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Passages similar to: Aurora — Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth.
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Aurora
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (18)
These seven Generatings in all are none of them the first, the second, or the third, or last, but they are all Seven, every one of them, both the first, second, third, fourth, and last. Yet I must set them down one after another, according to a creaturely Way and Manner, otherwise thou couldst not understand it: For the Deity is as a Wheel with seven Wheels made one in another, wherein a Man sees neither Beginning nor End. Now observe,
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (53)
And in this Form consists Paradise, or the Kingdom of God, or the numberless divine Birth, out of one only Essence xinto all Essences.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 27: Of the Last Judgment, of the Resurrection of the Dead, and of the Eternal Life. The most horrible Gate of the Wicked, and the joyful Gate of the Godly. (8)
And as is mentioned before, these seven Forms divide themselves again every one in itself into an Infinity of Forms, according to the Discovery of the...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVI: Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue. (28)
The first-born princes of the angels, who have the greatest power, are seven. The mathematicians also say that the planets, which perform their course...