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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (24)
And because Adam was drawn forth out of the strong [stern, sour] Essences, therefore he must be tempted, [to try] whether his Essences (out of which his Imagination and Lust proceeded) could stand in the heavenly Quality, or whether he would eat of the Verbum Domini, [the Word of the Lord;] and [to try] which Essence, (whether the paradisical, or the strong, [fierce, wrathful,] would overcome in Adam.
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. (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.:19-20)
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...