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Passages similar to: The Three Principles of the Divine Essence — Chapter 25: The Suffering, Dying, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God: Also of his Ascension into Heaven, and sitting at the Right-hand of God his Father. The Gate of our Misery; and also the strong Gate of the Divine Power in his Love.
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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 25: The Suffering, Dying, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God: Also of his Ascension into Heaven, and sitting at the Right-hand of God his Father. The Gate of our Misery; and also the strong Gate of the Divine Power in his Love. (105)
For all Thrones are in God the Father, and without him is nothing; he is the Band of Eternity; but his Love in the Body of Christ (as in his Throne) holds the Anger in the Band of Eternity (together with the Devil's) captive. And you must understand, that all is creaturely, his Love, and also his Anger; and as is mentioned before, so the Difference [Distinction or Division] is a Birth; and so it cannot be said, that the Devils dwell far from Christ, no, they are near, and yet in Eternity cannot reach to him; for they cannot see the clear Deity in the Light, but are blinded by it; and we shall in Eternity not see nor touch them, as at present we see them not, because they are in another Principle, and so that Principle remains.
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (12)
Thou must not here think that God has made some new thing, which never was before; for if that were so, then there had been another God, which is not...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (37)
No; here lies the point: the wrath does not comprehend the innermost birth or geniture in nature, for the love of God is yet hidden in the centre, in ...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (51)
Whatsoever thou dost but look upon, there, is God, but in this world the comprehensibility stands in the wrath, which the devil has kindled; and in...