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Sir George Ripley🌹 (1415-1495) The Canon of Bridlington: Spiritual and Physical Alchemy (Part 1) Victor. Arturo Cabello. Reyes.🌹 ''O Unity in the substance, and Trinity in the Godhead... As thou didst make all things out of one chaos, so let me be skilled to evolve our microcosm out of One substance in its three aspects of Magnesia, Sulphur, and Mercury.'' (Sir George Ripley, foreword to The Compound of Alchymie, Containing Twelve Gates) A new and fruitful alchemical vision in medieval works can be experienced in George Ripley both in the active physical-spiritual application of processes and terminologies of singular transformation and personal renewal. For Master Ripley, metals have and contain the essential quality of being able to achieve present virtues of an active metallic nature that can lead to the achievement of the change from 'lead to gold'. Ripley was a canon regular of St. Mary's Priory in Bridlington, a village in East Yorkshire. He is known for his famous work=Compound of Alchemy {dedicated to Edward IV in 1471}, and his 'Liber Duodecim Portarum'= {Book of the Twelve Gates-Twelve Gates leading to the Discovery of the Philosopher's Stone, 1471}. The 12 Gates were published in 1591 and then many other copies of Latin editions followed. But his most commented and admired work in all alchemical circles is= The Ripley Scroll= {Ripley Scrowle}, undoubtedly a wonderful and visual work with all the characteristics of a broad and comprehensive practical and intellectual knowledge of the field and study of the Great Work. (23 copies exist of the original) His name is associated with the poetry of the text, along with a male figure at the bottom of the text= [it measures 18 feet 4 inches and 23 inches wide on 7 long sheets in vellum each 32 inches]. There are 23 copies (21 of them from the early 16th to the mid-17th century). There is a poem = 'Cantilena' whose earliest copies suggest a date of 1470s where Ripley describes the King's illness and help received in recovery and transformation, thanks to alchemy. Ripley's ideology is based on detailed observation-experimentation, and it is there that he exposes the essential concept of vitriol-sericon. He is also credited with the famous image of the=Serpens et Bufo gradiens sup terra, Aquila volaris, est nostrum Magisterium=The serpens and the Toad treading upon the earth, the eagle flying, is our Magisterium= (George Ripley, Liber Secretissimus, Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum). The toad is a fundamental component – prima materia – in Ripley's work, since its poison is an essential part and active ingredient in the production of the alchemical Elixir. ''... Sir George Ripley, one of the most famous alchemists of late medieval England, organizes his Compound of Alchemy(completed 1471; first published 1591), according to twelve stages or ''gates, '' which must be opened if the reader of the text is to gain entrance to the ''castle'' of alchemical knowledge: Calcination, Dissolution, Separation, Conjunction, Putrefaction, Congelation, Cibation, Sublimation, Firmentation, Exaltation, Multiplication, and Projection.'' (Stanton J. Linden, The Alchemical Reader, p.17) The famous and standard of many alchemical works, the Ripley Scroll, visually embodies the process that must be followed in the search for the Philosopher's Stone; a sacral substance or powder that can contribute to metallic transformation and serve of 'Elixsir' to prolong life and provide health. The Ripley Scroll measures 18 feet with 4 inches in length and 23 inches in width. It consists of 7 long vellum leaves, each about 32 inches. It is the longest of all the symbolic drawings referring to the Magnum opus. In the British Library= (British Library Ms. Add.5025 and Ms. Add. 5025). There are smaller copies than the others. Some on paper and others discolored and in poor condition. The Scroll was published and annotated by Elias Ashmole himself, in his Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum of 1652. Ripley exposes a new alchemical vision and returns to medieval monastic sources of great humanistic value. (Frances Yates, Ideas and Ideals of the Renaissance in Northern Europe, p.p.120-121) As early as 1470 Ripley commented on having found the Stone and, in 1471, he wrote his Compound of Alchemy. For him, metals can essentially 'embody inner virtues' since they are active and present among those imperfect metals that are destined to be transmuted into higher forms or natural forms of ending in gold. It is worth mentioning that according to Ripley the stone = (there are three), contains in its tripartite form = animal, vegetable and mineral, which is used in the active means of stone transmutation. ''Mineral, vegetable and animal, so called because they are made from the waters of mineral, vegetable, and animal things, serving unto them.'' (Ripley, Epistle) ''Est enim triplex elixir, minerale, vegetala et animale, sie dicta: eo quia per aquas mineralium vegetalium, animalium rerum sibi deservientes fiant''. (Ripley, Medulla... fol.3r) The Philosopher's Stone and its stages, among some researchers, is associated with "a certain kind of water" fundamental to achieve the "germination of the semina" so that it manages to grow and germinate in gold. In his Compound, Master Ripley describes 12 Doors, where each of them is associated with the 12 classic operations of Opus Dei. Thomas Norton is said to have been initiated by Ripley into the 'Mysteries of Red Medicine'. (John Read, Prelude to Chemistry, an Outline of Alchemy, p,176) ''Then will that Medicine heale all manner Infirmitie, And turne all Mettalls to Sonne and Moone most perfectly.'' (Ripley, Compound of Alchemy: Read 123) Red medicine is the description of the ''red sea'' that crowns and distinguishes a valuable fragment of Ripley's Scroll and that designates mercurial waters as divine; similar to the depiction of the 'blood that flows and flows' from the heart of the ''Serpent of Arabia''. They are Three Mercury's that according to the teacher help to understand or are the Key to 'Our Science'. It is important to point out that in the preparation of mineral stone that stone necessarily needs a solvent and that is the ternary power of Mercury. Three and One! Master Ripley was looking for some kind of "active virtue" capable of attracting and transforming diseased and imperfect metals by means of "projection powder." And you Masons🌹 of all the Temples, see this and let us all meditate. "Just as the West marks the beginning of these practices and Midnight is the finished instrument of the Inner Renewal, the East is the beginning of the Light and announces with its movement towards the Noon of the consummation and recess of the work." (George Ripley, Chymische Schriften, Vienna, 1756) Sir George Ripley🌹 (1415-1495) The Canon of Bridlington: Spiritual and Physical Alchemy (Part 1) Victor. Arturo Cabello. Reyes.🌹 Ver menos