Chapter 2 of The Book of Aquarius serves as a foreword in which the anonymous author issues a fervent call to disseminate the work freely and widely, declaring it public domain and royalty‑free. The author urges readers to share the book through any medium—websites, mailing lists, media outlets, translations, and printed copies—while emphasizing the unreliability of future computers. The text rejects all forms of institutional loyalty (government, corporations, societies) and asserts that true loyalty belongs to people and nature. The author demands anonymity, asking that no one attempt to discover or contact them, and warns against impersonation, providing a SHA‑1 hash of a personal poem as a cryptographic key to verify future communications. The foreword also lists the online repositories (sacredtexts.com, forgottenbooks.org, rexresearch.com, alchemywebsite.com, ramsdigital.com) that host the alchemical sources quoted throughout the book, noting their contribution despite not grasping alchemy’s true significance. Finally, the author announces that ForgottenBooks.org will host the book, provide a forum for questions, and supply regular updates, directing readers to the site for the latest version.
Chapters
Chapter 2: Foreword. Quote from a dialogue by Alexander von Sukten, 16th to 17th century: I am a friend of Socrates and Plato, but still more so of truth. End quote. Give this book to everyone you know. If you have a website, upload it there. If you have a mailing list, mail it to everyone. If you work in the media, report on or publish this book. Translate it into different languages. Do everything you can to get this book to as many people as possible. You can distribute this book in any way. I am not reserving any copyright. This book is public domain and royalty-free. I advise you to print this book, as computers may not be so reliable in the future. Do you know any secrets? Now is the time to release them. Forget any promises you made or vows you took. This is all corruption. If someone makes you promise to jump off a cliff, it doesn't mean you have to. There is no such thing as government, society, company, organization. These are just vague concepts. They are not real. They don't have feelings. People are real. Your loyalty is to people and to nature. Please do not try to find out who I, the author, am. Please do not help anyone else find out who I am. I'm giving this book out freely at great risk to myself, so please appreciate that and don't put me in danger. If you think you know who I am, Don't try to contact me about it or ever mention it. Don't talk about me with other people over telephone or email. This book is full of quotes. You can look up the full text of the source of these quotes by searching for any sentence from the quote on Google. Search for it in speech marks. All of the quotes are from sources which are accessible to read for free online. The sources of all the alchemical books I have quoted from are these sites: sacredtexts.com, forgottenbooks.org, rexresearch.com, alchemywebsite.com. The latter three sites include alchemical imagery on their sites or in their books, but unfortunately, none of them realize the true significance of alchemy. However, all these sites, and ramsdigital.com, which is not free, have done a great service to the world by publishing alchemical literature on the internet. The key for the below SHA-1 hash is a poem I wrote, written in a language which is not necessarily English. Below is the hash value returned when the SHA-1 algorithm is performed on the poem. If I wish to communicate any more information, I will include the poem, which will prove that the new information came from me. Also, if anyone else tries to write and pretend to be me, they will not have the key, so don't believe them. If anyone presents a poem as the key, be sure to check it returns the below value with the SHA-1 algorithm. 0F0FF3FE5D1D64FA1ED32796B92AFF404914EDC. One week after initial release, ForgottenBooks.org offered free hosting for this book. A forum has been set up, so if you wish to ask any questions to me, the author, you can now do so. This book will be regularly updated with the answers to any good questions posed. To access the forum and download the latest version of this book, please visit bookofaquarius.forgottenbooks.org.
