11/25/2023 0 Comments Salt and sacrifice secret area![]() ![]() Hee wrought first at the head, and afterwards came to the foundation. Observe a little with what dignity the Divine Nature comes to shine in his manner of pro∣ceeding to the creation of things For God contrary to Artists in building his Edifice, stretched out first the heavens round a∣bout, afterwards planted the earth below. But although Moses set Heaven before Earth (and observe here that in all Genesis he toucheth at nothing but things sensible, but not of intelligible things which is a point apart) for concerning this, there is no good agreement between Jewes and Christians Saint Chrysostome in his first Homily. And under the word Earth, the two lower, Earth and Water, incorporated into one Globe. The two highest, Aire and Fire, being comprised under the name of Heaven and of the Aethereall Region: for the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 comes from the verbe 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 to shine, and to enflame, the two pro∣prieties of these Elements. ![]() Whereupon the Jew Aristobulus, and some Ethniques willing to shew that Pythagoras and Plato had read Moses bookes, and from thence drawne the greatest part of their most secret Philosophy, alledged that which Moses should have said, that the heaven and the earth were first created Plato in his Timaeus, after, Timaeus Locrien said that God first assembled Fire and Earth, to build an universe thereof (we will shew it more sensibly of Zohar in the Weik of a Candle lighted, for all consists of light, being the first of all Creatures.) These Philosophers presupposing that the World consisted (as indeed it doth) of the foure Elements, which are as well in heaven, and yet higher, as in the earth, and lower, but in a diverse manner. In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth this said Moses on the entrance upon Genesis. Wherein foure things come to be specified, Man, and Sacrifice, Fire, and Salt which yet are reduced to two, comprehending under them, the other two Man and Sacrifice, Fire and Salt in respect of the conformitie they beare each to other. be salted with Fire, and every Sacrifice shall be salted with Salt. ![]() For our intention is here to Treat of Fire and of Salt.Īnd that upon the 9. PYTHAGORAS who of all Pagans was un∣doubtedly, by common consent and appro∣bation, held to have made more profound search, and with less incertainty penetrated into the secrets as well of Divinity, as of Na∣ture, having quaffed full draughts from the living source of Mosaicall Traditions, amid'st his darke sentences, where, accordlng to the Letter, he touched one thing, and mystically understood and comprised another (wherein he imitates the Aegyptians and Chaldaeans, or rather, the Hebrewes, from whence all theirs proceeded) he here sets downe these two: Not to speake of God without Light and to apply Salt in all his Sacrifices and Offerings which he borrowed word for word from Moses, as we shall hereafter declare. ![]()
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