Biolychnium or The Lamp

PRÆFATIO.

they unwind, and with all bonds loosened, they lead it forth into the breeze of light, and bring it out cleansed of all filth.

Whatever, therefore, is in the wombs, receptacles, coverings, skins, and wrappings of this Great University regarding medical faculties, all that is brought forth from the hiding places to the summit by the blade of the Great Anatomical Hephaestus, and with the pods and barks cut away from the three families of Nature—Animal, Vegetable, Mineral—it is artfully restored to pure use, so that that autophyēs self-grown/innate and specific Virtue, engendered in the seeds by the force of the Omnipotent Word and the nod of the Creator, freed from those superficial and, as the Theophrasteans followers of Paracelsus say, Relollacean external/superficial qualities, may be in readiness to defeat the violence of any diseases whatsoever. For it is confessed that, as those natural actions proceed from Spirits and spiritual Tinctures, so the operations of all Remedies proceed from the spirits and the Tinctures of spirits. By what Hieroglyphic notes and Magical Characters the origins of hidden virtues reveal themselves, and to which member each is to be applied, that Harmonia Harmony