An engraved frontispiece shows the name of God, Yahweh, written in Hebrew letters within a radiant cloud in the top left corner. Below the clouds on the left, a man in clerical robes, likely the author Athanasius Kircher, holds a compass used for measurement. Behind him stands the winged angel Cosmiel, the celestial guide in this narrative, who holds a celestial globe and a cross-staff. The right half of the image is dominated by a diagram of the solar system. It shows planetary orbits marked with the symbols for Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Earth with its Moon. At the bottom, a large, ornate baroque frame contains the title text. In the far bottom right corner, the engraver's mark F. Sc. is visible.

original: יהוה. This is the Tetragrammaton, the four-letter Hebrew name for God, representing the divine source of all light and knowledge.

KIRCHER’S ECSTATIC JOURNEY,

Scholia are explanatory comments or annotations intended to clarify a difficult text.

Gaspar Schott was a student of Kircher and a fellow Jesuit who edited and expanded many of Kircher's works to make them more accessible to students.

The Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, was a Catholic religious order known for its rigorous scientific and missionary work during the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

F. Sc. stands for "Fecit" or "Sculpsit," indicating the artist who engraved this image.