Download or read book Coelum Philosophorum written by Paracelse and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " You who are skilled in Alchemy, and as many others as promise yourselves great riches or chiefly desire to make gold and silver, which Alchemy in different ways promises and teaches; equally, too, you who willingly undergo toil and vexations, and wish not to be freed from them, until you have attained your rewards, and the fulfilment of the promises made to you; experience teaches this every day, that out of thousands of you not even one accomplishes his desire. Is this a failure of Nature or of Art? I say, no; but it is rather the fault of fate, or of the unskilfulness of the operator..."