for three dayes, till they be inſeperably ioyned together, and this is a worke of three dayes: then againe and finally, euery part heereof by it ſelfe, muſt be proiected vpon another thouſant parts of any neere body: and this is a worke of oneday, or one houre, or a moment, for which our wonderfull God is eternally to be praiſed.
Here endeth the Mirror of Alchimy, compoſed by the moſt learned Philoſopher, Roger Bacon.
The Smaragdine Table of Hermes, Triſmegiſtus of Alchimy.
THe wordes of the ſecrets of Hermes, which were written in a Smaragdine Table, and found betweene his hands in an obſcure vaute, wherein his body lay buried. It is true without leaſing, certain and moſt true. That which is beneath is like that which is aboue: & that which is aboue, is like that which is beneath, to worke the miracles of one thing. And as all things haue proceeded from one, by the meditatiō of one, ſo all things haue ſprung from this one thing by adaption. His father is the ſun, his mother is the moone, the wind bore it in hir belly. The earth is his nurſe. The father of all the teleſme of this world is here. His force and power is perfect, if it be turned into earth. Thou ſhalf ſeperate the earth from the fire, the thinne from the thicke, and tha gently with great diſcretion. It aſcendeth from the Earth into Heauen: and
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