The Text of Alchemy and the Green Dream

PREFACE.

phidius, Cosmopolite original: "Cosmopolita", Arnaud de Villeneuve, Majerus, Flud de Fluctibus referring to Robert Fludd, from the great and little Albert, from the great and little Paysan, from Basile Valentin, from the Manual and the Aurora of Paracelsus, and an infinity of others; for they are great in number.

It is from these that I have learned that the all-powerful God JEHOVAH, the first principle of all things, having resolved to create the World, ab initio from the beginning, from all eternity, for His own love and the union of His will, drew from the infinite treasure of His Essence and His divine Exemplar a Chaos,