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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 8: Of the Creation of the Creatures, and of the Springing up of every growing Thing; as also of the Stars and Elements, and of the Original of the a Substance of this World. (29)
Therefore in the Fiat is risen out of the Anguish the Similitude of the Knowledge and Understanding, and that is the Constellation; and it is the fifth Form of the Birth in the Fiat, and the Fiat has severed the Forms in the Birth, so that every Essence is severed; as hard, soft, thick, thin, hot, cold, bitter, tart, sour, sweet, and the rest as we see: And the Spirit continued in the Matrix of the Heaven, which goes out from thence, (viz. the Air), and the Spirit receives the Understanding from the Constellation; for it is a Member of the other in one only Mother.
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (60)
For in the first four qualifying or fountain Spirits stand the divine Birth or Geniture; therefore they must be very earnest, and strong also, though ...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (49)
But now this sharp Birth or Geniture is the Original of Mobility and of Life, as also of the Light, from whence exits the living and rational Spirit, ...