Now the separation of the Microcosme begins at his death. For in death the two bodies of Man are separated the one from the other, _viz._ his Celestial and Terrestial body; _i.e._ Sacramental, and Elementary: one of which ascends on high like an Eagle; the other falls downward to the earth like lead. [Sidenote: What the Elementary Body is.] The Elementary is putrefied, consumed, and becomes a putrid stinking carkase, which being buryed in the earth, never comes forth, or appeares more. [Sidenote: What a Sacramentall Body is.] But the Sacramentall, _i.e._ Syderiall, or Celestiall, is never putrefied, or buried, neither doth it possesse any place. This body appears to Men, and also after death is seen. Hence _Ghosts_, _Visions_, and _Supernaturall Apparitions_. [Sidenote: Whence the Cabalisticall art.] Hence by the ancient Magicians, the _Cabalisticall Art_ took its beginning, of which we shall treat more at large in the books of Cabalie. After this separation is made, then after the death of the Man three substances, _viz._ _Body_, _Soule_, and _Spirit_ are divided the one from the other, every one going to its own place, _viz._ its own fountaine, from whence it had its originall, _viz._ the body to the Earth, to the first matter of the Elements: the soul into the first matter of Sacraments, and lastly, the spirit into the first matter of the Airy Chaos. [Sidenote: The separation of the Macrocosme.] [Sidenote: Three parts of the World.] What now hath been spoken of the separation of the Macrocosme, the same also may bee understood in the greater world which the great Ocean hath divided into three parts, so that the universall world is severed into three parts, _viz._ _Europe_, _Asia_, and _Africa_, which separation is a certain representation of three Principles, which can be separated from any Terrene, or Elementary thing. These three Principles are Mercury, Sulphur, and Salt, of which three the world was made, and composed. [Sidenote: The separation of Metalls.] The next thing to bee known is the separation of Metalls from their Mountains, _i.e._ the separation of Metalls, and Mineralls. By vertue of this separation many things come forth out of one matter, as you see out of Mineralls come forth, _The drosse of Metalls_, _Glasse_, _Sand_, _Piipitis_ (_see Transcriber’s Note_), _Marcasite_, _Granatus_, _Cobaltum_, _Talke_, _Cachinna_, _Zinetum_, _Bisemutum_, _Antimony_, _Litharge_, _Sulphur_, _Vitriall_, _Verdegrease_, _Chrysocolla_, _the Azure Stone_, _Auripigmentum_, _Arsenicke_, _Realgar_, _Cinnabar_, _Clay of Iron_, _Spathus_, _Gyphus_, _Ocree_, and many more like to these, as also the _Waters_, _Oyles_, _Resines_, _Calxes_, _Mercury_, _Sulphur_, and _Salt_, &c. [Sidenote: Of Vegetables.] Vegetables in their separation yeeld, _Waters_, _Oyles_, _Iuices_, _Resines_, _Gums_, _Electuaries_, _Powders_, _Ashes_, _Mercury_, _Sulphur_, and _Salt_. [Sidenote: Of Animalls.]