The Great Elucidator: Or Enlightenment on the Reformation of the Whole Wide World

that you have written, let them come forth publicly, 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, Church Postil, Feast of the Three Kings: There is much secret operation in nature; whoever knows how to apply it, works equal to miracles before those who do not know it. Just as the alchemists seekers of transmutation 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 true natural art, from which comes everything that physicians and