Poem, 1562-09-09, Hans Kilian to Georg Fedro
| Author: | Hans Kilian |
| Recipient: | Georg Fedro |
| Type: | Poem |
| Date: | 9 September 1562 |
| Place: | Neuburg an der Donau |
| Pages: | 2 |
| Language: | German |
| Quote as: | https://www.theatrum-paracelsicum.com/index.php?curid=2079 |
| Editor: | Edited by Julian Paulus |
| Source: | Georg Fedro, Chirurgia minor. Oder Aller offnen Schäden von grund innen herauß volkommene heilung, Ingolstadt: Alexander Weißenhorn & Samuel Weißenhorn 1562, sig. A3r-A3v [BP.Fedro.1562-04]
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| Translation: | Raw translation see below |
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[sig. A3r] Ehrwürdiger/ Hochgelehrter
Der Artzney/ Fedro Rhodocher/
Besonder lieber Herr vnd frund/
Dieweil aller menschen gesund
An Seel vnd Leib gar hart verderbt
Durch Adams fall auff vns geerbt/
Hat sich Gotts gnade gantz bereit
Jn seinem Wort vnd Geist allzeit
Erzaigt/ vnd die/ demselben glaubt
Fleissig nachgsetzt/ der warhait traut/
Erleücht/ jn gschenckt solch neben gaben
Natürlich in künsten zhaben/
Der menschen gsundhait belangend/
Vnd was denen ist anhangend.
Wie dann die warhafft erkanntnus
Medicinæ, Theophrastus,
Von Hohenhaim Philips genandt
Den jhm gleichbegnadten bekandt/
Jn teütscher nation lande
Bewisen hat mancher hande.
Die ander gnad ist dermassen
Was die Medicin verlassen/
Bringt in höhere grad subtil
Chemia, wie vns erweist vil
Mercurius Trismegistus
Ein Künig vnd Philosophus.
Wer dann noch höher will schleichen
Vnd ettwas merers erreichen/
Was die baid nit mögen geben/
Das vndernimbt sich/ merckt eben/
Magia, aller künsten kron/
Wie vns zeügt der weiß Salomon/
[sig. A3v] Sich selbs der Himelischen krafft/
Gleich zůmachen vnd sighafft
Das jrrdisch zů überwinden
Natürlich nit höhers funden
Ein yeder kunstliebender man
Dem Herren Gott auch dancken kan
Nit gnůgsam mit preiß außsprechen
Sein Wort vnd Geist vberrechen.
Dem sey allain Ehr/ danck vnd lob
Ob vns schon nit wirdt dancken drob
Ein yeder deß nit verstendig
So macht vns doch nit abwendig/
Allain diß hoch zůbetrachten/
Wie man Gotts gab theür soll achten/
Vnd nit werffen kindisch hindan/
Rath recht Christlich Hans Kilian.
Neopyrgi ad Danubium. IX. Sept[embris] Anno M. D. LXII.
English Raw Translation
Generated by ChatGPT on 12 April 2023. Attention: This translation is a machine translation by artificial intelligence. The translation has not been checked and should not be cited without additional human verification.
Honorable and highly learned Doctor of Medicine, Fedro Rhodocher, dear and special friend, since the health of all people has been severely corrupted in both soul and body due to the fall of Adam inherited by us, God's grace has always been fully manifested in His Word and Spirit, and those who diligently believe in Him and trust the truth, He has given such natural gifts in the arts of medicine, pertaining to the health of humans and all that is related to them. Just as the true knowledge of medicine, Theophrastus, also known as Von Hohenhaim Philips, has been proven in various ways in the German nation. The other grace is such that those who forsake medicine and reach higher degrees of subtlety in chemistry, as Mercury Trismegistus, a king and philosopher, shows us. But those who want to climb higher and achieve something beyond what both can give, undertake magic, the crown of all arts, as the wise Solomon shows us, making themselves equal to the heavenly power and overcoming the earthly naturally, nothing higher is found. Every art-loving person can thank the Lord God, but it is not enough to express His Word and Spirit with praise alone. Even if one does not understand it, it does not make us turn away, but only to consider carefully how we should value God's precious gifts and not throw them away like children. This is the true Christian advice of Hans Kilian.
