Pandora: The Noblest Gift of God

When the powerful and highly learned man Theophrastus Paracelsus saw such things, he invented, out of great zeal and love for his German people, the ueram Magiam true magic: per quam actuando, uel uniendo uirtutes naturales, mirabilia efficimus opera in natura, & quasi mundum maritamus, ut Pius Mirandulanus scribit : quæq; in rerum supernaturalium cognitionem nos ducit through which, by actuating or uniting natural virtues, we effect wondrous works in nature, and as it were marry the world, as the pious Mirandola writes; and which leads us into the knowledge of supernatural things.

Such Magi wise men (I do not mean devil-conjurers or other black magicians) were the wise men who came to the newborn child in Bethlehem: also the Cabalists among the Hebrews, the Philosophers among the Greeks, and the Gymnosophists ascetic philosophers among the Indians.

But so that one would not cast pearls before swine, the good Theophrastus invented a new magical