The Golden Themis

Hither now migrate the Hesperides nymphs, Aegle, Arethusa, and Hesperethusa with their gold-bearing shrubs, lest they suffer Hercules twice, hidden in the groves. Here are the red-bodied cattle of Geryon, well-fenced and protected in the pastures, lest Cacus from the Aventine—that is, the evil thief—steal them and intercept them. Who would deny that here are the Colchian fleeces, gilded by Mercury, the garden of Mars and the palace of Aeta, who is imagined to be the son of the Sun, and the brother of Augeas and Phaethon? Here are the horses of the Sun, of which Ovid writes in the second book of the Metamorphoses:

Meanwhile, the winged horses of the Sun, Pyroeis, Eous, and Aethon, and the fourth, Phlegon, fill the air with fire-bearing neighs and strike the barriers with their feet.

Here the sheep and cattle of the same Sun now graze—that is, the livestock, from which PECUNIA money is named, the Queen of the world.

Regarding the means by which these things were accomplished by the first Author, there is no need to bring much forward here, since the Brothers have indicated them sufficiently in the Fama Report and Confessio Confession, and other writings, namely that those things, whatever they may be, were first brought from Arabia into Germany, his fatherland, and provided the opportunity for the Author to first join other monk companions to himself—three at first, then six more—from whom the first part of the book of M. is said to be made, delineated, and described, which is often mentioned in the Fama, namely that it was translated by the first Author from the Arabic language.