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 Mercury as much then so subtil'd,One of the Sun, two of the Moon,Till all together like pap be done.
BUt there is an External proportion,
which is as necessary as the other, or
else the Work will either for lack, or ex∣cess
of moisture, be destroyed; and that
is thus: Take thy Body which without
any equivocation is most pure Gold, let
it be exquisitely purged, then filed or la∣minated,
or calcined with Mercury, as
is vulgarly known; of this take one
part, and of our Water (which is with∣out
equivocation Argent-vive animated,
which then we call our Luna) two parts,
mix them together in an Amalgama, and
grind them in a Mortar of Glass, or on a
Marble, till they become very soft, and
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all the grettiness of the Body be subtili∣zed
with the Mercury, that they may seem
to be one pap or paste, which we call
Inceration.
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