Restored Hermetic Science of the Ancient Philosophers

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effect, for if the fool were made equal to the wise, and the poor to the rich, then no mortal under the circle of the moon would be free from the straits of weariness.

Alphidius: The Philosophi Philosophers, fearing that if it were manifest in the light the whole world would head toward its downfall, and that the practice of reaping, sowing, planting, and agriculture would perish, did not wish to make it public. Therefore, they placed it in scriptures and figures and kept it veiled in riddles, preferring to hide their science rather than destroy the condition of the world by revealing it.

Joannes Rupecissa: Those Philosophi Philosophers to whom the Magisterium Mastery/Great Work was revealed are bound by a terrible curse of God not to declare this divine work in open words to any human, lest it reach the hands of the wicked.

From these philosophical testimonies, it is sufficiently indicated that this science is not for just anyone, nor is it written for everyone. Since this highly honorable art, as Senior a prominent medieval alchemical authority and all Philosophi Philosophers testify, is a divine

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