THE
SECOND PART
OF
Miraculum Mundi.
In which is described the Magnificent Coming of
ELIAS THE ARTIST;
And that the wonderful Salt of Philosophers is the most Excellent Medicine of Vegetables, Animals, and Minerals.
By the help of which, not only Vegetables do grow, and are multiplied; Diseases of Men and Animals, whether internal or external, are miraculously Cured, and Imperfect Metals really changed into Sol and Luna; yea, pure Sol rendered able to sustain the Force of Fire beyond the natural 24th. to the 28th. degree but also from every Plant natural Sol is extracted, and disposed to fixedness, for multiplication of it self.
THE PREFACE.
Candid Reader,
Among ancient Philosophers of the Heathen, as Chaldees, Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, yea, and the Hebrews themselves, it was a long-received Custom, enigmatically to propose what they esteemed most worthy of confederation, lest such Secrets should either be divulged or lost; to the end, that unworthy persons having regard to the Letter only; and not respecting the Sence expressed in those words, might know nothing at all of them: But contrarily, the Worthy, enlightened with the Light of GOD and Nature, well understanding what is signified by those Words, might thence reap most profitable Fruit. The Truth of this is sufficiently proved by the Writings of ancient Philosophers; also by the Books of Moses, and the Histories of the Prophets. For all these, or the greatest part of them, do indeed need another explication, than the Letter it self seems to inferr, because some occult matter is in that contained.
In like manner our Christian Philosophers, both ancient and modern, discovered their Arcanum’s enigmatically; as, among many other, Basilius and Paracelsus did: For, although these men delivered all things true, yet they are understood by very few: Which hath been the occasion of Contempt and Reproaches, with which ignorant men, and the evilly-disposed, asperse all Philosophers (among whom Kings themselves, and divers Princes, in times past have been, and are yet found) and say, There is no such thing in Nature, as the Transmutation of Metals into a better state; and that The Universal Tincture or Stone of Philosophers was never found by any Man. Truly it is a matter worthy of sharp Reproof, and not to be suffered, that the Chymical Writings of many excellent pious men, should (although most consonant to Verity) be so maliciously rejected, and proclaimed false. This is rather due to Chymical Mountebanks, (understanding nothing less than Chymistry) because they expose to sale the Philosophers Stone unto others: This sort of men have rendered Chymistry so vile and abject at this day, as many men judge it a Reproach to be called Chymists.
That we might, as far as is possible, prevent this evil, and demonstrate those things to be true, which the above-named Writers have left to us, under the Title of The Salt of Ancient Philosophers, which by Paracelsus is called Elias the Artist; we resolved to effect the same thus.