Biolychnium or The Lamp

PRÆFATIO.

of friendship, which they hold with the individual parts of our Body, only the Magical Interpreters of a more occult Nature see. For it is not the barks that penetrate into the inns of diseases, but that idiótēs árrhētos ineffable property/nature, that is, the Magnetic Star, which acts with its Spirit upon the member conformed to it.

Which has been observed by the Archaeus inner directing vital force or the Innate Natural Chemist, who, through preparations, separations, and exaltations, happily segregates the simple matter beneficial to the Body from that foul sediment of superficial Elements. To this Vital Anatomy, and the most artful Analysis of things, as if to a Cynosure a guiding star, the Chymiatri chemical physicians direct their sails, and are carried by a favorable tide into the ports of all Nature, however remote. This Spagyric Philosophy is itself the Medicine of the Soul, by which it draws from the very same thing that is an Antipharmacum antidote for it, whatever is poisonous in Nature. 44 Herman Conr. Ithms

From this pharmacy of Chymiologia study of chemistry is this Biolychnium The Lamp of Life of ours, which we have drawn from a certain posthumous fragment of the most famous man H.C., and have adorned with our own Muses. This little book, with the censures of Momus and of a certain Athenian Stellio allusions to petty critics pushed aside, because of the dullness of a trivial mind not grasping these and other arcana of Hermetic Philosophy, and because of the weapons of calumny, and furthermore, because of the honorable requests of several most excellent men, of which it pleased me to bring only two here, who in letters sent to me uniquely requested our writings, behold, it is brought into the light again.