Preface

—mighty The syllable "ge" completes the word "mächtige" (mighty) from the previous page. treasures, the spirit and life of all natures spirit and life of all natures: Naturen Geist vnnd Leben, the vital, animating essence that alchemists believed could be extracted from natural substances are found, all weakness removed, and all other things can be brought to right perfection.

Since, then, without doubt, many good-hearted people are by nature inclined and leaning toward such Philosophy and would also gladly practice and use it, if only they had good instruction for it;

And [since] there were sent to me, by a distinguished gentleman and Princely Counselor, the Experiments of Raymond Lully original Latin: Experimenta Raymundi Lullij; Raymond Lully (c. 1232–1315) was a Majorcan philosopher and logician. During the Renaissance, a vast body of alchemical literature was attributed to him, translated translated: vertiert, an archaic term for turning a text from one language to another into the German language and written by hand (and, to my knowledge, never found or seen in print), with a confidential intention;

And I noticed that through such [writings], many could [receive] a fi— The text ends mid-word; the catchword "ner" at the bottom of the original page indicates the next word is "finer" (feiner).