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reduce, and to fix. To dissolve the gross into simple and to make it subtle, to wash the obscure into bright, to reduce
the moist into dry, to fix the volatile upon a fixed body. To dissolve is to divide bodies and to make the matter or
first nature. To wash is to inhumate, to distil and to calcine. To reduce is to impregnate, to incerate and to
impregnate, and to subtilate. To fix is to resolve, conjoin and to coagulate. By the first the nature is changed
inwardly, by the second outwardly, by the third highest, and by the fourth lowest.
Reviving
Here the Soul descendeth gloriously from heaven,
And raiseth up the Daughter of Philosophy.
Geber in his third book and 19th Chapter: Because we have fully entreated of the known experiences of the
sufficiency of the causes of this magistery, according to the exigency of speech concerning our purpose, now it
remains for us to come in one little chapter to the accomplishment of the whole divine work and to draw the
dispersed magistery into a brevity of speech.
We say therefore because there is no brief intention of the whole work but that the known stone may be taken, and
then with the instances of the work the sublimation to be continued upon it, and by this it is cleansed from the
corrupting impurity and it is the perfection of sublimation and with it the stone is to be made subtle until it come into
the last purity of subtleness, and lastly be made volatile. But from hence let it be fixed with the manners of fixing,
until it wax quiet in the sharpness of the fire and here consists the second degree of preparation.
And in the third degree the stone is administered in like sort which consists in the last accomplishment of the
preparation, that is to say that you make the Stone which is now fixed with the means of Sublimation, to be volatile,
and that which is volatile to be fixed, and the fixed dissolved, and the dissolved to be again volatile, and again to
make the volatile fixed until it melt and alter in the sure accomplishment of Sol and Luna. Therefore the
multiplication of the goodness of alteration rejoices at the reiteration of preparation of the third degree in the
medicine. Therefore, of the diversity of the reiteration of the work upon the Stone in his degrees, the diversity of the
multiplication of the goodness of alteration rejoices, that of the medicines some of them transmute sevenfold, some
tenfold, some an hundred fold and some a thousand fold, yea, and some transmute infinitely into the true and perfect
bodies of Sol and Luna. From hence, therefore, and lastly, let it be tried whether the magistery consists in perfection.
Therefore let him attend who desires to know the properties of the action, or the manner of the composition of the
greater Elixir, for we speak to make one substance yet gathered out of many united together and fixed, which being
put upon the fire, the fire may not alter it, and being mingled with melted things it may melt with them, it may be
mingled with that which is of an ingrossable substance in it and with that which is of a mingling substance, and is
hardened with that which is of an hard substance and fixed with that which is of an fixing substance, and it is not
burnt of these things that burn gold or silver, and brings to the consolidation with a due and perfect fieryness.
Yet you may not understand it so far in a short time, when in a four days or hours it may be restored at the first turn,
but that in respect of the modern physicians and in respect also of the truth of the operation of nature, but this is
sooner ended. From whence the Philosopher has said, "A medicine is that which in the long space of time has been
anticipated," wherefore I tell you that you labour patiently because it is a necessity so to do, and surely hastiness is
partly of the Devil. Therefore he who has no patience, let him refrain his hands from the work, because unbelief
hinders him by reason of his hastiness.
For every action naturally has its mean and determined time, in which space more or less it is determined.
There are three things necessary for this Art, that is Patience, Delay and Aptness of instruments, of which we have
spoken in diverse chapters in the sum of this perfect magistery, in which we conclude with manifest and open proof,
that our Stone is nothing else but a stinking spirit and a living water which we also name dry water, and cleansed by
natural proportion and united with such union, that it cannot be separated from it. To which the third ought to be
added, to abbreviate the work this perfect body is attenuated.
Therefore from the premises, the things are manifest, in which the truth consists and by which the work itself is
effected.
Of the Coagulation and Preparation of the First Stone and the Sublimation of it
Here follows certain more notable things collected out of a little book of one called Ademarus upon Geber the King
of the Persians, and in the fourth chapter where he says -
As much as the Stone is cleansed by sublimation and by its burning taken away by the extraction of the oil from it,
and his flight is destroyed by the fixing of it, yet nevertheless it is neither melted, entered into, nor mingled, but it is
vitrified, as it is in the seventh chapter of Geber. Yea, rather it ought to be dissolved in the sharpness of waters and
be calcined many times as it is had in the sixty seventh chapter of Geber.
Geber in his sixth chapter says that by the manifold reiteration of Imbibing and with light grinding and drying the
wateriness of it, the greater part is blotted out. This is therefore the Sublimation of the first degree, by which the
wateriness of Mercury is consumed afterwards in a vessel body which is described in the twenty eighth chapter, that
whole substance must be sprinkled in the bottom of it and then let the fire be increased as it is said in the third
chapter about the middle of it, until part of it excelling pure in whiteness the white snow, sticks to the brims of the
body, his whiteness being as it were dead. And this is our Sublimation by which the earthly stinkingness and the
parts of Sulphur with the faeces remain at the bottom, and in it its nature is purified, and from hence let it be fixed
with the manner of fixing, that is fermented, and then let it be set in dung. It follows until it wax quiet in the
sharpness of the fire, and this is called the second Degree of preparation that is of Sublimation, but if it be demanded
how Mercury may be subtilated when in act it hath a most subtle substance (as is said in the thirty ninth and seventy
third chapters), where it is said that it should be cleansed and subtilated by the manner of sublimation or subtilation
that is with sublimation of the first degree. Therefore lastly let it stand volatile, that is let it be sublimed with firing,
so that it may ascend from the faeces as clear as crystal to the brims of the vessel.
Geber says "make white Laton, that is earth, and lay up the books, that your hearts may not be broken". And in
another place: "Fire and water do wash Laton, and wipe away the blackness of it". It follows therefore that which is
sublimed in the vessel Aludel, reiterate it one time, that is fix it by subliming, as he says in his sixty-second chapter,
because a soft fire as it is said in the same place is a preserver of the moistness and a perfecter of the fusion.
Likewise it is said in the thirtieth chapter that Argent vive ought first to be sublimed and afterwards to be fixed.
Likewise it is said in the twenty-eighth chapter that Mercury is fixed by his successive sublimation, so that it may [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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reduce, and to fix. To dissolve the gross into simple and to make it subtle, to wash the obscure into bright, to reduce
the moist into dry, to fix the volatile upon a fixed body. To dissolve is to divide bodies and to make the matter or
first nature. To wash is to inhumate, to distil and to calcine. To reduce is to impregnate, to incerate and to
impregnate, and to subtilate. To fix is to resolve, conjoin and to coagulate. By the first the nature is changed
inwardly, by the second outwardly, by the third highest, and by the fourth lowest.
Reviving
Here the Soul descendeth gloriously from heaven,
And raiseth up the Daughter of Philosophy.
Geber in his third book and 19th Chapter: Because we have fully entreated of the known experiences of the
sufficiency of the causes of this magistery, according to the exigency of speech concerning our purpose, now it
remains for us to come in one little chapter to the accomplishment of the whole divine work and to draw the
dispersed magistery into a brevity of speech.
We say therefore because there is no brief intention of the whole work but that the known stone may be taken, and
then with the instances of the work the sublimation to be continued upon it, and by this it is cleansed from the
corrupting impurity and it is the perfection of sublimation and with it the stone is to be made subtle until it come into
the last purity of subtleness, and lastly be made volatile. But from hence let it be fixed with the manners of fixing,
until it wax quiet in the sharpness of the fire and here consists the second degree of preparation.
And in the third degree the stone is administered in like sort which consists in the last accomplishment of the
preparation, that is to say that you make the Stone which is now fixed with the means of Sublimation, to be volatile,
and that which is volatile to be fixed, and the fixed dissolved, and the dissolved to be again volatile, and again to
make the volatile fixed until it melt and alter in the sure accomplishment of Sol and Luna. Therefore the
multiplication of the goodness of alteration rejoices at the reiteration of preparation of the third degree in the
medicine. Therefore, of the diversity of the reiteration of the work upon the Stone in his degrees, the diversity of the
multiplication of the goodness of alteration rejoices, that of the medicines some of them transmute sevenfold, some
tenfold, some an hundred fold and some a thousand fold, yea, and some transmute infinitely into the true and perfect
bodies of Sol and Luna. From hence, therefore, and lastly, let it be tried whether the magistery consists in perfection.
Therefore let him attend who desires to know the properties of the action, or the manner of the composition of the
greater Elixir, for we speak to make one substance yet gathered out of many united together and fixed, which being
put upon the fire, the fire may not alter it, and being mingled with melted things it may melt with them, it may be
mingled with that which is of an ingrossable substance in it and with that which is of a mingling substance, and is
hardened with that which is of an hard substance and fixed with that which is of an fixing substance, and it is not
burnt of these things that burn gold or silver, and brings to the consolidation with a due and perfect fieryness.
Yet you may not understand it so far in a short time, when in a four days or hours it may be restored at the first turn,
but that in respect of the modern physicians and in respect also of the truth of the operation of nature, but this is
sooner ended. From whence the Philosopher has said, "A medicine is that which in the long space of time has been
anticipated," wherefore I tell you that you labour patiently because it is a necessity so to do, and surely hastiness is
partly of the Devil. Therefore he who has no patience, let him refrain his hands from the work, because unbelief
hinders him by reason of his hastiness.
For every action naturally has its mean and determined time, in which space more or less it is determined.
There are three things necessary for this Art, that is Patience, Delay and Aptness of instruments, of which we have
spoken in diverse chapters in the sum of this perfect magistery, in which we conclude with manifest and open proof,
that our Stone is nothing else but a stinking spirit and a living water which we also name dry water, and cleansed by
natural proportion and united with such union, that it cannot be separated from it. To which the third ought to be
added, to abbreviate the work this perfect body is attenuated.
Therefore from the premises, the things are manifest, in which the truth consists and by which the work itself is
effected.
Of the Coagulation and Preparation of the First Stone and the Sublimation of it
Here follows certain more notable things collected out of a little book of one called Ademarus upon Geber the King
of the Persians, and in the fourth chapter where he says -
As much as the Stone is cleansed by sublimation and by its burning taken away by the extraction of the oil from it,
and his flight is destroyed by the fixing of it, yet nevertheless it is neither melted, entered into, nor mingled, but it is
vitrified, as it is in the seventh chapter of Geber. Yea, rather it ought to be dissolved in the sharpness of waters and
be calcined many times as it is had in the sixty seventh chapter of Geber.
Geber in his sixth chapter says that by the manifold reiteration of Imbibing and with light grinding and drying the
wateriness of it, the greater part is blotted out. This is therefore the Sublimation of the first degree, by which the
wateriness of Mercury is consumed afterwards in a vessel body which is described in the twenty eighth chapter, that
whole substance must be sprinkled in the bottom of it and then let the fire be increased as it is said in the third
chapter about the middle of it, until part of it excelling pure in whiteness the white snow, sticks to the brims of the
body, his whiteness being as it were dead. And this is our Sublimation by which the earthly stinkingness and the
parts of Sulphur with the faeces remain at the bottom, and in it its nature is purified, and from hence let it be fixed
with the manner of fixing, that is fermented, and then let it be set in dung. It follows until it wax quiet in the
sharpness of the fire, and this is called the second Degree of preparation that is of Sublimation, but if it be demanded
how Mercury may be subtilated when in act it hath a most subtle substance (as is said in the thirty ninth and seventy
third chapters), where it is said that it should be cleansed and subtilated by the manner of sublimation or subtilation
that is with sublimation of the first degree. Therefore lastly let it stand volatile, that is let it be sublimed with firing,
so that it may ascend from the faeces as clear as crystal to the brims of the vessel.
Geber says "make white Laton, that is earth, and lay up the books, that your hearts may not be broken". And in
another place: "Fire and water do wash Laton, and wipe away the blackness of it". It follows therefore that which is
sublimed in the vessel Aludel, reiterate it one time, that is fix it by subliming, as he says in his sixty-second chapter,
because a soft fire as it is said in the same place is a preserver of the moistness and a perfecter of the fusion.
Likewise it is said in the thirtieth chapter that Argent vive ought first to be sublimed and afterwards to be fixed.
Likewise it is said in the twenty-eighth chapter that Mercury is fixed by his successive sublimation, so that it may [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]