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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. (82)
And here in this Place there is nothing more palpable, than that it is seen and known, that Adam had no bestial Form before his Sleep, before his Wife [was formed;] for he was neither Man nor Woman, but a chaste Virgin without bestial Form; he had no Shame nor Breasts, neither had he need of them; he should have generated in Love and Chastity (without Pain or Opening of his Body) a Virgin as himself was; and it should have been possible, that the whole Host of angelical Men should have proceeded out of one only Man, (as the Angels did,) out of one Fountain, if he had stood in the Temptation; even as all those who come to the only Arch- Shepherd, to his Rest, were redeemed by one only Man from the Eternal Death and Torment of Hell.
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (115)
Also such an image was Adam, as God created him, before his Eve was made out of him; but the corrupted Salitter did wrestle with the wellspring of...