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E RETI IMGEORGE RIPTEYl l l l ic rr l r !s l t !m. I fDorf l r rn rDor i l .

The whore work of the composrtonof thc phlfosophlcal Stone andGrand Eflx lr , and of theFlret Solui lon of theGrosse Bodles:

Take our Artif icial Antirnony, but not the Natural Antimony asit comes out of the Earth, for that is too d.ry for our work, andhath l i t t le or no hunidi ty, or fatness in i t , but take I saf, ourArtif icial Antimonial compound, whieh is abund.antly replinishedwith the Dew of Heaven and the fatness and unctuosity of the earth,.wherein precious 0i1s and rich Mercuries are by Nature closelysealed up, and hidden from the eyes of all inorant deriders ofthe great and wonderful mysteries of Almighty God, to the endthat seeing they should not see, nor understand, what he hath in_closed in the most obviousr coDmoh, and contemptible beginningsof all Things in the whole World.This our Antimonial Compound s only to be revealed to the Child-ren of Art, who firmJ.y believe the constant truth thereof , andwhom n all fraternal love and charity we sayr that it is made ofone Sulphur, srrd of two Mercurj.es, which otherwise by the wisePhilosophers are ealled, the Sun, Moon, and Mercury, or as someof them will more plainly have lt, Sa1t, Sulphur, and MercurV,whieh are the three several and dist inct substances and bodies,

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al though for the most part we term them but one Thing, beeausein the conelusion of our work they make but one Thing, that isour admirable El ixi r , and they have al l one orig inal , and tendal together but to one end. For i f we had not in our Work a tr iuneaspect of these Pl-anets, and did not begin i t wi th a Tr in i ty, a1l-would be lost labour and inut i lous prof i le.

Wherefore i f thou wi l t thr ive in our Art , w wish thee to beginwith our Mineral Tr in i ty, whereof th is our Art i f ic ia l Ant imonialcompound s made. Take then first in the prime beginning of thyWork, these three noble Kinsmen, who are immediately indued withalL the strong and subt i le qual i t ies of the four Elements, and intheir due and most natural proport i -ons, ( in which proport ionssee thou do not erre, for i f thou do, thou shal t never reduce thcsbodies into our true Chaos, and so thou wi l t be constrained tobegin again, which wi l l be a most ted. ious discouragement unto theePut them into a good and strong cucurbi t , or glass body' and closei t wel l on the Top, that none of the spir i ts exhale, for i f theyf ind a Vent to evaporate, thou art undone, because thereby thouloosest and wasteth the f lowers of our Gold. When thy Vessel iswel l - closed, put i t into the Phi l -osophers Oven, and set i t inAshes or sand, wi th a temperate f i re under i t , for the space of aPhi losophers Month, which is six whole weeks, and in that t imeour grosse bodies wi l l be dissolved and mort i f ied and made f i t tobegin a more royal generat ion.

In this t ime of dissolut ion and putrefact ion our three nobleKinsmen, most unnatural ly become the immanehomicides of eachother, for they spare not wi th al l cruel ty to extract each othersvi ta l b lood, and are stewed in their own proper gores, and becomesoft and tender, l ike unto butter, and are made al l one thingwithout any di f ference, or dist inct ion. When hou hast broughtthy work to this pass, thank God, and be glad that through hisGrace and mercy thou hast obtained our Chaos dark and mist ie,which is the true one Thing wri t ten of by al l the Phi losophers,

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our confused mass and the prime ground of al-l- our Secrets, fortherein l ieth invisib le couched, our Gold and Si lver, our Sulphurand Mercur ies, our Christal l ine Water, our 0i1s and Tinctures, andour four Elements which thou must make visible and apparant toal- l seeing eyes, e lse can nothing be ef feeted, nei ther shal t thouever obtain thy wished for si lvery and golden desire.

These Mercur i -es Waters, 0i1s, Tinctures, and El-ements, makevisib l -e then and conspicuous thus. After the aforesaid monthsend, thy vessel being cold, open the mouth thereof, and set on thetop thereof a head of glass wel l fastened thereunto, and placei t in our Bath, and cl-ose well a reeeiver to the mouth of the hel-ment, and draw out al l the insipid and faint water, which takeaway and reserve i t close by i tsel f , then f ix your receiver onagain, and with a stronger f i re in ashes, and draw out al1 theWhite fume, whi-ch is cal led our Air , si lver ie Tincture and VirginsMi lk, which also remove and keep i t l - ikewise most close stoppedby i tsel f . Then last of al l put to another receiver, and in sandwith the strongest f i re thou eanst make, separate the red fume,which is called our natural f i re, our golden Ti-ncture, and radical

.humidi ty of our Elemental bodies, and cont inue thy f i re so longunt i l i t leave bleeding, then asswage the f i re by degrees, andsuddenly close it wel l wi th wax' that the spir i ts vanish not awayfor th is is caI led our blessed l iquor, and trust me there is nota stronger poison in al- l the World than i t , therefore keep i t closand meddle not wi th i t t i l t hereafter.Thus now the work of Art , for Division and Separat ion, is the solework of Art and of the Art ist , and not of Nature; for here Natureis forced by the Ski l l of the Workman, to forgo and part wi th herbeloved Elements, which she so straight ly kept chained and inclosein her bosome, and which by violence by external f i re ' are evenas i t were forcib ly rent and torn from her.

Indeed, the f i rst Work of Solut ion and Mort i f icat ion is theSole operat ion of Nature, for the Mater ia ls being inclosed in thei

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dungeon there Nature attenuates them, there she dissolves andputref ies them, and causeth them to run a retrograde course intotheir own f i rst matter again, that is, into a sl- imie and viscousmass and substance, whereof at f i rst out of the four Elementsthey were formed and begotten. And in that f i rst work, the Art istis but only a fire maker, which only giveth Nature strength andpower to work in and upon the mater ia ls, for wi thout an exci t ingf i re Nature were not able to effect anything, but she would who11remain idle and void of course, and that in regard of the extremecoldness of the Mercury, for where cold predominates, heat mustneeds l ie fet tered and immoveabLe,but when the external f i re st i r -reth up and provoketh the f ierce indignat ion of the Sal t Menstrue,she present ly seizeth upon the fat unctuous body of the Sulphur,and extracts his natural heat and f iery element, and then bothof them together do so ardent ly incircle and work upon the coldMercury, that they dissever and scatter a l l h is members nto smal latomes than f1y in the beams of the Sun, and then heat beginnethto get the supereminence.

Therefore in this FIRST WORKhe Operator is but the Trust ieadministrator of Nature, which in this case, the most i l leterate

.and simple man in the World may be.But in the Secret Work of the conjunct ion of our Elements, both

Nature and Art , hand in hand accompaning each other, for therethe Art ist f indeth and imbibeth, and Nature f ixeth and congealeth,which we wi l l show hereafter, when we handle that work.

fhe FIRST WORK F SOLUTION educeth our Tri-nity and AntimonialCompound nto a green Errn, called the Green Lyon, which gum drymoderately we1l , but beware thou burn not h is f lowers, nor destroygreenness, for therein l ieth his Soul , which is our mai-n Secret.And our SECOND ORK ani fests those th ings which were beforehid f rom sight, namely, i t makes our four Elements to appear vis-ib1y, and to be had general ly and dist inct ly. But in th is SecondWork i f thou extract our Air and our Fire wi th the phlegm water,

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they wi l l the more naturalLy and easi ly. be drawn out of theirinfernal pr ison, and wi th less losse of their Spir i ts, than by theformer way before descr ibed.After division is perfect ly celebrated, thou shal t f ind in the

sides of the Cucurbi t , &rrd aLso in the head of the Alembick awhi te hard Rymemueh l ike the Congelat ion of a f rosty vapour, orl - ike unto Mercury subl imate, which keep chari ly by i tsel f in acl-ean glass wel l cl -osed, for therein l ieth hid a great secret , fortherewith thou mayest abbreviate the work, in hal f the t ine, andwith hal f the labour that else i t would be done in, which wi l lprove a greater ease and benef i t , and shorten expenses.The Cleansing of our Base.

I t is most certain, that the external f i re is a great fr iendto us, and his nature is such, that he can indure no impuri ty inanything, therefore at the day of Judgement, the Elemental f i resha1l pur i f ie, cleanse, and burn up al l the impure earth that wetread or l , and purge i t f rom al l dross and f i1th.

So l ikewise must i t do in our work. Wherefore af ter the separ-at ion of our Water, Air and Fire out of our Earth; Take out theblack feces which remain in the bottom of our Vessel- , cal l -ed ourDragon, and grind i t into smal l powder, and calcine i t in twocrucibles luted together, in a potters furnace, or in a g1ass, orwind furnace, unt i l i t look whi t ish or something grey, which Calxkeep by i tsel f , for i t is cal led the Base and Foundat ion of ourWork, and it is now cal led MARS,and our White Fixed Earth.The Puri f icat ion of our Faint Waters.

But that thou mayest loose no t ime nor be id le, whi le the Earthis calcin ing, dist i l the Water that was f i rst drawn out of theCompound,seven t imes, unt i l i t be clear as Crystal , but do it


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by i tseLf al-one, not intermixing any other thing therewith, andthen hast thou our pure r i -ver of water of Li fe, which hath powerand vir tue to revive the dead body from whence i t sprung, and tomake i t whi te and Shining l ike a pure Alabaster. As for our otherArie and f iery waters, they are so f ixed and permanent, that nof i re wi l l again elevate their substances, but they wouLd standin the f i re, unt i l - Doomsdaywithout any wast ing or exhaLat ion.

A11 things being now purified without and within, now beginneththe Work of Art and Nature, wherein, the one must inseparably aidthe other, for i f e i ther refuses to help each other, al l the formesweats and Toi les are to no purpose, for Nature can not br ingour disserved elements together wi thout the assistance of theexpert Art ist ; nei ther can the Art ist coagulate the eLements puttogether wi thout Nature, wherefore Nature implores the aid of theArt ist wi th an Adjuna me, & ego adjunabose. And the Art ist f indingbefore, what good Nature had done him, in dissolving and putrefy-ing the bodi-es, is as ready to help her, thus.

The Work of Conjunet ion of our Elements.Take the abovesai-d calcined faeces cal led MARS,or Our Dragon

which devoureth his own Tai1, and put thereof so much into a glassbody, as scarcely f i l l - hal f of i t , and pour thereon so much ofour rect i f ied water of L i fe, as wel l may but cover the Calx madeinto powder, which done, incont inent ly stop the glass with a bLindhead wel l luted to the bodyr and set i t in hot ashes, unt i l theCalx have drunk up and congealed all the Liquor, which it wil ldo in eight days, and so from eight days to eight days imbibe thesaid Calx with his own water, and that he wi l l dr ink no more, butis very whi te and shineth as the Eyes of Fishes, and be ful l ofChrystal l ine Pl-ates, then, the said Calx being very d"y' take i tout of the gIass, and separate from it , a l l the Chrystal l ine Plateand make them only into Powder, put that powder, which we cal l

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SULPHUR F NATURE,or FOLIATEDEARTH nto another glass, and pourthereon some of our whi te Arie fume cal led vi rg ins Mirk, upon alent f i re congeal them together, and cont inue this Work unt i l -i t have drunk almost al l h is Air , and is become fixt and perman-ent. Then take i t out, make i t into powder and incerate i t wi thpart of his reserved Air by drops, unt iL i t become ike l iquidhoney, and that i t wi l l mel t and f low l ike Wa:


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earth, but we intend not to reveal them at th is t ime, leaving i tto be experienced by those, whomAlmighty God sha1l th ink worthyto teach, by th is our l i t t1e and brief , but pi th ie and true book,unto whomwe perpetual ly owe al l th inks and praise, for endowingus with the Knowledge thereof.The Aecurtat ion of the Great work, which saveth hal f the Timeand labour.

The White Rogue, or powder, whereof we spake before, and wiI Iedthee careful- ly to reserve i t , which is perfect Sulphur of Nature,and fol iated Earth, which needs nei ther imbibing, nor digest ingunto the whi te.

Take it therefore, and being ground fine and smal-l-, imbibe itwith a fourth part of our before said. Air, or virgins Mi1k.But observe by the W"y, that thou must have great store of ourWater, Air and Fire, and those extraeted out of f ive or six sev-eral Compounds,or Chaos, so that af ter you have dr iven one Chaosout of the Ovenr $ou must present ly set in a new one, and so succ-.essi-vely one after another, and then separate their e lements, forelse you wi l l want waters and oi ls for imbibi t ion, incerat ion, andmult ip l icat ion, and i f thy work be discont inued for want of suchmater ia ls, al l is spoi led and wi l l come to noth5-ng, for i f thouonce begin, thcu must proceed without stay or interrupt ion untothe ful1 end.

But to the matter, having imbibed the said Ryme, congeal thewhol-e on a soft f i re, unt i l i t be drunk up, then imbibe and con-geal i t twice more unt i l - i t be f ixed, af ter that powder i t , andincerate i t , wi th some of our Air by drops, as thou didst thywhite medicine before, unt il i t f low l ike warcupon a red hot i ron,and fly not away, thus shalt thou have the White Stone perfectlymade in half the t ime, and with hal f the labour which is a prec-ious Jewelr ?rrd a great Secret.

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The Accurtat ion of the Red Work.Take the whole, or the hal f , of th is our White Stone, made of

the said Ryme, and being pulver ized, put i t into a strong eggglass, and imbibe i t wi th a l i t t le of our Red f iery Mercury, andset i t on a weak f i re for fear of breaking the glass, congeal i tinto a dry powder, then imbibe i t and congeal i t so twice moreunt i l i t be strongly f ixed, then take i t out, pulver ize i t , andi-ncerate i t wi th our said f iery 0i1 by drops in a strong crucible,on a gent le f i re unt i l i t f low l ike wa;


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Of this Salt, HelbigiusSaith:

Brlt ish tuseum tSS. Sloane #630The above ls the only i l i le grven this small tractThe Philosophers speak of IVIERCURY,U],PHURnd SALT, this thirdpr inciple viz. the Sal t whi le I breathe I wi l l extol l wi th most

ample prayers as most true principle. In this is whatever theWise Men seek. I ts al l in a l l . I t opens and shuts. Ttr is re ignsin the Air. It rules both earth and water, which equal Sulphurand utmost force. Its the third and last of most natural thingsin Nature. Water is the Mother of it l Ttris is the MERCURYoughtaf ter by Chemists, and their Sulphur; i ts nei ther Ki tchen Salt ,nor Sea Salt nor caleined Sa1t, nor volat i l ized Sa1t. Nor any othething produced by the help of fire. But the nost noble grain ofthe maturity and excelleney of everything. Added out of the sub-t i l i ty of the superior Waters, to the Infer iour, for a soul andfor the beginning added to them. We name it in emminent mannerthe Sal t of Nature.. This pr lmogenius Sal t is not corrosive; not acr id, scarce sen-sibly astringent, most penetrative and opening, Dissolving andwhen you fol low the Natural Process or mot ion, i t is Coagulat ingand Maturating. Its part of the certain body obtained out of thef i re, and through cont inued mot ionr so nobi l i tated, and maturatedthat i t deservedly meri ts the Ti tLe of the Soul Essence and Saltof Nature.

It rests upon the whole Universe, but in one plaee in greaterquantity than another, one part whereof is easier to obtain thananother.

Whether is the MERCURIAIViscous liquor or the SULPHUREOUSalteasier obtained?

There are three Kingdomesr The Inferiour that l ies under mens

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feet , the Middle Kingdom, the Animal, and the superiour Kingdom,that ' which is above us and in whieh we l- ive; r t is in alL threeas vide the Author.But the middle Kingdom possesseth the most excel lent SALT ofNature and the greatest part thereof & etc. , which is as wel l drawthereout as out of the superiour and rnfer iour Kingd.oms.The Seat hereof therefore is the Middle Kindom, whose seat I caLSPEIUNCA'a cave and Den, the house and habi tat ion of sadness andgladness. TtIe fnhabi tant whereof or Indwel ler is cal Ied the MagneChaos.Improperly Sendivogius st i les, the Hy1e, the f i rst matter. And

i t enjoys so great (an) abundance of the sart of Nature, as nobody in the world hath so much. r t is beheld by many, but by rea-son of i ts viscid sl imy cloathing, and the darkness of i ts leadencoLour, i t seems vi le, and being dug up is sometimes cast backagain (rejected) wi th nausia and loathing. I t is purchased withlabour but never wi th money. And being once obtained i t is a lwayssuff ic ient ( t f re reason thereof is that i t is so easi ly augmented).The f i rst begotten Sal t of Nature being drawn down to the custodyof the Magnet, and being puri f ied and appl ied. to another subject ,'by the heat of mot ion is st i r red up and is made as i t were anAgent, which dissolves the Metals and Minerals which are trans-formed by the motion of the water, and i t opens, enters, the moreignoble, crude, gross part of the transmuted water; and i t dothopen that which incloses the Sal t which is l ike i tsel f and dothenter into i t , and helps it then that perfect grave of essencemay have greater por4rerover the rest. E. a. Gold.Gold being dissolved radical ly ( through the operat ion of th issal t as a Menstruum) by the vi -r tue of which, and arso of his ownessence (which is the same sal t ) which vir tue is st i r red up bythe mot ion of external heat, thus the Gold is en-nobled, and isexal ted to such a degree far exceeding the common nd crude matur-at ion it receives in the earthr so that i t y ie lds seed which inserte

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in to the l-esser and more unripe metals, bV that I l luminat ion dothadvance them far above the excel- Iency of commonGold.

This Sal t is that Uni-versal Menstruum, the Ccagulated Water ofNature. The Vitr io l of the Li t t le World (that is the Phi losophicalESS). The Phi losophical- subl imate Mercury & etc. This is thef ie ld to which Gold serves for seed.

For the separat ion of th is Treasure, First the unprof i table partmust be cast away from the useful part , the useful part must bepuri f ied, and separated into two parts (vi -2. into Mercur ia l Waterand Sulphurical Earth). The greater part f lys away and ascends,the lesser part remains below as dead, unt i l the rest of the f i l thbeing abstracted, the upper part doth exal t the l-ower; both whichbeing uni ted they r ipen the Gold that is added to them, and ef fecti t wi th inf in i te fert i l i ty.

This agrees with the other part icular process which appointsto take crude Solar and lunar or Mercur ia l Minerals, wherein Mer-cury is as yet crude and unri-pe, wherein the sulphurial heat hathnot yet so far coagulated the Mercur ia l Water; as to br ing i t tothe bod.y of Mercury, much less to the dr lmess of Ant imony; (sothat certain ly i ts in nei ther of these, they are past i t) pur i f iethe matter by washing and removing the stony or too gross part 'then putr i fy i t 90 days, and then dist i l i t in Balneo gent ly.The which al l is r ising with the heat, then you may see what moreof the Mercur ia l L iquor rose, $ou may by greater heat of Sand comthe Sulphureous Earth to ar ise in f lowers.** Note. The Flowers that l ie in the middle in the subl imat ionthat are the reddest and shini -ng are the best, not the l ightestthey are not f ixed enough, and the lowest are too dropsycal ' butexperience wi l l show this.

0r the Flowersx may be got of another Solar Root.n Note. (or SULPHUR) ome say by digest ion of them togethera due t ime.

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sulphuria l earth , viz. the f lowers; the l iquor is so impregnatedwith solar SULPHUR,hat i t is the true Menstruum for pure SoIwhich wi l l d issolve it and r ipen i t as above said, viz. Two partsof this Mercurial SULPHUMTEDiquor, and one part of purifiedSo1, or Solut ion of So1, put into a Phi losophical Egg, not a th i rdful - I , hermet ical ly sealed; placed in a nest in an Athanor in sueha gentle heat as only keeps a continual vapour and moisture in theglass with a constant kind of mot ion, therein also; through al lthe colours, t i l -1 i t come to whi te and red & etc. Too much heatwi l l too soon dry up the vapour and moisture, and f ix the mot ion(and burn fcarus his wings) too l i t t le heat wi l l not ra ise suchnatural Dewy Vapours, nor cause such Vegetable and Animal motions,and as of the outward, the like may be said of the Inward heatand moisture; the PhiLosophical Sulphur and the true Mercury ofthe Phi losophers are the fnward f i re and Water of the Phi losophers,which for the same reasons must be exact ly ordered in the duequant i ty aforesaid; And then the Red and White, one or bothr 2syou please, may be again dissolved in the aforesaid Menstruum,and coagulated t i1 l they at ta in the desired strength.

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A ShortProcessFollowhg ThlsTreaUse

The way to change MERCURYs red as blood which being convertedinto powder transmuteth LUNA nto S0ll first make an AQUA-FORTIof vrTRrOL and NrTREand distitl it 3 times from its own cApurMORTUUM.hr. of this AQUA-FORTTS3 i i j g MERCURy ii j in a retort ,let them distill then & cohobate so often until the MERCURyearsred as bLood, which wil l be in 5 or 5 t imes, then bring i t to ared powder by imbibing it with the red oir of vrrRrOt 3 times,

then dry it and bring it lnto a red powder and divide it into 8parts.Ilren take I I g SATURN ponLUNA&+3 ofSOI,&igthe

remain f .f of SOL.a test, when it drivetn put J i e8 parts of powder, and there will

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