Anton Josef Kirchweger..........................................................................................................................1
Chapter 1. What Nature is........................................................................................................................1
Chapter 2. How all things proceed therefrom.........................................................................................1
Chapter 3. How all things are further generated.....................................................................................4
Chapter 4. How the Universal Sperm is generated by the four Elements...............................................4
Chapter 5. In what manner the divided Chaotic water is regenerated and becomes the Universal
and General Sperm of all Things, called Anima or Spiritus Mundi.......................................................6
Chapter 6. Of the Heavens and their Influence.......................................................................................6
Chapter 7. Of the Atmosphere or air, and its Influence..........................................................................7
Chapter 8. Of Water and its Effluvium....................................................................................................8
Chapter 9. Of the Earth and its Effluvium..............................................................................................9
Chapter 10. Discovery of the genuine Universal Sperm in the regenerated Chaos, the corporified
Animal or Spiritus Mundi.....................................................................................................................11
Chapter 11. That nitre and salt are found in the air and in all things in this World. ............................16
Chapter 12. That there is nitre and salt in all waters and earths...........................................................18
Chapter 13. That nitre and salt is found in Animals, that Animals proceed from nitre and salt,
and are resolved into nitre and salt.......................................................................................................19
Chapter 14. That nitre and salt is found in Vegetables; that Vegetables consist of nitre and salt,
and are resolved into nitre and salt.......................................................................................................19
Chapter 15. That nitre and salt is found in Minerals; that Minerals are formed of nitre and salt,
and are resolved into nitre and salt.......................................................................................................20
Chapter 16. Of the principal Gate Key to Nature, the author of destruction and regeneration of
all things, called Putrefaction................................................................................................................22
Chapter 17. What Putrefaction is...........................................................................................................23

Nature comprehends the visible and invisible Creatures of the Whole universe. What we call Nature
especially, is the universal fire or Anima Mundi, filling the whole system of the Universe, and therefore is a
Universal Agent, omnipresent, and endowed with an unerring instinct, and manifests itself in fire and Light.
It is the First creature of Divine Omnipotence.