For so to temperament is brought our Stone, And Natures contractions four, are made one; After they have three times been circulate, Also thy Base perfectly consummate.
THy Air then must be thickned with the Body, which is terrene and gross,
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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- 1678.
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- Alchemy.
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being not yet putrified, and by this means the Fire and the Air, and the Earth and Water will accord; for Air will agree with Water, and Earth with Fire: The Air being then tempered with Earth, doth by this reconcile the Water and the Fire. Thus our first decoction confounds the Elements, and thus our Stone which was of severed qualities, is brought to a temperateness. Thus by a natural Circu∣lation, the Quadrangle is made a Circle, and four qualities make a fifth, which is a Neuter from the four, and yet partakes of all. This first Conjunction natural, which is made in the Glass without lay∣ing on of hands, which we call Tripta∣tive, is the ground of the last Tetraptive Conjunction, which is made in the trun∣ing round of the three Wheels, which doth perfect the Stone.