112. But seeing it was his will also in this throne,
in the eternal element, to have creatures that
should be instead of the fallen devils, and possess
the place [of them] in the heaven in paradise,
therefore he created man out of the 2 element. •O»«nn|
13. Arid as this place was now twofold, and one element308 THE THREE PRINCIPLES [Ch. 15
1 Or in. l with the eternal originality threefold (viz.
[having] the first principle in the great anxiety,
and the second Principle in the divine habitation
in paradise, and then the third Principle in the
light of the sun, in the quality of the stars and
elements), so must man also be created out of all
three, if he must be an angel in" this place, and
receive all knowledge and understanding, whereby
he might have eternal joy also with [or in] the
figures and images, which stand not in the eternal
spirit, but in the eternal figure, as all things in this
world are [or do].
214. And there God manifesteth himself according
to his eternal will, in his eternal wisdom of the
noble virgin, in the element, which in paradise
standeth in the sharpness of the divine virtue [or
power]. And the Fiat created man out of the
element in paradise, for it attracted to it out of
the quintessence of the sun, stars, and elements in
paradise, in the element of the originality (from
whence the four elements proceed) and created man
to the image of God (that is, to the similitude of
God) and breathed into him into the element of
the body (which yet was nothing else but paradisical virtue) the spirit of the eternal essences out
of the eternal originality ; and there man became
a living soul, and an image of God in paradise.
15. And the wisdom of God, the pleasant
2 shone forth, virgin, did 2 discover herself in him, and with the
discovering opened Adam's centre, in [or to] many
Ch. ]5] KNOWLEDGE OF THE ETERNITY 309
thousand thousands, which should proceed out of
this fountain of this image ; and the noble virgin
of the wisdom and virtue [or power] of God was
espoused [or contracted] to him, that he should be
modest and wholly chaste to his virgin, and set no
desire in the first, nor in the third Principles, to
qualify [mix with] or live therein, but his inclination or longing must be to get into the Heart of
God, and to eat of the l Verbum Domini [of the1 The Word
Word of the Lord] in all the fruits of this world. LedetiTout
316. For the fruits were also good, and their of God™0
inclination [or that which made them to be desired]
proceeded out of the inward element, out of the
2 paradise. Now Adam could eat of every fruit • the divine
in the mouth, but not 8in the corruptibility, that 3^^
must not be, for his body must subsist eternally, rtom«'1> OT
J ' maw, where
and continue in paradise, and generate a chaste the meat
r turneth to
virgin out of himself, like himself, without rending corrupt dung,
of his body ; for this could be, seeing his body was
[proceeded] out of the heavenly element, out of the
virtue of God.
17. But when the chaste virgin found herself
thus in Adam with great wisdom, meekness, and
humility, then the outward elements became lusting after the eternal, that they might * raise them- * discover OP
selves up in the chaste virgin, and 6 qualify in her ; Tofn^with
seeing that Adam was extracted out of them [viz. her» or work
in her.
the tour elements], out of the quinta essentia,
therefore they desired their own, and would qualify
therein, which yet God did forbid to Adam,
310 THE THREE PRINCIPLES [Oil. 15
[saying] that he should not eat of the knowledge of
good and evil, but live in [the] one [only element],
and be contented with paradise.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.