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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. (65)
Behold, O Child of Man! All the Angels were created in the first Principle, and by the outflowing Spirit were formed, and made a Body in a true angelical and spiritual Manner, and enlightened from the Light of God, that they might increase the paradisical Joy, and abide [therein] eternally. But seeing they were to abide eternally, they must be figured [or formed] out of the indissoluble Band, out of the first Principle, which is an indissoluble Band; and they ought to look upon the Heart of God, and feed upon the Word of God, and this Food would be their holy Preservation, and would make their Image clear and light; as the Heart of God, in the Beginning of the second Principle, enlightens the Father, (that is, the first Principle;) and there the divine Power, Paradise, and the Kingdom of Heaven spring up.
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 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (13)
God created angels out of himself, for this reason, that they might be harder and drier incorporated or compacted together than the ideas, figures,...
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 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (49)
To this end God the Father has created the angels, that as he is manifold and various in his qualities, and in his alteration or variegation is...
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 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 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 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (50)
The seven spirits of nature in an angel should play and rise up gently in God their Father, as they had done before their creaturely being, and...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (32)
The angel-princes were created according to the spirits of God, and the Cherubim according to the heart of God: And as the divine being works, so...
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. (24)
Therefore has he created the holy angels out of himself, which are as it were little gods, answerable to the being and qualities of the whole God, tha...
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 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. (22)
The holy angels were made to be creatures from God, that they should praise, sing, ring forth and jubilate before the Heart of God, (which is the Son...
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 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (15)
First of all, the powers of the Father generate a light, whereby an angel seeth into the whole Father, whereby he can see the outward power and...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (90)
"So when it is written, the angels are created out of God, then it is understood or meant out of God's eternal nature, wherein is understood or meant...
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. (72)
As the Father generateth his Son, that is, his heart or light out of all his powers, and that light which is the Son generateth the life in all the...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (33)
Every angel is created in the seventh qualifying or fountain spirit [or faculty], which is NATURE, out of which his body is compacted or incorporated...
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. (74)
And, as from the place of the sun was created and generated the planetic wheel or sphere, wherein each star is desirous of the splendour and power of ...
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 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (14)
First, the body is out of all the powers of the Father, and in those powers is the light of God the Son; now the powers of the Father and of the Son,...
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