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The text on this page appears as a mirrored image in the original manuscript due to show-through from the reverse side.
The paper shows heavy staining and "foxing"—the small brown spots often found on old documents—along with faint, reversed text caused by ink bleeding through from the title page on the other side of the leaf.
The Spirit-Man original: "l'Homme-Esprit": This is the central concept of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin’s philosophy. It refers to the "reintegrated" human being who, having recovered their divine origins, acts as a necessary mediator or minister to reconcile the natural world with the Divine.