FIFTH PART.

when I have already taught quite openly in the Second Part of the Miracle of the World how, from any herb, pure and natural Gold may be extracted. I demonstrated this publicly in my laboratory a year ago in the presence of most learned Professors, Doctors of Medicine, and other men both noble and ignoble, as their testimonials, which are at hand, affirm. There is no need for them, however, since the method of operating itself, set out in public print, is clear to everyone, and scarcely a year can pass without a thousand or more men being able to imitate the operation itself and inquire into the truth of the matter. But here, without a doubt, Farner with his lying pipe will sing his usual tune, intending to say: the words are full of lies and fallacies; the same slanders he has also sung against my other writings. Harprecht will do the same, pridefully boasting the false title of Son of Sendivogius, who has already dared to say: Beware, brothers, of the books of the Sophists, and especially of the modern I. R. G., etc. Satan, the father of lies and the origin of all hatred and envy, inspired them with this contempt and this warning to beware of the truth, and thus he labored to extinguish the light of Truth through these, his instruments.

I, Glauber, can on the contrary justly and deservedly say: You students of Truth, beware of