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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. (51)
To conclude, God will have no fiery Spirit in Paradise, they must remain in the first Principle, in the eternal Darkness; if they had continued as God had created them (when the Meekness shined [or appeared] to them) and had put the Center of their Minds into the Meekness, then the Light of God should for ever have shined through them, and they should have eaten of the Verbum Domini [the Word of the Lord;] and they should with the Root of their Original have stood in the first Principle, like God the Father himself, and with the Will in the Mind [they should have stood] in the second Principle: Thus they should have had a paradisical Source, [Quality or Property,] and an angelical Will; and they should have been friendly in the Limbus of Heaven, and in the Love of God.
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)
Body of Nature now was the Kindling made, for out of this Body the Angels also were created; and if they had not elevated and kindled themselves in th...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (47)
If the qualifying or fountain Spirits had moved, qualified, or acted gently and lovely, as they did before they became creaturely, as they were...
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (11)
The holy Angels live in the Power of Meekness, of the Light and Joyfulness: And the Devils live in the Power of the rising or elevating Quality of...