Die uralte Weisheit. Eine kurzgefasste Darstellung der Lehren der Theosophie

13. Just as the spirit of a person rules within the whole body and all its veins and fills the entire human being, so also the Holy Spirit fills all of nature. He is the heart of nature and rules within the good qualities of all things. If you have this Spirit within you, so that he illuminates and fills your own spirit, then you will understand what is written here below. If not, however, it will happen to you as it did to the wise Heathens original: "weisen Heyden," referring to pre-Christian philosophers who became infatuated with the creation and wanted to investigate it through their own reason. In their thinking, they came before the face of God yet could not see it, and they were stone-blind in the knowledge of God. It was just as the children of Israel in the wilderness could not look upon the face of Moses; therefore, he had to put a veil over his face when he stepped before the people. This happened because they did not understand or know the true God and his will, even though he walked among them. Therefore, the veil was a sign and an image of their blindness and lack of understanding. Just as a work cannot grasp its master, a human being cannot grasp and recognize God his Creator, unless the Holy Spirit illuminates him. This happens only to those who do not trust in themselves, but place their hope and will in God alone and walk in the Holy Spirit. These are one spirit with God.

14. If one now wishes to rightly contemplate the sun and stars along with their corpus body, effects, and qualities, one truly finds the divine essence within them, for the powers of the stars are nature itself.

15. If one contemplates the entire curriculum course or cycle or the whole circle of the stars, it is soon found that this is the mother of all things, or nature, from which all things have come. Within this, all things stand and live, and through it, everything moves. All things are made from these same powers and remain within them eternally. And although they will be transformed at the end of this time, when the good and evil shall be separated, nevertheless angels and humans will exist eternally in God within the power of nature from which they took their first beginning.

16. But you must here lift up your mind into the spirit and contemplate how all of nature with all the powers that are in nature—including the width, depth, height, heaven, earth, and everything therein, and everything above the heaven—is the Body of God!

and the powers of the stars are the source-veins in the natural body of God in this world.

17. You must not think that the entire triumphant Holy Trinity—God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—is within the corpus body of the stars. In the Trinity, there is no evil. Instead, it is the light-holy, eternal source of joy that is inseparable and unchangeable. No creature can sufficiently grasp or express this, for it dwells and exists within itself above the body of the stars. No creature can measure its depth.

18. Yet this is not to be understood as if God were not at all in the body of the stars and in this world. For when one says: "Everything," or "from eternity to eternity," or "All in All," understand by this the whole of God. Take for yourself a likeness in a human being, who is made according to the image or likeness of God, as is written in Moses, Genesis the first book of the Bible chapter 1, verse 27.

19. The interior or hollow space in the body of a human being is and signifies the depth between the stars and the earth. The whole body with everything in it signifies heaven and earth. The flesh signifies the earth and is also from the earth. The blood signifies the water and is also from the water. The breath signifies the air and is also the air. The bladder here likely referring to the thoracic cavity or lungs, wherein the air qualificiret acts, interacts, and characterizes itself, signifies the depth between the stars and the earth, where fire, air, and water interact in an elemental way. Heat, air, and water also interact in the bladder just as they do in the depth above the earth. The veins signify the power-paths of the stars and are also the power-paths of the stars, for the stars with their power rule in the veins and drive the human being into their shape. The intestines or bowels signify the effect or consumption of the stars. Everything that has come from their power, which they themselves have made, they consume again themselves, and it remains in their power. And the intestines are also the consumption of everything that a person pushes into their bowels—everything that has grown from the power of the stars.

20. The heart in a person signifies the heat or the element of fire, and is also the heat, for the heat has its origin in the heart for the whole body. The bladder signifies the element of air, and the air also rules within it. The liver signifies the element of water and is also the water, for from the liver the blood comes into the whole body and all the limbs. The liver is the mother of the blood.

21. The lungs signify the earth and are also of that same quality.