Chapter 6

Section 6

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the Iniquity of Men is fo'great, that'we-
have often ‘known fome’ Men to have |

been {trangled with a Halter, yet not-
withftanding were {trangers to the Art,
‘Twas fufticient that {ome defperate Men
had beard a report-of fuchan Art’, the
knowledge of which {uch once bore the

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name to have. It would be too tedious td
reckon up all things, which we our felves
have made tryal of; we have feen and
heard concerning this thing. _Moreover
as concerning this prefent Age of the
World, rather more than in any former
one, Who is: it that pretends not to 4/-
chymy 2 Infomuch, that thou fhalt hardly
dare to ftir thy foot; except thou defireft
to be betraid.- If thou doft but do any
thing fecretly, this, warinefs of thine, will
{tir in fome-a zeal of throughly fearch-
ing thee out, even to the bottom. They 1
tattle of counterfeiting Money, and
what not ?. But then if thou arta littleo-
pen, and:fome unwonted things done by
thee, whether in Medicine or Alchymy ,

If thou. fhouldft. have a great weight of

Gold or Silver; and wouldift {ell it, any
one would admire readily, from whence
io great a quantity of the fineft Gold and
pareft Silver fhould be broughts, whereas

duch.Gold is {careely brought from any —__
place,, fave only'Guizy or Barbary, ands ©:

that in the fafhion of moft {mall.fand:

but now thine being; more noble than

that,.and in a mafiie form, will not want
a moit notable rumour., For Buyers are
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not fo ftupid, although they fhould (liké
Children) play with thee, and fay, O#r
eyes are fout, come we will not fee; butit

thou doft come, they. willeven fee, even —

but out of one corner of thy eye, fo
much as is fufficient to bring upon thee

the greateft Mifery. For Silver is by |

our Art produced {0 fine , that no fuch is
brought fromany place, That which is

brought out of Spaiz isthe beft, itdoth |

fomewhat excel in goodnefs even Exgli/h
fierling,and that in form of plain Money,
which is tranfported by Theft, the Lawes
of the Nations prohibiting it, If there-
fore thou fhalt fella quantity of pute Sil-
ver, thou haft even already betrayed thy
{elf: But if thou adulterateft it(being not

a Gold{mith) thou runneft the hazard of |
thy Head, according to the Laws of Exg- |
land, Holland, and almoft of all Nations, -

bywhich’tis provided , That every De-
terioration or allaying of Gold and Silver
(though according to the Goldimiths Ba-

lance) yet if it be not'done by a profel-
“fed and licenced’ Metallourgist , it will be |
accounted a Capital Crime. We have

known the time that’ when we would
have fold {6 much pure Silver, as was

ne |
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df fix hundred Pound value(ina forreign
Country), being cloathed like Merchants
(for we durft not adulterate it, becaufe
almoft all Countries hath its {tanding
Balance of the goodnefs of Silver and

| Gold, which the Gold{miths do eafily
_ know inthe Mafs; that fhould we pretend
_ jt was brought from hence or thence,they
«| would preféntly diftinguifh by their

Probe or-Tryal, and apprehend the feller)

they prefently faid unto us that brought
it, This Silver zs made by Art. We deman-

ded the reafon of their faying fo, They
replied only thus, The Silver that comes

| Out of England , Spain, &c. we are not

now to learn how to know it , but this is not
any of tbefe kinds: which when we
heard, we privily withdrew, and left
both the Silver and the price of it, never
more demandable. Moreover if thou
fhould{t fain a great quantity of Gold
brought from elfewhere, but efpecially
of Silver, this thing cannot be fo private,

| put a rumour will be fpread thereof,

the Ship-Matter will fay , Such a quantity
of silver was never brought by me, nor car
it come into the Ship, and every body be
thereof ignorant 3 and when others fhall

D 4° hear

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hear thereof, that were wont to buy it,

they | laugh and fay, What? Is ita likely Bout 4

thing, that this Man ean get fuch a Adafs.of |

Geld and Silver, and put it into bis Ship ,
ihere being fuch [irickt. Lawes that forbid tt ;
and fo firickt,a charge to prevent ite Thus
prefently ‘twill. be blazedabroad, notin
one Region only ,-but in the bordering
Countries. We being taught, by. thele
dangers, have determined to lye hid, and
will communicate the Art to thee who
dreameft of fuch things, that fo we may
fee what publick good: thou. wilt enter-
prife, when, thou fhalt have. obtained at.
We therefore fay,.as heretofore I taughe
that 8 was neceflary inthe Work. and,
have delivered fuch things concerning

4.- 8, ‘which no former Age ever delivered 5

fo alfo Inow on the other hand‘ lay.open
62 the Sz/phur , which will be defired, with-

“Out which & will never receive a.pro-

fitable congelation for. the fupernatural
» Work, |
‘fupply. the/place of the Male, and who-
doever undertakes the T-ranfmutation- Art,
“without it., all bis, arcempts will, be: 1.
‘vain; for all the Wifemen;afiivm, That
there can be.no TinQure made without |

Sulphur doth Cin. this Work )

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Wit, | its*Lattes , which Latte is Gold , with- \ .:
ky) A ° >
ky Pout any.double{peaking. Hence the, no-_ i
ior} ble Sendinogivs faith The Fool. ( believe ‘ns i a
jaf 4 pe . e ays KAM Re
Si, | wee.) will not find our Stone, 20 not 1 Pipe 16%

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dit, | Golds but the Wifeman will find it in the BAwne f
Thus | Dug, That is to fay, In Gold (which is2.cn27°< a)
mia | the © of the Seph7 ) the tinCture of Goldeye *y

cri | nets lies hid. This though it be a moft
thele | digefted body, yet is itincrudated,and

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ad | made rawj:in one only thing, vz. Our -
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‘who | Adercury, and. receiveth from the mul- | Ay a
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emy | tiplication of its own Seed , not fo much i.

ater, (In weight as.in.vertue., And although
edit, \ very many.of the Sophifts do. feemo-
ught | phittically to deny this thing’, yet verily
ad | £0. it is as Lhave faid , thatis to fay, Chey

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ning tell us that common Gold is dead, but27/.44-3/,
aed; (that theirs is alive 5 fo.in like mannera Berne apy
pen | Grain of Wheat is dead, thatis,the ger-
vit |Minating activity therein, lies {uppreft,

po |and would eternally remain fo, {hould:it

wil | be kept: in.adry ambient Air: but let it

Ink). |be but caft into earth, and it prefently

OF ea hes

whos. (Receives a fermental life,, it {wells up, 1s a ie
-Ait’| moilified and buddeth, Eyentoisthecafe. an
ke i | With our Gold, it isdead, that is,. ts. 34. a.
Tiut | Vivifying vertue is fealéd under abodily ie
hout | fhell,as: “tis with the Grain, although dif- a

terent-

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2 {ophical Gold differeth from the valgar J iq,

the Chaos of the sophi; therefore well | i

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ferently , according to the great diffe-
vence. betwixt a Vegetable Grain and
Metallick Gold, But even as a Grain re-
mains perpetually unchanged in a dry
Air, is deftroyed in the fire, and vivified |
in the water only, even fo Gold, that is |
uncorruptible in every Element, durable

even through every Age, - is reducible Jienon
in our water only , and is then living and fing.
ours. Even as Wheat fown in the ground [fre
doth change its name, and i§ called the fivin
Husbandman’s Seed-corn,either for Bread fio 3
or other ufes, as well as for Seed : ever Kino
fo it is with Gold, as long as it is in the |

the Cc
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fad te
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iad t
form of a Ring, a Veficl or Mony, tis the Hin |
vulgar Gold , but as concerning its being Trion
caft into our water, ‘tis Philofophicals [The
In the former refpect it is called Dead , five
becaufe it would remain unchanged even fi}
tothe Worlds end’; in the latter refpect fixe
it is faid tobe living , becaufe it is {0 pos | ae
tentially ; which power is capable of be- Fh}
ing brought into Art ina few daies, but Pii,,
then’Gold will be no longer Gold, but | dead

may Philofophers fay , That their philo- J qy,
Gold, Which difference confifteth in} iy
the

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the Compofition. For even as that Man
‘and |is {aid to be dead, which hath already re-

‘ceived the fentence of Death ; fo is Gold
{aid to be alive when it is mixed in fuch a
Compofition, and put upon fuch a fire
‘in which it will neceflarily receive a ger-
minative life, ina fhort time: yea, twill
|demonftrate the actions of a life begin-

ning,and that within a few daies. There-
fore the fame Sophi that fay their Gold is
dtle| living, do bid thee (the Searcher of Art)
eid) to revive the dead, the which if thou
knoweft to do, and to prepare the Agent,
-and rightly to mix the Gold , it will
foon become living; in which vivifica-
| tion thy living Asexfiraum will dye.
| Therefore the 2/agz command thee to re-

They do Cat the firft “entrance call their
water living , and fay that the death of
one principle, with the death of another,
hath one'and the fame period. Thence
tis evident, That their Gold is to be taken
dead and their water living; and by
compounding thefe together, the {eed-
Gold, wil! (by a fhort decoction) vivihie
yolgtt| or-quicken, and the live ¥ will be killed,
that is, the fpirit will be coagulated with

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vive the dead, and to kill the living .

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44. : |
the diflolved bodie, and: both of them fiulit
putrifie together, inthe form of dirt or fetw

mud’, until all the members of the Com- pent

pofition are rent or difperfed into Atoms 5 Ahisi

Here therefore is the naturality of ‘our
Adagiftery. The Miftery which we fo much

hide, is to prepare the ¥, truly focalled, Jip ;

the which cannot be found upon the earth }
ready prepared to our handssand that-for |
fingular reafons known to the Adeptifis.|
In the 3. we neatly amalgamate pure Gold,

purged tothe higheft degree of purity,

and filed or beaten.,. and being fhut in the
alais we daily boylit 5 the Gold is diffol- jf

ved by the vertue of our Water, and.

returneth to its nearef{t matter , in which) Mpp,

the included life of the Gold, becomes |

free. and takes the life of the diffol-.
ving ¥, which (in re{pe&t of the Gold)

is the fame as good earth in refpect of the fh

Grain of Wheat.. In this %, therefore, 9;

the Gold being diflolved, doth putrifie, hy;
and muft be neceilarily fo by the neceffi- §,:

ty of Nature ; therefore after the pu- Jy)

trefaction of death, there rifeth the new,
Body, of the fante Effence with the for- f
mer Body, and of amore noble fubftance, |
which takes on. iv the degrees af vir~ §

tuality , |

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tuality ; proportionable to the difference
» (between the four qualities of the Ele-
“iments. This is the reafon of our Work,
H's) this is our whole Philofophy. We have

then
itt or}

much.

to Marry it i a juft proportion with
Gold , and to govern it with thefire,
as the % requireth, becanfe Gold doth
not of it felf fear the fire; and as far
forth as ‘tis united with the § , fofar doth

unity,
in the
Iffols
and
watch |
comes
diflol
Gold)
of the
efotey
iri
ecell
¢ pu
e new |
pe fore

commodate the regiment of the heat, to
the capacity of % his abiding it 5 but he
that hath not rightly prepared his'¥, and
fhould joyn Gold therewith, his Gold

‘tis joyned with fucha foolifh Agent, in
which it remaineth as much unchanged,
as if ic had been kept inthe Cheft: nor

where an Agent is not alive within. Our
ianc| ¥is then‘a living and quickning foul , aiid
f vit] therefore our Gold is Spermatical;” as
ialltY st Wheat

7 faid therefore, That there is nothing in»
our Work fecret but ¥ only, the A7agi- »
iffery of which, is rightly to prepare it, ;
land extract the hidden © it contains, and :

will it lay off its own bodily nature by
any Regiment of the Fire whatfoever'’ ,~

RG TER EN SL

Pept ye

it render it able to abide the fire. There- -
fore this is the Labour and Work , ‘to ac-

mA R> 2 Ty >
.

Loy RA Met

is yet the Gold of the Vulgar , becaufe-

Chae hens ZRs

Ng ota inema
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Ba nted+-Pny telf , 1 donot poflels ivby theft, but
~“<by the gift of my God. Dhaveit, [have
“t2» <have oftenform’d it withmy own hands,

and I write the things I know: But I

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Wheat fown is Seed-corn, when as the!
fame Wheat would (in the Barn) remain
Bread-corn only, and dead 5 and though
it were buriedina pot under the earth
(as the Weff-Indians are wont to hide
their Fruit-or Corn in pits inthe earth ,
fenced againit the accefs of water ) yet,

unlefs it be met withal by the moiftva- ji"?
pouf of the earth, ‘tis dead, and abides}") *
without fruit , and is plainly remote from |!"
Vegetation. I know there are many which |
will carp at this DoGrine, and fay, That)
he aflirms.it Gold of the Vulgar; and)
running ¥ is the material Subject of the |
Stone : But we know the contrary. Go}
to therefore ye Philofophers, examine |
your Purfes, although you know fuch
things, have ye the Stove ¢ Verily, as for |

foal
only a
Iwhat
heart
por i
Wi; be

I (ul

made it, and daily have 1tinmy power,

write not to you. Therefore deal with
your Rain-waters, 1¢ay-waters,your Saltss |
tattle of your Sperme, that it is more po-
tept than the Devil himfelf, {lander and
revileme. Believe ye that this your evil
{peaking |

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wuiqonly and are our Materials, andI know
mH what I write, and the fearcher of all

«ii hearts knoweth that I write the truth 5
lid! nor is there any caufé toaccufe me of en-

rth VY» becaufe I write with an unterrified:

ye Quill, in an unheard-of ftyle, to the ho-
img nour of God, to the profitable ufe of
ide mY Neighbours , and contempt of the
fon, World and its Riches 5 becaufe Helias the
sith Artift? is already born, and now glorious
ta) things are declared of the City of God.
ad) 1 dare affirm that Ido poffefs more Ri-
‘i ches than the whole known. World is
g@ worth ; but cannot make ufe thereof,

‘hf Loath,and defervedly deteft this Idolizing
sfx} Of Gold and Silver , by the price where-
wie} Of the pomp. and vanities of the World
tye! are celebrated. Ah filthy Evil! Ah vain
wen} Nothingnefs ! Believe ye that I conceal