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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 12: Of the Opening of the Holy Scripture, that the Circumstances may be highly considered. The golden Gate, which God affords to the last World, wherein the Lily shall flourish [and blossom.] (30)
But the Sweetness is like Oil or Fire, wherein the Flash continually kindles itself, so that it shines: But the Oil being sweet, and mingled with the Matrix of the Water, therefore the shining Light is steady, [constant and fixed,] and sweet: But seeing it cannot, in the Nature of the Water, continue to be an Oil only (because of the Infection of the Water) therefore it becomes thick; and the [Nature or] Kind of the Fire colours it red; and this is the Blood and the Tincture in a Creature, wherein the noble Life stands. Of the Death and of the Dying. The Gate of Affliction and of Misery.
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (99)
Then the water becometh an anguishing sweat, which stands between death and life, and so the fire of the heat cannot kindle itself: For the...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (22)
And the flash of fire in the light trembleth and triumpheth thus continually, and the sweet water softeneth [or quencheth] the fire also continually a...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (152)
But the sweet water being dried up through the astringent attracting together, therefore could not the heat any more rise to a flame or to any light (...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (151)
Then the heat kindleth the sweet source or quality, with an intent to be refreshed, but there is no sap left, the sweet source or quality is now...
Chapter 1: Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature: Of both the Qualities, the Good and the Evil. (33)
But if it be kindled in the element water, and springeth [becometh active] therein, it causes debility and sickness in the flesh, and finally death. O...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (30)
That same light is generated in the midst or centre, out of these four species, out of the unctuosity or fatness of the sweet water, and replenisheth...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (157)
When the heat in the sweet quality riseth up, and kindleth the sweet source, fountain or spring, then that fire burneth in the sweet quality; now...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (158)
So the sweet water being dried up, the bitter quality (which existed and was generated by the first flash, when the light kindled itself) rose up in t...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (57)
For the flash, as a crack, penetrateth suddenly, whereby joy existeth, and then the stock of the kindled light in the sweet water abideth standing, an...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (29)
There the light kindleth in the heat in the sweet fountain-water, and this is the beginning of life: For the astringent and bitter qualities are the...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (55)
For the astringent and fire-spirit holdeth it fast, and the meek water, which melteth from the body of nature in the kindling of the light, goeth thro...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (102)
Otherwise, if the sweet water could keep its unctuosity or fatness in its own power, and the astringent spirit and the bitter did rub themselves one w...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (30)
And that bright light fountain-water kindleth the astringent and the bitter qualities, and the heat (which is generated by the astringent and the bitt...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (91)
III. Thirdly, the bitter quality, which existeth in the kindling of the water in the fire-flash, is melted away, for that is a rager, raver, tyrant...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (38)
There each spirit tasteth of the others, and getteth mere new strength and power, for the astringent quality grows now very pliable and yielding,...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (47)
Secondly, the sweet quality also loveth the bitter, because it is a cause of the heat, and also because the bitter spirit triumpheth and trembleth in...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (135)
When the light in the sweet water did penetrate through the astringent spirit, then the fire- flash, terror or crack of the light, when it kindled...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (41)
First, because in the sweet water the spirit of light is generated, and saturateth or moisteneth the astringent, hard and cold qualities; also it...