Section 8

L(K>W her felf, whom MT.(oefer9as I take it (faith) to pierce bounds^
and all to the purpole, that is to feek his like food, and fuftenance*
whereby topreferve his fiate and being, which is the purpole of
all things in the world, as was faid above.

Now there is nothing fo like and neer a perfect temperature
in the world, as the Etherialfirft moiflure in man ; But what this
is, you may read in my book entituled □ nVxr.^-j Vmw ma?-
ntts. r.

This is befl and moM in the heart, the root of life, then thither
«: hyeth and preyeth upon that part firtt, and that is the caufe why

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it prefently refloreth a man half dead, and as ic were, pulls hfm
out of the throat of death; then it runs to the reft all about , in-
crealing by that means the natural heat, and firft moifture of eve-
ry part of the body; when this is done, he turns upon
the parts themfelves , and by encountring with them in
the fame fort, according to his might, feeds upon them, and
brings them a certain way towards his own nature, even fo far as
we will by our ufa°e fufter ; for if we take it with meafure and
difcretion, it will o; ing our body to a middle mean and ftate,
between his own exact temperature and the diftempet of difea-
fes, even a better Hate then ever it had before; if we ufe it out of
meafure, it takes us up too high, and too near his own nature, and
makes us unmeet for the deeds of the duties of an earthly life.
But in the mean while in the midfi of this work, we muft know
that by his exceeding heat and fubtlenefs which is gotten by Ro-
fie Crucian skill, and which make up the flrength above all things,
it divides and fcatters, like fmoke before the wind, all diltempe-
redand hurtful things, and if they cannot be reconciled and tur-
ned to goodneft, nature throws them out as dead, and unfruitful
leavings.

But how do we talk, (as Mr William Tub the Aftrologi:al Ven-
eer faith ) fo much of exalt and perfect temper , when by
the verdlib of all the Quefi in ehefe cafes there is no fuch
thing found in nature ,bvt in heaven onelj? neither heard you me
fay that it floated alofr, but was funkjo the bottom of all nature ;
notwithstanding by a true and Holy Rofie Crucian to be founded
and weighed up. For as heaven was once a grofs and diHernpered
lump fas I told you in my book of the nature and d'gnlty of An-
gels) by the divine art of God that ordered all things (as you
have read in the Introductory part of this book,) refined and fin-
dred away round to the place and nature where it now fhindeth.;
even fo one of our grofs bodies here below, being a piece of the
fame lump?.Ko , and all one with that which Heaven on.e was,
may by the like art and cunning be refined and parted from all
hisdifterrpered drofs and foul dro(Tinefs,andbroughr into a Hea-
venly nature of the beft and goodlieH thing in Heaven* And yet
you muft not take me as though I would h ive the mind and wit
of [nan, which is but a fpark of the divine great mind, (I fpake"

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in my book called Ventus Ingens) to be able to reach theexcellen-
cyof his work, and to make fo great perfection; if he do but
fhadovvit, and make a Counterfeit, that is, if he reach not
fo far as to make all things, but tomend a few by this his Hea-
ven , all U well, it is as much as I can look for at the hand of any
man that is not a Mofic Cruclan.Now is the time to reft alktle,and
pray for the good ufe and practice of thofe that (hall read our
writing.

CHAP. XV.

Of the Rofie Crucian Sun,or Spiritual 0)1. Of the Divine Works of
God not jet obferved. Hove we make <L£ther. Examples of Me-
dicines Rofie Crucian and Grecian. Of Poifon. Of the Superna-
tural Miracles of the Rofie Crucians, with obedience to Reafon.
Another Medicine of Supernatural eff eft . Of the power and fe-
sret skill of Nature. How to dlffolve Minerals : And how to pre-
pare them for Mens Bodies.

EUgenlus Theodldattu* hath (hewed you this Heaven, Nay this
Sun of ours, which is nought elfe, as I told you in one of my
books of Aftrolope, bx\t an 0)1 full of heavenly Spirits , and yet
in Quality of his body juft, even and natural, fine and piercing,
clofe and lafting, able as well to rule this little World, as Mr.
Thomas Hey don faith, the great Sun is able to govetne the great
World.

But what is he,faies Mr . Iohn Cleeveland-, that can fee this D i-
vine Art and Way, whereby God made his great and mighty
work,viz: \XTO. as 1 (hewed in my Book ,inticuled, Mofes fpeech
to- <W,upon the fecond chapter of Genefis} or if he (aw it, learne
and match it by imitation? I anfwer, None but Rofie Crucians, to
whom I am a friend, and they God hath enlightned and unheal-
ed their eyes, they have found the way lying open in all places,
/ f\j£L ^ *n a^ Natural change j,they fee thempafs and travel,I fay (till,
£* jjim ^e courfe thax^Hejdon calls foft and witty, that is, kindly fepa-
tation : and if he be not fwifc and rafhas nwny, inch as Thomas

Vaughan-

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Vattghdn and Street, but will have fober patience, his own skill
and labour will be but little if he pleafe; for Nature her felf very
kindly will in her due time performe all, and even all that hea-
venly workmanfhipbe eafily performed ; and yet I mean not fo
but that Art mult accompany and attend npon Nature ( though,
with n > great pains and skill) both forward and backward in this
Journey (Do&our French knows my meaning, fodoth Doclour
Oven, if his angry Cenfure will fufter his Natural judgement )
until he come to his wifhed reft, and to the top of all perfe-
ction.

If you perceive not , confider the way whereby we made our
Etherin our book abovenamed, and matched our own firft moi-
fture . a trfing EtheriaU I fay, and almoft Temperate; mark what I
fay , there is a further end in the matter, hold on the fame means
whereby you came fo far through The wife mans Crown , and are
gone fo far in the Way to blifs, which is that I fpakeof , and you
may reach it.

Then you fee the way to cure all difeafes by the third way of
Egyptian healing* which they doe, and we may well call it the E-
gyptians Heaven, and yet it is a way far beneath the Rojie Crucian
Art of Healing, as we (hall fhew hereafter.

But if they will not yeeld yet to reafon, but mutter ftil Tho-
mas Street-like, that thefe Heavenly Medicines of ours are very
high for the reach of mens filly wits , here ftrowed below upon
the ground for other lefler and Safer ufes, and that no man fince
the firft nwi, or if I will fay Mofes>wnsthe firft, that firft found
out thefe inventions as they call them,after Adam; and that none
but the fucceffors ofMofes have been ever yet known to have found
and wrought the fame; I will not ftand to beat reafon into fuch
giddy-braindmen,but go totheothe^r two waies of healing,which
the Egyptians found out and ufed,and called the firft Mineral Me-
dicines, and thefe Mofes taught the children of Ifrael in the val-
ley of mount Sinai , when he took^ the Golden Calf which he
had made, and calcined it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and in-
corporated it with a Solar J/eagle, and made the children of Ifrael
Arinl^Aurum potabile.

And the next myfteries and fecrecs,as may appear by Rheruis
his fpeaking of Rofie Crucian Secrets, we fitly may call this fecond

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kind, becaufe that is coo large a Name (if it bs lawful for U5 as
well as for all other Learned men, where a fit word wants to
make a new) we may do well I fay to call it a Cure *>/<?//, becaufe
it is by that way of healing,whereby every felf fame thing further
broken may cure it felf; and this inward and hidden thing as they
fay, the outward and apparent by the courfe of kind, whereby the
Wronger like eates up in triall and confumes the weaker.

If this leave be once granted, we will borrow a little more for
the other two likewife,becaufe their names ,are not pertinent to
ourpurpofe, and call that Heaven & Cure-all, for fo it doth, and
the next a Cure-the Great, becaufe the Order of the
Ro$e Crucians is alwayes to match the greater and more ftubborn
fort of difeafes with the Stout and mighty minerals^ and* the reft
with thofe hidden cure-themfehes, or at leaft in the lower rank of
lighter difeafes, with their likes, onely raw, as the Grecians ufe
them, without any curious drelTing.

Let us draw nearer a conclusion of the matter;becaufe Grecians
themfelves are able, and our Englijh Phyficians that learn of them,
to cure the lighter fort of difeafes, and co heal all but the four
aforefaid, we will le.we the reft for them,and fo let this fecond
kind of healing go . called our hidden cure themfelves, and bend all
our batteries againfhhefe four which [hey cail incurable, and fee
how by force of our Mineral Medicines, they may be cured: we
fee the Poyfoned fpirits and breaths of venomous things, with
what force tbey work upon our bodies, things in Nature fet
againft them, and how they confume rhem; If you do not fee by
imagination , reafon with your felves, if not remember thofe
above named, that killed with their fight ; Hear one or two more
that work the fame by touch as violently. The Hare-fijh,a molt
cold and dry creature fro omit that (lie makethamans headake
by fight) if you touch her aloof onely with a ftafte, that her veno-
mous breath maygoftraight and round unto you , you die pre-
fently. The root Baaz,am in Paleftinc, as Pythagoras writes, kills
the man that handleth it, and therefore they ufed to make a dog
pullitup(as Ben. Iohnfon faith) who thereby died imediately.
To come into the body; that cofily foyfon Mr. Linacre talks of,
that is in Nubia, and one grain kills a man out of hand, yet ftay
but a quarter of an hours working , and that one grain divided will

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overcome ten men;I hope you doubt not but thefe mighty poyfons
if they vvetelikc in Nature to the four great difeafes, and by little
and little to be born by Nature, and fet upon them, would be
able eafily, by their great ftrength to devour andconfume them;
or clfefurefuch heaps of poyfon ast\\zPhyficians give us would
not dwell 10 long within us, but would put out life in a moment.
Now what are thefe poyfoned Vapour •.<•, but moft cold and dry bo-
dies wrought and broken up by naturall mingling , unto great
finenels and fubdlenefs,by this peircing fwiftly all about, and by
thefe contrary qualities overcoming ? Then let us take the f tout-
ed Minerals, fuch as are called Middle Minerals by Rojie Crucians,
or hard juices by Mr. Berkenhead (to leave the Metals for a better
purpofe) be they poyfons, as G. Agricola faith, but what they be
/care not,and after we have by meer working, cleanfed them and
ftripped them of their cloggs and hinderances, broken and railed
them to a fine fubftance, then match them with their likes, the
hurtfull things in our bodies, (hall they not let all the reft alone,
and ftraightway cleave to their fellows , as well as a purging medi-
cines, and fo devour and draw them out by little and little ? If
there be no likes, I gran: they will as well as that, fall upon their
enemies, or good juices,and feed upon them.

Then what do you doubt is not a Mineral body far better ? And
therefore if it be raifed to as great a finenefs, much ftronger in
working then the gentle and loofe temper of a wight or -plant:
wherefore thefe our Mineral Medicines, and fome other fore-
mentioned Medicines, and cure the great ,as we call them, (hall in
any reafon, work more violently upon their likes, then the natu-
ral foyfons of Wights and Plants do upon their contraries, both be-
ca'ufe the like doth more eafily yield then the contrary, and for
that the lighter here is the ftronger.

But if you cannot fee thefe things by the light of mind ,6pen
your eyes, and caft them a little into the School of Alchimy into
thelelfer and lower fchool, I mean of Germans, and you fhall fee
the Schollars, efpecially the mafters,by (tripping the Minerals,and
lifting up their properties, but a few degrees,to work wonders; as
to name three or four, by quenching the Loadftone in theoyl of
Iron, his proper food, they make him ten times ftronger, able to
pull a nail-out of a poft^cc, And by this natural pattern they make

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Artificial drawers, not for Iron onely , but for all other things,yea
and fome fo mighty, as they will life up an Ox fiom the ground,
and rent the arm of a Tree from the body, as Mi . Comer doth
witnefs; who reporteth again chat ha faw a ftefh-drawer, that
pulled up ioo weight of fiefh, andanwns eye out of his head,
and his Lights up into his Throat and choaked Urn. They make
hinders alfo to glew two pieces of Iron together, S .'■ is the Smith
can joyn them To be fhort they make eaters alfo, that
will confume Iron fi ones or any hard thing to no ght in a mo-
ment; they dijfolve Goldimo an oyle; they Fix Mercttry with the
frmkeofBrimjhne,zr\dmake many, rare devifes of 'if.; And all
thefe wonders and many more they do by ce-tain reafon.- I
could tell you, if I could ftand about it. In the mean time con-
fider, if thefe or any other fuch like Minerals were raifed higher,
and led to the top of their finenefs and fubtlenefr, and matched
with i heir like companions, or with their contraries, if you will,
thole great difeafes inour bodies, what iHrrs they would make a-
roong them, how eafily they would hew them, pierce, divide,
wafte, and confume them f Bur you murt alvvayes have a fpecial
regaid, that the Medicines be not Hker our natures, then the na-
tureof the thing that burrs us; forthenthey world fail faP! up-
on us, and let the difeafes atone, which heed is eafily takenin
minerals, things very far oft" our nature, faith Des Carter.

And with thefe experience the wonderful vertue of rhe oyl ancf
water ofTohacc9 wife men I have known do miracles wi h ir.

What is to be faid more in thefe matters? I think :r hing, un-
lefs through the countenance of an idle opinion th.it reigns a-
mong them, they dare fiye to the lah, and of all other the mod:
{lender fhelter, and deny our abiliry to -break, tame and handle
as we lift, fuch flout and ftubbom bodies ^wbat) becaufe yon
know not how to do ir, will you fafhion A\ men by your mould?
wife men wouldfirft look into the power and (Irengrh of skill and
nature, and fee what they can do and meagre it thereby, and not
by their own weaknefs; there flvll you i!nder[bnd,rhat there is
nothing in nature foftrong and ihibbovn, but it hath its match at
teaft, if not his overmatch in Nature, fnch is the nature of mans
Wf,of hia Saul: of Jignatftres of Plants ,of mtttals^wi minerals ,and
<x her things alfo.

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But admit fomewhat weaker as Herbs and Plants, &c. yet this>
if he get rhe help of a wifemans Art unto him, (hall quickly wax
great and mend in ftrength and be able eafily to overcome, that
other; mark how the dregs of Vinegar, a thing fprung out from a
weak beginning, and itfelf as weak as water, is able ifitbebuc
once diftilled, to make ftouter things then minerals even mettah
thentft rives, all but filver and gold, to yield and melt down to his
ovmwateriflo nature, nay which is more then Mi/d- dew ot Hea-
ven, as Mr. Cookj the Vicar calls it, wrought firft by the Beethzt
cunning beaft, and then, twice or thrice by thedifiiller, diftilled
will do the fame, you may judge with your felf, what not onely
thefe, but other fiercer and fliarper things, as Salts, &c. more
like to do upon Minerals; and by the way confider,iffuchmild
things as wine and honey, fo meanly prepared, are able to fub-
ducin that fort the moft ftifte and tough things in the world,
fo minerals cheaper then Anrnm Pttabile, in their higheft degree
of dignity would cure theflouteft difeafe ( being prepared fitly)
that can grow in our bodies.Now let us fit andtake our reft a little
and then we will conclude our Rofie Crucian Medicines.

CHAP.