Preface.

continues from previous page have been written in 40 days: two hundred and 4 books. And it happened, when the 40 days were completed, the Most High spoke with me and said: The first books that you have written, let them come forth publicly, so that the worthy and unworthy may read them. But the last seventy you shall preserve, so that you may give them to the wise of your people. For in these is the vein of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the river of science. And I did so.

D. Martin Luth. Kirchen Postill Church Postil, festo trium Regum Feast of the Three Kings) There is much secret operation in nature. Whoever knows how to apply it, performs miraculous things before those who do not know it; just as the alchemists make gold from copper. Solomon knew much of this secret knowledge of nature through the Spirit of GOD 2c. etc. And this art is a fine and true natural art, from which has come everything that doctors and their like know, describe, and use regarding the powers

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