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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 5: Of the Third Principle, or Creation of the material World, with the Stars and Elements; wherein the First and Second Principles are more clearly understood. (9)
Secondly, you [may] thus see the Separation clearly by the Stars and fiery Heaven, that the eternal Separation [or Distinction] is in the eternal Matrix; for you may see that the Stars and the fiery Heaven, and the watery, the airy, and earthly, are generated out of one Mother, that they qualify with [or have Influence upon] one another, and that the Birth of their Substance is in one another, also that one is the Case or Vessel to hold the other in, and yet they have not one and the same [Property] Qualification [or Condition.] Thus here in the Separation you [may] know, that the eternal Matrix has a Separation in itself, as is mentioned before in the third Chapter concerning the eternal Birth of the four Anguishes, where the Fire is generated between Harshness and Bitterness, and the Light in the Flash of Fire, and so every Source retains its own due.
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. (15)
Understand it thus; viz. with its outward comprehensibility and visibility it stands in the wrath of death; and with the new birth rising up therein, ...