True Report on the Philosophical Athanor and its Use and Benefit

without betraying the secret, even though Doctor Söldner in his Purgatory disgracefully dragged him through the mud and thereby revealed his own stupidity. Therefore, you lovers of both wisdom and both lights, hold him dear. Others say: "He was a highly respectable ornament of his Leipzig, and a human being of a truly far rarer and higher understanding than one believed of him, and in order to investigate the deepest things, he was inflamed with great desire by the divine fire; he read through the books of the oldest and ancient sages and held the upper hand over all on his many travels." See Brekling in Christo mystico In the Mystical Christ p. 12. Kuhlmann U. B. B. Chap. 11. p. 72. Ioh. Val. Andreae remembers him among those men who were of singular wisdom, even if they were not always understood, in Mythologia christiana Christian Mythology Manip. III. num. 23. p. 137. He also cites him as one who was despised by the ignorant on account of his unknown wisdom, in Menippo num. 85. p. 208. Johann Arnd cites his Confession right at the beginning of his Letter on the Mystery of the Incarnation, and praises him on page 5, "that he had gloriously explained the mysteries," and almost in the middle on page 19, he writes: "From D. Khunrath's book, called Theater of Eternal Wisdom, I have