Paracelsus, his Archidoxis comprised in ten books : disclosing the genuine way of making quintessences, arcanums, magisteries, elixirs, &c : together with his books of renovation & restauration, of the tincture of the philsophers, of the manual of the philosophical medicinal stone, of the virtues of the members, of the three principles, and finally his seven books of the degrees and compositions, of receipts and natural things / faithfully and plainly Englished, and published by J.H., Oxon.

CHAP. I.

ALthough I have afore-written the Re∣lolleum's according to the Reason and Nature of Heat and Cold, to∣gether with the innate Essence; yet notwithstanding, besides those things, there are others which the Ares of Nature hath produced; and this doth by many parts excel that which I have treated of in the former Books: And that I may begin from thence; first of all, If you would exactly speake of Accidental Complexions, you shall find that in this place of degrees, the Superior, or fore∣going Relolleum's of Nature, are to be but little appro∣ved of, and that on this Account, Because throughout the whole Vniverse, there are two Natures in things which are both together in one substance, although the one of them appears onely) and these are an Innate Accident, and an Elemental Accident: Besides, Every thing in the nature of it self, is hot: For the first mat∣ter of things is hot perse; nor doth the Innate Accident change, because every one of the three principles in the Complexions, do consist or abide even unto their ulti∣mate Matter, that is, look what manner they are dis∣cerned, or found in, before the Relolleum's. In the same manner do they remain so long as until the Relolleum de∣parts. Therefore like as Experience comprehends,

or perfects the End, in like manner the beginning i•• ma∣nifested in, and by it self, yet notwithstanding before we come to those Simples which are in the degrees, 'tis to be observed, that neither their heat or cold is their Innate Accident, but rather an Elemental and External Acci∣dent.