Ripley reviv'd: or, an exposition upon sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works

...which This "which" completes the phrase "in which" from the previous page., let me seriously profess, I received the main light in this hidden secret. I shall not name the place, but read the Epistle Referring to Bernard Trevisan's "Epistle to Thomas of Bologna.", and read it again and again, for in it is most excellent truth, and naked truth.

    Next to him, or rather before him in some respects, is an author whom I will not name; yet truly all chemical original: "Chymical" writers are to be preferred by any person based on how much benefit they get from them. One person might praise Raymond Lully Ramon Llull (c. 1232–1315) was a Majorcan philosopher and writer to whom many influential alchemical works were attributed. above all others, yet I do not remember that I ever gained any benefit from reading him. In truth original: "in good sooth", some who do not claim to be masters original: "Professors" of this secret write more instructively for the education of a beginner tyro: a novice or student just beginning to learn a subject than those whose skill has made them crafty, especially in those passages where they intend nothing...