Aphorismi Urbigerani

HAving in our One Hundred and One Aphorisms so perspicuously laid open all the Difficulties, and so amply taught the compleat Theory and Practice of the whole Hermetic Mystery, that any ingenious Lover of Chymistry will not only be enabled to understand the most abstruse writings of the Philosophers, but also to effect any real Experiment, which is to be expected in the Progress of our Celestial Art; and yet being apt to believe, that such, as are not our Disciples, may perhaps meet with some of the Philosophical Figures, the meaning of which they may not so easily comprehend, we have judg'd it highly expedient, in the Front of this our little Book to place this our Figure, by which, being a perfect Compendium of all the Philosophical Emblems, the rest may be without any great difficulty understood. Now since this our Figure, mystically representing all our Subjects and Operations, cannot but admit of many and various Interpretations, all which if we should here set down, our Aphorisms (where they are already deliver'd, and of which this would then be a Repetition,) would be altogether useless and insignificant: we therefore at first esteem'd it very superfluous to give any farther Illustration of it. But our desire being to do all the good, we can, to the Publick, we have on second Thoughts resolv'd with our wonted Brevity to deliver the following Explanation for the better Comprehension both of it and our Aphorisms.