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Title: Of Natural and Supernatural Things
Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and
Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought
forth, Changed, and Augmented.

Author: Basilius Valentinus

Translator: Daniel Cable

Release Date: August 17, 2008 [EBook #26340]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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_BASILIUS VALENTINUS_,

A

BENEDICTINE MONK,

OF

_NATURAL & SUPERNATURAL_

THINGS.

ALSO,

Of the first _Tincture_, _Root_, and _Spirit_ of METALS and MINERALS,
how the same are _Conceived_, _Generated_, _Brought forth_, _Changed,_
and _Augmented_.

Whereunto is added, Frier _Roger Bacon_, of the _Medicine_ or _Tincture_
of _Antimony_; Mr. _John Isaac Holland_, his Work of _Saturn_, and ALEX.
VAN SUCHTEN, of the _Secrets_ of _Antimony_.

Translated out of _High Dutch_ by DANIEL CABLE.

_LONDON_,

Printed, and are to be Sold by _Moses Pitt_ at the _White Hart_ in
_Little Britain_, 1671.

_BASILIUS VALENTINUS_,

A

BENEDICTINE MONK,

OF

_NATURAL & SUPERNATURAL_

THINGS.

ALSO,

Of the first _Tincture_, _Root_, and _Spirit_ of METALS and MINERALS,
how the same are _Conceived_, _Generated_, _Brought forth_, _Changed_,
and _Augmented_.

Translated out of _High Dutch_ by DANIEL CABLE.

Whereunto is added

ALEX. Van SUCHTEN

OF THE

SECRETS of _ANTIMONY_.

Translated out of _High Dutch_ by _D. C._ a Person of great Skill in
_Chymistry_.

_LONDON_,

Printed, and are to be sold by _Moses Pitt_ at the _White Hart_ in
_Little Britain_, 1670.

_Basilius Valentinus_,

OF

_Natural and Supernatural Things_.

CHAP. I.

Because I have at this present undertaken to write of the of the first
Tincture, the Root of Metals and Minerals, and to inform you of the
Spiritual Essence, how the Metals and Minerals are at first spiritually
c