The Opened Philosophical Father-Heart

The wonderful science of natural alchemy the art of transmuting metals and perfecting nature shows the human understanding a way to comprehend how all things can enter into the Divine Powers in a more lively and profound manner and endure therein.

Although I have already told you much about alchemy, I am not speaking of that which is in vogue today. For I make a great and notable distinction between the alchemy which is commonly practiced and that of the true philosophers, between the work of today’s alchemists and that of the children of science.

So that you are not deceived in such a highly important matter, I forbid you to associate much with the false disciples and providers of processes, by whom I mean the common alchemists. As blind people, ignorant of the secrets of our hidden art, they will not fail to turn you away from the right path of truth that I show you here, so that they may lead you astray and give you cause to follow their false opinions and foolish fantasies.

Know, therefore, that between the true