Boyle condemned "the avarice" of those "secretists" who secured profit through the practice of intellectual privacy .
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Secretist
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Laboratories were to be contrasted with the private shrines of "secretist” philosophers and Hermetics whom Boyle criticized for their refusal to communicate in public.
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They reinforce their linkage of the Royal Society's program with Restoration social order by heaping together as ther opposite "the knowledge claims of alchemical 'secretists' and of sectarian ' enthusiasts ' who claimed individual and unmediated inspiration from God , or whose solitary treading [ sic ] of the Book of Nature produced unverifiable observational testimony .
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The thirteenth century Zohar, a Jewish mystical text, announced its value in secretist terms, featuring as its main sections "The Secret Midrash,” Midrash ha-Neelam, and “Secrets of the Torah” Sitre Torah.
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