Chapter 2

Section 2

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The Preface of John Langius."

enquire fo far to get his difplea-
fure 5;-neverthelefs tt. is..clear..e-
| nough he 1s.beloved of God like
| another Daniel ,:and is a. Man of
| mofishearty trae.defires, if he fill
df besliving 5-and‘one who at tha
Age attained’ to the Medicinal
| Chymical and P.hyfical. Arcana’s
:§ ofjthe P hilofophers, in which ma-
| ny others hardly attain the leaft
| tittle, and,thae buc. very fuperfi-
_ cially : Certainlyit will be avery
_ hard, matter) to find any one who
Tike to. him. hath . gathered. chis
| Are out of Books at fotender an
| Age; Thomas Norton profeffeth
| he had the knowledge of. the
| White Tindure at Twenty cighe
yearsof Age; and Helmontins re-
(| lates how Theopbraftus Paracelfus,
} at the fame». Age received the
| Gold-making Medicine; fo Dio-

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nyfins » Zackarias , and perchance

{ome few other Young-men,° are |
reported to have attainedit > But |

thefe had it from other mens help
and tutoring, which is not fo
pee to be wondredat , when as
therein their capable wit ‘is only
ro be commended: ‘But ‘to’ pick
out the Rofes from the moft thor-
ny Bufhes of Writings, and ‘to
make the true Elixir of Philo:
fophers by his own Induftry,with-
out any Tutor, and at Twenty
three years of Agé; this per-
chance hath been granted to none,
or (as is faid to moft few hitherto.
Who will gainfay but that'in a
perticular manner God hath pour-
ed down this occult Science into
fuch a wit through the open win-
dows of Heaven; when as I be-
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the fame ftudy, and run that ftage
to their old Age, have {weat at the
{fame for fifty, fixty years, more or
lefs, with all the toiling labours
could be thought upon. Therefore
let usthe more ref{pect this highly
enlaghtened Author, in regard char
he being(as’twere fo largely over-
whelmed by Almighty God with
{uch great and unufual Bleflings :
| hath not done like the Citbarift Af-

| pendins, who.uled to fing and play
} privately co himfelf ; Buc what he
had learned without envy, he
would as. benignly communicate
without envy. . How envy. hath
prevailed with many . others, in
their fetting forth thefe fecret Ar-
canas, and how therewith they
have hedged their Writings (as
with a. P artition-Wall ) round a-
bout, needs not here to be remem-

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bred, every Chymical Searcher
can teftifie the fame. - The Off-
{pring of former. Philofophers
held it rather to be for their com-
mendation: thus to. delude their
Pofterity ,. and. they triumphed
uinder envy ‘with Chymericalifug-
lings, juft as we read in the Enfe-
bean Greek Writings of Scaliger ,
That’. Democrates* Abderites had
obf{curely written of Gold, Silver,
Stones. and Porphyr 3 the like
did alfo. Mary an Habrean wile wo-
man; who were taught by Ofta-
nes’ how they fhould cover ‘the
Art with many witty Riddles,’ bue
withal not to write without envy.
Buc our Author, being taughtin'a
betrer School, hath fequeftred the
Ghymical Ace from all vulgar er-
rours; and the Sophifms’ being
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it | dreams’ of ‘the Conceited: hiffed if
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u- | own’ Matters, that you fhall not
‘it | find fo many things more clearly
id | fee forth by any one; as Akeihea
i: || Corthe eruthiher felf)will johifié :
i | Yea, if sthofe things’ which Mary
it) | Rant ( an tEneli(fb woman) by: in- me
ud | ward Revelation promifed concer-
ning'the making of Gold ‘( that it
| would become'vulgar or common
-|an the year 1661.) come to pafs
| within’ an’ hundred years. after,
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ob{cure to the fight of young Be-
ginners, who may perchance draw |}.
it more. eafily from Sendiwogius ) wi
yet neverthelefs, he that fearches | 4,
more curioufly and without prez }4,)
conception of his opimon, fhall th
afluredly find a.greater,light from jj...
him. than, from Sendivogins. 5,but },., |
in. the reft; Sendivogius dares not f
place himfelf. before him, nor any |.
other, either of the old or of the) te
following Ages: Oh ! how farare}) +.
the Rivers Merrba and Siloamfrom i
one another.?. How,much difpa-}),,
rity,is between, thefe and other fic.
Writings,» which hitherto ende-|
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this moft worth Author, to have;
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om been moft' diligent and careful ;
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4) nfe'a Manufcript,nor fo'very exact,
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would commit his Writings cor- ey
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his mind to be printed.:..On if, he | as
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Publick Good,having no other aim }}

Kind. Reader, do thou interpret all
this tothe beft conftruGtion, confidering
thatif thefe(like fome Patrimomial Trea-)
fures,had travailed longer under the com-
munication of. private Copies,"perhaps in
a little time either many more Faults and
Enormities ( by blanks, or blind Letters,’
or wearing ) had flipt in, or elfe'the true
fenfeit felf had by little and little been
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‘utterly. fpoyled 5 which to how: many
“Treatifes of fingular Note it hath hapned
opt, | Mnnto, 1s not needful here to enlarge. I

"| will fay no more, for I do not here at-
» {| tempt to write a Commentary: Thefe
ihe} things Ihave touched for my own fake

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i fufpect I would alfo undertake the fame
again{t his Book, which of old, the true
(all Sie (fo called) prefumed ‘againft sen-
uid| dévogivs. : or elfe any others perchance
fora} might cenfure. me (as the whole World
ngs} 18 BOW full of Bufie-bodies..) However
OY) it be, in this { would doa kindnefs to the
the Lovers of Chymistry, and fatisfie the de-
rail} fires of many,’ If I thall.fee this hath
‘been. acceptable, perhaps more may fol-
low: But if otherwife (yet I avoid to
+ jj Prelage ) God blefs the Benevolent Rea-
eri} der, and farewell.

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The Authors Preface.

[ Being av Adept Anonymon,; and
Ab ower of Learning, and a Philo-
ea , L decreed to write this little

reatife of Medicinal, Chymical aad. Van)
Phyfical Arcana's, 1 the year of the, is:
Redeinption of the World; 1645. but. hind
sa the three and twentieth year of my Vid
Age, that 1 might pay my duty to: Phe
the Sons of Art, and might lend my. |i
band. to bring them out of. the laby= Ww
rinth “of Errours, wherein they aré Veo
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and equal to them; and that thofe {ex Wi
duced by the deceits of Sophifters,
might fafely return, (ee and embrace
the true Light ¢b do: alfo further’
prefage, That not afew will be en- Whi
lightened by thefe wy Labours 5 they |i»,
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‘which 1 have feen , made, and do
| know, which an Adeptift will eafily
wl| gather by thefe Lines. Where-
is| fore as L write thefe things for the
ill) good of my neighbour, let it be. e-
ad | ae that I profes theve 2s none
‘the| that ever writ in this Art fo clearly 5 ;
it] and that many. a time, ia writing L
f up| Laid afide my pen, becanfel mas ra-
iy ti| ther willing to bave concealed the
dnj\| Truth under the Mask of Envy ,
ilys| but God compelled me to write, whome
pail I could not refift, who alone knows the
pst | heart, to whom only be Glory for ever.
ia Hence I undoubtedly gather > many
fof will become Bleffed in this laft Age
er of the World with this Arcanum,
race by reafon I have written faithfully 5
wlet| wor bave I willingly: left any thing
ie w+| doubtful for ayoung Beginner, vis §
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} this Arcanum ,. and. am perfwaded }

\ there ave many more whofe new fa-
miliavity fbortly. (as IL may fay) E)

fhall be daily acquainted with. Let
the holy Will of God.do what it plea-
feth; T confefs my felf ummorthy by |
how fuch things foould be effected 5
yet in thefe matters I adore the holy
Wilt of God, to whom all created
things ave bound to be fubjetted ; for
which caufe only he did create them, |
and being created, preferwes them. |

Phbdhtddepooepohohhooos ho hoooh |

READER,
SG true Manufcript Copy, which fohz Lan.
giws in his Preface doth fo much thirft after,
is here Publifhed for thy benefit ; in which thou
wilt find confiderable enlargements and explanati-
ons.,.wherein the Latin Tranflation is deficient ,
as witnefleth Chap. 15. OC. )

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Gold-making PowDER
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j is only Gold digefted unto the higheft de-

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gree of purity and fubtile fixity, whereto
_ at may be brought , by Nature and.a dif- .
~~ ereet Artift 5 which Gold thus effenfifica- *
“ted, is called ovr Gold (and ‘no more vul- |
‘Zoar) and is the period of the perfection
of Nature and Art.-: 1 could cite all the
Philofophers that write of this Thing,but
need no witnefies; becaufle my felf being
an Adeptifi, do write more clearly. than
any heretofore. “Let any one believe me
that will, and;difprove it that can, carp
he that wills this is the reward it fhall
certainly receiwe,to be an high Ignorance.
I confefs the fubtile Wits do fancy many
whimfies, ‘but he that is diligent fhall find |
the truth in the fimple way of. Nature.
Let Gold therefore be the One True fole
2 Principle of Gold-makings but our Gold
“Ags twofold which we requirete our work;
viz. Mature and Bix, the yellow Lame,
whofe Heart or Centre isa pure Fire, and
therefore ir defends the: body in the Fire,
in which it receives depuration5 but nO= fey;
thing of it gives Way toitstyranny, OF Hi
fuffers by it. This doth inour Workiup= fi:
ply the place of the Male, therefore it 16 age
_ Joyned to our white and,more crude Gold:
as ef eminine Sperme 5 into which itiends. |;
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