True Report on the Philosophical Athanor and its Use and Benefit

without betraying the secret, although Doctor Söldner has disgracefully dragged him through the mud in his Purgatory, and thereby betrayed his own stupidity. Therefore, you lovers of both wisdom and both lights, hold him dear." Others say: "He was a highly respectable ornament of his Leipzig, and a man of truly far rarer and higher understanding than one believed of him, and in order to probe the deepest things, he was inflamed with great desire by the divine fire; he read through the books of the most ancient and old sages and, on his many travels, surpassed them all." See Brekling in Christo mystico In the Mystical Christ, p. 12. Kuhlmann U. B. B. Universal Book of Wisdom, Chapter 11, p. 72. Ioh. Val. Andreae mentions him among those men who were of singular wisdom, even if one did not always understand them, in Mythologia christiana Christian Mythology, Manip. III. num. 23. p. 137. He also cites him as one who was despised by the ignorant because of his unknown wisdom, in Menippo Menippus, num. 85. p. 208. Johann Arnd cites his confession right at the beginning of his letter on the mystery of the Incarnation, and praises him on p. 5, "that he has gloriously explained the mysteries," and almost in the middle on p. 19, he writes: "From Dr. Khunrath’s book, called Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae Theater of Eternal Wisdom, I have