Divine Seals

God in materializing Himself, to speak thus, by the Creation of the World, did not think that it was enough to have made such beautiful things, He wished to place upon it the seal of His divinity, and to manifest Himself still more perfectly by the formation of Man. To this end, He made him in His image, and in that of the World. He gave him a soul, a mind and a body and of these three things, united in the same subject, He constituted humanity. 

See, so astonishing is God, concerning these small animals, that I dare say that in the insects lie sealed God s innumerable wonders, which seals open, while leafing through the book of nature, the Bible of natural divinity, in which God s invisibility becomes visible. 

When you are ready to transmit the Way, face north and do not disclose it for one [double] hour (yishi). If the sky is clear and there is no wind, the Way can be transmitted. [Master and disciple] seal their covenant by drinking together some blood of a white chicken. Transmit the oral instructions and the essentials of the compounding of the elixirs, and throw the golden figurines of the man and the fish into the stream. This is done so that the multitudes of those who are not suited for becoming a divine immortal never see this Way. 

Let the crucible cool, and open it. Collect the elixir by brushing it [with a feather], and add to it some carp gall liyu dan). [6a] Then smear and seal the crucible once more as before, and sublimate the elixir again, nine times above and nine times below. Let the crucible cool, and open it. Collect the elixir by brushing it [with a feather], and add to it some Grease of Dragons. This is the Divine Tally. 

Seal the crucible with the Mud of the Six-and-One, and, as in the initial method, leave it in the sun for ten days so that it becomes completely dry. Then place the crucible over the fire if it is humid this is not possible, as it would break when you heat it. Heat it again for nine days and nine nights. Then you can extinguish the fire, let the crucible cool for one day, and open it. Brushing with a feather, collect the sublimated essence (feijing) that adheres to the upper crucible. If it is of an intense purple color, it is the Reverted Elixir of the Divine Tally (shenfu huandan). 

The epiphany of the Apocryphon of John occurs when in a moment of divine revelation, the protagonist John recognizes that he is constituted of a fundamentally different substance than the lower celestial beings. This moment of epiphany coincides with, and corresponds to, the sacramental rite of baptism. In the Pronoia H)mtn that culminates the long recension of the Apjn, Pronoia descends and confers the Five Seals on Adam, who asks. 

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