Antimonun Sırları: Zor Bir Sanat ve Tanrı'nın Armağanı

Chemistry is a difficult art and a gift of God. Although much was written about it by the ancients, and we have their books in part, they are nevertheless described only in the magical style, and are useful to no one unless he has been raised in the magical school from youth, or has been chosen by God for such secrets. Therefore, the Arcana with which you trouble yourself lie in a deep pit, before which lie strong locks that no one unlocks unless he has received the key from the Spirit of Truth. Antimony is twofold: Magical and Common. Of the magical antimony or that of the ancients, I will mention nothing at all in this little treatise, since people wish to know nothing of it; rather, whatever one reads, they interpret only as the common antimony, of which you alone desire instruction, which I will also gladly give and write here. What it is, and from what parts it is composed, and into which parts it is resolved again. I will not make use of any metaphor, allegory, or similitude here; I will describe antimony only in a pagan style, so that you are not deceived in the operation, which is generally directed according to the literal word, but rather attain that of which I write. From this, you may then judge whether in the common antimony there exists the chemical and medical Arcanum about which the Magi and Paracelsus have written.