Hermes Trismegistus's True Ancient Way of Nature

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must serve the preservation of life. As long as the physical dwelling-house of the soul and the spirit is capable of accepting this light and allowing it to work within itself, so long will the animal life original: animalische Leben; referring to the life-force of the "anima" or soul that animates a body be maintained. Likewise, Julius Sperber A prominent German Rosicrucian and alchemical author, c. 1540–1616 writes in his short instruction on the true knowledge of the triune God and all of Nature, page 19: "This light is the Fire original: △; alchemical symbol for Fire life of all creatures of the whole world, through which they are essentially ensouled and actuated or moved to grow and be multiplied." Thus, this light is also the universal soul of the world or universal nature, which is the very same stream that was led out of Eden—that is, into the whole world.

Moses also tells us of this light in his first book, chapter 1, how God separated Heaven and Water original: 🜄; alchemical symbol for Water, light and darkness from the great Chaos or Earth original: 🜃; alchemical symbol for Earth, and how from Water and Spirit the Sun original: ☉; alchemical symbol for the Sun or Gold is born. The Sun is now a good thing, the most glorious among all visible beings, the seed and the grain of the whole world. But our Sun within the Fire is no Sun, but only a spirit, and is first born into a Sun within the Water.

The Sun is the greatest treasure and wealth of the world, the Middle-being original: M i t t e l-Wesen; a central or mediating substance and the beginning and end of all things. This is the spirit which, while it dwells in the Fire, also brings to life all seeds upon the Water, the insects not excluded; he is