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Passages similar to: The Three Principles of the Divine Essence — Chapter 16: Of the noble Mind of the Understanding, Senses and Thoughts. Of the threefold Spirit and Will, and of the Tincture of the Inclination, and what is inbred in a Child in the Mother's Body [or Womb.] Of the Image of God, and of the bestial Image, and of the Image of the Abyss of Hell, and Similitude of the Devil, to be searched for, and found out in a [any] one Man. The noble Gate of the noble Virgin. And also the Gate of the Woman of this World, highly to be considered.
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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 16: Of the noble Mind of the Understanding, Senses and Thoughts. Of the threefold Spirit and Will, and of the Tincture of the Inclination, and what is inbred in a Child in the Mother's Body [or Womb.] Of the Image of God, and of the bestial Image, and of the Image of the Abyss of Hell, and Similitude of the Devil, to be searched for, and found out in a [any] one Man. The noble Gate of the noble Virgin. And also the Gate of the Woman of this World, highly to be considered. (15)
And when the Taste has tried it, and if it be good for the Essences of the Soul, then it gives it to the Feeling, which must try what Quality it is of, whether hot or cold, hard or soft, thick or thin, and then the Feeling a sends it into the Heart, [presenting it] before the Flash of the Life, and before the King of the Light of Life; and the Will of the Mind pierces further into that Thing, a great Depth, and sees what is therein, [considering] how much it will receive and take in of that Thing, and when it is enough, then the Will gives it to the Spirit of the Soul, viz. to the eternal Emperor, who brings it (with his strong and austere Might) out of the Heart, in the Sound upon the Tongue under the Roof of the Mouth, and there the Spirit distinguishes according to the Senses, as the Will has discovered [or manifested] it, and the Tongue distinguishes it in the Noise.
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (61)
Now as the Holy Ghost proves all, so the Tongue proves all Tastes: And if the same pleases the Spirit, then it brings the same into the Head, to the...
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (57)
The fourth Princely Counsellor is the Taste on the Tongue, which also arises from all the Powers of the Body through the Spirit into the Tongue: For...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (70)
From whence the Senses and Thoughts exist, so that the one Quality sees the other, which is also in it, and tempered with itself, and proves it with...
Chapter 6: How an Angel, and how a Man, is the Similitude and Image of God. (18)
Tongue sharpens, articulates, and distinguishes all that, which the Five Senses in the Head bring through the Heart on to the Tongue, and the Spirit g...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (107)
Thus the one tastes and feels the other, and in the Sound one hears the other, and the Tone presses forth from all the seven Spirits towards the...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (72)
This Spirit takes its Original in the Fire-flash, that is, in the bitter Quality, and rises up in the Flash through the sweet Water, wherein it...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (119)
When the astringent or harsh Quality, as the Father, forms the Word or Son, or Spirit, then it stands captive in the Center of the Heart, and is...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (146)
Therefore I can bring it no further than from the Heart into the Brain before the princely Throne of the Senses, and there it is shut up in the Firmam...
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (44)
Now if the Spirit is pleased with it, then it brings the same to the Heart, and the Heart gives it to the Passages or Illyings forth of the Powers,...
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. (95)
For as it is generated out of all Powers, and has the Fountain of all Powers, so with its shining Lustre also, it brings the Fountain of all Powers in...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (134)
The Word [Nacht] conceives itself first at the Heart, and the Spirit makes a grunting Sound with or in the astringent Quality, yet not wholly...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (99)
Tongue is terrified, trembles, and crouches to the nether Gums, and then the Spirit comes forth from the Heart, and closes the Word, which conceives i...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (114)
But that the Spirit, when it goes forth at the Mouth, conceives itself yet once more behind the astringent Quality upon the Tongue at the hindermost G...
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (50)
And if the Spirit is pleased with it, then it brings the same before its Mother into the Heart, and the Heart, or the Fountain of the Heart, gives it ...
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 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (74)
But here thou must know, that this Quality penetrates very gently and pleasantly with its Touching or Stirring, through all the Spirits, in such a Way...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (71)
Quality penetrates in the Heat through the Astringent, and the Sweet in the Water lets it easily or gently through; and there the Bitter in the Heat g...