Tyro-chymicus instructus epistola hermetica

Most Illustrious and Excellent Lord, Most Worshipful Patron!

Ecclesiasticus chapter 6, verse 33. Son, if you pay attention, you will learn; and if you apply your mind, and love to listen, you will receive doctrine, and you will be wise.

So that your Excellence may conceive what kind of will thrives in me to serve your genius, I will now most evidently demonstrate your error from the foundation. I do this so that you do not uselessly lose time and money in your Regulus of Mars a metallic button produced by reducing antimony with iron, minerals, and metals. Thousands of men everywhere have already sweated in vain for so long over minerals, the Regulus, Antimony, and other dead metals. I will now communicate the true principles to your Excellence with a sincere heart. I will authentically demonstrate the truth from your own favorite Philosophers. Therefore, pay attention:

When we wish to deeply penetrate the intention of the Sages Sophorum, the wise alchemists and their mysteries, it is necessary to pay close attention. One must combine all things, examine them diligently, and print them firmly in the memory. As Bernhard Bernard Trevisan says: where the Philosophers agree, there alone is the truth. Where they do not agree, falsehood is undoubtedly present, and they deceive us with smooth words. For this reason, there is always only one matter, one work, one Stone the Philosophers' Stone, one regimen, and one single linear way. In this, all Adepti Adepts, those who have mastered the art generally agree. And where the wise are unanimous and universally agree in practice, it is in joining the moist to the dry.