G _Four Brass Pans put in the Earth, hollowed for the purpose, in which
likewise the =Salt-petre= is generated (or shoots.)_
H _A strong Vessel whereinto the Lixivium remaining after the
generating (or shooting) of the =Salt-petre=, is put._
_The way to purifie the Crude =Salt-petre=._
When all these things are thus done, and the Lixivium that swims at
the top of the Salt-petre is taken away, lift up those Vessels, or
Brass Pans, containing that salt, and turn them up and down in some
convenient place, that so the residue of the Lixivium, that lies as
yet in them may flow, or run clearly out, into another Vessel set
thereunder.
This done, take the Salt-petre out of the Coolers, or out of the
Coppers (or Brass Pans) with an Iron Spatula, or rather with such an
Instrument as your Plasterers use (=eine telle=, a Truel) and put it in
a Tub that has a hole in the bottom thereof, that so the Lixivium may
be perfectly separated therefrom. They that sell that crude Salt-petre,
and not at all purified, for the Salt-petre Boilers, do pour thereon
pure (or clear) Well-water, by the means of which, it is made more
white, that which is thencefrom separated they do again mix with other
stronger Lixivium and so boil it up for the following use.
But if you have a mind to purifie this crude Nitre from its salt, and
all its Impurities, that it may be rendred fair, and white, you are to
proceed this following way:
Take almost as much Well-water as is sufficient for the dissolution of
the Salt-petre, put it in the purifying Copper Vessel, first cleaned
with water, and dried with a cloth, and put the fire under it, and
make it most exceeding hot, then throw in your Salt-petre by little
and little, and in pieces, continually stirring the Salt-petre that
sticks at the bottom with a spoon, that it may be the easier, and
sooner dissolved; this only is to be observed, that there is required
a more gentle fire, while the Salt-petre is cast into the Copper, so
as the water may be kept always hot. When all the Salt-petre is almost
dissolved in the water, promote the boiling thereof, by augmenting
the fire, then try if there be any salt in a (biggish) gross form,
residing in the bottom of the Copper Vessel, which if you find to be,
(for indeed, the Salt-petre it self is not so very easily dissolved,
nor doth its being admixt in a more copious manner, at all benefit the
Lixivium) take it forth with a Spoon, (or Ladle.)
This done, separate the Scum swimming at top of the boiling water, then
have ready a Brass Vessel that will hold about ℥_j.ss._ of Liquor,
fill it half full with the Lixivium, set the Vessel in cold water to
cool, and you shall find your Nitre presently to Crystallize, or shoot
therein.
Hereby may you try whether your Purgative water be strong enough, or
not; for if it be stronger than is fit, you will find a little skin
spread it self over the matter contained in the Vessel, and when it
comes to be so, add thereunto more hot water, keeping the fire in that
degree of heat, as may suffice to keep the water contained in the
Copper, gently boiling.
Now when you have kept it thus boiling for some season, try the
goodness of your water again, after the aforesaid manner; and if
you shall find a Crystallization therein, and no Concretion, or
heaping-together, leaving a gaping, or chap in the midst, the business
is well done; but if it be otherwise (than thus well done) so that it
be wholly shut in (or gathers a skin all over) at top, pour on hot
water, until your Matters come to succeed after the manner aforesaid.
Then after all this, take of the best Wine Vinegar, about one pound
thereof, and pour it into the said water, and you will presently see a
blackish spume, or filth arise in plenty at the top thereof, and when
you have left it so a while, it may be easily taken off, because of the
thickness it contracts.
The boiling being yet a while longer continued, pour in the same
quantity of Vinegar again, and diligently separate the Scum as afore:
This pouring on of Vinegar, and separating of the Scum, may be repeated
yet a third time, and oftner, whereby the purgatory water may be made
altogether pure, and that there appears not any more spume.
When all this is done, cast in upon this water two or three Ounces of
Burnt-Alum, most finely powdered, stir all well with a Spatula, whereby
the Salt-petre may shoot into longer Crystals.
Then after this, pour out the purgatory water into the aforementioned
deep Vessels, and cover them over with Linen Cloths, that the Liquor
cool not. Let it stand thus one hour or two at most, and a yellow slime
will settle to the bottom: Then let the water while it is yet warm flow
out hence, into other Vessels made of wood, and especially of Elm, and
which are large enough; or else, you may let it run into Copper Pans
set deep in the Earth, for the better coolings sake, which cover over
very neatly with Cloths, that so the Crystallization may begin from the
bottom, and not at the upper part, as we see it wont to happen, where
it is not kept by Coverings from the External cold: And we also observe
therein too, that the Crystals shoot not into that length, as when the
Crystallization begins from the bottom.
Let them stand thus for two or three days, until you see no more
Crystals generated, which you may on this wise try.
Put some of the Lixivium in your (little) probatory Vessel, wherein, if
you find that there are no more Crystals generated, you may take out
the rest of the Lixivium: Then take out the Petre with an Iron Spatula
(or Truel) and put it into a Vessel that is full of holes in the
bottom, that so all the Lixivium may be the better separated therefrom.
And you shall have your Salt-petre pure and white, and freed from its
Salt.
Forasmuch as the Lixivium here separated hath as yet some saltness in
it, it may be mixed with other strong Lixivium to be (agen) boil’d up,
for the production of the Crude Salt-petre is usually holpen forward
there-withal.
Some there are that for the better purifying the Petre, do put Calx
vive in together (with it) whereby the water becomes most white like
Milk, and the Salt-petre gets a greater fairness.
You must withal observe that during the time that the purifying water
is contained in the Copper, your fire must be most gentle, least by
overmuch boiling you get some damage, for a little fire is able easily
to cause (a too vehement) ebullition, and when it has got strength (or
the start of you) it is hardly allayed again. The scum which you take
off from it you may pour upon ashes as if it were a Lixivium, that so
nothing (from whence any profit can be hoped for) may be lost.
There is sometimes seen to stick to the bottom of the Copper
(especially when it is used about many boilings) a certain stony and
hard substance like Tartar, which unless it be taken away, your Copper
will easily suffer damage under that same matter and be burnt.
The earth and ashes left, after the weak Lixivium (hath past through
them) are to be laid up in some convenient place, and there kept for
four years or more, that so they may be again apt to yield a-new more
Lixivium by extraction; which, that it may be the better and easier
done, there must be made in them (many weeks afore they are wrought
upon) by digging some Pits or Gutters, that so they may be freed by the
heat of the Sun from that moisture wherewith they as yet abound. Nor do
the ancients so much wander from the Truth in that they suppose it much
better and more profitable to keep all the earth under a roof or shed,
and that it will be far sooner reduced unto a fitting goodness, than to
lie open to the weather, for much of the Salt-petre is corrupted (or
spoiled) with an abundance of moisture, especially with the Rain it
self: For it needs only a little wetting whereby it may be generated,
and extreamly shuns, or is injured by too much moisture.
Besides these ways, there are many that mix with this earth that is
yet contained in the Tub the Saw-dust of Firr, or some other Wood (the
height of) a Fingers length (on it): And they perswade that Salt-petre
is also generated and multiplied from that fatness which is mixed
with the Saw-dust, and that the earth prepared on this wise can be so
changed in a years space (so it be kept in a dry place) that it may be
again made use of as afore. Yea and they suppose too that they can do
much here, if they pour upon such a barren (or lean) earth, thus lying
in a dry place, the reliques or remains of the dyes, which the _Dyers_
are otherwise wont to throw away, and evident it is that they are
aluminous, but yet not so frequently.
Besides such waters of the _Dyers_ they are wont also to mix soot with
their earth, (yea and the ashes too of which Lawndresses do commonly
make their Lee;) that so it may be made the more fruitful and may be
the sooner brought to use.
This only is to be noted, that there are sometimes found earths that
give a thick black Lee, which being used by it self is too fat, to
which is to be added a leaner and dryer earth, that so the Salt-petre
may be the better and more plentifully generated.
The way therefore how, and the instruments by which crude Salt-petre is
purifyed, is shown by the 6 and 8 Figure (in _Lazarus Ercker’s_ Book I
think he means.)
_The manner of purifying the gross and blackish =Salt= that comes
out of the =Salt petre=._
That black or rather ashy colour Salt, which is found in the Copper
while the nitre is prepared by boiling, and likewise in the narrow Tub
or Vessel, may be reduced into very good Salt, and very convenient
for daily use, and no ways at all hurtful to Man, if it be but duly
purified; which said purification is to be thus ordered.
The Copper being well cleaned fill it with most clear Well-water, put
fire under it and make it boil, throw in the said Salt by times (not
all at once) into the boiling water, that so it may be dissolved;
which, that it may be the sooner and better done, stir it continually
with a _Spatula_, when you think that it is all dissolved pour out the
Lixivium into some Vessel or Tub, & you shall see the grosser part will
settle to the bottom, and the Lixivium will clear up: When you perceive
this, pour this clear Lixivium again into the cleansed Copper, and boil
it so long till the Salt settles to the bottom, which take out of the
said Copper with a perforated Ladle, and put it in a Basket that is
placed over the Copper, that so all the superfluous Lee or moisture may
again run down into the Copper, and yields (or leaves) the Salt perfect
and dry.
Some there are who afore they use this Salt about domestick affairs, do
decrepitate it first, and perswade themselves that it becomes thereby
the more virtuous (or strong.)
What remains behind of the Lixivium in the Copper, you may boil it up
like as you would any other Lixivium appointed to be Crystallized,
then pour it out into the Vessels destinated to that purpose, and you
shall see Salt-petre to be generated in them; for seeing the said Salt
proceedeth out of the Salt-petre, this Lixivium cannot be wholly void
of Salt-petre, and therefore may it be separated from that Salt by the
aforesaid way, and be purified.
But you are to note here, that where there is too great a quantity of
Salt-petre permixt with the said Salt, or that the Salt it self is too
black and impure, that Salt cannot get its due lustre and whiteness by
barely one such a purifying Operation, and therefore there is requisite
a reiteration of this Operation, so that it be again dissolved in new
water, and be purifyed, whereby it may become altogether white.
However, such a black and impure Salt, may be purified even by this way
(following.) Pour the solution it self, while ’tis yet hot, (the water
I mean in which the Salt is dissolved) upon the ashes which a Lixivium
hath been already poured on before, and you shall see the Salt Lixivium
to be wholly purified: But yet all the Salt which is extracted thence,
is not sufficiently white, but that which is gathered last of all is
yellowish, and therefore must be yet once again purified. Note also
here, that when such a Lixivium of Salt is poured on the ashes, they
must be well edulcorated (after the operation is finished) least the
Salt sticking in the Reedy or Bull-rush-bottom should give an unfitting
saltness to the Lixivium that is next poured thereupon.
And thus have you the common method of boiling and preparing
Salt-petre, in which you meet with what may be well disallowed or
rejected, _viz._ it is extreamly tedious, nor is it at all gainful,
for out of a centenary of Lixivium, we have no more than three or
four pound of Petre; to get which too, all the rest of the water must
be done off by evaporation, which is a long time doing, and requires
no small costs. Yet I will shew in what follows, by what means this
inconvenience may be prevented, which I have proved by mine own
experience.
_The way of augmenting the Crude Lixivium afore its boiling._
The Salt-petre boilers have hitherto variously sought after the way
of augmenting (or fortifying) the Lixivium of Salt-petre, that is, of
causing a more plentiful provenue of Salt-petre, in the Water remaining
of the extraction of Salt-petre, but in vain, because they were
ignorant of the lesser proof which all things here are tried by. Its
augmentation is done on this wise.
Take of a Lixivium, a Centenary of which contains _iiij._ ℔. of Nitre,
pour so much of it as a Tub or Vessel will hold, upon new earth, let
it stand for twelve hours; then draw off the Lixivium, and as much as
you find wanting of what you poured on (which may easily be known by
the emptiness of the measure which it was in, afore you poured it on,
and in which it is now gathered or received again) pour so much simple
water on the Earth, which draw off in like manner, and mix it with the
Lixivium, and you will then have the same quantity that you had in
your Vessel afore. This done try the Lixivium by the lesser experiment
or proof and you will find it to contain _vj._ ℔. of Nitre. Pour this
Lixivium that contains in it _vj._ ℔. of Nitre upon other new earth,
and proceed on the manner aforesaid, and you shall have your Lixivium
to contain _ix._ ℔. of Nitre. You may pour this a third time upon
other new earth & proceed on with it after the aforesaid manner, and
you shall yet have more Nitre out of a Centenary of Lixivium. But you
must be always wary in this Operation, that you draw off, neither more
nor less Lixivium from the earth than you had before in the Vessel.
These things it pleased me to add, concerning the second pouring on of
water, meerly for the experiments or proofs sake, whereby we may be
made certain of the augmentation thereof (forasmuch as the Lixivium
doth by this means hold in it more Nitre) and that we may be forced to
acknowledge its augmentation even in that way. Then after this is done,
you may use the weaker Lixivium instead of water, to fill up the first
measure, and so the Lixivium will be the easier, and more augmented;
and we may in a short time have sufficient quantity hereof for to boil.
And although this augmentation of the Lixivium requires a great deal of
labour, yet are all the (pains, &c.) recompensed, because we hereby get
in one Weeks space, and with less expence of Wood, far more Nitre than
by the other common ways: But yet there are requisite more Vessels for
this kind of working, wherein the separated Lixivium may be kept.
I will also give the Reader a manuduction here, by what way the boiling
of the Lixivium is to be ordered, or contrived: First of all, this is
well to be regarded, that forasmuch as a great boiling requires a great
quantity of earth, and yet there does not at all times, earth of a like
goodness offer it self (especially seeing a Man cannot make proof of it
all) upon which the costs and labours (necessary about it) may be well
(or at the best hand) bestowed: It seems wholly expedient, not to make
such a great Coction (or boiling-trade) but to do it with only three or
four Tubs, that so we may choose only the best convenient earth, which
we may dig in the Cities (or Towns) out of Houses of long standing,
and out of Stables, but yet not too deep: Such a Lixivium as contains
in an hundred weight of it eight pounds of Nitre, may be increased to
eighteen or twenty pounds, if we proceed according to the aforesaid
method. And therefore such Nitre boilers as inhabit those regions where
there is scarcity of Wood may give hereunto good heed.
Now the Lixivium augmented on this wise, doth not attract all the nitre
out of the earth it self, but there doth yet some always remain behind:
And therefore you need not presently throw it away, but pour thereupon
some simple Waters, which after it hath stood thereon for some hours,
draw off again, and you shall have a weak Lixivium, which you may try
by the proof, and proceed on therewith in the method of augmenting it,
and so you will have a continual labour.
This likewise is to be observed in an especial manner, let the
Work-house in which this boiling up of your Salt-petre is done, be very
low, and covered with thatch, that so the heat may be the better kept
about the Tubs, and this Operation may be done as well in the Winter as
in the Summer, and that the weak Lixivium may not at all congeal.
And now, even as Salt-petre is made by boiling, out of the Lixivium
which is made of Earth, even so is it of that Lixivium which is gotten
out of Stones or the Lime (and Dung) Arches (afore-spoken of;) only
there is this difference, That this last way of my contrivance (with
stones &c.) is easier, and yields more Nitre. Such as are pleased with
this kind of work may set about it, nor will they bestow their Labours
in vain; there may be abundance of things, and those wonderful ones
too, effected with Salt-petre, as I have abundantly demonstrated in my
foregoing Writings, and shall in my following ones too, more clearly
demonstrate if God vouchsafe strength and abilities.
But before I come to the practice it self, and to describe the benefits
of Salt-petre in specie (or in particular) it is wholly necessary to
shew how wonderful, yea how incomparable a subject, that Salt-petre is.
And this thing I have already handled at large in the _Second Part of
the Philosophical Furnaces_, in the _Second Part of the Pharmacopœia
Spagyrica_, but especially in my _Miraculum Mundi_, and in the
_Explication_, and _Continuation_, and _Defence_ of the same.
* * * * *
_Here the Author runs out into a large digression in his own
vindication, upon the occasion of certain Letters sent him by one =I.
H. S.= who Stiled himself the Son of =Sendivogius=; in which Letters he
highly extols the Hermetick learning of the Author, but blames him for
Writing so plainly of great secrets, and exhorts him to be more sparing
and obscure for the future. Withal offering his service (and begging
the Authors leave) to defend his Person and Writings against =Farnner=
and others. The Author not taking his advice nor yet accepting of
his service (suspecting him to be a self designer) this =I. H. S.=
afterwards published a Book entituled =Lucerna Salis Philosophorum=.
In which he offers to teach the making of the =Philosophers-stone=
at a price or reward; and reproacheth =Glauber= whom he before had
so highly magnified in several Letters, advising People to avoid his
writings as Sophistical. In this Treatise he mentions a Prediction
or, Prophecy of three Monarchs that were to appear in the World: The
first of =Paracelsus=, concerning =Elias= the Artist. Secondly, That of
=Cosmopolita= of the coming of the =Northern Monarch=. Thirdly, That of
=Jacob Behmen=, That a Lily shall bring forth Flowers from the North.
He intimates that himself is the =Elias= of Arts. Secondly, That some
=Northern Monarch= shall do mighty things in the World: And Thirdly,
that the Writings of =Jacob Behmen= should be again Printed a new.
After the Author hath shewed the ill dealing of this =I. H. S.= with
him, and vindicated himself, then he proceeds briefly to Comment upon
these three Predictions or Prophecies._
* * * * *
By what hath been said, may the Candid and well-minded Reader judge
what judgment is to be had of this Monarch of Arts I. H. S. Every
one that reads them will find whether or no such a Monarchy is to
be expected from such a ones Writings. But now that I my self may
likewise here produce my opinion, concerning _Paracelsus_ his meaning
where he writeth, _I say that the most eminent Secrets will not be
known afore =Elias= the Artist shall come and teach them_: (But I
pray) what hath the holy Man _Elias_ to do with Arts? verily no thing
at all. _Paracelsus_ minded or pointed at some other thing, he well
knew, that no body comes unto such knowledge, unless by Revelation
from God, by godly Prayers, and by searching: This is the true _Elias_
which _Paracelsus_ speaketh of, if (_viz._) the word _Elias_ be read
backwards, and E changed into A: For then ’tis the same with _Salia_
(that is, Salts) such as these (_viz._ salts) are known unto, to
them is _Elias_ a master or teacher. And where the said _Paracelsus_
speaketh of Salts he adds _Alchimy finds it (to be) in Nitre_: Hereby
shewing and pointing at _Salia_, Salts, which word being read backward
is _Elias_? And this is my opinion as touching the coming of _Elias_
the Artist, and I do yet (again) say, that to him to whom Salts are
known, hath _Elias_ appeared. And let this be sufficient to have spoken
of the first Monarchy of I. H. S. and what is to be judged thereof.
_Now follows the Second =Monarchy=._
As for the second Monarchy, he alledgeth the Prophecy of _Paracelsus_,
which runs thus: _A Lion shall come from the North, and become the
Monarch of the World_: Which Prediction is not at all to be understood
according to the Letter. What has _Paracelsus_ to do with the Northern
Lion? What business has he with the Monarch of the World. Some there
are that endeavour to attribute that Prophecy to one or other of the
Northern Kings, but yet that was not in the least _Paracelsus_’s
meaning, he drove at a far other-guess business, and by that Lion he
meant Salt-nitre, which is wont to be brought unto us by the Northern
Winds, Rain and Snow, and that several times yearly as is well known
unto all; hereupon many amongst the Philosophers, and some of them the
latter Philosophers, have filled great Vessels with the Rain and Snow
that comes out of the North, and aimed at the preparation of a Tincture
thereout of, but they found nothing else but Salt-petre, which to get,
I have shown a much shorter way.
_Paracelsus_, _Basilius_, and others have Written many things of the
green and red Lion, all which are to be understood of Salt-nitre, which
may most easily be transmuted into the green or red Lion, concerning
which thing I my self have made mention in many places.
But some or other may reply, How can it be said that the Lion shall
be expected out of the North, if _Paracelsus_ did by it understand or
mean Salt-petre, for that cannot be said to be expected (or waited for)
which hath always been? Surely the approach of this Northern Lion is
not to be supposed or thought to be as to the outside aspect and known
use, but only according to the internal virtue, & the Treasure therein
hidden; concerning which, the Philosophers have written many things
enigmatically, and kept up all things most secretly. Verily he to whom
the inside of Salt-petre is known will be able to report wonderful
things, for ’tis that only that is the true Monarch, and is able to
institute a good governance for those that possess and know it. This
Monarch will not be to any one a stirrer up to kill others, and to take
from others their Goods and Kingdoms, and to disquiet the whole World,
as we see other Monarchs do, but he will bring Peace and Concord, and
will perswade the Soldiers to stay at home and to get their food by the
labour of their hands, and not to shed the blood of the innocent; he
will injoin the greedy Usurers to be beneficial to the poor & to put an
end to their immoderate usury; he will shew to the Divines, that all
their contentions are vain, and that they cause nothing but inquietude,
dissention and discord amongst Men, and will require at their hands
to Preach concerning friendship to, and love of ones Neighbour, which
under this unprofitable contending is wholly lost, and to banish away
all hatred; and contrary-wise to strive after patience and Christian
humility. These kind of Doctrines and governance the inward or inside
knowledge of the Northern Lion will bring with him, and not any War or
shedding of Blood. But afore the said Lion is tamed and made gentle,
he is very ravenous, and the venomous Basilisk, and devouring Dragon,
preying both upon Men and Beasts, demolishing Cities and Castles, and
destroying Goods and Men together. Thus have I in brief expounded my
opinion of the coming of the Lion from the North, let everyone believe
it as he listeth. And thus much shall suffice for the Second Monarchy,
and how it is to be understood.
_Now follows the third Monarchical =Prophecy=._
As for what concerns the third Prophecy which I.H.S. doth also make
mention of, (& will have it) to concern a certain Writer, whose name is
_Jacob Behmen_, who exercised the _Shooe-makers_ Craft, and published
many Theological and also Chymical things, which _John Beth_ doth
again Print: As far as I know by his writings, he was an honest Man,
but I do not know what he understood in Alchimy; but however this is
evident, that he never exercised or practised Chymical Operations,
and that his Chymical writings are most difficult to be understood,
but his Theological writings are read by many. My opinion concerning
the business is this, that this same I. H. S. was minded to quarrel
with me, that so there being a brawling bred between us he might make
his Books the more saleable. I have therefore thus plainly answered
him, but if he proceed on in contrarying and opposing me, I shall be
constrained _Nolens Volens_ to meet with him another kind of way, for
I am even wearied and glutted with contention. If he will needs brawl
and scold let him do it with those that have no work to do, such as
he himself & his associates are, who have no Family to rule and look
after, I can for my own part bestow my time better than in those
contentions, which bring no profit, but only to the Bookseller, whose
Books before they are known sell well.
But to conclude, I will in a few words open the ill affected mind of
J. H. S. to the Candid Reader. When I had lookt into his Treatise,
and perceived that he had ranked me amongst the Sophisters, I showed
to some of my faithful Friends, the Letters which he had written unto
me, that so I might hear their Judgment concerning them; verily, there
was not one amongst them all, but wondered at the wicked mind and
falseness of this Man: Yea, one of them did afterwards inform him by
his Letters, what way I had purposed to take, _viz._ again to wipe off
that undeserved Title he had put upon me, and to defend my self against
such Monstrous Impiety; To which he received from the said _J. H. S._
an Answer, which he likewise shewed me, wherein (’mongst other things)
he pretends, that the cause of his hatred [against me] was, because I
had in some places written so very clearly of the Universal Medicine:
Yea, and he farther adds, that it is no such great despising one, or
Contempt to call one a Sophister; for _Geber_ was accounted for a
Sophister, and yet was he a King. And that if I wrote against him, he
would do the same against me, and endamage not only me, but my Children
too; which Epistle is yet kept safe. Now let any Honest Man consider
whether this be a Human, or Diabolical action.
Some, when they heard this, perswaded me to pass over all in silence,
and that there would come of it such another brawling business as
was with _Farnner_, whose Exhortation I yielded to, that I would
not so much as once answer him, how great Lies soever he told, but
rather purposed by referring all till the next Spring, to get me
Friends by the benefit of my very eminent Inventions (God willing)
which should not only intercede, or stand up for me, but also for my
Children too, after my Decease: I doubt not, but that there maybe some
principal persons found, which are capable of overturning such Inhuman
Perverseness.
These few things was I constrained to add (in a Parenthesis) for the
defence of my Writings, thereby to paint out the deceitfulness of Men,
and to discover what is to be opinionated concerning such turn-coated
Foxes: The which I entreat the Reader not to take in evil part, but to
accept of the Secrets laid open in this Treatise, as a Reward for his
pains in reading this Apology.
Now follows the Most Potent Lion, and Monarch of the North; to whom
none in the World may be compared, nor _did_ ever any excel him
in Glory and Power, or _shall be_ like unto him.
But before I begin to write any thing of that Omnipotent Monarch, I
have thought it profitable to add here in this place, for the better
knowledge of the same, _Paracelsus_ his Prophesie, as I met with it,
whereby any one that is skill’d in nature, may sufficiently see, that
_Paracelsus_ did not mean a King, but the great Philosophical Mistery,
and would point that out unto us: His Words therefore are as follows.
The Prophesie of Dr. _Philip Theophrastus Paracelsus_ of the
_Northern Lion_.
_They will not leave me in my Sepulchre, but will hale me out thence,
and lay me down towards the East: And I do foretell unto you, that
there are three great Treasures hidden._