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

therefore she has longed after the Similitude, and that Longing
makes the Attracting in the Will, and the Will stood [f right]
against the Similitude; and the Fiat in the Attracting of the
Willing, created the Will in the Similitude, out of which came
the Angels all together. But now the eternal Essence was in
the Similitude, and the Wisdom discovered [or manifested] herself
in the Essences in many thousand Thousands, that the eternal
Wonders might be revealed [or made manifest;] and thereupon
there went forth (according to every Essence, as out of a Fountain)
many thousand Thousands.
4. And from thence came the Names of the Thrones and
Principalities, all according to the Essences of the first and great
g Source, which in the Discovering of the eternal Wisdom of
a Or Understanding.
b Being of all Beings, or Substance of all Substances.
c Or working Property.
d Or shone.
e Eben­Bild.
f Or presented before.
g Or Fountain.
God goes forth again into many thousand Thousands, yet there
is a certain Number [of them,] and in the Center of God none,
[or no Number but Infinity;] and thus out of the Fountain of
every Essence are gone forth, first the h Thrones, and in the
Throne many thousand Thousands.
5. These the Fiat created to a Similitude and Image of God,
and overshadowed the same in the Fiat with the overflowing
Virtue of God; and the Will of God i set itself [right] against
the Image and Similitude, and they now which received the
Will, they became Angels, for they set their Imagination, in the
Will, in the Heart of God, and they did eat of the Verbum
Domini [of the Word of the Lord;] but they that set their Imagination
in the dark Mind, as Lucifer [did, that he might] fly
out above the Deity and Meekness in the Might of the Fire in
the Flash, in the sharp Might of God, and be Lord alone, they
became Devils, and they have that Name from their being thrust
[or driven] out of the Light; for they were in the Light when
the Fiat created them, for the Fiat which created them stood in
the Light.
6. Thus the Devil is the Fault, and guilty of his own Fall, for
he suffered himself to be moved by the Matrix of the k Sternness,
[Fierceness, Sourness, or Wrath,] whereas he yet had his own
Will to take hold of Light or Darkness. And Lucifer was a
Throne (that is, a l Source [or Fountain] of a great Essence)
from whence went forth all his Servants [or Ministers,] and
they did like him; and also they were thrust back into the Darkness,
for the Light of God goes not into the [Grimness, Wrath
or] Fierceness.