Commentary on Genesis (Mysterium Magnum)

more with the 4 elements through the spirit of desire / (as of the stars) coagulated / and leads into such a weaving and life / according to the manner and way as the eternal speaking Word makes a mystery (which is spiritual) in itself / which mystery I call the Centrum of eternal nature the center of eternal nature / where the eternally speaking Word leads itself into a begetting / and also makes such a spiritual world within itself / as we are a material one in the spoken Word.

8. For I say / the inner world is the heaven in which GOD dwells / and the outer world is spoken out of the inner / and has only a different beginning than the inner / but yet out of the inner. It is spoken out of the inner / (through movement of the eternally speaking Word) / and set into a beginning and end.

9. And the inner world stands in the eternal speaking Word: The eternal Word has spoken it as a great mystery from eternity out of its power / color and virtue / (through the Wisdom) into a being: Which being is also only as a breathing-out of the Word in the Wisdom / which has its re-grasping (for begetting) in itself / and with the grasping also coagulates / and leads itself into formations / according to the manner of the begetting of the eternal Word. How the powers / colors and virtues / beget themselves in the Word (through the Wisdom) / or as I would like to say / out of the Wisdom in the Word.

10. Therefore nothing is near or far before GOD / one world is in the other / and they are all only the one: But one is spiritual / the other is bodily / just as body and soul are in one another / and also time and eternity are only one thing / but in different beginnings. The spiritual world in the inside has an eternal beginning / and the outer a temporal one / each has its birth in itself / but the eternally speaking Word rules through everything / and yet can neither be grasped nor seized by the spiritual nor the outer world / so that it would stand still / but it works from eternity to eternity / and its working is grasped. For it is the formed Word / and the working is its life / and intangible / for it is outside of all being / only bare / as an understanding or a power that leads itself into being.

11. In the inner spiritual world the Word grasps itself into a spiritual being / as a single element in which its 4 lie hidden therein. As however GOD / as the Word / has the same