Collection of Treatises on the Occult Sciences

...in the key; thus this celestial tradition which is formed by divine letters, without which knowledge science is useless. Hereafter you have four rules which are easily grasped, but it is necessary to arrange and assemble the entire key of the characters; wherefore, by means of the said divine element, everything is easily understood, and you shall see to this end that which causes the rules that have been made to be found with great ease; and do not presume to succeed therein if you possess not the science of the Element, which, after you have learned it along with the root of all this natural plant, and have studied this divine science as is stated in the dispositive, with the help of God, we shall set all the rules in order to provide you with greater ease.