The Thesaurus Thesau Thesauro auror rorum OR
The Treasure of Treasures OF
THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE
Golden & Rosy Cross OUR SIGNED TESTAMENT & WILL --------------------------------------------
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The First Part of the Will & Testament of the Brotherhood of the Golden & Rosy Cross which openly reveals all the secret high operations and mysteries of the Adepts that God has placed in Nature.
INTRODUCTION Here follows the Testament of the Brotherhood of the Golden Rosy Cross, Cross, which includes the trustworthy revelations revelations of the secret operations of the Art, Art, by which manifests the mystery of the wisdom of divine magic and the angelic cabala. cabala. - J.W.R. Jehovah Year 1580
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ear brothers & lovers of the Art, our beloved ancestors, after careful consideration, having
consulted with themselves on how to hide the secrets that only God is worthy to give, thus then they agreed to investigate a number of those here who were worthy of the mystery. These are those who fear the presence of the M ost High with all their heart, and would be able to keep their mouth sealed & stay silent. Yes, accordingly, those who were designated to the mystery & magic were born to the Cabala. But so that a work comes to the Almighty, who knows the hearts, examines them thoroughly, because all his good gifts are instilled in the heart of man, and so it happened, for a particular destiny, that our dear ancestors with the help of the Almighty, and a few others, found around the year 576 after the beginning of the world, and they were descended from the seed of Noah, that Japhet, from these came Thubal, from Shem knowledge & wisdom was preserved up to 100 years after the Flood, as was evidenced by one Arphachsad. As one reached his proper age, then he was instructed into the mystery. From this you arrive at Arphachsad & his son Salah, and the wisdom remained with this family until the time of Abraham and Lot. From Abraham to Isaac, from Isaac to Jacob, from Jacob to Joseph and Benjamin, these arrive from among the Egyptians, M oses and Aaron were of the learned cast. Under M oses and Aaron, Bezaleel was filled with knowledge & wisdom. This was the first imperator, but at the same time, the great Jehovah filled not only the son Asisamat with the spirit of wisdom, but many others were also filled with wisdom. In the Mysterium, they brought to light many miracles, as M oses taught them to recognize the center of light, the fire of Nature, and he instructed them, while he took the idol golden calf and destroyed it into a thousand pieces, he poured it on the fire which burned its metal form thus turning it to a red powder, and he gave it to the sons of Israel who had been struck by the Lord for their sins. Similarly, he also drew a cross with a bronze snake, an image of magic. It is this image that watched over the sons of Israel in order to ease their pain, 1
with this image, it would help in time of their illness and still many more wonders, how indescribable, are produced by the power of the M ost High. But M ary, the sister of M oses, became reckless, learned through the wisdom and profaned the Lord and the Lord punished her with leprosy. M oses took M ary and her locked away for 7 days, a magic number. After this period, she was pure again. M oses, Aaron, Bezabel, arrived at Joshua. For because of their sins, and time they had turned away from God, the wisdom was taken from them and given to others. This is because the Almighty wishes his secrets to remain hidden and used in fear of Him. This Joshua gathers the 12 priests and found 12 men and more who were filled and endowed with the wisdom from the Almighty, a sacred number. He ordered them as priests, being full of strength and wisdom. They had to carry the sacred ark, but the other twelve had to remain, after the Jordan was divided, the priests crossed it and arrived at the middle of the Jordan and each one had to lift 12 stones depending on the number and carry them with them from the Jordan, as a sign that the Lord was with them and that after the division of water, from it all is made, 12 stones can be prepared, for the son of knowledge, like a miracle. In this way, they follow this one (knowledge), for they love it and even desire it. This is why the Lord God commanded to show and teach it to the descendants. With this force Joshua circled Jericho 7 times. In magic, this means a force multiplied by seven, and Jericho had to fall into ruin, because with a curse like this, it could not exist. The powerful Jehovah was very moved by the fact that he had to bring Jericho to ruin. During that time, we find, according to our secret tradition, many, if not a great number of priests, mages and sages. Because after Joshua and Judas and Simon were provided and prepared . It (knowledge) long remained among the son of Israel and from there she came even among the heathen, as among the first we find much. Thus they were born with magic and through these the Almighty and his secret is manifest. For Joshua, also came Gideon. Here, you can still see the collaboration of the Great Spirit of Jehovah, for it is here at Gideon that the Lord showed him who would have baptized his own Word with water (of the philosophers). He chose the latter, since they were born to magic. It was thanks to them that Gideon defeated its enemies, a figure based on the number three of the Kabbalah. From Gideon, she came to Jephte at Sanson. At the time of the high priest Helis our dear ancestors were divided and many wise men died. So, Samuel became great before the Lord and was filled with the Spirit of the Lord, and actually much, if not a great quantity of it. Among them Saul, a man born of the M ysterium became king of magic, but however, he was too proud, and had great pride, and thus he abandoned the Lord. After him, was chosen in the M ysterium, like a well provided hero, David, son of Jesse. He was reinforced in the power of the Spirit and he received the power over all creation as nobody else had before him, and he had the help of the prophet Nathan. But since he did not remain within the limits of the Spirit, he received no orders from the priesthood of magic, whereas his son, Solomon who came from his loins accepted them. M any wise men were born here, because Solomon was powerful, as also the mystery in the Mysterium in his hymn which he described in limpid and clear words, as the first teacher and philosopher, the resolution of the coarse to fine, the discovery of the hidden, the change from wet to dry and the metamorphosis of the fluid into fixed, to call the matter by its name and thus it manifests the same form. 2
"I am black, rather pleasant, you daughters of Israel, you do not look at me, so I am black, as if I was sunburned. The sons of my mother, that is to say, the 7 metals, among which I am the eighth, are angry with me. She made me keep the vine, but as for my own vineyard I did not take care of it, namely I let the juice run from the grapes and you forgot me like the Subjectum Universale, i.e. like the other which can be used as a key for the first. When he (Solomon) said: "you do not recognize yourself among the most beautiful of women, walking on the trails of sheep and feeding your kids beside the shepherds' houses, as Hermes says: the sick is similar to that and much higher. Further, "the lily and the dove of Diana: like an apple tree among the wild trees, such is my friend among the lilies ", i.e. it has the other seven metals. "I am found with the lower part of the shade ", namely one can find me in an obscure dark place in the mountain. "Whoever desires me will find that my fruit is sweet to her throat": it is the Lilium Artis who sublimes in the dry way and in the wet crystallizes; in the same way here, he learns the dry way and the wet way. The red flower teaches when it says: "I am a red flower to Sharon and a rose in the valley of the rocks. " With "I am a rose in the valley" he means "I lie in the bottom and I am retained by the resistant worm, the enduring salamander as through a rock. But when the white lily softens, the rose is opened out in two ways.” First, when he says: "I dissolve in grape juice," then "Walk out on the trails of sheep, you do not recognize yourself as the most beautiful among women," as if he meant: seek a pure earth metal which must be taken from the lower part, on which we walk, of which one says to prepare a pure matter and to pour on an old, gray and black young man that is the wet way. As he goes even further the wet way and clearly teaches: he leads me into the cellar. Because in this juice lies hidden the wine to be extracted, the same is the separation of the pure from the impure. Also, in the same way Solomon indicates the mastery of fire. In the conjunction when he says: "I implore you daughters of Jerusalem, for the goats and deer of the field, not to wake my friend but be excited as much as you please, "as if to say," But I warn you, in the preparatory work that you do not hasten the work with fire, to not wake it up before its time, as Hermes says: let it dissolve gently and with great discernment in a very special way in the completion so that you do not wake up my friend. Further, when he says. "Arise wind of the north, and come wind of the south and blow through my garden, that its spices trickle off ", as if to say: Thus treat the right degree. "For when the air comes from the north it must make opposition there, and this is the first degree. But when he says, come wind of the south, and blow through my garden, that means to say: with another degree the heat should not be stronger than when the winds blow from the south, which makes everything green and lively, because with this degree you can see all the colors. This made it clear that its spices run off, for when the second degree is past, it has nothing to say. In addition, he clearly and bluntly indicates the vessels when he says: "it comes and climbs on the mountains and the hills and he reaches his hand out through the hole so that my body trembles "as if to say: the lily climbs the mountains, and crosses them; at which time he reaches his hand out through the hole to indicate that we must carry it in a vessel like a hand to purify it in it, that my body will tremble for it. He also teaches the Hermetic seal, as he says, “why my sister oh my friend, is a barred garden, at the moment when nobody can break into her house, at his discretion.” Thus, it is a closed source, whether it is at the beginning or in the configuration, a sealed fountain. Further, he also teaches in the preparation the putrefaction, in the achievement of blackness, when he says: “I was looking for the night, that my dear friend loves, not to see blackness and the darkness that we want.”
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Thus, he also learns as it has already been before the sublimation and distillation, when he says, "who is he who comes out of the desert like a right smoke, a smoke of myrrh and frankincense, and various spices and medicinals". Thus it also indicates the true colors and origin which appear in the completion, such as black, white, and red. It shows blackness: "I am black, but beneath my blackness I am quite pretty, O’ daughters of Jerusalem, I am like the guards of Gotter, like the multi-colored carpets." Of white and red color, he speaks about it as follows: "My beloved is white and red, the white dove, the red lion." Similarly he also clearly indicates the four months of the philosophers in the work of completion when he speaks as follows: “look at the passed winter, the rain is far gone" as if to say: the darkness has passed, it no longer rises, the flowers are out, i.e. the colors of nature, because spring is near and the turtledove is heard in the countryside. We rejoice when we see it. Of summer he says, "the fig tree gained shoots, vines have eyes and smell": Arise my friend, get up my dear." He indicates the autumn in the end of the work; the flowers came out: they reached maturity. In the same way he teaches with comprehensible words all the cooking, the multiplication and the increase as well as the projection and enjoyment of the work. So far we have only wanted to show that Solomon paid for the wisdom that was given to him by the Lord. Through this King Solomon, it (knowledge) arrived even among the Arabs, because he had in his hand, thanks to his wisdom, the hearts of many people. From Solomon, it was passed on to other priests and prophets, and it spread, so that it came to the Romans. Solomon was the first who, with the help of Mysterium, made of metal images according the influence of the stars, and he carried them to the top, and he sinned before the Lord his God, and our childhood has been retained through the power of God until this hour, as can be seen in our holy tradition, so that our brotherhood had to often renew itself, even because of it the brothers are still scattered all over the world. And so Noah was the first. From him came Shem, Cham and from him Tubal. Shem, being the firstborn son, wrote on Emerald Tablets the great secret, obtained from his father, Noah. Cham, like the other son of Noah, was Hermes, from whom came the emerald tablet. And the Egyptians, as true descendants of Cham, have possessed this great wisdom. Cham fathered Chus or the young Campha, that the Egyptians called Saturn. And as can be read with astonishment in the secret traditions and in the (concreazione) of the Egyptians, where it says: "Seth was the father of Noah, as the old Saturn or father of all Campha and mages, Shem and Cham were called also Jupiter or Campha. Cham fathered Chus, the young Saturn or the young Campha. He begat M isram or Vulcan, Puth or Phaeton, as he was called by the Egyptians, he was also called Canaan or Tantus, and also Thoth or M ercury. From M isram came Osiris; from him cane Isis, Horus or Apollo, and from him Heseulapius. The latter begat Tat, and from him Tatius. In this way, we find from one century the another that the wisdom of the Egyptians increased higher and higher, until at the end it became a profession and become misused. And M oses learned from the Egyptians, thus one can even now find it with the Egyptians. From the Israelites, it arrived among the Arabs and Chaldeans. Since Ananios and Daniel, M eshach and Azana were the leaders of Chaldea. Daniel was a master of them all. 4
These heroes of ours were held together and were united by the Spirit of God until this hour. Since then, from our prophets and dear ancestors, it has come down to us from the Germans, through our Teutonic father. And it was kept secret among us until today in an often miraculous way. In this way, we have established with us this creditable practice and order of old, such as was prescribed to us by them, to maintain and to pass on the secret and like some ecstatic or secret operations, were left in heritage by the ancients. Until now some brothers, as the case of human life, reach eternity, and we cannot exceed the number of 77, in the same way the Brotherhood cannot exist without 77, then according to ancient custom, we chose specific places, both East and West, i.e. within the 4 corners of the world, for our meetings. When one finds a soul who is worthy of being accepted, having been recognized according to a preliminary and sufficient examination, then such a soul must be in our assembly, and is committed like us to accept all of the following points and promises to make an eternal silence, after which he will receive the sacred priesthood and become skillful in magic through the accretion. Because without the true concreazione, nobody can be a magician, since the internal and external anointing must proceed from it and therefore there is this: when a meeting was announced, after the previous profession of the brothers, and brothers accepted among them a foreign brother also capable, then, if he is older, he can well give the sign to another, but he cannot carry it (the accretion) out on him, even not subjecting him to the oath, but he may well make silence before subjecting the following points to him, if he thinks of having them. Thus, he can reveal nothing without offense to his conscience of the extases or the secret operations, in this way they belong to the Mysterium, just as the other things of knowledge and of Tholio. Since, however, in some writings here and there are some hidden things & covert operations, one must proceed with caution so that the seal is not forced prematurely, and the one turns his back on the Brotherhood and uses the gifts of God to commit injustices. When a brother, in a meeting, is of a contrary opinion, one must ask him whether he knows what God is and of the same quality as Spirit. It proves at this time his heart and his interior strength. This occurs before the Urim, but he must be covered, thus one will quickly hear what he will say and what knowledge he has of the Almighty. At this point in time the following points will he read to him:
Rules of the Order Ever since, accordingly from the very beginning, the Brotherhood has followed divine providence, and the number of brothers has never exceeded 77 members. Such number cannot, and should not be increased. Among us, no problems should ever arise due to causes of religion, or envy, but he must leave his brother to the recognition of his own faith and freedom of conscience, which judgment should only be reserved for God, so thus with this there is no hatred or animosity between us. And if you believe and know that God consists of 3 qualities - Father, Son and Spirit - and that we fear, we love him, and we consecrate ourselves to him, so that he may guide us, sustain and lead us. But others, who are still clinging to religion(s), cannot devote themselves completely to God, for they are divided and dependent on the 5
commandments, they are an abomination in the eyes of the Great Spirit, for they do not love God with all their heart, with all their soul, and with all their might. Since their forces, the most holy victims, they pour on the commandments, and do not love their neighbors because they are simulators, as the holy in Israel wants to have by himself your heart and make of it completely its own temple and property. So from the beginning of our society their have been in it many men of widely different peoples, thus they love the Lord and seek wisdom. So thus, each brother should be free, whatever their religion and not be bound and should not have to be accountable because of his faith. If anyone should be pedantic, as to arrive at the carnal knowledge and ask about religion, then the brother who has addressed this question should judge that he is not of the Brotherhood and that if he was a brother, he should really believe that he has become religious and that he no longer loves God with all his heart and depends on him only as a spirit in him. But if he is not a brother, there is no wonder that he knows nothing of the true constitution. That after the expiry of the mandate of the King (Imperator Regent of the Brotherhood) another is elected. With one as with the other, we must subject ourselves, to remain faithful and obedient to him to the end. As we welcomed the new acquisition, which leaves (stems) the original election. The Imperator should have on a list the names of each brother, as well as the where they live, so that we can help one another if necessary. Note also, that in the election of an imperator that one of the seven most oldest must be chosen, as this has been the custom from the beginning of the brotherhood, and it has been held firm and unwavering. Therefore we have no more than 4 houses in Europe, where we hold our meetings, or Ancona, Nuremberg, Hamburg and Amsterdam. Each brother, if he lives in a suitable place, can bring home the brothers to hold a meeting (if the imperator allows it). We also share that when 2 or 4 brothers meet, they cannot elect another brother, except of course in the presence of a major bearing on their initials or in the presence of imperator. And if he were to find one that goes to a brother, but that has not received a sign of an older, or imperator, the brother should so be careful and not be recognized. That each student must obey his master and brother for 7 years and for the duration of his life he must stick with them like a brother until death. Several brothers live together during the week, they do not conjecture about their secrets, but they can do so from time to time as to work on some revelation, and they may also live together. Therefore we prohibit choosing a relative like brother, even as he is a brother of (blood) flesh since one must initially recognize and approve him. In any case, a brother should preferably choose an abroad, because art should not be hereditary. Even if several brothers find themselves together, it is not sufficient to have them make any profession without a senior or imperator being informed of it. If, however, the brothers are together, they should not make the profession with anybody without the knowledge of the imperator, as we have already said. If the brothers want to make such a legacy, they should keep them after their recognition, seven years as apprentices, from time to time informing them of the size of the congregation and within reach to give the imperator the name of the apprentice, the first name, birth, country, occupation and origin, so that he can at the appropriate time host the concreation in our assembly and assign the sign. If the brothers are together, salvation must be normal, "Frater Ave." The other says, "Rosa Aura", in which the first replies, "Crucis". And when, they recognize each other, so they should contact one another. "Benedictus Dominus Deus noster, nobis signum to forfeit." Then to each other they are to show the seal even if they know their names, or cannot exchange the seal. It should be born in mind that if there is fraud, which may always happen, maybe the lack of care of a brother s seal is lost and fell into the hands of outsiders, or that the brother was discovered through someone else, he must behave with ignorance about the brotherhood and abandon the city, or place in question as soon as possible. 6
It expressly provides that the brother gets cash and the Mysterium after he has made the seven years of learning, and thus will be accepted and received in one of our houses by the imperator and he will vow to silence, so that he can live 60 years and he may well apply to his work diligently. And if he finds something remarkable, he must inform the imperator, because in doing so, he is related to each brother, as it happened from the beginning, since the nature is inscrutable. The brother must also promise not to insult God through the Mysterium, not to hurt his neighbor, not to disturb or bribe a state by this means, do not use the Mysterium with bloodshed, and protect it from tyranny, and the brother should remain ignorant and always say that it is only a fraud on the part of men. The brother should not write any books about our secrets, not even against them, so that he may not offend the mighty God. If the brothers want to talk about the Mysterium, they must do so only in private, so that everyone can open their hearts and they can share & practice with each other. A brother can and must give the stone for free, as God's gift should not be sold for money. It is forbidden to make projections before any man who has not been accepted by us (the brotherhood), since it is about the honor of the art. But be careful that it can occur safely, if not, then you must immediately leave the place. The brothers should avoid foreign/idle conversation, especially with women; if, however, this is not possible, and a brother cannot live free (which would be best for him), he can take a woman to marry/bond with her in the fear of the Lord. He must also avoid all the scandals against the Mysterium, and do not leave a brother alone with his wife to practice with him, it would follow, as has happened repeatedly, disorder and adultery. Please also do not hurt any brother by hatred, nor man, nor the state of souls, nor animals, trees and plants. It is these things that appear to be possible in the Mystery of transferring its miracles to man, but rather disturbing the order of nature. For this reason, we admonish the gift of the stone to a pregnant woman because she happened to be carrying and gave birth prematurely. You should not use a stone with a strong excitation, so that the heat of nature does not do more harm, there would be a sudden death as has happened in some who have used it for hunting. One also acts against the Mysterium by asking for favors and already having all. One should also be careful to guard against making precious stones or pearls and carrying them with you. It is forbidden to betray someone from our home and also to confess to someone to know the terms of our blessed stone and reveal the manipulation, coagulation or solution of the Mysterium. Because sometimes, in a place it is one of our brothers as they are almost always hidden, the first day of the feast of Pentecost, to the lifting of sun, they must depart at the door of that place, if he is Lord of the Golden Cross, he must fix a red cross on the stick, if he is Lord of the Rosy Green Cross, he must remain there until sunrise and remain alert, in case another brother arrives to meet him with the usual salutation and to inform the imperator. Because in war, when everything is uncertain and no brother may come and go, this is very necessary. We consider it necessary that the imperator change the place every 10 7
years and share it during a meeting that the brothers should give it another name so that the Brotherhood is hidden. It is also an express command that each brother, after he is accepted among us, change his name. He must also, if he goes back to a place where he has previously been for a long time, change his image with the stone of a sort that he is not recognized. Each brother should stay away from his country for over 10 years, regardless of where he travels, and whatever the name that it bears is he must always inform the imperator of it. Similarly, no brother should start working in a place without having previously lived there a year and he must know his surroundings, and must also avoid all the "ignorant professors." A brother should not reveal his wealth to anyone and must particularly protect himself before all religious since they carry under the name of the high priests the devil in their heart. With the words of the Almighty they hide their easy way. That is why a brother must flee them, because there is seldom any good to expect from them, since they readily claim the esteem of the person before all men. Thus in 1641, in Austria, we lost two of our brothers because of their friendly and open attitude. If a brother wants to work, he must be more willing to be helped by the elderly & able than the young, to the extent possible, they should not get to see the operation and should not understand. When a brother takes a trip, he should not focus on women unnecessarily and should not hold a conversation with them, but he must have before his eyes only God, not to fall into mortal sin. Similarly, a brother should not tell anyone, when he leaves a place for a trip, when and where he will go if he is asked. And when he wants to travel at daybreak, he must say “after midnight.” And if he cannot go back to this place then he can write to the owner of the house that the business he left behind be distributed to the poor. It is necessary and better if the brother carries with him the powdered stone or crystals, since in oily form, it is not easy to take. No brother should carry with him our philosophical fire to whom a great misfortune could easily happen. Also a brother should, when he would absent-mindedly stuck in a mishap and be discovered by a sovereign to commit suicide rather than him reveal the M ysterium, since God alone is given to reveal the Mysterium, but not us, men, and if the brother is faithful to Supreme God, he may have the more certainty to be honored before the throne of the Lamb. Here it is asked of the brother if he wants to retain inviolable points and read them all if well understood. If he testifies with a yes, we must give the sign of peace, that is to say of the palm, then the new brother has to kneel and of them they must embrace three times and say, "Dear brother, we order you to silence." When this happens, the Imperator in his priestly clothing goes to him accompanied by two elderly (among these are the new brother). At that time the brother should raise his right hand to the body Urim, raise his thumb and first two fingers, place his left hand on the heart and say what follows:
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"I, promise to God and eternal life not to disclose to any man without permission of the secrest here present and all Mysteria, to me and taught me will be taught by you, but to keep it sealed in me for life with the seal natural not to reveal the smallest thing of any brother, even of the name, or the imperator, and not to show anyone the stone. This I swear to God's presence as eternal silence even in danger of my life. So help me God and his Holy Word." When this happens, the whole congregation goes to meet him. Then he is ordained a priest and blessed magic and spirit of Jehovah is upon him & will meet him, so that cannot show himself for several days. Also, he will began to prophesy from the spirit all that is written. When they depart again from each other, everyone should say the words of the seal, "Frates Aurea vel Roseae Crucis Deus sit tecum cum perpétue silentio, Deo promisse et nostra santa congregationae ." Then are delivered to the new brother our secret operations of our predecessors and the degree with the sign by which we can recognize when the brother goes to another brother, or so he can show the sign. Similarly, he always gives the new brother the name of the last brother that died, as has been continued uninterrupted with us since the beginning. Here follows the contents of the first part of the book in order, that is to say the secret extases and operations of the Mysterium.
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THE SECRET EXTAS EXTASES XTASES AND OPERATIONS OF THE MYSTERIUM FIRST BOOK: BOOK: How man after the soul and the body & blood the subject most precious (in the image) like the Lord God has been made for the Mysterium and what materials shall be taken of these stones of the ancients and what they achieve therewith in the Mysterium.
SECOND BOOK: How to prepare the true quintessence from the above and below, as from the creator of all things.
THIRD BOOK: How to prepare the very precious stone of the ancients out of common mercury & gold.
FOURTH BOOK: How from vulgar mercury one can prepare the true alkahest or acetum acerrimum.
FIFTH BOOK: How from magnesia or bismuth, which the ancients called electrum, one can prepare the very high tincture, either in the dry way, or by the wet way.
SIXTH BOOK: The preparation of the salis circulati (sal gemmae). SEVENTH BOOK: BOOK: Of the arcane mystery of the stone and the metals from the sky. EIGHTH BOOK: The secret magic of the Mysterium. NINTH BOOK: 1) The secret cabala. 2) Quid sit magia. 3) How a magus can prepare the magic stone.
TENTH BOOK: This is the revolution, as a magician may return a soul, not in the kingdom of the Lord. It takes once again a body for itself and serves the man, through which it can arrive to its bliss/beatitude.
ELEVENTH BOOK: How a magus can change his nature and rejuvenate himself. 10
TWELFTH BOOK: How a magus can move heaven and earth. THIRTEENTH BOOK: How a magus can multiply all the plants, shrubs and flowers in a particular way and to cause growth.
FOURTEENTH BOOK: How a magus can prepare a metal using (through, by) the constellation and from it various wonderful mirrors which it is possible to see everything, and this in its own room (to be used against enemies). [How to make fairy dust that operates by far against enemies. (excluded/unavailable)]
THE APPENDIX: The handling of chemicals needed for this art. All this has been transmitted by our predecessors. Therefore, we give it to our brothers as a handling to which he may work to recognize the Great Creator, to rent it, spread his fame and appreciate it.
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Manuscript Dresden (left), Manuscript Hamburg (right)
Manuscript Stuttgart (left), Manuscript Vienna (right) Illustration: A naked man standing with folded hands, at his side, there are trees and vines. 13
1 The First Book
The First Mystery NOSCE TE IPSUM. Know thyself. First, as the soul and the body of men, the most valuable to subjective, such thus says the Lord God are created for the Mystery, and how these matters can be cast by the stone of the Ancients and reach the Mystery with this thing. The human is the noblest creature created from the Great Jehovah in the same form and likeness. M an is the center and the focal point of all things that are created. However, so that the image can also be like God, the Almighty Spirit was blown into the living form of the Spirit, but in an incomprehensible and penetrating way. 14
As the interior of the mind he has created one soul, the spirit in which lies hidden. And both are elusive without the will of the Almighty who can represent understandability of the manner of the spirit. They are trapped in the body and they live in a fragile state. The human has everything, all of nature, and all created in him: his life is a (global) heat of spiritual life that enlivens every moment of the divine spirit, as it animates and penetrates. Thus man is not only for himself, rather he is and he lives in the Great Spirit. Since man was created in the likeness of the Great Spirit of Jehovah, so much so that government about angels, so he may have the strength of soul and spirit, if he remains in a state of union with God, and not flesh, and his own will be invalidated. However, it is carried away by that; although it can never be free so that the eternal spirit and Jehovah would give it up. For if that happened, even his life would perish, as all minds and forces spring forth from the inexhaustible spirit which is God Himself. That is why man cannot part with him, even when disobedient, because the spirit is the image of the Great Creator. But what makes the man if by disobedience with the pleasures of the defiled flesh he were made impure before the eternal spirit? Nothing other than to deny his conscience and contradict Him who created and loved him with all his heart; and by himself he makes a figure similar to the devil. Since he profanes the image of the Almighty and makes it monstrous. And just think, how can there be courage (heart/gall, impudence) to speak to the Lord in a human way, since man must submit himself wholeheartedly in his own nature and in God, so that one man has in him the work and can judge him. However how will the man recognize in such corruption what the M ost High beyond himself has placed in nature? M ostly it does not recognize as each form of any nature is created just for him! You have within you all superior and inferior forces. You can be creative with the spirit of God and in the power of faith in the spirit you can work wonders! You must act through God and the Spirit of God will be with you! He, the Great Jehovah wants to be reborn through you and to demonstrate what God is. What do you expect? Should it get you? If you irritate you have to dissolve. Think so, what advantage you have in front of all creatures? You are more than the angels, and you do not yet carry out an angelic life yet. Therefore the life of your soul must also be the desire of your soul. Oh, dive into your center and seek the man who loves your soul! Looking at him: Oh, may you find it: And when you find he is the life of your soul. Oh, how you will kiss him! So get out of death and grab life, will, and the power of divinity. Purify and free yourself from slavery of the flesh and stars! Catch the nobility of your soul and the holy and majestic action of the Holy Spirit. Do not give up what you have not yet captured and you have not been seized by it. That you can say, “Now, I know him whom my soul loves; He is in me and I am in him.” Facing each finished a hell and temptation and all that is carnal: for all flesh and all things of this realm are ephemeral. But one who acts with & in God, is one that remains in the Lord! His life has no end, since it is in God. Nothing should be higher than God and no view except the Spirit of God; it wants to appear as good as possible. Do not be enchanted or make mistakes in union with your creator! Preferably chose that which is durable and flee what is carnal; Do not make your Creator suffer because you want to love beside him another unspecified created being. Depend on him with all your heart and all your soul and with all your might! Sacrifice yourself to Him! If you do this you will have the blessing and you will be filled with the wisdom to see nature and the created world. And the nature and the created world will submit to you completely, and obey. So you will enjoy the power of the world above and below. The power is in you, if you are daring, crazy and full of sight. Thus carry as a premium (price) of your Creator each one of your strengths, like a victim in the center of your soul before the throne of M ost High! Removing it to him at his feet and keep nothing for you and look 15
at what will! You are astonished. With indulgence he takes from you as a sacrifice and will repay a thousand times, a thousand times it will flow into your soul as you will be filled with forces of the M ost High. The mountains before you will be overcome and Water will flow. So you will recognize in this force all the angels and all elected and you see them in their harmony of spirit before God. Oh, unspeakable act of the M ost High! Oh, elusive love which courses through marrow and limbs! Oh, inexhaustible flow of the spirit; how you pervade heads who believe! You are to them a crown of joy, you satisfied with the pleasures and all thy goods rich in thy salvation. You flood the fire of your penetrating love which is more powerful and stronger than death. Oh, Lord Sabaoath, so man must recognize and acknowledge he who lives in his soul. For in him we relive, act and are. If you've found and then find you've left, you have in your hands all the forces upper and lower, you're yourself and you can give birth to Mysterium M agnum, you can do miracle after miracle, which is incredible, but especially do this because your wisdom loves God wholeheartedly. Following the strength of your soul, it is easy for you, to all spirits you may have below you, you can order the nature of achieving that for which it was created from the beginning, you can unwind and release it, since your spirit entering, so that it will obey you. For the spirits of darkness in this state you are insurmountable, as they must obey and even give into/unto you. But listen well, I still want to remind you: protect yourself, I say thou take this force as if it were your property! It would be better to do nothing until you can come back to the honor and exaltation of the Great Spirit, so that you do not become a devil rather thus sacrifice everything to Him. What you do through His strength, so Praise be that each shared with him. Thus he will not abandon you but will guide and lead the same how he did it when our fathers gave themselves completely to Him, since you have to depend solely on Him. He will absolutely not suffer that you honor another creature or that you love him even a little since he is the life of your soul, He who shows you many good deeds and makes you so noble and he has placed in you the life of all things, and much is much more imposing than those in the great world. You have everything in you, all which is under your feet, you live in the Verbo Domini, while creatures must feel the lack of it. Since the force of nature is contained in you, as through the Great Spirit of Jehovah, in which you live, because the Spirit who created the world is in your soul. Thus look at the forces of nature in you and therefore in the spiritual life, the Great Spirit of Jehovah has his seat in this force. Therefore know-thyself and hast-in fear; love God above all things with all your heart and with all thy soul! Flee all the gods and those who are called of the gods, and preserve the treasure of your soul! Protect yourself so that you do not have a good opinion of those through whom you would be made unworthy of the strength and cooperation of the Great Spirit, but rather leave so that it is your greater wisdom as to love God wholeheartedly. Do not share your heart with them; you will not have any harm by that. Do not violate the Brotherhood and think that the firm principle of the M ost High should be in your soul. The Lord knows his own course. This is why, dear man, the Almighty created man, all that there is in nature, and in all in the created world, even more wonderful, he put in him (man). Therefore I will show you: what is above, is like what is below, and you can achieve wonderful things with it. M an has all the wealth and he carries it with him in his body! If one is in fear can of God, he make of himself the Mysterium M agnum, as we seek it in the great world and prepare it: First, he hid in his blood such force, since the life of the Spirit is in him, from which you can prepare the tincture, so that all the spirits in the sky will remain at your service when you need 16
them, as you will be taught below, and you receive a medicine to raise the dead, many already work miracles. Second, of urine if you live chaste and healthy, you can prepare from it the stone of our dear beloved ancestors, and also the Alkahest. Third, you can prepare to be used in the Opus M agnum, the urine and excrement of a healthy man. We therefore want to start our ecstasies and operations. The most important is the blood of a man holy and timid with the fear of God, and who has kept his spirit a virgin & the treasure of purity, or one that has for some time refrained from every pleasure of the flesh in honor of God. Take from such a man an amount similar to a pound of blood, put it in a vial and put on a reflux condenser. Place the flask in the ash, sealing a collecting container and distilling until everything becomes dry. But be careful so that what remains does not burn, and thus you will need care. When everything is distilled, remove the condenser and pours it all over again, still put on the condenser, seal everything well and apply the collecting vessel. Distill again, and repeat seven times. At the end of the seventh distillation from a high heat, so that all the salt come up with the psychic, you can also do this in a retort. With that you have moved all the qualities of the seven spirits of psychic source in their center, or red earth, and shook their volatile parts. The body the glass with set it aside. Pour also your liquor overflowed into a clean glass and again, put it in a water bath and carefully distill the spirit in a container and watch out: if it starts to form large droplets, fat and remove the oily container and put to good refuge in a cool place the spirit that comes up in a large clean glass. Provide a receptacle and then continue to distill, so passes the oily phlegm. When it starts to turn yellow, take back the vessel with the phlegm and set aside too. Provide a receptacle and then distill the above Acetum, pour this on your spirit mentioned above; then you do best, you have what verses/goes together as its reason. Take the phlegm and pour in the remaining body and extract from this all the red. pours clear the solutions together in a small retort, place in a bath of ashes and distill the phlegm up to the stage oily, then close the little retort and put it aside with the liquor. Throw away the phlegm, take the body remaining in a crucible and calcify carefully so that nothing foreign may be added. Then pour it over the phlegm and put the whole to four weeks to rot. Then poured out again, add distilled water above the rest, and extract all the salt. Gather up the phlegm. Then pour the other extraction, it was realized thus the salt with the distilled water in a small retort, and at the same time distill. Pour this water once again on the salt and extract super distilled, thus you deposit once again some faeces, pour the clear solution in a clean and distill all the moisture to dry up. Then take this salt and finely grind in a clean vase, put it in a broad, flat flask and pour the aforesaid spirit and Acetum that mix, and also the extraction of the red, in the same manner a part or half of the phlegm, place them above a capacitor blind, attach well, and foul putrefy gently together two or three days and nights (today instead of a capacitor blind using a reflux condenser which consists of a glass tube in a spiral, which has been melted in a cup of glass). Then take the flask and put it in a cold place, thus you form the crystals. Should not form the crystals, take the flask, place them over a condenser and distill a little, well protect the distilled product, but beware that it does not fall into anything, put away the flask once again in a cold place, leave it there for 17
some time , let us beware of something falling, then it will form crystals. Then pour all the liquor in a clean way to another sterile flask. And pour the remaining phlegm, thus extract, salt, and shake it around and quickly pour once again the phlegm in the liquor, so that the salt dissolves suffered a bit. Get well these crystals, place ashes in a flask and a condenser above the flask, distill some of flegme, place the flask in a cold place, again the crystals are formed. Pull them out. Repeat until all of what is and is not crystallized and remained nothing if not a more useless phlegm; but not entirely useless, so keep it good, the salt back together. Here you have the real vitriolum microcosm, the sapientaie sal, the sal mystery nagni, is the right magicum. When what you have prepared yourself, then you are able to do miracles, because in magic is not achieved anything right, if you do not have this salt. With this miracle can act of men and animals only if you walk in the power of the M ost High, as will be shown later, and this salt and also the medicine of the first order. Now when you prepare the crystals, you have two roads ahead of you, to fix and prepare the lapidem medicinalem. First: Take the crystals, put them in a bottle, melt them, I'll teach you how to: put it in a bain marie (BM ), so that the crystals dissolve in a liquor. When it are released, open the bottle, pour the liquor into a small retort, place in a bath of attach ash a collecting vessel, distill what would come of it. Cohobate, until everything is gone, thus get the true the spirit of particular water quality. Add this water to thin and pure gold, as much as you can solve. Pour this solution, split it into two parts and put in small glass containers sterile. Take the first remaining this earth (earth, precipitate, residue) from which you have cleaned the salt; but beware that it is still clear and pure, calcine once again strong, weigh and when it weighs one-fifth put it in a bottle and pour over the end of your liquor, seal the glass and put it in the kiln and let it change colors until it fixes, pull it out and grind small and put it back into another bottle and let it color once again, and repeat until when the liquor is consumed, thus you fixed the lapidem medicinalem microcosm and this is a second-order medicine. This is a tedious work, but in a way better and shorter can be reached as follows. When your crystals are dissolved in a liquor, take your earth prepared, put it in a small retort, pour it over half of the liquor, lay in ashes the retort and distill what can be, what comes up from distillation, reverse once again , and repeat what distills again, to pour back and repeat what often until no longer wants rises. Then put your little retort in the sand and repeat your distillation until everything is fixed once again. Then take it out and triturate small, put it once again in a little retort, put it in the ashes, after you've poured over the first half of the new (second half) of liquor, attach container harvesting, and distill once again cohobate all until no longer wants to rise. Then place the retort in the sand and repeat your distillation until the substance remains fixed. After that proceed to the third part of the liquor. When everything is fixed, you have here again the lapidem medicinalem microcosm, the medicine of the third order, and this is the shortest route. You can also work in a third way: take your crystals, solve in their phlegm and phlegm distill off until you think it can crystallize again. Put this solution in a cool place so the crystals come out much more beautiful than the previous. Pull them out and repeat the work until all and calcified then solve the crystals once again and proceed as instructed, until they are again all crystallized. Repeat what so often in a way that they flow in the fire without smoke. Then put four quintl and triturate in a clean mortar between a quintl of virgin gold, put them together in a bottle, close by melting and leave coloring on our furnace until it fixes; coat the crystal melt and will take into if gold and in a very short time it will fix the one with the other. You have here again lapidem medicinalem, a medicine of renovation of great value, this is the medicine of the fourth order. But if you want to improve the body of metals melt your lapidem fixed, triturate the end, put it in a glass clean, pour him over highly rectified spirit of wine and extract all that is left to extract. Pour the clear solution into a flask, and distill everything down to a salt that will feed fixed so you have the tincture on the metal, a drug still much more efficient, and you have here again misterium 18
magnum of the small world and you can use it for men and metals. Because you must know that the lapis medicinalem, no matter in what way has been prepared, do not enter into any metal before it has been created for the third time, ie: as mentioned three times and dissolved in spirit of wine, extract and clarify so the residue, does not necessarily come off completely before the spirit of wine is distilled again from a pure solution and then finally put together.
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Manuscript Hamburg (left), Manuscript Stuttgart (right) A person dressed as a Roman, praying with raised hands, on both sides there are palm trees, with red and white grape interspersed with ears of corn. Morienes the King Calid
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2 The Second Book
The Second Mystery M
an is a very rich mine of M ercurialis Sulphuris, or physical matter, that is to say, similar to
our stone Riplaeum which is generated in fertile soil (Terra Ingeniosa) which grows in spring under the sign of Aries and begins to take to flight.
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It must be extracted in full, its mineral whole uncorrupted, by means (for the intermediary) of a man. Go then secretly, to the posterior (Haymo) of the world (the world), a small number will understood, and you will feel the sound of the thundering, suffering from the wind, and falling of hail & rain. That's the thing you want, and it goes beyond all the stones with its value in this art. And know where we may dig the sand of our gold thoroughly. In its preparation, it is necessary to keep away the face and nose and utilize vessels that protects against harmful vapors. This substance is the food of the Basil Philosophica, however the matter, for the work of the physicists is mercury. This means: Get to know yourself, your own urine and feces, its extremely powerful medicines to cure all diseases and prolong life. Especially since it is found in it the Spiritus M undi that is in the sun, moon and precious stones. -
JT Herverdi, p. 323
The magnificence of the Great Spirit is indescribable, and inscrutable. The man who receives in through a creature its internal and external life, carries in himself its nutrient of the spiritual quintessence through which in so far as the man is in union with the eternal spirit in him is transformed into spirit manifested and life. However, man is of an earthly quality, supposedly carnal and seeks in created creatures only his pleasure, thus instead of enjoying the blessing, he has a curse. However, such a man is much more wicked than a beast if he gives way to this picture; and he will keep on forever. But if a man remains in union in strength with the Great Spirit and he drinks Verbo Domini as if in his soul was the hunger for the true manna of life, then one is also equally capable of the Mysterium. When you change before your Lord, you can make something of nothing, and know that nothing is impossible for the son of nature. Therefore pay attention to what I teach you: to make something out of nothing/thin air. Since the world will not understand and cannot understand, you satisfied your hunger with the creature that is filled with the spirit of life. If man has enjoyed this, he extracts the spirit of the creature the quintam essentiam, and also of its body: of what it is remains such a thing as the person for nothing fails to meet the contrary, it has a repugnance. But the wise and enlightened by the Lord does not throw away because he knows that is still in it a hidden force with which one can still work wonders! If you're healthy and fresh and one with God, pay attention to the following teaching: In the spring when the air is filled with the Spiritus M undi, drink wine, eat of the bread and any other food, made by the way of M elchizedec and even a little water of vini, and abstain thou from all pleasures of the flesh, sanctify yourself in union with the Great Spirit of God and in accordance now with the soul alone.Then collect in glass flasks your urine, between thirty and forty flasks. Put it firmly closed in the sun in containers of glass or stone, let them stand three months or more. But in any case you must not let in the rain. Then you take your urine, put in a little in a large retort, place in a bath of sand closed a large collecting container. First, among the multitudes of colors distills the Spiritus M ercurialis M icrocosm. When all the colors part, remove the collecting recipient, pour the spiritus in another clear glass and place back the collecting recipient and distill off over half of the spiritual phlegm. This too you keep alone. The liquor thus remaining, you let it vapor to a density/thickness similar to honey. Therefore do it with all the urine remaining so that you distill off first your smoking Spiritus M ercurialis volatile, then your volatile phlegm, then the rest of the smelly phlegm a up to a juice and brown consistency. 22
Then you pour all the resulting juice in a large retort of earth put it in an oven where you can give it the go per gradus and distill it all and in the end give a sustained fire, so that the vinegar also rises to the surface, and do not care that your material is based in a retort of land because it too is land. Separate the same way the liquor, take the "Caput M ortuum" of the retort and grind it finely, put it in a flask and pour over all your volatile phlegm, and put the flask to putrefy for four weeks in a moderate heat. Then distill your volatile spiritus from a flask equipped with a large receiver. Afterwards, this spiritus is deposited in a large part after four five or corrections as a white salt and it will move freely (easily) into the condenser, it should be ample. Now then, when you have corrected your spiritus, keep it together with your volatile salt in a large vessel, also correct the phlegm which put aside and keep it well preserved. Then take your Caput M ortuum, and filter it to make it become clean and pure so that it becomes clearly manifest (i.e. to extract a salt from the Caput M ortuum). Put this clear solution in a retort and distil. After that, take the salt, put it in a flask and pour over the azoth and the spiritus and part of spiritual phlegm, that is to say as much phlegm as spiritus. There are others here who distil from the first salt, extract the phlegm, and leave behind in the retort as the latter, then they add as much spiritus. Then they add yet azoth and they digest with each other in a closed retort and they grind for four days and four nights and then they place in a cold place and crystals take shape. If at that time they think nothing crystallized, they pour out the liquor and they remove the salt. Then evaporate the remaining liquor and place it again in the cellar, and it takes the form of more crystals. And continue this until nothing crystallizes. Then they put together all the crystals in a glass and dry them gently in the same way that you extracted the phlegm. Alternatively, some extract crystals in distilled phlegm as it requires that they are dissolved only and then put the glass in a moderate heat. Thus they dissolve quickly and then leave the solution in a cold place. In this way crystals are formed much more beautiful than the others. They removed them and then repeat the same thing, the same way, until the crystals are pure and clear. Because, each time to dissolve and crystallize, they set completely and are imbued with a spiritual composure. Of these crystals then take half and place in a flask after grinding in pure gold, with the remaining crystals, you may increase the work. 2. But others, contain the crystals and they placed them in a bath of steam and there they dissolve on their own (by themselves), then distill the liquor through the cohobation. They pour the liquor on the M ercurius Vivus and they distill also cohobate until the liquid carries with it as much of it as the M ercurius Vivus weighed himself. With this liquor alkahest, they arrive at the gold and the best way to finish. 3. You need also to take the crystals mentioned above and put them in a retort, and place the retort in a sand bath and extract and then stir again the water of life. Distill it again on this basis. Repeat this often until the crystals are mounted with the liquor. Then pour it on the M ercurius Vivus and proceed as taught above. But this is long and difficult: the following is the best. 4. Take your crystals and weigh them after they dry, put them in a flask: pulverize an ounce of M ercurius Vivus purified until the whole becomes a mass, then put it in a flask on high and put the flask in a sand bath, put it on a condenser and give it fire for sublimation and keep it for as long as necessary until everything is mounted. After that remove the condenser and gather all of the sublimate. What remains in the flask (caput), grind it with the sublimate and pour in again that which had been distilled. 23
Now put it back into a flask, place it on the sand, put on it a condenser, with a tight-fitting collecting container, further sublime again. Repeat this several times, until all sublimes with the exception of some scoria. Of this, sublime all twice (by itself) and collect always that which rises in drops, since you will use them. Here, you have then two ways before you: the dry and the wet. 5. If you want to take the dry route do thus like this: take of your miraculous salt hermaphrodita sublimate 12 lots (6 ounces) and grind in a loth (half ounce) of finely beaten gold, put it in a flask, put this flask hermetically sealed in our furnace, and so it will go through the various colors. When all colors are past, remove your Lapis, smash/grind it finely and grind in 2 Lots (1 ounce) of your miraculous salt. Put it back into a flask and let it pass through the colors. Repeat this until your salt is exhausted and thou hast once again obtained the Lapidem M edicinalem. 6. The wet process is not so dangerous, thus do: take your sublimate, put it in a glass bowl, laying it in the damp cellar and make sure that nothing falls into it, and in a short time, it will decompose into liquor. Pour this liquid into a retort and what had been distilled off in sublimation as we made in #4. Place the retort in an extractor of sand and distill off the liquor by cohobation. Then put it in a flask and set on top a condenser, put it in a moderate heat. It will decompose by itself then will become clear and manifest. If necessary, dephlegm it in BM , this way is the famous Alkahest and borrows of the particular quality. With this, you can gently break down gold and make it transform into tincture by means of the colors. And this is the most secret and hidden way and it is exactly the one you should traverse as was explained of the liquor before. Praised and glorified be the Great God who made us worthy of this great secret. One can arrive at the work in the following manner: as was taught above, when you have prepared the spiritus and the azoth and spiritual phlegm, and the salt which must be dry, and finally weigh and grind in finely a pound. Now, I want to reveal something wonderful. Take magnesia or bismuth, if you do not have bismuth, although it is better, take the pirargirite, a pound also, grinding it finely, add it to salt and let them melt together in a good crucible. Then remove the pan (the crucible) and remove the substance (the salt of the pan) after it has cooled, grind it finely, put it in a flask and put it on medium heat for 4 days and 4 nights for putrefaction. Then take the flask, let it cool and filter the solution clear to another flask, pour again on the substance a portion of distilled phlegm and repeat all the work until all of the salt is extracted. Pour together the solutions, transparent and clear (or filtered hot) in a flask, put it in sand, put a cover/lid (cap) and fix a collector and distill everything from salt until just dry. Then pour again the phlegm on the salt, and extract it again and it will settle/deposit a few feces. Pour all of the new clear extractions in a flask or in retort and distill all the phlegm until a dense juice. Then pour on top the water of life and the azoth above ground, digest well 4 days and 4 nights and place next in a cold environment and leave until crystals form. In doing so you have to observe in the direction parallel to the same thing, as has already been said before, only that these crystals will crystallize in many colors. They are much better than the previous and after they are added to gold and with each other go through the colors, we obtain a perfect Lapidem M edicinalem. On completion in essence, this spread (widens) enormously.
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But in terms of the Opus M agnum, it is in all the same work, there are some only that take two parts: some take only urine and feces and putrefy with each other, others take hair. Once these have been rotten for a few times, they separate the water of life (spiritus), the azoth, and sulfur & salt separately. If you want finish with care, working only with the cupellation. If you have the vitriolum microcosmi or the metal (Gur) of the small world, this way you proceed by a short route (fast). But if you want put the fixed salt and azoth spiritus, you must go through a tedious, long, and dangerous journey. Otherwise you can add all according to the instruction given above. However, I advise you to stay with urine or blood. So think you here, you have no reluctance to cause the stench during the work, and you can drive your fixed salt so well in the metal kingdom into a mineral. When you have made crystals of the salt, it is possible to make these crystals fixed by themselves (per se) first by means of the solution and its coagulation with spiritual phlegm; in the second one can sublimate the crystals with living mercury sublimate and which are two new works in the wet and the dry, as you have already heard before. Therefore there is no need to repeat the work here. We will now turn to the Chaotic Universal Salt the Lord God placed in the earth as a magnet of which Hermes, our father said: "The creatures here below, together with those above, and these again, to those here, they produce something unique. And like all sprang from the Word of the One Creator, then the order of nature, and all things are born of this one thing. As if to say: it is the beginning and the beginning of all things, the breath and the Almighty has placed in the ground. The old Saturn (land and the magnetic force coagulant) is a child in her womb, which is made live by Him that is above. He who gives life is now the spirit of universal world, the spiritus universi, held poised in the air and is activated by the metal salt through which everything is increased and originates which gives the day our age. His father is the sun and the moon its mother, the air is its carrier as is the womb, but its nurse is the earth. For all things which have become have their origin in these two of them of the sun and moon, and these became so, so he said: ‘Causa omnis perfectionis ea est per universum hoc’ and as the words say later, ‘quod est inferius, est sicut id, quod est superius et vice versa.’"
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Manuscript Hamburg (left), Manuscript Stuttgart (right) It is part wind, fog/mist and rain. Illustration: above there is rain and hail, and below there are trees & wheat fields.
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The Third Mystery
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f you want to look for the Spiritus Universalis M agneticus, then take note of this: you can
find & obtain it in several ways: First, it fluctuates (rises & falls) in the air, next in the dew, rain, snow and hail. We can easily get it in the rain, the spirit of the world (spiritus mundi) is often in it [rain] for the life of all created things, and in it is hidden the hope that forge that gave birth to all, in which all things have their origin and the spirit moves in water. Therefore, in the spring, make big wooden fir barrels in which one can trap between 12 and 16 buckets of water (about 1000 liters) and make them with removable covers/lids. Collect in these water of rain and put the barrels without lids in a clear sky in the sun and the moon since "Patrem ea res habet solem, matrem lunam." During this operation, this water is particularly fertile, as all superior forces are assembling in the water, at the end it becomes completely magnetic "ab aère quasi utero gesta nutritus a terra” until you to see that Venus appears and that it swims in the sea, that is to say until it (the water) turns green. This is why you must replace what the sun itself carries with more rain, and when it rains and the weather is uncertain, you have to cover it. The barrels must also remain in a place where no one can tamper with them. If now by this way it is rotten in a time ranging from 4 to 8 weeks, and that it raises more or less a viscous being (substance), then cover the barrels, since you have them hidden in the spirit and the beginning of all things created in the world. This is why our Father says: "Causa omni perfectionis eadem est per Universum hoc.” Therefore take two large flasks, put them half filled with the matter in a water bath, connect the condenser and collecting container, all distill by degrees. Guard it well shut closed in casks of stone. Then distill another part; guard it as well. Leave the third part in a flask. When everything is cool, pour again 28
fresh rainwater on the liquor, put on top the condenser with a recipient flask tightly sealed, distill off once again some of the fluid and keep it, and then also a part of the phlegm. Pour once again with fresh water and always proceed in this way until all the water is exhausted and that thou hast distilled until about 12 jugs of liquor which will appear red-brown. Observe: you have to distill all the mud and all the earth thus generated in the barrels during the putrefaction so that you do not get only a virgin land, that is to say the first Adamic earth, but also a red sulfur, the veritable boneless fish of Hermes, so it swims in the sea salt and of fire. Take good care of the remaining liquor and then take your spiritus and distill it. The phlegm is of no use. When you divide your spiritus into 2 or 3 pitchers (small jugs), keep them well closed because it is very volatile and penetrating. Then take the red-brown liquid, pour it into a retort, laying it in a bath of ashes, distill and when there are still four pitchers, fix a recipient collecting container and distill it all off to achieve a thick liquid. Then let it cool down and reverse the second part of the distillate, in this way, they meet again. Let it rest a day and a night, and then recommence to distill it again. But this time distill off until you get a liquor a little thicker compared to the first. Pour back (cohobate) once again the distillate, let it rest for 2 days and 2 nights in this way it will dissolve again. If at that time you see that the earth is divided, pour all of the clear solution in another retort. Close the retort with the earth and retain it well. Then put the retort with the liquor in a sand bath or better yet, in the ash, fix a collecting container and distill into four pitchers. Put aside the distillate, pour sugar into a glass of red liquor remaining, cover tightly, put it in the cold, and try to see if it crystallizes. When this will have formed crystals of different colors, pour your liquor of crystals in a retort also add a pitcher of alcohol/spiritus, reduce it and digest it 2 days and 2 nights and then distill off as much of this spiritus as you have poured and maintain well preserved that distillate. Then put it back into the cold and crystals will begin to crystallize. Now when you see that nothing more will crystallize, pour the liquor of crystals into a retort. Now get out the crystals with a wooden spoon and protect them well from dust. Pour on again a pitcher of the spiritus on the liquor and distill from the ashes about the amount of a pitcher, and add to the distillate before. Put the container in the cool and leave, new crystals will form, get out the liquor and add to the liquor in excess the remaining spiritus, distill in new ashes a little more than a pitcher, put the liquor into the cellar and leave until it forms new crystals, add the root distillate to the previous. When the crystals are formed, remove the liquor and get them out and keep carefully. Of the liquor distill into a part and leave again to allow to form crystals; repeat this as often until everything crystallizes and you have the Vitriolum M icrocosm. If it were to be added, and persist increasingly red, reverse all your whole spiritus alcohol that you have distilled off of the liquor and with this rinse the container. Then cast it on the earth remained aside and keep it all together and pour on the liquor of which nothing else crystallized and from it distill all in a retort, and add (pour) all the water in color little by little, and redistill. At the end, give it a high heat, so that the retort begins below to become incandescent, although immediately the glow is extinguished. Then, remove the retort from the heat, breaking it and remove together all the red-brown earth, grind it finely and put it in a flask. Pour again over the distilled spiritus and extract it all. Basically, it will lay a white earth. Pour extractions in a clean red glass. But put the land in a small flask, put this in the sand and distill off all the remaining moisture until it is dry, and then keep it well, that way you have prepared the 29
Sigillum of Hermet/Ermete. Also the red liquor distill until it becomes a red juice, dense; also keep the spiritus super-distilled. Now, take all the crystals above, grind them gently and put them in a flask. Add also the thick red liquor glowing igneous and also a pitcher of the last distilled water. Put the flask in a moderate heat, in this way everything will dissolve. Let it sit then 4 days and 4 nights and the crystals will be dissolved. Then take a glass vessel and put it in the cold, and will form new crystals, but with a different aspect. But crystallize when the crystals crystallize one after another, remove the liquor and get out the crystals. Distill the liquor to half, put the residue (land) back to crystallize and do it until all the crystals are crystallized. Then dissolve them again. If you do not have any more impregnated water, take from that above which you were asked to keep after the first distillation. Dissolve the crystals and let them re-crystallize, and do this often until they flow in the fire like wax. This way you have prepared the Sal Sapientae (the Salt of Wisdom), and you have the greatest thing of all in the words of Hermes "Haec enim fortitudo et potentia palmam prosipieno omnia subsilia et cressa duraque penetrare ae subigere patest" (the strength and power can penetrate and transform all the subtle and hard, opening the protecting hand). And here you have the Lapidem M edicinalem as a spiritual rock, prepared from the macrocosm. That's how it is said with Hermes, the above is like, what is below and with that miracles can be made. Take half of these crystals and put together two loth and 1/5th of pure ground gold, put them together in a sealed vial and let it go through all the colors in our furnace. With excess crystals, you can increase your universal stone, and you will get the lapidem medicinalem fixum. 2. You can also do the following: take your crystals of the first category and keep your sulfur burning (red) as the fire of nature, triturate them finely and mix 4 loths of them, and 2 loths of purified mercury, put them together in a flask, put on top a condenser and give it a fire of sublimation. What sublimes, mix again with the residue (feces), and sublime it again. Repeat this until all, except for some scoria, has been mounted. Then get out the sublimate and sublime it again some time alone (isolated). Now you have two new ways: dry with gold or wet after you have left the sublimate to liquefy in the cellar. Put yourself to work with this one as you learned previously with the urine, in this way you will obtain the lapidem medicinalem. 3. But you can also do the following: In the dry work, take your sublimate and grind it finely, then triturate in your fiery burning red sulfur and sublime them together and the sublimate is the sulfur and you obtain the heat of nature. This now you can let it go by itself alone through the colors and distill with each other, and after the sublimate will be first transformed to an oil in the cellar, and you will obtain a fiery liquor. From the beginning, you can transfer your crystals in a liquid in a water bath in a flask and to the distillate. Then the liquor must be poured on the red sulfur and extracted, carefully transfer the clear solution, from the white ground, and place in a vial. When the earth weighs a quintl (3.9 grams), you must pour 4 quintl of the liquor and then the vial was sealed and placed in our oven for graduation. But give him four weeks of a fire of the first degree and here will manifest all forms of nature, as explained before and the colors shown here (Fig. 1).
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Fig. 1 In this way it will start become black, and if that does not happen, it means that you have not worked in the right way. When 4 weeks have passed, let it stay another four weeks to the first degree, and 31
you will get the right black velvet and you will see also the philosophical darkness as right before your eyes (Fig. 2).
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When these four weeks have passed, you should open a registry to make it a little warmer. Therefore you need to know how strong the first degree of heat is, namely as a brooding hen. Because if you gave a degree too strong, the yellow would appear before the white and at the end it would become red, such that the white that grows would burn and it must show the following forms (Fig. 3).
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M ethod which lasts 4 weeks, one can see a little blue (sky) clear before that although this is its manifested form. Here we should note, that after the black, the glass vessel must go back in ash but only to the same height as the material’s height in the glass. The heat must be 2 degrees, as when the summer sun shines at the maximum extent. After 4 weeks there appears the Peacock’s tail as shown in the illustration (Fig. 4).
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Now, when many colors appear, increase the fire by about one degree so that the glass becomes incandescent and leave to stand again four weeks, so (at that time) all the colors pass and little by little becomes dazzling white. Then it shows as the following illustration (Fig. 5).
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But when it is super white, put the glass in the ash deeper and give it for 4 weeks of a new high heat, so that it becomes flourishing red as a fish according to this illustration (Fig. 6).
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Leave it alone 4 weeks and give it the last degree, it will become red-blue and appear to be the king and substance flow the center of the glass in a grain as a ruby, and you have the M edicinalis Lapis. This is the illustration (Fig. 7).
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You can increase this as follows: Get out your red king, crush it finely, put it into a vial and pour over your liquor in an amount necessary for it to become a cream and let it go again through the colors. But this time it lasts not as long, according to the degrees, you need to know everything about the colors, I advise you not to give too much to drink to the material during the imbibition, not be too hasty either with fire. Reiterate this work until you use all of your liquor, and you have the blessed stone of the wise masters. But it's better if you take of your liquor 4 quintl (1 quintl = 3.9g) and dissolve 1 quintl finely powdered pure gold. Pour this solution on the earth and let it go through all the colors. This way is safer than with the fiery liquor imbibed and expanded into a lapidem medicinalem. If you want to do this in a shorter time, take your half-fixed crystals and divide them into two equal parts, be careful: you must first unite with them their igneous burning red sulfur through the solution, as you've learned, a portion of the crystals are trapped in the flask, after you have ground in 4 quintl pure gold ground finely and let them go with each other through the colors. When it is fixed, get out your tincture, grind it finely and add a quintl fresh crystals. Put them again in a flask and let it go through the colors. When again fixed, grind in a new quintl of crystals and do so as it was said until all the salt is depleted, and you also have here the Lapis M edicinalis. But it is not as penetrating. Now if you want it to penetrate the metal, take it as is, grind it finely, put it in a flask and pour over brandy wine very well rectified (Spiritus vini super rectificatum). Up to prepared according to the Philosophical, it extract it, pour the entire solution together in a clear glass clean distilled water spirits of wine to get a small red powder. Do this in a sterile vial and let it go through the colors on our oven graduated until it becomes a little red-hot charcoal for 4 weeks. Then remove the glass from the fire, so you have prepared and you have your hands blessed the stone of the wise men. It reflects light like a carbuncle. Now we also want to go back to land that can prepare the same way, only to hand over the stone of the wise for that which is above is also low, since in the earth is hidden the father of all things material, our Saturn.
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Illustration: A farmer digging in a field with a spade in a pleasant landscape. 39
The Fourth Mystery
OF THE EARTH GROWS FOLIAGE AND GRASS
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f for short time you still want to learn more about the Spiritus Universalis, the amount Balsamicus M agneticus, do so like this: In mid-M ay go on a hillside by vineyards, in a field or in a meadow make a deep pit at least 2 feet where there is a red earth clay and red mud. Take from the pit 20 to 24 quintals. Of this pit take from 20 and 24 centimeters and stretch out the land in appropriate M undi locations to ensure that the stars and Heaven will act in it. Leave this land with a good and peaceful weather, a total of 14 days and 14 nights. If it were to rain, you must necessarily cover it with straw and green twigs. It would be better if you had the opportunity to bring home the above earth you took and then extend it to the open air in a clean & proper area. After the 14 days and nights have passed, when the land is well penetrated by the air and the heavens, put it in a container and cover it. After that, take wooden barrels like those for foraging nitrate, padded inside with straw bedding. The barrels must have covers. After that you put in an amount of your land and you pour over a lot rainwater as the land requires. Let it sit for 48 hours, and so it absorbs the pure salt of the earth. Then open the cover and transfer delicately the liquid with the pure salt of the earth into another wooden barrel. Leave until it acts on the ground for a few times, at the end empty it. Throw away the earth, put the other land in the barrel and pour the water over a second time but this time augment with fresh water. 40
Therefore we must collect and store a lot of pure rain in barrels because it is something we often need. Allow to stand still for 48 hours and then decant, keep this solution and proceed in this way by treating the whole land. After that, pour the solution into a clean copper pot, and condenses three quarters of it and repeat it 8-10 times, when condensed, you add always the fresh solution and preserved ¾ may be used. When everything is condensed and the pot is still half full, pour the solution in another copper pot and put it in a cold place into the ground. Let it stand for several days and nights, so that when it is sufficiently condensed, it is deposited as a salt nitre, but one that does not burn as common nitre. Pour the solution, let cook/evaporate until half, later allow the salt to crystallize, leave it and keep everything together. Pour the condensed solution in the pot and let the crystallization proceed with the remaining liquor until all the crystals are formed. Then dissolve, filter, coagulate and crystallize these crystals with distilled dew or rainwater until they became very beautiful, transparent and crystalline. So you have the Sal Terrae Virginae Salnitro of the Philosophers, which is released in the sea of the world, the water which does not wet the hands, the real Sal Sapientiae without which nothing can be generated in the world. After that, take your salt of the first book of Nature, grind it finely in a glass mortar, blend in much of its own land which originally produced salt (such land must first be made strongly incandescent!) moistened with the rain water and distilled from balls with it, put them in the sun and spray them or moisten them several times with distilled rain water, or distilled dew, so that Spiritus Aeris can often immerse. After 4 weeks, take the balls, with them fill up half a retort and close it well. Put it in an oven at reverb, set beside a large container solid and clean and a distillation Spiritus Salis volatile. What lay before the neck of the retort, this also brings it into the container collection. So proceed with all balls, and you get a lot of Spiritus Salis volatile. After, you take everything that is distilled and put it in another retort place overcoat a condenser and distilled in the water bath while gently phlegm. Then when the phlegm does not come, put the flask in a sand bath and distill the Spiritus, reverse it again and cohobate a few times. After that conserve in a clean glass. Now give it a sustained fire until the sal volatile rises, and it sublimes. You have to sublimate it per se, a few times, until no more residue is left (caput mortuum) and none is left in the flask, then remove it and keep it well. Now, take your Caput M ortum, fix a salt, extract it from this with Rainwater distilled, you have to dissolve and coagulate until it becomes pure and transparent. After that, crush the crystals and put them in another flask, pour in the Spiritus and salt, put them with each other in the digestion, until everything has become water, and is ready the Universal M enstruum. When everything has become water, you can pour into a glass retort, put in sand and "per gradus" distill in a closed manifold until everything is mounted, and it's ready. Then proceed further. Take this M enstruo 4 Lots (2 ounces) and a quintl pure of gold and finely grind them, put them together in a small flask tightly closed; metals with each other in digestion, and the gold dissolves like ice in hot water, but in substance a gray earth is thrown by gold. After that, separate the clear solution of the earth, so it will be gold, and pour it into a vial and it must be very transparent and strong. However, you must take care that the 2/3 of the vial remain empty. Then put it in God's name in our athanor or digestion furnace, give a low heat of steam, the steam bath is 41
done in a copper pot with tripod, for 40 days and 40 nights until everything is putrefied and it will become black, as this black is called the "Raven’s head philosophical." After which put the glass in the ashes and again give it for 40 days and 40 nights a degree of high heat so that it remains hot as the July sun that shines on the tiles of a roof, and all colors appear as the tail of a Peacock. And strengthen the fire of a degree for 40 days and 40 nights but be warned that the glass will become incandescent, this way your Dye will become white as snow, and the moon will begin to shine as a white piece of silver. Then put your glass deeper into the ashes and give it a stronger fire that burns for 25 days and 25 nights with the fire so it become blood red and with it, he will have in the middle of the glass as a yellow in the egg, ruby and transparent as to the margin, it will separate some excrement, and you have the authentic Quinta Essentia, is the authentic Semen auri (Seed of gold). This way you have here again prepared the blessed Old Stone with which to do miracles, both in medicine and in the M ercurius vivum and other metals. The last operation in the athanor ends in 5 months and 20 days. You must also know as you have learned here that the real M enstruum Universalis is sweet and not corrosive. And this is the liquor more important to get than the philosopher’s king is from land or from the rain. So even this M enstruum Universalis dissolves common M ercurius Vivum, divides it from its own earth/body, in which you achieve one that is a M enstruum much more important than the one above. So you can also with the M enstruo mentioned above, extract the tincture from the “pransite” or “pirargirite” (M s. Stuttgart shows the symbol of gold for this), do the extraction in a flask and distill the M enstruum from it so that in the retort there is a substance similar to a thick oil which attaches to the cold as a cooked sugar. Put this material in a closed retort, put it in a bath of sand and place on a clean glass flask so that you can thus imprison the M enstruum. Once when begins to form the yellow drops and to show itself of the white spiritus, thus will happen the oil rises. You must place into a large recipient receptacle and all good things come with caution & regulation of the fire so that the spiritus does not split/break the container. But when all the spiritus, and all the oil are mounted, it leaves behind a black mass at the end, do not give a high heat so that the matter does not turn into the Regulum (regulus). Pour the distilled spiritus and the oil in a flask and suspend it in a steam bath and the liquor becomes clear, and part of oil will swim at the top. Separate the parts with a funnel, this is the blood of the ancient one, keep it well. Then take the black residue, calcine it. But beware, do not let it turn into liquid, but it turns into white ashes, and in this way you will have the Adamic earth. Then take some of that and throw ashes over three times the weight of its spiritus and do it in a retort to digest for 8 days and 8 nights and it becomes blood red. Then put the retort in a sand bath give a little to strong fire with the gray earth, then oil rises like a red blood which is called man united with his or sulfur white woman and becames a great medicine now called Aurum Potable, that which preserves human health. It heals the head, fistulas, infarction and other diseases with a single drop. So proceed further: make this whole oil heavy as a lead, put 2 loth (2 ounces) of pure calcined gold and calcined subtly put it firmly on the hot ashes in the first degree of fire. So you see the gold up and down and release the gold and the oil will become a mass of black hair. At the end all the colors appear, by which you must govern (control) the degrees of fire. All work can be done in 30 days if you are diligent. At the end, gather (assemble) into a red stone. Separates it from the glass, take in part and four parts of purified mercury, put them together in a vial, but before you have to grind your medicine in a well-closed vial, put it in the sand and give it a graduated heat for 4 weeks. And the dye begins to flow with mercury and to incorporate the change into a red powder. This way you hold by a tincture that you must first fermented with gold and then you can transmute the imperfect metals. With this you see once again that even the vegetable can be prepared a tincture in a special way from the vine. Therefore continue to listen: just look at the following illustration with the title: 42
inexhaustible. It is designed by the sign of antimony a vineyard with water passing through it: "Constans and patiens ut haec res portulat, esto" (This thing asks to be constant and patient)
Illustration: A landscape adorned with vines and ponds. 43
The Fifth Mystery
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t is the strength of the M ost High, and if he had not created life himself, much in this art
would have been excluded, since a great Mysterium is hidden in wine. Wine makes one to forget his afflicted pain & keeps the heart merry, wine acts on the spirit through a solar sulfur it carries with it. That is why from wine can be prepared a great Mysterium. Therefore note this:
The Philosophical Spirit of Wine
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Take old wine, which has reached maturity, make sure that it is pure, clear, and strong and has a lot of alcohol in it, take of this wine 24 to 30 pitchers. Pour into large flasks, stopper them well shut, and put them on medium heat to putrefy. When this time has passed, put the flasks in a water bath. Equip each flask with a distillation head, and a receiver vessel, seal everything together well and distill to 1/3. Then take out the flasks and put them in a warm place for 14 days and 14 nights. For now, correct the spiritus (alcohol) seven times (distilled over) until it becomes very volatile and is set off by any flame that moves through the air, is pure and burns completely, if so thus, then it is just. Store in a cool place in a clean large vessel. Then take your flask and put it back to the bath, place on a receiver vessel and begin to distill. Then goes over a volatile Acetum, of this distill it so that just ¼ to ¾ remains in the flask. Keep the distillate well preserved. Now place on another collecting container and begin to distill it rd again, and when 2/3 has distilled and when remains about a pitcher in each flask, remove the collecting container and keep the phlegm. Pour all the leftovers in a flask and distill again until you obtain a dense juice like honey. Pour this into a retort, put it in a sand bath, put on next a collecting container and distill all that wants to distill in order to obtain a brown salt. Pour the distillate on volatile Acetum and ash; distill them together until the phlegm be separated from it and it always comes out as the first distillate in distillation and then the volatile azoth, and the phlegm, and finally comes over an oily Acetum. Now, when the phlegm is separated from the whole, keep it too. Take the Caput M ortuum out of the retort and calcine it, then take it and put it in a flask and pour on as much phlegm as required so that all the salt can be extracted. Put in an extraction flask and distill the phlegm up to a white salt. Dissolve the salt again, so that all the scoriae break off, and coagulate it, or distill the phlegm of this once again to the salt. Then take the salt and dissolve it in a large flask with only a little phlegm, so that is is just dissolved. Pour all Acetum, and the rectified spirit, close the flask and put it on a moderate heat to unite well. Then put the flask in a cold place in the wet sand. Let it sit and it will grow crystals (crystallize out). Collect them and keep well. Distill the remaining liquid part in a water bath so that only a third part remains; place in the cold sand and new crystals will form. Put this in with the previous and repeat until no more crystallizes out. Then grind them finely, dissolve them in a little phlegm. Use only as much phlegm as it needs so that it can barely dissolve in it. Leave them for 4 days and 4 nights on a medium heat and then pour the clear solution in another flask. Put it closed in cold sand, and more crystals will come out much more beautiful than the former. Get them out to crystallize which does not crystallize, distill a part in the bath of water and put this in the cellar, and more will form crystals. But when all is crystallized, take the crystals, dissolved them again in your phlegm spiritual (alcohol) and let them crystallize again, so they become very pure as a diamond, and here again you have brought to an end a work and you have the Lapis M edicinalis of the first order. With this vegetable Vitriolum, you can put yourself to work: take these crystals, grind them finely, put them in a flask, seal it and hang it over steam until they are resolved in a liquor. Then dissolve in this liquor pure gold, finely ground in three lots (one ounce half). Pour the solution into a flask, seal it and put it in an oven graduated. Let go through the colors until it coalesces into a blood red carbuncle. Thus you have the Lapis M edicinalis of the second order. With the liquor you can, if you want, increase/augment your tincture: make it finely ground, you put it back in a flask and pour over your liquor only as much as sufficient to make it into a cream consistency. And leave it to go again through the colors of the furnace. You can repeat it as often as you like, so your Mysterium becomes penetrating. You can 45
pour also your liquid over mercury, in this way the liquor decomposes the mercury and leaves some scoriae at the bottom. With this liquor and with gold you can, as said before, put yourself to work and you will get the Lapis M edicinalem of the third order. But if the time of the mutation of crystals in a liquor was to last too long, do as follows: Take your crystals, grind them finely, take a washed dry clay, mix it with salt, moisten the whole with phlegm spiritual (Alcohol) as I commanded you to keep and make this into small balls; fill them into a retort when they are dry and close it, laying it in a sand bath and set it to a larger collecting container. When everything is dry, begin to drive 48 hours per degree in the first and second degree, be very attentive, but in the end, give a strong flame. So you get a penetrating spiritus. When everything is cool (though you should not wait until everything is cool) remove the harvest container while it is still hot, cork it quickly and put it in a cool place. Then take the Caput M ortuum, finely grind it and pour over it the phlegm thou hast kept, and wash all the salt, filter it and evaporate until it is really pure. Then when it becomes dry and clean, put it in a flask, pour in the distilled igneous liquor, close the flask, and put it in a steam bath for 14 days and 14 nights and the salt will dissolve in the liquor. You have once again a Universal liquor that you can use as the previous and this is the fastest way of all. Now if you take your Lapis M edicinalis vegetabilis and Lapis M edicinalis M icrocosmic of the Blood (M S Stuttgart says Blood, and of Lapis M edicinali M acrocosmic) of the first order of each 2 quintls, and you grind them together with lime gold, remember though: after transformed into a liquid in the steam bath, dissolved in the gold, make the solution clear in a vial, seal it and let it go through the colors, and you will get the Mysterium M agnum, the true Quintessence (philosophical stone) of renewal of the human body, which will be treated fully later in its proper place. But if you do not want to take of your Lapis of the first order, take of your second order of each one quintl grind them together, put them in a flask and pour over highly rectified spirit of wine and extract it. Then pour all clear extractions in a small flask, take the top and the collecting container and distill on a moderate heat until everything becomes a red powder. At the end, of it give a fire a little stronger, so that they flowed. This Lapis is even more powerful than that one above. You have here a treasure that can completely renew you, since it penetrates the marrow and bones and also strengthens your spirit (soul) it becomes so powerful as to look into the depths of the creature and to work miracles in magic as well as other things. The whole art is in the salt and all salts have the same action mixed with mercury, why is to be understand by those who know. The trick is to make the salt, dissolve and coagulate, filter, etc ...
“Qui scit salis solutionem et coagulationem jam est elevatus supra secretum occultum quod est Lapis sapientum”
“One who knows the solution and coagulation of the salt is already high above the hidden secret that is the Philosopher's Stone.” 46
Illustration: Above the sun, beneath a golden dragon with red wings, under one of them a scorpion with houses and trees.
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3 The Third Book
The Sixth Mystery How to prepare the famous Stone of the ancients from vulgar vulgar mercury and gold.
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ow, you can make a curative from a rampant and venomous worm. This happens in various ways, as you have already heard before. However now I want to teach you how it should be made so sacred and solaire the M ercurius Vivus through a simple operation, as follows: But if it is water, it does not wet the hands only as is here by itself, it becomes a tincture, and that is how you should proceed with it: is in a minera (gold) where we find the “pirargirite” (roth Golden erz) although it is slightly volatile. Take four pounds and make it into a subtle fine powder. Of the four pounds, strongly grind into a bowl three pounds of living M ercury. Then put them together in a sublimatorium, fix a condenser & collecting container and give it fire to sublimate; and the M ercurius will sublimate up with 48
the sulfur and volatile mercury from the pirargirite (M s. Stuttgart minera red gold.). Grind again with the sublimate remaining and sublime again. Repeat this until you see no more living M ercury, all the mercury rose in the form of a sublimate, near the end, give a high heat to sublimate completely. Take your sublimate and sublime it again several times by itself (per se) until it becames clear and then try if it can go back to living mercury (quicksilver) with the fixed oil of tartar (Oleo Tartari per deliquium). If it becomes alive, you must continue to work: take the Caput M ortum obtained from the pirargirite (minera red gold), calcine it just until it becomes a gray ash, and then extract the salt with vinegar, add distilled water (aqua distillate) just until everything becomes clear and pure. Pulverize the salt in your sublimate and sublime as often as needed until all the salt be sublimated together, then try to see if it (the quicksilver) still appears as alive. If you find nothing, it means that the mercury was deprived of its form. But, should it have some form as quicksilver, you have to sublimate it yet few times until the sign arrives. Then take it, grind it finely, put it in a bowl, put it in a damp cellar, and it will dissolve in a liquor. Separate the liquor of the scoriae. Put the scoriae back in and leave it to liquefy. When everything is liquefied, pour them all together into a retort, put it in the sand, place on a collecting vessel and distill until there is transition from the water element and the yellow drops begin, slowly, then remove the vessel, place on another collecting vessel and increase your fire and goes over a yellow and red oil, at which time you must give it at the end a sustained fire. When nothing come over anymore, let the fire go out, take the retort out of the sand bath, break it, get out the residue, grind it finely, put it in another retort and the oil and spiritus pour over it. Now distill and when the spiritus distills over, remove the recipient vessel and put on another in which you harvest the yellow and blood red oil which distills. Reverse everything (cohobate) and distill once more this way. Keep the oil in a clean glass. So you have a great treasure. The ancients called this Oleum M ercuri, but it is much more than oleum mercury. You can use this oil: take and add a quintl calcined gold properly prepared (lime/calx gold), put it in a flask and pour over your 2 loth Oleum close the vial, put it in our furnace and let it go through the colors. When it has become fixed, take out your tincture, grind it, put it into another vial and pour over as much oil as it takes to make it become a cream, add to a vial, seal it, and leave to go through the colors. You can repeat this as often as you like, and you have the Lapis M ineralis and you can carry on mercurium vivum, as already learned, and with it mutate it into a red powder and then fix gold (M s. Dresden for the tincture). If you do not have pirargirite (minera red gold), take a good vitriol, if you cannot get it, begin your work with bismuth, usually called M agnesia. Now I want to teach how can be prepared from common mercury the real Alcahest or Acetum Acerrimum. The title is: "Reverse it."
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How from vulgar Mercury can be prepared the Real Alkahest Acetum Acerrimum. Circulatum Majus Reverse it
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f this much has been said, it reverses its white color and leaves the Primus Entis or its Quinta Essentia liquid. This happens as follows: take an Oleum Vitrioli and Spiritus Salis that are both made correctly, each ½ pound, pour them into a flask of 1 pound of living mercury, so it will dissolve. Then put on a condenser and distill it in a bath of sand in order to remove all of the Humidum. At the end, give it the fire to make it sublimate. Sift what results from the sublimation, sift again, and what remains sublime another time. Take the sublimate: and put it in another flask. Pour over the Oleum Vitrioli and the Spiritus Salis 2 lots of each, and distill off again some phlegm. Then give it the fire of sublimation and make it sublime. Take out the sublimate and sublime it again, sometimes by itself until it is like glass. Then cut it into small pieces, put it in a glass bowl, put it in the cellar and let it go into an oil. Or put it in another flask and dissolve it in good Spiritus Salis; let it putrefy for a month and then pour over it good wine vinegar as the same amount of Spiritus Salis, it will come a true separation, and the impurities/scoriae/feces will fall to the ground. The pure part, extract it and put it in the cellar, and it will form into crystals. Get out all the crystals and all that is to crystallize even after subsequent evaporation, then grind them, and put them in a glass vessel that you will put in a sand bath and give it fire to sublimate. What rises in the sublimation, rotate with the vessel and repeat this until the crystals become red and you have the Lapis M ercurii M edicinalis. Grind the sublimate, put it in a flask and pour over it highly rectified Spiritus Vini, and extract all the red, divide the Spiritus Vini again to make it become a light powder. Put it in a glass bowl and put it in a cellar, let it be a liquor oil, put it in a vial, digest it 14 days and 14 nights and distill it finally with a small retort. Better yet, before you put it to digestion, add pure M ercurius Vivus, so the liquor weighs 1 pound, ½ pound of each other and digest them all together, then, distill, cohobate and you will obtain the Arcanum Primi Entis M ercurii in form of the substantia liquid and you therefore obtain the Acetum Acerrimum M etallum of the grand Circulatum M ajus, with whom are the miracles. 2. So you can sublimate also alone the living mercury with vitriol of Hungary or Cyprus and sea salt, you must re-grind the sublimate from the remaining side and sublime again until no sublimate attaches more like a flour, then take it and sublime it several times alone (per se) until it is transparent like a crystal. 52
Dissolve it in a good water of spirit of salt so that all the impurities fall the bottom and proceed with as it was taught in the work before. 3. With this liquid metal, you can work in the same way with more universal gold since it decomposes the gold through the release of its body/earth, and brings it to its Quinta Essentia. Pour this into a flask, seal it and let it go in to our oven, graduate it through the colors, as is known, and you again will get the Lapis Universalis. With the solution of gold you can imbibe the work and augment/increase. With silver it is the same thing. Here you see again that nothing can be achieved if all is not born again, that is to say if it has not become a spiritual rock that you can strike until it provides more water to the health of seven planets (M etals), it be reborn well hidden in the world. 4. So you can finally work this way and see also in this work what kind of essence you can get if you extract the Lapillos or the crystals, from the animal kingdom or from the micro and macrocosmic kingdom, and as well as the vegetable, and you grind with M ercurius Vivus and sublime together often until the M ercury Vivus has become like a crystal and it fixes such crystals of itself in a glass decanter as unto a red powder and thus you proceed further, as it was taught here. 5. Otherwise, take this crystalline sublimate, dissolve it in the Spiritus and of the Azoth, from which the crystals were formed, and let them crystallize again and fix as unto a red powder, and you will get the Lapis M edicinalis. Dissolve it in pure Philosophical Spiritus Vini as taught above, and if you do not want to liquefy the remainder in the cellar, put it on a steam bath and transform it this way into a liquor. Then add fresh living mercury, so that it can dissolve. Digesting them with each other and distill them and cohobate Circulatum and you have the Circulatum M inus, you make a Circulatum M ajus and this is how that it should be. 6. You can also work this way. M ake yourself a regulus of Antimonii M artis. Brothers theoreticis of the 3rd degree of the R+C: Take a pound of this Regulus Antimonii M artis and 2 pounds of mercury sublimate as it is sublimated with the help of vitriol and sea salt, sift them into each other, put them together in a retort and add 1 pound of Spiritus Salis, digest them with each other, put the retort in a sand bath, add a collecting container and begin to distill, first of all ascends the Spiritus Salis then comes a Butyrum [Butter: the oil-like substance that binds in heat to a slurry of crystals similar to butter] or do not pour any Spiritus salis and distill the Butyrum, which is to ascend, take it and bring it back with the Caput Mortum in a new retort. Put the retort again in a sand bath and distill the Butyrum again. It also ascends a Spiritus, take it and the butyrum and put it all together in a flask with cinnabar which has sublimated in the neck of the retort; add a pound of good Spiritus salis, close tightly the flask and put to putrefaction for a month in a steam bath, it will dissolve all in water. Pour this into another clean flask, put it in cold sand, and will form yellow crystals of gold. Remove these, and put the rest in the cold to check if it wants to crystallize more. Otherwise, put in B.M . the flask and distill a portion and put the flask in cold sand and they to crystallize more. Then take the crystals, grind them fine and put them in a glass, put it in our furnace and let it pass through the colors.
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That which sublimes, re-sublime it again until everything shall remain in the bottom fixed and red. Then take this red powder, put it in a flask and pour over highly rectified spirit of wine and extract all the red. Pour all extractions and distill again the spiritus until a fine (light) red powder remains. Put it into a glass bowl, put it in the cellar and let it dissolve into an oily liquid. Pour this liquid into a retort, if it weighs 1 pound, put in a half pound of living mercury, digest them in with each other and distill the liquor, so you have obtained another secret work, with whom you may perform miracles. This liquor is the real Solar Quinta Essentia M ercurii Antimonii with which you can proceed like with the previous one. I now will also tell you that which is hidden in the M agnesia.
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matter from which the ancients prepared their Lapis M edicinalis, it is the authentic stone of the ancients, it is called magnesia, a heavy black mass of insignificant appearance. And magnesia is a different mineral from what the ancients called Puc (the ancients had called Puc the materia/matter, but it is not common stibium, rather it is a dark gray stone, often decorated with white and other beautiful colors, quite heavy. R. Abraham Eleazar: The prehistorical chemical work: "Albaon, Abachozodi is a black stone and heavy, Puch called by the Persians; it is coated with a dark gray color, so it can be hidden from the enemies". Writings of Barucheri). In it there is a great quantity of Spiritus M undi or M ercurii, that is to say, here is the seed of metals. If you distill the subjectum by itself (per se - without addition) abseque additamento, and succeeded in this before the fire, in the manner of the common retort (vulgari modo per retortam), a liquor very gifted and of a miraculous quality, and we make just a little bit of it into a little glass and if it is put onto a plant or dried flower attached to the roots within a few hours it will start to turn green, as if it came out of the earth; still more curious when we put it onto a bush, some of the salt in a small glass with the menstruum, and keep it in a moderate heat, in 2 or 3 days the plant begins to grow and it has the look of the bush from which the salt was prepared from. But do not move the glass otherwise it will vanish, but leave it still, that is how it comes to light. M oreover, in magnesia the Spiritus M undi has already been determined, that is to say that it is metallic in vero seu Seure principium metallorum and it is lunar in all of its parts, because when it comes to light, this gray stone is not expensive and it is in the open air, and when it has first a Granum Fixum, it will become more argentiferous, this also demonstrates the blue color that occurs with her that she is the true color of silver (Luna); and the same such material, if it shall first be calcined and a bit cemented (in SSS) with the moon, it gives a beautiful transmutation. How can be obtained from the magnesia the parts to begin with, the first way is: take it fresh, as it is dug from the mountain, crush it finely and fill a retort in a furnace, and provide a medium heat so that it becomes fluid. Give it 1, 2, 3 degrees and you'll get a sweet Spiritum liquor. Then extract the Caput M ortum and ignite it, of this salt wash, purify it through phases of dissolution (solve et coagula). Filter and coagulate for 4 days and 4 nights so that the salt decomposes. Pour this liquid into a clean glass, put the glass in the cold, and crystals will form and you have thus the Vitriolum Philosophorum (Vitriol of the Philosophers). Gather all these crystals and dry them. With these you can put yourself to work: let it turn into a liquor with a steam bath and unite gold with the liquor, close it tightly into a flask, and let it go through all the colors and you will have the Lapis medicines. Or, when your crystals are dry, take them, put them in a glass vessel, let them dissolve, place on the furnace and make our salt fixed per gradus between the time you change the vessel so that what has sublimated settles back to bottom.
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Repeat until everything is fixed. Then extract it with rectified spirit of wine. Remove/decant the extraction, distill again. Put this salt in a cellar and let liquefy to a humid oil, or leave it in the powder form: take 2 Lots and grind into 1 quintl lime gold (lime gold is gold calx), seal in a flask and let it go through the colors. With the liquor or powder, or you can imbibe & increase as often as you like and you have the Lapis M ineralis of the metals. 2. Or do like this: make yourself a menstruum, take the sal ammoniac (salmiac) and quicklime in equal quantities, cement them for 4 hours, dissolve again of this coagulated ammonium salt and when it weighs ¾ of a pound add another ½ pound of sal ammoniac (ammonium chloride) and the same amount of quicklime. Cement it again for 4 hours, and coagulate it again. Cement once again the coagulated salt with quicklime of equal weight. After cementation, leaching, coagulation and solution, leave the oil to fluidify ad lotatem in a cellar. Pour this oil on magnesia reduced into small pieces put it a few days to digest in a flask, the solution becomes grass green. Pour the green solution and add fresh oil until nothing more does not escape. Then pour together all the extractions in a flask, distill a bit of phlegm and put this to rest in a cellar, and will form crystals and you will get a vitriol of grass green color the ancients called the green lion or dragon. This is the true Vitriol of the Sages, the green living salt, Vitriolum Philosophorum. Dry a little of the salt, crush it finely, mix in a fatty red earth/Bolus Armenicus and form it into small balls, dry them and fill them into a retort, distill a vulgari modo spiritus, you have to cohobate again, and for at least three times, extract from the Caput M ortuum, then separate the phlegm. But it is best if you extract it after the spiritus, you take the Caput Mortum, you extract from it all the salt, you pour over the mounted spiritus, and from this cohobate, and you distil several times the spiritus. However, the above (named above) is not to be thrown away. Then from this separate any phlegm, until at the bottom is deposited a beautiful green oil. Over this oil pour the phlegm with the spiritus, or better: distill first the spiritus from phlegm, pour it on the liquor obtained and extract it a few times in the oil until your oil becomes a thick fluid such as rosin, and thus you have the Chaos of the Ancients. After that, put the rosin in a bottle, seal it tightly and put it in moderate heat. In this way the matter will be resolved in a clear spiritus and a red-brown earth. This is the Spiritus M ercurius Philosophorum or the Dianae Columba. Rectify it a few times, so that from this comes all the phlegm, the phlegm extract from the brown earth and after the calcination of the sulfur residue, dissolve the salt fixus. Then pour the spiritus of sulfur and salt in a flask, seal it and put it into circulation until everything is melted and united. After that, put it in our furnace, and let it pass through all the colors. When it became a fixed red-brown powder, take this powder, add it to purified gold and put in the heat of fusion to ferment, and you will get a tincture, a grain of it transforms a whole lot of imperfect metal into gold. 3. In addition you should also know: take our materia of which there are two types, one is lunar, the other solar. The M oon is called M agnesia, it is gray and has every kind of color like the neck of a dove. The other is shining gray like velvet. Both have a heavy weight and are easy to obtain. The moon, I say, can be better worked and also solves much faster. Take it, reduce it finely and put it into several glass bowls. In the spring, put it at night under the open sky, so that the dew falls on it and the moon and the stars shine, but make sure it does not rain outside. At day, when the sun shines, put it inside, and at night if the sky is clear, put it back out. And do it until your material begins to dissolve, or becomes unctuous and green. You can also moisten it slightly with the fresh falling dew between midnight and 3AM and then put the matter 58
to air at night but in the day in a dark & humid place. Then put all your material in a flask, seal it with clay, put it in a warm heat and let it putrefy for 4 weeks in BM then distill off the water of life. When it ascends, put another glass on and give it the fire, so all the phlegm rises; the latter also goes by itself, thin this way the body remains at the bottom of the flask completely dry like a true poison. You can also perform such work in a retort, and at the end, give a strong fire, until all the white mist disappears. Then take the matter of the retort, put it back in the air for impregnation and moisten it only slightly with the dew. After 4 weeks of putrefaction, distill it all, and repeat the same way a third time. Then put your remaining material in a glass retort, pour above all the water of life (spirit), and digest it for a few days. Then distill again, and this cohobate a couple of times. In the end, give one final high heat, so that everything ascends. Pour the water of life (the spirit) in a flask, seal it, put it for 4 weeks in a water bath to digest in BM , and distill the water of life (the spirit) in fire at first in a milde heat, and then strong; divide the phlegm that rises. Often correct/rectify the water of life until it becomes entirely sweet and penetrating, and guard it well. Calcine the Caput M ortem remaining above and extract with the phlegm a salt. Calcify this salt through dissolution and coagulation, then add your water of life, enclose it in a vial and digest it in a steam bath until the salt is dissolved, and thus your Liquor Universalis is prepared. 4. Or, after you have cleared the corpus of the spiritus, take this Caput Mortem, carry it into a sublimatory and sublime and that which is to ascend. Put aside these flora after thou hast sublimed alone a few times. You can even dissolve the moon the same with aqua fortis (silver nitrate), the same deposit with salt water (chloride source) and thus will it to be very ‘sweet’ (silver chloride), then blend in the sublimate, and the sublimate not yet with it, and they will become beautiful. These are the Dianae Columba. Keep them or unite them to the spiritus and distill off all in cohobation in a retort. Of the Caput M ortum you must extract the sulfur, but there is very little, because much parted in sublimation, so it's not worth the trouble. Pout the phlegm of the Caput M ortuum, and there extract a red, but it is only a small amount. Since he must add nothing foreign to the work, it's better to forget the work and calcine only the Caput Mortum, then extr tcthe salt, clarify and join it to the spiritus, put it in a cold place and let the crystals form. If no crystals form, add by dropping of the spiritual phlegm, only the amount you think proves sufficient. Then pour it and it will form crystals, collect them all, put them in a vial, seal it well place it in our secret furnace and let it run until they begin to become fixed, so the Lapis M edicinalis is ready and should be only extracted with very pure rectified spirit of wine, as previously taught. 5. Or, pour your liquor on the salt in a flask, seal it, put it for 4 weeks to digest, and all the salt will dissolve, it will join the Spiritus M ercurii and will become liquid, with this put it to work. 6. You can also take the crystals, and leave them in a flask a long time on a steam bath BM until the crystals have dissolved by themselves, its of the same liquor Universalis, with which you can work. In the fission are the most beautiful colors, by which you must regulate the degrees. 59
7. You can also take your crystals, grind and when they weight ½ pound, M ix them with ¼ pound of living mercury washed and purified, put them in a heavy glass vessel, shut it up tightly and sublime on a sand bath. What was sublimed in a day, you should return again the next day, until everything has become a red powder. Then take out the powder and with the rectified spirit of wine prepared philosophically, extract it, pour all the extraction, distill to a red salt. Leave to fludify in oil the salt on a glass plate, with the oil you can now work according to the instruction given. 8. You can also pour such oil on fresh mercury and distill cohobate and ascends also the Astrum M ercurii. However, it is best that you work only with the vitriol and of this make the Lapis M edicinalis and the latter Lapis Universalis. With respect to the dry, you must proceed as follows: take the magnesia and grind it finely, mix in it for each pound ½ pound of powder of bricks finely ground which should be freshly baked, old bricks have a salt that has nothing to do here, put them in a good sublimatorium of stone, enclose it in an oven and place on it one sublimatorium condenser. Then start to give a fire for 48 hours per gradus to last 12 hours you have to give a strong fire. Change often the condenser, so that when you take away full with flowers, you put on another, and continue until everything is ascended. When no more flowers rise, stop the fire, put all the flowers together in a flask, and then sublime themselves several times. Towards the end, you can add lime Silver (Luna cornea) and thus sublimate another 2 times, so thus is formed beautiful flowers, and you will get a very nice way to the Columbae Dianae. Keep them well. Calcine the Caput M ortuum until it becomes a gray powder & red-brown powder (because bricks are in it), pour distilled water over it and extract all the salt. Purify the salt, we will then take this 4 Lot or parts by weight and 2 lot or parts of the Columbae Dianae, grind them together and then let it go through the colors. With the dove you can increase the work. Or, do like this: Take the salt and grind it with lime gold, and then add only Columbae Dianae and leave both to pass through all the colors. 9. You can also prepare this way: if you want to extract the salt, you can achieve with wine vinegar. Use distilled vinegar and salt with distilled rain water to clarify. Then take the fresh material, 1/2 pound is enough, and calcine it. In the calcination, watch it thin. Now when it becomes a gray ash, take this 4 lots and 8 lots of your salt and let them dissolve (melt) in a crucible to a glassy mass. Of the Vitrum take this 4 lots and the 8 lots columba Dianae, grind together, put them in a resistant flask, seal it, put it in the sand and give a per gradus fire until everything is fixed and becomes a mass. Then remove it, grind it finely, grind with 4 lots of columba, put it back into a vial and proceed as before. Continue this until all your Columbae Dianae is used, and you will have the Lapis M edicinalis Fixum. If from there you want to get the Lapis Universalis, melt with gold and put on 4 lots of Lapis on a lot of gold, let them flux well into a good fluid so that it will become a mass of red glass. Thereof with this you can transform other metals into gold. In Summation: you can, with the M agnesia and with the Liquor Universalis, lead to the completion your work of kingdom microcosmic and vegetable, better yet of the macrocosm and unite the chaotic liquor. Thus, you know that the M ost High will prepare different paths only when your heart is operating well, so that your nature you must follow, otherwise I advise you, give you suitable for this first by a real reversal of your heart to God your Creator and book yourself in him wholeheartedly, and everything will be so joyous.
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The Magnesia and How to Find the Best Kind
There are various minerals that bear the name of magnesia: one in silver mines such as white pirargirite. It seems brown and dirty and is either above or below the metal and it is called Saalband. It is harvested when the sun enters Cancer, when there is a full moon, because then it changes and becomes as yellow as gold. It is found also in the Piedmont, and especially in Ungeria Sassonia in the Selva Ercinia. However, those that are like the neck of a pigeon and of a variety of colors like a blue neck pigeon cannot be obtained otherwise than by a good friend to the court of Sassonia. Two half-hundred weight costs 100 Talleri because every pound of the mineral contains a lot of good luna. So if one wants to obtain such a mineral, the Prince electorate himself must give permission for a signature in his own hand, that after payment, you can get it from out of the mine. It is said that near the mountains where this mineral exists, is erected a fork built to punish those who carries such a mineral without permission. All this allows us to see how the house of Sassonia held in esteem the mineral over time and how it is still estimated given the difficulties to find and get it. There are also several places in France where you will find this mineral, as close to S. Béat, an excellent Gur or foam gold. In the county of Foix, in the Cazeret mountains gold mine is the mineral bismuth the most beautiful. Around the town of Sech, a magnesia most superior than that of Piedmont. In the mines in Lourdata mucus gold, or mother gold and Gur gold in large quantities. A De Couson, there is a magnesia good for art. It has an appearance of red-brown with stripes and many colors. In Languedoc in Tournon, in the gold mines of the area, exists good magnesia (M inera Bismuth. Ms Darmstadt) bismuth.
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In the Barony of Regents near Narbonne there is excellent mother gold. Close to the village of St Jean, and near the small town there is a good magnesia. At St. Antoine, near St. Aman, magnesia is the very best there. In Provence, in the M ondon mountains there are three different kinds: one as the Piedmont, a magnesia bismuth, another magnesia solar or solar Gur (minera red gold).
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ow, as to get the M inera Red Gold (pirargirite), take of it 3 or 4 marks, be careful that
each pound contains at least 4 to 5 lot of silver that is solar, since in it there are many of the grains metallorum (Semen M etallorum). Grind it finely, put it in a flask, put it in very hot sand for 14 days and 14 nights for digestion and give it a fire, sublime it degree by degree, so that it ascends above the Sulphur Philosophorum, it attaches to the glass like a delicate crystal and soft as white wool. M aintain fire (sublime) for a few days and nights until no more sulfur arises, and at the bottom of the flask is left nothing but a black earth like coal. After that, allow to cool the recipient vessel, and cut off the flask slightly above the dark matter. But do it very carefully because if you stir too much, the sublimate falls on the earth and becomes impure, so that all your work is lost. Any amount whatsoever should not drop down in it. If, however, the sulfur is impure, take away as much as possible, so that nothing remains in it, do now make small pots of silver with quality covers, put in these jars your flowers then put them in a flask. If you have lots of sulfur, you have to have more small pots of silver. Small pots should be large enough so that each can hold 2 quintl flowers of sulfur. Now put the flask in the sand, give it a slow fire, so that every mercurial soul (M ercurialis Anima) makes its way through the flasks carefully and subtly, it will sublimate and in the small pots there will be nothing but a dead earth. So you will get the sulfur as transparent as crystals, and it is the Columba Dianae. It can also be rightly called M ercurius Philosophorum. From a marc you will not get more than 2 lots of minera Red Gold (pirargirite) or less according to its richness in iron, and it will also give many more flowers if it is low in iron. Then remove the pure sulfur. You can call it whatever you want, it's the same sulfur or M ercurius since both are here together and it is a pure gold sulfur or solar soul. Then take what is left, put it in the sublimatorium and reverberate it until it becomes light and rises like a wool; but during the reverb, you 64
have to proceed carefully so that it does not liquefy and become metal, but it becomes very light as wool and is easily established (extracted) in vinegar. But when you see that your land is placed on top as wool, what does happen in a few hours, leave it, put it in a flask, pour a strong vinegar of wine, and extract the salt. Pour the extraction into a clean glass and protect it well. Reverberate the earth for the second time with new distilled vinegar, and extract the salt. Unite the extraction to the previous and repeat this again 3 or 4 times, so you reverberate and extract all the earth until you think all salt is extract. Then pour all the solutions in a clean glass flask and remove al the vinegar to ¼ part of the solution, put it in the cold and let it crystallize into beautiful crystals that are more fixed than sulfur and this how you develop the real Sal Philosophorum M ercurius Philosophorum. Dissolve the crystals with distilled water, filter and evaporate, leaving alone until crystals form again, and repeat this again once, until they are very pure. Then take two lots of crystals and 3 lots Sulphur, grind them well in a glass mortar, put them in a good, solid vial, seal it and put it in our secret furnace (furnace of graduation), since it is very volatile and penetrating, leave it at a moderate heat, so they will dissolve in a water because the salt liquefies easily. However, when the solution is produced, I say that as a new solution that it happens best in a BM , take your glass, put it in ashes, or a furnace where you can give each degree of fire, let go through the colors, so you'll get a blazing Lapis M edicinalis. A small grain of this is enough to cure a sick man, as well as metals. In this same way you can transmute a sea of vulgar gold and silver metal. The augmentation/increase/multiplication occurs this way: take 1 lot of tincture and 2 lots of crystals, grind them finely, put them in a flask, seal it and put it in the moderate heat of our Athanor. In one hour the matter turns dark, the other colors even arrive early, so that in a few days, we arrive at the end of the work. Now it is fixed, we can again increase with the salt of the crystals remaining, since one obtains a lot of salt, 1 marc of minera red gold (pirargirite) gives of 10 to 12 lots of salt. But we must recognize the need to proceed carefully with the fire early on and not be haste, because otherwise, the sulfur is volatile and all work is lost. But if one pays attention to the beginning and if we take care of fire, we arrive quickly at the end. The secret preparation of the mineral salt I want to show you how since from this is prepared the Mysterium. Take a lot of mineral gold (pirargirite) ground finely in powder and sublimate in the furnace of graduation in our Egg, turn and sublimate and it passes through all the colors and continues turning to fixed and then it can be projected on all metals. It can be found in Transylvania, Hungary, Saxony, in the Selva Ercinia, and it breaks easily.
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he coagulated water is the mother of all metals because it is a part of the same water at the
beginning of the great creation of the world where all formed and to this day nothing can exist if the water, as the primus agent of all things, does not fall from heaven and give life to all things.
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If it coagulates, it's a rock or a powder of nature, even a hidden fountain and it is sealed & cannot be opened by anyone. Therefore you must note this: it is the "Primus Ens sen Quinta Essentia element Aquae" and center of all metals and minerals, from it all things are living and should also die in it, after which they appear again more beautiful and clarified. For this take pure rock salt, add 2 parts water - note: take the dew or putrefied rain, amalgamated th with the juice of the rofano pressed, and filter (1/5 of the quantity of water add to it as this accelerates the putrefaction) and put it for 3 months putrefying in a moderate heat. Then put it in the cold, let it freeze and make putrefy again for 1 month. After that, in a retort well covered, put it in the furnace where you can give gradus ignis, and let distill what is to distill. Remove the residue, put it in a good melting crucible, and leave it to fluidfy on the fire. Then put it back into a retort, heat it in an oven and give it steadily for 24 hours of the fire so that the salt is aglow. You just have to control the fire so that the flame touches all around of the retort, but do not allow the salt to liquefy! Then remove it, put it in a glass bowl, laying it in a damp cellar, leaving the salt to become a fluid liquor. Pour the liquid into a flask, add the above distilled, attach the flask and put it for 14 days in putrefaction, then distill an oily substance from it. In this oil, pour super rectified spiritus vini, and let it decompose. Thus the scoria will fall to the bottom. Pour the mixture and put it in the cellar, leave until crystals are formed and combined them. NB: it's better if at first you leave aside the distillate and you pour just this time of the crystals so that you can distill as often until it is basically a fixed oil and nothing more soft ascends. Then put it for a month in digestion to putrefy. Put the flask in a sand bath and distill through cohobation that the whole is ascended in the condenser, however, it is better to proceed per retortam (for the retort). Do not be bored by the long way, you will get the “Primum Entem Salis” & it is the real salt key and liquor universal. An Arcanum or key by which you can open all the secrets, be it gold closed, silver and mercury, or other metals and minerals. For if you pour this liquid living mercury in a retort in a bath of sand and distill per cohobation, it will separate in the form of liquid so that continues to ascend an unnecessary earth, and this can be treated up to infinity so that all the liquor rises like a heavy oil. Then pour the oil on pure gold finely ground it will melt like ice in hot water. From the gold, it becomes reddish from silver, yellowish. You can close the liquor in a flask and let it go through the colors, so you will get a Lapis M edicinalis, to be used universally in all diseases. 2. You can also pour the liquor on finely laminated gold, and it will melt like ice in hot water as above or: 3. You can pour your liquor of a Regulus M artis and Veneris if you have finely ground before, put together in a medium heat, the liquor salis circolatis minoris makes it possible to bloom that which is poured of its feces. Distill them together until a red oily liquid in which you can do hatch later in gold and silver and getting the colors to the medicine stone. This liquor has a very fiery quality (igneous), as M ars increased fire in it, and add the Venus, that is to say, when the Antimony Regulus is prepared with the same weight as the M ars, the liquid becomes like blood, or rather as a limpid tincture.
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4. In addition, with this sal circulatus you can proceed in this way: take the magnesia, which is to say, Bismuth, finely grind it, put it in a flask, pour over your sal circulatus as much as it takes to get to three fingers up, put it in digestion, and the liquor will be colored green grass. Remove the color/tincture, and pour over fresh, and repeat this until no more tincture/color can be drawn, and you have the universal fluid. Put together all the extractions and distill/cohobate several times, so it is ready. With this you can put yourself to work with gold and silver. First make the Lapis M edicinalis and then Philosophorum Universalis. 5. There are also other uses of this liquor. With it you can extract the Red gold minera (pirargirite) and let it go alone (per se) through the colors and mutate into Lapis medicines. 6. You can also perform your work with the white miniere gold (pirargirite white and even with the cerargirite), but this only works on the M oon because the liquor is so equipped that it can be used universally in all subjects (M ateriem) it is the ex Opere M aximo M entruo Universalis M icrocosm, as it is the Quinta Essentia, and it carries the essence of all nature. Its preparation is actually a boring way, however wonderful and inexpensive. M uch time is required by the putrefaction, but moreover, the work is neither difficult nor dangerous. Although there are more means/ways to prepare this liquor, the former is the safest and best. For example, rock salt can be extracted in its own Spiritus Salis, pour extraction in a retort and distilled by cohobation, after at least decaying one month until all salt is resolved, it will become a fuel oil. Towards the end we divide all the phlegm in a water bath. This is how you can prepare the Mysterium (the M agisterium M s. Darmstadt) from vitriol, alum, nitre and from the scale, you just have to know how much to control the fire and to perform all the work with great patience, because with haste and distraction, mild nature does not leave anything snatch: take good note of that. But I also want to teach you to prepare an Arcanum and Lapidis Coeli M etallorum as follows:
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lthough from time to time, many of our old masters have thought of and treated something
antimony (stibio), it is however impossible to understand something about it by those who do not understand their emblematic and ambiguous speech. Therefore you should know that the stibium or antimony is a Solar M arcasite and even if it is a matter which by its appearance is an Antimonium, however there is only one hidden in it the beginning of the nature, and therefore it has a little mercury and some mercury in it is so compact that it is impossible to separate from it (matter), it (Antimony). When put into the fire, its mercury cannot be separated because this material is very difficult to fuse. This material is a good magnet for the Universal Spirit as it is very hungry and if such a spiritus was extracted from a subject by itself and if this is rectified we can be produce in actum its own body the way it was worked by our ancestors who obtained a salt from it. But since in the M agnesia or Bismuth, there is an easier way and such material is recognized as the most obvious and not so hidden, so Bismuth is chosen because in it the Spiritus M undi is contained in larger quantities, among other things, it also contains a good mercury and a beautiful salt that can be extracted with its own spirit and is thus represented as the salt of the philosophers, and as has already been said their salt is called their vitriol. That is why they chose Bismuth. Now we will address the antimony which is none other than coagulated Solar M ercury. Since it is there is also the highest essence, the M ost High has placed in nature so that man acknowledges this by his infinite omnipotence. Since in our extases we worked with antimony, and thus it is this that we want to teach and pass on to our brothers and successors. Since we are not all of the same opinion and one has a preference for a matter and one for another, so one should not force a brother to any specific subjectum, but rather let him work freely according to one’s knowledge, such as of his spirit and inspiration of his soul wants. As you need to know that often the spirit of man through the pitfalls so that they make to move even the center of nature. For man can do anything: it is man’s domination of nature. As long as he has before him the M ost High, and he dropped the love of man and the creature, it (love) goes with the eternal spirit to the center of nature. It looks up to the Mysterium M agnum, because in it lies hidden the spiritual ends of nature, both inside and outside of us. Of so that even if everything is lost, the Mysterium M agnum is forever! If initially, we do not recognize ourselves in the interior research of all depths of the Great Spirit, it would be all together impossible without this recognition to find and recognize the Mysterium M agnum, What this seems always to him intolerable, even impossible to achieve by flesh and blood. But listen, then, how does he seek and find the Mysterium if he is still a carnal man, whose hands are full of blood, whose members are full of impurities, injustice and hypocrisy, envy, and courts, full of blasphemy against the Great Spirit, who worships a God made by man and placed in another man, who tramples on the commands of conscience M ost High, which is full of misleading opinions, as if the Lord could and Spirit should be left attached to this or other human commands!
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Such a man is a living death. Daniel loved his God, although he saw service God of the Chaldeans and he insinuated in his mind that the Lord wanted to take the dark heart of this people. And the Lord heard his prayer, because he did not pray in the form of the high priests and studious of the scriptures but in his mind/spirit. And the Great Spirit joined him. So he prevailed as nature and the created world had to lay at his feet, and all the power of wickedness fell before him. For, through the spirit of wisdom, he overcame an attack on his enemies in the wild and ordered them in the name of the Lord to get in as footstool of his feet, he remained close to the blessed goal. Therefore, dear brothers, drop your fear and terror in which you live! Pay particular great attention, do not dishonor God and do not give of the flesh. Because you cannot exist if you do not love God with all your heart. But if you want to love and become one spirit with Him, you will soon enjoy of His Love. But if, on the other hand, you like the infinitely small, it is impossible that supports it because it is above all things and what is natural, everything comes from Him. But that which is human and against him, even if it appears saint. So, flee all superstition and fear Him with all your heart, your whole soul and with all your might, that way it will never fail you nothing; whatever it is, the thing you want because you will be given to Him there is life and satisfaction. But so now we will get to the point, that is to say how the real quintessenia may be obtained from antimony and how this preparation happens, now take note: you have before you several ways to prepare the Mercure Antimon from none other than the Regulus, the Quintessence. Take a pure and nice crude Antimony that is found in Hungary Schemniz M arienburg and melt it alone into a regulus, melt the regulus more sometimes adding a bit of tartar and nitre until it appears as a white silver and you have the M ercurius coagulatus antimonii. Dissolve this with the Vitriol Oleum and give it of its Spiritus 3 parts of spirit on 1 part of antimony. However, this works best with vinegar metallorum (Acetum M etallorum) as will be explained here. Finely grind your regulus, put it in a retort and add over the Acetum M etallorum, this name can be also given to the oil of vitriol and its spirit, place the retort in a bath of sand, fix a collecting container and distill by cohobation that which wants to come but only up to oleitatem, reverse again on the distillate and cohobate until nothing rises other than an unusable phlegm. Now pour above fresh Oleum of Vitriol and Spiritus vitrioli and cohobate it from the new until the moment when you see that your oil wants to ascend violently, reverse everything and let it cool. But pour above as much of a very strong rectified spirit of wine as the oil of vitriol, let it sit in a moderate heat of so that it decomposes and all the white earth falls to the bottom. Pour the solution into another clean glass, put the glass in a cold place, and the crystals form. Get them out, and the remaining solution distill until you think it can crystallize again. Then gather all the crystals, dry them, put them in a glass vessel, place it in the sand bath and give it per gradus. What sublimes in a day, turn it back around [take the sublimate, and mix with the earth residue that did not sublime] again the next day and do this until all is deposited. Then leave it, put it over a glass bowl in the cellar and let it turn into oil. Put the oil in a retort, placing this same retort in a bath of ash and distill cohoba the liquor. When everything is ascended, you have the Quintessence. Or, take a fresh Regulus Antimonii, grind it finely, pour above this liquor and put the glass in moderate digestion, and the liquor will take to the color red as blood. Put the glass in the sand bath and distill that which wants to come, or pour the solution and throw above the fresh liquor and extract that which wants to extract, then unite all extractions and now distill and you get the authentic Quinta Essentia Antimonii completely oily in appearance. This breaks the Quintessence M ercurius Vivus in the heart and decomposes it. Now, with this solution, you can dedicate 73
yourself to what you want. You can fix it as it is in the Lapis M edicinalis and let it go through the colors. From the Lapis M edicinalis, you can make the Lapis Universalis. You can also at the beginning pour your liquid on gold, dissolve the inside and therefore make the Lapis M edicinalis and then the tincture, leave to go through the colors. Or, if you do not want to work with the Vitriol Oleum, take the majus or minus Circulatus or the Circulatus of rock salt, although the first is better suited for this job. The first, in fact, when added to the M ercurius Coagulatus Antimon the Universal liquor quickly becomes like oil, the sal dulcis circulatum, but is a salt. So when you pour the last (the salt) on the regulus of antimony, remove the solution, put it in a cold place, and it will form crystals. These crystals can be fixed again by themselves in a glass vessel. Then, leave to liquefy to oil in the cellar, so that we have also the Quintessence and only need to pay attention to what has been noted before in the secret manipulation (Particulars ex Regulo Antimonio). They are the most secretive work, important and safe. That is the Caelo Reseratum Reserve of Thoëltius and 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Sapientia. How we can find it also in conjunction with gold, these are the manipulations and teachings, how we can prepare the universal liquor from the four kingdoms to ensure that beginners in the art sharpen their mind and know the principles of nature, or that they learn to separate and divide. For there is no early manner/way. He must first know how and what to do with his work and then complete it. These extases/ecstasies secret are engraved on the brother's conscience and soul sometimes to keep them hidden and sometimes to be a part of and benefit from it, in order to promote through this God's love and serve others as approved by his conscience. With this, I find myself turning to things supernatural before the human eye, that which is rarely seen, but a magician is able to operate and must be exercised through the power of God and nature that he has placed in it. For starters, the secret magic of the Cabala, and then how to obtain the Philosopher's Stone in a magic way. This work, although it cannot be achieved by any man not called by God, however, will demonstrate why the work described below is called Opus maximus in man. The 10th chapter of the revolution of the spirits we omit however, expressly "quia doctrinam catholicam et sanam theologicam non sapiut"(because we do not know the Catholic doctrine and theology) and it's better not to know and adhere strictly to what God has placed in nature, as on the other side in the Mysterium. It is placed here something of the secret magic, that is to say how man shall be provided according to the soul and body, and how it can reach the magic through the M ysterium, as follows.
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fter the M ost High had made man from his Great Spirit in his image and likeness, in man it
soon became clear of being able to see into the heart of all creatures and to call them by their name. And they also understood as he could speak with nature and all created things in his great innocence, he was also feared by all. Thus man was in the light and with the aid of the latter he gazed at all depths, so that through them and in the Holy Trinity, and recognized the Mysterium and the center of all things in nature and creatures. That is why the Lord God is closer to any creature created by Him than of man. But if the man wants and seeks nothing but the M ost High and Holy Essence of the Spirit and if he seeks by constant struggle and suffering, then in his travail he will find the strength to penetrate the latter. But finding such a spirit here that had already surrendered to him. For that the man must detach from every creature, not to desire something of human nature near him, but rather to sacrifice to him (to focus on the spirit) completely and with all his strength, surrender to him with faith and to allow peace to impress in him, until he finds the strength and that the Great Spirit acts in his soul, which no natural man, that is still impure and that has not converted from my heart to the Lord, cannot understand the smallest thing. For even the knowledge of the true conversion is a driving force of the Great Spirit in his soul. Therefore, whoever wants to join with M agic, that is tell whoever wants to be a spirit, should try to identify with God and in Him, shall not be of evil and all that is human and which was produced by the spirit and give Him sacrifice through constant prayer and penance. In this way, the Eternal Love cannot hide, but move in force and mix with the divine spirit, so as to bind you, and the sound of the beloved will be heard in your soul, both inside and outside. It is a delicate and rare essence which I cannot describe to you with the pen. But when you have found wisdom, you need nothing more than a daily union. And no divine magus can serve the world, because in this holy union, the smallest thing is a barrier in the world. Thus some of our fathers and prophets have been so imbued with the spirit as was not seen until now. What you want, is a holy life and 76
union, pray that you express with force, you can move, discover and weld all depths. It is not difficult. This calls for just simply a gravity and a solid ground for dismissal of all things worldly, and a strong silence, so that you can collect yourself. With this strength, our fathers worked miracles as they looked around for a long time until they have found the goal. Now, you have a proven certainty, it is best to seek the Lord than the world and its carnal teachings. For as long as man lies in the region of the stars, so that they may repay him as their way of being according to their quality, he cannot attain unto the divine magic. However, if he sacrifices his footprint only to Supreme God until it is taken and sanctified by the Great Spirit, such a man nothing is hidden. Therefore, no scribe or wise man can never understand that. But the saints in the strength of M ost High have always been persecuted and oppressed by them. So the spirit of nature in its mixture with the spirit of darkness cannot support this because it has its effects of the region of the stars. Therefore it is rotates figurative designs that men like, love and therefore honor those in the sense it and they state their opinions. But he who is far from God cannot achieve the union of the Great Spirit. Since he does bears absolutely no other God beside him, the one whose glory they affect. These poor men hinder their commandment pious souls who use the single, so they abandoned the One Being who will manifest itself in any other way than in the Trinity, that is to say, spirit, soul and body. Therefore fear Jehovah, the great saint with all your heart and with all thy soul, sacrifice yourself with all your might until it becomes in you the most great power. But if you feel the force of the Great Jehovah in your soul, it is a rustling wind and be obedient, I assure you that you will not accept the world's wealth to abandon again that which your soul so deeply loves. Stay silent and say nothing of this son of the man of this world, and the treasure you have, the king of the world, the Holy One in Israel and you can later work wonders due to its strength in exaltation of his great name. But with that you know also how you should transfer if you want to arrive at such dignity, beware of any breakdown of your soul, that you do not lose again through dispersion what you have, well, approaching not only his opinion, even if it always seems so holy but satisfied yourself that you found through the meditation of the soul, that your soul loves. Once again I warn you so that it turns into a fire in you for nothing is worse than to love and honor other gods beside him. You will be amazed because you've never heard how the M ost High is manifested in such a sacred place. In fact, no scribe Pharisee cannot teach you that on the contrary, because of his teaching, he turns away from it so that his stories are high and must be executed. Ask one of them what is the spirit of the M ost High and what action it has in the soul, you hear and see amazing things, how human greatness intrudes everywhere to fill his own account to God. M oreover, do not be surprised if several thousand man cannot achieve the conversion and the union of the Great Spirit Jehovah. Yet there is a simple and unique way. Old Tobias received the power of the Spirit, so that the guardian angel of his son had to leave the Mysterium and appear as a companion and where he would eat it, the fish - the fish is the image of the natural spirit - there must let his life be fed to the young Tobias and his companions, but the liver Fish was a substance to smoke against the evil spirit. Now, take that, oh dear brother, the secret of this magical image: man must be fully united with God: therefore the natural man, like animal such as fish here, must be imprisoned and become a food for the saints, that is to say accommodation of the Great Spirit, as we see with his guardian angel is readily willing to serve man and all this happens through the power of God. With this force the angel drove the devil and bound him with the smoke of the liver. This smoke is the splendid, convincing prayer before the altar of the Great Spirit. The angel brought also the father of the young Tobia from the darkness of his eyes to the light, so it became light (clairvoyant) through the anointing of the bile, together with prayer and the kiss. Here you see a magical image. Bile is a poison in all 77
animals but also fire, a life that causes life and death in humans. In the bile lies hidden the greatest wrath (anger) but should also serve as balm for the eyes, so that we become blind and that we sacrifice our affections to the Lord in silent prayer, if we receive the kiss the Spirit. Great mysteries of the ancients found they acted through the revelation of the Great Spirit. Indeed, there is no sage who has been recognized by the Lord, as soon as the man interposes its own right and take up his own elevation to the Lord, it is an abomination in the eyes of God. Even natural knowledge, when not concluded by the Great Spirit, is the enemy of men from the abyss of dark magic, because that proud spirit always rises against the M ost High. So he puts forward in the son of the man who then began to impose their opinions to their brothers, they even force them to worship and to pray. This how they make witchcraft against the Great Spirit to exalt their own opinions, however, the Spirit acting is attenuated and oppressed and others among the carnal must be honored and encouraged in place of the Great Saint. Therefore, if you want to be a magus, do not abandon the Lord and have no other God beside him, lest he take you and consume you, and thou be forever damned by the Spirit Pharisee, but fear him with all your heart and with all your soul and follow his commandments with all your might. Remain faithful to him, he loves with all his heart, which was generated for the second time and can leave in our flesh the Holy Messiah Jesus, the salvation of the world, from the seven spirits of the source of his heart so incomprehensible and magical. Jesus had to raise again one who had fallen and it has worked miracles in strength of spirit, as well as his called and chosen disciples who followed him, which had been called, not after the flesh, but according to the spirit and strength. Such is an eternal, holy, great teacher, a magus in complete knowledge of the human heart, he would not let the wise men of the world and those called by the worlds follow but he chose simple men and the crazy in the eyes of the Pharisees, to cause damage to the gods flesh, since nothing can exist before him who sacrifices himself to the service. He made these wise men and teachers because they were able to accommodate the cogniscient power of the spirit. For this, they exceeded in the spirit and force and any attempt might consist in the reign of darkness. His fame in the spirit of magic was so great that the enemy tried to calm. Only he overcame all temptations, although the devil offered him all the kingdoms of the world and all their splendor, so that he would make him (the devil) as an idol of the art of the world and the pray. And yet, even this could not crush him, but by the power of the Spirit it departed from him. Emmanuel Jesus was more learned than all the scholars of the world, however he did not want a namely land, but the wisdom that his father had paid in order to to accomplish His will in the power of the Spirit. With this force he chose Twelve Apostles and filled them with the Great Spirit to work miracles, exorcise the demon, and heal the sick. After his ascent to the Father, he met in their heart, that they felt the soft rustle of the Great Spirit and they were filled and intoxicated. Something happened on the M ount Zion. This interpentrated in 300 souls and the power of the Spirit spoke to them as flames of fire, as fresh & clean water and poured into these souls. So you see the Great Spirit for any reason does not want to be understood and reasoned, and therefore no expert on earth can reach unity with the Great Spirit of Jehovah if he has not abandoned his ideas and own laws. Therefore, no wise man in the world and no scholar in the flesh can understand his name - not to mention so erudite as usual human – being scholarly and making miracles. In this way, they deny to the salvation of the soul to the work of Great Spirit as well as the sacred anointing and suggest that we should change according to their tradition and their old rules, and if someone had something to repeart, this one is the devil. In this way they impede the souls and frighten the souls and to scare them so that they are guided, 78
supported and lead only by the spirit of God. So the enemy that comes from darkness imprisons the souls that they then become his servants and must perform sacrifices in his favor within their sunagogue in the greatest idolatry. This is why they still need the word of God and the example of the old masters and prophets, but of them, they died of heart and body. They invent all kinds of sects so that one can be seen and heard by the other and yet they are not necessarily united. But the worst is the idea that they wrote themselves, and that made for the initiation of themselves, they sacrifice their own children to the devil, as a horrifying court to the obstinacy and obscurantism of those unfortunate souls. Therefore, observe what it means to serve only God with all your heart and with all your soul. Flee Satan and his ways and give yourself to that love your soul tenderly needs and remain loyal only to him until death. For this holy union, you have a much closer way, than had of ancient ones, here you have, your hands, your Anointed, your Savior, your M essiah. Take it and He will penetrate to the center with the Great Spirit, and do not withdraw until you cannot be penetrated, always not listening and not watching the world and everything, and abandon your flesh and blood as the things of your Father. If you need such a decision, you will not wait long to feel in your soul the sweet whispers of the Great Spirit. After that, keep quiet and be yourself, until you become hard to enter the Mysterium. Do not get distracted by the world of his carnal claims since, with his servants it (the world) does not remain free in approval of Satan. Put yourself in an eternal silence so that you do not throw pearls before swine, and make sure to be guided by the Great Spirit of Jehovah Jesus. Do not lose heart, for the Spirit will give you reassurance, be reinforced when you see that no one can reach the holy community except for Saints in the Spirit that stand out from all idolatry, and no Pharisee can get there no matter how good the ideas he has, because they are an eyesore to you Most High. So may you be silent, the world with the doctrine cannot understand. For consequently, know what constitutes magic and how man should behave if he wishes to use it. That is why, apart from God, it is no longer necessary to fear with all your heart, all your soul and with all your strength. This was the first commandment as God the Lord gave the first man and he raises this command to every man and does not tolerate subordination, as one who fears the Lord will be preserved. In these ways, you can become a mage and a just scientist and learn to understand how nature is designed with all its characteristics. But, in one you find three, that is to say, the sublime and Holy God in three persons. With such assistance, you can move mountains, dividing the waters, so that you can pass through miracles and still others defy description. Let there be in you a true reason to learn the divine magic that you want to use. When you have achieved union with God, it will be the right magic and you will be in the Mysterium M agnum, you will find what constitutes the Cabal and how to use it.
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having first been sanctified and made appropriate for magic. Because he that is in the magic of the spirit is already in the signing of all things, as you have heard before, for he is one who has reached the magic known as the Cabala, since one comes from the other. To put it briefly, you are in union with God and you are spirit with Him, then everything should be in your control, and the angels rejoice in your communion, as you will find in other writings of our secrets. But you have to use them as carefully so that you do not move too much of the center and through which you must not be too entered in with too much of the Grand Spirit in Jehovah and look as did come of what happened to Enoch and Elia. As seeing God face to face in all his force is impossible, as you see in M oses. This one wanted to see its magnificence, only the omnipotence of the Great Spirit kept the hands on him because otherwise he would have been penetrated and completely consumed by the Great Spirit. Because it is impossible outside the flesh and blood then in his heart, as a passage, M oses could see the Lord: the Spirit of Lord entered and lit to the point that the men could not see his face. This should be enough for you if you were taken so by the power of God. Do right attention, after that, do not walk away either from the right or the left of the Lord. If you're so forth, you can see into the heart of nature and the center of all the things you may be shown, so you can talk to all natural creatures, and they must all obey. For like the children of this world these creatures disturb the reign of darkness using their imagination and are false are invalidated by the spirit of darkness, and in their own way and they make great miracles and they are so powerful they move even the elements and can cause damage to all creatures. Similarly, they go through the doors closed through the air, with or without a body, they also produce by promoting power of darkness, the young devils and other terrible things. But a man serving the Almighty with all his strength should be no miracles? It is certainly impossible, since God encourages his people and gives them what their heart desires. All nature must serve such a man and be ready to do the same. Of even all the angels and all the helpful spirits are ready to serve you, as we have shown and taught extensively in our writings or in cabalistic magic. Read only our teachings and be quiet and prefigure yourself an eternal silence. QUID SIT MAGIA
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M agic is the art and the ability by means of which are attained knowledge of elements, bodies and their fruits, qualities and powers and hidden operations. However, the Cabal is a path God, and teaches how to live with him and only to make prophecies through him. For the cabal is full of divine mysteries, while magic is full of the natural Arcana, by teaching to deliver these prophecies of events and premonitions come from the nature. Its action exists in all creatures, so that the heavenly and earthly bodies recognize what is hidden within their own interior where the powers and virtues that "are destined from the beginning and of what qualities they are endowed with. This and things like this is intended to recognize how the celestial is related to terrestrial so it is understood a great time to be with the eyes or with the soul through its operations. Such a junction of celestial influences, or by which such a stamp acts to give divine powers in the lower body once was called by the mages and sages “the union Gamaheum” (sic!). That is to say that the stars above converge in an excellent manner with the stars below as the sun and the planets with plants, minerals and the animals. But the devil tries to date by extraordinary efforts with full force in his own way of obscuring the light of the correct way of nature. M agic originates from the triple divine trinity of God. Since God distinguishes all creatures with the ternary and the hieroglyph sign printed in them with his finger so that nothing can be attributed to things of nature which is devoid of the divine gift of ternary. The physical flesh teaches us to understand and see the creator. This union of the Divine Ternary spreading throughout the substance of things is indissoluble and that is why we have the Arcanum of any nature for the 4 elements. Therefore the ternary product with the Quaternary gives a perfect sevenfold in which many Mysteries are revealed to us. And since the Quaternary lies in the ternary, the light appears on the horizon and in turn makes us recognize the link complete with God. So far as accessing the powers and operations of all creatures and their obvious use through archaic signs, symbols and images, so that it remains that virtually any point that cannot be discovered via exploration. And where a quaternary and a ternary amount to a decananary for their unit, a regression is done. In this Arcane is hidden all knowledge of hidden things of God with his words and then with the multitude of His creatures he made a post for people of good will so that they have the true knowledge of Him. This path means Cabal. It is in hearing, that is to say that science has never was assigned to books, however, a dying father tells his son's ear: with this science, M oses brought forth water from the stone, the sea split into two, with the latter Gideon fought his enemies. The faith of the Hebrews was therefore natural, it never was acquired only through the miracles that are supernatural, but they had been using the faith of the purely natural Arcane cabalistic. If Hebrews, who were in the shade and riddle had this cabal, we also we can have it, because we are in the act of grace, we have grain, while the Hebrews had only twigs and the thistles. Also read De Occulta Philosophia by Basilius Valentinus and you will find only nothing but golden words. That's why art is a cabalistic occult science, as they say, it has been transmitted with the divine law of M oses which was revealed through the doctrine of God the M essiah. He who made a contract with the Angels, to help his followers, to bring them to the cognition of all things natural with the divine light that illuminates the darkness. 81
Hebrew is the way they say it was received, and M oses received the M ount of the Law that was passed before the people as being very secretive and the true explanation of the law (that is to say the Qabalah) and it was forbidden to write, but in the order of his successors, one received the revelation of the other almost as a secret order, so that the divine mysteries might not be revealed, dishonored and raped by the mass profane. The Persians were the most diligent of it and they called wise men who came from the east to worship Christ. It is likely that the old Rabis recognized through the science of Qabalah the trinity of God and Christ as the son of God. This is why the science is safe and heavenly, and has its origin in the sacred writings. But the disgraced Hebrew faith in the doctrine and thus faith in this science. This is the Kabbalah. The collection consisting of 70 books, as they say, were left only to scholars of Hebrew not ot have them brought among the people. The modern "Qabalah" is the condemned Hebrew part of the apostolic and it is full of errors everywhere.
HOW A MAGUS CAN PREPARE THE STONE WITH MAGIC We may prepare the Philosopher's Stone in a magical & very special, yet natural way, as we will explain after with confidence. We must destroy from within the substance gold outside, and bring the sacred invisible in the visible outside, and every man can practice and reduce potentia ad actum in his own body, which is the true furnace of God's secrets. And I was able to bring common gold finely beaten to the point and with my own ardent soul inner that lives in the body, it emerged in outside me miraculous ways in the form of oil and resplendent honey and shining so that I could see at night, and as a timeless classic, but it takes some time as we shall relate by secret process. So it ran infront of me, to outside my room, the god Saturn, after my spirit had been awakened with salt and ardent soul, and he told me he was subjected to me with God's permission, and he told me and said guilty, after obtaining the divine power, I can enjoy so many secrets of God and how I am to serve myself and my poor neighbor with the greatest treasure of world. It is offered as a sacrifice like a patient lamb, however, it did not weaken relative to its nature and its power, rather it dissolves, it coagulates, it augmented itself of the body golden and strong spiritually and vitally all the time. During the process of the chemical operation, thus appeared to me different visions as well the seven planets and heavenly bodies, either in dreams or in waking; all this did not make me afraid, but courageous and serene and happy and no cowardice was shown, because it would be resolved for my own good and for my next after the time had, as we noted above, because time alone creates the Philosopher's Stone as the sages say. He has presented even blessed Saturnus and he spoke gently and revealed to me of such secrets and the work of God that could learn and know no other man and all I desired to know I asked, and knew and learned the name of my fiery divine guardian angel offered to me by God; and explained all the radiant power regenerated aureo mentioned before and all its inherent and hidden miracles, so that not only I can turn all metals humble into gold and cure all ailments from the root, but I obtained a very superior wisdom, rather angelic, however, I would not write about and finally I learned in my heart, both internally and externally, all science and art from around the world in the light of grace and nature. I felt so all the time, so sweet a perfume in my mouth, and in my room, and in my laboratory, chemical magic that I am unable to describe it.
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Here follows the secret natural and magical process, what to do and use initially in the natural and divine work, how to behave, what had been discovered by our Egyptian kings and true philosophers clearly as the world began (sic!) so I remind you of great risk and I beg you greatly not to reveal this secret to anyone lightly, because some say it is not God's will that everyone, some frowned upon, can have such a great secret. Anyone who wants to share in this high and noble gift of God, must be keep quiet and be serious, not having to really move to a lonely place, but he can wait in his house praying intensely, and leave all external affairs to another, otherwise he cannot do well. You will have to accept for yourself that man can do little or nothing to help his manual labor, if not done by the inner sun offered by God to all men and philosophers which is real gold, and everyone can do this work in the micro and macrocosm nine weeks with two different materials that are water, and Gold even though in general it is one material that is to say the Spirit prepares in every man which issued the Sal Animatum in the form of the celestial and blessed Eve who came from Adam, awakened and brought to the magical operation, it is more likely do the work since the human body and the internal qualities of the elements are the true philosopher's furnace, the vulcan (Vulcanus) miracle that alone cooked the work and thus manifests the inner spirit gave eventually a visible way externally, after having decomposed, putrefied, regenerated common gold and his finished work, it happened in this way: You must have 1 gold lot, finely beaten, or reduced to fine powder, you mix it with your urine and grind well with sheets of gold would be the best but the gold must first prepare to chemical for Stibium. After that you have to stay in a room or closet and let not easily enter nobody, you have to change and clean your bed and double sheet every 8 or 14 days. You must take each day 1/2 scrupl (sic) of your gold prepared, and no food or drink other than that, we must continue this work for 9 weeks, and is careful to keep always your urine and drink it for thirst when you're want of water or wine, and do not use anything else. Each morning like of the solis already done, take 1/2 scrupl ground, and in a few days you burn a little nice in the whole body and you can drink fresh water from the fountain and cool immediately after the burn, and thus you will finish up with your gold after 1 month. After that you just keep drinking your own urine and as you since abstained from food and have not eaten anything since, you have no more thirst, because all of you is in your urine. When time has past 6 weeks. You will find that your urine that will comes from you like a pear more fiery red, and half in the center lies a brilliant matter like yolk nell'albume ul, will be like a coal or carbuncle resplendent, indeed even more clear and shines like a light clear in the night, and this matter will be quite heavy and look like a juice very heavy, and at the same time will have a strong odor, even heaven as you have not heard anything in your life, and have yet to take it for a few days. Towards the end, during the last 14 days you will also have different visions of sleeping and being awake, various apparitions of spirits as we have already said, this does not scare you, they are the beginning of your great happiness, as will occur to you and how will from one color to another minimum (sic) and will leave their work through their operations visible, you'll know what to do with great astonishment no need to indicate all. After 14 days, that is in the eight or ninth week. He will appear with a particular joy all your guardian angel of God placed in you and given to you from your birth that will explain and tell you without further assistance on my part all you want and anything you are looking for. He will give you absolute knowledge and wisdom in all things, and it will ascend strongly desired by his presence, and with strength and wisdom and he will strengthen both internally and externally, so that you imagine be in no other place in the angelic world and in heaven. And 83
you will be encouraged to sing the praises of omnipotent God with heart and soul ardent and fervent and devoted, under the direction of the angel and your inner fire, as an incentive for the heavenly and earthly powers. Everything else will happen to you good, great, and heavenly, I leave it to God and your great Spagyro given to you by God for all your intentions that, alone, solves and reveals the M agnalia totius M achinae M undi.
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principium, if it is trapped inside, to assume a figure again. As they love men, and because the man being able to contain the soul and spirit, and then follow them willingly, because they know, what it means to participate in their redemption. But the man who wants to accomplish what must first be recognized, as before taught, and must be a magician. Then he can present itself in its capacity and shape what is wanted, as all the ideas in this world and the future lay in his soul, in which and through which, the Great Spirit in a man that acts as the dear Ancients have well seen and recognized. So they have learned, what is the real magic that is concerned, that makes them powerful and disperses all ties in if you unsice and with all your strength to the Great Spirit of Jehovah, so that God becomes man again, and according to his own image and his spirit. Now, if such a man remains in power, he can move all the forces above and below and with God to receive all spiritual creatures. But when man has lost his image and lies in the wrath of God, he puts his hands over it. But if he is with God, then you will be able to do things with him. With eyes we see the frequent metamorphoses of nature, as it changes into one another without interruption. So know that this is the great secret of the M egia Divina M agnetica, a man, and in union with God, can feel the psychic forces, and the harmonization of supernatural spirits. At this point we note briefly that what Paracelsus said in the first book of his writings: De Generazione Rerum Naturalium, Omunculus: "Now, however, the generation of the homunculus not be forgotten in any way. As there is something in here; how this was kept secret until now and in great secrecy and there has been little doubt and problem among some of the ancient philosophers, whether it is possible to nature and the art, that a man outside the female body and the mother nature can be born? In what will be the answer, which is not contrary to spagyric art and nature in any way, but rather is possible. But how this might be accomplished, the process and question: namely that the sperm of a man in a cucurbit sigilalta per se becomes putrefacted with a high putrefaction horse stomach (warm stomach of a 85
horse) for 12 days and for so long until when becomes alive and moves and shakes, this you can easily see. After this time you will see some mass similar to humans, but without a transparent body. So now after it is wisely supported and fed daily with the arcanum sanguinis humani (the lapis medicinalis from the blood), up to four weeks and maintained in a warm ventris horse always the same: from what makes a human baby is alive and well, with all members as another child who is born of a woman, but much smaller. This our Chiamiami Omunculus, and must be cared for with diligence and attention to grade so no different from another child, until his days and reason, this is one of the most high and great secrets which God has made known to mortal and sinful man. As this and the secret of secrets. It should also rightly remain a secret until the end of time, because nothing will remain hidden after, but rather everything will be revealed "). So take an earth of a body putrefacted, and from whom nothing was lost, put it in a large glass flask. This land, however, must be of a virgin and a young fellow, because it does not work with the land of a man or a woman, we find a difference. From a virgin as a nymph, beautiful to behold; it will also very smart more so than other men. When you put the earth in a glass flask, pour into well two quintl of Sal Sapientiae M icrocosm. Then let open a vein, take only 2 lots of blood and pour quickly into the earth, close the flask put it in a moderate heat and let stand for 4 weeks. After this time goes by add another 2 lots of blood, warm/hot if you can, so the spirit will go into the earth, will join with the earth and is magnetically attracted together in a ball. Now when you see this, a little of air on the glass from the top, so that life does not overpower, but rather from the upper region as well as the nature can attract to the influence. Again when they are over 4 weeks, take a new 2 lots of your blood, put them into your hot flask and close it with a bit of cotton. You have to have put it to a glass furnace, you can remove, and keep warm in a moderate heat, if the sun shines, put it in the sun, and if there is a clear sky at night, put it under the open sky. If you come once in the morning and see that your material is present as a sphere and that your glass above and opened, this is a sign not commanded, that the spirit of the body is and went to his homeland. Remain here now in union with God, so that your spirit is capable of the spirit. If not, the spirit fractures the glass with hissing and bellowing. Pray however with devotion and bring the stove with the glass in your room and watch, so that nobody can get it there. Here take away out of your Lapis M edicinalem, prepared with the earth or rain water of each a grain in bovva and press with your force in God and the Spirit breathes then 7 times with all the force in the glass, you will not have to wait long because moves into the glass. Close it with cotton and look that nothing falls into impure. Now when they are over 4 weeks, without re-open a vein and take once again 2 lots of your blood and pour over hot. Keep everything in this heat again 6 months. When and after this time, the result will miss the food and going to start crying, then smash the glass, pull out the fruit, wash it in hot water and clean it, and it is like any other child, after seven years, his stature it will be that another of 20. If however you want to bring to birth a dog or an animal similarly, what happens: Get an animal of the earth rotted and decayed, very similar to that still well together. Put it in a flask of glass new and clean, take 1 lot of blood from you, pour over hot, put the glass in a moderate heat for 14 days and 14 nights then add 1 lot of your blood and repeat per 4 times. When 2 months have passed, take 1 quintl of Lapis medicinalis prepared with your blood, put it in a flask and let stand another 4 days and 4 nights. Then take from a beast similar to the one from which you took the earth, so much blood, as an alive one needs it, pour in the hot flask, the land will slide up in the blood and bring to the surface. Stop the glass with a bit of wool and keep it in a moderate heat, until the beast needs no more nourishment. Then smash the glass and bring the animal to a warm place, until it gets used to the air and the cold. After that give chewed bread, April the jaws and scioglile the language, the animal will learn to talk, you can teach 86
different languages, and serve, for what you want. This product and the essence and will do your will with the greatest joy. It will protect you from all enemies and will follow you even in death. But if you want to take the land of a man rotting and blood of a beast, do this: Look to receive a land of such a man, if you are sure that they did not die drunk. Get this earth, put it in a flask and add 1 quintl finely minced Lapis M icrocosms that day Lapis macrocosms the earth. Then pick from large animals like dogs or from beasts as much blood as in the veins, and pour though on the ground. Put the flask on the stove in the open, so that the sun and the moon can shine above, and leave it alone in moderate heat for 3 months. If you passed 7 days are the flask open, you are sure that the spirit and once again returned to his own body, so that is able to break away from the prison of the dark world after the great God's permission. And that soul is more happy in an animal, rather than being forced to lie trapped in the terror, fear and pain, because such a soul has a great need for flesh and blood and would like to take them again gladly. Now when the time elapsed, and the result shows you are hungry, break the glass in two, bringing the animal in a warm place and wrap it in cloth, until becomes accustomed to the air. Give some bread, feed him with this and give with meat broth, until he begins to eat and drink. After 4 months you can already use it at your disposal. He will learn your language, and you can send it in every secret place, as and able to go through all the doors closed, you go through the mountains, and no spirit put in his sight; notifies you that he must go back in front him. A soul is reborn in this way also, if you so wish, for your sake in distant lands and do what you want. You can talk to it about things to come, and if consenting to serve you all, if you need of that genius, however, not only against the justice of the great God in the same way you can prepare a dove. Take a dove dead, about a year, put it in a stone bowl and cover it and bury in the ground, where nobody can get there. After 4 years the place open, pulls out the bowl of stone, one will find in this land. Take this land and put it in a flask, from the earth at one time half a pound of your blood and proceed in all, as I have taught before. When the time elapsed and you have completely soaked with your blood you procede with the earth and all, with you I taught in the second part, still leaves the blood of columba, similar to the one where you took the land, scroll still warm on the ground and continue, until you reach what you want. The ancients had used pigeons in many things secret. Now I want to also show you how a magician can change his whole nature and figure and change it, rejuvenate in a completely natural way, so he gets more hair and nails, changing his whole body, so that he becomes very similar to a young man of 20 years, and although it was already 90 years, and can practice with repeating every 20 years. In this way our ancestors were often renewed every 100 years.
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with violence, take lemon juice with sugar and good almonds milk. At the ninth week, you can start drinking a glass of wine, until you get used to new food and strong drink and your stomach receives strength back little by little and learns to digest again. When the 10 weeks have passed, begin to air-out only for a quarter of an hour and repeat it every day until you become completely accustomed to the fresh air. Then leave this place, and you must go to another place where you are not known. This is the way that has mutated our dear Alumni and renewed every nature in all its might, and in reason, so they have become wise and understanding and through that can attract them to supernatural forces. Thus, they received the angelic forces that are very powerful. And they entered in all nature spirits, and before them there was nothing to hide. Everything in nature and the created world should remain in their service, so that the spirits of darkness trembled and fled before them. For where arrives one such a man, rather than going to encounter such a spirit, he can pray in the name of the Lord, to abandon the place and to withdraw.The wise learns to understand the language of nature and nature can speak all things, as seen in the center of nature. Therefore it provides all the things he knows and future orientation. Fire and air, land and water must remain in his service and they and their spirits can pray in the name of the Lord, so that they, for whatever thing he wants use, must do his will, as I will show you the next chapter. For such a magus can move heaven and earth in a natural way. For this, nothing against God, against nature or against something else occurs, but through the power of God and nature this happens, as will be recognized by you same.
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12 The Twelfth Book HOW A MAGUS CAN MOVE HEAVEN AND EARTH Illustration: A man in a landscape holding a wand in his right hand.
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with the full moon, the rain collect in a receptacle of stone and keep it in a cool place until such time to use it. Now, when you want in your bedroom it raining, it fulminates and it explodes, even in the open, do as follows: Take a stone container that can hold water well, put it on a heater (wood stove) that you can carry on, put it in a room or in the sky well, pour in 2 jugs of rainwater above, you must have available a decant er set from the Electrum, as we have taught in "Divine M agic". The vessel must be empty, so you can put 4 lots of pure sulfur and saltpeter, well purified. Close this vessel in lime wood and put it in water. Then start to give it a fire, the water evaporates so slightly, the sun and the moon and absorbs in a short time the sky is covered with dark clouds. Then give a stronger fire, so that the water begins to boil and cook, so that the air becomes completely hot and dark, it will not last long. It starts to rain. Then make the fire stronger so that it cooks to a boil and will be boiling even in the air and then, throw in a grain of the Lapis M icrocosm, you must have on hand a birch rod so that you can defend yourself with it, it does not cause damage, and it will begin to be lightning, to bluster and bellowing into the air, it will be terrifying to see, and it will last long as there will be water in the container. When all this is cooked, the sky cleared again and all the gray clouds leaves. But if you want it falls as ice and hail, pour only a pitcher of cold rainwater in the container after casting a grain of your Lapis and very quickly the cold and hot squabble. However, greatly increase the fire and it will begin to rain and hail. When the water becomes V (vini? spiritus vini?) again and it starts boiling to cook, it will start to rant and break, until the water has stopped boiling, after which it will stop. He who cannot understand this, think it of witchcraft and the devil 90
attributes, although this happens quite naturally and not from a superstitious essence, but it is nature that makes this as follows: Rainwater has the Universal Spiritus in it. However, when heated, the spirit in the air greedily attracts it into the vial of Electrum, this is melted in a special way according to the constellation of stars and that is why the planets move in the region and attract it to the sulfur and saltpeter from this, there can be only whistling, rain, lightning and thunderstorms. Because these planets are one against the other, and thus they are moved or rathertheir influences, so they rub against each other. However, in order that there is born any disaster, you have to throw in a grain of your Lapis M icrocosmi and with the power that has given it the M ost High, into the middle with the wand, in the name of the Lord, push back of you time, in such a way it can not cause damage. Here, you could also move the sky to do something bigger, that however is not permitted, as all proceeds Overall, only it is against the law. This is all in this way that you can execute in a room, but you should not take much water, a pound of it is already enough with other things, such as Lapis M icrocosmi, the sulfur, nitre and the vessel can be much smaller and you must resolve with respect to all this. The weight of sulfur and saltpetre must match. Just see what a magus cann do. Now I also want to show you how a magus can also cause to grow trees, grass, wheat, and flowers, and how he has the power to make them multiply.
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13 The Thirteenth Book How a magus can multiply and grow in a special way all trees, and plants, shrubs and flowers. Illustration: a landscape with trees and plants.
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plants of all genres, so that there are hundreds and thousands of fruits, do like this: Take the salt leached from the red earth tincture, dissolve it in the dew or rain water (one lot of salt to 20 pounds of water). In this water, put to soak wheat, to moisten only, let it dry again, then sow it in a field, and one grain gives of 50 to 60 stems and it should give great results. This also occurs with other seeds. The smug Eckartshausen was not only a theoretician rich in knowledge, but tried to see the truth of his ideas even through practical evidence (experiments). One of his proofs was the decomposition of our land from the dominant material corruptible, to which he also succeeds in fact, as can be seen in the letters of the naturalists who worked there together. The latter a flower vase filled with earth purified by its precepts, they placed in it a single grain and put the vessel in the air. In more rapid development than the force of the grain growth and faster than usual occurs in the ground, from this single grain sprouted 100 spikes that exceeded in thickness in height and beauty of the grain all the other qualities of wheats known.The individual grains were such a natural and beautiful golden color that you could have sworn they were covered with fine gold. The taste of grains was much softer and pleasant than the usual wheat and without the viscous and sticky substance that sometimes leaves on the tongue the taste of wheat flour. In the chemical decomposition, it lacked the glue of flour or gluten that causes the spoiling of the flour. 92
A chicken was fed for two months only with a vial prepared with this flour with water added. The blood tests they found more gluten blood, which is the cause of rapid deterioration, so the blood did not decay/putrefy, but fluid remained constant and cool. We did the same with flax seed and from its product, significant experiments were carried out. Flax grown in this land was purified of a strength and a beauty ever known and he could not - such as wheat straw pushed in the same soil - be burned by a common fire. (In the words accompanying booklet of Karl von Eckarthausen "Resolution of Joseph Hahm). To build the trees, dissolve a quintl of your salt (Lapis) in 1 pound of rain water make a hole near the root of a tree and a hole in it. You must have on hand a container that is below a drill, so you mayest put inside a small tube and you have to introduce this small tube in the hole in the root, all with tight-fitting putty wax and pour the solution into the container. Do this quickly in the spring when the flowers begin to grow and bloom, you will see wonders, how such flowers become green bloom and fill with fruit, and for other plants. If we want to grow and bloom in winter or even a tree, another plant in a room which also buds and fruit, place the tree or what you want in a room near a window so that this plant is not too near heat, dissolve a little of your stone (salt) in rainwater and spray the plant with that from time to time, in the same way or vaporize twice with the liquor that you extracted from the chalk. The tree will begin to grow and flourish. Keep it moist, fruit soon show themselves in abundance. Our dear old took the same land of stables dissolved, the solution made smoky, to salt, the salt a little shine, and again dissolved in rain water, and it is prepared. With this solution they have dampened the fruits and then sown, spray the trees but also with caution, this way they found as multiplication. Indeed, even in spring when the weather was dry, they watered meadows in the evening with this solution so that the salt can dissolve and penetrate the earth the best way to the roots and were fertilized and turned their fields to increase. They have done a masterly use with all kinds of seeds and found by the same transformation from simple flowers, they obtained the best, an acid fruit, softer, a smaller little fruit, and they also managed to make a big one. They transform their fields and gardens as well as their fields and are a paradise producing hundreds of fruits, because they knew well what she was hiding in the midst of the earth, what is the marrow of the earth, and when it is concentrated so irresistibly attracts the dew of heaven in it and for itself magnetically and then they found the M agnum Mysterium and addressed well the blessing of the above and below. They found accessible what Hermes tells you, that is to say, that which is below is like that which is above, with which miracles can accomplished. Now, I want to show you what can make the constellation.
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pass by your house to be also present in your room, proceed to the following processes: M elt a mirror from Electro (Electrum?) as we teach in the Divine M agic, in the following manner: When the sun is getting higher during the period of the full moon, melt it and make it shine with the earth three times, then finished with a polish of deer leather so that it becomes very clear. Reminder: the mirror must be fused in a concave, wide 14 of shoulder; after, let in flow another with the sun is going up 3 days before full moon in the hour of Saturn, it flows flat , also wide ¼ of elbow and high 1/4 of the elbow, polish it well on one side: Then you'll need another pure white glass mirror that should not be spoiled, also high to 1/4 of elbow and both in width. When thou hast procured these mirrors, fabricate a machine of hardwood, it is important that all cracks are closed and it must be constructed according to this drawing:
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A. concave mirror is in the machine that will lay the person who walks in the A. street in a comprehensive manner and should move towards the room. B. the lower mirror, the one from which rises the spirits in the other mirror metal, and B. in the room in full size through the window E., which must also be wide of ¼ of elbow and the same in height. D. also must have the same width as the hole that faces the street. Therefore put this machine in a dark place in your room so that the hole faces the street through the wall up to half of a man, put the machine to the hole overlooking the street where people walk, and when someone passes, this person will appear in your entire area and it will pass before you. If at this time you just want to have fun, welcome it and talk to it about what you want, and the person on the street think being called, the person will turn and will not see anyone, the person will continue on its path, but anxiously. When the person continues to move, repeat your words before and he/she will stop again will turn and when the person will respond, you can hear it in your room and give against a response. If you want to give the person another puzzle, get up and slap the shadows in your room behind the ears, and the person on the street will start to scream and run away because they believe that the devil is trying to make fun of them and a ghost or spirit is moving in this place. So often our elders the practiced with pleasure, lifting a great fear among the evil people. I advise you to pray a lot, they were illuminated, they have returned from their mistakes and have converted and have started a new life. Similarly, when the old one’s had an enemy, they terrified the enemy until he stopped responding. Then they took a wooden stick to birch and beat loudly in the dark room using these words: "I will advise you to go away and reconcile with your enemy, that is, when you come back here, I will make this and this...". To scare the person, thereafter they had become very good friends, and the man beat then came up and told all that had happened and how evil the enemy had beaten him. Others, however, were of a brave and stubborn temperament, he wanted to resist on the street, but when they found they took more shots without seeing and hearing someone speak, they began to run at full speed, you should have heard the 95
things they told after adventurous. Those of a more timid, however, fell half-dead. If a woman had passed, the mirror would have shown the figure. In the case of an honest person, the mirror would have presented only the person, if she were a whore, however, the mage could have a tank full of water, after calling was as if his libertine if it was stopped to answer, could have been paid in cold water directly on V and the shadow it would have started screaming, thinking to have to die drowned, acting as if she had to pass a course of water and after two or 3 not, she would have seen she had been deceived and that there was no water. She would have started running well soaked be ashamed of herself and other people would have ran after her asking her what had happened to her and she would have told him that the devil had done this wickedness. And more than once, they have converted. Thus, with this machine you can do things unspeakable. However, do not show it to anyone, not even point it out, that all goes with the help of the stars. Because here are useful or characters, or exorcisms. Here is you can still see the hidden omnipotence of God. But observe the first rule exactly, that is to say not to abuse these things and not to offend God or your neighbor, but you must ensure that the honor of God is increased and your neighbor is improved and no one is damaged.
HOW TO PREPARE A MAGIC POWDER THAT OPERATES FROM A DISTANCE Finally, I want to tell you a secret which is wonderful but scary. Therefore be careful not to abuse it. If you want to prepare a magic powder that kills everything, either nearby or far away, and if you put a little in each quarter of the area or where you want, or if you doing balls with it, if you turn them on and you shoot while staying at your house, even a thousand miles from your house, explosive powder in faraway places, where if you wanted, you could cause much damage, which, however, would act against any justice (unavailable) … … Here it is ready and you can use it as we have taught. Do not distance from God and always remember that these Arcana Scientiae Sapientiae are not given to man to offend God, but only for use in his own defense in an emergency.
APPENDIX OF CHEMICAL MANIPULATION REQUIRED FOR THIS ART When you want to melt glass, it's better to do it near a lamp, because in this way, it does not break. Take 2 lots of Venetian glass, grind it up to obtain a fine powder; also take 2 quintl borax, grind it finely in the same way as the glass, put the two together and grind them well. M oistened with water Gummi, after that you need a milk container as is shown in the illustration below, fill it with good Spiritus Vini. Put this container in a pan to warm red above it, I put a fire that gives a high flame. When the Spiritus Vini feels the fire, it begins to distill and he wants to cross the flame of fire and augment the fire in such a way so that it melts. It must be equipped with a glass stopper and we will have to pour on it borax glass after throughouly dried (sic!). Thus, at first, hold it away, then gradually closer until you cannot stand more heat very well, and it will start to melt. " This way you can melt all glasses in a clean, safe and also speedy manner. Similarly we can try with all metals in an easy means of this fire To melting. Take only one cup prepared with good ash must be completely dry, put it on 4 quintl lead, 2 quintl of the matter (metal) that you want to try, set the cup so that the flame touches sides and above it touches or passes over, and this will happen shortly after you start to fill (?) and goes away very quickly. The container is prepared as follows: 96
A. is the container which must be so that it can be filled with a Nösel of eauforte through the tube B. which is attached to another tube that C. must have a small hole front no bigger than a lens. The hose must be long in all ½ the elbow (25cm)); the elbow ½ on the container and the one with the hole the size of a lens that will also be set to ¼ of the elbow. With one that is long, you can weld and melt, it is very rough. By its help and through, it can also be dyed. You only put a metal on a clay prepared expressly for fixing very broad set before the flame in such a way that it melts the metal, which occur rapidly. After that you can apply the stain and continue to blend well as in a melting furnace and to a wind tunnel, only, proceed in small portions. This way you can do this work in a play about a table without any inconvenience, however, and if you want to do it alone in the quiet, no one will notice anything. Following illustration of how to melt and fix the glass.
As you see, here placed the cup so you also have to hold the glass you want to close by melting and you have to heat continuously, so it will close quickly by the fusion. This is a very important thing to know about the great work and the work for the universal, which is very important because you have to often close bulbs with the merger, and where it very dangerous to give these things to someone else who is not able to do it alone.
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THE UNIVERSAL TINCTURE PREPARED BY THE WET PATH OF MAGNESIA PHILOSOPHICA To obtain this tincture we prepare a volatile spirit (Spiritus ex M agensia) from our magnesia, because gold melts in it gently and softly as ice in water. So, take 50 pounds of argentite of zinc pure wholly free of quartz "mineram nativam bismuthi aibi scelta", that is how the philosophy has called it magnesia to hide its vulgar substance named mineral of bismuth and it forms part of sphaeram Solis and Luna. This mineral is little known and God has placed it on a throne because from the beginning it was to become gold. This perfection, however, was prevented by impurities and a lot of filthy things in the ground and so it has resulted in an improper fruit. In the interior it is filled with spirits of gold, and spirit dyes and is strong as gold and silver even. Therefore it is a bath of the King and Queen in which they wash and clean and leave a thousand times more dazzling and they are beautiful in nature. In its internal aspect, this mineral is poor and humble, embellished with a glittering clean and beautiful, with light, strength and life. It is located frequently at Schlackenwald in Bohemia and also in the mines of Saxon. This mineral is more white and silver, it is more radiant and strong from the raw material and golden and full of universal spirit loaded of seed (sic!). Break it into small pieces, put them in a wooden barrel for 4 weeks when the moon is about to become full during the night, not during day, under an open sky so the stars can do the right thing. In this way, miraculously, the mineral also attracts universal spirit from the air and the moon and is highly saturated. When the moon begins to decrease and the fourth week completed, remove the mineral from the air and keep it well kept and enclose in vessels in wood or earth so that neither air nor the sun reach it, otherwise it completely lose its power. Take thus a few pounds of this mineral impregnated; with this fill several retorts well-rimmed in glass or even in soil that is resistant to fire, close these containers with the bladder and cloth four coated with albumen well beaten, a little flour of rye, red lead which is mixed with a little lime finely ground, mix and when the lute is almost dry, distill with a good fire set gently for 12 hours during the first 3 hours, then higher for 3 hours, and finally even stronger for the last 3 hours. Then a water very soft and delicious leaves. This water is called also "Aqua Alba suavis dulcis spiritus vini Philosophicus." It has to be rectified very gently three times by itself (per se) in Curcubite per arenam, so it becomes even softer and extremely clear and limpid. Here we obtain a beautiful celestial magnetic water with which we can do wonderful things and almost miracles. It is attributed to mercury's volatility and it is also called Spiritus M ercurii by the ancient philosophers. It has an extremely strong pleasant aroma of violets. For example, it is possible to observe how this water acts miraculously magnetically through the glass when exposed to air, however, otherwise, no. Take a pound, of this universal mineral water and put it in a flask with the mouth up with a glass stopper. Do a solid lute six-time with of the bladder of beef and white cloth together with the albumens well beaten. The flask shall, however, remain empty at the third part. Put to the air in front of a window the flask with water, let it sit for four weeks so that it is quiet and it is not at all moved, and we will see with astonishment that this water will attract Spiritus mundi of the sun and moon magnetically and increases, which increases to fill the entire flask. When the moon is down and if we were to let the vessel sit still, the spirit collected would be lost gradually and disappear in the air that no one knows where it disappeared. 99
All this happens if you do not remove the spirit of the air and if you do not store away in a box securely closed. And it really is a great wonder of nature that to recognize in this way the magnetic forces and see how the astral spirits have a harmony and a relationship so much with mineral spirits. During the period when the flask is placed in the air at the window, it will fluctuate a wonderful reflection of sunlight reason to be very astonished. It is as if the rays were strongly and violently attracted to the flask. But if you take an herb faded, or flowers, or a small lemon tree, even if it is completely dry and withered to the point that it can be crumbled by hand, and if you put in this water with the root which should be still in the vine in a large vase for 8 days, this shrub will resurface with a new life, green and growing in a short time after flowering, as if he had just been plantedall this is a great secretum naturae to admire with astonishment. If you put a piece of a tree that has been charred by fire and you let it digest for a month, with moderate heat and well covered, it will be soft as wax when you get it out. Put in fresh soil, outdoors, in a short time this coal will push a small tree brand new and fresh. Plants, flowers and trees that are brought to life in this way will not fade over for years, they last a long time, they still flourish and bear fruit twice a year. Take a pound of this universal spirit, add of the distilled essential water from a plant which you do not separate flowers, roots and leaves, leave to ferment with ½ pound. Also take an extract from the same plant, three lots of salt leave to dissolve and clarify essential everything on a source of heat. With this fill a bottle or vessel a little more than half so that it remains a gap at the top of about three fingers, close it hermetically with of the bladder, put it with the air open a window sill or with a quiet place for a few weeks, it remains closed and it is not moved and the plant begins to grow after a few days great and high as the vase as long as there the spirit in the vase, and it will grow similar to the plant from which had been taken the salt and the distilled water. However, once you move the vessel, it is overturned because the plant cannot stabilize and concentrate well in the vessel. But if you add the ashes of the plant, some solar soil, the best East Bolus Armenicus all together in the vessel, it will soon grow a plant or a complete flower, securely attached with roots, and does not fade over, but it will last forever, if you pour each month 2 to 3 tablespoons of the universal spirit above the vessel as a nutrient in which the plant can feed and grow, and the vessel for this should not be closed completely.
The Arcanum of Metals To come thus to the metallic work with this philosophical mineral by the wet process we can graduate (perfect) the best pure gold from silver in three days. Take the Caput M ortum remaining in the retort after the distillation of the magnetic spirit, extract the salt it through digestion or boiling with pure distilled water and it is possible to wash again three times with rainwater distilled. Put the salt in the spiritual water above, so that it dissolves, distil it with the fire by retort by gradus in sand, and it will separate a spiritus magneticus bringing spirituality to itself as its salt, it increases its magnetic power to work miracles even greater, that is to say bring back the lives of birds that had just been killed, and for fish and crustaceans just killed, and also reinforce of this same way and multiply by fermentationem. In this spirit, gold dissolves slowly as ice cubes in water, without fuss, and extracts from it in 40 days his soul as a blood red tincture with a sweet scent of musk and amber. If this water is extracted from the dissolved gold six times in a water bath until you obtain an extract density using a gentle distillation and if it is cohobated/poured back always when cooled, thus it will remain in the retort the Anima Auri as a blood red oil, non-extinguishing, with which we can then make lights that remain lit forever, such as: 100
Inextinguishable Philosophical Fire Take 2 batch of this red gold oil, pour it into a slender burette made of glass designed specifically for this function, enclose it in a small glass box so that no air can enter and it also remains immobile , put inside a thin sliver of aluminum oxide, cut it carefully, it has been pickled in urine 14 days and dried in the open air, also wound up by a gold wire very thin. The wick shall be the thickness of a twig of straw and half the length of a finger or so, if it is lit and protected from the air, it had burn even 400 years or more. A lot will burn for 200 years as have already written our fathers and forefathers. I have made gift of a burette of 6 lots of oil gold with His M ajesty the Emperor Leopoido, to put in his grave with the deceased Empress Claudia, he gave me in return a gift of singular generosity. When the spirit has been extracted by distilling it 6 times from gold in a water bath as we have already said before, so that remains blood red oil unextinguishing, thou takest, thou put in the sand and you shall distill with moderate heat 3 or 4 times carefully reversing the spirit, for that this universal spirit magnetic will eventually become by itself gold in the vessel, intense blood red. This gold can not be converted into physical gold (vulgar) and that is why it breaks down radically in this spirit. Neither fire, nor any process cannot change it. This is a great work of art of Alchymia Adepta and if the spirit is extracted by distilling slowly up to half or a little more gold, it remains in the retort a real tincture of gold of the fine silver and mercury for the grade in gold, do as follows: Take a lot of fine pure gold merged to antimony refined and very subtly laminated, cut into small pieces amalgamated to 6 times as much mercury dissolved in Aquafort, so reverberate a crocus. If you have any ducats old and good and high in the title, it is not necessary to melt them, dissolve them in a 1/2 pound of spirit mentioned above, make them digest, extract the spirit 6 times in the Bath M ary. According to the seventh, eighth and ninth time in the sand with a gentle graduation and all the gold is separated in the way spiritualiter per alambicum together with the volatile spirit. However, it is better if done in a retort, and we did not have to make it go up too, it has the appearance of blood very beautiful and it is of all so as has become a heavenly nature. During distillation, we see many wonderful colors that gild the glass and they are extinguished more. Extract the universal spirit in a water bath until more than half through the gentle distillation. The crystal clear spirit will separate and it may be used at any time for new work. It remains effective in its forces. It should however be kept in a cool place where it will not be reached by the sun nor the moon. And the tincture remains in the retort in the form of red blood. Put the good in a crystal vase, it will weigh about 8 loth. Take as much oil as fine philosophical silver or minium vivus which is refined gold, and more exactly in gold high, also in this way: for a work, we little use even for 6 times oil of gold remaining. Before everything is consumed, we put the leaves into fine silver in gold oil softened, rolled up like paper money, six lot by weight, the same amount of mercury and plac in a tightly closed vessel for three days and nights on a stove for the moderate heat to digest in the sand, and all the silver and or mercury will be transformed into an excellent raw gold very beautiful, high in gradation and heavy in weight.
The Universal Tincture Take 4 lots of essential oil of gold, divide it into 2 equal parts in two flasks, also put two lots of spiritus magneticus in each flask and three batches of the seed metallic white female sweet as sugar or 101
M ercuri Philosophici of the mine Regia Saturnina the production of which will be described below. But first, of the tincture universal dry, made as we told before, seal it hermetically, put it on a steam bath on a tripod placed in a furnace of tinplate with window and governed with a wick of lamp very thin so that the glasses are covered with steam, and the seed white sweet as sugar melts in the oil of gold and dissolves as ice in water and becomes a blood red solution. Once again, marry the white queen argentea with the king aureoso that they are no longer separable. The beautiful color red will quickly lose and it will start to darken by the day until it is m. e. n. (sic) it will become purple and brown and finally in the fourth week as a splendid black velvet. At that time, the putrefaction is complete and the gold is dead. However, it will revive in a new way; whereas a crude physical spirit can never improve and raise something, a spirit pure and penetrating for against, rendered subtle, full of life and elemental fire-power and strength to penetrate all earthly things as lightning and elevate to a very high degree. However, if the putrefaction has been reached easily, which will then be the most important factor in this work, after one month the gold ‘dark matter’ begins to change gradually and become green. So we increase the fire with another degree of lamp so that after three months all this shows a strong emerald color: gold is back nine, living plants, green and flourishing, that is to say reemerged from death due to the white metal seed, sweet as sugar and full of soul. With this green, also grows several small mountains and hills, crossed by veins of gold accompanied by small rings around the glass, to see with great pleasure. In the fourth month, the green color disappears slowly and starts to become white, so it must be given back to more strongly with the third degree of lamp, until at the fifth month, everything into a dense milky lymph, candidly white and silver. Same for that work, one can see beautiful colors of the stars and small rays shining like gold that you will not get tired of looking at and are like the bow in heaven or the ornament of a peacock. All this indicates prosperity and perfect growth of the dye. At 6 months, increase the heat to the fourth degree of lamp and the tincture becomes yellowish and silvery white in color, and then gradually turns strong gold in color, until everything appears as a beautiful piece of gold in the seventh month. Colors gild the glass so that you cannot be stopped from th watching them. Finally, the eighth month, provide strong fire with the 5 degree and the beautiful gold color will turn into pleasant pinkish red, resembling a mage of blood gold, that's how finished the tincture universal. It is ready and pleasantly scented and extremely penetrating and spiritual. Here follows the virtues and use. Usually it is administered for all ills of the human body regardless of the name they bear. Six children weeks 1, 2 or 3 drops, the larger, 4, 5 to 6 drops with the moon decreasing "per se aut cum vel aqua cerasonum maternal milk" (by giving 7 days, fasting in the morning, they destroy all the bad moods from which arise smallpox, convulsions, etc.). It persists in its effectiveness if the tincture is administered preventively every week 4 times, at 5, 6 drops for adults, adolescents 3 or 4 drops, for children 1 or 2 drops; but it is also a very valuable aurum potable, what are so many great lords and potentates, can be increased and multiplied in quantity and quality all three months, as follows:
Augmentation Take 3 lot of this tincture, divide it into 3 equal parts and add to each of them 6 lot of the seed of gold from the mine and 1 lot Saturnina Regia of the spirit gold magnetic white of bismuth, hermetically seal the mixture in two glass vials so that they are filled only to a little more than half. Then put them in the Athanor super tripodem vapororum in BM for 13 weeks. After 24 hours, the seed aureo white snow metal will be dissolved radically in the tincture of gold and it becomes blood red colored deeply; it is necessary to start the adjustment of fire with the first of the wick thinnest, and continue until three weeks have passed. 102
At that time the red color will be lost and become darker every day until everything is transformed into a purple-brown and 3 weeks, a black as black as coal or as black velvet resplendent. After that, increase the degree of the Athanor with a wick different and here the material begins to clear. It becomes green and flourishing until everything has become beautiful grass-green and shows very beautiful colors as in the beginning. The sixth week is complete, raise the heat with the third degree of the Athanor and the emeraldgreen color will transform "intra tres hebdomads" (in three weeks) from very beautiful multicolored colors into a very beautiful white snow, intense and shining as the cream of milk coagulated. So give the Athanor the fourth degree for 4 days and the color white will graduate in splendor to yellow aureo fort. After this point, give of the fire high heat for 8 days with the fifth degree and of the hundredfold beautiful colors, all is transformed into a dense red blood. At this point, the tincture is ready and increased by 3 lots, you will have 16 lots. By doing this, you can bring up to 100 lots and more without interruption, every 13 weeks, it will be ready and the tincture will be strengthened in its values by 100 times through these iterations and it will be improved either pro medicine or pro metallis. After the augmentation/multiplication 3 to 4 drops will have the strength of 20 to 30 drops before. If at that time, you want to tinge silver, lead or mercury into gold, the tincture must first become metal and must be fermented with gold and mercury, or it does not tinct, as follows:
Fermentation Take 1 lot of this tincture and add 1 lot of very pure gold, fused with antimony, dissolved in 2 lot of universal spirit originating from the white bismuth (M agnesia) and 1 lot of the M ercurius vivum, also dissolved in 2 lot of the same spirit magnetic. M ix these ingredients well together by shaking, then leave to digest for 24 hours, tightly closed so that they are intimately united. After that, once extract the universal spirit, as much as half by means of the gentle distillation in BM , it remains in the retort a lymph blood red, extract it and keep it. And you will have 3 Lot and 1/2 of the tincture doubly fermented and coloring over a lot before. Therefore take 1 quintl of this fermented tincture, 1 quintl of seed aureo metal sweet as sugar, of the Saturnina and finally, 1 quintl mercury sublimate. M ix everything m.n.e. (together) in a tightly closed sphere, pour it on a pound of mercury living which was boiled pure to thus become hard. Let it melt with, or as an amalgam of fine silver fused for 1 hour in a ventilated oven, then pour it and all the silver or mercury is turned to optimum gold.
The Sweet Universal Salt out of the Mineral Saturnina Take the mineral iron, which gives some evidence of gold or silver. Dissolve the mineral by digestion and mixing it with a good Spiritus Salis, "ut 3 vel 4 digitis superemineat" (which covers three or four fingers) and is dyed green grass. It must sink and carefully pour over the other while it is being colored. The solutions will be in the meantime held in a very gentle BM until such time as, in cooling, it does not extract no more of the salt of Saturn. Then, when nothing more can extract, filter the solution with precision to make it clear and transparent, and extract all the spiritum salis by BM of the retort until the matter dries to be fair and white. This beautiful salt is dissolved 4, 5 or 6 times with rainwater distilled vel 103
rore and coagulated by abstractionem and dissolved for the 7th and 8th time with a spiritus vini ex vini Hispanico vel alias generoso and extract or distill with care. It is adamantine and transparent as crystal must be for works of this kind. This factor is the essential thing to reach perfection. Finally, this salt is prepared.
The Compendium of the Philosopher’s Stone Take the best part of a good salt of earth, the water leached out you have to evaporate slowly at first in a boiler without boiling or rebullition, let it evaporate to the half or slightly more, however, you extract it gently in vessels or retorts and you put it in BM to get the salt. Therefore take this salt and 6 times as much earth as good salt, mix and at the beginning very slowly and gently, remove by retortam munitam the phlegm that you must keep. After, give gradually of the fire strongest, finally, it becomes thick like oil of vitriol and at the end, it will separate into oil red blood which should be removed the phlegm ad oleitatem. With this phlegm, extract the salt from the caput, filter it and extract it slowly until salt. Reverse the phlegm, make it digest in such a way that it dissolves well and that faeces sink to the bottom,flow onper inclinationem until such time as nothing is deposited. Dissolve by putrefaction and by filtration the 2 other Principia until you reassembled all three and you digest in Balneo, then you make get the spiritum and the volatile and the M ercurium philosophorum by themselves, which has stayed from the e. Thus, you have the 3 principias that you décomposeras secundum regulam philosophorum (in accordance with the rules of the philosophers) and you will be able redigest ad opus perfectum.
The Universal Salt From the Earth In M ay, when the sky is clear and bright, the air serene and calm, no wind and plenty of pleasant fragrance and scent that spreads before sunrise, go out in a meadow. Dig a large hole round, long and off 3 or 4 tape measures, deep up to the knees but wide and all the roots must be removed. After having weeded and removed the lumps and the earth below piece by piece with a spade, fill the hole with compost and adiverse land and grass with sod on top in this way will suffer no damage due to land shortage. The land of a red-yellow vine is very suitable for the purpose, and that of clay pit, and there is a big doubt if the land of vineyards, as all know, is a great field it is even better if taken at heights where the stars can impregnate more, even if it seems strange. When you have therefore separated the roots of the earth, dig 20, 24 Zeutner (a half quintal). It is important that it is not rocky, and make to spread on the meadow or on another location very close, in such a way that the stars could well act there. Leave this land extended 14 days and nights in good clear weather. If, however, it must remain in rainy weather, you must cover well with plenty of straw and green undergrowth. After 14 days, when the land is steeped in the celestial influences, remove it and keep it well covered in proper wooden barrels until use.
Annotation Some people have obtained several quintals of this land prepared by elixivationem only 2 quintl of the salt of earth. But after they have experimented and they have impregnated the earth linked with rainwater putrefied several times continuing for 4 weeks. After the time needed, they got a nice nitre by leaching which, however, did not burn as the common. Let it putrefy with precision the solvent and crystallizing, take 1 pound of this white salt of earth, finely grind it in the glass mortar, mix it with three pounds of the same earth which was extracted the salt 6 after having burned it well in an oven for baking bricks or pottery. M ake the imbibe of water of rain and form in small balls, put them in the sun and let soak 104
the rainwater several times so that the Archaeous might insinuate itself more regularly; Elapsis 4 septimanis (after 4 weeks) proceeds as you know already. This is the universal menstruum, this universal menstruum 3 ounces, give it of gold cleansed in antimony 1 quintl ect ... (sic).
Fermentation of the Body & Projection Take 1 lot of red tincture multiplied many times, 5 lot pure gold highly purified in antimony, put the two together in a pan to melt closed with a solid lute. Let melt with a steady fire in the ventilated oven for 6 hours and the gold will become brittle and a red ruby stone. After cooling down, take 1 grain, envelope it in yellow ash and put it on 1/2 pound of Saturn, M ercury, Luna or Venus flux and let them melt together for a good hour, then poured into a crucible and get gold, the noblest that can be resistant, and durable.
Annotation 1. After this fermentation, the dye is called Lapis Philosophorum and it is utilized exclusively for metals, not the human body. It can no longer be augmented, so always keep a portion apart without fermenting. 2. However, before the dye is fermented with gold it is a great medicine against all diseases. Distill it with Hispanica Spiritus Vini (Spanish Wine) by BM to the dry scarlet powder, 1, 2 to 4 grains of this, taken in wine or other vehicles, cures all illnesses, and is sweet as sugar. Together with the Spiritus Vitriol Sweet or Salis Subdulcis extract and distill like blood, the tincture in liquid form is the Aurum Potable and is extremely delicious: take 1, 2, 3 to 4 drops. This process is really profound, and I give witness to this on behalf of God. Sed Sat Sapienti.
The Center of the Universe, or Central Salt If we want to prepare a universal medicine for humans and for metals, we must not seek it in particular or in the specific, but in the things universal: all sub globo lunar is divided into three different kingdoms. And if we look around us a little on the world oculis philosophicis, there is nothing but a natural living spirit and a spirit mundi catholicus that generates all things. We can capture the spirit of this kind by itself if it is separated from the rest, precisely because it is universal. What to do? Answer: we can certainly get it in its simplicity and spirituality, that is why God in his wisdom has found a remedy (solution) by enclosing the living spirit and reviving in all visible creatures inside them. A wise person can find it and extract it in his work, he should not be an animal, because inside him, he is not Catholic but already specified (differentiated) in his reign. Similarly, it is found neither in a plant or in a mineral. So you ask, not without reason, what is there yet? Sub Lune there is nothing apart from these three kingdoms. Answer: there is something outside of these three kingdoms, wherein the spiritus mundi is neither animal nor vegetable, nor mineral. It is not yet committed to anything in particular, but also completely pure, Catholic, and to finally achieve this, it's nothing but pure water in which this spirit is neither animal nor vegetable nor mineral, but pure and limpid, catholic and universal, since the earth is a Catholicon, and it is from her that come all things trium Regnorum.
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Also, the man himself, the image of God, is created of the earth which certainly is not a man. All animals and insects are the word of God, created from land which certainly is not animal. All trees, grass, plants come from the earth which certainly is not one of them. All metals and minerals, even all the gems come from the earth which certainly is nothing like it. So it is Catholic and has the true Catholic spirit and rejuvenating that generates (produces) all things. And so we find the true subjectum Catholicum Philosophic, this is precisely the foundation against which have run thousands of people, and it was necessary to precede this philosophical discourse to certify what is the true and universal subject of the Hermetic Art. But we still need to add the clause (condition): do not take the land directly from the surface because it is already mixed with so many plant roots and seeds and it is already a little and can not be specified in universal work, and that we should not take too deep mines, because this land is not merely universal, but already tinted mineral and impregnated with mineral seed powers. Therefore, you should take the right land, yet pure, and Catholic virginea earth, just below the plant roots; "Sid ad usque genua foderis foveam," as said Sendivogius because there is neither plant neither animal nor mineral, but a pure virgin land, remember well. And since now we have the real subjectum, follow the process without drift, the process of how it should be elaborated; must not drift or right or left.
The Preparation of the Salt of Nitre from Virgin Earth Obtain or make a few barrels such as those that are used to boil nitre, or saltpeter, with a pedestal of wood underneath and a made putting just a hand to clean straw on the pedestal for the strengthening well, fill the barrels with the pure land not stony, but fat of clay quarries and poured upon it cold water, but in the same way as they do those boil saltpetre. Let stand for 24 hours so that it attracts to itself the pure salt of the earth, after doing drain water gradually from the plug into a container placed underneath and made of a nice amount of the lye of land to the kettles as saltpeter. If you have enough amount of this solution, it condenses into a concoction by walled boiler so that there is only half the liquid, then you fill the boiler with fresh laundry, or 10 times in this way, by reversing of the fresh solution and in making it reduce until it is only a half of all the laundry boiler. Filter it into another boiler placed in cold fresh earth and let it sit a few days, it is important that it remains cold and motionless, and then begins to grow the Salt of the Earth (Sal Terrae) pure in the boiler as another nitre, now we must clarify and purify by dissolving (solvendo) and coagulating so that it becomes beautiful and crystalline. They call our salt nitre nitre nostri Salis that floats in the sea of the world, it does not wet the hands, without it nothing is generated in the world; and then we started the real Secretum Omnium Philosophorum, the source and the Arcanum of the Natura in which the Spiritus Universalis is often hidden, he pours the life and health, as we will show later, you can see clearly now, because philosophy called women's work his work, because we should handle laundry, washing, boiling, cleaning women are as equal, and those who practice it to boil nitre can flawlessly perform the work so far. But now back to the Laboratorium Chymicum. Although our Sal Terrae seems to be one thing, it carries 3 different salts and they are: 1. Our philosophical nitre which encloses the Spiritus M undi, in person volatile and proper solid, but rather of the nature of average. 2. Salt contains an Amonniac (sal ammoniac) or volatile. 3. Also contains an alkali salt or Fixed (Sal Fixum) and therefore is a trinity represented by fire and manifested as follows: 106
The Preparation of the Spirit and Sal Volatile from Nitro Nostro Take a pound of our Sal Terrae, grind it finely, mix it with 3 pounds of the same land from which the salt was extracted. This land should be well burnt in an oven for baking bricks or clay. Vide supra de Universali ex Sale Terrae, make into small round balls with a little distilled rainwater as like a ball with which children play, let them dry and distill them in an earthen retort per gradus in a collector which is 1 M aB (1 liter) of pure distilled water so that the spirit is better taken. Gives a high heat and volatile salt will collect partly in the collector and partly in the neck of the retort. Let it cool slowly, put the spirit and all the volatile salts into the collector. Now, take another pound of Salis nostri and 3 pounds of fine earth that has been calcined, proceed as before. Even for 3 or 4 times or as much as you want, collects and accurately without wasting any spirit that is separated and the volatile salt, at the same time, also collects all Capita mortua. For all work put the spirit and salt together in retorts volatile glass of suitable size, separated by phlegm in Balneo, put it in a sand hole and keeps it in a tightly closed jar and ample food it in a cold place. We must sublimate the volatile salt remaining at the bottom with high heat. It will raise up, and the sublimation is repeated several times until the volatile salt rises pure & beautiful, and no more feces remains at the bottom. Conserve it well in a warm place.
Annotation Before distilling the little balls with the philosophical nitre, they must be dried for four weeks by spreading over wooden planks in the attic where a gentle draft exists.
The Preparation of the Fixed Salt Take the caput mortuum of all the burning, calcining them again in an oven for brick & terra cotta baking, but do not vitrify it. Extract it into a fixed salt with pure distilled rain water. Clean it in the best way until it becomes beautiful, clear & transparent and that it deposits no more feces in solution. Conserve it well in a clean vessel.
The Conjunction of the Three Principles So far you have separated the body, soul and spirit of our blessed stone and purified each separately of small heterogeneities and encumbering maledictions on them, the highest degree you can achieve in this noble art. Now we want to reconstruct these pieces purified and bring together. So that's why put in an N.D. your volatile and solid at the same time, make a fine powder in a small glass bowl and put it in a retort high and full, pour in guttatim your spirit purified and Salem Nitri nostri of one after another, put it tightly closed in gentle digestion for a day or a little longer and the three principles will meet in a manner gentle and all three together will make a single water. In case it should deposit some feces or whitish earth, separate into these too, and rejoice in your heart day and night and thank God when you have thus traveled so far, because now you hold in your hand the real key of the philosophers with which you can open all the gates of all the minerals and metals. Since this water is the true Universal M enstruum, the water of life with which all metals come together willingly, especially in gold as it rejuvenates into an eagle, the water that enhances all metals that 107
are in some way failed and dead, which permeates and revives and is the true source where the king washes willingly. If it chokes, it springs back to life. It is the bath of rebirth, the raw material, it is the only mother who loves herself, which is and comes into the body of which we will return with joy, and be born to a better life. She is the sea salt more valuable than the world and the Aqua Pontica Sendivogii. For said in one word: it is the ‘universal’ of Basilius. It is because all is in it, everything comes from her, and she is the being of all things. It is our philosophical milk, and the metallic coagulatum.
Conclusion I said the king, or gold, unites readily with our water and it rejuvenates it like an eagle. Therefore take of pure gold, merged several times per antimony and then purified of antimony in the best possible way. Take one part to 50 parts of our blessed mercurial water, put it in a small retort for division and our water will dissolve the gold quickly and gently. Put it "per noctem" tightly closed in a moderate heat; separate the earth which is deposited. Put the rest in a flask large enough so that 2 parts of it are empty. Seal it well and put it in an athanor in a digestion oven and give it the first heat of vapor, and it will normally take between 50 and 60 days for the first stage of putrefaction. Afterwards put it in ashes with the fire a little stronger, more or less as the summer sun, and it will show a variety of colors during the next 50 days. Then put it in the sand, deep enough, and even after 50 days we will see the moonlight and the noble Diana argentea. Continue the fire per gradus and after 30 days, it will become yellow, then completely buried with a fire rather strong, it will turn red, this will happen after 40 days in its center there is a glowing ruby, a red phoenix and fire resistant becomes available as does a chickfrom its eggshell and it looks like a ruby red grain. Get it out and separate it from the other red powder with excrement, the very nature has been released and has precipitated its quintessence. Preserve well this pure grain, like a real treasure extremely precious, since it is the true quintessence purified and the Seed of Gold, it is a spark filled with strong love with which you can illumine an unspeakable wealth and eternal health and pure intellect in making it imbibe & coagulate as described by Sendivogius in detail. Regard the beginning of Tractatu Sendivogii. For, the fermentation, you find in the process aforementioned the ex Universale Sale Terrae. Although we have said earlier that you collect better the material in M ay which is the month where it is at the height of its forces, we add that in June and July also have these qualities. In August by contrary, the work would be in vain, if you wanted to collect the earth during this month. And it would be well to consider in M ay, June at the latest, the place where one intends to take the land. This is one of the greatest secrets, so you must love and thank God fervently. And if something in this process is unclear, it is only necessary to inform you in the previous chapter with respect to Sal Terrae and all will be resolved more easily.
The Operation of Rectification of the Vitriol by Rogerium Bacconem, and Alios First, we must conduct the rectification of vitriol because it is impossible to find a vitriol that is not mixed with something else. Its own vitriol is a pure sweetness, which is why it must be released from its pungent taste and its acidity of aluminum and of the salts mixed as you can realize by yourself in the common spirit and oil of vitriol that is only the spirits of salt mixed in other salts. In the whole substance of vitriol you do not feel a pungent taste and acid, but a very pleasant sweetness and fine odor, but a vitriol is 108
more or less pure compared to another, one has a lot of Salis Rochae, while the other nitre of copper or the sulfur (in our salt).
First Seperation T ake a good quantity of vitriol, about 10-20 pounds. Dissolve it in filtered water, put it on hot ashes of a
moderate heat, let it evaporate until it remains only the height of a hand, put it in a place for 2 or 3 days, and the vitriol will become white, and it will be much cleaner than before. Then put it in a small glass bowl in a warm dry place and it will decompose into a yellow-white powder. Grind it so that it becomes an even finer dust, dissolve it and let it stand for 1 day and 1 night on a gentle heat or a hot ash, and there will deposit a lot of feces. Separate them from the substance because it does not really serve a purpose. Do well pouring the green water through the filter and do the whitening again as described above. Repeat this work until no more feces does deposit and if at that moment, you sense the sweetness, you find the green vitriol in its pure heaven. Guard it well in a small glass bowl so that the color is not lost. The green or blue indicates a beautiful blood red Oleum vitrioli. This oil is thus prepared: put it in a vial sub Sigillo hermeticis, suspend the vial in the Athanor, rule well the fire from degree to degree from 50 to 10 days and it will transmute the vitriol into a beautiful yellow color approaching more and more red until the substance of vitriol will be transformed into a perfect deep ruby red. Guard it well. Put the red vitriol in a retort, add a Spiritum Vini well rectified by pouring it, let sit well closed for 4 or 5 days and then pour it carefully so that the scoriae does not pass, the rest pour of new Spiritum Vini and set it for 4 or 5 days in medium heat. Add the spirit to the other and do so until all the red tincture of vitriol has been completely extracted. What remains is the earth, throw the earth away, and pour all the extracts together in a retort, extract the Spirit of Wine by distillation in BM until the matter at the bottom of the retort is dry, then reverse the Spiritum Vini, extract it again as you did before and proceed until you see no more feces, and thus will it be completely clean. Then, extract it in spirit to half or until the substance is dry. Pour Aquam Fontanam Distillam on this vitriol, mix it, put it for about 4 or 5 days in a warm place so that it dissolves well, separate the feces and reverse it. Add of Aquam Fontanam Distillatam and proceed the same as with Spiritus Vini. When all the red is separated from the dross/feces, extract the water of the dry substance in the BM and that is the "separatio secunda". Put the red vitriol extracted in a retort well closed with a collector and a luting. First distill the water off at a gentle heat and finally strong and blessed the red oil will separate and the blood of the lion, red as a ruby, and shining at night as a star. This oil keep well.
Fixatio Olei Rubri Vitrioli Take the Caput M ortum remaining or Terram Albam Folliatam of which was extracted oil rubrum distilled which demonstrates snow white at the bottom crystalline, solid and resistant. Put it in a vial, add the oil red, make a lute cum Sigillo hermetice, put it in a athanor and eagerly welcome the soul of dead matter and the latter, vice versa, the soul. Let it sit for 40 days and nights in the heat of a stove, and this time go up and down the soul from the body and after several climbs over, it will take the force by increasing and lead with her body.
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And this is the Sublimatio Arima and Spiritus. Thus the body becomes spiritual. So when passes the 30 days and nights, the soul will settle with the body they unite to perfection so that in future no fire or Another elemental force one can divide one another and they stay together for eternity. After the completion of 34 or 40 days and nights, get out the vial, break the seal and collect the blessed red stone in a tidy vessel, you have the largest treasure in the world, therefore, love and thank God.
The Projection of our Medicine M aking the projection with M etals is not a very easy thing, as they cause considerable damage to the master when they are still crude and impure, because part of the dye remains in the form of scoriae as pure part of the metal expels because of these impurities the tincture can not work. Therefore, at this point, we recall that we must not render irreversible the tincture and waste and dispose of with the scoriae, but it is necessary to know they are so impure all the corpora imperfecta metallorum, some contain only the third part such as lead, others only half as Venus, others as the third part Silver and Saturn, all the rest is nothing else but dross and scoriae as the medicine expels of the metals and prevents access. Also, be aware that when the medicine affects a whole body (in whole), it breaks down completely and cracks, because the tincture penetrates all members and nothing stays whole (intact) and it is impossible that if they remain. We must melt the same land or calx together in a container to obtain a solid body and what is below the scoriae will be a pure and solid gold, elastic and resistant to all the hard work. If you want to put medicine on Venus, you must first purge the Venus. However, if you want to do the projection on Saturn, you must first do cementing 5 or 6 times and melt into a solid body. If at this point you should put the medicine on the Saturn, you would undergo a great loss, because the medicine would be overrun by the scoriae. This is better than Venus and M ars. But it's better on lead and further on mercury and finally on silver. The projection can not be overestimated, because if the material is purified with precision, the tincture will make a higher projection. However you have nothing lost if you put too much medicine. The metal becomes brittle. But if there is too little medicine, observe well (respect) the weight of it when you pour and to verify it. Then you will know how many parts colors your medicine. Even a Venus is often more pure than another, that is why the tincture has different results. Remember well however that the best of all, is whether you purify first the Venus and the other metals and subsequently you effect the projection. It is also important that the metal is in flux and liquid. As well the medicine falls more clean on the metal.
The True Oil of Vitriol Take of Vitriol nativum Hungaricum. Grind it finely, dry it so that it decomposes into white powder, divide it into two large retorts, pour in a strong Spiritum Vini so that it covers two fingers, put the retort in a moderate heat for purification and for the absorption and the Spiritus Vini will tinct and take color. Pour it in a proper vase and pour the Spiritus Vini on it and put the retort again in medium heat for extraction and this time also it will be colored and the spirit will become sweet. Pour this extract on the other before. Then pour fresh spirit for the third time and do this as many times until the Spiritus Vini is 110
tincted. Then, pour all spirits vini tincted together in a retort, put it in ashes, cover it and fix a collector with a solid lute.
Annotation You should know that the spiritus vini must be strong and pure as it extracts of the vitriol nothing but its own spiritual substance, it left behind the corrosive salt. Take care also that no Spiritus Salis Ammoniaci not fall into it, not even the slightest part of sal ammoniac, because despite the care taken during the distillation, the whole would jump in the air, then break out into thunder as 100 pounds of Auri Fulminantis put together, you could find death. When the lute is dry, start to separate the Spiritum Vini carefully until the solution appears to crystallize. Then take the retort and put it in a cool place and make crystallize, then pour the liquor of the crystals and leave them, put them tightly closed in a proper vase, away from the dust. Continue to distill the liquor pouring and do up to half of crystallize again, so you will get a celestial vitriol. This is the true vitriol philosophical and this is what Basilius has written on the vitriol; this vitriol is so potent as if it were prepared of pure gold or silver.
Annotation Someone took Acetum Vini distilled in place of Spiritus Vini to get more crystals for his work, but all his work was in vain. The true artist knows why. In developing this vitriol to to philosophical way, proceed as follows: for 10 pounds of vitriol from Hungary you will not will obtain much more than 1 pound and 1/2 of crystals which however will be of pure tincture. Dry them on medium heat, then put them in a retort well circled (sealed) place it in a coppella in the sand so that the whole is covered with sand and set up a collector with a lute. When everything is dry, make separate for 12 hours by degree your chaos, very, very slowly at first, and a snow white spirit will separate in the form of dense fog, and then give a higher heat, and a red oil separates. When everything is separated, the collector cooled and the spirit has been deposited, extract it and pour your chaos into a new glass retort, distil it in the BM or with the aid of another retort and you'll get the Spiritum M ercurius limpid as the tears when drops of red separate, put out your fire immediately. Disassemble the collector and guard it. After you put the retort in the sand, mount another collector and separate off by distillation also the oil. The oil flamboyant is to conserve alone. We have thus the Spiritum ed Oleum, or Animam and Sulphur of the masters sages. Now take the Caput Mortum of the retort, which is all soft as a mellow earth and will weigh around 4 lot. After having ground finely, put it in a vial, pour over 1 lot of oil or sulfur and 2 lot of spirit, after which seal it and let it go through all the colors until that it becomes a red stone or liquid salt. Put it on the fire as strong as possible so that the tincture can be purified and clarified, then put out the fire. If, however, it was in the middle of the tincture, a bit of dirt is expelled as an egg yolk, get it out along with all the scoriae and extract it all together with Spiritus Vini.
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Even the feces is a fabulous medicine to take in small drops. After extracting the dye, it pour well and with precision free of feces and distill slowly the Spiritum Vini in Balneo and tincture flows together in a salt red liquid. Take it and grind it finely and add 1 quintl gold leaves (plates) that was previously fused with antimony, put together in a vial with r.n. (sic!) and with the addition of 1 lot of spirit of mercury, leave it again to change color and raise the work with the rest of the mercury, so you will obtain the great tincture with 1 Quinti of which you able to change a whole lot of gold and cum hoc alla metalla. Deo ter Optimo M aximo sint Gratio infinito (and with this with other metals. The God very great Trinitary is of infinite gratitude).
The Inner Secret of Vitriol Take artificially manufactured vitriol, put it in a retort of earth and pour in pure rain water. Do it reboil so that the water rises to the equivalent of an inch, then put it in a place where there are drafts, but neither the sun nor rain can reach, and the vitriol starts to grow out of the water, fat as butter. Collect as much as you want, let it dry and put it in a flask that must be closed well and let it pass through all degrees , and it will fix the red (suo tempore). You have to grind the powder and gently pour a super Spiritum Vini rectified in the best way, let them sit together on a moderate heat and this will become a beautiful natural oil whose fragrance will be like the musk. Know it is a big difference with the oil of vitriol. The oil of vitriol made from vitriol generated and cleaned by itself (alone) is different from oil in common. If you want the real vitriol, take Hungarium vitriol, let it grow as mentioned above, break it down into white powder and extract it indistilled oil, you can do in 24 hours because he cannot concentrate in earth as the other vitriol. Extract any phlegm, extract it from the salt caput M ortum remains, pour oil and distill it after a good digestion, retort cohoba it a time and get the real ad Alchymiam Vitriol Oleum. That described before, however, is more noble because he dyed by soaking the moon Cornuam gold.
To Make the True Alkahest From Vitriol Take 10 pounds of powdered vitriol, and add to two large retorts, put them in an oven with a hard lute and a collector, when the lute is dry, distill over for two times in 24 hours, put out the fire when it cools, remove the Collector gently and quickly dismantle it, look for the chaos that separated put it in a new proper retort, put on a lid and set a collector, seal closed and distill all that is volatile by degrees in sand and thus it will separate a Spirit from the phlegm, as a spiritus vini. Rectify it "of its phlegm in BM up to the 7th thus make so any phlegm separates, keep well this spirit. Put the remaining Oleum Corrosivum in a retort, put it in a siccum bath and distill, rectifying it again two times, after adding the volatile spirit mentioned above and put everything in a retort and distill again together. Pour distilled rainwater on the remaining caput M ortum dissolving it, filter it and coagulat e it and do this until it appears like a diamond, then put it in a crucible in a convection oven, flux it. However, be careful not to let it fall into the coals. If it is still metal and it does not want to flux, you should dissolve and coagulate and grind/blend again. When, then, it begins to melt and become bluish, remove the crucible, grind the substance, put it in a good retort and pour it on your spiritus double, close the retort hermetically and put it in gentle digestion for 4 weeks After that, open it, put it in a coupelle/crucible in the sand and distill by degree whatever is possible to extract. It's even better if at the beginning, of pure BM Sicco.
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If, however, all the salt is not separate flux it again and repeat if necessary even a third time until it is completely separate. In this way, you 've got the real Alcahest. Use it as follows: Take your Caput Mortum washed, dry it well, grind it and mix it with 4 parts of purified ammonia salt. Put them together in a Sublimatorium and sublime and the sublimate does not stain especially in the beginning. Take it and mix it with what remained at the bottom, sublime yet a third time and the sublimate turns yellow as a yolk. Dissolve it in distilled rain water and make it precipitate with a little bit of vinegar it must be clarified thereafter, add more water and repeat until the water has no more taste of salt. Distill off the water, [ …] sal ammoniac. When it becomes dry, put the precipitate into a retort and pour in all your liquor from before. Close tightly the retort and let digest for 14 days and nights after which, it must be distilled in Bath Sicco after having closed it with a lute, then cohoba it until all the soul is separated and there is a few ounces of land unusable. Then take six batches of purified mercury and pour 18 strong batch of liquor in a retort with a well-closed lute and put into digestion for 6 days and nights. Then mount a collector and distill it all together. If things do not separate, repeat the cohobation so that nothing remains but earth. Then pour this liquor on 6 lots of fresh mercury, and proceed as we explained by repeating it seven times. You will get the alkahest the noblest of the kingdom minerals. Even if it very complicated to make this Alcahest, it is also most important of all. Pour into a retort 1 lot of alkahest, and 8 lots of lime gold prepared and let them digest for 4 weeks. After separate by distillation the liquor from the earth, put it in a flask, seal it carefully and let it color and then coagulate into a fiery red glowing stone. With the double Alcahest, we can increase the work ad infinitum.
How to Make the Universal Liquor (the Fetcherbad of Basilius) From Vitriol Take vitriol and nitre in equal quantities, and distill in a large collector already filled with highly rectified Spiritus Vini. The quantity of spiritus depends on the way in which is distilled the aqua fortis to be mixed with water. M ount the collector so that the spirits of nitre and vitriol fall immediately in the Spiritus Vini.
Annotation Distill a Spiritum Salis Ammonia apart. Pour the guttatim (drip) in the spirit of vitriol and nitre and vini before. Then again distill with great care the Fechterbad of Basilius Valentinus, also called the Liqueur Universal, which is ready. With this we can grow all metals and make them last. The same can be dissolved in gold putting the solution in the retort and separating the spirit and cohoba until gold begins to drop like a diamond and sublime. It is true that in this way it has become a powerful poison, but make it to become solid or make a M ercurium Currentem which is transformed into all water and water alone turns into a powder and tincture. The same is done with the moon.
Aqua Fortis Mixed With the Spirit of Wine of Trithemius Take five pounds equally of vitriol and nitre, distill the Aquam Fortem in 3 pounds of Spiritus Vini, digest for 8 days and then distill again.
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Take two pounds of vitriol and 5 pounds of pure nitre, distill the Aquam Fortem in Essentiam sen Spiritum Vini ardentem et philosophicum (a part from which you distilled the strong water into an essence, or ardent philosophical spiritus vini).
ANOTHER OPERATION WITH HUNGARIAN VITRIOL BY AN ADEPT Take 10 lots of good Hungarian vitriol or water of copper (which is blue vitriol) put it in a flask/pan and add filtered rainwater, put it in the warm heat, and mix it regularly with a wooden spoon so that everything becomes liquid like water. Let it sit for one day and one night and at the bottom will lay a dense yellow substance, and if any impurities exist it is useless. Pour water through a filter and put it on the fire. Evaporate it to half, and smoke emerges. After removing from the heat and put the flask/pan in cellar, and the vitriol attaches, reverse the rain, put it back into place hot to make it become like water, let it sit there for one day and night and yellow impurities will settle. Pour more vitriol, filter and make evaporate and do this for 3 or 4 times and you have purified the vitriol and removed all the bad part of it. So take the pure crystalline vitriol make it a little dry on the stove, put it in the summer sun, and it will become a white powder. If at that time, it is become a 5 white, crushing it on an abrasive stone so that it becomes a powder like flour. After put it into an unglazed bowl and put on a charcoal fire, take 4 or 5 tablespoons, throw it in the bowl and blend well with a wooden spatula so that the vitriol does not clump together in lumps. M ix until no more acid smoke evaporates. The liquid remaining disappears completely from the bottom and becomes a gray powder and so it is really well purified. Take one pound and pour it in a vessel that usually you are using for sugar or vinegar, pour in 4 or 5 quarts of rain water, close well the vessel with of the bladder and put it in a warm place and leave it there until it forms a scum on the water and until the water has an acid taste. That is the vinegar right. So take the other vitriol that you have converted into gray powder, put in 8 tablespoons of abrasive stone, let soak in vinegar acid and grinds together to make it soft and dense and finally into a powder then moisten all your vitriol remaining gray, pour it again into the bowl unglazed, put it on a low fire of charcoal and blend until it becomes a gray powder. Pour new vinegar on the powder and do as before, pour it into the bowl, put it on the coal fire and mix always until it is gray powder. Take this powder, pour over the vinegar and do as before, that is to say, pour it into the bowl and hold it on the charcoal fire until it begins to turn red. This is thus the Adrop Philosphique or M inium. Pour into a vessel this vitriol red, close well to keep out air and put it in a warm place. Now take the remaining vinegar, if you have too little you have to add some rainwater and let stand until it became beautiful and acid. Then pour the vinegar carefully in a retort and distil with a collector in the sand when you can. However be careful that nothing of black separates, allow to cool, open and reverse what has separated on what remained in the retort, and distil again. Repeat 5 or 6 times and the vinegar will become acid as a strong wine vinegar. This is the true philosphique vinegar. Pour out all in the vessel where there is the vitriol which surpasses a few fingers, mixing every 2 hours with a spatula wooden or iron. However, close well the vase after each time you've opened, that nothing can evaporate. Let it sit for two days in a room, then put it in hot water, rather hot, that is to say Balneum but also in the sand so that the vase is very hot but that one can however hold in your hand. Let it stand until the vinegar is colored red or green, after which pour out the vinegar red or green in a vase and keep it well. Reverse of the vinegar fresh on the vitriol and leave it on until it not becomes colored more. As the vinegar is made of vitriol it does not attract anything but the quintessence. 114
Pour to that moment the vinegar red or green in another retort. Put it in a copper boiler filled with water, cover it, mount a collector and distill until something starts to separate and it will remain a dense red oil in the bottom. Therefore make everything to cool, disassemble the collector, throw water that tastes sour because it is no longer used for the work, rinse well the receiver and dry; put back the retort in the sand. Let them sit and cool down all. Once this is completed, you have found the greatest treasure which nothing on earth can be compared. Therefore take this oil, put it in a vial or vase, close it with a glass stopper or oak wood, seal it well with sealing wax and let it introduced into the hot sand until that the oil has become powder and like a stone. Then reopen the vessel and pour-in a little on a incandescent iron or of iron white that and smoking again grind everything to make it become powder and give it the fire until it has become solid and resistant and until there is no more smoke. Then take 20 lot of silver or even only 10, flux it in a crucible on the coal fire. When fused take ½ lot of your powder for 20 lot of silver, envelope the powder in the wax and put it in the crucible where there is silver fused and leave to melt for 1 hour over the fire, then pour it and get good sun, more beautiful than when it comes from the earth. However, if you want to make gold from saturn, take three ducats made by the goldsmith cleaned before using antimony as they usually do, then hammering the gold a bit to make it thinner , put it in a crucible on the fire, flux it and adds 1 lot of your powder wrapped in wax, leave it on the fire for 3 hours and the powder will transform your pure gold powder or cinnabar. So take a ½ pound of Saturn, flux it on fire, when fused,throw in 4 lots of sal ammoniac pulverized and all impurities from the lead floats to the surface like foam. Remove the scum with a ladle of iron so that the Saturn in the crucible will be very pure. After that, throw in ½ batch of powder that you have previously wrapped in wax, your lead will become an excellent gold, remarkably finer and more beautiful than that of the earth.
Further Clarification on the Work Concerning Philosophical Vitriol by the Adept Fabrii The cause by which the work chemical is so difficult in working with vitriol common is its raw state and vulgar, but also cold as it should improve with a natural heat and force balsamic of the spirit vini rectified. We must also bring post combinationem to putrefaction in warm heat. In this way, we will extract the correct M ercury and Sulphur metal which, being distilled and purified, will be the real key to of our solution. With its help, we can unlock the intimate secret of the corpora metallorum so that it will shows its hidden nature and that it conceals the evident. We need to make this nature stable metal post proviam et purgationem solo Coctione. As it is also true vinegar philosophical by means of which we can learn the secrets of metals mercury and sulfur. Having been separated and recombined after their purification, they hone our Elixir per Solam Coctionem. So if you are able to make it compatible the vinegar of vitriol and its salt with the Spiritus vini rectified and made subtle and bring them all to rot, after having solved this problem, you'll get the real spiritum of M ercurii and sulfur the true philosophical vinegar with which you can study and understand the innermost nature of metals. See Isaacum Hollandum "opus mineral" p. 3; "Theatri Chymici" p. 460 - There you find the preparation of this great treasure for surely it is possible to extract from all metals a vitriol pure salt that is really the philosopher's stone. Only in it we find the or sun and moon and mercury united with each other. In his book "Hydrographo" I.P. Faber has discovered the secret under the name of water prepared with Spiritus salt that is to say water of copper. Since all the salt and animalium and vegetabilium and mineralium "is a spirit congealed of the fire or solidified in a body, such a congelation occurs with the help of burning sulfur called calidum Nativum. This spirit is of such a force and effectively natural that it attracts to him a body 115
by means of his innate warmth and from this same body later we will extract per artem the same spirit, we will make subtle or we will put a great body more subtle and with this we will also render subtle the corpora metallica very perfect and we can also transform into a spiritual nature that we may be the masters of their great strength in all the splendor incomparable. If we can extract this spirit aureo of the salt green or blue metal and make it subtle means of sublimation or elevation and placing it on the more subtle body of O, we have obtained the spiritual flower of all nature with which we will find the flower aurea, a unique treasure in human life. Hucusque Fabri.
OPUS UNIVERSALISSIMUM ARCANUM SINGULAR Saturnus, that is to say, the spirit of Saturn of the nature of the universe or the unspecified Spiritus Universal. Take this universal spirit and virgin land with rain water prepared by the ordinary way, mix it with our M arcasite rubea (Stone of Fire). Basilius in speaking. It is a stone that is cheap. Grind it into fine powder, add as much of the universal spirit so it takes to cover in excess of two fingers. Put the two together in a flask not plugged in anywhere, because it is indifferent to hot or cold, wet or dry, and above all that Archeus found on the outside can be the right thing. By doing this with patience, M arcasite means: it all ends without the putting of the hand (i.e. without intervention) as it is sufficient to prepare the philosopher's stone that will coagulate after a year and one day by itself in the middle of the vessel every year and time. So we have this M ercury with the sulfur from the sun and all we need nothing more than the spirit universal or menstruum, operate in the glass and dry as we reverse of the new and that thou exceeded of a finger. The multiplication happens with the said M enstrum on the stone. It is also the degree of our M arcasite. Take of the Golden Gur, a Gur of the gold mines. You do not need the separation of the principles, depuration, sublimation, all that it is the nature which does. The menstruum Spiritus Universalis with the sulfur mentioned above. Therein lies the golden grain that philosophers worked much in secret. Virgilius wrote on this in the book Aeneidos. That is to say that the eagle flying and crawling toad are united with chains, in their combination consists of the hermetic seal and not in the closure of the glass until you see it with gold animated or with the moon. This is not really revealed in this work that the teacher meant by "M arcasite rubra ", but it is possible to hear the last words that it allows also to burn a gur of gold, the material for this work is not common stone fire but like a red stone that encloses within it a fixed gold, as are the red metal gold, sulfur gold, garnet, perhaps also cinnabar, mountain flint, red sun, etc ... However, one can equally understand antimony of Hungary or even his minerals or Regulus. We must try with experimenting. This Arcanum refers to the fourth after the first part.
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As to all the experts in the art, it is known, there are four stones of the philosophy which the philosophers have written very obscure and the way they have and the art kept secret for several reasons, they are like each other in work and effect. That, notwithstanding many faithful workers failed to use them due to lack of understanding. They seem to accomplish a work of value as they are divinely enlightened and well educated and bringing light. They ensure the preparation of these stones against the darkness, to bring in the right way during those operating well so that they reach the holy land and blessed coming out of this dark solitude. That is why I dare explain to those who know my modesty long been in supporting the occupation with this work, being infused with the grace of God which is the only door into Him these things in a miraculous way and anyone else. Hear now the words of Aristotle who said: "Then take the stone animal, vegetable and mineral. "There were many who believed that these words showed three stones or three different things. I, however, I say that there is a only thing that is mineral, vegetable and animal, and I say more, this stone is almost like things mineral, is repeated at any time and from any origin, it is convertible into any color and in it contains all the elements and told all the world minor and includes all the virtues active and passive that rests on all mineral stones from the mountains. But this one thing they all have the very best and useful art from those found in the stones of sulfur, salt color, aluminum, borax and lime. Therefore nothing is more excellent and even more advantageous to this truth. Here you see before your eyes every day the mountains where you will find the philosopher's stone. And I am very pleased to reveal the whereabouts of the collecting. Know then that the first philosopher's stone is located on the the top of two mountains on which there are these verses:“It grows in two mountains, not overseas. Collect the one falling that is fresh of blood. The second is collected under the mount of the seas.” The verses are the following: -
"It is littered on the streets, after seeing it is denied.”
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“The third stone is in the trees whose leaves are the hair; one who knows the stone, know that she grows in the tree. “
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“The fourth stone is born in the occult: There is hope as long as it is injured, there is joy until it is removed. To some it wrong, weakens, it unites with other and linked together. The names I find them here: Scorpio, Diabeste and Rebis.”
Know that art is not in the multitude of things therefore repeat the stone with the names, several vases and subjects do not serve you. The philosopher said: "Only a single vessel, a labor only one firing. Because you consume so much time with your experiments, if it is written: This art is an expensive art, light and short and also rare. The inexpert do not acquire if they do not have the grace of God."
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Now I speak to you the humble: why are you looking in human’s hair, in the feces, and blood etc ... If the philosopher says: "Our stone is not the hair or feces or urine or bile and semen." I say he says quite the truth. But I tell you more in terms of our problem in a subtle way (and I do not say the proud): I heard that a hungry wanted to die because neither wheat bread or winter wheat were sweet. I saw later that he was an expert in the art plant that is to say wheat he showed the secret and why he resisted hunger. Subsequently, the philosopher says: "Why do you transform metallic bodies if there is written: the masters of Alchymia must know that the true species of things can not be transformed to the first matter." But I tell you more about our problem: the art is not by itself, but through nature. So, leaving behind all this. I suggest to you that would keep its place and value, a simpler and more great things that come from 2 of 4 things, that is to say, four elements, not with four things in our understanding, two visible and two invisible. Thunder, wind, hail and rain created since the terrible invisible to appear like this: you who do not know what property you are looking for in desire, you know all the Alchymia when you know this thing. And there are strict person who knows the business with its own science and knowledge until he has used the right action without damage to the body, head and the eyes, avoid damage to others through the doctrine of philosophers and learned/experts. You will not accomplish anything without the written documents of the learned, because you will not be protected, but you will die in despairing. Therefore dear children, I can help you with this letter so that you will not impair your well-being, if you want to handle this thing. I have openly revealed the place where you can collect the stone. Come on! In secret and with vigilance and great silence and take care of the most humble in the world and hear the sound of thunder and the wind and see fall down the hail and rain. And this is the thing you want, the purpose is the culture and the fertility of the soil in which our growth is to collect benefit of nature and all returns flowing in from our nutrient and nutrients in the growth of our body. How wonderful and healthy is the knowledge of this to the man! This is the thing that makes available to Alchemy all the stones of the mountains through the mineral value. Take it whenever you want, especially in spring, that is to say, when philosophers active and passive virtues are united and mixed through the union of human nature with the elements and tempered so they are stronger and effective. Its separation or rectification - when it is obtained - the land of the air after the separation is of fire the water, the fire of the water, the air of the water, the water of the air, and the earth of the fire and there will be something from the matter. Perfection is brewing after the composition so that the air is in water, in the air the fire, in the fire the earth, and you have the thing from the matter.
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After that, this thing acts through the matter of the divine perfection, it brings out these things after putting in the center and you will see the birth of the ray of sun in form of a teardrop, red and shining with the brightness of true light. In conclusion, I tell you singing with joy how to get this thing, it is generated without price, you do not find it in pharmacies. That we keep his purse closed and that one stops to ask the price when all things come from the pharmacy, if you buy for a high price or low, for this art will be useless and false. Since this way the daisies in the side streets are found, collected and trampled, proceed with them as we have said about the separation, rectification and composition. But for my own satisfaction, take the stone taken at any location, which is called Rebis born in two mountains with flying to get help and do not take it if it is not strong, that is to say two things and it is really the philosopher's stone, after it was separated from faeces, as you heard. It is also the sulfur and mercury philosophical and is worked in two types, wet and dry, and do not take it if it is not strong, that is to say that we should not use it unless it is fresh and raw. Distill therefore the water pale, after increase the fire and feces emerge, very malodorous. Avoid the bad smell. Then increase the heat and oil will come out very red indeed observed the degree of heat until all the oil is distilled. After which it will smoke that oil will condense in the form of a dry stone. If you do not take good care of the fire, the work will be damaged. For this reason, we must raise the heat to which it properly out of the smoke. After that, allow to cool and the bottom of the vase, there will be black, porous earth. And now you've split the matter in the parties from whom there lies nothing but the strength of stone, except in the heat where it is only since the condensed oil smoke in the shape of a stone dry close to Hermes. From the fire, prepare the earth, separate with care clear of trouble, the subtle from the gross. Do this with wisdom, skill and discretion. The land rises in the filter, that is to say, in the alembic and the earth is the mother and nurse of the elements. Take therefore earth, neither the first nor the second water which, after stinking feces, first out of the oil or fire and take only the fire. Then put the stone in the fertilizer in a closed vessel for 7 days. After that, distill water in a low heat rather clear from the ashes and distil until all moisture is depleted. Again, as before distilled the water not wet, and distilled seven times and keeps feces remaining in the distillation. And the feces, they are the fire and sulfur of the philosophers. And so, you have four elements, two visible and two hidden. Take each of the aqueous parts, unite them in a coated glass (luted) to the neck that you put into the still closed with a good coating and place it in the ashes then place through a suitable oven, watching the fire and you will see the water rise and fall. When the steam has stopped, you will know that medicine is frozen (hardened). Breaks the glass and snatches away what is in the middle of the water and unite the whole in another closed vessel as before. And that is the work completed to white in 3 ways. The first way, it tincts M ercury, the second doubles, the third triple. Operates according to the intelligence later and you can have what you want. According to the writings of the ancient sage Haimon, we see where he sought Philosopher's Stone and how he taught to make it. Suffice it to say that this letter renders the second operation of the first part and that we not only can perform and fulfill all the great work with the help of a single sister but also with the help of the only brother.
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Take of Hungarian Antimony, and 1 part iron of equal weight, and as much nitre as necessary. When your antimony is in flux, put in the iron, make them melt well and pour into a crucible, and will remain burning in the crucible an unpleasant matter that is currently still nothing. Take you matter in the same crucible, add 1 part of antimony and pour it in a hot crucible for the second time. After fusing two times, fuse a third time and proceeds as the first and the second times. Adds another antimony and you will find a darkness as black on the regulus which had been the whole. Extract it with the salt philosophorum alone, take it, sublimate it and then close the vessel with a sponge, new and clean, soaked in oil, and well drained. This way you will have a beautiful spirit of salt, below, it will remain the earth, and in this spirit, philosophers give several names. Take the gold, let it melt and put in a portion of the salt. We also call on the philosophical Saltpeter. After it has been well fused pour it into another crucible to purge. "Hoc ter répète, ut supra scriptum es" and will disappear all the impurities of the gold, and it will be beautiful transparent red like a ruby that will sparkle your eyes. Third work: take the Salt Philosophorum sublimate, put it in a vessel with a part of fine M oon calx, close-firm and well distill. So you have also purified the Corpus which split as an Oleum and in the bottom will remain impurities. Proceed this way only once. Take the moon hoc Mercuri Philosophica Philosophica sublimated salt, 1 part gold ruby color, put it together in a closed vessel with a lute, put it on a warm heat in the oven, and all it will go through the colors one after the other. White or red dye that is put on a part equal to itself, while her complexion is like a dye itself. What we have told here about salt philosophorum cannot be other than the flora or flowers or mercury sublimatus by the Regulus. For the extraction itself the salt philosophorum is not possible by any other means than by through sublimation. These flowers are also called Columbae Dianae. Now follows the fourth part of Testament of the Brotherhood of the Aurea Rosa Crucis, containing all the great work in full of antimony which has been described and bequeathed by our colleague Northon, our brother, a fellow Englishman. However, this individual had a certain name of Vanderbeeg, a chymicus and not an adeptus stole this manuscript, or it came into his possession from another way, and since he has given it for printing together with other chemical recipes collected here and there having omitted the earlier part and a number of chapters or perhaps he was not even in possession of the entire manuscript with the correct, true, and proper parts, it was our desire to annotate and copy the title in this book with missing chapters that Vanderbeeg failed to print in his printed book, so that we know where this book of the wisdom originated and that it came from our colleague the author Northon and not Vanderbeeg. Vanderbeeg stayed for a short period in Angsburg where he worked on the Oleo M artis and where he burned heaps of wood to make this oil. He moved to Salisbourg. How long he stayed, no one knows. People thought he was in possession of a veritable arcanum of alchemy. This view was confirmed since the end of his life. After he had settled in Russia, St Petersburg, he might have been too friendly with one of the great, or he was too open regarding his completion of the Arcane. The Russians wanted to imprison in order to force him to reveal his Arcanum, but in the end he was beaten to death with a dog-whip. Since then found the whole process of the book of wisdom in the book called I.C. of Vanderbeeg that was printed in court, we have included only the missing part of the original manuscript to save you the length. Otherwise, you can find it and read it in the book mentioned above of Vanderbeeg.
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Fourth Part Of the Testament of the Brotherhood of the Rosy and Golden Cross Inside there are also other teachings of the Arcane, to be clarified for the practical work & universal, particularly in the chemistry of the Adepts.
The Book of Wisdom That is to say, "The great secret miracle, the philosopher's stone or universal tincture of health and wealth, through the dry, for the work of the art of old, sent to me by the very enlightened ancestors who are the real owners of this divine secret, I am fully aware and able to make the priceless treasure with the grace of God." - Year 1731.
"In tribus est ille, quem quaerunt millia mille." In three is what they seek in multitudes of multitudes. Our work consists of three that are Aurum (Sol), Luna and M ercury. By Aurum we mean pure gold. For Regulum Antimony M artialem Lunam, amalgamated with M ercury or animated: “Adventantè Dea procul hic procul este Profani.” st nd rd th th The 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , and 5 chapters contain Canones Northoniens, our brother that rests in God with the drawings that we skip here because they do not serve the principal thing. So we continue with the fifth chapter of the book Vanderbeeg does not contain because Vanderbeeg begins his first chapter with that manuscripts of Northon described in the next chapter, which is why we here only what Vanderbeeg failed so unfaithful where he stole the spotlight at Northon and he pretends to be the thing to him all that is came out or of his brain or his art, but art of Northon.
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comes from him. However, it should turn into the clear water because water alone has the philosopher's treasure and through it, it becomes solid. For this reason, everything has a love and desire to those things that are most related. This thing, however, not to dwell too much, is nothing other than mercury, but not the common, rather embryonic that is to say, a M ercury whose nature began its first function: they call it the Water Vive of the Philosophers. Its vapor essential consists of that of mercury vive prepared and pure sulfur, placed together by nature without which the water can not bear his name of metal. While the common mercury, a dead body, has no spirit, however, a sulfur earthly and gross, although it can be sharpened (emaciated) by means of natural salt and pure sulfur. The subject of this embryonic mercury is a metallic substance of parenthood of mercury created in the veins metal via a sulfur combustible essential is needed primarily for the creation of a metal, but by dictum combustible sulfur prevented (sic) of it comes from the tree compared (similar) from its root up to the summit alone and only by mercury, the origin of all metals. This mercury is extracted with water and with it we complete the work of any subtlety (control). With regard to all her friends, she is the only all metal material, which is why mercury is a seed born of the sun and moon linked with a solar sulfur so that it can no longer be separated even by Art. For this reason, his father is the sun, his mother, the moon. And as the Spirit M ars has hidden a great power, it is linked with our substance through innate love so that their spirits are united, and since these two can be obtained an extremely resplendent water in which the sun and moon deposit and lose their light; Venus, married with M ars, a material emanates from our gold and the true philosophical mercury for a co-continuous and inseparable union, which is why M ars is given a name brother, Venus against sister, like man and wife, but of the same nature and kind. From this M ars semi liquid and-resistant, the old ones have left us many reasons and of these miraculous and many metaphors they drew hieroglyphic figures and created a lot of secrets by Aequivoca and thus we concluded: "He who does not know M ars does not know by art. "This means that in the chemical, M ars is playing tricks on him who does not study thoroughly its power and its qualities in chemical science. The ancient sages of the world have left us a lot of poetry written which is hidden in the great universal work such fables and stories of M ars and Venus, in Aries and Taurus, the creation of the people of Kling, the fiery dragon, the lions, of Jason and M edea and prepared his feet, and countless other stories. The Salt M artis renders solid and resistant the mercury with the with the help of old Saturn, because it is a science easy and very secret unite intimately radically iron and lead and few of the adepts in recount something and it was not even allowed to do so. This union occurs Reguli M artialis containing sulfur of antimony superfluous and our science takes possession. This sulfur absorbs the body M ars with vehemence because it lacks the metallic salt and the salt of M ars of sulfur and mercury. Because this salt is arranged such to attract all the sulfur as a magnet attracts iron. This is why iron is often referred to as magnet iron and sulfur. But we can not draw any universal work, even if it is poor in particular, without the addition of martial substance and quality of M ars makes resistant the sulfur and to coagulate with the salt of M ars, wear the maturation constant mass equal or Regulus M artialis. Given that Basilius Valentinus wants to talk, now he says he must write his Proportium but not of mercury and antimony. While this does not happen without reason, for antimony had its origin in the mercury. Remember though that fact and think about it seriously. This mercury is a mist or vapor which, in the earth, dissolves into a mineral water which comes from all metals. In addition, he continues: vulgar mercury is liquid because it contains little salt, but a fiery burning spirit, which is why we can not coagulate 124
other than by the addition of other metallic spirits are stronger and powerful in the mother of Saturn. Here you see the Salt M artis built to replace the missing (that is to say the mercury antimony Regulus M artiali). That's the thing that scholars have sought and eventually found in the belly of Aries which the Dome Antimony. This is the fiery dragon who carries the Chalybem (steel) occult must rotate with the magnet (antimony) often until it reaches the faeces of black Saturn after being kidnapped and made clean with the mirror of Jupiter (Jovis speculum) etc. In referring to our work mixed and complete, the philosophers say these wise words: "We deal purely, after preparing the Sun and the M oon according to the rite, to perform the entire work. In the composition of our Sun and M oon are in the virtue and power, and mercury in nature, Geber. The conjunction of the Sun and the M oon in this art is necessary for the elixir white and red, because you have to mix it with mercury and fix it with great skill. The sun is masculine, because it follows the active seed, the moon is feminine in nature and matrix and vessel the nature and collects in the belly of the male seed and guard. However, it lacks the active power not because it was she who first falls to the male until he extorts the fertile seed. " By the name M oon, we do not intend the vulgar moon which makes even the masculine forces active in the work, but although no one assumes that one can attempt the union of two males against nature: but it bequeath Gabricius with Baya, that is to say, the brother's sister in stable marriage, he will call his own until it receives and the generous son of the sun. Amor does not allow a third, but the marriage is determined by two ours. However, spiritual love does not stain the virgin: Baya has met with spiritual love before pledging loyalty to Gabricius and without sin, so that it is made more ardent, more pure and suitable for the combination. M ercury is one of imperfect metals suitable for the dyeing of the Sun and M oon which must be attached so that the the tincture stains soaking it in full. It must first be impregnated with sulfur invisible s o that it better accommodates, dyeing visible imperfect bodies, this will be shared (exchanged) with great profit. The manuscripts of Geber teach us that the M ercury of the philosophers is the living moon, however, not common but extracted from it with great ingenuity. The quicksilver is polluted by original sin, doubly full of the filth of the unclean land and water subcutanea (intercutanea). It is understood. This dirt is however accidental and therefore separable. The sublimation of mercury is achieved of two ways: the superfluous and stirring by introducing what is missing. The superfluous exterior darkens into a dark sphere of Saturn, before the Jupiter golden red. It is necessary for the M ercury and Sulphur are removed by burning sulfur and decomposing, it remains white, bright white silver with the variation of its first colors. If it were not so, the work would not succeed. The M ercury of our subject's mother is almost the same gold. If, however, it should be in unsatisfactory condition, raw and cold, you can help with the sulfur which it lacks to bring the necessary maturation. We have several things on the conflict of the eagle and the lion, because the lion is the strongest animal, it is necessary that collects more eagles (from 7 to 10) for the fight, less they are, the more they struggle and later they will win, but there are many, they are faster in the ransacking of the lion. One that determines the sulfur and mercury as a material for the stone, he will hear the name of sulfur the Sun or M oon common and mercury vive as the M oon of the philosophers as well it determines Lully leaving red fuco (purple of fucus). And anyone who wants to obtain the tincture physical will work in vain. 125
In the depth of mercury, sulfur is found, because it overcomes the coldness and moisture of the M ercury. This is nothing but pure fire occult, fueled for our services (needs) and for a long time it digests the coldness and moisture in the mercury. Our quicksilver, it's very clear water, that is to say, prepared using seven or nine eagles. Arsenic is our M oon or pure silver, that is to say, Regulus of our Antimonii M artialis and sulfur, it is pure gold. In these three there is perfection. Arnold Villanova. The work of Hercules relies on sublimation physics. Only signs of Diana and Venus Dove tranquilifies the ferocity of beasts. Above all, we must seek to link the mercury of antimony. This is the date that begins the first chapter of the book printed from Vanderbeeg, is already the sixth chapter of the manuscript of Norton, and it begins with these words: "The bound M ercury is the greatest secret." It's easy to see the error of putting Vanderbeeg the 24th chapter after the 18th, for reasons we just explained, because he omitted the first 5 of the manuscript Northon. Since the printed book of Vanderbeeg, it comes down verbatim from the work ex antimoni and nothing is omitted which is in the manuscript of our deceased colleague regarding this thing, except the recapitulation any work that much Vanderbeeg failed for the simple reason that otherwise it would have betrayed her plagiarism harmful to Northon; anyone planning to carry out the great work ex antimony can educate themselves completely in the printed book of Vanderbeeg which, as we have already said, was printed in Quarto Hof and was edited by Gotthard Joham Püttner no indication of the year and that everyone can easily obtain and keep. Basically, it was omitted in our manuscript present where, basically, it should be because this manuscript would become too large and we should omit the following wonderful Arcana of our colleagues who are highly necessary for the explanation and confirm any what we have already said, but are also highly useful and essential. Finally, we report here the summary of all the work that has been exposed as Northon third part of his manuscript and Vanderbeeg failed, including the figure with which he illuminates this arcanum ex Antimoni. He added other illustrations, which consist of symbolic images to embellish rather than to clarify the manuscript. Here follows the main illustration of the book of wisdom:[symbol for antimony].
The Book of Wisdom In that and revealed the Universal ex Antimoni in summary. Explanations of the first part of the book of wisdom, of 12 canons and illustrations added. In the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th canons is described and represented the matter of our work, that is to say the gold and antimony are man and woman. We briefly annotated the complete process in the first illustration. The crown of the sun above the door sign. If we link these two natures gold with mercury and antimony prepared by us, this process will be completed so happy and full of sun and son will be born. The fourth and fifth canon illustration teach us that our antimony must be destroyed and go to purification, it must do so in our mineral water prepared. Included in this putrefaction is beginning to our sun and moon with mercury and salt, sulfur and mercury. The fifth and sixth canon illustration shows how we must prepare our dry water, that is to say that our Regulus ex Antimonio to be purified seven times, represented by seven stars. 126
The sixth and seventh canon illustration signify the marriage of sol and luna and how to get an elixir prepared by mercury. The seventh canon with the illustration show us the full combination of salt, sulfur and mercury, that is to say, the Sun, M oon and M ercury. Their union increases the strength. The 8th canon with illustrations shows that we must bring to putrefaction and new generation our M oon and Sun through our M ercury, like our eagle or our secret fire, so we need only our wet fire, that is to say our prepared M ercury and common M ercury which need to be enlivened by our animated regulus (Regulum Animatum Nostrum). The 9th and 10th canon illustration shows the composition of the other works in second putrefaction. The 10th canon illustration teaches you the bleaching of the other work, including fermentation. The 11th and 12th canon illustration teachesyou the roaring and fulfillment of the second work from the Elixir Rubrum. Through the Pelican is understood the augmentation/increase. The 12th and 13th canon illustration is a repetition of all the work and interpretation we have just described is communicated to you in the first part, enough and without reservation. I created a work that neither the wrath of Jupiter, nor fire, neither iron nor age can destroy.
The Arcanum of the Microcosm The First via Blood As in the first part of the book we have described the principal works and universal of the 3 kingdoms, that the animal, vegetable and mineral, with all the works well explained in all truth, we wish to inform you of only one and of other works (sic) that our brothers have left us, they not only confirm the work described above, but explain them better and their manipulation becomes even more safe, they reveal to our brother for his vision and his reasoning. So let's start with the animal kingdom which will follow the vegetable and mineral for the complete perfection of this book. You must know that you carry the Philosopher's Stone within yourself, especially in the blood, just as urine, in the third tears and sweat, fourth in the saliva. So we begin with the first stone from the blood, of your blood or that of another healthy person. M ake it to stand so that it divides into 2 parts, this is done drip soon the water into a second flask and put a cape, the other side also store well and put it on the oven to putrefy. Put the first flask in BM and distill with medium heat the vital spirit and store it well in a small pot, what remains add to that and the other flask for decomposition. After distilling in BM and cause them to separate all the phlegm up to a thick jelly, put it in a retort, fix well a collector with a lotum and continue to distill for gradue, and will separate first a little vinegar and oil and much volatile salt. It will remain behind in the black earth, which must reverb well in a crucible. Get the rest of the chaos that will separate, separate and oil that will not be very communque and that serves no purpose. Put the vinegar in a flask, put it in the BM and distill with the fire very moderate and it will separate a little of the spirit and it 127
will sublimate much salt. Place this salt in the spirit separated with, mix them and distill one more flying. Add back the salt, which it and sublimate during this distillation the spirit. Prepare fixed salt from the ashes. Purify the salt with its phlegm until it becomes diaphaneous. When it weighs 2 quintl add 1 quintl of vinegar in a small flask, and put it in BM and separate the phlegm, add more 1 quintl and do so until it is between something of sour and now proceed with the spirit as you did with the vinegar; but do not take no other vinegar and than his own spirit, and it will remain a liquor dense. Pour into a small vial, seal it and put it in June so that they lose the colors. At this point you will see if your soul spiritual is in God's Otherwise you will see terrible things. After 4 months you will find a solid red liquor, pour its a lime fine of gold and it will dissolve, a little of earth white are will lay on the bottom. Pour the liquor into a second clean glass, put it down and it coagulates in a transparent red garnet, a grade tincture for men and metals. Quest and the phalaja time hidden by Basilius Valentinus.
Annotation With this work and possible prove to an atheist that does not believe that there is a God, and that the fact that there man has its origins in the eternal spirit and how it is when walking or when walking into the light where darkness obscures his work will proceed is difficult, because the black will stay with terrible images which is almost impossible to look for such horror and dread. But if a man walks in the light, everything will be nice and see how you fight light and darkness, all in the little book issued by our brothers under the title Amor Prossimi, which comes all of this. So remember, when you separate the spirit vitale, you have to put the matter in more horse manure for at least 4 weeks. Then take it out, put it in the sand and begin distilling until it is separated and the whole stinking phlegm them; by using a volumetric pipette, put away the phlegm for more [fire] and will separate acidic water and it will sublimate in a yellow salt , of which oleo includes of more. When separated and all, disassemble the collector. The salt that you sublimate and will have the smell of musk. Put in another small flask and sublimate alone, and though 2, 3 times. After add it to another soul, will become thick as milk, keep it well. Note, If it were possible to resurrect the dead, you could do with this milk. This state and the Phalaja by Basilius Valentinus. Beyond that you take your vinegar, put in a retort, and what remained in the flask and again and reverse redistill, do that 2 times and finally with a strong fire. Then conserve it well. This vinegar and the milk upper does not unite as long as the world lasts, when poured on each other. If you put them on fire, rises up the milk in first, because there is hidden the most blessed spirit and vinegar the curse which, however, should help to create the Philosopher's Stone. And man's burden which and exposed to all the temptations, if it starts in the desire and hunger strenuous to join with the light; and the light but escapes him. Also with the man and so, and imprisoned until totally in the dark, his desire is satisfied increasingly bitter, but when you're fighting, it gnaws and this desire and his cross in and out of that which must transfigure and keep (sic). Take the dead earth, and remaining well calcine, strain the salt, dissolve and coagulate until obtain a resplendent salt which will be like fat, 1 lot of blood will give you somewhat 'of more than 1 fifth, if you do all this carefully, put it in a small flask, put a cape mantle or better, and put it in a vial, pour vinegar on top of its 2 quintl; soon will join with one another, after that add a fifth of its milk. So to put it on our oven fire gradus secret for 4 months, everything will become pitch black in the first month, look good and move the glass. Here I want to announce what will happen and it better be silent. If you do this, however, put a lock on your lips. When it everything rests, and then runs like blood, do it to cool, with milk and vinegar, and 128
was fermented with which we can increase the first stone, but no more than 2 or 3 times, so the augmentation takes place: the fourth part in the stone, the first part of the vinegar and just as the first part of the milk, put together, and made to pass the colors together.
The Second via Urine Now I want to explain the urine in which remains hidden, until now, a powerful key. So you take the urine of a healthy person who from time to time drinks of wine, collect it in an oak barrel as until thou hast enough, let it stand in air for 3 months, but so as the rain falls in, and pay attention: that the best time is M arch, April and M ay. If it happens to have sunshine fall on it thus means nothing. What evaporates replace again with fresh urine; when the period of time has passed, cover with recipient, put it in a flask, and began to distill, it will separate in the form of drops, but all the astral will pass a clear spirit. Distill it alone, if the retort is closed with one lute everything will simply work. That which remains you put in a short flask, make it thicken by concoction, when thick and ardent stop spirits rise stop the distillation and you put it in a retort with a great receiver start the distillation and then will separate an oily liquid and a lot of volatile salt will settle. After adding the volatile salt of the Spirit above that separated. Rectify once more the dense liquor and keep it. Then the rest is calcined and extracted its salt, this one kept above rectify until he no longer see the phlegm and spirit it almost always rises in the form of a salt, then congeals on the vinegar and salt and also spirit with the volatile salt, and you will get a strong key if you distil by Retort (Retortam).
Annotation This stone is the real urine Alkahest of Irenae Philalethes. You must remember to separate the spirit from all the water and salt combine with its volatile and correct and purify the spirit called M iddle Acidum or vinegar (Acetum), and thus we proceed as follows: Clarify its salt by dissolution and coagulation, and then pour the vinegar and rectify 2 times until it becomes much more intense and penetrating, and heat to red the salt. Remove the phlegm, keep it, filter it and coagulate it, put it in the cellar, and liquefy and re-coagulate, after stops, otherwise it will pass through the glasses. So you then have three: Spirit, Soul, Body. You united those three, as explained for wine in the first part, and finally distilled from the retort, you'll obtain a liquor Universal with which you can prepare the philosopher’s stone as well as other things. Know that this stone is mineral, animal, astral and vegetable, if it is mixed with gold or silver you will have a tincture, it becomes metallic too. If you possess the liquor, all that is necessary we explained in Part One.
The Third via Sweat God says in the first. Book of Genesis, 13: You shall eat bread with the sweat of the brow as you do not again become earth when you come: those who seek to collect the tears with joy, because the Dew of Hermon that falls is used for this art. It is not easy to obtain tears, because it is a spiritual salt water of M ercury, but the sweat of front is a subtle spirit of salt, when it is collected it is a great solvent because it is volatile. I'll simply say this: Take the Spirit of salt and pulverize it together with gold leaf in a glass bowl as long as it not becomes as black as ink. Put him in a small vessel and make digest and after many colors it will turn at the end into a blood red oil. Otherwise you collect this sweat or tears, put them together in a vase, made after putrefy for a month and distilled in a flask and closed up the M ercurial Spirit and when get 129
got only 1/2 Lots, you can make great miracles with it. Poured on gold calcined (Golden Lime), it will become an oil red blood, it must be separated from all the feces and put it on an oven of fixation to fix it.
Annotation We must at this point know that the tears and the sweat are the dew of little world. This remains: the question of what sweat is the best? This is the greatest secret in this art. So if you are fasting in the morning, clean up well in the face washing with pure water, you walk in the countryside for a walk fast enough as it does not begin to run your fountain (fontina) , (sic) that is to say, as the sweat does not stay on the front in clear drops, then sit down, you stand by a container of fine silver or gold, like a teaspoon or a shell, bent like a scythe, put it on your forehead, and all the drops sink in; when they stop, put it in a small vase, begins to walk again as your fountain runs, but do not do it over 3 times, otherwise you will become too tired, because everything is more subtle salt in the memory of man to strengthen it, however if you walk in fast and you have nothing in the stomach that can evaporate again eventually your mind will become weak. The day after redo it, also three times as long as you have not collected four loth. After put it in a decay, and then distills it and it will separate a water very subtle and volatile spirit of salt, pour it through (above) a subtle lime/calx gold, and make it digest together for one month after filter your oil red blood in another pot, a little earth will remain white. You close out the vessel with oil, put it in the oven and you secretly procede as we have explained many times, after a short period of time it becomes fixed and solid. You can also use the first Spirit (Spiritus) for this purpose, but it does not revert more than 3 times an oil. It tincted gold and turns it into a dye, that is to say the oil in 10 parts gold and 5 parts one out of mercury. For white is the same.
The Arcanum of Antimony You must know then that the ancients had no glasses and have consequently thus worked through the universal way or through the special way. I want to describe here the earlier work because they are the shortest, and you should know that these are the metal and the mineral kingdom, that is to say mainly from the ancient philosophers that Saturn is named and described being the subject of the philosopher's stone. However, there are two types of Saturn, white and black called black lead, which is philosophical and nothing else. Antimony which occurs also as Avicolae hermeticis or the Doves of Diana (Colombae Dianae), as later you will see with different examples. So be attentive to see that you get a true powder, the Antimony of Hungary. Take this mineral Saturn, and it finely pulverized, take 1 pound. It must be heated to red or melted in a good cup 16 lots (8 oz) Huttenberg steel or another type which is good, mix after 4 lots (2 oz) of white tartar with some crushed antimony and put it on the steel. When well melted, add one part of pure nitre, when then everything is melted, flowing as an oil, pour it quickly into a heated and greased mold. When it is cooled, the scoriae will remain on the surface, and the regulus on the bottom. You remove the scoriae and preserve it, because they are the best. Put it into a glass bowl and let it melt (liquify) to an oil. Recast the Regulus. When it is in the process of melting, you add a little nitre, and then it flows a little faster, and your Regulus will be ready. If you want to make red and white flowers, finely pulverize and put 8 lots (four ounces) of the regulus in a crucible which must have a thick bottom, fix on top another crucible with a good lute, and put it in the fire so that the coals are not higher than the contents of the crucible. The heat must be maintained 130
at all times, but be careful not to give it too much fire, because you could harden and burn the white flowers, and after 6 hours you open your pot and you will see the lute. Remove carefully the lute. Put your pan into the fire, then produce new flowers, continue until you've had enough. Before making new flowers you can add of fresh Regulus the mass that remains in the crucible to nourish also that which remains. If you've thus made enough flowers, take what's left in the crucible, weigh it and mixes in a nice yellow Sulfur by casting it. It would be better, however, that you are using transparent red sulfur, tell the nature of the product, that is to say transparent red M ountain Sulphur, because it is the Demogorgon. After taking a beautiful crystalline arsenic, in equal weight. Crush them and mix them well with each other, you put the material into a crucible and a good lute with a fixed cover with a small hole put the pot in a circular fire, give it the heat by degrees for 8 hours, then allow to cool the container and you'll get a radiant blood-red glass. You must remove the red flower in the following way: you take the scoriae which you have dissolved before, filter the liquor, pour your glass thinly and allow to evaporate a little liquor in a cup of sand added after your ground glass and boil together, and the serpent attacks the Glass, dissolves and swallows and drink, it will turn into a blood red salt. Pour over the clean rainwater, and when dissolved pass through a filter and allow to evaporate completely, what remains in the filter is useless. After put what is evaporated in the cellar and leave to melt (deliquescence) to an oil, coagulated and dissolve again, do 7 or 8 times, then solve and then coagulate, it is our work. When it liquefies for the last time you add more water from rain and make the precipitate with a good wine vinegar. When everything is precipitated, runs Lixivium and keep it. Rinse well with water filtered rain the red powder blood until it is deposited, the towel. In the heat it melts like butter, as well you will have the red flower and white flower.
Observations With concerns to the Regulus, it is done also well, but it is still best when blended/melted with nitre. It becomes more brillant and very pure. As for the Avicolae, (the bird) it is easy to burn with the method explained. So you make the following: a container made like what is designed in (a), covered with lid (b), and (c) an iron tripod in which we can put the container of sandstone.
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The container should surpass above the land of three fingers as shown in figure (d); in the container you put lots of your 8 Regulus, close the lid very close, with a good lute and put it in the tripod. This way you can store many vessels together only once and also put an oven simple with bricks under fire and all around and above the lowest point the container is placed at the same height as the material in the container. Store many vases together only once and also put on an oven simple with bricks, and under fire all around and above the lowest point the container is placed at the same height as the material in the container. This so you do not get the best flowers, but they are also spiritual and does not harden like when You proceed as above. It is just to make the Regulus of Glass (Vitrum) remained red; you can do the same as container for white flowers, only the cover must have a small hole and it takes a circular fire for gradus. You must remember also not dissolve the scoria Lixivium outdoors, but in the cellar, it attracts so much itself that the Astral sulfur dissolves well in vitro, but along with the fact deposit (precipitate) and then we get little, remaining the best in the feces. If however you do it in the cellar, it gets better. After untied, filter it and let it evaporate to the consistency of salt (dry), then heated it to red and finally you add the filtered rainwater, just the right amount to dissolve. Put it in a stone vase on which you can put a mantle (lid, bell, fork) and sulfur after you add your boil into the flask until it dries and the water is distilled off through the mantle. Reverse of water after continuing to boil, then distilled, and you're doing as well 8, 9 times so that it is dissolved, then pour the water blood-red through a filter, it as well purifies it and precipitates. This is the blood of the dragon. Flows it well and now he is ready. It melts like butter. You can put the Lixivium all together and distilled to obtain a salt or liquor and the liquor will serve you for future use. Note: we can do as the manner of Suschten: take your sulfur red liquid or red flowers and Lixivium, if it was coagulated to salt, and 1 part 1/4 part salt of ammonia to be pure; grind them together well and pour over rainwater distilled, only the quantity necessary to dissolve these two salts. after Add your red sulfur blood it is also possible to take only the Vitrum before, but we succeed more quickly with sulfur removed; put them together in a retort, and distill the water in the bath of ashes, with caution. Then it reverses and distilled again and reiterate up to 6 or 7 times. And your material will separate into an oil red 132
blood, reverse it again, redistilled, it is the (becomes) purified sulfur, it is ready now. However, if you took the glass (Vitrum) red, you have the correct 4 more times but anyway it will not be so good as another, but it will become (extract) a powerful tincture. So you take your oil that is solid and rectified, pour so much rainwater as the weight of the oil, make it digest in BM , and the oil will become red as blood, glittering like rubies, it settle to the bottom and remain in Lixivium removes surface it and transferred to fresh rain water so that water comes out all the salts, because the oil does not absorb water. When the salt does not dissolve more in water, distill the water so that disappear, to an oil. You can also do the same with the Lixivium and distilling only while supplies salt. It can be reused. The red oil is the Red Lion. You take two parts and pour them on one part of your Aviculae (bird) into a crystal vase and put it to putrefaction in our furnace described in the first degree of heat and oil white flower and transformed into a tincture. You can coagulate up to a ruby (carbuncle) red, if you make it through the degrees of fire (gradus). If however you want to proceed without the glass the fastest way, you take your red oil or flower liquid and put it in a flask, put it in the sand and it soon will coagulate. So you take two parts of your flower and one part of the white and put them in a vase or pot clean, put it in the fire and put the man, in the crucible , as well it will melt with heat, quickly give him the white flower that is your wine, it will seem that the white flower grows over it, but after a while eat red white, after giving a stronger heat during one hour. If you want to increase it, you remelt this stone and you add 2 parts of the red flower and one part of the white flower, do this 10 times. In infinitum, however you must start over with your stone, take the red lion and the ardor of the eagle that is to say: 2 parts red and 1 part white, melt them together as we explained before and you add 2 parts of your stone, which was increased 10 times, and this stone will dye as the other or that one of the above. This is the multiplication of the ancients. If however you want to increase your stone infinitum (ad infinitum), you have to do with the oil that is out of Basilius Suschten and described in its 12 keys in the form of parables. Note this well: This high stone tincted, it must be applied first on the Gold and to one portion of 100 parts of the moon or Saturn will be converted in good gold. But her tincted better yet, if you give Him first a ferment, and also remember that Toeltius. Prepare a M artial Regulus of Antimony prepared as explained above above, after melt 2 times and melt when it weighs 8 lots (4 ounces), added one lot of sun (half ounce) passed by antimony and purified with nitre, melt together. Herrspitzen your done with it (birds, flowers acués?? RG (sic) and it will turn into glass (Vitro) red after you take the stone, and so has all your stone with its ferment and become itself spiritual. this is the best way if you want to shorten the work, the tincted stone in 2000 times more than the first stone above, which you can only carry up to to 1000 parts even if thou increased (multiplied) of the best ways. Should be carried at all according to the annotation and above requirement. It is possible to observe a grain of the tincture administered four times, as a total cure in medicine, it will change man completely within a period of four weeks, the same as oil. You can also use this stone for divine magic, or: Prepare a Regulus of Antimony M artial. When it is melted the 4th time, pour into 16 lots (8 ounces) to regulus, 4 lots (two ounces) of silver cupelle purified, let them melt together and then pour it on the Regulus. Prepare your Bird of Hermes (Aviculae Hermetisic) as I have taught you above and with it you can prepare the dye on the white (with) M oon and all lunar disease. When you do the Vitrum the only thing 133
to remember is that you must leave out the red Sulphur and make the Vitrum with white arsenic and sulfur transparent yellow, for the rest of this work is equal before all this. If, however, you do not want the white stone, you can also work on red. If you want to make the Doves of Diana (Dove Dianae), you should know that we must do this: M ake a Regulus of antimony or martial per se, that is beautiful, when it weighs 16 lots, put in 4 cup purified of silver. M elt well together, then prepare your flowers, as I said in the first annotation, when you have enough flowers, you take what remains and of Arsenic (ana) equal parts, each of 4 lots and 2 lots of Sulphur, prepares a Vitrum and then you procede just as we taught in 1st Annotation and you'll get a stone shining like lightning. Remark well this: You can also make a Regulus of Venus. It must be separated from the scoriae. After taking the Lixivium of the first annotation, you extract the Sulphur of the Glass.However, if you want to turn it into oil, its the same work which we have already explained. If you do liquefy the scoria, use these scoria to extract and fix, the stone will turn red.
Other Operations from the Regulus and the Birds (Columbae Dianae) Prepare a Regulus in the manner of Artephius: You take the antimony and pulverize it to get a subtle powder of equal weight, of nitre very dry. Combines those two together and put in a little in a mortar, with the lighter coal, when you see that it is deposited or rennet, gradually added as another party, the mortar must be of iron. Well kept stirring up the mortar, it cools down, you will find a Regulus, the finely-stack, at which point, when the Regulus weighs 8 lots, you can add 1/2 batch of gold or one lot of pure gold or beaten into sheets and you can mix it with as much nitre and then back into the mortar, and you will find a Regulus. Retains some or scoriae melt (liquefy) up to the oil as we said before. Finely pulverized Regulus up to your subtle powder. Put it in a large container of clay so that it is two inches high, put it in the sun, take a good round glass mirror, which can also be square, so that the solar rays fall in the center, put it in open so that the solar rays fall continuously into the vessel, and the Birds (Aviculae) begin to grow, you can collect them all day. They are stronger than these, from above. When you have enough birds (Aviculae), take what remained, and make a glass with the help of Arsenic and Sulphur and decompose it into the same liquor, as I explained above. Here's how Artephius prepared his stone.
Annotation He does not mean the fire, he said that we must break it down into liquid, that is to say the glass, although Artephius wants us to take what is left and if you do not are preparing not one Glass, not while it remains in his fire it does not become like butter red blood. It should be distilled together and unite them with the flower above and coagulate up to a stone and it works well for the rest it is the same as for other work. But as one should cook with his own is described in the 29th chapter complement the Toeltius where you can find it. As preparation and true Aviculae Colombae dianae hermetically (philosophically) I'll show you here: Prepare a Regulus Antimony of M ars or Venus or per se, separate the scoriae in whole the third time, melt (liquify) in air to an oil pulverize your Regulus to a subtle powder put it in the liquor and make it digest to a salt. Weigh it and take half or one third of its weight of quicklime, mix it in a iron bowl in the 134
fire, the salt must be completely dry. Put it still hot in a retort closed well, so that it is only half full up to position and a receiver with water, fixed with degrees of fire, first it will separate a little phlegm, the receiver will be colored in white and within the top of the retort the sublimate like flowers that shine on all sides as in winter, when there is frost, with great splendor like silver in the neck of the retort. When you see that the neck of the retort is colored red, you stop. Remove the receiver, after putting all the flowers together, pour into a flask and distill off all the water, finally give a fire of sublimation, and the lilies will rise white, but beware of giving too strong a fire at the last minute/moment. After that, when the fire is out, open the flask, remove of the vase your white lilies, extract the feces from the bottom of the flask and all of the residues lute that may have fell into the glass, they melt in the fire as a oil. If they are mixed with lime gold, becoming a stone to red, and white with silver. For that which has the Philosophical M ercury (M ercury Philosophorum), can get to where he wants to work with.
Annotation Half of quicklime is too, you should only take a third party. When the Aviculae Hermetis are ready, they must be mixed with lime gold, as stated here. Prepare the lime and gold: make an aqua regia with nitre, vitriol and sal ammoniac equal amounts, (equal parts) of each of them the same part, and dissolved in gold. M ake precipitate gold dissolved with the spirit of wine while all the gold do not be precipitated. Dulcify Well the lime gold, take a part and 2 parts of Aviculae and mixes them together, put them in a retort and distill in the cupel with the sand, get a liquor as butter a slightly reddish. What has separated and one who remains in the neck of the retort you added to the one who has remained in the retort, gives fire by degrees until everything blends together and you'll get a great tincture for gold and also a great medicine for man, he must dissolve the silver in water prepared with a large part of nitre and two parts of vitriol, after it is precipitated with salt water, proceed as with gold, silver when the lime has been sweetened and well expressed. And get a white stone tingeante on mercury, which gives luna the most beautiful and contains a lot of gold.
Arcanum with Mercury and the Doves of Diana Now follows a real main work, that is to say, you can animate mercury the help of Aviculae, and prepare a strong tincture. Take of virgin mercury, pass it 2 times into a leather chamois well prepared, wash with a strong vinegar and salt until you do not see any more darkness/impurities. Then wipe it, take a pound and mix it with 1/2 pound of Aviculae Hermetis. Put it in a retort with a receiver that contains water, begin to distill, it will separate into clear and resplendent mercury, take what remains in the retort and mix it with the mercury, which put it in another retort, distill it again and repeat adding the mercury up to 3 times. You will get a very strong M ercury. You can also animate the mercury with martial antimony regulus, it is also good, but it's better to do according to the annotation above, as has been said. For obtaining a tincture with the help of mercury is as follows: Take one part of bright gold or gold washed up per se that has yet gained the life-giving spirit and 2 parts of M ercury animated. Gold should be beaten or lamenated fine. Amalgam it all together in a bowl of thick glass on a fire incandescent so that it heats up only a little. Then you put the amalgam in a retort and let it digest for 1 month. After starting to distill by degrees and will separate the first portion of the mercury that is not separated, Take it out of the retort re-amalgam it with the separated mercury. After this put it all together in the chamois leather and make it pass through by pressing the mercury as long as it is possible, and your material will melt like wax, and as butter in the fire.
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Retain the M ercury which passed with it you can increase your work. You put your composition in a beautiful vase, put it well luted in a cupelle of sand and make pass through the colors until it arrives at the color blood-red. This foundation stone is small at first, but after having been greatly augmented & increased mounts very high, up to the degree of tincture. Remember, when you have your M ercury amalgam separated entrust it again in with one that has remained in the retort, digest for 14 days and nights or for one month, redistilled and repeat a third time and your mercury becomes animated, more and more and better. So you put all the mercury together in the chamois leather and continue as I said above. The augmentation, however, goes as follows: Take one part of your fixed stone and 2 parts M ercury first that remained behind, mix them together in a bowl of hot glass, then back on to the coagulation, and thus repeated 10 times. After which you stop otherwise your stone will become volatile, and you will get a stone that resembles a red garnet. Add 1 part red glass to 12 parts of molten gold, and then add a Quintl of molten silver, it will completely be changed into vulgar gold.
Annotation Although this method works well in this way, it is also very dangerous, you proceed as follows: When your M ercury is alive and you possess bright gold, mix them together on the fire. We must keep the fire very low, otherwise the mercury begins to smoke (sublimate) and also the best disappears in smoke. When they are commingled together, put them in a sublimatory made of a good earth, we baked from clay, put on a cap and sublime the mercury without any other joint addition to the height of the gold afterwards let it cool, remove with the help of a feather all the matter that has arisen and revive it in hot water so that it starts to melt. After added the gold and repeats 7 times, so you vivify the mercury always in the hot water as it should be done often as lime gold is in fusion in the sublimatory, and then stop and try with a little white moon. When the bottom is ashes, everything is ready and your gold has been transformed into a substance of M ercury (mercury) and transformed into the prima materia. So when you bring your gold to this point, animate a last time mercury and grind them together well in the heat, but beware of too warm heat, because the mercury becomes more and more spiritual. And if you give it a strong heat, the Spirit who gives life will disappear. So be careful to govern the fire with care, either in the sublimation or in the rotation, because if the spirit fled, but would be your death. So if you have pulverized all, put it in the chamois leather cloth and push it through with the required force, and will remain behind in the cloth like a radiant paste or stone. Pulverize it again in a glass bowl, return it and press it tothrough the leather as before until no longer anything wants to pass, and you collected in the leather just the natural weight of mercury and gold. This is the Preliminary work on the resolution and the coagulation of the complete work. And it is matter composed of two mercurial substances of which some philosophers have written. Note well: carefully keep the mercury which has passed through the leather, because it is highly purified and with it you may increase your work. Place your hermaphrodite mercurial substance in a round glass like a sphere with a long neck (egg), do express a glass stopper, and weld it with the glass with the aid of a lamp, as is done with enamel, and you will be sure your work does not fume & vanish. You must be aware that only 1 / 3 of your glass is full and that 2 / 3 are empty. You put your glass in the furnace described by us or in the "Faulen Hainzen" (a type of oven). The setting must exceed only half of the egg, if you put it in another furnace, no. Govern the heat so that the external heat does not exceed internally. M oderate so that the heat the egg does not become too strong, otherwise everything will be destroyed. However, if the heat is too low, it sleeps and the Spirit cannot or operate or act. For this give it a fire to make it alive, just the first degree of heat. We are seeking 2 materials and a special furnace in which we 136
must mediate, sic. In this way the material will become dark, day by day, until they come together in black velvet. After 40 days and nights the natural colors will appear for longer and stronger in different forms. In the period of the first 40 days, when moisture is gone and when all withered, these many forms will be lost and the matter will become resplendent white. After 40 days everything will look like colored brick, and finally like blood red, glowing like a ruby and now you will see the king sound with his red garment. This is a work too strange, but wonderful to behold. Let it sit 40 more days and nights and the stone will be ready and will melt like wax in a gentle heat and it is gritty, in the cold. Try the stone, and put it in a little white luna, let it melt, it melts without smoke, and when it is ready, gild the silver together. However, if it smokes, you must continue to fix until it is less than its highest degree of perfection. If your stone resists these tests, you proceed as follows: Put into a part of 1000 parts of purified gold. Place it in a strong fire, it will become the gold tincture. Put one part in 1,000 parts of luna purified or purged mercury, and it will turn into gold. If however you want augment/increase your stone, you take your mercury you have kept, mix it with the dye so that it amalgamates well with it and you shall proceed as explained above until its perfection arrives in a short time. When more time the tincture remains in the fire the more it is increased, and becomes stronger, and 1 part tincts 10000 parts of mercury or luna. Note: When you want to tinct with it you have to do it with a fire hotter than the Gold or the M oon in fusion, it is better and will better take the dye.
The Arcanum of Silica I want to show you the fire of the ancients, where they have often cooked the flowers mentioned, that is to say their work with their Kibrick, Subeck and Atropa have cooked together in a bad fire (sic); place in the fire and all was completed within 3 hours. Know that the fire of the ancients is hidden the flint pebble, and also their stone is also igneous, when they speak about the red stone or red matter. It is the heat of the ancients, their fire, and the Sigillum Hermetis. For without this short path way do not expect any true fixation. You should know also that any Flint is not good for this work, it is the best when the viscosity has not been extracted, because it grows day by day in the water with the help of the universal sperm; one that is transparent, with small red and green veins, is the best. Do not calcine too much otherwise it becomes hard and spoilt; pulverize it finely like flour. Put 6 pounds in a glass retort luted fixed and a grass green liquor will flow, it is very fiery and penetrating, thou shalt have almost a pound; it should be well closed with the lute, and observe carefully the degrees of fire. In this liquor is hidden a real arcana for the gout, paralysis of the limbs, and for the stone. Add a pound of highly rectified Spirit of Wine and distill them together, and the medicine is ready to administer at 10 to 15 drops. So you take the aforesaid liquor and pour it on a pound of crushed flint pebbles, and have it digest together, and you will see the Duenech, his father was assassinated and he came out of him, will start next to his mother, and they will act on each other, and the mother beget another son, after it will become a glowing light which must be distilled by the retort (per retortam), that which has separated the first time reverse it and have it digest for 24 hours, then distill it with a strong fire. This fire liquor unites together the red dragon that comes from the Kibrick, Subech and Adrop, and makes fixed the red flowers. This is the fire of the ancients and the fire of nature without which we will miss the target/goal (it will fail); who wants to obtain something fertile (good) through the short way, he must use this fire. For it is the stone that lives in the air and fed in the water at the same time. This is a salamander that fire can not eat the stone that Saturn devoured in place of the son of Jupiter and has discussed, the real 137
ardor and philosophical egg with its yellow and red, which hidden in the green, coral also true that the former is soft and sweet in water and which hardens in the air, and this is the real green Lion.
Annotation The fire of the former is described here, but not as it should be used. When you want to fix the liquor, you must use pieces of stones no larger than the size of a bean or pigeon eggs, and know that when they are too large, the sperm is too coarse and hardened. Look for them in the river where they are in large quantities. Fixed of them a Spirit and be well aware that the retort is properly closed and luted with a great lute that there are different types. Put the retort then into the open fire, give fire by degrees for 48 hours until finally also melts the retort, because Duenech separated at the end. If you've got, you can use it as medicine. If however you want to dissolve it again with different flint and sweet prepare well your fire, then poured liquor on a pound of 1/2 pound of rocks otherwise it will not work. Do this digest together for at least 24 hours, then distilled by the retort, and do cohobe digest for other 24 hours with a high heat distills and you'll get a fatty oil. You should know that this is a key for all metals. Note: So take your glass, glass of red that hast made within 24 hours of 1 and 2 parts of this liquor or oil, the finely ground glass and put it in oil or liquor, and the glass and déglutira will unite with him. Put it in a container of Pierre (earth) on the fire, gives a circular fire for 4 hours and your tincture is ready, it will collect in a glass as a blood red garnet red. Of it, one part in 100 parts of the moon becomes molten gold which resists all evidence. You can also extract the Glass Lixivium, as we explained above, it will give a powerful tincture.
The Arcanum of Calx Vive (Quicklime) Quicklime is the wise monk Valentinus, serving a hundred years, also his gray wolf that eats voracious and eats everything. His Spirit is astral and it is the reason why it cannot be attributed to metals. There does not exist a menstruum in the world that can extract the Spirit, because he soon flees and leaves its dead body behind, and his Spirit cannot be extracted by leaching or distilling. You can capture it with a magnet, but it makes too little. If this Saturn lights, he smokes in chaos, and nothing remains except a little salt in his body. And if it is washed without adding another solid salt (more fixed), everything will vanish. That However, to capture his spirit, will get something great, I do not say, but I believe in you.
Annotation This is the subject that is hidden and despised by all who consider themselves philosophers and sages have written about this art, hidden beneath so many beginners will discover that no metaphorical figures, unless the Lord or a good friend it shows. How irresponsible is this attitude before God and the world they will one day. How many of them have become sophists, how much they threw on the pavement, how many entire families have lost the specific substances, how much they have disgraced and exposed to the ridicule of others. As always when one of the philosophers was lucky in his work, he began writing recognizing only a single lane and pushing all the others. Another has achieved his goal against by another job, as it wrote in and said, The M ercury is not this, not matter if this one. The third: Our material is all. Fourth: Our material carries with it the seed that can not be prepared. Each has written in his reason. But one can not speak well of each material we find in our school in so many different ways and true and that this book contains almost all of the brothers. 138
Because some day they will answer that, as a matter of knowing no one and all, they wrote recklessly and in some ways they deny God's omnipotence, although Fiat is in all things, it differs only by chance, but that's all one thing in its interior. You can not prepare the seed, but only separated from the hull where it is hidden in a heavenly spirit and crystalline. So brothers of this art this book you are holding, keep such a treasure of these wise men, do you sing them until they not tire, you go by the ignorant if they want to discuss with you. For anyone who does not want God to reveal not be found. And if you understand something in hand. God will judge you as just behind. How many of them did not hit the mighty hand of God in this work, how much they have not been stifled and strangled by astral spirits, minds to what the Lord is Thurs. So you want God before your eyes and be okay with everyone, and you rejoice in all the blessing that promised to all those who love him. Going back to the lime, it is true that it is not easy to enter its room, instead it goes and leaves behind empty, because its work is a real work of women and a child's play. For its sweat, it is true that if won it is an excellent thing, and no one can pay never so rich and such a treasure. So if one holds in hand, be careful use it for good reason. M any enter his house, but get nothing special. The first thing is to have a very fresh lime just out of lime kiln. After taking a strong oak barrel, made a cover in the center as does the fishermen, and the lid tight fitting! It should be well bound with iron and with a lock to bind, if necessary. The hole must be so wide that you could put the barrel in a wicker basket and the basket must be the height of 1/2 cubitus (20 cm). It must not walk, because inside the barrel is round so that it remains concave. This basket should have a lining of wood. The barrel is to be provided at the end of a pipe on both parts to mount major collectors or containers with a solid lute. The cover there need a hole with a stopper; so you put the lime in the basket, the basket into the filter barrel and blow you hold of the rain water with wash ready rotten mother who remains behind when you cook the nitre. This rain water with the mother liquor must rot for at least the first 2 months and rot together, then heated and poured into a bit through a funnel into the hole in the lid, but not more than one pitcher each time. You gotta protect it well with rags soaked around the lid. You close the cap, but when you see it separates too much spirit, open it, and always done well when you see it will push the receiver elsewhere. When the reaction stops, a little into reverse and continues as long as it separates from the spirit. When it no longer separates itself from nothing, you stop. Allowed to settle the spirit for at least 1 day. After you remove your calx from the lime and leave it to you fresh lime until it does not seem to have adequate wash and spirit. Pour more water on the lime, wash all the salt water and coagulates all your concoction up by having a thick juice, put it in a flask and separates all the phlegm in the Bain M arie, and let the fire extinguishes the heat. Remark well this: When the spirit no longer separates itself, you stop and let stand for at least one day, then you remove of the basket your lime and you proceed as before. When nothing more comes out of the BM , you put your flask in the sand and began to distill, then will separate a very penetrating spirit should be rectified again at least three more times. Guard it well in a cool place. You put it in a retort all that remained in the bottom of the flask, with much care separate by degrees a spirit of vinegar or yellow like gold and perfume that smells like amber, keep it well. You remove from the retort remaining the salt and heat to make red, liquefy made in the cellar until you get an oil, filter it and coagulate it until it becomes like butter. Here you put into all over the Spirit, Soul and Body. You can turn them into philosopher's stone. You can make also a menstruum and true Alcahest. Finally, this spirit loosens (opens) also all things and closes, this is a reminder to all reasonable people.
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Finally and in conclusion we want to remind us of the old Demorgorgon or Temochoriton. Someone asked what host it is assessed?, And does he think to find something and get profit. So you should know that almost any thing in the world is more hidden than the fire that it makes it all a powerful tincture, so you take it the way nature expels in the mountains, as the Transparent Red blood is the best, take it only when it otherwise appears with its gray garment, grind it finely and put it in a flask with a big blind well luted put it in the first degree of a fire, keep well you give too strong a fire, for it relies much! When the Spirit of M ercury take only the flair (air) from the heat, it will rise like spears and halberds. When you see that it is enough sublimated, allowed to cool, opens your glass and take your will as a mercury salt - put it in another small flask with a big blind and let yet sublime six times with a gentle heat, and every time something will remain behind, it is the true universal mercury. You remove your sulfur which remained over and added to the "servant of white garment," take a little and grind it, it must not be extinguished even in the air, take 2 parts, one part of sulfur which and remained above 1 part of sal ammoniac, mix them well together and fixed them by degrees of fire into a red oil as the blood. When then nothing goes any more, dismantle the receiver pour and what is separated in the. flask, you put a mantle and removes all the corrosive spirit. Oil will remain a red like the blood which is called the philosopher's volatility gold. Take 1 part and 2 or 3 parts of mercury first pulverized them well together and put them in a small flask or ampoule, but in the manner that one third remains empty; close well the ampoule into the flux, gives a fire degrees and pass through all the colors. This is the secret tincture of Theophrastus which he operated with many wonderful works.
Commentary We must here observe that only one oil prepared as prescribed is too corrosive. So we must help it. Take your oil, put it in a flask and add a highly rectified spirit of wine which swims four fingers and in a single moment separation happens, the corrosive deposits and spirit of wine will be colored as blood. It runs so carefully, concentrating it by cooking what is left and keep it, it is a wonderful disinfectant for all wounds and injuries. Distill the spirit of wine with a low heat until the consistency of a thick oil. Theophrastus had prepared this oil elixir proprietatis with whom he has made great miracles. It took the oil and poured onto the myrrh and aloes, it was digested, it was extracted tincture of of saffron and juice until evaporated. A drop of this elixir is as powerful a spoonful of street variety of today. Yes, those are often more harmful than healthy. You take one part of the above oil, pour it on the lily, (and in the original. Lilit?) 2 parts in a vase, but such that the vessel remains empty in the second part into the flux/melt as we did for you and other work processes as explained in the Arcanum from Vitriol, also with the increase. But you must know that, when oil becomes, the stone tincts more of the 100% , you can heal all wounds also with this oil before you transform it into a stone, it cures all diseases of the body. You take only 2 drops in tea or hot coffee and it will not let you down in almost all diseases. The Stone is one Fire pure. When you want to to use it, you must in put a can or a Quintilian in a good wine and drink the wine. For ever, the stone retains its power, you can preserve it to utilize always.
Confirmation of the Arcanum of the Circulatum Minor I will add here a story that certainly confirms the truth of the Circulatum M inus that we described in Part I to conclude that all the EXTASES/ECSTASIES and chemical operations of the company and brothers who were sent to us, are not fables or imaginary inventions but as against the real thing and are 140
more than one person was made happy, and through this and other events it has spread from everything which proved here and there is real Alchemy that the merciful God has communicated to men and to his faithful servants for his divine grace. M uch is attempted with 100 other stories that our teachers are made out once with it, he shoots another with this tincture of and showed the evidence to the world, after each of them arrived at the stone philosophical according to his talent and with the help of different materials. And following story will tell as a pharmacist, he may have been instructed of a Adeptus or of a good friend and he was able to develop, he made his fortune and concerned only earthly welfare and eternal with the help of the Circolatum minus Salis which we explained the process clearly in the first part. The story appears in the press and public should be even less in doubt, because the author of the story to the press has given the method by which the pharmacist has made his fortune, perhaps without knowing it was true in the moment when it did print. However, this process is not described fairly clear and understandable way it is printed. However, those who compare the process of the Circula minus way as contains the first part of this book with the process without omissions printed, word by word, they are found almost verbatim, with the only difference that the printed text is not so clear like that described in the first part. Then the history and process written and printed confirm they show that either one or the other they do not come from another school as ours. The author of the book in which this process is printed is called Stanislaus Reinhard Aextelmayer and the book printed and published in Augsburg, year 1699, by Caspar Brechenmacher. Although it also contains many other things and while it tells a lot of chemical facts which he argues that they are being audited, it is among others, on page 22, as the following event in the fifth part of the “Daylight saved from the darkness”, the title that the author gives his book. "In the year 1686, on my journey in Bohemia, I stopped to buy some things in Iglau the pharmacist, M r. Cautsmann, an adviser to the place, and our conversation came to the chemical things and finally, with a little of wine, he showed me many manuscripts of alchemy that noble knight had left in us taking much. M r. Cautsmann said among other things his former master had known how to fix the old M ercury and that some Jews were to take and to pay the silver done in this way every week in a fixed day; and this way he had accumulated such wealth that, we must note that he was not married, he sold the pharmacy for a ridiculous price for either 1/4 of its value, and after taking a faithful servant he had visited Constantinople and the Eastern countries, and on his return he spent a pleasant time without concerns and sorrows. M r. Cautamann, the apprentice had was very expensive at the pharmacist, and as once had to administer an enema to a rider and as he had been praised for having perfect, her boss is very pleased, he called to himself and, after opening a large filled box of raw gold, with great surprise Cautsmann, the edges a currency imperial with these words: "as you have led so well, I want to give you a tip." When he reached the time to leave and after selling the pharmacy he spoke thus: "You fear God and behave well and I always leave you something that you do not understand at that moment, because you're too young. When, however, you will arrive at the right age, that of reason, and if you understand you will lack no money and wealth." And it was the manuscript of the Circulatum minus of Theophrastus which seems to me just add here to penetrate someone perhaps in the spirit of the philosopher. So far the book's author, Aextelmeyer, because he received this same process to Iglau during his trip to Bohemia wants to put it here verbatim, as printed in his book on page 23, while immediately after the story, with the following words:
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1. Take the first element of water or in place of another salt that has not yet been completely washed in the boiling, or as an inorganic salt purified. 2. Pour 2 parts of water mixed with a little horseradish juice. 3. Leave it in an accurate and well cared for digestion, when it decays as long as it is better. 4. After it coagulate and let it decay for 1 month. 5. After that putrefaction congeal the wet by the retort. 6. hold until the fusion that which remains, by a strong fire. 7. Reverberate in the retort with a constant fire. 8. Let liquefy on marble. 9. Pour the water flowing over the new, do putrefy together as before. 10. Distilled again until after the oiliness. 11. Unite it with the Spirit of Wine for the impurities sink to the bottom, they will be separated, however good or proper have it crystallize in a cool place. 12. Reverse what is separated and cohobe long as it remains a fixed oil and does not separate anything good. 13. Let it digest for another month and fix it by distillation as it does not separate through the layer of the the secret salt. You must not repent of this long work and you do not get discouraged, because in this work is located the third part of all the hidden secrets (in) all minerals and metals, without which it will fail to make anything of fertile , healthy and perfect. Theophrastus has left the reader hungry for art because it sufficient to consider that this really is the Circulatum minus, which is the water mixed. However, who read the Circulatum M inus in the first part, he will discover this secret easily and will find it Cautsmann was really in possession of the true Arcanum, as it is written here, it does not contain an incorrect word and M r. Cautsmann had come into possession or of a heritage only by this Arcanum but that in our book is one of the smallest. In this work all depends on a right handling, and do not doubt its accomplishment happy. So these are our main operations and noblest travails you must know to strength and that, our teachers have collected with much care and commitment indescribable well this we know, more universal like these but which do not exist as described here and where are all individuals too, and that has a particularly useful, it is not far from universal. To bring to perfection this book, we place here a strange method to prepare a Strong Water (Aqua Forte) and Water Regale according to art, because we need now and then one or the other chemicals in the work and plus it is not found this method in any other book and also because this method can produce two waters in the manner easy. The chief art consists in the preparation of the oil of Vitriol per se or the solvent according to art taught in the Arcane of vitriol (Arcanun Vitrioli), by making it precipitate stock zinc crushed or Speanter so that all the earth settles to the bottom. We need to dissolve the vitrioli in a sufficient amount of water, filter it in special paper, put it in an iron pan and add of the granulated zinc or Speanter. It is boiled together for about an hour or to one half hour, it deposits on the bottom all the green that is not nothing else than copper and iron and zinc and sticks to Speanter after filtered through paper and it will pass in clear form, then it must be coagulate and distilled, and the oil will separate easily as an strong water, and in one-hour period can be distilled an entire pound of oil of Vitriol with the help of 10 pounds of coal. This oil is very mineral, it is best for all common operations of the materialists, especially if it is rectified. It should melt the zinc or Speanter and then put hot into cold water through a broom (sic) what you want. After pouring vitriol the water of, rinse with zinc or Speanter hot water only and wipe it, it is always ready for later use. We must rectify this oil of vitriol in a retort, the receiver must be large and closed with a good lute so that the spirits do not escape, is distilled in a coupelle of sand, it is possible to put the receiver in the cold water and also distill with a small fire. 142
Remark well: When we see separate of the large drops, you must remove the receiver, which contains the volatile oil of vitriol, pour the oil in another vessel very close and well with bladder beef dipped in oil of the tree (resin?). This oil will be so strong a feather dipped in it reddened immediately becoming brown after it shall burn. Remembered, too, that, after removing the receiver with the volatile oil of vitriol, mount another vessel or receiver to the retort, but it is not necessary to collect the lute phlegm and black oil will remain in the bottom of the retort. If you want you can also distill it with a strong fire in another recipient. However it is better to reverse the Spirit of vitriol volatile in the oil black of after having separated the phlegm and distil again in the sand with a gentle warmth heat, and remain with all the phlegm and black oil the Spirit of Vitriol become so strong that it soon will escape through the glasses if they are not luted (open environments) more than once with a good tree oil. With the volatile oil of vitriol can be accomplished miraculous things both in M edicine as in alchemy and also in other arts as follows. It is possible to prepare easily and abundantly strong Water and Water Regale excellent and safe for utilize in many ways in chemistry.
A Methodus Singularis of Aqua Fortis Although this Water Forte is also described in Glauberus Concentratus, although with oil of vitriol prepared as taught before, the water becomes too high oily and it does not dissolve the silver, even if one buys the oil vitriol of the materialists. For that you succeed in the preparation and get some pounds of the oil of vitriol prescribed, you must operate this way: You two pounds of dissolved good nitre in 2 pounds of water, added dropwise a pound of volatile oil Vitriol above, distill in a retort by the still short all it can separate, and you will obtain 4 pounds of strong water to dissolve the silver, lead and mercury, it needs some fire because it overflows easy. We must remember to make before the dissolution of nitre in water, as it is possible, must be added drop by drop an oil of vitriol above through a funnel and the smoke that rises must soon close with the retort mantle. This manner of strong water is a very special thing as far as it is special to prepare for the Aqua Regia in this way, at the same time it reveals the Arcanum of the Salis Glauberus mirabilis and its preparation. M any have tried, but they do not find it. One really makes this Aqua Regia as follows:
A Methodus Singularis of Aqua Regis Dissolve one pound of common salt and 1 pound of nitre in three pounds of water, added dropwise 1 pound of the oil of vitriol already prepared, distill it into the sand by Alembic or retort, and you will get a Aqua Regia very strong which will dissolve the sun, lead, and M ars and Venus and all the Sulphur (Sulphura). The caput mortuum remaining in the flask is called the Admirable Glauber salt with which it is possible to make operations amazing in the chemistry and alchemy, as we read in the Glauberus Concentratus. As prescribed and administered this salt mirabilis also in the drug in different ways, it is easy to see if the gentlemen pharmacists prepare adequately for this purpose. It is certainly, they do not prepare the oil of vitriol that is prescribed for this purpose and to whom we explained in the first preparation, but they buy the oil of Vitriol way that materialists sell it with all the corrosive harmful. And as vitriolic salt (salt of the vitriol) is a major subject in the drug, it is possible to see the difference between it and what is properly prepared by the oil of vitriol properly prepared.
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It is called the elixir of first order that which is prepared with a single right rotation and a single movement, or with the first turn of the wheel, the natural material. This done, in art, the elixir is called body. If separates the faeces and soil by separation and coagulation and it comes with white and colored red by imbibition then called elixir of second order, if married with her real close as before, according to the desire of nature, it is boiled, and turns white and red and then is sublimated, that is to say, enhanced by the dissolution and coagulation, then it is called the elixir of third order or rotation. As well as the first body is called elixir, the third is called elixir of spirit and its tincture is much stronger than the first elixir, and it exceeds the gold and silver together with its penetrating and subtle strength and well being given this spiritual force released, the elixir of the first order is more raw and crude and body, and the ancient sages have called with the name of the body by comparing it with others. The elixir of second order or rotation is the average between the first and third order, and so when the of the stone first perfection is imbibed and nourished in the first firing when it comes through or the elixir of second order that might be called elixir of spirits, because the first elixir dies after being under sufficient imbibition, it putrefies and is renewed, but it is an elixir of body also, because it has not achieved its best spirituality if you want you can obtain it only with the philosophical ferment of the third order, when at the end of this elixir third order becomes like a fire nourished and increased by the eternal flame. The medicine or elixir of third order is the preparation of the philosophers stone that tincts in high esteem and it is called the repetition or multiplication. The power of the multiplication depends however of the repetition (reiteration) of the dissolution, coagulation, sublimation and fixation of the perfect medicine, because when it dissolves and sublimates the medicine brought to perfection, its force in the projection is multiplied by ten, because each solution and 10 parts by fixing increases in the multiplication, so that when it attained for the first time 1000 parts, the next it will reach 10,000, the third 100,000. The fourth rotation thousand times a thousand and so to the infinity. To have perfect knowledge of medicine of the third order, it is essential to know more secrets between the following points: 1. First is that philosophical are divided the year into months, months into weeks, weeks to days. 2. The second is which the philosophical are as principal point and principal maxim that should be remembered that everything dries after shortly drinking the moisture of his like. 3. The third is when more land is less aqueous, and the solution will be faster and better. 4. The fourth is that it is even faster in its first humidity. 5. The fifth secret, however, that any solution is going according to their interests and or comparison with each turn of the wheel or order is made to take the good and pure and separate from his solid hard and stony or dead land that prevents the ingress of the tincture in metals.
How to Perform a Projection You take your perfect stone or powder as we have explained, you take the purest gold, 4 or 5 parts of a portion of the stone or powder, having wrapped the powder in a small piece of paper kneaded with a little wax, melt the gold in a clean crucible, add the prepared enclosed powder from above into the crucible with molten gold, when mixed well and melted together, pour into a mold, and you will find a mass such as glass, brittle and heavy, which can be transformed into powder, but not transparent; of such glass you take 1 part kneaded in ashes, and you put on the fire in a crucible 10 parts of good clean mercury, heat the 144
mercury warm, but not that it begins to crackle and fly away, add your projection powder on it and it will fix it in an instant, melt it with an increased fire and M ercury will be fixed in the shape of a yellow cube on the bottom of the crucible, however first, by increasing the fire, it will feel like an explosion similar to when they burn the leaves of bay and you will see sparks with flames of different colors, we must continue with fire, however, as it has been said in the first way for a fusion right and perfect. So this work requires an furnace of the wind, and finally becomes a medicine of the lower order. M elt it and you will find another glass; in a word: you reiterated with 1 part in 10 parts of mercury, (always with a melted portion of the mercury), so that it diminishes the strength of the tincture and the last straining (filtration) or malleable gold gives the perfect metal, and thus we will know who has the force tingent of the stone. After this is only possible to put the stone or the powder after the first fusion with the perfect metal directly onto a large weight of an imperfect metal or mercury to see how it can be tincted. However it is better to apply the medicine gradually, although it takes longer, because if you put a little of the tincture only on a lot of metal, where the projection does not succeed in the mercury, or we will damage considerable when attack the impure metals. So it is better to clean the metal before the projection, it works better in the heat.That is to say: you should melt lead and tin and separate impurities by melting, as I teach here after, and we proceed with them as we said above with the mercury. It should be well purged of copper, after the melt or make incandescent and pour their respective share of the dye we discussed above, we should immediately raise the heat to the perfect fusion. Regarding copper and iron, it cannot be disagreeable to the artist alone occasionally to make a sign for the projection, however, otherwise it is advisable, in our opinion and experience to perform the projection on mercury, if there is a lack of lead and tin. In the case if we have a good melting furnace, the projection can be performed within an hour or half an hour.
How to Purify Lead and Tin It is necessary to melt lead or tin in a crucible for ¼ hour, after melted pour on a bit of sal ammoniac (sal armoniacum) coarsely pulverized, leave it in the fire for a short time, and mix the molten metal with a rod of iron as long as the sal armoniac has not disappeared completely in the smoke, the impure substance is that which floats on the lead in the crucible, you must remove it with a spoon, when it is cooled the lead will be pure and white above. In this manner it is necessary to purify lead or tin before the projection with the tincture, because there are no other metallic bodies which are liquid and proper for the projection like those two, with the exception of mercury, if one has enough. Note: If the philosopher's stone is perfect it can withstand by itself even a strong fire of the same as some calcined powder, however, if it is melted by means of the volcanic fire (sic), with gold or silver, this operation is called inceration or liquefaction, because of how it melts like wax with a very gentle heat that is used to seal letters. As it penetrates with ease in mercury (Ingres), it binds (fixes), thickens, and coagulates. We must know: That the powder of first coagulation or the first does not melt easily and for that much less the powder of the following orders as such powder remains for himself, but yet when it comes up first in the fusion as a colored glass metallic, melts like wax in its projection on the tin metal the mercury heated or inflamed, it does not penetrate fast enough in the interior of imperfect bodies because of the great distance between them.
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During the time they expel their faeces and dirt with the most violent fire which is enveloped and with mixed powder of the tincture and therefore it can not have any special effect and the hope of artists unwise must be empty. We so bear witness with our masters and possessors of the philosopher's stone that we have clearly revealed in this book that the sages had wrapped in riddles in the dark. So we reprimand happens by the grace of God perfect execution of these great works that are described here, as it were, with all the manipulations and the great treasure we implore you to keep with a sincere unswervingly pious soul and do not throw to the dogs the bread of orphans.
A brief summary of the three medicines We put together before, dissolution, we separate the dissolved substance, we clean up what has been separated, and which is united we separate or divide the distillate separately we purify and clean, and we fix what is purified and medicine and accomplished the first, second and third order. And it sufficient to distinguish all of these medicines. But you may ask: how is it possible that this powder (of which the last degree of the fire is at least two times stronger than in the first) can be that easy to melt in the projection, in order that it melts first before the disappearance of the mercury and that enters (ingress) with its fusion and the congeals and the fire that will be stronger in the third time does not melt in glass and thus does it not go out in form of a powder, rather than in a glass? It is easy to give the answer, that is to say, that the powder melt more soon and place more on the heated mercury or on tin metal heated to red hot, not when it is heated by itself, because the relationship of two has this effect; also pure gold which is itself very difficult to melt can be melted with a gentle fire wit h the addition of antimony, this it derives from the fact that the elixir blends with the perfect body before throwing it on the imperfect metals that reach Liquidity lighter that one before, of the same gold abandons its heavy liquidity in the fire and melts like lead or tin in a low fire, when it is mixed with the Regulus of Antimony. If molten silver is mixed with Antimony Regulus, and being one of the hardest to melt first, they will temper by this mixture in such a way that neither of them possessed, as is also found by simple tests.
A Brief Description of the Three Medicines The first order of medicine cleanses and tincts the body only in appearance outside, because the tincture disappears out of the coupelle. In addition, the medicine of the first grade or first degree cleanses and purifies our stone of impurities and makes it clean and volatile. The second order of medicine makes our stone fixed and we call it the degree of the second preparation. In addition, the medicine of the second grade or second order does not cleanse and and does not tinct merely the external appearance but also according to the existence and the same consistency because its dye is fixed, but without utility. The medicine of the third order or third degree of the manipulation of the stone and we render the stone volatile and the one rendered volatile we repeat fixed, and that is its multiplication. The first degree is a work of nature, the second of the art, the third of nature and the art. The medicine of the third order is known as the major order because it demands a great precision and work in its preparation craftsmanship and its accomplishment, and a long work to its true perfection. 146
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That is why we cannot distinguish the medicine of this order from that of the 2 Order in different forms only through the more subtle degrees of the preparation in its completion and the long work. Plato said that these miraculous medicines and tinctures according to the rule (of the 3 kingdoms): "He who has the gift of God, he has the greatest secret of nature, the most delicious secret that is beyond all value and is an unparallel treasure and of great value." Senior confirmed with the words: "He who possesses this science which comes the elixir is so rich as the one with the fire anytime and how much he wants no pity as he has reached the end of all wealth by having the power to transform all imperfect metals into gold and very pure silver. And this on (concerning) the tincture is enough to each brother. "
Spiritus Vini for Extracting of Tinctures One prepares the Spirit of wine with the best wine or water of life, being certain that it was prepared with wine. After making the Spirit of Wine, it must be Tartarised in the following manner: take of tartar, it should be cooked by someone who fires vessels/vessels and it becomes of a beautiful white-like salt. Or it is possible to calcine it yourself: take of tartar coarsely ground, then wrap it in paper proceed as normal as if one had cooked and calcined silver in a burning fire to a white mass, but in such a way that it does not melt in a fire too high. Note: you need to use the tartar fast after removing from oven. If it remains outside only half a day, it attracts all moisture to it and is worth nothing. If this were to happen, we should well heat it in a pan, but do not melt, then remove from heat, breaking it in pieces and putting them in a flask, then pour over the Spiritus Vini and distill as usual. The Spirit of Wine has separated, try this: put a little on a silver spoon and light it. If it burns completely and there is no moisture or fat on the spoon, then it is good. If however, it does not withstand this test, it must be distilled again wit h tartar freshly cooked. You have to take 2 or 3 pounds of Spiritus Vini for a pound of cooked tartar. This is how to prepare the Spirius Vini for the extraction of tinctures all the stones that are described here in this book. This is a manipulation necessary to know to whom was given by God to enter the temple of wisdom. And in order to omit anything essential for the perfection of an artist at this stage, I what to talk about our type of philosophical furnace, so that we can understand what our teachers mean when they say: "Put it in our furnace of degrees."
The Philosophical Furnace This is nothing but a device of cast white or of tinplate or even made of the copper in which the degrees of heat are given with one or more lamps of light (sic!) for the preparation of tinctures and the realization of the philosopher's stone. The following picture shows such a device. There is still another device called an Athanor, built with stones, similar to a round tower, about 6 or 8 feet high. On the two or four sides of the cup of sand in which to govern the strong heat and low by means of its own registers of the tower (sic!). His description is found among different writers where you can control it. The illustration of the furnace of copper or tinplate:
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A. is the cover that is tightly closed in interlocking with four holes you can open and close to increase or decrease the heat. B. is the cup of sand of copper filled with sand or water where there are vials/flaskes. C. is a small tin container in which is placed the lamp that is able to be removed & returned. D. is the holes in the cover that must be well able to close with a larger tinplate, or with a small screen. E. is a small window of crystal or clear glass to see the white vessels.
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The Chemical Alphabet The following chemical alphabet has been incorporated into this book so that it can be used for different purposes, such as to be able to write chemical secrets about things so that, if such a manuscript was lost or should fall into the hands of strangers, they would not take the trouble to read it, or if you want to correspond with another friend, it can be written secretly. As I collected in this book all that I received transmitted in a way true and perfect from our masters wise in Chymia Adepta, I want to conclude on behalf of the Holy Trinity, in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
The Table of Transmutations In this table everyone will find easily how he should understand the influence of the planets and the conjunctions with their celestial symbols, and the hours which a transformation must be performed. Often one reads that a philosopher should also be an astrologer, from experience it is also known that, from the same materials, it is possible to have good luck at such time and have bad luck at another time. These cases are attributed to the influence of the planets, a particular moment, at a particular time in certain celestial symbol. In the table before, it is possible to find them. We have put them here on purpose to report on our own experiences and to know if we should be orientated in Alchymie in accordance with the planets or not.
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The Table of Schedules We begin the night of Saturday one hour after the first hour of Sunday as the first hour Solis and so on until a hours of the night begins when the first hour Lunae and so on across all the planets, across all days of the week until Saturday. These are the hours that he must calculate from the Transmutation table above. However, there are other uses of this schedule table, that is to say to harvest herbs and other plants at different signs & times which shall be observed according to the lessons of many learned men. However, we purposely omitted them because they are not part of this work. Here we want to tell of the various unsuccessful/unlucky days of the year, although they are not considered of risk by nearly all men and even a scholar does not take into account the axiom that says: "Sapiens cominabitur Astris." However, these days have been noted even by wise master sages and that is why it is necessary that we also know these days to act thoughtfully/reflective in all ways, if a work did not reach its intended effect during these days.
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The Critical Days of the Year These Days are as Followed: January: 1, 2, 4, 6, 11, 12, 20 February: 1, 11, 18 March: 14, 16 April: 10, 17, 18 May: 7, 8 June: 17 July: 17, 21 September: 10, 18 October: 6 November: 6, 11, 15 December: 6, 11, 15
One that was born such days will be in general unhappy and suffer of poverty all his life. The one who gets sick on such a day rarely recovers back health. Those betroth and marry on these days end up in great poverty. On such a day, do not act or start a process and finally he must not do any melting, making cupellation or transmutations on one of these days. All this is being described here, and not by superstition, but because so many scholars and wise men that do not treat astrology as an empty dream have transmitted it to us all. Here I also want to describe the Spirit of Wine to be used finally for the extraction of tinctures because it is necessary to know that even if the philosopher’s stone is completed according to all its degrees, it is not always completely pure and there will always be something of a terrestrial nature. To prevent this and to keep it in its highest purity we pulverize the stone, after which it must be put into a flask and add Spiritus Vini: a brother has to hear what Spiritus Vini so that it cannot take any one, otherwise it will suffer damage but must use of the Spirit according to the extraction of tinctures. … [The process about extraction of tinctures using spiriutus vini has been relocated to page 147]
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