ANTHROPOSOPHIA

Theomagica

The title translates to "The Wisdom of Man and Divine Magic."

When I explored this truth—that man, according to his origin, was a branch original: "Zwey," an archaic spelling of "Zweig," meaning branch or sprout planted in God, and that consequently there must be a perpetual flow from the trunk to the peak—his corruptions saddened me greatly. I was horrified that his fruits did not correspond with his root.

But when I learned that he had tasted from another tree, my amazement immediately ceased. I then made it my primary concern to lead him back to his original simplicity and to separate from him all mixtures of good and evil.

However, through his Fall, his noblest parts were so shattered that his soul was left with no knowledge of how to obtain a cure for him—especially since punishment for his committed transgression followed closely at his heels.

Everything has been veiled, and forgetfulness, the mother of ignorance, has entered. original Latin: "Velata sunt omnia intravitque oblivio mater ignorantiæ."

Cornelius Agrippa, On the Vanity of the Sciences

This death did not end with his body. Instead, after uniting itself with his nature, it used his descendants as its channel; these imperfections were its... The sentence continues on the next page.