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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Recapitulatio totius operis prædicti.
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Recapitulatio totius operis prædicti.
For to bring this Treatise to a finall ende,
And briefly here to conclude these secrets all,
Diligently looke thou, and to thy figure attend,
Which doth in it containe these secrets great & small,
And if thou it conceiue, both theoricall and practicall,
By figures and colours, by scripture plaine,
It wittily conceiued, thou mayst not worke in vaine.
And briefly here to conclude these secrets all,
Diligently looke thou, and to thy figure attend,
Which doth in it containe these secrets great & small,
And if thou it conceiue, both theoricall and practicall,
By figures and colours, by scripture plaine,
It wittily conceiued, thou mayst not worke in vaine.
Consider first the latitude of this precious Stone,
Beginning in the first side noted in the West,
Where the red man & the white woman be made one,
Spoused with the spirite of life to liue in rest,
Earth and water equally proportionate, that is best,
And one of the earth is good, and of the spirit three,
Which twelue to fowre also of the earth may bee.
Beginning in the first side noted in the West,
Where the red man & the white woman be made one,
Spoused with the spirite of life to liue in rest,
Earth and water equally proportionate, that is best,
And one of the earth is good, and of the spirit three,
Which twelue to fowre also of the earth may bee.
Three of the wife, and one of the man thou take,
And the lesse of the spirit in this dispousation,
The rather thy Calcination for certain shalt thou make;
Then forth into the North proceed by obscuration
Of the red man and his white wife, called Eclipsation,
Loosing them and altring them betwixt winter & vere,
Into water turning earth, darke and nothing cleare.
And the lesse of the spirit in this dispousation,
The rather thy Calcination for certain shalt thou make;
Then forth into the North proceed by obscuration
Of the red man and his white wife, called Eclipsation,
Loosing them and altring them betwixt winter & vere,
Into water turning earth, darke and nothing cleare.
From thence by colours many one into the East ascend,
Then shall the Moone be full appearing by day-light,
Then is she passed purgatorie, and her course at an end,
There is the vprising of the Sunne appearing bright,
There is Summer after Vere, and day after night:
Thē earth & water which wer black, be turned to aire,
And clouds of darknes ouerblown, & all apeareth faire.
Then shall the Moone be full appearing by day-light,
Then is she passed purgatorie, and her course at an end,
There is the vprising of the Sunne appearing bright,
There is Summer after Vere, and day after night:
Thē earth & water which wer black, be turned to aire,
And clouds of darknes ouerblown, & all apeareth faire.
And as in the west was the beginning of thy practise,
And the North the perfect meane of profoūd alteratiō:
So in the East after them the beginning of speculatiō is;
But of this course vp in the south the sun maketh cōsūmatiō,
Ther bin the elements turned into fire by circulatiō:
Then to win to thy desire thou needst not be in doubt,
For the wheele of our philosophie thou hast turned about
And the North the perfect meane of profoūd alteratiō:
So in the East after them the beginning of speculatiō is;
But of this course vp in the south the sun maketh cōsūmatiō,
Ther bin the elements turned into fire by circulatiō:
Then to win to thy desire thou needst not be in doubt,
For the wheele of our philosophie thou hast turned about
But yet about againe two times turne thy wheele,
In which bin cōprehēded all the secrets of our philosophy.
In chapiters 12. made plaine to thee, if thou cōceiue thē well,
And all the secrets by & by of our lower Astronomy,
How thou shalt calcine bodies, perfit, dissolue diuide & putrifie,
With perfect knowledge of all the poles which in our heauen beene,
Shining with colours inexplicable, neuer were gayer seene.
In which bin cōprehēded all the secrets of our philosophy.
In chapiters 12. made plaine to thee, if thou cōceiue thē well,
And all the secrets by & by of our lower Astronomy,
How thou shalt calcine bodies, perfit, dissolue diuide & putrifie,
With perfect knowledge of all the poles which in our heauen beene,
Shining with colours inexplicable, neuer were gayer seene.
And thus our secret conclusion know withouten faile,
Our red man teineth not, nor his wife, til they teined be,
Therefore if thou list thy selfe by this craft to auaile,
The altitude of the bodies hide, & shewe out their profunditie,
In euery of thy materials destroying the first qualitie,
And secondary qualities more glorious in them repaire anone,
And in one glasse, and with one rule, foure natures turn to one.
Our red man teineth not, nor his wife, til they teined be,
Therefore if thou list thy selfe by this craft to auaile,
The altitude of the bodies hide, & shewe out their profunditie,
In euery of thy materials destroying the first qualitie,
And secondary qualities more glorious in them repaire anone,
And in one glasse, and with one rule, foure natures turn to one.
Pale & black with false citrine, imperfect white & red,
The Peacocks feathers in colours gay, the Rainebowe which shall ouergoe,
The spotted pāther, the lyō green, the crowes bil blue as lead,
These shall apeare before thee perfect white, and manie other moe,
And after the perfect white, gray, false citrine also,
And after these, thē shall apeare the body red inuariable,
Then hast thou a medicine of the thirde order of his owne kinde multiplicable.
The Peacocks feathers in colours gay, the Rainebowe which shall ouergoe,
The spotted pāther, the lyō green, the crowes bil blue as lead,
These shall apeare before thee perfect white, and manie other moe,
And after the perfect white, gray, false citrine also,
And after these, thē shall apeare the body red inuariable,
Then hast thou a medicine of the thirde order of his owne kinde multiplicable.
Thou must diuide thy white Elixer into parts two
Before thou rubifie, & into glasses two let thē be doone,
If thou wilt haue for Sū & moon thy elixer both do so;
And into mercury thē multiply to great quātity soone,
And if thou had not at the beginning to fill a spoone,
Yet maist thou them so multiply both white and red.
That if thou liue a 1000 yeres, they shal stād thee in sted.
Before thou rubifie, & into glasses two let thē be doone,
If thou wilt haue for Sū & moon thy elixer both do so;
And into mercury thē multiply to great quātity soone,
And if thou had not at the beginning to fill a spoone,
Yet maist thou them so multiply both white and red.
That if thou liue a 1000 yeres, they shal stād thee in sted.
Haue thou recourse to thy wheele therefore I counsell thee,
And studie him well to know in each chapter truly,
Meddle with no phantasticall multipliers, but let thē be,
Which will thee flatter feining them cunning in Philosophie,
Doe as I bid thee, thē dissolue these foresaid bases wittilie,
And turne them into perfect oyles with our true water ardent,
By circulation that must be done according to our intent.
And studie him well to know in each chapter truly,
Meddle with no phantasticall multipliers, but let thē be,
Which will thee flatter feining them cunning in Philosophie,
Doe as I bid thee, thē dissolue these foresaid bases wittilie,
And turne them into perfect oyles with our true water ardent,
By circulation that must be done according to our intent.
These oyles will fixe crude Mercurie and conuert bodies all
Into perfect Sunne and Moone, when thou shalt make Proiection;
That oylie substance pure & fixt Raimond Lully did call
His Basiliske, of which he neuer made so plain detectiō:
Pray for me to God, that I may be one of his election,
And that he will for one of his, at doomesday me ken.
And graunt me his blisse to raigne with him for euer, Amen.
Into perfect Sunne and Moone, when thou shalt make Proiection;
That oylie substance pure & fixt Raimond Lully did call
His Basiliske, of which he neuer made so plain detectiō:
Pray for me to God, that I may be one of his election,
And that he will for one of his, at doomesday me ken.
And graunt me his blisse to raigne with him for euer, Amen.
Finis Recapitulationis.
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