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 ...

And for a sure ground of our true Calcina∣tion, Work wittily only kind with kind, For kind unto kind hath appetitive incli∣nation.

BUt all this is not enough to declare our Calcination, for Operation fol∣lows Preparation, and he that doth not before he begin to work, prepare his Matters, and set true Agent and Patient together, it is not his Regimen that can or will produce any thing. Therefore first you must know, that we joyn kind with kind in our work, for Nature is mended and retained with its own Nature: for this cause is our King wedded to the

Water-bearers Daughter, of which Wa∣ter-bearer I told you that his Body, his Pitcher, and the Water in it, are all one; and his Daughter was the Queen which arose out of the water, in which was seen a Lamp burning: Wonder not at it▪ that a Queen should spring out of a W••••ter-bearers loins, for the King is the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Son, and he is greater then both. For know, that in this place there is nothing so hard to get as Water, which cannot be brought but by him that hath the Keys of the whole Kingdom. Take this then for a great secret, our Water-bearer is Father to the King and Queen: the King being at perfect years, is at his own dis∣pose, and enjoys more Riches then his Father; but his Father hath the Key of a Closet, in which is Riches enough for all in the Kingdom, to make every Sub∣ject as rich as the King; but the dispose of this wealth the King only is to have, yet can he not have it in his possession till he marry his Sister, which is in the water of the Pitcher invisible. This his Sister, is also his Mother and his Father, for it is one with the Water-bearer, the

Water and the Pitcher, as is said. By rea∣son of his Consanguinity the King em∣braceth his Sister very desirously, and she by his embraces appears as a Queen, and then the Water-bearer, and his Water and Pitcher vanish, and the King and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 remain alone: at length both King 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Queen are drowned, after the im∣moderate use of Venery, and violent sweating, weeping and pissing, which sweat, tears and urine, do make one Sea, in which swim two Fishes without flesh and bones, which after resolve and make one Broth, which is called Water per∣manent.