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

oks that you have written, bring forth into the open, so that the worthy and the unworthy may read them. But the last seventy you shall preserve, so that you may give them to the wise of your people, for in these is the vein of understanding, and the fountain of wisdom, and the river of knowledge. And I did so.

Dr. Martin Luther's Church Postil, on the Feast of the Three Kings: There are many secret workings in nature; he who knows how to apply them does miracles before those who do not know them. Just as the alchemists make gold out of copper. Solomon knew much of this secret knowledge of nature through the Spirit of God, etc. And this art is a fine and righteous natural art, from which has come everything that the physicians