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Passages similar to: The Three Principles of the Divine Essence — Chapter 21: Of the Cainish, and of the Abellish Kingdom; how they are both in one another. Also of their Beginning, Rise, Essence, and Purpose; and then of their last Exit. Also of the Cainish Antichristian Church, and then of the Abellish true Christian Church; how they are both in one another, and are very difficult to be known [asunder.] Also of the Variety of Arts, States, and Orders of this World. Also of the Office of Rulers [or Magistrates,] and their Subjects; how there is a good and divine Ordinance in them all, as also a false, evil, and devilish one. Where the Providence of God is seen in all Things; and the Devil 's Deceit, Subtilty, and Malice, [is seen also] in all Things.
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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 21: Of the Cainish, and of the Abellish Kingdom; how they are both in one another. Also of their Beginning, Rise, Essence, and Purpose; and then of their last Exit. Also of the Cainish Antichristian Church, and then of the Abellish true Christian Church; how they are both in one another, and are very difficult to be known [asunder.] Also of the Variety of Arts, States, and Orders of this World. Also of the Office of Rulers [or Magistrates,] and their Subjects; how there is a good and divine Ordinance in them all, as also a false, evil, and devilish one. Where the Providence of God is seen in all Things; and the Devil 's Deceit, Subtilty, and Malice, [is seen also] in all Things. (12)
And here the two strong Kingdoms of the Eternity are to be seen, which have been in Strife with one another, and are always so; and the Strife continues to Eternity, for it is also from Eternity, viz. [between] gthe Fierceness and the Meekness. If the Fierceness was not, there would be no Mobility; but it overcomes in this World only according to the Kingdom of Hell, and in the Heaven it makes the ascending Joy, and the Meekness.
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (16)
For Meekness moves against the Wrath, and the Wrath against the Meekness, and so both are distinct Kingdoms in the one only Body of this World.
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (65)
From hence now existed the great contrary opposite Will and eternal Enmity between God and Lucifer; for the Power of God moves very softly, meekly,...
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (4)
For Meekness in Nature is a still Rest, but the Fierceness in every Power makes all Things moveable, running, and generative.
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (117)
But that the astringent and bitter Spirit does so grumble and murmur, when the Spirit from the Heart goes through its House, and rules powerfully, it ...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (14)
For the Heart of God delighted in Love and Meekness; and Lucifer would needs turn the same by Force into a raging Tyranny: And lo there was nothing bu...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (125)
Thus it denotes also the evil and good Will in the whole or universal Nature, and in all the Creatures; that there would be a continual Wrestling,...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (45)
In this World the Love and the Wrath are one in another in all Creatures, and that which overcomes in the Wrestling inherits the House of or by Right,...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (25)
But thus saith the Spirit; as soon as the Fierceness overcomes the Opposition of Love in this World, then the Fire kindles itself, and then there is n...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (105)
Of the kindled Nature.
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (131)
Meekness and the hard Water separated themselves asunder, and the Hardness remained in its hard Place, as a hard Death, and the Meekness or Softness p...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (61)
In this pressing through and turning about exists the Tone, according to the Quality of each Spirit; and always one Power affects the other, for the...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (113)
But in the Kingdom of Lucifer, the Destroyer, it is otherwise, as I have written above concerning the Fierceness; and in this World, which is now half...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (66)
An Example of which you have in the kindled Saltiter of the Stars, which because of this kindled Fierceness, must roll with the Vanity, even to the...
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (11)
The holy Angels live in the Power of Meekness, of the Light and Joyfulness: And the Devils live in the Power of the rising or elevating Quality of...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (84)
Here nothing goes out of, or forth from the Sharpness which perishes, or which kindles the Wrath, but the Spirits play very gently one with another, l...