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

natural life, but only but one
way to manifest or maintain it:
which is according to Nature's own proce-
dure, and no other.

Thus, Reader, accept my
love, both in showing my
opinion and soliciting help
for the studious studious: those devoted to the study of alchemy and natural philosophy. And lest
the first should be charge-
able with folly folly: foolishness or lack of good sense, and the last
with boldness boldness: audacity or presumption, by those I
so much value, I take leave to
conceal my name; so that by
that means their displeasure
may fall more generally on
the studious, for whose sake