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ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS: ROBERT FLUDD. 301
be terrene, animal, and diabolical, not being founded on the
deific corner-stone, namely, Jesus Christ, who is the essential
substance and foundation of the true science.
The original fountain of true wisdom is in God, the
natura naturans, the infinite, illimitable Spirit, beyond all
imagination, transcending all essence, without name, all
wise, all-clement, the Father, the Word, and the ineffable,
Holy Spirit, the highest and only good, the indivisible
Trinity, the most splendid and indescribable light. This
Wisdom is the vapor virtutis Dei, and the stainless mirror of
the majesty and beneficence of God. All things, of what
nature and condition soever, were made in, by, and through
this Divine Word or emanation, which is God Himself, as
it is the Divine Act, whose root is the Logos, that is, Christ.
This Eternal Wisdom is the fountain or corner-stone of the
higher arts, by which also all mysterious
discoveries are effected and brought to light.
and miraculous
Before the spagirical separation which the Word of God,
or divine Elohim, effected in the six days of creation, the
heavens and earth were one deformed, rude, undigested
mass, complicitly comprehended in one dark abyss,
but ex-
plicitly as yet nothing. This nothing is compared by St
Augustine to speech, which while it is in the speaker's mind
is as nothing to the hearer, but when uttered, that which ex-
isted complicitly in animo loquentis, is explicitly apprehended
by the hearer. This nihihm or nothing
is not a nihilum
negativum. It is the First Matter, the infinite, informal,
primordial Ens, the mysterium magnum of the Paracelsists.
It existed eternally in God. If God had not produced all
things essentially out of Himself, they could not be rightly
referred to Him. The primeval darkness is the potentia
dlvina as light is the actus divinus theAleph tenebrosum and