Preface

To the Christian,

generous reader in

general.

It is indeed to be seen, generous and Christ-loving reader, from the writings of many philosophers original: "Philosophorum" (but not from the sycophants original: "Sycophantarum", who intrude for the sake of their own profit and fame), that they have sufficiently made known to the world the high secret of the blessed stone original: "secretum de lapide benedicto", such that many hundreds of books exist on it, among which the noble brethren of the Rose Cross original: "Fratres vom Rosen Creutz" primarily belong. However, they have for the most part done so with such figurative...