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Of the first Chapter.

A decorative initial "A" is set within a simple frame. All is born, created, and come from God.
In the first Principle, it is understood that the evil is not God: the origin of life consists in the severity.

3. What matter God had for creating: what God is: of three forms: bitter, sour, and hot.
4. Why the Author must write of God as if he had a beginning: the torment or Fountain of wrath and of love are from one Mother.
5. Author must seek the Prima materia first matter of wickedness.
6. Of three things in the original beginning, from which all things have come: how God calls himself a wrathful God.
7. Summary explanation of Sulphur Sulfur, Mercurius Mercury, and Sal Salt.
8. According to the first Principle, God is called "No-God."
9. Of the harshness: an example in a provoked man.
10. Explanation of what Mercury original: "Mercurius" is.
11. The sourness is the Father of the lightning.
12. Further explanation of the syllables Mer-cu-ri-us.
13. The Fountain of wrath is the origin of nature.
14. What Mercury the Author understands; the nature of this world is born out of the unoriginated nature: the Sidereal realm is out of the first Principle.

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Of the Three Principles

Of the Divine Essence,

Of the unoriginated eternal birth of the Holy Trinity of God: and how through and out of the same were created the Angels: as well as the Heavens: also Stars and Elements: together with all Creaturely beings, with everything that lives and moves there.

Concerning Man: from what, and for what end he was created: and then how he fell from his first Glory into the wrathful severity and into his first principle, died the death, and was helped again.

What the Wrath of God, Sin, Death, Devil, and Hell may be: How the same has stood in eternal Rest, in great Joy, and how everything (in this time) took its beginning: and how it goes at present, and finally shall become again. In the year 1619.

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The First Chapter.

Of the first Principle, of the Being of God.

A large woodcut initial "B" features intricate foliate patterns and scrolling vines within a square border. IF we now wish to speak of God (what he is, and where he is), then we must say that God himself is the Being of all beings: for everything is born, created, and come from him, and all things take their first beginning out of God. The same is also testified by the Holy Scripture, which says there: Through him and in him, are all things. Also: The Heaven and the Heaven of all Heavens