The Ripley Scroll

the Red son Representing Rubedo, the final red stage of the alchemical process.
the white son Representing Albedo, the white stage of purification.
the black son Representing Nigredo, the initial black stage of decay or "putrefaction."
the sun, the moon, and the stars
the sun is my father, the moon is my mother A classic alchemical maxim from the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus.

I shall tell you without lying original: "leasyng"
how water is my generation,
And the Sun original: "Sonye" is my father,
And Magnesia In alchemy, Magnesia refers not to the modern element, but to the "primitive matter" or the mysterious substance that contains the spark of the Stone. is my mother,
And water truly is my sister,
And Earth for truth original: "for sothe" is my brother;
The Serpent of Arabia is my name.

The Spirit and I move in the air;
[It] has disciplined original: "chastised" me so well and so low,
Yet loving is my beauty, both fair and clear;
His house and tartar original: "tarture"; likely referring to the potassium bitartrate crust found in wine casks, used as a chemical reagent. there I throw.
My wife, my child, Sun, my [pearl?],
and life give me where they will.
The Elixir?

Now make the hard water light,
and cause him to be fair;
of my blood I make [it] white.
Plenty in all the world there is;
You draw [it] in every place.
God [long] king his grace. A prayer for the King's grace, common in English manuscripts.

I live [before I am known] or before I be green,
near be you all to bring;
King and queen he has, in full truth,
and all you but one unworldly;
no moon part them in [two],
and [from the] holy book go you [forth],
as of the soul of life our r?