of the Blejfedjione or Elixir of Life and of its vertue^ and alfo of Malleable glafs
Third Book. . I ihe Elixir ofSaturne white and red and alfo of Jupiter
7 The Abreviation of ihe wor^ of Saturri
3 ihe Elixir of Mars
4 A port VPor\of the Phifcall and Alchi- micall Tinfiure
5 The Magijiry ofPearlef
6 7he Cowpojition ofCarbnnJ^cs
7 Of Minerail tileUrufn
8 ihe Explanaiion of ihe Vhilofophcrs words when iheyfptak^ of the tenth number jf herein thejione is perfeBed and alfo the wonderfull Secrets of the animi^Il ftone with ^twoother of his workj
THE
LIFE
O F
John Hey don
The Sod of . FRANCIS 2ind MART HETDOH
l^o\ioi SidmoHth \nt>evonJbire*
Ohn Hey don is not bafely but Nobly defcended^Thc An- tiquaries derive them from Julius Heydon the King of Hungary and mfifbalid^ that were defcended from that noble family oicafar Hy'^^^inR.ome^ and fince in this Royal Race the line run down to the Honorable Sr. Chrijiopher Heydon oi Heydon near Northmch Sr. Johfi Heydon htc Lord Lieutenant of the Kings Tower of London^ and th e noble Chandlers in fTorfejUrSin of the Mothers ^^e
The Life of
which line fprcad by Marriage into De- vofipire^ among the Cplljns^ Duckj^ Drucf and Bears^ he had one Sifter 'named Anve li^don^ who dyed two years iincej his Fa- ther and Mother being, yet hvin g : He was born at his Fa timers Houie \n Grccn-Arbour London^ and Baptized at-iSc. Sepulchres and fo was his Sitter^ and Sbth in thc^fifth and fjvcnth years of the Reign of King cA/ir/ej thdFirftj he waJs educated in War- rpickJhhezmon^\\\$ mpthej-s friends^ and Jo careful were they to keep him arid his fifter from danger and to their Books^ that they had; one continually to wait ,uppi> them.3. both to the School and at home. ,,. , He wa^' Commended by Mi.'johuDemm JaisTtit<;>r iiri -X^r^e^/c^ toMY, George Linacre '^,i\^{\.,hf/CojightoTr^ vyher^ he learned the • tiatTt|e arid Greek tongues,' the War at this tlmebegari to moleft th'^^Univcrfities of this T^atiop 5 He was tlip Articled to Mr* Mtc,Te:ley an Atturney of Cliffords Inne J with eighty pound 5 that at five years end .he (liovld be fworn before Chief Juftice ^^iC^//, now being vcrry young he apply- ,^|eu his inincie to Learninc,, and by his happy wit ()btained great knowledge in all Arts and Sciences^ afterwards alio he followed £h,e Armies of the King;, in<^ for his valour
Comrnrin-
John Hcydon.
Commanded in the TroopSj when he was bytheie means famous for Learning and ArmSj he Travelled into Spain ^ Italy^ Ara^ bia^ Mgypt and Perjia^ and gave his minds to writings and Compofed about 20 years ll ce The Har^jontj of the IVorld m two Booksj The 'Temple of ^tjdome in three Eookj The Holy Guide in (ix Books^E/ArJz/^- reii72a in one )^ook^Hampaneah Hummegukh in one Book. Ocia twperialia in one Book, The idexi of the Lavp^ The idea of Govern" ment^ The idea of lyrannji in three parts. The Fundament d Element so f Aiorrd Thy* lofophy^ Volicy^ Government andtVar^ ^c^
Thefe Books were written near 20 years fince.and prefervcd by the good hand of God in the CuRody of Mr.T/>^w^/ Heydon^ Sr. '^ohn Banmer^ Si\Iia!ph Freman^ and St. Richard Tern, le during theTy rants time, firft one had the Books^ then another, &€«. And at laft at the Command of thefe Ho- nourable Learned, and va'iant Knights they 'vvere Printed,
He wrote many excellent things^ and performed m^ny rare experim.ents in the Arts of Aftromancy and Geomancy &Co but efpecially eighty one^ the firfi: upon the Kings Death, Prediftcd in^^r^ti^by him to his FriendSjThe fecond upon the lofl'es of A a the
ihc l7]c of
tW^lS:.v.g?i\:i'/i.rceJhr Predidtcd at ihaurk in rerfa, the rhiTcl Predifted the D'^ath of (liver €roww:lI \u Lambeth houle to many Peifonsof Kcnour mcnnoncd in hisBooks, the tl.nirth he wrote of the over- throw of Lambert^ and of the Duke of Al- hjwarle h^s bringing again iftheKingto his happv^ Countries^ and gave it to iVla jor Chriftophcr Lerkctihead a Goldfa:ith at the f" tiz\\oih)' F cttcr liTte end in Holhorn^ the fitrh prccanticn or Predifiion he gave t rhisHir^hnefs "iYxDuk^o^ Euckjnfrhamxwo 'Moneths before^ the evil \vas pra&ifed: And :iis Enemy AhrakdPi Goodman lies now in the Tower for attc m ting the death of that ^^ob!e Prince.Tht fix:h for Count Gramont when he v/as baniflied into England by the King oiFrance^wnA heprediftcd by theArt ofAflroniancy sind Gcomancy the Kings receiving cf h.im again into favor and of his marriage to the Lady Harz/elton, The fcventh forDukc^^iv «////?«// a Peer o\Gtrma- ny that the Emperoiir fent to him.vvhen the Turk had an Army againfthim^ and of the death of the Pope the refl: are in his Bookf, And therefore by thefe Monuments the name o^Heydon for his variety of Learning was famous not onely in EtfgLfjd^ but alfo ?nmanv oth^rN^nons inr^ which bis Books
are
jonntieycion,
are Tranfiated* j^nd it feema foaiething difficult to dctei-iiiir'if, whether the (bphi- ftication oi: irathp or the tucus of errors iiath of late years been the' more Epi.demicai cheat in Printj it beirgiuScitntly netori- cnis how. this gcneratiGD'ut ^Taylors Al- nianacks^the uadirrAvit^g^^-'a whoring after the Prefsj and what a noyfoorie fydvjn of Brats arc generated of the froth c/fHlegite- mate Brains, not kfs numerous then U^url- ous^that neither their male content Parents- nor Religicn, Law, ReafoOj nor Charity are able to maintain.And although WixJjob^i Hey don ^ works be uf a moie generous ex-- tracti'-m^ yet they are vt./?y far frcnr. Com- plementing thcmlelves with the leafi: vain hopes of exem;ption from thofe cenfures wl/icii are common to all n-en^ It is worth an A(terii>k to obfcrve how^, infeazablejt hath been in all ages for the m.oftinn-v cent to efcape this Corrcftio ^ Divine Vlato that Prince of Phylofophers isaccufed for being tooconfufed and hr method ical^ Vrrgilhy lome is counted but a ihallow and weak wittedPoet, and by others ch.arged as rf. he were whoh beholding to Homer for h:s works, and Homer himfelf is derided by Horace^ as if he were toodrowfiea Poet, Vemojih^ncs could not pkafe Maran
rr^.fll^i^
ihe lijt of
7uUiHs in all things, Trogas Tomfcius doth accufe Jjtiis Livius his Orations of tictions ,and talfirieSj Seneca was Nic-n?nicd and called Lin^e without Sand f, Tliny is com- pared to a turbulent River that tafteof many things but digcfts fcvr, Berr/ies is cal- leu b)' fome the dark King, ioiiie affirme ZoroajUr had no depth of Judgement.
All Aftrologicall Taylor accufes Coy tie- hm Agriffa Kt. J hn Htydor?^ Appolonjusy and "iritcmms of inventing licw and tirangc principles in Phylpfcphy D. '^romi is rcpro* vcd for inconllancy and inltabiiity of Judgement: And }^\x. Moor and Eugafius Thilakt hes {oY thcix too much fubtilty in feme things^ Mr. Hobs is thought too full of rvcuifon ]•! his Religion^ and the Lord Ve- rulam is taxed for the length of Learnings Taracclfusih ciwyji^d for hard words , Sir Kenth; Digby isccnfuredby l.ho, Vaughan £>i\Bcirloi.v for his tedious diftinclions, Des Cartes tor the perplexity of hisMrthod^Lmd in a wcrd tliefe very learned and mcft ex- cellent FlalofopheisPhifitions and Divines ithat by theprotounJncfs of their Judge- ment and fplendqr of their Eloquence have fo illu(trai:ed the three Kingdom.es as that they have left the world Juft caufe of their Admiradonj no hopes of Imitations even
thofe
John Heydoa.
thefe have not cfcaped the lite MTffepfe'r hcnlionsfor in the late yxTas, invedtiyes have been written agaiqft thefe naen^ yef who more learned then Sir Ktmlme Digby^ more eloquent then Dr BarlorVj who more witty then McMore and Eiigtmm phiiale^ thes^ who more acute then Mr. Bobs \vh^ more free and Hucd then Lord Vernlam^ who more delightful and (■itisfadory then Cyego}y:\ndGa^ercll^ who more profolmd in jt^hilofophy then • Henry Agrifpa Knight^ who more Candid and ingenious then Ro- ger CEjira^ge^who more clear and tranfpa- rcnt then Paracelfus^vjho morediftinct then Vincent Wirjg^divA(\ACcmdi then DxAVallif yet all thefe in their rcfpeflive and incom- perable works have mcc with the laid un- due repreheniions. If his works therefore (ball chance to meet with fome wafpifli hu- mours^ let him confider the Climate ^ Nor is it more then wants a prehdent^ or lefs then needs a Charitable Conftruftion i which is the worfi: revenge can poffibly be executed by fuch as chufe rath-r to luf- fer then offend IMr. Jon^ m\DOS^ For the Taylors amongft the Almanack Makers carp at all the reft and envie all, am.ongfl: PhilofopherSj Dcfmcretus laugheth at all things HeraclitHs wxepeth at all things Fyr-
A 4 hfjs
iheLiftof
hitH is iguurant ot all things , and Flat^ knowctU all things^ Diogenes contemncs all thbgs, This 'jehn Htydon^ fears none, ccn- tcmntth Doncjis ignorant of nonc^rcjoycah in nonCj grievts at none, laughes at none is angry wiih none, but beinghimfelf a Philo- fcpher he hath taught the way to happincfi th'c way to long lift 5 the way to healthjthe Vay to wane young being old, and the way to rcfolve all manner of Qiicftions^ Frcfcnt and to Come, by the Rules of Aftromancy and Geumancyjand how to raife the dead. He is a man of Midle ftature tending to tallncfsj a bandfomc ftrcight body an Ovall ruddy face mixed with a clear white, his hair of a d;irk flaxen brown colour foft and curling in rings gently at the ends of the Locksjhis hands & hngers long and [lender, bis Icggsand feet well proportioned/o that to look upon he is a very com pleat Gentle- man 5 But he never yet caft affeftion on a womanj nor do I find him inclined to mar- ry. He is very often in great Ladies cham- bersj and I believe his modcft behaviour ther. makes them the more delighted^in his company^The Princes and Peers not on- ly oiEngland^hm oi Sfain^ltaly^France and Ctrmatfy^kui^ dayly to him , And upon e-
vcry occiAiion he ftxweth ftrong parts, a^d
a
John Ueydon.
a vigorous brain, his wiflics and aimcs^ an J, what he pointeth at, Ipeak. him owner of a pobVc and generous heart, this Gentkmans E?:ccllcnt Books are admired by the world of Lettered men, as the prodigic of thefc later timesOndeed his works before menti- oned Cif I am able to Judge any thing J arc full of the profoundelt learning 1 ever met withaJl : And I believe 5 who hath well read and digefted them,will perfwade him- felf, there is no truth foabfl:rufe,nor hither- to conceived out of our reach, But man? wit may raife Engines to fcalc and conquer. I affure my fclf he is owner of a folid he^d. and of a (bong generous heart. And if any fhould queftion my Judgement, they may read the Coincndations of both the Univer- fltks^Oxford and Cambridge ^ befides the learned Jhowas white and 'ihontas RcvclL Efq, both famous in Kowe and other parts beyond Sea,that have highly honoured thi$ Gentleman in their Eooks^ yet he bath fuf- fered many Misfortunes, his Father was fe - queftered,lmprifoned, and loft two thou- fand pounds by CremipelLthis Oliver impri- foned this fon alfo two year Schalf or there- about in Lambeth'tioMc : For he and his Fathers Family were always for the King, And endeavoured to the utmoft his re-
ftoration,
The Life of
ftoration. And indeed the Tyrant was cru- cltohina^but 'JohnJhurloe his Secretary was kind to him^ and pittied his curious youthj And 'jojima Leadheater the Meflen- ger kept him (^ At his requeft and Mr. John Bradley s) at his own houfe^ And gave him often leave to go abroad , but being yet zealous and adtive for the King, he was a- gain taken andclapt up in Laf/iocth-WovSa^ in thefe misfortunes it coll him i coc /. and upwards^ after this fome envious villains forged Adions of debt againlt him ^ and put himinprifouj Itfeemsat the bcgin- ing of thefe mibfortunesj a certain [-larlot would have him to marry her, but denying her fuit or that he ever promiied siny Inch thing, and that he never fpake to her in his life good or evil^ She dcviild with her con- federates abundance of mifchitf againft him .' fee him (he did in fome Gentlemens company. Many coiirted him to Marry but he denyed^now there wasleft(nmongfl: a few old Almanacks , and fcraps of other m.cns wit) Collected and bequea- thed unto the world by N/r. Cnlfe (as his own admired experience) Alice Cnlfe- fer his widdow, (he hearing of this Gentle- man that he was an Heir, to a great fortune Courts him by letters of Love^ to no pur-
pcfc^
John Hcydon.
pofe^ the next vSaint in order was (lie that calls her felt tne German Prwcefs. But he flies high and fcoins fach fovvi^ great bc:;rts the firit of thefe two biefled buds in her Hfe time cauicd -one Heath toArrcfi: hini^Scano- ther atter him bid Actions againir hirn^that he never knew nor heard of.
In this perplexity was he imprifoned two years, for they did defirc nothing but to get money, or dcftroy him, for fear if ever he got his liberty he might then punifh them, He bei-jg of a Noble Nature forgave them all their malice and devices againft him, and fcoras to revenge himfclf upon fuch pittiful things, Gcd indeed hath done him the juftice, for this Hsath Coniumcs to worfethen nothing, and indeed if [ can Judge or predift any thing ) his Baudy- houles will be Pawned and he will dye a miferable difeafed beggar. His Miftris when he Vy^as very young and a Gierke defired him to lye withher,but he like Jofeph refu- fing, (he hated him all her life, God prefer- ved him from their malice, although one of thefe ^ lewd women fwore this Gendeman practifed the Art Magick, flie told Olwer Cromivell,(hc fa w familiar Spirits come and go to him in the (hape of Conies, and her xnaid fwore fhe had often feen them in hi^
Chilmhpi'
i:he Ufe of
Chamber when he was abroad, and fome- timcs walking upon the houlb top in a Moon (hine night, and fometiines to viinitli away into a wall or Aire, nnd yet (he ne- ver faw him in her life, nor could Ihc tell what manner ofnian he was. But thefe ito- rics were not Creditcd^and for all thtfc and many morcaffliftions and falfc accufaticns, Inever faw himangry.nor did he ever Arreft or imprifon any man or woman in allhis life yet no clyent of his was ever damnifycd in his fuit.
He was filfly accufed but lately cf writing a Seditious Book and imprifonedin a Mef- fengers Cuftody. But his Noble friend the ]^\jk.^oi Buckingham^ finding him innocent and alwaies for the King he was tlien dif- charged, and indeed nm glorious Duke is a very good and jufl: ]udge : and al- though fome fpeakfiightiv ot: him, heftu- dies the way to preferve hii King and Coun- trey in peace plenty and profperity, it is pitty the King hath no more fach brave men as he, a thoufand fuch wife Dukes ;isthis ('like Marfhard Thunder, back'd with flames of firej would make all the enemies of the King and Chriftendome Quake, and the Turke flie before fuch great Generals, in all fubmiffion we hum- bly
]o\'\n Hey don
bly pray for this Great PvincCj and leave him CO his pleafure 8c returnto our fubjed. Johfi Hey don is not of that vain and pre- fiimptiious Nature as the Taylors that de- fpife all Artifts even Agnppa^ Appdlonius^ hiore , Vaughan and Trittmins. And yet they cannot read thefe and many other Learned Authors they fo impudent- ly abufe, Rob of their Learning, and con- vert other mens parts to their own profitj He lent one Ten pound in Gold, he in re- quital or return fpeaks illofhim, and pre- tends to know many admirable Rules of Gcoijiancy and impertinently addes them to Nativities, and applyes them io all manner of Queftions in Aftromancy3 but his Books being v/rittcn {o long (iace, vii,. near twenty years by himfelf , their grecdineft of great maters is difcovered, and we now know them to be neither Scholei^ noi* Gentlemen, thefe hang up clouts with here are . Nativities Calcula- ted, Qiieftions refolved, andall the parts of
Aftrology taught by us For three pence,
four pence.fix pence^or higher if you-pleafe, thus are young Apprentices, old women a4id wenches abufed and that they may be found,for money ^they tell us the 1 2 Houfcs Oi heaven in the iign of a Coat of Arms are
to
The Life of
to be let,, when they might indeed fet bills upon their brazen foreheads, engraven thws, tier e ape Rotif^s.to be let nnjurnjjljcd^ but our Author regards notthefc nitn, all their (candals forgeries & viilanous devices they contrive againit him, he flights and (corns & hath purpofely forfakcn ^pittle-Fjelcls &c his lodgings there to live a private Life, free from the concourfc of multitudes of people that daily followed afcer him,but if any de- iire to be advifed let them by way of letter leave their buiinefs at his Eook-feilers, and they fhall have anfwer & Counfel without reward, for he is neither envious nor ene- mieto any man, what 1 write is upon my own knovv' ledge.
He writes now from Berweupolis a place I was never atjlt fecms by the word to be the City of Mercury , and truly he hath been in nianyftrnngplaces,amongthei?d?j7eCr;/r/^/;x And at their Caftles, Holy*houlesTeii pies. Sepulchres^ Sacrihces, all the world knows thisGentleman (ludys honourable k boncft things, and faithfully comuuicates them to otherSjyet if any traduce him hereafter they muft not expect his Vindication,he hath rc- fcred his cuai^l to the God of Nature, it is involved in the concernments of his Truths and he is fatisfied with the peace of a good
coO^
John Heydon.
confcience, he hath been mifinterpretcd in his writiiigj with ftudied Calumnies they difparage his perfon whom they never faw nor perhaps will fee^heis relolved for the future to luiFcrj for he Qxys^ God condemns nor};an^forhisfaticHce^ the world indeed may think the truth overthrown, becaufc ftie is attended with his peace for in the Judgement ot moft men, where there is no noife^ there is no victory , this he looks upon as ho diffad vantage the eftimate of fuch cenfures will but lighten the fcales, and 1 dare fuppofe them very weak Ix'ainSj^- who conceives the truth finks be- caufe it outweighs thetn, as for tempeftious out -cry s when they want their Motives they difcover an irreligious fpirit, one that hath more of the Hurry eano then of Qirift Jefus God was not in the wind that reftt the rpcks in peices, nor in the Earth-quake and fire at Hore/>.Fkwasin /luraiema^ in theftilfmal yoice^hisenemies are forc'd to praife his ver-^ tueandhis friends are. forry he hath not loooo pounds a year^he doth not refent the common fpleen, who writes the truth ofGtid hath the fame Patron with the truth it felfj and when the world {hall fubmit to the ge- neral Tribunal, he will find his Advocate where they ihall find their Judge, there is
i23utual
7 he Life ofjolm Hey don. Mutual Teffimony between God and his ServantSjOr nature and her Secretary, If the Baptill did bear witnefs of Chrift^Chrift did alfo as much for the Baptift, He was a burn- ing and a (hining light , when I writ this Gentlemans life God can bear me witneG it was unknown to him and for no private ends, but 1 was forc'd to it by a ftrong Ad- miration of the Miftery and Majcfty of Nature written by this Servant of God and Secretary of Nature, I began his Lifefomc years fince, and do fct it down as I do findc it,' if any man oppofcthis, I fliallanfwer, if you are for peace, peace be with you, if you are for War, I have been fo too, (Mr. Hey don doth refolve never to draw Sword again in England^ except the King command him.) Now let not him that puts on the Armour boaft like him that puts it off: Gaudttpdtierttia, durk is his Motto, and thus I prefent my fclf a friend to All Ar« tifts, and enemy to no mar.
March^
Fredcf ic}\l allot Efq, ]
Book I,
The Rofie Crucian
CROWN
Set with Angels, Planets and Mettals ^^^
The Firji Book:
CHAP. I.
of the Gold Mercury or Argeut ^we^ 2 Vitrification* 5 Sublimation* 4 Cal-^ cinatjon. 5 Exuberation. 6 Solution^ 7 Se:paratiofi, 8 Conjun&ion. 9 Vutre^ faSion into Sulphur. 10 fermentation* II Multifile at ion in vertue, 12 Mul^ iiflication in quantiiy,^^
^Qk^^% that an make the Scone of Ar- gent vivc or 5 alone, is the grcitcft fearcher out of Art and Nature : becaufc there is all tbac N '^^54^?^ in '^ which wife men do fcek, for, Quick-filvcr is the raothec itid rperra of tU Mculs andtfteir neareft matter ; and it is not pnclyafpirit bucabodyjitiiairo
D ' a
a The Rofu Crucian Crox^n Book I.
a middle Nature and alfo a fulphur, it i« a ling* I ring :.' , ic dieth and rifcth again anii is fixed with
its own proper Elements: wherefore it is firfl ne- ccflary that it be purged from its impuiities %
The purgation or purification is on this wife ; grind it upon a Marble withamuller or a wed- den Peflili {^ a vvodden Mortcr with common fa l£ and a lirtlc vinegar fpringicd thereupon till tHe" fait be black, then wafii it well vi'ith vincgcr and dry it eafily at the fire , or at the Sun, then ftrainjt through a double death or a new ?kin of a (hceptiii it be dry and the vi- neger clear taken away and be of a white co- lour and clear.
Grind it upon a Marble v:{^:\ z llctle V fu»
^UlJ^ ^jjjniiite and let ic mortifie and in corporate
with it: then grind it with its equall weight
yj . oi fait- Peter and f^reen Co^^ras till it be Hke a
'^•^^^^^^^^ parte; Then pat aU into a fLibliming glals
and In Afiics fublime all the 5 that itbcwhite
and clear as fnow in the head of the I imbect
iuEKmeic again three times or oftener and ic
wlTfbepure ; and (iitJiaaate.
.Put one pound of this 5 fubliroatg into . , two pountJ of common AgHafort^ by little and
diffolvediikefugar in wine then (hut theglals andfctitin Balneo to diffolve thefpaceof lo days then diflil away the Aqu4fortis in a lentheac in Balneo and the ^ will remain in the bottonie like butter of a white colour. And calcined by cprronve watcr>
Put this calcined y into an Earthen body
"" with
Ai^
Book I. The Rojie Crncian Crovpn 5
with a Limbeck and in a(hcs fubJime the whole dii^GiVtd fabftancc three tioaes which will then be very whke and then it is exiled Msrc^ry Ex*
When you have three or four pound of this, receive the third part and fix it by often fublimt- tion till it remain in t hard mafs and afcead nq more but rcimin fixed.
Which is Citlkd the Glue of the Eagle or the prepared body permanent and the volatile made fixed which is to be referved foyhe earth of the ftone.
Dlffolvc the other two parti in Balnso or in i cold Cellar or put it in a blacker and hang it oven; fuming hot water till it be all come to water.
Take this water thus made, and digcft it in a Circulatory well cIofi:dthc (pace of nine days ^^ciC^ then put it in a body with a head and receiver a ^ well luted and in a/hes or Bdneo diftill the wa» Sl/lU/^ tcr of a white coulour or milkic and is called J^.^^, Lacrini^is) diiTolving all mettalls and fo y^p/^^Ar- have feperated the ipint of the ftonc which ij "^'^'^^ alfo called the lingring fpirit and the white ^^^^^W^ Tindureoftbe white ftone oiMercnrf.
Take the third part which before you rc^ fervcd and fixed called the glue of the Eagle, fis n^uchofit asycu picafc and add thereto equal weight of its fplfit or Lac Vir^^hiis and clofe ijp the glafs and fo you have joined the Maq ttnd the woiuan, ^^ with his own Earth 5 the fpirit with the body.See the Holj Gald. '
Set yo\xr Lac Vir£l?2i^ thus joyned with his
own, Each in 3itlnea to potrih'e i%o iiys sni
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there let ic fttnd unmoved; after forty days ic will be black, and ic is then called the fiead of the Crow : then ic will be of ijirccn colour af|cr that the Peacocks tall, and many falle co- lours for betvvten this and white it will ap- pear red but at lad youfiialKee it white and then encreafc year fire and it will flick to the fides o'ilLVc jjlal?- like fifhes eyc5 Thcri have ycu each in the nature of Sulphcr, Kc^A ths^Hdj
Take of this jitlphur as much as you pletre
and wei,h it and add thereto two parts of the
white I'inUtirc or L ic yirpni-s and fct it in Bal-
neo to diffolvethe fpace ofHx days then diftiil
awayjhe Zr^i V;/^/«/^ or 7V;;^/.'r£' and the S^ul-
phur will remain ;n the form of Liquor Tor it is
r>^^ rhe 1 iquorofthe whiCcTulphur of ^ which is
-^ to be joined with the i iquor of the fulphur of
"^Xw^^.toriiver.
The Sulphur of the white Lumn^r) or (ilver ©r L«»^ismadc£s the other whereof we fhall fpcak more in the next Branch. Thls'Tiquor ofchefulphur is the foul which is joined with the fpirit and body which quxkeneth the whole flonc. The other con/undion before was onely the union of the (pjritjnd the body: butthu is ft threefold copalation W^. The uniting of the foul, fpirit, and body.
Addc equ^Twcighr of thcfc tw©L'quors of fulphur that is to lay the liquor of the fuN phur of Mercury and of filver and Luna^ and clofe well the glalTe and fet it in Afties till \\ b? whit?> for itwilibeofallcGulours again
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ind at laft white ; And then \s it the pcrftft done converting all Mcttalls into filver.
This ftone or EliMr is thus multiplied in vcrtuc diffo'-ve it in your Lac frrgmis and diftili it away and dry it and diffolvc \z again fifc. And let it be fo often didolved anddry- cd till it will dric no more but remain in an incombuftibic oyl. And is then Eixer of the third Order.
Take one part of this Elixir and projed it upon ICO or 1000 partS||f melted (iiver (according to the gcodncfs ana vertue thereof) and \t will turn the Civer into a brittle Mafs or fiibdancc, which beat to powder in an Iron orrbraffe Morter or upon a Marble, and pro- ved one part of this powder upon ico parts of purged made hot, and it will be perfcd rncdi- cine whereof one part turneih 100 or 1000 parts of other bodies into good filver. And this way is your Medicine mukiplyed in quan-
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A CoroIJai
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Yt remaincth now that we fpcak ofthcMc- J-d.icincor the glixir of I ifc, which is called potabic filver^ But aTthoagh the Liquor of (llv'-srr maybe made potable filrcr if it be cor- roberared before by digcflion in Balnco -- days with the rpiric of wine and then dlftill away the (ar^^ymt of wine that the oyl of the fiivcr n^apreraain in tbc bottome which may »^afily be given for medicine , Yet the Philoiophcrs would bav?: u% do otherwife for they teach us to bring the mettalls firft into tbcfr qainteffence before they be taken inward- ly, iiiid that their is no other quintelTenccs buc thofe that are of a fecond nature according to che old faying ,
Elixir de fe ejl resfccunda.
Tie quofnntfatta corpora tminda.
Tha: 18 to fay the 4 Elements are deftrov^* ed an^ by putrifadion a new body created and ma jc into a ttonCs which js the ^uinteflence as Ri^Uy would have it ; Buc I do boldiy and <confl:antly affirm that there is no true(iIverot potable fiivcr nor QintelTence unlcfs it be firft Elixir and tfcac is done in a quarter of ad bourby projedion of the Elixir upon filver or piire gold molten according as the EHxir waa red or whit^. If therefore yon defirf^afccr
the
Book I. lf^^ Rf^fi^ Crucian Crown. 7 the firfl compofition of the Elixir to make
the fiyircwnm of Argentum or AKrHm potit-
bile projcd the Elixir or Medicine accordbg to bis quality or property upon pure fjlver or gold rooltcn, and then it is made brktle and fran- gible and grind k to powder and take thereof io much as you plcafc and diifoive it in d'ftiil- cd vinegar (or rather in fpiric of wine) the fpaccctnine days, then diililUway the vhiegcr or fpirit of wine^ that which remaineth in the bottomc \% the true Medicii^ Qniuteffcnce, Elixir of life. Ferment of ferrSnts and incona- buftible oyl converting mectails and Mans body into perfe<fl health from ail dilealcs of ma-ns body which proceed from Alcrcury and Luna, And thus is the true potable fiiver madecure- ing the f^irtijro^ Stneote^ SpUffy^ Mad»cfs.Phrer^ cy Lifrojie. &c. And this is the right way of making the ftone oF Mercury alone ; but the Elixir cannor be made without the Addition of filver to the white, and of gold to the red
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CHAP. II.
} tnna, 2 pure Silver. 5 Calcination.
4 6'oiution, 5 TutrefaBion, 6 7hc Sulphur. ' 7 The Liquor of the Sulphur. 8 IVhiie Fer-
mcnt.
ERMES faith, TheEIixir x$ nothing dfe but Merci§y Sol and Z/:^;?.?, by Meycurj nothing is undcrftood but the fulphur of hature which is called the tcue v of the Phy- lofophersj «nd that fulphur gotten by patri* laAion by the conjundlon of the fpiric and of the body of impcrf^d* bodyca or mettals.
By Sol is meant gold, by Lma filvcr^both ^ of them are to be joync.^ ro imperfed bodies, thit is to fay, white fulphuu and red, whence the fame Hermes in his 7 trcatifc oi Scliaith there bappencth a conjiinftion q^^ two bodies and it is neccffary in our Maitiry • And if one of thcfe bodies onely were not in our fione it would never by any means give any TmEiure^ Upon which Moncrius faith, F.or the Ferment prcparcth the impcrfed body snd converteth it to its own nature and there ii^ no Ferment l)ut Sol snd Lu'nd^ that is, gold and filvcr- Of which Kcjinm Soltvi^ Lu^a prepared (that is ofay tbeir fulpfaurs) are the ferments of met- tles in colour. See the Holy Gtiid, ' " Bu£
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But this is m*de more evident by Rajmund inhisApertory where he faith there is no fer- ment except Sol and Luna^ for the Ferment of the ftoncto white is fiiver and to the red gold, as the Phylofophcrs do demonfxrate becaufe without ferment there doch proceed neither gold nor filver nor any thing eifc that isof its kiiid or nature, therefore join the Ferment with its fulphur that it miy beget its like? becaide the Ferment draweththc fulphur to its own colour snd nature alfo, and weight and iound becaufc every like begetteth its like. Becaufe the Fer- ment even as ^y /tingeth and changeth his ful- phur into a permanent and piercing Medicine , Therefore the Phiiofophcr faith he that know- etb how to tinge fulphur and Mercury with ^<7/and I./^>?^, fhtU attain to the greateft fecrec. And for this rcalon ;: is neceffary. that Sol and ]Lur7a be the Tr^iCift>'e and Ferment there- of. You may read in the Ho/j Gmde.
And fo alfo Ameldsis in his Rcfa-rj, There is no bodv more noble or pure then Sol, or his (haddow that is to fay ftlvcr without which notingeing Mercury is generated. He that endeavoureth to give colour without this gold or (ilvcr gocth blindly to work like an ^(Te to a Harp, for gold givcth a golden and filvcr an argcfltive colour tlicrefore he that knoweth how to tinge v with Soi and 1 nnt comethor leachehto the fccret which is called white (ulphur, the bcft to filver which whenic is made red, will be red fulphur to gold the beft.
Take
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Take pure LmA, that is to fay filver that is fccft which is beaten i"to Icayeslin^ bring in into calx with '^ And it fs then cajlgd yvatcr_fil- vcr then Istheluna well prcparc31or*Taicina^ tlon. See the flQly (Juide. ' " ~.
When you have your filver thus prepared, t]|ike4cr6 ounces thereof, and put it in double proportions of Lac Vtrpni^ mixed with ecjusjl quantity of corrafive water to diffoWc in an c£^ge Rlafle. After it hath dirfolved lo much as it can in the cold, fet in Balnco and there let it ftand i> davcs till the whole' fubftaace of the (Hver be djffolyed into » green water^ then lee the Balneo cool and take it out, and put the difTolution into the body and fet thereon a head and diftillof the water from the matt^iLX£Cuin- ing wEch 15 the (;>ylof the filver Calcined net into a cak but a Liquor^ becauiethis Lad Tr* jjitjjs if it be mixed or io ncd with common Ae[tici i^nis or atone^ without it (as iculcafech the Operator) is fo ftrong that the very Dia- '^^^^^.^.^/ mond cannot rcfid it but is dilfolred ; Tbere^ 3^ ■* fore this water is called the water of Hell and '^ is the onely miracle of miracles of the World, feecaufe it containeth fuch a fiery nature in it feifand propriety of burning of all bodies into Liquor whereas tbc Eiemcntall fire prevailcth no further then to reduce mettalls into cilx or ' afhes. But to return from whence we digrcffcd I now come to the third operation.
To the end therefore that this liquor or oyl of filver may be more perfedly diliblved and that all the imperfcftlon of aduftion may be
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taken aw«y, which by the Anricnrs is called the corroberating of the kit humidity. Put this Oylorliqaor into another e^^gc glafle like the former power thereupon to nluchtpiric of wine, above it 4 fini:nrs then clofe well the glafTc and f^et it in balnco t'o digeft 7 or 10 dayes and you (hall llnd the oyl or liquor turned into a .thjn or rare water pyl; put this water into a fjiil and m balrjeodraw away thefpiric of wine tilll none ol the Ipirit of wine remain with the filvcr diffolved. And thus have you ^'our fijver propnrcd for putri/Adipn.
i h^ Liquor ot' tilver is potable but not the QuinteJflence put this wster into a fie putri- fyxng giaHc and feal it up and fet it to putrifie in balnco till the titnc of putrif'a^ion W paTi: which is about 150 days , and wben you fee the firfi: (i^^n of putrifadion, which is called the h^ad ot the CYovv cncrcafe your fire a little till all colours be|^in to appear and you fee ic begin to be white,
V/hcn you fee it white cncreafe your fire yet more and it will rife up and ftick Co iht lid^s of the glaJle mofi: tranfparent like the eyes ol- riihcswRch is ^yulphur of Nature or fait, or the pucrified body of the white lumi- nary. Viz. Lm:a, which yet is not fo hard as a body nor fo fofc as a fpirit but of a mean hardnefs between a fpirir, and a body , and ?s cailed-the Phylofopherj; yI^<?r^;i/7 and the Kay and mean of joining TioCiUres.
But to come to the liqaor oi the white Lu- oiinary, thiji faorfy being brought into Quinc- '^' , ~ "^ " " " ~ clience
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cfTcnce is prepared for diffoIutioR like the ful- phur of the imperfed body, but whereas that is done by the vertuc of the white tindure or Lac Vtrginis I rather do it by vcrtiie of the fire ntturall which ia^the jpirit of wine and
after the drawing *w«y thereof it rcmaineth In a Liquor.
Now tb« liqoor o^ -^^^^ difiblvcd is the QuintefTcncc which thlin is' the liquor of the white Luminary and the fole as Exir.adim faith quickening the whole ftone without which it is dead and will neither give form nor co- lour.
Therefpre the fourth part of this liquor of the white Luminary is to be Ipmed td^three parts of the former Hquor of the loIpfturoT V and after to be kept in a lent fireof Aflies Well clofcd till it pafie through all colours and at laft come to its former colour of whirencfs and fo the flonc is fermented and turned into the white Elixir.
The Refiduc of the forefaid diflblvcd ful- phur keep diligently and therewith ferment che white fulpher of other impcrfeft bodies or ftoncs into Elixirs, which when they are thrice diflblved and again congealed and re- jiiain in a liquid fubftancc then they are called incombuftiblc oyles and Elixirs of the third order.
Aad thus the flonc is made of Salone.
Book I. 7hd Rojle Crucian Crown. 1 3
A Corrollary.
HAving Ipoken of the white ftone it now refteth that we fpeak of the making of the red -Elixir, whereof there is two procefTes the. firft whereof is from the Radix i, e. the long way : the other tn accurtation that is much fhortcr and more excellent , ^nd this way the £liiir may be made in 80 days and excclls all other sccurcations neither is there found therein any diminution of the vertuc but is a plentiful! and perfed: fulnefs of power and vertue having a'l the properties which the £lixir ou2,ht to have. Theprocers whereof thefe three follow- ing Chapters will plainly (hew.
CHAP
14 ihc Rofie Crucian Crown, B ook I *
CHAP. HI.
I VivU7;i, 2 Suhlimation, 5 C.nlcinat/on. 4 rrecipitation . 5 Solution. 6 Fixed oyL 7 Inceration, 8 Dejiccation.^ Contrition. 10 Fern/entation. 11 ihe Red Elixir. 12 T/)e third Table'
ITisnot neceffary tofpcak in this place of the urgation of ^^ bccaufc we fpoks thereof before.
1 he fubiimation is to be done otherwife then in the former workc for that which h called fubiimation here is not done ix ith vicrioll and fair peter bat is only the diJlillation of the 7 in an earthen body wi:h a lioibcckand that by i: felf without any adililament.
When the t is onccfubiimed In aflies wholly into the head of the limbeck having a retainer joined thereto take off the head «nd with a fea- ther gather the (ublimcd matter and ycu Hiali find your 5 of • black colour having loll hi$ fairnels and like a daft or powder Ricking to his body.
Put it again into the body and fublime it as before and reiterate this work 7 or 9 times un- till you have a fufficicnt quantity of this pow- der that is to fay a pound or more. And this is the Galcination.
When
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When you fee your 5 will afeend no more buc remain in the bottome of a black colour and thatts dead and brought pedcdly into calx Ictic cool and remove your body intofanddli it be turned into a red colours And this is the perfed precipitation profe without the help of any corroiive water , take a little of this powder upon a hot iron plate if it fume, dry it longer^ if not it is well.
Take of this red powder as much as you will dirfoive and put thereupon at Icaft his double weight of Lac Virginia and fee in Balneo till you fee your L.ic Virgwis fiained a yellow or red colour then filter it from its feces and keep It by it felf in a glafs well flopped and dry tne matter tha: remaineth in AQat^ and pour thereon new LacVirginis and do as before till yovi have drawn out all the tin<fture. And f© your ^ isdiuGlrcd.
Pattbsfcfoluticns into a body luting to a head and in balneo diftili away the LacVirginis and the red oyi precipitate will remain which is fixed andnecdcthnodilliilationbutis the tinging oyl of red AievcHTj and the red tinSure of the red floncof 2 and the foul and fpirtc of the lame flonejoyncd,
Therefore take part of the white Sulphur re^ ferved ifl the firft Table and rubify it in a(hes til! it be red then imbile it with equal weight of the oyl of the tJn(ilure of this red 5 and fct it to dif- folve in Balneo, and when you fci? it is diffolved iflto a liquid fubftance take it out. Then fetitinafcs or tipder the fire to fix
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till the matter being dried remain fixed and fufi- blc Ihnding in a mean .heat not over hoc which try upon a hot Iron plate and if it fuaie not it ifi well,if it do,cn<;reafe your fire till it be totally fixed and dry.
If this matter be imbibed again with its oyl till it drin^c upas much as it will and again dif- folvcd in Balnco and then dried m Afties, it will fticw many colours and laftly appeared. And then it is the ftone penetrating and fufible, apt tor
Join this imbilcd matter (or ftone) with the 4t/?part of the liquor or oyl of the red fulphur of (Sold or the red Ferment, and diffolve it m Bal- neo, and drie it again, and again diffolve it io a glaffe hanged in the fume of hoc water or Baine- umtml congeal it again till it ft and like honey; ' Then it is the perfed red Elixir of Mercwrj.
The Multiplication or Augmentation of the vertue and quantity is (hewed in the formeir Chapter. ^
CHAP
Book I. The Rojie Crucian Crown. 1 7
CHAP, iv:
i Gold Sol. 2 r urged Gold. 3 Calcination. 4 Solution. 5 Putnfa&ion. 6 Filius^fo- lisCa:leJiis. j FiliaLun^ Ccsleftk.
THe putrifaAion or purgation of gold is cone as the Goldfmiihs ufe to do by melt- ^ ipg it with Antimony chat the gold may ^ remain in the botrome pure and clear from other mettalis which th^^rcsM Re gn las.
Take 4 or 5 ounces of this refined gold; leaS or fileings^nd diflolve irin ££jW«5, mixed with equal weigbt of ^x£^^£552IwHerein falc A mioniackrublfmed is difTclved, and vvhen it is diflolvedincoa red Liquor or deep yellow cheti it is well calcined.
Theft>Iu:ion ?nd putrifadfon is done as be* fore you did with filver in the preparation of thq vv nice Ferment.
^ When )ou have your white fulphur of nature- f after purnfadion) aiekingtothe fides of the gUis, let K cool, and take out your glafs and fet ic in Aft3es,andencreafe your fire but not too much left your matter vitrifie, and let your adies be no hotter then you can hold your band therein, and io let It ftand till the fulphur be of a perfed deep red colour. Then have you ihe red fulphur of tae red Luminary.
if you resolve this red fulphur in fpirit of wine orciitiliei Vinegar int(> an oy|«i§ then the Li-
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quo:^ ot cheered Luminar}^ And Auramfotabile curing ali infiranucs ifrherpiricot wine or vi- negar be dcftilled i com it ^ Bue for this work ic were better to diffolv" it in our red Lac Cirgtnis fpoken of in the fecond Chapter of the fccond Book-, diftill away the Z*^^ frorp the fulphur in Afhes, and the fulphur remaining in an oile is the Ferment of allftones to the red. The augmenta- tion of this red Elixir in vertue is with his red Tinfturcas before in the white Elixir with Ws white Tindure. The augmentation in quantity \% by proje^^ipn upon the body of gold molten : And that brittle matter of gold upon ? and if ic be powdered and refolved witi fpirit o^ wine in. aBoylaswasfaid before oFfilver then it is the ^uinteifencex)f gold, and the great £lixir of life and the fpiritual ferment for the tranfmutation of mettals and for the health of mans body.
The 5 Chapter (hcwcth the abbreviation of !he Red Elixir.
CHAP.
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CHAP. V.
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I The Liquor of the redfulphur. q Fermu- fjtion. ''
<i 1. wasp eakd Eo fay, That every iiccurtation P,.eiL^ dimmifted. the perfedion: becaufe Medicines ȣ.^i which are made by accartacion have Icfs efftft of i^ii ^V
trsnrmutat.on, which 1 alfo afcent to with him/« /ioC'^L. tor a truth, it the work be begun from the firft -^'"^ "/A^ tountam: yetbecaufc this work h«h its begin-'' <^"^ ning from thofe things which before wera brought to a perfeA degree of perfcdion. there- tore m this there is no ditriinution of the pcrfedi- on ss the fame %^iymHn,i witnefieth Lb.LMecur ' pag 103. faying thus.
rh-l^ff°''rV''"^^"° ^^ d«'a^ed unto thee,' th.t .f they be both well prepared (and that thou begm With them) thou wilt do a wonderful work
fl^oi?"^' ^■'■''' '•''°"^ ^^'^^^ 'hen if thou ^vfnnhf"T' ""^'f'i^gslonc, Therefore m Ion begin thy workof two things together as Ifliewcd to thee i.uhe greater (lone, when w^ Joeof:he twof.,ld cuftody of the ,diol 21 ' ""'^'^ ^y '^' todies and fpi-
{n-Hlh''" "''"''^ '"' ""^^'^ ^y '^'s I'O'Ji" and hu l;?J.""M"°'^'"Selfe but fulphuf,ivilhng
do-- r..?'°"''^ '''Sin with rulphnr. to which I ap .u ivdl agree that I begin this my accurtation
2 2 ' witli
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with iulphur alone and I add no other body to this Elixir but onely thefulphur of 5 alone ciea* ted of his own body andfpirit.
Take therefore 2 ounces of the white fulphur thatwasdefcribedin the firfl Chapter and Ictic in aflies to rubifie,in 30 days it will be turned into red fulphur.
Which when you have done diffolve that ful- phur in the red Tindure of Mecnry when it is diffolved draw away tbe Tindure, in the bottom reraaineth the Liquor of the fulphur.
To which li you add a due proportion of the liquor of the red Lnmwarj it will be pcrfed Fer - msnt, which if you diffolve and congeal as before is fticwed, it is then Elixir of very great vercuc to the red work and no man can make a (hertcr a- breviation in the world ; And when the fulphur gf any body is prepared it may this way very ijpeedily be converted into Elixir by adding the li- quor of the fer men c.
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Book I. ihe Rojie Crucian Crown 2 1
CHAP VI.
I The Bodj. Q The Spirit- 3 The Lion, 4 The Eagle. 5 The Phjlofophers Lead, 6 Anti* mony. 7 Antimony Mercury, 8 iht Clue of the Eagle, ^) Solution of the red Lion into Blood. 1 o Solution of the Glue of the Eagle, II Solution of the Blood 0^ the red Lion. 12 Conjun^ion. i^ PutrifaHi' on, 14 The Stone, 15 Fermentation, 16 /;/ the Trinity of jheVhifical and Alchimical Tincinre The Soitl 1 7 Is the Vnity of the Medicine,
j^fTT^ Ake Antimony calcioiid fo much as you j^ pleafe, and grind ic ro a fubcile powder, then take twice fo much L^c VirjTinis and put your powder oF Antimony therein and fee ic in baineoy days^^cn put ic into a body j and fe: ic in fand or afhes till the Lac be turned red, which draw of and pour on more and fo let it iiand, when that is coloured red, pourictothe other and thus do rili you have drawn out ail the tincture fee all this water in balneo or lent a- Ihesto diftill with a Limbeck, and diftill ic wi^h a lent lire and firft of all the Lac will afcend , then you (hall fee a (lupendious Miracle becaufa you (hall fee through the noic of the Aiimbcck asit wereathoufandveins of the liquor cf this
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l)lc{rcdmincrctocIefc».nd in red drops jufl: like bloud, which when you have got thou haft a thing whereto all the treaiure in the world is not cquall ; Now you have the blood of the Lion ficcordiog to Rupefffi^ let us here reft 2 little and fpeak of the Glew of the Eagle, oi which TarAcelfiu thus iaith.
Reduce Mercury fo far by fublimation till it be a fixed Chriftall ; this is his preptration of Mercury and Jiis way of reducing it into the Olewofche Eagle, but above sll I require that that way be ufcd which is deicribed by me before in the firft Chapter, or that hereafccrfet down after this.
Thenfa.'rb theforefaid Author, go on to re- folutioH and coagulation, and I again will you to obferve the fame manner of folution (hewed in the firft Chaprer before.
Now letascome.toconjaiidion after the fo- lution ofthefetwo, take equal weight of them and put them in a vclfel well (hut.
After yoti have thus joined them together fet your glafs in your furnace 10 putrifie and alter ► thefpacsof certain, days. Iheiefore Paracelfus faith.1 then at length and prefentiy after 5?our Li- li is made hot in your glafs it appearcth in won- derful manners (or dcmonftrations) blacker then , the Crow : afcer tha.t in procefs di tirae whiter then the Swan and then pafling by ycllcw to be lanore red then bloud.
This being putfified and turned into red is to be taken for the fione, and then it is time it be fermented.
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Of which Fermentation Paraceifuj rhns ip:?ak- €th,onc pa!t thneof is to be projected upon 1000 pares of molron gold,ard then the tnedidne i$ prepared aod this is the Fermcntaton of it. Butir*t-be half or one part of the liquor of t Kg fulphur of gold before defcribcd be added to it then it would be fpirituall ferment, and would be mi?ch more penetrating in fortitude and fuliblc as Paracelfw doth tcLlifie in his jiarora where he would have us to join the ttar of the fun or tbc oyl of fol to this flcne. And thus the phifical Alchimical ti ;c£ure is performed in a fhort time for curing all man- ner of Infirmities and humane difeafes (which is alio the great Elixir for inertaLs) fo courtly concealed by the Ancients. Which Hermes Trifmagijlhs rhc ^y^jrjpti.ir.y Cfus the Cjretian^ Haly2in Arab'an^ and AlhertPis Ai<,:gnn^ a Ger^ vnayiy with many others., have ro4iP,ht- and pro- fecutcd every one after their own metho i, and one in one lubjed another in another, fo much defired by the Phiiofophersonely for prolonga- tion of life. , ■
In this compofidcn /^^ercury is made a fixc^- and difToived body, the blood or ipiricofthe / red Lion is the ferraentor foul, and (oof trinity is made unity, which is called the Phifical and Alchimicall tindure, never before that I knew of colleded or writ in one work And I fwcars I had not done this except that otherwife the compofuion of this bjefTed mcdeciiie had for ever been forgot.
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jifhorter wa^ to ntaks t^^^ glue of the Eagle,
If yon defi|[c to make the glue of ibc Eagle in abreiferway. Take pare of the red precipicjic proic as n taught before in the table of ATcrctirj i zm dii^oht it in difti'ied vinegerand the vineger : will be coloured into a yelovv »or delighttull golden colour and after you htve deftiilcd away the vinegef there will rfraain in the bottome a white fubfcance of the yWifr^-z/r^ fixed and iair. which istobf joyaed to the oylc of, I be Lion; And this work i& much (horter and lels laborious; look more hereof in the third 13Gok.
'The Calcination of At^timouy int% the red Lion.
Take Antimony well ground fo much as you pleiie and m&It it ia n^kt^d fire with (a!i^4l212liL atk^and when i*- is rx^^lted caft it fuddainly into s^vcflel ^ioiort tall of diitiilcu^^vmeper wherein (alt Armoniack hath hfen (".'Molvpd anH thus melt at and call it in three tirac' , '^cu pour otf che vi- neger from the Calxof ih(? Atitimony and drie it well and grind it fmall and <f iirolvc it_as befor^^ IS taught, and fo have you the Rtd Lion of tha ghilofophers Lead or Antiaony.
CHAPc
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CHAP. VII.
I Elixir. 2 Conjun&ion, 5 Separation, 4 the Stone. 5 Fer mentation. oThc Earthly Spi- rit oyl^ Blood of the Lamke. 8 DijiilU- tion. 9 RefoUition, 10 ?HtrJfacijon. 1 1 Solution. 12 Vitrioll. 1 3 Calcination \^ Copper.
^ he fir ft Chjpter of the Elixir of Copper
Any have fought out the way of the
ij<f/>7er^/ ftone \\\ TJitrioUcr green Cop-
crigii
the Mctallick body of Coffer, Although I am not ignorant how to draw an oyi out o^ Rom^m vitrioll of a more Avect (meii and deJigbtrall taftetben any baifoojeifthe Tindure be taken out of the calcined vitricll in fpirit of wine, yet the Philofophers will is, and Goaimand that i: ido conlift of a Metallick vertue wherewith the tranrmucaion of raettalls is to be effeded. Therefore they fay it is to be made of boJies and not of fpirics as of vitrioll fulphur as well and the like, Whence I find it written in the
Philofophers
26 The Rofie Crucian Crown, Book I .
Philolbpliers Tnrbn^tii in the 6rft Excrciration : Bucthe Pliilofophcrsftoneis a mctallick matter converting the fubftances and forms of imper- f<dincttalls,and it is concluded b)^ all the Phi- lofopher* that the converfion \s not made ex^ cept by its like, therefore it is neccifary that the Philofophcrsftonebe made of a raccallick matter, 5^et if any be made of fpirits yet it would be better and much more rbilofophical and more near to a raetall ck nature to be made of bodies then of fpirits: but if by Art the body (liould be turned into a fpirit then tbe, fame body would be both body and fpirit, and not to be doub'cdbut the ftonc might be made of fuch a body or fpirit. bu: Ictus return to our purpoiV; It being granted chat this our vicrtoll is fuch a body according to which P^iracdfus tcflifycth in his AMrom Philofoph^rpim \}.(\(ttz this Atmgu-^ ra orfvcret of the Ancient Philofoplveri.
. OcCHltum Laptdem Veram }i\eiic'inAm*
Out of the firft letter of every word of chi? A^nigara is gathered rids word VITRIOlUM by whi.hia meant that thereof the ftone or me- dicine mfvbc Tnadc.
Thercfoie ?,r-^cf/f>^; faith, the inward parts of th. fcHith are to be vifited ; not onely the Earth wi tL : h ritrioll, but the Jnvvard parts ofchc Larch, he racaneth the fwcctncfs and red- nefs, becaufe there lieth hid in the inward parts of vitriol! a fubciil noble and fragrant juice and pure oylc, ' ' And
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And this is efpeciaJly to be noted tlie producti- on of this Copper into vitrioll is not to be done neither by calcination of the fire nor dillilla^ tio:^ of the matcer,left it be deprived of its green - ncfte which being ioit it wants both power and firenoth.
Paraceljus fpeaks not one word of the prepa- ration of this vitriol by whcfe lilencc many davc erred, therefore 1 determined to leave him here a little and to profecute and loliow the cr.-^.r ot the Table wherefore I begin with the c:iicina- tion ofthcmetali. And note that this calcina- tion of Copper is made that it may be turned into vitrioll and not the calcination of vicricll made of copper.
Take therefore as much copper as you pleafe and didolve. Calcination it in ^cjtui, fort is to a fa r green water, th(n fet \t 3 ^^f^^^Sv^io difgcll till the m^trer be clear which pour out into a 'limbeck sn^n Baineo diavy away the corra- five water (cTthat the matter remain dry lor then it iscaitir.ed. *
Then upon every 3 pound of th:s calcined matter pour a gallon of dilhlled Vinegar z\i<i lute ic up in a glafs, %'^A fet it in baineo 2I- inoft boy ling the fpace of 7 days, when it is cold put into a limbeck 10 diftill away all the vnegar in baineo, and fn the bottom of the Almnbeck you (hali have your vitrioH very <^eil congeal- ed far fairer then P.omain vitrioll which is cor- poreal and cDctallick vicrioll.
Which Vicrioil I do not diffolvc in rair- water like the P^^r^celfians^ but rather with ^ ^^ " " " ' Uc
f
2 8 Th Kofie Crucian Crovp??. Book V
LacVirginis as b/cforc is taught in the forincr Chapters or in Raymunds Calcination water, and ifcerits diflblutionand perfcdldige(lioa,thaL is to fay 1 5 days I put it into a limbeck andbalneo draw •ff the Lac ^/^r^/«&r, which bein^' done yoa ftiall tind an oylie water green and clear upon which pourthe fpiritof wine and after i: hath been digefted 7 days and the fpiric cf ivine di- ftiUed away in balneo you (hall find your green water perfedly reftified made 'pure fubtileanJ fpirituil, and ?.pt for putrifa(^ion, for if it be not well diifolved and rarifi..'d it will not pu- trifle.
But now that I may join with Paracelfptf sn the manner of putrifadion I return to him and fay with him comnianding to difgert in'a warm heat in a gbfs well ciofcd the (pace of fomemonechs, and fo long till diverfe colours appear and be at length red whicti (hewcth the termination of itj putrifadion-
But yet m this proccfs this rcdnefs is not fufficiently fixed, but is to be more fully purged from its fecf sin this manner.
Refolveic or rcdifie it in dillil'ed vinegar, till ttie vinegar be coloured then filler it from its feces. This is its true Tin(^ture and belt re- folution andredification out of which a bleffed oyl is to be drawn.
This Tindure b:ing thus refolved snd reflified, is to be put into a body with a limbeck and in balneo diftil the vinegar gently away.
Then
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Then in fand or afiies life up the fpiric gently and tcmperacdy 5and when yoa iee a fume afcend into the glafs and red drops begin to fall out of thenofc of the limbeck into the receiver, then the red oyl beginnetb to diftU, continue your di- f^illation till all be come over, when it is done you Qiall have the oyl In the receiver lifted up andfeparated from its £arth more delightful and fweet then any balfom, or Aromacick with- out any (harpnefs at ail, whichoylis called the blood of the Lamb. In the bottomc of the body you (hall find a white fliining Earth like fnow, which keep well from duft and fo you hive the clear Earth fcpcrated from its oyl.
Take this white Earth and put it in a glafs ^iol, and put thereto equal weight of the oyl or fonl and body, will receive ic and embrace it in a moipenr.
But that it may be turned into a ftonc when you have joined thefe two together, (et it into our furnace the fpace of 40 days and you Ihall have an abfolutc oyl of wonderful perfefiion wherewith Mercmj and other im- perfed mettals tre turned into gold. As Var^- cslfns was plcafed to fay.
The (lone being thus made, I now come to the fermentation without which itisnotpoiffiblcto give form to ic neither will I adhere to the opi* nionofoneman alone contrary to allthcPhi- lofophers alone, that is to fay, p.«r^c^//^/ repug- . nant to the reft of the Philofophers becaufe chey aii of ncce/Tity have decreed to give form to the • ^ ftoae
O ihe Rofie CrncJan Croivn, Book I^
ftone by fcrmenC and union, that is to fay, of an iirperfect body* and by how much the ferment is more ipirituall the ftone will be of fo much more penetration and tranlmuta- tion.
'\\y(q th'w.g'^ being promifed I do not think it (it chat you lliould proceed to projection upon Alercnry inliead of fermentation as V'-racelfus re*checb, or that the ftone fhould be fermented his way with gold cither corporea I or fpiri-
Vv hich gold will be the foundation of the i\ri\ projection, but what do the Philofophers command us to dor* that projeccion that is to fay ferraentacion,be made of a perfed foun- davion, and that upon impcrfed: bodies that Kiediciiics may be made which foundation of the ftone or Lhxir is not except it be onely the wh'.tc cr red fciment, in re [pcct of whichbcth gold and niver are laid to be imperfed: bodies, thcr.CiOie tin's fcoue is to be fermented before ic be projcded upon the corporeal foundation or iinperfed, d^st is to fay corporeal ^old.
Therefore Joyn this oyle to the fourth part of the oyie of tfic lulpur of t^cld, and this is thrtjue fermcncation or conveifioa unco the £i:xir.
i hen Augment it in vertue by folution and co2i;nacion, arid in quantity by projection firft up n the coiporea foundation that is to fay gold, then that upon purified Mercury and that iTi^-.dfc.ne upon other bodies which are moft Mt for pio/edicn^ that is to fay moit fufible
as
Book I. ihe Rojie Crucian Crown. g i
as Lead or Tinne, which after they are puri- fied are moft ape by rcafon of their eafiemelc-
And thus the Inward parts of the Earth are vifited and by rcfledion the hiden ftonc is found , the true Medicine out of the green Lion of the philofophers, and noe of fools, and out of Corporeal and metal- iick vitriol! not tcrrcftrial and made of mineral coperas.
l^he Second Chapter of Atig^ nicntatirn and projeBicn af theSTOUE.
FIRST, Let us fpeak of the Augmentation of the vertue or quality; of which i?^/- mi4fjd faith. The Augmentation in qua- lity and goodnefs is by folucion and coagula- tion of the Tindure, that is to fay, by imbiling it with our Mercury and drying it. But lei OS hear aArnoldus more attentively, take one part ot your prepared Tindurc,and diflolve it in three parts of our Meicurj^ then pat it in a glafs and feal it up and fet it in aflies till it be cry and come to a povyderath^n open the
glais
32 'ihe Bofie Crucian Crown. Book I.
glafs and imbile it again, and dry it again And cheofcener you do the thus fo much flia jougamand givcch morctindure.
Andalfoas it is found in Clangor Bticcin£ ^ DiiTolve it in the water of Mercuvj of which the Kfedicinc was made till it be clear then con- geal it by light decodion and imbiie it with its (vylupotuhe tire till it flow by verrue where- of \i Will be doubled in tindurc, wth ali its perfedions as you will fee in projcj^ion be- csufethe weight that was before prbjcdcd up- cn a thoufand, is now to be projeded upon ten thoufandj. and there is no great labour in this Biulti plication,
Agriin the medicine ismukipl/edtwo manner of ways.
\Sy folution of calidicy and foluticn of vari- tv. By f'olution of cahdity, is that you take the Medicine put in a glafs vtfTcl and burie ic ixi our moill hre feven days or more, till the medicine be dillbived inco watec without any lurbulcnty. Cy foluticn of rarity, is that you take your giafs vci'el with your medicine and hang it in a new btafs pot fill of water thacboil- eth and dole up the mouth of the pot that the mediciae may diffolve in the vapour of the boiling water.
But note that the boiling water muft not touch the glafs wherein the medicine is but ban;; above it three fingers, and this foluticn wiIJ be above it in 2 or i days after your medicine is dfifolvcd, cake ic Irom the liretocool fix and
ton-
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congeaUnd be hard and dry this 4o often and and hoiv much the more the medicine (hail be diffolved it will be focnuch more perled.nnd fuch a iolution is the fublimacion cf the m^di* cine and its virtual uWimation^ which the otten- tr it is reiterated io much more abundantly and more parts it tingeth.
Whence Rafis faith thegoodncfs of this mul.^ tiplicationconfiftetb in the reiteration fubliTii- tion and fixation of the medicine and by ho^ much more this order is repeated it worketh lo 6iuch more and is augmented for fo often as you fublime your medicine and dilToIve it youfliall gain /o much every time in projection one up^ on a thouiand and if the tirft fall upon a thou- iand the third upon a hundred thoufand the fourth upon a million and lb infinitely. Foe Mortent^s the Philofopher faith ; Know foe certain that the otcener our flone is diflblTcd and congealed the fplrit and foul is joined more to the body and is retained by it and in every time the Tindure is mult'plyed.
Whence we thus read in ScaU PhUofofho^ tHWy which alfo the Philofophers fay. Diffolv^ and congeal, fo without doubt it isunderftood of the folurion of the body and foul with the fpirit into water and congealatipn makes the foul and fplrit mix with the body and if with" one folucion and fimple eongcalation the fcul and fpint would be perfediy Joined to the i^ody the Philoiophers would not f^y ditfoW^ again, and con -eaUand ar^^in diHolve andCv)n-' geal dm the Tiafture of the ftone may grew " ~ F. if|
54 '^r/je Kofie Crucian Crowrj* Book I.
if it could be done with one congealaiion on- ly.
The Medicine is another way mulciplyed by fermentation and the ferment to the white is pure filver, and the ferment to the red is pure gold, therefore pro Jed one part of your medicine upon a of the ferment (but I fay 3 parts of the medicine npononeof the ferment) and all will be Medicine, which put inaglais upon the fire and fo clofe it that no air go in nor out, and keep it there till it be fubtili- ated as you did with the firft medicine and one part of the fecond medicine will have as much vertue asonepait, of the firft medicine bad (but here again CUngor BnccinA bath erred for it (hould be write thus) one part of the fecond medicine will have as much vertue as ten parts of the firfl medicine had.' And thus by folution and fermeutacion the medicine may be multiplied infinitely.
Wc have fpoken enough of this multiplicati- on, we now come to the other way of aug- mentation which is called corporeal multipli- cation and according to %AjmHn^ is thus de* fined.
Augmentation is the Addition of Quantity ; whence Anlcen writeth. It is hard to projeft apon a million and to preducate it inconti- ticntly wherefore / will reveal one great fc- cretunto you, one part is to be mixed with a thoufand parts of its neareft in kind ( I call* that neaceft that is the body of the fame met- tal whcrjpf the mcaicine was made or per-
fsftcd)
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perfedcd) but to return again to Anicei9^ clofc ; all this firmly in a fit vcflel and fee it in a fur- nace of fufion 5 days till ic be wholly joined together. Whereof it is more largely and better fee down by the laid Author and the manner of the work is thus projeded, one part of the forefaid medicine upon 100 parts of molten 'gold and m makes ic brictle and will allbc^rnedicine whereof one part projed:- ed a hundred of any melted mctcal! convert - cthitjnto pure gold and \i you projed it up- on filver in like manner it convertethal) bodies intofilver.
laScala Phtlof^phortirmW {ortf ofprojediori is let thus down in few words. OCou muft know that firft it is iaid projeft ^ that is to fay one upon 100 &c. yet it is better to pro- ject nt^ncdimittis upon (Mnd^menta zn&.ffinda* wenta upon verhA mea and verhn msA upon Migans te Domine and dtltgam te upon atten* ^ite^ This breif AsniguA is thus expounded it is nothing clfe but the words and opinion of the former Author concealed under the Aeni^ura. Therefore let us repeat the words of this aAem^HYAQt Oraccle,
l^unc^dimittTS fii^er funclamenta Fiwdamentafu^er verba mc^ Verba meafufcr diligam te 'Diligamtefuj^er attendiU,
Fa '^ l^h'ee
36 Jhe Rofie Crucian Crown Book i. .
Thefe are trifles for the hiding and concealing the perkdion ot cheArc if che expert Artift could be divetrcd with fuch funplc words . wb'ch though they are hard at tirft to ytJtlT:^ A' tills , yet they are thus explained. We therefore begin with the firft fentcncc.
Hmjc di mitt is fi/pcr fundamenta.
.1 This is here Allegorical^ taken for the lafladi- on almeft of the work which is called '' the medi- ; cine or ftone, which medicine is to be projeded upon the ferment that is to r:iy upcn t^he oyl gf S9I or Luna, which arc the ferments or foundati- onsofthcArt in fpiritual augmentation(as before was faid) upon molten gold and filver. And that fpintualferment converted into medicine is to be" projedted upon molten gold or fiLvcr which are corporeal ferments in corporeal Augmentation and the corporeal fundaments of the Art upon quick filver.
Pnndamentafuper verba me a.
This is alfo fpoken allcgorically becaufc iti the Adage it is faid words are xyind. as if a word were not.hin? elTe but the Inotion .of the lips and exhakation of rtic lungs which no fooner irifc from motion but fly away and are turned to air fo likcwifc Quick filvrer or MncHry goeth out of the bQiiig^.^f other
mettalls
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mcttalls. and is io voiatilg_in the fire or fieic as words in the air. And therefore Mercury is jikepcd to words upon which the fundaments aretobeprojcoed,
; Verhsmea (vir Mercury ) fuper dtligdm te.
That is to fay npon other re etialls which have moft affinity withquick-filver> and tsific of fafi- on as Saturn aud y^piter that is to fay Lead and Tir\3 which by this concord and love are eafily by the penetration andamiablenefsof the medicine converccd into medicine. And one part of this medicine converteth orht:r parts of metttlls into gold or filver according to the force and powec oft^ie Elixir, which other mettdllsbecaufe they are the fubftanccs of the former bodies whereof the medkines were made. They are the atten- dants of thofe medicines whcrdore the Philo- fopher cf^ncmandeth that.
Diltjr-n) tehz projected upon aitcfidite that the fccond medicine or this laft pro/cdcd upon met- talcfpecia'.ly that whereof the medicine (thac istofay thertone) was made^jl^ould turn that mettall inro gold or filver according to the proverty and quality of the medicine.
But to put an end to this pro jedion, take ic according to the opinion of Amoldas gathered J cut of the 31 Chapter who willeth to projed one part of the F.ii^'fr upon too oi Msluj purged sind all will be medicine upon ocLcr ICO parts of Mercury purged and all will be medicine, afterv/ard projcd one part of tftis
38 Jhe Rojie Cruchvt Cromt. Book I,
fenedicine hftcongeakd ugun 1 oc parts of v^t^r- ctiry wafticd and all will be gOid or filver, 11^ allcryallsilccording as the El;xjf. i^ wiiice aoi red Laftly thac I may briefly rehearlc ihe ab- folucc manner of pro/tdion. Firlt the medicine is t i b:^ proje^ed upon gold or filver molten, then upon quickfilver purgcTfo long till it turns it into jn 'iicine and laftly upon mettals raoit near, thac ^bey- may be converted into pure gold or filver accordir.g to the properties and Vjaahties of the medicine.
Beraufc we have fa id fometbing of the pro- pinquity o? mccralls thac is to fay, that the E- lixir \< X i be prf;j\ded upon that imperfefl bouy out of which its Mrcnrj and (ulphur was firft exrraded, t'lerefore it will not be onneLcflary to /ec down one example that is to fay if the medicine »- as made of Aicrcurj then it is J to be pro;cded upon quid: fiVer for make- • ing gold or filver bccaufe quick filver is a near bcd^ to Mcrcury^ and lo of the reft. Yet it IS CO be noted , thac all Elixirs may and OL'ght to be projeded upon quicklil* ver ^ bccauf? quickfiiver i? the Mother and fperm^of all rrietcjls therefore quick filver made and turned into medicine , is to be proj^dcd upon a body , moft near to it ; Which is Lt.sd or Tinne \ Upon which the medicine is always to be projedtd ^ wherhirr whice or red for the makir.g and tranrmiitlng of mercals, biiC bo:h the quick- fi'vcr and lead are firft to 6e purged thac chcjt| H)3y be purified and deprived ef d.eir filth.-
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Enough hath been faid before of the purga- tion or pucrificacion of Mercury. We wiU now fpeak of the putrification of ( ead,
Mek your Lead in a CfHcible aod when it_ is imclce<nct it Aandjn the fire a quarter oi_^ an_boDr and put tfacrem£jittlcJaic_Aj^^ and lerit f^^nd a v;hile^ln~the_jfire and fHr it with aa Iron fpatula till ail ihc fait Armoniack^be gone away Jiijiixae then icrap.g the skin awa"y out of the crufible^ that is tip- on the lead, then let it {land to cool and it will be much whiter and faker. And thasj^q muft purifie your lead or tinoe^ before pro- jeaicn , becaulc no other bodies ate \v fun- ble and apt to melt wherefore every Ehiar ought to be projeded upon quickfilver and upoo Lead or Tionc for making or tranfmuting of msttals.
But to the end the manner cf projedion may be yet more plain 1 will fet down two rules which muft be carefully obferved.
The firft whereof is that the f-rft meiicine that is to fay the ftone be projcdcd upon the ferment always three parts of the medi- cine upon one of the fermjeqt and ontj^nx, qt this upon 10 or 100 of pure molten gojdo and one part of this medicine thus made upon 100 parts of animperfedbody,that is tofay, of Mercury for medicine. The later is that you muft always confider the fortitude and debili- ty of your medicine for it is to be projeded fo often upon quickfilvcr as it bringctb it in- to a brittle medicine and when it h'kih then
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40 ihe Kofte Crucian Crorvn, book i.
Project one part thereof upon Lead or Tinnc for making tranfmuration, according to the order ind form of the Elixir.
Thete being remembred you may cafily con- ceive the order of Augmentation in vertue and quantity. I
fbefe Chapters being-ended the other three ' which follow are fee down in the next book, becaufc. we havelpoken before of potable gold andfilver ,itis therefore necefTary after we have made an end of proje^^ion to let down another table t.f the Elixir of iife in the next place, ^nd after ip'aK of it? vertue and power as tvt find it among all the Antient and .modern P- I opbers and fo make an end of the firfi: Bcoko
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Guidv,
The Epiftle Dedicatory.
Chnde^Ccwtain the power of Natural fcicnce^ and the woji ahfolute Confuf^wiatien there- ofy and that which is the A&ive part of Figures which by the help of the natnrall vertuef ef Mettalls^ from a Mniuall and €fportune application ef ihew^ brings forth epperations even to Admiration ^ which fciences the Rofie Crucians taught when they came to worfl)ip onr Saviour Chriji when he ivas born. The Frinces of all places did fiudy thefe fciences^ as Hiarthas K/V/g &f the CaldeanSj Jefpion Prince of th^ BrackmanSj Phroates ihe Indian Princ€ ^ Aftaphon D;/^e ^/ ^At' Giinnfophifts, Budda^ King of Babilonj Numa Poinpillius King of the Komaris Zamoxides Ewperour of Thrace^ Abbaris fr/r// of the Hiperborcan JewcSj Hermes Trirmcgiil a King and Laiv^
gjdmmuM of^
Pjj^^PB^^^^rerfia, All the (e and many ""more were Lovers of thefe Pvoiie Crucian Infallible Axjomata. and both writers and matrons ef this Kind of Learning 5 as Jofephus The Hebrew Hermes Eranthes King of Arabia dy. And^jjj^io relates in Alcibiadts that the fons of the Perlian Kings were insirnScd in thefe fciences^ that they might Learn to admin/Jicr^ and difirihnte their Image . to the Common-wealth of tit nrorld^ and the Common wealth to tt ^ and
The Epiitk Dedicatory.
Cicero fdith in his Books of Divination, that there was none amongji the Terftans did enjoy the Kingdome^ but he that had Ji'rji Learned Vhilojofhy^ Rofie Crucians Contemplate the powers of Naturally and Ca^lejiial things^ and fearching curicujly into their Simpathy doe produce incredible powers in "Nature into Tnblique veivp^ fo Coupling Inferiour TelefineSj Images^ Ga- mahes and other things as Allurements te the Gift of fnperiour Angels Planets Geniij Idea's And figures and other things^ that by the Mutuall application of Angels Planets and ftars to Genji and figures of Geomancy npon Mattalls^ atife wonder- full Miracles^ not fo much by Art as by Nature^ to zrhich Art becomes an A jfijiant ^hileji it i^orkj thefe things eelSions being made of hours when h.ngt\%and Planets are ftrong^ figures and CharaSers rightly engraven or c:ijl uppon prepared Spermatid^ pure Mettall clear and fing^ free from any Mixture, and all fitted to the Angel planet figne idea ^ figure of Geomancy and theft tnuji he apply ed to tbeperfon of the ^erent or Native ^ Jignified by the Angel Vianet figne Genius idea and figure ^ Tphofijall then find theCcelefiiall andterre- flriall povpersy unite tg kis deftre^and per-
forme
TheEpiftte Dedicatory.
forme incredible extraordinary things ^at cer tain^ times Naturally and Rofie Crucians {IS the mofi curious faarchtrs of JSlature, making ufe $fthefe things that are prepared hy Nature only ^ by appling fiery aUive things to Earthly pajfive things^ produce oftentimes effeBs before the time ordeintd iy Nature ^ which the envious fcriblers thinks arc Miracles and cry them down ^ Magicall with and in their under opinion termed Diabolic all^which ineedare Naturall TTorkj'^ the prevention only of the time coming betwixt^ as if any one fjould pro- duce Kofes ii the Month of ivhrch^and apple trees Blow and bear fruit in December and jRipe cherries'^ Grapes and Beans in January or^kake parjly grow into perfeS plaiit within few hours^ and caufe greater things thV% thefe^ as Clouds^ rain^ Thunders^ and ani- trails of divers kinds and raife the Dead^ Andfpot Horfes black^and white like Jlars or any other colour^ and very many tranf ^mttatious of things thefe Books and Arts I fuhmit (^you excelling in fugment and Can- dour ) to your cenfure^ that if I have wrote any thing which may end either to the con- tumely of Nature^ offending God^or injury of Religion^ you may condemn the errour-) but thefcandall of Malicious perfons being dif
folved:s
TheEp iftle Dedicatory.
foived.yoH may defend the tradjti«K ef truth And that you would do fi mththefe Booh and my felf, that nothing may he Concealed which may be frofitahle, and nothing ap- proved of, which cannot but do hurt, by whick meMs the Harmony of the World the Temple of Wifdome, The Holy Guide R-egio Lucis and Elhavarcuna,i&<i»zW faffed j0Hr examination (^liiwdl as my other Pa- irons >;*A approbation, may at Length bt thought worthy to ceme forth with good fuc tefs inpubbquezsmy othcrBooks, aad may not be afraid to come under cenfure of fofterity, hecaufc j wear the mofi Noble title ef.
'''ac^^or" YourmoftafFeftionatc
'^*4' humble Servant and
truehonourer.
JOHN HEYDON.
48 BookIL
The Kodc Crueian
CR O WN
Set withAngelSj Planets and Mettalsc^;^
The Second Book.
CBAP. L
Of the bleffed ftoneofthe Philof -phers oi^ the Elixir of life ^ and alfo the way of making malleable glafle.
I Elixir of life. 2 Gold dijfohed. g Silver dijj'olved. ji^ Gold melted, ^melted Sil- ver. 6Troje^ion of the red Medicine r 7 Trojevtion of the white Medicine,
fi^A/£.9Spcaking of fermentation bids us to cake the fun a'ld his fhadow by the Chadow he mean- ech the moon becau(e in refped
of dignity lulbe ind power (he
is muca luore weak and iatenour then the (m
Book II. ihe Rofe Crucian Crovpfz. ^j
And the moon followeth the fun as a/hadotv doth the body and is not illHminated except by the light of the fun, we will firft fpeak of the body, that is to fay of gold, and after come to the (hadow of which gold it is written in a book of Ghiniicall Art in this manner. The Philofophers ftone is made of gold alone and onely by nature and is more fublimc then them , which the Philofophers affirme curcth all infirmities. According to the opinion of this Phiiofophcr I purpole tp begin with gold alone and the medicine which is a new and fole nature, and antient and found Qifintcf- fencc.
But to the end this gold may be better and more pure.it may be purged, two manner of wayes that is to fay , by Antimony and by diffolution in corrofive waters with which copper plates are mixed as Geldfmiths ufc to do which is called water gold.
When you have thus prepared your gold ,__L-- projgdojie part of your red medicine (or red an^ EJi^^ir^ upon lOO parts thereof when yournie- ^ ^ dicine is augmented in vertue and ail thac -^x/^ weight of molten gold will be converted into y^ ^ a' red brittle maffe wliich ^rind upcm a mar- ble to^an impalpable, powder.
'Th^n digp^ethefe hundred parts or lo much thereof as you plcafe in diftilled vineger or in ipiricofwine, and fet it to difgeft in Balneo tneTpIce'eFa day or two then diftili the^fpirjc efjadoe from ic jn Balneo.a^nrTTliir'Bottome will remain the fixed and pure oyl of the gold , - u "' which"
48 ihcBofic Crucian Croivn. Book IL
whicfi is then the true Aurum ^otabile^ and fpiriti:al Elixir of lifo^f you would give to any one of this powder pcelentiy before it' be con- verted tooyi, warm a little wblccor Rhcn;(li wine and difiblve in eiiEer oT them lo much ofche red pov^der^ will tindare the fame inco are^ coTour and the wine fo tin(ftuicd will be J.HYtim }QiAhiley but i: v/ould be bctter>and more, penetrating if k were dnduicd with the foie- iaid oyl.
In like manner js t'.ic white medicine to be projeded after the purification of the filvec in a corrofive water as is before declared.
And fo the mcltcJ filver will be converted in- to a brittle powder and white mafle which likcwifc is to be di^Tolvei and turned into oyl and thus the white Elixir of life is made and potable filver curing and healing fo far as ic is able humane difeales for it cannot be fuppoi- .^ cd that the Elixir q{ L-Ana hachfo great vcrtue |: •<istbe Elixir of .y^/ha^h. J
.Whence the Author of the boo'c caird correEiio > falnerum and Richard Anglici^is in his corredo- ty. fay whereas among thT Vulgar and Tfti- lofophers : God hath this report that being in his fitd: difpofitiotijh'arc Tt cureth tB^ ^L^pro- fyand many othcr^'crt'ucs, "this is^'TfoIH^^cepc . i)y itscompleat difgeRionl^ecaufe tliecxceirehcy of the fire ading in it confumeth all evil hu- mours that are in fick bodies as well in hot as cold caiifes, Bat fiivcrcan notdothis bfcaufeic hath noc fo much fuperfluicy of fire and is noc fo much difg^fted and decoded with itaturatlL
ma-
Book If. "ihe Kofte Crudan Crorvn, 49
maturity, yet notwithf^anding this it hath fierinels occultly and vertually in it, but no fo fully becaufe the fire caufech not fuch ble> mentui quallities ag in gold. And therefore fil- ver being in his firrt'diipofition doth not cure the Leprofy fo potently iiniefs it be firft ^\U gefled'by Arcuntillit have the cbeif degrees of gold in all maturity. Wherefore other fick metallick bodies more weakly cure infirmicus according as they differ more from them in perfedion and maturity feme differ more fome kfs, ivhich IS by rcafon of the fulpbur infcd- cd feid and burning of which they were made ac the beginning in their generation and coa^^u- lation and therefore they care not whereas the fire in them is burning and fo infeded with the Ekmcnrall feces with tlie mixture ot other Elemeatallq-jailities.
Seeing therefore that gold is of fuch vigor amongft the vulgar and that being in his fitlt difpoiiioa what wonder is it if it beinc broughc into medicine ( as is experienced ) by Art and his vertue be fubciliated byd-fgefticn ordecodi- on and purgation of the quallities but it may then cure mure nay infinite or ail difeafe?.
It makes an old man yoong and revive, it prefcrveth health (Irengtheneth nature and ex- pdleth all ficknefles of the body it drivet'ipoy- ion away from the heart it moyftencth the Arteries and breifly prefervcth the whole body found.
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50 The Rofie Crucian Crovpn, Book II.
In the Ludai furorum it is thus written ot the ufc of this medicine the manner of ufeing ic according to ail the Philofophers is thus, if you will ufc to cat of this medicine then take the weight of two florence Duccacs of our ichxir and one pound of any confe<^ion, and eat of that confedion the quantity of one dram in win- ter. And if you do thus it driveth away all bodily infirmities from what caule foever they proceed whether hot or cold, and confcrveth health and youth in a man, and maketh an old man young, and maKcth gray hairs to fall, it al(o prefently cureth the Leprefj^ and dif- iblvcth Flegm mundifierh the bJoud it (harpcn- cth the fight and all the fcnfcs afder a moft wonderful manner abov^c all the medicines of the Philofopherf.^
To which purpofe wc thus find in the 'Kjj' fary ofthc Philofophers, In this (that is to fay in the Elixir) is ccmplcated the precious gift of God, which is the ^Arctnum of all the Sciences \n .the world, and the incomperable treaGjr-e o( treafures (for as Plate faith) he that hath this guift of God hath the dominion of the world ( that is to fay of the Microcofme) bcciiuie he atcaineth to the end of Riches and hath broke the bonds of nature, not onely, for that he bach power to convert all imperfcd mettalls into pare gold and fiiver, but rather bccaufc he can convert and preferve both man and every Animall in perfcft health.
To
Book II. ihe Rofte Crucian Crown. 5 1
Tothispurpofefpeaketh Geher^ Hermes Ar-^ ffoUusy %^ymu}idHs^ Lnllms^ RipUj^ Penottis^ ^fignretltis^ Asgidiusy Valefcns^ Roger B.Kotfy ScottiSy LuH-renttHS, Venture i and diverfe un- certain Authors.
Laftly, 1 now come to the gcncrall confent of all ttic Philofopders and repeat what is found in their writings in the Book de Aarcrci con" ffirgeit^ and in CUngor Buccina, It is to be noted that the Aaaent Philofophers have found 4 principal cffeds or vcitues in the glorioais repofitory of this trealurc.
1. Firfl, It is faid to cure irans body of all inRrmities.
2. Secondly^to cureimperfed mettalls.
3. Thirdly ,t9tranfmQte bale ftones into pre- tious genomes. (
4. Fourthly, to male Giafs malleable. i Of the firft. All Philofophers have confented
that when the^EHxir is perfectly rubified ic doth not on^yMvork miracles in folid bodies but alfo in tpans body of which there is no doubt, for being taken inwardly it cureth all infirmities, i|^£UL£ihj^|wardl^^ un^^ion* The Philofophers alio fay/iFTt^bs given to any in water or wine firft warnotd it cureth them of th^Phrenfy. Drop lie, and Lejyofy^ and allJkjniL of fg^grj^re cured by this Tin(^urcand taketh away whatfoever is in a weak flomack itbindcth and confumeth the Flux of peccant humours being taken faftingj it driveth away raalen- cholly and fadncls of the mind it cureth the infermities of the eyes and dryeth up their
G 5 " Moift-
5 2 ihe Rofie Crucian Crown, Book 1 1,
tnoiftenefs and blearednefs , it heipeth the pur- blind, red or blocdfhoc eyes it moliifieth the pricfty or web the Inflamation of the eyes and all other incident difeafes are eafily cured by this PbilofophiGal medicine,
Itcorafoftcth the heart and fpiritual parts by taking inwardly it mittigateth the pain of the he^d by anointing the temples therewith makcth the deaf to hear and fuccoreth all pains of the ears it rcdifieth thcfcontradcd Nerves byundien, it reftoreth rotten teeth by waQi- ing'alfo all kind of impofthumes arecused with it, by oyntmcnts or cmplaytors or injcding the dry powder therein.
It cureth Ulcei^wounds_XBiicejX^Fi(llj[as mlimiianpereJTv^^rluch like difeafcs and ge- neraceth new fleili if it be mixed with cor- rupt and fower wine it rcftoresit, it expclleth poyfon being taken inwardly it alfo kiiiech worraes if it be given in powder ic taketh t- way wrinkles and fpots in the face by anoint- ing therewith and maketh the faQe- fee m young, ithclpeth women in travail being taken inward- Jy and bringeth out the dead cbil^ by emplaifter, it provkcth YnnC) and heipeth generation it preventcth drunkennefs, heipeth the memory, and Augmenteth the radical moifture itftreng- thenerh nature and alfo Adminiftreth many other good things to roans body.
2. Of the fecondit is written that it tranfmu- teth all imperfed mettals in colour fubftance lad- ing weight duftibrlity melting hardnefs and foft- ncfs
7.. Of
Book 1 1. 7he Rojie Crucian Crown, 5 5
3. Of the third, thac is to fay of tranfmuting bafe and ignoble ftoues into precious gems, I will not fpeakof in this place, bccaafe I bave rcferved kfor anotb€rplace,thac is to fay ihe third Book.
r^fthefouithic is writ thac ic makech glafle malleable by mixtore (thac is to lay of the powdec of the white corporeai Elixir) when the glafs is melted. Thus fat Atcrora Confm^eHs and Clan-
Now iFyou dcfirc to make pure and clear mal- leable glafs learn this of rae, and beware of what glafs you make your mettal for you muft not take glafs of Flints, wherewith glafs of windows are made but ftrch as your i^enke glafs is made of, and thac is to be chofen out of the firfl mettal of the glafs, which hath ftud molten in the fire, in the glafs makers furnace the fpace of a night ^ then ic will be without fpots and pure therefore taki? as much of the faid glafs out of the furnace with your Ironrod, asyouhavea defire to con- vert, and when ic is coU weigh ic, and melt ic by it fclr in a poc, and when it is well molten projed your white corporeal Elixir upon it and ic will be converted into malleable meccal and fie and apt glafs for all Goldsmiths operations. And chus is glafs made malleable and prepared foranyufe but if this were done with the red E- lixiric would be much more during, for there is nothing more pretious of which we will not now /peak.
Therefore Son or or Reader whofoevcr ibou art
whorcadeftmy Books give crcdic toraeand bc-
Icive me, b^caufe all things thac you fliall find
G 4 writ
54 ^^^ Rofic Crucian Cron^n Book I f .
writ here are either the moft approved writings and colledions of all writers or the Au- thors own experiments. For I have tryed ma- ny things and found many things true. I beleive no naan liveth amongft Mortals that knoweth more ways of prepartions which are concealed by almoft all the PliHofophers*
For that which perfedrth the great work that they hav^ all concealed which truely is thecrrouc of all Artlfts. And this is all I would have you todo. To calcine, diflbveand feperate the Ele- ments after join them together putrifie them or reduce them into fulphur ferment, projcd, Aug- ment in vertue and quantity. This is onely the workofthePhilofophers of which the<whole Company of Philofophers have writ in a conti- nuatecourfe«
7he End of the Second Book,
Hampaaneah HammeguUeh :
OR, The Rofie Crucian
CROWN:
In which is fee down the
Angels of the Seven Planets >
and their Occult Power upon the Seven Metals , and miraculous Vertues in the Coslnm Terr^^e , or firft matter of all things.
Whereunto is added,
\A perfedt full Discovery
OF THE Tantarva , and Elixirs of Metals.
By EuGENIUS TheODIDACTUS. <D'Acwm®-, A Servant of God^ and Secretary to Nature,
Vhi efl fcientia^ihi e(? invidia.
LONDON:
Printed for the Author, and are to be fold at the
KzmbovfmFketftreet. 1664.
To the Worthy, Learned, Noble, and Valiant Colonel Samuel Safidys^iatQ Go- vernor of his Majefties Garrifon in the Famous City oifVorcefter^ and now one of the Right Honorable Members of ParliatnentjCb'*'-
\Our late ref^eBtto we have torn" mandedmy Soul toferveyou : and knowing you are afweU a Philofo* fber and Learned ^ as aSoMier that can command Armies of Horfe and Foot into good order for H'ar'^ I there^ fore hum ily prefent this little Piece of Philofo* fhy to your pleafure : As the Book is Art and Nature UiHted to ferue you ^ [o the Epifile ma^ make you merry ^ iy th^ great power of Natural things J for you know they not onely work upon all things that are neer them hy their Vertue^hut dfo he(ides this , they infufe into them a lik^ Power i through which hy the famtYertue the f alfo work upon other things^ as in thel'Oad" fto/^e 3 Mch ftone doth not onely draw Iron Rings^ but alfo infufeth aVertut into the Rings themfelveS) whereby they can do the fame : Af* ter this manner it is^ that the common Harlots and Villains ^grounded daily inholdnefs andim'- pudence in Stage- P lay S:, tnfeB all that are neer 'A % them
The Epiflle Dedicatory,
themhy this property j whereby the JpeBors art wade like them^ therefore they fay that tf any one fh all put on the invpard Garments of a Stage- fUyer-i or fball have about him that Looking- glafs which they daily look into j he fhall become ioldy Confident i Ignorant^ Impudtnt and Wan- ton^ fo a Cloth that was about a deadCorpSy makes him that carries it fad and melayicholy : And if you pt*t a Green Lizard made llind^ to- gether with Iron or Gold Rings into a Glafs Fef- fel, futting under them fome earth 5 jhuttir,g then the Ve(jel^ and when it appears that the Lizard hath received his fight ? f\jall put them out of the Glafsy that thofe Rings fhall help fore tyes'y the fame may be done with Gold Rings :and a tVeefely whofe eyes with any kind of prick are put out 3 it is certain are reftored to fight agai^j 5 upon the fame account Rings are put for a cer- tain time in the Neft of Sparrows or S wallows ^ which afterwards are ufedto procure Love and Favor : Thefe olfervations and ten thoufand morelmadetoferveyouy and they fhall tejttpey you fhall know you have power to c ommandy
Your moft affedionate
humble fervant
Jo HN H £ YI>ON.
Book 3 . Tbe Rofie Crucian Crown. i
The third Book.
of Sfiturne or Lead the frfl DireBion^
C H A P. I. Of the Ellxary Putref^Bion into Sulphur^ the OyloftheSulphur^ of the ConjunBion of the Salt and Oyl of the Spirity or Salt ofSaturne^ vphich conta'meth the 0)l or foul of the Men- ftruum of white Mercury and r^d water ofPa^ radicej Refolmon, Solution^ di^illation^Hyly Purgation y refolution of Sericon^ of the Gum ofSericonyof thefolution of the Minium or Adropyo\ Calcination of Minium into Adrojf and red Leady of Calcination of Lead with Aqua Fortis.
VEry many havcwrk of Satfirneov Lead, but none that I know of have writ ful- ly thereof in any particular Treatife ; therefore I do not here onely fet down what I have gathered from them moft briefly and truely, but alfothofe things which I have found and proved by my own experience^ which I have annexed to them>that the work may be abfoluce and compleat,
A3 Of
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2 The Rope CructanCrowxi, Book 3.
" Of whichj as they fay, Mary the Prophecefs, and tb€ Silver of CMofes in her Books of the ^ work oi Satf4r»€ is thus faid to write. Make your W«er running like the water of the two Zaibech, • and fix it upon ih^htzito^ Satur^e : And in ano- ther placej Marry the Gum with the true Matri- monial Guriij and you (hall make it like running water. Of which procefs of Mary? George Rlf- lej our Country man hath thefe verfes*
MarlamlrafonAt QiiA nobis talla do»at Gumm'ts cum hints FugitivHmfiigk initnls Uoris In trim Trla vlnelat fortla finis Flu Pltitonls Confortia junglt Aworis*
Or thus>
MariA mtrafonat} hrevlter tjul talla donat Gumml ctim yinlsftigitlvtimfHgii In mis iioris pi trim trla vlnelat f or ti a finis, tji€arta lux rorls ilgam llgat in trlhm horis^ Fill a PImo?7 Is confortia jungit Amor is Gaudet InaJfaUfala fer t rla foci at a.
The heart of Saturne, faith %lfley/s his white and dear body y out of whofedo6trine the work doth briefly thus proceed? that is to fay, that a- water he made out of the body of Suurne, like- the water Zaibeth, and that water fixed upon the- heart of Saturne 1 but becaufe the pra^ice of ., • . draw-
Book 3* ih^RofieC/iiCumCrorpn, ^
drawing out chis water of Zaibech » doth not ap, pear ouc of this, nor the way of making the heart of Saturne> therefore the foreg ^ing direction in he Holy Gmde will fliew them both.
Therefore I havejoyned two Tables* in onq of which the fiiorter is the demonftration of the redu6lion of the body of Saturne into his heart or Salt, the oche: longer and greater^ is theextra-f 6tion ofthewacer Zabiethjandthe confummaiti- on of the work of Saturne.
Having thus defcribed this work, I now come to the explanationj and fay, that the Calcination of the Body is twofold ; for the Calcination thereof in the fhorrer work, for extracting the heart of Saturne i is done on this wife by udqua Fortis,
Take 8 or i o Ounces of Lead in Fih'ngs , and diffolve it in Jqna Ferus in double proportion, andforcified With Salt Armoniack in an Earthen Veffel with a narrow neck , and fet in afhes till it be totally dilTblved; and there will remain t white matter in the bottom like Grains of white Salt, which is a figure of perfect folution ; then pour your matter that is diffolved in the water into a body, and fet thereon a Limbeck , and in Balneo draw away the corrolive water, till there remain a dry fubftance in the bottom : and (b you have the bodyconvertedwhite by Calcina- tion with corroCive water, out of which the heart of Saturne is to be drawn.
The way to wafh away and purge the corro-
five water from the body , pour warm vvater
upon the fubftance in a Limbeck , and pour it
ofcen off till ic have no fharpnefs at all upon the
A 4 tonguci
4 The Rope Crucian Crown. Book 5 ,
tongucand then your body is prepared for draw- ing out the Sale.
When your matter is well drieda diffblve it a- \t again in difiilled Vinegar^and diftill the Vine- gar twice or thrice from it 3 and in the bottom you {hall have a lucid clear and white (hining Salt 5 which is then called the heart of Sa^ turne.
Now I come to the praftice of the other greater work , that the verity of the ftone maybe found 3 of which many have made mention in their Books y as Rafmrndns 3 who calleth it the Vegetable Mineral, and Animal Stone ; Cehr faith there groweth aSaturnian Herb on the top of a Hill or Mountain, whofe blood if it be ex- tra6led3cureth all infirmities.
Riplejf writ a whole Bookj called his TraUlcAl ComfendtHmy of- the pra(^ice of the Vegetable Stone^ teaching the manner and form of opera- tion ; but becaufe he neither fet down the folu- tion plainly nor perfectly, he hath been the caufe of much error 3 and hath not onely deceived me but all thofe that followed himjuntill after a long time I found a way to diflblve Saturne^ fo that it could never after bydilhllationbe turned into Lead again , which is the chiefeft and greatest fe- cret of the Vegetable Stone.
But let us hear the words of ^^r^the Pro- phetefsj and %}flfy taken from her : The Radix of our matter is a clear and white body which pu- trifieth not 3 but congealeth Mercnry or Quick- filvetj with irs odor makes irs water like the run- ning water of the two ZMeth (ails Zubech)and fix it I'pon the fixed heart of SatHrne : which
words
Book. 3 . 7 he Kope Cyucim Crown. 5
words do moft aptly agree with che properties of Lead ; for if any one be fmit or wounded with a Bullets and the Bullet remain in the body* it will never putrifie.
And alfo if Quick-filvcr be hanged in a Poc over the fume of molten Lead> fo as the fume of the Lead touch the QMick-filver > it will con- geal it.
Thus far of the preparation of Lead, we now come to its denomination , They bid us fix the water Z<i/^^^A upon the fixed body of the heart of Saturne ; now for the expofirion of the body, for the name of Satttrnei Ripley calleth it Adrop of which that is made which the Mafters call Se- ricon ; the Water of Sericon they call their Men- ftruum, the two Zabletbs joyned together in one waters are the two Mercuries > that is to fay white and red contained in one Menftruum » that is to fay of the water and Oyle of the fixed body or heart of Satume : Follow what I have written concerning the imbibition of the earth> our ope- ration is no otherwife then in the Practical Com- pendium of ^/^/tf/.
JfaacM alfo writ a Treatife of Lead, he wor- keth chiefly according to the doctrine of Mar/ the Prophetefs , and laboreth much to fix the earth of SdtHrney and after to diffolve the body in diftilled Vinegar ; that by the addition of cor- roding and fliarp things > his red Oyl may be di- fiilled, which he calleth the water ofParadice* that he may imbibe his fixed earth therewith: which way is much {liorter then ^z/?/^//, but the rubification and fixation of the earth is long and uncertain; wherefore I have both forfaken
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Jfaactis and %ifleji in making the earch , in liead of which 1 have giwn the fixed heart of Sa- turriCiZS you may read in the Hoijr Guidg^
But chat the body may be prepared according to this Table > and after my intention and the defire of RlfUy , we both will that the Oyl or Water of Paradice be drawn out of the Gum of Sericon ( whofc fajher is Adrov) Serlcon i^ made of Red-lead ; therefore icls firiV neceflary to fliew ttie Way of making Minium of Leadj which 'X homos juc an Englijhm^nhii'ci defcribeA toge- ther with the Compoficion of the Gum of Sen- cony which Auihor 1 purpofe to follow, as being the beft.
Take ten or twelve pound of Lead^ and melc ic in a great Iron vefTeh as Plumbers ufe to do^ and when it is molten>(iir it (iill with an Iron Spaxula till the Lead be turned to powder, which powder will be of a green colour ; when you fee it thus, take it from the fire and let ic cool, and grind thac powder rpon a Marble till ic be impalpable, mQiikning the powder with \ little comm.on Vinegari till it be like thick honey, which puc in- to a broad Earthen Veffel, and fet it onaTre- vetover a lent fire, to vapor away the Vinegar and driethe powder , and it will be of a yellow colour ; grind it again and do as before , till the pDvvder be fo Red as Redrlead, which is called Jldroj) : And thus is 54/;^r«g calcined into Red- Jead or Minium.
'""TaTe a poiand of this Read -lead and diffolve ic in a Gallon of Vinegar , 7n3^ (iir it with TTTick^ tluee or four times m^a day, and fo lee it iiand in a cold place the Tpace of three days : then take
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your Earcftsn Vcflel and iec it in B^ineo twenty four hours j then let ic cool and filter the liquor three times ; and when it is clearj put it in a bo* dy with a Limbeck thereupon* and dilHll the Vinegar fo long as it will afcendj and in the bot- tom the Gum of the Sericon will remain like thick honey 3 which let apart, and diffolve more new Lead as before for more Gumj till you have ten or twelve pound thereof.
Now give^areful attention* for wa now come to ths point and period of Rlfleys error > for if you put four pound of this Sericon to diiHll in a Limbeckj and from thence would draw a Men- ftrnum j as ^//?/^y teacheth , perhaps you would have fcarce one ounce of this Oyl » and fome part of a black earth will remain in thebottom> and molt pare of the Gum melted again into Lead, by which you may know that the Sericon is not well diffolved* nor as yec fufficiently pre- paredj that a Chaos may be made thereof fit for djftillation j becaufe it is not yet well dilTolved ; therefore in Ifaacus there is found a way of re- folving this Gum with diftilled Vinegar 3 acuated with calcined Tartar and Salt-armoniack;Where- fore, faith he> if thou be wifej refolve thy Gum ; but I like not this acuation of the Vinegar, as I may call it, Iratherchoofe to refolve the Seri- con in Raymmd'^s cafcinative water , which is a compounded water of the Vegetable Af^rr/^ry or fire natural, with the fire againfi: nature, as^/p- /f/ teiVifieth, and it is more verified by %4gmmd in his Book of Mercuriisy where he teacheth how todiffolve bodies with his calcinative water.
I will reveal unto you this water* which is al-
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molt unknown : Note therefore > that the|fcge- xMe, Mercury is the fpirit of Wine (inf^Tof which we may fometimes ufe diftilled Vin^gar^ and that the fire againft Nature is acorrofive water made of Vitriol and Salt-Peter.
Therefore take which you will , either fpirit of Wine re6lified ( or Aqu^ Flta ) or diftilled Vinegar four pound> and two pound of corro- iive water? and mix them together.
In this watet thus compounded, refolvehalf a pound of Gum of Sericon in a circulatory , and fet it in Ealneo four or five days > and the Guru will hz totally diffolved into the form of water or Oyl of a duskifh red colour.
Then diftill away the water in Balneo , and there will remain an Oyl in the bottom, which is then the Chaos > out of which you may draw a Menftruum containing two elements ; and this is the true refolution of the Gum of Sericon, in this water you may refolve fo much Gum as you pleafe by reiteration.
Take two pound of this Chahodical fubftance, and prepare it for diftillation in naked fire or fand, and 15ft up the clear red Oyl, wherein both the fpirit and foul doth fecretly lie hid , which //^igggg^caljeth^the ^^at^LPf Piradire,which when you have you may re Joyce , for you have gone through all the grofs workj and come to the Phi- lofophical work.
Therefore now proceed to conjunflion, and joyn the white heart of Sdturr.e wi h the red Oyh as it is found in the Rofary.
Candida fftcchElo jacet uxor mfta marito > That i£ to fay, the red M^r^urj to the Sal:> if you proceed to the red work. There-
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Therefore take four ounces of the Salt or heart of Saturne, and as rr*uch of the red Oyl or wa- ter of ParadicC) andfeal them up in aPhilofo^ phers Egg) and fo Toon as they (ball feel the heac of the Balneum, the Salt will diffolvc and be made all one with the Oyl, fo as youfliallnot know which was the Saltjwhich was the Oyl.
Set your glafs in Balneo , and there let it ftand in an equal degree of fire, till all your matter be turned white and ftick to the fides of the glaCs> and (bine like fifhes eyes, and thenit is white Sulphure of Nature ; but if you proceed to the red work* then divide your white Sulphure into equal parts , referving one part for the white work* and go on with the other partjand in a new glafs well fealed up, fee it in A(hes till it be turn- ed into a red colour.
When your Sulphurfe is thus convertedjimbibe it again with equal weight of irs foul, diflblving and congealing till it remain in an Oyl> andic will congeal no more, but remain fixed and flow- ing.
This then is to be fermented with the fourth part of the Oyl of Gold, as is often mentioned before.
We have fee down already before of the aug- mentation in quantity and quality 3 therefore it is not neceffary to repeat it here.
We will now return to the white Sulphure before' referved, that we may fee down theman* net of the white work.
When you have your red Oyl or Soul, if you defiretomake the white Elixir, fetpart of the faid Oyle in a glafs in Balneo to digel^, then take
ic
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It ouc and puciciriLO a body , and in a lent firs diftill away the fpiric or white Af<frr«ry, which youmuit tryjthac you may know whether it arife pure without water or not > as you do when you Cfy the fpirit of Wine, for if it burn all up, it is well ; if it do not, rec^ifie it fo often > till it be without any Waterineis at all ; then have you ret^ified your fpirit > wherewith diffolve your white Sulphure, till it remain fixedj and flowing, as you did before in the red work , then ferment it and augment it with the fourth part of the Oyl of the white Luminary or Luna , as you did the red > and it will be the white Elixir, converting imperfe<Sl bodies into perfed Silver,
A Corollary.
Rifle J divided the fcope of this work into four operations, whereof the firft is the difiblution of the body, the fecond, the extraction of the Men- ftruum and the reparation of the Elements ; the third is nor neceffary in our work, becaufe we call away the earth after every diiiillation, in- fteadof which we ufe our Salt or heart of Sa- turfie ; the fourth \Sy that there be a conjuni;^ion oE our Snit as is before defcribed.
Hereafter fo/Uiveth the ^^ccurtatwft of the work of ^acurn.
The way of exrrp^ting Quick-filvef' out of Saturne is found in Jfaacus , of which I know how to make a fpecial ^ccurtation with his water Of Paradice j which 1 gathered partly from the
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forcfaid Author and others ; RlfUy made his ao curcation with Quick- filver precipitated with GoJdj and the imbibition with Corrofive water> which I like nor, becaufe the Elixir fo made will be the grearelt poifon > as himfelf confeffeth > that it were better for a man to eat the eyes of x Bafilisk, then talk that Elixir.
But becaufe I defire tofet down this accurtati- on of Lead alone and his Elements , thit no ftrange body may be added to our Elixir^ and al- fo that it may be made a Medicine for all utes ^ I have found out the way of making alone with the CM^rcury of Saturne and his own proper Tindure ; for I make a body of one thing which is a fpirit> and make that Medicine with its own proper fpirir. Read all the Philofophers, and you fhall never find a word of this procefs > nor none of the Ancients will teach thee how to m^ake the Mercury of Saturn^ which that it may be briefly done J this following work will fhew at large in oxxiHolj Guide,
' CHAP. II.
^ The Medicine^ Elixir ? firmentAtion , Imhi" hition Precifitation^ Quick-LSilver^Satufney Leady The Toad.
MY great Grandfather Chrlftopher Heydoff* faith in a certain Manufcript of his , Levi emmAru norHntAlchimtftdi, Mer curium current em conficcrecxflnmboi that is to fay, theAlchimifts
knew
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knew how by an eafie Arc to make currenc Mer- cnry out of Lead ; but what Arc that wasj nei- ther he nor any of the ancients have (hewed un- to U5| Qu^rite, qH£ritei faith the firtt Alchimift j(fo Paracelfns was pleated to fay in imicacion of him) & invemetls > fulfate & oferletHr vohlsi that is to fay, Seek and you (hall find > knock and it fliall be opened unto you ; which may rather feem td be the words of an envious Mafterj then the precepts of a Teacher. But having learned thisjl learned to feeLchac is to fay to readjl read, I knocked>thatis> I tried many experiments* al- though they were repugnant to do6^rine and Philofophy > therefore although I almott de- fpaired of that Art, yet becaufe nothing is diffi- cult to the induftriousjby often knocking ? at laft I found it apart, by what means I attained to the Art of fuch a facility 3 that is to £ay , of making Quick-filverof Lead ; and when the procefs is lead to the operator j it will be rather rejeiled then believed: but to the end this Art may be revealed as a great fecrec ? I thought ic necef- jfery tofpeak firft of the Inliruments neceffary in this works before I coine to declare the do6lrine> which are three in number » thatistofay^a Fur- nace* a Crucible and a pair of TongSa as appear- cth in the Holj (]md0.
CHAR
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7he Crsciiky the Furnace^ the Hole in the Top of the Furr^aee^ the Tongue Sy the Coals.
LEc the Furnace be I>> the p\ict filled with Coles E, whereunco put fire and when the' Coals are well burnt j fo that they give a clear flame and fire, cake your Crucible A, well anailed that it break not with the fuddain heat , and puc therein three ounces cf filed Leadj having twelve ounces of Mctchtj fublimate well ground ? and Salt Armoniack fix ounces mixed togetherj which puc upon the filings of Lead into the Crumble A ; and when the fire is ftrong and glowing hoci take your Tongs C> and prefently take up your Crucible? and put it in B 3 the hole in the top of the Furnace till you hear a great noife and buz- zing , then fo foon as you can ( leaft the Quick- filver flic away with the fpirits ) take away the Crucible with the matter therein? and fet it in afi earthen difh filled with afties to cool , and when it is cold (hike the lower part of the Crucible? fa chat the matter of the Lead may fall into an earthen difii? and you fhall find your Lead con- verted into Quick-filver.
This Crucible and Furnace is at large chara<^e- red in the Holy Gnlde.
This work is to be reiterated with new fpirits
till you have a fufficient quantity of Quick-fil-
ver^ with which proceed as foUowethto precipi-
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tace this Quick-lilver 3 thactrom a ipirk u may be converted into a fixed body by fixation.
Take of this Quick - filver fo much as you pleafe , and put it to precipitate in a round glafs well luted i and fet it in alhes to the toy^f ths glafs : yet let us ftay here a while> that your un- lianding may be the more enlightened.
Therefore underiknd that the intention of this work is to fix the fpidC) which may fooner be done with the fpirit of a fixed body, which be- fore was Homogeneal with the body , and which of its ofvo,aa.cuEe,defirak.co joyn again with its body. ■ ,_ r-'Vv<'^■hi^\■^^^^
Therfofe nature requirerh chat flie may be hel- ped by^Arc in this work* to which the Artift con- fentingj be admini^reth thereto the pure and de- fired metal, which it^lighrerh to adhere unto; which inetal is Golds which is thusprepareda that icbe fooner parted by theQiiick-filver andftick thereunta
Take as much pure Gold as you pleafe, and diffolveic in atjn^ regis mixed with equal part of Mfctum titerrimfim 3 ot Lac vtrgimsi then fet it tGdigofttbe fpace of i day > then put your dif- fplutionintp an Alimbeck, and fee it Balneo, to diftill away the water as dry as you can, and do thus three: times , and': the third time dirtill it in a{hes,.tha£the Sale Armoniack may f ublime.Then putdiftilled Vinegar upon the matter remaining* and after it hath i^obd three days in Balneo, dilHll the Vinegar away in afhes, that all the fubftance of the Salt Armoniack may fublime : and do thus three times, always pufting in new Vinegar) un- till the Oyl of the dilfolved Gold remain in the
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bottom ; then take of your Quick-iil\ er three times fo much as your Golds and poor it up6n the folution of the Gold, that they may mix together and be united: then put your quick- filver with the folution in a round Glafs ftopped onely with a peece of Cotton > and with a Itick put it down every day as it doth afcendj and keep your Glafs in afhes the fpace of a moneth , till your quick- ifvlver be turned into a red precipitate? then again ^ diflblve it in new ditlilkd Vmegarj till the whole ;ulrtance of the quick-fiiver be diffolvedjand the Vinegar becolouredin a golden colour, thendi-» iill away the Vinegar in afhes > and again pre-' :ipitate the quick-filverj which is in the bottom- Df a Gold colours into a red and fixed body ; and b have you the cM^curj precipitate of 54*
t remaineth now that the body be imbibed vith its foul J that this being from a fpirit redu- ed into a body, may again imbibe its fouLthacit? lay be diffolved therewith 5 therefore put it into; Glaf?, and add thereto equal proportion of its Dul or water of Paradice j and {hue your Glafs' /ell the fpace of five days ^ till the body be dif* )lved with the foul.
Thendry it in aflbes till it penetrate and flow 5
nd when it is dried? try it upon a hot Iron plate
it be fixed and melt, if not j imbibe it again wittt-
alf the weight of its water 3 and do fo till you
ake it fufible and piercing by imbibing and
ce Irying it , and when it will melt in the fire 9 and
ri hnetrate, it is then the ftone> and fie for fermen-
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We have faid enough of ths manner of fer- mentation in the fecond Book r and therefore ic isnoc neceffary to repeat ic here: andfo after fer- mentation it will be the Elixir.
Then it is to be augmented and projci^led, as is before declared ; and thus the work of SatuvKc is accurtated, of which George Rlp/ej/i^mh,
Adrof is the father of the l^one^ Sericon his brother, Ljmpha his fi%r.2., the earth its mo- ther. *"~' ' ^ ' ' .
But if you defire to ktiow all the fecrcc cf J^ tftrfjc or Lead , 1 will fet you down one procefs Out of ^aracelfui : when you have well prepared the heart of Saturfjfy faith he, take two or three ounces of that heart and grind it fmall wich double weight of Salt- peter, and put it inafub- liming Glafs/witxh ahead well luted to fublimev^ encreafing the fire by little and little as long as any thing will afcend or fublime h thus far Para-: celfw : now if you find this true^ Ripiejf will teU' you what you lliall do with it, in thele words.
When by the violence of the fire in the diftil- lation of the Gum oi the Sericon^ a certain white^ matter (l^all afcend (ticking to the head of the Limbeck, like Ice , keep this matter which hathl the property of Sulphur not burning, and is a fk matter for receiving form , you fliall give itf| form after this manner by rubifying it inafh( and when ic is red Sulphur,give it of its foul, until] It pierce and flow, then ferment ir.
Here I have delivered unto you allthc wayjj and manners of Saturne, which are found in any! of the Pnilofophers Books : to the end thereforej that the work may be compleated with a demons
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fhacionof ihisyvord Plumif am Phi/ofophorMmy q,s appears in the Pra^blical Compendium of rR^fUys we lay chac the Philofopbers Lead is not taken for Antimony but for Adrop , beii>g converted intp the Gum of Sericon.
It remaineth now that we in order treat of the third termination of this Book : therefore after we have done with Satnrne , it is neceffary to fpeak of Jupiter, viz,. Tin : but becaufe there arp many other ways of handling SatHrm belides thofe we mentioned > therefore we refer the Reader thith€r> feeing he followeth his footfteps ; for he is the ofF-fpring of SdtHrne and naturally born from him.
CHAP. IV.
The third Tdle of the Uixiv of Iron.
IT is not neceffary to prefix a peculiar Table to this metal alone 3 becaufe it is fee down before this book J neverthelefs 1 will here reckon up its parts and operations as followeth.
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2. Solutiott, 6 Su/phnr, "^^SeperatioH, "j » F ermentation, ^.ConjunBiotii S. Elixir*
Exaltation or augmentation and ipio]td\on i$ fpoken of fufficieatly in the fbroae): Books.
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Mc^rs being moft earthly of all the Planets or bodies > it is not to be doubtedbut chacitmay eafilybe reduced into a body with little labor ; and therefore molt eafily converted into Salt , which is done by Calcination : therefore we will jird fliew his converfion into Salt. ' Underhand therefore a that hence arifeth a twofold confideration , that is to fay? that it be calcined one. way into its body or Sale > the other way that the body be prepared for folution by calcination.
^ The prailice differeth but a little) for whether you calcine Iron for its Salt or its Menlkuum> one onely manner of preparation fufficeth.
That i$ to fay, that you take filings of Iron or SteeL as much as you pleafe » and mix therewith equal weight of Sulphur in an earthen body with ^ Limbeck will luted thereto, then fet it in aQies CO fublime till all the Sulphur be fublimed from it, then diiTolve the filings which remain in the bottom in Ai^ttaRegUi and it jWill be converted into Salt 5 which will be cleanfedfrom the faidi water, if you put thereon dilUlled Vinegar and' 91 Hill it away ; do thus three times with new yinegar, and you fhall have a yellowifli red Sale in the bottom j which then is a body to be joyhed 10 the foul , which keep in warm afhes till you life it.
Now for thepradlice of Iron for difTolutiony take filings of Iron or Steel, fo m.uch as yoii pleafe, and put it in an Iron difli filled with Vi- negar, and fet it in the flaming fire thefpaceof three hoars J then rake it out and let it cool ; jeiterafe this work four or five times, then ■ *" • '■ calcine
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calcine it with Sulphur as you fiid before. When ic is thus calcined, fee ic to diffolve in a corrofive water, by adding equal weight of our acetum AcerrlmHmi and let ic rtand rill ic have diffolved fo much as ic can in che cold, then fee ic in hocafhes, and lec icft;nd there the fpace of fouroriivc days, pour off the water and dry which is not diflolved , and again calcine ic and diffolve ic> and When ic 15 diffolved, fo as che wa- ter be coloured red> pour ic oucincoa body, aad keep ic till you have diffolved as much calcined Iron as you pleafe.
Then cake all your diffolutions j and with an A limbeck diflill away the water in Balneo , and pucdiHilled Vinegar upon themacter remaining in che botcom, and lec ic ftand upon ic in Balneo the fpace of feven days ; then take out your Glafs and filter the diffolucion , and then again in Balneo didill off che Vinegar , and ifi che bot- tom will remain a chick Oyl of che Iron or Steel 5 buc if ic be not diffolved to your mind , reicerate your folurion in Raj/munds calcinative water, but ic would be beccer if ic were edulcorated with ^qua, vlt£^ drawing ic away again in Balneoi and fo you have your Iron diffolved into a li- quor.
Therefore proceed co diftillacion, that there may be a feparacion , and diltill ic in an earthen Veffelin a ftrong fire, encreafing che fire as much as you can, and, receive cheoyi, orfoul, orred tindure of CMars feparaced from che remaining feces by the nofe of che Limbeck , which oyl is the moft permanent tin6lure for colouring Sul- phures for the red work? or for exalcacion of all
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JEUxirs in colour* for ic makes ic cinge and coloac higher.
When you have thus prepared the tin6lure, then proceed toconjundion>and work with the Sale before referved, taking three or four ounces pf theSalcj and equal weight of the foul.
Then feal ic up and fet ic to putrifie in Balnep, ^nd keep it there till it pafs through all colours and be white * and then ic is Sulphur of Na- ture"!
Then take out your Glafs and fet ic in allies in a greater degree of heac till icbered* then 4i0olve the red Sulphur with its own foul> and a- gain diffolve and fix it, difiolving ic in Bilneo,and fixing it under the fire> and fo ic is prepared for fermencation.
The fermencation is,as hath often been fpoken of before > with the refolved oyl of the Sulphur of iGoldin a fourfold proportion to the Medicine, that by the addition of the ferment j ic maybe made Elixir tranfmuting all bodies.
And noce that this Elixir of Iron excelleth all pther Elixirs, for ic rubifieth morcj andcingech jiigher, and is beccer for mans body> for icpre- y^ilech agaiuft che fpleen 3 conftringeth the belly and cureth wounds , ic knitteth broken bones together jand ftoppeth the fuperfluous Flux of che p04r[eSo
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CHAP. V.
The fourth Table of the Phyfical and Alchymkal TinBure out of the red Lyon and Glue of the Eagle^ drawn out from the Authors ^X/^e- ricnce.
IT is chiefly to be rcmembred how we firft taught you to diiTolve Antimony with our scetHm acerrimftm, which may be alfo well done if you diffolve it in our calcinative water, and af- ter that Antimony is calcined which we fpoke of in the end of the fecond book 5 it is alfo to be remembred that in the end of the book 1 fpoke of the Glue of the Eagle in the fixth Table of the firft book ; thefe being remembred, it is to be underftood that we attribute no other beginning .to this accurtation , except that where before we took the blood of the red Lyon and the Glue of che Eagle when they were both deftroycd; we now joyn them found and not hurt together,thac they living may mortifie and diffolve tbemfelves> whichlhave fitly called Corporeal Matrimony* or the Union> for in this wedlock they dye toge- ther j that they may be vivified in the Celeftial Matrimony ; therefore it is not to be wondred if this Table differ from the other, for this pertain- eth to the handling of fpirits , the othe-r way teacheth the manner of making the Elixir of bodies • therefore we now come to demonftrate the foregoing Table.
Therefore that 1 mjy plainly revcalall things
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unto you 1 take Antimony well ground, haJ£ a pound, and as much Mercury fublimate, likewife ground, and grind them both togeth upon a mar- bleftill you cannot know them one from another j jchenfetthem in a cold place, that the matter diflblving may drop into a Glafs fet underneath, for when the matters are. well mixed together, ihenfay, that they will both fhortly bediffolved when th^ water is perfe6lly diflblved , it will be of a greenifh colour apd iochfome fmell. - -Put this water with the thick part with it into fe Glafs, and let it ftand the fpaceof three days in a fixitory under the fire, and in (horttime you (hill I fee your diffolvednefs of s brownifli black colou"", and after, that is to fay, in the fore- faid time it will be red , fomething higher then red Lead.
Diffolvethiscakined matter in RaymundscaU cihative water, and when you have diffclvedit all into a red liquor or dz^\> velowj then is your mat- ter brought well into its Chaos.
Put this liquor into a fit bodv with an Alim- jbeck and receiver , and by diliallation fepirate the red oyl or the red Mercury from the white body which remaineth in the earth 5 and if any matter afcend into the head of the Alimbeck, de- fpife it not , but trie if it be fixed, and if it be not RxQd enough I fublime it till it be fixed.
Whereunto joyneqml weight of its foul, for the Celeltiai Matrimony , and always leave out the earth in the bottom if you have any fublimate fixed, ii not, take the white earcn remaining in the bottom^ with which proceed as before is faidj and joyn the white body with the foul; when
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chey are thus joyned or married 1 fee them toim- pregnace and revivifie in Bulneo, till it pafs :^hrough all colours, and at la(t be converted into red, which then is the rtone-
The manner of Fermentation, Augmentation, both in quantity and quality, and projeciionj is fpoken of before in other works. '
And chusSonsj Brethren and Reader, I have delivered and opened { and aifo have amended many things) all the fecrets of the Ancient Phi- lofophers, whofe writings were rather publifhed to conceal the Art , then to make it manifett or teach it ; alchough it pleafed Hermes Irlfmegl- ftnsy the firl^ writer of this Art 3 both to fay and protett that he had never revcaledi taught, nor prophefied any thing of this Arc to any, exept fearing the day of Judgement or the damnation of his Soul i for fliuning the danger thereof,even as he received the gift of Faith from the Author of Faith, fo he left it to the faithful 5 yet when you read his writings , either in his Smaragdine Table, or in his Apocalips, or his twelve Golden Gates, and (hall find nothing plain or manifeft, what will you think of fuch an Author ? Believe me all the Ancients have concealed thefecrec of their preparations in the grofs work , although they writ moft famoufly of the Philofophical o- peration ; therefore I have ufed my endeavour to trye, for out of their writings I found that the Elixir might be made of the Planets or Metcals, and alfo of mean Minerals , which came more neer to a metallick nature , then reading more, I found a certain method amongft them all> as it were with one confenc or voice on this wife.
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2 4 ^ ^}^ ^ojie Cmcttin Lrow/i^ i5ook 3
pirll and principally y chat bodies (lionld be made incorporeal 3 that is to fay, difcorporared, or difcompounded) which then is called the Hyle or Chaos.
Secondly ^ That out of this Cbaodical fub- ftance)Which is one thing, three ElemcntS3(houId be feparated and purified.
Thirdly ^ That the feparated and purified ele- tnents fhould be joyned , the man and the wo- man, the body and the foul , heaven and earth, with infinite other names fo called, that the igno- rant might think they were djverfd , which one- ly were nothing elfe but water and Salt, or the body and fpiric or foul 5 that is do fay , white MercHry and red , which they joyned together that a new and pure body might be created in putrefa(^ion, that a Microcofmical infant might be created in imiration of the Creation, that is to fay. Sulphur of Nature.
FourthIy,That it fhculd be fed with Milk,tbat is to fay, with its own proper Tindlure , and after nouriQied by Fermentation, that it may grow to its pcrfe<fllirength.
Having learned thefe, I begun to praftice, and in the pradlice of every body and fpirit , I found diverfe errors ; but reading more and trying more , at lalt I found the manner and true way of diffolving all bodies, feparating and conjoyn- ing tbcmj finaing the componrion of their fe- crct of fecrecs, that is to fay, Lac virgims^ or Acemm acerrimum, and RAjmnnds calcining wa- ter, wherewith Idirtolved all bodies at pleafure, and perfe^d the grofs work; wherefore I pur- pofed J contrary to the cuflom.e of the Philofo-
phers^
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pbersj to reveal the Whole work , \z[\ I being en- vious, (hould be the Author of error like them; therefore I have added their works to my own experiments and inventions > which are plainly" and truely writ, that the Artilt need to read no books but mine J for herein isalmoll all things contained J which are found plainly, writ by the PhilofOphers 5 and aifo thofe things which arc found true by my own experience.
Now you have all things methodically in this Arc without error 5 vVith which by 'the belpof God^you may attain to the end.
Alcbymy revealeth and openeth unto us four o- therfectets.
The firfl isj the compofition of Pearls 1 far greater and fairer then natural ones j which can- not be perfedly done without t^iC help of the Elixir. ^-y^y^'^^
Thefecondis the manner of maj^ing precions Stones of ignoble ones, by the fame Art which we taught before in malleable Glaf?.
The third is the manner of making artificial Carbunckles in imitation of natural ones, which few or none bave fpoken of.
The fourth is the manner of making Mineral Am'er, o( which Paracelf us hath onelywricin his book of vexations of -Philofophers, and iiX-tb^ hi\ Edition of bis works in the fix of his Arehl" ^Joxes : but becaufe they cannot be made without the help of the Elixirs > therefore they defcrve a place amongft the Elixirs ; of the fourth, that is to fay , of the vertue or rather the vice of ma- king Amber, 1 fliall handleit coldly : 1 have re- feryed the explanation of this iEnign^*iiJl the laft
place*
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place, wherefore ic is laid, thac the Elixir iTper- fe^d ia the Decimal number.
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CHAP. VI.
The fi fib Table ^ of makwg of Pearls.
His Table oE making Pearls , confifteth of thefe parts, thac is to fay,
Lac rlrglnu. A^^^^^^ '^^'^
1)ijfolved Pearls^ Qftickjfther, And The ^hlte Elixir.
Take Lae VlrglmSi or Acemm Acerrimum> to rnvch as you think fufiicienc for diffolving the Pwrls , as in double proportion to the Pearls ; as if there be three ounces of the Pearls , lee dhere be (ix ounces of l,ac Viroinis ^ wherein diffolve the Pearls , and let the GUIs in Balneo tojdifgeft the fpace of a day , then pour out the folution? anddilHil ic in Balneo , and in the bot- tom of the Glafe you (hall find the thick Qyl^ the Pearls>vvhereuDto add fo much of your wEite corporeal Elixir as fufficletb to make the matter like palie, and put thereto equal^^ighc of the Pgjrls^ of Quick-filver ; if chelnatterbe top tliinj'put more powder of the Elixir j if it be too thick, add more Lac Virglms or Qaick*alver, rill it be like Liver 5 grind this mafs upon a lione till it be brought to a fie chicknefs*
Then
Jk)ok 3 The RofieCrucia/iCroKn. 27
V Then make ic up in what form you plealcr therefore ic is neceifary chat you have a pair o£ Brafs or Iron Moulds in readinefs (but it would be better they were of Sil ver ) of what form yog ^[jll i and fill them' with this matter while iCis fofc ; then peirce them through with a needle, or fiich like thing, and put as many of chefem a Glafs as you will ( but fird han^ them upon a thred^ and ciofc well the G!afs> and bury ic with the Pearls therein tvvo foot under the earth> and let ic ftand there rhe fpace of iix months till they be congealed v\iih txhe cold into a ftiining arid clear fablhnce like natural Margarites. Thefe Pearls made and compounded in this manner, are no lefs then, natural ones, buft much greatec and more excellent by reafon of the whiteE- lixir, "
CHAP. VII.
The fixth Table of the Mapfierj of CoTh \ hhnckles, ' - i
f^E now come to fpeak of Garbunckle?, which have their birth or original in the pits, and Golden Mines of the earth, of the fpirit of Gold and MinerajSal^indurated and corporeal , being decoded and difgeHed into the hardnefs of ftone by the Archeus of Nature , as well by the heat of the Climate, as by the great heat of the Snn ; for they arife from the fpirit of the Minere of 5^
or
1
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or Gold under the earth, by whole influence they fliine* as ahb from the hard Mineral Salt> by the mixture of which they are hardned into the na- ture of l^onej whence the Philofopher intend* eth and cndeavoureth as near as he can to imitate nature by Artj and to make and compound arti- ficial Carbunckles above the earth j with the fame materials which Nacurc formeth them of under the earth ; therefore he ufeth the fame principles > operating with thefpiric and foul of ;?(?/ undivided^ and the moR hard Salt of the earthy whereof Vemce Glafs is made y which two are the material Organs for Manuals : three things are required > that is to fay) aClafs-makerj Fur- nace* a flaming fire, and a Crucible, . . We now come to the materials 3 which are two, and are to be joyned together ; the firft gi« veth the form, the ocker receiveth ic: that which giveth the form is the fpirit and foul of Sol q: g_old joyned together in ttie red^^ixir? andTs the aoent ? as ic were the man ; thafwhich re- ceiveth the form* is rh^jTajd^ft ^\z of the earch contained in Glafs, and is the p;itient,' as it weie rhe 'woman 5 the agent is the power of heaven impregnating the earth , the patFent is the power of the e?rthj retaining the imprelfion of the hea- then.
Having thus demonQrated the Theory , we now lay the foundation of the pra6lice , which are two , whereof the firti is the preparation o£ the Elixir, the otherof the Glafs,
Therefore your red corporeal Elixir is tO be diflblved^with the oyl or tind^ure of A^ars or Iron, bea^uCe ic hath the greatell vertue above ^ all
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all other bodies J by whole Caeieiiial power the Earthy that is to fay the glaffe ^ is brought to the hardncflc of ftdne y and converted into a ftone ; And fo the jE//j:'/V is pre_£ared for proje^lionjui- onghflej but for the preparation o^ glarie there IS no more required but that it be made of the fame matter that /^<r«;V^' glaffe is made of; the compofition of which if yon know not 5 Take as much Fmg^-glafle as you pleafe,^ and we^ETF cxa6tlyi ap6n which proiedt your^/^Ar/r .• when you have fo done> pnt^ur glafle in the Crucible CO jnek ; and when it is well molten rTEenTalTe your Corpoteal redg/fAry jltfolved as before (ox. lif you wi'lb undiftolved ) as much as fufficeth to tingg^the y o^^y ,?!.?!fc* and put it tied up in a pa- perintolche Crucible upon the niokcn gUffc i liirringk 3 little with a rod \ and there lee it iUnd the fpace of one hour : then take out the Cruci*- blej and f onr the matter into an ingot j and it will be malleable ^ but as hard as gla(re> and ftonelikc eTtHe'light : and ydii may eitfier cut it like a ftone i or work it with 1 hammer. This Car- bunckle-ftorie or metal hath tSe property of a Carbunckle in flbining and gli(iring above all na- tural Carbuncles ; and if itwuchaToador^gV: der, tbe^prefetuly^je} becanfeTt taketlTvirtue JromtEe JE/Kr agairtft all poyfon : And if the fickcarrie this Carbunckle about him, fo that it doth touch the region of his heart > ic takes a- way theCardiackpaiTions, and diminifheth the ftrength of the difeafe.
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CHAR VI!L
The feventh -Table denoting the Cowifo futon of Minerall Eleftrum or Amber 5 as well na- tural! as Arttjiciall j and alfo ffeaketh of a Bell made of Amber t*fed by Trice mi us.
H
Aving finifbed thefe two Secrets j we now come to the Eh^mm : buc whether it is to be reckoned amongft (tones, or amongil bo- dies, ic may be doubted j becaufein the Wefl-ln^ dies it is found writ in the Spanifh Decads of the vertue thereof ; it is affirmed to be the greateft Antidote againlt all poyfon > and far more noble then Gold : but if it be a metal 5 it muft neceffa- rily be the chief and fupreme of all metali ; for other metals have their original from Sulphurs and Mercury , but this^metal conhikth of re\'eii metals, and is the bell of all thofe wHTcfTgrow in the Arch^as of the Earth. For where Gold is taken for the mort noble of all metals by reafon of its perfed digedion and colour, this hath a greater degree of digeiiion and colour , having a, higher colour, that is to fay, clear red, approach-' iflg neerer to the true colour of the Sun. For as Gold is the Sun of other metals, fo this EUcirum is to Gold as the Heaven to the Sun, wherein Na- ture as it were in Heave tf [lath created certain Lts flVining with clear beams of a_Silveri(l) co- lour, (lie wing pFaia tolhe eye thatit conTffteth of red and white metals mixt in the highcft degree ofdigeriion. " ;"
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On the Contrary it may be objeaed.
Oh. I . That there are onely fix metaUick bo« dies i among(i which this is found to be nolic i therefore ir is rather ^ Spirit then a body. Alfo thus. Oh 2. The minereof everybody or metal li converted into metal by fuiioo > but the miners of f/^^r/iw in melting always remaineth 5 there* fore it is no metal.
Otherwife thus : Ok 3. There is nothing generated in th^ earth but ftonesj fpirits, metals> oc meanmine^ fals : but EleUrum is none of thefe ; therefore it 'eems to be no mineral,
X. To the firft objeaioh it is tfeus anfwered; We fay, that it is not apparent out of the books 3f any of the antient Philofophers i that they e-i ver dreamed of this natural and mineral 'EieBrum But more to the purpofe : thofe are called Spjr itSj^ which flie from^ thgjig s but the £hcirfm^ lieth not from the tire : therefore it is no Spirit} IS Quickfiiver and therert> and alfo mean mine- als.
2i We novv come t<5 the next. We grahc Aat the minere of every metal is converted iil- o metal bj the fire, which confiftsof Mercury ind Sulphure. This Axiome is evident in thofc netals which are imperfect > and flie from the fire ither in their minere or in themfelves, after they reduced into metall 5 and alfo the Gold mi- re , although before melting it flie from the e > before the Gold be moken and cottverted Q % iiic^
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into metal 5 yet becaufe Gold never fliech afcec it be molten > but is found fixed in all probation* therefore it is accounted the worchieft of all me- tals which confili of Sulphur and Mercury*
;• Now to the thirds I fay> that I think ic ra- ther is of a ftony and metallick nature joyned to-. gether ; by which mixture it differs from a ftone^ and alfo from metal : but becaufe it confifteth of Mercury, Earthly Salt and Sulphur mixed > there- fore it gets unto it a mixt nature of them ; fo that ic is half ftone^ half metaL
Wherefore it is to be judged that it confifteth of three natures mixed together ; that is to fay? tninerah metallicki and ftony ; and is the be(i of all thofe which grow in the Archeas of the Earth ; for it exceeds mean minerals i» fixation and con-* (hncy > becaufe they paffe away in fume by long , melting* and vanifh to nothing ; or eife they mek cafily in moyfture>as falts,(^r. But this Ele^hmm or Amber remaineth fixed and conttant as well in the fire as water.
It e?cceeds metals in digeftionj colour and dig- ility^ In digeftion , becaufe ic is en ewed with the figne of greater and more perfect digeftion : for as Gold is more yellow by reafon of his gr-ea- t€r heat and more perte6t digeftion 5 So this S- /r^n^W)becaufe it hath a higher colour then Gold hathi therefore ic is more digefted in colour : for as Gold exceeds other metals in colour , fo E/f<* Urnm exceeds Gold ; for Gold is yellow * but E- Itltrum rcdawhich is a higher colour then yellow. And asjilyer isthe.Z^g^ of white metals* fo Gojdjsthe 5»^of red metals ; So EUBrum is to ^IdTas^cbe liSyert is loSolin dignity or value j
for
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for by how much Gold is more noble then Silvei> fo much this EleBrnm is more noble then Gold,
Lai^ly, ic Q\ct\s Rones in fhining ) afid vercue^ In (hiamg i becaufc they (hifle by reafon of |heir hardneffe ^ fo this E/eStrnm {heweth many jSjpfarkesjnoc by reafon of its hardnefs^ but by rea- fon of his compleatneffe,' And as the heaven is a- dorned with Stars y fa this EleUrnm with fpark- lingjbecaufe it hath the clearnefs aod brightncfle of all metals. And as theyeiven corttaiheth aU the Stars and Planets^^^Stbis EUB^nm 9 which i$ the Heaven of jgrtfafs^ <:ontaineth the Sun and Moon» afldHTtTe rgft of the Plane^n it felf-, GolT and Silver as it were the greaterLuminaries > the othccbodies or metals a^ the reft of the Planets, njiean minerals as Scars in vertue. For ailthoijgh many ltohes4iave fingular properties and vertue^> fothxt foane help the fight , others the Spleen* fome the Heart ; fortie (top blood j ' fome hinder aborciveneffe* fome haften childbirth) fome tefift poyfon: yet there is no one foand which takes away all infirmities* as EleUrtim dochj more then all mean minerals) metds or ftoneS) according to bis- threefold c'onjtrni^ionj that is to fay> Mineral, Miecaliick, aftd Lapidiifick. :- "Therefore wbatfoeyer others pleafe 10 'think of this Natural £/tfl?rifW)this feemech moft probable to me ) that it is not fimply a metal ) but of a ha^ cure exceeding metal : for whereas (tones, mean minerals and metalsareg'6rterated of Saltj Sul- phur and Mercury, this EleBrum takes his origi- nal from Scoite^ i Minerals and Metals : from Stones ic c^kes -S^r > from Minerals yierenry^, i^oral/ltUihSftlfhHr, Thefe three being brought
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«r •^.■. — — -^
^to one oy the Archeas of natute , are ics Ele-
Hiemsjfrom a greater vertue and power of nature; which Elements have formed a higher degree of p9rfe(Stion then in any other (tone,mincral or me* \2\^ as it were by the Gommandmenc of God Nature ftiould afcribe a Crowi) of vertue and dignity above all minerals.
But however it be , it \% taken two manner of ways amoagU the later Magitians andAlchymifiSj fbat is to fay> that which is made naturally^ and artificially J naturally is that which groweth in the natural Archeas of the Earth'j the Artificial \& jhat which is made ()y Art above the Earth in imitation of Nature.
Whence ^arAcelitts a worthy Mafier in Mt- gick feeing fully the nature of it* and the utility of Alcbymy y commanding to make the "Elixir thereof when as its natural body cannot be ha<i> m his.booke of the Vexations of ^hllofophrsi and fhe fixth of his Magical Archldoxest teacheth to fomponnd an Artificial Elethum 9 that the £•» (Ixlr muftbe made thereof, as appears moreac jarge in the faid Bookes ; which I like not at all. fit teacheth how to make theE//Vr out of E- JeEirum ; I contrarily j the Electrum out of the t-llxtr: be would mak^ the Elixir of the vertue of the Ele^rMWy^nd I the ElegrHm of the vertue Oftli^e l^ijxlr, I leave his way rohifiownfol- Jowers, 6ut I defire mine not to weary and vex themfelves in fuch a weak > but 4 more ftrong principle.
. I make two kindes of EteBrum one way ; the filft wijereof is Spiritual y the other Corporeal. firft of tbq forgaer 5 after ypi^ have maJeypufred.
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;:^ — "ZZT^llxlr bv projeaion > in the fame xjl
"^V ^.^p Oiiirkrilver upon the molten
thofe two ounces of Qa\<^^l^^^^^ "t' .
^muft havTTn readinefs molten. AndJiB^ t
IZ ylr molten Gold into the Cmctbk, where
Jour fo«r whice melTls (land tt^oken. «nd pour «
upon theol ; then your Qopper ' »°^ W ot »
/our Iron , ftkring the whole mafle ««h a l^^cK.
ihac it may mix tose^he^ and « k ita ^^^
meldng heat '^e fpace of an hour td ^^^^^^^
QUt that is melted in the Crucible . an
well the weight of it 5 and accordm|^co he ^ a
neffeof your £^'>'>' ^-il^lH^^I^Ss^. cine. And thus you halfiTTeated ?n^ comp u
ounce^TcoiffinTif^ffe^f?"^^ ISirro converted into medicine , " " °^]fe- jtl.olEUar,.n,. and an Umverfal medicme
- ( or metal ) you projea it. It is alio in= iedkine for mans body : for »1*°«8X ^ere four of all the Kfe^^^ ^^ ^^-^.^Sw^aT. united together ,- yet they may be '"^^ w
one medicine. I^oaM^lseilit^SHnti riLaLVVme, and diftilUway the fame ip'-J^« C 4
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Bdkeo , and the Oyl of theniedicme or Elixir remain in the bottome, as is taught in the fecond book> you fhflU have the ^hiefelt medi^ifiw^ QHifej and moft Noble Anrum fotMe, '^ \.i(l::\ '. Note chat if yoar Iron melc not^weli j ;then d^olve your EMirum in the Oyl "or Tingurc
"Imbibedaiufficient quantity,
guc if you defife to make corporeal £/f^ri^iw> ^benyour medicine be^Inneth tp fail to convert raetalls 4ny more into; medicine > then in like manner proje<!^ your medicine upon your melted metals or bodies , and ihey will be converted in- £Q corporeal Si^^ftm metallick and malleable 5 of the venue of Which as 1 do endeavour to write oothing J fo alfoof ics vice, or rather of the vici- oufneffe of thofe that abufe it, I will touch a lic- de fparingly. ;•
Par4ce/fMs writeth 3 that VlrjlU Hjjyanus and. Trtthemlus made a Diabolical Bell ofthif Ar- tlEciall EleUrtim , upon which when they would xnvocate Spirits (which they called by a more de- cent name of Imflltgencesyhoy writ the Character of what Spirit they defired 5 and at the third ring of the bell the Spirits obeyed their defires fo Jong as they defired to talk withthem ; and when they would talk no more, they hid the Charadter* and by the reverfe ringing of the bell the Spirits departed. He that willforfake God, and require knowledge , aid and afllftance from the Devil > let him fbare wit1i ^rbttcelly and with him de- fcend to the Infernal Lake. But we that are true Magicians, or rather Philofophers , confiding ia pod the Pather>and the holy Trinity, approving ^ ^ — ' cf
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of Natural and lawful Magick or true P^hilofo-. phy> but accounting the fupernatural altoge- ther infamous and unlawful. And we require the doftrine and wifdome of divine goodne(re> and the holy Spirits to whom be honour and glory for evermore. Amen*.
C H A P. Ik.
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fhe.eigbtkTahleyUfhich expjaineth the meamng 0^ the Philofo'phers when the) [peak of the ^i- tenth Number therein the Elixir /5 fini^^ :t) ed: Andalfo \hevpeth the wonderfuU fecret -^'ofthe 4^^irnal(idfie , out df George Riplyt ' mth two other Ojf his Vf^orkes,
fX/E now come to the Laft Chapter ol thi$ ^^ Bookj wherein is declared what the Philo- fophersinsan when they bid us finifli the works in the tenth number : it is to be underftood thai; as out of the Hyle or Chaos four are divided 5 fo out of the Hyle or Chaos of metafe^ Becaufe metals or boijies when they are^diffQlved intQ^lL>» quoTj then they are contained in the firft or on^ number , which is the folution of the body > of which by diflillationisjoadetwOj (That is to fay» HgaveELap4.^£"bi the Mer^ftruum and Salt) that which rem ainetlT in the bottome is the Earth or Salti that which is diftilled over is the Afenfirfi- «wand Heaven. And (o you have Ofse, two.
When the Menftrmm is feparated,it is divided into Three* that is to fay, intoWater> Air> and
Fire:
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Fire : Yec it is te be noted j that the Air> which is the firii part of the water containing an aery diipofitiona although it be in the form of water, yei-ic is reputed aer , by reafon of the ccmfimili- tbdeof the quality; and after its perfe<ft rectifi- cation , it is a tinging tJiiercHry^ and the white Spirit of metals. In like manner is to be confi- de red of the Oyl , which although it is not in the form of fire> but a liquor; yet by reafon of its Ardent heata it is called fire, and the Soul or red tinging Mercury. And fo there is One j twoy Three.
When there is a Conjunction of tbefe threej that is to fay j the air and water with its Salt or Earth J in putrefac^ionj thefe three are united in- to one quinteffence i and are made -a n^w body ; in which three are united in one Sulphur, which Sulphur is the true Philofophers i^^frr^ry .• and in' making this white Sulphur , you have once t^^ned the Philofophers wheel. '- -But that the work may be perfe3ed in the tenth Number , if you adde the fire which is the fourth Element , to thefe three concluded in the forefaid unity^ and rubified ; then if thefe four ift^ncw Conjunction be putrified in a lent fire of afliesi then it is the ftone : for in this work ic changeth colour's again , and is converted into a red Hone : ahd by this means you have joyned four into one, that is to fay 3 i. 2. 3. 4. make ten : And fo the ftone is finifhed in the tenth number, becaufe you have tuned tie Philofo- phers wheel cwice> as Klfley witnefleth thus.
"Bm jftt fig^ln two tlmfs turn aboHt the vphe^.
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The ftoneisco be diffolved again wich tne fire* • or Soul^^ififin6lure, and dried again until it pierce an^flow ; then ic is to be fermented into Mllxir with the 0)1 of the Luminary 5 andfo you ha^ turned tne Philofophers wheel again> which is <hen called the medicine of the third or- der. Of the folution of this, Rifley hath writ rhefe verfesj teaching the refolution of the white and red ftone before it be tranfmuting Elixir^ calling them his Bafesj faying,
: *I>9 as I hid thee^ then dtffolvc thefc forefaid
Bajh mttyj jindtHrn thtm into fnfe^ O^ls with our true
tvaur Ardjm : 'By Clrcnlmin that mtifl be done , accord wj[ f
our Intent. ThefeOyls mU fix crude Mercury , and convert
bodies all Into ferfeU Sol and Luna when thou (halt t»ak,e
frojeUlen : That OjlleSubftance pure and fixt Raymond
Luily did call His Baftlhk , of which he never made fo flam
deteUlon.
By which verfes it plainly appeareth, hi^BafeS were onely two Sulpnurs 3 or two ftones > which in another place he called his Miner es : and thefc mineres ought to be diffolved by his Ardent wa- ter J by circulation of the Oyl or foul upon the Sulphur, until it become a ftone : for in this place betakes both the fpirit and the foul for the Ar- dent water, willing that th^ fpirit and foul BeJ
admini-
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. idmimlired according co their tinging natures^ for the refolution of che proper Bafis. And thus ha^vc you the vvor^BrOf tnis i^igma C5iphined of the tenth number | which Teeing it is the end of the Artj I have refcrved it till the end, - - j ■
It.nfow rcmainecli that we reveaj one fecret of Tistfleji whid? was pever fpoken of by ally PhiT fcifopherj that is to fay ^ the manner of making theSujphur of Nature out of the Minercof the kiicrocofm* which is mans b|oo4i of which he writ the whole pra6lice in his book of the twelve %^iy%\^^ mpii ctnefly irf {ii»<^^^0/(f4. wher^ he teachetti its prepMtioiii and wpr^ mor^ l^lainly. ^^ b^ija^fiSfl {i^v;e ptoved if to be ttue>thiErt{bre 1 tell it more confi'dently , -becaute I defire to l{«i(rite'np^bingof &;iy'pVvn faficy, biic that: V^hfth I have firft proved. Hearken almoftibdlativerfes I^Ui^-hfe writ^n.-i^ Tvpelvegdtei,* ' . .^..; C
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Of which In this Treat ife the truth J h^ve tpU : St^dy ovety tt^ref^hrehovf to m^ke imr ft&nty '^: For thereby may ft thiH win both Silver; And G^ld, %^^ my vprttiyig therefore to ground thee.b/ bold, 80 fhultthou loofe noughts if God be thy guidg : Trufi to my dollrmey and thereby abide,
f '"?• %emember that man Is mofl noble Creatura
Of Ear-thly eompofttio'^ that ever God rvreughr^
Inwhom Is the four element i proportioned by natttre%
A natural Mercurlalhy which cofteth right Koughn
Out of his mlvere by Art it Is brought :
For oHt^metalls be not^ght elfe but our mineres tv^ot
QfSHfk^KdMooHyiplfelyKt^^mndfaidfo.
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the cUArnefs of the Moon and of the Sm fo bn^hti Inthefe tvpo miner es defcendethf e ere tljf ; HowbeitthecUarneffeishldfromthjrfightt By craft thoHJhalt make it appear openly. This h'Ufionei this one thingtherefore pmrifie^ Wafh him in his own Broth till white he iecomei then ferment him mtt Hj* Lohere is all andfn7th
Opt ofthefe onely words there are twapoiats obferved, whereunco the Author, (kereth : The firft is , chat qjans hlood h^ piirjjTj^iitrefj^Amn^ that Sulphnr may be made thereoT^'he fecond is> chat ic be fermented vifittily; Asif hefhould fay > the Artirt (hould prepare it j that it may be fit for ferjneHtatioH. Thus far of the Theory ; Now we come to declare the pra6^ice out of Ri- pley's medttlla.
Take Mans blood^drawn one of the Veine in March,andof a Martial man the Author meaneth (as I thmk)of a Cholerick complexion ; and when the blood is drawn out of the vein 3 let it cool, that the Green water may be drawn from it > which is faltifh : for as long as that fajtifii water remaineth with the blood a it will not let it pu- trifiejbecaufe the water preferveth the blood from putrifa<!ilion while it is in a mans body.
When it is thus prepared, put it in anEgge- olafle well clDledjand fet it iTiBal»eo to puFrifiSa fort^5y?BneIIe it will be black ; and fo goon lill it be white. When you have your white Sul- phur, divide it into twopatts 5 and keep one for the white ftone , and rubifie the other for the rjej, work/ And fo you have two mmeres , of vmch icisfaidi
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Tor our meuh be nought elfe but oUr mineres two Of San and tJH^on , wifelj Ray mond faidfo.
And fo to the end of the verfes , as before^ Yet here it is to be underftood » that the Philo- fophers Sulphur is not mineral or metallick Sul- phur, from which metalls grow under the Earth : but it is a purified Sulphur drawn out of metalls made by Art above the Earth : out of which and the Mercury of the body the (ione arifeth. For believe me,I had never writ any thing of this Artf except I had feen the Sulphur of the Microcofm* and the perfe6^ folution of other bodies and Sul- phurs.
Now have you prepared your Sulphur out of the minereof the M crocofm : If you be a Philo- fopher , proceed to iheend > and conclude your Work in the tenth number : If not > you are not born to our Philofophy ^ therefore give the Sul- phur Mercury y that the work may be compleat.
I believe there lieth not any Secret m the Chymicall Art, which thou ha(^ not truly decla- red and playnly taught. But to the end that thefa things which we have fpoken may be more fure- ly^ committed to memory, we will repeat the ge- neral procefs of the parts as it is defcribcd in the beginning of this third book. And becaufe there is not one , but diverfe handling of the bodies, therefore the Table is divided into three parts ; the middle whereof difcribeth the procefs of im- perfed^ bodies to the done ; the other two teach the preparation of perfed miCtals foi fermen- tation of the Ibne of impeifeS bodies.
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^he mMiitr of f re faring ImfcrfeSi: bodits*
(J^ Alcin3|ion of the body* Ij Eolation of che body into HjUp Sepgrauon^by piHiliacion , . Conjundion, of tbefegarated. rj ,Pticrefa<^ion of che conjoyned. Sulphur by pucrefadion to the Stone* Fermentation of che Stone to the Elixir 0 Augmentation of the £//^ir, Proje6^ionof theE//;^/rJ"
Some make twelve parts, as Ripley and others* who call them twelve gates : but becaufe three ocher degrees are contained in thefe? it would be ridiculous to repeat them : and becaufe the way of \ oth ferments > whether white or red > ii the fame.
7he Table of Fermentation.
CAIcination* Solution. Putrefadiom Sulphur.
Solution of the Sulphur, , ., ,, u
Red ferment. Aumm? otablle. Quinteffence. Elixir vit£*
Solikewife it isfaid of Silver when ic is prepared*
"White Ferment. Argemnm VotabiU. Qjaintcffence. White Elixir of Life#
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Now the Radiant Sun of the Philofophcrs ari- fechj which will drive away the dark Chimera's. and difperfe the black clouds. Here the Enig- ma's are opened > thirties and thorns afe3;ut up and burned. Now Reader mayett tha»^fafely walke in the Philofophers gardens , and gather mort wholefome fruit. Here grow moft fragrant rofes both white and red. Here grow Vines bea- ring full grapes, of which is n^,ade the wholefom* Nc6lar. Here are found trees of health and wealthj Trees of the Sun and of the Moon. Here fpring two cool fountaines of Sciences and Know- ledge Aiding artificially throuc;h the garden upon the moli: pretious gems 3 and Silver and Golden Sands. Thou haft one field of Paradice given 'thee frt>m Codj that during the Life of his eleft they lUay be kept in heahhjfree from all ficknefs. Here the corrupc Nature puts oh an incorrupt Na- ture. Here impure things are turned into pure things. Hcreareall difeafesioftj and health en- creafeth. Here the perfe6l unity and harmony of body dwell , and here is alfo all the moft^excel- lent treafures. Therefore let us alwkyrpraife God for his gifts : let us worfhip him L obey him> love him, and.befeech him to eftablifh bis grace upon us, and conduct us to eternity through all his ways of goodneffe , knowledge and faith > to Life eternal. Amen, l.>
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