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 Proiection.
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Of Proiection.
The twelfth Gate.
In Proiection it shal be proued if our practise be profitable,
Of which it behoueth me the secrets here to moue,
Therefore if thy tincture be sure and not variable,
By a little of thy medicine thus mayst thou proue,
With mettle, or with Mercury as pitch it will cleaue,
And teyne in Proiection all fires to abide,
And soone it will enter and spread him full wide.
Of which it behoueth me the secrets here to moue,
Therefore if thy tincture be sure and not variable,
By a little of thy medicine thus mayst thou proue,
With mettle, or with Mercury as pitch it will cleaue,
And teyne in Proiection all fires to abide,
And soone it will enter and spread him full wide.
But many by ignorance doe marre that they made,
When on mettals vnclensed Proiection they make,
For because of corruption their tinctures must fade,
Which they would not away first from the body take,
Which after Proiection be brittle blew and black,
That thy tincture therefore may euermore last,
First vpon ferment thy medicine see thou cast.
When on mettals vnclensed Proiection they make,
For because of corruption their tinctures must fade,
Which they would not away first from the body take,
Which after Proiection be brittle blew and black,
That thy tincture therefore may euermore last,
First vpon ferment thy medicine see thou cast.
Then brittle as glasse will thy ferment bee,
Vpon bodies clensed and made very pure,
Cast that brittle substance and soone shalt thou see,
That they shall be curiously coloured with tincture,
With all assayes for euer shall endure,
But profitable Proiection perfectly to make,
At the Psalmes of the Psalter example thou take.
Vpon bodies clensed and made very pure,
Cast that brittle substance and soone shalt thou see,
That they shall be curiously coloured with tincture,
With all assayes for euer shall endure,
But profitable Proiection perfectly to make,
At the Psalmes of the Psalter example thou take.
On Fundamenta cast first this psalme Nunc dimittis,
Vpon verbamea, then cast Fundamenta beliue,
Then Verba vpon diligam, conceiue me with thy wits,
And diligam vpon attendite, if thou list to thriue,
Thus make thou Proiections, three, foure, or fiue,
Till the tincture of the medicine beginne to decrease,
And then it is time of Proiection to cease.
Vpon verbamea, then cast Fundamenta beliue,
Then Verba vpon diligam, conceiue me with thy wits,
And diligam vpon attendite, if thou list to thriue,
Thus make thou Proiections, three, foure, or fiue,
Till the tincture of the medicine beginne to decrease,
And then it is time of Proiection to cease.
By this mistie talking I meane nothing else,
But that thou must cast first the lesse on the more,
Encreasing aye the number as wisemen thee tells,
And keepe thou this secreat vnto thy selfe in store,
Be couetous of cunning it is no burden sore,
For he that ioyneth not the Elixer with bodies made cleane,
He wotteth not surely what Proiection doth meane.
But that thou must cast first the lesse on the more,
Encreasing aye the number as wisemen thee tells,
And keepe thou this secreat vnto thy selfe in store,
Be couetous of cunning it is no burden sore,
For he that ioyneth not the Elixer with bodies made cleane,
He wotteth not surely what Proiection doth meane.
Ten if thou multiplie first into ten,
One hundreth that number maketh sickerly,
If one hundreth into an hundreth be multiplied, then
Ten thousand is that number if thou count it wittely,
Then into as much more ten thousand to multiplie,
It is a thousand thousand; which multiplied ywis,
Into as much more a hundreth millions is.
One hundreth that number maketh sickerly,
If one hundreth into an hundreth be multiplied, then
Ten thousand is that number if thou count it wittely,
Then into as much more ten thousand to multiplie,
It is a thousand thousand; which multiplied ywis,
Into as much more a hundreth millions is.
That hundreth millions being multiplyed likewise
Into ten thousand millions, as I to thee doe say,
Maketh so great a number I wot not what it is,
Thy number in Proiection thus multiplye alway:
Now childe of thy curtesie for me that thou pray,
Sith I haue tolde thee our secrets all and some,
To the which I beseech GOD by grace thou mayst come.
Into ten thousand millions, as I to thee doe say,
Maketh so great a number I wot not what it is,
Thy number in Proiection thus multiplye alway:
Now childe of thy curtesie for me that thou pray,
Sith I haue tolde thee our secrets all and some,
To the which I beseech GOD by grace thou mayst come.
Now hast thou conquered these gates twelue,
And all the Castle thou holdest at thy will,
Keepe thy secreats in store to thy selfe,
And the commaundements of God looke thou fulfill,
In fire see thou continue thy glasses still,
And multiply thy medicines aye more and more,
For wise men doe say, that store is no sore.
And all the Castle thou holdest at thy will,
Keepe thy secreats in store to thy selfe,
And the commaundements of God looke thou fulfill,
In fire see thou continue thy glasses still,
And multiply thy medicines aye more and more,
For wise men doe say, that store is no sore.
The ende of the twelue Gates, intituled Ripleys Compound of Alchymie.
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