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IMMORTAL DISSOLVENT

BEING

A Brief but Candid Discourse of the Matter and Manner of

Preparing the Liquor Alkahest of Helmont, the great Hilech of

Paracelsus, the Sal Circulatum Minus of Ludovicus de

Comitibus: or our Fiery Spirit of the Four Elements.

TOGETHER

With its Use in Preparing Magisteries, Arcana's

Quintessences, and other secret Medicines of the Adepts from

the Animal, Vegitable or Mineral Kingdoms.

BY: Cleidophorus Mystagogus

2. Maccab. ch.1.v. 19. to the 23: The Fire of the Altar

turned into thick water.

2. Esdra. ch. 14.v. 39. And behold, he reached me a full Cup, which

was full as it were with water, but the Colour was like

Fire.

Produced by RAMS 1982

EPISTLE

TO THE

READER

Various have been the Opinions (Courteous Reader) concerning the

Basis and Foundation of this general Dissolvent, commonly known

by the name of the Liquor Alkahest; some imagining it to be

Mercury Prepared; others, that 'tis in Urine, Blood and the

like; which has been the reason of so many and difficult labours

made use of, and all in vain; for that the Liquor remains at

this day as great a secret in the world as ever, and 'tis like

so to continue while Chemical Authors deliver the subject in

such Tropes and Metaphors, which horrible and inextricable

labyrinth the young Tyro's are so entangled in, that it must be

by more than an ordinary Providence, that he can be disentangled

and set free.

On this account it may be properly said, that these Chemical

Writers had as good to have been silent; nay, ‘twou1d have been

better for then so many would not have engaged in a search,

where so little likelyhood of obtaining was seen whereby a great

deal of Precious Time and Money might have been saved, and that

Perplexity of mind which followes vain Chemical Processes might

have been Prevented; for this Reason it is but just in Authores

in all their discourses, tending to the instruction of others,

to direct to that Subject which is the true Object of that

discourse; and tho’ I must acknowledge that ‘tis not fit to be

delivered or disclosed so plainly, as that every Hog that may

come to the Honey Pot, yet I say that it may be Clothed with

sach a decent habit, as to prevent it Abstruse enough, yet by

this a certain and harmonious Concord to be seen; as for

example, the Object of this discourse is the Alkahest. Man and

all creatures have it, for there is no being in Nature, that is

rightly and genuinely dissolved, but what may properly and truly

be said to be done by this Liquor, but particularly in man after

a more evident manner in all Chylifications

whatever, but in this Act Man sucks the Quintessence of all

things so dissolved for his own Nutrition and being Transmuted

into Human Species, the Recrements are cast off by the common

Emunctories, far more grosse and Imperfect, than the Species

themselves were in their first Reception, consequently they are

of no fit object to ground the discourse of so pure and Immortal

a dissolvent on; nor indeed Man himself, tho’ we grant that it

is plentifully in him, but ‘tis that Salt or Life in him which

Concentrates all other Salts in his own Essence as a Catholick

Fountain for all the Rivulets to be supplied from. So that there

is no taking of it from him but by a violent breaking of the

Glass and a Transplanting of the Fountain back again to that

Inexhaustible Ocean from whence it first received its being.

Therefore, man cannot be the Object of any discourse

appertaining to demonstrate the Subject of this Dissolvent; for

the pure in him, as already said, cannot be obtained without

Death, which is abominable even to think on; but if it were ob-

tained, it would not answer the end; for what is sufficient to

dissolve in the Vegetable Kingdom is too weak for the Animal;

and that which is strong enough in the Animal is too weak for

the Minerals. Therefore, seek it in that and from that, which is

the Fountain, that supplyes all Creatures and beings with it;

for had it not a Source, Nature would soon cease, for as she

exhausteth by the Acts of Motion and Agitation of Parts in

Generation, so is she on the other hand Immediately Supplyed,

not only in the Great World, but also in every Individual Part

where Life is: Receiving the same through the Air, as the true

Vehicle, consequently this Catholick Fountain is the Right

object to ground this discourse on, as the true Subject of the

said dissolving Liquor; this is a standing Truth, ‘twas Truth in

the beginning, and will remain so to the end of Time. The Reason

and Philosophy of it I can by Mechanical Demonstration make

clear to a person worthy of such inspection: therefore by all

Clouds, dark vails and Metaphors, I genuinely declare that the

matter of this dissolvent is one and the same in essence with

that matter from whence all the wise Antients obtained the

Universal Medicine one being the Work of Art, the other Nature.

One gentle, the other violent: so that by the difference of

Operation they are brought to different effects.

Now therefore the Subject of this discourse being the Liquor

Alkahest, the object must be the Universal spirit; for 'tis from

this grand fountain of nature that our chaos doth proceed;

therefore thrice happy is he, that knows those magnets that

attract and make a species of this general Genus: for be assured

that there is something more than elements in all created

beings, even an incorruptible and quintessential spirit, which

is the very life of elements themselves; which being taken

appears in mist, vapor or water, even that out of which the

Antients say all things were generated, However, the right

knowledge of this matter is sufficiently abtruse, and the

operations thereof yet more abtruse, for I with many others know

by experience, that the matter may be known and many doe know

it, yet are wholly to seek in the matter and modus of operating

thereon; and whatever some foppish and conceited ones may think,

viz. that if they had the knowledge of the true matter all

difficulty is over; this may prove a grand mistake, for I have

been intimately acquainted with some, that have had a true

knowledge of the matter, and have wrought thereon; yet to the

day of their death, have been to seek of the magistery.

These difficulties have been those sharp stones that have

hindered my legal progression in twenty years travel towards the

mount helicon of art; so that my labor of body has been

excessive, and that of the mind much more. I have passed through

the drought and scorching heat of the day, and also through the

cold and chilling frosts of the night through a multitude of

wants and difficulties even often to the hazard of life itself.

How easy soever such, as aforesaid, may think it: I have had no

other door to come in at, but hard labour and great expense, for

coals and glasses have been my interpreters, and shall be so to

every true son of art to the end of time. So that for

conscience-sake, I'll write the truth as well knowing that there

are too many sophisticated and false proceses in the world,

which will not bear the touch-stone of experience; but vanishes

like a reprobate metal upon the test.

But passing by all this, and much more that might be said of

the like nature; I shall now address myself to the desireres of

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Wisdom, and let them know, that I have, as in a Glass, showed

them the true manner, in which and by which this Dissolvent is

to be obtained. I shall now come to speak concerning its Use,

and Utility when obtain’d which will abundtandly reward the

Possessor for all his costs and paines bestowed about it; for as

it hath been deliver'd, that the subject of this menstruum is

universal, so are the acts of it the same when prepared, which

plainly demonstrates from what fountain it might flow.

This liquor, as an universal fire, dissolves and opens the

textures of all beings, in the vegetable, animal and mineral

kingdoms, into their nearest matter, which is saline,

sulphureous, aqueous and potable, diffusive in any liquor, and

so comes immediately to nature's relief, and by the specifick

virtue manifested from power into act, diseases tho' never so

deplorable, may be overcome and cut down, as grass or weeds with

a scythe in the hand of a mower; especially by those of the

mineral kingdom, which may be justly esteemed the physician's

crown and philosophers diadem. This is the liquors virtue in

general. In particular, as it universally acts without

limitation on all subjects in the world, so in this action there

is something remarkable to be observed in every subject; for it

fixes volatile spirits, and volatizes fixed ones. It makes salts

sulphureous, and sulphurs saline. Nay it macerates the

gummosities of resinous and gummy things, which the ferment of

our stomachs could never do; for it being distilled from amber

and terpentine (see Urbigerus "Circul. Minus" HWN) leaves them

in a salt of excellect virtue: from the latter I have observed

it almost as sweet as honey, and a powerful specifick in the

stone; therefore by the help of this liquor of fire a few

medicines being prepated will answer in deplorable cases all

that the patient can hope for and the true physician expected to

perform. For instance, terpentine, so dissolved, or the stone

ludus. Infallibly cures the stone in the bladder; amber and

hellebore hysteric fits, hypochrondiack, melancholy and madness.

Cinamonm Unicorn's horn and the liver of an eel, for the speedy

delivery of women in childbirth; the sulphur of Venus is an

Universal Nepenthes, without opium in all diseases: the lilly of

antimony for dropsies and all agues; the magistery of gold for

malignant

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