The New Olympic Rosary And Blessed - Rosarium Novum Olympicum Et Benedictum
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This is a New Philosophical Rose Belt of the Most Wise King Salomone,
H. Salomone Trismosino, H. Trithemio, D. Theophrasto, &c. To all and every Filis doctrinae Hermeticae (Children of the Hermetic doctrine), and D. Theophrasticae enthusiasts to good rehends opened in two parts.
FIRST PART - PARS PRIMA
Per Benedictum Figulum; Venhoviatem, Francum:
Poetam L.C. Theologum, Thesophum; Philosophum; Medicum Eremitam. T-M-
By Benedict Potter; Venhoviatem, Frank:
The poet L.C. Theologian, Theosophus; Philosopher; The hermit physician. T-M-
Printed at Gasel, by the author,
Anno 1608.
To Trismegistus, of the blessing and grace born unto us.
TrIsMegIsto BeneDICtIonIs & gratIae nobIs genItae
THREE GREAT BLESSINGS & GRACES TO US
English Version translated by Mitko Janeski
Contents:
1. Containing the Practice, of the Wisest King Solomon, on the Philosopher's Stone
2. The Book of Salomon Trismosinus - of the Red Lion and his treasury
3. Tinctura 2 - the Black Eagle Salomonis Trisomosini
4. Tincture - Salomonis Trismosini
5. Johannes Trithemius - Of the other Astronomers, that is of Alchemy which the Ancients called our Ancient Arts.
6. Phil.Theophrasti
Paracelsi - On the Reduction of Metals to the First Matter - Containing some Arcana
7. GOLDEN DIAPHORETICS OF THEOPHRAST
8. A truly founded THEORIA Kabalic Testimonies THEOPHRASTI
9. PH. THEOPHRASTI PARACELSI - On the Tincture of the Physicists - DE TINCTURA PHYSICORUM
10. Explanation or the four arcana Theophrasti Anonymi Authoris
11. De Antimonio Alexander von Suchten
12. Tractatulus Rhythmicus Novus - A New Little Rhythmic Treatise
13. Several Enigmas
14. Emblems and Questions on Alchemy
15. Riddles about the Tincture
16. The Procession to the Philosopher's Stone, by a Certain Anonymous Monk.
Iambilichus.
Quicquid habemus boni, habemus Sole, vel ab ipso, vel per alia.
Iambichus:
Whatever good things we have, we have from the Sun, or by other means.
Deus in Coelo est, revelans mysteria profunda & abscondita.
God is in Heaven, revealing deep and hidden mysteries.
Lucae 8.
Non est occuluum, quod non manifestum sit suturm: nec absconditum, quod non cognoscendum, in propatulum venturum
Luke 8
There is no eye, which is not manifest, and there is no hidden thing, which is not to be known.
There is hand written text in German: It is not to be changed. I will not permit it, and will not allow it to be altered in any way."
In the year of Trismegistus the blessing and grace born to us
To the Most Reverend and Honourable, Honourable, Learned and Reverent Hearts H. Sebastiano Küller, Probsten and Archidiacono of the Princely Dignified House of God Seckaw in Szeiermark. H. Georgio Schwalenberg, Canon and Cantor of the Collegiat Srifs Frißlar in Hessen: As also H. Henrico Praetorio, Protonotario Apostolico, Illustrissimi Marchionis a Burgavv, &c. CAROLI, Concioniatori Aulico, &c. To his most generous, generous, much-loved and charitable hearts, mecoenatibus (patrons) and friends.
S.P.D.
Dearly beloved and honourable as well as well learned, highly experienced, devout in Christ, generous hearts, friends and brothers, together with my greetings, I wish you all salvation and prosperity from GOD Almighty for this New Incoming Year, together with all temporal and eternal happiness before: Dearly beloved hearts, benevolent Mecoenates and friends, just as the stag Psalm 41. As the stag gives after fresh springs of water, so now all this time since I won your patronage, I have been drinking with all lovers and followers (sectatoribus), the holy heavenly philosophers and alchemists, especially with you from the fountain of truth, not only what the natural light, but also the light of the Holy Spirit reveals from its very own heavenly message of the Holy Scriptures.
But now many erroneous lights have been lighted and set up in this world by Lucifer and his organisers, whereupon this present blind, selfish and money-crazed world regulates itself and boasts of great high wisdom and gifts and bounces and flaunts them and makes itself appear as if the sky would fall down if it were not for them: regulates itself and boasts of great high wisdom and gifts and bounces and flaunts them and makes itself appear as if the sky would fall down if it were not for them: all together is only a false pagan deadly philosophising and before God's face as a hideous sin, stinking pretended wisdom, which is a loud foolishness before him, as Paulus says, and can never again stand or be seen before the throne of God.
There are also many stinking, foul, stultifying spirits, laymen and princes, who flow from the dead carrot and dark kingdom of Satan, in it nothing but devilish cunning and lies. Indeed, many thousands of people unwittingly and in great blindness drink both temporal and eternal death from them and yet consider them to be healthy, healing wells and springs of water.
Accordingly, from my youth I have sought such fountains of truth and living fountains of true wisdom and philosophers with great diligence and earnestness: Although I myself strayed from the right path and was led and drawn to the foul, nasty, dark princes of the supposedly wise philosophers of the world and the arts, yet by divine gracious providence and drawing of the heavenly Father, I was again fatherly redeemed and turned away from such turbid dark spirits: and finally arrived at the highly enlightened Philosopher and Monarch of the Arts (Philosopho and Artium Monarcha) THEOPHRASTO, who explains and expounds to me the light of nature from true fundamental reason (fundamentaliter), in Astronomia, Philosophia, Magia, & Theologia Cabalistica, which reason may never again be contradicted in eternity: And then also comes to you who speaks in the New Testament loh 4. cap. To the Samaritan woman, that HE shall give no living water: and he shall give such, and it shall become in him a well of water, and shall spring up into everlasting life: and whosoever drinketh of this water shall never again be allowed.
Item: To the one from whom the Father Father called from heaven, Matth.3. Listen to this, this, I say (Hunc, Hunc, inquam, audite ). Who also himself says Johan. 14., I bind the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father through me, &c. But now many a year hero, ye dear hearts and citizens, (when I now some years hero, come again to the true natural Spagiristic Philosophy. ) to drink with you from the cup of the prophet Esdrae and Joseph, or also from the Moses' drinkable golden calf (Auro potabili Mosis), which he sprinkled from the golden crushed calf on the water and gave to the children of Israel to drink, also to drink the heavenly fiery nectar, and to taste the natural fountain of temporal life and health, which happens to few.
But that this has not yet taken place, it is truly our own fault that we have not prepared and prepared ourselves worthily and efficiently for this, and that we have only pursued and striven with the world for the temporal and have not paid attention to the rule of CHRIST, Matthew 6: Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all other things will be added to you, &c (Quaerite primum regnum DEI & iustitiam eius, & caetera omnia adijcentur vobis, &c). Yes, we have also forgotten the first three Kabalistic principles, Ask, Ask, Knock thee (Petite, Quaer, te Pulsate), if we had done this with diligence, and had led a Christian, God-fearing, God-pleasing life, and had also investigated and fathomed nature better, we would undoubtedly have gained something from the golden fountain of grace of rich nature.
But as much as I may have learnt from all the philosophers who have hitherto written about universal medicine and the divine treasure of tinctures among pagans and Christians, and who have had the philosopher's stone as the supreme secret treasure of nature, I find that the majority of them have all been true naturalists, sensible philosophers, magicians and cabalists. Then the real true magic, is such an art, and skill, by which one arrives at the knowledge of the elements, their combined bodies, fruits, properties, powers and hidden effects.
The Kabala, however, from the high content of the high secret mind, shows man the right way and punishment to reach God the heart, how to deal with him and what to reveal and proclaim from his word.
MAGIA is guided by the Anima mundi and the natural spirit of natural light: if she could draw it from the Creatis (Created/You Created) and creatures of God, especially from the Metals and Minerals (Metallis and Mineralibus), and bring it to an incombustible oil (incombustibili oleo), then man would be helped. CABALA, however, is based on the light of the Holy Spirit, which is also kindled from above in the hearts of believers: with faith must also spring forth and flow from the living water source of CHRIST, John 4, which will then bring us into Eternal Life, where we will enjoy, drink and eat the New Divine Nectar and heavenly Ambrosiam, Mannam and Engelbrodt with CHRIST in His Kingdom.
Now to partake of such graces from the natural fountain of health, and of all riches here and now, and then also of the heavenly graces of the fountain of living water and nectar divini in the kingdom of CHRIST, we must send from ourselves into the matter differently: As to this, of course, Theophrasti, Bachonis, Fr Basili, Isaaci Hollandi, &c. And follow in the footsteps of other philosophers; as for the eternal, follow CHRISTO IESV, as the Trismegisto, Spagyro, Philosopho, Physician of Body and Soul, study the Follow me, ask, seek, knock (Sequere me, petere, quaerere, pulsare), these three also let us be concerned to keep his New Great Commandment, which is after all a light and heavy burden: namely, to love God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind, and with all our strength, and our rights as ourselves, rc.
Item to be found faithful and diligent disciples in the eight virtues of happiness. To hear CHRIST alone, to follow a man, or human wisdom, and its spirit, for it is said: Cursed is he who trusts in Man, Man, and every man is a liar: only God is true, &c. (Maledictus qui confidit in Homine, Homine, & omnis homo mendax: solus Deus veray, &c.) If we will pursue this diligently and with diligence, For Stone is useful in all things, having promises not only of this, but also of the future life. (Pieras enim ad omnia utilis est, promifsiones non tantum huius, fed etiam fuurae vitae habens.)
Diese meine Liberrimam παρρησίαν - This my freest boldness/speech 
("expressing your personal opinion with courage and honesty") Compellation, and free, round, kind-hearted philosophical commendations, I hope you will all favour me, and much more consider and regard my mind and heart, as I so sincerely mean well with all true philosophers and lovers of the noble, dear natural alchemies, and wish from the bottom of my heart that not only I, but all others of their desires, may be graciously informed and given by God such golden gift (donum Aureum) and then also Eternal way & beauty (Aeterna via & beautitudo).
I have no doubt about this for myself, but have already seen many years ago what has been bestowed on me by the Most High Father, all perfect and perfect gifts fed so exhausted after a thousand labors (fed tanem exhaustos post mille labores), and will be in the near future. But we must also learn to recognise nature itself. That nature nourished nature; Naura embraces nature, conquers and survives (Quod natura naturam feparet; Naura naturam complectatur, vincat & superet), as the philosophers say, do not work according to the general practices and processes, of which there is hardly one among thousands, but look at the possibility in all our Chemical Compounds (Compositionibus Chymicis), whether there is a right homogeneitas or not, for Nature is happy to be brought together (Nattura naturae gaudet collaetur), and separate, flee and avoid all heterogenea, for it all lies in experience and awareness. For it is certain and true that he who does not recognise God does not love Him, he knows nothing of Him: he who does not know the Trinity does not believe it, he does not love it.
And these are high mysteries and mysteries of God, of which the world knows nothing, or recognises nothing, therefore it also does not believe it, nor does it fundamentally experience it. And the right The reason for this is given to us by our highly enlightened magus and cabalist THEOPHRASTUS, from the English and cabalistic science (scientia), whom all true Christian philosophy should believe.
So too, he who does not know nature does not love it, he who therefore recognises nothing, who despises nothing in it, his belly is only his god. But the more knowledge is in a thing, the more love is kindled for it. He who does not understand or recognise the poor, or has tried his poverty himself, does not believe him, does not love him, does not do him any good, as the pagan Queen Dido in Virgilio boasts, saying: I learn to help those who are not ignorant of evil (Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco). Which is much more due to us Christians by the command of our Master and the heart of JESUS CHRIST, because, alas, God have mercy, such love and faithfulness have almost grown cold and disappeared in all human hearts. Therefore all things are in knowledge, out of which then flow the fruits towards the same; knowledge gives faith: for he who recognises God believes in him: he who does not recognise him does not believe in him: so each one takes as much as he believes as he recognises.
So also in the alchemy, he who does not learn to recognise it, and its nature and hidden secret powers, deeply locked in the metals and minerals, will not love it either, much less bring it out, know how to separate the pure from the impure (secrete the purum ab impuro), much less attain the fifth essence, which is the whole core and reason in every Being or Creato. And this is enough philosophising for now, until our happy meeting and oral conversation. But while I am well and cordially disposed towards all To the children of the Spagyric doctrine (Filiis doctrinae Spagyricae), and their noble and honest intention to obtain the precious treasure of tinctures and universal medicine, or even just something in particular, with my help, I am quite inclined to promote as much as possible, so I have in turn cultivated and planted a new Olympic Rosarium, therein flush little plants and trees (illegible) and new philosophers Philosophers' writings and bequeathed, which deal with the blessed Philosopher's Stone and the golden Branch of the Philosophers (Ramo Philosophorum) and trace how it can be broken off and obtained from the secret in the garden (Horto) and the Hisperdium tree (Arbore Hisperdium).
I have divided this booklet into two different parts: the first part of which I have ordered to be printed openly under your cordial name, and I wish to dedicate to you all, as my generous, benevolent, dear gentlemen and friends, dedicatory title & right (dedicatorio titulo & jure), for a happy New Year, and thus herewith publicly edit and declare it quasi-public symbol of a grateful mind (quasipublicum gratae mentis Symbolum), because of all the many good and good deeds, also honour, love, and friendship, that have been generated for me: In the undoubted hope Your Reverence and Honour, Love and Favour, will soclhe note my well-meaning dedication of me, as a poor Natural Philosophy (Philosophiae Nauralis) & immortal student and untiring disciple (immortalisalumno and Discipulo indefello), in all the best and do me as hitherto superfluous, also for this to all Christian love and righteous promotion in my eremitic pilgrimage on all sides generously and charitably together with my own in all honour and friendship begun and manifold proven. Herewith, we are sincerely grateful to the divine protection of grace.
Actum Hagenoae, 28 Decembris, Anni 1697. stylo Veteri Juliano, &c.
Act of Hagen, 28 December, In 1697, in the style of Old Julian, &c.
Your Highness and Honour
Willing to serve at all times
Benedictis Figulus. V.Fr.Poeta
L.C. Theologus; Theosophus;
Philosophus; Medicus; Eremita,
D.T.P.D.G.N.
Treatise 1 - TRACTATUS 1.
Containing the Practice, of the Wisest King Solomon, on the Philosopher's Stone.
Continens Practicam, Sapientisimi Regis Salomonis, de Lapide Philosophorum.
You know that fire and non-fire become fire together, that they might make an easy entry (ut facilem fortiantur ingressum). It is necessary that they be released all the more often. For without the Solution this work cannot be perfectly accomplished, whereby further the elements are perfectly separated, for this Stone is accomplished by their element, Water, Air and Fire. Terra is the root and nourishment of the other elements, the ferment indeed. The water which penetrates through the air, the spirit carries and brings. So now understand our solution, that the spirit or water purifies the being from all impurities, the air penetrates through to the root, but the fire makes it fixed and best dig the earth: The water shall be given to the thirsty earth in its season. The earth remains fixed in its place, through which the three elements are put together again: For without the elements his perfect tincture may be prepared. But while in this mixture the elements are still more disorderly mixed together, and lie hidden, yet its sharp and inward sub-unity, which is quite strong in nature and effect, can be prepared. Thus the elements are not able to hide themselves and give off a vapour or smoke, which are noticeably pungent spirits.
It was from these roots that Solomon built the Ark (Archam) and adorned the temple in Jerusalem.
First of all, within the framework of the Most High, take the most noble king, who, bare and pure and surrounded by all virtue and born of the noblest lineage in this world, wears a crown of the finest and purest gold to be found in the world, a crown adorned with the most precious stones. This king dwells in the Orient, and his power is richer and extends to the Occident, and his wrath begins from Midday and terrifies all who dwell in the middle of the night, The solution is the beginning of our work. No tincture is perfect unless it proceeds from a true and perfect root (Solutio, nostri Operis initium est. Nulla Tinctura perfecta, nisi ex vera perfecta radice procedat). Take this king who wears the beautiful golden crown, because of his high and rich mind and brave spirit, show him all his clothes, whatever colours they may be, so that he may be completely clean and pure from all the colours of his manifold clothes, soak him in gently warmed water, from which his age and nature may rejoice, and take care that you do not make the bath too hot, so that you do not burn his tender, pure body, veins, flesh and legs: With the same water rub all his veins soothingly. By this soothing and pleasing bath he will fall asleep. In such a sleep of the king, keep the water in long mild warmth, so that he remains in a degree of warmth constantly. If you thus keep the bath with comfortable warm air, the king will fall into a deep sleep because of the sweet warmth, which he cannot awaken, so that he finally becomes so weak that he dies a gentle and mild death. Let this corpse be rocked in a warm bath with the same warmth until the month is over: then half as long, but let the bath go all over the slain king: all his strength and bones will dissolve and the king will begin to rot, so that his flesh, veins and bones will begin to turn completely black. But his inner heart and inner blood are still beautifully red, fresh and healthy. So you have the beginning of the work and the death of the king, which understand that our root is consumed in water. The work is carried on by the comfortable warmth of material fire.
I will now reveal to you more of the four elements that are still mixed in the decayed body, so keep your water still rising in equal warmth and let the king be well putrified by the material fire, preserved and nourished in equal and mild warmth: Thus awake the four elements of the slain body, which is its inmost warmth and natural working power: So then, as they awake, they become more divided by the elevation of distillation, each in its place.
I will reveal to you the garden of paradise, so that you will understand the work all the better, and I will tell you first of all what the tree is in the middle of the garden.
Secondly, what the earth is in which the tree is planted:
Third, what is the venomous and crafty serpent that counselled the heir to break the apple?
Fourth, what are the four waters that flow through the Garden of Paradise?
The tree Good and Bad (Boni & Mali) was compared to our root: The earth to our Mercurio: In which our root accomplished her perfect tincture, for the simple our king. The poisonous serpent is our resolving water, that is, Mercury (hoc est, Mercurius) in water resolved (resolutus).
The four rivers to refresh the tree of life of our root are none other than our Mercurius water, in which our king is dissolved, and the same water is divided into four principal waters, which kill the earth. The first water is called Pison, which surrounds the whole land of Indiam, wherein is much gold, deadly and pure: Understand our root, which is encompassed by the Mercurial Water, for in it is found very pure and deadly Indian gold: so understand that the main river and the first divided water called Pison are all the same meaning of our Mercurial Water. For it is the first main river, of which the first river and water divide, understand the elements.
The other water is called Gyhon, which flows around the whole of Morenland, It is equivalent to bringing the blackness of water (Aequiparatur aquae nigredinem inferenti). The third water is called Hideckiel, because it turns and flows towards the morning. This water signifies the element of air then coming through the air, for this man's and woman's seed is perfected. The fourth water is called Eurphrates, which signifies the element of fire and the end of our stone.
If the king is turned into a spirit, then only hold the degree of fire equal, so it rises up and down, until as long as it lies again in the bottom of the glass in a way folded and coloured. When you see this, do not hurry too much, give it space so that the work becomes all the more perfect, then proceed with the same degree of fire as far as Rubedin (ignus usque ad Rubedinem). Unless the seed of the man unites with the woman of the woman, you will accomplish nothing in the work. (Nisi semen viri cum femine mulieris conjungator, nihil in opere perficies.)
There are four keys to art, the first being Solution and Putrefaction. The other is sublimation or divorce. The third is the consummation of the man and woman's semen to mingle with a natural marriage and to unite completely with each other. The fourth is Seal of Hermes, putrefaction completed in 42 days (Sigillum Hermetis, Putrefaktio 42. diebus absolvitur): but would be better a little longer, for thereby his harm is done. The chief care of the whole work is that the heat should not be too intense (Praecipua totius Operis cura est ne calor nimium intendatur). Fire of Decay (Ignis Putrefactionis) is to be made from a thought Alumnis Plumoli is prepared in pure tree oil, so that it almost reaches the first leaves. The ascending and descending vapour is finally dissolved in fire, which, joined to the earth, decomposes it into the nature of futility (quae terrae Coniunctta eam putrefaciendo resolvit in fui naturam).
Treatise II. - TRACTATUS II.
The Book of Salomon Trismosinus
Libellus Salomonis Trismosini of the Red Lion and his treasury
& behind all the arts is the The subject of dyeing / the Subject Tincture (Subiectum TINCTURAE), that is the tinctural being, the highest and most excellent art above all other arts in this world, which the eternal deity has reserved for it, and does not make it manifest to everyone and wants all men to be rich, but one man to serve another with kindness and labour. And although this art has been revealed to many hands, especially to great heads as kings, it has not happened to others, because they have known nothing of GOD the Almighty, whether they want to humble themselves or reflect.
Namely, that there must be a God who has created such a mystery: Namely, that such a tinctural being can and should tint so much metal so perfectly to the best gold constantly in all high samples and better gold than can come from the mountains: Or by special inspiration from the highest as well as the most holy three kings, who were also pagans, had to carry gold, frankincense and myrrh such a very long way to the Lord Christ our Saviour. But the pagans were very secretive in such arts, keeping them hidden so that others like them would not be offended, as indeed they should be. And although such pagan kings must have had people who were able to practise such arts, it was nevertheless diligently observed by them that those who were predestined to do so were also secretive about it, and I myself say that not everyone was qualified to do so.
I Trisomosin have had nine Disciples (the students Discipulos), is advised to his then only one, Philips Hohenheimer, a born Swiss, a mischievous man: I say, He will become great in this art, when he comes to about his middle age, then the world will hear great wonders from him and bring many miracles to light. Whoever belongs to the great treasure of the Red Lion must be able to draw the suns on the mountains, quench them with lion's blood, and the great secret work will increase in strength, since you will perform miracles with it.
You should also be silent, set your heart in prayer to God in heaven, there your Red Lion will green with the most beautiful of the greatest cordiality, for this is the treasure in the world, according to which nothing is equal to the eternal. He possesses everything, health and wealth and all penetrating power. And I tell you, this Red Lion tears apart everything that is imperfect and makes it perfect again to the highest degree, people and the metalls realise this. And if these gifts are not only despised by many, but even abused, the eternal God will not be better revealed in this world for the sake of ingratitude.
Now follows the Process
Take a strong Sp. Vini, distilled through seven-sixty paper, on a measure of this pour four litres of 🜹, which has previously been purely extracted in a flask glass. This Sp. Vini alcolised with 🜹 Sal Ammoniac to dissolve the Gold putrificiern sigillated for four days and nights in even by Balneo M. Then distil it again through sixty-five benedisch paper, so the Sp. Vini will be fair to the dissolution.
So now get started. Take from (illegible) the firen Coagulat, that is ☉ Sol percusum, as it is to be found with the Goldschlagern, eight holes, put it into a flask, pour the Sp. Vini on it, that it goes well over it, put it well into the MB to putrificate eight days and nights with very mild warmth, distil the spiritum from it until delicacy, then pour a fresh Sp. Vini on it as much as you have drawn from it, but let it putrify for eight days and distil the spiritum again mildly and for the third time pour a fresh Sp. Vini on it on the delicacy and putrify for eight days, then distil perlatus subtly, so everything will rise over it as a spiritual moist work, let it rest until it settles. Then the wateriness is to be poured off subtly and the material blue to elliptical times, so it is ready for coagulation, the work now so completely rock in a round Biolgethan with the Sigillo Hermetis well-potted or otherwise with good Lute, put it into the regiment of the fire in subile extinguished ashes with constant mild heat cooked, until it turns out to a fixed and unburnable stone, as a red ruby, so you have the lion ganu beautiful and perfect.
Take this Red Lion, rub it in the smallest and most subtle way and putrificate it again with the upper water of the Sp. Vini, as before, but renewed every five days with fresh Sp. Vini, this is done for the third time with fresh Sp. Vini, so it is turned into the fleeting spirituality: And when the Sp. Vini in the Mariae B. Lind is drawn away to delicacy, a blood-red liquor remains, which is called the red lion's blood: This is now the greatest and mightiest treasure in the whole world to which nothing is equal.
Fermentation - FERMENTATIO
THE RED LION - LEONIS RUBEI.
For the tincture of the Red Lion, take Gold leaf, rubbed into small pieces for three hours on a smooth marble plate; after rubbing, put it into a jar belonging to it on the right, but qualifying it to four pieces, not too small nor too large; put it into swept grayling with mild heat; pour the Red Lion's blood on it, as prepared above, which probably went over it, up a straw, when it is overdrawn, leave the glass open with one helmet, so that a moisture will still be visible in the glass of the helmet, keep it on fire until its wateriness is seen and it has all become dry, then seal the glass in the neck and put the glass together with the matter back into the subtle grayling, so that it was immediately half seen, and make a subtle fire under it, so that the glass is as hot as why the sun shines in dog days. Let the matter stand in this heat until it begins to turn pale, then keep it at the same heat until the black is burnt out, then strengthen the fire with half the heat, but so that it does not rise from the matter, which should have great respect, then many beautiful colors will appear.
Now you should control the fire from degree to degree as intelligibly as possible until you reach white-grayand leteven white, then this treasure has become completely fixed and incombustible. So now keep the fire in great heat, and it will begin to turn yellow and finally, with great astonishment, attain the most excellent Salamander red color. And when this work has been completed, it will require no more work than the following.
Mark the preparation of the red lion with this procedure:
Take one part of this work, grated into small pieces, and let a thousand parts of the best gold of Anger flow, and carry this part in the river, let it flow for a quarter of an hour. Turn this part of the gold into pure tincture. Then take one part to a thousand parts of silver in the river, and it will all be transformed into the highest gold, as rich as a lead, deliciously good in all samples.
Take also one part of this tincture, throw it on a thousand parts of Mercury, which comes from the mountains into the fire, so it becomes pure tincture, take again one part of it, throw it on a thousand parts of raw mountain Mercury, so it turns it again into pure pure tincture: everything remains a powder Take one part of this tincture and throw it on thousands of parts of Mercury Mountain, when it smokes in the Digel, the highest and best gold becomes stable in all samples. So also projection is done on ♀ Venus / ♃ Jupiter etc...
NOTA.
So look at the great wonders of God, what he has secretly placed in the creatures and especially in the Gold, which is the highest of seven and is called the royal metal by all philosophers.
In it lies the great treasure of kings, if it is brought into his spirituality, for riches and long life in this world. Thus in this mystery there is a beautiful parable of the future and eternal life that one part of this tincture is to permeate so many parts: So also the extraordinary shall pervade in a moment as they will in the life to come.
Now follows of the augmentation of the Red Lion.
You should know that when you prepare the first Red Lion, which you have boiled with its red blood, and when you produce it again to the clergy and fix it again for a short time, it tinges three thousand times more with one part than before. And where it is again solvated and boiled down to perfection, it tinges all the metals six times more with one part and after the solution duplicates six. And is the multiplication not to be broken up
PAGE 7But how it happens with this secret, which one part is tinged all the way in Duplo, is known to the highest God: A man can speak nothing of this secrecy, much less think nothing of it. For this reason it is the greatest treasure in this world that can be lost to man: And where God the Almighty Lord of heaven and earth would give way, man could live and preserve his life for many hundreds of years with this Arcano, if it is resolved to medicine. For this great fire of this secret renovates man from the ground up, so that the Humor Radicalis is completely renewed in the human body. And as many times a person takes this medicine, so many times it truly becomes threefold anew: as the pagan king Xepholat, as we find in the Egyptian Chronicle of the Egyptians at Hippona, that he stayed with this medicine for three hundred years.
And as the chronicles of the Egyptians indicate, when this king's husband was in the last stages of her life, the king gave her some of this medicine, and she soon came to herself again and lived into her 80th year.
And I Trisomosin say by my highest truth that I gave some of this medicine, as I prepared it from the Red Lion, to 60 and 70 year old women, who only after this gave birth to children again. I gave this medicine to an old man of 89 years, he became tense, his skin and hair all changed, and he lived for another 30 years.
TINCTURA II.
Now follows a tincture of the Black Eagle Salomonis Trisomosini.
This tincture was described by a philosopher called Pitromoson, from the Black Eagle: from Antumonio.
He searched in Chymia for many years and wanted to make the tincture out of many things, but his thing turned out to be the subject with its coloribus in one thing alone. Whoever wishes to go to work with these things must read all the philosophers, and diligently examine and peruse their described tinctures, and it will be found that all philosophers have a shorter path than others, so they need only one being in this art, and without it his tincture will appear, and everyone should consider this saying (as follows) carefully.
In Superiore Sphaera
Est in Medio Frontis
Vena, quae est Regula
PHILOSOPHORUM Prima.
In the Upper Sphere
It is in the Middle Front
Come, which is the Rule
First of the Philosophers.
And he who understands this saying will know from what the subjectum proceeds, Thus writes the philosopher Pitrumoson a Didens man in Africa, made of Latin.
I have seen with astonishment the incomprehensible artists and laboratory assistants in the honorable art, that they have sought the tinctures in a common Salt, from drawn Tartar Salt, from herbs, from (?), from human bones, from various earths and sulphuribus, from Iovis, Saturno, Veneris and Mercurio, and what the smoking metals are, nothing has been found that had proved to be a tincture and had wanted to tint the Silver to Gold. In the black eagle, that is Antimonium. A black glittering stone in the face, in a little white and a great redness, there is much gold to be found in it, and whoever can separate it by art from the black antimonium in eagles has no food to sustain himself and is called Dark gold (Aurum obscurum).
PAGE 9Therefore that it represents a black antimony eagle that can be noticed visibiliter Cause the amount of sulphur antimony covers gold and where the black eagle rises in the fire, it carries or carries with it the aurum obscurum and this black eagle is called by many the Aurum Elevatum (raised gold).
I further say that when the white antimony eagle is mixed with gold, the mountain gold, when it is gifted by it, does not become so pure and pure, not so high in degree, for the Aurum Elevatum (raised gold), besides the sulphur of the black antimony, tints the common mountain gold so highly that it does not diminish in all its specimens and stands perfect in all its power: For this reason a tincture may well be drawn from the black eagle, because the gold is in it, otherwise there would be little to hope from it and its sulphur if the gold never became in it.
And know that the gold in the secret art is the greatest and most bogus secret and being in the world, which also tinctures common perfect sulphur, since they become of a golden kind, more than is to be believed: I have learned it at great cost and with great difficulty. But that Heinss or favor (?) does not hit the right handle, that it tinges as he would like, there is not much to it. Since you also pass the gold over the helmet twenty times and make it spiritualistic, nothing can be done with it alone or can only be achieved.
The crude artists say that when they have led the gold to spirituality, it is the first materia. Far from it, first make a philosophical gold, for that is how the prima materia will first appear, but only if you understand it correctly. Now from the black eagle a tincture is drawn, but not so fully as in gold alone, and a delic tincture is commonly prepared on the running Merucrium, that they want to tint many hundredweight of other metals with it, that is not. But one part of this tincture tints hundreds of parts of Mercury into the best gold. I have therefore described a tincturing process with the black antimony eagle, as follows, so that one must see and feel that there is a tincture in the antimony, which is there for the sake of the gold.
A true and certain cement with the incombustible oil of the Black Eagle.
You shall take half a pound of the glittering black eagle piece by piece and stratify it into a living lime, and Emenate until it turns red inside and out. Take this and grate it into a flask, and pour over it the added Aq. Regis, which should be poured all over it, and swish it up and down until the water remains all over it. Then rub this antimonium or black eagle very finely, put it into another flask, which should not be thick, but should lie one on top of the other, and pour the unburnt oil of the black eagle on top of it, which should be stirred well one on top of the other, and leave it to work in warm grayling for four days and night in mild heat. Thus he makes this incombustible oil the volatile black eagle fixed and fireproof and this element can be used without ceasing.
Take a pale gold thinly laminated and make it with the fixed cement S.S.S. In the Tigel, cover that, kass aksi cement fourteen hours, then take it out, so you find the gold to 28. carat. High and remains the coloris by all samples.
If you have a ☽ Luna fixam, that is, a fine silver, from which the blackness has been taken and has fallen into the pondus of the gold, and cement the same ☽ Luna with the fixed silver cement, it will also remain very high gold in all samples.
Now follows the water how to proceed to make the incombustible oil of the black eagle antimony.
May the Almighty GOD be my witness that this art of antimony is true, in it you have what breaks Mercurio's heart, may his other coagulation on Mercurium, then do so: Take Antimonium and draw out the redness according to common use, take it and rub it small, put it in a strong glass and pour a strong wine vinegar on it, which is drawn off after alchemical use per se for the other time, leave the glass well, put it in the digestion for 15. Then take out the jar and distil the aceum in the MB. Dry the redness, rub it again, put it back into the jar and pour salarmoniac water, which the 🜹 Sal Armoniac is sublimated per Sal commune, and soak it in cold water, leave the jar well, put it back into the digestion on day 30. Take it out and put a helmet on it and distil it, so first a little phlegm goes, then drive it, so red drops go over like blood, so it is the right juice, take this juice alone per se in a glass, put it to coagulate in grayling until it becomes powder, and until powder flows like wax.
PAGE 11Take one part of this powder to fifty parts of Mercurij Crudi, if he wants to smoke, then one part of this powder to one hundred parts. And know for certain, as God has created me, that in the Antimony is the highest secret within, for nothing more may be taken to it than this Antimony alone. In it is the whole tincture: do not despair or worry about it, whether it has been going on for a long time, in it you have what breaks Mercurio's heart, this tincture does not go into the harvest before its time.
Extraction of the antimony powder.
Take Antimonium and Tartar ana, put it in a crucible and let it burn in a good fire for several hours, then pour the mixed water over it, pour it into a clean dish and dilute it with a brush of good wine vinegar and spray it on, and you will see a blush on the bottom, which will dry out finely clean, as you know, there is nothing to be done that is not figurated, the spirit that is in the metals. A great narcissist who makes Lunam fixam with fleeting things, for he makes ☉ Sol and ☽ Luna with scolhen also fleeting and loses the house in which the birds keep.
NOTELA
The astral eagle or bird, which can soar upwards and to the earth in subtle spirituality, and is an invisible smoke, at the moment a penetrating chaos to all metals. Ha its origin this astral Aquila in mountains to new use of a peculiar smelling vapor, in a peculiar place putting on to coagulation, and see how the understanding miners know how a pituosic black-biched materia, which they sometimes call solver, because of the having poison, which nevertheless does no one harm, it is then moved hard. This pituosic materia, both when it comes to a liquor, dissolves the common gold into a spirituality, and since one can only have it on a loth, it can be augmented without end with sulphur and also with other fixed metals that have their origin in gold, and this is called the Subjectum Tincturae, and since one can never have this mountain vapor so soon, and when the gold has attained its perfection and perfect growth and the same is not soon found, it grows back into Nihilum, and there is found nothing but a Giffeler, a decayed Materia, that is the most subtle Sulphur, which has brought itself into a Primam materiam, that is also one of the mysteries.
PAGE 12Now proceed with the Astral Eagle as follows:
Take a measure of Austrian brandy, put a good 🜹 Sal Armoniac in it and put it all together in a glass cucurbit, on top of it a six-foot Beneditsch paper, and a helmet on it, let it rise very gently in the land over into a previous glass until the spirits come over, then this water is ready. Now take the glittering mountain vapor, which is found in gold mountains, four loths, put it in a cucurbit glass, with a long neck, as a sensible person knows well, and pour the above-mentioned Sp. Vini well bequeathed above, set in a mild warmth of the alembic, for an hour, so the vapor solves itself to a black oil, and is completely destroyed as a spiritual being, then put a helmet out of the glass, on it a quadruple Beneditsch paper, but let it go, so the spirit rises from it, and the astral vapor remains to a liqueur, and Volatilet', that is the greatest secret of one in the tincture guild, remember that well.
AUGMENTATIO.
Now take a loth of aurum foliatum of gold beaters, which do thus to the astral eagle perluted with Sigillo Hermetis, let it stand therein in subtle sifted grayling on half inserted in mild heat for two weeks, so this astral bird has flown with its kind hidden in itself, and waving its wings in its earth in various colors, which is highly astonishing. Now let it stand in its own harness: only with a little merge of fire for two weeks, you will see the black swarming eagle, how then the colors follow one after the other, and be neatly described and continue to the end.
The first color will appear in the neck of the glass with mixed redness. The other, round third, with an increase of fire, will show the color blue in it and green in the neck of the glass. The fourth and fifth colors will appear blackish at the bottom of the glass, then liver-colored. The sixth, seventh and eighth transformations after the regiment of fire, the black color disappears and becomes blue and red with streaks as if they were worms, after which you see yellow and green streaks. The ninth, tenth and eleventh transformation with the regiment of fire, the neck of the glass becomes black at the top, and red, yellow, green and white droplets appear in it.
PAGE 13After this, the blackness descends again and fills the matter like a green lily with golden stripes Then white-gray colors appear and is completely fixed. This tinges one part/ 1000th part of raw Mercurij to a good ☽ Luna. Now in the last transformation so the water holds in constant heat (?), so the tincture becomes blood-red at the bottom like a scarlet and is thus prepared and is a treasure above all treasures in this world and so now the tincture in a crockery or cucurbit is everywhere more complete with all (?) of the colors. It dissolves itself, it draws itself into the hidden as an instrument.
Now we will ting, as will follow.
Of this tincture, take one part, let 1000th part of its gold flow C to a loth, a quint, or a half quint, apply the tincture to it, let it go for half an hour, let it cool, that is all tincture, grind it to powder and keep it in a box for notturfft. Now let one part of it flow into 1000th part of ☽ Luna 🜩 Jupiter or ♀ Venus ☿ Mercury for half a quarter of an hour, especially when the Mercurius begins to smoke, these metals become the best pliable gold in all samples and this gold makes other unpliable gold very pliable. But all pious writers who come across this great treasure should be admonished to first give thanks as pious writers to the Almighty and most holy God, who created heaven and earth, and to keep this heartfelt gift and miracle secret in this world, and to share it abundantly with the poor, so that the blessing of the Most High can be even greater, more than Christians can remember: And let this work be begun in the name of Jesus and after the kabalic time, and all will come to pass with great happiness. Amen. Amen.
III. TINCTURA - Salomonis Trismosini.
Take a running mercury of one pound, previously boiled several times with a sharp vinegar, on account of which a fresh acetum is taken. Then take suchput it in a dish made of steel, and put in it 12 lbs. of finely grated blue Vitriol, and pour a strong distilled vinegar over it, so that it goes well over it, and cover it on top.
PAGE 14and let it boil for twelve hours, then pour it all over, so the Mercurius will become hard, this should be pressed through a soft leather, what remains behind should be used as follows:
Key follows - Sequitur Clavis
Now take white burnt Tartar and blue Vitriol, ana a pound of common salt a fourthing, from this burn a water through a cucubit, this water dissolves the ☉ Sol.
Take the above-prepared mercury, and small-filed gold of about six pounds, take them both together grated to the smallest, put them in a cucurbit, pour the above-melted water on it, light it through the fire and pour the water that has been drawn off back onto it, until the water all remains on the ☉ Sol and Mercury, then pour fresh water onto it, and pour it down to half a part, and rub it strongly with the fire, then the ☉ Sol with the Mercurio rises over it, understand that it must be distilled per latus to the sides, so it has all become an oil and is an oily tincture on Luna and with great benefit and know that you should work this work according to Kabalian Constellation.
The transformation of the Moon into the Sun - Lunae in Solem transmutatio.
Now take this oil, put it in a pure, put very thinly beaten silver plates in it, let them stand in it for sixteen hours, so they become the best ☉ Sol in all samples, and I tell you that this oily tincture is a very quickly penetrating hellish fire, you can use fresh Silver plates in it again
COROLLARY From Solomon Trismosinus, Such a tincture on the Venus on the Moon - COROLLARIUM From Salomone Trismosino, Such a tincture on the Venerem on Lunam.
Take two loths of 🜩 Jupiter, one loth of ☽ Luna, two loths of Mercurium Sublimate, the 🜩 Jupiter and Mercurium Sublimate in a glass flask, the Lunam dissolves/solvier in five loths. Aq.Fort and pour on the other two pieces, draw up and down twice in grayling for half, then put it in a balneum that the water rises above the helmet, take the materiam that has risen above and pour again over half of Lot 🜩 Jupiter, but draw up and down in grayling on the half part and pour on it again for the other time,
PAGE 15Then put it into balneum and rub it over, rinse this matter with warm water so that a cup remains in fundo, dry it, put it into a biol jar (?), and set it to figuring until it becomes completely fixed. Add a little white Tartar to the fixed one, and pour a brandy on it, and boil it alone, or with the tartar, until the goblet flows like wax on a sheet of ♀ Venus, without smoke, and the goblet or tincture is prepared. Take one part or a pint of this tincture and throw it on eight pints of purified Veneris, if it flows strongly, pour it to the Zaihn (?), and drain it, and because it flows in the Saturno, add half a pint of the powder or tincture and let it go to the plick, so you have the best fine Lunam as good as it comes from the mountains
TO GOD ALONE BE THE GLORY - SOLIDEO GLORIA
For ever and ever - In Sempiterna Secula,
Amen.
Of the other Astronomers, that is of Alchemy,
which the Ancients called our Ancient Arts.
Johannes Trithemius, Abbot of Spanheim.
The First Figure
From a sheet of old Ecken - Es scheda veteri corners.
All those who desire to create something useful through the mysteries of alchemy should and must carefully observe the celestial bodies of the planets, diligently recognize their nature and opportunity. If he does this, he will, with God's help, feel an unspeakable earnestness. Therefore I have resolved to reveal something of these things to the Son of Wisdom (Sapientiae filio); if he contemplates them, he will invent much more and perhaps greater things of his own.
The ☉ Sol has its home among the other planets. It rules the whole world as a king and overpowers the other planets.
Above the Sun three planets are set, below them also three ♂ Mars is whether the ☉ Sol is the next, the ♀ Venus below the next, in ♂ Mars is a fiery and coarser sulphur in ♀ Venus a more subtle one, if you now want to bring the LUNAM into the property of the Sun, it is necessary that you draw out the ♂ Mars and ♀ Venus the most subtle and tinging spirits, However, the spirits, because they are volatile, could not tint the Lunam, you then keep and coagulate them with the ☉ Sol ferment, whichis the most perfect all, although some philosophical artists of nature, well versed in it, are subject to coagulate it into a vegetable corpus
Another is that the ☽ Luna should become ☉ Sol, the middle planets must distinguish between the Sun and ☽ Luna, understand by the ♀ Venus the blackness of the ☽ Luna but by the volatile moisture understand the ☿ Mercury the two obstructions have been called by some people who know much and want to know a fire and gluten quite clumsily and foolishly.
Jupiter is above the Sun between two planets, so Mercurius below it is also between two of these two, making the Water Chastity ☽ Luna instead of which one of Frankfurt's Niclaus Derspacher used a common Aqua Fort. For this reason, although he had already spent many years with it, he had achieved nothing, G. Michels died in the evening. He should also diligently note that the whole of alchemy stands in these seven metals alone, although we need a number of things for this, such as Salia, pungent waters and vegetable things, through which these bodies are dissolved, purified and their spiritual and subtle nature extracted, whoever now ponders this with great diligence will no doubt come to great secrets of natural philosophy.
The Other Figure
The ☽ Luna lacks this in very few degrees, so when it is without light, it becomes dark.
There is no more delicious corpus than the sun.
O thou happy quartered number, a preparation of the burning of nature.
It is not a noble water, neither is wine.
This water is distilled in particular is never known to all. (above GRAPHIC left)
O blissful ortonari of the perfection Matrimonij of the waters, together with the philosophical things.on the right)
Pythagoras an excellent philosopher
Saturnus, Mars and Venus must be calcined, as Heber the philosopher teaches, and believe me that you have all here a thought paper that is better than all your books.
If the number is thrown into the some number ☽ Luna, it becomes Enneades, from which alone the tenfold Universal arises.
All those who understand Natural Philosophy recognize and Aron. Closest to the Sun, to whom nature and all things most artificial
PAGE 19The master of works thus and so ordered that in this elemental world he understands the actions and trades of men, together with his bodily brother the Sun with marvelous order of changes, just as the two great lights in the sky were created at the beginning of the world, one for the day, the other for the night.
But while, in the opinion of all right-minded philosophers, the earthly ☽ Luna lacks something in the Firion, I have revealed to the Son of Wisdom (filio Sapienttiae) something hidden and secret, from the innermost secrets of the philosophers, that once the Silver Suns, which now rode long on two red wheels, were brought to their brother's quartered high, and that they now no longer shine on the night but on the day, and that this world of ours shines over them with a golden radiance. Nor will anyone persuade me that a single work is easier and more certain than this; I am also of the opinion that those have acted quite foolishly who have gone to great lengths to coagulate Mercury, since they have the Lunam close at hand: which they can easily bring to a higher nature.
By such means the ♀ Venus and the ♄ Saturn can also be made into ☉ Sol, although Philosophy has philosophized primarily about the Moon and their defects, but Luna lacks weight, which Saturnus, the closest in weight to the Sol, will give in abundance. That is why philosophers usually lose (illegible) the exposed gold.
Philosophy and astronomy are suited to the earths of the world to Saturno, what is now heavier neither the earths, what is weightier? That is why Saturn orbits in the heavens in thirty years because of its heaviness.
Luna also lacks fixation, that is, the perfect boiling out, which the fiery Mars will impose on you, to which the fixation is primarily assigned, partly because it is most similar to the heat of the sun, partly because it is least consumed in the fire with us, but the color very easily increases the indivisible Venus of the Solar companions, which the Magi naturales confess to be a goddess of beautiful color, but so we communicate the color and weight to Mars according to philosophy: In which you would include the fixed (illegible) bodies, but how these three bodies should be proportioned and blended against each other, you do partly from Astronomy, partly from nature, and astronomically indeed from their distance or farther also from their proximity to Luna.
Saturn is the sixth in the order, Mars the fourth, Venus the other.
PAGE 20Naturally, however, as you can determine their nature and properties according to the content of the three defects of Luna, which of them is greater, and what should be given to the first and what to the last. It would also be very good, if you actually consider how much heavier the sun is than Luna, to look at the preceding figure with understanding, so you will find that I have written philosophically about deep things.
All philosophies agree on this
That all imperfect metals are weak gold, therefore they have no other difference from gold, neither alone the incident effect more or less combustible or tempered, which follows all, that this is so not quite good in corpore and lack of imperfection, becomes perfect through this which is good in the perfect body. And because the imperfect corpus is not powerful to separate the Sulphuric combustible earth, and to transform the vera----(illegible) imperfect body into its perfect nature, it is necessary that the imperfect body be made subtle before it receives such youth, but then it becomes subtle when it is brought to a living silvery nature and the perfect body Argentum vivum is fixed, so it also constitutes our argentum vivum, but the argentum vivum non fixum, which is in the imperfect bodies, takes with it, through its volatility and velocity, the argentum vivum of the perfect bodies, making the same velocity go through, transforming it heartily, and making it completely perfect, then it is certain that everything comes from that into which it is resolved.
But now all metals are brought into argentum vivum, therefore they have been argentum vivum, and so it is answered to those who think and say that the form of metals may not be changed, and this is true, as they say. They should not be brought to the first masonry. For then one has their true and proper sperm of metals. It is therefore possible for them to be generated, primarily by kusen, from the same sperm.
PAGE 21For the perfect body of argentum vivum is fixed, because it is boiled in the belly of the earth by the heat of sulphur, in a moderate or temperate action, but the fixed Swabian type is the fixed argent type, in the innermost of the substance of Gold or Silver, is very ring and fluid like wax, and is an overwhelming of the fire. Therefore, the ground sulphur and argentum vivum coagulate, and the common argentum vivum transforms them into Solis or Lunae afterwards. In the same way, all imperfect mediocre bodies in the nature of the Sun and Moon are changed; therefore it is evident that this art works in a few days and hours, which nature forfeits and accomplishes in a thousand years.
There are two ways to bring the imperfect bodies into perfect ones of Sol and Luna.
The great event by means of projection, the history by our elixir, which perfects the imperfect body into the nature of the perfect, by the very projection of this way, because it is very extensive and described in detail in the philosophical writings, nothing is reported here, Hermes, king of the Greeks and father of the philosophers, says of its usefulness that once he has brought this art to an end, and if he should live a thousand times a thousand years and receive four thousand men a day, he would still lack nothing, which confirms Senior and speaks: He who has the stone from which the elixir is made is as rich as he who has a fire, who gives fire to whom he will and as much as he will, without harm or loss.
The small way is by means of separation, for there is a blessed compartment that separates from every imperfect body the sulphuric and destructive earth and the same remains and brings that which is so well pure in the body in its first nature, which is argentum vivum, which argentum vivum will then be consorted with our mastery (poorly legible) into a corporal nature of a perfect Gold or Silver, which little way is sufficient as an increase of gold to obtain a philosopher who makes the stone go the long way until it is made.
This is the magisterium.
Mix Venerem with three parts of its argenti vivi and put all this in a large quantity of blessed water, put it in the oven on the fire in a Vrinal for five days, the fire be made as you distill it, then take it out of the dishes, mix it well with elemental water until it becomes blood-colored, then dry it by the fire, put it back on the stove and cook it as before, mix it with elemental water as before, repeat this until, by the power of the blessed water and the fire working on it
Its corruption is all consumed, and so long until the pure in Venus is turned into running argentum vivum, so that it passes through a double cloth, then the blessed water separates from it until the copper becomes thick. Then mix it with gold or silver and unite it with the latter, mediated by water and fire, until it becomes a corpus in nature and color.
Then add the above-mentioned water and this until argentum vivum is completely united with the body and what remains, put on a chapel or cement, because it passes all tests.
God be blessed, praised and exalted above all, who has revealed to us the blessed water and its virtue, which is little hidden, for its virtue is marvelous, surpassing all virtues, for it is powerful to separate the pure from the impure from the bodies, and makes the corpus subtle, bringing it to the first matter, and when it gets there, it makes the imperfect and perfect bodies unite in the smallest parts that purify them equally and unites them in a constant and unidentical bond. Nor should anyone be surprised if the perfect body has to be merged, for the imperfect corpus, purified to a superior whiteness, is now without a soul and cannot live; its soul will then be given back to it. But the perfect corpus is its soul, therefore it must be given to it and united with it, but then it lives and rejoices with it for eternity.
FINIS.
Treatise IV - TRACTATUS IV.
Containing some Arcana - Continens Aliquot Arcana, Phil.Theophrasti Paracelsi, DE LAPIDE PHILOSOPHORUM.
Written - Scriptum
THEOPHRASTI
On the Reduction of Metals to the First Matter, To Doctor Poldössin.
Also: The same process of fixation upon Mercurius Saturni.
This rule is from Theophrastus, written to Doctor Poldössin, professor at Eperies (Prešov), formerly from Pressburg (Bratislava), who in earlier times had been his traveling companion.
You want to know from me that you yourself would like to know how, according to the old process, metals could be transformed and brought into matter. But that I should send you such a secret at your request in a paper through the evil world, you will not learn me nor other unintelligent ones with your high schools to write such a thing to you. But the faithful service you have rendered me, I send you to fulfill your request, and that is that you must know beforehand that the metals must be brought into their first and last essence, otherwise all your effort and work is in vain, useless and in vain, that you should therefore understand.
PAGE 24All metals have been water, but not water that you boil and drink, but a water philosophers hear, Mercurius, into which the perfect metals must be driven and brought again, so you can then cleanse them of their impurity, and then the mother of her Bridegroom, whom the ancients called the sulphur of the philosophers and father, received the other coagulation with the help of its salt and spirit and then becomes a higher and better metal than it was before: Thus the last creation is spent and is possible for nature to make true and righteous in Gold after the process ☽ Luna, ♂ Mars, ♀ Venus, ☿ Mercury, 🜩 Jupiter, ♄ Saturn.
And so the beginning and end of the world is rightly understood and accomplished according to the old process, which, however, is not given to everyone, but to whom God wants to open it with grace out of mercy from a special spirit before other gifts.
And thou shalt know that his other still nearer way of bringing the metals back into their Mercurium is not known to us, for as we in our Libell of Putrefaction (Libell de Putrefactione) set forth of four salts, which we there call healthy (sallabrum), that each be brought into a nice loud water or oil, and the four oils or waters be poured together in equal weight, so it is then hotter the milk of the ancient philosophers, put it into a strong glass, and burn it with full strength to the fifth time the spirits of vitriol and alum, which are calcined, and good salnitor in equal weight, so it is and is called the flying eagle, which leads the metals upwards with its strength, put it down, rub it small, pour strong brandy over it, so that it is a dwarf finder over the powder, and pour it through a helmetskin into Balneo Mariae to three or four times, so you have the metal alive, like other mercurium and the eagle becomes flying.
When you have strengthened the milk of the philosophers with the spirits as we have indicated above and prepared the eagle, then pour a nice loud melted wax of a dwarf finger high on it in a glass flask, and put it into the Balneum Mariae and draw the moisture together with the spirits into a nice glass through the helmet, until nothing more wants to come out, then pour what has risen back in and pour it down again, do this until it has coagulated with each other, so it is said, and is the Sal Borax of the philosophers, which we write in the book with the Virtute Vitrioli, in which the flying eagle has hidden itself, with its feathers, these are the spirits.
Now take from the metal lime from the Aq. Fort Take as much as you want and as much as you want and take half as much of the flying eagle as there is of the metal and rub it together, then put it in a misted glass flask and put in sand and sublimate, so it all rises together, whatever metal it wants So do as before we have indicated, so you have the first way.
PAGE 25The other way we have set in the Books on the Change of Metals (Libeli de Mutatione metallorum) and coagulatione Mercurij of the metals, and also how from the metallic Mercurio the Lapis Philosophorum and Tinctura are drawn.
Sallabrum drawn from excited book. Take 
Sal Gemmae, Sal Commune, Weidäschen, each equally. However, dissolve each one in particular and purify it from its earthliness and make a clear and transparent water from everything, coagulate the same again in a pure dish, then you will find a different color, like a wax, penetrating and sweetening. Releasing and figuring. Cherish such salt and let it be dear to you, for in it are many mysteries, for it fixes the volatile and makes alive the dead spirit, the hard and brittle fixes the volatile and brings it from all cause and poison, it also figures 
and otherwise much excellent work promotes it to a good and happy end. So it is written in this book with much more praise of this property.
FIGURE
To MERCURIUM SATURNI THEOPHRASTI.
And even if this secret in itself is something precious and fine, He is called great and small thanks to this divine gift of medicine. Yet against our stone it is like a shadow. For this reason I say that if you take the sickest and the most exposed of six sick people, you have proven your mastery.
Therefore, that thou mayest come to the end of this work, and accomplish thy purpose of curing the leper, take the cold and the hot, well prepared according to their properties, according to thy desire, as much as thou wilt, mix therewith an abundance of the most rational animal, to the end of its uppermost and highest part, its oil, and set it on fire according to volcanic custom, the remanence of its two abandoned elements, and mix it again with its upper sphera, and thou shalt have the key to the sickest of all.
PAGE 26But if you feel no improvement in this patient, it is necessary that you lead him into the bath of purification and cleanse him of what nature has implanted in him, so you can leave your fantastic head in peace, and the patient will continue in all his health forever and ever. Then, understand me rightly, put him in a jar of Sigillo Hermetis, and anoint him with the healing oil for several days and nights, but distinguish between mild fire and strong fire, and then lead him to his old heart, Saturno, and clothe him with the garment of cordiality. You, sophist, have seen miracle after miracle in the patient, who now remains healthy for eternity from this medicine, let this be a wonderful secret and light of nature that you would not be able to bring about with your fool's head.
BORRAS THEOPHRASTI.
Take from an unreasonable of white saffron mixed with salt and cream of tartar, pour over it Quint Essentiam Vini three times drawn off, this Spiritum Vini poured over the upper matters until the spirit coagulates. And we say to you, with our Borras we direct our metal, but with several manipulations per se, into its first essence, understandable explanation, Philtrier conscious Materue six or seven times, then let it boil in a glass, pour the Spiritum Vini on it, and pour it down through a helmet for the third time, or until it coagulates, and let it melt into flames in a glass flask, and become cold, so you have beautiful borras, which should be poured into a small bag, or on a glass plate into water. Then take its phlegm down to the olitet, and you have a water and pure borras water or oil.
PAGE 27GOLDEN DIAPHORETICS OF THEOPHRAST von Hohenheimb, German Monarch & Prince of Physicians. - AURUM DIAPHORETICUM THEOPHRASTI von Hohenheimb, Germani Monarchae& Principis Medicorum.
Take Sal Gemmae, pounded to the purest powder, put it into a strong crucible, set it in a wind-furnace, let it rise leisurely, postea the longer the stronger, until it flows in the river, so the crucible may stand, let it go an hour or three, then let it be obtained by itself, pound the salt into powder again, put it into a fresh crucible and leave it in the previous order and melt it, and let it flow in the river, do this for the fifth or sixth time, then pound it into powder again and take as heavy as the body is. Pour some of the warm radish juiceover it and then beat and grind the salt well with a wooden spoon and pour off what has flowed through a cloth while still warm, Pour more warm radish juice onto the previous one until it is all dissolved and ground and poured through, then let it coagulate, or draw it off by alembicum, so you have the water again, pound the salt to powder again, pour the drawn off water over the powder, put it in MB. To purify it for six days and nights, again draw the water from it in an open fire, at first moderately like a 🜄 Water Regis per Alembicum until no more wants to come out, then continue with a violent fire until it calcines for an hour or half an hour. Then take the salt, warm it to powder, rub it on a hard stone, put it in a damp place, so that it will solvate per se, then take what is solvated together, put it for three days and nights in Mar. Bal. To putrify it, take it and put it in a strong flask and pour it over per alembicum in arena, first slowly, then more strongly fecundum artem, which is liquidum, then take the remaining corpus well and purely rubbed, and even let it flow on the marble, but putrificated and drawn off again in all measure, as before, do this for the third time, what is now left, rub it small, put it into a flask and pour the 🜄 Water all three over the corpus, let it putrify together for five days and nights, post again drawn over in coarse sand, and again put into putrefaction, as before and distilled again, for the last time it will all be drawn over the alembic, except for a small skull, which is thrown away: This 🜄 Water all of the Substantia 
(Salis) is put (days) to putrefaction, then distill it per Alembicu in arena so putrefaction it and distill it once, twice or three times, so you have Aquam Sali.
NB. In all Putrefaction (Putrefactionibus) the Vasa well verlutriere so that his spirit smells of it.
Take the ☉ Sol that has gone through the ♁ (Antimony / Salt) for the third time, have it laminated to the thinnest or take instead of it its beaten ☉ Sol, put it in a strong flask with a long neck, pour over it 🜄 Water Salis Spiritualem as reported above, Hermetice versigilliere, and always in Digestionem for the least four weeks or five, so that it unites, postea cut off the glass that you could put an alembic on it, and coat the flask with a thin luto, put that so much that 🜄 Water and 
go up in the glass, so deep in an alembic and a good template for it, put the glasses together well, mix it well, distil it over for the fifth or sixth time, then cool it, break it open, put the ☉ Sol together with the matter as it remained in the cologne into a large clean bowl, Pour warm distilled rainwater over it several times and wash it again so that the salt is all gone, so that the gold in powder remains white at the bottom, because the salt does not permanently affect the substance of the gold.
Item, however, pour such dry Alcohol of the gold a Sp. Vini and not vinum ardens, which he gives at least six fingers high over it, or the gold in a subtle flask or viol, according to the proportion of the gold, put it to purify at least a month in a hot Mar. Bal. Thus the color of the gold comes in Sp. Vini, pour it off into a special glass and may pour Sp. Vini over it for the second time and also for the third time, until you have drawn all the colors from the gold, and the corpus solis remains white with pre-marked process, then the Sp. Vini separates from the form of the gold on a small fire or in a steaming bath and needs as indicated in the administration. But if you want to have the precipitate from the gold, then you have to revert the gold as previously reported, when it has been drained and dried by distilled rainwater, and thus revert it in the reverberator for twenty-four hours, and use the same precipitatum solis after its process.
PAGE 29They follow - SEQUUNTUR
Litterae H. Wilhelmini Bombasts von Hohenheim/ Medicinae D. To his son PHILIPPUM THEOPHRASTUM.
Dear son Philippe, know that by Divine Grace we have made a just paricular tincture, which I herewith faithfully write down for you: But would to God that you were with me, for in my presence you will not be able to make such a beginning, for it is necessary to invent a special, then complete quality, otherwise it is not possible to continue without this mediator. For this reason, just make yourself available so that I can get an answer from your words as to what you see in your letter or such: but above all also after that, because I do not know whether you are to Ohmberg or not, because such favors are not to be trusted in letters that you will not annoy me. But if I receive your return letter and inquire about your decency, I will furthermore speak with you about what is dear to me in writing.
Here follows the process:
Take three parts of Antimony, one part of ☉ Sol, nine parts of Mercury sublimati Mix these three parts together, and rub them together very slightly, and distil it with its accompanying agent by retortam five times and infuse it again until it is transformed into a perfect Oleum. Then distil a good Sp. Vini of it also five times by balneum, so the Oleum, the coaguliere, which distils one part 15 of Mercurij into good ☉ Sol. Herewith you have the whole process, as I have now done for the third time, let me command you, as I well know that you do not easily cast pearls before swine, so that to these I command you to God.
Reply
PHILIPPI THEOPHRASTI.
Dear Father, I have received your letter together with the process you sent me, although I have little regard for it personally, out of hope of a better one, which even my plow is not able to wait for at this time, but I thank you for this courtesy. For the sake of the fire, as you call it, I respect it be the oleum salis, that be the master For I am well aware that the oleum salis calcines the gold and carries the retort with the other two pieces, and may not be separated. But if it is separated, then it is good for the cutlers and a good art for the goldsmiths, and I am also gifted with a treasure that I distilled the ♁ (Antimony / Salt) with the 🜄 Water Salis, in the form of an oleum and other things. So I respect it, be the oleum salis be vitriol, well worth the handles, which my father would not tell me. Now you have my opinion, and I hope without doubt that it will be so when the oleum salis is dissolved and separated into gold, then it is right to be gilded.
Amice Lector, Dear reader, perhaps something is lacking here, because I am suspicious of the ending being so abrupt because of the farewell saying not adhering, &c. (forsitan deficiunt hic aliqua, quia suspectus est mihi finis tam abruptus propter vale dictionem non adhaerentem, & c.)
AUGMENTUM SOLIS.
THEOPHRASTI.
To get hold of a great treasure in a short time.
Go to the mountain called Montes Caspij, in which mountain the Jews, called the Red Jews, are shut up by the great Alexander: These Jews feed only on the very best gold, and therefore their sweat is very deadly. Take as many of these Jews as you like, the fattest and fattest, a hundred or two. For a hundred Jews give the four loths of ☉ Sol at once. Put these Jews into a warm bath, which is called dry water, which is from the mountains, and wash these Jews well with this water and rub their skin so that it becomes white. Then make a warm water in a triangular vessel until it begins to smoke, then the water is warm enough, then let the Jews go into it and stand there for a Hail Mary / Ave Maria , then pour out the bath water with the Jews into another bad vat and rub them with your hands or brushes, until they become white, and the sweat should be drawn out and washed off by the same water, and the skin made thin, which is done once in some Jews, twice in some, and three times in others by washing in the warm water bath. And note that when these Jews are thin and rubbed out, wipe off the bath water
PAGE 31Put them through a brush and lead them to a place where the sun shines very hot, until the bath water dries off them. The Jews will then become as black as Moors through the heat and effect of the sun. Then take these Jews and bathe them or wet them with vinegar and throw powder over them to make ointments for the bottom, and again expose them to the sun until the powder has dried up, then throw them into water The water of the blood of the noblest animal (Aquam Colaturae Sanguinis Nobilissimi Animalis): Then their skin is purified and becomes red again as before, and they must be rubbed with Jewish sand, after which lead them again to the above-mentioned mountain where they were before, and mark those you had before that you do not take them again, so take the warm bath water, in which the Jews have bathed, and let it sift through an Easter lamp, so that the sweat of the Jews remains in the same sieve, but the water falls away,keep the samewater and take the sweat and put it in a goldsmith's crucible, and reduce it into a corpus, so you will have the very best ☉ Sol. Note: 24 Twenty-four Jews give one pound of sweat: so 100 Jews give four pounds of gold, and you may do this seven times in a week, and so in a week you may have 24 pounds of gold from 100 Jews. But if you practice it for a whole year, calculate and count for yourself what treasure you will get.
This is the most secret art hidden by all philosophers, praise and thanks be to God who has revealed it to me. Summa of 100 Jews you have a whole year 1248 Lotth ☉ Sol.
Beatis autem & Felix Qui Hae intellexerit, satis occultata ab oculis insipientum, &c. - But blessed and happy is he who understands these things, sufficiently hidden from the eyes of the foolish, &c.
PAGE 32Following A truly founded THEORIA
From the Kabalic Testimonies THEOPHRASTI, extracted by us, from the Origin and Spoon of the Q. ESSENTIA called OLYMPUS TERRE: Which pertaining to the some rights Prima Materua, the Tinging Key, and clear Salt, Spirit, Soul, Mind, Corpus, Aqua and Ignis.
Only in the name of the Holy Undivided Trinity do we want to begin a heavenly account and a spiritual question as to how the only Son of God was born into this world through the Most Pure and Chaste Vessel MARIAM, all of which is inexpressible and unutterable as the Trinity has been closed from the beginning in the Eternal Godhead.
Now follows this answer, as much as it is due, and a clear report. First of all, God the Father was from all eternity therefore an indestructible fire and an eternal light full of spirit and eternal clarity, without beginning to all eternity and working great miracles and wonders. Now I will hint at this as a parable or similitude, the spirit Ignis is stronger than the body but in the liver lies the soul, this is the third and mediocre thing, which is penetrating, quite fiery in form. And since the spirit itself was so strong in him, he was resolved into the Divine Being, therefore he was called a god of all things, a ruling LORD by the angels. This Spirit of fiery, fervent love was thus concealed in the Godhead, and thus remains without end the ruling Divine Spirit: and through his powerful, life-giving Word he created the heaven of heavens, the earth and everything on it and below it. And the Word was God Himself, the Spirit, who made all these things: But beforehand the Spirit of God floated out of the water.
PAGE 33To comprehend this high thing of all things beyond itself is far too high for reason, and it is not worthy of far higher discussion. For such Eternally great mystery has been invisible and incomprehensible from eternity to eternity, which has made his great omnipotence visible and revealed itself to man, for the souls of all men CHRIST has given himself there, and through him all created works have been made known, and he has heartily proved himself in all great miracles. Now that the Spirit of God is hovering on the water, a division has taken place. After this division, God ordered the four elements: So then the heavenly bodies in the whole bright firmament, the sun and the moon and the seven planets.
Heaven and earth were created by the power of God: Thus the hidden One appeared manifestly, that is a heavenly Astrum, the Most Holy Divine Being, who came forth, who was from eternity, who made himself seen, who proved himself visible and invisible through all his wondrous works. From this Enemy, he has produced heavenly and earthly gifts that can be understood, and thus continues in his power for and for through God's order. After all of this, God sheathes man to the last, and forms him into a formation that distinguishes him from all other things by his form.
You will find such a testimony in the book of Genesis. Clearly written through Moses the servant of God. He built the same man and drew him from the Salian Quinta Essenia, who was sealed from the Terra Olympi, beautiful, pure, pure and clear: If, then, this Terra has been called a salt spirit, in which such great secrets are hidden, it is not advisable to inquire any further into these things, nor to distribute them, for it would be far too difficult for such a godly worker, so he would refrain from such spintifieren in these Arcanis, would not ponder any further, so that no one would be deceived: so I will speak of the Materia of course he knows, let such high secrets rest, and explain myself further.
PAGE 34To begin with, the metals and all minerals are found in no other places than in the mountains and in the earth, where the mineral water together with its mixture is and dwells together, that does not grow or lie still, there itself goes the root together with the Materia Philosophorum, and its constituent power, which matter in the water that is not wet and yet is an element and water and is all one thing, which some water without The earth may not be: For it is of the earth, the earth is such matter's food and nourisher and sustainer and is spiritually full of spiritual life, heavenly, earthly, magneic, it is refreshed by the pure heaven, the earth shelters it and is its mother: Then from the beginning it has been one spirit, one air, one fire, one water, which catches and concludes everything in one.
Now the sky is crowned with many stars, with sun and moon. Even this matter cannot live without the help of heaven, nor can it become fruitful, nor can any thing remain, it needs the heavenly material power of this spirit and salt spirit without ceasing.
For all life is from above: every life has its different change. Therefore every thing on earth and under the earth, in its sphere, has its own salt spirit and its own star: likewise also the metals, the minerals, the vegetabilia, and the animalia also have it in themselves. Likewise all men and every work and creature has its own spirit and its own star: and all life comes down from above, of which enough has now been said.
But which spirits and stars serve their natural creatures and are completely helpful, this high grace is known to few people: For this reason, even among us humans, this matter is not recognized and is found by few, which has so many names that more error than good results from it.
Because all blessings, graces and gifts come down from above, the spirits of life initially desire the water, but the water desires the earth and the Spirit, all of which is its own: Although this happens in three different forms, it is precisely the one thing that God has wonderfully made from the beginning.
Through fire, air, water and spirit, all things came into being and were put together, properly constructed and fruitfully created. Out of the same hidden mass comes our pearl juice from the people to whom it is revealed and from whom the Signat Star falls, who will obtain this treasure and bring its working power.
We know so thoroughly that the water has its dwelling place with the earth, the water must also be transformed into earth, to understand this, so it rises from our matter, becomes a spiritual and subtle creature. Its extract and extract is a salty essence, and an incombustible, permanent, fiery oil: the key that unlocks everything and transforms it into its own.
PAGE 35So water and earth must dwell constantly mingled together, earthly and heavenly mingling, joining together to that which from the beginning must become water and spirit. Heaven, however, is the purest being for itself, its astral, fiery watery anima, which works constantly day and night, these two become impure: When water is mixed with fire, it turns into a spiritual being, in which the fiery spirit lies hidden, dies and is born anew, the earth also has its sun, its water, its air and its base vest, much a more beautiful green lies hidden underneath than that which is seen above, which green is what philosophy calls the given. Learn to mingle the water with the fire, and you will open the seed of the metal, devour it into tincture powder, quickly transform it into the river, reveal it in Spiritum and Aquam permanentem (Permanent Water), turn it into water and Mercurio.
By such constructed earth and Spiritualist water mingling, such water becomes an earth which unites water with the Fiery Spirit, which because it is cold in nature, airy round in itself has a rising cold spirit and is indeed a subtle drawn out salt, which is resolved with its Spiritu, fixed, made all fiery and permanent in its power. The ancients could find no other ashes or salt that reveals everything from the root: Which all is a spiritual being, that is now clearly revealed, as to be seen in the sea water. In the same way, if the water is separated from it, it is a coarsely poisonous salt that must be purified and cleansed of its sulfur.
What you find and see in the great world is also found in the small world. This is a true parable and instruction of the Salian Corporis, which is one of the materials thrown down by man, and yet is the best, which is turned into a spiritually incombustible magisterium, which should not be forgotten, for in this lies the art and all mastery. This is talk of this philosophical work, which is brought out of the earthly, out of the material into a clear revelation. There are different ways to do this, one of which happens quite naturally through a lot of manual work, but through the same material. The other way is worked philosophically and artificially: If all are in accordance with each other, as a pure spirit and fixed salt spirit, together with its spiritual earths, therein the whole work is comprehended.
PAGE 36It is drawn from the Terra Olympi, cooked heavenly, together in one mingle. The other is finite astrum of such matter that is supernaturally revealed and made known by God alone. The heavenly fire, however, is much clearer and purer, completely astral, not watery, airy, cold, but fiery. Therefore it is said that we should continue to work with such reported things, hiding the fire in the cold water, which is a beautiful clear example.
For the heavenly does not need purification, but the philosophical earth does; through such frequent renewal of these earths and such preparation everything becomes fruitful. The heaven of Saturn has a much more delicate animation than other celestial earths may perform. But this is the divine center, the matter and mother of our ☉ Sol. The water, however, has its fiery spirit with it, which hovers there constantly in strong movement, according to the judgment and according to the heavenly astral order of God, day and night, eternally without end, invulnerable, undepletable in its active power.
Proceed alone with this massa, for it remains to date quite desolate, know, without fruit, dark and empty, unrecognized, lying silent before all eyes and hearts, completely hidden and rejected: But by the gracious divine will of God all things shall be made manifest in time to come. But now I want to speak clearly about the often reported division and reversal of such natures of the elements: From this alone the earth will be completely fruitful, that it will prove its working help in this quite strongly, since there must be that from it, all that the Quint. Essence and what is most subtle in such earth must bring forth: This is to be mixed with the water of such high clarity and great power that it becomes water again, for it has been water: Wherefore the water is again given to the earth for a help: This is evil and justly spoken after a simple form, but it is done naturally and knowingly by low thoughts, which, because this nature is so bad to look at, needs no high thoughts.
Which great mystery is composed by a true argument and is indicated as a testament to the strongest, of which enough has been reported this time. So it happens that still often mingling protracted multiplication by the power of water and with this philosophical earth a perfect work will take place: But thou shalt persevere in the labor of the very first things. And this is to know thoroughly, that our water is a cold corpus, and a volatile spirit an airy being, which spirit always carries the corpus up with it and descends again, until one is equal to the other: But the anima will remain constantly uninjured instead of the corpus resting, which is a cold corpus.
PAGE 37can then give great pleasure to the future When then such an improvement is accomplished, that is, when this thing is brought or acted upon in another equestrian canon, the anima impulbabilis (a spirit driven), a purely invisible gestüpp is reversed, that is, a clearly ascended salt, from which a fixed stone and an incombustible oil are roasted, clarified, and spiritually revealed: Which all things appear after their outward form, at first bad at last but natural in the eternal essence, as it was from the beginning, out of which a new fruit will appear. This is now evident, that our matter is a pure water, a spirit, a heavenly fire, a purely spiritually raised salt: it is born of the sun, beautiful, pure, clear, and obviously created completely pure and pure: In it dwells the fire from which the Divine essence comes. The outward is the greatest poison, but the inward is the best good and the highest medicine.
Therefore, worker, beware that you purify your earth and incorporate the Animam so that it will willingly accept the seed, make it worthy and highly qualified. Then you have won. For behold the first father and spagyrum Hermes, who says thus: If you feed my red son with gold, I am gold: If you feed him with Luna, it becomes Luna, likewise with Venere, it becomes Venus, these corpses must all be purified beforehand and so from now on it happens with all other metals, this spirit drives it on high, from it many innumerable heirs with a small weight are produced.
If, then, you will work differently outside of this oft-told rule, you will be mistaken: even though the first philosophers initially knew about this matter and the highest mystery, and had great knowledge of nature, they did not receive the grace to experience the effect of this stone, its perfect work, nor the completion, nor the augmentation: for no process of it is clearly found, and such maery names remain hidden: they knew neither the Animam nor Spiritum, nor such salt. The magi and caballists, of whom there were many in Chaldea, in Persia, in Egypt, and also in other places in Alexandria, were found in times unknown: they all confirm all this and say that you should work like this. Note this well. You should seek these spiritual heavenly things and separate them from the earthly gross defects, strive for the first spiritual things, join them into one and continue as the farmer is wont to do, who cultivates and fertilizes the field well, Then throw the seed into it, let the lazy grow in it first, let God rule, do not lay your hand on it again until it is ripe, the rain and the sun help to work and labor: So it happens with our work also by Divine will, with nature's working help.
PAGE 38The fire and the coals that we throw to such matter, seek in our spiritual dung laughter, so its already sufficient, we let it rot and putrify the seed, the red or white fixed matter, that you must dissolve from fixe, melt into itself, bring to putrify, solvate, purify, than then join together and cook until it has become perfect, fixed, pure and clear.
If this is the case, man will then have much to rejoice about: if you work wholesomely and diligently in this, it will shine clearly, the work will be blissfully completed, let it be said to you with command and contentment. Now it is necessary for you to act according to the same thread or according to the right guideline, to follow it diligently and to choose nothing else but this, to remain where it will lead and guide you, to follow the same path correctly.
You must artificially attract this Animam, that is, you must build the right field, seek the natural seed, and then, together with the Spiritu, you must distribute it wisely into the earth and into heaven, that is, bring it into two parts, which in turn will become one, mix it well and join it together. So deal with the one part: After you have chosen the seed and cast it into the prepared field, it is necessary to know this, so that you do not do this without whiteness, no matter how many old men have erred, have thought and agreed this and that: Mixing the contrary with the good, therefore they have done nothing in art, because they have found nothing certain.
But now follow their teaching, who have gone this way, who have known the art and received grace, as I have also experienced this through divine grace, and advise you faithfully, and reveal this to you thoroughly, as the ancients indicate, and let it remain so; you should not make it common against every worker, of which I have admonished you. You will find this clearly in the turba, which you shall take no more than the rose-colored blood of the red lion, and the pure gluten of the white eagle, which you shall mingle, I tell you, I understand this well, among these two follows afterward the third, which is due, which you shall not forget to bring into one, without the third his perfect work is to be hoped for.
PAGE 39And remember this about everything, that God created heaven and earth through his eternal word, but before this there was nothing else but the spirit of God and the water, but the water is separated, mixed with the fire, clear and united, for these two things alone require the work, and no more: the third is resolved into these two, which become one thing, we also seek nothing else for this work, for soul, spirit, body, as fire and water together with the earth with this united matter we have everything enough.
Because all this is contained in the primi entis juice and is closed, we are only looking for the one thing. But in this it is also highly necessary that the third should come naturally white to these two, through which you will reach your desired end and make yourself worthy of the perfect tincture.
First of all, you shall purify our matter with water. These two, as the earth and spirit, you shall mix well with the seed, make them one, bring forth the noble spirit of salt: For without such Magisterium Salis we can accomplish nothing, I tell you, and I will also tell you further that they should remain together, and henceforth no longer be divided from one another, for the two parts must become equal under the upper one, both parts must come back into one, not behind one another, but brought to perfection for themselves. First of all, however, it will be turned back into what it was from the beginning, which we must close together again into one, that is, divinely worked through his help alone, otherwise it will not continue.
For in truth these are not poems, fables, or bad words, but Divine high mysteries, wherefore thou shalt put together the Animam, even that which belongs here, as the Spiritum Salis, which has become an Impalpablis This, remaining in a pure clear gesture, which thou shalt put together with the one part, understand the right Spiritum, as reported, bring into it, unite it well, put it in its place, which is according to the elemental spiritual earth, which may be nothing else, but the pure, clear, blended, manifest matter, which must be worthy of water, of fire, of air, of cold, that will unite itself with the drawn-out earth, with all beautiful fragrant airiness. When you bring all this together into one, through the power of the first heavenly producer, clearly and astrally clothed, you will realize this. Thus our materia is transmuted into a spiritual liquor or substance, quite evident, which Massa through the NORPTI and biblical fire has been obtained and captured, that will all be resolved together in three, in two and in one season ascended high in the solar circle.
PAGE 40For sidereal lime heat the hidden thing will be revealed, will also appear improved to our stone of highest perfection, clarified. Thus all things are revealed, that it is then born into the art, brought into the highest red matter to the stone and into an incorruptible OLEITET, which is also retained without end and exists powerfully in all things, worthy of being penetrated, that is now the perfect liquid stone. But this is also necessary to know after this, since this requires and must have the entrance of a red fermented (Animati Spiritus) spirit in its bringing back of the Animae. But there is no other fermented mixture of any (illegible) thing, nor does it accept anything that is not of its kind, only the blood of Solis lacks our Materia in the end, thereby it becomes penetrating and completely tinged, the same then awakens again several Comas. So the work progresses all the faster, our stone is stained black, white, yellow and red: the ☉ Sol of fire is its working aid, and highest clarity and colors this stone ruby red. Because the beautiful yellow color can itself give its red color from it, it then happens and goes first from the black color, which has now been called the raven's head, the wise Mercurius: From which then the most beautiful clear white color shines forth, ultimately to perfection in the highest degree.
The ruby red color penetrates and shines as the clear morning star. Let him who happily chooses God and is worthy before God not abuse this blessing, praise and thank God for his supreme grace and good deeds. The Spirit of Scripture operates for and for, awakening souls and drowsy minds, the spirit is valiant, it never rests, so that much good fruit may be produced and the truth may be made manifest. Many seek and labor in vain, grow dull and weary, punish God's gifts as if the leaves had written untruth. We deceive ourselves as those who climb mountains, many also put themselves in danger, so let God also deceive those who despise Him.
Now follows a short sentence about the material of the high tincture, i.e. that three things dwell in this one, as soul, body and spirit, the soul and spirits are penetrating, in it is a golden Mercurius, and a cold Sulphur.
PAGE 41The high tincture color is in gold Only decided, if he who dwells with soul and spirit in our matter, we have revealed the Sulphur and Mercurium, in the fixation and coagulation of the ore properly unlocked, also bound and overcome: The fire is concealed in our stone. This is now the shortest possible description of the basis and content of the whole art, in which the beginning, the means and the end are contained.
Thus the victory and Victoria are obtained with little strife, without great toil and labor, even with little expense completed and begun: Only the destroyed gold is the agent that gives ferment to our stone, that is made all spiritual, olitetical, fixed and liquid, by a steady lind research in the vessel that of its own nature, thereby everything is cooked and accomplished. Our salt of philosophorum all that is due to the work, steadfastly remaining, and quite perfect, that, so fleeting and fixed, become one. Fire and water are at first quite repugnant: but in this work they become one being, for the artist's hand has thus arranged it by the divine will. The pure purified spirit Mercury better unlocks all the volumes of the bodies so that they are easily dissolved.
Saturnus says: My power and strength is much colder on the outside than on the inside: My spirit is fiery, fiery: I am rejected and yet I am a living coagulated water. My fiery smoke pervades all bodies: The gold must yield to me. I make volatile. I fix and make the corpus pure, fire constant: My help cannot well be dispensed with, what I comprehend I overcome and keep for robbery, of the impure I care not, in my bath gold and silver are dissolved, completely melted: Metals, the spoon, and their first beginning.
After the first death, the pure bodies are led into my bath and are thus pure and born anew, from this the treasure of the ancients is revealed.
The fathers have all left testimony to their descendants of their writings as a testament: From above we are given such heavenly inheritance, that we should search the Scriptures and work with nature and not nature again. This is taught to us by the true one art alone of the one thing that can master all things, in the metallic inner being, which its astrum brings forth, the outer body is deadly, dies and passes away: dies and passes away: the inner remains, that is pure and pure, as soul and spirit, to which we give a new clear body, in which we should seek and work.
PAGE 42They have searched and worked much in the right matter, but Each one has gone a shorter and closer way: Some have come to the end, but some have come to nothing. For a good beginning brings a good end, let it be said.
Now follows another short lesson on the philosophical work.
When nature ceased in the work, the artist began to work. For when the gluten in the Mercurio Vulgi is sought, draw from it its soul and spirit through Acetum. This animae gives solis blood, so hide soul and spirit in the philosophical fiery living water, let it mix and unite well in mild warmth, putrify, rise through all colors until it has taken on a nature, bring it to its perfection until it becomes a liquid ruby red stone. Thus you have found a heavenly fire, and the highest astrum, which works great wonders on men and metallic forms, which you shall now consider the greatest treasure, for it is done with one regiment, in one vessel, in one furnace, without all toil and labor, from the beginning to the end, and nothing foreign is used, absolutely nothing other than the blood of the red lion or white eagle, nothing else is acceptable to it, is called AZOTH, with this the whole work is done: The third is the water of our philosophical fire.
I tell you in short, take his other thing, that is the rule and whole sum, since Particular shows you the right reason and true shortest way, so that ☉ Sol or ☽ Luna is unlocked, destroyed and overcome, that is now clearly discovered, and understood in short rules, that is not too high nor too difficult, but bad and simple-minded. Our Animan and Spiritum were called by the ancients the soul of the world, the spirit of life. Just as soul and spirit reign and dwell in the blood, and in the life of man, and move spiritually through all his veins, so also our matter, soul and spirit, through its smoke and vapor, permeates the metallic forms, and through the corresponding fiery movement the metals are thus solvated and dissolved, which alone happens through its solvation and calcination: the spirit moves the corpora.
For, as already reported, our matter becomes spirit, destroys and breaks the metallic essence. This spirit dwells in all the elements and is full of smoke and wind, yet cold and fiery: it is recognized by few, considered small: It is a bitter juice, and yet has hidden in it the very greatest feet, that is Anima AZOTHI.
PAGE 43Much has been said about this evil thing, and many a judgment has been passed. One searches for it in the high and in the distant, but it is set in the near and in the deep. God's order works it and has planted it, created it for this key: All destroyed Corpora are again affected by this one thing, highly appreciated, from this help alone perfectly invented. Its outward form is more of an earthly nature: its spirit and soul are pure and pure, from it we create a new pure body: therefore we do not need any external help for this work, we add to it alone that which is so similar and equal to it.
For this reason, one nature rejoices in the others, accepting one another, from which it becomes stronger, more powerful, more complete, brought into clarity, just as all the fathers have clearly referred to this thing and have also spoken the truth, for they were spirits of lies: There is a highly heavenly little thing in this thing, which few human eyes have seen, and no human ear has heard of its worthiness. Few are those who come to such high knowledge, nor has God fallen into the thoughts of many hearts to give this spirit such high power that the heavenly fire may have its dwelling in it. Who on earth is so worthy as to have received such a heavenly fiery drink from the cup of Esdrae and Joseph? Only those who have loved the heart of God will be taught this fire.
Earthly reason may never be able to discover it by itself, without mortification and detachment from the earthly, and that one (illegible) from the heavenly, they may come to such high knowledge, but man must suffer and endure much about it and be a mockery to the godless world and be mocked by it. This heavenly spirit, because of its beautiful fiery clarity, is called by the wise a Salamander, and Sandaraea, which is pure and clean: thus neither spirit nor animae may have its dwelling in any unclean vessel, nor does it enter into it: Only the things so pure, and compared in its sex, call it what you will, it is nothing else but this cold and fiery spirit Vulgi, and the abiding water Viscosa; which by its received great heavenly power in its first spiritual ascension does illuminate the clarity of heaven, as a pure propitiatory sacrifice, in which the Holy and Most High is well pleased, as in the sacrifice of Eliae. This fire also enlightens and refreshes man's soul and spirit, from it proceeds great understanding and high wisdom: man's life will also embalm and rid himself of all earthliness, attain health, long life, that he may do what he is commanded to do.
PAGE 44For this reason give your stone blood from ☉ Sol of which becomes a whole work, celestial and perfect: for this nature is all nourishing always fruitful to work great marvels: it is pure virgin, fiery, airy, hot, cold watery, a clarified corpus, an overcomer of all strong things. Thus God the Father, through his eternal Word, as the other person, has procured these things for his marvelous works, not placing them in his ultimate essence, but wanting to elevate them in Primam Materiam Confusam, worthy to be clarified into heavenly things. Now this is a thing, and is called Materia, in the root of which dwells the growing power, from which the whole world together with this juice and spirit are mingled: for this reason the ancients call it the thing in which all mysteries lie concealed. The Holy Scriptures also show this clearly: The Prima Materia was Sal Maris, the water on which the Spirit of God floats: In this the whole work is now composed, divine and whitish, so that the first is created, built, broken, and again a new birth is created from it.
Therefore we should remain with the power that works in nature, not ponder further, nor inquire higher, but remain with the rules of the ancients, and be content with this revelation and high grace of God. Coliculo, this word comprehends all things in all things: thus it is understood and interpreted. It is a fiery living water, the philosophical Viscosa, which rises up the mountain, and falls down into the deep valley: seek its fountain-spring, and thou shalt have power to ting, to work great wonders in medicine, and in metals. A regula drawn from Theophrasti true described testimonies, in which it is clearly reported, of the inner great power of the ☉ Sol, what a heavenly fire is decided in it, which alone is right and mighty to work miracles. Which its Sulphur and Mercurius as its Q. Essentiae, with the help of our Materia Spiritum vel Animae, can also per se, with the effect of our water, become the elixir. The ☉ Sol is thus highly appreciated because of its internal tinctural juice, which ultimately appears scarlet red, is the highest medicine, which may not be pronounced inadequate before it.
PAGE 45Now this is clearly known by the true philosophers, that a divine fire is resolved in the Archeo Solis, therefore no one will soon lure it here, unless it be through the one Philosophical Key Saturni, which of its own nature, that same thing has received such great power: in this
If everything has the power to release the gold, there is its right treasure chamber, the key, and the philosophical vessel in which the fire ☉ Sol is decided, it is highly valued by the water Viscosam, for the metal is fastened and put together with it, it also has such power to unlock this bond again, it is a water and fiery ray, there it works and breaks everything hidden, without compulsion and hardship: It hath all in it, it is the first and last, a heavenly gate, the some matrix, the life-giving growing power that swallows both soul, body, and spirit, and dignifies it again.
Without this juice the ☉ Sol inhabitant may not be seen nor caught, that is the Fixe Sulphur Rubeum, and its Spiritus Mercurius, it all goes forth by supreme means, that is the right mother, from it the solution becomes manifest, it blackeneth, it whiteneth, it yelloweth, it all reddens itself, by its self-ascending natures grasps. Now when such a cure occurs, which reveals the fiery tincture of gold, the Spiritus Alcol has great power to rule over it: for the chest of gold is broken up and lies dead, it is all dissolved and not corrupted. As all other waters corrupt and rend the inhabitant, yet such corpses of a metallic nature remain, can be reduced and brought back into a corpus.
Our Materia is a double Mercurius, spirit and water fiery and cold even more manifold virtuous dwelling in the soul, body and spirit. The ancients have given this Materia many names, the water of paradise, the living Mercurial water Aquam Ardentem, Visosam, &c. Called. But in all scriptures testimony remains of these names and the Preperatrion hidden, whether the philosophers discovered the whole reason of the work, they conceal this name, they call it Key (Schlüsfel), but they are silent to make the solution, wherefore Theophrasus speaks because the ancients keep this name as a secret, does not want to reveal to me this name clearly, nor its preparation or solution, I do not want to be the beginner and be scolded as a criminal of Iuramenti Philosophci, but it is all in all, and most of all necessary that after the dissolution of the ☉ Sol one knows how to lure the color of the high Tincture together with the Glutine, unlock its Salian band and separate it from all defects and purify it so that this tincture shines high, pure and clear. Seek the celestial sulphur and the living water, resolve in the matter clear vessel, which we have pressed for it from its earthly soil, as one presses the spiritual juice from well-timed blue grapes, the since the last must be taught in our mastery.
PAGE 46This water's power lies in the green whiteness, its fountain spring appears bright and clear, the clouds in the sky hide the shape of the beautiful sapphire colors: Out of earth and water grows our matter and Azoth our stone: This is crowned with the highest tincture colors, scarlet clothed, beautifully ruby-glazed, that is the stone and the penetrating penetrating fire, therein all understanding is manifestly comprehended.
So the ancients did not unreasonably ask that our Tinctur fire be compared to the heavenly fire, for the work is divine, more English than human, and for the sake of its great working power, God has made the fire, water and spirit highly esteemed, worthy, spiritual, fiery, pentrant: it is said to be holy like the angels: for it is a divine heavenly gift.
God is the eternal premium Ens itself, a divine, unconsumable fire, full of eternal clarity, wisdom and truth. For this reason, this blessing is still revealed to a few: For this gift is in the hand of the Lord alone, he gives it to those to whom he grants it, for God has created wonderful power in the blessed stone, but for the sake of sins, even through the fall of Adam and Eve, the clarity of earthliness has been dimmed. And completely obscured, it was reserved solely for the great mystery. Because of this, everything earthly is mortally transient, mortal in nature and subject to death, nothing can come from it.
Because of this, all souls were in need of a single Savior And not much with a few drops of the shed rose-colored blood of Jesus Christ Find many 1000 innumerable souls touched and redeemed to eternal life his tender Corpus Christi feeds all souls in a spiritual way : Those who put their trust in him alone will trust God the Holy Trinity eternally View .
Our TINCTURE only affects the corpus temporally, that it is us and gives luster to the imperfect metals Solis or Lunae CHRISTIAN TINCTURE but spiritually touches the souls to eternal life. The earthly world is quenched by our tincture, which loves Gold and Silver before God to the poor in need tormented and cast into misery.
Page 47But if the Lord opens his heavenly treasury and entrusts us with such a gift, we are set to help the needy in misery and distress, which is God's command and our ministry of the indweller lives eternally from God, the outside is dilapidated, a mortal vessel or housing, that its now of the fire and of the tincture of gold also frugally testified up to man's welfare and God's final blessing perfectly told, what in Summa the Philosophers seek their work their art and mastery their medicine their stone their matter and what their Fermentum is of all this, I hope, has so far been evidently and clearly sufficiently reported and thus want this our Philosophiam Theoricam from the Lapide Philosophorum from Theophrasti, Rogerii and other philosophers scriptis drawn here with the Son of Doctrine (Filio Doctrine) have decided to good.
Dixi Ego B . F . P . L . C .
T. M .
Trismegisto & Benedicto Spagyro CHRISTP LESU EMMANUELI & SALVATORINOSTRO, uns cum Pattrs & Spiritu sancto, sit honos, laus & gloria immortalis, Amen, &c. - To Trismegistus and Benedictus Spagyop CHRISTP LESU EMMANUELI and SALVATORINOSTRO, together with Pattrs and the Holy Spirit, be honor, praise and immortal glory, Amen, &c.
LITTLE REMINDER to the loyal reader.
Much loved Christian reader and lover of heavenly truth and study chemistry.
Accordingly, this following chapter of our highly illustrious, noble and dear preceptor Theophrastus has given me a thorough and truthful account of his Tinctura Physicorum, which in many places is far better and more detailed than can be found in his printed tomes:
So I have wanted to arrange it here for your benefit (so that you may feel my faithful, sensible mind towards all lovers of the precious alchemy in the work and recognize that I am honestly and faithfully meant and inclined to promote it), together with his declaration on the fourth 4. Arcana Paracelsis, namely: 1. the Arcanum Prim materie 2. Lapidis Philosophorum 3. Mercurii Vita 4. about his Tincturam , which I received from the high and well-born gentleman H. Marimilano , von und zu Baumgarten Freiherr zu Hohen Schwangau und Erbach, Hereditary Mareschalken of the High Princely Our Lady of the Abbey of Augsburg Comite palatino Lateranensi & Cesareo, & c .
My gracious lord of benevolent M.C. as well as highly experienced chemists in Tyrol wanted to receive, accept and understand such things from me to the best of my ability and use them for your own good, I will grant this to everyone with all my heart . Vale, &c. .
On the Tincture of the Physicists - DE TINCTURA PHYSICORUM
PH. THEOPHRASTI PARACELSI
Thorough and truthful report to a good friend, ex veteri manuscripto.
So take his Iudicum : as we symbolize ♁ (Antimony / Salt) the highest purification and noblest clarification is of gold, since the physician is to recognize, do you do that in gold , what do you then do in people and how high is your power and Arcanum , which will also produce itself in such a way and is a mystery that lies before our eyes not that we can be like goldsmiths but like physicians, for in the same way as the ♁ (Antimony / Salt), the ☉ Sol also purifies man to his degree for he is like a Fire, purifies and (illegible) man most nobly above all Arcana cures him to his highest health.
Philosophers have tried a lot with him, even the artists, but the right way has not yet been found with them, nor have they experienced the second invention, for they died before me. Now it is praise to God on the day and should be an art that all doctors should know, because this gives his supposed but a knowing doctor this is the Lili and highest purification of the whole human body, the noblest and sweetest, which takes away what is inactive in people. In the ♁ (Antimony / Salt) / ☿ Mercury / and in the Vitriol every faithful physician and doctor should seek all his life and provide his time until his death. They will certainly reward him richly for all his toil and labor and will surrender and pay all expenses. For these when they are brought into an oil , what great usefulness , power and doing end with so fast effect they produce , can never be uttered or frugally described , for their manifold virtue is unsearchable , no one may fathom it.
Follow the preparation or preparation of the ♁ (Antimony / Salt).
Take a good strong crucible, in it four pounds of Antimony, let the food start for itself, well covered, blow on it so that it flows well, next to it take a good core of steel, beat it into a thin sheet, and let it cool, so it shatters like a glass. Take a pound of the ♂ Mars sheet for preheating and put it from hour to hour into the closed ♁ (Antimony / Salt) and cover it again and cover it with coals and let it flow well with the bubbles and stir the matter together with a cold removed stick, so that nothing coarse is found in the crucible, that is everything in the crucible becomes like water.
For so pour quickly into a cold mortar, which be a little greased, and let it obtain itself. Sift all this pounded together into a powder and keep it until you need no more, you are in need of it. This reported Alcohol, Magnesia, Mercurio Vitae or quinta Essentia mercurial water of the previously purified be as you well know.
Page 50This powder Alcohol and Mercuri Anima , one pound rubbed together That none of the other recognizes that you are in a well-shod (illegible) laid in sand in exchange for a large flask of glass and probably First of all, give it a light fire for half an hour, then rub it one after the other and it's all slippery and brown and a living Mercurius so that you can do all this as much as you want, then take it out And put it again in another newly misted retort, but that the report has on top of a mirror as you well know and that puts in a sand chapel, on top of it covered with each other, so the fine oil comes out at first First of all, the oil is beautifully brown and the living Mercurius remains behind. Now that the beautiful brown oil has emerged, you can see through the mirror of the retort, so the Mercurius remains behind Sit down, let the retort cool down, the Mercurius that stayed behind Let the retort cool, shake out the Mercurium that has remained in the back into a clean glass, and then re-sublimate as before the brown oil Keep in the cold, it is a fine rigid transparent beautiful brown crystals of small heat melting like wax.
If you get a good part of all this, you may rectify it again twice in a new retort, in a pure dry one for lag, you know what damage you have to suffer, if lag is wet for it, you have cleaned and rectified it three times from all its fecibus, keeping it, you have me Mercurium Vitae.
The Lac Virginis or Virgin's Milk, is therefore prepared.
This high noble purified essence or Mercurium Vitae, leave in its for it is a fundis then after five or six pounds of Sp. Vini , which is without phlegm, shake it among themselves so it is all turned to a milk and put the glass out of its ring Leave to stand for three or four days and nights, stirring well every day and adding a little water each time.
More often the better because it works itself off. Then put it in its prescribed flask and put it in the B.M., on it his comfortable helmet and four days for it well diluted and distilled together : the longer it stands in Balneo, the better it is, because it putrifies and becomes only nobler : as then trucken even distilled out , so he remains a glorious white pure earth that is called the philosophy Terram Sanctam. This white Terram Sangtam foliatam, put it in a well-rimmed flask, pour on it the best recited Olei Vitroli Benedicti, pour over it so that it is safe four or five fingers.
Page 51go over and set in sand , let work with up and down rise eight days under his helmet prescribed for it and for lag for it . The glass should not be high, for the vitriol oil could not rise up because of its heaviness. And now that everything is over and nothing volatile is left behind, your white earth will eat impregnated and fiery. Take it out and rub it small and put it in a phial, which is tarnished and on the ground.
below has a mirror that is one penny wide, also on the On the opposite side, so that one may see at times how it changes with the colors, the phial should not be fogged higher than the matter in the glass, put in its furnace which is made for this purpose, as you well know, and put in the sand chapels and safely two fingers deep that it goes over the matter and over it a port overthrown, so that the glass does not have air with its prescribed valve open and closed. The phiol may be bequeathed with a glass stem : so let it stand in this regiment of fire all the time that the glass is so hot that one cannot suffer it on the hand and so burn it immediately : first the white , secondly the beautiful ring-blue yellow , finally the salamander blood-red eternal constant urgency : so is this noble gifted stone cooked, and made in time , on all high diseases and is called the gifted stone .
Follows the explanation or the four arcana Theophrasti Anonymi Authoris .
1. ARCANUM DE PRIMA Materia.
Take the Prima Materiae in flaccum , let digerate , resolut a in legion to a month To which propositions afterwards the addition Monarchiae in aequale pondus, in arena, on another month, after this digestion, take the materiam and distil it per cineres over , and what goes over , the same is Arcanum Materiae Primae of which we have written and let no one be surprised of the short way , for the multiplicity makes a lot of mistakes . Prima Materia introduces the new youth in man with
Page 52distortion of the old , equal as a new herb from a new seed and in a new summer and year
Declaratio primae Materiae.
Take the primae Materia in flaccum : quasi diceret, Regelum Antimonij, Solvatur in Aqua Regis , ponaturque; in simum ad putrdefactionem. Per Monarchiam inelligimus hoc loco Commune Sal Armoniacum, & ita distillando habebis nostrum Mercurium vulgi, quem vertes in aquam. Clarius de hoc Arcano lege Theophrastum de Vita longa, lib.3.cap.6 & in Apocalypsi Hermetis, of the other being : for what is lacking in one place , it reimburses in the other .
II . ARCANUM
LAPIS PHILOSOPHICUS.
Take Elementum Mercurii and separate from it purum ab impuro , let the same reverberate usque ad albedinem , the same sublimir now through the Salmiar , so long until it resolves again , then put in Pelikan , let digerate for a month , the coagulate into a corpus , that no longer burns and no longer distorts, remains incorporeal, the corpora that pass through are female per cementum.
Declaratio Laipdis Philosophici.
Take Elementum Mercurii and separate from it purum ab impuro . Id est : take Materiam Nostram , and put in his sperm and need it study , after that let reverbate in albedinem: quasi dicerer, so will alius Regulus on it, the calcinier, one after this the two semina, that is Mercurius vulgi, and Mercurius Philosophorum married together, so they resolve in vase triplici & vaporosoigne. Then put in Pelican, let it digerate for a month, the coagulate in a corpus, everything is spoken cabalistically, as if he wanted to ask: if your two semina in the triple harness, and vaporic fire has let solvate: so let it stand so long, until the whiteness or redness comes, then the lapis is ready.
The III . ARCANUM.
MERCURIUS VITAE .
Take Mercurio essensificatum , the same separate from all its superfluity , that is puro ab impuro , then sublimate it with
Page 53Antimonio, that they both ascend, and all become one thereafter so revolviers on the marble and coagulate it for the fourth time, so hast thou prepared Mercurium Vitae.
Declaratio Mercurii Vitae
This is nothing else than the description of the Universal, from which he then makes his Gold Potable, which Theophrastus here calls the Mercury of Life.
Take Mercurium essesificatum, separate the same from its impuritatibus).
Here he teaches us to purify our matter well, and to make the mercury of the common people from the purified matter, and then to make our leaven from it.
Then sublimirs with ♁ (Antimony / Salt) that they both ascend and become one, those two seeds have already joined together (iam coniunxit illa duo semina), then the colors ascend and descend until finally the matter becomes white or red, then reserve it on the marble and coagulate it for the fourth time, so you have Mercurium Vitae, let it become oil, so you have AURUM POTABILE. Luna appears in his first essence , there he clearly indicates the Materiam , for whoever is missing in matter is definitely missing. Our material is common antimony, with which gold is purified (Materia Nostra est commune Antimonium, quo Aurum purgatur), that is tried from many places : Lege Theophrastum in lib. Chirurgico, the other treatise of the first book 6. cap. 9. Illud Oleum, cap.9.sic fit: mix bricks, or something similar, so that it does not flow (immisce lateres, vel aliquid simile, ut non fluat) Antimony ♁, In Turba: for unless Names were multiplied in the Philosophical art, children would mock our wisdom. (in sine Turbae: Nisi enim Nomina multiplicarentur in arte Philosophica, pueri nostram sapientiam deriderent.)
Opinion of the Philosophers - Sententia Philosophorum
There is one cheap thing, found everywhere, with the four natures inserted, marriageable. (Estt una vilis res, ubique reperta, quatuor inserta naturis, nuberesera.) Theophr. In Apocalypsi. Ita Hermes inquit: Although he is called by all kinds of names, let no one think that they are different spirits, say what you will, but it is only one spirit that works all in all. Count Bernhardus in the third part says : our work is made of one root and of two mercurial substances all red and all drawn from the minerally put together or joined . Thomas de Aquino : How many things, the stones rot. (Quot res, rot lapides.) In the other essence it appears in the watery body.lib.4. ) there Theoprhrast teaches a medicine that is soon made and expels all diseases, as reported in Archidoxis, when he treats of the first Mary. For there he teaches to make Mercury out of Regulus ♁ (Antimony / Salt) (quando tractat de prima Maeria. Nam ibi docet facere Mercurium ex Regulo) ♁ (Antimony / Salt). By Monarchy he means common Salt there. (Per Monarchiam ibi intelligit Sal commune.)
Page 54Theophrasus describes this process in sancto lib. De Vita longa. In 3.lib.cap.6. (Here he very openly names the material of our Stone and teaches what to take from the material, or how it should be cleaned of excesses, which he also does in the Manual. The recipe for the mineral Electra is immature.) put in his sperm to weaken the fordiciem , and purify to the utmost as you can , by the stibium according to alchemy custom so that you suffer no harm from his naughtiness . And follows the method of making Mercury. Electra is an immature mineral material as it is found in kramen . Sperm is nothing else but sodium salt: understand by Stibius rubbed coals to powder, Therefore: proceed thus. (Ergo: ita procede.) Take our material a pound and a quart of sperm mixed together, let lime come into flow, throw more into it, do this at 3 hours, as time stirred with a wood so you throw in, then poured out in pours and you will find Regulus well purified, and suitable not only for Medicine, but also for stone or universal. And where our matter is not thus purged and purified, it is not fit propter impuritatem, which comes away by this process of all. Theophrastus calls this purgatum regulum in the place touched Form signed in another place (Formam in alio loco signatem). King Solomon calls it Stellionem . The poet Palingenius puerum Arcadium, Arcadem, & c. And all this because, quod in fusione Stella apparet. N.B. Let it flow once more with Salniter alone a good quarter of an hour, eri pulchrior stella. But it is not necessary for our work .
Processus Medicinae
Our regulus (metallic element) must be transformed into running mercury, and this mercury into water. From this, give the patient four grains (weight), as Theophrastus taught in his superior book, so the medicine is ready. Theophrastus teaches in the book Thesaurus Thesaurorum to purify our material; but he leaves out the antimony: rainwater is nothing else but sperm, zinc is our material, and the very beautiful process follows to make from our purified material our mercury, suitable for the universal way, as well as for this medicine.
Mercurium vulgi.
Make a triple harness in the first through the tube pour the Mercurium, so it runs through the middle and third in recipients like a water
Page 55Another process to make such a ring .
Take our well-purified Materiam, as I have emptied in the other being let Mercury be made of her in the manner, as was said before. Take this in a viol hermetice well sigillated, grind this to oil, and your medicine is ready. NB.Eehe this becomes oil, it becomes of philosophy Aurum nostru, Sulphur,& Philosophicus Mercurius and is our fermentt to the Universal. Lege Theophrastu, Thesaurorum, & in magna Chururgia tactatu tertio other part, ni fallor 5. Bernhardus. It is well known that the king was first made from the fontina. Theorphr. In Thesauro Thesau: The earth lies on the ground, therein seek that which is sought by many, but found by few. q. he would say: Mercury is at the bottom, from that make Precipitate, that is, the Mercury of the Philosophers, &c. And in the Sacred Scriptures: God built the rib, which he had taken from Adam, into a woman, and brought her to Adam, Gen. 2. The garden is enclosed, the fountain is sealed. Chapter 4 of the Song of Songs In the fourth being appears in a fiery white corpus . This is already Philosopher's stone to whiteness (Lapis Philosophorum ad albedinem) . For if we leave Mercurium Vulgi and Mercurium Philosophorum in due weight (debito pondere), in triplice vase, & igne vaporoso to stand its time , the spirit will give birth to this white stone , for all inferior mineral or metal is turned into Luna In the fifth and last being he appears in a clarified and enlightened redness . ) Then he treats de Lapide Rubeo: for if matter becomes white, as in the fourth being, and thus leaves it in his triplici vase and somewhat stronger vaporosic fire, then matter becomes yellow, then blood red, as then the right Lapis Philosoporum or the Universal is even completed. So the five beings are described in our solar language , who gets it , thanks to God , and that of the sun . Conclusively he wants, when the medicine is ready for sanitizing, that one wants to use it for tincturing, so one should throw one part medicine on 1000 parts gold, which should then tincture metal into gold. In my other processes and tinctures, however, one subtilizes the ♂ Mars and the ☉ Sol with and beside the antimony and then throws one part onto several parts of ☉ Sol or metal, I don't know which would be better.
Page 56Future friend and Fili doctrinae this explication will not do all things enough for my small mind and Ludicio, therefore I will include you in our an booklet , called Pandora nova Benedicta , there you will find a marvelous detailed explanation of all of Alexander's other addictions via the Tincturum Physikorum Theophrasti. As he indicates the short way of the red lion's blood , and of the white eagle's ardor under explained , because also in the following Rhythmis and these tractates so much is treated of Antimonio , I have wanted to set you here for the best several Quaestiunculas Alcadri of Addictions de Antimonio & eius conditione , hope they shall not be displeasing to you . Vale .
De Antimonio Alexander von Suchten
What is antimonium?
It is a mineral created by God from a metallic matter, that is, from agento vivo, which is boiled with sulphur in the bowels of the buster (visceri busterrae).
Aren't the metals also made of Mercurio and Sulphure, ergo they will be one?
The Argentum Vivum Antimonij , and the metals are indeed one , and of the same matter : but the form as the Sulphur Antimonij , is never metallic but mineral , and such a Sulphur , which can be altered per digestionem , and come to the purity , to which the Sulphur of other metals cannot come , therefore Antimonium is an imperfect metal , and is called Saturnus in Philosophia .
What can you expect in the Antimonio?
The highest medicine of the same in the world is not able and that, so all wise men have sought from the beginning of the world.
But how do you find out?
Through great effort and work and before through the grace of GOD .
How does this happen?
First of all, a Mercurius must be separated from it in the following way
Page 57As the miner separates the antimony from the ore in which it is grown, but with the caution that the metallic luster, as seen in the antimony, is not burnt or driven out by fire, but drawn out higher and better: this metallic form also remains in the manner of silver: As then it is in the highest degree, which appears as soon as the slag comes from it, as then it is no longer Antimonium but Mercurius Philosophorum can be poured like another metal, is in the flow like a loud mercury, these are its signs.
What is so great about the appearance .
For the metallic form is a living fire which directs all that is to happen in this work until the end of the digestion, and this fire is its life by which matter (in which it is) is purified from all impurity: the same fire is also the life of matter and of all metals: if the form comes from it, they live no more
What comes out of the divorce that could be harmful?
The other mineral humidities and earthly sulphur, which increase Mercurio's toxins.
What kind of Mercurius is that?
It is nothing other than an agentum vivum to which sulphur minerals are attached, which is then a pure sulphur, but raw and imperfect. But when it is digested and brought to its perfection, it is the Arcanum that tinges and transmutes its Argentum Vivum from the poisonous kind into the noblest medicine, of which the world is incapable.
Hereof examine with diligence further this our philosophy Mysteria proemina of Antimonio, A.V.S. And the Ttriumph Chariot Fr. Basilij: If you will gain nothing from this, then nothing is given to you or given to you by God .
Page 58TRACTATULUS
Rhythmicus Novus from the Philosopher's Stone.
A New Little Rhythmic Treatise
We even walked along a hard road towards a hut that was open, with an old gentleman sitting underneath,
Went to a
Are there even
Blessing offered us both a hand
Since God is welcome in this land :
are you trying here ?
What is your will .
Tell me so that I may fulfill it .
I said Would I be out of ?
The forest , have already gone many ways.
We are looking here for the white good.
Perhaps you have it in your hat .
So let us soon also see that :
the old man says : ride away always that .
And go away from my door .
Go right down this road for .
I said: O thou and faithful man,
thou mayest not show us at all .
And you have only presented yourself thus .
As if you wanted to give us the whole world .
Now I have been walking around here for many years .
But as often as I go to a Bump .
Does he not even let me go empty .
But gives me something to understand .
Whether I am already hidden from myself .
But you are completely unfaithful .
We pray to you from the bottom of our hearts .
Do not let us leave you so empty
The old one says and I am not faithful
I wanted to share with you
What you would otherwise have desired of me
But because I feel and new
That you steal
But because I can feel them and new
That you always strive for such high good
I don't want to show you my courage on the same path from footbridge to train.
She is here when you are alone,
you should not have trouble with me.
I also talked about how I was doing,
how do you mean that I
The thing started ,
I should let you go from me ,
and stay alone with him here ,
who knows about what he is doing ,
probably my things shall not become good .
The old woodmen even think,
maybe he means his too strong for me.
I have experienced what , however,
your way and rhinestone testifies ,
will probably see him on the hand ,
such old people are known to me .
When now from me then what ,
I simply return to the old that , and and says ?
Now I am here alone .
Tell me the truth right and pure .
I want to keep it with my life , and
No with reason to understand .
Old language: I say only for that to you in a G homes that ,
no one says it also differently not ,
mind of God ask you right :
and when you will come there ,
it will be the same as with me your mind
I will tell you how I mean,
if you respect your nature alone,
note the time,
keep measure and weight,
do not burn nor let him freeze,
give him the food that is healthy for him,
also eat, drink from his hour.
And put him to bed ,
do him his right , empty white and
Armored , as it is of his sex
Air is inherited according to his kind:
if he is manly, a beard will beget him.
Of red hair it will be right
Then find market and servant is female keep her on face illegible so it goes with nutz and all danger .
Now you are right without All Spot .
With this I shall go God forbid .
As I now philosophize against and quite made as it were walk
Behold when soon an old circle ,
clothed black underneath white ,
at a stuck me got ,
a gray bath he has lobsam ,
was red from the body I report to you ,
would even have a lovely face ,
and was and who he does he has tell ,
he wants to hide with his bath culture he wants to suffocate with his bath .
On his head he also wore a beautiful blue color with a small crown: and when we both joined together, we greeted each other, he said: where do you want to go, thank God that I came to you, You would have suffered great hardship, you would have been Struck by death .
Page 61I address him , said , old man ,
God be of you with mercy with heart .
Which because in you is much wisdom ,
unless the people read along ,
as often happens seduce me ,
from you I humbly ask ,
with faithful Lea me
And renunciation ,
you do not have to manage otherwise .
I've been looking for a miracle thing for a long time now,
and I don't know if I'll succeed:
because my search has been lacking so far,
I've missed my date differently,
and I just wanted to come out of the wild forest soon.
The old man says: I recognize your heart,
and I don't know what you want.
What you are looking for without joking ,
but so that no one narrows us ,
and that we talk in the lengths ,
we want under the one tree ,
because there Sit with good room ,
and set in the same place ,
as such is both our will .
Began to speak with me the old man ,
and speak with me in such form :
thou art come into the wood ,
together with fell ones that are yet to be ,
and seek all worldly things ,
whether such already is light and small ,
to experience and short time :
yet lacking here in this far .
That you are not from the first the highest
Well , before the earthly search does .
Oh God , how is the world at times ,
in darkness deep everywhere
How it is sunk in folly and drowned in blindness .
So the right way is bad ,
I wonder how one goes wrong ,
that one does not follow nature according to green ,
As it so already ends its work fully .
This only God's grace and favor does ,
moreover it is all in vain ,
I said oh old man and lord ,
I beg you so sincerely already ,
may I acquire your favor ,
one is not who is to blame for my youth ,
because you are gifted with reason ,
and I reach your future
By divine grace and good fortune,
Don't let you Gau do me for nothing.
Why don't you give me something last of all .
That I should be so sorry about your ergest ,
tell me a fifth of the good that is sought in here .
So it pleases me the time and yes ,
which I have to suffer with difficulty and great danger in this wood ,
perhaps my life should leave ,
I ask your mercy ,
be willing and ready for me here ?
This shall not harm you at all ,
for I can also want to keep it.
He said , You overcome me ,
I am not for a great multitude ,
but because you are so strong
If you persevere,
I cannot deny you it,
but keep it piously and faithfully,
that it may not be true to me and you.
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page 65God bless your young life ,
I want to give you something in writing ,
out of loyalty , also great love and favor ,
Such is the Theophrastic Art .
Through which a short way ,
has found the footbridge from the forest,
whom all the world shall follow after ,
If you understand me, you will find me too,
the old ones it grieves so hard ,
but because heaven loves them ,
He saw the large contor thank,
and plant a new road ?
Astronomers and alchemists ,
Were his servants there?
Because God has awakened him to it .
Herewith the old man sends me a letter .
I'll open it and read it in silence,
the content I want to display.
It would be hard to hide ,
do you not understand it today so wait until tomorrow .
2 007 makes a number
Five guilds and also five vowels .
Give ten without all choice .
ALERVAE, my name is a dragon ,
much older be fled me ,
because of my anger Grahm ,
you have expressed me without shame ,
because they went without wit and art,
I often blow on my haze .
And whether they have been around for several weeks ,
would not have boiled violently at the fire, s
o I stayed in my old way ,
that's why they feared me so hard.
Because I have granted myself a lot ,
They didn't know where .
To take my blood after all ,
until the LORD God sends this
Philipp von Hohenheim the man ,
but he didn't look at me much ,
but destroys my limbs ,
when soon I fell to the ground ,
and lay there all black with cabbage ,
Also Feist , and toe like a resin :
that's when my strength mostly gave way .
In the form of blood, soul, fire, air and spirit.
The old ones were never this bold.
that they were looking for what was in me
But there were a few that drove me crazy,
the same ones were far too pious for me ,
for I do not give of evil violence ,
how well I am otherwise so old ,
accomplished before and after the flow of sin ,
I have kept all my strength and power ,
and nothing has ever gone wrong for me ,
am in my first youth here ,
as my mother gave it to me ,
I let myself be found early and late .
Whether I am already gray of form ,
I come from the highest house ,
the treasure that nature has placed within me ,
that he covers from the world
Stay, and no one will rob him:
I have peace of mind from doctors .
His hands are far too lind ,
no one submits to me ,
than to be pious to my mother ,
probably shield their property from them.
But people find even more ,
has sent the alchemy here ,
one calls me here the other there ,
that I don't know how to stay away ?
Because it never wants to be different,
Must I really willingly give myself rhyme .
Because my mother and I as ladies ,
probably lady who can quite master me .
From me you create a liquid fire ,
Nothing should be expensive without the Mercur :
drive with force until red color goes ,
I am the wax that exists in the fire.
My mother also joined me ,
and she I will not be a permanent oil.
Still needs nor bracht to a fixed stone,
I'm's hermaphrodite alone ,
Betray me now with this ,
you will not find my miracle on earth .
But two things I must have with me ,
alone I cannot stand in the fire.
Salt, Sulphur, Mercurius I am,
Yes, none of them over 60 ,
otherwise you will not judge anything ,
even if you make me a house ,
if that is not right for judgment ,
all your work is for nothing :
understand these things ,
rich you will be , see that they succeed .
When I read this little letter,
in the same place with the old one,
he says, now always go away and consider all these words,
as I have considered them with you,
for Now my speech is finished .
God preserve you, away I part :
I feel great sorrow for this.
When I wanted to answer him ,
he would have lost me quickly,
because I really wanted to ask him ,
how I should understand this little letter,
so he fled away like the wind ,
into the monstrous mountains swiftly .
Another.
Three things without which nothing may exist,
If thou wilt go the right roads,
see that thou get the one that will show thee a stone;
whoever does the same with him may well say of great wonders:
for he comes as then quickly and soon without me out of the wild forest.
And these three things called tender are divided,
and yet quite one kind, spirit, anima, and corpus,
That none of the other must be divided.
So you the threesome hates in eight ,
then it has a continuance what is made there :
like heavenly , hope , dear ,
and believe point one without the other dead and deaf
Immediately therefore nothing may exist earthly ,
it must have Spiritus, Anima & Corpus ,
So now I read this also from ,
I would not know more or what ,
but from the world who for a thing that springs from the same three ,
and turn again into one ,
be none else but these .
The night crept in ,
that I have to sit down to .
I fell asleep in my thoughts ,
Dreamwhite a virgin appeared to me ,
which shows me seven places at once ,
each of which has only one gate
she said to me: Here see and notice ,
therein lies all wise work .
I say: what might the miracle be ,
that the four cities be such a clear ,
and the three are so dark ,
And the four that you can't see art .
Her answer was: God wants it that way,
you can't understand the four cities ,
if the three weren't so dark ,
so you shall continue to listen to this .
Seven cities and seven metals ,
also seven days and seven numbers ,
seven letters and seven words ,
Also seven time and seven place ,
seven herbs is my ,
also seven art and seven stone ,
that is what all art insists on ,
Blessed is he who found such a thing .
I talk to the virgin again ,
How do I want to understand this now?
Tell me a little more about this ,
what better way to understand it .
But then she moved away from me,
I make myself here after on the track ,
as follows here, i.e. strictly,
she immediately began to talk,
ten letters are set ,
One after five, Ongoing last
Four syllables ,
and also five vowels ,
makes 100 2 and 60 the number ,
1 00 also runs with it,
so its name is bought.
This applies
Once again carefully,
you want to follow my path,
is ready until it is completely brutalized,
you want to come out of your misery.
But the weight of nothing not departure ,
otherwise you are
You old life long culture otherwise
you are crazy all your life .
Then lock it in a clean barrel as a precaution,
otherwise If it gets wet for you,
and let the volcano blow for 3, 5 days and nights it shall be there,
if it is then fiercely hot,
then a sweat comes from red and white,
which clings to the sky,
and acts like cloudy together.
Then Karo probably gives another servant
He who works hard, so it will be right.
But the servant must have virtue;
in the morning he shall rise early,
before the sun shines on the earth;
when six days are past,
he shall have earned his weekly wages;
on the seventh he shall do nothing.
The same is the day of the Lord God,
now you have come.
And are renounced .
If you now do not know for how ,
probably remain in the grove of fear and trouble .
So that Important winner quickly and swiftly,
away from me, immediately wind again,
her advice from her heart and mouth
I did not disappear
The Blessed Hour
I traveled away and for that ,
two men in a green grass ,
whether a Rocks motionless , sitting ,
who would have laid of themselves .
The scepter and the red hat ,
at Galenos did not want to do hat ,
she speaks with sweet voices ,
from new roads I hear ,
the judge alone lacks him ,
who would be the best ,
who there the Sentence with reference ,
When they heard me,
they called out to me to come to you,
judging by your wonderful words,
I immediately sat down with you,
the eldest said,
you shall be my companion:
I will share everything I have with you:
The younger one also shook my hand.
And possibly received me kindly ,
shared with me their drink and food ,
I stayed with them several days ,
and listened to their speech and say ,
the boy soon began to talk ,
of a black dragon form
As his blood is the highest medicine,
in men and metals free,
that also the Aurifabri here on earth,
very much need and often have value the poets have known this,
and a fountain stil called therein Vulcanus as common,
that for Phoebum bathes beautiful and pure
that his like was not on him ,
his word was reason ,
that I thought well and right ,
on earth no one would want to overturn this ,
the other was an old circle ,
began to speak strongly with diligence ,
we on a green And legible ,
have seen a beautiful maiden who is surrounded with strength wisdom
Your same mark on earth does not live,
that has shown him for miracle thing,
and talks about it in the long shows me
also several same in it
not there am there whether
I am surprised rejoice,
so that in the cheap that he,
I have recognized that she listened to him.
EPIPHONEMA
Visitiere das Centrum in der Erden/
So wirdt euch das flüssig Fewr werden:
Welches wunders doch man nimmer finde
Wo nicht Vulcanus vnd Mars dabey sindt.
Visit the center of the earth/
So will you find the liquid fire:
But this wonder can never be found
Where Vulcan and Mars are not present.
FINIS.
There follow some enigmas
Emblemata, & Quaestiones de Alchimia, & earum adiunctis Astris, vegetabilibus & Mineralibus, una cum Brevi Regula universali & finali, collecta per Quendam Philochemicum.
Emblems and Questions on Alchemy, and their associated Stars, Vegetables, and Minerals, together with a Brief Universal and Final Rule, collected by a Certain Lover of Chemistry.
John . 16. C .
The obscuration in the speeches of philosophers does not help where the teaching of the Holy Spirit is at work.
ARCHEUS.
A To ( id est sine ) all fraud an art I am ,
L Light in mind but high in spirit ,
C Cheir from the white a big fire ,
H Has great power and is expensive,
I There is life and essence in fire ,
M Medicalize a good Obritz .
I Be in gold at the end and silver
A Oh God gives me that to be thankful for .
Ars Levis Creans Humorem Igneum, Medicinam Infinitam Auri & Argenti, & c.
DOMUSIGNISI Idem, ENOCH.
V Visit the center in the earth,
I The Globo will give you fire.
T Drive it out with anger and love
R Recitificirs from its turbidity:
I In him you will find the greatest fire
O O blessed and feisty a treasure so dear,
L Sweet and mild, gentle and calm,
U Mixed with gold until earth forms,
M Medicate with what you want.
(Vitriolum)
Visitetis Interiora Terrae Rectificando, Invenietis Occultum Lapidem, Veram Medicinam.
ΑΝΘΟΣ ἩΜΩΝ, id est Johannes - Our flower, that is, John.
A You draw a liquid fire from me
N Nothing should be expensive without the Mercurium,
T Drive it with force until red color goes,
I I am the wax that exists in the fire,
M Mars must indeed be my companion,
O Without them, I won't be able to get oil,
N Still placed in a fixed stone,
I I am a hermaphrodite alone
U Compared in male and female member,
M Mercury — I do not flee from him.
(Antimonium)
Anthos Noster Totus Igneus, Marcasita Occulta in Ventre Magnesiae.
The First Being, that is, the Virgin Mary. - PRIMUM ENS , Id est, VIRGO Maria .
M You will not find my miracle on earth ,
E before I will become on earth ,
R I am already pure as a virgin ,
C Christ you are aware of us without a man ,
U drive me out of life through cross and dying ,
R red shall I become as then ,
I in fire constantly and penetrating ,
U much fruit springing from a little grain ,
S beautiful incorruptible body tingling .
(Mercurius)
Magisterium Eius Recipe Cum Vino Rubificato In Ventre Solis.
Page 73The Soul, that is, Elias (Elijah). - ANIMA, id est, HELIAS.
O Ohn volcano you will not bring soon ,
L Lumen Meum in your power ,
E a fire therefore compel me and despair ,
U from fire it must be built strong ,
M Mars to yield no sight ( blood ) .
A On the first him on the
R Well for , rub it on the Venus that it is valid ,
T Tragant right out , is quite well feil ,
I in the end is finally set to brown ,
S so you have a treasure without all the money
(Oleum Martis)
Oleum Lucis Extrahe Veneris Martisque Miscendo Aurum Rubeum Tuum Igniti Sanguinei.
The Body, that is, Wisdom. - CORPUS , id est, SAPIENTIA.
S Salt is what colors our earths,
A Without (id est, absque) salt, man does not experience health.
L Life and salt are to be compared.,
M Mars makes the salt give way to life.
A A in living corpus hides the salt .
R Reverberation brings all to death,
T Transport (draw forth) from the destroyed earth,
I Fire, the salt, and give it to the becoming (the process of transformation) ,
S TO THE SUN, use it for your heirs.
(Sal Martis)
Sapientia Alumen Lotum Martis Aurum Rubificatum Tuum in Sole verum.
Natural Light, that is, Christ. - LUMEN NATURALE, Id est, Christus.
S As soon as the Philosopher’s Stone is completed,
O Without my ferment it shall be nothing on its own,
L Lovingly then unite it with me.
(Sol)
Super Omnia Lucens
Cold Star - Astrum Frigidum.
S Dissolve your tincture in me,
A Then sell me in your mint,
T Dear enough, for I am its commander,
U Test me through the spyglass with certainty,
R Reverberate me, cement me, and quarter me:
N One more thing: I am the highest freeze,
U And through me, Mercury must die,
S I myself am the rarest ore on earth.
(Saturnus)
Solve Arcanum Tuum Venenum Reformatione Nostra Videbis Alterum Solem, &c.
Vegetable Star - ASTRUM VEGETABILE.
P I purify every being into its right,
I I separate the earth from its spirit,
R Just as one skims fat from a broth,
I I draw myself into the richest being,
T Marvel when I am forgotten,
U Search me rightly in separation,
S Then I surely will not mislead you,
V From gold I draw out the red soul,
I With Mars you’ll be better endowed,
N In nothing is the nature of gold more simple –
I In Mars’s vineyard you will learn better.
(Spiritus Vini)
Solve Purum, Impurum Reijce Ignem Tuum Vinosum Separa Vegetabili Ignem Nostrum Ignificando, &c.
Page 75Mineral Star - ASTRUM MINERALE .
A Ah (that is, without it) you are certainly enclosed,
C body and spirit. Therefore they poured upon you—
E thus I release myself from iron bonds.
T I do wonders nearly in all lands,
U but few have the right use of me.
M A true piece of art in these times—
N nobody uses me for that, though I
O am already full of spirits.
S Separate gold and Luna with me,
T do the work again with flames,
R and join the treasures again tomorrow,
U then the subtle essence separates from the false one—
Mbelieve me, Mercurij, so it has always been.
(Acetum Nostrum)
Aurum Coniunctum Elixiri Totum Unius Miscendo Nostrum Oleum Spiritibus Tuis Rubificato Veneris & Martis, &c.
Riddles about the Tincture - Aenigmata de Tinctura
Question 1
All things stand only in three ,
in the fourth they do rejoice .
Resolve themselves again into one ,
for without that would otherwise be none ,
as it were a subtle haze , and
Out flows God's favor ,
Council but what is this art ?
First Response
A point that winds in a circle,
standing in Quadrant and Triangle,
if you get the point,
you will be out of poverty and danger.
Question 2
I am made of four, your war kills me
Ah, if only I could end this war
Then my soul would not depart from me
Your war destroys the green grass
Now, dear counsel / what is this?
Second Response
If you want to reconcile the wicked four,
So that they do not part from one another,
In dire need, turn the three into fire,
Then you’ll have a treasure so dear
That Charles of Ghent could not afford it,
Though he was a wealthy man.
Question 3
There once were four / now there are only three
Protect the fifth / now release the fourth
Without this we cannot be healed
Advise me / what kind of being is this?
Third Response
One and four are the true five
But three and one are the false four
If you can master the three / then bring them into one
If you cannot / then you make none.
Question 3
What is it? / War is settled with peace,
Yet one cannot do it without warriors.
I need four for this battle —
So tell me, where can one find these people?
4th Response
From the green meadows
Come our giants;
From the deepest mountains
Come our dwarves.
Vesuvius and Aetna
Give us the fire-children there,
And the heavy nymphs
Are given to us by the Nymphs.
Our water is not wet:
So finally guess, what might this be?
Universal and Final Rule
On the mountain of Venus, upon a green heath,
There you will find your answer.
There ride seven fellows in and out,
Gladly drinking a sour wine.
They court there a lovely woman,
Whom they gaze upon with great love.
Love leads their bodies astray,
So passionately do they love the woman.
They will interpret your question for you,
And quickly give an answer to it.
So stop asking your questions —
For more than this I may not tell you.
ALIUD AENIGMA FR. Basilij Valentini.
Five books have been granted to us
By Moses alone, through God’s poetry.
No fewer are his books to be counted—
What is commanded there is for his people.
Three patriarchs silent,
Learned together in one sum.
One witness speaks with the highest voice,
Who counts for nothing is slow in thought.
Fifty is more, then five is the count,
And yet there are only two above all.
A thousand conclude the final end together—
Who rightly understands it, is entirely rich.
Five things in life openly appear,
And five in death, also suffer.
Four speak out the judgment—
That alone condemns only the ostrich.
Another Riddle.
Seven letters are to be placed
First fifty, then a hundred and one at the end
In the middle therein stands a thousand /
Thus my name entirely has
Three syllables and three vowels
1151 in number
Also there are four consonants /
Now guess, what is my name:
If you now prepare me correctly /
I bring all kinds of metals
To their first nature, clear and pure
And make from them a new figure
Which here on this Earth
Can never again be separated.
It follows
The Procession to the Philosopher's Stone,
by a Certain Anonymous Monk.
First you make Acetum Philosophorum.
Take three parts of good wine vinegar, distill it three times — then it becomes a clear water of the vinegar. Take one part, put prepared salt in it, distill them together — then it becomes a beautiful clear water / this is praised in the art / and purifies the body / and turns it to water / put in silver or gold leaf. Q.E.F. Add spirit of wine to it / so it becomes the colder and better / the Philosopher's Salt is drawn out of the Luna with distilled vinegar.
AQUA MERCURII.
So take one ounce of purified Mercury, Luna, put it in a glass, and pour vinegar over it so that it is above / place it in a warm bath three days / so dissolves the Mercury into a fine clear water / that is the Water of Mercury, the true living silver / and it is the Prima Materia, the Virgin’s Milk, the Fountain of the Philosophers / and has many other names: Aqua Vitae, Salt of Metals, White Eagle, Basilisk, Serpent-born.
SOLUTION OF THE SUN.
So take four ounces of pure beaten gold / put it in a small glass / and pour the above-mentioned water over it, one finger’s breadth above it, seal the glass and set it three days and nights in a warm bath / gold dissolves from a ducat weight into water and becomes a beautiful true gold water. Then pour off the gold water and from the residue / pour Mercury Water again one finger’s breadth above / set again three days and nights in a warm bath / so dissolves the residual gold water / do this a third time / until the gold is fully dissolved / collect the dissolved gold water together into a glass and distill it, so you have the gold water from which the Sun is prepared and from which the Philosopher’s Stone is made.
Bathed in the clear spring water, says Bernhardus Comes Trevisanus, and so his fountain is not false.
The union of both waters - CONJUNCTIO UTRIUSQUE AQUAE,
and is called Margarita.
So take the Mercurial water, the living Luna, four parts; the dissolved gold water one part; put together into a well-sealed glass and place it in a warm bath for four days and nights, not letting it cool. It will digest and unify into one nature and essence, and this is the Fountain of the Philosophers, from which the Stone is drawn.
Now follows: How to separate the four elements from the water.
So take the glass with the water, place a helm (head) on it, and distill it by balneum (water bath) for three days and nights from the materia; then rises the element of water. And it is a beautiful clear water, and it is the first element, the spirit of the body; what remains at the bottom is a dark matter — keep the water well! For with this water all things are perfected and it is the Prima Materia of the Stone.
The second element: AER.
So take the glass with the dark matter at the bottom, place it into a sand bath, seal it well, and distill it with gentle heat. Then a portion comes out — that is the element of air. What remains at the bottom is a dry water; this is the Corpus, the earth called the Terra Philosophorum; grind it finely and keep it.
How to purify and cleanse the two elements Water and Air
Take the element of water, put it into a flask, and set it eight days in MB. Do the same with the other element, air; also set it eight days in the bath, and make the vessels tight. Then take and distill each over a gentle bath separately; afterwards, set the two elements onto gentle warmth for eight to ten days, so that the two elements may be distilled and well purified for the tincture.
How to now purify the third element, the Earth
Take the third element, the black earth, grind it small, and put it into a glass, pour the element of water over it, and set it eight days in a bath to digest and purify. Do this four times until it becomes black. Then take the glass out and set it on gentle heat and distill it in a well-sealed vessel or glass under a blind helm. And when the water becomes dry, it rises again as water, and set it again on gentle heat for eight days until the earth begins to turn white. And the earth is cooked with the water and rises and falls in the glass, and the earth sublimates itself from the bottom of the glass. They call this the terra sublimata, and it is the white stone, the margarita, the white laminated earth, the white sulphur of the philosophers. This you must ferment, and its salt must be mixed with the spirit. This is now the true stone for the white elixir album.
How to raise the stone to the higher red color
So take the white stone and grind it small, and give it strong fire, then the stone will become yellow-brown, and finally red. And this is the red sulphur of the philosophers, and without this sulphur no tincture can be made. Moisten the sulphur with the first element of fire; take one part of it with one part sulphur, set it on warm ash or sand, and distill it. You must do this seven times—then the stone will be fiery and enduring.
How one should ferment
So take the stone, grind it small, and take the element of air or oil, three parts, put it into a sand crucible, give it fire, then the material will flow like wax. Then let it rise and descend for three days in a circulatory vessel. Then take it out and grind it small again. Then give it again the oil as before, again onto the ashes and sand, then it will rise again with various colors in the circulatory, and will transform into a beautiful redness. And the saying of the philosophers is fulfilled:
“Our stone rises up into the heavens and descends again to the earth, and the air has carried it in its belly.”
This tinges one part of a hundred parts of mercury into good, lasting gold. This work you must carry out just as the masters do, with solving, distilling, imbibing, coagulating, fermenting—until it has come to its complete red color.
AUGMENTATION or MULTIPLICATION and Fixation of the Stone.
So take four lots of Mercury, of Luna, and two lots of foliated Sol, and take one lot of the fermented Stone, rub them all together on a stone, put them into a flask, and pour four lots of the first Element of Water onto it; set it on sand or ashes and distill from the material. Then take the flask out, and when it is dissolved, put it back into the mortar, grind it well, take it out and rub it fine; put it again into the flask, pour again four lots of the Water onto it. Do this seven times: then the material will be pure and steadfast. After that, give it the Element of Air, so often until it flows like wax, as it is supposed to be, until it coagulates again red into a Stone.
How one shall multiply the Tincture.
So take one hundred lots of crude Mercury, or 24 (lots), well purified with salt and vinegar, burn it seven times in a melting pot over a fire until it begins to smoke (so that it smokes), then take one lot of the Tincture, throw it on and blow for one hour; then the Mercury transforms into a red powder and the Medicine is multiplied, and from one lot you have one hundred lots of Medicine.
From this Tincture, take one lot, that works on one hundred parts of crude Mercury or 24 (parts), and it will become gold, proven and steadfast in all tests. Therefore, praise and thank God who has revealed this secret to man; it is a gift of God.
To the Reader and Son of Doctrine, Admonitory Clause of B. Figulus, T.M.
Most beloved, gracious reader and son of our philosophy of Spagyria,
I have for a long time doubted deeply within myself whether I should communicate and disclose such high arcana to you in this our new Rosarium, because it has been forbidden by the philosophers to reveal such things in a clear and public manner, especially to the unworthy—and their oath obliges all philosophers to withhold and conceal such truths.
For I tell you truly and in the highest sincerity: in many years, never has such truth been revealed so openly by any philosopher, nor have the highest arcana ever been so disclosed as I have done here in this Rosarium.