Preface

To the Highly Favorable Reader.

Highly favorable reader / since this book came into my hands without a preface / it is unknown to me whether the author composed a preface for it or not; and the kind-hearted reader should know / that the author’s intention in this book is: To learn to recognize the true foundation of the internal through the external designation original: "eussere bezeichnung"; this refers to the "Signature of Things," the belief that the outward appearance of a plant or mineral reveals its inner spiritual properties: Thus, through the external visible created Being / to reveal and make known the invisible / uncreated Being of all beings original: "Wesen aller Wesen"; a common mystical term for God or the ultimate source of reality: also to open up and make known through the external that which is in itself mute and unrecognized / which