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what he deserves. There will then be no doctors and 

 no magisters, and those who are now making a great 

 deal of parade and noise will then be very silent; but 

 those who have received the true understanding will 

 be happy. Therefore I recommend my writings to be 

 judged at that time when all things will become mani- 

 fest, and when each one will see the light as it was 

 revealed to him." 



" The evil spirits are, so to say, the bailiffs and execu- 

 tioners of God (Karma). They have been called into 

 existence by the influences of evil, and they work out 

 their destiny. But the vulgar have a too high estimate 

 of their powers, especially of the power of the devil. 

 The devil has not enough power to mend a broken pot, 

 much less to enrich a man. He — or it — is the poorest 

 thing that can be thought of, and poorer than any being 

 that can be found in the four elements.^ There are a 

 great many inventions, sciences, and arts that are ascribed 

 to the agency of the (personal) devil ; but before the 

 world grows much older it will be found that the devil 

 has nothing to do with such things, that the devil is 

 nothing and knows nothing, and that such things are 

 the results of natural causes. True science can accom- 

 plish a great deal ; the Eternal Wisdom of the existence 

 of all things is without a time, without a beginning, and 

 without an end. Things that are considered now to be 

 impossible will be accomplished ; that which is unex- 

 pected will in future prove to be true, and that which is 

 looked upon as superstition in one century will be the 

 basis for the approved science of the next " {Philosophia 

 Occulta). 



^ The " devil " is evil spiritual will. The devil has no power over man ; 

 but if man allows a devil within himself to grow, then will the great Devil 

 aid the little devil to grow and nourish him with his own substance. {See 

 "The Doctrines of Jacob Boehme.") 



