Pandora: The Noblest Gift of God

N. Sometimes, he has with special diligence (as Geber also did) reversed the order in operando in working: especially when he deals with the arcana Naturæ mysteria secret mysteries of nature, and treats a masterwork that is drawn up from natural things, without separation and without elemental preparation, through an additive into which such materials are drawn and kept therein. Such is seen clearly in the Archidoxis, in the Metamorphosis, de Philosophorum tinctura on the tincture of the philosophers, de Vexationibus on vexations, de Præparationibus on preparations, and in other books besides.

But so that the Magi & filij Sapientiæ wise men and sons of wisdom might be partakers of these high arts and serve people with them, they have not let expensive items be brought from the island of Socotra, such as aloes, paradise wood, rhubarb, cinnamon bark, cardamoms,