Nature Also Forges Man, Now A Gold

From Time Immemorial Artistic Insights Have Been Revealed To Artists In Their Sleep And In Dreams, So That At All Times They Ardently Desired Them.

He Who Knows Nothing, Loves Nothing. He Who Can Do Nothing Understands Nothing. He Who Understands Nothing Is Worthless.

Many Have Said Of Alchemy, That It Is For The Making Of Gold And Silver. For Me Such Is Not The Aim, But To Consider Only What Virtue And Power May Lie In Medicines.

Consider That We Shouldn't Call Our Brother A Fool, Since We Don't Know Ourselves What We Are.

That Which Lives On Reason Lives Against The Spirit.