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

that] the Blossom of the Light in it may spring up [and blossom]
out of the Heart of God; and yet this is not God, but [it is] the
chaste Virgin of the eternal Wisdom and Understanding, of
which I treat often in this Book.
86. Now the Virgin is [present] before God, and s inclines herself
to the Spirit from which the Virtue proceeds, out of which
she (viz. the chaste Virgin) is; this is now God’s Companion to
the Honour and Joy of God; the same appears or discovers herself
in the eternal Wonders of God. In the Discovery, she
becomes longing after the Wonders in the eternal Wisdom, which
yet is herself, and thus she longs in herself, and her Longing is the
eternal Essences, which attract the holy Virtue to her, and the Fiat
creates them, so that they stand in [or become] a Substance; and
she is a Virgin, and never generates any Thing, neither takes any
Thing into her; her Inclination stands in the Holy Ghost, who
goes forth from God, and attracts nothing to him, but t moves
before God, and is the u Blossom [or Branch] of the Growth.
87. And so the Virgin has no Will to conceive [or be impregnated
with] any Thing; her Will is [only] to open the Wonders
of God; and therefore she is in the Will in the Wonders, to discover
[or make] the Wonders [appear] in the eternal Essences;
and that virgin­like Will creates the sour Fiat in the Essences, so
that it is [become] a Substance, and stands eternally before God,
wherein the eternal Wonders of the Virgin of the Wisdom of God
are revealed.
88. And this Substance is the eternal Element, wherein all
Essences in the divine Virtue stand open, and are visible; and
wherein the fair and chaste Virgin of the divine Wisdom always
discovers herself according to the Number of the Infinity, out of
the many thousand Thousands without End and Number. And
in this Discovering there go forth out of the eternal Element,
Colours, Arts, and Virtues, and the x Sprouts of the Lily of God;
s Unites.
t Hovers.
u Or God’s Fruit.
x Fruits.
at which the Deity continually rejoices itself in the Virgin of the
Wisdom; and that Joy goes forth out of the eternal Essences, and
is called Paradise, in regard of the Sharpness of the Generating
[or Bringing forth] of the pleasant Fruit of the Lily [in infinitum
or] infinitely; where then the Essences of the Lily spring up in
Wonders, in many thousand Thousands without Number, of
which you have a Similitude in the [springing or blossoming]
Earth.
89. Beloved Mind, behold, consider this, this now is God and
his heavenly Kingdom, even the eternal Element and Paradise,