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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. (17)
The Propagation of the Love is most especially to be observed, for it is the loveliest, pleasantest, and sweetest Fountain of all. When the Love generates again a whole Birth, with all the Fountains of the original Essences out of itself, so that the Love in all the a springing Veins in that new Birth is predominant and chief, so that a Center arises therein, then the first Essence, vis. the Tartness, is wholly desirous or longing, wholly sweet, wholly light, and gives itself forth to be Food to all the Qualities, with a hearty Affection towards them all, as a loving Mother has towards her Children, and here the Bitterness may be rightly called Joy, for it is the Rising or Moving [thereof.] What Joy there is here, there is no other Similitude of it, than when a Man is suddenly and unexpectedly delivered out of the Pain and Torment of Hell, and put into the Light of the Divine Joy.
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. (33)
In this rising up, the astringent Quality becomes meek, light, thin, or transparent, and pleasant or lovely, and obtains its Life, whose Original...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (30)
That same Light is generated in the Midst or Center out of these four Species, out of the Unctuosity or Fatness of the sweet Water, and replenishes...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (58)
For it rises up swiftly out of the Birth, when the Water of Life comes into the Birth or Geniture; like a joyful Leaping or Springing up of the Birth.
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (21)
Now observe, The gracious, amiable, blessed Love, which is the fifth Fountain-spirit, in the divine Power, is the hidden Source, Fountain, or...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (159)
That friendly courteous Love-Light-Fire goes along in the sweet Quality, and rises up into the bitter and astringent Quality, and so kindles it,...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (102)
Spring or fountain-Water is generated by the driving about or rising up of the Spirits, for when the Light is generated in the Heat, then the astringe...
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 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (39)
For the sweet Water, and the Light in the sweet Water, rise up continually in the astringent Quality, and the bitter Quality triumphs continually ther...
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 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (68)
That is, when the Gall in the Loving or Sweet Quality is inflamed, in that which Man is in love withal, then the whole Body trembles for the Joy, in w...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (38)
In the Middle, or central Fountain or Well-spring, which is the Heart, where the Birth rises up, the astringent or harsh Quality rubs itself with the...
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...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (101)
And in this Motion it grows unctuous or fat, and luscious or luxuriant; it increases and spreads itself, and the highest Depth generates itself very j...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (18)
The bitter Quality qualifies in the sweet, astringent or harsh and sour Quality, and the Love rises up therein from Eternity to Eternity.