The Great Elucidator: Or Enlightenment on the Reformation of the Whole Wide World

in their Chemical Wedding, have written about the Stone of the Wise, though thus and no further, as it has always wanted to adapt and allow itself to be for the sake of the ungrateful, perverse world with this Secreto secret. And I am now in good hope and certain confidence that many will be moved thereby to not only read the Scripta writings of these highly enlightened men more diligently in the future, as well as others, but also to view them with different eyes than has happened hitherto, or at the very least, to cease their mocking speech and perverse judgment about it. And so that he may be caused to do this even more, I will, for his benefit, introduce testimonia Philosophorum testimonies of the philosophers in this preface regarding three points:
1. That it is not new, but has at all