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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With the second which is an humidity Vegetable reviving what earst was dead.

OUr second Water, or Menstruum, or Fire, is our Elixir, which is an Elix∣ation of our Matters, or drawing forth the Tincture out of our dissolved Bo∣dies; which doth cause our dead Body to rise, and to spring forth in Sprigs and Branches, like to the tender Grass in the Spring out of the Field; and this so long

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until an intire Triptative Union be made of Body, Soul and Spirit. In this opera∣tion our Body of the Sun hath its dead moles turned into a living quick active Spirit, and our Compound after death be∣gins to sprout, and to shew its true Vege∣tative nature, it is indowed with a green Colour, which is the sign of the growth of all things.

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