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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Our Bodies be likned convenientlyTo Mountains, which after high Planets we
name;Into the deeps therefore of MercuryTurn them, and keep thee out of blame,For then shalt thou see a noble game,How all will become Powder as soft as Silk;So doth our Runnit kindly curd up our Milk.
THus have many of the envious alle∣gorized
of the Scripture, and veiled
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their Work under several passages and
overtures which are mentioned therein,
to which they have some resemblance:
they have called their Metals Sol and
Luna, Mountains, either for the situation
sake, they being generally found in
Mountains; or by opposition sake, for as
Mountains are highest above ground, so
they lye deepest under ground; or for
that as the Mountains are nearer the Sun,
so those do approximate nearer to coele∣stial
Influences than any other Bodies
whatsoever: so also they have stiled them
by the names of Planets, by reason of
some similitude.
But it makes not so much for the name,
the thing is, take the Body which is
Gold, and throw it into Mercury, such
a Mercury which is bottomless, that is,
whose centre it can never find but by
discovering its own; govern them wise∣ly
with Fire, as thy Matter requireth,
then shall thy Gold visibly liquefie in the
Fire, that is, appear thin as if it were
Mercury, and it will swell, bubble and
boil, so long till the moisture be termina∣ted
by the Body into an impalpable Pow∣der,
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as naturally as Runnit doth curdle
Milk into Cheese. This total reduction
into Atoms, is the perfection of Putre∣faction,
in blackness most black, and it
begins before the 50th day, and endeth
before or about the 90th day, in variable
colours.
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