Reflections on Esaias Stiefel's Booklet: On the Threefold State of Man and His New Birth

23. When one wants to satisfy the human mind / that it may enter into eternal rest / one must show it the root of the tree / from which spirit and flesh has its origin. One must show and open to it the Centrum center of the eternal / and then also of the initial nature / that it may grasp the earthly and also the Heavenly Mysterium mystery: Then the eternal beginning and the eternal end is entirely One / therein the spirit of the soul lays itself into rest / for it sees the wheel entirely.

24. With this description, the foolish corrupted external nature is very poorly content / for a thing is demanded of it / which it cannot do: The Author says / it should entirely die off / so that Christus Christ alone may live in the flesh / that it will not do / but hopes for the Renovation renewal / which it indeed puts on as a garment / but not essentialisch essentially in the power: But as the fire glows through the stone / thus often the rays of the H. Spirit / from the other Principio principle / from the New man / go through the Old: and as the iron in the glow and outside the glow is at once iron as the other / thus also is the earthly man.

25. He must indeed become the servant of the inner man / when the new one passes through him with his glowing Divine fire / he also does it gladly / as long as the glow of fire shines through him / but he is not capable of transforming himself into the inner kingdom: For the external flesh and blood shall not inherit the kingdom of heaven / says Christus Christ: It shall and must decay / as a husk of the essence of the sown grain in the field.

26. You have / beloved Gentlemen / the foundation of this mystery / in my book on the Incarnation of Christi Christ / and in the book on the Threefold Life / quite extensively / how man stands in a Threefold Life: as according to the soul / in the eternal Father's nature / and in the root of the dark world / in the Centro center of the eternal origin / as in the spirit of the eternal Father.

27. Secondly / how the right true image and likeness of God / out of the soul / as out of the dying in the soul's Magischen magical spirit-fire / grows green in another Principio principle or other world / and becomes free from nature / also from dying / torment and pain / like GOD himself: And that the true image of God does not live in the external world's government / also does not make do with the external food and drink / but eats of Divine Essence / as of God's bread / of Christi Christ's flesh and blood / so that Christus Christ is in it / and it