Hermes Trismegistus's True Ancient Way of Nature

IV Preface.

ly because he was created in God’s image,
not from an inferior earth 🜃 The symbol 🜃 represents the alchemical element of Earth. clod,
but from the very best and purest
extract, which was at the very center of the Earth 🜃,
and within him was placed a special
medical secret Arcanum medicinale A hidden, powerful remedy or essence believed to possess extraordinary healing properties.;
regarding this, Andreas Tenzel Andreas Tenzel (c. 1580–1625) was a German physician and hermetic philosopher, famous for his theories on magnetic or "diastatic" medicine—the idea that healing can occur across a distance.
in his Preface to Diastatic Medicine original: "Præfatione Medicinæ Diastaticæ"
writes of him thus: Man is the fifth essence of the whole machine of the world, indeed the Center, into which all the spheres of nature pour their rays; he is the Microcosm and the Compendium of all Nature, the miracle of the world. original Latin: "Homo est Qvintum esse totius Machinæ mundi, imo Centrum, in qvod omnes Sphæræ naturæ radios suos infundunt, Microcosmus et Compendium totius Naturæ, mundi Miraculum." — —

Now, to whomsoever God communicates this stone
out of special grace, he has