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

[checked or stopped;] and there then the Tincture withdraws,
and there is then the right Abyss of Death, and so the inward
[Materia or Matter] is filled from the Essences of the Virtue,
[or Power,] and in the inward there rises up another Will, out of
the stern Virtue of the Essences, [that it might] lift itself up into
the Light of the Meekness; and in the outward stands the Desire
to be severed, the Impure from the Pure, for that the outward
Fiat does.
30. We must consider in the Virtue [or Power] of the Virgin,
that the Will first is threefold, and each in its Center is fixed
[stedfast or perfect] and pure, for it proceeds out of the Tincture.
In the first Center there springs up between the Parents
of the Child the Inclination [or Lust,] and the bestial Desire to
copulate; this is the outward elementary Center, and it is fixed
in itself. Secondly, there springs up, in the second Center, the
inclinable Love to the Copulation; and although they were at
the first Sight angry and odious one to another, yet in the Copulating
the Center of Love springs up, and that only in the Copulating;
for the one pure Tincture receives [or catches] the other,
and in the Copulating the t Mass receives them both.
31. Now thus the Love qualifies [or mixes] with the inward
[one] Element, and the Element with the Paradise, and the Paradise
is before [or in the Presence of] God. And the outward
Seed has its Essences, which qualify first with the outward Elements,
and the outward Elements qualify with the outward Stars,
and the outward Stars qualify with the outward Sternness,
[Grimness, Fierceness, Frowardness,] Wrath and Malice, and
the Wrath and Malice in the Fierceness, [Severity, or Austereness,]
qualifies with the Original of the first Fierceness of the
Abyss of Hell; and the Abyss qualifies with the Devils.
32. Therefore, O Man! consider what thou hast received with
thy bestial Body, to eat and to drink of Evil and Good, which
God did forbid. Look here into the Ground of the Essences, and
r Concretion, Substance, or Body.
s Or Master.
t Massa, or Concretion.
say not with Reason; It was merely for Disobedience, which
God was so very angry at, that his Anger could not be quenched.
Thou art deceived, for if the clear Deity was angry, it would not
have become Man for thy Sake to help thee; look but upon the
u Mark in the Eternity, and then thou will find all.
33. Thus also the Kingdom of Darkness and of the Devil is
sown together in the Copulating, and the third Center of the
x great Desire springs up along with it, out of which the Fierceness,
[Grimness, or Wrath,] and the House of Flesh is generated.