Pandora: The Noblest Gift of God

way of writing, which not every traveler, or barber, or pharmacy apprentice, but only the Filii Sapientiae Sons of Wisdom and true Magi wise men might bring into their heads: as he excuses himself in his Manuali de Lapide Philosophorum Manual on the Philosopher’s Stone and in the lib. Vexationum Book of Vexations.

This is the reason why he painted so much per allegorias, ænigmata & figuras uarias through allegories, enigmas, and various figures. Therefore he also devised such wonderful Cabalistic and Magical names, which seem like sorcery to many, such as when he names the hidden power or virtue of nature, from which everything grows, is nourished, and is multiplied, Iliastros. Item, Ares, which assigns to everyone their own nature, form, and shape, so that it may be distinguishably known from the others