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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His Cave with blasts of fumous Air, he
all bewhited then.
WHich Glass, Nest, and Furnace
being thus secretly ordered, the
Artist must in the first place expect to
be in Prison a long time, as Bernard Tre∣visan
saith, for the Concave of this secret
place, will be so bewhited with the
fumes which ascend, that an Artist rules
his work more by skill and reason, or
the eye of the mind, then of the Body,
for the Spirits arising like a smoak or
Wind, sticketh to the Concave of the
Glass, which is above the Sand or Ashes,
and there by degrees, there grow drops
which run down and moisten the Body
below, and reduce as much as they can
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of the fixed, and so the Body by the
Water, and the Water by the Body alter
their colours.
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