Azoth and Fire, or the Golden Fleece

To lay out things that are grounded in Nature; therefore, we have not wished to lead and guide you through crooked paths, but rather along the straight path according to the first Subjectum original: "Subjecto." In alchemical literature, the "Subject" refers to the raw material or "Prime Matter" (materia prima) required to begin the Great Work. and the seed of the same. This path is prayer and true repentance, by which to reconcile GOD, who has cast a darkness over our hearts and eyes, and to obtain from Him by grace that the darkness be taken from us and we be made to see again—to see that which the natural man, in his unrepentant way of life, is unable to see. Now, when this darkness is cast off from us, we see through the true light the fundamental cause of why we previously, while we still walked in unrepentance, could not grasp these things. For we were, as the dear Savior himself testifies, blind and did not see the light. Nevertheless, we did not wish to be blind, but believed that we were seeing; yet we did not know that man has a double birth: one according to the flesh and one according to the spirit. In short, we wanted