On the Secret Works of Art and Nature and the Nullity of Magic

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than them. The desire ignited in me to scout out what kind of pleasant society of the virtuous this might be, upon whom that precious ointment of love, which was poured out upon the head of the High Priest Christ, had trickled down as it were onto the hem of the garments, that is, onto his members, and who those were who truly and in fact practiced the article of the communion of saints, which had previously only been believed. In the year 1616, through the kindness of a good friend, I received a look at: Famam Fraternitatis cum annexa Confessione Report of the Brotherhood along with the annexed Confession. There it occurred to me again what Montanus had told me, and I hoped that now at last Christ, who had restored the pure doctrine through the sermons of Luther, would take pity on human misery, and also accelerate this restoration in the sciences and in the whole of life, and bring it to perfection. So that finally all power of the enemies, namely ignorance, sin, and death, which is the wages of sin, shall cease, and Christ alone shall reign with his own (1 Cor. 15, 25), and that we may also obtain what we are to ask for: that his kingdom may come and his will may be done, as in heaven so also on earth. For this is it,