JP.S>' rv^r >>" ^y>' ^3^^ B> ^ < >"#~-^ ^ ^ ^ ^^^r '-.^ ^"J^^ - :>1> ^^IJSS :^> '^:> i:i> 3>A^'^ W^^. m Digitized by tine Internet Arcliive in 2010 with funding from Researcli Library, Tlie Getty Researcli Institute http://www.archive.org/details/lumendelumineornOOvaug | i \ t U M 1 AC£: I b R Z A new Mamall Lkht V^.v..... -^'^' difcoveredjand Gommu- j^ :ated to woniD nicated to the ^ 4^ By Eugenius Philalethes, Jj Ge h. 1.3. . ^ And God laid, L*?? ?/;^r^ be L ight^ ^ JOHN i.ChapsVer.j. * % ^ndi\^Lr^ht(]ri\ULih\iri\i^Darknejfe, ^ Pythago A^^ loqHari^ Dco ahlqtie Lumine, # #► LONDON, ^ . Prinited for H. B l u n d e n at the % : ^ Calilem.Cor;^5rT/?/7/Sanaiu$, iret Opus. SyllMbuA n^toum^Mentiffj Oltnnifcia Prolcsj Eftb^c & Scnfu rheca animAta fuo. BoMi Laus ampla, & Fufior Urna Sepultiy ^^ Vicam invmit Mors fua, Uorf^ Nccem. YViticftfrtina Fugx dtdit, abfumptij^ fagitiis Impkvit Facuai lola pharctra Manm, Var Tibi Vox nuUa efi : Satagis dum condm Mufar Tcclfiy §uod non noverit i/^4 loq^i. I P?2- po/?^/o;;, and this I believe, our late Likller$\i^\tohftrved^ for they quit %h^ Science^ 10 quafti the Frofef" It is not enough to ahuje and tnif' inurpret our mitings : with ^udied C4fo77^/?/«^ doe they difparage our feir ' fom^ whom they »e^^ p^^and per- haps w^'cr will f^^. They/(wv# ustcf a BitterneJJe beyond our own Difpo fitioM^ znd provoke men to fin ^ as i they did dri%i^t\x^ fame Defign witL thel>€f///vvvx^ •: .;F^r ray own part^ I will no mor< Inzardmy foute by fuch uncivill Dif ^^- p^^^i, I know 1 muft give an ^cco99fp for, every idle mrd. This Theme hat] rcduc'dmy pajfi§n$ to al>/V, I hav refolv'd for the future to /«fi?y : fo thi to the Reader." fhisUmfareof, God mil condemn no fmnforhufatienct. Tbefrorld indeed may thi^k the tmh vverihrem, becaufc fliee is attended Witbher Peace, for in the judgement ot moil men, where there is no JSToyfe there ts no naor/e. This I fliall took jHpoaasno Difadvantaoe, The Efti- rnat of fuch Ce^fors will but //Vfof« ithe ^^4/«, and I dare fuppofe them \yajmak Brains^ wY.o conceive the j JiM^frnks^ becaufe it outmighs them. i As for tempeftuous Out-cries, whea ,thcyw^«/ their Motives, they difco- setzntrreligiow fpirit^one that hath more of the Hurry cam, than of O&y/^ i/e/»^. God vrasnot in the wind^ that rent the Rocks to pieces, nor in the £arth-quake, and Fire at -ffore^ : He p/c«. '■* »»• i My Mvife is, tbit no Man flionld t'efent the common fpleen. Who writes ihe TruthofGod, bath the fame i-^- i B s trea 1 Hothe'Rederl ' iron with the Truth it fclf, and wfceft t the »?(?rWfhall fubmit to the gemrail Trihunal^ he will find his Advocate^ where they (hall find their Judge \ There is a mutualt Teftimoniehctweeti Godznd his Servants , if the Baptijl did beare witneffe of Cfey/^, ^^r/]i alfo did as much for the Baptift : Hi »4y a hurning^ And a fining L ight. ThiSj^^tfrf^y,! thought fit to Vre* face^ that if any Jyifmrfe of minjq be rr/z^//fV hereafter, thou maift nor expeB my vindication. I have referr'd my QuarreUto the God of Nature^ n is involved in the Concernments of hi? 7r//^)&. I am fatisfi'd with the Veaa and r^j? of a good Confcience : I have written nothing but what God hatt verifiedhefoTGtny Eyes in particular and is able to ]u^i{ie before the work in generall • I have known his /irr^ i/^/?/3hisCj/;rf/gismy Schooi-mafier I teftifie ^fcfl/i r*//:5?5", which I hav<| feen undec his very Beavff, in th brigh To the Reader. bright Ctrcumfere?2ceoihh GIqysI When I did firft put my Thoughts to papef\ God c^Lnbeare tne witneffe^ itwasnotforany/^r/V/jr^ e»ds. I was drawn , and forc'd to it by a ftro?^^ Admiration of the Myfterig iind Ma'^ jellie oi Nature. It was my t>§fign to giori fie the Truth'^ and in fomc mea- furetoprx'^ the Age^ had they bcea capable oi it. But the barbarous In^ fults I have met withall, and without any Deferts of ntine^ have forc'd my Charitie to keep at Home. Truly , had not 1 been robh'd of my Feace^ I i had imparted fome things , which I 5 am confident this Gtf«^r4r/^7-7?^r. The i?^^»^/ of this new Tlanet^'^ {filing forth in fmall 5it^//;/ and Riznlets ^^^^. look'd like rtr^^/ of 5/7t/tfr, which being rc--"^ ile6i:ed againft the 7V^^/,difcover'd a Curious, ^ ireen Fmhrage, and I found my fclf in a (^ro-:// ^ :)jiBays» The Tf ;f ^//r^ of the Branches was fo '" -ven, the L^4^'f/ fo ?^if)^, and in that con- ' piring (7r^fr, it was not a vcood^ but 2iBuil'' «'«^. I conceived it indeed to be the Temple^ ^f Natptre, whti:e (he had joyn'd Djfcipltne^ to 4 Lumen deLumine^oi ft to her VoUnne, Under t\(\sjh^ and skreea ^^^ did lodge a number of Nigkingals^ which I \^i di(covered by their ^hiti^ Hre^jh > ThcfCjinj peeping thorough their leuvte Cabimts ^ re-p joyced at this ftrange Ligrh^ and having firft i\^ plfim*d themCtlvcs, ttirr*d the i\'\\ /iyreWithi^ their i^;/^r/^. This I thought was very ptct- jtj ty, for the Ji/e»ce of the JVf^ht, fuiting wichi („jr the foUti^de of the fLtc^, made me judge it % heavtnlf. The Gromi both neer and far of, ^| prefented a f leafing kind of Q'^ecquer , for ^^ this new y?^r meetixjg with /bmc drops o^T)ew^ uf, inade a LM'thitHte ot bright Refractions^ as ,;,f jf the £ /rfA7 had been /?4t'f<^ with Diamonds^ ^,^1 The!e rare, and various Accidents kept my mj ibul bujicd. but to interrupt my Thotsghts, as ),^ if it had been u»Lii»fftll to examine what I had /^tf«, another more admirable Obje^ in- tcrpos*d. I could fee between me and the Light ^ a moft exquifit , divine Beauty, Her ^^iw^ neither long^ nor /^ rt^ but a meane de- cent Stature^ Attir'd fiie was in thin hofe filks, but (ogreen, that I never faw the Hkf, fot the Colour vfdis not Sarthlj, In fomc pla- ces it was/^^^ryj^^vvith white and Silver R^- ^W/, which look'd like L///« mz field oi Crajfe. Her A^^i was overcafi with a thin floating 7if^»/^, which flic hel^ Hp with ^^^ of her ^<««w!/, and Iook*d as it were from nndef % A new Ma^icall Lh^ty &o 5 Her £y/ were ^^Vi, ^>/f 5 and ik^e-colourd Knots , Her ^?>^x ere pure, iiitire Sweralds, for flie valued no •4tall, and her pendants of burning C^- ^;7f/^/. To be fliorc, her whole Habit was •?/t^/«// and ficni'Tte^ it /w^A like the Eafi^ id was thorowly ayrd with rich ArohioA '>fjpafms. This and no other, was her a^ aranee at that Time : but whiles 1 admir'd er ferfcUwns^ and prepared to make my ^^- rejfes^ flicc prevents me with a voluniarie 4urLcK Heic indeed 1 cxpeftcd fome Dif- 7«r/^from her, but (he looking very feri- ufly and filently in my face, taker me by die and,andfoft!y whilfcrs i (hould follow her. 'his i confefle founded fitange but I d ought ; not amiffe to obev lb fweet a Command^ nd efpecially one that frowtfed very much, ut was able in my Opinion to ferformc lorc; The L/^^-r which I had formerly ad^ ur'd proved now at laft to be her Attetdant^ for ^ Lumen dt Lumine^QY .for it moved like an tqher before her. Tl: » Servtce added much to her Glme , and | was my only care to otfervr her, who thous „ flie wa»dr'i not, yet verily (he foUmocd l if kn«m'.^mh. Her w.i/iwas ?r««, being /«rr ,f With a fine fmari C7r#^, which felt life e/»^ . forKwas^very /-.ff. and purl'd all the wi „ vvKh^^jwand Prjmrofe. When we catr ,( * c^^t o( oxxt Arhoret and CWf of £4^., 4 1 «ot like that of i).^, neither can T affirmc i I N •»^as«'^^^ The/<,r. indeed ferched over u( | and flood ^/^.rw, as it were on th i /«// ot high ////V., fot we were in a mol f deep £.».«., and the E^^th oveilook'd U5 lotiuti conceived we were w^r the /"#» .„ r.r VVe^had not walk-d very fan when d./covered cerraine thick, white C/W/, foil liich thev feemed to me, which fiuy all tha, f part of the Galley, that was before us. Thi< »ndeedwasan£rr.rofmine,butit continuec , J. to be firm (olid Rock^, but jhrning and /p^r^- /^Afdidnotal.tttIe/«««r^^, "«=• and great dcfire Ihad to heare my uw>/?r« fpeake J (for fo I judged her now; that if pofflble, I m^ht receive fome Infarmatio./Ho^ to faing this about, I did not well knew for A new M^gicM Ltgbt^ Sec. 7 J feem'd 4ver/g from Dtfimrfe -, but ha- ig rcfolv'd with my felf to ^3i/?//r^ her, I :'d her if fhe would favour me with her ^me. To this (he replied very familiarly, if (he had kown me long before. Eu^e^ ~ is (faid flic^ / have many Namcs^ btit my f and dearefl is Thalia x for I am alwaics iQn.and I (hall never wither. Thou doefl "ehehold the mounuins of the 14 oonc, ar;d villfhew thee the Original! of Nilus, for fhe ings from the fe Jnvifihle Rockj, Lookeup- dpernfe the very Tofs of thefe pillars and ifts ^ lei * ?:!^?^/>. Suchaii^^r^^' muft they look,wh'ijv would produce any Magicall ext r aor dinar ^^, Ejfects ; for this Spermatic water coagulat fV with the Uafl heat, fo that nature conco6l ii\ and hardens it into metals. Thou feeft th whites of £^.v' will thick^en affoon as the feel the fire, for their moyfiure is temper' with a pure fubtill Earthy and this fubtill, J [J. nimated Earth, is that which ^/W/ their w^ tfe ff'/'. Tzkc water then my Eugenius , froi^^j the Mountains of the i^y^«^l A new Magtail Ltovt^ occ, 1 1 nd f^o water : Boyl it in the Jire of Nature^ • b( 3 a two fold Earth, whits and -r^ thert feed ^ lofe Eartrs with /^r*^ of ^^■■'-? and 'Fire of i/r, and thou halt the two Mrtgicill Z,^- » tmar'tes. But bccauie thou haft been a ler- ™ ant of mine for a long time and that thy tti latience bath manifcfied the Truth of thy ff ove, I wilJ bring thee to my Svhoole^ and "lercwill-Ifliew thee what the world isno! - '^ ipable of. This was no fooner ipoken^ buf - iiepafiby thofc '^ff-^f^-^^- ^%, ^^^^^ij^^l£j'"\ n id brought mc io'T'Roc^ oY' ^d^manin-^ n ir'd to a jufl^ intire Cube: Ic Was the Ba^ li f to a firie 'Tyramid, a Trigon of pure Tj- '£ 1'/?^, whof^ tmfrifond flames did ftrctch^ and ii'r/w for Heaveyi, To the Vore-fqaare or w rontlet of this i^le^ One that did not love Noifc. K' iut a private Sweet Content, I have Euge- '" pins found the smtich of my own Humor M I have wtthall fmnd thy SxpcBations patient. ^^ thou canfl eajily believe^ where thou hafl Rea- i( fon to thy Faith Thou hafl all this while fer4 i i^ed Without PVages, 'amv u the time com to re- ^^ , > vem-d Thee, My love^ I freely give Thee, anc^ (•! %With it thefe tokens^ -my Key, ay/d Scale, Tht^^ witnT)ifcretion, (tAsforthe Mjfteriesofthis "^ my Schoole^ thou hafl the Liber tie to perufe^'^^ them all^ there is not any thing here, but I wiU f\ gladly r eve ale it to thee, I have one Trdccepi lfi{ / Jhall commend to thee, and this it is^ Toii ecu mufi bee Stlect. Toufhall not in your rvritings bv exceed my Allowances .- Remember that I lotl Am your Love ^ and you will not make mee a ^ Troftnutc, B^^t becauf I wrfh you Serviced,, 'coif hie to thofe of your own T^tfpofitton^ I here i^w giveycu an Emblem.nicall Type of my San-k cluarie , with a full Priviledge to publifh it, h , Tf is IS all, and now J am g ing to that Jnvip- h, hU Region , '^J^ 'h^^im tJ^^t *(^ » Let not that ^t Proved I A new Ma^icall Liqhty 8cc. i y U^ rover h take f lace with jon ^ Out of Sight, /jl WJt of Mind : Remember mee^ and bee Hci-p^y, k h Thefe were her JnfiruBiom^ which were no i^a boner delivered, but fhee brought mee to a ,/;;Ieare, large Light ^ and here I faw thofe ;j. Things, which Imuft not fpeak of. Having j^, ;hus diicovered all the parts of that glorious n Labjri^th, fhee did lead me out again with her ■l lI^v^oi%m~b earns, her Light that went Shir^^ 7, ,731^^ before us. When wee were patt the R^jcks >(. )f Ntlu6, fhee fhewed mee a Secret St air e^ ^j!f^/?,by which wee afcended from that Att^ \ md flowrie Vale^ to the face of this our Com- Jj non Earth, Here Thalia ftopt in a mute Ce- ,^ :emonie, for I was to bee left all alone. Shce ,|{look'dupon meeinfilent fmiles, mixt with a ,/| pretty kind of Sadnefs^for wee were unwillmg i»i :o part. But her Houre of TrAnjlation was jj^rome , and taking (as I thought ) our laft \ leave, fhee paft before my Eyes^ «^e?f "A/^>?, in- \\o the ^/£ther of Nature. Now verily was I much troubled, and ^ bme what dilbrdcrcd, but compoiing my feif ^ IS well as I could, I came to a Cof of tJMjr- ^ Hes^ where refting my felf on a Flowrie Brril^^ 41 began to confider thofe Thing? which I had een. This Solitude, and Melancholie lludic :ontinued not long, for it met with a very "C 4 gratcfuii 16 uumen ae i^umme^ or A gratcfull Intcnliption. I could fee Thalia 2iS r .t/pecificali Root there grow fever all different i^ubfiances^ as Leaves^ Flowers ^ Frftit, and '^l Ued ; So out of one tiniverfall Root, namely 4 he Chaos^ grow all Specificall Natuns^ and fill heir J^dividualls, Now there is no true Sci' (s\ nee or Know ledge ^ but what is grounded upon i iC^iftble^ particular Sub (lances , or Hpon that n. knfible tiniverfall Sub fiance^ out of which all n ^Particulars are made. As for Univerfals in kvhe zAhflralk ^shere are no (uch things, they Ifldl re empty imaginarie WhymzSes^ for ^Abf^ra- [i\ T:ions are but fo many Phantaflic Suppofittons^ n^onfidernow Eu genius, that all Jndividuals^ )» \ven ij[i>in himfclf^ hath nothing in him Ma- jii erially^ but what he received from the mate-* sk "iall Univerfall Nature. Confidcr again, that ttti he fame Individiials are Reducible to their k wfI^"P hyficall UniverfMl Matter^ and by Con^ \ « 'equence this tiniverfall matter hath in it felf 'h^ ^ he Secrets and A^yfieries of all Particulars ; \u\ ' for i8 Lumen de Lumine^OT j for rvhtfttfoever includes the SubjeEt it felf^ in ^ i eludes alfo the Science of that fubje^, % ^i conclude .. In the firfl CM^tter^ the Divin, n ^ '^^ifdome is collected m a Generall Chaodicat wi ^> Center J but in the particfilars made of the firji m ^[^tt^ritti 4i[ferjed^a^^ I ij« j^ere to a Qrcumference, It remains the) ,;,f ^ that the Chaos is the l[enter of all Sciences, tt h ^ yphich they may, and ought to be reducd , for i: - it is the fenfible naturaliyi^^tn\xm Magnum w\ and under (jod th. Secondary Temple Oj ^ ^Wifdome, Search therefore, and examine thi \\\ ■^farts of this Chaos, by the Rules and InJlrU' in ctions received, when I xvas with thee in thi '^ mineral Region, Drvell not altogether on tht ^ practice, for that is not the way to improve %r it : be fur e to adde reafon to thy , Experience^ wf, and to imploy thy mind afwell as thy hands ^ \,, Labour to know all Caufes and their Effects \ i^ doe not onlyfludy the Receipt^ like that broy. \;. ling frying Company , xvho call themfelvei n (^'htmiflsy but are indeed no Philofophers, This u^ is all which I thinkefit to adde to my former ^^ Prefer iptions , but that which made me re^ iff ' turtle, was fomething elfe, and new thou fh alt ^ receive it , Thou haft heard fometimes I fup^ ^ pofe of the BerylUfttc part of Ol^^g^^ : have ^j a care to apprehend me, and I will fhew the& pf, ^he Eoundation. Thou muft know the ftars \, vck Ur- ,■ ^^..v^TXfj. can A new Magicall Ltght^ &c. 1 9 \^ iij im-preffs no new Influx in perfeB comfleat ' ^ ioM^Sy they only difpofe, aiU in fome meafure '^^irufthat influence ^which hath been former- '[^ ' tmprejpd. It is mofi certain E^genius, that -' W^g Afirobolifm takes -place without jomefre^ - '\^ torn Corruption^ and Alteration in the Pa^ '^ 'eyit^ for Nature works not but in loofle ^moyft^ ^)^ ijcompofled Elements, This T>iflemper pro^ P ^eds not from the flarS, but from the Con^ ^™ ^arietie of the Elements amongft themfelvesi ' <5 1'henfoever thy fall om\ and work^ their awn ^'^Oiffoluthn^ then the Cckflidl Fire puts in fn » reconcile them againe^ and generats flome new "' ^v'orme^ feeing the old one could confifl no Ion- ^/^ er. Obferve then that the Genuine Time of '11 w^prefftons is, when the Principles are Sper-- t\ tatic and callow^ but being once coagulated , i > a per felt Body^ the Ttme of Stellification is ' 'J tfl. Now the Ancient t^^agt in their jUoJ^ ffeake of fi range Ajlrologicall Lamps^ "« m.iges^ Rings ^ and T^lates, which being m^d '» t certatne Hours ^ would produce incredible^ w xtraordtmrio Effects, 7 he common Aflro^ 'I- ger ,he takes aflons^or fa^fK peece of Met all ^ i\ gnres it with ridiculous CharaBcrs^ and then f xpofeth it to the Planets^ not m an Alkemuft^ '■'^ ut 04 he dreams kimfelf^ he knows not how^ •'( ^^hen this is done^ all is to no purpofe ^ but fi hough they fiile in their pra^rice , yet they % believe 1 o Lumen de Lumine^ or \ hlieve they underfiand the Books of the Mi gi well enough • Now Eugenius that thi l^r may ft know vahat to doe, I mil teach thee . b^, Example . Take a /ipe graitte of Corne^ th i2i tshard^anddrie expofe it to the Sfin-bean- fld^ - £?.£j?^^^^'' ^^ ^^^^^ "^^Sfflly anSTii xpi '% . be a drie graine for ever. But tf thou doe m hiry it m the Earthy that the nitrojis Saltij i n mojfiHreofthatElem£»tmaydijfolve it, tfjc^f- the Shh Will worke upon it, and make it ffrin iff and [pYout to anew Body. It ts juft thus wit\t\ the common Afirologer, he expofeth to th le' Planets a perfe^ compared Body^ and by thi sd means thinks to performe the xMagicia?^ ii Gamadta^ and marry the Inferior and Supt 'h rior VWorlds. It muft he a Body reducd inti l \ Sperm J that tloe Heavenly Feminine moyfture W which receives and retains the Imprejfe o^il the ji fir all Agent, may be at Liberty, am fc immediatly exposed to the tJMAfculine tire oj » Nature, This is the ground of the Beryl, but^ you muft remember that nothing can beftel- t^ lifted without the joy nt Magnetifm of three k Heavens \ what they are I have told you elfewhere, and I will not trouble you with Re- J"? petitions. When (lie had thus (aid. (he toot ; out of her Bofonic, two miraculous Medals^ ^ not Mcfalltne, but fuch as I had never fcen, \\ neither did I conceive there was in Nature ]\ fuch ^ A new Magicall Li^ht^ &c. 2 1 th pure, and glorious Subfiances, In iny i !gement they were two (Jlfapcall Aftro^ t w, but fhe caird them Saphtrics of the tit and Moo^e, Thcfe Miracles fhc com- % nded to my perufail, excufing her fell: as iw ng fleepic , otherwiie fhe had expounded k m for me. I looked, admir'd^ and wea- /fij d my ieif in their Contemplation . Their k mplexion Was io heavenly , tlieir coyitri- m^ fee (6 myflermts ^ I did not well know , ;»« at to make of them. I turn'd a fide to fee \\ he was ihll a deep, but fhc was gone, and fill s did not a little trouble me. I expeded i Returnc, till the Day was quite fpent, buc ^f/ : did not appeare. At laft fixing my Eys on wi it place, where fhee fometimcs refted , I m :ovei*d certain feeees of Gold, which flie 5 1 left behind her, and hard by a faper J itdi like a Letter. Theie I took up , and > (j A^ the Ntght approaching , the Evemng-^ \i r tinn'd in the Wefl^ when taking my lafi: ]i vey of her fiowr'te pll(Tw^ I parted from it: n'^isFerfe. ;r . ■ ■ Uf. ^^fiiy green Bank farewell \ and way ft thou wcare I Sun hcums^ and Rofe, and Lilies all tbeyeare I ly She il pt on Thcc : but needed not to ilied ^' t Goldj ^tivas pay enough to be her Bed. :eii| Flow'rs are Favorjts : for thk Joy'd Day 11 f wen my Rivals, 4^ wf ^ Her did play. kr 2 Z Lumen de Lumine^or E They found their Heav'n ^t hand, and in her Eys \ \i lnjoy*d a Copie ofih(ir abfcnt skies Their weaker paint didirith true Giorles trade, ^■fid miugl'd with her Cheeks, one 'ofie made, ^nd did net her fofc skin corifine their pride, ^nd with a skreen of^s'iik both Flowi *s divide^ ^ They had fuck' d W^^fom thence, andftdm her Heat Bmrovp'd a Soul to malie themfchcs compleat. happy Pillow ! "Chough thou art l.iyd even vfiih Duft,/^; made thee up dmojl a H^^aven. Her Breath rain^'d Spices, a'lideach Ambei ring Ofbev brigf t locks slrew'd Bracelets o*y thy tpring. That Earth's not poor, did fuch a Treafure hold. But ihxiQZ inrich'd, with. Amber, 5picc, and Gold, Baum 1 I fSr^^^cJcJi ^W-^v^^^ /--iA>aVV-a^ 'i-v-vhf. X/W/-/; lich dMle lafcivioiijiy with the fj)erm of * world^ and imprint their Xmaginations in pioducing many times fantaflic, and mori- ons GeneratioKs, The Accefle and Pilgri- age to this place, with the Difficulties lich attend them, are faithfully, and ma- ierially deicribcd by the Brothers cf^. C. le'ir Language indeed is very fimfle^ and th moft men perhaps coKtsmftible .- Buc fpcake finely vJ2lS no fart of their Defigne, :ir Learning lyes not in the Thrafe , biic the Senfe, and that is it, which I propofi the Qjrifideration of the Reader, D 26 Lumen de Lumine^ or y^ Letter from the Bro therso/R- C. Concerning the Invifible ^ Ma gicallMO UNTJ IME, And the Treafure therein . Contained, \y^ TMufquifque natura dcfydernt cf „ I I Dux .-habere Aurecs ^ Argcntec 3^ ^"^^^ Thei'auros. & itiagnus videii coiai 5, Mundo. Deus an rem hxc omnia Crcavi|jp ,,ut Homo lis utatiir, Eorumque fit Dom: 3, nils. & agnofcat in illis fingularcm ejus Be ^jjiijatcm &: Omnipotentiam, Jpfi gratias a „ gat, Eum honoret, 6c Jaudet. Nemo autei 5, vult hsEC omnia niii otiolis diebus, ^null J, labore, & periculo praeciinte conquirerc ^^Jj j,nequeexlococo confequi, in quo Deus iij^^j, ^,]a pofuerit : etiamque vulc uc quaerantu .j ' 3, & Qj^iaruencibus dabit. Nemo vero vulc U l^^. J, dem (ibi in illo loco quserere, & pr9pterc )J^,^ 3, ctiam non inveniunnir. Siquidem a long ^" „ tempore Via, & locus ad Hscc incogniti ^' j^cftj & maximse parti abfconditus. Etian: J*! Ill miio Krei toiiti A new Ma^ia/ILight^ &c. 27 vero Locum 5i Viam difficile Sc laboriofum /it invcnirc, locus tanien di invcftigandus. Cum vero Deus coram iliis nihil abicondi- tumvelit, idco in hoc ultimo feculo ante- quam judicium cxcremum vcniat , Dignis hxc omnia iunc levelanda : uti fobfcure ta- men hns, nc manifcfta fiant Indignis) in quodam loco inquit ; Nihil eft Abfconditum, quod non leveletur. Nos igicur a Spiritu ^^'^^* ' Dei a6ti, banc Dei Voluntatem Mundo an-* nunciamus, uti etiam ip. Diveifis linguis a Nobis fadum, & publicatum eft. Iftam vero publicationem autnjajor parsciliim- niatar, aut contemnic, aut fine Deo pro- Tiifla ejus penes nos qu^uric, cxiftimans nos llos ftatim Do6luros, quo modo Aurum Ghimicum fit praeparandum, aut illis affene magnos Thelauros, quibus poiTint coram nundo pompole vivere. fi^ipctbiie, Bella "^^^erere, Lucra exercere, helluaii, porare , in- :ontinenter vivere, & in aliis pcccacis vi- '^|amcommacuIarc, Qiias tamen omr.ia con- "^'' raviafunt voluntati ipfius Dei. Hi exemp]a ^l :apere debebanc a d:ce?n z'lrgt'f.ibm ill is i^^' c\\XdS\xm cjHir?que Stolid^ a prudentibi'.s ^^^ Ileum petebant) effc mukum aliam ratio- lo"! lem, dum nimirum opus fie, uc quilibec yyo^rio labor e & ttudlo in Deo id confequa- ;ti3ii yxK, N<^s- camea illorum focicrum Animos f P 2 ,;ex 28 humeri de \jiimne^ or 5, ex (ingulaii Dei gratia & Revelatione, etiaii „ex iplorum fcripcis agnofcimus, aures no 5, ftras obturamus, & quafi nutibus nos obdu „Gimus,ne Ipforum Boatus, & EjuJatus au 3, diamus . qui in vanum aurum clamant "" ,^ Atque hinc fit etiam quod multum Calum^ ^^yiiarum dc Convniornm contra nos effun ,, dunt, qua: non curamus, led Dem luo tern „ Poflquam vero Nos Veftrum "Duorm "^ 5, Diligentiam, & ledulitatcm, quam in ver "^j ^^Cogmtione Dct ^ ^ Ldtione facrortim Bi^ . „ hliorum impcndiris , jampridem ( quamvj 'J' yjVobis infcientibus) bene icivimus, etiam < *,'; 5, vejftro agnovimus fcripto , Nos etiam vc " ^,pr^ multis aliis millibus refponfo aliqui'^J 5,dignari voluimus, & vobis hoc fignificar» „cxpermiflu Dei, 6c Spiritus San6li Admo"^^j 5, nitionc, f'^' „Eft cJI/OiV^ fitus in medio T^rr^"^^' „ vel Qntroorhis^ qui eft parvus & magntu ^^^ „ eft mollts , etiam fupra modum durm I "J^ ^^Saxofiis 'y eft unicuique fro-pi?iqHPis, & /(£?«»'''' ^^giyicjtms, fed ex Confilio Dei Invijibtlis, I »P^' 3,eo funt maximi Thefiuri ah(coYiditi^ que",™' „ Mundus numeral e non poteft s Qui /z?4JkB^ w A new mu^icau JLigm^ occ. 29 ^^vihusrafaciyus circuindatiis eft, quse vtam 5, Homini reddunt dtfficilem^ & pertcubfam^ I „ ^ propterca hue ulque etiam ( quia Tern* ' ..ptisnondamell) ea via nee dum abOmni* „ bus quaeri potuit, aut inveniri. Nunc vero „ a Dignis (interim proprio cujufquc labore) „Via invenienda eft. Ad hunc Montcm itc „ Node quadam (cum ea C\t) longiffima^ & „ obfcuriffima, & prsepirate vofmetipibs per jfideles precationes. Infiftite in viam ubi „Mons fit inveniendus, Quaerite autcm ex I „ Nemine ubi via fit invenienda, fed fequimi- „ni fideliter vcftrum Duftovem, qui le vo- „ bis fiftet, 6c in itinerc vos offendet, vos veio ,, ilium non agnofcetis. Hie media no6le, ,j cum omnia tranquilla & obfcura funt, vos ,,adMontem adducct, led neceffe eftut vos ,j prsemuniatis animo magiio ^ heroico, ne >, reformidetis ea, quse vobis occurrent, & re- ,,cedatis. Nullo gladio Corporali indigetis, ^, necaliisAi'iTiis, {cd Deum rolummodo in- „ vocate Syncere, & ex Animo. Poftquam vi- „ diftis Montem , primum Miraculum quod „procedet, hoc eft. Vehemenciflimus & „ maximus Vencus. qui Montcm commove- ' „ bit , & Rupes difcutiet. Tuuc vobis fe of- ! „ ferent Leones & Dracones , 6i alia Terri- „ bilia Animalia, fed nihil hxc reformidate y 5; Eftotc ftabiks, 3: cavete ne rcccdatis, Nam D 3 veftcr 20 ijiimm at^ i^ummc^ or 5jVeRef Conduclor qui vosconduxic, non per „ii3ittec ut aiiquid Mail vobis fiat. Veruni ^Thcfaurus nondum c(l dete(^l:us, fed valde 5j^ropinquus. Hiinc Vcntum fequkur Terrx- ,, moms, qui abfol vet ca,qiK£ Vencus leliquit, 3, & a:quabit ea, Cavete tamen ne reccdatis, ,, Pofl TcriumoLiiui icquttur Ignis maximu§, 3, qui omnem Tcnel-lrem Materia ni coniuniet, 3, & Thefauium dcteget. vos veio cum videre j,nequitis.„Verum poft hxc omnia. & fcirnengj 33 circa Tempus Matutinuni eric tranquilli- 3, tas magna, &: arnica, & vidcbitis ftellam „Matutinam aicenderc, & Auroram afTiir- '3,gere, 3c magnum Thefaunim animadvert 3, tetis : penes quern prxcipuum & exaCtifli- 3, mum eft fumma quardam Tindlura, qua ,,Mundus (Si?^/? ihc Ci?^- 1^1 «*r.'z/ 5 2 Lumen dc Lumine^ oif tral^ti^CircHmferentidl Suns generat ^ tiet^'''; ,,^Bodj\ Hence the Philoibphers dcfcribing thei -Jlom^izW us it is Lafis niger^ vilis^ c^ f£tens ^ Atcitur Qrigo MhpAi^ CT* oritur ficut Ger- 1 mimyitia. As for the Epflle of the V rater ^' mtie^ I fhall for Jatufuftiori of the ordt»ar\f Reader, put it into Engliih . I know fomi 2)%f , and the Svghjh of it is This, \ Every Man yiaturally de fires a Superi m ority^ to have Treafkres ef Gold and Stiver [b andto feeme Great in the Eys of the iVorl&K CJQd indeed created all things for the nfe o Ff/ Aian^ that he might rule over them^ and ac V h^ow/edge thcrci/i the fingular Goodneffe n i-rad Onrnipotencie of God, give him Tha&k 'fi for his Benefits, honour him and praife him fik But there ts Ho njun lookj after thefe Thingi f 'Jtbrryvffi thin b) {pending hps dayes idely, tk yyofil A new M^giuU Light ^ &c. 3 5 ^ofild injoy them without any prezions labour^ Kd T)singer^ neither doe they look^ them out ftktt place, where Gad hath treafurd them p, who expels alfo that man jhould feek for ' hem there, and to thofe that feek , wHl he \vcthm. But there is not any that labours jr a T[offc(rioninthat^hcc^andtherfirethefe liehes are not found : For the way to this hcc,and thephcc itfelfhath been unkwmnfor \ long time^ and it ts hidden from the greatefi j )art cfthe World. But notwithfianding it be \ ifficu/t, and laborious to find out this way and. lace, yet the ^hcejhould be fought after, But it • not the will of God to conceale any thing from hofe that are his^ and therefore in this lafi 4ge^ before the Ftnall Judgement comes^ all hefe things fh all be manifeflcd to thofe that re worthy : zy^s hee H^jelfe ( though bfcurely ^ lejl it fhould be manifejled to the mvorthf) hath fpokf'i i'^ a certaine place • There is Nothing covered that fhall not be evejiledjand hidden that fhall not be known. Ve therefore being moved by thefptrtt of God^ !^f declare the will of Go^ to the World^ which ye have alfo already rter formed^ (a) and pub- ^ '■(hed tn j ever all Languages. But mojt men (-Q^r^/j ither revile^ or contemne that our Manifefio, f^^;^/; ' relfe wavi'^^g thefpmtofGod^ they expe5iK*Q. the Ik 5 4 Lumen ae Lumine^ or ^ ^ thefropofals thereof from tis^fuppofwg we wk ^^| firaightway teach them hoiv to mal^ Gold b\ N ^rt, or furmfh them with ample Treafurei w, i whereby they may live pompoHJly in the faa Ic^. of the PVorld^ Swagger, and make Wars^ tun »- P'furers^ Gluttons^ and T^rankards, live un^ f chaflely, and defile their whole life with feve rail other (install which Thii^gs are cor.tr ar^'^'^l to the BUffed will of God, Thefe tJAien fhouk f ^ have learnt from thofe Ten Virgins {whereffjp Five that were fooJifh demanded Oile for theii i at Lamps,/rc?^ thofe Five that were wife) ho^ 'H that the Cafe is much otherwife. It is ex^e-^S"^ dient, that every man fhould labour for this "M! Treafure by the jiffiflance of God, and hii f'' own particular Search and Indufiry, But thi^^^^^ perverfe Intentions of thefe 'Fellows we un^ fs derfiand out of thar own writings , by thfi kj fingular Grace and Revelation of Cjod ; wee lf/i( doe flap our Ears, and wrap our f elves as it pi were in Clouds, to avoid the Bellowings andl'i Howlrngs of thofe men, who i» vaine crieout^^i for Gold, And hence indeed it comes to pajfe ^|' that they brand us with infinite (^alumni csui and Slanders, which notwithftandmg we doc not refent, but Cjod in his good Ttme willjudg^ f them for it. But after that we hM well knowH^ (thugh unlinown to you) and perceived alfi lai by your writing, how diligently you are to perufe the h n new xvL^^icai^ L.igni^ occ. 3 5 Holy Scripture J and feel^ the true /(pow^ gc ofQod : we have at jo above many Thou^ is, thought yoti worthy of fame Anfwer^ ' ive fignifie this much to yon by the rpill of d^ and the ^Admonition of the Ho!) oft. 1 here is a Mountain fituated in fJ&^Midft he Earth, «^r Center of the world, which is ' fmall» andGv^2X, It is foft^alfo above ifure Hard and Sconie. It is far off, aucL I at hand, but by the providence ofQod, fifibic. In it are hidden mofl amph Trea^ /, which the world is not able to value. This ^untain by Envie of the Devill, who altpaies feth tlje Glory of (jod, and the Happnejfe Man, is compajfed about with very cruell ijls ay} d other Ravenous Birds, which make way thither both dijficult, and dangerous • therefore hitherto, becaufe the Time is yet come, the way thither could not be fought r,nor found out. But now at lafl the way > be found by thofe that are worthy, but not^ - 'oflnnding by every mans felf-labour^ and \eavours. To this Mount aine you f^all goe in a cer- e Night (ivhen it comes) moft lon^, ^»^ -''^^ ,,j, } d^zk, a?id fee that you prepare your felves --*— ^ rayer. Inffl upon the way that leads to MoLiiitaine, but aske not of any man yvloere 1 . ther 36 Lumen de Lumtne^ or | ^ the way iyes : only follow your Guide, who tp . offer himfelf to yoH, And mil meet yon in r J^' \V2^i,butyonJh^l not k»ov(f him.This Guide n hrin^yofitothi^}Ao\xntMat Midnight, \vh 1 all thi)fgs are (\\^nt and DarL //• is necejfal that yoH arme your felves with a refolute ^1 rote courage^ leaTtyoufeare thofe things th 'J 'xvill happen^ and fo fall back^ • Ton needT. . ' Sword^nor any other Bodily roecpons, only cL tipon God fincerely, and heartily. When y ,1 have difcovsred the Mountaine, the firft Xi ' racic that will appear e, is this. A mofl 1 ' kement^ and very great Wind, that will Jha^' it^^ Mountaine, and flatter the 'Koc\iS to pe^^] ces. Ton fhAll be tncounter'd affo by Lions ai "' Dx^gonsy and other Terrible Beafts, but fea^J! not any of the fe things. Be refolute^ and ta ., heed that yoH returne not^ for your Guide w ^ brought yoH t hither^ will not fuffer any Ev: ,1, to befall "^ou. tt/^sfor theTreafure, it is » , yet difcovered^ but it is very neer. After t\. j Wmd will come an Earthquake, that will verthrow thpfe things^ which the wind ha^r left^ and mak^ all H:it. But be (ure^ thatji^ fall not off. The Earthquake being pafl, the / fhall follow a Fire^ that will confume the Eart ' ly Rubbifh, and difcover the Treafure, h M yet you cannot fee it , After all thefe thin^ / md nur the Day-break, there (hall be a gn ^^ \ new M^^icall Li^ht^ &c. 37 , Im, andjoHJhallfse the Day-ftar arife, and. Dawning TV/ i/ appears^ md you jhall per^ ]^je agreatTitdSmt. The Chiefefi tki'^gin jj zfidthe mofl ferfcEh^ u a, certain exalted ] i6lure with which the world Qj it faved I i^ and were worthy offnch Gifts) mtgkt bs j- red^ afjd tnrn*d imo mofl ptire Gold, I ''hts Tin6turc being ufed , as your Guide , 7 teach vou, Will make yon young when yot^ V old, and you jhall perceive no Difeafe int ' ' part of your Bodies, By means of this Tin- ,1 icalfoj you Jhall find pearls of that Excels 77, which cannot be imagined. But doe not ^ arrogat any tiring to your felves becanfe of ; r prefent pow r ^ but be contented wi^h that ich your Guide jhall communicat to you, dtff Cod perpetually for thts^his Gi^, and )e a jpeciall care iFatyou ttfe it n-st for 'Idly pride, but imploy it in fuch workes, ich are contrary to the world. Ufe it rights andinjoyitfo, oiifyoti had it not. Live h iperat life, and beware of all fin, otherwife r Guide will forfakeyou,and you (h^M be de- zed of this Happinefle. for k*?ow this of a ith, whoftever abufeth this Tin6lure, and ?j not exemplar ly, purely, and devoutly be^^ imen^he fljall loftthts Benefit, and fear ce hope will there be left^ ever to recover it vrwftrds. This ^8 Lumen de Lumme, or 1 ^ This much we have from thefe pimoi'^^^^ and moft C^riftia?z Tht/ofophers : Men qi ^'' flionlcflc, that have rufFer*d much by thejr o\ i^' difcreet /// for their pf^rfes, n- ^ for their /^/^Zf, nbr in any good fe»fe for th mara's^and ^rijhtle*s v^y!htL<^9h that cM taphyjicall Beafi of the Schoolefmn, It fignifi' the innumerous conceited JVhimx^ies, and a]^ tieMoylnolmfigimtions oi LPdafj, For^befb; ro nl) 4 n ew Ma^tcall Light ^ &c. 3 9 attain to the Truth^ we are ftdjcEh to a Duiand Fanftes^ FiU^tom, and ^4-pprehenfi^ which wet fa/fly fi4ppofe^ and many Times lickjy propofe for the r^^/f/j it felf. This intaflic Region is the true Originall Si?w/- )te of all S^^j and their Dijjeraio?7s, Hence ic the defpayring Sceptic, the Joofe Epicure^ Hypocriticall Stoic, and the Atheous T^r/- 'tic. Hence alfb their feverall "Digladiati^ ' .about -Nature : Whether the /r/ Matter fire, (tAire^ Earthy or IVater, or a fV/^ of aginarie zAtoms, all which are falfe and lUlous Siipfof]tions,\^i wee look on Religi- and the Diverfities thereof; whence pro- C ded the prelcnt Hcrefieszwd Schifmes, but m theDifeent, erroneous <*y4pprehenfions \m^2n? Indeed whiles weeToJlow oUr own ifies^ and build on bottomlefs unfettl'd Yma^ at ions J wee muft nttd^ JVander^ and grope hizDark^, like thofe that are Blmdfalded. the Contrarie, if wee lay the Line to our mghts^SLVxA examine them by Experience^ I are in the way to bee Infa'lUUe, for wee e hold of that ^///^, which God hath pre* is( for our IDireEiion, In i^^i« hath he made J if^r^, if wee dwell on our own Conceptions^ make no ^ of her 'Tnnciples, It were a i^y Necejfity^ if our thoughts could not i/^- j^froni her M^*?/*?/ ; but Certainly for us to think !B 40 Limen de Lumine^ of ^ thinkj that we can find the Truth by in«w* Contemplation v^'ixhout Experience^ is asgrf^' zmadnefs^B.s[{ z. Man (\no\.\\d Jhtitt his £)i from the S««, and then believe hce can tr r(i 'S/.«//e direilly from London to Grand C airm hy fanfytng htm [elf mihtrtght way, witho f' the AJJi-flance of the Light, It is true, that i w man enters the C^-^gicall Schoo/e^ but h< i wanders fir fl in this Region of Chimxra'si' ioi the I^^«/>;>j which we make before wp attaint© Experiment all Truths^ zx^ mofl {f them Erroneous, Howfoever wee fhould b!; fb rational, and patient in our Dtfejuifittof^ j as not imperioujly to obtrude and /(?r^^ the: 1^ upon the B^or/i, before wee are ^^/^ to ^ipr/j » them. as I ever approved that regular and folid fpeec tli t£ B a fil Valentine : "Dijce igitur Dijputat^ii mi^ C^ inqtiire primum Fptndamentum ipjU octilis ^manu., quod N atura fecum jert an fconditfim .• Sic dentum frudenter^ o* ^^^ P f^ dicio de Rebus dijferere^ dr [apra inexfugn* ([ hilem Petram ddtficare poteris. Sine hoc a, w; tem vanus ^ phantafiicui Nngator manebu % CHJHS Sfrmones Ahf(^ ulU Experientia fupii^ t/^renam/olumfiftndati funt. Qui autemf^u. mocinationtbus ftiis (fr ^ugis me aliqmd 4 Ac cerevnlt^ismc verbis tantum nudis nonpay^t cat J Jtd Expnientid faUnm Documentu k :v A new magicau Light ^ occ. 4 1 ltd fit pr^flo oportet, fi?te qno non teneor rhis locum dare , fidem(^He tis adhihsre » d in another place, Nngatorem hand mo- (faith he) cjni mn per Experientiam pro- am loquitur : Nam €Ju4 Se/mones per in- itiic fundati funt, cic Cdici Jud.tcmm de Colo-- \m, Queftionleffe all this was the Breath ; a true Philofopher^ one that ftudied not ; Names^ but the Natures of Thin(^s» I pofe it as Batterie to the Scboolemertr^ if y will needs mufler their Syllogifms^ \ ex- } alio they fhould confirme their Noyfe by »ir Experience, Within this 'Phantaflic Circle flands a tmp^ and it typifies the Light c£ Nature^. iisis the fecret Candle of God^ which hee th tinnd in the Elements, it burns and is' ■ feen, for it Jh^^es in z dark, place. Every [urall i?^^ IS a kind ot i^/^^ri^ Lanthorne^ tl:arrfesthis Candle within it, but theI//^/?it ipears not, it is Ecclips'dmth the Grofsneffe the matter. The Effects of this Light are parent m All things, but the L^^^f ic felf is ^l ^ijed^or elfe not followed JThe great worldh2.zh \ Sun for his Life and Candle ; according to ; Ahfeisce andpre fence of this Fire^oM things i ithe world /Zo^r//^ or wither. We know by ^j \cperience, and this in our own Bodies^ that i ^longzsl^felap^thQXcis a cent inu all /<^^- II [\'e n 4 ^ humen de humme^ or ^/W, a ccnzinfeethm^ or Boy ling within i This makes us /rt76'.'7^, and expire \n perpecu J)e fluxions at the fores , and if we Jay o hands to our skj,^^ we C2.nfeei our own ^^^ which muft needs proceed from an inclof< ^ ^ F/rg, or Light, All Vegetables grow, ari^J: augment themfelves, they put forth the /r?((//^j and Flowers, which could not bee, fbme Heat did v\oifiirt4f^ and ^/ri and altered from one Complexion to A ther. To which may be added this Trut yfor A-iamfeflatwri : if the tJH^incrall Pri> cipleshc artificially dijfolved, that their fij\ and /pint may be at Liberty^ even CMeta themieJves may be made f^egetable ,9Th Fire or Light is no where to be found in fuc abtindmce and pnritie^ as in that fkbJeSt ^whic "' the /:r fror ?' ^^^z'^, and was therefore T?;'/*^^ by the ^'l^^j^ r/^/^/j-, Domi'is ftgnata^ plena Luminis <^ Di virdtatut Bi A new Ma^tcailLi^t^ &c. 43 But to proceed in the Sx^oftcion of our '^s ; not far from this Lamp you may ob- ve the Angel or Gemm of the place. In ? hand he bears a fivord, to keep off the '^te'nttom and umvorthj : in the ^?/W • a C/^jj; Thread to /^'^^ in. the Humble^ and Harm^ ^e. Under the aA/tar lyes the ^r^f;^ Dr^- «, or the Magician's Merctiry^ involving" .jjitfelfa Treajnre oi Gold and Pearl, This ,J ,|neither 'Dreame noi Fan/te^ but a kpow/j, mionflrahle^ pr apical I Truth. The Tr^^- '^is there to hz found ^ infinitely Rich and - ^//.-Indeed we muft confefle it is tnchan. ', and that by the very ^Art and Magic ;he zyi'mightte God, It can neither be feen ■ ^ • />//-, but the C^h.^^^t that holds it, is every ly under our_F£^^ On \\\\s Treajure fits a Vi? C&ZJ, with this Inlcription, Non nip 't'H'js, It tcis us . how they fliould bee hfied \'A\o defire to be admitted to this e, Tliev muft be Innocent^ and very Hnm^ : not impudenr proud Ranntcrs^ nor Cc- 3US uncharitable Miners, They maft be ry /^.V, not Y^^;^/-^;?? /^/^j- : They muft love the ■ ;v f/j, and (to fpeak in a horaely Phrafe^ ■ ■J;J/ muft alio like C/?/7rir, that is Sfihil or Nothing : but jn a Relative mfe^ or as the^'WjWwf^expiefle it, ^^ <^^ w. In plaine tearms it is T>eitas nada Jim ^'ndumento. The middle Sub fiances^ or Chatne |>etween thefe Two^ is That which wc Com- - nonlycaJl Nature, This is the Scala of the ;reat Chaldee^ which doth reach a Tartaro ^'Jprimum Ignem^ from the Subternaturall larknefe to the fupematurall Fire, Thefe Middle Natures came out of a ccrtaine ^^Jer, - vhich was the Sperm ^ or Firfi Matter of tfic 7r^4f 7^^r/^,andnow we will begin to de- :ribe it : Capiat ^(^m C^iperepotefl, It is in plaine Tearms, a:«'''*'«» ^ K'"'"'^"/' : Or ^father it is * X'^'^'*» chat is >«>*« x^f^*'''^^ *f^ ^ Wx«^ - 'cy^e -^ an exceedingly /»>«»^ rc- uires, >«»f«'>«if>%>'»'>«»/»M»X The learned ^r* ''''|fe/>«//? defines it, 6«o» 'Apj»'pw» f«*TiJie»9 'Ima-if Trf? «/' 'iriwf<«7ep «» yp«>«Jt is a X>/t^/«it like Stiver, the /(-K^; ^^^''^^J}£.^£l^lk'^~ ^^^ ^JiJ^MiM^J^hiL^ ^ T^^c fop ^mtejfence of Fc>«r^ the Icrnarie qf_ 7 k?(?^ (|]( andthe7Vrr^if^^^w£'. Thefe are Iiis Cf^«^/>2 5^^_^w^, a certain foft prolififim Venm.' the very Lf-'i'^anci ^t-ff^, the -^uY/zr^ftl and t^Moyfiure of Heaven and ^<«r^/;. This |e, Mojfiure is the Mother of all 7 ^'^VTg-i in the ^^ ?p•^^'^;7d'/,fo that the vapours of the Mercu- V which were formerly [Hblim'd , are now r/idens'd^ and diftill'm Drops to the Bottome f their Cavern, But the Night hc'mgfpe^t^ le 5^;^ againe conies about to the £^j^, and ublimes the Moyflnre as formerly : This ^ublimMion and Condenfation continue fp )ng till the CMJercury takes up the Subtill uli^htireous parts of the Earthy and is *'«- >rpr/zW therewith, fo that this fu/phur coa^ ilats the f^Msrcury, and /"Arf^/? him at /^y? lat he will not fptbitme, but lyes iiill in a mderoHS Lump^znd is concocted to a perfeH: ditall. Take notice then that ruiCo mn moritur fine fuo (Compare : it water that dtffolves and putrifies Sarth , and iit[ fire to attaine to the Truth , rely upon n r, words, for I fpeak the truth, and I am av Deceiver. The m [other or firfl Matter i n Metals is a certainc watery Sub fiance, neith( jj?i -very water, nor very Earth, but a 77;/r^ ?/;/» w. compounded o^Both,2ind retaining the Com 'i ■ plexion of neither. To this agrees the leai "ik Ticd Valentine in his appo^it and genuine Dc \\\ fcription of our Sperm. Materia, Prtm\t^ (faith he) efi hquofit Subfiantia , Sicca ri\\ perta, ^ nulli Materia comparahilts . Tb i\ firft Matter is a water i^ Sub fiance founnK 2)r/f,oroffuch a Complextgn that jt^^/ «p( I f A new magtcaU Light ^ See. 4 9 Hand^ and nothing Itke to any other fatter what foever. Another excellent, and i\\ experienc'd Philofopher defines it thus. f 1 errena (tAqtm^ ^ Aquofa Terra, in ^rrdt ventre Terrte commixta, cum Qua fe wr/i-ifcet Sfiritm^ ^ Cdileflis iKptxas^ It (faith he) an Earthy water ^ and a watery zrth^ mingl'd with Earth in the Belly of the irth^ ^nd the fpirit zn\l rifluences o{ Hea^ ^n commix themfelves therewith* Indeed it mnot bee denied but fome kuthors have im'd this Sub fiance by the names of all or* nary waters^ not to deceive the Jimple, but hidek from the Rant iyig, tll-dtffojed Crew, »n the contrary fome have exprcfly and ithfully Informed us it is no Qmmon rr/f- ir, and elpecially the reverend Turha, Ig-* mi (faith kgadmon) ci4m audmnt nomen A- «4;, "put ant hquam Nubts ejfe^ quod fi hbroi oftros intelligerint, fc'trent effe hquam per* idnentem^ qudi abfque fuo Campari cum cjU9 iSiaeflunum^ permanens ejfe non pojjjt. The jnorant (faith he) when they heare us name i^ater, think it is water of the Clouds but if- hey underftood our Books, they fliould know : to be a permanent or fix'd water, which vithout its Sulphur to which it hath been imted^ Cannot be permanent. The noble and blowing Sendivo^ms tels us the very fame 'Thing- 50 Lumen de Lumine^ or ' ^ Thing: A qtia nostra efi Acjho, Coclefiis ft^]^ mci^efaciens mmus^ non vulgi, fed fereplfi\^^^ vialfs. Our water is a heave?ily water, whicl '^j 'j wefs not the Li>-^d^ not that of the commoM Mm^ bat almofl or m it were Plw^fiad'^^^ ■ We muft therefore con(ider the fe verall H^^f ^r, not water of the ^/^^Wj-, «'■ phlegmattcwit^r^h\xi2L CholPric water, mo^tt loot than Pire, It is moreover Green/(h to the <> fight, and the fame LtilUe telsyouio: habet^ colorem lacertdt Vir'tdis, it looks faith he, like ^ 2i green 1'tz.^rd. But the mott prevalent Co^^ 4- l(mr in it, is a certain incxpreffible zAxj^re , * like the Body of Heaven in 2, clear 1>iy^ It looks in Truth like the Belly of a Sndi^, ef^ --/-pccially neer the JSIeck^, where the ^^^/pj have ^ a^f^p ^/^»' Tmclm-e, and this is the r^<^;^, Nvhj? A new Magicall Ugm^ dec. 5 1 ,y the "Fli'ofopher^ call'd it their ferpefJt, [ their Drago'/i, The fredomina'/it Element ic^ is a certaine Fterte [uhtill Earthy and i\\\S\\^}revdeAtf^rt the Befi Philofefhers^' je denommated the whole Compomd. Pa- + t"//"^- names it openly but in ofu place, and :alsitr^?/i7^w 7e'?Ti, ThejS;//»i^ orr"//- t part o^the_Earth» Raymtind LuUie de- f)eth the Cr/^j, or Conftimtion of it in Te words. Sy^hfla?itialaptdu nofirt e(t*ma 7uif^ & Igne trnpregnata. The Snbfl^nce our y?^;?^ (faith he) is altogether fat^ot coi-i.^, and impregnated with^r,an'' A new Magicall Light^ &c, 53 it ft is not, which is all that Man can . Iflaskeyou.by what'7^wAt (as we have told you in a/^f^ima {^[agica ) figriifie the Virgin ^rcHry^ and the Virgin Sulphur, This I prove out of the text'it (elf^ and that he vulgar received Tranjlation^ which thus : /n the Beginning God created the ~t \ven^ and tl^e Earth : Knd the Earth was %j mut forme and voyd^ and there was dark^ \tfpon the face of t^e abyffe, and thefpirit d moved upon the face of the Waters. In rfi part of this text Mofes mentions two tdprinctples^ not a perfect world as wc prove hereafter, and this he doth in thele *ralJ termes, Heaven and Earth, In the latter 56 Lumen de Lumtne, Or Later fart of it he defciibes each of th^^^ frincijfles by it fe/f in more particular term ' ^ and be Ifegms with the Earth. And the £^? ^j (faith he) wa^ without forme ^ and void. Her. j^ I infer that the Earth he /peaks of was a m( ;^y Rudiwent ox prmciple oi t\\\s Earth which in ^ now/^ -^- '■ To conclude .- Remember that our fuhje^ 10 common water, but a thicks, flimie^ fat 'th. This r^rf/> muft be dtjfolved into wa^ '^ , and that water mufi be coagulated a- C :n into earth. This is done by a ccrtainc iturall A^f;-/?, which the Philofbphers call- tixfecretfire .• for if you work with common -^ ■' p, ir wiIl^r/> your Sperm, and luring it to ' unprofitable, red 7)ufl, of the C^^/our oi . F 7r;7^ 58 humen de humme^ or wildfoppie. Their fire then is the J^ey of <*Art^ for ic is a Nat mall kgent^ but aU:^ NatHrally with o ut the Sm. I muft coiij^^ itis z'knottie ^jHyflcrie^ but we (hall mj*' liplahie, if you be not very Dim and Z5^' It requires indeed a ^///^r;^, Kitchin of the '^^' lements^ is but one Things from ^;^^ /Jf['' Tht Effcits oryt arc varioiis according to 'Difia^ce, and Nature of ihcfuhjcB; whe^'; it re fides, for that makes it ^/Y^/, or rV<7/^^' It/Xf^-;?/ in mo[{ /fc^/ as in Flms^ wherF xsfilcntznAInvifible, It is a ki^:d of perd^^ lys clo/e hkc z Spider in the Qalpinet of^'^'' //'"^<^, to fitrpr/fe all that row^^j within '"'^f ///7w'x. He never appears without his pr^;"' lnsf^^/-,.\vbcrehe finds oi^.gh that's Owt^ ftil^le there' he difcovers himfelf , for if p fpcah proper//^ he is not gefjcrated^ but ?)}fefted. Some Men are of Ofinion that - breeds noihwfr^, but devour es all things^ an ^0 therefore calFd /^^m (J'^/z// lyigignens .- ^ iszGrammticall JVkim^ for there is no# A new Mmcall Lights dec. 5 5 n the world ^^^^?^^/^^<5/ without Fire, What a ne Philofopher then was Arifiotle, who teJs s~this (iAgent breeds nothing but his Vjr.m- ?^, a certain F/;' which he found, in hisC^^z- Ue, but could never be feen afterwards} In- ked :too much Heat burns and deflroyes, and f we defcend to other Natures^ too much wa- erdrowtisj:oo much earth buries and choaks the ^^^ that it cannot come up: And verily at his Rate there is nothing in the vporld that renerats. What an Owle was he then, that »uld not dtfiingHifh with all his Logic be- ween Excejfe and Me^^fire^ between V'ioUnt v\Al^ital Degrees of Heat^ but concluded he Fire did Breed nothings bccaufe it confu- •d fomething ? "But let the CA^tde pafTe, for fo Tiato caird him, and lee us proiccute our "ef ret fire, ThisTzr^is atthe Rcot^ and, about he Roof (I.jnean about the Center) of all hings both Vtfible^ and Inviftble, It is in ' voter ^ earth, and ayr ; It is in CMinerals^ Herbs, and Bea(}s ; Icis in Alen, Stars^ and Angels ; but Origiyiafly it is in God himfe/f^^^ or he is the Fountain of Fleat and fire, and rom Him it is derived to the refl of the r^^r/^r^i in a certaine flreame^ or Sun-fhine^ Ls„:.„„x».-..-. ^ow th« Magicians affoord us bat two Nc^ ions, whereby we may know their fire : it is iS: the^ defcribe it,:.Olf>yfi aa^r^/t I know Arifiot 'i"i makes the/r^ to be fimpjy ^rj', perhaps bf caufe the effells of it arc fo ; he did not ind^^'^^ confider that in all [omflexions there are '^1 ther Qualities befidcs the pri\ but if oi'^J natur all fire v^tit ftm^l) dr ie^ the flames t^^^^ it could not f.otv^ and difufie themielves 'M they doe. they would rather fall to Dufi, ^y» gc/W/. This Sxcitatton, or Jreparamn (as have told thSmmy Calum Terra) is a vc- f tf'i'^i±^lyjl^j^ht, ridictiloHS thing; never- fieTcflcall ^tficreis q£ Corruption and Gem oration arc therein contained, Laftly, I think ; juft to informe thee, that many Authors F I have 6z Lumen de Lumine, ov \ h3iVt falfiydefcril?edii\isfireyznd that o^pur- fofc to fedti<^e their Reader s.V'or my ovvnpart, I have neither added ^ nor dimimjhed ^ thou ha({- here the tmc hiine fecrer, and in which k all the Eaflernftges agree : A I fid ^ aAlmadtr^ m 'Behn^ G'tehcrim\ Halt , Salmanaz^'ar , and Im Zddich : with the tfjree famous Jews Abra^^^ ^ir l:'a7?^^zyfr-efiks,2LndKa!id^ If thpu docft not k b^ this eimc apprehend it, thou art palt my fffi C/i/^jjtof I may tell thee no more of it, I may (jiji oiily teadi thee how to ?/y^ it. "' fc TaU'eout hvo SerpCKts^ which are to bee Icfli found every where on the Face of the Earth; jc, They are a. //w?:^^ CM'^le^ and a Hviyjg Fe^ male, 'f ^^e them Both, in a Love-k^ot , and . fhut them up in the Arabia?? C A R A H A. This i^ thy /Yry^^.f/'^^ir, but thy ^cxt is more difficu/t. Thou' miirt inca??i^ againft them with the Jirc of N'siture , and be lure thou doe(l t>n"g thy 'Line rouncl about . (^ircle themin, and//^j5aUAw;?^^j-j that they find no -^ch^« of ^^<^^/V. Study then to underftand this, and when thou haft per- form'd , I will allow thee that Tefi of the Mekks^halim : Intellex'tfli m faptentia , (^ fapuiftt in Intelligentia, fiattiifti Rem fuper PuritatesfuaSy & Qreatorem in Throno fm collocafti. For a Clofe to this Section, I (ay it is impof- lible to^^^fr^^in the patient, without a vi^ tall generating ^gent. This Agent is the Phi-^ lofophicalfire^ a certain moyfl, heavenly, in^ "vifihle Heap^ but let us heare Raymund Lul" lie defcribe it, Quando dtcimm (faith hee) quod lapis per ignem generatwr , non vident ^ Mitimignem^ nee alinm ignem credunt^ ^ifi ignem commnnem : nee aliud Sulphur , nee / _ aliud argentum vivum, nifi (it vulgar e, IdeOj manent decepti per eorum c^cas ejiimationes, i^ inhrentes ? A new MagicaU Light ^ &c. 6 5 ferefttes quod caufa fumus [ha Deceptioms, ' qttod dedimus illis intelligere rtm nnam alia, Sed non efi vertimfalva eorum pace, cut prohahimtis per ilia, quA Thilofophi po» iernnt in fcript'ts , Solem enim appellamm 'nem^ ^ vicarititn fuum vocampu Calorem l^turalem . Nam illud quod agtt Qalor S^- tsint^Mi^TU Metallorum per mi lie annos^ 'jfe Calor naturalis facit in una hora fnpra X'erram, Nos vere , & multi alii^ vocamm ( urn F ilium Jolis^ nam primo per fo lis influen^ ^' iam fuit generatHs per natnram , fine adjti- hrio Scienttdt, velartis. When wee (ay the i;Wf is generated by/r«?, Men neicher lee, nei- her doc they believe there is any other fire , mt the common fire : nor any other Sulphur )t Mercury ^ but the common Sulphur and Mercury, Thus arc they deceived by their mn opinions^ T^y^^g that we are the Qaufe of heir Error, having made them to mtflakf mc thing for another. But by their leave it is lot (b, as we fliall prove by the 1)o5irineo( ^^ :hc Philofopher/, For wee call the Sun z firc^-%) and the natural Heat we call his Subfittute^ or Deputy ; for that which the heat of the Sun perfcrmes in a tkoufitnd years in the t^Mines, the ^£^iJ>S J^J^P^^iJ^^otm^J^jobj^^ ^^rti ijif «f^i&^^ manyothei: Philofophers have calFd this Heat, the Child of 66 Lumen de Lumine^ or of che Snn, for at firfl it was generAted natpi.-^ .■XJS/fe-byjhe f ^^g;gg-g Qj[^^^ '^?^. without the JJe/pofonr An or Knowledq^e, Thus Z/f^/- //> : But one thing I muft tell thee, and bee furc, Reader , thou doefl remember it . This < very natnrall HeAt niuft bee applied in the jtijh T^egre^, and not too m;4ch fortified, for the Sun it felf doth not generat, but barne and fborch vjhczc it is too hot. Si cam igne npagno operatus fneris ("faith the fame Lullte) pro* frietas noflri fpirttus , q'Ad!. inter vitdm & mortem pirticipuit, fep^trabit fe , (^ Animci recedet in Regio?2em jfh^rtt f(i««?• which we ^ ok after, but not zWj common water whac- •ver. There isnothing now behind but that hich the Thilofophers call fecretum Arnsx thi»nh^t wzsatvttpuhnjheA and without hich you will never ferforme , though you ,0W both Fire and Matter h'.^inflance ;reof weehave in f &«^»»< ,T^\'"f "^ *! ■ 5jf,f«r well enough and had both /^^ and ,r„ace painted to him bv ^bra^mt):^ m: but notwithftanding he err'dfor f^/^? ■Ars becaufe hee /^«f» not the tlwdfecret. , Jem Madathan a mott noble Ph.lofofher Iraaic'd upon the /^^/a-f for ^J^^ years to- ether but knew not the right method, mi nereforc found ««fW; " '»" ^^"^'^ ^'*'' J^^. Revelmonem ab ommfJtente Deo mpkt pncreditaefi : After the fixth year, I wasuv mfted with the Key of porter by toet Revc. \monMm^^Al>rJgky God. This Key of ^er or third fecret was never put to fafer ,y any ^hilofopher whatfoever P^r^«/> LWhathtouch'dupon it but fo obfcHr^ t is no more to the furfo(e then if he had, faid ,othi>,g. And now I fuppofe I have done e- wugh for th^ V'fcovery , and Regiment ^i 68 Lumenie Lumine^ or the j7r^ J ifyou think it too little^ Imufts^cUj you it is much more then any one Author hath performed. Search it then , for he that finds >this)^r^, will attainetothe true temper^tment^ * he will make a noble defervmg PhHofopher;% and to fpeake in the phrafe of our Spaniard^ Dignpi^ erit pom ad Aienfam Dtiodecim parmm. The River of Pearl. ^^^ r T is a D^cjfy.pounded Suhfidnce , extreme heavy zndmoyfi^hut wets Mot the Hand, It Jhi»es after JViight like a fiar, and will in- lighten any Dar^e roome^ It is full of linall ^^jfparklinglikeP^^r//or Aglets. It is the whole Demogorgon^ but now actually ant^ \^ mated by ilianifeftation of his own Inward Lights The Father of it is a certaine tnvwlahle AfaJfe,fov the par tt of it arc fo firmly united^ you can ntithct^p^md them into J^^/?^ nor fiparat tliem By violence of F/r^. This is the j?i»^ of the pEiiofophers, ^/ /i^ omni parte (faith one^ circumdatus efi Tenebris^ Nebu^ lis^Caligine rjiabttat in mediis TerrAvifm ceribus. Qui tibi natm fuerit^ vefiitur quo^ dam vtridt Pallit? ^ humiditate qtiadam af- perfus^ ^ fum prognatus ab alicjtto^ fed Ater^ fiHs^ ^ parens omnmm Rernm. It is compaf- fcd A new Magicall Liqht^ &c. 69 about (faith he) with Darkncfle, Clouds, Blackncfle. It dwels m the inmoft Bow- ls ofthe Earth: but when he is hoTfje, hct iS >athedwith_a ccrtainc Green Maj^tle^ and mwil'dowct with a certame Moyflt^re. He not properly generated by any Naturall ing. biit he is eternaJl, and the Father of all lings. This Defcription is very true and ap- \ but (sy^nigmaticall : howfoever forget iot the Green Mantle, This is that iubrtance, vhich (^ieLertm Efen-Haen, or as the Rai^ie vrites him, Cjeher , cals L^^-pM in Capitnlis \qtm : a very fubtil Expreflion, but if well exa- [iin*d, itisthe Key to his "^hokBooke^ and o the writings of the old Pici/ofophers in Ge- icrall. But let us returne to our River of *£^/, and for our further information let us icareit delcrib'd bya nioft excellent d/^dep-^ Hs^ and that in the veiy •f«»fl«ff'ff , before the fall noon appears. W^^ opm ^^(faith hc)^mdmihf khguando oh oculos fofnit nr.icus Exech^difies^ %na^nas ijt^ifpe fornaies ^ ^^tcjue vitro einjdem ^arico redtmita4 oflendens, l^afa erant fin- .jula^hf ptis fedilihns habentiit fedimenta^ at- ^ae interim difpari dicM^m^ facrumi^tie Afr^-^ ms . Quid 'vero Rem tam ■ Dlvinam cclem imtiusfErar ir?tH-s circtf.maflaMoles qHdi.d:im^ ^mdiprafc ferenswi^gtnem i-pp(Jimi,Oiiipps ^i- Terra vid^Lnttr in medio omniiim coh*^. Ctflcns ^o Lumen de Lumine^ or Jifiens^a^tufque ctrcHmfnfa himYtd^ijfimis-^.^ vartos colles^ falehrofafuque rupes ajfnrgebi \ fruBumferens multiplicem^ tanquam kumt^ tis Aerts imbribus irr'tgua^ Vint etiam i{ debatur & olei, & /aCiis, atque prettofon\ omne gef^Hs Upidtir)^^ ^ Metalloram ijfe <^r^»tiS'^//', now "^f^^^^y lovv kid^ thm tellm and jp;/r£/*ff^and as it \ to 'J 2 Lumen de Lumtne, or wcte chamkttedWith various Co/ours^ whic did fwell up to the face of the waters. All the ' things were aBuated or flirr^d with the, ovJti ^ippropriat fire^hut in very truth tmpeil ceptible^ and ethereal/. But o»e thing aboi thereftforc'dmetoan incredible admiratiorj, Namely , that (b many things, fuch dtver, and in their kind fuch perfect particHla} iTiould proceed frotft one only things and th; with very [mall afijf^ce^ which being fm | r/j^r'<^ and flrengthned by degrees^ the >^] f//? faithfully affirmed to me that all the *T>iverfities would fettle at laft to one Bo c , Here I obferyed i\\zt fnfil kind of Salt toloi nothing different Yrbm a pumice-ftone ^ ad that ^//<7^-//z/^r which the ancient Authoi £ oTthis Art call'd Mercur y^ to be the fan) *^rWith Lulltes L»naria, whole tvater gets - ? Tliis-isthey?;z/f of our learned ayfdeptfis^ at "[ , againft the fire o^ Nature^ iknAfhtnesh yntgh but by <^^2 hath a glt^t incus ^ VJlf.?!^lJ^Mk for his hnalogie of the Philofofhic S^/f, ai , a pumtce^fione^ it cannot be well eoKceiv without tlie Light of Experience, It is th( a porous , hollow , froth-like , fpongious Sa, _. Tiie Confiflency of it is pumice4ike^ but ni ; iher /wr^, nor opacous. It is a thih^jlippe 'otlyjlib fiance in appearance like cj^w ^ ^^/^n?, but much more clear , Sometimes loo A new Magical/ LightySiC. 7| 7 |oks like Rojials and Rubies .• Sometimes it ^t^iolet Blew, Ibmecimes white as Lilies^ and- ;ainc moit green than Grajfe, but with a nara^dine tranj-^arcncie ,- and fometimes ic Dks like burnifht Go/d aild Stiver ^ The ^z- r of T^earlc hath her N^nms from /r.for there ': ?.t;?^j like the 5/?^rw oi^rogs in commonxva'* . ^\ 's. Sometimes it will move^and Iwim to the , Td- of his Bath in thin leaves like wafers, twitli a thoufand miraculous Colours. This eiioughandtoomuch, for I hold it not my Jty to inhft upon Jecrets, which are lo far )m the Readers Ir^qptiry^ that I dare fay they beyond his Sxfet}ation» The ty£ther^ or the ^ire^ of Paradife. Itherto I have difcours'd of the firfi Matter , and the fire of Nature : Tcrmes jndeed commonly known > t the things jigmfied alC ieldome under ^ od, I (liaJl now defcend to mote abftrule rticular principles. Things of that j^^rme Aftthtiltie^ they are not fo much as thought much Icffe i^qnir^d after , The common 'imifi dreams of Gold and TraTjfrfiutatio'/^s^ • )ft noble and Heavenly Efccls, buf the 'eans wbereby hcc would compajfs them, G ay€ 74 Lumen de Lumine^ or ai'c vvorme-eaten , duftie , miiftie papers. Hii Study and his Noddle are fiitff'd with oU, Receits^ he can tell us a hundred Stories oi ' Brimflo»e and Q^ickr/i/ver^ wich many miv raculous Legends of zArfemc and ^nti* mome,Salgemm(£jSalprm^w/;;' them' A new Ma^icallLight^ Sec. 7 5 hem to their judgeme^^t^ but prclently bring :hem to the fire. Certainly they believe ftich diculous I-mfoffibiltties , that even hndte B-'eafis if they couJd fpe^:ks -> would reprove hem. Sometimes they mi [take their ownc ^xcreme'/2ts for that ^^M'-itter out of which Heaven and Sarth were made. Hence they 'ntdge^zxiA labotir mUri/ie, and fuch hUhie ixtyfiujfe which is not fit to be :-^.amd. But hen all conies to all, and their Cufiard fails hem, thev qi-iit their fiJihim-ffe^ but not their rror» They think of fcmething thats more 'ratable ^ Vind dreame perhaps that G'efigm to dif- iDver fomc Excellencies of this krt , and akeitappeareto the Student that what is 'JklorioHs, is with all -D^j^a///^, This 1 fuppole , lay remove ^nx Eli-id^fluggifih Credulity^ .-I'hich prevents all IngemotaTitfcjHifttions ^ \id. C2^\\'C men perhaps to exercifi that kea- », which God hath otven them for 1) /cow- ries, I fhall'not dwell long on any one err;a^//«r, lam drawing off 'the y?^^^ in adl, ^a[le^ and rctumi-.ig to my fiirfl fohtudes. ^i \l'^4^'^^^'''fi^^'^ he vay Ihort^ and like the \lc/;oV iaft'57//i/'/^"f, impel fc6l. 1 intend it *^"*% C^ '» onlv 51 7^ Lwm^w de humke^ or only for Hint and fug^eftion to the Reader nisnoffill Light but a Cfla-^ce, and he muft improve it to h is better fatisfaBion. y We are now to fpeake of the e/£f/>^r of '' -^th^SfiitH^^^j which is the very j^fw^ in AT^- '*^/ ture 2d\^fiihflance with the outward cither o( the great world. That you may the better underftand what Jt is^ we will examine the Notion, before \\c fiate the tht^g. hrtflotle in his Book de Mundo derives this word '«»* *t% 'ail 5-im, k femper ctirrendo , becaufc the Heavens ajre in pcrpetnall CAt'^i'^on, This is a gcnerall irregular whjmz^ic^ for the y?^r; al- io afvvell as the cef^ but a QMtne of Complex ions. There are other Movfinres , and thofc too ^there^tU : They are FemaUs alio of the AfafoiUne ^Divine Fire ^ and thefe are the Fountains of the (^hddee ^ which the Oracle flyJes 3ii>a/atf«Kf9T«T«. Summ'ttates Fontanas ^ the \m£h\t upper fprings of Nature. Of all (uh fiances that come to our hands, this cs^^/?^r is the j?r/? that brings us Newso^a^ notherWorld^ and tels us we live in a c^r- ruptflace, Sendivogms call'd it the l^rtneoi Saturn^ and with this did he water his Lunar and 5 irngant Terras ^ (^ edu- cHKt Herhas S' E lores* In a word t his Aftf;> finre is animated with a Ve^tahle tl^jjeddt-' vine Fire ^ which made one defcribe the •C^t fiery thus. Ex.Natnra.^ ^ ex Dtzim fallam A new Magicall Lifht^ &c 79 dEl-um efi : T>ivin%m enim efl^ qui a cum ^i- nnitate con]tmB:um Divt^as fuhfi^^tias ft- tt. To conclude, the fc .-The Philofofhers call it their J^/- pr^/T^/ in the Very T^^r^ofits Nativity. This is enouphj and ow I paffe to anpther jPriw//>/f. The Heavenly tund^ ■■p^His Luna is the Moon of the Min^, J» I a very ftrange fif^pifyi^g fubflance* Jj^ It is not /imp/e^ hixzmixt. The c^- r/j^r, and a iubtill white Sarth are' .Components^ and this makes it grojfer thari e t/£ther it /f //". It appeares in the yir;?{f<^ ' an exceeding whtte ale , but is in ^ety' nth a ccrtaine vegefanf^owing^ fmooth, [ofi itMc. G4 The 8o Lumen de Lumtne, or The flar-foule. ^;^' THis is tjie true Aflrum Salts, the founJel of th€ ^jEthr ^ and a Bloudie ^^Jierte^^^j2irjud_^E^ It appears in a gum-m'te [onfijiencyj but with a fierce^ hot, g! owing Complexion. It \^ Sub^ fiantially^Qtxi^mt furple^ animateci^ Divine ^'"^ '^'^'V^^ Prefter (?/ Zoroafter; , T is a M trade to confider,how the Earth, which is a Body of- inexptclTibJe weight znd ffeavi:?ejf?^ c:i.nhe fupportcd in. the aJ Ajy.^Ji^etift^jeeldi' gfiil;ijlan£e ^^nd thorough \ which cvQnjroth and ^yathers will j(i>^, and ^^ ^t^^hLit'^^L.F^y- I hope there is no man fo j?^^^ as to think it is foys'd there by " feme Cjeometricall K^^ack^^ lor that were Arttfi- ciall,hmtheworl^o(God is f^ta/^ and iV^- ttppil. Certainly if the Animatton of rhe : ~ "j^orld be denied^ there muR needs follow a ■precipitation o^ this Eler/^ent by its ow'n Cor- 1 fulencj and Gravity, We fee that our j Sixefupported by that Ejfe^ce^ by which fhey are aUmtcd and mimated^ but wherj that I A new Magicall Light ^ Sec. 8 1 'chcn that Ep^ce leaves them, they fall to hc^rojrnd^ till the /pint returns at the Re^ -^ urreBion. I conclude then that the Earth -^^ ^di in her a Ftre^foule ^ a moft pQwerfnU^ ^ongfpirtt^ that ^^^r/ /:^r f/^, as the fpirit -^' iMan bears up man. To this agrees Ray- V ?//W L/////# 4n the feventy fixth Chapter of iwis Theorie. T(?f^ 7>rr;^ plena efi IntdVigen* ma ad oprationem Nature inclinata , (jaa ^ntelltgentia movetur a nMura fu-perior^l 'taqtiodnatura IntelleEhtva inferior ajfimi^ atnr nature, Super tori. The whole Earth -^ ■faith he) is full o£ Intelligence, inclined to- he D.'fapline or Open'ition of Nature^ which '^ MntelUgence is moved by the Superior Nature: mo that the Inferior Intelligence is like to-^ •liilhc Superior, This fpir it or Intelligence is the -- «»$•»/», a Notion of the admirable Zoroafier^r Btslfind him render d by Julian the C^aUr i \Uaf9, It comes from »HS» ffro, and fignifics -- ffl f^Jghtmng^ or a certaine htrmingTurbo^ iyij^ j \vhirl-wind^ but in the fenfe of our Chaldee - ^* I IS ihcFrre-fpir it o'cLffe, It is an \ flnence - k bf i\iQ- a/Ilmigkty God, and it comes from - [i ygrr^ l ^iventifim, namely the fecond perfon^ i»hom tKe CaEalijls ftyle the Super natur all Jfe/i/?. For as the Natural Light of the %tiH wk fi^fl manifefled to us in thcEafl; i'o the ifl7//jj£^r;^^fj«r^/ Lfght was y^r/ mamfefied k\ - 8 2 tumen de Lumine^ or the fetond ferfon, for he is ^rincipmm Alte, f at ionis ytnt Beginning ef the -wtyesof CjoA\ ot the firfi Mamfeftation of his Father*], Light in the Sf^per»atural GeHeratioft, Frorti this Terra Vi'ventiunt^ Or Land of the Li ving (tomes all Life or fptrit^ aceotding tof thzXfofition of the ^M^k^MiiH • Omnis anima bona efl anima nov^ Vemens ah Oriente, Every ^W /^^f^/^ is a ^^i' /^«/efc€nt of the fofile^ wq? muit refer our ielves to another placet of the Cahalifls^ and this is it. AnimA a Tertio Lumine ad Qnar* tarn Diem , inde ad Quint am de» fcendunt .- inde exeuntes , Corporis NoEt em fub intrant. The fmls (lay they) defcend from the Third Lifht to the fourth "Day, thence to the fifth, whence they pafe out^ and enter the Night of the Body . To underftand this Maxme,yo\i mufi kiiow there 2Ltt three fupreme Lights or Sephiroths ^yitich the C^balifi cals, Sedes m4.< new Magkall Light] Sccl 8 5 nm Dem S^-haoth, This third Light from lence the fou/s delcend Js HJl^ 3 5/>?;j^, the 4? of the /^rff fefhiroths^ and iljtgnifies the 9/7 6'/:w/?. Now that you may know in lat fenfe this Defcent proceeds from that ?j]}d fpirit^ I will fbmewhat inlarge my fcourfe^ for the Cahaltfls are very obfcnre ikhcpoifit, Spirare (fay the j^-fwi) Spiritrts i nEHproprinm efi, to Breath is the proprietie j,( ^he /f ^Z;' ^/j^/. Now we read that Cj^?^ ^ |V»/^/j^^ ;>?r^ Adam f/jernaturall vhter. He is /» /jer^ and thorough her^ and -•^h his etern a Uy^ir/r doth he /jf//7;orf /f^^- -^ ^: and Earthy as our ^£?<5f/>/ are fupported mh our fpirits. This is confirmed by that yfcle of the Apoflle , Omnia port at verba ^tutis (h£^ He bears up all things with the h-dofhis power ;frGm this power is he jult- t \'^u : The i»finitly powerfully and the -^/Z- h^erfullpower-makiyig power, I fay then thac--" '^ and y^^"/^ are the Pillars oF Nature y^ props on which her whole Fabric refts^ I without jr/;/V/> it could not fland one lute. ThisF^>j of all (»Ayii w?^ are of the fame rarrjledj active Tempo It isplawe then that ouv.joyes and forrows pro eecd from thcT>ilatat!cH and Cor:traUion c our ^^!M?<«r^ Ql^iraejfemtall *Lfght . This i apparent in ^f/p^yriw^ Lovers^ who ^.Ycfid jeih to a certain violent^ extraordinary pan ting of the HeaYi ^ a timorous trcmblin! ^///^ which proceeds from the Afprehevfu. and /^f^rrf in relation to hi Mijc^rrtage, Notvvithffanding^ he defires ]^ dilated, as it appears by his pptlfe or Sal! it ^A;hcrein he doth difiharge himfelf ; but hi jPefpaire checks him againe, and brings hin X0 3ifeiddaif7 Retreat^ oi Cofftra^of?, Heno it comes to pafie that we ^vc fffh-jelh to figln which are eccajiond by the fiiddainpat'ife o die fpirit : for when hceflop , the Bread /?o/»j, butwhcn he loofeth hif^elfio ocnotit wan AnQwMagicallLightyScc. S'Jf ^ y-d Motion, we deliver two or three Breath f -' t have been formerly omitted, in one hng ., piration^ and this we call a figh , This ) 1.0H hath carried many br.ive men to very '* Extremities , It is originalJy oceafioa'd ."; I the f^irit of the Oififiru , or ajpUed } ty : for her yJ^/V/V ferments or learjens the ',] r/^oftheL the Eye the miraculous Qtnffiracy that i between the Prcjler and the 5/^/?. Hee (lial' know the />(rr^ and the fenfi of that deep Calalifw^ Non ep' /,^ flanta hic infer iki cui n-on efljiellain Ftr) ^ mamentofuperiuSj&ferit earn flelL% cr di\ citeiCrefoe, There is not an Herb here he'^\ lew, but he hath a (lar in Heaven above ^ ■^1 and the/^rftrikes him with her Beame^ zm^ ^j fayes to him, (7r<7>v. Hefhall know, how tbe ^ ' Ffre-fptrtt hath his Ro^t in the Spirituall ^ire '■} ■ fc B^rth Anew Ma^icaULigk^&ic. Sg , Wth , and receives from it a lecrct Influx poll which he /* lery, and St. Pafi/ hath partly expounded it* ^ ic tcls the (lAthemans^ that <7^^ »^W^ Man, \h the end. That he (hould feek^ the Lord, if \ Mppily he might feel after him and find him^ I kcre is a flrange Exprcflion, you will fay , \^x. a Man flhould feel after God, or feek^ I iim'^x^ his Hands. But he goes on, and :1s you where you (Lall find him. He tsmt ir (faith hc^from every one of us \for in Him ■ :e live, and move, and have our Bein^, For le better underf^andmg of this place, I wifli :, ou to read Varacelfm his '^hilofo'phia ad ; Athenienfes , a glorious Incomparable Dif-^ ^i^omfe, but you will \hortly find it in Eng.^ ,f /^. Againe: He that enters the Center ^ i lall know why all Influx o£ fire deicends gainfi the Nature of fire, and comes from--' .^Leaven downwards : Hee (liall know alfo " vhyMtlielame /r^ having f®und a Body, af- ""^ jli jends againe towards Heaven , and gows - - ^j^( upwards, H Ta -- ^ Lumen ^eLumtne^Qt To conclude : I fay the grand Supre^me '^Mjjierie o^ Magic, is to mult tf lie the '^re- jhr, and place him in the ^oyjl-prene father ^ wrnch God hath piirpofely created to ^na- lipc the fire. For 1 would have thee know, that this yp/>/> may be fo chafd^ and thati .the mof^ temperat Bodies, as to undoe the ,. upon a fuddaiit. This thou mayft gueflc th ^fclfe by the ;«•"•«•?< "v*^, ox t burner tng Gold / asthe^/;7wi/?calsit. Place him then as Goi . 'hath plac'd the ftars, in the condens'd ^the\ of his Chaos ^ for there he will /^/;?f ^not ^//r;^^^^/^in_^ ^^'^h^h^J.i ^'^^ ^ow it. may be dtfcovered^ dotthonConfider. ' IT is a TinBure of the Sapbiric ijl[ine^, and to define it fubfbntially, it is thd ^/W of our little InviGble Fire-world, .. it pioduceth two noble effect s, youth ^ .. and /:/"o/>^ ; wherclbever it appears, it is an in^ ftUible y?^^;^ of ///^?, as you Ice \\m\\q. fpring. ?:iw^,when all tlnngs arc G'r^^;?.Thc/^^''/:f of it is A new Magicall Lhht^ &c 9 1 is cheer ffflUnd rfrefhm^ beyond all zma(ri^,a^ tion. It comes out oftlie H' avenb E^rtl for' the S -T^/Vr AQr,\\ffe.rmnitz^^Zi t^eEts her Tin^ aures into the <^ther^^^hcre they are crrn^d - and ^^a^ifefied to the £r..This S ^/-.r is .^..^// of her y^-Z/^to the w/:o/e Co7?efoHrd forfhc is ?/;r^^/c,/.^ or hath in her three feverall f/pv^r^/ I have ieen them all, not in Ayric imaainarlc- juffofttiom but real/y with my bodtly ej°^ And ^ here we have <^pcl/odcrom his KjMathema^ itcd Problem refolved .- namely that Tir/^.t- '^^nj/ (hould facrifice a /v^Wr^^/ q-..;, ^;^,j^^j^ _ hee found out. ^' »f'>*W«/»^>.mv«,^5i;^ >»,/«, "Stibtende-^t of a r/>k ^^r^ Tr/^;;;;/^ vvas eqHivalem to thofe ;^m vS'hich r^;;/^;;/^ T^hc D/apafm^ or Magicall Perfume. JT is comfoiwded of the 5'^^/;/V/V ^^r^/> ancl the.^^f/Vr. If it be brouoht to its fuil 8x- dm^on^t^^\\\jhrr^e\l],t l\,^ Day.flar in her ^reOi Eaflcrne G/V.>/. It hath a fafcinann- mraatvef.zctdtie^'[ox\£^o\X expofi it to the f^'^<^}'re, h will dr^r, to, k ^/.-^ and ^'^ ^ The 92 Lumen de Lumine^ or The Regeneration^ Afcent^ and y, Glorificatior7, T Have now fufficiently, and fnlly diicovercd the frhictpies of our C/?^^?/ ^ In the nexc V- place I will (licw you how you arc to nje «^ them. You muft t^mte them to a pew life^ and .a,v they will be regemrated by iVater and the Spt- ]^rit. Thef e ^M7(? are in all things, they are pi a- - ccd there by God himfelf, according to that jpeech of 7 r t fine gift pt^s , J^^umijuod^He habet rafeficmen [ha Regenerationis , Proceed then ■patiently^ but not mun'.idlj. The work^ is per- formed by an invijlhle Arttfi^ for there is a (ecret Incubation of the Sp/>/f of God upon Nature , you muft only fee that the outw^trd^ Heat faiJe s not, but with the ffibje^ it fclfj you have no more to doe^ than the Mother hath with the C/:>//^ that is in her womb. The two former frinct-^les performc all, theS/?- rir makes ^//? of the fVater to purge and w?^^ his 5, in a Moment^ in the twinckl'm^ of an Eye^ at the found of the /afi Trtiwft, God of his great. Mercy pre- pare ws for it, Thatft'om hard fhibborn Flints of this world^ we may prove Chryfoliths and Jafpers m the new eternall foundation. That we may afcend from this prefent diflrefTcd Church which is in Captivity with her Chil^ tdren^ to the /r^^ Jertdfilem from above ^ which is the Oiiother of us ML T The Descent ^ and MetempfychoJJs . Here is in the world a fcrlbllng, ill-dif'pofed Cjcner^tkn : they write only to gainc an Opinion of Knoiv- l(:dge ^ and this by am^'.zin^ their ^^'^K^^^fr/with whimzjes and Fanfies of their ^''''Iwn. Thcfc commonly call themrelvcsC/!/- 94 hu/nen de humine^ or ?«//?/, and abufethe great Myflerie of Na- tPiTe with the Name and Non-fenfe of L^- ' }?/> C hemic Hs, I find not one of them, but -hath miftaken this ^efcent for the A [cent ''^ox Fermemf.tto}?, I think it Neceffary there- -fore to informe the Reader there is a two fold ^^V e-rmentAtioii^ a fpirituall and a Bodily on e, thtfprttuall Fermentation is performed by muhifljiMg the TmElures^ which is not done vvith common Gold and Stiver , for they arc not T/;;5m"/, but grole~compa(^ed Bodies. VThe CjoldzwA Silver of the Phtlojofhers 2x4 a fcule and //>/>/> : they are living Vermejns and pyificip/es o^ Bodies, but the iVio co77imon yJ^f-^'^^/i whether you take them in xh^wgrofe ^. C.of7)foJition^ of after a P hilojophicall -prtfa^ ^r^t'ion^ are no way fcrtineat to our purf^fe. ■)-/ The Bodily Fermeraation ^ is that which 1 ^ . properly call the T>e[ce-a^ and now we wili fpcakoFit. When thou haft made t\\c flone, ■ yOX U\tigic.ill t. 7ii-:ciicii7e^ it is a ligy.fdfurie , [prttttuiL fiibtlancc^ ^^^^''^'^'i^J^^ ^^ Sun , In ' thi^ ( omf'exion if you would ^r^/^^ , you - could hardly find ihc7j[// proportion^ the ver- ine of the {J/li-^diciyic'vi io intenfive ^^m^fower- ^:yfnlL The /V;//^/^p/v r.f therefore took one part ^-«^f^Ticir7;.9«£,_and did cai^ it U£Gn ten p^.rts '/-o^l MXQ/hicliQngoid. This fiiiglc (Inall ^^^^/-^f ? I AncwMagicaHLight.&iC. 95 did bring all n thcjgo/d^z Uondte^powder^ - and^n'iHie r^'^fr^rj' tfie' j^roJfeBoel} of the - gold~M aBace cLc/;/r/^/^^//7?r^;?^^^ pTthe - \imi^^^Aili' This Defcerit or li^corpora- |/-/^- ;ufe c^ww^;? 6'^?/-^ to /^^g their flo »e as forae- "Jcriblers have xmV/^;;, they us'd it only to.™ ^^^mlifie the tntenfive power of it, when it is ~ w^^^, that they might the more t^\\\y fimi- .yMxQtdcmttie o£ hafe Metdl, they (liould - pr<7/^,^ upon . By this means they rcducd - theJt.>?/^^/Vw^^^ jr/V^FTTaH tllFreTore;J^^^^ 7 ■ %\ ~^ ISfowXi^t^Ihavs done; and for a fare-^ [ii c^6 L.umen de l^umine^ or w^U I w";ll give thee a mort noble, iecrct, facred trmk The Chaos itfdfin th* ytiy firfiA- . ^rMyfis is threefold^ iheS;7/>^/r ofvok. Chaos \s y likewife threefold. Here thou haft fix -parts ^ "vvhich is the Vjtha^oricall Senartm or Nh- merus Conjugii, In thefe fix the Inflnx of ' J ythe A^ct^ ■phyficalll^nitieisfole Monarchy and -> makes up \hQjeventh Number^ or Sahaoth^ . in which ^tlaft by the ^^Ajfi fiance of 6'y/^;^^ D^^ Ternaria^ C^ in Medio flat Uf^um^ *T>uodecimfflant in Bello .• T'rf j zAmici^ Tres tnimici ,- Tres Viri vivificant^ Tres etiam oc- cidunt iQ^T^ei^s Rex fidelis ex fu^ SanBita^ tis A trio dominatur Ornnihm, Vnus fiuper T?TX, C^ Ires fifpcr Septem^ Cr Septem fuper DHodecim^ A new Magicall Light ^ &c 97 Hodecim^ C^ funt omnes fiifatiy Alius cnm ilto. This and no other is the truth of that f/^»cf, which I have profccutcd a Jong time v^ jvith freejuent and feriom tndeavours. It is hy firme decreed Refolntion to rvrite no ?»f a moft excellent, renowned Thilocrjphus. Soli Deo Laus, (jr Potentia \ Amen inME RCU RiO, qui pedihs licet^^ carevis decurrit ^t metal/ice urtiverfaliter operatur^ FINIS. mmwmmww iT B0 1^1 S Ml MAGICI Veritas Prima e(i H^c : H^c etlim Ultima. ANte Omnia Pundum ex- titit : non to aroixby^ aut Ma- thematicum, fed Di&fi- vum. Monas erat Expli- ite : Implicite Myrias. Lux erat, e- at & Nox: Principium , & Finis >rincipii: Omnia, & Nihil: Eft, & 2. Com- lOO Jj^horifrnt Ma^ici 2. Commovit fe Monas in Dyade & per Triadem egrelfe funt Faciei Luminis fecundi. j.Exivitlgnis fimplex, incrcatus & fub Aquis induit fe Tegumento Ig nis multiplicis, Creati, 4. Refpexit ad Fontem fuperiorem : ^ & Inferiorem dediido Typo 3 Tvi-'' plici vultu figillavit. ^ 5 . Creavit unum unitas : & in Tria { diftinxit Trinitas. Eft & Quaterna- rius. Nexus & Medium Redudi- cnis. 6. Ex vifibilibus primiim eflfiilfit Aqua: F^rmina Incubantis Ignis, & Figurabilium gravida Mater. 7. Porofa erat Interius, & Corti- cibus varia: Cujus venter habuit. Coelos convolutos 5 & Aftra indif- creta. 8. Separator Aitifex divific hanc m. amplas Regiones : & apparente Fa:-: tu, difparuit Mater. p.Peperittamen Mater Filios Lu- cidos. BuoeniMi. lOi oSj Influentes In Tcrram Chai. 10. Hi generant Matrem in Novif- lis ; Cujus Pons cantat in Luco mi- :ulofo. 1 1 . Sapientise Condus eft Hie : efto i poteSj Promus. 12. Pater eft Totius Creati : & ex lio Create per vivam Filii Analy- 1, Pater generarur. Habes fummum enerantis Circuli Myfterium: Filii lius eft, qui Filii Pater fuit. Soli Deo Gloria. The Errira's in the F-rft part. pA^e 14, Line 1 4. for Gl.iCe read GUfs. p. 4<. l.6.v, pt^ iuid l.ii.r. ^?,S«^. bldJ.u]c.r.«-»u/f**T«i>.p.7l J. ii.r. Tripods, p. 8^?. l.ulc. fore'9:i?i r.grfl^wi.p.^i. J.l4.r. /o'ra-rai p. 9^ J. i. r. ^// i/:'^ Go/^/fl a. hloiidj fOi-vdcrAn the Title page r. De Deo abfqiic Limine, Th? Erraia'.^ j'n the fecond parr. 'pAge i2.Line2,for/^/.2.>^2tead //.iw/f;. p-i^.l-ii. ^ toiopace T.opaf^c. p.24 l.r7.r.^r^ they fpcali perkips, &C. p. 28.1. I. '-. T>cfl:4X Oft^, &C. p. 51. ]. 10. foi' /:6wr./br.p.3i.l.i.fo therjlus.p.^i. 1. i.r. ^i/;>/: tf;2tf W(?/C. &c. p. 77. 1- 14. r. SupcUtizC p. 7^^l-^. for or r, for. 13?^- 7'^