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CHAPTER I

THE PREFACE EXPLICATING , IN PART, THE PRIMA MATERIA.

I. Hermes. Even Hermes himself saith, I have not in a very long

Age, ceased to try Experiments, nor have I spared any Labour of

mind: But I obtained the knowledge of this Art, by the

Inspiration of the Living God only, who esteeming me his Servant

worthy, did reveal and open the Secret to me.

Salmon: There are three things which are certainly most

necessary to the attainment of this knowledge. 1. An Unwearied

Study. 2. A Continued Experience. 3. And the Devine Blessing

going along with all. Without these, it is not probable any Man

can attain the knowledge of this Secret. There must be a

diligent Study, and a ferious Meditation in the Soul, concerning

this thing: Then these things thus meditated on, must, by

experience, be brought to ocular demonstration; nor, if you miss

many times, must you be weary with trying. Lastly, you must all

along attend the Blessing of God for his assistance:

‘Tis that Eternal Spirit of God which goes through, and pierces

all things, which generates, and preserves that which is

generated: His Spirit of heat decocts, and

coagulates that which is thin, rarifies that which is too thick,

warms the cold; and raises up to life that which has been dead

and buried.

II. Hermes. Who has given to, or bestowed upon rational

Creatures, the power and faculties of truly judging and

determining, not forsaking any, so as to give them an occasion

to sease searching after the Truth.

Salmon. ‘Tis true, that Adam before the Fall was adorned with

the fulness of light and knowledge above all other Creatures,

shining like Sol among the Stars; but after his Fall, that prime

perfection was much eclipsed, and he was drove out of the

Garden, into a Wilderness among the Beasts which perish; yet not

without a promise of Restauration, and remission of his

Transgression, by one Eternal Sacrifice, through the diffluence

and power of Whole Spirit, Man is put into a possibility of

attaining a measure of the true and perfect knowledge and

understanding even in this life.

III. Hermes. For my part, I had never discovered any thing of

this matter, nor revealed it to any one, had not the fear of the

Judgments of God, or the hazard of the Damnation of my Soul for

such a Concealment prevailed with me. It is a debt I am willing

to pay to the Just; as the Father of the Just has liberally

bestowed it upon me.

Salmon. That is, revealed them so as that the Sons of Art might

understand them, not to the Profane and Unworthy, and Scoffers:

For the Oracle of Truth himself has long since told us, It is

not fit to give the Childrens Bread to Dogs; though they may eat

of the Crumbs which fall from the Masters Table. Some Men the

Scriptures of Truth have compared to Dogs, yea, Greedy Dogs,

Wolves, Foxes, These can never come to sit at the Table, and

feed of the Divine repast; ‘Tis a Transgression against the Law

of Nature, which is the Law of God, which deserves the Divine

Vengeance for a punishment: And such indeed is the revealing of

forbidden Secrets to such to whom they do not belong. And saith

Raimand Lully, Thou shalt reserve and keep that Secret, which is

proper only to God to reveal, and thou dost justly conceal those

things, whose revelation belongs to his Honour; otherwise thou

shalt be condemned in the Great day, as a Traytor to the Majesty

of God, nor shall thy Treason be forgiven thee.

IV. Hermes. Now understand, 0 ye Children of Wisdom, that the

knowledge of the four Elements of the Ancient Philosophers, was

not Corporally, nor Imprudently sought into: Which are through

patience to be attained, according to their kind, which through

their own operation are hidden or obscured. You can do nothing,

except the matter be compounded, because it cannot be perfected,

unless first the various Colours are throughly accomplished.

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