The Opened Philosophical Father-Heart

after you have become capable of the highest science of nature, which I teach you in this little tract, were to go and engage in conversation and conference with those people who are blind and ignorant in this high science.

I have written this chapter for no other reason than to instruct you in what the height of true natural alchemy consists.

This comparison and contrast between a true philosopher and a common alchemist, which I make here, is directed toward letting you understand that you will always find the right wisdom with the philosophers, but ignorance and lies with the common alchemists.

Now I will proceed and explain and instruct you in the practice of the highly intelligent and easy work of the great philosophical Work the magnum opus.

But before I reveal the secret of our simple and highly hidden operation or handicraft, I will first set up a chapter in which I will design, as if in a painted panel, the natural garden of the philosophers, in which the true children of science sow, plant, and transplant or move the Solar referring to gold/Sun and Lunar referring to silver/Moon trees of the wise.