The Chemical Basilica or Alchemical Royal Jewel

Whoever cannot attain their desire due to their own lack of understanding may attribute this to their own ignorance, and not to me or to the deficiency of nature.

can be offered and promised at first and mere glance. And although I have not myself tested and experienced all the powers and effects which I have assigned to each according to order, and which I used, just as I prepared them in the work itself: Nevertheless, since I have found the greatest part of them to be true in the practice of medicine, experienced and practiced Chymici alchemists—as those who can easily judge from mere outward appearance (since these preparations require no stubborn and ignorant masters, nor have any fellowship with the common alchemical rabble)—will not doubt at all that the remaining powers, which have been discovered, tested, and also brought to light here by experienced Chymiatris alchemical physicians through long experience, will achieve their desired effect and perform what one hopes of them. Therefore, all experienced Medici physicians should, out of divine zeal and Samaritan compassion for their patients—whatever the state, circumstance, or means of those may be—use those things in their cures which they have prepared themselves and found proven through experience, and not entrust their preparation to others, as unfortunately tends to happen for the most part. For those who follow this advice of mine will find even greater powers and effects within them, provided they direct all their actions according to the nature of the patient, than I have been able to promise and outline for them here, as the daughter of time, namely Truth herself, will sufficiently demonstrate and prove with the help of God.

Ignorance is the constant companion of pride and malice. 1.

But to what tempestuous waves do I expose myself with this open and entirely well-meant publication? And what is there to do in this disparate and manifold judgment of people, among whom there is such a great quantity of envious and slanderous tongues? The shield behind which I hide, entirely unafraid, is my well-meaning sincerity and good-hearted desire to render myself useful to the Rempublicam Spagyricam Spagyric Republic, and in this confidence I care not at all for the judgments of all the proud and inexperienced, much less for the foreseen arrows, gathered wrath, evil rumors, hatred, and mocking contempt of the adversaries, as they are certain witnesses of their own ignorance.

For firstly, the secret Hermetische Philosophi Hermetic Philosophers will rise up against me and vehemently accuse me, as those to whom the most important of these Secreten secrets were already known before, that I have not a little offended them in this, because I am revealing—and communicating to all people—that which they learned with great effort and diligence, spent a long time upon, and kept in secret, thus contrary to all their hopes. Consequently, they label me a criminal of the Chymische Sigil chemical seals/ciphers, as one who was not invited through the secret Pythagorean silence, and, unmindful of the Hippocratic law—in which it is commanded to entrust the holy only to the holy—have liberated the chemical truth, which until now has lain hidden and as if entangled in the prisons of shadows and envy, have opened all doors, and have willingly communicated the same to the descendants.