A horizontal row of six decorative fleur-de-lis printer's ornaments, each separated by a small dot.

HANDBOOK

OF PHYSICS

RESTORED

CANON

I.

God.

God is the eternal Being Ens æternum: a philosophical term for a being that exists by its own nature, without beginning or end, infinite unity, and the fundamental principle of all things; whose Essence is immeasurable light: His Power is omnipotence: His Will is perfect goodness: His mere command Nutus: literally a "nod," signifying that God's simplest intent or gesture is an absolute and finished action is a completed work. To one desiring more than this, there remain only wonder, silence, and the deepest abyss of glory. The author suggests that God's true nature is ultimately beyond human description, leading to a state of "holy silence" or "a-pophasis."

The World.

2. Most of the Sages Sapientum: refers to the great philosophers of antiquity, likely including both the Greeks and the "Hermetic" or mystical traditions have held that the World was described from eternity in its Archetype Archetypus: the original divine model or "blueprint" of the universe existing in the mind of God before physical creation: however, the Archetype itself, which is entirely light, before the creation of the Universe, [contained] within itself...