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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. (45)
But what is the Fire? First, there is the Darkness, the Hardness, the eternal Cold, and the Dryness, where there is nothing else but an eternal Hunger. Then how comes the Fire to be? Dear Soul, here [in the Fire's coming to be] the Spirit of God (viz. the eternal Light) comes to help the Hunger; for the Hunger exists also from the Light: Because the divine Virtue beholds itself in the Darkness, therefore the Darkness is desirous [and longing] after the Light; and the Desiring is the Will.
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (91)
I. a hot, fierce, astringent, bitter, anxious, consuming One in the Fire-source. And out of the Fire comes the II. viz. the Light, which dwells in the...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (9)
For the Spirit of Heat could not kindle itself, from whence the Light exists, and out of or from the Light through the Water the Love and Meekness exi...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (92)
For the Fire will consume all, and causes a high Rising in the Source, and the Meekness of the Light causes Entity or Substantiality; viz. in the eter...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (37)
He slept back out of the Meekness into the anxious Fire-will, and fell into Darkness. The Reader is advertised, that he must not understand in any Pla...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (119)
I. The Hardness generates a hard, raw, rough, cold, and astringent Quality. II. The Sweetness is grown faint, like a glowing Coal, when there is no mo...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (28)
I. There arose the Fire-crack, or the Mobility in the Heat, and that is the Beginning of Life in the Chamber of Death. II. After this, the Light in...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (17)
When the Love of God kindled the Place of the Sun, or the Sun, then there sprung up first out of the Anxiety, out of the Place of the Sun, out of the...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (28)
The fourth Spirit of God is Heat, which is generated between the bitter and astringent Quality, and is conceived or bred in the sweet Water, and is...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (95)
Else if the Astringent was not so much kindled in the cold Fire, and the Water not so thick, also the Bitter not so swelling, rising, and murderous,...
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. (17)
From thence Death came into Nature, so that Nature or the corrupt Earth could no more help it, and thereupon another Creation of Light must needs foll...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (99)
For the Life which stands in the Light cannot elevate itself in the hard, bitter, and astringent Body; for it is captivated in the cold Fire, but not ...
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. (82)
Now when the bitter Fire-crack was captivated by the Light, then the Light in its own Power pressed yet higher in the Deep, till it reached into the...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (151)
Then it kindles the sweet Source or Quality, with an Intent to be refreshed, but there is no Sap left, only the sweet Source or Quality is now...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (70)
If thou stirrest or awakest the Spirit in the Fire, then there rises up in thee the bitter and harsh Anger; for as soon as the Fire is kindled, which...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (74)
And thus also the fourth Element must adhere or belong to a natural Spirit, or it is not capable of Reason. ["And thus God the Father goes forth in hi...