The Chemical Basilica or Alchemical Royal Jewel

Alchemy is twofold: namely, the natural, held in great honor by the children of art; and then the Sophistica sophistic/false or false one, despised in the highest degree by the same.

error as a companion, are entirely inexperienced in philosophy and all honest liberal arts and will therefore least of all laugh at and destroy this work of mine. And since they are, as it were, drowned in their ignorance, wallowing like swine in the mire, they cannot contemplate high things, and would rather persist in their erroneous ways than be instructed by learned and understanding people. Therefore, it is no wonder that they, as despisers of the secrets of nature and proud donkey-heads, are frightened only by the mere name of Chymiæ alchemy whenever they hear it named, and despise this most holy art without any hesitation, with a completely foolish and boorish arrogance, slander it in every way, and like dogs, bark at and, as it were, miserably tear to pieces that which they do not understand, although they have never known the same: for they otherwise have no weapons with which they can fight against the truth, and trample the noble pearls under their feet, other than their slanderous mouth, which they learned from their slanderer, the Binario duality/falsehood: not to mention that, according to their own admission, they know no other cause to bring forward than ignorance of the right and true præparationum preparations. But since there is no desire for those things of which one knows nothing, and no one can judge unknown things correctly, so it is no wonder that these schoolmasters, because of their lack of understanding—as they have never trodden upon or entered the sanctuary of nature—despise the uncommon studies of uncommon people. And why do they make use of the titles of Philosophiæ philosophy and Medicin medicine so unfairly, and take their appointments from there, when they—overcome and driven by the truth—wonder so highly at the hearty works in which the whole power and force of nature rests, as if they were magical wonders with the common folk? And yet they do not cease to despise many of the most learned Medicorum physicians of this our time, who have spent their whole lives in these arts and investigated all the secrets of nature, because they do not make use of the title of this world, namely the Doctoratus doctorate, nor do they strive for it; notwithstanding that neither Hippocrates nor Galenus Galen nor others who lived in those times called themselves Doctores doctors.

This happens with money and favor and not because of any skill.

And although these titles were not poorly instituted in times past, but were held as an incentive to virtue and a reward for diligence, today it is bestowed upon many unworthy people through gifts or intercession (I am not speaking here of those who attained the same with honor and fame), who, in that they should perform their tests in the first two or three years, act according to their Methodo method, which excuses all errors and faults—whether the Patient recovers or dies—so in the fourth, fifth, and following years, they become aware of the lack