The First Chapter.

...gic original: "Magiam", which is done without harm to the soul.

As for visions, sights, and other such things—since these frequently happened to the saints of God—they rightfully remain and are counted among those things which are unnatural The author uses "unnatural" (vnnatürlich) here to mean "beyond the ordinary course of nature" or "extraordinary," rather than something monstrous or evil.. For everything that man contemplates and must grasp through the inner sense is supernatural. In contrast, everything that man can touch, see, and grasp is natural.

Thirdly, the third part of natural and supernatural things consists in medicine or remedy, regarding the virtue and power of each thing. This medicine of every substance must first be driven out from a visible, spiritual, natural body and brought into a spiritual, improved, supernatural effect. This is done so that the spirit—which was initially poured into and granted to the body to give it life—may be released and can penetrate to work like a spiritual being and a spiritual fire original: "spiritualisch Feuer". In alchemy, this refers to the active, energetic principle of a substance that has been purified or "exalted.". When such a fire is given its air-holes The author uses the metaphor of "Lufftlöcher" (vents or air-holes) to describe how the medicinal spirit, once freed from its dense physical "shell," can burn and act freely without being smothered or hindered. to burn, it can meet no hindrance.

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