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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. (33)
Or else if the Pearl should grow, and the Lily bud forth, he should be revealed, and then every one would fly from him, and he should stand in great Shame. This Trade he has driven ever since the Beginning of the World: And though he resists never so vehemently, yet a Lily shall grow in his supposed Kingdom, whose smell reaches into the Paradise of God, in Spite of all his Raging and Tyranny; this the Spirit of God does witness.
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. (36)
And then the world supposeth that the man is thus plagued and smitten of God, whereby the devil's kingdom remaineth always hidden and undiscovered.