Aphorismi Urbigerani

Name: Aphorismi Urbigerani
Author: Baro Urbigerus

The Complete 1690 Volume · With Circulatum Minus

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Aphorismi UrbigeraniXIV–XXVII: The First and Second Ways · Modern English

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XIV–XXVII: The First and Second Ways · Modern English

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Original English

XXI. The Serpent, of which I now speak, is our true Water of the Clouds, or the real Eagle and Mercury of the Philosophers, greatly different from the Vulgar, which is corporeal, gross, dead, and full of Heterogeneous Qualities, and a Subject, faln from its Sphere, like unripe Fruit from the Tree; but ours is spiritual, transparent, living, residing in its own Sphere, like a King on his Throne.

Modern English

XXI. The Serpent of which I now speak is our true water of the clouds, or the real eagle and mercury of the philosophers. It differs greatly from common mercury, which is bodily, gross, dead, and full of heterogeneous qualities: a subject fallen from its sphere like unripe fruit from a tree. Ours is spiritual, transparent, living, and resident in its own sphere like a king upon his throne.

About This Reading Edition

The complete 1690 Aphorismi Urbigerani: historical frontispiece and Latin inscriptions, title and licence, dedication, all 101 grand-elixir aphorisms, the complete Circulatum Minus with its title, address and 31 vegetable aphorisms, and the full explanatory postscript with both printed endings. Original and modern English readings, fresh Latin translations, 115 annotations and the complete supplied Diotimos study apparatus.

Historical Text and Translation

Baro Urbigerus, Aphorismi Urbigerani, London: Henry Faithorne, 1690; with Circulatum Minus Urbigeranum and the concluding postscript. The Getty Research Institute copy supplies the governing images; EEBO-TCP A25684 supplies the structured transcription witness, corrected against those images. The frontispiece signed W. F. is attributed in library catalogues to William Faithorne.

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