Philosophical Scrutiny of the True Elixir of Life

God ordained, that science of the whole of nature succumbed, by which science not only are those seven planets in the sky, and their properties, virtues, and influence to be observed in all corruption and generation of things known, but also the properties of the twelve signs of the Zodiac, as well as the powers of all four elements, and their conversions into one another, are revealed completely and utterly to those to whom it is given by God to know this science. If this science is brought into the light, with respect to the darkness in which it has hitherto wandered, it now triumphs on a most shining throne of dignity. And this was the most important reason by which I was moved to dedicate this little treatise to You, Most High, Most Reverend,