Handbook of Restored Physics and the Secret Work of Hermetic Philosophy

...garment, but a stronger philosophy; those who seek to prove their faith in a matter solely by the passing of years original: "erroribus anni"; likely referring to the fallacy that something is true simply because it is old are the very same who take that faith away. Do not condemn the innocent with a hasty judgment and an insufficiently examined case. If it seems a crime to have moved the sacred boundaries of Philosophy Philosophiæ: the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, do not flare up in anger or immediately pronounce me a sacrilegious man.

Instead, consider this: have these boundaries not been advanced rather than removed? Have the rights of Philosophy not been restored rather than corrupted? Has her Majesty not been increased rather than diminished?

From this, perhaps Philosophy herself will repay the favor; she will deny neither her patronage against the deceptions of the Sophists Sophistarum: teachers or philosophers who use clever but fallacious and deceptive arguments nor her protection against the ferocity of envy and ignorance. Like the barking of wild beasts—the former referring to Envy wasting away at the success of others, the latter referring to Ignorance driven mad by her own blindness—both petulantly break into the cultivated gardens of the sciences original: "scientiarum" and the pleasant fields of Philosophy, and those who should be praised...