The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton by Stanton J. Linden

Author:Stanton J. Linden
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chap. 8: The figure of a man, like unto Saint Peter, cloathed in a robe Citrine red, holding a key in his right hand, and laying his left hand upon a woman, in an orange coloured robe, which is on her knees at his feete, holding a Rowle.

Looke upon this woman clothed in a robe of orange colour, which doth so naturally resemble Perrenelle as she was in her youth; Shee is painted in the fashion of a suppliant upon her knees, her hands joyned together, at the feete of a man which hath a key in his right hand, which heares her graciously, and afterwards stretcheth out his left hand upon her. Wouldest thou know that this meaneth? This is the Stone, which in this operation demandeth two things, of the Mercury of the Sunne, of the Philosophers, (painted under the forme of a man) that is to say Multiplication, and a more rich Accoustrement; which at this time it is needfull for her to obtaine, and therefore the man so laying his hand upon her shoulder accords & grants it unto her. But why have I made to bee painted a woman? I could as well have made to bee painted a man, as a woman, or an Angell rather (for the whole natures are now spirituall and corporall, masculine and foeminine:) But I have rather chosen to cause paint a woman, to the end that thou mayest judge, that shee demaunds rather this, than any other thing, because these are the most naturall and proper desires of a woman. To shew further unto thee, that shee demandeth Multiplication, I have made paint the man, unto whom shee addresseth her prayers in the forme of Saint Peter, holding a key, having power to open and to shut, to binde and to loose; because the envious Phylosophers have never spoken of Multiplication, but under these common termes of Art, APERI, CLAUDE, SOLVE, LIGA, that is Open, shut, binde, loose; opening and loosing, they have called the making of the Body (which is alwayes hard and fixt) soft fluid, and running like water: To shut and to bind, is with them afterwards by a more strong decoction to coagulate it, and to bring it backe againe into the forme of a body.

It behoved mee then, in this place to represent a man with a key, to teach thee that thou must now open and shut, that is to say, Multiply the budding and encreasing natures: for look how often thou shalt dissolve and fixe, so often will these natures multiply, in quantity, quality, and vertue according to the multiplication of ten; comming from this number to an hundred, from an hundred to a thousand, from a thousand to ten thousand, from ten thousand to an hundred thousand, from an hundred thousand to a million, and from thence by the same operation to Infinity, as I have done three times, praised be God. And when thy Elixir is so brought unto

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