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But especially to each and every faithful lover of the natural, universal original: "Catholischen"; used here in its root sense of "universal" or "all-encompassing" rather than a specific religious denomination., and invincible truth, I wish that you may see and receive the Light of Nature The "Light of Nature" (Lumen Naturae) is a central concept in Paracelsian philosophy, referring to the intuitive and divinely-granted knowledge of the physical and spiritual world. in your light, O GOTT, you who are a light in which there is no darkness.
It is only right that regarding any thing, it is first and foremost asked: Whether It Be; and thereafter: What It Be. That the admirable Philosopher’s Stone original Latin: "Lapis Philosophorum admirabilis", the wondrous Stone of the Wise, exists in the nature of things original Latin: "in Rerum Natura", is sufficiently shown and proven with infallible and diamond-strong foundations in the third figure of my Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom original Latin: "Amphitheatri Sapientiæ eternæ"; Khunrath's most famous work, which combined alchemy, magic, and Christianity., etc. And the number seven is by no means (as the father