A Compendious yet Complete Philosophical Handbook

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...be. In the divine Ungrunde original: "Ungrunde." A term famously used by the mystic Jakob Böhme to describe the absolute, groundless "abyss" or primordial depth of God before creation. there could not have been a "Nothing," which is impossible, because GOD essentially filled everything. How then could that have been "nothing," from which everything that exists was afterwards created and separated? Ps. 33, 6. Especially and primarily the Earth; for Moses continues immediately and says: Veeth haaretz original Hebrew: ואת הארץ, meaning "and the earth." and the Earth, from which finally the four lower elements original Latin: "4. Elementa inferiora"—the physical elements of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. and, consequently, everything that is in the world, emerged and was created. Finally, however, came forth Man, the most noble and perfect creature, the Quintessence The "Fifth Essence," considered by alchemists to be the purest, most spiritualized form of matter that binds the other four elements together. and the image of GOD, in whom GOD Himself took His greatest delight and joy, as the only true gathering of the entire universe original Latin: "universi", whose soul, after GOD, is the highest thing in heaven and on earth. Thus, there is no doubt that GOD, the wellspring of all grace and mercy, created man from the noblest, pure, eternal Composito A "composition" or "compound." The author argues here that Adam was made of a refined, celestial substance rather than literal mud. and not from a common red clay, as many want to insist upon by the literal letter of the text. Indeed, He must also have imparted to him the highest Philosophical Wisdom, as the greatest treasure of the whole world, because indeed everything was created mostly for the benefit of Man.