Die uralte Weisheit. Eine kurzgefasste Darstellung der Lehren der Theosophie

Morning Glow at the Sunrise. Chapter 3.

25. However, if one wishes to describe his person, substance, and quality from a true foundation, one must also represent it through an analogy. This is because the spirit cannot be described in writing, since it is not a creature, but rather the surging power of God.

26. Now, look for a moment at the sun and the stars, the manifold and diverse stars that are unspeakable and innumerable; they signify the Father. Out of those same stars, the sun came into being, for God made it from them; it signifies the Son of God. Now, from the sun and the stars, the four elements came into being: fire, air, water, and earth, as I will clearly prove hereafter when I write about the creation.

27. The three elements—fire, air, and water—have a threefold movement or qualificirung active quality or conditioning, but only one corpus body. Behold, the fire or heat rises up out of the sun and stars, and from the heat, the air rises up, and from the air, the water. In this movement or qualification stands the life and spirit of all creatures, as well as everything that may be named in this world; and that signifies the Holy Spirit.

28. Just as the three elements—fire, air, and water—proceed from the sun and stars, and are one body within each other, and create the living movement and the spirit of all creatures in this world: so also does the Holy Spirit proceed from the Father and the Son, and creates the living movement in all the powers of the Father. And just as the three elements surge in the depth as a self-subsisting spirit, and create heat, cold, and clouds, and flow from the power of all stars—and all the powers of the sun and stars are in the three elements as if they themselves were the sun and stars, from which the life and spirit of all creatures then becomes and remains: so also does the Holy Spirit proceed from the Father and the Son, and surges in the entire Father, and is the life and spirit of all powers in the entire Father.

29. All the stars, those one sees and does not see, signify the power of God the Father; now, out of those same stars is born the sun, which is the heart of all stars.

Now, the power that is in every star goes out from all stars into the depth. Now, the sun's power, heat, and radiance also go into the depth, and in the depth, the power of all stars is one thing with the sun's radiance and heat. It is a moving surging, like a spirit or a materia matter, except that it does not have reason, for it is not the Holy Spirit. Also, the fourth element belongs to a natural spirit, if it is to have reason. Thus, from God the Father, there goes out (into His depth) from all His powers, and gives birth to the radiance, the heart, or the Son of God in His center. This is compared to the round sphere of the sun, which shines above itself, below itself, and beside itself; and the radiance, together with all powers, goes out from the Son of God into the entire Father.

30. Now, in the entire depth of the Father, outside of the Son, there is nothing but the manifold and immeasurable or unsearchable power of the Father, and the unsearchable power and light of the Son. That is, in the depth of the Father, a living, all-powerful, all-knowing, all-hearing, all-seeing, all-smelling, all-tasting, all-feeling Spirit, in whom all power and radiance and wisdom exists, just as in the Father and the Son.

31. Just as the power and radiance of the sun and all stars is in the four elements, so it is also in the entire depth of the Father: and that is, and is rightly called, the Holy Spirit, who is the third self-subsisting person in the Godhead.

32. Now, when one speaks or writes of three persons in the Godhead, you must not think that there are therefore three gods, where each rules and governs for himself like earthly kings on earth. No, there is no such substance and being in God, for the divine being consists in power, and not in body or flesh.

33. The Father is the entire divine power from which all creatures have come, and has always been from eternity; He has no beginning nor end. The Son is in the Father, the Father's heart or light, and the Father gives birth to the Son from eternity to eternity forevermore; and the Son's power and radiance shine back into the entire Father, just like the sun in the entire world.