The wise-mans crown, or, The glory of the rosie-cross

Heydon, John, b. 1629.

A Catalogue of those things contained in these Bookes

First Book.

 1 The white Elixir of Quicksilver

 2 The white Ferment
 3 The red Elixir of Mercury alone
 4 The red Ferment
 5 The Accurtation of the red Elixir
 6 The Phisicall and Alchimicall Tincture of thered Lion and the glue
of the Eagle.

Second Book.

 1 The Elixir of Copper

 2 Of Augmentation and projection
 3 Of the Blessed stone or Elixir of Life and of its virtues and also of
Malleable glass

Third Book.

 1 The Elixir of Saturne white and red and also of Jupiter

 2 The Abreviation of the work of Saturn
 3 The Elixir of Mars
 4 A short work of the Phisicall and Alchimicall Tinsture
 5 The Magistry of Pearles
 6 The Composition of Carbunkles
 7 Of Minerall Electrum
 8 The Explanation of the Philosophers words when they speak of the
tenth number wherein the stone is perfected and also the wonderfull
Secrets of the animiall stone with two other of his works

The Rosie Crucian CROWN Set with Angels, Planets and Metals &c.
The First Book.
CHAP. I.

1 Of the Gold Mercury or Argent vive. 2 Purification. 3 Sublimation. 4

Calcination. 5 Exuberation. 6 Solution. 7 Separation. 8 Conjunction. 9
Putrefaction into Sulphur. 10 Fermentation. 11 Multiplication in virtue. 12
Multiplication in quantity.

He that can make the Stone of Argent vive or Mercury alone, is the greatest
searcher out of Art and Nature: because there is all that in Mercury which
wise men do seek, for, Quick-silver is the mother and sperm of all Metals
and their nearest matter: and it is not onely a spirit but a body, it is also a
middle Nature and also a sulphur, it is a lingering Mercury, it dieth and
riseth again and is fixed with its own proper Elements: wherefore it is first
necessary that it be purged from its impurities.

The purgation or purification is on this wise; grind it upon a Marble with a

muller or a wodden Pestill in a wodden Morter with common salt and a little
vinegar springled thereupon till the salt be black, then wash it well with
vineger and dry it easily at the fire, or at the Sun, then strain it through a
double cloath or a new skin of a sheep till it be dry and the vineger clear
taken away and be of a white colour and clear.

Grind it upon a Marble with a little Mercury sublimate and let it mortifie and
in corporate with it: then grind it with its equall weight of salt-Peter and
green Coperas till it be like a paste; Then put all into a subliming glass and
in Ashes sublime all the ☿ that it be white and clear as snow in the head of
the Limbeck sublime it again three times or oftener and it will be pure ☿ and
sublimate.

Put one pound of this ☿ sublimate into two pound of common Aqua fortis by
little and little at once as by two at a time till all be dissolved like sugar in
wine then shut the glas and set it in Balneo to dissolve the space of 1• days
then distil away the Aqua fortis in a lenthe• in Balneo and the ☿ will remain
in the bottom like butter of a white colour. And calcined be corrosive water.

Put this calcined ☿ into an Earthen body with a Limbeck and in ashes
sublime the whole dissolved substance three times which will then be very
white and then it is called Mercury Exuberate.

When you have three or four pound of this, receive the third part and fix it
by often sublimation till it remain in a hard mass and ascend no more but
remain fixed.

Which is called the Glue of the Eagle or the prepared body permanent and
the volatile made fixed which is to be reserved for the earth of the stone.

Dissolve the other two parts in Balneo or in a cold Cellar or put it in a blader
and hang it over suming hot water till it be all come to water.
Take this water thus made, and digest it in a Circulatory well closed the
space of nine days then put it in a body with a head and receiver well luted
and in ashes or Balneo distill the water of a white colour or milkie and is
called Lac Virginis, dissolving all metalls and so you have separated the
spirit of the stone which is also called the lingring spirit and the white
Tincture of the white stone of Mercury.

Take the third part which before you reserved and fixed called the glue of
the Eagle, as much of it as you please and add thereto equal weight of its
spirit or Lac Virginis and close up the glass and so you have joined the Man
and the woman, ☿ with his own Earth; the spirit with the body. See the Holy
Guid.

Set your Lac Virginis thus joyned with his own, Each in Balneo to putrify
150 days and there let it stand unmoved; after forty days it will be black, and
it is then called the head of the Crow: then it will be of a green colour after
that the Peacocks tail, and many false colours for between this and white it
will appear red but at last you shall see it white and then encrease your fire
and it will stick to the sides of the glasse like fishes eyes Then have you each
in the nature of Sulphur, Read the Holy Guid.

Take of this Sulphur as much as you please and weigh it and add thereto two
parts of the white Tincture or Lac Virginis and set it in Balneo to dissolve
the space of six days then distill away the Lac Virginis or Tincture and the
Sulphur will remain in the form of Liquor for it is the Liquor of the white
sulphur of ☿ which is to be joined with the Liquor of the sulphur of Luna or
siver.

The Sulphur of the white Luminary or silver or Luna is made as the other
whereof we shall speak more in the next Branch. This Liquor of the sulphur
is the soul which is joined with the spirit and body which quickeneth the
whole stone. The other conjunction before was onely the union of the spirit
and the body: but this is a threefold copulation viz. The uniting of the soul,
spirit, and body.

Add equal weight of these two Liquors of sulphur that is to say the liquor of
the sulphur of Mercury and of silver and Luna, and close well the glasse and
set it in Ashes till it be white, for it will be of all colours again and at last
white; And then is it the perfect stone converting all Metalls into silver.

This stone or Elixir is thus multiplied in virtue dissolve it in your Lac

Virginis and distill it away and dry it and dissolve it again &c. And let it be
so often dissolved and dried till it will drie no more but remain in an
incombustible oil. And is then Elixir of the third Order.
Take one part of this Elixir and project it upon 100 or 1000 parts of melted
silver (according to the goodness and virtue thereof) and it will turn the
silver into a brittle Mass or substance, which beat to powder in an Iron or
brasse Mortar or upon a Marble, and project one part of this powder upon
100 parts of ☿ purged made hot, and it will be perfect medicine whereof one
part turned 100 or 1000 parts of other bodies into good silver. And this way
is your Medicine multiplyed in quantity.

A Corollary.

It remained now that we speak of the Medicine or the Elixir of Life, which is
called potable silver. But although the Liquor of silver may be made potable
silver if it be corroberated before by digestion in Balneo 7 days with the
spirit of wine and then distill away the said spirit of wine that the oil of the
silver may remain in the bottom which may easily be given for medicine,
Yet the Philosophers would have us do otherwise for they teach us to bring
the metalls first into their quintessence before they be taken inwardly, and
that their is no other Quintessences but those that are of a second nature
according to the old saying,

Elixir de te est res secunda

De quo sunt facta corpora munda.

That is to say the 4 Elements are destroyed and by putrifaction a new body
created and made into a stone, which is the quintessence as Ripley would
have it; But I do boldly and constantly affirm that there is no true silver or
potable silver nor Quintessence unless it be first Elixir and that is done in a
quarter of an hour by projection of the Elixir upon silver or pure gold molten
according as the Elixir was red or white. If therefore you desire after the first
composition of the Elixir to make the Arcanum of Argentum or Aurum
potabile project the Elixir or Medicine according to his quality or property
upon pure silver or gold molten, and then it is made brittle and frangible and
grind it to powder and take thereof so much as you please and dissolve it in
distilled vinegar (or rather in spirit of wine) the space of nine days, then
distill away the vinegar or spirit of wine, that which remained in the bottome
is the true Medicine, Quintessence, Elixir of life, Ferment of ferments and
incombustible oil converting metalls and Mans body into perfect health from
all diseases of mans body which proceed from Mercury and Luna. And thus
is the true potable silver made cureing the Vertigo, Sincope, Spilepsy,
Madness, Phrency Leprosie. &c. And this is the right way of making the
stone of Mercury alone; but the Elixir cannot be made without the Addition
of silver to the white, and of gold to the red.

CHAP. II.
1 Luna. 2 pure Silver. 3 Calcination. 4 Solution. 5 Putrefaction. 6 The
Sulphur. 7 The Liquor of the Sulphur. 8 White Ferment.

HERMES saith, The Elixir is nothing else but Mercury Sol and Luna, by
Mercury nothing is understood but the sulphur of nature which is called the
true ☿ of the Philosophers, and that sulphur gotten by putrifaction by the
conjunction of the spirit and of the body of imperfect bodies or metals.

By Sol is meant gold, by Luna silver, both of them are to be joyned to

imperfect bodies, that is to say, white sulphurs and red, whence the same
Hermes in his treatise of Sol saith there happeneth a conjunction of two
bodies and it is necessary in our Maistry; And if one of these bodies onely
were not in our stone it would never by any means give any Tincture, Upon
which Morienus saith. For the Ferment prepareth the imperfect body and
converteth it to its own nature and there is no Ferment but Sol and Luna, that
is, gold and silver. Of which Rosinus Sol and Luna prepared (that is •o say
their sulphurs) are the ferments of mettles in colour, See the Holy Guid. But
this is made more evident by Raymund in his Apertory where he saith there
is no ferment except Sol and Luna, for the Ferment of the stone to white is
silver and to the red gold, as the Philosophers do demonstrate because
without ferment there doth proceed neither gold nor silver nor any thing else
that is of its kind or nature, therefore join the Ferment with its sulphur that it
may beget its like, because the Ferment draweth the sulphur to its own
colour and nature also, and weight and sound because every like begetteth
its like. Because the Ferment even as Sol tingeth and changeth his sulphur
into a permanent and piercing Medicine. Therefore the Philosopher saith he
that knoweth how to tinge sulphur and Mercury with Sol and Luna, shall
attain to the greatest secret. And for this reason it is necessary that Sol and
Luna be the Tincture and Ferment thereof. You may read in the Holy Guide.

And so also Arnoldus in his Rosary, There is no body more noble or pure
then Sol, or his shaddow that is to say silver without which no tingeing
Mercury is generated. He that endeavoureth to give colour without this gold
or silver goeth blindly to work like an Asse to a Harp, for gold giveth a
golden and silver an argentive colour therefore he that knoweth how to tinge
☿ with Sol and Luna cometh or reacheh to the secret which is called white
sulphur, the best to silver which when it is made red, will be red sulphur to
gold the best.

Take pure Luna, that is to say silver that is best which is beaten into leaves
and bring it into calx with ☿ And it is then called water silver then is the
Luna well prepared for Calcination. See the Holy Guide.

When you have your silver thus prepared, take 4 or 6 ounces thereof, and put
it in double proportions of Lac Virginis mixed with equall quantity of
corrasive water to dissolve in an egg glasse. After it hath dissolved so much
as it can in the cold, set in Balneo and there let it stand 9 days till the whole
substance of the silver be dissolved into a green water, then let the Balneo
cool and take it out, and put the dissolution into the body and set thereon a
head and distill of the water from the matter remaining which is the oil of
the silver Calcined not into a calx but a Liquor, because this Lac Virginis if
it be mixed or joined with common Aqua fortis or alone without it (as it
pleaseth the Operator) is so strong that the very Diamond cannot resist it but
is dissolved: Therefore this water is called the water of Hell and is the onely
miracle of miracles of the World, because it containeth such a fiery nature in
it self and propriety of burning of all bodies into Liquor whereas the
Elemental fire prevaileth no further then to reduce metalls into calx or ashes.
But to return from whence we digressed I now come to the third operation.

To the end therefore that this liquor or oil of silver may be more perfectly
dissolved and that all the imperfection of adustion may be taken away,
which by the Ancients is called the corroberating of the lest humidity. Put
this Oil or liquor into another egg glasse like the former power there upon so
much spirit of wine above it 4 fingers then close well the glasse and set it in
balneo to digest 7 or 10 days and you shall find the oil or liquor turned into a
thin or rare water oil: put this water into a still and in balneo draw away the
spirit of wine till none of the spirit of wine remain with the silver dissolved.
And thus have you your silver prepared for putrifaction.

This Liquor of silver is potable but not the Quintessence put this water into a
fit putrifying glasse and seal it up and set it to putrifie in balneo till the time
of putrifaction be past which is about 150 days, and when you see the first
sign of putrifaction which is called the head of the Crow encrease your fire a
little till all colours begin to appear and you see it begin to be white,

When you see it white encrease your fire yet more and it will rise up and
stick to the sides of the glasse most transparent like the eyes of fishes which
is Sulphur of Nature or salt, or the putrified body of the white Luminary, viz.
Luna, which yet is not so hard as a body nor so soft as a spirit but of a mean
hardness between a spirit, and a body, and is called the Philosophers
Mercury and the Key and mean of joining Tinctures.

But to come to the liquor of the white Luminary, this body being brought
into Quintessence is prepared for dissolution like the sulphur of the
imperfect body, but whereas that is done by the virtue of the white tincture
or Lac Virginis I rather do it by virtue of the fire natural which is the spirit of
wine and after the drawing away thereof it remaineth in a Liquor.
Now this liquor of Luna dissolved is the Quintessence which then is the
liquor of the white Luminary and the sole as Exinadius saith quickening the
whole stone without which it is dead and will neither give form nor colour.

Therefore the fourth part of this liquor of the white Luminary is to be joined
to three parts of the former liquor of the sulphur of ☿ and after to be kept in a
lent fire of Ashes Well closed till it passe through all colours and at last
come to its former colour of whiteness and so the stone is fermented and
turned into the white Elixir.

The Residue of the foresaid dissolved sulphur keep diligently and therewith
ferment the white sulphur of other imperfect bodies or stones into Elixirs,
which when they are thrice dissolved and again congealed and remain in a
liquid substance then they are called incombustible oiles and Elixirs of the
third order.

And thus the stone is made of ☿ alone.

A Corrollary.

Having spoken of the white stone it now resteth that we speak of the making
of the red Elixir, whereof there is two processes the first whereof is from the
Radix i. e. the long way: the other an accurtation that is much shorter and
more excellent, And this way the Elixir may be made in 80 days and excells
all other accurtations neither is there found therein any diminution of the
virtue but is a plentifull and perfect fulness of power and virtue having all
the properties which the Elixir ought to have. The process whereof these
three following Chapters will plainly shew.

CHAP. III.

1 Vivum. 2 Sublimation. 3 Calcination. 4 Precipitation. 5 Solution. 6 Fixed

oil. 7 Inceration. 8 Desiccation. 9 Contrition. 10 Fermentation. 11 The Red
Elixir. 12 The third Table

It is not necessary to speak in this place of the urgation of ☿ because we

spoke thereof before.

The sublimation is to be done otherwise then in the former worke for that
which is called sublimation here is not done with vitriol and salt peter but is
only the distillation of the ☿ in an earthen body with a limbeck and that by it
self without any addilament.

When the ☿ is once sublimed in ashes wholly into the head of the limbeck
having a retainer joined thereto take off the head and with a feather gather
the sublimed matter and you shall find your ☿ of a black colour having lost
his fairness and like a dust or powder sticking to his body.

Put it again into the body and sublime it as before and reiterate this work 7
or 9 times untill you have a sufficient quantity of this powder that is to say a
pound or more. And this is the Calcination.

When you see your ☿ will ascend no more but remain in the bottome of a
black colour and that is dead and brought perfectly into calx let it cool and
remove your body into sand till it be turned into a red colour; And this is the
perfect precipitation prose without the help of any corrosive water, take a
little of this powder upon a hot iron plate if it fume, dry it longer, if not it is
well.

Take of this red powder as much as you will dissolve and put there upon at
least his double weight of Lac Virginis and set in Balneo till you see your
Lac Virginis stained a yellow or red colour then filter it from its feces and
keep it by it self in a glass well stopped and dry the matter that remaineth in
Ashes and pour thereon new Lac Virginis and do as before till you have
drawn out all the tincture. And so your ☿ is dissolved.

Put these solutions into a body luting to a head and in balneo distill away the
Lac Virginis and the red oil precipitate will remain which is fixed and
needeth no distillation but is the tinging oil of red Mercury and the red
tincture of the red stone of ☿ and the soul and spirit of the same stone
joyned,

Therefore take part of the white Sulphur reserved in the first Table and
rubify it in ashes till it be red then imbibe it with equal weight of the oil of
the tincture of this red ☿ and set it to dissolve in Balneo, and when you see it
is dissolved into a liquid substance take it out.

Then set it in ashes or under the fire to fix till the matter being dried remain
fixed and fusible standing in a mean heat not over hot which try upon a hot
Iron plate and if it fume not it is well, if it do, encrease your fire till it be
totally fixed and dry.

If this matter be imbibed again with its oil till it drink up as much as it will
and again dissolved in Balneo and then dried in Ashes, it will shew many
colours and lastly appeared. And then it is the stone penetrating and fusible,
at for forme.

Join this imbibed matter (or stone) with the 4th part of the liquor or oil of the
red sulphur of Gold or the red Ferment, and dissolve it in Balneo, and drie it
again, and again dissolve it in a glasse hanged in the fume of hot water or
Balneum and congeal it again till it stand like honey; Then it is the perfect
red Elixir of Mercury.

The Multiplication or Augmentation of the virtue and quantity is shewed in

the former Chapter.

CHAP. IV.

1 Gold Sol. 2 Purged Gold. 3 Calcination. 4 Solution. 5 Putrifaction. 6

Filius, solis Coelestis. 7 Filia Lunae Coelestis.

The putrifaction or purgation of gold is done as the Goldsmiths use to do by

melting it with Antimony that the gold may remain in the bottome pure and
clear from other metalls which they call Regulus.

Take 4 or 5 ounces of this refined gold, leaf or fileings and dissolve it in Lac
Virginis, mixed with equal weight of Aqua fortis wherein salt Armoniack
sublimed is dissolved, and when it is dissolved into a red Liquor or deep
yellow then it is well calcined.

The solution and putrifaction is done as before you did with silver in the
preparation of the white Ferment.

When you have your white sulphur of nature (after putrifaction) sticking to
the sides of the glass, let it cool, and take out your glass and set it on Ashes,
and encrease your fire but not too much lest your matter vitrifie, and let your
ashes be no hotter then you can hold your hand therein, and so let it stand till
the sulphur be of a perfect deep red colour, Then have you the red sulphur of
the red Luminary.

If you resolve this red sulphur in spirit of wine or distilled Vinegar into an
oil it is then the Liquor of the, red Luminary, And Auram potabile curing all
infirmities if the spirit of wine or vinegar be destilled from it; But for this
work it were better to dissolve it in our red Lac Virginis spoken of in the
second Chapter of the second Book; distill away the Lac from the sulphur in
Ashes, and the sulphur remaining in an oile is the Ferment of all stones to
the red. The augmentation of this red Elixir in virtue is with his red Tincture
as before in the white Elixir with his white Tincture. The augmentation in
quantity is by projection upon the body of gold molten: And that brittle
matter of gold upon ☿ and if it be powdered and resolved with spirit of wine
inan oil as was said before of silver then it is the Quintessence of gold, and
the great Elixir of life and the spiritual ferment for the transmutation of
metals and for the health of mans body.

The 5 Chapter sheweth the abbreviation of the Red Elixir.

CHAP. V.

1 The Liquor of the red sulphur. 2 Fermentation.

Although Raymund writing to King Robert was pleased to say, That every
Accurtation diminisheth the perfection: because Medicines which are made
by accurtation have less effect of transmutation, which I also ascent to with
him for a truth, if the work be begun from the first fountain: yet because this
work hath its beginning from those things which before were brought to a
perfect degree of perfection, therefore in this there is no diminution of the
perfection as the same Raymund witnesseth lib. Mecur. pag. 103. saying
thus.

Therefore it ought to be declared unto thee, that if they be both well

prepared (and that thou begin with them) thou wilt do a wonderful work
without any great labour sooner then if thou should begin with one thing
alone; Therefore my son begin thy work of two things together as 〈◊〉
shewed to thee in the greater stone, when we spoke of the twofold custody
of the actions which are caused by the bodies and spirits.

By that which is caused by the bodies and spirits he means nothing else but
sulphur, willing that we should begin with sulphur, to which I do so well
agree that I begin this my accurtation with sulphur alone and I add no other
body to this Elixir but onely the sulphur of ☿ alone created of his own body
and spirit.

Take therefore 2 ounces of the white sulphur that was described in the first
Chapter and set it in ashes to rubifie, in 30 days it will be turned into red
sulphur.

Which when you have done dissolve that sulphur in the red Tincture of
Mecury when it is dissolved draw away the Tincture, in the bottom
remaineth the Liquor of the sulphur.

To which if you add a due proportion of the liquor of the red Luminary it
will be perfect Ferment, which if you dissolve and congeal as before is
shewed, it is then Elixir of very great virtue to the red work and no man can
make a shorter abreviation in the world; And when the sulphur of any body
is prepared it may this way very speedily be converted into Elixir by adding
the liquor of the ferment.

CHAP VI.

1 The Body. 2 The Spirit. 3 The Lion. 4 The Eagle. 5 The Phylosophers
Lead. 6 Antimony. 7 Antimony Mercury. 8 The Glue of the Eagle. 9
Solution of the red Lion into Blood. 10 Solution of the Glue of the Eagle. 11
Solution of the Blood of the red Lion. 12 Conjunction. 13 Putrifaction. 14
The Stone. 15 Fermentation. 16 In the Trinity of The Phisical and
Alchymical Tincture The Soul. 17 Is the Ʋnity of the Medicine.

Take Antimony calcined so much as you please, and grind it to a subtile

powder, then take twice so much Lac Virginis and put your powder of
Antimony therein and set it in balneo 7 days, then put it into a body, and set
it in sand or ashes till the Lac be turned red, which draw of and pour on
more and so let it stand, when that is coloured red, pour it to the other and
thus do till you have drawn out all the tincture set all this water in balneo or
lent ashes to distill with a Limbeck, and distill it with a lent fire and first of
all the Lac will ascend, then you shall see a stupendious Miracle because
you shall see through the nose of the Alimbeck is it were a thousand veins of
the liquor of this blessed minere to descend in red drops just like bloud,
which when you have got thou hast a thing whereto all the treasure in the
world is not equall; Now you have the blood of the Lion according to
Rupesissa, let us here rest a little and speak of the Glew of the Eagle, of
which Paracelsus thus saith.

Reduce Mercury so far by sublimation till it be a fixed Christall; this is his

preparation of Mercury and his way of reducing it into the Glew of the
Eagle, but above all I require that that way be used which is described by me
before in the first Chapter, or that hereafter set down after this.

Then saith the foresaid Author, go on to resolution and coagulation, and I

again will you to observe the same manner of solution shewed in the first
Chapter before.

Now let us come to conjunction after the solution of these two, take equal
weight of them and put them in a vessel well shut.

After you have thus joined them together set your glass in your furnace to
putrifie and alter the space of certain days. Therefore Paracelsus saith, then
at length and presently after your Lili is made hot in your glass it appeareth
in wonderful manners (or demonstrations) blacker then the Crow: after that
in process of time whiter then the Swan and then passing by yellow to be
more red then bloud.

This being putrified and turned into red is to be taken for the stone, and then
it is time it be fermented.

Of which Fermentation Paracelsus thus speaketh, one part thereof is to be

projected upon 1000 parts of molton gold, and then the medicine is prepared
and this is the Fermentation of it. But if the half or one part of the liquor of
the sulphur of gold before described be added to it then it would be spirituall
ferment, and would be much more penetrating in fortitude and fusible as
Paracelsus doth testifie in his Aurora where he would have us to join the
star of the sun or the oil of sol to this stone. And thus the Physical
Alchymical tincture is performed in a short time for curing all manner of
Infirmities and humane diseases (which is also the great Elixir for metals) so
courtly concealed by the Antients. Which Hermes Trismegistus the
Aegyptian, Osus the Gretian, Haly an Arabian, and Albertus Magnus a
German, with many others, have sought and prosecuted every one after their
own method, and one in one subject another in another, so much desired by
the Philosophers onely for prolongation of life.

In this composition Mercury is made a fixed and dissolved body, the blood
or spirit of the red Lion is the ferment or soul, and so of trinity is made
unity, which is called the Physical and Alchymical tincture, never before
that I knew of collected or writ in one work And I swear: I had not done this
except that otherwise the composition of this blessed medecine had for ever
been forgot.

A shorter way to make the glue of the Eagle.

If you desire to make the glue of the Eagle in a breifer way. Take part of the
red precipitate prose as is taught before in the table of Mercury and dissolve
it in distilled vinegar and the vinegar will be coloured into a yellow or
delightfull golden colour and after you have destilled away the vinegar there
will remain in the bottome a white substance of the Mercury fixed and fair,
which is to be joyned to the oile of the Lion; And this work is much shorter
and less laborious, look more hereof in the third Book.

The Calcination of Antimony into the red Lion.

Take Antimony well ground so much as you please and melt it in naked fire
with salt Armoniack, and when it is melted cast it suddenly into a vessel
almost full of distilled vinegar wherein salt Armoniack hath been dissolved
and thus melt it and cast it in three times, then pour off the vinegar from the
Calx of the Antimony and drie it well and grind it small and dissolve it as
before is taught, and so have you the Red Lion of the Philosophers Lead or
Antimony.

CHAP. VII.

1 Elixir. 2 Conjunction. 3 Seperation. 4 the Stone. 5 Fermentation. 6 The

Earth. 7 Spirit oil, Blood of the Lambe. 8 Distillation. 9 Resolution. 10
Putrifaction. 11 Solution. 12 Vitriol. 13 Calcination 14 Copper.

The first Chapter of the Elixir of Copper

Many have sought out the way of the Mineral stone in vitriol or green
Copperas, but they were altogether received which common vitriol by the
Philosophers is called the green Lion of fools. But this our noble red Lion
taketh its original from the Metallick body of Copper. Although I am not
ignorant how to draw an oil out of Romain vitriol of a more sweet smell and
delightfull taste then any balsome if the Tincture be taken out of the calcined
vitriol in spirit of wine, yet the Philosophers will is, and command that it do
consist of a Metallick virtue wherewith the transmutaion of metalls is to be
effected. Therefore they say it is to be made of bodies and not of spirits as of
vitriol sulphur as well and the like. Whence I find it written in the
Philosophers Turba and in the first Exercitation: But the Philosophers stone
is a metallick matter converting the substances and forms of imperfect
metalls, and it is concluded by all the Philosophers that the conversion is not
made except by its like, therefore it is necessary that the Philosophers stone
be made of a metallick matter, yet if any be made of spirits yet it would be
better and much more Philosophical and more near to a metallick nature to
be made of bodies then of spirits: but if by Art the body should be turned
into a spirit then the same body would be both body and spirit, and not to be
doubled but the stone might be made of such a body or spirit. but let us
return to our purpose; It being granted that this our vitriol is such a body
according to which Paracelsus testified in his Aurora Philosophorum under
this Aenigura or secret of the Ancient Philosophers.

Visicabis Interiora Terrae Reclificando Invenies

Occultum Lapidem Veram Medicinam.

Out of the first letter of every word of this Aenigura is gathered this word
VITRIOLUM by which is meant that thereof the stone or medicine may be
made.

Therefore Paracelsus saith, the inward parts of the Earth are to be visited;
not onely the Earth which is vitriol, but the Inward parts of the Earth, he
meaneth the sweetness and redness, because there lieth hid in the inward
parts of vitriol a subtil noble and fragrant juice and pure oile.

And this is especially to be noted the production of this Copper into vitriol is
not to be done neither by calcination of the fire nor distillation of the matter,
lest it be deprived of its greenness which being lost it wants both power and
strength.

Paracelsus speaks not one word of the preparation of this vitriol by whose
silence many have erred, therefore I determined to leave him here a little and
to prosecute and follow the order of the Table wherefore: begin with the
calcination of the metal. And note that this calcination of Copper is made
that it may be turned into vitriol and not the calcination of vitriol made of
copper.

Take therefore as much copper as you please and dissolve, Calcination it in

Aqua fortis to a fair green water, then set it 3 or 4 days to digest till the
matter be clear which pour out into a limbeck and in Balneo draw away the
corrasive water so that the matter remain dry for then it is calcined.

Then upon every 2 pound of this calcined matter pour a gallon of distilled
Vinegar and lute it up in a glass, and set it in balneo almost boiling the space
of 7 days, when it is cold put into a limbeck to distill away all the vinegar in
balneo, and in the bottom of the Alimbeck you shall have your vitriol very
well congealed far fairer then Romain vitriol which is corporeal and
metallick vitriol.

Which Vitriol I do not dissolve in rainwater like the Paracelsians, but rather
with Lac Virginis as before is taught in the former Chapters or in Raymunds
Calcination water, and after its dissolution and perfect digestion, that is to
say 15 days I put it into a limbeck and balneo draw off the Lac virginis,
which being done you shall find an oily water green and clear upon which
pour the spirit of wine and after it hath been digested 7 days and the spirit of
wine distilled away in balneo you shall find your green water perfectly
rectified made pure subtile and spiritual, and apt for putrifaction, for if it be
not well dissolved and rarified it will not putrifie.

But now that I may join with Paracelsus in the manner of putrifaction I
return to him and say with him commanding to disgest in a warm heat in a
glass well closed the space of some moneths, and so long till diverse colours
appear and be at length red which sheweth the termination of its putrifaction.

But yet in this process this redness is not sufficiently fixed, but is to be more
fully purged from its feces in this manner.

Resolve it or rectifie it in distilled vinegar, till the vinegar be coloured then

filler it from its feces. This is its true Tincture and best resolution and
rectification out of which a blessed oil is to be drawn.

This Tincture being thus resolved and rectified, is to be put into a body with
a limbeck and in balneo distil the vinegar gently away.

Then in sand or ashes lift up the spirit gently and temperately, and when you
see a fume ascend into the glass and red drops begin to fall out of the nose of
the limbeck into the receiver, then the red oil beginneth to distil, continue
your distillation till all be come over, when it is done you shall have the oil
in the receiver lifted up and separated from its Earth more delightful and
sweet then any balsom, or Aromatick without any sharpness at all, which oil
is called the blood of the Lamb. In the bottome of the body you shall find a
white shining Earth like snow, which keep well from dust and so you have
the clear Earth separated from its oil.

Take this white Earth and put it in a glass viol, and put thereto equal, weight
of the oil or soul and body, will receive it and embrace it in a moment.

But that it may be turned into a stone when you have joined these two
together, set it into our furnace the space of 40 days and you shall have an
absolute oil of wonderful perfection wherewith Mercury and other imperfect
metals are turned into gold. As Paracelsus was pleased to say.

The stone being thus made, I now come to the fermentation without which it
is not possible to give form to it neither will I adhere to the opinion of one
man alone contrary to all the Philosophers alone, that is to say, Paracelsus
repugnant to the rest of the Philosophers because they all of necessity have
decreed to give form to the stone by ferment and union, that is to say, of an
imperfect body, and by how much the ferment is more spirituall the stone
will be of so much more penetration and transmutation.

These things being promised I do not think it sit that you should proceed to
projection upon Mercury instead of fermentation as Paracelsus teacheth, or
that the stone should be fermented his way with gold either corporeal or
spiritual.

Which gold will be the foundation of the first projection. but what do the
Philosophers command us to do? that projection that is to say fermentation,
be made of a perfect foundation, and that upon imperfect bodies that
medicines may be made which foundation of the stone or Elixir is not except
it be onely the white or red ferment, in respect of which both gold and silver
are said to be imperfect bodies, therefore this stone is to be fermented before
it be projected upon the corporeal foundation or imperfect, that is to say
corporeal gold.

Therefore join this oile to the fourth part of the oile of the sulpur of gold,
and this is the true fermentation or conversion unto the Elixir.

Then Augment it in virtue by solution and coagulation, and in quantity by

projection first upon the corporeal foundation that is to say gold, then that
upon purified Mercury and that medicine upon other bodies which are most
sit for projection, that is to say most fusible as Lead or Tinne, which after
they are purified are most apt by reason of their easie melting.
And thus the Inward parts of the Earth are visited and by reflection the hiden
stone is found, the true Medicine out of the green Lion of the Philosophers,
and not of fools, and out of Corporeal and metallick vitriol not terrestrial and
made of mineral copperas.

The Second Chapter of Augmentation and projection of the STONE.

FIRST, Let us speak of the Augmentation of the virtue or quality; of which

Raymund saith, The Augmentation in quality and goodness is by solution
and coagulation of the Tincture, that is to say, by imbibing it with our
Mercury and drying it. But let us hear Arnoldus more attentively, take one
part of your prepared Tincture, and dissolve it in three parts of our Mercury,
then put it in a glass and seal it up and set it in ashes till it be dry and come
to a powder, then open the glass and imbibe it again, and dry it again And
the oftener you do the thus so much sha you gain and giveth more tincture.

And also as it is found in Clangor Buccinae, Dissolve it in the water of

Mercury of which the Medicine was made till it be clear then congeal it by
light decoction and imbibe it with its oil upon the fire till it flow by virtue
whereof it will be doubled in tincture, with all its perfections as you will see
in projection because the weight that was before projected upon a thousand,
is now to be projected upon ten thousand, and there is no great labour in this
multiplication.

Again the medicine is multiplyed two manner of ways.

By solution of calidity and solution of varity. By solution of calidity, is that

you take the Medicine put in a glass vessel and burie it in our moist fire
seven days or more, till the medicine be dissolved into water without any
turbulenci. By solution of rarity, is that you take your glass vessel with your
medicine and hang it in a new brass pot full of water that boileth and close
up the mouth of the pot that the medicine may dissolve in the vapour of the
boiling water.

But note that the boiling water must not touch the glass wherein the
medicine is but hang above it three fingers, and this solution will be above it
in 2 or 3 days after your medicine is dissolved, take it from the fire to cool
fix and congeal and be hard and dry this do often and and how much the
more the medicine shall be dissolved it will be so much more perfect, and
such a solution is the sublimation of the medicine and its virtual sublimation,
which the oftener it is reiterated so much more abundantly and more parts it
tingeth.

Whence Rasis saith the goodness of this multiplication consisteth in the

reiteration sublimation and fixation of the medicine and by how much more
this order is repeated it worked so much more and is augmented for so often
as you sublime your medicine and dissolve it you shall gain so much every
time in projection one upon a thousand and if the first fall upon a thousand
the third upon a hundred thousand the fourth upon a million and so
infinitely. For Morienus the Philosopher saith; Know for certain that the
oftener our stone is dissolved and congealed the spirit and soul is joined
more to the body and is retained by it and in every time the Tincture is
multiplyed.

Whence we thus read in Scala Philosophorum, which also the Philosophers

say. Dissolve and congeal, so without doubt it is understood of the solution
of the body and soul with the spirit into water and congealation makes the
soul and spirit mix with the body and if with one solution and simple
congealation the soul and spirit would be perfectly joined to the body the
Philosophers would not say dissolve again, and congeal, and again dissolve
and congeal that the Tincture of the stone may grow if it could be done with
one congealation only.

The Medicine is another way multiplyed by fermentation and the ferment to

the white is pure silver and the ferment to the red is pure gold, therefore
project one part of your medicine upon a of the ferment (but I say 3 parts of
the medicine upon one of the ferment) and all will be Medicine, which put in
a glass upon the fire and so close it that no air go in nor out, and keep it there
till it be subtiliated as you did with the first medicine and one part of the
second medicine will have as much virtue as one part, of the first medicine
had (but here again Clangor Buccinae hath erred for it should be write thus)
one part of the second medicine will have as much virtue as ten parts of the
first medicine had. And thus by solution and fermentation the medicine may
be multiplied infinitely.

We have spoken enough of this multiplication, we now come to the other

way of augmentation which is called corporeal multiplication and according
to Raymund is thus defined.

Augmentation is the Addition of Quantity; whence Avicena writeth, It is

hard to project upon a million and to preducate it incontinently wherefore I
will reveal one great secret unto you, one part is to be mixed with a thousand
parts of its nearest in kind (I call that nearest that is the body of the same
metal whereof the medicine was made or perfected) but to return again to
Avicena, close all this firmly in a fit vessel and set it in a furnace of fusion 3
days till it be wholly joined together. Whereof it is more largely and better
set down by the said Author and the manner of the work is thus projected,
one part of the foresaid medicine upon 100 parts of molten gold and it makes
it brittle and will all be medicine whereof one part projected a hundred of
any melted metal converted it into pure gold and if you project it upon silver
in like manner it converted all bodies into silver.

In Scala Philosophorum all sorts of projection is set thus down in few

words. You must know that first it is said project, that is to say one upon 100
&c. yet it is better to project nunc dimittis upon fundamenta and fundamenta
upon verba mea and verba mea upon diligans te Domine and diligam te
upon attendite. This breif Aenigua is thus expounded it is nothing else but
the words and opinion of the former Author concealed under the Aenigura.
Therefore let us repeat the words of this Aenigura or Oraccle.

Nunc dimittis super fundamenta

Fundamenta super verba mea
Verba mea super diligam te
Diligamte super attendite.

These are trifles for the hiding and concealing the perfection of the Art if the
expert Artist could be diverted with such simple words which though they
are hard at first to young Artists, yet they are thus explained. We therefore
begin with the first sentence.

Nunc dimittis super fundamenta.

This is here Allegorically taken for the last action almost of the work which
is called the medicine or stone, which medicine is to be projected upon the
ferment that is to say upon the oil of Sol or Luna, which are the ferments or
foundations of the Art in spiritual augmentation (as before was said) upon
molten gold and silver. And that spiritual ferment converted into medicine is
to be projected upon molten gold or silver which are corporeal ferments in
corporeal Augmentation and the corporeal fundaments of the Art upon quick
silver.

Fundamenta super verbamea.

This is also spoken allegotically because in the Adage it is said words are
wind, as if a word were nothing else but the motion of the lips and
exhaltation of the lungs which no sooner arise from motion but fly away and
are turned to air so likewise Quick silver or Mercury goeth out of the bodies
of other metalls and is so volatile in the fire or hear as words in the air. And
therefore Mercury is likened to words upon which the fundaments are to be
projected,

Verbes mea (vir Mercury) super diligam te.

That is to say upon other metalls which have most affinity with quick-silver,
and easie of fasion as Saturn and Jupiter that is to say Lead and Tin, which
by this concord and love are easily by the penetration and amiableness of the
medicine converted into medicine. And one part of this medicine converteth
other parts of metalls into gold or silver according to the force and power of
the Elixir, which other metalls because they are the substances of the former
bodies whereof the medicines were made. They are the attendants of those
medicines wherefore the Philosopher commandeth that.

Diligam te be projected upon attendite that the second medicine or this last
projected upon metal especially that whereof the medicine (that is to say the
stone) was made, should turn that metall into gold or silver according to the
proverty and quality of the medicine.

But to put an end to this projection, take it according to the opinion of

Arnoldus gathered out of the 31 Chapter who willeth to project one part of
the Elixir upon 100 of Mercury purged and all will be medicine upon other
100 parts of Mercury purged and all will be medicine, afterward project one
part of this medicine last congealed upon 100 parts of Mercury washed and
all will be gold or silver, in all trialls according as the Elixir is white and red.
Lastly that I may briefly rehearse the absolute manner of projection. First the
medicine is to be projected upon gold or silver molten, then upon quicksilver
purged so long till it turns it into medicine and lastly upon metals most near,
that they may be converted into pure gold or silver according to the
properties and qualities of the medicine.

Because we have said something of the propinquity of metalls that is to say,

that the Elixir is to be projected upon that imperfect body out of which its
Mercury and sulphur was first extracted, therefore it will not be unnecessary
to set down one example that is to say if the medicine was made of Mercury
then it is to be projected upon quick silver for making gold or silver because
quick silver is a near body to Mercury and so of the rest. Yet it is to be
noted, that all Elixirs may and ought to be projected upon quicksilver,
because quicksilver is the Mother and sperm of all metals therefore quick
silver made and turned into medicine, is to be projected upon a body, most
near to it; Which is Lead or Tinne; Upon which the medicine is always to be
projected, whether white or red for the making and transmuting of metals,
but both the quicksilver and lead are first to be purged that they may be
purified and deprived of their filth. Enough hath been said before of the
purgation or putrification of Mercury. We will now speak of the putrification
of Lead.

Melt your Lead in a Crucible and when it is melted let it stand in the fire a
quarter of an hour and put therein a little salt Armoniack and let it stand a
while in the fire and stir it with an Iron spatula till all the salt Armoniack be
gone away in sume then scrape the skin away out of the crucible, that is
upon the lead, then let it stand to cool and it will be much whiter and fire.
And thus you must purifie your lead or tinne, before projection, because no
other bodies are so fusible and apt to melt wherefore every Elixir ought to be
projected upon quicksilver and upon Lead or Tinne for making or
transmuting of metals.

But to the end the manner of projection may be yet more plain I will set
down two rules which must be carefully observed.

The first whereof is that the first medicine that is to say the stone be
projected upon the ferment always three parts of the medicine upon one of
the ferment and one part of this upon 10 or 100 of pure molten gold, and one
part of this medicine thus made upon 100 parts of an imperfect body, that is
to say, of Mercury for medicine. The later is that you must always consider
the fortitude and debility of your medicine for it is to be projected so often
upon quicksilver as it bringeth it into a brittle medicine and when it faileth
then Project one part thereof upon Lead or Tinne for making transmutation,
according to the order and form of the Elixir.

These being remembred you may easily conceive the order of Augmentation
in virtue and quantity.

These Chapters being ended the other three which follow are set down in the
next book, because we have spoken before of potable gold and silver, it is
therefore necessary after we have made an end of projection to set down
another table of the Elixir of life in the next place, and after speak of its
virtue and power as we find it among all the Ancient and modern
Philosophers and so make an end of the first Book.

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The Second Book.
CHAP. I. Of the blessed stone of the Philosophers 〈◊〉 the Elixir of life, and also the
way 〈◊〉 making malleable glasse.

1 Elixir of life. 2 Gold dissolved. 3 Silver dissolved. 4 Gold melted. 5

melted Silver. 6 Projection of the red Medicin•7 Projection of the white
Medicine.

HERMES Speaking of fermentation bids us to take the sun and 〈◊〉

shadow by the shadow he meaneth the moon because in respect of dignity
lustre and power 〈◊〉 is much more weak and inferiour then the 〈◊〉And
the moon followeth the sun as a shadow doth the body and is not illuminated
except by the light of the sun, we will first speak of the body, that is to say
of gold, and after come to the shadow of which gold it is written in a book of
Chimicall Art in this manner. The Philosophers stone is made of gold alone
and onely by nature and is more sublime then them, which the Philosophers
affirme cureth all infirmities. According to the opinion of this Philosopher I
purpose to begin with gold alone and the medicine which is a new and sole
nature, and antient and sound Quintessence.

But to the end this gold may be better and more pure, it may be purged two
manner of wayes that is to say, by Antimony and by dissolution in corrosive
waters with which copper plates are mixed as Goldsmiths use to do which is
called water gold.

When you have thus prepared your gold project one part of your red
medicine (or red Elixir) upon 100 parts thereof when your medicine is
augmented in virtue and all that weight of molten gold will be converted into
a red brittle masse which grind upon a marble to an impalpable powder.

Then dissolve these hundred parts or so much thereof as you please in

distilled vineger or in spirit of wine, and set it to disgest in Balneo the space
of a day or two then distill the spirit of wine from it in Balneo, and in the
bottome will remain the fixed and pure oil of the gold which is then the true
Aurum potabile, and spiritual Elixir of life, if you would give to any one of
this powder presently before it be converted to oil, warm a little white or
Rhenish wine and dissolve in either of them so much of the red powder as
will tincture the same into a red colour and the wine so tinctured will be
Aurum potabile, but it would be better and more penetrating if it were
tinctured with the foresaid oil.

In like manner is the white medicine to be projected after the purification of

the silver in a corrosive water as is before declared.
And so the melted silver will be converted into a brittle powder and white
masse which likewise is to be dissolved and turned into oil and thus the
white Elixir of life is made and potable silver curing and healing so far as it
is able humane diseases for it cannot be supposed that the Elixir of Luna
hath so great virtue as the Elixir of Sol hath.

Whence the Author of the book call'd corrector falnerum and Richard
Anglicus in his correctory. say whereas among the vulgar and Ph•losophers;
God hath this report that being in his first disposition that it cureth the
Lepr•sy and many other virtues, this is not except by its compleat disgestion
because the excellence of the fire acting in it consumeth all evil h•mours that
are in sick bodies as well in hot 〈◊〉 cold causes, But silver can not do this
because hath not so much superfluity of fire and is 〈◊〉 so much disgested
and decocted with natural maturity, yet notwithstanding this it hath a
fieriness occultly and vertually in it, but not so fully because the fire causeth
not such Elemental quallities as in gold. And therefore silver being in his
first disposition doth not cure the Leprosy so potently unless it be first
dis•ested by Art untill it have the cheif degrees of gold in all maturity.
Wherefore other sick metallick bodies more weakly cure infirmities
according as they differ more from them in perfection and maturity some
differ more some ••ss, which is by reason of the sulphur infected feid and
burning of which they were made 〈◊〉 the beginning in their generation
and coagulation and therefore they cure not whereas the ••e in them is
burning and so infected with the Elementall feces with the mixture of other
elementall quallities.

Seeing therefore that gold is of such vigor ••ongst the vulgar and that being
in his first ••sposcion what wonder is it if it being brought •o medicine (as is
experienced) by Art and 〈◊〉 virtue be subtiliated by disgestion of
decoction and purgation of the quallities but it may ••en cure more nay
infinite or all diseases.

It makes an old man young and revive, it preserveth health strengtheneth

nature and exceleth all sicknesses of the body it driveth poison away from
the heart it moisteneth the ••teries and breifly preserveth the whole ••dy
sound.

In the Ludas purorum it is thus written of the use of this medicine the
manner of useing it according to all the Philosophers is thus, if you will use
to eat of this medicine then take the weight of two florence Duccats of our
Elixir and one pound of any confection, and eat of that confection the
quantity of one dram in winter. And if you do thus it driveth away all bodily
infirmities from what cause soever they proceed whether hot or cold, and
conserved health and youth in a man, and maketh an old man young, and
maketh gray hairs to fall it also presently cureth the Leprosy, and dissolveth
Flegm mundifieth the bloud it sharpeneth the sight and all the senses after a
more wonderful manner above all the medicines 〈◊〉 the Philosophers.

To which purpose we thus find in the Rosary of the Philosophers, In this

(that is to 〈◊〉 in the Elixir) is compleated the pretious gi•• of God, which
is the Arcanum of all the Sciences in the world, and the incomperable
treasure of treasures (for as Plato saith) he then hath this guift of God hath
the dominion 〈◊〉 the world (that is to say of the Microcosm 〈◊〉
because he attaineth to the end of Riches 〈◊〉 hath broke the bonds of
nature, not onely 〈◊〉 that he hath power to convert all imperfect metalls
into pure gold and silver, but rather because he can convert and preserve b••
man and every Animall in perfect health.

To this purpose speaketh Geber, Hermes Arnoldus, Raymundus, Lullius,

Ripley, Penotus, Augurellus, Aegidius, Valescus, Roger Bacon, Scotus,
Laurentius, Ventura; and diverse uncertain Authors.

Lastly, I now come to the generall consent of all the Philosophers and repeat
what is found in their writings in the Book de Aurora consurgeat, and in
Clangor Buccinae, It is to be noted that the Antient Philosophers have found
4 principal effects or virtues in the glorious repository of this treasure.

 1. First, it is said to cure mans body of all infirmities.

 2. Secondly, to cure imperfect metalls.
 3. Thirdly, to transmute base stones into pretious gemmes.
 4. Fourthly, to make Glass malleable.

Of the first. All Philosophers have consented that when the Elixir is
perfectly rubified it doth not onely work miracles in solid bodies but also in
mans body of which there is no doubt, for being taken inwardly it cureth all
infirmities, it cureth outwardly by unction. The Philosophers also say, if it be
given to any in water or wine first warmed it cureth them of the Phrensy,
Dropsie, and Leprosy, and all kind of Fevers are cured by this Tincture and
taketh away whatsoever is in a weak stomack it bindeth and consumeth the
Flux of peccant humours being taken fasting it driveth away malencholly
and sadness of the mind it cureth the infermities of the eyes and dryeth up
their moisteness and blearedness, it helpeth the purblind, red or bloodshot
eyes it mollifieth the primy or web the Inflamation of the eyes and all other
incident diseases are easily cured by this Philosophical medicine.

It comforteth the heart and spiritual parts by taking inwardly it mittigateth

the pain of the head by anointing the temples therewith maketh the deaf to
hear and succoreth all pains of the ears it rectifieth the contracted Nerves by
unction, it restoreth rotten teeth by washing also all kind of imposthumes are
cured with it, by oyntments or emplaytors or injecting the dry powder
therein.

It cureth Ulcers wounds Cancers Fistulas noli me tangere, and such like
diseases and generateth new flesh if it be mixed with corrupt and sower wine
it restores it, it expelleth poyson being taken inwardly it also killeth wormes
if it be given in powder it taketh away wrinkles and spots in the face by
anointing therewith and maketh the face seem young, it helpeth women in
travail being taken inwardly and bringeth out the dead child by emplaister, it
provketh Vrine, and helpeth generation it preventeth drunkenness, helpeth
the memory, and Augmenteth the radical moisture it strengtheneth nature
and also Administreth many other good things to mans body.

2. Of the second it is written that it transmuteth all imperfect metals in

colour substance lasting weight ductibility melting hardness and softness

3. Of the third, that is to say of transmuting base and ignoble stones into
pretious gems, I will not speak of in this place, because I have reserved it for
another place, that is to say the third Book.

Of the fourth it is writ that it maketh glasse malleable by mixture (that is to

say of the powder of the white corporeal Elixir) when the glass is melted.
Thus far Aurora Consurgeus and Clangor Buccinae.

Now if you desire to make pure and clear malleable glass learn this of me,
and beware of what glass you make your metal for you must not take glass
of Flints, wherewith glass of windows are made but such as your Venice
glass is made of, and that is to be chosen out of the first metal of the glass,
which hath stud molten in the fire, in the glass makers furnace the space of a
night & then it will be without spots and pure therefore take as much of the
said glass out of the furnace with your Iron rod, as you have a desire to
convert, and when it is cold weigh it, and melt it by it self in a pot, and when
it is well molten project your white corporeal Elixir upon it and it will be
converted into malleable metal and fit and apt glass for all Gold Smiths
operations. And thus is glass made malleable and prepared for any use but if
this were done with the red Elixir it would be much more during, for there is
nothing more pretious of which we will not now speak.

Therefore Son or or Reader whosoever thou art who readest my Books give
credit to me and beleive me, because all things that you shall find writ here
are either the most approved writings and collections of all writers or the
Authors own experiments. For I have tryed many things and found many
things true. I beleive no man liveth amongst Mortals that knoweth more
ways of prepartions which are concealed by almost all the Philosophers.
For that which perfecteth the great work that they have all concealed which
truely is the errour of all Artists. And this is all I would have you to do. To
calcine, dissolve and seperate the Elements after join them together putrifie
them or reduce them into sulphur ferment, project, Augment in virtue and
quantity. This is onely the work of the Philosophers of which the whole
Company of Philosophers have writ in a continuate course.

The End of the Second Book.

Hampaaneah Hammegulleh: OR, The Rosie Crucian CROWN: In which is

set down the Angels of the Seven Planets, and their Occult Power upon the
Seven Metals, and miraculous Virtues in the Coelum Terrae, or first matter
of all things.

Whereunto is added, A perfect full DISCOVERY OF THE Pantarva, and

Elixirs of Metals.

By EUGENIUS THEODIDAGTUS. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. A Servant

of God, and Secretary to Nature.

Ʋbi est scientia, ibi est invidia.

LONDON:•rinted for the Author, and are to be sold at the Rainbow in

Fleetstreet. 1664.

The third Book. Of Saturne or Lead the first Direction.

CHAP. I.

Of the Elixar, Putrefaction into Sulphur, the Oil of the Sulphur, of the
Conjunction of the Salt and Oil of the Spirit, or Salt of Saturne, which
containeth the Oil or soul of the Menstruum of white Mercury and red water
of Paradice, Resolution, Solution, distillation, Hyl, Purgation, resolution of
Sericon, of the Gum of Sericon, of the solution of the Minium or Adrop, of
Calcination of Minium into Adrop and red Lead, of Calcination of Lead with
Aqua Fortis.

Very many have writ of Saturne or Lead, but none that I know of have writ
fully thereof in any particular Treatise; therefore I do not here onely set
down that I have gathered from them most briefly and ••ely, but also those
things which I have found 〈◊〉 proved by my own experience, which I
have ••exed to them, that the work may be absolute 〈◊〉 compleat.
Of which, as they say, Mary the Prophetess, and the Sister of Moses in her
Books of the work of Saturne is thus said to write, Make your water running
like the water of the two Zaibeth and fix it upon the heart of Saturne: And in
another place, Marry the Gum with the true Matrimonial Gum, and you shall
make it like running water. Of which process of Mary, George Ripley our
Country man hath these verses.

Maria mira sonat

Quae nobis talia donat
Gummis cum binis
Fugitivum fugit inimis
Horis in trinis
Tria vinclat fortia finis
Fila Plutonis
Consortia jungit Amoris.

Or thus,

Maria mira sonat, breviter qui talia donat

Gummi cum binis fugitivum fug it in imis
Horis in trinis tria vinclat fortia finis.
Maria lux roris ligam ligat in tribus horis
Filia Pluton is consortia jungit Amoris
Gaudet inassala sola per tria sociata.

The heart of Saturne, saith Ripley, is his white and clear body, out of whose
doctrine the word doth briefly thus proceed, that is to say, that water he
made out of the body of Saturne, like the water Zaibeth, and that water fixed
upon the heart of Saturne, but because the practice 〈◊〉drawing out this
water of Zaibeth, doth not appear out of this, nor the way of making the
heart of Saturne, therefore the foregoing direction in the Holy Guide will
shew them both.

Therefore I have joyned two Tables, in one of which the shorter is the
demonstration of the deduction of the body of Saturne into his heart or salt,
the other longer and greater, is the extraction of the water Zabieth, and the
consummation of the work of Saturne.

Having thus described this work, I now come to the explanation, and say,
that the Calcination of the Body is twofold; for the Calcination thereof in the
shorter work, for extracting the heart of Saturne, is done on this wise by
Aqua Fortis.

Take 8 or 10 Ounces of Lead in Filings, and dissolve it in Aqua Fortis in

double proportion, and fortified with Salt Armoniack in an Earthen Vessel
with a narrow neck, and set in ashes till it be totally dissolved; and there will
remain a white matter in the bottom like Grains of white Salt, which is a
figure of perfect solution; then pour your matter that is dissolved in the
water into a body, and set thereon a Limbeck, and in Balneo draw away the
corrosive water, till there remain a dry substance in the bottom; and so you
have the body converted white by Calcination with corrosive water, out of
which the heart of Saturne is to be drawn.

The way to wash away and purge the corrosive water from the body, pour
warm water upon the substance in a Limbeck, and pour it often off till it
have no sharpness at all upon the tongue, and then your body is prepared for
drawing out the Salt.

When your matter is well dried, dissolve it water it again in distilled

Vinegar, and distill the Vinegar twice or thrice from it, and in the bottom
you shall have a lucid clear and white shining Salt, which is then called the
heart of Saturne.

Now I come to the practice of the other greater work, that the verity of the
stone may be found, of which many have made mention in their Books, as
Raymundus, who calleth it the Vegetable Mineral, and Animal Stone; Geber
saith there groweth a Saturnian Herb on the top of a Hill or Mountain, whose
blood if it be extracted, cureth all infirmities.

Ripley writ a whole Book, called his Practical Compendium, of the practice
of the Vegetable Stone, teaching the manner and form of operation; but
because he neither set down the solution plainly nor perfectly, he hath been
the cause of much error, and hath not onely deceived me but all those that
followed him, untill after a long time I found a way to dissolve Saturne, so
that it could never after by distallation be turned into Lead again, which is
the chiefest and greatest secret of the Vegetable Stone.

But let us hear the words of Mary the Prophetess, and Ripley taken from her:
The Radix of our matter is a clear and white body which putrifieth not, but
congealeth Mercury or Quicksilver, with its odor makes its water like the
running water of the two Zaibeth (alis Zubech) and fix it upon the fixed
heart of Saturne: which words do most aptly agree with the properties of
Lead; for if any one be smit or wounded with a Bullet, and the Bullet remain
in the body, it will never putrifie.

And also if Quick-silver be hanged in a Pot over the fume of molten Lead,
so as the fume of the Lead touch the Quick-silver, it will congeal it.

Thus far of the preparation of Lead, we now come to its denomination, They
bid us fix the water Zaibeth upon the fixed body of the heart of Saturne;
now for the exposition of the body, for the name of Saturne, Ripley calleth it
Adrop, of which that is made which the Masters call Sericon; the water of
Sericon they call their Menstruum, the two Zabieths joyned together in one
water, are the two Mercuries, that is to say white and red contained in one
Menstruum, that is to say of the water and Oile of the fixed body or heart of
Saturne: Follow what I have written concerning the imbibition of the earth,
our operation is no otherwise then in the Practical Compendium of Ripley.

Isaacus also writ a Treatise of Lead, he worketh chiefly according to the

doctrine of Mary the Prophetess, and laboreth much to fix the earth of
Saturne, and after to dissolve the body in distilled Vinegar; that by the
addition of corroding and sharp things, his red Oil may be distilled, which he
calleth the water of Paradice, that he may imbibe his fixed earth therewith:
which way is much shorter then Ripleys, but the rubification and fixation of
the earth is long and uncertain; wherefore I have both forsaken Isaacus and
Ripley in making the earth, in stead of which I have given the fixed heart of
Saturne, as you may read in the Holy Guide.

But that the body may be prepared according to this Table, and after my
intention and the desire of Ripley, we both will that the Oil or Water of
Paradice be drawn out of the Gum of Sericon (whose father is Adrop)
Sericon is made of Red-lead; therefore it is first necessary to shew the way
of making Minium of Lead, which Thomas Juc an Englishman hath
described, together with the Composition of the Gum of Sericon, which
Author I purpose to follow, as being the best.

Take ten or twelve pound of Lead, and melt it in a great Iron vessel, as
Plumbers use to do, and when it is molten, stir it still with an Iron Spatula
till the Lead be turned to powder, which powder will be of a green colour;
when you see it thus, take it from the fire and let it cool, and grind that
powder upon a Marble till it be impalpable, moistening the powder with a
little common Vinegar, till it be like thick honey, which put into a broad
Earthen Vessel, and set it on a Trevet over a lent fire, to vapor away the
Vinegar and drie the powder, and it will be of a yellow colour; grind it again
and do as before, till the powder be so Red as Red-lead, which is called
Adrop: And thus is Saturne calcined into Redlead or Minium.

Take a pound of this Read-lead and dissolve it in a Gallon of Vinegar, and

stir it with a stick three or four times in a day, and so let it stand in a cold
place the space of three days: then take your Earthen Vessel and set it in
Balneo twenty four hours, then let it cool and filter the liquor three times;
and when it is clear, put it in a body with a Limbeck thereupon, and distill
the Vinegar so long as it will ascend, and in the bottom the Gum of the
Sericon will remain like thick honey, which set apart, and dissolve more
new Lead as before for more Gum, till you have ten or twelve pound thereof.
Now give careful attention, for we now come to the point and period of
Ripleys error, for if you put four pound of this Sericon to distill in a
Limbeck, and from thence would draw a Menstruum, as Ripley teacheth,
perhaps you would have scarce one ounce of this Oil, and some part of a
black earth will remain in the bottom, and most part of the Gum melted
again into Lead, by which you may know that the Sericon is not well
dissolved, nor as yet sufficiently prepared, that a Chaos may be made thereof
fit for distillation, because it is not yet well dissolved; therefore in Isaacus
there is found a way of resolving this Gum with distilled Vinegar, acuated
with calcined Tartar and Salt-armoniack; Wherefore, saith he, if thou be
wise, resolve thy Gum; but I like not this acuation of the Vinegar, as I may
call it, I rather choose to resolve the Sericon in Raymund's calcinative water,
which is a compounded water of the Vegetable Mercury or fire natural, with
the fire against nature, as Ripley testifieth, and it is more verified by
Raymund in his Book of Mercuriis, where he teacheth how to dissolve
bodies with his calcinative water.

I will reveal unto you this water, which is almost unknown: Note therefore,
that the Vegetable Mercury is the spirit of Wine (instead of which we may
sometimes use distilled Vinegar) and that the fire against Nature is a
corrosive water made of Vitriol and Salt-Peter.

Therefore take which you will, either spirit of Wine rectified (or Aqua Vitae)
or distilled Vinegar four pound, and two pound of corrosive water, and mix
them together.

In this watet thus compounded, resolve half a pound of Gum of Sericon in a

circulatory, and set it in Balneo four or five days, and the Gum will be
totally dissolved into the form of water or Oil of a duskish red colour.

Then distill away the water in Balneo, and there will remain an Oil in the
bottom, which is then the Chaos, out of which you may draw a Menstruum
containing two elements; and this is the true resolution of the Gum of
Sericon, in this water you may resolve so much Gum as you please by
reiteration.

Take two pound of this Chahodical substance, and prepare it for distillation
in naked fire or sand, and lift up the clear red Oil, wherein both the spirit and
soul doth secretly lie hid, which Isaacus calleth the water of Paradise, which
when you have you may rejoyce, for you have gone through all the gross
work, and come to the Philosophical work.

Therefore now proceed to conjunction, and joyn the white heart of Saturne
with the red Oil, as it is found in the Rosary.
Candida succincto jacet uxor nupta marito, That is to say, the red Mercury
to the Salt, if you proceed to the red work.

Therefore take four ounces of the Salt or heart of Saturne, and as much of
the red Oil or water of Paradice, and seal them up in a Philosophers Egg, and
so soon as they shall feel the heat of the Balneum, the Salt will dissolve and
be made all one with the Oil, so as you shall not know which was the Salt,
which was the Oil.

Set your glass in Balneo, and there let it stand in an equal degree of fire, till
all your matter be turned white and stick to the sides of the glass, and shine
like fishes eyes, and then it is white Sulphure of Nature; but if you proceed
to the red work, then divide your white Sulphure into equal parts, reserving
one part for the white work, and go on with the other part, and in a new glass
well sealed up, set it in Ashes till it be turned into a red colour.

When your Sulphure is thus converted, imbibe it again with equal weight of
its soul, dissolving and congealing till it remain in an Oil, and it will congeal
no more, but remain fixed and flowing.

This then is to be fermented with the fourth part of the Oil of Gold, as is
often mentioned before.

We have set down already before of the augmentation in quantity and

quality, therefore it is not necessary to repeat it here.

We will now return to the white Sulphure before reserved, that we may set
down the manner of the white work.

When you have your red Oil or Soul, if you desire to make the white Elixir,
set part of the said Oile in a glass in Balneo to digest, then take it out and put
it into a body, and in a lent fire distill away the spirit or white Mercury,
which you must try, that you may know whether it arise pure without water
or not, as you do when you try the spirit of Wine, for if it burn all up, it is
well; if it do not, rectifie it so often, till it be without any wateriness at all;
then have you rectified your spirit, wherewith dissolve your white Sulphure,
till it remain fixed, and flowing, as you did before in the red work, then
ferment it and augment it with the fourth part of the Oil of the white
Luminary or Luna, as you did the red, and it will be the white Elixir,
converting imperfect bodies into perfect Silver.

A Corollary.

Ripley divided the scope of this work into four operations, whereof the first
is the dissolution of the body, the second, the extraction of the Menstruum
and the separation of the Elements; the third is not necessary in our work,
because we cast away the earth after every distillation, instead of which we
use our Salt or heart of Saturne; the fourth is, that there be a conjunction of
our Salt as is before described.

Hereafter followeth the Accurtation of the work of Saturn.

The way of extracting Quick-silver out of Saturne is found in Isaacus, of

which I know how to make a special accurtation with his water of Paradice,
which I gathered partly from the foresaid Author and others; Ripley made his
accurtation with Quick-silver precipitated with Gold, and the imbibition
with Corrosive water, which I like not, because the Elixir so made will be
the greatest poison, as himself confesseth, that it were better for a man to eat
the eyes of a Basilisk, then taste that Elixir.

But because I desire to set down this accurtation of Lead alone and his
Elements, that no strange body may be added to our Elixir, and also that it
may be made a Medicine for all uses, I have found out the way of making
alone with the Mercury of Saturne and his own proper Tincture; for I make a
body of one thing which is a spirit, and make that Medicine with its own
proper spirit. Read all the Philosophers, and you shall never find a word of
this process, nor none of the Ancients will teach thee how to make the
Mercury of Saturne, which that it may be briefly done, this following work
will shew at large in our Holy Guide.

CHAP. II.

The Medicine, Elixir, Fermentation, Imbibition Precipitation, Quick-Silver,

Saturne, Lead, The Toad.

MY great Grandfather Christopher Heydon, saith in a certain Manuscript of

his, Levi enim Arte norunt Alchimistae Mercurium currentem conficere
explumbo, that is to say, the Alchimists knew how by an easie Art to make
current Mercury out of Lead; but what Art that was, neither he nor any of the
ancients have shewed unto us, Quaerite, quaerite, saith the first Alchimist
(so Paracelsus was pleased to say in imitation of him) & invenietis, pulsate
& operietur vobis, that is to say, Seek and you shall find, knock and it shall
be opened unto you; which may rather seem to be the words of an envious
Master, then the precepts of a Teacher. But having learned this, I learned to
seek, that is to say to read; I read, I knocked, that is, I tried many
experiments, although they were repugnant to doctrine and Philosophy,
therefore although I almost despaired of that Art, yet because nothing is
difficult to the industrious, by often knocking, at last I found it apart, by
what means I attained to the Art of such a facility, that is to say, of making
Quick-silver of Lead; and when the process is read to the operator, it will be
rather rejected then believed: but to the end this Art may be revealed as a
great secret, I thought it necessary to speak first of the Instruments necessary
in this work, before I come to declare the doctrine, which are three in
number, that is to say, a Furnace, a Crucible and a pair of Tongs, as
appeareth in the Holy Guide.

CHAP. III.

The Crucible, the Furnace, the Hole in the Top of the Furnaee, the Tongues,
the Coals.

LEt the Furnace be D, the place filled with Coles E, whereunto put fire and
when the Coals are well burnt, so that they give a clear flame and fire, take
your Crucible A, well anailed that it break not with the suddain heat, and put
therein three ounces of filed Lead, having twelve ounces of Mercury
sublimate well ground, and Salt Armoniack six ounces mixed together,
which put upon the filings of Lead into the Crucible A; and when the fire is
strong and glowing hot, •ake your Tongs C, and presently take up your
Crucible, and put it in B, the hole in the top of the Furnace till you hear a
great noise and buz•ing, then so soon as you can (least the Quicksilver flie
away with the spirits) take away the Crucible with the matter therein, and set
it in an earthen dish filled with ashes to cool, and when it is cold strike the
lower part of the Crucible, so that the matter of the Lead may fall into an
earthen dish, and you shall find your Lead concerted into Quick-silver.

This Crucible and Furnace is at large charactered in the Holy Guide.

This work is to be reiterated with new spirits will you have a sufficient
quantity of Quick-sil•er, with which proceed as followeth to precipitate this
Quick-silver, that from a spirit it may be converted into a fixed body by
fixation.

Take of this Quick-silver so much as you please, and put it to precipitate in a

round glass well luted, and set it in ashes to the top of the glass: yet let us
stay here a while, that your unstanding may be the more enlightened.

Therefore understand that the intention of this work is to fix the spirit, which
may sooner be done with the spirit of a fixed body, which before was
Homogeneal with the body, and which of its own nature desireth to joyn
again with its body.

Therfore nature requireth that she may be helped by Art in this work, to
which the Artist consenting, he adminstreth thereto the pure and desired
metal, which it delighteth to adhere unto which metal is Gold, which is thus
prepared, than it be sooner parted by the Quick-silver and stick thereunto.
Take as much pure Gold as you please, and dissolve it in aqua regis mixed
with equal part o•acetum acerrimum, or Lac virginis, then set 〈◊〉 to
digest the space of a day, then put your dissolution into an Alimbeck, and set
it Balneo, to distill away the water as dry as you can, and do thus three
times, and the third time distill it is ashes, that the Salt Armoniack may
sublime. Then put distilled Vinegar upon the matter remaining and after it
hath stood three days in Balneo, distill the Vinegar away in ashes, that all
the substance of the Salt Armoniack may sublime: and do than three times,
always putting in new Vinegar, un¦till the Oil of the dissolved Gold remain
in the bottom; then take of your Quick-silver three times so much as your
Gold, and pour it upon the solution of the Gold, that they may mix together
and be united: then put your quick-silver with the solution in a round Glass
stopped onely with a peece of Cotton, and with a stick put it down every day
as it doth ascend, and keep your Glass on ashes the space of a moneth, till
your quick-silver be turned into a red precipitate, then again dissolve it in
new distilled Vinegar, till the whole substance of the quick-silver be
dissolved, and the Vinegar be coloured in a golden colour, then distill away
the Vinegar in ashes, and again precipitate the quick-silver, which is in the
bottom of a Gold colour, into a red and fixed body; and 〈◊〉 have you the
Mercury precipitate of Saturne.

It remaineth now that the body be imbibed with its soul, that this being from
a spirit reduced into a body, may again imbibe its soul, that it may be
dissolved therewith; therefore put it into 〈◊〉 Glass, and add thereto equal
proportion of its •ul or water of Paradice, and shut your Glass well the space
of five days, till the body be disolved with the soul.

Then dry it in ashes till it penetrate and flow; and when it is dried, try it
upon a hot Iron plate it be fixed and melt, if not, imbibe it again with of the
weight of its water, and do so till you like it fusible and piercing by imbibing
and drying it, and when it will melt in the fire, and penetrate, it is then the
stone, and fit for fermention.

We have said enough of the manner of fermentation in the second Book, and
therefore it is not necessary to repeat it here: and so after fermentation it will
be the Elixir.

Then it is to be augmented and projected, as is before declared; and thus the

work of Saturne is accurtated, of which George Ripley saith,

Adrop is the father of the stone, Sericon his brother, Lympha his fister, the
earth its mother.

But if you desire to know all the secret of Saturne or Lead, I will set you
down one process out of Paracelsus: when you have well prepared the heart
of Saturne, saith he, take two or three ounces of that heart and grind it small
with double weight of Salt-peter, and put it in a subliming Glass, with a head
well luted to sublime, encreasing the fire by little and little as long as any
thing will ascend or sublime; thus far Paracelsus: now if you find this true,
Ripley will tell you what you shall do with it, in these words.

When by the violence of the fire in the distillation of the Gum of the
Sericon, a certain white matter shall ascend sticking to the head of the
Limbeck, like Ice, keep this matter which hath the property of Sulphur not
burning, and is a fit matter for receiving form, you shall give it form after
this manner by rubifying it in ashes, and when it is red Sulphur, give it of its
soul, until it pierce and flow, then ferment it.

Here I have delivered unto you all the ways and manners of Saturne, which
are found in any of the Philosophers Books: to the end therefore that the
work may be compleated with a demonstration of this word Plumbum
Philosophorum, at appears in the Practical Compendium of Ripley, we say
that the Philosophers Lead is not taken for Antimony but for Adrop, being
converted into the Gum of Sericon.

It remaineth now that we in order treat of the third termination of this Book:
therefore after we have done with Saturne, it is necessary to speak of
Jupiter, viz. Tin: but because there are many other ways of handling Saturne
besides those we mentioned, therefore we refer the Reader thither, seeing he
followeth his footsteps: for he is the off-spring of Saturne and naturally born
from him.

CHAP. IV.

The third Table of the Elixir of Iron.

It is not necessary to prefix a peculiar Table to this metal alone, because it is

set down before this book, nevertheless I will here reckon up its parts and
operations as followeth.

 1. Calcination.
 2. Solution.
 3. Seperation.
 4. Conjunction,
 5. Putrefaction.
 6. Sulphur.
 7. Fermentation.
 8. Elixir.
Exaltation or augmentation and projection is spoken of sufficiently in the
former Books.

Mars being most earthly of all the Planets or bodies, it is not to be doubted
but that it may easily be reduced into a body with little labor; and therefore
most easily converted into Salt, which is done by Calcination: therefore we
will first shew his conversion into Salt.

Understand therefore, that hence ariseth a twofold consideration, that is to

say, that it be calcined one way into its body or Salt, the other way that the
body be prepared for solution by calcination.

The practice differeth but a little, for whether you calcine Iron for its Salt or
its Menstruum, one onely manner of preparation sufficeth.

That is to say, that you take filings of Iron or Steel, as much as you please,
and mix therewith equal weight of Sulphur in an earthen body with a
Limbeck will luted thereto, then set it in ashes to sublime till all the Sulphur
be sublimed from it, then dissolve the filings which remain in the bottom in
Aqua Regia, and it will be converted into Salt, which will be cleansed from
the said water, if you put thereon distilled Vinegar and distill it away; do
thus three times with new Vinegar, and you shall have a yellowish red Salt
in the bottom, which then is a body to be joyned to the soul, which keep in
warm ashes till you use it.

Now for the practice of Iron for dissolution take filings of Iron or Steel, so
much as you please, and put it in an Iron dish filled with Vinegar, and set it
in the flaming fire the space 〈◊〉 three hours, then take it out and let it
cool reiterate this work four or five times, the calcine it with Sulphur as you
did before.

When it is thus calcined, set it to dissolve in a corrosive water, by adding

equal weight of our acetum acerrimum, and let it stand till it have dissolved
so much as it can in the cold, then set it in hot ashes, and let it stand there the
space of four or five days, pour off the water and dry which is not dissolved,
and again calcine it and dissolve it, and when it is dissolved, so as the water
be coloured red, pour it out into a body, and keep it till you have dissolved
as much calcined Iron as you please.

Then take all your dissolutions, and with an Alimbeck distill away the water
in Balneo, and put distilled Vinegar upon the matter remaining in the
bottom, and let it stand upon it in Balneo the space of seven days; then take
out your Glass and filter the dissolution, and then again in Balneo distill off
the Vinegar, and in the bottom will remain a thick Oil of the Iron or Steel;
but if it be not dissolved to your mind, reiterate your solution in Raymunds
calcinative water, but it would be better if it were edulcorated with Aqua
vitae, drawing it away again in Balneo, and so you have your Iron dissolved
into a liquor.

Therefore proceed to distillation, that there may be a separation, and distill it

in an earthen Vessel in a strong fire, encreasing the fire as much as you can,
and receive the oil, or soul, or red tincture of Mars separated from the
remaining feces by the nose of the Limbeck, which oil is the most permanent
tincture for colouring Sulphures for the red work, or for exaltation of all
Elixirs in colour, for it makes it tinge and colour higher.

When you have thus prepared the tincture, then proceed to conjunction, and
work with the Salt before reserved, taking three or four ounces of the Salt,
and equal weight of the soul.

Then seal it up and set it to putrifie in Balneo, and keep it there till it pass
through all colours and be white, and then it is Sulphur of Nature.

Then take out your Glass and set it in ashes in a greater degree of heat till it
be red, then dissolve the red Sulphur with its own soul, and again dissolve
and fix it; dissolving it in Balneo, and fixing it under the fire, and so it is
prepared for fermentation.

The fermentation is, as hath often been spoken of before, with the resolved
oil of the Sulphur of Gold in a fourfold proportion to the Medicine, that by
the addition of the ferment, it may be made Elixir transmuting all bodies.

And note that this Elixir of Iron excelleth all other Elixirs, for it rubifieth
more, and tingeth higher, and is better for mans body, for it prevaileth
against the spleen, constringeth the belly and cureth wounds, it knitteth
broken bones together, and stoppeth the superfluous Flux of the Courses.

CHAP. V.

The fourth Table of the Physical and Alchymical Tincture out of the red
Lion and Gluten of the Eagle, drawn out from the Authors experience.

It is chiefly to be remembred how we first taught you to dissolve Antimony

with out acetum acerrimum, which may be also well done if you dissolve it
in our calcinative water, and after that Antimony is calcined which we spoke
of in the end of the second book; it is also to be remembred that in the end of
the book I spoke of the Glue of the Eagle in the sixth Table of the first book;
these being remembred, it is to be understood that we attribute no other
beginning to this accurtation, except that where before we took the blood of
the red Lyon and the Glue of the Eagle when they were both destroyed; we
now joyn them sound and not hurt together, that they living may mortifie
and dissolve themselves, which I have fitly called Corporeal Matrimony, or
the Union, for in this wedlock they dye together, that they may be vivified in
the Celestial Matrimony; therefore it is not to be wondred if this Table differ
from the other, for this pertaineth to the handling of spirits, the other way
teacheth the manner of making the Elixir of bodies; therefore we now come
to demonstrate the foregoing Table.

Therefore that I may plainly reveal all things unto you, take Antimony well
ground, half a pound, and as much Mercury sublimate, likewise ground, and
grind them both togeth upon a marble, till you cannot know them one from
another; then set them in a cold place, that the matter dissolving may drop
into a Glass set underneath, for when the matters are well mixed together,
then say, that they will both shortly be dissolved when the water is perfectly
dissolved, it will be of a greenish colour and lothsome smell.

Put this water with the thick part with it into a Glass, and let it stand the
space of three days in a fixatory under the fire, and in short time you shall
see your dissolvedness of a brownish black colour, and after, that is to say,
in the foresaid time it will be red, something higher then red Lead.

Dissolve this calcined matter in Raymunds calcinative water, and when you
have dissolved it all into a red liquor or deep yelow, then is your matter
brought well into its Chaos.

Put this liquor into a fit body with an Alimbeck and receiver, and by
distallation separate the red oil or the red Mercury from the white body
which remaineth in the earth; and if any matter ascend into the head of the
Alimbeck, despise it not, but trie if it be fixed; and if it be not fixed enough,
sublime it till it be fixed.

Whereunto joyn equal weight of its soul, for the Celestial Matrimony, and
always leave out the earth in the bottom if you have any sublimate fixed, if
not, take the white earth remaining in the bottom, with which proceed as
before is said, and joyn the white body with the soul; when they are thus
joyned or married, set them to impregnate and revivifie in Bulneo, till it pass
through all colours, and at last be converted into red, which then is the stone.

The manner of Fermentation, Augmentation, both in quantity and quality,

and projection, is spoken of before in other works.

And thus Sons, Brethren and Reader, I have delivered and opened (and also
have amended many things) all the secrets of the Ancient Philosophers,
whose writings were rather published to conceal the Art, then to make it
manifest or teach it; although it pleased Hermes Trismegistus, the first writer
of this Art, both to say and protest that he had never revealed, taught, nor
prophesied any thing of this Art to any, exept fearing the day of Judgement
or the damnation of his Soul, for shuning the danger thereof, even as he
received the gift of Faith from the Author of Faith, so he left it to the
faithful; yet when you read his writings, either in his Smaragdine Table, or
in his Apocalips, or his twelve Golden Gates, and shall find nothing plain or
manifest, what will you think of such an Author? Believe me all the
Ancients have concealed the secret of their preparations in the gross work,
although they writ most famously of the Philosophical operation; therefore I
have used my endeavour to trye, for out of their writings I found that the
Elixir might be made of the Planets or Metals, and also of mean Minerals,
which came more neer to a metallick nature, then reading more, I found a
certain method amongst them all, as it were with one consent or voice on
this wise.

First and principally, that bodies should be made incorporeal, that is to say,
discorporated, or discompounded, which then is called the Hyle or Chaos.

Secondly, That out of this Chaodical substance, which is one thing, three
Elements, should be separated and purified.

Thirdly, That the separated and purified elements should be joyned, the man
and the woman, the body and the soul, heaven and earth, with infinite other
names so called, that the ignorant might think they were diverse, which
onely were nothing else but water and Salt, or the body and spirit or soul,
that is to say, white Mercury and red, which they joyned together that a new
and pure body might be created in putrefaction, that a Microcosmical infant
might be created in imitation of the Creation, that is to say, Sulphur of
Nature.

Fourthly, That it should be fed with Milk, that is to say, with its own proper
Tincture, and after nourished by Fermentation, that it may grow to its perfect
strength.

Having learned these, I begun to practice, and in the practice of every body
and spirit, I found diverse errors; but reading more and trying more, at last I
found the manner and true way of dissolving all bodies, separating and
conjoyning them; finding the composition of their secret of secrets, that is to
say, Lac virginis, or Acetum acerrimum, and Raymunds calcining water,
wherewith I dissolved all bodies at pleasure, and perfected the gross work;
wherefore I purposed, contrary to the custome of the Philosophers, to reveal
the whole work, lest I being envious, should be the Author of error like
them; therefore I have added their works to my own experiments and
inventions, which are plainly and truely writ, that the Artist need to read no
books but mine, for herein is almost all things contained, which are found
plainly writ by the Philosophers; and also those things which are found true
by my own experience.

Now you have all things methodically in this Art without error, with which
by the help of God, you may attain to the end.

Alchymy revealeth and openeth unto us four other secrets.

The first is, the composition of Pearls, far greater and fairer then natural
ones, which cannot be perfectly done without the help of the Elixir.

The second is the manner of making precious Stones of ignoble ones, by the
same Art which we taught before in malleable Glass.

The third is the manner of making artificial Carbunckles in imitation of

natural ones, which few or none have spoken of.

The fourth is the manner of making Mineral Amber, of which Paracelsus

hath onely writ in his book of vexations of Philosophers, and in the last
Edition of his works in the six of his Archidoxes: but because they cannot be
made without the help of the Elixirs, therefore they deserve a place amongst
the Elixirs; of the fourth, that is to say, of the virtue or rather the vice of
making Amber, I shall handle it coldly: I have reserved the explanation of
this Aenigma, till the last place, wherefore it is said, that the Elixir is
perfected in the Decimal number.

CHAP. VI.

The fifth Table, of making of Pearls.

This Table of making Pearls, consisteth of these parts, that is to say,

 Lac Virginis.
 Dissolved Pearls,
 Quick-silver, And
 The White Elixir.

Take Lac Virginis, or Acetum Acerrimum, so much as you think sufficient

for dissolving the Pearls, as in double proportion to the Pearls; as if there be
three ounces of the Pearls, let there be six ounces of Lac Virginis, wherein
dissolve the Pearls, and set the Glass in Balneo to disgest the space of a day,
then pour out the solution, and distill it in Balneo, and in the bottom of the
Glass you shall find the thick Oil of the Pearls, whereunto add so much of
your white corporeal Elixir as sufficieth to make the matter like paste, and
put thereto equal weight of the Pearls of Quick-silver; if the matter be too
thin, put more powder of the Elixir, if it be too thick, add more Lac Virginis
or Quick-silver, till it be like Liver; grind this mass upon a stone till it be
brought to a fit thickness.

Then make it up in what form you please, therefore it is necessary that you
have a pair of Brass or Iron Moulds in readiness (but it would be better they
were of Silver) of what form you will, and fill them with this matter while it
is soft; then peirce them through with a needle, or such like thing, and put as
many of these in a Glass as you will (but first hang them upon a thred) and
close well the Glass, and bury it with the Pearls therein two foot under the
earth, and let it stand there the space of six months till they be congealed
with the cold into a shining and clear substance like natural Margarites.
These Pearls made and compounded in this manner, are no less then natural
ones, but much greater and more excellent by reason of the white Elixir.

CHAP. VII.

The sixth Table of the Magistery of Carbunckles.

WE now come to speak of Carbunckles, which have their birth or original in

the pits, and Golden Mines of the earth, of the spirit of Gold and Mineral
Salt indurated and corporeal, being decocted and disgested into the hardness
of stone by the Archeus of Nature, as well by the heat of the Climate, as by
the great heat of the Sun; nor they arise from the spirit of the Minere of Sol
or Gold under the earth, by whose influence they shine, as also from the hard
Mineral Salt, by the mixture of which they are hardned into the nature of
stone; whence the Philosopher intendeth and endeavoureth as near as he can
to imitate nature by Art, and to make and compound artificial Carbunckles
above the earth, with the same materials which Nature formeth them of
under the earth; therefore he useth the same principles, operating with the
spirit and soul of Sol undivided, and the most hard Salt of the earth, whereof
Venice Glass is made, which two are the material Organs for Manuals: three
things are required, that is to say, a Glass-maker, Furnace, a flaming fire,
and a Crucible.

We now come to the materials, which are two, and are to be joyned together;
the first giveth the form, the other receiveth it: that which giveth the form is
the spirit and soul of Sol or Gold joyned together in the red Elixir, and is the
agent, as it were the man; that which receiveth the form, is the hardest Salt
of the earth contained in Glass, and is the patient, as it were the woman; the
agent is the power of heaven impregnating the earth, the patient is the power
of the earth, retaining the impression of the heaven.

Having thus demonstrated the Theory, we now lay the foundation of the
practice, which are two, whereof the first is the preparation on the Elixir, the
other of the Glass.
Therefore your red corporeal Elixir is to be dissolved with the oil or tincture
of Mars or Iron, because it hath the greatest virtue above all other bodies, by
whose Coelestial power the Earth, that is to say the glasse, is brought to the
hardnesse of stone, and converted into a stone: And so the Elixir is prepared
for projection upon glasse; but for the preparation of glasse there is no more
required but that it be made of the same matter that Venice-glasse is made
of; the composition of which if you know not, Take as much Venice-glasse
as you please, and weigh it exactly, upon which project your Elixir: when
you have so done, put your glasse in the Crucible to melt; and when it is
well molten, then take your Corporeal red Elixir dissolved as before (or if
you will, undissolved) as much as sufficeth to •inge the molten glasse, and
put it tied up in a paper into the Crucible upon the molten glasse, stirring it a
little with a rod; and there let it stand the space of one hour: then take out the
Crucible, and pour the matter into an ingot, and it will be malleable, but as
hard as glasse, and stonelike to the sight: and you may either cut it like a
••one, or work it with a hammer. This Carbunckle-stone or metal hath the
property of a Carbunckle in shining and glistring above all natural
Carbuncles; and if it touch a Toad or Spider, they presently die, because it
taketh virtue from the Elixir against all poison: And if the ••ck carrie this
Carbunckle about him, so that 〈◊〉 doth touch the region of his heart, it
takes away the Cardiack passions, and diminisheth the strength of the
disease.

CHAP. VIII.

The seventh Table denoting the composition of Minerall Electrum or

Amber, as well naturall as Artificiall; and also speaketh of a Bell made of
Amber used by Tritemius.

HAving finished these two Secrets, we now come to the Electrum: but
whether it is to be reckoned amongst stones, or amongst bodies, it may be
doubted, because in the West-Indies it is found writ in the Spanish Decads of
the virtue thereof; it is affirmed to be the greatest Antidote against all
poyson, and far more noble then Gold: but if it be a metal, it must
necessarily be the chief and supreme of all metals; for other metals have
their original from Sulphure and Mercury, but this metal consisteth of seven
metals, and is the best of all those which grow in the Archaeas of the Earth.
For where Gold is taken for the most noble of all metals by reason of its
perfect digestion and colour, this hath a greater degree of digestion and
colour, having a higher colour, that is to say, clear red, approaching neerer to
the true colour of the Sun. For an Gold is the Sun of other metals, so this
Electrum is to Gold as the Heaven to the Sun, wherein Nature as it were in
Heaven hath created certain stars shining with clear beams of a Silverish
colour, shewing plain to the eye that it consistens of red and white metals
mixt in the highest degree of digestion.
On the Contrary it may be objected,

Ob. 1. That there are onely six metallick bodies, amongst which this is
found to be none; therefore it is rather a Spirit then a body.

Also thus.

Ob. 2. The minere of every body or metal is converted into metal by fusion,
but the minere of Electrum in melting always remaineth; therefore it is no
metal.

Otherwise thus:

Ob. 3. There is nothing generated in the earth but stones, spirits, metals, or
mean minerals: but Electrum is none of these; therefore it seems to be no
mineral.

1. To the first objection it is thus answered. We say, that it is not apparent

out of the books of any of the antient Philosophers, that they ever dreamed
of this natural and mineral Electrum. But more to the purpose: those are
called Spirits, which flie from the fire; but the Electrum dieth not from the
fire: therefore it is no Spirit, is Quicksilver and the rest, and also mean
minerals.

2. We now come to the next. We grant hat the minere of every metal is
converted into metal by the fire, which consists of Mercury and Sulphure.
This Axiome is evident in those metals which are imperfect, and flie from
the fire either in their minere or in themselves, after they be reduced into
metall; and also the Gold minere, although before melting it flie from the
fire, before the Gold be molten and converted into metal; yet because Gold
never flieth after it be molten, but is found fixed in all probation, therefore it
is accounted the worthiest of all metals which consist of Sulphur and
Mercury.

3. Now to the third, I say, that I think it rather is of a stony and metallick
nature joyned together; by which mixture it differs from a stone, and also
from metal: but because it consisteth of Mercury, Earthly Salt and Sulphur
mixed, therefore it gets unto it a mixt nature of them; so that it is half stone,
half metal.

Wherefore it is to be judged that it consisteth of three natures mixed

together; that is to say mineral, metallick, and stony; and is the best o• all
those which grow in the Archeas of the Earth for it exceeds mean minerals
in fixation and constancy, because they passe away in fume by long melting,
and vanish to nothing; or else they melt easily in moisture, as salts, &c. But
this Electrum or Amber remaineth fixed and constant as well it the fire as
water.

It exceeds metals in digestion, colour and dignity. In digestion, because it is

endewed with the signe of greater and more perfect digestions for as Gold is
more yellow by reason of his greater heat and more perfect digestion; So this
Electrum, because it hath a higher colour then God hath, therefore it is more
digested in colour; for as Gold exceeds other metals in colour, so Electrum
exceeds Gold; for Gold is yellow, but Electrum red, which is a higher colour
then yellow. And as Silver is the Luna of white metals, so Gold is the Sol of
red metals: So Electrum is to Gold, as the heaven is to Sol in dignity or value
for by how much Gold is more noble then Silver, so much this Electrum is
more noble then Gold.

Lastly, it excels stones in shining, and virtue. In shining, because they shine
by reason of their hardnesse; so this Electrum sheweth many sparkes, not by
reason of its hardness, but by reason of his compleatnesse. And as the
heaven is acorned with Stars, so this Electrum with sparking, because it hath
the clearness and brightnesse of all metals. And as the Heaven containeth all
the Stars and Planets, so this Electrum, which is the Heaven of metals,
containeth the Sun and Moon, and the rest of the Planets in it self; Gold and
Silver as it were the greater Luminaries, the other bodies or metals as the
rest of the Planets, mean minerals as Stars in virtue. For although many
stones have singular properties and virtues, so that some help the sight,
others the Spleen, some the Heart; some stop blood, some hinder
abortivenesse, some hasten childbirth, some resist poison: yet there is no one
found which takes away all infirmities, as Electrum doth, more then all
mean minerals, metals or stones, according to his threefold conjunction, that
is to say, Mineral, metallick, and Lapidifick.

Therefore whatsoever others please to think of this Natural Electrum, this

seemeth most probable to me, that it is not simply a metal, but of a nature
exceeding metal: for whereas stones, mean minerals and metals are
generated of Salt, Sulphur and Mercury, this Electrum takes his original
from Stones, Minerals and Metals: from mines it takes Salt, from Minerals
Mercury, him Metals Sulphur. These three being brought into one by the
Archeas of natute, are its Elements, from a greater virtue and power of
nature; which Elements have formed a higher degree of perfection then in
any other stone, mineral or metal, as it were by the Commandment of God
Nature should ascribe a Crown of virtue and dignity above all minerals.

But however it be, it is taken two manner of ways amongst the later
Magitians and Alchymists, that is to say, that which is made naturally, and
artificially; naturally is that which groweth in the natural Archeas of the
Earth; the Artificial is that which is made by Art above the Earth in imitation
of Nature.

Whence Paracelsus a worthy Master in Magick seeing fully the nature of it,
and the utility of Alchymy, commanding to make the Elixir thereof when as
its natural body cannot be had in his booke of the Vexations of Philosophers,
and the sixth of his Magical Archidoxes, teacheth to compound an Artificial
Electrum, that the Elixir must be made thereof, as appears more at large in
the said Bookes; which I like not at all He teacheth how to make the Elixir
out of Electrum; I contrarily, the Electrum out of the Elixir: he would make
the Elixir of the virtue of the Electrum; and I the Electrum of the virtue of
the Elixir. I leave his way to his own followers, but I desire mine not to
weary and wex themselves in such a weak, but a more strong principle.

I make two kindes of Electrum one way; the first whereof is Spiritual, the
other Corpored First of the former: after you have made your red Corporeal
Elixir by projection, in the same Crucible melt one ounce of Lead, and
likewise another of Tyn; and when they are hot, take the Crucible from the
fire, and pour therein one ounce of Silver melted in another Crucible; and
when these three white metals begin to be cold, take two ounces of Mercury
well purged, and put those two ounces of Quicksilver upon the molten
metall by drops: then increase the fire gently, that too much of the Mercury
do not fume away: then in three other several Crucibles melt Iron, Copper,
and Gold, of each one ounce, which you must have in readiness molten. And
first, put your molten Gold into the Crucible, where your four white metals
stand molten, and pour it upon them; then your Copper, and last of all your
Iron, stirring the whole masse with a stick, that it may mix together; and let
it stand in a melting heat the space of an hour: then take all out that is melted
in the Crucible, and consider well the weight of it; and according to the
goodnesse of your Elixir, make projection for medicine. And thus you have
created and compounded spiritual Electrum of the weight of seven ounces,
consisting of seven metals; which metals so converted into medicine, will be
the Elixir of Electrum, and an Universal medicine, for you need not after
regard upon what body (or metall) you project it. It is also the chiefest
medicine for mans body: for although three or four of all the Diseases of the
Microcosm were united together, yet they may be cured with this one
medicine. If you dissolve part of this in Spirit of Wine, and distill away the
same spirit in Balneo, and the Oil of the medicine or Elixir remain in the
bottome, as is taught in the second book, you shall have the chiefest
medicine of life, and most Noble Aurum potabile.

Note that if your Iron melt not well, then dissolve your Electrum in the Oil
or Tincture of Mars, dissolving and congeling until it have imbibed a
sufficient quantity.
But if you desire to make corporeal Electrum, when your medicine
beginneth to fail to convert metals any more into medicine, then in like
manner project your medicine upon your melted metals or bodies, and they
will be converted into corporeal Electrum metallick and malleable; of the
virtue of which as I do endeavour to write nothing; so also of its vice, or
rather of the viciousnesse of those that abuse it, I will touch a little sparingly.

Paracelsus writeth, that Virgill Hispanus and Trithemius made a Diabolical

Bell of this Artificiall Electrum, upon which when they would invocate
Spirits (which they called by a more decent name of Intelligences) they writ
the Character of what Spirit they desired; and at the third ring of the bell the
Spirits obeyed their desires so long as they desired to talk with them; and
when they would talk no more, they hid the Character, and by the reverse
ringing of the bell the Spirits departed. He that will forsake God, and require
knowledge, aid and assistance from the Devil, let him share with Arbucell,
and with him descend to the Infernal Lake. But we that are true Magicians,
or rather Philosophers, confiding in God the Father, and the holy Trinity,
approving of Natural and lawful Magick or true Philosophy, but accounting
the supernatural altogether infamous and unlawful. And we require the
doctrine and wisdome of divine goodnesse, and the holy Spirit, to whom be
honour and glory for evermore. Amen.

CHAP. IX.

The eighth Table, which explaineth the meaning of the Philosophers when
they speak of the tenth Number wherein the Elixir is finished: And also
sheweth the wonderfull secret of the Animal stone, out of George Ripley,
with two other of his workes.

WE now come to the Last Chapter of this Book, wherein is declared what
the Philosophers mean when they bid us finish the worke in the tenth
number: it is to be understood that as out of the Hyle or Chaos four are
divided; so out of the Hyle or Chaos of metals. Because metals or bodies
when they are dissolved into liquor, then they are contained in the first or
one number, which is the solution of the body, of which by distillation is
made two, (That is to say, Heaven and Earth, the Menstruum and Salt) that
which remaineth in the bottome is the Earth or Salt, that which is distilled
over is the Menstruum and Heaven. And so you have One, two.

When the Menstruum is separated, it is divided into Three, that is to say, into
Water, Air, and Fire: Yet it is to be noted, that the Air, which is the first part
of the water containing an aery disposition, although it be in the form of
water, yet it is reputed aer, by reason of the consimilitude of the quality; and
after its perfect rectification, it is a tinging Mercury, and the white Spirit of
metals. In like manner is to be considered of the Oil, which although it is not
in the form of fire, but a liquor; yet by reason of its Ardent heat, it is called
fire, and the Soul or red tinging Mercury. And so there is One, Two, Three.

When there is a Conjunction of these three, that is to say, the air and water
with its Salt or Earth, in putrefaction, these three are united into one
quintessence, and are made a new body; in which three are united in one
Sulphur, which Sulphur is the true Philosophers Mercury: and in making
this white Sulphur, you have once turned the Philosophers wheel.

But that the work may be perfected in the tenth Number, if you adde the fire
which is the fourth Element, to these three concluded in the foresaid unity,
and rubified; then if these four in a new Conjunction be putrified in a lent
fire of ashes, then it is the stone: for in this work it changeth colours again,
and is converted into a red stone: and by this means you have joyned four
into one, that is to say, [Link]. make ten: And so the stone is finished in the
tenth number, because you have turned the Philosophers wheel twice, as
Ripley witnesseth thus.

But yet again two times turn about the wheel.

The stone is to be dissolved again with the fire, or Soul, or Tincture, and
dried again until it pierce and flow; then it is to be fermented into Elixir with
the Oil of the Luminary; and so you have turned the Philosophers wheel
again, which is then called the medicine of the third order. Of the solution of
this, Ripley hath writ these verses, teaching the resolution of the white and
red stone before it be transmuting Elixir, calling them his Bases, saying,

Do as I bid thee, then dissolve these foresaid Bases witty,

And turn them into perfect Oils with our true water Ardent:
By Circulation that must be done, according to our Intent.
These Oils will fix crude Mercury, and convert bodies all
Into perfect Sol and Luna when thou shalt make projection:
That Oilie Substance pure and fixt Raymond Lully did call
His Basilisk, of which he never made so plain detection.

By which verses it plainly appeareth, his Bases were onely two Sulphurs, or
two stones, which in another place he called his Mineres: and these mineres
ought to be dissolved by his Ardent water, by circulation of the Oil or soul
upon the Sulphur, until it become a stone: for in this place he takes both the
spirit and the soul for the Ardent water, willing that the spirit and soul be
administred according to their tinging natures, for the resolution of the
proper Basis. And thus have you the words of this Aenigma explained of the
tenth number; which seeing it is the end of the Art, I have reserved it till the
end.
It now remaineth that we reveal one secret of Ripley, which was never
spoken of by any Philosopher; that is to say, the manner of making the
Sulphur of Nature out of the Minere of the Microcosm, which is mans blood,
of which he writ the whole practice in his book of the twelve gates, but most
chiefly in his Medulla, where he teacheth its preparation and work more
plainly. And because I have proved it to be true, therefore I tell it more
confidently, because I desire to write nothing of my own fancy, but that
which I have first proved. Hearken almost the last verses which he writ in
his Twelve gates:

1. I never saw true work truly but one,

Of which in this Treatise the truth I have told:
Study onely therefore how to make our stone,
For thereby mayst thou win both Silver and Gold.
Ʋpon my writing therefore to ground thee be bold.
So shalt thou loose nought, if God be thy guide:
Trust to my doctrine, and thereby abide.
2. Remember that man is most noble Creature
Of Earthly composition that ever God wrought,
In whom is the four elements proportioned by nature,
A natural Mercuriality which costeth right nought,
Out of his minere by Art it is brought:
For our metalls be nought else but our mineres two,
Of Sun and Moon, wisely Raymund said so.

The clearness of the Moon and of the Sun so bright,

In these two mineres descendeth secretly;
Howbeit the clearnesse is hid from thy sight,
By craft thou shalt make it appear openly.
This hid stone, this one thing therefore putrifie,
Wash him in his own broth till white he become,
Then ferment him wittily. Lo here is all and sum.

Out of these onely words there are two points observed, whereunto the
Author steereth: The first is, that mans blood be put to putrefaction, that
Sulphur may be made thereof. The second is, that it be fermented wittily; As
if he should say, the Artist shóuld prepare it, that it may be fit for
fermentation. Thus far of the Theory; Now we come to declare the practice
out of Ripley's medulla.

Take Mans blood drawn out of the Veine in March, and of a Martial man the
Author meaneth (as I think) of a Cholerick complexion; and when the blood
is drawn out of the vein, let it cool, that the Green water may be drawn from
it, which is saltish: for as long as that saltish water remaineth with the blood,
it will not let it putrifie, because the water preserveth the blood from
putrifaction while it is in a mans body.

When it is thus prepared, put it in an Eggglasse well closed, and set it in

Balneo to putrifie, in forty days or lesse it will be black; and so go on till it
be white. When you have your white Sulphur, divide it into two parts, and
keep one for the white stone, and rubifie the other for the red work. And so
you have two mineres, of which it is said,

For our metals be nought else but our mineres two

Of Sun and Moon, wisely Raymond said so.

And so to the end of the verses, as before. Yet here it is to be understood,

that the Philosophers Sulphur is not mineral or metallick Sulphur, from
which metalls grow under the Earth: but it is a purified Sulphur drawn out of
metalls made by Art above the Earth: out of which and the Mercury of the
body the stone ariseth. For believe me, I had never writ any thing of this Art,
except I had seen the Sulphur of the Microcosm, and the perfect solution of
other bodies and Sulphurs.

Now have you prepared your Sulphur out of the minere of the Microcosm: If
you be a Philosopher, proceed to the end, and conclude your work in the
tenth number: If not, you are not born to our Philosophy; therefore give the
Sulphur Mercury, that the work may be compleat.

I believe there lieth not any Secret in the Chymicall Art, which thou hast not
truly declared and plainly taught. But to the end that these things which we
have spoken may be more surely committed to memory, we will repeat the
general process of the parts as it is described in the beginning of this third
book. And because there is not one, but diverse handling of the bodies,
therefore the Table is divided into three parts; the middle whereof discribeth
the process of imperfect bodies to the stone; the other two teach the
preparation of perfect metals for fermentation of the stone of imperfect
bodies.

The manner of preparing imperfect bodies.

Calcination of the body.
Solution of the body into Hyle.
Separation by Distillation.
Conjunction of the separated.
Putrefaction of the conjoined.
Sulphur by putrefaction to the Stone.
Fermentation of the Stone to the Elixir.
Augmentation of the Elixir.
Projection of the Elixir.
Some make twelve parts, as Ripley and others, who call them twelve gates:
but because three other degrees are contained in these, it would be ridiculous
to repeat them: and because the way of both ferments, whether white or red,
is the same.

The Table of Fermentation.

 Calcination.
 Solution.
 Putrefaction.
 Sulphur.
 Solutionof the Sulphur.
 Red ferment. Aurum Potabile.
 Quintessence. Elixir vitae.

So likewise it is said of Silver when it is prepared.

 White Ferment. Argentum Potabile.

 Quintessence. White Elixir of Life.

Now the Radiant Sun of the Philosophers ariseth, which will drive away the
dark Chimera's, and disperse the black clouds. Here the Aenigma's are
opened, thistles and thorns are cut up and burned. Now Reader mayest thou
safely walke in the Philosophers gardens, and gather most wholesome fruit.
Here grow most fragrant roses both white and red. Here grow Vines bearing
full grapes, of which is made the wholesome Nectar. Here are found trees of
health and wealth, Trees of the Sun and of the Moon. Here spring two cool
fountaines of Sciences and Knowledge sliding artificially through the garden
upon the most pretious gems, and Silver and Golden Sands. Thou hast one
field of Paradice given thee from God, that during the Life of his elect they
may be kept in health, free from all sickness. Here the corrupt Nature puts
on an incorrupt Nature. Here impure things are turned into pure things. Here
are all diseases lost, and health encreaseth. Here the perfect unity and
harmony of body dwell, and here is also all the most excellent treasures.
Therefore let us always praise God for his gifts: let us worship him, obey
him, love him, and beseech him to establish his grace upon us; and conduct
us to eternity through all his ways of goodnesse, knowledge and faith, to
Life eternal. Amen.

FINIS.

Paracelsus OF The TRANSMUTATION OF METALS.

CHAP. I. Of the Scale of Transmutation.
Transmutation is an alteration or changing of the forms of natural things into
other forms, as of Metals or Wood, into Stones or Glass; the changing of
Stones into Coles, &c. It hath been •••nd out, That Metals that have been
first ..yned into Money, have been by Nature ••anged under the Ground into
a stony substance; and yet have retained the impression of 〈◊〉 Image that
hath been stamped upon them: and, That the Roots of Oaks, being smitten
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