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Detailed Instruction/

In which a father explains to his son everything that is necessary for the composition and preparation of the great stone of the ancient Sages.

Preface.

My son, after I have long taken counsel with myself whether I should leave behind for you in writing the great mystery of the cabalæ traditional esoteric knowledge of the Sages, my advanced age in which I now find myself has finally moved me to leave you this instruction as a final pledge of my fatherly affection. I have held that I could show no greater testimony of it than if I should reveal to you the entire practice of the true preparation of the Stone of the Sages, sincerely and without any parable or words that beget doubt, in which the most sublime knowledge that may exist in all of nature is found.