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...in which the treasure of the entire natural world was mixed into one lump/
and lay: that was the eternal water, which has neither beginning nor end; it
was quite wisely separated by the hovering Spirit of God, the coarse from the
subtle, the light from the darkness, and each was ordained to its place
quite wisely: there it remained until the end in its proper, orderly,
natural effect, and everything must perform its natural office Officium naturale
for the benefit of man and for the glory of his Creator.
When Adam was thus created—quite beautiful, noble, and eternally
adorned with the highest jewel of the soul—God also planted for him
from the beginning, even before the earth existed, a beautiful pleasure
garden, Paradise, in Eden, toward the East. He took the human being
out of the world and placed him in Paradise, and not in Heaven; this
was so that, if man should indeed fall, no unrest would arise in Heaven.
For God did not want any further unrest to arise in Heaven after the
expulsion of Lucifer. God cast one out of Heaven, and no more; for
He did not cast man out of Heaven, but rather out of Paradise back
into the world from which he was made.
Since God had well-separated all things on the seventh day and
rested from all His creatures, creating nothing further but rather
letting created nature work of its own accord, and since Adam was
intended to replace and fulfill the number of the fallen angels, God
gave Adam human nature and seed. This nature He finally established
in the Limbus Limbo The "edge" or refined extract of all matter,
and created for him a womb Matricem out of his own body, into
which he should cast the seed. God would have had enough of the
matter of the Limbus Materiæ Limbi to have formed Eve from it
as well. But so that Adam might cling to his wife with all the more
devotion or with greater, more fervent love, He created her out of
his own body, so that they both might harmonize in love and unity
toward one another, like a magnet and iron, and neither could
leave the other because they were of one body. Because God now
creates no more humans directly, but has assigned that same
office Officium to Adam along with all the necessary
tools, Adam must perform such an office according to the order
of nature. When he wishes to procreate generiren a
human being, he must take the Limbus of the seeds Limbum Spermatum
and cast it into the microcosm Microcolmiam Referring to the human body as a world in miniature
and the womb Matricem, so that the seed therein—through
the Spirit of God which hovers within the mother—is produced into
its final matter Materiam and formed as is proper
for a human being.
And just as God, from His throne Solio or chair, does
not entirely...