Die uralte Weisheit. Eine kurzgefasste Darstellung der Lehren der Theosophie

Morning Glow at the Sunrise. Chapter 2.

...the previously mentioned being in its power, which goes out from him, and thus has made it as a creature.

34. God, however, in his Dreyfaltigkeit Trinity is unchangeable. Instead, everything that exists in heaven and on earth and above the earth has its source and origin from the power that goes out from God.

35. You must not think that for this reason evil and good well up or exist in God. Rather, God is himself the good, and he also takes his name from the good: the triumphant, eternal joy. Only all powers go out from him, those which you can investigate in nature and which are in all things.

36. Now you might say: there is indeed evil and good in nature. Because all things come from God, then evil must also come from God.

37. Look, a human being has within him a Galle gall or bile. This is poison, and one cannot live without the gall, for the gall makes the Siderische Geister sidereal spirits, meaning the internal forces influenced by the stars movable, joyful, triumphant, or laughing, for it is a source of joy. If it ignites in one element, however, it ruins the whole person, for the wrath in the sidereal spirits comes from the gall.

38. This means that when the gall rises and runs to the heart, it ignites the element of fire, and the fire ignites the sidereal spirits, which rule in the blood in the veins within the element of water. Then the whole body trembles with the wrath and poison of the gall. Joy has exactly such a source, and it comes from this same substance as wrath. This is to say that when the gall ignites in the loving or sweet quality, in that which is dear to the person, then the whole body trembles with joy. Sometimes the sidereal spirits are also infected by this when the gall rises too much and ignites in the sweet quality.

39. But such a substance does not exist in God, for he does not have flesh and blood. Instead, he is a spirit in whom all powers are original: "Johan. 4, 2.", as we pray in the Our Father: "Thine is the power" original: "Matth. 6.". And as Isaiah writes of him: "He is Wonderful, Counselor, Power, Hero, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace" original: "Esai 9.".

40. The bitter quality is also in God, but not in the way or manner of the gall in humans. Rather, it is an everlasting power, a significant and triumphant source of joy.

Chapter 2. Morning Glow at the Sunrise.

41. And although it is written in the books of Moses original: "Exod. 20. Deut. 4. vers. 24.": "I am an angry, jealous God," this does not mean that God becomes angry within himself, or that a fire of wrath rises in the holy Trinity. No, that cannot be, for it is written: "upon those who hate me." The fire of wrath rises within that creature itself.

42. If God were to become angry within himself, all of nature would burn. This will happen one day in nature on the Last Day, but not in God. In God, triumphant joy will burn, just as it has never been otherwise from eternity, and will never become otherwise.

43. Now, however, the uplifting, welling, and triumphant joy in God makes heaven triumphant and movable, and heaven makes the stars and elements movable, and the stars and elements make the creatures movable.

44. From the powers of God, heaven came to be. From heaven, the stars came to be. From the stars, the elements came to be. From the elements, the earth and the creatures came to be. Thus everything has its beginning, even the angels and devils. Before the creation of heaven and the stars and earth, they came to be from the same power from which heaven and stars and earth were made.

45. This is thus a short introduction or guide on how one should consider the divine and natural being. Hereafter, I will now describe the true ground and depth of what God is, and how all things are constituted in the being of God.

46. This has indeed remained partially hidden from the world, and man has not been able to grasp it with his Vernunft reason or intellect. But because God wishes to reveal himself in simplicity in this final time, I let his impulse and will prevail. I am only a Fünklein little spark. Amen.

The 3rd Chapter.

Of the highly blessed, triumphant, holy, holy, holy Trinity: God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the one God.

A small decorative woodcut of an ornamental drop cap letter G marks the beginning of the first paragraph of Chapter 3.

Favorable reader, here I wish to have faithfully exhorted you that you let your vanity go, and that you do not become annoyed by the simplicity of the author. For the work is not of his reason, but the impulse of the Spirit. Look only that you have the Holy Spirit, who goes out from God, in your spirit. He will lead you into all truth and reveal himself to you. Then you will see well in his light and power into the holy Trinity, and understand what is written hereafter.