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

The Gift of God.

in the most certain and human way I want to make the same manifest. Therefore, give yourselves into such diligence and earnestness to hear and listen, as I will bring you a mastery of the teaching: namely, of the things that I have seen with my own eyes and touched with my own hands. Of this, I will provide you with a truer, more certain, and more trusted knowledge than the deceitful enumerators and stirrers who, after much cost and great labors, achieve nothing other than that they finally fall into misery. Therefore, I want to speak clearly and publicly with you, so that the experienced and the inexperienced may understand from this mastery. No one will rightly be able to slander or speak against me: for the ancient philosophers wrote of it so obscurely and confusedly that they are not only not understood, but also...