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In the debut volume from the Lost Voices Resurrected, I have painstakingly gone through the entire manuscript modernizing spelling and grammar, reflowing sentence structure, and footnoting concepts that I had to do more research into to understand what was being said more clearly. Each entry into the series is less of a technical scholastic manual which expects the reader to already have some sort of tangential understanding of the subject matter, but rather as a self-taught student who is embarking on his own journey to understand what the philosophers, alchemists, sorcerers, and astrologists actually believed themselves, rather than entrusting someone else to instruct me on what they believed. Through the journey I have attempted to maintain the arguments as they were originally made, but in a way that is more comprehensible to the modern ear.

I have chosen to present the physical text in a parallel format to the original that I am working off of in order to allow for anyone and everyone to double check my work and decide for themselves in areas where my modernization may have strayed away from their own interpretations of the text. Additionally, I have attempted to print the original not as a straight facsimile, but as an attempted reconstruction of how each page might have looked when it was originally printed. This means that for Latin texts I have presented archaic characters, and for early modern English texts I have included the long s. To be clear, in some of these works the OCR translation that I was working from automatically removed these characters, so my replacement is not meant to be seen as a direct one for one representation of any of the original texts.

Without further ado, I present the Table of Contents and a few excerpts from the upcoming volume.