Pandora: The Noblest Gift of God, or the Worthy and Healing Stone of the Sages

Preface.

as can be seen in herbs alone, where each has its special root, blossom, stem, and leaves: of this he makes four kinds. The first or implanted Iliaster the life-force or human vital balm is the purpose of life, or the human living balsam. The second or prepared Iliaster the targeted life-force is the prepared and established goal of life, the living balsam which we have from the elements or elemental things. The third is the end of life, and the true balsam which we derive ex quinta rerum essentia from the fifth essence of things. The fourth or great Iliaster is the ecstasy of the mind, when man is drawn into the other world. Thus he also brings forth Archeum, that is, a power that brings forth and separates all things upon the Iliaste (est autem Theophrasto Iliastes prima rerum omnium materia, ex Mercurio, for the Iliastes is to Theophrastus the first matter of all things, consisting of Mercury,