(56) Out of which the Holy Ghost continually exists from Eternity to Eternity, and so continually from Eternity to Eternity goes forth from the Father and the Son, and has neither Beginning nor End.

(83) The Son is in the Father, being the Father’s Heart or Light, and the Father generates the Son continually from Eternity to Eternity; and the Son’s Power and Splendor shine back again in the whole Father, as the Sun does in the whole World.

(55) The Father is the one only Being, who himself is ALL, who continually generates his heartily beloved Son from Eternity, and in both of them the Holy Ghost is continually standing in the Flash, wherein the Life is generated.

(54) so the Son of God is continually generated from all the Powers of his Father from Eternity, and is not made, but is the Heart and Lustre shining forth from the Powers of his Heavenly Father; a self-subsisting Person, the Center, or Body of the Lustre in the Deep.

(55) But the Son is generated continually from Eternity unto Eternity, and shines always continually from Eternity into the Powers of the Father again, whereby the Powers of the Father are always from Eternity to Eternity continually impregnated with the Son, and generates him continually.

(52) Thus also you have the right Ground of this Mystery, and you ought not to think that the Son of God was generated of the Father, at once, at a certain Time, as one that has a Beginning, and that he stands now as a King, and will be worshipped.

(78) Thus there is one God and three distinct Persons one in another, and neither of them can comprehend, or withhold, or fathom the Original of the other, but the Father generates the Son, and the Son is the Father's Heart, and his Love and his Light, and is an Original of Joy, and the Beginning of all Life.

(37) For if it was so, then must the Son of God have a Beginning, and the Father must have generated him at once, and then he could not be the Eternal Almighty Son of the Father, but was like a King, who had yet a greater King above him, who had generated him in Time, and in whose Power it was to alter and change him.

(21) First, he is God, and is in the Father of Eternity, generated out of the Father of Eternity from Eternity, without Beginning and End, out of the Depth of the Omnipotence, out of the broken Gates of the Sharpness [or Depths] of God in the Joy, [or Habitation,] where the Father attracts the pleasant Joy in his eternal Will, whereby the Will is impregnated, with the attracted Virtue of the Light, out of which [Impregnation] the Father conceives the other [or second] Will to generate the Virtue; and that Conception [or comprehension] is his Word, which the Father speaks (out of the Will, before the Will) out of himself; and this Speaking remains in the Mouth of the Father, as fa comprehended Word, with the second Will; and the proceeding forth out of the spoken Word (which goes forth out of the Will through the Word) is the Spirit; and that which is spoken forth % before the Will, is the eternal Wisdom of God, the Virgin of the Chastity.

(7) And we also have already heard that angels learned the truth, and their rulers over them; for they had a beginning. It remains, then, for us, ascending to seek their teacher. And since the unoriginated Being is one, the Omnipotent God; one, too, is the First-begotten, "by whom all things were made, and without whom not one thing ever was made." "For one, in truth, is God, who formed the beginning of all things;" pointing out "the first-begotten Son," Peter writes, accurately comprehending the statement, "In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth." And He is called Wisdom by all the prophets. This is He who is the Teacher of all created beings, the Fellow-counsellor of God, who foreknew all things; and He from above, from the first foundation of the world, "in many ways and many times," trains and perfects; whence it is rightly said, "Call no man your teacher on earth."

(56) For behold, the Father is the original Essence of all Essences. And if now the second Principle did not break forth and spring up in the Birth of the Son, then the Father would be a dark Valley. And thus you see, that the Son (who is the Heart, the Love, the Brightness and the mild Rejoicing of the Father,) [in whom he is well-pleased,] opens another Principle in his Birth, and makes the angry and wrathful Father (as I may say, as to the Originality of the first Principle) reconciled, pleased, loving, and as I may say, merciful; and he is another [Manner of] Person than the Father; for in his a Center there is nothing else but mere Joy, Love, and Pleasure. And yet you may see that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father and the Son, for when the Heart or Light of God is generated in the Father, then there springs up (in the Kindling of the Light in the fifth Form) out of the Water-Source in the Light, a very pleasant sweet smelling and sweet tasted Spirit; and this is that Spirit which in the Original was the bitter Sting or Prickle in the Harshness [or Tartness;] and that makes now in this Water-Source many thousand of the Water.

(60) He is eternally in the Father, and the Father generates him continually from Eternity to Eternity, and the Father and the Son is ONE God, of an equal Being in Power and Omnipotence.