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but to understand the secret meaning, 

 they would no longer drink those turbid 

 and unwholesome potions, but would 

 hasten hither, and receive the limpid 

 water of the well of life ! 



It is my design to shew that those 

 great doctors, who think themselves 

 wise, are very fools, while my book 

 may make many foolish and unlearned 

 persons the depositaries of true wisdom. 



All men who are real lovers of 

 knowledge, and humbly seek after it by 

 day and by night, are herewith cordially 

 invited to listen to my teaching, to pore 

 over my book with the greatest care, and 

 thereby to obtain the desire of their 

 hearts. Their gratitude will, after my 

 death, raise me from the grave, and 

 render my name immortal. If any one 

 be opposed to my opinions, he will find 

 a crushing reply in this work. Nor am 

 I fearful that my disciples who, through 

 my teaching, obtain the empire over 

 Nature, will ever suffer my name to 

 sink into oblivion, or to be bespattered 



with vile calumnies. 



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