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 ...

But three of the Spirit Bacon took To one of the Body: For which I awoke Many a night ere I it wist. And both be true, take which you list.

THere is another External proportion, which is three of the Spirit to one of the Body, according to the working of Noble Bacon, and many others; which though it seem little to differ from the former, yet there is a wide difference: I know them both, but shall not set down the grounds of the other; if you under∣stand the former, the rule of it may guide you in the latter; for there is an infalli∣ble rule of proportion, how the External and Internal ought to concur, to make a sweet Harmony: only let me this assure you out of Norton, That if thy Body have plenty of drink, Then must thou wake

when thou desir'st to wink; it will cost thee more assiduity of boiling for to dry up three parts, then two parts of Water; and there must be necessarily a diversity of Internal pondus, for the Water being of one and the same Internal heat, and the External fire being the same, the dif∣ference of decoction between two parts and three will be half in half almost until blackness, though after blackness there is one and the same time to both. Yet ei∣ther of these proportions are true, only you must be sure to qualifie your Mer∣cury in heat, and your Regimen of your Furnace accordingly as you work with one or other of these proportions, or else your first token of the Crows head will come wonderful slowly.