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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. (44)
Seeing, now that we can find nothing in all Nature, of which we may say, This is God, or here is God, from whence we might conclude, that God might be some strange Thing; and seeing himself witnesses, that his is the Kingdom and the Power from Eternity to Eternity; and that he calls himself Father, (and the Son is begotten out of the Loins of his Father,) therefore we must seek for him in the Original, a in the Principle out of which the World was generated and created in the Beginning; and we can say no otherwise, but that the first Principle is God the Father himself.
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (32)
The Father is all, and all Power subsists in the Father: He is the Beginning and the End of all Things; and besides and beyond him is nothing; and...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (82)
The Father is the whole Divine Power, whence all Creatures have proceeded, and has been always from Eternity: He has neither Beginning nor End.
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (13)
When we consider the whole Nature and its Property, then we see the Father.
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (43)
When thou beholdest the Deep betwixt the Stars and the Earth, canst thou say, that is not God, or there God is not? O, thou miserable corrupted Man!...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (26)
He is proceeded or born of Nothing, but Himself is all in Eternity; and all whatsoever is, is come from his Power, which from Eternity goes from him.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XII: God Cannot Be Embraced in Words or By the Mind. (8)
The only-begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him," -calling invisibility and ineffableness the bosom of God. Hence some ...
Chapter 7: Of the Court, Place and Dwelling, also of the Government of Angels, how these things stood at the Beginning, after the Creation, and how they became as they are. (57)
Of the Nativities or Genitures of Angelical Kings, and how they come to be. ["This also is more fundamentally described in the Second and Third Book."...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (16)
Powers which are in Nature proceed from God the Father; all Light, Heat, Cold, Air, Water, and all the Powers of the Earth; Bitter, Sower, Sweet, Astr...
Tripartite Tractate
The Father (1)
He existed before anything other than himself came into being. The Father is a single one, like a number, for he is the first one and the one who is only himself.…
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (2)
Then presently he thinks God has made this thus, out of or from his predestinate Purpose, out of nothing: How then can God be in this Being? Or, can...
Chapter 7: Of the Court, Place and Dwelling, also of the Government of Angels, how these things stood at the Beginning, after the Creation, and how they became as they are. (40)
The Father's Power is all, in and above all Heavens, and the same Power every where generates the Light. Now this UNIVERSAL POWER is, and is called...
Chapter 7: Of the Court, Place and Dwelling, also of the Government of Angels, how these things stood at the Beginning, after the Creation, and how they became as they are. (46)
Now if a Man should say, the Son of God was an Image, circumscriptive or measurable like the Sun, then the Three Persons would only be in that Place...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (67)
The whole Birth or Geniture, which is the Heaven of all Heavens, as also this World, which is in the Body of the whole, as also the Place of the...
Chapter 7: Of the Court, Place and Dwelling, also of the Government of Angels, how these things stood at the Beginning, after the Creation, and how they became as they are. (37)
For if it was so, then must the Son of God have a Beginning, and the Father must have generated him at once, and then he could not be the Eternal Almi...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (7)
All Power is in God the Father, and he is the Fountain of all Powers in his Deep; in Him is Light and Darkness, Air and Water, Heat and Cold, Hard...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XI: Abstraction From Material Things Necessary in Order to Attain To the True Knowledge of God. (11)
If, then, abstracting all that belongs to bodies and things called incorporeal, we cast ourselves into the greatness of Christ, and thence advance...