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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Then take thy course up to the East anon,By colours rising variable in manifold wise,To the East therefore thine ascending devise,For there the Sun with day-light doth upriseIn Summer, and there disport thee with de∣light.
THen shalt thou see thy Exhalations to
return again, and by the continu∣ance
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of them on thy Body, light shall be∣gin
to appear, which is our Spring and
East season, in which as the rising Sun
scatters the darkness with multitude of
previous colours, especially in a misty
morning; so is it with our Work, such
admirable colours will appear, as never
were seen by the eye of man in so little
a room before. Then rejoyce, for now
our King hath triumphed over the mise∣ries
of death, and behold him returning
in the East with the Clouds in power and
great glory. Now the Night is over∣gone,
and the Morning breaks; the Win∣ter
is past, and the Spring comes on plea∣santly,
with sweet showrs of April,
hastning the most beautiful Flowers of
May. Now as the Winter is a sad time,
being cold and wet, frosty and slabbery,
the Countries of Pleasure being dirty to
the Horses belly, but the Spring returns
the year, and pleasure with its sweet sea∣son:
so in our Work, thy first Opera∣tions
before blackness seem tedious, but
after blackness far more tedious, for thou
wilt think there will never be an end of
it; so variety of colours brings delight in
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its daily and hourly variety, even to per∣fect
whiteness.
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