Preface

Nothing but a sluggish / weight, and the discordant / seeds of things not well joined, / heaped together in the same place. original Latin: "Non quicquam nisi pondus iners, congestaq; eodem Non benè iunctarum discordia semina rerum." This is a famous quote from Ovid’s Metamorphoses describing the state of Chaos before the world was ordered.

THEOSOPHY, etc.

Other learned people have also spoken in this way before me.

// Concerning the little words (Theosophist, Theosophy, Theosophically, A man wise in God / Divine Wisdom / In a God-wise manner), I have briefly and sufficiently explained myself on page 40 of this Confession original: "Confessionis huius", in the scholia technical term for explanatory notes or commentaries on a text. If someone else would rather say Lover of Divine Wisdom, Love of Divine Wisdom, or Lovingly-wise in God original: "Philotheosophus, Philotheosophia, Philotheosophicè", I will allow that too. I do not wish to quarrel with anyone over words; let the meaning only remain sound. Quarreling over words is not edifying.

Enthusiast.

// Listen, you slanderer—if you say mockingly that I am an "Enthusiast" In the 17th century, "Enthusiast" was a derogatory term for someone who claimed to receive direct, private revelations from God, often used by the religious establishment to dismiss someone as a fanatic or "madman.", because I speak in this current book of visions or sights and of special (yet good and spiritual) revelations; then I say in truth, you l yo?

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