Lumen de Lumine

This is it, which our Saviour tels us, Man lives not by Bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the Mouth of God. He meant not by Inke and Papyr, or the dead Letter: it is a Mystery, and St. Paul hath partly expounded it. He tels the Athenians, that God made Man, to the end, That he should seek the Lord, if happily he might feel after him and find him. Here is a strange Expression, you will say, that a Man should feel after God, or seek Him with his Hands. But he goes on, and tels you where you shall find him. He is not far (saith he) from every one of us; for in Him we live, and move, and have our Being. For the better understanding of this place, I wish you to read Paracelsus his Philosophia ad Athenienses, a glorious Incomparable Discourse, but you will shortly find it in English. Againe: He that enters the Center, shall know why all Influx of fire descends against the Nature of fire, and comes from Heaven downwards: Hee shall know also why the same fire having found a Body, ascends againe towards Heaven, and grows upwards.