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 ...

Yet one point more I must tell thee, How that each Body hath dimensions three, Altitude, Latitude, and also Profundity; By which all Gates turn we must our Wheel.

HAving then this Mystery, which is the Stumbling-block at which thou∣sands stumble, who cannot for all their talk destroy their Bodies, which is not to be done but by the Alkahest, which is an unprofitable way for our Work, and by our Mercury, viz. in 40 days, or there∣abouts: Then know which must be your next progress, for Calcination is but a term put on our Work by Authors, and it reacheth to the end of Putrefaction, our first Calcination. I told you before, that all our Work was compleat in three

Circulations, and every Circulation had three periods; so now I tell you, that these three periods are Altitude, Latitude and Profundity: Altitude and Profun∣dity being united, make Latitude, and so our Wheel is turned round: the Profun∣dity is the Water below, the Altitude is Vapour or Waters above, and the union of these two is in a Calx, which is Lati∣tude; which is done by Liquefaction, Sublimation and Calcination: Liquefacti∣on dissolves and confounds, Sublimation volatizeth, separates and washeth, and Calcination unites and fixeth.