Section 34

REC1P ESol that is pure and good, And fee that from him you take his pure blood, Your Stove you muft divide in parts three, And the fourth of the Ferment muft be.
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If you will have for Red, and White too,
To Red after this Order you muft doe,
And the White after the fame,
Muft be ferment with Lune by name,
And the matter equally divyde
One for the Red, the other for the White.
Another like VeflTell for the White you muft looke,
As before is taught you in this Booke.
When your Ferments to your matters be put,
Then your VefTcll clofe you muft fhut;
And iett it to Putrif ye as you did before,
The full tyme as I faid of yore :
And ufcitt in every degree,
As in the next Chapter before you may fee.
Butlookcthatyouknowe your two Ferments aflunder,
Or elce of your folly itt were great wonder:
And when from his Blaekneffe you have brought itt
Then have you Elixir of wonderfull might: White,
Your Red to his perfe&ion is not fully brought,
But your White is perfe&ly wrought.
Your Red with moft ftrong heate muft be f edd
In a clofe Furnace until! itt be Redd :
When itt is Redd and will melt likewaxe,
Then of all that fliould be nothing laxe.
Now have you a Sunt of wonderfull might,
Which will take Mercury before his flight,
And command him to ftay, and caufc him to bring
All Mettalls unto him, and call him their Kingc,
And make fuch obedyenee without Digrefton,
That of him they fhall all take Impreffion 5
Now have you a Stem of wonderfull power,
Which conteineth the three Species and the Elements
Fire in Colour, Water by Effiifion^ (fcure .•
larthto fight without delufioa,
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Aire is in Water all men doe knowe,
And thus the fourc Elements accordcth nowe:
As for the three Specks I will flicwe,
How in your Stone you may them knowe:
Tintfure for Blood pcrteincth to the Animall,
Moyfture the Vegetable part pofTdTe ihall 5
All Earth is Minerall without any doubt,
Thus kcepe we in one Circle and never goe out.
Now have I my Figure perfe&ly wrought,
Yett of the Center I have faid right nought.
A Center is a pricke of whatfoever itt be.
Without any manner of divifibilitie 5
And made as Nature doth well provide,
So as no Accident may itt divide :
Only by hand but in the Qyantitic,
But by noe Element feperate the Qyalitie;
If in greate Fire you fctt it downe>
A true Salamander itt wilbe found;
If in the W atcr thou throwe I wis,
It will live there as doth aFifh5
If in the Aire you caft it up hye,
There will it live, and never dye :
If in the Earth thou bury itt faft,
Then will it remaine there, and ever laft.
Thus can no Element divide without doubt,
The Center which our Whcele turnes about :
Now how to Multiply your Medicine I trow,
Would doe you much good for to knowe ;
For unlefle you know howe to Multiply,
Your Medicine will be fpent quickly:
Then would itt put thy minde to much paine,
To thinke that thou muft make itt againc :
Therefore the next Chapter fliall teach thee right,
To Multiply this Stone of wonderfull might.
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How to Multiply.
NOW in this Chapter I meane to fliewe, How to Multiply that thou may knowe : Iflron to the Load-ftone be not put certcinly, Itt will decreace wonderfully 5 The Species of all things both more and lefle each one, Arc mainteyncd by rcafon of Multiplication 5 Then if they be not Multiplyed they decay, But Multiplication makes them be all away. All things after Conception receive naturall Food, To mainteine their kind as Nature feeth good : Soe likewife our Stone muft needs Multiply, Or elce the Species of that Stone will dye : And Multiplication muft needs be of fuch thing* As the thing multiplied takes beft likcing. Fire which burneth perpctuallya If Matter want Fire will dye • But for to feed our Stone rightly, The way I will fliewe prefently. Take your Glaffc and Medicine withal!, And in a warme Fire fett itt you {hall; And when itt begins to liquefy, Put common Mercury to itt by and by 5 And itt wilbe devoured anon By vertue of heate that is in out Stone, And as much as you putt in quantitie, Soe much doth your Medicine augment truly : Yett you muft have reafon not for to cloye, With overmuch cooling, kind heate thereby 1
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And as of a Dragme you will make a Pounds,
You may well do itt, if you keep round 5
And when it is Multiplied fufficiently,
Then from the Fire fet it by.
A man in this Land once I knewe,
That marred that he made, and fo may yowc •
Except ye doe as I have taught,
And then neede you to fcare nought.
Another I knewe which wanted good direccion,
And at once fpent all at one proje&ion.
Thefe knew not howc itt flio|i*ld be multiplyed,
Which things I have taught you at this tyde 5
But fee that the Mercury wherewith ye Multiply,
Be made foe cleane as itt may be.
Now to make him extend his perfe&ion. It is needfull to know how to make projeccion : Whereof in the next Chapter I will create, For of Multiplicacion I will noe more fpeake;
Chap. VL Of TrojeBion.
NO to lacke we but onely this Leflbn to take, Pcrfe&ly proje&ion for to make : Take one parte of the Medicine, and of $ "B or Tinn, But fee that you make them exceeding cleane 5 And when your Mettall doth Liquefy, Then caft in your parte of Medicine quickly. Then will it be brought to fuch a paffe, That all will be as brittle a glaffe 5 Take the brittle fubftanceas it is, And upon an (ioo.)to take doe not mifle. That 100. uppon 1000. foe ftill inereafe you may,
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And p rojcfl noc more When your Tinfture doth decay. This proje&ion is fure without any doubt, Thus is our Whccle turned round about* In what Veflell to projeft I need not to tell, For a Maifter of his Arteknoweth it very well-, To projed on Mettalls nowe you knowe, And to projecft on mans body nowe will I fhewe. Firft the Body muft be purged well, And by fwetting and bathing be made futtell. And when you arc cleane according to your minde, Take a dragme of yourMcdicine with thcQuintcflence of Such a fuddeine alteration itt will (howe, lWine5
As you need not to feare Corruption noe moe •• Nowe of his Vcrtues I need not to declare, They arc fully fliewnc by others elce-wherc. * Now to the holy Trinitie I thee commend, Thankekig him my Worke is at an end ■• Chargeing thee this Secret from bad men to keepc, Though withgreatc Importance of thee they ittfeefce5 And beware itt goe not from thy hand, Except to a perfecft honeft man. ByBookcs the true Worke I could never finde, Therefore left I this Booke behinde, That to whofe fhare foevcr itt might fall, By itt they might know our Secrctts all. God grant noe Multiplyer mcetc with my Booke, Nor noe finifter Clerkcs thereon to looke5 Then will they pay their debts furely, And build Churches, and Steeples very hye5 Keepe itt from thefe f olkes I thee pray, As thou wilt anfwere before God att laft day.- For whatfoever hath bin faid to our worke doth accord Therefore give honour, prayfe,and thankes to our Lord- Holy and Reverend be his Name, Which to me vile Synner hath revealed the fame.
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|N Pilgrimage one onely thing I found Of worth in Lemnes ncre to Vulcan's fhopp, A Chriftall fountcine running under ground , Between a Vally and a Monnteincs topp.
Pleas'd with this fight, I bid a Hermit* tel!
The ftory of the place, who there did dwell.
Within this Vale a hallowe dusky Cave
There is (quoth he) of greate Antiquity,
Where plumes of Mays blew grcene and red you have :
Tornefrom his creft for his Iniquity. The Troope of Smiths, as he for Venus lay, Surpris'd and tookc him, yctt he gctt away.
For as the CycUps him in tryumph brought, To halting Vulcan to receive his doome, They lifted up his beaver, and found nought But vacant place and Armour in the rooxne.
Of th'armour then they thought they had good prize, But working it they found itt fcyndarize.
The Smiths amaz'd finding thcmfelves dcludedr Satt all in Counfaile in their Matters Dome , Deliberating well, at length concluded, There is noequall War twixt Godds and men, Lett's finde the Angry God and pardon crave, Lett's give him Venus our poore felves to favc.
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They fought in Heaven Mars knew his fa& fo bad, He came out there, then one began to tell, Saturntmm'd from hisThrone, a Place had Not far from thence,hard by this Chriftall Well. Thither they wen,and found two Gods alone, Sitting within a darkc3 but glittering throne.
Downe fell old Vulcan on his crooked knee, And faid forgive, O mighty God of Warr, My fervants and my felfe (once God as yee ) Then ufe thy will with Venus my fairc ftarr. Saturne (quoth tMars) and 1 muft not yet parr, Though (heefor whom th'art pard'ned hath my heart.
With this the Cuckold with his fweaty Troope
Went to his Forge and feera'd to make a legg,
Att every fteppe, where halting made him ftoope,
In thankes to Mars, granting what he did begg 5
In whofe remembrance you fliall ever have
Syndars, and fetters in that hollow Cave*
But lett me tell you all that then befell, lave feeing this, meaning the Smith to right, Sent downe a winged God, he trufted well , Difguif d in habitt of a fhineing light, Which to the Vally from the Hill's high topp, Affrighted all the fmiths in Vulcans fhopp.
A voyce was heard from loves Embafladour, To fummon Mars t'appeare before the Gods: With Saturne forth came Venus Paramour : Thinkeing with might to gett of right the odds : Downward came he 9. myles, they upward fower, All mett in mift, he fledd, they nere went lower.
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Vulcan came hobling up to fc what's done, He findes nor light, nor Gods, but other fhape$ To witneffe of this fa& he calls the Sonne ^ Who (Ireght crycs Murther,and made haft to fcape:
Some dyeing Soule groan'd forth, Apollo ftay>
Helpc wife i^ipoh ere thou goeft away.
With this Apollo lookeing round about, Efpies this fountaine knowes the voice was here, And boweing downe to finde the party out, Himfelfe unto himfelfe doth ftreyght appeare.
There gaz'd he till a fturdy fhowre of rayne
Tookc mk^pollo from himfelfe againe.
Farewell Apollo then Apollo fayd,
To morrow when this ftorme is fully paft,
He turnc and bring fome comfortable ayd,
By which He free thee ere the latter caft. Then did itt cry as if the voyce were fpent, Come fweete Apollo 7 foe itt downwards went.
Vulcan went to his Forge, the Sonne to bed, But both were up betimes to meete againe; Next morne after the ftorme a pale foule dead Was found att bottome of this faire Fountaine.
Smith (faid Apollo) helpe to lade this fpring,
That I may raifc to life yonder dead thing.
Then Vulcan held A f olio by the heele, While he lades out the Waters of the Well % Boweing and ftraining made Apollo feele Blood from his nofe, that in the fountaine fell. Vulcan (quoth he) this Accident of blood Is that or nought muft doe this Creature good*
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He fpake the word, and Vulcan fawc itt done, LookcS*/(faidhe)I fee itt changeth hue, Fewe Gods have vcrtue like to thee 6 Sonne, From pale itt is become a ruddy blue $ VttlcanlqaothPhcebfts) take itt to tfty forge, Warme it, rubb it,lctt itt cafte the Gorge.
Thus Fulcan did M fpued the Waters out,
And then itt fpake and aydc itt was a cold;
Then Vulcan ftuft and cloath'd it round about,
And made the Stone as hott as ere itt would.
Thus fourteenc dayes itt fickly did indure>
The Sonm came every day to fe the cure.
As itt grewe well the Colours went and came, Blew* Blaeke, White, Redd, as by the warmth & heate, The humours moved were within the fame. Then Phcebus bid him put it in a fweate 5 Which Vulcan ply de foe well, it grueall Red, Then was itt found, and caldfor drinke and bread.
Stay f quoth ApHo) though itt call for mcate, Difgeftion yett is weeke, 'twill breede relapfe, By furfett, therefore ereyoulett itt eate , Some little exercife were good pcrhapps, Yett had itt broath alowde the ftrcngth to keepe, But when 'twas on his leggsit would fcarcc creepe.
Sol fawe fome reliques left of th'ould difeafc, A folutine (quoth he) were good to clenfe, Withwhichthefickneflfehe didfo appeafe. Health made the Patyent fceke to make amenfc5 Who went away three weekes, then brought a Stone* That in proje&ion yefclded ten for one*
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This did he Jay downe att Apollo's feete, And faid by curcing one th'haft faved three .• Which three in this one prefent joyntly meet?, OfFringthemfelves which are thine ownetothee. Be our Phyfitian, and as we growe old, Wcele bring enough to make new worlds of Gold*
With that this Htrmite tookc me by the hand . And ledd me to his Cell 5 Loe here f quoth he) Could'ft thou but ftay, and truly underftand What thou now fceft, thou knowft this Myftcry*
Iftajd, I/aw, Itrjdc^ and undtrBood^
A HtAv'nw Eaitb, aneverUJling good.
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of the Stone.
T Hough Daphne Ay from Fhcebus bright. Yet fliall they both be one, And if you undcrftand this tight,
You have our hidden Stene. For DAfhnt flic is fairc and white :
But Volatile is fhe5 fhoebm a fixed God of might,
And red as blood is he. Davhm is a Water Nymph,
And hath of Moyfture ftore, Which Vhosbns doth, confumc with heate,
And dryes her very fore. They being dryed into one.
Of chriftall flood muft drinke, Till they beferought to a white Stone:
Which wafli with Virgins inilke, So lenge untill they flow as wax,
And no fume you c an fee, Then have you all you neede to aske,
Praife Cod and thankfull be*
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Thejlanding of the (jlajfe for the tyme of the Putrifadtion, & Congelation of
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THcGlaJfe with the Medicine muft ftand in the fyrc Forty dayes till it be Blackc in fight-, (defirc, Forty dayes in the BlacknefTc to (land he will And then forty dayes more, till itt be White, And thirty in the drying if thou lift to doe right; And then is the Sulphur pcrfe&ly Calcinate, Todrinkeuphismoyfturc for him, being preparate.
In this tyme the Glajfe neither open nor fhutt, But ftill let him ftand all the aforcfaid dayes, Not once from the Furnace that ye take him upp * For by Cooling the Matter the Medicine decayes, Therefore you muft fire continue alwaycs, In one meafure and temperatenes of heate, Untill all be White, and the Sulphur compleate.
This heate fufficeth for this principle one, Which is the cheife ground of Cur Secreus all, Without which Knowledg thou muft not make thcStwer If thou labour thy ly fe tyme, not profper thou fhall, Therefore merry beware thou doe not fall. But firft truly learne, before thou beginne, And fo to true workeing thou fhah the better wynne.
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Folio w this Booke, and wander not afidc Out of the way, to the left hand, nor the right, But {freight betweene both direttly you guide Thy Worke, foe as I to thee doe write, For in this Booke I will thee plaincly excite, How thou ihaJt make the Philofophers Lead, That is Elixir to the White and the Redd.
And then the Golden Oyle called Aurumfotdile, A Medicine moft marvelous to preferve Mans health, And of Tranfmutation the greateft that can bee, For in the fame Oyle is nothing but wealth 5 Then glorious he is in the power of himfelfc: Fornoefickncflecan ftand where he is in place, Norpovertie dwell in the plcafures of his Face,
^Enigma
4*3 Mnigma Wlofophicum.
THcrc is no light, but what lives in the Smne% There is no Sunne^ but which is twice begotts Nature and Arte the Parents firft begonne : By Nature 'twas, but Nature pcrfefis not. Arte then what Nature left in hand doth take. And out of One a Twofold worke doth make.
A Twofold worke doth make, but fuch a worke As doth admitt Divifon none at all (See here wherein the Secret moft doth lurke) Unleffe it be a {Mathematical!.
It muft be Tm, yet make it One and One,
And you do take the way to make it None.
Lo here the Primar Secret of this K^irte , Contemne it not but underftand it right, Whofaikthtoattaine this form oft part, Shall never know Artes force nor Natures might.
Nor yet have power of one- and One fo mixr.
To make by pnefixti one unfixidfixt.
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Hen an hundreth & fourfcorc had run their Then fone after in fhort time & fpace3 (race Blackncs began to (hew his Face, (in fyght But when a C. and L. had overcumde hyra He made him wafh hisFace white & bright Which unto me was a joyfull (yghtl