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like. In the Same manner, the heavenly light flumbers in the human Sohil, and must be Struck out by Out arti contact,
this account so many false and pernici ouS notionS are Current
concerning it. But we shali do weli to consider that God has,not without a good purpose, furnished our heads with twoeyes and twO ears I for He would thereby teach us that mantias a dolatile vision and a doubie hearing ; namely, the OutWardand the inward. With the inward he is to juclge spirituat things, and the outward is also to persorin iis own proper ossice. The fame distinction we find in the spirit and the letter of Scripture. For this reason I thought fit to explain this matter sortite salie of students of the Simple sori, who might Other visebe at a loss to apprehend the fuit significance of the triuiae
worid. Nor is it Only Contemned and regarded as wOrthlesS ;it is even proscribed and laid under a ban, like some salse heretical doctrine, and it is grei uous sor a God- aring man tolisten to the blasphemous wOrcis that are spolien against it. But
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and glory are past finding oui, is designated in Holy Scripture
by a large number os tities. We will go through the most important nam es of both. The Philosophers Stone is called them Si ancient, Secret Or uni nown, naturat, in Comprehen Sible,
heaVenly, blessed, sacred Sione of the Sages. It is described asbeing true, more Certain than certain ty itselis the arcanum os allarCRnR-the Divine virtve and efficacy, whicli is hidden si om thesoolisti; the aim and end of ali things under heaven, the wonder- sui epilogiae or conclusion os ali the labours of the Sages the per Ct essen ce of ali the elements. tho in destructitile bodywhicli no element Can injure, the quintessen Ce the doutile an dii ving mercury whicli has in iiself the heavenly spirit the curesor ali uiasound and imperfeci metales the evertasting light-- the panaCea sor ali diseases the glorious Phoeni X the most preci ous os treas ures-the chi es good Os Nature the universaltriuiae Sione, whicli is natural ly Composed Os three thin S, and , nevertheleSS, is but one-nay, is generaled and brought sortii ofone, twO, three, sotir, and fiVe. In the writings of the Sages wemay also find it spolien of as the Catholic Magnesia, or the Seed of the worid, and under many other names and tities of alii e nature, whi Ch we may best Sum up and comprehend in the perfeci number of One thousan l. Anci as the earthlyPhilosopher's Sione and iis substan Ce haVe a thouSand nam CS,so an infinite variety of tities is even more justly predicated of
the Chi ef Good of the Universe. Eor He is God, the word of
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With the quali ty and property thereos is he cloes not also know
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thus known God through His Son, and united them by the bondos the Holy Spirit, God is no longer invisibie, or fuit of wrath,
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it into one indissolubie whole, in orcler that He might have thepower of bring ing imperfeci men to persectiora. But again, we Sald that Common gOld, On account os iis imperfection and impurity, would not Combine With our substance, because iis manisold desecis had rendered it dead V and uselesssor Our purPOSO, and that, sor this reason, it must firSi receive a
presen ce of bad internal sulphur . In the Same way, the Divine essence of the Son os God could not be joined to commontium an nature, Whi Ch is Conceived in sin, defited with heredita Un CloanneSS, and many actual Siras and besetting infirmities though ali these are no integral part of human nature RS SUCh), but required a pure, Sin leSS, and per Ct humani ty.
and other blind theological qui bblers, who spend their lives in
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IO Iwrangling and disputing about Divine things in a most un-ChriStian manner, and put sortii no end of mani sold distinctions, di Vi SionS, and Consusions, thus obscuring the Scriptural doctrine
Concerning the union of natures and Communication Os sub-
and that of the Sun) whicli our Art so strii ingly and palpablyeXhibiis. But the scholastic wisdom of their Ethnic philosophyis enti rely based upon pagan philosophy, and has no foundationin Holy Scripture or Christian Theology. Their Aristotelian
this Divine Maia, and Human God Jesus Christ, had, by the will
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whicli are salthilly related by the Evangelisis, He had to bear
the Same number Seems to have a most peculiar significance in SCripture, more particularly in Connection with the li se of our Lord. The Israelites remat ned sorty years in the wilderness;
analogy to Christ in the faci that the decomposed body of the sun lies for so me time de ad and lis eless, like burni-out asheS, at the bottom of the phial, and that iis foui V gradu atly descends
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For as the Philosopher's Sione, whicli is the Chemical King haS Viriue by means of iis tincture and iis developed persection
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of the Cacodaemon, Our whole race Was Corrupted in the Very Protoplast), we Can obtain perfection and eternat happineSS Onlythrough the regeneration of water and the Spirit, AS the royal Chemicat Substance is regeneraled by water and itS Spirit. In this new and spiritual regeneration, whicli is performed in baptiSm through water and the Spirit, we are washed and
purified with the Blood of Christ, uni ted to His Body, and Clothed