Concerning the Three Principles of the Divine Essence
10. And further, when the horror [or crack or shriek] of the fire is come into its harsh mother, and hath thus overcome its mother, then itself is much more terrified, for there it loseth its fierce or strong property, because the mother [hath] attained another 4 source ; and out of the horror of 4 Or root the fire a 6 brightness is come to be, in which, in "glance, or
,1 r i • lustre.
the inanimate matrix, the matena [or matter], in the midst of the horror [or crack], is come to be a soft and bright 6 mixed matter, viz. from the crack 8 Or concrete.
of the light [is proceeded] gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, etc. according as every place in the matrix stood in the wrestling centre.
11. For the birth in the whole space of this Note. world (as far as Lucifer's kingdom reached) wasp. 84 thus ; and therefore there are very different kinds of earth, metals, and other things in one place, than in another. And it is plain before our eyes, that all metals are mixed, which proceedeth from
Or out- the l bringing forth in infinitum ; which we well understand and see, but cannot utter, nor dare we speak it, for it troubleth us, and it! reacheth into the Deity, which is without beginning, and eternal ; therefore the creature must let it alone upon pain of the loss both of its reason and sense.
12. But to declare this further : When the matrix stood thus in the birth, where the matter of the earth was generated, then the matrix with the kindling became water ; you must understand it aright, not wholly in substance, but it hath generated the earth, stones, and metals, and yet the matrix continueth still ; so also the water still continueth in the killing and overcoming ; whereby the material world took its "beginning, where the globe of the earth was drawn together in this moving, and standeth in the middle of the circle from above and from beneath as a point [or puncturn].
Note. 13. And there in the centre, in the paradisical matrix, and in the paradisical heaven, the spirit of God stood in his own eternal seat, neither did it depart from thence, and moved upon the material water with the Fiat, and there formed the heaven, which was created out of the midst of the watery matrix ; and he separated the root of the darknessCh. 6] OF THE SEPARATION IN THE CREATION 85 from the light in the matrix, in which darkness the devils remained, and they have not comprehended the matter in the matrix, nor the new light, which sprang up in the matrix. And so with this creation and separation the length of one day was finished, and out of the beginning and end, and morning and evening, was the first day, as Moses writeth.
14. But that we may so speak of the heaven, that the Header might come to understand what that [heaven] is which God then created, [consider] what Moses writeth of it. God made a firmament between the waters, and separated the waters beneath the firmament from the waters above the firmament, and the firmament he called heaven, which is very right ; but hitherto it hath been very ill understood.
15. Now observe, the heaven is the whole deep, so far as the ethera, or skies, have l given up l expanded, themselves to the birth of this world, and that °r heaven is the matrix, out of which earth, stones, and the material water are generated. And there God separated the material water from the matrix. And here it is very plainly discerned, that the material water is as it were dead, or hath death in it; for it could not abide in the 2 moving mother, • Viz. the air. but was created [to be] upon the globe of the earth, and God called it sea \Meer\ ; in which [word] is understood, in the language of nature, as it were a springing [or growing] in death, or a life
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1 the corrupti- in l corruption : 2 Although herein I shall be as one
2 Thai i3> the that is dumb to the Reader, yet I 3 know it very well, and I am very well satisfied therewith. But because the bestial man is not worthy to know it, stuxi. therefore I will not here cast the Pearl before the
10. And further, when the horror [or crack or shriek] of the fire is come into its harsh mother, and has thus overcome its mother, then itself is much more terrified, for there it loses its fierce or strong property, because the mother [has] attained another 4 source ; and out of the horror of 4 Or root the fire a 6 brightness is come to be, in which, in "glance, or
,1 r i • lustre.
the inanimate matrix, the matena [or matter], in the midst of the horror [or crack], is come to be a soft and bright 6 mixed matter, viz. from the crack 8 Or concrete.
of the light [is proceeded] gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, etc. according as every place in the matrix stood in the wrestling centre.
11. For the birth in the whole space of this Note. world (as far as Lucifer's kingdom reached) was
84 THE THREE PRINCIPLES [Ch. 6 thus ; and therefore there are very different kinds of earth, metals, and other things in one place, than in another. And it is plain before our eyes, that all metals are mixed, which proceeds from
Or out- the l bringing forth in infinitum ; which we well understand and see, but cannot utter, nor dare we speak it, for it troubls us, and it! reaches into the Deity, which is without beginning, and eternal ; therefore the creature must let it alone upon pain of the loss both of its reason and sense.
12. But to declare this further : When the matrix stood thus in the birth, where the matter of the earth was generated, then the matrix with the kindling became water ; you must understand it aright, not wholly in substance, but it has generated the earth, stones, and metals, and yet the matrix continues still ; so also the water still continues in the killing and overcoming ; whereby the material world took its "beginning, where the globe of the earth was drawn together in this moving, and stands in the middle of the circle from above and from beneath as a point [or puncturn].
Note. 13. And there in the centre, in the paradisical matrix, and in the paradisical heaven, the spirit of God stood in his own eternal seat, neither did it depart from thence, and moved upon the material water with the Fiat, and there formed the heaven, which was created out of the midst of the watery matrix ; and he separated the root of the darkness
Ch. 6] OF THE SEPARATION IN THE CREATION 85 from the light in the matrix, in which darkness the devils remained, and they have not comprehended the matter in the matrix, nor the new light, which sprang up in the matrix. And so with this creation and separation the length of one day was finished, and out of the beginning and end, and morning and evening, was the first day, as Moses writes.
14. But that we may so speak of the heaven, that the Header might come to understand what that [heaven] is which God then created, [consider] what Moses writes of it. God made a firmament between the waters, and separated the waters beneath the firmament from the waters above the firmament, and the firmament he called heaven, which is very right ; but hitherto it has been very ill understood.
15. Now observe, the heaven is the whole deep, so far as the ethera, or skies, have l given up l expanded, themselves to the birth of this world, and that °r heaven is the matrix, out of which earth, stones, and the material water are generated. And there God separated the material water from the matrix. And here it is very plainly discerned, that the material water is as it were dead, or has death in it; for it could not abide in the 2 moving mother, • Viz. the air. but was created [to be] upon the globe of the earth, and God called it sea \Meer\ ; in which [word] is understood, in the language of nature, as it were a springing [or growing] in death, or a life
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1 the corrupti- in l corruption : 2 Although herein I shall be as one
2 Thai i3> the that is dumb to the Reader, yet I 3 know it very well, and I am very well satisfied therewith. But because the bestial man is not worthy to know it, stuxi. therefore I will not here cast the Pearl before the