_BASILIUS VALENTINUS_,
A
BENEDICTINE MONK,
OF
_NATURAL & SUPERNATURAL_
THINGS.
ALSO,
Of the first _Tincture_, _Root_, and _Spirit_ of METALS and MINERALS, how the same are _Conceived_, _Generated_, _Brought forth_, _Changed,_ and _Augmented_.
Whereunto is added, Frier _Roger Bacon_, of the _Medicine_ or _Tincture_ of _Antimony_; Mr. _John Isaac Holland_, his Work of _Saturn_, and ALEX. VAN SUCHTEN, of the _Secrets_ of _Antimony_.
Translated out of _High Dutch_ by DANIEL CABLE.
_LONDON_,
Printed, and are to be Sold by _Moses Pitt_ at the _White Hart_ in _Little Britain_, 1671.
_BASILIUS VALENTINUS_,
A
BENEDICTINE MONK,
OF
_NATURAL & SUPERNATURAL_
THINGS.
ALSO,
Of the first _Tincture_, _Root_, and _Spirit_ of METALS and MINERALS, how the same are _Conceived_, _Generated_, _Brought forth_, _Changed_, and _Augmented_.
Translated out of _High Dutch_ by DANIEL CABLE.
Whereunto is added
ALEX. Van SUCHTEN
OF THE
SECRETS of _ANTIMONY_.
Translated out of _High Dutch_ by _D. C._ a Person of great Skill in _Chymistry_.
_LONDON_,
Printed, and are to be sold by _Moses Pitt_ at the _White Hart_ in _Little Britain_, 1670.
_Basilius Valentinus_,
OF
_Natural and Supernatural Things_.
CHAP. I.
Because I have at this present undertaken to write of the of the first Tincture, the Root of Metals and Minerals, and to inform you of the Spiritual Essence, how the Metals and Minerals are at first spiritually conceived and born corporally; it will be necessary first of all to utter, and to acquaint you by a speech, that all things consist of two parts, that is, Natural and Supernatural; what is visible, tangible, and hath form or shape, that is natural; but what is intactible, without form, and spiritual, that is supernatural, and must
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Of Natural and Supernatural Things
- 2: Comparable to a Magnetick Attraction only
- 3: If you would prepare them for Physick
- 4: Are all Divine and Supernatural
- 5: Hereunto appertain the Monsters of the Earth
- 6: But manifest themselves supernaturally
- 7: And gained a remarkable Melioration altogether
- 8: Found in a Metallick Liquorish substance
- 9: And let the Sydereal likewise alone
- 10: Which unites it self with the Mercurial Substance
- 11: That without the Spirit of Mercury
- 12: But the true Sulphur is incombustible
- 13: By reason of the superfluous Sulphur
- 14: That a fixt Body should be generated thereof
- 15: As concerning the Spirit of Copper
- 16: A third assuming a mixt Nature and Complection to it self
- 17: The Disease or Menstruous Fluxes of Women
- 18: The Super celestial and the Celestial worlds
- 19: Because the superiour Stars have past through the inferiour
- 20: The Quintessence of Pearl corroborates the Heart
- 21: Otherwise it is a waterish Spirit
- 22: After this putrefaction and opening
- 23: Coagulate them together by the fixation of the Fire
- 24: Therefore it is not alwayes to be advised
- 25: Sagitary and Pisces were allotted unto me
- 26: Having generated an unfixt Body of Saturn
- 27: You must not therefore quite reject Saturn
- 28: But Talck is far different from Antimony
- 29: Fine and very pure Mineral Antimony
- 30: They mix with it one part of Salt Armoniac
- 31: Set it four daies and nights in a gentle Balneum Mariae
- 32: And wonderful in curing humane Distempers
- 33: This high red pouder will then begin to flux
- 34: For if Saturn be Gold internally
- 35: That Saturn is our Philosophers Stone
- 36: Have in readiness a great Stone Jugg
- 37: Look upon Sugar which is well clarified from its Faeces
- 38: Why is Saturn fluxible as Wax
- 39: Set it in a Cuple with sifted Ashes upon a Furnace
- 40: You then need no Salt Armoniac
- 41: The Oyl was unknown to the Ancients
- 42: And coagulate the Matter so long till it be dry and shine
- 43: Dissolve by itself in a Glass with distilled Vinegar
- 44: This is the true Aurum potabile