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10. For Adam was the heart of everything in this world, created out of the originality of all things ; his soul was out of the first Principle,
8 Or shining, throughly 6 illustrated with the second [Principle] ;
or enlightened. . ,, 1 r and his body was out ot the [/me] element, out of the 6 Barm, or birth, out of the divine virtue [which is] before God, which [body] was entered into the out-birth of the [one] element, viz. into the four elements, and wholly gone into the spirit of this world, viz. into the third Principle. And therefore he had the tincture of everything in him,
6 Or warm hatching.
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by which he reached into all essences, and proved [or searched] all things in the heaven, earth, fire, air, and water, and all whatsoever is generated from thence.
11. And so one tincture took hold of the other, and the stronger hath proved [or tried] the weaker, and given names to all things, according to their essences ; and that is the true ground of Adam's, fall, that he went out of the eternal [being] into the out-birth of the corruptible [being], and hath put on the l corruptible image, which God forbad » Or transihim. tory12. And here the two strong kingdoms of the eternity are to be seen, which have been in strife with one another, and are always so ; and the strife continueth to eternity, for it is also from eternity, viz. [between] 2 the fierceness and the meekness. » the wrath If the fierceness were not, there would be no and tbe lovemobility; but it overcome fch in this world only 'according to the kingdom of hell, and in the3 The wrath heaven it maketh the ascending joy, and the t meekness. '? the 'our elements, and
13. And it is highly to be found and considered by us, in the light of nature, how the fierceness [or wrath] is the root of all things, and, moreover, the originality of the life ; therein only consisteth the might and the power, and from thence only proceed the wonders; and without the fierceness [or wrath] there would be no enmity, but all would be [as it were] a nothing, as is formerly mentioned.
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14. And then we find also, how the meekness is the virtue and the spirit, so that where the meekness is not, there the fierceness (in itself) is nothing
1 working, but a darkness and a death, where no l growing can fruit, or bringing spring up, and it cannot generate nor discover its wonders ; and thus we find that the fierceness [wrath or sourness] is a cause of the essences, and [that] the meekness [is] a cause of the joy, and a cause of the rising and [budding or] growing forth of the essences ; and then that the spirit is generated by the flowing [working, springing] and rising up, out of the essences, and that the fierceness so becometh the root of the spirit, and the meekness is its life.
15. Now there can be no meekness without light, for the light maketh the meekness, and there can be no fierceness without the light, for the light
3 desiring, or maketh a 2 longing in the darkness ; and yet there attracting.
is no darkness there, but the longing maketh the darkness in the will, so that the will attracteth to itself, and impregnateth the longing, so that it becometh thick and dark ; for it is thicker than the will, and therefore it shadoweth the will, and is the darkness of the will.
16. And if the will be thus in darkness, then it is in anguish ; for it desireth to be out of the darkness, and that desiring is the flowing [or working] and the attracting in itself, where yet nothing is attained but a fierce source in itself, which by its attraction maketh hardness and roughness, which
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10. For Adam was the heart of everything in this world, created out of the originality of all things ; his soul was out of the first Principle,
8 Or shining, throughly 6 illustrated with the second [Principle] ;
or enlightened. . ,, 1 r and his body was out ot the [/me] element, out of the 6 Barm, or birth, out of the divine virtue [which is] before God, which [body] was entered into the out-birth of the [one] element, viz. into the four elements, and wholly gone into the spirit of this world, viz. into the third Principle. And therefore he had the tincture of everything in him,
6 Or warm hatching.
Ch. 21] THE CAINISH AND ABELLISH KINGDOMS 561 by which he reached into all essences, and proved [or searched] all things in the heaven, earth, fire, air, and water, and all whatsoever is generated from thence.
11. And so one tincture took hold of the other, and the stronger has proved [or tried] the weaker, and given names to all things, according to their essences ; and that is the true ground of Adam's, fall, that he went out of the eternal [being] into the out-birth of the corruptible [being], and has put on the l corruptible image, which God forbad » Or transihim. tory12. And here the two strong kingdoms of the eternity are to be seen, which have been in strife with one another, and are always so ; and the strife continues to eternity, for it is also from eternity, viz. [between] 2 the fierceness and the meekness. » the wrath If the fierceness were not, there would be no and tbe lovemobility; but it overcome fch in this world only 'according to the kingdom of hell, and in the3 The wrath heaven it makes the ascending joy, and the t meekness. '? the 'our elements, and
13. And it is highly to be found and considered by us, in the light of nature, how the fierceness [or wrath] is the root of all things, and, moreover, the originality of the life ; therein only consists the might and the power, and from thence only proceed the wonders; and without the fierceness [or wrath] there would be no enmity, but all would be [as it were] a nothing, as is formerly mentioned.
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14. And then we find also, how the meekness is the virtue and the spirit, so that where the meekness is not, there the fierceness (in itself) is nothing
1 working, but a darkness and a death, where no l growing can fruit, or bringing spring up, and it cannot generate nor discover its wonders ; and thus we find that the fierceness [wrath or sourness] is a cause of the essences, and [that] the meekness [is] a cause of the joy, and a cause of the rising and [budding or] growing forth of the essences ; and then that the spirit is generated by the flowing [working, springing] and rising up, out of the essences, and that the fierceness so becomes the root of the spirit, and the meekness is its life.
15. Now there can be no meekness without light, for the light makes the meekness, and there can be no fierceness without the light, for the light
3 desiring, or makes a 2 longing in the darkness ; and yet there attracting.
is no darkness there, but the longing makes the darkness in the will, so that the will attracts to itself, and impregnats the longing, so that it becomes thick and dark ; for it is thicker than the will, and therefore it shadows the will, and is the darkness of the will.
16. And if the will be thus in darkness, then it is in anguish ; for it desires to be out of the darkness, and that desiring is the flowing [or working] and the attracting in itself, where yet nothing is attained but a fierce source in itself, which by its attraction makes hardness and roughness, which
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, and thu ° asan known ) ^ " ( is »eet give the Reader exaotlv f how the rell f 7 , unde«tand and know .
« the beSS r C°r g]' Which U Was not tWainm; whog;;"7 m^lea» to understand
«d woman' 2 /u ^""W- in the wi» «f -an is conceived rthet/W6W' ^ » the *><"«, ^tmcture, and sown in an earthly
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