oulhoum

. . . And as man is made up of four elements, so also is the stone, and so it is [dug] out of man, and thou are its ore, namely by working; and from thee it is extracted, that is by division; and in thee its remains inseparably, namely by knowledge. [To express it] otherwise, fixed in thee; namely by ueoohming. aof' ot ue oul et esiw eth fo; thou are its ore; that is, it is enclosed in thee and thou holdest it secretly; and from thee it is extracted when it is reduced [to its essense] by thee and dissolved; for without thee it cannot be fulfilled, without it canst thou not live, and so the end looks to the beginning, and contrariwise. moreen "chooses its own sources . . . and from this water goes forth to every nature that which is proper to it. The water or, as we could say, this Christ is a sort of panspermia, a matrix of all possibilities, from which the chooses "his osob," his isiosyncrasy, that "flies to him more [quickly] than iron to the magnet."