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ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS: ROBERT FLUDD. 305
According to .Fludd's philosophy, the whole universe was
fashioned after the pattern of an archetypal world which
existed in the Divine ideality, and was framed out of unity
in a threefold manner. The Eternal Monad or Unity,
without any egression from his own central profundity,
compasses complicitly the three cosmical dimensions, namely,
root, square, and cube. If we multiply unity as a root, in
itself, it will produce only unity for its square, which being
again multiplied in itself, brings forth a cube which is one
with root and square. Thus we have three branches
differing in formal progression, yet one unity in which all
things remain potentially, and that after a most abstruse
manner. The archetypal world was made by the egres-
sion of one out of one, and by the regression of that one,
so emitted, into itself by emanation. According
to this
ideal image, or archetypal world, our universe was subse-
quently fashioned as a true type and exemplar
Divine Pattern ;
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for out of unity in his abstract existence,
viz., as it was hidden in the dark chaos, or potential mass,
the bright flame of all formal being did shine forth, and
the Spirit of Wisdom, proceeding from them both, con-
joined the formal emanation with the potential matter, so
that by the union of the divine emanation of light and the
substantial darkness, which was water, the heavens were
made of old, and the whole world.
God, according to these abstruse speculations,
is that
pure, catholic unity which includes and comprehends all
multiplicity, and which before the objective projection of
the cosmos must be considered as a transcendent entity, re-
served only in itself, in whose divine puissance, as in a place
without end or limit, all things which are now explicitly
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