When a head is struck by its own pain, it crushes the river crab, and often consumes the crab. And the tortoise, after drinking viperous poison, devours cleansing savory. The goat, laden with darts, by the most powerful virtue of dittany brings itself aid.
Those whom the demon himself strikes, whether that demon is a cancer, or a serpent, or a harmful plague: what should they do? Come, all of you. Here, whoever you are, mocked by the darknesses of demons, and wandering; whoever, by desertion of Christ, rave, seized by the goad of magic and madness; you also who waste away with the bitter bile of unbelief: come here.
Whoever is ignorant of nature and of its art, let the book of sagacious Del Rio be brought at once into his hand; let Del Rio’s book, that true offspring of Wisdom, be drunk deeply into the mind. For its pages store up a medicine of the soul.
When there is need to know by reason the purgatives for disease, it is shameful to reject a man fashioned from the fire of the eternal Mind, with a remedy prepared by keen intellect for himself and brought by a friendly hand.
This volume of Del Rio, unrolled from the citadel of heaven, opens itself to wanderers as a guide through pathless places onto the road. Give this volume into the hand, lovers of truth and equity. Whoever takes pleasure in knowing what nature hides deep within; whoever desires laws and the true Divinity, give into the hand the volume unrolled by Del Rio.
Claudius Dausqueius.