Het tweede boeck des auteurs, handelende van de drie principien

r Or to note.

19. Now it is r to be noted concerning the form of the water-spirit, when it births its like, that it is primary in its rebirth, and that a center is awakened in it (which it does not do in its own Essence, but the other source-spirits do it in it). It remains still like a v Or pleasant mother. v gentle mother, and lets the others sow their seed in it and awaken the center in itself, so that the fire rises, from which the life becomes moving. In the same, the fire is not a hotly burning fire, but cold, lovely, gentle, and sweet. And the bitterness is also not bitter, but cold, lovely, dipping or flowing, from which the image in the Heavenly x Or glory. x pomp rises, so that it is thus a lovely being. For the y The sound. y tone also rises entirely z So-called. z gently in this birth, everything as if graspable or comprehensible, or by parable, like a word that becomes a substance or a comprehensible being. For in this rebirth, which happens in the water-Spirit (that is, in the true mother of the rebirth of all the source-spirits), everything becomes as it were graspable or substantial; though here one must understand not graspability, but Spirit.

Register of the fourth Chapter.

A small decorative woodcut initial 'A' marks the beginning of this section.

1. Author wishes to encounter the formerly clever ones and comfort the God-loving Reader.
2. Author is known, the offense at his simplicity and humility.
3. We let ourselves be made believe by the Devil as if we were not of the Being of God, just as he made Adam believe after the bite.
4. Of the mistrust in which Adam stood after his fall.
5. How Adam became aware that he was not entirely broken off from the root.
6. Author has no greater power than others.
7. What in Man is God's own Being: the Son has given it to us all, our conversation is in Heaven.
8. Where we must seek God: we shall not find him in the depth above the Stars.
9. How and where the new birth must happen: how our new Man is one with the Father and Son.
10. The Father has no displeasure in his children who investigate the depth of God in this world.
11. The Anti-Christ paints an image before us, as the old Serpent did to mother Eve; God is the word on our lips.

12. Why the Anti-Christ has kept Men under invented laws.
13. Before the Anti-Christ broke forth with his star-wisdom, the Spirit of God was powerful among the simplicity of the Apostles.
14. What one must do to come to salvation: why Baptism is commanded.
15. That which happens in baptism with the un-speaking children, also happens with the poor sinner who comes to the Father through Christ.
16. In this high wisdom one must not look to the wisdom of the high Schools: the way to wisdom.
17. Of those who climb into the sheepfold with the thieves: Warning to the Learned.

18. What the eternal birth is: the mind is the wagon of the soul.
19. From what the body is created.
20. What the soul is from, and was breathed into man: why it is God's own being.
21. How the soul becomes a Devil: how Satan became a Devil.
22. How the soul is fed as an Angel and child of God and by the Verbo Domini Word of the Lord.
23. How the soul becomes lying and troubled: the Anti-Christ wants to have God all above the starry Heaven: the spewing out of the beast comes.

24. High consideration, when the soul travels on its Bridal-wagon.
25. How one finds the eternal birth which has no beginning: and the indissoluble band.
26. How one finds a glorious power in all things: the four properties, being created beings, cannot join together again.
27. Neither the smell nor the power can bring a thing back together: the origin of smell and taste has another Principle.
28. What the animal life in man is, common with the beasts.