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Baro Urbigerus

Aphorismi Urbigerani

The Complete 1690 Volume · With Circulatum Minus

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Aphorismi UrbigeraniXXII–XXXI: Powers, Limits and Further Regeneration · Original

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XXII–XXXI: Powers, Limits and Further Regeneration · Original

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Original English

XXVII. If this regenerated Essence be determin'd with our first Matter, it will then be in a Capacity radically to dissolve all sorts of Metals or Minerals, and principally Gold, which is imperceptibly dissolv'd in it, like Ice in common Water, and can never be separated common Gold again, neither by Destillation, nor Digestion: out of which, after a Philosophical Digestion, Separation of the three Principles, with their Purification, Union, Digestion, and third Regeneration, you may prepare the great Medicin of Medicins, of equal Virtue and Quality with the Grand Elixir upon human Bodies, and with our Mercury simplex, upon Metals or Minerals.

Modern English

XXVII. If this regenerated essence is determined by our first matter, it will then be capable of radically dissolving all kinds of metals and minerals, principally gold. Gold dissolves in it imperceptibly, like ice in common water, and can never again be separated as common gold, either by distillation or by digestion. From this, after a philosophical digestion, separation of the three principles, their purification, union, digestion and third regeneration, you may prepare the great medicine of medicines. It is equal in virtue and quality to the grand elixir in its action on human bodies, and to our simple mercury in its action on metals or minerals.

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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