Preface / To the highly laudable

of unity and of the Creator. For
reason has at times achieved this much, through the
most sensible men of the world—though in
small numbers. But
that the Unity is Three and the Three are One,
no reason could have dreamed of by itself;
it is and remains a mystery to her,
and is revealed only to the children of
grace, and is first grasped through faith.
Afterward, however, it is so bright and clear
to them that they can show it even in
Nature—as a work reveals its Master—to the
world-wise The "world-wise" (Weltweisen) refers to secular philosophers or scientists who rely on logic and observation rather than spiritual revelation. and make it understandable to them:
speaking with them not only with the mouth,
but with hands and feet,
with fire and water, with silver and gold,
with black and white, with red and yellow;
and they, in turn, perceive what the water
and what the salt says. Yet this happens in no other way
than through the Monad-Triad Monatriadem: a philosophical term combining "Monad" (one) and "Triad" (three) to represent the Trinity within a single divine essence itself.
For just as we see the sun only through the
sun itself (if I allow it to be darkened
and suffer an eclipse ecclipsin: a solar or lunar eclipse,
then you will find the counter-effect in your own seeing eyes