True Report on the Philosophical Athanor and its Use and Benefit

so that the reader must have much patience, and often read through several pages before he can find the sense and the connection. Moreover, many German words are printed with large Latin letters, through which the eye of those who do not understand Latin is tired. I have therefore with consideration and caution left out the superfluous Latin words, translated the necessary ones, without injuring the sense set other punctuation marks and idioms, converted the many interpolations into notes, and made paragraphs. I know indeed well that in such writings, even in some words and letters, secrets are sought, but I can assure the readers that the style of the author is more playful, long-winded, and open-hearted, than that he should have hidden his secrets in individual words and letters; rather, he repeats a matter twenty times. I therefore give you my word, you shall not go without a single secret, for I have gone to work with caution. But what is hidden behind his...