A rectangular decorative woodcut headpiece. The design is symmetrical, centered on a small cross-like element within a circle. It features intricate scrolling acanthus leaves, vine-like tendrils, and stylized flowers, including what appear to be roses on the far left and right.

TO THE SINCERE

READER, GREETINGS. original: "S." abbreviating "Salutem," a formal greeting wishing health or prosperity.

From the more hidden
secrets of Nature,
and from the
innermost chambers penetralibus: a term for the most sacred or private inner parts of a temple; used here to suggest the deepest, most guarded secrets of the philosophers.
of the Philosophers, this Har-
mony A reference to the title of the book, likely Harmonia Chymica (Chemical Harmony). comes forth into the
light, kind Reader,
both so that it might draw out
those who see (or so they ima-
gine themselves to) in this art
more clearly from the thick
shadows of ignorance,
and so that in rough places—
indeed, even in plain... The text ends mid-sentence and mid-word with "pla-", which likely completes as "planis" (flat or level ground) on the following page.