BOOK I.— PART I.

Chap. I. Natural Magic defined ; of Man ; his Creation, Divine Image, and Fall ; and of the spiritual and magical Virtue of the Soul ib.
Chap. II. Of the Wonders of Natural Magic, displayed in a Variety of sympathetic and oc- cult Operations, in Animals, Minerals, and
Vegetables, treated of miscellaneously. 24
Of the Serpent 28
Chap. III. Of Amulets, Charms, and Enchant- ments ; an Amulet for the Flux of Blood 30
Chap. IV. Of Unctions, Philters, Potions, &c. 32
Their magical Virtue 33
Chap. V. Of Magical Suspensions and Alliga- tions ; shewing by what power they are effica- cious in Natural Magic 34
Chap. VI. Of Antipathies 35
Chap. VII. Of the occult Virtues of Things
which are inherent in them only in their Lives,
and such as remain in them after Death 37
Chap. VIII. Of the wonderful Virtues of some Kinds of precious Stones 39
ALCHYMY.
The Secret of the Philosophers’ Stone 51
Epistle to Museus 53
Epistle to the Reader 55
Of Alchymy, and its Divine Origin 56
Discovered to Man by Uriel ib.
Zoroaster made Gold from the Seven Metals ib.
Zoroaster was the Father of Alchymists ib.
The Authors who have wrote upon it ib.
The comparison of Alchymists 57
What an Adept is ib.
Van Helmont’s Account of Alchymy 58
Kircher’s Account of Alchymists ib.
The Description of the Philosophers’ Stone ib.
Account of a real Transmutation 59
Account of Flammel, the Alchymist ib.
History of Butler’s Universal Medicine ib.
What is not universally understood generally
referred to the Black Art 63
Of the Preparation necessary to qualify a Man
for the Search of the Philosophers’ Stone 64
Of the Prima Materia ib.
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Ten Lessons, teaching the Transmutation of base
Metals into Gold 64
Lesson XI. XII. XIII. and XIV. teaching the Manner of extracting the Prima Materia of the Lapis Philosophonun j and the Use it is of in purifying imperfect Metals, to Change them into good Gold 68