Chemical Lexicon

let us follow. They seek his glory, but they do not seek it by the straight path.

Whatever is excellent, God sells for labor.

If his adversaries strive to overcome Paracelsus, let them not do so by the authorities of men, especially of infidels, but by the Scriptures of God, upon which true Philosophy relies. Nor do we assent to Paracelsus as to a most learned man: Plato is a friend, Socrates is a friend, but Truth is a greater friend. Nor should Paracelsus be read rashly; for just as no one opened the entrance to the temple except to the Priests, so the hidden things of Paracelsus are given to no one except to learned and upright men. Let him who reads and considers these few abstruse collected things seriously and diligently find that they provide him an entrance to the Temple of Apollo. These are the Hermetic wrappings, in which the truth of the sealed thing is wrapped and implied, as Falernian a type of fine ancient wine in the grape, and gold in slag dross/scoria. I confess they are not my own, but only reduced into a bundle and digested by me, so that to