The alchemical writings of Edward Kelly / Tr. from the Hamburg edition of 1676, and ed. with a biographical preface.

  • Edward Kelley
Date:
1893
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The alchemical writings of Edward Kelly / Tr. from the Hamburg edition of 1676, and ed. with a biographical preface. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    123/232 page 51
    SOME FRAGMENTS OF KELLY. EXTRACTED FROM HIS LETTERS, {From a letter of Edzvard Kelly, dated June 20, 1587.] AS you are willing to take my advice, I will partially reveal to you the Arcanum, so that the field may not disappoint the hopes of the husbandman. Open your ears. Our gold and silver. Sun and Moon, active and passive principles, are not those which you can hold in your hand, but a certain silver and golden hermaph- roditic water; if you extract it from any perfect or imperfect metallic body, you have the Water of Life, the Asa- foetida, and Green Lion, in which are all colours, ending in two—white and red. The earth does not so much matter, only let it be fixed, for the Elixir must above all be fixed. If you are in
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3