Book of Truth and the Philosophers — 1664 German MS

6 in left margin. We know now from the Psalmist original: "psalmiſter" that the earth is filled with this Word, which sustains heaven and earth. As is said in John, we are the center of God. No creature is so small that it is not full of God, and none so large that it could reach beyond His office. What we say to those who recognize this: He shall not be eternally in the creature, neither in the mineral, vegetable, nor animal side. For the eternal state is entirely essential in all things and in all places. From this, man and all things live, like the kernel in the apple. Though heaven and earth are far, it gives good things in eternity. Therefore Solomon in all his glory did not surpass the little flower. He who understands the law of nature also understands God. That was the happiness in this.

He finds the secret essence from the third chapter of John. Therefore the wise cannot prove much more than what is visible. As Saint Paul desires, we might learn to understand the invisible God the Word or the Trinity from the Sun through the visible. It is, so to speak, through the shimmering center in the corner. For this, Hermes and his followers say that God has set His tabernacle original: "deus tabernaculu suum" in the Sun. From this, the Philosopher's Stone original: "Lapis philo." or Universal Nature is born. Therefore, make it equal to that. Hermes wants the upper Sun to be like the lower, with all its powers of virtue, essential potential original: "Eſſntz potentis". The upper sun shines just as the lower sun does. Thus, from the laws of the Adept original: "Adeptorium" of the high arts, it illuminates the second sun. This is the gold in the earth. In the microcosm or man, this is the heart.