I. T 7\ 7 Hat is left to be done in this

V V Matter > what (hall we fet a-
gainft the weight of fo many great mens
Authorities > Equally put them in the Bat-
lance 5 as we have done hitherto, and
weigh thfcni with truth and reafon ; But
where (hall we find it > fay they j As it is
cveiywhere, as Mr. Hobbs faid, drowned
in the deep, fo in this matter it is (Matter-
ed all about , and largely fpread withal ;
for there be three things, and every one
full o( undev-Eranches ) belonging to the
Rofie Crucian Art and way of Healing \ 1 he
firji is kptw ledge of the Vifeafes, the feccndthe
remedies againjl them, and the third of the Ap~
pliance of the remedies, ail which (hall be
traverfed in this Methodical myiterious
Tieatife : butitfhallnotneed I hopemay
we mull: take heed how we enter into fo
Jon"' and large a race, in fo fliort and nar-
row

Lib. 5. The Holy Guide. 121

row a compafs of time appointed , efpe-
cially being never run before by any man
but oirfelf, not one of the wife Egyptians,
nor ouxAncejtorsjhe holy Company of Mo fe sand
Etnu , whofe fteps we itrive to follow, and
;their fucceflbrs j for when they have once
hit the mark they have mot at, and got-
. ten the great and general Medicine Caput
mortuum A. P. curing with eafe all difeafes,
they think it ftrait enough, and an empty
and needled labor, as it is indeed, to
trouble tbemftlves and their Children with
large Rules about innumerabie^«;and
Caufes of infinite difeafes, and about o-
therfmall particulars in appliance. Nei-
ther would I have you fee Sendivogiia, ?&-
racelfus, and their heirs upon me, and fay
they have taken great and gocdly pains in
this field 5 you will then force me to fpeak
my thoughts.

2. Though thefe men ( to !et theBill
men go, as too young and childim yet )
by great light of Wit wherewith they
flowed , and by long proling both with
eyes, ears, and hands, in themyfteries
of Egypt, faw and performed many of the
Kofie Crucian deep fecrets, yea and there
got moft of their worldly praife,although
I think a number feigned^ yet Paracelfa
his new Art and Rules of Healing are not
good in my opinion 5 For firft, againft the
Z es«

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example df the Kofie Crucians, from whom
he had received all things , and then in
defpight and difgrace of Galen, fcrmif-
calliiig his Countrymen 9 asyou have
heard 5 but chiefly carried away with a
mad and raging defire of Fame and Ho*
nor, which Culpefer always defpifed,yec
the Stars favoured him, when 1 aflifted to
fet up that new, famous and ftrange work
oiVhyfick^, now well known and prafti-
fed , which faracelfus took in hand , a
man unfit to do it , topull down and raze
the old Work, and to fet up our new ex-
perienced fecret , which he could never
do all his life.

3. Then we fee how it is performed ; he
fets down fome falfe rules,"fome waft,idle,
and fome wanting, and all unconitant,
difordered , and unlearned 5 when he
doth well fas he doth fometimej he doth
no more then was done before him , and
brings in the fame thing difguifed with
new,odd,crofs, and unheard of names,
fuch as may move wonder at thfflrft , but
when they be fcanned, Laughter, as Mr.
Moor faith of Fbilalethes his likedevices of I
his Welch Philofophy. And that I do j
not flander them where there is no
caufe , I could prove , if this place would
admit a Volume. Wherefore let us fol-
low the true and right Kofie Crucians, as

eafily

Li£.$. ihzHrty Guide. 133

ejfily you liny know them by their Acti-
ons, if ever )Oii fortune to fee them and
be acquainted wkh them; and leave P*-
racelfut, and the reft in this ill mattered
Light and Apifh, as he makes it 5 and why
fhouid we (pend all our care and thought
about a fmall matter? you have a good
Medicine and remedy againft difeafes,
when old Wives in the Countrey , and
fome good IVtmen^ amongft other Dr. C»/-
prfpers late wife^ and Simple men^ on our
fide (I mean Simple in refpeft of theOf-
cian fubtilties about nothing ) when thefe
people have healed moft, nay , even
all difeafes, and with wo'manifh Medi-
cines indeedj the German Doctor (let us
give him his due praife) hath quite flain
the Grecian Thyfic^ and here done much
for mankind, by defcribing and difpatch-
ing our clofe and fecret enemy 5 which
under colour of friendship and fighting
againft our enemies hath this long time
betrayed us and done us much rmfchief;
which th+Rg one of their beft Captainsof
their State, FerHelitfrby name, after he
had been a while in Egypt , began to fmel
at laft , and began to repent himfelfof all
his former pains ( which we know were
great ) beftowed in that kind of Healing
faying it to be but words, and the whole
force and weight of this Art to lean up-

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on the knowledge and vertues of Medi-
cines , fecretly hid and couched in the midfi
and oyl of bodies , to be fetched out and
gotten by the skilful means of Alchymip $
even fo of that Art , which is fo much
condemned of his fellows before and
fince him, have fled and do daily flie from
the daily toil and troub'e of their fruit-
lefsand barren dead Sea: Now let usihift
our Sailes, and flie further too, I hope
of wind and tide and all , which we
have.

4. But let us mount up to the Main-waft
tof of our Knowledge, and fee if we can
defcribe the Haven of Rofie Crucian Medi-
cines, and fee what marks it hath, and
how it differs from other Creeks adjoyn-
ing, left at our journeys end we mifs with
more fhame and grief, and fuffer fhip-
wrack. A medicine is that which kills the
face of that which hurts us; and this it
cjothmanywayes, and yetalfoto one end
(which is the end of doing and working as
1 fa id before^ for his food and fuftenancc.

CHAP.

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CHAP. XIV.

I Of Medicines. 2. Of Witchcraft. %.How
to cure thofe that are afflilled thereby, 4. al-
though their bodies be pojfejfed with evil-
fpirits, 5. that caufe them to vomit up
Needles, Thimbles, 6. Vots, 7. Glafles,
8. Hair, 9. and jhredsof cloth, 10. which
by the Devil were conveyed into the Body.
11. Jh it Hinds and Tempefts areraiftd by
Witches upon meer ceremonies of Medicines*
17. Of Foyfons-y with the examples alfo of
other fupernatural effetts of unclean Spirits.,
13. Of imagination. 14. How to cure a,
Witch, 15, and to takg away her power.

1. A Servant of God and Secretary of
j[\ Nature, muft be well advifed of
what he writes, efpecially in this age, and
of this matter(viz.) of theRofie Crucian
FbyficJ^, left he fhould,as I faid before, fail
in this deilgn , and fo it may be a fhame
that he mould be reproved , by the pre-
tenders to thofe wife truths he alone hath
opened to publick view 5 then let us come
l|j again and fort our fpeeches.

A Medicine heals us andkjlls our enemy , ei-

I ther bydullingorconfumingit5for when
it meets with a contrary pf even ftrengtu
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fas when oyl and poyfon,eH. joyn)*then
in ftrength they neither eat up nor de-
flroy oneanothenbut both are dulled and
vveakned , and make one heavy thing,
which Nature cafteth out for an unlike
and unkindly dead thing, which they call
an eitcrementjor leaving -, but in cafe it be
of more ftrength and power then our
enemy, then it quite deftroyes, devours,
and turns him into his own nature. And
this confumer is either like the thing that
hurts us, in which fort even as every herb
of fundry qualities draws and feeds upon
his own juice in a Garden, fo one poy foil
doth cure another, and all purging and
drawing things do heal us, and all Rojie
Crucians bid and Divine properties 60 work
by plain reafon ; Or elfe it i$ unlike and
contrary to their cuftom \ after which
manner, as dry flicks, and tow, and vine-
gar,quench wild fire,or other fat fires, be-
fore water, whofe fatnefs feeds it,i for the
ftrong contrary quality quelling and eat-
ing up the weaker * fo doth any cold and
dry thing 5 as Bolearminic^ Terra Lemma,
&c. cure a rotten Poyfon -, and fo are a
great number of cures done ; which only
courfe,in a word, the Refie Crucians ufe for
Phyfick,and not indeed without good fuc-
cefs; we heard even now of two hinde-
frances of healing , which our common

Phyficians

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Phyficians did take unawares, and Fara-

celfuf pretends to have found out before

pie, gave any hint to the World of our

f A' experienced inventions , of Gold diffohed
and made Rotable , being incorporated with its
proper Veile , which we now ufe by the
name of Aurum ptabile 5 but Paracelfus
ftrayeth much in the making of it, and
knows it not no more then Thomas Har-
rington Dottor Culpeppers Man , whether
in their poyfons, on the other fide,, when
they think all Cures thereby perform-
ed.

2. Now when the confuming Medicines
have done their duties, Nature expels
them for poyfon and unlike ftrange
things, according to the Holy Guide, as
well as the Grecian. Rules , becaufe all their
Medicines were not approved by the Fra-
ternity, and were by their confeflion fuch :
But if they had either thought of the dul-
ling Nouriflier, which as I told you, takes
the nature of the leaving or excrement,
or had known the Rofie Crucian whol-
fome Medicine , they would have made;
another reckoning : But let them go, and
let us fee out in time towards the Haven of
Health. If the Art of Healing be nothing
■ but deftroying hurtful things, And their
ftronger enemies (but equality will fotne-
times ferve the turn ) or likes together;
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and the world beTfull of botli thefe kinds
of Creatures, following the nature of
their Paientsof four beginnings , which
are, as we fee3fome like, and fomc contra-
ry one to another.

3. Then fure the Rofie Crucian Art of
Healing \s not fas fome may fay) impofll-
b!e j truly it wanteth nothing but a man
well skilled in the Nature of things , A
Servant of God 3 and Secretary of Nature by
name-, for(lthinkJ I need not put in a Thy-
fician^o know what other part the Caufes
of the difeafes, which muft be known
and matched, becaufe as Sir (hrijlopher
Hey don the Seraphic ally illuminated Rofie
Crucians^ and learned 4ftrologex well faith,
He that knoweth the changes' and chances
of things in the great World , may foon
find them in the Little.

But our nought- healing Bill-men, that
daube Medicines upon every wall andr
poft, and fome Leaches will ftep in audit
fay , Difeafes are in fome fo great, and in
all Co many , and mans wit is fo weak andr
(hallow, and the Medicines fo hid andj;
drowned in the deep of Nature, that it is]
not poflibleto find them all V or if the
were found, to apply them with fuch di
cretion, as Nature might abide thofe poy-
foned Fraies and Battels within her. And
again, admit all this untrue, yet therebe

fome

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fome difeafes fent from Witchcraft and
Sorcery^ and other means which have their
caufe, and To their cure. I have read of
feme that have vomited lip pieces of
cloath with Pins {luck in them , Nails,
Needles, and fuch like ftuffe * and this is
iugefied into the Stomach by the prefti-
gious Heights of Witches : Others I have
feen vomit up Hair3Glafs3Tron,and pieces
of Wood with Pins fhick in it ; anuthers
Corps wasdirTec"ted3and ripping up the Ven-
tricle , there they found the caufe of the
difeafe , which was around piece of JFood,
four Knives^ fome even and Jharp, ethers were
indented likg a Saw, Others do Miracles
by carting Flint ftones behind their Backj to-
\yards the IVejl , or itriking a River with
Broom , or flinging of Sand inthe Airy the
ftirring of Vrine in a hole in the ground , or
boyling of Hogs Briflles in a. pot 5 fome by
rrhifpering fome words inthe Ear of anHorfe,
or wild Stag^could direli him a jQurney^accord-
ing to their own defire. But what are thefe
things available > To gather Clouds, and
to cover the Air with darknefs , and then
to make the ground fmoak withpjealsof
Hail and Rain , and make the Air terrible
with frequent Lightning and ratling
claps of Thunder: But this is from trie
power of the Devilfasfome fancy) which
lie hath in his Kingdom of the Air.

4. For

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4.. For the remedy of thefe mifchiefs, I
navefeena man wasprefent, whenfome
have vomited up tfeedles, IhimbUs^ Shredi
of Chxh^ pieces of Pots, Glafs,Hair ; another
would f uffer himfelf for money to be run
through with a Sword, when 1 was not
there 5 but it appeared to mea Fable. I
have feena Rofie Crucian Vhjfitian cure
thefe affli&ed People. But if you will
fay, there is a touchftone whereby we may
difcern the truth of Metals, but that there
is nothing whereby we may difcover ch e
truth of Miracles recorded every where
in Hiftory. But I anfwer there is, and that
is this :

«$.Firft,if what is recorded, was avouched
by fuch perfons who had no end nor inte-
reftin avouching fuch things.

6v Secondly, If there were many eye-
witneffes of the fame matter.

7:' Thirdly and Jaftly , If thefe things
which are fo ftrange and miraculous, leave
any fenfible effects behind theni; though I
will not acknowledge that all thofe Sto-
ries are falfe that want thefe conditions,
yet I dare affirm, that it is meer humour
and fullennefs in a man to rejeft the
Truth of thofe that hear them; for it is
to believe nothing but what he feeth him-
felf, from whence it will follow, that he is
eo read nothing of Hiftbryj for there is

neither

Lib. 3. 7be Holy Guide. 121

neither Plea Cure nor any ufefulnefs, if ic
deferfeno belief.

S. Another Remedy for thefe Superna-
tural dii'eafes is , Let one watch the party
fvfpefiedywhcTi they go home to their houle
and prefently afcer, before any body go
into the hcufe after him cr her, let one
pull a handful of the Thatch , or a Tile
that is over the Door, and if it be a Tile,
make a good Fire , and heat it red hoc
therein 3 fetting a Trivet over it; then
take the parties water, if it be a Man, Wo-
man, or Child, and pour it upon the red
hot Tile, upon one iide firft, and then on
the other , and again put the Tile into
the Fire,and make" k extremely hot, turn-
ing it ever and anon , and let no body
come into the houfe in the mean time

9. If they beCattel that are bewitched,
rake fome of the hair of every one of
them, and mix the hair in fair water, or
wetit well,and then lay it under the Tile,
the Trevet ftanding over the Tile,make a
lufty fire, turn your Tile oft upon the
hair , and ftir up the hair ever and anon ;
after you have done this by the fpace of a
quarter of an hour^ let the fire alone, and
when the aflies are cold, bury them in the
ground towards that quarter of Heaven
where the fufpefted Wicch lives.

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io. If the Witch live where there is no
Tile,but Thatch, then take a great hand-
ful thereof,and wet it in the parties water,
or elfe in common water mixed with fome
fait, then lay it in the fire, Co that it may
moulterandfmotherby degrees,;and in a
long time,fetting a Trivet over it. Or elfe
take two new Horie-fhooes, heat them red
hot,and nail one of them on the Threfhold
of theDoor, but quench the other in the
Urine of the party fo bewitched, then let
the Urine over the fire,and put the Horfe-
ihooe in it , fetting a Trivet over the Pip-
kin or Pan wherein the Urine is; make
che Urine boyl with a little Salt upon it,
and the Horfe nails,until it isalmoft con-
ifumed,x>i£. the Urine ; what is not boyled
fully away pour into the fire : Keep your
Horfe-lhooe and Nails in a clean cloth or
paper,and dolikewife three feveral times $
the operation will be far more efFe&ual if
you do thefe things at the very change or
full Moon , or at the very hojrir of the firft
or fecond Quarter.

If they be Cattel , you muft mix the
hair of their Tails with the Thatch 5 and
moiften them being well bound together,
and fo let them be a long time in the fire
£pn fuming.

ji.YguIiave heard theCaufeoffome
of thefe difeafes^and have heard the Cure;

but

LiB-3- The Holy Guide. 133

but thefe are without the compafs of Na»
ture, and To let them pafs with our fickle
Handing, which is daily and hourly fo be-
fet withdeftinies, that a man can warrant
nothing.

12. Truly deftinies are fo deep and
bottomlefs (to return ftraight Homer»\\kc
upon them , and therefore it were beft in-
deed to let them go , and the applying of
the Medicines with themj the rather be-
caufe the other CI mean the formerj is fo
flight a matter to a difcreet Phyiician,
fuch a one as is pointed out by their old
and famous Leader Hippocrates , who both
in thiSj and all other duties of his Art,
made fuch fpeed, and fo farpafled all his
fellows ( as none fince, which is a good
time,could ever overtake himjno noryec
come (o neer as to keep the fight of him
whom they had in chafe and followed.

13. Then for thofe fupernatural caufest
which 1 (hall not (land here to fearch (for
fo they are called) if they flow from un-
clean and wicked Spirits (as fome think)
they are not the ftuffe of the things that
hurt us, though fometimes they dwell in
and poflefs the body, but windy matters,
much like unto thofe fierce and fudden
changes of the Weather* proceeding from
the Influences of the Planets and fixed
Stars, and working the like effe&s in mens

bodies.

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bodies, fothat iich the neareft caufe is na-
tural, let the reft be whatthey will > and
the Cure be done by natural mean^as we ■
fee by experience amongft us : And there-
fore E. A. that pretends this,and puts the
fault in the faith of thewicked,which is a
thing as far above Nature, yet holds its
Cure with a natural Medicine, which we
call a Quinteffence.

14. Although T am not willing, that
fometimes this (icknefs isfuch, as he bids
us fometimes withftand it with another as
ftronga belief fct againftit, but form/
part , I cannot reach it with my conceit
fiet deeper heads then mine, or the Vke-
Chancellor of Oxford, Doctor Owen, think
UponitJ how thefe beliefs and imagina-
tions , and other parts and powers of the
foul or mind of man , can fo flye out of
their own kingdome, and reign over a for-
reign body, when we know the foul and mind
is fo faft bound in the body in durance, and
fo like to be, until it be the great pleafure
of the Omnipotent and the Omniscient God,the
chief good, who hath committed them, to
let them loofe at once,and fet them ftill ac
liberty ; and this may be difputed with
grace and knowledge on my part 5 let this
man therefore buzze againft my knowledge,
which he would have to be more then
Grace 9 I appeal to the natural facuttietof

any

LiB.^. The Holy Guide. 135

any free Judge , whether there be not as much
Grace in me as there ii honefty in him^ that was
Oliver Cromwels Creature , and appointed
to examine and judge me he did notun-
derftand > All men cenfure as they like of
Stones; fo let them pafle amongft old
wives tales for me ; we will feverely follow
our task. That if the effect do not ceafe
which the object hath wrought upon the
Brain , fo foon as ever by turning afidebf
the Organs the object ceafeth to works's,
though the fence be pad 5 as the ftrokeof
a ftone, a blaft of wind, puts (landing wa •
terinto motion, and it doth not prefently
give over moving as foon as the wind cear
feth,or the Stone fctleth : fo the Image or
Conception remaineth,but more obfeure,
while we are awake , becaufe fome object
or other continually plyeth and follici-
tethoureys and ears,keepeth the mind in
a ftronger motion , whereby the,weaker
doth not eafily appear. And this obfeure
conception is that we call Tbantafie^ or
Imagination being (to define \t) conception
remaining , and by little and little decaying
from and after the all ef fenfe, &c. If fome
of thefe difeafes fpring, as Doctor Culpeper
and fome others hold, and with good rea-
fon, from neither of both thefe two roots
namad, but from a foul and venomous

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\%6 The Holy Guide. Life*;*,

breath,f£nt forth from a poyfoned temper
of the Witches body , through the windi-
nefs of hateful eyes: For Thought fafhi-
oneth the Blood and Spirits aim oft a this
pleafure*, then all the caufes being ordi-
nary , and agreeing to the courfeof Na-
ture, they may be cured and put to flight
by the fame courfe and means : which
opinion, if you pleafe to bear with my
tarrying, it is worth the handling, taketh
hold upon this reafon , becaufe (as Rofie
Crucians do wit nefs ) fome beafts of ranker
venome, do witch and hurt after the fame
manner ; as an old Toad by ftedfaft view,
not only prevails, but benums a Weafell,
but kills a young Child. And by the fame
means the Eever hunts the little Fifh,and
takes his prey ; But moft fiercely and mif-
chievoufly of all Creatures in the world,
the two Monfters in kind , the Cockatrice
and Jlpoblefas : again,for that the eye of a
menftruous woman (as all report) doth
fpot the glafs which it beholdeth : And
moreover Eugeniuf Jkeodidadtu, in the
Wife mam Crown, telleth of many folk that
through a poyfoned prerogative , which
a monftrous Mark of a double-fighted
eye gave unto them , were able to be-
witch to death all thofe upon whom that
Eye was angerly and fui ely fee and faft-

nedj

L1B.3. TheHoly Guide. 137

ned 5 but chiefly becaufe we fee them
that ufe this wicked Trade, to be by kind
of a muddy and earth-like complexion
*md nature , brought by age , as they be
'moft commonly, long life* and groflfe
diet, to the pitch of Melancholy, that
is, to a cold and moil dry nature in the
World.

1$. For certain proof whereof, bring
one of them out of that beaft-like life*
brought unto merry company , and fed
full with dainty Diet , and within twen-
ty dayes, as hath by a Rofie Crucian been
tried a truth , the whole ftate and nature
of her body will be fo changed , as it (hall
not fuffer her to bewitch and hurt again $
as you may read in my Familiar Spirit or
Guardian Genius^ and in my Book calif d
The Imjle of Wifdont.

3&

A a CHAP,

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CHAP. XV.

1/3. The Natural effefis of Medicine: ^.The\
force and power of minerals in difeafesj
4. With examples alfo that every difeafel
breeder hath the cure or remedy in it. 5.EX-I
amplesthat poyfon prepared cures poyfonedi
people : 6- Kofie Crucian Medicines, j.Thel
venue and power of the Planets and heavcnX
ly Stars poured through the influence on
the moon upon the Lower Creatures. 8. On
Hot Stomachs ; 9. (9/ the Etherial firjil
moiiiure of man : 10. Examples alfo o]\

[, Rofie Crucian Natural and fupernaturaa
cures. 11.. Of the under jianding of thefil
experienced truths by the wit of man,

j. T Et us conic to the next and chiefefl|

.point j And there we mull not fay]
for fhame, that thefe helps and reme
dies lye hid in nature, too far for the wit
of man to find, uniefs we will accufe out
own floth and dulnefs : For nature hath
brought them forth and laid them open
afwefasthe Poy fops and hurtful things,
or elfeme were verycrofs and ill willing
to him for whofe fake it feems /lie doth all

% , Nay further her good will is fuclv
as (he bath not on'y laid them open, bin

given

Li B. 3 . The Holy Guide. 1 3 9

given us wayes to come by them , and
meanes of fpeech, hands and wit alfo,
far above all other living creatures. And
yet me hath not left us fo$ but left by
chance we might go wide and mifs them,
to (hew her motherly love aud affection
towards us, fhe hath guided many witlefs
BeaftS) even by common fenfe, unto their
Fpeedy helps and remedies in their di-
feafes : That we by the plainnefs and
fliame of the example might be taught
and moved to feek out the myfterious
truths of nature in Celeftial bodies, as well
as beafts that feek and find us Medicines
helpful in the like difeafes* for our Ter-
teftial Tabernacfe. As to name a few not
unworthy meaning 5 fhe maketh the bcaft
Hippotamus in time of his fulnefs and fat-
nefs to go to a reed, and by rubbing a
vein to lethimfelf blood, and to ftop it
I again by laying mud upon it 5 A Tick dog
' to feek an- Herb and purge himfelf * and
the bear to do the fame after his long faft
in Winter > fhe leads the Panther, when
heispoyfoned, to her foul and namelcfs
leaving 5 and the Tortcyfe, after he hath
[eat a Viper, to Summer Savery : And
[theHedg-hog is fo good a natural Aftro-
nomer, that he fortifies his hole againft
foul weather; the Hog will gather Mofs
i and ftraw to cover himfelf a. little before
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it rains j The dog knoMS the influence of
Mars when he doth fleep by the fire, and!
will not go out adores when he is in any
evil pofition : and many fuch like exam,
pies hath nature laid before us for our
inftru&ion h by which at laft wife Plato^
Philo, ApoUonius, Pythagoras, and painful
men of Greece, as they themfelves reportj
be they Elias or Elijha from whom the
orderof the Rofie Crofs came, ( as form
fay)orelfeas others will have it, from
Mofes,or Ezekjel, or whofoever, and byi;
laying reafon and further proof together,
firft made the Art and rules of Healing*
to know whence difeafes came, and how
to recover them. And then feeking all i
about for remedies to ferve each turntij
by little and little they matched the mo{W
part of the letter rank with fingle Medijl
cines, and the greater ones they doubled!
and coupled many together, infomuch ail;
at laft,which was in Hippocrates time, thejll
were able to heal all ( laving four, ) {of thj j
greateft & deepeft difeafes, the Gout, thM
"Drop fie, xh& Leprofy the F ailing fickjtefs^vihlcM
are now healed by the Rofie Crucians onelyT
But this race is below theSeraphically illumi\
nated fraternity: now not a Pbyfician that ii
lined with Plufh in England, Spain, Get
many, or France , but hoi ds that Long-lij
Health, Youth , not attainable , th<

there

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therefore with one confent, amongft the
other four, call them impoilible.

3. But to come to the point ; what
wrong this was both to skill and nature,
they do eafily fee and laugh at, which
know that in this labour, they did not
only overfee and skip the Minerals, the
ftouteft helps in the whole ftore-houfe of
Nature ( although they could dig them
out well enough to other and worfer
ufes ) but alfo, which is in all, did let
the Rofie Crucian skill of preparing Medi-
cines, whereby weak thiags are made al-
mighty, quite efcape them.

4. Wherefore to make up the Rofie Cru-
cian Art of healings and to make it able
( as they fay ) to help and cure all difea-
fes came in, or rather went before, into
mans body 5 The Egyptians in great fa-
vour too with nature both for their foil
and bringing up, fo notably commen-
ded above all nation^ ( having for ex-
ample, to move and teach them even the
great wight of the world as Sir Ma Hey*
don faith ) for wits to devife, and bodies

i to put in praftice.

5; Whereby in fhort time they unfol-
ded the knot why the Minerals were of
jgreateft force and power againft difeafes;
!and foon after, which was a divine light*
'and in«fight, theyperceived the huge la-
Aa 3 bour

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boiir of feeking fuch a huge fort of Angles I
and mixtures to be vain and empty, and
pitiful among vyifemen.

6. Becaufe firft, there is nothing hurt* i
ful and a breeder of difeafe, but it hath I
the heal and remedy for the fame about !
him : For the wings and feet of Cantharidesy I
the Fruit of the Root Bezar, the Afhes of
Scorpions, Toads , and Vipers , andh
divers other ftronger poyfons, both by .
nature and skill dreft and prepared, doi
cure and heal their own and all other ^
Poyfons j nay as all ftronger likes dojfc-
cuie thejr likes throughout the wholel ,
world of difeafes, even fo when a many
hath found out a thing that hurts him,j i
he may by eafie skill mingle and break the i
temper of the fame further-, that is, makejJ
it able to eat up and confume it felf as j
eallly, without any further doubt, toil j
and labour; But especially becaufe there! j
is no one thing in the world, take what \
you will, that hath not the vertucsof the! J
Ttanets arefted and fattened upon it, audi I
alfo of the qualities thereof within it ftlfjl
that is not as good as all, and may fervejli
inftead of all, and that is not able to cure I
all difeafes ; which thing weighed, and!
with difcourfe of wit and reafon fully 1
reached, they went to practice, and byfji
she like (harpnefs of wit, they found our J:

the I

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the kindly and ready way to drefs and
make fie thefe three kinds of Medicines a-
forefaid, which contain all the Art of
healing 5 all the reft are but waft words
and grievous toyl, to tire a world of wits
about a bootlefs matter , as faith Dei
Cartes. But efpecially they refled in the
laft, which is enough alone, and yet not
without great forecaft, to chufe one of the
beft, and that the very beft of all, for
their eafe in dreflmg. Though Qr.Cufye-
per of late was not content with this, but
ran through the reft, afwell to fpight his
enemies, the Colledge of PbyfiGians, as to
make himfelf famous in laverm and Ale-
heufes, as Faracelfus in his time did : whofe
ftepsheftrove to follow againft the rule
ofRofie Crucian wifdom and vert ae , and the
example of his anceftors.

7. But hath every thing all the vertues
and influences taken from the Flanets and
Stars, by the Mocn, to the earth > Thatis,
all the curing and healing power of all
the things in the world .<? \ery well you
mult remember that I proved above all
the vertues and powers of heaven, pou-
red dc^m through the Influence of the
Moon upon thefe lower creatures, to'
be nothing elfe (as Cap George Wharton
truly faith ) but one felf fame life and
Soul ? and heavenly heat in all things,
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144 The Holy Guide. LiB-3*

lind again, that all difeafes flow from di- j
flemper, and as it were difcord of the Na-
tural confent of the body s then that 1
thing which is endued with ftore of life, j
and with exafr and temperatenefr, feated I
upon both a fubtile and ftrong body,
( which the thing in the bottom is ) able \
alone by fubduing his weaker enemies , j
thofe diftempered difeafes, by ftrengthe- j;
ning his fellow life, Aurum Potabile, in ji
in our bodies. And laftly , by orderly J
binding together the frame that was dipt
out of order , to do as much as all the i
powers and forces of all the Plants, \
Wights, and minerals in the world, that t
is, to put to flight all troubles of difeafes,
and reftore the body to perfett health and j
cjuietnefs.

8. But how is all this done > we talk
of high things, and huddle up too many
great matters together. It were good for
us to work them o ut diftin&ly h when this
Aurum Potabile we fpeak of, and ftrong j
tempered medicines, flip into th6 fto-i
mach, it ftaies no long digeftion, being
already digefted, nor looks for any ordi-
nary paflages to be opened unto it, but
asfoon asitisraifed out of fleep*by his
fellow*, the natural heat, by and by he
flyesout, and skours about, as fa ft as
she VQlfhine after his prey* or as nature

her

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her felf, whom Mr.lko.Heydon, as I cake it,
faith to pierce bounds , and all to the
purpofe, that is te feek his like food, and
fuftenance, whereby to preferve his ftate
and being, which is the purpofe of all
things in the world, as was faid above.

9. Now there is nothing fo like and
neeraperfeft temperature in the world,
as the Etherial firjt woifture in man ; but
what this is, you may read in my book
entituled Ventus Magnus*

10. Thisis beftand mod in the hearty
the root of life, then thither it hyeth and
preyeth upon that part fir ft, and that is
the caufe why it prefently reftoreth a man
half dead, and as it were, pulls him out
of the throat of death ; then it runs to
the reft all about , increafmg by that
meanes the natural heat, and firft moi-
fture of every part of the body 5 when
this is done, he turns upon the parts
themfelves, & by encountring with them
in the fame fort, according to his might,
upon them,and brings them a certain way
towards his own nature, even fo far as
we will byourufagefuffer > for if we cake
it with meafure and difcretion 9 it will
bring our body to a middle mean and
ftate, between his own exatt tempera-
ture, and the diftemper of difeafes, even
a better ftate then ever it had before 5 if

we

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we ufe it out of meafure, it takes us up
too high, and too near his own nature,
and makes us unmeet for the deeds of
the duties of an earthly life. But in the
mean while in the midft of this work, we
muft know that by his exceeding heat
and fubtlenefs which is gotten by Rofie
Crucian skill, and which makes up the
ftrength above all things, it divides and
Scatters, likefmqke before the wind, all
diftempered and hurtful things, and if
they cannot be reconciled and turned to
goodnefs , nature throwes them out as
dead and unfruitful leavings.

1 1 . But how do we talk Jo much of ex-
it ft and perf eft temper, when by the verdift
ofaIlthe^«e/r in thefe cafes there is no
fuch thing round in nature, but in heaven
only.? neither heard you me fay that it
floated aloft, to was fun\to thebottom of all
nature ; notwithstanding by a true and
Holy Rofie Crucian to be founded and
tveighed up. For as heaven was once a
grofsand diftempered lump ( as I told
you in my book of the nature and dignity of
Angels ) by the divine art of God that or-
dered all things ( as you have read in the
Introductory part of this book, ) refined
and fund red away round to the place and
nature where it now frandeth ; even fo
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apiece of the fame lump alfo, and all one
with that which Heaven once was, may
by the like art and cunning be refined
and parted from all his diftempered
drofs and foul droffinefs, and brought
into a Heavenly nature of the beft and
goodlieft thing in Heaven: And yet you
rnuft not take me as though I would have
themindand wit of man, which is but
a fpark of the divine gr^t mind, flfpake
in my book called Ventm Ingens ) to
be able to reach the excellency of his
work, and to make fo great perfection ;
i*fhe do but ftiadow it, and make a Coun-
terfeit, that is, if he reach not 10 far as
to make all things, but to mend a few by
this his Heaven, all is well, it is as much
as I can look for at the hand of any man
that is not a JLofie Crucian. Now is the
time to reft a little, and pray for the good
ufe and practice of thofe that (hall read
our Harmony of the World,

CHAP.

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CHAP. XVI.

1 . Of the Rofie Crucian Sun, 2 . or spiritual
Oyl. 3 . Of the Divine Works of God not
yet obferved. 4. How to makg Mther .
5 . Examples of Medicines Rofie Crucian
and Grecian. 6- OfPoyfon. j.Ofthefu-
pernatural Miracfes of the Rofie Crucians,
8. with obedience toReafon. p# Another
Medicine of fupernatural efefi. 10 .Of the
power and fecret skill of Nature, 11, How
to difiolve Minerals. 12. And how to pre-
pare them for Mens Bodies.

1. TTYUgenw IheodidaUus hath (hewed
: JE, you this Heaven , nay this Sun of
ours3which is nought elfe, as I told you in
one of my books of Aftrology, Hhelewi-
pie of W'ifdome> but an 0)1 fuU of heavenly
SpiritSyznd yet in quality of his body ;uft,
even and natural, fine and piercing, clofe
and lading , able as weil to rule this little
World , as Mr. Thomas Heydon faith , the
great Sun is able to govern the great
World.

2. But what is he that can fee this Di-
vine Art and Way3whereby God made his

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great and mighty work , viz. y&n3 as I
ftiewed in my Book, intituled, Mofes fpeech
to Go^upon the fecond chapter of Genefut
or if he (aw it, learn and match it by imi-
tation > 1 anfwer. None but Rofie Crucians
towhomIamafriend,and they God hath
enligh tned and unfealed their eyes , they
have found the way lying open in all pla-
ces , and in all Natural! changes , they fee
them pafleand travt),Ifay ftill,the courfe
that Mr. Thomas Heydon calls foft and wit-
ty, that is, kindly reparation : and if he
be not fwift and rain as many, fuch as Iho-
mas Street^ but will have fober patience,his
own skill and labour will be but little if he
pleafe 5 for Nature her felf very kindly
will in her due time perform all,and even
all that heavenly workmanmip be eafily
performed j and yet I mean not fo, but
that Art muft accompany and attend up-
on Nature (though with no great pains
and skill ) both forward and backward in
this Journey (Dc&or French knows my
meaning, fo^Joth Do&or Oweny if his an-
gry Cenfure will fuffer his Natural judge-
ment)until he come to his wiftied reft,and
to the top of all perfection.

3 . If you perceive not5confider the way
whereby we made our Mther in our Book
abovenaraed 9 and matched our own fir ft

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moifture,a thing JEtherialJ. fay,and almoft
Temperate-, mark what I fay, there is a
further end in the matter ', hold on the
lame means , whereby you came fo far
through The Wife mans Crown > and are
gone fo far in the Harmony of the World,
which is that I fpake of, and you may
reach it.

4. Then you fee the Way to ciire all
difeafes by the third way of Egyptian
healing, which they do, arid we may well
call it the Egyptians Heaven, and yet it is a
way far beneath the Rofie Crucian Art of
Healing, as we (hall (hew hereafter.

5. But if they will not yield to reafon,
but mutter ftiil Thomas SfwMike, that
thefe Heavenly Medicines of curs are ve-
ry high for the reach of mens filly wits,
here (bowed below upon the ground for
other leffer and bafer ufes , and that no'
man iince the firft man, or if I will fay
Mofes was the firft that firft found otit thefe
inventions3as they call them,after Adam ;
and that none but the Succ#fcrs of Mofs
have beeivever yet known to have found
and wrought the fame $ 1 will notftand to
beat Reafon into fn ch giddy-braind menj
but go to the other two wayes of healing,
which the Eg pt? arts found out and ufed,
and called thVfirtt Minen.lMedicines3and

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thefe Mofes taught the Children of Ifrael
in the valley of Mount Sinai , when hetoo\ the
Golden Calf which he had made, and calcined
it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and in-
corporated it with a Solar V eagle , and made
the children of Ifrael drink^ Aurum Pota-
bile.

6. And the next myfteries andfecrets,
as may appear by Riverius his fpeaking of
JLofie Crucian Secrets ,we may fitly call this
fecondkind, becaufe that is too large a
Name ^if it be lawful for us as well as for
all other Learned men, where a fit word
wants to make a newj wemaydowell, I
fay, to call it a Cure it felf, becaufe it is by
that way of healing, whereby every felf-
fame thing further broken may cujjAJjg:
felf y and this inward and hidden thmg,
as they fay, the outward and apparent by
the courfe cf kind, whereby the ftronger
like cats up in trial and confumes the
weaker.

7. If this leave be once granted,wewiil
borrow a Ijdjfcmore for the other two
likewife, became their names are not per-
tinent to our purpofe , and call that Hea-
ven 3. Cure all, for foit doth, and the next a
Cure the 6r^r,becaufe the Order of the Ro-
fie Crucians is alwayes to match the greater
wind more fiubborn fort of difeafes with

the

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the ftoutand mighty Minerals, and the
reft with thofe hidden cure-thenifefoes,or at
lead in the lower rank of lighter difeafes,
with their likes , only raw, as theCrtCians
ufe them, without any curious dreiling.

8. Let us draw nearer a concluhon of the
matter 5 becaufe Grecians themfelves are
able , and our Englijb Phyficians that learn
of them, to cure the lighter fort of difea-
fes, and to heal all but the four aforefaid,
we will leave the reft for them , and fo lee
this fecond kind of healing go, called our
bidden cure themfelves^nd bend all our bat-
teries againft thefe four, which they call
incurable , and fee how by force of our
Mineral Medicines they may be cured :
Wft^ce the poyfoned fpirits and breaths of
vCTfomous things, with what force they
work upon our bodies, things in Nature
fet againft them , and how they confume
them 5 If you do not fee by imagination,
reafon with your felves; if not, remember
thofe above named, that killed with their
right ; Hear one or two flttfre that work
the fame by touch as violently. The Hare*
fijk3& moft cold and dry Creaturef to omit
that (he maketh a mans head ake by fight)
if you touch her aloof only with a ftafle,
that her venomous breath may go ftreight
and round unto you , you die prefently.

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The root Baazam'm Palejlme, zzVythagorai
prices, kills the man thac handleth ity and
therefore they ufed to make a Dog pull it
up, who thereby died immediately. To
come into the body 5 that cojUy poyfon thac
is in Nubia , and one grain kills a man out
of hand,yec flay but a quarter of an hours
working, and that one grain divided will
overcome ten men 5 1 hope you doubt not
but thefe mighty poyfons, if they were
like in Nature to the four great Difeafes,
and by little and little to be born byNa-
cure, and fet upon chem, would be able
ealily, by their great ftrengch, to devour
& confume them ; orelfe Cure fuch heaps
of poyfonas the Phyficians give us would
not dwell fo long within us , but would
put ouc life in a moment. Now what arc
thefe poyfdned Vapours, but moft cold
and dry bodies , wrougbc and broken up
by natural mingling , unio greac finenefs
and fubtilenefs , by this peircing (wifely
all about, andby thefe contrary qualities
overcoming > Then let us take the ftouteft
Minerals, fuch as are called Middle Minerals
by Rofie Crucians, or hard Juices (to leave
:he Metals for a becrer purpofe ) be they
poyfons,as G. Agricola (zith^but whacthey
3e I care not ■> and after we have by meer
working cleanfed chem,and ftripped them
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of their clogs and hinderances , broken
and raifed them to a fine fubftance , then
match them with their hkes, the hurtful
things in our bodies, (hall they not let all
the reft alone, and ftraightway cleave to
their fellows, as well as a purging Medi-
cine,and fo devour and draw them out by
little and little? If there be no likes, I
grant they will as well as that, fall upon
their enemies,or good juices, and feed up-
on them.

9; 1 hen what do you doubt , is not a
Mineral body far better? And therefore
if it be raifed to as great a finenefs,much
ftronger in working then the gentleand
loofe temper of a Wight or Plant : where-
fore thefe our Mineral Medicines, and
fome other forementioned Medicines, and
Cure the greats as we call them,fhall in any
reafon work more violently upon their
likes, then the natural poyfonsof Wights
and Plants do upon their contraries3both
becaufe the like doth more eaiily yield
then the contrary,and forJthat the lighter
here is theftronger.

10. .But if you cannot fee thefe things
by the light of the mind, open your eyes,
and caft them a little into the School of
Akhimy^ into the lefTer and lower School, I
I mean of Germans , and you (hall fee the

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Schollars, efpecially the Matters, by Grip-
ping the Minerals , and lifting up their
properties, but a few degrees , to work
wonders j as to name three; or four , by
quenching the Loadftone in the oyl of
Iron, his proper food, they make him ten
times ftronger,able to pull a nail out of a
poft , &c. And by this natural pattern
they make Artificial drawers , not for
Iron only, but for all other things, yea,
and fome fo mighty3as they will lift up an
Oxe from the ground, and rent the Arm
of a Tree from the Body , as Mr. Comer
doth witnefs , who reporteth again, that
hefaw a Fiefh-drawer that pulled up one
hundred weight of Fle(h?and a Mans Eye
out of his Head,and his Lights up into his
Throat, and choafyd him. They make
Binders alfo to glew two pieces of Iron toge-
ther, as faft as the Smith can joyn them.
To be fhort , they make Eaters alfo , that
will confume Ir on, ftones, or any hard thing,
to nought in a moment : They diflblve
Gold into an Oyle 5 they fix Mercury with
the fmoak^ of Brimftone, and make many
rare devifes of it : And all thefe wonders,
and many more, they do by certain rea-
fonj 1 could tell you if I couldftand fi-
fe ut it. In the mean time coniider, if
ithefe or any ether fitch like Minerals were
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raifed higher , and led to the top of their
finenefs and fubtlenefs, and matched with
their like Cbmpanions^or with their Con-
traries,if you will, thofe great Difeafes in i
our Bodies , what ftirrs they would make
among them, how eafily they would hew j
them, pierce, divide, wafte, and confume j
them? But youmuft alwayeshave afpe-i
cial regard, that the Medicines be not liker
our natures, then the nature of the thing!
that hurts us, for then they would firftj
fall upon us, and let the Difeafes alone 1
which heed is eafily taken in Minerals,
things very far off our nature , faith Des\
Cartes.

And with thefe Experiences of thej
wonderful vertue of the oyl and water
of Tobacco, Wife men I have known doj
Miracles with it, but the fmoak of it is the!
abhorredft thing in the world.

ii. What is to be faid more in thefe
matters > I think nothing, unlefs through;
the countenance of an idle opinion that
reigns among them , they dare flye to the!
laft, and of all other the moft (lender fhel«
ter, and deny our ability to break, tame
and handle as we lift, fuch ftout and ftub-;
born bodies : (what) becaufe you know
not how to do it, will you faftiion all men
by your mould 1 Wife men would firft

look

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look into the power and ftrength of skill
a nd nature3and fee what they can do, and
aieafure it thereby, and not by their own.
weaknefs ; there fhall you underftand,
that there is nothing in nature fo ftrong
and ftubborn, but it hath its match at
Ieaft, if not his over-match in Nature,
fuch is the nature of Mans body, of his
Souls , of fignatures of Plants, of Met-
tals, and Minerals, and other things al-
fo.

12. But admit fomewhat weaker, as
Herbs and Plants, &c. yet this , if he gee
the help of a Wife mans Art unto him,
(hall quickly wax great, and mend in
ftrength, and beableeafily to overcome
that other : Mark how the dregs of Vine-
gar, a thing fprung out from a weak be-
ginning, and it felf as weak as water, is
able, if it be but once diftilled, to make
ftouter things then Minerals , even Metals
themfelves, all but Silver and Gold, to
yield and melt down to4iis own waterifh
nature,nay which is more,then Mill-dew of
Heaven, wrought firft by the £tt, thatcun-
i ning Beaft,and then twice or thrice by the
i Diftillers diftilled will do the fame , you,
■ may judge with your felf, whatnot only
i thefe,but other fiercer and (harper things,
as Salts, &c. more like to do upon Mine*
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ralsj and by the way confider, if fuch
mild things as Wine and Honey, fo mean-
ly prepared, are able to fubdue in that
fort the moil ftiffe and tough things in the
World, fo Minerals cheaper then Aurum
fotabile, in their higheft degree of dignity
would cure the ftouteft Difeafe (being
prepared fitly-) that can grow in our bo-
dies. Now let us fit and take our reft a
little , and then we will lead you the way
to the golden treafuresof Nature, and
fafe, eafie and effectual Medicines.

CHAP,

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CHAP. XVII.

How the Rode Crucians mak$ aChirur-
geons Inftrument, 2. that it Jhall pierce
through any part of the whole body, without
fenfe or feeling , and found the depth of a
Wound, 3. The difference of Common
Tbyfitians,raw, blunt, and herb) Medicines,
and Roiie Crucians : 4. What a Pby~
fician ought to be. 5. what they ought to
learn, 6. and what they ought to Pra*
ft*.

1. TyUt I wear away time in vain, to
IJ fpeakfo much about this matter;
and yet fith all are not of like Capacity,
I will add one yet familiar examples when
a Chirurgeon goeth about to fearch a
Wound that is deep, if he thruft at it
with a Butchers prick he would move
Laughter, let him take a Thorn , and it
will pierce fomewhat prettily ; but to do
itthroughly , and at hispleafure he will
ufe (though to the great grief of his Pa-
tient ) a fine and long Inftrument of
metal. But a right Chhurgion (the
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common ones are but Butchers ) fuch a
one as is aVbyficiaKy and Aftrologer , nay a;
liofie Crucian Mo, would touch his Inftru-1
merit with a Loaftone, that is commonly]
found , to make it pierce throughout thel
body without all tenCe or feeling : Even!
€0 good FhyficiaWy fuch as thefe, are hardpi
to be found in this Government , wherei
none of thefecan live without great en-r
vie. If one of thefe~Ko/i> Crucians be to,
encounter with our greateft enemies a
thefe four we fpeak of 5 he would 'not, 1
hope, if he were a true Rofie Crucian, be foil
mad as to thruft attheniwith the raw and 1
blunt Herby Medicines , fuch as Dottor
Scarborough prefcribes, no nor although
they be fharpened by Mr. Jacob Hejdon, by!
plain diftillations: neither would he, I
think,for pitty fting the poor Patient with 1
Martyrdome of rude and rank Minerals,
and unlefs they were made into a fine,
clean, natural, and temperate quality,!
which would work mightily, anddeftroy
either of thefe four great Difeafes , Lepro-
fie, Gout^Vropfie, and F 'ailing- feckpefs: buc
fecdy comfort, or at leaft not offend and
hurt his Patient ; they labour in vain that
pra&ife otherwise. Thefe are the Medi-
cines which 1 only ufe, and which a good
and wife Phyfician ought only to feek and

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Lib. 3. The Holy Guide. 16*

follow,and if lie cannoc find it,let him life
the Cure themselves. Bur fucha thing as
this,lfay , brought to this equality and
finenefs of frame and temper, (were it at
the firft, Wizht-> Plant, or Mineral) was it
which our father and founder Mofes (the
chief of the Rofie Crofs) faid, is like to
Heaven, and the ftrength of all ftrengths,
piercing and fubdiiing all things.

2. This was it that warranted his Sons
the Rofie Crucians to avow fo {lonely, that
Art was long,and Life fhort,Jand all Difea-
fes curable 5 when Hippocrates, the father of
common Yhjficians , was driven by the infir-
mity and endlefs matter of his weak bo-
dy and envious mind, tm&ured with Co-
vetoufnefs and fickle Medicines, to cry to
Rofie Crucians , but they woiild not hear
fuch hard-hearted fellows, nor give him
long life ; he faid therefore , that Art was
long, and life was fhort. And whereas he
and his off- fp ring were fain to leave ma-
ny difeafed helplefs, to the great fhame of
Art,and plague of Mankind,is it any mar-
vel when as they prick at them (as 1 faid J
with a Butchers-prick? Nay, fee what
they do by their practice, they be fo far
from all help and comfort to the Patient
in greateft danger, that they increafe his
mifery many wayes, except the great Ea-

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fer of all pain , and their common Medi-
cine Death, be quickly adminiftred : Firft,
they make the Patient fuffer the puniftr
ment due to their own flothfnl idlenefs,
burdening his ftomack with that labour
of loofening and hindering the Fine from
theGrofs, which they mould before have
taken into their GlaJJes : and then by do-
ing thefe often , they clean tire his feeble
Nature ( as it would tire a Horte ) when
as by ftripping the foul and grofs ftuffe,
that dulls the working, and retaining the
Vertue in a narrow ftrong body, they
might do as much at onetime as they do
now in twenty ; and becaufe their Medi-
cines applied are of fmaller power and
weaker then the things that hurt us, they
feed, nourifhand ftrengthen the Difeafe
and ficknefs } but for all this , if fome of
this company and fide of Leaches have
been and are yet fometimes able to heal
all Difeafes in our body ( though with
much ado, as you have heard J fave the
four named remedilefs, yea and thofeas
well in their fpring as before their ripe-
nefs, as they themfelves report. Is there
any Proportion in Geometry ? Let the Colledge
of Fhyficians lay meafures why the Rojie
Crucian mighty Medicines , which I call Cure
the Gnr/rt^pailing thefe in power, as much at

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the ripenefs of a difeafe U above the Spring,
(hall not overmatch the ripe as well as the
green Difeafes : Wherefore there be no
doubts left, but this plainly true, that al-
beit the Grecians are weak and halting in
this kind of healing, yet is the Egyptian^
(as now they term it ) the Paracelfian and
Mineral skill fufficient to cure all difeafes :
Then I have paid the whole fum of my
promife, touching the fecond means and
helps tc Happinefs , [Knowledge of all
things paft, prefent^ and to come, long
Life, Health, Youth,Riches, Wifdomeand
Vertue, how to change and amend all
Difeafes in young or old by Rofie Crucian
Medicines, which is Life and Health.

3 . Before I clofe , I think it very meet,
while the time and place very fitly fer-
veth,to do a good deed , and this (hall be
my intent , to admonifh and exhort the
Grecian Leaches, and their Schollars, the
Englifh, Spanilb, and French Phyficians,
whom if they follow Hippocrates , Plato J
Vythagoraty and his felfows, 1 love for their
Learning , and pitty for their mifleading
others, (although it be grievousj Tknow
too old Scholars,woneinakind of Learn-
ing, to unlearn all, as it were, and begin
again,for their own credit and virtue,yea,

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and profit fakealfo, if they eiteern that
be ft 5 to eave thofe 'gilded Pills and fugred
Baits^nd all other crafty Snares, wherewith
the World hath been To long caught, and
fo long tormented, and to feek this only
heavenly Society 5 'as (to you that are
learned j eafily may temper" your felve?*
and be acquainted with the ready, true,
plain and certain way of healing Difeafes.
I think in former time they were not great-
ly to be blamed and accufed but of dul-
nefs and weaknefs of underflanding , in
not applying and feeing this perfection,
and Supplying of all their wants 5 but
fince they have been fo often warned, not
with words only, but with examples of
Learned meriyMatbeolus Femelm^ Severinus
Uanw, PhiloJud£US, Uiodorus Siculus, and
other fuch like, which have and do revolt,
and flie away from them daily,yea and by
the certain deeds of Paracelfa , it were
impiety to fit ftill : Well, few words will
ferve to wife and vertuous Phy ficians,fuch
as are of themfeivcs forward.

4. But there is another , and I am a-
fraid, the greater fort, lefshonefl", more
idle and covetous,full of windy pride and
words , but empty of all good learning,
and they are no friends to Rofie Crucians,

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nor they to them , and thefeno gentle
warning of any, no though a Kofie Crucian
himfelf (hould come and bring Iruxh her
felf along with him in perfon, would pre-
vail ; who care not5 it feemsj if half man-
kind fhould perifh for want of help and
fuccour , rather then loofe their gains •,
and which not only fpeak foully,but write
foolifhly 3 againft this overflourifhing ver-
tue, but alfo like the giddy people of my
time, where they oatch the State, banifh
the men that hold and poflefs it j where-
as if it were a good Commonwealth
(quoth Arifiotle) the matter would be fo
far from Bani foment or Jnifrifomnent^s they
would efteem fuch a Wan as well as the
Laws (Tor he is himfelf a LawJ exempt
from all obedience and judge him wor-
thy to be followed and obeyed as a jfwjf-
tualKing.

5. This untowardnefs andcrookednef*
in men,caufed all our AH healing Anceftcrs
the Kofie Crucians, from time to time, ne
ver to abide their Sentence, but to th s
great hurt and lofs of mankind, go into
willing Banijbment, you have eftablifhed a
kind of Government among you (to pur-

fue the fame, like a little ) wherein

you rule alone over the weak andforry

fub-

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fubjetts of mens Bodies,then their health
and fafety you ought to feek only, befldes
enough to maintain a contented eftate
alfo, which VUto allows his Governours,
and not profit only fthat were Tyranny J
both for humanity and Religion fake 5 for
to omit Religion , which they do lightly
omit, if a Phyfitian begin once to make a
prey of men, he is not only no man, but a
moit fierce and cruel Beaft , not fit to be
compared and matched any whereof you
feek all over the world, as with themifha-
pen Monfter of India- , which Arifiotle de-
scribes, and calls Martichora^ which being
by nature or cuftom, 1 know not whether,
xevy greedy upon mans flelh, is with ma-
nifold and wonderful helps furnifiied and
armed unto it.

6. Firft with a face like a Man , a voice
like a Trumpet , two fit things to allure
and call him in, and then if heflye,with
the fwiftnefs of an Hart to overtake him 5
he darts like a Porcupine, to wound him
afar off, and withthetail of a Scorpion,
as it were, a poyfoned fhaft near-hand to
ftinghim : Furthermore,leftall this might
not ferve,by occaiion of Armour, he hath
feet like a Lion , fiercely and cruelly to
tear him, and three rows of teeth on each

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chap for the in devouring. Apply you
and the Apothecaries the reft your (elves,
in fecret, for my part, as I am not a Rofie
Crucianfolam as well as they forry to fee
evil done. And I am loath to (peak evil
or it j and fure were not the great, grief
and envy 1 do bear, and alwayes did , to
fee deferc trodden down by fuch unwor-
thinefs , and fome little hopes I have to
hear of the amendment, andfo of the
return of the Truth, and good Men out
of banimment and imprifonment , you
fhould have found me in lFe]lmin[ier-Hatiy
as I have been an Attourney in Term
time, and mean to continue my pra&ife
there fo long as I live, except in the Vaca-
tion , which I intend to fpendin Chimical
and Re fie Crucian Medicines, for the good
of honeft plain meaning men : As you
(hall find in the fift Book, after we have
proved, the way toHappinefs, the way to
know all things pafr,prefent5and to come,
the way to long Life 3 the way to Health,
the way to wax Young, and to conti-
nue fo, the way to Bledednefs , the way
to Wifdome and Vercue , the way co
cure, alter and amend the (rate of the
Body; the way to find out the Golden
Treafures of Nature and Art, and the
way to prepare Rofie Crucian Medicines ,

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their ufe and vertue* they being fafe3
eafie, experienced, and effectual Rules
and Receits, andfuch, as whofoeverpius
inpraftifc (hall find true, to the Glory of
God, delight of his Soul 5 and cure of
his Body.

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l. . — — ■ - ■ ■ '■ m

CHAP. XVII.

T^he way to waxyong.

1. Old Age, gray Heirs, dim Eyes, deaf Ear ft
rottm Teeth , and lame bones renewed to
flrengtb and youth-,] ohn AKcklcini example
and others : 2. The Reafm : 3. What makes
its young and puriflnn'g: 4. Of cherifbing
life : 5. Why children and old foll^ are
lefs Atlive : 6. The decay 0} the food of life;
7. Example, of renewed youth : 8. Why
Princes are not long lived: 9, To freferve
you: 10. Of Br achmans and Indian fecrets :
ii.TheftayoftheLawofkjnd: 12. The
frfi moiflure in Nature: 13. Motion :
14. Heat: 15. How to move the ffirits :
i 6. Fruitfulnefs and Activity ; 17. Of
Frosl : 18- Of youth: 19. Kinds of wax*
ingyong: 20. Various opinious : 2 1- Strange
1 changes: 22. To ff ring to youth from Age :
\ 23. Medea and fafon : 24. 0/ the Deeds
\ of Nature : 25. Ma« reftored . 26. Tore"
new the $kin, nailes and hair : 27. (?f orvfcr
in youth : 28. T^tft <m o/</ man may he fa-
fc* as it were from ihe brink, of the grave %
withered, feeble and crooked, and ledbacj^
i d bis former youth and lufiinefs: 29. Acls of
Kinde: 30, An old woman turned into a man
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and af other things : '3 1. How to accomflim
tbeje things.

1. T TQwbeit we live long and in health, I
XjLoi-e bodice be weak and unwcildy J
it is in age, it muft needs let & clog us mucl
in this happy racc;whereforc the third ftel
andhelptoHe^/f/;, that in >outh was ncj
idle;, nay out of order isyouJh; what thel
is youth? they know beft that have loft it|
It it the moji Afiive, Fruit full, andbeautifull \
ffate of the body, thefc be the marks and dil
ferences, whereby we may know it from a
things elfc- I mean a&ivity, not in deeds
moving only,but of life and fence a!fo3 th
is it which makes up the Nature of youth
the other two marks are taken in, not
. need full helps, cither to youth or health an
fuch as may not be (pared (efpecially beat
ty)but becaufe they be very notable mark)
to know youth by ; and that as we hear
of true honour and pleafurc abovc,fothe
will alfo perforce hang on and follov
though they be unlooked for and unrega;
dcd.

2. Then this is the matter under hand i
this place; this we muft prove pofllble to h
kept and prcferved to our lives endjyca an
though it were loft before, that it may 1
gotnen again and rcftored; and yet, fir ft, s
our naturall heat is the caufc of our ircinj

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Co thecaufe of our bed cftate; and youth 11
the flower of it, that, h his chief ftrcngdi
and quickneflc. Then keep and recover
this, and all is done.

3. But we had need be Cure of this, that
the novv^er of heat makes us young and flou-
rishing and fure by proof and cxpcricnce,the
belt niTu ranee in the World : let 11s look
all over and we (hall fiV* -ie ic fo; for to begin
wit- Pi ants; although their life is dark, and'
they be but la 1 e and unpcrfeci wights, See
wy Harmony of the lVcrld(ioi Plato give s them
fence) So clearly jellow the qukkpejfc anddul-
n?ffe of their imbred beat^ caufed by she two fea*
font affummer ajid winter , as appears in In-
dia 9 where for the continual heat and
moyfturc and fummer of the Country >
no plant feels age y or fail o\ the k.af\ that
word \% Idle in ihofc parts, becaufe by a
flrange ptopeny btiides the reft, it hath
it range cooling above the reft , (lauding in
water -firftjand then iome what dceply/from

1 the Summer fun. Nay an.ongit m we fee
thofc Plants which are hot and -dry, found
and hardy* able to witMand the force of
cold3to keep their leaves in winter, as Hcllh
Ivy>Brjxy&c.

4. Moreover keep off the ftarving cold,
andchcrrifli the life wkhin, and you may
help and amend Nature, and mafee any
Plant flouriin aud bear fruit in winter; bow

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tyi 7 he Holy Guide. Lib. 5

jithatt but an cafy matter : Plant ic ift a
flove, and cover the root with Horfe dung,
and the reft with chaff, and you fha 1 fe? the
proof, if not the profit worth the coft and
travail. The fame is feen in beafts, but
Jet us leave the middle that we come not to
the end too late.

5. Then why arc Children and old folk
lcfle atVvejfruitfull and beautifull, then the
middle fort, but for want cf heat? for let
the/wmmerfirft dry usj Galen faith and that
beforcthe birth as 1 fhewed,be great there in
ftore, bulk & cjuant!ty,becaufe it waxcth &
wancth fiill with his food, our flrft rnoifture
and this from thence decayeth dailyj yet
his quality , ftrcngth and activity, which
jnaketh him worthy of the name of hf at, is
then little, as overmuch drowned with o-
vermuch forraign and ftrange wctnefTe.
(Like as we fee in a green fagoO unable to
work his will, and fhew himfelf, either to
knot the finruws for ftrength, or conco& the
blood for food, and coolor before the for-
raign moifhire be fpent and gone, which is
not in longtime : The caufc I have proved
in my Temfle of Wifdovje.

Now (or o}d folk what is fo clear as this,
that by re*afon of the daily decay of the food
of life, the fainting heat lets the Knot of
ftrength andluftincflc flack and loofc again,
and the conqpAion and colour of blood,

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which before made feed and beauty, to de*
dine and grow to waterifknefler in fick
rocn and women for the fame caufe 5 and'
albeit women hive their feed, yvt isitnet
hot and quickningfe-d, but as dad fluff
only fit co rea ivc life and frm'ton; and ad-
roit they be more faire and fmootb then
mm, which are hotter, it comes by chmce
becaufe the foul leaving', the fremifh of
bejuty, by the force of manly hcac are dri-
ven outwards, when the flacknefle of the
heat of woffisn furTersto remain within,
and turn into menftrucS, a ihing more grie-
vous and noyfome in truth then beauty is
ddighefome. And therefore Anftotk very
well calls her a weak man ; snd he makes
the male in all kindes to be that which is
able to concoft the blood; and that which
is not, the female. Then if it be cleared of
all doubt, that the chief ftrcngth of heat is
the caufe of the flow«r of age and youth,
and nothing elfe in the world; let us
take and flick to the mater , and fee
how it may be maintained firft;and then re-
ftored.

7, 1 will not urge the way of upholding
heat in Plants above faid , nor yet this wit-
Dcffcof the German who hath found out
means for the fame, both in Plants and
wights, as he teachcth in his high opinions^
aor yet make account of thofc examples ,
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which by courfe of nature and good order
oflife have done wcl1, and dr.twn n arto
this matter : a? of Lucius the player, who.
pronounced upon the ftageat Rome en hun-
dred years tog^thtr, nor of Cxntliw who
bare Silurn'vie the Conful after fixty two
years-, nor yet of King Mafimjfa , who a-
bout ninty get a child, a^id ever travailed
both in fro ft and (now barerraied, and
fiich other like, marked with figncs of long
continue! life and lufnmlTK 1 will come
to the point at once. F liny' (Tuch an Au-
thor) repor:e:hthat the whole nation of
indux livelb long free from all dijeajes, well
nigh two hundred years without any grief
of Body, not once touched with ake of
head, teeth, or eyes, nor trouSlcd with fpic-
ting, all the great companions (as w; fee J
of age 3 that we may gath<r by likely
£ueffes when they know not the com-
panions , the thing it felf as unknown
unto them; but what needs any gutding
when the fame man for certain and in plain
rermes atfureth us, that in that part of India
where the Sun being their Zenith, that is
right over their heads, cafting no fhaddow, |
the men are five Cubits and two bandjulls high,
and live one hundred and thirty years,never
waxing old, and being when they dye, as in
their middle age and chief ftrength & lufti-
heffi? what need more wprds? If this re-
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pore be true, as we may not eafily do ubc of
fuch an Authoiy hen fure thia matter is not
impofllble, as th-y would have it ; but all
men if they livzd in fuchan aire, and took
fo good a care of life as I difcribed (I mull
'fiill fly to that fuccour) might preferve their
youth, and never wax old untill that term and
ftint of life appointed;or if this kinde of teach-
ing be now fome what fhle, yet bt arc with
my meaning, and yet perhaps fome other
means may be found for the matter, in the
ftorehoufe of skill and cunning; let us fee,
much more briefly then we have done before,
becaufe this part is already well nigh dif-
patchedj fo ftraightis the link of all thole
helps, that one can fcarce be loofened
without the reft, and all muft go together^
8. Then what means may we findc?whafi
preferveth this natural & heavenly heat of
ours? that common people take hot meats
& drinks, & think that thefe preferve heat &
nature, as (imply as if a man (houldput lime
totherootofatree which he loved % for as this
baftneth the fruit withheat,but kjls tbeftockmtb
drought y&foa^etb up the lively juyce &my(lure:
Co in them their hot meats out of kinde,laid
to the root of life, quicken and ftir up the
fpirits, thefruic of life, forafcafon; but
withall underftand, drink it up & wafte the
firftmoiftive, that is, the whole ftock of na-
ture \ and fo by fofening thus the hardnefs
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of agejas ic Wire Iron in the fire, they make
Ic feem for a time youthfull, and livrly, yec
is h but a vain and emp:y ftuw and fhaddo w;
and as iron when it comes out of the fire, is
theharder; fo they make their agemore
unweildy, and draw ic on the fafltr by chat
means, and that is the very caufe, together
wiihcare and pleafure, why princes and «;-
tles, bydryingup their bodies in that fort, live
mtfo long for the wo{l part, nor in fo'good health
as other folk$,and depart efpecially atfuch lintel
(iftbzrepsrt be irwe) as tbofe bufbtd Starrs caU
led Commits , appear; B caufe whether ic
be a ftedfaft Starr, or an Elem*ntall flame, (I
am not to difpute fuch queftions here J it is
not to be feen in a very fine and dry wea-
ther which confames dry bodies, and (ends
them packing; and betides, (though it be
beftdes my purpofe,*)turns good humors in-
to (cum called Cboler, caufe of Broyles and
fedition; and fo making,as we fee, the bum
Starr3 a plain figne of both thofe matters,
buc caufe of neither : As you may read in
our Harmony of the World, lib. 2,

9. What then prefervceh heat ? learned
men have brought in certain fine fat and ai-
ry meats,as Batter, 0;/?, andHony^nd com-
mended them for very great helps & mean*
toprtferwe/i/e and ywtb,{ior both are done
by one Way, and under one} but efpecially
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above the rtft, for cat the B*f, that lictlo
cold & blooditffcbeaft, by r^afon it is boih
made of 5 and fed with the fame, Hveth (o
Jong above ihe kindeof parted wighes, even
eight year? as they report; and b caufe
Manna the famous nourifher unto man, 13
nothing elfe but a dew conco&ed in hoc
Countries, by the heat of Heaven in ftead of
ciie Bee, and for fuch like caufts too long to
bs told in to (horc a race of fpeech as I have
throughout appointed. But thefe men are
wide as well, though not as the former; for
if you remember well, when we fpakeof
things that preferved life, (which is no-
thing, elfe as Thomas Hey don haih faid, but
Heat, there were found oncly two be-
longing to the ufe;i/i2. meat and exercife,
and that to ht paflc exercife, although the
finer brenh of the outward Aire of our
meat may fcrve the Mtberial Spirits, which
carritih life as ivel upward as downwards;
fee my Tew fie of VVifdome; yet our Heaven-
ly muft have finer food, an JEtberialbody
which is ready and at hand3 nowhere in
nature fave in our firft moifture ; then this
fat & airy meat of theirs, may help to leng-
then life, and youth indeed; but not di-
re&ly by feeding life and maintaining the
firft moifture, but by another by-way pro-
curing health and foundncfle, (for ficknefr

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and difcafes bring age and death a pace)
and this is, becaufe lor their great ciean-
neflf, whereunto they be wrought by na^
tureandArt together, they neither breed
( a* other meats do ) many drofly di-
feafes , nor flop the lives and heats free paf-
fage.

30. Sith then there is nothing in the
worldjWithin the compaiTe of our reach,able
to maintain and nouriih heat, but it mud
needs faint and wane daily with ourfirll
rnoifture; how falls it out, fay you, that
thofe Indians fo kept their youth , without
vvaxing old, as we heard out of Pliny > I
cannot tell, unlcfle the Sun, for that great
and familiar acquaintance fake, hath favou-
red and blefled them above all people, and
brought down /Ether, and given it them
to nourifh them; for their foyle and feate,
becaufe it lyeth right under the Sunns
walk and travail , is not through extream
heat unhabitable, ( as Thomas Street
fondly fuppofcth ) but of other the beft
and moft temperate, by rcafon that extream
heat of heaven is moft equally anfwered,
andjuftly tempered with cokl and moy-
ftureofthe ground propoitionable, which
thing they knew not, becaufe their eyes
were let to high to fee the lower caufe and
courfe of nature,moft plain & certain. For
God when he meant to make our change-
able

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able worid here below, by a wonderful!
fortfigmed wifdome , flirted the Sun with-
in thofe known bounds, the North and South
turns (which tlvy call Trapicfy) leaftwhen
he had run round about, he (hould have
worneand w^flcdit everywhere alike, and
rn^deit fmooth and even in all places; and
fo al either 3 dry ground or a (landing poole,
both unfit for the variety of change which
he mear t to fee play before him-, but now ha
is fo curbed and retrained within thofe
bounds atorefaid, he can wearethe ground
no further then his force can reach, nor any
otherwHc then as his force fervtth-, fo that
the earth muft needs be moftworne and wa-
fted, where it Iyeth within the compafle of
h;s walke; and fo rile by little and littleDon
both fides without the Turns,untill it come
to the top and higheft pitch, where it is fur-
theft off, that is under th? two pins (which
they call Poles) of the world. Then heare
for the coldnefle, the earth is fit to thicken
the aire and breed water, and for the bene
and falling to fend it down to the midft and
lowed: part; wherebv the great ftrengthof
heat is drawn upon heaps and in great
plenty; and for this caufe and the length of
thepigh'.s, it cannot fcattcr abroad, and
vanim away to nought, but thickens a pace,
and falls again abundantly^ raining three
or fourc times a day. Whereby we may

l8o the Holy Gride, Lib- 3.

Judge, that this middle girdle wherein we
inhabite, canro: be fo broyhd and unfuf-
ferable as our Starr- mm avow, but in all
reafonverymilde and temperate; 8c chink
that as the Sun meant to favour al! parte as
much as might be, fo chiefly and above all
thatfasreafon, yea and necifluy bound
him) wiih which he is beft acquaictedjand
as this is certain (by report of all Authors)
in all other things, ya and in men touch-
ing all other gifts and blefllngs, fo we ma/
gutffe this one which we have in band,
Wis not flipt and left out in (o large a char-
ter.

11. But for all this, and in good fadneft
(w«havebuc argued hhherto,it isnocgood
to feck to difpence againft the lofs of na-
ture, and it were better to dtferedit Vliny
the reporter, (though be he never fo good
an Author J then Nature her fclf the Au-
thor of all things ; for this ftory is fet a-
gainft the whole courfc and drift of nature
whofe works as they be not woven and
made up at once , fo they decay and weare
away by little and little: and therefore ad-
mit thefe men of India by fpeciall licence
from above, dobearcage frefh and young
a long time, in refpeft of other Nations;
Yet we muft in no wife think this is fore-
ver and not for death; asP/iw; faith,for then
they fhould not dy and depart as other men

do.

Lib. 5. The Holy Guide. 181

do3 natural Jy, which is when age creeping
on and changing by little and little, is at
Juftmsde ripe znd falling; but rather by
iome fuddain force be taken, and at ic were
delivered by and by to I knovv not what
hang-man among the delinks, to be cut off
and put to death by violenc^but Vfhac force
can that be > nay I affaire you further that
if the ftroak of fickneffe and difeafes were a-
way (a? faith he, it is almoft ) they might
live for ever; another breach of the never
broken laws of kinde.

1 2; Wherefore let this ftory go. and letm
hold this rule for cercain, that by reafon
there is no other food for naturall heat c-
pen in kirtdc, but our firft moyfture,which
becaufe for want of fupply, it likewife wa-
ficth daily, yout h rauft needs by nature fall
away and cannot lafl for ever. And yet we
muft alfo(to come to the purpofej remem-
ber how it was full often above proved,tbat
fuch a free fupply of due food for life were
to be made byski!,and fctchtoutofthebot-
tome of nature and all things by the Divine
Art of Homes. Wherefore to avoid the jar
and ill found of our often beating upon one
thing, our Pantarva. and heaven above de-
clared, is it that feeds our heat, that hol-
deth and prefcrveth 1m\h\ that is ic I fay
that doth the deed, for manycaufes fet down
before 5 1 will fend them that come "not hi-
ther

182 The Holy Guide. L1E.3.

therthc right w*y back again totakca;!
before them.

13. But there is another thing; motion I
fiiean, and that helps to bear up the ftate of
life and hear, whieh I (cant touched in my
difcourfc of Phyfick there, and yet it (houlJ
be handled ; becaufe although ic be not (o
needfuli as the formerly et it cannot in any
cafe be wanting; for as Mar -tiallfeofle like
unto A/aa fas we term it) and valour it Clf
lofeth his glory and brightneffr in peace
and quia nttfe, asyou may read at large
in our Idea of the Laiv ^Governments and Ty-
ranny, the fecond Edition; fo this heat that
rules our body,though it be never (o fb: on£
andlufty, y*t it cannot fofoonrtft, as it
decays and as it were rufts wiih Idlentdc ,
nay the bedy it felf being as I {hewed abovejan
Airy and Fiery temperature^ muft needs have
quick motion, as one of the two pillars of
his ftate; and therefore Tlato by the example
of the greafi world , very well advifeth us
ftill to move both body and minde,and that
together^ v*c mean to have them long con-
tinue. And we finde his Counfell good by
daily proof , when we fee thofe that move
the memory mod, as wife and learned men,
do hold itlongeft,but becaufe thfy do not
forthemoft part ex^rcife their bodies, to
lofe that quality: Whereas quite contra-
ry the common fort, by rcafon they move

dius

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this much , and that other litle, arc a great
while in body lufty, when their memory is
gone as quickly.

14. How moving increafcth heat, it appea-
red* in all p!aecS}firft in the Spring of al hcae
the Sun above , which could in no wife
fervc to ftretch fo far as to heat half the
world at once , if thofe huge heaps of hea-
venly beams and fpirits did not help him.
Sec my Harmony of the World* Then they
wouM be (hut up faft as they be in ftones ,
and metalls and fuch like alfo, and hard
lower lodgings, and not (as we fee them)
mod free, quick, lively, and fwiftly Airing*
no more doth any fire below burn fo fierce-
ly as that which by a coldblaftis driven
up clofe and round together,and we fee by
thofe that move and ftirr moft lively;t9 pafs
by the lightning,(as the weakeft to the flron
geft in *hc world> and a number more fuch
proofs; for what mould I ftand fo long u-
ponfo plain a matter.?) motion doth*%ion
only increafe heat where it is, but begets
and pjrehafeth it of nothing. And not on-
ly that way which every man fecth, by rub-
bing two hard things together, butaHb by
grating a hard thing againft the foft and
ycilding aire, which is fomewhat rare, and
yet known to the Babylonians in times pa/?,
when tbey ufed to roft egges by whirling them a-
bout in a fling in the fame manner; andfo
thefc Archers that have jeen thz leaden beads

of

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cftbtir ArroKPSyto melt in. flying (o great a fa-*
thcr o'heitw motion thit we' mav judge
how able he is to keep it when ir. is
once gottei : Read our Temple of VVtfe-
dome.

15. Now if this be fufficiently (howne
and proved, wenced beftow the letter la-
bour to teach men, how to move their beat;
and fpirits, becaufe every child that
can go, can do it; and it is enough to
exhort them that love th*mfeJves to do
it.

16. Then bythefe two means of like meat
and motion, we have our youth ftill (that
is) our chief colcHrJruitjullneffe and a$ivity, it
there any thing elfe } thsfe make //j> all the be-
ing find nature of youth; except you fear the
lofTeof his hang-byes, andappurtenanceSj
which are teeth, the fweetneffe of breathy the
fmoothneffe ofskjn^ and of have the colour Ho-
rn al.

tj. But it is no danger if you will let me
run them over ; for if our heat and moifture
remain without decay, firft the Jaw bones
tvherein the teeth be mortized, will be fuH
and moift,able to gripe and glew and fo to
hold the fame from falling, then all ill frnel
comes of rawneflc and want of heat to con-
co& it; wrinkles of cold whichmake the face
to flirink,& gathers that together, which heat
fprcads a broad fmoothly, and gray haires
r from

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from the fame caufe^ for when our 113: Ural
heat faints &fail!sit withdraws it feiffrom
the outmeft coldeft parts foonefr, and leaves
the moyfturd raw , which for lack of in«»
, vard heat to file and keep it, JyeSopcnto
the force of outward co!d;whcncc comes all
rottenncfie, and from this a white coat and
hoirintfle. Therefore we fee why ficknefs
and forrow bring gray haires fo fdft, yea
fometimes preftntly: as to paffc by the plain-
er, you fiiall hear by one ftrange example
of aforrovpfullycung gentleman 0 f Italy jhat be-
ing fallen into the hands of Pirats,and laid wrapt
in a faife ready to be ca[i over boun ?, and with*
in twenty foure hours f$acc, released and fet at /i-
bcrty yvtho by great grief and fears forcing
it8 he it to retire to the heart her Caftle,
made his head white and aged in that fpace,
8c cculd never ga it turne again all his life,
which was a long time after. And fowc
avc this poin: briefly and eafily difpatcheef
ftcapfe it was a loofe and eafy matter; but
:he mxt,ihat is to recover youn^y ears [pent and
)Iown away, feems no fuch thing, nor to be
ifed in chrt order ; for as a new and ftrong
uilding by due and daily reparation, is
cpt found a long time; whereas if for lack;
)f care, it be once falne to decay , it cannot
without great coft and time be recovered;
:vcn fo it is with our body; as it is eafy if ic
)c taken in time with heed to preftrv c it; fo

150 the Holy G Hide* Lib. 3S

if by negligence the weathf r have once beat I
in an J made it rottcn,ic fcems a marvailousjl
ynrk torcpairek.

Although indeed it be much harder3r,otl]
onely then his fellow , but then all the rcfti
that were before; yet we will not give ir
over now , and like our idle Toet, fail tht
hfta&of life; wherefore lcti*s go forward,
and with all our endeavor ftrivc to (hew,
thai \ouib loqg before loft (though not fo
cafilyj yet as well may be recovered as it
was prelerved,

19. There be fo many kinds of waxing
young aga:n named in Pbilofopby, and givca
to the nature of wights, that it were goodi
fi, ft to fort them out, to fee which we mean;
in the place, Icaft our labor fall into their
han^s that can quickly miftake ; one ofj
thefe ways is by name ontyjand not in deed,l
As vrbn the fo'ft and bare shinned beaftsjife by\
courfe of kjnde , twice a yeary the Spring and\
fall of the leaf , to cafi iff their upper coat and
skjn , shey fay they put off old age , andwa:
young ageing when it is in truth the puttim
on of age rather and decay of Nature , ai
appe tFcth to them that know the caufc, thai
even for ve y cold and drought, the trix
plain ear marks of age , their skin doth
loufcn and wither awa1'.

20. There is another kinde, as far in ex-
tremity as that other, and all together in-
deed,

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deed, which Alconeon cifis joyning of ones
end to his beginning , and Which he faith
roan cannot do, and therefore dyes ; and
this is and ever was, not the opinion of
Poets onely, but of Pbilofophers , and not of
Greeks onely , but of all Nations except
our old Egyptians , and Rofie-Cruftam , n:en
always in all rare wifdom efteemed.

21. Thcfe men, as Lfaid above, do not
afeto mark the ftcps of kind, and hermoft
Grange and unwonted changes, but alfo
ct and venter upon the like by skill -, yea
ind to pafs further, if any reafon will car-

y them; and fo at length they came, and I
mow not how , or whether by guefs or
nowledgc to this ruled certain ground , of
aifing the dead , and whether it was pof-
ible tor any man, put out by forcible and
'iolcflt death by natural means to rife and
juicken again,and fo to be renewed, and as
t were by a new birth reftored.

22. But what be their new and marvel-
ous means > which way is this incredible
ourfe performed? after they fawnot onely
ome parts of other wights (as the tailes of
izards, the eyes of Snakes and Swallows)
ut alfo the whole bodies of cold and blood -
rfsoncs, clean razed and deftroyed , Net*
iraUy to faring a frefb) end to be reftored , as

gnahe cut in peices and rotten in dmg^ to

nickM) mdevtry piece to frsve a Snaks dgaln^

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152 The Holy Guide. Lib. 5

they began to reach by Divine knowledge and pra-
ctice at fome further matters; and to fay fomc
whole and bloody wights, that spring not
out of nothing, but arc breed by force of
Seed and conjunction of Male and Female,
and the like kindly corruption , to raifc
them up again and renew them ( as a bird
burnt alive in a clofe glafs, and fo rotted^ and
then inclojed in a (belt to hatch it under a ften,
and fo refiore thejame*) and other ftrange
proofs thc)> ceafed not to make, un:ill at
laft they durft be bold to think, that any
wight, even a man and all might by the
fame courfe wax young and be born again i
Hill, and live for ever.

23. This is the fecond way of waxing
young again, and as great an extrcam as
the other, and as far from any meaning,
though there be divers reports and {lories
Sown abroad, of men that took the fame
race in themfelvcs and others , and found
both good and bad fuccefs ( according as a
man that favors it will thirk ) a« the work
was intended by them which were put in
tnaft; Medea fped well fjy they y in proof, upon
Jafons Body, and made him young again , a$
Tully/tfiffc, recoqxendo; but Hsrmes,ffo Poet
Virgil, and the Spanifh Earl failed upon them-
f elves > as fome bold, but as others bold, they had
good tucl^and came to their purpofe. To know
tfre whole Art, read the fecond Book of the

LiB.g- ihe Holy Guide- 1 5 3

Harmony of the Worlds and the Temple of
Wifdcm. What mould a man fay to this
matter? albeit I do not choofc this kinde of
renewing, ye: I will not condemn it with-
out canfc, and judge it for a thing Impof-
fiblc ; for 1 fee no reafon Luc that the ftory
of t he Sn?ke may be full cafily true, be*
caufo it is bred by it feif , and of more un-
fit ftuffe in the fame manner ; and for the
reft all is one to nature , if the ftuffe and
place te meet and convenient , having her
general feed of begetting f which I faid was
all one in all things ) in her bofome ever
ready, and thereby making (yet as we heard
before ) all feeded Plants without feci
fomewhere, yea and perfect wights both
water and Land ones ; and at firft when the
ftuffe, and wombe, and her own heat, and
all ferved very fitly, having wrought man
and all fo.

24. But now why is feed given up to
things^ becaufe nature for want of the
former helps ( as they could not laft for
eveO fo not able in all places to work the
raw ftuffe of the beginnings f o far, to fuch
pcrfe&ion, unlefs (he finde both the ftuffe
well drcft and half made to her hand ; and
a whole womb like an artificial fornace, to
help and fct her forward ; well then for
this one matter and manner , of reftoring
man, let us call it to the account of reafon*
D d 3 and

154 *** Holy Guide. L1B.3,

and confidcr what is that feed that makcth
man, and the place where he is made 5
wh t is all the work ? Is it any thin?, elfe but
a part oj man (except bis minde) rotted in a con «
tinual, even, gentle, moiji, and mighty heatX
is it not li\e that the -whole body rotted in JiJ»a
tnanner, and in a womb-agreeable, (baO fwim
ont at laft, quicken and rife the fam> thing*. I
cannot tcll,l will neither avow nor difavow
the matter; Nature is deep and wonderful in
her deeds , if they be fearctud and unwound
to the bottom. I cannot tell, I fay; nature
may fuffer this, but not Religion; and yet
it is a dangerous trial as our men, and the,
Poet found by Come mens fay ings.

2 5 . they might more fafely have wade a proof
upon a piece of themselves, which we caO Seed,
ordered by that $\il\u\ kjnde of recoclion (which
bath been found true , as fome report , and I
think it certain) or perhaps more kindly and
throughly * but fure more civilly and reli-
gioufly in the due place appointed ; for this
alfo a kind of renewing of himfelf and wax-
ing young again, when his child is (as Ari-
fiotle faith well ) another himfelf , oncly
Cundcred and fet apart from himfeife; but
neither is this third kind enough for us-, we
mujr have th? whole and imparted man refiored.
26. Then the fourth is it I mean , which
Js indeed a mean between all the reft,
especially between that empty and

dan-

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dangerous deed aforefiid , performing
more then the one in the out- fide, and lef*
within then theoher : for this w*y doth
not onely by a better race of rcfrefhing
it with heat and moifture , renew the
ikin, nails 5 teeth alfo , though thefc by
the fame way of putting off the o'd ones;
J)ut for the inward chief and needful pai ts,
how out of the fecdatfirftby the natural
workman, it (hall neither make nor mar
any , onely change and a'tcr , purge and
place them all in their former ft te and
foundnefr, youth and ltiftinefs.

27. Then let us fee how we may be re-
newed and wax young in that order; be-
ginning flrft with thofe idle and necdlef*
things (I cannot call them parts) of the
body, which after were made up, fini-
fhed, grew , aud fprung out from the leav-
ing of our meat and nourishment; thefeeffr,
nailes, and hair •, as for the skin it is a pare
of the feed , or the cruft that over caft the
thing , when it was fully baked; then as
thefe had no certain courfc and order of
kind in coming 5 for ( to omit hair thac
goes and comes upon every light occafion)
fomc are born without nailes, and fome
with teeth; when ethers again have none
before they be old, and fuch like diforders^
f o no doubt by skill they may come and go
again without any hurt or great change to
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156 The Holy Guide. L1B.3 1

the body. V liny tells of one whofd teetb came
arain after he wu anhundredyears old,and up'
wird: and Jebn Mici>Jain an Engli(h Mini->
iter renewed his age and waxed young be-
ing very old as they fay ; and I know not
well Whathsr the Souldiers in Germany
by drinking of a faring by the Kiver Renin e, had
their teetb jbal^en out, and loofi and had them,
come again a new. Bin this is certain thac
trnre be waters in the world, which by a
fpechli quality make thofe beads thac
drink thereof, call their haire, homes and
hoofs, and fo renew them, as the Poet
faith.

28. What need many words? tfcus part
is eafy and of fmall weight, and wc
may paffc it over ; but that an old feeble,
withered,crookcd, and barren man, fhould
be taken from the brink of his grave, as it
were and led back to his former youth, and
luftineffe,isa thing fay they, both in truth
falfe , and in reafon incredible; nay if two
fuch men were fct before us, it would feem
in fence ridiculous : indeed it will feem fo
to fuch men as are either all fence and no
reafon , or elfc whofe wits are all beftowed
upon the fearch of fuch troubles as iff not
worth the fearching.

29. Hhhadbeen fpent about thedeep
and hidden works of nature, there would
Come have appeared as great as this if, and

flayed

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flayed all childifh words; for my part I am
Willing to fupply ihs want, to unfould
thegreateft a&s of kinde, and fcc them be-
fore you ,bu: th-s work grows too fift and
proves bigger then either I wift, or would*
it is plam.cd upon Co good and fruitful! a
ground 5 ytt have one or two of theficteft
examples, and nearcft and match them, and
this tog*th<r that you may iee it, at lift,
fd! out- to jeft, and worth/ laughter5(I am
loth to fall into the mouths of jrfters) z-
bout a folid and earncft matter, wri:en by a
young hand.

30. Is it not as hjrd and wonderful! a
change think you, to fee a woman fuddenly
prove a man , as to behold an old man by
lit tip and little wax young again? compare
this if you but doubt of the ftory. Pliny is
my Author ftill , who reports of three fuch
fundry chances, which hehimfcif faw,
(he named the place and party) and how
performed upon her mariagc day. Cardan
doubted no wbit of the truth , but ventures at a
reafonforit ^which becaufe it is both likely
to be true,and unfecmely to be told, I will
let it go;)and he voucheth the fame change
again, but in another kinde, and yet more
ftrangely then the firft, and whereof no
man ever dtvft or could hold a rcafon. The
fame man again faith, that the cruel Beaft
Hyena, every yeatsbangtlb btr / e# , being by

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58 the Holy Guide. Lib-?,

courjeonyear mate, and another year female,
never cea/ing nor miffing that grange and mar-
velous turning; is not this a much more harder &
greater fynde of change and alteration then that
•we ff>ea\\ of> then we grant nature is able to
do this if (he be willing; but it («emeth not
becaufe (he never doth it; (lie runneth ftill
If (he be not letted, her appointed race ; but
if there be many dead chances able to hin«
der and let this courfe of nature,bow much
more can the wit of man, (which is a fpark
of the winde which gave by kinde her
Commiflion)dothit> as (he doth often, if
I m'tghtftand to (how it, both ftoup and
lengthen , and yet (he is never willing and
confenting. let us fee then for this matter
In hand, how skill is able to overrule kind
by her own confenr, and make her willing
to returne and wax young again; firft let us
know that all Philofophers, Bofte Crucians
and Pbyfitians hold, the life and foule and
naturall heat to be aliwayes of ic fell
young and lufty, and never old,but to ap-
pcarefoby reafon of her failing part her
inftrutnents;and that 1 have often (hew*d in
a kinde of fire waxing and waning accor-
ding to her heat and motion; then her e one
good help to the great work of renewingjn
like fort the parts of the body are not mar-
red and loft, as they fay of a rich man that
he is decayed, when his moi^ey the life of

the

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the World, hath deft and for faken him;
even to when our natural heat the life of
this little world, is faint and gone, the bo*
dy (hrinks up and is defaced;buc bring again
hsatinto the parts, and likewife money in-
to the bankrouts Cofcn , and they (hall be
both lufty and flourifh again, as much as e-
\cr they did.

31. But how miy this heat be brought
again? to make few words, even ?s fheis
kept and held by due meat and* motion;
for if (he faint andfaile foe want of them
only, then give her them, and fhsfhalirs-
cove r her fclf again ; meat is the bait that
draws her down ; Motion comes forward
like a gad-bee to prick her forward; but
that work is performed in this ordert fiift
this meat Which is that fine and J&titrial
oyle, often difcribed by Eugenius Ikeodi-
daftus in his book entituled the Koto. Mundi9
and in myRofie Crucian Axfamata lih.2.chap,
7. exceeding piercing fwifwiTc, divides,
fcatters and fcourcs away the grofsand
foul degrees and leavings, which for wane
of the tillage of heat, had overgrownein
our bodies and which wascaft like a block-
i(h ftay-ffth in our wyjoflay the free courfe of
thefripoflife, if me lifted to ftir and run her
wonted race, (which fome think it enough
In this matter j but alfo fcattereth all about
her dew and defired meat, and ffrft moy fture

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to draw her forwards. By which means
our life havinggotten both her full ftrength
and live lyneffe, and returned like the Sun
infummer into all our quarter i , begins to work^
as fnjb as (be did atfir(l\ (for being the fame
upon the fame (he muft needs do the fame)
knitiog and binding, the weak and loofe
joyms and (Incws, watering and concoft-
ing all by good digeftion, and then the idle
parts lik: leaves (hall in the hot Summer
Ipring and grow fourth afre(h, out of this
new and young temper of body, and all the
whole face and (hew (hall be young and
fljur idling.

This is quickly fpoken,fay you,ifit were
as foon done. It were happy Medicines, nay
thit w:re a miracle; but 1 work no mira-
cles; I only help, as I faid, the willing race
of kiride, wherefore as a man is long decay,
ing and wearing away, or rather in make*
ing and waxing to his perfection 5 fo in
mending no doubt, he cannot return all at
once, but muft creep back by little and little,
and fo be re ftored ; or elfe I would bav& told
you atfir;} dafb oftbft fpriug in the Ifle Bonica
which Matter Edwards doth witneffe,
will in fewdaysreftoresaman quitc(faving
gray haires and wrinkles) and make him
youngagain. Nay if! had taken acourfe
to delight wom:n and children,and to win
credit among the common fort, I would

have

LiB.3. The Ho If Guide. 1 6 1

have fought the Legend, and rifled all the
goodly wonders in the world, and fitted
many to my purpofc. But ?f I ferve Madam
Bcata my Love, and wat upon a wi(>r mi-
rlrcls, yea and in i he raoft inward and fecrec
place among them, Co I would 6y my will,
(peak nothing that mould not be pleafing
in hr light, and well founding in the ears
of wifdome; Wherefore lee theie few fuffice
for this matter bdng th^ tmth, as I lear-
ned of Nature.

CHAP

162 The Holy Guide. Lib

■*c

CHAP. XVIII.

The Way to Tleafure, or
. the Worlds efleemed
Happinefs.

i. Of poverty and riches: 2. Of worldly wetltb':
V Of Arabian Hna\er- ground bodies : 4. Of
Socrates under- ground I ecrets: 5%, Ibattbs
heal of the earth boyles fvoekj into Minerals :
6. Of§{uickcfi}ver: 7 . Ibe futyburous and
Mineral quality of the breath of man : %.lhe
Frozen Aire 1 9. Of Purging Quick^ fiiver 2
j o. Viffolving of feeds and breaths of mettals:
ii. Earthly Brmfkone to makf a perfetl
weight : 12. Sun and Moon ma\ejman : 13,"
Of making Mettals : 14 Inflrufiion. 15.
Earth in Power, wafer in Quick, ftlver e~
quail 1 16. Nouri(bment in Minerals and
Plants : 1 7. Ofgroffe arid fine bodies : 18.
Mineral heat : 19. Heat perfells Minerals,
.old covers the rrorkj: 20. Iron and Copper
of be Nature of Quick- filver: 21. lb at

Nature

Lib. 3. Tbe ^oly Guide. 163

Nature intended white and ythw Copperas
GoldandSilver: 22. Silver and Gold in ail
Metals: 23. Degrees ofMetalls ckanfedz
24 . Nature changeable 125. 0/ mending Na+
tare by Art : 26. Tta imagination of Birds.
27. Guides: 28. Antimony: 39. T6e co-
/<3«r 0/G0W faflned: 30. To </ie Aff/a/i :
31. Joftay flying fpirits: 32. To wa(b the
hands in Molten lead unhurt • 33. To /fciro/
the force of a Bullet unhurt: 34. lokeepa
Cloth from burning: 35. To uje unripe gold
andmakpitasgood as the be ft; 36. How to
rn^eAurum Potabile* 37. That ghticlf
ftlvermaybe bounds coloured and madeGoldj
andoffirange things.

EVen this is the point at laft which thegol*
den worjd looked for at firftj fta way to
Flea fur ^becaufe ic is indeed the lift & low-
eft parr, f bring fervants, and fo to be ufed)
and yet very needtull and no: to be fpared
in this bleffed houjbold; for al though wc h avc
all helps to hng life, health, and youth that
may bt ,yet if we wane the fervice of riche?,
poverty will beficge u?, and keep us under
and cut offand hinder many goodly deeds
and woiks of wifdome and venue; but what
are Riches ? for the world by Rofte Crucians
and Pbilofopkers agree not in this account;
nor this within it felf; the world reckons
(lore of Go/dand ftlvet to be riches; Arifiotle

Enough

164 The Holy Guide. L1B.3.

V.nougb oJntedjhU things : the Stoick, enough of
Earth and Aire. To begin here, thtft. might
beftretched and made large enough, but th^t
we know their ftraitnefle; would they have
us live by breath slontymd never est, accor-
ding to the guife which I fee out in healing?
be it poflibl^- as it feemeth;yet it is fomwhac
feeble, as 1 (hewed there, 2nd (o fomewhat
halting and unp.rfe&f by lack of youth and
JuftinenV) for our full and perh<5fc life ap-
pointed, befides themcans and hurts of po-
verty, which I right now touched. An-
/fot/e is {omwhat ftraic alfo for beads, th;t
I reckon are rkhes as well; if he had put in
enough of things needfull forgoodlife,
wherefore we were made, he had faid much
better; yet not all,for (o mould all the bo-
dily mtans and helps aforefaid be counted
riches, a great deale tooconfnfedly; now
much lefTe can wc rate the golden wealth
right and true riches, becaufe a man may
dye with hunger for all this ; So he that
fold a Mo fife for two hundred pence, d)ed hivnfdf
forlac\ of foody when the buyer lived, and this
was done (to let go fained Midas) when
Hannibal befcidged Caftline-, then true riches
are enough of outward things needfull for
good life, that is, for our P&y/jcJ» above
tit-

But becaufe that golden and worldly

wealth

Lib. 3. TheHoly Guide. l6<

w alth h a ready and Ccrcain way & means
to this ( out bearing violence which no man
can warr3r t) we will ufe the caufe for the
effeft in this place & to ftrive to (how how
all men may get enough of Gold and (ilvcr
and that by weaker means then Hermes Me*
decines as the place requireth, although by
the fame way concerning the fluff we work
on; that is, by turning bafe mcttals into
filver and gold,by the Art of preparing 2vo-
fia Crucian Medicines named in my Harmony
of the World ^ Jib. i . chap. 1 2. this is the hard
matter which turns the edg of worldly wits,
the bright-nifT; 1 fay, of thefc healthful!
thing3 dazles the eye of the Common and
bleared pcople,becaufe it is in their account
the beft and higheft, and moft happy in the
world ; when indeed and truth as it is the
Icaftandloweft, and worft of all the helps
unco Vh)fic\ belonging, fo it is in proof and
tryall the lefTc hard & troublefomt, both to
Art and »^f«re,themoft ready andeafy to be
got en and performed.

3. And to (how this (we will make no
Ion £ tarrying) it were firft good to enter
into the way and or Jer which nature below;
keepeth,in making the Mettali underground;
if I thought I might not run into Socrates
his accufation, for fea-rching over deeply
the under ground matters:but I tyzpt I (hall
not now by the mighty paines of the miners
E e fp adc*#

166 the Holy Guide. L1B.3

fpadcs, and mattocks, thi way is made fo
plain before mc, or elfe (lire as they be, jm-
deed I would account them over deep and
hard for my pen to digg in.

4. Theo all underground bodies, vfhich
the Arabians calls Minerals, are cither ftones
or hard Juices, (which we name middle mi-
ncralls) oreHe they bcMcttals; thefe as all
other perfect things have all one ItufF,earth
and warer, and one workman the heat of
Haven, as I faid above, for their womb?,
becaufc chey be but dead things as they call
them, the earth will ferve. But for thac
nature meant to make moit perfect things in
that ki«de,which require long time to finifh !
them:fhc chofe a moit fure and certain place i
even the dead and hard rock ic (tU, not to |
the end the Earth might hide them as hurt-
full things, and leane upon them with all
her weight, a* Seneca faith very feverely, ,
w rather very fintly, (for we know how,
he hunts after fineneffe) like an Orator, to
whom it is granted to iyt a little in Hijhries, |
that he may bring it in more prcitily ,
as the Orator hicnlelf confefleth.

5. Then the manner of the v\ork of Mine-
rals is this, rlrrt the water pcircing down-
wards, fofrens and breaks the rock, taking
her courfeftill that w«y where itisfofteft,
to make the crofs and crooked race, which
we fee of wombs , called vains or pipes of

the

LlB.3* The Holy Githle. 167

the Minerals ; but as the water runneth
fto take the ftuffe as the next thing in or-
der^) it wafhtth andfhaveth cfffmall pieces
of the rock 3 and when it ftands and ga-
thers together in one place by continual
draining, cleanfeth and rcfineth the fame,
untill the mild heat of the earth, which is
the heat of heaven , come and by long
boyling, makes it thicken and grow toge-
ther into one body of many kindes , ac-
cording to the difference of the fluff and
heat, which they call hard Juices, as I fay,
or midle Minerals.

6. This workman continuing and hold-
ing on his labor (this Agricola faith, the
cold and drought of the rock nowlayes
upon the ftuffe, and by little and little, and
atlaftbindes it into that hard form of a
mcttal • nay though Arifiotle from the be-
ginning gives the work to the fame caufe)
out of the heart as it were, and beft part
of them, wringeth out'ac laft a clean, clofe,
and heavy, raw, waterifh , and running
body called Quick? filver\ here it fiandeth
in perfection of this Mineral work, except
there chance (which chance happens often)
by the means of the boiling, any contra-
ry, whole and dry breath of the fame kind,
;to be made with all in the fame places, then
the meeting with the raw, waterifh, and
■unhappy lumpe , lik e rennet with milk, or
Ec 2 feed

168 The Holy Guide. Lib. 3

feed with menftrue, curdles, thicken?, and
fafhions into the {landing body o( met-
tai.

7. This mineral breath of man, for his
likenefs in quality (though their fuhfhnce
do greatly differ ) do ufe to call Frimftone •,
now (hen thisfecond and earthly heat is
come into the woik, the middle hea: of
heaven fcts the ftuffe which flayed before to
work again, and drives it forward, and
thefe two together by continual boiling
and mingling, alter and change, cleanfe
and refine it from degree to degree , until!
athft, after many years labor, ic comes
to the top of perfection, in clean nefs, fine*
nefs , clofenefs and colour , which they
call gold; thefe degrees if the heat be gen-
tle and 1 on g-fu fieri ng (as they fayj be fir If
Lead , ihen linn , thirdly Silver , and fe to
G>ld> but if it beflronge and fuddain , it
turns the weak woi k out of the way quick-
ly and burns \t up quickly, and makes
nought but Iron , or at the leaft if the heat
be fomewhat better, Coffer ; yea and forne-
times the fullncfsof the earthly Brimfione
alters the courfc of nature in this work,
as alfo there is odds of Quick- ftlver ; but
indeed the caufe of all the difference, is in
the working-heat that maketh anddifpo£
cth the beginning, midtft and crfd of all,
thus and thus, according to her ftrength

and

LiB.$. IheHolj Guide. ' 169

and continuance , and which is the main
ground co this purpofe, Q«ic^/F^eristhc
mother of all themcctals.

3. Now when the work is done, it ly-
et.h yet as it did all the while in a thick
flowing form, lik? ths form of a molten
mtttal, and then ic is fit tomakeTelefmes
tor love marriage, health, long life, youth,
gaming * for fortune in Merchandize and
Trade-, for war and all other things. But
when the owner comes to enjoy it, bring-
ing in the cold breath ot the air upon it,
like unto Corral,and other foft and grow
ing Sea-plants, it freezeth and hardencth of
a (uddain fie for the turn and ufeof man in
other things, wherefore ic was made and
ordained- Thefe be the grounds of the
moft and beft of our men Rofte CrufianSy
that is of men beft feen and furtheft tra-
velled in fuch matters, where unto Canton
a man indifferent, and none of us, yet
▼ery learned, agreeth jumpe as may be;
but lcaft thefe dime and little lights may
feern to be darkned , with the briahtnefs
and fame of Ariftotle D and his Scholar
Tbeopbrat) and the lace renowned Agricola^
! holding hard the contrary, and the fame

Ifomctime ftifTely maintained 9 1 will as
much as in me lyech > and ny narrow
bounds will fuffcr , endeavor to lay the
icafons all down in order 9 which mo^ed
Ec 3 ehcaa

1 70 The Holy Guide. LlB. 3

them to think thus, and ftaid them in the
fame opinion \ that wife men at Icaftmay
lay one rcafon with another , and judge
which is the weighted and worthy to bare
the beft price, with the vain regard of out-
ward mews and authorities.

9. Firft,Tnac the Mineral fluff fprung
out from the rock Savings aforefaid, all
cunning Miners can tell you, whoilillby
the nature and grille of theftone, though
there be twenty fcveral forts (as there be
fometimes in the rock)arc able certainly to
fay this or that vein followcth. But to pafs
over lightly the lighter matters, and fuch
as they grant as well as we ; that Quick* '
ftlver is the neareft ftuffe or menftrue , or
mother of mettals , that is the thing in
great ftrife and queftion , when it needed
not in my opinion, if we mark the con-
fent of all thofe men, in all Nations , that
put the name upon thinps, which were not?
of the unwifeft fort, flatly to allow this
faying, when they by calling it in Gree^
Latine, and all other tongues quick or li- '
quid SiWer, in fecret meaning plainly fay,
that if by the force of thofe two whole
workmen aforefaid it were flayed and bet-
ter purged, ic were nothing elfe but Sil-
ver for indeed Avicen and fome other of
the Learned fide , leaving out the middle
degrees, hold the very fame opinion, which

LlB.?. JheHoly Guide. 171

I alio think true , if the fturJe and heats (as
they arc in hoc Countries) be good and
fauhlefsjbut the difquiet Will account this
kind of argument unskilful, and fo caft it
off, then remove the cold that at laS came
upon the mcttal and hardened it, andic
appears ro the eye nothing elfe but (jach an
altered Quick- filver.

10. Or if thewitnefs of fence be fome-
times falfeand deceitful, enter ourSchoJe
and behold ihem by a more kindly and gen-
tic way lead back to a txueQuickcftlver ,
both in cold and heat abiding , being a
true rule in RoficCrutian Phifick and Phi-
lofophy , every thing to be made of that
whereuntoit is lofened and difolved. But
if all this will notferve, pafs alittle fur-
ther into the border and edge of fecreta 3
and you (hall fee them by following the
fteps of kinde underneath (which I mark-
ed out before ) that is by fowing thedif*
folving feeds and breaths of mettals upon
Ghickcfiher, to curdle and trine her in 1 hat
form of metal which they will and wiftv
for.

11; Now for that earthly Brira/rotff, na-
ture doth make a perfect wight , and is fain
to break her firft order, and to take vhe
help of a whole womb5& of another work-
man^ tvenfo to frame' a perfect dead crea-
ture befides the help oi Eugenlus 7beodi-
E c 4. daUnty

172 1 he Holy Guide . LtB. 3.

daUut'-, boch to taQiion and 10 boilc it to
petft&ion.

j 2. Then as Arijlotle faichjf^ 5«n d?/<i Mcwi
rca^ d man\ and the reft have two working
and moving caufet, the heat of beaven3and
the breath of the male iced ; te in ;his
work of metcals, there is not onely the
great and general begert'ng breath of hea-
ven* b"t alfo the piivate and particular
feed of the earth their father, that there
lacks -a little cinh to (lay ^uickcfilvtr,
Ariftotie himself (hewcth, by a pretty like
example (h: faith) that hearts blood flomtb
full when it is cold, vfcn as others [lands , be-
caufe it wan«s thofe earthly dreams which
others have, to make it grow together , as
we may fee by tryal finding no blood
which hath them with a drainer taken a-
way 3 to ftand and ciufter, but run con-
tinually. Even fo take away the Earth and
Brimfloneot a mcttal ("which pur Art can
do) and the water will not ftand again but
how for ever 5 and this is general if we
mark well, that nothing ftands and leaves
his running before earth, ruling binds and
ftayeshim.

13. Whofoever allows not this way of
making meetals, befides other fails and er-
rors, he (hall never unfold the nature of
§>ukk*fther 9 as we by Aritlot k$ and Api-
GQlafs ftrugling and firiving againft the

ftrcara

Lib. 3. The Holy Guide. 175

tfream about it, giving the caufe of his
flawing and flying from the fi;e unto abun-
dance of aire in him, for then his Jight-
jiefs and feeding of the fire, two things
far from his nature would a? weil *s in ail
airy bodies , (nine forth and appear unto
us.

14. But he that ftands upon TLugenius
Ihcodidaftui grounds and rules Jaiddown
before nn~y cafily perceive his own raw,
cole, and watery condition , to make him
fl/e the fire his enemy $ and this even pro-
portion in power and equal rule of earth
and water in him, tobcthe caufeof his
runing.

15. The firft is plain, but that there is
as much earth in power, as water in §>ukkc
filver ( albeit it feems all water ) and no
more of this then of that , furely mingled
and put together, appears becaufe it is the
onely dry water in the world; her earth
haling one way makes her dry, and her wa-
ter another caufeth her to flow ; but this
is a certain fign thereof, that when we find
by reafon all other things , if cither earth
or water rulcth over them , either to (land
with cold and harden, or clfe to melt with
fire and water ; , ycc we fee plainely
this one dry water called ghiickffilvtr to
ftoop, and ycild to neither 5 but to our pur*
ppfc.

The

174 T^e Hob Gftide* L1B.3.

The reafons why the heat of heaven is
the workman in the Mine, are many 5 but
hear a few and briefly delivered , if he
vvorkcthand minglcth (as I proved above)
all perfeft mingled bodies, then that mail
lec and bar him from this labor alfo, the
depth and hardnefsof the rock? No, for
if thofe fubtilc bodies which we call fpi-
rits, are able in the opinion of all men, to
pierce through (tone walls without brcich
or fign of paffige, how much more fubtile
and able to do it j is this heavenly foul >
But all men grant the workmanfhip of li-
vings to flow, from thatondy caufe and
fountain > then tell us how it comes to pafs
that Fifb (by the wknefs of good Au-
thors) are fame times found in the dee fes and
found earth , where no water runneth 3 nay
which way do very loads get into certain
flones in Germany , and Mill-done roc\s in
France , even fo clofe that they cannot be
fpifd, before they be felt in grinding and
break themfclvcsasGeorge^grico/d reporteth

16. But if Minerals as well as Plants
take their food and nourishment, wax
and grow in bignefs , aU is clear 1 hope and
void of doubt ; this will I prove hereafter.

17. In the mean time let us win it again
by proof and tryal, the ftrongeft battery
th'Atmavbe; cold bindes and gathers in
the ftuffc both like and unlike 3 grofs and

fine

L1B.3. rte Hoi) Guide. 175

fine together , without any clcanfing or
fundcring ; but mettals cfpccially arc very
finely and cleanly purged bodies. Again if
cold frozen and packt up gold together, the
force of heat (as we fee the proof in all
things') (hould cut the bands and unmake
the work again , which is not. To this,
what colour fp-rings from cold, but his
own watcrifti and earthly colour? that if
a thing be dyed with other colours, we
know ftraightway where it had them-, be-
fides cold leaves no fmell behind it ; but
heat is thecaufc of allfmells , then too-
mitt the firy fmells of fomc ftones, and
fweet favor of others, and the variety of
fent in juices happened it that Silver found
at Mar)+berg fmelt likp violets , as Agricoh re-
ports-, that all men feel the unpleifant fenc
of Ccpptr and other bafe mettals. But
mat k the practice of the plain men, when
they ocvifc and judge of a Mine below,they
take their aim at no better mai k, then if by
grating two ftones of the hill together, they
feel a fmell of Brimftonc, becaufe they take
I tbus the leavings of the mettals in their
concoction.- To befhortdobut caft with
your felvcs, why there be no mettals but
in rocks and mounyines , unlefs they unload
an 3 (hut them down into the p/*zitf, and
then wherefore foul mcttal in cold Coun-
ties, and fine (tlver and gold, befides pre-
cious

176 The Holy Guide. > LlB^.

cious (tones in hot Countries, and you fhall
find thceaufc of thi* to tc'thediffrerc of
the refining and purging heat , and the
clofenefs of the place to keep in the heaven *
ly h at, a"d iWicnneis with «11, and emp-
tineis of Plants to draw it forth and fpend
ic-

18. Some cannot conceive how heat
mould caufc this matter, when they feel no
heat in the Mine ; I will not fay to fuch
that this heat is mod milde and gentle every
where, and there efpecially ; buc bid them
bring apiece of Mineral earth, andLyit
in the open air , and they (hall feel if they
will lay their hand upon it , no fmall but a
burning heat, by the cold blaft ftirred up
and caufed, even as the lurking heat of Lime
is ftirred up with water.

19. Wherefore we may fo fafely fit down
and build upon it that all Minerals are
made with heat , and get thereby their be-
ing and perfection , albeit the outward
fhapeand laft cover asic were of the work,
is put on by cold.

20. Now for the ftcps and degrees of
rr)ctcaTs, that they all except Iron and Cop*
per , though fome do not except then?,
arife from the fteps and degrees of backing
the fclf fame thing and ftuffe of §>uick-
filver, it appears in Lead Mines, where is
always for the moft part fome Gold and

Silver

LlB. 3- The Holy Guide. i?7

Silver found hy report of good Authors 5
and therefore albeit faith,that cunning Mi-
ner?, ufe in fuch cz(c to (hut up the Mine
aga'ne, for thirty or fourty years, to b^ke
ihe Lead better, and kke it ontoputii-
fa&ion.and thzt thing to have been found
true in his time in Seeavoyia,

2i. But what do White and Yellow
Copper U found in the ground fignifie nnto
us, but that Nature was travelling by Way
of conco&ion unto the end of Silver and
Gold. Again how comes U topafs ths*
plain Ariificcrs can fetch out of every met-
tal forne Gold and Silver ? and out of
thefefome bafs raettals , unlcfs Gold and
Silver were the heart and belt part of tke
whole body , and of one ftlf fame thing
with the mtttal*.

122. Nay Farafelfus avowcth that not on-
ly in trwfe, but in Mines of minerals, things
further offas you knowaatv never without
filver ind gold ; and thtrtfore h: giveth
Counccll to water them, as. if they were
plants wiih their own mine, & kindly wa-
ter 3 affuring us that they will grow up to
rirenefle, and in few years prove as rich as
any gold and (liver mine,
23. Then we fee atlaft theftrengthof this

IMettallinground unfhaken, and (landing
fureforall the battery of the ftoutfft Gre-
cians f that all m<ttal!s have but ore quk\fil-
ver

178 The Holy Guide. Lib. $

ver^ kinde and nature, being all one felf
fame thing, differing in degrees of cleanneft
and finencfle, clofleoeffe and coulourj that is
from Accidents (pringing out from the de-
grees of boyling and decocYion : it is no w
time to go to build up this matter, and to
(how how thefc low and unclean mettals
may be mended and change into Silver and
Gold, to make the way to attain Riches, if
all mettals are fonear & like one another,
efpecialyfome of them(/w lich 1 fct down be-
fore) wanting nothing, but continuance of
cleaning and purging by conco&ion, then
fure this change may fa ni no fuch hard im-
poffibie matter,nor to iwed perhaps to hdp
the divine Art of .HVrwfj Medicines , biu a
letter and bifer skill may ferve the turne. '

24. And as nature is not pooreand needy,
but full of (lore and change, (o may skill if
fhe will follow the fteps of nature, finde
more waves then one to one matter then
whkh is the lawer way and lefler skill fol-
lowing naiure? we will fetch from that way
you fay nature take even now below the
ground what is that; 1 will tell you (bortly.
25. As nature in her work below ufed
hot workmen, fo will I, example in this
place: and mention the fl/e letter and im-
purer Msctals, viz. $ U T? 3 and 5 may be
mended and changed into the greater and
moil: perfect rncttals, viz. into©an<*i) bus

thir

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this cannot be done without the Philo-
sophers Pantarva; and now let us returne
to our work in hand in the Courfe of Na-
ture. And becaufe we cannot tarry hrlei-
furc and long rime, (he taktth to that pur-
pofe, we will match and countervail her
little heats with proportion anfwerable
and for our time, that we may do that in
forty day<$, that nature doth in fo many
years, and this proportion is not hard to
be found, when we confider the odds and
fpace, that lyeth between the founders fire,
and the gentle heat of heavenjand again the
difference of fuch a fcouring purgor,as that
Eater above confuming Stones and Iron fo
quickly and the milde heat and lafy breath
of a thickened ^uickcfilvtr. And therefore
as the minners do well in trying and pur-
ging the rude mcttall from the outward
I filth and leavings, befides a great outward
firej to put to the limpc many hollc and
piercing things to further the work of boy-
fing, and fo afcer they have done and made
the mettall clear and handfbme, if we mean
to clenfe them further from the inward
filth and dioufineffe, we muft take the
fame courfe, but with greater force
and skill, even fo much more, as 16
is more hard to part away the inwards,
and imbrcd uncleanneffe, then the outward
and ftrange (curfe and foulneffe.

Although

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Although I didfet btfore divers dirf.ren-
ces and markes upon the mettalls, y i in-
deed t here are but two to be counted of;and
there is no odds between them3and Gold:kut
in clofentfTc and coulour^the reft iscleanef?,
finenefle, and ftedfaflneffein the fire, follow
all under clofenefs, for a thing is clofe, when
much thing is packt uptogahtr in a nar-
row room which cannot be except the fluff
be clean and fincbeforr.and when this is To
pa& up, itmuft needs be weighty and flee1
faftalib, heavy for the much fluff, but ftcd-
fafl for twocaufcS; both for that there is
neither Entrance left for the fyre to pierce
and divide the fluff, (and by divifion all
things are fpoyled) nor yet any groffe and
g'cafy fluff the food of firr,rerneaningQ//:c^-
ftlver as I faid was clcane at firft,& if it with
a fine brimftone you flay & faftcn it, which
is often in hot countryes) it flraight way
( I mean without any middle ftcps) prove
Silver and then Gold: but if that curdling
breath be foule and greafy (as it is tnoft
commonly) k turns Quick^filver into foule,
metals firfljanctthe work mud tarry a Ion*
gcr leifurcto be made clean and pcrfc&,that
is until I fuch time, as that foule brimftone^
be clean purged out as it is oncly in
Gold. .

26. That Nature doth in due time, and
Art by imitation may pare and drive away

all

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all the fi thy Rennet, this is afigne becaufe
it is no pare of the <hing;how is that proved
all the filthy rennet, this is a fign becaufe it
is no part of the thing; how is that pro-
ved? for thjt it the male feed that beget s,
makes, and fafhions all , and nought begets
it ftlf , but is made by a ftrange and out-
ward mover, which is like the Carpenter,
)r other workman towards the work he
naketh, that this is fo, ic is, plain by the
nale feed of wights, which is not the raa-
erial ftufTfecn with eyes ( that is but a (hell,
;ivcn for the fafe keeping ) but an unfeen
ioc breath of their bodies , whereby alone
jvhhout the help of the (hell, many wights
cget their Mates with young, as we may
sad in Atifioik and other good Authors ;
/hat makes it fo plain, As the barren eggs
fhicb many Birds Ifajbim fully in tbentfelves by
mceite ofluft, wanting onzlj an outward qnick^
ing canfe from the male >

27. Then how (hall we purge out this
nil and greafic workmanjto make the work
f anymetalclofe and well coloured > Na-
urc would have done this in time by con-
?&ion, wkhouc any other help 5 but we
iuft haft to (hortcn the time fit for ufe,two
evifesjonc to breed c!ofencf?,and the other

1) bring on good colour; thefirftis a bin-
ing (hell, the next is a dying cunniiig> for
Vf ths

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the firft, let Nature AM be our guide and)
leader.

28. As (h: in all her eafie changes, ufcth]
to confume and raze out the weaker with
the ftrongcr •, like fo we , if we mean to
devour and confume all thegrea(ie8c grofe:
fluffs of themtttal, that when all is clean
and fine, the mectal may draw it up clofc
*ogeiher$we muft encounter it with a ftrong
like; what was the Brintflone or any other
filth in Qjickfilver , and of what flock
think you? Did I not tell you itfprung
out of a confufed heap of middle minerals,
and was a Mineral breath and V2por ? then
Ictus take the foul and (harp minerals, and
in a ftrong fire fa them upon the mentals,
and thty (hall furc by fearching and lifting
roundabout, quickly draw to them, cat
and drink up all the water like drofs of the!
mettal , and leave the reft which is unlikel
clean and unrouched ; 1 need not (land any
moreahoutit ; do we not fee how SoapaJ
fil hy ftrong tring in battail, and working!
with a foul and filthy cloth, makes ic clean
and fpotlefa > Nay, to come nearer, howl
doth Antimony that fierce and foul mineral^
where he is fer. on work with Gold to;
chanfe him, fearch and run over all the
meit 1, take and confume his like meat,
and the ftrange and unclean parts , leaving
the reft as unlike and unmeet for him 5 to

be

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be ftiort, if you mark well , you ftiall find it
the plain ready and kindly way , not onely
in all purging* , but in every natural
thing.

29. Then let this part go by, and fith
now the roettal is as clean , fine, weighty a-
gain as gukl^ftlver ,or clofe & fledfaft as Sil-
ver, or rather more; let us take the next
in point hand, and bring on the colour of
GoId,this ftandeth upon two ponits,it muft
have the fairnefft: and laflingncfie of
Gold.

30. But hear is all the cunning, to dvc
the mcttal all over , with an ev.rlafting
colour •, to this purpofc,it had need be able
to peirce the mcttal, and to abide at fire ;
thatfirft is not hard again, But how (hall
this be done > perhaps We need not ftrivc
before we lay the colour, to make it ftead-
faft and binding ; but like as Gold will, Co
faft embrace>and hold his flying,makc quick-
filvcr, if (he be a little cleanfed and made
fit to receive him , that no fire (hall depart
them ; fo the clofenefs of this one fledfaft
mcttal (hall deft nd and favc the colour; but
fuppofe it will not , yet if Iron and Cop-
per, nay, the midle minerals may be bound
and made abiding in the fire (as our men
hold arcdteaeh) then their colours may be
flaid and made ftedfaft alfo,

Ffi . 3i,Wha*

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3 1. Whar is remaining, if you be not yet
content goto School and learn to faft«*n and
flay Hying spirit?, as t'-ey call them, Cjr-
dan who denyesit poflibie to make an open
nitttal, dofc and ftedfift, yet alows this
matter eafie, and fith we arc here, and he
fo ready, Jet ustalk with him a little. I
nizrvil much at him, a man fo well learn-
ed (bii: indeed not skilled in theArtvthe
thief of all Learning ) tr-at aLhough he
hadfpofcen well .1 great while, and allow-
ed all mtttals to be made of oneftuflc, and
to travel by one way of concoction unto
one cnd.Gvld: and to differ by one accident
one! y and chance or t^ofe degncs ofboyl-
ing, and thereby ycildcd that all the foul
rncttals may be turned one into another,
and Silver- i ike wife into Gold; becaufeit
i* nothing clle but imptrfeft GolJ, and the
worftr part thereof , warning nought but
colour which eafie and a little clofenefs ,
which t y pSTging out the greafie food of
fie may -..be; given him ; yet fcr all this, he
ricnys if. pciffible to change any of the low-
tr metrals into c thcrSJ or Luna, becaufe
of our fuddain heat (/« lfaid) of Mars and
Vtws bang burnt they cannot be brought
totbe:ro!d Mercurhl tlcarncfs, nor yet be
m*de abfdirg nor ftedfafi in the fl e.

32. ThUhe would never have faid if he
had teen brought up in this our trade of

Learn-

Lib.?. the Holy Gride. \ 8 5

Learning, h« mould have feen us cafic]"
lead thcmcttals back from whence th;y all
came, and then, by means aforr(aid Hay
them; for, he grants himftlf thai all ihc
caufc of unclofenefs , unftedfaftn-fs and
wafting in the fire , is thac our faty Brim-
ftone, and that it maybe c!e?.nfedoiK of
Silver; why not out of the reft al Co ? will
they not abide the violence/ net at fin'*,
but by little 2nd little they will, as gentle
and wife men know how to ufe then ,
there are others a'fo as well as he , Eranits
andfuchLke, that deny this artoF chang-
ing ; if I thought thofemen needed any la-
bour of reproof , who through ignorance
of the points they handle, blundtr and
ru(hin thcdaik, crofs, and reprove tbem-
felvci , all about in fuel, fo:t as they Kem
rather to move pitty to the ftandei s ty, ctxcfi
to make a challenge, and to call forth an
adverfary. Then fu:h men I will exhort
to be better advilcd, by the view of ccrtaia
plain examples which i will lay down be-
fore them, and thereby with them , to (Ly
their over C\»Ut and fore running judge-
ments, until they com; to the tryai and
battel it felf, in thit which fhalt fojio<v.
Lead, as that workman know is ore of the
greatcftfpoilcra of his fellows, the foul met-
tal in 1 he wor!d3fave them from the rag- of
him upon a (hell of A(hes, which they cilia
F13 ' Teft3

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Tcft, and he is counted faff, fare, and ftcd-
faft enough agairft all cflays. A few years
agoc when I was in Egypt , about April one
thoufand fix hundred and fifty , Tranfilanu*
a Learned man of Alexandria told me of a
man at Cbaffa!ovia> which I know not how
foannointed and armed himfelf, I mean his
face and hands , as he could fuffer to wafh
them in molten Lea;*.

33. Another time I was in Arabia, and
from thence failed to the Rock^called Alexan-
der, and further to Anjalerne and Cbrifte
upon Euphrates 3 in the year one thoufand fix
hundred fifty and two; about May I met
Hentet Obdeloh and the Akades amongft ma-
ny wonderful things , this I faw , one who
durft. oppofe his naked body to the violence
of a Bullet (hot from a Musket ; and this na-
turally hisflemwas hardened by a charm.
Why may not then byiheGme example a
tougher and harder Mettai be more eafily
armed and fenced againft all force and vio-
lence.

34. In my Orient at Travels, you may read
of the events ia nature experienced, and
again to be experienced by my felf ; nay j
you fhali ft c more wonders by thcjkill of j
nature eafily performed , clear Cbryftal Javts.
the cloth that is wrapt about it from the rage of
the fire , jo doth oyl defend fa}er 3 in fo much
that yon may boil Eifb therein , v ithout either

burning

LlB.?. the Holy Guide. 187

burning the paper , or the oil foaking through*
and all this is becaufe the txcream and dead-
ly fewds do fave the middle thing by their
working. Is it then a wonder, if Iron or
Copper be by forae pretty Height , or kindly
skill defended from all fire , and made lure
and fledfaft.

35. To draw nearer unto you ^ ic is ve-
ry well known that bafc and unripe Goldy
fit oncly for Tolefmes when it is, fee my
Kofte Crucian infallible Axiomatay lib. 1. in
the Preface ; as it were a mean between Sil-
ver and Gold, wanting colour and clofe-
nefs , wafting much away in time of proof
and tryal, may by fomeof the lefTer and
and lower degrees of binding, be refined
and made as good as the beft gold in the
world ; then is there any let in reafon, why
the reft, cfpecially Silver, by ftr. ng and
more forcible means may not be bound and
coloured and reach perfection.

36. Now before I travel further, it is
firft necciTary to prevent the delufionsof
theMountebankcs of London, and in other
plates; and lee you know thetrmfi chat
you be not deceived by thoO: that pretend
to have Auxuwpotabile , and thofeexperhn-
fed Medicines Madam Beata taught me , as
you may fee in the Preface and Chap, 12.
of my firft book of the Harmony of the world.
None hath thefe true Philofophkal Med>-
Fi 4 cincsj

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ciiv.c8,(but Eugenius IbeodidaGuj^nd Doctor
Cuheppers widdovv) imagined to be attain-
ed Dy the ftudics of one Dr. tfkb: Culpepper
who learned of me 5 'tis truth Nicholas Cvl-
pepper was a friend, but not a Mafter to the
Golden experienced Medi-ines. But to
undeceive you , the Poft-Uoftors and pre-
tenders err, andinfteadof Potable Gold,
the Fanarea Pantaiva which is the cjuintc-
fencc/.f.and tin&ure of GoId>e^c. have gi-
ven to run an impure Calx of Gold, not
confidering the difference and evil that fol-
lows upon ic; Gold Calcined or powdered,
if it be given to men, is githcrcd intD one
lurnpe in the ftomaek, and does no good
to the patient, it guilds the bowels and
ftomaek , and binders the conco&ion,
whence many and various fickneffes follow,
and at length death it felt; i were going ?t
the finishing hereof into Italy which I left
for healch (ake^c. Take no Mettallack Ar-
canum or Medicine into your body , unlefc
it be firfi made volatile, and it be reduced
into no mettal. The beginning to pre-
pare potable Gold is this; (o may fuch a
volatile be afterwards diffolvcd in (pirit of
Wine, that both may a(cend together aid
be made volatile inseparable, and as you
prepare Gold , fo may you alfo prepare
potable Lunay Mercury, Partus, Mars, Jufiier,
&;ic5 Satyr ne j it is hard to learn without

rjra&ke

LiB.$. T xhe Holy Guide. 189

pr2&ice and a teacher. But to return to
our purpofe, and to conclude if we may
bytradng and diligently perfuing the foot •
fteps of nature, which (he tread th daily,
turn and plant of wight into a ftone, and
minerals into a mettal, and Lead into Tin,
nay Lead in o Copper ( as I will prove
hereafter) withfogrcit exchange £and tn-
crcafe of center and cloffenefg; then tell
me why by means fitted in proportion ,
Lead, or rather Copper may not be turned
into Silver, or cither, of thefe efpecial.y
Silver into Gold.

37. Therefore 10 make up all far acelle
reoorts for certain , that in Corintbia they
ijj c mmonly turn Copper into Silver, and
this into Gold in Hungary , though he
names not the means whereby they made
thofc exchanges , yet we may c^liiy judge
thole way*, ot binding and colouring fee
down before, that is , JefTtrr ways then
Hermes Medicine) and yet fuffident to ferv?
ourturn, and to rjife that wealth app^ini
ted, as we may fee by gutfs of their com-
mon practice, which fife were empty, vain,
and foolim , as aLoby the light change cf
middle minerals in reipeft of the riturn
and giin of gold, And if the praife of an
enemy be lightly true and uncorrupt, 1 t
us here what Poetus a denyer of the Arr of
ficrmes confeflethupon his ownexperience;

that

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thai Qjkkfilver may be diicrs ways bound
and coloured and made perfect Gold and
Silver 5 and on may when ic is with Brim-
ftone burnt and made Cinaber very gainful-
ly ( which thing Joannes Cbrifipus found
true) and further that in his due time and
place Mercury by the fmoak of Brimslone .
within one moneth will be turned into per-
fect Luna. I might prefs you with more as
^ood proofs and tryal of men of credit,
but here is enough , I fay to flay your
judgement for a while , let us go for-
ward.

CHAP. XIX.

1

The two guards if fafety9 Wifdom ^ and
Vertue^ to the Soul and body , with
other wonderful truths expe-
rienced andpubl/JIied by
good Authority.

i. Will and diligence : 2. Of the difference of
Sapience and prudence : 3. Of the mind and
foul: 4. Earthly Judges : 5. Of the fer°.
vants of [cuts and fpirits . 6. Mtjfengers of
fpirits : 7. The pown of fpirits in receiving
fbapes: 8- Motion of the fpirits and mem-
bers: o, That the Mibtr carrietb the foul

and

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and all bis beams down into the body : i o The
excellency of man: n. T6? nature of Age,
and)outb in cold and hot Countries : i 2. Of
Stars and Prophets: 13. 7bat abeafimay
put on manly nature : 14. Of a Mole : i^.Of
the decrees vf Nature : 16. Of the caufe and
cure of Kind : ij.To mend man in nine or
ten off- fating*. 18. The nature of Parents :
19. Of difeajts and Leaprofie : 20. Wit
and madnefs : 21. 7 he caufe of foolifh bo-
dies and the Mixture . 22. The caufe of Ver-
tue : 23. 7he caufe of manners : 24. Of
the Will and mind of man and Stars ; 2 5 .Of
the pi ice of the Sun, Air^ and food : 16. Of
the Poles of the world: 27. Pepper turned
into Ivy ; 28. 7be caufe of diftempers ;
29. the cauje of monfirous children : 30 7he
caufe of Madnefs: 31. 7he caufe of joy or
fear : 32: How to temper the heart and liver:
33. Of that proceedeth fnm the heart and
liver.^&c.

YOu have fan now happincfs, know-
ledge, long life, health, \outh, plea-
fure, and are difpatched, and we have got
fuch a goodly quire of helps, inftrument*,
andmeons, to wifdom and venue, that is to
perfeft health and haopinefs ; whit is wan-
ling, but will and diligence, to bring all
wen unto it, unlefs there be fome as there
be many, fo lude and fond by birth and na-
ture.

200 The Holy Guide. LlE.g.

ture, haying their difference deuced, and
being fo far from their kind cftranged unto
the kind of beafts, that although they lack
not thefe helps ard furnitures, no nor
good will and indeavourto fet them for-
ward , yet all will not fcrw to m*nd tnern
and bring them to wit and goodnef*.

Then let ui feek the falves for thefe two
forest likcwife that we may make it at laft a
whole and perfect pleafureand happiness;
let us, 1 fay, bend our fclvcj to (hew the
means, How all foul and vitioas \>erfons may be
cured and brought to health of minde ( which is
wit and goodnefs } no cure can be skilfully
performed , without the caufe to be firft
known and removed; th- caufe of wifdem
and vertue^ and fo of their contraries (for
one of thefe do bewray another) 1 opened
htntofore when I brought into the bound
and honmold of wife men or Rofie Cru-
cians, that two oth<r properties that i»
clearnefs and temperatnefs of body, but
becaufe we hive no fuch bounds and begin-
ings, as the meafures have given and gran-
ted, and it behoves if we mean to build
ahy thing our felvcs, to lay all thefe unda-
tion ; let us take the matter ;in hand again,
that thofc two are the very caufcrs and
makers of this health of minde, ihatisoi
wifdomzn&vertus, and then teach the way
Ig^ apply the remedy.

2. Tq

LiB-3. The Holy Guide. 201

2. To begin with wifdom (for that kjiow-
Wgfhad a being btfprc ffomgj and therein
to let pafsail the idle fubtilties about the
difference between faience and frudence (if
I may fo term it for once and ufe it notj
as one of them to be fcen in general and
ev.rlafting, the other in particular and
changeable thing*, and becaufe they ought
ever more (as I (hewed at firft) to go toge-
ther ( evca as our Englidi tongue better
then cither Greek or Latin , hath linked
and (hut them up both in one word toge-
ther) I will taty the common and true bounds of
wifdom'y that is, wit and knowledge of divine
and humane things-, thefe containing in all
mindes and bodies, and affairs of private
men , families and Commonwealths, it
will be very hard indeed to bring the French
Fools to undeiftand all thefe matters; but
let us march , we have paflcd great dan >
gers,e^c.

3. And ifin this difcourfc of theminde
(as well as in the former of the foul , and
fome other ) I call in again the beji Fkilofo-
piberj, and make them abide the brunt , I
hop- you will not blame me in a courfe ever
blamclefsand allowed in matters of fuch
weight, both that the truth might be the
better bolted out , and the man warded
with a charm againft the (hoi: of envy.

4. There-

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4. Th-refore leting pafs thefc earthly
Judges as Areftoxenus Vidarchus , Pliny and
Gdlenejlsjwho rating the mind c as an earth-
ly thing, do judge it to dye and to be clean
razed out with the body, and all other
wrong; opinions with the fame mind; old
Pfylofopbyand RofieCxuciansQuhztt it is beft
advifed) hold and teach , that as the foul
and life of all things is all one with it felfj
and all the odds fprings from the divers
tempers of the bodies,fo the divine and inn
mortal mind proper unto man , and Author
of mfdom and venue, to be wife and a like-
wife, and one and the fame in all points, in
all men, as God from whom it came, is ene and
wife J and to differ when it is divided, and
fentintofundry places, Evenas many rivers
pajfing through many grounds, of fundry qncthties
do lightly every one takg a fundry taint, fmaks
and nature fom the ground, though at firft
they all fprung and ftawed from one foun-
tain or head, or more fitly like as there are
innumerable kindes of lights in the world,
differing to the feat* and houfcs that receive
them, when the light of the Sun from
whence they all revive light , is of it fclf
all one tnd the fame in all places. Then as
the Su » (think not much if I be (Till driven
to likes, becaufe it is the lightfomeft way of
delivering divine things, wherein you fee"
me plunged; for as the eye can behold all

things

iTi B.5. The Holy Guide. 305

things buc her fell and the Sun , andchofe
it cannot fee but in another thing fie to re-
prefent the figure , even fo the minde can-
not underftand her fclf, nor yet other di-
vine matters, fo well as in a like and com-
parifon) as the Sun, I fay , of himfelf ever
Ihineth, and feeth all things if his beams be
nor ftopt with a cloud or fome other thick
imbarcment, even fo, the minde alone,and
before me fall into the cloud of the body, is
ever bufie and likewife knowcth all thing?,
as unto fo divine a thing bdongeth, but
now (he is fo intangted and darkened in this
manner, (he isfometimes idle 3 and never
feeketh all things yea nought at all , with-
out the leave and help of the body.

5. This courfe therefore (he now taketh,
fith (he may not her feif ftep forth and range
abroad, to fee things, (he craves and takes
the help of the foul and his fervants, which
they call beams^cr (pints; fitft (he tifeth
the outward fpirits that fie in ths edge and
border of the body for mefTengers to re-
ceive (by means of [heir inftrumeiits , the
parts where they lodge ) and bring in tid-
ings, that is (hews and (hapes of things,and
then the inward beam fitting in the brain,
takes the lame tidings andreprefent them,
as it were in a glafs ; before her, that (he
may caft her light (which they call the dif-
fering or receiving minde) upon thtm and

fee

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ice them to skip over the known fine 5 in-
ward wits which we have fnot unfitly J
compared to a glafs, are divided into Tun-
dry and (tvcral feats and officts. Firft one
fort called , thought inhabiting thefore-
pai t of the br )in,tak( s,holds, and reprcfer ts
the fhapes, Lt in at the windows of the fine
outward {enas; then another crew which
me CdllrvPncrobrance, keep the hinder part
of thchead, receive h ftill thofe fhapes in
great plenty, and laycth them up as It were
in a ftorthoufe , untill . firft the third com-
pany of the fouls and fpirits called com-
mon knee, and fitting in the midle of the
brain (as becomes a judge) calleth for
them to <xamine them and determine of
ffccm (though this lower judge heamh
prefnt mattirsin thought alfo ) and then
at bftthe great and chief juftice called un-
derftandrng, by laying the things together
and gathering one of another, judgtth all.
But which is the fe^t of the chi*f judge,
that is, the qucftion among the learned ;
when I take it to be no queftion, if they all
prant that ihe foul 3 by the pattern of her
fie the Sun in t he great world , dvvdleth in
the heart, the middle of the body ; that by
caiUng hrr beams al about,andtqualy to all
parts, fhc might give life and light equally
ro all, as tqualdiftant from all; and in
themidtit of ihe heat, as the oiuly move-
able

Lib. J. The Holy Guide. 205

able and therefore to move others the only
fit part of the body; for tb en Jure the minde
being in the inward kerncll, as Tlato faid
of the other two, the foul and tbe fpiric,
muft needs reft and be rooted there al-
fo.

6m Seeing the minde feeth and knoweth
nothiog but ty means of the foul & his in-
ward wits and fpirits, not thefe but by the
help of the outward ones, called the five
wits ormefTengers, nor neither of both*
without the parts wher they lodge and reft;
then even as the parts of the body ftand af-
fected and difpofed^fo doth the minde un-
derftand.

Let us go down more part iculaily to the
matter, and lee what condition or difpoii-
tion of the body helps, 01 hinders the work
of undemanding.

7-After that the fat wi'« and mclTcngers
have thus received and delivered up the ty-
dings to the threefould glanVwiihin the
brain, this by ftirring and running up and
downspnfentsand mufttrsthrm before the
minde,and (he by rafting her lig'n and view
judgetb and c^etcrminethjihatwemayeaiily
and quickly gather two things needful! to
wifdoaie and good underftancing-, firft (uch
aglafle, or fuch inward (pirit«, as arc able
to receive and hold many fhapes imprinted
that ifjvery dean and clear* Ipiriu by the
G g example

3tf

ao6 The Holy Guide. Lib.?

example of an eye that kindly ghfIe,or of an
artificial one,or of a garment,all which will
eafily tak<? and (hew, in that cafe, every lit-
tle fpotfhape and fafhion fee upon them;
whereas when thev are darkc,foul and une-
ven, they can take nothing, nor yet repre-
sent them, if ihey had them,
Second! y,Tbefe fpirirs had need be quick
and livcly,that is whole9to be able by their
fwift running to and fro, to rcprcfent and
(how them all apace, and eafily j for the
minde doth all by matching and laying
things together.

8. That heat is the caufe of quickneffe
and ftirringofthcfpirits,appcarcs in fiik-
nefle, age^nd found deep, especially in age
and ficknefle, more clearly then needs any
light of teaching. Bat frow in deep > when
the heat of the fpirits ferving wit, is either
loaden with the clogging fumes and breaths
oftheftomack, cr fpent with labour, or
with fwcat,and ftiil beholding, (Tor reft a<
bates heat, as 1 ever faidj or elfc lent for
time, unto his fellow-fervants.the fpirits
life, for the digeftion fakc;thcn the fpirits of!
the brainc be (till and quiet, and outward
and inward fences, wit and underftanding
all ceafe at once : But if the meat (to omit
the expencc of heat) was neither much,nor
of an heavy and ckgingkinde, and fo nei-
ther breathing out leading fiufl^ nor need-

ipf

Lib. 3. The Holy Chide. 207

ing foraisn help to digeft it, then our pc -
c ivinp fpirics begin to take thnr own and
rtarur II agiin unto them, and to move a
little before the minde, whereby (he be hol-
df th foni? old fhipes and l"ruws of things in
their palling, which is called dreaming. But
in ca(e 1 hey recover all that heat, they be-
ftirr themfelves apace, running to the out-
fide of the body, and bringing back
new tydings to theminie, which when
(he perceiveth, is calhd waking.

Then the caufe cf wifdomc is dear at laft
a 8 we fee, to wit a clear and ilirringglafle,
and of folly when the fame is foul and'ftill.
If the gbffe be fouled dl over,it cauteth na-
tural! or willing folly, as in fools, chil-
dren, or drunkards $ but if ic be but here
and there befmeared, and drawn as it were
with darkc ftrokes and lines of foule hu-
mouis, the (hapes appearcto the minde, e-
ven as the formes appcares in a broken glafs
to the eye by halfet and confufedly, and ic
maketh madneffe.

9-But how come the fpirits of this inward
glafs fo foul & flow, when they are of them
felves(as becometh the beams of a heavenly
fouljboth veryclean,clear,quiek and lively?
But we need fay no more, but cleare and
foule abovc,when thefe two qualities make
or marc the whole work of perceiving; for
if the fpirits be cleare, it is a figoe they are
Gg 2 in

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in the'r own nature, and fo whole & quick
withal', but if ihcy be foulc, it is a token
their whole condition and property is lofl
ami gone, and To that ftillnefs is come up«
on tnern alfo , neither is that /Ethefeall
thin^wnich is called by the name of a fpirit;
thncarrieth the foul and all his bcarrcs
down in the body and breakcth ( as ! faid
above ) between them , foul or flill of
it ftlFs (f°r rpWits are not as fomc leaches
think;!, mads of but feed with the breaths of
our meat J but very fine, cleanc, and lively*
as aft men grant of iE'.hsr; how then ? muft
it n6t needs follow that all the caufc of
faile and want in tits cafe, fpiingcth from
the body, and from that part cfpecially,
where the wits in ha bite?

10. If the waked rcafon brought in byi
Tbeodidadus above will not ferve to content
this matter, let us Lad him forth clad withi
proof ofrcye'jfighc ?nd experience, the p!ai-
ntft/greateft, moilfi ling and rr oft fatiMy-
ing rcafon in the world. If man alone doth
pafTea'l other wigh 8 in wict, for his Aery
an j Firev temper above thei»3 as we heard
before, then if one man goeth bek re ano-
ther in w'tt, it muft needs follow, from the
fame iaufe; Now as Ayre and Fire are
chare and quick,when Eai th and Water <rc
I oufc *nd llow/oaie the wights where they
beir the fw< v, affected both in wit 8 body,

as

Lib.?. the Holy Guide. 209

as appears wiih difference between the
Hare and the Toad; and all other whol-
fome and noyforre wights; to go father,
why^are the men fo grofe & rude under the
two pins of the world-, in the frozen Cour -
tries? and fo civili and wife in the whole
as Ariftotle well noteth^but for that the out-
ward heat elenfeth as it is a clcnfer3and dry-
cth, and fo clcireth their bodies? whereas
cold on the other fide binds and thickens.
And fo likewifehy doping the flyingoutof
the groffc, foule and waterifh humours and
leavings, makes ajl not only dark and clou»
dy, but whole and moyft al fa, as it were
dtunkenby boyling together, as Arifiotle
tcrmcth it.

1 1. But me thinks (I muft favour them a
little becaufc they arc our rjeighbours) he
might have done w 11 to have refembk d
thofe broyled peo pic to old men other-
where, and theaacdmen in frozen coun-
tryes to the youth in hot foylcs , becaufe
1 the odds of wifdosne between age & youth
1 flows from the fame caufe of d rough and
t moyfture, that is cteannefle and foulwrTe of
i ttubodyes ; and therefore PU'.o wis noc ill
; advifed, when he faid, that at (uch time 39
: the eye of tre body fayled, rhe eye of the
: understanding begins to feeftarp y; becaufe
j when his waterifh inftrument dryeth up
I with the reft of the body, though it put ou
• Gg 3 the

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the fight ot fence 3 Vet it i« a token that th*
light of witincreafeth-, for drou*h a? I fliicf,
brtedsclearnciTc3if it be not mixt wiihcold-
ntdc; for (hen it bring* in canhiineile the
ivo'd foul" and flu ;gi(h Element of all; and
therefore thofe that are very old and cold ,
are very doating and childifh again ; but if
that drought be feafoned with heat (the
TFiOre the better) truy* make the roan very
wife, and full of unde: (binding, as it batH
been alwayes obferved i Ctjar h defer ibed
io; but more ftronply before him ? Alex*
ander whofe bedy by his gfeat heat and
drought was not only mod iwect in his life
time but able lying dead above ground in a
whole foyle and feafon without any balm-
in*, alone to kep it fclf frefh and fweet
without all taint and corruption for many
dayatogitrur.

12. But /am too long; wherefore Pro«
phets arc fald to be wifcr then men: and
their fpirits wifer then they, and the fiars
moft wife ofalJ; for the odds and degrees
in the heat droughand clcarneneof iheijf
bodies.

Now then we know the caufc of this hurt
and difeafe,le t us apply the Medicine; let us
clearc the Idcors body, in many kinds of
foolimncfTe, as in childhood, drunkcnncfle\>
fbcp and doating difeafes ; Nature her fclf
is the fame to difperfc in her due time and

feafon,

Lib. 5. 1 he Holy Guide. 211

icafon.and fcoureoutal the fouleand clog-
gy cold and ,grofle hum ours which over-
whelme the fpirk^and nuke them Unclean
and qu cr ; or at leaft in the ranker fort of
them, as in doating difcafes fhe may be hol-
pcneafily, and enabled by little skill to do
it ; that we may judge , if great and ftrong
and mighty means of Arc chanced once to
jovn with nature,the rank-ft of al, and dee-
peft rooted, That is , Naturall fclly it fcif
n>ay be rooted out and difpatched.

13. But you may reply as fome dc^that
the reft, which fprung out from outward
light, and hang by caufes, may be cured,
when this being fo rooted in nature,and firft
mixture of the feed (a mixture as ill as a
beaftly mixture) can never be mended, un-
lcfTe we grant that a beaft may be holpen
alfo and put on manly nature. I had need
fend you back to the degrees of kindc , al-
lotcd and bounded out above5 by theCoun-
fell of Philofophers, whereby you may fee
ifyou confider well, that a bcaft ftanding
in a lower fteep and kindeof mixture, can
in no cafe be bettered and made man , un-
lefie that his temper be marred nrft&made
a new, and fo his life being put out and ra-
zed, when as a foolifh man hath no fuch
caufe and reafon, being both for his divine
minde (though it beeclipfed, with thcflia-
dow of an earthly body) and in refpeft of
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his temper a degree above a beaft; and in the
ftateand condition of nnnkindc, fire a-
boundingin him as his fhape declares, as
well as in other men though not To much,
and in the fame point and meafurc.

14. And what is the caufc> not becaufe,
Nature meant it fo, but reafon or nature
was let and hindred by fome crofs thing lay
in her w*y,within the fluff, wh«reby(hc was
driven to %ay and mifle and come fhort of
hcrpurpofc: like as the Mole, as Ariflotle
faith for all her blindneffc, is in the fame
kinde with all other whole and perfect
wights , which mould have all their wits
and fences.

15. Becaufe having all the parts of an eye
whole and perfefr, it is a iignc that Nature
went to hav- gone forward, and waslejr
with the barr of a groflTe and thick skin.

Now then we fee the faile and errors of
k:nde by ikiJ daily corrected; yea and fo»e
hold ©pinion that the blemifh in the Mole
may be wafhed out and amended alfo: That
we may hold it pofllble to do the like in
this fault of fol!y,nay we may think it more
eafy then ibme of them, becaufe there is na
feverall purpofe, which feemeth fo in the
work of the Mule ; But fome odd and rare
examples, as k were monfters in kinde, or
more &Ij di (cafes left by nature , defcent,

and

Lib. 3. The Hal) Guide. 2 1 3

andinhericance, fpring out from fomcill
temper of the Pa ref ts.

16. But how may this difeafe be cured?
all things in kinde bv the courfc of kinde,
have both their hightft and deepeftpitch and
end, and as it were their South and North
turns, fromwhence thryftill rcturnc and
go back again, to avoid Infinity.

17. So thefe ruturall and laft difeafe?,
have their race which they rua and fpend
bylijjle and Utile; when it is all run , and
the flock of Corruption fpen, C which is
within nine or ten off-fpringa) then they
mend andreturne to health again; fuch is
theraceof wifdomcalfo, and of health cf
body; for the health of the roinde, i* inclo-
fed within that other, as we fee by the chik
dren, which wife men beget, and fo fonh;
the caufe is plain and eafy.

18. Then we fee in this matter, how na-
ture inclines, and is ready to hold her felf •
and if Art would ltnd her hand, we may
think the cure would be much more fpcedy,
and many parts of the time cutofFanda-
batcd ; and as we find in fores and othci
lighter inward hurts, this done by fligru
meant of (lender ekil, fo we may deem that:
by more mighty means , more great and
migrty deeds may be performed ; but whae
do 1 fetch about the mat tcr, when it is above
^8 1 think fufficicntly proved , that all Icfc

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Leprofies, and oth'r natural diicaksof the
body, by thofe heavenly and Mineral Me-
dicines (which I call the Cure-alls and
Curc*the-great)may re quite cleanfed and
driven away $ and this among i he number
of leaft and natural difezfes, all fprung
out from an ill temper of the feeds of pa-
rents >

19. And to omit the red 3 if theLepro-
fie flowing ijam the foulnefs of the blood
of all the body, may be cured; murh
more this which proceeds from the frame of
one part oncly , that is , from a muddy
brain ; or if that difcafc may be faid to
come from one pare alone,? hat is the Livcrf
becaufi it is the maker of all blood, yec
that one Is a moil dangerous part if it be
ill-afTe&ed , becaufe by need of nature, it
fends to all places,and (o reacheth through
all y. and ftriketh all by contagion , whereas
the brain as other more keep themfelveg
wuhin their bounds , and ftretch no far-
ther.

20. But let us go further , if good fine
temper through all diet and paflions of the
foul, hath often failed from a good wir,
to a kind of madnefs, fcarce to be defcried
from the ftate of an Ideot;then fure through
frhc contrary caufe, a foul frame may be
cleared and rafe wiidom, by as good rea-
fon as the Art of rcafonhath any? efpeci-

ally

Lib. 3. The Holy Guide. ai 5

ally if tho ft contrary plTior 8 and dyct be
hojprn and (a forwards by meetMcdicines,
which tic Grctiim know and teach , and
wherewith they m^ke great changes in mc? s
bodies; but without all doubt and qus~
ftion, if that our mod fine, cear, and
whole Egyptian Cure-all come in place to
help the matter ; for if the, mi^hiyer enemy
ihill in fight overcome the weaker fas vou
all grant, and thereon ftandsjpur Phyfick)
then dull failing finenefs and clearnefs,
when itarifcthin the body like the Sun in,
the morning > fcattcr and put to fl ght all
mifls and darknefs, clearing and (couring
mighrily by his matchlefs heat , ftrengtk
and fwiftnef?, every part of the body,

2 1 . Neither (hall you fay, life will fuffer
no fuch violent and forcible dealing, when
as life it felf (hall do it; for what is that
•which made and mingled at firft the foolifti
body, buca beam of heavenly fire carried
on a Couch of JEiberl and what is this
our heavenly Medicine but the fame as is a-
bove fhewn at large 5 then let us put fame
to lame, flrcngth toftrength; and if one
before was too weak to break as it would
and mingle the fond body finely § now
both together, one helping another, and
ftill with f rtfh fupply renewing thebattail,
ftiali be I think able to overcome the work,
and at laft to bring it to the wifticdend,

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pafs and per'e&ion. If you flye to the laft
hole and (hifc , and fay that time is now
paft, and occafion of place and ftuffc now
loft, and flips away, being too hard for na-
ture upon fo hird a fluff and place to work
iuch exchanges ; if you look to her ordina-
ry race in ail things, you (hall feet-hat (he
is able , and doth daily frame, rule and
fquarc very grofs and unmctt fluff in rnoft
unfit places u> our thinking, yea much
more then thetc in this work ; and not on-
ly the thick and fturdy ftuffe of Miners ,
cleaning the works (yet in unfecn plac s)
down to the bowels of the ground; and the
grofs and rude g ar in the bottom of the
fea to make (hell-fifo, but alfo living, mov-
ing , and perceiving land wights 5 in the
clofe rocks (as you heard before ) and in
the cold Snow and burning fire, as thofe
worms and flyes in Ariflotk. To clofe up
and end th's matter at once ; if you remem-
ber h_>w this our heavenly Cure-all, when
he was fent into the body to work long
life, health, and luftinefs , did not onely
(hike and kill, and put out of being all
foul and grofs diftempers, his own and
our enemies, but alfocherifh, nourim and
feed our bodies, and bring it towards our
own nature ( even as far as we would by
difpofiag of the qiulity ) you may eafily
conceive the plain and certain way of this

great

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great exchange when you know his mod
clean, fine, clear, and lightfomc Na-
ture.

22. Now I have difpatched the firft part
of Phyfick , not as fome have pretended,
but even to God himfelf, Ictus goto the
fecond} and becaufe we have not done it
before, though we talked much thereof,
we will now begin to bound the matter ,
and make venue (as Arhtotle and truth
tcachethus)a mean in outward deeds and
dealings with other men ; or a reafoa in
manners and conditions , as Plato termctb
it, all is one; the caufe of vertue is like-
wife fct forth in the beginning , to wir,a
temperate body^ but I left the proof unto
this place, which is all the hardnefs in this
cure of lewdenefs ; for if it be once known
that temperatenefs is the caufe of vertue,
we (hall eafilyby that temperate medicine,
fo notable in the fpee^h going before^ pur-
chafe and procure the fame ; and why that
is fo, it hath fo oft<n won before, that
we may quite eaft it of! and leave it, bctag
nought in this place to prove that a tem-
perate ftate of the body is the caufe and
way to vertue.

23. Butfirftletus fee whether all man*
nera fbw from the body or not , and then
from what ftate or condiiion of the body,
among them that have fearched the rea-

fjns

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fons and nature of things , the caufe of
manners is laid upon the difpofhion, either
of Stars, or of. mens bodies, or of- their
wills, thus or thus framed, either by the
bent of nature, or by ufe of cuftome, let
us lean the matter and that briefly.

24. They cannot flow from the will of
theminde of man, leaft all men (hould per-
force be good againft ourdaily pio^f and
experience 5 l)ccaufe the minde of it felr is
coming from goodnefs , is good and alike
good in all men, as I (aid before j and fure
no cuftome can alter and turn io divine and
right a wVll to lewdness, but by great force
of neceflity, which force cannot be fent
and laid upon it by the Stars, as I know
not how,the weather fpiers,by long watch-
ing and heficging the Skie , the high
and ftrong City , with empty and bootlefs
labor , have obferved 5 for whether the
Stars be wights or no, thev are all £as I
(hewed before) of one good ftrain and qua-
lity , or if they were not ; or whatfoever .
they be in either fubftancc or quality, they
cannot touch the minde immediately , but
muft needs be let in by the loops of the bo-
dy, and fo change and difpofe the body
firft ; and by means of this arTe&the minde;
for if theminde It fclf 5 a finer thing then
the Stars 5 cannot pierce oat of the body,
as we heard before, then much lefs mail

they

Lib. 3. the Holy Guide. 219

they nake way to gee in by the .n (elves, with
out the helps to our mindc allotted; and as
thefe are alj bodily ( I mean the firft helps j
fothc ncareft caufe of manners muftnecd*
fl >w from the body; and if the inw ard fpi-
rirs and wits I'kewife do nought without
the inftruments of the body, and follow
the affc&ion and difpofition of the fame,
the appetite of the unreafonable foul, com-
mon between u« andbeafts ( upon which
Ariftoile and his heirs do lay the caufe of
manners ) is difpatched alfo, and all the
whole ftream muft needs clearly run from
the body.

25. But let fome old danger come & fhake
thefe old Grounds, which you faw the Phi-
lofophers lay fo long agoe,and fo this buil-
ding might fall and tumble, I will fhore it
up with experience a thing moftfittofill
and pleafc the fence of them which have no
thing el fe but fence.

As all difeafcs,fo all manners fpring, ei-
ther from the naturall and inherited, or
from the purchafed temper of the body; to
keep the firft till anon; this we have either
from the ayrc and foyle where we live, or
from the meat which we take; the Ayre fol-
lowcth cither the place of theSun or the na-
ture of the ground; but this is fome what
too hard and thorny a kind of tcaching;lec
us enlarge our felvcs, and unfold and prove

how

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how (though I Shewed the manner at large
before) the ayre and meat alters and chan-
gcth and makes to differjthe bodies firft,and
fo the manners rude and fierce.

26. All ftarmen and Philofophcrs (no
otherwife then we fee by proof j hold opr-
nion, that where the fun is either too ncarc
the people, or right over ths , or too farr
off, as under the two pitches of the world,
there the bodies arc bigg and flrong and the
manners rude and fierce ; whereas withia
the two temperate girdle! of the earth, they
keep a mean and hitt the midft, as they
Cay, both in body and manners.

To comedown to the ground(for Imuft
be fhort) we fee that a fat and foggy land
makes the blood and f pi) its thick and grofs
and thereby dull and flow, and fo the men
fond in wit and rude and fimple, faithfull,
chaft, homftand ftill in that ftraine of man-
ners-, whertas a barren and dry ground, if
jthe fun be temperate therewithal I (a* at
Rome and Athens} makcih the fame thin
andcl^are and. lively, fubtill and dcccitfull
mcn,valiant,unchaft , and fo forth of alio*
iher proper eyes appertaining. For meat,
manners in men are like the vertues and
proper tides in plants, following both the
fundry tempers of the body es,whcn the foul
in th-'m, and the minde in us is one in all.
27. Then as the mixtures, qualityes and

vcrcues

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vcrtues in plants, are alterd up and down
according to their food and (utterance, as
(to omit the outward nourifhment of the
ground;) whereby Peper brought out of
Calicut into Italy, will after a few fettings
ttirneintolvy andfuch like ; the caufe is
plain; a cunning Gardner either by ftecping
the feed or flip, or better by inclofiog in the
rootorftock, can give to any p'ant any
colour, tafte, fmcll or power of healing : e-
ven fo the tempers of mens bodyes^and con-
dition of their Manner?, change to and fro
upon the fame occafion.
28. To let go that hold in phyfhk,that di-
ftemperd meats do bread the likediftcrnpes
in thofc famous humours which make com*
plexions , and their conditions; why are
the Tartarian Co beaftly and barbarous in
manners, but becaufe Cbefides their (oyle )
they eat and drink the fltfh & blood ofHot-
fes? We fee the Iflandersof Corfica prove as
bold, cruel & falft: as doggs,v\hofcfle{h they
cat:a man may range farr in this field ;but Igc
us draw near home; it is not without caufe
that Plutarch, Plato, and other frrave znd
wifePhilofophers, give fo ftraight charge
of the care ana heed in the choyce of Nur-
fes.

29. hit not like,nay in their opinion terrain,

that the child fucks in with their milk their

outward fhape and inward manners? why

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not? as well as beafts that fuck of ftran-
gers out of kinde, do plainly draw unto
thfm moth of their unkindly qualities; as
appears by the foals in Africa, which by
fucking Camels, are made more painfull
then their kinde, fwift and healthful! for it;.j
and enough fuch like examples might be
brought, if time would fuffcr; to come to
our bodies left us by our pjrentf, if we fee
manners ingrafted and imbred in flocks,
kindred , and children and nephews fUil!
dowfl^to take one after another a Jong timei
by kindc and nature, as that curfedfatherj
bearing kindred, fet down in Ari^otie, and
other pilfering flocks, which though they
have no need, muft needs fleal; to let pafle
lechery, valour, and other good &bad qua*
litks, which we fee daily defcend and raincj
on kindreds, whence are thefc > not from
the parents mindesandoff-fpring, nor can
be left and ingraffed , but muft returnej
ftraight and whole, & all at once when they
flit out of this life to that heavenly place
from whence they came: Neither are all
their wits alike framed by ufeand cuflomc,
but brought up fomecimes contrary,

30. Therefore to cut off the giddy reel-
ling drunken opinion as a firing too much
difcording, thofe manners fpringout from
(the parents (ccds9 which is a part of their
bodys;purchafcd by meat and nouriftimcnt,

which

Lib.?. 1 he Holy Guide. 22$

which bodycs if they u(c good and tempe-
rate dyet, arc ever like the firft; otherwise
they follow the Nature of the meat* , and
of their diftcmpers,at Cardan in a few of the
worft dyetSjhath aioft notably markcd,that
drunken,or over ftudious or too great fad-
ings large onyon-cacing parents do beget
and bring forth, for the moft part, mad and
frantick children.

3 1* To clofc up all this firft part, with
this one little proof at once; if wefinde our
fclvcsto do many things againft our will, as
when a fairc thing is offered , our hearts
pant and faile with fean when a faire luft
and his part will arife , whether we will or
no, andallincontinency fprings from that
root, then furc the body muft lay this force
upon us.

But how is this > and which way doth

the body fo violently over-rule and carry

away the will and miadc after her } when

any (hape appears in the thought of man,

> the doing and minde takes it ft rength (we

muft wears thefe words with ufe, and make

them foftcrj laying it with good or bad^

and matching and comparing all things,

degree! and determines ; and then her will

1 and rcafon which Flato piaceth in the headj

; follows and dcfi.es : but at the fame time

fteps in another double will and appetite

! fen t from that unrcafonablc and perceiving

Hh 2 feul,

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fou7,whtch is common between us & beafts,
and*fitting one part in the heart, and denre-
ing outward goods of the Body, and look
wnichofttak is ftronger, that is, which
hath the ftronger houfe,cithei by defcent or
purchafe, (or c}fe bafer mould, be ftill the
weokr, and obey thebetterj that prevails
and mows the ipirits unto it, and thofc
the finenefT j and thofe again by other miJ-
die mean?, the whole body or part thereof,
asisthepleafure of that Commander.

3 2. Wherefore tofcome to the point more
fully, we (hall never be good and follow
vcr tuc, that is mean and reafon in our de-<
fires and doings, before thefe two pan s, the
heart and the liver, be firft by kinde, and
thenbydyetin order, fquareand temper,
apt to obey the laws and rules of reafonjfor
to begin with the root , if the heart be vejy
hotandmoyft, the man is ccuragious and
liberal , defireing honour and great cut^
ward things; if hortanddry, cruel, a nv
gry, deceitfull; but if it keep a mean, o*s §
btyeth reafon in that kinde of manner; for
tihe liver if it be hot and moid, like wife it
followeth vsnery and gluttony ; if hot and
dry, it doth thefame, but crookedly & out
of courfi^ but if it be cold and dry,the man
is very chad and abftinent ;- and if cold and
rooyftfcimewhar chaft & abftincnr, but out-
wardly : whereas a temperate liver holds a

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mean in both, and following the race of
kindedefircs to live fobcily in company
and honcftly in mai riage,a life as tarr from
Monkes and Hermits as gluttons and letch-
crs.

33. Wherefore we fee thitall manners
proceed from the temper of thofe two
parts fnay perhaps undemanding alfo, if
it varyeth ftill according to the divers heats
and moyfturc iD the bodysjfo tint all gcoi
manners and all vcrtue budd forth frcm
the goodjcquall & middle temper and mi -
tare of the farce parts ; and all our labour
and travell fir we feek vertuc) muft be to
bring thofe twaine into fquare and temper,
thai is equality a* near as may be of the
foure qualities * not only by the Phllofc-
phicall falve of ufc and cuftome, f though
TlaU hits it right in his time, as when he
will have no man ludc by his will, and
therefore not tobebhmed but through his
by-ufe or nature ill difpofed) but raiherby
good dyeeaaj)d by right Phyft k efpecially.

And thus we have n laft finimed thefe
parts, wherein we mean to prepare the
mindebothof the common and learned p^o*
plr, and to make the way to the truth of
Herme$ Medicines.

Thus have we proved our way to happi-

nefle, knowledg, long life, health, youth,

kleiTcdneffc , wife and vertue, plain and

Hh 3 cafyj

22 6 7he Holy Guide. Lib. 3.

eafy* let us next paflcth unto th* Golden
creafurcs of nature > and the method cf the
Holy Guide.

ths end of the third Eooh^

^■11 1 1~ ■ 11

HOLYGVIDE

Leading the Way to
The Golden Treafures of Nature.

How all may be happy in this world* Enoch
and LlUis knowledge of the Mindc and Soul. Eugcmtts.
Tbcodidaftiis his diicovery of the manner and matter of
the Philofopheis Vmtcirva-> or Anontagius, and the man-
ner of working CanonicaUy and orderly made maniteft
in the feCrets of Nature and^'/t, by which Pbilofopty
is refloied.

That Anontagius will tranfmute Tin, Iron, or

Copper into Silver and Gold, with what

advantage ycuwill.

ThetRofie Crucian Seraphical Speculations

and Gamatbes^nd how to extract the Soul IJ

of Gold, and put it to another Body.

That Gold may be wrought into a fine Oyl ,

and tranfmutcd into Gold again. How to make the

Bmbmans Medicine that cures all difeafes,

A manuel experiment, difcovered and

communicated to the World

By Join Hey don Gent. $>/* hy opos, ^ Servant of
God, and a Secretary of Nature.

^nE^tf tup ajnt^na nuann miWi wttfon

Si no* ego mlbi 3 ({ins mlbl ? ' & cum ego mibimet iffh #*'<* £l9?
LONDON. Printed by X.M. 1662.

To my honoured friend

Mr. Robert Richardfon Citizen and
Merchant Adventurer of
London i .

All Cosleftial and Terreftial happincfs
be wifhed.

SIR,

Following the Vath of the Rofie
Crucians , // is my ambition to let
the world know why it is that 1 do ef*
f e daily honor men 5 it is not Sir as they
are high born heirs of the great Poten-
tates^ for which moti honor them ( and
upon which account 1 alfoJ/:all not deny
them their due ) but as they excel in bo-
ne fly > and are friends to the Fraternity
of R. C. That poor Philofophers
fhould take no delight in Riches, and
. Rich men fhould take great delight in
Philofophy , is to me an Argument
that there is more delight, honor, and

fatis-

fatisfa&ion in the one then in the other.
Have you not heard of a Nobleman s
Porter that let in all that were rich
apparelled, but excluded a poor Phi-
lofo pher f But Jfiould if I had been in
his. place % have rather let inthePhiJo-
fopher without the gay cloaths> then
the gay cloaths without the Philofopher,
As long as I 'have fen ft andreafonjfoall
improve them to the honor of Arts, in
the perfeUion thereof there are long lifei
health, youth> riches, honor, pleafure,
wifdom and vertue 5 By Art Aretefius
lived a thouf and year s^ Des Cares knew
all things paft, prefent or to come .• By
Art Elias raifed the dead, Jofhua
made the Sun ftand (till, and Mofes
with Aurum Potabile healed the peo-
ple. %y thefe Arts yon may command
Lead into Gold, dying plants into fruit-
fulnefsjhejick into healthy old Age into
youth , darkpefs into lights a month
would fail me to give you an account of
their power $ but you may read them in
The Rofie Crucian Infallible Axi-
omes, and in our boohjcalled The Har-
mony

mony of the world, and in our Tem-
ple of Wifdom. 'Now for the effecting
of this -9 letmeadvife you to read well
all my books , there ym will find my
Mifirefs9 fie is a Virgin^ and a mother of
children 5 court the mot her 0 and you will
win 'the daughter 5 prevail with nature9
and the fair Beata is at your fervice } it
is pity there is fuch great encouragement
for many empty and unprofitable Arts%
and none for thefe and fuch like ingenui*
ties9 which if promoted would render
an Vniverfity far more* flounfhing them
any in the world % but I never expeBto
fee fuch dayes in this Kingdom^ titlflja-
dows vanifo9 and fub fiances flour i/b7
truth prevail, and The fraternity of the
Rolie Crofs dif cover themfelves to us9
which time 1 hope is at hand> and de fired
by all true Artifis, and to my knowledge
especially by yourfelf9 upon which ac-
count I truly honor you. 'Now to your
felf therefore I crave leave to Adumbrate
this part of the Art which 1 know you
will be willing to promote for the pub life
good. I Dedicate this Treatife toyou9 not

that

that it is worthy your acceptance 9 but
that it may receive worth by your accepK
ingof it. I prefent it to you (as men
bring Lead to the Philofophers to be
tinged into Gold) to receive the
ftampe of your favor and approbati-
on9 that it may pafs currant with an ac-
ceptance amongfi the Rofie Crucians!
Aftrologers, Geomancers, Aftrono^ <|
mersi Philofophers and Phyficiansj
whereby you wiUoblige%

Sir,

London

March 1 5. Your moft affe&ionate

1662.

friend and fervanc

fohnHeydon*

LiB4* The Holy Guide.

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