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Réfer. : AL2401F
Auteur : Anonyme.
Titre : The only true Way.
S/titre : or, an useful, good, and helpful tract.

Editeur : J. Elliot and Co., London.
Date éd. : 1893 .
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T H E O N L Y T R U E

W A Y;
OR.
AN USEFUL, GOOD, AND HELPFUL TRACT,
POINTING OUT THE PATH OF TRUTH.

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B ELOVED friend and brother, under the name of this glorious Art there is to be found much false teaching, which is put forward by pseudo-alchemists, whose writings are nothing but imposture and deceit, and are yet highly esteemed by people of the simpler
sort. These charlatans induce their dupes to waste much
money and time on that which can profit them nothing;
for unless a thing be well begun, it can never be brought
to a good end. Yet most men, who, nowadays, have
devoted themselves to this exalted art of chemistry, are pursuing
a wrong course, and are deceivers or deceived. The deceivers
are conscious of their own ignorance, and try to veil it under an
obscure and allegorical style. The less they really know, the
more pompous and the more un intelligible do their speculations
become. But the reader, who is puzzled by their perplexing
style, may at least comfort himself with the assurance that he
knows as much about the matter as the authors. That assurance
must serve for a kind of clue to the endless labyrinth of their
false sublimations, calcinations, distillations, solutions, coagulations,
putrefactions, and corruptions. Nevertheless, we may
almost every day see foolish persons spend their whole substance
on those absurd experiments, being induced to do so
by the aforesaid pseudo-alchemists, who impose on them with a
false process, and fanciful perversions of Nature.
With these useless and unnecessary experiments the true Alchemists will have nothing to do. They follow the method
pursued by Nature in the veins of the earth, which is very
simple, and includes no solutions, putrefactions, coagulations, or
anything of the kind Can Nature, in the heart of the earth,
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corresponding to all those pseudo-alchemistical instruments,
alembics, retorts, circulatory and sublimatory phials, fires,
and other materials, such as cobbler's wax, salt, arsenic,
mercury, sulphur, and so forth ? Can all these things really be
necessary for the growth and increase of the metals? It is
surprising that any one not entirely bereft of his senses can
spend many years in the study of alchemy, and yet never get
beyond those foolish and frivolous solutions, coagulations, putrefactions,
distillations, while Nature is so simple and
unsophisticated in her methods. Surely every true Artist must
look upon this elaborate tissue of baseless operations as the
merest folly, and can only wonder that the eyes of those silly
dupes are not at last opened, that they may see something
besides such absurd sophisms, and read something besides those
stupid and deceitful books. It seems that they are so entangled
in their sophisms that they can never attain to the freedom of
true philosophy.
But let me tell you that so long as you love lies, and turn away from rational philosophy, you will never find the right way.
I can speak from bitter experience. For 1, too, toiled for many
years in accordance with those sophistic methods, and endeavoured
to reach the coveted goal by sublimation, distillation,
calcination, circulation, and so forth, and to fashion the Stone out
of substances such as urine, salt, atrament, alum, etc. I have tried
hard to evolve it out of hairs, wine, eggs, bones, and all manner
of herbs; out of arsenic, mercury, and sulphur, and all the
minerals and metals. I have striven to elicit it by means of aqua
fortis and alkali. I have spent nights and days in dissolving.
coagulating, amalgamating, and precipitating. Yet from all these
things I derived neither profit nor joy. I had hoped much from
the quintessence, but it disappointed me like the rest.
Therefore, beloved brother, let me warn you to have nothing to do with sublimations of sulphur and mercury, or the solution of
bodies, or the coagulation of spirits, or with all the innumerable
alembics, which bear little profit unto veritable art. So long as
you do not seek the true essence of Nature, your labours will be
doomed to failure; therefore, if you desire success, you must
once for all renounce your allegiance to all those old methods,
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strict obedience to the teaching of Nature -- in short, the method
which Nature herself pursues in the bowels of the earth. For
you see that Nature uses only one substance in her work of
developing and perfecting the metals, and that this substance includes
everything that is required. Now, this substance appears
to call for no special treatment, except that of digestion by gentle
heat, which must be continued until it has reached its highest
possible degree of development. For this simple heating process
the cunning sophists have substituted solutions, coagulations,
calcinations, putrefactions, sublimations, and other fantastical
operations -- which arc only different names for the same
thing; and thereby they have multiplied a thousand-fold the
difficulties of this undertaking, and given rise to the popular
notion that it is a most arduous, hazardous, and ruinously expensive
enterprise. This they have simply done out of jealousy and
malice, to put others off the right track, and to involve them in
poverty and ruin. But they will find it difficult to justify their
conduct before God, who has commanded us to love our neighbours
as ourselves. For out of sheer malice they have rendered
the road of truth impassable, and perplexed a simple natural
process with such an elaborate tissue of circumstantial nomenclature,
as to make the amelioration of the metals appear a hopelessly
difficult task.
For while you heat, you also putrefy, or decompose, as you may see by the changes which a grain of wheat undergoes in the
ground under the influence of the rain and of the sun; you know
that it must first decay before new life can spring forth It is
this process which they have denominated putrefaction and solution.
Again when you heat, you also sublime, and to this coction
they have applied the terms sublimation and multiplication, that
the simple man might err more easily. In like manner coagulation
takes place in heating; for they say that coagulation takes
place when humidity is changed into the nature of fire, so as to
be able to resist the action of fire, without evaporating, or being
consumed. And heating also includes that which they call
" circulation," or conjunction, or the union of fire with water to
prevent complete combustion.
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is one, they have described under a similar variety of appellations,
to prevent men from finding that which, by the grace of God,
can provide for them so many precious blessings. In the first
place they call it " our mercury," by which they mean nothing
but moisture, which begins to unite itself with the fire, and therefore
may be compared to mercury. Again, they use the expression,
"our sulphur," whereby they mean nothing but the fire
itself, which lies hid beneath the water, or humidity, and is
heated by the water to its highest degree. Then, again, they call
it Hyle, or the First Substance, because all things are first
generated out of water and fire. Other names, such as Arsenic,
Orpiment, Bismuth, are not used by the Sages at all, but only
by certain ignorant charlatans, of whom we need not take any
further notice. Let us follow the guidance of Nature: she will
not lead us astray.
If you let this be your motto, you will surely be able to call to mind the first substance, out of which all metallic substances
are generated. But before we consider this question, it
will much behove you to understand why the Sun, Moon, Venus,
Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, are metals, and what is their origin.
Besides finding an answer to this question, you must also bear
in mind that all created things are divided into three kingdoms,
viz., the animal, the vegetable, and the mineral. To the first
belong all living things that have flesh and blood; to the second
all herbs, plants, and trees; to the third all metals, stones, and
everything that cannot be burned.
But, though divided into three classes, yet all things, O my brother, may be traced back to one common Principle,
from which they derive their generation, or birth. By different
varieties of heat this first substance is transmuted in various
ways, and assumes different specific forms. Since, then, Nature
is so simple, I advise you once more to have done with all those
foolish sublimations, coagulations, and putrefactions, and the
ridiculous old wives' fables which are even now believed by many,
and simply to follow Nature, and her unsophisticated methods:
then she will take you by the hand, and guide you to the true
substance. For the only method of correcting or ameliorating
Nature, consists in the natural heating of essences. Now, this
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whole matter. This simple truth, the vulgar herd of alchemists
seem quite unable to understand, and thus go on toiling day by
day with substances which have nothing to do with the matter.
They might as well sow horn, or wood, or stones, and expect a
golden harvest of corn. The sun and moon cannot be made out
of all substances, but only out of the natural Essence out of
which all things are formed, being afterwards differentiated into
divers substances by different varieties of heat Thus the
special quality of every individual thing is to be referred to the
degree of its coction. If, therefore, we wish to exercise the
true Art of Alchemy, we must imitate the method by which
Nature does her work in the bowels of the earth.
The ancients have named many colours in connexion with this process, such as black, white, citrine, red, green, and
so forth. All this is simply intended to lead you astray from
the right road, and to keep you in ignorance. Those ancient
writers were constantly at the greatest pains to obscure their
style with such a perplexing variety of allegorical expressions
as to render it impossible for the ordinary reader to understand
their meaning.
Therefore, I would again and again exhort you not to believe them when they tell you that you must have or take a
black substance, or that the substance turns black, white, and
red in the course of the chemical process. The black colour was
suggested to them by the fact that the substance or essence at
first mingles with a brilliant material fire, by which a liquid is
separated from the essence in the form of a certain black fume.
This black fume the ancients called the Black Raven, and the
essence they denominated the Raven's Head. This separation
you should carefully observe. From it the ancients learned that
the separation of natural substances is nothing but a natural
defect of the heating process. I his, again, suggested to them the
consideration that those essences that had been imperfectly
heated by Nature, might be aided in a natural manner by
ordinary fire, and that thus the essences which are still combustible,
and their liquids (which the ancients invidiously called
mercury), being black when they are separated from the essence,
might be perfected by art, and the essences guarded against combustion
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separated from the essence. This the ancients called "our
sulphur." For after this preparation the essence is no longer
vegetable or animal, but by the perfection of its heating it has
become a mineral essence, and is therefore called sulphur; the
essence is nothing but an elementary fire, and its liquid, which is
guarded against combustion, is true elementary air, and, because
air is naturally warm and moist, it is called mercury by those
jealous ancients. Air contains in itself the nature of fire, and
elementary fire, again, contains within itself the nature of air:
thus, by the union of their common elements, a true amalgamation
of the two can take place. Such are the material fire and
water which we see. These material elements are nothing but
an aid to the essences of the elements by which they can be
naturally reduced to the highest degree (of perfection 7). This
gradation is the only true Alchemy, and there is none beside.
The pseudo-alchemy of our modern charlatans is mere waste of
money and time.
lt would be a great mistake for you to suppose that you can derive any real knowledge from the writings of the Sages.
They show you only the outside, and conceal the internal
Essence. To you they offer the husks, but the finest of the
wheat they keep for themselves. They show you a way which they
do not dream of treading. I advise you, therefore, in future, to
give them a wide berth; or you will only enrich the apothecaries
while you plunge yourself and your family into the deepest
poverty; nay, instead of gaining the universal panacea, you will
contract the most dangerous diseases from constantly moving in
an atmosphere black with sulphurous and mercurial smoke, and
fetid with the stench of bismuth and all manner of salts.
It is truly amazing that none of the seekers after this great treasure, though willing to submit to any amount of labour and
hardship for its sake, seem capable of perceiving the lesson
which constant failure is striving to impress upon them. What,
I pray you, have those thousands of persons, who have tried the
solutions, coagulations, putrefactions, amalgamations, and
circulations, gained by their agonising toil ? What good result
have they produced with their waters, solutions of metals, blood,
hair, eggs, milk, sugar, and all manner of herbs? Let me
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have done with everything but true Alchemy, which teaches
that the substance is brought to perfection, and attains the
exaltation of elementary fire, by its own light and liquid --
by which also imperfect metals are ameliorated, because their
elementary fire was not properly digested by its liquid.
And for the same reason the elementary fire cannot remain,
for the liquid is separated from that elementary fire by
the heat of the ordinary fire, and evaporates in the form of
white smoke. The elementary fire, on the other hand, does not
evaporate, but abides with its earth, and must be burned with
it, because its protecting liquid has vanished in white smoke.
This is that whiteness of which the Ancients have said that it
comes after the black colour. For this reason, they are in the
habit of saying that you must make it black before you make it
white. We begin our process with blackness, and transmute
the black smoke, but do not take it for our substance, and make
it white. The latter would be a foolish supposition and imposture.
If you would avoid such misapprehensions, you must
not attempt the study of this subject until you have a sound
knowledge of the operations of Nature, and more especially of
the essential properties of the metals.
I am afraid, my Brother, that my book will cause you heaviness of heart, instead of joy, because I sweep away at one
fell stroke all those false sophistical notions which had become
so dear to you. Nevertheless, you must once for all relinquish
that idea of yours that you are profoundly versed in the
mysteries of this Art, and leave these childish absurdities to
those who derive wealth and profit from them. Among these
persons, Adam de Bodenstein held a very distinguished place;
for he wrote all manner of so-called theosophical books, and
boasted of his attainments in the alchemistic Art, of which he
was really quite ignorant. Yet to the present day many people
believe that he (whose expressions are those of a mere charlatan)
had a real knowledge of true alchemy. It is true that his
nonsense cannot for a moment impose on the initiated; but
among the blind (as the proverb says) it is easy to win golden
opinions as a good fencer. On this account, and as Bodenstein
is no more among the living, I will dismiss the subject, for
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and of the absent. This I will say, however, that he was a
good Sophist and a good physician; but of Alchemy he knew
little or nothing. I should not have said this much if I were
not really anxious to warn the unwary against being dazzled by
the splendour of his name, and to prevent them from being
lured on by it to their own ruin.
If, then, you are a lover of the truth, you will bid farewell to these specious absurdities, and henceforth entrust yourself to
the guidance of Nature alone, be sure that she will lead you
onward without faltering to the desired goal, even that method
by which she works towards the essence. Moreover, she will
demand of you neither much labour nor any considerable outlay.
The whole thing is done by a simple process of heating, which
includes the solution and coagulation of the bodies, and also the
sublimation and putrefaction. But some writers have substituted
for the simple and true essence a certain other essence,
with which they have deceived the whole world, and involved
many persons in considerable losses. Whether their conduct
was upright and loving will one day be decided by the Great
Judge. It would be better not to publish such writings, since
the false statements and groundless assertions with which they
swarm, plunge so many credulous persons into grievous losses.
For if there were not so many books put forward by ignorant
writers, many thousands of persons who at the present moment
are hopelessly floundering about in a sea of specious book-
learning, would have bean led by the light of their own unaided
intellects to the knowledge of this precious secret; they are
prevented, these many years, from seeing the plain truth by a
vast mass of printed nonsense which commands their reverence,
because they do not understand it. The Ancients did indeed
knew something about the Art; but at the present day we can
very well dispense with the cumbrous phraseology under which
they (most successfully) attempted to veil their meaning. It
can only tend to the bewilderment of honest enquirers, who are
thereby thrown off the true scent, unless indeed they should
come to be instructed by living Masters.
I myself may not speak out as plainly as I would, for I am silenced by the vow which binds all the masters of the Art, the
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secrets, and the malediction of all the philosophers. Therefore,
I must exhort you again and again to trust your own observations
rather than the writings of others, and to let the Book
of Nature be the most favoured volume of your library.
Observe her methods, not only in the production of metals, but
in the procreation of the fruits of the earth, and their constant
growth and development, in the winter and summer, in the
spring and autumn, by rain and sunshine. If you had a sound
knowledge of Nature's methods in producing the bud and the
flower, and in ripening the green fruit, you would be able to set
your hand to the germs which Nature provides in the bowels of
the earth, and to educe from them (or their substance) that
which you so much desire.
Forgive me then, my Brother, for so unceremoniously overthrowing all your old settled and dearly cherished convictions.
My excuse must be that I have done it for your own
good, as you would otherwise never learn the true secret of
transmuting metals. You may believe and trust me, for I can
have no conceivable motive for filling the world with fresh lies,
of which, God knows, it is already full enough, through the
agency of the aforesaid deceivers and their willing dupes, who
after being lured on by those false books to the loss of all their
worldly goods, have not suffered their eyes to be opened by
their losses, and seem unable to find their way out of that
gigantic labyrinth of falsehood. Nay, they have even taken
upon themselves to write books, and to speak as if they were
perfect masters of the Art, and had derived great advantage
from it, though in reality they have been brought so low as to
be able to afford nothing but miserable decoctions. They
dissolved until their whole fortune had undergone a process of
dissolution; they sublimed until all their gold and silver had
evaporated; they putrefied until their clothes decayed upon
their bodies; and they calcined until all their wood and coal
were consumed to ashes, and they themselves were reduced to
wallet and staff.
This is the prize which they have won with all their trouble. Let their ruin be a warning to you, my Brother. For their
alchemy, instead of imparting health, is followed by penury and
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gold into copper and brass. Consider also how many ignorant
persons, such as cobblers, tailors, bankrupt merchants, and
tavern keepers, pretend to a knowledge of this Art, and, after a
few years' unsuccessful experimenting in the laboratory, call
themselves great doctors, announce in boastful and sesquipedalian
language their power to cure many diseases, and promise
mountains of gold. Those promises are empty wind, and their
medicines rank poison, with which they fill the churchyards,
and for the impudent abuse of which God will one day visit
them with heavy punishment. But I will leave the magistrates
and the jailers to deal with these swindling charlatans. I
speak of them only to put you on your guard. If so many
persons write on the subject of Alchemy, who know nothing
whatever about the nature and generation of metals, it becomes
all the more necessary for you to be careful what books you
read, and how much you believe.
For I tell you truly that so long as you have no real and fundamental knowledge of the nature of the metals, you cannot
make much progress in the true Art of Alchemy, or understand
the natural transmutation of metals. You must grasp the
meaning of every direction before you can put it into effect.
Always mistrust that which you do not understand (i.e., in
studying this art). There are many false ways, but there can be
only one that is true, and indicates a process which does not
require many hands, or much labour. For this reason, beloved
friend and Brother, you must work hard by day and by night to
obtain a thorough knowledge of the metals, and of their
essential nature. Then you will be able to understand the
requirements of the art. You will know without being told
what is the true substance and the true method. You will see
the utter uselessness of your former labour, and you will be
amazed at your former blindness. Study the nature of metals
and the causes of their generation, for they derive their birth
from the same source as all other created things.
For as by a heating process the infant is developed in the mother's womb out of the father's seed, and as the chicken is
brought forth out of the egg by the natural incubation of the
hen, so the metals, too, are developed in a certain way out
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mercury and sulphur are the first substance of metals. Those
juggling deceivers have told you so; but in the veins of the
earth, where the metals grow, are found neither mercury nor
sulphur. Therefore, when they speak of sulphur, you must understand
them to allude to elementary fire, and by mercury you
must understand the liquid. In a similar lying spirit they have
called fire (elementary) " our Sun," and the liquid " our Moon,"
or the elementary fire soul, and the elementary liquid spirit, because
elementary substances are invisible. The soul is invisible
fire, and the spirit invisible moisture: the outward essential fire
and water they have called 'bodies,' because they are visible and
palpable. Nay, they try to make you believe that these are
metallic bodies, and that you must dissolve them. But do not
let them deceive you. Be on your guard against their dishonest
tricks, and cunning devices, by which they set you to experiment
with metallic bodies, when they really mean the metallic essence.
They point out to you various materials and substances, notwithstanding that there is only one true substance, and one
true method. Be sure that their solutions, coagulations, sublimations,
calcinations, and putrefactions, do not represent the
method of Nature in the heart of the earth, where the metals
grow. For pious Nature only heats the elementary fire which is
thereby ameliorated and fixed through its liquid; which latter
she also changes, by various degrees of heat, into all the various
objects which compose the three natural kingdoms -- and although
now it is differentiated into bodies so different as vegetables, animals,
and minerals, yet they have all originally sprung from one
common substance, all have one root, which the Ancients
denominated the first Matter or Hyle. But it is really nothing
but hidden elementary fire, with its liquid, which the Ancients
called the root liquid, radical moisture, or humid radical, because
it is the root of all created things.
This liquid, with its fire, is differentiated into the various kinds of natural bodies, by the various degrees of heat, or
'coction,' which take place in them. One thing is more perfectly
heated in its elementary fire through its liquid, than another.
The vegetable nature is that in which the coction is least perfect.
Therefore its essence is easily burned, and its liquid easily separated
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The coction of the animal is almost as imperfect as that of the vegetable substance: for its essence is easily burned. The
coction of the mineral substances is the most perfect of all,
because in them the metallic liquid is more closely united (by
coction) to its elementary fire. Hence metals are better able to
resist common fire than the vegetable and animal substances.
When a metal is placed in the fire, it does not burn with a bright
flame like wood; for the liquid of wood is not so completely
joined (by coction) to its essence, as the liquid of metals
is to its essence. The union of the liquid with the essence
is not metallic, but vegetable, for which reason the latter is
consumed with a black smoke, when, by a higher degree
of coction, the vegetable has been transmuted into a metallic
essence, it no longer gives out a black smoke in common fire, but
a white smoke, as you may see when imperfect metals are melted
in the fire. That is why the Ancients said that you must first
make the substance black before you make it white, i.e., it must
first give out a black smoke before it gives out a white. Again
they say: You must first make it white before you make it red.
To make red is to make perfect, because gold and silver have
been rendered perfect by coction, their essence being fully united
to their liquid, and changed into pure fire.
Do not then suffer yourself to be thrown off your guard by the obscure phraseology of the Ancients. If you thoroughly
study the simple fundamental nature of the metals, you will
know what their enigmatic expressions mean, and will not, like
some moderns, conclude from their writings that you must take
a certain substance and dissolve it until it turns black, then
again purify and calcine it till the blackness disappears and it
begins to turn white; and after that, once more increase the fire
and calcine and toil until the substance turns red. Such an
interpretation of the language of the Ancients can only suggest
itself to persons entirely ignorant of the nature of metallic
substances; indeed, the Ancients wrote as they did solely in
order to hide their real meaning from all but the close students
of Nature. To this end they were in the constant habit of
employing the terms " mercury " and " sulphur." And although
the metallic essence is the true substance which, by natural
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development, and although the meaning of the Ancients is
intelligible enough to the initiated, yet the ignorant can gather
from their language no more than the fact that the substance
must be taken from the metals. But where are they to obtain
it, and how are they to bring it to perfection ? The metallic
essence can not be separated from the imperfect metals without
being injured; for if it be separated with fire the liquid must
evaporate, and the essence (with its earth) be consumed. Nor
will you be able to separate the essence of the imperfect metals
by means of aqua fortis, arsenic, aqua vitæ, or alkali, without
injuring the essence and its liquid by the foreign moisture: for
the metallic nature can bear no foreign substance, and if any
foreign moisture combines with the metallic liquid, it loses its
proper quality and is entirely corrupted.
The metallic essence of the perfect metals you cannot obtain in a separate form; for their liquid and elementary fire
are welded together by so perfect a process of coction, and so
closely united with their earth, that neither fire nor water can
avail to separate them, seeing that the fire has no power over
them, and no foreign moisture can combine with, or corrupt, the
liquid of perfect metals. All your labour will be in vain: the
coction has done its work so well that you will never be able to
undo it.
Hence, the Ancients said that there was no sulphur in anything but in the metals, and hence also they called the
metallic liquid quicksilver. But names do not alter facts: the
fact is that the elementary fire must be so united to its elementary
liquid by natural coction that they become indivisible. For
the liquid protects the fire against combustion, so that both
remain fixed and unchanged in common fire. This perfected
substance the Ancients have well called Elixir, or fire which
has undergone a process of perfect coction: for that which
before was crude and raw is " cooked," or digested by the
process of coction. That element which, by its imperfection,
causes base metals to be broken up and disintegrated by fire,
has been digested and perfected by natural heat.
For this reason you must not grudge the labour which the proper performance of this heating process demands, seeing that
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chemical processes enumerated by the ancient alchemists. All
these you may safely dismiss from your mind, as they can cause
you nothing but trouble, loss, and waste of time. My purpose
in writing this faithful admonition is to caution you again and
again to beware of those pitfalls with which the contemptuous
obscurity of the Ancients has so plentifully beset the path of
the ingenuous enquirer. I also desired to suggest to you the
true substance, and the one true method, and have throughout
endeavoured to express myself in a style as free from allegorical
obscurity as possible. I have recalled you from your wanderings
in the pathless wilderness, and put you in the right way.
Now you must beseech Almighty God to give you the real
philosophical temper, and to open your eyes to the facts of
nature. Thus alone you will be able to reach the coveted goal.



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