On the Secret Works of Art and Nature and the Nullity of Magic

slander. What he has criticized in the letter itself will be answered further below when the opportunity arises. Since I have mainly to do with Libavius as I go through and publish Bacon's writing, I will only add the one thing that R. de Fluctibus original: "Robert Fludd", who answered Libavius in a separate writing, passed over in silence, at which I am very surprised. Although it does not belong to my project, yet because it could lead some good-natured people astray, so that they might not strive so longingly for that restoration (or improvement of the sciences) of which the Rosicrucians, and others before them, say that it will not only come, but has already begun; I will just add something as proof, but briefly, as much as my plan requires. For if it is not predetermined and correct that a restoration will finally take place, then the Rosicrucians would have taught this in vain and would have lured so many brave people from all places to their society. I admit that it is difficult to judge future things, even those that are themselves set forth in the prophecies of the Holy Scripture, and the beloved disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ see this very clearly. For