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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 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. (76)
The Heat of the Sun kindles in the Earth the sweet Quality of Water, in all imaged or framed Figures; and then through the Heat the Light comes to be...
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 standing as a Captive, and became corporeal.
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...
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 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (149)
And the powerful and great bright Flash, which was risen up in the sweet Water in the Heat, from whence the bitter Quality exits in the sweet Water, t...
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 21: Of the Third Day. (95)
Else if the Astringent was not so much kindled in the cold Fire, and the Water not so thick, also the Bitter not so swelling, rising, and murderous,...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (102)
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 the astringe...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (9)
For the Spirit of Heat could not kindle itself, from whence the Light exists, and out of or from the Light through the Water the Love and Meekness exi...
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 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (55)
For the astringent and Fire-Spirit holds it fast, and the meek Water, which melts from the Body of Nature in the Kindling of the Light, that goes thro...
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 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 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 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (17)
When the Love of God kindled the Place of the Sun, or the Sun, then there sprung up first out of the Anxiety, out of the Place of the Sun, out of the...
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. (78)
But when the Sun was kindled, then the horrible Fire-crack went forth upwards from the Place of the Sun, distant from the Place of the Sun, as a horri...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (57)
Now behold, the Fierceness which rises up in the Light, consists not in the Water of the Wood, but when the Heat rises up in the Hardness, then is...
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. (75)
And there rose up the shining Light in the Heat, in the Water, or Oiliness of the Water, and the Heart of the Water kindled itself, and this was done ...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (39)
For when he and all his Angels had kindled in their Bodies the qualifying or fountain Spirit of the Fire, then the Unctuosity, Marrow or Fatness burnt...
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