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Mysterium Magnum, Part One

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it; also how it was done 1-47

  • 44. why Lot's daughters made their father drunk with wine 3
  • 44. To what end Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. 28, et seq.
  • 44. Lot's wife is a figure of the present Babylonish Christendom 33, et seq.

44. why Lot's daughters did lie with their father 38-47

Love

71. How God's love comes only to help the weak . 19

Lucifer

  • 12. Wherefore and from what Lucifer was thrust out
  • 12. Where Lucifer lies captive
  • 22. Wherefore Lucifer was swallowed up into the wrath
  • 25. Where Lucifer sat before the creation of the earth
  • 44. How Lucifer desired to see the wrath of nature
  • 60. How the pride of Lucifer by the masters of the letter does up into a peculiar heaven apart

M

Magistrate

22. How the magistrate is good, and how not 74,75

4
35

30,31
18
17

shut God 41,42

CHAP. Magia. Magus VERSE

11. The Reader is admonished not to misuse the Magia or Magic 8

11. How man is hurt by the wicked Magus or Magician . 12, et seq.

68. of the Magi or Magicians, which titulary Christendom is full of 4, et seq.

  • 68. of the Magia or Magic art, among the Egyptians and heathens, till the kingdom of Christ 3
  • 68. How man is a true divine Magus or Magician 23, et seq.

Mahalaleel

30. What Mahalaleel is in the Language of nature 18
Maid- servant

40. What it is that the son of the maid-servant shall not inherit with the son of the free- woman 16-70

Man

15. Man is threefold . 27, et seq.

16. of the distinction between the heavenly and the earthly man 1-15

16. How man was while he stood in Paradise 8, et seq.

18. How man shall be after the Resurrection 3

19. How man was ordained to the outward natural life 1-16

21. why God created man of the heavenly essence 16

22. How man deceived himself 27

23. How the Word in the seed of Eve was propagated from man to man

p. 31

24. How man has a cure, and the Devil not 13, et seq.

24. How a divine man must have enmity in himself 31, 32

27. How man presses into God 14, 15

29. How man was in the beginning, in his properties 12, 13

29. How man is become a striving dominion 14
Mary

  • 37. How Mary is not the mother that has generated God 37, et seq.
  • 56. What is the blessing belonging to Mary 30

Mausim

36. What that god Mausim is 32
Meal

42. What the three measures of fine meal signify 17,18
Melchisedek

  • 38. What Melchisedek was 19, et seq.
  • 38. why Melchisedek blessed Abraham 21

CHAP. Mercifulness VERSE
70. How mercifulness hides its countenance from the repenting soul 3, et

seq.

Mercurius

17. What Mercurius is 18

Metals

10. What the metals are 17

10. of the seven properties in the metals 18-29

16. How in the earth, stones and metals lies a twofold substance 10

Methusael

29. What Methusael is in the Language of nature 35,36
Michael

12. When Michael strove with the dragon 10
Midianites

64. How the Midianites will bring Joseph with them to Pharaoh; the time is near 30, et seq.

Money

70. The figure of the wrong money that Jacob commanded them to take with them again 36, et seq., 48, 49

Moon

23. What the moon and the woman in the Apocalypse signify 34,35
Moses

  • 11. The time is born that Moses casteth away his veil 4
  • 30. When Moses will keep the sheep 53, et seq.

Motion

29. of God's eternal motion, moving and forming 4
Mouth

29. What the mouth of the eternal understanding is 3
Murderer

  • 19. why Eve brought forth a murderer the first time 10
  • 62. The figure of Simeon and Levi's murder 31-40

N

CHAP. Naamah VERSE

  • 29. of Naamah 43, et seq.
  • 29. How Naamah shall be manifested to all people 68

Names

17. What the great names are that God called Abraham by 23, et seq.
Naphtali

77. The Testament of Naphtali, and the signification thereof 33, et seq.

Nature

  • 3. The description of the eternal nature
  • 35. How the Language of nature is extinguished

1-26
12, et Seq.

40. Whereto God uses the temporary nature

p. 31

<+u. wnat tne conaemnation 01 tne temporary nature is

Night

iz. wnere mere is no nignt i

Nimrod

35. of the name Nimrod

29, et seq.

Noah

31. What Noah is in the Language of nature

p. 3

32. What Noah is in the Language of nature

p. 2

32. why Noah was accounted righteous before God

13,14 j't-. wnat iNoan s aruriKenness signmes

Z /

34. How Noah cursed Ham

1-40 jj. ine names 01 ine cnuuren 01 iNoan are seveniy-iwo

1 J-tfl

43. Where Noah's curse came into judgement

p. 29

Nothing

3. The nothing hungers after the something

p. 5

p. 0

Oak

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it; also how it was done 1-47

  • 44. why Lot's daughters made their father drunk with wine 3
  • 44. To what end Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. 28, et seq.
  • 44. Lot's wife is a figure of the present Babylonish Christendom 33, et seq.

44. why Lot's daughters did lie with their father 38-47

Love

71. How God's love comes only to help the weak . 19

Lucifer

  • 12. Wherefore and from what Lucifer was thrust out
  • 12. Where Lucifer lies captive
  • 22. Wherefore Lucifer was swallowed up into the wrath
  • 25. Where Lucifer sat before the creation of the earth
  • 44. How Lucifer desired to see the wrath of nature
  • 60. How the pride of Lucifer by the masters of the letter does up into a peculiar heaven apart

M

Magistrate

22. How the magistrate is good, and how not 74,75

4
35

30,31
18
17

shut God 41,42

CHAP. Magia. Magus VERSE

11. The Reader is admonished not to misuse the Magia or Magic 8

11. How man is hurt by the wicked Magus or Magician . 12, et seq.

68. of the Magi or Magicians, which titulary Christendom is full of 4, et seq.

  • 68. of the Magia or Magic art, among the Egyptians and heathens, till the kingdom of Christ 3
  • 68. How man is a true divine Magus or Magician 23, et seq.

Mahalaleel

30. What Mahalaleel is in the Language of nature 18
Maid- servant

40. What it is that the son of the maid-servant shall not inherit with the son of the free- woman 16-70

Man

15. Man is threefold . 27, et seq.

16. of the distinction between the heavenly and the earthly man 1-15

16. How man was while he stood in Paradise 8, et seq.

18. How man shall be after the Resurrection 3

19. How man was ordained to the outward natural life 1-16

21. why God created man of the heavenly essence 16

22. How man deceived himself 27

23. How the Word in the seed of Eve was propagated from man to man

p. 31

24. How man has a cure, and the Devil not 13, et seq.

24. How a divine man must have enmity in himself 31, 32

27. How man presses into God 14, 15

29. How man was in the beginning, in his properties 12, 13

29. How man is become a striving dominion 14
Mary

  • 37. How Mary is not the mother that has generated God 37, et seq.
  • 56. What is the blessing belonging to Mary 30

Mausim

36. What that god Mausim is 32
Meal

42. What the three measures of fine meal signify 17,18
Melchisedek

  • 38. What Melchisedek was 19, et seq.
  • 38. why Melchisedek blessed Abraham 21

CHAP. Mercifulness VERSE
70. How mercifulness hides its countenance from the repenting soul 3, et

seq.

Mercurius

17. What Mercurius is 18

Metals

10. What the metals are 17

10. of the seven properties in the metals 18-29

16. How in the earth, stones and metals lies a twofold substance 10

Methusael

29. What Methusael is in the Language of nature 35,36
Michael

12. When Michael strove with the dragon 10
Midianites

64. How the Midianites will bring Joseph with them to Pharaoh; the time is near 30, et seq.

Money

70. The figure of the wrong money that Jacob commanded them to take with them again 36, et seq., 48, 49

Moon

23. What the moon and the woman in the Apocalypse signify 34,35
Moses

  • 11. The time is born that Moses casts away his veil 4
  • 30. When Moses will keep the sheep 53, et seq.

Motion

29. of God's eternal motion, moving and forming 4
Mouth

29. What the mouth of the eternal understanding is 3
Murderer

  • 19. why Eve brought forth a murderer the first time 10
  • 62. The figure of Simeon and Levi's murder 31-40

N

CHAP. Naamah VERSE

  • 29. of Naamah 43, et seq.
  • 29. How Naamah shall be manifested to all people 68

Names

17. What the great names are that God called Abraham by 23, et seq.
Naphtali

77. The Testament of Naphtali, and the signification thereof 33, et seq.

Nature

  • 3. The description of the eternal nature
  • 35. How the Language of nature is extinguished

1-26
12, et Seq.

40. Whereto God uses the temporary nature

p. 31

<+u. wnat tne conaemnation 01 tne temporary nature is

Night

iz. wnere mere is no nignt i

Nimrod

35. of the name Nimrod

29, et seq.

Noah

31. What Noah is in the Language of nature

p. 3

32. What Noah is in the Language of nature

p. 2

32. why Noah was accounted righteous before God

13,14 j't-. wnat iNoan s aruriKenness signmes

Z /

34. How Noah cursed Ham

1-40 jj. ine names 01 ine cnuuren 01 iNoan are seveniy-iwo

1 J-tfl

43. Where Noah's curse came into judgement

p. 29

Nothing

3. The nothing hungers after the something

p. 5

p. 0

Oak

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