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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Hermes named seemely to see,
Of which one pippin a thousand will multiplie,
If thou canst make thy proiection wittely.
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 Hermes named seemely to see,
Of which one pippin a thousand will multiplie,
If thou canst make thy proiection wittely.
And like as Saffron when it is puluerizate,
By little and little if it with liquor be
Tempred, and then with much more liquor dilate,
Teyneth much more of liquor in quantitie,
Thā being whole in his grosse nature: so shalt thou see,
That our Elixer, the more it is made thinne,
The further in tincture it fastly will rinne.
By little and little if it with liquor be
Tempred, and then with much more liquor dilate,
Teyneth much more of liquor in quantitie,
Thā being whole in his grosse nature: so shalt thou see,
That our Elixer, the more it is made thinne,
The further in tincture it fastly will rinne.
Keepe in thy fire therefore both euen and morrow,
From house to house that thou neede not to rinne,
Among thy neighbours thy fire to seeke or borrow,
The more thou keepest, the more good shalt thou win
Multiplying it alwaies more & more thy glasse within,
By feeding with Mercurie vnto thy liues end,
So shalt thou haue more than thou needest to spend.
From house to house that thou neede not to rinne,
Among thy neighbours thy fire to seeke or borrow,
The more thou keepest, the more good shalt thou win
Multiplying it alwaies more & more thy glasse within,
By feeding with Mercurie vnto thy liues end,
So shalt thou haue more than thou needest to spend.
This matter is plaine I will no more
Write thereof, let reason thee guide,
Be neuer the bolder to sinne therefore,
But serue thy God the better in each tide:
And while that thou shalt in this life abide,
Beare this in minde, forget not I thee pray,
As thou shalt appeare before God at domes day.
Write thereof, let reason thee guide,
Be neuer the bolder to sinne therefore,
But serue thy God the better in each tide:
And while that thou shalt in this life abide,
Beare this in minde, forget not I thee pray,
As thou shalt appeare before God at domes day.
His owne great giftes therefore and his treasure,
Dispose thou vertuously, helping the poore at neede,
That in this world thou mayst to thee procure,
Mercy and grace with heauenly blisse to meede,
And pray to God deuoutly that he thee leade,
In at the twelfth gate, as he can best,
Soone after then thou shalt end thy conquest.
Dispose thou vertuously, helping the poore at neede,
That in this world thou mayst to thee procure,
Mercy and grace with heauenly blisse to meede,
And pray to God deuoutly that he thee leade,
In at the twelfth gate, as he can best,
Soone after then thou shalt end thy conquest.
The end of the eleuenth gate.
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