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Christian Mysticism
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 15: Of the a Knowledge of the Eternity in the Corruptibility of the Essence of all Essences. (60)
And in the bitter Essences she makes the Worm of the Soul prickly, spiteful, envious, and malicious, grudging every Thing to any; as the Bitterness indeed is in Friendship with nothing, but it stings and grinds, raves and rages like the Abyss of Hell, and it is the true House of Death as to the pleasant Life.
Christian Mysticism
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 dwelleth meekly and gently in any creature, then is it the heart or joy therein; for it dissipateth all other evil...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (120)
For in the astringent or harsh quality there is no life, but an astringent, cold, hard death; and in the bitter quality there is no light, but a dark,...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (149)
There the bitter quality raveth and rageth, and seeketh for rest and food, and finds it not, and moveth or boileth in the body as a lingering poison.
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (52)
In the sour quality it causes a rankness and brittleness, a stink, a misery, a house of mourning, a house of darkness, of death and of hell; an end...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 1: Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature: Of both the Qualities, the Good and the Evil. (30)
For the bitter quality, when stirred, causes the creature to tremble and be joyful, and to be lifted up in its whole body; for the stirring of the bit...
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Gnostic
Authoritative Teaching (18)
She had learned about evil; she went away from them and she entered into a new conduct. Afterwards she despises this life, because it is transitory. A...
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Hermetic
10. The Key (8)
This is the sentence of the vicious soul. And the soul's vice is ignorance. For that the soul who hath no knowledge of the things that are, or knowled...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (71)
Now if there were no other quality in this body, which could quench the fierceness of these four qualities, then there would be a perpetual enmity...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (107)
But when the bitter quality riseth up therein, then it divideth and formeth itself, as if it were alive or lively, or as if the life did rise up there...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (83)
The gracious, amiable and blessed love which rose up in the flash of the life, became a fierce and bitter venom or poison, a very murderous den, a...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (40)
Here, in this quality, the life was turned into a sting of death; for through heat the bitter quality grew so fierce, stinging, raging and burning,...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (51)
And first the sweet. For in the sweet water the bitter spirit is refreshed, and therein it quencheth its great thirst; and its bitterness is therein m...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (82)
When the sweet quality thus flies from the bitter, and from the sour and astringent, then the astringent and the bitter make all the haste they can...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power.:13-14)
For all powers are discerned or distinguished in the bitter, and the bitter receiveth the flash of the light, as if it were horribly terrified, and go...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (117)
But that the astringent and bitter spirit does so grumble and murmur, when the spirit from the heart goeth through its house, and ruleth powerfully, s...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (23)
First there is the astringent quality, then the sweet, and next the bitter: The sweet is in the midst between the astringent and the bitter. Now the...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (138)
Therefore it must undergo many hard bangs and pinches, and must every day and hour wrestle and struggle with the devil, that is, with the hellish qual...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery.:48-49)
The bitter quality is the first spirit from whence mobility taketh its original, whence the life becometh stirring, and is well called Cor or the...
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