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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. (51)
And in this Joy, in the Water-Spring, [or Source,] the pleasant Source of the bottomless Love rises up, and all that rises up there is the second Principle: For the whole Begetting or Generating falls into a glorious Love; for the Harshness now loves the Light dearly, because it is so refreshing, chearly, and beautiful; for from this pleasant Refreshing it becomes thus sweet, courteous, and humble [or lowly;] and the Bitterness now loves the Harshness, because it is no more dark, nor so strongly [eagerly or fiercely] attractive to itself, but is sweet, mild, pure, and light.
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 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 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 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 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (108)
For in the Light in the sweet Water all Astringency, and Hardness, and Bitterness, and Heat, are mitigated and made pleasant, and so there is in the s...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (38)
There each Spirit tastes of the other, and gets mere new Strength and Power, for the astringent Quality grows now very pliable and yielding, because...
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 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 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 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. (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 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (37)
V. The fifth Generating in God, is when this Light thus very gently, mildly, and amiably presses through the first four Births or Generatings, and...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (57)
For this is the Water of Life, wherein the Love in God, as also in Angels and Men, generates itself: For it is all of one Sort of Power, Virtue, and B...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (51)
And first the Sweet. For in the sweet Water the bitter Spirit is refreshed, and therein it quenches its great Thirst; and its Bitterness is therein mi...