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

t The appearing or Flash.
the swelled [or impregnated] Will) and it brings the Essences
(or the Attracting) of the Willing again out of the Will, before
the Will; for the Desiring draws forth the Swelling [or Impregnation]
out of the swelled [or impregnated] Will, before the
Will; and that [which is] drawn forth is the pleasant Virtue,
u Joy, and Meekness. And this now is the Desiring of the eternal
Will (and no more) but to eat and to draw again this Virtue into
it, and to be satiated therewith, and [it can] desire nothing higher
or more x refreshing: for therein is the Perfection [or Fulness] of
the highest x Joy and Meekness.
73. And so in this Virtue (which is in God the Father, as is
before mentioned) stands the Omniscience of what is in the Originality
in the Eternity; where the Flash then y discovers itself in
many thousand Thousands z without Number. For this Virtue
of Joy in the [Refreshment or] Habitation, is proceeded from the
Sharpness of the Flash, and (in the Sharpness of the Omnipotence
over the Darkness) sees [or looks] again in the eternal
Sharpness in the dark Mind; and that Mind inclines itself to the
Virtue, and desires the Virtue, and the Virtue goes not back again
in the Darkness, but a beholds itself therein, from whence [it is]
that the eternal Mind is continually longing [panting or lusting]
after the Virtue [or Power;] and the Virtue is the Sharpness, and
the Sharpness is the Attracting. This is called the b eternal Fiat,
which there creates and corporizes what the eternal Will in the
almighty Meekness, (which there is the Might and the Breaking
[or Destroyer] of the Darkness, and the Building of the Principle,)
and what the Will in the eternal [Skill or] Knowledge discovers,
and in itself conceives [apprehends, or purposes] to do.
And whatsoever gives itself up to the Meekness, that will the Will
create by the sharp Fiat which is the eternal Essence. And this
now is the Will of God, whatsoever inclines itself to him, and
desires him, that same will create in the Meekness; even all whatsoever
(out of the many thousand Thousands, out of the Infinity)
inclines itself in c its Virtue to him.
74. Now thus the Infinity has the Possibility, while it is yet in
the first Essence [or Substance,] that it can d incline itself to him;
but here you must not understand it any more concerning the
Whole, for God only is the Whole [totum universale] the great
Deep all over; but this [which is] in the Infinity, is divided; and
u Habitation.
x Habitation.
y Or sparkles into.
z Infinitely.
a As the Sun does in the Water.
b Note.
c Or his.
d Enter into Resignation.
it is in the appearing [Flash or Sparkling] of the Plurality [or