Book of Truth and the Philosophers — 1664 German MS

given, in the Book of Nature the
Holy Scripture S. S. does not demand in everything
that it remains, (says St. Paul in
Moses and Paul) what is now
written in the law, that you shall
do. For there is no need
for anything else for teaching; what the
Commandments Mandata hold in themselves and
require is only Love. Love, that is the
love that has nothing of its own,
seeks nothing that is hers, nor puffs
up. †? are only fruit, whatever fruit
is and she wants nothing else than
what Christ wants. He alone knows
what is useful for our life, as
He is Himself the life, which
the enemy sought, but not
as we, therefore He recognized it
and fundamentally should recognize,
beginning with wisdom. And though we
are nothing in what we have
of ourselves, yet
let us be in such a state also to the—

of salvation. For faith
is confirmed in us, as our
old [self] must overcome. Faith
works, so it happens through us as
the ways. Which one always finds in the scripture, in the book
of the law, that is,
we love, or whatever the Ruler
sends, as a child loves, without [self]-love.
It is a tenet of faith: this course
is the life in all things. For God is
nothing other than the eternal Word and the
breath of life original: "spiraculum vitæ" and the Word is
Christ. And Christ is God, and God
is love, as the Holy Apostle says: God is charity original: "deus charitas".
Indeed, and he who remains in charity remains in God and God in him original: "et qui manet in charitate in Deo manet et deus in eo.".
The love that lives therein is, and Christ
became corporal, so He is
now within us. To seek the Holy
Theology, that is, the word Let there be verbum fiat. As
the philosophy which is first to Him;
Theology is now a great mystery,
which fruit... Thus I will be
of good sound, because the truth...