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Mysterium Magnum, Part One

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40. How the holy voice of Christ is not departed from the Turks, to forget them eternally. 87, et seq.

40. of the difference between the Turks and the Christians 92-100

U

Understanding

3. why the divine understanding brings itself into spiritual properties 13

3. The divine understanding receives no source into itself 21

29. What the eternal divine understanding is . 1,2

Unquietness

66. What the unquietness is 65

V

CHAP. Venus VERSE

10. How the inward and the outward Venus are step-sisters 53

13. Venus is the substance of all metals 18

Verbum Fiat

1 1. How the Verbum Fiat is still at this day creating 9

Visions

67. What the right visions are

p. 7

Voice

  • 23. of the voice that was in the Garden 11-16
  • 55. The figure of Isaac's saying: The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau 27, 28

W

War. Warrior

22. How war is good, and how not good 73

38. Whence all war and strife has its original. 7-10

33. Whence all war and strife has its original 22, et seq.

38. of the beginning of the heathenish wars: how Abraham delivered

Lot; and of Melchisedek to whom Abraham gave tithes. 1-26 55. How it is not God, but the kingdom of nature in the anger of God that will make war 45, 46

38. How it is not God, but the kingdom of nature in the anger of God that will make war 16, 17

30. What the Christians' wars are 42

38. No Christian warreth 15, 16

62. What the outward war that Christians make is . 24

33. What every warrior or soldier is 19,20

Washing the Feet
42. What Abraham's washing the feet signifies 11

Water

  • 4. of the water of eternal life 15
  • 10. of the water which Christ will give us to drink 57

Wedding

70. Where the assured wedding of the Lamb is 25, et seq.

70. What a man must do, when he will enter into the wedding of

Christ 38

CHAP. Whore VERSE

30. Whence the mother of the Babylonish whoredom is arisen. 22,23

  • 36. What the Babylonish whore and the dragon beast are. 20, et seq., 37
  • 36. of the Antichristian Babylonish whore, of all tongues, nations and languages, and what lieth hid under the languages and Tower of Babel

1-85

36. of the Babylonish whore's child or bastard, which is predestinated to damnation. 23, et seq.

  • 36. What the whore's beast is 41
  • 36. How the whore hopes for a golden temple or time 70, et seq.

36. How the whore must fall 69

36. What is meant by the whoredom committed with the letter. 44, et seq.

37. How the unchastity of the Babylonish whore is come up before the Most High 61

62. What is whoredom in the sight of God 30, et seq.

65. What the whoredom of Judah with Tamar signifies 38, et seq.

65. What David's whoredom with Bathsheba signifies 41

65. What Solomon's whoredom signifies 45, et seq.

66. What the powerful figure of the whorish unchaste world is: which vermin the world is at present full of 41, et seq.

Wicked

60. How God dwells even in the abyss of the wicked soul 44

Wife

41. How a man must leave wife, children, etc. to be a true Christian 54,65 Will. Willing

26. Wherefore the fire- soul has free will 7

  • 27. What the will must do that it may with its desire go to God 4, 5
  • 27. The human free will is become sinful 16
  • 29. Why there is a contrary opposite will 6, 7
  • 61. What the ability of the will is 57, 58
  • 61. The cause why the false wicked or evil will turns not itself

towards grace 59

66. How in this time [of life] all things pass in free will 21

66. How knowing nothing is better than willing for self 66

71. Of the divine willing and of the human willing 25-36

Wisdom

1. What the eternal wisdom is 6

29. How the eternal wisdom has introduced itself into a formed visibility 1-70

41. A speech to the reason- wise

42, et seq.

CHAP. Woman VERSE

19. of the building or framing of the woman 1-27

41. How the woman is saved through bearing of children 29, et seq.

66. What the woman upon the moon in the Revelation is 34,35

Word

2. Of the Word or Heart of God 1-11

2. Of the outspoken word 7

  • 28. What the literal word is 56,57
  • 36. How man should try himself in the framing of his words 81, et seq.
  • 40. What God's Word assumed 10
  • 56. Why our soul and the Word that became man, are compared

together 23, et seq.

61. What the Word is 43,44
World

2. The whole world lies in a clod of earth 6

2. Of the inward world 9

2. How one world is in another . 10

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40. How the holy voice of Christ is not departed from the Turks, to forget them eternally. 87, et seq.

40. of the difference between the Turks and the Christians 92-100

U

Understanding

3. why the divine understanding brings itself into spiritual properties 13

3. The divine understanding receives no source into itself 21

29. What the eternal divine understanding is . 1,2

Unquietness

66. What the unquietness is 65

V

CHAP. Venus VERSE

10. How the inward and the outward Venus are step-sisters 53

13. Venus is the substance of all metals 18

Verbum Fiat

1 1. How the Verbum Fiat is still at this day creating 9

Visions

67. What the right visions are

p. 7

Voice

  • 23. of the voice that was in the Garden 11-16
  • 55. The figure of Isaac's saying: The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau 27, 28

W

War. Warrior

22. How war is good, and how not good 73

38. Whence all war and strife has its original. 7-10

33. Whence all war and strife has its original 22, et seq.

38. of the beginning of the heathenish wars: how Abraham delivered

Lot; and of Melchisedek to whom Abraham gave tithes. 1-26 55. How it is not God, but the kingdom of nature in the anger of God that will make war 45, 46

38. How it is not God, but the kingdom of nature in the anger of God that will make war 16, 17

30. What the Christians' wars are 42

38. No Christian warrs 15, 16

62. What the outward war that Christians make is . 24

33. What every warrior or soldier is 19,20

Washing the Feet
42. What Abraham's washing the feet signifies 11

Water

  • 4. of the water of eternal life 15
  • 10. of the water which Christ will give us to drink 57

Wedding

70. Where the assured wedding of the Lamb is 25, et seq.

70. What a man must do, when he will enter into the wedding of

Christ 38

CHAP. Whore VERSE

30. Whence the mother of the Babylonish whoredom is arisen. 22,23

  • 36. What the Babylonish whore and the dragon beast are. 20, et seq., 37
  • 36. of the Antichristian Babylonish whore, of all tongues, nations and languages, and what lies hid under the languages and Tower of Babel

1-85

36. of the Babylonish whore's child or bastard, which is predestinated to damnation. 23, et seq.

  • 36. What the whore's beast is 41
  • 36. How the whore hopes for a golden temple or time 70, et seq.

36. How the whore must fall 69

36. What is meant by the whoredom committed with the letter. 44, et seq.

37. How the unchastity of the Babylonish whore is come up before the Most High 61

62. What is whoredom in the sight of God 30, et seq.

65. What the whoredom of Judah with Tamar signifies 38, et seq.

65. What David's whoredom with Bathsheba signifies 41

65. What Solomon's whoredom signifies 45, et seq.

66. What the powerful figure of the whorish unchaste world is: which vermin the world is at present full of 41, et seq.

Wicked

60. How God dwells even in the abyss of the wicked soul 44

Wife

41. How a man must leave wife, children, etc. to be a true Christian 54,65 Will. Willing

26. Wherefore the fire- soul has free will 7

  • 27. What the will must do that it may with its desire go to God 4, 5
  • 27. The human free will is become sinful 16
  • 29. Why there is a contrary opposite will 6, 7
  • 61. What the ability of the will is 57, 58
  • 61. The cause why the false wicked or evil will turns not itself

towards grace 59

66. How in this time [of life] all things pass in free will 21

66. How knowing nothing is better than willing for self 66

71. Of the divine willing and of the human willing 25-36

Wisdom

1. What the eternal wisdom is 6

29. How the eternal wisdom has introduced itself into a formed visibility 1-70

41. A speech to the reason- wise

42, et seq.

CHAP. Woman VERSE

19. of the building or framing of the woman 1-27

41. How the woman is saved through bearing of children 29, et seq.

66. What the woman upon the moon in the Revelation is 34,35

Word

2. Of the Word or Heart of God 1-11

2. Of the outspoken word 7

  • 28. What the literal word is 56,57
  • 36. How man should try himself in the framing of his words 81, et seq.
  • 40. What God's Word assumed 10
  • 56. Why our soul and the Word that became man, are compared

together 23, et seq.

61. What the Word is 43,44
World

2. The whole world lies in a clod of earth 6

2. Of the inward world 9

2. How one world is in another . 10

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