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

Preface.

NB Sometimes he has, with special diligence (as Geber also did), reversed the order in operando in working: especially when he treats arcana Naturæ mysteria secret mysteries of nature, and handles a masterpiece which is drawn up from natural things, without separation and without elemental preparation, through an additive, in which such materials are drawn and kept therein. One sees such things obviously in the Archidoxis, in the Metamorphosi, de Philosophorum tinctura, de Vexationibus, de Præparationibus, and in other books more.

But so that the Magi & filij Sapientiæ Magi and Sons of Wisdom of these high arts might become partakers, and might serve mankind therewith: they have not spent great expense on the island of Socotra [for] Aloes, Paradise-wood, Rhubarb, Cinnamon-bark, Carda-