A decorative headpiece composed of three horizontal rows of repeating small floral or fleur-de-lis ornaments. Below these rows, four larger versions of the same floral ornament are arranged in a single centered row.

ON

REALITIES NATURAL

&

SUPERNATURAL

Chapter One.

An ornate woodcut decorative initial letter 'C' containing foliate scrollwork and floral motifs.
Since I have now undertaken to write of the first tincture, the root of Metals and Minerals, and also of spiritual things, and how Metals and Minerals are first conceived and born corporeally: I have decided to preface a discourse in which I will disclose that all things exist in two classes, namely in natural and supernatural things. For that which is visible, comprehensible, and clothed in its own form, that is natural. But that which is incomprehensible and spiritual is called supernatural, being that which ought to be apprehended and judged by faith alone, such as the creation and especially the eternity of GOD—infinite, inscrutable, and immense—which nature cannot grasp nor human reason attain. This, therefore, is supernatural: that which reason cannot perceive but faith apprehends