Secrets of Creation

of Creation.

original: "der Schöpffung"

—of necessity be an essence essence: "wesen," referring here to a fundamental state of being or existence / from which one can find no beginning. So must evermore that same last thing which one has found / be without beginning and start. An essence / a substance / without beginning and start / and that same substance must thereafter have been the first / from which all other things have come. Therefore it is natural to believe / that God has had no beginning / since no beginning nor start is found outside of God The text argues that because God is the source of all things, nothing could have existed before Him to provide a "beginning.". And so it is natural to confess / that he also can take no end. For from whatever essence or substance a thing has a beginning / through that same essence it may be destroyed again. And therefore / as God has had no beginning / or start from any essence or substance / he can also take no end through any essence / nor from any substance. And so God has been eternal / without beginning / for in God no start or beginning is found / therefore shall he also remain eternal / And so

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