DEDICATION.

of [Your Majesty's] most gracious and kind advancement, [I pray that I] may henceforth always be most graciously and kindly commended to Your Majesty’s grace. I herewith commend Your Imperial Majesty to the divine protection and shield of grace of the Highest Artist and Spagyric Architect Spagyric Architect: An alchemical title for God as the ultimate Creator who "separates and recombines" (the meaning of spagyria) the elements of the universe, who is the Creator of Heaven and Earth and all creatures, wishing you a most fortunate and long-lasting reign. Furthermore, next to Almighty God, I humbly and in all submission commend and entrust myself to Your Imperial Majesty, for the merciful comfort and help shown to me so abundantly during my pilgrimage Likely referring to both his literal travels and his spiritual journey as an "Eremita" or hermit. I acknowledge myself bound and willing to serve Your Majesty at all times with my most humble and faithful diligence. Given in the Holy Roman Empire’s city and chamber of Hagenau, on the 3rd of October, in the year of restored salvation original Latin: Anno reparatæ salutis—a common phrasing for the Year of our Lord (A.D.) 1607; but under the rule of the Olympic Governor, the Angel Hagith In Renaissance magic and the Arbatel, Hagith is the Olympic Spirit governing the planet Venus and the transmutation of metals into gold, in the 197th year, etc.

To Your Imperial Majesty