Filozofların En Gizli Gül Bahçesi

Desirable desire and priceless value are supposed to be contained in this composition from the books of the ancients. However, we shall briefly gather all things here into one summary, so that to you, most dear friend, the most excellent and at the same time most certain arcanum of the chemical truth may be sufficiently revealed. This summary we call the Rosary, because we have plucked it for you from the books of the ancients as roses from thorns. And because whatever is contrary to truth or reason harms the truth, therefore, with sentences that are in every way consistent with the truth, in clear speech, we will in a correct order and word for word, with all their sufficient causes, succinctly hand down whatever we have found necessary from their books for the completion of the work, placing nothing whatsoever that is superfluous, and no addition to the entire magisterium. May it therefore please our Lord Jesus Christ to send us the spirit of His understanding. All the works of the Lord's goodness are circular and perfect, spherically rotated toward Him from whom they proceeded. For from the beginning of His creation, placing nature before all things, He made four simple bodies, from which He afterwards constituted all mixed bodies. Of these mixtures, He made some intellectual, some sensitive, some vegetable, and some mineral. Indeed, He created all intellectual things from the rarity of the elements in the likeness of Himself. Therefore, our heart is restless for Him until we come to Him. For the rarity of all elements ascends to the fire, which is near the stars. Therefore, we, created by Him, deservedly tend upward to God, as to our first principle.