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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

Intending onely to giue true information Both of theorick and practick operation That by my writing whoso guided will bee Of his intent perfectly speede shall hee The first chapter shall be of naturall Calcination The second of Dissolution secreat and Philosophicall The third of our elementall Separation The fourth of Coniunction matrimoniall The fift of Putrifaction follow shall Of Congelation albificate shalbe the sixt Then of Cibation the seauenth shall follow next The secret of Sublimation the eight shall show The ninth shall be of firmentation The tenth of our exaltation I trow The eleuenth of our meruailous multiplication The twelfth of proiection then recapitulation And so this treatize shall take an end By the helpe of God as I intend Of Calcination The first Gate CAlcination is the purgation of our stone Restoring also of his naturall heate Of radicall humiditie it looseth none Inducing solution into our stone most meete After philosophie I you behight Doo but not after the common guise With Sulphures or Salts preparate in diuers wise Neither with Corosiues nor with fire alone Neither with vineger nor with water ardent Nor with the vapour of leade our stone Is calcined according to our intent All those to calcining which so be bent From this hard science withdrawe their hand Till they our calcining better vnderstand For by such calcination their bodies be shent Which minisheth the moysture of our stone Therefore when bodies to powder be brent Dry as ashes of tree or bone Of such calxes then will we none For moysture we multiplie radicall In calcining minishing none at all And for a sure ground of our true calcination Worke wittely only kind with kind For kind vnto kind hath appetitiue inclination Who knoweth not this in knowledge is blind He may foorth wander as mist in the wind Wotting neuer with profite where to light Because he conceaues not our words aright Ioyne kind to kind therefore as reason is For euery burgeon answers his owne seede Man getteth man a beast a beast I wis Further to treate of this it is no neede But vnderstand this poynt if thou wilt speede Each thing is first calcined in his owne kind This well conceaued fruite therein shalt thou finde And we make Calx vnctuous both white and red Of three degrees or our base be perfect Fluxible as waxe els stand they in no sted By right long processe as Philosophers doo write A yeare we take or more to our respite For in lesse space our Calxes will not be made Able to teyne with colour that will not fade And for thy proportion thou must beware For therein maist thou be beguil'd Therefore thy work that thou not mare Let thy bodie be subtilly fyl'de With Mercury as much then so subtil'd One of the Sunne two of the Moone Till altogether like papp be doone Then make the Mercurie foure to the Sun Two to the Moone as it should bee And thus thy worke must be begun In figure of the Trinitee Three of the bodie and of the spirite three And for the vnitie of the substance spirituall One moe than of the substance corporall By Raymonds reportory this is true Proportion there who list to looke The same my Doctor to me did shew But three of the spirite Bacon tooke To one of the bodie for which I a wooke Many a night ere I it wist And both be true take which you list If the water also be equall in proportion To the earth with heate in due measure Of them shall spring a new burgeon Both white and red in pure tincture Which in the fire shall euer indure Kill thou the quick the dead reuiue Make trinitie vnitie without any striue This is the surest and best proportion For there is least of the part spirituall The better therefore shall be solution Than if thou did it with water swall Thine earth ouer glutting which loseth all Take heede therefore to potters loame And make thou neuer too neshe thy wombe That loame beholde how it tempred is The meane also how it is calcinate And euer in minde looke thou beare this That neuer thine earth with water be suffocate Drye vp thy moysture with heate most temperate Help Dissolution with moysture of the Moone And Congelation with the Sunne then hast thou doone Foure Natures into the fift so shalt thou turne Which is a Nature most perfect and temperate But hard it is with thy bare foote to spurne Against a barr of yron or steele new acuate For many doe so which be infatuate When they such high things take in hand Which they in no wise doe vnderstand In egges in vitriall or in blood What riches wend they there to finde If they Philosophy vnderstood They would not in working be so blinde Golde or siluer to seeke out of kinde For like as fire of burning principle is So is the principle of gilding gould I wis If thou intend therefore for to make Gold and Siluer by craft of our philosophie Thereto neyther egges nor bloud thou take But Gold and Siluer which naturally Calcined wisely and not manually A new generation will forth bring Encreasing their kinde as doth euery thing And if it true were that profit might be In things which be not mettaline In which be coulors pleasant to see As in bloud eggs haire vrine or wine Or in meane mineralls digd out of the myne Yet must that element be putrified and seperate And with Elements of perfect bodies be dispousate But first of these elements make thou rotacion And into water thine earth turne first of all Then of thy water make ayre by leuigacion And ayre make fier then Maister I will thee call Of all our secrets great and small The wheele of Elements then canst thou turne about Truely conceiuing our writings without doubt This done goe backwards turning the wheele againe And into water turne thy fire anone Ayre into earth els labourest thou in vaine For so to temperment is brought our stone And Natures contractions foure are made one After they haue three times been circulate And also thy base perfectly consumate Thus vnder the moysture of the Moone And vnder the temperate heate of the Sunne Thine Elements shalbe incinerate soone And then thou hast the maistrie wonne Thanke God thy worke was then so begunne For there thou hast one token trewe Which first in blacknes to thee will shewe The head of the Crowe that token call wee And some men call it the Crowes bill Some call it the ashes of Hermes tree And thus they name it after their will Our Toade of the earth which eateth his fill Some nameth it by which it is mortificate The spirit with venome intoxicate But it hath names I say to thee infinite For after each thing that blacknes is to sight Named it is till time it waxeth white Then hath it names of more delight After all things that been full white And the red likewise after the same Of all red things doth take the name

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

meene Nought else to say but element with element The spirit of life onely going betweene For like as an adamant as thou hast seene Draweth yron to him so doth our earth by kinde Drawe downe to him his soule borne vp with winde With winde therefore the soule lead out and in Mingle gold with gold that is for to say Make Element with Element togetherrin Till time all fire they suffer may For earth is Ferment withouten nay To water and water the earth vnto Our Fermentatio● in this wise must be doe Earth is gold and so is the soule also Not common but ours thus Elementate And yet thereto the Sunne must goe That by our wheele it may be alterate For so to ferment it must be preparate That it profoundly may ioyned bee With other natures as I said to thee And whatsoeuer I haue here said of gold The same of siluer I will thou vnderstand That thou them putrifie and alter as I haue told Ere thou thy medicine to firment take in hand Forsooth I could neuer finde him in England Which in this wise to firment could me teach Withouten error by practise or by speach Now of this chapter needeth to treate no more Sith I intend prolixitie to eschew Remember well my words therefore Which thou shalt proue by practise trew And Sunne and Moone looke thou renew That they may hold of the fift nature Then shall their tincture euermore endure And yet a way there is most excellent Belonging vnto another working A water we make most redolent All bodies to oyle wherewith we bring With which our medicine we make flowing A quintessence this water we call In man which healeth diseases all But with thy base after my doctrine preperate Which is our calx this must be done For when our bodies be so calcinate That water will to oyle dissolue them soone Make thou therefore oyle both of Sunne and Moone Which is ferment most fragrant for to smell And so the ninth gate is conquered of this Castell The end of the ninth Gate Of Exaltation The tenth Gate PRoceede we now to the chapter of Exaltation Of which truly thou must haue knowledge pure But little it is different from Sublimation If thou conceiue it right I you ensure Hereto accordeth the holy scripture Christ saying thus if I exalted be Then shall I draw all things vnto me Our medicine if we exalt right so It shalbe thereby nobilitate That must be done in manners two From time the parties be dispousate Which must be crucified and examinate And then contumulate both man and wife And after reuiued by the spirit of life Then vp to heauen they must exalted be There to be in bodie and soule glorificate For thou must bring them to such subtiltie that they ascend together to be intronizate In cloudes of clearenes to Angels consociate Then shall they draw as thou shalt see Al other bodies to their owne dignitee If thou therefore the bodies wilt exalt First with the spirit of life thou them augment till time the earth be well subtilizate By naturall rectifying of euery Element Them vp exalting into the firmament Then much more precious shall they be than gold Because of the quintessence which they doe holde For when the colde hath ouercome the heate Then into water the Ayre shall turned be And so two contraries together shall meete Till either with orher right well agree So into Ayre the water as I tell thee When heate of colde hath got domination Shall be conuerted by craft of our circulation And of the Ayre then fire haue thou shall By loosing putrifying and subliming And fire thou hast of the earth materiall Thine Elements thus by craft disseuering Most especially thine earth well calcining And when they be each one made pure Then doe they holde all of the first nature On this wise therefore make them be circulate Each into other exalting by and by And all in this one glasse surely sigillate Not with thine hands but as I teach thee naturally Fire into water then turne first hardly For fire is in Ayre which is in water existent And this conuersion accordeth to our intent Then furthermore turne on thy wheele That into earth the ayre conuerted be Which will be done also right well For Ayre is in water being in earth trust me The water into fire contrarious in her qualitie Soone turne thou mayst for water in earth is Which is in fire conuersion true is this The wheele is now neere turned about Into ayre turne earrh which is the proper nest Of other Elements there is no doubt For earth in fire is which in ayre taketh rest This circulation beginne thou in the west Then into the south till they exalted bee Proceede duely as in thy figure I haue taught thee In which processe clearely thou mayst see Frō one extreame how to another thou mayst not go But by a meane since they in qualities contrarious be And reason will forsooth that it be so As heate into colde with other contraries ●o Without their meanes as moyst to heate and colde Examples sufficient before this I haue tolde Thus haue I taught thee how to make Of all thine Elements a perfect circulation And at thy figure example to take How thou shalt make this foresaide Exaltation And of thy medicine in the Elements true graduation Till it be brought to a gueneritie temperate And then thou hast conquered the tenth gate The end of the tenth Gate Of Multiplication The eleuenth Gate MVltiplication now to declare I proceede Which is by Philosophers in this wise defined Augmentation it is of the Elixer indeede In goodnes and quantitie both for white and red Multiplication is therefore as they doe write That thing that doth augmēt medicines in each degree In colour in odour in vertue and also in quantitee And why thou mayst this medicine multiplie Infinitely forsooth the cause is this For it is fire which kindled will neuer die Dwelling with thee as fire doth in houses Of which one sparke may make more fire ywis As muske in pigments and other spices mo In vertue multiplied and our medicine right so So he is rich which fire hath lesse or more Because he may so hugely it multiply And right so rich is he which any parte hath in store Of our Elixers which be augmentable infinitely One way if thou dissolue our pouders drye And make often times of them Congelation Thereof in goodnes then makest thou Augmentation The second way both in goodnes and quantitie It multiplyeth by iterate Fermentation As in that chapter I shewed plainely to thee By diuers manners of naturall operation And also in the chapter of our Cibation Where thou mayst know how thou shalt multiplie Thy medicine with Mercurie infinitely But and thou wilt both loose and eke ferment Both more in quantitie and better will it be And in such wise thou mayst it soone augment That in thy glasse it will growe like a tree The tree of

a thing Running in errours euer more and more For lacke of true vnderstanding But like must like alwaies forth bring So hath God ordained in euerie kinde Would Iesus they would beare this in minde Weene they of a Nettle to haue a Rose Or of an Elder to haue an apple sweete Alas that wisemen their goods should lose Trusting such lorrells when they them meete Which say our Stone is troden vnder feete And maketh them vile things to distill Till all their howses with stench they fill Some of them neuer learned a word in Schooles Should such by reason vnderstand Philosophie Be they Philosophers Nay they be fooles For their workes proue them vnwittie Meddle not with them if thou be happie Least with their flatterie they so thee till That thou agree vnto their will Spend not thy money away in waste Giue not to euery spirit credence But first examine groape and taste And as thou proouest so put thy confidence But euer beware of great expence And if the Philosopher doe liue vertuouslie The better thou maist trust his Philosophie Prooue him first and him appose Of all the secrets of our Stone Which if he knowe not thou need not to lose Meddle thou no further but let him gone Make he neuer so piteous a mone For then the Fox can fagge and faine When he would to his pray attaine If he can answere as a Clarke Howbeit he hath not prooued it indeed And thou then help him to his warke If he be vertuous I hold it meed For he will thee quite if euer he speed And thou shalt knowe by a little anone If he haue knowledge of our Stone One thing one glasse one furnace and no moe Behold this principle if he doe take And if he doe not then let him goe For he shall neuer thee rich man make Timely it is better thou him forsake Than after with losse and variance And other manner of displeasance But if God fortune thee to haue This Science by doctrine which I haue told Discouer it not whosoeuer it craue For fauour feare siluer or gold Be no oppressor letcher nor boaster bold Serue thy God and help the poore among If thou this life lift to continue long Vnto thy selfe thy secrets euer keepe From sinners which haue not God in dread But will thee cast in prison deepe Till thou them teach to doe it indeed Then slaunder on thee shall spring and spread That thou doest coyne then will they say And so vndoe thee for euer and aye And if thou teach them this cunning Their sinfull liuing for to maintaine In hell therefore shalbe thy woonning For God of thee and them will take disdaine As thou nought couldst therefore thee faine That bodie and soule thou maist both saue And here in peace thy liuing to haue Now in this Chapter I haue thee taught How thou thy bodies must putrifie And so to guide thee that thou be not caught And put to durance losse or villanie My doctrine therefore remember wittely And passe forth towards the sixt Gate For thus the fift is triumphate The end of the fift Gate Of Congelation The sixt Gate OF Congelation I need not much to write But what it is I will to thee declare It is of soft things induration of colour white And confixation of spirits which flying are How to congeale he needeth not much to care For Elements will knit together soone So that Putrifaction be kindly doone But Congelations be made in diuers wise Of spirits and bodies dissolued to water cleare Of salts also dissolued twice or thrise And then congeald into a fluxible matter Of such congealing fooles fast doo clatter And some dissolueth diuiding manuallie Elements them after congealing to powder drie But such congealing is not to our desire For vnto ours it is contrarious Our congelation dreadeth not the fire For it must euer stand in it vnctuous And it is also a tincture so bounteous Which in the aire congealed will not relent To water for then our worke were shent Moreouer congeale not into so hard a stone As glasse or christall which melteth by fusion But so that it like waxe will melt anone Withouten blast and beware of delusion For such congealing accordeth not to our conclusion As will not flowe but runne to water againe Like salt congealed then labourest thou in vaine Which congelation auaileth vs not a deale It longeth to multipliers congealing vulgarly If thou therefore list to doe weele Sith the medicine shall neuer flowe kindly Neither congeale without thou first it putrifie First purge and then fixe the elements of our stone Till they together congeale and flowe anone For when thy matter is made perfectly white Then will the spirit with the bodie congealed be But of that time thou maist haue long respite Or it congeale like pearles in sight to thee Such congel●●●●n be thou glad to see And after lik● graines red as blood Richer than any worldly good The earthly grosenes therefore first mortified In moysture blacknes ingendred is This principle may not be denied For naturall Philosophers so sayne ywis Which had of whitenes thou maist not mis And into whitenes if thou congeale it once Then hast thou a stone most precious of all stones And by the drie like as the moist did putrifie Which caused in colour blacknes to appeare Right so the moyst congealed by the drie Ingendreth whitenes shining by night full cleare And drines proceedeth as whiteth the matter Like as in blacknes moysture doth him shew By colours variant alwayes new and new The cause of all this is heate most temperate Working and mouing the matter continually And thereby also the matter is alterate Both inward and outward substantially Not as doo fooles to sight sophistically But in euerie part all fire to endure Fluxible fixt and stable in tincture As Phisicke determineth of each digestion First done in the stomach in which is drines Causing whitenes without question Like as the second digestion causeth rednes Complete in the liuer by heate in temperatenes Right so our Stone by drines and by heate Digested is to white and red compleate But here thou must another secret knowe How the Philosophers childe in the ayre is borne Busie thee not too fast at the coale to blowe And take this neither for mocke nor scorne But trust me truly else is all thy worke forlorne Without thine earth with water reuiued bee Our true congealing shalt thou neuer see A soule it is betwixt heauen and earth being Arising from the earth as ayre with water pure And causing life in euerie liuely thing Incessable running vpon our foure folde nature Enforcing to better him with all his cure Which ayre is the fire of our Philosophie Named now oyle now water mysticallie And this meane ayre which oyle or water we call Our fire our oyntment our spirit and our Stone In which one thing we ground our wisedomes all Goeth neither in nor out alone Nor the fire but the