PREFACE TO THE KING

He himself will depart first: and thereafter, he will very rarely be seen by the eyes of mortals. This, O Best of Kings, is that True, so often celebrated (and without sin) INVISIBILITY OF THE MAGI: which (as all future Magi will confess) is granted to the theories of our MONAD. The most expert

Book on Breaths Original: "Lib. de Flatibus," referring to a treatise in the Hippocratic corpus.

11. PHYSICIAN, from these same theories, will also very easily attain the mystical intent of Hippocrates. For he will know WHAT, to WHOM, must be ADDED or REMOVED: so that he will then willingly admit that the Art itself, and MEDICINE itself, is contained within the greatest summary of our MONAD.

12. The SCRYER original: BERYLLISTICVS, a practitioner of crystal-gazing or divination using stones like beryl., here, in a crystalline plate, can most exactly see all things which exist beneath the sphere of the MOON, upon the Earth or in the Waters: and in a Carbuncle or Kad original: כד; a Hebrew term for a jar or vessel, here used to describe a specific type of scrying stone or its internal 'vessel' of light. stone, he shall explore the entire Aerial and Fiery region.

13. And if the ALCHEMIST original: VOARCHADVUMICO; Dee adopts this term from Joannes Pantheus to describe a "priestly" alchemy that produces "gold of two washings." is satisfied by the twenty-first theory of our Hieroglyphic MONAD, and if it provides for him the GOLD OF THE RED HOUSE original: VOARH BETH ADVMOTH; a reconstructed Hebrew phrase referring to a specific alchemical state or "Red Gold." for his contemplation: he will admit that he does not need to travel to the Indies or the Americas for the sake of philosophizing.

14. Finally, concerning the ADEPT kind (whatever the Art of ARIOTON Possibly a reference to a specific occult art or a corrupted classical name. might provide or promise; or whatever the twenty-year labors of the great Hermes Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary founder of alchemy and Hermetic philosophy. have achieved),

The year 1562.

although we have written elsewhere to the Parisians using its own peculiar MONAD (illustrated by anagogical proof Anagogic: a method of spiritual interpretation that detects hidden or mystical meanings.): we nevertheless constantly assert to your Royal Majesty that ALL OF IT is expressed so vividly by the analogical work of our Hieroglyphic MONAD, that no other more similar example to the human race [could...]