The only way this is not a waste of time is if you were about to attempt to spend 9 months or whatever trying to create a homuculous. After reading this book, you would figure if these Einsteins of occultism can't pull it off, why should I try. Oh, you weren't planning on doing that anyway? Well, then like me, you completely wasted your time and learned nothing of any real use about alchemy or magic or the occult.