Major Elucidator or Enlightenment on the Reformation of the Whole Wide World

they could only obtain the knowledge of this high
secreti secret: And besides
that, having spent so many manifold great
expenses on it in vain,
and many being so wretchedly
led astray by the land-swindlers, such that
it is to be lamented and pitied;
Therefore, out of Christian compassion, I am
caused and moved to bring that which is
somewhat clearer and more manifest to
the light, and also to illustrate it with other
testimonies of the philosophers, regarding
what the Christian, highly praiseworthy Order
Brothers of the Rosy Cross, with such
dark and flowery words, in
their recently published Reformation of the
whole wide world, as well as
also in their Chemical Wedding, have written about
the Stone of the Wise,
yet thus and no further, as it has
always wished to behave and permit itself
with this secreto secret, for the sake of the ungrateful,
perverse world.
And I am now in good hope and
certain confidence that many will
thereby be moved to consider the writings of these
highly enlightened men, as well as