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IF thou hast attended well to what hath been told thee in these five Gates, thou art secure; make sure of thy true Matter, which is no small thing to know, and though we have named it, yet we
have done it so cunningly, that if thou wilt be heedless, thou mayst sooner stum∣ble at our Books, then at any thou ever didst read in thy life.
Meddle with nothing out of kind, whether Salts, or Sulphur, or whatever is of the like Imposition; and whatever is Alien from the perfect Metals, is re∣probate in our Mastery. Be not decei∣ved either with Receipt or Discourse, for we verily do not intend to deceive you, but if you will be deceived, be deceived.
Our principal know that it is but one, and that is in Metals, even those Metals which you may buy commonly, to wit, the perfectest of them: but before you can command it out of them, you must be a Master, and not a Scholar, namely as it is wisely said in Norton;