Loosing and knitting be principles two Of this hard Science, & Poles most principal, Howbeit that other principles be many moe, &c.
WE have done this Chapter, and to conclude assure thee, that all our
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 ...
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- 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 ...
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- Philalethes, Eirenaeus.
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- 1678.
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- Alchemy.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61326.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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twelve Gates are nothing else but lock∣ing and unlocking, shutting and open∣ing, dissolving and congealing, volati∣zing and fixing, making the dry soft, and afterwards the soft dry, loosing and binding. Learn but this, and thou shalt be sure of the Keys of this Terrestrial Pa∣radise.
Yet because I would be more clearly understood, I shall pass through the other Gates of the Philosophers, that running through their multiplicity, I may as I go reduce them all to unity.