The Text of Alchemy and the Green Dream

PREFACE

shown for the Green Dream, if, having fallen into my hands, I did not make you a participant in it. I am not one of those kinds of people who hide the Light under a bushel, and who, fearing through envy that others might come to discover this incomparable treasure, delight in speaking alone in their studies with the Books of the true Philosophers, which they keep more secret than if they possessed the treasure itself. They would not, however, want to take the trouble to take even a single step to acquire it, as if by a stroke