Discourse on Curious Matters

Note. Here, no external, so-called enthusiastic original: Enthusiastische—referring to radical religious movements or "enthusiasts" who claimed direct, often flamboyant, external visions from spirits manifestation of spirits is meant; but rather the internal sensation of that Light which enlightens all people, and which is the life of all people in the Center of the Soul original: Centro der Seelen. Within this, all knowledge original: Erkäntnüs lies, as if in a concentrated center original: Centro concentrato, revealed before the eyes of all who are worthy.

The natural man is so entangled with darkness that his perverted understanding does not even recognize his own inner life, and therefore he is much less fit to grasp the deep-founded, wonderful wisdom. Nevertheless, it should not be said that God would deny wisdom to anyone; for He created man for this purpose: that the divine glory should be recognized by him. This can happen in no way without the Light of Wisdom, which opens itself in all eternal and natural workings.

Now, since the noble human is God’s image and an intellectual creature original: intellectualische Creatur—meaning a being endowed with the capacity for rational and spiritual perception, his rational nature certainly requires him to recognize a true wisdom, or at the very least to—