Die uralte Weisheit. Eine kurzgefasste Darstellung der Lehren der Theosophie

27. Therefore God said: It repents me that I have made man original: "Genes. 6, 6."; and He stirred up Nature so that all flesh died that lived on the dry land, down to the very root and trunk, which remained standing. With this He fertilized and prepared the wild tree so that it might bear better fruit. But when it turned green again, it soon brought forth both good and evil fruits among the sons of Noah. There were soon mockers and despisers of God again, and hardly a good branch grew on the tree that brought forth holy, good fruit; the other branches bore and brought forth the wild Heyden pagans or heathens.

28. When God saw that man had thus died in his knowledge, He moved Nature once again and showed people how both evil and good existed within it, so that they should flee the evil and live in the good. He let fire fall from Nature and ignited Sodom and Gomorrah as a terrible example to the world.

29. As the blindness of men took the upper hand and they would not let themselves be taught by God’s Spirit, He gave them laws and teachings on how they should conduct themselves. He confirmed these with wonders and signs so that the knowledge of the true God would not be extinguished.

30. But the light still did not want to come to the light of day, for the darkness and Grimmigkeit fierceness or wrathful quality in Nature increased, and the prince of that darkness ruled with power.

31. When the tree of Nature reached its middle age, it began to bear several mild, sweet fruits to show that from then on it would bear lovely fruit. For then the holy prophets were born from the sweet branch of the tree; they taught and preached about the light which in the future would overcome the fierceness in Nature.

32. Also, a light in Nature rose up among the Heyden pagans, so that they recognized Nature and its working, although this was only a light in the wild Nature and not yet the holy light. For the wild Nature was not yet overcome, and light and darkness struggled with one another until the sun rose and forced this tree with its heat to bear lovely, sweet fruits.

33. That is, until the Prince of Light came from the heart of God and became a man in Nature, and struggled in his human body, in the power of the divine light, within the wild Nature.

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34. That same princely and royal branch grew up in Nature and became a tree in Nature. It spread its branches from the Orient East to the Occident West and encompassed all of Nature. It struggled and fought with the fierceness that was in Nature and with the prince of that fierceness until it overcame and triumphed as a king of Nature, and took the prince of fierceness prisoner in his own house original: "Psalm 68.".

35. When this happened, many thousands of legions of precious, sweet little twigs grew out of the royal tree that had grown in Nature. They all had the scent and taste of the precious tree. Even though rain, snow, hail, and storms fell upon them so that many a little twig was torn from the tree and beaten down, other little twigs always grew in their place. For the fierceness in Nature and its prince stirred up great storms with hail, thunder, lightning, and rain, so that many magnificent little twigs were often torn from the sweet and good tree. But these same twigs tasted so lovely, sweet, and full of joy that no tongue of man or angel can express it; for they had great power and virtue in them, and they served for the health of the wild Heyden pagans. Whichever pagan ate of the twigs of this tree was delivered from the wild nature in which he was born and became a sweet branch in the precious tree, turning green in the tree and bearing precious fruits like the royal tree itself.

36. Therefore many pagans ran to the precious tree where the precious twigs lay, which the Prince of Darkness had torn off with his storm winds. Whichever pagan smelled these torn-off twigs was healed of the wild fierceness that was innate to him from his mother.

37. But when the Prince of Darkness saw that the pagans were scrambling for the twigs and not for the tree, and saw his great loss and damage, he ceased his storming against the Aufgang East and Mittag South. He placed a Kaufmann merchant under the tree, who gathered up the twigs that had fallen from the precious tree.

38. And when the pagans came and asked for the good and powerful twigs, the merchant offered them...