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Having attained the secrets of medicine, chemistry, and physics myself, I, the anonymous Philalethes and Philosopher, in the year 1645 of the redeemed world, and in the twenty-third year of my age, decided to write this little treatise. I do this so that I may pay my debt to the sons of art and reach out a hand to those entangled in the labyrinth of error. Through this work, it will appear to the adepts that I am their peer and brother, while those seduced by the trifles of sophists may see and embrace the light, by which they may safely return to the true path. These are not fables, but real experiments which I have seen, performed, and known, as any adept will easily gather from these lines. Let it suffice for me to declare that no one writing in this art has ever written so clearly. Indeed, I several times laid down my pen while writing, because I would have preferred to hide the truth under the mask of envy; but God compelled me, whom I could not resist, who alone knows hearts, and to whom alone be glory forever.