Secrets of Creation

To the Honorable and Noble

Lord Erasmus Neustetter,

called Stürmer, Dean of Com-

burg and Canon of Würz-

burg, my highly favorable

lord.

A large, square woodcut decorative initial 'E' featuring intricate, swirling foliate patterns and vine-like motifs.

Honorable and Noble
Lord, what great
joy, delight, and well-
being a human be-
ing has from the contemplation
of the creation of all
things, cannot be expressed with
few words. For we believe not
only that God, who is Al-
mighty, created the entire world
and everything thatoriginal: "wz" (was), an abbreviation for "what" or "that which"
is therein out of nothing;
but rather that God—who
through His dear Son, the Eter-
nal Word, without whom nothing was cre-
ated—has become a Father to us.