1. WHEN we thus shew you the way of the light, the spirit is pleased, not to speak barely as in a history, but to set forth the light in its deepest depth, in its wellspring or fountain that you may look as through an opened seal, Ternarium Sanctum, into the holy Ternary [or the eternal essentiality] .
2. For seeing the hidden Mystery of the kingdom of God shall be revealed in the seventh seal, the Lamb himself shall be Shepherd over the sheep, therefore it must not be sealed up: for we have known the voice of the trumpet of the seventh seal in Ternario Sancto, in the holy Ternary, therefore we may well speak of our native country, to which our labour [or journey] tendeth.
3. None should suppose us to be ignorant, in that we write so very deeply; for if we did not see and know it, we must be silent: it is a common saying, What the heart is full of, that the mouth speaketh. This [which we have written] was not sought by this hand: But it is written, / am found of them that sought me not, neither did they enquire after me.
4. 1 was as simple concerning the hidden Mysteries, as the meanest of all; but my virgin of the wonders of God taught me, so that I must write of his wonders: though indeed my purpose is to write this for a Memorandum for myself, and yet I shall speak as for many, which is known to God.
5. And now being to speak of the seventh form of nature, we see that the corporeity especially subsisteth therein, for a spirit is void [or crude] without a body: whereas there is no understanding without a body: and, moreover, the spirit itself doth not subsist without a body. For a form in the spirit is a hunger, and a longing desire, of one form after another.
6. For all things stand in the will, and are driven on in the will; for if I have [or conceive] no will to go, my body standeth still; therefore my will carries me; and if I have no desire towards a place, then there is also no will in me; but if I desire anything, then that is the will of the essences.
7. And yet the essences desire nothing but preservation and sustenance of the body, for the body is food: and the whole essence of all essences is a continual hunger and satiating [or fulfilling], and a regeneration, or propagation, from its fulness: as may be seen, that each form of the spirit desireth the other in its hunger, and when that is attained, another, or second form, ariseth out of it; and yet the first doth not vanish, but the other, or second, formeth itself in the first, into another source or property: and yet both keep one in the other, each in its own property: as we have written concerning nature, in six forms, how one proceedeth from the other, and how one causeth the other, that it be generated, and yet each keepeth its property in the other; and there now they stand in six forms one in another.
8. And so there is no place of rest, but there is a constant desire of all the six forms, as a hunger out of which the will is continually generated: and yet there is nothing wherein rest can be, but the still eternity: and yet also this cannot be apprehended or found in the wheel of the fiery essences: and therefore the hungry nature seeketh in its mother ( viz. in the desire of the sourness), and the sourness catcheth hold of the desire of the essences, and holdeth it fast: and thus all essences of the hunger are held in the sour mother for she is their only rest, which they fill again with that which is in them, that is, with themselves.
9. And herein consisteth the dominion of a spirit: for nature doth consist not only in seven forms, but there may (out of every desire) again a will be generated, wherein the essences subsist again, but alterably, according to the desire of that will, where there is no number found, as you may see in the creation of the world.
10. But seeing the eternal essence doth desire a certain bound or limit, further and more than which, or to go higher, or to be other, it desireth not, therefore the heart generateth itself, which is the end of nature; and the heart is the fulfilling of the eternal [being, essence, or substance] .
1. WHEN we thus show you the way of the light, the spirit is pleased, not to speak barely as in a history, but to set forth the light in its deepest depth, in its wellspring or fountain that you may look as through an opened seal, Ternarium Sanctum, into the holy Ternary [or the eternal essentiality] .
2. For seeing the hidden Mystery of the kingdom of God shall be revealed in the seventh seal, the Lamb himself shall be Shepherd over the sheep, therefore it must not be sealed up: for we have known the voice of the trumpet of the seventh seal in Ternario Sancto, in the holy Ternary, therefore we may well speak of our native country, to which our labour [or journey] tends.
3. None should suppose us to be ignorant, in that we write so very deeply; for if we did not see and know it, we must be silent: it is a common saying, What the heart is full of, that the mouth speaks. This [which we have written] was not sought by this hand: But it is written, / am found of them that sought me not, neither did they enquire after me.
4. 1 was as simple concerning the hidden Mysteries, as the meanest of all; but my virgin of the wonders of God taught me, so that I must write of his wonders: though indeed my purpose is to write this for a Memorandum for myself, and yet I shall speak as for many, which is known to God.
5. And now being to speak of the seventh form of nature, we see that the corporeity especially subsists therein, for a spirit is void [or crude] without a body: whereas there is no understanding without a body: and, moreover, the spirit itself does not subsist without a body. For a form in the spirit is a hunger, and a longing desire, of one form after another.
6. For all things stand in the will, and are driven on in the will; for if I have [or conceive] no will to go, my body stands still; therefore my will carries me; and if I have no desire towards a place, then there is also no will in me; but if I desire anything, then that is the will of the essences.
7. And yet the essences desire nothing but preservation and sustenance of the body, for the body is food: and the whole essence of all essences is a continual hunger and satiating [or fulfilling], and a regeneration, or propagation, from its fulness: as may be seen, that each form of the spirit desires the other in its hunger, and when that is attained, another, or second form, arises out of it; and yet the first does not vanish, but the other, or second, forms itself in the first, into another source or property: and yet both keep one in the other, each in its own property: as we have written concerning nature, in six forms, how one proceeds from the other, and how one causes the other, that it be generated, and yet each keeps its property in the other; and there now they stand in six forms one in another.
8. And so there is no place of rest, but there is a constant desire of all the six forms, as a hunger out of which the will is continually generated: and yet there is nothing wherein rest can be, but the still eternity: and yet also this cannot be apprehended or found in the wheel of the fiery essences: and therefore the hungry nature seeks in its mother ( viz. in the desire of the sourness), and the sourness catches hold of the desire of the essences, and holds it fast: and thus all essences of the hunger are held in the sour mother for she is their only rest, which they fill again with that which is in them, that is, with themselves.
9. And herein consists the dominion of a spirit: for nature does consist not only in seven forms, but there may (out of every desire) again a will be generated, wherein the essences subsist again, but alterably, according to the desire of that will, where there is no number found, as you may see in the creation of the world.
10. But seeing the eternal essence does desire a certain bound or limit, further and more than which, or to go higher, or to be other, it desires not, therefore the heart generats itself, which is the end of nature; and the heart is the fulfilling of the eternal [being, essence, or substance] .
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