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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 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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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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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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Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (14)
But the bitter spirit is the chief cause of the black earth, for through its fierce bitterness the Salitter became killed in its outermost birth or ge...
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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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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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Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (51)
Yet further: this quality, when it is kindled, is the bitter hellish fire, which putteth out the light, turning the sweet quality into a stink, causin...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (7)
Now when it had half-generated the animated or soulish spirit in the body, that spirit became in this kind and manner a fierce, stinging, raging,...
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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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Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (151)
Then the heat kindleth the sweet source or quality, with an intent to be refreshed, but there is no sap left, the sweet source or quality is now...
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Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (27)
Now further into the Depth.
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Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (85)
But when it seeth that it is like to be taken or captivated (the bitter quality from within pressing so hard upon it, and the heat from without pressi...
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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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Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (24)
The original of the bitter quality is when the flash of life in the heat riseth up in the astringent quality; and now when the flash of fire in the...
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Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (48)
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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Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (71)
The outward earth is a bitter stink, and is dead; and that every man understands to be so. But the Salitter is destroyed or killed through the wrath;...
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Chapter 1: Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature: Of both the Qualities, the Good and the Evil. (28)
The bitter quality is the heart in every life; for as it attracteth together the water in the air, and also dissipateth the same, so that it [the...
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Chapter 1: Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature: Of both the Qualities, the Good and the Evil. (37)
But if it be kindled in the heat and bitterness, then it infecteth the element air, whereby is engendered a sudden spreading plague and sudden death. ...
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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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Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (19)
Now this is the root of covetousness, envy, pride and wrath [anger]; for in the fierce qualifying or acting and boiling rose up the wrath, and burnt...
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