Philosophical Scrutiny of the True Elixir of Life

eliminate the divine from the possibility of things, may they be convinced; may the erroneous, however, be led back to the straight path of truth; and finally, may those most wicked sycophants—who, being entirely ignorant of nature and wholly unskilled in our most natural philosophy, most wickedly deceive the world with their sophistical processes—be eliminated not only from the most serene courts of the magnates (into which they are accustomed to intrude themselves for the most part with their coal-fired sublimations process of elevating a substance by heat, destillations purification through heating and condensation, calcinations reduction to powder by heat, and putrefactions decomposition to initiate transformation, which are diametrically opposed to the true and natural corruption and generation of things) but also, wherever this little treatise may arrive, may they be utterly cast out. The light, indeed, I confess, in this little treatise of mine