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MYSTERIO MAGNO,

Concerning the Revelation of the Divine

Word / through the three Principia

of the Divine Being.

The 1st Chapter.

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If we wish to understand the new birth: what it is / and how it happens: Then we must first know / what man is / and how he is the image of GOD / and what the Divine indwelling is; also what the revealed GOD is / of whom man is an image.

2. When I consider: what GOD is / I say: He is the One against the creature / as an eternal nothing / He has neither ground / beginning nor place; and possesses nothing / but only Himself: He is the will of the Ungrund abyss or ungrounded-ground / He is in Himself only One: He needs neither space nor place: He begets Himself from eternity to eternity within Himself: He is not equal or similar to any thing / and has no particular place where He dwells: The eternal Weißheit Wisdom or understanding is His dwelling: He is the will of the Wisdom / the Wisdom is His revelation.

3. In this eternal begetting, three things are to be understood by us: As 1. An eternal will. 2. An eternal mind of the will. 3. The outflow from the will and mind / which is a spirit of the will and the mind.