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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. (34)
Now [Reason's] Question is; How has Eve received the Soul from Adam? Behold, when God's harsh Fiat took the Rib out of Adam, then it attracted out of all Essences also to it, and the Fiat imaged [formed, imagined, or impressed] itself together therein, [that it might] continually and eternally stay therein. But now the Tincture in Adam was not yet extinguished, but the Soul of Adam sat yet wholly with Might and Virtue [or Power] in the Tincture; only the Virgin was departed: And therefore now the Fiat took the Tincture, and the [sour] harsh Essences mingled [or qualified] with the [sour] harsh Fiat; for it, (viz. the Fiat) and the [Sourness or] Harshness in the Essences, are one Kind of Essence.
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