Theosophical Hall of Wonders

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I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things. Thus, it is God's presence that causes all things—existence, life, being, movement, preservation, and stability—as the highly enlightened instrument original: "Rüstzeug," a term used to describe a person as a vessel or tool of God, frequently applied to the Apostle Paul. Paul assures us here when he says: That God—by what means?—through Yah original: "יה," a shortened form of the divine name Yahweh. Jesus (Genesis 1:1), His eternal, spoken, self-existing selbständiges In this theological context, this refers to Christ's nature as having existence within himself, rather than being a created or dependent being. Word of Life (1 John 1:1), through whom the whole world was made; who indeed is God, yet afterwards became flesh (John 1:13, 14), and is called the only-begotten (John 1:18) and beloved Son of God (Matthew 3:17), the Life that is eternal (1 John 1:2), which was with the Father and is now also self-existing within Himself (John 5:26), the Light of the World and of Life (John 12:46, Chapter 8:12), unceasingly—for otherwise there would be no preservation of the creatures which we have before our eyes—gives life to (animates, moves, preserves, confirms) all things. These things may be heavenly, spiritual, angels, spirits, souls, or bodily, earthly, or natural; they may be called minerals original: "mineralia", ores, stones, metal, crystal, etc.