Die geheime Naturlehre der hermetischen Wissenschaft

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The First Section

of the First Main Section.

On the Primordial Birth or First Creation of All Things.

After God in the beginning brought forth the material of the entire physical world out of nothing, and from it separated the simple bodies, but from those same bodies composed the mixed bodies, His adorable Providence prescribed this pattern for nature and art: that in all things (which are either to be brought forth for the first time or improved afterward) the action begins with dissolution the breaking down of a substance and ends with coagulation the thickening or solidification of a substance.

From this it is evident that the creation of all things proceeded in stages, in that simpler things were ordained as the material principles original: "materiellen Principiis," the fundamental building blocks of composed things. Therefore, composed things contain the simple things (as their principles) inseparably within themselves.

There are thus three main actions of creation: