Philosophical Scrutiny of the True Elixir of Life

Therefore, fashioning the stone, you will forge thunderbolts with Jove,
Thunderbolts with which you will shake rigid diseases.

To the Most Noble and Most Excellent Lord

Graz, February 5, 1687.

JOANNES ADAMUS RUMOR,

Most Noble and Most Excellent Lord Doctor.

I have perused the Scrutiny of the True Elixir of Life, communicated for the sake of perfection, and received by me with that affection with which I am inclined toward the lovers of the spagyric art. I found a candid mind toward the beginners of the art, and these pages breathe good will everywhere. In reading them, if Neo-Philosophers act as bees, I will not doubt that they are to gather Hermetic honey; indeed, they exhibit many canons of this more sacred and truer Wisdom compiled from various approved Authors. Therefore, I augur this happiness for our world, that it may enjoy the life that is insinuated in these pages by the Most Noble and Most Excellent Lord Author; then I would gladly sing to him thus:

So that happy Jason might seek the golden fleece
At Phasis, he had built a ship with happy art:
Are you not a confident Sailor? Pruggmayr wishes to aid you
With a Bridge: you might perhaps overcome this Sophic sea.