Runes
(See Teutons.) Rupa is the physical body, the most gross of the seven principles of which personality consists. (See Seven Principles, Mayayi-rupa, Theosophy.) Rupecissa, Johannes de: This alchemist was an ancestor of Montfauçon, the distinguished archæologist, and his name Russia suggests that he was a man of gentle birth, while it is commonly supposed that he was a French monk of the order of St. Francis, and it is reported that in 1357, presumably on account of his alchemistic predilections, he was imprisoned by Pope Innocent VI. Rupecissa contributed four volumes to the literature of hermetic philosophy: Coelum Philosophorum, Paris 1543, De Quinta Essentia Rerum Omniam, Basle 1561, De Secretis Alchemiæ, Cologne 1579, Livre de Lumière, Paris, n.d.; and these were admired by a number of the author's successors, but their value is really literary rather than scientific.