Pandora: The Noblest Gift of God

as can be seen in herbs alone, where each has its own particular root, blossom, stem, and leaves: he makes four kinds of this. The first or implanted Iliaster is the purpose of life, or the human vital Balsam. The second or prepared Iliaster is the arranged and ordered goal of life, the living Balsam that we have from the elements or elemental things. The third is the end of life, and the true Balsam that we draw ex quinta rerum essentia from the fifth essence of things. The fourth or great Iliaster is the rapture of the spirit, when the human is caught up into the other world. Thus he also brings forth Archeum, which is a power that extracts everything from the Iliaster (est autem Theophrasto Iliastes prima rerum omnium materia, ex Mercurio, for according to Theophrastus, the Iliaster is the first matter of all things, consisting of Mercury,