(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.

(29) The Mind of the Eternal Father said into Three, governing all things by Mind.

(97) Thus you find in Man three Fountains. First, the Power in thy whole Mind, which signifies God the Father. Then secondly, the Light in thy whole Mind, enlightening the whole Mind, which signifies God the Son. Then thirdly, there goes forth out of all thy Powers, and out of thy Light also, a Spirit which has Understanding. [Power, Light, Spirit.]

(2) And therefore it is that I call the powers of a soul, some principal, and some secondary. Not because a soul is divisible, for that may not be: but because all those things in the which they work be divisible, and some principal, as be all ghostly things, and some secondary, as be all bodily things. The two principal working powers, Reason and Will, work purely in themselves in all ghostly things, without help of the other two secondary powers. Imagination and Sensuality work beastly in all bodily things, whether they be present or absent, in the body and with the bodily wits. But by them, without help of Reason and of Will, may a soul never come to for to know the virtue and the conditions of bodily creatures, nor the cause of their beings and their makings.

(28) The Mind of the Father said that all things should be cut into Three, whose Will assented, and immediately all things were so divided.

(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.]

(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."]

(4) Within in thyself in nature be the powers of thy soul: the which be these three principal, Memory, Reason, and Will; and secondary, Imagination and Sensuality.

(11) Yet you must know, that these three Kingdoms have a Beginning and End: But that God, who has made these three Kingdoms out of himself, is infinite, and has no End.

(53) These three Dominions or Regimens are the whole Man together with Flesh and Spirit, and they have severally for their Beginning, and Dominion or Government, a sevenfold Form after the Kind and Manner of the seven Spirits of God, or of the seven Planets.