Hebrew: The Tetragrammaton, the four-letter name of God, often transliterated as Yahweh or Jehovah.

TO THE UNSPEAKABLE WORD,

The Author offers this humble burnt offering.

original: Holocaustum vernaculum. In this context, "holocaustum" refers to a biblical "whole burnt offering" or a total sacrifice, while "vernaculum" suggests something domestic, personal, or in the author's own simple style.

Large ornamental woodcut initial 'O' decorated with elaborate foliate and floral scrolls within a square border.

Almighty, Eternal, and Incomprehensible Being! Origin of all Good. You have entrusted to me a Talent A reference to the biblical Parable of the Talents, where a servant is expected to invest what his master gives him., which I bring forth into the market to earn interest: But I acknowledge and confess my trifle original: nauci, meaning something of no value of a power, my vile and misusing uselessness. Thus submerged in the abyss of my own Nothingness, I pray to You, All-providing Good, that You might mercifully look upon this book, You who are the Eternal Beginning and End of all Wisdom. Let Your saving Will be done, Lord, in the grace of Your Love, through this dry wood, food for worms, fuel for the fire—your useless servant, the son of your handmaid. Unless You complete me anew and guard all Your gifts, they will perish in me forever. This I frankly confess from the knowledge of my innermost core original: meditullii, before You, Lord, to whom all things are thoroughly known in truth: and before the World, to which most excellent truths remain hidden. I am astounded by the Abundance and Magnitude of Your benefits toward my worthlessness original: floccitatem, literally "flimsiness" or "a tuft of wool". Thus prostrate, I celebrate Your most glorious Name, and I call upon it from above, O most Faithful Lover of mankind; JEHOVAH! O Holy and Incomprehensible Name! at all times, it alone is to be sanctified, and it alone freely sanctifies its Saints. Mercifully look down from the throne of Your Omnipotence upon the miseries of the living; help the children of men, since it is Your delight to be present with them. Remember the word of Your promise, no longer as the God of our Fathers, as in former times, but now declared as God our Father: No longer the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; but as the God JESUS, the God of MARY our mother, and He who was made our Brother in the love of Your Grace. Of all [my] desires...