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to be in the right, and not be or be considered people who are blind. But since the birth of the flesh serves the god of this world original: "Gott dieser Welt." A reference to 2 Corinthians 4:4, often interpreted in mystical and alchemical contexts as the material or demonic influence that blinds the unregenerate soul to higher realities. and walks according to his law, gospel, and teaching, and exerts itself to the utmost to live according to the literal understanding for this, their worldly god, and to become pleasing to him; so this very thing prevents one from understanding anything of those things which are of the Spirit of GOD, that is, of the new birth, of the spirit, and of the new creature.
But some might answer us, as the Pharisees answered the Lord Christ: "Are we then also blind? Do we not have baptism and the Lord's Supper, go to church, and profess the Christian religion, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and clothe ourselves with His fully valid sacrifice of bitter suffering and death, His atonement and righteousness? Should this then not be enough of a new birth for us, since we are accepted as children of GOD?"
But that which the Savior said to Nicodemus A Pharisee mentioned in the Gospel of John who questioned Jesus about the necessity of being "born again." In Fictuld’s view, this spiritual rebirth is a literal prerequisite for the alchemical "Great Work." in John 3:3 serves as your answer: Truly, tru-