A Compendious yet Complete Philosophical Handbook

Almighty and eternal **God**, whose beginning has no end, and whose wisdom has been from the beginning and originates from eternity, has, from His inscrutable counsel, created heaven and earth and everything contained therein, visible and invisible, from nothing—that is, from outgoing power or through the single word **Fiat** original Latin: "Let it be done.". **Ps. 33, 6.** In the original text stands the word **Schamajim** original Hebrew: שמים (shamayim), which according to the opinion of the oldest Rabbis is a compound noun original: "nomen compositum" put together from **Esh** original Hebrew: אש (esh), meaning fire and **Mayim** original Hebrew: מים (mayim), meaning water, meaning **Fire and Water**; and although this appears to be a wonderful and strange mixture, it is nonetheless an eternal truth, so much so that no creature may be kept alive without this **fiery** △-ige **water** ▽ or **watery** ▽-ige **fire** △. The triangles are alchemical symbols: the upward-pointing triangle (△) represents Fire, and the downward-pointing triangle (▽) represents Water. The author argues that all life consists of a balance between these two opposing elements. Because it is the **Principle of principles** original Latin: "Principium principiorum" or the **Element of elements** original Latin: "Elementum Elementorum". But because fire △ cannot exist without air A and water ▽ cannot exist without earth ⊖ The symbol 'A' refers to Air (Aer), and the circle with a cross (⊖) is the alchemical symbol for Earth., but rather where one is, the other must also be; thus it is easy to conclude that when God spoke: "Let it be manifested" original German: "geurständet," an archaic term meaning to arise or take form., or "Let there be an essence out of nothing or the invisible," the original and mixed **Chaos** of the world immediately came into being. For if one were to say that everything was created from nothing, and yet God was already everything before, it would follow that in