The Hermetic North Star

...hidden Cabalæ Cabala|In this Hermetic context, it refers to "Christian Kabbalah," a system used by Renaissance and Baroque scholars to find mystical and alchemical meanings in the structure of creation. and the physically proven secrets, and see the whole doctrine of the alchemical science therein with open eyes. Furthermore, Paracelsus’s Treatise on the Physical Tincture original Latin: "Tractatus de Tinctura Physica" is not to be neglected. To these two I have also added the third, because the author refers to it in the latter, which he named the Apocalypse of Hermes original Latin: "Apocalipsin Hermetis". I have borrowed the aforementioned small treatises from the Imperial and Royal Library German: "Kayſerl. Königl. Bibliothek," referring to the court library in Vienna. mostly retaining his own words. I did want to omit or even change some things in his preface and elsewhere, since he defends himself so crudely against the Physicians Medicos|Specifically the academic doctors of Paracelsus's time, whom he famously criticized for relying on ancient texts like Galen rather than practical chemistry. (who were in conflict with him at the time); however, since he mixed in various secrets here and there throughout his defense, I preferred to leave it just as he wrote it, all the more because it does not concern anyone living now, and in our own time, medicine is generally in a different state. Fare thee well, and use all five for your benefit, which I hereby wish you from the bottom of my heart.