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Christian Mysticism
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 10: Of the Creation of Man, and of his Soul, also of God's breathing in. The pleasant Gate. (4)
For no such Earth or Flesh as we carry about us can subsist in the Light of God: Therefore also Christ said; None goes to Heaven, but the Son of Man who is come from Heaven, and who is in Heaven. Thus our Flesh before the Fall was heavenly, out of the heavenly Limbus. But when Disobedience came, in the Lust of this World, to generate itself in another Center, then it [the Flesh] became earthly; for by the Biting of the earthly Apple in the Garden of Eden, the earthly Dominion [or Kingdom] took its Beginning: And the Mother of the great World instantly took the little World into its Power [or Virtue,] and made it to be of a bestial P Kind, both in Form and in Substance.
Christian Mysticism
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. (19)
First, thou hast the bestial Flesh, which is come to be through the lustful longing Bit of the Apple, for it is the House of Corruption. For when...
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Christian Mysticism
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. (28)
But the Spirit is eternal Life, which unites, qualifies, or mixes with God, and comprehends the internal Deity in Nature.
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Chapter 6: How an Angel, and how a Man, is the Similitude and Image of God. (28)
Nothing grows there, which is not good: Only Lord Lucifer has deformed and dressed this World in that Manner: And therefore was Mother Eve ashamed, wh...
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Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (71)
For the dead or mortal Flesh belongs not to the Birth of Life, as that it can receive or conceive the Life of the Light as a Propriety; but the Life o...
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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. (31)
Of which I have a great Longing to eat, but I cannot reach to it, for Heaven is the Closure or Firmament between the old and new Body. And therefore...
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Christian Mysticism
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. (73)
Now when the Heaven was made for a Distinction, or Partition between the Light of God and the kindled Corruption of the Body of this World, then was...
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