Ripley reviv'd, or, An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works containing the plainest and most excellent discoveries of the most hidden secrets of the ancient philosophers, that were ever yet published / written by Eirenæus Philalethes ...
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Ripley reviv'd, or, An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works containing the plainest and most excellent discoveries of the most hidden secrets of the ancient philosophers, that were ever yet published / written by Eirenæus Philalethes ...
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Philalethes, Eirenaeus.
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London :: Printed by Tho. Ratcliff and Nat. Thompson, for William Cooper ...,
1678.
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Ripley, George, d. 1490?
Alchemy.
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"Ripley reviv'd, or, An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works containing the plainest and most excellent discoveries of the most hidden secrets of the ancient philosophers, that were ever yet published / written by Eirenæus Philalethes ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61326.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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descriptionPage 37
The third Essential to Sun and Moon.
SO then two are material passive sub∣stances,
which are united in our so∣phical
Mercury; the third is an active es∣sence
which is hid in our Mercury, which
is essential to Sun and Moon, because it
is a Fire, which is Sol volatile; and as the
Artist may govern this Mercury, it will
digest the passive Principles either into
Sol or Luna, at the Philosophers pleasure.
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