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Timaeus
The Elements (65e)
Timaeus: are all termed “bitter”; while those which have a property less strong than the alkaline, being detergent in a moderate degree, seem to us to be “saline,” and more agreeable, as being devoid of the rough bitterness. And those which share in the heat of the mouth and are made smooth thereby, when they are fully inflamed and are themselves in turn burning the part which heated them, fly upwards because of their lightness towards the senses of the head and cut all the parts on which they impinge;
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (79)
Now when the astringent or harsh and the bitter qualities get their light from the heat, then they see the sweet quality, and taste of its sweet...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (23)
First there is the astringent quality, then the sweet, and next the bitter: The sweet is in the midst between the astringent and the bitter. Now the...
Chapter 1: Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature: Of both the Qualities, the Good and the Evil. (41)
The saltish quality is a good temperature [or temper] in the bitter, the sweet and the sour, making every thing pleasant; it opposeth the rising of...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (80)
And the sweet quality always flies from the bitter and the astringent, and always stretcheth its palate wider, and the bitter and the astringent conti...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (71)
There the bitter quality penetrateth in the heat through the astringent, and the sweet in the water letteth it easily or gently through; and there...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (28)
When the astringent and the bitter qualities rub themselves so hard the one upon the other that they generate heat (the sweet quality, the sweet...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (45)
The astringent or harsh quality is the kernel or stock, and is sour or attractive; and the sweet is the light, mollifying and softening; and the...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (42)
Secondly, the astringent quality loveth the bitter, because the bitter quality in the sweet water, that is, in water, heat and light, triumpheth in...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (84)
Therein the astringent, the sweet, the bitter and the heat struggle together, and the astringent quality in its coldness continually makes their...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (60)
The astringent or harsh and sour quality, and the sweet, are the Salitter, which belongeth to the body, out of which the body is framed.
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (30)
And that bright light fountain-water kindleth the astringent and the bitter qualities, and the heat (which is generated by the astringent and the bitt...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (47)
Secondly, the sweet quality also loveth the bitter, because it is a cause of the heat, and also because the bitter spirit triumpheth and trembleth in...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (51)
And first the sweet. For in the sweet water the bitter spirit is refreshed, and therein it quencheth its great thirst; and its bitterness is therein m...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (68)
The bitter makes all the others stirring and moveable, and parteth or distinguisheth them into members; so that every member in this tempering...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (25)
Now the astringent and the bitter qualities, without the sweet water, rub and drive themselves so hard the one against the other, that they generate...
Chapter 1: Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature: Of both the Qualities, the Good and the Evil. (38)
The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (82)
When the sweet quality thus flies from the bitter, and from the sour and astringent, then the astringent and the bitter make all the haste they can...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (78)
When the sweet quality thus stretcheth or wideneth itself, and retireth from the bitter, then the astringent always presseth after it, and would also...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (58)
IV. Of the Fourth Circumstance or Species.
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (37)
The sweet quality is the allaying or warming, whereby the harsh or astringent and cold quality becometh thin and soft, whence the water taketh its...
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