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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 1: Of the first Principle of the Divine Essence. (9)
This is as was mentioned before; the Harshness is the Prima Materia, or first Matter, which is strong, and very eagerly and earnestly attractive, that is Sal: The Bitterness is nin the strong Attracting, for the Spirit sharpens itself in the strong Attracting, so that it becomes wholly aching, [anxious or vexed.] For Example, in Man, when he is enraged, how his Spirit attracts itself, which makes him bitter [or sour,] and trembling; and if it be not suddenly withstood and quenched, we see that the Fire of Anger kindles in him so, that he burns in Malice, and then presently a to be revenged. Purpose.
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (24)
The original of the bitter quality is when the flash of life in the heat riseth up in the astringent quality; and now when the flash of fire in the...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (80)
Then next the bitter spirit, which existeth in the fire-flash, is also in the matter or mass, and that cannot endure to be captivated or imprisoned...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (19)
I. First, there is the astringent quality, which is always generated from the other six spirits, which in itself is hard, cold, sharp like salt, and...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (91)
The astringent or harsh quality in the spirit that went forth kindled the astringent or harsh quality which was in the place of its region, or in...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (23)
This astringent quality is one species or source of wrath in the divine Salitter; and when this source is kindled, which may be done by great motion...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (26)
In that fierceness now the bitter spirit becometh self-subsisting; and in the sweet it becometh meek or mild; and in the hard it becometh corporeal; a...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (69)
Between these two qualities is heat generated from its hard and fierce bitter rubbing, tearing and raging, which riseth up in the bitter and hard...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (48)
The bitter quality is the first spirit from whence mobility taketh its original, whence the life becometh stirring, and is well called Cor or the...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (29)
Understand this rightly.
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (85)
But when it seeth that it is like to be taken or captivated (the bitter quality from within pressing so hard upon it, and the heat from without pressi...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (91)
III. Thirdly, the bitter quality, which existeth in the kindling of the water in the fire-flash, is melted away, for that is a rager, raver, tyrant...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (22)
First: In the divine power there is, hidden in secret, the astringent quality, which is a quality of the kernel, pith or hidden being, a sharp...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (25)
Now the astringent and the bitter qualities, without the sweet water, rub and drive themselves so hard the one against the other, that they generate...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (23)
First there is the astringent quality, then the sweet, and next the bitter: The sweet is in the midst between the astringent and the bitter. Now the...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (60)
The astringent or harsh and sour quality, and the sweet, are the Salitter, which belongeth to the body, out of which the body is framed.
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (20)
And the flash in itself keepeth its fierceness, from whence existeth the bitter quality, or the bitter spirit, which now riseth up in the astringent q...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (45)
The astringent or harsh quality is the kernel or stock, and is sour or attractive; and the sweet is the light, mollifying and softening; and the...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (62)
And the bitter quality is the separation and forming, and the heat is the spirit, or the kindling of the life, whereby the spirit existeth in the body...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (28)
This is thus in the original of the quality in itself; but in the midst, in the rising up of this fierce spirit, this [same] spirit is caught and...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (146)
Now when he elevateth himself, he elevateth himself first in the astringent quality, which he gripeth close together, as a woman who is in travail,...
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