(13) But thou art to know this Mystery, that in the Center or Midst of these three Kingdoms is generated the Splendor or Son of God. [This needs Explanation: "Read the Second and Third Part of these Writings, where it is described more fundamentally: For nothing that is divisible, measurable, or circumscribible, is here meant or understood, only it was in Simplicity and Plainness set down so at the first, because of the slow and dull Apprehension."] [The Threefold Life.] [The Three Principles.]

(95) the third Principle of this World is generated and created out of the first, that is, Magically: As is clearly demonstrated in our Second, and Third Book, unto which this Book is only an Introduction, and is the first Book, which was not sufficiently apprehended by the Author at the first Time, though it appeared clearly enough, yet all of it could not be conceived; also it was as when a Torrent or stormy Shower of Rain passes over a Place, from whence Vegetation and Springing exists; for therein is the Seed of the whole Deity."

(84) It has in it the first Principle; the Spirit of the Soul has the Second; and the astral or starry Spirit in the Elements has the Third, viz. this World."]

(93) Thus the Reader is to understand this Book as concerning three Principles or Births; viz. One is the Original of the eternal Nature, in the eternal Will or Desire of God, which Desire drives itself on in great Anguish till it comes to the fourth Form, viz. to the Fire.

(100) The Soul contains the first Principle; and the Soul's Spirit the second Principle in Ternario sancto, in the Holy Ternary; and the outward Spirit, viz. the Astral, contains the third Principle of this World. [Ternary in Man.]

(104) "Nature and the Ternary are not one and the same; they are distinct, though the Ternary dwells in Nature, but unapprehended, and yet is an eternal Band, as is plainly unfolded in our second and third Book." Now observe here, how the Imaging in Nature is in the seventh Spirit.