Der gülden Gesundbrunnen

not at all for the sake of the blinded art of gold-making, as some imagine, many persons of high status—even princes and lords, along with many high-born, noble women—have hitherto very zealously applied themselves to righteous chemical medicine. These people were already abundantly blessed by God with gold, money, goods, land, and subjects. They do this solely for the sake of the highly blessed, over-precious, and highly necessary universal medicine and præservatif preventative remedy mentioned so often. They wish to plant such things for the inexhaustible welfare of the whole world and want for nothing.

To the benefit of this blessed medicine, through special divine omnipotence, counsel, and pleasure, Brother Basilius Valentinus of the Benedictine order was graciously awakened in these present times with highly enlightened understanding in the German language. For before this light of God's power and nature's gifts should remain despised, suppressed, and kept silent by many unworthy people, this medicine and gift of God had to be revealed from the dead This refers to the legend that the writings of Basilius Valentinus were discovered after his death when a stone pillar in a church was struck by lightning..