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It is that which, and the same as that which, defends the earth and thus receives a stronger force and power by defending it; because the corporeal, through steadfastness original: "fide"; likely referring to the fixation or stabilization of a substance, becomes spiritual by will. And because the spiritual and the corporeal [interact] through steadfastness by defending...

It possesses its own glory, the whole world in one stone thus opened outside this possible world. VATICAN APOSTOLIC LIBRARY All darkness shall flee from it original: "Fugiet are ore obscuritatē"; a variation of the Emerald Tablet's "Fugiet a te omnis obscuritas," meaning ignorance or impurity will be dispelled. Say that the stone and poverty do not dwell together, because the stone thus opened conquers all things by its action. That is, the whole is Stronger than Strength itself original: "Forti' Fortitudine"; referring to the Stone's "superiority over every subtle thing". For no one [can compare] any other strength of this world to the power of this stone, because it has taken all powers into itself so that it may penetrate every subtle thing; that is, it conquers and, by conquering, enters into every thing that exists. And when it divides and dissolves another thing, it penetrates it. It follows:

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Just as the world was created. note note That is, the Philosopher Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary author of the Emerald Tablet gives an example regarding the portion of this stone, saying: "thus the world was created," because there was one stone which in the beginning was the whole world. And because there is in the world one fused mass—not a sign through itself, but by the right hand, command, or nod of God—He spoke into the mass so that it might be mutably varied into the four elements. And wisely, through the species, they were divided; this happened through the various species being opened from one another. Now, because they are divided by separation and from different "cells," they were from that point more clearly wonderful. That is, if the separation was so great, now they shrink from the open proportions; now those who, in the operation of our stone, look back upon the joining of those elements in these open miracles...

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note note Also this is the sign that it even note note thus seems, however, of this kind, etc. Because now the Philosopher has given the proportion of how the stone should be, he provides a second way concerning how there may be one stone in which the spirit is noted, like a son coming to this, his fatherland, from his own name the "fatherland" here likely refers to the original state of the matter or its final, perfected home.