Antroposophia theomagica, das ist, eine Rede von der Natur des Menschen

The intervening heavens are its living spiritual waters, and the stars are its sensitive fire of the soul. Here you might perhaps say that this is a "new" philosophy original: "Welt-Weißheit"; literally "world-wisdom" and that Aristotle’s is an "old" one. It is indeed old, but in the same sense as the Roman religion A common Reformation-era critique suggesting that antiquity does not equate to truth, and that Roman Catholicism was a corruption of an older, purer faith. It is not the original truth of Creation, nor the true theosophy divine wisdom or mystical insight into the nature of God and the universe of the Hebrews and Egyptians. Instead, it is an unnatural monstrosity and the spat-out filth of Aristotle, which his followers diligently lick up and devour.

I do not present you with a loud, shouting opposition to their patron, but rather a firm expression of those principles found in nature, about which I can say what Moses spoke concerning the word "LET THERE BE!" original: "ES WERDE"; the divine command of creation from Genesis. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth on the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens (Genesis 2:4). These are things beyond our understanding—perceptible truths that exist in reality, and not merely the wandering whims original: "Grillen"; literally "crickets," but used idiomatically to mean odd fancies or "bees in one's bonnet" of the brain. Nor do I intend my labor to be a trap to take you captive...