(16) all the Powers which are in Nature proceed from God the Father; all Light, Heat, Cold, Air, Water, and all the Powers of the Earth; Bitter, Sower, Sweet, Astringent, Hard, and Soft, and more than can be reckoned; all have their Beginning from the Father.

(71) Father begotten Light, which alone hath gathered from the strength of the Father the Flower of mind, and hath the power of understanding the Paternal mind, and doth instil into all Fountains and Principles the power of understanding and the function of ceaseless revolution.

(10) All Power and Virtue is in God the Father; and proceeds also forth from him, as Light, Heat, Cold, Soft, Gentle, Sweet, Bitter, Sour, Astringent or Harsh, Sound or Noise, and much more that is not possible to be spoken or apprehended. All these are in God the Father, one in another as one Power, and yet all these Powers move in his Exit or going forth.

(40) The Father's Power is all, in and above all Heavens, and the same Power every where generates the Light. Now this UNIVERSAL POWER is, and is called the Universal Power of the Father; and the Light which is generated out of that universal Power is, and is called the Son.

(19) For the Love in the Light and Clarity, or glorious Brightness, goeth forth from the Heart or Son of God, in all the Powers of the Father, and the Holy Ghost moves in them all.

(58) Now those Powers of the Father, which stand in the Kindling of the Light, are the holy Father, and the meek Father, and the pure Birth or Geniture of God, and the Spirit, which rises therein, is the holy Spirit. But the sharp Birth or Geniture is the Body, wherein this holy Life is continually generated.

(23) Again, they all generate the Light, and all are together alike the Father of the Light, and the Light generates no one Spirit, but makes them all Living and Joyful, that they always continually stand in the Birth.

(42) For as the Light goes forth from the Son of God in the whole Father into all the Powers, and affects all the Powers of the Father, and on the other Side all the Powers of the Father affect the Light of the Son of God;

(21) thus it is with God the Father; for all the Powers are in the Father, one in another, as one Power; and all Powers consist in the Father, in an unsearchable Light and Clarity, or Brightness and Glory.

(35) The Light, which generates itself from the Fire, and becomes shining in the Water, and replenishes or fills the whole Geniture, and enlightens it, and mitigates it, that is the true Heart of God, or Son of God; for he is continually generated out of the Father, and is another Person than the Qualities and Geniture of the Father. [John 1. 14.]

(7) All Power is in God the Father, and he is the Fountain of all Powers in his Deep; in Him is Light and Darkness, Air and Water, Heat and Cold, Hard and Soft, Thick and Thin, Sound and Tone, Sweet and Sour, Bitter and Astringent, and that which I cannot number or rehearse. Only

(16) From this Fountain, and from all the Powers of the Father, goes forth the Holy Ghost, together with the Light and Power of the Son of God in and through all the said Kingdoms or Dominions; and without, beyond, and besides all the Angelical Kingdoms, which no Angel or Man is able to dive or search into.

(58) As the Holy Ghost goes forth from the Father and the Son, and is the Sharpness or Proof of all Powers, and in his moving or rising up, brings all that which is good again into all the Powers of the Father, whereby the Powers of the Father are impregnated again, and so continually generate the Taste.

(137) the Lights, Flame or Flash, which in the Twinkling of an Eye or Moment shines into all the Powers, even as the sun does in the whole World, is the Holy Ghost, which goes forth from the Clarity or Brightness of the Son of God, and is the Flash of Lightning and Sharpness; for the Son is generated in the Midst or Center of the other Qualities, and is catched by the other Qualities. Understand this high Thing rightly.

(13) All things have issued from that one Fire. The Father perfected all things, and delivered them over to the Second Mind, whom all Nations of Men call the First.

(79) as the Holy Ghost goes forth from the Father and the Son, and affects all the Powers of the Father, he also all heavenly Fruits and Forms, from whence all has its rising, and wherein the heavenly Joyfulness does consist;

(53) Christ hath also said: “No man cometh unto Me, except the Father, which hath sent Me, draw him.”58 Now mark: by the Father, I understand the Perfect, Simple Good, which is All and above All, and without which and besides which there is no true Substance, nor true Good, and without which no good work ever was or will be done. And in that it is All, it must be in All and above All. And it cannot be any one of those things which the creatures, as creatures, can comprehend or understand. For whatever the creature, as creature (that is, in her creature kind), can conceive of and understand, is something, this or that, and therefore is some sort of creature. And now if the Simple Perfect Good were somewhat, this or that, which the creature understandeth, it would not be the All, nor the Only One, and therefore not Perfect. Therefore also it cannot be named, seeing that it is none of all the things which the creature as creature can comprehend, know, conceive, or name. Now behold, when this Perfect Good, which is unnameable, floweth into a Person able to bring forth, and bringeth forth the Only-begotten Son in that Person, and itself in Him, we call it the Father. Now mark how the Father draweth men unto Christ. When somewhat of this Perfect Good is discovered and revealed within the soul of man, as it were in a glance or flash, the soul conceiveth a longing to approach unto the Perfect Goodness, and unite herself with the Father. And the stronger this yearning groweth, the more is revealed unto her; and the more is revealed unto her, the more is she drawn toward the Father, and her desire quickened. Thus is the soul drawn and quickened into a union with the Eternal Goodness. And this is the drawing of the Father, and thus the soul is taught of Him who draweth her unto Himself, that she cannot enter into a union with Him except she come unto Him by the life of Christ. Behold, now she putteth on that life of which I have spoken afore. Now see the meaning of these two sayings of Christ’s. The one, “No man cometh unto the Father, but by Me”; that is, through My life, as hath been set forth. The other saying, “No man cometh unto Me, except the Father draw him”; that is, he doth not take My life upon him and come after Me, except he be moved and drawn of My Father; that is, of the Simple and Perfect Good, of which St.