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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,
and it stands thus in the eternal Original from Eternity to Eternity. Now what Joy, Delight, and Pleasantness is therein, I have no Pen that can describe it, neither can I express it; for the earthly Tongue is too much insufficient to do it; [all that Men can say of it] is like Dross compared with Gold, and much more inferior; yea although the Virgin y brings it into the Mind, yet all is too dark and too cold in the whole Man, so that he cannot express so much, as one Spark [or Glimpse] thereof sufficiently. We will defer it till [we come] into the Bosom of the Virgin; we have here only given a short Hint of it, that the Author of this Book may be understood; for we are but a very little Drop out of the Fountain of the Wisdom of God; and we speak as a little Sparkle [or Glimpse,] but [high] enough for our earthly [Understanding,] and z for our weak Knowledge here upon Earth; for in this Life we have no Need of any higher Knowledge of the eternal Substance [Being or Essence,] if we do but barely and nakedly speak of what has been from Eternity, it is enough. y Discovers it in the Mind. z Or in respect. The Fifteenth Chapter. Of the a Knowledge of the Eternity in the Corruptibility of the Essence of all Essences. NOW if we consider of the eternal Will of God, [and] of the b Essence of all Essences; then we find in the Originality but one [only Being, Substance, or] Essence, as is mentioned above. Out of this [only] Essence is generated from Eternity the other [Being, Substance, or] Essence, viz. the divine Essence, and we find that both the [Beings, Substances or] Essences stand in divine Omnipotence, but not in one c Source, neither do they mix together, nor can either of them both be [destroyed, dissolved, corrupted, or] broken. 2. But yet they have two Sorts of Inclinations [or Desires,] each in itself for its own. Yet because the divine [Being or] Essence from Eternity is generated out of itself, therefore it is inclined to help the Weak, and is rightly called Barmhertzigkeit [Mercifulness.] 3. And now seeing the Virgin of the eternal Wisdom has d discovered herself in the eternal Original, and in the eternal Mind in the sharp Essence of the Breaking of the Darkness in the Fireflash [has found] the Depth of the [e very] Image of God, and that the Similitude of God is there in the eternal Original,
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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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45. But that I now write, that the
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Mother Eve are got into, in which t
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out of the b OutBirth, which went
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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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x Come of Course. y The Devil says
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Will, nor yet any f Birth: This Min
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e? Dear Soul, here [in the Fire’s
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Food, that no paradisical Fruit did
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that became angelical and paradisic
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whether his Essences (out of which
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