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. AIlS suppofltio" U .,0 pojititJt' determi» Itation, it beillg unc apnble of pr~vClltillgfllture Obftruliio1t$~ ~ire botb

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ptefixed to tbc Aurora, 8c.c. of Pa racelfus, alt{/. ~~

the Water-Stone of the wife mea , b({d ero

tbi« t ime bent abroad; Accept of tbi« at pre(t.~lIt :

tpt:' rdf, )'ra. ))IOre then wbat I tbere jJro111i(t'd 1111ly Jl)o.,·tly foL'ow ~ "Ibe cufrliug, Book.} '"lty rt.'yve tlf (1.

Wbet-'.Iloll~ fo JhlH'pelt ,be edf!. of thy IJOJu./t De»

.{ires after a [erViCl'llble tf1lder(talldhlg. [nlllf.;'tllry SUl'/,ojitiolls willfail tb» Conjidf'1tt 1111111 ilt It dayo_f Try"l. Te the refort! tbat in Yt:'aiity aim at the good of 1111111kjlld, be ar Al1ivr M )'011 can in the things svbich the Illte,C!,rity of J'(llIr 111iuds l'er(nJttdes j'Olt unto, Aud tlJo[e of yOTl t1JIlt »'it/Jour tbe bllre EIlJJ

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of Honor and lITealth, baue It defire to Pr,rl1i[e h, Medicine, let 'I11f! tell 'y0ll, TIJ"t thou.c!,h our J'l tttbor hlltl:l.i~l ~~lIl1ry" pltt~e__s written O~rcllrely, yet , time 'UIlY fvince fO .,b"," CO~t{ft1Jtt 'YI.NJ14, ~hat much of

Jfable; bealltJ' ius uailed. under thore JtfCflFn:v M,ukJ. 1 would not ill/pofl ou<!..bt 11/,011 tlJe.~, but lovil1f!.ly advice thee., not rafh(y to conclude, tb at all [ucb thiu.'!.s t1r thou lI11de.rjtl1lld~fl· Itot, are f~zlJi-:ties: I ... et not tbc C,z!UJ1liZzeS tb'lt our Astbor u aJPfrFed wit ba] aJfrigbte" thee; f~r .~vbat '111111 o uer detel1ed the Fallacies and. dejfyu[f,v( Cheats ~f imperioll$ r1i(dlliJ'{U/1'U'lt, but Wen tbu« YfPYOI1Che .. d; Intd .y~1 the hittt'Yl'Ji of I~il JisJI{'JHies l1J1ljt dC- 1Q1Q.wl"'r!J!.~ (b(-~C."res ~r per_ror111~d iverc V('))' ({relit,

J~fll, 011 fi:ch Iff t btJl1tfi'/t./tJ ([/lrJf. not 1..'ifit. ~.'it we lvi/J /CI1've tb"JI1 ,U tbr~y lire, IJurt_(ut to tlJclu(('I1J(,s,

.1l11d V I1Pi"Ofit~lbh' to tbe G.:'~zr.:rl1t;o;~ tb,), _lhw in :

TlJt~ Archidox,is diicouer: the lUI1R!JZI!. of A rca .. nums, \1agiacl~i.es,· Elixirs, QJ._lintctfr:fllfes, Til18:ul'es, &:c. tb: 7't.'}ltlJ 1>00k.. wbereof bl.ltl/ bet'11EJ171hJl~j1y f' pprtff tiU ltO~ ~f l ate ; It /J{?iug •• T. 1}-erll pit ula tion 1l1ul Expl.uI,lt }O}~ ~( th« Pre~'erlt~lIt lji1tr; botb it t!,,4 flU t be r(~;t j{JUow~~t«.'Aye cboice 7'ye'ltifi~s, !11tt;l can fPeJll~ nlor~ For tbt'iJ,~h'[,s tben 1 an: difPfJ(ed ~.(J 4~~ 'l.'h0l! 111f~lf not tblll/t tbn; Il h!7Y~ St !,t/.y ~ill f(?If.(,Ier tbee a ftf,{!icr of fllC,b ilfJ"fI table rlJiltCT_s 4f {lye tL.ereill cont ained v It tbou difdniue,l "to do 4S the Author hath dOlle, thou h/~/t t>lfi g.·~at reff{olt to erpclt Iliry Benefit [rom hi! La-

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I ant not fo,,-~ to perrwltd~ thee to theft bJlzds qf Studies; 1I111cJl tholl h'1:ll' a natural wel!-rooted. Affi11 i.o}/. ~berellll'~ ; for tis to bcfearcd thoIl111a_y~(l:

[oon Faint 11/ th.,J ",,"d, an,l be VfYY /wopcltfe YI1fhly too COJldel1lJ-I th~ .tutbor thou propoje.li to thy [elf to

follow, wben. the {ole defel1 'lIlly be 011 ti.1Y part ..

Tko" "I,,'l not therefore il1di[crcrt/y deterl1lht; rPltb t~y (elf to h~ aut C~far, aut nihil; For 1111lch t tntc "Jt~/f pan, Ilild ,,,alry 4dve1ttflrollf CQI1/bates 1111:/f )")!( u1tdergo, ere Nature will admit:

'bee to be ~f ber Cou: •. cil z I dCIlV not hilt the blef- (~ fed God of N ar~re 1"tljJ re7.Jeale wllar2 (uld ~o wh(~nt pleart'tiJ hnu, "or j1J1l// 1(11)', That it u

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wilt "tett with Exprcgio?ts that are .. dl~bioltl, tllld therein 1 wiU not pr~mife . thee the Ylgh~ U1t~crjfa1tdi1zg of hid luttlltlolt, ttU by tlfe, lind lit tnnc, thou beeJt better acquaintea with IJh1',. lYha~foever thon obtahteft by the grellt M,tf'CY of GoJ, 1111- prove it honeJfly ; for )111111S .peace d~th "" [0 mucb cOIlJifi ill Jtnowing and bavl~/g, M 111 dOt1lg all tb« good thllt lies wi,hi1! hil Spbere.. A1td fo farewel.

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Bcfidcs thofe other Boo~ fOr11lCyly pro111i[ed thee, ( f.. and wbicb aJ"C ready for tbe Prep, il)Oll 11111)ift jhort- . f . ly c'xpelJ Paracelfus his Puramirurn, entire •

Nor will it be a'mifi to deiire (i'cb tJf ft;nll be plt'flIed to render Ill!}' ~f 101 is 1York,} ill Englilh to give t1JC'l1I,115 tJf )))/)0/,· af bh1lfr if hlltb left tbenl,wit!Jotlt ~ Cuilntl{ our; and CollcClhtg forne in this plflce~ f~nle IJt that; for fear of o'lIittil1J!, wlUlt ,"flY he dlrcl10ry to It right apprebeudi1tg of tlJo{e Secrets

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be Ilmeizdttl.

PAge 2. line 6.fo,ban, ""dcan. pag.;.ls. ~de ~nd .. p. S.1.6 .f.How, r.Now. p.lo.L8 r. natural. {OI &c. II o.f.to wit', fdf, r. to if 't-If. I~ •• .c. fuflain it, r. be f u .. ftained. P·'4 1 J.7.r.pnlcftion •• rjc:fi)'t&c, ibid.dele (;) S--16.1.19. d.nor, 121.r.comp\c}' iOOI,l hat &~. p ~ 7 .1.6. ~ -mnlrirude, 1'.18.1. ~6 f.ilc. r .or: p,'2~ 1 J 4. r I n a H. p.2f .I'l.r."ij. p.z.6.1.21.t.coloun.p. 27.1 19~r.ldfl? a part &C'P.~4.l.s.r. EI(lI1efttS.r.~9.1. ~ 2 .r.from.afrcr t his manner,&c. P: 6~.h ~.('lert r fer, l.~ ~ r from one fced,8cc. p.66.f.2.r,fo. p.61.1. 3 I. dele a flat. r '37 ,II S r. ttom: ~hicb,&c. p,74,.1.2:..r,un~o. Serrl .... g abour rhe prdCt.ife therefore,&c·p.81.l.a7.r.rltual.t;o It &c.p,8~.lII.r.~ a &<:.1.19.t:doth,r.is. ibid,f.complexionare, r.comple xionared by 1'.84.l.r.r,Oneway&c.p 8~ l,I~.{MincraJ,r. Minc:ra.t,17 .dete IP. p.91.1.1 r, r.lef&,aIIiIS more.then &c. p 99 1.6.r.to,and in &c .. p.lo1.I.Jo,r.Matt~r only.whe .. titer &c. p.11 (.1. ~'.de/t pound,. p. r I 2. .I.~ ~.dtle all the_ p, l' s.l.a 2.r.(;itrine Aloe 9 p.I,6.1d 8.JeJe and. P,I'1- 1,'24.f.not,r.Dow ,p.119.1.:l6' r.coUcltcd,r.colt<-d P I z. 4. ',I.r.Oleum. p., ~ r .1.2o.dlle bur. L.a. rut a (,) at ~e" fides. P·141.1.~,r. is in. p.t45.1.15J.r,diffolved (herem. to&c. P.144;1.II.r water oftenci .... &c.I.2' .put a (;) acWiae.

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F we confider our miferv, mofl dear Sons! and that our abode is in a grievous habitation, and obfcur e Cottage, fubjclt to hunger and ro a very Ycry many various accidents, with which We are on every fide Overwhelmed, as it were, and environed s We find ehac We cannot at all rlourlfh no, nor fcarce live') as long IS we have imirared or tol .. lowed the Medicine and Phyfick prcfcrihed unto us by

the Ancients; for we were of [en rhnes atlailed with manv bitter Calamities and Conditions, and detained or

-imprtfoned with rerrible.cruel Chains, & all things daily ,~ become worfe Be worfc unto us, and [0 exceeding-many ~1 others thal: are in an equal bailance wirh us, and are our :', conrempcrarles.whom the' Ancients could not hitherto t~ aOitl or help by their Books, no not in the kafi. We

};:, forbear to reckon up in this place the various caufes of

t;.~.'~~,l this evil; Onely, we fay thus much, that nlQ1} of our ~t, Doltors have gotten abundance of niches byrhae way :'_',,: of the Ancient Writers, but have neither purchaced, :f ~ nor indeed deferved the fmalleft portion of praife and ~':;.~ .8 hono ur

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The virtues of the rriyficry of Nature arc impeadcd or captivated as it were in their bodies, jnn as a man that is kc:pr in pl'ifon, in bonds and fetters,who(e minde notwithflallding is free. For this myfiery i_l its works, is. like to it cerrain fire in green wood, that would fain burn, but cannot by reafo" of the moyflure.

Since therefore rhe hindrance thlt iOlpeads itt proeeeds from rhofe things, It feerus expedienr, to have it freed there .. from; which being (ree and arIlberey, this Art of Separations may then be compared to the Arc of the Apothecary, jufi as the light m •• y be compared -ro d .. rkncffe.. And this we do not f'~~lk of arrogantly .but on this account,bc:caufe rhofe exceeding great wicked-, nelles and corapofltions that are made in theApothc('a. ries fhops, and iaflitured hy Phyficians, -do very much difpleafe us, And therefore it ls not caufelcfly fhu we call them hy the name of darkneffe, and dens of thieves and Impoftours ; for fuch onelv, for the moil parr, as have mony arc undertook to be cured by the ignorant Olen, whereas if they have: it nor, rhen prcftrntly even at the firA dafh Ihall they be pronounced found; For they, 11;(. there Doltors,&c. do fuU well'know that' aU their c;:onfultadons produce not anv helpful/remedy.

Whereas therefore, that it borh is andmav defer .. vedly be called an Arr, whieh rc:acheth the myfieries of nature,a$ for C'l(ampl~)to cure a ~ontraaore by a Q_uillretlence

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I eeffence, and to heale that (in the Ipace of (OUf dayes) which would orherwife abide even unrill death; Likewife to bring a wound to the end of it~ cure in xxiv, hours, which could nor be accompli flied by bodies in io many dayes. And now we will at lengrh cheerfully fCI: about the fepararlon otrhe In} Reries of Narure,from the Impediments aUQ Fetters of their bodies, and this by experience,

Therefore firfi of all it is to be confidered, what is the mon profitable thing of all, and [he moil excellent for a nH1A (0 learn. It if. ro know the myficl ies 0 r Nature by the which he may e:<attly confider what God is, and alfo what man is, and how prevaleur and ufeful the knowledge of them is, both as to 'he heavenly Erernlry and Terreflrlal lnfirmlry, OUt of which rwo.rhe knowledge of Theology , ] ufuce and Truth doth very excel. Ienrly fprinr, forth. Moreover; the m~flcries ofNarure onely arc the life of men ; and Iuch Illyficrier. are to he imirared & followed as may be known b}, and obtained from God who is the e rcrnal Good. For albeit, that there arc to be found certain admirable things in Medi .. cine.se alfo in the myfleries of Nature.far grcatc:nhings; yet neverrhelefle.as ro rhae ~f(:rnall Myfiery, after this life, concerning both of what, how and Whence it is, we have no other foundation or ground rhcreof rhen what is manifefked unto us by Chrifi hirnfelf: Hence therefore doth arjfe that ignorant flupidity and fotcHh .. ncfle of chofe 'Theologifls and Divines th.e attempt to

.: draw OUt as it were and demonflrare the interprerarlons : of the mytlcries of God .. whenas they- underfland not :: the Ieat] ri rrle thereof", for we men carl not ar all finde our what the will and pleafure of him is that gave it, or '.1 declaredie, 13n~ verily they wcdl his Word (or pride '.I and covetoufaeflefakedrom whence do proceed fo many Ieductions.and do daily prevail more Be more.as we have derncnflrared in ollrMonarcbi;(. On this account

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SCFing therefore that in th\f~ facuhi~s and eml'!loy.. .. meilte; there are (0 many vain tranfa810ns pratt. fed, without the l\ule of equity, we fhall leave them ~iII ,I their prol"cr time. Nor wHI we, at all heed t~le (OOhOl ,'1 "ratings 01 fuch as talk more dungs. concerning God) ,hen he hath made known unto thea», and would fain. uaderfbmd him)jufi 4S if rhey had been of his Counfcl ;.~: and (in the mean time) do vilifie us, and derrad from J the nJ},fierics of Nature and of l)hyloforh~v, wh.cn as /~

they are wholl y ignorant of (hem all. 1 he chicfeft ~

knowledge that there men have, is a wicked impudent ( Iloifc:and roaring, whereby they prefume that them- :,~ telves are the men upon whom faith intirely depends, . .'.1 and that were it nor for dt~m,thc: Heaven and the earth .: J would pc:rifh. 0 l the ~ury and madnefle of IUeQ, an~ ~"::~ their moft great cheating and deceiving J whom It :;J would much better become to account rhernfelves as ::'.',~ unprofitable fervanrs, and as none at all. Now albeit :.J that. eveli we our Ielves may by ufe, in OUf imitating of f·~ thefe m('n,~afil)'le~rn together with them to wreftrhe '. '1 word af';ourTeather'& onlyCreator unto our own pride, ":;: vet norwlrhftandlng, feeing t1~a~ we have. not an c)(aB: )::~ know)C'dge of the' word, hut .It II to be laid hold on by ,\;' faith onely, and is not efrablilhed by. any .earrhly reafon :i: how fpedous foever it be; Let us cafi .0tT this hurrhen ' .• or r41th~r yoke,o(thcir .reafoning , aHd fearch after t!t: ~ myftcries of Nau1re, In.w hich In~'Oeri('$ the end or j{fue !" proves and confinus the fOllndation or way of 'truth, .. ' l~'t us fcek after not oncly thofe nl)'ftric1a but Iuch al{o ;:~':

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as teach us to accomplifh the highefl Charley;: And this is that trca{urc of the chicfefl good, 'U;~. the material part, which we·d_.nderfiand and ~l~an in the. writing of OUf A.·clJido~~nd as. ~or the fplrltuall parr, we will refer that to o~r -'!10nl1rcl!1t&1 . \

. How OHt of the afor~fald baflls and foundation have we experimentally drawn our Medicine, whereby Wee are made certain, and do occular ly behold [hat the, thing is truly (0. To come therefore to the llra8i.ck part" we will divide this our nook of Atchidoxis info ten paru;rhaf'it may be a kind of'atliflancc for our memory. [hac we may noe forget it; and withall We will fpCslk Io openly, that we may be llJ1deriloo.d.ln' our Sons, JHJC: not by the vulgar:; for we.will not .a.tjiH rhr.uf\ ~I~!; manifeftation of ehcfe t~lj{)g~ UpOB. fucli,fo; cafil y. . w« wi Il not difclofe our minde, thoughts and heart to thote deaf ears, nor [0 wicked men, but wHI ttudioufly ell" deavour to Ihur up our Ar(anum, from rhofe with .t firong wall and key, A nd for fear le.1ft 'hi sour labour; [hould not be fecurc enough from I:I1(1f(.· Ideors t hat arc enemies r o all true Arrs, we Ihall wholly refrain from wri ring the renrh Book concerning rhe u{i: and pI a~ llife of rhe things preceding it .. char fo \V(: lll.ly not catb the childrens bread [0 dogges- Y cr nevcrrheleflc [uell as are our Son~ wiH abundantly enough underftand r he other nine-

And rhar we mav fpcJk more opcnlv of there Arrs, you an! to know in ,hi:) Tr<.:ari(,~ of r he .1l.C1ocoJmc, .rhan therein IS an approved den-onflrauou of cacl1·rJ~itU~~, both of fuch as ic.con rains, . and fuch as :r~.c.c;ivc or a~~ mit Medicine,!.£' alfo of'fuch rhlligs~" b,c pcrmix.cd.l!q ... ·~ wirh. Likcw ife it viz. the: ./lficrofojm. is conquered .• i·lld.governed b y Medicine and fo follow& it, jun a:·a\~ hode bridled follows him thai leads him.s Or Iike ftlllad dr,,~ tved with chains. TI1U~ 00 this wife do I underfland Medicine to aaralt and draw on nacur e and ever,) living

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Fir" of .11, by whar m~an~""e five Scnfes fhall hoc fstlped by the m)\ncrie~ of Niltt.Jr~, when all they proceed nor fran) Nature, nor havc."'a natural rife or birth, ;as any herb hath cue of irs own feed: but there's no maerer which may produce them.

Secondly, The mobility of the hody mufl be confi .. dered alfo, as from whence if proce eds, and hy whar it is moved and f\irred, and bv what means it is to be holpen. Thirdly, There I\\u(\ he a knowledge of the divilion of all the powers in the body, and what thing, they are that have an agreement with each member-and are to be tr anfmutcd according to the nature of thofe members , whereas norwirhftandtng they arc at the beginning one onely narure,

Firfl of all therefore we will fpeak of the fc 9 of See .. ing, H' aring, Touching; Tailing And Smelling: You may take this reaching c~aml'lc. The Eyer, have a matter of which they confitr, as is mentioned in the compofition of the bodv, fo alto haw: the other Senfes, :BUt now ehe fight it [elf is nor our of ehar feed of which the eve' proceeds, nor the twaring or tone OUt of that

of which the Ears are made, nor proceeds the Touch from the tJefll, nor the Tane our of the Tongue.nor the Smell from the noflrills, no more then Rc.-afon proceeds from the bratn, bur rhefe arc bodily Organs or rather (oKers in which the (cofes are generared.Neirher arewe

to underfland thar rhefe Senfes have their dependance ppo" the glace and pleafure of the Creator, in Iuch wife

as not to be of the nature of man, but only infufcd by the grace of God fupernarurally , to this end that the great wod'aers. of God may(if at any time a man be born . i llliad)be made known unto us. We arc nor to conceive " o,it lh~. in ,hi:i placc,(or the aforefaid fenfes have their I

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proper inf~nfible and impalpable body, even as on the contrary the other Pitrt of tile body is ranglble.for every man iscompofcd of two, 'lJi(. ofa mareriall, 2nd of a fpirituaU body. The materiality gives body, blond and tJefh; But the (piril'ualiI'Y gives hearing, feeing, ImelIing, touching and rafling. So then, if one be born deaf, it proceeds from the defcit of that manfion- place in which the hearing is ro abide- For the Ipirituall body doth not perfect irs operation iR an ill difpofcd place; the caufe of which we fer down in the book of the generations of men. .10 ehis therefore are the great wonders of God to be known, that there are two bodies, 1Ji~. an Erernall and a Corporal, couched and concluded in one, as is alto manifeftcd in the hook of the Generarion of man; Now Medicine works upon the houfe and cleanferh it, w hereby the fpiri tuall body ts able to perfell its proper actions therein, . no other"'ifc then as Civet in a clean and an undefiled cafe.

Secondly, Now let us proceed [0 the motive faculty of the body, And enquire whence it i~, lind how it harh ir~ Origina] , 1Ji~. what or how the body unites its Celf to the medicine, whereby the motive venue is encrea(~d. You,are to underfrand it tbus; Every thing that In'e$ hath ItS motion from nature, ~·hjs is fufficiel1tly enough proved per I~, as concerning natural motion. But now that motion which we imagine and make thereby is. to be decJa~ed, as v!z~ ho'_\' it comes to patfe accordding to our Will and mrcnnon, as tor example , if 1 would lift up my Arm, it may be demanded, by what vertul!.or power I do it, fori fee no Organ whereby to move It fo, but that rhus it is done according as was my defire ~o do .. And fo of walking" leaping, running, and fuch like alhans, which arc made contrary unto an~ bcfides the motion of naeurc, for nothing offuch a~hon5 IS a peculiar PI adult of Nature, hut is made ac .. cldoatally. Thefe kinde of motions have their origi-

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nat thus, 'Vi~. the" po~'erful Mi.fire~c Irltention is ab,?vQ my motion. lIat\.~ral, 1Jl~. OR rhls wife •. The Inre nrion orlmaginatton kllldleth the vegetative vmue.as fire kUl·

dle s wood, ~c. as we: have wri~t,:n in our Treatife peculiarly of Iruaginaelon. Now It ~i nor a~lc to accompilCh its operations more potently III a~ y k~nde of. body then in irs own proper body, In whl~h It b~\[h IS and lives. Likewife in every body th~re ,.'1) uorhing more eafic to h~ kindled then rhe vegceative'Soul.becaufe that She runs and walks by her fdf,and is dilpofed hereunroj for even as a fire that is covered over and buried, dorh, as foon as ic is 1113dc hare and hath an accefle of ayre, burn up; even ro lik~wifc doth my phanrafie apply. and bend it felf to the fet:lng of any tiling. I cannot dlrcll; my eyes with my hands whether 1 pleafe and would, but my Imagination converts them to whatfoevcr it Iikes me to behold. So alfo is i [as to my journeying; ',:" for, if J have a dctire of going any where, and do thus propo fe to my felf according as feemerh me good, then is my hody dlrected [0 this or that place" thus intended by me.., And by how much the more it fhull have been imprinted in my Imagination and rhougbrs, Co much the tpeedier do I run. So then irs evid ent chat \111"ginarion is the mover of my courfe- Even afrcr the fame manner is it, rh .. e medicine doth mundifie bodies, in whom is a Ipiri tualiry , from whenceit comes [0 pafs that that motion is performed the more cafily.

Thirdly, Is to be underflocd , the difiribution that is made in the body unto aU rhe members,

oue of.1I (ueh things as are prefenrcd unto it either without or within. In that diflriburion is made a mu-

t .. tlon , whereby rhe thill~s are fa changed, that one ;"". I pare ferves for the comple xionof the heart, another k~"; part is accommodated to the narure of'the brain: and (0 1"'1 likewife is it wirh the rd\. Now, the body anralb >t~ unto itsf<:~ftwo manner of wayes, viz. internally and i:~l

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externally; Internally," it attuib whatfcever is taken "in by the mouth. Externally .. at attra8cth the alr, earth, water and fire; Thus therefore is the bufineffe to be conBirutcd and defined, viz. Thofc things that arc received inwardly,are not fo neceffary tt) be writ .. ten; for that they are to be known by the foundation of nature, (viz. there) which are diftrlbuted tbus,as we fhall fpeak anon concerning the dlvifion, But OUtwardly you are to underfiand it thus, that the body doth atlraa through the whole skin (rom the four exremal elements, what is neceflary for k; which if it fhould not do, the iarernal nutriment would Rot furfice for a mans fupporr ; and becaufe that moiflure is fo very cl<ificilt in the body hy cuflome, the fame body ~xtraih it OUt of the Elemene warer.and fo it comes to pane, that ., long as one (hall fir or fland therein, he needs not any other quenchiag of his thtrft.Now this proceeds not from the Waters exrlngulfhlng the heat as it quencherh fire, bur the iarerna! heat artralb the external moiRure fa it feU~& drinks it jufi as if it were raken inwardlyshence cis that the Cows arc able to abide in the Alps without drink an whole.Summer.for the air h as a drink to them And fupplies the place and office thereof; The fame may be concluded of ' as eo a man.

Moreover the nature of a man may be (ufiained alfo wlrhoar food, if he be ret or planted with his feer in the earth. So have: we feen a man that lived fi~ monerhs without food., and was fuflained onely by wearing a piece, or clod of earth upon his' flomack i the which being dry, he now and then took a new [r"ent clod; he affirmed that derlng all that rime he was ne-

" ver hungry: the caufe of which thing we Ihew in the book of the A pperlre of Nature.

So llkewlfe h4V~ we feen a man that fuOaiut'd him .. felf Ior many years by a medicine" V\"[.. by rhe qnlnre .. fence of aold. and Icarce took half a Icruple thereof c~cl.

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each day, Helice Iikewife or after this manner , have there been mallY others ,[hat have earen nothing for many yean. viz. xx years,fuch I rememher l have feen in my time. Some do arrribure r his kind of Jiving to the aoodne(s and piery ot the perfons, and rome alfo impute it to God, the which we 40 Dot in the leaf} dcfire to gaiafay or jude of; yet however this thing is even natural for Iadnefs, melancholy and folinting, or grief of the mind do rake ~wav borh hunger and thurO; fo that by the attr.ta-ion of the bodysro wir,ferf,ic ; s abJe to funlin it for many years; for as much as food and drink are nor (0 ordained or sppolneed , as that we mull 01 neceffiey eat. ftefh or bread, and drink wine or water, but alfo We may fufiain our life with the air and with clods of earth; and we are to believe thar whatfoever is ordained for food was made that we might try and Tafl:e it, the which We n,all declare more at large in our book of the Monarcby of God; Albeit we granr thus much, that becaufe of our labours and fuch like, we cannot want temporal and corporal food, and that for very many cautes, and therefore food w .. s ordained for this body, as medicine was againft difeaftf) ; Now therefore as to rhe difHnltion of thmg5 which enter in .. to the body. obferve it thus, that they are difirihuted throughout aU the parts of the body, no otherwlfe then as if vinum ardens or burnin& fpirii were poured into water, thereby making it aU of the fame odour ~ becaufe it is defufed throughout [he whole bod.v thereof; In like manner if ink be pHe inro wine, aJl of'Ir will be rendred black ther«f)y.. Even rhus is it in the hody of man, the luuftjdity and moifture of life doth "refcntly defufe fuch things as are received in, and that fooner and (peedier then what we have propofed unto you by shefe exsmples , but as to the form that the (ubft:lDCe thus rook in.is tranfmuted into,the nature of ehls contific:ch andy in the members which receive it:

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and dig~ft it into their own likeneffe, no orherwlfe then as when bread, if conveyed in to a man , is made mans-Ilefh, and if into a fifh tis made fifh, &c. Thus in like manner is it to be underfiood of the things that are take. in, they arc rranfmured by the virtues of the nature of the members , and become appropriated to the nature of the parts recelvlng them. The fame is Iikewife to be underftood of medicines, viz. that they are rranfmured into the members according [0 the proprieries of them members-for rheyreccive their firength and virtues from the proper fubtlances of the medicines according ro: either the good. or evil, the Iubrile or grofs difperfin~ thereof, according as the quality of the ~lledicinc Ihall be, as for example; if it be of a quineeflencc , the eranfmuradon of it will be more Orong and potent; but if it be a groffe medicine, fuch alfo it remains, even as all Image or picture that hath its ornament from the colours as to fairnefle and deformity, the which colours if noble, fuch alro will the pillure

be ; So therefore that we may colleft our experien- _

ces in ehofe like things which we have met wirhall, (.' and may lit it were, heap them up together for our pa .. V • zy and better remembrance, that fa we may have them in a readineffe when wee need them; we will write down thefe nine 1l00ki,hut as for the tenth, I will referve that clofe in my brain I becaur e of the ungrateful

Ideors j but yet norwlrhftandiug in rhcfe 9 is enoughdeclared to 'our Sons, and let nobody admire and fa much wonder at the teaching of my Doltrinc .. for though it be contrary to the courfes and methods of the Ancients; yet norwirhftanding, it jl moR. firm1y founded upon experience which is the miflrefle of all things, and by which alfo ougbr all arts to be proved-

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Of the Sep arat ion of ~'JC Elements, Efore we. ret about the Declaration of the , Separation, of Elcll\c:nts, there arc, Iome ',thjngSc which ,tic' (hall explain (feeing that

rhe rhlngs written of the Generanon of , rhings arc not fo very confonanr wirh the :

Separations of the Eleuieurs ) (or, the bcrrer . and clearer underflanding of rhat faille Separacion ; forc'. every thing is brought to its end and iffuo, the more'. ' convenlenrlyswhere a mature 'ntdlig~l1t confiderarion, -, ~. as to what the event will be" prece de s , For v(;(Hy, , , thereby the pracrick becomes the clearer, V."c there-

fore fay that rhe four Elements exlft together in all things, out of which dorharlfe to everyone its' Predellil1atcd Ilare,

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tually contrary among thcrt'.fdves, arc able ro agree , i and abide together, without rhe dcfirullion of them .. felves: you are to undcrfland it tl1U5, 'Vhc:rea5 the mixion of the Elements is in and by prcdeflinarlon, C() united apd corroborated, the cafe Hands rhusschere is

no weight to be accounted in them, but the ruling power of one of them is grc:ater in things then ,ij, «rhets

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power is, by which is to be underfiood that in the digeRing Of difpOMtion and ferment of the prtdefiin,uion, 'rhe ftrongefi element will bear rule.and overcome and rubjelt the others. By which means the other three elements cannot in the lean attain their perfeaion, but are in relation to that pertelt elernene.as the liaht or fappy matter in wood is to the fir~ timber; djerc(ore alfo they arc not to be called Elemcnts,for as much as they are not all of them rerfett,but one onely is fo;whcn we f(lC' .. k therefore otrhe four elements wch finally are in all things, we arc not to undc:rUand it fo J:rccifcly, that in them the four Elements are perf ell; but there h. but one oaely finifhed or accomplifhed clement in things; the other Elements r~mainin.g imper .. feft, by reafon of the virtues and pultlance of the chief

excelling elemene , hence ic CI)O\cs to paife, rl}at rltey can thus accord and confifi together, bccaufc.4bar tlJ~rc if> no perfection in I hree of them, upon which account alfo neither can there hl' any corruption by the conerarletics to bear rule. Moreover., that an element is redominant in one kind, ris became tis hereunrepredcftinared , and therefore no corruption nor perrni XiOA can adhere to them, 35 we mention it in the book of . Generations; whereas therefore (hen' is onely one de-

mene in every thing particularly, iris 'needlcflc ro reek (or four elements in rhlngs, there being three of them not pofitcd in perfeCtion briefly and finally;tht:re .. fore: we mua underftand that the four elements are in all things, but nor four complexions aftuallYt the cafe flands rhus ; a fubflance or matter conrains the element water, and then it is ncnufar or water lilly; there is not in it bcfides this clement, uelther earth, nor air, nor fire; Iikewlte, there is not in it an Y Iikcneffe of 'heat) or dryneffe, for it hath no peculiar operation, but the predcftlnation rhereof'ls water, and is the one .. Iy element of water, under which is neither dryneffc

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nor heat, according to its affianced nature, Bur yet although all rhefe things are thus , yet norwlrhflanding the other three dements are in lr.bue the creatures have not their rtfe our of thofe three elements which are not brought forth as it were perfeft, nor have they their beginning or help and afJIfiance frorn them, but out ef the preddlinated clement which is united to, and imprefled in that flock and kind.

And albeit, that this fquares not with the Common Philofophy, viz. that the one predefhnared element hath of irs.own nature the other three elements adhereing unto it felf, yet norwi rhftanding it is to be believ-' t'~'1 that the clcmenr, and {ubfiance, or matter, are differcne.from each other. The which is to be thus underftood. The fubRance or matter is not from that element which ringerh and elemenrarerh the fubilance; neither alfo are thcfc clements from the fubfi~.ce., b~,1c they have an equal like agreement as the body and tobl have. !Sur now each body, as for example, ThebodY offorne growing thing hath irs Complexlon, and likewife its clement, Although the clement it felf is not vifihlc in the growing body.nor ii it tangible or demonfinable, and that for (his reafon, becaute this element is by reafon of irs fubdlty more flrong, and fubjefis the other cle~tcn[s of the growing body. .And ·yet all of them are In the body, but .lmpercC!ruh1ys 'Ilke as when water is permixed with vinegar, it bcc:om~~;like unto it ; and although the vinegar thall have cJi6lngeti

'all in. the eflence thereof, yet ncvereheleffe the Com .. plexion of the water remains Iucerrupr , nor is it vi· negar ~ for that caufe, but if, as much water as afore:

And although it -purs nor forch the virtues of water aiafore; yet it doth not therefore follow, but that it hath them fiiH •

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. Iy it may be made from the other three, Ele~f"l1ts,as (61· lowes hereunder, concerning the Ql!lnrdlence. But wmrc we fpeak of the Separations of the fourElemenrs. 'we mean rhofe four which are eflenriatly in a body.

from hence hath rifen fo many var ir us errours, becaufe that men have fought after the four Elements., and a Ifo the Q!!inteflence in the' Prcdeflinared Eleruenc, the

which cannot polJib Jy be. "

". Moreover, you mufl: alft) know, that when the ElementS ofbodies are not [0 be feparaeed, fa that one may be Fire, another Water, and another like to Ayrc, and the fourth [0 Earth, according to their ComplC:l\ion~. 'That fomettmes the Elements appear wi rh their forms, (oilletimes w.ith their Complexions, as the water like .~ater, th~.ayrc: like ayre, the earth like earth, and the

fire like fire. There are to be fubtilly underftood, and

· ... ujay,du:. at 1~D&t.h !ell be do~e by a fimilitud~, ifth(y • re t.ken foe tb~ union of the Elernenrs, not VJfibly or ;atluany, nelrher ·a~cording to the nature of, ~hc ~Ic.Jt:Ien~ of tift', but as, an hor and ~ry,Comple?,lon~ Jake fire. On this manner. hath every Element. us nature, caence and condition aecribueed to it; the propriC!ty ,remaining incorrupt; tor it isuoe to be fuppofed,that

llecA\Jfe lome hearb is moft hot, as a nettle, it doth 'therefore contain in it fclf rhe more fire ; no, but It!is .ramer to be accounted thus,' 'Ui~. that the Qgintcffcllce ,.of it is more hor, theR the Qyintdlence of ChlmomilJ.

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ehewhich larrer hat!1 a Jefrcr heat.· But the Elemell~s of the body do receive elrher IclTe or more, ff~m t,hc.,r own fubf\a'i~e. or ,',Ila.t:r:j:r; even a5,woo~ conrarns In II: felf more fire then!h«:~rbs do. ,,' Likewife flpne~ have in rhem Inore or ~qm~fs and earth , han R07In~ have ..

In 'ike .ma~n~r, :'lIte) l!~te, that. the. mUt irrude. and quantity of~,he ~elr.e.~.1 J!l the ~l)nte(1enc~ , doth arlfe from rhe i'rcd((l .... aicd hlcRlfflc, and rh, ~nrcnfio(l or t.'lCal£iltioO of rll\!.dc~l'~C of the C.orpobtl Elernenrsv arifcth frolil the Spe,:;it6tor (JJ~ilt.: of the fub(lance,whkb

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. Dut 4S ro fh~ Pl~llick of" the, Separation of i:J1C Cor~ J'or1l1 Ittcmcnt6 fr~~.;al1 th~ other things, Obferve t,ha~ It is [\vQfaJd,; ~I1C way rcacherh tQ ,cxrrall: the Three Elemenrs froflHHe r ore Elemm_ from the hu,.,.;n.'g :Fire" from Ih~ ;".viflble A ir, (r '. true Earth, and Ilkcwife fro", the n_atllral-Watc:r ;'. i ,',whidl ~l~·mcnts JlItt(~ ~9}; (lIC~' ~."ikc: O.r.ifjinal ~~. the pr~cc~ent'Eferoe,nr5 J)ave J.' The.ot~t:tw~y I~ of them, '.01 (ali'ls in) which thoC.: Fourdoc,)(ih.as.w,c;. f4id afore, buc yer with rhis dif(.ea:cnce, ,'lJj(~~ T'l.t th,is .exhibi ts ~)ore of t~1e .: Ele-

,ment'Q(J"irc(:Watcr~ 2.att~, or Air, With the famtlltll~e of:~~her.f"fn:-'~( t1u~cflftPtlaIE'em.en·l:s. Wh~n they f}1illl..tje.fep~fa~ed .fc«:~~.js rnannc! oj . they ·cltn. n~ver be an~',tllore'.dtIfQI~~"':'\II:(. So as t~r_t'l~ G.ompJcxlo~s ·to~.be·~corr~tted ~r} .. Itered niy:fQf"her ; (al/4$; So ii'

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rer , ir is to he dlll'le bv hoytmg; the which ht!gll11HIlg " to boyl, t hc hil is f:Hd~wi[1l ~t:pOlrated from tJ~t' \Var<:r, and carr ics "villi it tile mof.t 1a~~llt fubfia~ce of the \Va· rer . and hy how much tilt.' \Vatc:r, is lctlencd , fo much " alfo i, t lrc jr dimi o ifhcd according [0 ICs prcport ion ;'; and q ~ i.i ; ; f i i)' , , ' '

TIl~'rt: ' . .He ir is to bl" be nored here .. That no l .. Icmcnr . '; can be conceived cr had .virhour Air, although any 01

r hcru m.iv !~t' had wrr hcut anorhcr , where tore We uu- i dci r.dcc r~oc rhe burden Ol' Separaring the Air apart, fc· '. in!'! ir is in tilt: other chrcc, ,IS the life Is in the body; for wi:cll it t~,l~'p"ratcd fr'1rl1 r hc bodv.thcy all pcrifhras we ck.\;}) (('1(:11 i .... [l)~' t~lJjowil~g Praltick of Sep~fAtioIlS. ',1 In [hi~ :'JIJCC thc:re are Four wayes mut] he confidered ; {.j (;nt: "~'" is 'in \V-at('ry bodies, ,hat is, in Herbs, which .. : / h.1VC.: mot c of warer, rhan of any of the other 1~h.·IlIC~H5, rj hi..! ,('n:')Hd IS in ticr y bodics s Inch are Woods.Rov.im, 0)'15, lvoor s , &c. which contain in rherufclves Illo.re?f t:1C fiery Iubfraucc , than of the others. The 'Third IS to be l1nd':1 flood of Earr hy hodl:,.S, fuch as are Stones, CIJ\'cs, and Eart hs ; hut the Fourth is of 1\ ierial .. and thi~-h in all the or her three, as we mentioned above, In hke manner alfo are there '0 many Wayes to he coufidcre d of, OIS [0 the rur<.' Element!:, after rhe fame manncr J:.. IS {".lid afore-of the Four fore-going.

Hence then h it eafic to be known what the Ele .. menrs arc, and how to he ft parured ; amongfl which, rhe fcpararious of rhe Elements trom Metals come firfi , to he: confidercd Oi-; ill which Etements theft' arc peculiar Predefi inatcd virrues.w hich are lacking in (he orhet JilcnH.'ors., (alias, which are /o)'I'(.'(i out o] the other Elernenrs;) for ;,h hough ,111 the Elements are alike in rhe , {or III , 1./;'{. in Hear, C::.ld.-.cf.., Moi(}ure., and Dryncfs ; !, \ yet notwirbflanding the Dryncilc or Moitlure,)&c. ,[he:',

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Hea [ and Cotdnt.:n(~ are nor the fame} n on e tI~inr. a~ in anochcr ; for.in hmc it is A ppropriar ivc ; hl!~ 111 other-

hl1lc tt i~ Sp<:dfidt ; hy vario us WOI)'CS afrcr r his manner, accordiua as in every kind ,[hey 3l.'C each o[ thcn'.natn~ rated pccullitrl't and c tlentia llv, ~or rhcrc 5 no kind of

rhe ~J!:mcnt~ Iike to another 10 virtues . .

Thus alfo are we: to C(,nCL'IVC cOlleu-I.I,Or, the S(,'l~ara .. rlons of AfMca{iteS., the which do li Kl'wd e ddfc:r from rile orhecs til the \ll'all:id, ~ an d t·.lcIlH:ural N~ (lire; [or every kind, or Lineagc~ is (,O_rH("? in a p~culiar Scparalion, and ll\uH be pr"l.hlr:d wir hvin a par,~lclllar way; afrerwar ds we will fpcak of Ge ms , and Stones, and de. moutlratc their Elements, tor they appear not ar aU like the others,

Furrht:rm'Jfl', Saltf are of a peculiar and morl excelkilt nature, and of more prop.crri~s tl1~:n \1f,<.' pr.rceiv~d to be in the others ~ TIH rc IS alto a dlv(:flc t:ffcnec In Herbs, which have flo manner of agrl.'(.'nH:nt wirh [he ',:'; Mincfllh rhernfelvcs ; nor indct J ca .. t hey ,be ali ke, as

·1 to whur bclonas unto rhei r na rurc I ik cw ife, the pro ... 'l perr y o~' \Vood~s, :l'(r(!'its, Barks, and fuch-Iike i~, finau,'1 ].tr; alfo the prol'cr'i'Y of lilt-OJ, Dr ink , aud all ,e",b/~ l'~ Food , and of things nor good and, clea~. but evil and t. imnnre-, which are to he fcpar arcd Into Ij .. km'_~IHS.

'. ~i Thc:rc are Two wayes found to he.of rhar Sennrat ion :"~ which we mean \', One whereof ill, I he $I,.·para£ir)n lif :': each Element Ihur-rn by it fdt~'illto a peculiar Vcflel ,i wi ChOlH rhe corrupring, or J.l\fi~~ ofi r~ vinu<-:s .. the A j r excepted, The other way 15 or the: S<:paratlo,n of the pure irom the impure.,in rhc Four Eleme nrs , Vl{_ after (his manner: After that the Elemcn rs are Icpararcd , 1'it,. (he one from the other, they have as yet a grofle

fubllance ; for which caufe rhc rEfoHo\y~ unorher Ieparation of rhofe fame Separated It:Icments; we Will t. "qcforc declare [he l),ral.l ick of them 3Jl~ t('~,,~ cis. to be: known 111 rhe firfi place, rhar [he 0~mt(,:h( .• .cc of

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tt,ir~~~ \s to be feparered & extralted this way, becnufe the ..Arc!Jidoxit.. 21

rrm , ~ ~i~' E:.,. ',IH:; d riwn (Jut of bodies, in the naiure

of ~"-l.J;.;r.: Hdi':l, ill c ~ nor fuh:r, {kd, l,,"t are left with

ir , 'r heft:\~)fL ir L ahJ;;' ,0 doge the Elements, either

~\:llm~(' r or v,;t',ti<cr ; which is to be uuderftood thus, . Of the Separat ions "ftlJe Elel)ICI1t.r Ollt

') ha r thc' '. if - "("llffl<:{;, do not (bt'cat.1fc of this) perinI , 1 f l I

from r.:H: ~lc!~"~ni e when rhe PI t dcfhuarcd Elcmenr, ,':.1 ~ t ~c .iJfcta J'. '

[hat l~, d\(' (~in" iL:Hct, 'i~. cxt r a~tc.:d; for ir it. it fdf ! .:

liktwik Elerucural and Separable, as (0 the Elemental ~ AS rouchlng the Scpar01tion of the Elements fr(')nt form. but not as to rhe cJitf..:ring natures, as is cvidene v: rl~<-: Metals, rhere nec~ th.c bt!l Infl.rnmcllts, La .. 111 the Difcnu:'{i,! of the t.l.i;intcffence.,{ bour, Diligence, and an arr.lficlal E RPt"flencc, and an

By thefe like Separations.all Elcmenral Infirmities may ': aprirude of the Hands for rhls Worl{_

be cllre~,b)' one fiilll',lc ~intcnt:nc\:"v!~.a(rer tI~is man. "j .' ~ • '

ner ; It thofe Predettinauons fight againf] thefe infirrnl- , Fn·f1 oj all, make an Aqua 14 orns, tht« :

ties, 3S we {~t down more largely in the Difcourfe of'; " .

Plede}1in.uions. By rhefe t hings therfore thus fpokc:n,wc ,_'i Take Saltnitre, Vitriol, and Allum ; cqua] parts, tile

have fofficleorly enough difclofcd the beginning of the [. Q which you muf] Diflil i!,HO all Aqua /<'OTI;J; pour r his ('

Separ.uiJns, aud there lore let us now hafien on ro r hc I '~V.,~at~r again upon its feces, and again Diflil ir in a l :.._

~rolttick parr of them; the varic,ty whereof is Ten- :'\ Glafle. ,In ehls Aqua Fortis clarifie Silver, and afrcr« ,"

fold: One: is of Mnals, a Second of Marca{ttes, a Third' '; wards diffolve therein Salarmonittc'<.: Having fa done

of Stones; a Fourth of Olct1g.inows thi"gs, a Fifth of Ro· : (fake a Mt'tAI,reduccd into Leaves, and refolve it thcrJ

~ins, a Sb~[.h of lIerb~, aS~vt',n[h of . Fie"" an Eighth ~r (' ,llOto ~3rt'r, tharis, in th~ fame water" then /erilratc it:

]UYCfS, a Ninth of Vllr.fica t)nng.r .. and the Tenth of FIX r »y B. Al. pour It on agam, repeat IJlIS fa often I'n til

tbmgs : Aud now, as to rhofe Separations of the Ele- l: \thcre he found an Oyl ar ehe bottonl,vi~. of 0 or Gold

menrs there arc three: waves thereof" One hy Dijlillati. ; , ,a Ipadiceous or Ii ght red Colour; ofD,a lazure, of .lJ1aYJ '

()~IS, a Second ~Y Calcinations; and tbe Third by Sublima- :'~ red, and very obfcure j of !/., a white; of 1], a Ii vid:

110m'; To this do belong all the exerclfes, as the ap- ,'~au, and Ieudy ; of Venus, all abfolure green; and of

plyillg of the hands to ehe Fire, and Labouring, and O.r~' a yellow colour.

ther neceflarles, which fhall he ter down in the follow- . ~ But yet note, that, nor all the Metals are thus reing Separations., . .' ,ouced i~to an OyJ, but (uch as have been afore prepar-

ed: as for example, Macm-, h to he fublimed i Saturn to be calcined; Venus to be' tlorified, or reduced Inro --.~- I J._orcs, Iron [0 be Crodficd, and reduced ro a Crocus- 1~~,,,ilCr to h~ Reverberated; asfor Sol, and), th~'y wili

,I' 1','afil y Iuhmit themfelves, '

OJ :'\1 So then, when the Metafs (hidl he on this wir~ rei ~uccd into a liquid fhbfiaoce, and rhCf(:by difpofed i. j C ~ t hem-

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~" themfc've~ to a dihjo~'n;ng of their Elvmcnt s , (the

which thiu~~ cannot V0{libly b e done in a Mc:tallid\ 'l natll'C) [or everv thing i s to be afore prcpare d . ~ for the uje its agreeable unto and conve uicut for. Afn rw'ards ad to one pare of rhis Oy l two parts

of new Aquator ris , and heillR we 11 fhur in rogcrher 111 ·1 the bel] g\.lli<-'~ fer it in hcrfe dUlig f( r a Il1P1H:rh, (htll (,'\ deftil ir wh(JHy off, with a gcnrlv fir e , th.H the mar- ',.4 tel' may he coagulated in the bO((OI1l. And the ..... ql1·1· ); fort'~ whic h afceuds, if it. be defl illc d Oil this IlIJHIlc:r

in a l3. thou 01.11£ tine two 10:1(:111'.:1\[5 r.ogcth<:r; B\I~ note t har .IH i.l~ m cr ral s will nor- La n: thc vcr v f.une \ Elements hehilld;for ill Gold, the Eanh and dlL" ... Vater .' remains in A. B. but the Ail' IS in all the other rhr ec , and; ,i the Elclllcnr oil-Ire ,-t!>:dc!> in rhe bottom; becaute rhe. .• SuhHanct.' ;1I1d lallgiblc.· .lllaHt:r of Gold i 5 ~o:JguIoH!~d h.Y :'; i the fir e , tl& .. :1 do .. c H: Will CGllI(" [Ow:t her 111 a Iubtl auri- ~_ '

a\ matr cr and Iubftance. . ~

In Lunc then: will remain in the borrcru , the Ele· ., mcuc ot' \V arcr , and in a Baln y, I he Elelll('ut~ of the { Eaph and Firl')for rhc Suhft auce andCorporJlliry 0(," j which I nd e cd is of a fi x narurc , an d w hich c.uvuor hI:'· : clc varcd , is horn 30d rpritlg~ from coldm fie and moi.f. ;, t"\:UIC. In 1l1t:rcury, rh, ~1Il' remains in th(.· hottolll,)And· ~ the Earth and Water are elevated up, In V!.'uH1,dl(! Fire :J

• tlfo remains, and l.orh, 1Jjz rhe Eanh and the: \VatU .. ~ "biJc& in a H .. In Sarurll,thc.: EkmC:l1t of Earth r<.'1II.1im. : in the boi rom , [l~c Fire and Water arc ro he Iud I in a 13 In Jupiter, the Air remains ill tilt! bottcl1~ ~ and [he Fire, Water, and Earth arc dc.:\'an:d [hC:I\:' ': fftJm. " 'i

Tis therefore to be ohfcl'vcd, that the Air affi)rd~ 1-1 body in 11- aud in no other mcrral wharfoever s of lh(}~ ~hi~h a~'.hollg.h fome part dot!l alfo afcend t()~~cr1w~":J a~~ a ernames Illfc:par,ahly pt'r~llI).:t WI rh ,r h,e or her rhrG. ',1 El(.mlnt~, ) ct uotwithtlanding that Air I~ not CorrO'\;'i)

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Furthermore, 'tis to he noted" rhar , rhar remainder, that is, the corporcal Elcmcnr , which remained in the hottom, muf] he reduced by a B into an OyJ,wich frella AIIIM for,;r; and fo this Element will he perfe dcd, the! which zhou (halt keep for ORe Pare The ref] thou fhalc Separate by a IJ. on this wi fe; Pur thcm in Sand, and Urge them gently; then firfi of all, the \Vater will be dcva((:d.,and will come forth; then afrer rhar the Fire, for rem Will know hy the: Colour where thofc two rcmain. But if (he Elcmenrs, Earth and Water, Ihould have remained" then the Warer will afccnd hrn, and after thar the Earth. But if it be the Ear rh and Fire , r hcn the Earth;5 elevated firfi, and r he Fire nfrcrward .. But if the w arcr , Fire" and Earth Iho uld be tog('th(.·r~ then rhe Water will afccud fi r tl, the FIfe ncx~, and Iaf] of al! the Earth. Thefe I~lcIllCIHS may he: fo k'--pl: in peculiar Glaffef,each ot chcm according to irs nat urc e as for example, in Sol, the Hot and Dry, wit h.)tl t .:!l Y other property. Lik cwlfc [he Cold ann Moin, and rhe' Cold and Dry. The: 1 ike is to be uno c r nood of the 0- [hers. But yon 1lI11fl: k 110W rhus much, That r he Carro .. five nature. of tI~e .Aqua F Hi i 1 is Io to he l·~:tratfed,a5 we have defcr ibcd IC In the Bool: of rhe !2..;intc!lt'IJ:e •

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I~ Aving afore fer down the Separations of the Elc:-l menrs out of Merals, i r remains t har we now proceed to rhofe SCplrat ions {hat may be made from AfilT-

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Tak.1! of any kind of'lfl1rcn(ite r as you rlcafe J whe .. the r Bifn.ur c, or Talk, or Granare, or COb01t, or any orher kind , one pound; of Salt Nirre as much; heat them together vcrv fmal], and draw them our, or di11il them by an Alcmbick.w irhour a Cucurbire, h)' hurning:1 them togerher, and keep wharfoever Liquor 01:111 af- /i cend. Hut as for that which' remains in the hor rom, (.:; grind it, and refolve it inro a Water with .4'/llaJOytiJ, j.J and hereto pour the Water YOll g.uhcr\1 aiore , and !; DiOil it into an Ovl , 35 was atorcfaid of the Metals. And after the fame proceflc.fhall yon Separate the Elcruenrs likewife; (or thus 'tis to be nndcrflood, 't'l':{ the Golden Marcafitc, [0 be fcparaterl like to Gold, the Silver. ifh like to Silver .. the EifrlllJtick like Lead, the z.iuck like Copper, the T31k like J./., the Cobolr like Iron,&c .. Thus much may fllffice for the Separation of all ki nds : .. ~ of lU.Ufllfilcs. " )

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o..f tbc SCptu"ltioJ! ()_f the Elcmcot s [ro»: Stones.

THe Separation of the Elements of SIenrs and I,.:

Gems, is to he thus undcrftood , Ta~e a Stone. ..' - grind if exceeding well to pouder, whereto add twice 3!> much Sul phur vive ~ and being all well mi xt rogct her, put r h.-m iuro a luted Pot in an At hanor fur

four hours, rh.u r hc Sulphur may he w holl v abfu.ned ; .. l afccr wards, let rh,u which remains he wafhr from the \ [cces and Sul phur .. and he dried. This ~:ton)' Cal x mull (':~ . alfo'l><: PUt into A'IU4 fortIS: aud he proceeded withal as, t /1

Is aforctaid (If the: ~kraI~.. Thcreif)rC Scones arc com- ~ "',

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nor brownHh, arc compared to Gold; the white Ccru ..

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[~OIU and htcwifll coloured .to filver or b; then the more common fort of'flonea.ro the other Mcrrah; as Al,1'a(1er ('0 is ; Marble to Mars; Hillt to 1t ,but Du/ccb to~.

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(J/c{lgiIlOlls thilJgS.

A I.L Ovles, Wood!:, Hoots, Seeds, l1ruites and fuch like as have a I-Jaln; ng nat urc , and fit for burning. arc to be reputed Oleaginous ; and, the Sena ... ration of them is two-fold. vi~. of'rhc Olcagmous Bodies. and of the Pure Oylesz

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TAke this Body, break, grind or make it [mal] ~)y any other way you can, then wrap It up m ~ 110- nell cloarh, and rye it, fet it in Hor f-dung tell. It be whol Y purrified , the which fooner happens III one hody then in another. After that it (hall he putrefied .. Jet ir he pur in a Cucurblre, and let be poured thereon Co much common Aqua Ardens.ot burning water .. as may o .... errop it the breadth of four fingers, and let be dcHilled all rha t can afcend, in Sand; Cor all the Elc!ments alccnd, except the: Earth if felf, the which yo a flJalt know hy the: colours; but yet, the Aqu« Arderz.f doth firfl afcend, after that the Air, then rhe Wate.r, and J.lfily the Fire, and the Earth will remain in the bot ...

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But noW as to pure O} les , \ ou ar e to undcrfland rhae they do not need pl1~rcf.H(lions, hut arc to he de- J.: f\illcd alone wi r hour addi ti on ; then afrerwards, (heir Elements are to he fcpJi';Hnl, as WJS raid afore of the others, t he which ar e llkcw!fc dcftingnifhablc by their Colours.

After the fame manner mufl yon proceed with R.fI'{ins ora Iiquid (ubtlance.as Piu h ; /{02'"iIJ, Turpent ine ; (.izwu and Cuell. like. But (Ilch L\o'l.im, il:> arc Corporal, as Sulphur l~; they mufl: fi,fi he prepared on this wile,

of ,-be scpa~·atioJl of the EicIJJClIts ill Corpor.tl Roflns,

TAke Sulrhur moft f nely ground, boil ir with twice as much Linccd Ovl.Inro a Liver rrhe which bc:iug bearC'1l to. pow dcr.aud (hut up il_l a hladdcr.mufl be pur into Horf-dung to purrefie Lor tour weeks; Then Icc it be dcftillcd bv an Alcmbick , gently upon a naked fire, the Air and the "Vater do afceud firfi, in diffcr euc and pallid Cohurs; then afterward!'! by the encre afing of the Fire a little,. the i4 ire doth afcend npwards , bur the Earth abid< s h~ rite borrom. The Colurs ap'[I('ars ptir~, IS rhe Au },{'Ilow't the- Water like to thick milk, that it can fcarce be diftiugutfhed from milk, the Fire like \l burning l\uhic, wi til rranfparcncy .aud all the figues of fire, but [he Earth is altogether black and ~dlllf ; and the four Elements bci&:lg rhus Separated, each Element h pcrfctt,in irs own Elcn.enral Cumple xion, aad without per mi xiou.as is above-raid.

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SO al fo i n Hearbs, the Element 0 f water, i So of moll: .iccounr , when thc}' arc col d Hc:arbs ; _hilt if they he t'\ (_: r i a " then that 1':Icmc:nr prc.:dc)lIllllaws. So likewilc i~ it to be uudcrttood of r he fire ; The Separation pI (heir Elernenr s is thus. Take: Sage, and beat: or hrnif(' the leaves rhercor, and.afrerwards fet it in pu'rdaltiQn, as is Iard afore, then ~et1ill it h~ an horfe- bel 1 y, and the Element 'of fire wl_ll afccnd firft ,

So long until rhe Colours , and rhe tllJc\{n~Hc of the ~ water be changcd s nfrerwar ds the ear ch will fucCced,( and rome pan 01 i [ 1i\(CW i fe will remam.1Il c he Bo.trom. ' [he w hiell part Is indcl'd fix. Ddbl [hl!':\V • arer III the, "r-'~ Suu.fi x dl)'C~, and dfcerwards f(;t it in a ~. t!lcn the: ~!.- " ~1 Icmenr of the Warcr will firt\ afcend,wl\lC'\llS very ltt- '_ de, .md 15 perceptible by the tall; airer [hat, thc co..,: lour j~ varied the l':kmcnr of the fire afccuds fo long, !, until t hut tJ.tl he l ikcwifc altered; tI.1C!1 at lalT.,at a.pare _-or of the Earth is elevated up.bur yet Ity., l~u[ very !I(tle~ :.) rhe which heing pcrmixt w ir h the Alr, 15 fou~~ In the ~:--' bottom The: Iik e is to he undcrfrood ('.f Aerial and J wa ter y Herb,; of whi c h II cu rbs rhe rA 1 r afcends fhll.. (1'

after that the Wat er J and hfl of all fol lows t he Flrc~ ":

according [0 the procefs tcr down of S.lgC. I

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l-H~~ S~paration of rhe Elements from FI{(hly Eo. dies , and fuch as live with bloodIs to be thus undcrfl:ood, that the Predominant Element in them, is to be perceived more abundantly, and chicf1y at thc lafl of

, all; :-IS rhe Princi pal Element in Flfhes is Water, in

r Worms fire; Iikew ifc ill Fl efhly Bodies char arc Cl"JIll-

,f ' meftible, and tue£] as we ufuallv cat, is A ir, accord-

4~.'" ing to our difcourfe in the Trearitc of the Gener4tion of .. : )AlliHI4IS.

7/JC Sep.trat io» oj' the E lcment s [rom Fifbcs is t bns;

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Purrefie rhe Fifhcs mofl exceedingly wel! , then de-

fiil them by an horf·6dJy , and there wilt very .. 'much Water afccnd , repeat tJ.lis Purrefaction and Deftillation, anti fo encreafe j r , un ri 1 there wi II no more

, "'~ter afcend,that which remains, ckllil afterwards by 'Sand, then at \(:ngth the Fire afccnds in the form of Pyle, hut the earth abides in r h c hottolll, Thus the whole fubflancc of the FifllCil i" Separated inro the ti» Iemcnrs , Here need not any confidcrar lon or their ("t .. neffe and marrow, hue it is to be fuppofcd, char t:.v"ry thing is Separated by purrc(aClion., and divided inro

.: '" their Elements. In Ii ke manner is it to b~ underfl ond :' or Worms, (.'xct'pr t har from then, there C()IllC~ not

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oncly Water, hut more of fire, nulefle they he aqua .. ous or warer y Worms , as Scrpcn['-,in the dctiillacton of which there are many things obvious ~ aud things more wonderful then can be (\,o\wn, ufrer rhe lame manner ls it to be undeulo.rd of ccun.r.cftiblc Animals, which do alfo peculiarly difclofe their ElcllIt:l1rs by Separnrion,

Of tbc Sepa~"ltiolJ of E1C1JJCltlJ" ,fl'Ol}t I'P-atcrifb TbiI18's.·

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As to the Separarron of ]uycy and \Varcry bodies,

. into their Elcmcnc~,al'ld of fuch bodies as have the ~',

form of warerlncfte , as Urine, Dung, Water, &c . obferve this Procefle.

Take Urine and defli! it very well, then will afcend the Warer, Air,and Jiarrh together, but the fire abid<:s in the bottom; afterwards mix all together and dellil them again, and do thus the four~h time, and in the fourth dcfiillation, the Water WIll afcend full, rhcn the Air and Fire, but the Earth abides in rhe bor(om.

Take then the Air and Fire in a peculiar veffd, the which fee in a cold place, and there will be Stri.(~, or Cryftals congealed, the which are the EJcllu:nr of F tr~, though indeed ~hey will be likewife cong~.'lled ~n the deftilltng, but' yet in the: cold the Cong(!latlon w Jl~ fJr: more.

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MA ke the water boil, hv an horfc belly, or dung. hill and r hc EJrdl ir fdfwill fcrr le in the bl.)[tom" putrdic char which afcends , for irs time, and let: it he dcttilled. afterwards by a H. and the Water will afccnd ti rft " and the Fire afterwards. DUlIg or E~cremt!IHs\ Vi rrlol, Tartar .. and fuch like j uyces , as Allum , S .. Irs, and others of f h -If kind arc to be.: deflillcd by .. Ihes in that lu-ar, and (0 long, until they will no mort: afcend, and rhar the Water and Air have a'fcendecl, and til e E.urh aboad in rhe botrom.afrerwards by the fift"") doth the fiery Ekment afcend. Tis to he obferved in this place, that: albcir the four Elt:mcIHSI are fcparatcd, yet Jlntwithfian~jng there do yet rcmain in the Earth,four Occuu Elcments, as heiu~ fi x .. as in che Ctlj1ur mortuum of Vitriol\ the which you mutt fubl iue wirh S.ll ATmon;,lck" and Co will an Oyl proceed forth, in which the Water and {he Fileare, and the Earth it (elf rcmaines Suhfi.l1ltl:.llly ;ScpJrJ{"(_' them wch have afcended up, and the Water will afccnd again, and the Fire will abide in the bottom, thus alfo is it: to be underfiood of ~f.lfrar, and Salts. Now ahhough there arc manv more Separations of liquors , ) et We fhall nuke- a larger declaration of them, where we fpeak of Tranfmuravions , for it is to be obferved I rut then" arc more Eh:llICllt5 in a Corrofive Earth, then in Afhcs , Therefore the Separation is to he made by Sublimation, as we (hall dcmonftraec elfewherc ,

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lilt' rcfoturious of Marcafin:s, the fown' is to he: i,,] underHand in thi~ place abollt GIJf~s, and if-principally ,."'/ (0 he confidercd , lJi~. [hilt rhe y he calcined with : .. \ Sulphur, as the Hones were; then afterwards wafhed , ,.', aud be diflolvcd wirh Sale- Peter nud Aquajortis ; ~r:. 0.1~ we have" IHt.'odon..;d afore, &c. Their Elcmcnr s are l ik cw ife [0 be known by rhe colures, in

t he dcti illarious of them, nor as they OJCW thcmfelves to rhc fiXhr; and thus much for them.

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"r 1-k Sr:p~ratiC?n of rhe Elemcnrs of fix thlngs-ls made hy fuhh!lla,_Ion,as we [each of Salrs uud LltjlWn.,huli _ ') ,ct wlrb rhlsdlff-:'it'nCc t that rhcy arc: [0 be calcined with S.l\r·nirrc\.md to bc Iuhliu.cd afrc rwar dsj And 011- th0Ugh there arc many other tlnngs not fer down ill

,. rhi. place, ve r nevcr chclcfle tis to be underft ood , r har I: ~ the Sep ar ar ionz of all Bodies arc to he made by thefe f hus mentioned [en ways. Moreover as [0 ~ he Separations of the four Elt'tIlCllts,th, to be obfervcd that each of them may be Separared again) vi~ the Fire as fire, tht.~ Air "5 ail", the Water as ~Jter7 the Earth as ''.Hrh, ct ' . .) as If followcs concerning their Peculiar Scpararious.

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HA':inlll'eccived the Element of the Air inti.'> a firm r1afl'e,and fhur it with Hermes hi s cSeal , rls tr) be cxpuf(~d and directed 01 ,turned ar the Sl1n,(or an whole fummer , the Air is by the ch cularion changed iuro moltlnre, or Water, dailv encreafing more and more. Thou (halt feparare this quantity on this wife. 'Vi?: .. lcr '. it he rutflfic:d in horfeedung for four weeks, afterwards dcUil it by B. as you did the Fire; Its virtue Ihall be lpokcn of, more hugly in another place.

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procclTc: is not from ~ [5 ~cry bt'~inning, alrogerhcr the y fame with that which 15 fer down about Arcana's and F Jl1Jgijferies, vet ncvcrthl'ldlc 1 do at. the end aflume, V and follow the fa me way of l)rcparatlon by Separarion 1,1 of the Elcmcur, forafmuch as (hat here in this place. tJ rhofe ElenH:nts arc [0 he SepMated, afrer that each of I "1 them is plIrg<:d from ~hc dl:Ji!(,lllC:U~S that are rhereinuo t':t that no dc.:formed thlllg or. llll\"~d,,ncn~ may proceed f ~,J fr om t hem, W hi c hot nerw Ire 1111 ght e atily be. 1-:'1

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H :J the things.which Nature hath produced s and alto our "~:l of every thillg ~har h~ t!l a Ii fc in' irs f<.:lf, ~nd i:l ft:par:t~ ( ') rated from all rmpu rrtrcs and MortaIJt~;, I~ moll fubr il- 1',11.>' rnundificd , and likewile Separated from all the E ..

;' .;~ lcmcun , from hence it is evidenr , rhar (he (l!Jintdlcnce 1,·3 is as ifir werethe Nature, 110WCf, Virr ue and Medi· : d cine, fhur up and imprifoned heretofore in things, hue

\,'1 is now. free from irs dwelling place and extraneous iuI\'"J corporationvt he fame QE. is the Colour, Life.and pror~';~ pr~cri~ of things;ti5 a Spirit l,i1<c the Spiri~ otIifc , w.ith ~~;j ~Ilts difference, that the fp irir of the l.,re of a tlung ~:'~.~ H perrumcnr, hut of n~an m~rral; from whence may be f ,,~ undt:ri\ood, thar a QlJuuc(lcnce cannot be: c1\trallcd ~ .. ,] D 2 from

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£i 001 the Ilcfh or bloud of ;I mall; and [ha~ for this rea, i·,~ the eArcbidoxk. 37 f~n, bcca ule. t he Sri! it of Il.i fe •. :-v hi.::h al (0 1St he Sti I it f' 'i Gllen ill \Vood, Herh., gl"O"CS, and fuc't Ii ke I 'r he of Virruc s, dics , ,and th~ Iife cloth III t.hc Soul, w 11Ch, ,I refiduc is a meere abfolure hody; the whlch we write then afterwards I~ not I~ the fubflancc. By the fam_e ! 1 of in the Bock of Tbl! S,-pariHiOIl of tbe Elements, Nor reafon alfo , even the AlJltlla/s, becaufe they Iofe thclf',,"j ar~ we to dream that the ~inrefI<:ncc is a certain Spi r i t of Li ie, arc therefore ~holl)' mor,tal, and afford :. ,t fifth Eflcncc, above the Elcmenrs , when as even it it no Q!1intdl<:ncc; (or the Q;tllltdlcnce IS the SPIrit of: ,t felf is an Elc1l1clH. Likcw ife forne or other may flip. the rhillg') whivh ver ily canu<?t be [owc l l <:x[ra,ltt·~ GUt iJ pofc, t111t the !i!_.Ii.. is a Temperate Effence, vi{. neiof thi lIg:-; fcnfiblc:, as oUf,o.f .111' fen~lblc things ~ N.()~,;) rher Cold, nor Hot, ncr Maift, nor Dry, for vcr ily B.lIHlu.' hJth in it (<:I f a .Srlcn of 1.1 fe, the w h!ch IS ItS ~ ,J it is not fuch, For there is nothing that confiftcrh of Yinuc.:, Power,. and ,MedIcine; an~ all ~lough rr be fe·i fuch a temperature; for by i r,ir: wou ld be who lly al icpararcd from lt~ Root~ yet n~twHhflandlllg the I.I~c ;,,1 nared from the Elements; But all QJjintcHcnces, have and Vir t ue s ale rhcrein v for tl115 reafon, hecaufe that I~ ::1 it nature according to rhe Elements; as for example', a fix Prcdefl ination : Therefore rhc .. ~~mrdIc:n~e IlIay .';~ the ~intcffcncc of Gold hath a .natur<? according to be ~}i.trallt..'d therefrom, and '!c alfo Confcrvcd with the ··f the Fire, the fl..:_ E, of Lune , according tC) the 'V;tlife rhercof .wirhoue COrrl1prlOn, as" thing eternal, 3C.'~J rcr, of Saturn according to the I~~rth, and of MercHry

cording to irs Prt·dc!lination: . Bur now, could we ,Lut~q according to the Ai-, (.".'

extract after rhis manner, . the life: of the Hear t , WHIt- /!4 But rhe reafon why a Q!!inteffcncc curerh al I d"fca('-

our corrupriua it, even a SIS pothble COl' .U5 to do, cur of :~',-l es, is not becaufe of irs cemperarure , but bccaufc of things infenfiblc, witho.Ul: doubt we might be capa~)Ic ~:.:" h~ implanted property, its grear clcannctle and purity,

of Living pcrper uullyjwnhour tl~l' kn~wlc~gc: or fcdll1~ I, tJ whereby it doth in a wonderful manner, alrcr and

of Death, and Olrcaf<:s; r he which dung 15 I m~ofrlblc ;.' ~ change the body into cleannctfc. For even as a fpot or

for us tu do, And therefore w~ mll~ cxp~.lt to d~e. .l:.-',1 film is took off from the Eye.w hercwirh it was dark-

Whereas thcrefore , rhe Q!_l1nf<:{ltI1Ce I~ the VI(UIC 01 i.1 ened .aforc, even Co doth the ~intcfreoce mundific the thing' \ we muf] in t!l~' tir~ place t.d1 you, in what n:~ the Life in man. Neither doth ir follow, thilt all efform the: Virtue and l\'1<:dIClne If, III things, and rhar on i.' '.~ fences mufl ncceffarll y be of one and the fame nature, rhis wife; 'Vi"" contains in it tclf a gr ear ~iIHdknc('~ ~. J murually , No, nor are oil the fic r y natured etlences whcrchy it harh very wonderful Operat ions ; )'~r not- 1 ~ of the ftolf fame Operation, by r cafon of r hcrr con ..... withil~ndillg there is not fo much of the Op~ratlon, as .. ,j plcxion , as for example Ihould any fuppofe that the of till' Iflne, as is evident l y apparent: If GaU be can,' 1 O!!intdlcnce of Anaeardes hath the very like [elf-fame into Warcr , it makes it all bir ter, al~hough the G(lJ/ be ""~ operation, as the ~!in~dl~ncc of Gold hath, hccaufe not the h ondrcdrh par r of the quannrv of the Warer j ; '1 hath of them arc of a fiery nat ure , he would he e xSo the Imallct] portion of Saffron, will tinge a great deal !,.j rreamly miflakcn , hccaufe the Prcdefhuacion and dlf. f)f \vat<.'r~ all whic.h ,doth not rhcr efore become SaD'~n, i' :1 pofirion,. cauferh d,le d,iv<:r,firie of virt~l~S; fo~ even as Thus in like fore rs It to he uudcrflood of the QUill" :'., '\ every Amt11.11 COntcII1S W hiuuelf the (plrlf of life, and retfence, Irs qll~ntity is very little, and lodgerh as a ('1 yet for all that, d,CY have not all of them the very

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blood, but one differs from :tnoth~r .. as in fl.l(_', 1'0 in f' virrue t even (()1~ it wirh the (1!.!irite{{t'nce; the which' J doth not receive its. vir rue fn)l'~ the Elt:l~u:n~s f;m,,\y ::~ undelfiood, hut fr om the prnpnety cXlilmg In the E- !,1 Ierncnrs, according to our difcoui fe, ill the Book of 'he: .) Generation of Things- ' : '

Thence it comes to paile i har fomt'Q~\il1tdlcnccs are L'jl Stiptirl.:." (ome: arc Narcot icl; or iluj'ifVillg ~ other fome r ;'~ Attractive, orherscanfe flcep, or hers arc bitter, Iw ecr, !. fowcr , heuumming ') and rome arc rc:ncW<'rs of [hc;,'" body into youthfulnl'f~, orhcrs concerve it in health, . ::t purge ir , bindit, &c. the virtues oi which (l!lill.;<:·,· tdl(:ncc~ are inlllhl1('rablc, nor can they .he reck- ' . oucd up hcre , but y<.·t ~ Phyficia n Ihould know them ~:.,."

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the l~or Q.a._~illrcn.«:nce, as ~h:! Soul from irs body,. and r;·.:~ (h,ar 1,t be r aken 1I1'w~ardly IJHO [he body; \Vhar iufir- ttil nury is able [0 reflt'l fa noble , pur c and potent aNI';' ii tUI"<: :-' or ~o rake away d~c life fr.olll our, bod .. y ~ death cx.' tf ccp£ed.,vJ~~.thc Predctl inand ~Hl'C which ~)(.·1"~r:\~c.5 cur[,~' l30d y and ~()Ill, as we reach In our Book ot 1.1 fl' an 11".1 J)("H/!, w« are alfo (0 confider in this place, that cve·.··_.~ I' y DJ (C(1 fe .rc<jlJircr h ir s ')ee.lIl iar ~lin rctlcn ce ; •• 1 t:hough {\'/} we reach tome that U(' fi r for all c .. h(c.:afl's. But bv wlut} :-i n'aion rhar comes (0 to paffe, fhall hc taught in irs \'ro, !.;r pCI' p1.1CC:. .- _ .~

loilJ~th(;rm,?re we tc~ ific , th~t the Quin tent-nee o(;':':'~1 Gold l~ ~s ~o us Q~an[J ry ,<.'"ct·ectmg fmall ; and the refi- !'. ,j ~ue o>~ It I.S a Icpro usbod v , in which there is rClllaiu·l,· Jng ,'~(Il'~t:l ~f~vct:[u<.n('~. I~or fower ncttc, nor any pOWt'li.:, or.\Jrnh.: bcfidcs the nu xrou of the four f:lcllIcnrs. Andj t'~IS. (r,crct ~vt: ongh r not to he igfiorant of, i 11 the lean. j'_: '111<:._ rh;l.r t ne Ekillent~ rhemlc lvcstcannor wlrhour rhJ: {l!._!lOtcHence H:iitl an 'I dj(ca,~,hllt arc able to do oncl¥!.., rhus much.and no more then rhus, vi~. to heat or to :'.

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39 .conl , wirhoue any kind of virtues ; as PUt cafe the difcafe he hot, it is. driven out hy Cold ,hut not by that [rigiditi« as is dcfii[utc or void of Cold virrues , as warer and Inow, the which two though fufficienrly cold yet there is no Q!lintet1<:llce in them, by whole PO\vc: and virrue the difeafc may he c}{r)(,"lIed.On [his account rhe body ofGoJd is, of it ('If, invalid; Bur irs ~Jinrdh:nc.e o"dy, c~lt\ing in char body') and in irs Etc ... llle.HS. )'celds rhofe virr ues [herein hidden; fo likewife i s it in all other rluugs, tis their (~in rdl~ncc one .. Iy that cures, heals, an<.1 riugcch [h(;' whole: body, as Salr doth c!{c<.:~lcntly k~f[)11 :toy tood s The Q!tinrd:' fence rhcrefore, IS r har which gIVt:~ cniour,fuch a s it is ;. alio virtuc ; and if Gol d he fpoilcd of its colour, it dorh Iikewife loofe its ~lIint<:lkncc. The fame is to be underftoud of rhc ocher ~1cttlls. that whcn [heir Colours are removed [cern rhein, they 'He tht'll robed of the ir natural virtue.

The like is it il~ Stones a,lld Gcrns, as the Q!_linrcf .. fence of Corrals IS a cerram far ncIlc w irh a rcJnt:f'i and the body ofrhem is whire ; Likcw ife r he Olljntd'~ f~n.ce of the Stllc1rc1f,£i;ne is a green iuvce , and r1~ Body of It is alfo white. The fame is to he fnppofed of all [he ref] of the ftoncs )l.Ij~. that they loofe their nature effence ,and proprieries lop-ether wi rh their colours, a~ we reach peculiar! y in r heir li xtratl ions. The fume is to he Ilkew ife underftood of Hearhs" Plants ~ and other" v,rowlng Products. In like manner of ti<:(h ana of blood, from which there can he: no 0~inrt.lI{>ncc ex(r~{lcd fo~ the reafons afore rchcar Ied ; but yet nor-

• ... '1~hflJll~mg rhere may be a c er rain fimi llr ude of a <tJ1lltcilencc e xrractcd by U~ r hcr c-fr om ; after rhis manner, a piece of {len) hilrt.lift: in ir Celf C\'CO yer.beC,lllfe the tle lh is as yet: furnifhed with i [!I whole nature aud virtues i and therefore r hcre is a life in it, w hir h although it be not rhe true li~'"c:, is ncvcrrhclvfs a prc-'

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4. TlJe Fourth Rook or , the Arc1)ic1o:ds. 4l ferve d life, ,3n~\. thar fo ,long unri! lr purrlfics. And t': \?olll1req, or perml xed with any other things ~ for it eherciore this difference IS to be norcd , whereby dried I' cannot po(fibly he, that the Ql!inrcilcncc can he extraHerbs, and fuch like, are to be accompred of, as was ~:,. {led from Metals, and efpecially fromGold, C tor rhac fpoken of F:c!h. For, that green Spirit, that is [heir i, cannot be overcome by it fdf.J without the ufing of life, h perifhcd from rheru- So then dead Thing' may r {Dille fi c Corrofivc, that may be again Separated rherc-

be taken fur a deai! ~intfJlt'l"e, even 3S FIt'11I can emit from afterwards. So Salt, which was Water, is again

from it fdt' all its virtues, peculiarly (cparatc:d ("into cxtraltc(l from the Winer, (0 that this Water is void of

one p arr ) from i rs body v So al\"') bit wirh Bloud" and Salt. But now this is [0 be confidcred , that 'tis not

drycd Herbs; \Vhich indeed, though they he not live every Corrofiv(! that is fit for this work, l>t'ct1uf(.' they

-REillteO;_'nces, yet do they demouftr ar c, how even it canrltll' a11 of [hem be ft'par<ltcu; [(Jf jf Vi tI iol or AI.

"lead .a...~ilJlt'ffe"L,·t difcovers Iome Virtues, Bur , Aletals lum be penuixr with Water, neither of them can be

and StOllCS have in them a perpetual Life and ,.,Oencc, xeparured therefrom afrcrw ards , w irhour uerrill\l.:ru: or

nor do rhev Die; but as long as they arc .JHeta's, or corruption, but they leave behind them a flJarp refi ..

Stoner, fo long alfo dorh their Life endure; therefore dence s and that for this rcafou , bccaufe they are both

31(0 do they e xluhire l'ufe[/ J1.....l4intfOi.'ll(e, which may io\\' arery, and [here's made a concurrencv, or meeting of

like manner he l'Xtr.u~t(:d ~rom them two likes; the which oughc nor fo to he in r hi s place :.

I'w1o~e()\'('r, we arc to fcc ~Y what W.1Y the ('\~int<.r. Therefore diligent heed is to be ufed , that you rake nOI:

fence' Is to be cxrr,H~tcci: vcril y, there h(.~ many waves, a \Vater)' body to a Warer y , or any Oyly body to .. \1

Iome are made by Additions, as hy tho Spir ir of \Vi;lC ; O~ly, or H.c{inol1!:. to a RctiOOll~ body; bur verily" the

orher s hy B,tl{.tm;ICf ; Come hv t he Svpararious of [he COlltrary ought to feparare the Q!inrdT<:nce, and to

Elemeurs , and b, many more fever al waycs which we e·araft it, as Waters extract the Q!intdlcnce of Olea ...

111,,11 nor here r cckcn up parr icularty , . ,r,itl'HlS bodies, ( as is ment ioucd ot the Metals J and.

But, wharfocvcr w a y 't is done by, the ~intdr(;nce :. I) (.)kaginolls things, rhe ~illrdlcnce of Warcry bodies, mutt not b(.., e xt ractcd by {he mi xt ion or addition of t:,.:; as we may learn of the QuintdlcllCcs ofHr·rhs,&c. So lhin~s inconvcnicur , and unfuirnblc , hur rhe Element f.·:~~ thc,refor~1 after the, Scparanon, and CXtr~aion of the of rhe Q!~inic{f{_'nc<,," is to be cxtralled alone from rhe ' .J 0...:J~nrcn~nce, c he Corr ofivcs arc to be ag un Separated, Separated body: and likcw ife hy fuch a Separated 1>0" t:~ wnich Will eafilv he done; for 0),1 and Water are eafidy as is cxrl';(lted.' There are many waves to be : .. ~ 1)' ft·p.uatcd, hut O~ 1 from 0)'1 not fo; nor can Warcr found by which r he ~int~flencc may be ~xrrdlted, : ,j be Ieparared from Warcr iwrthour pcrrni xing each with V.l~, b): Subtimur ion , C:l]c~illarion •. by Srrong Warer s, hy :.j the odu.'.r; the which [hing being Iefr , mav bdng to rhe Corro1Jvc~,by Sweet-by Sower thlllg~ .. &c. and it may be '. ·;t Q:..!inrdh'llcc a Illofi prc.'ac Iotle, for {he: Q!~inrdlcncc done any kind of W.1Y ~ But this alfo is to he noted, ~ ,! mufl be clear and undefiled, and muf] be gathered withTh~t every rhi n~ that, hath been adrni xed to the Q!.lin. I, J out the perm; xion of any rhing whatfoc vcr, r hat it may telh-,!ct.·, by rcaton 01 the nee- ffiry of the e xrr act+on, !'::~1 have a Lluiform (ubflance, whereby it ,may he able to that tame thing is to be e xrracted again t he r efr o m, that \:'1 peuerrare the whole body; for.the fubtiltv and virtues fo the Q!!illu:llcncc may remain alone, wlrhour hdn~ h~'~ t;ltrcof; cannot be found out fundamentally ; no more

polluted, i_.j{ the.,

· f.;} .J

.. ~~~

"

it-'

42 7'be Fourth Book... of ,,\ tbe ArclJidoxh. 43 then its Original, 'Vi~ ..• from whence it firn.proc~eded, : ,'·i fame Difea(c; for fo in the Leprofie~onc cOcn~c is I~lore

.can be fully known, for It .r v,~~. the ~IlHCnenC~ J :, ,1 powerful to cure ir. then another ;. f'Jr t,he Qmntdlcl1cc hath many degr~es; One 3glln~ Feavers t as the Q!J1I1- ; 'j or 1nniper expels it, and the ~I.nten~nce of Amberrcffence ~r O~I:JtCS; One 3ga~nfl: the H,po(ard)a, or '1<.\ ~rc:c:cl', ,ani! the ("I~hltetlencc ot Aurnuony, and the an Hydroplcal dlfternper, as the offence ofTarrar ; One f. ;'1 Ol1inteil<:ncc of Gold: Now although that all thefe 3gainfi the Apoplexy, as that of Gold ; One againf] the;' ',~ l<~ur Eflenccs will cure the l.eprofie , yet notwirhftanEpi1epJy~ a~ that of Virrf ol ; the number of. which is c.:- i'. '.~ ding ehey do it diffcrenrly, nor do tht,y confiU (a& to vco. infinite and unlear~hJblc by exper!('nceL '~!S r.: J the Cure thereof) in one and t~le f~llIe degree; lor therefore w or chy the, lllghd~ Confidc:ranon and dill- t,,\ the dlcllcc of Juniper e xpels this Difeafe by a I.llf)fi ~ence, that to even' DI~(:af('" ItS t~uc en~AlUy ~J~Y he a[-I <, high H.cpurgaril)Jl and clcanfing, which It brings ~nto ffgnec.l ~ for fo ~arl1re Will give an Jncrcdl~Je alla~ance; I'~I~ rhe hlo udv aud contumes the Vcnornc fo, that 1[!5 no e the which we Will make a berrer Declaration of III what:',' fo perceptible; and rhcrefore to be accounted an the follows. Vve can~ot [peak of the Degrees thereof, in . 't., firft degree of that Cure. The Q!!inrdle:ncc of the Amfi'~h a ~\\lnner: a,s I~ .the affi~;I~lcnt: or I?,egrecs ro fimp~c [-',1 ber:grc(:cc rakes away the veuome alrC); and doth mar.c, rhlngs In ~tcdICIllC:' the I eaton IS this, be~anfe thci C ','';';' (or It mundifies the Lungs, Heart, and Members, Iubcan be no ComparJ!~'Hl of l he deg.rees of a Q!_lInrc:f1cnce, t,,) jctt (0 the Lcprofi e j and rhercfore rh~ Second d <:grc.:C! to rhe degrees uf Simples) nor Indeed mol}' be; hilt I 'j is attributed thereunto. The ~mt:dlt.:nce of Annmo .. when they arc exalted, t hc excellency and virrue of (,..'1 ny doth go ycr further then the Two aforefaid virt ucs , one is found to be greater., then that of auorher, and: / mundifies the skin and acuares and re-news rhc whole nor 'the Comple xion v Nor i: it to h c · concei ved , TI~.lt 1;); hody,afrer a wond~rfuJ manner_; an~ t hcrcfor e obtains the G..!.linrd1cncc ot Ambos, If> ,hotter then the Q!IIIl· I) the Third dl·grcc. Bur rhe O •. !JI(Ht:fil~'~CC of Sol, d\lt~l crdlencc of Lavcud(:~; or the 02!lOtcll(~l1cC of V"IIltS ,dry. /. ,\ .... en alone accompl i Ih all rhefe Opcrnrrons, and radicalcr then the ~,~, t<:l1l'llC~' of")e; but rhe dq~re,C: of allY; ..; .1 Y rake s awa y all the figns of the Lepr ofic, and 10. r cthing is to he difccrncd, hy the urcar and more excel- !~.~ news the hody, even as Honey and Wax arc 1ll11fllhfic\1

lent virt~l\~s that it. hath, 'l'i<:., after t his ru.umcr ; The I...;,~ and pnrgl'd fromt hclr Comb; on t his acco unr i c pof ...

Q'_'in l'dlencr:e of t\ntllu.ony Clues the l.('ap.ry, rhe ~~IIl' l'~ fetTerh the Fourth degree. . .

tt llcn.c~ of Corrals dr ivcs away rhe, Sp,l/m and TO!jtfw!, : '.~ By this kind of~a}"arc.: the clrr,recs of Q!_~mtdlL'l1ccs

or GnplIIgl• ,Bur (lOW to know w hich of r hefe I~ the! to he known-and difllngulfhed from one aU'lthcr; tI~'lt

hettcr and higher gr aduarcd, mere can he no other j'~ is which of them is more high. or more t:~cc:lknL hl.:-

j udgcm .nr of it r hr-n t hus, vi:{. That the Q!~inrcn~'nc(! :, fidt..'s Simples arc to he know;) by their ,lfopcnics; f(~r

of the. Antimony if. higher and more: ('?,cdlcut, aU,d dut ! _ i as is rhclr Propr icr y in the Sil~lplc for m, fuch allo I~

~Of rhl,~ reafon, hccaufe tI.le Leapr y 1& a n!or(.\ gnevous \':-:; their Qlinrdlence; not fluggifher , but: much more

infirmi r y rhen rhe Cholick IS, With all ItS appnrrc- I\"~ powerful and exce llenr.

n.mccs v and rhcr efore aufwcrahle co the l"roprkty';,~ t'-1orcovc:r. we mufl likcwife know the differences of

that each hath againf] <liven Dirl'~~t:~, arc t lre dl.'gret's ~ ": the Qnintdlcnces; for fom e of them do vcr v much

th.!reof to be confidcrcd . yea, alfo IU 011<.: and t:1'': very r.,':~ fc:rvc: for the Liver, to refill all irs Difl·ar~S., Some for

fllillc l~,:-}, the

I~;'~_~

r;·~~ t>L

44 tbc Fourtb Boo/.t 0/ ,/.1 the Head; others for the Reins, fome for the Lungs, o~ i:i rherfome the Spleen, and fneh like; LikcwifL~, fame; -;1 do operate oulv III the bloud, others in the Phlegm 0.,.. .1 Iy; [ollle upon Melancholy only, others upbn Choler. , -~ othcr~ollle hav~ .r~lcir O('~rations in t.he Humors anI),: ~ :j foote In the SPIrit of Life , faille In the Nurritivc ' .• Spiri t; (orne .Optr .He in the Bones, orherfome in the ! - .'1 Fldll, fame III the MUfOW, orhers Tn the Griftles ; - i fome in. rhc Arrcri~s; fome alro there are, that Ope! (.~;1 rate aglmf't fame Difeafes Only, and agai nil none elf'e ; f ;.3 a:;, a~ainfl: ehe Palfi<..·, Falling',evil, Contrafture, againf] t' -'1'1 f luxes, the Dropfie I &c, Some 3)(0 are found to be 1:1 Narcoticl.:J, others A.nodin~; fome Somniferous; fame' o>J At~,al}jve, Purger] V(, lJ.f,uulijil.'at;ve, /nca .. "at;vc, Co,!or. I " tattue ; RrgC1JCraCltJC; and fome Stupei,ll/;tJC, r!.<J'~. . ,

Otherfome t.here are to be found, rhae Renovate, and (C_] l?.ejfo'.e; char IS, fnch as rranfmuce the BodYt Bloud, {l and 1-1<:01; Orherfomc for the Confervarion of the ; .. ) DiUl!lr~it,., or Pcolonguion of rhe Life; fome for the t .-; Reruiniug and Prefervarion of Youthflllue's; fame of ;~~l ~hcm work.by Trantlnuraelon , and fome by cnl<indl. I:;:.~ Jog .. or fbrrang up_ ~lnreoverlthis is likewifc to he un- [-,_.~ derfiood rhar fome Qninrdfeo€es have a Spt:cifical ~ ; form, or hers an Appropriated form, others an Intlu- I .. -\ encial, and others a Natural form. Briefly, there arc () m~ny. I,norc. vrrrues t,'lac they are .endued with, whic.l~ I'_'S ~c at c able [0 de_fCflbl.:', 21 nd their Operations J n Mcdi- i.:.i cine .. ar~: exccedang .. d,nir~ble ~nd unfcarchable , and : )~ r h.rt V.lfHHlfl.,' ; for (orne Q.:.!lntcncnces will make a man :.;1 of l')~. yl!.tr~ o!~I, like r o one of hut 20. years of age, : _:.1 3'ld chat by. their ow 11 Ver rues and Power. And now, !. ,i ,"VllJC In . an IS able to fearch our the Original of fa great Ii), < a l\ol~'ficrlC? Or to find ~ut,f~om whence rhe lirn mat- -",.). ten d» narurallv Ipr iug . Ir IS at the pleafure of our .. ' .~-! mofi Supream Cre at or , either to make them fo or [0 '-~. ~ forbear. !t'<?r, who [hall infirillt Us to kuow , wl~,lt th;:! I -;-~

virt ucs

iba Arcb;do~,,·is.

virtues of the ce1intdfcnce of Antimony arc, by which rhe did Hair is caf]; off. and new [pr ings up ill its room? ].ikewi(c, why the Q!!inrc:fience of HarP11I roots our the Teerh- and eradicates the Nails of rhe Hands and Fe er .. and cauferh new ones; and the <:>,!,linrdfence of Rebis; rubs or fcours off [he skin, and renews it? But the ~i nreflencc of cetondiue ~IJilng<:th the bod}', renewing it into good, and better; ,uil fa as frcfh Colours renew a Pia-ure. There are far more Prope rr ies then t hefe , which we omit in this place, and refcrvc them to be declared in their proper Chapters.

And now at laO:, How can it he poffible t hat we can relinquifh and -neglelt [hac noble Philofophy and ~kdj .. cine, feeing rhar Nature affords unto us inch wonderful expe r iment s, both in, and (rom them; yCJ. fuch, as the other Faculries arc defii ture wholly of, for rhar rhey arc placed in a meer C avi larion. And why fhould nor rhis flrangc Operation be very pleafing unto Lls,'lJi{,. That the CWintcffencc of the Carline Thitil: takes away the Powers of one man.and beftows them upon another rharufeth it. Likew ife, that the 0.J.!intcftencc of Gold iuvcr rs , or turns as 'rwere , the whole Leprous body infide outwards, and Co wafheth ir as an Imciiine, 01" Enuals are wafhr in r he Shambles; and doth Iikcwife remove the: Scabby Skin & make a new one.and loolnech {he Organs of the Voice , and rakes aWAY the whole Le .. prous Complexion,· and producerh fueh a oue, OIS if he newly came forth OUt of his Motht.'r. Now therefore, wee'} apply our mind to the making of tho{(~ Q_~iIJuffeIJl't's, and direlt you I he Way of rhcir I£xrrat.1lons or Compofirions ; to rhi- plJrpof<:, we will endeavour [0 declare rhern in a juH due order, [()J~('rher wirh their Appurrcnauces, 'tJit. On e way for l'dr:t.l:s, anorher for JlI,JYcafitt.'J, another for Sults, auorher for Stones and Gems, another for Burning IlJil1gs .. auorher for Growing things, another for SJ'iI,_'cs, another for CQml'j1iiJl~ and

Posc.iblc

46 7'1J~ f-'ourtb Bool«, of

Pouable tbing«. But yet, you are to take notice in the ~', FraBick pare of ~,;ntefTi:nces, That the Tbeorv and a L: good knowledge of Natural things; is requifl re ; but ! ~ yet notwi[hnandin~ Thforit'aU" viz. of the Proprieties ; . .of rhings to nat,ural Difeafes; Neither .arc we to he Ig- I· norant of .the difference be~we~n a Q._umtr!felJCc, an Au- i; r~m Po~ablle, Arc,lllltcs" Maf.iflene;, and orhers of [hat I; kind, 'Vl~. thus; A ~"lIItelfencc cannot be again reduced into iu. body; bur Aurum Potabtle may be again rranf- .. : muted very w e ll into irs Jlfctali('k...hody; and therefore ~. , the virtues that are in a ~intcJJenl'c) arc far more noble :, ~ then in other things. i:"

!!ut now .. ~n our thus Dlfcourfing of the !]J.!;"uff~ncc'lthe t·.' difference In rcfpe-lt of the one and the orher , IS to be I,' , known; and alfo what that difference is: And al- t . t:hou~h we have fufficientl y explained it afore, yet rhe 1.' Pt ailic ~_ al lure s and calls us fome orher way, by which! ; faid way, the condition and nature of the Qlinrcfii-llce I mOlY be found out. For although they do not appear ~. I.~ in the form of a /2J!znt~([en.t'e, nor are made after the k_-;; fame manner, nor confitt In one Element alone, as a {",~.,: !l.:ii"te[f~nfe ought to he; ,tel: neverrhclefs 'tis to he un- ;o;'.~ ~:lt:rfiood, that as to the !l.!!intcJJcncc. of thofc rhlngs, it 1·,",1 IS more tht:n fo, as to be called a ~mr('ffollcc; and IS ra- I. ;; ther.to he fl)'Ccd a cerrain Arcallumt .awd 'l~.,fferi~; COIl- L ~.; cernrng which, more 1110uld he wrrrrcu [hUI we have t " wr lcren of a J2...uin teffencc. Bur whereas we have de- r, .; cl ared it in the Books of Paraw,)'H"i, we (hall paCle it l, ~ over i~ this pl~Cl·. The r.~II1"her. of rhe Arcall.lCS and ~ :.:j MJflertcs of this fame Art IS infinite and unfear chable. II and many arc the wayes (hereof, that we nicer wit hal, (;-1 and which require rhe arr cnrivc heed of a lll.1n~ quick- ~ .:~ de lngeuuiry, But yet. amoJ)gfl all rhis number of ..ir-I',) canae» we will here rehearfe Faur . The FirH there- ,;':) fore of. rhofe Secrets is" ,lfercur7lu Vit&; the St.'contl is, '::} the Prim4 M"tu;a, or Jir(i maHer; the Th; rd is, the PIJi· [:'>:J

, l%piJers k:~:~

~.>~

f·:·;r.

'.'

-,..~

'J/;

.. ~ j I,

~';i

the ArclJido~ . iis ,

47 (o{(jp1Jcrs Stone; the Fourrh is the Tiniluvc, And although there Arcauaes arc, as to rheir revealmcur, rather A;J. gtlical then Humane v yet nevcrrhclefs \VC will noc grcarly fear .. or douht of them, but will rather endeavour to fcarch out the waves of Narure j and even all rhar which hnr h proceeded from N.ttl1re, may in my 0 ~ pinion, he alfo narureally undcrflood, We do therefore profcfs concerning Mercurius vit-e, that it is not a ~itlujJelJce, but an ArcaHIHlI ; hccaufe there ore in i r, Illdny virtues and powers, which prcfervc, r efl orc, and regenerate; as we write in our Book of Arcanaes. - So like-wife Prima Mated&. doth not ondy operate upon living bodies, but alfo on dead bodies after the fame manner, more then can be imagined to be done naturally. In like manner doth the Pbi/ofophers Stone (hew itt) efficacy, the which tinging the hod)', doth relcate it of all d·lfcafes, even as. each of the Merals arc mundifycd from their Impurities. So alfo is it with the Tiniiure ; the which doth a~ well rranfmure the dif .. care into health, as it <1o(h D into O. T'hefe things. yea and others ro.do iJlagijleries and Elixirs accompl ifh, alld Aurum rorabile., each whereof arc treat cd of ill r heir propcr hooks ..

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Of the Ex:tr(ll/ioll o_fthc $.!!inleJ[(,lIrc 0111' (~l' Meta Is.

N0\V then we will in a few words .. finifh tfle Extra{tion of Q!linrefl<"llcC5 from Metals; {or many men have (i.n our time) arrcmprcd and experienced \le~y many things in ChC111, and have mer with many rhlngs that have as j r were, even conflraincd (hem to enter upon other (and thofc various too) waycs,

Concern ..

The Fourth aool\, of

~s

Concerning Merals. 'I'hereforc this is t.o be. t4'n·I'~ derfiood, vi:r. rhar they. are .to b.e devided ~nro·. two pans, vi~. into their QIJlnteflencc., and tJHO ,.', their Body; both ';",:hich arc liquid and potal.lie, :.( and will not be perrm xed rogerher u bur the 1111- i . pure body, turns to,nh the OlJin rer1_"cncc t.o i t: fllrc~. I, ficles. even as the Coloflrum , or cream IS Scpararcd .: from the milk. By t hi s way arc made tW? fat!lCilcs •. or vifcous liquors our of Metzls., the ,whIch l iq uors j:, arc to be Separated. As for the fatncllc of the Body, f' tis al W:l\'CS w hire , even of all rhe Metals; but their (. ~intdlcncc ~iI coloured , even as we ha~(_' c~pJ4ined j·e V afore;concernlng the fcvcn Metals. they likcwifc have all [' .:

of them the faille procefs.and is rIH~. "

The Merral mutt be ditlolvcd in en.l Water, then af'- t, eerwards- mutl thi s folucion he dell i llcd hy a B. and be I: J abltracted or drawn ( If, and putrefied Io long unril it :

be reduced inro an oy}, the which 0)'1 III un be defiillc:d f . Of the Ext1"flCI iOil of the £!..!iilJfej-

out of {mall Glafle-Cucurbire s by an Alembic l: .. , and t, . r; ~ [r 4 , • __ Or > _

cue par.t of the r.~crll will rc:main in the bottom t let h,:.\ J cucc . I 01i/- Afllt cIl.Jt .. es»

the which be again reduced 111£0 an oy l as before, and "C':'

he ddHilcd fo lon~, until all the Metal (hall afccud, 1";~'THcre are alfo to h~ found.various ways as to thcExthen let it be again pucrefi ttl for a Moncth, and at I. '\ traction of the Q!!ln~('nellce OUt oflJ-farcajileJ.bur yet Iengcb be ~ga~n dcftillcd wi th a g~'lltle Fire ., . and l":i~ we cannot in the: Icatt account them for !ru~~jntefienthe vapoun, will afceud firfl , and f,llI uno ~he Receiver, 1.',:;; cc~.And_ a1rh~ll1r,h they be of a g~earer virtue (hen thci r th<: which vapours rC:ll1~v<':; Then I here Will afccud two r. ,) Qllintdlcnce I~,a'" we reach, Be ~Ifcovcr .of Arcanaes,lJlavh1curc colours-one whlt~., and the other anfw erable ()~lllericj and EI,xcrs; Yet ,no(\vHh~andl ng th~ way and to the narure and cond ir ion of the Metal, and when !':~llHanner that we here uf(.'.lo extraltmg the Q!!lnteffence they fball he whul ly comcovcr, they become Scpara- :~.~J!rolll all Meta/1W "'1arcaJitcs, is like to rhe, true exrraettted in the Receiver. So that r he 0~intdTcnce remains ; ::!~()ns of the ~1erals.And whereas we laid before, that the in the bottom, and the white colour of the Body t_..tnninreficl1ce is the moft fuprearn vir t ue of things, and fw ims at rop. S:rmrarc th~fc two by a scp~ratillg-G/'IJ~ t'.,\f~ yet for all that aver rhe contrary. in A.rcanaes, 'viz. avd p ut your Qllntdfc'nce In another Glafle , and pour ,,:~}that they are greater then the Q!.~Jnt(;Ilences rhcmthereto Iorue Purified Burrting \Vine, which let re- "A,~fdves arc; rhe r eafon is rhi~, becaufe all ArCI11MeS coninaio fo long rherew i rh, lin til i e, 'Ui~. the Wine be ":'}\t ain in them the (~'intdlcnces, and nrc reduced furpl~inly acuarcd , then let it be fiulined or Separated \(~:tthcr, to tuch an acuity and fi,bcihy, that [he)! do rea

from 'h':~~ E ceive

tbe Al'cbid(jxir.

49 from the Q!~intelTcn~c, and morc. {((·(h be again l',?ured on' this do fo often ri ll you perceive no more ACUlt}' or fh:rpne11e. 'fhen at Ian, p0't\'r en Warer twice- dc~ flillc:d;whcrcwith let it be wafhed and brought Unto its {wccrnCf5., rhen keep it ; hy this w e» is prepared the ~jl.)tt:tlellCc: of~letaI!;. Eut as for the whi re Colour of the hody if yon reduce ir, )'OlJ Ihall have thencefrom a white Malleable and Mcrallicl< br-dy ; rhe which cannot he k nown, 'lJi~. under what (pet;jes or kind it is conrcined, Many or her waycs arc to be fourid for the Exrrnftion of a Q!!intdl(.ncc, which we fhall he filcnr in, becaufc We UCCOlJl1t rhern not for true extra. ltions of (l2inr{ficnccs,hllt cncly as rrllnfmurations, In which there b n o Extrallion made or llred.

•

7'hc f'otlrt1.J Boo" of

..so ceive thCI:<:UY a far greater virtue then' the .Q.yin. crfJencc.

The f.. me comes alfo to be, by reafon of thdr Ap. -propriare and Spe<:i fick facul ry". The proccfle there. fore of the- E,xtralhou of the R!l1ntejfollce our of Afarca. {ite .. is thus,

Tul«: of u /If.1t·~a/if{' ground mofl exceeding fmall. one pound; of rhe (_'ar:ng \Vater, 1)1'0 poull.d;. be,ing ~ermiAt rogcrher in a Pel/han, lcr rhein remain rn dJJ!cfllOIl two or three moncrhs 'l and ~hey will be reduced inro a liquor; difiil this liquor by the Firc\whoJly, and it will come over j n an cyl , the w hich thou (l1al t putrcfie to. gerher in a Bell y or Dung, for a monC',th, ,then, diflil ir as von did the Meruls , and there WJlI likewife two colours afcend , as did from the Metals, one colour white, the or he r the true colour of the R!linICDence; leave the w hlre.cxccpt it he ofBi(mute,or a whireMar. '.',lfitt!, and t hen you Ihall know rhtDl from each other by the rhickucflc. "rake rhe undermofl and reduce if to its fwccmcfl« .. as was afore fp0ken of the Mcrals, On thi~ wite then hail: thou Exrrl.ltt<;d (he !l..._~nteffence our of M<lTC:l!iCt'j ') without any corrupting of their powcn and vlrrues.

OJ the EX'tal/ion of tb~ .Q.J.,lil1!t1J!.·IlCC out oj Salts.

I

THe manner of ExrraRing the rh~ f.lJ._liflt!?ffi·IfCt~ OUt of Salts is done hv a ,,('culiat' way, that Io their vir. rues may nor Be diminifhed, '1.Ji~, on this wife.

Tak.e Salts, The w hich yon mutl Calcine (!};ccll~nll)' well; but if rhey be volatile Salts, burn them; afterwards let them he refolvcd inro a TCHUi[), or thinners, and he dcflltlcd into" Warcr , PUt [his Water in pll. trefaction for a moner h, and de nil it by a B. and there will afccnd II fwc(:t water, the which throwaway.

Thar

That which will nor atcend , fer again in Digeflion {or anorhcr monel h, and ditlil it as heror e ; and do rhu s Io ofccn , till there be no more i'v(:'etJH:f;e. perceived ; fer by (his WJ)', hall thou now the tJ,:filJuJji.'llc<: of Sal[ in the borrou. ; trom one pound of Burnt or Calcined Salt, rhnu w il r fcarce have two ounce I. Half an 01111((: of this S.tlr I':xrra{tcd on this wife (ftJPpofl.:' COBIJJl()U Salr)dorh feafou mears mort.' thcn haifa f:nud of rhe orh er , for here is one l y (he .'2!_fillte£{i'lice pre: fL'llt, and the Body is abfl ra{tuj t hencc- trom , b v I he li(j,}id So) uri on.

Bv rlu s way is the !l.Ei1uL'!fi·nfl' of all SaIl s Separated.

Bur ir Is to Ill.' cXHat'1t.·d iI<":-1II Allum end Vrtrio! ,by <lUO" Iha way; rhus, TI1<..'y do not adu.ir o ra C., lcinarion, (_'_ ven to Iutiou, a~ S.d.~ do \ uud rhercfore it i s l!}<:pc'die l~ r, t III t .1 r t cr rll { j r C a Ic ill <1 ric n , lOU h urn [ h e llJ ~ and cd(l) ve Chell' accef{lj ng ro the H ule of Pra,( He; and after rhar r hcy be rd~}J';(:d, pow r on a_gdin the Warcr s thar pro((.Td( d Ii om r hc m, o nd pr occcd on, i1cc~~dir;g to tl:c.' 1'1 fleerS givell ct" Stilrs; for ruucn of the Efl<.:ncc afct'lid~ \\ith [Lt.' llIciilllr<:, (he which doth ngain t hus rdid(_, at the: bo( t ornc in t he Corupc fir ion and Putr c{dHoll, and Co come: t()gcthl'r iur o 011<.:.

OJ tl» E:d union I)} t bc !l..!Ii"tcjfi'Plc e out of Stones, (_"CIl1:-.. at«! P(.;'ar hi.

'J HE m:1I11I«.r of eXflaHing thC.Q!.filltr/fi'l1fc ollt, of

Str'IJt·!>" (j"'II; nnd Pearls, (rhc.: Prncd~ of all which is one: and rhe furue ) ;5 r hc nlPH c x ce Ilenr of all, and i- a~ [0 the 0p<:fariGIl I hvrcof , vcr y Subtile and 11ld.u. [lriou, ; vcr v, vcr y lirrlc is t hc (Ju.lIlticyof [hat !2J.!111- 11.{jm(L', which is [0 b c h.rd our of (iOIlS, and by HoW n.uch d)(~ Iulu rlcr ;]ud purer flu: {j[1II is, fo much the Idler is (he fJ~illft'jj~'fJct: rherco.' j tis Ic.ucc WOI til w hi le to I-:};Cr'1CC the Q.!lincdfcIlCt: (rom grol~, hrcat ~~ vale or bJf~ S(nllc~., for r hey have bur l it r!e viJ rue in r hcm.and lh<.:r\:forc alfo have but \"C.:ry lirr!« QJ_til1l. to. (Gille !(1f(h

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Tal:! Gems or lJfargaritcst Or Pearls, bea t them into pretty Illig plccca.nor into a Powder, and PUt them in a Glatle, and pour thereto the Acetum of rhe l\oott.~, or RadiCi\ted Vinegar, fo as to overtop it the breath of four or five fingers, and let them be digeflcd in a horfbelly for a whole -noncch, which being donc.rhe whole [1 matter will appear liquid; thc which thou ChaIt ex- '

traa with other Had.cared Vlneaar , and Ihake and :,:1. mix them well tPr,erher; fo the Vinegar receives into l

ir felf the Colour of the Stone, The Coloured vrne- ; ...•..• 1· gar mufl he poured out into another Glafs, and powr

on more Vinegar as before, fo ofren 3S there comes any Colour; now in that Colour is the Q!!intcflcncc con- .

rained. rhe rcfiduc is the Corporahry, Take rhere- ; ....• ·1: ... '

forc the Colours, or ringed Vinegar, and boil [hem vc- •

J Y gentl y even to drynefs, then afrerwards wafh it 0'-

ten with difiil1cd Warer , until it be made fweer, as above bid: Then let this powder be diflolved upon a marblc s thus {halt thou have the Qllintcnence of Gems and Pearls; hut this is to be norcd in the Colours of Pea7ls,thar'they are refolved inrorhe Colour ofrhick Milk, lind rh~ Body of rhcm if, Sandy and vifcous , and thereby may the one he known from the other. Th:: like is it alfo with Cr yff al .. in Quinrdl~nce appears at top, a certain vlfcous Bodv relll3;ining, by which the tufficiencv or cornplcarur He of thofe kind ofl-:~trJlti~ ons may be known.

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Of the fixtraOioll of tbe R!!;utcUcnce our of

burning things,

A 1.1. filch things we call burning, as arc not ufed for food or drink, and do naturally burn.and feed the fire in their Bodily S.lhflance. The Procefs of the Extraltion of their Q!intc:fiencc is rhis. Ta(e the Body, cur it excecdlngfmall, and put it into a Glazed Por; and fill it up, and clofe it firmly with the SCJI of Wifdom.rhar fo it breath not our, burn it iu a Circulatory Fire for twenty four hours, fo as to ahid e 'In an equal Heat, and the Por to be glowing l ik e rhe Coals : Then rake it our of the Fire, and purrefie it in Dung for four Weeks, then difiil as much as will afccnd ; Lcr chis be put in a Horfc-bel ly to difiiJ off all the moifture therefrom, and be fer again to purrefie , nnril tIt.ere c.omc om no more moU\ure, then at Icngrh tllc Q!JlntdkncC! of that which thou haft received , and at firf] rookcik in thy l\ccivcT,relllaincs in the bottom; after this mallncr is the Ouinretlcnce to be Extra{t<:d our of all things that ~ntain in them Oyl, 01· l\ofin, or l'irch, or fuch like, as OUt ofTurpenrine, Fir-rrccj junipcr, Cypref~,(9'c. Likew i]c Ollt of all Seeds.Frulrsaind fuch like.

Moreover yon arc to note, that there arc alfo far more wales and kinds of Exrraliing the Q:.!illtdl~ncc Irom them, hy which it comes .orrh very Odoriferous, Subtile and deer; hut rhofe wales arc not E xrr ad ions of the Q!Jintcifence, but certain Magincrics ()r~ll(Jfc: fame things, hy which Come par e of the Q!!inrcni.~nct: dnrh in the Pcrmi xion together, afccnd upwards r _ B ur yet if is not a perfect Q!!intdlcncc, for rhe Eflencc of \Voods is a certain Iarncfs or L\ofin,and thick Iubtlance, and is not therefore exrraftcd ill the form of f'ohp,ificries , bur the caufe hereof is rhis, vi:{. ihe cmin reflcnce .

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of the Turpentine Tree healerh Wounds , but jf ir fhall be extraCted after rhe aforcfaid manner, of othtr 4l1.tgifleriei, it doth not Cure them, be caufe ic harh Hot in it the lM{iS and fOllndnion of the 0...!,Ji11 reflcnce ; FDr veril y ,'fJgijfeJ it's are on [his accounr diflingui Olcd from Ql1intdlc_.ncc~, bccaufe they on' y coucer nand f(:fpc([ the Comple xions and Four Elements .. the which is not the nature of Ql_!inrdlcnccs; Likewife they receive, or have it Spir iruah y, and nor Marer iall y in irs pre-per El. fencc , as appears II) d .... : CIJf1J,tt:r.r.

Of the Extra/i ion of tbe f{_1l;ntcJF-·nl.·c out of

(jrOH·jllg T'billg;.

SU~h we call (in thi~ P'dC~ ) GTcH'ing Things, duc :.111 oil and gr<J\v ag.nu, as [Ictus, Lr'O\VCS, and (uch h kc ..:~ nd for t he E xrrJ(fi on of rhc (~ilJ t eflcuccs .of them, there are various w aycs found OUt bv the ad .J:. ti~Hl ,-·f orhcr thing~; bur they ought £0' be t.'x,ra~l~~l wle~l,:tlr the rui xt ur c {~f any thing; and 1o, as co re t ain their r_.lflc:-. Colour, and Odour, and r har tht.·\- 111.1\' be en~rC'olk~ in them, and not eli mini Ilud . So if J the <m,tllcfil·nCl.' be extracted OUt of .. 1hfS(· Amicrercecc and Civet ; (11<'-11' hod ice, do fiiuk afr['rw~rd~ f~ (ha~ rhey are worrh norhing, t'irh£.'f in T.1(te C>dollr or "LHur~ The like h r~> he lln.dcrfiol,d (If.!1r the ("(',l of that kind., as to t,h<.· T:.x_rratll'm of rlk' Q:.!inrt:fT(_'lIccs. B:H \\'1: \4-:111 ::ot dlfcr;urk of 111;,s'<., AI1'!'t·rg1ft.'t"e, oc Clvu . 1l1,~llJ~.C~1';H<:r, hccaufe We \vrift, peculi .. r lv of ~~l:l\.' Ikw rtcrL; ,'n~ w e r,r ~'ar ur pr cfe nr of GroH'ilJg J/uTlgs onl~' : a' tt~:_· LlIJ, • .sI'l'!!, LC"t.:CS; for the Extr.~d ~'IJ ot the ~}Intdlt.·nc<..· (Jfwhich, this Prote]s is to Lt: nb!t"{ved ..

TI:'~"" ;,,)1 GrlJ).lI~lIg l1)ings, h.rlljf(~ tl~elll cxcccdmg well, and P,uc chc.u In~o (Cill:t.' fit Vc.:-fld, rht.· \\ Inch fer in a Horfc-be llv tor four \VCc1~s,; then Difiil Ir by B. put

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them again Into Horfe-dung for eight daves, 'and let them he again Diflillcd by n . M. So, the Q!inteflence will afcend by the /dcmbick, but the body will abide in the borrom- If there Ihould ought of the Q!lintdfcncc have remai ned in the bor rom, it muf] be furthcrplltriflcd ... and he proceeded with as before, Then take this DiUilkd Warcr, :tnd },)lIt it again to i lus Gro,v-' ing Body. and Co Ier them h:: dil~cfied together in a Pelficall for fix dJYC:~; then the Colour wHI he thick, the which abltract hy B. In. and the hody will go away, and be fcvcrcd , the Q!i nr dl('l1cC rem.i i ni fir, i u ihe ho-t. rom; Separate this ( by a Rctort;v,> f'7occli Of prcffing ) from the [aces, and then di~~t:fi thi~ Q!]inrdTence four daves ; hy this 11\(:""5 r hou Ihalr have it pcrf(:tt in O. dour , J "\ ci -efs, Taflc, and Virtue, and of the Cunfiflcncy of it (hick fubftance.

Of the Ext ralli", tlf tbc .Q,'yil1ren~'lICe olft ' of S/,i(ci'.

"t. j\ 7E will "?W read\ the m~f!n,:r of E~:tr;1(ling V \ the Q~!lOtt.:(f,:n(e Otlt of Splft'f; as :H:Hk.., C;uet, Caml'lJirc • and filch like; FIl·n of all. the Q!fntdlt-l1c{' nwn be reduced in ro anortrcr Iorrn, a rrd r he n at lCl'gtil be rel);nared ,'l':!'efrolJl; aurl in ,h.tr frmc Ie .. parariou is the I -tui11 rdE nee found, a!' fo.Iow s,

1t!~e the Oy l of Almon ds, with w hicn <l:ix an Aromatic.tlhoclYl and let (heu.>l h."' digdtl'd (('fef.her in it Glilf~ at (he Sun, rhe ir proper t imc, l:\lt il r hcv arc reduced into a P ,\fie; af rerw ards, let them 1-)(' p;'(- (~'d ulir frr m [heir j1(CJ'; afrer rhls .nunn- r is the ho)dy Scnar,It<:d from till- Oulnre tleuce, which Q.!_~inrc.:n;"11C(;, i:- rhll~ permixe-d wirl~ the 0)'1; and is [0 be Se pacarcd r her erro m 011 (his wife.

Ta l.'c telh fied burning Wille \ wlicrcw i t h mingle the aforcfaid 011, and leave them in digeflion (or rix d.l~'l.'~;

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afrerwilrds Ier t~('n) b.e djf1jJled l~}' A ~lC;S, and there wjJJ afccnd the burnmg ~lI71:c., and wit h It the ~UilltelJcna' nnd ~h~ o.yJ WJII remain in the borrom, Without an; rema.mog o( the R.!.linteffillc~. LaH of &111, let this Will" be Difiillc:d by B.1w. and the i<!!intcDi:ncc will abide: ia~ the horrom in the form of Oy}, and Sc:parated froru all rhe like Additions.

Oftbe Extral!iOfl oftbe ~intc{fenCt· from CIJ1l1ej1ihlc

and PJtable 'l"billgs.

THe ,~;ntrffon.(e of,things C'.lm~flibll.'" '5 to be no otherwife, then In a like form wirh that wherewith We arc: fed; as wirh Flcfi1,: (or the R!!illte{fencc ofComt11ible Tb11lgs IS (he ben ncufl.nlm('~t. And aJrh(;ugh no .!f!..llilJte/fonrc can be drawn (rom "k·O" (3~. we (aid a;orc J yet nevertheJe,s We are wcl l able to Exua8 rJ)crc. from, as to .it~ own being or «(klltiality., that which may be c<]UlvaJeut to a !l....',.illIt1fofl':C; as follows.

Ta {e 3, Comrjllblc 'I1;i;lg .. cuz i rill piece s , and put i rill. ro a Vctle l, 0(" great Jugt:~ v\.·rywdJ Jured. und lct ir bo}:J for three ~ayes; then afn'l'wards ftraln rmr rhar W,hJch (h.11l be 1ft the Pot, and ~iHil it by a 8. So theft' will firf] of all afccnd a ccrram \ ... • .. H('rjnef~, the which \\'hc!l it flu II he all come OV('f, {he' QJ.dlltt(follce will he left In the bottom. This is the f1ighdl Nurr imeue , be. yond,aU the others that we can fe t down or dcclarc :

A.nd I~ rcfpelt ofn?l1l in1in~, it is Jike to a'!0integ;.'Il(.'l" LlkcWlfl·,. the; RJ_IlIilt!,1ent-'e may be Extralted our of Potable ~tllngs {unary waycs s hut this is the true Pro. ccfs w Inch we account as the chiefef}, Ii rrcfl , and mofl profirable (or this Work.

• 74.1 c ~ny Potable thjn~~., nun it up in a }'cllican, as it !S, With ItS whole fuh!lan.C'c) and d i~dl i r fer a MO~lth m Harfe-dung, hut ewill hI! rhc bcu('r to leave it fo for II. year or 1110re, and you /hall lind in the l'clJicalll a

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c -rrain (Fgcficd [omewbat; Separate this fame by a B; aft<:rward~ by Alhes j and la~ly, hy Fire .. By this means fhalr thou have Three 0~1"'t('ffi"cc.r, which arc In like manner in a1l1"ouablc things, and rhae tor many caufes, as we fer down 111Ol'C at large in the Trcarlfe of their Geneuuions •

There Three ~illteffenccf thus cxtraltcd, and each of them PUt into its peculiar Vdl~·l.,. th e ",'t.'() latter are to be further digd1td~ and then PUt In~o a /:>.iJf. an~l there will afcend mere of t he former !2J!llltr.ffCI1((,; rhis do fo often until no more of the former doth afccnd, and hy ,his means arc they vcry cxce llcndy well fcrara~~d,

And whereas I have fo briefly raughr t~lc .~mlc~t1{c of all things, and the fo Ihorr way of r hcir I·.~tril{tlon, there's no caufc for any to wonder at the hafty funning of my Hand, or Q!!ilJ. .Bccaufe the}' arc each of t.hCID well and fufllciently delivered fo; IVJr ar e [he J2..~tnttf{mrcs Co fur.cinltJy, or br ieflv wrir ecn of by ~lS, but rhae rhe Work and Labour nccctlary rhcrcun to IS I)lofi CVIdcnrly demonftrarcd r Wlur need is there of many \\'rirings ro fHr up a naufeau:'; bor h to our r~'lvcs and Readers. For t is to he confidcrcd that exercifc and ,!fo teachcrh all ehings, But now, as to thc wonderful vrrweft and faculties of the REinrcffi:lJcc, thus cxrrafted afrer rhe aforcfaid way, we have panl y ra llghr alread y, and (ball more cleerlv manifefl (iu the Ian nooks) (hat which belongs to this Parr of r he Arcbidoxis » and fo Ihall have abundantly cuo llr,h difcovcrcd rhe .!l.!!.i,a. t('ffellcr of aU things. And alrho'lgh r hat many men afore l1S have in various inflrultions and documents wrlrren 'fome great matters of J2.!iiuteffi'licct, yet n.c.:verrhelcfs we do nor aCCOlHH of what t hcy have written, as for a f2.!_linte/Tent'e ; the caufe whereof we ha~e fbfficicnrl y difclofcd afcre, We perceive alfo by rhcir \Vrirings, that Verdigrccce , or grccnnefs of Brafs! w~s accounted by then) the lJ..!!intrf/ellCc of Venus, which IS

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not fo;hut the Crocus of VelJUl,is the qUilltC!fi.'/IL·C ofVemu which is to he: rhus undcrflood , ENos ..!Erif,or the Howe; of Brafs, is a rr.mfiuurarlon with, and parrcking of the fubtiance, is grr,f., and fubfi lc to~cthcr, and is extr;JR"ed out of all the Vcnetcan COllJpk~iont or .our of the whole Cnmp!exion of V"IIHS, ,111d therefore ir cannot be a ~uintcf]i.'"c(; bur rh<..· CffJ(Ji$ of VCIlU!;S (as We h~l\'c t~u~ht) the true .Q:~;lItf.ffo."(C, for it is 11 I'cet ablc thing, '. divided from rhe f.)ody w ir hcur Corrcfion and pefmixri .. Oil, ns very (ubtl]t'; yea, more then I am \villing to . ~rite ~own he,re, hCC3Uf(: I would fhun prolixity. So' Iikcwife the (,fOCUS of MJJ'S, and the Ruft thereof, h.uh • been hlrhcreo accounrcd for a R!Jifltt'j]~nr(', hut it is not fo; But the Crocu s of .'Jlars, is (he OyJ of iJ"ars. Con. cerning there things, we fer down morc of them about T_ran/iTlllt:1lion .. , in our P/nloJo/'by.

A I1.!!.Ulteffolll~e therefore is ro ht' thus underflond 'vi" ~hat it is no other thing but a ccr rain Sep.lralion ~f tl~ virtues from fhe body, whcr e in the whr.:J(· Medicim! Virtue and EJlcncc is; Bur as for (he Flos /Eris, and

, J4'Jor of ,lIars., and many more (lleh Iikc, ui r, What rhcv

arc, (haJ~-b(_' ddivt:ITd in the place of IIftrgijlerifs. _

The Iike Jurig{'ment . mufi be il.ld of (he Vegirables, and Herbs , atl'l fiJch l ik e, as of rhe Me-tals. And although wc_ have fe r down vctv noble :md 111m y vi: rues of the n\ll1nt!~f{tlI1':C."; Jet ncvcr chclers W(.· have recited but the f:uJ_ll, H p.trt of their Virtues :Jnd Q,laliries ; !Hie We have chierlv d~crJred rhus much, that rkefe t hings n1ay ~c (f)!l,t'whar .lJnd_crfiood·. hur as to the qualir y and quannry of ~II rh,_,u' Virtues and excellency, that is nor done by lIS III rhe JeaH. Hereby may be hinrcd unto 11~, the gr{'.;tlwE of th.H P'1WC:f w hich h in our funds, d!'..f W<.: hur kr!(l\v how to u.e ir well. Hence aHo is rnan.-fef1- rhe cauf-. w hv man W.1S Created, and all things in ~Jarrh mane f!lbJ(:ti" r o him; Likcwife why norhin'l\ be it good or b e ir h.1d) proccedcrh forth without a caufe ,

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tureo['(billgr; (or rhar fuudamenral , and bajh,'hrings irh it a faith firodgly bent upon the C~catol> and an (.' of his Love towards I)S, as of a Lovmg l' at her r o s Children, and therefore we llIutt nor Iuarch at c. ry fhadowy and vain Faith, hut oughr [0 behold God lv and Nrrure, and the Art of Nature. Wherefore . 'reaf.»)) have we to invoak him only in this Ii/e.and rever; an d believe that only which we fcc fo [0 be ; d neither l\cceivc, or Approve of any rhlng that th not agree with Nature, hut is befides the way reef

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llid: ... part- For they had .no l(J1.o\~lcd_gc of the de .. rllIinacc diff(,'rc!lce, and limited dJfiultilon ,of the des of high rhings, but accolln~cd every hJ~hcr., n.nd f;hefl degree, in the place of f}JJ1IltcfJenas. 1 he wluch ftinCtion norwi rhflanding 111Uft: be not only J( nown id defined by rhe Prallic,,"-, but rather alfo from tlolc pcratiol1s of r.1cdichlC.

Thcrefore., before we Ihal! create of Arcanacs ; tis ('0 feen and known why they arc fa called, and whar t1rca,mm is, feeing it hath a Name (0 CXCt Ilcnr and deed full well dcferve s it. An Arcanu". is fu called, ICC tis incop or cal, immortal, of a perpetual life ve all, or every nature, inrclliglblc, and is as it re of a more then humane know ledge. 'I'hcrerore rcanacs being compared to our Corporeal bodies, are he accounted of as incorporeal" and of a f.lr more xcellenr Effence then ours, and of as much difference is betwixt black and whirl' , for they have a PO\\,t'f

Aving (pokcu of !2_yinlt.(j~/UeJ, We n 1'ran{j1l\lting, Alrer lng, and H(·floring us ; as. the Ar-

conic in order to write of Arcanaes n.H'f of God, according to their proper iuductiou, and

Secrets; For as to rhcfc, We uncle der.

more (0 he hercin , thc:n is in And although there is not in our Arctfllc:fc.r, an Erer ..

.. tc/f IIti,,1 Vif[u~~ ; \Vhel~citl we are by ity,or that Coeleffial h.lfillonr, )Ict ne vcr ehelcfs they

per re nee t.Ju_ghr, that there IS a ,·.1fllh{K-rcncc as to re (in comparifon of us) to be acljudgt:d .15 Ccckfli-

great powerful Opcrarions, hy which are dcmonfl I; for as much as they c onferve our bodies more then

ted unto us, as !)y mof] evident figl1t'~., which arc poflible to Nature, or can be Iearched our, and do

[(.1' and more virtually l)rofirabk', and which are crate thereupon by their virtues, after a wonderful

virtuous. Therefore' may We afliune the" one iJ mner, And therefore rhcfe Naru.nl Arfti/Jc1C; arc (as

0;" the other for Medicine , accordi i.lg ro (he Iuira 0 what appertains to Medicine) to be .0 compared t,o

of the thing, Indeed the Ancients have of tell j "' .. ··' ..... ur bodies, as the Ar"'anacs of God are to them. Nt:I.Arcan tes to be R!!.intt.iT~ncert because they Iaw rhcm I her will We he afraid to wrire rhar there Arc,IIftfCS arc

he far more Subtile then the morc-gro/s Subflanccs.a and greater then we our fclves. and have a o,,~n

knew that rhey Operated by the Subtilty of their t rower of furnifhlng us wit h life, as 'hall be w it-

t urc, after a wonderful manner. But this :r-:rroun' efled by thofe Four which we fhall Iec down. Nor will theirs proceeded not from their Rcafou and Confidcu' e in the lean Cue for rhofe vain empty Tales of rhofe

tion, but arofe rather {rom the barrcnnefs of r nprofirable flavifh Dc:jjnnfli, [or Dwarf-like Divines J

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lo?king upon them, to nnJerfiand no mort: then t bhnd do fcc; So rhcreforc, (H1(! is an Arc:tIlIWJ in . Ellencc; a.~od!er is all Aft:allum ofN.1turc hl'r CdL . ~ll Afcanu_", I~ tile \vh.ol~ vrrrue of a thing, but e It a rhouland fold. ... hcrcfor e We arc able to difcou without,.(car thI1S., 'lJi:{. Thc,· ,J'hcallum Of'1 {}f,t/J is t w.holc Gift and Vlrr.ne of that which he retains to nit)'; as we rC.1ch In another Book of thi S Arcbid»:

Therefore all Arcanum is to be IHHkrHood t w o waye: the one Hi Pcrpcrual, the other is', as-ir- \V(T('- Per penn This, viz, as- it-were- Pcrpct ual ArC411U11l We ;l1dg.! . be li~e r har ~yhi~h is P(:r~crllal, acc:ordjn~ to the di and 1 rcdeftinarion of It; Bur (here are Four Arc on.lY that w~ h rve k!lCWn even (.(JI" our ChildiOJ ) w It!l the which \Y'-:" 1 C oruplear rhi S }Jock., ( and I behind us a fufficieuc pruifc-wor rhy Mcmor y ) that \~e may n~vcr rorgcr rhcm, pr,tying to r he moft Hi G?d, tJ.lat It would pJc,,~e him of his M<"rcy to gw r liar this cur humane Fl efh mav .lrri\'(,;' to mau v vca that Co we may 1.1Y a~arr .aud crca a long and mild R for 011r AAc, may faithfully hope ill him, and hv '~1C'3lH d:·\.1br, but that he r feciug he vouchfafed to . fume the HUlll.tniry.J will give unto U~ to enjoy ir tha.t fo we llIay not be at all Irnflrll'(:d in our I-JCIPl'1 t which G'c!nr we firmly expet't. 13t::ng thcr efore t fraugh\ w HI~ hCI"Ie, \\'C' will in the til H pl ace d ecl whac tile dlffercncc bet ween t hofe Four A,- .... uiacs j' bo,th as ~o tht' L:l~lJur., ~~he Art, and finally, rlu-ir I'i '"t~. ,Ecfid<.'s., rue Final and c?llrlu!i vc Know,ledge t ~ h.~ V,rtUC5 ot e vcry one of rhde i s rcquitire-, 011 (I:; .. ~\,Ire : In general, they do chhIly Conft'f\,c the ~)()d.·· III H.cillth, and drive away the Difl.'af(.'s t lrcrcfr om, tht; c xhi larate a Sad mind, and free it of all PC'flfl\'C,'IH:(! thC'~ prc:fer.vt: from all :--:icknc.Hcs, and do luppiJy c1ufi ,and ~lJtde the h,')dy o n, t.'\'UI unto it!' Pr c dcfl in dcat h , the which hath no limit, c.:~-:ccFt h._,. it dirnin

t1.IQ Arcbidoxh. 6~

ing_ ConfumptifJ11, as Vle declare in our Trearife of Lift: and Death.

And although that we have already declared their virtues in Gcnerall., and thei r Nat uro:, neverthcleffe the)' are very,greatly and rartjcularl~ different amongf], themklvCf·, III [o much rh"r they lH:lthcr of them have all op;.:rarion uhkc, or do accornpl ifh .rheir Virrues equally , but arc different horh in manner and form.each of rhcm havinj; their proper and peculiar w.'~'CS ; rhere .. fore rhc: firfl Arcanum is r he Prima .l1,lteri.z; the- f~c0nd is the StOlle ofr he Philoff)phers; the third i s a- AfercHrizu 1.lit,~; alit! the l(JlH th is. rhe TinlhlTe; fOE even thus in this Order we let dow n the J'r;'ctifc of rhcm , after thlH we have expounded the manner of rhcir Operation as follower h.

Fidl or all.rhcrefore tis to be noted, concerning the Firf] Marter, tl1.\ tit fhews and gives forth i rs i'redeflinarion, ((0 which iris ordained) Wh81t: and intire, and Iuch as is dcfcrib::cI, afJ1t~llcd or 'exemplified, (roil! the firfl Origin.ll, even [li) the end. Ali for c xamplc, a feed gives out of it tclf, the whole He.trb \ v Irh a l~cnovarion of all irs Virrues, and a confuming of rhe Old Etlence, So rhar the Old Subfiancc, N.HlIfe and Effence lurh no more Operation; So rhcrefore d ) \"'(' even fl'l'al( of the Firfi Matrer, that we arc horn tr orn, One Seed as r hc growing Hearl> in the: Field, according to irs growing Nat nrc. According to [he aforctaid ex .. ample, doth the Fir t] t'flatter introduce a new youth(11111(:f5 into a man '\ and ahfurnes thc Old no or hcrwifc, rhcn as a new Hcarb ari ferh from a new Seed, ill a IH:y.· Summer and Year,

The Ssone of the PhiloJaf-hers., wch is the fccond Arc,r.nwn )pCI feacth its Opcr.tr i ous in another form, vi,. afre r this manner ~ Even as the cxrrrnfical Firc dod), hy burning of the Ipor rcd lind defiled Skin o: t he .S'a{,:lIIttn· dn, make it to clcm as if ir were newly horn; So Iike-

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wife this Stone of the Pbilofophers doth purge the whole Humane Body, and cleanfe it from alJ its defilenicnr~1 by rho introducing of new and younger Youth-like 'rir.: rues.the which it adioynerh to the Nature of a Man.

Mcr&:urius v;t.£, which is rhe third Arcanum., doth ex. hibir and fhew its Opararions to be fuch like as tl1(.' lIal •. dOR or King- Fiflur doth manifeft, rhe which Bird is in its Anual Icafon renewed, and dad wirh new F cathers. Even fo doth this Art·lltlUI1l caf] off from OJ man ., the Nalls of hi: Hands and Fcer,alfo his Hairf.,SJdn, & every thing rhar is thereto fubjclt., and cauterh them ro grow 11I" again.and renovates rhe whole body, as we Ipake afore of the Kil1,~-Fi(1}er.

But the: Tintlure, which we (ef (~c}wn as the fourth ArcanurJI\ doth manifeft irs Oparurions after the manner of Rebis; hecaufe it makes Gold our of Lune , anti the other Metals; for after the faille wanner doth the Tin. ... 'ture tinge: the Body of Mant and rakes away (rom him hls Corruption, and I rnpedimenrs , and tranfmures al! his parts inro the highctl Purlrle , Nobtliry , and per. mancncie, r/.._ryc.

HoW rherfore CJn it be poffiblc for us to depart from the Noble Medicinal Art, or from Philo(0I'''' it fclf,when Q~ we may evidenrly fee tlwir powerful Virtues, the ~hich alone are rht: things chat fo confirm us , 8S ro ~Ive unto them the gre:nefl: helief, and rhar defervedIy ; for we never incl mcd our rni ude to believe, l.earu and hllir.ue fuch Things as cannot be proved and confirmed hy moll true and mofl cerr.rin rcafons, couioyned with both Experience and Praltilc. J f ar rhat time wherein ChriH did lung upon the Croile, the Sun and Mynn had nor been affected wi ch a kind of c?ml'afiion,in fo much that rhcy were deprived of their Jlg.he and ohfcured ). and had not the l':.u-rh i r fcl f been al.o. (}l[lok with a tcrr rb!c rr cm'sl ing , and had not thole other figucs been m.lUifdtc.:d as (U !a;::. birth, veri-

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ly no hody w ould now have believed in him; They now naruralf y re.ach us to See and Know him.rhar Jefus Chrifl is God, and r har he atlmucd the Humanity. The like may h.:- raid of rhcfe Arc.waes, that r hey Make, and even Compel U5 to believe them, fiJ as nor to recede from them even riIl death; hut rather fhi8Iy and dayIy to give rhanks unto God with many lifring5up' of our Heart's. So, ne-irhcr the Ecltps , nor (he '), will with-

draw ought from us. .

Now therefore lets come to the Plallife and Work. of rhofe Four Arcamzr.r, by which we may he able to drive away the Accidents and COl"wptions of our Youth, and rcioyce in them, even as our Erernal Arcnnum rejoycerh

in the Life Eternal, &c. -

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Of· t bc A rcarmm of the Prima Ma. tcria , Or, Fi rft Matre r ,

I'_] A \'ill~ fufficienr l \' fpoltcn of the Firj1 llfdrter, :'l whence in COl1lC~, and what it is; you are ro undcrtland (hat ir is founded uot only upon t'tlen., bur alfo all bodily Creatures; that is, upon every thing that is born of any Secd i; From whence it may he Concluded, That ( if ir hath its Opcrat ion in any Crcar cd body.aud pcrtt:lh it) tis able to pr eferve the Trees from per ifhmg by corruprion, the Bt.·rbs from drying up, and alfo the Mctar~ from HuH; the which is to be here in rhls place undcrftood of M~" and Deafis atrer the (.llllC manner. Therefore a Tree: heing now almoft Confumed by Age, and daily tend ing more and more to irs Corruprioll .. not by the ROOfS defclt, nor .by defca of Nourifhment, but by the lack of irs proper Virtue,may. be renewed by its own Prima AlMeria, (e\'co as we

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have fpoken of the Skin of the Salamander) aad may o ar tain even to another Age accordiug to its Prt·ddli. fnation ; yea, even to a Third, to a Fourth, and moreFor this rcafon are \ he virt ues to be bdlowcd thereon: 'Vi~. TI~3t [he Corr upr ion and Deftruction thereof hap. pening iu long fuccefs of nme, may be now and then renewed, Tne f .. me is to be. underflood of Herbs which endure and I.n but one year only I becaufe rhei: llrt:dcf1i h.!tion is no Iouger s for even rhey, yea when the y bt'gi n to he dried up , are renewed by their Ptilila ,1I,Ut:' ja, fo as to remain green and frefh for anorhe. .Anllual Age , and a third, and e jourtb, and lurther. The like do 1 alio mean concerning bruit Animals, at. old Sheep. &c. the which may be U.cnovated, even to a fe. <'~lId agf:, aud fo receive Strength, Milk, and WooH, like )'(,ullg Sheep. III like manner may a MAll be brought out of one J' ge into another, as We faid afore; Now, ris ro be noted from l hctc things, w hat rhe fl,rl .ll1alur is, as con ceruiug in, firtt Etlcncc, In Created lnf<.:l1fible bod lcsvir i s t he Sc..·cd of'e ver y rhing. in Crea. tt·d St:lafihle bodies, it is t hcir S/'crm; You flWO dlfo know t hat the (iTfl Mauer is not co be taken from that thing which chi!' Created body if, produced out of, but from the productcd and Ge nerurvd matter: For the [rTft matter hath fuch Vir rues, as nor-ro-permle the body that is born ,of i r, to g) i n to a Confull,prion; bur doth ~bundantJy adminifh-r ~hat is> fufficlenr for the fupply. 109 of every necellity. For verily death only rlferh from "he dcfhuctlon or inft°[tion of the Jiving Spirit. Now, thilt Spjri~ grow~ out of the Sperm or S'ceci, and is verily a Srermatlf" rna ... rer, and there.ore may ir be helped wirh its like. For where a like-help is adminiflre d t hcrc's introduced a new age, r Or man y caufes, which we fllall not at all fer down in this place, but dc:clare them in our Pbilo/Qpb,_ Moreover, although we did not purpofe to write an}, thing of 'he SlIflen 'atio" and Renovati-

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fill of Trees in this Book; See jug on r intent Was to difcourfc of (he Medicius and P hyllcK of Mall5 heuy onI,; yet are i hofe Lud uct.ions of tilt Tr cc-, and or her Iuch like Trallfmutations fer down, th,l[ t herr-hv We may P'Hab()Jit:ally, and by thofe examples, ren de r our inrenr ion the IIIOft.' cafie to 1.)(.- t1ncic.:dlood: As tht.' QEin .. rellence of Nc tr le , (niias Lavender J jf it flMJJ be poured on .t~ l!IC Root of ils,owl) Herb, ~ha[ .(0 I[ m.1Y receive H~ I Illdul(: aud be tinged rher ewir h, It will a. bide another year l ik c as ill the former year, and not purrifie t il l rhe other yc.rr be ended.

t.ikewite the <l!Jill[l.'tlcnCI: of rhe Seed of ~ince~, if poured to rhe H(,,:c ~.frll(_' O!lillc,'-rrec:, rhc TI-;' abides green and flounlhmg c vc n t o rill.' eu d of iW(I:'~lcr ~l'ar, andalfo prodl'c(:th L"I(lW(:lsalld Frui r. In hkc manner the: ~inrc:'1t:l1ce til Cl« ric- cauferh r lic I' r ces (Jf them (0 hrillg Iorr h t hc ir Frui r s rw icc in rhe \( ar like

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two .):ummCl s , lor one h the hal f.~lIn III c.: of rllt.: Sum-

mer- ..... herr \'·trl:'(:~, the or her hdlf is made a Iccond SuIII mer , like: the f· rnu.r .

\Ve alto Iuppofc I~ expedient, not oul y to fpeak of the <l!_.llltdkucc of the Sperm; bur alfo of tl~~ A,,:(t. nllm or the Sperm; our of dle which do procc; d far marc \VoudcrtuJ T'lu ngs 'J as we: have already told JOu.

Firfi of all therefore we will declare r he Procets of this Pyallife; Fitft, "Tis alike hor h in Mt'li and Bc afls 1 ,Se~olldly, 'Tis made our of the: jir!l .ill:ltltr or.ly , arrcr this manner, a- now fcHows,

Tak.t: the FiJJ1 ntauer; let it be djg~lit.'d in a Fiacco, a nat or tlarrifh Vend in (1 Refo/urive digefl ion for a ~onth; rhcn lee the Addition of a iJ.lo'Jarcb., he ad •. ioyncd .thl _r{,Ul~ro in an (>qual weight, and let r heru he agam digc] i ed for a Monrll oAwo, rhcn d iftil this Mauer Over by a Retort ; and t lra r which Ill.dl .dec. nd, {}><tll be the Arcanum of the jitfl "lfatter, of which \VC here Y v rit(.~=

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Nor hath anyonca reafon to admire at this fa thort a way and Pl"o~'cfr, for mulrlrude of words brings much Error.

Oflbe Arcanum of the Pbilofepberl StfJnC.

I Am not an Author or Teacher of that Philofol'herl jlQne that is fo diverfly dcfcribcd by others; nor am a l)c3ttitioner thereof, much Jdle a Searcher thtrdn and fa Ihould as it were (,,('ak thereof fr om Hcar.{ay: or Writ ing ; Whe reas r herefor e I have noceCCaimy rhereor', 1 will leave thar Proce(s" and rro(ccurc my own, as being fuch as illY felf hath found OUt both by tHi: and Pralt,fc: And I call it rhc SIOIIC of the Philola. phers, becaufe ir fo ringcrh the bodies of mel] in filch a mannervas they write of rheirs, Bur mine is not pre. pared according to rhcir Proccfs j for we mean not that fame here in this place, nor indeed do we know h ; We do nor at all tcr down in this our Prallicl{ , rhe 'il[occf:; of the Operarion, for We IlIl'l1tiulled that afore in the beginning of the Eook, where we wrote of its Virtues and Operationr which it hath by the S.eraralion.

But V('I ily you fl1aJl further obferve the Ingrefs of the Penet rariou, whereby it pent'crates the whole body, and whatfocvcr is therein; for hy its penetration it reflares and renews it, nor rhar it wholly removes it, and introduccth a new body in irs {lead; or, that it doth ( like the Prima Afattri4) infufc its Spermarical Areanum .. bur rhus, It doth [0 purge the old, as the 84/«. manders Skin is dea'nfed. without any hun or defell' and yer ncverthclefs the old Skin abides both in irs Ef~ fence and Form; even (0 in like for t doth this Pbi/oropbers (IlJIIC purg~ the Heart, and all the capitaJ Members, and the Int~filnes, the Marrow, and whatever elfe is contained in the body it {elf. It permits nor the bud.

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din forth of any Difeafe in the body; bu.t: the; G?ut, f ,gD opfie the yellow Jaundice, the Co)lJcl{~ I aflion, !~d all the SicknCfles proceeding frorn the Four I,-In-

it turns then. all our, it aIfo purgerh the bodies, ~~d~'endcrs them in fuch wifc,as.if they were hut newly born; it bannifhc rh eV(_,I~ thang th.lt c!'!deavollrs to deftroy Nature, no otherwife then .as Ii I~e. doth to \Vorms and Vcrmlnc, even (0 do all Infirmities whar=

foever fhun th is Ret .. ovation. • .

Thefe are the Virtues that tills Phlio{opiJCYI pone hath, whereby Ie expels fuch, and Co ,~any wonrfcrf':11 Dircafc:s, not by reafon of irs CompJe~lC~m, or Spec~fick form or irs Propriety, or by an), accidental Q!Jal~ ... ty; bur r;om the powers of the (ubriJir.y of the l~raIJiJe, with which tis indued hy the Prcpararious, Rcv<:rb<:ra~dons, Suhlimations, Digeftions, Diflill.nions, , and at. rerwards hy irs various l\cduttions and Hefoll1t1ons, all which kind of Operations do bring the {folie to fuch a virtuous (lIhtiJity and acuity,' t hac '[is ~Vt'I~ wonderful:

Not that it had rhofe Virtues at the beginning, l.lIlt r hac they are at length arrribured Ihercllnt'?' :rhe ,1.lke I~a.y be apprehended as [0 Honev, the which IS b~ I.t~ I~..Icvariou rendred far more acute thcl~ any Aqua fOH1!, and any Corrofive , and more penerrarrve then any kind of Sublimate. Now it hath not naturally fueh a property ofSharpncfs; but it meer ly proceeds, from rhc Eleva. tion, which changerh all rh~~ Honey Into ~I Corrofivc :

This alfo is to be obfcrved III t hof(.' erfic acio us A1Ctlllt7CS that fuch as ufe them, ( an d Ii kewife rhe Children that are born from them) will live fo healthfully afterwards, [hat there can be no Sickuefs or conrrancry, or any fuch like Corruprion happen in their hodies.; Bur they will be wholly adorned wrrh tuch a f'!~tllc an~ ,cJ~an Complc}t:ioo of Na: ure and Iuch a Condi n on.us us 11ll: poffible to induce a more noble C::fllpkxl0n~r~d flare , for that moil: choife and mofl cxcellcnr MedlClue dorh

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v~r.y.much am,end and cleanre , and doth inrroduce r LIte iucorruprtblc, fuch til) cannot, be contaminated O[ defiled with any lIfe; for it Iuffers nor anv thing to wirher .. hut cauferh men (0 Iive in .rhe hlghef] nobility of Nature, and promotes or gives vigour unto their Off. {pring, eve-n unto the rent h Generation.

This l!.j)i/oj'opbers /lolle dorh nor only rranfiuure one weighr., bur char we ighr doth again rranlmur« Anorher , aud r his Iik ewifc ano r her , &c. Infomuch rlur rhofe mu.arl-: .. us may be almc ft extended even to Infi~ nit.}' ; even as one lighr enkindles another, and that o. thel OJ rh.rd, &c. The like may he nnderftood of this Pbdo[ol'/)ers itcne; ill relation to health, even as out of .

a G.-)oO Tree proceed s a Rood Seed: and good Succours and ~i{Jr.ls, oUt. of which g()od Trees may ~g.tjn be pro: ~llcea. ~h(.! VU"{lH: and power of rhe PIJlloJoplJick../lont IS c xatrcd III a wonderful manner, that it is even im-

• po{libJe co be foulld «ur how rhar can be uarur ally (0 brought to pltl(.·. -vnd ',V(.'fC it nor for rhofe mol] tvj. dent. fignc'), r hrt are vifihl e to eur Eyes, it would be c. ven incredible, that men could pcr(elt and accomplifh f!Jeh w(luder{ul r hillS;S' fOI the- vir rue of that Opera .. UOH p.IJT<"I h £r'om one Gcucr at ion to ana [her without

. ~orrUl'''()n; J ,ike,Nife:.- it confirls, by (he mercy of God .. .~ In one h?dY, and \:.. dvn ycd to orhc rs, or of mecr r,racc .

.r vouchfatcd unto them, accordi ug as their dcfc;ving

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Now we will {tot down the ProaJs of this Pbifo[Qpbicl'

(1~ne after this m.mncr ; "

In the Name of God; T .• ke Aft'ycury., or elfe the Ele •. menr (If :'J1ereu'1, and, Icpar at,," t he pure: from rhe im- : pure; afrerw ai ds Ier I[ be U.(;' vcrbcr arcd even to a W 1~1 t.cl.ds, rl,1c which .f"b.Jime by S-lJ Annmiac 1..:. fo long unril ir be H.dolvt'd; 1.('( If he Calcined and ag~ill dif folvcd , and he digdlcd in a Petiican a Month then at length It:t it be CotlguJa[cd into a body; thiS' body is

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71 no more c;onlbtdHhle, nor Confumlble bV aQY manner of means, but abides in the fame Rate. Thofc bodies which it pene(rate~ are permanent in thrrC;neritilll11, or t:upel.. and cannot In rhe leaf! be reduced un to norhi ng or be altered; but the {lone takes away every (upcrftu~ ous ~a1ity from Senfible and Infenflhle thingr., as we have afore declared. And albeit w« have fr;ot down a very (hor~ way, yet norwi rhflanding it requires a prolix labour, difficult and hard by r cafon of the many Cir. cumtlanccs that arrcnd tc, and it needs fuch an Opera tour as is not affelh-d wirh any naufente or wcarilonlc: aefs, but Is highly diligeru and expert,

Of ,"r1ercurius Vit~.

Nnw wce'I write of ,lfacuriru vu», the virtue of 'uhk'~ \torhlar c.xcd . the virtues of rhc two prcceden.s Art'an4cs; for Irs v~rtlle Confifis nor ill thc Arc, nor 10 the Operation, but In the 4\Jerl urius Vir£ it felf . nor h~vc we ever known any Simple thing that's lik~ ~nto IC.; for as IllUcJ,l as tlut• Nature and property is a. H ~ere ,?oatc therein ; nor IS it (rom [he virtues of the q.!!mrt:nc:n~c, no~ of the E~em~nts, bur from the Spe. cifick QJla.hty of ItS Pn:def1!natJon; Neither harli it on)~ the YJrtucsofTranfmur!ug pcrfons, and other Ef4 feurials, ~ur alto of renewing cv~ry. Growing Tiling, and fuch t_lke, our of the ~ld 0-._Dahry Into a new, vi-t. ?n t!~'s wife , The Mercurll4r vu» reducer h ]Jf(frs into itS 1~lrn Matter, and doth ag iin fo Tr anfmure it iuro its perfett M.ai~r., tI~a( Iron is again made ehcreof' , Afrer !he (ame ma.nnc:r.1C renewerh Guld lrkewrfe, the which It r~du~cth lut~ Ir~ proper Mercury and Tinltul'c, and a~alll d'g<:fieth It mro Gold, fa as to become a Metal like the former,

Nor uo~h it Operate rllll!» in Merals only, but alfo in other t hings, as Hcrbs , &:::c.. \Vhen their Uuor:· arc

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72 thc Fifth Booft oj 'IIJC Archidoxis. 73 perfufed or moificned rherewlthal ; they will bring For there can be no dcflr uftlon made of the Q!!inrcf .. forth Flowen. and te rults a (ccond time; If when the eIlCC, the which is mofl worthy ~Otjl1g, an~ highly fira f~ed 01all fall eff. they he at that rime llloHt<:ned to be admired, as we teach concerning Corruption and

with the fame as .,ho ve, they will produce feccnd Flow- rlon s So alfo a Role putrefied in Dung, rerains

ers and Frui rs without any rcfpelt of Time. rs Q!!intdlcilce in i r felf, yea even in the Dung. And

T'he (Jane is to he undcrtrood of'Men , and Bcafl~,&c, ahhough all 0 f it fiink and 'arc putrid, yet neverthelefs to whom ifrhis M<:rcury he Applved or adminiftrtd, lr die Separation of the Pure trom rhe Impure., the Bcnovarcs i!1I their Old and Cnufllllled Members , and Ql!intcflcnct: lives wit hout defclt or blemifh , and the rcftorerh rh~ deficicnr and 100 Virtues, into the Youth ... Bodies are ftlnking Carcafes, Thus ehereforefay we of

ful-Iike Body or Habitation; inforuuch , that the Mercurim viI&! that it Separates Corruption, even as

Months and Blood do as Naeurally Ilow in old Women, l\otren Wood is Separated fro II} rhe Sound 'I'Imbrr , as :In !hc Younger. Ir d~ti1 Iikewife reduce the Aged . Tis alfo (0 powerful in man s that after th~ cor!upd~n wue mto the like perfecbon of N.\turc,us the Youliger fhall be Separated from him, the Q!~mtdlencc IS again

fore are in. flirted and li vcrh , as in its YOUlh. U ur you are to

Furrhcrlllo~c this alr~ is to be oh,r~rved concerning undertland IIH.- rhus; not that the Mcrcuriu« vit£.

the Arcanum vu.e 'I or t his fecrer of II re , tfUtt i rs fo po- excites it New Effcnce, as fome: mav maliciouflv inter ..

tent Virtues e xifl in its Spt'cifick Form , by whichir . pret onr meaning and experience.bur chat the Eflence,

St.'pararcs (he Old from the 'New , or Age from Youth, and yourhfnl Spirit,which the juvenile Vir rues proceed

the Laerer of which ("V0'l 1Ji:{. youth is e ncreafed and go forth.do remain unconfumcd althougl~ bv being

then-by, and (0 'he .i\ge rencwc d , From hence it opprcfled it may he: accounted for dcad ithcrefore ~[.V.

may be gathered, that (hat Youthfulnels and the Vi. Separates the Impur irlc, whereby it comes to pafs.rhau

geur thereof, is not at all dcft:ltivc and Iacking to Old the Old Life doth mofi efficacioufl y recover its vlrrues,

Age, but is as well and equally in rhe Old as in rhe as afore; even as iu our forementioned Example of

Young; B~t rhe Corruption that grows up wi(h, and the King-Fi{lJCr, we have declared, that that Bird iii

encr~.lfeth In y ourh , hl~COmC5, fo forrificd and flro~g, renewed after death; [he Rcafon is this, bccaufe its

that It rakes away rhc Vigour rhcrefr om, from whence ~intdlt:llcc doth nor wlrhdraw (rom irs houfe and a-

Antientndlc is known. hiding place , but if that lodging be dinolvc~ by Pu-

And therefore when that (lime Corruption is Separated trefadion, then is the Quinreflence received mro that

{r.on\ t,he Youthfuln<,'f~, this Juvenility doth again rna' thing which it lies or is caft upon; Therefore rhere

m fef] It ,f<.>lf,. w i rhour Cc;n1trOVCI fy and Impedimenr. are ofr-rlmes found wonderful Coudi rious of Nature III

The which IS to be thus uudcrfrood , 'lJi:{ ~ Whcn any growing Things , the which arc not of their Nature,

Body (or Carcafe ) plI rr efir s , t he ~interrellce there- but of a like Accident, as we fct down ill our Book of

fore dot h not become l\otl'cn" hut b 011 wayc& frefh and Generations, . '

l1ncol~fumed. and. is Separated from the: Carcafe into This therefore is to be this way undcrflood. In Dung

the ~ rr, or fomerrmcs is fcar cere d and d ifperfed into there is a Concurrency and an Accumulation of Various

th~ Earth, or mro the Water, and g'')c~ unto irs place. Corruptions, vi:{. of Hcarbs, Itoors, Fruits, Waters.

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and other fuch like Thiog~; (rom whence it (0 COnlr, to pafs, r'~at the Ground I~ nor lllade Fat and Fertil,., hecaufe at rhe Corruurion r hut bl'CJlI(~ of rhe ()t' .

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!e ence. t lJ.C IS In t 1(- ill fJU~lg" r'1(' 'vhich b('takin

It ~clf Into th( .. Hoots~ Eyh.h, ,-~ Virtues to Growln g 'Things, but the Br-dv It felt vanifheth vi,. rt,A I) e

d . d d - J ' .. " • '- lin,

an IS re uce 1(1(0 ~ot ung, and is con(umed in irs fu!:

HAllce. And therefore Jlflnr-JuIIJ! or Excr('n)"nl'~ 11 )h

\' - t r. • ..... • ir

~e(lr.y great !rrue~f\ ,)cca.lJlt,'dlt C"~1t3:ns in ir t hr- Neble .

6f:, enccs , Vl~, 0 r re 1·')0 .md Drin k concc 'ni

which Wonderful Thin~~ 1llighf h~ \Vri;te~l ; rO'( :J~~ Body reccrvcs not a~y dung rhr:r(_~-trom, fave ulJl1rillJ. nlC!lt, hu[)[ r e eel ves not' he Eficnce, even as w .

Wfltc of N'JunfiJm(lJtJ. e .

~ur to come nearer ro the Praxis of Afcrcuyiu! viu which doth(~s we f,lld afore) perrea irs Operatiumaf: rcr a wondc rful ~lli1ll1iCr, 'Vl~ .. in calling offrhC' Nailcs the Hand. and l'cer'l~ltcf by H,()oring our gray Hairs, il firengthen5 YOlH.h, In fo 1l1lJ~h rhar Corruption CJnIlO! come to rhae lu-ighr as to dlfc·)vc:r old-age \ by thofc . fi~nes arrending rr , (,·Xr.err.3 foHoWi ng or Iecond Age . be again ar,.veti ul.l[o,or fettmg. ah?ut thePraltife;th~re. fore .we Will r cll ir t!1t~A(clJym;j's In a very few words, for ns necdlers ro wrrre much, and to l're.tch Prolix')' of rhefe rI~JIl~.s; bur as for fuch as arc Fool i(h prerendcrs.we wllllf.l}\.ciude them wholly. This then is the way of HS Pyalhe!..:. ...

~.c(~. iUercur!~. Effonti(1carcd, the which Separate (rom all us S!Jpe,dhu.nes, as the ,Pure from the Impure;after. wards Sublime It With Antl1nony, fo that they may hoth of them afcend and he made one ; then let them be reo folvcd upona Marhkand h~ Coagulated, and do thus CV{'U four tl !TICS. \Vhich being fiuifhe d thou f11ah ~ave the AlercuJ ius vii e which we have foJ much men- .. uoned afore, and with which We n",Jl comfort and ref' {celli OUf old Age, as wi til an A rca nJf111.

the .Arcbidoxis-

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OJ t be Arcanum of 'be Tinl1:ure.

AFter the fame nluner i,s theArc~l1l4m of the Tinllur« to he unde-rftood , Vl:{. that I t taker, away all the unwildine{f~ of Old ".gc:" and every difeafe, a!ld ,:vha~focver COriUPn. the health, ,and that h~th an Inc.ltnara .. on courrar v thereunto. 'This Arcc1nHm,l~ a certain Till. lIurc of tuch hkt: propcrr ies and Condit ions as to Operare and introduce Health; not af cer t!Ut fame' way as the three former do, btu accord lUg to .ltr:. Namc, for the Ttnllure ringerh the Good and the. Evil, the Grofs and the Subtile. Nor doth it orherwife rlte n fo , perfett ic~Opararions in rheBod y likewifc)~o as t? tranfmure the corrunr and Diforderly complexions Into faun? and healthy, like that Tillllutt rha. makes Luna of McTt:ury; it Separates not the evil (here' from, but ringcrh both the Good & the evil that they finally become rogerher mof] excellent. So likcwife doth this Tinllure tinge [he Hydr opical and (ltc:ririal Body into a .f~llnd S[~tc ; not [hat the Dropfie is took away., tl~e Orlgiunl driven Out or Separated Irom rhe Go~d, but 1.5 tran~lln.tC:'d ~nr() Good.even as is b ehooveful & IS conftitured inlirs hIgh. yea bef] degree, , even as th~ Corrupted Dung or ~l1d, may by the S.·brllc Corr upt ion of Art, he brought mto In Elixir ; ahle to dr ive .orrh every COHU1}tlOD; and (hat Corruption is not Separared , hut, ~hc whole Subfiauce is rranfmurcd into another (l!j.lhtlc and N~·

lure. ~

The fd(-fame is to be fuppofed Qfthis.111l11,~rc, that i e tlngeth the Body without any scparauo_n, at (he evil from the good or e xpulfion 01 Mans firfl Eflcnce.bui oy the renovation thereof.

But yet this is to be known, that that tinged' body lives no more in the Old Form, hut is after the manner (.'fMctal, tranfmutcd iaro into another; as Copper or any

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a .. y otlu:~ may. l.ikcwif~ ,~atuTn hath not in it fdfirs Old (~nahty, but the Q!Jahtlc 0f~he Tillliure Ir feff;The very fame .. S to be underfl ood ot Cln~ed Bodies, fuch as Jla~e reccJ\'cd. rhe rmglllg ?~ the Tinnur~, that they c}{.fl no more 10 thc:.formc' hie from which dH:Y were . rranfmured ~Y the lmllure" bUt. (he condition of rhe ' Body, and Form, or Beaurv, IS far Nobler, herrer :-n~ more IIL'al,thful then irs Narive Original was, and IS lake to Gold III Nature, made hy the Tillllure OUt of . Jron, as we have likcwife wrirren concerning TT4nj •. mt. rations,

if therefore this 7'iullurc is a Tranfmurrefs of Bodies to a better Srare, as char of M,:raI5 (which fo few have the: Knowlcdg and Experience of) is; there Ihall be fo manv fuch like Various Corporeal Tinllures as there are McralilJc Tiu«ures; 0:' which as onc j~ alwaye. better then another, fo arc the Corporal. Tis to be ob~crved, that fomc are naturally Tinllures, as Saffron. a Flower and Sulphur, fornc are fo made by Art, as [he Stone, Realgar; &c. T'hefe Things are mof] heedfully ro be obferve~ "t. becaufe th~ beginning and entrance that they e xhllsir (0 rhofe 1 mftuces is AOt fmall.

Furthermore tis to be confidered.ehar rhofe 7i~ll"m oughr to be made (or rne .Seven Pr incipal members.and their propcrrre [0 be arrrfbured and given [0 each of thc!fl, as tho~c rhar fcrve the He arr Co the hearrvro rhe brain fuch rhings as arc Iurable unto it; and rhofe 1illl!uTC$ muf] be prepared (rom Metals, Hcarbs , and fuch Iike things as arc proper. Hence wiJl it come to pafs, th,at !)y then~ t he whol~ Bccly may be Tinged. Nor will It be Iufticienr that It be tinged by one Tinllureone. ly" but c~en ~s one linllurt: doth oneIy Tinge one Me. taJ, the Iike IS to be fuppofed of rhcfe, The llraftife therefore of the Tinllure Isrhisj

Tate tb« EfJt:ncc of the ."Iembcrs, from which Effcnce you muf] Separate the Elclncnc~; afcerwards puc rheir l'ire

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ire in Digefiioll, and leave it [0 long until there re ... des nothing more in rhe borrom ~ and [hat there apears nor at all any thing of the: Maner" Subfianrially. hen take the Mauer and rhe Glafs well Luted after hls manner with the Lure of Hermes, and Ier ir in a oif] and Cold place , in w hieh place they will be ain rcfolved into a Vi liule .lJ1Mtcr; that Vifible Md.tttr that Tinlhae whereof we wrote; and rhus with thefe \II we will conclude; For Ihould we write more of his, the Staid:.! would deride it, and therefore we will

ce our fclvt=s from their fcoffing, and Ipeak oncly to

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um j for (neh as are l'crfc:ct, .111d are, as is fit', they d be, rhev arc not in the Icaft ape hereunto, neiher can they make a M,zgijil r). 'I hercrore the N;HtlrCS frhiog5 ;.tee to be confidcr ed ; likewlfe the difference the f:'XtraltlOu~ of Magifhric5 is ro be heeded, as

ur ofMuals, Marcafircs. .s(ones , Hcarhs , and fuch ike Mat rcr s, by rhofe things which art: Hot Mc[aiick, ..... nd arc yet nevcrt h-lefs made like to Me rals, no otheri.e rhen as Wiu~ is made Iike to ViuC'gJf, hoth in ewers, Virrues . and Sapour, . And that the Wine .ap:l

an. nor difft:rcnt rrom the Ace t um , the clufc thereis , becaufe thc:rc is .. Ifo it Nature like Acer am " n it, whence it comes to pane rhar rheir N rrures ave one and the f.tllll" aopearancc. So I ikewife I: the arure 0 [he Metals l~t: pure, it dot h even in Ii It e auner and {:(l uall y appear fo in their i~·f,lg;flf,.'ricl·, but

et it is nor ot tll.1r larue properr ie. '

Moreover J~ ~ollc.:"rnillg rhc Ad-Iirious, this is to be J, 'tJi{. t hot-, T nings that arc afliuued to rhi~ innr and plH r'- fe, although rhey arc not of one and the 101.. Comple xion , Power, or All, )'f.'r ncver rhvlcfs :y .1gn:e and accord in t he prcp.irarion ; For that

hich n Iult s from rhe Vir ruos thereof, is an approprl, and not comple xionarcd product, By rhofe 'urns do the Metals rhemtel vcs .Itf nd rhci r iJf,rgi·

ries, the which indeed lUI,,' be accounted no lc1le hen Q!.!in[eflcncc~, as [0 rhcir Virrues. Gold doth detit and lay down ill its '/lIc.lgiffcry all irs Q..1.ality arid mplexion in one dlene .. :; And I [ if nell to be thereore fuppofed , chat bccaufe r he Body is of no mo-, t cr V "I ue, that then tore [he rcO w HI be i!lfcltccl herewith; No, for till.' l.eprofie r hcreor' doth not ar II. h~rt ill rhi s place , bur the whol.: i s good Sugar ~JIl(Jrdy fweet, whilcft r i s yet in irs Body aucl not cp.uatcd, and ir alfo may be (0 prepared C with fin a ..

biuillg

AI{_CI-IIDOXIS.

o.f Magiftcrics,

Aving rhus fi uifhcd the Precedent Books 01 the mofl e xce lle nr ~l'dicalllcnts; \\'C hne inreudcd (0 adjoyn this Book of .l1.1~iJl,· . rics;And firH of all to declare whar aMagi .. jler, is; This rhcrcfore h J MagiflcTJ·,1Ii{ ..

that which call be Exrrr1tted our of things, widloura' uy Separation or Prep<!I .Irion 01' thl' Elerncnrs , and yet· norwirhftandmg, the Powers and Vrr tucs of the r:hing~1 arc by the ado u ion 01- (-mil' thing, Attraltl'd 111 to tlut·· matter, and confervcd rhere,

Thofe Vu t ue s do uor iJ [JIl proceed (rom the nature : of the rhiug}, as jn rl.-ft.·' cnce to the operarion, nor do .' they proceed. from a SfcuJkl:._ Virtue') hut from the,· Permixiou , by which rhofe fame vir rues are e xrrarted, .. If Vil}(gar be poured inro Wine , it makes it all Vine·.· gar, this now is a Maglficry. Bur if Wine be pourd: upon Hony, rhar is n or wholly tranfmurcd hcrcinte.]'

wherefore it is not a MJgif\ery. ..

T'hofe things therefore are to be confidercd that ap' . per ca in to a 1J1if.ifter}, even as,. \Vhat Wiues do to Acerum ..

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it (elf is, that is drawn therefrom. And therefore Ma .. biding in its f,vcctneiTl") that it may become far """".:, .. ", i!letiel are know n to U5 to he Aifred wi rh r(:culia r Vir ..

fweer and efficacious then it was afore; hut the abf (ues,and we write them down, to our praite , even to

{ted Quiotdfence is nor fwecrer then in or with i death. .

own Body. Where ~orc this Body doth nor at all bri \Vc fpeak in Iike manner of the Jl{dgi/feriel of Heatbs ;

any dammage rhercunro, Sur yet no[withrlandi the which arc fo t:tft·llual, that half an ounce of them 0-

the Vin ue (hereof Sq'arated from the Body, is perares marc rhen an hundre d «unces of rhe ir Be dy, and

Noble, rhcn being prepared in or with it. Btl[ t che reafon is, becaufe that fcarce rhe hundredth part IS

Magi{fer;e dot" amend it more then Nature could. the Q1inrdlcnce. Wherefor-e the (Jlla~[iric of ir being

The very fame alfo. iii to he nuderflood of r fo very hrrlc, the greater heap thereof IS to he ufed and

Srones that cnr L r inr o rhe n umber of Magifieric5, adminlttred , which is not required in MagiJferies; for

likewife of their Bodies, tJi~. that that which i:, 3 in rhofe the whole quanririe of rhe Hearbs is reduced

med about the ufe o( them, is not defective in its VI into a AfagiJleric" [he which is nor then to be eflecmed

rue, but is a iJlatijtcr, fufficicnrlv flrong, This' infefiour (hy reafon of irs Artifice) to the r rue extra-

are to uodcrfland on this wife" even as when S 8ed Narural.!!!._u;lIlcDence it felt; oneparr of rhis being

is kindled and wholly burnt up, rhar which burns adllliniHred·, is more profitable rhen an hundred pans

is the very leaf] portion rhercof' , fo Iikewife of the like Body, and that for this reafon ; becaufe rhe

ftones j as for Example, Chrvflal , when us reduct Afdgifle,ies are prepared, and arc rendred ~~Cl1CC [0 rhe

into a MagijltYlc, it brings all Stones into their higncf) degree, and are brought to a quulirie, equal co

Matttr,. and grinds them after a wonderful man a Q..yimeffcnft, in the which J1agi(leries all the Virtues

1100therwife then the Eflcnce thereof; and that and Powers of the whole Body arc prefenr , and from

this Bearon. becaufe the Sod y may be, or h tin£cd them Virtues, doth its help and fuccor arife unto it.

the QU.int~{f(.'llC("" and may be ilccoll~re~ {or an F.ir For in them doth rhe Pcnerrabilirlc and Power of the

no orherwife (hen as Vinegar and \VI ne IS; One wh whole Body cxlfl , from the permi xion rhar is made

of doth make rhe or her like it Iclf w inhoue any thcrewirh , for the Body doth not receive any ofthefe

In like manner, tis nor ondy io in Stones , that with defire or aff.:ction, bur fuch things oaely II!. are fpi-

TjnOure is thus made, bue alfo in fuch like M(:ri11s . ritual to it f(.·Jf; whereby ir comes to pafs, that it ar-

the Q!!inten(:~lce of Golcl Ting~th all irs Body into tr.ltb rhat ~1"g;(lerie" and permi xerh it felf therewith-

pure Q!!inrc:t1cncl~, the wh~("h hg!u "!Ie account of al, no orherwrfe then as even Gold draws to it fdfthe

great, yea too too grear, t·;". tile light o~ all the Jlftrc14y;e of Life, and is commixed rhcrewich (t~le

crcrs of our ArL'/Jidoxi.\-; and therefore we klndk C which thing Iron doth nor do, lind rhe rcafon IS thls,

with a cheerful mind,tllJt fo we may find the final hecaute they are not fo agreeable betwixt rhcmfelves in

elution of rhote Noble Af,j1c';,'$ of Nature; We the Compofition) and Io , borh the Eodyof ir." and

our In1ll'l1ltion~ (rom Examples, proved e xperimen this 'l1Jgi/fc,~ are ArlU1Igflmatcd together and made one;

Iy by us , as in M,tgil1t.'rit:~·" and chit'iiy in that concerning which produll many EXAmples are ro he

Gold, the which contains both the Body ~ and found, which w.; Ihall noc mcnr ion in this Place_Some

~;nrenell{·t: e quall y as well as the ~l1ltC (; of

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of the M4rcajitts do after the fame manner l' the: Operation of their M~dicinal propenici ; ,et wi th this difference, 'lI;~. they leave thtir Body and rhe beft part of rhem andy (as the juyce) il ' CXtraa~d, and is ueverrheletle a Magificry, albeit the Body be Separated rherefrom s But yet this is to be underftood, that rhar is not the Body of the Ma but rather of the Earth (,r MiacraJ, i8 which ehe Mar. cafit« doth lie ; for it hath not fuch an efficacious Virruc of i t fdt', w hereby to be Separated (rom r he Earth, or' . Minera, bur abides therein, as a Marcafi"~, and it (0 accounted of. And. r~crefore [0 declare a Magiftet' .... what J[ I~, of what 't IS made, and what Virtue, ir il ' endued withal, we will in what follows, fer down the Praltlfe thereof, and Iikcwife defcribe the ~rtific~ of irs Preparation; bur yet this Procefs cannot be couched in one General (~xplicarion, but there' mufl ., be a particular treating of'each.as of thcMetal~ by them, ,. {elves, alfo of the Marca/ites by rhemfelves, and (0 of rhe '.

Stones and Hcarbs , :

Likcwifc th~r~ i, to be hild a Singular MagijierJ of ' Il/ood, and t.hl~ IS alfo taught by a Peculiar way and manner. In It If, (0 be: confidered t what the Virtues and Powers of a man arc , and .hat the Nature of it contains i~l It felt, in ':Vh.it t~1in .. thert" h a de(cit, &~ .. !'ur vet wirhour the: diruinurion of the Natural Creation It'df, ?llr .IS to he confidercd as a work perfcli' & com' . pleat wuh It" pans, even as a bird with all its Feathers,

OJ the Extr,111iol1' of the Magifterie

, 0111 o.f Metals.

F: rl1 of ~II, we wiU fer down the Magiflery out of . .HeI4Is~ an~ dLcJ.1l"C rhat which thews it felf ro be ~.t wonderful VJftuc.:~J and are to be ... known accordirg

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to the Tcnour of its Effence, The Procefs of them muft be done without any Corrofives.ano all Iuch complexionared things as an- courrary ro rhe.: "1t'lItls. For the Efiences ate corrupted by rh,;C('lnjunlTlOn or Commistonof'conerary things, tnfomuch that by chi;') cr. tour, they fhew forth no virtues, the one overcoming Iud bearing (way over its contrary.

And w hereas a great regard is [0 be had of l hdr a. greemenr and affirnrie, rheretore the Temperate alone will be fuirablc rhereunro , hut now yon arc (0 know what chat Tempe-rare Thing is ; a Temperate Thing, a Complexionared Iomewhar or Body" for thj~ doth receive rhe other inro it 'eJf, and is inccrporarcd wirh that whereto it Ihall be adjoyncd, fo (har if doth nor any more difcover the old, and i('~ own c<"1ll1"e}.:ion, but the Virrues of thin Bod y one I) which ilia JJ be; ad .. ded usto it ; Thus indeed Vinutn ardens ~ or burning Wine harh in it felta fuJI and pcrft:lt complexlon , but yet il doth (as I may fo Ipeak ) Complexionare that which '15 pur into it. much 011 re abundam ly, and doth fo pufelt its oparariou , according to the Virtues of that Body which was pur rhcrcin.

And therefore fc:dng i r doth thus A rrraft rhe Virrues of anorher and tame ItS own, j r h .. (or (his rcafon {aid 1;0 be Tempe-r ate, and is defervcdly called 1o. But here arc fOllle ddlin8iolls (0 he norc d , lor We mean the £Jt:Ult:nts oncly, and we: may Ipeak (0 of oy}, I he which draws to ir (elf the N .. rur cs of others, and hides irs own Ele menr, OUt o: any thing that is like to thefe may be made a Alagl/,ene; '0 rhat the; Vir rues of the metals may pafs into chat fame remperarc thmg,and mlly be mundified and purified rherewirh.and be ddHl .. !ed even to their limit or end, fuch a Bite Magi/Ie,., atrcr It Ihal be per felted, lhal be ('alJed Potable; and that becau~c it may be taken in drink, whence it comes to Pane, rhar the JlJagi/feTJ of Gold, it. called Aurznn Fata-

G ~ bile,

The Sixth BODk of

bile, and that of Silver; Argentlltn Porabik, (0 of Iron le.ad .. A.gent Vlve, ~·c. tfH:Y may be made: Porable and fq called , and be defcribed according to their own (;01111"1<. xions , and according to rhofe procetles J they Jlave far £l eater Operarrons then is E>epcdic:nt for us to write .of , ACter this manner, with one Temperare me. ela urn, and one procefs , and alfo by way of prallifc, 1l1ay all the Magitl( .. r ies of the tevcn Mctal~ be made.

The pra8ife: thereof is thuf>;

Tak.e Circulatum pur ged excellently well ., yea to the hightf\ eflence , w herero put the thinncfi MetaHne 1.e,I\'(·S or fi1ing~ of any Metal you plcafe , exccllenlj and moil fubtildy wrought and mundificd.

T'hefe two being PUt together in a fufficlene weight muft be clrcularcd for four weeks, and rhe Leaves will be reduced by this temperate medium into an oyl, and into a form of Iamefle Iwimn.ing at top, and coloured according to rhe condirf on of the MCla', the which you nlaU Separate by a Silver drawer from the Circularum;this rhere.ore is Potable Gold or Silver,&c, The like may be alfo exrralted with the other Mc:tah, and may be taken in drink, or with your food, with. OUt any detriment.

7ht? ExtralJion of /'tfdgi{leries, out of Pearls,

Corrals and Gems.

TilE Magi/lcry our of precious Stones, is to he under, flood atrer' the fame manner, as that oue of Meral!, .. s to the: Vlrrues , which each Stone hath according to jr~ Nature ; Bur r his is to be noted, that for Stones there needs no Teml'n4lum , nor any kind of Addhion ., becaule their folucion is nor rhc fame with the refolurion of the Merals , hut rill' Magi/lt'TJ of them is exrracted by another way; in the prattitc of which there are three: Proccfles to be emderfkood, one for Gems, iI I~cond for Marcafile~', and a third (or COTrals; by which

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three all fianv growing Tllings Illay he brought 'jll't~ their proper Magifierie. As for the procefs of Stones, their Colours are not to be: obferve d , neither • hell' brighrn/fie and clarir!e to be '~~ed(,:d,. fOI' tha~ 'I!l·rh~ Magifierics of them have a white Colour. 'SoHk~wirr Peatls , corral excepred , Ic» rhey hold rhclr Colollr ·fjuguJady above r(lt: ochers in the ~1Jgifl(:r)'; and th~.rc:. 'fore' the: Colour in them IS to be chicrlj' notc.'d ; for the Magificrie of rhem , together With rhe Body and Element and whole Effence is Ext(aa-cd (by additions) without corruprlng rhern , and may nevcrrhdeHc ~ea.gain rcfiorcd inro their plrfl'ltion; and tllt-refore as to their Gcncrarron and Nature, t(ICY. cannot be cornpared to Stones, and yet have r hey a Seony condition. Thisalfo may be done, vir: the whole Colour may he E~rraaed OUt of rhe Bodv of che Oorrals, Inro anorher n:edil4rn, and there may afterwards be made an image ot fr~me of their Bodies, as of Clay ; and after this framelng, may the Colours be again lufufed, and he rrade as good Corral as afore, But now this cannot pr.flahly be done fn with Pearls; not with Gems, for rhe y cannot bY' the fame Rule be any more reduced into their pc.' r 'tlti- 011, but rhey remain in a Magi{h:ry., rhcir (fii'nce not being corrupted. We have hk ewifc perceived it to have pierced the Glatle s, and (11(.' Iuftr-nrnenrs ~ and to have informed and fl:.1lllped rhem according to its own Nuurc. A~ ehu-, The M<tgiflcric c.f rhe ,llczenct,it hath drawn unto it felf', in the form and manner of the mil" !trial JJ[agnt't, and hath afrerwai ds fi xr it into the Glafs, and ham ringed ir, fo that even this alto hath altra8ed Needles and Straws, (.q-c. The fame is to be underflood of the ctfi, »nd therefore are they to he kcpr in Gold onely , we have met with n.ore fuch rhinr,s as rhefe then is credible. of the which forr we: make here a memorlal ouel y, t ha r fo by this gnidi ng, mor e t hin cs may be Icar chcd OUt in Arts andr-.lagifi(:rics ; \'Vlll'recrs

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th~rcrnre. thfY require a peculiar dcmonflrarlon be.{i~c .. or different from rhe other Extractions. We will ~~w Teach rheir PratliJe on this wife; And fitfi of

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T~kc Gems, ( and .firf\: of all ~rind or heat rhcrn, and ~alqn,c rhem ~<:cor.dlng ~o a l~(·vl·rb~ratory. condition) and Common SJlrmtre. In equal weighr , 'tJl~ •• a pound; ehe which burn together e xcc llenr ly well into a Calx ~and after lee rhem be waflred with burning rVinc, Io long: ' until rhere be found II') mort' fuperrl jU~ Mdttcr ; Afrer the Wafhing, Calcine this marrer again, and proceed in ~n refpelts as afore, and Io the who!p will pafie into the burning I-Vme. Evaporate this hy Ebullitio". fo Olaff thou hay': an Alk.l/i, the which being l\efolved into a Water, keep. Thcre'\ no reafon [hac chou Ihouldll abhor the ufe of the a dminiftration hereof, how acute ,->f Calci neous foever It he; (o~ "tis by rhar acui ')' alone that It Operates upon that which refifts it ; and ir isfo Subrile , , hat one only drop ringerh the Whole body into a finr.ulJr Virtue.

LiX:!wl{c Pearies are to br- reduced into a Water on this wi fe, vi~. Ta~co Corrected Vinegar, whereto put the Pcarles bell1~ bruited, and let chcrn digcft therein for a Month, and fo will rhev be Heolvcd inro a \Varer j then pifiil it and Separate the AcCtNtl' therefrom by a B; tllI~ done-chou Ihalr find the Pearls in rhe bot~?n\ Rcfol"c:d into 01 wa-er . this is rhe AfagijlflJ of .J ~'.1'ls or Vnzl}n!. And alrhough the proce!; of t his PTa. l!tc/": b~' an eafie and Ihorr Wtl y, vct ueverrhelefs ( be!Ien: h m , th~t hath Experienced ir, for) Wonderful I~ the Operation of them; but yet this aaivity of their 'VIrtUeS 15 not made hy Art, but is placed even in the Nature of them, and Is hidden in their grnfTe fubflance, by reafon cf which they cannot Operate no 1110~e then a dead b?dy, but a H,cfolut ion being made, their bodywill be vivificd j but of this enough.

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Of th« Extra8iolJ of the lJfagijit.'Y) out of .lHarcufi ter.

As concerning the Mt1g;(Jeries of Marea/hes. thi$ is neceflarv co be known, That they onely ore Minerals; and therefore the Mil1cral is noc adduced into hs i1f.tgi{frI9 but the true iJlarc/Ja{tle onlv, as is alto appareuc in Metals, the which d() not paffe into their MetgiRer, unleffe rhev be firft Separred from their Mineral:

And although r har .14arC.l/i.fl cannot well be Separated therefrom, yet neverchelefle it may be done in the AfJgi/lcrieJ'. There are indeed various kinds of .llfart:afileS, as the Gol dcn, Silver ifh, the Gol-Icn Talk, the White, and the Purple , the Tinny of Bifmurey; Antimony, Granare, and or ltvr fuch like; to all Which, norwirhftanding, there's one onlv ~~~traltiQn i s agreeable. Likewifc the Virrues and Powers uf them do in in Medicine fhew and dHcQV(T rhemfclvcs according to the Conditions of the Mcralick Ooci .. clons, ~nd though they be not in Meuls, yet' nor wi rhfiancJing have they ohe Properties of them, 'Therefore wt:~ 1 now fee down a few things thereabouts, bccaufe we mention them more at large in our JJoof( of Extrieiecals« There is a difference, or diftinltion to be obferved, according as is their particular /iffini[y And .' grce mcnt ; as Gold and the M.lrC.lfire., Antimony and Lead , the which in their framing and Confitlatioo, may be com-

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p~red to each other murually .. hur are ncvcrthddTc Se.

parared in Vjrrue; For in fome IJfarca{ttes there h lbe Extr48ion ojtb« Magificry from Fatty Subfbances ,

more virtues chen in tht.- (.'on/imi/ar, or like Mer.lIs.

Thi5 We fcc happens in Lead and Anrlmony , of which Or is it to be orherwlfe conceived of'abour the Ex-

two, this latter Cnree the Il,eaprous, the: Morphew, [he tra8ion of the Magijle" of Fau, Sub{f,mces; as

.Alofled4,~ the like" and all SColhf,& Scars.or ChOp~tthe he .ar of Amber, of Roz.ins, Oyls, and others. 4S they

ko"ine, E!t1pbantiac ~, and J'yrian, rbc. which the Itf:. H'BiillnrU'ar in rhe Jike Material Subfiancc&; concerning

~ifflrY ("If Lead or ,~atu'ne doth not do; Thec<:torc rIfe ich , there are Three waves of Extralting of .their

I)rnp('rtie~ of this kind are ro be: noted, the which do ;jleries; one peculiar way is of Amber, another of

(om:tilllcf. lie hid, not only in ur cae bur even in Icffer· ca: 05, and rhe other of Farcy Things; as Oyls, Fats.

rhing ,aud that mort: abundanely , Th( .. refore lets pro. ncr, and fuch like. For Amber cannot ar all en.

ceed rtl the fearching out rhie Rcafon, Why Anrimony ure the Ptocejs of the Extraction of Fatty Things,

pol1cfieth more vn rues then its Metal doth? You mufi ecaufe, thereby irs virtues would be loft, I.ikewife

.l?t<:, th~r tht; body thereof i~ not fi x , nor .fuffiCiclltly inous Things cannot undergo the prafiife upon Am ..

dlgdlcd mto Iff. own Periclbon as S.uurne 1S; there. , for ir would he defir.ultive to them; !he~e(o~e

Upon it aflurnes 3 volar ile Properr,. But the Maner if e wiJl reach the preparations of thofe l'-1aglfierres III

{elf our of which tis horn, is Uecrcavarive (or capable hree wayes ; Sc:cing that there appears fuch excel-

of divcfiing ) and Mundificarive of its own natunl nr virtues in Fars, and that varloufly j There, where

Property, which (0 rem .. iued uncorr upr, as we fet Ellences can Operate nothing at all, do the Farcy

down in 'lw 6001· of Generations. Hence tis, That it hiugs hclp; for they have ~hat r~opcrty by. reafon of

purged\ Gold and Silver more then the fire or any o. eir Specifick and Approt'nate. Virtue, ~VlllCh 17 ~ot

rher El emcn r doth; T'hcrcupon .lIfo it Mundifies and d to he fo perfett in other things , nor Indeed nit;

pnrgt.~rh rhe o()dy, even as Gold 311d Stiver arc freed by as [he difference is betwixt CoP"r"ls & Gems, fa alfo

h of all their Impuri I ie, ; The M!lf"fier" of Antimony s it to be under Hood of chefe , The Prallile of cfrem is

expels the 14eaprofi,' more then is Crt:tftble. The like "this, and firfi of the Amber,

Is to bt~ underfiood of the retl. •. r4"-e Amber, exceedingly wcllgrol1nd~ as mu~h as yo~

Now J<"(,5 proceed r") the Pralfi/i:, whereby we teach cafe; and o( Circulatum as much as IS Iofficien r, di-

rhe preparanons of the lU.rgiftery from them all, on chi» n them in FIacco, or ajlattc,i Vt!{foJ, in Afhes for fiN:

wife , ; then let the Circulatutn be Diftilled thence ..

Ta"e a "f.ll·~4{ite .. grind it mofi fuhtilly, and put to it , and be again poured on, the which let be done

Co much di (lA ~'lIIg Water as mav over .. top it the (0 ofren unrll there he found an OyJ in the bore om, t~n~

breadrh of {J:.~ nnaers , Let it bl~ diffolved, and after. which 0\"1 is the M.tg;flery of Amber. This hath .dtf-

wards be- rutritled for a Month, rhc:n ler it h(.· Ditlil- [clofed to us Irs wonderful Vircues. May ir f.:> remain.

Jed, and he S<:para{(:d, as we reach of Metals. This The Rc(rnfluf bodies are reduced unto their ftlagiJfc ..

doue , thou (Jule have: the Magij1er, of that Mara:a{t18 I, on this wife;. ,

thou eookeft , Ta~~ Turpentine, Gum, or RG>1.in, as much as yon

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pleafe, put it int? a Glaffe ~Ut(!~1 and let it be di Oyl in their M.trcri~l Suhhaf)~e~ be 4:.xtraRcd; "Fhe~e

for a Mont~l ,per Ie In a hot dlg<:~Jon; then bt:ing "a greater Anificc In rhote Exrfalttons then IS {did

with the diffolvrng Water, let It be hoyled in 911 "'~II"-r~nd~rf1ood, alchough the Proce[s be here entirely

Wine, for half an hour only. Then difiil it by a bl fcrlbed. .

Hcad~ or Alcll,l>ick, then let them fland for one d But as for Herbs, and other fueh like, thev are to be

So Ihalr rhnu find certain Oyls, difiin8: frorn each 0 ,ixt wirh burning w iue, and to be purrified there-

the which Separate, for each of them is a Magifter, ih (or a month; (hen are they to be Difiilled by

irs Noll ure, . M. and rhar which h Difiilled muft be again poured

But the lU.lgfflai(.·$ of 0,1$ are made without the . and it mull: be rhu.. proceeded withal fo long un«

dirion of difiolviug Waters, the which likewife I tile whole Q.9aotiry of the burning Wine be four-

'Virtues corretponding with the virtues of their Mattc" es Ids rhcn the J uyces of the Herbs s niHil this

me by a Pellican, wlrh new Addiramenrs, for one: [h,then Separaec it ; Havingfo done-chou fbalt have: e MJgiltery of that Matter or Herb weh thou tookcfi.

TlJe 1!a:tr4!1j}ll of the M~gifl(uie in 'Vine.

T/}C Ex"atlion of Magificrics fut.) Growing Thing'.

CORling to Treat of Gro..,ing Things, we mean Growing rb,:ng:., fuch as grow green.and after wjt"hcr~ and do again wax green in their Sea(on, as

fore: and likt~wife thofe things that (i'lower; as Ow wee'l declare the M4gifl~r, of JVjne~ the which

Ht;rb~ and fucn Iike. The Magifterie.r of ehefe are appears lobe endowed with innumerable Vir-

YCJfil' made and Extrafied from them; as from T lU:S; whereas it receives fuch a Nature from mofk of

one way, from Herbs another; the diffcft:ncc whe Virtues that lie hid in the Earth, as we fcc down in

cf)nfifh in this., 1Ji~. That the one is Wood or Ti veneration of Wine ; NON you mufi know, That the

aftd the ocher is Purrlfiable The Leaves rherefon ' ijferies hereof iUC [0 be done Two wayes, albeit we

and Flowers muri be prepared as the Herbs are; TI over One: of them in filencc, becaufe ehe procels

fore we will (et down rhete M~g;j1eries Scparately. Ttl( rcof h common, fuch as we ufe in the many Ex-

prepar~tion of the Ml1gijler) of Wood'5 is rhus ; fI isns 3f Willes. Sorue Pre' [/ich.. waycs of" this tor1agi-

:ra~ rue Wood, CUt it IinaU enough, the which pur ... '1 of Wille are here fer down j Some do endeavour to

into a glazed POt, able to abide the fire, and fhut 01' ~(f;1ll: it whilctt the Wille is yet new, and boyls i II the

cover it exceeding well; Jet it he burnt with a fir~oI ' rging, Some bury i r, and fo leave j t an hundred

Coal« for four Hours, t hen take it our, and putrifie il ., (or ycars v ) V cry many S cparare it without

in a GIJfic~ (or a Month't rhen nrnu it in Alhcs even re, But however it be done, I fhall not Wrire any

the laft Spirits; which being perceivedcprefenrlv in~ heft! rhcreof j I will only dc1.ivcr that Way

that Co the Magifter, may nor get any flinch from hich 1 have rr yed by T~l'pcrjence. FuO: of alit you

lire; By this way fhale thou have the Magif1er, of' ., arc (0 know, That in 'Ville is a very Subrilc Spirit, and Wood which rhou fun undertook to prepare, Thus aJ(o ' ur little; and i~ contained inCand accompanied wtrh)

may Seeds, l\oots, and Barks, and IlJ~h like as conran h I'h.'f&,n. And although this be a QUintc:fience,ver.

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Dotwithflanding is a M4g~(ley, ro he made trlcrcof, r~cel as a Metal from irs Mineral, or ~arrh ..

by uting a greater Pralllfe .. and PrOct'/;. Furthermore tis (0 be known conccr.mng Wine, That

You are alfo to kriow , Thar there arc more and f'e:c.r and Pblt'gm chere of is th,: MlI~erill as '(wer~,

rer vrrrucs in chat Wine which hath not as yet PUt d rhar the Subftance of the 'Vine IS the BodX' III

ih TArtar, for there is Iomcrimes more virtues in 14 hich the Eflcuce is Confervcd; even as the Eflence

then in the Wint it fdf;'- Alia the Oldncflc of Wine:' f Gold lies ill Geld. Therefore wee'} fer down the

more laudable then that which is Young, for the S ollife for a remembrance, that fo we may not forget

rher.e:of is more digefied in Succefii: of longer : and 'tis thus;

chen a fhorrcr, Morcovtr., tis to be confidcred, 1a,,-e the oldcft Wine; and the bell: that ,'OU can ge~,

the Wine that is to be for this ufe , muf] be buried in th as to Colr ur and Tafle, what you pleafe ; PUt It

cold Earth, and its Vd1i~1 nlull be exceedingly 0 a GlalTe Vdlc:l, fa that a Third part thereof may

nlur hath above and beneath, that fo it may have Iull i and fhut it with the: Seal of Hermes; and keep

breathing Vent at all: for it may be kcpr thus n in Harre dung, and in a .conti~ued Heat (or fo~('

hunc.\red& of years without Tartar. But we will rhs i let it not be defective, VI!{. 'your Heat. Tlus

(peak here of the lcngrh of time, for it Vl{jll be too g ddnc. then in [he Winter. t~me, whe.n the Cold

dious ; but yet ris good to remember it • .: 'Nor is chat nd Fron arc cxrrcamly fharp, rd It abroad III d.lt: cold

Mttgijlerte of Wine that is drawn our of Atujf, or a month that i[ may be Congcal~~; After thl: man ..

Wine, but a Ma,ij1er, of Mu(l : Nor is if a thing of A er , the Cold dorh thrufi rhe Spirf t of the Wine ,to-

to DIll:ll it wirh irs [eces; of its own pblfgm; as .. 'L ..... __ .. (her with Irs Subfl ance into the Centre o~ th~ WIne

4rdensis, became by rhis way thofe Virtucs of the Stparate it from the Phlcgm . That Whl~h 15, Con-

rit are loft which are in irs F.ffence. Therefore tis 11 cd or Frozen, cafi away; but rhar ~I,lIch .I~ not

""ayes convenient [0 do this fame thing. So by led, YdU may account, to l.)e the: Sp'!IC wivh the

much the ofcner the beft Vinegar is Diflillcd, (0 m tance , Put t his in a Pe11/can in a dlgeflion of ~and,

the remoter doth it recede from the Spirit of U'ifl~, ur "or to~ hal', and there let it abide (or fOOle.tlme ;

Upon which account 'tis to be corifid crcd with (h: frerwards rake forrh the Mag;{lery of the ,.(Ime, of

highcfl: diligence, thar the Q!]inteflencc be not b~' aOJ' hich we have now fpoken. A& for rhofe more P~o-

means CO(fuprc:d in the Mdi.;"~rie\·, but rather t/ue II's [hat are e xifiaur and arc appl ved co ufc, w~ ~JIl be: augmented and fortilied ;11 its Vi nut's: J.ikcw;(e, eak more Iargly of when We 'hall T~eat of Eilxn, ;. when it Is S('parared without Fire , it cannot by anI nd here wec'l make an end, and he mindletle of fume

means he a Magllfe,.,~ becaufe there is the Suhflauriali. rher thofe Prortlf~s of Wine which we have no great

ty wanting- Yon are therefore to know that th('Spi' iking unto.

ric at' the ~Yine .~ to be confer ved together w i rh ir~ Snh.

fiance, and not with its. Phlegm: For there are Two S,lIbflanc(_'s to be found in Wine; the one i:, \ViflCy,i~ which the Spirit of th(~ \Vine is, a nd from whicl_lit cannot be Sl"paratcd; t!l~ other is Phil-gflll!lok , whl~h

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them, no more then in bread, the which is norw lrh-

'rht Extrallion of the Magiflerie our of81f.)od. anding made BloQd t hy purrcfarfion ; as in the Sro-

ack and the Liver. So likcwife every [hin~ that is

'" ~ 7E will now explain our Opini<an concernl herewith taken, (or food is changed afrcr the fame V V Blood, in wch ehcre arc moft wonderful Virtufta':J~~anncr, as in ehe Body. We will forbear to Write of

and admlrable, more then can be belleved.and arc his 8lood more "rgty and pr ol ix! y, efpecially becaufe

cienrly evfdenccd , yea O}f/O exceeding appareur, fee rhat it wi11 not prove an acceprab!e rl'i:;'~ ro any

that the Blo~d E'Xitls out of the beft R.oot, and motl dy bur our f.-Ives ondy; an d tht:rei; G"\It will

ble Fountain of the Heart , (ns we declare in the T eel' in r('t\, and being afrerw ards: awakc.wn! OUt of

dfc of the compo/ilioll of man) wherein is nc- defeit, r (weer ne~p" we will proceed on to [peak' further

it hath its Condi dons according to rhe Nature of t rhis Blood. Each rlu ng may he prevaleu r as far forth

Hean', and is. a precious Treafure of the whole Nat it can ill in. Vir rues , and anfwcrable to a fill ucl t as it

and of aM that which lives rhcrcin, arh in it ; for out of a good thing doth much of good

"~rc fome may fay, Thlie the l';!eud when if is Jet c eed , 8L this we mufk alwaycs duly confider 0(, Nci ..

of the veins. is deprived of th'liC virrues neccff will we onh fpeak ofrhcHlord of CommcJlible tbingr,

that renew and fuftai n the Btoud ; but [his is, nr-r fo' t alfo of Potable Tbin(.s, w luch doth fimpl Y cxhlbic

it may be Conferved in the Eflcnce as We (h ... 11 fhew lood unto our Body. Likewife there may hc'" e xrra-

Iow, Let us therefore but confider the pautit, of our of Blood, l1.!:iinrefTellcer as well as Arcanaes ; can ..

men as live with a found Body and BloNd; There rning which w « do nor here (peak in rhe leuft , but

It Inu(\: he looked eo, that fuch men be brought i ve determined to fpeak of Il-ftttiJlerie~' ondy, and to

renewed ~ali[y andEffcnce, by A,,'anaes and a dude each, in this one proccfs.

uffinre as we mentioned afore; that the Btoud Tal;g the Bloud; which being !hut up in a l~dtican,

thereby How from them found and uneor rupr, Nor tit (0 long rranfceud cor rife up upon the Horfe- bell y,.

we fpeak of mans Dloud only., but alto of the B/olld or Dung- hill) until the Third part of the i'c:llican be

ehe Sperm, which we make a Dtfcriprlon of in our lied; for, all Bloud in its Hcttificatinn is dilated ac ..

cvets; in which rhere is no Difeafe nor Alteration, to the ~anrity., and (JO[ according to the

«hc-nlotl-highly-to·be-admirt'd Bl()ud out of the eight; This ~Jmc being finifhed, chou Ihal c l\eltifie

of man, which we pretend, and allcadg to he raken tbya B; By tills way the Phlegms Separate, and th~

ehis place; and rhi~ for many reafous nor here 111('n r, remains in the borrom j the which hr:ing rhue

oned , \Ve alfo Ipeak of the Blood of Bread, which n a Retort with the Seal of Hennes; Difiil i t nine cunes ,

to be in like manner taken for the fame ufe ; for th s we have Taught in the Book of Preparations: By this

are therein fuch Vircucs as arc fearer- to he Iearched ay Ihalr thou have the Magi[fcrJ of Bloud,

by us, nor will we undertake the burr hen of d

to its hightf\ worth. In like manner rna,' it be u The Etld 4 'be Six,b Book" &c.

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T no.w remains that we (peak of St,cdjictJ, in th( w!"ch there.are exceeding, adruirab!e, and grtat Virtues, which do not derive or take (heir O,io gina.l from Nature, as in reference to Hear, ilnd Cold; bur they have befide- thofe Q.!alitie! one

o nlv Na[ure and Effence, as we have hinred in 11~30\placcs , T~lat fa me SrecijicalitJ rakech its Original and 1\1(<<;: fro.m ~xternal Things; as, when you throw fome Wo.od Into. the fire, and it burns, that now is not an ~(_~lon of l.t5 proper Nature, bur is Wood, or a Wood· Efi(,'n~e; ~ h erefore alfo Specifi':x:! arc generated from a Con,unltlon ; as, when fltajlu-u and C%pbony arc (r~' mc:d together. at? A[[ractivc is produced, the which !leuher of them IS pcr te, or limtl.:; Or when lurptnrir.t IS C?oagul.ncd., (here i~ made a Stone rhence-froe, which attraa(:~h Iron ~o it Cdf like the Magner. MI. ny more fuch Iik e Tluogs there are which have fuch V!rtues, but yet ~tis from their Compoficions, and from ~~lthour. I}Uebor a1fo is Compofcd of the Liquor xecnc and Earth; by the: COlllpofirion of rhofeTwo

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tioth arir· the Sr,('(i{il'alily, So rhe Oyl of Cherries with 'Vinc;::.tr, do ( a i'((:r l ht:'t r diJ!efdon) become a La xar i v e , and ~ cr uei the r (,f r. he In d or h ofi r s ow n N.H ur e 100[t:')1; wherefore r hofe kind of s/cciJh"-s an: born of their own proper uar ure , hy the CClllpofidon of their Elemcor s "'HI.t proper ma r rcr , Ul) orhcrwifc then as Tinlture or Co lour, rhe w hich d o rh not arife Ir om Cold and Hcar , 011[ from the: COlllrf)f1tion; as Galls w irh Vi(li()ll)~(ld'!cL' 1111<, wltcr cas. ncir ltcr of them Is blacks :-:0 likwue .. Sal avmoniack; and 'Urine do w.ll,c: a iliad, Co- 1011r, and yc:r arc bor h of t hcm w hire s T he fame is to bC:l1T1dcdl:ood of Specific I 5, 7,i~. That t hcv do in-like .. manner receive t nc i r Oflginal ; hut rome .hipgs which alhune t hofe f.'llle Vi r r uc- I ro 11\ wi thou t ma y be in any lIuh,hur y<"{ nor in One k i ud or or operr y , the which is (0 hl' rhus undcr ft ood , 'lJiz. \Vl;crc.·foc\·{:r t he Magnet grows, there i s a certain ~\ rrr ad ive ; as Co!oqruj)is is a l'urgH.i\'L', a ud J'Op{l)' An Auoclinc : This now pr oce e .. dct li aOI~\ rhc C:)lUpotlri.on c~if1ing in r hc m , Ir orn Wht"~lC(: rr COI\H'h to pane th.l[ every t't1.1guc.: r h n c{_raltlve, and cvcrv Coloc yntbis purgacivc ; Lur the Care HJnd5. ,~ot thus with rhe SpeciJid:§ from without, (he Coudirj on of them is r hus , 'Ui~. If one Flint (hould have rhe Vir ruc s of r he t.1.1J',uer, and another like it fhould have non c, 'n ovv t lri s '>1't'ci(ic.tliJy [hall be t:'~-':tcr~lJl, or from wit hr.ur ; but yet d~ rare to find" pcculiar Condition or (2..!.!:llit'i to he in c ne Beth, and yet not J~ w c ll in An()tl.,t?r r h ar is like Ic. Furtht:rmorc~ although 1ll.1IlY iuclt like! 5'pecij;(k! d'1 afire from Intlu ..

ell.ces. ve r uevcr rhcl ctfe .... vc will n o r muc h difpurc (ill this placc ) conccr ni ng their rrocccding, or not·pro~ cecding rh. .. T<..'(r("1ll bur w i ll r efervc r har fe-r irs proper place 111 ,'/;}fici.:. .... and rather forbear her e.

e~fidu ~ There ar c ro he found many srecij1( l.:..!, as ()d()rzln~lH Spccijid·t, which have their Or iginal fronl (,OlJli"c(lticln and Digdlicn, as the \\r;Ht:r of VitTi)l

H l)ifill1c d

c

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I

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98 7l'C S euentb JJG(;'/z (./

niflillcd w \th 8.11 ayt1l0nlac~' rcferublcs the Odour of .lHlIrh .. ; and yet neither of rhcm have filch a fmdl,/'tr I~. [\-lany n.or e [uc h t')'{1~~ there arc {hat become Odorife. rc U~., And were ncr (0 afore, and 00 g:. r OJ nohlc Odour; as a R {'Je, or l ilh· in wlrorn t heres 110 Ode ur at the he~inni'lg~ but us at Ian Hilled U[\ by Labour, Digd\ionl and S('pat":.!l ion.

In l·k" manner r.on.1.cll-fl1g is a flir.idn~ Excremenr; taH if it h.: but E\t'vatt.'d or Dirlilkd ir ~crs an Odour of Amberg·t·t~"e; btu the refiduc of {he ruart er t ha: ahide~ in the bottom, flir,ks more Ioar hfo me then mans Ordure.

Some Stcdfi.:~·,\ arc Di.11'f)(Jfct ick._, and pr ovokc Swear, w hich r eccivc fuch a Virnte from a Com pufir ic n ; as a burning coal put at f(' p of a fat Earr h , e mi r . a Vapour; So Iikewifc Ginger rhn'fi into, or conveyed into [he br.dv , bur ns , and is to he cxriuguithcd as Calx or Llruc, w irh the pouring on of Water. This Hear happens to the G il1gcr hy rcafon of r hnr acui ty or (hal pnefs w hich it contain s in it felf', and is Coagulated wi rh an Iior Fdcme n r .. as a Lime- flonc, which is brought to fuch all hear bv the fire. For every Vi,lpIJQ1Ctic/..:_ is rhe Calx of the? Liq uour of the Eart h; even as we men Lion ir ill rhe Book. of Gener artons; In like manner do even Put£t1'i'll(,s proceed from a Compofirion ; 4~ Rhubarb, rhe which 31[0 is rhe Calx of a Liquour, but yet wirh a ccrraln difference and d:flil1ltion mrervecning , For 3S TdH.tr being bur nr is Rcto l vc d into a Water, and rogerhcr with it all i es Liquidity, if ir {hdJ llc laid up in a moift place, So is it alfo with Rhubarb-; and Io may you judge of ocher Purger, w hich have their Original marry waves, 35 the: Calx of the Earth is; for fome of thern dn Purge or l>il[olve Choler, as /-:..hulJ:2rb,thc which i~ like roCalcined Tarrar v Some 100((,11 Pi'hgm, as tHfbulr ; (17)Js [ccms to b aue been illfcrud SUI'fo!itilJlflJ

bccauie tluu a W 0 l\. D tl'aS wanting in tbe Autbors onll

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lll"hi-writiug) wlth rhern Purges, j{calgar is Joofencd, and nothing dCe. Others Purge Mc:Ia ncho ly, as Scna ; the which you arc to under fl aud t hus , viz. 'Tis aft(!l' (he manner of Nitre, which Ht:folvc:th Su IlCS. wi r h i t~ power, and nor any other ruing- SOllll'l'urge the Bloud» as ~lf.l/Inll; like to in the manner of Arjcnici. which Hc· (olvcs Sublimates, On this wife are you to dcrermine of the difference of thofe (hing~., even as they arc divided in thcmfelvcs , and as we have llOW rnirrde-d you of. 1.ikcwife ((lIlU.: CCmfOrlalitJcs do ar ife from a Com .. pofirion , as a Spcrn: dcfu cure of vir rues, yet norw irhHanding out of it a GJandu/e or Kernel is Generated by Nature, hy reafon of its Pt'c:ddlination : So r lrcrcfor e a Comjf)rtati1.Je it relf, is a certain Prcdeftlnu red Thing arifing from the \lredeflinarion of the Compcfi rion. But [he Carline; which is nnt born afrcr t hi S manncr , draws the virtues of other JlcrJ)s unto ir 1(:Jt~ and rakes their powers from chen), (and dnrh chen alone roHefic thole virrues ) even as rhe /i'U1J draws the: moifture our of Wood; This we declare more ar large in or.r BriO'..:.. of ve· neuuions.

III like manner alfo, rome A1un(lijicativcs do acquire hy (heir Compofition fuch a like ~"'irtue as to .. MII11Clijic; even as when a Cal x of Earth is Tranfmured inro ano ... rher Form by a LI'lu\cJ Thing, as Rarin; 110m'), Gums Pucb ; eu-c, ThoCc Alrcrar ious arc like to the FJrJTCS of V{nus, the which are at' firtl al'lIrg.tt;"c, as it becomes a_ Ca~~ (0 be; {hen afterwards, rhey arc rc.:duccd by rhe tire mro a StiptiC'k.._ Pr opcrry , fo that they Iofe their purging faculr y , an d do then mundijie.

In hke manner arc Corn;fives to be uccompred of, which are Salt s ; and arc Iomeri mes Calduc.:d in Ear t h ; ~nd agcn fomceimes Subftanr ionuced (us 1 may fo fpeak) I~HU one lIIatt.er, as is mentioned by us in I he 60Qh of tbe ~t'IlCraIIOIl oj Salts. There arc various and many fuch like Pr operr ies in Things, of which we Treat in our

H ~ ]3 co""

JCo c[1. e Seventh Book of

lio(lk_ ~;f ~')C Prot'.:'rth'S of Tbi~gs; and have fuHlcicnrJy enough il-,ol(cn thereof in d)l~rJ3ce. Nor will we here drfcovcr why forr.e of them arc nard, and conrrarlwife orhcrfome rllJt; Nor dorh our Att bidoxis Treat of the whole hq~,nlling, hur cnly of the Cnmrofiog of Sled • .trcks, and br i 11g1llg them to the higl1(~fi degree of Narure Canet-'ruing which w« will now at tengrh fpcak.und pro~ l'ofe r hc r:~';\"('rieUC(:5 we have had t lrercof, and Icave bchiud our backs rhote r har arc the Preachers in the corners of rile ,Sfft:<.:tS; Iuch as tpcak of God, but underIland not any thing hl.'fid(:~ their Hypocritical Ceremo, nics , and iuch ltkc Fahks; T'hev arc Enemies to thole rhar are ad c );(tc' d ro rhefc Al'ran:tfs, and Arts; and arc filn\, Hc:, d and Fa' ~ in lile ~'(lrv of the Worl d : They arc n,lhkrs i11ld Cavil l« r s \ and arc end ue d with much Prating. whir;1l ill(:), fi~fLtin end hear (as the Proverb ~ocs ,) "',rh 11"'h Shc nldcrs , 'fhe)' are Flarrcrers , and Imag'nc ths-mft.,'} vcs to h~ wife .11lt.:n, whereas they arc n uprd aud lonl d11., and are dcccivcr s of men for worldly

,l~.ichcs, But l e r- Jj(JW com~, to the Slcdfick.s~ according IIl.t_O Ol1~' ll.fi.ng of rhcm, and P.IV.~ Ica ve to r~10fe 'Univer'fill PIJ}'ftU,Ulf, (who, he the Succc fle or tffue good or h~d, d o ,0111)' Head a!ld ImJJ~hle) to v.rind and gOl(h wah their '1 ccrh againtl us as rhey plc.rfc,

o I a 1J Odoi] J~r(rZH S] cc ifick •• ,--tl-lerefore l crs nn~ r"eak of Od{jrif~'rotlS Sp~dfic:k._f hy

.I. what way and tcJrm r he y arc made; and fidl: of all

as t(~ .,'.vhar lH'lonr>~ to their Vir ruee v An O./orijt'roJis '~J.c(l}1d~ lh.'.:rcforc, 1~.1 .IIf.lItt'f thi..ll takes away Dheafes 1,'0"1 ,the Sick , no ot!H:r.wifc r hcn as (.'h.'a dr ives away ~ht.: fl:tn~k ,1£ O;-'t!u;c,hv 1 [S Oilonr'; for you arc to obl~ r ve , 111.1t ~hc .s}cClfi,/"dolh perlltix ir rdf with t his e .. val Odour ot the D,11 r'g;. and the flink of the Duog cannot hur r, nor abide [here, but the {link thereof is

here

tbe AYclJidQ,"l.Cir, YOl

here tinged with the .good Odriur , infomuch that h y how much d1C more ft iuk ing ir was br-forc , f ... much (he more is it now endued with a g00d Od our x for rhc-re is Nothing can rake away the: good ode,lIf of Ci'lJl't or lJJu~~, but "cr tis T r antrnut cd , as, WI' prove in m.m y pl.ices ; wln nee i r cornes to pafs,thJf fomri me forne man. ordour is (0 be admha:d 10 the .ltIH(:,; fer r hi p e nc r ru r cs more readily t hcn any Litl,., w i i h all i r s O"t.r~tioli~; (e'f tis well known {hat tlwrt: is to he found more of (">:il O» dour rhen ofgcud! i':vcn as alfo rhe Tyr ian Vipa is put iuro Triac lc tor a fpc(.:dy rlI' fl hh~h pencrr.Hinn of at! ehe Memhers , Lngt.[llcr .. v i r h r hc Vh ruc. of r hc (\(11(," Thing'; So in Iik« manue r may wf:'1I,1ee of an OdOTiJ~"'IU srctijid{. Now , t hi s \'C 1I are to Cr-nfic'cr here, That by OdoriJo-,."u -tb; gr Diit:.lfcs art; drivc u Away (ron) rhoft: who canuoc ar al l b. at Mcrlicameu t-, as in the Al'0plt:xy, or £/ i!c.,/.j}; fof vr-r i ly there are many 0- dours that cafc rhe Epi'fl'tir't, & m mv that (uccour the Aptp.'clli"cll, uor t h.ir lIH: ~ d t) C, 're r he III ,'"J(': r fcc\: l~.', buc yet they prq',:.l·t: (he way. For rh . Vii' 11(: r hcrcof r lrat i5 ilffGrdnl [0 the bor1" \ d () t h by its Od CHIl' PIC.f,:1I r l y excite the JJlolui ... nud by rh:?" car r v ir.g t'l d\i:> (0 the 1I,:I.r" doth nt'fre(h it m:'rc tl)('\1 CJn h:: wr i cr cu » Wherefore wee 'I fel" dn\v n ,UI Od.)! ;}{"", nu r ,:1 which we may r ake a Found.Hiun ;, r t1,(' C")n.:·()ti-lr' Of Od('.rilicks ~o r all other Uif',:Jft,!; T'l:« Ps c c c l s " :11. It.:oi is chis ? . 'Tal<c whit» /.IIIJt:s . A:"i.I(,s 1 lJ,.ji(, Car,lc.mrms .. ;Ind Ra{t's, of each orrc H,u:di1l1; siitc, r w o Handful::. ; hear chcm HloHclY ill [0 .. l PaH(:. Wht r er o adele the ]uyce of <Jlallgt' AN'lrs. '\\:0 Q_lnrt~; rut an rhl:il~ rogt'[h('l' in OJ Pclttcau, arrd l cr [\H:ilI be digdtul for one month; afr er w.rr-L l cr rhc rn he :~(:r:lr.l((:d .r o m rhcj r [eces, with v oui ll.lods, or v/ith a Pre.(:" wh ic h i~. ~'c·rc.:r ; pur (his ag.rin i ur o a J'dJjt":1II, and pn:(l nr !v Ie.r. he: ao d c d at icc; Cloves ... r;;u.WJomc, I'.:-f ~:.lch Ollt.! O'u n c«: ~ ... It:1l;,>Jp.rl't'(C half an Ounce , #l/HS~. r w o dra 1t1~") r:i1.el \lUI: (.:llJ~C;C ~.

1I 3 f"jud

I 02 Tbe S eVflltl! Bcoi; of

grind .the!,l mof] c?,cceding fi11311, ~ and pur them into ~hc (aid ~ ell~ClUl with the other th~a,lH!' and digtll thl'lll 111 Dung') 1 hen adde G'um Ay,t/J,f/, difIolvt:"d haJf ounce; of Tragacanth alfo din()lvcd~ one oun~e' a~d fo let rhein harden with the Cleer of the \Vhitc of E~gs In a Ihur G!aflc ; , rhen I?ftf(.'llri.V as fooo as you rec ir to be made or th~ h~enef1e of GJafk·., break your Gl.tnc and fillet: 0!=l~ rtus Srone , and rho u fh.,lt have the Odori. firolf.f SpeLl/let., of which we have now written enough , But yet '[will be good to adele Aurum Potabile,

of an Anodine Specifi(.'~

THere al:C al,rQ I~lany Cal1re~ that induce us to write o~ .th~s '__<'i'er.ifi~d AllOd11le, for we have nrct with Iome Ditcafes In V.·!lICh all fCJrts of Al"C41laeS have failed us, c~cep~ a r:..'I1··~'~fi:tll Anociille,onl s- and that hath performed rhiugs 11111 acul ous, Net t hcr Jet us wonder thereat, tor as We _ree r har Water qucnclurh Fire:, even fo doth the SIIf'Cifi~""1 .Anr dine C~ dugllifll Difeafe s , and rhae for nun y Caufes which wec'I forb ear 1l1CIH ioning of now.

For, Thar which refts or fleet'S, doth not naturally ()ff,~nd; If (h~ Parox iin: ll.e(.'p, it is uor fe lr s bur jf i[ dot,h II or il::<:'l"' .. [r he Opcr anon rhercot is accomplifhed T'hi-, now Cumforr s and cncouragcr h us in rhar we r. ~ nJal,l Y Cares ;~n~ MelanchoJy rakcn aWay by Oe"ping. e

LUI:. vcr. rtus • s to oe no re d in this place, T'har tis not necdtlrv lh~t the man flee n , hur the Difeafe it fdf; An~ rhcr:ro~( •. \~~ cornpofe a SPet:ifh k., to fight only ag:unfi t h e DI~(;a~,l, and not t he whole luau, as is to he uu~<-rflood or Feavors ; and is to he made nf<.' of in the.: m. N?w w e propote and fer dow n fuch rhings as are AroYlai J~ the full or perfett mall, hut healthful ~nd Salutlfcrous In a full or PCdl·{t Difeafe s And th· f r

We [et upon the Difeafe it Celf., and h~rcin we J~b~tJ~

thar

the -Ilrcbillo.-..:is. J 03

that 11: may have nO,operation upon the Body, nor he able to have, on rhis wife "

la':~ of Thchaick O,pium., O!ll! oUlIee; Of the ]u>:ce of orange: Apples and o~!~oces, oj each /i:(; ouuces; of Cl nrutmome and Cloves "'I oj encb ; be' II an O:IllCC; Beat rhein aJ4 together exceeding well, and beiug nu xr , pUt then, into a Glafs with if!> b li ud Covcr , and d igcft them at the Sun, or in Du ng for a monel h, afr crwar ds let then. he prctl OUt, and be put til again with rhefe following

(hing~, 'tIi~ ,

Ta".,t,1 Musk, one Scruple and half; Arn~crgrcl'Ce, [ou«

Scruples" SJffron, /)(lIJ all OllIJCc..·; Tbc jl.,CC of Cor r als , and .he Mag\(lcry o[' \.lcads., oj cacb ; ~ne SalfJ1ll..' and lralf ; eommi x rhcm , vhcn after their digdlion for a mouerh ;. Add of the ~inrelJclll'e of (jo!t!, ore Scruple and bc11/~ which being per mi xr wich the reil, there w il l be a Speclfical AfJoliiue for the cak ing away of all gril'f~, bod. Internal and Ex rerual , fo r h.ir no member may be tormented or ferzed on ally longer-

Of d Sp·.dJh ~11 Di.rpltor et lck,

Now we come to Ipcak of a Specifical Oi(lphcl'e!ic{:_, whcrcb y cver y fuch ditt:afc is cure d , r hur C,IO aiought (becaule of i r s Nat ur e & Vropc:rrit:) r o h,: hl alcd by li.ve.n; fueh a dik.lt'e is (0 he .dt h'c)l~lIr wi rh (hi,S ItfiJicamcnt he vond all other A1eJ,clllcs, 1- or by a DIaphoretic/..:., a Co ld nlfcafc becomes Hot, and is b y chat HCdC tOOK away; {or ir hath OrrC11 befal lcu us, that the Car{1rum (or the dead Blood in the Vt·;ne .. o'~l(IlUltlg tb» 7110- tion «[rbe gl)od) of rw enry y car s Ilandj ng , harh, lrecn healed by <1 J);.lphoretid·, and very mauv ocher D.f,:afes which they cal \ lnfcrn41dtleOUl 'I or bcrwccn the S\t in, and alto tuch 01$ fiicl< in the M~rrowF't in which Dift·.,fcs a !J..!!i,Jtcffem:e cfTt;((s nor hing, much Idle a Comjortn» tive Arcanum; the caufe is chielly [his, vi{. r hcr e is

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nor ff) pcwcrful .. Vigour ill the hcarr ~ as to drive ou: the Caff4tHtn 1 c~c<...'pr j r be done b\ a Ui"j /)1n.'tic/..:..dlonc:; for (. v cn as the 0 d.,th h.:at the Fr oz cn ~)[o!J«) g;. 1l1<.:lu the bard I u:,l' ve 11 f) clor h a f)j;lpb:Jrclicl;.difpIJY in Virt ue-, upon a PifL'afc ~ w hich C.tIl.PH he cured with .11l~' ot her Vtrr ucs how uob le .slId ~~ood. focvcr, .. \ud alcho':gl, Flanunula or Crowfoot be a mof] hor Hear h, yet never. t hclc [, i h~· he.H r hc eof is nor. at all compJrahlc to (h~ fmaldl r~}int oj' tht! Narurc of rhe Sltn; Even fo excetd.ng milch is rh·.: cliff renee berwi xr each hot things and Di:~j,l;ort'ric/'s r he mfcrvcs , T'her cfor e we {~·t down in chi<. place a Spccificai Di.1p/J01Cli<:"-., which compre e Ih:nds Lri.u-borei icat Viuues.

T;ll:~ of GingN, ouc p..u.id , l.ljll.~-l"el'l'cr and nhc~, o::-cllch, h.tll·<1n ounce; Cat d anunne s ; three dr auu ; G,.alle'S of P.Jra~{ift',:: 11(' ounce ; hear rhcrn into Powder .1I1d put r hcm in 1 lil ... c: .. with 011t: u1l11l:(: .md half of rhe tefi C:ilJljbire, grfJund or hcarvu . ;j n d wirh two Ol1.1CCS of ..1(/1(;1 Sf)'·vt'ns or r he diHf)lvillg \VarCf, Sc:alup [11<:· Gla(-, and Ier i : n.·uloljllin ".:'llld rile rirne of fjrll(hi:J~ its Diacftion. T'hcu ~~(:.'rar,lfe horn rhc rn rhc~ din;')l, ing Wat cr , and Jet it r~lrn:fie !()r a moucr h, rind he circuJared one: we ek. 1\.. ccrwar ds pre ite i r .rur .urd kt.:t:p it; t hi , is t hc bcft aud I1}(AI OOH:nt Vi.lj/JCH('tid:., .llting more vehcmem lv c hc n i5C'r:_dibJe, as w cl l intheCtJ. [arum J as ill orher ·,u<.Jtl grcvious Ditcaft:s ; of which

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Of a pHrging Specifick.

TIS cxpedinH 011(0, r hat we write ora Stccijicf. r», g.ltilJt'; O1hd alrhollgh tIl<: Complexions and filch Ii k c thing~ come Ilndt.·1 confidcr.ui on ; ver neverr hclcfs we are confirmcd , and budd 00;t ('}lid('r Fouud.ruon, raki ng (ucft things as rake away rh<: Difcafc-s, and ~.h .. H do not drivc away 0/1': or another Difcafe particular-

Jy,

CIbe Arcbido;.:ist

tctj

~. h ~t ever y evil ; frnnt w hence may he r,Olthcr(.'d,rhat

:'I.1(to(:\'(;1" ()f choler I~ fllpt"rt1uow: and of no momeur,

rh (hcrc..hv dvpur i T hc like i~ to be uodcrflood of

t:nding Phil-gIll, r-ld~nch()ly, and Blood; as ulfo ApoHcm<.:5 and other C »rr up. iO!15) which cannor he urged accor drng (0 rhc.COI~plc}\'O!l~, nor he.: refolvcd til Pllrg.Hi(jn~, of which tort of Dilcafes 1 rhcre are Jill' to he found.

\Vc..' do chcr cfor e eudeavonr to draw OUt the offendp, M.utcr., onelv whether it he cO!'rupt or nor , whc,r with an Apoflcme Of Complc xion , or any orhct umixion.

S·,!t as ((If the tedious and unprofitable difcourfcs of H:V{jh·e~{ttil'l'I.;JJitiaIH, we (hall nor care for rhcm, II[ diligenr lv couf idc r of the health it fdf; aud for this aure we will frame our Il1cdica111cllts~ Such a il1edicais Tartar; which C of j r s own Nature and Properie) rakes away a 11 Putr cfact ions j nor is i r i uclrncd to bola, nor ;J,tc.·/'H1cho~y, nor Pb egm, nor lJlncd,hllt r.ik cs Nay every uuprofir.ihle thing in the Body., und fneh jOllY eud.munage ire So Ii kew ife v in i»; pUr gt:rh a·· ay all fuch occatio n s as give hirr h to Ill,tll\' ~lliirll'itie;. or nrily .... 'c arc fa confider, that cOtQO·,1fhts doth nor urg~ us o . alJ our Cholcr , or of all rhar ar itcr h thc.re. rem; uc ir her "Itt_) dnrh RI};d)~Hb do ir; nor doth Tur:rbcJrry off ever y thing rhae proceed- from Phlq~m; I.Jpis L.J:{uli, ,dl clle hnpcdimcur caufe d hy M( Jan-

1011'; nor doth .Ht1J11J1 e xpe l all r he cout r.n Ict ie of r ho oodjhut rh.. Ie our rwn Sr£'ciji,',z/ PUfg,HilJl'J,al'Jd many

ther ... nor here menr iouc.I, do accomp li lh ir,and rhac

incip illy in all theft! pntfcfacti.")IlS awl fupcrlluous fe. 5 of till: Bod v, Irorn w hcucctocvcr they proceed, all hit p:lrg('rh no orherwife r hen as \Vatcr wafhcth

neu Cloach~, and as Soap clears them (rom their Irhand dcti lcrucnt s of any hind. For t lrus do they i>rrat(~ Iingularly upon each difcafe ; We will there ...

fore

T'be Seucntb Bool{. of

fore now fet down thar SJcdfical MNlh'tU1U"t accord] to our aforrneur ioncd purpofc, after this manner

:r~~ the ~lI.le;!tcl·ic () f Tarrar , and ~hc .}(.lgij1t'f, Vitriot , both which cornrru x r ogerhcr Into one then add cq ual par ts of rhc !i!_~intcnence of ,,~"lrr;OU. t b(:ing [hue up ina Pellican ; Jet them bf.~ d jR~ft('d i Sand for a monerh , and let the Medicill:! (which fp.lk\! or .1hov.c) be ket,r moO. carefutlv ; as ·or the n hereto ut'Ct:{t,wv .. there 15 rvquifir e a gr<'arcr uuderfla ing, as well wr-h che Ir';lrlltd a- rhe igu()ra'l( ; ncirh arc Me.l on el y., bur: ,ll() Trees nd Hearbs G.l!"1hle of illg PlJrge~l~ron\ their Difl."aft.·~ and fup(:rtJl1itic~;f~r t arc infirllHtlc5 as well m the dungs rhar ~row as JIl foos, and they alfo have their re me des , as we ·hl\ t!lfcwherc mentioned; the dt:fclt of Ant hos , '1I;;r. Whf it cannot pc rfc.:lt I V grow Ilr ong , the Alag;{fery of Vim hells, and cauferh it £0 ~r{)w egrcgiouff v afterwards we fer do\vn in our Difc.uurfc of Ptanls;ThU5 there will we now conclude this ChI

Of a Spedfical Attralli1,)e.

AND now thar we may begin to fpcak of an A . l/ille Spec ijic: '<. ; We arc to know that a Stefifi~' Arrrail Ive draws un to i r Iel f wharfoever is fupertluc in the Dod y, and wharfoever cvi I ad heres rhcrero as often happen!', it brings our, a~ w e fer down in Illan] placc5, and is maniteftcd by probable demonflrarior l.ikcwifc fome Sl'cdJh',d AHraUi'z.lel have bvcn fo a pri3rcd and fuired to Fl cfh ; that they have drawn thcmfd ves an hundred pounds of }4'lcOl, no or! wife then as the Load- Hone draws [ron. Ie hath al(: hapPcl\Cd r har ill my t ime , that filch a like arrraltifl hath drawn the Lurigs our of the Body inro the 1110 and '0 have choaked the Man; it harh Ilkewite hap <:d, that another hath had the l)lI~i 1 or BaH of the crt

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the ArclJidoxis. 107

rawn from its own place, even to the nofc, and could rile thence moved. For there arc UQt ondy Ataltours of Iron, bur fuch alfo as rcfpclt 'Vot.'ld")He.ulJs,. lefh and Waters; for we have fcen all Emptafh'r that th Auraltcd fc) much \Varcr as {{J be ab le [0 fill a , and t he Warer ro have Ilown down from the as if i r droot down from a houfe EL\VC:~; fo Iikce, Lead, rill_ i..'oppet, Silver, and Gold may be AtJlted by the compofir iou of Attrattivcs.

Moreover it may be {;) conrr lved.rhar bv rhcfe kind of nraltives,' Boughs may ire ~orn off Ir om rhe rrces.and Cow may he lifred up 011 lugh, and many more Inch ings may hc done,which We have <I. clar ed in our Se .. as a Treafurc , that fa we may in t hefe things re and worfhip him oncly who hath created II things with (C:) wonderful an Artifice, infomucla t (0 various things are to be found, as ,demonrare incredible operations, far rranfceudiua ,N"!-re , according ill:) it is confiituCcd and ordaiucd III rt

f.

\Ve will therefore fer down fOllle Ar rraft ive Vi: t ucs tic Body, by which rhar which i s evil and corrupt aybe exrractcd, and be fe pararcd from rhe good Oil

is wife, vie. the I\ucaltivc muf] he placed upon (ome

ry and in that place where the dcfc(t ap pear-

I or up~n an 'Otccr ; the which may Jikewife he acnred of as an Emuutlorv ; and if ~I1Y Gl and ule Or uel arifcth., it is to he filft orened like ,an liwwlllory.· now we '<now by expericnce .(hu filch a kind <?f

lfJllive .. h .. rh c'KtraCtt d the pt:f111ulCt.' more rhcn IS rto write of in this place. No hc~ l'l'r~on c:v(;~ died thad this M~diduc,alrhough p0il<:fi WHh a gfll'VOliS .fcafe" The H.cceil')t oi a Spcci tical A [rrJ.(li ve is IS •

r;"e the R!Jin/t'ffcllce of all the Gums in every l.:._illd, of b, one quarter of a pound; TiJe MttgiJlcl} oflb!.· I\-laglief,

I

t. •

II

lOS

Tbe S CZ1{'ntlJ Book v(

net, a qt~ar rer and half (alias hal f a quarter) Of Element ot the Fire o] Amber; c.~e 1,ollnd ; OJ the . Element of ~lft1,rJid" oj .1fyn/J, oj cacb , one quartcrJ half; Of the Eh'I'!ell' of Sf,:arW).'lY.. ten ounces) ~l1creof 3 Cerote w irh Wa x , Vial! Traga.l'I1mb, and I'cnf;IlC ; life it as is aforcfaid ,

Of a Spc!d{ical Sriprick.

N0\V we come r c fpeak of it Srlpricnl Spccifick

. Vir rues ,pf which arc v ·cry many t and arc

then 1:-' ro he underft ocd or learned hy the other fick s. FOf w hen fuch wonderful works of Nature, tll,= ~Ialities of r hofe k ind of things arc obvious to :Eyc:~., r hey do encourage us wi rh a [upream joy, nor deClO from rhein, bu t to r enewcas i r werc.aud qu rhe rcmemhr ance (If all thoCe thing!' which are fe nrcd unto U~ hv rhofe fame Arts; and i(h.spl"ily ( ~nollld he fc.uud any thing written of the Nature thing·. by vhe ~ ncicnr Ph, fit iaus and l'hyJo(op which doth not a;\ agree with us) yet not wi thflaudi r har (hall not iu rlu- lea11: difl urb us" (or "II ttiat t Ira ve wr i (ten is uuccr rai 11 '\ hut We are delighted \01; thofc great f\.l_yfleries as are in Nat ure her fdf,and w prcfcnt rhemtelves to our hands; and as for thofe hours ofthc Aur icnrs , which arc to he acconnrcd of Lame and iO'l't'rCl·a, we do defervedty nc:gklt t as W\._· have hinted in many places; Nor may we Co) admire at the veheruency ot Sripricks , which have gr{~at vrrrucs .. even in their J2..!~i"tt'lTel1ce,·,\ ArcamUI My[l('rics .. in Co much, t h.rr riley will fo firmly a~gl "(inatc rwo pieces of I rou.rhat they cannot he Scpar after\vards but by Fire. Nay more rhen Co .. one of Copper is by fneh like Sr ipricks , fc) glcwcd anotht:r "ieee of Copper, that they can no more Soparaced , neither by rirc no!' hy \Vater: Lik

tit.

re Olay he by fuch a li\{(~. Sriprick A rtra~liyc, an heal' Srones glewcd togi.'orher mr o a huge f';lafh 11k(_" a Hock. 'like fort lllJy,Sand a~ld Cul x be, (hy Iuch hke Srrps) eoncrcarvd oc knir tog,!ther In ~o an ever- d lIrmg raltn~:ts,and h~rd"r r hcn M.lrhlc If fdf ; th115 much

corning hard rhings v we: w il l n ow dh fpr:al;. of 0- o \"1 c hnve kt:n ( .• frcr the fame manner) I .. e 01 vcs luve been (;) con ioy ne d togt;cht:r, th.rr r hcy have, n accoun tccl for a Nacural coucr crc , as rill.' I cuve s of

,i!ly, w ir h t he leaves of Horr-~ in 011(' conlpaltioll ; wife S'Hitl·s :lal\'C (hy my advifc ) fo (iPlIiy 111l5~. com» Iy confo lidarcd their, irons r ogcrher it: It t ncv been conglntin.lt<..'d w it h a true comp .. ll.cl1, 0[' ing.

We have alfo fccn the lips of rhe Mouth, . to h~ (0 awn together with a hare waflll\1~ oue.l y \0\'1 rh a Spcfical Sriprick , rh ar they could nor he opened bur by C(" wit h the ht:1p of InfirI1IlH:nrf> and much c ffufi ori Blood; The Fundament alfo hath 1~L'en by the ~'por~ .. or waggery 010 foruc, fo comprcft WI til fuch ;\ Spt cr-

that lor cvacuacions (;ll,(_" rhcy have been conn

l!i~lCd (0 open it wirh an inf1rllm<:nt; The.: l il;e C001- ~ion or clofing together, we have (Ct"U III w ounds , in the rupture of rhe (~Iadder, (0 rhur no ~rCnJ1.1J~ rupture did an y more atcci wards break Ol!r (:1( lH:r.lll elrrime or mine. \Vhatfoevc:r member chis Mat.en.tl iptick (hall couch, it dorh fo conrracr .. ~hethcr It he Lone ir rei f, or rhc bare Itefh .. that H cannot, bc: aped off,\virhollt a fi!e .. or Separated without a kn~f{'~ r no Water moll i fies rhcfe Sr ip r ick Vir-rues of \v hich r! there arc far more then wha r we have here ~cr. ~ hut as to what belongs [0 Medicine, we wil!

t down a Specifical Stjpticl< as follo~s. .

T4~e tht' f!..l4imt·U;"IICL· of Bo]e, ami oj Irrm , ,lJr Q!iIUIIceo! Amber, (,7JiI15 C.Hh("hes_) of C.tf/) one roul1d; (them bc digcfkcd in l\(he& for a moncrh, afrcrwards

:l l'ur

100 Tbe Seuentb Book, of

pur in a pound and half of drycd Tartar; with this the Body where need rcqurros, This and fuch I Sripr icks arc not karcllabJ.e, whildl: ("in rhcir Bod' but in their Separated ~ubl1 a nces do Attralt more is crcdihle , hccallr~ of rhe Nature and qualley of mol]; grear drynt:fie ~ and therefore arc they Sriprick SIccijitk.!, as hciuf, Sciptick~ beyond and all ochers,

lch may he Cured hy fuch Corrofivcs, for there is in a Slipt;cl~. Virtue of cxct:c.:dinR powers, hy which it ires rccuJiar properties of Curing. Though indeed may be rathvr call.cd a Fire ~hcn a Jlft:dicam~lJt., for ! e me!' iron Chains, and Dolts more read i l \, then IS ible, or can he wr it rcn ; and therefore we will go this Ret·.cipt. h(;r~~,?~ and that mof] hricUy rhus;

rolkc Aqua ~ crt is Tclhjll·.l from tb~ Carllf lUoTtJlfun, one Im.i; OJ ,1Ic!rcu}') SubhmeJte., o lit' ~ll,lner of a Pound In If. (" alia» hal) " Il.!!arru ;) Of' S,lI «vmoniacl; "I hvtl kllC(S j Mi ~ .111 there logc:thc:r\ a nd let t he m he Conmcd cr devour «d ; thc.'ll darl'ix all equal wcighr of curtal HllfU. and ke cp it. T h erc j~ no Diarnornl can

fin rhi. Corr ofive, Though indced r h« t:1I11e may he nderilood of a !2.!.~iIJtejJ~·nic and Arcalll:m. viz. T'ha r rhe in may be ru k ... ·n a W.I v frolll an y O1)e by r liar k i nd of wlery, and infic:.ld, thereof 1l13Y" new ,')I~11l br; hrought reon s as in the Leal"', .lIM'Jbr~v"l Sfrpig-, Ll'nrigo" nus, (ere. Ag.iinf] w hicu Direa(c~ rlu. Spcc ifical Corve is UCt'(ill; but (Ticcaufe of irs ve hcmcncy ) we 0- [trw and do rake this rni xr ur c , WlH'rt"virh t he Skin ufi be wafhcd , for fo tw il l f.tll off aud h:·l>.1rc ; che-n erwards may it he cowtolidared, as the Cutl orue is : he Mixture may be thus;

la!.;._e the J uyce of F!t1lllmu/.1, (or Crowfo or ) one Llnd; OrC'~/,,".'ridt·s, four pounds and an half; Of .e afcrefaid ;IlJ~YlJ:l1 Fire. tWO drams. ; per mi x chem to ... rhcr, and do as above,

J II

Of a C(;Yrofivc Spec:ifi~·k..·

NO\V \VC will add and dl,'fcr&hc a SIJccijk,ll t:orrofi in which arc woridcrous Virt ucs implaarcd l Nu lI"C. For ver il y (hL'i t:'lg compared to the An C.;n·,divc5.J [is even w ondcrf .. 1 "I tor it Abtumes ,,-h0Jly Confumcs Me rals even to it norhingnefs, Co in th(:111 can then: b(.· n o bod y any more found, t more r hcu is of Wood that is burnt up by the F Now alt ho ngh that even by Strong Waul's [here is a contumiug of tht.> Me rals ~ )'t~t notwichfianding are )lot duninifbcd in r hci r weight., nor changed thdr "Hence, but may he again reduced by the i n r o rhc ir firt] Body and Marrer ; the which is im fil.Ie l~ be rioue, afrer that coufumpcion that is by the Specifica] Corrolivc:; and the Reafoll is this, ~ CJuCC there is no mar r cr can he found an y more in place., rhar can be (by any way or meaRS.) reduced to a Met.lIick Narur e , no 1l10rC then Woo d-afhes ht: reduced into \Vood ; further you 'are to know, chis Corrofive dorh operate fo flrougl)' in rhe tlefh. ( not hing CJn be compared t hercw irbal] , fur ir races the hand in a 1l101ll<:Ut like an Awl.

w e meur ion (hefe r hrngs for Mcdicir,c to this that fa all i he putrid and up-grown (or proud tici'll ill the body., that doch very much artfe in Ulcers, ( ill FiJl"tJcj',C ann:H -; S.:r0I'IJldacs) may be removed;

whii

Of a Specific"-- [or tbe ,l/.1fri:c.

Ow at laf] we come to fpcak of a Spl.'ciIick. j;lr tbe

,U.ttr;x., <lu::i that ffJr var ious Caufes .. and bcc.rute [11<: variou-, A fii:lt5 or Dl f('ar:.:~ rlu-r cof ; hut now w e ·11 not at all frt:al, here of rIle Efcrncn r s r har errhcr at or cool it, for that is [0 be dc.ne by Jll"giJ/~ril·J and

Arf4Ilac)'

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lt2

'I'bo Seuentb llocf{_ 0/

Arcanc1e.r. Bur we here men t ion Two Sp"!cijrfk.s; 0 is in the Suffocation c-f the ~l[:lr,.ix , the Or he r i~ ill t. ther Provo k ing, or Rdtralllinn r lre ,}-tomiJs: You Ilu,f: rhcrefore underfrand J I JUt the SUHccari(l1l cannot b: remove .. d by any other thinH rhcn " Sten/iLk..; though i he fuch as is unclerucnr ate-d & unpr ep.ued, yer ris (0 admi niftred in rhe Common 1'01"111 or Eflcuce 'I~ it gro'", in : Such is the fi~~ of the Sk i IJ; as foo n a s the Fill) of this enters in rhrounh the Priviries, the DI(("aft ~xpdlcd : The which thing verily is highly worrhv Admirat iorr.bccaufe r his is fo vile a Si mpk I hiru; .. wl1i(~ alhe.:lt it Ihould be prepared, ye-r )j(HwlrhHallding tl:( Eficnce of it~ Fume doth not pi.: I ifh, fqr ;n (hilt a is the Virtue. But as for {h~ pr('Voldrg of rhe .l[cnti. the Spec;fi~" R( .. rued y is ill l he Sp lcr.u .of 01 };e14t:d n~u. Ox~ broughr into a M:tgiHeryor a (~dntcl'('ncC.'; ( r-r6VOC.1tlOH proper ry O{' which is ll'loH c xcvllcnr J~ we in young i(_;Jks, a- in 01d.

So ulfo ror fa Re ttr.r!n them, you mull know, Tim the ~~intellcllcc of Cv.r r als, or the Oyl of l ron , c:

Porabl e Ir ou , which d or h wondl.·rflllly Hc:thaiu ht:),or,t the fen, is a Illott e xe l l en t Rvrnedv- T'is 1HI w iyes Ilecubry ro w r ir e down auv more tuch like '-'rofcrtio,fH H would prove too Prolix in our Av cbidcx is; yet ti~11 be norcd , That under t ~1t.~ ufor cfai d Compofiti Specifical Compofiri )11$ arc compr e hcnrlc.l ; as the h,· car narive, Conalunnacivc, U a xu i VC5, and Mundifi(J· tives, and fuch Iik c, and nrrdcr the Puraarivcs th fdvt:s ( fo is it couccrniug till: n n) arc the: 1)(.'0 . (ive~~vi,. under Purg.Hiv(.'& and I\trraRi\'t'~. And r; wec"I Crmc lud c r his hr t lc nool.:. o1" .. "·/'t'Cll;c/':'$, for ro It« COLlr our Memor .... r har we ma y nor forf,l ( l Ircrn ; Likew ife Comfor r.u ivcs ar c rchcarfcd ill ~J1 the fiI1gll'1:

Chapters.

1iJ,'E,Hi cftbeSctJt'lItb Boo"-, s c.

THl

THE

Eighth B 0 OF TI-IE

AR .. CIIIDOXISl

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Of' Elixirs.

......:l __ Aving written of many lllOf\ fecre e ~1.y~cdes of Narure, we ur e now alfo w'J1I1~g bridly to treat of Elixirs, and (hat ~ot ~n Vain, for we perceive [ha~ rhere lies I." them the grcarcft confc~varton, and !ll1s doth even conft ruiu U~ to bend our IlllOd thert.'to,wl~hom rtiling, for every Elixir h an Internal prcfcrvarive ufrhat Body, in its efleuce that rakes It ; cv~n 015 the Extrinfecal Hal[ome. is the 1': xrer nal pr~'fcrvarl v e of. all Bodies Crom rurrc:fila'lon and corrnptlo,ll; the ~vtllch [hillg is Iufficieut Iy evident in _Ba,,/olllt't VI::(. that J t preIcrverh Bodies to rhar the}' abide many hundreds, yea

, .

thoufands of ycur s w ithout corruption or mura-

rion. f c. 1 • •

And therefore feeing fuch a like gi t or racu ty IS III

DJ/fom~, as to preferve dead Bodies and [.0 confer~c them incorruptible; you may well conceive th~t. In and by this fame gift and r-.1yflcry , a «;und. and living Body may be far better and more ~onHnodl.()ufly prefcrvcd . But now we have not chi s according (0 Na-

) I ~urca

r !

tile Arcbidoxis. r J S

: thar anaincd not eo his Age, and ferne at tained not to our Age, (as we ure now confttrurcd lind ordained nnce the tlood) but d,yed even as \VC, and rhar becaufe riley WC:l"C ignoran r of rhef c · ~ rr s, w hi<'h Adam and the refl under ftood.and her eby It CU&nC r o pa* that they dyed afore rhcir rime .nor did their Food c r Drink

hell' them.

\Vhcr(,'I~ therefore we lire able from fuch like examples Narurallv to find our, rhar a,n old or long Iite I'fO-

. ceeds from Narurc, we WIJI enqurre w har Nature and the Rifr of God is; forne rhings do conferve a dead bo .. dy (rom purrt..·ftlllion OI1dy one year, as Oleum Lateri» nlll1l, or Oyl of Bricks, Others r en , as the CorrelJed . 0,1 of tb« l'/Ji/oiol'bcr s ; feme rwcnry , as rh(.> Water of

Hon); othertome fifty, as a Deftlllcd Pttferuat iuc ; OUt others preferve it per pe t ual l y without end; as Ballome ; Some onely eight dayes, as Salt ; or hers fer a nighc.ns DtJlilled Wafer; fome Ionger , as Vinw» At dens ; orherforne alfo there arc thar prefcr ve the Bcdy from Cor-

ruprion, in a new and {hong (. ffence and Nature, When a man is confirmed and flrc.:ngthencd by thcm , according to his complexion, as C,t';Ae .. Aloe s; and M,rrb ; Iome Bodies arc defended from Putrefaftion, by rcafon of their moll grear 71nlJ",e oncly, which is fo parent, that ir admits of no evil, nor fuficrs any to grow or [0 filter therti n , as Gp/d, r he SaplJir, Peart«, ArCa1l4eS., Magij1eries \ and fuch like as we have afore written hereof,

We will the-refore write down a Prefervarlve againll

• tIll the Corruptions of r he Live Bodyand thc Dead; But it h to he confidcrcd that the: prcfervarive of the Live Body Is eo he taken hy the mout h ., and ought [0

< penetrate the whole bodie , fo rhae here may be no : member in the Body, but nlay percei vc and admic of . that rrc(crv8zion , aud may (by r he Atlrallioa:l of the 1 bellefit thereof) be informed and uupretled (hereby;

1 2 MorcQ~

:I S4 71JC Eightl) B()oit 0/

rure, vi~. that rhefe M}'neri(:~ of Nature, vea.and con. flirured above Nature (by which Wt; 1l1ay c~lnreC\'c th~ Body inwardly and outwardly fronl all conrrarierle) bt:COlllC manifeflcd and know o unto us; but in them Wt: meer with many Myficrie~ as are mofl occult and hid from orhers.

Vt'rity as concerning Elixirs this Is to be known, that they have not their operations .rorn their Nature , nor from their compfcxion.bur are Myfrt'ries rather rhen Silo ,-ifict..s Icading us to a moft high admiration of the ern· tour J by lIIany dcmonfkracions. Yet they are plan. ted in Nature hc:r felf, fo char they are in her, even al may be fecn in ~alflJlnc; if therefore it h(~ "c(lillle to

. prefc, YL dead bodks , tis much more pcfllhll· (0 prefcrve living Bodies - Nor makes it much to heed th~ Words or Arguments of our Adverfaries , but: we will duclofe our own Arguments, and hereby (hall endcavour to direR and guide, to the true foundation of the Inrrinfccal "aJJome., not regarding the uiHing unprofirabl(.· (ayingi 0;' t hofc rhae talk of a Teran or I iruit of death, and irs Predcfttnarlon , and conclude or flint it in its determinate points; for God our Father gave life ,uno U~, and together then-with Mt.:dicamcnts,hy which \VC may be able to defend and fiJfiain ir ; if therefore the rearm of death were prccifcly fer and limited, it would IlcceRarily follow that the other be falfe, which is nor fo. But as long as we have abiJitic and knowledge-we Ilave power of fuf\aining onr Life , for Adam attained to fuch an Ag"',, nor fron, the proper Nai ure or condition of hh own propriety, but meerly on t his account, bccaufe he was fo learned and wife a Phyfirian , and knewa11 things that were in Nature her felt, with the which he alfo fuflained hirnfelf fa kIng a rime. So likcwife many orher were cherc.rhar ufed (ueh like

remedies, '

l¥lnay there were tha t dyed in the dayes of Adam, that

116 Tbf Eigbtb Book oj

Moreover. tis to be nored thar l he Spiri rs of the ezcremenrs H\ the bowels ar e fufficicnrty vehement and flrong to fighr ag .i-lit rhe Prcfer vat ive , and rhar for [his rt~a(on., bccaufe uo putrefied ching can he Em. balmed or pr ch-r ve d j £t·r it hath not in it feJf 311\' ef fence, as newly dC.ld tiC:fll, which is embalrued hath And that dor h as IIH1( ... h furc wirh a i .. rc .... er vat ive a; Verminc with the beft h ear bs , and as a putrefied tfling doth with an incorruptible; (or;1 {hlng rhar is \lLurid, cannot he corrupted IllOH:, nor be al rcre d , for it is ol no valne; conrrariwife, II prefcr varive cannot in the Jean be putrefied, for it i like to Gol d that never be. comes (Uny. They mur ualtv arc Separated from etch other, fo that each of [hem ftltills and performs what is proper [0 it; But rhus much we have thought fit to "}Cntioft ~ bccaufe the Dung or Excrements are able in time to overcome jthe prcfcrvarives , which thing cannot Io come [0 pats in dead bodies, and becaufe they arc unbow cllcd , Of if t he v arc nor as yet unbowclled ~ rhey are indeed coagulated by death, even as thc blood Separated from the Vaim congeals.

"\Vc call chis Pr efe rvat ive Elixit ; as if it were Fermenr, with which bread is fermented and is digefied hy (he Eady. Its Virtue: is a Pr efervar ivc of (he Bodv in that fame Hate where+n it findcs it, and in that fame Vigour and l':Ucnce; tor this is the Nature of Prefervarivcs , vi~. that they defend fi om corruption, Ht nor by mending or berrcr ing, but hy l'referving andy. But wher eas tl-ey .llf..:> rak e awav Difeafes , rhis is done by [he fuhr:\:., that rhe y pdlt:ff; Lik ewife they do nor one!" prefer ve , bur a! (p confer vc; {or r hev have a two fold Labour .1~1': OtJic.:, vi~. to prevent Difcaf(f, and to confer vc r h j·Jlc:nn." i r h J ( in irs own Sr.vc,

Nor do rhey rhus 0;"'\Y in hum.in e Bodies" bur like·

v.:jfc in all Icnfiblc Bodies- Thus "lfo dead Wood

maY

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the Arcbidoxis:

I may equally as well be p~c{crvcd from corrnprlou, as a i Body that IS feafoucd with Ballome i; not I~ r he confer,vation of I-karbs in their EHence any othef\,!i(.~ .Ircn a : certain live Body i5; for rhok: confervar ions (hal arc: · done to Hearbs, do conierve them ill 11K' Came Eilel1ce ,that they find rhcm in, fC? rhat t1~:.y aft Hi}l gn;('I1~ p,ud · remain cquall y "r, frcfh .'5 In [he ~ld(b or Gardens, rt.t]'c. ] even [0 the fifr h or fixt h Age. If r he y he rakcn rrige: ; rhcr with rheir 1'low(:r:, they alfo confer ve [hel!l~ and

· Io if with their tr uirs , they confcrvc them. Nci r hcr 15

: there fo Rreat re.ifon of wondering rher ear , [(11' rrs a

· thing poflthk for dead \Vood ro live: again, and for 1- [on to be fixt fo , as never more to con rralt Hun; c) likewife for Sulphur to he made incombun iblc , all weh are very conrrarv ro the underftanding ~of a fimple man. The caufe of all t hefe we fer dow n more ar brgc and more fundamcnral l y in the Book of Contervar ions. Nor are they to be judged of ,1S imro(flblc., for many more things that are efieemed impcffible, maybe Il\oft aflurcdly accorupl ifhc d- \Vc will lhcn:for~ 'p~;ll{ of the confcrvar iou wit h 13.1!{Qwe, h y (he dl.fbn[ilDll~ of Agc~ as followeth ..

OJ" J7rl'{eyvarhm and Ccmjt'TtJ.1tioTJ h)1 Elixirs.

W- E will nor write of the firfl: Eli x ir ; which confcr vvrh the Body ill r har I':(!(~n('c as it finds it in;fuffcis it not (0 purrefie.nor ro be infirm; but confer vcs tr in rhe fririr of life, fo t har 110 accident can befall it. Lik ewifc it brings ir unto the: third Age or more. As concerning irs LIfe, the oper ariou upon dead bodies is different from r hat upou l iving, for thof~ mn{\ lie in rhe Bal[ome night and da y, whereas t he Ii v .. ing and tound bodies nv it ltc r may nor C.1n at aU do fo.

And r hcr cfcrc thi~ £.!;:dr i~ to be: Iookr on as h(:h,p'

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ufeful only for life; as for the Heart and thofe . that (opports and fuflains the body in its Confcrvati ..

chieflv in which the life is mof] vigourous and Oil, Fourchly, \Vee~l Teach that .Elix;'· which.~nters

d~ng, for it Is ordained for the Spirit of Life that nlansboc.lYWiththcVlnucsofaQ!.!lnrc:{fence. f,frhly,

dlfp~r~e~ throl~R.hout the wh~le body, and it prefer There Ihall be another ,crt;xir added that is truly noble

"he SpUIt of Lite bv char Vir rue hy which the d by reafon of the vtrrues of irs mofl great Suht ilr y s for

Bod y or C rrkafe is kep r from purref .. 8ion ; for, as it relHtcrh all the enemies of Naeur e , hy which refiftcnWound or \.U~cr may be outwardly preferved from cy it permits not the body by any means to Ilide intrefying .. and trorn evil.fc Iikewife the Inrrinfecal"'''''I.~ to Dift:a(c!. And then for a Conctufion; w ee't adioyn

is difpofcd , and capable of being prcferve d from that Elixir which ( by the Virtues. of its own proper

adver firy , 'Ve do cher« .. ·fore Co frame the E/ixir [ nature) is endowed with fuch like Confervur ive Qla-

it may Operate upon the Spirit of Life, like as Fe' Hti(i,

~pcrates in Pa~c ~r DOll.gh; and up0!l the body, ev(t as w hen a Tree IS ringed III the nOot., III fuch wife a~ it! ~()lour may never depart therefrom. A frer rhis manne IS rhe whole bo.~y prefcrved; for the Tinllure is tithe. more or Ieffe ch(pel fc:-d., and pene rrares into all rh( Men~b~rs. cvcn:l~ (he ,,:holc Metal is tinged inro Gold, :an? I~.O n\.1d~ Gold, or IS preferved froru Hulling. Thu:

IS It In vhe Confervcd Bo,",y, there's no Member bur j; full of rhe E!ixir. .

.Nnw eh .. -n , when the Virtue h rhus rlifperred andrecelvc~ throughout rlre whole bod)l, and doth thcrebv c xercife its ~p(.·rari v ·(.· ,=owt,:r, thc~c cannot happeni· 11) Corr upr] .. )fl by plJttlll~ any tiling rhcrcr o for rht I,ire 0.£ every rncmb~r is (ull of Elixir; even as £J~c tinF,td body .ts fnll of the: Sol/fam, But you are to llnderfiand that crs not neccffary that the whole hCHl y be halramtd hS raking hr: Elixir; for where the Sl'ir'n of Life i~ only e nvirone d therewith in ir s roor , ris fufficienr asto the C;)nf.::rvarion of t he body.

Now come we to the Prall;,!.:., raTt; and lirfi of 3;1

.to Treat of the Elixir that doth Conferve rhe whok body fi orn p~trcfaltion hy the.: Co.vdrrious and propert!c.s?f th!", Vir r nes of B(lljam. Then wcc'I (peak of rln:

If.hX1Y which l'fl'ferv('~ ~he bod y by (he potential Vir· rues of Salt. And T'hir dly , of the Elixir of Sn'ulII t;'l

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TAU-of true and the very beft B~/Iarne,(~vcl~ l;no~n to u~)one pound; Let it be put Into a Glaffe.w hlch cover with a blind Head, and pour in roger her therewith tWO ounces of the ~\Ilrd[ellcc of Gold, and one ounce and an half of the Eflence of the greater Circu» hflCm; all which, let he digeficd roget her ar a genr le fire, Co as the Vapours 1l10lY afcend day and night. Then af[crwards encr eale l he fire, that (mile drop!' may adhere and C\ick,aod mav fall down drop-b v- drop for tWO monrhs; then let thc~,n remain in Horfe-dung for four months, that fo they may have (heir digeftiou without inrermlffions This done, the Elixir i 5 cqlllplearcd .:

You are to undl'"rfiand [hat chis Balfullc O~ Elixir; is become a ferment, which Is to be collc.:ltcd and immixed in rhe root of Life, and hat h the pow<..'r of l\cd ucing the Life in to 3 good Eilcnce, ifJ. as no Narur e can bt!' able to rctifl Ic. Even as Ar{cnnk,. overcomes Nature for evil., fa contrarily this Elixir o'¥ercome~ i r for I!I)Qd, by defending the body. 'The dC~ld body is prcfer vc d fafe b~r that Odour, fa as it cannot in the leafl putr~ft.C' when t is pur into it s S~pu1chre, and covered, that.lr cannot ~vtlporarr:; I·low n~uch more then do the v.r-

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rues of a Living body remain hereby: Thus much nl1J (uffice to have Ipokcn in this place,

OJ the EI i xir of8af t; by tbe vt« lie J of wbicb,

,be Bod, is Con[ef1.JcJ.

T Here is no Ieffe power and virtue in Salr, then in

Balf une, whereof we have fpc ken j and that for dlis re~(()n\ becaufe FJc(h is prefe r vcd by Salt (rom putrcfactio n tor many d aycs , vear s, and a luon time. Alld that., fundr y wayes, ann hy one way more .-11(-1) hy another. By the fame Safis and Rule will it be potlible to Conferve and Prcferve the hody; Nor r har we ad\,j(e the l!fe of Sa!t in fuch OJ manner as ris ufed in de.HJ/!t'flh but cis neceffsr y to make thence-from rho Elixir of SJ.tt which doth ruater iall y penetrate the Spirit of Life fo' eha tit Ii ves by r he S.1I r, even as Cal red iii d11; for't hi; Elixir is (0 fubdfc, rhar it may be c ornp ar cu [0 the Spi. !ir of l:ifc: TI_ley t.wn do fo Il r a i r ly and c lofcly agr(e In Oil>? Conjunct ion , infornuch th.lt rhe One is l'cllIpucd or feafoned w irh the Ocher unr o rcri<:ttion; (C\'CI) .IS Salt makes forne Fo-vd Favour y ) w ir hour which ir co~ld not pctfiblv he brought to rh:rf(~(9 .. ion in Uniry, 'T'his therefore is to be nor ed , T;u r [he: li./i''dr of SJir is a ferrnenr, in which r herc is ,1 cerrain Tincture whtrd>), the whole bodv IS pcncrr ared. TI~ alit) an in~()nfullle. able tl~ing, :u,ld is not 'in the le.1fi abfumcd ( w] t h natu: rat Thiug» _) 10 the.: hody by t hc digdlion; bur is fix like to GL1n~ in [he fi rc, w hich d or l] not at all rain; hy boyling or flltJog. 'This fi x £'i~'ir cloth re fix rhe hody, that it beco mes pe rmancnr in Life, no orherwifc then as w hcn a metal is ti xr , Which. no moifi ure no Corrofi vir y, or fuch like CJl1 hurt a[r<'f'A"ards, or b'ring to he rufty: So t hcr efore , it may be gar nercd from 'lencc, T hac the Elixir hereof is as f x a bod y as GoJd

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it' We win therefore defcribe the Prallicl;_ of the

l,'ixir of Salt, after r his manner ; .

1al.:! SJ!t excellently well prt:rJ1cd, the \"'hltd~ and CIC3IlCft, put it in a l~eI!;ra!J with Co lunch (IUl~l(Jry of /uaSo/1;elu, or the ditlolvlng ware r, as ma) be l!lt

illlCftirs weight; Ier them be ~HJ~( Ht:d tog<.'rhl'r ~n }-lorfe. dung for a mon th; then ahc,rw.l~db Ic: 'h/~· dlr. vlng \Varer he Separated by dlftJIl.1l10n, a'~,d be a. n poured o n , and be Sep ar at cd as before, tlJl~ let be . ne fo often until [he Salt he convened In~o an ~yl, whereto let be added an eighth part of the ~lntcll(:~lce iof Gold, and let them be digcficd togcther 10 it Pellican 'and in Horfe-dung for four months. and let them be Circulated for a 1110nth after; then addv anorher pare 'of Circulated Wine, and let [hem (0 rernai n in A{ccnfien yet a monrh longer , This time l?cing over, thou Ihalc .have the Elixir of Salt, of the which we have made [or our felves a merno r ial as a parrcrn, (or the fUCCOUI mg ~ and lightning of our Ancient dayes.

Of the Third Elixir. 'Ui~. OfSweetneffc.

''l ~ 71!: are ccrrain, That hodies may he prefervcd .: V, from Corruption by S~vtetlleffi".; but as ~o the Virtues that it is to hu done hy , we ddtver them In the 111?Jtifes rI the Gcncrationr ojHoncr; Sllg.tr~Ma"n", T,utJus, (thcfwecteJlkiodofdcw) and filch like, which we

won't l\epear in this place bccaufe of the Wrirlngs .of , the Anrienrs. We arc able to Tro1oflllure Sweets In. ro an Elixirv rhe pr eparat io n of which.d(!th rather con. reeve rhe lively bridv in i [~Co\lf'_'r~cd l'.tll:ncc .. then the

L:mgllici or decayed body. For rrs rhc propcrr y of all Specifick Sw ccrncffcs neither to b~ Currllpr(~d,. nnr. do 'they fuffer this hody to he Corrupted ~ ".nk~t' by r hlngs Contrary, thereby they are made ohno:a0~b to Corn.'rtion , as for Example , OUt of 110m', and b,eali,Vernlln~ ann

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and Emmct6 are gen~rated; and in like Winner OUt ~Ut.4' and CoaRU~tcd :Uilk.,. OUt of Alanlla and Jv, . 15 "lade a Corruption It ke to Mud 01' Dun~. Many mor' fuch like .Co",po~tions may be olad(! hy which th; S~e.crncfIc~ parr: Into Cor~uptl~n. To prevent which thIs IS our Inte.ntJon and Experience, Vl~. That C thal Compofitlon.J fuch a thing he taken as may l1indt:r the Swcctnefic: to remain in Irs proper E and fuc:h as may he w irhour the Corruption of any ther things. By rhis way and means it hal'h the V eue of a Balfome, to CO.nft-rve rhe dead (icUIY bodies Carcaff,'s, and other tlun&s. For fuch a like Sweernei is the: Ba/fame of the Earth; and orhcrfome there are Dew., for in them hath it irs Original. We will there fore fer down the E.!hcir of Tbronws; becaufe there's no Sweemetfe comparable hereunto ; It doth alfo connh more M_yficrics thcn is. credible, as we fer down in the Book,.of Generatiens, By the preparation of which m1Y be ~olleacd the wayes of preparing ocher SWCIit. neffes,

7he Preparation of Thronus ;1 thus;.

Ta~e as much Tbt.nus as you will, which let he pm in a 'ellican\ in digeffion at the Sun for two monrhs ("'but twill be better for a whole Summer) Afterwards let be added a fourth rart of the Q_uint('(f<:ncc of Gold, and fo let them he Circulated together for two months then kee~ ire Albeit this way be very fhorr, yet neverrhclcfle rhe Elixir hert'by made, is very wonderful in very old folk.

of the Four'/) Elixir; wbicb is, OfQyintdrencc~.

IN Ii.k-; ma~ner may J2Einte{fonces be brought intoan . Ell:t!y which Confcrves hoth Jiving and dead bodies, lake as BIJI[.rne doth; \V e make but a very brief Re·

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hearral thereof in chis pl~ce.. .bccctu(c tis. afore demonOrated in the l",nce!s. oj .§l_ull1tc.ffcncel; So therefore wee') proceed here a httle further and fee do~n fuch thing~ as we have noted to make ~o~ ~)refcrvatlon and Confcrvation. Then out of the l·.h~lrs of rhofe pr?celTe~, we will teach the Compo(itlon of one Ehxlr~ fully as profitable to the body as the rhrec.precc:d~nt, are' Verily you arc to undcrdand tha~ this. Elixir oj ~i~teffelJres hath in it a fccrcr VirtllC,whlCh dally tends to a Rd\oring, and which endeavour: to Renovate and Re(\ore the whole body; Therefore Ie Operates marc then a bare Confervarion , for it alfo Renovates, yet not Io perfettly as we have menrioned ~bo\'e of l2.!{imrJlCnc~~ and A.'canllt'.f but is of meaner Virtues, and that be .. cune the Co~fcrvative and l1encwi.ng property of rhem cannot be together, but yet hy this way IS Renovation dlfpofed for C ,)nfcrvation, thus; .

.1ak,e the Q!!intelTt!ncc of cetsndine, of Ba)v'".t, of each

rwoounces; the <"l!!intcilcnce ofGold,tllG ~Int~ifcnce of MercNry, of each half an ouoce; the QQlllrctIc:nce of Saffron, and of all the Mirobolaner" of each one ?unc.e ; Lee them be all well rni xt together, and be fhur HI WHh ahlind Head, and remain in the digelli on of ~UIJ for two months; Then addc of the ~;nrefli:nce of JVme, and the A1agiJf~rJ thereof, of each one ounce and an half" and let them be dig~{\cd again for a ~onth, as above ; then keep it as a Trcafurc, not only {or Prefervarioa, but alfo for Rcfioration.

The Fifth is called tb« Elbdr of Subtilty.

NOw we accompr it expedient [0 fer down the 1.!. .. lixir of Pur;t] or Subtilty; for It Cn_nfc:rvc5 by the power of its great I'uriry and C1cann~fle, fuch as is the Correilcd 0,1 of tbe Pbi[o[oplJerr! tins fuffcl': nothing char fhall he anointed therewith, to purr ifie :

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The like cloth the COt're{ft~d 0,1 of Brick..l C or Olean Latermum) etft:lt, and many others; and yet tis their property (0 prvferve from plHrifattion, bur rhe acquire this thing, and get fuch a propcrry from Prepararlon and Labour : So Iikewifc Difiilled or relted l.vine perrui t- not ro purrefie , nor doth Digcfl IVi,J::; nor is it at ~II changed ~Y the fire. The Waur of Hones doth (by irs preparar Ion) refitl rHurc:fa8ioll,11 to whar apper rai ns [0 fcnfib!e hodic.'s;. hut the Crul! SubfiJJlc<: rhercof doth not do (0., but IS fuhjelt toal! l'HltfcfaltJon; We therefore ftt down an Elixir of Suo. ,ilit}, forafmuch as mans body is ( iuf] like as ilfercuI, ia (elf which is volatile; is fi xed with its own Water and made permanent) alfo fi xed into a Confiancy and per. manency j Now al rhnugh that this fame thing may be Qone by many other things then whar we here dcferibe Yer neverrhclcfle we will mention fuch ouly as ar~ known unto us. 6y Experience; Nor will we tor this Caufe detract any thing from the others, but only we flY thus much, That as yet all of rhem have not been known unto U5, nor been Experienced by us. The proct{fe of this Elixir is thus;

Take (Jyl Olicc ; HOI~CJ, and Vlnutn Ardens; or hUTninl n';ne, of cacb one pound: Dcfh] rhcrn altogether according to the Chymical manner, and that thrice. Afterwards Separare .tll the Phlegm from the Oyls , which are di!linguHhill~ le by rhe rna ny Colours; pu r all [here Oj ls Into a Pellican; and adde to rhein of the ~intd. fence of Ban'I1u!'1 and of celondinc, a Third part; digel1 rhein for a r.1onth, Then keep it for your uf(.·: There s no Scnfible body is able to refill it, no nor Infeufiblc, and that for many Caufes and properties which we will not at all fer down in [his place ..

'Itc siuh is the Elixir of Propriety"

IN like fort maya per fell: E.lixir be c>:~raacd our ~f Natural Things, as out: of M'Irt/J., Saffroll, and Aloc- 1t;,4; hut as [or .tI ":> fe V'J~ru(:s that it proc('e~s from, wedcfcrihe in thc.Jr~Cm)ratl?nS; .",:c only ~lCntlOn the rrocefs here, onurr mg their Ongmal, w hich we clfe ..

where do often Treat of.

lal:_f oj AIJYl/) ) Alof/,atici{, and .SaffrtJl1 , of each ?nc (jUlrtl'r ura pound; the which bung PUt tog(![her In 3 }eJlican and placed in Sand, Ie" them afccnd mof] gent .. Iy for [\VO Month·.·,'J"lcn at 'cl~gth Scpara.tc the 0'11 t~Orll thefuesby an Alemhick without Adutlion or burning, ThisOyl mufi be digdlcd for a Monrh [ogcthe.r wirh CirLI~latuPll in equal weight, then ( a rrtl ) k(-(:p It: In this Elixir arc all [he VirrlJcs ~f [he Niltur.,.1 Balfarne , yea and fuch a Confervat lvc VIfUH: for old Folk, more rhe~ is fit co afct ibe unto ir, bccaufe [h~rc (loth not cnlyprocccd one:' J\ge th~r~~ro'n., bur l"'o~rt. Seven , orTen, &c. TIS fcarce pofhhlt: [C· expr~fic: Its force and liIaturt'~; but [is in my _,udgme or fulnclt:ntly enough Dilucidarcd, nor do we chink it need a~>, morc ample .Inrerprerarlon-

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HAving in the Precedent Books, rreared oi lntrinfecal Vi(eaJes; 'ris e xpedicnr now for us to write of rhofe Difeafc:f, as proceed from without, and to fer down Iome rerncdie for rhem. And although we infert nothing (in rhtfc Eook,.) of the Origenal of rhofe Internal and alfo External Difeafes ~ yet notwithH.1nding we will fet down the Origiaals of t hofe NledicanlentS , and then afterwards the compoficion of fueh like remedies for external Difeafes. Some remedies are one Iv for Wounds , wirh which a Wound may be cured iu twenty four hours; which you are to und<:rfialld thys;

When there is a Wound made, it needs nOlhinh eI(e but that it he again knit together, or co njoyncd on Iuch wi{(_'"as rwo pieces of board arc knit rogcrhcr with Glcw. Do riot at any rare Jet Wounds lie open, btl! endeavour to rcplcnifh them with tlcfh, for Ib r.uhera thing Rutlical chen Medic .. I. Confider that whcnrhe

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of a wound arc ioyncd together as two pieces of

oards ftick together with glt:w., they are even more . n half whole already j th~ which is to be nc~<.:f", y done by a cerram Medicamenr , fo conrraff ing fides of the Wound together, that it cannor be

ner and more fitly done; Thence it follows that ere the Ilps touch each other by the cornpreffion of Medicament helping Nature, there is the healing pleated j Infornue h that there i~ no Wound herein the Bone is not broken) h. Co evil, btu will ily be healed in twenty four hours. But the Bones not pcrtl,i [ rhernfelves to he knit fo together as the

fh doth; therefore we fpeak nor at all of rhcmlin this ace. For c}taillple undcrftand U5 thU5tvi~. when any r is plainl Y CUt off, then (hc.:forc that the Vains

dud bur \vhilcfi they arc yet warm and frcfh ) \et m b~ rrefentJy mo iftcncd with that M<-:dican,ent, d let the wound be conloyned.and (0 die flde~ ~rcwill be fa knit roger her (as two St icks are COJ)A1u-

101[td with Glew) and he healed and united. Thus the: opc:r.t rion of rhis M(:dicarn~nt, and hert:wit!l ;}[' Narure cure fa foon becaufe of the great reficcarin,ordq'ing ur of fueh like Medicines, and ti~.by that rue (w hich we have afore fpolH.·n of) that H heals.

"', .... cover you are to know , that an Incarnat ive jlJ'edica~ is not at all to be ufcd for Wound, , nor any mun - ive, or A trralti vc- be ca lift: that r hofe cxtralt., arc: to draw out all Putrid It·l11XL5 into much ,ms,

Furthermore the g:1pil1g or cavcit y of a 'Vound is to e filled wirh Uc:fh; now that is a leJllg rime df.Jing, and

confequent ly very dang<:rollfly and without Lilly Mallerfhip. The fame is alfo 10 be conceived of in old VIs. which arc a long ti Inc Ioadc n (·,\5 it wcie.) and ned with HllXCS. whereby it co mess.to pats, that cannot be cured wirhouc many accidence, and t:xcecdiug

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ceeding great difficulcy, and fomerlmes never then it is moil ncccflar i ly expedient that the M~d' rnent of them, be made of rhofe things which we fpokcn of, and which do Iikew i fe hy a cer tain coruprefs and cling rogerhcr the Skill and widen Likewife in the curing of Vlcers, you arc to confi that the G.cllctation or FI<:(h is ucccflarv , hut I cannot poffibl y be done by compreffion", or ctofing g~.thcr (as we tucn!ioncd in \Vot1nd~) in Vic-as, as ,Ij-ift"/~es and fuch hl~e; all which arc to be cured the Vireue o~ Iuch Iikc Medicamcnts, as anon. Th ~orc we dcfcr ibe and f~t down rw o Fundamentals, Iuch an ~rJcnlllg or gapu:,g of the Skin, the one is a Jncaruarive, the other is an Exi ccarive 01 dryer tip.

~ow let us f~(:ak alfo of the orhe r dcformi [i('s oft S~ln, as Scars, Ato)phe~vs. SerJ,igC'es., the P.11I11US Slrtb.mad:_, ~hc SI(JiIlS and Lcapry ; and fuch like ~.,fC5 proceeding frc.rn rhe Skin, the which we adv the cure ~f afrer rhis manner-, Firfi of all We erda' and appoint thc Skin to be pulled off eveu as rhe Skio ofa Bcan is. (\rip~ otf, then (aftcrward~) (0 be clad with new by a convement Mcdicalncnt. ltor it is to be un· d,:rfiood~ that the Skin II'Un be took away by a ce t.nn Ml:dlcament., and a new Sk in pure and unfpo h~ generated of another Colour ; as w i th that d}camcllt th3.~ fnllows hereafter, whereby much Elcfh and moiflure is not to he arrractcd s rhus are SpOtS to be .rcillovcd, hy the way thus defcr ibcd, Ai to th.c t~km~ away of their Original. we make Do) ruenuon In r hi s place, nor as to their entrance or b:· glnning ., for it is clfcw here Treated of nor doth ir brillg either. bcucfir or dammage to our p;'cft:tlc intent:· on or Doctr lue, 'There arc many other Diftcmpen, as ~he C41J~et, Bu.bofS and fuch like., which requil.t 'h~l~ Pt'~':lhar Medicament for the drawing our of dlC1 OnglRailtle, and th~ total purging OUt and cJeJuinga·

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[fanned hy the Spfcijkal Atlralli1Je; then afccrw ar ds re is need of Confolldiltion., the which we have fcc 11 ill our Difcourfc of Fiftula'sand fuch like,

But now the l\uptur<.-s., ifJ'c. breaking of Bones and

like are to he con(olidated with a .. 't'tirrical AUralli1Jc y, [he which Medicament we fhal l nor here repeat having fpokcn tllcrcof «lfewhere f n Iikc manner re arc found to be many fuperftuous Crctccuces, as Srrurnau or the KingJ-EvjJ, Kernels; r[_crc. [he which wuft firl] be evacuated or cmprycd, and chen be cured 3f(erward~ •

We will therefore divide Chirurgety into three Parts

or Cures, and refer one parr (0 H'OUl?cls, the Iecond to V/lers, and the third to Spots or J3lemiffies; as for the C4rt(U, we (hall Cure it whit a Sl'eci{ica! Auratlive one- 1_v, and afterwards with rhefe Medicaments which we flull Teach here followi ug,

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I p' we would attain to fuch :l ll1t·dic.trntnr as may (by it~ own proper Nature) (a kulr [he 1.irJ5 and fides ol 'Vounds togerhcr, as two ricces of Boards are with Glcw , t he n it is neceflarv that Ir be done by the greaten Siccir y and Sdp[ickndle, as may fcrve for the

Flefh oncly , as follows;. ._

Ta~e SaP1lcL"/) e xc e lleut ly wt:ll burnt and calcined into a Whir encffe , w hereto add Circul atum winllr; then afterwards ddl:il it, that a moft dry Ctlput rljOYflHHlJ may remain in the bor rom , and rhar tht.·Gla(.1ie wholly red hor, then pour 0)1 frdh Circulatum again, as afore; and thus do fo long unr il the Circ14(atull,l come off a! ro-

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gerhcr fwcee therefrom.' as it is in it felf, then {ufl'erit !O b~ reiolved by it {elf. That which thall he refolved IS t!"IS R~med V here fpoken of for Wounds .. and may ~ I'nt ituled ; a Balfam for a Jf'ound; for Balfam (in OUt Cornman Ger'!tain Speech). is as much as to (ay BaldrrH. fa rtJrnt.·n .. ehar I!' prefentl, conJI)Jntdt and not according to th<: l.~tine Idiome . We f11all not make any fingular defcr.ptlon of t!lC Virtues of t)la~ fame Medicament, but do make t hi s General AIle-flaOn'l that tis fit for all '\oVounds, as being what we have cured many hundred, of\V<?unds withal, by a bare wafhing, and that abore what IS credible to be done by NQture.

A RtPnrd, Jar an \.lIc~r.

WEare alfo to underfland , that VlcerJ may ill like rna nner be comprefied or clofed togt:tllCF . by the .Virtu~ of fueh a Mtdic4t11ent., together WIt1~ a Generative Vutue. Nor do we Imitate the wrtrmgs of the Anti~uts for their writings arc malitious and wick.e~. This therefore is to be confide red of, 'lJi(, a ~onf\ranun~ or c4ufing that to enter into the cornpoiiuon. and that on this wife;

T4~ ~he .aforefaid Balfome for Wounds, and alfo the Bat[o~e In like manner made of'ruft, as that of Samuh, of each one pound, mix rhefe rogerhe .. , and add thereto one "o"n~ and ball of the oyl of Iron, aU being chroughIv permlXt., let be pue upon Vlcet'J, and let rhem be w~fh~.d dall~. as n'all feem expediene , and let a eM{o./ldau'lIe Plal{ter,fuch as we teach for Vlcers ,be applytdj proceed therefore on with vour Ligamres even to the end of the: cure; for this is to be heeded that thc r.1clnbe,rs arc: co be (as it were jdrawn to~etl;cr or compreil ~lth Ligaeures, which thing We largely enough teach In other places. And therefore tee thus much fufficc for Vlcer~.

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; A Remedy agaill/f Marks or Blcluifhes.

WI.: have fn(ficiently defcribed the taking off'che Skin,by a Specifical Corrofi"c,and together with that,d .. : Cautery how it is [0 be done and ured. And after the raking away of the SljlJ and the Ble ..

• lliPJ with ir , then the cure thereof it. as follows;

14{t the aforefaid Dalfam for an Vlcer, to this, add OrWapJtd Turpentine, of rhe 0,1 of Worms, and of the O)lof Eggs, equal parts; with rhis mixture muf] all the Flefh that h bared of i rs Ski n, be wafhed- Aftet this Cure there is no marc requifire , for this is the properue of thar Mcdicarne'1t,'lJi~. to induce together with the new Skin, a new Colour, and a Natural hardncffe, ill fo much [hat it can no more be defiled with the aforegoing Blemifhcs,

Now although (t1ch like Staines and Blal,ip,cs l11dY he r~mo.\'~d by many Waters,as the Warcr of Bean l"[o,verl, of Slglllum Mari~ and Inch like, and alfo with Mans .. dwng, but yet there are not for our purpofe, for they do not at all .ti01Ci anfwer our c)(pelhtion, anti befides all blemifhes are much more pcrk'lUy taken away with rhofe rhings which We have already fee down.

Nor hath any one reafon to admire that we fer down ~t) few, and fo brief Bemedies for the whole cIJ,rurgerl; or We do ,not Imirare the waves of the S,.rgeoIlS, fuch as the AnCients have written of, and which the Modern SlIrglonr do alfo make ufe of" as well as they. For when we followed that Medicmal way or Method, we cl)uld never (by that kind of Ph,fic.UitJ J find or e. ver perceive any thing well founded or certain. Bur we have .made ufc of our own l\enledlc~ according to expcriencc , and have by this wa}' found our the

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heft Medicines of all C!Ji,urger,; even as we have Prchend~d them in this place, under three pr

onely. ..

And albeit that there are to be found more di then are here menr ioncd, as , the BuUa, Jfllcpecia, yet 41ft." they cornnre hcrvdcd under Blemifhes , and t'i~.f.'.r) and are r o he cured as thofe others are; for thc.:re are many c .nl;~5 nor here mentioned, hut are for 0U; ufe or praltifc, but we arc mindeful even them; for when w e had teen (hac ~VoundJ' (of whi we have had many hundreds and thoufands under hands) were fo fp,-tdil y and e xcceding wonder cured with there L\~1l\edic~; what rC.lfon i!l there 115 to imitate the long and vain pr oceffes of the Ant" and fo be Ior gcetul of our Neighbours. And whar have we to make ufe of the Mundiji.:ati1JfS, Jfa Sutures, l.igatures, CoYroji1Jcs and fuch like, when they are allltmimiciticul to Wounds, and do mofi rably deprave and fpoil (he Ill; the caufes whereof we do largly enough explain in the Book of r-¥ounds. \Vhll need is there of the divers Ernplaflttl$, Cerors, VRgut/ll; and the like ~ that we fhould rake them even for the cure ofVI(ers, as alfo the Ligat;ollS, Vnll;oni l &(,aH which to reckon up is tedious ~ fer they reach n thing elfe- but a Prolix" intricate and foolith way walk by, the end of which is to enquire and [0 filM OUt many Accidents by their Ioolifhuefs j for ir is by reafon of our fupcrfi:ition., that we fo much credit tht Antients; For ... crily it if. not the filly boafling nor ufe, Ieffe w riteings (for they can l1ever Recoml'ence (.0( make amends for the loft paper employed about them) ca 11 in form, in Surge'J, what a }t'iJlu.'a" cancer, Vlw and fuch like are, and fo Iikew ife to aflign to eachd r hcm their peculiar Medicamenr; for they may all 01 them be Iufficient ly and <:xa81y cured and healed by one on ely l\cmcdy, as the ~;t;lernal LraprJ, the Alope~i~

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'!",rnu'u. BltmipJeJ or M~rkJ and fuch likes as Puflul6s. and Cicarri~es,all which may be abundantly feb one onely Medic.amenr, and one onc:1y rr« .. ~. a!tikewHe the Artetrc,(:,_ Wou!1ds of dar rings, of , Wtaponland HuUetland f\l~h like Wounds. ~nd we will conclude our Surger, with rhefc few Med,c (t-

tI,and put a period thcrepntQ.

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Tenth BOO K OF THE

'ARCHIDOXISJ

:r aken out of a moft An ... tient qerlnane ~anuflript.

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The Preface of the Anthor,

LthoNgh we were minded to lrrit~ om A~c~idoxi., and other our ,Boo~ ap. ra,'!,ng to Medicine 't {onlewhat mort pl~tlt and more elect" "Jell H done : It

~tC "life the hlgh~Jt Medicinal 'l.Jniv~Yflll Arc~,!ntJ ~nnot ~e prepared Without true ChJJ"ical Alallllal p~,atl()lIr, and be brought unto the de/ired Exal» tlltton of D~grees; for ~t;s ",ell i{.nolt''' to mDJI, }.lDW

The 'Pre(Ace of the AutlJor.· i~~

~~~ the whol' World is ;11 a tua1tuer tttldil1td to i;ches and worldly Wealtb, and doth o,,(y wit/J 1111 their migJJt drive at TinDtires~ It1UJ tbe 7ranfi'Jlltatiolls oj Metals, to [cv ape top,etlJer IIbllllda1'CC of Gold and Silv~r; Now, for the attllilll1ltllt here~f, they do vtry J11uch "eea tr~lc. Chy"Jica~ Prepllra ... fio"S, tbe wlJich tbey would wlllulf!_!y find '" our Ar .. cLidox", briefly fl",J witl)out labour-') . TIJcreJore, Jor tlJH reafo», Vlz.7'lJat we ,,,ay ntee! with fo great 4" evil M J1lig/Jt. drife fro»" thence, atJa ",ay, crufl: their Malice; lYe even concealed OilY ,,,eall111g in thole Books, accordi1lJ!. to the Anti en; f1Jilo!oplJick CUJIO."C, 1l1ld Cabaliflical Form, alld 1)lIVe J'ct fftvertlJeleJJe 1111Zd, de»tonjlratioJl cletrly to the good and well ACCO,,"pl~(htr.J, but obJcitrely enollglJ to tbe COHte,,,ners alld. Impious nlel!; .And yet tis not Dilly the Lacrymi(t8,tJJa, gllpe 011 Gold, are the ct1l1fe of CrurCabAlijlicll1 PlJilofophicl{ IVyifitlJ!.~ b'it alfo that:

HJofi great 7rODp of the Se[t of Galen & Avicen, (or flu_) would very willillg!y tua/{r ufe of our Medicamtnt.( Inttl Arca'lacs. [or tbe driving away oJ Chronic a/ Vifel1fe/~ (wIJic;b arc ul1tllrable by tile;¥' Galenical way) Provided, ibat tl)ey cOllldfill~ a brief, Jure, and eafie Method for tlJe Prepayat~o;, lind aAdtll;,zifl r auen of tbem witIJout YC1l0U1ICtlIg the old Error of the EtlJniclv IJl1rJ JttZ{'~ CIJrHli.,tllS, and could attribute the BOllours, f' nme, "lid RlclJes wl);c/) they get .heye~y to tbe Galenical,. IYritillgs, lind to tlJefillf.lve.~ Ollfr. a'Jd rberet/pon l out of. all

CJlvtOUS

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·'36 The Preface or the Author.

,"ViOI" miNd) /upprfjl"~ Ntlnle and (aJJ}()UI Deeds, and vindicate the~lrtlves bJ their IPri. tings; and ( becau[e 1 [tT,Y that tlJllt Art procted, from nle) Ilffio" that tbey [ecret Iy poffcffe 'he vel t".Y fame thing:

For; wberea« thty are .A11ci~nt B(J(I.OYJ, thi} wiU lIot by allY ,'lCIfIH fee", C thQnlfelll~s l'eiJlff, /0 .Aged) to be, and 1>lIblick.!y prof~fJ~ thel1J(elves Difciples of a more frQffi If/it .nnd )'Ololger Scho/Jar, ( who." they aU E"VY beeltup hq Ju6vel'.teth their Foundl1tious ) 'Tberetore ; becau]« of their Slon,l. fublfp~ .A»lbiti01', E1t1'Y, 1l11d l-latred, togetb« ~ith their ""gratitude, I bmre tbu« 'l'all(!,JJt mid J{ea{o1tcd in ibe .Archidoxu, fl11d111Y other Ro~k.n After the atorefald man r ur, fo wel! IIk.bt/!. me, ((hI wlJich I jhaU at the lnft day approve and ;u}/i;/it htfore God and )11y COI1(c;ellce) that [o thofe III would IZttai11,0 tb« Ji'oundat ion of 'i1ry A rcbidoxis , JJliJj pub(ickJy can the »[elue» Thecphralti(ts, and acI{]t()wled~e m« to be r heir Monarch l 'HIIl)J f~U{)w me M to Labonring; '1»IlY [requent "'y Schoo!, Illtdmay contrar;wi/e ct:_(t away thrir old F'atbrrs under 'he

ftaU: A':ld altiJollJ?h th~y »tay privily I!el lome Ex· pCf'iUlellt [rom [ome 111iJer,zlileJitnple Country C/o'(PJt, or tlfewhere~ yet they Jhall110c underti an d 1 J;e great Arcanlles of Ad~ni11iliyi'nl{ "IV A4cdlCtIH/C'lIts, and fo c~nff!quentl, wiU purcba]« more Di{gr,/ce tbm Honour rherefrol11. ~41td tbercfcr» 1l1ti.'OIlj!.1J Jomt Old IV,le '~a'h told tbcm, Tb/lt the Chicken, or

. 'he

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'the Preface of the Aut1Jor. :131

bt yOlmg of tlJe SwaUows that Cr:,-nium, 8c viCQ:crcinl1~, 8c.c. ar« a cert atn Cure for the SUing 'SickJjeffe (M ;11. very deed it i,) y'et .fhalt not hcrewit#J Cure It. But wlJellce U It, or

," t H t'JeCatl{~? 'Til tlJu, bec auj« tbou under .. r1:dell "ot t/J~ Wily of tbe Ad,uiJ2i/lrat;on,. 110r the grtat Ilech, 'tor wilt thou be able to Learn It of ,by oalen, ",,(e/l thou fr-eq.uclltefi .• "~ S cbool ; and ItanltJf PbifoJophy accoydl1lg to Cbritt, and 110t =:

'ording to ~~iLcus:, or II Promoter- Now theft [eeing. ~bat Vifcus Qllercinus doth #tot II/ford tbee Help, t/JOlt /uppo{e1t it to be too weak; by It Jeff, and there· (ore ChOll Co~ref1ejl it witb other Herbs, and CQIIJ·p'lefl a great Mixture of Sixty parts, or more ; tbt(e tbou doti Di~efi, arid rurgcfl the Excrements b)' tb,m, hut thou canjl lilt Expel ,be DiJca(e thert,",i./) becallf~ thou tlHder.flalldtft "ot neither 'be .\imp[~, 110r ,IJt Compound, nor the AdnJinijir a ..

tiGII.

But, Would they ba'lJc tJJ""kflll(y ac_cep'ted 01 'IIY Dofirilfc,) and cast tbeiv Red Cap, or If ools Coat (rb,d tlJey 1-'ave -received of Ga l~l.l) behind the Door,' allri would witballJave r"b""tred tbel11[elves .mdrr 1'V Dilcipli1Je~ I WQuid IJll'lJC put en the.!, a bnur Cap, yra, tbe Cap 01 euen Fortllna~us In>>lfelf, in tbe wiJicIJ dotb lie 'I110ye .Art then lIZ all the ~'htr lVritillgs be{td,'s, il1jolllllch, that tbey PJollld

110t need to put it oif ill t be Prefellcc Of 'al~ body bu: be abl« to Cure Cbronical Difeafcs eqlllllly

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M ""U M Fortunatus R~jlored the Kings D ter;

But ;"deetl~ they are ,,"wort'-!y o( allY better, are to be Accufed ( at cutpabl«} of their own "«att{e they have k!2QWn rlothing of the M.1l!nali lind Mifley;es of Natures SanlJuary. lZor 01 t CtJ:le(lial 7reaJury which H liber_J/.J R.evealed ",e ft'OIII ilbove ill thefe /,,/1 Tilnes and Sea/oIlS Grace; tbo whicb tlJillgs do II/Ilks a true Ada .lId wonderful Ph)jitiall 4C'cordhlg to tb« E'10 da,es, ;H the u"derjla"di1lg ,Zlld preception of Gentration; But tbo]« IJ{noralzt braggers have fN/cd it, a1zd. therefore 1 'lviU no {,trtbe,. pittv thtll1

hilt leaTJ~ them in tbei» Ij!.Horaltc,: But hecauft t?~rtJ~ s no a()ubt but thai t1fIl0nJ!,lt filch a J!;tat mfJ. '''tule of men (concerning whom therc"s memiOH made in the 4th. oj E(dras) the Loyd God witlft. [erv« fo."e very {»Ial number of {0111C Df his Etta; who will be dejiYCJllf of JaitlJ[tllly followhtg mv Tneophrattical po[irin~, nntl of lovillf!. the 7ruth, and of .helping their NeiJ!.bhours ill their Necffjities And Vi/tafes, out of a tru« uHJtiglled Chrijiiall Le», IJlld not {or Gain IIHJ AJ1lhit;olt,. hilt (or 'be PUtt Lov~ of Go(l: AJld are alfo dejiro,/.r, TlJat 'hi II/onderful W()r~( of Goa ",ay be »Iade al'partnt h) the Lighl of Nature, (alheit Il11Juelt are not horn tlHder filch a ConJltllatiolt, M to I'lpprlhelltl tbl ,»ellnillg oJ our Bookl (W;tl1Dut the IJclp of God) tbollgh they diligently jludJ' tile}".) Bccnufe then-

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The Pre/ace of the Arltbor. 139

f,yt oftl)eli1tetre Tntention alza Love of flle1), fl1td rbat they 111I1V co."prehe"d tbe true Feundation oj our chitfcJt Writings, ~lId Arcltllae$ concerning ~Itd;cine, and 1uay arrive to all bappy tlld; All(J that the 1110fl precious Trea/ure of Nature that God hatb Revealed unto m« 'JlflY 110t he wbolly buried with .ne·; lYe )vill tbcreforo lYrite tbi« little Book; i~r tbtm, ""d wjll tbcreiu c/rerly foew the F ounda» t;on .. or Balis of our ArclJ;doxH- ... and Vuiver{alities, ,1Hd will 'Teach tb« PrepllraU911 oj the leveral drcaHa,s, the ~i1'teJft'lIces S tbe 1!;rJf Entities, Ilntl

1rfagiJleries. .

But, that t1JH Clcar Light JJlltY1l0t C0J11e to th~

VngratlJrtl and the VnJPorthJ, 1 do exhort all filch M lJave tbo Poffiffi~n or Vllderf,lallding of tlJH B~o~, alia do bind thee .h}' the '110/1 great Sacrammt, end the Oat" thou ban mad« '0 God ;11. thy Bapt;fme, t!Jat thou eVOIt ~olJcealeft all tlJcft tlJillgs privily, lind M tlJe 'Hofll1oblt err-ea/llre of 'Nnture ; and that thou doe)l not admh: any V'1f~ortIJJ Ptrfolt tl.'ertunto, but that t1.1011 Honoureii it ,If a 1nofi Mefftli Talent, and fervell. 'be NectfJitics of flJy Ntighbol2r therewitlJal.

7be Lord God bellow IJis BleJJil1g and Grace, that who{oever Partll/l.ss hcteof, tllay riglJtly ufe it .•

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Tenth BOO K OFT H E

ARCHIDOXIS

OF

~HEOP H1{<!/! S'IV S,

Comprehended in Ten Ieveral Chapters •

C H.A r. I.

o.f the separation of the Elc. ments,

HE four Elements are commixt with each other in all things, but yet (in every thi .. g) one onely of chofe four is perf ell and filC, and that E~ment is the P,edejfinared BIt·

. men: ~ wherein the ~lnteffence, Virtu« and

l2!!al"1 doth lodge; but the rett are iA1pcr{clt Eft-

menU,

tbe Archido:-:ir. 14 B

t'llntt, and as a bare Simple E/~".cntt wherein there's no more virtue ehcn is another fimplc Element; and they all are as an habitation of the nne, fix, and perfell: E" Ilmenr; on which accompt alfo they arc cal le d, TlJillg~ ~~I;Pld: And whereas fome do imagine the body to be rhe true Elemen t and Ql!ality., and that it difcovers ill fomc fort the vir t.ue of the [rue Element, the reafon thercofis rhis,bcc;Juh! the body (and Irkewife the three imperfelt Ekmcnts) is tinged and Q:!alificd ( each according to its nature) by the fix, pl'cfctt, and Predcninued ~:Iemcnr, or Ql!inu:l1cnce, as with its Inhabl-

rant.

For E~amplc:: In (orne things the Element of W,lter

bears I ule , in other bodit:& the 'I"ne is chief, in others lhe£aftlJ., and in othcrfulllc the Air, So then, if you would have (he fix Prcdd1in4t('d r~kIllC\l[ Separated, lif. expedient that the Houfe rhc r cof be broken open; But now chis breaking up the Haufe. or diflolunon, is performed by Ieveral wayes, as is clccrlv fpokcn of in my JJfet.anorp/)o{is, in the Book of the Demh oJ -Thir.gs : lfthe Houte he din;,lvccl by A'lila fortis" or SD'{J"g~ W!lftS,CQ/dnlltians, and fuch 1 ik e t r his alw aycs L to he (hfavcd, (h.tt the difi()lvcd he fcp.irurcd t"renl the fiK bY'ul~ar dinillaii('ln~l for r hcn i he br-d v of the ~innflence comes over in the manner nt Pblegme ; bur the fix Element abides in the bottom; Hut whereas we rake no g"cat Care Olhour the Haufe O( Habirari on .. but diligeudv 11.1)(luirc for rhe Inh~birant onl\' .. r i- needful that we find him in the: fix Prc:dd\inJ.tc El e mcnr , and from thence c'Xrrafi him according to the n, a nner of a <l,!!inrellencc; and Co C(,llf<;()llcnti Y that fi x Element is lobe ditfolvcd hy other mer-e powedul A r cificcs then hy Caldn-ltioIlJ",SuMimatlCins,)&c.and the Pure be Separa-

ted from the lmp ure-

. The Pure is the ~~iDterrc:ncc, but the Impure is the

r"'fareoUf Supe rlluir y which is pcrrnixt in every Generation;

i42 7'he Tenth Boo1c.. sJ

.. atlon; Concerning which, fee the Book of Ta'/4'~Jjj J)ifta/es.

But whereas my Theoy, is more largely Opened in my other Books of the Arcbidoxis; my AJetamo,phojis~ ando the Generations mentioned in our Book. Paramirum; therefore \ will not be (in the leaH) redjous, but briefly difclofe the Praflicl(.· Redur.e a ~'Wetal ( prepared according (0 the Procefs in ,be Bool.:.. of 'be Death :things J into a Liquid Subfiance with Aqn« f'011j{, according ro the manner which we have Taught in the Book of the Sel'llratiofl of the Elements, and Separate the Three i 1l1perfett Elements by very many Cohobarlons and Puerefacti ons ; then the fix Elemcnr ( of whn kind foever it he) remains in the borrom s and fo thofe l1'OU1' Elements are righrly Separae ed ,

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CHAP. II.

Of the ~lilltc{fcnce.

ABfiraa the Volatile ( which comes over in the Separation of the Elements j from the fix, often· ramt·s, thar fo the ~inre{fence which partly afcended with the Phlegm, may be again Co-united. Tal.:! then ehe fix Element that remained after the Separation of the Three Imperfect Elements (' what kind foever lt be of.) and diflc lve it in Ies appropriated Water; eitch according to its Nature, 35 we have fpoken ofi,n t,he Ar· chido:til concerning a Qnintellencc; keep rr In the gr(atefi purerefaftion, diflil it by Cohobarlon , the rcn Itt' DeJcenfutn~ Furrifie it yet a little more,diflil a~d conroyn all. and difiil it jn B. M. even eo an Oyhndfe;

'fhen

tb~ A.rcbitloxil. I43

hen carrupt or break it with, the ~ubtil Spirit of ne by boiling ~ then the Impure WIJI fettle to rhe (om, and the Pure will S~iln at top" Separate It

a 1r;to" , or Separating vials, and ~ha~ It may rherchal loote the Nature of the Aqua '·ortls., po~r on a r Qyantity of the Spirit of Wine, the which au .. often until the Q!!inte(lcnce becomes Sweet;

Iy walla it off with Common Cold Water; Afrer like manner arc you t~ concclve , of .lJtarcba/itef' ., R(ljins t Heatbs , Flejb., Excre!lJmu. and F/:'d t'lli{. that (firfi of all J the tn[e~ ImperCt:lt menu be Separated., and that the fix Elemc.nt be

ther proceeded with according to the Doanne of Book of the QQintcflcnce.

When we fpeak of an Eating or ~?ro~ing. Wilier, underll.md A~etum mixed with the Spir+r of Wine, and a Spirit as being often abftraltcd from the SFlnt Salt Nitre, bcconles an Acetum, TI~e fi K Elements of !t/~rcafilcs are to be diffotvcd, therein to bet putrefied and ELevated by an Alembic".,. and d~en at length be corrupted or broken with SPIrit of ",mc,., that the mpure may fall to the borrom, and Separare It fclffroln

Pure.

A$concerning the Effencc of Gems, where We fpeak

of R.ad;cated Vinegar" underfland us tt~"s., 'lI'~. ~h3t you a (harp Acetum Correlh:d with TI{~S or Bt'I~"s, and

((mimes Abftract ed from the Tarran~d ,}fatTlx of AYour Gems are to be firfi Calcined by Sulpbu', dHfolve them therein, and Putrefy the'n~and then Separate the Pure from the l().lpUfC by breaking rhern

with Spirit of \Vine. .

An EfTence is eafilv perfefted out of Fr uirs , Hearbs and Rooes; fo that you d"lolv~ the Imperfe.tt Ekmcnts .. by the highffi Secret Putrefaction oCthe highcft hearThen fhalt thou purrefie them in Dung. and drtvefi out defcenrum all that is able to go our , and rom

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thence Ahfiraft by a_Deftillation in a B. all rhe hu impc:rfelt Body of the moiflure, then will the Pred naeed Element remain in the botfom;:this muf] be Separated from the Superfluous llilpurity, by corrupt. ing or breaking it with its own Spiri t., or with the S rit of Wine. the which Spirit draw off, and thou have the <l!_!inteffence pure.

The Extra8ion of the ~)inteffence our of Salts ~i'r;61 .. Commo,!, Sal~., ';alrNitre, Venus or Anr;monJ, &{I IS dr-ne rhus, 'Vl~. cobobate them with their own per Liquor or Wnrcr", oftenri Illes Putrcfic them wi the Phte~m., and abflralt the Body rhencefrorn in t mannee of Phlegm, even to the fi x Spirit. This then d!i101ve in Wafer, or in their 0\\'11 proper w arer, (In the heat) Saparare the Pure .i om rhc Impure with Spirit of Wine.

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()f Magifberfes,

MAgifleries do well deferve to be called Myneri~, becaufe of the great Till/lures they thew in an IF' plopriated Menftruu1I1, 'Ui~. in Acetum, in ilinc, and we there mentioned, (0 Iikewife do we here eniojc, that rcfpett is to be had andy [0 fuch concordances« uDi-Wrmitie~ as are commodious for the cxrrartton d the MagHleries, for if you take Dcffirled Vinegar, ~t~ fhal l not tinge Water, but wine into A(.'ewm, becaufc the TinE/ure or Vinegar was made of w inc. Dldfl rhoa bur well and rightly know the Magi(feT, of ACClurn,tIlOJ '!t>111d(\.likewife well enough underftand the nook of Mag ijfe ries;

tbc eArchidoXh.

tn the M;lAifiery of Viller.a, this is to .lJe confidcrcd s 'Char firfi of all you H!a~tC! ri1c Tmihise .. that is, the .Viucgar our of Corruptcd Wine hy (hac ferment rha t is al-lved or a kin i herero naturally; as for J'~'.xamplc, by 1Jrtar; then wi rh a Imal l QI.lan ti ty of that faille Acetmn may you ringe a moO: gn.:at <.1l!antity of JI,'ifle,(firfi COfrapted and purrr-fi cd ) into the hetl: Vinegar in a (hare time. If therefore you intend ro couvert Me rals into aMagificry, and plainly (0 tinge the whole body into an EtTeocc, cis expedient that you rak e a chief and Oren ~\I:(a.l, to which all the ot he r Merals arc by Nature allfed; the which yon n-ull corrupt or break in irs own Murix which is pluccd in Water, and h termed the l~olhtr of all t-.1ctab, and)' on ,nun purge i l fr orn the fu~diuou ~ Elcme ncs , and n:duct: it into its firfi liquid EllS, that '5, into a In oft Ilurp f'41cf<llinc Aarum ; as ofttll.a~ an t he hletals arc diJ-1JcHed rhere in, they are necdl.uily Tr auhuured rhcrt:hy into AcetuIII, r har is .. inro a~inrdl~ncc. But now, even as JY;tll' ll\uH be in t'umc (ort afore corrupted .. if yon would have gocd v'megar quickly prepared thence- Ir orn ; (: vcn fo in Iik e 1l1anner mull the Metaline bodies be afore corrupted, or pntl'cfied and mort ificd , as Is fpo\~cn of in the il1t>lamoTI,hofr·o; in the Hook.. of rig De,H/J oj llJillg~; and then arc r hey (fuly called Pot abl«,

Afrer this fame manner alfo are the r.1a~~in('ries of

.lfmajitt:s [0 be pr e pared even as the other Magincrics arc: in which faid .l1ar(.'afi'cs i~(iH 1\ nuulllcr)morc Vir t ue lobe found r hcn , is in Metals; and hy our dilTolviag Water is {O be und~l(\:ood rhe Warcr of Salt.

B\~t the Magiftery of Gems is rhis, vi'{. YoU muf] firft <..alctne them with Sulphur for four Hours , then Rever .. berate rhcms and a.t erwards burn rhe m with Nitre; 'rhen ~o)'lthem wirh SimpleWure r cighrHour s, FiJere, and Coaguilltc: ir, and Excralt it wirh Spirit of Wille.

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Sf': Rut t:xpericncc being my rfu(or, 1 have alto in Ill\' other BOO/{l' bddty hiutcd , ~rhat r he firfi E~/~' or the Qi!iurdkncc of the E.lclllcnr of Warcr, J~ rhe Cen~re of Melah and Mioer:tls;., and ll~.l\,c c~fe\~IH~r~'.ad.lkd., [hilt ,very J~'niit ,"un die 1(1 thal 1 ~lc W'i,lch U5 1 de IS, rhur Io innay reed ve it new .hertc~ Ii .c a. rerw ards, .. nd fo ( by ihe dl'poti[ion (~r lay~nr, off the ~kt ho~.lY_) may be rcdUct'd. hllO the hrH Ens ; \V C will th{~1 efore h~re i1l~dc the.E xr r altinn of the ~~ntr.c ot rJ.1C Water, 111 which rhe Metals oughr to 10k rhcir bod y - •

1J.~. in die firfl place, rhe ,true E~cll1ent of It',lfer. or infiead thereof anocher Stllr as 15 nor v cr wholly boyled \0 a ~lrYlld\c; Or, even Sill C!em ~epl1rat.cd ; pour d\f:rc:to two pans o~ \yater nuxr with. a h.rrIc

. Juyce of }tr1.,ti(I}, purrefie If 111 an accorare Digefhon , by how much the Iouger , fo much [he bC.Hcr; . then afu!{wMds let ir congc.1l, and purrefic It again for a month, rhen diHil it by a Retort; Urge the l{efidlle by a flrong fire, that fo it may Row or lnclr? I_te\'c~berate it in the Retort with a continued fire, Diffolve It on a Mublc then take that water that: flows fro III hence and I))ur i['oo again,.and putrcfie it; di£iiJ it again even to an Oyl!ndle, Conjoyn it with Spirit of Wi.nc, and ihe Impure will fall u? the bot~Ollh. the .whlc~) Separate but the Pure Will be Cn(\aI1l1,cd In [he Cold; pm,; on again that which. is. difiilted, and Cohobatc is: fo often tHI a fi 'X ovt remain III the bottom, and that nothing comes over fwccr afterwa~ds .. Then fclrth<:r, ~igeft it for a nlonth, an~ [hen dlt'hl It fa long ~mtll L1C:

ArcaNum of rhe Salt rj,t1~th over by all Alernblck t Lee not the kngth of labouring here .. abollts grieve thee, , for this is the 'rhhd part of all the Arcanac,)' that are hid in Metals and Mi\lcrals, and without it, can nothing ,

fruitful. and nothing perrell be accomphfhr- " •

Hut although there are more waves for I~xt~alhng

the tir{\ Ens of sst«, yet rhis b the IIl0fl pro(Hahle,

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'14,6 Tbe 'r.nth 001{. oJ

The Mtt!!i/fe"t our of Gums and Ro~ins (as for Ex.

I1111ple, out of Turpentine and Amber) is made after thh manner ; Firfi\ bovl ehem in Spirit of 'iline, then Cor. rupr rhem in new Spirit of Wine commixr with a dlffolving Water, lIh:. of S"lt; and Difiil it thence.

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, The MJgifler ~r of Herb« Iikewlfe, as aIro of all Spicts ,\\1<1 ;- rwih is rhus done; Firfl of all. let' them be fermenrcd like Mujt .. or new Wine .. thcn draw off from them a Sl'iri r .. as from the feet" of Wine; in that Spirit digell t he: putrefied Herb" oftentimes renewed with new I lerb s until the Sl'iri r ()ccome four times the ~ilntity it was. But becaufe there's frequent ment ion Illadein our Archidexis of ,.'jrft Entities, and whereas the chief· dl: Fouudar ion is hidden in rhem, we will together therewith brtctlv adjoyn rhc preparation of our Water

)OfCiH,ulah.'" Salt, which is thereto requifire, but was

. omitted.

The l'reparatiol1. of/he Sal ci rcu'latum, OR.:>

Circulate tl StIlt.

V\7E have fufficienrly Ihew ed and declared in our other Book,t, That the W.rerorSea, is rhe nee Element, as being the true Mother of all the Metals, and hath received out of its own firfi E.ns the Spermbf the Thrce,Princi,le.r, of which no body hath made anv mention afore me, but built their principles from Sui· phur aad Mercury only ,t~ey neglected the mentloeing of the 'Third Yrindplc, vi~, Of Sail which Iies in the

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and the mofk ready way ~ and next (0 this is that other 'v~y. w hich w e I~avc mentioned under. the Title of the Ellxl~ of S_Jlt, VlZ. That new Salt being permixr with th~ dlflolv,HlA w erer, ( which Warer is the Difiillcd .spirit of Salr ') he putrefied and difiilled (0 long until the whole (ubftal1cc of the Salt be difiolvl'd and reduced. into a perpetual and during Oylincfle .. the body being removed there-from in rhe likcncfic of Vhkgm. Afrer this manner Ilkewlfe is Taught the rna\.dng of t he Auamu1J, or iUagij1er1 oJ Vitriol alld lartar

aud out of all or her Salts. '

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Of tbc Firft Entities: AHdfilfi:of t be ExtraHioll of the Q!ljll~ reffence, or Jirft EllS, 0.1'

the CO/JII;/Olt Mer-

cury.

IF you w ould Reduce the lJlercur, ~f the Vulgar ilHn irs firfi liquid Eus ; then is it to be tirH Mortified and brought out cf i rs own form; and t har is done- by various Subl iuiarions with Vitriol and Common Salt .. r hat fo it may at Ian be like: fi x Crv{\al; Trw" ditlolve it in ies own Mottrb:, vi:{" in rhe firfl Ens of Snlr; purrefie it for a 1I10nrh, ccr r upr it wi eh nc w Arc.wum of Salt that the Impure rher e of may he prccipi rated to the bcrrom, and t hat the: llLlrc may be turned iuro CI "flab:,

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50hU;ue the Stones or Cry{\als in ~ doCe Rcvcrherator~. when tis Sublimed. alwaycs turn ~t IIp.fi~c down., l\nt~l ic comes to a rcdncfs- Exnaft rhis Sublimate wirh SPIrit of \Vine rcltificd even [0 the haighr; Separate r he Spirit of w ine, difiolve the reft upon a Marble and di. gd\itfor a month; pour on new Spiric ofWine,d~gcfl: itfotatimc.,anddHl:il it. Then the Arcanum of the fir" Ens of .Jl1ercu'J will come over in a liquid Iubftnncc, the which i s caned by the Pbilo(opbaJ, A moft (harp Mttallinc Acetum; aud in our ArcbidGxis, Circulat um MajUi. The fame ii to be undcrfiood of AnI imu,,., ,GfWi',

and Herbs.

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YOu arc! thus to l1nd~rfland our {pcaking of ...11"(':nHtlIS, That they are nothing die bur a .~,-aduatcd fJ..!j;ntcjJe'JCC, a Magi/fcr,., or firft Ens. And firtl"l by the Arcan&un of the firfl Matter, we 0l('3n the firfi .Jlft,uet, or fiJi\ Ens of the Limbus of man; likcwifc [he firfi Maner of rhe Jl1erCJ'r~ of Salt .. for that ih nccrc(l con" formable. Thcl'c.:forc thou mU{\: ( ac::corcling to the 1,ro .. cefs of the firft Ens ) reduce all thing')iotn a liquid Iubfiance, and then again Conjoyn it with a f'w1onarchy ~ as '[were with the living unreduced_ body of that tiling., and promote or fer it [0 diHill:!; ion.

As for our Opinion concerning the ArCdnUm of .thc Stone, it Ihal! he declared in the fvllowing P(c1lh.;l.::. But hy the AYCc301un of .iJ/enluius V;r.~ we Olean n l.~~ing liire, (0 that the r.1crcury of the VUII1.H be l!Jkn[ll1ca-

r. 3 red

I 'So 'Ibe 'Tentb It~ok., cJ

ted with the Qu~ntcO:c"CC of Salt, Ilnlt be vivified wlrh tl~e firtl Ens ot AntlI1161J~" as .,'t,-vere ~"_ith a CreldHd I.lre; .but ~hc Art'anum 01 the Tinih.re dl1plaY<:$ and Un. folds I[ felt, and therefore we here omit it.

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of the Ar ca nurn 0.( t he Stone, OJ' (Jf t be Hcavrn 0.1' t llC

llfctals.

)TH::tt\vhichwe r~ave I~cre·and there ret down Thea,;. . . cali,., concerning the Arcanum of the Stone, we o· mrr In thiS place, and 1 only fay, That this Arcanum i~ not to be fought for in the Hull, which many have

faIny termed l-'lores Ivur in the Mercury of A"timfln,· And th,at Mt:rcury of Anr~mon, when tis brought to ir~ perfc8'loll, IS 110 other tIling but the Heaven of ehe Mr. ~ah, becaufe its Virtue is alwayes Vital or lively, and I~ no other rhin.g rheu a perfell pure Q!.!intefii·ncc ; and therefore even In the deludge .. nothing of irs Virtue or Eftic.tcy W.lS taken from it; for the Heaven f)('in~ as :£wcz!e l.if~!t (elf, cannot be deflrnyed by any JdTc:r or • nferaour rhing ; The preparation thereof I do here blit:Hy defcribe.

Tak/ Antimony, purge it from j rs 8CO';4 or drone, and Realgar in ~n Iron VeiIel, until the Coagulated Mc:rcury of the AntrmC'ny appear white and (air; arrd although it be the Element of Mercury~ and hath in it fdf ;1 erue hidden life, yet .notwithO<ln.ding all rhefe things arc: in :rOWCf'!t and not In alt. nut If you would bring it unto

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all, then tis c~pcdjent that you fiil' \11' that life w irh it own like living Fire, or wi th a Metaline Ace.um. in or wilh which fire many l'bilofol'ber$ have proceeded many waves, But hecaufe they have all agreed in the Foun .. dation or Root, they. all arrived to the all\,ointed cad s For, one of rhcm hath extraltt:d a (.:!~"ntc{1C:nc:e our of the C(ja~ula[ed Mercury, by much htbonr, and hath therewith brought the Mercury of the A1!timony t~ltO ali:; bur, others of them have beheld a UnLornt Eflence to be in other Mineral things: As for ~:xu"lph:, in rhe fix su1phur of Vitriol, in the M.Ignctick (lone., and have thence extraftcd a llke ~inrdlcllcc, and have rherewith ripened \cs Mercury or Heaven, or hrought it i nr o aa.And becaufe they exrracted their ~intdlt lice our of 3f\ony matter, they therefore called that "'{etClfler,.l Stone; and indeed their Opinion is right'; Y cc 110[withR:anding, that Fire or Corporal Life is found mucls more pcrfeB:ly and fuhlimcly in the Mercury of the vulgar j and this is evidently wirneflcd by ir~ Flu}{ and Running, '11;<" That there if. hi dden ill ira moO chic f Fire, and a Crelefiial Life. And therefore w hofoever defires to Graduate his mcralllne Heaven even to the height, .and to reduce it into all, he muf] firft of an ex(ra8: out of the Corporal Life, (1Ji~. The Mercury of the Vulgar) the firfi liquid Ellt .. (as being a Creleflial fire) the Q!!intetTence of sst, and a mofl (harp mcralline A(ttum by a Solution with itt, own t'o1orher, that h, he muf] pe rmi x it with rhe Arram.". of Salt" and with the flomach of Ant bien .. that is, with the Spir ir of Vitriol • and mu(\ therein di{lolvc the Coagulated Mercury of Antimony, digt'fi it, and afterward5 reduce it into Crynaill, that it may he like to a vcl low ifh CryH:ll; of the which W~ have made mention in our ~i1anuld.

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V I I.

or tbe Ar can urn o.F Mc rcu ri u, VitGe.

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EVl..n as A Temp crite Eflence is cd need or drawn au r of Hcarbs, as for example out of a Vine, by the which ~:f(ence may bc A[[ralted the Effencc oi Hcarbs and Hoots of every kind; iufomuch rhar (he Mercury of the \ViHC doth not (hew its Own prf)pcr N.t:: eur c, bur the Nat ure 0 f that which it is EHenrificj(ed with; even fo in like manner is ir with :Jltt'l/S and .;'ffinc:rals, for (uch a like .Here"r, or (pirie is extracted o nr of the open and middle Metal (/Hercur.,) if an EC· fence be extracted our of rhe p<=r(e8: Merals with that (ame fpirit; then r har Et1e:ntificarcd /'dr:rCuTJ \ is afterw ards coruc yued w it h the Cc:lt.'jli.d Halfam of the Cl!_!in. (cllcnce,i n a clofc lh:verhcrator y, h)' \,,, hich it obtains a life, and i s therefore called ,J1acllriIH V1t~, The Virtues of whi ch fecm to us very admirable, and r hcrefore muf] he concealed and hidden by us, that foJ they way not be contemned,

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of the gfCtlt COI}Jptljitioll, beil/,f{ the greatejl: \i11. c...,M- c dicinc ) of our Secrets.

IN our l)aramirical Wl:iting5, it is dearly.(·naugh declared, 1.Ii:{ to a Pb,/ofGpIJcr, of a Pby{ttran, as muclt nh needful for the pre(crvation of the whole humane Body, not onely in his Corporal and Earthly Mllf!!, hue ewell in the: Cddlial Bal{amick.. Parr , and (or t he cU<4 Jingit of all celefti«! and Tcrre(hial Di{fa~er. For it ~s (xpedient that iuch a compofirion be In that Mcd~ ... camcnt t as doth not confift in the number of, Ingreditilts. For example fake, fhould anyone think that. bj ihe mi~,\illg of Warer and Wine togerhcr ~ were nude a Hue mixion, it would be a falte concc:puon; for one \Mn may he Separated from the otll~r wirhout the hurting of cither ~ which is far ot1~erwlfe 111 our grcar Compofition ~ for here is made a un,fo~m) a~d an Ilar,nell;w; mlxrur c, infomuch that tWO rhings dlffert.~t or dil1inlt in Nature and prcpcrrics arc uni(crl~and neither of them can be Separated from the other w,lthoUI: hur[~ becaufe of their notable Concordance; a) l~ alfo comes to PJf~ in the AtafLI4/illc and Feminine Seed;. I! ti.lcrcforc fueh a compcti don be to be prerarcd a~ IS In 1C! fia rc lind form Cutabk and agreeable r o men, ,10. the prop,or" lion of Cdd\ial and Terret1ial Things, ,_[ rs convenu:nt [0 confider of the Name of the lHicroco(UJ., and thac man is a little '\Vorld; And confcq\1cnrly if you would cure h\I1\Univcrfally of all his dire~fe~)t j.~ neceffarv rh_at it be done by his like. Coucernlllg wluc1111ermc.r T_rr/.

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megilfus r.aithot tis expedient that he who intends make this compoflelori, do Create a new World' even as God created the Heaven and tha Eard; Irkewife mufl _the Phvfir ian frame a Medicinal \V' Separate and prepare ir.Aud that hc:(rhc faid He may faithfUll y thew unro his Difciples, what thin rnarrer this compofirion muft be made our of, and alfo a Concordancy of Cclcflial Virtues may be w irh us in the vally of darknefle, he doth very wi and truly add a link after, 1Ji~. That which is hen is like that which iq above, and the things beneatha fo related to the rhings above as Man and wife, and the better underfianding thereof, he reacherh rlur Heaven r doth of i t felf) agree with the Element Water; for it had irs Firp Spertnat;cl.:. mater in Water, and that the Element of the Earth thereof, ing coagulated or changed, our of a Spirituality, intoa Corporality and EarthliJ1eflc, is like to the Planners and the other Stars; 'for rheyalfo did at the beglnim obtain their Spcrrnarick Molrter in the Heavens, and did from thence pars, or were changed (by a Separarion) oUt of the Celcflial rranfparcnr Narureyinro a thick Coagulated Body.

In rhe firfi Creation, the things above, and the tllingi below, the upper and lower Heaven or Water, rhe Superi our Coagulated Nature or Stars, and the inCeriour Terrefirial Nature were all commi xr in one, and were but one thing. But God Separated the Subtile from the grots, that fa of one Water mlghc he made two,the Supc:riour Water was Suht ile , and to be accounted of as a Mafculinc Sex to the infer iour , more grofs, Femlnine Warc:r. Bur even as God did farther devide and Separate the fuperlour Warer , that the, fubrile Aerid pan mighr be ordained for Star~ ~ fo that the cetdlill Bodie~ or Stars are fo related to tho Heaven, as Sons art to a Father; even Co likcwife by the fame way, hatR

God

tl;c Archidoxi.r.

a'P oilltcd (in the more grofs Fernlnlne Bodic~? th~ waters in the VaUy of darkncfsJ a SepararrI reeing with the Snperiour Separation ~ and hath a~ivided it into tWO Vans. The Ievenrh more clear he called Water, the other fix dryed part~ , 01' he called Earth, the which conlprchends 1 (elf 'all the Specificate~ or particular Fruits and

t s that had their firtl Original in the Water"as In r Re'aven. Even as Ml1tals,AlincrafS and Gtms,which to be accol1nred of in.refpcll: of the waeer, ~s ghters in rcfl'efi of their Mother.. SC? rhe Super.' .. . Heaven hath a Nature and properties llke It felf III

~'cR1iiline Nature, v;:{. \0 the Inferiour Heaven or . and the Superior Terrefirial Bodies or Stars, bein ' the Sons of a Father rthar is of the Heaven.) • fike concordancy and affinity with their Sifters.

Terrefiria\ Bodies •. And by how, much th~ SUpc.ce1eftia\ Bodies or Srars arc conJoyne~ WI th thc!r ather the Heaven; Even fo by an equal kin or affinithe Infcriour 'Terreflr ial Minerals and Merals are

, tQ the Watar (their Heaven) as being thei~ Mo(rom thence therefore is the truth of rhe filYfng of ,,~es evidcncccd.':I the which \"C do even commend to rSons of learning , ln rhcfe C}{prCmO~~, Vt·~. rhar the e M;croco';n (a~ far tanh as appef[aln~S to the con~" fih\e Mafs, and [0 r he living, Movmg, C?rporeal, Generating' Spirit) ought to be g'lther(·d as I t were andcompofed {If thofe l.n~eriour Elcme~rs. dark Warers, their motl: Noble Ef{ence~ ; But as to tl~e MelJta! A{\· .. n~t's {bv which a found mind confiftcth In. a f<:>lInd Body) they ale to be t\ttrnlted from the fup~r~our Ceh:flial Water~,and chcir AfhJllnt\ucnccs rfp,nrua1Jy.) inaMt!nral manner, through rhe mind of rhc ImOlgc and its (jQm:iJc4 or(if they arc not fo pleating (0 us )111'\Y he efchewed v even as we have largely and clcerly eno~~y,~l dcmonfiratcd there things in our books of Jong I r [e,

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. 156 The Tentl) D()olt of

And becaufc ",:C have compr ifcd the Theor} of this Compofirion m other place:" but e(rt:ciall y in Books of Paramirum ; therefore W~ (hall content fcl~e;j yvith rhcm , and rather ad ioyn the J:Ju8ick felf, Vl~. how the Infer iour World or Heaven ought be united and compounded with its 5.arth, or the with its He aven. But becaufe we have afore prcn the preparation of the Hcaven , and have taught it der the Arcanum of the Stone, we omit it in rhis Eut now whereas of i r felf alone. r ls likc the male and can bring no be nefir in the Bodv of man, but refiore the Cdefiial Parr s , viZ' the Radical Moiflure Ballam of Life, therefore it is expedient that it be jOYlled wich its Tcrrefl:rial Corporal Mafs, and brought Into a Concord and Harmony, that fo even ~'Ielby Maile in man, IU.) y be alfo refrefhcd and ed , and not onel v one Member be reflored to but rhe whole Body Therefore fuch a Corporal muft he taken as is equal in ir s Narur e to rhe Sup Sun, and comprehends in it fclf rhc proprieties of the Stars; for as much as i [ is i mpotfiblc for aU Sub terrane Stars, and Coagulated Bodies to be prehended together in the number of Ingrcdicnrs. Coagulated EneRce of the Heaven, (hat is the SUI its own E(1cnce and Temperate Elemcnr, is (0 eleva and graduated, that iz doth alto even fix irs own lab: ration rthat is rhe fupertluous Elements) wirh it fo that it cannot be deftroved by any Elcmeo[~ and Inhabitant or Corporal l3alJam therein hiddcn , is

. ,to concinue eternal. If therefore ("as is aforefaid) whole il1icroco[m is to be truly cured, then rhe r al Coagulated aal{am is to he Co-nnircd with the ·:i.tl Spiritual Ba/ram, and the difcord betwixt Elements of the Sun, to he reconciled, fo that fuperfluous Elerneur s , mav he Scpararcd from the fit Prcdcftinated Elemenr, and may plainly die, and nuy

lell:

the Eternal filt Element (a~ bei~g their Inhnbi ..

l) alone. I i' this dc:ad l:,).dy of the Sun, be a ~rcrrd$Clcaned from (uperUUli:H:i.., and he brought UHO

lle Spiritllal Nature) rhen is l'erfctted. the true mcd and refolvr-d Ma(uy} 0·' Sol (nor tha~ Horer• nul which man)' endeavour to prepare With the , of the Vulgar, and Sal Annoniack..

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the corporal ]lilIJ:tlJl 0)· llJerClll-Y of Solo you may flir up a difcord between rhe EIC;" ments of rhe 81m, of of the hahirarion of Gold., ru expedienr chat yO\1 ckaw ont or hri ~Ig So! in a firong ion by a Phlegmarick Fire or 0~lntdlence .of ~ar ..

into its proper heat and fervency; By ,;-:rhlch the t of the Air is lUOft orearlv augmcntt·clln the Sol, d (by the a(failing or acc·o.mpanying ~ ir) ~he fi x Emenfof the S,," (ns being In proper Fire ) IS fo much cd, that it is able to ovefCOlnc an? dtftroy ~he

elling of the other rhree, Purrefie t~l1S defiruCl.I?u lth the Quirue({cnce of Tartar, andw irh the 0j1nc:.b7 it by a proper SLlb~illlation, ruro rhe M:HtCr ~f , and then the fi~ Mt?Yt:uTlal E'cment of Sol, \V1.l! alone wichour a habitation; hut becaufe that It

(nyct) perrni xt with 'us rupc.-rftuon~ TcJrtar~ there· [hi~ is to h!.! removed therefrom; d l(fol VI: 1 r therein the Circularcd Water of Salt, corrupt or break , and the 'Tarte" win he precipitated. Stlbli(l~c, tihe in a clofe reverberation of an i\thanor; dIH~'ve upon a Marble and puncfic it.,fo is theMe)"cliry fublirn ..

Graduated and rc:(olv<.:d into the Fir(\ Matter of 90/, i~ prepared in the hiChd\ degree,

'The 7~nth Boo/t 0/

C HAP. x.

(if the C01JJptljitioll of the Spil"itJJd/ Ba!fa1'JJ~ t111_cl thc lJttlj;,IJI of t be

COllg1llatcd 1JO(ly.

THis c01npofition 4S is rehe.ufed in the ~fanuOlI, made in the PbiloJopllick... Egg. And (0 We rut end to this Great Work, in the Name of God, to PraiCe and Q lory. -

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The Contents of the Ten Books of t

ARC HID.O X I S.

OF the Myfic:ry o[the Microcofsn Pagt

OJ the Sep"r4Jion of tbe Elements, P.

Of the Separation of fbt Elements Ollt of Mtt"lsrp,

out of Ma'n,"ajitei. .

[ros» SrOllef. p.

fr()." Olellg)1101l5 bodies, ill Corporall(ojilu. JrfJ111 Herh~. fronl F/ejh.J' bodies.

[rtn» FiJhes.

from lYIlte'tUh tbings« jrDJn IVllter. from (;/a!lt.r• infix Bodies.

Of,ht Separatioll oftlJelire.

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The Contents-

of the e.Ayre P·32

of the lYater. P"3~

of t/)e Eart!". p. 3 s

a ~liJlteJJencf. P·3S

rhe Exrral1ioIJ oJrlJc ~. E. out of Metnis; 1'.47 (ronl Marcajites, p·49 out of S altscp.sO out of St ones.Gents and Pearls, p.r; I

out of b;lYl1ilJt;, things, r ') 3

our of growing things. p.S",

out of Spices. P.55

frotH Edible and ~otable things. P.56

Arcanwu's ·p.60

tht Arcanum of 'be firfl matter; p.6r;

oj tbe Pbylofopht YS Stolle. p.68

of Mercurius ru». P.71

of tbe 7."i1z{/llre. P.75

Mag;Jlerits. 1'-78

Ibe Extrlll1ion 01 MltJ{ijleries Gut of Mttals. P.82 out of P earls. Corals and Gems» p. f34

out of Marcafites; p.87

(ron, Fatty SlIbjlaHces. p.89

out of growing tbing«. P.90

iI,1Yille. P'9L

out of blood. • 1'.94

Sp"ific~. 1-96

aJ10deri(erolis Specifick.: p.too

an .A,/odi1le SPecific/{; p.IOZ

II Diaphoretic~ Specific/{: p.YO~

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. -' The Contents.

oj til, Purging. S pecificl«. Of lUI AttralJive Specific,,Of a .~t;pticlll spfcifick. Of .It. Corro(ive S pecifick.

Of (J Speci(icltfoY 'be Metri», p. II

Of Elixirs, . p. II

Of PY'{ferVllfi()11 &.Confcrvntioll by Elixirs. I': II

OJ tbe Elixir of BalJalll. ' 1'. II

Of Salt. - ".1

or .<"~weet1Iep. p. 12

OfThrOl1U~. p.12

Of ,~lill~~fJences. ;1 ibid

Of .'-J'uhtilty. r u

01 py.opricty. p ••

Of E:~:trii1fec/~lls. - p 1

A 1;\_~l1ledJ [or 1Pounds. . p. 12

For Vkeys. p. J

'-". , 'l1gili1tll Mark..s or BltJlIlfl,es.·· p. I

or t1JC .Separati(J;t of tbe li.!eHunts. 1'.1

Of. ~ ~uiJZt~.neJ1Ce. - p. 14

01' MllgiJ/~Yies. - P: I

Of tbe preparat ion 0/ Circulat ed Salt. p. J

or the fiYJI Ens Qf COJfl111011 Mercury, p.l

Of ArCa1l1l111S. - . p. ~

Of the Arcanum {if tbe Stolle. p.l

OJ the ArCtll1U»1 of Merfurius Vit e; p.l~

Of the p.,reatcfi Compofirion ClVC.· ' p.l~

Or tbe Corpora! Blllfall1c 0'" Mercury.of Sol. p.l Of thl C01t'po{itioll of the Spiritual.BitJ[t"'1f. r.15

FIN I S~

E. are (in the filfl.- plnce ) .tt? ilnde-l~(l~nd) i~' tiler Cieationof - IhinQs;, what '1<..e!la,,:' . ..adou :Inti J{cnbv«tf.gl1 nrc; :\vh.lf rhofe

_ ,things be \vhich"rL'fI~"e :UJd r~n91id;; )' ~lI\(t

\vhat this i. th!l[1 call be t'enenit'ci,:lnd _ .·cfloyed:· lri~ aU Minerals are rhus broughr unro a YOl1th{ulneft,. renewed, and -l'cp:lited, inf~)lnuch that rully IrOI~ be Bg~in reduced into. new Iron; and the Vcrdi-: er JfO! ./.Et·iSJ into i rs C:o ppcf: 'Lik(twife, JJl1-!' into Lrad, and S.111"'1I .iuro' JI-[~J'clfry (alias~,'h~'

-of jrlpiledl~tn Tin.) So thell Itrll0'V.t,r~n, tU"ld' I{e.~~ lion (in this 'pl;\cc) i. (h~t which -red,ice,li'a dd'troy.,o or ru{\y~ 0'1' conthnlcd [l\,tin.:ral) to iu ·jil\'cnilhy perCell effence , - But y~t not\\;ith"i1nding ~h\s I(jno>*·which we have f;lel'\~ induced, cannot: ~·c <;OIH-paj':';_' (in the leaR:). JO (hat l(~{IIC,"t'".:iI;oh" and .l{~ii6'U"';OU. . ich-tve ,rcu~nd (~'expound: for a'tI~oilgh that RU!' . Verdigl'~ece he -not'a Jl'lctta~, ,-c:t nev~rt~e1~fs" ~tJS, ~ ;. yet pcri111edor con(t:1~"cd In us M.tfd/""- ~aente_.,dthcrcfore it cannot ( in thiS'place)_ u.e made .ufc:o£.

\Y~y of comparitorr, for the- explaining of OU"1I1tC'~C ,m~aning conccl'ning l\_r/IAllra,;oU a-pd- /(!"'~IJIi'k'!.!i . f( fncb ~\1(ts) 1101' /\ blution-., deth nl)t al: all.hap- °

A 1(0,

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'f.t.*.*.~:('·tl¢'I'~ .. *.~.,~.'~~~.rI~ A 'BOO x OF

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;REN'O'VAT'ION' :

" A. N D ' ..

ES'T'AUR.A'TION;:

] T It E 0 PUR A S T us '" Philofophf!r It"d phijt'cial'

Gf GiRMANV~ ctd/~d r A RAe, ar.sus sh« G ,.tt(t~ < -

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.. of R E N OV A T ION,

1'(1'- in 11-1 an~;1Jd ; . thence ~OJnC!. it to paCs, that

flot at all lIC!ed (llch a kirwl of Ilfd .. i1i~", "

But now if :tftCl' thisnlanller~ .a dccrcafing or .n1in~ hap to~ef;all :'" o!d., (')1". decrered man, (.a~ if were a kult' of rU(\Jnefie til hufhbft:ntf:c) then Illay body be on fUf;;h wife reduced f1'0111 hi. decrepit de unto juvenility, arnl it is a reduCtion frolll ~ny W v.r difcafe unto h'calth ; but yet tbis is not tile wbich we (at pre{cllt) \vill write of. l\1or.ovcr thi (~ n1;;&)' be accompre d _ of O1S ;\ kind of Rcftaur wb~n a nlctan is naturally '&lade 0Ut of Salt, Sul and Mercury e .This p~ r (eaiou being ac complifht, bl'ooght into a pedeli meml ; d1isIJlc[;\I Jnay eafilJ J"etU[1l ,iDt~ its rhrce firll r'rinci"lcs, {() tha~ Salt. fulphur and ~1crc~ry 11l3Y ;again be Rl;adc . xent, as thcor .wele at the h1ft (~C'ncralioo rhereof, ~)uch that die allctallinc ~«cllce Ina), W)10U, way, and it ,be 80 rnore a lu('ta', .' l·hus .• n~y it "app.n.vi~: that the watter of tlle three l)ruIClplcs .return into a a:netall, as afore, as for exalllpltJ .i ihe three PriJlciples of Copper ther~ be again C~pper,o-c, This (now) ill meralts, is Iike\Vifc:\ !l'1I.i.n Qr ~.nG'Va';on~ when there is a certain g tua-'e of a metal founcrly pcr{~a, into a pcr((fi

c •. mpleat .1ett;'U again. ~ut )'et' rhat .il!l"t to be medoE a. a llclJo'U41i.n ;;and ~eJ,uIYiilti.n)lr It I.e com roamaos becaufe we canner (inthe l~aft) be iD{. our three Principles, or be brought into our .ut of which w. nlay be. again renewed and re (~, we .l,.ke ._howe <;onc~fl1ing nu~tah.) For Io come to pa{{e, tb·~t,we couJd then Irave power of t.rin~ our felyel by a Iecond g£nel'ation, better aile lifft Wal, or as h'OD, which being rcdaced intQ Ill .... firAPrinciplcl. Gild afterward. iato Iilver, c:'r i • .., tbi. (:une made Incorruprible, or as b whtdl

&"'~.".,c~ ~t~iC~ ~". M! .. ~"r)'. anti a~ IGIJ&lh '~(.

AlldR F. I T 4 U 1\ A T I o N. ~

into:'ln incorrupribbe IllGtall. j Evcn ~o the~ fhoutd be able to eReCt or create an Illcorrupultic Crenttu c

e ~{ouf felves, th~ which (110t\. ithl1:.lndiag ) we Irave power to do j (or we w:;tnt that J.'irft nlatt~r~ nor cara 'back into the irreducibility of OUl:' np po irrtc d ~nd incdfi:arc, bur muft proce.:,' on; 3S we have ucgun; rthere is no W:ly by which Wd 1113Y be :\hie to recover,

rto have this ching o~t of which we rr:,cecde~. , _

. There ~$ therefore a twofold l{_tjhfllrat,o" .or l\.cn.v.1t1- One is what we "ave brought and da'!nre~ ab ou t fIlctal,; The other is when all old Ilnage'lS rcnew(!c.I Mlhfretbcolours) that fo it appears frc~l and new as itw.uat firR:; but 'yc:t we arc not for thu caufe to UIlduftand in this plac", that there i5 made a new. nlatItroutof the old; but tbat tho old image is palliated. tad cloaked as it wel'(~, (0 as [0 appear new; and thereneither 1113), this be c~llr.d a /{.tjf!'I~)'~I;r,lI:J in reJe:. Knco to the J{.".vllt;on and I(_efi""rAtJo1J of a man e But /(,tnova,i." a.d l\.fl'AUYRt~on are ~o be ul~delft()oci ,aftcrthis manner, vi,. l.·hac ~li Ra(llc~lI. nlolft~rc achng or &ovcrniog, :;and excrcifing the Splitt of h£." benor.: diminiOltd ordriveu l»ackward, but be rather augmented sud proulon:d in its VCftUeS, as a r.rce dlat. hath help . "~IU;nHlrcd .unre it for the f>1-odu6holl of u. flowers andfruhs. the whicb falling v{f,. and being gone, there a:r~.othcrl produced ag;lin :1$ afore e But ~lthough (~at thi,ex'anlple "erc'iliade ufe of doth Rot Ol~ c.Very Iide (crve f.r the Declaration flf our OIlledged. opinion; yet: tlCVCr,dleleClc it:lfiortls us the undedl:;ln,dlng of. n121ung :a. advance or promotion of the It.:ulu:all mOIl\urc. of lift, as we have '(leI110nR:rate(~ itt the rrce. !\nd vent'! we\V6"'~h:\ve you to appt'chend-of l~c~o'lJ.,tlo,. nnd J{J,.Mr.,i.,.ilftei'·this manner, oIfJi,{: that lt~U ll?t to be dane: jlltbe YlCdicltl hurnidlcy, lIut iii that which !5 bc)l'~ ~f (l&.~ faid humidity;· and draweth,:itl' deriveth, luOnglnah .... f1, nt't<riaJly alu\ cor{1Qra\ly. For~ ~vella~ a. Dclll1Ja;c

A ~ Y

•

, 4 of RUN 0 V'A.T I 0 Nt "

,by fu'ion~"oth not at all receive ht found fronl the or, rrore, dlat.~tis framedunro , but f1'0l-11 thc'body't the 1\."fiauya.ibn·orll~hD'V~H;on.doth 110t receive in 0 ' .lion in the fpirit.of lifc, hut, in that wbich makes)

eUcfts it; tl~at is, the one is:JJ,'6 • "ri,tl ,. and rhe .dur subji&lntinl, pr fpiri'tual. But, when 'all this, in \Vshe v~dic.tllnoi{\ure is,' .t11all be munditicd, its T'on« he a&[o rnuudifiedr and by:L\ow much the better irs is) Co 11lllC}l the better will the blJdy be.' And when jay that the t"",dictfl humidity proceeds f1'0JJ1 bodies

. members, we Intend and- mean after this manner, theY4dicai ruoifture it fe.if, ~nd .th:u which pro -thcnce,.frolu, al'~; even 3s.theroot· and thclYelh;

- whe reof cannot at all live arrd fuufift wirhou; the o"llr:

. In· like manner is it ro-be (here ) unucrftood , thauhefc 1\VO are (0 united :Jnd .colljoyned, tlut th~y cannot be fepararcd r therefore the Tildir"l hUlllidity, an. fpiritol

. hfc, with the J110i (tute (")f lif(', i. in the bodies and meabers, ~vc. as the Ton~ (u Not. in a M,tttl, whidl hnol Jeen,'but only heard: for the fpia it of life, and the ,.,co .1ioaII1Ulllidity, arc ~rulyoi~ bodies; therefore it will be a {oolitll thing fen u.: toendeavcur to amend it, or to

. renew die body by ir, but 'd~ exredi~nt and fir,that the ·i>od,· and the, mauer, (which are born and ri(eut or , f prung off, and with it) be renewed and ~d\orcd,

Prom thencc, ~hen, 1l1ay Itbe colletled, that 1\1[11.14". ti.n and l\.enOlllft;on is a Toanfinurarlon of thoic mem· bc:u,Hor part~~ as cxHt. in da« body, (uport1u"'mO'i fo t h3"ev~rJ fu(h thing:u procecderh ftonl the body and fronl the radicalhuJhidity, 1113Y fall ofl~ and new lIu1 be bor" in the place thereof; even 2S we fpnke of Ir"', :,11 the leAvcsof which" iu f/'Jw'rsJ,ft'uU, and '.A'ctt/CI,nm

'do {nU (1fT, and "gaia"fpring up, and y¢t,the W.od it (el£ h not change", 10 al to. faU ,oit, and other to beborn . ;lgain,- bUt rem.illl; .even fo likewife rhe y.ctiic..rl,humi. 'litt1 ,calains'. chat iSj.the life in the body,,:lpd (with iU

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bod)' do'ca{\ off tJ:te hlfh~s, tla~lr;' and tetlll, l1rp~ thcn

• th(lj~6: of :thenl are ~e-bo~n\ ':lnd'gthiv 1ig:1in. ;,hut(ot"c i~ IYfJl-g"y~tion, -nrrd renov:uioll, hy which fame thingas il to be rcnewe dund reftorecl, is' ("I and ycnfJvatec/: for ~vt:ry R •. S{IIIUltjflio,1 ann l\'ftJO"

is made in th~ .filpcrHuitjes) and in. thofe thin~s mat rite -and ~n';w, out of the {itbll;"lce; , So' then, 'it ma, be {ilfficicl1tly urtded\o.od what 'W:ly it is that the body may be "dl:()rotd and renewed by': a-nd (hOlll -rhe dCR10n{\rations we have mude ) vi?\_.: from thofe Ju pc).'_' fluilicnhat art: not ofj to mS'ttriofl n growth, as rhe luir;' teeth •• kin; and Il~ih; fen rhefe: :lrc,in the body ns cectain{uperfluo~. 'things; and· do nor pars irrro the €or-' poral,mauel'S) or fubitance, but reur.rin ill their own Elfcnce, like ns are the Fo".,. complt":io-'" i , - ii/illS huruor s . wtylttrcof proceeds froln coldncfs ,'u1d. Jl1'r}i£\m'e, \vhh:h, lsbotnand remincdin the whole. budy I arrd hath fl(4' ptcuHar phl(~, ·nnr l>eginnin~ froiri wheUCfi 'it filay protted, as is provcd{inour J)ifcourfeJo{ the Four Com ... ,I,x;onl. " A StCond:pl'oCc~ds Irorn rhingj co nrrnry (~ thef~nl'1er, 't.;.,:. front heuriand (hyncfs, 'and cve n rh is 1\(0 is {Q in the body~ rmd hat h no p'octdiar ahit!ing 01' brtgin~I,' :l,ud it Iik ew i Ie C:lut~t~, ()r'li);l~etl~ t-H()~(htr~ • The Thmlu co lei and dry, :lIHI _.Jt~ way ,'ofbHth IS tb e I~mewi(h the OdH';~. .T'h c Flluyth is hot and ll'l(~Ht,

and doth proceed cv e n as doth the 1'(.'(\:.', •

Here you are to obfervc that it happens th:\~:1l1 rhofc Ffllr Humour» are not aIwuye s in all ttocJics, but Iometimes one of ,h'-In only, tunlctillh~S t\'JQ) '())llClinles

'three, and olhFr\vhilf! four; This aUo is to be heeded, arcouccrninz rhern , that· thto.y nre co nfume d and c x-. pelled in the 'l{etJovAlio,j arrd l(.(jla"var;oJl.,(ur this l'caf(_)n~ becaufe the nature and life of- nlan C~Ul ve'ry we 11 perl',(\: ambbide without tht Ill, and dot h rrot'nt allllec d rhc J) 1 , fort~cy are.only 'UPCl',f1Uirit:5 ~. like :ll' (he' [ece« nrc ~I\' Wine., or as [he: fcurn antA "froth flowing there hOlll ~ n.

the Villt;\ge~tinl~. A 3 "1 I::~:

6 . Of RI! NOV A 'I' I 0 N_

, 'thJja lik.._f,wife ,il to be beli~vcd <oncernin~ the F C.mli'x;~,os app~~t.:in~ ill:l Klan, th:lt.th." arc norro . ~fllovated and "d\orcd becaufe thty (pting not(roml ~ith~r gn·atel' or Icffer IJ1Cmt.er: nor arc they in bloud, Ilor in th.a fl~111, or.fuch like: Neither is it t that tl_1c [angff;nc C.mpJfx;O,. proceeds ,(ron, the' by reafon of the very mucb-abeu .. diug quantity bloud; or thac Mtlfuicl1fJlly proeee ds from the Splw" VI cll.t,., from the G fill, and Ph/Igm fro~l the Br« Zlnd fuchlike; (or vctily.the afore'aitl Merubcrs do give any Jl1al.l hi., Complexion,· but the Complex Jlappcn to a man even in hi' N;ltivhy. ~nd abide e till his death, But \vet undertake nO.1: to aifpute her( ion this p lacc, {or .as much as it would be '00 tOfiwidt from our text of I\.~n'vlt'ion and .l{,pau ... lion. .

, Whereas rhcrefo r ~ none of the Four Compleaion, bath any p,Ja(~. ~r origin~1 in tbe laid bodies, hut the} cxifi in the '{ph'it of li'e, and in the r.Jit'lll }lumidilJ I thel"cror~ tbe CompJexiofls cannot be renovated, nor ,.'d\:f)reu; but where the body {ball be clarified, the DI· Cure of tbem is al{o clarified.. " .

. Moreover we :lIfo fiAoific this, by cur text, "Ji,{: Thll the diviLit'>lh an4diRinl1ion of COlnplexivntaccot4inl to Ag~" Counery, and Rcgilutnt, is lIot at nil to be "ul'cd, bccsufe there arc no ~-=oll1ptexioJ)1 imprtnredin the body, horn thelc rhrcc : It nlay happen ;ndetd that ol~ Age 11-1~y inforcc a f.,dne{., in bodies, but yft that il 110 ~e>nlplcxien : So Iikewifc the Country 01' ttrgion ntay induce l'hlcglll, but yet thltt Conlplexion is not thel'cferc PhlcgnHltick. So Cho~er AJar caufe one ta h~ve a,y~lIow colour; but there things have no pl~~e(li cltfcufill1g here, lor they are declared in c»ur treaungo{ the Con/lrt4E1;on, CDr (raining, ()f ""~ I,.Jy. . There's a ,C. <uliar under{talldinc requifitc lor. DivihOl1S ( or DH\i.· ftions) of this (ort, wherein is to:bc l1otf;d tllat they arC not onl), llUM&9Un" but alfo '(eJ12ctiules Mineral" (Dnict

, '," ;".. . . ~; . timeJ

',AJi,d R £ 5 TAU RAT ION. '}.

Corruptions; all which .. are fuperlf)uities ag~~n{t ure find (\r~ngth: The like n~ay ~e f~ldc()n~ernlng

rincipat Mel'ub(:u, for' rhcfe I"cillll\.(!UtVlftlOU an~, P d.n thus vi?(_ thefe perceive not thofe (qu.ahr) rol1e~ing,&cc .. \ nor rcceiv~ they t~enlunto r heru« felvel; but every thing th~e pafieth thr()ll~h rhern , an~ ilprtpar4dwith, o'r by thC,11-1'; thcy rec~.lvc a~d ,~dml1: oHtas Nutril11~nr only, ~u1d not as a ~1~~lcalndH. b~t rer, if haply any 11l1l110Un or fllFcdlul,tlCI nl~ul,d be HI dm",theywoul~bc expelled. Even Io-rhcn is l.t to ~e C ually unde,(\:eod of the other Mell\be~s, 'V~~ th~ &11UI IDa:rnw, bfAin, I",cyt, livty, lungr, ~·tm/, mils , 110- tll.Cll:illufJinu;gri/lln, tlJJlJ'/u; :lnd O1lfo ~s conC~nl1l1~ the Bloud, you nre tf) know, that co~nlpnOIIJ, ~r fUPC1- ftijity, may be even in it; yt!t "!is IS pnlY":1ccldcntal :

And even fo 111ay it be c'luallY-:'\~lkc u~ldcl(t?ud as con .. (cfnigg the l'lefh; and v~rily thiS ~cculant IS purged a" wlyiD tho lleIJovd;on and Il~flauYlft'.,.; l1:0t that there i. to be made other bloud, but that the eVil be l'cnlovc~ ,!ere-from, and the g<_loc.\ h~ pr~fcrved, nn d rredo,?l-

nues. Thl! fame conhtkratlon 18 to ~e :h:al concernIng ,hefldh, But that we lnay \)ndly explmn what rhofe tbin,' ate tH:l.t ll1ay lse }'e{lorcd and rcnewed, kh-:Dw, Th~t the L~profte, F~lliu.~-!icl,!up., Jllltd,u]l, Ptf,t1ulel,6l' p.tthc OOflUOf" the Fsttt of t hc FI.1nJs, and of the ]":", and 11131lY orke r fuch like) luay be sake n away b,tkc ~no'U(u;QJI and I( •• .cflt'l,~y~tir.", unlcfs eherc IHl", t? be a Dileafc that Mad its Ung\llal even frOlll the N 1<,,-

Il!'lJj for tbat wit! not be r~rl\ovc.J, . . I • ".'

'But;\s corrce errirsa tb.a I~cprohc) 01' 1f rlaerc be 111 the

~6dy any more ~r\t~~o'-;1l ~iCearc l~<!n that is! you ;\r~ to Imtlw dlauherc is td be rn ad e a 'll'an(jnUtat1~n thcr cof inthe body. ~?t t~lat tlae rc be 'Hade, '~ {cpc~atlon,Or the Flue Iro sn the Lurpu re but that the Lcprohe be cenve ....... red into Hcalth,~vet1 a; CO\,PCl' and Iren are into G~ld:

Norou~ht aUf {lite to admire ... t thisfiun:l:rt1ttflmlfn".,!,.

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for Ilfn"'l.httl~n and 1}...tj1.d",.tilJtJ do confume even 3' ~rc·c~nfUnl~{h all the ,,; alfitics and Impurities that 11 inGold or Silver, and leaves rhem pure and dean: .be fanle way are tI.H.~ FIt/Jingfick.!Jf:fi & Geut remov f() all things that arc in the wlro le f,ody are renewed' the' Hcth and blood, to~cther Withfl~1 the otheu thclell cOI,ldud~.d; ~t;Jr cve n 3,~ A'/cali mundifies the Leproui M.r~"ry Into the bcl\: S ilver, even (a the 1(_'no'U4thm~n l{ej1al,,·a,i.l1 do nanfHll"tc ti.e body into a goode .

:u is f. ... id before, . ,

So ihCIl/ten01J4,;pt13nt! l\.efld,,,,·ati,,n drivc$.fOHb \~~ ..

I'oevcr is fuperfluous in (he'body, and cOlul'ary to ' ~ul"e, and changerh all that which Natlolre doth nor iD need of) or which 1hall be of no moment or vir into good':· I~ik~.\Vife it reftores aU things) and ca~ ,henl ro grow. e1gai u" as we (aid above : It red~ce,h'M whoJe body Into yourhfu lnefs, o-«. a~ld.th:lt for tbit ...c:af~n, B~c.:ilufe Nothin.g of rhofe things' as arc jn~~.

((he It jclf, li.~bJe.lo. rclIft the"l' , .,

But now we come to confider tho way by whic~ lbt ~ody ~l1ay, be x~l\orC'd andrenewed, vi,{: "lis donebJ that klnd~l~g < of, 0\ r~n(wlng.and rd\:or~Jlg Mc4iu. nlc.t) Willett It harh III the fpirh of Life, ....,ld i,).t~ l~adical Jlull1i~ity; by the which kindlin~ the :i{ol£l11~p.. '.pllcd Orerat1on~ 31'C1Uadc like to the burlling V~nt,ln ~f a Nctt~e: ·Who is fo quick-lighted al to be ,able 'l'Ighdy to lea .. eh out Cueh kInd of v irrucs , wht'u astht,

.QQ ~ot apptWl.r t in th;lt aflion ) (0 rnarerially as' thoy.al( fct1hbly known to be? hfte!" this marmer alfo c¥(n,ll~· tJivil,;on and /{ef/.itIlTIC,i81J of .ature aee as ',",cle affi~·

.ing-apprc->achc5 masle b,Y fuch virtu.c. as we' are not ~bk .o.expJcf •. Now we evi"cntly know that eve.y vjft~l~ -(lH.ng'lI cleanf~d and purged by fir~,;. for fo Naturc.~(.

,qUlr .. e s that tllli very thing be done by firc/that iUlot ~Fo.h~le to be done, by any ot-her th.i.l\g, And _t_hC.lcCOIC ."'C ulldc~t\and a, IWQfolfJ fjre, vi". J\ Material and ~~

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f\tial Fire; the Matei ial ~rcrate~ by n Fhnl~,~th~ Er .. ial by the E,rcncc arid VrttucS like ClUulMf'llief that the skin, and rail~ bli{\cu, like to the mol\: v~olC'nt :. Apd ye~ notwithftandjng they arc ~ot Hr<;, ( In the ) nor ale rhey.fo perceptible to the fight, like as file :-lhc ':Ul1C Iikcwife doth Crowfoot alll\ Neules do~

uwe.havc oft rimes faid. ~ •

ITis in like manner evident unto us that the Iltno'IJatJou

R.'jlaura"ion (when they CO.Be in/to the b,?dy) or al.e copjoined W)lh it by union) do pc:rf~a their ,?PC1':lt!:aflcrthi5 way,.ru;~: There is fuch an 0Fcrau?Jl as IS ~a.de in the M~Hury 0f Sift")," or M~H'I, tile winch .H,C f,\Ui,ot6 the fire with their Realgau s and although Il:CltM' ~f then, be hot. or fiery,. yet are ~hcy hurnt hke YI'«ld, 3m,I the perfell: Meral is fovmd III the uottolll, ,botS~h it appealed altogether Ieporous b~£ol'c.

1,.Llkcwife who i:\ there thOlt can fea((,h ancl find out what means ii: comes to pafs by, that wl~en .II!;~cl.1/~o tWl.hav.c been llloft v~hcn\cntly 'ne~tc,l \\11th V "nul, It ~J:On1CS ('''pper, and Ill. ,,11 relpc.&~ Iike to true COppfW. .a4 yet it had not any filtllilitudc ()~ CoPP"" afol~ : evC'n (QJ,inc we to undcrftand .concernlng R ... ~lJOVall(j1) :'l'Id Jt'P~~tlflioll, vi,: That they petfea theu' () pc~.\u()ns lik~(q Lime or Cnl x , which is cx(ingujlh~d or quench~dwi.lh \V~\lC!r,:liHl purifi.:s it (elf, anti lh<: fo~ce nud ;tellmOllY thereof :is taken away by the cffent inl file, an~\ t,xcil\gQilll~(,t The l{.cIlo·u.ttil11 avd l~cllllllfatiolJ of out N~rwe is much refclubling that 6t the 1-!.1{cy?u) 0': l\_(PJg./iI/Jtr, the which Bit d i,'reno\' ate d by his own p~oFtr n~(ure. Hence then, there arc IllaBy' Ill.orc rUe" hke things '0 be found "s have a powar of 'dOing thnt, :I~d of ,t~crn we have. U~f.\de mention fumby wayc. 1n our ..Aycl,;doxis • or •. nuch l'athel'~ in QIU Seer-liS, .frol~l w~c:ncG a "Very tU:Jny .... ight be brought. bu.t. that thCllf dlgreffionfroltl our prefcnt Text of l\.u'~V'U'01J and l{_e~ plHrlni.n~ wollld be too much j fuch dungs as we thcle demon-

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de 11ft t')11 {h.ate J ~he fante at'e to h~ undetLtood ii1 Jike na' ,lc:r here 1I~ th.1S pla~c ~oneerning /{fuovI"i.n in our .crat~d aOCftlOn> vi,:{,: That we cannot fuffieientl, ('cl'ta.lnl, knQlw how the (ire Dpt .... ",. although we that It confumcs the wood; for·it OYC1'COmcs and: funlci all other things by the vehemcncy of irs Inat nut omitring this, wcc'J betake our {elves to ~n'~ .... £, thing.

So th:" baving abundanti, cnough fpoken lai conccrrnng the beginning o{ l{eno'UA~j.H and (JII, let Uj now J!o 011 to difcovee thefe things . I'cl1ovat~ a 1161. J'~ftore ~ We havc indeed tauglu the preparatton o{ rhern in OUJ:' .A'rcltid,,,u, and, ha~e rhcm their pl'opcr NaJncs by \vhich they mavbe knoW1l aAd ilccdc~, No!, wcc'j fet down the Compofitiont

. ehcm, but In the hr£\ placetheir proccf.: Now witCh (peak of, an!! te,a~h you cQlleerAing hlllplc Metlid :anll ,Arc/I.na ~S) us to bet ullderftood that the ()pcratiOQl

. thercof are dv~e divcl'Ry;. for there are 'C»BlC thi~il t~ be tound \v!llch do even violently clcsnfe the Lep(~ he, and 80 elrive aw;ty fla other DiCeafe fo well AI' do th:.lt; and yet rrcvcrrhc lcfs are ( ~i co l{_.nov.,i.H J<"IJau~.';Qn) pel'fca; bcfidcl which, in tile dH\i~ lliall.s of Drfeafes 0,£ tbis kin4, .are the !<.ui';ttJ"'''''t~ fiI4g'/icr.>', and',EIt:melil of .;rntimo~, the whicb'~o!h fQ_dca~fc the bnd., frolu 'he LCP1'O~C, even as it .oth ptirgc Gold and Sj lver .• rrclt cd thcrci.,in wl&oan irltavcI ~o toocfl:epsoi' In1purity. So likcwifc the Blernentel .Y~l, :1J~d its Qnintcl[cuce, ~I 21(0 its Oilc:,.and Aur. F~,,,b,tr, do rake aW:lY the Lcprofie l together with ~ ~l~caf'C. :I .nd do ,..novat~ anll r-61'fJPe S fo Jikcwifc· tht Q!lIltf{fcllce cf .Htll,bo .. , of C.IA"dlnt, of ./1lftvil9;)Y"o lcrittn, .. ~aRro.n. Mltn"~, and B',tony, do re.ew the Itod" thofc Dlfe.a(os. altovc:nlcntioned being c:xccpted·!lor ~heY,d~ l1,ot d1'lv~ rhem away. . . . . , . LtkCWl(C the 'lui"tctlc;rice of Pearl,,, or Yni"tr, 01 t~e

• sm"YIIgJinr,

"AnJ. R n S pJ; A U RAT ION. I I

t, the S «pI1;", }{J,ll')', Grlfua.e,l f'f()~"') do -;-eun.A t'rpor. tl-lc body into aU pcxfc{Uon, they take tart_rOU' Di(e:afes)\l~ the Stone, Sal~d"Fcc[-GDut" Anti Joint-G~ut, and tbe thing:> th~t pre congeal-

.ndcoagulatcd" ~nd all fuel, like Dir~Dfc5 ~5, arili! . ,T'ftn)', {o Ilkewife rhe '$2nintc!fCJ:lCt; ~nd rVlngW:c-

~f Mirict~ls ~Ul("Cl{ .. Liquors, do rfn.I)'U(t.I.e :Hid re/l" .. " whole body witll0Ut allY _defca, J1J1d (rce.·lrfro.n dlC lIint..{idvu{l, swounJing, s"ffocat;On.h ~J.1d l\ll ('-)eh :E>ia'l mappc~ with a dcpl"iv~tion ?f rhe f4;u(es, ::tS

adD~ft, du: Y u;fia) or L;:lughtng Dlfea(ch and (uen

~.lhf Magidcric •. a~d IHrc'atc~ ?f TAr;,u',' J\~d Q£ ..AIdo aUo ,.'tnr.VAU the body wirb -rhe l'.cIfc.alo.~ o( l{_eion; tho)' tilke away ~ll . A I)ofihulnes, 'and amcrrd

,utlcfntliQns al1d grof~nC'h vf.th'e l-IunHHs.. .

-In like fort the Effcnccs, Exlr:llhons, ;111" MHglnep~s lhe greater remedicss do ycnCJvl!Ct. Rna: YI{lors .thc wiole body; a. fOl' cxarl1l,k , They·~cnlov.e Fcavcl'$, :~s ~1"';4i.", R!",y,;in, ~h~ syn.,~b"f,.[(}r c~n~lnu~lJ the Ethta1r« i==ca1'cr, ",Co l .. ikewife the fitft .EtH.of JJ-Jarg~· ';1(1 arc abfe to rtllC" arid ytflore the whole body, and ro t:lke away ;ill WonlcJl.pile~fes, togcth~r with tbe;!' ~.c,,(idcnu,:t.l1d to render both th'cMall 3lldWoln.ul [l\utful; (0 likewife rho fe f.·lInc ,A'I'u",a'l do rake away all lung a'.dincurabJc Di[ca(ci hy the Yl'utw;ng and ,·tJlor;IlZ (.~'

)~C body info its fupun1c Vil'lucs. .

Thus alfo doth the ~in(c£fcn(e dr;twn out of B~!6

(t~) r'nevllte • aid ytflore t},c body, ~nd take: a\V~\~ p,Jenn·· ftu and the \"cAilcnee by the adOll1'3b1e operanDJ15 ;tIlt! virtue. of its pre(eilinR prC71pcrry: Tl1crc arc nlOlUY mere.fuch like tiling.' wbich {lU1U_ IJc clfcwll~re r«pt:atcd, In. fuch as are' of 'a far g,.catc~ VIrtue dun 11 able .ro be ·l\urjltuh~d unto rheru, and °Ulcn caD b('-:nlentioncd: f3uc yctQsto rhefe thing., this is diJigcntlYJfo ... llc4dn.l :ll1d (on~~ercdof, ~s to (:oJllpo{itiops, .. thlit I\JthO).l&htho[~

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are vcry many of thelll, yet none of rhera .is (u(ftd!ntly able oCI1\!rally to ex pe l arrd cure aU the Difeafes ( byil f'e If )~as arc to be c xpdlcd by tbofe Mcdicnmcnre IjIf I(t. ~ovtltt;on. \Vee'J therefore demonftrare the nl3ancfaod l)railick of our inrenrlon and meaning, even to the end; yet we will not fet down all the pl'OC~aes, for that is nOI nece fsalY) for he that und~ra~ds us , will appr{"ht'n~ and Inark ou r writings, bur he that doth not, will no(1!e j'nilrulted by tbeln; & yet w('c'l fet down all the: Proct(. .-el ( as-nrc neccfsary ) abundantly enough: nut 'rwould b~ burdenfornc for us to write: down fuch things ~s 1112. ny have writrcn of, or arc known before; Jet this whole Doatine C::lnnot be better delivered, or treated of, then b,. the fidlEJu, wherein there", a tingular Nature of operating upon the body, .t"~ of trnnfniuring the efsen« ,he:rcQi; (Of the firft J!"tu it felf is 3n ilnp~rfea Compo. fition, prede8in::ued to a cerr a iri and afsured cnd , and corporal Marrer. A nd be caufe it is not pcrfell, it is able to alter every thiug that it Ch:1H be incorporated withall; even as ft-I"'cury, which is like to the Ul..fi itnperfclt J!'tlf) 31 to i&npcrCection: l~or although that it be dererminared nnd bounded, yet notwithft:1I1uing it is riot ch:mg f1'onl IU1PC(ffcl'ion, but is liulitt'a therewith.

AI CYCHry hath even ':t power of yelHivating thc who bolly, for (hat there is a 1110(t W(H1l1erfuIL,l.\·o'rt;vl',& rcrr.ti·ueVirtue rhe rciri , which can never be (ufiicicn

e nou gh fearched out: Anti )' c r ncver tlrc!e ,,; cis who ilnpcir4'tt and urrprofirabfc in irs Own OpCI'~t1Q-:', that (forfo(-Hh) bccatlfe 'tis ll!rYl"Y)', and the lull ,h~r~of 111Ull not be l'ft'ddtinat<."d into anorhers 60 for fuch :\1 ir, 'viZ' ~ is, fo i.\ its ft"rf("lHon: But we frl!llk of a firl\ I!:tll thar is perf~lt, {0f the ~'eJJ5'UAt;n! anti ",1, t";ng of the whole Body, as is the fit {\: i_'I1J of Gold, a_n diat for this reafon, bec:lufe'it truly.po{sefleth the {pi af rhe (iold, and the rnof] [irbt i!e fpirit, and is [ar mnr fubtile then the true body it felf is, 'l.:j'{: Gold.

And RES TAU ~ A 7 ION. I J

Hence Iikewife the {id\ ,Ens of S(I/, or (,old is pcneIIlblc, even a. a A/~r(m'" in b.lctals;. rro r containcth it inir (elf tftC [pirit of Salt, whefeby it U'laybe c~agula:- 1(1.t; {or. the fphit of .s~tlt coagul aring lhC' firft EllS ,doth

uke aW3Y fo much VH(Ue t h:H the c;uld is nor a JU10- drcdthpartlo porenr in ir.s vir rue , as it s iilfiFuJ is; Jj~e toG~nerous \Vine, which being co agu lated with Fl'()a~ dOliJ aot again rCU:lln {O _its fOJ IU,er power and e x cc I-, Imcy.

Cut that \'1e may perfellly fpeak and wr irc co nccening/(tno1JttI;OIJ nllll /\_t/1lillrlflirm, you JJJUCl: know that Ihefirfi.EIlJ, that is, that the fidl: compntirron of Gold aohichisal yet a liquor, :loll'" not a s yet coal!.ulated"dotl: rmovate & reftorc whatfocver it Ja)'cA hold 011 ;":tnd not nun only, hut 31fo all carre l, fluits, herbs, ~lnd erces :

Andwhat w e rhus rnerrr iorr, is to he urrderttoo d on tbis lii(c, 'fJi,{. Like [0 the ;....tinera', or Oar, of a IM('taJ, which i·, endued with far gl'cat~r v irrue s than its ~lctal il: for in the Oar there's a fpirit of Ad~nilk,and Salt, cfSulphur and Merr ury , all wh ivh do go a way in the Jurgiug of the meral , the faid me tal renuinlng in one

tumcc only. ,

The like is to be uriderflood of the (laCl Ern it ie s of' ~hrcaiircs, as of Antimony j (he which you I.lluit nore robenole(srhcn the' illilI:.:nJ of Go!d is; for there is fu(h a virtue in the Jlr£l EIJJ of 1\ nt imoriy J that it dorh; (,~ it felf', of irs ow n proper nnrurc, tranf mur e CVl"l'Y I\JG&thar it Ie iz erh Oil, even Iikc as f\ ntiurony ir feU ~~[hbythe fire: for the virtue of it Ie parn rc s every from rllC oody that is born out of tI)C' r/Hlh-",lllll, ant! doth thoroughly rc no vare thl" elid ~)OU"

:\ true- Ioundurion , b e cnu Ie its !ldt L'IU is ((".HC'd.

that ddHmuion, inCOJUllCh that ft-h:h au e Il cn cc

s nnd p,OCS OUt (hCfc--fIOIU, as tlu: heat uo(h our

[he firc-. -

·~hc 1&( i, to be un- .. I~Jfi')Qd of the [ir~ E1J1 uf R; ... Iiu«.

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14 Of R E ~ 0 V .i\. T ION,

The fidl: En, of Sulphur is all entire rranfnult:uion d ehe b~dy into fornc J~t"?V(lti{Jllf and I(_~JI.f.1fr«ti81B, (or it is fQ vehement that it t ingerll all the firft Entiti':s{lf me. t als i nr o its own eflcucc , it takes awa), their operations, :111<.1 rc ducerh t hern al~ain to their firit marrer, and doth affC'l"\\':uds lCQlHC t hcrn into a new perfclt body: For, the firll: En.r th:H·S p ro du ce d our of Sulphur, hath fu virtues upon the buoy of a marr. that ir re newes all ,he 'Y:Jdic.11 huuri dirie s in him, in all his ractl and members"

tn like fort 111:11 we fpeak oftb~ lid\: entities of Gem!, the whidl du, l,y r lre i r t'.tl e{r~nce}nloft: potently [('{brc the whole body r o i r s Former powers arrd vigonmlilds) and do aWl¢nu it of all its impur iries , and renovare u, eve n as fire tt3ufmuteth Le-.d int(~ :t Jnoft pure Gla{,: for the pY'inmm .1£1" of the .fm.f1a!.dh.~ doth l"egcn(!f31 and resrovarc it {elf, for 'cis a I)crfca hody (rom thebe ginning: Even as the £yrCIJ .AllfrbI6,diC which hath fuch a 1I;a[IU1'e fron~ its proper prcclefti nat iorr, rhat it reno vares it felf frorn all urrcIearmefs and irnpu rirics, :10 doth again coa~ubtc it felf until it become pure; nn it doth fQHlcti(ncs dtu, renovate it ({'If, and rerum in juvenility a third, arrd a fourth rirnc i and by how 111\1(. the o frrrer it doth thus ycgClleY4tc i [' felf, to much the pure and conftanr doth it beCOJlIC : tllcrefore as far ns the virtues of the fir{\; Enti ries are known to tnC', lht do a{fllrcdly far exc e l all the reft.

So likewifc are yau to nore concerning the flrft E ties of SllllJ, that they arc according «: their fphi .. irrucs , fat' grc:ltcr then in their perfcllion: So the Ii' .Enr of Vitriol, tranfflJHtl,'S all white J\.1erAh wbatfoev( into red, and tho{c: rJI:1t are red into white, and over COUles and fubducs all t hc pCl'fccHons that arc com~r hcndcd in rhcm , it renovates .n(·' reft ores all the 1 perfell bodies of the 1\1~t:\I$; .is, -ri,. into it .. own !!n_r, and into ~in ag:lin~ in which is 1l101'C virtues til

11 In tht: Old Tli;' A

And R n S T A II C{ A '1 J 0 r: . I )'

i\{rtl the Iame r.~;1111l~r ir. r~~.!{H ~d} \Vh~({(H':v~r rr,~. ((I~d5 out of (h~ r.idlc ~ L JI UJ11J d it i c S IIJ to (II co r.uli{.tilll(') iUtile, ;11)(1 (.';111 Ie tk the l(~lIA"U"lh1J ;Hld l\._tf/.'lUJ·,:li:n it J411i morr,rctf('cc, nlor~ pknlifu!, :Jnd 1II0re abu nclnnr s for thrlc S lin orh<-, (hlJ:~ [hat (J l'c ra r c s II) Vtd·H."111CIH Jy II pon thoadh 01/ mnifl 1I rc .

Nor arc (he Jidl: El,l~ifiC's of J'("I b .. and U(,1!5 dii1~l'Cnt froJll\yhar \\,;ls:dur\_-Llld, [he which Entities ore a [hOll" ~and nme s lllC).rc porC~lr ns to the ir virru e s , t h e n when !Ilcyh.wc rc ce ivc d thca hody, tblk, or rrunk, :Iud arc incorpor are d : 1·.vC:-J)as the fi:fl: j«.:"lI of B.H'Vm dorh rCllo\3tC ~J1d I'cfiol'.c the whole b~dy f.u lilOH'rOwc-rfully In(n Iccrns pcHII_)l<.' h' be done III rrn ttrr a l rhings ; for "its to bckl1~\\"1J that the H :tl<'Y0!l' nc kiJ]g-IJILl-r,i~ not 'thus ~nM.'.ttt(j ~lor )·~/h.,.tclfJOUJ lin O\.VJ111iH1JrC; OIJl heelDfc 1~'.Il:ltl1lC H_filC.h~;lS to be U{)urilla':-cJ a n .. t live.' o n firlt F.ul!!Jcs,on thu w ifc, \ .... hen ir { ... ·cds (Ill tlu:a (-'ndit·!. of hcd>E erfeeds, ~.ud fudll~~~~, hi~ lloJl1:1dl d(,rh, .hy di.~dti(JlI: redllce r!H.:m to then filll ~ns) :lIlIf .loth atc""rW;lrdsnlH c.frhat fuft Enl 1H.~rf('cl r l.c 01 "'J.llions of i t s "',n"'l't1.Jj, t : =nd.l\.cjt:lIH·lfliQll: for, (h;)~ J~i r ds di:.:dlion h;\lh ir s pr~c(lllllallOn ll~tl1raJly to fuil r:nlltil~S OJlJy, Wk~llt e tr «mes ro p:1/s t h ar he- do[b lidt r r.urfmur c ;dJ I.j~ fu()(' ;:nd dljllJ~ into ;l lilll "':"r; and rlwlcfoJ(" Jik~w;fc d£Jlhllc fe.cd only ~n h)lh IHI(:;n as do It"g('nera{C' ane+. 1~:lO!C, WH h whl< 11 bl.Hlll"! IH.' H C v « II rlC)nl the vel Y b~~ . ~~nnl1l?, ~Iwflyes 1)((JVl,ll'd fcr) ~'Ild Ilouritl'l'd wirh by his P.'11 (IlU, (H' Dxrn . rhi s :d(o j~ hi.' l);lflHc"} ·t.;',,_ [() t,~ ... Irnov.tt~d and rdl(\){"d afr e r ,ft°ath; a n d "1.\[ for thi; lufon,.becau(-e till' lilii Fllr il in: ClllJ1(.f:lI ;t11 }UI\'(" r lrc i r

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even in the Birdie CdC put forth the mfe lve s and Co reo nOVd[e and refto re the- U":.l<.1 fleill; arid ell is is [in nature her felf J a very worrdcrfu l Argum cur of in I11fAl: grC:Jr virtues and power: And now , were not the lc thingl apparent [0 {ighr"thl!"Y wo u Id fCt"111 incve dib!e , :llrhc)u,ih

thus dc Icr ib e d :>y, Jl1111y a one; for chis c au fe alfn doth it

Irappen that the I-I.ttql'nl.·~ d o renovate themfelver' Jt different times, v:,-. {olne of them f091lCf, f\m'H~ law or flower, according ;;IS they huve either nUHC c'lrly or nro re late, eaten the lId\: Ent it ic r ; far Iome of the.n arc born :lnd do come forth e it he r f:>t)nc'r or l at e r rh';l orhcr-fomc do. In like fl')rr there :11(" verv m anv Vq· mine Of \Vvrl!tl! re uov atc d and ro!ton:'J, ;.hl d;.lt for this re afosa, Brc3ufe they a r c fed ~Hid rrourj rhc d hy ild Endde.~, \Vhil~i rhcy arc as yet in the E;uth, imperfed.

. wlany 1l10rC woudcrful things are there that are hidden, yea far more then arc known, or 0l"~nly Iltanikit, con. c:ernjn~ wlrich I could wrirc more Jar~eJy, but (hat il would be roo IJtuch wide Iro m the Text of the HOQkQf 1(.en.'VtltirtU aud l\.eJfam·.ttion.

And ;,hhaugh we cannot fo v e ry welJ tuke , or get the lid\ Entities, ~H we h ave wrirrcn of rllt'lll, or h.:lVe~ them in the fame EIl~nc~ ;\SW~ h avc dClll\Jnll:r:l{r.d before") ytl nev~rth(!lcfs"i5:\ thing poflib le urreo U'> for if we know where the Minernl of (iold Iyes hid, we Ihall even there find iu fidl En I, if we htl r c ornc ;If ir e ir s perfellioD; for there arc l·~rr;lin (jgJl~ whe refly it ])1.,y he known-in wh3t rnarmer the [orin of r he Meta! i" politC'd, vi,:(: thus' Whileft it is in irs tldl .J-.'Ill it m akc s trees fruitful, and the bo cro m , ·.:,.,j'Z.{h\! E.Hrh,fel'tile; it renovates oldtreClJ that h avc pl'ociuccJ no fluits [01' there twenty y(~t5; for when the hi'll En r of Go ld 11 l.l II lay hold on rhe.n, or on their Ro ors , they ~lg;lin begin to Jive and n~HHil;. as beforQj but albeit, tbat there ;lfe 111any (nore admir.lbJe things done by the fillt _l:.·NI of Gold, tHen we wIit'

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