Alchemy (real alchemy) has, with this e-book as the first exception, always been written of obscurely, using metaphors, allegories and even outright lies. Similar e-books like this one has been made available to the public but the secret ingredient was altered to confuse and mislead many who are searching for the truth. In this chapter I will discuss the obscure style of the alchemists, but not yet how to decipher it, which I will cover in a later chapter (after we've discussed all the theory.) Here's a fun fact for you: the word "gibberish" refers to the alchemical writings of an alchemist known as Geber. Because alchemical writing is so difficult to understand, it became a word to mean anything unintelligible. The most popular trick used by the alchemists was to call things by different names.

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This was quite necessary to keep the secret, since there is only one ingredient and one process. The alchemists
therefore used hundreds of different words for explaining the same thing. But in their defense, they did write that they were doing this, so the reader should have known that the writing was a riddle and know that they must decipher it. Though some people chose not to listen to this and to take the writings literally, which has caused
countless deaths through history from people ingesting mercury and sulphur, which are extremely poisonous.

The alchemists knew that mercury and sulphur were poisonous, and knew some people were taking their writings literally, so that was quite a sick joke to play. Other people misinterpreting what they read used non lethal ingredients​

such as urine, blood, feces, semen and plant derivatives. None of these ingredients contain the pure life energy and healing powers to create the stone, so all of their efforts are and were in vain.

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Alchemists amused themselves by listing operations performed by Nature, implying that the alchemist would be physically performing them, which is not the case. In truth it is Nature who makes the Stone, while the alchemist only optimizes the conditions. This way the alchemists can claim they told you the truth, but what they told you was something you don't need to do.