Akbar, The Emperor Of India

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hidden in this material, elemental world, like as
the tincture in herbs and metals.
36. And as the tincture with its virtue fashioneth
itself in all things with its efflux and makes itself
visible, so that we may see and know by the
figure, as well as by the colours and smell, what
manner of separator or efflux of divine will has
emanated in the tincture from the Mysterium
magnum; so likewise we may recognize in the
visible world, in sun, stars, elements and all crea-
tii>s§, the inward ground from which they arose.
37. For no thing or being is come from afar to
its place, but in the place where it grows is. its
ground. The elements have their cause, from
which they arise, in themselves ; the stars also
have their chaos, wherein they stand, in them-
selves.
38. The elements are nothing but an image-like,
moving existence of what is invisible and non-
moving.
39. The stars likewise are an efflux of the quali-
ties of the spiritual world, according to the separa-
tion of the separator, whose ground is the Word
or the separable will of God.
40. The being and motion of the elements is
fire, air, water and earth, wherein is thick and
thin, moist and dry, hard and soft, and these are
united together in one substance. Not that each is
from a particular origin, but they all proceed from
a single ground, and that place where they have
arisen is everywhere. We have only to conceive how
at one place there may have been a greater enkind-
ling according to one quality than at another place,