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35. Now I shall fall into the School of the Master in his u Pontificalibus, who will ask out of what the Beasts, Fowls, Fishes, and Worms were made; for he will have it, that all of them were made out of the Earth, and will prove it out of Moses, and he understands as much of Moses as of Paradise, which he will have to be altogether corporeal. Therefore there is a gross Deadness in the Understanding; and though I write plain enough, yet I shall be still dumb to that deadened Soul which is void of Understanding, and yet I cannot help it; for it is said, You must be born anew, if you will see the w Kingdom of God. Would you know [out of what the Beasts are made,] then lay aside your x Bonnet of Pride that is in your Mind, and walk along into the paradisical Garden of Roses, and there you shall find an Herb; if you eat of it, your Eyes will be opened, so that you shall see and know what Moses has wrote. 36. The y Glossies that are put upon Moses from Reason, will u Or the Crown of his Degree. w The divine Region or Government. x Cap or Hood of selfconceited Wisdom. y Commentaries. not show you Paradise, much less the Creator. The Prophets and Apostles learned more in the paradisical School in one Hour, than the Doctors in their z Schools in thirty Years. One’s own Wisdom avails nothing. God gives it to him whom he loves, for nothing. It cannot be bought for Money nor Favour, as King Solomon will tell you. 37. If we will be still so very earthly minded, as to think that God made all the Beasts of a Lump of Earth, of what then is their Spirit made? Seeing that Earth is not very Flesh, and the Blood is not mere Water. Besides, the Earth and the Water is not Life; and though the a Air comes in it, yet it still remains such an Essence as springs only in the Fiat, and the Tincture which rises up in the Fire, and from whence the noble Life is stirred is hidden. 38. Moses writes, Let there come forth all Manner of b Beasts, every one according to its Kind. Now then the question is, Out of what should they come forth? Answer, Out of the Matrix. What is the Matrix out of which they should come forth? It is the four Elements, which are together in the Earth. The Fiat brought forth the Beasts [or living Creatures] very c indigestedly, as they are in the Essence, not from Heaven, but out of the Matrix of the Earth; and the Matrix of the earth is one [and the same] Thing with the Matrix in the Deep above the Earth, and [has] one [and the same] d Dominion. The Constellation rules in all [Things,] and it is the Limbus, or the e Masculine, wherein the Tincture consists, and in the Matrix of the Earth,
is the aquastrish [or watery] Spirit; they come forth only out of the Matrix of the Earth, that they might be of the Essence of the Earth, and so they might eat of the Fruits that grow out of the Earth. For every Spirit lusts after its Mother from whence it came. 39. Now then if the Beast’s [or Animal’s Nature] was merely out of a Lump of Earth, then they would eat Earth; but feeling f it is proceeded out of the Matrix of the Earth by the Fiat, therefore it desires also such Food as the Matrix affords out of its own Essence; and that is not Earth, but Flesh. Yet this Flesh now is a g Mass whence the h Body comes, and the Spirit of the Constellation makes the i Tincture therein; which [Spirit] rules over all as in one Mother, and in every Life it makes the z The Universities. a Or Breath. b Animals, or living Creatures. c Without Order. d Rule or Government. e Mars. f The bestial Nature. g Or Concretion. h Corpus. i Penetrating the Life and the Blood. Understanding. For the Spirit of the Constellation rules in all Things, in the Earth, Stones, Metals, Elements and Creatures. 40. For in the Beginning of the Creation, at the Time when the Earth became material, all was generated out of one only Substance, and there was no more done but a Separation made of one k from another: Therefore in every Separation there must needs be always a vehement Hunger of one l after another. An Example whereof you have in Propagation; for the Sake whereof the Separation was so made: For you see that there is a Male and a Female; and that the one continually desires Copulation with the other, that they may generate. This is a great hidden Secret. Observe, when the Creator by the Fiat separated the Matrix from the Aquaster [or watery Mother;] for the first Form is heavenly and incorruptible, as long as the Kingdom of this World stands, and the Root of the first Form m holds Paradise. I will set it down more intelligibly [or plainly] for the simplest Reader’s Sake. 41. Observe, as has been often mentioned, that as in the Fiat, in the aching Matrix (viz. the dark Harshness, [or Sourness]) the fire rose up in the Breakingwheel in the Kindling; and that in the fiery, the Light of the Sun, and of all the Stars [sprung up,] (which is [done] in the harsh Matrix, which from the Light is become thin, lowly, and material Water,) and the pleasant Source of Love [sprung up,] so that one Form vehemently
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tempting Tree. 37. Behold, I give y
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Sweetness; but thou canst not h qua
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adorn the young Man. 53. But the yo
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The Thirteenth Chapter. Of the Crea
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it, and not spend our Labour about
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Text in Moses rightly says, God clo
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our Labour given to the Wolves, Dog
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y the Tincture (if it rides upon th
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[sprung] again the Own [proper] Tin
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The secret Gate of Women. 42. Hence
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thy Joy, [Delight, and Habitation]
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that the Elements fill it, then tha
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Eye in Nature; it would require a g
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are Men) can certainly f conceive [
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first) is shut up fast, and hangs b
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Blood) from itself, out of its Esse
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Children of the Earth, because the
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and the Spirit [must] be dissolved,
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the u Element: The Element is neith
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50. My beloved Reader, I bring in m
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57. Therefore we must look after th
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how that the Will is in that [which
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Multiplicity,] where the Whole, in
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which in the sharp Might of God, in
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and it stands thus in the eternal O
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7. And there the Fiat (which create
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or Longing must be to get into the
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finds by Experience what is written
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[checked or stopped;] and there the
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Fruit, of that we must now eat, and
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eaks through the Essences of the so
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Truth; in which of the two the Spir
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continues eternally; but with the W
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the Deity continually rises up, as
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x Or active Property. y Disrupted.
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[or yielding Pliableness,] the Tast
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if it be a Thought to [be expressed
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only] a Beast in the Will, Manners,
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25. e In Brief, the Regimen of the
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speaks from the hidden Man, which i
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s Or drives. t Hast behaved thyself
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f Or second Birth. is that done in
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