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 ...

This Chapter I will conclude right soon therefore, Gross Conjunction charging thee to make but one, For seldom have Strumpets Children ybore, And so shalt thou never come by our Stone, Without thou let the Woman lig alone; That after she have once conceived by the Man, Her Matrix be shut up from all other than.

I Shall soon draw to an end concerning this subject, for I trow that thou under∣standest

it fully; take heed then to my Doctrine, mix thy Water with thy Body in a due quantity, and grind them to∣gether diligently, and when thou hast mixed them, shut them up in thy Glass carefully, and there let them stand till compleat perfection.

And after thou hast mixed them, and set them to heat, be sure thou stir them not, much less open them, or add any thing to them, or take ought from them, whatever any Author do seem to advise: For if thou do contrary to this my Do∣ctrine, thou dost run an extreme hazard of losing all; for as it is with Harlots, who lying with many men, conceive rarely of any: so if thou joyn crude Mer∣cury after thy first Conjunction, I will not say that it is impossible, but very unlike∣ly that ever thou shalt attain our Ma∣stery: And what I say of putting in fresh Mercury, is to be understood of the Body also, for if thou shalt add fresh of that, thou wilt destroy all; for after thou set∣test them to the Fire, thou must expect Conception, that is, that the Mercury by ascending and descending will extract

part of the seminal virtue out of the reins of the Sun, which when she hath done, there then stands a relation be∣tween the Sun and that Mercury, as be∣tween Husband and Wife. Now other Mercury, or other Sol are not as yet so related, and therefore they are as a third person, which Love abhors. Therefore mix thy Matters so judiciously at first, that thou need not afterwards to wish for any new addition, and close your Vessel well, and decoct it carefully.