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Mysterium Magnum, Part One

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63. What the oak signifies under which Jacob buried the idol-gods and the earrings

4-15

CHAP. office, officer, officers

VERSE

22. How the office is good, and how not good

p. 72

66. How the potent in the office of God are great trees without fruit

16,17

66. How the offices and officers are God's, and are God's servants 22

66. How a man in an office must serve either God or the Devil 59

66. How this world has two sorts of officers

37-59

77. Where the worldly office of a judge has its original

21-25

66. How an officer becomes a Lucifer; also how he is free from the commandment of death

23-27

  • 66. How all officers are set in the kingdom of this world 28,29
  • 66. How at present is the time of the coming of the Lord to burn the city of these wicked evil officers with the fire of God's anger 30,31

Oracle

37. How the first holy oracle after the flood manifested itself 15

P

Paradise

17. of Paradise 1-43

  • 18. of the Paradisical government 1-34
  • 25. How Paradise is one certain place 16

Pastors

74. of all spiritual pastors or shepherds, who sit without Christ in that office 6 Pearl

22. How the pearl of the whole world is trodden underfoot 35

Philistine

47. What Philistine is 23,24

Physician

21. Whence the physician does arise 7-9 plants

12. Whence it is that some plants are poison 36

Potiphar

64. What the figure of Potiphar's wife is 10,11

Pottage

53. What the lentil pottage was 4

CHAP. Prayer VERSE

38. How man with his prayer and will awakeneth the sword of anger 11
Predestinated

  • 30. What is predestinated to condemnation 8,9
  • 40. Ishmael is not predestinated to condemnation 35-54

Present

70. What the present was that Joseph's brethren brought him in their hands 52,53

Pride

24. What men erect with their great pride and care for the belly. 21,et seq.

Prince

33. How a prince or lord has no power to shed blood

15, et seq.

Principles

  • 4. of the two Principles, God's love and anger 1-21
  • 32. How Shem, Ham and Japhet are an image of the three Principles 5, et

seq.

Prosperity

66. Man in temporal prosperity, and in favour and good will of many men, ought not to be secure 50-56

Prophet

67. How the Prophet is the mouth of the kingdom

9, et seq.

Purgatory
25. of the purgatory of souls

Purple Mantle
70. To whom the purple mantle of Christ is available

13, 14
42 ,43

Purpose

61. How in God there is no purpose

60, 61 and 64

Qualities. See forms

R

CHAP. Rachel

58. why Rachel said: Give me children.

58. why Rachel must be barren

VERSE
1,2
47

63. What it signifies that Rachel died and was buried at the city

Bethel 28

63. How Rachel was big with child when Jacob went from Laban 30

63. How Rachel bare Benjamin and died: what the signification of it is 20, et seq.

Rained. Rainbow

32. why it rained forty days and forty nights

33. of the rainbow and its colours

23, et seq.
25-40

Ram

48. How the killing and dying falls not upon the right man, but upon the ram 28, et seq.

Raven

32. What the raven signifies

38, 39, 41

Reason

41. How reason introduces everything into God's will 53-71

Rebecca

  • 50. Rebecca signifies Sophia 48
  • 50. The figure of the glorious banquet of Abraham's servant with

Rebecca 49, et seq.

52. How in Rebecca two kingdoms strove one with another 20-30

52. Wherefore Rebecca loved Jacob 54

  • 53. Why the strife arose in Rebecca 27
  • 55. Why Rebecca must set Jacob in the place of the blessing 17, et seq.
  • 55. Of Rebecca's subtlety and deceit with Jacob 19,20

Religion

36. Whence the contempt of religion proceeds 14

Remedy

66. To whom there is no more counsel or remedy, to eternity 47
Repentance

  • 31. Of God's repentance, where he says: It repents me 17-45
  • 70. It is a figure of repentance, that Jacob's children must go into Egypt for food twice 15-23

CHAP. Respect VERSE

51. How in God's presence there is no respect of name or person 34-41

Reuben

  • 63. What Reuben signifies 44
  • 63. How Reuben lay with his father's concubine, and what the signification thereof is 31-45
  • 76. The Testament of Reuben, and the figure thereof 4-18

Revenge

22. Whence in man the wrath and vengeance to be revenged arises 58-64

Rib

19. What the rib and dividing of Adam signifies 2, 6

Riches

58. How the riches of the outward man belong to the new man. 21, et seq.

Right

66. How right is God and wrong is the Devil . 60

Rocks

23. why at Christ's death the rocks clave asunder 3

Ring

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63. What the oak signifies under which Jacob buried the idol-gods and the earrings

4-15

CHAP. office, officer, officers

VERSE

22. How the office is good, and how not good

p. 72

66. How the potent in the office of God are great trees without fruit

16,17

66. How the offices and officers are God's, and are God's servants 22

66. How a man in an office must serve either God or the Devil 59

66. How this world has two sorts of officers

37-59

77. Where the worldly office of a judge has its original

21-25

66. How an officer becomes a Lucifer; also how he is free from the commandment of death

23-27

  • 66. How all officers are set in the kingdom of this world 28,29
  • 66. How at present is the time of the coming of the Lord to burn the city of these wicked evil officers with the fire of God's anger 30,31

Oracle

37. How the first holy oracle after the flood manifested itself 15

P

Paradise

17. of Paradise 1-43

  • 18. of the Paradisical government 1-34
  • 25. How Paradise is one certain place 16

Pastors

74. of all spiritual pastors or shepherds, who sit without Christ in that office 6 Pearl

22. How the pearl of the whole world is trodden underfoot 35

Philistine

47. What Philistine is 23,24

Physician

21. Whence the physician does arise 7-9 plants

12. Whence it is that some plants are poison 36

Potiphar

64. What the figure of Potiphar's wife is 10,11

Pottage

53. What the lentil pottage was 4

CHAP. Prayer VERSE

38. How man with his prayer and will awakens the sword of anger 11
Predestinated

  • 30. What is predestinated to condemnation 8,9
  • 40. Ishmael is not predestinated to condemnation 35-54

Present

70. What the present was that Joseph's brethren brought him in their hands 52,53

Pride

24. What men erect with their great pride and care for the belly. 21,et seq.

Prince

33. How a prince or lord has no power to shed blood

15, et seq.

Principles

  • 4. of the two Principles, God's love and anger 1-21
  • 32. How Shem, Ham and Japhet are an image of the three Principles 5, et

seq.

Prosperity

66. Man in temporal prosperity, and in favour and good will of many men, ought not to be secure 50-56

Prophet

67. How the Prophet is the mouth of the kingdom

9, et seq.

Purgatory
25. of the purgatory of souls

Purple Mantle
70. To whom the purple mantle of Christ is available

13, 14
42 ,43

Purpose

61. How in God there is no purpose

60, 61 and 64

Qualities. See forms

R

CHAP. Rachel

58. why Rachel said: Give me children.

58. why Rachel must be barren

VERSE
1,2
47

63. What it signifies that Rachel died and was buried at the city

Bethel 28

63. How Rachel was big with child when Jacob went from Laban 30

63. How Rachel bare Benjamin and died: what the signification of it is 20, et seq.

Rained. Rainbow

32. why it rained forty days and forty nights

33. of the rainbow and its colours

23, et seq.
25-40

Ram

48. How the killing and dying falls not upon the right man, but upon the ram 28, et seq.

Raven

32. What the raven signifies

38, 39, 41

Reason

41. How reason introduces everything into God's will 53-71

Rebecca

  • 50. Rebecca signifies Sophia 48
  • 50. The figure of the glorious banquet of Abraham's servant with

Rebecca 49, et seq.

52. How in Rebecca two kingdoms strove one with another 20-30

52. Wherefore Rebecca loved Jacob 54

  • 53. Why the strife arose in Rebecca 27
  • 55. Why Rebecca must set Jacob in the place of the blessing 17, et seq.
  • 55. Of Rebecca's subtlety and deceit with Jacob 19,20

Religion

36. Whence the contempt of religion proceeds 14

Remedy

66. To whom there is no more counsel or remedy, to eternity 47
Repentance

  • 31. Of God's repentance, where he says: It repents me 17-45
  • 70. It is a figure of repentance, that Jacob's children must go into Egypt for food twice 15-23

CHAP. Respect VERSE

51. How in God's presence there is no respect of name or person 34-41

Reuben

  • 63. What Reuben signifies 44
  • 63. How Reuben lay with his father's concubine, and what the signification thereof is 31-45
  • 76. The Testament of Reuben, and the figure thereof 4-18

Revenge

22. Whence in man the wrath and vengeance to be revenged arises 58-64

Rib

19. What the rib and dividing of Adam signifies 2, 6

Riches

58. How the riches of the outward man belong to the new man. 21, et seq.

Right

66. How right is God and wrong is the Devil . 60

Rocks

23. why at Christ's death the rocks clave asunder 3

Ring

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