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 ...

And Mercury of Metals essential, Is the Principle of our Stone material.

THe Bodies when they are dissolved do transmute the foresaid Mercu∣ries by their own ferment, into their own nature, for the Fire of Nature assimilates all that nourisheth it to its own likeness; and then our Mercury or Menstrue vanish∣eth, that is, it is swallowed up in the So∣lary Nature, and all together make but one universal Mercury, by intimate union, and this Mercury is the material Principle of the Stone; for before our Mercury (as it was compounded of three Mercuries) had in it two which were superficial, and the third essential to Sol and Luna only, not to the Stone: for Nature would pro∣duce these two out of it, by artificial de∣coction: but when the perfect Bodies are dissolved, they transmute the Mercury (that dissolved it) and then there is no more repugnancy in it, then is there no longer a distinction between superficial and essential, but all is become essential▪ And this is that one matter of the Stone,

••hat one thing which is the subject of all Wonders.