Quotes from George Ripley

To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.

But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.

Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.

Of Calcination The First Gate. Calcination is the Purgation of our stone, Restoring also of his natural heat, Of radical humidity it looseth none, Inducing solution into our stone most meet After Philosophie I you behight Do, but not after the common guise With Suiphures and salts prepare in divers wise.

But manners there be of our conjunction three, The first is called by Philosophers diptative, The which betwixt the agent and patient must be, Male and female, mercury, and sulphur vive Matter and form, thin and thick to thrive, This lesson will help thee without any doubt, And our conjunction truly to bring about.

The body is the substance of the stone.