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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 20: Of Adam and Eve's going forth out of Paradise, and of their entering into this World. And then of the true Christian Church upon Earth, and also of the Antichristian Cainish Church. (75)
But while we are thus speaking of the upright Abel, we cannot say, that the Kingdom of Heaven was not assisting in him, and that he merely out of his own Might and Power made himself such an upright [honest] Man; for it was in the wrestling, and overcame the Anger. For Man is weak and ignorant, and can do little by his own Power [or Ability], yet he has the Imagination, and the choosing, or the free yielding [to a thing], where then the Maker is ready beforehand, which makes him [to be] according as his Lust [or Desire] is; as it is to be seen by Adam, for when he longed and lusted in the Spirit of this World, there instantly the Maker was present, and made (of an angelical Image) a Man. The heaven.
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 wrestled with the Well-spring of Life...