Preface

Herein, at the end, he says openly that the Earth which we humans bear must come into the heavens; this Earth possesses a different form and quality than the earth of the four elements The author distinguishes between the "corruptible" earth of the physical world and a "glorified" or spiritualized version of matter.. Thereafter, the soul shall come to the body; they rejoice with one another and they remain together. Because the Spirit original: "Spiritus" is the goal, the body original: "Corpus" is thereby clarified term: clarified (the process of making a substance pure, transparent, or enlightened, often used in both alchemy and theology), and after the Last Judgment, a different being shall then emerge. For just as God took the flesh of Adam from the best substance of the limbus original: "limbi"; referring here to the "Limbus Terrae" or the primordial "extract" of the world from which man was formed, so shall Christ on the Last Judgment awaken and give a new flesh out of our decayed flesh. Thus, the dispute is not whether our flesh shall arise on the Last Judgment—