Concerning the Three Principles of the Divine Essence

4-*l with his body, which he 2 offered up on 2 sacrificed. the cross, when was he glorified in his body ? Or how is his body now ? Is it now as his disciples saw him ascend into heaven ? My beloved reason, my earthly eyes see it not, but the spiritual [eyes] in Christ see it very well. The Scripture saith, He is 3 glorified, and Lord over all ; but we will 3 ciarified or open to you the gate of the great wonders, that you may see what we see.

2. Behold, * when God the Father had brought 4 Exodus xxiv. Israel into the wilderness to mount Sinai, and would give them laws, in which they should live, then he commanded Moses to come up the mountain to the Lord, and the rest of the elders must stay afar off, and the people below the mountain ; and Moses went up the mountain alone to the Lord, and there appeared the brightness [or glory] of the Lord, and on the seventh

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1 became bright, and did shine day he called Moses, and spake with him concerning all the laws. And the countenance of Moses was 1 glorified from the Lord, so that he could stand before him, and speak with him. Thus also the man Christ, in Ternario Sancto, [in the holy Ternary], when he was ascended into his throne, was glorified on the ninth day in the Holy Trinity.

3. Understand it aright ; his soul in the creature was not first glorified, but his whole body, or princely throne ; there went forth out of the centre of the Holy Trinity the Holy Ghost, as you see clearly, that those (who had put on the spirit of Christ) were highly enlightened ; for the Holy Ghost went forth from the centre of the Trinity into the whole holy element, and did flow

2 Barmhertz- into the 2 mercy of God ; and as he triumphed in fulness. l ' the body of Jesus Christ, so also in his disciples, and in the believers.

4. There were opened all the doors of the great wonders, and the Apostles spake with the languages of all nations ; and so it may be seen clearly, that the spirit of God had opened all the centres of all essences, and spake out of them all ; for Christ was the Lord, and the Heart of all essences, and therefore the Holy Ghost went out of all essences, and filled the essences of all men who turned their ears with a desire to it, and in that he pressed into all ; and every one heard (out of his own essences and language) the spirit of God speak out of the disciples ; and the Holy Ghost was born in the

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bodies of all their hearers, who had but an earnest desire to it, and they were all filled ; for the spirit of God pierced through into their hearts, as he pressed forth out of the centre of the Trinity into the whole body and princely throne of Jesus Christ, and filled all outwardly in the clarity [or glory].

5. Thus all the holy souls were filled, so that their whole body in the essences was made stirring from the exceeding precious virtue [or power], which went forth in the wonders in power and in l deeds that were done there. And here is set *• Or miracles, before us the virtue [or power] of the Father in the fire, in his severe omnipotency on mount Sinai, also the still loving virtue of the Son of God in the love and mercy ; for we see that we could not all live in the Father (in the source of the fire),' and therefore Moses brake the Tables, and the people fell away from God.

6. But now when the meekness was in the Father, then the love held the anger captive, and [the love] went out of the source of the Father, (and that was the Holy Ghost), in the wonders. There stood the highly worthy heavenly virgin of the wisdom of God, in her highest ornament, with her garland of pearls ; there stood Mary in Ternamo Sancto, of which the spirit (in the ancients) hath spoken wonderfully. And here Adam was brought into paradise again.

7. And now if we will speak of the glorification of Christ, and of his body, which he visibly (and in