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A10786	The compound of alchymy. Or The ancient hidden art of archemie conteining the right & perfectest meanes to make the philosophers stone, aurum potabile, with other excellent experiments. Diuided into twelue gates. First written by the learned and rare philosopher of our nation George Ripley, sometime Chanon of Bridlington in Yorkeshyre: & dedicated to K. Edvvard the 4. Whereunto is adioyned his epistle to the King, his vision, his wheele, & other his workes, neuer before published: with certaine briefe additions of other notable writers concerning the same. Set foorth by Raph Rabbards Gentleman, studious and expert in archemicall artes.	Ripley, George, d. 1490?; Rabbards, Ralph.	1591 (1591)	STC 21057; ESTC S115988	44,455	116

times must thou turne about thy wheele Still keeping the rule of the said Cibation And then as soone as it the fire doth feele Like waxe it wilbe readie vnto liquation This chapter needeth no longer protestation For I haue tolde thee the dietorie most conuenient After thine Elements be made equipolent And also how to whitenes thou shalt bring thy golde Most like in figure to leaues of hawthorne tree Called Magnesia afore as I haue tolde And our white Sulphure without combustibilitie Which from the fire away will neuer flie And thus the seuenth Gate as you desired In the vprising of the Sunne is conquered The end of the seuenth Gate Of Sublimation The eight Gate HEre of our Sublimation a word or two I haue to speake which the eight Gate is Fooles doo sublime but sublime thou not so For we sublime not as they doe ywis To sublime truly therefore thou shalt not mis If thou canst make thy bodies first spirituall And then thy spirits as I haue taught thee corporall Some doe Mercurie from vitrioll and salt sublime And other spirits from scales of yron and steele From egg-shels calcined and from quick lime And in their manner yet sublime they right weele But such subliming accordeth neuer a deele To our intents for we sublime not so To true subliming therefore now will I goe In Sublimation first beware of one thing That thou sublime to the top of the vessell For without violence thou shalt it not downe bring Againe but there it will abide and dwell So it reioyceth with refrigeration I thee tell Keepe it therefore with temperate heate adowne Full fortie dayes till it wexe blacke and browne For then the soule beginneth to come out From his owne veynes for all that subtill is Will with the spirite ascend withouten doubt Beare in thy minde therefore and thinke on this How here eclipsed been thy bodies As they doe putrifie subliming more and more Into water vntill they be all vp ybore And thus their venome when they haue spued out Into the water then blacke it doth appeare Becomming spirituall each deale without doubt Subliming easilie in our manner Into the water which doth him beare For in the ayre our childe must thus be bore Of the water againe as I haue said before But when these two by Sublimation continuall Be laboured so with heate both moyst and temperate That all is white and purely made spirituall Then heauen vpon earth must be reiterate Vntill the soule with the bodie be incorporate That earth become all that before was heauen Which wilbe done in Sublimations seauen And Sublimations we make for causes three The first cause is to make the bodie spirituall The second is that the spirite may corpora●l bee And become fixt with it and consubstantiall The third cause is that from his filthie originall He may be cleansed and his saltnes sulphurious May be minished in him which is infectious Then when they thus together depured be They will sublime vp whiter than the snowe That sight will greatly comfort thee For then anon perfectly thou shalt knowe The spirits shall so adowne ythrowe That this eight Gate shalbe to thee vnlocked Out of the which many be shut and mocked The end of the eight Gate Of Firmentation The ninth Gate TRue Firmentation few Workers vnderstand That secret therefore I will expound to thee I trauailed truly through manie a Land Ere euer I might finde any that would tell it mee Yet as God would euermore blessed be hee At the last I came to the knowledge thereof perfite Take heede therefore what I thereof doe write Firmentations in diuers manners be doone By which our medicine must be perpetuate Into cleere water some looseth Sunne and Moone And with their medicines make them to be congelate Which in the fire when they be examinate May not abide nor alter with complement For such Firmenting is not to our intent But yet more kindly some other men doone Fermenting their medicines in this wise In Mercurie dissoluing both Sunne and Moone Till time with the spirit they will arise Subliming them together twice or thrice Then Fermentation therewith they make That is a way but yet we it forsake Some other there be which haue more hap To touch the troth in part of fermenting They amalgame their bodies with Mercurie like pap Then therevpon their medicines relenting These of our secrets haue some henting But not the truth with perfect complement Because they neither putrifie nor alter their Ferment That poynt therefore I will disclose vnto thee Looke how thou didst with thine vnperfect bodie Doe so with thy perfect bodies in each degree That is to say first thou them putrifie Their former qualities destroying vtterly For this is wholly to our intent That first thou alter before thou ferment To thy compound make firment the fourth part Which ferments been only of Sunne and Moone If thou therefore be maister of this Arte Thy Fermentation let thus be doone Fixe water and earth together soone And when thy medicine as waxe doth flowe Then vpon malgames looke thou it throwe And when all that together is mixed Aboue the glasse well closed make thy fire And so continue it till all be fixed And well fermented to thy defire Then make Proiection after thy pleasure For that is medicine each deale perfite Thus must thou ferment both red and white For like as flowre of wheate made into paste Requireth ferment which leauen we call Of bread that it may haue the kindly taste And become foode to man and woman cordiall Right so thy medicine ferment thou shall That it may taste of the Ferment pure At all assayes for euer to endure And vnderstand that there be Ferments three Two be of bodies in nature cleene Which must be altred as I haue told thee The third most secret of which I meene Is the first earth of his water greene And therefore when the Lion doth thurst Make him to drinke till his belly burst Of this a Question if I should mooue And aske of workers what is this thing Anon thereby I should them prooue If they had knowledge of our fermenting For manie a man speaketh with wondring Of Robin hood and of his bowe Which neuer shot therein I trowe For Fermentation true as I thee tell Is of the soule with the bodies incorporation Restoring to it the kindly smell With tast and colour by naturall conspissation Of things disseuered a due reintegration Whereby the bodie of the spirit taketh impression That either the other may help to haue ingression For like as bodies in their compaction corporall May not shewe out their qualities effectually Vntill the time that they become spirituall No more may spirits abide with bodies stedfastly Till they with them be confixate proportionally For then the bodie teacheth the spirit to suffer fire And the spirit the bodie to enter to thy defire Therefore thy gold with gold thou must ferment With his owne water thy earth cleansed I

At the first gate now art thou in Of the Philosophers Castell where they dwell Proceede wisely that thou may winne In at moe gates of that Castell Which Castell is round as any bell And gates it hath eleuen yet moe One is conquered now to the second goe The end of the first gate Of Dissolution The second Gate OF Dissolution now will I speake a word or two Which sheweth out what erst was hid frō sight And maketh intenuate things that were thicke also By vertue of our first menstrue cleare and bright In which our bodies eclipsed been of light And of their hard and drye compaction subtilate Into their owne first matter kindly retrogradate One in gender they be and in number two Whose Father is the Sunne the Moone the Mother The Mouer is Mercurie these and no moe Be our Magnesia our Adropp and none other Things here be but onely sister and brother That is to meane agent and patient Sulphure and Mercury coessentiall to our intent Betwixt these two equalitie contrarious Ingendred is a meane most marueilously Which is our Mercury and menstrue vnctuous Our secreat Sulphure working inuisibly More fiercely than fire burning the bodie Dissoluing the bodie into water minerall Which night for darknes in the North we doe call But yet I trow thou vndestandst not vtterly The very secreat of the Philosophers Dissolution Therefore conceiue me I counsell thee wittily For the truth I will tell thee without delusion Our solution is cause of our Congelation For Dissolution on the one side corporall Causeth Congelation on the other side spirituall And we dissolue into water which wetteth no hand For when the earth is integrately incinerate Then is the water congealed this vnderstand For the elements be so together concatenate That when the bodie is from his first forme alterate A new forme is induced immediatly For nothing being without all forme is vtterly And heere a secret to thee I will disclose Which is the ground vnto our secrets all And it not knowne thou shalt but lose Thy labour and costs both great and small Take heed therefore in error that thou not fall The more thine earth and the lesse thy water be The rather and better solucion shalt thou see Behold how yce to water doth relent And so it must for water it was before Right so againe to water our earth is went And water thereby congeald for euermore For after all Philosophers that euer were bore Each mettall was once water mynerall Therefore with water they turne to water all In which water of kinde occasionate Of qualities been repugnant and diuersitie Things into things must therefore be rotate Vntill diuersitie be brought to perfect vnitie For Scripture recordeth when the earth shall be Troubled and into the deepe Sea shall be cast Mountaines and bodies likewise at the last Our bodies be likened conueniently To mountaines which after high Planets we name Into the deepnes therefore of Mercurie Turne them and keepe thee out of blame For then shalt thou see a noble game How all shall become powder as soft as silke So doth our rennit kindly kurd vp our milke Then hath the bodies their first forme lost And others been induced immediatly Then hast thou well bestowed thy cost Whereas others vncunning must goe by Not knowing the secrets of our philosohie Yet one poynt more I must tell thee How each bodie hath dimensions three Altitude Latitude and also profunditie By which all gates turne we must our wheele Knowing that thine entrance in the West shall be Thy passages forth to the North if thou doo weele And there thy lights lose their lights each deele For there thou must abide by ninetie nights In darknes of purgatorie withouten lights Then take thy course vp to the East anone By colours passing variable in manifold wise And then be winter and vere nigh ouergone To the East therefore thine ascending deuise For there the Sunne with daylight doth vprise In sommer and there disport thee with delight For there thy worke shall become perfect white Foorth from the East into the South ascend And set thee downe there in the chaire of fire For there is haruest that is to say an end Of all this worke after thine owne desire There shineth the Sunne vp in his Hemisphere After the Eclipses in rednes with glorie As king to raigne vpon all mettals and Mercurie And in one glasse must be done all this thing Like to an Egge in shape and closed weele Then must thou know the measure of firing The which vnknowne thy worke is lost each deele Let neuer thy glasse be hotter than thou maist feele And suffer still in thy bare hand to hold For feare of losing as Philosophers haue told Yet to my doctrine furthermore attend Beware thy glasse thou neuer open ne meue From the beginning till thou haue made an end If thou doo contrarie thy worke may neuer cheue Thus in this Chapter which is but briefe I haue thee taught thy true solution Now to the third gate goe for this is won The end of the second gate Of Seperation The third gate SEperation doth each part from other diuide The subtile from the grosse the thick frō the thinn But Seperation manuall looke thou set a side For that pertaines to fooles that little good doth winn But in our Seperation Nature doth not blinn Making diuision of qualities elementall Into a fift degree till they be turned all Earth is turned into water vnder black and bloe And water after into ayre vnder very white Then Aire into fire elements there be no moe Of these is made our stone of great delight But of this Seperation much more must we write And Seperation is called by Philosophers definition Of the saide foure elements terraptatiue dispersion Of this Seperation I finde a like figure Thus spoken by the Prophet in the Psalmodie God brought out of a stone a flood of water pure And out of the hardest rock oyle abundantly So out of our stone precious if thou be witty Oyle incombustable and water thou shalt draw And there abouts at the coale thou needst not to blow Doe this with heate easie and nourishing First with moyst fire and after that with drie The flegme with patience out drawing And after that the other Natures wittely Drye vp thine earth vntill it be thirsty By Calcination else labourest thou in vaine And then make it drink vp the moysture againe Seperation thus must thou oftetimes make Thy waters diuiding into partes two So that the subtile from the grosse thou take Till earth remaine beneath in colours bloe That earth is fixed to abide all woe The other parte is spirituall and flying But thou must turne them all into one thing Then oyle and water with water shall distill And through her helpe receiue mouing Keepe well these two that thou not spill Thy worke for lack of due closing And make thy stopple of glasse melting The topp of thy vessell together with it