Theosophical Heart-Devotions Directed to the Highest Sole Jehovah

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You see, my heart, how everything, as it were, in which we live, move, and are sustained, descends from GOD, and communicates itself to all creatures for their increase, growth, and reproduction as a heavenly or astral salt-bodyoriginal German: "astralischer Salz-Leib." In the mystical chemistry of the period (inspired by Paracelsus and Jacob Böhme), "Salt" represents the principle of materiality or "body" that allows spirit to take form. "Astral" refers to the celestial influences of the stars.; it descends spiritually and becomes ever more physical the closer it comes to the center of the earth. Oh behold here, my soul, the beautiful chain of creatures, how it finally reaches us in its descent from GOD: GOD hears the heavens, the heavens hear the earth, the earth hears the grain, fodder, and oil, and grain, fodder, and oil hear Jezreel. Hosea 2:21, 22. original: "GOTT erhært den Himmel, der Himmel erhært die Erde, die Erde erhært Korn, Mast und Oel, und Korn, Mast und Oel erhært Jesrael." The author is citing a passage where "hearing" (or answering) represents the interconnected flow of divine provision through the hierarchy of nature.
But right here, at this descending chain, you find among the creatures that everything is in motion and nothing is at rest. Everything stands in a constant birth of anguishoriginal German: "Angst-Geburt." A term from Jacob Böhme’s theosophy describing the restless, contracting struggle of nature as it strives to bring forth life or light from darkness., and the creatures go from one transformation into another. What nourishes the whole world comes from GOD, goes from one hand into another in a steady descending and ascending movement, and will not stand still until it completes its circle, stepping back from the physical into the spiritual, and finally coming from the last hand back to GOD. Now, dear soul, you too must learn, following the example of all creatures, to enter upon such a noble course in the spirit. You indeed have a heavenly, even a divine origin, and in the world you will find less and less rest the further you are removed from your origin, and the more you have gone out from the spiritual and heavenly into the physical and earthly. You have departed from the light of GOD in the lamentable Fall into sin. But if you direct your course toward Christ in your desire of faith, you will come back into the heavenly Light-essence, wherein the immortal spirit can set its foot and throne for eternal strengthening through faith, like a pillar in the temple of GOD. Then you will dwell in the hut of peace and in magnificent