Curious Physics

It is necessary to lead [the reader] away from the paths of error. The time of revelation has come, and the Lord no longer wishes to keep any treasures hidden from humanity.

I write as an unworthy tool of God regarding the clockwork-nature original: "Geschöpf-Uhrwesen," a metaphor suggesting the universe operates like a divinely designed machine or clock. and the origin of the creature, clearly and distinctly. That which may have been omitted will not be denied by Heaven to those who have grasped the rest and put it to good use. I go the way of all the world A common idiom for dying. and daily await my death, in faith in Jesus Christ. Because His grace is very powerful within me (unworthy as I am) for the knowledge of God and His creatures, He will not deny me eternal, imperishable treasures. Rather, with the outflow of the Spirit—as the only divine solvent Solvente: In alchemy, a substance used to dissolve others; here used spiritually to describe the Holy Spirit dissolving the bonds of sin.—He will thoroughly dissolve the bond of sins in which my poor soul has been locked until now and cannot sufficiently act. Through the holy tincture Tincture: An alchemical "medicine" or essence capable of transforming and perfecting a substance; here applied to the blood of Christ transforming the soul. of His blood, by means of the ingress original: "Ingreß," meaning entrance or penetration. of the Holy Spirit, He will tinge the soul toward perfection.

CHAPTER II.

Of Nature and Motion.

Because these words appear so frequently in books, I have

thought it good—according to the grace I have received and as I have found it through experience in the innermost ground of creatures—to briefly report something about them and to explain them. This is so that these manners of speaking may be understood and may no longer give cause for darkness and error because of their obscurity. Nature, therefore, is not what is commonly described as a quantum Quantum: Referring to the physical quantity or the "stuff" that makes up a substance., nor is it the cause of a quantum or being. Rather, it is a quality and property through which every being reveals itself. Even if a being reveals itself as bitter yesterday and sweet today—which is possible and can be demonstrated through works—one still recognizes in the knowledge of the quantum the identity of the being; it has merely altered itself through a different motion and opened itself into a different quality or nature. It is not that I despise the knowledge of nature or qualities through this opinion, or wish to hold them as useless, but only so that the person who hungers for wisdom does not linger in vain for a long time, seeking "nature" as if it were a physical being, and trying to grasp such a "quality" without the "quantity," with