Curious Physics

...shone into the Primordial Slime World-Slime; original: Welt-Schleim; the raw, chaotic material of the universe before organization and began the work of Creation. The The matter of the world. original: Materia mundi matter of this world had lost its light with the fall of the Devil, its former king, through which the LORD (in Lucifer before his fall) had shone through, worked upon, and maintained that matter, or Lucifer's glorious kingdom, in condemnation; it was therefore Darkness. nothing but darkness down into the abyss. The Divine Breath, however, placed itself round about the lump of the Primordial Slime, sent forth from itself a new light according to His gracious will, and breathed into that light (as its vehicle) into the movements made disorderly by Lucifer—indeed, into the corrupted and dark being of a Primordial Slime. Whereupon, as if through a brooding, after receiving the new light, the Primordial Slime was warmed by the movement of the light within the Salt of the primordial slime. Salt of the Primordial Slime, and began to expand; and so Air, Water, and Earth came to be, as was clearly reported to some extent in the Introduction original: Introitu and the Concentrated Center of Nature original: Centro naturæ concentrato. There is, therefore, no motion except through the light, Motion through Light. original: Motus per Lucem which hangs in, on, and out of the Word of the Lord. But Air, Water, and Earth, along with all things brought

forth from them, could not take the light into themselves or grasp it because of its subtle and penetrating essence, unless He [God] had thickened some parts of the light through the attractive power of the Slime-Salt, The attractive slime of the salt. and had made of it a body for the light, which is called Spirit, Spirit. original: Spiritus and is received from the Air; the Air then afterward communicates it to the Water, the Water to the Earth, and these three communicate it abundantly to all other creatures. Nevertheless, this light can be received as a spirit by Everything that GOD created from the primordial slime, I call material, because from GOD it has its length, breadth, and surface; the words Spirit and Soul, however, I use only for distinction or respectively. no being except the Air alone; the others receive it as a salt or within the salt. In the two chapters on Spirit and Fire, I intend, by God's help, to say more that will serve for a better understanding of the Light. This present Light cannot bear a higher interpretation. Moreover, many learned sows A reference to the biblical "casting pearls before swine," suggesting that those who are overly academic but lack spiritual insight would disrespect these secrets. would take offense at these pearls if I presented them to the world in their full radiance.

CHAPTER IV.

Of the

Universal Spirit of the World.

Spirit. The word Spirit is distinguished—