SIGNATURA RERUM

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I.

How that all whatever is spoken of God without the Knowledge of the Signature is dumb and without Understanding, and that in the Mind of Man the Signature lies very exactly composed, according to the Being of all Beings

9

II.

Of the Opposition and Combat in the Essence of all Essences, whereby the Ground of the Sympathy and Antipathy in Nature may be seen, and also the Corruption and Cure of each Thing

13

III.

Of the great Mystery of all Beings

22

IV.

Of the Birth of the four Elements and Stars, in the metalline and creaturely Property

32

V.

Of the Sulphurean Death, and how the dead Body is revived and replaced into its first Glory or Holiness

43

VI.

How a Water and Oil is generated; and of the Difference of the Water and Oil, and of the vegetable Life and Growth

48

VII.

How Adam (while he was in Paradise) and also Lucifer were glorious Angels, and how they were corrupted and spoiled through Imagination and Pride

56

VIII.

Of the Sulphurean Sude, or Seething of the Earth; how the Vegetation proceeds from the Earth; and also the Difference of Sex, and various Kinds of Creatures; an open Gate for the searching Philosopher

76

IX.

Of the Signature, shewing how the inward [Ens] signs the outward

91

X.

Of the inward and outward Cure of Man

108

XI.

Of the Process of Christ in his Suffering, Dying, and Rising again: Of the Wonder of the Sixth Kingdom in the Mother of all Beings; how the Consummatum Est was finished, and how like wise, by way of Similitude, it is accomplished and effected in the Grand Philosophic Work, or Universal Tincture

129

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XII.

Of the Seventh Form in the Kingdom of the Mother; shewing how the Seventh Kingdom, viz. the Solar Kingdom is again opened and revived, set forth in the Similitude of Christ's Resurrection

152

XIII.

Of the Enmity [contrary Will or annoying Distemper] of the Spirit and Body, and of their Cure and Restoration

162

XIV.

Of the Wheel of Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt; of the Generation of Good and Evil: how the one is changed into the other, and how the one manifests its Property in the other, and yet remains in the first Creation in the Wonder of God to his own Manifestation and Glory

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XV.

Of the Will of the great Mystery in Good and Evil; how a good and evil Will originally arises, and how the one introduces itself into the other

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XVI.

Of the Eternal Signature and Heavenly Joy; why all Things were brought into Evil and Good; wherein the real Ground of Election and Reprobation may be rightly understood

210

Of the Supersensual Life: Two Dialogues between a Scholar or Disciple and his Master—

     Dialogue I.

227

     Dialogue II.

245

The Way from Darkness to True Illumination: A Discourse between a Soul Hungry and Thirsty and a Soul Enlightened

277