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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. (108)
Yet thou must know that the Word sticks not in thy [mortal] Flesh and Blood; as thy Flesh cannot inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, so therefore it cannot stick in the Flesh; but [it sticks] in the Principle, in the Center of the Soul, and it is the Bridegroom of the Soul. If the Soul be faithful, then he rests in its Bosom; but if it turns unfaithful, then it [the Soul forsakes or] goes away out of the Word.
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (46)
And, thou may say, that according to thy soul thou sittest in heaven, and livest and reignest with God. [Understand, according to the spirit of the so...
Chapter 17: Of the lamentable and miserable State and Condition of the corrupt perished Nature, and Original of the four Elements, instead of the holy Government of God. (28)
But the spirit is eternal life, which uniteth, qualifieth or mixeth with God, and comprehendeth the internal Deity in nature.
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (16)
For in thy flesh and blood thou art not able to apprehend it, and though thou dost read it, yet it is but as a fume or mist before thine eyes.
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (57)
But seeing the soul, all the while the body had been in death, remained hidden in the word, and seeing the same word also holdeth the earth in the ast...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (72)
The husk or shell will not rise again, no more than it does in the wheat, but will remain for ever in death and in hell.
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (119)
Thus thou seest how the power or virtue of the Word and eternal life in the earth, and in its children, lies hidden in the centre in death, and...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (71)
For the dead or mortal flesh belongeth not to the birth of life, and therefore cannot receive or conceive the life of the light as a propriety; but th...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (45)
Now, since thou hast thy reason, and art not like the apple on the tree, but art created an angel and the similitude or image of God, instead of the...
Chapter 17: Of the lamentable and miserable State and Condition of the corrupt perished Nature, and Original of the four Elements, instead of the holy Government of God. (27)
But now the flesh is not the whole man; for this flesh cannot comprehend or apprehend the Deity, else the flesh were not mortal and corruptible, or fa...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (73)
But it retaineth its seat in the kernel, which is the unctuosity or fatness, or the water of life, or the heaven; for it is the body of life, which th...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (25)
And now as the whole earth was, together with the word, so was the fruit also; but the word remained in the centre of the heaven, which is also in thi...