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Passages similar to: The Three Principles of the Divine Essence — Chapter 9: Of the Paradise, and then of the Transitoriness of all Creatures; how all take their Beginning and End; and to what End they here appeared. The Noble and most precious Gate [or Explanation] concerning the reasonable Soul.
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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 9: Of the Paradise, and then of the Transitoriness of all Creatures; how all take their Beginning and End; and to what End they here appeared. The Noble and most precious Gate [or Explanation] concerning the reasonable Soul. (43)
The eternal Will is incorruptible [or intransitory,] and unchangeable [or unalterable;] for the Heart of God is generated out of it, which is the End of the Nature and of the Willing. If the Spirits of the Source [or Torment] had put their imagination, and their desiring Will a forward into the Light of Meekness, into the End of Nature, they should have continued Angels; but seeing they out of Pride would fain be above the Meekness, and above the End of Nature, and awakened the Center, they found nothing more; for from Eternity there had been nothing more [than the End of Nature;] and therefore they awakened the Center of the Source [or Torment] in themselves. The same they now have, and they were thrust out of the Light into the Darkness.
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (105)
Of the kindled Nature.
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (90)
If they had but continued in their meek birth or geniture, according to the divine right, then all had been their own, and their will would have been...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (60)
In this body of nature the kindling was now made, for out of this body the angels also were created; and if they had not elevated and kindled...