Book 3 , The Kofie Crucian Crown. 2 I

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CHAP. V.

The fourth Table of the Phyfical and Alchymkal
TinBure out of the red Lyon and Glue of the
Eagle^ drawn out from the Authors ^X/^e-
ricnce.

IT is chiefly to be rcmembred how we firft
taught you to diiTolve Antimony with our
scetHm acerrimftm, which may be alfo well done
if you diffolve it in our calcinative water, and af-
ter that Antimony is calcined which we fpoke of
in the end of the fecond book 5 it is alfo to be
remembred that in the end of the book 1 fpoke
of the Glue of the Eagle in the fixth Table of
the firft book ; thefe being remembred, it is to be
underftood that we attribute no other beginning
.to this accurtation , except that where before we
took the blood of the red Lyon and the Glue of
che Eagle when they were both deftroycd; we
now joyn them found and not hurt together,thac
they living may mortifie and diffolve tbemfelves>
whichlhave fitly called Corporeal Matrimony*
or the Union> for in this wedlock they dye toge-
ther j that they may be vivified in the Celeftial
Matrimony ; therefore it is not to be wondred if
this Table differ from the other, for this pertain-
eth to the handling of fpirits , the othe-r way
teacheth the manner of making the Elixir of
bodies • therefore we now come to demonftrate
the foregoing Table.

Therefore that 1 mjy plainly revcalall things

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unto you 1 take Antimony well ground, haJ£ a
pound, and as much Mercury fublimate, likewife
ground, and grind them both togeth upon a mar-
bleftill you cannot know them one from another j
jchenfetthem in a cold place, that the matter
diflblving may drop into a Glafs fet underneath,
for when the matters are. well mixed together,
ihenfay, that they will both fhortly bediffolved
when th^ water is perfe6lly diflblved , it will be
of a greenifh colour apd iochfome fmell.
- -Put this water with the thick part with it into
fe Glafs, and let it ftand the fpaceof three days
in a fixitory under the fire, and in (horttime
you (hill I fee your diffolvednefs of s brownifli
black colou"", and after, that is to fay, in the fore-
faid time it will be red , fomething higher then
red Lead.

Diffolvethiscakined matter in RaymundscaU
cihative water, and when you have diffclvedit all
into a red liquor or dz^\> velowj then is your mat-
ter brought well into its Chaos.

Put this liquor into a fit bodv with an Alim-
jbeck and receiver , and by diliallation fepirate
the red oyl or the red Mercury from the white
body which remaineth in the earth 5 and if any
matter afcend into the head of the Alimbeck, de-
fpife it not , but trie if it be fixed, and if it be
not RxQd enough I fublime it till it be fixed.

Whereunto joyneqml weight of its foul, for
the Celeltiai Matrimony , and always leave out
the earth in the bottom if you have any fublimate
fixed, ii not, take the white earcn remaining in
the bottom^ with which proceed as before is faidj
and joyn the white body with the foul; when

they

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chey are thus joyned or married 1 fee them toim-
pregnace and revivifie in Bulneo, till it pafs
:^hrough all colours, and at la(t be converted into
red, which then is the rtone-

The manner of Fermentation, Augmentation,
both in quantity and quality, and projeciionj is
fpoken of before in other works. '

And chusSonsj Brethren and Reader, I have
delivered and opened { and aifo have amended
many things) all the fecrets of the Ancient Phi-
lofophers, whofe writings were rather publifhed
to conceal the Art , then to make it manifett or
teach it ; alchough it pleafed Hermes Irlfmegl-
ftnsy the firl^ writer of this Art 3 both to fay and
protett that he had never revcaledi taught, nor
prophefied any thing of this Arc to any, exept
fearing the day of Judgement or the damnation
of his Soul i for fliuning the danger thereof,even
as he received the gift of Faith from the Author
of Faith, fo he left it to the faithful 5 yet when
you read his writings , either in his Smaragdine
Table, or in his Apocalips, or his twelve Golden
Gates, and (hall find nothing plain or manifeft,
what will you think of fuch an Author ? Believe
me all the Ancients have concealed thefecrec of
their preparations in the grofs work , although
they writ moft famoufly of the Philofophical o-
peration ; therefore I have ufed my endeavour to
trye, for out of their writings I found that the
Elixir might be made of the Planets or Metcals,
and alfo of mean Minerals , which came more
neer to a metallick nature , then reading more, I
found a certain method amongft them all> as it
were with one confenc or voice on this wife.

Firft

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pirll and principally y chat bodies (lionld be
made incorporeal 3 that is to fay, difcorporared,
or difcompounded) which then is called the Hyle
or Chaos.

Secondly ^ That out of this Cbaodical fub-
ftance)Which is one thing, three ElemcntS3(houId
be feparated and purified.

Thirdly ^ That the feparated and purified ele-
tnents fhould be joyned , the man and the wo-
man, the body and the foul , heaven and earth,
with infinite other names fo called, that the igno-
rant might think they were djverfd , which one-
ly were nothing elfe but water and Salt, or the
body and fpiric or foul 5 that is do fay , white
MercHry and red , which they joyned together
that a new and pure body might be created in
putrefa(^ion, that a Microcofmical infant might
be created in imiration of the Creation, that is to
fay. Sulphur of Nature.

FourthIy,That it fhculd be fed with Milk,tbat is
to fay, with its own proper Tindlure , and after
nouriQied by Fermentation, that it may grow to
its pcrfe<fllirength.

Having learned thefe, I begun to praftice, and
in the pradlice of every body and fpirit , I found
diverfe errors ; but reading more and trying
more , at lalt I found the manner and true way
of diffolving all bodies, feparating and conjoyn-
ing tbcmj finaing the componrion of their fe-
crct of fecrecs, that is to fay, Lac virgims^ or
Acemm acerrimum, and RAjmnnds calcining wa-
ter, wherewith Idirtolved all bodies at pleafure,
and perfe^d the grofs work; wherefore I pur-
pofed J contrary to the cuflom.e of the Philofo-

phers^