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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Without the which neither true Calcination Done may be, nor true Dissolution.

HE who knoweth not the Mystery of these two Menstrues, can never at∣tain either to Calcination or Dissolution of the Philosophers: The Mystery of the first consists in the acuating of thy Vine∣gar with the Blood of our Green Lyon, and the Soul of the Fiery Dragon, which is by seven Eagles, which are seven Co∣hobations and Depurations of thy femi∣nine Sperm, till it conceive a spiritual seed, or true natural heat, to animate thy young King.

The Mystery of the second Menstrue consists in the true proportion of thy first Water, with its own Body, and the ad∣ministration of true heat external, by which the combat between the Eagles and the Lyon may be stirred up; thus shall the Duel be ended, the Lyon rent in pie∣ces, and the Carrion of its Carcass shall

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kill the Eagles; and out of these Atoms shall the second Water be made apparent by Dissolution.

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