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A61326	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 ...	Philalethes, Eirenaeus.; Cooper, William, fl. 1668-1688.	1678 (1678)	Wing S5286; ESTC R825	171,221	596

side spiritual WHen once thou hast the true mastery of our Dissolution thou needest take no care for Congelation for governing it on with thy Fire thou shalt attain Coagulation without any laying on of hands Therefore saith Ricardus above all things it is wonderful that in our work Calcination Dissolution Sublimation Putrefaction Separation Conjunction Death and Purification should be performed in one Vessel and one linear decoction without laying on of hands for verily the Dissolution of the Body thickens the Spirit as it is in Water in which Gum or such a thing is dissolved for by how much the one is dissolved the other is congealed this proves the naturality of our Work for as a grain of Corn is in the bowels of the Earth softned with the moist Vapour and swelleth thereby this Vapour is also terminated by the fermental odour of the Grain and so both grow up together into Stalks and Ears And we dissolve into Water which wetteth no hand For when the Earth is integratly incinerate Then is the Water congeal'd This understand For our Elements are so together concatenate That when thy Body from its first form is alterate A new form is indued immediately Since nothing being without all form is utterly SO we in our Work dissolve our Body which is Gold in its own Water in which it is softned as a Seed in its proper ground and being softned it relents into Water not diaphanous such as is the Waters of the Clouds or of Fountains but Mineral even Mercury which wetteth no hand nor cleaves to any thing but that which is of its own substance and essence So that then in our Work our two Principals work not according to their single dispositions but as conjunct the one saith the Philosopher dyeth not without its Brother therefore when thou calcinest the Earth thou dost in it and with it calcine the Water and in this the Souls of both are tyed together to the end that they may serve the wise Philosophers Therefore let all thy study be to unite Natures which thou canst never do unless thou separate first their Souls by Sublimation and afterwards unite them in blackness which a continual Circulation of thy Water upon the Earth will produce Now know that when thou seest thy Water and thy Body boil together so as to thicken one another and to congeal one another that then thy science is true and then thy Body which thus thickens is not the same which thou puttest in but a middle coagulate a terra Adamica a Limus and Chaos for one form being taken away a second necessarily follows immediately for as no Body can at any time have more than one form so can it never be void of all form And here a secret I will to thee disclose Which is the ground of our secrets all And it not known 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 less thy moisture be The rather and better Solution shalt thou see ANd here take notice by the way that that is no total Dissolution which is before Calcination but only partial the Water resolves as much as it can of the Body so much that it doth sever between its Spirit and Body but by reason of its perfection and strong compaction it finds a great deal of difficulty before a total Resolution and therefore it putrefies what is most gross and thus brings it to Atoms which when it is once subtilized beyond the exigency of its own nature it then is dissolved and relents and then Dissolution is made totally viz. after Putrefaction Then at length it becomes all like a glorious Argent vive and this immediately before the Lunary Coagulation Know then that our first loosing is into a viscous Powder which is brought on by Incrudation or rather Liquefaction for know that till after Putrefaction our Stone and Compound is moist in the Fire but hardens more and more by how much the colder it is and softens more and more by how much hotter it is and the heat slacking the boiling will change into a seeming Vegetation and the Fire going out it is hard rather than soft yet the mingling of the Natures is known by the colours and drawing to Calcination Therefore thy first Operation is to dry up thy superfluous watrish moisture not evaporating it but congealing it on the Body Think not then as some of the envious Sophistically write that the more you put of your Water the sooner you dissolve and congeal the slower No verily your Calcination is but the medium of true Solution which is trust me not total nor proper till after Putrefaction I should never have told thee this Mystery had not the love of my Neighbour compelled me That opening of the Body which is before is but an opening of its pores which lets our Water in and then after death and resurrection the Mercury of Sol is visible to the eye which before was but distinguishable by its effect Behold how Ice to Water doth relent And so it must for Water it was before Right so again our Water to Earth is went And Water thereby congeal'd for evermore For after all Philosophers that ere were bore Each Metal once was Water Mineral Therefore with Water they turn to Water all SO then our Body hath moisture in it self but this moisture is sealed as Water when frozen by the Cold. But when the pores of the Body are by our Water opened and its central Fire set at liberty this internal Fire of Nature makes the Body to become no Body but a very Spirit In this same Operation the Spirit is congealed for the Body hath in it more virtue then its two Sociats that is than the Soul and Spirit This is the action and re-action of our Body and its Water for our Body is in its occulto Mercury and our Mercury is in its occulto Sol therefore they embrace each other because of the nearness of their Natures and so the Body hath its profundity discovered and the Water its altitude and both together are glorified in one Spiritual Body together according to Noble Hermes Vis ejus est integra si versa fuerit in terram But thou canst never have this excellent fixity till the fixed have attained its volatility In which Water of kind occasionate Of qualities been repugnance and diversity Things into things must therefore be Rotate Vntil that Trinity be brought to perfect Vnity THis Water into which our Bodies are first liquefied is not properly Water but modo quodam as we may say in the Fire During the predomination of the Woman all appears in a moist posture and so will do most part of the first 50 days yet this is a gross moisture and by consequence the more fit for Putrefaction in which gross Humidity all the Elements are in a confusion not the Elements of the great World but our Mineral

by fire separated The Mercury thus separated is spoiled of its Sulphur when as indeed there needs or is required only a depuration of the Sulphur by separating the impure from the pure but these Salts having separated the Sulphur do leave the Mercury worse that is more estranged from a Metallick nature than it was before for in its Composition that Sulphur of Saturn will not burn for though it be Sublimed Calcined made Sugar or Vitrified yet by Fire and Fluxes it still returns to the same it was in before but its Sulphur being as is aforesaid separated will take fire if joyned with Salt-peter even as common Sulphur doth so that the Salts act on the Sulphur of which they rob the Mercury but on the Mercury they act not for want of Ferment which is not to be found but only amongst Homogeneal things Therefore the Ferment of Bread Leavens not a Stone nor doth the Ferment of any Animal or Vegetable Ferment a Metal or Mineral So then though out of Gold thou mightest obtain a Mercury by the help of the Liquor of the first Ens of Salt yet that Mercury would never accomplish our work whereas on the other side Mercury made out of Gold by our Mercury though there be three parts of our Mercury to one of Gold This Mercury I say will by continual digestion accomplish the whole work marvel not then that our Mercury is more powerful which is prepared by Mercury For certainly the Ferment which cometh between the compound Body and the water causeth a death and a regeneration it doth that which nothing in the world can do Besides it severs from Mercury a terrestreity which burns like a coal and an Hydropical humour melting in common water but the residue is acuated by a Spirit of Life which is our true embryonated Sulphur of our water not visible yet working visibly We conclude then that all operations for our Mercury but by common Mercury and our Body according to our Art are erroneous and will never produce our Mysterie although they be otherwise Mercuries never so wonderfully made For as the Author of the New light saith No Water in any Island of the Philosophers was wholsom but that which was drawn out of the reigns of Sol and Luna Wilt thou know what that means Mercury in its pondus and incombustibility is Gold fugitive our Body in its purity is called the Philosophers Luna being far more pure than the imperfect Metals and its Sulphur also as pure as the Sulphur of Sol not that it is indeed Luna for it abides not in the fire Now in the composition of these three First our common Mercury and the two Principles of our compound there intercedes the Ferment of Luna out of which though it be a Body proceeds yet a speci●icated odour yea and oft the Pondus of it is diminished If the Compound be much washt after it is sufficiently clean So then the Ferment of Sol and Luna intercedes in our composition which Ferment begets an off-spring more noble then it self a thousand fold whereas shouldst thou work on our compound body by a violent way of Salts thou shouldst have the Mercury by far less noble then the Body the Sulphur of the Body being separated and not exalted by such a progress STAVE XI In the said Book the Philosopher speaketh also Therein if it please Your Highness for to read Of divers Sulphurs and especially of two And of two Mercuries joyned to them indeed Whereby he doth true understanders lead To the knowledge of the Principles which be only true Both Red Moist Pure and White as I have espied Which be nevertheless found but of very few WE now come to the Third Conclusion which is that among all Metalline and Mineral Sulphurs there are only Two that belong to our Work which Two have their Mercuries essentially united with them This is the truth of our secrets though we to seduce the unwary do seem to aver the contrary for do not think that because we do insinuate two ways therefore we really mean as we say for verily as witnesseth Ripley There is no true Principle but one nor have we but one matter nor but one way of working upon that matter nor but one regimen of heat and one linear way of proceeding These two Sulphurs as they are Principles of our Work they ought to be Homogeneal for it is only Gold Spiritual that we seek First White then Red which Gold is no other then that which the vulgar see but they know not the hidden Spirit that is in it This Principle wants nothing but composition and this composition must be made with our other crude white Sulphur which is nothing but Mercury vulgar by frequent cohobation of it upon our Hermaphroditical body so long till it become a fiery water Know therefore that Mercury hath in it self a Sulphur which being un-active our Art is to multiply in it a living active Sulphur which comes out of the loins of our Hermaphroditieal body whose Father is a Metal and his Mother a Mineral Take then the most beloved Daughter of Saturn whose Arms are a Circle Argent and on it a Sable Cross on a Black Field which is the signal note of the great world espouse her to the most warlike God who dwells in the house of Aries and thou shalt find the Salt of Nature with this Salt acuate thy water as thou best knowest and thou shalt have the Lunary bath in which the Sun will be amended And in all truth I assure thee that although thou hadst our Body Mercurialized without the addition of Mercury or of the Mercury of any of the Metals made per se that is without the addition of Mercury it would not be in the least profitable unto thee for it is our Mercury only which hath a Celestial form and power which it receives not only nor so much from the Compound Body or Principles as from the Fermental virtue which proceeds from the composition of both the Body and the Mercury by which is produced a wonderful Creature So then let all thy care be to marry Sulphur with Sulphur that is our Mercury which is impregnated which Sulphur must be espoused with our Sol then hast thou two Sulphurs married and two Mercuries of one off-spring whose Father is the Sun and Moon the Mother The Fourth Conclusion makes all perfectly plain which hath been said before namely that these two Sulphurs are the one most pure Red Sulphur of Gold and the other of most pure clean White Mercury These are our two Sulphurs the one appears a coagulated Body yet carries its Mercury in its belly the other is in all its proportions true Mercury yet very clean and carries its Sulphur within its self though hidden under the form and fluxibility of Mercury Sophisters are here in a Labyrinth for because they are not acquainted with Metalline love they work in things altogether heterogeneal or if they work upon

this thing should be Moreover it was my hopes so to have ingratiated my self into your favour as to have been a Servant unto you who I see are otherwise provided of a Lover Then said she My Friend what you admire in this strange Metamorphosis of me know that it is by a Magical Vertue which is alone given to me from GOD my immediate Lord and Ruler and for any Diabolical Art which your Scruple seems to manifest your suspition of it is because of your unexperience in these things and this your Ignorance is no way provoking unto me for in these Affairs though a man yet you are but a Child and this liberty I allow all my Sons while they are Children so to speak so to think and so to act and I love to hear and answer their childish prattle Know then that the Devil is but one of my Servants and in my Kingdom he doth serve GOD his and my Lord And though of all my Servants he is the worst yet he can do nothing of himself either without me or against me or above me He for the most part is a deceitful Jugler and doth make things appear that are not but whatever is actually effected by him is nothing but what is in my Power He only applies Agents to Patients and adds a little of his own villanous qualities as a circumstantial aggravation of the horror of what he thus by my virtue brings to pass and then his villanous mind attributes that to himself which is my Act that so he might arrogate the honour due to my Lord and his Master Now I will tell you a strange thing which yet is very true I am obedient to all my Subjects which are many and they obey me I rule them and they do as it were inforce me for so my Lord hath pleased to ordain it If they call me I am straight at hand yea in my Body which thou seest which is no Body but only representative for I am all Spirit I feel the Sympathies and Antipathies the Actions and Passions of every thing in the World and I must be always present for nothing is or can be well done without I be present I always work according to the subject and its disposition which doth alter the effect wonderfully In a word whatever thou seest that I am and more then thou canst see by far though thou hadst the Eyes of Argus My Rule is not as is the Rule of Princes among Men but I am serviceable to all yea to the least Worm in the World and because I am so serviceable therefore my Master hath appointed that nothing can or may disobey me or offer violence to me the Devil here hath no power though malice enough Therefore my Lord hath given me his own Diploma to make me the more Honourable first An Omnisciency of all things which are done in the World as touching the Being Conservation or Mutation of them and next An Omnipresency by which I am every where present at once and I am seated in the Will of God which is my Centre All my Subjects are put under Man therefore he hath a free power to act any thing within his reach in the World and the Soul of Man is as it were a Magnet unto me and all my Subjects in its Exaltation and Vnion by Faith to my Lord and Master though since Man lost his Dignity he lost also his Knowledge and his Will is liable to the Temptations of the Devil and so as many as by renouncing their Creator do devote themselves to Satan he hath by his confederacy power to exalt their Will and to apply their Power to the effecting of things possible in Nature and impossible for the Devil to perform alone whose pride would scorn to crave help if he could and beyond the knowledge of the inthralled Caytiff who mistaking the effect and not seeing how it was done by himself and not Satan though his power for want of knowledge to employ it without his help were made use of by him and applied according to his own Devilish Design the Wretch is insnared to bind over both his Soul and Body to the Devil as a requital of this Service so crafty a Deceiver is he But this being from my present scope I shall forbear to speak further of it at present lest I should distract not edifie you Now as concerning your jealousie for that you see me naked with this King know that this place and my Kingdom are in the State of Innocency though we are by the Fall of Adam laid subject to Vanity and till the final Restitution of that Fall I am forbidden to work any thing of my own accord beyond the state of fading corruptibility though all things have an incorruptible Spirit which when Heaven and Earth shall be renewed shall cause an Immutable Glory in all these things Know then that this King is my Servant and he hath many Brethren who in their passage to him are taken Prisoners and kept in bondage and there is no way to Redeem them unless he give his Flesh and Blood for their Ransom which cannot be effectual unless he die and arise from the Dead This I cannot perform alone my self nor can any help me herein but Man alone for God hath here limited my power I cannot bring Agents and Patients together though he hath given me power to work on them being composed and to effect what may serve for the Ransom of those poor Captives and he hath given man a free power to act in subordination to him in the World though through the Fall the Wings of this power are not clipt at all but clogged with Ignorance that it is very uneffectual in comparison of its virtue If thou couldest but understand and believe thy very Soul would command all Nature in the whole Fabrick of it for if thou didst but know things as they are thou wouldest withal clearly see the Dignity of thy Soul being the Image of God and this would command Faith and kindle Desire Now Faith and a kindled Desire in the Soul is that extatical Passion which attracts the whole Phaenomena of Nature This is the Dignity of a Mental Man Now then my Friend hearken to me and what I advise that do help me in what I cannot and I will help thee in what thou canst not so shalt thou be to GOD subordinate Lord both of me and mine and the Blood of this King which redeems his Brethren will give thee a Medicine to command all the Imperfections of thy mortal Body and though it be no Antidote against Death the irrevocable Decree being past yet it triumphs over all the Miseries of Life both of Poverty and Sickness and it possesseth a Man of the most incomparable Treasures of this World Then full of Admiration with Tears for very Joy trickling down abundantly I bespake her and said Lady I thank you for your so great favour to me as so familiarly to discourse with me