English translation of the Rosarium philosophorum

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moist. So the fire of the horse dung increases the oil with its humidity, but it fastens the stone by its heat being
temperated.
There is another fire between these two which is hot and dry in the second degree, as the fire of a furnace after bread
is taken out. This melts gently and does not burn, because there is not a flame in it nor the strength of heat, for the
heat in declining by little and little goes back. But if it should stand it would fix the spirit in the body, or without the
body. But the fire of the horse dung, neither melts nor burns, but tames and increases the moistness.
There is a fourth fire of the furnace of the fixing, this melts and fixes, but it does not burn because it is not
flammable, nor differs from the foregoing, unless it be in that there is a continual heat, which is not in the foregoing.
The fifth fire is flaming, and it is hot and dry in the third degree. This only calcines and does not melt, that is, for the
making of gold and silver, and of other bodies, in the same degree or further. And it is a fire in the furnace of
calcination.
The sixth is hot and dry in the fourth degree, and this melts and fixes strongly by mollifying the bodies sweetly.
Neither does it separate or disperse them. This is fire of the furnace of melting in the same degree.
The seventh fire is a fire of leaves which dissipates and disperses and melts bodies.
The eighth is that which melts and calcines, and it is flaming because flame only has his operation in it. Coals and
flames is the substance of fire, and in that flame only of wood. This is also in the same degree with the fires going
before.
The ninth also is in the same degree, that is, which is master to them all, as the fire of office, that is of trial. This
melts and burns, and dissipates and disperses that which is bad, it saves and rectifies that which is good, it is as it
were a judge discerning the good from the bad.
The Fire of Juniper
Continual Artificial fire lasting in what degree you will have it, by the space of one, two or three months, until the
coals be bare, therefore you must always keep them covered, and you may augment or diminish your heat according
to your pleasure, and that is according to the addition of more or less kindled coals.
First, see that you have sufficient store of ashes, made only of the wood of Juniper, then have a great earthen vial,
and in the midst thereof, let there be another glass or crucible, and put in the ashes and set the great vial over the
heat of the fire, until the ashes wax hot and so surround the lesser vial, and set coals made only of wood of the
aforementioned Juniper upon those ashes, and you must have more hot ashes of the same wood, which you must
sprinkle on the aforesaid coals, and cover them with their ashes made very hot, and have you matter to be put into
that lesser pot or glass, and put a cover on the greater glass and set it on a stone under a bench or on a bench but
upon a stone, lest by some chance misfortune happen to it. By such practise you may prepare many such fires. You
may likewise put hot water into the lesser glass, or the moist belly of the horse, and into it the vial of the matter.
You shall make the aforesaid coals in this manner. Cut wood of Juniper into small pieces of the thickness of two
fingers or more, put them into a great pot well stopped and luted on every side, and filled up to the top. Set that pot,
the space of one whole day, over a strong fire of a furnace of wind or flame of wood, and let it cool by itself. Then
open the glass, and that you shall have that you desire, but you must burn the ashes after the common order. This fire
may be fire of the first or second degree of fixing of spirits.
Here is born a noble and rich Queen
Whom the wisemen liken unto their daughter
She increaseth and bringeth forth infinite children
Which is immortal pure and without spot
The Queen hates death and poverty
She excels both Silver and Gold and precious stones
And all medicines both precious and base
There is nothing in this world like unto her
For which we render thanks to Immortal God
Luna speaks:
Violence oppresses me being a naked woman
For before my body was as it were outcast
Neither was I yet a mother, until I was again born
Then I got strength of all herbs and roots
I have obtained victory in all diseases
I was the name of my Son
And being joined with him, I came forth with him
And being great of child by him
I have brought forth an unripe fruit
I am made a mother and yet I am a virgin
And in my essence am so constituted
That my son should become my father
According as God hath ordained it essentially
Sol:
My mother which brought me forth
Is again brought into the world by me
There is one thing to be considered, that is natural copulation
Which lieth hid artificially in the mountains
Where of four things are made one thing
In our artificial stone
And six things are considered threefold
And are brought into one substance
He which understandeth those things well
It is granted unto him by God to expel all diseases
Whatsoever both in metals and also in the bodies of men
But no man can do it without the help of the Deity
From my earth there springs a fountain
From which two rivers come forth
The one holds his course towards the East
The other towards the West
From whence two Eagles flying burn their feathers
And being bare and naked fall again to the earth
These Eagles are presently renewed with fair feathers
And both Sol and Luna are subject to them
0 Lord Jesus Christ
From whom all goodness proceeds
By the grace of thy Holy Spirit
Which protecteth all things,
We are made to understand the sayings of the wise men
That we may consider and provide for the life to come
When our bodies and souls shall be conjoined again.
Hermes: Know, you searchers after rumours, and you children of wisdom that the vulture being on the top of the
mountain, crieth with a great voice saying, "I am white, black and red, the yellow or citrine. I am a speaker of the
truth and no liar."
Alphidius: Argent vive, which is extracted from that black body, is moist, white and pure, that it perishes not in the
outward.
Morienus: It is convenient for thee to know that white fume is the soul and the spirit of these dissolved bodies, and
surely if the white fume were not, the gold of the white stone could not be.
Rosarius: This is our most notable Mercury, and God never created a more excellent thing under heaven, the Soul
only excepted.
Plato: This is our matter and our secret
Hortulanus: Thus you have two Mercuries extracted from those two bodies, and it is well washed and digested.
And I swear by the ever Living God that there is no other Mercury in the universal way, than that which hath now
been declared, on which all philosophy dependeth, he that says otherwise says falsely.
Parmenides in the Turba: Some men hearing water named of the Philosophers, think it to be the water of a cloud,
but if they had any reason, they might know it to be permanent water, which cannot be permanent water without its
body with which it is dissolved.
Alphidius: The Philosophers have called that medicine by all names because there are so many names given unto
this Mercury, that there can very hardly be any more titles attributed unto it.
Plato: We have revealed all things, the secret of the Art only excepted, which may not lawfully be revealed to any
man, but we attribute that to the glorious God, who inspires whom He will with it, and conceals it from whom he
pleases.
King Solomon:This is the daughter, for whom the Queen of the East is said to have come from the East, rising in [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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