OF MYSTERY

original: "Von heimligkeit"

—to learn is of the Garden of Mystery / which mystery is above all mysteries / of the knowledge knowledge: "wissenheit," here implying a deep, spiritual or alchemical insight / which is hidden in all things of Nature and of created beings. Therefore, take and receive the gifts of God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

God has had no beginning nor commencement / and shall also have no end. It is only natural to confess / and to believe / that God had no beginning nor commencement. For if God had a beginning / then that same beginning must have been a substance or an essence essence: "wesen," referring to the fundamental nature or "being" of a thing / which essence must also always have had a start / and that same start must then also have had a beginning / and so on / until at last a thing or essence must have been found / for which one could find no beginning. For as long as one can find the beginning of a thing / then that same thing is not without a beginning. And therefore must