Bericht von der ersten Tincktur. 8

every nature with 4 elements. And the earth has enclosed all of this within itself and is endowed with such power by God, but one nature [is] yet always more and higher than the other. Without these causes, nothing could otherwise come forth, or grow, or be born, if such had not had to happen.

Since then God the Lord, through his word, which was a spirit, and yet well from there comes life, color, flesh, and blood, which is also the breath that goes out from the mouth of God, from which all creatures and natures have received life; it is to be highly marveled at that from such a unique matter, which is to be considered as having been nothing, such mighty creatures with unspeakable mysteries have come forth and sprouted, different according to their kind with two substances, as visible and invisible, dead and living, fixed and volatile, also three, as Corpore body, anima soul, and Spiritu spirit, also with four elements, Aëre air, Igni fire, Aqua water, [and] Terra earth; such is now placed and planted in every materia matter: Upon which then also the unique and eternal Godhead and Trinity in one essence has become manifest as undivided.

After the creation of all things, God the Almighty chose a special matter, [and] into the same, according to his good pleasure, the heavenly and earthly, the eternal and temporal