398 NEW ATLANTIS. 



&quot; GOD bless thee, rny son ; I will give thee the 

 greatest jewel I have. For I will impart unto thee, 

 for the love of God and men, a relation of the true 

 state of Salomon s House. Son, to make you know 

 the true state of Salomon s House, I will keep this 

 order. First, I will set forth unto you the end of our 

 , foundation. Secondly, the preparations and instru 

 ments we have for our works. Thirdly, the several 

 employments and functions whereto our fellows are 

 assigned. And fourthly, the ordinances and rites- 

 which we observe. 



&quot; The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of 

 Causes, and secret motions of things ; l and the enlarg 

 ing of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting 

 of all things possible. 



&quot; The Preparations and Instruments are these. We 

 have large and deep caves of several depths : the deep 

 est are sunk six hundred fathom ; and some of them 

 are digged and made under great hills and mountains : 

 so that if you reckon together the depth of the hill 

 and the depth of the cave, they are (some of them) 

 above three miles deep. For we find that the depth 

 of a hill, and the depth of a cave from the flat, is the 

 same thing ; both remote alike from the sun and heav 

 en s beams, and from the open air. These caves we 

 call the Lower Region. And we use them for all co 

 agulations, indurations, refrigerations, and conservations 

 of bodies. We use them likewise for the imitation of 

 natural mines ; and the producing also of new artificial 

 metals, by compositions and materials which we use, 2 



1 et motuum, ac virtutum interiorum in Nalura. 



2 qux ibi praparamus. 



