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Holy Guide:
Leading the Way to the Won- der of the VYorld : (Acompleat Phifitian)teaching the Knowledge of all thing^Paft, Pre lent, and toCome^m, Of Pleafure,!ong lifc^ Health, Youth, Blefiedncfs, VVifdome and Virtucj and to Cui'e, Change and Remedy
ell Dicif.s in Young and Old.
With Rope Crucian MtdWnil M which ate verified by a Practical Examination of
Principles in the great Worlds and fitted for
the eafie under \landingrflain pradife0up ani benefit of man Captihii
By Jo\m Hcydtm Gent. ®/Aoj/otue?, A Servant or Go J, and a Secretary of Nature,
And he too\the golden Calf which they had wade, and burned it in the Fire, and ground it to pow- der, and brewed it upon the Water , and made. the Children oflfrael drinl^of it 7 Exo. 3 2 ,v. 20.
L 0 N D ON, Printed by T.jVf. 2nd are to be
fold by Thomas H hittlefey at the Globe in Cannon-Street near London- Snne^wd at all other Bco(.'fellcrs Shops , 1661.
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To the truly Noble
(by all Titles)
Sr. Richard Temple,
Baronet, &>c.
Externaljlnternai and Eternal happinefs be wifhed,
Honoured Sir3
JJj obferve every man naturally deftres a Superiority z to S^iSiS* have freafures of Gold and Silver y and to feem great in the eyes of the world ; God indeed Created all things for the ufe of man f bat he might rule over themy and acknowledge therein the ftngular goodmfl and Omnipotent cyofGod,& give him thanh^ for his benefits'* honour him andpraife him : But there is no man losses 4 3 after
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after tbefe things ^otherwife then by fpending his dayes idly, they would enjoy them without any previous labour and danger ; neither doe they look then/ out of that place, where God hath treafured them up, whoexpeBe alfo that winfbould fee\ for them there , and to thofe thdtfe\i w^ he give them: but there is not any that labors for a poffijjio/t i# that place, and there* fore thrfe Riches are not found* For the way to this place , and the place it f If hath bem mknownfor a long | and it is hidden from the gr:ateft pari of the world. Bitf noffyithfianding it be difRcult^and laborious to finde out this way and place y yst the place JJjould be (might after ; But it is not the will ?fGod to conceale avy thing from
thofe
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tbofelbaTarebis 5 and therefore in tbk lafl age, before the final judge- ment comes, aUthefe things Jhalbe manifejied to tbofe that are un- worthy : As he himfelf ( though obfcnrelyjefi itjhouldbe maniffi- ed to the unworthy) bathfpoken in a certain place } there h no- thing covered that flail not be re- sealed, and hidden that fbaUnat be known; and therefore being z Servant of God , and Secretary of Nature , we do declare the will of God to the World, which we have atfo already performed and pnbltjbed in Italy and England^ but ntoft men, either revile or con- temn that our Harmony of the World, and Temple of Wifdom &c. or elfe waving the fpirit of Cod, they expeB the frofofals
there"
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thereof from us y JnPP°flng WQ Will jlraight way teach them how toma\e Gold by Art , orfurnijh them with ample treafures, where- by they may live pompoufly in the face of the world , faagger , and make wars^ turn ZJfurers , Glut^ tons and Drunkards Jive unchaji- Ijl) and defile their whole life with fevsral other fins j all which things are contrary- to the bleffedwill of G&d'ithefe menfhonld have learnt fromthofe ten Virgins ( whereof •five that were footiflj demanded Oylefor their Lamps , from thofe five that were wife ) how that the eafe is much otherwife ; It is expe- dient that every man fbould labour for the treafitre by the ajpftance of Qod.and his own particular fear^ch and indnflfy. Bat the perverfe in -
tent ions
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Untions ofthefe Fellows we under* ft and cut of their writings 5 by the fwgular Grace and Revelation if God 5 "toe do flop our ears , and wrap oar felves , as n were in clouds, to avoid the bellowing and howling ofthofe pieny who in faain cry out for Gold* Andhence in* deed it comes to paffe \ that thy brand us with infinite Calumnies andS landers jvhich notypkhftandr ing we d-e not rcfent , but God in his good time will judge them for it- But after that we had well hjtown C though unhiownto you) and perceived all by your writings how diligently you are to perufe the holy Scripture, & feehjhe true knowledge of God : We Honour yqp Sir Richar d above thoufands, andfignifie ihm much to yen 5 not,
but
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but that you know as much as our felf : But as a tohgn of our good will, that may make you mindefull ofns0 There is a Mountain fttua* ted in the mideji of the Earth , or Centre of the World, which is both fmall and great. It is foftyandaU fo above meafure hard andflony. It is far off] and near at hand, hit by the providence of God invi- fible. In it are hidden mof ample treafures , which the world is not able to value. Ihis mountain by envy of the Devill , who alwayes oppofeth the glory of God, and the happineffe of man, is compaffed a- b.o%t with very cruel Beafis and 0- ther ravenous Birds, which mahg the way thither both difficult and danqerous. And therefore hither- toy becmfe the time is not yt comcy
the
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he way thither could ? ot be rought after 7 nor found out5 but ww the way is to be found by hofe that are worthy , but not- ftithjlanding by every P<ans felf labour and endeavours. To this mountain, y on Jhall go in a certain Ni^ht (when it comes ) moji long and moji dark^, and fee that y ott prepare your felf e by Prayer.lnfifl ppon the way that leads to the Mountain y but as\ not of any man where the way lies : Onely follow your Holy Guide , who will offer himfdfto you^andwill meet you in the way , but you fb all not kpow him. This Guide will brin* you to the Mountain at Midnight \when all things are filent and dark - It is necefjary that yon arm your felf with heroickjcouragejeaft you fear
thofc
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ihofe things that will happen, and fo fall backj Tou need no Sword, Horfe andPiftols, Sec. nor any other bodily weapon*, onely call upon God fincerdy and heartily } When you have difco<vered the Mountain, the firji Miracle that will appear, is this, a m<)fi<vekement and very great winde that will Jbakg the Mountain, and Jhatter the Rockj in pieces', you fbal be en-* counter d alfo by Lyons &* Drag* gons, and other terrible Beafts,bnt fear not any ofthefs things, be re- folnte and take heed that y on re- turn not, for your Holy Guide that brought you thither, will not ftiffer any eviU to befall you. As for the treafure, it is not yet difco * vered, hut it is very near , after this wind will come an Earthquake
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that will overthrow tbofe things, which the winde hath left 5 and wake all flat ; Butbefure that yen fall not off: the Earthquake being paji, there Jhall follow afire y that will con fume the Earthly Rnbbijh, • and ciifcover the treafure ; but as yet yon cannot fee itt After all theft \ things ) and mar the day breakg , \ there /ball be a great C almond yon \ pall fee the Day Star arife i and \ the dawning will appear , and yon t jlj all perceive a great t reafure ; the chief eft things and mo ft perftSl that are there are written of at large in this Bool^ Thefe medi- cines being uftd^ as your Holy Guide fball teach you, will make yon young when yon are old health^ full, long lived 3 wife and virtu- ous ; and you ' Jhall perceive no
diftafe
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difeafe in any part of your bod^
by means of the things taught in
this Boo^ youfJjail finde Pearls
of that Excellency , which cannot
be imagined : But do not y oh ar+
re gate any thing to your felf ^ be*
caufe tf your prefent power ^ but be
cmtentcdwith that which the Ho*
ly Guide ftal corttmwricMte toyouy
praife God perpetually for this his
gift^and have a jpecially care that
you ufe it not for worldly Pride j
but in/ploy it infuch worl^s^which
are contrary to the world ; ufe it
rightly, and enjoy it fo , as if you
had it not\ live a temperate life,
and beware of all fin^ otherwife the
Holy Guide will forfakfi yon, and
you (hall he deprived of this hap*
pineffc l Forfyow this of a truth,
tvbofoever abnfetb what he learns
pom his Guide, and lives not ex-
emplarily
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mplarly -purely \ and devoutly be* ?Qre men^ hejhall loofe this benefit -y mdfcarce any hope mil there be efty ever to nenew it afterwards. Thus cravtngTardonfor my bold* leffe, but yon may partly thanh^e wurfelfi Ton taught me this fa • niliarity \ And now I humbly yrefent my felfy
Sir i
your affe&ionatc
March 15. 2 h. 45'.
P. M.
1 6 6 4,
Servant,
John H e yd on.
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E xravelVd from Sydmouth (where we had continued by the [pace of one whole year} for London and Spain by the South Sea, taking with us Vi- duals for twelve moneths\And ad «ood Winds front the Eajh though foft and >eakf , for five monethsfpaze, and more. But yen the winde came about, and fetled in the Veft for many dayes, fo as we could ma\e little r no way, and were fumetimes in purpofe to turn ack< But then again there arofe pong nd great Windes from the South, with a point iaft, which carried us ups(for all that we could \oe J towards the North : F.y which time our hauals failed us , though we had made good tare of them. S o that finding our f elves in the udfi ef the great eft wilderneffe of Waters m he World, without Victuals , we gave our felves or loft men,andpreparedfort)eath.Tetwe did ift up our hearts and voices to God above, wh$ heweth his wonders in the Deeps Befeeching him f hk Mercy, that as in the Beginning he difco* b vtrei
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vcred the Face of the Veep , and brought forth "Dry-land '■> So he would now discover Land to usjbat we might not per ifh. And it came to pafs, that the next day about evenings we faw with- in a \enning before us, towards the North, as it were tbic\Clouds, which did put us infome hope of Land}, Knowing how that part of the South fea was utterly unknown , and might have Jflands or Continents , that hitherto were not come to light , Wherefore we bent our courfe thither j where we faw the appearance of Land, all that Evening ; And in the Dawning of the next Day, we might plainly difcem that it was a land ; flat to our fight and full of Bofcage , which made it (hew the more Darl^ And after an houre and a halfs fay ling , we entred into a good Haven,hemg the Port of a faire City ; n ot great indeed, but well built , and that gave a pleafant view from the Sea : A>id we thinkjng every minuit long , till we were on Land, came clofe to the fhore , and offered to land-. But iiraightwayes we faw divers of the people, with Baflonsin their hands, ( as it were j forbidding Us to land ; Tet without any cryes or fiercenejfey but onely as warning us off, by fignes that they made. Whereupon being not a little difcontfor- ied, we were advifing with our f elves, what we fhould do. During which time, there made forth to us a fmall Boat, with about eight perfons in it% whereof one of them had in his hand a Tiffiajf of a yellow Cane Jtif fed at both ends withgreen9
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who came aboard our (hip , without any ftjew of diitruli at all. And when he faw one of our num- ber prefent himfelf fomewhat afore the reft , he drew forth a little Scrouleof Parchment (Jome- fph.n yellower than our parchment, and fining tikgtbe Leaves of Writing Tables, but other- wife [off and flexible ) and delivered it to our foremoji Man . In which fcroule were written in antient Hebrew , and in ancient Greekg} and in good Latine of the School \ and in Spanifhjbefe words ; Land ye not , none of yon ; And provide to be gone from this Coaft, with- in Hxteen dayes, except you have further time given you. Mean while, if you wane frefti Water , or Vi&ual, or help for your Sick, or that your (hip needeth repaire, write down your wants, and you (hall have that which belongeth to Mercy. This fcroule wasfigned with a Stamp o/Cheru- bins Wings , not fpread , but hanging clown-* wards -, And by them a Crojfe. Ibis being de- livered , the Officer returned 5 and left onely a fervant with us to receive our Anfwer. Conful- tin% hereupon among ft our felves, we were much -perplexed. The denial of Landing , and haftf warning us away, troubled us much ; On the o* ther fide, tefindethat the People hadlanguageSj and werefo full of humanity, did comfort us not a little. And above all , the figne of the Crofft to that Inftrument, wm to us a great re'joyting, find m it were a certain prefage &f Good. Our
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Anfwer was in theSpanifh tongue, That for our Ship, it was well -, For we had rather met with Calms, and contrary windes than any tem- pers. For our fick^tbey were many, and in very ill Cafe 5 So that if they were not permitted to Land, they ran in danger of their Lives. Our other wants we fet down in particular,ad- ding , 7 hat we had fome little ftore of Mer- chandize^ which if it pleafedthm to de ale for, it might fupply our Wants, without being charge able unto them. We offered fome reward in Pi- fiolet unto thefervant, and a piece of Crimfon Velvet to be prefented to the Officer : But the Servant took^ them not, nor wuuldfcarce loo\up- en them \ And Co left us, and went backjn ano- ther Boat, which wasfent for him.
About three houres after we had difpatched eur Anfwer 5 there came towards us, a Perfon (as it Ceemed) of place. He had on him a Gown with wide f!eeves,of a kinde of Water Chamolot^ of an excellent green Colour , farre more glojfie than ours : His under apparel was green A- zure ; And fo was hti Hat, being in the form of a lurban, daintily made, and not fo huge as the Turkifh Turbans ; And the Lockj of his Haire came down below the Brims of it. A reverend Mm was he to behold. He came in a Boat, gilt in fome part of ity with foure Perfons more one- ly in that Boat ; And was followed by another Boat) wherein were fome twenty. When he was cemi within a Flight- foot of our Ship y Signer
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were made to us, that wefbould fend forth fome to meet him upon the Water -> which weprefent- ly did in our Ship- boat , cr Skjjfe, fending the principal! Mw among\\ us fave one, and foure of our Number with him. When we were come within fix yards of their Boat, they called to us to ft ay , and not to approach further ; which we did. And thereupon the Man, whom 1 be- fore defcribed, flood upland with a loud voice ,in Spanifh , askgd-, Are ye Chriflians? We an- faered ; We were ; fearing th? lejfe, becaufe of the Crolfe we had feen in the Subfcription. At which Anfwer the fa id Perfon lift up his Right hand towards Heaven, and drew-it foftly to his mouth, (which is the Gefture they ufe , when they thank^ God;*) And i hen fard: If ye will fwear, (all of you) by the Merit efthe Saviour, that ye are no Firates ; Nor have jhed blood, I 'awfully >,nor unlaw fully, within forty dayespaft, you may have licenfe to come on Land, We f aid, We were all ready to take that Oath. Whereupon one ofthofe that were with him , be- ing Qas itfeemed) a Notarie , made an Entrie sfthit Aft. Which done , another of the fame Boat, after his Lord hadfpokgn a- little to him, [aid aloud ; My Lord would haveyou know that it is not of Pride, orgreatnefle, that he commeth not aboard your Ship ; But for that, in your Anfwer, you declare, that you have many fick amongft you, lie was warned by the Confervatour of Health, b 3 of
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of the City , that he (hould keep a dijlance. We were his humble few ants ; /:nd accounted for great Honour-, and fingular Humanity to- wards us , that which was already done ; But hoped well, that the Nature of the fxknefl, of our Mn, was not infectious. So he returned ; And a while after came the Notary to us a- hoard our Ship ; holding in his hand a fruit of that Countrey, like an Orenge , but of colour between Orenge-tawney and Scarlet , which caji a Moll excellent Odour, He ufed it ( as it feemnh ) for a prefervative againft InfcCion. He gave us our Oath, i)y the Name of [efus and his Merits : And after told us } that the next day , by fix of the Clocke in the Morning, we jhould befent to, and brought to the j\r angers houfe , Qfohe called it) where we jhould be ac- commodated of things both for our whole and for our ficl^. So he left us *, And when we of- fered him fome Tijtolets, he fmilingj 'aid $ He muft not be twice paid for one Labour : Meaning (ail take it) that he had Salary fuf- ficient of the State for his fervice. For (as I after learned ) they call an Officer that taketh Rewards, twice paid.
Ihe next Morning early , there came to us the fame Officer , that came to us atfirfl with fyis Cane, and told us-, He came to conduct. us the grangers houfe; And that he had pre- vented the Hon re, becaufe we might have fche whole day before us3for our bufinefTe.
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For (faid he) if you will follow mine ad- vice, there (hall tirft go with me fome rew of you, and fee the place, and how it may be made convenient for you ■> And then you may fend for your Sick , and the reft of your Number , which ye will bring on Land. We tbkznkgd him , and faid , That this care which he took of defolate ftrangers, God would reward. And fo fix of us went a- Jhore with him : A d when we were landed, he went before us, and turned to us, and faid •, he was our fervant, and our guide. He led its thorow three faire flreets ; And aU the way we went , there were gathered fome People on both fides, ftanding in a Row -, but info civ ill afa- Jhion, as if it had been, not to wonder at us , but to welcome us : And divers of them,as we pafjed by them, put their Arms a little abroad-, which is their Gefiure , when they bid any welcome. The fir angers houfe is a faire andfpacious houfe9 built of Bric^of fomewhat a blewer colour than our Brick^', And with handfome windows, fome ofGlaffe, fome of a kjnde of Cambric\oyVd. He brought us firfi into a faire Parlour above Jiaires, and then ask^ed us ; What number of Perfons we were > And how many lick > We anfweredy We were in all ffickand whole) 2$o. Perfons, whereof our lick were feventeen. Re de fired us to have pati- ence a little, and to ft ay till he came hackjo us°, Which was about art houre after 3 And then he b A led
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led us to fee the ( bambers , which were provim dedfor us , being in number 250. Ibey having caftit ( as itfeemeth } thatfoure ofthofe (b am- bers, which were better than the reft, might re- ceive foure of the principal Men qf our company, and lodge them alone by themf elves ; and the reft were to lodge us. The Chambers were band* fome and cheer full C h ambers, and furnifhed ci- villy. 7km he led us to a long Gallery, li^e a Torture, where bejhewed us all along the one fide ( for the other fide was but If all and Win- dow ) fiventeen Cels , very neat ones, having partitions of Cedar wood. Which Gallery and Cells, beingin all 900. ( many more than we needed ) were infiitnted as an Infirmary for fick perfons. And he told us with all, that as any our fic\ waxed well, he might be removed from his Cell to a Chamber ; For which purpofe, there were fet forth ten fpare Chambers , be fides the number we fpa\e of before, 1 his done , he brought usbacJ^ to the Parlour , and lifting up his Cane a little , ( as they doe when thy give any Charge or Command ) faid to us ; Ye are to know,that the cuftome of the Land re. quireth,that after this day, and to mor- row, ( which we give you for removing of your people from your fliip, ) you are to keep within doores for three dayes But let it not trouble you , nor do not think your felves reftrained , but rather left to your Reft and Eafe. You (hall want no-
thing3
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thjng, and there are fix of our People ap- pointed to attend you 3 for any burin eflfe you may have abroad. We gave him thanks , with all affection and Refpecls, and [aid j God iurely is m;mi felted in chisLand. We of- fered kirn alf$ twenty Tijhlets , But he fmiled, and onely [aid? What > twice paid / And ft he left us. Seen after our Dinner wasferved in; which was right good Viands , both for Bread , Meat) Wine , Sic. Better than any Collegiate Viet that I have h^town in Europe. We had mfo drin\ of three forts, Ale, Beer, Sy» dermal1 whole fome and good *, Wine of the Grapey and another drin\of Grain , fuch as is with us our Mum, but more clear : And a kjnde of Ter- ry like the Ye are juice , made of a fruit of that Countrey ; A wonder fullf leafing and Refrejb- ing VrinK Be fides, there were brought in to us, great fiore ofthofe Scarlet Orenges,for our Stckj> which (they fa id ) were an affured Remedy for fictyfife taken at Sea, 7 here was given us alfo a Box offmallgray, or whitijh Tills, which they wijhed our fic\ frould take, one of the Tills, eve- ry night before fleep -, which (they faid ) would haften their recovery. 7 he next day , after that our trouble of Carriage and Removing of our men and goods, out ofeurjhip>was fomewhatfet- led and quiet , I thought good to call our Com* fany together, and when they were affembled,faid unto them-, My dear friends , Let us know ourfelves, and how it ftandeth with us.
We
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Wcare Men caft on land as Jo>w was, out of the Whales beliy, when we were as buried in the Deep : And now we are on Land, we are but between Death and Life ; For we are beyond, both the old World , and the New; And whether ever wefhail fee Ear0pf,Godonelykuoweth. It is akindeof Miracle hath brought us hither : And it muftbe little lelTe, that (hall bring us hence. Therefore in regard of our Deli- verance pair, and our danger prefent,and to come, let us look up to God,and every man reform his own wayes. Beiides,we are come here amongft a ChrijHm Peo- j>leJ full of Piety and Humanity : Let us not bring that Confufion of face upon our felves, as to (hew our vices, or unwor- thinefTe before them. Yet there is more. For the/ have by Commandement, ( though in form of CourteQe) Cloiftered us within thefe wals, for three daies; who knoweth, whether it be not, to take fome tafte of our manners and conditions 1 And if they find thembad,to banifh usftraight wayes 5 If good, to give us further time. For thefe men,that they have given us for attendance, may wichal have an eye upon us. Therefore for Gods love, and as we love the weale of our Souls and Bodies, let us fo behave our felves , as we may be at peace with God, and may finde grace in
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the eyes of this People. Our Company with one vjce thtinked me for my good Admonition^ and promt fed me to live foberly and civilly, and without giving any theleaft tecaf&n of Offence* So we fyem our three day es joyfully, and without care^ in expe&ation what would be done with us , •when they were expired. During which timey we had every hov.re joy of the amendment of our fic^ who thought themflves calf into Come Di- vine Poo I e o f H e a 1 1 n g *, They mended fo kjnd- ly andfo fati 3 ai you may read in our Temple of Wifdome.
Ihe morrow after our three dayei were pa (iy there came to us a new Man , that we had not feen before ^loathed in Azure ^as the former was, five that his Turban was white ^with a (mall red Crofie on the Top. He had alfo a Tippet of fine Linnen. At his camming in^he did bend to ns a little*, and put his arms broad. We of our parts fainted him in a very lowly and fubmiffve man- ner , As looking that from him , we (hould re- ceive Sentence of Lih*. or Death He defired to fpeal^with fome few of us : Whereupon fix of us onely ftayed* and the re\i avoided the room. He [aid ; I am by Office Governour of this Houfe of Strangers, and by Vocation lam zChriftian Friefls , and of the or- der of the Kofie Croffe ; and therefore am come to you to offer you my fer- vice, both as ftrangers, and chiefly as Chri- ftans. Some tilings I may tell you3 which I
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think you will not be unwilling to heare. The State hath given you Licence to flay- on Land, for the (pace of fix weeks : And let it not trouble you , if your occafions ask further time, for the Law in this point is not precife -■> And I do not doubt , but my fdf (hall be able to obtain for you, fuch fur, her time, as may be convenient. Ye (hall alfo uuderftand, that the Stran- gers Houfe, is at this time Rich, and much aforehand \ For it hath laid up Revenue thefe 36000. years : For fo long it is fiuce any Stranger airived in this part. And therefore take ye nocare; theStatewill defray you all the time you flay ; Neither mall you ftay one day the lefle for that. As for any Merchandize ye have brought, ye (hall be well ufed , and have your return, either in Merchandize,or in Gold and Sil- ver: For to us it is all one. And if you have any other Requefts to make , hide it not. Forye mall flnde, we will not make your Countenance to fall, by the Anfwer ye (hall receive. Onely this I muft tell you that none of j ou muft go above a Julo, or Karan (that is with them^a Mile and an half) from the walls of the City , without efpe- ciall leave. JVeanfweredy after we bad looked a while one upon another , admiring this graci- ous and parent- 1 il{e ufage ^ That we could net tell what to fay : For we wanted words to ex-
preffe
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prejfe our thanh y And his Noble free Offers left us nothing to as\ Itfeemed to us, that we had before us a picture efourSa] vation in Hea- ven: For we that were a while fince in the jaws of Death, were now brought into a place cohere we found nothing but Confolations.Forthe Com- vnandement laid upon us, we would not faile to obey it, though it was impotftble but our Hearts ftiould be en flamed to tred further upon this hap- py and holy Ground We added, That our Tongues jhould fir ft cleave to the Roofs of our Mouths,ere we Jhould forget,either his Reverend Ferfon , or this whole Nation , in our Prayers. We alfo mo ft humbly be fought him , to accept of us as his trnefervants , by ajufl Right as ever men on earth were bounden ; laying and pre fen- ting , both our Tafons , and all we had , at his feet. He f aid, He was a Vrieft,and looks d for a. Priefts reward , which was our Brotherly love^ and the good of our fouls and bodies. So he went from us, not without tears of tendernefie in bis eyes ; And left us alfo confufed with joy and kindnep, faying amongft our f elves , That we were come into a Land of Angels, which did ap- pear to us daily, and prevent us with Comforts^ which we thought not of \ much leffe expecled.
The next day about i ©. of the Clocks, the Go* •vernour came to us again^and after <alutationy faid familiarly 5 That he was come to vifit us ; And called for a Chair, and fat him down\ And &e heing fome ten cfus/jhe reft were of the me a*
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tier fort, or elfe gone abrfid} fat down with him. And when we vxre ft ,he ktganihus. We of this I/land of Apanua or Chrifle in Arabia ([for fotkey> call it in their language} havethx, that by means of our folitary Situation, and of the Laws of Secrecy, which we have for our Travel- lers , and our rare admiffion of Strangers, we know well moft p art of the Habitable World, and are our fives unknown. Therefore becaufe he that hnoweth leafc, U fit t eft to a sty '< eft ions, it is more reafon,for theEntertainment of the time, that ye as\rne qut '[lions, than that I askjou. We anfwered ; That we humbly thanked him , that he would give us leave fo to do : And that we conceived by the tafte we had already , that there was no worldly thin<ion Earth,, more worthy to be known than the State of that happy Land. But above all (we faid*) fince that we were met. from the fever al Ends of the I for Id , and hoped ajfuredly 5 that we ftmdd meet one day in the Kingdome of Heaven ( for that we were both parts ChrijUans) we deftred to know (in refpeel that Land was fo rem.ote, andfo divided by va\l and unknown Seas , from the Land, where our Saviour walked on Earth ) who was the Apo- file of that Nation, and how it was converted to the Faith ? It appeared in hU face, that he too\ great contentment in this (jueftion in the firs! place-, For it fheweth that you firftfeekthe Kingdome of Heaven ; And IftaJl gladlyy and briefly, fa t is fie your demand.
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About Twenty years after the Afcenfion of our Saviour, it came topaffe, that there was feen by the People ofDanirar ( a City upon the Ealiem Coaftofour Ifland} within Night, (the Night was cloudy and calm ) as it might befome wile into thefea, a great Pillar of Light *, Not fiarp but in form of a Columne,or Cylinder , rifing from the Sea, a great way up towards Peaven -, and on the Hop of it was feen a large Crcffe of Lighty more bright and rejpendent than the Bo- dy of the Pillar. Upon which fo flrange a Spe- ctacle, the people of the City gathered apace to- gether upon the Sands to wonder ; And fo after put themfelves into a number offmall Boats, to go neerer to thU marvellous fight. But when the Boats were come within (about J 60. year ds of the Tillzr, they found themfelves all bound, and eouldgo no further j yet p as they might move to go about, but might not approach neerer. So as the Boats flood all as in a theater, beholding this Light as an Heavenly Signe. It fo fell out, that there was in one of the Boats , one of the wife Men of the Society of the Rofie Crucians, wh fe Houfe or Colledge ( my good Brethren) is the very Eye of this Kingdome , who having a while attentively and devoutly viewed , and contem- plated this Pillar and Croffe, fell down upon his face ; and then he raifed himf elf upon his kpee$9 and lifting up his hands to Heaven y made his payers in this manner.
Lord
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Lord God of Heaven and Earth ; thou* haft vouch fa fed of thy Grace3 to thofe of our Order5to know thy works of Creation and the Secrets of them •, And to difcem (ds far as appertained! to the Generation of Men J Between divine Miracles3Works of Nature, works of Art 3 and Impoftures, and Illuiions of all forts. I do here ac- knowledge and teftifie before this people, that the Thing which we now fee before our eyes, is thy Finger^and a true Miracle* And for as much as we learn in our Books that thou never worked Miracles but to a Divine and excellent End , Qfor the Laws of Nature are thine own Laws , and thoii exceeded: them not biit upon great caufe) We moft humbly befeech thee, toprofper this great Signe ; And to give us the In- terpretation and ufe of it in Mercy ; Which thou doeft ift fome part fecretly promife, by fending it unto us.
When he had made hti Prayer , he prefently found the Boat he wm in , moveable , and un- bound ; whereas all the reft remained (lilt {aft ; And taking that for an ajjurance of Leave to approach , he caufed the Boat to be foftl)', and with filence } rowed towards the Pillar. But ere he came neer ity the Pillar and CrofTe of Li^ht brake up 3 and caft it J "elf abroad , as it were^nto a firmament of many Stan ; which
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alfo vanifljed foon after 5 and there was nothing left to be feen but a fmall Ark orCheft of Cedar, ^/rj/, and not wet at all with water ^ though it [warn. And in the Fore- end of it which was towards himy grew a fmall green Branch of Palme j And when the Rclk Cruci- an had taken it with all reverence into his Bo.aty it opened of it f elf ^ and there werefcund in it a Book and a Letter 3 Koth written in fine parchment ^ and wrapped in Sindons of Linnen. 7 he Book containing all the Carta* nicall Books of tkeQld and New Teita-jp nient, according as you have them-, (For we tytow well what the Churches with you recdve%) And the Apocalypfeit/f/f •, And feme otbei» Books of the New Te ft anient , which were nmk at that time written, were neverthelefte in tW Book. And for the Letter^ it was in ibefe words.
I| o H N5 a Servant of the Highefr, and ApoftteofjES usCHRisf, was warned by an Angell, (hat ap- peared to me id a vifion of Glory > that I fliould commit this Arke re the floods of the Sea. Therefore • .- teftificand declare unto that people where G o D (hall ordain this Arke to come to Lnjid, that in the fame
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is come unto them Salvation and Peace, and good Will, from the Fa- ther, and from the Lord Je- sus.
Ihere was alfo in boththefe writings, as well
the Book,,, as, the Letter* wrought, a great Mi*
rack, Conforme to that of the Apo files in the
Original! gift of Tongues. For there being at
that time, in this Land, Hebrews, Perfians,
mand Indians, be fides the Natives, every one
™ read upon the book^ and the Letter , as if
they had been written in bis own Language.'
And thus w 06 this Land faved from Infidelity,
Mas the Remain of the Old World was from Wa-
^er) by an Arke, through the ApofiolicaU and
Miraculous Evangelifme of Saint John.hnd
here he paufed,and a MefTenger came,and
called him from us. So this was all that
palled in that Conference.
The next day the fame Governor! r came again to us, immediately after din- ner, and excufed himfelf, faying? That the- day before, he was called from usfomewhat ab- ruptly^ but flow he will make us amends, and fpend time with us, if we held his Company and Conference agreeable. We anfwered , That we held it fo agreeable and pleafing to us, as we forgot both dangers pa\\, and fears to come, for the time we heard him fpeakj And that we
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thought an hour font with him, was worth years of our former life. He bowed himfelf a little to us, and after we were fet again he faid ; Well, *he §ue[ti6ns are on your fart. One of our number faid after a little Paufe; That there was a Matter we were no It fide fir ous to know> then fearfull to as\e, leaft- we might prefume too farr. But encouraged by his rare Humanity towards us, (that could fcarce thin\pur ftlves Strangers, being his vow^ ed and profejfed Servants ,) we would take the Hardinefsto propound it: Humbly be fetching, him, if he thought it not fit to be anfwered,tbat he would pardon it , though he rejected it. We faid , We well ohfeYved thofehis words , which he formerly fpal^e,that this hap pay lfland,wher we now (hod, was ktiown to few, and yet knew wo ft of the Natious of the World ; which we found to be true, considering they had the Lan- guages of Europe, and knew much of our ftate and bufineffe ; And yet we in Europe, (mt- withftanding all the remote Difcoveries, & Na- vigations of ibis lajl Age) never heard any of the leaft Inkjing or Glimfe of this Ifland. Ibis we found wonder full fir ange ; For that all Na- tions have Enter-kpowledg one of another , either by Voyage into Forraign fptrtSe, cr by Strangers that come to them ; And though the Travailer into a Forraigne Country, d&th commonly know more by the eye, then he that ft ay eth at home can bj reUt'wi of the Travailer -, let both wayes
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fuffice to makg a mutual knowledge in fome de' gf&) on both parts. But for this lfland,we m- ver heard tell of any Ship of theirs, that had been feen to arrive upon anyjhore ofEmop^No nor of either the Eaft or Weft Indies, nor yet of any Ship of any other fart of the World that had made return from them.
Aadyet.tlye Marvel I re fled not in this\For the Schuatioii of it (as his Lordfhip [aid,) in the ftcret Conclave of fitch a vaii Sea mougbt caufe it, hut then that they jhould have knowledge of the Languages, Vook^ Affabres ofthofe that lyefuch a diftance from them, it was a thing we could not tell what to makg of -■> For that it fee- to its a condition and Propriety ■ of Divine Towers and i>eings, to be hidden and unfeen to others yand yet to have others open., and as in a to them. At this fpeech the GoVernour aerations fmile and faid} Ihatwre did w.liHraske far don for this ghieftion we now • ir J- or that it imported^ as if we thought ■j f Magicians, that fent forth ■Spirits of the Aire into all parts ft to bring them \t intelligence of other Countries. It was ei ed by us all, in all pofllble humble- li yec with a Countenance cakc- .now.Iedce, that .we knew he fpake it x^rvlly^M hat wewere aft enough to think^ waS'fjyniwhxtfupernaturall m thtslflmd, . i her as Adgtlicall, than Ma^icall. bis L'trdibiplyiow truly y what itw.i? tljatwade us Und.r and djultfullto asl^ tbh
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6htefiion> it was not any luck conceit, but be- cause we remembred, be bad given a Touch in his former Speech, that this Land bad Laws of Secrecy touching Strangers. Totb's be faid ycu remember it aright ; And therefore in that Ifbai! fay to you, Imu{i referve \ome perticulars which it is not Lawful! for me to reveale^ but there will be enough left to give yGufatisfofti- m.
Tm (ball underftand (that which perhaps you will fcarce thinly credible^ that about three thousand years agoe, or fomewhat more, the Na- vigation of the world {fperially for remote voya- ges) was greater than at this day, Vo ntit tbinkjpith your felves,that 1 know not fow much it is incre&fed with you within thefe fix f core Tears: 1 kpow it wellt, and yet I fay, greater then , than now : Whether it was, that the ex- ample of the Arke, that faved the remnant of men from the univerfajl Deluge., gave men confidence to adventure upon the Waters-fir what it was\ iutfuchisthe 'Truth. The Pbrenici- an* , and fpecially the TyriansJW great Fleets. So had tbe Carthaginians their Cohny, which is further fFeft. Toward the Eaft tbe Shipping effigy pr, wd of PaJcftina was lihgwife greaf, China alfo,and the great eXmeric^which have now but Junks , and Caw? s, abounded then in tan Ships. This Iflmd, Qas appear eth by faith- full Regifters of thofe times} had thm fifteen hundred fir ong Ships, of great content. Of all c \
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tbis,there is with you (paring Memory, or mm ,- But we have lar^e knowledge thjreof.
At that time, this land was k,r,own and fre- quented by the (bips and Ve (fells of all the nations before amend; (And as it cometb to piffe*) they bad many tirws men of other Countries, that were no Tylers, that came with fbew, as Per- fians, Chaldeans /Egyptians and Grecian?, So as almofy at/Nations cf Mipht and Fame re- (orted hither; Ofwhome we hav? (otne Stirps, and little Tribes with us, at this day. And for cnr own Ships, they went fundry Voyages y as wet) to your ft) eight j y whicbyoucall the Pilhrs ef Hercu'fcv* t0 ot^er p^tiin the Pcrfian and jVlcditcrr ane Si'as ; As to Paguin, (which is the fame with Gambaline) and Qinszy, upon the Oriental! 5eas>ai fan as to the Borders o- the EdJfTartary.
At the fame time , and an arye after, or wore, the Inhabit ants of the Holy Land dia flowifb. For though tb? Narration and dif crip t ion, which is made by a great Man with you , that the Ve- fcendents oj Neptune plantedthere ; and of the Magnificent 'temple, Palace, City and Hill ; fee my Rofie Crucian Infallible Axiom at a , and f£e manifold fir earns of goodly Navigable rivers , (which as fo many Chains environed the fame Site, and 'Temple ; ) And the fever al Degrees of Afcent, whereby men did climb up to the fame, at vf it bad been a Scala Caeli, be all Poe- tical} and fabulous : let fo much is true ,
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that the faid Country of Judca , as well that of Peru then called Coya, as that of Mexico thin named Tyrambel , wre mighty and proud Kingdom's, in Arms, Shifting-, and Riches ; Si mighty) as at one time ( or at lea[i within the jpacetf ten) ears,*) the\ h\h made two great ex- peditions ; They qf.Tfttmbcl tbrqttgb Judca to the Mediterrane pa •, and they of Coya through theSowh fea upon this our Ifiand : And for the former of thefe^wbicb iras into Europe, the fane Author amcn^fl you 3 (as it ftemetb^) had jome relation from his B?ara3 whom be re- citeth : S^c the Harmony of the World, lib, i. The Preface which indeed !« an inrro- du&ion to the worke. For affuredly fuch a thing there was. But whether it were the ancient Athenians that had the glory of the Repulfe^and Refiftance of thofe Forces v lean fay ttotbin^ : But certain it U^ there never cante back^y either Ship) or Man , from that Voyage. Neither bad the other Voyage of thofe of Coya upon us, had better fortune , if they had not met with Enemies of great clemency. For the Kingof this lftand* {by name Pbroates who was rat fed three timet from death to life ; ) a wife Man, and a great Warrier-j Knowing well both bis ownftrength, and that of bis Enemies; bandied the waiter fo9 is be cut off their Land-forces from their fhifs; and entoyled both their Navy, and their Cam? with a greater power than theirs, both by fea and hnd : And compiled Ibem to rendzr \bm\elve* c 4 wit ty&y
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without ftrik*ingftroke: And after they were at bis MeVSy contenting bimfelf only with their Qjtb) thai tb?y fhonldho more beare Amies a- gainji him, dtfmifjed tbw all infafeiy. But the Divine Revenge overtook^not long after tkoje fond enterprises. For within leffe than the (p we of one Hundred years, tbelftxnA was «f- terly loft and desTro;. ed : Not by a great Farth- quake, as your man ]ailb\ (For that whole TraEl h little fubjeft to Eartb-quakgs;') But by a par- ticular Delude or Inundation ; thofe Countries having at this day , far greater Rivers, and far higher Mouni*ine$, to poure down lVaters9 than any part of tbe Old world. But it is true, xhxt the fame Inundation was not di ep\ Notpaft forty foot y i&moft places, from the ground', So that) although it deflroyed man and Beaft gene- rally , fit form few wilde Inhabitants of the d efcafed. Birds dfo were favsd by flying to the high Trees and Woods. For as for Men, although they had^uildings in min$ placei>high- er than the Depth of the Water, 'let tl?at Inun- dation, though it were (hallow, had a long con- tinuance ; whereby they of the Vail?, that were not drowned perifbedforwunt of fcodt and o- tber things n:ceffary. So as marvaik)Ou not at the thin Population of AmcricijWor at the rude- u^ffe and ignorance of the people \ for you wuft account ycur inhabitants of America as a young f$eple\ lounger a tboufand years , at the leafl then the reft of the world* Ftr that there was fa
muck
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ywch r ftwe, fo f weewf fee tlaive rial i Kkood-and their Particular Inundation. For the poor Remnant cf Humane feed , which remained in their Mount ainej, Feopled the Country again fi&wly, by little and little ; Andbeingfimple and lavage Feople, (Net li\e Noah and his Sons which was the chief family of the Earth) they were not able to leave Letters, Arts, and Civi- lity, to their P oft erity ; And having lifywife in their Mountancas Habitations been iifed , {in refped of thee xtr earn coid of thofe Regions,') to cloath them f elves with the Skjmis of lygersi Bears, andgreai Hairy Goates, that they have in \hofeparU\ When after the) came dewmnto the Valley, and found the intolerable heats which are there9 wdhjiew no means of lighter apparcll, they were forced to he^in the Cuftome of going naked, which contiuueth at this day. Onely they iak£ great pride and delight in the Feathers of Bir ds, that came wp to the. high Grounds, while the Waters ftocd below. So you fee, by this vi aw Accident of time , we left our traffique with the Americans, with whom, of all otbers9 in regard they lay near eft to us, we had mo ft com- merce. As for the other parts of the World, it is moft manifeft, that in the ages following, (whe- ther.it were in rcfpell ofWarrs, or by a natural revolution of time,") Navigation did every where greatly decay, andfpeciatiy, farr voyages, (the rather by the ufe of Gallies, and fuch vejfels as cculd hardly brooks tks Ocean?) were altogether
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left and omrtted. So then, that part of enter' courfe, which could be from oth*r Nations, to Sayle to us, you fee how it hatb long fnce c a- fed-, Except it were by fome rare Accident, as this of yours.
But now of the Ceffation of that tther part of emercourje, which mought be by our juyling too* ther Nations, I mud yield you fome othr caufe. For I cannot fay, Qf I (ball fay truly, ) but our Shipping, for Number* Strength, Marriners, Py. lots, aniaU things that appertain? to Navigati- on, Is as great as eve"-m And therefore why we foonldfrt at home, / foall now give you an account by it felfl And to will draw nearer, to give yon fatisfatlion , to your principall ghteflion.
There raigned in this Iflsnd, about nineteen hundred years ape, a K'vtg, whofe memory of aU others we moll adores Not (up er •flit iou fly , but as a divine instrument, though a mortall man : bis name was Eugenius Theodida&us, you may readthis at large in owrldca of ihzLw.and we efleemhim as the Law-giver of our Nation, This King had a large heart, infer ut able for good', and was wholy bent to make his Kingdome and Peo- ple happy. H>: therefore taking into conjidera- tion^ how f(tffi:ient andfubjlantive this Land was to maintain it f elf without any aid (at aU) ofthetorrainer ; being 5600. Miles in circuit and of rare Fertility of Syyle, in the greatefl part thereof $ And finding alfothe (hipping of this country might be plentifully Jet oji workf*
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both by ffbingt and by tranjportations from Port to Port, andh\ewife by fay ling unto jome fmall /• flands that d*-e not farr from m> and are under the Crown aud Laws, of this State; And recal- linginto his memory, the happy and flourijlnng etfjtty wherein ibis Land then was , \o as it rtQHght be a thoujandwayes altered te the worfe> hut [cane any one wa) to the better ; though w;- thing wanttd to bis Noble and Her ok all ini&iti- onSybut oneiy as far us humane forefight mought reach to give perpetuity to tb*ty wbicb was in his tiwe fo happily eftabl/fcd. therefore amuncfi his other fundament all Laws if this Kingdom?* he did orda'me the Interdi&s end Prohibitions^ •which we have touching Entrance of slrangtrs^ which at that time (thougp it was after the ca- lamity of Amtrica ) was frequent; Doubting novelties, and commixture of Manners. It is truejhe lik,e Law, again ft the admifivn offiran- jiers without Licenfe, is an ancient law, in the Kingdome of China 5 andyet continued inufe. put there it is a poor thing, Read our B.*kc<tUea* The Fundamental Element of Morrali Phi- losophy, Policy Government and Laws And hath made them a curious ignorant, jearfutty ]oo- lifh nation, But our Law- giver wade his Law of another temptr. Read our Boot\ called The Idea of the Law3&c. Forfirfl, he hath prefer- ved all points of humanity, in takjng Order , and makjnz provijionfor the relief of flrang$rsdi- (treffed f, whereof you havctafted* At which
fpeech
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Speech (as reafon was) we all rofe up, and bowed our felves. He went on. That King aijo (till dt firing to )oyn humanity and policy together, andthinkjngit againfi humanity^ to delaine grangers here againji their wills; And againfi folicy, that they (bouldreturne, cud dis- cover their knowledge of this ftate, betook^ this courfe : He did ordain, that of the Strangers, that ffjould be permitted to Land^ as many at all times mought depart as would? but as many as would lldy, (hould have very good conditions , and Means to live ) from the ftate. Wherein he far? Jo 'far r, that now in fo many agesfince the Prohi- bition, we have memory not of one (hip that ever returned, and but of thirteen per jons only^at fe* verall times, that chofetoreturn in our Bottoms. JVbattbofe few that returned maf have reported abroad,! \mw not. But you mufi think* What- foever they have [aid, could be ta\en where they came, but for aVr?am. Now for our Travel- ling from hence into parts abroad , our Law gi- ver thought fit altogether to retrain it , read our Idea of Govern ment^c.So is it not ittGfcrns. Tor the Chinefes jayle where they will* or can; which (beweth, that their Law of keeping out grangers* is a Law ofPu/iOanimiti^ and fear. But this reftramt of ours, bath only one Excep- tion y which is admirable; preferving the good •which ccmni'tb b) communicating with grangers, and avoiding the hurt; And I will now open it . , And here 1 fball jeem a little to digrejje
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hut you will by and by and by finde it pertinent. left all under ft and, (my dear friends,} ib.it a- mottgtt the excellent alls of that King, one above all bath the preheminence, It was the Erectioft and infiitution of an Order, or Society, which we call TheTcu;pIc of the Roffc CrorTe 5 The nobkft Foundation, (as we think, ) that ever was upon the earth ; And the Lanthorne of this Kinftdome. It is dedicated to the (iud) o\ the rtorkh and Creatures of God. Some itoJ^if bearetb the Founders name a litt\e corrupted, as if itfbmldbe F. H. R. C. bis Houfe. Buttte Records write it, as it is jpoken. So as I take it to ie denominate of the King of the Ucbrt&s which is famous with yea, and no i}r anger tv usi For we have fame parts of his works, which with ' yojt have loft -, namely t hit Rode Crucian J&» || which he wrot of all things paft , prtfent or to \come; And of all things that hiv* life and on. This make th me thi nk^tba t our MjLKg
-nfelfto Symbolize, in many tl thai i^ing of the Hebrews {wbifb I'rota le) ore him) honoured kim with the Ti- lt le of this Foundation. And I am the rather :ed to be of this opinion , for that I f,iute in* nt Records, this. Order or SocUty cfibe Rofie Crcfft is feme times called lb? Holy foufe9 Ajtdfotne times the' College tf £he fix days i^s ? whejeby I am fatjsfitd, Thai cur Ex- .1 Sing had learned from the RzbicWSjbat had cnaied the Worlds and all that therein
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is, within fix days ; And th refore he infiitiu tfingthJi b ufe , for the finding mi of the true Katun* of things, (whereby Godmhkt hzve the wore C'ory in the w rkpumfbip of them, and wen the wore fruit m the uje of thar,^) didgive it al- jo that fecondndfrfr* But mw to come to our prefpnt purpoje; When the Khtg bad forbidden, to a// his people^ Navigation iwo any part, that was not under bis Crown, be bad ntverthtleffc ifys Ordinance-, That every twelve years there pmouldbe fd forth fM of this Kingdom?. two (hip* appointed to feveroh voyages \ Thai in either of t >/e S:ips} threfbould beamiffion of three of the FeiljWi) or Brethren of the holy houfe;wkofe. errand was only to givs us Knowledge of the Af- faires and Stale ofsbofe Camtiiesjo which they M?e) e defigned; And ejpecitHy of the Sciences^ Ar:s,Manufattures, and Inventions of all the world; Andwvhallto bring unto us, Bookj, In- ftrnwents and Patterns, in every kjnde: That the (fjips ajter they had landed the Brethren of tins H ofie Croffe fh'ould returne; And that the Brethren K. C. flmld [lay abroad till the new Mifjion. Ihefe (bips are not otherwise fraught, thin withflore of Viclualls^ and wed quantity of 1rea\ure to remaine with the Brethren, for the buying offuch thingst and rewarding offuch per- fons as they foould think fit. Now for me to teU you how the Vulgar fort of Marriners are con- tained from being difcovered at land-, And bow they that mufl be put onflme for any iime^olour
them-
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themfelves under the name of other Nations, and to what places tbefe voyages have been defined: dnd what vlices oj Rendezvous are appointed for the new mifjior.s; and the lik^e cir cum fiances of the prafiique , I may not do it; Neither is it thucbtoytur defire. But thus you fee, we wain" tain a Trade, not for Gold, Silver, or Jewels\ not for filkji, norfor fpices «, Net any other com- wcdity oj matter ; But only for Gods fir]l Crea- ture, which was Light : 1q have Light (I fay) of the Growth of all Parts of the World. And when he had faid thif,be was filentj and fo were we all. For Indeed we were all a#o- cifliedj to hear foftrange things (o proba- bly told. Aad be perceiving, that we were willing to fay foinev*nac ? but had it pec rcady,in great cotuttfictock us off, and de- fended to askc us qucftions of our voyage and fortunes, and in the end concluded, that we mouglr do well, to think with our feWef, what time of ftay we w#uld demand oftheftatfj And bade ui not to fcant our Cclvesj for he would procure fuch time as we defied. Whereupon we all rofc up, and prefented our felvjs to kiflfc the skirt of hisTippu, but he would not fuffcr us, and fo tooK his leave. But when it came one* amongft our People, that the State ufcdto offer conditions to ftrangera thai would ftay, we had wor ke enough to get any of our Men to look to our Ship; and to keep
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them from going prefently to theGovern- our, to crave conditions. But with much aioe we rtfraincd them, till we moughca- gree what courfe to lake. We took our feivcs now for freemen, fee- ing there was no danger of oar uttrr Pef- cikionj And lived moll joyfully, goings- broad , and (eerng what was to be teen, m the City and places adjacent, within our JedJer; ftnd obtaining acquaintance with many of the City, not of the meaneft Qua- lity; at whofe hands we found fuch huma- nity , and fuch a freedome and defire, to rake grangers,** it wtre,mto their bofotfie, as w*s «Aough to make as forget all that was dear to us, in out own Countries, and continually wt met with many things,righc worthy of Obfervation and relation; As indeed , if there be a Minour In the World woitay to h#M mens eyes, it is thatCoun- tiy. On* <^ay there wtre two of our Corn- piny bidden to afeaftof the fraternity, & as th«y call JrjamoftNaturalljPibus. and Re1 vcrtiui cuitomc it is, (hewing that nation to be con>pouf dtd of all Goodneffc. This ' is the manner of Ir. It is granud to any Man, that ftiaJl live to fee t'rii ty per (on 5, <jct'beiulcdof his body, aliva together, and all above three years o]d*to make thhFeaftj which is done at the coll of the Scatc. The Father of the fratcrnity,wfibm they cal the
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ti.C. two days b*tv>r« the Fcaft, taketh 10 him three of fuch friendf as he Jikcthto chufc; Andisaffifted alfoby the Gove r- our of the City5o place where the feaft is ce- lebrated; and all the Per fons of the family of both Sexes,are fummoncd to attend him. Thefc two dayes the Rofie Crucian fitteih in confutation, concerning the good eftate of the Fraternity. There if there be any dif- cord or fuits between any of the Fraterni- ty , they are compounded and appeafed. There, if any ort c family be Diftrcffed of Decay ed, order is taken for their r\ilicf,and competent means to live. There, if any bcfubje&tovicc, or ukeillCourfes, they ere i eproved and Ccnfured. So lik wile di- rection is given touching Marriages, and theCourfcsofiiffjwhichanyof them(Jiould take 5 with divers other the like Orders and Advice?. The Governcur afliitcth, to the end to put in Execution, by his Pub- like Authority, the Decrees and Orders of the Tir/<M,if they (hou'd be di(obeyd;though that feldomeneedethifcch reverence and c- bedience they give, to the order of Nature. TheTir/dB doth alto then ever chufe one man from amongfr his Tons, to live in houfc with him $ Who is called , ever after the Sonne o] the Vine. T hereifon will here- after appcare. On the Feaft day,the Father or Tirjan commeth forth afcer Divine Sa- Vice, into a Urge Room, where the Fraft is d c^Kbratsd|
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celebrated * Which room "bach an half pace atthe upper end. Againfl the wail, in the middle of the Half-pace, is a Chaire placed lor him, with a Table and Carpet before it. O/cr the Chaire is a State, made Roundor Ovill, and it is of Ivie; an Ivic fomewhat whiter than ourf, like the leaf of a Silver Afpe, But more mining-, For it is green all Winter. And the date is curioufly wrought wiihfilv.r and (ilk of divers Colour s,broy- ding or binding in the Ivie; And is ever of the work of fome of the Daughters of the family, and vailed over at the top, with a fine net of filk andfilver. But the Jubilance of it, is tri$ Ivie; whereof, after it is taken down, the Friends of the Family, arc dvfi- rous to have fome Leaf or fprigg to keep. ThcTirfan common forth with all his Ge- neration or Linage, the Males before him, and the females following him; and if there be a mother , from whofc body the whole linage jsdefcended, there is a Traverfe pla- ced in a loft above, on the right hand of the Chaire, with a privie Doore, and a' carved window of GlafTe, leaded with Gold «nd b'ew, where (he fitteih , but is not Ucv. When the 1v\an is come forth, he fitteth dowii in the Chiire; and all the Linage place themfdves againfl the wall, both at his back, and upon the return of the Half • pace, in order of the- y<;arcs, without dif- ference of Sex, and fiand upon their feet.
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When he is fet, the Roome being a'.wayes full of co npany, but well kept and with- out Diforder> a for fomc paufc , there com. meth in from the lower end of the Room, a T'aratan f which is as much as an Herald y) A nd on either & de of him two young Lads ; Whereof one carri; th a fa owle of their mi- ning yellow Parchment; And the other a Clufter of Grapes of Gold, with a long Foot or Stalke. The Herald, and Chil- dren, arecloathed wiih mantles of Sea- wa- ter green Sattin; But the H. raids MmtJe is ftreamed wi hGold, and hath a Trail c. Then the Herald with three curtefics, or ra- ther inclinationSjCommerh up as fa rr as the Half pace; And there fi fttakcth into his Hand theScrcwc. This fcrowle is the Kings Charur,cantaining Gifts of Revenue and many Priviledges, Exemptions, and poin's of honou-, granted to theFather of the Fraternity; And ic is ever (Hied and di- reftt d , To fdeb an one, Our well beloved friend and Creditour : Which is a Title proper on- ly to this Cafe. For they fay, the King is Debtor to no man, but for Propagation of his fubje&s. The Seal fet to the Kings Char- ter, is R. C. and the Kings image imboffed or mouled in Gold^ And though fuch Char- ters be expedited ofCourfc,and as of Right; yet they are varied by difcrtt!On5according to theNurnbtr and Dignity of the Fratei- d 2 nicy
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Fraternity. This Charter the Herald rca- dcth aloud, And while it is read, the fa- ther or Kofie Crucian ftandeth up, fup- portcd by two of his fons,fuch as he choof- cth . Then the Herald mountcth the hdf- pacc, and delivcrcth the Charter into his Hands; and with that there is an Acclama- tion , by all that are prefent, in their Lan- guage, which is thus much , Happy are the people of Apamia. Then the Herald taksth into his hand from the other childe, the clutter of Grapes, which is of Gold; both the (hike and the grape. But the Grapes are daintily Enamelled; And if the males of the Holy Ifland be the greater number, the Grapes arc enamelled Purple, with aliftle Sun ft on the topp; If the feroaltf, then rhey are enamelled into a grecnifh yellow, with a Creflant on the top. The Grapes arc in number as many as there are Depen- dents of the Fraternity, This Golden clofter, the Herald dclivereth alfo to the Kofie Crucian , who prefently dclivereth ic over to that Sonne that he had formerly chofen to be in Houfcwith him; whobca- rcth it before his Father as an enfigne of Honour, when he goeth in publick ever af- ter ; and is thereupon called Ibe Son of the Fine. After this Ceremony ended, the Fa- ther or Kofie Crucia retirerh ; a»d after Komc time comcth forth again to Dinner,
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where he fitttth alone under the State, as before; and none of his defendants fit with him, of what degree or dignity focver, ex- cept he happ to be of the Holy houfe. He is ferved only by his own children, fuch as are Male ; who performe unto him all fen> vice of the table upon the Rnee;and the Wc- men only ftand about him, leaning againft the wall. The room below the half pacey hath Tables on the fides for the Gfufts that arc bidden; Who are ferved with great and comely order; and towards the end of Din- ner (wh'ch in the grcattft icifts with them, lafteih never above an hour and an halfj there is anHymnc fuug, varied according to the Invention of him thatcompofcthit 5 (for they nave excellent Pot fie; J but the Subje&ofitis, (alwayes) the praifesof^* </aw,and Noah, 8t Abrabam% whereof the for- mer two peopled the world>and thelaft was the father of the faithfull. Concluding ever with a thank fgiving for the Nativity of our Saviour Jefus Chrift, in whofe Birth the Bii ths of all are only bieffed. Dinner being done,the R.Crucian return*th again; And ha- ving withdrawne himfelf alone into a place -where he maketh fome private Prayers, he comfth forth the third time, to give the Bleffing with allhisdefcend^nts, who ftand about him as at. the firft. Then he called them forth by one and by one, by came, as d 3 ha
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he pleafeth, though feldome the Order rif Age be inverted. The per Ton that!* cal- led,(The tabic being; before removed,)knet- leth down before rhechaire, and the Father laycth his hand., upon his head or her head, and givct1! thctMlings in thefe words; Son eft he Holy Jflund, (or Vaug'ter of the Holy If- lan(T) tby Father faith it ; The numb} whm thou baft B eath and life, jpeatytb the word; The Bleffmg of the Everlaiiing Father, the Prince of Peace, and the Holy Dove, be upon thee, and wake the day es of thy P ilgrimtge good and many* This hefaithto every of them; And that done, if there he any cf h's Sons of emi- nent Mer*t1and Vert tie, (fo they be not a- bovetwo,) hecallethfor them again; and faith, Jayin^his arme over their moulders, thcyfhndirg; Sms, it is we B ye are borne, give God the praift} findperjfvtreto the en^ And withalldelivercth to cither of them a Jewel, made in the figure of an care of wheat, which they ever a tcr do wcare in the front of their Turban, or Hat. This done, they fall to Muiick and dancer, and other Recreations, after their manner, for the reft of the day . This is the full order of that Feaft of the Re fie Crotfe. By that time, fix or ftven day es were fpent, I was faMen into ftraight Acquaintance with p Merchant of that City, whofe Name was Nichcli f TFaljord) and \v jmu:$ede]ohn Boo-
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/^r; He was a Jew and Circumcifed : Far they have Come few Stirps of Jem yet re- maining amongft them, whom they leave to their own religion : Which they may the bitter doe, becaufe they are ot a farr difFerlngDifpoficion from the Jews in oihrr parts, for whereas they hue the Name of Chrift% And have afceret inbred Rancour a^ainft the people amongft whom they live; Thefefrcontrariwire)givc unto our Saviour ma Tyhitih Attributes, and love the Nadon of Cbaffalonia extreamly. Surely this mm,of whom I (peak, wovld ever acknowledge that Chriit wai borne a Virgin ; And that he was more than a man ; And he would tell how God made him Ruler of the Sera* pbims which puard his Throne; read the Harmoiy of tbc World. And they call him al- fo th: mil ken way Emepbt and the Eliab of the Metliah, and many other high Names; \vhi:h though they be inferiour to his Di- vine Majefty, yet they are farr from the lan- guage of other Jews. And for the Country ofApantia, the holy Ifland or CbaffalomaJoT ic is all one place this man would make no end o^&ommcnding.ifjiHrig deiirous bytra- dititon amongft the Jewes thereto have ic bc!icved, tu.at the People thereof were of the generations of^rafcdw;byano her fon, whom they call Nacborati; And that Mofes by a fccrei CMa, re id Ibe Temple o) wifdom a 4 hh. 4.
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lib 4 ordained the Laws of Benfalem which they now ufe; and that when the Mcifiah fhould come, and fit in his Throne at Hie- maltm, the King of Chciffalonia, (hould fc at hi* feet, whereas o.her Kings fhould keep a great difhnce. But y.t fetting afide the Jemn> dreames, the man was a wife man, and learned, and of great Policy, and ex- cellently (ten in the Laws and cuftomesof that Nation. Amongft other difconrfes, onedav, Itoldhim, 1 was much affected with the Relation I had, from fore of the Company, of their cuftomc in holding the Feaft of the Fraternity ; For that (me thought)' 1 had never heard of a Solemnity, wherein Nature did fo much prefide. And becaufe Propagation of families proceed- ed froauhe Nuptial copulation, I defired to know of him, what Laws and cuftomes they had concerning Mirriag?; And whe- ther they kept Marriage well; And whe- trer they were tyed to one wife-, Fdr thit where Population is fo much affeScd, and fuch as with them it Teemed to be, there is commonly Permifllon ofPlurality of Wives. To this he faid; Ton have Reafon for to com- mend that excellent Institution of the Feali of the Family. And indeed we have Experience^ that thofe Families that are partakers of the tlefing oftbatFeaji, do flour ijh and proffer e* •ver after , in an extraordinary manner. But hcare me now ^ and 1 will tell you what Ikjiow.
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Yon fijaH under fiand, that there is not under the Heavens, fo chaji a Nation, as this of A pa- in ia ; Nor fo free from all Pollution, orfoid- Mjft. It is the Virgin of the world. I re- member 1 have read in one of your European Books, of unholy Hermit amongfl you, that de- fired to fee the Spirit ofFornication, and there appeared to him a little foule ugly ]£ t h iop c. But if he had de fired to fee the cpirit of C ha- ft it ie eftheiHoly IJland,it would have appeared to him in the likeneffe of a faire beautifull C he- ruuin. Fof there is nothing, amongfl Mortall wen more faire and admirable than the chafie Mindes of this people. Know therefore, that with them there are no Stewes,no diffolute Hou- fes,nocurtifans, nor any thing ofxh&kinde. Nay they wonder (with detection) at you in Europe, which permit fuch things. Ihey fay ye have put marriage out of office : For mar* riage is ordained a remedy for unlaw full concu- pifcence; And naturall concupifcence feemeth Of dfpurr to marriage. But when men have at hand a remedy more agreeable to their corrupt will, marriage is alms ft expulfed. And there- fore there arewith you feen infinite men that marrie mt,butchufe rather a libertine and im- pure fwgle life, than tobeyoa\edin marriage \ bnd many that do marry, marry late* when the Yrime and firength of their years is paCx. hnd when they do marry, what is marriage to them, fat a very bargain, wherein is fought alliance,
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or Portion, or Rtputation,withfomedefire (al- molt indifferent) oflffue; and not the faith full Nuptial! union of man and wife, that was fir (i injiituted* Neither is it poffible, that thofe that have ca\t away fo bafely, fo much of their Strength , (bould greatly ejleeme children, (be- ing of the fame Matter) aschafte Men doe. So Iifywife during Marriage is the cafe much a- mended, as it ought to be if thofe things were to .- krated only for necefftty ? No, but they remain Mill a very affront to marriage. The haunting o thofe diffblute places, or re fort to*Curtizans^ arenomorepunifhedin married Men, than in Batchelors . And the depraved cuftome of change and the delight in Meretricious Ernbracements^ (where fin h turned into Art,) maketh Mar- riage a dull things and a kjnde ofimpofition, or lax. Ihey hear you defend thefe things^ as done to avoid greater Evills ; As advoutries, Deflouring of Virr'ins^ unnaturall tuft, and the lik^e: But they fay, this is a pr£pofterous Wifdome% and thy call it Lots'* offer ^ who to favehis guefts from abtifing, offered his daughters: Nay they fay further, that there is little gained in this 5 for that the fame vices and appetites do Hill remain ani ahound\ unlawful! lu\\s being like a furnace, that if you flopp the Flames alto- gether, it will quench s, But if you give it any vent, itwillra^e As for mafculine Love, they have no touch of it; and yet there are notfo faithful! and inviolate frietidfoips in the world
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again as are there .-and tofpakjzcner&Uyy (as I faid before ', ) I have not read of any fuch Cha- ftity in any people, as theirs: and their ufual faying is, That whofoever is unchafte,can- noc reverence himfelf : hndthey fay, That t-he Reverence of a mans felf, is, nexc religion, the chiefeft Bridie of all vice. And when he had faid this, the good Jen paufed a little j Whereupon, I fan more willing to hear him fpcak on , than to fpeak my felfj yet thinking it decent, that upon his paufe of fpeech, I flaould not be altogether filent, faid only this ; That I would fay to font , «s the Widow t/Serepta/tf/'^r<?Elias , that he was come to bring to Memory ourfinns ^ and that Iconfffe the Righteou fnefle cf Aquamia was g eater than the RighteoufnefTe of Europe. At which fpeech he bowed his head,and went on in this manner. They have alfo many wife and excellent laws touchinz Marriage. They allow no Polygamic They have ordai- ned that none doe intermarrie or contrail, until a month be pafi from their firfi Inter- view. Marriage without confent of Parents they do not ma\e void , but they mulct it in the inberi- Unrs : For the children of fuch Marriages are not admitted to inherit, above a third part of their farents Inheritance, I have read in a hookofoneofyour Men, of a Fained corri- mon*wealth3 where the Married couple are
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permitted, before they contrucl, to fee one ano- ther Naked. 7 his they dijlike: For they thin\it aScorne to give u re fu fall after fo Familiar knowledge: But becaufe of many hidden de~ feds in men and Womens bodies, they have a. more civillway: For thy have neare every T'^wne^ a couple of Poole?, (which they call A- dam andEves Pooles,J where it is permit- ted to 'one of the friends of the Man, and ano- ther of the Friends of the Woman, to fee them fever ally bathe Naked m
And as we were thus in conference, there came one that Teemed to be a meflcnger, inarichHuke, thatfpake with the Jew: Whereupon he turned to me, and faid lou will pardon me, for J am commanded away in hufoe. The next morning he came to me a- gain, joy full as it feemed,and faid; There is word come to the Governour of the City that one of the Fathers of the Temple of the Rolie Crofle or Holy honfe, will be here this day Se^ ven-night ; We havefeen none of them . this do- zen Tears. His comming is in State ; But the cuufe of his comming is fecret. I will provide you, and your fellows, of a good 'founding, to fee hisEntry. I thanked him. and" told him Jwasmoii gladof the news. The day being come he made his entry. He was a man i of middle Mature and age, comely of per- j fon, and had an Afpeft as if hepittied \ Men. He was cloathed in a Robe of fine t
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black Cloth, with wide fleeves, and a Cape. His under garment was of excel- lent white linncn, down to the foot, girt with a girdle of the fame; and a Sindou or Tippet of the fame about his neck. He had gloves that were curious,and fee with Stones; and Shoes of Peach-coloured Vel- vet. His neck was bare to the moulders. His Hattwas like a Bz\met,or Spanijh M&*- teraytnd his Locks curled below ic Lecent- ly: They wereof colour brown. His Beard was cut round, and of the fame colour with his haire, fomewhat lighter. He was carried in a rich Chariot, without wheels, I Litter- wife; With two horfes at either end, richly trapped in blew Velvet Embroy de- red, and two Footmen on each fideinthe like attire. The Chariot was all of Cedar gilt and adorned with Chryftali; favc that the Fore-end had Pannells of Sapphire, fet in borders of Gold; And the binder- end the like of Emerauds of the Peru co- lour. There was alfoa Son of Gold, Ri- diant upon the Topp5 in the Vlidih *nd on the Top before, a (mail Cherub of Gold with wings Difplayed. The Chariot was covered with cloth of Gold tifiiied upou Blew. He had before him fifty attendants young men, all in white Sattex loofe coats to the Mid Legg ; and Stookins ofwhke Silk j andfhoesof blew Velvets and Hats
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ef blew Velvet ; with fine Plumes of di- vers colours, fet round like Hat-bands. Next before the Chariot, went two Men bare-headed, in Unnen Garments down to the foot, girt, and ihoes of Hew Velvet;, Who carried the one a Crofier, the other a PaftoraHfiafflikea Sheep-hooke: Neither of them of Mettall, but the croiier of Palme-wood, thePaftoral Staffof Cedar. Horfe-Mcn he had none, neither before, nor bchinde his Chariot : as it feemed to avoid all tumult and trouble Eehinde his Chariot, went all the Officers and Principals of the Companies of the City. He fat alone upon cufhion?, of a kinde of excellent Plufti, blew; And under his foot curious Carpets of Silk of divers colour?, like the Perfian, but farr finer. He held up his bare hand, as he went, as bleflingthe the people, but in filence. The ftreet was wonderfully well kept; So that there was never any Army had their men ftand in better battel- Array,than the people flood. The windows likewife were not crouded, b;*it every one Mood in them,asifthey had been placed. When the iriew was pait, the Jew (aid to me; I fljallnot be able to at- tended you as 1 would, in regard of fome charge the city hatq layedupon me 9 for the entertain- in^ofthisFvoiie Crucian Three days af- ter che Jew came to me again, and faid ;
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Te are happy mentor the Father of The Tern • pleoftheRofie CrofTe tafytb notice of your being here, and commanded me to telly, uy that he will admit all your company to bis prefencey and have private conference with one of youy that yefiall choofe : And for th s bath appoin- ted the next day after to morrow^ Andbecaufe "he meaneth to give you his Me fling , be hath ap- pointed it in the Forenoon. We came at our day, and home, and I was chofen by my fellows for the private A ccefle. We found him in a faire Chamber, richly hanged, j and carpetted under foot, without any degrees to the State. He «was fet upon a low Throne richly adorned, and a rich cloth of State over his head, of blew Sat- tin Embroydered. , }ac was alone, fave that he had two Pages of honour, on ei- ther Hand one, finely attired in White. His Under Garments were thelike that we faw him wea'rein the Chariot^but in ftead ofhisGown,hehadon him a Mantle with a Cape, of the fame fine black, fa;neda- bout him. When we came in, as wc were taught,we bowed low at our rlrft enrrancej And when we were come neare his Chair, he flood up, holding forth his hand unglo- ved, and .hi pofhi eofbieiung; 3iid w^ e- very one of us {looped down and killed the Hemm of his Tippet. That done, the reft 1 departed, and 1 remained. Then he war- ! ned
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ncdche Pages forth of the Roome, and caufed meiofit down befide him, and fpake to me thus in the Spanijh Tongue.
GOdbleffethee9ntySon-y twill gibe thee the greateji Jewell I have : For I mil impart unto thee, for the love of God and Men , a Relation of the true State of the Rode Croife; Son, to make you kjiow the true ftate of the Holy Houfe, I will keep this order. Firjl I ' willfet forth unto you the end of our foundati- on. Secondly, the preparations and injlru- mentswehave for our Worlds. Thirdly, the fever all employments and.funUions whereto our fellows are ajftgned. And Fourthly y the Ordi- nances and rights which we obferve.
The end of our Foundation is the Knowledg of Caufes, and Secret Motions of Things; And the enlarging of the bounds of J^ingdomes to the li EffeSing of all Things poffible.
The Frepprations and Jnflruments are thefe. We hhve Urge and deep Caves of fever al depths*y The deepeil are funke, % f ooo. Foot: And fome of them are digged and made under great Hills and Mount aines : So that if yon reckon toge- ther the depth of the Hill-, and the Depth of the Cave, they are (fome of them) above feven miles d>ep For we fi ride, that the depth of a Hill, and the depth of a Cave from the flatus the fame
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things Both remote alikf,frum the Sun and Heavens Beams, and from the open A/re- Thefe Caves we call the Lower Region-, and we ufe them for all Coagulations, Indurations, Refri- gerations, and Confervathns of Bodies We ufe them likewife for the imitation of natural! Mines; and the producing alfo of new artificial Mettallsfy compoftions and materials which we itfey and lay then fore many years. We ufe them #1 jo f onetimes, (which may feem ftrange ,) for cureingoffome Vifeafes^ and for prolongation vflife, infome Hermits that choofe to live there well accommodated of all things necefi<iry,and indeed live very long \ By whom alfo we learn many things-, Read our Temple of VVif* dome.
We have Bur tails in fever all e& ths, where we put diver fe Cements, as the Chine fes do their Borcellane, But we have them tn greater Varie- tyj a'd fome of them more fine. We have alfn great varieties of compojh, aud foyhs, forthi making of the earth fruit full.
We have High Towers; the hi^he/i a lout half a mile in Height; and fome of them likewife fet upon high Yountaines : So that the vantage of the Hill with the Tower, is in the highefi of them three milts at leajl. And thefe places we call the upper Region; accounting the Aire be- tween the higheji places, and the lower, as a middle Region* We ufe thefe lowers^ according e n
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to their fever all Heights^ and Situations, for In • folation, Re fr iteration, Con fervation ; And for the View of divers Meteors, as Winds, Rainy Snow, Haile, and [owe of the fiery Meteors alfo. And upon them, in fome -places, are Vwelings 0/ Hermits, whom we vifite fometimes, and inftru&whattoobferve, Read our Harmony ofthe World.
We have great Lakes, both fab and frefc whereof we have ufe for the fijh andjowle. We life them alfoforburiais of fome natural! bodies ; \orwefinde ct difference in things buried in earth, or in Aire below the Earthy and thinas bu- ryedin the Water. We have alfj 'ooles, of which fome doflrainefrefh water out offalt\ And other 1 by Art do turne frefh Water into fait. We have alfo fome Rocks in the mid\\ of thefeaj and fome Bayes upon thefherefor fome works^ wherein is required the Aire and Vapour of the Sea, We . have likfwife violent ftreames and cataraUs * which ferve us for many Motions: And likewife Engines for multiplying and Enforcing of winds tofetalfo on going divers Motions.
We have alfo a number of Artificial Wells, and fount aines made in imitation ofthe natural ' Sourfes and Baths, as tin tied upon Vitriol! Sul- fher, Steell, Braffe, Lead, Nitre, and other Minerals. And. again we have little Wells for infufion of many things, where the waters take the vertue quicker and better ^ than in Veffels, or
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the B a fines. and amount them we have kWater\ which we call water of Pa radife, beings by that we do to it, made very fever aign for healthy and prolongation of Life, As you fhall read in this BooJ^.
We have alfo great and fpaciow houfes, where we imitate and demon ftrate Meteors,As Snow, Hail, Raine, fome artificial I raines &f bodies, and not of water, thunders, lightnings, Alfo ge- nerations of bodies in aire 0 asfroggsy Y lie sand divers others.
We have alfo certain chambers, which we call chambers of Health, where we qualify the aire as we thinly gcod and proper for the cure of divers difeafes , and preservation, of Health.
We have alfo f aire and large Baths, of ftve~ rail mixtures, for the cure of difeafes, and the refioring of mans body from are faction : and o- thersfor the confirming of it in Strength of Si" news, vitall parts, and the very juyce and fub- ftance of the body.
We have alfo large and various Orchards-0 fee: the Epijile to the #armony of the Wor\d,and Gardens,wherein we do notfo much refpea beau- ty, as va riety of ground and foyle, proper for dim verfe Trees, and Herbs: And fome veryfpaci- cms 3 where Trees and Berries are fet, whereof we makg divers hjndes of drinks, be fides the Vineyards, In thefe ws pratlife likgwife all con* i§ 2 clufierii
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clufons of Grafting, and inoculating, as well of wild trees, as fruit trees, which produ- cethmany effeUs. And we make ^by Art) in the fume Orchards, and Gardens, Trees and F lowers to come earlier,or later than their fea- fons\ and to come up and be are more fpeedily than by th, ir ntturall coiirfe they do . We mak§ them alfo by Art greater much than their na- ture; a>id their fruit greater , andfwtcter,and of differing tai}e,fmel!, colour, and figure, from their nature. And many of them we fo order ai they become of medicinall ufe.
iVe have alfo means to make divers plants rife by mixtures of Earths without feeds ; And hhgwife to make divers new Plants, differing from the Vulgar\ and to mak^ one Tree or Plant turne into another.
We have alfo par\s, <*w^ enclosures of aU fjrts of beajls, and birds\ which we ufe not only for view or rareneffe , but HJ^ewife for diffetli- ens, and try alls, that thereby we may take light what may be wrought upon the body of man. It herein we finde many jlrang;e effetts; as conti- nuinglife in them, though divers parts, which you account v it all, be pert fhed, and taken forth; Refufcitatin? of fome that fern dead in appea- rance \ and the like. We try alfo all Poyfons^ and other medicines upon them, as well of Chy- rnrgery ,h Phyficf^, By art likewife we make them greaur or taller than their kind eis\ and
contrary-
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contrary- wife dwarfs them &jlay their growth. We make them more fruitful! and bearing than their kinde is ; and contrary-wife barren and not Generative. Alfo we make them differ it colour , fcape, atlivity, many wayes . We finde means to make commixtures and copulations e f divers kjndes , which have produced manyntw kinds , and thim not barren, as the general! o- finion is. M 'e make a number ofkjndes offer- pents, worms, flies, fifhes, of putrefaction, where- of fome are advanced (in effecls) to be per feci creatures, like beafis, or birds, and have Sexes, and do propagate. Neither do we this by chance, butwekjuw beforehand, of what matter and commixture, what kjnde of thofe creatures will rdrife.
We have alfo particular Fooles, where we make trialls upon fi[hes, as we have faid before rf tea jis, and birds.
We have alfo places for breed and generation of thofe kjnds of Worms and Flies which are offpeciall ufe\ fuch*as are with you your StII^ worms, and Bees.
I will not hold you long with recounting of mr brew-houfes, bakf-houfes, and kjtchin sphere are wade divers drinks, breads and meats, rare and offpeciall effecls. Wines we have of Grapes and drink^ of other juyces,of frurts, of Graines and of roots, and of mixtures with honey, fugar9 mama, and fruit s dryed, and decocted ; Alfo of '3 the
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the teares or woutding of trees., And of the Vulp of Canes. And thcfe drinks are of fever al- ages , fame to the age or lajl of forty yeares. We havedrinl'es a! fo brewed with fever all Herbs, and roots, and Spices, Tea with fever all flefhes, trndv^hite-meats^whereof fome of the Drink,} are ftch , as they are ineffeci meat anddrin\ both : So that divers, efpeciallj in are, do d'freto . live with them, with little or no meat, or Bread m %dncl above alwefirive to have drink} of extnam thin parts > to infinuate into the body, and yet w hh j ut all biting (Ijarpnrffe, or fretting ; info- much as fo>n? of them, put'v.pyi the ha. Hand, will, with a little itay , paffe through to thep.ilr-t and yetta}e milde to ch^M^-ah. We have alfo waters, which we rip hi in I > '~..;on, as thy becorte nourifaing 5 So tk it they tokt in- deed excellent Drink^: srndmany will ufe noo^ ther. Breads we have of 'fever all Grains. . faoii and Kernels ; Tea and.fcm* of. flefh, and fijhy drjed with divers krndes of Leavenhi^s, and feafoni'ngs : So that fome doe extreamh move appetite-, fome donnmfhfo as divers do live of them , without any other meat , who live ve- ry long. So for meats , we have fome of them fo beaten , and made tender , and mortified, yet without all corrupting , as a wea\e heat of the Stomach v/dl turn them into good Chylus ■-, wellasafrong heat would meat otherwife pre- pared, We have fome meats alfo0 and breads^
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and drinks, which tak^n by men, enable them U fajllong after ; and fome other, that ufedmake the very fle(h of mens bodies fenfiblj more hard and tough , and their Ifrength far more great than otherwyfe it would be.
We hive Difpenfatories , or (hops of Medi- cines: wherein you may ea fly thinkejfwe have fuch variety of plants and living Creatures, more than you have in Europe , (for wetyiow vhat you have ) the Simples , Drugs, and In- jredientsof Medicines, mud lik^wife he in fo ttuch the greater Variety. We have them likf- fife of diver fe ages, and Ion* Fermentations. 4nd for their preparations ± we have not onely 'H manner of Exquifite d Will at ions, and fepa- i axiom , and efpeci ally by gentle heats and Per- flations through diver fe Strainer s,yea andfub- ■ances , but alfo exact formes of compoftions, thereby they incorporate almoft, as they were na- urall pnples.
We have alfo divers Mechanic all Arts, which m have not, and Stuffs made by them; as pa- irs, linnen,fi!ks,Tijfues', dainty works of fea- rers ofwmderfull luflure ; excellent Dies, and tany others: And (hops Hk^wife^as well for fuch I % are not brought into vulgar ufe amongfi us, as fe >r thofe that are. For you muji know, that of 0 \re things ferecited many of them are grown in- f. ufe throughout the Kingdoms', But yet, if they d flow from our invention, we have of them al- e 4 f*
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tions, colours : all demonjh axiom of fhadows^we find? alfo diver fe means yet unknown to you, of producing of liojht, originally from divers bo- dies. We procure meats of feeing objecls afar off as in the heaven , and remote Tl aces; And refrefmt things near as a farr off\ and things a farr off as near , makjnz feig- ned diCtances We hsve alfo helps for the fight , farr afove Spedacles and GUffes in ufe. We have alfo gl 'a fles and means to fee f mall and mi- nute bodies, perfectly and difti nelly, as the fhapes I and Cohuts of fmall flies and wormes, Graines andflawes in Gems which cannot othermfe be feen,obfervatirAi in Vrine and Bloods, not other- i wife to befeen. We maMj artificial Rain-lowes9 \ Halo's, and circles about light. We reprefent ; alfo all manner of Refletlions, Refradions, and'
multiplications of vifuall beams of objecls.
We have alfo pretious Hones of a]l hjndes, ma- : #) of them of Great Beaut^and to you unlyown: • Crytials likewife, and glares of divers kjnds-j & ■ amoves! them feme of Mettals Vitrificated, and
other materials, befides thofe of which you msbg yGlaffe. Alfo a number of Foffiles, andiwper-
ffd minerals, which you have not. IJkf- 1 wife Loadjlones of prodigious vertue : And other I rare (tones, both naturall and Artificial*. We . | have alfo Sound- Houfe.t, where we pr a dice and *' demon fir ate all founds, and their Generati.n I We have Harmonies (rend the Harmony of the
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World^which you have not^of quarter found 's^and leffe'r kjndes of founds. Divers injiruments of frtufick^likewife to you unknown, fome fweeter than any you have-together with bells and rings that are dainty andfw><>t> fee mybook^ of Geo- mancy <ui i Teefrr->.s lib. 4. chap, the 9th. IVe repr fent fmall founds as great and deep 5 lik^wif great founds, Extenuate andjharpe,we wah^e diver fe Tremblings and Warblingsof founds, which in their originall are entire. We reprefent and imitate all anicul arte founds and Letters-, read my Cabbala or Art by which Mofes (hewed fo many fi^nes in ./Egypt, & the voices and notes of bea\\s and birds We have certain helps , which fet to the ear do fur- ther the hearing vreatlv. We have alfo divers • Strange and art fir.iall "EficW^ R °fletting the voice many tiwes^and as it were tojJin% it: and fame that give 'hackjhe voice lowder than it came, fome fhriller , and fome deeper; yeafome rendring the voice differing in the letters or ar- ticular found, from that they receive We have alfo means to convey founds in Trunks and -pipes infirangr lines, and di\\ances.
We have alfo perfume houfes-, . wherewith we )oyne alfo praUices oftafte. We multiply fmells which may f^m ftrange. We Imitate fmellsy making all f mails to breath out of other Mixtures than thofe that give them We makedivers imita- tions oftajie likgwife-i fo that they will deceive a*
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Iiy mans ta fie. And in this Temple of the Roiie OrofTe we contain alfo a ConfitureHoufe where we make all fweet-meats , dry and moift; and d/verfe plea font Wines, Milly ^r oaths, and Satlets,in farr greater variety than you have.
have alfo Engine-houfes, where are pre- pared Enables and instruments for all forts of motions. There we imitate andpratlife to makg Swifter Motions than any you have, either out of your Muskets, or any Engine that you jaw , and to make? them, and multiply them afily, and with fmall (on e , h wheels y ind other Me ftns : \ nd to makg them Stronger • h i m-.re violent. tha ■ irey exceeding your
1 BafMskj. We reprefent tee and injlrunimts of Warr, and til Kinds : And likewise new Mix- fres and Compofifioyt of Gun-pouder, Wild- ire h: water^ and unquenchable: Alfo 7ire-± -o\pf T^lefraes, How i-lofts didfo many Miracles, Tofhua made he miq and ftill, and Elijah called dewn ire from Heaven j of all variety, bth for plea- ure and vfe. We imitate alfo flights of birds%
I ve have fame degrees of flying in the Aire: Head
j The Familiar Spirit, We have faips and >oats for going under water, and brooking offeas;
, 41 fo fwimming - Girdles and fupporters. We i*ve divers curious Clockj, and other likg mo-
, ions ofretume : Andfomeperpetuall Motions.
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V/e imitate alfo motions of living Creatures, b Images of men,beafts, birds, fifoes and Serpents fVe have alfo a great number of other variow motions, fir ange for Equality, fineneffe andfub titty.
We have alfo a Mathematicall pallace,wher. are reprefented allinftruments, as well of Geo- metry> as Agronomy, Geomancy and Telefmes viz. afironomancy and geomancy exquiftel made
*VVe have alfo houfes of deceits of thefnfes^ where we reprefent all manner of feats of Jug //>£ , Falfe Apparations, Impoflures, and ilia fions and their fallacies. And furely you wl eafily believe, that we that havefo many thingi truly naturally which induce admiration,couh in a world of particulars deceive thefenfes,ifw< would difruife thofe things, and labour to ma\ them feem more miraculous;
But we do hate all impoftures and lyes : in fomuch as we have fever aly forbidden it to all ou brethren, under pain of ignominy and fines, thai they do not faw any naturall worfy or Ihm adorned or fwellingy but only pure as it k ,am{ without all affeCtation of jirangenejfe.
Thefe are (my fon) the Riches of the Rod Crucians 3 read our Temple of W dome.
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'«r the fever all employments and Offices] of our Hows, We have twelve that Sayle intoforrain Cuntries, under the Names of other Nattensy 7 1 our feal is K. C. and we meet upon the day together , (for our own we conceale ; ) Who I ng us the bookj, and Abjtrafis, and Patterns ) :xferimen ts of all other parts. Ihefe we call ^rchants of light.
''Vhave three that Collefi the experiments mch are in all Looks. Thefe we call depreda- :crs.
i We have three that Collet! the experiments tall Mechanic all Arts 5 And alfo of liber all minces'y and alfo of Pradices which are not yught into Arts. Ihefe we call Myftery m. : vVe have three that try new experiments,fttcb
' -hemfelves think^good. Ihefe we call Pioners ^Miners.
.. We have three that draw the Experiments
\,yhe former four e into Titles, and 'Tables, to
be better light for the drawing of obfer-
.,> :10ns and axioms out of them. Thefe we call
1/ pliers.
We have three that bend themfehes, Looking
■!o the experiments of their felcwes, and call how ti draw out of them things ofufe and
"Sice for mans life, and Knowledge, as well
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weans of natural divinations, and the eafie am cUare dij cover t,of<he verities and parts cf B dies Ihefe we call Dowry men or knefa&ori.
lh?n after divetfe meetings and confultsc our whole number , to confider of the former la- bours and colkdm<,we have three t hat ta\e can out ofth?m,to MreQ new Experiments of a high er li^ht , mote penetrating into nature than th former 'The fe we call Lamps.
We have three others that doe execute the B» periments fo directed, and report them. Ihefe H call lnoculators.
Lafily , we have three that raife the form Difcoveries by experiments , into greater objt\\ vations, axiotnes andaphori[mes. Iheje we ct\ Interpreters of Nature.
We have alfo, as you mufl thinkf,Novzces at Apprentices, that the fuccejjion of the forrrer ei ployed men, of our fraternity of the Rofte Crb do not fails ; Beftdes , great number of fervm and attendants, men and wean en. And this \\ do alfo : We have Confutations, which of\\ Inventions and Experiences, which we have i\ covered, (ball be publifbed* and which not : j\ tak^e all an Oath of Secrecy, for the conceaiinA thofe which we tbin\ fit to kgep (ecret : Tha\ fome of thofe we doe reveale fomet/mes to State, and fome not. Read cur Temple of W domc-
Fcr our Ordinances and Rites : We have t
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jery long andjaire Galleries in the Temple of the flofie Ci ofTc ; In one ofthefe we place patterns mdjamples of all manner of the more rare and excellent inventions : In the other we Place the Statues oj all principal Inventours. There we have the Statues of the f'/efi-Indics : Alfothe Invention of Sbips: and the mon\ that was the In- ventcur of Ordnance , and oj Gunpowder : Ihe inventour of Muficb^The invent our of lettersjhe inventour of P r inting'.Tbe inventour ofObfcrva- tions of Aircncwy.Aflrorr.ancy &Geomcncy.The> invzn our of Workjin mettah The inventour oj Glaffe: the invmtofir oj filke of the Worme]: \Ibe inventour of Wine: The inventour of Corn ind bread : The inventour of Sugars : And all hefe, by more certain tradition, than yen have. Then have we diverfe inventours of our cwn, of xceilent Worlds -0 which fince you have not jeen9 \t were too long to make Vifcriptions ofthem^ \4ndbefides* in the right Vnderflanding of tbofe yijeriptions , you might eafily erre. For upon e- yery invention of value, we ereft a Statue to the Inventour, and give him a liberal and honourable Reward. Thefe Statues are >fcme of bra ffe,fome ' /Marble and Touch flone 5 fome of Cedar and 0- >r jpecialwocds guilt and adorned, fome of Iron, [ we offtlver, fome of gold, tele fmatk ally made. We have certain Hy mnes and Services, which e [ay daily, of Laud and 1han\s to God , for hi$ f Ileus workj : And Forms of Trayers, im- 1 1 flaring
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floring bis ayde and bit fling, for the illuminations of our lab *r/j and the turning of them into good undboly Vfes.
Laflly, we have Circuits or Viftts of divers principal Citiet of the Kingdom? ; where, as it cummeth to paffe1 we dopublifb fuch News, profi- table inventions, as we xhink^ good. And we dot alfo declare natural Vivinati ns of VifeafeS, Plagues, Swarms (f hurtful! creatures, Scarcity lempefts, Earthquakes , great Inundations, Co- wett, Temperature of the Tear, and divers other things *, And we give CGunfel thereupon , what the people (ball doey for tbf Prevention and Re- medy of th^m.
And whtn be had f aid this : He deft red me to {he him an account of my life , and obfervations of my youth , that he might report it to the bre* then of the Rxfi.* Croffe. / was difcended front a noble family of London in Engl as d hein%
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horn ofacompleat tall /Idttire, jmal Umbs>but in every part proportionable, of a dark, flaxen baire, it curling as you fee in the Effigies 5 andihtfe Figures of Aflrologie , at the time I was born: this is alfo the Cbara&er oftfij Genius Malhi- trlc\,and fpirit Taphza Bnczelthar Thafera- 0>
phimarah ; / bad the final Pox md Rickets very young; Ascendent to Conjunction , Mars, and Soltotbe quartie cf Saturn: I was at Tardcbick inWarwickfoire-neer Ucwc\ where my Mother was borne , and there I learned^ and fo care full were they to k,eep me to the bock and from danger fh at I bad one purpofely to attendme at fchool and at borne* For indeed my Parents were both of them honourably dejcended .- they put me to learn the Latine tongue to cm Mr. George Linacre the Minifler 0} the Gefpel at Gohonpf him I learned the Latine and Gree% perfeclly, and then was fitted for Oxford. Bui the fVarrs b*gany and the jun came to the body of Satume aud f ruff rated that defign; And where- at you are pkafed to flile me a mble-nalurcd \weet Gentleman , Tou fee my Nativity: Mer- cury, Vems and Saturn arefirong, and by tbetti9 the Dragons bead and M*t*> ? judge my btbavi- f onr
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our full of rigour , and acknowledge my Con- versation auflere : In my devotion I love to ufe the civility ofmykjtee, my haty andhand, with all fkofk outward and fen fible motion^which may expteffe or promote invifible devotion ; 1 follow- ed the Army of the Kin* to Edge- hill : and ( ommandeda troop of Horfe ; but never viola- ted any mm , &c. Nor defaced the memory of Saint or Martyr ; I never kjltd any man wil- fully , but too\ him prifoner and dif armed him; I did never divide my felf from any man upon th: difference of opinion -> or was angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few dayes I jkould dif fent my felf : I never regarded what Religion any man was of ', that did not queflion mine m And yet there is no Church in the world, whofe every partfo fquares unto my Confcience , whofe Articles 3 Confiitutiom^and Cuftoms feem fo con- fonant unto reafon, and as it were framed to my particular dtvotion , as this whereof I hold my beliefs The Church of England, to whofe Faith I am a fworn fubjett ; and therefore in a double Obli'iation^fubfcribe unto hr Articles , and en- deavour to olferve her Constitutions : Whatfo- ever is beyond, as points indifferent , I obferve according to th* rules of my private reafon^or the humour and fafljion of my D, v >tion \ neither be- lieving this, becanp Lather affirmed it , or dif- friving that) becaufe Calvin hath dij avouched
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lt : Now as all that dye in the War , are not termed fouldiers,fo neither can I properly term all thofe that fuffer in matters of Religion Mar- tyrs. And I fay, there are not many extant, thai in a noble way fear the face of Death le fie than My fclfe -' yet frm T^e moral duty 1 owe to the Commandement ofGed^andthe natural re f pells that I tender unto the confervation of my Rffoins end being , 1 would not perijjj upon a Ceremony^ politique points or indifferency : nor is my belief nfthat untradahle temper , as not to bow at their obfiacles or connive at matters wherein there are not manifeft impieties ; the leaves therefore and ferment of all, not or, ly civil, but Religions a- Vihns, is wifdome-, without which, to commit our f elves to the flames ) i shomi tide ^ and I fear y but topaffe through one fire into another: 1 be- hold as a Champion with pride the fpoiles and Jrophies of my vitlory over my enemies, and can with patience embrace this life, yet in my besl Meditations do often defie death: I honour any wan that conUmns ?t, nor can Hove any that is afraid of it\ this wafys yne naturally love a foul- ' dier that will follow histCaptain. In my figure ' yon may fee lam naturally hajhfull;yet you may ' read my Equalities on my countenance; About * the time I travelled into Spain, Italy, Tur- '* key, and Arabia , the Afcendent was then di- f , reeled to the lri> e of the Moon, Sextile of Mer- it cury^ndQuartileofVetus. 1 jtudied Fhito- ' h fofbj
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fophy and writ this Treatife, and my Temple of Wifdome3eK. Convention*, Age^ or Tra. veil hath not been able to affront or enrage me ; yet I have one fart of the vtodefty which I have feldome difcovered in another \that is (tofpea\ truly J I am notfo much ajfraid of Death at afhamed thereof: It is the very dtfgrace and ig* nowiny of our natures, that in a moment Can ft diffigure us that our beloved friends ^fand afraid and \\art at us \ the birds and beafts of the field that before in a nat ur all fear e obeyed us , /or- gettin ' all allegiance begin to prey upon us.Thti very thought in a ftorme at fea hath difpofed &left me willing to be [wallowed up in the abyffe of waters; wherein I had periled, unfeen, un» pitied , without wojidering eyes, tears of pity, ledttres of mortality 5 and none had f aid, Quan- tum mutacus ab illo/ Net that I am afl:amed of the anatomy of my parts , or can accufe nature for playing the pupil in any part of me , or my ow>i vitious life for contr ailing any Jhameful difeafe upon me , whereby I might not call m\ pi fa compleat bodyed man free from al difeafes found, and I thanks God in perfefi health: . writ my Harmony of the Word , when they were all atdifcord, and f aw many revolutions o KingdomeSy Emperours, Grand Signiours, ant Topes : 1 was twenty when this boo\ was fini JJjed, but me thinks I have outlived my felf9 an begin to be weary oftheSw, although the Su
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now applies te a Trine of Mars-, I have jhakpt bands with delight andkpow all if vanity, and Ithin\no man can live well once, but he that could live twice , yet for my own part I would not live over my bowres pafi, or begin again the minutes of my dayes, not leCaufe I have lived them well, but forfear Ijhould live them worfe% at my death I mean to take a totall adieu of the world , not caring for the burthen of a Tombjloue and Epitaph, norfo much as the bare memory of my name to be found any where, but in the univerfall Regifier of God, I thank^ God that wi$bjoy I mentio n it, I was never afraid of Hell, nor never grew paile at the defcription of Sheo\or Tophet, Sec. becanfe I underftand the policy of a Pulpit , and fix my Contemplati* onson heavm 1 writ The Roiie Crucian In* fallible Axionnta in fouire books, andfludy not for my own fake only, but for theirs that fiudy not for them f elves ; and in the Law I began to 1 be a perfeft Clerk^: I writ the Idea of the Law &c. for the benefit of my friends and pra- ctice in the Kings Bench ; I envy no man that kpows more than wyfelf, but pitty them that kpow lejfe. For Ignorance is rude, uncivil!, and will abufe any man as we fee in ^ayliffs, whr> are often kjlled for their impudent attempts; theft forces. Warrant and fright a fellow to fling away his mwey , that they may takg it up-, the T>tvi!I that did but buffet St. Paul, playes me f 3 thinks
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thinly atftyarpe with me. To do no in) try nor tak* none, was a principle, which to my former years and impatient affeV.ion , feemed to contain e- nouqh of morality , but my more fettled years and chrifiian conjittution have f allot uponfeve- rer refactions. 1 hold there is no fuck thing as injury, and if there be , there isnofuch injury as revenue , and no fuck revenge as the contempt of an injury There be thofc that will venture to write againfl my doclrine, when 1 am dead\ that nevey durft anfwtr me when alive : I fee Cicero" abufedby Cardan, who is angry at Tul I y fi<r praifwg his own daughter : and Q- rigarfus isfoiikpu&ent) that he adventures to forge a f option of the heavens, and calls it Cor- nelius Agrippa's Nativity-, and they fay, A^rippa was home to believe lyes, and broach, them: is not this unworthineffe to write fuch lyes, and (hew fuih reafons for them ! his Nativity I could never finde ; 1 believe no man knows it : but by a falfe figure thus they fcandalizehim. Mercury they ma^combu ft and in ghiartile to Jupiter, and the Moon in Oppofttion to him and Sol ; the Dragons Xayle they place upon the a f« eendent ; they will have Saturne and Mars dif- pofiter of the Moon, to fignify hi* manners, being in Sextile of the Mcou, and Trine of Mercuryy and in Oppofttion from Angles, and the Afcen- dent evily beheld by both of them, ef pec tally by Sa- turne ; indeed thti have made him a Noble £er~ fin, Agrippa a bafe fellow by thh figure*
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Andfo they may ufe me j But behold the Sch^im of my Nativity in Geomancy^and the CharaVier of my f fir it. 0
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Taphzabne^kharthaferaphimarah,
projecled by a lear- ned Lord for th% honour of birth* now let any Ajiro- loger9 Ge6mancerf Vhilofopher 5 &c. judge my Geni- ture 3 the Figures are right according to the Ex- ad time of my Birth y retlified by Accidents^ and verified by the Effetls of Uirefiicns. Now in the midfi of all my endeavour sphere is but one thought that dejecls me% that my acquired parts muft perijh with my felf, nor can be legacyed a- mongjl my dearly beloved and honoured friends; I doe not fall out , or contemn a man for an £r- rour 5 or conceive why a difference in Opinion Jhould divide an affetlion : For a modefi reproof or diffmte , if it meet with difcreet and peace- able Natures^duth not infringe the laws of Cha- rity in all Arguments 5 fo much there is of Paf- fion^fo much there is of Nothing to the purpofe ; For then Reafon like my Hound Lilly fpends or calls out a loud \ and makes the woods eccho upon afalfe fcent : Expecting Pool ah to jnyn with him, but Frofter, Joyce, ]o\\\boy^anda white Bitch hunt in their Couples another way , and follow their game firfi darted When the Mid*, heaven yets dire tied to the trine of the Moon , J
writ
The Preface.
writ another bool^and entituled it , The fun- damental Elements of Philofophy,PoIicr? - Government and the Laws, &c. After this
■ time , I had many misfortunes , and yet I thinly there is no man that apprehends bis own miferies
■ leffe then myfelf^ and no man tbatfe nearly ap- . prebends another s, I could loft an Arm with «
out a tear , and with few groan^ me thin\sy be
; quartered into pieces : Jet can I weep feriouflv
with a true pafjion , to fee the mercilejfe Rebels
in England forge a debts againft the Kings rmfi
loyall Subjefis , purpcfely to put them in th:
! Marjhalfey, or other HoufesofHel^to be deftroy -
'. ed in prrifon^and \\arvcdyr killed by the Keepers^
I and then two or three poor* old women for as ma-
■ ny (hillings (Jjall perfwade the Cr owner and the people to believe 5 the men dyed $f Consumptions . It is a barbarous part of in humanity to add untr> any afflided parties mifery^or endeavour to mul- tiply in any man a pajfwt, whofe fngle nature is already above his patience : Ihis wasthegrtau rll affliction of lob , and tbofe oblique expoftn- lations of his friends a deeper injury than the
, down-right blows of the Vevil^&.'IheAfcendant to the Quartile.of Saturn >and part of fortune to the Sextile of the Noon came next ; and it is true, I had loved a Lady in Devonshire , but when 1 ferioufly perufed my Nativity , Jfo vwi
' tbeftvtutb tioufs afflided 3 and therefore never
tefolv-:
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refohe to marry 5 for behold lama man, and I kriownot how : Iwasfo proportioned and have fomething in me> that can be without me , and will be after me ; and here is the mifery of a mam life\He eatsydrinks and thenfleeps u day that he may do fo again to morrow ^and this breeds Vif- eafes^which br ingsDeath ,F or all flefh is grafs. And all theft creatures we behold, are but the Herbs of the field digefled into fie fh in themyor wore remotely carnified in our felves : we are devourersnot onely ofmen,but of 'our felves ,and that not in an Allegory Jut a Pofitvie truth ; for : all this map offlefh, which we behold, came in at our mouths •> this frame we lookjipon, hath been upon our trenchers : and we have devoured our felves^and what are we ? I could be content that we might raife each other from death to life as Rofie Crucians doe, &c. without Con* junftionyor that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vain way of Coition,as Vr Brown cals it : It is the foolijh- efi aft a wifeman commits all his life ; mr is there any thing that will more dejed his cold imagination, then to confider what an odd er- rour he hath committed ; had my Stars favour- ed me 9 I might have been happy in that fweet Sex : Then I confider the love of parents, the tjfettions of Wives and Children , and they are ail dumb dreams, without reality, truth, or con* fiancy $ for firft> there is aftrong bond ofaffefii-
on
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m between us and our Parents ; yet how eafily iiffolved \ the Son betakes himfelfto a wcman-y forgetting his Mother in a Wife , and the womb that bare him, in that that pall btar his Image: J his woman I le fling him with Children, his affe- tiion leaves the Level it held before , and finl^s from hid bed to his Iffue and Pi dure of pojurity, where ajfedions kid no fleady manfion ; they qrowin^ up in years defre his end , or applying themfilves to a woman , take a law full way to love another be ter than thcmfelvesm Thus 1 per- Ctive a man may be buried alive, and behold hid grave in his Iffue. And many takg pie a fur e to befuch fools. I remember alfi that this Quar- tile of Saturn impri fined me at a Mejfengers boufe , for contending with Cromwell , who malicioufiy commanded I (hould be Jtfpt clofe in Lambeth-houfe.,<tf indeed 1 was twoyears\my Per fin he feared , and my tongue and pen offen- ded him, becaufe among\\ many things, I [aid toarticjdar!y,fuch a day he would die, and he dy- td. It is very true Oliver oppofed me all his life, and made my Father pay Seventeen hundred bounds for his Liberty : Be fides, theyftole under i Pretence of fequeftring him, two thoufand I pounds in Jewels, Plate, &c. and yet the Kings. > noblefi fervams fuffer upon fufpition of "Debt ; * t A Plot that carries a fairer pretence to \erfwade , the ruder wits all is well, when the King and his . heft friends are abu fed i but why fhould I trouble
my
The Preface.
**y fetf ! I do not, Believe me , it is not hopes o, aplace,or afumofntomy, or a Commiffion tha Ilool{for', I (ball peaceably enjoy my friend,ferv God) honour my King and love the Bifiops, an, jew men know who lam.
J look^ upon France as I do upon the Bear gardenytbe Dogs are alwayes quarrelfome ; a x. what is thr difference betwixt a man and beajl ? the one is v.ertuout , learned and wife the other is rich, proud and foolifh , yet indee the fir/} is mo ft rich ,. for be (Indies long lift happinefs, health, youth and riches, &c. an enjoyes it: Yet] kjtow font? will be fpeUaXoi of this rude Rabble, Sec. fuddenly dyes an ene my to Reafon,Vertue and Religion \ and titer are a multitude of thefe, a numerous piece c wonder ; and this I obferve when they are ta \en af under, feem men, and the reafonabl Creatures of God ; but Confufed together, ma\ a Monfter more prodigious then any Beaft is i the Tower (asVottorBvovme faith. ) It . no breach of charity to call thefe Fools, as objetl of contempt and laughter $ and it is th* ftn the Rofie Crudans have a forded them , ft down by Solomon in holy Scripture , and point of our faith to believe fo. Neither in tl name of multitude do I only include the baj and minor fort of people, there is a rabble eve amongft the Gentry , a fort of Plebeian head< whofe fancy mv.es with the fame wheel as theft
me;
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men in the fame level with Mecbanicks, though their fortunes do fomewbat guild their infirmi- ties 0 and their pur fe ^compound for their follies. •But as in cajiing account three or four men to- gether come jhortin account of one man placed by bimfelf below them : So neither are a troop cf thefe ignorant Doradoesof that true ejleem and value as many a forlorn V erf on, whofe con- dition doth place them below their feet ; and \there is a Nobility without Heraldry, a natural dignity 9 whereby one man is ranked with ano- ther, another filed before him , according to the .quality of hisdefert, and preheminence of bis tgood parts : though the c irruption of thefe jlrMf, and the Byafs of prefent prafiife wheel ^another way, thus it was in the firfl andfri- | mitive Commonwealths^ and is yet in the inte- grity and cradle of well ordered policies , tiU J eorruption getteth ground under defires, labcwr- ling after tb at which wifer confederations con- \ temn^ every Foot having a liberty to amajfe and l' heap up riches, and they a licenfe or I acuity to a d$ or pur chafe any thins; . When the Moon was j directed to the guartile of Sol, and the M. C. to the Oppofithn of Sol, I was by the Pbanatk\ * Committee of Safety committed toprifon , and r my Booty burnt ; yet I would net entertain a ^ bafe defign , or an atiion that fyould call me ; Villain, for all the Riches in England 5 and J for this only do I love and honour my own fotdy
And
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and have methinkj two armes, too few to en brace my (elf , my converfation is likf the Su\ with all men , and with a. friendly Afpeft good and bad.
Mctbinkf there is no man bad, and the wot be\\, that is, while they are kfpt within the ci\ cle ofthofe quali ies, wherein there is good : Ti method IJhould ufe in dijhibutive Juftice , J o} ten obferve in Commutation, and keep a Geonii trical proportion in both , whereby becommih equrfl to others, 1 become. unjufi to ntyfelf, an f uber ogate in that common Principle , Doe in- to others as thou wouldeft be done unt thy felf ; yet I give no Alms to fatisfie the hun per of my Brother, hut to fulfil and accompli j the will and command of God ; Ibis general an indifferent temper of mine , doth nearly difpOj me to this noble virtue amongfi thofe millions t vices I do inherit and hold from Adam. Ihav efcaped one, and that a mortal enemy to Charitj the firji and father fin, Hot onely of man, but c the Devil, Pride 5 a vice whofename is compre bended in a Monofyllable , but in its nature nc circumfcribed with a world ; J have efcaped 1 in a condition that can hardly avoid it : Ihe) petty acquifitioMs and reputed perfections tha advance and elevate the conceits of other men add no feather unto mine ; And this is theobfer vaiionofmylife, I can love and forgive, eve) my enemies. And when 1 had f aid thisy btfiooi
"1
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J pand I kpeeled down 9 and be laid hit right 3 and upon my head, and faidfiod blejje thee my i m, and God bleffe thefe Relations, which we
avemade : I give thee leave to publijb them J >r the good of uther Nations ; for we are here f a t Gods bofome, a land unknown. And fo he left
?e, having ajftgned a value of about 2000I. in
old for a bounty to me and my fellows : For they jj tve great largejfes where they come upon aU
:cafws.
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m
4 J
ur.
fohn Heydon.
*R ondon, from my Hbufe in typittlefields near Bijhopfgate, Wextdoor to the Red Lion April the 3d. 1662. '
vv v v vvv vv
TO THE
READER.
Gentlemen,
IT is thought good to let you knoi Mr. John Heydon hath written man Books,**/* Jhe Harmony of the Work Jhe Temple of Wifdome , Jhe W Guide, and 7 he Wife mans Crown ; being < affinity,they are to be read together 3 bi in his Preface and other places, fpeakir of the Perfon of Nature, and her occu myfterious Truths, he is not underftooi as appears by the Knight of the Lobite bein^ one of a Rabble, whooppofe an opprefs this Noble Philofopher with molt clamorous infipid Ribaldry h bi behold with what an admirable patiem our Author heard this report, andai (Wered thus, Heautontimoreunmon, an
whe
'to the Puddtr. <jr
when one col J him (_ of Wii'tam Lilly be - Inga Labourer or Ditchers Son* born at ; jDifeyporth in Leisejierjhire , and afterwards brought up by one fatyrib Taylor in the Strand) how he had abated him wicli icandulous vvordi? reply e*!5 I wi// not treai upon a Worm, tbt King of Swedens focofhafi- tick^ Aftjrttbg#ffefajfe. .
lc teems in Rome and oilier parts of Ita- ly his books are highly eileemedby very many Perfons of honour and worth 3 and eminent for their skill hi" thefe fhidies; thefe with Cardinal Vrfinus, the Marquefs "Defftttntesfhz Duke of Lorrain, the Prince ol iCottdie 3 and a Colonel of Spanifh Ca- va lie roes^T&^w Reveli, and one Cardinal \i\ Antonio by name 3 have been forward of W their own accord to put more honour b iupon our Author then he in modefty will 115 own : the former , with fome other Car- lo dihals and Jefuites, have endeavoured to invert him to the Roman Catholick id) Faith* but all in vain.
he Extra&of Colonel Tbovw Kevdl'c Letter to Mr. John Heydon.
il SIR, fee.
itk T Befeech you receive, Sec. now from a Per-
nil JL fonwho much honours your eminent Leam-
and Humanity, and would eagerk embrace
To the Reader,
an occasion to give you tnofl ample teftimony of the efteem I have for you , &c. I had your Idea of the Law and Government, &c. The Harmony of the World , but a friend in Romzhath borrowed them of me, andfince dyed ; fo I fear my Books are loft : I have once feen your Fundamental Elements of Moral Philofophy, Policy, Government and Laws ^ which alone , although your other Labours were not takgn in to makg up the value^ may equal you with the be ft defervers in Philo- fophy : I was here advertized of many other" Pieces as you writ, &c. Sir, I wijh allprofpe- rity to your defervings , and humbly thanl^you. for the fair admittance you have given me to the acquaintance and friendfhip of Mr. John Gadbury ; be pleafed to fend his Bookjwith yours foe. Ihefe as memorial s\of your Loves- and Friendjhips I Jhall prefer ve, as a tendernefs. due to things fo eftimable ; and believe, Sir9 you have power at your pleafure to command yours, Sec,
Tho. Revell,
The laft Letter that came to him, was fent from Collonel Revell, &c. humbly in treating him to have returned him. j . Ihe Harmony of the World. 2. Iht lent' pie of Ififdome. 3, Ihe Wife mans Crown
4. Vn
To the Reader,
4. The Fundamental Elements of Moral ?hi- iofophy policy ^Government and Laws. 5. Th? Idea of the Law , Government and Tyranny. And thofe excellent Pieces of the Learn- ed Mathematician Mr.JohnGadbury, viz. I. His Agronomical Tables. 2. Ctlejiis 2>- gatus. ^.Therofirine of Nativities. 4. Na- tura Vrodigiorum^Nuncius Aftrologicus .%.The Kingof Swedens Nativity. 6. The Nativity of King Charles. 7. And the Examples of Nativities.
Yhe firft Letter was dated from Madrid the ninth of April, 166?) the fecond was dated the fourth of March from Pczzolo, the third from Fiorenza, the fourth from Venetia, the fifth from Ancona , the fixth from Eifgnano^'ith great lefpetts and ho- nourable falutations from the Learned of thofe parts of Italy and Spain.
The Learned beyond Sea like thefe Books never the worfe, but much thebet-* ter ('becaufe though every Englifh Rea- der of Lilly and Mother >hipton under- (land them not, they do.}
And now let us fpeak a word ortwc concerning our Author and his Books, which in many places you may perceive to differ in ftile 3 &c. Our Author writ feme of thofe admirable experienced Truths when he was very young, even before the Wars began in England; and g 2 after*
To the Reader,
afterwards followed the Army of the King, in which he obtained great ho- nour. Laitly, he revifed his firft Work, and added many things for the inter- preting of Nature, and the producing of great and marvellous works for the benefit of Men : And as the Sun tips the Clouds by day, and the Moon the tops of the high Woods by night, with light; fo our Author enlightens the Minds of Clowneswith knowledge , and they caft dirt at him for his labour : to this heufes no fpleen , but mines upon them ! And is not this a goodly Age of People the while > A true Servant and Secretary of God and the Myfteries of Nature, is not apprehended by our dull Sermon-fay- ers , or Jews in the Jugling-box : Thefe with fome other fond Fools, and feme pittiful fine things called Cour- tiers, curfe our Author becaufe they cannot underftand him. He fmiles at the impudent affaults of vain-glorious humours, and beholds their Anticks and Rants , as if they had been trained a- mongft Apes. But toclofe all , he loves his Countrymen, even the rudeft, and prefcribes fafe and effectual Medicines for the cure of their Bodies , and gives ^aws fit to be obferved 5 he corrects the
errors
To the Reader,
errors of our Laws, and teacheth the heft Formes of Government in Church and State3as you may read in his Eook3 and fo liefer you to them.
S. F.
g 3 To
i
fo his Eftecmed Friend Mr. John Hey dont on bk Holy Guide,
and other hk Learned Indujiri-
ous Labours i already
Publtped.
R En owned Eugenia ! Famous above all ! A. Prince, in Pbyfiques I Moft Seraphicall ! TIk Art's Great Archer ! Never (hooting wide; Yet Hici'ft the White beft, in thy Holy Guide .(took, Good God .' What Pains have learn'd Fbiyfttiam For Clenfing Phyfiqimfftrange perturbed] Brooke Bat as ihfcir Crooked Labours did Deftroy Our hopes, Iby Guide diretls the Ready way. Hi ff aerates y Great Galen, and Scnertus, Rbenodewy Paracelfus, and Albertus, Grave Gerrardf and Ingenious Parkinjw, Deid Cutyerer, and Living Tbomlinfon, H*ve all Done well : Butab / they mifi the Road, Thou' it Chalke i out, 7bou Dear Servant oj God 5 And therefore 'tis no wonder, if they Vary From ehe« ; Great Natures ( High born ) Secretary !
9 TU thou alone, haft taught the way to blifs ; Tis tboH don:, that Knowcft what it is ;
'Tis1
Tis thou, haft Rak cd fruitful Egypt ore For Medicines j And Italy for more ; And in Arabia thy Colle&ingBraincs, To doc us good, hath taken wondiousPaines. This having done, if Critiques will^not bow To thy Great Learning, Utr^t, n*vf*** It (hall unto them furely prove ; And this Eflay of thy Sublimer Mifterycs, Shall make them Cure unto the Wife M'merua, Yet Mil be ignorant of thy Pantarva. But hold! whfreaml > furcrh'naft fcta fpell
On Me, caufe 1 can't praifc, thy doings vrell ;
Releaferwe, Good Eugviius ! and theCrowne,
Shall ftand on no browes, but thy Learned Owne.
Poets, no more, layClaimeuDtotheBavej !
*Tis H ey don f!>mes alone with Splendid Kayes :
Follow his G uide, hs teaches you mod fure ;
Let any make the Wound-, ''lis he,muji Cure. For he dire&s the Welgrowne; Old, and Youngs
To live Ri:h> Happy, Healthy, Noble, Strong.
John Gadbury, ^^M^rmQ-, *
g 4 To
To the Reader on the behalf of
my much honoured Friend
the Author Mr.
John Hey don.
A Labyrinth doth need a clew to find The pjfage out, end a Daedalian mind May doe ftrauge worfy, beyond the Vicars reach, Andtn their understandings mak^e a breach. lis often fane, when men of pregnant parts Study, Invent, and promulgate rare Arts, Or unknown fecretf, how they puzzle thofe That Z>nder(la?idthem nottfheir Tea's their No's, Jre pu:tot\orsplus', Tutor*, then they lack To drive them forwarder to bring them back. H'jwmany Learned men (in former ages*) In all the Sciences vara counted Sages > A-:d)et are fcarcely underftoodby men. Who dayly read them o're> and ore again! gome can recount things panVm/prefent fome, Andjome would know of things that are to come Some Study pleafure, fome would faine live long; Some that are old, would faine againe be yaung $
. —
(his Man doth toyle, andmoile^ofurcbafe wealthy i That man getffickiiefs ftudymg for bis health %
This man would happy bee, thit Wifdomc hive : j All are at lojs^ and every man dotb crave;
\oneis content^ But each man waniiz. Guide,
Them to diretl when the) do (lep afide.
Since , this is thiis^ Our Author hath took pajne
to had us ilk and bring us out again;
\w who is$\easd% in him for to confide,
'a th°Je Vifcoviries , Here's bis Eloly Guide.
Fray what can more improve the CommoQWcalchj
Then the dtfeovtry of the way to Hcilth?
Tlv Paradox is made a ortaid truth*
An Ancienc man way dye it'h prime oi's youth,
Wh& wonder is it if he gos afidc
The Path, which will not ta\e Tht Holy Guide!
Elaprim Scfipt. 9'Junij 1662.
John Booker,
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Ecclefa in tumultuofo hoc
feculo dpofiolis Pacificif9
Salutem a Centro
Salutis.
QUx magna Call maenia, & tra&ae Aftfrzx, Terrtque fines,fiquid auc ulira eft, capic 5 Mens ipfa tandem Capitur: Omnia ha&enug Quae node potuit, notajam primum eft fibi ; Accede, LeftoTy difee quis denaum fas ; Tranquilinam Jccoris agnofcas tin Qitipropius hseret nil cibf, & nil tam procul. Non hie Scholarum frivob, aut cadi Loga, Quales per annos forte plus feptcm Legit, lie folic pleno prodcar, RtX£ Artifex ; Vanafq; merccs futrii lingua crcpet3 S«d fan&a Rerum pondcra, & fenfus graves; Qjiale, pararidecuit, ipfa cum fuic Fingenda Ratio, &,vindicifuo adftitlt ; Panduntur omnes Machinae gyri tuae ; Animaeq; vertes, Trochleas, cwiei KoU-y Qua concitetur Arte, quo {ufflaminc Siftaturillarurfus&conftetfibi . Nee, fi Fcneftram Peftori humano fuam
Aptafir
ptaffitipfe Montusy infpiccrct Magis. \c ccrno Levia Affe&uHm\M%U,
i ^rajcilcfq^ fcnfusLineas; video quibus lebantur alls blanduli Cupidines5
, ;hnbufq; ftimulis urgtant h* graves. Tic Dolores, & voluptates fuos ♦rodunc recefTus ; ipfc ncc timor Iatct ; lai Noric artes quifquis in foro vclit ^nimorum habenas fl;cYere,& populos Cu^it Iptis Ligatos nexibus )ung\ fibi. lie Archimedes publicus figac pedem, iqaando rcgna michinis Politicis urgcre fatagit, & feras gentes cict, ■nifq, motum fedibua Mundnm quatit; dc\U domabit cunfta^qui menti imperat 5 lonfulcor audax, & Tromethti potens ,icinoris Animc ! qnis tibi dedit Deus xc intacri faeculis longe abdita 5 K-ulofq; luce tinxit ambrofia Tuos ^u mentis omnis., at Tuac Nulla eft capax ; [aclaude(olusfruerc : Divinum eft opus* inimamcrearc ; Proximum huic, ©Hendcre.
T. H. h.to.Coll.lx.Oxon.
to*1
t*Sw «©» tWfsr tflfir ttff» tflft? t&p } ^If7 ' xKif9 n&a tfJte <rj/s c^3 r,ip e^p cjp cv/3 cjjp f c&s • cio cuo c7/5
To his Ingenuous Friend Mr.
John Heyclon^ on his Book
Inutuled The Holy
GVIDE,
THe Antient Magi, Devilfj Cabbdlifls, the Brachmans, Sybil's, *nd Gyranofophi/ With all that Occuk Arts haberdtfa And make font iany mancies, doe but trafb. By re taile vend, and may for Fedlers goe: Tour Richer Merchandise doth fftal^ them Joe. 7he Stagarice muft with his Murtiival Of Elements, Galen of humours call In all their fuit, or your New A<t, Without them, nta\es their good old caufe tofmavi Vulgar Phyfitians cannot look, for more Patients , then fucb which doe need hellibore : When Rofie Crucian Tower can revive The dead, and kfep old men in youth alive, Hadyott not calf d yam work^ The Holy Guide 5 It tpouldbave puzzled all the world be fide To have Baptized it with a Name fofit And Adaequatc to what's contained in it 5 Should it be jlyled the Eocyclopaedy 5
Of Curious Art*) or termd a Myftery
JiOj or kenam^d the Vatican tfd unto an Enchiridion, VaU the Hern x in a Senary, fi tli im and Thummlm of Plrilofopliy, |j/t Art of Hiccglophicks/o reveal d> *4dli\e the Apocalypa they are conceal d. • )*b* Orthodox all Parodox, or all 3 cover' d, which men ft ill a wonder Callj to Migna Cryrta of allSciences, ; d be that names it cannot call it lefs, ' Backhand Title inqht have well ogre ed'y men have qiteftknd if into their Creed 'y ff/iidd have put your Article^ but How ? name of holy mm dare difallow. hen fo much learning doth in one exlft I/don, not Herme?,/^// be Trifmegifr. Id if the Right Reverend of Levies Tribe Hallow it> I cannot but fubferibe
My (elf your Friend and Servant Tho. Fyge.
To r£e wo/£ Excellent Thi lofopher and Lawyer Mr.
John Heydon, upen the Holy ' j Guide.
HAyl you (admired Heydori) whofe great pat Shine above envy , and the common ^W, You kin to Angels^ and Superiour Lights, ( A Iparkv) the firtt fire ) whofc Edg/e flights Trade not with Earthy and grofinefs, but do pal To chc pure Heavns^U make your God your gla ;! In whom you fee all forms, and fo do give Thefe rare difcovcries, how things move and liiji Proceed to make your great defign eomplcat, And let not this rude world our h pes defes t. Oh let me but by this the dawning light Which ftreams upon me through your three pi I P.ifs to the Ea/r of truth, *cill 1 may fee ( nigt Mans fir ft {aire ftale, when (age Simplicity
he Dove and Serpent, Innocent and wife
)weRin bis fcre/f, and he in Paradife ; I 'here from the Tree of knowledge his beft boughs,
'le pluck a Garland for this Authors brows,
Vhich to fucccccding times Fame (hall bequeath, \ Vith this moft juft Applaufe, Great He)dom
(wreath;
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A
Chymical Dictionary
OR,
An Explanation of the hard words and termes of Arc which areufed in lbs Holy Gmck.
ACquifttlo, Antiffio, Aibm, are figures < Geomancy, Y or Arks, a figure J jiftrm<mcyy and they areuani:s that fig nil the Nature of the Medicine?, and you (ha find tb cm in Order, there being ufe,: 19. Figures of Aiirowancy, viz. T? Sdfh'm % Jupiter, <5 Mars, 0 Sol, S Feww, 5 Me cwryj 3) the Moon, or Luna, & Taurus, n. G' wirti, S Cancer, <5t Leo, t# JT/rgo, ~ Li&r m Scorpio, ? Sagittary tYp Capricorn, zz Aqu, riusy X Fifes. And 1 6. (Carcer,Triftiiia, Fo tuna W]or, Fortuna Miner, Puer, FutUa, Cot junftioy Rubeus, Laiitiay Caput Vraconi Cauda VraconiSyPopiiluss via) of Geomancy. Amalgamation is a Calcining or Co rodjng Mentals whhC^ickfilvcr, and it
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done thus 3 take any Mettall except Iron, peat en into leafes, or very (mill Powder, mixt with abom eight parts of Quick- liver (which may the better be doLe, if • 30th be healed firft) that they may become )ne uniform Mafr, evaporate the Qiiick- Ilver over the fire, and the Mettall will be eft in the bottom as a thin Calx. A^ua is the water.
Aries and Aquarius figne« in Atfromawji Acqttifith, Ami/JjOj and Albws figures of leomancy,
Aftrornancy is Heavenly knowledge, and
komancy is Earthly knowledge.
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Calcination la reducing any thing into
alx, and making ic fryable; and it may
t done two wayes, by firing, by reducing
1; ito a(he«3by reverberating, by Corrofi on,
y Amalgamation, Precipitation, Fumiga-
lon or vapotction, Cementation or ftrati-
Jj-ation. Caput Vraconisy Cauda T>r acorns ,
-unftio. and Career figures oiGccmancy. i Circulation, is when any liquor is 10 jjjlpcfd in digeftion, that it fhail rife up M d fall down, and rife up and fall down, |JLc d fo do continually, and thereby become : i/uedigtfted and mature, for which ufe gjTT the ffloft part we ufe a Pelican. , q Clarification , is the feparating of the jigJIcicces from any decoction or juice ; h * and
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and it is done three wayes, by the white c an Egge, by digeftion, by filtration. Cure all, is Aurum Totalile. Coagulation, is the reducing of any liqui thing to a thicker fubftance by cvaporatin the humidity.
Cohobation, Is the frequent abftr a&ion < any liquor poured oft-times on the fco from whence it was diftilled, by diftillat on. Cancer and Capricorn, figncs in Aftr wancy.
Congelation, is when any liquor being d co&ed to the height, is afterward by fc ling into any cold place turned into cranfparent fubftance like unto Ice.
Corrojlonjs theCaleining of bodies by co rolive things. Cure the great is the Pantarva.
D. Vecantation, is tt c pouring off any I Cjuor which hath a fctling, by inclinatio Deliquium, the dlffoluing of a hard bo into a liquor, as fait, or the powder any calcined matter, &c. in a moift, co place.
Vejcenfion, is when the eff utial jui. djflblvcd from the matter to be diftilli doth ccfccnd, or fall downward. Dejpumation, is the taking off the frci
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that Boats on the top with a fpoon or fca- :hcr, or by percolation.
Distillation, is the extracting of the hu» pid partlof things by vertucof hcac, being i nft rcfolved into a vaponr, and then con- fenfed again by cold. Thus it is generally aken; but how more particularly, I (hall iftcrward (hew.
Vigejlion, is a conco&ing, or maturation f crude thiogt by an eahcand gentle heat.
Vijfolntion. is the turning of bodies into liquor by ihc addition of forhc humidity.
Decoration, or V deification , is either lie waftiing off the falc from any matter lat was calcined therewith, with warm Mter, in which the fait is ditfolvtd, and ie matter dulcified : or it is fweetning of u'ngs with fugar, or honey* or fyrup.
E Elevation, is the riling of any matter in a[; unncr of fume, or vapour, by vertuc af
(jt( Evaporation , or Exhalation, is the ?a- |)Cpuringawayof any moifture.
Exaltation, U when any matter doth by [ •jCgcfrion attain to a greater purity. lifi Expreffton, is the extracting of any li~
cior oy thehahd, or by a prcfle. , Extraction, is the drawing forth of am iVcncc from a corporeal matter by fome ha v fit
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fie liquor, asfpirk of wine 5 the feces re? main in thebottome.
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fcermentation,!* when any thing is refoN ved intoitfclf, and is rarifud, and ripe- ned; whether it be done by any ferment added to it, or by digeftion only. Fox\un(LMd)QX a figure of Geomancy,
Filtration^ is the reparation of any liquid matter from its feces by making it run through a brown paper made like a tunnel, or a little bag of woollen cloth,or through ffcreds.
Fixation, U the making of any volatile* fpiritual body endure the fire, and not flye away, whether it be done by often reitera- ted diftillations, or fublimations, or by theadding of fome fixing thing to it. Foriuna Minor a Figure ofGeontancy.
Fuwigatioftyis the calcining of bodies bj the fume of (harp fpirits, whether vegeta- ble or mineral, the bodies being hid ovei the mouth of the vcflel wherein the fiiarj f pirns are.
Gemini , a Figurt otGeomancy. H.
HuweQathn, or Irrigation's a fprinklinj of moifturc upon any thing. •*•
Imbibition^ is when any dry body drink
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in any moifturc that is put upon n. Jupiter 5 a planet of Aftromawy Impregnation, is when any dry body hath drank in fo much moifture that it will ad* J mic of no more.
Incorpr a\ion, is a mixtion of a dry and
moiftbody together, fo as to make an unb
form mafle of them.
j Injufton, is the putting of any hard matter
l[ fcnjto liquor, for thevcrtue thereof to bz
1/11 (Extracted.
Inflation, is the digefting of things in the Sun.
L. Levigation,'l$ the reducing of any hard matter into a meft fine powder. Lxtitia, otGeomancy. Leo and Libra figures of Aftromancy.
Liquation, is a melting or making any thing fluid.
Luxation* is either the flopping of ths orifices of veficls, that no vapourjpaffe our3 or the coating of any veflfcll to prefcrve ic from breaking in the fire. M.
H Mars, Mtrcury, and the Moon, Planets oi Aftromancy.
Maceration, is the fame as Digeftion. Maturation, is the exalting of a fubfhnc© b 3 tfe*t
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that is immature and crude, to be ripened and conco&ed.
Mevftrum, is any liquor that ferves for the extracting the tffmce of any thing. P. Frecipitathn, is when bodies corroded by corrofive fpirhs, either by the evaporat* ing of thefpirits remain in ihc bottome, or by pouring fomething upon the fpiritf, a* oil of Tartar , or a good quantity of water, do fatl to the bottom. Puer>Puella & Pofulus, figures ofGeoniancy. Fifces a figure in Afttomancy. Purification, is a reparation of any Li- quor from its feces, whether it be done by clarification, filtration, or digeftton.
Putrefaftion, is the resolution of a mixt body into it fclf , by a natural gentle heat.
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<jj>vinte(fence3 is an abfolute, pure anc well digtfted medicine, drawn from an] (ubftance> either animal, vegetable or ml neral.
R.
Rubefy a figure of Geomancy.
Rettification\ is either the drawing of th ftegmfrom the fpirits,or of the Cpirirs fror the flegm, or the exaltation of any Liquo by a reiterated diftillationr ;
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Reverberation, is the reducing of bodies :nto a Calx, by a reflecting flame.
Saturne, Sol, Scorfio, and Sagittary, Planets and fignes in Apomancy* oc: ; Solution, is a diffblving or attenuating « of bodies.
Stratification, is a ftrewing of corroding if! powdir on platesofraetaJlby courfe. tji i Sublimation, U an elevating, or railing of the matter to the upper pare of the vcflcll q by way of a fubtle powder.
Subtiliatioi, is the turning of a body into fl a Liquor, or into a fine powder. xl T. .
i, Taurus, a figures ot Aflromancy . m Tranfimutatron, is the changing oft thing (Q iin fubftancc, colour, and quality. V. Venus, Virgo, figures of Afkromahcy. I Volatile, is that which fly eth the fire.
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Rw/fi to be confidered in Rofic Crucian Medicines.
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1 jLfT Ake choice of a fit place in your houfe
■■ for the furnace, fo that ic may neither
I ' hinder any thing, nor be in danger of the
faling of any thing into it thatfhal lye over
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ic: for a forcing Furnace, it will be beft to fetitin achimny, becauie aftrongheat is ufedtoit, and many timw there arc ufed brands which wili imoik, and the fie b:- ing great the danger thereof may be pre- vented, and of things of a maligocandve* ncnate quality being diftillcd in fuch a Fur- nace, the fume or vapour, if the glafs fhould break nuy be carryed up \wo the chimney which othervufe will flye about the room eo thy prejudice.
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In all kinds of Diftillation the veffels *are not to be filled too full; for if you diltill Liquors,they will run ever; if other folider things, the enc part: will be burnt before the other pare be at all worked upon; but fill the fourrh part of copper vcflels ; and in rectifying of fpirics fill the veflll half iuil.
Let thofe things which are flatulent, as \vax,rofin, and fuch like, as alfo thofc things which do eanly boil up, as honey, be put in a ltffer quantity, and be diftilled ia greater vefftls, with the addition of Glt3 (and, or fuch like.
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There be fome things which rcqnire *
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ilrong fire, ycc you muft have a care that the fire be not too vebernert for fear their nature fhould be dtftroyed.
5- You muft have a care that the lute with which veffris are cloftd, do not give vent aud alter the nature of the Liquor, cfpeci- ally when a ftro g fir« is to be ufed.
6.
Acid Liquors have this peculiar proper- ty, that the waktr part goes forth fi»ft; aruj theftronger laft, but in fermented and Liquors the fpiric goeth ruA, then the sgme.
7. If the Liquor retain a certain Empyreu- ;na, or (match of the fire, thou (halt help ic L-y putting it into a glafs clofe ftopt, and (o cxpofing it to the heat[of the Sun, and now and then opening the glafs that the fiery imprtflion may exhale, or clfe let the glafa
rand in a cold moift place. 8. When you put water into a Teething Bal- !* neum, wherein there are glaffes, let it be L hot, or elie thou wilt endanger the break- ing of the glafie*.
9. When thou takeft an earthen or glafs
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vefTelfrora the fire, expofc it not to the cold air too fuddmly for fear it (hould break.
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If thou wouldft have a Balneum as hot as aCheSj put fand or fawduft into it, that the heat of the water may be therewith kept in, and made more intenfe. II.
|f you would make a heat with horfe- dung, the manner is this; viz. make a hole in the ground,thcn lay one coarfc of horfe- dung a foot thick, then a coarfe of un- fiiked lime half a foot thick, then another of dung, as before then fct in your veffcl, and lay round it lime and horfe-dung mixt together; prefs it down very hard 5 you muftfprinklc it every other day with w*- tcr, and then it csaftth to be hot, then take it out and put in more. 12.
Note that alwaycsfandorafhes muft bi well fifced ; for otherwise a coal or ftont therein may break your glafs. 13. The time for putrefaction of things i various; for if the thing to be putrefied b vegetables aud green, lefstimeis required |f dry, a longer * if Minerals, the iongeft 0
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1. Thus much note , that things ate >oncr putrincd in clouJy weather thca i fair.
14.
If thou wouldft keep vegetables frefh od green all ihe year, gather them in a ry day, and put them into an earthen tfftl, which you mud ftopclofe, and fttin
cold place: and they will, as faith Glau-
I 1 rus, keep frefh a whole year.
Do not f xpeft to extraft the cflence of j ny vegetable unlefs by making ufc of ihe !:: tecs left afcer diftillation : for if you take
II We feccfj ai for example of a netele, and " nake a deco&ion thereof, and ftrain it and 5 ct it in the froft, it will be congealed and 1 n it will appcara thoufand leaves of net- ^l 'les with their prickles, which when the de.
:o&ion is again refolved by heat, vanlili iway, which (hews that the effence of the &> Vegetable* lies in the fait thereof. 1 6. Tn all your operations, diligently ofc~ fcrve the procefles which you read, and va- ;! rynota tittle from them* for fomcumes iflfl a fmall miftake or ne^Jeft fpoilsthe whole lift operation , and fruf^rates your expecta- tion.
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18. If any would enter upon the prafriceo Chymiftrie, let him apply himfclf to fora< expert Artift for to be inftrufted in tbc ma mial operation of things*, for by this mean* he will learn more in two moneths, thei he can by his practice and ftudy in fcvei years, as alfo avoid much pains and cofl and redeem mu.h time which elfe of neaffi tyhewilllofe,
'9* Enter not upon any operation, unlefs it b
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Chap. I.
)f(jod^Art and Stature.
OfGodyof Man, of Creatures : 2. A divine pattern: z. Frailty : 4. HappineJJe wkat > 5. J [fir it that workelh all things: 6. Di- vine lights: 7. Plato's Crown : S.lbe grounds ef Knowledge : 9. Opinio Jts : 10. Images of Heaven : 1 1 . Si#g/<? mindes, Mejjcngers and Angels : 12. Degrees of hap pine fie : Of three delights.
\*0d is our holy Guide , there- fore in all orderly ^ft?- cfos , and matters of Learning^ firft of all be- hoveth a wife man toa- grce upon the thing in. , what it is j And whatsis the bounds (r Definitions^) of the fame; it feemeth iy need full in this difcourfe of the Kofie i'ueian Medicines 3 to mew firft, their mat- tr , in Nature and Art y their manner of nrking^ all which we will here canoni- tljy and orderly make manifeft 0 be- A ' eaufe
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caufe ic is a thing much in doubt and ii quettion among the Learned.
Eyes that ufe to behold and view th reafon and nature of things, mayeafih perceive by the outward (hape and inwan gifts of man, unlike and paffingall othe wights ( or living Creatures ) that he wa made for fome notable end and purpof above the reft, and fo not for pleafure3hc nour, or enough of needfull outwar things j which they call Riehes ; nor y( for any other mattfers,which other wight void of wit and reafon feek and follow therefore a man ought not to make an thing of that nature his end and happinef unlerTe he think it reafon for the Majl (and better workman) to learn of the Servai and worfer, for what other pattern and en have we to follow? none at all; becaufe v are the beft Creatures in the world; than is wirhout the world, fayyou, andamor the blejjed mindes^ox the JEthereal Inhabit an above and without all ; neither yet ha1 we found it,forthry beourfellow-fervan and ftibjetts under one Almighty Kins;.
2. Wherefore Eugeniitf 7beodidad fayes there remains nothing but God , at hid happines to be fought and fet befo our eyes; not with hope to overtake ar reach it, that were madnefs; but with d lire to attain fo much thereof, as the pr
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portion between him and us will Tuff^r ;
2. Or if theunmeafurable,and bound* lefle, or infinite bieffednefsof God admit, no comparifon, it were beft , yea awd by the example of Mr. 7ho. Heydon^ to make :he bounds of our happinefs in long life, heal\b and youth i fo much of theferviceof 3W, as our whole power and nature will
, [wldand carry, now if we knew that di- vine Pattern 3 and ontly gift of God, ail
' vere well : And this as almoft all other ruth, efpecially in cafe of life and man-
t \ers, for the which this Book was chiefly mtten, bythewitnefi and record of holy mit3
f \nd received to be known and proved : if that
I ere not fo ft range and far off from this , urpofe, which is appointed as you fee to . in through the midft of Art^Nature^Rea-
K3 Vhilofophy and Fhyfic^ u 3. Wherefore (ithence both in this and
1 other matters, Galen builds overmuch "i pon his own devices, not considering as
me may object, that a man (efpecially a • ')iingman)may fwerve, but we have aflr* l' :mceofthe Rofie- Crucian Seraphicd illu- ;;i linated fratenity , and have be fides a fingle t jdgement and manual experience in the Phy- :: ffophers Pantarva, a double portion, of
II t'etfpiritscounfell, which faid ha %ti £*- w ; **f* div^dLi vre'/l* hMt&s , All o- ty ter beiides did not content us, becaufe
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they were no more but men endued with ripe wits, and perhaps found judgement in the com feof kind(or Nature and Phy- rjck;,) Now I muft look as near as I can to my own judgement, that it be ftil! lquared by the rule of truth and reafonj And fo let us return to our purpofe, long Life, Health, Youth, Riches, Wifdoni and Vertue,arenot to be found among thofc men that iivelike Hogs, alwayes greed) afterfuch things asbeafts defire, Sc know no better then things aufpicious to fwine •4. Then to finde this happinefs and plea fure of heaven among menjTo whom wen it beft to travel?unto Poets think you?No becaufe they take their aim full at a vaiw mark, the peoples liking, as you may fe< by Mr. John Cleavelands Poems*, fori wil not draw of the dregs (when he faith' If a man be rich, and have his health, with < contented minde^ and honour , let him nc care to be a God , nor for popular applauft This vain and worldly content is farr from a Divine nature; Nor yet need we g- to the lower or lefTer houfes of Fhyfic\ where as they be tainted and imfound r other points of learning; fo in matter c manners they doe not do well to plac their content in honour, pleafure, ori fuch like outward things, no nor to feci in good life alone, and veitue.
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5. Befides the opinion of Hermes, 7ar- tbaSyApollonius^Tbroates, and others: it is my thoughts, that that which is inferiour or below, is as that which is fuperiouror above, there being one univerfal mat- ter and form of all things, differenced onely by accidents, and particularly by that great myftery of rarefa&ion and condenfation,the inferiour and fupcriour, ; to work and accomplifh the miracles of •one thing, and to (hew the great variety 1 'and diverfity of operations wrought by I chat fpirit that worketh all things, in -all I :hings; and as all things were from One, \ oy the mediation of one God, having it treated all things in the begiuning,which i is the beginning of all things, and the « ivifdomofhisFatherjfo all things fprung it md took their Original from this one it hing, by adoption, or fitting it felf accor- 1 lingly, in number, weight and meafure 5 !a lorwifdomebuildeth her ownhoufe. tf 6. Fiato and Fythagoras, for their matcb- K efs underftanding in naturall things,and I i)ivine light in good order of life and , manners, have been thefe many ages bell Q ccepted with the beft, and followed in .j: 11 things-, therefore in this high point of nr lanners, which we have touched, we I ; ill tell you the father of this one thing, that which he ufeth infteadofan A- : i A3 gent
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gent, and all the operations thereof, is the Sun-,M\d the mother thereof, or which appiyes the place of a female and patient, is the Moon ; the nurfe thereof and her paps, all the influence of heat and moi- fture, of the Sulphur e and Mercury of Na- ture, for the fpirit of God moveth not but upon die face of the waters-, the earth, the wind, or aire, is carried in its belly, as the failes in the chain, that tye the fupe- riour things to them that are below. This is the Father original, and Fountaine of all perfection, and of all the fecret and miraculous things done in the world , tvhofe foke is then peifeft and compleat. Now let us fee what opinions others hold, and how neer they come to Iheodidaclus his right line of truth.
7. To begin with Plato^the fpringof this Philofophy, his Medicine and Happinefs; he difputes in ThiUbm, as neere as I could gather, out ot fo large and fcattered a fpeech,is nothing but Pleafure and Health in a Medicine. And yet this Divine man meaneth not (left you (hould marvellj with that heard of fwine ("though they were not the brothers of that foul opini- on, but watered their gardens, as lully faith, with other mens fprings) tofeto- jen all the gates of the fences, and to let in all that comes \ buc ouely ac a few
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narrow loops, to receive cleanc delight without all grief interlaced, and by name delight in colours, confent and fome fmells in Health, Wifdome and Vertue.
And again he faith in Thtutus, that Jujtice and Holinejfe, together with JVifdomey vt.tksus hfyunto God$ to letthofetwo pla. cts ferve for him, and to come to Vythago- ras : as there are two forts of men , one difpofed todeale with others, which are called worldly men; and another quite contrarily bent to live alone, and tofeek knowledge, which are called Philofo- phcrs 5 fo he in his.book appoints two fe- verall ends ; for the firft vertue \(l mean adoring, and no idle vertuej garniftied with outward helps, and gifts of body and fortune: for the next knowledge ojf the beft things ; and this he fetteth before that other, for many reafons vouched to- ward the end of his book ; but efpecially, becaufe God, whom we ought to follow, leadeth the fame life.
8. Thefebe the beft grounds of Happi* neffeand Plcafure that ever any.Philofo- pher orPhyfitian hath faid at any time ; f for never a one hath quite built it up ; ) let us fee how they be fquared : If the foul- fed Epicure may again be juftly re- proved, and reckoned as an impious per- •fon, whom never any heavenly thoughts A^ touch-
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touched for bringing in an idle God3n ei- ther ruling the world, nor regarding it : Bow cduAnjlotle ft em wrongfully accufed of impiety, &c for the fame banifhed out of the Academy j if there were not other proof againfl him(when he faith J in that place, God leadeth no other then this beholding & gazing life of his? Is it not an idle,and, as it were, a covetous life turned back up- on it felf, and eftranged from all outward action applied and directed to others ? . yea, and that ill his own, and all other mens underftanding; then to encounter him with his worthy Matter Plato^ if that were the beft life, or the life of God, why did God make the World? he lived fo be- fore, if that had been the beft life; but becaufe he was good, he would have o- thers enjoy his goodneffe, and before he was bufie in making, and is yet in ruling the world , and yet indeed it is no bufi- nefs, as we reckon it, that is no care and trouble, but an outward deed and action, cleane contrary to the inward deed of a niufing minde onely (hooting at his ownc good cftate with hiswifdora &: knowledge 9. But if he deny all this, as it's like he will, to increafe the heap of fin, he grants | Xto beginning, then what can be greater evidence then his own writings,one quite thwarting another, ascrofs as may be; for in another place he comes again 3 and
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faith, that every man hath fomuch hap- pinefleashehath Wifdome and Vertue, even by the witneffe of God himfelf, who is therefore happy3 and not for outward goods; what can be more divinely fpo- ken, and more crofs to the former, foule and godlefs opinion > nay, fee the force of truth; he yieldeth again according to the heavenly Rafter, that tofore-ftall the place from the worfer fort, good men ought to take office upon them, and to manage affaires of 5tate : yea further, if they refufe (which if they be wife, they witty queth Zeno) that thsy may rightly he compel- led-, then, if this wile man hath vertuein pofleffion, as no doubt he hath, he muft as we fee by his own confeflion, ufe it ; and the famereafon is of God himfelf in this great City of the World ; but Tlato by name, thinks thofe two fo nearly allied and knit together,as he dare openly deny happinefs to that Common- wealth where they be diflinked and ftand afunder.
1 o. Then we fee, that in the judgement ofthefetwo great Thilefophers and Fhyfiti- am, where they be beftadvifed, and in deed and truth, the divine pattern of happi- nefs, which we ought toftrive unto, is no more, nor no lefsthen that worthy cou- ple of wifdome and venue knit together in that bond of fellowfhip, which may ne- ver be parted afunder.
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ThatSalomon defired, when God gave him his choice, and bad him ask what he would have, and he would give it him, as you may read i Kings c.i. Hefaid, Ion/ give thy fervant an understanding hearty that he may judge between good and bad; and the fpeech pleafed the Lord, that Salomon had asked this thing? and God f aid unto him9 Be- canfe thou baft asked this thing, and haft mt asked long life, neither haft askgd riches for thy felf, nor the life of thine enemies, but haft ask- ed for thy felf under ft anding to difcerne judge- ment ; behold, 1 have done according unto thy word, ho I have given thee a wife under {land- ing heart, fo that there was none like thee be- fore thee, neither after thee (};all any arifo like unto thee. And alfo 1 have given thee that which thou hzft not asked, riches and honour ; andfo will God doe to all thofe that mindwif- dome and vertue. In the firft place, with an intent to do good to others. On the con- trary, fad experience hath witnefledeven in our daye?, that many, whofe whole aim was to be rich in this world, have been deprivedof all, and forced to feeke their bread in a ftrange land ; fo may o- thersdo yet for ought I know, if they be not all the wifen they that fwallow down riches; and not by right, (hall vomit them up again; the Lord (hall caft them out of theirbdlies,y^20.i$. ii. But you may fay, we have reared
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our Happinefs,long Life and Health aloft, and made it a fair and goodly work ; but more lit for the dwelling of thofe clean and tingle minds (or fpirits) above, which they call Meffengers (or Angels) therefore is man fo buried here below in thefe earthly bodies , as we are fcarce able to look up unco it:and therefore Pythagoras m his book, with good advice, often recei- veth in enough of bodily and outward goods, to help the matter, (thought it not to beany other caufe of joy, than thein- ftrument is of Mufick : ) and fo Plat$, we fee, nameth his fervants and helpers.
12. Indeed I grant, that this full and high pitch of happinefs, &c. (I mean that meafure above fet ) is free and eafte to free and lively fpirits j bufr to us impoffible, without outward meanes and helps, which , neverthelefs , fhall not be counted as any part of the frame of Health, needfull to make up the whole, bur, as it were, loofc and hang-by fteps and ftaires leading up to it.
13, Then, if thefe be fo needfull a9 they be, it were of much need to lay them down, and keep juft account, which thofe Tbyfitiam do not, left if there be two for one^HappineJfe^c mould halt:if again, too many, the idle parts might, in fine, infeft and marrethe reft > as we may fear
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of Flato his firfi three Delights , although they be not hurtfull of themfelves .• Without more words, the juft ftimmeis thus : To obtaine fo much HappinefTe, &c. as our Nature is able to take and hold, the body had need befirft willing and obedient, and then ftore of out- ward needfull things to be at hand and ready* thefe every man knowethj but for the body, that is obedient, when it is long lived, health full , young , clear e, and temperate $ when all thefe helps flock to- gether, we may be happy, if we will* if any want, we (hall doc what we can, as you (hall hear hereafter.
Then let us marfhall thefe things at laft in order , by the Holy Guide> who compare Happinefstoa Family^ & makes that loving couple Wtfdome and Vertuey as Maw and Wife , and Heads of the HouQiold, the five proper eyes of the body like Children, and Riches as Ser- vants. Thefe againe, if the chief of the houfe will fuffer them to marry, will be- get other two bond-children, to beautitie the fame houfe. Honour and flea pure ; but J the wife and good Houfholder will in no wife fuffer it,ieft his houfe mould be trou- bled with more then may be ruled; andv although true and right Honour and Pleafure will perforce follow, yec he fliall
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not regard them 3 nor be minded towards them 5 as thofe grave men were towards Helen 3 and often ufe their faying , al- though theybefuch kindeones, yet let them go: and us follow our way to health and happinefle, &c. See The Harmony of the World, &c.
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1 . The way to Wifdome ', 2. Hermes medicine*-, 5 . Rules, 4. pofftbilities and effeUs - 5 fault- lejfe (ludies-, 6. approved reafons; j.Opinionsi 8. Tbeftop-/kip', 9. Secret truths. 10. Won* drous mrks $ 11. Wifemens 12. Alchi- myb 13. Ofthefccret bl ail and motion of Cod-, 14. Of Natures faulty 15. Divine truths-, iC. Mansminde; ij. Of the life of God 3 18. Raging Counfell ; 19. S tingle fie X rones; 20 . Vifiention-, the Emper ours folly.
Oh that we knew that health and hap* pinefle5wemay when we will, go in- to the way where and how all men may be blefled : wherein I am quite bereaved of all helps from the Grecians > as men e-
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ver apt to fpeak & think well, rather then to do &. perform any thing (though con- ftancy & agreement,in their fay ings would have left blefiednejfe as well as other good things in the power and reach of all men and I mud fly for aide into Mgy^t , a peo- ple fo far palling all other Nations, as it is better and nearer to God, to work and to do great wonderous things than to behold and look upon them.
2. For it is delivered toAncient and true Record that one Hermes aKing and Lawgi- ver of that Country , a man of a rare and divine gift in knowledg above all that ever were, found out Medicines able to bring all men to health & long life^c.and left them behinde him in writing tohis people; & that they were after him,a long time by thewjfer fort, clofely wrought and ufed, umill atlaft, they crept abroad and ftole into Arabia, when (lie flourifhed in Armes and Learning, and there got the name which it now commonly keepeth of Filius Solis deleftis, Amicus Vitt, Pantarva, Ignis ViU> Stella Vita, Radix Vita, Aqua So- Iisy Aqua Luna, Vehcia vita, Panacea, Succus Vita, Medulla vita, Adjutrix Vita, Salus vita, Sanguis vita, Aurum Potabile ; and indeed all thefe medicines are made of prepared gold,*H.Now from thence in the fame fe- cret and difguifed manner (Tor that is the wont of them, as becomes fo deep fecretsj
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they have traveled and fpread themfelves overall Nations; now and then opening and difcovering themfelves to a few of the better and wiier company.
3. Then this is the meanes to obtaine blcflednefs, which I mean to take , and withall to prove it no pleafant dream and happy tale, if it were true as the common proverb goeth of it ; but as it is a Natural, Heroical, and almoft a Divine deed, fcarce to be reached or matched with any words, fo I vow them a true and certain ftory, things often done, and a- gain to be done as often , I am unfits I grant, and unable to bear fogreat a bur- then, but that the defirel have both to defend the Truth from Slander, and to do good to them that love it, makes it light and eafie : and again, the hope up- holds me, that if I chance to {tumble or faint at any time, thefe will as gently and willingly lend their hand to ftay me, or at leaft bear with the fall or misfor- tune.
Then for the common or wilder fort, which either for lack of good Nature, or want of good Manners, ufe to wrangle a- bout words, or twitch at things, I care not j and becanfe I know them not, I pafs them as unknown men ; for neither was Henulcs able, as they fay, to match with
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many-headed Hydray nor yet with the a#kg and crooked Crab,
4. Then to turn my fpeech, which way were it beft to fet forwards > not rightjandftraight to the matter ! No ; be- caufe there is fuch crying out againft the poflibility of the good work which our Medicine promifes; and that Awke for judgement of the matter hath been the chief caufe which hath hitherto buried this Divine Art from the fight of good and learned men; I take it the beft way of delivery, before I come to the point it felf,to fetch about a little, & then to (hew the poflibility ofthofe effe£b,and the way to work them by other or weaker meanes, as well as by Hermes Medicines. For al- though it be notfo natural, in marching forward to move the Iejft and weak part* yet I keep it right atificially, and then it mall agree with that goood order of Art : Firft of all to put by a few of the light things laid againft this bleffed Science y becaufe, albeit, they be gathered but by guefs,be(idesall grounds of certaintyjyet they have fo wholly poflefled the common people, yea, and fome of the better and wifer fort likewife, that without any further fearch or hearing of the matter* they have ftraight-way caft it off for falle, and condemned its for when as
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cnce deep hath taken the fort of the bo* dy, the fenfes yield, and can do nothing j fo if wrong belief get once pofTeffion of the foul, reafon is laid to reft, and cannot move again, before that mift be loofened, put to flight and fcattered.
5. Firft, fay they, fith there befeen in all places and times, fo many hundreds with great paines, heed and cunning, to ftudy this Art, and put the Receipts in practice : now if they were true and faultlefs, as others are, fome mould ap- peare to hit the mark, and to gather the fruits of their iravel, and to live as they do, of all men moft miferabie: orat leaff, becaufe it is fo ancient an Art, it would have been recorded in fome publick cr private writing, befides their own, which be it bound with never fo deep oaths (as it is) yet it is unfufficient proof and wit- nefs in their own cafe.
6.Thefebe the moft capable reafdns, and beft approved among the people., wherewith they ufeto batter this exchan- ging fequence : but mark how light and weak they be, and eafie to be wiped away; for how could the a&s and deeds of thefe R.C. Philosophers & Phyfitians come into the writings and Records of men (to be- gin there with them) whofe fame, nay, whofe company they have everihunned >
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and when their own Records, if they chance to light of any thing that was not town abroad, and publiftied to the world, as is the ufe of worldlings; but left like moft precious Jewels unto fome freindof fccret truft,which was counted as a Son a- dopced , upon condition to keep itftill within the houfe and ftock of Hermesfiom the eyes and hands of the world and (hangers, running evermore, like the wife Starres, a contrary race unto the world, that no mervaile, though they be both,iu like fort croffed by the world, and mif- called wanderers for Planets, J when in- deed and truth they goe better. Now when they deem credit to be denied to the mens report & witnefs, it is a fign that either their own report&witnefs is of light and little weight, whereby they judge of others ; or elfe, that their thoughts are vain and phantaftical, puffed up, I mean with that new kind of felf-love and over- weening wifdome, to (et upthemfelves, and pull down Authorities > of which fort ic falls out moft commonly inpeo« pie, that while they ftrive to avoid the lake of fuperfHtion, they run headlong unawares down the river of impiety, for if fuch a wide breach and entry may be differed to be made into the credit and authority of the Writers, which are the life of Antiquity and light of Memory,
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great darkneffe and confufion will foone come in and over-caft the world \ yea,and fo far forth at length,as nought fhall be be- lieved & judged true that is not feen; that even they which dwellin the main land, (hall not grant a fea 5 a thing not onely fond and childifh among men, but alfo (ill be to me, if I fpeak not as i think) wicked and godlefs amongft us Chrifti- ans, whofe whole Religion, asS. Auguftine faith, ftands upon that ground.
7.Wherefore,if we muft needs believeRe- cords, yea, though they be fpmetimes lewd men, foolifh and unlearned, as if they were as whole and harmlefs asXe«o- crates; but efpecially, although they had great cau fe to lie, and to fpeak more or lefs then the truth ; who can in common reafon refufc the folemn oaths of fo goodj wife and learned men > for he is good for the love of Vertue it felf ; he that is wife, to avoid the fhame of lying, will fpeak the truth:What (hall I fay of EugemusiheG- didaftus^that duril in times part $wnno other iwwtf,wnofe whole care and practice, drift & ftudies, now is nothing eife but to finde and fet down the truth? but all is well $c clear of all fufpition, if it may, bethought thofe oaths and proteftations to have fprung from himfelf, and others experi- enced in thefe undeniable truths, of more good will and defire to perfwadc the lo- B* vert
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vers of Wifdome and Vertue , than wrought out byfeare or flattery, which may ealily be judged in fuch men,as Were all either then falfe Vrotefton that cared not, or Ki»g$ that needed not, as it is clear in all their eyes that are converfant in thefe kindes of (Indies Wherefore fuch men as are fo bold with our ground of reafon to deny, atui deny ftill all that comes, are, in my opinion, greatly to be looked un- to} far although they, like Xerxes, pull not down Religion with hands openly,yet they are of another fort as dangerous, that undermine itclofely with wrong o- p in tons. If our men avoid fuch plain un- truths, as might be reproved by commwi fenfe and daily experience, as when A- nexagoras faid Snow was black, andXftfo- phanes the Moon is inhabited, and full of hills atid cities ; and in cities of old, with tome of late among the Stars [Sir Chr: JHeydon Baron & N&r. Job.Heydon^znd Mr. John Gadburyy\ but I fpeak not againft A- rtrologers, but againft fuch flattering ly- arsthat have gained their eftates amongft [illy foolifh women, &c ignorant people, H that hold, that the earth, the onely movable thing in the world, (lands ftill, and fuch like ugly mimapeu lies, wherewith Greece over-ifwarmed ; then you had reafon to ufe them with ill words and thoughts as
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you doc : Now, although I was partly perfwaded to be of the fame opinion with thofe that hold the earths immobility : but being convinced jl relinquifti my for- mer opinions for they maintain,that by a Heavenly Medicine they have great and woiiderfull changes, turned all metals into Gold, Folly into Wifdome, Vice in- to Vertue, WeaknefTe into lcng Life, all Difeafes into found Health, and Age into LuftinelTe and Youth againe \ How can you difprove them ? when did you fee the contrary ? you finely know the nature of the deeds and effects j for they require great knowledge ; but the doing caufe workman,that you diflike ls^their Medicines you never faw,nor can imagine what it is, much lefs conceive the reafon,jiwigth & na- ture of it ; nay you fee nothing,but grope and blunder in the dark,like blind-fold- ed men at all things ; elfe how could thefe exchanges have efcaped,8c been hid from you, in a world fofull of all kindes of changes > I mean, you fee great and ad- mirable things f albeit you do not fo take them, becaufe you fee them often ) but you doe not truly fee them, that is, you perceive not the nature, caufe and reafon of them, and that makes you fo childifh to believe nought unfeen, and count all things wondrous which are not common B 3 among
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among you $ much like that harmlefle and fiDy kind of people, of late difcover- ed, which made miracles and wonders of many matters, that in other countreys are ordinary and common, in fo much as (to take one for all) they could not con- ceive how two men afunder could by let- ter certifie one another, unlefs a fpirit were wrapt up in the paper to make re- port, and tell the news 5 but if you and they could once,;by this Guide & Art, cut into the depth and nature of the great and marvellous works of kind and skill, which are common and daily among you; then, and not till then, you would be ready and eafie by comparifon to receive almoft any thing unfeen, and brought by report unto you. Let me awake your wits a little; you fee daily, but not tho- rowly, how the Moon by her Sympathy with the fpirit of the water drawes the O- eean after her, makes the ebbs and flow- ings thereof: it is likewife commonly knowne, that the Load-jione in the roof e ef Mahomet his Church ydr aw s up his iron Tomb from the ground^ and holds it hanging in the middle way ; like as the miners in Germa- ny > fonnd their tooles which they had left in fuch a Vault, hanging in the morning ,• which was accounted fora miracle,before fuch time as the caufe, by the ski!full,was
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feen and declared unto them. What (hould I fay more of this Scene > it is not unknewne that there are whole rocks thereof m1ndia9 attheCaftleof the Ada^ WtfKf,erefted by J uLCtf. drawing (hips chat pafs by loaden with iron unto them:& yet we fee that this mighty Stone, in prefence of the Diamond, the King of Stones, is put out of office, and can do nothing.
8. To come abroad, it hath been often feen at Sea, that the little Stay-fifh clea- ving to the fore-fhip, hath ftopt her full courfe.
9. 1 mould now paffe over to that other fide of skill and craft, and call to minde many great and wondrous workes there done and performed 5 the curious work of that Italian King , which held a Clocks be fides a DiaU within *>$ thefe three com- mon feats found out of late, patting all in- ventions of Antiquity, the Gun, Card, and Vrintings and many other dainty Devices of mans wit and cunning ; if this fliort and narrow fpeech appointed would fuf- fer any fuch out- ridings, let thefe few ferve to awake you,and call your wits to- gether: you fee thefe things 1 fay, and are never moved 5 but if you had never feene them, but heard the {lories only re- ported,what would yon have thought and laid ? and becaufe no man judgeth fo B 4. well
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well of himfelf as of another > fuppofe a plain and hai mlefle people, fuch as thofe Indians were, had from the beginning dwelt in aCave under ground,let it be the Center if you will, and at the laft onemau. more wife then the reft , had by Health crept out into the light : And by long travel & traffick with our people,had feen and learned the courfe of nature of things which I have rchearfed unto you, and then returning home, had fuddeniy ftai t up and begun to account the won- ders which he had Ceen and learned : firfr, that he had found the earth hanging in middle of the aire, and in like fort a bright and goodly cover compaflmg afar offthe fame ; this cover, befet and fprink- led with infinite lights and candles, and among the reft, one (to be (hort ) of a foot in bignefs to his light, without all touch- ing, or other means or inftrumentsto be perceived, to hold and pull huge heaps of water after her,as fhepafled up and down continually, would they notftiout and lift up their hands, and begin to fufpeft the man of infection with ftrange and gravelling manners?
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nrange [then the earth (Tor that can- not be othcrwife^ unlefs heavy things flew up againil Nature) hanged in the aire alone, and of fuch hills, that as the Sunne waters drawes fhips out of their coui»fes, without any ftrength or meanes viiible ; furthermore, if he laid abroad the wonderfull might of a little fi(h, like halfa foot long, able to (lay the maine courfe of a (hip under faile : doe you not think w^ith what four contenances and re- viling words, and reproaches, they would bait and drive him out of their company? but if the good and painfull man burning with dcfire to leform the eft-ate of this rude and deformed countrey, would not be flayed fo, but fpying a calmer time, durft come in prefeuce, and ftep forth before them again, and fay, that by his travel he had made fuch a ring as I fpeak cf ; fuch warlike Engines as ftiould tail as fearfull as thunder, and ashurtfull as a canon fired at a fort , a niile offplanted; with a kind off writing,whereby four men might record as much in the fame time as four thoufand of the common Clerks 5 fuch a Card, wherewith aCou.ntrey-man that never faw the Sea, mall fit in the bottom of a Ship, and direft the courfe thereof throughout the world without miffing 5 Is it not like chey would appre- hend
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hcnd him for a coufener , and adjudge him to pimiflititeut? then put the cafe you ftood by and Caw the matter, I ap- pealeto yoiar own experience, would you not think the Traveller worth pity and praife , and the People of reforma- tion ?
ii. Well then, let" us returne to our purpofe y there is a Nation of wife men dwelling in a foyle as much more bleiTed (then yoursji as yours is then theirs of the Defarts, that is, as they bide under ground, and you upon the face of the roof: fo thefe men inhabite the edge and the skirt of Heaven •, they daily fee and work many wondrous things, which you never faw nor made, becaufe you never mounted fo high to come among them 5 if any one chance toflieaway from you to thofe heavenly places,&:after like expe- rience, to return & make the like reports, you give him the like rewards you give : if compare the reft J I fay no more ; but if God would give you leave and power to afcend to thofe high places, I meane to thefe heavenly thoughts and ftudies, you might quickly,by view of deep caufe?,and divine fee rets and comparifon of one to another, not onely believe the bleiTed Art, but alfo learn and perform the fame, and cure all the difeafed.
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i2. But they will net be rid fo, but follow as faft again another way : that whereas fo many have been, and are dai- ly Cecil to wear away their lives mAlcbimyy & to find nothing that good is,but contra- ry for the moft part, to wit, untimely and unordinary death, iicknefs and age for long life, health and youth, and alwayes fmoak for golden Medicines, and folly for wifdome, and very near as often, bad and fad conditions for good and honeft natures; ((or by boyling themfelves long in fuch deceitful 1 fluff, as though they were burnt to the pots bottom, they carry moft commonly, forever after, an nnfavoury fmack thereof ; ) it is a plaine fign the trade is vain, falfe and deceitful; this is the third charge they give unto us; let us fee how tobeare and withftand it. The moft wife and great Thilofophers , and Rofie Crucian Thyfitians, albeit they know God made mankinde, for the hap- py life abovefaid, and that it was at firft enjoyed, or clfe it had been made in vain, and that by corruption of ill cuftome (by his fecret appointment^ our kinde is grown out of kind, and therefore maybe reftored, becaufe it is a mifleading, and no intent of Nature ; (which forecafting gave them occafion to feek the remedy J yet they thought it unlawfull to teach
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thefe Medicines , fet ftraight againft the will of God, that all mould be refto^F red ; for that he feemed on purpofe to have fown good and bad, and great ftore of both together, in fuch fort as we fee them,left if all were alike, and in one ftate of happinefs, the great variety of bull- " nefs and ftirring, and fo' the Society and g Common- wealth among men fhould be clean taken away : like as the firft foure ftriving feedes (whereof all things are made and fprung) were all alike, and one friend to another, allfhould beftill and quiet, without fucceflion, change and va- riety in the world, and fo there mould be no world} for God, when he caft his mind upon the building of the world, he went to make a beautiful and goodly work, meet for the Power, Wifdome and Pleafureoffuch a Builder, and therefore a ftirring and changeable work, becaufe there might be no cunning mown, no de- light taken in one ever like or ftill thing, but light fighting for fpeed , is ever beft in fuch a ground : let us away, and follow. 13. Wherefore, by the example, and as it were by the fecret blafc and motion of God, after our men had found thefe refto- ratives5&: ufed them for the time,&: meant to leave them as becomes good men,to po- sterity, they took this way of counfel to
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lay them up fafe ill aftrongCaftle,as ic were in die whicb all the broad gates and com- mon eafie entries mould be fail mut up and barred, leaving one onely little back doore open, fore- fenced with a winding- mark, that the beft fort, by wit,paines, and providence, might come into the ap- pointed blefTednefle, the reft ftand back forfaken ; their Maze and plot is this: firft, they hid themfelves in low and un- trodden places, to the end they might be free from the power of Prote ^ors^Scc.Sc the eyes of the wicked world -, and that they writ their bookes with fuch a wary and well fenced skill, I mean, to overcaft •with dark and fulJen fliadowes, and flye pretences of likes & fecret riddles drawn out of the midftof deep knowledge and. fecret learning, that it's impoflible for a- ny but the wife and well given, to ap- proach or come near the matter.
14. And therefore it is, that when the godlefs and unlearned men, hovering o- ver gaine and honour, prefume againft Minervas will to handle tbtfe vvords,wheii the things mould rather IPnandled (Tor nothing is fofc and gentle as fpeech, efpe- cially fo throughly tempered) and yet all befides the fecret meaning, thruft up in deep knowledge : then if thefe wayesand phantafics they pra£tife&: fet on work as
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faft fas their fingers itch) and mifle as faft fas they muft needes doe) they fay they followed our rules and precepts, and puc our work in practice, and found them falfe5 that were as if a cunning Archer and Huntfman had delivered as darke rules of {hooting and hunting unto his Countrey-men, and thefe by chance had fallen into the hands of another wild and untaught Nation, which {imply milled by miftaking his drift and meaning, had made them ploughs to {hoot in, and go- red their Oxen to their game, and then milling of their purpofe, cryed out and blamed the Arts of mooting and hunting, & fought to blow away 8c abufe the man that taught them : would not a wife Judge hold and deem both thefe and them, and all other bufie-bodies, that doe ufe to mine and dig in other mens deal- ings, to be fent unto their own trade and bufincffi, wherefore they were made and fashioned > and to let the reft alone for the right owners? and for thofe of Her- mes houfe, do noc think they make claim, file, and recoveTOheir own in open court/ as others ufe (thatwere away in fuch a wicked world* to fofe land, life and all to- gether quickly J but in the fecret fort , which falleth out within the compaffe of your reproof Neither would I have you
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follow too hard, and be fo earneft upon the next reafon, that albeit our men had caufe to hide their works and prac"tice,yet they would have (hewn the fruit and er- fe& thereof, advancing themfelves, aso- thers doe, to Honour and Pleafure, and not have lived like the refufe of the orid,in fuch mean plight and wretched- nefte; for that is the lighted of all other, though it feem greateft : if I lift to rifle in the rolls of ancient Records, 1 could tafilyfindeand fhew you, that although :he moft part of people live in this harm- .efle and fafeeftate, which I told you, yet fome again were Kings, and men of great place and dignity fand yet I think by re- minder, and not by purchafe,fo$) but I ove not this kind of reafoning ; let them :hatthirft, go to the fountaine, and as I emember,that in the houfhold ofR.Gru- an Riches are made but Servants,&: not afters & Rulers, becaufe they be, for the oft part, unruly and ambitious; and for hatjeaufe they have no liberty granted hem,but arc enjoynd to ferve lowly their tetters, and to look no further; fo that if )iir men were happy, or at ieaft lovers of he fame,their riches ought to be imploy- d in their own fervice, that is, to win /Vifdomeand Vertue, and not fent out to vait upon I know not whatftrangers, Ho- nour
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nour and Pleafure 5 which, as they be Grangers, yea, and dangerous ftrangers, lying open fas all high things doj to the blaft of Envy, fo moft commonly they I; will not be ruled, no more then they | which got them, and then rebelling a- I gainft them which are their Lords and [ Rulers , doe overthrow an happy e- t irate.
15. Wherefore, what marvel is it if our jji men did this, when they did no more J then wifdom requires,norany more then J all wife men have ever taught and fol- f lowed ? thinking and calling it an hea- ¥ venly life, becaufeit flinders the heaven- f lymind from the earthly body * not fas I' Vliny writes of Hermeticm) by lending the W fame out of the body to gather and bring home newes, but by an high contempt of earthly matters, and flying up to divine thoughts,not with the golden feathers of Euripides,but with the heavenly wings of |m flato.
16. And therefore this fame divine man ! makes that minde alone the whole man the body of a thing that is his, and be-! longing unto him, but unto his, that is the body s and, as I may terme thenb his mans men. And this thing alfo Bias before him, did as well performe, when at the fpoyle of the City, having leave5 he took
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not his carriage with him, and anfwered to the check of his friends, that he carri- ed all his own things with him, which was nothing but a naked body.
Ariftotle is of the fame minde with Thto,
asappeares notably in his laft Book of
Manners, where he hath laid down many
found reafons why this life is beft, and fo
by wife men, is and ought to be taken ;
becaufeitis, faith he, the mod quiet life ,
and fulleftof true delight* and with all
things needfull beft ftored *, for indeed ic
ivanteth nothing; for what> as a minde is
divine in rcfpe&of a body, fo is the life of
t, which is that we fpeak of, in regard of
i civil and worldly life. And againe, if
3ur mindes are our felves, it were meet to
;ead our own life before ftrangers : but
aft of all, becaufe God, our oncly pat-
ern5 leadeth no other life but this.* I
night be very large, if 1 lift to feek about
;nd traverfe this matter: but here ise-
}Ough to fnew the purpofe and reafon our
.lien of Egypt had; it was in their choice
o chufe this kinde of life which the world
■b defpifeth : but how if I could bring
,:hem in bereaved of all choice and free-
vill, and driven by force of neceffity to
lo the fame? would not that flop the
videft mouths, think you, in all this la-
-ifti company ? let us know firuy that the
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minde of man being come from that high. City of Heaven,defireth of her felf to live (till that heavenly life, that is the bleffed life above defcribed ; and if there be any let, as there is likely it is, in the weight and grofsnefle of our body, over weigh* ingourmindesdownto the ground, and to all their own muddy matters then that our men, after they have got this golden Stone, fo famous in the world, do not, as they think, and would doe, ftraightwayes run to their Coffers > but firftand chiefly gild their bodies with it: wherefore af- ter that, by that mighty, fine and tempe- rate Medicine,they have fcoured out ofall grofsnefle and diftemper of the body, the onely lets to understanding and good manners, as we (hall heare hereafter, and thereby leave the mindes at large, and' alnfoftat her firft freedome > (he, and fo they together laying aiide,and,asit were, casing down all earthly matters, muft return to their own former life again ; Co far, I mean, as the condition and (late of man will fuffer ; and fo put cafe you find your own dark and dusky eye-fighr, fo (bone taken with every foule, vaineand worldly fancy, yet you muft not judge thefe heavenly men thereby, but think the moft (harp and clear fight of their un- derftanding eafily able to fee the blemifh
and
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and to avoide the Call of common love.
1 8. Wherefore, to clofe up this poini at la ft, fith this happy craft of Hermes, for ought that they know, may bev true and lonourable j let the common and un- earned fort ftay their judgement, and eave thetriall fifting of any further mat- ter unto the wife and learned, and there in all directions, if they have none of themfeives, might learn better advife, before for the fault of fome, they turn to any raging counfei, and bend tbeedgeof Authority againft all.
19.I grant, that as in all good Arts, {o
in this,becaufe it is thefecreeeft; there be
bme drones crept in among the friends :
vhat then, as they are of another kinde,-
r never begotten by Hermes, or any of his
?ns , fo no reafon they mould uander
he Name and Houfe of Hermes, but bear
he burden of their own faults 5 then
lay be forted out and knownfromthe
oly ftinged and profitable Bee : firft, by
heir bignefle in words and braggs, and
hen fas followeth lightly by the courfe
f kinde^) by their ftingleffe and unar-
ied weakneffe in all defence of learning %
nd thirdly, by their floth and idlenefle \
f>r although they never leave Sirring,
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yet, as Seneca, faith, operofe nihil (tgunt, they painfully do nothing, becaufe all they do is to no purpofe, all is fruitlefle and) unprofitable. But Dioclefwn lacked this difcerning vvifdome, and rafhly ranne upon all, and burnt the Bocke, much! like that part of Lycurgus, who for the? drunkenneife of the people, cut downe the Vines ; had it not been better to have brought the fprings of water nearerJ and to have bridled, as Flato faith, thaty made good with theiober?
Even fo the Emperour might withl better advice have tempered the heat: of Akhimy with the cooling Card olf Discretion, and made it an Art lawfull! for a fmall number onely , and with like charge to be practiced, which hadj.* been a Counfel worthy wife Princes A neither to let the hope of fo great ac Treafure goe for a fmall lofle, nor yet upon unceitaine hopes, be it never fc great, to lofe a certaine great thing, to wit, the life and goods of his Sub-i jefts well and orderly bellowed. Now let us Joyne Art and Nature together, to know all things paft, prefent, and tc come; that Long Life, Sec. may be with the more pleafure enjoyed ; for aftei this methodically Holy Guide, Know- ledge,,
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ledge 5 the reft will be imperfeft : then Knowledge compleats Happinefle, Long Life perfects Knowledge ; Health com- forts Long Life : Youth pleafes Health ; Riches rejoyce Youth 5 Youth embraces VVifdome and Vertuc, &:c. which you (hall finde all in order.
C3 TO
THE
HolyGuide,
Leading the way to
Vnite Art and Nature :
In which is made plain
All things paft0 prefent, and to corner.
By JOHN HEYDON Gent **«*««>
A Servant of God and Secretary of Nature.
Thus have I declared unto you the defcent ofthefe* cret power of .Nature from GOD9 even to this Earth,
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LONDO N, Printed by T. M. for the Author* 1662.
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TO THE
Truly Noble by all
Titles,
Sir \alph Freeman, Baronet, &c.
External, internal, and eternal bapfi~ nejji btrvijhed.
Jie Rofie Crucians have a yery Excel, lent opinion (Moft hono- red Sir) that We ought to labour in nothing more in
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this life, then that We de- generate not from the Ex- cellency of the minde, by Which We come nearejt to Cjod, and to put on the dhine 3\(ature : left at any time our mind waxing dull by yaine idlenejfts, fhould decline to the frail- ty of our earthly body, and Vices of the flefh. So We fhould lofe it, as it Wert-> cafi down by the dar\pre- apices ofpenerfe Lujls. Wherefore We ought fo to order our mind, that it by itfelfe, being mindfuU
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of its own dignity and ex- cellency floould alwayes both think-, doe, and ope- rate fomething Worthy of itjelf: 'But thetyioWledg of divine Science doth on- ly and very powerfully perform this for us, when We by the remembrance of its Afajejly, being always bufied in divine Studies, do every moment contem- plate divine things, by a fage and^dtligent inquifi- tion,and by au the degrees of the Creatures afcending even to the Arch*type^
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bint/elf, to draw JromA him the fecret TraBick^ I Theory of Art and 3\(a-\ ture0 according to the do-\ Brine of the HolyGuide,! Which thofe that negleffA tmfltng onely to natural^ and Worldly things, are\ Wont often to be confound^ ed by divers errours and\ fallacies, and very oft to be\ deceived by evilfpirits.
IButthe underftandingj, of the Holy Guide pur-j geth the mind from errors , I andrendreth it divine? gi.\ veth infallible power to our\
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drivethfar the deceits & objiacles of all ei^/Spirits, & together fubjefts them to our commands ; yea, it compellsgood Angds9and all the powers of the World unto our fervice0v\z. The vertue of our Art being drawne from the Arch- Type himfelfi To Whom when we afcend, all Crea- tures neceffarily obey us, and all the Quire of Hea- ven do follow us. Seeing therefore {Lear- ned Sir) you have a ^Divine and Immortal
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feeing the goodnefs of the Divine Providences Wei/ difpofed fate , and the~> bounty of Stature have in fuch manner giftedfhat by the acutenefs of your underfianding& perfect- neffe offenfes^you are able to view, fearch, contem- plate, difcern and fierce thorough the pleafant Theatre of ^jturaH things, thefublime houfe of the Heavens, and mofb difficult pajfages of <Du vine things.
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I being bound to you by
the band of thefe your
great vertues am fo far a
debtor '3 as to communicate
Without Envy the true^>
account of all opinions,
theje ^ules, Which We~>
haroe read & learned \ e-
ifpecia/Jy their precious
\fSAdedicines &theirgrea-
» tejlfecrets of thePmtar-
t va, &c. frith their gift of
I healings according to our
* complexion and capacity*
I W'eprefent therefore^
;, now to you 0 a compleate
Work-in the\io\y Guide,
I Which
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which We have perfected With diligent care, and ye- ry great labour and pains both of mind and body : and though it be rude and unpolifhed in refpetl of Words, yet it is truly ela borate in refpeB of mat- ter : wherefore I defire this one favour, that To u Would not expeft the~> grace of an Oration,or the Elegancy of Speech in this\ 2?0o^, Which We Wrote long fmceand revifed im our dayes of mourningjor the death of our felloW-
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\ Trifonev Iohn Hewit , ; Vottor of 'Divinity, and i others, TPho toere fpite- | fully thrufi into Qaole^ | 'With us, and many cru- elly murdered by the Ty- rant Cromwell, becaufe they loved our Soveraign Lord the KING.
And TPe expeBed to Juffer fop our Loyalty t to His Sacred Majefiy s the K^l 3\£ g ; but our e Efiates ranfomed our r Lives, &c.
r Jgaine, We hare^
i. chops the leffe Elegancy
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of Speech, abundance of matter fucceeding in the place thereof ; hut fee- ing Without doubt, ma- ty JcoffingSophijlers Will confpire-> againjl mee , I efpecial/y of thofe^ Who I boa ft themfehes to heel allyed to C/0 *D , andi fully replenifljed With\ <DIVIJ\£JTr; And the feB of felf affe8ors,t that Wtt (unlefe fome fudiciow ^Patron bed fixed to the Frontice- piece0 as the beames of the Sunne to correft their
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faWcy peering With blind- nejfe ) not onely di [gorge their envy in Coords , but judge and condemne to the Fire the things ± even before they have~> read or rightly under- ! flood any thing of them, i\ becaufethefe ME^Dl- CI «2V££ £ agree not I With their ^Bodies 0 nor u fuch fweet Flowers with t their nofe. And alfo by e reafon of that fparke of ■hatred, long fince coth I cefted againfi me for my ir loving and ferviceable y Z)z en-
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endeavours to help tht-> \pyall Tarty to rejiore the KJ3\C(jo and yet fcarce containing itfelfo under the djhes. There- fore^ ear Sir, W ~e fur- ther fubmit the ^ules a- Jcribedbymeto the merits of your Venue, and now made yours, to your cen* \ jure, and commend it to k your TroteBion, that if \ the bafe and perfidious \ Sophifiers would defame it by the groffe madneffe of their envy and malice, 7 bu would by theperfpu
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cacy of your difcretion & candour of fudgement, happily prote ft and defend it and me.
Your moft humble Servant and true Honourer,
fohn Heydon.
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BOOK. II.
Chap. I.
l.Oftke wonder full Secrets ^/Numbers, q xf their Signification. %.How Moles flnwed fo many figns by them, \tfow JofhuaaWe ffoSun ftand (till by Numbers. 5. H<?8> Z^y Numbers Elijah r«*//ed down fire front heaven upon his enemies. 6. How by theft following Numbers the Rofie Crucians fore* know all future things^ 7, command whole Nature^ have power ovtr De- vils, and Angels, and do Miracles^ &c. 8 .How by this Number <* River fpak$ to Pythagoras.
Have obferved, that the Numbers which are now vulgarly ufed amongft A- rithnjeticiam and Calcula- J« fsn,have been in old time much more efteemed then they are now^ the order of them is D 4 made
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made after this manner, 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9. to which is added a note of privation figned wirh the mark c, which although it fignifie no Number, yet it makes others to fignifie, either tens, or hundreds, or thousands, as is well known to Arithmeti- cians. The vertues and fignification of thefe Numbers, the Hebrews are of opini- on were delivered to Mofes by God h\m- felfupon Mount Sinaiy and then by de- grees of fucceffion without the Monu- ments of Figures or Letters was until I the time ofEfdras delivered to others by word of mouth onely, as the Pythagorean opini- ons were formerly delivered by Archipfus and Lyfinus, who had Schooles at Ihebes] in Greece, in which the Scholars keeping 1 the precepts of their Matters in their me- ! mory,^id life their wits and memory in- ftead of Books.
2 Mofes delivers a double Science of this i Art-, The one of Brefith, which they call Cofmologie^ viz. explaining the power of; things created, Natural and CelefKal,and ! expounding the Secrets of the Law and Bible by Philofophicai reafons.
3.Which truly upon this account differs nothing at all from Natural Magick, in which we believe King Solomon excelled; for it is written he was skilled in all things^ even from the Cedar of Lebanon to
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the Hyfop that growes upon the wall. 4.Alfoin Cattle, Birds, Creeping things and Fijhes : All which (hew he knew the Ma- gicall vertues of Nature and Numbers: The Rofie Crucians follow after this,as you may read in my Book of Geomancy and T^elefnts, entitled, The Temple of Wifdome ; and in my Way to Blijfe, and Rofie Crucian Fhyficks
5. They call the other Science thereof Mercara, which is concerning the more fublime contemplation of Divine and Angelick vertues,and of Sacred Numbers, being a certain Symbolicall Divinity, in which Numbers and Letters are Ideas of mod profound things, and great Se- crets. This is the Rofie Crucian Infallible Axiomata, which teacbeth of Angelical! Vertues, Numbers, and Names in the He- brew 3 alfo of the Conditions of Spirits and Souls in the Greeks Numbers and Names, which fearcheth into the Myfteries of Di- vine Majefty as the Emanations thereof; and Sacred Names in Latine Numbers and Letters, which he that knoweth, may excell withwonderfull Vertues, as that when he pleafeth, he may know all things {afti prefent and to come\ and command whole Nature,have power over Devils and Angels, and do Miracles. By this thev fup- pofe thac Mofes did (hew fo many iignes,
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and turned the Rod into a Serpent , and the Waters into Blood, and that hefent Frogs> Flyes, Lice, Locnfts, Caterpillers, Fire, with Raile, Botches and Boyles on the £- gyptians, and flew every firit-born of man, andbeafti and that he opened the Seas* and carried his thorow 3 and brought Fountains out of the Rocks, and Quaiies from Heaven, that he fent before his clouds and lightning by day, a pillar of fire by night, and called down from Hea- ven the voice of the Living God. to the people, and did ftrike the haughty with Finland thofe that murmured with the Leprofie : and on the ill defer ving brought fudden deftru&ion* the earth gaping and f wallowing them up.
6. Further, he fed the people with Hea» venly Food., pacified Serpents, cured the envenomed , preferved the numerous multitude from infirmity, and their Gar- ments from wearing out, and made them Vi&ors over their enemies. To conclude, by this A rt of Numbers and Letters, Jo- Jhua commanded the Sun to {landflill^ Elijah cat ed down fire from heaven upon his eHemits> reftored a dead child to life , Daniel ft opt the mouths of the Lions ; the three children fangSon^sin the fiery Oven: Moreover, by this Idea of Letters and Numbers, the incredulous Jewes affirm, that even Chriji
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did fo many Miracles. The Rofie Crucians Very well know the Angels and spirits that govern thefe Numbers^ and therefore de- liver Charmes againft De vih , and their bonds, and the manner of Conjurations; for againft Difeafes, they heard a Brother make, a Spirit cry out,
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j.Pytbagwas was not onely initiated into the Mofakal Art of numbers, but arrived alfo to the power of working miracles&s his going over a River with his Companions teftjfies that he fpeaking 80. & II in aTa- ble to the River, the River anfwering him again with an audible &: clear voice, Xet/pe TlvSaylpa, Salve Pytbagora 5 that he (hewed his thigh to Abarh the Prieft, and that he affirmed that it glittered like Gold, and thence pronounced that he was Apollo \ that he was known to converfe with his friends at Metapontium and Taurontenium? (the one a Town in Italy y the other in Si- cily, and many dayes journey diftance ) in one and the fame day. This makes good my Apologue at the beginning of A ntw Method ofRofie Crucian Pbyfic^nd the way U Blip.
8. Perpbyrius and Jantblicus report very ftrange things of him, which 1 willingly
omit :
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omit : I (hall oncly adde his Predi&ions of Earthquakes , or rather, becaufe that mayfeem more naturall, his prefent ma- king of Places in Cities, his filencing of violent Winds and Tempers ; his calm- ing the rage of the Seas and Rivers, Sec. whicii skill EmpedvcleSy Epiwenides, Cathar- tesy and Abatis having got from him, they grew fo famous, that Empfdocles was fur- named Alexanemm\ Epimenides , Cathartes, and Abatis^ JEthrobates from the power they had in fuppreffing of ftormes and winds, in freeing of Cities from the Plague, and in walking aloft in the Aire : which skill enabled Pythagoras to vifite his' friends after that manner at Metaponth wmand lauromenium^ in one and the fame day.
CHAP. II.
i .Of the Vowtr2.$.andVertues^. of Hebrew, 6.7. Greek and 8.Latine Letters, when the Numbers are attributed to them.
1. *T" He Pythagoreans fay that the very E&- -*- tnentsof Letters have certaine divine Numbers, by which coined from proper names of things, you may draw conjectu- res concerning Secret things to come.
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2. And there is an uneven Number of Vowels of impofed names, which did be- token Lameneffe, or want of Eyes, and fuch like misfortunes, if they be adigned to the right fide parts : but an even num- ber to them of the left ; And by the Number of Letters you may findeoutthe ruling Planets of any one that is borne, and whether the Husband or Wife (hall dye firft, and know the profperous or un- happy events of the reft of our works.
3.The Latinefireek^ and Hebrew Letters
deputed to each Number,I (hall (hew ycu,
j; being divided into three Clafles, whereof
f the firft is of Vnites^ the fecond of Ttftf,the
i third oiHundredis and feeing in the K*-
man Alphabet there are wanting foureto
make up the Number of twenty feveii
Characters, their places are fupplyed with
I, and II. fimple Confonants, although
ithe Germans for bu the Afperate ufe a
(doubles, the true Italians and French in
their Vulgar fpeech put G joyned witht/.
inftead thereof writing thus, Vullbelmusy
and Guilkelmus.
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iVour tfo C/*jJ« 0/ tfo Hebrew Num- bers are thefe.
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' Now if you defire t(5 know the Ruling Tlattetofawy that is borne, compute his name, and of both his Parents, through each Letter according to the Countrey he was born in, and the Number above writ- ten, and divide the fumme of the whole being gathered together by 9. fubftracV ing it as often as you can *, and if there re- main a unity, or 4. both fignifie the Sun ; if 2. or 7. both fignifie the Moon^ but three Jupiter; five Mercury ; fix Venus; eight Sa- turn; nine Mars. And the reafons thereof I have (hewed you in my Book of Geoman:y w&IelefineS) entituled. The Temple ofWtf- dome.
. In like manner, if you defire to know the Afcendant of any one that is borne, compute his name,and of his Mother and Father, and divide the whole collected together by 12. if there remain 1. it fig- nifies the Lion $ if Juno 2. Aquarius; if 3. Capricorn; if 4. Sagittarius; 5. Cancer; if Venus 6. Taurus ; if palladium 7. Aries; if Vulcans %. Libra; ifVJtfrihis o. Scorpio; if - 10. Virgo 5 if 11. Fifces; ifP&g&w 12. they
tcprefent Geminot. iof 6. And now let no maji wonder that by the Numbers and Letters all things may be knowne , feeing the Pjrfo*- gorean Fbilofophers and Rofie Crucians
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teftifie the fame: in thofe numbers lie certain hidden myfteries, found out by few h for the moft High created all things by Number, Meafure and Weight, from i whence the truth of Letters and Names had its original,which were not inftituted cafually, but by a certain Rule,although unknown to us. 7. Hence Saint John in the Revelation faith. Let hini which hath understanding com-j pute the Number of the name of thel Beaft, which is the Number of a man;| yet thefe are not to be underftood off thofe names, which a difagreeing diffe-j renceqf Nations^ and divers Rites of Na-j tions^ according to the caufes ofplaces,orj education have put upon men , but thofej which were infpired into everyone at hisl birth, by the very Heavens, with thecon-l junction of the Stars.
8. Moreover, Taftt, Rabanus, and K.l Lully have dedicated to the Elements andjfl Deities of Heaven, faered Numbers j fob; to the Aire they have defigned the num-l ber eight, and to Fire five, to Earth fixjf! to Water twelve. Befides unity is afcri-; bed to the Sun, in which God put his Ta-j1: bernacle; and that this alfo is of Jupiter^. doth the Caufative power of his Ideal ancty intellectual Species teftifie, who is thej: Head and the Father of the Gods^ as U-|
nitjl
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unity is the beginning andParcnTof Num- bers, i. engraven in Brafie,thcy fay brin- geth a Spirit, inthefhapc of a black man Sanding, and cloathed in a white Gar- ment, girdled about, of a great body,with Ireddifh eyes, and great fhength, and he appeares like a man angry, and he givech Boldnefs>Fortitude,8c makes a man lofty „ j - — . . — -
CHAP. III.
5 The Number of Ha ppinefs.
M,;i. 2. Ihe Pythagorick Names or Nature if a Monad or Unite. 3,4. applyed to thefirji
■• dayeswork^: 5.6. What are the upper wa- ters: 7.8. And that fouls that depend hi yiyiw, are the Naiades or Water
*' Nymphs, in Porphyrins : 9. That mat*
* ter of it felf is immovable : 10. R. Bechai his Notation very happily explained in my
I', 11. Temple of wifdome : 12. of the
i Number One, and the fignification\ and
if what Angel rules it.
x, |. T Admire the goodnefs of God .towards 0- i his Creatures, how fit the Number v is to the jNature of every dayes wor.k : «fj And Co I conclude, that God ordered it fo mi on purpofe, and that in ail probability the Fythagorasvivs acquainted with his Axio* \t fH*te3 and>that was the jreafoa tta P^%g*- m 1 E riant
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reans made fuch a deal of do with Num- bers, as you (hall find in Order , putting other conceits upon them then any other Arithmeticians doj and that therefore if fuch Theorems as the Tytbagoreans held, be found fuitablc and complyable with; Mofes his Text,it is a fhrewd preemption that the(e are the right Rofie Crucian AxioA tnata thereof.
2. Fbilo makes this firft day fpent in thd Creation of immaterial and fpiritual be] ings,of the intelle&ual world, taking it ill alarge fenfe for the Mundm vit^xht world of life and forms : And the Fythagorear^ call an fif& Form, and Z«» Life. Theij call it Zh?^ *t/p>®-, or the lower of Ju 2>iter,giving alfo the fame name to a Poin) or Center h by which they underftanjj the vital Formality or Center of things! the Rdtiones Seminales ; and they call tl unite alfo hky& c**svat'itk, which is S> minalForm; But a very fhortandfufficj* cnt account of Thilo's pronouncing th: Spiritual fubftances are the firft dayes worte; is, That as an Unite is indivifible,you ca- not make two of one of them,as you msM make of one piece of corporeal Mattf.d two by a&ual divifion or levering theH one piece from another 5 wherefore whli was truly and properly created the fi fc day5was immaterial,indivifible, and Ind-
pcndct ;
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pendent of the matter, from the highcft I Angel to themeaneft Seminal Form.
3. And for the potentiality of theout- I ward Creation,(ith it is not fo properly a- I ny real being, it can breed no difficultyjbut I what ever it is, it is referrible fitly enough I to incorporeal things, it being no object of 1 fenfe,but of intellect and being alfo im- I partible and undiminiftiable, and fo in a I fort indivifible ; the power cf God be- ing undiminiftiable, and it being an ade- quate confequence of his powers where- < : fore this potentiality being ever one, it is f rightly referred to the fift day. And in r refpeft of this the Pythagoreans call an 1 Unite uam, as well as the Binary y as alfo Aihay.'jrtA & ffKoJoMtt, which names plainly ^ glance at the dark potentiality of things, Jitec out by Mofes in the firft dayes Crea* lotion.
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4 B#t of the Night, both day & skie were bornB
%' 4. God Created now Corporeal ^matter ( as before the world of Life) Woat of nothing, which universal matter Wmay well be called jpvpi for extenfion is very proper to corporeal matter^ CafteWe tranflates it Uquidum , and this univerfai r E 2 Matter
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Matter is moftwhat fluid ftill , all over the World , but at firft it was fluid uni- verfally.
5. fcuthereit may be,youwiil enquire, how this corporeal Matter (hall be concei-. ved to be betwixt the waters above, and thefe underneath; for what can be the water? above > Maimonides requires conti- nued Analogy in the hidden fenfe of Scripture 5 as you may fee in his Preface to his Moreb Nevochim : But I need not flie to that general refuge 5 for me think9J that the feminal forms that defcendj through the matter, and fo reach the pof- (ibility of the parts of the outward Crea- tion, and make them fpring up into Art3 are not unlike the drops of rain that de« fcend through the heavens or ayr , audi make the earth fruitful *, Befides, the/W»i- na! forms of things be round , and con« tracked at firft,but fpread when they brinj any part of thepoilibility of theoutwardi Creation into Art,as drops of rainfprea< when they are fallen to the ground, fc that the Analogy is palpable enough though it may feem too elaborate, an< curious. We may add to all this* concert ing the Naiades, or ^ater-Nymfbs^h^t thu Ancients underftood by them, T** \i<yi yiiny KATiiira,! ^,v%&s kow&s A's-ti.crtts-) ( t. e. al! manner of Souls that cieicend into tl
matte
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matter and generation, and this is this num- ber', by which it is faidy tbeyraife the dead to life ; wherefore the watery powers may be here indigitatcd by the name of the upper waters.
6. The frequent complaints that the no- ble Spirit in Pjthagoreas and Plato make againft the incumbrances and difadvan- tages of the body , make the Holy Guide very true and probable 5 and it is fome- thing like our Divines fancying Jheol to be Created this day.
7. This is confonant to Plato's School, who make the matter immoveable of it felf, which is mod reafonable ; for if it were of its own Nature moveable 5 no- thing for a moment would hold together, but difiblve it felf into infinitely little particles 5 whence it is manifeft , that there muft be fomething befides the mat- ter 5 either to binde it or to move it 5 fo that the Creation of immaterial Beings was by 1. and is in that refpe&alfo ne- ceflary.
8. For this Agitation of the matter brought it to my fancy in the fecond principle of the Rofie Crucian Phyficl^y which is the true Mthe+px rather CD V&® for it is as liquid as water , and yet has in it the fiery principle of fire, which is the firft Element , and made by the number;
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as the heavens were , and called C3^]Q\E7 becaufe they are t£jt* and c^Q fire and water ; for the round particles , like wa- ter ( though they be not of the fame fi- gure J. flake the fiercenefs of the firft prin- ciple3which is the pureft fire ; and yet this lire infome meafure alwayes lies within the Triangular intervals of the round particle3as my Book abovenamed declares at large.
9. And this Number 1. is called a number of Concord, of Fiety, ofFriendjhifc which is fo knit that it cannot be cut into parts 5 for Unity doth moft fimply go through every number, and is the com- mon meafure, Fountain, and original of all numbers,contains every number joyn< cd together in it felf intirely , the begin- ning of every multitude, alwayes the fame, and unchangeable; whence alfo being multiplied into it felf, produceth nothing but it felf; it is as I told you above indivifible, void of all parts; but if it feem at any time to be divided, it is not cut , but indeed multiplied into Vnities : yet none of thefe Vnities is greater or lef- fer then the whole Vnitfc as a part is lefleJ then the whole, it is not therefore multi- plied into parts , but into it felf. There- 1 Tore it is named Cupid, becaufe it is made alone; and will alwayes bewail it felf, and
beyond
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beyond it felf it hath nothing, but being void of all haughtinefs,orcoupling,turns its proper heat into it felf; It is there- fore the 1. beginning and end of ail things; and all things which are, delire that one , becaufe all things proceeded from one j and that all things may be the fame t it is neceflary that they partake of that one : And as all things proceed of 1 . in many things , fo all things endeavour to return to that one 1. from which they proceeded; it is neceflary that they mould put off multitude.
10. One therefore is referred to the high God, who feeing he is one, and in- numerable, yet creaces innumerable things of himfelf, arid contains them within himfelf 3 there is therefore oneGod^ me world of the one God , one Sun of the one world; alfo one?henix in the world,, one King amongft Bees9 one Leader amongft Flocks of cattel : 1. Ruler amongft herds of beafts, and Cranes follow 1. and many other Animals honour Unity ; amongft the members of the body , there is one principal, by which all the reft are guided, whether it be the beads or as fome will,trfe Heart; there is one element overcoming and penetrating all things : viz. Fire. There is one thing created of God th$ fubjeft of all wondering which is on E 4 earth)
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earth, or in heaven; it is aftually animal, veritable, and mineral, every where found, known by few, called by none by its proper name,but covered with Figures and Riddles , without which neither Al- chintie, nor Natural Magic\ can attain to their compleat end or perfection 5 from 1 . man Adam. a\\ men proceed, from that one all become Mortal*, from that one Je- fus Chrift, they are regenerated.
ii. And as St. Vaul faith ,one Lord, me faith, one baptifnt, one God-,a\\d father of all, one Mediator betwixt God and man, one moji high Creator , who is over all, by all and in us all 5 for there is one Father, God^ from whence all, and we in him, one Lord Jefus Chrift by whom all,and we by him, one God holy Ghoft, into whom all and we into him; and in the exemplary world, 1 Divine ef- face, the fountain of all vermes & power, whofe name is expreffed with one moft fimple Letter 1. Gods And in the intel- lectual world there is 1. Supream Intelli- gence, the firft Creature, the Fountain of JLives , rhe fuul of the world : And in the Cf leltial woiid,theie is one King of Stars, Fountain of Life , the Sun : And in the Elemental world , there is 1 . Subjeft and inftriiment of all vertires, natural , and fupernatural, and that is, Ihe Thilofophers Etone •„ And in the leffer world, there is u
firft
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firft living, and laft dying, and that is the hearty And in the infernal world, there is one Prince of Rebellion of Angels , and darknefs , and that is Lucifer. By this number and Letters of the Hebrews , it is faid that Mofes (hewed fo many figns in Egypt This number fignifies England y and the King thereof.
12. They fay if at 1. of the clock un- der a fortunate Horofcope you caft One, and Agiel in a piece of Gold , Agiel the angel that rules that number will imme- diately come, and personally attend you and, fulfill your defires ; by this number i flato was born, and the number ^. edu- cated him, this Number Telefmatically engraven in Gold wilMafily make you underftand the firft book > viz, happinefs and its effefts.
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CHAP. IV.
This Slumber unites 5 Arts and Stature.
t) 2, 5 5 4. IhatVniverfa! Matter is the fe- conddayes Creation, 5*6,7,8. faUymadc good by the Names and Propertie of the Number two s 9, 10, 11. its vertues.
x. T Tow fitly again doth the Number X"l 2. agree with the nature of the work of this day , which is the Creation of Corporeal Matter,and thcPythagoreans call the number 2. «** matter, and Sim- flicius fpeaking of the Pythagoreans, EWoras IviAhTlufQ'zteyWf »* o$ify? fore? clvkata-
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o>Ktf ^cT/at/p^w? et/Tietj/. fhey might well ( fayes he ) call 1 . Form, as defining and terminating to certain fhape and proper- ty what ever it takes hold of, and 2. they might wcl 1 call Matter , it being undeter- minate, and the caufe of bignefs and di- fivibility, and they have very copioufly heaped upon the number 2. fuch appel- lations as are moft proper to Corporeal
matter.
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matter. As y Avxw*-7"®'* ^w&fb™* ©"> unfigured, undeterminated , unlimited, for inch is matter it felf till form take hold of it. It is called alfo Ken from the fluidity of the matter, 'Asei* , '^ree/a, becaufe it affords fubftance to the Hea- vens and Stars ; NsT^©-, 'Hif <&, QcLv&to<, (i e J contention , rate, and death , for thefe are the conlequences of the foules being joyned with Corporeal matter. Kivi<rts3yive<Tis, A/a?$er/;, Motion, Genera- tion, and Diviiion, which are properties plainly appertaining to bodies j they call the number 2. alfo <ss^^ovh becaufe it is the \mK»ifj€vov} the fubjecl: that endures and undergoes all the charges and altera- tions the A&ive formes put upon it ; wherefore itisplain the Vytbagoream un- derftood Corporeal matter by the num- ber 2. which no man can denybut that it is a \ery fit Symbol e of divifion that eminent property of matter.
2. But I might caft in a further reafon of thecD'jQTi? being Created thefeebnd day : for the Celeftial matter does con- fift of two plainly diftinguifhable parts, viz. The firft Element and the fecond,or the Materia fubtiliffima^nd the round par- ticles, as I faid before.
3. And 2 is called number of Science and Memory, and of Light, and the num-
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ber of Man, who is called another world* and the lefler world; it is alfo called the number of Charity and mutual Love, of Marriage StSociety: The firft number is of 2 becaufe it is the firft multitude, it can be meafured by no number befides unices a- lone, the common meafure of all numbers. H is compounded, but more properly not compounded, the number 3 is called the number uncompounded.
4. But the number 2 is the firft branch of VniteSy and the firft procreation: Hence it is called Generation^and Juno and an imaginable corporation, the proofe of the firft motion, the firft form of parity, the number of the firft equality, extremi ty, anddiftance betwixt, and therefore the peculiar equity , and the proper Art thereof, becaufe it conftfts of 2 equally poyfed; it is a number of Conjun&ion and profit of encreafe, as it is faid by the Lord, Two (ball be One flejh, and Solomon faith, It is better that two be together then one; for they have a benefit by their mutual fociety; if one (hall fall he (hall be fuppor ted by the other h Woe to him that is alone , becaufe when he falls he hath not another to help him. hnd if two fleep together they (hall warme one the other ; how (hall one be hot alone? and if any pre vaile againft him, two refift him.
5. And
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S.And it is called a number of Wed* locK, and Sex-, for there are two Sexes, M*- fcnline and feminine^ and two Doves bring forth two Eggs 5 out of the firft of which is hatched the Male, out of the fecondthe Female^ is called middle,that is capable, that is good and bad partaking* and be- ginnings of Divifion of multitude and de- ftru&ion, and fignifies Matter *, 2 isalfo fometimes the number of difcord and confufion, of misfortune and unclean- neffe, whence VJerom and Jovianut faith, that therefore it was not fpokcn in the p- condday of the Creation, and Gddfaid, that it was good0 becaufe the number 2 is e- vil.
6.Hence alfo it was3that God command- ed all unclean Animals (hould go into the Ark by Couples, becaufe, aslfaid, the number 2 is a number of uncleannefs3and is moft unhappy in theirCo«jar^tio«and in- vocations of Spirits and Souls of the dead, e- fpecially any of thofe that are under the Angels deputed to Saturn or Mars9 for thefe 2 are accounted by Geomancers and Afirologers unfortunate. It is alfo reported that the number 2 doth caufe apparitions e) : fiery Ghofts and fearful! Goblins^ and bring mifchiefsof evil Spirits to them that tra- vel by night s Pythagoras faith the unity is God and a good intellect and that Dua- lity
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lity isa Devil, and an evil intellect, in which is a Material multitude; wherefore the Pythagoreans fay, that ^ is not a num- ber, but a certaine confufion of Unites ; and Eufebius fayes, that the Pythagoreans called Unity Apollo, and 2 ftrife and bold- nefTe.
7. And 3 Juftice, which 13 the higheft perfection, and is not without many My- fteries. Hence there were two Tables of the Law in Sinai, two Cherubim looking to the Propitiatory, in Mofes, two Olives dropping Oy le, in Zachariah, two natures in Ghrift, Divine and Humane: Hence Mofes faw two appearances of God, viz, his face and back parts.
8. By the number 2 alfo they fay, if it be engraven in Copper, it will bring to you a Genius that is good for to procure the love tf women, fometimes print it in Lapis La- z>ulufy and fometimes in Virgin Wax, and write the names of the man &: woman in Virgin Parchment ; to which appears a na- fydmaid having a lookjng-glafle in her hand, and a chain tied about her nec\, and nigh her a band font young man, holding her with his left band by the chain, and with his right hand he wil be playing with her hair,andfmilingon her9 and thefe are fent by one of thofe Angels of the number.
p.Aifo 2 Teftamcnts, 2 Commands of
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Jove, 2 firft dignities, 2 firft people^ kinds of Spirits, good and bad, 2 intelleftuall Creatures^w^/gf/ and Soul,% great Lights, aSolftitia, 2 Equino&ials, 2 Poles, 2 Ele- ments, producing a living Soul,v/z. Earth and Water. Ey this number 2 it is faid Elijah called down fire from Heaven upon his enemies. And the name of God in the Ex- emplary world isexprefs'd with two Let- ters, n1 Jah Vm Ell. And there are two in- telligible fubftanees in the intellectual world,i/ij&.anAngel,and the Soul;and two Lights in the Ceieftial world,the Sun,and the Moon ; and two principal feats of the Soul in the lefler world. *>i£.theHeart,and the Brain; and there are two chief of the Devils in the infernall world, viz. Beemotb zndLeviathoHyMo two things Chhft threa- tens to the damned, viz. Weeding and gnu* (hing of teeth.
10. The number 2 is faid to fignifiea : thing loft, and here they enquire whether
a man mall be rich or poor.
11. This number is commonly made upon Brafs, that which is red or Copper* at the houre of 2, and Jejajelis the Angci that rules it,and 325. by that number was this book made.
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CHAP. V.
The Slumber of Long Life.
The Nature of theThird daye's worl^ i.fet by the Number 3. That the ntofi learned dot agree that the Creation was perfected at vnce y The Notation of WD jlrangefy a- gnedwith the Notorious conclufiom of thi Temple of Wifdom of the fignificatim oj the Number 3 :
1. IN this third day was the waters com- I manded into one place , the Eartf adorned with all manner of pIants,Para- dife and all the pleafure and plerity of itj created) wherein the Serpent beguih Eve* &c. What can therefore be mor< likely then that the Pythagoreans ufethei] Numbers as certain remembrancers o\ the particular paflages of this Hiftory of the Creation > when as they call theii Number 3. tvltuv & $&\a<&tiK0{ f i. e, Triton and Lord of the Sea, which is in refe- rence to Gods commanding the water in- to!
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»to one place, and making thereof a Sea, Ithey call alio the Ternary, Kifaf apctA.£t*? Eg-iffo?, the former intimates the plenty ofParadife, the latter relates to the Ser- pent there > but now betides thi$,we (hall Ifindethe Ternary very fignificant of the |natureof this dayes work 5 for firft, the jjearth confiits of the 3 Elements in my iBook, entituled. The Temple of Vifdome : i^for the truth of that Book will force it Jfelfiii here whether 1 will or no: ) And f ndeed I had no thoughts of this, when I : vrit that} and then again, there are three ' jrand parts of this third Element necef- Tiry to make an Earth habitable, the dry ]t and, the Sea, (whence are Springs and Ri- lw) and the Aire: And Iaftly, there are avegitables, which is the main work of ihis day, three eminent Properties,accor- ^flingto my Goufin JrLeydons Philofophy, ™\i'z . Nutrition, Accretion, Generation; and ^Ifo if you confider their duration, there J « three Cardinal points of \t,Ortus,Arme, %mt«fj you may call in alfo that Mine* [tkls, as the Arabians call them, which be- long to this day as well as Plants, that 0 oth Plants and they, and in general all ®\'$rreftial bodies have the three Ghymical ei[ Rnciples in thcm^ Sal, Sulphur and Mer« •■) iry.
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but in the fecond day, fo the conttirinj of this Matter into Suns and Flanets i contained in this fourth day : The JEartl her felf not excepted, though it is faid (h was made in the firft day, and as (he is th nurfe of Plants, faid to be uncovered i> the third, yet as (he is a receptacle c Light, and fliines with borrowed rayc like the Moon and other Plants, (he ma well be referred to the fourth days Cres tion.
3. Nor will this at all feem bold har(h,if we confider that the learned ha\ already agreed, that all the whole Cre; tion was made at once As for exampl the moft rationallof all the Jewijh D< ftors, R. MofesEgyptius, Philo Jndeus, Abn ham Judeus, frocopimy Gareus^ Cardinal C< jetane, Saint Auguflin* and the Schooles 1 RilUl and Santa? ; fo that leifurely ord of dayes is thus quite taken away,& all t fcruple that may arife from that Hyfot
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4. Wherefore t fay the number 3 isan ii compounded number, a holy number number of perfection, a moft powerfi number; for there are three perfons God, there are three Theological vertu, in Religion : hence it is that this numb conduceth to the ceremonies of God at Religion, that by the fblemnity of whi<
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prayers and facrirlces are thrice repeated^ and the Pythagoreans ufe it in their fan&i- fications and purifications , and it is mod fie in bindings or ligations.
5 . And in Johanna de Spagnet it was the cuftome in every Medicine to fpit with three deprecations, and hence to be cu- n red. The number of 3 i? perfected with 3 argumentations, long, broad and deep> :if beyond which there is no progreflion of demenfion whence the firfi number is (Called fquare. Hence it is faid, that to be a body that hath 3 meafures, and to a Tquare number nothing can be added; wherefore Cardanus in the beginning of his ^'fpeech concerning Heaven, calls it as it ri were a Law, according to which all things are difpofed ; For Corporall and Spiritual things coniift of three things, viz. begin- ning, middle and end, by three the world lis perfe&ed Hemarmene, neceility and * ■ order, (i.e. ) concurrence of caufes, which many call fate,and the execution of them ifi to the fruit or encreafe, arid a due diitri- ) bution of the increafe; the whole meafure 'L of time is concluded in 3, viz, paft, pre- fent and to come : All magnitude is con- tinued in 5. Line, Superficies and body : every dayconfifts of 3 intervalls, lengthy 'bredth, thicknefs : Harmoniou* Muiick contains 3 confentsiii timea Viapafon9He- F a " motion?
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wiolion, Viatejfaron : there are alfo 3 kinds of Souls, vegetative^fenfitive^ and intelleUu- all. And God orders the world by num- ber, weight,and meafure-, as the number 3 is deputed to the Ideal forms thereof, as the number 2 is to the creating matter, and unity to God the maker of it : Rofie Crucians doe conftitute 3 Princes of the \\'oi\c\,Oxomafis^[ilris^Axamcis, (i.e.JGod, the Mind, and the Spirit ; by the 3 fquare or folid tlie 3 number of 9 of things produced are diihibuted, viz. of the fuperceleftial in nine , orders of Intel- ligences j ofCeleftial into 9 Orbs; ofinfe riour into 9 kindes of generable and cor- ruptible things : Laftly, in this- ternalf, Orbe, viz. 27. all mufical proportions are included, as Pinto and Vroclus doe at large difcourfe.
6. And the number of 3 hath in it a Harmony of 5, the grace of the firft voice, alfo intelligencie; there are 3 Hierarchies of Angelical Sprits ; there are 3 powers o! intellectual Creatures, memory, mind* and will: there are three orders of th blefled, viz. ofNiartyrs^Confefiors and Inno- cents: thereare three quaternians of Ce leftial figneSiViz.fixt) movable and common. and alfoofHoufes,*'^. Angels, Succedents, Cadents. Thereare alfo 3 faces and head! in every figne, and 3 Lords of each tripli-
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city, there are 3 fortunes amongft the Planets, 3 graces amongft the GoddefTes, 3 Ladies of deftiny amongft the infernal crew,3 Judges, 3 Furies, 3 headed Cerbe- ra,you read alfo of three double Hecats.
7. Three monethsof the Virgin Diana^ three perfons in the fuperfubftantiall Divinity, three times, of Nature, Law and Grace ; three Theological Vertues, faitby Hope and Charity ; Jonas was three dayes in the Whales belly, and 3 dayes was Cbrift in the grave.
8. In the Original world there are three Perfons in the Trinity, viz. The Father, the Son, the Son, the Holy Ghoft; and there are three Hierarchies of Angels in the Intelleftual world , viz Supreme, Middle, and Loweft ; and three degrees of the bleffed. Innocents, Martyrs, Gon- feQors. And there are three degrees of Elements, viz. Simple, Compound, thrice
■Compounded ; in the leffer world there are three parts anfwering the threefold
\[ world, viz. the head, in which the intel- lect growes anfwering to the intellectual world, the breaft where is the heart fhe feat of life, anfwering to the Celeftial world; the belly, where the generation is,
" and the genital members anfwering the
Elemental world; and in the infernal
world there are three Furies^iz, AleBo^
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JMtagtra, lefchone^ three infernal Jud- ges, Minos , Aarm Jxhadamantus ; three de- grees of the DanmedjTFickecl, Apoftates^In^ pdels.
9. The Chaos it felf in every firft Analjfis is alfo three- fold, the Saphireof the Chaos. is likewife three fold. And here is fix parts, which is the Pythagoreal Senarius^ or Hu- merus Conjugii : In thefe fix the influx of the Metaphyficks, called unity, is fole ?Vlonarch,and makes up the feventh num- ber, or Sabbath, in which atlaftby the aiiiftance of God the 'body (hall reft ; a° game, every one of thefe parts is two- fold, and thefe Duplicities are contra- rieties. Here you have twelve, fixand fix in a defperate diviiion, and the unity of -peace amongft them : thefe Duplicities confift of contrary Natures 5 one part is good, one bad, one corrupt, one incor- rupt ; one rational, one irrational; thefe bad, corrupt, irrational feeds, are the Tares and Sequels of the Curfe. This is s. he Ho[y. Guide.
10. Septem partibus9 faith Zoroatfes, infunt duo "Tern aria-^ & in Medio flat unum Vuode~ cimjinnt in Bello, Tres Amiciy "Ires Inimici ; Jres viri vivificant. Ires etiam occidunt, & Deus Rex fidelii ex fua. Santlitatu Atrio dd' mnatur omnibus^ uftas fufer Jres^ & Jresffa
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ferfeptent, &feptem fuper T>uodecimy & funt wines Stipatiy Alius cum Alio.
1 1 . By this number 3 in a Telefme o£Tin fophicly carried Vhity to Azotus.
1 2. The number 3 engraven in Quick- filver fixed according to Art, will bring to you an Angel in the form of a hand- fome young man bearded, having in his left hand a rod &a Serpent about it, and in his right fometimes he holds a Dart; and he they fay conferreth knowledge, e- loquence , diligence in merchandizing and gain by Sea ■> this maketh a man for- tunate in gaming,and to win. This num- ber thus engraven,makes menunderftand the way to Long Life.
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CHAP. VI.
The 3\{jtrnher of Sta- ture and Health.
i. Of the figmficathn of the Number 4. ? * 3 3 45 5- how the Corporeal world was univerfally eretted into form and Motion on the fourth day, 6. is wo (I notably confirmed ly the Title $ and froferty of the Num- ber 4. 758. The Infallible Roiie Cru- cian or Pythagorick Oath , 9, wherein tbeyfaore, ic5n. by him that taught them the Myjlery of the Tetradn. 1 2. that the Tztrafiuwas a Symbole of the whole Art, that lay coached in Numbers and Letters: 135 14. I he myfteryof the Number 4.
1. *TpHe Earth, as oneof the Primary X Planets, was cr£ated the fourth day , and I tranflate D D^nn primary Planets , primary becaufe of n Emphati- cally, and Planets becaufe the very Nota- tion of their name implies their Nature, foODO is plainly from *»D Vfiio9 or burn- ing> and 33 extinction, Nouns made from n^D8d nnn as in and Dtf from PPH and DD^, according to unexceptionable Ana- logy. AndtheEarth, as alfo the reft of
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the Planets,their Nature is fuch,as if they had been once burning and mining Suns; but their light and heat being extinguifh- ed, they afterwards became Opacedpla- netsjthis conclusion feems here plainly to be contained in the Rofie Crucians and Mo- ps , but is at large demon ftrated in my New method of Rofie Crucian Phyfick^,
2. Nor is this Notation cf 33 vj ener- vated by Alledging that the word is or- dinarily ufed to fignifie the fixed Stars, as well as the Planets;for I do not deny, but that iu a Vulgar Notion it may be compe- tible to them alfo. For the fixed Stars according to the imagination of the rude people, may be faid to be lighted up, and extinguifhed, fo often as they appear and difappearifor they meaiure all by obvious fenfe and fancy, and may well look up n them as fo many Candles, fetup by Di- vine Providence in the night, but by day frugally put out for wafting : and I re- jnember iheodidadus in his ni{i vfovoicts , has fo glibly lwallowed down the Notion, that he ufes it as a fpecial Argument of Providence,that they can burn thus with their heads downwards, and not prefent- ly fwcll out and be extinguifhed , as our ordinary Candles are ; wherefore the word 33^3 may very weltfce attributed to. all the Stars, as well fixed as Planets, but
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to the fixed only upon vulgar feeming grounds 5 to the Planets upon true and Natural ; and we may be fure that is that which Engenius TheodidaUm , The Kofie Crucian would aim at , and lay ftrefle up- on, in the Book M. Wherefore in brief n Emphatical in i — mmm contains a double Emphafis, intimating thofe true DU3D or Planets,and then the moil emi- nent amongft thofe truly fo learned. Nor is it at all ftrange, that fo abftrufe conclu- sions of Philofophy mould be lodged in this Numeral and Literal Texts for as 1 havcelfewhere intimated , Mofes has been aforehand with Kofie Crucians , the ancient Tatriarbj having had will , and by reafon of their long lives, leifure enough to in- vent as curious and fubtle Theorems in Phi-» lofophy 3 as ever any of their pofterity could hit upon, befides what they might have had by tradition from Adam : And if we find the Earth a Vianet , it muft be ac- knowledged forthwith that it runs about the Sun,which is pure Kofie Crucian^ and a £hrewd prefumption that they were taught that myftery by Mofes: but that the Earth is a Planet3beiides the Notation we have already iniifted upon, the neceffi- ty of being created in this fourth day ambngft the other Planets, is a further Argumentj for there is no mention of its
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Creation in any day alfe , according to. this Holy Guide.
The Hebrew is jnan *7}7, And I have made bold to interpret it, not of this one individual Earth , but of the whole Spe- cies : and therefore I render it the world at large, as tTliSn, is not an individual man, but mankind in general.
3. This fourth dayes Creation is the contrivance of Matter into Suns and Pla- net s, or into £uns, Moons aud Earths; for the iEtherial Vortices were then fet a go- ing, and the Corporeal world had got in- to a ufeful Odder and (hape. And the or- dering and framing of the Corporeal world, may very well be faid to be tranf- a&ed into the Number 4. four being the firftbody in Numbers, and therefore pre- ferred before all the vertues, and the foundation and root of all Numbers is four h whence alfo all foundations^ well in Artificial things as Natural and Di- vine, are four fquare, as I (hall (hew you; and it fignifies folidity , which alfo is de- monftrated by a four fquare figure, and in a Equilateral pyramid, which figure alfo is a right Symbole of Light , the rayes entring the eye in a pyramidal form, and Lights now are fet up in all the vaft Regi- on of the iEtherial Matter which is hea- ven. The Pythagoreans alfo call this
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Number cap* & KaV/xo? , body and the world , intimating the Creation of the Corporeal world therein, and further fig- nifying in what excellent proportion and harmony the world was made. See Cor- nelius Agripptt.
4.They call this Number ^Armonia and Vivien, & BitH%cto-/x3{f iviy&iejLov- Harmony^ Vrmid) and theftirrerup of Divine fury and extane,infinuating that all things are fo fweetly and fittingly ordered in the world , that the feveral Motions thereof are as a comely Dame,or rav idling Mudck, are able to carry away a concemplative Soul into Rapture and extalie upon a clearer view 5 and attentive animadverii- on of the order and Oeconomy of the Uaiverfe 5 and the Rofie Crucians in the head of a Catalogue of the mod famous Law-givers, do much Pythagorize,in the expreflion of Mofes \ they fay that this Number 4. concerns the molt perfect pro- portions in Mufical Symphonies •, viz. Viatejptron, Dictpent^ Diapafon, and T>if- diapafon, rnt /u$f) y£p <Pta,TiTa§cw 0 Alyo$ hm' Tftrosi &c. For the proportion of Via- teJJ'aron is as four to three, ofViapente as three to two3of Diapafon as two to one, or four to two, of Difdiapafon as four to one. ]. might caft in alfo the confideration of Chat Divine Ncmefis which God hath
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placed in the frame and Nature of the univerfal Creation3asheisa drftributer to every one according to his works , from whence himfelf is alfo called Nemefu by Plato, £n>V/nk ixctra fi&vzwaw • Eecaufehe everywhere diftributes what is due to everyone ; this is in ordinary Language, Jufticc j and both Pbilo and Plotimts out of the Pythagoreans , affirm that the Number four is a Symbole of juftice, all which makes towards what I drive at, that the whole Creation is concerned in this Number four , which is called the fourth day. And for further Eviction we may yetadd, thatasall Numbers are contain- ed in four vertually, (Eyall Numbers is meant ten,for when we come to ten,we go back again ) fo the root and foundation of all the Corporeal Creation is laid in this fourth days work3wherein Suns,Eartb9 and Moons, and the ever whirling Vorti- ces ; for as Pbilo obfasz^Pythagorean like, ten (which they call alfo Ko^c*, v&ros> .& cwrfcM/flt, the World, Heaven, and all perfettnefs) is made by the fcattering of the parts of four thus, one, two, three, four; put tY efe together now and they are ten. Tldj?7itei&, to tav, the Univerfejthis was fuch a fecret amongft Pythagoras his Difcipies, that it was a folemn Oath with them , to fwear by him, that delivered to
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them the myftery of the Tetra&iscTetrad or Number four.
J with pure mind by ttf Number four do fmar That's holy > and the fountain of nature Eternal, parent of the minde, &c,
5. Thus they fwore by Pythagoras, as is conceived, who taught them this Myfteri- ous Tradition , had it not (think you ) been a right worffripful rriyftery,and wor- thy of the folemnity of Religion and of an Oath , to underitand that one, two, three, four, make ten, and that ten is all which rude mankind told firft upon their lingers, and Arithmeticians difcoveritby calling them Digits at this very day.
There is no likelihood that fo wife a man as Pythagoras was, fhould lay any ftrerTe upon tech trifles, or that his Scho- lars mould be fuch fools as to be taken with them 5 but it is well known, that the Pythagoreans held the motion of the Earth about the Sun, which is plainly implyed, according to the Holy Guide of this fourth dayes work. So much of hisfecrets get out tocommon knowledge andfameasl conceived, that the choiceft and moftpre- tious treasure of knowledge being laid open in the K. C. Infallible Guide of the fourth day; from thence it was that fd much folemnity and Religion was put
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upon that Number , which he called his letraUti, which feems to have been of two kinds , the one the (ingle number of four, the other thirty fix made of the four firft Mafculine numbers. And the four firft feminine, viz. i, 3,5, 7. and 2,4,6,8. wherein you fee that \ the former and more fimple letraftU is ftill included and made ufe of 5 for four here takes place again in the alignment of the Mafculine and feminine numbers 5 whence I further conceive, that under the number of this more complex Tetra9,which conteins al- io the other in it , he taught his Difciples the Myftery of the Creation, opening to them the nature of all things, as well Spi- rituals Corporeal, *Oyd§ d'pTtos & c&ew^d* to t\ai rix.lv %%$ % Tctd-iiTiKw, 0 cTe weetTJos to arfxiitov *} dnctQls j£ fidLTiwv A;o 0 (Afi <f»- ao? 'ovopeL^i tcu 0 dfeLu j as Tlato writes, for even number carries along with it divifi- bility , but an odd number indivifibility, impa(fibility,and -activity, wherefore that is called Fxminine, this Mafculine.
6. Wherefore the putting together of the four fiift Mafculine numbers to the four firft feminine , is the joyning of the Atiive and Fa$ve principles together.* matching the parts of tht matter, with congruous forms from the woi Id of Life, fo that I conceive the %etraftis was a Sym-
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bole of the whole Syfteme of Pythagora Philoiophy: which is the very t&mzmth the Mofakal or Rofie Crucian Infallible Axio* tnata ;. and the root of this TetrattU is fix, which fignifies the fix dayes work.
7. And Fowle and Fifti were made by the number four 3 for there is affinity be* twixt them 3 becaufe Fowle frequent the water in their kind , and the Elements themfelves of Air and water are very like one another 3 befides, the fins of fifties and wings of Birds, the Feathers of the one^aud Scales of the other are very A- ndogical 5 they are both alfo deftitute of Vreters, Dugs and Milk., and are Oviparous^ further their Motions are mainly alike. The Fifties as it were flying in the water, and the Fowls fwimming in the Air, ac* cording to that of the Poet concerning Vddalus , when he had made himfelf
Infultum pr iter gelidai enavit ad ArUos*
Caft in this alfo, that as fome Fowls dive and fwim under water,fo fome Fifties flie above the water in the air for a consi- derable fpace, till their Fins begin to be fomething ftiffe and dry.
8. The number four is the firft four fquare plain, which confifts of two pro-
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portions ,w hereof the fir ft is of one to two, and of two to one , the later of two to four, and it proceeds by a double procef- fion and proportion, viz, of one to one5 and of two to two , beginning at one and ending at four, which proportions differ in this,that according to Arithmetic^ they are unequal to one the other, but accord- ing to Geometry are equal; therefore a four fquare is afcnbed to God the Father, and alfo contains the myftery of the whole Trinity . for by its fingle propor- tion, viz by the firft of one to one, the unity of the paternal fubftance is fignifi- ed, from which proceeds one Son equal to him 5 by the next expreffion alfo fimple^ viz. of two to two, is fignified by the fe- cond expreffion the Holj/Ghoft from both? that the Son be equal to the Father by the firft expreffion : and the Holy Ghoft be equal to both , by the fecond expreffi- on.
Hence the fuper-excellent , and great name of the Divine Trinity of God is written with four letters, viz. Jod^He^nd VauyHei where it is the afp nation, Ffofig- niftes the proceeding of the Spirit from both': for He being duplicated termi- nates both Syllables and the whole name3 but is pronounced Jeova&s fome will have it , whence that Jovti of the Heathen 4 Q whicfe
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which the Ancients did picture U with four ears , whence the number four is the Fountain and Head of the whole Divini- ty , and the Pythagoreans call it the perpe- tual Fountain nature ; for there are four degrees in nature, viz. to be, to live, to be ienlible,to understand, there are four mo- tions in nature, viz. Afcendant, Defen- dant, gcing Forward, Circular.
9. There are four Angles in the Hea- ven, v/'z. Rifing, Middle, Falling of the Heaven, and the Borom of it 5 there are four Elements under Heaven, viz. Fire, Air, VVate r Earth;according to thefe there are four triplicities in Heaven. There are four lirft qualities under the Heaven, viz. cold, heat,drinefs, and moifture;for thefe are the four humours,blood, flegme,chol- Ier, melancholy ; trere are four parts of a year, Spring, Summer , Autumne^xnd Win* ter i aifo the wind is divided into Eattern, Weilem, Northsrn^ and Southerns there are alfo four Pavers of Paradife, viz Vyfon^ Gihon, UMekel^ and Perath] and fo many infernal s, viz. Vhlegeton^ Cocitw> Stjx9 Acheron.
ic. And d e number four makes up all knowledge-, firft it fills up every hmple progrefs of numbers with four terms, viz. with one,two,trme, and four,conftiruting the number ten-, it fils up every difference
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of numbers,the one even,and containing thefirft odd ink, it hath the grace of the fourth voyce, Alfo it contains the in- ftrument of four firings, and a Pythagore- an Diagram , whereby are found out firft of all Mufical tunes 5 and all Harmony of Mufick for double, treble, four times dou- ble,one and a half, one and a third part,a concord of all , a double concord of all, of five of four , and all ccnfonancy is li- mited within the bounds of the number four 5 It doth alfo contain the whole of Mathentaticksm four terms,i//«. point,line, . fuperficies , and profundity : it compre- hends all nature in four terms , viz. fub- ftance,quality, quantity, and motions alfo all natural Philofophy, in which are the feminary vertuesof nature, the Natural fpringing 3 the growing Form , and the Compofitum : Alfo Met aphy fields is compre- hended in four bounds, z/i&. being,eiTence, vertue^ and a ft ion 5 Moral Philofophy is comprehended with four vertues, viz. Prudence, ] uftice^Fortitude, Temperance. It hath alfo the power of Juflice for Times or Termes in the year at fFefttnin- /fcr-Hall j all manner of Cafes are Tried and Suits in Law , to the content of the people. Hence a fourfold Law of Pro- vidence from God 5 fatal from the foul of the world, of Nature from Heaven , of G 2 Prudence
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Prudence from man -, Of this you may be better fatisfied in my Book entituled,Tfo? Idea of the Law, &c.
1 1 . There are alfo four Judiciary pow- ers in all things being, viz. the Intellect, Difcipline, Opinion and Senfe : It hath alfo great power in calling of Names, of Spirits and Angels,and in PredicYiGns,and in all Myfteries 5 hence the Rofie Crucians do fatifie the Number 4 with an Oath, as if it were the number that God had fixed on them, to coufirme their Faith^ as ap- 1 peares in thefe Verfes -,
©J y.£ Toy yiAiifiA 4VX* *£§ et^ovjet 7lT$a.K\av Tla<rav dzvvav j>t£etv 'O^ity vetw. i e. By him that did to us difclofe
The Tetrads Myflerie : Where Natures found that overflows. And hidden root doth lie.
Now there are four Gofpels received from 4. Evavge lifts throughout the wholei Church, the Hebrews received the chief name of God written with four Letters: Alfo the Egyptians, Arabians, Perfians, fAa- gitians, PAahumetans, Grecians, Tufcans, La- tines, write the name of God with onely foure Letters, viz. thus, Thet , Alia, Sire. Orfi, Abdi, eio^ Efar, Veus. In the Origi- ns
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nal world, from whence the Law was re- ceived. The Name of God is written with four Letters. fnrP In the intellectual world whence the fatal Law was received, there are four Triplicities, or intelligible Hie- rarchies, Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones-, Do* minations , Towers, Venues; Principalities, Archangels, Angels-, Innocents, Martyrs,Con- fejfirs : And there are four Angels, ruling over the four Corners of the world, viz. Micahel, Raphael, Gabriel, Vrieljour Rulers of the Elements, Seraph, Cherub, Tharfis, Ariel-, four cohfecrated Animal?, the Li on, the Eagle, Man, a Calf ; four Tripli- cities of the Tribes of lfrael; ~D an, After, Nephtalint'y Judah, Iflachar, Zabulun \ \Ma- naffeh, Benjamine, Ephraim; Reuben, Simeon, Gad-, four Triplicities of Apoftles, Mat- thias, Veter, Jacob the elder; Simon, Bar- tholomew, Matthew, John, Philip, James the younger ; Thaddeus, Andrew , Thomas ; four Evangelifts, Matthew, Mark^, Luke and John.
t2. The Celeftial Worldiscoaftituiedby the Law of Nature: four Triplicities of Signas, Aries, Leo, Sagittarius-, Gemini, Li- bra, Aquarius', Cancer, S cor pius,Pi fees-, Tau- rus, Virgo, Capricornus ; four Elementary -Scars and Planets, Mars and the Sun, Ju- piter and Venus, Saturn and Mercury, the fixed Stars and the Moon.
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Four qualities of theCelcftial Elements, Light, DiaphanoufueflTe, Agility, Solidity, where Generation and Corruption is ac- cording to the Elemental Law \ there is Fire, Aire, Water and Earth ; and foure qualities, Heat, Moyfture, Cold,Drynefs 5 and four kinds of mix'd bodies. Animals, Plants, Metal?, Stone?-, four kinds of A- nimals, Walking, Flying, Swimming, Creeping j and four things anfwer the E- lemeuts in Plants, viz Seeds, Flowers, Leaves, Roots ; fo in Cecals, Gold, Iron, Copper and Tin, Quick filver, Lead and Silver; and in Scones there are four an- fwer the Elements, bright and burning, light and tranfpareant,clear and congea- led, heavy and dark.
1 3 . In the Law of Prudence, Man,there are four Elements, the Mind, the Spirit, the Soul, the Body; four powers of the Soul, the Intel left, Reafon, Phantafie , Senfe ; four Judiciary powers, Faith, Sci- ence, Opinion, Experience j four Moral Vertues, Juftice, Temperance, Prudence, Fortitude *, four Senfes relating to the E- lements, Sight, Hearing, Taft and Smell, Touch -j four Elements in the body. Spi- rit, Flefh, Humours, Bones s a four- fold Spirit, Animal, Vital, Generative, Natu- ral ; fourHumours,Choler,Blood,Flegm, Melancholy ; four manners of comple- xions,
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xions, Violence, Nimbleneffe, Dulnefle, Slownefs.
By the Law of Punifhment in the Infer- nal World, there are four Princes of £pi« ritsthat rule the four evil Angels of the world, Oriem^aymon^Egin^ Amainon. This number caft in a Telefme of filver by Art, brings to you t he form of a Virgin, ador - ned with fine cloathes, with a Crown on her: This number giveth acutenefle of wit, and the love of men.
14. The number 4 they fay, Telefma- tically engraven in filver with the name of the Angel of the day and hour, and the parties name, and the name of his Genius^ according to the Letters in the Fi- gure of the world, all gathered together, will produce thefociety of an Angel, who appears like a man fitting in a chaire, hol- ding a balance in his hand; and they bur- ned Nutmegs and Frankinfence before him; and he made the number fortu- nate and happy to the bearer by Merchan- dizing : this number according to Art en- graven, makes a man healthful in, a!) Contreys.
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CHAP. VII.
T^e-j Slumber of Tomh,
i. Of the Signification of the Number 5» 2. And what Angels may be c ailed by it 5 3. And how they may affear.
1. 'TpHe Number 5 is of nofmall force ; JL for it confifts of the iftrft even, and the firft odde, as of a female and male; for an odde number is the male , and the even the female; Rofie Crucians call that the Father, and this the Mother : Therefore the number 5 is of no fmall perfection , or vertue , which proceeds from the Mixtion of thefe numbers; it is alfo the jure middle of the univerfal num- ber, viz, 10. for if you divide the number 10. there will be 9 and one, or 8 and ?, or 7 and 3, or 6 and 4. and every collection makes the number 10. and the exact mid- dle isalvvayes the number <^. and its equi- diftant ; and therefore it is a number of Mirth and good fellowfhip; it is called by the Pythagoreans the number of Wedlock, as alfo of Juftice, becaufe it divides the
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number 10 even* there is alfo in it an emblem of Generation *, as an Eagle ingendringwith an Eagle brings forth an Eagle; and a Dolphin engendring with a Dolphin, &c. wherefore the Pythagoreans this number Cytherea, that is Venus ^ and r*V°,*5 Marriages and in Birds it is evi- dent that they chufe their Mates : That the Image of God confifts in this, rather then in the dominion over the Creature, i take to be the right fenfe, and more Phi- lofophical, the other move Political.
It is a wonder, fayes Grotius3 to fee how the explication of the Pvabbins upon this Fra: and thofe paflages in Flato\ Sym.po- Hon agree one with another j whith, not- withftanding whatfoever proceeded, I make no queltion, fayes he, but they are falfe and vain; and I mult confeffel am fully of the fame opinion: but this itrange agreement Ariftof banes his Narration, in the forenamed >ympoftony and the Com- ments of the Rabbins, upon the Rofie. Cru- cian M. is no fmall argument that Plato had fome knowledge of Mofes^ which may well adde the greater authority and cre- dit to this our Holy Guide 5 but it was the wifdome of Plato to owne the Holy Guide himfelfe ; by fuch unwarranta- ble Fancies as might rife from the Num- bers and the Text, to caft upon fuch a
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ridiculous fhallow Companion as Arifto- fkanesy it was good enough for him to ut- ter in that club of wits, that Philofophick Sympofion otPUto.
2. and there be five fenfes in Man,Sight Hearing, Smelling, FeelingiTafting, five powers in the Soul, vegetative, fenfitive, concupifcible,irafcible,rational: 5 fingers on the hand, ^e wandring Planets in the Heavens, according to which there are five- fold terms in every fign ; in Elements there are five kinds of mixt bodies, viz. Stones, Metals, Plants, Plant-animals,and fomany kinds of Animals, as men, four- footed beads, creeping, fwinniin~,flying. And there are five kindes, by which all things are made of God, viz. Effence, the fame, another, fenfe, motion ; the Swal- low brings forth but five young, which (he feeds with equity, beginning with the cldei^ andfo the reft according to their age : alfo this number hath great power in Expiations j for in holy Geomancy and'TV- lefmatical Figures, it drives away Devils, in natural things it expels poyfon; it is cal- led the number of fortunateneffe and fa- vour s and it is the feal of the Holy Gboft, and a bond that binds all things, and the number God loves; it is the number of the Croft) yea eminent with the principal wounds of Chrift, whereof he vouchfafed
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to keep the Scars in his glorified body.
The Philofophers did dedicate it as fa- cred to Mercury^ ft eeming the vertue of it to be much more excellent then the number four,by how much a living thing is more excellent then a thing without life ; for this five in a Figure of Geommcyy ftfoah found favour with God , and was preferved in the Flood of waters that overflowed Palajlma , Jfamia, and the Country of the Eaft.
3. In the vertue of this Number, Abra- ham being an hundred years old , begat a Son of Sarah, being ninety years old,and a barren woman , and paft child-bearing, and grew up to be a great people. Hence in time of grace,the name of DivineOm- nipotency is called upon with five Letters ; for in time of Nature the Name of God was called upon with th ee Letters : In the time of the Law the ineffable Name of God was exprefTed with four Letters. And in the exemplary world. The Name of God isexpreft with five Letters, Eloim-, and the name of Chriji with five Letters, lhefu : In the intellectual world there are five intelligible fubftances, viz Spirits of the firft Hierarchy called Gods , or the Sons of God: Spirits of thefecond Hie- rarchy3called Intelligences; Spirits of the third Hierarchy, called Angels , or MefTen-
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gers, which arefent, fouls of Celeftial bo dies, Heroes or bleffed Souls : In the Cele ftial world, there are five wandring Stars Lords of the Terms, Saturn, J upiter,Mars\ VenuS) Mercury, There are in the Elemen tary world five kinds of corruptible things, Water, Air, Fire, Earth, a mixed body, and five kinds of mixt bbdies. Ani- mal, Plant, Metal, Stone, Plane Animal And in the Infernal world there are five Corporeal Torments, deadly bitternefs. horrible howling, terrible darknefs, un- quenchable heat, and piercing (rink. The Number five engraven Telefmatically in Gold, with the Numbers of Letters o names,of Angels, Planets, and dayes, the) fay will bring to you a woman Crownec with the gefture of one dancing in a Chariot, drawn with four horfes ; and i flame of Lightning attends her : Thi number makes a man fortunate in Phy fick,Chymiftry,^ftrology,Geomancy,anc happy in fporting with women ; they fa) it maketh Ladies beautiful,and beloved o whom they pleafe,^.
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CHAP. VIII.
The~> [h[umber of Riches.
i. Of the Signification of the Number fix> 2. And why the whole Creation was com- prehended within it. 3. And how a Spirit carried away a Quaker. 4,5,6. Of the vertue of the Number .
1. -yHe Senarius or number fix. has a JL double reference, the one to this particular dayes work j the other to the whole Creation. For the particular dayes work,it is the Creation of fundry forts of Land Anima Is, divided into male and fe- male 5 and the number fix is made up of male and female ^ for two into three is fix; hence the Pythagoreans call this number r*V°f Matrimony, adding more., that they did it in reference to the Crea- tion of the world , fet down by Mofes : This number alfo in the fame fort that the number five, is a fit Emblem of Pro- creation ; for fix into fix makes thirty fix. Here is fomething alfo that refpetts man, particularly the choiceft refill t of 'this fix
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dayes labour . The number of the Bru- tifh Nature was five. But here is an unite fuperadded in man 5 reafon reaclieth out to the knowledge o f a God, and one ad- ded to five makes fix.
But now for the reference that fix bears to the whole Creation, that the Tytbagore- ansznd Rofie Crucians, did conceive it was fignificanttherecf, appears by the Titles they have given it,forthey call ic A/*?$?a>- cts vwtUi *£k[sq>v Ki<r[j.& , The articulate and compleat effonnation of the Uni- ve rfe, the Anvil, an d the World. I fuppofe they call it the Anvil from that indefati- gable fhaping out of new forms and fi- gures upon the matter of the Univerfe,by the vertue of the active Principle that ever bufies it felf every where; but how thefenary fhouldEmblematixe the world, you (hall underftand thus; the world is it felf compleat , filled and perfected by its own paits',fbis the Senarius,which has no denominated part of a fix , three and two, viz one , two three, which put to- gether make fix;,a perfect number, is that which is equal to its parts -■> wherefore this number fets out the perfection of the world y and you knoiv that God in the clofcof all faw., that all that he made was very good h then again the world is ' Ahpvy a) eJfA®-AM^/".&.i?4rw/»/r:)thatis,it confifts of
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an Aftivc and Paffive principle , the one brought down in o the other, from the world of Life} and the Senary is made by drawing of the firft Mafculine Number into the fir ft Feminine, for three into two is fix.
2. Thus youfee continuedly that the property of the number fets off the na- ture of the work of every day, according to thofe myfteries that the Pythagoreans haveobferved in them ; and befidesthis, that the numbers have ordinarily got names anfwerable to each dayes work, which as I have often intimated, is a very high probability, that the Rofie Crucians had an Infallible Guids , referring to Mofes his text \ fix is a number of perfeftion,be- caufe it is the moll perfect in nature , in the whole cotirfe of numbers, from one to ten, and it alone isfoperfeft, that in the Co) lccYionof its parts itrefults the fame, nothing wanting nor abounding 5 for if the parts thereof, viz the middle, the third and ninth part * which are three, two3one, be gathered together, they per- fectly fill up the whole body of fix.
Now this perfe&ion all the other num- bers wantihence by the Rofie Crucians it is faid to be altogether applyed to generati- on and marriage, and is called the bal- lance oftheworldjforthe world is made of
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the number fix; neither doth it abound Or is defective; hence that i?, becaufe the world was finifhed by God the fixth day; for the fixth day God f aw all the things which he had made , and behold they were exceeding good , and the evening and morning were the fxt natural day%
Therefore the Heaven, and the Earth, and ail the Hoafts thereof were finifhed;it is alfo called the number of man, becaufe the fixt d?y man was Created; and it is alfo the number of our redemption; whence there is a great aftinitybetwixtthe number fix and the CrolTe, Labour and fervitude : hence it is in the Law com manded , that in fix dayes the work is tc be done,fix dayes Manna is to be gather- ed, fix years the ground was to be fowen arid that the Hebrew fervant mould fcrvi his matter lix years; fix dayes the Glor of the Lord appeared upon Mount Sinai covering it with a cloud;the Cherubim ha fix wings.
9. And there are fix Circles in the Fir nvament, Aitick,Antartick,two Tropicks Equinoctial and Eccliptick; fix Wanderin Planets, "h , 'U, cT, ? > S > r. runnin through the Latitude of the Zodiack on boih fides the Ecliptick; there are in fubftantial qualities in the Elements, viz iharpnefs, thinnefs, motion, and the con
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trary to the e,dulnefs,thick*efs,reftj there are lix differences of poliuon, upwards, downwards, before, behind, on the right fide, on the left fide . There are iix natu- ral offices, without which nothing can be, viz. Magnitude, Colour, Figure, interval, Standing,Viotion. Alfo a folid figure of a four fquare thing hath fix Superficies ^ there are fix Tones of all Harmony, viz. five Tones and two half Tones , which make one Tone,which is the fixt : and the Name of God in the exemplary world are written with fix Letters oni^ and ITDJ^i and fix orders of Angels or Me(- fengers in the intelligible world will not obey the call of Inferioiirs , becaufethey are notfent : and there are fix degrees of men in the leffer, the Intellect, Memory, Senfe, Motion,Life, EfTence. And fix De- vils in the infernal world, which are the ! Authors of all Calamity, Arteus^ Magriefi- j ( wflrmenus,LicW)Nicon, Mini$n. The ligns to diftinguifh, whether the spirit be good or evil, are the fame by which we diftm- guifh whether a man or a tree be good or evil:namely Actions and Fruitjand wick- ed men cannot converfe with Angels : As For Example, a Quaker or a Presbyterian contrived a number in >ilver , and could often converfe with an Angel, as they cal- led it, at Fill Fens Furnace in Lancajhir^ for H there
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there chey lived, although not<levout be- fore God; thus they diflembled, as their wanner U', with God and the World, and freely and frequently courted this fami- liar Spirit. But there are lying Spirits; fa it hapnedthe 15. day of June, 1660. be- ingat dinner with his wife and four chil- dren t> there knocked one at the door, he thought not of his familiar Devil Ifup- pofe, but opened the door, at which en- tred a man in blac\ clothes, and after fa liga- tion, faid, hemuftgo with him ; at this the Quaker was afraid ; undone of his fons run out to call neighbbiirs 5 the reftcryed, and the woman alio; fo one of the chil* drenfaid, OJefus, mother this man has feet like a Cow ; and the woman calling her eyes upon him, bleffed her , and faid, fweet Husband forfake thefe fool ifh fan- cies of Quaking ; Immediately at the word Went out of her mouth, for all his firiving, thii Monfter carried him away, and top of the houfe alfoy to the aslonijhment of all their neighbours^ who by this time were come to fave the man, but he was gone before, and never heard of after.
4. This may forewarn ungodly Saints the medling with the Sacred things writ- ten in this Book; for the Devil may appear to you like an Angel of Light 5 wherefore you are commanded in Scripture to judge
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cf the Spirits by their Do&rine, and not of the Do&rine by the Spirits $ for mira^ cles, our Saviour hath forbidden us to rule our faith by them, Mat. 24. 24. and Saint Fdul faith, Gidat.%. Though an Angel from Heaven preach to you otherwise, &c. let him be accurfed > wherefore it is plain, that we are not to judge whether theDottrine be true or no by the Spirit , but whether the Spirit be good or no by the Do&rine: Co likewife i Job .4. 1 . Believe Hot every Spirit: for falfeFrophets are gone out into the worldly. 2. Hereby jhall yekpow the Spirit of God, v. 3. Every Spirit that confeffeth not that Jefus Chriji U come in the flejh-y is not of God\ And Xhkii the Spirit of Antkhrift^ v. 1%. IVhofo- tver confeffeth that Jefus Chrift U the Son of God} in him dwelleth God, and he in God.
5. The knowledge therefore wc have ?f good and evil Spirits, cometh not by rifionof an Ahgel that may teach it, nor Dy a miracle that may feem to confirm it : Dut by conformity of do&rine with this foticleand Fundamental point of Chri- ftian Faith , which alfo Saint Paul faith is :he fole Foundation , that Jefus Chriji k iinteiktbe flsfb, i Cor. 3. 11. 6. For wifdome and knowledge iri j Philofojphy, the Law and Divinity, they engraved the nams of the Angd of t hs
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day Planec and hour, with the mans name at length, and the numbers attribu* ted unto each Letter , and he it is faid re- ceivech vertue from an Angel that ap- pears like a man riding on a Peacock, ha- ving Eagles feet, and on his head a Crefty in his right hand he holds fire , and in his left a cock.
And now you know how to try a Spi- rit ; but fome deny the appearing of Spi- rits , and that there are any good or bad ; but we (hall prove that there are, and the difference of Spirits in the third Book 5 to which we will add fome Rules to cure thofe that are poflefled and difeafed. Ont main defign to make men happy by Knowledge, long Life, Health, Youth. Riches, Wifdom, and Vertue, and how t< alter, change, cureand amend all difeafei in young or old, with the art of repairing Kofie Crucian Medicines, and times to ad minifter them , and their vertues anc ufes.
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CHAP. IX.
The fHutnber of Venue.
1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.^.16.17.
18.19.20.21. Ihefignificatlon of the Nmt - her 7. 22. 23. 24.25.26. And that 7. is a fit SymMe of the Sabbath or Reft of God.
1. T~He Hebdomad or Septenary is a fit 1 Symbole of God, as he is confide- nce! having finifhed thefe fix dayes Crea- tion ; for then, as this Holy Guide inti- mates, he creates nothing further, and therefore his condition is then very fitly fet out by the number 7. All numbers within the Decadent caft into the Ranks, is Plato obferves, oi (Av yw£<riv I yivvd- •jiivor 01 <ffc yivvavjcti[j(.lv, *yivv£<n /£• of <Tfc ifjL$iTt§&) 3^ ytvyuo't ^ yivvavjeu- (i.e.) fome
Deget, but are not begotten, others are Degotten,but doe not beget;the laft both oeget and are begotten; the number 7 is Miely excepted* that is neither begotten, lor begets any number, which is a perfect imbleme of God, celebrating this Sab- )ath; for he now creates noth;ng of a iew3 as himfelf is nncreatable, fo that the H 3 crea-
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creating and infilling of fou^s, as occafion {hall offer, is quite contrary to this Holy Guide. And 7. is of various and manifeft power ; for it conlifts of a and 6, or of a an4 5, or of 3 and 4, and it hath a unity as it were the coupling together of two three's, hence it is called a number of Marriage, and the Aftrologers and Geo- niahcers are refolved by the feventh Ho life, whether the Querent $a II marry the party delired. 7 is called the Vehicu- j lum of mans life, which it doth not re« ceive from its part fo, as it perfects by its proper right,of its whole-, for it container body and fot^h for the body confifts of ! four Elements, and is endowed with foure qualities.
2.Alfo the Nu: 3 refpe&s thefoul,by rea- fon of the 3-fold power, viz. Imaginative, irafcibfeand concupifcible.The number 7 relates to the generation of men, and it caufeth man to be received, formed^ brought forth, nouri(hed,live, and indeed altogether to fubiift; for when the genital feed is received in the womb of the wo- man, if it remain there 7 hours after the effufion of it, it is certain that it will abide there for good : then the firftfeven dayes it is coagulated, and is fit to receive th€ flwpe of a man 5 then it produceth Infants called mature perfecTion1, whicf^
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are; called Infants of the feventh mo- neth, becaufe they are the feventh mo- neth.
3. After the birth, the feventh houre. tries whether it will live cr not : for that which will bear the breath of the air after that hour, is conceived will live; after fe- ven dayes it cafts the reliquesof theNar vilj after twice feven dayes its fight begins to move after the light; after 21 dayes if turnes its eyes and whole face freely ; af- ter feven moneths it breeds teeth ; after fourteen moneths it fits without fea re of falling; after 21 moneths it begins to (peak; after 28 moneths it (lands ftrong- ty and walks; after 35 moneths it begins tp refrain fucking its nurfe; after (even years its firft teeth fall, and new are bred, fitter for harder meat, and its fpeech is perfected ; after fourteen years boyes waif ripe, and then is a beginning of Genera- lion 5 at 2 1 years they grow to be men in ftature, and begin to be hairy,and become able and ftrong for Generation ; at 28 :hey begin to burnifh and ceafe to grow :aller; ill the 35 year they attain to th,e perfe&ionof their ftrength ; at 42. they *eep their ftrength, at 49 yeares of age hey attain to their utmoft difcretion ind wifdoraej and the perfeft age of nan.
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But when they come to the tenth feven year, where the number feven is taken for acompleat nwmber,then they corns to the common term of life-, the Prophet faying our ageisfeventy years^the utmpft height of mans body is feven foot.
4, There are alfo feven degrees in the body, which compleat the dimenfion of its altitude from the bottom to the top, viz,. Marrow, Bone, Nerve, Vein, Artery, Flefh, Skin There are feven which by the Qreeks are called black members , the TTongue, the Heart, the Lungs, the Liver, the Spleen and tw-> Kidneys : there alfo feven principal parts of the body, the Head, the Bread, the Hands, theFeet,and the privy Members: it is manifeft con- cerning breath, and meat, that without drawing of the breath, the life doth en- dureabove feven hours, and they that are ftarved ill prifon by blood-thirrty Credi- tors, orotherwife with famine, live not above feven dayes. The veines and arte- ries are moved by feven. ! 5. All judgements in difeafes are rriadt with greater manifeftation upon the fe- venth day, being called critical or judici- al 1 ; alfo of {c\tn portions, God create! the foul, the foul receives the body by fe- ven degrees j all differences of voyce« proceed to the feventh degree ; aftei
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which there is the fame refolution : A- gain, there are feven modulations of voy- ces, Ditonus,femi-Ditonus , DiatefTaron, Diapente, with a Tone Diapente, with a half Tone, and Diapafon.
6. Thereisalfoin Celeftials a moft po- tent power of the number 7. for feeing there arc four corners of Heaven diame- trically looking jone towards the other; which indeed is accounted a moft full and powerful Afpeft, and coniifts of the num- ber feven,forit is made from thefeventh fign, and makes a croffe the moft power- full figure of all j but this you muft not; be ignorant of, that the number feven hath a great communion with the CrofTej by the fame Radiation and number the Solfticeis diftant from Winter, and the Equinoftium from the Summer j all which are done by feven figns ; there are alfoy circles in the Heavens according to the Axel-tree •, there arc feven Stars about the Artick pole, greater and lefTer, called Charles Waine : alfo feven Scars called the Pleiades,and Cewtn Planets,and the Moon difpenfeth the influence Spiritual and Natural, gives the light of feven to us ; for in 28 (he runs her appointed courfe-, which number of dayes the number fe- ven, with its feven termes, viz,, from one to feven, doth make and fill up as much as
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the feveral numbers, by adding to the Antecedents, and makes Four times fovea dayes, in which the Moon runs through, and about the Longitude and Latitude of the Zodiack by meafuring, and meafu- ring, and meafuring again ; with the like feven of dayes it difpeufech its light, by changing it.
.7. r;or the firft feven dayes unto the middle as it were of the divided world, it increafeth; the fecond feven dayes ic fills it whole Orb with light; the hird by decretion,ic again is contracted into a divided Orb ; but after 28 dayes it is re- newed with the laft diminution Qf its light; and by the fame feven of dayes it difpofeth flux and influx of Waters j for in the firft feven of theincreafe of the Moort it is by little leffened ; in the fecond |by degrees encreafed; but the third is like to the firft, and the fourth doth the fame as the fecond.
8. And alfo feven is applyed, to which afcending from the lower in the feventh Planet, which betokens reft, to which the feventh day is afcribed,which fignifies the feven thoufand, wherein (as Saint John witnefTcth) the Dragon, which is the De- vil, being bound, men fhalibe quiet, and lead a peacable life: Moreover, the Rofie Crucians call feyen the number of Virginia
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ty, becaufe the firft is that which is nei- ther generated , or generates , neither can it be divided into two equal parts, fo as to be generated of anqther number repeated, or being doubled, to bring forth another number of it felf, which is c'ontained within the bounds of the num- ber, ten, which is manifeftly the firft bound of the numbers j and therefore they dedicated the number feven to ?al-
9, It hath alfo in Religion mod potent fignes of itsefteem, and it is called the number of an Oath* hence amongft the H^mmofwear, is called Septenary, to yroteft by feven. Abrabamyvfhei\ he made a Covenant with Abtmdechy appointed fe- ven Ewe-lambs for a Teitimony ; it is called the number of bleflednefs, or of Reft, viz. in fouj and body. The feventh day the Creator refted from his work, as I fliewed you above ; wherefore this day was by Mefes called the Sabbath, or the day of Reft : hence it was that Chrift re- fted the feventh day in the Grave.
10 Befides, it is mod convenient in Pu- rification , whence Afukius faith, And I put my felf forthwith into the Bath ofthe Sea to be purified, and put my head fe- ven times under the Waves, and the le- prous perfbn is eleanfed, being fprinkled
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feven times with the blood of a Sparrow ; and Elnab faid to a-feprous perfon,(j0, and ypajb thy felf feven times in Jordan, and thy flejh (ball be made whole : And he wajhed feveri times and was eleanfed 5 feven is a number of Repentance and Remiffion, and feven years Repentance was ordain- ed for fin, according to the opinion of the Wife-man, faying. And upon every finner feven- fold.
11. And alfo the feventh yeare there were granted Remilfions of all debts and trefpafies, in full teftimony of Love and fulfilling of the Law. And Chrift with fe- ven Petitions finifhed hisfpeechof ourfa- tisfa&ion; and at the end of feven yeares every Apprentice doth challenge liberty to himfeifj feven is fuitable to Divine praifes, and David faid, feven times a day do I praife thee, becaule of thy righ- teous judgements; it is moreover called the number of ftevenge,as Cain (hall be re- venged feven-fold.
1?. The number 7. engraven by Art in Silver, will produce to your light a man leaning on a ftaffe, having a bird on his head, and a flcu riming tree before him; and this is made for travellers againft wea- rineflc *, the number feven in Chriftal by Art engraven, brings to you a woman cor- nuted, riding on a Bull5with feven heads,
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holding in her right hand a Dart, and hi her left a Looking- glafle$ they will come to you in white and green, and grant you the love of any woman you (hall nomi- nate.
13. And feven is defcribed to the Ho- ly Ghoft,who is feven- fold, according to his gifts, viz. the Spirit of Wifdomeand Underftanding,the Spirit of Council and Strength, the Spirit of Knowledge and Holinefs,andthe Spirit of the Fear of the Lord, which is the 7 eysofGod; there are feven Mefiengers or Angels that wait the will of God, and feven Lamps burn be- fore the Throne of God, 8c feven Golden Candlefticks, and in the middle was one like the Son of God j and he had in his right hand feven Stars; there are feven Angels in the prefence of God, that ftand before him, and feven Spirits before the Throne 5 and there are {even Trumpets, I mean feven Angels, that flood before the Throne of God. A Lamb had feven horns and feven eyes, and a book was opened wit h feven feals.
And when the feven feals was opened, there was made lilence in Heaven 5 byfe- ^ven Julius Ctfar did bind and repell evil fpirits, as you read in Lucan.
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J will now call you up by a true name, *Jbe Stygian dogs\ 1 in the light fupreme Will leave and follow yow-, alfo through grave. From all the urnes in death I will you fave. Ihe number [even unto the Gods willjhew, To whom taddrejje Xhyfelf in other hew Ihou wafi woiit with wan form and without
grace, Andtheeforbidto change Erebus his face.
14. And alfo of all clean beafts, feven were brought into the Ark, and of Fowls feven; and after feven dayes the Lord rained upoii the earth, and upon the fe- venth day the Fountains of the deep were broken up, and the waters covered the earth; and Abraham gave Abimelech feveri Ewe-lambs; and licoh ferved feven years for Leah, and feven more for Rachel ; and feven dayes the people bewailed the death of Iacob.
15. And you read of feven Kine, and feveuEaresof Corn, fevenyears of plen- ty, and feven yeares of fcarcuy; and in numbers feven Calves were offered on thefeventh day 5 and Balaam ereftld fe- veri Altars; feven dayes Mary the fitter of Aaron went forth leprous out of the Camp; and in lojhua feven Priefts carried the Ark of the Covenant before theHofk
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fevcn dayes they went round the Cities; and feven Trumpets werecarried by the feven Priefls \ and the feventh day, the fcven Priefls founded their Trumpets.
j 6. And Abejfa reigned in Ifrael feven years 5 Savrjtn kept his Nuptial fcven dayes, and the feventh day he put forth a riddle to his Wife 5 he was bound with fe- ven new Cords, and feven Withs* and feven Locks of his head were (haven off; feven years the Children of Ifrael were bppreffed by the King of Maden.
17. And E//#prayed feven times $ and at the feventh time,behold a little cloud : feven dayes the Children of J/r^/pitched over againft the A$yrian$y and the feventh day they joyned Battel; and feven times the Chilcteneefed that was raifed by Eti-
Jka : feven Gifts of the Holy Ghoft; fe- ven Petitions in the Lords Prayes : feven Words of Cbrifl upon the Crcjfe: feven words of the Virgin Mary.
18. Moreover this Number hath much power, as in natural, fo in facred,fpirituai, ceremonial, and myfterious : feven hours were Adam and Eve in Taradife ; and there were feven men foretold by an Angel, be- fore they were born, viz. lfmael> Ifaac, Sattopfcn, Jeremiah, John Baftift, James the Brother of our Lord, & our Saviour Jefm Chrifi: And in the Original world, they
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writs the Name of God with fevea let- ters, Ararita. And in the Intelligible world there are feven Angels that ftand in theprefenceof God, Zafhiel^Zadkjl^ Ca- mad, Raphael, Hanael, Michael^ Gabriel. In the Elementary World, there are feven Birds, that are ufed in calling or Angels, viz the Lapwing, the Eagle, the Vulture, the Swan, the Dove, the Stork, theOwl: and feven Fifhes, viz. the Sea-Cat, the Mullet, Thimallus, the Sea-Calf, the Pike, the Dolphin, the Thurle- fifli 5 and feven Animals, the Goat, the Cat, the Ape, the Mole,the Heart,the Woolf,the Lyon : and feven Metals, Lead, Tin, Iron, Gold Gop- per,Quick-(ilver,Silver : and feven Stones, the Onyx, theSaphir, the Diamond, the Carbuncle, theEmrald, the Achates, the Chryftal.
19. This number feven engraven in Silver Will bring Gabriel to you, and he will bring you a Genius fuitable to your felf in nature, number and name, and he will appear like a man cloathed in comely apparel , or like a man and woman fitting at a Table playing, and this giveth mirth , riches, and the love of women.
20. Again, the Number feven is of two kinds,theoneis, * hl°< JW«T©- IJVV*?' The other, n UCjh. The Septenary with- in
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in the Decade is meerly (even unites s the other is a feventh number, beginning at an unite ^ and holding on in a continual Geometrical proportion till you have gone through feven proportional Terms ; for the feventh Term , there is this Septe- nary of the fecond kind , whofe Nature Tlato fully exprefles in thefe words 3 'Atti y*s o$ri novels®- evvTt&faiv©- 'c* JV- whtLGiQis w ttiKditrxoii n cvylheo$ dva,Kby*<nv >
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i. e.
ii. For alwayes beginning from an unite, and holding on in double or triple, or what proportion you will , the feventh number of this rank is both fquare and cube, comprehending both kinds, as well the Corporeal as Incorporeal fubftance^ the incorporeal according to the Superfi- cies which the fquares exhibite, but the corporeal according to the folic! DinVentt- ons which are fetout by the Cubes.
22. As for example, 64. or 7, 2. 9. thefe are numbers that a rife after this manner : each of them area feventh from an unite, the one arifing from double proportion, the other from Triples arid if the pro- 1 portion
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portion were quadruple, quintuple,or any elfe,there isthefame reafon. Some other fevench number would arife, which would prove of the fame Nature with thefe,they would prove both Cubes andfquares,that is,Corporeal and Incorporeal ; for fuch is 64. either made by multiplying eight in- to eight , and fo itisafquare, orelfeby multiplying four cubically, for four times four times four is again fixty four, but then io is a Cube. And 6)7. 9. is made either by fquaring of 27. or Cubically multiplying of nine, for either way will 729. be made: and fo is both Cube and fquare corporeal and incorporeal : where- by is intimated, that the world (hall be re* duced in the feventh day^toa meer fpiri- tual con(iftency,toan incorporeal condi- tion ; but there (hall be a cohabitation of the fpirit with flefli, in a Myftical or Moral fenfe, and that God will pitch his Tent amongftus. Then (hall be fettled ever- lafting righteoufnefs, and rooted in the Earth, fo long as mankind (hall inhabit upon the face thereof.
23. And this truth of the Reign of Righteoufnefs in this feven thoufand years isftill more clearly fet out to us in the Septenary within ten, tw wtZs tear J®- S£</V*cfi, as Plato calls it, the naked num- ber feven. For the parts it coniifts of are
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three and four, which put together make feven. And thefe parts be the fides of the firft Orthogonian Numbers ; the very fides that include the right angle thereof. And the Orthogonian what a foundation it is of Iregonometry , and of meafuring the Altitudes, Latitudes, and Longitudes of things, every body knows that knows any thing at all of the Mathematicks : and this prefigures the uprightnefTe of the holy Generation , who will ftand and walk, actj3 q$Us, inclining neither this way, nor that way3 but they will approve themfelves of an upright and lincere heart ; and by the Spirit of righteoufnefs will thefe Saints be enabled to find out the depth, and breadth , and height of the wifdome and goodnefs of God, as fomewhere the Apcftle himfelf phrafcth it. 24. But then again, laftly, this three and four comprehend alfo the Conjuncti- on of 1 he corporeal and incorporeal Na- ture ; three being the firft fuperficies. And four the firft body} and in the Ce\ea thoufand years there will befo great uni- on betwixt God and man , that man (hall not die, but partake of his Spirit. And the Inhabitants of the iEtherial Region will openly converfe with thefe of the Terreftrial, and fuch frequent converfati- bn , and ordinary virus of our cordial I 2 Friends
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Friends of that other world b will take a- way all thetoyl of life, and fear of death amongft men , they being very chearful and pleafant here in the body, and being well allured, no pain (hall afflift them, when they pleafe to go out of it 5 for Heaven and Earth by this number (hall ihake hands together , or become as one houfe j and to die mall be accounted but to afcend into a higher Room.
25. And though this difpenfation for thcprefent be but very fparingly fet a- foot, becaufe of my youth h yet 1 fuppofe the more ancient and Learned may have a glimpfe at it j concerning whom accom- pliflied pofterity may happily utter fome- thing anfwerable to that of our Saviours concerning Abraham^ who tafted of Chri- ftianity before Chrift himfelf was come in the flefh : Abraham faw my day andrejoyced at it. And without allqueftion, that ple- nitude of happinefs that hath been re- ferved for future times, the prefage, pre- diction and reprefentation of it has in all Ages been a very great Joy and Triumph to all holy men, KofieCrucians and Pro- iphetS'iAdam^Setb, Enos^Cainan^ Mahalaleel, Jared^ they died, not enjoying the Riches of Gods Goodnefs in their bodies ; but Enoch, who was thefeventh from Adam, was byfeven taken up alive into Heaven
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by Gabriel : and feems to enjoy thac great Blifle'm the body, I have (hewed you,in my Book called The Way to Blifie : The World then in the feventh Chiliad will be affumed up into GOD, fnatcht up by his Spirit, inafted by his power : The Jerusalem that comes down from Heaven , will then in a moft glorious and eminent manner flou- rifh upon earth j God will, as 1 laid, by feven, pitch his Tabernacle amongft us : and for God to be in us and with us, is as much as for us to be lifted up into God.
26. By Ccwen Cornelius Agrifpa being at Tar is writ- to a Friend of his at the Court, the fignification of a faying in Jeremiah : viz. Our Crown is fallen *, Woe unto usfecaufe we have finned *, which ( fayes he ) I wi(h might not be fo truly applied to you j for truly that verfe, the Numeral Letters be- ing gathered together, MCVL expref- feth the year MDXXlV. wherein, ac- cording to the account, your King was ta- ken ztPapi*.
27 The number feven engraven in a Jafperftone, with the parties Name, and the Numbers attributed to it^the Angel or the Planet, and day of the week j and this they fay is good to obtain the favour of a Lady in Marriage , and the Love of Vir- gins *, it maketh the bearer fortunate alio in Gaming , as Tables, Gards,Dice,Horfe- I 3 racing,
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racing, Bowling, Shooting, Cock-fight- ing, &c And by this Number they fay trill appear a little Maid, cloathed in long white Garments, with her hairfpreada- broad, holding flowers in her right hand, and (he gives vertue to this number, that the bearer of it (hall go at his pleafure in- vifible : if it be engraved with his name and Genius, &c. in a Diamond.
By this Number they give phyftck to renew Youth,^. but fome do not be- lieve there is any fuch thing as Spirits h but we (hall prove their Exiftence and Ap- parition in the third Book,e^c.
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C H A P. X.
The Slumber of VFif- dome.
Ofthefignificationof the Number 8, and what Angels may be called by it> and how they ap- pear.
i. T Am not angry at theFanatick dif- Jl poikionsof men, that raile againft my Writings, viz. Francis O$born> Author of Advice to a Sony and Elias Ajhmole, Efq; that made publick my imperfeft Copy ; and fome others I pky3 being the worm- eaten memorials of defaced Hiftories &c.
2. Thefe ignorantly wonder what thofe Officious Spirits fhould be I fo much talk of in my book,called the Familiar Spirit. that fo willingly appeare, and after my dire- ctions^ offer themfelves to confociate with a man.
3. O my enemies/ whom I pity, more thendifpife, I (hall tell you lovingly, as I fpeak to the capacities of people j They are Angels uncapable of incorporation into humane bodies and fouls of thede-
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ceafed, that have affinity with mortality and humane frailty* and thefe will not appear to you at all times, but every firft, third, fifth, feventh, ornineth yeare, they will come, and for ever accompany you in a fortunate Jelefme,
4, And eight will bring to you a G eni- us you (hall know in its proper place : And Orpheus was ufed to befeech Divine Jufhce by eight, and he ufually fwareby eight Deities, viz. Fire, Water, Earth, the Heaven, Moon, Sun, Planets, the Night : and ^irg*/ fpeaking of Ma gick^ faith,
1 many times with eight have Maeris fpy'd Chang'd to a PVolfe, and in the Woods to
bide : From Sepulchres would foules departed
charm, And come beare ftanding from anothers
Farm.
5 . The Jiofie Crucians call eight the num- ber of Juftice and Fulneffe : firft, becaufe itisfirft of all divided into numbers e- qualiy even,2>/£. into four, and that divi- iion is by the fame reafon made into two times two, viz. two times t\vo twice ; and by reafon of this equality of Divifion, ic tooktoitfelfthe nameof Jufticcj butthe other received the name, viz, of Fulnefs*
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by reafon of the Contexture of the corpo- real folidity, fince the firft makes a foiid body. There are eight only viftble Spheres cf the Heavens*, alfo by it the propercy of corporeal matter is fignified, which lyrius comprehended in eight of the Sea -fangs : this is alfo called the Covenant, or Cir- cumcifion, which was commanded to be aone by the Jew? the 8tb day.
6. By eight it is faid, a Gentleman in the Kings Army at Edge- hill battel (hewed tr.e effe&s of Spirits, viz. the appearance of armed men righting and encountring one againft another in the skie, and hun- dreds faw thefe things befides him- felf.
7. And through eight Tfagarith (hewed the Citizens of krufalent for forty dayes, or five times eight together3horfmen run- ning in the aire in cloth of Gold, and ar- med with Lances, like a band of fouldiers, and troops of horfmen in array, encoun- tring and running one againit another, vith making of fhields, and multitudes of pkes, and drawing of fwords, and cafting oidarts, and glittering of golden orna- ments, and harnefs of all forts : and thus he->redi&ed the great (laughter of nolefs thd 80000 made by Antiochus : this is al- fo recorded in the fecond of Macchabees^ ^h.5
8. And
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8. And in eight was feen a Sea-fight o- ver Sydmoutb in Devonjhirey by Caleb Perkin- fott) a Captain of a Ship and his company ; and he predicted a Sea-fight, which hap- pened betwixt us and the Hollanders.
g. Eight is an evil number, and alwaies fignifies difeafes, or death ; and in the old Law there were eight Ornament of the Prieft, viz. a Breaft-plate, a Coat, a Girdle, a Mytre, a Robe, an Ephod, a Girdle of an Ephod, a Golden Plate : hi- ther belongs the number to Eternity, aid the end of the World., becaufe it follo^es the number feven, which is the myneryof time.
10. By eight Hammel caufed a Spirit, called JLckerkeH) to appear alwaies in the fliape of a hand, and haunt thofe that troubled him, pulling down travellers off their horfes , and overturning carri- ages.
1 1 . They fay this number was dedicatee to Dionyfiu*, becaufe he was born the 8th. monethj in everlafting memory whereof Naxos the lfland was dedicated to hin, which obtained this prerogative, tiat onelythc women of Naxos mould faely bring forth in the- eighth moneth,and their children mould live; where?* the children of the eighth moneth mother Nations die, and their mother then
fringe
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bringing forth are in manifeft dan-
§er-
12. By^ight artificially chara&redina
proper i\xb)tdi9 Apollonius Tyaneus told the Epbefians of an old man that was a Spe- ctre, and how the walking Plague was by his means in the ^ity here and there ; whereupon they ftoned the fhape5 and af- ter a while they uncovered the heap ; whereupon appeared the fhape of a great black dog, as big as any Lion ; Yet I know feme able Araftsm England, that will not believe but this is Melancholy and fraud of a Prieft : But the learned Grotius, a man far from all levity znd vain credulity, is fo fecure ofche truth of Jyanem his Mira- cles, and Telefmaticall Numbers, that he does not ftick to terme rum impudent that has the face to deny them.
13. In the Infernall world there are 8 rewards of the damned, Prifon, Death, Judgement, the wrath of God, Drunken- nefs, Indignation, Tribulation, Anguiih 5 and eight kinds of bleffed men in the Jef- fer world, the Poor in fpirit, the Merciful, the Meek, the Viourners, they that hunger and thirft after Righteoufw efs, the Peace- makers, they which are perfecuted for Righteoufnefle fake : eight particular qualities in the Elementary world, the heat of the Fire, the moiftnefle of the Air,-
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the coldnefs of the Water, the drineffe of the Ear^h, the drinefs of the Fire,the heat of the Aire, the coldnefs of the Earth, t he moiftnefs of the Water; and eight rewards of theBleffed; Inheritance, Incorrupision, Power, Victory, the Viiion of God,Gracc, a Kingdome, Joy; and the Name of God in the Original word is written fometimes with eight letters, Eloha Vadaatb nV?** rtjm Iehovab Vedaatb r^Tt*1 Fl^m and thefe Qneftions are refolved by eight.
14. The number eight Jelefmntically en. graved, as others were in an Onyx ftone, they fay rendreth a man powerful in good and evil,fothat he (hall be feared of all ; andwhofoever carrieth it, they give him the power of charming difeafes, and he (hall terrine men by his looks when he is angry: this makes alfo a man bold and fortunate in Wars: by this number ap- pears a Spirit like a man riding upon a Li- on, having in his right hand a naked fword : and by. this number they preferve goods from ftealing, and caufe Thieves to bring again what they have taken away; thishelpethalldifeafesin the fecrets and bowels : by this number rhcy know when she party will die that is lick.
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CHAP. XI.
'The u^Qimber of chan- ging ^Bodies.
Of the fignification of the number nines how tha 1 by nine Julius C asfa r called up Spirits, and did what he fie a fed: how Ga Heron by nine went invifible, and bad the focietyofa familiar Genius.
11. A Nd nine is a powerful number iri A all things : Julius Cafar made this number in Gold lelefmatically in the hour by Artj and carried with him in his march to the River Rubicon, which divides Gallia Citerior from Italy, and upon the Banks fide his Army faw appear at his com- mand., a Genius, like a proper man, play- ing on a Reed 5 the ftrangenefs of his a&ions,as well as the pleafantnefs of his mufick, had drawu feveral of theShep-^ herds unto hini3 as alfo many of the Soul- diers j amongft whom were fome Trum- peters, which this Triton (if I may fo call him ) or Sea- god, well obferving, nimbly fnatches away one of the Trumpets out of i^heir hands, leaps forthwith into the Ri^
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ver, and founding to horfe , with that ftrength and violence> that he Teemed to rend the heavens, and made the aire ring again with the mighty forciblenefs of the blaft : in this manner he pafled over to the other fide of the River : whereupon Ctfar taking the Omen, leaves off all further di- fputewith himfelf, carries over his army, enters Italy y fecureof fuccefs, from the fo manifeft tokens of the favour of the gods. The number nine is dedicated to the Mu* fes,by the help of the order of the celefti* al fpheres,and divine Spirits.
2. And there are nine Spheres; andac. cording to thefe there are nine Mufes^/z. Galiope, Vratiia, Volymnia, Terpfichore, Clio, Melpomene, Erato, Euterpe and Thalia',\vhich nine Mufes indeed are appropriated to the nineSpheres,fothat the rirft refembles the fupreme fphere, which they call Frimum Mobile ', and fo defcending by degrees, ac cording to the written order, unto the laft, which refembles the Sphere of the Moon.
3 So the Name of GOD in the Origi- nal Word, is fometimes written with nine letters, mssaymn'' Jehovah Saboatb9
FaOIM riBOP • and there are in the intel- ligible World nine Quire of Angels, SeraM ph\m,Cherubin^ Thrones, Tcminations, Tow-\ i
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ers, Vertues, principalities i Arch-angels, An- gels ; and nine Angel? ruling the Heavens, Metattron* Ophaniel, Zaph\iel, Zadkjel, Ca- tnael, Raphael, Haniel, Michael, Gabriel. In the Celeftial World Calliope is appropriate to the Frivnum Mobiles Vrania to the Starry Heaven, Folymnia to Saturne; Terpfcchore to Jupiter s\Clio to Mars-, Melpomene to the Sun, Erato to Venus, Euterpe to Mercury, Thalia to the Moon : and they engrave nine upon a Saphir , Emrald , Carbuncle^ Beril , #»/'*, Chrifolite, Jajper, or 7tf/w$ : but properly and moft effectually to be refoived of their Queftions, or to obtain their defires, they Tcfmatically in an hour engrave it in Sar- dis or Silver 3 and this will make a man (they fay) go invifible, as Caleron, Alexan- ders brother '-in-law fometime did, when he lay with his brothers Concubine as of- ten as himfelf ; This number obtaineth the love of women.
4. And the nineth houre our Saviour breathed out his Spirit \ and in nine dayes the Ancients buried their dead; and nine years Minos received Lawes from Iupiter, as you may read in my Book, called The Idea of the Law. and nine was moft efpecially taken notice of by Homer, when Lawes were to be given, or anfwers were to be given, or the fvvord was like to rage ; the Ajirologers and Geomancers alfo obferve the
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number nine in the ages of men,no other- wife then they do of feven,which they call a Climafterical year; which are eminent for fome remarkable change: yet fomctimes it fignifies imperfettnefs and uncompleat- nefs,becaufe it doth not attain to the per- fection of the number ten, but is lefs by one 3 without which it is deficient, as Au- ftin interprets it of the ten Lepers -, nei- ther is the longitude of nine Cubits of 0gy King othafan, who is a type of the Devil, without a Myfterie ; and there are nine fenfes inward and outward together in man, viz. Memory, Cogitative, Imaginative) Common fenfe; Hearing, Seeing, Smelling, Ta- tting, Touching : and nine orders of Devils in Sheol, viz. Falfe Spirits of Lying,Vefels of Iniquity, Avengers of Wickgdnefs, Iuglers, or Lylians, Airy Towers, Furies, [owing Mifcbiefy Sifters, or Tryers, Tempters, or Infnarers.
I aime at the Celeftial Glory ; Below the Moon alTs Tranfitory.
15. The number nine, the number of the Planet, day of the week. Angel of the day, and hour engraven in Gold, will (they fay)bring down to you an Angel like a King crowned, fitting in a Chair, having a Ra- ven in hisbofome, and under his fret a Globe ; he wears Saffron-colour'd clothes3
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& he, they report,gives vertue to the num- ber 8c makes the bearer of it invincible & honorable, &. helps to bring their bufinefs to a good end, and to drive away vaine Dreams. This number prevails againft Feavers and the Plague, and they made it in a Balanitis-ftom, or a Jtubie : This number caufeth long life and health : by this Number Vlato fo ordered himfelf,that he could by it caufe Nature to end his dayesat his pleafure, and by departing upon the fame 81 years after his Birth, to fulfill of purpofe nine times nine, the moft perfect Number.
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CHAP. XII.
The 3\(jtmberof Me- dicines.
Of the figmfication of the number ten , how by this Number ten , Socrates in a Monitory Vifwnhada Swan in his tap>and of Plato's birth and education.
j i . *T* He Number ten is a Number of ho- JL nour and preferment, and Pythago- ras had honour by it. And Plato by this Number had the knowledge of the more facred Viyfteriesof God, and the ftateof the foul of man in this world , and that other defervedly got to himfelf the title of Divine, o ©el©- TiKuTav.
2. But as for Miracles , I know none he did, though fomething highly miraculous happened,if that Fame at Athens was true, that SfeufippUsClearchuS) and Anaxilides re- port to have been , concerning his Birth, which is, that Ariftoy his reputed Father, when he would forcibly have had to do with Peritione^ (he being indeed exceeding fair and beautiful , fell fhort of his pur-i pofe,and furceafing from his attempr,thac
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hefaw ApaUo in a Vihon , and fo abftain'd from medling with his Wife, till (he brought forth herfon Ariftocles, who after wascalledP/*t0.
3. But that is far more credible, which is reported concerning the commending of him to his Tutor Socrates, who the day before he came, dreamed that he had a young Swan in his Lap , which putting forth apace of afudden , flew up into the Air, and fung (very fweetly * wherefore the next day, when Tlato wasbroughtto him by his Father, t«7^, \muv\iv tqv^uv^ he prefently faid , this is the Bird, and fo willingly received him for his Pupil.
4. Eut his acquaintance with the Holy Guide , as it is more credible in it felf, fo I havealfo better proof: As Ariflobulus the Jew in Clemens Alexandrians- Saint Am- brose, Hermipfns in Jofephus againft Appions : And \z&\y,NutncnnM the Flatonift, who in- genioufly confeffes , T/ y&s <%t TXharav n Ma>w 'hTJMi£av ; That is Tlato, but Mofes in Greek,, as 1 haveelfewhere in my Book called, The Idea of the Law, alledged a- mongft Law-givers; the Number ten is called, every Number,Gompleat,ngnify- ing the full courfc of life ; for beyond that we cannot number within it felf, or explain them by it felf, and its own by- multiplying them,
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Wherefore it is accounted to be of a manifold Religion and Power, and is ap- plied to the purging of fouls : Hence the Ancients called Ceremonies Denary, be- caufe they that were to be expected , and to offer Sacrifices were to abftain from iome certain things for ten dayes,whence amongft the Egyptians, it wasthecuftome for him that would (acritke to J ao (i.e.) Jabyto faft ten dayes before; which Apt" tarteftifiesof himfelf,faying, it was com- manded that I mould for thefpace often dayes refrain all meat, and be fading.
5. There are ten Sanguine parts of Man,che lYlenftrue, theSperm,the Plafma- tick fpirit5the Mafle, the Humours, the Or- ganical body, the Vegetative part , the Sensitive part , Reafon, a*ad the Minde ; There are alfo ten fimple Integral parts constituting a man, the Bone, the Carti- lage,Nfrve,Fibre,Ligament,^rteryjVein, Membrane, Flelh, Skin. There are alfo ten parts of which a Man coniifts intrin- fecally, the Spirit, the Brain, the Lungs, the Heari , the Liver, the Gall, the Spleen,the JCidnies, the Tefticle?,the Ma- trix.
6. There are ten Curtains in the Tem- ple,teu firings in the Pfaltery, ten mufical inftruments which with Pfalms werefung, the names whereof weseNeza^ on which
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their Odes were fung : labium the fame as Organs, ' Mizmor on which thePfalms,SzVs on which the Canticles , Tebila on which Orations , Berach on which Benedictions, #W^ on which Praifes, Hodaiacn which thanks,^/r? on which the felicity orbliffe and happinefs of any one , Hallelujah on which the thepraifes of God only, and Contemplations: there were alfo ten fi- gures of Pfalms, a. a. &c.
7. And there were ten Singers, viz. Adam^Abrabam^Melchifedec^ Mofes, Afaph, Vavid^Sclomon^nd the three fohs ofCborah And the name of God in the original world is written with ten Letter, Crfrj* n^3Y EAo/K*'£*°9: There are ten Com- mandements, and the tenth day after the Afcentionof Chrift, the Holy Ghoftcame down: There arc ten Names of God,
8. And the Number ten eaft in Gold was it, in which Jacob wreftling with the Angel all night overcame , and at the ri- ling of the Sun was bleffed, and called by the name of Ifrael. By,and in this Num- ber Jofbua overcame thirty one Kings,and by ten in a Carbuncle Vavid overcame
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Goliah , and the Phiiiftin.es ; and in ten Vaniel efcaped the danger of the Lions.
9. There are ten lYJcflengers that carry the fouls down from God through the Heavens, Spheres, Stars, and Planets to the bodies of men , and thefe be their names, Ketber^ Heckmach , Binah, He fed, , Geburah) lipberetb> Nezah9 Jod, Hefod, Mai- chutb > this Number is as circular as unity, becaufe being heaped together,ret urns in- to an unity, from whence it had its begin- ning j and it is the end and perfe&ion of all Numbers,and the beginning of tens as the Number ten flows into unity back again,from whence it proceeded *, fo every thing that is flowing, is returned back to that from which it had the beginning of its Flux, fo water returns to the Sea from whence it had its beginning ; the body returns to the earth from whence it was taken; time returns to eternity from whence it flowed ; the fpirit fhall return to God that gave it ; and laftly , every creature returns to nothing, from whence it was created, neither is it {imported, but by the Word of God, in whom all things are hid. .
10. By the Number ren Volomides an Abbot of Malego m Spain could tell al- moit at any diftance how the affairs of the world went, what confutations or trans- actions
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a&ions there were in all the Nations of Chriftendome , from whence he got to himfelf the reputation of a very holy man , and a Rofie Crucian ; but other things came to pafle , no lelfe ftrange and miraculous, as that at the celebrating of the holy Eucharift s the Prieft fhould al- wayes want one of his round Wafers , which was fecretiy conveyed to this Prieft or Abbot, by the administration of Angels, he receiving into his mouth, eat it in the view of the people,to their great aftoniftiment , and high reverence of the Saint.
11. At the elevation of the Hoft , Pfl/o- mides 6eing near at hand , but yet a wall betwixt, that the wall was conceived to open, and to exhibitc Tolomides to the view of them intheChappel. And thus when hepleafed he would partake of the confecrated bread j when this Abbot came into the Chappel himfelf, upon fome fpe- cial day, that he would fet off the folem- nity of the day by fome notable arid con- fpicuous Miracle; for he would fome- times be lifted up above the ground three or four Cubits high , other ibmeumes bearing the Image of Chrift in his Armes, weeping favourly, he would make his hair to increafe to the length and largenefs, that it would con*e to his heels and cover K 4 rum
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him all over) and the Image of Chrift in his armes , which anon notwithftanding would fiirink up again to its ufual iize : And after this he called an Angel by ten in Gold Telefmatical engraven , fofhew the true Religion to him 5 and the Angei bid him turn Proteftant , in the beft fenfe of the Church of England-, and after- wards all his life he preached , and was created Bifhop in England , and preached to the Proteftants in France , and known well by the name of the Biftiop of Sfa- latta.
12. And all things with the Number ten, and by the Number ten make a round, taking their beginning from God,, and ending in him : God therefore the firft unity ,or one thing,before he commu- nicated himfelf to inferiours, diffufed himfelf into the firft of Numbers , viz,- the Number three, then into the Number ten , as into ten Idea's and meafures of making all Numbers3and all things,which the Hebrews call ten Attributes and blef- fed Souls, viz. Haloehy Hakades, Ofhanim, Aralim, Hafmallim , Seraphim, Mdachim, Elohim , Ben Elobim , Cherubim lfiim\ and ten Angels ruling, Meiratton, Jopbiel, Zafh- kjel,Zadkjel, Camael, Raphael, Haviel, Mi- chael, Gabriel, the foul of Mefliah : Ten Spirits-of theWorldthat rule the Spheres
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Refcbithbagallalim, Maflotb, SMatbi,Zedf^y Madim, Schemes , Nogay Ckocab^Levanab^Ho- lorn, Jefodoth : ten confccrated Animals, viz. a Dove, a Libard, a Dj agon^m Eagle, a Horfc , Lion, Man, Genital*, Bull, a Lamb: They account ten Divine names, for which there cannot b?. a further Num- ber.
13. Hence all tens have fome divine things in them,and in the Law are requi- red of God as his own , together with the firft fruits as the original of things, and beginning of Numbers , and every tench is the end given to him, who is the begin- ning and end of all things : and ten Or- ders of the Damned in Hell , viz. falfc gods,lying fpirits, {Villi am Lilly the King of Swedem Jnglery &c. VefTels of Iniquity, Tempters or Enfnarers, Sifters or Triers, Revengers of wickednefs, Furies the Se- minaries of Evil, Aery Powers, wicked fouls bearing Rule.
All fpirits were created pure at fir ■/?, But by xb eir felf- will after were accurfl.
14. The Number ten, and the Letters and Numbers of Angels, &c. engraven in a Carbuncle, rendreth a man free .'from difeafes, and nuketh him in e long, rrefti, and beautiful, this heipeth ail difeafes in
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the Kidnies,it caufeth the party that bear- eth it to live fecure from Theeves, for no Thief can enter his houfe in the night, nor have power tocarry away a Sheep or Horfe,&c. if once ftept in the ground, he fhall not come out again until the party that owns the ground pleafes : and this Number you muft character or caft in Copper , and lay it under the gate in the earth , and in the ground on the Eaft fide of the place you wou'd have guarded, be it Houfe,Garden,or an Orchard,^. And its faid the Angel that gives vertue to this, appears like an old man leaning on a ftaffe, having in his hand a Sword, and he feems in black Cloaths. By this Number they know when to begin any work in this book.
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CHAP. X1H.
The Slumber of prepa- rations of gold.
Ofthefignification of the number i r. how by it wefyow the bodies of Devils, and their na- tural confHtutions : *pt»vtvs in Pherecydes Syrus; D^«, n^y, C=3W , r-vy^, ?— — PPM* tftfW« of Spirits haunting fields fid defolate places : of Theophilus Ful- wood, who had the continuall fociety of a Guardian Genius ; Of Plociiius apd O- lympius. *
I. T5 Y ii Theophilus Fulwood, the Rofie I) Crucian >knew the Vetnones Metallic^ and Guardian Genh , who told him. That the bodies of Spirits were cold 5 &: indeed it (lands to very good reafon,that the bo- dies of Spirits being nothing but coagu- lated aire, fhould be cold, as well ascogu- lated watery which is fnow and Ice, and that it fhould be a more keen and pier- cing cold; it confifting of more; fubtill particles then thofe of water, and there- fore more fit toinlinuate, and more ac- curately and ftingingly to affect and
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touch thenerves. Hence we may alfodif- cover the folly of the opinion that makes the very ejjence of fpirits to be fire; for how unfit that would be to coagulate the aire, jsplaine at firft ; for it would rather melt anddiflblvethofe confiftencies, thencon- irringe them, and freeze them in a man- ner j but it is rather manifeft, that the ef- fence of Spirits is a fubfta'nce fpeciiically diftintt from all corporeal matter whatso- ever 5 but my intents is not to philofo- phize concerning the nature of Spirits.
2. Pherecydes Syr us the RofieCruci attend Maftcr of Pythagoras , by, eleven knew the Fauni and Sylvan'^ and Onocentauri ,
A kirn^of fpirits thac frequent the woods, and are of a dark colour; they caufea noifeand ftirinthofe defoiate places^and therefore he forewarns his fcholars to be- ware of their acquaintance.
Hdic loca capripedes Satyros , Nymphafqus
tetters fimtimi fingunt, & Faunos ejje loquuntur 5 ghtorurn NocJvago ttrepitu Lud^quejocanti Affirmant vulgo taciturna filentia rumpu 1. e. Thefe are the places where the Nymphs
do won The Fauns and Satyrs with their cloven feetD YVhofe
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Whofe noife, and fhouts,and laughters
loud do run, Through the frill aire, and wake the fi-
lent night.
3. But the Jewes underftand by 11, and n^^a Shec-devil, an enemy to women in child-bed 3 whence it is, that they write on the walls of the room where the woman lyes in, nV7^ jpin mn cm** Adam^ Eve^ out of doors Lilith.
And our Saviour Chrift in the 12th. of Mtft.4.3. ver. plainly allowes of this Do- c"trine,that evil fpirits have their haunts in. the fields and defarts, which Grotius ob- ferves to be the opinion of the Jewes, and that v^TV Vtmones have their names for that reafon, from HITE? Ager, the field; for if it were from TTO, it would be rather WW then Cl^ Shiddim then Shedhit*y as Grammatical Analogic requires.
4. The number u, as it exceeds the number ten, which is the number of the Commandements ; fo it falls fhort of the number twelve, which is of Grace and Perfection, therefore it is called the num- ber of lins,and the penitent. Hence in the Tabernacle there were commanded to be made 1 1 coats of hair,which is the habit of thofethat are penitent, and lament for their (ins j whence this number hath no
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communion with Divine or Ccleftiall things, nor any attra&ion attending to rhings above* neither hath it any reward* but yet fometimes it receives a gracious favour from God, as he which was called the eleventh hour to the Vineyard of the Lord, received the fame reward as thofe who had born the burthen and heat of the day; and I never knew but one fpirit that ever appeared by this number that wa« a good fpirit ; and that IbeophilMFul- jpood had, as he gathered from certaine Monitory dreams and vifions, although other fpirits would fpeak to him , this would not, but yet he was forewarned as well of feveral dangers as vices ; that this fpirit difcove red himfelf to him after he had for a whole year together earneftly prayed to God to fend a good Angel to him; and he engraved n in filver for it^ to be the guide and governour of his life and a&ions,that he might not be deluded by evil fpirits
5. Adding alfo, that before and after prayer he ufed to fpend two or three hours in meditation and reading the Scri- ptures, diligently enquiring with himfelfj what Religion amongft thofc fo many controverted in the world, might be beft ; befeeching God that he would be plea- fed to direft him to it; and that he did
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not allow of their way, that at all adven- tures pray to God to confirm them ifi that opinion they have already pre- conceived, be it right or wrong.
6. That while he was thus bufie with himfelf, he light upon the Eook of Common-Prayer , and in it he found a paper, in which was written, Efifc&pacj Meliorated, is the be ft Religion j and that a good and holy man can offer up no grea- ter,nor more acceptable tacriiice to God, then the obligation of himfelf,hisfoul;and under it w us D.G.Bijkop of C. and therefore following the Bifhops Counfel , that he offered his foul to G©d.
7. And that after that, amongft many other Divine Dreams and Virions, he once in his fleep feemed to hear the voice of God faying to him, Iwillfave thy foul $ I am he that before appeared unto thee ; After- wards, that the Spirit every day would knock at the door about three or four a clock in the morning, though he rifing and opening the door could fee nobody, but that the Spirit periiited in this courfe, andunlefshc did rife, would thus rouze him up.
8. This trouble and boifteroufncfs made ' him begin to conceit that it was fome evil f^irit that thus haunted him 5 and there- fore he daily prayed earneftly to God ,
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that he would be pleafed to fend a good Angel to him, and often alfo fimg Pfalm?, having moft of them by heart.
9. YVherefore the Spirit afterward knoc- ked more gently at the door, and one day discovered himfelf to him waking, which was the rirft time that he was allured by his fenfes that it was he 5 for he often touched and ftirreda drinking-glafsthat flood in his chamber, which did not alit- le amaze him.
10. Two dayes after5 when he entertain- ed a Gentleman of the Kings, a friend of his, at fupper with him, that this friend of his was much abafhed while he heard the Spirit thumping on the bench hard by him, and was ftrucken with fear •-, but he bid him be of good courage, there was no hurt toward ; and the better to affure him of it, told him the whole truth of the matter.
1 1 . Wherefore from that rime,faith Eu- genm Iheodaftus, he did affirm, that this Spirit was alwayes with him , and by fomefenfiblcfign did everadvertife him with things, as by ftriking his right ear, if he did any wayes amifs; if oiherwife, his left* if any body came to circumvent him, that his right ear was ftruckj but his left ear if a good man Sc to good endsaccoft- ed him*, if he was about coeator drink
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anything that would hurt him, or in eli- ded or purpofed to himfelf to do any thing that would prove ill^ that he was prohibited by a fign; or if he delayed to follow his buiinefs, that he was quickened by a figw followed him.
12. When he began to praife Godih Pfalms, and to declare his marvelous a£b, that he was prefently raifed and ftrengthened with a fpiritual and fuper- natural power.
13. That he daily begg'd of God, that he would teach him his Will, his Law,and Ins truths and that he fet one day apart in the week for reading the Scripture and Meditation, with ringing of Pfalms, and that he did not ftir out of his houfe all that day; but that in his ordinary conver- fation he Was fufficiently merry, and of a cheerfull mind, and he cited that faying for it, Vidi fades fanficrum fat as $ but in his converting with ethers, if he had talk- ed vainly or indifcreetly, or had fome dayes together neglected his Devoti- ons, that he was forthwith admonifhed thereof by a dream, that he was alfo ad- inonidied to rife betimes in the mornings land that about four of the clock, a voice
ould come to him while he was afleep, ying$ Who gets up firft to pray > 14.. He told Eugenia* alfo, how kt was L eftm
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often admonifhed to give almes,&: that the more charity he bellowed, the more pro- fperous he was $ and that on a time when his enemies fought afcer his life,and knew that he was to go by water, that his Fa- ther in a Dream brought two horfes to him, the one a white, the other a bay 5 and that therefore he bid his fervant hire him two horfes, and though he told him no- thing of the colours, that yet be brought him a white one and a bay one.
15. At another time, when he was in very great danger, and was newly gone to bed, he faid, that the Spirit would not let him alone till he had raifed him again m wherefore he watched and prayed all that night ; the next day after he efcaped the hands of his perfecutors in a wonder- full manner ; which being done, in his next fleep he heard a voice faying, now fing, §ui fedet in Lmihulo Altifpmi.
\6.Eugemns asked him why he&ould notfpeak to the Spirit for the gaining of the more plain and familiar converfe with it *, he anfwered, that he once at- tempted it, but the Spirit took away the Number and Plate, and (truck it againft the door with that vehemency, as if he had intended to have beat it down 5 whereby he gathered his diflike of the matter.
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17. But though the Spirit would not talk with him, as thofe that appear byo- ther Numbers, yet he could makeufeof his judgement in the reading of his books, and moderating his ft udies $ for if he took an ill book into his hands, and fell a rea- ding, the Spirit would ftrikeit, that he might lay it down, and would alfofundry times, be the books what they would,hin- der him from reading and writing over* much,that his mind might reft,and filent- ly meditate with it felf : he added alfo5 that very often, while he was awake, a fmall, fubiil, inarticulate found would come into his ears.
1 8. E ugenius further enquiring, whether he ever did fee the (hape and form of the Spirit 3 he told him, that while he was a- wake,he never did fee any thing but a cer- tain Hght,very bright and clear,andof a rouj|fl compafle and figure; but that once beingin great jeopardy of his life,and ha- ving heartily prayed toGod that he would bepleafed to provide for hisfafety; about: break of day, amidft his {lumberings and wakings, he efpied on his bed where ke lay, a young boy clad in a white garment* tinttured fomewhat with a touch of pur* pie, and ofavifage admirable lovely and beautiful to behold.
19. And this was the firft RefoGrucUti
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that ever 1 Taw, being about (even yeares fince; but being now one of the frater- nity,! asked him of fouls and fpirits ; and what numbers were fitteft to be engraven for a good Genius, and how to goinvili- ble3 and in feveral (hapes.
20. Now,fayes he, by u a good Angel will come and make you invifible, and transform you into any of thefe fhapes, a Boy, a Lamb, a Dove, a beam or 1 ight; and the Spirit gets into the body, and by his fubtif fubftance more operative and fear- ching then any jEtfor, or lightning, melts the yielding compages ofr the body to fuch a confiftency, and fo much of it as is fitforhispurpofe, and makes it pliable to your imagination 5 and then it is as eafie for him to work it into what fhape heplea- fcth,as it is to work the aire into fuch forms and figures as he ordinarily doth v nor is it anymore difficulty for an Angel to mollifie what's hard, then it is to harden what is Toft and fluid as the ai e.
2i. And he that hath this power, you can allow him that which is lefler, viz. to inftru&men how they (hall for atimefor- fake their bodies, and come in again : for can it be a hard thing for him that can thus melt and take in pieces the particles of thebedy, to have the skill and power coloofen the foul^a fubftance really di-
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ftinft from the bddy, and feparablefrom it, which at laft is done by the eafie courfe of nature at final dirlblution of foul and body, which we call death ; but no courfe of nature ever transforms the body of of man into the fhupe of a Lamb, or a Dove; fo that this is more hard and diffe- rent from the courfe of nature then the other 5 I, you'i fay the greatnefs and in- credulity of the Miracle is this, that there mould be an a&ual feparation of foul and body, and yet no death: But this is not at all ft range, it we confider that death is properly a disjunction of the fcul from the body, by reafon of the bodies unfk- nefs any longer to entertain the foul, be- caufeof difeafes or age.
22. But this is not fuch a miracle, nor is the body properly dead,thoug the foul be out of it *, for the life of the body is no- thing elfe but that fitnefs to be actuated by the foul, the conservation whereof is helped by Aurum Fotabile, and numbers engraven inGold,Silvcr, precious Stones, and in Metals, which keeps out the cold, keeps in the heat and fpirits, : that the frame and temper of the body may con- tinue in fit cafe to entertain the foul again at her return; fo the vital ftem of the car- cafe being not fpent, the priftine operati- ons of life are prefently again kindled,as a L 3 Torch
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Torch new blown out, and yet reeking, fuddenly catches fire from the flame of a- nother,t hough at fome diftancc, the light gliding down along the fmoak.
23. Wherefore the flying in the aire, walking in Ladies chambers invifibly, and bringing of meiTages from one lover to a- nother, and difcovering fecrets, &c. it is ealie j for they be then really out of the bodies : And Socrates lying in the field for quietnefs fiike, being far from the noife of his brawling wife Zantippe^ fell afleep,and being afleep, Euripides efpied a thing come out of his mouth very lovely to behold, of a whitifli colour, little, but made like a Cony running in thegrafs, and at laft co- ming to a Brook fide, very buyfily attem- pting to get over, but not being able, one of the ftanders by made a bridge for it of hisfword, which it paffed over by, and came back again with the ufe of the fame pafTage, and then entred into Socrates his mouth, and they faw it no more after- wards j when he waked, he told how he dream'd he had gone over an iron bridge, and other particulars anfwerable to what JLurifides and his fellowes had feen before- * handball thofe that transform themfelves into Lambs, Doves,Bryes, or little Birds, or Conies, have their undeftandings un- ehangedjthey h*ave the mind and jpemory of a man as before. * 2^.Mi-
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24. Miftake me not; all that can do thefe miracles, are not Rofie Crucians; for many of the Witches and Sorcerers in E- gyft. could do miracles as well as Mofes 3 who was taught of God as thefe Refie Cru- cians are.
25. To perfwade you to the truth of numbers, when confecrared to God with Divine names, and engraven upon con- fecrated fubje&s, and what wonderful! vermes they have in natural and fuper- natural things, Khali amplifle and prove by Plothw, for chat which Porphyrins re- cords of him3falls little fhort of a miracle, by the number 1 1. as being able by it en- grave!*, as his enemy Olympus confeifed, to retort that Magick upon him, which he pra&ifedagainft Plotinus^ and that fedate- \y fitting- amongft his friends, he would tell them 5 Now Olympus his bo- dy was gathered like apurfe, and his limbs beat one againft another. But your Witches, Sorcerers, Conjurers and Inchanters are not able to ftand before Rofie Crucians, no more then lannes and Iambres could ftand before Mofes, who did really thofe things, and abundance more then the other could imitate by delufi- ons, fleight and Legerdemain $ and this proves the truth of Angels,fallacies of De- vils : the one makes a happy man, the o-
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ther makes him mifcrable. The Devil promifed our Saviour more then he could perform; but God performed more to Abraham then he promifed : And to come again to flofin.s , although he was not in- ftrufted by the Jewifh Priefts and Pro- pacts, yet he was a familiar friend of that hearty and devout v^hriitian, and learn- ed Father of the Church, Origen^ whofe authority I would alfo caft in together with the whole confent of the learned amongftthe Jewes; for there is nothing ftrange in the Metaphyseal part of this Holy Guide , but what they had conftancly affirmed to be true; but the unmannerly fuperftition of many is fuch, that they will give more heed to an accuftomed o- pinion, which they have either taken up ofthemfelves, or hath been conveyed un- to them by the confidence of fome pri- vate Theologer, then to the authority of either Fathers, Churches, workers of Mi- racles, or what is beit of all, the mod fo- Jid reafons that can be propounded; which if they were capable of, they could not take any offence at the adqiittance of the Kofie Crucian Philosophy into this pre- fent Holy Guides but the principles and moft notorious conclusions thereof, offer* iiigthemfelvesfo freely,and unaffectedly, and fp aptly and fittingly -{aking their
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place in the Text, that I know not how, with judgement and conscience, to keep them out.
26. In an elefted hour they engrave 1 1 in call metal 1, and the numbers, Angels and Letters belonging to it 5 and this ma- ked) the bearer to gain in his rrade,cureth all difeafesin the legs, viz the Gout, Sec. And to thi$ appears an Angel like a beau- tiful man, that makes a man profperous by Sea.
By this number they know times when to give Medicines, and how Devils offer themfelves •■> by this number you (hall know an Angel from a Devil, as you (hall fee in the third book all in order.
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The ZNjimber of kyoty-
ledge, of diffofoing
(jold 0 &c.
Of the fignification of the Number twelve 5 of its natural vertue : twelve Magical Apho- rifmesof Jan bofher: Of Angels, and their nature and dignity : What thefe Guardian Genii may be 5 whether one or more of them he allotted to every man , or to fome none •, what may be the reafon of Sprits fo feldome appearing \ And whether they have any fettled pap e or no : What their manner is of affifling men ineither Devotion^ or Trophefu3} or Love : Whether every mans complexion ii capable of the fociety of a good Genius : And lafily , whether it be lawful to pray to God to fend fuch a Genius or Angel to one or no, that in the Number and Name we defm : at the engraving.
I.*T*He Number twelve is Divine, and
X that whereby the Celeftials are
meafured: It is alfo the Number of the
figns in the Zodiacf^, over which there are
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twelve Angels as chief, fupportedby the Irrigation of the great Name of God : In twelve years Jupiter perfects His courfe, and the Moon runs through twelve ^igns in twenty eight dayes or thereabouts. There are twelve chief joynts in nlans body, in hands, elbows, (boulders, thigh?, kneA, and vertebra of the feet : there is a4fo'a great power of the Number twelve in divine Myfteries: God chofe twelve Families, andfet over them twelve Prin- ces : fo many (tones were placed in the niidft of Jordan , and God commanded that fo many mould be fet on the breaft of the Prieft : twelve Lions did bear the bra- zen Sea that Solomon made : there are fo many Fountains in Helim ; and fo many Spies fent to the Land of Promife ; and lo many ^poftles of Chnft Cct over twelve Tribes; and twelve thoufand people chofen; the Queen of Heaven crowned with twelve Stars 5 and twelve Angels are fet over the twelve Gates of the Citjr ; and twelve (tones of the Heavenly Jeru- faletn. In inferiour things, many breeding things proceed from this Number : fo the Cony being moft fruitful brings forth twelve times in the year; and the Camel is fomany months inbreeding , and the Peacock brings forth twelve Eggs3& there are 12 months in the year>as Virgil (ings,
How
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How the Snn du k rule with twelve Zodiac)^
Signes, Ihe Orb that's meafufd round about with
Linei) Jt doth the Heavens flarry way make ]t$Qwny And lirange Eclipfesof the Sun and Moon; Artt'irus alfo> and the Stars of rain^, Ihe j "even Stars lifywife , and Charrofci*
Warn i Why Winters Sun m,t\es toward th