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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 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, next, the Bitter: The Sweet is in the Midst between the Astringent and Bitter. Now the...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery.:79-80)
Now when the astringent or harsh and bitter Quality get their Light from the Heat, then they see the sweet Quality, and taste of its sweet Water, and...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (84)
Astringent, the Sweet, the Bitter, and the Heat, struggle together, and the astringent Quality in its Coldness continually makes its Dryness, and so t...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (71)
Quality penetrates in the Heat through the Astringent, and the Sweet in the Water lets it easily or gently through; and there the Bitter in the Heat g...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (28)
When the astringent and bitter Quality rub themselves so hard one upon another, that they generate Heat, and now the sweet Quality, the sweet...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (78)
Quality thus stretches or widens itself, and retires from the Bitter, then the astringent always presses after it, and would also fain taste of the Sw...
Chapter 1: Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature: Of both the Qualities, the Good and the Evil. (41)
The Salish Quality is a good Temperature in the bitter, sweet, and sour, making every Thing pleasant; it opposes the rising of the bitter Quality, as...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (77)
Quality perceives the Taste of the bitter Quality, it checks or stops at it, and gives back, as a Man when he tastes astringent, harsh or bitter Gall,...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (25)
Now the astringent and bitter Quality, without the sweet Water, rub and drive themselves so hard one against another, that they generate the dark...
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, is four or attractive; and the Sweet is the light mollifying and softening; and the Bitter is...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (85)
Bitterness is also together captivated or imprisoned in the Body of the sweet Water, and becomes also together dried up, and then the Astringent, Swee...
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 Sweet, and is a good Temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and sweet Qualities...
Chapter 1: Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature: Of both the Qualities, the Good and the Evil. (34)
The Sweet Quality is set opposite to the Bitter, and is a gracious pleasant Quality, a refreshing of Life, an allaying of Fierceness, it makes all...
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 kindles the astringent and bitter Quality, and the Heat, which is generated by the astringent and bitter Quality ...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (12)
When the astringent Quality rubs itself with the Bitter, so that the Heat rises up in the sweet Spring or Fountain-water, then the Heat kindles the...