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and others, that send forth Flames, many whereof are to be seen in diverse parts of the World; for
in these burns a perpetual Fire, which sublimes the Stone and exalts it to the highest dignity. As it
grows in mountains in a rude form, from Sulphur and Argent Vive, so it is perfected and brought
to maturity upon the tops of mountains, where also grows that Herb without which the Fire
cannot be tempered, because this, being cold and moist, and so thrown into the Fire, repels the
vehemence of it by its contrary nature. From the mountains it passes into the Air, where it finds a
habitation. For the Air is its house that encloses it, which is nothing else then that it is carried in
the belly of the wind, and is born in the Air, which ways of speaking we have explained before.
At last he is fed in Rivers, that is: Mercury is fed in waters; and then, as the Athenians celebrated
certain Feasts in his honour, which they called Hydrophoria. For the matter of the Philosophical
Stone is water, as the Rosary saith, and is understood by the waters of those three; for which
reason Mercury is said to have three heads, as being Marine, Celestial, and Terrestrial , because
he is present in the Water, Earth and Air.
He is said to be educated by Vulcan, and given to thievery because Mercury is taught to be
accustomed to Fire, which is volatile and carry away whatever is mixed with it. He gave Laws
and Discipline to the Egyptians, and anciently instituted the religion of the Theban priests, and
the great part of the world besides. For the Egyptians had this policy and sacred rites from
Chemical Institutions, from them the Grecians received them, and lastly the Romans, as we have
in other places abundantly demonstrated.
He slew Argus with a piece of a rock or Stone, and turned Battus into a Touchstone . What need
of many words? All the volumes of the Chemists are nothing else but repetitions concerning
Mercury, and they sufficiently confirm his power by this one verse: IN MERCURIO EST
QUICQUID QUAERUNT SAPIENTES: What wisemen seek in Mercury is found.
Here therefore he must be sought, for ill he may be found, whether he remain in the Air, the Fire,
the Water, or the Earth. For he is wandering, now running hither, now thither, to perform the
Services of the Chemick Gods:
He is their Footman, which is declared to be his proper Office, hence some men ascribe to him a
Daughter called Anglia.
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Emblem XXXVII.
Epigram 37:
Three things are sufficient for the Magistery: The White Fume that is Water;
The Green Lion that is the Brass of Hermes; and Aqua Faetida.
Discourse 37:
As there are three things essentially necessary to the building of a Fabric, so that either of them be
absent, there can be no perfection in it, and these are the Foundation, the Walls, and the Roof, so
the same number is requisite for the compounding of the Philosophic compound, which are here
named by their proper names. The author of Aurora, speaking of the separation of the Elements in
his 20th Chapter says, " The Earth is left there that the other three Elements may be rooted in it.
For if that were not there, they would have no foundation whereupon they might build a new
repository for their Treasures."
This Foundation is here called Aqua Faetida, which is the mother of all Elements, as Rosarius
declares, from which, by which, and with which the Philosophers prepare It, that is their Elixir,
both in the beginning and in the End.
Their water is called Faetida, because it sends forth a Sulphurous Stink, like that of Sepulchres.
This is the water which Pegasus struck out of Parnassus with his hoof ( which Nonacris, a
mountain of Arcadia, produces gushing out of a Rock at the Top of it ) and can be perceived as
nothing but by the hoof of a Horse, by reason of its most excessive Strength.
This is the water of the Dragon ( as Rosarius calls it ) which ought to be made by an Alembic,
without adding any other thing, in the making wherof there is an extraordinary stink. Some
persons, misunderstanding these words, have betook themselves to the distillation of the Dung of
Man, or other animals, in which operation they perceived a very vehement Stink, but found
nothing else but dung in their dung.
But do not suppose the Philosophers to be Beetles that work in Dunghills, for you must know that
the stink, if it be any, is presently changed into a great Fragrancy, as Lully asserts of his
Quintessence, to which, if it be rightly made, he ascribes so sweet a savour that, being placed on
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