Concerning the Three Principles of the Divine Essence
33. Therefore there is a difference between the tincture in man, and the Holy Ghost ; and the bestowed virgin of the divine virtue [or power] dwelleth in the tincture of the soul, [that is] if it be true and faithful ; but if [the soul be] not
3 the virgin, [faithful] then 3she departeth into her centre, which is not wholly shut up ; for there is but half a birth between, except the soul pass into the * stock of a * stock of harshness and malice [evil or wickedness], grafted upon, and then there is a whole birth between. For the harshness standeth in the fourth form of the darkness, and the bitterness in the fire, between the fourth and fifth forms, as is mentioned before.
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34. Now [reason's] question is, How hath Eve received the soul from Adam? Behold, when God's * harsh Fiat took the rib 2 out of Adam, l soar, then it attracted out of all essences also to it, and tr* the Fiat imaged [formed, imagined, or impressed] * Or in> itself together therein, [that it might] continually and eternally stay therein. But now the tincture in Adam was not yet extinguished, but the soul of Adam sat yet wholly with might and virtue [or power] in the tincture ; only the virgin was departed : And therefore now the Fiat * took the * received, tincture, and the [sour] harsh essences mingled [or qualified] with the [sour] harsh Fiat ; for it, (viz. the Fiat) and the [sourness or] harshness in the essences, are one kind of essence.
35. Thus the Fiat inclined itself now to the Heart of God, and the essences received the divine virtue [or power], and there sprang up the blossom in the fire ; and out of the blossom [sprang] again the own [proper] tincture, and thus Eve was a living soul : And the tincture filled itself in the growth (even as it is a cause of all growing), so that * instantly there was a whole body in the Suddenly tincture. For that was possible, they were not yet fallen into sin, neither were there yet any hard gristles and bones.
36. You must understand [or conceive] it aright : Eve gat not Adam's soul, nor Adam's body, but one only rib ; but she was extracted from the essences, and gat her soul in her essences
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[that were] given her, in the tincture, and the body grew for [or to] her in her own sprung-up tincture, yet in virtue [or power] ; but the Fiat had already formed [or made] her a woman. Indeed she was not deformed, but altogether lovely ; for she was 'Ofdistino of a heavenly kind, in paradise, yet the * marks tion of sex.
were already also set upon her by the Fiat of the 2 macrocosm. 2 great world ; and it could not otherwise be, she must be a woman for Adam ; indeed they were in paradise. And if they had not eaten of the tree, and if they had returned to God, then they would have continued in paradise ; but the propagation must now needs have been after a womanly manner, and would not have stood [eternally]. For Satan had brought it too far, although he had not yet suffered himself to be seen, only he strewed sugar abroad in the spirit of this world, till at length the lovely beast did lay itself forth upon the tree as a flatterer and liar.
The Gate of our Propagation in the Flesh.
37. As I have mentioned above, the noble tincture is now henceforth generated thus in a manly [or masculine] and womanly [or feminine] kind [or sex] out of the soul ; the tincture is so subtle and mighty, powerful, that it [can go, or] goeth into the heart of another, into his tincture ; which the devilish bewitching whores well know ; yet they understand not the noble art, but they s Or poison, use the [false] tincture of the devils, and 8 infect
33. Therefore there is a difference between the tincture in man, and the Holy Ghost ; and the bestowed virgin of the divine virtue [or power] dwells in the tincture of the soul, [that is] if it be true and faithful ; but if [the soul be] not
3 the virgin, [faithful] then 3she departs into her centre, which is not wholly shut up ; for there is but half a birth between, except the soul pass into the * stock of a * stock of harshness and malice [evil or wickedness], grafted upon, and then there is a whole birth between. For the harshness stands in the fourth form of the darkness, and the bitterness in the fire, between the fourth and fifth forms, as is mentioned before.
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34. Now [reason's] question is, How has Eve received the soul from Adam? Behold, when God's * harsh Fiat took the rib 2 out of Adam, l soar, then it attracted out of all essences also to it, and tr* the Fiat imaged [formed, imagined, or impressed] * Or in> itself together therein, [that it might] continually and eternally stay therein. But now the tincture in Adam was not yet extinguished, but the soul of Adam sat yet wholly with might and virtue [or power] in the tincture ; only the virgin was departed : And therefore now the Fiat * took the * received, tincture, and the [sour] harsh essences mingled [or qualified] with the [sour] harsh Fiat ; for it, (viz. the Fiat) and the [sourness or] harshness in the essences, are one kind of essence.
35. Thus the Fiat inclined itself now to the Heart of God, and the essences received the divine virtue [or power], and there sprang up the blossom in the fire ; and out of the blossom [sprang] again the own [proper] tincture, and thus Eve was a living soul : And the tincture filled itself in the growth (even as it is a cause of all growing), so that * instantly there was a whole body in the Suddenly tincture. For that was possible, they were not yet fallen into sin, neither were there yet any hard gristles and bones.
36. You must understand [or conceive] it aright : Eve gat not Adam's soul, nor Adam's body, but one only rib ; but she was extracted from the essences, and gat her soul in her essences
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[that were] given her, in the tincture, and the body grew for [or to] her in her own sprung-up tincture, yet in virtue [or power] ; but the Fiat had already formed [or made] her a woman. Indeed she was not deformed, but altogether lovely ; for she was 'Ofdistino of a heavenly kind, in paradise, yet the * marks tion of sex.
were already also set upon her by the Fiat of the 2 macrocosm. 2 great world ; and it could not otherwise be, she must be a woman for Adam ; indeed they were in paradise. And if they had not eaten of the tree, and if they had returned to God, then they would have continued in paradise ; but the propagation must now needs have been after a womanly manner, and would not have stood [eternally]. For Satan had brought it too far, although he had not yet suffered himself to be seen, only he strewed sugar abroad in the spirit of this world, till at length the lovely beast did lay itself forth upon the tree as a flatterer and liar.
The Gate of our Propagation in the Flesh.
37. As I have mentioned above, the noble tincture is now henceforth generated thus in a manly [or masculine] and womanly [or feminine] kind [or sex] out of the soul ; the tincture is so subtle and mighty, powerful, that it [can go, or] goes into the heart of another, into his tincture ; which the devilish bewitching whores well know ; yet they understand not the noble art, but they s Or poison, use the [false] tincture of the devils, and 8 infect