Of the Experimental Method and Fermentation of the Philosophic Subject, according to the Paracelsian Alchemists and some others

On just such a foundation do the Alchemists establish their Free Masonry; claiming like extreme attributes and miraculous origin for their first matter, as do the Greeks, for that ethereal hypostasis we were before discussing. A few also profess, with the same admirable earnestness, to have observed in the experimental development of their own internal being, the whole procedure of the occult nature into evidence, with her universal efficient by the Light of Wisdom thenceforth revealed.