Preface.

what is meant by it in this day
and age.
Those who are true disciples of
wisdom and genuine followers of the
Spagyric art original: Sperischen Kunst; this refers to alchemy, specifically the Paracelsian method of separating and purifying the "essences" of natural substances. / will better
consider and take note of these matters /
and will know how to pass a far
different judgment original Latin: Iudicium. upon them /
just as has been done by several
distinguished people /
but especially by Adam Haselmeyer,
Public Notary original Latin: Notario pub., short for Notarius publicus. in the service of
His Princely Serenity /
Archduke Maximilian Maximilian III (1558–1618), Archduke of Further Austria, who was a known patron of alchemists and the first person to receive a manuscript of the Fama Fraternitatis via Haselmeyer. /
who also made an extract from the theological writings original Latin: extract ex scriptis Theologicis.
of Theophrastus Theophrastus Paracelsus (1493–1541), the influential physician and occultist whose revolutionary "Spagyric" medicine and spiritual theories form the bedrock of Rosicrucian thought. /
and is said to have
written a little treatise / under the