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Of ruptures of Bones. 135
The myftery of the twelve Signs. 136 The Seal of Aries. 13731338 The Sealof Taurus: 4395140) The Seal of Gemini. L4O,E41E 5142), & The Seal of Cancer. 1425143) The Seal of Leo. 1435144 Virgo, and its Seal. 145
The Seal of Libra. 146
Of Scorpio, 1475143 | we Sagittary, T49,1 SOE The Seal of Capricorn, T5O,' 5 | | Of Aquary. P51515 2/5 The Seal of Piles. 152,153) Secrets of Nature to deftroy Adices 1545155 | a To preferve Sheep, 155515619 For Oxen and Horfes. 1565157|@ To deftroyF lyes. 157
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\, (founds :amd perfe@ Age. “This AiR T ie, WAS by our Lord God the Supream Grea- ‘tor, ingravenias it-were ina’book in the Ibodyof Metals;:from the-heginning of the Greation, that we might diligently Jéarn fromrhem:)~ ‘Therefore: when.any | man
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| The Prologue. | to produce exceeding great Joy and Love ) in our Hearts. | Eh eae te | But if any one fhall follow. his owa | -onely-Opinion, he will not onely greatiy | «deceive himfelf, buc alfoall others who |) cleave and adherethereunto; and. fhall | bringthemuntolofs, | For mankinde is * | -certainly born inignorance, fo that he can
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d) Crafts of their own Inventions and Opi- to | nions, fuch as are Aristotle.» Hippocrates, 0) «Avicenna, Gallen, &c. who grounded alk : | their AR TS upon their own Opinions Mt} onely. And if at any time they learned any | ching from Nature, they deftroyed itas i} gain with their own Phantafies;, Dreams; * } or Inventions, before they cameco the i, } end thereof; fo that by chery and all} Followers there is nothing perfe@ ac all'to tit} be found. 0 990 i} iS} ys hereunto,to write a peculiar book of: Ol} Alchymy, founded not upon men,’ bue OB 4 ay B 2 Upon.
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upon Nature it felf , and upon thofe Ver- aues and Powers, which GOD with his | @ own Finger hath imprefled in Metals. | ¢
Of this impreffion Mercurins Trifmegistus | “p was an Imitator, who is not undefervedly | Wi called the Father of all Wife-men, and of | *
love , and with earneft defire 5 and chat man demonttrateth and teacheth, that | God alone is the onely.author , caufe and Original of all creatures in chis ART. But he doth not atcribure the power and wittue of God, tothe creatures or vifible things, as the faid heathen, and fuchelike did. Now feeing allA R T ought to be | learned from che Trinitysthat is,from God the Father ,: from God the Son of God, our Saviour Jefus Chrift, and from God the holy Ghoft, three diftiné perfons, bur” one God: We will therefore divide this our Alchymiftical worke into three parts , or Treatifes:in the firft whereof, we will lay down what the A K T conraineth in it felf ;. And what is the propriety and na- |$ ture of every Metal: Secondly, by what means aman may worke and bring the like powers and ftrength of Merals co effe@, And thirdly, what Tin@ures are to be pro- duced from the-Sun and Moone. Pa-
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as nothing can be brought forth inthe world | without the Sun, fo likewife in this Art nothing ||! can be produced withour.chis Simple fire ; no |] operation can be madé without it: ic is the grearelt fecret of this Are ; comprehending all | things which are’comprehended therein, neither || ™ can it be comprehended’ in any elfe; for it a- bideth by it felf: it lacketh nothing; but other things which want that, do injoy it, and have-
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mihe likeanother, It is thereforé to be known, that this varietyof Metals is made of the Mixture of the Elements, becaufé thar their {pifits are al- fo found divers and without fimilitude ; which if chey were brought forch from che fimplefire,they would be folike , that one could Het be known from another: but the manifold variery of foritis interceding , hath introduced thé fame among che creatures, From this ic may éafily be oather- ed, why fo many and fo various fortis Of Metals are foutid, and wherefore there is none liké nn- to another.
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