❧ GUILLAUME

POSTEL, the Re-

stored, to the most sacred

Senate, judge of divine

accounts, Greetings.

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It is through the diligence of your fellowship and a divinely inspired love for God and for Truth itself that—even without your intending it—that light of supreme truth and that right and primary reasonLatin: ratio. Postel uses this to mean both the underlying logic of the universe and the human capacity to understand it. for which humanity was first created has finally been restored to the whole world. Therefore, I have rightly decided to entrust this vision of restored doctrineLatin: restitutæ doctrinæ. This refers to Postel's lifelong project of "restitution," or returning the world to its original state of unity and divine knowledge. to you, as those most skilled in divine law and as its highest judges. For I have taken from those writers—who are students or fellow-soldiers of your rank—those explanations of the primary truth, under whose guidance both the eternal covenant and its Monarch [will be] maintained—