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168 THE POWER OF KARMA all things, in His love for that which He had created, desired that all men should possess it. “Whoever," writes Basil Valentine, "gains possession of this Stone, should let his whole life be an expression of his gratitude towards God in practical kindness towards his suffering brethren. That after obtaining God's greatest earthly gift, he may hereafter inherit eternal life. Praise be unto God everlastingly for this, His inestimable gift."
Another Master, recognized as such by his contemporaries, and other alchemists, namely, Heinrich Khunrath, writes in his work, “Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae", "I write no fables : with thy hands thou shalt touch, and with thine eyes shalt thou behold Azoth, The Universal, which alone combining the internal and external fire in harmonious sympathy with the Olympic Fire is sufficient for thee, by inevitable necessity physico-chemically united for the consummation of the Philosopher's
Stone."
The incredulity aroused by the statements and affirmations made by these adepts corresponds in its nature to that expressed with regard to such phenomena as the "miraculous” cures effected at Lourdes, or the astounding records of magic to which I have referred. The limits
