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Of the fer ft Operation of the Preparas bid
tion of .the Sophick Mercury, i, | tbe F lying Eagles. co |
Rother, You are to know.that our ex- J) act knowledge of. the Eagles of the} Philofophets, is conceived and judged to J), be'the firft degree of ‘perfection 5 ‘for to. w Know it, there is required a quick inge- J | | as For do not believe that this Science | Fd » comes, to any of us by chance of a cafual J”, ore Amagination,as the common ignorant peo- J" . pled ftupidly believesbuit we have fwea= |" " 'ted mich anda long time, we have pafled | ciiany nights without fleep, we have un- 7" dergone much labour and fweat, that we | might obtain the ‘truth’; and therefore, J © tindious Beginner ! Know of certain- ty, without labour and fweat thou wilt, om tlt nothing ('272..) in the frit p" . Wotk, atte cir in the fecond, Nature a-." tone performs the Work without any im fF _pofition of hands, ‘only ufing a moderate [1% -~external Fire, Underftand therefore(Bra-~ |‘ ther) the fayings of the Soph7, when they }™" _ write, That. their Eagles are to be brought ied to
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victory, but the work is molt excellently} ¥s 2
perfected inthe feventh or ninth number.) °*= ee" Fhe % Sophical, namely , is the Bard of Hermes, whichis fometimes called a:Gaofe, . 0) |
fometimes a Pheafant ; one while thisthing, another while that’; ‘but wherever the Magi {peak of their Ea@les, they fpeak in the plural nuniber , and’ they affign their: : number from.three to ten: yet. they are . not to be underftood thus.as if they would © have fo many! weights or parts of the wa- ter to one of the earth, but you mult in- ‘terpret their fayings to -be meant of the intrinfecal weight.that is to fay, yourmull take:the water ‘fo oftentimes acuatedior ;
| fhar pened, as:they,number Eagles; which o)\: wee
acuation “is; nade by fublimation) and: therefore évery fublimation: of; the! £ of Philofophers»let be! one: Eagle: and: the
ifeventh willfo exalt the 95thatit will be-
kome a moft convenient. Bath! for thy
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Let therebe taken of our Fiery Dragon,! which hides: the Adagiral Chalybsin bis YT Bee ie tc) ude Vo OWB
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» sown belly, four parts, of our Adagnel nine | »¢) parts, mix them together with a torrid} \Wulean or great Fire, in the form ofa Mi- neral water, upon which there will{fwim | a feum, which isto be caft away, remove | __. _ (the fhell and take the kernel, purge it | iy yo -\the third time with Fire and Salt, which } 4; neil. will eafily be done if Saterz fhall have: “ove ¢6dbeheld himfelf in the Looking-glafs of |" “iars, thence is thade the Chameleon or | 19. 0ur Chaos in which all Areava’s lies hid | eo v1. .-Nirtually, but not aGually.».Phis is the Wo. ermaphroditical Infant, which even from | y Be) eee echis very firlt Infancy hath-been infected |, Mm) 8. 29. bythe biting of the Corafcene, Mad Dog ,| ‘ “whereby he is beforted and diftratted by a perpetual Aydrophoby or fear of the wa- | ter 3 yea,though the water be nearer hina | than. any. natural thing, yet heabhors it | and flies it. O Fates! But yet thereare | «$n the Wood ‘of .Diava two Doves which | “ean aflwage his frantick Madnefs., if ap- | "<> plyed by the Art of the Nymph 2 5 then [° _-. deafthe fhould again relapfe into 4 Hydro- “" phoby, drown him in the waters, and let him perifh therein; which waters the [° blackifh Mad Dog being impatient: of, will afcend ( fuffocated } to — the Boy tig ene es hah Hee uper=
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ape ficiés: OF “thé “waters ,' then do thou s:
banith him with'a fhower and ftripes, and
_ drive him far away, fothe darknefs will difappear. The Moon fhining inher Full,-
fupply the Feathers,and the Eag/e' will flie
away.and leave the dead Doves Of Dianas 220:
which except’ they {hall be dead’ at the
firft receiving; they cannot be’ profitable.
Repeat this feven times, then, at length ,
haft thou obtained Rett ; unlefs that thou .muft make a bare Pecohida: which is a moft pleafing Sead A ys Hone ands bet
Womans AR | a La y th 1eare 8 Peds yy i th th, at , CHAP, 3) of the labour and ths of the F aki Preparation. Bue tes é |
Bi ignorant Chy mifts Yo (icath.: ‘That the whole Work from the begin= ning to the end, isa meer Recreation, full of pleafantness § ‘but the Labour they fet afide, without the bounds of this Aft.
But let them fafely enjoy their own Opie .
nion, in a Work which they have imagt- ned to be fo calie ; certainly they will reap but an empty Harveitt, from their

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78 Secrets Revealed, idle Operation. For we. know, that.next ]« the Divine Benediction, and a good Root | or Foundation to work on, Labour, In- duftry and Diligence obtains the chicfeft place’; nor, verily is it.a Labour fo eafie,
| that .it may be calledaPlay or Refrefh- iy ment of the Mind , that, will give.usthe
thing we fo.earneftly defire : but rather Jw}, E as Hermes faith} Nezther the Life wor La- | «jy a bour isto. be fpared selfe that. which the |},
Wifeman. fortold imhis,Parables, willnot | «
be verified, viz, That the defire of the flothe | «
ful will deftrey hiv. Norisitany wonder, }«
that fo many men, dealing with Alchymy, |
are reduced to poverty 5 for they fhun J»
M Labour, and fpare Coft: But we, who |
ie have. known’ thefe. things, and wrought |
| them, have certainly Al that no |
‘)...£¢ Labour is more tedious ‘than our firft ]>, ) Preparation. . Therefore Azoriexus doth |
Pteeee-
ae thing, faying, “ Moft. of the Wifemen | complained of the tediou{nels, of; this
| «© Works nor would I that you fhould un- |
a “ derftand thefe things figuratively, for |
“ ¢¢ 4s much as I donot now conlider of, the “things as they appear in the beginning
of the firpernatural Work : butas we | oh) Re OR ee Se ee ee wns SAE
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| © fit for Work’, as {faith the Poet ,
This is the Labour, and this isthe Work 5 and again ,
One Labour concerns the Golden Fleece,&c.
Another is the great burden to be {uftained
about the rude weight or matter, &c.
“° Therefore that noble Author. of the,
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“ Hermetick secrets , names this firft La- X%ii- td ms
*¢ bour Herculean, “Principles or firftbeginning,beferogeneows
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Firft, there are in our,)*
* Superfluities, which can never be remy...
“duced unto purity (for our Work) and: “therefore it is expedient to purge them
roan ;
“out throughly , which. will beimpoflt-.. “ble to be done without the Theory of. oo.
“aur Secrets, in which we teach, the *¢ true manner with which the Kingly Di- ‘adem is to be feparated, or thruft out
“of the Afexfiruum of the Harlot -—— oe ie Which manner being known, ‘there is as ~
yet required the greater Labour 5, yeafo
great, that, as faith the Philofopher, many 7: have left the Art lame as it were, becaufles;
of the terrible Evils:or Labour: yet I
deny not but a Woman, may undergo the ‘2 Labour of the Art, yet fo, as that fhe! eiehia propofes not Playes amongtft her Labours, “!> 30%
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ta Oe | Secrets Revealed, poo 2CBut the Mercury once prepared, then is | Bile)! sn.githe reft obtained, which is far more de- | Grable than any Labour; as faith the Phi- |...
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CHAP. 9. N iy Of the Vertue of our Mercury upon allthe Metals. | 4
Ur Mercury is that Serpent which | es ta |
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G, XA Fdevonred the Companions of Cad- |
““. kmius 5 nor ig it a wonder, becaufe ithad |" firtt devoured Cadmus himfelf; who was |
. ftronger than ‘all the reft: yetat length |."
& Cadmus {halt pierce this Serpent through, | after he hath €oagulated him with the }. verte of his own/Salpbur. “Therefore [,"" know, that this our ¥ doth bear rule over J" ait Metalline Bodies, and diffolves them |
“Gnto their neareft matter Jfercurial , by
~ feparating ‘their Sulpburs 5 and know, |“ that the Adércury of sane, two, or three |
=). Eagles’, commandeth h, % and Qs and it”
gules over the » from three Eagles to fe- | ven; then it rules over the o even toten Bavles,’ Furthermore | make known unto vol, that. our Azerenry Is nearer tO the
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| CHA Ps ro. Of the Sulphur which is ia the So- phical Mercury.
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at ons and the form of Afercury 5 therefore
vg | 08 neceflary, that a form be introduced
the therein,by our preparation > which form, 4 wa is a Metalline Sulphur : which sulphur, iso : ; ‘el Fire that putrifies the Compofitum, or dif- a re poted ©. This julphurcous F ire, 18 the fpr | 4 “,.| ritual Seed which our Virgin (but yetne- 5 *T) verthele(s fhe remains undefiled) hath —' BY ech | contraéted ; becaufe anincorrupted Vir-: 1 ce | ginity can admit a fpiritual Love , ac- at ee i cording to the Author of the Herzzetick - ae yy WE | Secrets:, and according to Experience it ae oN) felf.: By reafon of rhis. se/phur it is an , v ul Hermaphrodite , becaufe the fine 3 doth 8.8.0: ae ye) RE C 2 appa-' at ee
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apparently! include atthe fame time, and by the fame degree of Digeftion, as well
- anactive as paflive Principle; for if it be | ~ joyned with © , it foftens, melts, and dif- folves hiny by. a temperate heat, futable |
to the neceflity of the Compofition, and doth (by the fame fire ) coagulate him- felf, and gives in. his coagulation ©, ac- cording to the pleafure of the Operator. Hapily this will feem incredible unto thee,
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fret iy B afte int but °tis true (v7z.) That § being homo- geneal, pure and clean, being by our Ar- tifice impregnated, doth (by the appli- cation of a convenient heat only) coagu- | himfel€( after the manner) of Cream | of Milk. there being (asit were) a fub- tile earth fwimmjng upon the waters : but being joyned witho, it isnot only not | coagulated, but the compound fhall dai- | ly be feen.tobe fofter and fofter , even | till the Bodies being almoit diflolved, the | Spirits fhall begin to be coagulated ina “moft black colour, and a moft ftinking o- | dour, Tis therefore, manifett, ‘That this. {piritual Metalline. Sulphur, is the firft that, | turns the wheel, and rolls the Axis into a. | compafs or circuit. This 4 isin truth a vo- | Jatile @ 5 not,as yet fufficiently.digefted, | a aun: but
fet
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table} ) and him ), ace rator theeyt j0m0s It Arsh ippli A | er alubef stbut
iil) but pure
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enough 3 therefore it pafleth «
into © by a bare digeftion ; but if itbe sd $4;;
joyned to © already perfect, it is note :
thencoagulated, but it diflolves the cor- otal Gold ; ‘and remains. witht (being
diffolved) under one form, although He fore the perfect union,death mult necefia-"*"
rily precede, that fo they may be united after their death; not fimply ina perfect unity, but in a Millenary more than per-
fect perfection.
| CHAP. 11. Of the Invention of the perfect Ma- giftery.. ©.
4-1 He Wife Men heretofore (as many of them as obtained thisArt without the
| help of Books) were led to the attain-
ment thereof onthis wife (by the permif- fion of God) For I cannot perfwade my felf it came to any of them by immedi-
ate Revelation, unlefs Solomon had it fo 5
which I am rather willing to leave to the Judge,than determine thereof. Aud yet though he fhould have had it, what fundreth but he might have got it by
fe C 4 fearch;
B ef
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am LETS LOTR RE FORE eas LERD ; 2 ss t eee ey ey cf ee ating ae. SAE INO LOGE ANC LEA — POO esi GROEN in ne oaks mG x > on = 7 pena .
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fearch,whereas he requefted only wifdom; which God did beftow upon him in fach manner that he therwith poflefs'd all,both Wealth and Peace? And therefore he un- ript,as it were, and fearcht out thenature of the Plants and Herbs, from theCedar of | Lebanon evento the Hyflop onthe Wall; and what man that is well in his wits, will deny but that he likewile knew the nature of the. Minerals 5 the knowledge of
A by a
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intel
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dil LEC they ¢
which being altogether as pleafant or pro- jot!
fitable ? Bur tothe purpofe, We fay that
it may-very likely be believed; That the fone
firft Adeptit that injoyed this Alagiftery Camong{t whom was Hermes ) who had no
plenty of: Books in thofe, days) did not
at firft feck after a more than perfect per-
fection; but only a fimple exaltationof fir
the imperfect’ Metals to a regal condition : and when they perceived that all Metal- lick’ Bodies, were, of a Adercurial Origi-
pal, and that » was both as to its weight —
and homogencity moft like unto Gold, which is the perfecteft of Metals; they
therefore endevoured to digeft it to the “f maturity of Gold, but they conld Hot
effet it by any fire. Therefore they con- hdered with themfelves, that there was requilite
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liwy,) xequifite, befides the external heat, an in- iluh! ternal one., if they will accomplith their lboh! intentions. This heat therefore they fought us| after in moft things. Firlt of all, they atue| diftilled out. of the leffer Minerals moft ard’| exceeding hot waters, and’ with them Will;| they corroded the 33 but they could not wil| by any Art accomplifh it this way , fo as te} tO caufe the y to. change or alter his in- ¢ of| trinfecal proportions : for becaule all the ig:| Corrofive waters were only external A- vthae | gents, after the manner of fire, though the |efomewhat different. But thele Afenfiru- ile |! uves (as they call’d them.) did notabide dw), with the dillolved body, being by that jt | fame reafon confirmed, they rejected all ina |) Salts, one Salt only excepted which 1s the