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 43
Whereby the Earth receiveth resplendence.
SO then the matter of Minerals is a
dead passive thing, in which there is
included a Light which is cloathed (vi∣tali
Aura aetheria) as I may speak; this
form of Light is it which doth actuate
and specificate or determine the matter;
and this splendor or Light is in all Metals,
Sol or Luna, which are conspicuous more
eminently in those two perfect Bodies
Gold and Silver, but are in other Mineral
Bodies more Clouded and Eclipsed with
an earthly faeculent interposition between
the fulgor and the superfluities, which is
the Imperfection of such Bodies; and is
accompanied with a rawness and incon∣stancy
in the Fire, the Impure carrying
away the Pure.
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