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Let the earth bring forth grass and herbs that seed themselves, and?
fruitful trees, so that each might bear fruit after its kind.
GOD spoke: Let the water be moved with swarming and living?
creatures, and with birds that fly above the earth beneath the hea-
vens: GOD spoke: Let there be lights in the firmament original: "Beste," likely "Feste," meaning the fixed expanse of the sky of hea-
ven, which shall separate day and night, etc. GOD blessed them, and?
spoke to them: Be fruitful and multiply, etc. GOD spoke:?
Let the waters under the heaven be gathered into special places.
Therefore, this propagation of the creation and the work?-
ing of the creatures exists, is, and remains solely in the power of the Word of GOD.
This can be proven not only from the cited first and 2nd?
chapters of the First Book of Moses Genesis, but also from the 3rd?
[psalm] of the Psalter, the Wisdom of Solomon, indeed from the entire Holy Bi-
ble of the Old and New Testaments. In?
Psalm 33, the Prophet says: By the word of the
LORD were the heavens made, and all their host by the breath of his?
mouth: He held the waters of the sea together as in a?
wineskin, and laid up the deep in secret: For when He speaks,?
it is done; when He commands, it stands fast. Therefore, from this,?
certain Theosophers A term for mystical philosophers who seek direct knowledge of the divine have rightly concluded that the true Philoso-
phy The text likely intended "Philosophische Wahrheit" or "Philosophy" is nothing new, but rather as Adam received it after his fall, and Mo-
ses and Salomon practiced it; thus they should not doubt much, or refute?
other opinions, but because the Truth is unified, concise, and
always consistent with itself—especially agreeing with Jesus in every part original Latin: "ex omni parte"
and in all its members—and just as He is the Father's image,
so she [Wisdom] is his likeness original: "Contrafayt," meaning a portrait or exact replica: So it should not be said: this is true through phi-
losophy, but false through theology. original Latin: "hoc per Philosophiam verum est, sed per Theologiam falsum"
Of these two streams of Wisdom—the eternal and?
uncreated, and the natural—Scripture makes distinct mention throughout,?
as in them alone GOD may be recognized, lauded, honored, and praised: And indeed, regarding the first part,
there is no doubt that no one knows the Father except the Son,?
and he to whom He wishes to reveal it: Regarding the other, however, it is in the Epistle?