Holograph copy of MINT00454(b) (Mint 19/3/25)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/5/38, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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{illeg}{M}int at Edinburgh &

– by the names of Sige & Charis. By Bythos they meant an immense being whom they also called Propator & Proarche.

– by the names of Sige & Charis. [By Bythos they meant an immense Being, the Æn Soph of the Cabbalists, calling him also Magnitude & Propator & Proarche.] By Ennoia these hereticks meant the λογος ἐνδιάθετος the inhærent Mind & Reason of the father. For so the Valentinians themselves interpreted this language, as their words are cited out of one of their books by Epiphanius. In the beginning, say they, he who by himself is the father conteined all things within himself. Then the Ennoia which was in him (whom some call Ennœa Cogitation, others properly Charis because she effuses the treasures of Magnitude upon those who are from Magnitude, but others more truly call her Silence because by cogitation without the use of speech Magnitude performs all things) she, I say, the uncorrupt Æonia being willing to extricate her self from her bonds enticed Magnitude to her embraces & brought forth the Father of truth, whom those that are perfect call the Man viz Adam Kadmon] because he bears the likeness of the unbegotten. Afterward Sige & the Man being conjoyned by their will brought forth Truth. This man they also called Νοῦς.

Ireneus tells us that according to Valentinus By thos & Ennœa begat Νοῦς like & equal (that is ὀμοούσιος to his father, & that Νοῦς was by them called also the only begotten & the father & Principle of all things & that Αλήθεια brought fourth Logus & Zoe . ☉ < insertion from the bottom of the page > ☉ By Ennœa they seem to mean the power or faculty of thinking, by Nous & Alethea & Vita, the effect of knoledg & truth by the assistance of the will. And this effect they called the λόγός προφορικὸς Verbum prolativuum. Now these Æons Valentinus . . . . . philosophers of Greece. < text from f 38r resumes > Now These Æons Valentinus had from his Master Basilides. For they both lived together at Alexandria & Basilides taught that the unknown father emitted Νοῦς & Νοῦς emitted Logus And this Theology of Deifying the powers & attributes of God Almight very much resembles the Cabbalistical Theology of the Iews. The first God of the Cabbalists called Æn-Soph the infinite or immense is the first God of these hereticks called Bythos & Magnitudo, & the ten Sephiroths are nothing else then his powers & attributes represented in the form of divine persons. Whence its probable these hereticks had their Metaphysicks as well from the Cabbalistical Iews of Egypt as from the poets & Philosophers of Greece.

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The General 3600^li Scots =	300
The Master 2400	200
The principal Warden 1200=	100
The Assay master 1200=	100
To the Counter warden 720=	60
To the Sinker or Graver 600=	50
The Clerk or Bookeeper 480=	40
The Clerk of the Bullion 333.6.8=	27∟7777=27^li.15^s.6^d.
To the Master Smith 360.	30
The General for repairs of buildings 1106.13.4=	92∟2222=92.4
11720. 976. 6. 8

Care to be taken for quick coinage

The Clerk of the Bullion to be weigher & Teller

The Master to find Moneyers whenever the Queen or Treasury requires