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TREATISE 

o  F 

BERNARD 

EARL   O  F 

TR  EVl  S  AN, 

OF  THE 

Philolbphers   Stone* 


LONDON, 

Printed  for  William  Cooper^  at  the  Felican 
'   in  Little  Britain^   1683. 


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V 


A  Singular  Treatije  of  Bern- 
hard  Count  Trevifan  con- 
cerning the  Philofofhery 
Stone. 


COnfidering  the  long  Defircs  and 
Hopes  of  the  Students  in  the 
Chymick  Art,  I  will  in  the  pre- 
fent  Treatife  biiefly  and  openly 
declare  this  Art.  Fir(t  therefore  the  Subjed 
of  the  Art  is  to  be  known,  in  the  fecond 
place,  the  Foundation,  in  the  third,  the 
Progrefs,  fourthly  and  laftly,  the  Extra(^ion 
of  the  Elements  :  Which  being  known,  eve- 
ry one  may  mo^t  eafily  attain  the  end  of  the 
Art. 

The  Subjed  of  this  admired  Science  is  o  ^ 
Sol  and  L««j,  or  rather  Male  and  Female,  /m  ^  S 
the  Male  is  hot  and  dry,  the  Female  cold 
and  moyft,  and  know  for  a  certain  that  out 
Stone  is  not  compounded  of  any  other  thing, 
although  miny  Philofophers  name  fevcral  o- 
ther  things,  of  which  they  fpeak  Sophifti, 
cally.  F  3  Never. 


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4  Bernard  Trevifan^ 

Neverthelefs  by  Scotuf,  Hortulanw^  St. 
T^homas^  and  Cbrijiopher  Tarifienfu^  and  very 
many  others,  many  other  things  for  an  other 
Caufe  are  fophiftically  reckoned  up,  that  Ig- 
norant Men  may  be  deceived,  becaufe  it  is 
not  fit  for  Fools  to  know  our  Secrets  :  And 
this  is  it,  which  I  thought  fit  at  this  time 
to  propound  concerning  the  Subject  of  our 
Art.  '^J 

The  Foundation  of  this  Art,  is  the 
Knovi^ledge  of  the  four  Qualities,  and  that 
in  the  beginning  of  the  work,  Coldnefs 
and  Moyfture  have  the  Dominion :  For  as 
Scotm  faith,  As  the  Sun  dryeth  up  the  a-' 
bundance  of  ^Fater  in  Fenny  and  Boggy 
Places,  after  the  fame  manner  our  Sulphur 
when  it  is  joyned  with  its  ^ater  or  Mercury, 
doth  by  little  and  little  confume  and  drink 
up  the  fame  by  the  help  of  the  F[re,  and 
that  by  the  affiftance  of  the  only  living 
God. 

The  Progrefs  is  nothing  elfe  than  a  cer- 
tain contrary  A6l:ion,  for  the  Defer iption  of 
contrary  things  is  one  and  the  fame,  and  if 
thou  (halt  have  twice  made  thii  equality, 
thou  (halt  finifb  the  whole  Progrefs. 


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Of  tie  Philofophers'Stone,      85 

But  now  all  skill  confifteth  in  drawing 
forth  the  Elements,  wherefore  read  over 
that  which  followeth  fo  often,  until  thou 
canft  conceive  and  underftand  it  j  and  know 
that  no  one  ever  fpoke  fo  plainly  as  I  in  this 
Place,  as  thou  wilt  find  by  what  followeth  : 
Therefore  give  thanks  to  the  great  God,  and 
be  grateful  to  thy  Friend  who  communica- 
ted to  thee  this  Tradate;  Live  alfo  accor- 
ding to  God  and  reafon,  becaufe  Divine 
/Fifdom  will  not  enter  into  a  wicked  Soul> 
nor  into  a  Body  fubje6ted  to  Sins. 
;  The  Extradion  of  the  Elements  is  a  cer-  -=^1^ 
fain  Compolition  of  Blacknefs,  VVhitenefs, 
Yellownefs,  and  Rednefs :  And  know  that 
Natures  ought  to  hz  drawn  from  their 
Roof.  But  the  Root  is  a  certain  Congrega- 
tion of  Elennents,  confiftingin  Sulphur  and  ^ 
Mercury,  which  they  call  a  cor.fufed  Mafs.  ^4* '  ^  a 
But  the  Natures,  which  are  dra'.vn  forth  from 
the  Root  arc  Sulphur  and  Mercury,  which 
when  they  are  joyned  together  are  feparated, 
and  purified,  that  they  may  be  the  better 
mingled  afterwards,  and  united  with  the 
Body,  out  of  which  they  are  drawn.  And 
after  the  Colours  have  pafTcd,  and  thjt 
which  is  above,  is  made  like  that  which  is 
below,  and  that  which  is  below  like  that 
above,  then  Miracles  will  from  thence  ap- 
pear, r^hich  being  done,  thou  halt  a  Trian- 
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gle  in  a  Quadrangle,  and  a  fifth  thing  which 
is  contained  in  four. 

Now  remaineth  the  Muhiplication,  in 
which  this  briefly  is  to  be  noted  ;  That  the 
Elixir  ought  to  be  nouriftied  out  of  the  fame 
things,  from  which  at  finl  it  had  its  Com- 
pofition.  No  Philofopher  before  now  hath 
(b  openly  declared  this,  as  I  have  here  done , 
and  that  for  two  Caufes,  hrli  becaufe  from 
the  beginning  to  the  end  of  the  work  a  long 
tjme  is  required,  although  fome  Philofophers 
do  fay,  the  Stone  may  be  made  in  one  day, 
and  others  in  one  ir.onth  ;  But  know  that 
they  rpeak  Enigmatically^  and  that  their 
words  ought  not  thus  to  be  underftood. 

Neverthelefs  I  fay  with  Scotuf  that  the 
Stone  or  perfed^  work  may  be  made  in  one 
year.  Secondly, becaufe  Man's  Lite  is(hort,and 
he  groweth  Old,  before  he  comprehendeth 
and  underliandeth  what  is  needful  to  be 
done  in  the  CompoHtion  of  the  Stone.  And 
therefore  I  have  here  fo  openly  explained 
all  things,  kali  this,  fo  noble  a  Science,  Ihould 
be  loft  and  perifh. 

The  Theory  of  the  fail  e  Author. 

Ufe  venerable  Nature,  for  the  Philofo- 
phers  from  their  own  Auchority  have  impo- 
ied  various  Names  on  tins  Nature,  by  rea- 

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Off  he  Philofophers'Sfone,       87 

fon  of  divers  Colours  appearing  in  its  Alte- 
ration.    For  when  it  appeareth  under  the 
form  of  Water,  they  have  called  it  Argent 
vive.  Permanent  Water,  Lead,  Spirit,  Spi^ 
tie    of  Lune^  Tinn,  &c.     And   when    it's 
made  dry  and  becometh  white,  they  have 
named  it    Silver,  Magnefia,  and  white  Sul- 
phur.    And  when  it  groweth  red,  they  call 
the  fame  Gold  and  Ferment.     But  they  do 
not  vary  in  the  thing  it  felf,  when  that  is 
always  one  thing  only,  and  the  fame  mat- 
ter,   and  always  of  the  fame   Nature,    in 
which  nothing  entreth  which  is  not  drawn 
from  it,  and  this  which  is  next  to  it,  and  of 
its  Nature.     And  this  is  moft  true,  to  wit, 
the  Stone  is  one,  and  one  Medicine,  and  it 
is  a  Water   clear,  and    bright,  permanent, 
pure  and  (hining,  of  a  Celeftical  Colour.  And 
if  Water  did  not  enter  into  our  Medicine, 
it  could  not  purifie  nor  mend  it  felf,  and  fo 
thou  couldft  not  obtain  thy  defire  :  But  that 
which  doth  mend  it  is  Sol^  for  the  Water 
cannot  be  made  better  without  it :  For  with- 
out Sol  and  his  (hadow  a  tinging  Pi.yfon  Qm-O^JU^l  y    JJ  c^-7\ 
not  be>nerated.     Whoever  therefore  (hall    /•  f^  ,,    ^<-^  ^^^.  ^^-^J-^-^*^ 
think  that  a  Tindure  can  be  made  without 
thefe  two  Bodyes,  to  wit  Sj/ and  hum,  he0:>^^^ 
prcceedeth  to  the  Pradice  like  one  that  is 
blind.     For  Body  doth  not  Ad  upon  Body, 
nor  Spirit  upon  Spirit ;  Neither  doth  Fovm 
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receive  an  Impreffion  from  Form,  nor  Mat" 
ter  from  Matter,  when  as  like  doth  not  Ex" 
ercife  either  Adion  or  PaflTion  upon  its  like  : 
For  one  is  not  more  worthy  than  an  other, 
wherefore  there  can  be  no  Adtion  betwixt 
them,  when  as  like  doth  not  bear  Rule  over 
like.  But  a  Body  doth  receive  ImprelTton 
from  a  Spirit,  as  Matter  doth  from  its  Form, 
and  a  Spirit  from  its  Body,  becaufe  they  are 
made  and  created  by  God,  that  they  may  A(^. 
and  fuffer  each  from  other.  For  Matter 
would  flow  infinitely,  if  a  Form  did  not  re- 
tard and  ftpp  its  Flux.  Wherefore  when  the 
Body  is  a  Form  informing,  it  doth  inform 
and  retain  the  Spirit,  that  it  afterwards  can- 
not flow  any  more. 

The  Body  therefore  doth  tinge  the  Spirit, 
and  the  Spirit  doth  penetrate  the  Body, 
whereas  one  Body  cannot  penetrate  an  other 
Body,  but  a  fubtil  Spiritual  congealed  Sub- 
flance  doth  penetrate  and  give  Colour  to  the 
Body.  And  this  is  that  Gummy  and  Olea- 
ginous Stone,  proportioned  in  its  Natures^ 
containing  a  Spiritual  Nature  occultly  in  it 
felf  together  with  the  Elements  purifyed. 
Therefore  the  Philofophers-Stone  is  to  be 
wholy  reduced  into  this  Gumminefs  by  the 
h(i  Reiteration  or  Inceration  of  a  ctriain  gcn- 


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Of  the  Philosopher  S'Stone,  89 
Stone,  it  appeareth  like  Copper,  whereas 
notwithiianding  it  is  a  certain  Spiritual  Sub- 
(tance,  penetrating  and  colouring  or  tineine 
all  Metallick  Bodys. 

From  hence  thou  mayft  eafily  guefs,  that 
this  doth  not  proceed  from  the  crajfitude  and 
grofsnefs  of  the  Earth  -,  but  from  a  Spiritual 
Metallick  Subftance,  which  doth  penetrate 
and  enter.  Wherefore  it  behoveth  thee  to 
refolve  the  Body  into  a  fubtil  Metallick  Spi- 
rit, and  afterwards  to  congeal  and  hx,  re- 
tain and  incerate  it,  that  it  may  flow  before 
it  tinge.  For  Gold  doth  Colour  nothing 
befides  it  felf,  unlefs  firft  its  own  Spirit  be 
extraded  out  of  its  own  Belly  i  and  it  be 
made  Spiritual. 

And  know  that  our  Mercurial  Water  is^JMt^ 
living  Water,  and  a  burning  Fire,  mortify- 
ing and  tearing  in  pieces  Gold  more  than 
common  Fire.  And  therefore  by  how  much 
more  it  is  better  mixed,  rubbed  and  ground 
with  it,  by  f-)  much  more  it  deftroyeth  it, 
and  the  living  fiery  Water  is  more  attenuated. 
But  now  when  three  are  made  one  \n  the 
Form  of  a  congealed  Subllance,  then  it  hath 
in  it  a  true  Tindure,  which  can  endure  the 
Violence  of  the  Fire.  Therefore  when  the 
Body  is  fo  tinged,  if  can  tinge  .another,  and 
it  hath  in  it  felf  all  Tind:ure  and  Virtue. 
And   from  hence  all  they  who  tinge  wirh 

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Sol  and  his  Shadow,  C^i^)  with  the  Poy 
foTjEat  isArgent  vive,  do  perfectly  com" 
JfSt^rStone,  which  we  call  the  great  and 
perfe6t  Gumm.     And  know  for  certain  that 
it  is  not  necelTary,  that  our  Stone  or  Gumm 
lofe  its  firft  Mercurial  Nature  m  thebublima- 
tionef  its  crude  and  fivft  Spirit:  for  theOyl 
and  Gumm  pertaining  to  this  Stone  are  no- 
thins  elfe,  then    the  Elements  themfeWes 
Mercurialized,  and  made  equal  together,  (hut 
up  and  coagulated,  refoluble  and  living,  re- 
tained or  bound  in  the  vifcohty  of  the  Oyly 
Earth,    and    infeparably  mixed.     And  we 
ouehc  toknow  that  that  Gum  or  Oyl  is  firft 
drawn  out  of  the  Bodys,  which  being  ad- 
ded, it  is  reduced  into  a  Spirit,  until  the  lu- 
paHuous  humidity  of  the  Water  be  turned 
into  Air,  drawing  one  Element  out  of  ano- 
ther bydigeftlon  until  the  Form  of  Water 
be   converted  into  the  Nature  of  Oyl,  and 
fo  our  Stone  in  the  end  gcttcth' t-hc  Name  of 
Gumm  and  Sulphur.  ,       .      c 

But  whofoever  hath  brought  the  btone , 
thus  far,  that  it  appear  like  a  mixing  Gumm, 
and  fuflereth  it  felf  to  be  mixed  with  all  im- 
perfed  Bodies,  he  verily  hath  found  a  great 
Secret  of  Nature,  becaufe  thit  is  a  perfect 
Stone,  Gum  and.  Sulphur. 

This 


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OftkePhilofophers'Sto^ie,       91 

This  Stone  ^hen  is  compounded  of  a  Body  o  ^mj^. 
and  Spirit,  or  of  a  volatile  and  fixed  Sub-    £ '^& 
fiance,  and  that  is  theretore   done,  becaufe 
nothing  in   the  World  can  be  generated  and 
brouglit  to  light  v/irhout  thefe  two  Subfian- 
ces,  to  wit,  a   Male  and  Ferrale   :    From 
whence  it  appeal ech,    that  although    thefe 
two  Sublianccs  are  not  of  one  and  the  fame 
fpecies,  yet   one  Stone   doth   thence   arife, 
and  although  they  appear  and  are  faid  to  be 
twoSubltances,  yet  in  truth  it  is  but  one,  to 
wit,  Afgent-vive.     But  of  this  Argent  vive  a 
certain  part  is  fixed  and  digelied,  Malculine,  Jo^^r- 
hot,  dry,  and   fecreily   informing  :  But  the 
other  which  is  the  Female,  is  Volatik%  crude, 
cold  and  moyfi  •.  and  from  thefe  two  Sub- 
fiances  the  whole  may  calily  be  known,  and 
the  whole  Stone  inti^elyunderfiood.  Where- 
fore if  our  Stone  did-'only  confifi  of  one  Sub- 
fiance,  in  it  there  could  be  no  Action  and 
pallion  ot"  one  thing  towards  the  other  •■,  for 
one  would  neither  touch  nor  con,e  nigh  or 
enter  into  the  other  :  As  a  Stone  and  piece 
of  Wood  have  no  Operation  on  each  other, 
lince  they  do  conlllt  of  a  dilferent   matter, 
and  hence  they  can  by  no  means,  no  not  in 
the  leafi  be  mixed  together,  and  there  is  the 
fame  rcafon  for  all  thiPt^s  that  differ  in  mat- 
ter. VVherefo:e  it  is  evident  and  certain  that 
it  ftiould  benecefiary  for  the  Agent  and  Pati- 
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9  2  Bzrtiard  Trevifav, 

ent  to  be  of  one  and  the  fame  Genus  i  but  ofa 
differ ent  fpecies,  even  as  a  man  differeth  from 
a  Woman.  For  although  they  agree  in  one 
and  the  fame  Genus,  yet  neverthelefs  they 
have  diverfe  Operations  and  Qualities,  even 
as  the  Matter  and  Form.  For  the  Matter 
fuffereth,  and  the  Form  adeth  ailimulating 
the  Matter  to  it  felf,  and  according  to  this 
manner  the  Matter  naturally  thirfteth  after  a 
Form,  as  a  Woman  delireth  an  Husband, 
and  a  Vile  thir.g  a  precious  one,  and  an  im- 
pure a  pare  one,  fo  alfo  Argent  vive  cove- 
teth  a  Sulphur,  as  that  which  (hould  makei 
perfed  which  is  imperfed:  .•  So  alfo  a  Bodyl 
freely  defireth  a  Spirit,  whereby  it  may  at| 
length  arrive  at  its  perfcdicn.  Therefore 
Learn  thou  the  Natural  Roots,  and  thofe 
that  are  better,  with  which  thou  oughteft 
to  reduce  thy  Matter,  whereby  thou  mayft 
perfect:  thy  work.  For  this  bleffed  Stone 
hath  in  it  all  things  neceifary  to  its  perfe- 
(Stion. 

7he  Pra&ick  of  thejame  Author, 

If  we  well  confider  the  Words  of  Morie- 
nuf  that  great  Philofopher  in  Alchimy^ 
who  faith,  Mix  together  Water,  Earth» 
Air,  and  Fire  in  a  due  weight,  without 
doubt  thou  wilt  obtain   all  the  Secrets  of 

this 


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Of  the  Philojophers-Stofie.       93 

this  Divine  Science.  And  firft,  when  h^ 
(aifh,  put  into  the  Water,  or  putrifie  the 
Earth  in  Water,  this  fignifieth  nothing  el(e, 
then  the  Extraftion  of  Water  out  of  Earth, 
and  the  pouring  of  Water  upon  the  Earth, 
fo  long  until  the  Earth  putrifie  and  be  clean- 
fed,  other  wife  it  would  not  bring  forth  its 
Fruit.  Secondly  when  he  faith,  mix  Water 
and  Air,  it's  no  more  then  if  he  (hould  have 
faid,  mix  Water  no\¥  prepared  with  Air 
dilTolved,  or  joyn  and  mix  together  d'lC- 
folved  Air  with  Water.  Judge  ye  your 
felves  :  For  you  know  that  Air  is  warm 
and  moyft,  and  ye  have  the  faying  of  Mo- 
rientts  concerning  the  diflblution  of  Air, 
Earth,  Fire  and  Water.  Some  when  they 
fpeak  of  Diflblution,  fay  that  the  Solution 
of  the  Fire  is  better,  becaufe  whatfoever 
is  diflblved  in  the  Fire,  that  floweth  in  the 
Air.  And  Note  that  the  Fire  of  the  Phi- 
lofophers  is  nothing  elfe  then  the  Air  dif- 
folved  and  congealed.  This  you  may  better 
comprehend  from  fimilitude,  and  fuppofe  that 
firft  you  have  Air  diflblved  and  congealed,  to 
which  add  Fire.  The  Earth  ought  to  be  firft 
prepared,  and  the  Fire  diflblved,  before  they 
are  mixed.  -^ 

For  the  Earth  together  With  the  Fire 
ought  to  be  put  into  a  fit  Veflel,  and  after 
is    to  be  introduced  the    inextinguilhable 

Firs 


j7/    oc^^o^  fh,cof~ ^-6/ix^ 


94  Bernard  TrevifaK^  ^c. 

Fire  of  Nature,  which  when  it  defcendetl-f! 
upon  the  Earth,  devoureth  the  whole  togej 
ther  with  its  Gumm,  and  converteth  it  intcl 
its  own  Nature.  Wherefore  if  ye  contideif 
well  the  Sayings  and  Precepts  of  the  Pliilofo-| 
phers,  and  undctftand  their  Myftical  Sence.j 
ye  (ball  conne  to  all  the  Secrets  of  the  Divin€| 
Chymick  Art.  j 


FINIS. 


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THE 

ANSWER 

OF 
TO   THE 

EPISTLE 

OF 

Thomas  o(  Sojionia^ 

Phyfician  to 
K.  CHARLES  the  8^^. 


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189 


TJje  An[\<f€r  of  Bernard  US 
Trr\'ifanus,  to  .the  Eplfile 
of  Thomas  of  Bononia, 
VLyfician  to  King  Charles 
the  Eighth. 

T{e-jerenJ Doctor,  and  HonoHred Sir, 

With  the  tender  of  all 
po.llble  Refpeas  and 
Services  be  pleafcd  to 
undcrlland,  that  I  hare  received 
your  very  large  and  copious  Let- 
ter by  Mr.  Awthy,  together  with 
the  Scone  of  your  n:o.t  fecrec 
Worii  ;  whi.h  trcly  is  a  remarka- 
ble argument  of  yoir  Fnendfliip, 
by  which  the  confidence  you  put 
in  me  appears  manifeil:  and  very 
great,  and  with  how  great  and 
picr.ing  a  ,Wit  alfo  you  arc  illii- 
llrated.  Now  then  I  fixall  very 
willinirly  Anfwer  unto  your  Epi- 
i^le  :  Some  things  I  Ihall  approve, 
whiih  you  have  written  learnedly 
aad 


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190      TheAnfwerof 

and  ingenioufly ,   other  things  I 
fhall  briefly    touch ,    and   refute 
ftriaiy  and  Philofophically  ,  but 
not  arrogantly,  and  throughly  dif-  ■ 
cufs  them  with  fubmiffion  and  re- 
fpe£t  unto  your  Honour,  and  re- 
tpeft  :  For  in  this  facred  and  fe- 
cret  Art,  as  in  others,  the  truth  of 
the  Theory  ought  to  be  confirmed 
by    Praflical    experience.      Now 
therefore.  Reverend  Doftorjlet  us 
vifit   one  another  with  futh  Re- 
turns and  Trcatjfes,  fmee  we  may 
not  be   bodily   united.    But  it  is 
your  wifdom  (as  you  very  well 
•  know )  to  know  and  infpefi  things 
by  their  Cauies,  for  Experience  is 
deceitful  when  not  guided  by  a 
previous  underdanding.     There  is 
neceflary  to  the  Students  in  Ph:- 
lofophy,  a  ftrong  and  difcreet  me- 
ditation ,  that    the    Work    they 
undertake  may   be    conveniently 
brought  on  to  its  utmoll  perfefti- 
on  :  For  contingent  errors  happen: 
Unto  them  who  will  fall  to  work, 
omitting  or  negleding  the  judg- 
ment of  a  mental  pradice,  which 
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Bern.TrevifanyBcc,   i^j 

the  Theory  frameth  in  the  mhid  «;-» 

before  the  operations  proceed  to 
the  compofure  of  any  VVor/i :  For  ^ 

Work  muft  attend  Nature ,  and 
not  Nature  follow  Work.  He  then 
that  would  effe£t  any  thing,  muft 
■prepare  his  mind  with  the  imow- 
■  ledge  of  the  Natures  and  eventual  Z'' 

•Accidents  of  things,   and    after- 
wards he  may  fafely  put  his  hands  ^ 
to  the  Worlc.  And  indeed  I  clearly 
perceive  your  mind  to  be  highly  ./^ 
inftruited  in  thefe  things,  by  your 
Experiment  fet  down  fully  ia  your  ^ 
Epiftle  :  For  as  Water  which   is              ^ 
cold  and  moiil-,  if  it  be  well  mixr 
with  Vegetables,  alTiirrxs  another 
^qualify,  and  in  decoftion  takes  to 
.  it  and  puts  on  it  thequality  of  the 
thing  wherewith   it  is  throughly 
m;xt ;  fo  alfo  Slutck'fiher  afTumes             U 
different  natures  and  qualities -in 
things    familiar    unto    it ,     and 
throughly  mixt  with  it :  as  if  it  be 
joyned  to  the  Suv,  the  qualities  of 
the  Sun  j  if  to  tiie  Moon,  thofe  of 
the  Mom  j  if  to  Fenus,  of  Venus  : 
aad  fb  ia  other  iynds  of  Metals. 
Theiy 


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192      The  Anfxver  of 

Their  kinds  therefore  ought  to  be 
decoders  therein,  and  Mercury  is 
their  Water,  in  which  by  a  mutual 
alteration  it  afTumes  in  a  conver- 
tible manner  their  mutations.  And 
this  Water  contracts  unto  it  felf 
from  them  a  Nature  in  a  refem- 
blance  to  Vegetables,  dccocled  in 
fimple  Water  :  though  thefc  kinds 
are  not  altered  in   their    colour 
outwardly,  under  the  form  of  flui- 
dity, in  refpecl  of  the  thicknefs  of 
the  Matter  and  Earth  immerfed  in, 
and  united  proportionably  to  the 
Water  of  iV^rc/.T)' ;  biit  we  iind  it 
otherwife  in  other  diaphanous  hu- 
midities :  For  this  altered,  Nature 
is  altered,  and  its  colour  outward- 
ly is_hid__under_the  appearance  of 


I  Meranj,  and  is  not  manifett  tojh 

■  fight.    And  this  you  at  large  dif- 

cufs  and  fliew,  how  fimple  River 
Water  is  the  firlt  Matter  and  nou- 
rifliment  of  Vegetables,  and  con- 
fequently  of  all  living  and  fenfi- 
tive  Creatures  :  therefore  if  any 
of  them  all  be  deco»5led  in  it,  iC 
aflumes  and  puts  on  it  ielf  the  vir 

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Bern.  Trevifaat^C.  193 

me  and  propriety  of  their  Nature; 
wherefore  being  in  it  felf  cold  in 
the  higheft  degree,  yet  by  means 
of  things  decoilcd  in  it,  it  works 
in  us  the  e?fcdl  of  a  thing  hot  in 
the  firll  degree,  that  I  may  iifc 
your  words.  Moreover,  there  is 
nothing  that  nouriflieth  more  than 
the  Broth  or  decoSion  of  good 
Flefh  ;  and  if  the  Water  in  which 
Flefh  and  Herbs  are  boyled,  or  thi 
things  boyled  in  Water,  be  eaten 
moid,  or  the  fimple  Water  after 
boy  ling  be  taken  or  drank,  it 
hurts  not  at  all,  yea  it  will  profic 
and  help  mujh,  although  before  in 
its  fimplicity  and  nature  it  would 
have  been  hurtful.  Now  this  comes 
to  pals  becaufe  that  Water  is  not 
fuch,  as  it  was  before.  In  like 
manner  Sluickzfilver  is  the  Matter 
of  all  Metals^nd  is  as  it  were  Wa^ 
tCTj.  ( in  the  Analogy  betwixt  ir, 
and  Vegetables  or  Animals  J  ani 
receives  inro  it  the  virtue  of  thofc 
things  wh'..h  in  deJo£iion  adhere 
to  It,  and  are  throughly  mingled 
vidi  it  J  whi.h  being  molt  cold, 
K  may 


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194    The  ./^nfvcer  of 

may_yet  in  a  fhort  time  be  made 
nToft_hot :  and  in  the  fame  man- 
ner with  temperate  things  may  be 
made  temperate,  by  a  moft  fubtle 


^^^^_^-*  ,, 


artificial  invention.  And  no  Metal 


a-t^yr-   /TO^i-^yi-^C.^ 


-^-"^-y    M    /^^^ai.<!'^2^^i^    ^^^z^/!. 


ff/    PC^l/L 


occa  ^'t^ 


.yr/ce^^i^z^   <? -^..^ce-^h-a^^^. 


adheres  better  to  it  than  Gold,  as 


yoLi  fay,  and  therefore  as  feme 
think  Gold  is  nothing  but  §l!iick- 


fher,  coagulated  by  the  power  of 


SuJihuri,  &c.  And  thence  you 
would  concl'-de,  as  I  think,  and 
well,  that  ^fGold  be  deco£led  snd 
dinolvcd  rightly  in  the  natural 
way  c{Art,^r{uk-(j!-uer  it  felf  wjlj 


cbtuin  the  natural  properties  of 
^hat  Gold.  But  the  way  of  this  dc- 
coflion  and  foiution  of  Metals,  is 
I;nown  to  very  few,  and  it  mani- 
feftly  appears  :  fc-r  the  canfe  of 
this  Solution  is  the  moiilnefs  of 
hjercury ,  lellraincd  by  the  com- 
pa£tnefs  of  an  Homogeneal  Earth ; 
and  contrary  wife,  the  coldnefs  of 
the  Earth,  retrained  by  a  Water 
Koricgereal  to  it  felf,  the  Homo- 
genecufnefs  of  qualities  remain- 
ing ;  So  that  there  is  in  it  a  fingle 
drjnefs,  and  double  coldnefs,  a 
fimplc 


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Bertt.TrevifaitidiC,   ic}^ 

fimple  tnoiftnefs,  but  under  a  dis- 
proportion of  immaturity  to  the 
anatical  propcrcion  of  the  ripe  di- 
gefted  Sun.  The  dilTolver  therefoi-e 
differs  from  the  diirolvend  in  pro- 
portion and  dige;non,  and  not  in 
matter  :  becaufe  Nature  might 
malvC  this  of  that,  whout  any  ad- 
ditional mixture,  as  Nature  doth 
gorderfully  and  fimply  procr.ce 
Gold  of  '^ick-(ilver,  as  yowhi^iQ^ 
learneHTydifcoTirled  in  y^t'r  Epi- 
ftle.  For  in  Vegetables,  ihe  moi- 
fture  of  fimple  Water  is  taken 
for  an  intrinfick  diflblution,  that 
things  congealed  by  Art,  r.vght 
djftife  into  it  their  efi'ec's ;  and  the 
diflblution  of  things  come  about 
with  the  coagulation  of  Water, 
and  the  coagniition  of  Water  with 
the  difiblution  of  things,  and  con- 
trarywife  :  and  fo  it  is  hkewife  in 
the  M.neral  Water,  and  thiiigs  of 
its  kind.  He  therefore  that  k'.cv/s 
the  Art  and  Secret  of  Dii^oii.  tion^ 
hath  attained  the  fecret  point  of 
Art,  which  is  to  mingle  throi'ghly 
the  JUnds,  and  ouc  of  Nature^  re 
K  Z  ex  ' 


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196    The  Anf veer  of 

extrafl  Natures,  which  are  eficclii- 
ally  hid  in  them.  How  hath  he 
then  found  the  truth,  who  deftroys 
the  moift  nature  of  §luick-filver  ? 
as  thofe  Fools  who  deform  its  kind 
J  from  its  Metallick  difpofition  or  • 

diflblution ,  and  by  dilTolving  its 
/,  ^  radical  moifture,  corrupt  it,  and 

difproportion  ^KzV/^-y//-jer  from  its 
firft  Mineral  quality,  which  needs 
nothing  but  purity. and  fimple  de- 
coflion.  For  example ,  they  who 
>^^l  defile  it  with  Salts,  Vitriols,  and 

aluminous  things,  deftroy  it,  and 
change  it  into  iomc  other  thing, 
than  is  the  nature  of  ^Inick-Jilveri 
For  that  Seed  wh.ch  Nature  by  its 
fagacity  and  clemency  compofed, 
tliey  endeavour  to  perfect  by  vio- 
lating and  deftroying  it,  which  un- 
Jdoubtedly  is  deifruftive  to  it,  as 
far  as  concerns  the  effccl:  of  our 
Work.  For  the  Seed  in  humane 
/z:.  and  fenfitive  things,  is  formed  by 

I     I  Nature,  and  not  by  Ar%  but  it  is 

'^  '  j  )yned  by  Art,  and  well  mixed; 

but  nothing  is  to  be  taken  from  it, 
nor  added  to  it,  if  the  Lane  (becies 
^^  muft 


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Berij,Trevifan,^c.  197         ^^ 

inufi:  be  renovated  by  the  procrea-  .    . 

tion  of  its  own  kind  :  fo  the  fame  O- 

Matter  mufl:  abide  and  continue, 
that  the  fame  Form  may  follow, 
which  it  doth  not  otherwifir. 
Wherefore,  excellent  Do£l;or,  falfe 
and  vain  is  all  their  doctrine, 
which  altereth  Mercury,  which  js  . 

the  Seed,  before  the  Metallich^gr  ^ 

cies  be  joyned  with  it :  For  if  it  be 
^ryed  up7  it  diflblvcs  not.  What 
then  can  it  do  in  the  folution  of 
thingsof  its  own  j^fa?  J  ?  For  if  it  '^.^ 

be  heated  beyond  its  natural  dige-  ^/ 

ftion,  it  will  not  caufe  nor  gene- 
rate in  the  Metalline  jpecies  a  Fe- 
vcrifh  beat  as  it  were,  and  will 
impertinently  turn  cold  into  hot, 
and  paffive  into  aclive ;  and  the 
errour  from  thence  will  be  incor-  i^ 

rigible,  and  labour  loft.  For  ex- 
ample, Fools  draw  corrofive  Wa-  y 
ters  out  of  inferiour  Minerals,  into 
which  they  caft  the  j^ena  of  Me- 
tals, and  corrode  them  :  For  they 
th;nJ<  that  they  are  therefore  dif- 
folved  with  a  natural-  Solution, 
which  Solution  truly  requires   a 

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i<)8     The  Anfwer  of 

permanency  of  the  difiblvcr  and  . 
diflblved  together,  that  a  new  Jpe- 
cies   might  refult  from  both  the 
Mafcuhne  and  Feminine  Seed  :  I 
tell  you  affuredly,  that  no  Water 
djlTolves  any  Metallic^  (p^cieshj^ 
natural  jtolution,  fave  that  which 
^ides^Tth  them  in  matter  and 
^rm,  ati^Jvdiich  jhe  Metals  them- 
feives  .beii\S_di22l^I£djj^n_  recon- 
geal :  which  thing  happens  not  in 
Aquafortis jhvit  rather  is  a  defile- 
ment of  the  Compound,  that  is,  of 
the  Body  to  be  diflTolved,    Neither 
is  that  Water  proper  for  Solutions 
of  Bodies,  which  abides  not  with 
them  in  their  Coagulations ;  and 
finally  Mercury  is  of  this  fort,  and 
not  Aquafortis ,    nor  that  which 
Fools  imagine  to  be,  a  lympid  and 
diaphanous  Mercurial  Water  ;  For 
if  they  divide  or  obflrudt  the  ho- 
mogeneity of  Mercury ,  how  can 
the  iirft  proportion  of  the  Femi 
nine  Seed  coniiil  and  be  prefer  ved? 
Becaufe   Mercury   cannot   receive 
Congelation  with  the  diflblved  Bo- 
dy, neither  will  the  true  I?ind  be 
reno 


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oc-t^ 


Bern"'  Trev'ifany  8cc.  ic^9 

enovated  afterwards  in  the  ad- 
niniftration  of  the  Art,  nay  but 
ome  other  filthy  and  unproritablc 
hing.  Yet  thus  they  think  they 
iflblve,  miftaking  Nature, but  d'lC- 
bh'e  not  :  For  xhcA^actfortis  being 
bftracled ,  the  Body  becometh 
neltable  as  before,  and  that  \Va- 
er  abides  not  with,  nor  fubfills  irj 
he  Body,  as  its  radical  moifture. 
rhe  Bodies  indeed  are  corroded. 
Kit  not  diflblved  ;  and  by  bow 
nuch  more  they  are  corroded  , 
hey  are  (o  much  more  eflranged 
Tom  a  Metallick  kind.  Thefe  So- 
utions  therefore  are  not  the  foun- 
dation of  the  Art  of  Tranfmuta- 
ion,  but  the  impoftures  rather  of 
Jophillical  Alchymifts,  who  think 
hat  this  Sacred  Art  is  hid  in  them, 
rhey  fay  indeed,  that  they  make 
Solutions,  but  they  cannot  make 
perfe£l  Metallick  Jpecies,  becaufc 
they  do  not  naturally  remain  un- 
der the  firft  proportion  or  kind, 
which  Mercury  the  Water  allows  ia 
Metallick  jpecies.  For  Mercury  is 
corrupted  widj_Mctals  byway  of 
K4  sUfc 


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<:^€yC^d^y7 


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tb. 


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aoo     The  Anjv^er  of 

alteration,  not  difljpation  :  becaufe 
Bodies  diflblved  therein  are  never 


U^^typ^zy 


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C^.<..tyY~     </ 


^LxyCe^ 


^^:V2-e^ 


cyJ 


f^i>o(yy     //T-^:^    c^c^^^j^^  ^^x-^^yz^-^y^  ^^"^^"^ 


oCyC^To/      Lcy-^ 


.^3^1^ 


fe^aratedfrom  it, as  in  AcjuafoTtis 
and  other  correfives,  but  one  kind 
puts  on  and  hides  another,  retain- 
ing it  fecretly  and  perfeflly  :  fc 
So/  and  Luve  diflblved,  are  fecret 
ly  retained  in  it.  For  their  nature 
is  hid  in  Mercury,  even  unto  iti 
condenfation,  of  which  they  lying 
Lid  are  the  caufe,  in  as  much  as 
they  are  latent  in  it  :  and  as  Mer- 
c^jxdiflblves  them,  and  hides  then 
in  its_belly,  fb  they  alfq^ongeal  it 
and  what  was  hard  is  made  fofr 
what  was  ^SThard  ;  and~yet~tTi< 
kind7~tliat  is,  hletah  and  ^luick 
fiher,  abide  ftill.  He  therefon 
who  thus  diflblves,  congeals  ra 
ther,and  the  corrupted j^^rw  con 
joyned,  receive  their  old  form  b 
an  artificial  deco£tion  :  Notwith 
ftanrfing  this  diflblution  makes  (e 
veral_coloins__appear^  becaufetlT 
jbecies  remain  as  it  were  dead,  ye 
their  intrinfical  proportion  is  per 

manent  and  entire.  So  the  Lord  i; 

the  Cofpel  /peaks  by  way  of  fim 
tud< 


«& 


-ThOCu 


a/t-^  '    -^  /tA^oc.^ 


Bern.  Trevifan,  &c.  201 


^t^ 


tude  of  Vegetables,  Unlefs  a  grain 
tf  corn  fallen  on  the  earth  do  dye, 
it  abides  ahne ;  but  if  it  dye,  it 
brings  forth  much  fritit  :  Therefore  ^ 

this  alterative  corruption  hides 
forms,  perfe£ts  natures,  keeps  pro- 
portions, and  changes  colours  from 
the  beginning  to  the  end  :  For 
when  the  Water  begins  to  cover  ^ 
the  Earth,  the  black  colour  begins 
to  be  hid  under  the  white;  when 
the  Air  covers  the  Water  and  the  ^ 

^arth,  the  citrine  colour  appears  ;  ^ 

which  is  turned  to  red,  when  the 
Fire  covers  the  Air,  or  the  other 
three  Elements.  And  thefe  lail:  co- 
lours abide  hiddenly  and  intrinll- 
cally,  and  appear  under  the  flicv/ 
of  a  white  Spirit  in  liquid  Mercury, 
until  it  be  recondenfed  in  the  Pow- 
.der  which  is  in  the  Bodies  :  be- 
caufe  the  Soul  lies  hid  in  the  Spi- 
rit, as  in  the  condenfation  the 
Spirit  and  the  Soul  lie  hid  in  the 
Powder  or  Body.  For  there  is  a 
corruption  in  the  things  to  be  al- 
tered, but  no  dilllpation  of  parts, 
unlefs  fome  fuperfluous  parts  be 
KS  to 


202     The  ylnfxverof 

to  be  reje£ted  as  unprofitable  fots 
generation ,  whereupon  the  Artir 
ficcr  purifies  his  Work,  that  digcr 
ftion  may  fucceed  better.  This  is 
manifeft  by  example  in  Grain,  for 
of  two  grains  of  Wheat,  if  the  one 
be  call:  into  good  ground,  there  it 
•cutrifies,  dies,  and  lofes  its  exter- 
nal form,  but  nothing  thereof  is 
diiT'pated,  yea  in  its  time  it  en- 
creafes  into  a  multiplicity  of  Fruit, 
and  there  is  indeed  made  a  cor- 
ruption only  of  the  form,  and  not 
any  diflipation  of  the  mattejr  :  But 
if  the  other  grain  be  caft  into  the 
Fire,  then  both  matter  and  fornr, 
are  corrupted,  and  the  whole  i; 
diflipated ,  and  that  corruptior 
is  unprofitable  for  generation 
Wherefore  Water  difiblves^not  Bo 
rjips^^j2nt_thofc_onTy^f  its  owt 


Kind,  anj  by  which  it  may  be  con 


denied  :  nor  can  Bodies  be  at  al 
nourilhcd  to  generation,  but  b^ 
their  like,  whi(.h  can  preferve  thi 
jpecies  deftroyed  by  that  tranfrau 
ting  Body,  through  the  artifice  o 
the  WorK :  though  Vegetables  ar 


CM'/u  ^-^y      re  -    i^oi^Ct^       ef^/  uJ'^-':^^^      Jc^  A-^^o  £^^t.  ^^-V 
Ci  l'^'  C^zyta-^^Tyy' if^t^yy^      t^o-cy^.        ^^-C^^y-     <^<^  ex^Ct^       Wty^^^ 


Bern  Trevifan^Scc.  205 

flourished  by  things  of  different 
Idads,  yet  before  they  nourifh 
them,  they  are  affmilated  (the 
dilTolution  of  them  being  firft 
made)  aa-ording  to  the  propor- 
tion of  ihi  things  which  fuck  and 
draw  them  co  them.  It  muft  be 
noted  therefore,  that  the  Solution 
of  Metals  may  be  made  by  diffe- 
rent ways :  one,  which  Fools  know, 
as  is  abovefaid ,  with  Foreign 
things,  which  abide  not  with  the 
dilToIved  Metals,  which  is  rather 
to  be  called  a  corroi'ive  dertruclion 
and  dehbment  of  the  Compoand. 
The  fecoiid  Solution  is  made  by 
the  power  and  force  of  Fire,  which 
is  no  true  Salution,  but  a  melting 
rather  of  the  colligated  Elemen- 
tary parts  :  for  the  outward  heat 
of  the  Fire,  in  diffolving  the  Com-' 
pound,  finds  out  its  intrinfu-al,  na- 
tural Or  native  Fire  within,  which 
internal  and  propoi-tional  Fire 
dwells  in  the  Air,  therefo-e  it  dif- 
folves  the  Air  it  felf  But  that  dif- 
folved  Air  refides  and  dwells  in  the 
Water,  and  the  Water  in  the 
Earth, 


204     The  Anfvser  of 

Earth,  and  the  Water  it  felf  clif- 
folves  the  Earth,  fo  that  it  melts 
both  the  adlive  and  pafllve  ;  but 
this  melting  is  no  true  Solution, 
yea  it  is  a  diilipation,  becaufe  the 
Elements  there  being  homogene- 
ous to  one  another,  and  propor- 
tionably  fixed  ,  by  digeftion  arc 
mixt,  and  one  of  them  educed  out 
of  the  power  ofanother  generally  : 
And  therefore  this  falls  out  even 
in  pure  Bodies,  in  which  the  Ele- 
mental natures  are  fixed.  Where- 
fore in  them  the  flame  of  Fire 
caufeth  melting,  and  diflblves  that 
whole  Body  to  fluidity,  and  not  to 
a  feparation  ;  becaufe  Fire  cannot 
flow,  unlefs  the  An-  confubftantial 
to  it  flow  ;  neither  doth  the  Air 
flow,  unlefs  the  Water  be  diffol- 
ved  ;  nor  doth  the  Water  flow,  un- 
lefs the  Earth  flow  :  and  contrari- 
wife,  as  the  Earth  is  diflblved  by 
the  Warcr,  fo  on  tl  e  contrary  ildc 
the  Water  retaineth  the  Air,  and 
congealeth  it :  and  in  the  fame 
manner  afjending  upwards,  the 
Kix  retaircth  the  fire  in  Congela- 
tion, 


*», 


Bern,  Trevifan,  Sec.  205' 

ion,  becaufe  the  more  fixt  and 
ixing  Elements  caufe  fixation,  by 
idling  together  on  one  another; 
f?  Elrth  and  Water,  and  in  a  con- 
:rary  manner  Fire  and  Air,  a£t  to- 
gether each  on  other  unto  Solu- 
tion. Bilt  this  Solution  is  called  a 
melting  of  the  Compound,  and  not' 
properly  a  Solution  of  it,  becaufe 
rhc  parts  feparable  from  one  ano- 
ther in  the  generation  of  the  Com- 
pound, are  not  diflblved,  as  is  done 
in  the  third  and  truly  PhilofophicI^ 
Solution,  when  the  Compound  is 
diflblved  in  the  manner  aforefaid^ 
and  yet  the  parts  abide  unfepara- 
ted,  though  feparable;  fo  that  the 
virtue  of  the  moft  digefted  Ele- 
ments may  be  extracted  from 
things  to  be  diflblved  by  the  dif- 
folver,  that  is,  ^luid-fher ,  and 
the  grofler  parts  in  iuch  a  dilfolu- 
tion  acquire  fome  latitude  of  fub- 
tilty,  becaufe  the  Body  is  turned 
into  Spirit,  and  contrariwife  the 
Spirit  into  Body  ;  fixed  things  are 
turned  intovolatiles,  and  volatiles 
to  fixed.  For  this  Solution  is  pofli- 

ble 


ic6    T'heu4nfwerof 

ble  and  natural,  that  is,  by  Art  or 
Nature  fi:bferving'  thereto  ;  and 
this  is  {ole  and  necefTary  Sohuion, 
in  the  Work  of  the  Philufophers, 


which  canbe  done  by  no  other 


i' 


thing  th^^id-fihc-r  only,  with 
a  prudent  proportion :  fo  as  a  good 
Artificer  knowing  tiom  within  the 
natures  and  proportions,  ought  to 
make  the  proponion  from  his  firfl 
entrance  upon  the  Work.  For 
thefe  two.  Sir,  are  fufficient  for 
this  Work,  and  nothing  elfe  enters 
it,  nor  generates  and  miiltiplies, 
as  wc  have  faid.  Befides,  you  fay 
that  Gold ,  as  moft  think,  is  no- 
thing elfe  tiian  §lidck-fiher  coa- 
o-ulatcd  naturally  by  the  force  of 
ttilphii-r;  yet  fo,  that  nothing  of 
the  Stilphur  which  generated  the 
Gold,  doth  remain  in  the  fubftance 
of  the  Gold  :  as  in  an  humane  £»»■ 
Iryo,  wh;n  it  is  conceived  in  the 
Womb,  there  remains  nothing  of 
i:he  Father's  Seed  ,  according  to 
yirijrotk's  opinion,  but  the  Seed  of 
the  Man  doth  only  coagulate  the 
pienfirual  blood  of  the  Woman 


e 


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;:^id./.<i-^^^>^^     ^^^     ^^^    z>^^-y-    ^/z^z-^r^^^c^^^^ 
^M<-  /^/2^^    ^^^^^     '^/i'^^ 


^n^V^yi^t^t^i^^    /x^c^^^^^^Z^  ^t^U>p^^  /j^        ^^ 


Bern.Trevifanj^.  207^     —I 

in  the  fame  manner  yen  fay,  that 
after  Siuick-Jihen  js  fo  coagulated,  ^ 

the  form  of  Gold  is  perfected  in  it,    -      J^ 
by  virtoe  of  the  Heavenly  Bodies, 
and  efrcciully  of  the  Sun.    But  by  ' 

your  good  leave,  and  w  th  refpeil 
I  muil  tell  you,  we  mull  not  think  -  ac- 
fo  :  For  being  we  are  Phiiofbphi- 
callyp'erfwaded,  that  Gold  is  no- 
thing but  Mercury  anatized,  that  ' 
is,  e.^uaily  digell:ed  in  the  bowels 
of  a  Mineral  Earth  ;  and  the  Phi- 
lofophers  l.ave  fignified,  that  this 
vei-ything  is  done  by  the  ccnta<ft 
of  iiulrhur  i:oagulating  the  hUr- 
cwy,  and  by  reafon  of  its  opera- 
tion, that  is,  from  hlc^-cury  being 
d'geited  and  tbickned  by  a  pro-  '7^ 

portionate  heat.     Wherefore   we 
niult  hnow,  that  Gold  is  Siilphvjr  -^ 

and  MercUf  y  tog;ether,  thatis,  the 
coagulant  and   .he  coJgnHted  in     >      ^ 
one  :  and    nothing   added    from  ^ 

without  thereto,  but  only  a  pure 
digeftion  or  maturation,  vhich 
multiplies  qualities,  and  excites 
on&  Element  liom  another  out  of 
thdr  pure  pofHbility  inco  aft-,  no 
prher 


/IC^U^  ^^fL  <}     ^^  ^'' 


:> 


^v_„^^ 


p^ 


l^ 


ft  08     Theyinfwerof 

other  thing  whatfoever  being  fu- 
peradded.  But  this  digeftion  or 
matutarion  is  produced  actively, 
from  the  fuperiour  Elements,  that 
is,  the  Fire  and  Air,  which  are  not 
aflually  but  potentially  in  Mer' 
cury ;  which  yet  being  excited  and 
affifted  by  an  external  heat,  and 
iy  the  proper  and  natural  digeft- 
ing  heat,  the  paffive  Elements  in 
Mercury  are  by  them  fubtilized, 
being  not  only  potentially  exiflent, 
but  aftually,  towards  Water  itfelf, 
and  the  Water  is  fubtilized  to 
vpards  Air,  and  Air  follows  to  Fire ; 
and  in  this  proportionable  ai£i:ioa 
of  Nature,  and  digeftion  of  Mer" 
cury,  the  Male  and  Female  abide 


together  in  clofed  Natures ;  the 
Female  truly  as  it  were  Earth  and 
Water,  the  Male  as  Air  and  Fire  : 
which  Earth  and  Water  the  Philo- 


lb£hers_do  mingle  in  Gold,  but 
called  the  Air  and  Fu-e  a  Sulphur 
as  it  were  therein  :  neither  is  there 
any  other  Foreign  addition  in  the 
;bo\vels  of  the  Earth.  And  therc- 
ibr.e  in  Ail  above  ground  ueithei 

il 


ae^/^Z^^^-^i^^  ^     c^i^   f0LA^    (2)    c^^^^,   ^--c^c^     ^3^^«<^^ 
^x.z.;^/a^  /iyyc.<i^c^L^i^y  .zx^^-^:^^  ^oc-^ui^ - 


C^'Aa--^    ''yl^if  ^/^c^c^c-^      fy  ^--cJ    c-i^-  Jy'A^<~^ 


c.yi'^ 


ux^      0~^<^nr      15^  C-C^i^y     ''^.^^^Jty  J 


Bern.  Trevifan,  &:c.  209 

there  found  any  Fore  pn  addi- 
an,  to  digcft  or  condenfc  Mercury 
xo  the  nature  of  Gold,  or  other 
ecies  of  Metals.    Therefore  the, 
bilofophers  have  faid,  that  Stil^ 
)ur  and  Mercury  rrrke  Scl,  that  is,  • 
s    corporeity  and   permanency  : 
nd  therefore  it  is  not  hen.e  con- 
uded,  that  the  external  arc  ricidl 
eat,  ftirring  up  and  aflifl  '^^  the 
roportional    intnnfick  h.it  ,   to 
igeft  and  ripen  the  other  two  iels 
igelled  and  immature  Elements 
1  Mercury,  namely  its  Water  and 
larth,  isof  the  fubftance  of  the 
;ompound_.   For  the  external  heat 
;not  permanent  within,  with  the 
uantity  and  weight  of  the  Matter, 
lOr  adds  any  thing  thereto  :  But 
h£intrm(ick_2TOportionatcjiatji: 
af  andf  fimj^le^heat  is  perrnantntj 
/ith  the  quantity  and  wei^t^of 
lie_  A/grfary   digefted  by  it_;   be- 
.•aufe  that  heat    is   an  intr'nfick 
ind  efiential  part  of  Mercury  it 
elf,  to  wit,  the  two  more  active 
elements  in  it ,  namely  Air  and 
'ire.   Therefore  Fools  do  ill  and 
ab- 


2-10     The  Answer  tf 

abfiirdly  iinderftand  that  faying' o 
the  Philofophers,  that  Stlphur  an< 
Mo-cnry  beget  So/j  becaufe,  as  i 
fufficicntly  known,  as  neither  Ai 
nor  Fire  in  the  firft  Mercuria 
compofition,  nor  afterwards  in  th 
natural  Metaliick  digeftion,depar 
nor  are  fevered  from  Water  an 
Earth  ,  fo  neither'  doth  Sulphu 
(whi.h  is  no  other  than  Air  an^ 
Fire)  depart  nor  is  feparated  froi 
Mercury,  which  is  the  fame  wit 
Water  and  Earth.  And  he  is  not 
natural  Ph:lofopher  who  imagine; 
or  afferts  the  contrary  :  for  th 
digcftion  of  Gold  happens  and  : 
made  of  the  firft  Mercurial  propoj 
tion,  without  any  addition  mad 
thereto  by  Nature  under,  or  A 
above  ground,  as  is  faid.  Neith* 
is  that  repugnant  to  what  we  ha^ 
faid,  that  a  pure  Sol  and  clea 


Mercury  mult  in  this  Art  be  coi 


jo;^nedj  becaufe  this  is  not  done  > 


that  intent  to  affirm,  that  there 
one  Sulphur  in  Sol,  and  another^ 
Ma^cu^_^oi^iZt_ihtv&\sonQ  Me 
fWTiSj^.^'  3nd  another  in  Me. 


CUT. 


€^i>-^  t%-  — 


CU^  M^y    ^'i^-^    t^y-u-tj!^    c^'^    ^^-f^'J       ^^(--^i^^'^fC- 


/X^i^^    ci^c-y^    otyu- '  oc^c^  o     fi.'&-^2^^yTyi^<ti:!^^     i*^2^^^?-<^-v!>^ 


I 


V 

Bern.  Trevifatiy  8rc.  2 1  r 

ctuj,  but  becaafe  the  digeftion  is 
more  mature  and  perfect  in  Sol, 
than  Mercury.  And  alio  in  the  Sun 
the  Sulphur  is  more  mature  and 
digcftcd,  and  therefore  more  active 
than  in  Meraaj  :  whence  thePhi- 
lofophcrs  have  affirmed  Sol  to  be 
nothing  clfe  but  ^uck-jUier  ira^ 
turedj  For  in  Mercury  there  are 
only  two  adual  Eleraciirs,  to  wit. 
Water  and  Earth,  which  are  paf-  ,  ^ 

five  ;  but  the  active  Elements,  Air 
and  Fire ,  are  only  potentially 
therein.  But  (as  it  is  foiown)  when 
thofe  Air  and  Fire  in  a  pure  Mer- 
cioy,  are  deduced  from  polllbility 
into  act,  that  is,  to  a  dae  digeflion 
;  and  proportionable  conco£tion , 
then  it  becomes  Gold.  Wherefore 
in  Gold  there  are  four  Elements 
conjoyned  in  equal  ar.d  anatical 
proportion ,  in  which  therefore 
there  is  a£tually  a  more  ripe  and 
a£tive  Sulpl:ur,  that  is.  Air  and 
Fire,  than  m  Me)xury  :  Wherefore  cy. 

Gold  is  by  Art  diiTolved  with  Mer-  ' 

ctir}fjj.h3x_the  unripe  may  be  hc^-  Iv 

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212     The  Anfwer  of 

cocling  ,  and  Nature  perfe£lng,  \r 
the  Compofition  is  ripened  by  the  ll- 
favour  of  Chrili  Whence  the  caufe  jt. 
may  be  derived,  why  by  the  help  ! 

^^^         of  fhc  Philofophick  Art^more  per-  • 
feet,  noblc^  and  by  many  degrees  , 

■^  more  elevated  Gold  i^made,  fooner  > 

andjnjefs  time,  than  by  the  wor^ 

j^  qf_Natrrej^  Becaufe  Nature  ^oth  ' 

acl  and  woi  J;  this  by  boyling  and  ,3 
dige-fjng  Mei-cury  alone  in  the  li 
bowels  of  the  Earth ,"  without  any  j; 
a/Tiftant:  which  cannot  be  bro-jght  '\, 

*^^  on  to  the  due  proportion  of  Gold,  f 
or  any  other  Metal ,  in  a  little  ,5 
time.  But  our  Art  helps  the  work  ': 
of  Nature,  by  mingl  ng  with  Me;-  j'. 

^  cu^y  r"pe  Gold,  in  which  is  a  Sul- ;. 

I  phi'.r    excellenrly    digefled  ,    and  j 

y/^  therefore    maturing  and    quickly  I 

f  digeding  Mercury  it  felf,  to  the  L 

anati:k  proportion  of  Gold,  byij 
fubtilizing  its  Elements  :  where-  i 
upon  there  follows  by  Art  a  won-  || 
derful  abbreviation  cf  this  natu-  ' 
raLWork,  Wherefore,  my  Do£lor,  . 

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JSern.  Trevifafjy  Sec.  213 

their  mi  (take,  who  lay,  that  the 
Male  Agent  himftlf  approaches 
the  Fen^ale  in  the  coagulation,  and 
departs  afterw:rds;  becaafc,  as  is 
known  in  every  generation,  the 
conception  is  ailive  and  palh^e  : 
Both  the  a£tive  and  paffivCjthat  is, 
all  the  four  Elements,  mull  always 
abide  together ,  otherwile  there 
would  be  no  mixture,  and  the  hope 
of  generating  an  oft-fpring  would 
be  extinguifhed.  For  in  every 
man,  the  Mafculinc  Seed  to  the 
end  of  his  life  is  called  in  h  m  the 
Agent,  when  it  is  firll  mingled 
With  the  Feminine  ;  and  whether 
it  be  fhed  out,  or  confumcd  in 
him.  Nature  for  its  fake  doth  ve- 
getate, and  is  wonderfully  increa- 
sed and  nouriflied,  and  makes  to 
it  felf  in  the  fame  mans  loins  the 
like  fpecifick  Seed.  The  like  is  to 
be  judged  of  the  Feminme  Seed  in 

■  the  Women  ;  wherefore  both  thefe 
Seeds  abide  always,  and  are  to  be 
efteemed  for  original  Agents,  and 
firft  Patients.  Yet  cherc  is  a  va- 
xious  or  di£fcrcnt  nativityor  gene- 
racioa 


gyzy^^ 


N        214      The  Anfvaer  of 

.  ration  of  Mixts  and  Vegetables 

I  For  they  are  called  Simple  Mixts, 

'  which  grow  under  ground,  out  of 

our  fight,    or  about  the  furface 
thereof,  by  the  commixture  of  the 
yC  Elements  alone  compounded  one 

with  another  :  or  from  their  firft 
^  Solution ;  becaufe  they  grow  not 

as  Vegetables,  but  how  muth  fo- 
'  ever  of  matter  was  compaft  and 

'  mixt  in  them,fo  much  of  their  firll 
weight  is  refcrved  in  the  fame 
Compounds.  For  example  fake  : 
how  much  foever  at  firfl:  a  mafs  of : 
fome  Mercurial  fubftavi  e  doth 
weigh  in  its  Mmeral  difpofition  in 
the  bowels  of  the  Earth,  lb  much 
weight  of  Gold  will  abide  digcfted 
therefrom  :  and  the' 5co;7tf  and 
Ysces  rejefled  from  it,  will  rather 
be  diminilhed  than  multiplied,  be-i 
caufc  they  receive  nonouriflimcnt. 
But  there  are  manifold  degrees  of 
this  firfl  and  fimple  natural  miX' 
ture  :  The  fail:  is,  the  naked  con' 
cretion  and  compoiition  of  the 
four  Elements ,  and  that  imme- 
diate, in  wiiich  there  is  not  yet  any 
change 


Bern.  Trevifan^  &c.   2 1  j 

change  made,  or  exaltation  of  one 

Element  into  another  :  but  a  fim- 

ple  union  of  a  fymbol'Z  ng  compo- 

lition  of  them,   perfevcring  and 

abid  ng  ;  of  which  fort  Stor.es  arc. 

The  feior.d  degree  follows  upon 

th-  hrll,  becaufe  from  the  atbre- 

faid  Scenes,  Nhnerals  (about  which 

we  difcoiirfe)  are  generated,  and 

the  more  nobic  fubterraneous  (pe- 

c:(.-  emerge  and  arife  from,  hence  : 

b.^aufc  ii  thefe  begin  the  a£tion 

t     H,lement8,   and   :';eir   mutual 

limitation, thoi's'n  their  adion 

■or   m  fo  great  \;vacity  and 

.:c  as  in  VegeraWes  and  Send- 

..-,  becaufe  they  have  neither- 

wth  nor  fenfe ,  as   we   have 

before.    -The  thrd  degree  is 

:  wh;cli  comprehends  precious 

f.es  and  Gcms,.becaufe  in  them 

lund-  a  perfeft  and  corrplsat 

aiiion,  from  the  virtue  of  th-:  Ele- 

mer-s  compacted  and  afting  mu- 

V,  as  I  have  declared  more 

.  ,cly  in  my  Phihfiphy  :  where 

I   havi  perfpicuoiilly    manifelicd 

this  thiid  degree,  together  with 

tae 


2 1 6     The  Anfvfer  of 

the  fecond,  to  be  a  mean  betwix 
the  firft  and  fecond  compofition  o 
Natural  things.  Then  another  na 
tivity  or  generation  is  that  whiel 
is  not  accounted  to  be  of  Simpl 
Mixts,  but  Compound  Vegetables 
which  are  truly  divifible  into  foui 
kinds,  or  ClalTes,  as  I  have  di:i 
courfed  more  largely  in  my  othei 
Book  which  I  fent  you.  For  therj- 
are  Vegetables ,  but  Senfitivd 
more  eipecially,  which  for  rh| 
iHoft  part  beget  their  like,  by  thl 
Seeds  of  the  Male  and  Female  fc 
the  mofl  part  concurring  an: 
commixt  by  copulation  5  whicj 
work  of  Nature  the  Philofophic: 
Art  imitates  in  the  generation  (; 
Gold.  No  man  can  artiiicia!! 
perfeil  any  humane  Seed,  but  w 
can  by  Art  difpofe  a  man  to  a  pn, 
duftive  generation  of  his  like 
For  the  vital  Seeds  are  only  dig: 
{led  in  a  vegetable  manner  by  Nj 
ture,  in  the  loins  of  both  Parent:! 
but  we  can  by  coition  mix  tl 
Parents  Seeds  in  natural  VdTel 
which  copulation  is  as  it  werei 

A 


1 


i 


IP  Bern.  Trevifmy^c,  217 

Art  difpofing  and  mingling  thofe 
natural  Seeds,  to  the  begetting  of 
Man.  For  example  fake;  the  Seed 
of  the  Man,  as  nlore  ripe,  perfe^i; 
and  a£live,  is  by  this  artifice 
joyned  with  the  Seed  of  the  Wo- 
;  man,  more  immature  and  in  a  fort 
paflive ;  which  Seed  of  the  Man, 
becaufe  it  actually  contains  in  ic 
the  worldng  Elements,  to  wit,  the 
I  Air  and  Fire,  is  therefore  more 
ripe  and  aftive  fur  digeltion.  But 
the  Female  Seed  doth  more  adlu- 
ally  contain  the  undigeftcd  and 
I  palTivc  Elements,  and  \vhi,:h  there- 
fore are  to  be  digefted,  as  the 
Earth  and  Water,  which  being 
fhed  out  and  mi  gled  together  ia 
the  natural  Veffels  of  the  Female, 
no  Foreign  thing  be:ng  added 
thereto,  (  but  the  external  heat  of 
the  Woman  exciting  and  helping 
the  proportionable  inward  heat  of 
the  Mans  Seed  )  the  a«5tive  Ele- 
ments of  the  Mans  Seed ,  digefl 
and  rijjcn  the  Feminine  Seed,  and 
■^"  '        -  gCiicritcd,  com- 

a'xo:  -hng  to  his 


i 


a  I S     The  uinfveer  of 

Nature.    So  it  is  in  onr  Philofb- 

phicli  Art,  which  is  like  this  ppp- 

creation  of  Man  j  for  at  m  Mercury 

Cof  which  Gold  is  by  Nature  gc; 

aerated  in  Mineral  Veffels )  a  na 

tural  conjunftion  is  made  of  boti 

the  Seeds,  Male  and  Female,  fo  bj 

our  artifice,  an  artificial  and  liki 

carjandion  is  made  of  Agents  an( 

Patients.  For  the  aQive  Element;! 

whic&  obtain  the  name    of  th 

Mafculine  Seed,  arc  naturally  coa 

joyned  with  the  pafllve  Elements 

which  are  as  it  w£re  the  Feminin 

Seed  ;  but  herein  the  due  natura 

proportion  is  always  to  he  obfei 

ved.    Now  this  firfl  Mercurial  di 

geftion  is  called  Conjunftion,  i 

which  the  a£l    rifeth  out  of  th 

poffibility ,  that  is ,  the  Mafculir 

from  the  Feminine,  namely  the  A' 

and  Fire,  from  the  Earth  and  W« 

ter,  by  means  of  a  pure  digeflio 

and  fubtilization   of  them.     Bi 

the  Philofophers  and  ingenious  ^j 

tificers  imitating  Nature,  befid< 

this  natural  digeftion  of  the  See< 

in  Mercury,  have  by  a  moll  fubt 

invci 


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CL^I^CC'      <:Mj3L£x;      ^Z-^^hV    '^^^L/LOi^l-t^     ^7^4^     Ct-tA^^2<f^T-'£>e- ly  fUytt^ 


Bern,  Trevifatiy  &c.  21^. 

invention  made  another  conjun- 
£lion  and  digeftion ,  whence  ther 
have  not  generated  fimple  Gola 
only,  but  fbme  other  far  more  no- 
ble and  perfe£J:  thing.  For  they 
commanded  Gold  fin  which  the 
Elements  are  more  afiive )  as  the 
Male  Seed,  to  be  joyned  with  Mer- 
cuTy ,  ( in  which  the  paffive  Ele- 
ments are  exiftentj  that  it  might 
be  duly  difiblved  ,  excluding  alt" 
Foreign  things,  fave  that  they  ufed 
an  outward  hear,  which  by  help- 
,ing  doth  excite  the  internal  natu- 
ral heat  of  Gold,  to  digeil  adively 
and  ripen  Mercury.  And  fb  as  a 
Maa  is  generate  by  Nature,  fo 
Gold  by  Art :  Although  notwith- 
ftanding  their  Speim  and  S^ti 
cannot  be  generated  by  Art,  be- 
caufe  Art  knows  not  proportion  of 
the  mixture  necefiary  to  pro- 
create Seed  J  and  in  Nfen  it  knows 
neither  compofition,  r;or  mixtion 
or  firft  proportion,  nor  the  caufts 
of  fiibterraneous  things,  which  flow 
out  from  the  Earth,  where  is  the 
proper  aad  natural  place  of  their 
L  2.  gene- 


i 


220     The  ^nfwerof 

generation.    But  thofe  Seeds  pro-* 

duccd  by  Nature  are   artificially^ 

conjoyned,  that  out  of  them  in  Sij 

way  of  compoiition,  that  which  i;;: 

to  be  generated  may  be  produced;;. 

in  which  both  the  Seeds  abide  to-; 

gether   well   mingled ,  althouglt 

^njlotlf,  as  you  write,  feem  u, 

think  otherwife.     Wlierefore  thij 

Mafculine  Seed  of  Mercury,  or  ouj 

Sulphur,  goes  not  away  after  coal 

gulation ,  as  fome  falfly  afSrm ' 

and  that  this  falls  out  in  Me-rcmyM 

by  the  force  of  the  Sun  efpeciallyjl 

and  that  by  its  heat  chiefly  th!| 

form  of  Gold  is  perfected,  as  fornl 

think    in    fubterraneous    places, i 

Yea  rather  by  the  force  of  the  mot 

tion  of  Its  Globe,  or  of  its  Ort». 

and  of  the  whole  Heaven  univerw 

fally,  becaufe  the  Solar  Rays  d|: 

•  only  heat  the  furface  of  the  Eartljv 

ard  not  inwardly  thofe  its  deej 

places,  in  which  the  generation  (jr 

feveral  kinds  of  Metals  is  brouglif 

about  ;  and  neither  do  the  infli: 

ences  of  Hsaven,  brought  down  t^ 

the  Rays,  reach  unto  thofe  lowejy 

m 


I 


Bern,  TrevifatJi  5rc.  i2i 

moft  parts,  although  the  fubterra- 
neous  motion  of  the  Elements  pro- 
ceed firft  from  the  motion  of  the 
Heavens,  and  not  from  its  Rays  of 
light,  nor  from  their  heat,  nor 
other  influence  fave  motion  :  but 
how  this  comes  about,  and  what 

*  is  the  caufe  of  this  motion  of  fub- 
terraneous  things,  I  believe  your 
Reverence  is  not  ignorant,  and 
therefore  I  forbear  it  at  prefent. 
Therefore  the  Sun  is  not  the  prin- 
cipal caufe  of  Gold,  or  of  its  form, 
though  there  be  a  refemblance  in 
names  betwixt  them  ;  becaufe  as 
the  Sun  is  hotter  than  the  reft  of 
the  Planets,  fo  Gold  is  hotter  than 
any  of  the  Metals ,  with  the  like 

.  difference  of  proprieties.  The  reft 
©f  the  Plan.rts  alfo  have  obtained 
like  names,  whence  this  errour  of 
Fools  doth  arife  :  For  they  believe 
that  every  one  of  the  feven  Pla- 
nets, generally  and  fpecially  by  its 
influence  doth  beget  one  fpecial 
kind  of  Metal,  whereunio  by  a  cer- 
tain propriety  it  agrees,  and  is  in 
Its  nature  refemblcd.  But  it  hap- 
L  3  pens. 


222     The  ^nfwer  of  ] 

Pens   othervife   in    fubtcrraneoui  i 
'hings  ,   than  in  Vegetables ,   ia 
which  Heaven  or  the  Sun  is  the 
caufe  of  their  generation  or  aug- 
mentation, not  only  by  its  motion, 
but  alfo  by  reafon  of  the  heat  of 
its  Rays:  For  the  Sun  heats  the 
Vegetables  themfelves,   and   the, 
fuperficies  of  the  Earth,  the  Ele- 
ments   being    very    ftrongly    re- 
flc£led  by  its  Rays  to  the  furfecc 
of  the  Earth,  becaufe  that  its  Rays 
can  proceed  fo  far.    To  inftancc  : 
for  that  from  the  twelfth  Heaven 
which  obtains  the  utmofl  degree 
of  height,  proceeding  to  defcetid 
lower,  there  follow  always  thicker 
or  lefs  fiibtle  Orbs,  till  you  come 
to  the  concave  of  the  Orb  of  the  J 
Moon,  where  alterable  things  have  ji 
their  place,  or  the  mixt  Elements  \\ 
begin,  and  are  terminated  under  ^ 
the  Hemifphere  of  things  genera-  ijj 
ble  and  corruptible.  And  therefore  '| 
the  more  fubtle  and  fimplc  Fire  is 
there  found ,  though  not  altoge-  ^ 
ther  pure :  becaufe  a  fimple  pure 
Fire  cannot  be  found  apart  amongft 

thei 


Bern*  TrevifMy^c,  225" 

the  alterable  forts  of  things,  nor 
any  one  of  the  other  Elements, 
albeit  in  every  Compound  thing 
fimple  Fire  may  be  found,  mixed 
_with  other  fimple  Elements,  elfe 
there  would  not  be  many  Elements, 
but  one  only.  Therefore  the  Rays 
of  the  Stars  of  Heaven,  of  the  Sun 
efpecially,  pafs  through  the  forc- 
laid  Regions  unrefra6i:ed ,  until 
they  defcending  farther  down- 
wards, are  reflected  in  the  Fire  by 
reafon  of  its  thicknefs  j  afterwards 
defcending  farther  through  the 
Sphere  of  the  Fire,  they  by  mo- 
ving it  refleft  the  Fire  it  felf  into 
the  Air  which  is  thicker.  And  in 
like  manner  the  Rays  proceeding 
perpendicularly  to  lower  things, 
through  the  Sphere  of  Air ,  into 
the  Water  thicker  than  the  Air, 
from  which  they  are  refle£ted  back 
into  the  Air.  And  fo  after  its  man- 
ner they  are  refleded  back  by  the 
Water  moved  by  them,  which  alfo 
is  much  better  perceived  in  the 
Earth,  with  its  thicknefs  above 
-other  Ekments.  By  tkis  deco£tion 
L  4.  and 


r 


I 

r 

f 


2  24      T/^tf  Anfwer  of 

and  reflection  the  Elements  aitif 
moved  invifibly,  though  not  un-» 
perceivably  :  becaufe  we  perceive 
heat  by  the  motion  of  the  Hea- 
vens, and  it  is  always  rcfle£lcd 
from  the  fuperiour  and  fubtler 
Element,  into  the  inferiour  and 
thicker,  unto  the  furface  of  the 
Earth,  by  means  of  the  Rays  of  the 
Stars  c'efcending  perpendicularly 
:from  aloft  to  the  lowefl:  things  j 
and  things  thus  reflefted  being 
moved,  and  by  the  Rays  of  the 
Sun  refle£led  ,  accidental  heat  is 
produced  in  the  medium,  though 
lometimes  by  the  Rays  of  other 
Stars,  other  qualities  are  produce^ 
here  below,  as  drynefs  and  coI<a" 
nefs,  as  is  manifeft  in  Aftronomyl 
not  that  the  Rays  are  in  them- 
felves  hot,  but  that  they  are  t 
eaufe  of  heat  in  fuch  manner 
wc  have  faid.  Now  that  theW 
things  are  true,  is  manifeftly 
known  from  Aftronomy  and  Per 
fpedtive,  whence  it  is  underf^ood 
how  gericrafions  happen  in  Vege- 
tatifes  a;.d  Scnfuives,  thus  much  1 
there-i, 

i 


Y-^-^ 


Beru.Trevifan,^C.  iij"       ^y 

therefore  may  fuffice.  But  vain 
lAtlrologcrs  have  other  conceits,  ^ 

and  think  that  the  influences  of 
Heaven  are  from  the  virtue  of  its 
activity,  and  not  from  the  virtue 
of  its  motion  :  which  is  falfe,  be- 
caufc  the  Rays  of  Heaven  produce 
or  effcfl  nothing  in  the  fuperiour 
Orbs.     For  fuch  Rays  cannot  be  ^     1 

rctlecled  on  the    aforefaid  Orbs,  ^     | 

nor  be  mixed  with  them,  as  they  v? 

are  reflc£ted  in  the  Elemeats  and  / 

muigled  with  them,  not  by  compo-  ^ 

linon,  but  by  a  moving  reflexion  ^  ^ 

and  mixture  of  the  fame  Elements, 
as  hath  been  faid  :    but  in  the  fu-  ^-"^ 

pcrceieilials  there  is  no  capacity 
to  receive  new  qualities,  or  Fo- 
reign imprellion,  altkough  the 
Rays  themfelves  produce  wonder- 
ful qualities  in  the  Elements,  mo-  ] 
v.d  by  their  refleciion.  Where-  j 
i:}vc,  my  Do(£tor,  the  Sun  in  par- 
tKular  is  not  the  caufc  of  the  ge- 
neration of  Gold,  nor  yet  is  it  by 
111 -ins  of  its  heat  the  caufe  of  Ve- 
gitablcs  cither  above  thi  Earth, 
or  of  Mixts  about  its  fuperlicies, 
L  s          which 


3 


2.26     The  ^fjfwer  of 

which  namely  we  Ivnow  to 
heated  by  the  Rays  of  the  Sun,  as 
wc  have  faid,  whi.h  is  alfo  agree-  ■ 
able  to  Aftronomy.  But  the  know- 
ledge of  tbefe  things  ,  need  not 
any  longer  difpntaricn,  wherefore 
I  pafs  on  to  what  remains ;  for  i6 
you  apply  your  mind  to  thofe 
things  which  we  have  faid  ,  you 
will  underfland  and  you  will  find 
it  true,  that  J2y_thcaaivity  of  5kJ: 


^hur  digefting    and    coagulating 


Mtvcury.  its   form  from  Goldjs 


{pccJally  perfefted  :  but  yet  you 
7f?5ffnot  think  that"  from  any  other 
Metal,  or  any  Star,  this  may  be 
done,  as  you  have  wntten  in  your 
Spiftle.  That  which  we  have  laid, 
is  alfo  to  be  underftood  of  otlrer  j 
Metals,  in  their  kind  and  manner  j 
but  with  difference,  becaufe  ia 
other  Metals  there  is  a  double  5k/-. 
fhur:  One  which  is  fuperfluous, 
and  may  be  feparated,  the  form  of 
the  Metal  ftill  remaining  :  Ano- 
ther  Sulphur  is  an  effential  parti 
of  the  Metal ,  but  united  to  itsi 
$lukk-{ihert  and  not  feparable,  fo 
-^  that 


— 


r 


/l^yi-ll^-^/     ^^/-^^  ^  ^0^0/ 


^ic^    iytyiy^>t4-^^>-^    ^^^-TO-^-^^^-oCOJ      /Lc^cc^yi^     Ot^    ^id^^^U^u/ 


Bern^  Trevifan,  8rc.  2*7 

that  the  form  of  the  Metal  conti- 
nues :  yet  thatjmperfe£t  and  Sul- 
phureous Metal  maybe  perfei^ed 
by  a  Medicine  corrupting  the  form 
W'that^Nletal .  and  introducinR 
another.  But  what  wc  are  to  think 
oF  the  duplicity  of  this  Sulphur, 
which  you  aflert  in  this  Philofo- 
phick  Art,  I  pray  you,  my  re- 
nowned DoSor,  without  violating 
■the  Law  of  our  Fricndfliip,  or 
your  Authority,  that  you  would  be 
pleafed  to  confider.  This  duplicity 
of  Sulphur  is  not  fo  diftin£t  in 
Mercury  coagulated  into  divers 
Metals,  that  one  of  them  fliould 
intrinfically  and  efTentially  apper- 
tain to  the  generation  of  the  Me- 
tal, and  be  efteemed  an  eflentiai 
part  thereof,  and  the  other  b^ 
afcribed  to  corruption.  But  there 
IS  in  every  Metaliick  (pecies,  equal- 
ly as  in  Gold  and  Silver,  a  fimple 
and  fmgle  Sulphur  ;  which  is  ter- 
med Bluick-Jilver ,  from  the  firft 
Mercurial  compofition  ,  as  hath 
been  declared  in  the  generation 
of  Gold  ;    Becaufc  Sulphur   and 


228      The  jinfwer  of 

§luick  Jil'ver  are  nothing  elfe  but 
the  four  Elements  in  Mercury  it 
felf,  fo  or  {o  proportionally  dif- 
pofed,  as  this  or  that  MctallicJc 
jpecies  requireth.  But  that  which 
is  reputed  a  fecond  Sulphur,  and 
to  be  rejefled,  is  a  certain  Scoria 


and  feculent  part  in  the  Metal8» 
contraded  in  the  coagulation  of 
the  Mercury  •  or  a  certain  fuper- 
fluity,  which  bein^  unclean  and 
impure^,  _\vould  not  in  the  dig:e'- 
ftion  of  the  Mercury  .    endure  ,a^^ 


congelation  to  the  form  of  a  Mer 
tal :  becaufe  it  was  not  of  an  ho- 
mogeneal  and  proportionable  Na- 
ture of  Mercury,  apt  to  be  congea- 
led and  digefted  into  a  Metal.  But 
fome  Philofophers  have  called  thif 
Scoria,  a  combuftible  Sulphur,  b&- 
caufe  it  cannot  fubfifl,  but  vanifh- 
€th  in  the  tefting  of  Metals,  or  is 
fepararcd  from  them  into  Fseces. 
And  here  I  may  bring  this  exam- 
ple :  the  bloud  in  Senfitives,  and 
fap  in  Vegetables,  in  their  coagu- 
Jation  have  fevcral  and  different 
offices  J  becaufe  feme  parts  of  the 
i)loud 


^?^^4^-    jty'c*-^'!^'  <f^V,-^,'i^    ef-^^'^l^C'^      e^-^t^l-C^y      <^yl■^^    ^^  .' 

/ 

loc4     £^(^-'^\,'tsuy     Vfit^-Zk.^     rVC^it^^^f-^  t^^v^    i:xyyi^i^'P7-<^/PC^ . 


£.0    aLyVlA'4^^l^^^:'l-<'^  ^T/y^ 


£tZ'^2/y\^oC'^'^-^  ' 


Bern.Trevifan,S>cc.  229 

►loud  have  a  conformity  unto 
Jefli,  and  therefore  may  be  coa- 
Julatcd  and  turned  into  Flefli,  and 
Ctain  the  uniform  nature  of  Flcfh, 
nd  obtain  the  name  of  Flefli.  But 
>me  parts  thereof  refiding  in  the 
ores,  are  of  a  fuperfluous  hu- 
aour,  which  can  in  no  wife  be 
onverted  into  fohd.Flefh,  and 
bereforc  are  eje£led  by  Swear  and 
ledicines,  and  feparated  from  the 
rue  Flefli.  But  in  the  Sanguine 
omplexion  there  arc  many  fewer 
iperfluities,  than  in  others :  So  we 
lay  conclude  by  way  of  refem- 
lance ,  that  it  is  in  Gold  and 
tber  kinds  of  Metals  j  that  the 
urer  or  impurer  Mercury,  in  its 
rft  coagulation,  contained  or  con- 
zSted  more  or  lefs  fuperfluities, 
r  natural  impurities.  Wherefore 
be  difference  is  made  in  the  coa- 
ulation  of  Mercury,  which  fpeci- 
!es  and  caufes  divers  Metals  j  and 
hatever  Mercury  there  is  in  any 
jrt  of  Metal,  is  termed  incombu- 
ible,  and  infeparably  permanent, 
bough  ia  fixed  Bodies  it  is  made 


pS,^o     TheAnfwerof 

■:  volatile  by  Art,  yet  by  Nature  it 
•  remains  infeparablc  in  an  Elcmen- 
:  tal  proportion.   But  what  drofs  (b-  ■ 
.  ever  was  contrafted  in  the  Af^r- 
cury,  and  mixed  with  it  from  the 
i- beginning,  (that  is,  in  the  conge- 
'  lation  of  Mercury  in  its  firft  com- 
pofitiM,  by  heat  digefting  it  to^a  • 
Mctallick  ktnd  ;  and  therefore  it  is  ' 
by  the  tell  taken  away  from  the 
hlercury,  that  is,  the  homogeneous 
Mercurial  nature,  and  feparated 
from  the  Metallick  kind  as  rejefta- 
zieous  and  heterogcneal )  this  is 
not  properly  called  a  Sulphur,  but 
a  drofs  and  certain  fuperfluity: 
,  iiecaufe  Sulphur  is  nothing  elfe  but 
.  a  pure  a£t  of  Air  and  Fire,  warm:  ' 
ine;  and  digefting .    or  decoding 


■■  the  Earth  and  Water  in  Mercury^ 
proportionable  and  homogeneous 
■  unto  it.     But  the  drofs   is    that 
\  which  in  the  firft  compofition  was 
,not  pertinent' unto  the  nature  of 
Mercury,  nor  had  a  proportion  to 
any  Metallick  kind  in  the  compo- 
fition   and   digeftion  of  the  firfti 
Elements  in  Mercury.    From  thefe?! 
things 


1 


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y^ 


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Bern-  Trevifan^  Sec.  231' 

things  it  is  known,  that  there  are  - 
not  in  other  forts  of  Metals  any 
diftin£l  or  more  Sulphurs,  than  are  ■ 
in  Gold  and  Silver,  but  one  only 
and  fimple  Sulphur ;  though  there  ' 
are  in  them  more  and  greater  fa-  - 
perflaitics,  than  are  in  Gold.  From  ' 
hence  the  truth  of  your  faying  is  > 
hnown,  that  Gold,  of  all  Metals,  - 
cleaves  moft  unto  Mercwy.    Kow 
this  comes  to  pafs  by  reafcn  of  the  "  _ 
parity  of  both,  becaufe  in  them  is  ^ 
Icfs  drofs,  dregs,  ox  fuperfluity,- . 
than  in  others  :  For  every  tiling  : 
doth     naturally     defire  ,     by    a  ■ 
through  mixture  and  union,  to  be  ■ 
joyned  to  a  thing  of  like  nature  to  ■ 
It,  and  proportionable  in  hon^o- 
gcneity,  rather  than  with  a  thing  : 
unequal  and  unhkc  to  it ,  as  we  : 
■know;  hke  as  Water  very  eafi-  - 
ly  and    without    contradnfiion    is  "^ 
quickly  joyned  to  another  Water,  , 
with  an  identative   and    uniting  ■; 
mixture.  Now  in  Gold  there  is  no-  ■• 
thing  but  Mercury,  therefore  being  : 
there  is  in  it  little  drofs,  (which  » 
is  not  of  a  Merswuil  natiire,  as  w«  • 
bav<-^ 


V^<^ 


■'4 


Y 


l^ri- 


n~±je.M^- 


/a 


J^ 


«:-^ 


•Z-/ 


232      Ths  Anfwer  of  j 

•^  have  fliewed  )  there  is  therein  no 

great  reliftance,  but  that  a  pure 
McTi-ciiry  may  more  eafily  adhere  to 
Gold  and  Silver,  than  to  other 
Metals,  in  which  many  fuperflui- 
ties  and  drofs  do  forbid  and  hin- 
der other  Metals,  or  their  con- 
gealed Mercury,  any  conrafl,  or 
through  mingling  with  crude  Mir- 
c:ny.  For  thole  fuperfluitics,  as  we 
have  already  faid,  are  not  of  the. 
firft  ccmpcfition  of  Mrrcury,  nor  of 
the  fame  natural  or  proportional 
homogeneity  :  and  if  happily  they 
be  cf  its  compolition,  yet  they  are 
not  of  its  proportion  ;  for  what- 
ever is  of  any  things  proportion, 

/^  is  not  fupenluous.  Wherefore  they 

.cannot  be  infeparably  throughly 

mingljd,  neither  with  Mercury j.o 

«^'  be  coagulated  by  Art,  nor  with 

hJercury  coagulated,  which  in  the 

^jr^  nature  of  its  Mineralnefs  is  joyned 

with  them  in  the  fame  kind  of 
Metu!  ;  being  fuch  drofs  is  com- 
bi!'i::ble  by  Fire,  and  therefore  fe- 
parablc.  What  wonder  is  it  then 
i  if  in  thofe.  Metals  to  which  they. 
^^  arc 

■  ji 


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l^' 


Pi^. 


^..d-^l-^C^j 


j(~^>t^~      ii^Xy      ct.4.-^'^    c^-^ac^^t^^^   ^ic^'     '^  t^/^d  /U^i^cc-^X-^ 


^  a^o    ^c^C^,-t^O  d-3     y<>    /o~^^\.     CiJ-^^A^-    iC^'T^^i^      ^^Z^yLA 
ty^-ty    fhyC''}   ci^i//  /00-c^    yA^tyi/\.-    i-yiy^    ^t^u^       c-pc  ~ 


d'/oL-^CAy ^     cA-A^yr^     U-c^^tyi-^    /^Tn^iyy^ 


y^^.^../^ 


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IjC 


Eern'.Trevifaht^C.  233 

are  accidentally  fuperadded,  they  > 

hinder  their  natural  commixtion,       '-^^ 
■  and  perraanent  union  with  coagu- 
lated Mercury,  or  other  crude  Mer- 
cury ?   For  this  very  caule  Gold  ir 
felf,  though  never  fo  pure,  can  far 
more   difficultly   abide  with  ,   be 
joyned  and  adhere  to  an  unclean        ^- 
and  droflie  Mercury,  coagulated  or 
not  coagulated,  than  with  a  pure 
and  clean  one.    Becaufc  a  fimpic        ' 
Mature  doth  rejoyce  in  the  focicty 
of,  and  is  perfcfted  by  a  fimple  •, 

Nature,  that  is  lilic  to  it,  and  fame 
with  it  in  its  firft  homogeneity  and 
Elemental  proportion  :  but  Gold, 
as  hath  been  faid,  is  nothing  cHc  > 

but  Mej-cury  thickned  by  its  pro-  ^^ 
per  digeftion,  and  Elemental  adi- 
©n  :  therefore  albeit  in  the  Earth  t  » 
there  be  a  difference  betwixt  Gold 
and  Mercury  in  ripenefs,  (bccaufe 
Gold  is  more  ripe  than  Mercury) 
yet  there  is  no  diverfity  in  their 
Matter.  Therefore  whatfbever  Gold 
hath  acquired  by  the  digellion  it  , 

hath  unto  maturity.  Mercury  may  j^i 

acquire  the  fame  without  any  ex-- 
trancous 


t^- 


/- 


( 


^. 


h/      :^34     The  Answer  of 

traneous  thing.    But  Art  to  brc- 
.        viatc  and  contrail  the  Work,  joyns 

I      ^,  .  Gold  with  Mercury,  as  is  faid,  and 

\    A   '^   out  of  two  Sperms  it  makes  and 
^t'  '  generates   artificially    that   fame 

k/—        thing,   which  Nature  doth  create 

^^'  in  the  Mines  of  one  aftual  Seed, 

the  identity  of  the  Matter  being 

1/ut  always  everywhere  obferved,  but 
not  the  fame  a£lire  power.  And 
therefore  as  nothing  extraneous  to 
its  Nature,  doth  enter  this  Work 
in  its  firfl:  compofition,  fb  neither 
doth  any  thing  rnultiply  it,  which 
is  not  of  the   firft  temperament 

t-^3!^         thereof      Wherefore    {bme    mea 
think  falfly,  that  the  Philofophers 
Q^,  Stone  may  be  compofed  of  divers 

things ,  or  of  all  things,  and  be 
Tiourifhed  by  them,  inftead  of  the 
aforefaid  Sperms,  notwithftanding 
divers  names  have  been  impofed 
/  on  them.   Neither  doth  this  Philo- 

fophick  Work  eat  any  thing,  or 

'P'  convert  it  into  its.  owji   Nature, 

.  which  is  extraneous ,  bccaufe  it 

//  doth    not    vegetate.     Wherefore 

^thoughjherebe^  in^heJaidPhikc 
'  ~  ~  ophii  * 


l/xy    '/^fiT^ax^    V6J'  1/  yiuju^'f^^i^ 


/'Spx^c^cr- 


v- 


y/zz,^   iP  Ci^t-yr^,^    'Z-6^U^  ^^^^/      c^     ^yU^^^H^^vi^  c>'     ^,^1^ 


c<^. 


/  .J- ~x 

^  J 


32 


/. 


"Bern,  Trev'tfan, 8cc.  ij^         ^ 

bpbkk  Stone,  ajodj^  and  a  SojI^ 
>r  a  Spirit,  it  is  not  therefore  ve^ 
gtably  anim_ated  as  Trees  and 
'lants  :  For  this  Stone,  as  all  Mi- 
terals,  h  of  the  aforefaid  firil, 
nd  not  of  the  (econd,  or  any  fu-  ^^ 

■eriour    intention    or   impofition.  ^ 

Jut  Trees  and  Plants  are  of  the 
:cond  impofition,  as  Vegetables 
re  of  the  third;  fourth,  fifth,  or 
aft  impofition,  for  mixt  things  in 
ho(e  four  laft  impofitions,  do  ve- 
;ctate.  For  in  them  the  Elements 
•y  many  tranfmutations,  and  by 
leing  oftner  alterated,  are  more 
iibtle  ;  wherefore  they  are  mof e 
.ftive  and  perfefl,  though  they  arc 
lot  more  durable  and  permanent 
their  permixtion,  becaufe  the 
Dements  in  them  are  not  of  a 
ixt,  but  diflblvable  compofition;  ^ 

therefore  they  take  in  their  nou-  ^ 

ifliment  vegetably.  But  our  Stone, 
s  alfo  all  the  Minerals,  is  of  the  . 

irft  impofition  j  becaufe  it  vege-  2: 

ates  not,  nor  is  vegetably  nou-  ^ 

•i/hed,  but  nourifhment  befalls  it 
rather  by  appolition  of  a  nourilh- 
menc 


-^ 


■A 


236    The  Anfwer  of 

•ment  of  a  like  nature  to  it,  and 
not  by  vegetation.  For  example 
fake  :  becaufe,  as  is  manifeft  by 
experience,  out  of  a  Feminine  Seed. 
to  wit,  out  of  Mercury  put  to  it 
unitively,  infenfibly  and  by  wSj 
of  compofition  this  Philolbphers 
Stone  is  nouriflied,  but  by  meanj 
of  a  digeftive  heat.  For  it  take* 
and  affimilates  its  hke  unto  it  felf 
to  be  multiplied  by  way  of  appofi- 
tion,  and  not  vegetably  j  where- 
fore it  becomes  weightier  in  quan 
tity,  and  more  aftive  and  perfe£ 
in  quality  :   neither  doth  Fire  01 


heat  multiply_this_our  Stone,  as  it! 
due  nourifhment.  becaufe  it  is  no 


_of_itsfirft  compofition,  but  he«! 
it  J?yan  exrrinfical  accident :  jg 
^ow^can^Flameor  Fire  muTti^ 
the  Stoneit_{eT^~or  make  it^oQ 
felf  moreweight^^when_it  canng 
"beJixfiiiLy_and  permanently  mm 


glcd  withjt^  nor  is  not  of  its_firf 
compofition  or  form  ?  Ncthinf 
tHerefore  nouriflies  and  multiplie 
the  faid  Stone,  to  the  generatior 
ef  the  fame  form,  except  the  Fejni' 


m^ 


y 


O'l.^i^e^    a-^i'^L^Cc^     euJoZ^     /a     <^     OL^t^tyir    yT^'^n^iyL^C-.i^cyt^        ^t^ 
■■2/%/tf-t,.cyi.,-cyy^A.      -ov  —     Cue^tyy     ^i^tyC^      Ocjuc^  ct-^^^yO'^iyi/'V^  cl-^i^l^ 


Cygt-^Tyiyi  - 


C^Zlyy^^^-^CtZ,     c^^    c^^^cyiyi>a  c^cil/    ^Lt-^^  Ci/^yUy^ 
'fllAy    cuh'tnAyf^-'t''<ytyiyV'0      otyyx^    tJ     ^L>t^  ^fY        £^^!^ 


yvnyi^i 


^/^y^t.n^     l/c^^^i^JL^^    ^^^*.^!^:^:I7^  ^tZ    i>c^>l^^ii^t. 


Bern.Trevifan^^c.  237 

ine  Seed,  which  nourifheth  it  by 
neans  of  hear,  and  nouriflies  ic 
ot  veg^etably  ,  but  by  way  of 
ppofition  and  commixtion.  _He 
berefore  who  thus  multiplies  and 
lOuriflieth  it,  fliall  not  ene,  be- 
aufe  this  multiplier  and  jiou; 
ifter  is  turned  into  the  fame  kind. 
V  man  may  indeed  increafe  the 
icone  and  its  weight  by  extra- 
leous  things  ;  but  this  mult  be 
lone  out  of  its  natural  kind,  not 
:onvAible  into  it  :  For  that 
veight  would  be  made  beddes  Na- 
ure,  that  is,  not  into  the  fame 
ft£cies,  nor  into  the  unity  of  one 
pcies,  yea  it  would  be  an  aggre- 
|;ation  of  divers  kinds,  and  an  ac- 
:idental  compofition,  which  might 
X  feparated  by  the  Teft.  Bnt 
when  the  Philoiophers  faid,  that 
:he  Stone  might  be  made  of  every 
thing ,  truly  they  underftood  it 
not,  (as  foir.e  perverlly  interpret 
them )  that  tlic  Stone  might  be 
made  of  divers  things,  unliJce  unto 
«it  both  in  kind  and  nature  j  or, 
which   is   more    abfurd ,   that  it 


■^>z^^ 


■'^' 


lOt-^.'t' 


otyytyo     y^Tua-^e^   c</^^^     ^^Zi-z^Ci;     ^T^yn^^t^ 


7-XO     O'T'tU^ 


a-<yL^ 


c/^6^  ayyL>e^/)-tA^     i-cyu-y  ^  ^^^lyth/  a^ 


23  8      The  An[vfer  of        % 

might  he  mulriplied  by  a  Flame 
miniftrecl  to  it  from  without :  for 
this  rcafbn  cfpecially,  bccaufe  Fire-. 
and  its  Flame  may  by  a  certaitt-3 
produdion  arife  ont  of  every' 
thing:  Now  the  refutation  of  this 
opinion  is  manifcll  from  what  hath 
been  faid  before.  But  when  the 
Philofophers  fay,  that  the  Stone  is 
made  of  every  thing,  they  mean, 
that  it  is  made  of  the  four  Ele- 
ments proportionally  equalized  to 
one  another  by  a  due  and  natural 
digeftion  5  out  of  which  four  Ele- 
ments every  thing  that  is  gene- 
rablc  and  corruptible  is  made. 
Therefore  by  this  fimilitude  thp 
Philofophers  fay  our  Stone  is  made 
out  of  every  thing,  that  i?,  out  of 
every  Element ;  bccaufe  if  any  one 
of  them  were  mortified  or  de- 
flroyed,  the  whole  proportion  of 
the  Golden  iSature  would  per;fli', 
and  its  ];ind  :  and  every  thing  in 
wliatfoever  latitude  and  fort  of  al- 
terables ,  is  generated  out  of  the- 
four  Elements  either  aftually,  or 
fotencially  mixt :  yet  it  cannot  be 
pro^ 


jLi^uQ     ^A^t-t.^    ^^    ^lO^tA^  ^     ^xA^'^^  ML  <!?^Wc 


c^Ci^   e.-cjt.^^.^t^.^C^C^ 


cx^-'y^^ 


n^n/'^i 


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^/^l^^-in^     l/.^^^z^^^^    ^^^^^J^^  ^^   ..C-^Z^ole^ii^. 


</i^^-2^-^ 


Bern,  Trevifttn,  8rc.  23  ^0 

properly  faid  of  every  producible 
thing,  but  of  our  Golden  Stone,, 
and  other  things  equally  mixt,that 
they  arc  made  out  of  every  thing: 
for  this  reafon  efpccially,  becaufc 
in  thofe  things  which  are  not  -pro- 
ducedby  an  equal,  but  by  an  ad- 
equate proportion  of  theElcmentSj 
all  the  Elements  arc  not  actually 
exiflent ,  but  in  their  adequate 
activity  and  paflion  :  for  fome  of 
the  Elercents  are  therein  either  in 
an  aftive  or  pafUve  power,  and  the 
reft  arc  therein  aSually,  But  in 
the  Ph'ilofophers  Stone,  which  is 
Geld,  being  it  is  an  uniform  VVoi-J: 
of  Nature,  all  the  four  Elements 
aelive  and  paflive  are  a£lually 
therein ,  and  permanent  in  an 
equal  proportion.  For  the  Efience 
*  Nature  of  Gold,  is  nothing  elie 
but  the  four  Elements  equally 
naixed  •  not  that  their  form  and 
iTiatter  may  he  faid  to  be  therein  . 
equal,  but  their  paflive  and  active 
power  ;  that  is,  they  are  each  alike 
and  equal  not  in  quantity,  but  ia 
quality  ;  becaufe  that  the  adlive 
doth 


240     T^^  ^nfwer  »f 

doth  not  exceed  the  paffive  in  its 
afting  :  nor  on  the  other  fide,  the 
pa!!ive  doth  not  exceed  the  ailive 
by  fuffcrhig  more  :  becaufe  there 
is  an  equal  proportion  as  to  mea- 
fure  in  our  Gold,  or  in  our  Medi- 
cine, double  hot,  double  moift, 
double  cold,  double  dry,  and  all 
tliefe  are  adually  therein ,  by 
a£lual  adion  and  paffion  ;  that  is. 
Fire,  Air,  Water,  and  Earth,  as  we 
have  faid  before.  And  all  fhefc  are 
faid  to  be  alilve,  and  equal  in  qua- 
lity, not  quantity,  becaufe  they 
are  equal  in  a£lives  and  pafljves ; 
and  they  are  therefore  durably 
permanent  in  Gbld,  becaufe  the 
paOive  in  it  confifts  permanently 
in  its  aiiive,  and  on  the  other  part 
the  paffive  rifes  not  up  againft  the  j 
adiive.  And  they  ought  not  to  l^  i 
alike  in  qumt.tyj  that  is,  there  | 
ought  iio:  be  fb  rau.h  matter  of 
Fire,  as  there  is  matter  of  Earrh  : 
b£caufe,theu  the  Fire  by  reaion  :F 
its  Quality,  would  be  cv/rvwj.eve 
qf  an  u.iequal  aftiviiy  \>i'''  ''* 
pa.li/e  Efu-ih, and  of  21  far  greater 


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Berft.  Trevifan.,  8cc.  i^i 

Vhcrefore  there  is  in  Gold,  as  to 
rs-  matter,  but  not  as  to  us  qiia- 
ity ,  much  more  of  the  heavier 
nd  more  paflive  Element,  than  of 
lie  lighter  and  more  active  ;  that 
3,  more  in  quantity  :  there  is  in 
:  a  greater  quantity  of  Earth, 
ban  Water  j  a  greater  quantity 
f  Water,  than  Air  ;  a  greater  of 
Ur,  than  Fire :  wherefore  it  is  the 
eavieft  of  ail  Metals.  But  in  this 
mequal  proportion  of  quantity, 
here  is  an  equal  and  like  propor- 
ion  of  quality,  of  hot,  dry,  moifl, 
nd  CO  Id,  bccaufe  each  of  thefe  is 
a  Gold,  as  hath  been  faid.  The 
aufe  of  which  weight  is  the  per- 
astnency  of  the  folidity  of  the 
larthand  Water,  a^nd  the  folution 
if  ^n  homogeneous  Water  with 
he  Earth,  becaufc  Water^difTolvc^" 
.n  hor.  ogeiicous  Eartli.  Alfo  their 
atrinfical  thorov/  m  xture  in  their 
'Cry  hail  p  irticLs,  is  the  caulc  of 
he  weightj  becaufe  the  Water 
.s  V.  j1:  ;n  Cold,  as  SlTj:k-ftli;er^ 
iijffcis  nut  tlic  Earth  to  have -any 

fes  in  ic :   which  is  otherwire  in 
M  othet 


•242^        '^^^  -!^«/Wfr   of 

Other  Metals,  in  which  pores  a 
infenfibly  made  in  their  congela 
tion,  becaufe  of  the  drofs  mingled 
in  thofe  Metals  ail  over,  rejcdedi 
hj  the  Mercurial  nature  and  hete- 
rogeneous :  whereupon  their  light- 
riefs  rerults,  which  is  nothing  clfe. 
but  want  df  matter,  and  poioui^- 
neG  of  the  fame,  as  weight  is  no- 
thing elfe  but  a  folid  addition  cf 
matter.  Wherefore  if  there  wer^e^ 
in  an  equal  commenfurative  quan- 
tity, fo  much  of  the  folid  matter 
of  Fire,  as  there  is  of  the  matter 
of  Earth,Fire  would  be  as  weighty 
as  Earth.  But  the  caufe  of  the 
weight  of  Sam-71,  is  its  immature 
congelation,  becaufe  it  doth  not 
yet  reje£t  the  drofs  of  its  parts, 
whe;;ce  pores  are  made  in  it ;  but 
the  pure  and  impure  abide  through 
mixt  together  in  it  everywhere, 
as  in  the  firft  crude  ^ick-fher, 
in  wh'ch  the  infpifiaiion  and  coa.- 
gulation  is  weak ,  for  that  caufe. 
Upturn  or  Lead  retains  the  weight 
of  its  §lu!ck-Jiher,  not  becaufe  of 
the  purity  of  its  folid  matter,  but 
bccatife 

-4 


Bern.  Trevifan^^c,  245- 

tecaufe  of  irs  immati're  coagula- 
tion or  coition.  Wherefore  if  in 
this  Work  yon  would  not  deftroy 
the  Fire  and  Air,  you  mu{l:  pre- 
{erve  in  a  diftinci  and  like  propcv- 
lion  :he  heat  of  the  Compound  : 
But  if  you  would  not  deftroy  the 
Air  and  the  Water,  then  in  the 
fame  Compound  you  muft  cherifh 
the  humid  :  fo  in  the  fame  man- 
ner you  may  preferve  the  Water 
and  Earth,  or  the  Earth  and  the 
Fire,  in  the  fa  id  Work,  hv  prefcr- 
ving  rightly,  and  by  the  arti^ce 
of  the  Philofophick  skill,  both  thg 
cold  and  dry  :  be:aufe  if  you  de- 
ftroy any  or..  •.  f  them,  the  propor- 
tionable for...  and  kind  of  Gold  is 
loft.  For  this  caufe  the  Philofb- 
phcrs  fay,  our  Gold  is  made  of 
every  thing,  that  ;s,  of  every  Ele- 
ment,  every  Element  bCing  .in- 
trir.fically  preferved  in  it ,  and 
afihially  compounding  it  :  where- 
fore a'l  the  Elements  are  intrinli- 
cally  in  a£i  or  power,  the  princi- 
ples of  all  compoi)nded  alterable 
thing!!,  and  for  tf^ar  caufe  are  faid 
M  i  10 


244     "^^^  ^nfwer  of 

to  be  all  things.  Furthermore,  my 
Reverend  Doctor,  for  your  credits 
fake.yo'.i  mull:  underftand  the  fay- 
ings  of  the  Philofophers  according 
to  the  pofllbility  of  Nature,  and 
not  according  to  the  found  of 
Words  :  For  they  have  handled 
this  holy  and  hidden  Art,  and  its* 
Secrets,  under  Similitudes,  Fables,„ 
Riddles,  and  obf:ure  words,  and^ 
have  hid  it  purpofely,  that  in, 
might  not  be  expofed  to  the  un- 
learned, impious,  and  unworthy., 
Furthermore,  that  I  may  go  on  to, 
other  Heads  of  your  Epiftle,  lun-J 
derftand  the  art;fice  of  your  Stone^ 
to  be  a  corapofure  from  Gold,  but 
from  your  writing  I  cannot  appre- 
hend it,  becaufe  you  fet  net  down 
the  firft  original  of  that  Compo-^ 
fition.  Therefore  1  {hall  not  need 
to  handle  it  more  at  large,  till, 
you  inftrud  me  fully  and  morcj 
plainly  in  its '  Comp'ofition  and. 
Operation  :  For  I  cannot,  neither 
believe  that  the  Elixir,  or  Pbi/ofi- 
fhers  Sio/ie,  can.conful  of  the  figns; 
appearing  in  it,  and  of  tj^e  proper-j 
use 


} 


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Bern.Trevif4»j8cc.  24^ 

;softhe  nutritive  vegetation  of 
e  flaming  Fire,  which  you  attri- 
itaifo  it,  as  I  have  openly  fliewed 

what  I  have  faid  ah-eady.  But 
iien  I  received  your  WorJi,  and 
e  gift  of  {q  great  a  Secret  font 
ito  me ,  I  at  once  undcrftood 
)ur  unfeigned  love,  and  free  con- 
lence  in  me.  Wherefore  for  your 
-icndfliip  fake,  I  referve  your 
one  with  me,  and  keep  it  as  a 
oft  acceptable  gift,  and  fhall 
rite  unto  you  more  concerning 
,  when  you  fhall  declare  it  to  me 
ore  manifeftJy.  But  whereas  you 
y,  that  in  your  Stone  there  are 
irec,  a_Pod_y,  Spirit,  and  Soul, 
ffhich  is  manifeft  to  you  by  yoiur 
qjerience  and  work  )  the  Philo-^ 
■phers  when  they  faid  thofe  three 
aturaLlhings  were  In  their  arlT 
rial^Stdne,  underftood jth^_jf^ 
"~refertblfcice  and  experimein  : 
ar  they  called  the  Earth,  its  Body 
id  Bones ;  becaufe  it  is  an  aftrin- 

■nt  Compound,  and  reftrains  the 
uid  Elements  from  their  raw 
exjbility,  having  the  Fire  alfo 
M  3  with 


2^6    'The  Anfvstr  of 

with  it  fymbolicaliy  by  its  drinefsj 
But  they  called  the  W'atej:  and 
Air,  its  Spirit ;  becaufe  they  ar€ 
the  Elements  that  moiften  and 
diflblve  the  Earth.  But  they  called 
the  Air  and  Fire,  the  Soul ;  be- 
caufe they  ripen  and  digeft  the 
whole  Compound.  And  they  na- 
med them  thus,  with  refemblance 
unto  Humane  nature,  becaufe  in  a 
well-con{?ituted  Flefh  there  ought 
to  be  Bones  to  fuftain  the  Bodyj 
and  lifecwife  there  ought  to  be  in 
the  Flefli  a  vivacity  of  vegetable 
Accidents ,  which  are  called  its 
Spirits  ;  contrary  to  the  errors 
of  the  Pagan  Philofophcrs ,  whc 
thought  the  vital  Spirits  to  be 
foraething  diftinfl  from  the  Body 
compounded,  and  parts  compoun- 
ding it :  fo  alfo  there  muit  be  in 
Humane  Flefh  an  informing  Soulj 
digefling  in  man  the  brutal  afig, 
and  to  work  in  him  the  Intel- 
Icftual  work.  But  we  mufl:  under- 
ftand  it  otherwife  in  our  Stone,  in 
which  the  Earth  hath  the  name  of 
the  Body,  Air  and  Water  obtain 


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he  name  of  Spirit,  neither  is  in 
t  a  Soul  but  becaufe  it  contains 
he  Air  and  Fire  ;  which  I  perceive 
veil;  you  do  perfcftly  underftand.  j 

But  the  Philofophers  divided  them  '    ^ 

n  this  manner :  By  a  crude  Spirit, 
:hey  extracted  a  digellcd   Spirit  ^^ 

jut  of  the  diflblved  Body ,  and 
:hey  had  remaining  a  fixed  ma(s  )/ 

of  Afhes  to  be  farther  difiblved,  ia 
which  they  found  an  incombufti- 
ble  and  rtony  oylinefs  and  gum- 
minefs,  which  they  called  the 
Soul ;  which  enlivens,  unites,  in-  ^1 

cerates  and  produces  united  Na- 
tares ;  and  in  the  Spirit  they  dif-  /^ 

joyncd  the  Natures,  fo  in  the  Oyl 
they  rc-conjoyned  them.   For  our 
Stone  hath  not  an  informing  na- 
ture, as  a  Vegetative  or  a  Senfi-  / 
tive,  but  it  hath  only  a  formed 
form,  which  form  is  the  very  Ele-  , 
ments  themfelves,  becaufe  it  is  ho-  ^, 
mogcneous.    But  mans  Body,  and 
that  of  other  Senfitives,  is  hetero- 
geneous :  For  Bones, Flefh,  Bloud^  ' 
Marrow ,  Hair  and  Nails,  arc  di- 
ftmguifticd  differently  in  113  which 
M4                  is 


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248     The  Anfwer  of 

is  otherwife  in  Gold  ,  in  whit 
whatfoever  there  is,  is  found  to  \ 
of  one  kind.  Wherefore,  my  R 
verend  Doflor,  the  Phifofo'phe 
fpeak  this  by  way  of  fimihtiid 
fcy  reafon  of  the  adminiftration  i 
Art ,  and  operation  of  Nature 
not  becaufe  there  is  a  Soul  in  tl; 
Stone,  hut  metaphorically,  (i 
you  well  knowj  nor  Spirit,  nt 
Bedy,  (as  an  informing  form)  a 
it  is  found  in  Man,  and  other  Ser 
fitives.  Verily  I  tell  you,  tha 
Oyl  which  naturally  inceratcs  an 
unites  Natures,  and  naturally  in 
duces  the'Medicine  into  other  Bo 
dies  that  are  to  be  tinged,  is  nc 
compounded  of  any  other  extra 
neous  thing,  but  out  of  the  bowel 
of  the  Body  that  is  to  be  diffol 
ved  :  y{hich_02^1  retains  thejrolou 

,Si^^t?PHL'i  .?l^HSjJI"liU'^  be  re 
^thidvn^d^  sndjhcn  firfl:  of  all  i 
^utsjDnjBellovaiEnfigns,  that  is 
a  citrinendfTariai^etalline  form 
ivhich  it  manifefts  to  all  j  in  Gold 
a  Gelden,  in  Silver,  a  Silver  co 
lour  and  form  :  which  Oyl  if  it  b< 


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Bern.  Trevifan,  &c.  249 

;  So/,  being  diflblvcfl,  is  perceived  to 
be  red  inwardly,  thotigh  outward- 
ly it  appear  white,  under  the  form 
of  liquid  §luick-jilvcr.    Now  fome 
:  th  nk  to  compound  an  Oyl  as  ge- 
nerous and  powerful  as  this  Oyl 
I  is,  namely  out  ofi^Icrcury  through- 
I  ly  dryed,  or  out  of  the  fubftancc 
i  of  Tin,  or  Body  of  the  Sun,  com- 
!  mixed  with  ingredients  of  divers 
li.nds  J  but  for  what  concerns  our 
'  Work,  their  Experiment  is  falla- 
I  cious.  They  can  indeed  reduce  the 
Jj:ecits  of  ^ktals  into  a   kind  of 
Oyl,  but  they  cannot  at  any  hand 
reduce    them     into    a    Metallick 
liind,  obCerving  and  keeping  the 
proportion    of  the  th  ngs    to  be 
mixcdfound  and  entire.   But  that 
Oyl  may  be  profitable  for  Medi- 
cine to  ieniltive   Creatures  ,  bc- 
caufe  the  nature  of  Gold  is  dilTol- 
■vcd  therein  ;  but  yet  impertinent- 
ly' and  unprontably  as  to 'our  Phi- 
lofcphick  Work.    Befides,  my  Ho- 
noured Doctor,  that  I  may  lightly 
to.i.h  oa  the  remaining  Heads  of 
}our  Epiftlc,  you  mull  diligently 
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and  wifely  obrcrve,  that  Fire  and 
jizor,  walh  Laton:  But  Azor  is 
not  raw  ^dck-Jiher  fimply  ex- 
trafted  out  of  the  Mine,  but  it  is 
that  whiv-h  is  extrafted  hy  Sluuk.- 
J-her  it  felf,  out  of  the  diflblved 
Bodies  ;  whith  is  fcunri  to  be  more 
ripe  upon  trya!.  Wherefore  if  L*t- 
to?i  be  an  rnclean  Body,  it  is  de- 
purated by  fiich  an  yJzor ,  which 
you  write  that  you  have  had  for- 
merly ;  ard  by  this  Lc.ton  puri- 
fied hy  Jzor,  we  make  our  Medi- 
cine for  curing  every  fick  perfon. 
Indeed  this  y^zor  is  made  of  the 
Elixir,  becaufe  Elixir  is  nothing 
clfe  but  a  Body  refolved  into  a 
Mercurial  Water ;  after  which  re- 
folution ,  Az.9r  is  cxtrafted  out  of 
it,  that  is,  an  animated  Spirit. 
And  it  is  called  Ehxir,  from  £, 
whiih  \soutrf,  and  Lixif,  whiih 
is  Water,  becaufe  all  things  are 
madt  out  of  this  Water :  and 
ILlixir  is  the  fecond  part  in  the 
Philofophick  Worl? ,  as  Rshis  is 
the  firlt  in  the  fame  Work.  But 
the  Tm>^ure  coafcitiues  the  third 
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Bern,  Trevifan^^c.  2.^t 

Work  ;  for  as  die  matter  of  this 
Comgofit ion  _grod gees  divers  eP> 
"?e£b.  fb  it  obtains  different  names 
onejfter  anothen  Thence  it  ma- 
nifeftly  appears,  that  Azor  is  not 
requifite  to  the  Elixir,  becaufe  in 
this  Work  the  Elixir  goes  before 
Azor,  and  not  the  contrary  j  lil^e 
as  Water  precedes  the  Oyl ,  and 
the  Spirit  the  Soul  ;  For  Azor  is 
drawn  and  extrafted  out  of  the 
Elixir,  as  Oyl  out  of  Water,  and 
not  contrariwife  5  as  mention  is 
made  eifewhere.  For  example  faliC; 
as  in  the  Art  of  Phyfick,  pure  fim- 
ple  Fountain-water,  by  boylingjn 
the  firft  concoaioOjjs  joyned  woth 
the  Flefh  of  a  Chicken,  and 
thence  in  the  firft  degree  of  con- 
coftion  we  obtain  a  Broth,  a  gooi 
and  perfect  decoction,  the  humid, 
watry  and  airy  parts  of  the 
Chicken  being  a^ually  diflblvcd 
in  the  aforefaid  Water  j  though 
there  be  other  Elements  therein 
alfo  aaually.  But  that  it  may  be 
made  a  much  more  peifeS:  Medi- 
cine, and  more  generous  for  re- 
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2  5"  2     The  Anfwer  oj 

ft(*ing  man's  fick  Body  unto 
health,  thedcco£kdBodj  of  the 
Chick  is  beaten  into  a  mafh,  with 
the  faid  Water  already  altered  in- 
to a  boyled  Broth,  or  with  part  of 
it ,  and  js  difBUed  by  a  ftronqer- 
deco£lion,  whence  a  Broth  and  dc- 
coifiion  will  be  made  much  more 
noble  and  generous,  partaking  of 
the  whole  nature  of  the  Chicken  : 
Becaufe  by  this  fecond  decoflion 
not  only  the  moift  parts,  but  the 
hot  parts,  that  is,  its  aerial  and 
fiery  parts,  being  melted  into  the 
Broth  or  decoSion,  are  throughly 
mingled  anddiflblved  :  and  there- 
fore the  whole  virtue  of  the  Chick 
is  in  fuch  a  decoclion  extracfled 
into  the  aforefaid  Liquor.  So  it 
falls  out  inthgPhilofophick Work^ 
becaufe  the_crude  Mineral  Spirit, 
j'lsgWaterj^  joyned  with  its  Bo- 
dL»_tQ  diflplva  it  injti  firfl  de^ 
coftiQu  :  whence  it  is  called  Rg- 
^,  becaufe  it  is  compounded  of 
two.^or  a  double  thing;,  to  wir,  of 
the  Mafcuhne  and  Feminine  Seed, 
that  is,  of  the  thing  to  be  d/ffol- 
ved. 


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y^te>6i-<'0    C^      Cooo     ^a^^^yyv^  jo^c^xjt^^    n^  g^y    ^:^'^^^-*<_-v 


^^g^    ot-^U-y  <fn^    ^^^^-^jyx-^^jyc/^  c-s-^C't^^-t^i!^ 


/{>-tyyt^^'    ''^^t.c^    ex^^uy  <, 


a/  ^d-   <^o-/i^    OfocZ-c^^    i^yu^  ^>4-.^^i>^.<^^x-^.^o    /^^^^JoCt- 


^xy 


Bern.Trevlfdtjy^c.  2j^        [    ,  ,^l^^ 

vcd,  though  It  be  one  thing  and  V^^d-^     ^2^    C^J-^i-^a^^    'T^^i.^^y      ^dyf^-^rf' 

matter  :  whence  the  Vcrfes,  -    _^<£_  y ^    f^--\  .      ^ 

V^eoxz  is  tsco  things  ioyndt  yet  it's  dyT^tyfo     ccy  ^-ci^c^tUy    \f  ^^x^^  ^ M^,cyt^t>yuw 

but  one  ^ 

Dijfolvd  to  their  firjl  Seeds,  the  ^t^    1     c^^-oyx^    cc^^^yy^^^*-^ <:^^^^tyt>^      ^l^^  ^:/^-t^_ 

SDnoj-Moon.  T  •  v 

Now  out  of  thefe  two  things  diP-  kx     c-C^<..'t.''?^>'i-<-^  ^^-^^  ^tJi-^-i^^Tv 

fohed  together,  the  Elixir  is  com-  ^  ^ 

j^ounded,  that  is,  a  tinged  Water  : 
whence  the  Verfes, 

P.'/re  Bodies  are  of  Lixis  madebj- 

Art  -, 
Hence  Greeks  Elixir  term  its  Jecoiid 

fart. 
Out  of  this  Elixir,  my  Venerabl^ 
Dodor,  as  out  of  the  firft  Broth 
or  Bullion  of  a  fimple  deco£lion, 
Azor  is  extracted ,  to  wit ,  by  x 
ftronger  and  iterated  diltillation  : 
whi;  h  .fzor  rcfembles  and  pavtici- 
pares  the  natlirc  of  its  Body  from 
which  it  was  extracted,  which  is 
hot,  and  retains  its  virtue  in  ic 
-fclf,  namely  an  Oylie  nature, 
T\Iuch  is  hot  and  moil!:,  becaufe  it 
isa£iual  Fire  and  Air;  though  al! 
the  Elements  are  in  it  in  EifencCr 
and 


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2  5*4    The  Anfwer  of 

and  by  Compofition.  Medicines 
therefore  to  cure  the  Bodies  of 
Senfitives,  may  be  compofcd  out 
of  the  faid  Metals  by  fever  al  arti- 
fices ;  but  they  are  not  pertinent 
to  the  Philofophick  Work,  as  the 
Elixir  is  to  Az,Qr  :  that  is,  the 
vital  Spirit  and  fugitive  Soul  are 
not  diaphanous,  nor  tranfparent 
as  the  clear  tear  from  the  Eye  : 
nor  every  dilTolving  Spirit,  though 
they  be  each  of  higher  Natures 
than  another,  according  to  their 
degrees,  as  the  Soul  is  higher  than 
the  criide  Spirit,  being  they  are 
TiOt  of  one  form.  For  as  the  Soul 
lies  hid  under  the  jpecies  of  a  dif- 
folved  Spirit,  before  its  re-infpifi 
fation,  (for  the  Soul  being  ex- 
traded  out  of  the  Body,  always 
appeareth  like  'Slmck-jilver )  fo 
after  its  infpiflation  the  Soul  and 
Body  lie  hid  under  thQ Jpecies  of  ^ 
Eody.  Your  Worlhip  hath  feen  aa 
Experiment  thereof,  in  the  Powder 
foraetimc  lent  to  that  King  whofc 
Phylician  you  are  ;  in  which  Expe- 
riment, §i^ck-filver  was  found  iu 
tiis 


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Bern.  Trevifan^  5:c.  2^5* 

the  ^ecies  of  Urick-plver,  hut  if 
that  which  remained  in  the  bottom 
had  been  coagulated,  it  would 
certainly  have  aflimied  the  fame 
form  of  Powder  :  But  that  Powder 
nufl:  be  called  a  Tinfture  nomi- 
nally only,  not  that  it  is  a  Medi- 
cine for  Metals,  for  it  is  not  yet 
perfectly  iixt ;  yet  as  a  Medicine 
for  Men,  it  is  of  very  good  force. 
But  the  fixt  Medicine  without  all 
<loi:bt  exceeds  this  humane  Medi- 
cine in  all  virtues,  both  as  to  Mc- 
i-'  ,  and  to  Men;  which  canncr 
co:.-,c  to  pafs  in  a  clear  diaphanous 
and  tranfparent  Liquor  :  Eccaufe 
if  ihe  aforefaid  Elxir  and  Azor, 
that  is,  Spirit  and  Soul,  did  appear 
"in,  and  had  a  tranfparency,  now 
the  Earth  as  to  its  proportion  ha<i 
left  the  Water,  and  had  been  fepa- 
rated  from  it,  which  had  thickned 
iand  coagulated  its  parts,  caufing; 
an  qpacity  in  the  Elixir  and  ji:tor. 
and  inaking  a  congealable  Metal- 
lick  form  to  confitt.  For  in  tbr 
condenfing  of  i:xcd  Metallick  j(^<- 
cief,  the  condenfer  n-.uil  ad  upo-". 


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2  J-  S     The  Anfvter  of 

the  condenfable,  and  the  coagula- 
ting upon  the  coagulable  ;  which 
cannot  be  in  the  aforefaid  diapha- 
nous and  clear  Water.  But  it 
happens  otherwife  in  Vegetables, 
in  which  a  fimple  and  diaphanous 
Water  is  thicfaied  by  decociion 
into  the  Vegetables  themfelves : 
\5'hich  yet  by  the  Teft  of  the  Fire 
doth  at  length  vanifh  and  evapo- 
rate, becaufe  it  is  not  permanent 
and  fixed  in  its  compofition,  be- 
c<iufe  it  had  not  with  .it  an  Earth 
naturally  homogeneal  to  it  in  its 
compofition,  as  ^lujck-Jilver  hath  : 
which  Earth  indeed  is  the  caufe 
of  permanent  fixation  in  homoge- 
neous things  :  wherefore  fiir.ple 
V/ater  cannot  by  coagulation  bei 
fb  fixed  with  Vegetables,  as  Mer- 
cury with  Metals.  If  therefore 
Merc:'.ry_^iO}.\\A.  be  reduced  to  a 
tranfparency  in^_the  V/ork  of  the 


Phjjoibphers  Jt_woiil^_kL_S22£ 
rcafon  remain  of_an  uncoagulable 
"TubTEailcej^nor  would  it  be^con- 
gcaled  upon  Laton  to  a  Metal  lick 
"t"ornT7^ar<-f /and^roport  ion ,  wh  ■  ch 
carries 


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Beyfj.Trevifafjj8cc.  25'7 

carries  Hot  with^  nor  in  it  felf  its 
own  congelation ,  namely  Water 
the  Earth  :  which  Earth  (  as  was 
^  faid )  is  MeTCUfial,  and  the  firft 
caufe  of  Infpiflation,  Coagulation, 
and  Fixation.  If  then  this  Water 
abide  deftitutc  of  Metallic^  pro- 
portion, how  ftiould  it  be  pofliblc 
that  fiich  liJ?e  (pedes  fhould  be 
produced  from  this  Ccmpofiticn  ? 
TQiey  alfo  erre  who  thinic  to  ex- 
traft  a  limpid  tranfparent  Water 
out  of  Mercury,  and  out  of  it  to 
work  many  wonderful  th:ngs  :  For 
be  it  fb  that  they  can  perfe£t  fuch 
a  Water,  that  Work  would  con- 
duce nothing  either  to  Nature  or 
proportion,  nor  could  it  rcRore  or- 
build  up  any  perfed  kind  of  Me- 
tal :  For  (b  foon  as  Mercnry  is 
throughly  changed  fi-om  his  i\vi\ 
Nature,  fb  foon  -he  is  forbidden 
entrance  into  our  Philofbphicli; 
Work,  becaufe  he  hath  loft  his 
Spermatick  and  Metallick  Narure. 
From  thefe  things  it  is  manifeft, 
what  truth  there  is  in  your  opi- 
nion, and  in  what  it  is  contrary 
and 


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-^j8     7v6^  Answer  of 

and  improper,  when  you  fay,  there 
^  muft  be  had  ( as  I  think )  to  per- 

fe£l  the  higheft  Eltxir ,  a  Gum  in 
k  'V/hi-h    are    all   things   neccfTary 

/  thereunto,  and  containing  the  four 

'•  Elements ,  and  it  is  a  moH:  clear 
'^  Water  as  a  tear  from  the  Eye , 

made  Spiritual,  &c.  which  make 
Gold  to  be  a  mere  Spirit  :    For  a 
Body  penetrates  not  a  Body ,  but 
/  a  fubtle  congealed  Spiritual  fub- 

I  ftance,  which  penetrates  and  co- 

lours a  Body.    Let  it  be  fo  as  you 
fay,  my  Venerable  Doflor,  that 
Natures  are  not  joyned  but  in  a 
■^  Gum   or    Oylie    fubftance ,    and 

equal  proportioned,  having  a  Spi- 
ritual Nature,  the  Elements  being 
yet  fixedly  fhut  up  in  it  j  unto 
which  Gumminefs  the  whole  Phi- 
lofophers  Stone  is  at  laft  reduced 
by  Inceration,  under  a  gentle  flux, 
after  the  manner  of  an  Incera- 
tion refcmbling  all  the  Elements, 
fl'anding  like  Copper  and  in  the 
nature  of  Copper,  exifting  alfo  in 
a  fubtle  Spiritual  Nature  penetra- 
ting and  colouring  Metallick  Bo- 
dies^ 


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Yty    y/'i  f-^i    i*.' <;/—«,  v»v , 


Bertt.Trevifanydcc.  259 

ies.  For  this  Stone  in  the  fubli- 
lation  of  the  firft  erode  Body, 
ith  not  loft  its  kind,  namely  of 
le  fame  Spirit,  neither  yet  in  the 
\irfed  and  great  Gum  doth  it 
»fe  its  firft  Nature  :  Therefore 
wm  and  Oyl  belong^  not  other- 
ife  unto  this  Work,  but  as  Ele- 
lents  equally  proportioned  fliut 
p  together,  rcfolvable,  united  in 
le  Oylie  vifcofiry  of  the  Earth, 
itamcd,  buried,  infeparably  mixt. 
or  this  Gum  or  Oyl  firft  is  ex- 
•adled  out  of  the  Body ,  drawn 
ito  an  incinerated  Spirit,  till  the 
iperfluous  humidity  of  the  Water 
e  turned  into  Air,  and  one  Elc- 
lent  be  excited  from  another 
.lement  by  digeftion,  and  what 
'as  of  an  Aqueous  form,  become 
f  an  Oylie  nature  :  and  fo  the 
'hole  Stone  at  la  ft  afTumes  the 
ame  of  Gum  and  Sulphur.  For 
jtbir  teacheth  this,  when  he  faith, 
s  you  have  written  in  your  Epi- 
ble ,  If  any  perfon  know  to  joyn 
ind  friendly  unite  our  Sulphur  un- 
0  Bodies,  he  hath  found  one  of 
the 


\ 


26o     The  Anfxver  of 

the  greateft  Secrets,  and  one  wa 
of  perfection  :  as  if  he  fhoiild  fa; 
If  any  man  can  reduce  a  Body  i 
this,  that  it  may  be  made  a  Gu: 
which  may  be  throughly  mingle 
with  other  imperfefl  Bodies, 
hath  found  the  greateft  Secret 
Nature,  &c.  becaufe  this  perfe 
Stone  is  a  Gum  and  a  Sulphur, 
is  known  by  what  we  have  alreat 
faid.  But  you  muft  know,  th 
Ceher  with  higheft' prudence  ai 
wonderful  artifice  hides  the  tru 
under  a  Veil,  intermingling  wi 
it  many  ,  obfcurities  and  falfiti( 
which  thofe  who  are  ignorant 
firfl:  appearance  imagine  to 
truth  :  yet  he  fpeaking  like  a  Pi 
lofopher  fecretly  under  this  era 
doth  openly,  learnedly  and  Pi 
lofophically  defcribe  the  trutl 
wherefore  the  unexperienced  a 
Sophiders,  not  underftanding  1 
mifid  and  wit,  nor  the  natur^ 
the  thing,  do  perverlly  turn  ah 
to  the  vulgar  expofition  and  fou 
of  the  words.  For  he  faith.  If  th 
luioweft  that,  we  have  faid  fonr 
thir 


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Eern.Trevifani^c.  261 

thing  to  thee  j  but  if  thou  knowefl: 
not,  we  have  laid  nothing  to  thee. 
V/liereforc  in  reading  Philofb- 
phiclc  Books ,  confidcr  cfpeciaL'y 
the  polTibility  of  Nature  ;  not- 
withllanding  ibme  Writers  of  this 
Arc  have  alfb  (bmetimes  erred , 
and  have  happened  fometiraes  to 
have  handled  it,  as  to  the  natural 
trurh ,  either  ill  or  ambiguoufly. 
As  It  may  be  obfervcd  that  Arnnl- 
d.is  dc  ViiJci,  Kova  hath  faid,  in  a 
Book  which  he  called  his  Rofryy, 
that  raw  Mercury,  that  is,  ^(uick- 
filvcr,  which  in  its  own  nature  is 
cold  and  moift,  ^j  Sublimation 
may  be  made  hot  and  dry  ;  after- 
wards being  revived,  it  becomes 
hot  and  moill  like  the  complexion 
of  Man.  You  will  fay  then,  what 
wonder  is  it  if  it  be  joyned  witf\ 
the  Sun,  that  it  likewife  becomes 
of  the  nature  of  the  Sun?  For 
Mercury  is  of  a  convertible  nature, 
as  the  Heavenly  Mercury,  which  is 
fuch  as  the  Planet  is  with  which  it 
is  in  Conjunrtion.  For  that  yiriul- 
di.'f,  though  lu  other  Sciences  he 
were 


1 


2^2     The  Answer  of 

were  a  Reverend  and  Ingenious' 
Doflor,  yet  in  this  Art  he  handled 
Experiments  only ,  \vithoi;r  the 
learning  of  the  Caufes.  Now  when 
he  faith,  that  in  the  firfl:  Sublima- 
tion the  crude  Spirit  is  fublimed 
from  the  inferiour  fait  Minerals, 
and  that  Mercury  it  felf,  which  in 
its  own  nature  is  cold  and  moift, 
becomes  a  Powder  of  an  hot  and 
dry  nature,  as  he  faith,  this  yet 
conduces  nothing  to  our  Work 
But  let  it  be  fo,  that  he  make? 
.  of  Mercury  fuch  a  Powder  as  ha' 
fpeaks  of,  that  is,  throughly  dried 
and  hot  by  fublimatjcn  from 
Salts  5  yet  tbofe  Purifications  are 
vain  and  impertinent  to  our 
Work,  yea  as  to  the  perfcding  of 
\  our  Work  they  are  hurtful.    For 

I  though  thefe   inferiour   Minerals 

I  communicate  with  Metals  in  their 

'   .  nature,  yet  not  in  kind  and  pro- 

portion :  For  the  fupeiiour  and  in- 
!  feriour  Minerals,  in  their  nativity 

and  fubterraneous  formation,  are 
of-)ne  and  the  fame  conftitutioa 
uiiJverfally,  anH  therefore  of  tlis 


I 


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.  /   / 


Bern.  Trevifm,  Src.  2  63 

fame  nature  j  but  they  differ  in 
proportion,  quality,  and  Aind  or 
tbrm, .  Wherefore  if  Mc-ctiry  be 
diftilled  with  thofe  inferiour  Mne- 
rals,  and  threughly  dried ,  then 
his  iv.ternal  nature  is.  confounded 
and  difproportioncd,  and  is  bin- 
drtd  and  made  unprofitable,  as  to 
the  effeit  of  a  Feminir.e  Seed,  and 
invalid  for  our  Metallick  Work. 
For  fo  foon  as  he  is  turned  into  the 
form  of  a  Powder,  (except  from 
his  Body  oi  Sol  or  Luna  )  lo  fcon 
he  undergoes  0  through  drinefs, 
unprofitable  to  the  Philoll.phick- 
WoiJi.  Yet  I  deny  not,  but  that  a 
droflie  and  in  pure  Mercury  may^ 
and  ought,  by  a  fimple  Salt,  be 
fubli:ncd  or  purged  cnce  ort)ftner, 
according  to  a  due  Pbilofoph)ck 
experience ,  to  take  from  it  its 
drofs  and  outward  Mineral  impu- 
rity, fo  that  notwithuanding  the 
fi'.udity  and  radical  humiciry  of 
Mire  ry  may  always  remain  un- 
altered .  For  the  Mccwial  kind 
and  form  in  fuch  a  VV.rk,  ought 
to  rcma:n  uncoriU£tcd,  as  hatb 
beea 


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2  64      The  Anfvoer  of 

been  faid  already.  Nor  ought  its 
outward  form  to  be  reduced  into 
a  throughly  dried  Powder ;  be- 
caufe  its  external  form  being  cor- 
rupted, fliews  its  internal  nature 
to  be  confounded,  unlcfs  it  be  in : 
the  way  of  generation  that  it  be 
altered,  as  may  be  mahifeftly  feen 
in  the  figns  which  appear  in  the 
Work  of  the  natural  way.  For 
there  are  Subl imat ionsj)f  A/^?^;;^^^/ 
from  itsown  proper  Bodies,_which ' 
are'comoyned^  an.d  mingled_  with 
Tt~byanAnml  ga^ipt  ionjAothjtJn 
its  moftjnwai-d^parts^  fiwn_whicl^ 
being  oftentimes^  r_aifed_  ^d  jT;^ 
united,  it  rejects  and  jofel_  its  fi> 
perfluities^jand  j^s  not  confouiided 
mltTnature  ;  and  afterwardsjt  is^ 
yery  agreeable^o_the  Philofophi,  J^ 
Work ,   and  powerful  jQ_dillp.lve^ 

^tSUdil^^tlid^  ^^YlLiLil-ii^' 
grearly    altered    dmrinncallj^for 

the  Pli^ljiophi-k  V/urk.   -IPk^s  Jt. 

be  alt£.--o  by  iixed  Ro:!iei_diijoL 

vcd  jn  k.     1^-'^  \w,Dnd^r.ul  thini^s 

nrTy  be  -done  .i^i    M-'-'icine;-   ."-cr 

§entuives from  tliisdm^ 


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c/  i^ 

Ccrouo    po-^^r.e^     '^ ^^,    M^    ^'t^  ^t^O^ , ^'<>-^*^-    cc^ 


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Bern.  Trevifan^^c,  26^ 

'herher  it  be  reduced  into  an  Oyl, 
r  into  Water,  or  it  abide  in  3. 
'owder  ;  but  it  is  not  at  all  perti- 
nent to  the  Philofophiciv  Experi- 
nent.  And  therefore  it  muft  be 
nivcrfally  noted,  that  fo  foon  as 
dercury  is_turned  into  a  Powder, 
if  whatever  {grt,  contraryjojhe 
!atin;e_ofjtsjBQd^to_bediflfol^^ 
o  roojLJdllJiJL_be_unprofitablejtp 
he^hilolfoghjcR^WorJt.  There  are 


ertain  deceiving  Sophiilers ,  who 
)yjoyning  Femis  to  it,  or  adding 
.ther  ^^^;>/,  mal^c  a  Sophifticfc 
rVork  ;  that  is,  they  give  unto  im- 
)crfec'i  Cbpper  a  colour,  bur  nor 
latural  ;  they  induce  indeed  a 
and  of  an  apparency ,  but  not  a 
rue  nature,  that  is,  tranfmuta- 
ion  :  like  as  he  that  paints  a  dead 
image,  or  compofes  a  Statue  of 
iVood,  which  appears  only,  but  is 
Aot  ;  and  as  much  as  a  living 
Mers  from  an  Image  and  Pifture, 
"o  much  differs  their  Work  from 
:he  Philofophick.  Hence  t»is  mix- 
ture perfcveres  not  in  the  Teft  of 
the  Fire ,  though  it  be  Mineral ; 
N^  be- 


266     The  Anfwer  of 

becaufe  Nature  attrads  it  nc 
from  a  propjrtionable  digeftior 
nor  hath  Art  vehemently  decoilc' 
it  to  an  aheration  of  the  mixt  na 
tiires  :  wherefore  that  Copper  ap 
pears  to  be  fiper£cia!ly  only,  ani 
not  permanently  and  intrinficajl; 
tinged.  V/herefore  we  muft  no 
adhere  to  the  Experiments  of  de 
ceitful  Sophifleis ,  becaufe  th 
truth  of  the  natural  Art  confute 
this  Sophiftick  Work,  and  fhews  i 
to  be  falfe.  And  if  you  will  in 
ilance  farther,  and  fay,  that  as  tb 
faid  ArnMiu  by  Sublimation  pur 
ged  away  the  drofs  of  Mercury 
and  dried  it  in  its  nature ;  fo  alf 
(as  you  fay)  he  by  reviving  f: 
moilined  it  again,  and  made  tb 
Mercury  it  felf  hot  and  moill:,  am 
in*  its  nature  conformable  to  it 
Body.  This  hinders  not  (my  Re 
verend  Doctor  )  nor  refutes  th 
truth  of  the  philofophick  Art,  yes 
rather  an  errour  appears  in  th( 
Natural  Art  :  For,  as  is  manifeft 
Arnaldus ^ox.h.tz2ich,\f^o\.\  regarc 
the  found  of  his  words,  that  Mer- 
cury 


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Bern,  Trevifatii  &C.  26 -j 

cury  thus  throughly  dried,  is  re- 
vived Viy  hot  watTcr  into  whii^.  ic 
is  cai^  ;   and  he  {iiitli  that  it  is 
rtiadc  hot. and   moid,    when   ic 
was  firft  fublimed   hot  and  dry. 
But  what  true  Fhilofopher  would 
fay,  that  Me f cury  or  :.ny  other  Me- 
tal, is  chai'vged  in  nature  and  in- 
te-.iial  cijalit.y  by  fimple  Water, 
however  h  jr  or  boyling,  or  that  it 
could  theuLO  acquire  its  natural 
h'.tir-idity ,   and   fo   be    revived? 
The;  sfore  Mercury  in  this  revival 
acquires  nothing)  becaufe  common 
Water  neither  decofts  nor  alters 
it,  becaufe  it   neither   hath  en- 
trance nor   ingrefs   into  it,  and 
that  which  neither  hath  entrance 
nOr  ingrefs ,  alters  not ;   becaufe 
every  thing  to  be  altered,  muft 
firf>  be  throughly  mingled.    For 
indeed  fu.h  a   Water  may  wipe 
away  from  it  fome  fuperficial  drofs 
fwimming  upon  it,  but  cannot  in- 
fufe  into  it  a  new  quality  :  For 
what  nature  foever  Mercury  redu- 
ced into  a  Powder,  and  mortified 
by    Sublimations,  retaiocd,  fuch 
N  z  natuic 


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268     Tke  u^nfwer^dzc. 

nature  altogether  ir  retains  reti- 
vcd  by  Water.  Now  this  I  would 
have  to  be  fpoI;en  in  honour  and 
refpefi  unto  the  faid  J-rrialditt:, 
but  I  contemplate  and  defend  the 
truth  of  Nature  and  Experience. 
Furthermore,  honoured  Do£ior, 
that  I  may  by  this  my  Anfwcr  fa- 
tisfie  your  Epiftle,  and  put  an  end 
thereto,  I  humbly  entreat  you  that 
you  would  take  in  good  part,  and 
favourably  bear  what  I  have  writ- 
ten, not  by  way  of  Confutation, 
bur  Difputation  :  But  if  I  have 
anfwered  any  thing  that  offends 
you,  take  it  yet  in  good  pait  and 
favourably,  or  fignitie  it  to  me  in 
writing,  and  I  will  fatisfie  you  to 
my  power,  as  the  moil  true  Doclor 
our  Lord  Jefus  Chrift,  the  Son  of 
God,  blelled  for  ever  and  ever, 
fhall  give  and  teach  me. 

Thanks  he  to  Chrifi. 


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