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Mysterium Magnum, Part Two

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22. What sin is, and what is not sin 39, et seq.

22. What the sin against the Holy Ghost is 43, 44

27. What it is that attains the forgiveness of sins 45

48. How far it must go with the repenting sinner 21, et seq.

78. The figure of a converted sinner 5,6

Sinew

60. What it signifies, that the children of Israel eat not that sinew of the ham 51, et seq.

Sleep

19. What Adam's sleep signifies 5
Sodom

42. Of the three men, which appeared to Abraham in the plain of Mamre and went towards Sodom, and burnt the city of the children of Ham with fire from the Lord 1-35

43. Of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: how God showed it to
Abraham before 1-71

43. How Sodom is a looking-glass for the present world 67, et seq.

43. What figure the judgement upon Sodom is 14

44. What fire was rained down upon Sodom 24, et seq.

Sophia

  • 25. Sophia is the tincture of the light 14
  • 25. The fire-soul is the man or husband of the noble Sophia, and it is of the fire's tincture 14
  • 37. How Sophia generateth the true Joseph 14,15
  • 52. What is called Sophia 6
  • 52. When the magic fire of the soul is bridegroom to the noble Sophia.

11-14

CHAP.

Soul

VERSE

10. True understanding lies in the soul 3

  • 11. What the soul is 20, 25
  • 15. How the soul stands in three kingdoms 15, 18-24
  • 15. There are not three souls but one 24
  • 17. Of the soul's great power 43

22. Whither the soul must go after the judgement 47

  • 23. How the soul of Adam and Eve were ashamed I
  • 25. How the soul may go through the judgement, or how not 2, 3, 26

25. How the virgin child must not flee from the fire-soul 9

34. of the animal soul in the regeneration 17

37. Wherefore God brings the soul into trouble 8,9

  • 52. How the soul may see God 10
  • 56. When God's grace enters into the soul 36

69. The first condition of the poor soul when it turns to Christ 7, et seq.

70. How the soul stands in three Principles 5

Sound

  • 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

p. 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 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

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22. What sin is, and what is not sin 39, et seq.

22. What the sin against the Holy Ghost is 43, 44

27. What it is that attains the forgiveness of sins 45

48. How far it must go with the repenting sinner 21, et seq.

78. The figure of a converted sinner 5,6

Sinew

60. What it signifies, that the children of Israel eat not that sinew of the ham 51, et seq.

Sleep

19. What Adam's sleep signifies 5
Sodom

42. Of the three men, which appeared to Abraham in the plain of Mamre and went towards Sodom, and burnt the city of the children of Ham with fire from the Lord 1-35

43. Of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: how God showed it to
Abraham before 1-71

43. How Sodom is a looking-glass for the present world 67, et seq.

43. What figure the judgement upon Sodom is 14

44. What fire was rained down upon Sodom 24, et seq.

Sophia

  • 25. Sophia is the tincture of the light 14
  • 25. The fire-soul is the man or husband of the noble Sophia, and it is of the fire's tincture 14
  • 37. How Sophia generats the true Joseph 14,15
  • 52. What is called Sophia 6
  • 52. When the magic fire of the soul is bridegroom to the noble Sophia.

11-14

CHAP.

Soul

VERSE

10. True understanding lies in the soul 3

  • 11. What the soul is 20, 25
  • 15. How the soul stands in three kingdoms 15, 18-24
  • 15. There are not three souls but one 24
  • 17. Of the soul's great power 43

22. Whither the soul must go after the judgement 47

  • 23. How the soul of Adam and Eve were ashamed I
  • 25. How the soul may go through the judgement, or how not 2, 3, 26

25. How the virgin child must not flee from the fire-soul 9

34. of the animal soul in the regeneration 17

37. Wherefore God brings the soul into trouble 8,9

  • 52. How the soul may see God 10
  • 56. When God's grace enters into the soul 36

69. The first condition of the poor soul when it turns to Christ 7, et seq.

70. How the soul stands in three Principles 5

Sound

  • 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

p. 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 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

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