This Process Is Alchemy: Its Founder Is

Truly It Has Been Said That There Is Nothing New Under The Sun, For Knowledge Is Revealed And Is Submerged Again, Even As A Nation Rises And Falls. Here Is A System, Tested Throughout The Ages, But Lost Again And Again By Ignorance Or Prejudice, In The Same Way That Great Nations Have Risen And Fallen And Been Lost To History Beneath The Desert Sands And In The Ocean Depths.

Consider That We Shouldn't Call Our Brother A Fool, Since We Don't Know Ourselves What We Are.

Nature Also Forges Man, Now A Gold Man, Now A Silver Man, Now A Fig Man, Now A Bean Man.

Once A Disease Has Entered The Body, All Parts Which Are Healthy Must Fight It: Not One Alone, But All. Because A Disease Might Mean Their Common Death. Nature Knows This; And Nature Attacks The Disease With Whatever Help She Can Muster.

Determined Will Is The Beginning Of All Magical Operations. It Is Because Men Do Not Perfectly Imagine And Believe The Result, That The (occult) Arts Are So Uncertain, While They Might Be Perfectly Certain.