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And being enter’d will unlock the same:Which being done, to you shall open flyThe twelve Gates of this Castle, great in fame,Little in bulk, which once I did espy;Also within it a most noble GameFought ‘twixt an Eagle Volant, and a Lyon tame.Finis.62
ANEXPOSITIONUPON THEFirst Six GatesOFSir George Ripley’sCompound of Alchymie.VIZ.1. Calcination. 2. Dissolution. 3. Separation.4. Conjunction. 5. Putrefaction. 6. Congelation.Written byAeyrenaeus Philalethes, natu Anglus,Habitatione CosmopolitaLondon,Printed for William Cooper at the Pellicanin Little Britain, MDCLXXVIISir George Ripley’sCompound of AlchymieExpounded by a Son of Art.The first Gate openedWhich isCALCINATIONCalcination is the Purgation of our Stone.We have led thee as it were by the hand through many a waste Field, andmany a Desart and Thicket, and now lift up your eyes and behold whereyou are, and now welcome my Friend into the Garden of the Philosophers;here you may behold (like a Landskip) a very glorious Castle, walled aboutwith a very high wall, and twelve Gates one following another hinderingyour entrance and possession of it at will, one being opened the rest open ofthemselves, and yield to the a far more renowned Conquest, then everCaesar or Alexander won. The first Gate is as it were dug hollow into theEarth, and little to be seen above the Superficies: view well the Inscriptionwhich is written over it, which is the words of that Curse which God63
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Eirenaeus PhilalethesRipley reviv'd
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INDEXAuthor's Preface to His Exposi
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such Secrets. I learned the Secret
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The Contents1. The Author’s Prefa
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the least measure. I shall therefor
Page 12 and 13: Conceive you may this Science is no
Page 14 and 15: weigh the Mercury which thou Sublim
Page 16 and 17: upon that matter, nor but one regim
Page 18 and 19: Preparation of our Mercury; and thi
Page 20 and 21: For the more exact Guiding of your
Page 22 and 23: Instrument, hath no qualities perce
Page 24 and 25: so you begin your degrees of heat a
Page 26 and 27: ANEXPOSITIONUPONSir George Ripley
Page 28 and 29: Heterogeneity, but in Unity; for Go
Page 30 and 31: Nature herein: for all the Works of
Page 32 and 33: Mercury, whenas all such ways indee
Page 34 and 35: Blessing of God, Furnaces, Coals, G
Page 36 and 37: Stone being the System of the great
Page 38 and 39: This Elixir is divided into a more
Page 40 and 41: was compounded of three Mercuries)
Page 42 and 43: Take from it the Said Clearness, an
Page 44 and 45: The LearnedSOPHIES FEAST.Whoso woul
Page 46 and 47: This Sulphur is combustible, to get
Page 48 and 49: and it hath at present an accidenta
Page 50 and 51: Hermes Tree unto Ashes is burnt.It
Page 52 and 53: Our Mercury, our Sulphur, our Tinct
Page 54 and 55: e studious and desirous of knowledg
Page 56 and 57: is in Gold, as it is made and left
Page 58 and 59: This is our red Lead, our Mercury e
Page 60 and 61: Their mad expence with many a curse
Page 64 and 65: inflicted on Adam, in the day that
Page 66 and 67: moreover hath plighted her troth to
Page 68 and 69: seated in the Will of God, which is
Page 70 and 71: was no way resembling the former Be
Page 72 and 73: There were as it were a multitude o
Page 74 and 75: was the Subject on which was wrough
Page 76 and 77: Nature: for this cause is our King
Page 78 and 79: Flexible as Wax, else stand they in
Page 80 and 81: one, as Ripley hath it. This is ind
Page 82 and 83: The mean also by which it is Calcin
Page 84 and 85: degree of Fire, and that is boiling
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Page 88 and 89: And if it true were that profit mig
Page 90 and 91: This done, go backwards turning thy
Page 92 and 93: continually till your Gold begin to
Page 94 and 95: arrived, there is no farther progre
Page 96 and 97: thickning and then a length calcini
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Page 100 and 101: More fierce then Fire burning the B
Page 102 and 103: the exigency of its own nature, it
Page 104 and 105: Influences than any other Bodies wh
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Page 108 and 109: Glass, provided thy Nest be covered
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This white Argent vive, or Mercury
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Till the Earth remain below in colo
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without much wringing, which makes
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In the time of this process many co
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efore. Yea and a man or woman who i
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easily appears by it changing of co
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And as the Key of all our Operation
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So that whatever any Sophisters may
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Now to God only wise, the revealer
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Which now united, of renowned fameT
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econgealed with the fermental virtu
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But when as such Work-men have wait
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four one; the Quadrangle is turned
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fermental Odour of the Body, by whi
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I shall soon draw to an end concern
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This when thou shalt see, rejoice,
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Then of them thus a temperament may
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Great Phoebus he was nam’d, whose
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Thus two one Body have, of double S
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Whom God shall chose, and to his Pa
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together with the external heat con
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with the Spirit, which because it w
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Therefore follow my advice, and be
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When they be there, by little and l
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when they are united and joined, th
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with Songs, and everlasting Joy sha
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Then shall the heavenly Fire descen
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So resolve our Stone must be used,
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your Fire be equal and continually
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gift of God, I have holpen thee wha
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From it is made a subject of great
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ANEXPOSITIONUPON THESixth Gate,Whic
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incombustible, yet so as that the M
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EXPERIMENTSFOR THEPREPARATIONOF THE
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and more of it own humour by degree
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dew of our Compound may be elevated
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And one of the Earth is good, and o
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His Basilisk, of which he never mad
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Position III.Three Substance make o
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Answer 1st. What the Red Man is?The
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First in a small Circle of Heir of
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spoon, yet in short time you may be
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ANEXPOSITIONUPONSir GEORGE RIPLEY
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at the best none of them were but m
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venom from his poisoned bulk; in as
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the Body. Also Reduction to the fir
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touching his Solary Qualities, and
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Porta PrimaDe Calcinatione Philosop
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