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

and those like them know, describe, and use regarding the powers of herbs, fruit, ore, stone, and the like. It is also often cited in Scripture, in that it uses comparisons of animals, stones, trees, and herbs, etc. The Persians, Arabians, and the Orientals of that region have made much use of the same art, have studied in it, and it has been an honest art, and it has also made wise people, etc.

Raymund Lullius says: You shall consider all the riches of this world as nothing, indeed as dung, in respect to this divine and most excellent Magisterii Mastery/Work.

That is: All the wealth of the world is to be considered as nothing, indeed as dung, against this high, divine mystery.

Geber: Blessed is the man to whom