True Report on the Philosophical Athanor and its Use and Benefit

learned to recognize God and true wisdom from the book of the great and small world." Likewise, a Saxon school rector, M. Andreas Riccius, has placed the following verse upon this portrait of Khunrath’s writings:

Do not disparage the books of this man, I tell you, sophist,
For he has done it correctly by the instinct of the sacred Deity.

In his Confession, he mentions that he also lived in Hamburg in the year 1598, and the publisher of the Latin Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae Theater of Eternal Wisdom, Erasmus Wolfarth, mentions in the preface that he died early, namely in the 42nd year of his age, and left this work itself incomplete. I now turn to his complete writings, whose titles follow here one after another, because few will know them.

1. Symbolum physico-chymicum Physico-chemical Symbol. Concerning the catholic, natural, triune, wonderful, and most miraculous, most secret chaos of the physico-chemists: the genuine and proper subject of the universal and great philosophers' stone, or the due and unique material. Ignorance and envy are the parents of slander. To the Devil with you! With privilege of His Sacred Imperial Majesty for ten years. 1598, in 12mo and 1599, in 8vo.