To the READER.

It is true that some people, looking only at the sheer number of books, will think there are enough authors—perhaps even too many existing—who have written about the Hermetic Art original: "Hermetick Art"; the philosophical and practical system of alchemy and spiritual transformation attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. in the English language. However, others who have gained some knowledge in this Divine Science, and who know how to distinguish good authors from sophists original: "Sophisters"; in this context, "puffers" or fraudulent alchemists who use deceptive language to hide their lack of real knowledge., will easily admit that there is a real lack original: "Want" of them.

For there are only a few who wrote in the English language who may be considered masters, or at least by whom a seeker of this mysterious art might be instructed. As for those deceptive authors who have increased the number of such books and treated an art which they did not know, nor understand even in part, the more numerous they are,