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

...which you may perhaps enjoy. I wrote two English Poems declaring the whole Secret The "Secret" refers to the hidden process of creating the Philosopher's Stone., which are now lost. I also wrote a Handbook of Experiments original: Enchiridion of Experiments, together with a Daily Journal of Meditations original: Diurnal of Meditations, in which there were many Philosophical Formulas original: Philosophical Receipts; "receipt" was the standard word for a medical or chemical recipe. explaining the entire Secret, with an Enigma original: Ænigma; a riddle or coded message common in alchemical texts. attached to them. This also fell into the hands of people who, I believe, will never return it. This last work was written in English, along with many others I wrote for my own recreation and later burned.

But now at last, studying how to best benefit the Sons of Art A traditional term for dedicated practitioners and students of alchemy. to my utmost ability, I have instead decided to unravel Ripley’s Knots Sir George Ripley (c. 1415–1490) was a famous English alchemist; his "knots" refer to the difficult and obscure allegories in his work, The Compound of Alchymy.. In this way, you may have two Witnesses in one; for by the explaining of his work, you shall see both the depth of the