The Long-Desired and Promised Chemical-Philosophical Touchstone

...[permit] them to enjoy Completing the sentence from the previous page: "...to let them enjoy this great advantage.", and to make it known through public printing; so that they, alongside me, might be edified, enlightened, and gain insight thereby, in order to attain the noble jewel original: Kleinod—the ultimate goal of all sages The "ultimate goal" (Endzweck aller Weisen) in alchemical literature usually refers to the Philosopher’s Stone or the perfection of the soul.—which was the intention the Honorable Author had in its preparation: namely, to make us, as lovers of this high art and science original: Kunst und Wissenschafft, participants in the two great lights of Nature and Grace. For in this work, he has lit such a light that whoever does not wish to be a blind owl A common 18th-century metaphor for someone who refuses to see the truth even when it is right before them. or a willfully perverse person, remaining violently stuck in stubborn ignorance, must surely come closer to the goal; since in this work, advice is given quite impartially regarding which authors or treatises original: Authores oder Tractaten the