Major Elucidator or Illuminations on the Reformation of the Whole Wide World

their Chemical Wedding, concerning the stone of the wise. Yet only in such a way, and no further, as it has been willing to allow itself to be adapted and permitted for the sake of this secret and the ungrateful, perverse world. And I am now in good hope and certain confidence that many will thereby be moved henceforth not only to read more diligently the writings original: "Scripta" of these highly enlightened men, as well as others, but also to view them with different eyes than has been done up to now, or at the very least to cease their mocking speech and perverse judgment about it. And so that he may be moved to this even more, I will, for his benefit in this preface, introduce testimonies of the philosophers original: "testimonia Philosophorum" regarding three types of points:
1. That it is not new, but has always...