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The

METAMORPHOSIS

of the

PLANETS

A WONDERFULL TRANSMUTATION OF THE PLANETS AND

METALLIC OPMES INTO THEIR FIRST ESSENCE (WITH

AN ANNEXED PROCESS) BEING A DISCOVERY OF THE

THREE KEYS PERTINENT TO THE OBTAINING OF THE

THREE PRINCIPLES, LIKEWISE IN WHAT MANNER THE

MOST GENERALL UNIVERSAL IS TO BE OBTAINED IS IN

MANY PLACES OF THIS TREATISE DESCRIBED BY:

John de Monte Snyders

The Preface.

Friendly Reader.

Since it hath pleased almighty God now in these times to shower

down his grace as well upon the unjust as the just, and yet he

hath resolved to spread abroad his~ mysterious and hidden Wisdom

over the whole world, and -to the end hath sent out his holy

Angels to awaken as it were by sound of Trumpet the spirit of

all true Philosophers, who hitherto have rested as it were bound

up and fettered in a deep sleep, and have been concealed in the

innermost recess of this world, with anexpress command to lay

the same spirit upon others. So it is apt the time is now come,

not that the desceased Philosophers should visibly~ arise in

their bodies, but only that their spirit should be awakened, and

of grace be layed upon others, whereby th~ goodness of the most

high may be known in all the world; and wisdom may be made known

to all (without distinction) who are willing to accept of her,

without regard to their merits.

Now forasmuch as at this time the lot is fallen upon me, of all

the most unworthy, I am constrained without delay to accomplish

in sincerity and truth the will of the most High. To this End

therefore in the name of my God, I as a seedsman am minded to

sow the universal seed which the philosophick spirit hath

imparted unto me, over all the world or stony, sandy, bushy,

fruitful, and unfruitfull fields, so that neither the just nor

the unjust can have any pretence to complain against God in this

time of grace. And that I may now certify and make known before

all the world my vocation that by the appointment of God the

spirit of all Philosophers speaketh through me, and that I may

demonstrate that through the spirit of God the Keys both of

heaven and hell are committed unto me; it is very necessary that

I bring to light the matter it self, together with the opening

and shutting Key, whereby the

mystery of this world, the womb of all natures is opened, all

things are impregnated and promoted towards the birth.

But before I demonstrate my vocation by the charactistic testi-

mony of all the Planets. I will first for a declaration of my

already published treatise concerning the magical Elements, dis-

cover a most weighty point concerning the three Elemental irrat-

ional and mineral worlds, wherein I shall with most certain

truth properly and significantly delineate the due matter,

intreating the gentle reader not to be affrighted from the

reading of the book by the small authority and slenderness of my

person, but with all his faculties to take special notice of the

figure and not of the thing figured. For I here place three

irrational worlds wherein all depends, whereof one hath brought

forth the other two. I set my left foot upon one birth of the

great world, and place my right foot upon the other

hermaphroditic world and its figure as an universal irrational

and mineral microcosm; and I sit with my hinder parts on -the

mother of them both, which is the globe of the earth. And thus

sitting I stretch out my arms towards midday and mid-night, and

touch with my hands both the great luminaries of the crystalline

glittering heaven, and I sware by the most high Creator of all

things that I have heretofore in my treatise written the truth,

and will now in this description further bring to light that

corner stone whereon so many thousands have stumbled and been

scandalised, at which all true Philosophers have hinted:

I say true Philosophers in as mcuh as the writings of many

deceitful and false people have been accounted and esteemed

true, or at least plain and clear, when nevertheless the

greatest part know nothing at all, or at least have written but

very little which might be advantageous to the seeking or erring

lovers of Art.

And although I am not forbidden to point out these even by

their very names, yet that I may avoid giving -too great offence

I shall forbear, and only busy my self in delineating unto thee

not only the true matter through the three worlds, but also

afterwards

prefigure through the diminution of the forms, and permutation

of the Planets, and likewise -the whole consequence, as I in

truth found it, whereof I shall not now boast. Wherefore turn

thee unto the truth and lay aside the multiplicity of thy books.

For the true philosophick books are depraved and counterfeited

by many thousand venders of processes, glossers, and false

Philosophers; and if one would take the pains to examine all

with diligence, one should find no matter which hath not been

forbidden or rejected by them. Wherefore if thou hast a mind to

remain secure, then set thy mind on me, and behold me in my form

and figure, credit my words which I have confirmed with this

unheard of oath. For whereas with my arms stretched out I sat on

the circle of the world, and with my hands or fingers pointed at

the Sun and Moon, the true mysterious heavenly and earthly key

is delivered to me and thee, and leave at will and pleasure to

unlock the solary and lunary gates, and to translate the same

from their office, honour and dignity, yea after a wonderful

manner to eclipse them.

But whereas I with both my feet did touch the two irrational

children of the great world, I thereby gave to understand that

the nethermost was as the uppermost which I shewed with my

fingers, and yet the uppermost was like the nethermost; and that

the earth whereon with arms out I thus sat, was the mother and

bearer of temporal salvation, who had subjected and made

serviceable to me both her children, whereof the one was lunary,

the other hermaphroditick; viz. a solary and Lunary birth. Both

these are distinguished from each other by a small little stream

laterally flowing out. And like as the Sun is to be discerned

from the Moon, even so also are these two easily to be discerned

one from the other, especially if it be considered that the

Philosophers have appropriated to one birth the signs of water

as a lunary character. For the Moon governs the Water and

whereever the wise have adjoined a watery sign, the same is to

be accounted Lunary. Concerning these three or rather two worlds

I have taken upon me first of all

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