Reconditorium ac reclusorium opulentiae sapientiaeque numinis mundi magni, cui deditur in titulum chymica vannus, obtenta quidem & erecta auspice mortale coepto ...

Authority & Majesty

1.

The marvels of the world on the stages of the palm,
Nothing but spitting forth through the inspired mouths of the Sibyls,
Which the initiate here recounts with an unaccustomed buskin?
Or what sisters does that glossarist, equal-speaking,
(Like a sacred good spirit stipulating from the tripod of the Gods)
Lead into the theater with a magic lyre, O Prophet?

2.

By what spirit does this one, obtaining through mediation,
The shades, all the infernals, and the supernal Gods,
Bring forth the diploma of the Venus of Hermes?

3.

Why does this tablet, without a tutor,
Without name, without time,
Bring forth into the light the rare, the dear?

4.

What truly does this new, this new little book,
Newly donated with Latinity,
Dogmatize with new impudence?