PHILIPPI THEOPHRASTI PARACELSI BOMBAST.

The most famous philosopher and doctor of both medicines

Preface to the reader.

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It is my intention here to philosophize on high and hidden things, and to sufficiently uncover all things that pertain to Magia magic, Nigromantia necromancy/black magic, Necromantia divination via the dead, Pyromantia divination by fire, Hydromantia divination by water, and Geomantia divination by earth. Everything possible to learn and accomplish with these is described and set forth in this Philosophia philosophy. And the false, with its superstitious and other seductive abuses, shall not have precedence over this one, nor be held as its equal, as has happened heretofore, according to the opinion that such things stand firmly upon a supposed foundation, while they have stood and been built upon seductive sand