The Seal of Gemini.
℞ of Gold and Silver, of each ʒ i.
Let them be both melted together the Sun entring the Signe Gemini; which happens about the 10 or 11 day of May, according to the course of the yeer. Wherefore the yeer wherein
Paracelsvs Of the supreme mysteries of nature.: Of [brace] the spirits of the planets. Occult philosophy. The magical, sympathetical, and antipathetical cure of wounds and diseases. The mysteries of the twelve signs of the zodiack. / Englished by R. Turner, philomathēs.
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- Paracelsvs Of the supreme mysteries of nature.: Of [brace] the spirits of the planets. Occult philosophy. The magical, sympathetical, and antipathetical cure of wounds and diseases. The mysteries of the twelve signs of the zodiack. / Englished by R. Turner, philomathēs.
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- Paracelsus, 1493-1541.
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- London :: Printed by J.C. for N. Brook and J. Harison; and are to be sold at their shops at the Angel in Cornhil, and the holy Lamb neer the east-end of Pauls,
- 1656. [i.e. 1655]
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"Paracelsvs Of the supreme mysteries of nature.: Of [brace] the spirits of the planets. Occult philosophy. The magical, sympathetical, and antipathetical cure of wounds and diseases. The mysteries of the twelve signs of the zodiack. / Englished by R. Turner, philomathēs." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A76997.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2024.
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the Sigil is to be made, you must first calculate: There are two Lamens to be made out of the mixture of the aforesaid Metals, whereupon the Signes are to be engraven as they are posited in the following Figures, when the Moon is in the signe of Leo or Pisces: but the Seal being per∣fected, is to be applied at such time when ☿ is in the first House of Heaven; the air gentle, milde, and serene. That face of the Money that hath the signe ♊, is to be turned towards, and worn upon the naked skin: both the said Lamens are to be connexed together with a Circle made of the same matter, almost a fingers breadth to be asunder in the middle, that they may not touch one another, with these faces, or sides, that are without signes: for there must be so great di∣stance between them, that there may be a Pipe interposed, that may receive a Goose-quill full of Quicksilver, and afterwards to be stopped with Mastick: it must also contain a Pipe of Me∣tal, which must hold the Quill: when the work is completed, let the Quick-silver be poured in∣to the Quill, the day and hour of Mercury, the Moon decreasing.
The rest was desired in a German example, even the strength and virtue of this kind of Sigil, for which it is made: but that we may not here traduce you, until perhaps hereafter by some ex∣amples it may be made known; we will not feign any thing of our selves, which might agree there∣with. In the mean time, if any have so great a desire to know the power and virtue thereof, that they cannot stay in expectation of it, seek
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to the most approved Authors in Astrono∣my, what are the Virtues of Gemini, in pro∣ducing Diseases and other things: And then at last, according to the process of the preceding and following Signes, maturely judge.
[illustration] seal
Gemini.