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Ripley Revived:

OR AN

EXPOSITION

Sir George Ripley’s

Hermetic-Poetical original: "Hermetico-Poetical"; referring to the combination of alchemical (Hermetic) theory with verse.

WORKS.

Containing the clearest and most

excellent discoveries of the most hid-

den secrets of the ancient Philoso-

phers, that were ever yet published.

Written by

EIRENAEUS PHILALETHES A pseudonym from the Greek meaning "peaceful lover of truth." The author is widely believed to be the American-born alchemist George Starkey.

An Englishman, styling himself

Citizen of the World.

LONDON, Printed by Thomas Ratcliffe and

Nathaniel Thompson, for William Cooper at the

Pelican in Little Britain. 1678.