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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Title: 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 ...
Author: Philalethes, Eirenaeus.
Publication: London :: Printed by Tho. Ratcliff and Nat. Thompson, for William Cooper ...,; 1678.
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Subject terms: Ripley, George, d. 1490?; Alchemy.
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This Stone also tell thee I dare, Is the vapour of Metals potential.

ANd now if any should demand of us what our Stone is, we shall answer him, that it is Gold digested to its height of purity and perfection, through the co-operation of Art and Nature; but the means to get this, is to learn to turn thy Body into a vapour, that is, into Mercury, which then ascends in form of a vapour.