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

and the congregation of the other, or the mortification of one, which is spiritual, and the vivification of the other, which is corporeal.

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

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

When such and similar scripta writings are read by the ignorant, they are to them Sybillae folia Sibylline leaves, or Bohemian villages idiom for "gibberish" or something completely unknown, which they have never seen; and then there is immediately a perversitas judicii perversity of judgment present, so that it must be despised and mockingly laughed at; there-