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 ...

Joyn kind therefore with kind, as good rea∣son is, For every Burgeon answers his own seed, Man getteth Man, a Beast a Beast I wis, Further to treat of this it is no need. But understand this point if you will speed, Each thing is first Calcin'd in his own kind, This well conceiv'd, fruit therein shalt thou find.

STep therefore not one step further till you have learned this Lesson, name∣ly, to wed Consanguinity with Consan∣guinity,

and consider well what it is you desire to produce, and according to that let be your intention. Take the last thing in your Intention, for the first thing in your Principles: this is according to Nature, and it is the true ground of all Generation, for out of kind nothing doth engender; a Man begetteth a Man, and not a Lion, nor doth a Lion beget a Sheep, a Rose doth not produce a Thorn, nor a Nettle a Gilliflower; and so, if need were, I could particularly demon∣strate it throughout all Vegetable, Ani∣mal, and Mineral Bodies, but it is so plain a thing that I need say no more, but leave it with you as the Foundation-stone on which you shall build whatever you intend. Attempt nothing out of its own nature and kind, lest you reap a fancy instead of truth. Whatever you in∣tend to increase by way of Multiplica∣tion, attempt it only in its own kind; and so in this work especially, in which Calcination is the mingling of Seminal influence, which must be done in the same way of homogeneity. If you ap∣prehend this in its cause aright, and know

how to apply this doctrine in your ope∣ration as you ought, in this you will find great benefit, and a door hereby opened to the discovery of greater Mysteries.