Basil Valentine. Records of the life of Basilius Valentinus, the Benedictine monk who for his achievements in the chemical sphere has been given the title of. Valentine’s true identity can’t be known for sure, but my money’s on Johann Thölde, and we talk a little about both. As far as we know for the first time in the. VALENTINE, BASIL, OR BASILIUS VALENTINUSChemistry, alchemy, edly a German Benedictine monk born at Mainz in , Basil.
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Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine
Basiliue, I tell you in few words, that you cannot obtain a metallic body except by perfectly joining these three principles into one. Thereupon, let the signs of the Zodiac enter into opposition to the Pleiads, and when all the colours of the world have shewn themselves, let there be a conjunction and union between the greatest and the smallest, and the smallest and the greatest.
It described some 50 salt mines and evaporation ponds in central europe. These two spirits contain a third, and are yet but one spirit. O end of the final end, consider the beginning!
By natural conditions, however, new plants are generated simply through putrefaction. By this process the King will be liberated; and when it has been performed thrice the Lion has overcome the wolf, and will find nothing more to devour in him.
Then it must be so exalted as to shine more brightly than all the stars of heaven, and in its essence it must have an abundance of blood, like the Pelican, which wounds its own breast, and, without any diminution of its strength, nourishes and rears up many young ones with its blood. The farmer’s wife knows that she cannot hope to obtain chickens except through the decomposition of the egg. Retrieved 19 February Online books Resources in your library Resources in other libraries.
Basil Valentine – Crystalinks
Blessed is he whose eyes are opened to valentinee light where before they saw darkness. Baislius new branches thereupon become organically united to the trunk; but though nourished with its sap, they thence forward produce good and pleasant fruit. But in the summer he approaches nearer to us, the quality of the air becomes more fiery, and the snow melts and is transmuted by warmth into water. That which is extracted with wine or its spirit, has widely different valentinne and powers from that which is extracted with an acid.
For these two substances are singularly efficacious in producing fixation. Then foster it in gentle heat, until the whole of the mercury is dissolved, and you obtain the second ferment by nourishing the fixed sulphur with that which is not fixedas all Sages unite with me in testifying.
Beck,the latter available in the Special Collections reference collection call number: In the preface, gentle Reader, and zealous Student of this Art, I promised to communicate to you a knowledge of our Corner Stone, or Rock, of the process by which it is prepared, and of the substance from which it was already derived by those ancient Sages, to whom the secret of our Art was first revealed by God for the health and happiness of earthly life.
Animals are a class by themselves; nor can anything ever be obtained from them that is not animal in its nature.
If too much seed be cast into the field, the plants impede each other’s growth, and there can be no ripe fruit. The substance is dissolved in a bath, and its parts reunited by putrefaction.
One night, when he was buried in a deep sleep, there came to him a certain winged messenger, named Phoebus, who touched his feet, which were very hot, and said: Then Mars summoned his horsemen, and bade them enclose Mercury in prison under the ward of Vulcan, until he should be liberated by one of the female sex. This he regarded as the punishment of his sin in having wedded his own sister, and was instant in prayer to God both by day and by night, that the curse might be taken from him.
According to John Maxson Basiiliuswho wrote on the history of chemistry, there is no evidence of such a name on the rolls in Germany or Rome and no mention of this name before This work contains a wealth of information on antimony, its ores, and other related metals and minerals, as well as on laboratory procedures in general. Again in valentjne fashion reminiscent of Paracelsus, Basil Valentine insisted that the physician may utilize these potent chemical medicines only in union with his knowledge of weights; that is, he must pay attention to proper dosage.
Put the whole into a smelting pot and subject it to the action of a gentle fire for twelve hours, then let it be melted for three days and three nights more. So I read a great many books in our monastery written in olden times by philosophers who had pursued the same study, and was thereby stimulated to a more ardent desire of knowing that which they bxsilius knew.
But our Stone, as it has been bequeathed to me by the Ancients, is derived from two things, and one thing, in which is concealed a third thing.
Then you must join the husband and wife together that each may feed upon the other’s flesh and blood, and that so they may propagate valentie species a thousandfold. Lexikon einer Hermetischen Wissenschaft Munich: When water is distilled, air and fire issue from it, and the water and material earth remain at the bottom. In the same way, he that possesses this tincture, bsailius the grace of Almighty God, and is unacquainted with its uses, might as well not have it basilihs all.
This question you may most easily answer by asking yourself another question. First, our Matter should be carefully purified, then dissolved, destroyed, decomposed, and reduced to dust and ashes.
Seek therein, and be not weary; the result justifies the labour. Gaze steadily upon them, follow their lights, and you will find in them the secret of knowledge.
VALENTINE, BASIL, OR BASILIUS VALENTINUS
When thus the palace has been constructed by the hands of many craftsmen, and the sea of glass has absolved its course, and filled the palace with good things, it is ready for the King to enter, and take his seat upon the throne. Therefore, I say that though Saturn may seem the vilest thing in the world, yet it has such power and effficacy that if its precious essence, which is excessively cold, be reduced to a metallic body by being deprived of its volatility, it becomes as corporeal as, but far basiliua fixed than, Saturn itself.
In addition to the above, the Latin Basilii Valentini scripta chymica appeared in Hamburg in vaelntine Retrieved from ” https: