Preface / To the highly-praised

Likely referring to the "Highly-praised Brotherhood of the Rose Cross."

...were, he would have easily recognized everything sufficiently; and what had been in him in potentia original Latin: "in potentia"; meaning "potentially" or as a latent power. or as a capability, and had all rested sleeping, could have been awakened in him through the observation of other things or the testimony of another's intellect. Because, however, such acuity original German: "scharffsinnigkeit." has been lost, he must either through much slow searching and effort find and attain something—even the cause of a single thing—or grasp and hold onto what another has discovered, or what one alone possesses in full, at the very least through Faith.

The principles of reason. original Latin: "Principia rationis."

For first of all, the five senses are there, which see, hear, smell, taste, and feel a thing that is appropriated and assigned as an object original German: "gegenwurff." to each individual sense:
Sense or experience. original Latin: "Sensus sive experientia."

Afterwards, they create in their pentagogic center original Latin: "centro pentagogico." In early modern psychology, this was the "meeting point" of the five senses, often associated with the "common sense" (sensus communis). a phantasia original: "phantasiā." In this context, it refers to the faculty of the mind that forms mental images from sensory data. or common sense, where they all come together to form an image of that same thing (such operations of the senses are called experience original Latin: "experientiam."). This image Reason or the Mind original German: "Gemüthe." This term encompasses the soul, heart, and intellect combined. then examines and [stores] in its little treasury of memory...