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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. (46)
But the Angels and the Devils, as also the Soul of Man, are merely and purely out of the same Spirit. The Devils and the Angels, in the Time of their Corporization, continued therein; and the Soul of Man, in the Time of the creating of the Body, [is] breathed in from the Spirit of God, in the Root of the third Principle, and now continues therein, in Eternity, inseparately and immoveably in the eternal Substance or Essence of GOD. And as little as the pure eternal Birth and the indissoluble Band of the Father ends or vanishes, so little also will such a Spirit have an End.
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (36)
Answer The holy soul of a man, and the spirit of an angel, are and have one and the same substance and being, and there is no difference therein, but...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (68)
For there is no difference between the spirits of God and the angels, but only this, that the angels are creatures, and their corporeal being has a be...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (16)
The angels are not alone imaged or framed out of the seventh nature-spirit, as the transitory creatures are, but when the Deity moved itself to the...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (60)
In this body of nature the kindling was now made, for out of this body the angels also were created; and if they had not elevated and kindled...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (125)
For their bodily or corporeal birth stands only in the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, but the animated or soulish birth in the angels uniteth, ...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (137)
For the holy soul is one spirit with God; though indeed it is a creature, yet it is like to the angels: Also the soul of man seeth much deeper than th...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (52)
The spirit sheweth plainly and clearly that, before the creation of angels, the divine being, with its rising and qualifying, was from eternity, and...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (86)
And as is the rising up of the spirits in every place, so the tone also formeth itself, but very meekly, and incomprehensibly to the bodies of the ang...
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (27)
Though indeed they shall be changed at the end of this time, when good and evil shall be separated. So in like manner angels and men, in the...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (95)
When God created the angels, all of them were created wholly out of this birth or geniture of God; their body was compacted or incorporated out of...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (124)
As this has a being or substance, form or condition in angels, so it has also a being, substance, form or condition in man. Therefore bethink and...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (126)
Therefore thou must here know, that the angels with their animated or soulish birth, in which they qualify and unite with God, have striven and fought...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (142)
Now for such an end has God created the angels, and they do so too: for their spirit, which in the centre or heart goeth forth from their light in...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (66)
All qualities and powers are in an angel, as they are in the whole Deity.
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (96)
And as the Holy Ghost in nature formeth and imageth or frameth all, so the spirit of the angels also qualified or united with the Holy Ghost, and did ...
Chapter 6: How an Angel, and how a Man, is the Similitude and Image of God. (12)
And as all the powers in God the Father rise up from eternity to eternity, so all the powers rise up also in an angel, and in a man, into the head; fo...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (18)
And it was also from or out of the heart of God, counited or mixed in the body of the angel in their first compacting or incorporating together; there...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (34)
Now then, seeing the devils kindled their own bodies, intending thereby to domineer over the whole Deity, therefore the creator also, in his wrath,...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (73)
Though they are in God's house, and feed on the fruit of their mother, out of which they were made, yet the bodies are their proper own.
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (130)
But now seeing man is corrupted, therefore the divine birth does not always spring, qualify or operate in him; no, nor in all men either: And though i...