Joseph

Meaning

Joseph is named through his sale and wondrous fortunes in the main treatise's list of Old Testament prefigurations. The reference helps justify the broader claim that difficult heavenly things can be understood through visible histories and images. The passage does not spell out which successive features of Joseph's story correspond to a material process. Such a reconstruction would go beyond its actual use. English “fortunes” gives Zustandt its contextual sense of circumstances or condition rather than making it a technical alchemical state.