Major Elucidator or Enlightenment on the Reformation of the Whole Wide World

thereon, among which the gentlemen
Fratres vom Rosencreuz Brothers of the Rosy Cross
also primarily belong.
However, they have done so mostly
with such figurative, flowery, and
concealed words that among a
hundred thousand, hardly one is found
who could grasp something useful and
salutary from them.

Hence, such great inaccuracy
and perversion have arisen that
some, with heavy expense and long-
lasting labor, even to the end of their
lives, have worked on it in vain.
Others, however, seeing that so few
people are found who have truly pos-
sessed the lapidem philosophorum stone of the philosophers,
fall into slandering, reviling, and
despising it, as if it were pure
fantasy and fraud.
And it has now also come to pass among
the ignorant, sadly, that the ars chymica art of chemistry/alchemy
is a res odiosa hateful thing to them,
and it is spoken of quite shamefully by such people
who venture into this study.
Yes, some even dare to call it a
devil's work.