Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	life_n	soul_n	34,804	5	5.7811	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61315	A breviary of alchemy, or, A commentary upon Sir George Ripley's recapitulation being a paraphrastical epitome of his twelve gates / written by Æyrenæus Philalethes ...	Philalethes, Eirenaeus.	1678 (1678)	Wing S5271; ESTC R567	9,202	32

Hermaphroditical Body or Earth called the Philosophers Lead as Ripley in his Preface expresseth it The White Woman or Female is otherwise called the Moon by all Philosophers and by this Author in his Doctrine of Proportions One of the Sun and Two of the Moon till altogether like Pap be done Position IV. From equal Pondus of Earth and Water Three of Water to One of the Earth is good but equal is best THen make the Mercury Four to the Sun Two to the Moon c. as it should be in Figure of the Trinity And so we come to take notice of the Doctrine of Proportion between the Earth and Water equal that is best the same saith our Author in his Chapter of Calcination This is the surest and best proportion speaking of equal Pondus of Earth and Water and gives the Reason because Solution will be sooner made viz. The more thy Earth the less thy Water be The sooner and better Solution shalt thou see And here he affirms the same of Calcination which goes before Solution Yet Three of the Water to One of the Earth will do well lest the Tincture should not have room to be sufficiently dilated in the Water and the Body opened by it and this is the Pondus of Roger Bacon which requires a longer time before the quick be kil'd and by consequence the reviving of the dead must be longer in doing For Calcination is nothing else but a killing the moist with the dry till which be done there is no reviving of the dry by the moist but they have one and the same Operation and Period of time for one dies not but the other revives nor doth the Dragon die but with its Sister Position V. The White Wife in the first Conjunction is to be Three to One of the Red Man THree of the Wife and one of the Man thou take c. From the Pondus between the Earth and Water come we to view the Proportion between the Man and his Wife Here the Pondus is laid down Three to One and so there are Four parts of Earth to Four of Water or more until Twelve that is Three of Water to One of the Earth This also is clear from the Chapter of Conjunction where the Woman is allow'd 15 Veins to 5 of the Man as to the Act of their Foecundity which is interpreted of the first Conjunction by himself that the Man must have but 3 of Water and his Wife 9 which is 12 of Water to 4 of the Earth by which it is evident that the Woman is to exceed her Husband in a three-fold Proportion Or Two to One after Reymund Or Four to One according to Alanus but Three to One is best However in Reymind's Doctrine of Proportions cited by our Author in his Gate of Calcination One of the Sun is joyn'd with Two of the Moon which make Three of the Body and to these are added Four of Mercury which is One more of the Spiritual than of the Corporal part and this the Author compares to Trinity and Unity both are good Yea and Alanus prescribes Four parts to One which may be done but Three to One is best and equal Pondus of Spirit and Life for compleating of the Marriage between this Royal Pair the Sun the Husband and the Moon the Wife Of this speaks this Author in his Gate of Solution One in Gender they be but in Number not so The Father is the Sun and the Moon the Mother the Mover is Mercury This Compound according to its various Considerations hath many Relations and as many Denominations Sun and Moon Man and Wife Body Soul and Spirit Earth and Water Sister and Brother Mother and Son with many others but its Proper Name is Magnesia Quest What is the Red Man what his White Wife What the Spirit of Life It may be here questioned what this Red Man is what his White Wife and what the Spirit of Life for that is the only knot in understanding the Writings of Philosophers whose various Expressions and seeming Contradictions herein do obscure the Art wonderfully Yet however they seem to differ in their Writings they mean all one thing if well or rightly understood Answer 1st What the Red Man is The Red Man betokens the perfect Body of the Sun or his Shadow the Moon For Lune the Body which is one of the Seven is a Male and a perfect Body and fixed only wants a little Digestion and therefore the Red is hid under its visible White as White is hid under the visible Red of Sol Therefore our Author in his Work of Albification saith that the Sun appeareth White and Bright And Trevisan saith our King who is cloathed in Garments of pure Gold after he is once in the Bath appears no more till after one hundred and thirty days and then he appears White and wonderfully bright and shining And an old Philosopher saith Honour our King at his return from the East in Glory and admirable bright whiteness Therefore saith Artefius Our Water is of kin to the perfect Bodies to the Sun and to the Moon but more to the Sun then to the Moon Note this well And in all his Books he joyns the Sun and Moon the perfect Bodies Gold and Silver for the work So doth Ripley and so all Philosophers by which it is evident that either of the perfect Metals or Luminaries with our Aqua Vitoe will compleat the work as Arnold expressly saith in his Questions Answers to Boniface and Jodocus Creverus in his Treatise confirms the same in these words If so be saith he thou be so poor that thou canst not take Gold then take so much Silver yet Gold is the better as being nearer of kin to our Water and Mercury Answer 2. What is the White Wife Secondly The White Wife otherwise called the Moon is a Female it is a Coagulated Mercury but not fixt A spiritual Body fluxible in nature of a Body yet Volatile in nature of a Spirit It is called therefore Mercury of the Philosophers Our Green Lyon Our immature or unripe Gold It is Pontanus's Fire Artephius's middle substance clear like pure Silver which ought to receive the Tinctures of the Sun and Moon his sharp Vineger his Antimonial-Saturnine-Mercurial Argent Vive without which Laton cannot be whitened of which an old Philosopher saith whiten the red Laton by a white tepid and suffocated Water of which testimony Trevisanus affirms that nothing could be said better or clearer This is that which is intimated in the Vision of Arislaus who found a People that were Married yet had no Children because they married two Males together Such are they who mix Sol and Lune both Corporal and fixt together whom the Spirit will never revive because there is not conjugal Love Joyn therefore Gabritius to his beloved Sister Beya which is a tender Damsel and straight-way Gabritius will die that is will lose what he was and from that place where he appeared to have

the third Order One flows as easily as any Wax in heat or on a hot Metal the other in a strong heat abides a Powder The one is like to Glass brittle ponderous and shining the other a powder like to Atoms The one enters Mercury like an Oyl and Coagulates it in an instant the other drinks up Mercury only as the Calx of a Metal would do but will not retain it if the Fire be increased strong nor turn it into Metal but if the heat and proportion be both as they ought by a digestion of Time it turns it into its own Nature And so as Ripley saith truly you may Multiply both White and Red with Mercury That if at first you had not enough to fill a spoon yet in short time you may be stored for your whole life were it ten times as long as it is like to be Position X. Our Stone must have a Specification to Metals before it will Project OUr Red Man teyneth not until he teyned be c. Our Red Man or King must be teyned by Ferment before it will tinge imperfect Metals the Ferments are only Sol and Luna the Proportion a fourth part to the Compound let the Sulphurs be and three parts of Sol or Luna according as the Sulphur is or four parts Sol and Luna and the Sulphur a fifth part then with Mercury digest and putrifie your Ferment and congeal it and again Ferment it till it flow like Wax or Oyl then will that Oyl fix Mercury and turn any Metal into Perfection which you may then Multiply at your pleasure or you may multiply it before Fermentation Then take the perfect Stone for your Body and mix him with the White Wife in proportion as at first and add the Spirit of Life as at first and digest it till it pass the three colours Black White and Red. Thus doth our Author conclude his Erroneous Experiments also I never saw true work but one saith he One he did but it was after infinite Errours and other work no Philosopher ever yet saw which he briefly describes Remember Man the most Noble Creature c. that is Gold It is an errour to write it Remember that Man is the most Noble Creature of Earthly Composition For Man is not of Earthly Composition but Stones Metals and Clays c. are Now because we seek the Noblest of Creatures of Earthly Composition we must be so wise as to take it for our Principle For as he saith else-where as Fire of burning the Principle is so the Principle of Gilding is Gold I wis In this noblest Creature he saith are the four Elements proportioned by nature which makes it incombustible for were any predominant it would not abide but as Trevisan saith the Anatical proportioning the Elements in a metalline matter is the very form of Gold or that rather which gives it its form He adds a natural Mercuriality which costeth right nought that is a pure sincere Mineral Water without adulteration not Artificial out of Saturn Jupiter c. But natural not a dear Mercury but that which is common and cheap He adds one of his Minera's by Art is brought that is our green Lyon for with our first Menstrue we Calcine only perfect bodies but none which are unclean except one which is usually call'd by Philosophers the Lyon-Green into this the clearness of the Sun or of the Moon secretly descends that is by this the Mercuriality or profundity of the Sun and Moon are manifested by exuberation but is hidden from sight a long time till after putrefaction it exuberates and appears openly bleeding and changing colours and at first being cloathed in a glorious Green of which saith the Rosary O happy Greenness without which nothing can spring This exuberate Mercury is our hidden Stone that is Potentially for when that appears repugnant natures are tyed to Unity that is our Green-Lyon or Minera or vegetable humidity or Mercuriality natural which costeth right naught or our first Menstrue and the noblest Creature of Earthly composition which is either the Sun or Moon but especially the Sun In each of which the Mercuriality is invisible and appears not to sight but by effect that is in the quality of clearness with Whiteness in one and with redness in the other these three being United the Mercury of the Sun exuberates and appears at first green then is the Eclipse near and the Northern progress the process after all this is short this one thing putrifies then wash him in his own broth till he become White then Ferment him wisely there is the beginning middle and end Glory be to God FINIS These Books are Printed lately for William Cooper at the Pellican in Little-Britain London THe Philosophical Epitaph in Hieroglyphical Figures 8Âº A Brief of the Golden Calf the Miracle of Nature 8Âº Glauber's Golden Ass to get Gold from Stones Sand c. 8Âº Jehior the Three Principles or Original of all things 8Âº A Catalogue of Chymical Books in 3 parts 8Âº Simpson ' s Philosophical Discourse of Fermentation 8Âº Aeyrenaeus Philalethes ' s Secrets Reveal'd Or the Shut Pallace open'd 8Âº His Exposition upon Sir G. Ripley's Epistle to K. Ed. IV. 8Âº Upon Sir G. Ripley ' s Recapitulation 8Âº These are Printing Aeyr Philalethes his Exposition upon Sir G. Ripley ' s Vision 8Âº Upon Sir G. Ripley ' s Preface 8Âº Upon Sir G. Ripley ' s first 6 Gates 8Âº FINIS

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