Ruah-Elohim

It is Luther s mode of interpretation, however, that facilitated the development of his alchemical theosophy of Christ as the Ruah-Elohim, the quintessential Spirit of Nature and the creative Principle of alchemy. Metaphors of Christ as the philosopher s stone had been... 

See the discussion of Khunrath s theosophy in Szulakowska, The Alchemy of Light (2000), 79-137. Christ, the Ruah-Elohim, became the Paracelsian azoth. See Heinrich Khunrath, Vom Hylealischen das ist pri-matmalischen oder algerminen naturlichen Chaos (Magdeburg J. Schmeidt for Johann Francken, 1616), 75, 86-88. Christ is also identified with the Paracelsian Salt, the prime matter of creation. 

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