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

...nothing This completes the thought from the previous page: "intended nothing less than to discover such secrets." less than to discover such secrets. I learned the secret of the philosophers' magnet original Latin: Magnes from one author; of their magical steel original Latin: Chalybs from another; the use of Diana’s Doves Diana's Doves: An alchemical metaphor, often referring to the white, purified "mercury of the philosophers" or a specific chemical reaction involving silver. from a third; the air, or rather the chameleon original: "Camelion" of the philosophers from another; the raw preparation of their solvent menstruum: a liquid solvent used in alchemy to dissolve solid materials. from another; and the number of sublimations eagles: In alchemy, "eagles" often symbolized the number of times a substance was distilled or sublimated. from yet another. But for the actual operation on the true matter and the signs of the true mercury, I know of no author like Ripley Sir George Ripley (c. 1415–1490) was an influential English alchemist and author of "The Compound of Alchymy.", though Flammel Nicolas Flamel (c. 1330–1418) was a French scribe who became legendary as an alchemist; many famous alchemical texts were later attributed to him. is also distinguished. I know what I am talking about, because I know the truth through my own experiments and I know what is error.

    As for myself, I have had experience with misleading and deceptive original: "sophistical" writers, and I have performed many exhausting and difficult experiments, even though I am still young. Therefore, having at last, through the un-