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Passages similar to: 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.
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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. (98)
And here is seen the separating of the Christian Church from the Cainish, where God expelled Cain, that he must dwell in another Place; and the true Understanding of these high hidden Secrets sticks wholly in the Word, under the Vail [of Moses,] and was almost never known [yet,] but (in the Time of the Lily) it shall stand in the Wonders. And thou Antichristian Church on Earth shouldst know, that all (whatsoever thou inventest without the Spirit of God for thy Adorning and Pride, also for thy Strength and Power) is gone forth with Cain from Abel, out from the Church of Christ, beyond Eden, into the Land of Nod; if thou art so highly learned, and dost understand this in the Language of Nature, what it is, as thy Flatterers in their Bonnet [or Promotion] suppose [they do;] but they apprehend nothing but the four Elements in the Going forth with Cain, and not the [one] Element before God; therefore the same is the Babel of Confusion and of various Opinions, and not the Ground in the [one] Element, which stands in one alone, and not in Multiplicity.
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Chapter XI: The Knowledge Which Comes Through Faith the Surest of All. (7)
The Gnostic is therefore fixed by faith; but the man who thinks himself wise touches not what pertains to the truth, moved as he is by unstable and...