oily unctuosities do not mount by this degree of fire, no more doth the Salt, but much lesse; and the indissoluble Earths stript of all their humidities proper to vitrifie: for saith _Geber_, every private thing by its owne humidity doth performe none but a vitrificatory fusion. So there are two volatill Elements, namely the liquid, Water and Aire, which is Oyle, for all liquid substances naturally shunne the fire, which elevates the one, and burnes the other. But not those two which are dry and solid; which are Salt, wherein is contained Fire, and pure Earth, which is Glasse: over whom the fire hath no power but to melt and refine them. See there the four Elements redoubled, as _Hermes_ cals them, and _Raymund Lullius_ the great Elements; for as every Element consists of two qualities, these great Elements redoubled, _Mercury_, _Sulphur_, _Salt_, and _Glasse_, participate of the two simple Elements, (to say better) of all four; according to the more, or the lesse, of the one, or of the other; _Mercury_ holding more of the _Aire_, to which it is attributed; Oyle or _Sulphur_, of the Aire; _Salt_, of Fire; and _Glasse_, of the Earth, who findes it selfe pure and cleane in the Center of all the composed Elementaries, and is the last to reveale it selfe exempt from others. Of this sort by the Artifice and operation of Fire, and of its effects, we depure all infections and filth, even to reduce them to a purity of incorruptible substance from this time forward; by the separation of their inflamable, and terrestriall impurities; for (saith _Geber_) the whole intention of the Operator, is versed in this, that the grosser parts being cast away, the worke may bee perfected with the lighter; which is to mount from the corruptions here below, to a purity of the Celestial world, where the Elements are more pure and essential, fire there predominating which is the chief of all others. Hitherto touching _Alchymie_, and wherein shee is versed. _Magick_ for the Celestial world, was in times past, a holy and venerable Science, which _Plato_ in his _Charmis_ cals the true Medicine of the soule; and in the first, _Alcibiades_ puts it, that it was wont to shew the Elders of the great Kings of _Persia_, to teach them to reverence God, to forme their temporall domination according to the patterne of the order and policy of the Universe. But it is nothing else properly (as _Orpheus_ saith) but a forme of marriage of the starry heaven with the earth, whither hee darts his influences, by which shee impregnes comming from the Intelligences who assist therein; and an application of agent vertues upon the passive, and that without the cooperation of Dæmons the most part, evill, false, and deceptive, yet some more then others; with which it is thought that the three wise Kings, _Magi_, that came so farre to adore Jesus Christ, were willing to have some acquaintance and commerce.