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Mysterium Magnum, Part One

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5. How the sound or tune in heaven is 19

5. How the sound or tune in the darkness or hell is 19

Speak

35. Whence it comes originally that man can speak 73

36. From what it is that man can speak and understand 85

Spirit

4. of the original of the multitude of spirits, good and evil 11

8. Of the spirits of the outward world, from time, that pass away 13

29. How the Spirit of God has from eternity sported with itself in the spiritual world 4 36. From what the false spiritual persons or clergy have spoken. 30, et seq.

Steward

70. What Joseph's steward signifies 50

Strife

25. Of the strife between the seed of the woman and the seed of the

Serpent 10, et seq.

36. Wherefore men do strive 62, 63

S2. When the strife in man is manifested, and Christ breaks the

Serpent's head 31, et seq.

  • 60. What the strife about the letter is 47,48
  • 62. Wherefore the strife in Christendom must be 19

CHAP. Strife VERSE

62. With what strife a true Christian strives 21, et seq.

64. How all strife comes from the Tower of Babel 28

75. How the time of strife is at an end 29,30

Substance

53. How the divine substance gives itself into Nature 18
Succoth

61. The figure of Jacob's going to Succoth

p. 72

Sun

  • 11. From what power the sun shines 35
  • 13. Whence the sun takes its lustre 16

Supper

70. What that supper is (Revelation iii) . 44-46
Swearing

53. What swearing by God is called 9

Sword

  • 25. of the Cherubim angel's sword 4-13
  • 25. The original of the flaming sword of fire 25

T

Teachers

  • 28. What teachers the children of this world will have 44
  • 36. By what a man shall know whether a teacher come from God or

from the letter 54, et seq.

41. How the unfitted teachers will needs preach the Holy Ghost into the self-will 46

Temple

  • 15. What the temple of God is 28
  • 36. What the temple of God is 16
  • 52. What the temple of God is 8
  • 27. How the temple of Christ must be brought along into the material church of clay 49

Temptation

48. How man without God's grace cannot stand in temptation 2

CHAP. Testament VERSE

46. What a man must do if he would read and understand the Old
Testament 29, 30

46. Wherefore the figures of the Old Testament have remained silent to this last time and now shall be made manifest 31,32

54. Of the figure of the Old and New Testaments 17

Tetragrammaton

35. Of the name Tetragrammaton 53

Tamar

65. Of Judah and Tamar: A mystical figure of Adam and Christ, wherein the new birth is excellently prefigured 1-65

Time

30. Of the seven appointed times. 34-46

30. When the sixth number of time is 44

  • 31. Of the seven times from Adam to the end of the world 38-45
  • 69. How the time of redemption draws near 23

Timnath

65. What Timnath signifies 22

Torment

71. What it is that has no torment 21,22
Tower

  • 35. Wherefore the children of Noah purposed to build a tower. 64,65
  • 35. How the time is born that we shall be led away from the Tower of Babel 67

35. What the mystery is of the Tower, and of the divided languages 68-75

  • 36. What the Tower of Babel is 15
  • 36. What the figure of Babel's Tower is 5-11
  • 36. What the Babylonish Tower was under Moses and among the

heathen, and now is among Christians, Jews and Turks 33

  • 36. How a man ought to consider of the Tower and city, Babel 58
  • 36. How we must go out from all Babylonish master-builders of that Tower 50, et seq.

66. How worldly judges ought not to rely upon the Tower of Babel 60

Tree. Tree of Life
CHAP. VERSE

35. How the human tree has by Noah's children spread itself abroad in its properties, and how at the Tower of Babel they were divided in the properties by the confusion of languages into several and different people and nations 1-75

36. How the Jews, Christians, Turks and heathens are but one only tree 37-40

  • 36. How we may again, one with another, be one people, one tree, one man, with soul and body 43,44
  • 17. why God set the Tree of Life before Adam 38-43
  • 17. The Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil are but one 10, et seq.

Trinity. Threefoldness

1. of the Trinity 3, 4, 5

7. of the Holy Trinity or Threefoldness of the divine essence or substance 1-19

Tubalcain

29. Of Tubalcain 44-46

Turks

40. How the Turks lie under the veil of Christ, and are born in the house 72, et seq.

40. How God hears the Turks in the Son 74, et seq.

  • 40. How the Turks do not blaspheme the Holy Ghost 78, et seq.
  • 40. Wherefore God has taken away the candlesticks from the

Turks 82, et seq.

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5. How the sound or tune in heaven is 19

5. How the sound or tune in the darkness or hell is 19

Speak

35. Whence it comes originally that man can speak 73

36. From what it is that man can speak and understand 85

Spirit

4. of the original of the multitude of spirits, good and evil 11

8. Of the spirits of the outward world, from time, that pass away 13

29. How the Spirit of God has from eternity sported with itself in the spiritual world 4 36. From what the false spiritual persons or clergy have spoken. 30, et seq.

Steward

70. What Joseph's steward signifies 50

Strife

25. Of the strife between the seed of the woman and the seed of the

Serpent 10, et seq.

36. Wherefore men do strive 62, 63

S2. When the strife in man is manifested, and Christ breaks the

Serpent's head 31, et seq.

  • 60. What the strife about the letter is 47,48
  • 62. Wherefore the strife in Christendom must be 19

CHAP. Strife VERSE

62. With what strife a true Christian strives 21, et seq.

64. How all strife comes from the Tower of Babel 28

75. How the time of strife is at an end 29,30

Substance

53. How the divine substance gives itself into Nature 18
Succoth

61. The figure of Jacob's going to Succoth

p. 72

Sun

  • 11. From what power the sun shines 35
  • 13. Whence the sun takes its lustre 16

Supper

70. What that supper is (Revelation iii) . 44-46
Swearing

53. What swearing by God is called 9

Sword

  • 25. of the Cherubim angel's sword 4-13
  • 25. The original of the flaming sword of fire 25

T

Teachers

  • 28. What teachers the children of this world will have 44
  • 36. By what a man shall know whether a teacher come from God or

from the letter 54, et seq.

41. How the unfitted teachers will needs preach the Holy Ghost into the self-will 46

Temple

  • 15. What the temple of God is 28
  • 36. What the temple of God is 16
  • 52. What the temple of God is 8
  • 27. How the temple of Christ must be brought along into the material church of clay 49

Temptation

48. How man without God's grace cannot stand in temptation 2

CHAP. Testament VERSE

46. What a man must do if he would read and understand the Old
Testament 29, 30

46. Wherefore the figures of the Old Testament have remained silent to this last time and now shall be made manifest 31,32

54. Of the figure of the Old and New Testaments 17

Tetragrammaton

35. Of the name Tetragrammaton 53

Tamar

65. Of Judah and Tamar: A mystical figure of Adam and Christ, wherein the new birth is excellently prefigured 1-65

Time

30. Of the seven appointed times. 34-46

30. When the sixth number of time is 44

  • 31. Of the seven times from Adam to the end of the world 38-45
  • 69. How the time of redemption draws near 23

Timnath

65. What Timnath signifies 22

Torment

71. What it is that has no torment 21,22
Tower

  • 35. Wherefore the children of Noah purposed to build a tower. 64,65
  • 35. How the time is born that we shall be led away from the Tower of Babel 67

35. What the mystery is of the Tower, and of the divided languages 68-75

  • 36. What the Tower of Babel is 15
  • 36. What the figure of Babel's Tower is 5-11
  • 36. What the Babylonish Tower was under Moses and among the

heathen, and now is among Christians, Jews and Turks 33

  • 36. How a man ought to consider of the Tower and city, Babel 58
  • 36. How we must go out from all Babylonish master-builders of that Tower 50, et seq.

66. How worldly judges ought not to rely upon the Tower of Babel 60

Tree. Tree of Life
CHAP. VERSE

35. How the human tree has by Noah's children spread itself abroad in its properties, and how at the Tower of Babel they were divided in the properties by the confusion of languages into several and different people and nations 1-75

36. How the Jews, Christians, Turks and heathens are but one only tree 37-40

  • 36. How we may again, one with another, be one people, one tree, one man, with soul and body 43,44
  • 17. why God set the Tree of Life before Adam 38-43
  • 17. The Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil are but one 10, et seq.

Trinity. Threefoldness

1. of the Trinity 3, 4, 5

7. of the Holy Trinity or Threefoldness of the divine essence or substance 1-19

Tubalcain

29. Of Tubalcain 44-46

Turks

40. How the Turks lie under the veil of Christ, and are born in the house 72, et seq.

40. How God hears the Turks in the Son 74, et seq.

  • 40. How the Turks do not blaspheme the Holy Ghost 78, et seq.
  • 40. Wherefore God has taken away the candlesticks from the

Turks 82, et seq.

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