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not {fo nocent unto it, as unto Afarss by reafon whereof,it doth che longer endure the fire, This power and property hath Venus, that is his body, | from the fpirit that is infnfed into ir. Nowrthe fame effeét chat it worketh in ics own body, that is,in Vemmthe fame effects it alfo produeth in the bodies of men, fo far forth as nature hath granted |, unto it; for it preferveth wounds in {ch manners) fio fo that no accident can invade chem, nor che Air [fris or wacer hurt them ; and expellech all fuch difeafes as aremnder the degtee thereof,” “This {pirir'alfo bréakenh che bodies of Metals, “fo that |; they will enduize ‘che hammer ; and_alfo in'the bodies of mien} when ic is taken ofichem wich whom it agreethnor, it effecteth things not Cone venient, Wherefore it is very neceflary, that the Phyfirian that defires ro make ufe of thefe {piritss | ie! be very expert in the knowledge of Metals. > Therefore it i¢-far better to ufe the more perfect fj fpirirs, which*may be taken without any fuch feare of danger: neverthelefs, feeing the {pirits of the Sux and (Maox are dear and precious, fo that every one is not able ro accomplifh them,to perform cures with , cherefore every one muft gake according to his abiliry, what he is-able ro attain unto: alfo every one Is not fo wealthy, thacche can be able to prepare chefe medicines ; therefore he is forced to rake fuch as he can fave, Every one may from hence eafily gather,thae the Merallike medicines do far exceed vegetables 4nd Animals in ftrength and power of curing and healing, And thus-much of the fpirit of Venus.
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| and mundifiech them, &c, Wherefore this fpirit.
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it is derived of a whice and pale fubftance of fire; but it is of a frangible and brittle nature,not | enduring the hammer,fo as Mars:wherefore it is a brittle Meral :: an example thereof appears, if it be mixed with the CMoon, ic can hardly: be wroueht to its firt malleation, without great las bour : the fame effe@ irhath in all other Metals, except in Satwr#onely. And the fame operation which it hath in the bodies of metals, it alfo prodaceth the fame effects in humane bodies; bur burnerh & corrodeth the rhembers,hindring them from their own perfes operations, thereby difa- bling them form performing the work which na+ ture requires,& neceffitares them unto,Neverthie= lefs,this {piric hath in ic this virture, chat it tak ethiaway theulcets of cancers, filtula’s and fuch like, efpecially {uch as exceed not the degree :of its nainré which God and Nature have given
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O; the fpiritof Jupiter we are to know, that
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4 hes Spirit of Sarers is formed and created of Ba dry,coldiand blacke mixture of the Ele- not}: ments; whereby ir comes to’pafs, that amongft tis} all other: ‘Metals , it endurech leaft in the fire’: Whereas the’ S#x and: Moon are proved’ to be durable s:if Saturn be added co them, ‘ic clearly refinerh thems neverthelefs the nature thereof is jy | to diminifh rheir hardnefs,The fame operation iit ion | hath inthe bodies of men’, :but with great pain ilo) and dolour,as Jupiter and Mars, by reaion of che he | mixture thar it hactywith the cold, wherefore ic et | Cannot fo mildly operate, Buc ic hach great power ide |-and vertue in the cures of filtula’s , cancers and mm | ulcersy which are under the degree and. nacure ee | chereofs\it expellech ontward difeafes , and the ue | oucwardimpurities of the Moon, Neverthelefs ih | cific be noecarefully applyeds ic doch more hure | then:good's wherefore hethat would rightly ufe yet | dey ought feceflarily to know the mature thereof, -and what. difeafesitcureth , atid thay be apply- |sed‘untoz: which being neceflarily~ confidered, - no hurt wilkfollow thereby: |
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He Spiric of fubjected co che other Saperiour Spirits, f+ hath no certain dererminate form or dab- Jr, flancein ic &lf: hereby ic comes solpals that admitteth every orher Metal: event.as wax xeceive eth che impreffion of all. forms of Seales,fo sthis Elementary Spiric.cometh to be compated.to the ovber Spirits:of Metals? forif it receive ancote felf the Spitic of iche:Swz } this {ball be imade our of it felGif the Aveenfheis madeourchit felf rhe fame effect this ‘Spiric'worketh: with all she other Merals with whom iragreegh,and secetveth their properties:intoiit felffor this cauleaccard fi . ing to its:body,it isappropmated. toi the other |e Spirirs above written, :evenas the:Male co:the | Female: for the Suniisthe body of aHercury,:ex- | Cepr onely that sthe ‘Sun-faftneth and fixeth-the | Mercery;butthe common .Jifercury is:inconttant | and volatile: meventhelefs it isdibje& roall the Spirits-aforefaid, and generarethagain not, One- ly the merallicke Spirits sand cmétures, afore fpoken of, but the Metabir felf,byiwhich the} aforenamed tinftures do come into their operas tion : But if che mean be not obferved,it will be Ampoffible ever to bring thofe kind of tinctures ro perfestion : for if che fire be toohigh which fhould
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Secrets of Alchymy. 13 should vivifie this tinfture, it doth extingnith ir, | that iccamnot operate ; and thefame effea& is, if ‘itbetoo weake : wherefore in this place it is ‘neceflary to-be known what medium is to be ab- ferved in this Art, and what are the ftreneth and ‘properties thereof ; and alfo after whac manner , at is to be ordered, and how the rin@ures are ty to becoloured, and to bring chem to a perfect ‘y,|Worke ; that they may germinate and appeare. ree hMs briefly do we conclude and end our firft
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Secrets of Alchymy. 15 | man and wife ; for they are both derived of. che / grofs fpirits of metals, except that ase of Sel | “remaineth firm & fixed in the fire: but tle quicke | Mercury is not fixed ; neverthelefs they may Be appropriated one to another,as graine of corn or
| feed are to the earth; which we will demon-
| ftrare by an example, after this manner: If any
| one fowe barley, the fame he fhail reape ; if ,) Wheat or Rye, or oa other orain, the fame lie | fhall gather,8c.even fo it is in his artsif any one | fowe the Gold of So/, the fame he reapeth ; & of
| the Afeon,he shall gacher; and fo alfo of all other Metals. For this reafon we fay in this place, that
“! the TinQures dofpring out of Mertals, that is,
| oucof the Philofophers Afercury, and not trom - the quicke Aercury ; but this produceth te Seed | which firtt conceiveth. °
Cuap. II. Of the Conjunttion of Male and Female, of man and
P Woman.
T isfirft of all neceflary to be known,chat the Mercury of the Philofophers, and che quicke Mercury, ace both to be conjoyned and firmly united and fixed together; how much there- of is to be taken: neither more nor. lefs then equal, isto be taken, left ic hindreth , or. alro- gether deftroyeth the whole worke ; For the feed is {uffocaced wich fuperfluiry, thar ic cannot live fo long until ir be joynedand fixed ro the C2 Phi-
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Philofophers Afercury.But if there be coo little, | chat iccannot be diffolved intoa body, itis alfo -|
deftroyed , that ic cannot be able to bring forch any fruic: wherefore the Arcificer ought cerrainly ro know how much of che one, and the other ought. to be taken, if he would bring this wotketo its perfec& end; the Receipe thereof is this: Take one partto two, or three to four, and thou can{t not erre, bur fhalt attain to chy defired end.
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Of the forna of the Inftruments of Glafs.
He Materials being chus rightly and duly
prepared and mixt together, then you mutt have Glafs-veflels, of due proportion,and even firnefs and capacity ; neithertoo great nor too little, bu fic: For if the veffels be too big, the Female, rhat is, the flegme, is difperfed and loft ; whereby it comes to pafs thatthe feed cannot bring forch : where the veflels are too little, the growrh is fuffocated that it cannot come to fruit, no orherwile but as if feed fhould be fowne
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bud and {pring up, buc perifheth wirhour any fruit; therefore no little. error may happen. by the veffels ; which being once committed;cannot be any more mended in: the Jame worke: nei- ther can that worke be perfe&ed or bronght to
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any goodend, Wherefore, note what follows, fo wit, that you take three ounces with the half, and four pounds ; fo the proceeding is right, and you fhall preferve the matter hac it be net difperfed, nor the Phlegme nor the generation impedited, &c,
Cuap. lV. Of the properties of the fire.
W Hen you have placed the matter in fit ve
fels, you fhall carefully keep and maintain the natural hear, thar the externali hear do nor overcome or abound over rhe internal; for if the heat be roo much, there can be no conjun&ion
/ made, by reaion that the matter is difperfed and
burnt by the vehemency of the heat, fochat no good arifech thereby. Wherefore the middle tegi- onof the air is by nature ordained between hea- yen and earch;orherwife the Sun and Stars would burn up all che creatures upon the earth, fo that nothing could be produced or fpring forth from it: therefore fo work,that you put fuch an
| Airy pare or diftance beeweenthe matrer and che fire ; after this manner let it be done,chat rhe
heat may not eafily do hure any wayes, nor dil- perfe the matter, much - lefs burn ic: but if the
| fire be coo litrle,and not quick enongh,the Spirit then reftech, the fire nothing opetating upon its | humidicy; neither will it be exficcated nor fixed :
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for the Spirits of Metals are dead of themfelves, © and do re{t, fo chat they cannotat all operate of | chemfelves, unlefs they are quickned by thefire, |} It is.no otherwife in the great Univerle of the | world, wherefeed being caft inro the earth, 1s | dead, and cannot grow nor increafe of it*felf, | unlefs ic be quickned by the heatof che Sun; It } is chiefly neceflary therefore in this worke, to | ere and build the fre right and proportion- ably , neither too great nortoo little; other- | wife this worke will never be brought toa per- }} fe& and defired end. 3
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co blacknefs ; afterwards, when the drynefs be- gins to worke upon the humidiry, there will Jikewile arife in the Glafs, various flowers of divers colours, {uch as appeare like che taile of a Peacocke, andfuchas no man ever faw before, Alfofomtimes the Glafs appeareth as if it) were aimoft drawn into Gold; which being perceived, it fhewerh certainly that the feed of the Male doth rule and operare upon the feed of the Fe- male, and that the fameis fixed together; that is, this Afercuryis f'xed and worketh upon'the quick Mercury, and beginneth ro be mixed with it
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this, we fhall declare, by what means it may be known when itis perfe&. Thus do: take the whire {tone of the: A4son,by which the white {pringeth , and feparate a little peece from it