De mirabilibus naturea arcanis - Of the wondrous and mysterious natures

De mirabilibus naturea arcanis - Of the wondrous and mysterious natures

By Anonymous

Universal operation

Take the purest Salt, cooked by the sun, do it dry to make an impalpable powder, & the keep; then in the month of March or June, in full Moon, take the Dew that falls, from this way as follows:

It is necessary to plant stakes of one and a half feet height, level with each other, put on top large glass tiles with dew attached to.

Have a glass vessel in which you put the dew, & continue until you have enough; because the whole neighborhood & the full Moon is good, but other times, it is too weak.

Have enough of this water, plug the vessel well until you have to.

Place your vessel in a cold place, away from any heat, lest the subtle spirits lose, which does not happen when the ship is well clogged & full.

So begin your work as follows, with a pure and sincere intention, so that God may bless it.

Take as much of this Dew as you want; put it in a clear, clean glass vessel, & add your salt little by little until the Dew can no longer dissolve, what you will know when the last salt you put in it will remain four to five days without melting; SO the Dew will have gained its natural weight.

As matter is seeded

Take this water at your discretion, (for me I took some a pound and a half). Put it in a glass vial with a short neck, that is to say a cucurbit, fill it with this water, & cover the vessel with a lid appropriate, & fight it so that the lively & subtle spirit of the Dew cannot evaporate. Because when he left, the soul of Salt can never again be brought back, nor the work succeed.

Dry the bed well by itself, and put it vessel to the Bain Marie to make the material which is inside rotting.

It is necessary to give it a medium degree of fire, & the thus leave to putrefaction forty-two; you there will see it turn black, which is a sure mark of putrefaction.

Have a dry stove ready, i.e. sand or ashes, & put your cucurbit on top, which will have to be locked in another vessel of glass, give it a low heat, & continue thus the space of thirteen days, & the matter will begin to coagulate & to see around the glass, a grayish color.

So don't give any more fire, for fear of drying out too much the material that you will gradually let cool on the stove.

After which, have the Bain Marie ready and put your vessel to rot as before, give him the same degree of fire that you will continue him too forty two days, & then you will see your matter resolve itself; But you have to take be careful not to break the bed when you put it putrefy in Bain Marie: Cover the mouth of the ship including read it too; because the humidity of the bath could well detach the bed, and for this, it is safer to lock up the vessel, in which is yours matter, in another vessel, and the well butchered, as explained above.

When you see that matter will begin again to blacken, you will in the moment place your vessel to coagulate on the furnace of sand, or ashes, & when you see nature become gray & attached to the ship, return to Bain Marie for the third times: Continue the fire as before, & repeat this work up to five times, that is to say putrefy at Bain Marie for forty-two days, & coagulate on the stove with sand, or ashes, for thirteen days, until you see your water clear, clean, & transparent in the resolution: But the coagulation should be snow-white; she is prepared & become fixed.

Before opening the vial to take what is inside, it is necessary to resolve the matter in the Bath Marie, then let it cool: then open the vessel, you will find matter diminished, & instead of salt water that you put there, you will find it sweet, but penetrating, & a little harsh, from which are makes the Sun & the Moon.

For medicine twenty five drops of this water, strengthens the mind & memory, makes man wise, gives revelations of great things & marvelous of all the unheard Mysteries of which I do not dare to speak here by the Oath that I made to God.

Time & manner to use this water blessed, will be revealed to you; as soon as you have taken it, you will have influences, as if Heaven & all the stars with their strength worked in you. All the Celestial arts & perfections will come to you like in a dream; But apply yourself perfectly to the perfect knowledge of Nature of all creations especially of the Miracle of the Great God creator of Heaven & earth, & in doing so, you will be like Moses, David, & other brothers Saints; because the Wisdom of this living fountain gives you will make him well known, as she did to Solomon & other brothers of our fraternity.

Metallic Operation

If you want now, you can with this water achieve the transmutation of metals to make them a dye on metals. Listen :

Take in the name of God, this heavenly water, or Paradise, or Mercurial, pour in as much as you want in a glass vessel, then have good Gold, or fine Sun beaten into leaves if you want work in Red, & if you want to work in White, take very fine Moon also in sheets:

Throw it into this holy water to make it dissolution, as you did here before for the Salt, & it will dissolve like ice does in hot water, over ashes.

Continue this little by little until you see that the Sun or the Moon no longer want to dissolve; So throw some more until after four days they can no longer dissolve, as it is said above, then this water will have dissolved its weight natural ; This is what we call the weight of nature.

Put this solution in a glass vessel; in so that it only occupies the third part.

Let the lute dry after having lluted it well, & then you will put it in the Bain Marie at the same heat & way that on for forty two days, after which the Sun or the Moon will be radically dissolved, & you will see black blacker than black.

As soon as you see your material in such a state of darkness, put your hot ship on your furnace of sand or ashes at the same heat that here ahead, you will see & hear wonders surprising caused by a sound like water, with various colors which will pass before your eyes, like the world was created from the beginning, & who is the principle, the middle & the end of time.

After the space of twelve or thirteen days, the matter will precipitate into a very beautiful red powder if you worked in the Sun, & if it is on the Moon, it will be white in color; then the body, the soul & the spirit will be united together.

There is no true dissolution of the body except the spirits are not previously coagulated; so they remain reduced to each other in an equal proportion, so that Corporal aid becomes a penetrating Spiritual power, & on the contrary the incomprehensible essential power unites with him bodily by fire, because there is such communication between these two, as Heaven operates deep within the Earth, & produces all the treasures of the world.

Projection

Melt five parts of good Sun or Moon, according to your composition in a crucible, then throw in a part of your powder enclosed in wax, and give a big fire; an hour later remove the crucible from the fire, and you will find your Sun or your Moon broken & calcined of which you will take part on ten of such metal as you wish, when melted it will change in a moment into Sun or Moon, according to your composition, better than Gold taken from mining; but I advise you not to keep a lot of your powder, if not to make one test & see the truth; Because if you put the first powder to putrefy once again in the Bain Marie, it will change into oil within thirty days ; the Red in oil Red, the White in oil White or Blue.

Three drops of this Red oil taken in water of Melissa or good wine, do all the wonders said above, heal thoroughly in a moment, all diseases, rejuvenate the human body as if it was regenerated, chases away all weakness of the limbs, & outside everything that is spoiled or bad by great sweat, mend all that is corrupt, etc, puts man in perfect health until the end that God has set for him.

If you take some metal well reddened in the fire, and you immersed it in this oil or potable gold, it will change in the moment without melting, in full Sun or Moon as I taught you, having experienced it.

But in doing this he loses a lot, it is why if we want to take the test, we have to do it fair & skillfully.

If you want to finish this oil for a projection put it back again to coagulate & harden, it will change in ten days with a marvel incredible, in a powder that will be of all colors & which will then become much more beautiful & redder than she was: She has Redness & the beauty of a Ruby, it sparkles like a Carbuncle when it is made for Red, & much whiter than snow, when it is made for White: You will throw part of it on fifty Gold, or molten Moon, after having given a big fire for an hour, & it will convert into powder, part of which will in a moment project out of a hundred parts of such molten metal as you wish sow, & who will find himself truly changed into Sun or Moon, all the finer as the work will be well done.

If you want to increase this Medicine, put it back still your powder in the Bain Marie to make it dissolve for the last time, which will be done in six days, & will render it for the Red in Red oil, beautiful & transparent, & for White, like transparent Silver, a drop of which does all that we said: But we must continue to take it one drop per month, as I did & experienced on myself: This oil is so hot that it is necessary use with caution, because it is part of life to use it otherwise.

It is currently that this oil can project, if we coagulate it on the stove of sand or ashes, you will see incredible wonders of all kinds of colors with infinite number of small animals, ascending & descending, & in eight days all matter will sink to the bottom like a dead body, and of which you will put one part in five, either of Sun or of molten Moon, do as before, & you will have a Medicine, one of which part falling out of a thousand of imperfect metal, such as it maybe, will change in a moment to a very fine one Sun or Moon. You can continue up to five times resolve & coagulate this matter.

After the fourth resolution at Bain Marie & coagulation on ashes or sand, part falling out of five thousand Sun or Moon, becomes after one hour of great fire, a Medicine of which part falling on ten thousand parts of imperfect metal melted, changes in an instant to the end of Sun or Moon.

After having perfected it & increased it in this way until the fifth time it will resolve into oil in three days, & in twenty-four hours will coagulate at the fire of ashes or sand into a powder of a force incredible, & to the White like a beautiful ray of light according to the samples.

That if you have left of this last coagulation of which a part falling on fifty thousand Sun or Moon melted in a great fire for an hour, changes as before into projection powder which one part falling on a hundred thousand of metal imperfect melted, converts into very fine in an instant Sun or Moon better & purer than that of Earth mines.

This is how far I have been able to take it; having put for the sixth time this matter to operate, it became so subtle in twenty-four hours, that the greatest part flew away in such a surprising way with a smell so sweet that it surpasses all imagination.

So begin your work, I did it from the way I explained it to you. Be all yours devout & charitable heart, & you will succeed in your work, & while you are busy, you will be visited by several brothers of your fraternity; Because I write to you the pure truth about the place that God has for me given to Heaven.

Finally with the help of immortal God, with my prayers & diligences, I happily came to the end of this Great Work that I have seen with my eyes & touched by my hands. Amen, Farewell & Silence.

END

Quote of the Day

“Mercury is corrupted with Metals by way of alteration, not dissipation: because Bodies dissolved therein are never separated from it, as in Aquafortis and other corrosives, but one kind puts on and hides another, retain∣ing it secretly and perfectly: so Sol and Lune dissolved, are secretly retained in it. For their nature is hid in Mercury, even unto its condensation, of which they lying hid are the cause, in as much as they are latent in it: and as Mercury dissolves them, and hides them in its belly, so they also congeal it, and what was hard is made soft, what was soft, hard; and yet the kind, that is, Metals and Quick-silver, abide still.”

Bernard Trevisan

The Answer of Bernardus Trevisanus, to the Epistle of Thomas of Bononia

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