Die uralte Weisheit. Eine kurzgefasste Darstellung der Lehren der Theosophie

...what God may be, and how nature, stars, and elements are constituted within the essence of God, and from where all things have their origin: how heaven and earth are formed, as well as angels, humans, and devils, along with heaven and hell, and everything that is a creature. Also, what the two Qualitäten qualities or properties in nature are, based on a true foundation in the knowledge of the spirit, through the impulse and surging of God.

85. 2. Through Astrologia astrology, used here to mean the study of celestial influences is handled the powers of nature, the stars, and elements: how all creatures have come from them, and how these same things drive, govern, and work in everything. It explores how evil and good are worked through them in humans and animals, from which it follows that evil and good rule and exist in this world, and also how the kingdoms of hell and heaven consist within them.

86. It is not my intention that I should describe the course, location, or names of all the stars, or how they have their Conjunction alignment or Gegenschein opposition or Quadrat square aspect and the like annually, or what they work every year and hour.

87. This has been experienced through long passage of time by highly wise and clever, spirited people, through diligent observation, noticing, deep thought, and calculation. I have not studied or learned the same, and I leave it to the learned to handle such things. Rather, my intention is to write according to the spirit and sense, and not according to outward observation.

88. 3. Through Theologia theology is handled the kingdom of Christ: how it is constituted, how it is set against the kingdom of hell, and how it fights and struggles within nature against the kingdom of hell. It describes how humans, through faith and spirit, can overcome the kingdom of hell and triumph in divine power, attaining eternal salvation and thus bringing away a victory in the struggle. Also, how man, through the working of the hellish quality, throws himself into corruption, and finally, how both will reach their conclusion.

89. The primary title: The Day-Spring in the Ascent original: "Morgenröte im Aufgang", is a Mysterium mystery or secret hidden from the clever and wise in this world, which they themselves will experience in

of the Author.

short time. However, to those who read this book in simplicity with a desire for the Holy Spirit, who place their hope in God alone, it will not be a mystery, but a public knowledge.

90. I will not explain this title, but will leave it to be judged by the impartial reader who struggles in this world within the good quality.

91. Now, when Master Clever-clogs original: "Meister Klügling", a mocking term for a pseudo-intellectual, who is qualified in the fierce quality, happens upon this book, he will take the opposing side, just as the kingdoms of heaven and hell surge and exist against each other. First, he will say that I have climbed much too high into the Godhead, and such does not befit me. Next, he will say that I boast of the Holy Spirit, and that I should also live accordingly and prove such things with miracles. Thirdly, he will say that I do this out of a desire for fame. Fourthly, he will say that I am not learned enough for it. Fifthly, the great simplicity of the author will greatly offend him, as is the custom of the world: to look only upon what is high and to be offended by simplicity.

92. Against those biased "Clever-clogs," I will set the Old Fathers in the first world. They were also only lowly, despised people against whom the world and the devil raged and stormed, as in the time of Enoch, when the holy fathers first preached powerfully of the Lord's name. They did not ascend into heaven with their bodies and see everything with their eyes; rather, the Holy Spirit revealed himself in their spirit. Afterward, one sees it in the second world also among the holy Old Fathers, patriarchs, and prophets: they were all together only simple people, and some were only cattle herders.

93. Even when the Messiah, Christ, the hero in the struggle, became a man in nature, although he was a prince and king of men, he nonetheless kept himself in great simplicity in this world and was only a household companion to the world. Likewise, his apostles were all together only poor, despised fisherman's servants and lowly folk. Indeed, Christ himself thanks his heavenly Father that he had hidden it from the clever and wise in this world and revealed it to the babes referencing Matthew 11:25.

94. Additionally, one sees how they were in the same manner