Mysterium sigillorum, herbarum & lapidum containing a compleat cure of all sicknesses and diseases of mind and body by means of the influences of the seven planets, adorned with copper plates & figures, shewing the foundation of this astronomical and coelestial science / written originally in Saxon, by ... Israel Hibner ... ; now translated into English for B. Clayton ...

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Mysterium sigillorum, herbarum & lapidum containing a compleat cure of all sicknesses and diseases of mind and body by means of the influences of the seven planets, adorned with copper plates & figures, shewing the foundation of this astronomical and coelestial science / written originally in Saxon, by ... Israel Hibner ... ; now translated into English for B. Clayton ...
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Hiebner, Israel.
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London :: Printed by W. Downing, and are to be sold by S. Smith ..., A. Roper ..., and P. Buck ..., W. Battersby ..., S. Herrick ..., W. Feltham ..., and by most booksellers about London and Westminster,
1698.
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"Mysterium sigillorum, herbarum & lapidum containing a compleat cure of all sicknesses and diseases of mind and body by means of the influences of the seven planets, adorned with copper plates & figures, shewing the foundation of this astronomical and coelestial science / written originally in Saxon, by ... Israel Hibner ... ; now translated into English for B. Clayton ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43609.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.

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The Description of the Sigil of the first Metal, Lead, or Saturn, how it is to be made and used against all Saturnal Sicknesses.

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SATURNUS

Purgatio Saturni.

TAke the Oar of Lead, pound it, fift it through a fine Seive, wash it, and dry it, then put it in a Crucible on a gentle Fire, put to one part of this Oar, of Tartar

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two parts, of Salt half a part, melt them in a strong Fire, and the Lead will settle in the bottom. When all is cold, take it and melt it again, and throw him into strong Vinegar, or cold Water, and he is purged.

This must be done in the Influence of Saturn, as may be seen in page 115, 116.

Aliud ex Theophrasto.

Melt Lead in an Iron ladle, fling into it a piece of Wax as big as a Bean, let it burn away, then east it into cold Water.

Configuratio.

Of such clean'd Lead must be cast a Sigil of the bigness of Half-a-Crown, (as may be seen in the Figure) upon the one side must be the monstrous Body of Sa∣turn, as he is observed through a Telle∣scope; in the middle of this must be the Character, and round about the Body the Name SATURNUS; on the other side must be these Numbers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, in a square; so set that every way, by Addition, they may make 15, which is done here 8 times; on the top of this the Hebrew Character Schin.

Impressio.

You must have two Stamps, like the Min∣ters, on which both sides of the afore-mentio∣ned

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Figure of Saturn is to be cut; it must be made of good Steel. When there is an In∣fluence of Saturn you must take the round cast piece of Lead and stamp it at that Instant.

The Ʋse.

When this Sigil is prepared, and sow'd up in a black Silk bag, and hang'd on in the Influence of Saturn, it cures all Saturnal Sicknesses, as may be seen page 1. & 2.

Of the Gem of SATURN.
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ALL black, wild and dark Stones, belong to Saturn; in such a Stone, in the In∣fluence of Saturn, cut the Body of Saturn, as is marked here. This may be hung about the Neck, or carried in a Ring made of the above-mentioned Lead; let the cut part of the Stone be in the inward part of the Ring, so as to touch the Skin.

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