Hermes Trismegistus's True Ancient Way of Nature

Life and death is. Death is the putrefaction the alchemical process of decay or fermentation necessary for transformation, the separation of the evil from the good, of the pure from the impure; whereby the new body and the Resurrection Symbol for Resurrectio (Resurrection) or Regina (Queen) is born again to life. For just as a stalk grows from a seed; so a new body emerges from the old body through decay, according to the property and kind of each.

Man, the microcosm original Latin: minor Mundus; literally "lesser world", is the sum and extract of the macrocosm original Latin: majoris Mundi; literally "greater world" or the universe. Within the microcosm original Latin: minore Mundo lies the great arcanum of the macrocosm original Latin: Arcanum Macrocosmi; a deep secret or mystery of the universe, the great universal secret; only separate the evil from the good, you have the separator within you, seek only in yourself.

The almighty God, Creator of Heaven and the Earth Symbol for Earth/Erde ▽, dwells and works

and the Earth is the womb or, as it were, the workshop of all others, from which and within which they work.

Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above from the Father of Lights. This light, (writes Master I. L. ab Indagine Joannes Leonardus ab Indagine, a 17th-century author on chemistry and natural philosophy in his Chemico-Physical Leisure Hours p. 213) which streams out from the Sun, dwells in the Ether original: Æther; the subtle substance once believed to fill the upper regions of space, which is the vehicle original Latin: Vehiculum of natural light, through which light and life are infused into us, and the vital spirits for the preserv—