A Compendious yet Complete Philosophical Handbook

...rescuing suffering neighbors not only from the fearful sea of sickness, but also from the bitterest poverty. When one considers how much time is spent from youth onward on Latin and other languages, and how long one spends with common school-philosophyoriginal: "Schul-Philosophie." This refers to Scholasticism, the traditional academic curriculum based on Aristotelian logic that dominated European universities. The author views it as inferior to the practical and spiritual insights of alchemy. and other disciplines, and yet is unwilling to spend a few years on the most secret and useful philosophy, through which God and Nature are most thoroughly recognized, then I leave it to be considered whether this can be justified. Yet man has his free willThe author emphasizes that while the path of alchemy is superior, it must be chosen freely, reflecting a common Hermetic and Rosicrucian sentiment that spiritual knowledge cannot be forced upon the unworthy. in this matter as well, for God desires nothing by force, and so, fare thee well!

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