Commentary on Genesis (Mysterium Magnum) (1682) - Page 12

Divine power into the visible image, for the understanding of the created image, wherein man’s science original: "Scienz" and recognition of the invisible and visible essence resides.

6. Thus, man has now received the authority from the invisible Word of God to speak it out again, so that he speaks out the hidden Word of Divine Science original: "Scienz" again into formations and distinctions, in the manner of temporal creatures. He shapes the same spiritual Word according to living and growing things, whereby the invisible wisdom of God is modeled with this formation into distinct shapes. As is evident before our eyes, the human understanding speaks out all powers in their qualities and gives names to all things according to each thing's quality, through which the hidden wisdom is recognized and understood in its power, and the hidden God becomes manifest with the visible things, for the play of Divine Power, so that the invisible might play with the visible and introduce itself therein into sensitivity and discoverability.

7. Just as the mind introduces itself with the body and through the body into senses and thoughts, whereby it works and makes itself sensitive: so too does the invisible world [work] through the visible and with the visible. We should not think that one cannot fathom the hidden Divine world, what it is, and what its working and essence are; for in the visible essence of the creation, we see a figure of the inner spiritual working of the power-world.

8. And we should think of God as nothing other than the most inward ground of all essences, and yet so that he cannot be grasped by any thing out of the thing's own power. But as the sun introduces itself with its light and power into the sensitive, living things and works with all things, and introduces itself therein into an essence: thus also is the Divine Word to be understood with the life of the creatures.

9. Since then this visible world is the spoken, formed Word according to God's love and wrath, as according to the Mysterium Magnum Great Mystery of the eternal spiritual nature, which spiritual world is hidden in the visible, and yet the human...