Philadelphia, or brotherly love to the studious in the hermetick art

Philalethes' Commentary?

who, after he had written a handbook original: "Enchyridion"; a concise manual or book of instructions of experiments, along with a daily journal original: "Diurnal" of meditations—which contained many philosophical recipes original: "Receits" explaining the entire secret, etc.—it fell into such hands that he believed would never return it. The same misfortune happened to the commentary on Sir George Ripley's Last Six Gates Sir George Ripley was a famous 15th-century alchemist; his work The Compound of Alchymy is divided into twelve "gates" or stages of the alchemical process. This behavior is very unworthy of a noble original: "generous" mind and very harmful to students, as well as discouraging to the authors.