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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The second manner is called Triptative, Which is a Conjunction of things three, Of Body, Soul and Spirit, that they not strive, Which Trinity thou must bring to Ʋnity.

THe next Conjunction that follows this in order, is when thou hast so admi∣nistred

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and regulated thy Fire, that thy Spirits shall so ascend and circulate, until they have extracted out of the fixed Body its most digested virtue, or subtle Soul, which is Sulphureous, or of great Firiness. Then shall the Spirit and Soul descend, and shall unite it self with the Body; then shall the Air be converted into Dust, according to the process of no∣ble Sandivogius, where they shall lye con∣tumulate for six weeks without breath; and after when the Spirit of life shall en∣ter into them, the Spirit and Soul shall by their mighty force carry aloft the Body with them, so that it shall go out and re∣turn with them, for now these three are made one.

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