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 time of Conception with easie heat abide, The blackness appearing shall tell thee when they die, For they together like liquid Pitch that tide Shall swell and bubble, settle and putrefie; Shining colours therein thou shalt espy, Like to the Rainbow, marvellous to sight, The Water then beginneth to dry upright.

THou must then be very carefull that thy over-heat do not now hinder their Conjunction, for now is the main fear of burning thy Flowers, which thou mayst easily do, and make these Natures become a half Red, or Orange colour, in∣stead of the true Crows Bill.

Whereas if thy external heat be so gentle, as not to extinguish motion, thou shalt find that in this period thy Natures shall both of them die together, for one is not killed, nor dieth without the other; which death in its approach thou shalt discover by the appearing blackness.

And when once the Crow shall begin to shew it self, know that thou shalt see

a terrible day, for thou must expect to be in the heat of the shore, and in the storm of the inraged Sea, which now the Winds are abated, after a long and strong blowing of them, doth arise in waves, raging and taking on, and raising the filth from the very bottom, so that all becomes like to a troubled Glass of Ink, or melting boiling Pitch.

After this blackness, which shall en∣dure for a long and tedious time, thou shalt see various and glorious colours to succeed, such as thou never hast seen; for all the colours that the mind of Man possibly can imagine, shall then present themselves to view, which shall be an evident token to thee, that the moist and dark Dominion of the Woman doth now begin to vanish, and instead thereof the Man beginneth to rule, who first dryeth up the moisture of the Woman, with which there will vanish blackness, and the changable colours, and after all shall be fixed in a sparkling dry white Powder, which is the Stone of Paradise.