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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (20)
Seeing then all the Forms of the eternal Nature were to come forth, [it is so come to pass,] as you may see in Toads, Adders, Worms, and evil Beasts; for that is the Form which sticks in the Midst in the Birth of all Creatures, viz. the Poison, [Venom,] or Brimstone-Spirit; as we see that all Creatures have Poison and Gall; and the Life of the Creatures sticks in the Power [or Might] of it, [the Poison;] as you may find before in this Book, in all the Chapters, how the eternal Nature takes its Original, how it works, and how, [or after what Manner,] its Essence [Being or Substance] is.
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (81)
Hence that takes its Original, that the Devil is called 'the old Serpent'; and also, that there are Adders and Serpents in this corrupted World,...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (76)
When now the wrathful Fire-flash awakened, and rouzed up the Spirits of Nature, which stand in Death in the Earth, and made them moveable by its...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (22)
For that is called its own Kind, which is received in the Mother's Body or Womb, and is its own by Right of Nature, as its own peculiar Life. [Gen. 1....
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (159)
Poison, wherein we poor Men now in this World have enough to chew upon, and thereby the bitter poisonous Death is come into the Flesh.
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (74)
Now when that is imaged or formed, there it lies as a corporeal springing, boiling Mobility, for it moves or boils through, and in the bitter...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (85)
But thou must not think that Nature was thus corrupted and kindled even to the innermost Ground, but only the outermost Birth or Geniture; but the inn...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (81)
Thus is the true Springing or Vegetation in Nature, be it in Man, Beast, Wood, Herbs, or Stones. Now observe the End of Nature in this World.
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (42)
For the earthly and corrupt Nature has continually laboured from the Beginning of its Creation to this Day, to bring forth heavenly Forms or Shapes in...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (144)
Thou hast many Examples thereof in this World, that if some Creature or Man look upon a Thing, it perishes because of the Poison or Venom in the...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (93)
Thus the Reader is to understand this Book as concerning three Principles or Births; viz. One is the Original of the eternal Nature, in the eternal...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (126)
Birth or Geniture in Nature is twofold, that is, both Evil and Good, therefore it is that there is a perpetual Tormenting, Squeezing, Lamenting and Ho...