Several Tracts Pertaining to the Archidoxa

and troubled themselves, and filled all necromantic books with it, which they have thus foolishly, without foundation, fabricated out of their own heads, in which there is neither foundation nor truth, of which not one is worth a nutshell. I say nothing of the good paper and parchment that is uselessly dirtied with it. Thus it has been the custom among such people, and it has not yet left many, who open their mouths to one another and provoke each other, and say, I have gotten more wonderful characters of the words, which you will never have seen before. But he does not say that he fabricated it himself. Therefore, everyone should know how to distinguish all characters and words well, for thus also many words are found that conform to no language, that neither Latinus Latin, Græcus Greek, Hebreus Hebrew, etc., nor any other language, as many as there are, can translate or make into German. Therefore, I say that not all characters nor words are to be believed, but one should remain only with those that are just and come from the foundation of truth, and have been often and well tested.

But that we come to the same, and show and learn the right ones, you should know that here for this time no more than two are dealt with, although there are still many of them. Yet these two are the principal ones above all other characters, Sigilo Salomonis Seal of Solomon, and Pantaculen pantacles. But how these should now be made, you have here before your eyes.

A woodcut depicts a hexagram (six-pointed star) formed by two overlapping triangles. Inside each of the six smaller triangles forming the points of the star, there is a capital letter. Starting from the top point and moving clockwise, the letters are: A, D, A, N, A, and I (the I is depicted horizontally, forming the name ADANAI).