Title page; to the reader

PARACELSUS HIS Aurora, & Treasure OF THE PHILOSOPHERS.

As also The WATER-STONE OF The Wise Men; Describing the matter of, and manner how to attain the universal Tincture.

Faithfully Englished.

And Published by J. H. Oxon.

LONDON, Printed for Giles Calvert, and are to be sold at the Black Spred Eagle, at the West end of Pauls, 1659.

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Reader,

THese three Pieces of Mysterious Learning, need not any Apology, nor ought of those flattering titles that many worthless Books are ushered in withal; Tis sufficient that two of them were written by the experienced Paracelsus; and that the other viz. The Water-stone, hath the testimony of that inlightned man Jacob Behmen, in his 23. Epistle. It is (in truth) a discourse so sober, its title so modest, and the plain-hartedness of the Author so evident, that it will be but lost labour to commend that which is so really excellent. And whereas the Genius of many an English-man tends after these noble employments, and is destitute of those helps that many Authors extant in the Latine tongue might haply afford them; I do therefore intend to publish these ensuing, viz. The Rosary of the Philosophers. The Mineral work of Isaac Holland. Bernard Trevisan of Alchimy. The last Testament. The Experiments and several other Tracts of Raymund Lully. Glaubers second and third part of the Mineral work. Paracelsus his Archidoxis and Book of degrees. All which, except the two last-mentioned, (and they may shortly be ready) are compleatly finished.

Some (haply) will be displeased with, othersome will deride whatsoever they meet with of this subject; such may please themselves and wallow in their frothy fancies; but the ingenuous man will consider, that to attain to the useful understanding of things of this nature, there is required the labour of the body, integrity of the mind, and a patient perseverance in both: these are the usual keyes that give admission to this despised Science,

Farewell, Thy Friend, I. H.