The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber: containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy in the working of metallick mines, and the separation of metals. Also, various cheap and easie ways of making salt-petre, and improving of barren-land, and the fruits of the earth / Translated into English, and pub. for publick good by Christopher Packe.

  • Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670.
Date:
1689
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Credit: The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber: containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy in the working of metallick mines, and the separation of metals. Also, various cheap and easie ways of making salt-petre, and improving of barren-land, and the fruits of the earth / Translated into English, and pub. for publick good by Christopher Packe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    51 that watet into Blooci, as you your felf have now feen with your own F.yes. A. I co)ffeJ}y that thire have notv been Jhervn to the vietv of mine own Eyes, fuch and fj great things, the liky of which I never heard fo mncb as one word of, from any others, No Body would believe me, and ( which is worfe J mine Enemies, who are moji vile Complers of infamous Libels, would fet upon mewith ftore of nproaches and lyes, and call me Sophifer and Cheater, and would jay, that 1 hoyl fame Braille wood, or other Red colouring Stuff in water, and fa fell it for the Kofey Blood of the Lynn. And therefore,! have no reafon to makp ffew of any knowledge vf this fo great a Secret. B. How ? what will you be afiaid fo be a reporter of the Truth •, and to nianifeft thefe great wonders of God and l^ature. That very way by which I (hew¬ ed unto you, that that mod: high Colour arifeth out of Gold, by the felf fame way may you be able to fliut the defiled mouths of your Enemies. And if they will not believe, that there lyes hidden fuch a Colour in Gold, they will be convinced by the faid Lyons Blood, which, being made bright hot in a ftrong Fire, and afterwards boiled again in other water, will convertthe fame, as it did the former, into Blood, and this you may even do, as often as you pleafe. By this it is manifcftly evident, that the Blood of our Lyon is incombuftible. And in our being buiied about thofe La¬ bours of ours,there prefent themfelves to our view,three molt delicate Flowers: The firlt is, a Violet, dyed with a mixt red and Sky Colour; Then, the White Lilly •, and at la(t, tire immortal Amaranthus (hining with a Scarlet dye. But why, immortal ? For this realon, be- caufe neither the ftrongelt Fire, nor the Itrongcft Cor- rolive waters can at all hurt it, or change its Colours. The Amarantbus is tinged with the higheft and mod conflant Colour, beyond all other Herbs and Flower^s, tbe which does not fo foon vanilh after the manner of other Colours, which other Flowers have , but a- bides conflant for many years, infomuch, that fuch an Herb is kept both Winter and Summer, to make Gar¬ land and Pofies, or fuch like, withal. A. If now any one could be fo happy at la/}, as to en¬ joy that Amaranthus, he might prefent many pious Vir¬ gins, with Pofies and Garlands made thereof B. If you are defirous of ufing the Lyons Blood in your Operations, then follow Paracelfus his Dodrine, in his LinUnre off the Philofophers, where he teacheth, that the Rofey Blood is to beconjoyned andfixt with the white Glew of the Eagle •, which way feems the neareft for the obtaining of the univerfal Tindure. A. 1 <ttn delighted with hearing of this : The' Kcfey Blood of the Lyon I have, but yet 1 want the white Gtew of the Eaglewhich if I could but get into my pow¬ er , I would conjoyn them both together without any more delay, and bring them to Fixation, But I cannot fuffciently enough admire at this, viz. that Paracelfus hath made no mention, if conjoyning the Virgins Milk, of Diana with the Kings Blood. B. Paracelfus has not therefore injured any, in his rot manifefling all things fo clearly and openly, feeing it is the Cuflom with other Philofophers to do the like : If you are defirous to ufe Gold and Silver con- joyned together, in your working, then deal with the Silver, juft as I taught you to do with the Gold, and make thereof an incombuftible Lac Virginis, and fuch as admits not of any Redudion-, the which is to be conjoyned with the incombuftible Blood of the Lyon, and to be put into a VelTcl, that fo thefe two Bodies, being conjoyned, may be rroft conftantly |^or firmly 3 united, and may never be feparated from each other by any kind of disjoyning. But, that you may yet I better undeiftand rhe whole bufinels, I will fubjoyn a few words more. Cur white Eagle being pur In common Vv’ater, makes the fame, wherein it is diftll ved, fo tenacious and glutinous, as that, it can glew Paper Or other things together j and, therefore it is nor without caufe, that this our fecret Salt is termiCd by Philofophers, the Glew of the Eagle. For thofe things,which this Glew joyns together,can never more be feparated from each other, and this is one mutual Bond, by which the Husband and the Wife are fb linked together, that they cannot feparate from one another. It doth not much differ from the tye of Marriage, by which, the Husband and the Wife, or the young Man and Maid, .are by Gods Command To knit and bound to each other by the ordinary Minifter of God , that nothing but Death can feparate them. If now a Man and Woman joyn themfelves together without the legitimate and publick Bond of Matri¬ mony, they beget illegitimate Children, and can (when they pleafe) break that Conjundion of theirs, and depart the one from the other, becaufc they are not coupled with that Marriage, that proceeds from the Command and| Will of God i which faid coupling or Matrimony is in repute, and is generally obferved for a common Cuftom , and as being the Will and Command of God, not only amongft us Chrijiians, but likewife amongft Jews, Lurks, and Heathens, throughout the whok World. And for this reafon, the Philofophers were pleafed to introduce the like coupling or Marriage in their work, and that not on¬ ly of Sol with L««e, but likewife of Mars with Vt*. nus : Which Copulation, if wanting in thefe two laft \fviz. S' and S : 3 their conjoyning cannot have any good and happy Succefs, as daily experience witneffeth. But now if Mars and Venus be coupled by aPrieft in the lawful Bond of Matrimony, they likewife bring forth legitimate Children, and fuch as may be promo¬ ted, unto Kingly Dignities. I could yet kindle more light unto you here, concerning this our Philofophical Copulation, viz. by what means the moft inconftant, and moft highly Volatile, things may ( by the Opera¬ tion of the fame ) be fo conjoyned, as that they can never afterwards be loofened from their infeparable knitting together. But at the prefent you arc not ca¬ pable of bearing any more. Whatfoever hath been now omitted, by reafon of the (hortnefs of time, (hall be made up at our next meeting and Conference. But, one thing more comes in mind, which I would have you to know j and 'tis this. When you would make any good thing of Mars and Venus, you muft in an efpecial manner beware of their grofs Bodies, which are Leprous and unfitfor our work. ’Tis their Blood you rouft feek after, the Blood, I fay, of their inmoft Heart, and the true Soul that lyes hidden in that Blood, which is fo very near akin to the Royal Blood, And now,that you may enjoy fuch a moft noble Blood, you muft not imitate the Country fellows,who,tbrufting a knife into the Hogs necks, do fave that Blood that flows out from thence, to make Puddings withal, and take both good and bad Blood together. No! You muft therefore in the firft place, know for a certain Truth, that you muft feparate out of that grolfer Blood of S and ?, that moft fubtil Arterial Blood of the Heart, without which Separation, you may not expeft any good fucceediug Event. Which faid Separation, fee¬ ing, I know, that you are ignorant of, 1 have thought good to fet it afore your Eyes, which more clear and more perfpicuous Expreflions. [] Know then 3 that that moft pure Blood is never gotten by any other means