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HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.
we call the lower region, and we use them for all coagu-
lations, indurations, refrigerations,
and conservations of
bodies. We use them likewise for the imitation of natural
mines, and the production of new artificial mettalls by com-
positions and materials which we lay there for many years.
We use them also sometimes for cureing some diseases, and
for prolongation of life in hermits that choose to live there,
well accomodated of all things necessary, by whom also
'
we learn many things (read our Temple of Wisdome ').
We have burialls in several earths, where we put diverse
cements, as the Chineses do their borcellane ;
but we have
them in greater variety, and some of them more fine. We
have also great variety of composts and soyles for the
making of the earth fruitfull. We have towers, the highest
about half a mile in height, and some of them set upon
high mountaines, so that the vantage
tower is, in the highest of them,
of the hill with the
three miles at least. These
places we call the upper region, accounting the aire between
the highest places and lowest as a middle region. We use
these towers, according to their severall heights and situa-
tions, for insolation, refrigeration, conservation, and the
view of divers meteors as winds, rain, snow, haile, and
some of the fiery meteors also. Upon them, in some places,
are dwellings of hermits, whom we visite sometimes, and
instruct what to observe (Read our '
World ').
Harmony
of the
We have great lakes, both salt and fresh, whereof
we have use for the fish and fowle. We use them also for
burials of some naturall bodies, for we find a difference in
things buried in earth, or in aire below the earth, and
things buryed in the water. We have also pooles, of which
some do strain e fresh water out of salt, and others by arts
do turne fresh water into salt. We have also some rocks