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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 proveth all, so the tongue also proveth all tastes: and if the same pleaseth the spirit, then the spirit bringeth the same into...
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 one quality seeth the others, which are also in it, and tempered with itself, and proveth them...
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 ariseth from all the powers of the body through the spirit into the tongue: for...
Chapter 6: How an Angel, and how a Man, is the Similitude and Image of God. (18)
So also the tongue sharpeneth, articulateth and distinguisheth all that which the five senses in the head bring through the heart on to the tongue; an...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (107)
Thus one tasteth and feeleth another, and in the sound one heareth another, and the tone presseth forth from all the seven spirits towards the heart,...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (76)
In the earth the heat of the sun kindleth the sweet quality of water, in all imaged or framed figures; and then through the heat the light cometh to...
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (50)
And if the spirit is pleased therewith, then it [the spirit] bringeth the same before its mother into the heart, and the heart, or the fountain of the...
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, formeth the word or son, or spirit, then it stands captive in the centre 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 firma...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (65)
For in these five qualities rise up the seeing, smelling, tasting and feeling; and so a rational spirit cometh to be.
Chapter 6: How an Angel, and how a Man, is the Similitude and Image of God. (14)
The five senses always hold counsel in the power of the whole body, and when a conclusion is formed, the same is uttered [or pronounced] by the...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (72)
This spirit taketh its original in the fire-flash, that is, in the bitter quality, and riseth up in the flash through the sweet water, wherein it...
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (44)
Now if the spirit is pleased therewith, then it bringeth the same to the heart, and the heart giveth it to the passages or issuings forth of the...
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 it also bringeth the fountain of all powers i...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (71)
There the bitter quality penetrateth in the heat through the astringent, and the sweet in the water letteth it easily or gently through; and there...