Ripley reviv'd, or, An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works containing the plainest and most excellent discoveries of the most hidden secrets of the ancient philosophers, that were ever yet published / written by Eirenæus Philalethes ...

Yet wisely understand wherein it is, and where thou shalt it seek.

THerefore let me advise every studious Searcher of this hid Science, to con∣sider warily with himself what he seeks and would find; nor that only, but in what he would find it: for trust me it is not in this Science as some do imagine, that our Arcanum may be made out of any thing, nor yet out of any base thing: But in the knowing of the true Princi∣ple, consists the first true step to Perfe∣ction, according to the Poet, Dimidium facti qui bene coepit habet.