Preface.

learn from the Lord JESUS Christ to be gentle and humble of heart: May He grant us this, and let us always remain commended under His wings of grace original: Gnaden-Flügel; a common 17th-century metaphor for divine protection, referencing Psalm 91:4.. Given in England, at the beginning of the year 1659.

The reader’s humble servant,

bound in love,

J. F. H. S.

Son of Sendivogius.

original: Filius Sendivogii; a Latin pseudonym used by the author (likely Johann Friedrich Hautnorthon) to claim he is the intellectual "son" or successor of the famous Polish alchemist Michael Sendivogius.