Concerning the Three Principles of the Divine Essence
2 breathe forth out of pride in the original of the2 Or work in fire, knowing itself [shall] so [become] powerful ; nerating : AS i i i-i T-» iMi -I the breath it so becometh a devil: .bor the devils also with goeth in and their legions had this original, and they out of ally forth* pride would live in the 8 fierce wrath of the fire, Ufo?1" and so they perished, and remained devils. J Or str°ng.
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\0rexer- 22. Yet if the soul elevate its Imagination thoughts and forward into the light, in meekness and comeliness reSgnlTion. or humility, and doth not (as Lucifer did) use the strong power of its fire, in its qualification [or 2 rerbwn breathing], then it will be fed by the 2 Word of the
Domini, , .
Lord, and get virtue, power, life, and strength, in the 2 Word of the Lord, which is the Heart of God ; and its own original strong [fierce wrathful] source of the birth of the eternal life becometh paradisical, exceeding pleasant, friendly, humble, and sweet, 'laughing wherein the 3 rejoicing and the fountain of the for joy. . . , .
4 Or Haiidu- eternal songs of praise spring up : and in this imagination it is an angel and a child of God, and
6 Note, what it beholdeth the eternal generating of the 6 indisis possible to 1111 i 11 » • i i i «i« be spoken of, soluble band ; and thereof it hath ability to speak and what not. lf , . r. . ..
(lor it is its own essence or substance), but [it is] not [able to speak] of the infinite generating, for that hath neither beginning nor end.
23. But if it undertaketh to speak of the unmeasurable space [or infinite geniture], then it becometh full of lies, and is troubled and confounded : For it belieth the unmeasurable Deity ; as Antichrist doth, which will have the Deity to be only above the starry heaven, that thereby himself may remain to be God upon earth, riding upon the great beast, which yet must shortly go into the 8 Or dominion original lake of brimstone, into the "kingdom of kinsr of the anger .
of God. Lucifer; for the time is come that the beast shall be revealed and spewed out ; concerning which we may be well enough understood here by the childrenCh. 4] OF THE TRUE ETERNAL NATURE 41 of hope ; but there is a wall and seal before the servants or ministers of * Antichrist, till the wrath 1 the whore of be executed upon her whoredom, and that she hath received her full wages, and that the 2 crown 2 Or ornament of her of their dominion which they have worn be their kingdom, shame, and till the eyes of the blind be opened ; and then she will sit as a scorned whore, which every one will adjudge to damnation.
The very sublime Gate of the Holy Trinity, for the Children of God.
24. If you lift up your thoughts and minds, and ride upon the chariot of the soul, as is before mentioned, and look upon yourself, and all creatures, and consider how the birth of life in you taketh its original, and the light of your life, whereby you can behold the shining of the sun ; and also look with your imagination, without the light of the sun, into a huge vast space, to which the eyes of your body cannot reach, and then consider what the cause might be that you are more rational than the other creatures, seeing you can search what is in every thing ; and consider farther, from whence the elements fire and air take their original, and how the fire cometh to be in the water, and generateth itself in the water ; and how the light of your body generateth itself in the water; and then if you be born of God, you attain to what God and the eternal birth is.
25. For you see, feel, and find, that all these
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2 breathe forth out of pride in the original of the2 Or work in fire, knowing itself [shall] so [become] powerful ; nerating : AS i i i-i T-» iMi -I the breath it so becomes a devil: .bor the devils also with goes in and their legions had this original, and they out of ally forth* pride would live in the 8 fierce wrath of the fire, Ufo?1" and so they perished, and remained devils. J Or str°ng.
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\0rexer- 22. Yet if the soul elevate its Imagination thoughts and forward into the light, in meekness and comeliness reSgnlTion. or humility, and does not (as Lucifer did) use the strong power of its fire, in its qualification [or 2 rerbwn breathing], then it will be fed by the 2 Word of the
Domini, , .
Lord, and get virtue, power, life, and strength, in the 2 Word of the Lord, which is the Heart of God ; and its own original strong [fierce wrathful] source of the birth of the eternal life becomes paradisical, exceeding pleasant, friendly, humble, and sweet, 'laughing wherein the 3 rejoicing and the fountain of the for joy. . . , .
4 Or Haiidu- eternal songs of praise spring up : and in this imagination it is an angel and a child of God, and
6 Note, what it beholds the eternal generating of the 6 indisis possible to 1111 i 11 » • i i i «i« be spoken of, soluble band ; and thereof it has ability to speak and what not. lf , . r. . ..
(lor it is its own essence or substance), but [it is] not [able to speak] of the infinite generating, for that has neither beginning nor end.
23. But if it undertaks to speak of the unmeasurable space [or infinite geniture], then it becomes full of lies, and is troubled and confounded : For it belies the unmeasurable Deity ; as Antichrist does, which will have the Deity to be only above the starry heaven, that thereby himself may remain to be God upon earth, riding upon the great beast, which yet must shortly go into the 8 Or dominion original lake of brimstone, into the "kingdom of kinsr of the anger .
of God. Lucifer; for the time is come that the beast shall be revealed and spewed out ; concerning which we may be well enough understood here by the children
Ch. 4] OF THE TRUE ETERNAL NATURE 41 of hope ; but there is a wall and seal before the servants or ministers of * Antichrist, till the wrath 1 the whore of be executed upon her whoredom, and that she has received her full wages, and that the 2 crown 2 Or ornament of her of their dominion which they have worn be their kingdom, shame, and till the eyes of the blind be opened ; and then she will sit as a scorned whore, which every one will adjudge to damnation.
The very sublime Gate of the Holy Trinity, for the Children of God.
24. If you lift up your thoughts and minds, and ride upon the chariot of the soul, as is before mentioned, and look upon yourself, and all creatures, and consider how the birth of life in you takes its original, and the light of your life, whereby you can behold the shining of the sun ; and also look with your imagination, without the light of the sun, into a huge vast space, to which the eyes of your body cannot reach, and then consider what the cause might be that you are more rational than the other creatures, seeing you can search what is in every thing ; and consider farther, from whence the elements fire and air take their original, and how the fire comes to be in the water, and generats itself in the water ; and how the light of your body generats itself in the water; and then if you be born of God, you attain to what God and the eternal birth is.
25. For you see, feel, and find, that all these
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