An Hermetic Work.

Mercury . There are 600 such Sympathetica ! and Antipathetical Annotations in the animal ancl vegetable Kingdom , as Authors have written . Thus Candid Reader have I here printed what I have seen ancl done , for with Seneca I desire to know only that I may teach others : nay if wisdom were given conditionally to he kept secret , I would reject it . If any shall yet remain doubtful , let him with a living faith believe in his Christ Crucifyed , and in Him become a new Creature ,

through the most strict way of regeneration , ancl be fixed therein in hope , ancl use true love and charity to his neighbour , till his life be justly , chastly , ancl holily finisht , thereby safely to sail through the wicked ancl impudent Sea of this world , to the peaceable Haven of Heaven , where there is an everlasting Sabbath with true Christians ancl Philosophers , in the true Jerusalem . John Frederick Helvetius , Count Buss in Syria , and Caryntlda in Germany , with one grain of Tincture , transmuted three pound of 3 into pure O at all assayes .

The Golden Ass Well Managed, And Mydas Restored To Reason.

THE GOLDEN ASS WELL MANAGED , AND MYDAS RESTORED TO REASON .

Or a new Chymical Light appearing as a day Star of Comfort to all under Oppression or Calamities , as well Illiterate , as Learned , Male as Female ; to ease then Burdens ancl provide for then Families . WHEREIN The Golden Fleece is Demonstrated to the blind worldand that good Gold be

, may foimd- as well in Cold as Hot Regions ( though better hi hot ) within and without through the universal Globe of the Earth , aud be profitably extracted : So that in all places where any Sand , Stones , Gravel , or Flints are , you cannot so much as place your footing , but you may find both Gold , and the true matter of the Philosopher ' s Stone . And is a Work of Women , and play of Children . Written at Amsterdam , 1669 , by John Bodolph Glauber , The bright Sun of our

Age , and Lover of Mankind , like a true Elias riding on this Golden Ass in a Fiery Chariot . And Translated out of Latin into English in briefer Notes , 1670 , by W . C , Esq ., True Lover of Art and Nature , ancl well wisher to all men , especially to the poor distressed Household of Faith ; The true Catholick Church , ancl body of Christ , Dispersed through many Forms of Religions through the whole World , as the perfect Israelites .

The Epistle Of W.C. To The Christian And Courteous Reader.

THE EPISTLE OF W . C . TO THE CHRISTIAN AND COURTEOUS READER .

Job 28 . 6 . & 2 Esdras 8 . 2 . Reader f-r *" " ® w * 10 ma ^ e ^ an ou * ° ^ ^ar ^1 01 ' ^ a 7 > arL ( l out ° f Stones could raise up '' ^ - * Seed to Abraham , hath here sent thee Manna , ancl commanded these very Stones to yield thee Bread , in these Calamitous times , or rather that which may sutisfie thy honest ancl moderate wishes more for Food ancl all necessaries ( as was intended in the Fiction of Mdas thou touchest this Art turn

y ) For every thing by may to Gold , ancl purchase whatsoever thou needest for thy self , Friends ancl Family , without borrowing , extortion , or fear of want , or wearing longer Ears then "will become a r ational man and a good Christian ; And so thou maiest prove a . true Fortunatus , or ¦ "'evidential Mydas , and procure thee a lighter heart then many that have a heavier