If attainable the Philosophers Stone?

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An ingenious man with much seriousnes propounded the Question above, viz. Whether he should obtain the Philosophers Stone? or that Elixir by which such wonders Are Performed? such a thing in being, I verily believe; that it may be attained, I am as confident: but as it is a blessing beyond all blessings upon earth, so I hold, that it is given but to very few, and to those few rather by revelation of the good Angels of God, then the proper industry of man. This Question must admit of this manner of proposall; whether the Knowledge of the Querent be so able, or he so cunning as to reduce to effect by his Art what he desires? The Querent is signified by the Ascendant, and ♀ Lord thereof; his knowledge by ♂ Lord of the ninth, and the aspects which may be cast unto him from other Planets. I finde ♂ Lord of the Querent's Science in a cadent house, but in his own Term and Face. ♂ is in a □ aspect both of ♀ and ♄, and they and he in fixed Signs, they in the Terms of ♄, falling into the ninth house; I finde ♀ lately Retrograde, and in □ of ♂, now moving slowly in his direct motion, and applying again to a second □ of ♂: From hence I judged the Querent had formerly spent some time in the search of this admirable Jewell the Elixar, but in vain and to no purpose; his second application by □ happening not long after, while ♀ was in ♊, and in his own Terms, intimated a stronger desire, greater hopes and resolution to endeavour once more the attaining of the Philosophers Stone, but I advised the Querent to decline his further progress upon that subject; and in regard of the former reasons, advertised him how incapable he was, and the improbability of the thing he intended, according to natural causes and advised him to desist: I also said, that he erred in his materials or composition, working upon things consisting of too grosse and heavy a substance; part of which judgment I collected by ♀ his □ unto ♂, part by the affliction of ♀, his intellective part by the proximity of ♄, both cohabiting in an earthly Sign, for in any operation where ♀ is corrupted, there the fancy or imaginative part is imbecill; but where the Lord of the Work it self is unfortunate (as here ♂ Lord of the ninth is, ) there the groundwork or matter it self of the principal part of the operation is defective, as here it was: and that the Gentleman should think I spoke not in vain, I acquainted him, he had more necessity to cure himself of a Consumption, he was entring into (nay entred) then of advancing his paines further in the scrutiny of this Labyrinth. For seeing ♀ Lord of the Ascendant, and ♄ in ☌ in ♉, ♄ being Lord of the sixt, of evill influence naturally, and finding ♂ afflicting ♀ out of the twelfth, and ♀ not receded from, but applying to a further evill □ of ♂, no Fortune interjecting his benevolent aspect betwixt ♀ and the two Infortunes, but that he stood single of himself without any assistance, and thereby was incapable of resisting their malevolent influence, I advised to have a care of his health speedily, &c. The tenth House, and those Questions properly belonging unto It.

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27 May 1647, 10:45 AM