Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net _BASILIUS VALENTINUS_, A BENEDICTINE MONK, OF _NATURAL & SUPERNATURAL_ THINGS. ALSO, Of the first _Tincture_, _Root_, and _Spirit_ of METALS and MINERALS, how the same are _Conceived_, _Generated_, _Brought forth_, _Changed,_ and _Augmented_. Whereunto is added, Frier _Roger Bacon_, of the _Medicine_ or _Tincture_ of _Antimony_; Mr. _John Isaac Holland_, his Work of _Saturn_, and ALEX. VAN SUCHTEN, of the _Secrets_ of _Antimony_. Translated out of _High Dutch_ by DANIEL CABLE. _LONDON_, Printed, and are to be Sold by _Moses Pitt_ at the _White Hart_ in _Little Britain_, 1671. _BASILIUS VALENTINUS_, A BENEDICTINE MONK, OF _NATURAL & SUPERNATURAL_ THINGS. ALSO, Of the first _Tincture_, _Root_, and _Spirit_ of METALS and MINERALS, how the same are _Conceived_, _Generated_, _Brought forth_, _Changed_, and _Augmented_. Translated out of _High Dutch_ by DANIEL CABLE. Whereunto is added ALEX. Van SUCHTEN OF THE SECRETS of _ANTIMONY_. Translated out of _High Dutch_ by _D. C._ a Person of great Skill in _Chymistry_. _LONDON_, Printed, and are to be sold by _Moses Pitt_ at the _White Hart_ in _Little Britain_, 1670. _Basilius Valentinus_, OF _Natural and Supernatural Things_. CHAP. I. Because I have at this present undertaken to write of the of the first Tincture, the Root of Metals and Minerals, and to inform you of the Spiritual Essence, how the Metals and Minerals are at first spiritually conceived and born corporally; it will be necessary first of all to utter, and to acquaint you by a speech, that all things consist of two parts, that is, Natural and Supernatural; what is visible, tangible, and hath form or shape, that is natural; but what is intactible, without form, and spiritual, that is supernatural, and must be apprehended and conceived by Faith; such is the Creation, and especially the Eternity of God without end, immensible and incomprehensible; for Nature cannot conceive nor apprehend it by its humane reason: This is supernatural, what Reason cannot apprehend, but must be conceived by Faith, this is a Divine matter, and belongs to Theology, which judgeth Souls. Moreover, there appertains to supernatural things, the Angels of the Lord, having clarified Bodies, doing that by the permission of their Creator, which is impossible for any other Creature to do, their Works being concealed from the Eyes of the World, and so likewise are the Works of the Infernal Spirits and Devils unknown, which they do by the permission of the most High God. But above all the great Works of God are found and acknowledged to be supernatural, not to be scann'd and comprehended by Humane Imaginations; such is in especial the great Grace and Mercy of God which he bestows upon Mankind out of his great Love, which indeed no man can apprehend or know, and other great and wonderful works which he