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

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 metaphors of animals, stones, trees, and herbs, etc. The Persians, Arabians, and those same Orientals practiced this art quite diligently, studied in it, and it was an honorable art, and it also made wise people, etc.

Raymond Lull says: Omnes divitias hujus mundi pro nihilo, imò pro stercore reputabis, respectu hujus divini & excellentissimi Magisterii All riches of this world you shall deem as nothing, indeed as dung, in respect of this divine and most excellent Mastery, that is: All the riches of the world are to be considered as nothing, yes, as dung, compared to this high, divine secret.

Geber says: Blessed is the man