A Discovrse of Fire and Salt Discovering Many Secret Mysteries as well Philosophicall, as Theologicall

Tartar may be governed after another fashion. Wee insist therein in this respect, because it shews to have I know not what agreement with Soot: for as Soot is an excrement of fi...

Nature then taketh great pains, care, and pleasure, to labour in metals; and puts in them a very great length of Time, to bring them to the last degree of perfection, which sett...

Nothing should better represent unto us the four worlds namely the white which is supercelestial, the blew celestiall, the match fired, the Elementary, and the burning darknesse...

We have alledged heretofore, out of the 31. of _Numbers_ 23 that which is said of fire and water, the two purifying Elements, whereby in our baptisms we are accustomed to put a...

If then these profound Contemplators of nature, and her effects, had been willing to accompany their Imaginary discourses, with experience that reveales infinite secrets by fire...

Now if the Aire absent it selfe, which associates and unites them together, as being suppeditated and banished, which is moist and hot, from the extreame drynesse and coldnesse...

I Have been informed of your zeal and forwardnesse in advancing Learning and Truth, two commendable vertues, for a man of your merit and profession. And meeting with a subject c...

But to returne to our discourse, some have thought that sith the Starres receive nourishment, they should also vanish in certaine periods of time, and others come in their stead...

Behold these three earths, and the three dissolvants proceeding one and the other from the vegetable, that is to say, wine, the most excellent substance of all the vegetables wh...

As for fire in the 66. of _Esay_ 15, 16. which the Evangelist cites here, whose fire shall not extinguish, and whose worme dieth not. It is without doubt destinated to the punis...

But there are four differences of visible things, some cannot see but by day, the others, on the contrary, but by night, others by day and night, and others that have no place i...

On fire then and on salt depend great and secret mysteries, comprized under two principal colours, red and white, for (as _Zohar_ hath it) all things are white, and red, but the...

God then being a pure Spirit, stript of al corporeity and matter, (for our soule being such, for more reason must hee be so, that made it to his image and resemblance) hee canno...

The best salt then that may be, and the wholesomest, is that which is made with sea-water in _Brouage_. And after the example thereof, that the trough throughout, where the salt...

These are the vestments which _Zohar_ said were the good works and the nuptiall accoustrements of the soule, which cannot bee washed or cleansed but by Fire, _Every mans work sh...

And in the third of Saint _James_, _Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth_; yea one onely small sparkle of fire, would press in the twinckling of an eye, all the imme...

Behold here the depurements that fire operates where it passeth: and chiefly upon metals, which are of a most strong and persisting composition, as any other Elementary substanc...

But strong waters, which dissipate and ruine all, are this strange fire, and so Alchymists call them, and fire against nature externall fire, and other the like exterminatives....

But we see upon the ebbing and flowing of the salt pits in the Marshes of _Zaintonge_, where they empty the durt, which are as salt as the sea it self, where it produceth the be...