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that form in which he had conversed upon earth)
ascended with, then we must say, that as the love
of the Heart of God hath reconciled the anger of
the Father, and holdeth it as it were captive in it,
so also the holy Ternary hath comprehended the
1 the ruling hard palpable body of Christ, viz. the kingdom
of this world, as if it were wholly swallowed up,
s Or working whereas it is not swallowed up, but the 2 source
of this world is destroyed in death, and the holy
Ternary hath put on the body of Christ, not as
a garment, but virtually [or powerfully] in the
essences ; and he is as it were swallowed up (to
our apprehension and sight) and yet is, really, and
shall come again at the Last Judgment-day, and
manifest himself in his own body which he had
here, that all may see him, be they good or bad ;
and he shall also come in the same form to
keep the judgment of the separation, for in his
divine glorified form we cannot behold him, before
we be glorified, especially the wicked. But thus
all generations shall see and know him, and the
unbelieving shall weep and wail, that they went
so out of their flesh and blood into another source
[or condition], when they should and might in
their own essences have put on God, and yet
did put on the kingdom of the fierceness of the
anger of God with the devils, and let the same
into the essences of their souls, and caused themselves to perish.
28. Therefore we say, that in the soul of Christ,
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in its essences, the clear Deity, viz. the light of
God, is comprehended, which hath quenched the
anger in the source of the soul ; and thus that
light l clarifieth the soul, and (through the pro- l gionfieth or
brighteneth.
ceeding virtue) the tincture is always generated
out of the soul, and the Fiat in the essences maketh
it comprehensible and palpable ; and that is the
Temarius Sanctus, or the holy earth, that is,
the holy flesh, for God enlighteneth in this body
all in all.
9. Thus his earthly body is swallowed up in God,
though indeed he never had such an earthly body
as we have, for he was not of the seed of a man ;
but we speak only of the comprehensibility and
visibility of it to our eyes, according to which he
is our brother; and he shall appear at the Last
Judgment-day in our fleshly form, in the power of
God, as Lord over all, for all power in heaven and
in this world is subjected under him, and he is
Judge over all ; a Prince of life, and Lord over
death.
310. And so the kingdom of heaven is his own
body, and the whole princely throne of his Principle is paradise, wherein the blessed fruit in the
virtue of God springeth up, for the Holy Ghost is
the virtue [and power] of the fruit ; as the air in
this world is, so the Holy Ghost is the air and
spirit of the soul in Christ, and of all his children ;
for there is no other air in heaven, in the body of
Christ ; and God the Father is all in all. Thus we
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live and are (in Christ) all in the Father, and there
is no soul that searcheth out to the depth ; but we
live all in singleness of heart, and in great humility
and love one towards another, and rejoice one with
another, as children do before their parents ; and
to this end God created us.
1 Or friend. 11. Thus, my dear 1soul, seek Christ and incline
thyself to him, and so thou shalt receive the Holy
Ghost, who will new regenerate thy soul, and
enlighten, drive, and lead thee ; and he will reveal
[and manifest] Christ to thee. Leave off all
opinions and human inventions, for the kingdom
of God is near to thee ; and thou art kept out
from God only by thy own unbelief, by thy
evil works, viz. by thy pride, covetousness, envy,
anger, and falsehood ; for thou clothest thyself
with them, and so thou art in the devil's clothes,
without God.
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.