The First Chapter.

-tue Continuing from "vir-" on the previous page, completing the word "virtue" or "power" (German: Tugend).. But as soon as the active, living spirit arrived, it proved its living power and ability through supernatural wonder; and so, in every thing, the natural and the supernatural are coupled as one and bound together in their dwelling, so that each may be complete. For of all things of the whole world that were created, some are purely supernatural—namely those which concern matters of the soul and spirit—while others are both natural and supernatural at once, such as those concerning the elements and the firmament; likewise the minerals original: Mineralia, vegetables original: Vegetabilia, and animals original: Animalia. This is recognized and found to be true when these are separated from one another: when the soul departs from the body, and the spirit leaves its soul, leaving the corpse behind as an empty dwelling.

And you should now also further understand and take note that the great and small world The "great world" refers to the Macrocosm (the universe/cosmos), and the "small world" refers to the Microcosm (the human being), which was believed to reflect the structure of the universe. were made from one first matter original: prima materia; the formless, original substance from which alchemists believed all things were created., formed and created by an immeasurable, almighty Being, at that time in the