The Forty Questions of the Soul
2 Or Being, or Substance.
3 Viz. the space between the second circle and the third.
4 Or substance.
5 Or Ghost.
6 Or wit, or reason.
7 Or knowledge.
* "The pure element is the working," etc. Lit., "The pure element is the operation in [or of] the true heaven, and it foldeth itself in and out [like floodgates] with the cross; it is the springing and moving in the fire-and-light-heaven."
218. The element is an 1 essence in respect of the Deity, as the life in the flesh 2 is in respect of the soul; for the tincture is higher, and giveth the ens of the spirit, wherein the light -fire is understood.
Humanity; Flesh; Number 48.
219. Under the words Pure Element, on the upper 3 line of the cross, Number 27, Death standeth; and the word beginneth at the left circle, and goeth through the cross, and through the first circle at the right hand. There look upon both the outward circles, that at the left, and that at the right, above, and below, and then thou shalt quickly find what the 4 right of death is, and that it is the dying source in the magic fire, and holdeth the essentiality captive in itself, as at the left hand below, Number 8, and at the right, Number 48, may be seen; and then above at this circle, Number 44, and at the left above, Number 5, is seen that the spiritual life goeth and sprouteth forth through death, and possesseth the highest circle. For whatsoever will attain the divine life, must go through the dying magic fire, and subsist therein, as the Heart on the Cross must subsist in the 5 fire of God.
1 Or substance.
2 must be taken to be.
3 Or stroke.
4 Or jurisdiction.
5 Or divine fire.
220. Moreover, we must know, that in Adam we have turned ourselves away from the cross, and are above the cross with our lust and desire, Number 23, and gone with our will into 1 a self-government, and now death hath captivated us in itself: We must therefore sink down from death upon the cross, upon the line of Christ, into the Heart again, and be born anew in the Heart, or else death retaineth us captive: For death standeth now upon the line of the cross; but at the Judgment it shall be given to the dark world: For our will must now enter into rest through the death on the cross; but the outward cross shall be done away, and then death shall be made a scorn.
221. Thirdly, it signifieth that the life of God in Christ made death a 2 spectacle upon the cross, when death was destroyed on the cross 3 by the dying of Christ, where life grew up through death, and the Heart yielded itself into the middle (viz. into the centre) as a Conqueror of death.
Paradise; Number 49.
2 Or Being, or Substance.
3 Viz. the space between the second circle and the third.
4 Or substance.
5 Or Ghost.
6 Or wit, or reason.
7 Or knowledge.
* "The pure element is the working," etc. Lit., "The pure element is the operation in [or of] the true heaven, and it folds itself in and out [like floodgates] with the cross; it is the springing and moving in the fire-and-light-heaven."
218. The element is an 1 essence in respect of the Deity, as the life in the flesh 2 is in respect of the soul; for the tincture is higher, and gives the ens of the spirit, wherein the light -fire is understood.
Humanity; Flesh; Number 48.
219. Under the words Pure Element, on the upper 3 line of the cross, Number 27, Death stands; and the word beginns at the left circle, and goes through the cross, and through the first circle at the right hand. There look upon both the outward circles, that at the left, and that at the right, above, and below, and then you shall quickly find what the 4 right of death is, and that it is the dying source in the magic fire, and holds the essentiality captive in itself, as at the left hand below, Number 8, and at the right, Number 48, may be seen; and then above at this circle, Number 44, and at the left above, Number 5, is seen that the spiritual life goes and sprouts forth through death, and possesses the highest circle. For whatsoever will attain the divine life, must go through the dying magic fire, and subsist therein, as the Heart on the Cross must subsist in the 5 fire of God.
1 Or substance.
2 must be taken to be.
3 Or stroke.
4 Or jurisdiction.
5 Or divine fire.
220. Moreover, we must know, that in Adam we have turned ourselves away from the cross, and are above the cross with our lust and desire, Number 23, and gone with our will into 1 a self-government, and now death has captivated us in itself: We must therefore sink down from death upon the cross, upon the line of Christ, into the Heart again, and be born anew in the Heart, or else death retains us captive: For death stands now upon the line of the cross; but at the Judgment it shall be given to the dark world: For our will must now enter into rest through the death on the cross; but the outward cross shall be done away, and then death shall be made a scorn.
221. Thirdly, it signifies that the life of God in Christ made death a 2 spectacle upon the cross, when death was destroyed on the cross 3 by the dying of Christ, where life grew up through death, and the Heart yielded itself into the middle (viz. into the centre) as a Conqueror of death.
Paradise; Number 49.
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