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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. (26)
And thirdly, you find in all Things a glorious Power and Virtue, which is the Life, Growing and Springing of every Thing, and you find that therein lies its Beauty and pleasant Welfare, from whence it stirs. Now look upon an Herb or Plant, and consider it, what is its Life which makes it grow? And you shall find in the Original, Harshness, Bitterness, Fire, and Water, and if you should separate these four Things one from another, and put them together again, yet you shall neither see nor find any Growing; but if it were severed from its own Mother that generated it at the Beginning, then it remains dead; much less can you bring the pleasant Smell, or Colours into it.
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (108)
I. First, there is the Power, from which a Body comes to be, whether Wood, Stone, or Herbs. II. After that, there is a Sap in that Thing, which is...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (81)
In the Earth thou canst not perceive, find, or search out any Thing besides the Herbs, Plants or Vegetables and Metals, more than Astringency,...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (93)
Behold! that is the Birth or Geniture of Nature; and so now if in these three Qualities, viz. the astringent, bitter and sweet, the Wrath-fire was...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (58)
And though it were quite burnt up and consumed in the Fire, yet its Power and Virtue stands in the four Elements in the Word, and the Soul qualifies, ...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (108)
Thou canst kindle Wood, that it give Light, for the Water is chief upper Regent or Predominant therein; so likewise in all Sorts of Herbs on Earth,...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (107)
Now observe: In either Wood, Stone, or Herbs, there are Three Things contained, neither can any Thing be generated or grow, if but one of the Three...
Chapter 1: Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature: Of both the Qualities, the Good and the Evil. (7)
For it makes all Things in this World living and moving, all Flesh, Trees, Leaves, and Grass, grow in this World, in the Power of the Light, and have ...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (80)
Another Question is, [Note, how God is in all Things, yet no Creature is He.] Why then is the Earth so mountainous, hilly, rocky, stony and uneven? An...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (106)
For Example, thou canst kindle all Things in this World, and so make them give Light, and burn, if the sweet Quality has the Predominance in it; and w...
Asclepius
Section II (2)
All things descend from Heaven to Earth, to Water and to Air. ’Tis Fire alone, in that it is borne upwards, giveth life; that which [is carried]...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (53)
All Qualities take their Beginning-Original in their Middle or Center: Therefore observe where the Fire is generated; for there rises up the Flash of...
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...
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (29)
Every Star has a several peculiar Property, which thou mayest perceive by the curious Ornament of the budding blossoming Earth. And the Creator has...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (22)
For that is called its own Kind, which is received in the Mother's Body or Womb, and is its own by Right of Nature, as its own peculiar Life. [Gen. 1....