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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 13: Of the Creating of Woman out of Adam. The fleshly, miserable, and dark Gate. (31)
But if it puts its Will forward into Meekness (viz. into the Obedience of God) then it is in the Source [or of the Quality and Property] of the Heart of God, and receives divine Virtue, and then all its rough Essences become angelical and joyful; and then its rough Essences are very serviceable to it, and are better and more profitable to it, than that it were altogether sweet in the Originality; in which [being sweet] there would be no Strength, nor such mighty Power as in the harsh, bitter, and fiery [Essences.]
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (128)
Just as the meek Spirit of the Heart goes through the astringent and bitter Quality, and overcomes it; and though it be indeed infected with the...
Chapter 1: Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature: Of both the Qualities, the Good and the Evil. (29)
Now if the bitter Quality dwells meekly and gently in any Creature, then is it the Heart or Joy therein; for it dissipates all other evil Influences,...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (124)
Art thou a rational Man, then observe this; the Spirit which moves on high aloft from the Heat, takes its Exit, rising, and shining, in the sweet...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (59)
But when the bitter Flash, together with the Astringent and Fire-spirit, tastes this Meekness, there is nothing else then but a mere Longing, Desiring...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (29)
Understand this rightly.
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (33)
For it is the overcoming of the astringent Quality, and is the very Source or Fountain of the Mercy of God, which overcomes the Wrath, whereby the ast...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (39)
For the astringent or harsh Quality, in its Stock or Kernel, when it qualifies or operates in its own Power, is a Darkness: And the sweet Quality, in ...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (135)
Divine Power also; the astringent and bitter Quality are the Saltiter of the Divine Omnipotence, the sweet Quality is the Pith or Kernel of the Barm-h...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 49: The substance of all perfection is nought else but a good will; and how that all sounds and comforts and sweetness that may befall in this life be to it but as it were accidents (2)
Such a good will is the substance of all perfection. All sweetness and comforts, bodily or ghostly, be to this but as it were accidents, be they...
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...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 50: Which is chaste love; and how in some creatures such sensible comforts be but seldom, and in some right oft (1)
And in all other sweetness and comforts, bodily or ghostly, be they never so liking nor so holy, if it be courteous and seemly to say, we should have ...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (34)
Of this you have a Similitude in an Apple, which at first is astringent, harsh, or chokey, but when the sweet Quality forces and overcomes it, then...
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (71)
The Bitter Quality is in God also, but not in that Manner as the Gall is in Man, but it is an everlasting Power, in an elevating triumphing Spring,...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 13: What meekness is in itself, and when it is perfect and when it is imperfect (1)
NOW let see first of the virtue of meekness; how that it is imperfect when it is caused of any other thing mingled with God although He be the chief;...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (54)
Now when the Light shines through the astringent contracted Body of Nature, and mitigates it, then the mild beneficent Well-doing generates itself in...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (70)
The first Spirit is the astringent or harsh Quality, which in God is a gentle, attracting, or drawing together, a drying, and cooling or refreshing,...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (116)
And if the same be pleasing to it, it eats of it, and is affected with the Thing, and wrestles with it, and makes a Mixture or Temper together; let th...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (74)
But here thou must know, that this Quality penetrates very gently and pleasantly with its Touching or Stirring, through all the Spirits, in such a Way...