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Passages similar to: The Three Principles of the Divine Essence — Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth.
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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (18)
The eternal Generating is an unbeginning Birth, and it has neither Number nor End, and its Depth is bottomless, and the Band of Life incorruptible: The syderial and elementary Spirit cannot discern it, much less comprehend it; it only feels it, and sees a Glimpse of it in the Mind; which [Mind] is the Chariot of the Soul, upon which it rides in the first Principle in its own Seat in the Father's eternal Generating [or Begetting;] for its own Substance is altogether crude, without a Body, and yet it has the Form of the Body in its own spiritual Form, understand according to the Image; which Soul, if it be regenerated in the Light of God, it sees in the Light of the Father, (which Light is his Glance, Luster, or Son,) in the eternal Birth, wherein it lives and remains eternally.
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (36)
This light I call, in the human birth or geniture, the animated or soulish birth— ["Understand, the image which budded forth out of the essences of th...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (21)
Behold, the first, innermost and deepest birth or geniture stands in the centre, and is the heart of the Deity, which is generated by the qualifying...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (42)
For from the touching and moving the living spirit generateth itself, and that same spirit presseth through all births or generatings, very inconceive...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (17)
And these births or genitures have no beginning, but have so generated themselves from eternity; and as to this depth, God himself knoweth not what he...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (52)
But in the instanding or innate birth or geniture of the spirits, where the one still generateth the other, there every spirit generateth all the seve...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (137)
Though it be generated in God and from God, yet it is but the instrument of his handiwork, which cannot apprehend and reach back again to the clear...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (65)
Only the birth therein is thus, and so the one generateth the other, in and through itself, and the birth lasteth or continueth thus from eternity to...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (54)
So the Son of God is continually generated from all the powers of his Father from eternity, and is not made, but is the heart and lustre shining forth...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (139)
For the outermost birth is nature, and that ought not to reach back into the heart of God, neither can it, but it is the body, in which the qualifying...