THE SEVENTH TEXT

1. Now, seeing in the mystery of the Eternal
Nature we have such an arcanum from which
all creatures evil and good were generated and
created, we recognize it to be a magical essence
or substance, where one Magic has by desire
awakened another and brought it into being,
where everything has elevated itself and carried
itself to the highest power. For the Spirit of God
is not a maker in Nature, but a revealer and a
seeker of the good.

2. Thus hath evil as by magical craving always
sought and found itself in the Mystery, and has
been revealed apart from the divine purpose. For
fierceness is a harsh rigorousness, and rules over
the simple.

3. All has, therefore, grown from its own tree
without premeditation. For the first revealer,
viz. God, ordained not malignity to the govern-
ment, but reason or wit, which was to reveal the
wonders and be a guide of life. And here there
meets us the great secret which has from eternity
existed in mystery, viz. the Mystery with its colours,
which are four. The fifth is not proper to the
mysterium of Nature, but is of the Mysterium of
God, and shines in the mysterium of Nature as a
living light.

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