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Certain curious explorers of secret matters, Dalberg, most sacred Bishop of Worms, who are troubled by the hidden powers of words, the concealed energies of speech, and the characters of divine secret names, are found in our age (as far as I can rightly see) to have strayed not a little from the ancient footsteps of the leading philosophers. They often wander far astray regarding the operations of mysteries full of wonderful effects, chiefly for this reason: that either through the fading obscurity of the figures or the perverse and faulty corruption of the scribes, those symbols of that sacred philosophy and the venerable signs of supernatural virtues can no longer be understood, nor even read. Therefore, many, affected by weariness and useless, sluggish exhaustion, either flee from such a laudable kind of contemplation in horror, or abandon what they had long ago begun through neglect. Wherefore, led by an incredible desire to please, I have dared to enter such great darkness and the obscured hiding places of sacred—indeed, secret—words. I have dared to bring forth to our age, as if from the inner shrines of oracles and the innermost chambers of the most ancient philosophy, nearly all the names which in a former age wise men endowed with miraculous powers used in sacred rites. These may be the sacraments of the Pythagoreans and the more ancient philosophers, or the foreign memorials of the Hebrews and Chaldeans, or the devoted supplications of the Christians, which may be seen drawn from their books and languages in this work. I have dedicated this to your name because sacred things are owed to sacred people, and especially priestly matters to the princes of priests, in which dignity you stand before others.