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Sermon VII: Outward And Inward Morality (10)
The third faculty is the inward Will, which, always turned to God like a face, absorbs to itself love from God. According to the diverse directions in which redemptive Grace through the Holy Spirit is imparted to the different faculties of men, it finds corresponding expression as one of the Spirit's seven gifts. This impartation constitutes man's spiritual birth which brings him out of sin into a state of grace while natural birth makes him a sinner.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 64: Of the other two principal powers, Reason and Will, and of the work of them before sin and after (2)
Will is a power through the which we choose good, after that it be determined with Reason; and through the which we love good, we desire good, and...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 22: Of the New Regeneration in Christ [from] out of the old Adamical Man. The Blossom of the Holy Bud. The noble Gate of the right [and] true Christianity. (13)
Therefore he breathed into him the living Soul out of the eternal Will of the Father; (which Will goes thither only to generate his eternal Son;) and ...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (39)
For the second Birth stands in the seven qualifying or fountain Spirits of this World, and is in all Places and in all the Creatures, as also in Man: ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 22: Of the New Regeneration in Christ [from] out of the old Adamical Man. The Blossom of the Holy Bud. The noble Gate of the right [and] true Christianity. (55)
God) out of the Darkness, in his own re-conceived Will, enters into himself, and in himself generates the Meekness in his own reconceived Will.
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (118)
For it is of God and in God, and cannot be withheld or hindered, but only by the seven Nature-spirits of the Body, which generate the animated or soul...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (83)
That is, when one qualifying or fountain Spirit attracts a Will to the Birth or Geniture, then it presses very gently through the other qualifying or...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (97)
Thus you find in Man three Fountains. First, the Power in thy whole Mind, which signifies God the Father. Then secondly, the Light in thy whole Mind,...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (51)
The Infanding or innate Birth or Geniture, cannot reach into the whole Heart of God, but only its own.] "And so also in Man, but understand it as to t...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 10: Of the Creation of Man, and of his Soul, also of God's breathing in. The pleasant Gate. (38)
Behold now, the Mind is in the Darkness, and it conceives its Will to the Light, to generate it; or else there would be no Will, nor yet any Birth:...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (23)
The Second Birth or Geniture in Nature, are the seven Spirits of Nature.
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (47)
And their Comprehensibility should not be in the hidden Kernel, or in the innermost Birth or Geniture of God, but the animated or soulish Spirit, whic...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 2: Of the first and second Principle, what God and the Divine Nature is; wherein is set down a further Description of the Sulphur and Mercurius. (4)
But the Soul of Man, which is enlightened with the holy Spirit of God, (which in the second Principle proceeds from the Father and the Son in the holy...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (48)
For the Birth or Geniture of God also is thus; the seventh Nature-Spirit does not reach back into its Father, which generates it, but holds still and ...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (115)
In this casting of the Glance, the one Spirit caught the other, the unctuous Oil or Water in the Wrath conceived from the Love-Spirit in the Heart of...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (155)
The Fifth Quality, or the Fifth Spirit of God among the Seven Spirits of God, in the Divine Power of the Father, is the gracious, amiable, blessed,...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 14: Of the Birth and Propagation of Man. The very Secret Gate. (10)
This Birth [or active Property] with the indissoluble Band, is generated in every Soul; and there is no Soul before the Kindling of the Light in the...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (49)
Neither does any one Spirit particularly and severally reach with its corporeal Being after the Heart of God, but includes, closes, or joins its Will...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (21)
For when the seventh Nature-Spirit is generated, then it is dried by the astringent Quality, and is as it were staid and kept by its Father, and canno...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (46)
And this high Mind and Self-will was directly and wholly against the Birth or Geniture of God; for the Body of the Angels should abide and remain in i...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (114)
The Spirit, which is generated from or out of all the seven qualifying Spirits in the Center of the Heart, the same does (whilst it is yet in the...
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