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IN SUPERIORI EST IN MEDICO

FONTIS VENA, QUA EST PHILO-

SOPHORUM REGULA PRIMA.

HERMES.

METALLA OMNIA QUOAD PURI-

TATEM SUNT EJUSDEM SUB-

STANTIAE: DIFFERUNT TAN-

TUM IMPURITATE MAJORI

VEL MINORI DIGESTIONE.

ARROS.

PREFACE

FOR THE CHRISTIAN READER: GOD’S GRACE TO YOU.

Although I have never been engaged in Aichemical matters,

because, as you should know, this is not my occupation;

nevertheless I have taken no little delight and pleasure in a

proper recognition of the true powers of the creatures of

Almighty GOD. For, in so far as I at times from need, but also

occasionally from desire have read through a philosophical book,

I have noted at least this much from it, that something more

than the four elements are contained in everything, and that

these are only a receptacle, or a shell, of an indwelling,

divine, solely efficacious spirit: a fifth essence. And that

beyond this, there lie hidden in the Lapide Phi losophorum.,

copious and incredible secrets, which are beyond all human

understanding. Thus, it is very easy to set forth, to convince,

to demonstrate, and also, as it were, to point with one’s finger

toward the true certainty of the praiseworthy order of the R.

C.; For, as is known to GOD-fearing hearts, such exalted secrets

are contained in nature (of which I will mention only a few) so

why then, if such is in the power of Christian love, should they

not have and practice a beatific Brotherhood among themselves?

M. Petrus Bonus Lombardus reminds us in his Margarita Preoi’~s~a

zVopeila, chapt. 6., and D. Augustinus testifies also in $umrna

Confessi’onum (as well as many other highly enlightened and

beatific men) that the wise Plato, who stands nearer the saving

faith than all other heathens, and who lived more than three

hundred years before the birth of our Savior and Messiah Jesus

Christ, is described in the Holy Gospel of the Holy Evangelist

and Apostle John (in the verses beginning “In the beginning was

the Word,” up to the passage “There was a man sent from GOD..”).

That this science has arisen from Plato, and Saint John should

have kept his FORMULIA so cryptic, should be well

contemplated by everyone. The above-mentioned MARGARITA ascribes

to him the LAPIDEM PHILOSOPHORUM, and, in my opinion, not impro-

perly, as can be inferred with certainty from the following

points, as well as from other books.

In The Rev eiations of the $ecrets of Aicbem~ divulged by M.

Henricum Vogeliuxn, Parson of Lutzelstein, you will find in Book

Li, chapter 7 that the heathens had recognized the Creator

through his Creation, and had seen an image of the Holy Trinity

(three different persons) in one single inseparable being (as

Lombardus also attests in chapter 13) and that this is not

difficult to demonstrate in common aichemical work. He also

reports that, from the light of Nature, the heathens had

recognized that the Son of God would become a man, that a Virgin

would be his mother, and that Jesus Christ would have two

births: One from eternity and one in time, as well as other

points concerning his person. For instance, that man is the

little world. That original sin is innate in him, and that there

is only one intermediary between GOD and man, who redeems the

human race through his suffering and death. That the power and

activity of man is nothing, but that GOD’S word is powerful and

healing. That GOD works powerfully through intermediaries, that

good works follow unforced and from themselves, and that man may

partake of the holy body and blood of Jesus Christ, and thus be

born, die and be resurrected. That GOD will create a new heaven

and earth, and so on. You will find much about the visible

appearance of the creation of the heaven, earth and everything

within them, as well as innumerable other very exalted secrets

in this book. Read, in addition to this, HARI~IONIA LU!VIINIS,

GRATIAE ET NATURAE; the FAMAM AND CONFESSION of the highly

enlightened Brotherhood of the R. C. M.; Valentinum Wergelium;

Philippus Mornaeus DE VERITATE RELIGIONIS CHRISTIANAE; Mutius

Pansa’s DE OSCULO ETHNICAE ET CHRISTIANAE RELIGIONIS; Franciscus

Tidicae’s MICROCOSM; Alexander von Suehten; etc. And although

these partial articles of faith and knowledge may be clearly

seen through the revealed word of GOD, the Book of Grace;

nevertheless, Almighty GOD has also written such

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