The Philosophical epitaph of W.C. Esquire for a memento mori on his tomb-stone, vvith three hieroglyphical scutcheons and their philosophical motto's and explanation : with the philosophical Mercury, nature of seed and life, and growth of metalls, and a discovery of the immortal liquor alchahest : the salt of tartar volatized and other elixirs with their differences. Also, A brief of the golden calf, the worlds idol : discovering the rarest miracle in nature, ... / by Jo. Fr. Helvetius. And, The golden ass well managed and Midas restor'd to reason, or, A new chymical light : demonstrating to the blind world that good gold may be found as well in cold as hot regions, and be profitably extracted out of sand, stones, gravel and flints &c. .../ written by Jo. Rod. Glauber. With Jehior, aurora sapientiae, or, The day dawning or light of wisdom : containing the three principles or original of all things whereby are discovered the great and many mysteries of God, nature and the elements, hitherto hid, now revealed / all published by W.C. Esquire. : with a catalogue of chymical books.

CHAP. III. Of the Subject and Marks of the immor∣tal Liquor Alchahest. (Book 3)

HEre Reader make a little pause, and take this short hint for thy true instruction of the Alchahest and Macchabean Fire, burning in Water, and as a Serpent (or Latex) lying hid in the Cavernes of the Earth, and in other things and places; being nevertheless but one Anomolous Balsammick Salt, passing through the world, which almost every man knows and needs, though he ob∣serves not the marks to be that thing. I say, it is the Primum ens Salium, and hath a mark or cross affixt on it from the Almighty, which (as Helmont saith) the Adept do know, and every curious Philosophick searcher, may find to be a sure and certain token of its true Alchahesti∣cal Virtue, beyond any Demonstration: And indeed we must not seek, or think to ••nd that in a thing which God and Nature hath not implanted in it. For nothing can

give, what it hath not. But the vertue, operation, and power thereof, may be cleared and exalted by art. This mark then I say is not the mark of Cain, or any Bestial curse, but clean contrary, and can preserve life; so that none can kill it, though they would devour it; which mark till you find, you shoot at Rovers; and though the Ass have such an outward mark with Ignomy, yet Christ was pleased to ride upon it, and to grace the Cross after by his mighty power of sufferings on it, he having a Balsamick constant virtue of Patience therein over it. Some light is given of this mark and token upon it, both by Paracel∣sus, the glory of Chymists, and by brave Helmont his great Interpreter, but coucht close up from the Rustick observation in convenient places; yet their preparations are plainly set down to be only simple dissolution and coagulation, with easie heat, till it come to its transmuted form, without any commiscible ferment Heterogeneous to it self; but this Serpent biting his own Tail, by digesti∣on and Putrefaction becomes Invenomed, and so by solu∣tion mortified into the smallest Attoms possibly in nature; and then is raised, circulated, and revived for eternity to some higher Orb or Elixir, and so not possible to mix with any elementary impurity, or ferment to be transmu∣ted, but seperates and preserves all and every essential concrete whereto it is joyned from corruption, and the causes of death without any diminution of its or their in∣tire created virtue.