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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 1: Of the first Principle of the Divine Essence. (2)
But there is yet this difference [to be observed,] that Evil neither is, nor is called God; this is understood in the first Principle, where it is the earnest Fountain of the Wrathfulness, according to which, God calls himself an angry, wrathful, zealous God. For the original of Life, and of all Mobility, consists in the Wrathfulness; yet if the tartness be kindled with the Light of God, it is then no more Tartness, but the severe Wrathfulness is changed into great Joy.
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (47)
"But in the Out-speaking of his Word, wherein the Nature of the spiritual World exists, wherein Perceptibility or Sensibility is understood to...
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (54)
Man cannot be absolutely or wholly pure without Wrath and Sin, for the Births of the Depth in this World are not fully pure before the Heart of God;...
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (63)
Yet you must not therefore conceive, that in God there is Good and Evil, for God himself is the Good, and has the Name from Good, which is the triumph...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (70)
Of the kindling of the Wrath-Fire.
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (15)
Concerning this Kindling in this Circumference or Extent, it is that God calls himself “an angry, zealous, or jealous God against those that hate...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (12)
Thou must not here think, that God has made some new Thing, which never was before; for if that were so, then there had been another God, which is...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (15)
But observe here rightly the earnest and severe Birth or Geniture, out of which the Wrath of God, Hell and Death, are come to be, which indeed have be...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (37)
No; here lies the Point; the Wrath does not comprehend the innermost Birth or Geniture in Nature, for the Love of God is yet hidden in the Center, in ...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (110)
Now thou wilt ask, Question. Why did God suffer Lucifer’s Evil Spirit, which proceeded out of the Body of Lucifer, to come into Him? Could he not hind...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (65)
From hence now existed the great contrary opposite Will and eternal Enmity between God and Lucifer; for the Power of God moves very softly, meekly,...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (48)
I understand the abovesaid Question magically, taking Notice how God's Love and Wrath differ, and are distinguished, and how the Knowledge of Evil,...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (60)
They who stir up the Wrath of God upon themselves, that Wrath stands also in all the Spirits of God, in that Place where it is awakened, stirred up,...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (84)
Here nothing goes out of, or forth from the Sharpness which perishes, or which kindles the Wrath, but the Spirits play very gently one with another, l...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (46)
"This foregoing Question is thus understood or meant; as when I say, God knoweth not the Evil; also God willeth not the Evil, according to the Tenure...