Three Principles of the Divine Essence Chap. 8-16 - meuser

how that the Will is in that [which is] comprehensible, therefore
that [which is] comprehensible, is the Darkness of the Will;
for it has with its Comprehensibility inclosed the Will; now the
Will not being d out of that [which is] comprehensible, it longs
continually after the Light, that it might be delivered from the
z Note.
a Attracting.
b Attracting.
c Which is comprehensible.
d Gotten out.
Darkness, which yet itself makes with the Longing and Attracting.
63. From whence now comes the Anxiety, because the Will is
shut up in the Darkness; and the Attracting of the Will makes the
Mobility; and that [which is] moveable makes the Will’s Rising
up out of the Darkness. Now therefore the Rising up is the first
e Essence; for it generates itself in the Attracting, and is itself
the Attracting. And yet now the Will cannot endure the Attracting
neither, for it makes that dark with the attracted Essence,
[Being or Substance,] which the Will comprehends, and resists
it, and the Resisting is the Stirring, and the Stirring makes a
Parting or Breaking in that [which is] attracted, for it separates
[it;] and this also the Sourness in the Attracting cannot endure,
and the Anguish in the Will is [thereby] the greater, and the
Attracting to hold the Stirring [is] also the greater. So when
the Stirring is thus very hard knit together, and held by the
sour Attracting, then it eats [gnaws, presses, or nips] itself, and
becomes prickly, and stings in the sour Anguish. And when the
Sourness attracts the more vehemently [or strongly] to it, then
the Prickle becomes so very great in Anxiety, that the Will springs
up horribly, and sets its Purpose to fly away out of the Darkness.
64. And here the eternal Mind has its Original, in that the Will
will [go] out of that f Source, into another g Source of Meekness,
and from thence the eternal Source in the Anguish has also its
Original, and it is the eternal Worm which generates and eats
itself, and in its own Fierceness in itself lives in the Darkness
which itself makes; and there also the eternal Infection [or Mixture]
has its Original, back from which there is no further to be
searched into, h for there is nothing deeper, nor sooner; the same
always makes itself from Eternity, and has no Maker or Creator.
And it is not God, but God’s original i Fierceness [or Wrath,] an
Anxiety [or aching Anguish,] generating in itself, and gnawing
[eating or devouring] in it, and yet consuming nothing, neither
multiplying nor lessening.
65. Seeing then the eternal Will, which is thus generated, gets
in the Anxiety a Mind after somewhat else, that it might escape
the Sourness [or Fierceness,] and exult in the Meekness, and yet
it cannot otherwise be done than out of itself, therefore the Mind