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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.] (36)
Reason says; Alas! If Adam had not lusted, he had not fallen asleep: If I had been as he, I would have stood firm, and have continued in Paradise. Yes, beloved Reason, you have hit the Matter well, in thinking so well of thyself! I will show thee thy strength, and the Gate; and do but thou consider how firm thou shouldst stand, if thou didst stand as Adam did before the tempting Tree.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 64: Of the other two principal powers, Reason and Will, and of the work of them before sin and after (1)
REASON is a power through the which we depart the evil from the good, the evil from the worse, the good from the better, the worse from the worst,...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (167)
Thou sayest, if thy fall had not been, man would never have been thought of. Answer. O thou lying devil! Though that should be true, yet the Salitter...