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The Foundation /

Which fundamentally illuminates two opposing essences within the heart of humanity.

Chapter One.

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Since now, in this final stretch of time, many or various different spirits (I mean spirits) are found within the heart of humanity through the one essential Spirit of Christ (I say: through the one-essence original: "einwesigen"; this refers to the theological concept of "consubstantiality," meaning the Spirit shares the same singular essence or "being" as God. Spirit and Light of Christ), the inward soul is now exhorted through grace—by that same essential Spirit and Light of Christ—that it should, in these perilous times, allow its blind eyes and deafened ears to be opened by the resonance and voice of the spiritual and essential Christ-God. This is so that the soul may see, hear, and perceive or feel who is speaking within it and leading the government over it; whether it be the holy essence Wesen: a central term in German mysticism referring to the true, inner "being" or "substance" of a thing of God, or earthly reason through the nature of the devil.

2. And from this sight and hearing, the soul will feel or recognize from whom it receives its delight original: "Lust"; in this context, it refers to an inner inclination, pleasure, or desire that moves the soul. and doctrine. For the soul or humanity cannot exist without delight or doctrine; it receives them either from God or from the devil. Which delight and doctrine it shall recognize by their fruits.

3. For because the desires and doctrines are different, so also are the fruits that they bear or bring forth different. As the