Lumen de Lumine

Doe this, and thou hast placed Nature in Horizonte Aeternitatis: Thou hast performed that Command of the Cabalist, Fige finem in Principio, sicut Flammam prunae Conjunctam: quia Dominus SUPERLATIVE unus, & non tenet secundum. Unite the End to the Beginning, like a Flame to a Coale; for God (saith hee) is superlatively one, and hee hath no second. Consider then what you seek: you seek an Indissoluble, miraculous, transmuting, uniting union, but such a tye cannot be without the first unitie; Creare enim (saith one) atque intrinsecus transmutare absque violentia Munus est proprium duntaxat Primae Potentiae, Primae sapientiae, Primi amoris. To Create, and Transmute essentially, and naturally or without any violence, is the only proper office of the first power, the first Wisdome, and the first love. Without this love the Elements will never be married, they will never inwardly and essentially unite, which is the end and perfection of Magic. Study then to understand this, and when thou hast perform’d, I will allow thee that Test of the Mekkubalim: Intellexisti in sapientia, & sapuisti in Intelligentia, statuisti Rem super Puritates suas, & Creatorem in Throno suo collocasti.