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

or Longing must be to get into the Heart of God, and to eat of
the r Verbum Domini [of the Word of the Lord] in all the
Fruits of this World.
16. For the Fruits were also good, and their Inclination [or
that which made them to be desired] proceeded out of the inward
Element, out of the s Paradise. Now Adam could eat of every
Fruit in the Mouth, but not t in the Corruptibility, that must not
be, for his Body must subsist eternally, and continue in Paradise,
p Or in.
q Shone forth, or appeared.
r The Word that proceeds out of the Mouth of God.
s The divine Habitation.
t Or in the Stomach or Maw, where the Meat turns to corrupt Dung.
and generate a chaste Virgin out of himself, like himself, without
rending of his Body; for this could be, seeing his Body was
[proceeded] out of the heavenly Element, out of the Virtue of God.
17. But when the chaste Virgin found herself thus in Adam
with great Wisdom, Meekness, and Humility, then the outward
Elements became lusting after the eternal, that they might u raise
themselves up in the chaste Virgin, and x qualify in her; seeing
that Adam was extracted out of them, [viz. the four Elements,]
out of the Quinta Essentia, therefore they desired their own, and
would qualify therein, which yet God did forbid to Adam, [saying,]
that he should not eat of the Knowledge of Good and Evil,
but live in [the] one [only Element,] and be contented with Paradise.
18. But the Spirit of the great World overcame Adam, and
put itself in with Force, in Quintam Essentiam, [into the Quintessence,]
which there, is the fifth Form, the Extract out of the
four Elements and Stars; and there must God create a Woman
[or Wife] for Adam out of his Essences, if he must be to fill
the Kingdom, according to the Appearing [Discovering, Shining,
or Sparkling] of the noble Virgin [with many thousand
Thousands,] and build [or propagate] the same. And thus Man
became earthly, and the Virgin departed from him in Paradise;
and there she warned [called and told] him that he should lay
off the Earthliness, and then she would be his Bride and loving
Spouse. And now it cannot be otherwise in this World with
Man, he must be y generated in the Virtue of the outward Constellation
and Elements, and live therein till the Earthliness falls away.
19. And thus he is in this Life threefold, and the threefold
Spirit hangs on him, and he is generated therein, neither can he
be rid of it, except he [corrupts or] breaks to Pieces; yet he can
be rid of Paradise, whensoever his Spirit imagines in the Fierceness
[or Wrath] and Falshood, and gives up himself thereto, that
so he might be above Meekness and Righteousness in himself,
as a Lord, like Lucifer, [and] live in Pride [and Stateliness;]