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forth of his spirit, who there, 5 upon the matrix in * the spirit moved upon the fifth form, framed the fiery heaven, as the the w»t«r.
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highly worthy Moses hath clearly written of it. For the matrix is the water-spirit in the original, in the first form ; and now when it became material in the place of this world, then the spirit moved upon the water in the heavenly matrix, which is immaterial (from whence the material water is generated), and so formed the creatures.
30. Thus in this springing up [or going forth] the material matrix was extinguished, and the wrath fulness [tartness or fierceness] is come in the stead thereof. And the devil remained in the original of the matrix (which cannot be altered in eternity), between paradise and this world, in the dark matrix ; and with the creation of the earth, he was thrust down from his high throne [or seat], where now the fiery starry heaven is.
THE SIXTH CHAPTER
Of the Separation in the Creation, in the third Principle.
1. ~1~F we consider of the Reparation and the 1 distinction, J- springing forth in the third Principle of enle', form," this world, how the starry heaven should spring whereby every up, and how every star hath a peculiar form and own^ecuHar*" property in itself, in every of which a several es centre is observed, so that every one of them is fixed [or steady] and master [or guider] of itself, and that every one of them ruleth in the matrix of this world, and 2worketh and generateth in the 2 Or qualified matrix after their kind. And then afterwards, if we consider the sun, which is their king, heart, and life, without whose light and virtue 3 they could s the starsneither act nor effect any thing, but remain in the hard dark death ; and this world would be nothing (but a fierce rough hardness). And further, if we consider the elements of fire and water [and observe] how they continually generate one in another, and then how the constellations rule in them, as in their own propriety ; and also consider what the mother is, from whence all these things
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[Ch. 6 must proceed ; then we shall come to see the forth. .. . .
1 Or bringer separation, and the eternal mother, the l genetrix
of all things.
2. Nay, we have it clearly and plainly to be seen in ourselves, and in all things, if we would not be so mad, blind, and self-conceited, and would not be
2 outward so drawn and led by a 2 school-boy,'' but did stick close to the schoolmaster himself, who is the master of all masters; for we see indeed that all things spring out of the eternal mother; and as she is in her own birth, so she hath generated this world, and so is every creature also generated. And as that [mother] is in her springing forth in multiplication, where every fountain [or source] hath another centre in it from the genetrix, and a separation [or distinction], but undivided and not asunder, so also this world is generated out of the eternal mother, which now is such another genetrix, and yet is not separated [or sundered] from the eternal 3 mother, but is come to be in a material manner, and it hath through the sun attained another light and life ; which [light and life] is not the wise Master himself, but the wise Master (who is God) he keepeth that light and life, so that it standeth and continueth in the eternal matrix, and yet it is not the eternal wisdom itself.
3. Now because this birth [of the sun] hath a beginning through the will of God, and entereth again into its 4 ether, therefore it hath not the virtue or power of the wisdom ; but it continually
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forth of his spirit, who there, 5 upon the matrix in * the spirit moved upon the fifth form, framed the fiery heaven, as the the w»t«r.
78 THE THREE PRINCIPLES [Ch. 5 highly worthy Moses has clearly written of it. For the matrix is the water-spirit in the original, in the first form ; and now when it became material in the place of this world, then the spirit moved upon the water in the heavenly matrix, which is immaterial (from whence the material water is generated), and so formed the creatures.
30. Thus in this springing up [or going forth] the material matrix was extinguished, and the wrath fulness [tartness or fierceness] is come in the stead thereof. And the devil remained in the original of the matrix (which cannot be altered in eternity), between paradise and this world, in the dark matrix ; and with the creation of the earth, he was thrust down from his high throne [or seat], where now the fiery starry heaven is.
THE SIXTH CHAPTER
Of the Separation in the Creation, in the third Principle.
1. ~1~F we consider of the Reparation and the 1 distinction, J- springing forth in the third Principle of enle', form," this world, how the starry heaven should spring whereby every up, and how every star has a peculiar form and own^ecuHar*" property in itself, in every of which a several es centre is observed, so that every one of them is fixed [or steady] and master [or guider] of itself, and that every one of them ruls in the matrix of this world, and 2worketh and generats in the 2 Or qualified matrix after their kind. And then afterwards, if we consider the sun, which is their king, heart, and life, without whose light and virtue 3 they could s the starsneither act nor effect any thing, but remain in the hard dark death ; and this world would be nothing (but a fierce rough hardness). And further, if we consider the elements of fire and water [and observe] how they continually generate one in another, and then how the constellations rule in them, as in their own propriety ; and also consider what the mother is, from whence all these things
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THE THREE PRINCIPLES
[Ch. 6 must proceed ; then we shall come to see the forth. .. . .
1 Or bringer separation, and the eternal mother, the l genetrix
of all things.
2. Nay, we have it clearly and plainly to be seen in ourselves, and in all things, if we would not be so mad, blind, and self-conceited, and would not be
2 outward so drawn and led by a 2 school-boy,'' but did stick close to the schoolmaster himself, who is the master of all masters; for we see indeed that all things spring out of the eternal mother; and as she is in her own birth, so she has generated this world, and so is every creature also generated. And as that [mother] is in her springing forth in multiplication, where every fountain [or source] has another centre in it from the genetrix, and a separation [or distinction], but undivided and not asunder, so also this world is generated out of the eternal mother, which now is such another genetrix, and yet is not separated [or sundered] from the eternal 3 mother, but is come to be in a material manner, and it has through the sun attained another light and life ; which [light and life] is not the wise Master himself, but the wise Master (who is God) he keeps that light and life, so that it stands and continues in the eternal matrix, and yet it is not the eternal wisdom itself.
3. Now because this birth [of the sun] has a beginning through the will of God, and enters again into its 4 ether, therefore it has not the virtue or power of the wisdom ; but it continually
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