Preface.

live naturally, and a spiritual, invisible life from the invisible; that is the Sidereal Body The "astral" or "star-led" body in Paracelsian philosophy, which connects man to the heavens, which comes from the stars. And although this Massa The "massa" refers to the primordial "clump" or raw material of creation was not flesh and blood, yet Man received his flesh and blood solely from it. But that the Holy Spirit called this mass Limum terrae Latin: "the slime or mud of the earth" and not Coelorum Latin: "of the heavens", even though it was also taken from the Heavens, happened for this reason (as Theophrastus Paracelsus says): because the Earth is the foundation of all creatures, and the Center into which all creatures go. From this, Adam was to be formed in the image of God; but what this image of God truly was, though much has been written of it, no one can know except God Himself.

However, because God made Man according to His image, He wished to have him eternally; therefore He made him not only from the fifth essence The "quintessence," the purest and most potent part of a substance of perishable creatures, but also out of the creation of the spirit. For there had to be something in man that was also invisible and like unto God, for the sake of which the image was made; not so that he would be a beast, but a Man, and live according to that same image in the will of God, and not according to the will of flesh and blood, for the sake of the eternal—which is why God does and reveals so much to man.

But that which was to be like God is the Soul, which makes Man complete; not from the Limo The earthly mud, but from God Himself. For Moses says that God breathed a living breath into the nostrils of the form of Adam, and so Adam became a living soul. Now, the birth of the Soul is thus: when a child is conceived in the flesh, that is, born in the seed, in that same fleshly conception a Word goes out from God, which gives the flesh its soul, which makes the Man eternal.