The Opened Philosophical Father-Heart

all diseases that can befall the human body. For it is infallibly the great aurum potabile potable gold of the ancient philosophers.
The handling and practice of all these things I will teach you in reality. For our work is easy to perform, and when we have revealed our cabalistic mystery, one finds that it is only a child's game, and more of a leisurely than a laborious woman's work.
Because, however, this little book, which I write solely and alone for your instruction, deals with nothing else but the true alchemy measured by nature, I will first, before I proceed to the mentioned matter, instruct you as to what true alchemy is, and thereafter also show you the great difference that is to be maintained between the common alchemists and the true