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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (13)
This [Image] is not the Heart of God, but it reaches into the Heart of God, and it receives Virtue, Light and Joy from the Heart and Light of God. For it is in the eternal Will of the Father, out of which he [the Father] continually generates his Heart and Word from Eternity; and ehis Essences, which, in the Element of his Body, viz. [in the Element] of Ignorance in the eternal Wonders of God now breathed into him, they (in respect of the high triumphing Light, out of the Heart and Light of God) were Paradise; his Meat and Drink was Paradise, out of the Element, in his Will; whereby then he drew the Virtue of the eternal Wonders of God into him, and generated the Noise [Voice] Sound, or the eternal Hymn of the eternal Wonders of God, out of himself before the Will; and all this stood before the chaste, high, noble, and blessed Virgin, the divine Wisdom, in a pleasant Sport, and was the right Paradise.
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (35)
The Light, which generates itself from the Fire, and becomes shining in the Water, and replenishes or fills the whole Geniture, and enlightens it,...
Chapter 7: Of the Court, Place and Dwelling, also of the Government of Angels, how these things stood at the Beginning, after the Creation, and how they became as they are. (25)
But the Splendor and the Power of the Son of God, or Heart of God, which is the Light or Source and Fountain of Joy, takes up his fairest and most joy...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (37)
The Light or the Heart of God takes not its Original barely from the wild rough Stars, where indeed Love and Wrath are in one another, but out of or...
Gospel of Truth
THE FATHER IS BEGINNING AND END (THE FATHER IS BEGINNING AND END)
Paradise is the perfection in the thought of the father, and the plants are the words of his reflection. Each one of his words is the work of his will alone, in the revelation of his word.…
Chapter 7: Of the Court, Place and Dwelling, also of the Government of Angels, how these things stood at the Beginning, after the Creation, and how they became as they are. (23)
Where else then should the Father place them, but before the Gate of his Heart? Does not all Joy of Man, which is in the whole Man, arise from the...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (38)
From the Son, who is the Father’s Heart in all his Powers, the Eternal Joy rises and springs in all the Powers of the Father, such a Joy, as no Eye...