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HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCTANS.
Aleph lucidum. Void of form and life, it is still a material
developing from potentiality into the actual, and was informed
by the Maker of the world with a universal essence,
which is the Light of Moses, and was first evolved in the
empyrean heaven, the highest and supernatural region of
the world, the habitaculum fontis lucidi, the region not of
matter but of form form simple and spiritual beyond all
imagination. There is a second spiritual heaven, partici-
pating in the clarity and tenuity of the first,
of which it is
the base ; this is the medial heaven, called the sphcera
cegualitatis and it is corporeal in respect of the former. The
third heaven is the locality of the four elements. The pro-
gression of the primordial light through the three celestial
spaces was accomplished during the first three days
of crea-
tion. Christ the Wisdom and Word of God, by His appari-
tion out of darkness, that is, by the mutation of the first
principle from dark Aleph to light Aleph, revealed the waters
contained in the profound bosom of the abyss, and animated
them by the emanation of the spirit of eternal fire, and then
by his admirable activity distinguished and separated the
darkness from the light, the obscure and gross waters from
the subtle and pure waters, disposing the heavens and
spheres, as above stated, and dividing the grosser waters
into sublunary elements. These elements are described as
follows : Earth is the conglomeration of the material
darkness and the refuse of the heavens ;
Water is the more
gross spirit of the darkness of the inferior heaven, nearly
devoid of light ; Air is the spirit of the second heaven j
Fire, the spirit of the darkness of the Empyrean heaven.
Fludd's theory of the Macrocosmus is enunciated in the
following manner.