Basilius Valentinus Redivivus or the Resurrected Basilius Valentinus or the Shining Star of Alchemy

offer it for sale for money, now to this one, now to that one; for in this art it is said:

Quærite & invenietis Seek and you shall find.

Paracelsus also confirms this: It is not fitting that one smears the porridge into someone's mouth; a lazy bird should also fly toward it, as we have done.

Usually, such vendors of the art and process-peddlers are loose scoundrels, deceitful vagabonds, and coarse and inexperienced ignoramuses, manifest thieves who, like swindlers, know how to practice and have learned to take money from people's hands with open eyes. I have never read or heard that a single true philosopher wanders around like a stork and offers his precious goods for sale with nothing but flattering and intrigue-filled words: for everyone strives after good goods themselves.

Therefore, trust no one who comes to you with his—according to external appearance—well-sounding decoy pipe, chattering to you about unspeakable and inconceivable