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 ...

If it be well and kindly acuate, And circulate into a Spirit pure, Then to dissolve thou must be sure Thy base with it in divers wise, As thou shalt know by thy practise, That point, &c.

THis Mercury thus renovate or new born, may by the Philosopher be diversly handled; for he may take his work from the Fire, and circulate and cohobate this Mercury by a peculiar ope∣ration, which is partly Mechanical, till he have a most admirable pure subtile Spi∣rit, in which he may dissolve Pearls and all Gems, and multiply them or his Red Stone, before it be united with a Metal in projection for the making of Aurum Potabile. And in this Mercury thus cir∣culated, is doubtless the Mystery of the never-fading Light, which I have actually seen, but yet not practically made. In a word, every one who hath this exube∣rate Mercury, hath indeed at command the subject of wonders, which he may imploy himself many ways in both admi∣rably

and pleasantly. And certainly he that hath this, needs no information from another; himself now standing in the Centre, he may easily view the Circum∣ference, and then operation will be, next to the Spirit of God, his best Guide. Know then, that if thou be a Son of Art, when thou art once arrived hither, thou art so far from being at the end of thy search, (unless thou make Gold to be thy final object, and so thou shalt never come hither) that thou art but now come into the Mystical School of the hidden wonders of God, in which thou mayst every day see new Miracles, if thou be studious and desirous of know∣ledge, which all Adepti are; they prize skill before any earthly thing, and there∣fore refuse Honour and Pomp, and retire only to the beholding of God and his Works, in this admirable Looking-glass of the most hidden Mysteries of Nature.