Die uralte Weisheit. Eine kurzgefasste Darstellung der Lehren der Theosophie

Morning Glow at the Sunrise. Chapter 3.

...not hindered by other planets and stars. No, the Father is not like that. Instead, He is an Allmächtiger Almighty, All-wise, All-knowing, All-seeing, All-hearing, All-smelling, All-feeling, All-tasting God. He is within Himself gentle, friendly, lovely, merciful, and full of joy: yes, He is joy itself.

12. He is thus unchanging from eternity to eternity. He has never changed in His essence, nor will He change into all eternity. He is not come from or born of anything, but is Himself All in eternity. Everything that exists has become through His power, which goes out from Him. Nature and all Creaturen creatures have become through His power, which has gone out from Him from eternity. No creature, not even an angel in heaven, can search out His breadth, height, and depth. Rather, the angels live in the Father's power quite gently and full of joy, and they sing forever in the Father's power.

Of God the Son.

13. Now, if one wishes to see God the Son, one must again look at natural things. Otherwise, I cannot write of Him. The spirit sees Him well, but one cannot speak or write of it, because the divine essence consists in power, which does not allow itself to be written or spoken. We must, therefore, use Gleichnisse parables or analogies for ourselves when we wish to speak of God, because in this world we live in piece-work, and we have been made out of piece-work The author uses "piece-work" to describe our partial, fragmented understanding of the divine whole.. Therefore, I wish to have the reader summoned to that other life, where I will speak with him more properly and clearly of this high article of faith. Meanwhile, let the beloved reader look to the sense of the Spirit; if he only hungers for it, he will not fail to receive a small portion of power from it.

The Turks and heathens In the 17th century, "Turks" was a common term for Muslims or non-Christians in general. say that God has no Son. Here, open your eyes properly and do not make yourselves stone-blind, then you will see the Son.

14. The Father is everything, and all power consists in the Father. He is the beginning and the end of all things, and outside of Him is nothing. Everything that has come to be has come from the Father. Before the beginning of the creation of creatures, there was nothing but God alone. And where there is nothing, nothing comes from it. Every thing must have a cause or a root, otherwise nothing

will come of it. Now, however, you must not think that the Son is a different God than the Father. You must also not think that the Son is outside of the Father, or that He is a separate part, as when two men stand next to each other and one does not encompass the other. No, such a substance does not exist with the Father and Son. For the Father is not an image to be compared with something, but the Father is the Quellbrunn source-fountain of all powers, and all powers are in one another, like one power. Therefore, He is also called one single God. Otherwise, if His powers were divided, He would not be almighty. But now He is the self-subsisting, almighty, and all-powerful God.

15. The Son, however, is the Heart in the Father. All powers that are in the Father are the Father's property, and the Son is the Heart or the Kern kernel or core in all powers in the entire Father. He is, however, the cause of the welling joys in all powers in the entire Father. From the Son, who is the Father's Heart in all His powers, rises the eternal heavenly joy. It wells up in all the powers of the Father, a joy such as no eye has seen and no ear has heard, and has never entered into any human heart, as Saint Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2:9.

16. But if a person here on earth is enlightened with the Holy Spirit from the fountain-source of Jesus Christ, so that the spirits of nature, which signify the Father, are ignited, then such a joy rises in his heart and into all his veins that the entire body trembles. The Animalische Geist animal spirit or vital soul triumphs as if it were in the holy Trinity. This is understood only by those who have been guests at that place.

17. This, however, is only a prototype or a glimpse of the Son of God in man, through which faith is strengthened and preserved. For joy cannot be as great in an earthen vessel as in a heavenly one, where the perfect power of God is complete.

18. Here I will show you a parable in nature, showing how the holy essence exists in the holy Trinity. Look at the heaven; it is a round sphere and has neither beginning nor end. Rather, the beginning and the end are everywhere, wherever you look at it. So also is God in and over the heaven; He has neither beginning nor end. Now look further at the circle of stars