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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)
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 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 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (158)
Water being dried up, the bitter Quality (which existed and was generated by the first Flash, when the Light kindled itself) rose up in the Body throu...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (29)
Light kindles in the Heat in the sweet Fountain-water, and this is the Beginning of Life: For the astringent and bitter Qualities are the Beginning an...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (30)
That same Light is generated in the Midst or Center out of these four Species, out of the Unctuosity or Fatness of the sweet Water, and replenishes...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (98)
The Meaning is not, that the Water dies quite; no, that cannot be, but the astringent Spirit takes the Sweetness, or the Unctuosity and Fatness of...
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 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (91)
III. Thirdly, the bitter Quality, which exists in the Kindling of the Water in the Fire-flash, is melted away, for that is a Rager, Raver, Tyrant,...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (72)
This Spirit takes its Original in the Fire-flash, that is, in the bitter Quality, and rises up in the Flash through the sweet Water, wherein it...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (57)
For the Flash, as a Crack, penetrates suddenly, whereby Joy exits, and then the Stock of the kindled Light in the sweet Water abides standing, and pre...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (102)
Otherwise if the sweet Water could keep its Unctuosity or Fatness in its own Power, and that the astringent and the bitter Spirits did rub themselves ...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (38)
There each Spirit tastes of the other, and gets mere new Strength and Power, for the astringent Quality grows now very pliable and yielding, because...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (39)
For the sweet Water, and the Light in the sweet Water, rise up continually in the astringent Quality, and the bitter Quality triumphs continually ther...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (135)
When the Light in the sweet Water penetrated through the astringent Spirit, then the fire-flash, Terror, or Crack of the Light, when it kindled...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (147)
For it becomes too empty and dry by the astringent Contraction, and loses its bright lustre, and its Unctuosity, Fatness, or Oiliness (wherein the lig...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (157)
When the Heat in the sweet Quality rises up, and kindles the sweet Source, Fountain, or Spring, then that Fire burns in the sweet Quality, in a thin...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (29)
Now the Fire-Crack in the Water goes through the astringent Quality, and makes it moveable, but the Light generates itself in the Water, and becomes...