The Greater and Lesser Edifyer contains much of interest to the student of Alchemy, including innumerable cross-references to other Alchemical works, and practical plus allegorical instructions on the practice of the Art. 
      Johann Grasshoff (or Grasshof, Grasse) (1560 - 1623) was a Pomeranian jurist and alchemical writer. He is also recorded as a medical advisor to Ernest of Bavaria, an Episcopal counselor.
His writings include the Aperta Arca Arcani Artificiosissimi (1617) and Cabala Chymica (1658).
      The compilation of the 1625 Dyas Chymica Tripartita is also attributed to him; it includes The Golden Age Restored of Henricus Madathanus, The Book of Lambspring of Nicholas Barnaud, and the Book of Alze.

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“The large ball is the earth, from which all kinds of fruits grow, and through which the waters flow in order to give them moisture. But in the middle is that water which I call “corporeal” in distinction to ordinary water, of which I told you last time that it is the fertile field from which all the minerals take their origin and which receives the seeds from the heaven and the firmament. As you can see, above it is the heaven, which courses with its lights around the earth, and tells the time of the years and the days. However, if you see the Star as GOD, you are mistaken, for this Star is but a creature of GOD, though gifted with such virtues that everything in heaven and on earth comes from it.

“The Star, which you see, and through which the heaven and the earth are moved, is no Star, but due to the weakness of human nature it appears to you as a star, for no bodily creature can see or understand it in and of itself. It is nothing other than an invisible fire, an eternal light, which is ordered next to GOD, over all the heavens. It is the power, might, form, life, virtue and preservation of all things in heaven and on the earth, an eternal movement, not Nature, but the Lord of Nature, a mistress of Nature, and of all her powers and, in sumnia, everything in everything. Therefore it is called the Star of Wisdom and an Eternal Light. Since it is a light in itself, not borrowed from anything else, but rather imparted to everything, the foundation of Wisdom is concealed within it."

Excerpt from the Third Part, "PHYSICA NATURALLIS ROTUNDA VISIONIS CHYMICAE CABALISTICA"