13, Understand this well. It was not only his soul in the creature which was glorified, but his whole body, or the prince-throne. Then went forth the holy spirit in the centre of the holy trinity. Also thou seest clearly that those who had clothed themselves with the spirit of the Christ, were highly enlightened: for the holy spirit passed from the centre of the trinity into all the holy element of God, and boiled in the mercy of God; and even as he triumphed in the body of Jesus-Christ, even so also in his disciples and the believers. Then opened all the gates of the great marvels, and the apostles spoke the languages of all the peoples.
4. And one sees evidently that the spirit of God has opened all the centres of all the essences, and that his word came from all the essences; for the Christ was the lord and the heart of all the essences. It is why the holy spirit went forth from all the essences, and filled the essences of all those of the men who turned toward him their ear with desire. He stimulated these essences in them all; each heard ( in his essence and in his language ) the spirit of God speak to the disciples; and the holy spirit was begotten in the body of those who heard him 5 they had only to turn toward him
their sincere desire, and they were all filled; for the spirit pierced through the heart, as it had pierced from the centre of the trinity into all the body and into the prince-throne of Jesus-Christ; and all the exterior was filled with clearness.
25. Thus all the holy souls were also filled, so that all their body, in all the essences, was reactioned, and set in motion by the precious virtue acting in the marvels in the power and in the works which then operated: and here we may perceive: 10. the virtue of the father in the fire, in his omnipotent force upon the mountain of Sinai; and afterwards .0. the sweet, amiable virtue of the son of God (in the light of 1 the love) in the love and the mercy: for we see how we could not have lived at all in the father, in the source of the fire; it is why Moses broke the tables of the law and the people removed themselves from God. '
6. But when the sweetness was in the father, then the love imprisoned the anger; a joyous paradisiacal source went forth from the source of the father into the son; and that was there the holy spirit in the marvels. There, the dear virgin of the heaven, of the wisdom of God, or SOPHIA, was in her noblest ornament with her crown of pearls. Then Mary was in the holy ternary; whereof the spirit had spoken marvellously in the ancients; and then Adam was anew introduced into the paradise.
7. But willing here to treat of the glorification of the Christ, and of his body that he has raised visibly on
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3high, and in the same form as when he walked upon the earth, from thenceforth we must speak of this form. Even as the love of the heart of God has reconciled the anger of the father, and holds it as prisoner in itself; even so also the holy ternary has enclosed in itself the exterior, compact and seizable body of the Christ, or the kingdom of this world, as if it were entirely swallowed up, and nevertheless it was not swallowed up; but the source of this world was broken in the death, and the holy ternary has enveloped the body of the Christ, not as a garment, but virtually in the essences, and this exterior body was as swallowed up, only in respect of our sight: nevertheless this body exists really 5 it shall come back at the last day; the Christ shall show himself in his same form that he had here in order that all men may see him, the wicked as well as the good, and it is in this same form that he shall exercise the judgment of the separation. For, in his divine glorified form, we could not look upon him before our glorification, particularly the impious man. But then all the races shall see him and shall know him; and the incredulous shall howl and lament upon this subject, for that they have thus passed from their flesh and from their blood into another source; whilst they might have clothed themselves with God in their own essences. They have in effect clothed themselves with the harsh kingdom of the anger of God, by the instigation of the demons; they have let them enter into the essences of their soul, and have lost themselves.
CH. 2^. ( 357 )
Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.