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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. (16)
And therefore God [created or] generated the third Principle, that he might be i manifested by the material World: He having created the Angels and Spirits in the second Principle in the paradisical World, they could thereby understand the eternal of God, wherein they could behold themselves, and set their Imagination merely 1 upon the Heart of God, in which Form they could remain in Paradise, and continue to be Angels; which the Devils have not done, but they intended to rise up in the Matrix, and domineer in great Power over Paradise, and all angelical Regions, upon which they fell out of Paradise, and besides were driven out of their Place (or Locus) into Restraint, so that the Matrix of this World also holds them captive. Or into,
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 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (95)
"The third Principle of this world is generated and created out of the first, that is, magically: As is clearly demonstrated in our second [Three...