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Passages similar to: The Three Principles of the Divine Essence — Chapter 18: Of the promised Seed of the Woman, and Treader upon the Serpent. And of Adam 's and Eve 's going forth out of Paradise, or the Garden in Eden. Also of the Curse of God, how he cursed the Earth for the Sin of Man.
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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 18: Of the promised Seed of the Woman, and Treader upon the Serpent. And of Adam 's and Eve 's going forth out of Paradise, or the Garden in Eden. Also of the Curse of God, how he cursed the Earth for the Sin of Man. (21)
First, he is God, and is in the Father of Eternity, generated out of the Father of Eternity from Eternity, without Beginning and End, out of the Depth of the Omnipotence, out of the broken Gates of the Sharpness [or Depths] of God in the Joy, [or Habitation,] where the Father attracts the pleasant Joy in his eternal Will, whereby the Will is impregnated, with the attracted Virtue of the Light, out of which [Impregnation] the Father conceives the other [or second] Will to generate the Virtue; and that Conception [or comprehension] is his Word, which the Father speaks (out of the Will, before the Will) out of himself; and this Speaking remains in the Mouth of the Father, as fa comprehended Word, with the second Will; and the proceeding forth out of the spoken Word (which goes forth out of the Will through the Word) is the Spirit; and that which is spoken forth % before the Will, is the eternal Wisdom of God, the Virgin of the Chastity.
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (138)
When the Father speaks or pronounces the WORD, that is, generates his Son, which is always done for ever and eternally, then that Word first takes...
Tripartite Tractate
Aeonic Emanations (3)
They were forever in thought, for the Father was like a thought and a place for them. When their generations had been established, the one who is completely in control wished to lay hold of and to bring forth that which was deficient in the [...] and he brought forth those…
Tripartite Tractate
Aeonic Emanations (6)
The one whom he raised up as a light for those who came from himself, the one from whom they take their name, he is the Son, who is full, complete and faultless. He brought him forth mingled with what came forth from him [...] partaking of the [...] the Totality, in accordance…
Apocryphon of John
Barbelo Conceives (Barbelo Conceives)
The father gazed into Barbelo, with the pure light surrounding the invisible spirit, and its radiance. Barbelo conceived from it, and it produced a spark of light similar to the blessed light but not as great.…
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (55)
The Father is the one only Being, who himself is ALL, who continually generates his heartily beloved Son from Eternity, and in both of them the Holy...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (54)
Son of God is continually generated from all the Powers of his Father from Eternity, and is not made, but is the Heart and Lustre shining forth from t...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (19)
The Word spake, [said] is an eternal Word, and was before the Times of the Wrath, from Eternity in this Salitter, when it stood yet in the heavenly...
Chapter 6: How an Angel, and how a Man, is the Similitude and Image of God. (6)
Now that Voice, or that WORD, which the Father speaks, goes forth from the Father's Saltiter or Powers, and from the Father's Mercurius, Sound or...
Tripartite Tractate
The Father (8)
It is in the proper sense that he begets himself as ineffable, since he alone is self-begotten, since he conceives of himself, and since he knows himself as he is. What is worthy of his admiration and glory and honor and praise, he produces because of the boundlessness of his…