PREFACE.

Preface.

for the third time / Fie! ARISE! original: "Pfy. AUFF!"—a defiant exclamation, likely directed at his critics or as a call to the spirit of truth.

The Author’s Prophecy concerning his own writings.

6 My AMPHITHEATRUM Referring to Khunrath's most famous work, Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae (Amphitheater of Eternal Wisdom)., this Philosophical CONFESSION, and my other similar writings—though they are heavily attacked—will surely endure.

Truth is pressed, not suppressed. And finally, a good cause triumphs. original Latin: "Veritas premitur, non opprimitur. Et tandem bona causa triumphat."

God will, at all times, awaken good and sensible people who will help to defend and represent them with honor.

Handwritten notation in shorthand or cipher script, possibly referencing Lapis?

7 I am not bothered at all by how mockingly and reproachfully certain wits-fools original: "Witztölpel"—a derogatory term for those who are clumsily clever or pretentious; people who possess superficial intelligence but lack deep understanding.—people who consider themselves the only wise ones, yet are actually braggarts who know almost nothing or very little of the underlying nature-consistent alchemical truth—express themselves about this. They claim that I do a great wrong by presuming to write so certainly about the SUBJECT of the Great and Universal PHILOSOPHERS’ STONE original Latin: "LAPIDIS Philosophorum Catholici ac Magni SVBIECTO" and its properties, when I myself, [have] the Philosophers’ Stone during my lifetime...