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Christian Mysticism
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 7: Of the Heaven and its eternal Birth and Essence, and how the four Elements are generated; wherein the eternal Band may be the more and the better understood, by meditating and considering the material World. The great Depth. (1)
EVERY Spirit sees no further than into its Mother, out of which it has its Original, and wherein it stands; for it is impossible for any Spirit in its own natural Power to look into another Principle, and behold it, except it be regenerated therein. But the natural Man, who in his Fall was captivated by the Matrix of this World, whose natural Spirit moves between two Principles, viz. between the divine and the hellish, and he stands in both the Gates, into which Principle he falls, there he comes to be regenerated, whether it be as to the Kingdom of Heaven, or the Kingdom of Hell; and yet he is not able in this [life] Time to see either of them both.
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Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (110)
The Spirit alone understands this hidden Secret, which must fight daily and hourly with the Devil, the outward Flesh cannot comprehend it; also the...
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Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (47)
In my own Faculties or Powers I am as blind a Man as ever was, and am able to do nothing; but in the Spirit of God my innate Spirit sees through ALL,...
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Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (19)
But the animated or soulish Spirit, which qualifies or unites with God, that comprehends it well; but the bestial Body attains only a Glimpse thereof,...
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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. (52)
I see not this Knowledge with my fleshly Eyes, but with those Eyes wherein Life generates itself in me; in that Seat the Gates of Heaven and Hell...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (91)
For when Man fell into Sin, he was removed out of the innermost Birth or Geniture, and set or put into the other two, which presently embraced him, an...
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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 neither: And though...
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Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (28)
If a Man will see God the Son, he must once more look upon natural Things; otherwise I cannot write of him: The Spirit indeed beholds him, but that...
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