Treatise on the Philosopher's Stone

writings and other interpretations to be found, which obscure such glorious, wise symbols original: "Sinnbilder" far more than they clarify them; this is made right plain and clear by Isaac Hollandus Isaac Hollandus (and his son John Isaac Hollandus) were influential alchemists, likely from the 15th century, whose works became highly popular in the 17th century for their purportedly practical instructions.. For what makes the Noble Chymical Art original: "Chymische Kunst"; at this time, chemistry and alchemy were not yet distinct disciplines. more hated than the great fraud of those vagabond, false charcoal-blowers Kohlenbläser: a derogatory term for "puffers" or amateur alchemists who obsessed over the physical furnace and bellows without understanding the underlying philosophy, who have perhaps looked a little into the fire, and on that basis boast of great things? They lead many—whether they be great, of the middle-class, or humble—to lose their temporal wealth, and yes, perhaps even their eternal salvation, and they wish to force Nature by violence. Yet Nature takes her path in the most simple way possible: of which one has a true example enough in the transformation and multiplication of a single good grain of seed—