Ripley reviv'd: or, an exposition upon sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works

Sir G. Ripley’s Epistle.

The first conclusion is drawn from the ninth stanza original: "Stave" of this letter—the first eight stanzas being only introductory original: "complementall". That conclusion is: just as all things are multiplied according to their own kind, so may metals be multiplied, as they have within themselves a capacity for being transmuted from the imperfect into the perfect.

The second conclusion in the tenth stanza original: "Stave" is: the main ground for the possibility of transmutation is the possibility of reducing all metals, and such minerals as are made of metallic principles, into their first mercurial matter.

The third conclusion is in the eleventh stanza original: "Stave": among so many metallic original: "Metaline" and mineral sulfurs, and so many mercuries, there are but two sulfurs that are related to our work; these sulfurs have their mercuries essentially united to them.

The fourth conclusion from the same stanza original: "Stave" is: he who understands these two sulfurs and mercuries rightly shall find that the one is the most pure red sulfur of gold, which is sulfur in the manifest original: "Sulphur in manifesto"; meaning the sulfurous qualities are visible or active and mercury in the hidden original: "Mercurius in occulto"; meaning the mercurial qualities are internal or potential, and that the other is