e interred one is a certain sulphur, the impure sulphur, willfulness.
The birds, from which we are to protect the grain, may in the end be the
Siddhi; they are, in the introversion form of the religious work, what
would otherwise be merely "diversions" or "dissipations."

The mystical death is the death of egoism (in Hindu terminology ahamkara).
Jacob Boehme writes in his book of the true atonement, I, 19: "...
Although I am not worthy, [Jesus] take me yet in thy death and let me only
in thy death die my death; still strike thou me in my acknowledged
selfishness to the ground and kill my selfishness by thy death...." In the
Mysterium Magnum, XXXVI, 74, 75: "... We exalt not the outspoken word of
the wisdom of God, but only the animal will to selfishness and egoism
which is departed from God, which honors itself as a false God of its own
and may not believe or trust God (as the Antichrist who has placed himself
in God's stead); and we teach on the contrary that the man of the
Antichrist's image shall wholly die so that he may be born in Christ of a
new life and will, which new will has power in the perfect word of nature
with divine eyes to see all the miracles of God, both in nature and
creature, in the perfect wisdom. For as dies the Antichrist in the soul,
so rises Christ from the dead."

In the hermetic book, "Gloria Mundi," it is related of Adam that he would
have been able, if he had not acted contrary to God, to live 2000 years in
paradise and would then have been taken up into heaven; but he had drawn
on himself death, sickness and calamity. Only through the grace of God was
he given a partial knowledge of the powers of things, of herbs and
remedies against manifold infirmities. "When, however, he could no longer
maintain himself by the medicinal art [in paradise] he sent his son Seth
forth to paradise for the tree of life, which he received, not physically,
but spiritually. Finally he desired the oil of compassion, whereupon by
the angels, at God's command to give the oil, the promise was given and
thereupon the seed of the oil tree sent, which seed Seth planted on his
return, after his father's death and on his father's grave, from which
grew the wood of the holy cross, on which our Lord Jesus Christ, through
his passion and death, freed us from death and all sins; which Lord Christ
in his holiest humanity has become the tree and the wood of life and has
brought to us the fruit of the oil of compassion...." Adam