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be a prey to stupid wonder, but the why 

 and the wherefore of the whole thing 

 would be plain and familiar to him. 

 Such a book is Antimony to those who 

 have not yet learned to read it : hence 

 all such persons should pay the most 

 careful attention to my preliminary in- 

 struction, and should not be offended if I 

 offer to teach them the alphabet of Anti- 

 mony. Let them study this alphabet 

 diligently, in order that they may learn 

 to read the book, and thus advance from 

 class to class in this our school of 

 Alchemy, until they have reached the 

 highest grade of all. 



But at this point I remember that 

 there is, from time to time, a great 

 clamour, and cry of "Away with them, 

 crucify them, crucify them ! " raised 

 against those who prepare medicines out 

 of poisons such as Mercury, Arsenic, 

 and Antimony. It is averred that by 

 means of such medicines many have met 

 with a sudden death, or are dragging on 

 a miserable existence. This clamour is 



most persistently raised by those Doctors 



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