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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Therefore make Fire thy Glass within,Which burneth the Body much more than FireElemental, if thou wilt winOur secrets according to thy desire:Then shall thy Seed both rot and spire,By help of Fire occasionate,That kindly after they may be separate.
TAke then my counsel, be not so care∣ful
of the Fire of the Athanor, as of
your Internal Fire; seek it in the house
of Aries, and draw it from the depths of
Saturn; let Mercury be the Internuncio,
and your signal the Doves of Diana.
By the River you shall find a Tree, in
which is the Nest of 10 Eagles; take of
them 7, 9, or all▪ but take them very
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white, which oft plunging in the River
will cause: with these you may over∣come
the Lion.
The heat of their stomachs is far more
powerful than any Fire in the World;
for in it Gold will be destroyed, that thou
shalt not know what is become of it;
which yet loseth nothing from it self,
though exposed to the greatest violence
of any flame.
Thus with patience thou shalt see thy
desire fulfilled, and thy heart shall re∣joyce;
for a wide door shall be opened
by which thou mayst behold the Myste∣ries
of Nature in all her Kingdoms.
In 40 or 50 days thou shalt behold the
highest sign of most perfect corruption
of thy perfect Body, which of a dead
lump is thus become Seed, in which
though many cannot believe that there
is any active virtue, yet it is now to the
astonishment of Nature made living, and
by its life it kills that by which it was
made alive, and both being mingled
make one Bath, which by continual de∣coction,
moving the Earth and Water
below, and circulating the Air and Fire
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above, make at last one inseparable
quintessence, the Father of Wonders.
Now to God only wise, the reveal••••
of these hidden Mysteries, be praise from
all his Creatures for ever.
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