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Christian Mysticism
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. (15)
And thus also the first bitter Sting or Prickle, or the first Bitterness (after the Light is kindled, and that the first Birth stands in Perfection,) generates again out of its own Quality an or Source springs up in a new Fire or Life, having the Condition and Property of all the Qualities, and yet the Bitterness in this new Sprout is chief est among all the Qualities; so that there is a bitter Bitterness, a bitter Tartness, a bitter Water-Spirit, a bitter Sound, a bitter Fire, a bitter Love, yet all perfectly in the rising up of great Joy.
Christian Mysticism
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...
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Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (48)
The bitter Quality is the first Spirit, whence the Life becomes stirring, from whence Mobility takes its Original, and is well called Cor or the...
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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 rises up in the astringent Quality; and now when the Flash of Fire in the...
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Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (30)
And that bright Light Fountain-water kindles the astringent and bitter Quality, and the Heat, which is generated by the astringent and bitter Quality ...
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Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (51)
And first the Sweet. For in the sweet Water the bitter Spirit is refreshed, and therein it quenches its great Thirst; and its Bitterness is therein mi...
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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 Spirit is caught and mitigated...
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Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (158)
Water being dried up, the bitter Quality (which existed and was generated by the first Flash, when the Light kindled itself) rose up in the Body throu...
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Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (12)
When the astringent Quality rubs itself with the Bitter, so that the Heat rises up in the sweet Spring or Fountain-water, then the Heat kindles the...
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Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (29)
Light kindles in the Heat in the sweet Fountain-water, and this is the Beginning of Life: For the astringent and bitter Qualities are the Beginning an...
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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...
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Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (107)
But when the bitter Quality rises up therein, then it divides and forms itself, as if it was alive, or lively, or as if the Life did rise up there, in...
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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 exists in the Body, ...
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Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (51)
Yet further, this Quality, when it is kindled, is the bitter hellish Fire, which puts out the Light, turning the sweet Quality into a Sink, causing a ...
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Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (72)
This Spirit takes its Original in the Fire-flash, that is, in the bitter Quality, and rises up in the Flash through the sweet Water, wherein it...
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Chapter 1: Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature: Of both the Qualities, the Good and the Evil. (28)
The Bitter Quality is the Heart in every Life; for as it draws together the Water in the Air, and also dissipates the same, so that it becomes...
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Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (85)
But when it sees that it is like to be taken or captivated, the bitter Quality from within pressing so hard upon it, and the Heat from without pressin...
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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...
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Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (14)
And the bitter Quality is now impregnated with the Light, and so trembles in the astringent and bitter Quality, and stirs therein, and is captivated i...
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Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (91)
III. Thirdly, the bitter Quality, which exists in the Kindling of the Water in the Fire-flash, is melted away, for that is a Rager, Raver, Tyrant,...
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Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (31)
And when the Light rises up out of the sweet Fountain-water in the Heat, in the astringent and bitter Quality, then the bitter and astringent Quality ...
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