Preface.

-ly I say to you, unless someone is born from above, he cannot see the Kingdom of GOD. Likewise, truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born of water and Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of GOD. Christ testifies to this with a double oath when He says, "Truly, truly," as if He wanted to say: it is certainly so, therefore take good heed. Now I would also like to ask: if you believe that you are not blind, but are true children of GOD, then when did this same rebirth German: "Wiedergeburt." In alchemical theology, this refers to both the spiritual salvation of the soul and the internal transformation necessary to understand the secrets of nature. take place within you? And if it has been accomplished in you, why then do you still live in the old birth, in the old Adam A term for the fallen, unrefined state of humanity. In alchemy, the "old Adam" must be purified to reach a state of perfection., and in sinful desires and works? For it follows from your way of life that you know nothing of the new birth, or else have made yourselves incapable of it. And therefore, because your works are done according to the outer man, they are works of darkness which have no fellowship with the light; for this reason, you are also blind. This blindness, however, must through