The compovnd 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 ... George Ripley ... & Dedicated to K. Edward 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 |
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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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 congelation be thou glad to see,
And after like graines red as blood,
Richer than any worldly good.
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 congelation be thou glad to see,
And after like 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 water anone:
First it out leadeth, and after it bringeth it in,
As water with water which will not lightly twin.
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 water anone:
First it out leadeth, and after it bringeth it in,
As water with water which will not lightly twin.
And so may water only our water meeue,
Which mouing causeth both death and life
And water to water doth kindly cleeue
Without repugnance or anie strife,
Which water to fooles is nothing rife,
Being of the kinde withouten doubt
Of the spirit, called water and leader out.
Which mouing causeth both death and life
And water to water doth kindly cleeue
Without repugnance or anie strife,
Which water to fooles is nothing rife,
Being of the kinde withouten doubt
Of the spirit, called water and leader out.
And water is the secret and life of euery thing,
That is of substance in this world yfound,
For of water each thing hath his beginning,
As showeth in women when they shalbe vnbound
By water, which passeth before if all be sound,
Called Albien, first from them running,
With greeuous throwes before their childing.
That is of substance in this world yfound,
For of water each thing hath his beginning,
As showeth in women when they shalbe vnbound
By water, which passeth before if all be sound,
Called Albien, first from them running,
With greeuous throwes before their childing.
And truly that is the cause most principall
Why Philosophers charge vs to be patient,
Till time the water be dried to powder all
With nourishing heate, continuall, not violent:
For qualities be contrarious of euerie element,
Till after blacke in white be made an vnion
Of them for euer, congeald without diuision.
Why Philosophers charge vs to be patient,
Till time the water be dried to powder all
With nourishing heate, continuall, not violent:
For qualities be contrarious of euerie element,
Till after blacke in white be made an vnion
Of them for euer, congeald without diuision.
And furthermore, the preparation of this conuersion:
From thing to thing, from one state to another,
Is done onely by kindly and discreete operation
Of Nature, as is of sperme within the mother;
For sperme and heate, are as sister and brother,
Which be conuerted in themselues as nature can,
By action and passion at last to perfect man:
From thing to thing, from one state to another,
Is done onely by kindly and discreete operation
Of Nature, as is of sperme within the mother;
For sperme and heate, are as sister and brother,
Which be conuerted in themselues as nature can,
By action and passion at last to perfect man:
For as the bodily part by nature was combynate
Into man, is such as the beginner was,
Which though it thus frō thing to thing was alterate
Not out of kinde, to mixe with other kinde did passe,
And so our matter spermaticall within our glasse,
Within it selfe must turne from thing to thing,
By heate most temperate only it nourishing.
Into man, is such as the beginner was,
Which though it thus frō thing to thing was alterate
Not out of kinde, to mixe with other kinde did passe,
And so our matter spermaticall within our glasse,
Within it selfe must turne from thing to thing,
By heate most temperate only it nourishing.
An other example naturall I may thee tell,
How the substance of an egge by nature is wrought
Into a Chicken not passing out of the shell,
A plainer example could I not haue thought,
And their conuersions be made till forth be brought
From state to state, the like by like in kinde,
With nourishing heate: onely beare this in minde.
How the substance of an egge by nature is wrought
Into a Chicken not passing out of the shell,
A plainer example could I not haue thought,
And their conuersions be made till forth be brought
From state to state, the like by like in kinde,
With nourishing heate: onely beare this in minde.
Another example here also thou maist read
Of vegetable things, taking consideration,
How euerie thing groweth of his owne seede
Through heate and moysture, by naturall operation;
And therfore myneralls be nourished by ministration
Of moysture radicall, which there beginning was,
Not passing their kinde within one glas.
Of vegetable things, taking consideration,
How euerie thing groweth of his owne seede
Through heate and moysture, by naturall operation;
And therfore myneralls be nourished by ministration
Of moysture radicall, which there beginning was,
Not passing their kinde within one glas.
There we them turne from thing to thing againe,
Into their mother the water when they goe:
Which principle vnknowen, thou labourest in vaine.
Then all is sperme; and things there be no moe
But kinde with kinde in number two,
Male and female, agent and patient,
Within the matrix of the earth most orient.
Into their mother the water when they goe:
Which principle vnknowen, thou labourest in vaine.
Then all is sperme; and things there be no moe
But kinde with kinde in number two,
Male and female, agent and patient,
Within the matrix of the earth most orient.
And these be turned by heate from thing to thing
Within one glasse, and so from state to state,
Vntill the time that nature doth them bring
Into one substance of the water regenerate:
And so the sperme with his kinde is alterate,
Able in likenes his kinde to multiply,
As doth in kinde all other things naturally.
Within one glasse, and so from state to state,
Vntill the time that nature doth them bring
Into one substance of the water regenerate:
And so the sperme with his kinde is alterate,
Able in likenes his kinde to multiply,
As doth in kinde all other things naturally.
In the time of this said proces naturall,
While that the sperme conceiued is growing,
The substance is nourished with his owne menstruall,
Which water only out of the earth did spring,
Whose colour is greene in the first showing:
And from that time the Sunne hideth his light,
Taking his course throughout the North by night.
While that the sperme conceiued is growing,
The substance is nourished with his owne menstruall,
Which water only out of the earth did spring,
Whose colour is greene in the first showing:
And from that time the Sunne hideth his light,
Taking his course throughout the North by night.
The sayd menstruall is (I say to thee in counsell)
The blood of our greene Lyon and not of vitriall,
Dame Venus can the troth of this thee tell,
At the beginning, to counsell if thou her call,
This secret is hid by Philosophers great and small,
Which blood drawne out of the greene Lyon,
For lack of heate had not perfect digestion.
The blood of our greene Lyon and not of vitriall,
Dame Venus can the troth of this thee tell,
At the beginning, to counsell if thou her call,
This secret is hid by Philosophers great and small,
Which blood drawne out of the greene Lyon,
For lack of heate had not perfect digestion.
But this blood called our secreat menstruall,
Wherewith our sperme is nourished temperately,
When it is turned into the feces corporall,
And so become white perfectly and very drye,
Congeald and fixed into his owne bodie,
Then biscoct blood to sight it may well seeme,
Of this worke named the milke white Dyademe.
Wherewith our sperme is nourished temperately,
When it is turned into the feces corporall,
And so become white perfectly and very drye,
Congeald and fixed into his owne bodie,
Then biscoct blood to sight it may well seeme,
Of this worke named the milke white Dyademe.
Vnderstand now that our firie water thus acuate,
Is called our menstruall water, wherein
Our earth is loosed and naturally calcinate,
By Congelation that they may neuer twinne,
But yet to congeale more water thou may not linne:
Into three partes of the acuate water sayd afore,
With the fourth parte of the earth congealed and no more.
Is called our menstruall water, wherein
Our earth is loosed and naturally calcinate,
By Congelation that they may neuer twinne,
But yet to congeale more water thou may not linne:
Into three partes of the acuate water sayd afore,
With the fourth parte of the earth congealed and no more.
Vnto that substance therefore so congelate,
The fourth parte put of water christaline,
And make them then together to be dispousate,
By Congelation into a miner metaline,
Which like a sworde new slipped will shine,
After the blacknes which first will shew,
The fourth parte then giue it of water new.
The fourth parte put of water christaline,
And make them then together to be dispousate,
By Congelation into a miner metaline,
Which like a sworde new slipped will shine,
After the blacknes which first will shew,
The fourth parte then giue it of water new.
Imbibitions many it must haue yet,
Giue it the second, and after the third also.
The sayd proportion keeping in thy witt,
Then to another the fourth time looke thou goe,
The fift time and the sixt passe not therefore,
But put two partes at each time of them three,
And at the seuenth time fiue partes must there bee.
Giue it the second, and after the third also.
The sayd proportion keeping in thy witt,
Then to another the fourth time looke thou goe,
The fift time and the sixt passe not therefore,
But put two partes at each time of them three,
And at the seuenth time fiue partes must there bee.
When thou hast made seauen times Imbibition,
Againe then must thou turne about thy wheele,
And putrifie all that matter without addition,
First blacknes abiding if thou wilt doe weele,
Then into whitenes congeale it vp each deele,
And after by rednes into the south ascend,
Then hast thou brought thy base vnto an end.
Againe then must thou turne about thy wheele,
And putrifie all that matter without addition,
First blacknes abiding if thou wilt doe weele,
Then into whitenes congeale it vp each deele,
And after by rednes into the south ascend,
Then hast thou brought thy base vnto an end.
Thus is thy water then diuided into partes two,
With the first parte the bodies be putrificate,
And to thine Imbibitions the second parte must goe,
With which thy matter is afterwarde demigrate,
And soone vpon easie decoction albificate,
Then is it named by Philosophers our starry stone,
Bring that to rednes then is the sixt gate wonne.
With the first parte the bodies be putrificate,
And to thine Imbibitions the second parte must goe,
With which thy matter is afterwarde demigrate,
And soone vpon easie decoction albificate,
Then is it named by Philosophers our starry stone,
Bring that to rednes then is the sixt gate wonne.
The end of the sixt gate.
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