Paracelsvs of the [brace] chymical transmutation, genealogy and generation [brace] of metals & minerals.: Also, of the urim and thummim of the Jews. With an appendix, of the vertues and use of an excellent water made by Dr. Trigge. The second part of the mumial treatise. Whereunto is added, philosophical and chymical experiments of that famous philosopher Raymvnd Lvlly; containing, the right and due composition of both elixirs. The admirable and perfect way of making the great stone of the philosophers, as it was truely taught in Paris, and sometimes practised in England, by the said Raymund Lully, in the time of King Edw. 3. / Translated into English by R. Turner philomathēs.

CHAP. I.

MY beloved Son, I here before opened unto thee the Truth, without leaving any thing needful to be known of the Composition of the Elixirs, the which is the beginning and entrance into the Great Stone of the Philosophers; and this Stone doth con∣vert all Metals unperfect, into perfect Metals of Sol, of twenty four Caracks fine; the Metal be∣ing melted that you will transform: and then

cast upon him his Leaven, that is, Gold, when that your Stone is made in the red work, and that Gold must be cemented as aforesaid in the other Book, and augmented in colour; that is, if you will melt a hundred ounces of unperfect Metal, then cast upon it Ferment or Leaven, which is Gold; stir it well together, and put no more but one ounce of Gold to the Mass of Metal; and then being well molten, and incor∣porated together, cast no more but the quantity of a Pease or Fitch of the red Stone upon it: so shall you see, that this Stone shall turn this Mass of Metal, or hundred ounces, into the finest Gold that may be in the World, of twenty four caracts fine, and shall pass all the proofs that men can do upon it, for better then that that doth come out of the Mines. And you shall understand that our Elixirs that we have before mentioned, are not come to their full perfecti∣on, but it is the beginning of the white and red stone of the Philosophers: but if you will make it perfect, as hereafter I shall learn you, the white shall transform all Metals into Silver, like as of the red is declared; that is to say, when you have melten the Metal that you will transform, then you must cast into it one ounce of fine Capel Luna, that you have made deaf of sound, and heavy of weight, as it is before de∣clared in the other Book; and when you have well mingled them together with a stick, then cast in to the greatness of a Pease of your white Stone, and you shall finde it transformed into very fine Luna, better then any that comes out

of the Earth: and if in case you did cast one ounce of your white Stone or of your red upon a hundred ounces of unperfect Metals; so shall that be transformed into the Elixir or Medi∣cine, wherewith you may tran••form all unper∣fect Metals into perfect Luna or Sol, after the beginning of your work: for your white doth engender nothing but Luna, andyour red no∣thing but Sol, and his projection one upon a thousand: that is to say, if you will melt a thou∣sand ounces of unperfect Metals, you need put to it no more then one ounce of this same last Medicine, and it shall set it over into perfect Luna or Sol, better then any that comes out of the Earth, to pass all proofs and examinations that may be done upon it. And herein now fol∣lowing, I will learn thee the composition of both these Stones to the red and white: and I will first begin with the red, and then with the white, which is called Lunaris.