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lying spirits, Farner and Johannes Harprecht Starck, formerly called Salomon Angel, who, feigning themselves to be angels of light, strive to lead you away from the true path of Truth into darkness. Do not allow yourselves to be seduced and led away from the Truth; but first see whether a better path can be shown to you than that which I have shown thus far. If they show you something better and more certain, you will have the occasion to place your trust in them; if not, they are worthy that you should withdraw all trust from them. Let these things be said for the purpose of distinguishing good from evil. I hope God will grant me enough strength, health, and talent so that, for the honor of God, the confirmation of truth, and the benefit of the Fatherland, I may publicly demonstrate during this summer season, through true demonstrations, the true Alchemy the art of transmuting metals, that is, the transmutation of the more imperfect metals into true and pure Gold, which is devoid of all fallacy.

Indeed, I write here of such things, and even of such miraculous transmutations of things, about which no one has previously committed anything to writing. Yet for this reason, no one should take the opportunity to say that these are things which can never be done. There are many admirable things which Nature has hidden until now, unknown to me and to you, and perhaps, because of the malice of the present world, not destined to reach human knowledge so soon. Every day is afflicted with its own troubles, and it is always producing something new,