Preface.

...nations: And they make them in an elemental way The author uses "elemental" (elementisch) to describe things belonging only to the physical world of the four elements, which he views as a superficial or "outer" form of religion lacking true spiritual life. into their worship services, even though they have not the slightest vision or feeling of the Spirit of the Lord, who works in the God-fearing soul for the renewal of life. And so they wish to comfort their inner soul with rational imagination original: "vernünfftigen Einbildung"; referring to human logic or mental constructs that are not inspired by divine revelation. (outside of the holy essence of God). This is a lamentable blindness to the enlightened person, that the noble human essence original: "Wesen"; this term refers to the fundamental nature or "being" of a person. has surrendered itself to this through the quality of the flesh in blindness! And it is so far estranged from the essential light of God that it (I say again) neither knows nor feels in the soul that there is a heavenly, essential God who created heaven and earth, soul and body, and who still reigns, or at least should reign.

3. Therefore, the essential Spirit of Christ now exhorts humanity to wake up from the earthly darkness, in which no light for the life of God can be found: and to perceive the heavenly light within their human essence (in order to live therein) in the spirit of the single-essential life original: "Einwesigen Lebens"; a term used to describe the unified, undivided nature of God's existence.; and this according to the working and teaching of God, as the following is testified from the life of God.

4. For the time is now fulfilled that God will transfigure original: "verklären"; to make glorious, manifest, or clearly visible. His holy heavenly essence, in the life of Christ, into a judgment and justice over the human essence, to fulfill His prophecies in the essential life, according to the perfect, true essence of God: and this through His spiritual working in the soul: In the same way He, through