Preface.

opposition / and we cling to the old birth / therefore
we are also able to do little. This rebirth in
Christ should be well considered / as Theophrastus Theophrastus refers to Paracelsus (1493–1541), the famous Swiss-German physician and alchemist whose full name was Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim.
diligently describes it / for through it alone
must we enter into the Kingdom of Heaven / through death /
which to Nature is a loathsome / vile / and ter-
rifying thing / once man has reached his goal.
At that time, the separation of those parts occurs /
from which man was made / and every
part will be buried in its own / thus: The Elemental Body Elemental body: In Paracelsian philosophy, the physical body composed of the four elements (earth, water, air, fire). It returns to the earth upon death.
is laid into the earth / and is thereby consumed by time /
the Sidereal body Sidereal body: Also called the "astral body." Paracelsus believed this was a bridge between the physical body and the soul, made of "star-stuff." or spirit remains on earth in the air /
in the places where the deceased walked / and will
likewise in its own time be consumed by the stars / from
whence it came / in the meantime it wanders
to and fro / it is dead / it has no more senses / only
movement / it is this / which at times lets itself be
seen / during the man's life / just as that same man
was accustomed to walk / appearing like a figure of a man
in a mirror / So it also appears at times
after a man's death / from which much error
has arisen here among us / that some have thought /
it was a specter / and an evil spirit / Some that it was
the soul / and desired help / from which it followed / that these
spirits have been conjured / which, however, can
answer nothing / because they are dead / and
have neither sense nor reason. But the Devil
has begun to possess them / and to give answers /
whereby he confirms the error of superstition /
to the great detriment / of mankind / as such
Theophrastus explains sufficiently in his Astronomy original: "Astronomey"; in this context, it refers to Paracelsus's work on the relationship between the stars (the macrocosm) and the human sidereal body (the microcosm)..
Thus the Sidereal spirit is in time
consumed-