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Pranks to make itself Sport, and would fain seem to be the finest and the nimblest Beast [it can,] so also does he. o His Power hangs on the Great Tree of this World, and a Storm of Wind can blow it away. 54. Now seeing I have shown the Reader, how the true Element sticks wholly hidden in the outward kindled [Elements,] for a Comfort to him, that he may know what he [himself] is, and that he may not despair in such an earnest Manifestation [or Revelation as this is,] therefore now I will go on with my Conference i Kingdom or Dominion. k Or Body. 1 Or generated of God. m Or Midnight. n Over the transitory House of Flesh. o Note, I desire not to write the Explanation of this yet. between the Elements, Sun, and Stars, where there is a continual Wrestling and Overcoming, in which the Child in the Mother’s Body [or Womb] is figured; and I freely give the Reader to know, that indeed the true Element lies hidden in the outward Man, which is the Chest of the Treasure [or Cabinet of the precious Gem and Jewel] of the Soul, if it be faithful, and yields itself up p to God. 55. So now when the Heart, Liver, Lungs, Bladder, Stomach, and Spirit, together with the other parts [or Members] of the Child, are figured in the Mother’s Body, by the Constellation and Elements, then the Region orRegimen rises up, which at length figures [fashions or forms] all whatsoever was wanting: And now it exceedingly concerns us to consider of the Originality of Speech, Mind, and q Thoughts, wherein Man is an Image and Similitude of God, and wherein the noble Knowledge of all three Principles does consist. 56. For every Beast also stands in the Springing up of the Life (formerly mentioned) in the Mother’s Body, and takes its Beginning after the same Manner in the [Dam’s or] Mother’s Body, and its Spirit lives also in the Stars and Elements, and they have their [Faculty of] Seeing from the Glance of the Sun: And in the same [Beginning of the Life] there is no Difference between Man and Beast. For a Beast eats and drinks, smells, hears, sees, and feels, as well as Man; and yet they have no Understanding in them, but only to feed and multiply. We must go higher, and see what the Image of God is, which God so dearly loved, that he spent his Heart and Son upon it, and gave him to r become Man, so that he came to help Man again after the Fall, and freed and redeemed him again from the bestial Birth, and brought him again into Paradise, into the heavenly s Region.
57. Therefore we must look after the Ground [of it,] how not only a bestial Man with bestial Qualifications [or Condition] is figured [or formed,] but also a heavenly, and an Image of God, to the honour of God and [the magnifying of] his Deeds of Wonder; to which End he so very highly graduated Man, that he had an eternal Similitude and Image of his own Substance. For to that End he has manifested himself by Heaven and Earth, and created some Creatures to [be] eternal, understanding, and rational Spirits, to live in his Virtue and Glory, and some to [be] Figures; so that (when their Spirit goes into the Ether and dissolves) p In. q Or Senses, inward Senses. r To be incarnate. s Kingdom or Dominion. the Spirits which are eternal might have their Joy and Recreation t with them. 58. Therefore we must search and see, what Kind of Image that is, and how it takes its Beginning so, that Man bears an earthly, elementary, and also an heavenly Image. And not only so, but he bears also a hellish [Image] on him, which is inclined [or prone] to all Sins and Wickedness; and all this takes Beginning with the Beginning of the Life. 59. And further, we must look, where then the own Will sticks, [whereby] Man can in [his] own Power yield up himself how he will, [either] to the Kingdom of Heaven, or to the Kingdom, of Hell. To this LookingGlass, we will invite them that hunger and thirst after the noble Knowledge, and show them the Ground, whereby they may in their Minds be freed from the Errors and contentious Controversies in the antichristian Kingdom. Whosoever now shall rightly apprehend this Gate, he shall understand the u Essence of all Essences; and if he rightly considers it, [he shall so] learn to understand what Moses, and all the Prophets, and also what the holy Apostles have wrote, and in [or from] what Kind of Spirit every one has spoken; also what has ever been, and what shall or can be afterwards. The most precious Gate in the Root of the Lily. 60. Now if we consider the three Principles, and how they are in their Original, and how they generate themselves thus, then we [shall] find the Essence of all Essences, how the one goes out of the other thus, and how the one is higher graduated than the other, how the one is eternal, and the other corruptible, and how the one is fairer and better than the other: Also thus we [shall] find why the one wills [to go] x forward, and the other y backward: Also, [thus we shall] find the Love and Desire, and the Hate [and Enmity] of every Thing.
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The Eighth Chapter. Of the Creation
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Night: Also he made the Stars. And
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the Harshness causes the Attracting
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comprehended. 31. And God is immens
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gave itself up in this Way more veh
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all the three Principles are in him
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Words of the Heart of God, and rejo
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the Midst of the Garden, and the Tr
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Will, nor yet any f Birth: This Min
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Food, that no paradisical Fruit did
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