The 12 Gates of Ripley: Fermentation and the Yeast of the Wise
In the 15th century, the English alchemist George Ripley articulated a vision of the alchemical process so profound and "Highly Systematic" that it remains the definitive record of the Chemical Spiritualization : his Compound of Alchymy . Within the ninth gate— Fermentation —Ripley establishes the fundamental Syntax of Expansion —the ability of the purified spirit to anchor the absolute light of the Divine Mind through the medium of the Yeast of the Wise . This represents the process through which the unmanifested "Force" of the spirit is "Refined" and "Multiplied" within the tiered architecture of the laboratory. To understand the ninth gate is to confront the law of Geometric Reciprocity . Fermentation teaches that the universe is a singular, circulatory system where the unmanifested light of the One is concentrated and focused through the various "Bezels" of the cosmos. He Argued that the "Yeast" (the Fermentum ) is the p...