Lumen de Lumine

I Have now sufficiently, and fully discovered the principles of our Chaos. In the next place I will shew you how you are to use them. You must unite them to a new life, and they will be regenerated by Water and the Spirit. These two are in all things, they are placed there by God himself, according to that speech of Trismegistus: Unumquodque habet in se semen suae Regenerationis. Proceed then patiently, but not manually. The work is performed by an invisible Artist, for there is a secret Incubation of the Spirit of God upon Nature: you must only see that the outward Heat failes not, but with the subject it self you have no more to doe, than the Mother hath with the Child that is in her womb. The two former principles performe all, the Spirit makes use of the Water to purge and wash his Body, and hee will bring it at last to a Celestiall, immortall Constitution. Doe not you think this Impossible. Remember that in the Incarnation of Christ Jesus the Quaternarius or four Elements as men call them were united to their eternall Unitie and Ternarius. Three and Foure make Seven: This Septenarie is the true Sabbath, the Rest of God into which the Creature shall enter. This is the best and greatest Manuduction that I can give you. In a word, Salvation it self is nothing else but transmutation. Behold (saith the Apostle) I shew you a MYSTERIE: we shall not all die, but we shall be all CHANGED, in a Moment, in the twinckling of an Eye, at the sound of the last Trumpt. God of his great Mercy prepare us for it, That from hard stubborn Flints of this world we may prove Chrysoliths and Jaspers in the new eternall foundation. That we may ascend from this present distressed Church which is in Captivity with her Children, to the free Jerusalem from above, which is the Mother of us all.