flash of the might of the fire: and yet there is no flying out, but it causeth such a will [of flying out, or flying away], and that is a spirit, and it is the band of nature, which God the Father generateth in his will, wherewith he manifesteth himself in the eternal stillness: whereas otherwise there would be nothing: and herein is God the Father (with his might and fiery sharpness) an angry zealous jealous God, and a consuming fire.
91. Let this be shewn you, O ye philosophers, which (from the counsel of God) is opened to you in the seventh seal, in Ternario Sancto.[Holy Ternary]
92. Thus the fountain of love is a clasping and keeping in of the fierce wrathfulness, yea, an overcoming of the fierce might: for the meekness taketh away the property of the fierce sour hard might of the fire; and the light of the meekness holdeth the darkness captive, and dwelleth in the darkness [without being comprehended by the darkness].
93. And thus the fierce might willeth nothing else but the fierceness, and the shutting in of death; for the fierce sourness is the shutter up in death: and the meekness presseth forth as a sprout, and groweth out of death, and overcometh it: and maketh the eternal life, and turneth enmity into love.
94. Let this be a light unto you, O ye theologists
[or divines] : and consider better, the writings of the saints, and behold the wonders of God with other eyes. Consider what God is, in love and anger: and observe how two Principles stand open, where each is desiring; desist from the natural wisdom of this world, and consider the eternal nature, and so you shall find God and the kingdom of heaven. Your laws will not do it: if you would know God, another manner of earnestness
[or zeal] must be used [than to make conclusions in counsels and synods] ; you must go out from Babel disputations], that you may attain the centre of the
Son of God: and so you shall be bom [or generated]
in meekness and in love; and then you may feed the sheep of Christ: otherwise you are thieves and murderers, and step into the centre of the fierce wrath, where you do nothing else but devour the sheep of Christ, with your blowing up of hellish fire. O how falsely do you deal against love: how will you appear, when the sun riseth, and when you shall stand in the light; it shall hereafter be set before your eyes.
THE THIRD CHAPTER
1. AND now if we will dive into the blessed birth of love, and search how it is generated, and where it hath its original, we must search the centre inwardly, and set the sixth form of nature before us, viz. Mercury, wherein the sound [sound or noise] is generated: and so we shall find (in the generating of the love), the tune, sound and song, as also the five senses, seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling; wherein the life is understood; as also pain and torment, joy and love; desire to good, and desire to evil; though in itself in nature nothing is to be rejected [or is in vain], both must be, else God would not be manifested, and all would be as a still nothing: and the whole Being is together in the eternal God; none hath made or generated any thing for him: he alone, in his eternal will (which is himself) maketh the genetrix [womb of nature] ; he only is the eternal beginning, and comprised the centre to the genetrix, which maketh the eternal mother of the genetrix of the essence of all essences.
2. For God hath no beginning, and there is nothing sooner than he [or before him], but his
Word hath an unsearchable [groundless] beginning in him, and an eternal unsearchable end: which yet is not called end rightly, but Person, viz. the Heart of the Father: for it is generated in the eternal centre, not as a form of the centre (which belongeth to the centre) but as a sprout of another centre out of the first eternal [centre] .
flash of the might of the fire: and yet there is no flying out, but it causes such a will [of flying out, or flying away], and that is a spirit, and it is the band of nature, which God the Father generats in his will, wherewith he manifests himself in the eternal stillness: whereas otherwise there would be nothing: and herein is God the Father (with his might and fiery sharpness) an angry zealous jealous God, and a consuming fire.
91. Let this be shown you, O you philosophers, which (from the counsel of God) is opened to you in the seventh seal, in Ternario Sancto.[Holy Ternary]
92. Thus the fountain of love is a clasping and keeping in of the fierce wrathfulness, yea, an overcoming of the fierce might: for the meekness takes away the property of the fierce sour hard might of the fire; and the light of the meekness holds the darkness captive, and dwells in the darkness [without being comprehended by the darkness].
93. And thus the fierce might wills nothing else but the fierceness, and the shutting in of death; for the fierce sourness is the shutter up in death: and the meekness presses forth as a sprout, and grows out of death, and overcoms it: and makes the eternal life, and turns enmity into love.
94. Let this be a light unto you, O you theologists
[or divines] : and consider better, the writings of the saints, and behold the wonders of God with other eyes. Consider what God is, in love and anger: and observe how two Principles stand open, where each is desiring; desist from the natural wisdom of this world, and consider the eternal nature, and so you shall find God and the kingdom of heaven. Your laws will not do it: if you would know God, another manner of earnestness
[or zeal] must be used [than to make conclusions in counsels and synods] ; you must go out from Babel disputations], that you may attain the centre of the
Son of God: and so you shall be bom [or generated]
in meekness and in love; and then you may feed the sheep of Christ: otherwise you are thieves and murderers, and step into the centre of the fierce wrath, where you do nothing else but devour the sheep of Christ, with your blowing up of hellish fire. O how falsely do you deal against love: how will you appear, when the sun rises, and when you shall stand in the light; it shall hereafter be set before your eyes.
THE THIRD CHAPTER
1. AND now if we will dive into the blessed birth of love, and search how it is generated, and where it has its original, we must search the centre inwardly, and set the sixth form of nature before us, viz. Mercury, wherein the sound [sound or noise] is generated: and so we shall find (in the generating of the love), the tune, sound and song, as also the five senses, seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling; wherein the life is understood; as also pain and torment, joy and love; desire to good, and desire to evil; though in itself in nature nothing is to be rejected [or is in vain], both must be, else God would not be manifested, and all would be as a still nothing: and the whole Being is together in the eternal God; none has made or generated any thing for him: he alone, in his eternal will (which is himself) makes the genetrix [womb of nature] ; he only is the eternal beginning, and comprised the centre to the genetrix, which makes the eternal mother of the genetrix of the essence of all essences.
2. For God has no beginning, and there is nothing sooner than he [or before him], but his
Word has an unsearchable [groundless] beginning in him, and an eternal unsearchable end: which yet is not called end rightly, but Person, viz. the Heart of the Father: for it is generated in the eternal centre, not as a form of the centre (which belongs to the centre) but as a sprout of another centre out of the first eternal [centre] .
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