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

For the pure Love, which reaches the Element, and consequently
the Paradise, has a wholly modest and chaste Center,
and it is y fixed in itself, of which I here give you a true Example,
diligently and deeply to be considered.
34. Behold two young z People, who have attained unto the
a Blossom of the noble Tincture in the Matrix and Limbus, so
that it be kindled, how very hearty, faithful, and pure Love they
bear one towards another, where one is ready to impart the very
Heart within them to the other, if it could be done without
Death; this now is the true paradisical Blossom, and this Blossom
b qualifies, with the [one] Element and Paradise. But as
soon as ever they c take one another, and copulate, they infect one
another with their d Inflammation [or burning Lust,] which is
generated out of the outward Elements and Stars, and that
reaches the Abyss; and so they are many Times at deadly Enmity
[or have venomous spiteful Hatred] one against another. And
though it happens that their Complexions were noble, so that still
some Love remains, yet it is not so pure and faithful as the first
before Copulation, which is e fiery, and that in the Burning [or
burnt] Lust, [is] earthly and cold, for that must indeed keep
faithful while it cannot be otherwise; as it is seen by Experience
in many, how afterward in Wedlock they hunt after Whoredom,
and seek after the Devil’s f Sugar, which he strows in the noble
Tincture, if Man will let him.
35. Whereby then you see here, that God has not willed the
earthly Copulation. Man should have continued in the fiery
Love which was in Paradise, and generate out of himself. But
the g Woman was in this World in the outward elementary Kingdom,
u Or Aim.
x Or hot Zeal.
y Perfect or complete.
z Text, Menschen.
a Or Flower,
b Mixes or unites.
c Or Marry.
d Or brand, or Lust burnt to Ashes, as it were a Fire­brand.
e Or warm.
f Wanton Lust.
g The divided Nature in Lust and Wantonness.
in the Inflammation of the forbidden Fruit, of which Adam
should not have eaten. And now he has eaten and thus destroyed
us; therefore it is now with him [the Adamical Man,]
as with a Thief that has been in a pleasant Garden, and went
out of it to steal, and comes again and would fain go into the
Garden, and the Gardener will not let him in, he must reach into
the Garden with his Hand for the Fruit, and then comes the
Gardiner and snatches the Fruit out of his Hand, and he must
go away in his burning Lust and Anger, and come no more into
the Garden, and instead of the Fruit there remains his desirous
burning Lust with him; and that he has got instead of the paradisical