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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 3: Of the endless and numberless manifold engendering, [generating,] or Birth of the eternal Nature. The Gates of the great Depth. (14)
Thus in the Harshness there is a new Birth again; understand, where the tart [sour Astringency] is predominant in the Birth, and where the Fire is not kindled according to the bitter Sting or Prickle, or from the Beginning of the Anguish: But the rising [or exulting] Joy, is now the Center and Kindling of the Light, and the Tartness [or Astringency] has now in its own Quality the S U L, Oil, and Light of the Father: Therefore now the Birth out of the Twig or Branch of the first Tree is qualified altogether according to the harsh Fountain; and the Fire therein is a tart [or sour] Fire; and the Bitterness a tart Bitterness; and the Sound a tart Sound; and the Love a tart Love; but all in mere Perfection, and in a totally glorious Love and 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. (119)
When the astringent or harsh Quality, as the Father, forms the Word or Son, or Spirit, then it stands captive in the Center of the Heart, and is...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (109)
But their sharp or tart Birth, of which I have written above, abides hidden as a Kernel, for it becomes mitigated by the light and sweet Water.
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (59)
But when the bitter Flash, together with the Astringent and Fire-spirit, tastes this Meekness, there is nothing else then but a mere Longing, Desiring...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (103)
Whereupon they would get their true Life, and would be satisfied by the Light, and rejoice highly therein, and from that living Joy, Love would arise...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (119)
I. The Hardness generates a hard, raw, rough, cold, and astringent Quality. II. The Sweetness is grown faint, like a glowing Coal, when there is no mo...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (151)
Then it kindles the sweet Source or Quality, with an Intent to be refreshed, but there is no Sap left, only the sweet Source or Quality is now...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (45)
In this Kindling of the Light, in the Stars and Elements, the Birth of Nature did not thereupon wholly transmute or change itself into the holy...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (39)
This Generating is a very meek beneficial Welldoing, and the bitter Spirit now is the living Mobility.
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (38)
When the Light is generated in the bitter Quality; that is, when the bitter and dry Fountain-sources catch the sweet Fountain-water of Life, and...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (55)
For they kindled the Salitter of the Body, and generated a high triumphing Son, which in the astringent Quality, was hard, rugged or rough, dark and c...