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Authori Sacrum. Quod nemo est ausus citior, quod nemo Sophorum Præstitit, in calamo claret in orbe tuo Hactenus in sophicis sparsim tumulata tenebris Ars jacuit, dubiis inveterata strophis. Fabula nasutis; avidisq; Tarantula stultis; Oedipus ignaris; & Labyrinthus avis. Hic asinum fingebat equum, mox certior alter Pone aures leporem se tenuisse putat. Sic inbians Lapidi, Lapidis vice volvere saxum Conatur chymici nescia turba gregis. Hoc quantum tua nunc removendo industria Contribuat, sophiæ judicatipse tyro. (Saxo) Semisophiq; tuos psallent sine fraude labores, Veri candoris propria signa tui. Et ciniflona cohors, exspes, prostrata, resumptis Viribus, antiquum (macte!) subibit onus. Ne vero sine re sis infelicior ipsis, Perge laborantem continuare manum, Participesq; Sacro digitos carbone notare; Ut videant sibi Te reddere nolle parem. Quo tua sedulitas tibi nomen & omen Adepti Aspirante Dei conciliabit ope. Posteraq; emeritas cantabit natio laudes Et referet grates ubere dote pias. Sic Amico suo cecinit. ALBERTUS OTHO FABER Reg. Maj. Britannicæ Med. Ordinar 2
To the Right Honourable ROBERT BOYLE, A CHIEF MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY: Long Life and Health. THE Arcanums of Paracelsus being applauded by many men with so many and such ample Encomiums, yet not enough, incited me Ten Years since, first to undertake the consulting of Paracelsus himself about his Medicines. Two Years thereof had elapsed, in which I turned over his Books day and night, with an indefatigable and invincible Mind, yet with unequal Success, and scarce any Benefit at all: For in the Books of Paracelsus, besides the usual way of concealing Secrets, common to the Adepts, I found another much greater difficulty withal, yet less frequented by the Adepts; Paracelsus, as Corrector of the Adepts, having propos’d to himself therein, the instructing of not only raw initiated Scholars, but even expert Masters of the more secret Chymy, and for this reason he abbreviates his Receipts – with wonderful Accurtations, Learned indeed to the Learned, but to us seem as lame and imperfect, and besides, they are so disguised with most intricate Terms of the true Philosophical Chymy, as to illude not only shallow, but profound Capacities: Which Impossibility (I had almost said) of understanding, Paracelsus aggravates, by intermixing Common with Secret Receipts; which is not for a Scholar, but a most experienced Master to distinguish. But of these Difficulties, the first and greatest Obstacle withal, was my own unhappy Preconception of some certain Alkahest: For being now out of the hope of attaining to the preparation of this Liquor by other mens Books, as well as Paracelsus his own De Viribus Membrorum, I betook my self to other places, treating of the Circulatum minus, and Specificum corrosivum (as synonimous Terms of the Alkahest with some men) to which I added the Aqua or Oleum Salis, Aqua Comedens, Aqua Regis, Circulatum majus, and one after another being perswaded that some one only universal Menstruum was intended by all, that I might find the Method of preparing this Liquor in all places compared together, which I could not in each severally; but at length despairing, and being overcome by the manifold and almost incredible, yet unsuccessful pains I took, I resolved to decline Chymy and Medicine, as Arts too deep for my understanding. When behold! on a sudden the Eyes of my Mind were opened, and I saw all these things differ, not in name only, but also in matter, preparation and use; so instead of one Liquor Alkahest, which I sought for, I found in Paracelsus many Menstruums, with the several Uses of them all in Medicine; now knew I how to prepare, and according to Paracelsus; distinguish things into Essences, Magisteries, Astrums, Arcanums, and those which he calls the less Medicines, so that which was in Paracelsus most difficult to be understood by others, became more clear to me than any thing else; and so I obtained the End sooner than the Beginning: Yet the Joy from thence accrewing, fell shorter than expectation; for having tried several Experiments in vain, I came to understand that these Menstruums of Paracelsus contained something abstruse and unknown, to be understood, not in the least according to the Letter: whereupon, examining them more exactly and comparing their Qualities with the Nature of the Liquor Alkahest, I found a vast difference between it and them; for it is said, There is one Liquor Alkahest, and that universal; but many are the Menstruums of Paracelsus, these indestructible, these destructible; these not mixing with Bodies, these abiding with them; that preserves the Virtues of things, these alter them; that ascends after the Essences of things in destillation, these before their dissolutions, etc. I was at 3
Page 1: C. R. CHARLES the Second by the Gra
Page 5 and 6: TO THE STUDENTS OF THE MORE Secret
Page 7 and 8: Cloaths; that is, I will take from
Page 9 and 10: Adepts should have exposed their My
Page 11 and 12: Studies: So that nothing remains, b
Page 13 and 14: The Translator to the Reader. Your
Page 15 and 16: 24. The Aqua fortissima of Rupescis
Page 17 and 18: 72. The Water of Salt by another De
Page 19 and 20: XXIII. Mineral Menstruums compounde
Page 21 and 22: incorruptible Spirit, which is as t
Page 23 and 24: depuration of it; which Quintessenc
Page 25 and 26: OF Vegetable MENSTRUUMS. The First
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Page 29 and 30: Wine in the making of Menstruums, w
Page 31 and 32: 2. That the Aqua ardens of Philosop
Page 33 and 34: First you must know, that the Matte
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Page 37 and 38: the Oyl of the purest Luna, made wi
Page 39 and 40: the Elements from all things, he ca
Page 41 and 42: Menstruum made of Honey) to Circula
Page 43 and 44: Paracelsus prepared this Spirit of
Page 45 and 46: one of which distil into the other
Page 47 and 48: and also with the Writings of other
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yet will I demonstrate it by an Exa
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ectifi’d to the highest degree, a
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These things being done, Circulate
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Salt, pour so much of the hot Juice
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Circulatum, may also Vitriol be mad
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Take of the Vegetable first Matter
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notwithstanding seeming by this way
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epels its superfluous Phlegm, and m
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This Receipt being less clear, in m
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The Vegetable Sal Armoniack made by
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gently by Ashes three days, and by
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performed the same Work, but after
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Mercury, coagulating its own Mercur
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Take B, that is, red Wine putrify
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of our Cucurbits, which are every o
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42. The Alchymical Mercury of Riple
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well stopp’d: Then take of this W
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whereof one we will use for the viv
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yellow Colour: So also take out the
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2. That these Menstruums are the Ma
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If you would bring into action, sai
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purer parts from them, that the Wor
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shorter, Sulphur be mixed with a mi
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inspissation, coagulation, and fixa
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54. The Mercurial compounded Menstr
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the said seven Sublimations: The wa
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separate the Green Water through a
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2. That the Terrestrial Waters are
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would generate a Worm out of putrif
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Water (Elemented Menstruum of Gold)
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Take the second Air (the Menstruum
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Hitherto we have mix’d or tempere
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Menstrual Spirit (the Spirit or Blo
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in every distillation, and then wil
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whole, till the Earth remains very
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Homogeneous Universality and simpli
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must be kept for the red Work, but
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Liquors, whereof the first is a bur
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Powder into two other Cucurbits, ac
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dissolving Vessles are not to be lu
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Gate leading into our Magistery, an
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Though there be many ways of extrac
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of Menstruum, for it is all one, wh
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In the first, the Acidity of the Me
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excessive effervescence in dissolvi
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distilled in Balneo, take four ounc
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Menstruum of the same if not of str
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ead amiss, the German Authors own W
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and Spirit: As the Menstrual Blood
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Besides the Use of this Menstruum,
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Vegetable Sal Harmoniack in Spirit
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joyned with the Spirit of Aqua arde
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Blood confounded not their Colour a
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perceive an Astral Spirit (as a Lan
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But let us return to the beginning,
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104. The Stinking Menstruum of Lull
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110. A Red Water Shining Day and Ni
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2. That these Menstruums differ fro
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sublimed, of a Red Colour in the te
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Joynts very close, that the spirits
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Take the Aqua Fortis or Mineral Wat
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not of the embrionated Stinking Mat
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cool, take away the Receiver, and k
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Lastly, These words following do pr
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Vinegar is more Subtil than all thi
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through an Alembick. He reduced all
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Moreover as the like Oyl being dist
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The Three and Twentieth KIND. Miner
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particul. in particulari Martis, th
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they were separated from the Silver
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Tho these Menstruums of Isaacus are
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143. The Vegetable Fire dissolved i
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Whosoever desires to graduate his M
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Menstruusm of things Tinging, not A
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the work of fixation from the more
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