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and every man is a liar: God alone is truthful, etc. If we pursue this diligently and with care, we shall certainly be gladdened here temporally and there eternally, for godliness is useful for everything, having promises not only of this life but also of the life to come.
This my very free, frank, and good-hearted philosophical Compellation, I hope you will all take in good part, and see and consider much more my disposition and heart, how I mean it so heartily well with all true philosophers and lovers of the noble, precious natural Alchemy, and from the bottom of my heart would wish that not only to me, but to all others according to their desire, such a Golden gift, and then also Eternal life and beatitude might be most graciously shared and gifted. For which I indeed for my person carry no doubt, but have already seen many years ago what has been bestowed upon me by the Most High Father of all perfect and complete gifts, but nevertheless exhausted after a thousand labors, and in a short time will be. We must, however, also teach ourselves to recognize nature. That nature may separate nature; that nature may embrace, conquer, and surpass nature, as the philosophers say, not to work according to the common practices and processes, of which among thousands hardly one is just, but to look at the possibility in all our chemical compositions, whether a right homogeneity exists or not, for nature rejoices and delights in nature, and all heterogeneous things separate, flee, and avoid, for it all lies in experience and knowledge. For it is once certain and true, whoever does not know God, he does not love Him, he knows nothing of Him: he who does not know the Trinity, he does not believe it, he does not love it.
And these are high mysteries and wonders of God, of which the world knows nothing, or recognizes, which is why it does not believe it, nor experiences anything of it fundamentally. And the right