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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 14: Of the Birth and Propagation of Man. The very Secret Gate. (44)
And when the Light of the Sun appeared in the fierce [Sourness or] Harshness, then the Harshness became thin and a sweet, even Water, and the Fierceness in the Fire-flash was extinguished by the Water, so that the Anger stood still, yet the Will could not rest, but went forth in the Mother, out of the Water, and moved itself, which is the Air: And that which the fierce Sourness had attracted to it, that was thrust out of the Element, in the Water, as you see that the Earth swims in the Water.
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 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...
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (5)
And upwards to the height from the Moist Nature leaped forth pure Fire; light was it, swift and active too. The Air, too, being light, followed after ...
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (36)
But the light made very great haste after it, and laid hold on the fire-crack; and there it remained as a captive, and became corporeal.
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (76)
In the earth the heat of the sun kindleth the sweet quality of water, in all imaged or framed figures; and then through the heat the light cometh to...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (5)
Now when upon the third day the fire-flash rose up out of the light, which was shining in the sweet water, which flash is the bitter quality which...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (92)
"For the fire will consume all, and causes a high rising in the source, and the meekness of the light causes entity or substantiality; viz. in the...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (17)
When the love of God kindled the place of the sun, or the SUN, then, out of the anxiety, out of the place of the sun, out of the seven qualifying or...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (9)
For the spirit of heat whence the light ariseth (and out of the light, through the water, the love and meekness), could not kindle itself; but there w...
Chapter 17: Of the lamentable and miserable State and Condition of the corrupt perished Nature, and Original of the four Elements, instead of the holy Government of God. (9)
For when the seven spirits kindled themselves in their outermost birth or geniture, then they generated such a violent moving spirit; and so the sweet...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (95)
Else if the astringent were not so much kindled in the cold fire, and the water were not so thick, also the bitter not so swelling, rising and...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (57)
Now behold: the fierceness which riseth up in the light consists not in the water of the wood, but when the heat riseth up in the hardness, then is...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (102)
The sweet spring or fountain-water is generated by the driving about or rising up of the spirits, for when the light is generated in the heat, then...
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 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (17)
When the flash riseth up in the heat, then first the sweet water catcheth or captivateth it, for therein it becometh shining. Now when the water...
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. (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 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 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (29)
Now the fire-crack in the water goeth through the astringent quality, and makes it moveable, but the light generateth itself in the water, and...
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (82)
Now when the bitter fire-crack was captivated by the light, then the light in its own power pressed yet higher in the deep, till it reached into the...