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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7. Another Purgation, but yet better.
I Have found out a better way of pur∣ging
it, with Vinegar and pure Sea-Salt,
so that in the space of half a day I
can prepare one Eagle: I made the first
Eagle to fly, and Diana is left, with a
little Tincture of Brass; I began the se∣cond
Eagle by removing the superflui∣ties,
and then I made it fly, and again
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the Doves of Diana are left, with the
Tincture of Brass; I conjoyned the third
Eagle, and I purged the superfluities, by
removing them, even to a whiteness, then
I made it fly, and there was left a great
part of Brass, with the Doves of Diana;
then I made it fly twice by it self, to the
whole extraction of all the Body; then
I joyned the fourth Eagle, by adding
more and more of its own humour by
degrees, and there was made a very tem∣perate
consistence, in which there was
no Hydrops, (or superfluous moisture)
as there was in the three former Eagles.
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