210. The word Science is not so taken by me as men understand the word scientia in the Latin tongue; for I understand therein even the true ground according to sense, which, both in the Latin and all other languages is missed and neglected by ignorance; for every word in its impressure, forming, and expression, gives the true understanding of what that thing is that is so called.
211. You understand by Science some skill or knowledge, in which you say true, but do not fully express the meaning.
212. Science is the root to the understanding, as to the [1] sensibility; it is the root to the center of the [2] impressure of nothing into something; as when the will of the abyss attracts itself into itself, to a center of the impressure, viz. to the word, then arises the true understanding.
[1] cogitation, consideration, or reasoning [2] or forming
213. The will is in the separability of the Science, and there separates itself out from the impressed compaction; and men first of all understand the essence in that which is separated, in which the separability impresses itself into a substance.
214. For [1] essence is a substantial power and virtue, but Science is a moving flitting one, like the senses; it is indeed the root of the senses.
[1] ESSENTZ
215. Yet in the understanding, in which it is called Science, it is not the sensing, but a cause of the sensing, in that manner as when the understanding impresses [manifests] itself in the mind, there must first be a cause which must give [bring forth] the mind, from which the understanding flows forth into its contemplation: Now this Science is the root to the fiery mind, and it is in short the root of all spiritual beginnings; it is the true root of souls, and proceeds through every life, for it is the ground from whence life comes.
216. I could not give it any other better name, this does so wholly accord and agree in the sense; for the Science is the cause that the divine abyssall will compacts and impresses itself in tonature, to the separable [various], intelligible, and perceivable life of understanding and difference; for from the impressure of the Science, whereby the will attracts it into itself the natural life arises, and the word of every life originally.
217. The distinction or separation out of the fire is to be understood as follows: The eternal Science in the will of the Father draws the will, which is called Father, into itself, and shuts itself into a center of the divine generation of the Trinity, and by the Science speaks itself forth into a word of understanding; and in the speaking is the separation in the Science; and in every separation there is the desire to the impressure of the [1] expression, the impressure is essential, and is called divine essence.
[1] or out-speaking
218. From this essence the word expresses itself in the second separation, that is, of nature, and in that expression (wherein the natural will separates itself in its center, into a preception [sensing?]), the separation out of the fiery [1] Science is understood; for thence comes the soul and all angelical spirits.
[1] one copy has essence
219. The third separation is according to the outward nature of the expressed formed word, wherein the bestial Science lies, as may be seen in the treatise of the Election of Grace, which has a [1] sharp understanding, and is one of the clearest of our writings.
[1] acute or sublime
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210. The word Science is not so taken by me as men understand the word scientia in the Latin tongue; for I understand therein even the true ground according to sense, which, both in the Latin and all other languages is missed and neglected by ignorance; for every word in its impressure, forming, and expression, gives the true understanding of what that thing is that is so called.
211. You understand by Science some skill or knowledge, in which you say true, but do not fully express the meaning.
212. Science is the root to the understanding, as to the [1] sensibility; it is the root to the center of the [2] impressure of nothing into something; as when the will of the abyss attracts itself into itself, to a center of the impressure, viz. to the word, then arises the true understanding.
[1] cogitation, consideration, or reasoning [2] or forming
213. The will is in the separability of the Science, and there separates itself out from the impressed compaction; and men first of all understand the essence in that which is separated, in which the separability impresses itself into a substance.
214. For [1] essence is a substantial power and virtue, but Science is a moving flitting one, like the senses; it is indeed the root of the senses.
[1] ESSENTZ
215. Yet in the understanding, in which it is called Science, it is not the sensing, but a cause of the sensing, in that manner as when the understanding impresses [manifests] itself in the mind, there must first be a cause which must give [bring forth] the mind, from which the understanding flows forth into its contemplation: Now this Science is the root to the fiery mind, and it is in short the root of all spiritual beginnings; it is the true root of souls, and proceeds through every life, for it is the ground from whence life comes.
216. I could not give it any other better name, this does so wholly accord and agree in the sense; for the Science is the cause that the divine abyssall will compacts and impresses itself in tonature, to the separable [various], intelligible, and perceivable life of understanding and difference; for from the impressure of the Science, whereby the will attracts it into itself the natural life arises, and the word of every life originally.
217. The distinction or separation out of the fire is to be understood as follows: The eternal Science in the will of the Father draws the will, which is called Father, into itself, and shuts itself into a center of the divine generation of the Trinity, and by the Science speaks itself forth into a word of understanding; and in the speaking is the separation in the Science; and in every separation there is the desire to the impressure of the [1] expression, the impressure is essential, and is called divine essence.
[1] or out-speaking
218. From this essence the word expresses itself in the second separation, that is, of nature, and in that expression (wherein the natural will separates itself in its center, into a preception [sensing?]), the separation out of the fiery [1] Science is understood; for thence comes the soul and all angelical spirits.
[1] one copy has essence
219. The third separation is according to the outward nature of the expressed formed word, wherein the bestial Science lies, as may be seen in the treatise of the Election of Grace, which has a [1] sharp understanding, and is one of the clearest of our writings.
[1] acute or sublime
FINIS