Preface.

From me you are born, and, from me more of you will be born. Whoever kills me, and makes me alive again, and drenches me with the third part of my sweat; to him will I give or bear brothers and sisters, without number.

Lullius) Our whole mastery is nothing, except the resolution of one and the congregation of the other: Or, the mortification of one, which is spiritual; and the vivification of the other, which is corporeal.

Turba Philosophorum) Make the fixed volatile, and the volatile fixed. Item: Make the female ascend over the male, and the male over the female, and you will have the whole mastery.

Johann. de Lasnioro) O how admirable is Nature! which languishes so with love: because near her languor, the woman kills her man; and afterwards, the man also kills the woman, and thus they will procreate infinite children.

When such and similar writings original: "Scripta" are read by the ignorant; they are to them leaves of the Sybil original: "sibyllae folia", or Bohemian villages idiom for "something completely foreign and incomprehensible", which they have never seen.