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and the Name Joseph, (by which Jesod is meant, have the same Number 156. That you may know that Argent vive is
required to the Work; and that the Royal Beauty doth not reside out of this Splendid City.
To this place belongs another Sirname, i.e., Elohim Chajim, as tho' it were called Living Gold; because Elohim and
Gold denote the same Measure. But so this Water is called, because it is the Mother and Principle of Living Gold:
For all other kinds of Gold are thought to be dead; this only excepted.
Nor will you err, if you shall attribute to it another special name, for it may be called Mekor Majim Chajim, that is, a
Fountain of Living Water. For, from this Water the King is enlivened, that he may give Life to all Metals and Living
Things.
The Kamea of this Water is altogether wonderful, and exhibits in like manner the Number Chai (i.e. Living) 18
times, the same Sum in a Magic Square of 64 Squares, which is the Sum of Mezahab, Waters of Gold; being
variable, after this manner, to infinity.
8 58 59 5 4 62 63 1
49 15 14 52 53 11 10 56
41 23 22 44 45 19 18 48
32 34 35 29 28 38 39 25
40 26 27 37 36 30 31 33
17 47 46 20 21 43 42 24
9 55 54 12 13 51 50 16
64 2 3 61 60 6 7 57
Here you have the Sum 260, from the bottom to the top, from the nght hand to the left, and by the Diagonal; the
lesser Number of 260 is 8, the Number of Jesod; as also the Root of the whole Square is 8.
The Symbol of the first Sum is 260, which makes the word Sar, i.e., "he went back," because in going forward the
Sum always goes backward through the units.
For Example, if you begin with 2, reckoning the first Column for 8 the Sum will be 268, which is resolved in 7.
If you begin with the 3 (reckoning 8 for the second Column) the Sum will be 276, which resolves into 6. And so of
the rest. And so also the number of Purifications increasing, the Weight of thy Water decreases.
Aesch-Mezareph
or
Purifying Fire.
CHAPTER VIII.
JUNEH, a Dove; amongst the AEnigmas of Natural things, the Name of a Dove is never applied to the Metals
themselves, but to the Ministering and Preparing forms of Nature.
He that understands here the Nature of the Burnt Offering will not take Turtles, but two young male Pigeons, or
Sons of the Dove, Leviticus, c. 1, v. 14, and C. 12, V. 8, and c. 14, v. 22.
But count the word Beni 62, and 2 for a Pair of Doves, and thence is the number 64 of the word Nogah, which is the
Name of the 5th amongst the Planets, and you shall go the true way. Else "labour not to be Rich; Cease from thy
own Wisdom:" Wilt thou cause thine eyes presently to discern it? That will not be: But the Scholar of the Wise Men
maketh to himself Wings, and flieth as an Eagle, even as he doth the Minerals of the Stars to heaven. Prov., c. 23, v.
4, 5.
Jarach, the Moon or Luna in the History of Natural Things is called the "Medicine for the White," because she hath
received a Whitening Splendour from the Sun, which by a like shining, illuminates and converts to her own Nature
all the Earth, that is the impure Metals.
And the place of Isaiah, c. 30, v. 26, "the moon shall be as the Sun," may be mystically understood of this, because
the Work being finished, she hath a solar Splendour; but in this State, the place of Canticles, c. 6, v. 10, belongs to
her,---" fair as the Moon."
By the same Name the Matter of the Work is called: and so indeed it is like to the crescent Moon, in the first State of
Consistence; and like to the Full Moon in the last State of Fluidity and Purity. For the words Jarach, the Moon, and
Razia, Secrets, also Rabui, a Multitude, have by Gematria the same Numbers, because in this Matter are found the
Secrets of Multiplication.
Gophrith is Sulphur; in the Science of Minerals this Principle is referred to Binah, to the left because of its Colour;
and to left also, Gold is wont to be referred; and Charutz, a kind of Gold, is also referred to Binah, and being 7 in its
lesser Number agrees with that of Gophritha.
Therefore the Gold of Natural Wisdom ought to be Charutz; that is digged out, or the like not excocted. And this is
that Sulphur, which hath a fiery Colour, and is penetrating and changing to impure Earths; to wit, Sulphur with Salt,
Deut., c. 29, v. 23. Sulphur with Fire, rained down upon the Wicked,---that is the impure Metals, Psalm 106, v. 6.
You must dig up this Sulphur; and it is to be digged out of the Water, that you mayest have Fire obtained from
Water. "And if your Ways be right before the Lord, your Iron shall swim upon the Water," 2 Kings, c. 6, v. 6. "Go
thy way then to the River Jordan with Elisha"; see v. 4. "But who shall declare the Geburah of the Lord?" Psalm
106, v. 2.
Many seek other Sulphurs, and he that hath entered the "House of the Paths" shall understand them, Proverbs, c. 8,
v. 2. For the Sulphurs of Gold and Iron, the Extraction whereof is taught by many, and is easy; also of Gold, Iron
and Brass; also of Gold, Iron, Copper and Antimony, which are gathered together after Fulmination by Vinegar, out
of the lixivium, which are changed into a Red Oil, with a moist Hydrargyrum,---do tinge Silver. For from Proverbs,
c. 21, v. 20, we know there is a Treasure to be desired and also an Oil to be found in the dwelling of a Man of
Wisdom.
Finis.
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