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The Threefold Life of Man

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16. Amoog a thousand that have a several gift and knowledge taught of God, there is no strife about the food of the soul 34

16. Whence the strife amongst the Apostles arose . . 35

Subsistence. Substance. Substantiality.

  • 2. Of the eternal subsistence of the hellish creatures . 57
  • 4. A description of the substance in darkness, and of the desire which hath generated it: Also what is called fire .13

4. A substance may proceed out of a thought ... 30

6. Why that which is palpable is a dead substance . . 60

7. How the eternal substance is 64

7. In what manner every substance remaineth standing in the eternal nature 81

18. How men may be able to understand the heavenly substance 31

18. Own reason cannot attain the heavenly substance . 32

8. What is called air: Also what is called substantiality . 36

9. How out of the material substantiality two kinds are come 46

9. How all essences went forth: They all stood in the material substantiality 48

Sun.

9. What light was before the sun: How the sun and all stars came to be: The sun is the heart ... 61

9. How the zodiac, the earth, and the planets stand in order, and the sun in the midst .... 70

9. A description of light, and of the sun ... 89

CHAP. Sun. VERSE

9. How the sun penetrateth powerfully into all the six forms 92

9. How long the sun's standing still was to hare remained hidden 106

10. In what way many have found Sol, or the sun . . 3

  • 13. How the sun hath the dominion in the four elements . 27
  • 13. A resemblance of the elements and the sun to the Father and the Son 28

13. Of the sun's being every where in this world; and how it is a similitude of the Son's being every where . 30

Superior.

15. How the superior provoketh the inferior to wickedness 11

Supper.

13. How the Apostles and their successors have broken bread, and celebrated the Lord's Supper . . 10

13. How they have drunk of the Cup in the Supper . 11

13. How we receive the Holy Trinity in the Lord's Supper 31

13. How in the Lord's Supper we assume into our soul the body of Christ, which filleth the heaven, whereby at the judgment it will pass through the fire . 32

14. To what end the Testament of the Lord's Supper was instituted 19

Swine.

16. That men must not turn back to the husks of the swine 20

16. How we may powerfully cast away all swine and devils 21
Tabernacle.

11. How the present tabernacle, about which we strive, is none of ours, the devil hath defiled it: Our mother will purchase a new garment for us .. .111

Teachers. Teaching. 11. Of the teachers grown up of themselves, who teach for money to shew their eloquence and foreign language 85

11. The author envieth not what good people give to their teachers: The ox that treadeth out the corn should not be muzzled: Antichrist is laid quite naked . 104

CHAP. Teachers. Teaching. VERSE

12. The blessedness of the potentates and teachers, who govern and teach well those that are under them . 7

12. What teachers the princes should choose. Who is certainly the Antichrist. Also of one that cometh who will teach the truth 33

13. What the congregation's and the teacher's behaviour should be 8

3. The spirit of Christ in God is without law: The teaching from self-authority is false ... 67

Temptation.

3. Men ought to hold out in the temptation ... 35
Testament. Testaments.

13. How our soul often goeth out from the fair image; and how God giveth it the new garment again through the Testament, or Sacrament of the Lord's Supper 20

3. Without faith the Testaments are shut seals. Also how the Trinity i s ours 87

11. The hypocrites anger God with their use of the

Testaments 45

13. The author will shew what the Testaments of Christ are 3

13. The Church in Babel danceth about the jewel of
Christ's Testaments 4

13. How the virtue of the jewel remaineth sealed to Europe and Asia. The great misuse of this jewel (the Testaments) by Babel 6

Tetragrammaton.
16. Of what lieth hid in the words Tetragrammaton and
Adonai 65

Theologists.

2. An admonition to the theologists or divines, with a reproof 94

4. A hint to the theologists, who preach of God's will . 45

Thoughts.

2. Whence the mind and thoughts proceed ... 40
CHAP. Thunders. VERSE

3. Of the seven stars, and of the seven thunders . . 43

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16. Amoog a thousand that have a several gift and knowledge taught of God, there is no strife about the food of the soul 34

16. Whence the strife amongst the Apostles arose . . 35

Subsistence. Substance. Substantiality.

  • 2. Of the eternal subsistence of the hellish creatures . 57
  • 4. A description of the substance in darkness, and of the desire which has generated it: Also what is called fire .13

4. A substance may proceed out of a thought ... 30

6. Why that which is palpable is a dead substance . . 60

7. How the eternal substance is 64

7. In what manner every substance remains standing in the eternal nature 81

18. How men may be able to understand the heavenly substance 31

18. Own reason cannot attain the heavenly substance . 32

8. What is called air: Also what is called substantiality . 36

9. How out of the material substantiality two kinds are come 46

9. How all essences went forth: They all stood in the material substantiality 48

Sun.

9. What light was before the sun: How the sun and all stars came to be: The sun is the heart ... 61

9. How the zodiac, the earth, and the planets stand in order, and the sun in the midst .... 70

9. A description of light, and of the sun ... 89

CHAP. Sun. VERSE

9. How the sun penetrats powerfully into all the six forms 92

9. How long the sun's standing still was to hare remained hidden 106

10. In what way many have found Sol, or the sun . . 3

  • 13. How the sun has the dominion in the four elements . 27
  • 13. A resemblance of the elements and the sun to the Father and the Son 28

13. Of the sun's being every where in this world; and how it is a similitude of the Son's being every where . 30

Superior.

15. How the superior provoks the inferior to wickedness 11

Supper.

13. How the Apostles and their successors have broken bread, and celebrated the Lord's Supper . . 10

13. How they have drunk of the Cup in the Supper . 11

13. How we receive the Holy Trinity in the Lord's Supper 31

13. How in the Lord's Supper we assume into our soul the body of Christ, which fills the heaven, whereby at the judgment it will pass through the fire . 32

14. To what end the Testament of the Lord's Supper was instituted 19

Swine.

16. That men must not turn back to the husks of the swine 20

16. How we may powerfully cast away all swine and devils 21
Tabernacle.

11. How the present tabernacle, about which we strive, is none of ours, the devil has defiled it: Our mother will purchase a new garment for us .. .111

Teachers. Teaching. 11. Of the teachers grown up of themselves, who teach for money to show their eloquence and foreign language 85

11. The author envies not what good people give to their teachers: The ox that treads out the corn should not be muzzled: Antichrist is laid quite naked . 104

CHAP. Teachers. Teaching. VERSE

12. The blessedness of the potentates and teachers, who govern and teach well those that are under them . 7

12. What teachers the princes should choose. Who is certainly the Antichrist. Also of one that comes who will teach the truth 33

13. What the congregation's and the teacher's behaviour should be 8

3. The spirit of Christ in God is without law: The teaching from self-authority is false ... 67

Temptation.

3. Men ought to hold out in the temptation ... 35
Testament. Testaments.

13. How our soul often goes out from the fair image; and how God gives it the new garment again through the Testament, or Sacrament of the Lord's Supper 20

3. Without faith the Testaments are shut seals. Also how the Trinity i s ours 87

11. The hypocrites anger God with their use of the

Testaments 45

13. The author will show what the Testaments of Christ are 3

13. The Church in Babel dancs about the jewel of
Christ's Testaments 4

13. How the virtue of the jewel remains sealed to Europe and Asia. The great misuse of this jewel (the Testaments) by Babel 6

Tetragrammaton.
16. Of what lies hid in the words Tetragrammaton and
Adonai 65

Theologists.

2. An admonition to the theologists or divines, with a reproof 94

4. A hint to the theologists, who preach of God's will . 45

Thoughts.

2. Whence the mind and thoughts proceed ... 40
CHAP. Thunders. VERSE

3. Of the seven stars, and of the seven thunders . . 43

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