Library of the Sages — Valentine, Khunrath, Hollandus, Bernard

not only natural, but after the infusion of the warm breath of God, the supernatural was immediately joined with it, so that the natural and supernatural were bound together. The great world the macrocosm is perishable and after it a new world must be made, but the small world the microcosm, or man is eternal. The great world, created as perishable, will become nothing just as it was made from nothing; but the small world will be clarified by the spirit of God because the spirit possesses it. From the said terrestrial water, it will become a clarified celestial water. Then it shall follow that the first matter original: "premiere matiere" will be changed into the last matter, and once again the last matter into the first. The reason why the great world is perishable is because the spirit of God holds its seat in the great world, but also in the small world, for man is the temple of the Holy Spirit, provided that he does not pollute himself to go to the infernal fire. This is so that there might be a difference, and that he might remain thus in the small world which He formed in His likeness and made into a holy temple. Everything that is found in the great world is also in the small world: the heaven and the earth and that which depends both on the elements and the firmament. It is also found that in the first creation,

which was made from nothing, three things came forth, namely: the soul, and a visible spiritual substance, which brought forward a mercurial water, a sulfurous vapor, and a terrestrial salt. These three gave a form of an ample, perfect, and palpable body to all things, in which primarily the four elements are fully found. As I have presently and specifically made mention in my commentaries? that I have written on the microcosm the world of man, but so that I may give a little more instruction on natural and supernatural things, both spiritual and corporal: it is found that the Canaanite woman was cured of the flow of blood that she had carried for twelve years by the mere touch of the robe of the Son of God. This sickness was natural, but the medicine was supernatural, because she had gained the help of Christ through faith.

We see likewise a very great supernatural miracle with these three men, namely: Sydrac, Misach, and Abdenago Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who were thrown into the furnace by the command of King Nabucodonozor Nebuchadnezzar. Nevertheless, by the providence and aid of God, they were