(2) Invoking then Jesus, the Paternal Light, the Real, the True, "which lighteth every man coming into the world," "through Whom we have access to the Father," Source of Light, let us aspire, as far as is attainable, to the illuminations handed down by our fathers in the most sacred Oracles, and let us gaze, as we may, upon the Hierarchies of the Heavenly Minds manifested by them symbolically for our instruction. And when we have received, with immaterial and unflinching mental eyes, the gift of Light, primal and super-primal, of the supremely Divine Father, which manifests to us the most blessed Hierarchies of the Angels in types and symbols, let us then, from it, be elevated to its simple splendour. For it never loses its own unique inwardness, but multiplied and going forth, as becomes its goodness, for an elevating and unifying blending of the objects of its care, remains firmly and solitarily centred within itself in its unmoved sameness; and raises, according to their capacity, those who lawfully aspire to it, and makes them one, after the example of its own unifying Oneness. For it is not possible that the supremely Divine Ray should otherwise illuminate us, except so far as it is enveloped, for the purpose of instruction, in variegated sacred veils, and arranged naturally and appropriately, for such as we are, by paternal forethought.

(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.

(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.

(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, enlightening the whole Mind, which signifies God the Son. Then thirdly, there goes forth out of all thy Powers, and out of thy Light also, a Spirit which has Understanding. [Power, Light, Spirit.]

(57) Now you may well perceive that the Birth of the Sun takes its Original in the Fire, and attains his Personality and Name in the Kindling of the soft, white, and clear Light, which is Himself; and Himself makes the pleasant Smell, Taste, and Satisfaction [or Reconciliation and Well-pleasing] in the Father, and is rightly the Father's Heart, and another Person; for he opens and produces the second Principle in the Father; and his own Essence is the Power or Virtue and the Light; and therefore his is rightly called the Power or Virtue of the Father.

(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.]

(32) For observe this Mystery: The Light, which is generated out of the Powers of the Father, who is the true Fountain of the Son of God, is generated also in an Angel, and a Holy Man, so that in the same Light and Knowledge he triumphs in great Joy.

(36) For the Generating, or Geniture of the Father cannot catch or comprehend the Light, and use it to its Generating, but the Light stands by itself, and is not comprehended by any Geniture, and it replenishes and enlightens the whole Geniture, viz. 'the only begotten Son of the Father. And this Light I call, in the human Birth or Geniture, the animated or soulish Birth,' [*understand the Image, which budded forth out of the Essences of the Soul, according to the Similitude of God,*] or the Soul’s Birth or Geniture which qualifies, mixes, or unites with this animated or soulish Birth or Geniture of God; and herein is Man’s Soul one Heart with God; but that is when it stands in this Light.

(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.

(69) The second Part, or the second Person, is the Light, which is continually generated from or out of all Powers, and enlightens again all the Powers of the Father, and has the Fountain of all Powers; but is therein distinguished from the Father as a singular Person, in that it cannot comprehend the Birth or Geniture of the Father, and yet is the Father's Son, which is always generated from or out of the Father: An Instance whereof you have in all the kindled Fires in this World; do but consider of it.

(56) Thus the Father is the self-subsisting Being of all Powers, and the Son is the Heart in the Father, which is generated continually out of all the Powers of the Father, who again enlightens the Powers of the Father.

(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.

(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.

(8) But. up to this point, our utmost power of mental energy carries us, namely, that all divine paternity and sonship have been bequeathed from the Source of paternity and Source of sonship--pre-eminent above all--both to us and to the supercelestial powers, from which the godlike become both gods, and sons of gods, and fathers of gods, and are named Minds, such a paternity and sonship being of course accomplished spiritually, i.e. incorporeally, immaterially, intellectually,-- since the supremely Divine Spirit is seated above all intellectual immateriality, and deification, and the Father and the Son are pre-eminently elevated above all divine paternity and sonship. For there is no strict likeness, between the caused and the causes. The caused indeed possess the accepted likenesses of the causes, but the causes themselves are elevated and established above the caused, according to the ratio of their proper origin. And, to use illustrations suitable to ourselves, pleasures and pains are said to be productive of pleasure and pain, but these themselves feel neither pleasure nor pain. And fire, whilst heating and burning, is not said to be burnt and heated. And, if any one should say that the self-existent Life lives, or that the self-existent Light is enlightened, in my view he will not speak correctly, unless, perhaps, he should say this after another fashion, that the properties of the caused are abundantly and essentially pre-existent in the causes.

(78) And the unfathomable Power and Light of the Son is in the Deep of the Father, a living, all-powerful, all-knowing, all-hearing, all-seeing, all-smelling, all-tasting, all-feeling Spirit, wherein is all Power, Splendor, and Wisdom, as in the Father and the Son.

(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: This Mind stands in Anguish, and in the Will conceives the Virtue; and the Virtue fulfils, [satisfies or impregnates] the Mind. Thus the Kingdom of God consists in the Virtue [or in Power,] which is God the Father, and the Light makes the Virtue longing to [be] the Will, that is, God the Son, for in the Virtue the Light is continually generated from Eternity, and in the Light, out of the Virtue, goes the Holy Ghost forth, which generates again in the dark Mind the Will of the eternal Essence.

(142) Out of that Fire goes the Flash or the Light forth, and moves or boils in all the Powers, and has or contains the Fountain and Sharpness of all the Powers in itself, because it is generated, through the Son, out of all the Powers of the Father, and to them it reciprocally makes all the Powers in the Father living and moving; and through that Spirit are all the angels formed and imaged out of the Father’s Powers. And

(72) As the Father generates his Son, that is, his Heart or Light, out of all his Powers, and that Light which is the Son generates the Life in all the Powers of the Father, so that in the same Light, in the Father’s Powers, goes forth all Manner of growing, vegetation, springing, Ornaments and Joy: Of such a Condition is the Kingdom of Angels, all according to the Similitude and Being of God.