that thence
you may satisfie, and allay all the
Thirst of your Thirsting Minds:
for I doubt not in the least, but
that this Study of Divine Wisdome,
will be more sweet to you,
than Nectar and Ambrosia. No
other will I communicate, no other
have I common, then that of Jul.
Caes. Scaliger: The End, of Wisemen,
is the Communication of Wisdome:
according to that of Gregory
Nyssen: He who is Good, in Nature,
the same very willingly communicates
his Goods to others. For it is the
part of good Men, to be profitable
to others.

CHAP. II.

Divers Ilustrious men have
written touching the Verity
of this Arcanum, among these,
take the Sayings of some of them,
as follows.

PARACELSUS
In his Book Of the Signature of Natural
things.

The Tincture of Naturalists, is
a, true sign, that by the transmutative
virtue thereof, all imperfect
Metals are changed, viz. the
White into Silver, and the Red
into the best Gold, if an exceeding small
part of this Medicine well
prepared, be injected upon the
Metal, while in flux in a Crucible,
&c.

The same.

For the invincible Astrum of
Metals overcomes all things, and
changeth into a Nature like it self,
&c. This Gold and Silver is more noble,
and better, than those,
which are dug out of Metallick
Mines; for Medicinal Arcanums
to be prepared therefrom.

The same.

Therefore, I say every Alchimist,
which hath the Astrum of
Gold, is able to tinge all Red Metals
into Gold, &c.

The same.

Our Tincture of Gold hath
Astrums in it self, is a Substance
most fixed, and in multiplication
immutable. It is a Powder, haveing
a colour most red, almost like
Saffron, yet its whole Corporal
Substance, is liquid as Rosin, perspicuous
as Crystal, brittle as
Glass, of the colour of a Rubie,
and exceeding poaderous, &c.

Also read Paracelsus his Heaven
of Philosophers.

Likewise, Paracelsus his Seventh
Book, Of the Transmutation of Natural
things.

Transmutation is a great natural
Mystery, Metallick, and not
contrary to the Course of Nature,
nor repugnant to the Order of
GOD, as many men of it do falsly
judge. For imperfect Metals, are
changed neither into Gold, nor into
Silver, without this Stone of Philosophe