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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. (12)
But the Bitterness being so very much affrighted at the Flash of Fire in the Sourness, it catches its Mother (the Sourness) which is become material from the Crack, and flies out, and is clouded or swelled from the material Sourness, as if it also was material, and moves, and strengthens itself continually in the Mother; and that is the Element called Air in this World, which has its Original in the watery Mother, and the Water has its Original from the Air, and the Fire has its Original from the longing Anguish; and the Earth and Stones took their Beginning in the strong Attraction at the Fall of Lucifer, when the Sourness was so fierce, strong, rising, and attractive, which Attraction is stopped again by the Light in the third Principle.
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (80)
Then next the bitter Spirit, which exists in the Fire-flash, is also in the Matter or Mass, and that cannot endure to be captivated or imprisoned in...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (24)
The Original of the bitter Quality is, when the Flash of Life in the Heat rises up in the astringent Quality; and now when the Flash of Fire in the...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (72)
This Spirit takes its Original in the Fire-flash, that is, in the bitter Quality, and rises up in the Flash through the sweet Water, wherein it...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (28)
This is thus in the Original of the Quality in itself; but in the Midst, in the rising up of this fierce Spirit, this Spirit is caught and mitigated...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (158)
Water being dried up, the bitter Quality (which existed and was generated by the first Flash, when the Light kindled itself) rose up in the Body throu...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (12)
When the astringent Quality rubs itself with the Bitter, so that the Heat rises up in the sweet Spring or Fountain-water, then the Heat kindles the...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (14)
But the bitter Spirit is the chiefest Cause of the black Earth, for through its fierce Bitterness the Salitter became killed in its outermost Birth or...
Chapter 1: Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature: Of both the Qualities, the Good and the Evil. (27)
Thus is Heat and Cold a Cause and Original of Water and Air, in which every Thing acts and stands; every Life and Mobility stands therein. Of this I...
Chapter 17: Of the lamentable and miserable State and Condition of the corrupt perished Nature, and Original of the four Elements, instead of the holy Government of God. (16)
So in like manner the Earth and Stones have their Descent; for when the Salitter kindled itself in Nature, then all became very rugged, thick, and dar...