d
Country Coat; also he opened
his Bosom, and under his Shirt
he wore in green Silk, five great
Golden Pendants, round, filling up
the magnitude of the Interior Space
of an Orb of Tin. Where, in
comparing these, in respect of
Colour and Flexibility, the difference
between his Gold, and
mine, was exceeding great. On
these Pendants he had inscribed
with an Iron Instrument, the following
Words, which, at my
request, he gave leave I should coppy out.
The form of the Pendants, and
words engraven thereon, are as
follows.
I.
AMEN
Holy, Holy, Holy
is the Lord our
GOD, for all
things are full of
his Power.
Leo: Libra.
II.
The wonderfull
wonder-working
wisdome of JEHOVAH
in the Catholick
Book of
Nature. Made the
26. day Aug. 1666.
[Alchemical symbols: Gold, Mercury, Silver]
The wonderfull
GOD, Nature
and he Spagyrick
Art, make
nothing in vain.
Sacred, Holy Spirit
Hallelujha
Hallelujha
Away Devil,
Speak not of
GOD without
Light, Amen.
The Eternal Invisible,
only wise,
Best of all and omnipotent
GOD of
Gods; Holy, Holy,
Holy, Governour &
Conserver deservedly
ought to be praysed.
Moreover, when I, affected with
admiration said to him; My
Master, I pray tell me, where had
you this greatest Science of the
whole World? He answered, I
received such Magnalia from the
Communication of a certain Extraneous
Friend, who for certain
dayes lodged in my House, professing,
that, he was a Lover of
Art, and came to teach me various
Arts; viz. how, besides the
aforesaid, of Stones and Crystal,
most beautiful precious Stones are
made much more fair than Rubies,
Chrysolites, Saphires, and
others of that kind. Also how to
prepare a Crocus Martis in a quarter
of an hour of which one only
Dose infallibly heals a Pestilential Dysentery
Likewise a Metallic
Liquor, by the help of which, every
species of the Dropsy may be
cured certainly in four dayes space
Also a certain Limpid Water, more
sweet, than Hony, by the help of
which, I can extract the Tincture
of Granates, Corals, and of all
Glasses blown by Artificers, in the
space of two hours in hot sand only.
Many other things like to these
he told me, which I neither well
observed, nor committed to
memory; because my
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