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Mysterium Magnum, Part Two

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66. for what kings and princes are served by the nobility 18, 19

Knowledge

45. What knowledge the outward man has of the kingdom of

Christ 17, et seq.

L

Laban

58. The figure of Laban's changingJacob's wages ten times 28, et seq.

59. How Laban chid with Jacob, and what is thereby to be understood 19

Ladder

56. What the ladder of Jacob was, and what the angels descending and ascending signify 4-8

Lamb

37. What the wedding of the Lamb is, at which God and man is espoused, and Christ born 12, et seq.

Lamech

  • 29. What Lamech is in the Language of nature 37,38
  • 31. What Lamech is in the Language of nature 2
  • 29. of Lamech's two wives and their children 39-46,49
  • 29. What the man and the young man which he slew are 48
  • 29. What as to Lamech shall be avenged seventy-seven times 59-64 Land

75. of the piece of land that Jacob gave to Joseph severally from the rest of his children, and the signification thereof 31, et seq.

Language

35. of the ground of the Head Language, when all people spoke but one language 54-59

  • 35. What language the spirits use 60
  • 37. How long the undivided language continued 4, et seq.

CHAP. Life VERSE

11. Whence the true rational life in the elements is 27

35. The cause of the long life of the patriarchs before the flood 11, et seq

Light

  • 3. The eternal light, and the eternal darkness, are not created 2-5
  • 10. Without light the elements had been unmoveable 44,45 Logic

77. When the acute logic came up 69
Lord

33. How a lord, prince, or magistrate has no authority to shed blood 15, et seq.

Lot

  • 43. why the two angels lingered in going in to Lot 34, et seq43. What is signified by Lot's wife 37
  • 43. The figure of Lot in that he would give his two daughters to the

Sodomites 53, et seq.

43. why Lot's kinsfolk would not follow him 65,66

44. How Lot went out of Sodom, and of the terrible destruction of that whole country of Ham's generations, and what happened upon 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 up into a peculiar heaven apart

M

Magistrate

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

p. 4

p. 35

30,31
18
17

does 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
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66. for what kings and princes are served by the nobility 18, 19

Knowledge

45. What knowledge the outward man has of the kingdom of

Christ 17, et seq.

L

Laban

58. The figure of Laban's changingJacob's wages ten times 28, et seq.

59. How Laban chid with Jacob, and what is thereby to be understood 19

Ladder

56. What the ladder of Jacob was, and what the angels descending and ascending signify 4-8

Lamb

37. What the wedding of the Lamb is, at which God and man is espoused, and Christ born 12, et seq.

Lamech

  • 29. What Lamech is in the Language of nature 37,38
  • 31. What Lamech is in the Language of nature 2
  • 29. of Lamech's two wives and their children 39-46,49
  • 29. What the man and the young man which he slew are 48
  • 29. What as to Lamech shall be avenged seventy-seven times 59-64 Land

75. of the piece of land that Jacob gave to Joseph severally from the rest of his children, and the signification thereof 31, et seq.

Language

35. of the ground of the Head Language, when all people spoke but one language 54-59

  • 35. What language the spirits use 60
  • 37. How long the undivided language continued 4, et seq.

CHAP. Life VERSE

11. Whence the true rational life in the elements is 27

35. The cause of the long life of the patriarchs before the flood 11, et seq

Light

  • 3. The eternal light, and the eternal darkness, are not created 2-5
  • 10. Without light the elements had been unmoveable 44,45 Logic

77. When the acute logic came up 69
Lord

33. How a lord, prince, or magistrate has no authority to shed blood 15, et seq.

Lot

  • 43. why the two angels lingered in going in to Lot 34, et seq43. What is signified by Lot's wife 37
  • 43. The figure of Lot in that he would give his two daughters to the

Sodomites 53, et seq.

43. why Lot's kinsfolk would not follow him 65,66

44. How Lot went out of Sodom, and of the terrible destruction of that whole country of Ham's generations, and what happened upon 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 up into a peculiar heaven apart

M

Magistrate

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

p. 4

p. 35

30,31
18
17

does 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
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