True Report on the Philosophical Athanor and its Use and Benefit

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12. Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae solius verae, christiano-kabalisticum, diuino-magicum, nec non physico-chymicum, tertri-num, catholicon Amphitheatre of the Eternal, Sole True Wisdom, Christian-Kabalistic, Divine-Magical, as well as Physical-Chymical, Three-fold, Catholic.

This work, which some call the theosophical Bible, the author published in the year 1602 in the German language, as he himself has said in the Confession p. 423, with the words that it was written by him with the application of great costs, travel, time, and effort. Fictuld complains he has not seen this German edition, and many others say the same, yet it must exist according to the author's own statement. It seems Fictuld has not even seen the Latin copy, otherwise he would have stated the title more completely, and as a supposed dictatorial head teacher would have made the best edition known to the enthusiasts. He only says this much, that the author writes therein quite magnificently of the prima materia first matter, of the praxi practice, of the secret fire, and of the fraudulent sophists, and because he wrote so godlily and instructively, he would have been...