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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

Hermes named seemely to see Of which one pippin a thousand will multiplie If thou canst make thy proiection wittely And like as Saffron when it is puluerizate By little and little if it with liquor be Tempred and then with much more liquor dilate Teyneth much more of liquor in quantitie Thā being whole in his grosse nature so shalt thou see That our Elixer the more it is made thinne The further in tincture it fastly will rinne Keepe in thy fire therefore both euen and morrow From house to house that thou neede not to rinne Among thy neighbours thy fire to seeke or borrow The more thou keepest the more good shalt thou win Multiplying it alwaies more more thy glasse within By feeding with Mercurie vnto thy liues end So shalt thou haue more than thou needest to spend This matter is plaine I will no more Write thereof let reason thee guide Be neuer the bolder to sinne therefore But serue thy God the better in each tide And while that thou shalt in this life abide Beare this in minde forget not I thee pray As thou shalt appeare before God at domes day His owne great giftes therefore and his treasure Dispose thou vertuously helping the poore at neede That in this world thou mayst to thee procure Mercy and grace with heauenly blisse to meede And pray to God deuoutly that he thee leade In at the twelfth gate as he can best Soone after then thou shalt end thy conquest The end of the eleuenth gate Of Proiection The twelfth Gate IN Proiection it shal be proued if our practise be profitable Of which it behoueth me the secrets here to moue Therefore if thy tincture be sure and not variable By a little of thy medicine thus mayst thou proue With mettle or with Mercury as pitch it will cleaue And teyne in Proiection all fires to abide And soone it will enter and spread him full wide But many by ignorance doe marre that they made When on mettals vnclensed Proiection they make For because of corruption their tinctures must fade Which they would not away first from the body take Which after Proiection be brittle blew and black That thy tincture therefore may euermore last First vpon ferment thy medicine see thou cast Then brittle as glasse will thy ferment bee Vpon bodies clensed and made very pure Cast that brittle substance and soone shalt thou see That they shall be curiously coloured with tincture With all assayes for euer shall endure But profitable Proiection perfectly to make At the Psalmes of the Psalter example thou take On Fundamenta cast first this psalme Nunc di●●ittis Vpon verba mea then cast Fundamenta beliue Then Verba vpon diligam conceiue me with thy wits And diligam vpon attendite if thou list to thriue Thus make thou Proiections three foure or fiue Till the tincture of the medicine beginne to decrease And then it is time of Proiection to cease By this mistie talking I meane nothing else But that thou must cast first the lesse on the more Encreasing aye the number as wisemen thee tells And keepe thou this secreat vnto thy selfe in store Be couetous of cunning it is no burden sore For he that ioyneth not the Elixer with bodies made cleane He wotteth not surely what Proiection doth meane Ten if thou multiplie first into ten One hundreth that number maketh sickerly If one hundreth into an hundreth be multiplied then Ten thousand is that number if thou count it wittely Then into as much more ten thousand to multiplie It is a thousand thousand which multiplied ywis Into as much more a hundreth millions is That hundreth millions being multiplyed likewise Into ten thousand millions as I to thee doe say Maketh so great a number I wot not what it is Thy number in Proiection thus multiplye alway Now childe of thy curtesie for me that thou pray Sith I haue tolde thee our secrets all and some To the which I beseech GOD by grace thou mayst come Now hast thou conquered these gates twelue And all the Castle thou holdest at thy will Keepe thy secreats in store to thy selfe And the commaundements of God looke thou fulfill In fire see thou continue thy glasses still And multiply thy medicines aye more and more For wise men doe say that store is no sore The ende of the twelue Gates intituled Ripleys Compound of Alchymie Recapitulatio totius operis praedicti FOr to bring this Treatise to a finall ende And briefly here to conclude these secrets all Diligently looke thou and to thy figure attend Which doth in it containe these secrets great small And if thou it conceiue both theoricall and practicall By figures and colours by scripture plaine It wittily conceiued thou mayst not worke in vaine Consider first the latitude of this precious Stone Beginning in the first side noted in the West Where the red man the white woman be made one Spoused with the spirite of life to liue in rest Earth and water equally proportionate that is best And one of the earth is good and of the spirit three Which twelue to fowre also of the earth may bee Three of the wife and one of the man thou take And the lesse of the spirit in this dispousation The rather thy Calcination for certain shalt thou make Then forth into the North proceed by obscuration Of the red man and his white wife called Eclipsation Loosing them and altring them betwixt winter vere Into water turning earth darke and nothing cleare From thence by colours many one into the East ascend Then shall the Moone be full appearing by day-light Then is she passed purgatorie and her course at an end There is the vprising of the Sunne appearing bright There is Summer after Vere and day after night Thē earth water which wer black be turned to aire And clouds of darknes ouerblown all apeareth faire And as in the west was the beginning of thy practise And the North the perfect meane of profoūd alteratiō So in the East after them the beginning of speculatiō is But of this course vp in the south the sun maketh cōsūmatiō Ther bin the elements turned into fire by circulatiō Then to win to thy desire thou needst not be in doubt For the wheele of our philosophie thou hast turned about But yet about againe two times turne thy wheele In which bin cōprehēded all the secrets of our philosophy In chapiters 12. made plaine to thee if thou cōceiue thē well And all the secrets by by of our lower Astronomy How thou shalt calcine bodies perfit dissolue diuide putrifie With perfect knowledge of all the poles which in our heauen beene Shining with colours inexplicable neuer were gayer seene And thus our secret conclusion know withouten faile Our red man teineth not nor his wife til they teined be Therefore if thou list thy selfe by this craft to auaile The altitude of the bodies hide shewe out their profunditie In euery of

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

milke sod with wine nourisheth moysture radicall But a good Phisition who so intendeth to be Our lower Astronomie needeth well to know And after that to learne well vrine in a glasse to see And if it neede to be chafed the fire for to blow Then wittily it by diuers wayes for to throw After the cause to make a medicine bliue Truly telling the infirmities all on a row Who this can doe by his Phisick is like to thriue VVe haue our heauen incorruptible of the quintessence Ornate with signes Elements and starres bright VVhich moysteth our earth by subtill influence And of it a secret sulphure hid from sight It fetcheth by vertue of his actiue might Like as the Bee fetcheth honey out of the flower VVhich thing could doe no other worldly wight Therefore to God be all glory and honour And like as yee to water doth relent VVhere it was congealed by violence of colde VVhen Phoebus it shineth with his heate influent Euen so to water minerall reduced is our golde As witnesseth plainely Albert Raymond and Arnold By heate and moysture and by craft occasionate VVhich congelation of the spirits loe now J haue tolde How our materialls together must be proportionate At the dyers craft you may learne this science Beholding with water how decoction they make Vpon the wad or madder easily and with patience Till tinctures doe appeare which then the cloth doth take Therein so fixed that they will neuer forsake The cloth for washing after they ioyned be Euen so our tinctures with the water of our lake VVe draw by boyling vvith the ashes of Hermes tree Which tinctures when they by craft are made perfite So dyeth mettles with colours aye permanent After the qualitie of the medicine red or white That neuer away with anie fire wilbe brent To this example if you take good tent Vnto your purpose the rather you shall winne And let your fire be easie and not too feruent Where nature did leaue what time you did beginne First calcine and after that putrifie Dissolue distill sublime discend and fixe With Aqua vitae oft times both wash and drie And make a marriage the bodie and spirite betwixt Which thus together naturallie if you can mixe In loosing of the bodie the water congeald shalbe Then shall the bodie die vtterlie of the flixe Bleeding and changing his colours as you shall see The third day againe to life he shall arise And deuoure birds and beasts of the wildernesse Crowes popingaies pies peacocks and mauois The Phoenix with the Eagle and the Griffin of fearfulnesse The greene Lion with the red Dragon he shall distresse With the white Dragon and the Antelop Vnicorne Panther With other beasts and birds both more and lesse The Basiliske also which almost each one doth feare Jn bus and nibus he shall arise and descend Vp to the Moone and sith vp to the Sunne Through the Ocean sea which round is withouten end Onely shippen within a little glassen tunne When he is there come then is the mastrie wonne About which iourney great goods you shall not spend And yet you shall be glad that euer it was begunne Patiently if you list to your worke attend For then both bodie and spirite with oyle and water Soule and tincture one thing both white and red After colours variable it containeth whatsouer men clatter Which also is called after he hath once been dead And is reuiued our Markaside our Magnet and our lead Our Sulphur our Arsinike and our true Calx viue Our Sunne our Moone our ferment and our bread Our toad our Basiliske our vnknowen bodie our man our wife Our bodie thus naturally by craft when he is renouate Of the first order is medicine called in our Philosophie Which oftentimes againe must be propertualicate The round wheele turning of our Astronomie And so to the Elixer of spirits you must come for why Till the sonne of the fixed by the sonne of the fixer be ouergone Elixer of bodies named it is onely And this found secret poynt deceaueth manie one This naturall proces by helpe of craft thus consummate Dissolueth Elixer spirituall in our vnctuous humiditie Then in Balneo Mare together let them be circulate Like new honie or oyle till perfectly they be thickned Then will that medicine heale all infirmitie And turne all mettals to Sunne and Moone perfectly Thus you shall make the great Elixer and Aurum potabile By the grace and will of God to whom be all honour and glorie Amen quod George Ripley FINIS George Ripleys Wheele mentioned in his Worke. In the Sunne he puts his tabernacle Sunne and moone blessed be ye The flouds vvent avvaie in the drith Coelum Sol conuerted into darknes and Lvna into blood ●horm ♉ ♍ ♑ Occidentalis Atte●tiue Autumne VVest 🜃 ♋ ♏ ♓ Aquea flegmatica Australia Expulsiue VVinter North. 🜄 ♊ ♒ ♎ Sanguinea veria Masculina c. Oriēntalis digestiue East 🜁 ♈ ♌ ♐ Ignea Choleria Meridionalis Attractiue Sūmer South 🜂 The altitude of the stone fierie in qualitie shining more than perfect quintessence and end of the practise speculatiue Sol tenet ignem South As Christ the Scripture making mentiō In the holy wombe descended of Marie Frō his high throne for our redemption Working the holy Ghost to be incarnate So here our Stone descends frō his estate Into the womb of our Virgin Mercuriall To helpe his brethren from filth originall The f●rst or West latitude of the Stone and en●ring into the practiue pole and earthly in qualitie occasionate Saturne holdeth the earth West As Christ his godhead hid frō our sight When he our kinde to him did take Euen so our Sun his beames of light As for a time hath him forsake For vnder the wings of his make The Moone he hideth in his glory And dieth in kind that he may multiply The darke profunditie of the Stone in the North Purgatorie all imperfect wa●rie in qualitie variable in colour the eclipse of the Sunne Mercurius tenet aquam North. As Christ our Sauiour was tumulate After his passion and death on tree And after his bodie was glorificate Vprose indued with immortalitie ●o here our Stone buried after penaltie Vpriseth from darknes colors variable Appearing in the East with clearenes incomperable The East latitude of the Stone and entring into the speculatiue aier of the full Moone Iupiter holdeth the aier East As Christ frō earth to heauen did ascend In cloudes of clearnes vp to his throne And raigneth there shining without end Right so our Sunne now made our Stone Vnto his glory againe is gone His fire possessing here in the South With power to heale leapers and renewe youth From paradise they goe to heauen to woon shinining brighter than doth the Sun ✚ Here the red man and his white wi●● Be spoused with the spirite of life Into Paradice here we goe There to be purged of paine and woe Here be they passed their paines all Exceeding in brightnes the christall ♄ ☉ ☉ ♃ ☽ ☽ ♂ ☿ ☿ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ He brought vvater out of the stone oyle out of the most hard rock The Sunne is in the eclipse and the Moone shall not shine by night Our heauen this figure called is our table also of the lower astronomy Which vnderstood thou canst not mis to make our medicine perfectly on it therefore set thou thy studie And vnto God both night day For grace and for the Author pray To the indifferent Reader FOrasmuch Gentle reader as nothing can be performed with what singularity of iudgement exquisite foresight great care and diligence soeuer in any action of importance but that some fault or error must of necessitie be cōmitted it being an vnseperable propertie of nature accident vnto men to erre for that it is impossible for the most curious quickest and piercing eye to see all things I hope therefore thou wilt not finde it strange if any thing haue bin mistaken by me in deciphering of this worke by conference of many olde rude and ill written Copies out of which the same with great trauel and industry hath been gathered as the Rose from among the Briers and Thornes or the sweete Violet out of the Nettles for that euery man carried with a seuerall opinion and sense thinketh best of his iudgement Copie and correction whereupon it was not possible for me to ground any certaintie if I had not happened on a most auncient recorde thereof and vsed the assistance of a most notable and experienced decipherer of olde and vnperfect writing and after conferred with many skilfull persons in this high Arte praying thee if in reading hereof thou shalt note any fault in matter or forme that thou wilt curteously note the same and send it vnto me or the house of Peter Bales in the Olde Bayly to bee corrected vppn the next generall impression there being but a small number of these Bookes imprinted remayning at this time in his handes to be priuately deliuered to the learned desirous thereof Vale.