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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For as the Soul to the Spirit the bond
must be,Right so the Body the Soul to him must knit.Out of thy mind let not this Lesson flit.
SO then by the mediation of the Soul,
the Spirit is made one, and incorpo∣rate
with the Body; for the Soul being
by the Spirit drawn from the Body, doth
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naturally desire to be united with it
again, and so long as it is from it, is from
home as it were in a Pilgrimage. The
Body also naturally doth desire its Soul,
and will as forcibly attract it as a Load∣stone
doth attract Iron: for know, that
the Soul doth not ascend, but it carries
with it a fermental Odour of the Body,
by which it doth so effectually affect the
Spirit, that it begins to think of taking a
new impression, and becomes daily by
little and little more and more able to
suffer Fire, and by consequence draws
to the nature of a Body: observe this.
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