T H E F I R S T P O I N T
ON THE BLOOD AND WATER OF THE SOUL.
1. All that is substantial and tangible is in this world. Now, since the soul is not a substance or entity in this world, neither is its blood and water a substance or entity in this world.
2. Certainly the soul with its blood and water is in the outer blood and water; but its substance is magical. For the soul is also a magical fire, and its image or form is generated in the light (in the power of its own fire and light) from the magical fire; and yet is a veritable image in flesh and blood, but in the original state thereof.
3. As God's wisdom has being, and yet it, wisdom, is not a being; so the soul with its image has being, and yet it, the soul, is only a magical fire, but its sustenance is from its substance.
4. As a fire must have substance if it is to burn, so likewise the magical fire of the soul has flesh, blood and water. There would be no blood if the tincture of fire and light were not in water. This tincture is the ends of life of wisdom (which has in it all the forms of Nature), and is the other magical fire.
5. For it gives all colours; and from its form goes forth divine power in the gentle nature of the light (understand, according to the property of the light in it); and according to the property of the fire in it, it is a sharpness of transmutation. It can bring everything to its highest degree; although it is not a live spirit, but the supreme ens.
6. Hence also the tincture is such an ens in water, and introduces thereinto the property of fire and of light, with all the powers of Nature; whereby it transforms the water into blood; and this it does in the outer and inner water, as in the outer and inner blood.
7. The inner blood of the divine substantiality is also magical; for it is Magic which makes it into substance. It is spiritual blood, which outer nature cannot touch (rügen) but by imagination only. The inner imagination introduces the outer will into the inner blood, whereby the flesh and blood of the divine substantiality is corrupted, and the noble image of the likeness of God is eclipsed.
8. The soul's flesh and blood is in the highest mystery, for it is divine substantiality. And when the outer flesh and blood die, it falls unto the outer mystery, and the outer mystery falls unto the inner.
9. And every magical fire has its brightness and darkness in itself; on account of which a final day of separation is appointed, when all must pass through a fire and be proved, what shall be fit for it or not. Then everything goes into its own magic, and thereafter is as it was from eternity.
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