Book I. The Rojie Crncian Crovpn 3 5

congeaUnd be hard and dry this 4o often and
and hoiv much the more the medicine (hail be
diffolved it will be focnuch more perled.nnd
fuch a iolution is the fublimacion cf the m^di*
cine and its virtual uWimation^ which the otten-
tr it is reiterated io much more abundantly and
more parts it tingeth.

Whence Rafis faith thegoodncfs of this mul.^
tiplicationconfiftetb in the reiteration fubliTii-
tion and fixation of the medicine and by ho^
much more this order is repeated it worketh lo
6iuch more and is augmented for fo often as you
fublime your medicine and dilToIve it youfliall
gain /o much every time in projection one up^
on a thouiand and if the tirft fall upon a thou-
iand the third upon a hundred thoufand the
fourth upon a million and lb infinitely. Foe
Mortent^s the Philofopher faith ; Know foe
certain that the otcener our flone is diflblTcd
and congealed the fplrit and foul is joined
more to the body and is retained by it and
in every time the Tindure is mult'plyed.

Whence we thus read in ScaU PhUofofho^
tHWy which alfo the Philofophers fay. Diffolv^
and congeal, fo without doubt it isunderftood
of the folurion of the body and foul with the
fpirit into water and congealatipn makes the
foul and fplrit mix with the body and if with"
one folucion and fimple eongcalation the fcul
and fpint would be perfediy Joined to the
i^ody the Philoiophers would not f^y ditfoW^
again, and con -eaUand ar^^in diHolve andCv)n-'
geal dm the Tiafture of the ftone may grew
" ~ F. if|

54 '^r/je Kofie Crucian Crowrj* Book I.

if it could be done with one congealaiion on-
ly.

The Medicine is another way mulciplyed
by fermentation and the ferment to the white
is pure filver, and the ferment to the red is
pure gold, therefore pro Jed one part of your
medicine upon a of the ferment (but I fay 3
parts of the medicine npononeof the ferment)
and all will be Medicine, which put inaglais
upon the fire and fo clofe it that no air go
in nor out, and keep it there till it be fubtili-
ated as you did with the firft medicine and
one part of the fecond medicine will have as
much vertue asonepait, of the firft medicine
bad (but here again CUngor BnccinA bath erred
for it (hould be write thus) one part of the
fecond medicine will have as much vertue as
ten parts of the firfl medicine had.' And thus by
folution and fermeutacion the medicine may
be multiplied infinitely.

Wc have fpoken enough of this multiplicati-
on, we now come to the other way of aug-
mentation which is called corporeal multipli-
cation and according to %AjmHn^ is thus de*
fined.

Augmentation is the Addition of Quantity ;
whence Anlcen writeth. It is hard to projeft
apon a million and to preducate it inconti-
ticntly wherefore / will reveal one great fc-
cretunto you, one part is to be mixed with a
thoufand parts of its neareft in kind ( I call*
that neaceft that is the body of the fame met-
tal whcrjpf the mcaicine was made or per-

fsftcd)

Book T. 7he Rofie Crucian ^rown. 3 5

perfedcd) but to return again to Anicei9^ clofc
; all this firmly in a fit vcflel and fee it in a fur-
nace of fufion 5 days till ic be wholly joined
together. Whereof it is more largely and
better fee down by the laid Author and
the manner of the work is thus projeded, one
part of the forefaid medicine upon 100 parts
of molten 'gold and m makes ic brictle and
will allbc^rnedicine whereof one part projed:-
ed a hundred of any melted mctcal! convert -
cthitjnto pure gold and \i you projed it up-
on filver in like manner it convertethal) bodies
intofilver.

laScala Phtlof^phortirmW {ortf ofprojediori
is let thus down in few words. OCou muft
know that firft it is iaid projeft ^ that is to
fay one upon 100 &c. yet it is better to pro-
ject nt^ncdimittis upon (Mnd^menta zn&.ffinda*
wenta upon verhA mea and verhn msA upon
Migans te Domine and dtltgam te upon atten*
^ite^ This breif AsniguA is thus expounded
it is nothing clfe but the words and opinion
of the former Author concealed under the
Aeni^ura. Therefore let us repeat the words
of this aAem^HYAQt Oraccle,

l^unc^dimittTS fii^er funclamenta
Fiwdamentafu^er verba mc^
Verba meafufcr diligam te
'Diligamtefuj^er attendiU,

Fa '^ l^h'ee

36 Jhe Rofie Crucian Crown Book i. .

Thefe are trifles for the hiding and concealing
the perkdion ot cheArc if che expert Artift
could be divetrcd with fuch funplc words .
wb'ch though they are hard at tirft to ytJtlT:^
A' tills , yet they are thus explained. We
therefore begin with the firft fentcncc.

Hmjc di mitt is fi/pcr fundamenta.

.1
This is here Allegorical^ taken for the lafladi-
on almeft of the work which is called '' the medi- ;
cine or ftone, which medicine is to be projeded
upon the ferment that is to r:iy upcn t^he oyl gf
S9I or Luna, which arc the ferments or foundati-
onsofthcArt in fpiritual augmentation(as before
was faid) upon molten gold and filver. And
that fpintualferment converted into medicine
is to be" projedted upon molten gold or fiLvcr
which are corporeal ferments in corporeal
Augmentation and the corporeal fundaments of
the Art upon quick filver.

Pnndamentafuper verba me a.

This is alfo fpoken allcgorically becaufc iti
the Adage it is faid words are xyind. as if a
word were not.hin? elTe but the Inotion .of
the lips and exhakation of rtic lungs which
no fooner irifc from motion but fly away
and are turned to air fo likcwifc Quick filvrer
or MncHry goeth out of the bQiiig^.^f other

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