Book of Truth and the Philosophers — 1664 German MS

6 O how great and mighty are yet
Your works! You have created everything with
wisdom. From this we have to understand
that all creatures are little books
and letters in which
God's being is, which we fundamentally
recognize in the living Creator in His trinity.
That is, we should [do so] modestly, not
improperly or foolishly. For now the man
who thus believes in God's power and
understands everything to be in everything, as
the Master, the eternal wisdom,
power, and word of God then explains
Himself, and describes or preaches such.
Such a true believer praises God,
who has regard and honor
for His living [Word]. But the poor
in spirit and in reason are then
far from God, who shows in the comforting—

We note the words still from these studies of the truth.

From this testimony the
true Christians draw the foundation for
philosophy from the word of the Lord original: "verbum Domini", and this
namely not from the idolatrous heathen
philosophy, which is of ignorance
of God. And from this we can learn
how the creations of Heaven and Earth
are the word of God, from the
simple yet wise high [source].
It is not from Plato's or
Aristotle's. For no one can teach
anything truly of the heavenly except he
who comes from Heaven, that is Christ,
who is the light of the world, who also
illuminates the inner man, the poor fishermen, and the
unexperienced people, and witnesses
of His Magnalia great works
and His eternal light.
Through free and [determined] arrows
to preach the same and to write the
true spirit, that is the foundation
of understanding. For the unbelievers
build upon the heathen [ways]. From the Light on—