Major Elucidator or Illuminations on the Reformation of the Whole Wide World

and the gathering of another, or the mortification of one, which is spiritual, and the vivification of another, which is bodily.

Turba Philosophorum Assembly of Philosophers: Make the fixed volatile, and the volatile fixed. Item: Make the female ascend above the male, and the male above the female, and you will have the whole mastership.

Johan. de Lasnioro: Oh, how admirable is nature, which languishes with such love, because near her languor the woman kills her man, and afterwards the man also kills the woman, and thus they will procreate infinite children.

When such and similar scripta writings are read by the ignorant, they are to them Sybillæ folia Sibylline leaves a reference to confusing or nonsensical omens, or "Bohemian Villages" a German idiom meaning something completely foreign or incomprehensible, which they have never seen. And then there is immediately a perversitas judicii perversity of judgment, so that it must be despised and laughed at scornfully; therefore