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 first of thine Elements make thou Ro∣tation, And into Water thine Earth turn first of all, Then of thy Water make Air by levigation, And Air make Fire; then Master I will thee call Of all our Secrets great and small: The wheel of Elements then hast thou turn'd about, Truly conceiving our Writings without doubt.

TAke of thy clean Mercury, which is animated according to what I have faithfully taught in my little Latine* 1.1 Trea∣tise, and mix it with thy Body, as there I told you, without ambiguity; put it in a Glass, as I there advised, and govern it with a Fire, as I in that Treatise or∣dered, and thou shalt see thy Elements circulate; first thou shalt have thy Gold dissolved, which thou shalt know by thy first sign, which is a whiteness which will arise like a skin in boiling upon the Wa∣ter. This Water will be made aërial, by subliming in a continual Vapour; for by constant and continual Sublimation, our

Stone is inspired, and takes life in the Air, and lives, and shews the actions of life, and a living Water or Dew shall from the top of the Glass descend upon the lower grounds, and make them fructifie; then shall the Central Fire, which was hidden in the Earth, and is now in the Wa∣ter, come forth and ascend with the Water, and in the form of Air and Va∣pour, shall beautifie thy Vessel with changable colours, Citrine, pale, blewish and blackish: This is the Fire of Radical Sulphur, which when it is once stirred up, is like unto the Fiery Dragon, and Ignis Infernalis; by this thou mayst know that the Heaven and the Earth, the Form and the Matter, the Male and the Female are now beginning Conjunction: when thou seest this sign, rejoyce, for know that now thy Bodies are made in greatest part no Bodies; and this if thou dost work well, will be in 30 or 36 days.

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