To know to destroy their whole Composition, That some of their Components may help in conclusion.
But trust me this is not for a Tyro, nor for every one of us, unless he have the Secret from his own studies, and not
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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- Ripley, George, d. 1490?
- Alchemy.
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by Tradition from a Master or Guide. Know then that this fore-recited way is true, but involved with a thousand broileries.
But our way which is an easie way, and in which no man may erre, our broad way, our Linear way, we have vowed never to reveal it but in Meta∣phors; I being moved with pity, will hint it to you. Take that which is not yet perfect, nor yet wholly imperfect, but in a way to perfection, and out of it make what is most noble and most per∣fect: This you may conceive to be an easier Receipt, then to take that which is already perfect, and extract out of it what is imperfect, and then make it per∣fect, and after out of that perfection to draw a plusquam perfection: and yet this is true, and we have wrought it. And because it is an immense Labour for any to undertake, we describe that way; but this last discovery which I hinted in few words, is it which no man ever did so plainly lay open, nor may any make it more plain, upon pain of an Anathema.