Hieroglyphic Monad

In offering this little book to the public, and particularly to the lovers of Wisdom who are partakers of this Art, we wish it to be understood that the task has been undertaken for two reasons: first, to enable students to appreciate this valuable work left by a man of great erudition and now, we believe, done into English for the first time; secondly, in token of the fact that even in this terrifically scientific age there are men who nurture the time-honoured Hermetic teaching and Art, believing that Nature conceals more than she reveals to the vulgar eye of mortal man. It is by the straight line and the circle that the first and most simple example and representation of all things may be demonstrated, whether such things be either non-existent or merely hidden under Nature's veils.