PREFACE.

By Apodictic Demonstrations. original: "Demonstrationibus Apodicticis." These are proofs that are considered absolutely certain and logically incontrovertible. On the MYSTERIES OF THE NUMBER SEVEN, see chapter 10, book 2, of H. C. Agrippa’s On Occult Philosophy. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa was a 16th-century polymath; his work was a cornerstone of Renaissance esoteric thought.

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That the admirable PHILOSOPHER’S STONE original: "LAPIS Philosophorum", that wonderful STONE of the Wise, exists in the NATURE of things original: "Rerum NATVRA", has been sufficiently set forth and proven with infallible and diamond-like foundations in the Third Figure of my AMPHITHEATER OF ETERNAL WISDOM Khunrath's most famous work, the Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, which combined music, alchemy, and magic., etc. And the Number Seven original: "Siebende Zahl" is by no means a number of lies—as the Father of Lies A common title for the Devil., speaking blasphemously through his lying mouths, claims: that he who speaks of seven loves to lie. Rather, it is (according to the teaching of the Spirit of all Truth, found both in the Holy Bible and in the Macrocosmic book of nature, as well as in the Natural Scripture proceeding from GOD) a holy number, a constant truth full of Divine Mysteries original: "Geheimnuſſen" and Natural Secrets original: "Verborgenheiten". This is the truth which that desperate arch-blasphemer, through his recently mentioned words of mockery and slander, seeks to make wickedly suspicious.